Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1920-06-16
MAYOR BROWN BACK AGAIN.
Lengthy Bombartlment With Word
Ammunition.

Editor Keowee Courier: ~
We are coming again asking space
in The Courier in which to vindicate
ourselves and the town of Walhalla
from the attacks made against us
in your paper Of June I'd and again
Of June 9th.
In your editorial column Of June
I'd, under the glaring headlines Of
"Bolshevism in Our Midst" you most
assuredly used your little hammer
with the rapidity Of twenty-five
hundred volt charge.
We, in as modest and az kind way
as we knew how, called your atten-
tion to the fact that we attended the
chautauqua regularly, and during
this entire week did not see anything
but good behavior. We rather apol-
ogized for taking no much Of your
valuable space. But since your Issue
OF the 9th we can come more boldly,
because 1t seems as for printers ink
and space you have an over abund-
ance. Not being satisfied with giving
us one dose of your "Bolshevism"
you take the trouble to reproduce
the entire article, for the reason. as
you give It, there was some little ty-
biographical error. Also you had
some Every favorable comment on
this article, and numbers expressed
their regret that there was something
the matter with 1t, and 1t did not
read right" This, Mr.. Editor, is just
what we think. And it was for this
very reason that we called your at
tentfon to the matter in last weeks
Courier. 1t did not read right; 1t
was not right.
For further dose of "Bolshev-
fr, Ii
hoodlums,,-, at is a shame to our
town that our citizens cannot safely
leave their property standing on the
streets OF Walhal1a in this year Of
Grace and Enlightenment It is
shame and disgrace that our
friends from other towns and sur
rounding communities cannot come
here without running the risk of be-
coming victims Of our lawlessness.
And then the final reason for repro
duction is, lit may possibly give op-
portunity for what we have said to
soak In This is not the first time
we have heard Of things being done
and then rubbed it I'm.
1t Is very common in most cases to
give to each side its even number Of
innings. But the editor had the bat
on the first inning and three times
OF the last issue, and firmly estab-
fishes himself in the belief that he
Is still right. Admitting that "some
FEW OF our citizens, our town Off
cials as whole, and our police force
have seen fit to seek to discredit our
statement, and to impute to us the
motive Of KNOCKER." If the editor
will take the trouble to inquire as to
how many constitute that "FEW"
citizens who believe 1t was knock,
and altogether uncalled for, we be-
l!eve that something will Begin to
SOAK IN OH the editor.
Mr. E!dilI,, we have long recog-
nizcd that you are the wat lehman"
and # The watchman fails to warn,
then the esponsihility rests on Iiirn.
You say we are BoIshovists--.-we are
'aw'ess. We want 10 ask tho editor il
ali these things are true-.-and yolt
say they are and that "you seek to
correct an evil that exists, has ex-
listed unchecked for long months,
and even years,"-ff you knew, or
now know OF such evils, why do you,
or why have you not reported them
to the proper authorities, so that
they might have been nipped in the
bud. Have you ever, (and we want
to put the emphasis on the ever)
gone to those vested with the author
fty OF our town and furnished them
with one whit Of information or
clue by which they could run down
the lawless set in Walhalla? If you
have and they have not acted, then
let's have a new administration
some one who will make the viola
tors OF the law afraid to come out in
open moonlight ant1 utterly destroy
so much, Of the peoples property.
You. in your burst Of patriotism
and oratory, exclaim "Is that the
form Of democracy that our boys
fought for to make safe? II 1t Is, we
think 1t better had they not fought" :"
The citizens OF Wa1halla, we believe
have as great respect as any peo-
PIE on earth for the boys who went
and came back. and also as great a
reverence for those of them who
made the greatest OF all sacrifices.
They we'll deserve to rest in peace
and not be dragged into every little
newspaper controversy to give en-
phasis to what YOU have to say.
You say this has existed unchecked
for months and years. We wonder
why you did not go back still farther
and carry us back to the time that
two little boys had row Just out
side the Garden Of Eden, and espe-
cially to the time Of the 'Bloody-
Thirteen" and give us hail Columbia
for what they did.
We say that as far as the order at
the chautauqua and grounds was
! concerned. we saw nothing that
would have offended the most ssnsi-
tive lady or gentleman, or any one
who was not just hunting something
| with which to give us what the Cat
gave the Owl.
Mr.. Editor, we accept your COM