The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-06-08
SEVERE CRITICISM
OF "C1TIZEN" BY MIR. j. SkOT-
TOWE WANNAMAKER,
Who Replies to the Article of "Citi-
zen" About Voting Bonds to Build
Court House and Jail.

zen" About Voting Bonds to Build
Court House and Jail.
Editor Calhoun Advance:
Shall unsigned articles; shall
squibs of sentences and paper bull
lets of the brain; shall the opinion OF
a man. who has not the backbone
to sign his name awe our judges,
such as Judge Chas. Dantzler, Judge
! Aldrich and Judge Watts, and pre-
vent them from discharging their
duty as God gives them power to see
it? Shall our grand jury be swerved
from the path of duty on this ac-
count? Shall the voters of Calhoun
county, composed of the most intel
ligent voters in the State, be infiu-
enced in this way?
Judge Chas. Dantzler, Judge AL
drich and Judge Watts, whom we are
all proud to claim as Judges and the
highest type of citizens of South Car
olina, and who will compare with the
best, truest and ablest judges of any
| State in this Union, have each in
the opening of their term of court in
Calhoun county pointed out the ad-
visibility, the wisdom, the advan-
tages and the economy of erecting a
permanent, convenient and first-clasS
court house and Jail for Calhoun
county. The judges will continue to
do this from time to time until the
matter has been settled. They have
pursued the same course in other
counties. The grand jury last Fall
in their written report made sugges-
| tions as to these buildings.
Citizen in your last issue severely
condemns Judge Watts for having
pursued this policy. Judge Watts
did not cover the subject as fully as
either Judge Dantzler or Judge AL
drich. He, however, made the mat
ter very plain. He stated that he
| did not wish to advise any one in
the matter and wished the people to
decide it entirely for themselves, and
only wished to state the truth as he
saw it after having visited at various
times almost every single county iii
the entire State. That he found
first-class, comfortable court house
and Jail buildings to be permanent,
were the cheapest in the end, and
much more desirable and advanta-
geous to the entire county.
Citizen says They know politics
too well for that and at once realized
that by tricks that are slick, If not by
ways that are dark, Judge Watts was
probably inveigled into so doing"
The greatest of all judges, the Judge
of the Universe tells US: Judge not
that ye be not judged, for with what
judgment ye judge, ye shall be
judged; and with what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you
again. And why beholdest chou the
mote that is in thy brothers. eye, but
considerest not the beam that is in
! thine own eye?"
Does Citizen or any other citizen
of Calhoun county really believe that
Judge Watts could be inveigled into
doing "a trick that was slick; if not
stoop to ways that were dark?"
Could Judge Chas. Dantzler be also
inveigled in the same way? Also
could Judge Aldrich be inveigled in
the same way?
Is Citizen justified in his course?
He does not seem to have courage
enough to sign his name, yet he must
I think that others will have more con-
fidence in his opinion than he has in
| himself. He provides himself with
mighy tackle.
For angling rod he took mighty
oak:
For line, cable that in sto.m ne'er
broke;
His hook was such as heads the end
of pole
To pluck down house ere fire consum-
es it whole;
The hook was baited with a dra-
CONS tail,
And then on rock he stood (care-
fully hid9 to bob for whale"
I do not know who Citizen is. but
he will find that these great truths
are as applicable today is they were
in the distant past.
Though l speak with the tongues
of men and angels and have not char
ity, am as sounding brass and Il
tinkling cymbal."
Therefore all things whatsoever
ye would that men should do to you.
do ye even so to them for this is the
law. and the prophets.
My friend, if you've a pointed pen
And want to use it now and then,
There are no ways within my ken
To make. Fame love you,
So bad as tabbing fellow men,
Who loom above you.
When we learn who Citizen is. We
will doubtless find that he bestrides
the narrow world like :; Colossus.
and petty men. the judges. the grand