The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-06-24
CALHOUN COUNTY GREATLY
STIRRED UP.
RED HOT CONTROVERSY over BONDING
COUNTY TO PUT UP PUBLIC
'IIDlNGS.
VOL. Xxx


man continued, "that a good many
people were bluffing whole lot
when they were lo1dly proclaiming
before the election that st Matthews
would put up $4,000 in cold cash
to build court house and Jail. The
money hasn't been forthcoming, aud
it doesn't look like it will ever come
to the front.
"Take my word for it, he de-
clared as he started home for dinner,
another election will be held soon to
reumte Calhoun with Orangeburg,
and the vote will be 3 to l to come
back with us.
And there may be whole lot of
reality in this gentieman's predic
tion. For several weeks tie Calhoun
Advance has fairly teemed with ar
ticles concerning the building of a
court house and jail, and much bit
ter feeling has bean engendered. The
high priests of the new county adj
vocates have been at each others
throats through the columns of the
st Matthews paper, and bitter con-
troversy is now on between Mr. j
Skottowe Wannamaker and Mr.
Aaron K Smoak.
Mr. Wannamaker wants the county
bonded for thirty thousand dollars to
eb added to donation of the town
ofsTrR DIspo,;ws Of twenty thousand
& coIIRT Smoak opposes the
,ays if the bond issue
The COT. the country people of
the new county they would be justi,
fed in voting themselves back into
Orangeburg and Lexington counties.
Mr. Smoak further charged that the
people had been fooled before the
election, and to this Mr. Wannams.
maker replies as follows:
"Mr A X Smoak was member of
the publishing or press committee for
the formation of Calhoun county.
He wrote some of the best articles
that we published during that MEM
orable fight. He had free access to
the press. His pen was IN demand.
AS a member of this committee he
could object to the publication of
articles that he thought improper be.
cause misleading or otherwise. Can
he point out one single article that
was published over his objection!
His articles were so strong that our
dear friends at the old court house
would always take stimulant before
reading them. Why, oh, why in the
name of all that is just and right
did he not expose some of the iniqui-
ty then that he insinuates have been
cloaked? When his articles were
published they carried terror into
the camps of the enemy and a hyp-
motto effect into our camps, especial
ly to our rural brethren, over whose
condition he is now so distressed"
DR. VITO Bates, one of Calhoun's
high toned citizens, also gets into
the controversy and says that Mr
Smoak "in his insane desire to arouse
the prejudice of the ccentry people
against the town, to further some self
ish purpose of his own, lays down
illogical and senseless doctrine, a
doctrine that would be preached
only by a reckless demagogue or bya
man with no reason or discretion"
MIR Martin d Keller also comes
forward and says that he had ex-
planned the proposed bond issue to
Mr. A K Smoak, and he certainly
understood Mr. Smoak to approve the
whole scheme-the scheme which Mr.
Smoak is now denouLcing.
That valiant and outspoken citi-
zen, Mr. Geo w Fairey, known the
length and breadth of both Orange
burg and Calhoun counties, gets his
pen in and SAYS that "Mr A K