The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-03-04

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deny in toto the statement whicl
Mr.. Robert Latham says Mr.. Gonzale
made to him in reference to how tht
difficulty occurred. Mr.. Gonzales neye
said TO me what Mr.. Latham says ht
told him. If he did so state, I did no
hear him, and no affidavit has beer
submitted by any Of the bystander!
that they heard him say it.
Deponent ayers that be has no re
collection of any acquaintance will
O. D. Black, who has made an atfida
Wit herein, and denies that he had any
conversation at the time referred t
on the railroad train, or in November
last at the Albion Hotel in Augusta
Ga.
I do recollect having conversation
with Mr.. E. j. Watson, a reporter tol
The State, but I deny the truth Of the
conversation as stated in his affidavit
AS early as 1890 the saio \. G.. Con
ZaleS commenced making mlSState.
ments in reference to me in the public
prints of this State, and publicly
ayowed and published the fact that be
was instrumental in causing my appli'
cation for membership in the South
Carolina club to be refused, referring
to me as cowardly enough to SANDER
him anonymously, which was utterly
untrue Again in the year 1898, when
this deponent sent from Washington,
D. C. 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 Apri1, 1898,
as saying that the statement was a
falsehood without a shadow Of excuse,
and also referred to it in the editorial
columns OF the said newspaper OF
which he was the editor, on the 18th
day of April, 1898.
That the hatred of Mr.. Gonzales to-
wards depopent was personal. That
under the pretext of doing public good
he hardly attempted to cover his NAL
ice and Tindictlveness towards me.
From the time of my entry into pub
lie life there has been an incessant,
coarse, brutal, and unreasoning 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 all person
al. An arraignment of your deponent
is made, beginning with the year 1890,
down through the service in the army,
and up to SAID date, filed with brutal
insinuations. coarse perverslOn OF IactS.
and false insinuatiOnS Of the actlngs
and doings OF your deponent. That in
the issue of The State of April l, 1902,
four colums OF vituperation and abuse
were devoted to your deponent: on
August ,, three columns on the edltO-
rial page, of villifcation 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, be refers to your demo-
nent as ''reeling off miles of lies" and
''confessing to the embezzlement OF
money entrusted to him for the erec-
tion OF a monument to the Corfeder-
ate dead" and on August %, 1902,
after the result Of the elections had
been declared it is stated that your
deponent was not a 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
Gatfney, S. c., he refers to your depo-
nent as braggart, and a spotted can
ai0ate, and eulogizes E. f. 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 bitter, lsaSarcastic editorial OF
one and a half columns of your depo-
nent, under the heading 1--WE Plead
for Sporting Statesman"
After all this, ,depOnent submits that
be was justified in believing, from the
writings Of the said Il. 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 frmneSS and reason, and
deponent again reiterates that when
be left the State house to go to his
hotel, he did not know that he would
meet the said n. G. Gonzales. That
when deponent first saw him he was
ylaring at him and continued to do so
until he, Gonzales, was almost up to
him. That the said Gonzales then
obliqued across the pavement in the
direction Of deponenJ. That when he
obliqued was the time when deponent
saw him thrust the thumb Of bis right
hand into his overcoat pocket, and the
pocket was pushed backward. That
the said Gonzales glared vlciously ct
deponent at the time he did this, and
was cutting across, coming towards
him. That deponent firmly believed
that the said n. G. Gonzales was
about to draw a pistol and fire upon
him. That his manner, appearance,
and motions. were such as to justify
such a belief By deponent OF by any
pClSOil VI OlNIlldlS 1SdoSli 1ilo LA Ai!iLSoS:
who had been slandered, villitled,
abused, and threatened, as deponent
had been. Gh;.t deponent fired believ-
ing his life was in danger, to save him
self. That he Iegrets the necessity Of
being forced so to do, but fired upon
apprehension that his life
was about to be taken, Oh that he was
about to receive serious bodily harm,
and still so believes.
Deponent further says in reference
to seeing Mr. Gonzales near a commit
tee room in the State house at the
time mentioned in the affidavits of
Robert Latham and e. j. Watson, it is
not true that deponent then saw Mr..
Gonzales, although he may have been
in the position that these gentlemen
say he was.
Deponent 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 attidarits Of other parties he
may have been.
James II. Tillman.