The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-09
BASED ON A FALSE PREMISE.

of writer's or editors who held the
opinion that it was necessary to use
ugly words and call people mean
names in order to emphasize what we
had to say. The Anderson Tribune
had a very ugly article in regard to
John Aull the other day, based On
false premise The editor was un-
der the impression that Aull had seut
him. for publication an account of
fight which took place in Columbia
which all the newspapers and CORES
pondents including Aull had decided
to suppress, and then afterwards Aull
wrote an article criticising the TriD-
une for publishing it. Ii those facts
had been true then the Tribune man
would have had occasion to speak
plainly of Aull, but they were NOT
true, as the following statement from
Gov. Blease explains. 1t would have
been better to have been sure of the
facts before writing so harshly. Sew
eral of the papers that are unfriendly
to Blease and hoping to make politi-
cal capital out of the incident have
repub Ished the statement of the
Tribune and gleefully commented on
it. We do not believe that any OF
the papers that have used it believe
for one moment that ohm Aull un-
dertook. to double cross the Tribune.
or to do anything that was not hon
orable, but with the hope of doing
injury to a political opponent tc
whom Aull is friendly they have with
apparent joy taken up the matter. l.
is strange and past understandings
how far we will let our prejudices
lead US, even to the injury and detri-
ment Of the innocent if by so doing
we imagine we can secures even
temporary advantage of a political
antagonist The Tribune has publish
ed the statement of Blease and The
State at the request of Aull has publ
ished it, but so far as we have OBJ
served the other papers have moi
done so. OF course, we are satisfied
they will appreciate the injury they
have done and at once publish the
statement of Blease. We know that
statement to be true because we
heard Blease say several months ago,
before any of this stir had started,
that he wrote the account, and he was
eriticising the daily papers for sup
pressing the fight, and remarked THAI
E'his paper" was not afraid to publish
the facts. AS soon as he saw the
Cheshire statement he wrote the fol-
lowing letter:
"Jaly 3rd, 1918.
Col. v. B. Cheshire,
Anderson, South Carolina.
Dear Colonel:
In your issue of Tuesday, July End.
you unintentionally did Col. John K.
Aull an injustice and I know when
you are fully informed Of the facts
that you will correct same. In your
statement you say: "These editori-
ais that were sent us by Governor
Blease were dictated by him and writ
ten on Governor Blease's typewriter
by Aull. The account of the fight be-
tween Adjutant General Moore and
Col. Lewis (Thompson) in which i:
was stated that the Columbia CORES
pondent of the Charleston American,
etc., was written by Aull himself and
sent to the Tribune for publication. I"
In that you are mistaken, Col. Aull
never saw that article and did not
know that it had been written and sent
to your paper, until he received the
issue COuCdluiilS IT, AS LudCteT ol
fact the articles written by me and
sent to you were written by myself
on my typewriter and Col Aull sell
dom ever saw one of them or even
knew where it came from. am sorry
that you did not call me or write me
in reference to the matter before your
statement but I am satisfied with this
explanation that you will do him the
justice of correcting the same. The
articles which I sent you at various
times. in my opinion, were all to the
good, and personally, have no OBJ
je"tion to each ard every one of them
being singled out and 7 assume re-
spousibility for each of them. With
kindest regards, I am,
Very respectfully,