Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-03-16
arR. MANN CLOSES CONTROVERSY
Says Senator Earle is I'm Trouble
Tangled in Mesl,cs of Own Net.

West Union, March 1O.-Editor
Keowee Courier: 1t is a law, or rule.
in logic that if a mans pre- ''ses are
false his conclusions will also be
false. | see that the Hon. J. r.
Earle has picked his flint and will
make another sally at me in next
weeks paper, as he has announced.
Now, l have neither time nor in
clination to further continue this
controversy with the Senator. But
If nothing else will do him, then |
will let him have 1t again right be-
Yween the eyes. A whip for the
'"iIorse, a bride for the ass, and a rod
for the fools back. Answer not a
fool according to his folly, lest thou
also be like unto him. Then again,
we are told by the preacher, to an
swer fool according to his folly lest
he be wise in his own conceit; and
this is why answer the Senator. |
am quite sure that would not ruff
lie hatr on the top of the Senator,
pretty head, for have no desire to
mar his beauty or detract from his
comliness, for beauty is a thing OF
JOY forever. From the way he Is
about to tear his shirt, 1t looks like
he is threatened with hydrophob:a,
and were 1t to develop, and should
he happen to bite himself, the Pas
teur course, or treatment, would be
unavailmg.
Senator Earle has the reputation
and peculiar knack of being on the
wrong side Of important issues and
all moral questions. AS, for instance,
the State dispensary, and the case of
Mrs. Ben Tillman, Jr., trying to get
her little children back under her
care. love and protection. will say
nothing more on this point, but will
t'rn him over to the good women of
the land, and what they don't do for
him will not be worth doing. They
can't pull his hair, but they can skin
his head, and from what have
heard, and seen in print, some of
them feel like trying it. I would
just as soon try to cross a Jack with
a hummngbird and expect from that
cross beautiful songster, either an
oriole or nightingale, as to hope to
see Senator Earle on the right side
OF any question Of Importance If the
Senator should ever have the mis-
fortune to drown, and his friends
should take a notion to hunt him,
they would not go downstream to
hunt him, Of course not. This they
know already, presume.
For Rs a man thinketh In his heart.
so Is he eat and drunk, sayeth he to
thee, but his heart is not with thee
Senator Earle has been a thorn in
my flesh for the last four years
Sometimes | am persuaded that / am
growing IN grace, for have seen the
time when l would not have put IN
with such treatment from any man,
If he were as big as Goliath. So,
now, does 1t not look a little that
way, gentlemen? He has taken a
special delight in watching my bills
and jumping on them with both feet
when they reached the Senate. The
very first bill introduced, after its
first eading in the Senate, when 1t
was referred to the committee, he
gave notice that he had objection and
would appear before the committee.
We finally got together and he came
ing In the Senate, after which he
watched his time and moved to table
my bill, and then withheld it from
the files of the Senate, which meant
it was dead. This called for some
plain talk from your humble servant
to the distinguished Senator from
Oconee county. After this he asked
to have 1t restored to the calendar OF
the Senate, and it was done. This
was the time when Major Stribling
came to Columbia TO see what infu-
ence he could have on the Senator TO
let my bill pass. But when the Major
came to me in my seat in the IIousc
or Representatives and made known
his mission, | told him that if he had
only known 1t he could have STAYED
at home, for the Senator had come
across. He said, however, he would
go over to the Senate Chamber and
see Mr. Earle, and maybe he could
strengthen him in our agreement to
let 1t pass. The Major came back in
the course Of an hour or two and
told me that Mr.. Earle said If the
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