The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1900-03-02
UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY BBRutARY23T1goo
plain as possible all that passed be.
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The next week after Mr.. Webbe
!, vent over tho roads, I saw Mr.. r
and said to him, that the people i,
our section were complaining abou
the roads, and as friend 1 woul,
advise him to come and see them be
fore he paid for them, which b,
tpromised to do. Just after Octobe,
conrt, / saw Mr.. B. in his office.
asked him if he had paid MIR. w., he
!, said; Yes, but 1 have kept back
part. Esaid to him "some of nv
ueighbors talked of reporting the
matter ito the grand jury, and he
said, wrote to Mr.. w. about it and
he asked if it was not you who had
complained, l told him 1 thought it
was from Mr.. Black"
Ireplied, "Mr. Black is the one
who asked me to report it,"
About the first of December Mr..
b. and Mr.: w. went over part of
Mr.. WIS roads, but 1 did not see
them while on Mr.. VS. section, but
saw them in the evening, near Jones
vile. i asked, "Did you pass nv
house?s He replied, "Yes." lie,
being IN company with Mr. w., /
did notlask him about receiving the
roads. "A few days after this | was
at his office and asked him if he re-
ceiyed Mr. W.'s roads. lie replied,
yes, with the understanding that
he was to 60 back and fix some holes"
l said that there was going to be
some kicking about it. He said,
"there. has already been"
This is about the substance of
what passed between us: Now | did
not mean that he received them
without: seeing them, but that he
made the first payments before sec-
ing them, as he acknowledged to me.
Though can yet say that there is
part OF Mr. WIS road that he did
not "a OVER.
NoH Dir. Editor, Mr.. B. charges
me wi{li ialsehood. / was born and
raised isRthis county and this is the
first 6ine that sucha charge has been
hid ss3py door. But I am willing
for th1 jlizenship of this county to
Now, 3 TO snbsts6-
tiate the charge have made, I en-:
close certificate from a few men
who live on these roads and know
how they have been worked. Mr..
B. calls special attention to road
near my spring which he pronounces
as sin about as good condition as
when j. w. Cunningham had charge
of it," Now l would like to ask Mr..
B. how he knows this? Did he see
it when 1 had charge of it? I do
not believe he did, in fact l think he
had not seen it in three years. From
my spring to the county line is about
one mile and half. 1t took me one
day and half to work this piece
costing the county about eleven dol,
lars. Mr.. Webber, with about half
as many hands, worked it in four
hours, costing the county about fil-
teen dollars.
[ have been over the most Of Mr..
w. $ roads and not a ditch did | see
cleaned out, and now they are filled
up and in good many places the
water runs in the middle Of tie road
washing them in gallies. In fact he
did very little to them except smooth
them over with scrape or a cut
away harrow at the rate of four or
five miles day. Does Mr.. B. ex-
pect anbody with common sense to
believe such work is up to conract,
or does he expect to fool the people
of Union county as he did tie grand
jury?
Mr.. Editor: AS you confne me
to a limited number of names | send
few of the many l have.
We, the undersigned, do certify
that the charge made by J. w. Gun
ningham in the Union Times of Feb
ruary 9th as to the working Of roads
is true.
A. D. Black, T. 7. Black, A. B.
Kennedy. David Kennedy, r. S.
Wright, J. l.. Wyatt, ID. n. Nc
Dowell, J. J. Black, J. w. Gallman,
A. G.. Means, r. S. Long, j. r.
Harvey. Respectfully,
j. w. CUNNINGnAM.