Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-12
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1902.
Card from Mr.. D., r.. ID.

Card from Mr.. D. r.. ID.
Mr. Editor-I am panied to no.
tice that in your columns and the
columns of the other county pa
pers. that ex-Gov Sheppard assalls
me in a manner quite vigorously
from the wonderful, and yet un-
warranted, imaginings of his fer.
tile brain, concerning the issue OF
certain bonds, and thereby makes
it incumbent upon me to vindlcate
sratuitious charges. 1 know, if l
know myself, that I have done GOV
Sheppard no intentional wrong;
and 1 further know that if ! had
done so intentionally or unlnten-
tionally that Editor Terrell, VINO
80 carefully and critically inspects
every line published in his papef'
would have promptly returned the
paragraph to me unpublished, as
he should have done had it con-
tained the slightest suspicion OF a
reflection upon the personal char,
acter and integrity of our honored
senator and highly esteemed ana
distinguished fellow-citizeu.
For some three or four weeks,
have written each week in my let
ters to the Monitor paragraph,
concerning the action of a { called n;a
mass-meeting of the vot:rs of Wise
aud Pi;kens townships on the
bond question. Concerning which
meeting the Edgefeld Chronicle of
the 18TH OF January, after announc-
ing the usual organization OF such
a meeting said:
"Ex-Goy Sheppard, on behalf OF the
committee appointed at a reVlous
meeting to act for the townships, IN
troduceI the following resolution:
sResolved, by the citizens OF Wise
and Pickens townships, in meeting as
sembled that the delegation to the GEN.
eral assembly from this county, be, and
are hereby requested to obtain the pas
sage of a bill by the Legislature au-
thorizing said townships to refund the
debt now outstanding against them,
by issuing new bonds IN an amount
sufficient to retire the present out.
standing bonds, the new bonds TO bear
interest at the rate of per cent per
annum, and to run for thirty years.
Gov Sheppard advocated the
passage of this resolution with his
usual characteristic ability, and
IT was adopted, ,s2S of the worthy
and best citizens of the two town
ships voting IN the affirmative and
l.s- .ssll.ag t.s e -ebs
Der band any amount they should
s demand to- free themselves from
! the incubus OF, q $4,000 U S court
judgment staring them in the face.
And this was the~cUndlIlon of
ths-hesd matter until in my letter
to the Monitor on Jan 30, when |
wrote as follows
"And now we hear the sad news that
the senate, on the petition of % voters
of Wise and Pickens townships at q
socalled mass-meetlng of the citizens
of said townships, representing near
sIy 500 voters has already passed an act
authorizing the county commission
ers of our county to issue new bonds
against Wise and Pickens townships,
amounting, when paid, to $l50.000 to
take up debt of $4,000 in bonds issu-
ed years ago, and which bonds were
delivered without any valid consider
alton, and which said bonds have been
declared unconstitutional by our own
Supreme court, composed of as able
jurlsts as the world affords"
And this information was given
me by one in high authority, and
/ gave it as a news item, rot hav-
ing the least idea of inaccuracy.
Knowing, as I did, Gov Sheppard's
views on this matter less than ole
month previous, and not dreaming
that he had stamped his foot upon
his own resolution to secure the
passage of the very act above al
luded to, and for the adoption of
which resolution he 30 zealously
advocated at the meeting of the
two townships Oh the 9Th OF Jan.
last. This error of mine in saying
that the senate had passed the
bond bill, seems to be most griev-
GUS to him, but I think his repin-
ings are void OF any foundation
whatsoever, and that 1 am more
slnned against than SHINING"
But it gives noe great delight to
read from Gov Sheppard's card,
the following pledge to our people:
"I would not be satisfied if 1 did not
state in the most direct and specific
terms, that nothing has been done, land
nothing shall be done, whilst am a
member of the general assemblywhich
will have the tendency to plunder and
lmpoyerish and pauperize' any portion
of the people of Edgefield county"
This pledge of Gov Sheppard's
means much to the tax payers of
Pickens and Wise townships, and
we rejoice exceedingly thereat,and
now feel we are secure from the
recent probability of an enormous
debt of $150,000 being placed upon
our shoulders in payment of $20,-
0IO in outlawed bonds,. in the
hands of certain New York bucket
Shops jew dealers in superannuat-
edand worthless bonds.
Very respectfully,
D. r. D.