The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-04-19
D0ESNEWBERRY COUNTY
NEED CONSTABLES?
HAVE THE REGULAR OFFICERS
FAILED IN THEIR DUTY?
That Is the Question-It Cannot Be
Clouded BY Other Matters Not
Pertinent to the Issue AS
Raised
tive Aull Replies to
Editor Observer.

TO the Editor of the Observer:
Your editorial in Tuesdays paper
is so full of misleading statements,
which, no doubt, are unintcntional on
your part, but which are calculated
to put my position in a false light
before your readers, that I feel it my
duty to reply and trust your sense
Of fairness will give me space to do
so.
There are two things, however. Of
which / desire to disabuse your mind
in the beginning. First, the question
at issue is not the $4,000 court
house, nor how Representatives Aull
and Wyche acted OH the senate
amendment to the Carey-Cothran
Act. Second, your efforts to make it
appear that Senator Bleasc, Repres-
cntativc Wychc and myself arc sore
because the appointment Of the con-
stable was made without our know
ledge and without consulting us has
caused me any heart burnings or has
in the slightest degree offended my
vanity, is purely gratuitous on your
part, so far rs I am concerned. I
know that the law does not make it
the duty of the governor to consult
the delegation, and that he has a
perfect right to make the appoint
ment without doing so, and I so stat
ed in the last two issues of The
nd PD, tl,,o
| matter.
I do not claim any special privil-
ege as a member Of the Legislature,
and I am willing to admit that any
one of the fifty-two gentlemen, who
signed the petition, is a good citiz-
ell, and probably n much smaller
number would have accomplished
the same result, but I felt that as
the senator and the three members of
| the legislature held u commission
from the people Of this county to rep
resent them in the law-making body
! Of to state. that it would be proper
to give them the opportunity to say
whether or not they endorsed the
putting upon the tax payers of this
county the additional expense, how
ever small, which will be incurred
by the appointment Of special officers
to enforce law. the provisions Of
which make it the duty Of the re-
eularly elected and appointed Off
GERS in the county to enforce. While
| the senator and representatives, SO
| far as I am concerned, do not claim
any special privileges, yet so long
as they hold the commission, which
has been given them by The people Of
this county, they have the authority
and the right and it is their duty to
levy the taxes which are to be col
lectcd from the people Of this coun-
ty, and they are held responsible by
the people for the proper exercise Of
that privilege, and for that addition
al reason, l thought it was legitimate
to ask them about this little matter,
| which seems to be kindling great
confederation, and thus give them
the opportunity to give their views,
and hence thr interview which APP
pcared in The Herald and News.
Hon. Alan .Johnstonc says that he
told me in The intcrv1cw that ho
wrote n letter and only stated that
! he had seen the petition. My rrcol-
lection of the interview is very clear
that it is printed as he told il to me,
but / desire to give him the benefit
Of this correction, though he never
called my attention to the mistake
until after the issue Of The Herald
and News in which the petition and
the letter were published.
would be glad if you would state
why "thc governor and those who
got up the petition had reason to
suspect' that Senator Blcase and
Representative Aull and Wyche
would have declined to sign the pc
tition. do not think you will charge
them with favoring or encouraging
Il violation Of law. r.
In your editorial you have covered
a great many things which are not
| pertinent to the issue. AS it appears