The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
A CLUB AS ARGUMENT.

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Last week the following appeared in
its columns in reference to ourselves
and to an editorial which ii speaks of
as above, paragraph OF which ap-
pears below:
sickness and the draft law took
away two-thirds of tho Tribune's force,
and found ii necessary to have some
type set away from home
Some weeks ago | made arrange
mcnt to the Laurcns Advertiser
put my editorials in type, at a price
liked by the Advertiser.
The arrangement held one week.
When sent in the copy for this
weeks editorials, Lee read the one
printed above and sent ii back to me,
along with letter in which he said
that he could not continue to set type
Tor nc unless | changed that editorial
to suit his taste.
some day, when | get rich shal.
hlre some man of colossal brain to
edit the Tribune for me and direct
its policy. but for the prcscn, shall
peg along in my own feeble way. with
out benefit o; Laurcns suggestions.
and the type FOR editorials will be set
at home"
The gentleman speaks about cor
rectly. The editor Of this paper, in his
capacity as gcncralisSimo of Ihc lob
printing department of The Advcrtis-
cr Printing Eompany, refused to put
in type the editorial above referred to
and III the words Of well known poll
tt:i II he has no apologies To make.
In view of the fact however. that
some good readers might get wrong
impression Of the CLUB" We welded
We think it might not be out of plrcc
to quote our letter in full, which was,
as will be observed, written in very
informal terms. 1t was as follows:
=, July %, 1918.
Robert Quillcn, ESQ.
Fountain Inn, S. c.
Dear Quillcn:-
| cannot help from feeling that YOU
arc doing Mr. Cooper an injustice in
quoting some unnamed friends" of
his and in not stating the authority or
naming the friends. | will not go
into any wordy ethical reasons for this
feeling. The injustice is obvious. No
doubt it is not intentional hut the
harmful results would follow lust thc
same.
Il have male you a price on metal
composition and | am willing to set il
up for YOU. But will not contribute
10 such treatment of Mr.. C0oDcr. If
you want to come straight from the
shoulder and charge him with catering
to the Blcasc vote have no objection
to setting il up. Or if YOU have any
authority for any such political
mancuverns will set il up But |
viii not contribute to any hcarSay
campaign.
Il am enclosing all Of your copy
You may return ii to me or not rs you
sec iii With tho chaN"cs have sL;~-
&CStcd. will lie aN!G 20 set n or part
Of il by the Saturday afternoon train
and read proofs ca"%!ullv. | wlll ~
!N"hcr | vii! nGi 'ni; Gown on YOU
YOU Nill 10 me trr c"!ln0si;iCn this
wG,h ?Nd make othH aY;"n%crcnls III
Tho mc@ntn&. the continuance" Of the
after lhHi time vii! Nc
lcf, with YOU.
The editorial must have been writ
teH hastily and hopc that you will
"iCW il rs do and make due %oIrCc-
lion"
'T4c paragraph III the Tribune which
the wr:'rr objected 10 was rs follows:
Ills C'uopcr'.D crioNdi say thu! he
doesn't dcDuulcG N,cNSc because he
Ia, H!l"v i"lrnd; IL ne B!ca&2 rank,
and expects Il large ro,r from lhat FAC
lioN that he has nothing 10 gain hy
GcnouAc.nG please ANA much II lose.