The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-01-10
DIVIDED AFFECTIONS.

DIVIDED AFFECTIONS.
"Columbians will be interested to note
that their desire for municipal expansion
is causing alarm AID distress IN the oth;e
Of the L,xioson Disp itch. TINT visluat
guar-dsen OF its peoples liberties co
strues our plans Tor benevolent ASSN llatlon
IS meaning nothing less than criminal az
pression, and it IS determined that 1t and
is constituents shall not be Flllplnoed
without a struggle. The Dispatch says:
The Lex;ng'ol Dispatch. We resrst to
say, has given away the whole scheme,
. adroitiy and surrspsitlously concocted
though it was. IN the face of this disclo-
snre we can do no less than make a full con-
fesslon aud dare the worst.
Yes, Columbia is tull Of sap and am5i-
ton and is determined to OK and. Coium
bia needs room and must have it. Coium.
bia is deter mined TO be nothing less than
Greater Chicago. In order to give this city
tie position it ought to have in next yeir's
census it has been determined by the State
that the following additions to its territory
must be authoriz I'd by the General Assem-
plJ At u dpk2ooSAlCS CSSIo
Il. Richland county. with all TINT part
OF Kershaw ], ing west OF the Wateree river.
.. Lexington county. iLcluding Hollow
Greek and Ball Swamp townships.
IS. Orapgeburg county, as far south as
the corporate limits Of Branchvills.
4 The populous town OF Aston, in
Fairfield county.
The annexed dit i,t will put Columbia
ohool &c Nhinoro ~ .rao. or4 - Tho onora-
gate population does not eqnal that OF Cock
county it is not our + .ult-we have done our
~ best to attract immigration to this favored
to stle ca out in. AMI we know Of
no regi, n whivh hes more space 60
irg TO waste than L.. 1ington, particularly
that portion Of the county embraced in the
town of Lexington. We have considered
the matter rather carefully AMI have con-
c!Uded that the four tracts indicated above
will suffice. with j%adicious economy. to
meet the needs of this city's growth until
sary to take in Charleston. G:eenville and
other suburbs to accommodate our redun-
dant population.
OF course we admire the vigilance aid
perspicacity of the Dispatch in SO quickly
No4 -
tull credit for desiring to maintain its terri
torial independence; but it will fad it use
less 70 appeal to the Lexington members Of
the Legislature for assistance in its fight.
We violate no confidence when We Say that
they have secretly ass ured US tn It they will
give their aid to the measure. The thing
is settled, and we are already, as it were,
the proud possessor of the township OF
Hollow Creek, and likewise the township
OF Bull Swamp.'-Colambia State.
Lexipgton's handsome young lover
across the Congaree, like all young
lovers when first smitten with the
charms of acomely and rich damsel, is
very inconsistent and consequently ir-
responsible for his words and acts.
We have tried in various ways to
reconcile the many and varied utter
ances of the love sick youth and mast
confess that we cannot account for
them on no other ground. When he
fcst made a public declaration of his
intentions to lay claim to the hand of
Lexington, in a three acvlumn article
published in the Columbia State #
date July II of last year, his soak
ing idea" evidently was to only court
that part of her body "embracing
the tbickly populated territory on
both sides of the Congaree." The
words in quotations are his OVID. In
his issue of July II of the same year
he admits that he did not mean what
he had previously said, but that
his idea was to CONSOLIDATE the two
countless" thus taking tie entire
county to his board and lodgings and
folding her lovely form to his manly
and pulsating bosom. He now says
in the article qaoted above, that he
did not really mean this either, but
only that portion of the county SIN
GLIDING Hollow Greek and Bull
Swamp townships. Oh! Inconsistency,
thy name is the Columbia State.
But this is not his only inconsist-
ent untterance apent this subject.
In his issue of July 10, of last year,
in a big flaming headline, so big that
he who runneth could read, he
makes the startling announcement
that some vague and indefinite
person said IF I had money would
slap it in Columbia dirt tomorrow"
Further down in the same article he
chronicles deal in real estate in which
"Mr. W. J. Keenan,, the progressive
naval stores dealer of Columbia,
purchased from the estate of the late
Senator T. J. Robertson, another res
ident of Columbia, "a tract of 1000
acres for $4,000" and adds: "Just to
show how much real estate has ad.
vanced, it is stated that the late Ser
ator Robertson at one time tried to
sell the property for $4,000, and
could not" Not one line or word
in that article, except in q studied
confusion of words calculated to mis-
lead and mystify the reader, IS to
the location Of the land. o. the
other hand, the whole tenor of the
article was to lead the reader 10