The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-10-11
Hudua1 Hands Kelly "Hot Iorlale."

AIr. J P. Kelly. the chronic GROWER,
is ont with another epistle to the pub
lie He says. the hit dog howls- ,
Yes. he knows ne hit at me when ne
refers to my own work. Mr.. Kelly re-
minds me of yellow dog baying the
moon. Idleness is the devils workshop,
he has nothing else to do but to 81,
down on one end and bark.
Mr.. Editor. promised in my card
not to notice him any more, but tht
braying of an ass will be noticed as il
is an unusual sound in these parts.
Now, Mr.. Editor, as Mr.. Kelly
charges me with untruthfulness: will
show him up to be false in all his
charges. Mr.. Kelly says | excused him
from the roads this year. did not en-
cuse MIR. Kelly, but did, by his request,
excuse his two hands until the follow.
ing week on account of being short OF
tools on my part and because he Kelly
was busy thrashing oats, and accom-
modared him by letting him have his
hands. Mr.. Kelly claims twentv-four
days work done by him year before
last. Where did you do so mnch work:
Not on the road from your house to
Trinity? No, Mr.. Kelly. you can't fool
me. not one second, by writing such
stuff in the newspapers. The piece OF
road that you claim to have done that
wonderful, immense quantity Of work
on. is about one mile long, and all of
that is old field except three little
drains or branches, all three together
would not measure more than IA OF a
mile, and I can prove by our Supervi-
sor and the best men of his chaingang
that the ditching was done by the
chain gang and one or more of the
bridges made by them, and you claim
for Mr.. Lewis, Mr. Daniels and Mr..
Chandler, about the same amount of
time on the road. They don't want
it, they don't need it. Mr.. Chandler
did ten or twelve days work this year.
Mr.. J. Q. Daniels did six or seven
days service also this year. They did
not try to sneak out like you did.
And you said sat on stumps over
seeing the road and cussed. You can't
prove it. You never heard me curse
Oh the road: you never came near
enough to the road: you took up all OF
your time trying to dodge your duty as
a road hand. No you can't prove by
white or black that ! cursed one word
in the Is weeks that was on the road.
That charge is as false and black as
the others you have made against me.
Oil Mr.. Kelly, self-righteousness,
self-praise and self-esteem don't make
men. By the way, you want office:
well, if you want to be elected by the
people of Clarendon, YOU must tell the
truth, first and last. aud all the time.
I will agree with you in one OF your
charges partly, where you charge me
with working one hand. He was not
measlv but good chopper. You came
to me from your cotton patch where
you was hoeing cotton, and found only
one man working. On the day before
I had six hands and OF the day after
I had four hands. I never did work
one hand ata time but one day, and
when worked thirty hands you gave
me no credit for that, so ask permis-
sion to give you some good advice. 1t
YOU will hereafter attend strictly to
YOUR own business and let mine alone
you will have steady job.
am sorry you could not get your
friends (which were better friends OF
mine) to endorse your last charge. As
T am now in charge of other important
work, and will not have time to lose
with you. am.
Respectfully,
W. L. HUDNAL.