The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-03-06
to let him pass !" attention is called to
the afildavit Of Dir. Robert Latham,
wherein he states that Mr.. Gonzales
told him that he had glanced at my


the atildayit Of Dir. Robert Latham,
wherein he states that Mr.. Gonzales
told him that he had glanced at my
face. 65.
l 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 10 me what Mr.. Latham says he
told him. If he did SO state, did not
hear him., and no ailldavit has been
submitted by any Of the byStanders
that they heard him say it.
Deponent ayers that he has 10 re-
collection of any acquaintance with
o. D. Black, who has made an atilda-
Wit herein, and denies that he had any
conversation at the time referred to
on the re ilroad train, or in November
last at the Albion Hotel in Augusta,
Ga.
| | do recollect having d conversation
With Mr.. E. j.. Watson, a reporter for
The State, but deny the truth Of the
conversation as stated in his affidavit.
zalcs commenced making misstate-
ments in reference to me in the public
prints Of this State, and publicly
avowed and published the fact that he
was instrumental in causing my appli-
cation for membership in the South
Carolina club to be refused, referring
to me rs cowardly enough to SANDER
him anonymously, which was utterly
untrue. Again in the year 1893, ?;hen
this dcponent sent from Washington,
ID. G.. certain dispatches to the Colum-
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 a
falSehOod without Il 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 vindictlveness towards me.
From the time of my entry into pub
lie life there has been an incessant,
coarse, brutal and unreasOnng ar
raignment 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 arraignmcnt of your deponent
is made, beginning with the year 1890,
down through the service in the army,
| uie up " SLid udIc, HllCu WILL - t!Ls. /!
lnSlnuations. coarse pcrverSiOn of facts,
and false insinuations of the actings
and doings of your dcponent. Chat in
the issue Of The State of April l, 1902,
four columns of vituperation and abuse
were devoted to your deponent; on
August 2, three columns on the edito-
rial page, of yillitlcation 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 2G, 1902, he refers to your deDO-
nent as ''reeling off miles Of lies" and
"confessing to the. embezzlement Of
money entrusted to him for the cree.
tion OF T. monument to the Confeder-
ate dead, And Oh August % 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, land 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
Gaffney, S. c., he refers to your depo-
nent as braggart, and spotted can
didate, and eulogizcs e. h. 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 maintain
ed the traditions of the paper.''
That prior to deponent's candidacy
to the Office OF governor, to wit: In the
issue of The State Of June 2, 1901, he
wrote a bitter ,l.sarcastic editorial Of
one and a half columns OF your depo-
nent, under the heading eve Plead
for Il Sporting Statesman
After all this, ,deponcnt submits that
he was justified in believing, from the
writings of the said n G. Gonzales,
from the threats communicated to
him, and from his actions when they
met, that the said N. G. Gonzales in
tended to make an attack upon him,
and his every movement as seen by
deponent so indicated, and would have
been SO interpreted by any one possess
ed OF ordinary firmnesS and reason and
deponcnt again relterates that when
he left the State house to 20 to his
meet the said N. G. Gonzales. That
when deponent first saw him he was
glaring at him and continued to do SO
until he, Gonzales, was almost up to
him. That the said Gonzales then
ODllqued across the pavement in the
direction Of depOncnt. That when he
obliqllcd was the time when deponent
saw him thrust the thumb Of his right
hand into his oycrcOat pocket, and the
pocket was pushed backward. That
the said Gonzales glarcd yiciously at
dcponcnt at the time he did this, and
was cutting across, coming towards
him. That dcpOncnt firmly believed
that the said N. G. Gonzales was
about TO draw pistol and fire upon
him. That his manner, appearance
| and motions were Sllch as 10 juStify
such a belief by deponcnt or by any
person Of ordinary reason and iirmncss
who had been slandercd, yillitied
abused, and threatened, rs deponcnt
had been. That deponcnt fired believ-
ing his life was in danger, to save him
self. That lie regrets the necessity OF
being forced SO to do, but fired upon
reasonable apprehension that his life
was about to be taken, or that he was
about to receive serious bodily harm
and still SO believes.
DcpOncnt further says in reference
to seeing Mr.. Gonzales near a commit
tee room in the State house at the
!. time mentioned In the aflidayits OF
Robert Latham and e. j. Watson, it Is
not true that deponcnt then saw Mr.
Gonzales, although he may have beer
J in the 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 aifidavitS OF other parties Inc
) may have been.