The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-06-16
ANDERSON, S. G, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE l6, 1897.
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comes a contract, and is said by good
lawyers to be a good and efficient
paper, n that can be enforced in the
Courts. We are not like Captain
Smyth, so fortunate, as to have mil
lions Of money in hand, but have en-
tered into the above agreement in good
faith, and he may rest assured the
buildings will be erected. We feel
that we could do no more than this,
and all the people who have read this
paper are satisfied, and will vote yes
on June 26th.
All have signed this agreement, and
we believe have as high a sense of
honor as Captain Smyth claims for
himself. He sees only evil in this
new county movement, aDdlooks at it
from a standpoint of the Pelzer Man
ufacturing Company only, and that
from a monetary consideration. The
County seat will be too close to Pelzer
to be comfortable to him. He loses
sight of the good that will come to the
people to have smaller Counties, and
| fears the operatives may receive bene-
fit by living close to the County seat,
as we'll as the benefits accruing to the
whole State as a factor in the future
of white supremacy. We do not want
to see the State ever turned over to
Negroes and Republicans again, Jour
people are Democrats and do not vote
for Mckinley, and believe it was wise
in our State convention to allow the
large Counties in the upper part of the
State cut up, where the white people
are in the majority, thus assuring us
Of more white Democratic members in
the Senate and House, and aiding in
this way to keep the State government
in the hands of the white people.
Under our present registration law the
Negroes, as soon as they learn to read
and write, can secure registration GER
tifcates, and we know they can learn
and that they are urging their people
to attend school. Williamson Coun-
ty, if established, will always be a
white mans County and Democratic
to the core. Is this the reason our
manufacturer friend opposes new
Counties7 Does he wish the high
tariff fastened on us, and the State
thrown into the Republican column?
His fifth objection is he fears that it
will cost thousands of dollars to tran
scribe the records from the old to the
new County. We understand Green
wood County has contracted to have
her records transcribed for thirteen
hundred dollars, and VIC have it from
reliable men who say they will do it
for Williamson County for much less.
Isn't tia pity Captain Smyth did not
have his fears aroused in saving the
public money in building the Pelzer
Bridge as he has in this County mat
ter?
Captain Smyth finds ground to kick
at people signing the petition asking
for an election for a new County be-
cause Williamson was named as the
County seat. All, here is the milk in
the cocoanut with him! Williamson
to be the County scat. May be he
prefers it at Pelzer, where he can boss
it all. Williamson is too close to the
Captain, for he knows he will not have
such a monopoly and so much power
if the County seat is close to him.
Well the people had a right to name
Williamson as the County seat if they
chose, and we believe they will again
say so by their votes on the 26th Of
June. Hasn't Captain Smyth enough
power already that he exercises over
about six thousand people ? He taunts
the people of Williamson with having
contributed nothing to the success Of
Pelzer, and intimates it is presump-
ton on our part to seek a County seat,
that we wish to use the Pelzer proper
ty as a basis for a new County. Well,
the law says it is no crime to want a
new County, even if he does think SO.
We hope we have not done the Pelzer
Manufacturing Company any harm in
wanting a new County, and a assure
the Captain we wish we could have
had money to put into the mill, but it
is not pleasant to be tainted with pow
erty because he happens to have mil
lions at his back. He says it is pity
to dismember the old County. No
doubt this same cry was heard when
the old Pendleton District was divided
into Anderson, Pickens and Oconee,
but who would have it all now as
Pendleton County? We hope soon to
have Williamson County as n of the
banner Counties of the State, and are
sorry the Captain has gone back on it
so. Competition in buying cotton
seems to worry the Captain also, but
do We not need competition in buying
cotton as to price, grades, ETC., as
much as in business? Better come
along with us, Captain, and let us
make Williamson County n Of the
best in the State. We want to see
Pelzer prosper, but have the same de-
sire for WILLIAMSON, and wish to as
sure Captain Smyth, that we do not
want to be in his way, but we are here
and if we are instrumental in building
a large County town, that he so much
fears, it will not injure the State, or
the taxpayers, for US to build up vii,
liamston any more than he did in
building up Pelzer. The more people
we have and the more property we
make the better for all the country.
G.. X. WILLIS, Sec.
If there were no troubles to talk
about, some people would be always
silent.