The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-11-15
your abusive insolence. For your So

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ended" etc., am deeply grateful.
rest with equanimity under the charge
of "lying" and perjury" which yor
have tried to prove and trust you may
soon recover your peace of mind. I'm
der great provocation threw a stone
at random and bit you. If you will
stick to the truth in future, or sign
your dispatches, so may recognize
my "impartial critic" you will be
spared like painful experience.
A word of advice at parting. When
next you have grievance of this kind
and feel that you have done nothing
wrong, make a calm, dignified state
ment of the facts, or address personal
letter asking an explanation and await
the result. Any gentleman will give
such and make the amende honorable.
Had you kept your temper and stated
your case I would have cheerfully
apologized. AS it is, your abuse ex-
cites contempt, and you have actually
descended to faisehood in defence of
an untenable position.
B. R. TILLMAN.
WHAT EDITOR DARLINGTON SAYS IN
CLOSING.
The article from Governor Tillman
which we publish this morning speaks
for itself. He says, II acquit you of
intentional falsehood in this instance"
and further, II do not consider you q
tool of the whiskey sellers; and that
he spoke in "too strong language per-
haps." He admits furthermore that
the word Lying" ''is hard word and
I would not have used it had I known
you were the author of the dispatch" !"
Then in closing the Governor says:
"Had you kept your temper and stated
your case I would have cheerfully
apologized."
If the Governor had kept bis temper
and confined himself to "facts" he
would have pothing to apologize for.
But we can ask no more. It is
enough-far more than we expected.
Governor Tillman is welcome to the
fine spun theories Of State officers-the
shadowy veil which separates the con-
stable from the spy and the spy from a
"Tillman liquor constable."
But in this article, the Governor re-
peats several times that it is still a lie
that the man was a constable. This
is passing strange in view of the fact
that by his own mouth am acquitted
of Intentional falsehood." Can it be
that the Governor of this great State
does not know that unless there is an
''intentional falsehood," there can be
no lies? Does this man who uses such
vigorous English and who is such a
hair-splitter over the distinctions in
the various new Offices created to en-
force the dispensary law, fail to draw
the distinction between a mistake of
fact and lie? Impossible! Even if
it had been charged that Henderson
was duly appointed and missioned
constable and he had no commission
and was not constable, so long as
there was no intention to deceive there
could be no lie. He seems to be in the
same fix as the man who said the
horse was sixteen feet high-he said it
and because he said it he is bound to
stick to it.
We have nowhere charged that Hen
derson was such an officer as met the
technical definition of a State Con-
stable. He was spoken of as IT'LL
man liquor Constable," and the evil
dence shows he was armed with a COM
mission from Tillman to secure con-
victions of white men at So head.
We are perfectly willing to let the pub
lie say what such man is-whether
spy, constable or Tillman tool.
As to the Governors "parting ad-
vice." that next time we have q
grievance and feel that we have done
nothing wrong, to make calm, dig
nifed statement and await results, we
can only regret that he did not follow
the advice be gives.
1t is not pleasant to say hard things
of the Governor of ones State and to
print them in the newspapers, nor is
it pleasant to be called by the Governor
in the newspapers "lie" and "dirty
tool of whiskey Sellers" when you have
the consciousness of knowing ."you
have done no wrong"
We have not spoken more harshly
than the occasion demanded.