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


against the treachery and Dresump-
ton of Lever. w.:ose young and more
or less headv" ambitions yOu new act
uallv commend. Therefore, we publ
ished it, even though copied, and cal
assure you it brought forth commen'
from amazed readers, ghosts OF which
will reappear before YOU while the
campaign lasts.
Nor did YOU send the American a
COPY of your further statement in re-
plv to Manning Again you left US
ont in the cold. You admit this your
self which luckily makes it unneces-
sarv for our correspondent to ques-
ton your memory For YOU say:
/ THE Manning article just published
by you was furnished MCGOWAN and
Murray. for the State and the News
and Courier. Had Cottrell called at
nv office he would have gotten
copv. etc" Perhaps he did not know
YOU had issued it, but as any rate,
what reason had he to suppose that
YOU had not again sent it TO us ::
He knows 6y now that in important
matters YOU send to Us, evidently
bv some lame mail that never arrives,
whereas, you give to your new
found friends among our rivals. IL
less they are ready to renounce the
graves Of their dead and the malice OF
their living I shall be very much mis-
taken if before this summer is over
thev shall not be handing some
thing to you.
But the principal deceit of your let
ter is the way you insinuate through
out that it was written before you had
any idea that Lever was out OF the
race. You say:
.Tn a contest between Mr.. Lever
and Mr.. Blease, can find virtue IL
: Levers loyalty to the present adlnln-
! istration. his soundness In deniocratlc
PRINCIPLES and his clean personal ana
official habits and coduct II ne -
Young and more or less heady on the
subject of becoming a senator II IS
a worthy ambition because ne VIII
make a better. safer. saner, more
active and intelligent senator than
Governor Blease has SHOWN by his
record ,.e is capable Of doing"
Every word of this, and many other
nsr1s Of YOUR letter pretend that yo'
contemplate Lever as at the time a
rival whereas the incontroVertlDie
record is that you were morally Il
not actually. sure that he had de-
termined to withdraw. All except the
f, last short letter of the correspondence
hotween Mr.. Lever and the preslden,
we're written before you wrote your
letter to me and the public report mac
gone OUT in Charleston, emanatlng y
;s aI1eeed from a message from you
! stating that he had withdrawn before
vou took up yuur typewriter to- bally-
rag me. and speak for the first time
in manv bitter weeks III praise ol
) g? ovor actually quoting Manning 5
v1rtuous advice. which yoa so lately
savao oo1v denounced. Don't you see
=. senator YOU are the same old hpyo
| orito and that your hypocrisy IS as
easily penetrable as in the days wren
cnu condemned graft and did ous'
.,ass with Huabbelf behind the door:
And now you condemn US for doln=
! .or1v what YOU yourself, solely anc
alone. originated YOU wrote tna'
1 s+a+oment which we only published
We admit that we published 1t oots
as matter of highly interesting
news. and also because you mad sue
.ceeded in damning ri a moment U
d4sneration Lever. Manning ani
/ yourself, pulling down upon you
! heads the Shiny structure Wnlca your
mutual silence had imposed upon lhS
people. Very we'll. Why shouldn
we have published it? Were WE uli
!; der any obligation whatsoever not L
do so? Those to whom you gave
: the letter may reckon with you upo'
the question of honor as they VIII
sTnat is their affair. But you admi
we got it only through what you cal
some :.subterranean way Grantee
This only proves that you are mlnsi
ing with friends youl cannot rrust'- a
we have so often admonlshed yo'
and that you have desterted trleno
+, who no longer trust you, and VINO ar
ready for the sake of the cause