Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-03-02

Ilon % the IOWnSh1p commissioners.
Ser. 6. Any claimant feeling ag-
grieTed at the ruling or Judgment
of the Townshop Board Of Commits
sioners or the County Supervisor
shall have the right of appeal to the
Court of Common Pleas.
Sec. z. All acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with this act in relation
to Oconee county are hereby repealed.
Now, Is it not as plain as the nose
on a mans face that 1t was not an
amendment, but a substitute bill?
Ny bill speaks for Itself.
Senator Earle says, "I see Repre-
sentative Coke d. Mann has turned
his little poke-stock on me in your
last issue" l would reply by saying
the poke-stock has got the game all
the same, and 1t would have been
folly for me to have shot a cannon
at blind goose when it could be
killed with a pop-gun. Do you catch
the point. Mr.. Earle?
want to call the attention Of the
public to another misrepresentation
of me by Senator Earle. He says,
"Mr. Mann says, 4 would rather
plough bull in new ground than
to try to legislate with Senator
Darle.' Mr.. Earle knows that I
did not say anything Of the kind.
said 81 would rather plough bull in
new ground than to try to legislate
with a man like Senator Earle"
There, Senator Earle, confine your
self to the truth, If you can. He
says, 81 am sure the bulls company
would be more suitable and congen-
ial to his nature than that Of the
gentlemen Of the General Assembly,"
There was just one, and only one,
bullish man in the General Assembly
of South Carolina, and that man was
the Hon. j. r. Earle, of Oconee coun-
ty, and 1t goes without saying that
his company was not suitable nor
congenial to my nature. There is a
marked difference between bullish-
ness and ability, Mr.. Earle, even If
you don't know it.. If could buy
Mr.. Earle for his real value and then
sell him for what he thinks he Is
worth | would never think of run
ming for Congress. Rockefeller, with
all his millions, would pale into in
significance in comparison with me.
Oh, Mr.. Earle, these are facts. and
there Is no rubbing them out You
may twist and squirm, but ! will
hold you or twist all the hide off Of
You. You are like the darkey's cooter
after his head was cut off-you are
dead, but you don't know 1t.
Senator Earle is great economist
penny wise and pound foolish. His
substitute bill proposed $50 annually
each for the twenty-four commission
ers, and If ] can count, this would
have increased the expenses of the
county four hundred dollars in his
economical measure. -
He says that abuse and epithets
are appropriate for people of some
callings, but that does not suit my
taste" His taste was not In the
cOunt--in fact, It was farther from
my mind than anything he could
have thought Of. Senator Earle has
no one to blame for the predicament
In which he finds himself but Mr..
Earle. for | told him when We met
In free conference In one Of the Sen
ate rooms Of the State House that he
had to come across or | would put it
up to him, and he would have to
shoulder the responsibility of killing
my bill. Fools will hold carnival
where wise men and angels fear to
tread. | have been using my poke
stock, as the Senator Is pleased to
call It. but If have to come again
will use Il gun Of larger bore, and
will take deliberate aim next time.
have been forced to this unpleas-
ant task. ! did not start it. but
will be the last man to quit the field.
Senator Earle says the county tax
levy Is the same and the State tax
half mill higher. The fact Is, the
State tax IS the same, and one-half
mill was added to roads, bridges and
ferries. Mr.. Sullivan and | put in