The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1895-12-11
Iabos pitabls Treatment.
Abbeville Press and Banner.

We would not be disagreeable {
supplementary in our remarks, BIT
on last Saturday evening the Atlant
Journal, under the heading of "Car<
lima Hosts Co." that newspaper, az
cording to our way of thinking, vic
lates all the rules of hospitality an
kindly feeling. Heretofore that pa
per has been so clean, and so far re
moved from doing an improper thin!
that we are surprised at the treat
ment of Senator Tillman and Gov
ernor Evans. As a specimen remarl
we quote the following, which, if no
vulgar, approaches dangerously nea1
to an improper speech:
"Senator Tillman and Lieutentant
Governor Evans left yesterday morn
ing at half past eight o'clock. They
went over the Southern train at that
hour, which left in two or three sec
tions. 1t has been rumored, but few
believe it, that both of these gentle
men were indignant that green flags
were hung out on the last coach to
indicate a section behind. They
wanted red flags to wave their de-
parture out Of the city. Some were
cruel enough to suggest that a part
of their shirts might have been used;
for at the auditorium Thursday they
were covered with the blood of a
war thirty years gone"
It may be that Senator Tillman
and Governor Evans were impolitic-
and we admit that they were-in
their speeches, but we submit that in
nothing that we have read have we
seen so great departure from the
prophecies of the occasion as was
contained in the paragraph above
quoted from the Atlanta Journal.
The facts are, that Governor Evans
and Senator Tillman were guests of
the city. They were representatives
of the people of sister State, and
by an overwhelming odds, elected
these gentlemen to their respective
places.
It is also true that the Atlanta
Journal, if representing tie people
of Atlanta, was the host of the occa-
sion.
It is also true that the hosts as
we'll as guests should observe the
proprieties.
In ability and private character the
maligned Carolinians would doubt
less have nothing to lose in compari-
son neither with the staff of the At
lanta Journal nor their traducers ct
home. We believe that TilIman and
Evans have said nothing in their
public career which is so inappropri-
ate or so far removed from the facts.
IS the statements of the Journal in
reference to the flags of the train.
Not satisfied with its own unjust,
md evidently unkind remarks, the
Journal copies an anonymous COM
nunication in reference to Evans and |
Cillman. That communication, &C.
'ording to our way of thinking,
should not have been published in
ny newspaper, especially as it had
10 name signed to it.
Senator Hampton in Cincinnati in
$50 made speech, which we think,
vas just as Objectionable as those Of
7illman and Evans in Atlanta last
7eek, but we heard very little criti-
ism of it.
Gen. Gordon, not so many years
go, made his famous s'Black Jack
peech at Greenwoodin which he gave
ifense to large majority of his hear
RS, but our newspapers did not man
facture or copy reports which "few
elieved," in order to place him in
ronS light before the people, either
Georgia Or of South Carolina.
The Journal may have thought to
lease certain Carolinians by its at
'mpt to ndicule or misrepresent
illman and Evans, and there is no
oubt whatever that there are some
eople here who will enjoy anything !
at may be said against Tillman,
1t there is a sense Of fairness exist
e in the hearts of at least por-
IN of their political opponents.
Governor Evans is President Of
e State Convention. Senator Till
m was lately elected Senator al I
ost without the show of opposition. ,
e believe that il is true, that no
IN in that convention has made -,
e-tenth the impress On the consti-
ton as vas made by Tlllman, and '
t when he ooes abroad the Atlanta
urnal publishes the notice above in
erence to him when lie departs
m the city. :,