The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-03-23
THEY STAND BY 1T.

THEY STAND BY 1T.
Barnwell Editors Refuse to Retract What ihey
Said About Chairman Evans-Criminal
Suit for Libel to be Brought First.
When the intention of Chairman b. b.
Evans, of the state board of CONTROL TO
prosecute the editors of the BarnWell
Sentinel on the charge of libel was printed
in the Columbia correspondence OF the
News and Courier q request was made
through the Barnwell correspondent OF
the News and Courier for statement on
the part of the editors of the Sentinel. The
following has been received from Barn.
well:
BARNwE1L, March 1S.-When seen by
your correspondent Messrs. Marshall
Moore and R. Boyd Cole, the editors OF
the Barnwell Sentinel said, in reply
to the article published in The News
and Courier, that Mr.. Evans sent his
attorney here to confer with them in
regard to the Sentinel's editorial and that
they informed Mr.. Elliott they had moth.
ing to retract. They claim that the Co.
lumbia correspondent, in quoting only a
part of the editorial, left the impression
that the mention of Evans in that con-
nection was unwarranted. The complete
article is as follows:
"The Sunday night sermon OF the Rev.
J. L. Harley was one full of practical
thought and interest for the people OF
Barnwell. His subject, Evil in Power
is Tyrannical,' carries with it volume
of thought and application. The purpose
of this editorial, however, is not to COM
ment on the entire sermon OF the Metho.
dist minister, but on one statement in the
discourse, which is news not only to
Barnwell county, but to the State of South
Carolina. We call it news; it may not be
new to some people in the State, yet we
trust will never grow so old and out OF
date as not to be commented on.
"In commenting upon the tyranny evil
exercises upon men in public life, Mr..
Harley had occasion to refer to an incl
dent of the last legislature, in which the
senator from Barnwell county was the
hero. 1t is stated on good authority that
while the Toole bill was pending, one
Hub Evans, of dispensary fame, ap-
preached George n. Bates, senator from
Barnwell county, and invited him to at
tend his box party at the theatre, Mr..
Bates replied, Excuse me, sir, cannot
accept any courtesies from YOU Mr..
Harley added that the Evans box was
filed with Ok legislators.
aThis is an incident of no weak import.
The answer of Senator Bates to the pro-
.fessional lobbyist has golden ring about
it and sounds much like the seats of our
legislature are being filled with men.
'Is Evans to rule South Carolina with
salary of $4oo, when many poor devil
with $500 or 800 has to scratch for
hungry mouths? Ye economists, if ye
will, tell us how a man can give box par
ties, keep daughters at college and be
drawn around the streets of Rock Hill in
a coach and pair on the pitiful sum OF
$4O0 per annum. There is something
rotten in the State of South Carolina and
it reeks from Columbia to Barnwell."
Since the matter has been mooted In
Barnwell the Sentinel has been offered
all the free counsel they want, and many
business men have said that the suit shall
not cost the editors cent. Mr.. Evans
attempted to employ prominent lawyers
here, but they refused to take the case.
The Columbia correspondent of The
News and Courier explains the fact that
the editorial was not reproduced in his
dispatch of March IA as follows:
With reference to the special from
Barnwell relative to the libel suit of Mr..
81. 81. Evans against the editors of the
Barnwell Sentinel: 1t is only fair to state
that the entire article was not available
and that the paragraph quoted was what
had been published in county papers and
seemed to be the special occasion for the
suit. The entire article as quoted above
would gladly have been published as Civ.
ing the reason for the suit and what was
used was simply to show the basis of the
action.
Mr.. William Elliott, Jr., who represent
ed Mr.. Evans, stated today that it was
entirely incorrect to say that any lawyer
at the Barnwell bar had refused to act in
the case. He had been in Barnwell and
the only lawyer he asked to be associated
in the case had accepted, and he under
stood that the editors of the Barnwell
Sentinel had regularly employed their
council and that there was no gratuitous
service about the matter.
Mr.. Elliott stated that he had been the
only one to visit Barnwell about the case