The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-11
MAYOR DARGAN's STATEMENT.
He Takes Issue with Tillman and Contra
dicts Him.
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DARLINGTON, Is. c., April 4.-Wher
Mayor Dargan saw the Columbis
Journal containing Governor Tllman't
speech he did not like the statements
He was induced by his friends to make
a reply as follows:
"Yes, I have seen the Governors re
marks published in the Evening Jour
nal. I have not much to say, Yor
know the Governor is politician. ano
he was making a. campaign speech
When politician gets in a hole he
naturally tries to get out, and if he has
committed q mistake he is the last man
under the sun to honestly own it. He
tries to put it on someone else. There
are one or two inaccurate statements
Of minor Importance I do not like
to pass over without correcting them.
He says, speaking Of che constables,
that they had been sent there because
the mayor had allowed them to be in.
suited and cursed to their faces Il
the Governor was so informed that I,
as mayor, had allowed that, his in.
formant is just liar. This Is tie first
information I have ever received OF
such fact. He says again, two boys,
mere striplings, got into fight, and
soon fifty men armed to the teeth
went to the depot and picked quarrel
with the constables and men on both
sides were killed. don't know who
informed him of this fact, but whoever
did sc just lied, and knew he lied when
he gave such information. Again, he
says: The fault cannot be clearly
placed and possibly never will be
known As to that, the Governor is a
very badly informed man if he lays
that fattering JUNCTION to his soul, and
I venture the prediction that he will
find the fault clearly placed, and that
it will Re found that the constables
simply did anything else but their
duty.
"You will find 7 never said, as he
states, that the Governor had exercised
power that no Governor had ever at
tempted, but say it now, and I think
the facts, we'll known to the people OF
South Carolina, bear out my state
ment. But what I did say was, that
Governor Tiliman assumes that his
spies have privileges that are not en-
joyed by any other citizens of this
State ETC., and I will add privileges
that even he'does not enjoy. ....
"I notice that the Governor tries to
get in an april joke. Well, I hope he
enjoyed il. 1t does look little funny
that after all this fuss and feathers the
chief officer of the State would march
bis troops up the hill and then march
them down again. Well, that is a joke
we have enjoyed very much in these
serious times, but it does look funny
that the Governor had his friends go
to 80 much trouble to try and get his
constables out of the hands Of people
who were not trying to find them.
Well. they Gid not find them, and I
reckon it is good thing that they did
not, because had they, possibly some
good citizens would have had to die
before the spies bit the dust.
"I notice that he asked the aues-
ton: why did they not lyuch the
man they had in their power, who was
admitted to be in the row?' l will tell
you why: because we are not lynchers,
we are not cutthroats nor robbers. We
are South Carolinians. We fight man
as long as he is up, but we never hit
the man that is down. We don't fight
that way, and that is the reason that
man was not lynched. Yes, I know
pretty we'll what Governor Tillman
wanted US to do. I understand him
very we'll. He is not the first politi-
clan have seen. The Governor would
have liked our people in their rage to
have murdered this man, McLendon,
who, I am informed, boasts of the fact