The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-06-27
graft and did business with Habbell
behind the door?

Sh9kt ou0 OiO business with Habbel
behind the door?
And now you condemn us for doins
only what you yourself, solely ant
alone originated. You wrote tha
statement which we only published
We admit that We published it both
as matter of highly interesting
news, ard also because you had sue,
ceeded in damning in moment OF
desperation Lever, Manning and your
self, pulling down upon your head
:. the Shiny structure which your mu-
tual silence had imposed upon the
people. Very well. Why shouldn't we
have published it? Were we under
any obligation whatsoever not to do
SO? Those to whom you gave" the
letter may reckon with you upon
the question OF honor as they will.
That is their affair. But you admit
we got it only through what we call
some "subterranean way" Granted.
This only proves that you are ming
ling with friends you cannot trust.
as we have SO often admonished you,
and that you have deserted friends
who no longer trust you, and who
are ready for the sake of the cause
to snatch the chance to let the rogues
who have fallen out tell what they
know.
You not only wrote that state
ment, but when you first gave it out,
you intended it for publication. II
our doing so has raised all the wick
ed bogies you fear, remember we
only did publish the very words you
had intended to publish, and which
you afterwards did release to the
newspapers throughout the state,
giving manifold increase of circula-
tion. You are quoted in one of these
newspapers as follows:
! LAS the Charleston American, to
whom 1t was not sent or released
has published today my communica-
ton of the 9Th, it is hereby released
and hope you will publish it,"
| 1t, and many others, did so. Thus,
by your own act, you satisfied the
state with copies of this document.
circulated in your own words to
spread friction and hot politics. -
Or course, when you wrote the state
ment you meant it to have that eff
feet. You meant either to drive Lever
out or make him and Manning
odious in the race and I am quite
certain from the dates of the Lever
correspondence that it was only
when you were sure you had driven
him out that you became suddenly
afraid the publication of your abuse,
and confessions might interfere with
peace at home and war on the COM
mon enemy"
But, at any rate, the first letters,
the correspondence between you, Mr..
Burleson, the president and Govern
or Manning, which you did give out,
were, If anything, even more bitter
than your Statement" You lambast-
ed Lever, very thinly disguished that
you doubted Mr.. Burleson and the
president, and branded Manning as
one whose motives were not above
suspicion
You say, What care you that an
old man. naturally militant has seen
fit to curb his tongue, etc." and then
proceed to b.etray that while you are
an "old man." probably doting, you
have not ''curbed your tongue" nor
altered by one iota your we'll known
role of slander God save the mark.
Tillman whining over the fact that
he is old. not like an old man, but an
old woman, forgetting the crown of
thorns E.e placed upon the aged
brow OF knightly Hampton; forget
ha hxy
from the shoulders of that old hero
the toga his grateful people had left
to him ii his old age as a token of
that trust and affection which would
have lived in their hearts forever had
ITillman not violently uprooted it by
the uneXampled fury of his tongue
and the ferocity Of his envy. But
Hampton went to his tomb without
whimper, while Tillman sickens the
ears OF those who otherwise might
sympathize by mixture of cowardly
blows delivered while he begs also
for mercy.
Yes, senator, well do We know The
American has been twice debarred
from the mails, and we'll do you
know 1t. In charging us you but
betray your hand. If it is not a case
OF the wicked fleeing, it is the guilty
confessing. Murder will out. But the
American has been twice restored
to the mails, and it's circulation
grows by leaps and bounds. Far more
than ten thousand subsc ribers will
read your infamy today. Your aim,
therefore. has not been achieved.
The American still lives.
l cannot imagine the knigbtly
Hampton as having recourse to your
final clap trap. ITO hell with all Ger
man sympathiZers and God Bless