The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-01-03

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Nat the publication
IN icle referred to in the reso-
bove have been so miscon-
to call forth the above pre-
nd resolutions. And, in the
ng of this statement will say
ladies of Ssluds, that I have
gh a regard and esteem for
as to impute any such charge
Iem. On the other hand, I was
fronted with a rumor, a mere ru-
,r, so it seems now, that could not
Se located by those who told me of
the rumor, except that it must have
started from the gossip of women. l
failed utterly to locate the source
and those who told me of it, Informed
me that they are as ignorant OF its
source as am. Therefore my sole
reason for writing the squibs, was to
let the designing person or persons
know that sooner or later their evil
report would be run down.
"sSince the above has been put in
type, have been informed by three
prominent business men of Saluda,
that they are satisfied in their own
minds that the report did not origin
ate from any woman, and we apollo
gize to the ladies for anything that I
have said in the issue of the 18th
that may possibly have been con-
strued as rejecting upon. them.-H.
5. Cunningham"
After this last call the three gen
tlemen left the Office of The Sentinel
and announced that the names Of
three ladies would appear in the pa
per as the females referred to in the
locals of the preceding issue. Every
ons was on tiptoe with anxiety and
longing for the paper to be published
It was announced that this was to
be done Thursday night. But at the
appointed time no paper came from
the press. Finally on Friday after
noon those interested found in The
Sentinel the resolutions above set
out, the apology Of the editor and
the following additional:
''The readers of the Sentinel will
attribute, no doubt, the delay in get
ting out this weeks issue to Christ
mas. Such is not the case. The
paper was being issued on time last
Thursday evening when I was inter
rupted in my work by DR.. J. ".
Pitts and Messrs. Ed Turner and
Joe Ben Coleman, who demanded
that take out the explanation and
apology I have given and insert in
stead, typewriter apology pre-
pared by committee. They fur,
thermore demanded that I put not q
word of explanation of my own in
my defense bearing on the subject.
I kept cool and tried to reason with
them upon the high handed meas
ures they were taking. They said
the citizens demanded it, but when I
called on them to give the names Of
the citizens, they refused to do so
and said that nothing short of pub
fishing the retrsction and apology as
they had written it-or the names of
the female or females-would satis-
fy them; that if published it as it
was I would do so at my peril.
81 told them I had carefully framed
my explanation in order not to bring
to public gaze the name of a most
highly respected lady in saluda,
whose sole and only purpose in get
ting mixed up in the false rumor was
to put it down as false.
"since thinking the matter over l
have resolved not to make public the
lady's name, especially now that it
is conceded that the malicious SIAN
der did not originate among women.
$50 I thought discretion the bet
ter part of valor, and since I could
not go on peaceably with the publi-
cation as it was, but would bring on
a clash that may have proven fatal