Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-06-10
NETTLEs' RIGHT QUESTIONED.
Rev. VI. l.. Carlisle Writes Open Let
ter to Advocate Editor.
News and Courier.)

quest hat it be published:
Grecnviiie, S. c., June |, 1914.
To Rev. S. A. Nettles, Greenville.
s. C.-Dear Brother: Believing, as
| DO, in the right of the South Caro-
lima Conference to have it's expressed
will properly regarded, | ask that
You give this communication a place
in this weeks issue Of the Southern
Christian Advocate.
There are many Of us who want to
know by whose appointment or by
what authority you become again
editor Of the Advocate. Bishop Will
son said he would not appoint you;
Bishop Denny has not don it. You
cannot be appointed unless the con-
ference, IN session so requests. The
conference in session requested the
other thing, /. e., that you be not APP
pointed editor of the Southern Chris
ttaH Advocate. BY what authority,
then, do o assume that position?
The resolutions asking the bishop
not to appoint you editor have no
reference, as YOU seem to think, to
the fact of our being under charges.
wrote them, and they would Rave
been offered even if the verdict had
been not guilty in any point. That
fact was stated on the floor Of the
conference during the discussion,
and he conference so understood it.
But. fore-secing this very situation,
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minor verdict by the committee Of
trial. the board Of managers Of the
Advocate would try to make you edi-
tor again after sentence Of suspen-
sion had expired, we wanted to put
the conference on record as to whe-
Their or not they desired a continu-
ance Of YOUR editorial management.
The vote was deCisively against
your appointment. as was also the
case when the motion was made to
eXpunge the matter from the min
utes. which would have been argued
as a practical resembling Of the reso-
luton. The record shows that the
South Carolina Conference does not
ucSIIt Il continuance Oh your eulJO-
rial management.
AS a member OF the conference
YOU are now eligible for an appoint
ment. You may elect to remain
without one until conference meets.
At present | will not raise that ques-
ton. But you cannot presume to fill
an appointment that has been closed
to you by the vote of your confer
ence. Were a bishop % disregard
that vote and appoint yju to that
position he would be liable to com
plant by the conference.
Your appointment as editor Tor
1913 expired with the conference in
December, and a Methodist preacher
does not "hcid over You have not
been appointed editor for 1914. You
cannot be so appointed unless the
conference requests it. The con
ference has asked that YOU be not
appointed and even a bishop would
not care to disregard that request.
The matter of providing an editor
for 1914 was left with the board Of
managers. Any one but YOU might
be selected for the work. You are
shut out from the editorial
Ihent by the resolution adopted by
the conference, and 1t is hi~gh-handed
action on the part of the board OF
managers to try 10 force you again
on an unwilling constituency.
The committee Of trial at Rock
Hill had to do with your moral char
aCter and not in any way or degree
with your official relation to the con-
ference as editor of the Advocate.
That was a matter for the bishop
and the conference to determine.
Hence the reversal Of the verdict by
the committee on appeals does not
and cannot restore you to the editor
ship, as You wish to make appear in
your statement last week. That po-
sitiOn You can assume to fill only
when the Bishop at the request Of
the conference appoints you to it.
But the conference requests that YOU
be. not so appointed. 1t is, therefore,
The plain duty of the board Of man
ayers to provide other editorial man
agcmcnt for the Advocate.
am sure that I voice the scnti-
ment Of a large number Of true and
loyal McthOdists who love the church
and her institutions, when | protest
against such disregard Of the will Of
the conference II declare that in
our ODiniOn YOU cannot rightfullv as