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


| tions for that beeehiye OF ACTIVITY.
while you have put us off with recur'
rent investigations Even today the
employees of the Charleston yard ar2
holding meetings to devise some plan
to keep enough work here to prevent
a general exodus of an expert force
! that may never be replaced Your
"chairmanship" of this committee has
become for Charleston sardonlc
Joke. Was it also because OF your
prestige in this great post that YOU
recently succeeded in keeping US
from getting a shipyard even after
the contracts had actually been sign
ed to bring it here?
But you should be MOkE thar
chairman of the naval committee. Ii
/ is now more than six years since We
read carefully your gratuitous advice
! 10 our then President-elec Wilson or
how to run the government, weaving
into this piece Of customary syc1-
phancv your claim by seniority ToF
the Craftsmanship Of the senate COM
nittee on appropriations. You were
entitled to it, and yours is the ONLY
case on record in which exception
was made to the established rule.
The presidents attitude. and that OF
YOUR democratic conferes, was that
while time and precedent entitlei
YOU to it. you were INCOMPETENT.
and you were shunted off to the nom
! ina1 chairmanship Of committee
which in those days of pacifsm gave
YOU nothing to do and was quite suit
ed to your recognized possibility
! Not only IS the wonderful efficiency
I of our navy due nearly wholly to the
marvellous capacity Of the personnel
! of its officers, who ds experts merely
| tell the senate what to DO, but when,
by the advent of war. the senate COM
mittee grew somewhat important, yon
were brushed aside in actual practice
! for Swanson, who is so thoroughl:
; capable Nor Will it make any differ
ence if. as a matter of senatorial;
courtesy" Swanson should disclaim
, this: everybody knows it.
But as to your charge Of unfair
ness.s On fune /, at late night hoU-,
we received the following telegram
from OR Washington correspondent:
171AGN Collect NPR sz5p-
Washington. D. c., June !. 1913.
The American, Charleston. 5. c.:
Tillman has mailed out state
ment which carries an implied in
dorsement from the administra-
ton of his work. Says he sent
the American copy. doHs
know whether this is. true. Ne
has no extra copy, he says,
COTTRELl.
This was our first intimation that
YOU were about to launch endorse
ments from Washington rather than
leave your case to the people Of South
Carolina. whom for the purpose OF get
ting their votes you believe in trust
ing" You will notice that even then.
or as the lawyers say, as part 81
the res gestae of the case. our corre@
spondent doubted if you were dealing
with him frankly, for he says OF your
statement that you had sent The
American a couy: Il do not know
whether this is true" Wsy should
he have even then doubted you:
Could there have been anything lack
ing in frankness. something -disln-
genuous" in your manner which left
doubt In his mind that you had done
in this .case what you never have done
sent your effusions to the Ameri-
can? All the circumstances corroDo-
rate hls lurking doubt, for 1mmedi-
ately upon the receipt OF MS wire
though late at night, we made another
thorough search of our mails, anc
failing to- find it we had "a staff con-
sultation over its importa nee and II
was only after we decided it was TOO
late then to wire you or E(im that we
resolved to take the chan ce OF being
"scooped" by our compe titors We
nut the. facts ct the telegram TO
| gether and implied that as you hac
|'sent" {maIred, presumably tht
J statement from Washing ton that Gay
we stood LITTLE chance TO be scooped
as inferably you had, also sent
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