The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-05-30
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ar. Green Reveals the Source Of His
Aulhurity for The Famous
OLD WARE SHOALS TALE

The Columbia Correspondent Of the
News and Courier Tells Where He
Got the Foundation for the Story
That the Mill Owners Refuse to
Give Holiday.
To the Editor Of The News and
Courier: The News and Courier has
been assailed by some of the news
papers OF the State for the printing
of a news item sent by me from
Columbia, to the effect that the mill
help at Ware Shoals would not work
in the mill on the day Governor
Blease sroke at a picinc given al
Ware Shoals. The news item ap-
peared in The News and Courier on
May 18th. There has appeared a
card in the press from a minor off,
cial Of the mill, to the effect that the
mill had voluntarily posted notice
that it would close down on May
18th.
On the same day that this card
appeared, the State, which Is the local
morning newspaper in Columbia,
printed al editorial, in which an ef-
fort was made to discredit The News
and Courier correspondent IN connec-
tion with the Ware Shoals article.
The editorial had a decided polit-
ical tinge, insinuating that the news
item was printed for political pur-
poses, the intimation gathered by a
few people here who read the editor
ial being that the State sought to
show that the item came out Of the
Governor Office or some close po-
litical friend, given designedly. This
The News and Courier has already ed
itorially denied. -s.-..
The News and Courier corrcspOn-
dent had not intended to public'y no.
tice the editorial in the State, but
more recently certain reputable news
papers of the State, including the An
derson Mail, taking the States edi-
torial apparently at face value, with
out inquiring into the facts Of the
case, have denominated the story as
to the Ware Shoals incident sent
from here as a fake" or, in other
cases, words to that effect.
It is, therefore. not in reply to the
Columbis. States question as to the
source OF The News and Courier cor
respondents information, (already
answered editorially by the News and
Courier, but in justice to The News
and Courier itself, that we have
deemed It best to give to the public
the following letter, addressed today
to the manager of The News and
Courier's Columbia Bureau:
Columbia, S. c., May 25, 1911.
"Mr. August Kohn, Columbia, S.
C.-Dear Sir: Noting the controver-
sy in the newspapers concerning the
news item published in your paper on
May IS, will say that I am the party
who gave Mr.. Green the news tip on
this subject.
"Mr. b. D. Riegel, whom I met in
the sleeping car with MIR. Williams,
his Southern representative. coming
from Greenville to Columbia told me
that some Of his employees at Ware
Shoals had told the management that
if the mill ran on the Thursday fol-
lowing that the help, or employees,
would not report for work; that they
intended to go to the picnic and hear
Governor Blease. The next day l was
in my office with Mr.. Green and told
him of this conversation. Hence his
article in The News and Courier.
''If there is any Misrepresentation
of facts it was not by Mr.. Green, and
not by myself. There was no reason
as far as / know, why Mr.. Riegel
should have made the statement to
me that the help intended to remain
out of the mill whether the mill was
going to run or not. know nothing
about any posting of notices, and sim
ply repeated a conversation with MI
Riegel to Mr.. Green.
my reason for making statement
in the question is that it seems Mr..
Green has been charged with having
faxed 4 news story. Yours very
truly. b. r. Taylor.
Mr.. Riegel is the treasurer of the
Ware SHOALS Manufacturing company.
1t is hardly necessary that should
add who Mr.. B. F. Taylor is. For
the benefit of those, however. who
da not know him I will say that he
is the president of the Interstate
Cotton Seed Crushers' Association
secretary and treasurer of the South
Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers' AS
sociati en-; vice president of the Amer
lean Press Cloth Company: secretary
and general manager Of the Taylor
Manufacturing Company, and is in
terested in other industries In Colum-
bia. He is known by the people OF
South Carolina.
In addition to the letter directed to
he manager of the Columbia Bureau
of The News and Courier, there is
in my possession letter directed tc
me. giving practically the same state
.. &1,o ;rni1ont This laftnr