The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-03-06


wherein he states that Mr.. Gonzales
told him that he had glanced ut my
face.
1 deny in toto the statement which
Mr.. Robert Latham says Mr.. Gonzales
made to him in reference to how the
difficulty occurred. Mr.. Gonzales never
said TO me what Mr.. Latham says he
told him. If he did SO state, did not
hear him, and no affidavit has been
submitted by any, of the bystanders
that they heard him say it.
Deponent ayers that he has no re-
collection Of any acquaintance with
0. ID. Black, who has made an atfldl-
Wit herein, and denies that he had any
conversation at the time referred to
on the railroad train, or in November
last at the Albion Hotel in Augusta,
Ga.
I do recollcct having i conversation
with MIR. u. j Watson, reporter for
The State, but deny the truth Of the
| conversation as stated in his affidavit.
AS early as 1890 the SAID N. G.. Con
| ments In reference to me in the public
prints Of this State, and publicly
ayowed and published the fact that he
was instrumental i'll causing my appli-
cation for membership in The South
Carolina club to be refused, referring
TO me as coWardiy enough to slandcr
him anonymously, which was utterly
untrue. Again in the year 1893, when
this deponent sent from Washington,
ID. G.. certain dispatches to the Column
bia Evening Journal, the truth Of
which he did not guarantee, but stated
them as rumOr. Mr.. Gonzales had him
self quoted in The State of April, 1893,
as saying that the statement was q
ta.sehood without q shadow of excuse,
| and also referred to it in the editorial
columns Of the said newspaper of
| which he was the editor, on the 10Th
day Of April, 1888.
That the hatred of Mr.. Gonzales to-
wards deponent was personal. That
under the pretext of doing public good
he hardly attempted to cover his NAL
Ice and yindictlveness towards me.
From the time of my entry into pub
| lie life there has been an incessant,
coarse, brutal, and unrcasoning ar
raignmcnt of your deponent. Even so
late as July 81, 1902, there appeared in
The State an editorial OF abuse, which
although headed "Partly Personal
| Partly Public" was indeed alLperson-
al. An arraignment of your deponcnt
is made, beginning with the year 1890,
down through the service in the army,
and up to said date, filled with brutal
lnsinuations. coarse perverSfOn of facts,
alti false insinuations of the actings
the issue OF The State of April l, 1902,
four columns Of yituperation and abuse
were devoted to your deponent; on
August 2, three columns on the edito-
rial page, Of vlliilcation and abuse: On
August s, one column: and almost
daily editorial comment from said
date up to and including August 20,
1902, and even after said time. In The
States survey, editorial columns, Au-
gust 26, 1902, he refers TO your depo-
nent as ''reeling Off miles Of lies'' and
"confeSsing to the embeZzlement Of
money entrusted to him for the erec-
tl0n Of, u monument to the COnfeder-
ate dead" And on August q; 1902,
after the result Of the elections had
been declared it is stated that your
deponent was not gamecock, and
never "tit" in the pit, 'and if he was
found dead there, his remains must
have been thrown in after his demise
from excessive weeping" In the same
issue, referring to an occurrence at
Gatfney, S. G., he refers to your depo-
nent as a braggart, and a spotted can
didate, and eulogizcs E. T.. DeCamp,
who had brought on the trouble, as
one OF the first printers to stick type
for The State. He will permit us to
say that he has handsomely maintains
ed the traditions Of the paper"
| mat prior to depOnent's candidacy
to the office Of governor, to wit: In the
issue of The State Of June 2, 1901, he
wrote bitter Sarcastic editorial of
one and Il half columns of your dcpO-
ncnt, under the heading 1--WE Plead
( for q Sporting Statesman
| After all this, ,dcponcnt submits that
! he was Justified in believing, from the
writings Of the said n. G.. Gonzales,
from The threats communicates to
him, and from his actions when they
met, that the said n. G. Gonzales in
tended to make an attack upon him,
ana Ills every movement as seen by
deponent sc Indicated, and would have
been SO interpreted 10y any one possess
ed OF ordinary firmncSS and reason and
dcponcnt again relterates that when
he left the State house to 20 to his
hotel, he did not know that lie would
meet the said n. G.. Gonzales. That
when deponcnt first saw him he was
glaring at him and continued to do so
until he, Gonzales, was almost up to
MN. That the said Gonzales then
ODllqucd across the pavement In the
direction OF deponcnu. That when he
Obiiqucd was the time when depOncnt
saw him thrust the thumb Of his right
hand into his OvercOat pocket, and the
pocket was pushed backward. That
tile said Gonzales glared viciously at
dcponcnt at the time he did this, and
was cutting across, coming towards
him. That dcponent firmly believed
that the said N. G.. Gonzales was
about TO draw Il pistol and fire upon
him. That his manner, appearance,
and motions. were such as TO Justify
such belief by dcponent or by any
person OF ordinary reason and firmnesS
who had been Slandcrcd, villitied
abused, and threatened, as dcponcnt
had been. That depOnent fired beley-
ing his life was in danger, to save him
self. That he regrets the necessity OF
being forced so to do, but fired upon
reasonable apprehension that his life
was about TO be taken, or that lie was
about to receive serious bodily harm
and still SO believes.
DcpOnent further SAYS in reference
to seeing MIR. Gonzales near commit.
tee room in the State house at the
time mentioned In the afIidavits OF
Robert Latham and e. j. Watson, it is
not true that deponcnt then saw Mr.
Gonzales, although he may have beer
In tho position that these gentlemen
say lie was.
Dcponcnt further says that he has
no recollection Of seeing Mr.. Gonzales
either IN the lobby OF the State house
or IN the senate chamber, as it appears
from the aliidavits Of other parties he
may have been.
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