Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-09-11
CORRESPONDENCE
.DELENDA
IS CAR THACO.
A DEEP DARK And DAM.
NABLE SCHEME.
REFORM COUNTIES TO BE
DISMEMBERED AND CON
SENTATIVE COUNTIES
AND A CONSERVATIVE
LEGISLATURES TO BE
BUILT UP ON THEIR
! RUINS.
REFORMERs', AWAKE, ARISE OR BE
FOREVER FALLEN.
..rhe MILK in the cocoanut."

IluS Gue puUIiC uiho, IL "ooA>
seem that our grand old County
glorious old Edgefeld, with i'll
proud and glowing memories al
along the years past and gone
aud the enviable position she to
day occupies among her sister
Counties of the State-is to be CT
and slashed into mincemeat anc
almost wiped from the face of the
earth. And why? Are all the eff.
forts now being made towards the
establishment of the new Coun.
ties to be known as Troy and Nc
Cormick and Greenwood and Nine,
ty-Six. and Batesburg, put forth al
this time solely in the interest Of
tie people, the poor farmer who
perhaps is occasionally somewhat
disconnected by living at an in.
convenient distance from the Court
Fl ouse? Or rather, Mr.. Editor, is
it not to great extent for the pur-
pose of gratifying the ambition
and contributing to the aggran-
dizement of the denizens of the
respective little towns to be con-
verted into Court House centres ;
and above all, with the hope of
increasing and strengthening Mei'
political po,cer.' Yes, Meir Conse'-
catice political porer:2 All, Mr.. Ed
itor, don't you think that is really
"The milk in the cocoanut" after
all? We fear that that is The true
animus and aim of the leaders OF
the movement in the towns of
Troy, Mccormick, Greenwood,
Ninety-Slx and Batesburg-each
and all Of them already strong
Conservative strong-holds-in their
evidently preconcerted and we'll
planned scheme for small Coun-
ties. Once grant the requests of
the sundry petitioners for new
Counties; cut off those sections of
EdgeGeld where the most Con-
servatives now reside into small
Counties-and ere long some four
Or Eve new Conservative Counties
bone of Reform viii be broken
and our beloved old counsy-the
acknowledged banner County of
the State for Reform and Good
Government-the home of Till
man and Tillmanism-will be
shorn of her strength and indu-
ence, and become the laughing
stock of the said new Counties,
through whose ill-will and hate
and evil-minded Vaccinations
Edgefeld's dismemberment and
ruin will have been consummated. +.
I am no pessimist or alarmist,
Mr.. Editor, but beyond a doubt
this will be the outcome of the
present designs of the small Coun-
ty schemers, if they are successful
in having their pet projects es-
tablished by Legislative enact
ment. And not only are the Con.
servatives of the above mentioned
towns working like beavers on this
line, but recently the entire Con-
servative press of the State seem
to have seen the "new light" and
are now daily and weekly indict-
ing long editorials on the great
Importance and great necessity OF
more and smaller Counties, the
better to promote the interests and
convenience of the dear people. 1t
is strange-very ,strange--that
they should all so suddenly be.
COME SO solicitious and SO united
in urging the establishment OF
these new Counties, never having
discovered a reason therefor until
at this particular juncture. See
Mr.. Editor, how clearly it has the
semblance of a new hatched scheme
to overthrow Reformism-a last
hope, dernier resort as it were
to build up Conservation and re-
store the "Old Ring Rule party
to power again. Leastwise, it looks
that way to me-and that the
SCHEME" has been passed up anc
down. the line-and is now being
played for all it is worth.
And further, Mr.. Editor, if the
four or five Counties already men
toned are cut off from Edgefeld
and then old Saluda-the only
section of Edgefeld justly entitled
to a new County, and should have
had one long ago,-is likewise Gu
off, with her fifteen hundred sollt
Reform voters, then verify poo
old Edgefeld, (the remnant, } vii
indeed be in a sorry plight. ALI
worse still, with the three or foul
little Conservative towns yet re
naming in the old County, very
probably Reform rule will be
thing of the past even IN prout
old Reform Edgefeld.
We hope our Reform Delegate
to the Constitutional Convention
and our members to fhe Legisla
ture, will weigh well and investl
gate thoroughly all the new Coun
ty schemes and go exceedingly slov
in coming to a conclusion IN tb
premises.
With an exception as to salu
da's petition for new County
because the people of that section
are rminently entitled 10 bette
Court House facilities, | am ut
terly opposed to any further sub
divisions of our County at thl
time The little towns heralr