The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-24
CIRCULATION 1884.


In the st. Matthews Commercial
Advances copy of which reached
us through the kindness of friend,
the editors of that paper, for reasons
unknown to us, have never exchanged
with us-Dr. T. 81. Dreher in lengthy
article, assails the position Of this
paper on the new county question.
His assertions, however, are as "dla-
bolical'' as the roads of Sandy Run. :,
In the first paragraph the doctor
deals in personalities which are for
eign to the issue, uncalled for and
have no bearing on the case at all.
We make the assertion, however,
with feeling of pardonable pride,
thatwe are ON as happy terms with
everybody as is the dear doctor HIM
self, and if we have, in the course OF
argument, struck tender spot in the
burning breast of this young apostle"
Of new county information, which has
caused him pain, anguish, and sleep
less nights, as his article would lead
one to imagine, we have done so by
presenting cold, logical facts-facts
which the doctor himself cannot
evade or cover up with his unlimited
vocabulary and world of information
in regard to new counties.
5s We were ssshrewd enough, 2 says
the doctor, ito stop with Saluda, "
which he claims is s'the most expen-
siye Of the new countless ''Why did
he not tell US about Bambergg asks
the doctor. We have never qnes-
toned the prosperity of Bamberg.
But Why is Bamberg such a prosper
ous county? The doctor fails to tell
the people why. She has a regular
net work of railroads, and has numer-
ous enterprises that pay the greater
portion of the taxes which run that
county. But where, in all the land,
can you find another county SO favor
ably situated? Surely Calhoun will
not be, and the assertion by the doc
tor that Calhoun win be more fayora-
bly, situated than Bsmberg, seems as
ssdiabolicap, to Us as the roads Of
Sandy Bun, which the doctor seems
to harp 30 freely upon, and by 30
doing, fool the people OF that section
into his proposed new county.
Nobody knows better than the doc
tor himself why these roads are "dia-
boHcal.'i The people Of Lexington
have slwsys been economical; they
have never joined the ''high faludn"
bsnd that the doctor seems TO have
Joined since he has cast bis lot among
The people OF st. Matthew's. Le1ing-
ton people h4ve always been conser-
vative, too much 50 in the matter of
better roads we freely admit. but If
the citizens Of Sandy Run want the
fne roads, which the people OF st.
Matthews propose to give them If
they viii only join their Calhoun
county, they can secure them in Lex
ington county, and at much less ex-
pense. Better roads are coming and
the '.diabolical,' roads of Sandy Run
viii not be overlooked by the officials
Sof this county.
The doctor, in his fanciful plea for
the new county, calls attention to
Georgia, North Carolina, and Ken
lucky, and we are amazed; yea, sur
prised, to find the doctor, the young
apostle of new county information,
who has time to cease ministering to
the wants ofithe sick and dying to
look after the general welfare of the
people of Sandy Run, stopping with
these States. We would not have
been surprised had he gone outside of
the United States-to Switzerland,
Italy, and France it is said,
good roads prevail.
We still assert and reassert that
the people of ST. Matthews are work
ing for greed" Tell us, doctor
dear. if it is not fact that the prop
erty owners, business men, bankers,
and the doctors, (which takes you in),
and every other citizen of the town,
are not working for their own per-
sonal agrandizement. Be candid with
yourself, doctor. Is it not a fact,
doctor, that your own practice will
be benefited? Is it not notorious
fact that your bank will be benefited?
Is not this a selfish purpose. But yet
you tell us that all the men behind