Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-02

We regret very much to see the
lhowling down process revived. 1t would
II be much better for all concerned II
every speaker could have fair and
full hearing.
"EnIiehtenins a Contemporary"
BY some process of reasoning, the
genesis and circumflexions of which we
can only guess at, The Yorkville En-
uuirer arrives at a conclusion not en-
tirely consistent with an exact state
ment of the facts. Says our contem-
porary:
TT is of noteworthy interest that the
News and Courier is again having first
chance at the official news from the
governors Office"
We do not know why The Enquirer
should have been moved to make this
comment, or. why 1t should have made
use of the word again" The News
and Courier's attitude toward Governor
Blease has never altered at any time
in any respect since his election tC
that office, and as much, we think, may
safely be said of the governors atti-
tude toward the News and Courier
Neither has any love for the other. II
upon various occasions he has seen III
to give to this newspaper news stories
of general interest in advance of their
appearance in other publications /,
has not been that he disliked us less
but that he hated them more. He has
known also, regardless Of what he may
have said, that this newspaper has
never published any communication
with regard to him that it would not
have published regarding any other
man who might have occupied his Of
fee, and that he has never experienced
the least difficulty In securing space In
the News and Courier for any state
ment whatsoever coming from him
which was fit for publication.
We have made this statement in
view Of the fact that our Yorkville con-
temporary seems to consider the mat
ter "of noteworthy interest" We sus-
pect that it's comment was inspired by
the exclusive publication in the News
and Courier last week Of a story with
regard to the Lexington Savings bank
a story of considerable interest and as
to which further and important devel-
opments are promised. If that be the
case, we may say for our contempo-
rary's benefit that the essential facts OF
that story as published had been OBJ
tanned by the News and Courier's CO.
lumbia correspondent by an inVestiga-
tion conducted in Columbia and in Lex
ington county before 1t was able to Sc
cure from Governor Blease the official
documents which it printed.-News
and Courier
The remark of The Enquirer which
seems to have called forth all the fore.
going, was not printed with any idea
of starting something" and neithe!
are we able to see the necessity of al
the big words that are employed tc
make it appear that there is any mix.
tification about it's source. The En-
quirer was moved to comment as II
did solely because the comment car.
ried fact, which according to what we
consider a pure newspaper point oi
view is interesting. That is about all
We have no desire to poke fun at the
News and Courier, and we have no de.
sire to embarrass it. AS to whether
there is any love lost between the
News and Courier and the governor Is
none of our business or concern, and II
the News and Courier will permit us
we will say that we do not believe the
public cares anything about this eth
er. What the public-the great, hon
est, earnest, matter-of-fact public
wants. is not feeling or sentiment, bu
facts. AS to whether the facts art
agreeable or disagreeable makes no diff.
ference so long as they are important
This same public likes opinion, to b'
sure: but it does not necessarily ALLOW
itself to be led by anybody's opinion
1t would rather have facts upon which
to form opinions of it's own. Now
if the News and Courier is not aware
of the fact, we will inform it that dur
ing many months after the present
governor went into office, especial!
after various correspondents were Civ
en- the bounce at the executive cham
Der, while the News and Courier con
tinued to have access to official news
there was lot of talk over the state
mainly from partisan quarters, tha
was, to say the least, very critical o
the News and Courier. For instance
we heard it rumored that the New
and Courier had sold out to Blease fo
10000. The News and Courier wen
on printing facts and there was a 10
of other stuff of the same kind. Their,
was plenty of talk to the effect tina
/ hn
Courier was printing in its Columbi;
correspondence was true, such matter
ought not to be printed because it wa!
helping Gov. Blease. AS to whether W.
| liked to see the news matter referred
to is of no consequence; but certain i
is that we grew to feel that for the
truth about things pertaining to the
governors office we must look to tn,
News and Courier. The News anC
Courier will remember that there were
some very warm articles about tha
time that it declined to publish. 1t haC
good and sufficient reasons. The arti
cles were libelous i'm their nature ant
subsequent developments have disclos
ed a fact that was not then general!
appreciated-that there was no mora
responsibility behind them. Tn,
News and Courier was criticised fol
its course in this. and although W,
printed the stuff that it had refused tC
print, we were able to appreciate it!
reasons. We know that its motives
were right Later on there came the
tin colonelcy incident as the result
of which the News and Courier's eff.
fcient Columbia correspondent was
forced to resign. After that it became