The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-08-18


School men | know nothing which
suits the facts in the situation bette!
than the Sunday School lesson 70.
last Sunday, July 3l.-Ahab, Ma
both, Jezebel and the sons of Beilal
-Ellerbe, Norton, Mckenzie and
Pettigrew and Allen, Fore and Moo
dy.
J + Ellerbe plays the Ahah II coy
etousnesS of Norton,s position and
wants the congressional vineyard,
Mckenzie and Pettigrcw play the
Jezebel as far as want Of tr0cks aHd
brains will permit. The affidavit
makers are swift and false witnesses
after the Reform Advocate has set
Norton on high. J Z Ellerbe plays
the Ahab with face to the vail Of
destiny pouting because he has not
been able to trade or swap Norton
ont of the congressional vineyard.
Ellerbe's game of deception and
trickery in lS97,which he is pleased
to call a contract, failed him then.
From this trick Ellerbe appealed to
the people, the elders and mobiles aud
they repudiated him. Ellerbe then
appealed to Norton for Il trade. Nor
ton was teIegraphed to Columbia on
Saturday after first primary in 1897
to come to Florence. When he
reached Florence he was informed
that j Z Ellerbe was there ready to
support Norton in second primary
upon condition that Norton, if elect
ed, should not be candidate for
congress in 1898 and support FL
lerbe. Ellerbe denied this at Con-
way. See Central Hotel Registry
Saturday night after first primary.
j g Sellers, j w McCown aud j ID
Montgomery were in Florence. Ask
them about facts Nortonrefused to
talk to Ellerbe about the proposed
trade and spurned his conditions.
Ed Ellerbe had fooled Norton in his
contract" trick. Norton was gen.
tleman with Ellerbe until that fatal
night in Florence. No prospects of
u trade for the vineyard and Mr..
Ellerbe left Florence Sunday morn
iing gloomy and angry. He did not
make Sunday School speech that
dav. He moaned and tururd his
face to the wall of envy. Ellerbe
had cursed the 'HaSkelli5e" johnson,
but Norton won't tote fair, he groan-
ed. He won't trade for the vine
yard,
The next Saturday night reports
say EIlerbe was at Lat:a breathing
sulphurouS fumes at Norto4 II the
back room of i coiored mans store
and painting bright the kingdom
come of Johnson. Ei!erbc support
ed johnson vigorously for the sc
ond primary. Tins w&S his right.
Mr Johnson IS at honorable gentle
man. Bat why did Eiicr5e offer to
support Norton on condition, ana
when the conditions were spUrncd
fight Norton and support the other
man? Hereby hangs tale that
made Norton rascal at once, not
withstanding Ellerbe had boasted Of
splitting his shirt" making Norton
Comptroller General in 1894.
There comes now upon the scene
the political tyros, Mckenzie and
young Pettigrew, playing Jezebel for
Ahab Ellerbe. Finding Ellerbe in
the pouts with his face to the wall
they chided him and sald: art
thou not a great man il politics.
more arstocratic than Norton, the
little backwoods fellow who never
went to South Carolina or Wotford
College? Arise and we will deliver
the vineyard to thee, o King Ahab.
So Mckenzie goes about writing and
telegraphing and seeing the people
and scheming against Norton.
These Jezebels write articles and
seal them with Ellerbe's signet and
send forth to have Norton stoned,
and with Ellerbe-like bluster, make
a great show of evidence from the
affidavits of the sons of Belial, Allen
Fore and Moody. Joseph Allen,
your first witness, gentlemen, false
to truth and honor, false to his
neighbors and family, took seven
hundred dollars from his neighbor,
Z W Bethea, and left the State
and his family. This man Allen
swears Notion lied him out Of
1915 in lumber. Sorry for MIR.
Allen. can forgive him for not
paying for two tons Of guano, but
God must pardon his swearing to a
falsehood. To publish this is
painful, but Ellerbc, Mckinzle and