The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-05-21
Friday, May p, 1909.
WHY "CLEMSON?'

IQe EOSenelQ News, 1Ouuueu q
couple Of years ago by William P.
Calhoun, has ceased publication be-
cause Mr. Calhoun, who expected to
operate the paper as an avocatlon,
with the practice Of the law as his
vocation, finds the double duty too
laborious and worrying.
In the last issue Of his paper Mr..
Calhoun makes contribution to cur
rent history that, coming from him,
has more than ordinary interest. We
refer to the references to Mr.. Glenn
son, in the following editorial:
''Many suggestions have been made
about the muddle at Clemson college.
We do not propose to offer any solu-
tion, nor to condemn any one. 1t does
not make any difference as to who IS
right. as the college has its hands deep
in the pockets of the State and pulls
as much money as it wants, and more
than it ought to have. Clemson took
his wife's money and property that
belonged to his granddaughter and
gave it to the State, not to advance
education, not for his love for man
kind, but simply to crafty his vanity
and private spite. He despised his
fellow-beings and was without relig-
ion. He told US several years before
his death that there was no room for
an honest man in South Carolina
Why he exclaimed, If there was
ever such a man as Christ, and if he
would come to South Carolina he
could not be elected to the office OF
constable
"We omit in relating the above the
number of oaths stuck in at every
point.
GA college founded by such a man
with other peoples money through
vanity and spite, can not expect to
get on smoothly. Clemson's sole aim
in giving his wife's money to South
Carolina was to keep the Calhoun
family from owning Fort Hill, and
he said so with many oaths; and to
make his spite complete, he stuck his
own name to the college, not one dol
lar of the money nor one acre OF the
land he gave the State being rlghtful-
" or morally his own
But the more astonishing part OF
this business is that the college should
have been named after this Pennsyl-
vanian and misantArope, whom Mr..
Calhoun says was a blasphemer and
an atheist, and that while his money
Or other peoples money which ne
gave away, according to Mr.. Calhoun
does not furnish five per centum
of the income of the college, the con-
troll forever remains in the self-per-
petuating agents of Mr.. Clemson.
South Carolina pays for the band
but has no controlling voice in the
choice of the music. Why was not
the college given the name of South
Carolinian? Why was not its control
vested in South Carolina ?-Columbla
State.
The above needs no further COM
ment. Scarcely any one il South
Carolina ever heard of Mr.. Clemson
until this bequest was left to the
State and it does seem just a little
queer, to say nothing else, that the
hcSnestead Of South Cardinals fore
most citizen as the seat of a great
college should have that college bear
the name of another It would have
been eminently proper to have called
the college Calhoun college. However,
that is immaterial. The point is
this institution should be under State
control if it is to get aid and not un-
control if it is to get State
aid and not under the control
of the representatives OF any
individual and they be self-perpet~
uating. The sooner this is taken out
of the hands of such board the
better for the college and the State
and this IS said without intending any
criticism of the life members. Life
tenure of office in this State is repug-
naat to the fundamental law.