The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-13
.uAe Ieynlu anA Mews
E. II. AULL, EDITOR.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
The Legislature Starts On-Tho Governors
NIcRsngo aud tho ChaiEes of Editor
Gonzales tho Talk of tho Capital
Cny aud tho Legislators

Mca.ngo and tho Cha,Hes of Editor
Gonzales tho Talk of tho Capital
Cny aud tho Legislators
Columbia, January 12.-Everything
Is frozen up down here. The rain and
the mud came yesterday morning and
the night before. Last night the rain
began to freeze and soon everything
was covered with ice. The political
atmosphere in some quarters Is very
hot The temportnro is away up
yOpder and the prospects are that 1t
will go much higher. The fact is the
prospect is that we are to have two or
three Books of Revelation with more
wonders and mysteries revealed than
ever appeared in visions to any one
heretofore who ever undertook to write
Book of Revelations. The truth is,
there is no telling where it will end.
The deal that we all suspected us
having been made with Gov. Ellerbe
just before the last primary when the
| State newspaper supported his election
seems to have been one in fact. Mr.
| Gonzales states it in n signed editorial
| in The State yesterday. He tells how
he was approached and asked to sup
port Gov. Ellerbo, and how he would
do it if Gov. Ellerbc would agrco to
work for and recommend local option
aud how he was afraid to trust Gov.
EllcrbeI unless he had his promise in
writing, and how finally the following
letter was handed to Mr.. Weston to be
delivered to Mr.. Gonzales us Il pledge
OF good faith. Hero is the extract
| from The State with the letter:
The next day, Friday, September 8,
Mr.. Weston came 10 my room and
handed me an envelope bearing the
South Carolina. Executive Chamber,
Columbia" and addresSed: "Mr. Il. Fl.
Weston, Columbia, s. G, Personal"
Opening it | read:
Safe Of South Carolina,
Executive Chamber.
Columbia, S. G., Sept. 8, 1898.
Confidential.
Dear Frank: In reply to your in
quiry, will say-I fully concur in your
view as to the best solution ofthc liquor
question. After ming!ng with the
people for three months and thorough
consideration | have come to the CON
clusion that the Dispcnsary Act should
be amended so as to allow each county
, to settle the liquor question for itself,
and Lave determined to make such
| 1rt tn n al
} assembly. Your friend,
] w. II. EI.LERBE
TO Mr.. f. II. Weston.
All Of this except the printed caption
and date line was in Gov. Elerbc's
: handwriting. The date was wrong
U one day behind.
t Iou have the message Of the Cover
, nor on the first page, and the reader.
can Judge whether the Governor ha.
kept the pledge. The "view". of Mr.
Weston which the Governor endorsed
@ or concurrcd in, is that he favored
county choice between the dispensary
| high license and prohibition. AS near ~
the Governor comes to carrying out thi
pledge is when he says in his message
"Turning now to the practical consid
S Grafton Of the dispensary, | do no
a think whisley should be sold in an,
county where II majority Of the pcopl
{ favor prohibition. therefore recon
mend the submission Of the liquor qucs
tion to the qualified electors Of eucl
o county, that each county may vote IL
p it prcfcrs." But you will observe tina
q it Is only 10, ~ option between dispen
sary and prohibition. Also that it wa
known that the mel with whom tn
Governor was dealing were opposed t.
y both and favored high license. ant
It could not have meant local option be
d tween dispcnSary and prohibition.
;, want you to publish the several chap
tcrs of this new book Of revelations be
ginning with the Governors messag
q in Fridays paDer, Gonzales persona
IS editorial and the several other impol
|. tant statements that will surely follow
There was Il deal. Tie State was t
support Governor Ellerbc and in pa,
- mcnt Of the debt the governor was t
Q rocomm end local option. The partic
q to the deal were Governor E!lcrbt
Y Col. w. a. Neal, Mr.. Frank Weston
Editor Gonzales. Mr.. Gonzales carrie
out his part Of the compact. The go,
y ernor was elected. In his message h
/ fails to carry out his part, and now Th
n State makes the exposure and pul
!. fishes the "cOnlucntial" letter, and u
: lacks Gov. Ellcrbe violently rs untruLl
=, ful and unworthy of belief. I wonde
20 If Mr.. Gonzales ever thought of tn
II fact that he was advising the people t
e vote for a man, whom he says now,at til
o. time he urged his election he had n
;, confidence in him. Was that justifie
=, by the end sought?