Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-03-05

Docs he pay board to his mother while
his daughter is living with him and GO
ling 20 school in Walhalla9 Does he meal,
to say that all board he has charged for
was paid to his mother9 Or is he dodg-
ingP
Again, it matters not to the public
what lawyer or lawyers got the fees in
the Mscaulay case. He was one of the
attorneys of record for the News, aud
the record must speak for itself. Mrs.
Macaulay lost and so did Che small stock
holders. Messrs. Floyd and Crisp can
we'll come to his rescue, for they were of
the favored few''S,s managed, along
with Mr.. Earle, TO save their stock, and
at the same time pay nothing on the
Macaulay debt. Thcy could well, afford
to consent to Judgment. Why did not
they chip in and help pay the Judgment
instead of saddling the debt ON the small
stookholdersp Why did they consent to
Judgment and then pay none of itp Did
not the enforced sale of the News Under
this judgment defeat the small stock
holdersp They had the management of
it at the time, employed the attorneys,
consented to Judgment and managed to
pay none Of it.
Again, Mr.. Earle became editor of the
Oconee News in the fall of 1898 as sue
cessor of Mr.. N. w. Macaulay. Soon
after he took charge he had settlement
with Messrs. w. p. Dickson and Chester
Witherspoon, and in that settlement
deducted from their wages the amount
due by them to Mrs. Macaulay for board.
He failed to pay it over to her, and after
waiting for six years she had to sue to
collect her money.
Was not Mr.. Earle the editor of The
News during all of the six succeeding
yearsp Suppose thenhe publish a list of
the stockholders at the time he took
charge in 1903, and the list to-day. Sup
pose he publish also the amount received
by all stockholders from first to last,
showing amount of principal, interest or
dividend received by them respectively
This would be much more satisfactory
information than little whitewashing
certificates from two "innooents'' who
became bene1ciaries of mismanagement
at the expense of the small stockholders
In the choice of attorneys it is to be
presumed Mrs. Macaulay selected those
who she thought could render her tho
best service. She had tried to get "a
settlement out of Court for six years,
and when she did sue, her indulgence
was rewarded by plea of the statute of
limitations in bar of her recovery, for an
honest debt. AS part of the account was
over six years old when sued, she had to
compromise and lose nearly half. And,
yet, he at whose hands these disastrous
results were brought about, has the
effrontery to stand up and talk about
''honest competition" in the newspaper
business.
In company with Mr.. Neill w. Macau-
lay, during the progress of that suit, we
saw the books of the News, and the
credit was entered. 1t will be found
there to-day unless the books have been
altered. Who got the benefit of thatP
Did the small stockholders Let results
speak for themselves-they got nothing
1t matters not who employed the attor-
neys, who got the fee, or who the attor-
neys were, the consequences are the
same. The honest farmers of Oconee
county lost all. Mr., Earle to-day con-
trolls the paper, and they have no inter
est in it. How is this, Mr.. Earle? The
editors of The Keowee Courier may be
devils. The edit" of the News certainly
is not saint? l. IS -'nll the measure
ment of horns an, -Jofs, however, can
be made by an observant public.