The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-08-29

NOT on good terms with gentlemen in
charge of roads near me. did not in.
Tend 1t for yonr injury, and am not
WORKING for your opponents. do not
care who is Supervisor, il you please. if
ne Will attend to The roads, and am
not expecting them to be made perfect
IN very short while; but people ought
70 De Kept from encroaching on them.
WIN nobody to dare molest, or say "get
back" with all due respect to the men.
Yes, l once applied for 70 I'd to Mr..
scott, did not get It, and you nor the
men who used almost your identical
words Can claim any honor in keeping
me from 1t. And now it you can prove
wltnout a shadow of doubt that all
this Is done through prejudice and per-
sonal feeling, l say prove it. demand
tne proof. You make that charge, ii is
your place to provo it true, not mine 10
prove 1t untrue. Now, Mr.. Betenbaugh,
l nave no i'll feeling towards you.
nave not yet attacked you personal
character. still regard you as christian
gentlemau and no man Can lead or in
ouce me to say anything against your
personal character.
And to Mr.. Mobley, his word. II will
say Tor the benefit Of the public that the
roads In Santuc, with few exceptions.
are in excellent condition. These ex.
cept,ons may be strong grounds for COM
plaint. Again, 1--WE ara still due Santuc
weeks work with the chain gang aud
machine, after which Santuc will COM
pare favorably with other roads in the
county" Compare favorablyl The
logical conclusion is they do not now
compare favorably. l would say that
one place is In need Of the chain gang on
the road from Sautuc to Jetsr's mill, for
do not believe the entire amount Of
money let on that line is sufficient to fix
It permanently, and the gang ought to
De here soon. The attack on the roads
was not intended as a personal matter
and am sorry it is unwarranted, il it is.
Perhaps might have put that in diff
ferent words but I was after no indi-
vidual man but officially, the county gov.
ernment, and did not think to 20 and
Interview number of men, make them
tell mo number OF things-or drive
them to cover-and publish the inteEr
views will try to remember to intel.
view hereafter.
Here comes Mr.. X. F. Johns, very
mad 1t seems, and says did it because
OF onmity towards 'three" of the over
seers. Verify the number grows. Others
say two, he says three. Wonder when
he took the third one on his back. I
can not we'll reply to him for honestly I
do not believe he wrote it of his own
volition. It runs 80 much in tho groove
Of somebody else, and he did not know
about me ever making application to
MI. Scott for q road. am not wishing
for road job, wouldn't have it il offered.
Then why try to chuck himself in as one
am at enmity with, when he knows
positively that am not. Why, have
always been on the very best of terms
With his parents, his sisters and all of
the boys, and will be yet. Ibelieve be
has let somebody make cats paw of
him, and will not be hard on him. Go
way back and sit down, Kelly, and don't
allow yourself to think such things.
I am not through yet, have to answer
Mr.. 8. M. Gilmore's charges, and right
at the start 1 will say that when wrote
that article I did not have Mr.. 8. n.
Gilmore nor his road In my mind. Not
the faintest idea that he and his road was
in existence. l had forgotten all about
them, but heseems to want to be news
paper controversy prize fighter 80 bad
that when he found he had small
chance he seized upon 1t with apparent
relish, and whether the cap fit, got red
flag, jumped into the bull pen and began
moving, trying to get up bull aghL. I
will not answer by charges about tho
broken leg, the doctor's Certificate and all
that, bat 1 don't hammer iron, dress
lumber, drive nails, saw, bore holes, etc.,
with q leg or foot. But when he swooped
down on me about being an able bodied
man. guess he thought he knew and
would be big eagle and tear me bod
daciously, or, I was St Pierre and he
Mount Polee In state of eruption. Not
but q short while ago he rode along the
road with me laughing and talking, dis
closing some plans Of his to me, telling
of his successful methods In raising
garden truck, etc., sand various things,
and IL Is passing strange that man
would tell that to man who he charges
as being his enemy. We live near each
other and borrow and lend farm imple-
ments and machines and minor things,
and yet he sees fit to charge mo rs being
his enemy.
1 will explain the charge he makes as
TO me damming water In the road two
years ago. The water ran down the
road for nearly q mile, big volume,
passing two big hollows it could be
turned in but Il came on to me, and
ridging sand along the road, 1t passed a
natural outlet. hollow with gully In
it, about twenty yards and ran over tho
woods. closed that, put some pine
poles there to make the water force back
to the natural outlet. He went to work
| It 1.-THE road) and instead Of cutting side
bitches and turning the water into the
natural outlet only twenty yards or there
about further up the road, he moved the
poles, cut through the turf and turned
the whole volume of water which had