The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-03-03

| OF course not. And i hereby and
! hercon. brand it as fatty false.
! If | have at any time conspircd to
dcfraud The county or state, then
thereby declare myself ready to ap-
pear &t any time before the Laurcns
county grand jury. But why have
Officers" kept their mouths shut all
these long years, and winkcd at my
dcings, if acted crookcdly? That
does no, speak we'll Of them as Of
! iiccrs. does it? But whether | am
guilty or not guilty, then why, oh why.
10 they "belch it up" just now? 1t
would seem from above letter that
"Mr. Gray, YOU should not have
jumped on I.aurcns county officers"
! I am persuaded to feel. from above
| letter that if had kept my mouth
shut. then "Oficers" would have kept
thcir mouths Shat too! This beats
iSobtail, and you know what he did!
| llurrah for the Fourth of July, and
cr cr, yes, and hurrah for Christ
Inas too! Oh, joys. Oh, boys! Bully!
Go to il!
| | might ask again for full informa
! ton as to the affairs of the county.
bat kindly let ne say that statement
Of such affairs would be worthless I'm
| tess il has moro facts than these ref
crcnccs TO lhc representative from
Spartanburg."
| Now, to so back to these letters
a gain. have sold mules, etc, to folks
living on my farm. SO have other peo
pie. Certainly And of course the
purchaser is due to pay the tax. When
Mr.. Childrcss or Mr.. Counts or Mr..
| Hicks sells mules, etc, to Il party. arc
| they expected to return that property
in their own names? When Mr..
| Franks sells wagons, etc, does any
one ever expect him to return it in his
own name? When the I,aurens Trust
fGo., for instance, sells real estate, arc
| they required or even expected to re-
| turn the property in their own name?
Certainly not. Even a fool would
know better. And Of course |, or any
other person whomsocvcr do the
same thing. Certainly. Is that crook
ed? Not at all.
As to the Magistrate in Ioungs
township, when Mr. "Zandcrs" Aber-
crombic died. several men, including
the representative from Spartan
burg thought his brother, Mr.. Jot
| Abcrcrombie the best man that could
Re gotten for the uncXpircd term.
This also followed precedent" Of Civ
ing this honor to some member of the
for in the case of late Sheriff Owings.
But Mr.. Abercrombic refused il. Is II
treason to try to get the best men
possible?
AS to the change in the board Of as
SCISSORS for Youngs township, would
simply ask how many men arc salts
| fled with present assessments and
methods Of making assessments? If
Officers" will refer to the statement
| filed With the delegation, ii will be
found ihat several OF the most
thought men in that township asked
for a change, and that the representa-
tive from Spartanburs" was not the
only onc who had views" on the
matter
Now, as 10 attempting to deprive the
dear poor man" Of educational ad-
vantagcs. Ask the good people Of
i4anford station school district and
the Gray school house" school dis
trict if | did not advocate increased
! tax for these schools, stating that
though did not live there myself and
consequently would not be sending
my own child there, still it would help
somebody's child. AS to the Central"
school district | told the trustees and
the County superintendent OF f,duca-
ton that | saw no reason to collect
extra money when they admitted they
had not spent what they already had
on hand. / say so now. However. in
the election. the patrons decided what
| they wanted, and as a good democrat
! / fell in line And | suspect that |
have paid my taxes about as willingly
as my critics.
AS for my running for Congress.
their remarks arc Of course pure sar-
casm. 1t is no trouble for me to see
that "OGicers" would give me the devil
going and coming in any campaign.
And by the way, 'to change the sub
ject' an dto speak Of the magnificent