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131 If p lii AH A3 WANTS NASOTH'S ViNEYAftS. By a Sc-:pt'j-a'P.iraiie! t*"?2 Co-."man Pour/Hot Sho* ?nto f :C .? .n,-,o*^c i* * i j ^ Mullins, S L. J, 1 > ?S. Editor Kefnrm Advocate:? Your editorial iv!i*etin:< on i:k lias just !>.\*a coded to m attention. As you ami Ellerbe ar- Sunday School men I know nothing v,hich suits the facts in the situation botte: than the Sunday School lesson for last Sunday, July 31.?A hah, N'aboth, Jezebel and the sons of ilclial ? Ellerbo, Norton, MeKen/.ie and jVttiirrew and Allen, Fore and Moo dv. J K KUcrbe plays the A hub in covetousness of Norton's position and wants the congressional vineyard. McKenzie and iVitigrew play tinJezebel as far as want of frocks and brains will permit. The alliuavitmakers are swift and false witmssv-" after the Reform Advocate has set Norton 011 high. J K Kllerbe plays the A hah with face to the wail of destiny pouting because iie Inns not b.-vn able to trade or swap Norton out of the congressional vineyard. JKllerbe's game of deception and trickery in lSUT.which he is pleased 1 < *i 1 \ -I... to cull a contract, iaueu nnu men. From this trick Ellerbe appealed to tile people, the elders and nobles and they repudiated him. Ellerbe then appealed to Norton for a trade. Norton was telegraphed to Columbia on Saturday after first primary in 1S97 to come to Florence. When he reached Florence he was informed that J E Ellerbe was there ready to support Nortou in second primary upou condition that Norton, if elected. should not be a candidate for oougress in 1898 ami support Ellerbe. Ellerbe denied this at ConMay. See Central Hotel Registry Saturday night after first primary. J C iSeliers, J W McCown aud J D Montgomery were in Florence. Ask them about facts. Nortoiijrefused to talk to Ellerbe about the proposed trade and spurned his conditions. Ed Ellerbe had fooled Nortou in his "contract" trick. Norton Mas a gentleman with Ellerbe until that fatal night in Florence. No prospects of .a trade for the vineyard and Mr. Ellerbe left Floreuce Sunday utorn-*ni?"glooiny and angry. He did not make a Suuday School speech that <i.iv Ifnmaiifd turtit-d hi.-> fate to the wall of envy. Ellerbe , Jiati cursed the ,lll;iskfc?lite"J(?hn30u. but Norton won't tote fair, he groaned. lie won't trade for the vineyard. The next Saturday night reports say Ellerbe was at Latta breaming sulphurous fumes at N'orto.. la tile back room of a colored man's store and painting bright the kingdom come of Johnson. Ellcrbe supported Johnson vigorously for the second primary, fins was his right. Mr Johnson is an honorable g^utieman. lint why did Eiierbe offer to support Norton on condition, and when the conditions were spurned fight Norton and support the other man? Hereby hangs a ta'e that made Norton a rascal at once, notwithstanding Ellerbo had boasted of "splittinghis shirt" making Norton Comptroller General in 181H. There comes now upon the scene the political tyros, Mclvenzie and i* _i ? r .. VOUIlg reixigicw, puiYliig .iwvuci i": Ahab Ellerbe. Finding Ellerbe in the pouts with his face to the wall they chided him and saul: '"Art thou not a great man in politics, more aristocratic than Norton, the little backwoods fellow who never went to South Carolina or Woiford College? Arise and we will deliver the vineyaid to thee, 0 King Ahab!" So McKenzie goes about writing and telegraphing and seeing the people and scheming against Norton. These Jezebels write articles and seal them with Ellerbe's signet and send forth to have Norton stoned, and with Ellerbe-like bluster, make a grrat show of evidence from the affidavits of the sons of Belial, Allen Fore and Moody. Joseph Allen, your lirst witness, gentlemen, false to truth and honor, false to bis neighbors aud family, took seven hundred dollars front his neighbor, F W Bethea, and left the State and his family. This man Allen swears Norton lied him out of $3.75 in lumber. Sorry for Mr. Allen. I can forgive him for not paying for two tons of guano, but God must pardon his swearing to a falsehood. To publish this is painful,but Ellerbc, McKinzie and Allen force it. T Thomas Fore, the second son of Belial, poor fellow. Lie is an unworthy son ot a noble tather.Some of Mr. Fore's neighbors kuow his trouble, lie was caught doing things not honorable while a ten o ant. Thirty four dollars worth of fottou captured as Fore tried to slip it away, is the cause of his false affidavit. j Mr. sv.v.irs lie hon?r!it ?!i ji*!iinorv from Norton <"??? wiiicii t.Ko- ;ve:v n<?! pah], lit* is mis taken. I never >i:r.v Bint's untii ai'ivrtho Hoiinottsvillo moetinir. !!o ijon ii' in.o l; M'Tv ironi M:. ] i?\v'i-?'!< .! ;n \\ I ii*it I v.'ainter*'-' : i? ??ne . !; )' \\ ilea r??_ i?(.:i: !' !? i 1 inn!; Mr. iii^ > ai. jotni :o in an. Init ho has >eon ??i'a. a!i?i ia't !i:e:i!. 1 lii'iiiilr liv one (' ( ; lias-. :i!i : ardent friend of K! 1< rK ?. who obtained ;:fii-i.u:t Iron: Bint's. .1 1\ Eller! o s.-.i 1 Bonnelt?.villo thai Loop. Ba<s carried money from to myself lor machinery. Leon i?a > says by certificate sent me that Eiierbeis mistaken. Limits 1 says K is not so ami I say it is I faise. Now comes the chief son of | Belial, T C M.-ody, the political yodl'aiher ami l>rothpr-in law of .1 E Elierno. I couid amour: : Mocdy's old lion customers doubtless arid find those who would swear j>robabiv they would not he ! liovo him on his oath when inter : estcd. i am sorry that A Q Mci Dulfie and Charles Gregg are nut I living. No I take that hack?I j would not. 1 roomed with Moody louring the se?ions ot the Legisla! Ture 1S8t>-87 and 1$90-91. I have ' heen his guest nt his own house at j times since lt>73. Any ellbrt on ; my part to smut Moody alter these ! associations would only show my jown weakn-ss 01 character and ut 1 * t i i* - - i- _ z t: r ; rer uisiegaru ior me proprieties 01 deee'cy ami demands of civilized i Christ inn life. In 1SSS Mr. Moody wrote mo urgiiitc m" to stand tor re-election to the House. Thus lor ton to eighteen years after the conflict over the negro lien cotton i Norton was a gentleman whose companionship Moody sought. Now twenty-five years after when his brother-in-law Ellerbe wants to damn Norton to get toCongress, he paints, or would paint, Norton i a rascal. Envy, what wilt thou | do? Here is the crime. In 1873 I ; look a lien on a negro, finding in .the fall that Moody had a prior | one. I otfered Moody the money lor b: which he refused. This boded no good to me or the negro, as Moody's partner in this transaction was of doubtful character. After conterence with Mr. Williamson, in whose house the cotton was, having offered Moody his ' money. I did let the negro have ! team and wagon to save himself if possible, l hese are the bases for 14 1..'. _l ?l .un" i\ 5 cuar^o ui UMIUII ticaun^. j Clever Moody! Mr. Moody evidently has fried to deceive the public by his asso iciutions with rue since 1ST,3, or now tries lor some course to damage me. Which, Mr. Moody? I Now, Mr. Editor.! here is one more, Mr. E I)Mayers, lie has pub iishe.i already a card saying that , the use ol his name by Eiirbe was unauthorized and that lie voted lui me in the past and would do so in , lSbv Mr. Eilerbe made it appear i it Kenncttsville that he had an ! affidavit t'rotn Mr. Mayers. This : was a deception, as Eilerbe had no 1 affidavit. Is was a desperate game j of a desperate man. About 20 j years a 1:0 muiiins was a naru town. I No churches, no schools, no day j schools, but barrooms plenty. I j led the tight against this condition land was com pen rated by many | curses. The fight spread into local j politics ami church before closing. 1 Growing out of this fight a sourrilI !ous circular letter denouncing me 1 was published, signed by. but not ; written by Mayers. Mayers is r,n I uneducated man ann was mislead I by my cliiet whiskey opponent I and enemy. i'his article was written. I th'nk |inISS2. Mayers soon learned his (error and lias voted i??r me since lSS'ior "90. I am proudol.Mulhns. her people, her Sunday schools, lier dav schools, her churches and of her brurht future morally and ' materially. I am also proud of the fact that Mayers alter kuowinsr me ; appreciates my life and character | and supports me. .Nor have I any j quarrel with those who differed i from me honestly then or now. ; Mr. J E Ellerbe had a conv of this document at llennettsville i written 16 years ago a la Eilerbe? absurdly false. Mr. Eilerbe had personal knowledge of the facts in J this matter and access to church : records. When he read it at Benjnettsville lie became the author ! and circulator of a willful, malic lious falsehood, knowing at the | time it was false, and with malice [ aforethought deliberately attempt led to destroy a competitor in his mad rage and malignant design I upon that competitor. Kllerbe is a } member of the same church I am and a steward and much of the ; past iiis home church has been in I the same circuit. He knew or ought to have known, a,; fh?sc records of j ihe .VuHins cm-nil show, I am and i have been 1 ??r 30 years a member. I of the Hoard ot' Steward tor thisl icircuit and lor 10 years District i Stewards, and 10 years a member ' of i l;e Methodist church. I\ in- mad imbition and desire r -.ifii con?:iv<>. honorablv if l : potion*, but !"i:ily if ii#-ivcss:ir\.; '.I 1'. Eiierbe iti his a Hack <>it my i i church record ami character runs i deliberateix in the laceof the facts' las shown by these records and' j ruthlessly ami wilfully falsifies I i tliCMlJ. 1 have been continuously an olli i jciai in .1 K Eilerbe's own church, j i in which he is also a steward, for .? | I period nearly as long a*. Kl.'orbe ! j lias lived. Does he slander the 1 church of his choice or its member' j J E Eiierbe knew these tacts at ; Hennettsvilie and knows iheui i ( I ; 1 I IIU < > . j ' i J K Ellerbe further charges! . that prior to primary in 1897 for t j congress, there was an agreement j * (between us winch I violated. This! j | statement 01 his is llatiy untrue.) i i Eight inutal friends were agreed ; c ; upon contidentiuily to say which I t j was the stronger in Marion county. $ ' Eilcrbe then pretended to be very much opposed to the election of j. J M Johnson, and wanted the c strongest man only to run. (lait J Ellerbe say why he opposed John son.) This confidential arrange- " ment was at the house of a mutual friend, J I) Montgomery, lie, (Montgomery) alone ot the o eight talked to us both together r on the subject. These mutual (j friends. Dr. W A Oliver, Dr. D F a Miles. J VV Smith, E S Ayers. h Douglas Mclntyre, J D Montgom f ery, W T Evans and J D Moody, b refused to act and did not decide _ the question They met salesday in June 1897, and with a letter bearing date 18 June, Mr. Ellerbe sent me a request signed by lour c of these men?not one word about d stronger man, and received more i< than two weeks after I had seen > Mr. Ellerbe. His claim to an agreement is as absurd as untrue. Six of the eight mutual friends supported me for congress and only one, J 0 Moody supported I Ellerbe, and this because Ellerbe I in 1896 had tried to make Moody I Auditor over Mct'leilan. * At Kingstree. by J E Ellerbe b himself on the stump, was the first 0 mention I had ever heard of the 0 j South Carolina College $250.00 | steal as Mr. Ellerbe called it. I know nothing of it. and never huv- ^ ing heard about it could not have circulated any reports about itdu S ring the cauipaigu. 1 am not au angel by any means, j not perfection, but have always in I ! my church a Hail* and State bold-! I Iv fought for what i regarded as best regardless of what men like J d J E Ellerbe might s-v or do. This j b I shall doin the future trusting in ; e j the justice and judgement of my I Cod aud my people. ? Whatever of fault and short com- Xi ings J E Eilerbe may have, these ? filing- are between him,his Gcdand his people. I have nothing to do| wiiii them, and except only as far as my own delense is concerned, I shall and let him pursue his I own course. 1 am willing, yea. I court the fullest glare of the search- > j light of truth to lie thrown around u ; and over my private and official d j acts in church or State, at home j' ; and abroad,?not hoping lor a life! ^ j to he shown free from laults, butjc ioue under the lights obtainable j devoted to tlu best interest of my j neighbor, my country and my peo- ? I pie. Better than political tri- * ii'iiphs is the integrity of purpose ami character. The facts that ray . neighbors know, appreciate and honor me. that rav county, tnv j ? . jcongressional district, and my f I State have never turned mo down, I j bat have honored and trusted me ' for a quarter of a centurv, leave me assured that the ofthurled 3 poisoned arrow of falsehood rebounds on the head of the sender. 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