The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-07-20
MIR. Walls REJOINER.
Reply To Structures of Reader In the
Privatecr school Controversy.
Editor Sumter Daily Item.


In your issue of the 9th int, Read
err has three and half columns OF
the most absurd, petty stun il has
ever been my lot To read. He has
reduced. what might have been term
ed discussion Of school matters.
into a TRADE of insinuations. misrepre-
! sentatioss. and implied charges. all
)of personal nature that have no
relevancy whatever to the school sit
uaton. IL was my purpose ut one
time to show Reader" up i'm his true
light. but after hearing a very fine
sermon on yesterday by Rev. VIM.
\ Haynsworth on The Cross of Christ"
aud OF tie suffering and imposition
He bore for man. l have changed my
mind and have torn up my rough
draft. and will content myself 10y
loticing only few things-enough to
low his unreliability as CORES
, ondent. l do this not only in self
efense. but he has slashed into So
any things. that IL Is time the peo-
lie have some idea of what manner
a person he Is. | see that he has
'en entered the columns of the Bap-
Il Courier and is there slashing into
ttne preachers. deacons and the church
embers in general. lie is vora-
Gus correspondent. surely.
I wish To show i'm some of Read
- quotations. or rather misquo-
tions. how unreliable and unfair. to
y the least. he is I'm his methods.
lss over several and take up first
here he misquotes me i'm three diff
rent places. lie tries to quote. or
nretends To quote one of my state
iuents. Let's see how they tally with
t.ch other and with my words. J..
Reader Is a reactionary and differs
rom him." .. "NIr. Wells says. If
> differ from him (Reader) and poke
81 little fun at him. 8. MIR. Wells
ays that ne does not recognize me
" my FRIENDS. and pokes little
un at US.
Words in Capitals are words in
\ 'erted by him (Reader)
Now what was my statement
aud i'm what connection? 1t was
In answer to Mr.. ]. Dargan Osteen's
structures against me. taat l was
making fun of the patrons of the
small schools. which denied. and
gave this as my reason for writing
5she following sentence under the
heading of "One Word 20 Reader" in
which 1 said. Don't let the exuber-
ance of youth get away with what
discretion you may have. and you be
termed a destructive citizen of Pri-
vsteer. rather than a constructive
Dbne.'
This terribly offensive statement
after denying making fun of the pa
irons. was. II considered Reader a
reactionary and II differ from him
and poke little fun at him. IL Is be-
cause I do not recognize him as the
whole OF the school district, nor as
voicins Its sentiments.
How would you state Readers"
proposition. something like this: a.
Reader. am the patrons of the small
schools. and the school district Of
Privateer. Mr.. Wells says he pokes
Sun at me. Reader. therefore Mr.
Wells says he pokes fun at the pa
irons OF the small schools. and the
school district of Prlvateer. do not
know by what other process of reas-
oning he arrives at his conclusion
than this. SO leave II with your read
fers to solve the proposition with
out comment
One more mlsquotation 10y Read
err MIR. Wells advises that WE
SHOULD NOT go u mill as OUR
grandsires did" My whole sentence
was So mutilated that il is hardly rec
!, ,ognizablc. My statement after speak
Ting Of the progress of Privateer was:
This Is a progressive age. and he
who would go O. mill as his grand
sire did. etc. Is out of date and has
no place I'm Privateer." gave no ad-
vice. hut made a positive assertion.
quoting "a general principle i'm no
Hqn1nner applicable to Priyatecr. as
distinctly stated that Privatccr was
progressive. Reader" inserts words
l never used. we should not" and
our" are his words. not mine.
Speaking Of insults. IL this is not an
insult To- intelliscnt readers. to try to
ycram such stun down their under
standing. I have but little conception
of the term. As great insult as a man