The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-02-24

home and abroad" than these SANDER
GUS editorials, 1 leave for the people
to judge. I have spoken the truth as
I have understood it, both in the Sen
and before Nothern audiences, and I
have nothing to regret or to take
back. But l suggest that it is an evil
dence Of malice and of personal ha-
tired rather than of calm deliberate
Judgment and sense Of public duty
that made my indictment against the
slanders of South Carolina In regard
to crime an excuse for yilliication and
abuse of me personally. can stand
it because l am used to it. Can the
editors of the Mountaineer and The
News justify themselves for befouling
South Cardinals good name in the
way they have?
This much for the Mountaineer.
Now for the Greenville News.
That paper makes illusions to my
lecture tour in West last summer, and
speaks thus:
when he was spouting fire on
that spectacular trip this newspaper
declared that Senator Tillman was
killing Off all hope Of bringing, a desir-
ably class of immigrants to this State
by bis alarming speeches." I recall
the fact that some garbled and dis
torted reports were sent abroad while
the debate with Senator Burton was
going on last summer, with view to
creating a sensation. I cannot diScu' S
the immigration question in an arl;c'e
like this, but in presenting the View
to the Nothern people that with $780,
900 negroes and only 100000 white
people in our State that absolute
equality before the law meant domi-
nation by the blacks, and that the
whites would resort to fighting before
they would submit to it, l thought l
told the plain, unvarnished truth, and
think SO still. am thoroughly well
satisfied that race war would result
should Northern fanatics again en-
deavor to force negro equality upon
us.
1 think it did good to tell those peo-
ple this and let them understand the
true situation. If it drives immi-
grants away from our borders we'll and
good, but certainly the statement
which has been made il cold blood by
South Carolina newspaper men that
murder and lawleSsneSS were rampant,
that jurors were perjurers, life and
property were unsafe, etc., were CAL
culated to deter home seekers much
more than the threatened shadow Of a
race conflict, as l predicted and which
may never come. l mentioned immi-
grafton in that interview for the pur-
pose Of showing the inconsistency and
the idiocy of those who proclaim such
a condition of affairs in South Caro-
lima, and yet were urging the expen-
diture of our taxes for the purpose Of
bringing immigrants to our State.
The News charges that spoke thus
because / was paid to dc it while
claiming that ISLANDERS by it and
others voiced the sentiments Of the
decent law abiding people in protest.
ing against the disgrace Of the COM
monwealth and it did SO believing
that it was performing public SER
vice, and not because there was re-
ward" At first blush it would appear
that because l received money for my
work and the newspapers did not,
am in the wrong. 1t is a bad bird
that will befoul IT'S own nest whether
for reward or without it. In standing
up for white supremacy before North
crn audiences and proclaiming frankly
and boldly our intention to preserve 1t
at all hazards, and driving the hypo-
crsy and political greed Of those who
were apposing it, may have been IN
error. but what defense can be offered
by him who befoulcd the States good
name either truthfully or untruthful-
". No good whatever has been ac-
complished, and | really cannot see
what my having been paid has TO DO
with it.
The conditions in South Carolina
are not such as | would like to see,
but those who charge that the diSpen-
sary law, as The News does, is reSpon-
sihle, must first answer for the educa-
tion Of the people to which | nave
made alluSiun in the belief that it was
right aud proper TO override that law
by any and all means. They have
soNn to the wind and are rcaping the
Whirlwind.
| want to say further that when
The News says THAT the existing
conditions in South Carolina are due
To- the weak politicians who have been
elected to Office and nearly all Of these
n!cn are disciples Of Tillman," that
il is we'll known that the last I"O
Legislatures Of South Carolina have
had majority Of former ConScr'a-
tive in them, and our present brave
and nobe-heartcd governor, VINO Is
doing his whole duty towards cnlorc-
inE this obnoxious law--obnoXious t.
Tie News and the Muuutilecr IS well
known to have been CONSERVATIVE.
close by saying to The Grcenvllle
News that | am not worrying about
the immigrants | have kept away
from South Carolina nor those who
may br deferred from coming to South
Carolina by its own ISLANDERS, but let
us keep the record straight, and LET
the people understand that their
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