Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-01-26


the answer from Catawba township came,
it was dated January Is and read as
follows:
Sowing to the fact that the meeting had
not been published in the Rock Hill Her.
aid, many of our people did not know Of
the meeting, and, consequently, our
crowd was not larger. We thought 1t
wise to adjourn the meeting until next
Saturday at IL a. m, when the organiza-
ton will be effected. Yours truly,
ct. NJ. ALLEN"
Although Mr.. Allen was the gentleman
to whom the inquiries had been sent, the
answer was not in Mr.. Aliens handwrit-
ing, and there was in the note certain
statements which to us looked rather cur
ious: but when the Rock Hill Herald of
the 10th instant came, we were able to
better understand the situation. The
Herald contained the following:
The meeting of the cotton growers
called by Mr.. T. NJ. Allen, to be held in
Roddey's Hall last Saturday, was failure.
Only 13 farmers were present and they
decided that the best thing to be done
was to adjourn the meeting until Satur..
day next at IL o'clock, when it is urged
that there should he a large attendance.
We do not know why the farmers failed
to attend last Saturday, unless it was that
they were not informed that the meeting
would be held. Notice of the hour and
place was published in the Yorkville pa
pers but not in The Herald. The notice
was not sent to this paper and consequent
ly it did not appear in our columns. In
fact, we did not see the notice in the
Yorkville papers until Friday afternoon,
and we had no other information that the
meeting would be held. But few persons
i'm Rock Hill saw Mr.. Aliens notice.
Possibly, though, the farmers failed to at
tend because of a lack of interest. we
trust this was not the case, however, be-
cause the matter is one of the highest inn
portance to every cotton grower, and
there ought not to be any laggards. Mr..
Allen is anxious that every grower of cot
ton in this section should be present next
Saturday, and we urge them to attend.
Remember the time and place; Roddey.s
Hall, Saturday, January I'D, at II O'Clock
a. m. The projectors OF this important
movement are anxious to have the help
Rock Hill, and we urge them to give an
hour to this meeting. So far as we know,
our merchants are all in sympathy with
the movement. Let them show their in
terest by attending the meeting Saturday,
if possibly.
This made the whole thing positively
funny. We saw in the situation then,
things that nobody can better understand
than the editor of The Herald and our
selves. The Herald had surely read the
Miller resolutions which had been pub
lished in THE ENQUIRER and copied
without credit elsewhere. Those resolu-
tions fixed dates of meetings. Mr.. AL
lens call had been published on January
Sth, and that the Herald did not see it was
curious. If The Herald had been very
anxious to assist, it had plenty Of oppor-
tunity. But somehow or other it does
not strike us that this is the point. Even
"l3" cotton growers, with the help of the
business men who could have been called
in at few minutes notice, would have
been enough to form very respectable or
ganization. But then it would have been
done without The Herald's assistance,
and that, it strikes us, is where comes the
rub.
A representative of THE ENQUIRER
asked Mr.. Allen, last Saturday, about
that note to which his name had been
signed. Mr.. Allen was very much anus
ed. He had nothing to do with the writ
ing of the note and did not know it's
contents. He had turned the matter oyer
to another party, and that was all he
knew of it. He was not inclined to mix
himself up in any controversy, for he is
not that kind Of man; but the sng-
gestion that the reason why the meeting
was not held on the 18th instant was fail
ure to announce it in The Herald, brought
to his eyes merry twinkle, the signiti
canoe Of which the reporter could not fail
to notice. Mr.. Allen knows very well
that large per cent. Of the leading farm
ers Of Catawba township arc subscribers
to and readers Of THE ENQUIRER, and
that is one reason why, we believe, he
seemed to think that the whole situation
was so funny.
Then there is another point. 1t is just
random shot but it strikes us that it is
fine illustration. Of the seven eXecu-
tive committeeman, three-one less than
half-are bona tide subscribers to THE
ENQUIRER. DO they take The Herald
also? We do not know; but we hope
50. Not only this, there is not Il name
mentioned in connection with or report of
the proceedings except who has conyen-
lent access to THE Enquirer, and al
though we have not the names of all the
cotton growers present, we venture, as a
guess, that among them all, there are as
many who take THE ENQUIRER as take
The Herald.
But we are not i'm the least mad. We
have no doubt that the circumstance has