Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-01-26
That Herald Interview Aoain.
The following is from the Rock Hill
Herald of "Wednesday.

The following Is from the ROCK Hill
Herald of Wednesday:
THE Yorkville Enquirer continues
to roll as a sweet morsel under its
tongue the Herald interview with Sem
ator Stewart, the obvious purpose of
the Yorkville paper being to endeavor
to place Senator Stewart before the
people in an unfavorable light; or at
least to convict him of entertaining
views obnoxious to the people of the
western end of York county. In it's
last issue The Enquirer quotes from
the interview published in the Herald,
in a lame effort to sustain its position.
The Yorkville paper was unable to
find anything in the interview to criti-
else except it's alleged charge that Sem
ator Stewart favors electing all the
representatives from the eastern end
Of the county The interview furnish
es no basis for the allegation. Nobody.
except The Enquirer. as far as we are
aware, ever read into the article any
such views as coming from Senator
Stewart. Senator Stewart informed
the Herald after the Interview was
published that some people had
accepted some of his statements as
meaning that he favored moving the
county seat of York to Rock Hill, but
misunderstood that part of it relating
to the election Of representatives.
THE part of the Herald's article
quoted by The Enquirer in the attempt
to sustain its position simply states
that Senator Stewart was asked
whether he thought a bill providing
funds for the erection Of modern,
up-to-date court house, with a proviso
that the people Of the county vote on
the proposition to erect 1t at Rock
Hill. would pass. He said that 1t could
60 through the senate, but would be
killed In the house, as all the York
delegation in the lower branch are
from the western portion of the coun-
ty, and, naturally. are opposed to NOV
ing the court house from the present
site
THE senator did not state, and was
not quoted as saying, that he favored
moving the county site or that he fa-
vored electing all the representatives
from one section Of the county. The
language above quoted means, as the
Herald understands 1t. that Senator
Stewart would be willing to allow the
people to vote on the bill alluded to-,
but does not believe that the present
representatives in the lower house
would be willing to permit them to do
so. He then suggested to the reporter
a way in which 1t would be possible
to secure the passage Of the bill in
the lower branch of the legislature,
without saying a word which could be
construed as meaning that he favored
the proposed bill, or that he favored
attempting to elect all the representa-
tives from this end Of the county.
"These are the facts in regard to
the Stewart interview, and they are
so plain that the Herald does not
propose to reiterate them again for
the benefit Of it's Yorkville contempor-
ary or anybody else. The Herald does
not feel called upon to defend Sena-
tor Stewart: as we do not feel, In the
first place. that he Is In need of de-
fense: and. In the second place, the
senator apparently endeavored to mol
lify The Enquirer by blaming 1t on
the Herald. We consider this an un-
generous action on the part Of the
senator"
Now really, we do not think we have
been bad tempered about this matter
at all. About the only way we have
of telling what the Herald thinks Is by
what it says, and If 1t has any better
way of telling what we think, we con-
cede an advantage Why we have
never said anything about there being
a sweet morsel about this thing. We
did declare that 1t was ungenerous In
Senator Stewart to want the entire
legislative delegation elected from one
section Of the county, and we will say
now that if 1t is admitted that he even
said he wanted a majority from one
section, we think that Is ungenerous
also. But right here, let 1t be under
stood that we are not making any such
charge. Let it not be understood eth
er that we are insinuating any such
charge. And further let us say to the
Herald that we believe 1t does Senator
parently endeavored to mollify The
Enquirer" We don't think The En-
quirer has evidenced any sign Of an
ger to begin with, and we are sure
that it entertained no hard feeling. If
we are to be permitted to make such
a suggestion we will remark that we
don't think Mr.. Stewart would be con-
cerned about modifying The Enquirer
even if he knew it to be angry. If we
could do so, we would like to leave out
that last sentence of the Herald's ar
ticle, because just as sure as we print
it, our contemporary is again coming
back at us with the charge of rolling
sweet morsels under our tongue