The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-17
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Jas. A. -HOyt il, q son OF COl.
J. A. Hoyt who was candidate
for the office Of Governor in the
last primary, turns out to be the
writer of the editorial in the
Columbia State which haccused US
of being economical in the use
, of the truth" The SANDER was
unprovoked and we wanted to
know upon what grounds such a
statement could be made, and in
the issue Of The State 18th, inst,
Jas. \. Hoyt il, in a signed
statement came out from hiding
and indulged himself in long
distance abuse and vituperation:
a part Of which was as follows:
I'm the editorial Of June % I did
not call Applet q liar directly,
though | could have done so and
proved it."
After expressing our opinion
Of this creature in q former is
sue. we could ignore his stric
lures, and wrote q letter to The
State asking for the production
Of the proof; inyeSterday's issue
OF that journal our letter appear
cd, together with what this Jas:
A. Hoyt Jr., calls the proof, and
concluding with more restric-
lures. The proof offered is as
follows:
In The MANNING TINES toward the
latter part Of June last year appeared
an editorial charging that Col. Hoyt
had advocated high license. This
statement, as Editor Appelt afterwards
explained, was based upon an editorial
appearing in the South Carolina Bap-
tist. but it had been denied and proved
untrue in the daily papers of the State
and the South Carolina Baptist had re-
tracted it before The MANNING TINES
gave it circulation At the campaign
meeting at Manning Cn June p Col.
Hoyt on the stand denounced the state
ment as untrue, and although AppeIt
was present he was never honest enough
to acknowledge that he mad made an
erroneous statement. In the same ar
ticle The MANNING TINES charged
that Colonel Hoyt was in coalition with
high license. This statement C2lonel
Hoyt also denounced as false, ard al
though there was no proof to back Ap-
pelt'S assertion. he never corrected the
falsehood Here were two lies Appelt
told in the same article.
In The MANNING TINES Of August
Is, 1900, there appeared this paragraph
in an EDITORIAL:
"a close observer Of his speeches will
detect Colonel Hoyt'S politics by the
way he panderS to the crowds he faces:
if a strong dispensary crowd, he prefers
that system to license, anil will promise
if elected to enforce it better than it Is
being enforced now: if Prohibition
crowd, he protests with hands appraised
in holy horror against the State max
ing him d partner to the whiskey buSi-
ness, and that the dispensary should be
stamped out Of existence: if the crowd
is in doubt he does not want to destroy
the dispenSary, but simply wants to re-
strict its sale for legitimate purposes"
Inasmuch as Colonel Hoyt's position
On the whiskey question did not vary in
the slightest throughout the whole
campaign the above paragraph was a
willful falsehood and Applet knew it to
be so when he wrote it.
In the same issue OF THE MANNING
TINES, August Is, but in another edi
torial, Appelt said: DO theS know that
Colonel Hoyt has always been leader
in making fight against the State col
leges? < < There has never been
movement to cripple these institutions
of learning but that it has had the
warm support of Colonel Hoyt." Inas-
much as Colonel Hoyt was never an
enemy Of the State colleges and never
endeavored to cripple them this is an
other falsehood told by Applet.
These are few instances Of Appelt's
having prevaricated. If my scrap-book
had more extracts in it from The MAN
MING TINES would possibly have been
able to give more extensive proof, but
the above are sufficient to subStantiate
my statement that Louis Appelt the
editor of THE MANNING TINES, IS a
liar and q black-guard.
JAS. \. HoYT, JR.
The careful reader will at once
discover that the proof offered is
nothing but a string Of asser
tions, together with two quota
tions from the columns of The
TINES on a matter fresh in the
minds of our readers who kept
up with the campaign, and being
unable to furnish the evidence
that we have been ''economical
in the use of the truth" he m-
dertakes to shift the controversy
on his father whose policy we
opposed.
In our opinion the animus
which prompted the assertion
was our rebuking editorial which
caused him to resign from the
governors staff. This same Jas.
y. Hoyt Jr., had many opportu-
mites to confront Us in person in
Columbia, if he had any griev-
ences, but it seems that he pre-
ferred another method, and did
not let his grievances be known
until we smoked him out of his
hiding.
Col. Hoyt's campaign speeches
are not convenient, and refer
ence to the files Of The State
will show the arguments, and
the promises he made on the
stump to conform with what We
said in paragraphs quoted, and
taken from the reported speeches
in the daily papers, but those
issues have been fought out,
and to recur to them now
is threshing over Old straw.
We are not going to be dragged
into a controversy with Colonel