The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-10-16
Eirst Epistle Of "Guy." TO the
Aaronites.
iuaeo Daaaos ct dona Ferenses.-Lee.
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your wind back9 Yes, your Wlno, tsS
wind yo1 expended on chat lengthy
First Epistle to the beaighbed LeeEltes.
Want you much exhausted by JnaI
.eforts What,d yoa commence with 5na5
yreat big. black, Autographed line
for. (misl representing Lee county and
sticking BishopVille away upan the n.
&. corner. DoR'S you Know the @nes
don't run that way up there, nor down
st Scottville either:
Now, SFalsus-ln uno'' you know,
ssfalsus IN omnes'' and You have
started oat making bad Impression
on those yoG'd coaEert. Then you clSe
the decision in the public park case IN
Columbia rs precedent against the
power of town to dispose of property.
No INTO YOU lawyers. Eor We have
taken aWay the key Of knowaedge;
Te enter not in yourselves, aad them
That we're entering in ye haadred.
Oh, how we'd like TO hear goa, back
ed by a fat zee and more TO come,
argresag thesolid VALIDITY OF Lee eoun-
TVS title to the Opera House, slgneo
and sealed by the proper officials, as
unanImously voted by the Gnailneo
electors Of the town OF BlshopTllle:
Heavens, what volumes Of Law you d
puote. what eataracts OF pSecedents
worgd gibly toll of golE pivotal
Songnes HOG you'd sneer ssad jeer
and nbe at '5oeher side IL sbaey brought
forward Colunbia's IS rnined PARK, de-
preciated private property aRd Ghe gen.
erai nuisance of the seluessraHaon OF
The pubic park, by the casg council
5not the citizeasl to railroad purposes,
as parallel case TO the yoluaSary dona-
zion Of the Opera House hg ghe free
and unanimous consent OF Ghe1free-
nOIders OF Bishopyille. Yo0 claim
that body corpora6e and pollhc nust
frst. forsooth, obtain authority from
5s,ur fddle-de-dee legislators God save
5he mark, and with apologies TO some
of ,eml who can,S enact 5ary Law
Eithout shutting up the courts OF
WhoIe State Well, we ruther thank
The Opera House and Lee county and
ron laYyers Won7d have a high old
time of it if this Legislature shonad
get finger In the pie; for then che,
9awyeas, like little Jack Homer, would
sreF M q corner and pull out all the
plums. As it is, OF will be, who's to
kicks If the citizens of B1shopyllle.
are satisfied and the citizens OF Lee
county are satisfied who's to oring
suit for damages, or tresspass TO TRY
title, or man damn Us? You also
bring out the big bull fiddle and sound
the sonorous note of poverty. Lee
srountv will be the poorest county
5ItaEcs yonr own Lee county Will
::be the poorest of them all except
chesterfield and Horny.
Why goodness racious-sakes-allVe,
1t ha'nt been many days since your
special ambassador and minister plenl-
Dotentiary was over here pleading that
we,d not cut off the very richest por-
dion Of Sumter county. He verify
Mead much like a citizen who once
owned the present site Of Pinewood
and who. when the Clarendon line was
being run plead with the Surveyors for
God sake not to leave him IN Clarenaon
or he'd starve to death. Lord bless
rs and help and save Us, you are not
going daft with grief at the loss Of Us,
are you9 You should be shouting peans
and hauelujahs and hurrahing at the
blessed riddance Of this poverty struck,
INDECENT jejune part of your territory.
We are too poor to grieve about. We
hasnt cot but one poor little
million seven hundred and ffty-hve
thousand six hundred and fifty
nine dollars, and about seventy
Eve cents, we reckon; while you'ns
will have 81. 800, 900 to go or,
until you kin tex out leen" IN the
spring. Now if you can moderate that
franscendent magnaninity that causes
ron such grievous apprehension as to
car welfare and will let us depart in
peace We'll agree to give you seventy
fire cents as prize or premium Tor
the only known case Of grief or regret
Sor, or opposition to-the riddance Of
zyoor kin. Dearly beloved brethren, we
Gid not know you loved Us so!! Really |
we've been strongly: tempted 30 EunI
10 those big black lines and rub out a
gap; with our foot so'sgwe can get TO
gou when we want to borrow 25c, and
ges dinner, and stay all night and
smoke free cigars and spend week IN
town. We did not know it or suspect |
il before, and something over two |
thirds of the voting people. over here
didn't know it until those big, black |
Zig gag lines, that our surveyors
never drew, loomed around u.s. There
are some few others, it is true, that |
vor must have let into the secret Of |
yonr love and affection and high ap-
preciation and who, perhaps, enjoy |
seeuliar privileges and favors, in the
Shape of notes and mortgages and liens, |
WHO will vote against these lines; but |
we predict that after the election they
viii be blacker and more zig gag and |
indellEble than now. Then again you
strike a minor chord in our senti-
mental economy and touchingly and
withsspathos play a tender strain that
appeals to our pride and patriotism
and thereby you do reach our "blind
side'' and .stender spot'' and get us
nnder the 9Th rib" !" But dear hea-
ven, pride and patriotism are such dear
luxurigs for poor people to keep, and
their market value is so far below par
these. days that it wouldn't buy us a
meal of vittles or pipe Of tobacco IN |
Sumter, SO we must need resign them
while we pit the Bantam against the
Samecock on the 22d. The fight IS not
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