The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-05-30
THAT WARE SHOALS STORY.
olumbia Correspondent Replies to
Criticism and InSinuatlOns anu
Gives Authority for Article.


30 the editor of The News and
urier: The News and COURIER has
Zen a:ssailed by some Of the news
apers of the State for the printing
5f a news item sent by me- from Co.
almbia, to the effect that the mill help
ER Ware Shoals would not work in
Ne mill on the day Governor Blease
boke at a picnic given at Ware
noals. The news item appeared in
he News and Courier on May IS.
&There has appeared a card in the
press from minor official of the mill,
to the effect that the mill had volun-
tarily posted notice that it would
close down on May 13.
On the same day that this card ap-
peared, the State, which is the local
morning newspaper in Columbia,
printed an editorial, in which an ef-
fort was made to discredit the News
and Courier correspondent in connec-
ton with the Ware Shoals article.
The editorial had a decided political
dnge, insiruating that the news item
was printed for political purposes,
che intimation gathered by few people
here who read the editorial being that
the State sought t. show that the
item came out of the governors Of
nce or from some close political friend
given designedly. This the News and
Courier has already editorially de-
MED.
The News and Courier correspon-
dent had not intended to publicly 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 flake" or, in other cases,
words to that effect.
It is, therefore, not in reply to the
Columbia 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 deem
ed it best to give to the public the fol-
lowing 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. G.
Dear Sir: Noting the controversy III
the newspapers concerning the news
item published in yJur 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, who MI met in
the sleeping car with Mr.. Williams,
his Southern representative, coming
from Greenyille 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-
towing 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 was
in my Office with Mr.. Green and told
him of this conversation. Hence his
article in the News and Courier.
eff there is any misrepresentation
OF facts it was not by Mr.. Green, and
not by myself. There was no reason,
as far as I know, why Mr.. Riegel
should have made the statement to
me that the help intended to remain
rout of the mill whether the mill was
SO1US< 10 lUu VI 4OI. HAlAO" IAONAAAS
about any posting of notices, and SIM
ply repeated a conversation WITH Mr..
Riegel to Mr. Green.
my reason for making a sUa,cment
in the question is that it seems that
Mr.. Green has been charged with hav-
ling faxed a news story.
yours very truly,
"(SigneO B. F. Taylor"
Mr.. Riegel is the treasurer Of the
Ware Shoals Manufacturing COM
pany.
It is hardly neces sary that should
add who Mr.. B. F. Taylor is. For the
benefit Of those, however, who do 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 association;
vice president Of the American Press