The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-06-21


meant either to drive Lever out Or
make him and Manning odious in the
race, and | am quite certain from the
dates OF the Lever Spondence
that it was only when YOU were sure
You had driven him out that You be
came suddenly afraid the publication
OF your abuse and confessions might
interfere with peace at home AM
war on the common enemy"
But, at any rate. the first Letters,
the correspondence between you, Mr..
Burleson, the President and Governor
Manning, which you DID give out,
were. if anything, even more bite:
than your statement You lam
, basted Lever very thinly disguised
that YOU dmfhted h0rn Mr.. Burleson
and the president, and branded Man
ming as one whose motives were not
above suspicion
Yop say: What care you that en-
old man. naturally militant. has seec
fit to curb his tongue. ETC. and then
proceed to rbetr9y that while you ARE
an "old man" probably doting. you
have NOT ''curbed your tongue, nor
altered by one iota your well-knoWn
, role Of slanderer Cod. save the mark!
Tillman whining over the fact that ne
is old. rot Ike en- cid man, but an Old
woman. forgetting the crown OF
thorns he placed upon the aged brow
of knightly Hampton; forgetting that
by his diatribes he tore from the
shoulders of that Old hero the toga
his grateful people had left to him N
his old age as a token Of that trust
and affection which would have lived
in their hearts forever had Tillmar
not violently u?rooted it by the uH-
eyampled furv of his tongue and the
ferocity Of bis envy Rut Hampton
went to his tomb without a w1limper.
while Tillman sicEens the ears OF
those who otherwise might sympa-
thize bv a mixture Of cow0rdly blows
delivered while fle ,begs also for
mere.
Yes. senator. well do we know the
American has been twice debarred
from the mails. AND WE'LL DO Y0C
KNOW 1T. In charging US you Blu:
betray your tand. If it IS not case
of the wicked fleeing. It IS the guilty
confessing. Murder will out. But the
American has been TWICE RE
STORED TO THE MAILS, and it,
circulation grows by leaps and
bounds. Far more than ten thousand
subscribers viii read your infany TO-
day. Your aim, therefore, has not
bee,7 achieved. The American still
lives.
cannot imagine the knightlg
Hampton as having recourse to your
final clap-trap: ITO hell with all Ger
man svlnpathizers and God bless Viii
SON Ii you began your career by
:, kicking heroes, over, must you end Il
BY calling upoH them the blessing oi
God? 1t is not altogether unlike you
even as few years back you were
boasting that you were largely o
German origin but now you are ready
to send to hell ali those who sympa
tffize with the Blood in your veins
Sometimes when 1 reflect upon youl
career of atrocities, especially among
the number of these friends who once
took you in and nourished you, won
l. der if after all this might not be (bu
your reversion to the type that man!
say they witnessed on the crimson
soil of Belgium. You certainly havt
all the attributes:
There is no German blood in me
not one drop. And yet there Is muc!
! sympathy in me for the Germans, no
however. in the unworthy sense you
cheap shibboletfr implies. And TO
one man of German blood there is
peculiar sympathy bordering on pit
= for he is old, he is decrepit, nj
Nrnilk of human kindness has turne
4 to limberger cheese" he struts super
l. fIuous on the stage his ruling pas
: sion is strong in death-he had
= hydropthobia only to bite those Wh
4 we're in his way when young and Il
barks from his bed Of death at thos
. rre can no longer bite as the shadow
~ creep about him.
5 EDITOR. CHARLESTON AMER