Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-11-13
WHO Is THIS PLAINTIFF 2?
Promise of a Libel Suit that Will
Astonish the State. & :.

Columbia, November There
will probably in a week or two be
filed In one of the principal up-coun-
try cities Of this State a suit for
slander, which when the complaint
Is made public, giving the names of
the persons concerned and the ma
ture OF the case, will create most
profound sensation In social and re-
ng1ous circles, not only In every city
and town of this State, but the in
cident will attract attention in every
hamlet in the South.
The prosecutor will be q gentle
man residing In q low-country city,
and holding an exalted ecclesiasticai
position In denomination which has
exerted a tremendous influence for
through many centuries in all parts
of the world.
The defendant will be prominent
married woman, who ia conducting a
charitable institution In the city
where the suit is to be filed.
The beginning of the trouble dates
back several months, to when the
South Carolina newspapers recorded
the fact that white infant had been
found on the doorstep Of a negro in
the up-country town referred to. 1t Is
alleged by the friends of the clergy
man in question that the defendant
to-be got busy" on her slander cam
paign from that time, and in spite of
threats and talks has never let up
since; that she has dared the friends
of the ecclesiastic to bring suit.
Her story Is said to be that the
founding Is the offspring of domes-
tic which had been attached to the
household of the clergyman, and she
has persistently intimated that he is
the father of the child, which Is now
In the care of acknowledgement in
the up-country city, going so far as
to point out many me ks of similar
ity between the child md the alleged
father. 1t Is asserted on the part of
the friends of the lady that the al
legged mother has confessed the par
entage of tho child and has accused
the clergyman. On the other hand
1t Is said that the supposed mother
has denied all responsibility for the
child.
The understanding in the low
country city among those who have
followed the case Is that the domes-
tic In the household mentioned was
found to be in scandalous condi-
ton and was notified to leave the
premises. She left, and short time
afterward word was received to send
her trunk and other effects to GER
tain street and NUMBER They were
sent, the senders finding out after
ward that address was that of no.
torious blind tiger man, who had
been keeping company with the do
mestic, a married woman who had
been befriended in distress by the
clergyman.
Now the clergyman who has been
selected by this lady for attack is not
only tdolized among the members Of
his own denomination, but he has
scores and hundreds of enthusiastic
friends and admirers among men and
women of influence I'm all denomina-
tions, for in his many years of noble
work In this State he has done effec.
tive service for his Master. And, of
course, the story is put down as ridi-
cuious gossip by well-informed per-
sons. And yet the reports have been
so energetically and persistently cir
culated, not only in the city where
the child was found, and where the
lady lives, but is alleged that she has
visited other cities for the purpose of
spreading the report. The result Is
that the affair has been generally cir
culated throughout the State. So the
friends of the clergyman have adj
vised him In the interest of his work
which the story is injuring, to bring
the suit, hoping that In spite of the
unpleasant notoriety which the trial
will bring on, that wholesome les
son will be taught and truth be made
to triumph.