The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-06-27


ton. 8. c.: Tillman has mailed
out statement which carries
an implied Endorsement from
I the administration of his work.
Says he sent the American a
! copy. I don't know whether this
Is true. He has no extra CODY.
ne says. COTTRELL.
This was our first intimation thai
you were about to launch endorse
ments from" Washington rather thar
leaVe your case to the people OF
south Carolina, whom for the pur
pose of getting their votes you be.
neve in trusting" You will notice
that even then. or as the lawyers say
as part Of the res gestate of the
case, our correspondent doubted i
you were dealing with him frankly
for he says of your statement thai
you mad sent The American a COPY:
do not know whether this is true. -
why should he have even then doub.
TED you? Could there have been anv.
tning lacking in frankness. some
tning disingenuous" in your man
er which left doubt in his mind tbo,
you had done in this case what Won
never have done-send your erfus-
IONS to The American? All the cir
cumstances corroborate his lurking
oouot, for Immediately upon the re.
ceipt or his wire. though late al
hight, we made another thorougb
search or our mails. and failing tn
Ilnd 1t. we had a staff consultation
over It's Importance, and it was onIv
after we decided it was too late then
70 wire you or him that we resolved
TO take the chance of being SCOOP
cd by our competitors. We put the
iacts OF the telegram together and
implied that as you had "sent"
lmaiied presumably the statement
from Washington that day, we stood
little chance to be scooped, as infera-
bly, you had also sent" (mailed) q
copy to our competitors. But it Jar
RED on our news nerves when the
next morning we saw the full story
In our competitor, manifestly not
sent by you from WASHINGTON but
handed" by you to its representa-
i've there. who wired it in.
Naturally we regarded it as news
which our readers should have; so
we put our pride in our pocket and
republished it the following dav
And 1t was news because aven
though it was but the sad, sad story
or AN old man naturally militant {"
IL was written in a sensational tone
oy MIN before he decided to curb
MS tongue in order that friction and
not politics may be avoided" It
was anything but peace at home and
war on the common enemy" and be-
iore It's author realized the time had
come Tor peace in South Carolina
and avoidance of factionalism." It
fairly bristled with pointed factionaI
oayonets. shrapnel of elimination
against Manning, whose soothing
words you now quote and with high
explosives of ridicule against the
trenchery and presumption of Lever
whose young and more or less
heady" ambitions you now actually
commend. Therefore, we publish il
even though copied, and I can assure
you 1t brought forth comment from
amazed readers. ghosts of which will
reappear before you while the CAM
paign lasts.
Nor did you send '.'he American"
copy of your further statement in
reply to Manning. Again you left US
out in the cold. You admit this your
SELF, which luckily makes it unnec-
essary for our correspondent to ques-
tion your memory" For you say:
The Manning article just publish
ed by you was furnished MCGOWAN
and Murray. for the State and the
News and Courier. Had Cottrell call
ed at my office he would have got
ten copy, etc." Perhaps he did not
know you had issued it, but at any
rate, what reason had he to suppose
that you had not again sent" it to
us! He knows by now that in impor-
tant matters you send" to us. evil
IDENTIFY by some lame mail that ney-
er arrives. whereas. you give" to
your new-found friends among our
rivals. Unless they are ready to re-
nounce the graves of their dead and
the malice of their living 1 shall be
very much mistaken if before this
summer is over they shall net be
handing" something to you.
But the principal deceit of your
letter is the way you insinuate
throughout that it was written be-
fore you had any idea that Lever
was out the race. You say:
In a contest between Mr.. Lover
and Mr.. Blease l can find virtue in
Levers loyalty to the present admin
istration, his soundness in Democra-
tic principles and his clean personal
and official habits and conduct. If
he is young and more or loco baody