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PROHIBITION DISCUSSION Mr. Joel E. Bruson Makes A Hot Re tort To Mr. A. C. Jones. To the Editor of the News and Courier: In your issue of the 20th instant you print an interview with Mr. A. C. Jones, wihich is so utterly absurd, .and in which he uses my name so freely, I am constrained to ask space in your paper to present the records as briefly as possible. The prohitbitionists of the state held a convention April 14, 1898, and named certain persons as their candidates for the democratic nomination to be made in the general primary, and Mr. Jones, as prohibition state chairman, pub lished a card a few days before the campaign opened withdrawing the candidates. Mr. Jones now says: "Mr. Brunson has never forgiven me for obeying the state democratic executive committee in. 1898 when I, as chairman of the prohibition democratic state execu tive committee, was informed that the suggestion of the candidates by the state prohibition convention was con trary to and in violation of the consti tution of the democratic party of the state." * * * "The state democratic convention met very.soon afterwards, elected a new committee, as I pre dited, declared the suggested tickec of the prohibitionists irregular and in violation of the constitution." From the able opinion which came to me from Columbia, dated June 3, with reference to the action of this new committee, I make the following extract: "The :ommittee met last night and had a regular "cat and monkey-time" over the prohibitionists. You will get a good report of the pro ceedings in the News and Courier of today. I have talked with a num ber of the members and while none of either side to the controversy is satisfied with the final expression as embodied in the resolution of Mr. Dial, it is generally agreed on both sides that the committee refused to declare the 'Prohibs' a faction in the sense which would rule them out of the primary, and that their pledges, if filed i.n exactly the same terms as all other candidates, would entitle them to equal rights before the primary with others." Pray by whom was Mr. Jones in formed, and wihat did he obey in the withdrawal of the prohibition candi dates? Mr. Jones objects to my calling the withdrawal a "sdbterfuge." If it was not a subterfuge it was worse. Let us see. Mr. Jones sent out a little circu lar to the prohilbition executive comn mittee, claiming it necessary to with draw the' candidates to get withir democratic rules, and let the candi dates go into the primary on theji own responsibility. As soon as I re ceived 'ih-e circular I opposed the course. Mr. Featherstone, a membet of the prohibition executive commi tee, had been urged to become a can didate for lieutenant governor, and ii his letter of June 6, wgitten to me, he said: "I have declined to run." M3 reply .to Mr. Featherstone is date( June 8, and is as follows: "Col. Wilie Jones sent me ~a cop. of the pledge yesterday, and after -most careful analysis as to-intent anc Klanguage I reach the conclusion tha it was intended only to prevent 'bolt ing' after the nomination, and thougi the language is somewhat ambiguous it can only mean *a candidate 'othe: than the regular democratic nomnina tion,' and said nomination can only b< made at the regular primary. The langu.age of the pledge will permit dozen candidates, of as many differen democratic factions, pro'vided the: are candidates for the 'regular demo cratic nomination,' and pledg5 themi selves to support the nomination af ter it is made in the primary. "It is now too late for me to de cline in good faith, as the prohibi tionists have no time to select a ma: in my place. To resign and then be come a can,didate on my own responsa bility would leave me open to th charge of double-dealing, and I fea b my opponents would use it on th stump. "I have sent in by this mail m pledge and I hope, sincerely hope, yO will send in yours and be with us the ineeting at Orangeburg." To this letter Mr. Featherstor merely said he had voted to wit] draw the candidates. By the same mail, dated June 8, wrote Mr. A. C. Jones as follows: "Your kind letter of 6th instant re ceived and as time is short I reply at once. I do not see my way clear to declining and then becoming an in dividual candidate without laying my self open to the charge of double dealing. I have determined to 'take the bull by the horns' and fight it out to the finish. Should I now de cline to run I would do a great in justice to those people all over the state who have been making an hon est effort to grow. prohibition senti ment. It is too late for those who 'suggested' me to suggest any other man, and I must run or do them an irreparable wrong. "I have sent in my pledge and the amount of the assessment. Sincerely trusting you will hold your forces to gether and work them for all they are worth, I remain." The withdrawal card over Mr. Jones' signature, printed-in the News and Courier of June 13, is dated June ii and says in part: "On my return home today I find a majority of the committee had already sent in their approval. This does not mean that we have abandoned the fight for -he legislature." Of course, equivalent to saying we have abandoned the fight for the state ticket, which we hereby withdraw. Now was tha.t a subter fuge or something worse? We shall see. Mr. Jones now says: "I wired him at once unless he intended to make the canvass that Mr. C. C. Featherstone would and to answer at once. He did not answer. Mr. Featherstone withdrew his pledge as a candidate for lieutenant governor and filed his pledge as a candidate for governor, all of which had the approv al of the state prohibition executive committee." I't wasth-e very last hour before the opening of the campaign, and how did this get the approval of the executive committee, scattered as its members were, all over the state? But here is the telegram it self to which he refers. It was sent from Ora:nge.burg and dated June 16, the opening day of the campaign, and follows: "Featherstone will en'ter the race for governor on account of your card in the State. I would suggest That you telegraph Capt. Wilie Jones, Orangeburg, withdrawing your pledge for governor. (Signed.) A. C. Jones, Chairmail." Now, if Mr. Jones' card of with drawal was not a subterfuge, and he had in truth abandoned the fight for the state ticket, what in The world was he going to do witl4 anot.her can didate for governor? That there was no necessity for the withdrawal of the -candidates was well established two years later, when Col. Hoyt accepted the nomination of the prohi!bition con vention, canvassed the state and pass ed through the primary without a question as to his right to do so. Even should there 41ave been no evil intent in the withdrawal it displayed fearfully bad judgment, disbanded the Iprohibition o\rganization an' wrecked the chances of the election of any pro hibitionist in the state. Mr. Jones, speaking of'Mr. Wallace, says: "I am satisfied now that his presence at the caucus was to help Brunson's friends fight me." I am sorry to say that I have not the pleas ure of an acquaintance with Mr. Wal lage, and do not know what his mo tives were in attending the caucus. But Mr. Jones is even more ridicu lobus when he says, with reference to that same June 5 caucus held in Co lum-bia: "Yes, I have read his (Bris tow's) editorial, and it proves beyond any reasonable doubt that Brunson's hand is in it, and that Mr. Brunson' s desire is not so mu,ch tro get Mr. Mc Cullough to run, but to get him or someone else to oppose me." Before 'Mr. Jones wrote that and put it in prinTt he should have asked his quon !dam friend, Mr. Featherstone, who, it seems, attended the caucus, who call ed the caucus, what it was called for I and what it did. Messrs. Bristow and I Wallace, McLaurin and McCullough Featherstone and Hoyt had a per. rIfect right to meet in Columbia and name their candidates on a prohibi. tion-license platform if they wished to do -so, and I have no word of cen sure, but I beg that Mr. Jones wvill not credit me with their work. ttake no part in the effort to grant any jcounty that votes to do so a license ~to sell liquors for beverage purposes. I Joel E. Brunson. ISumter, October 23, 10. GENERAL NEWS NOOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughtout the World. Two men were killed in a freigh wreck on the Southern railway nea Jenifer, Alabama. Twenty-five persons were injure( by a runaway car on The Williams burg bridge in New York. The bodies of six invalids have beei taken from the ruins of a hotel whici burned in Hot Spring, Ark. Ex-Pension Commisioner H. Cla: Evans will make the race for governo of Tennessee as a republican. The board of visitors recommendet that the minimum height limit fo entrance to West Point be increased Speaker Cannon is hunting for new "watchdog of the *rreasury" fo chairman of the house appropriation committee. Mrs. Charles F. Joy, of St. Louis will found a million dollar universit for the study of occult and psychi( phenomena. The Mutual Life Insurance compa ny has appointed a committee of threi trustees co investigate its conditioi and methods. M. M. Lynch, of Alto, Ga., commit ted suicide by hanging himself in tree, his body being 70 feet from th ground when .discovered. Daniel J. Sully says cotton wil reach 12 cents before Christmas an that 'Theodore H. Price will befor that time become a bull. The crowd hissed Governor Varda man when he actacked Presiden Roosevelt in a speech in Jacksor Many left in disgust. Securities deposited in the Enter prise National Bank of Allegheny, Pa are alleged to have been hypothecate and a criminal suit will be instituted. It is regard'ed as certain that 1 Witte will be made prime ministei the czar being disposed to compl with the conditions which the coun imposes. Elliot F. Sheppard, a grandson c W. K. Vanderbilt, has been sentence to three months in jail, and to pa $4,ooo for the death of a child unde his automobile. W. H. Anderson, a politiciani Hendersonville, N. C., has sued part managers in North Carolina for $20 ooo for failure to provide him wit a federal appointment. The Norwegian government ha asked the Storthing for absolute at thority to negotiate with Princ Charles of Denmark about his 'accel tance of the crown, of Norway. Senators Rayner and Gorman wi probably have a joint debate in Mar3 land over the negro disfranchisemer amendment to which Rayner an many democrats and all the republ can's are oppged. The Pittsburg and Lake Erie Rai road company sis reported to hal bought tche mining and railroad prol erties of the Little Kanawha synd cate, trial of the suit for a receivt for which began in Cincinnati. -r.Alice Moore, a white woma Ms. okddown and criminally a saulted by a negro on the outskir of Atlanta.\~ Bloodhounds were put c the 'trail of the guilty party, but aft running 12 miles the trail was aban4 doned. He would probably have bet lynched if caught.. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Coi densed Throughout the State. SOUTH CAROLINA NOTES.. North Carolina A. & MA. defeat< South Carolina at football 29 to 0. The attendance of the state fa Wednesday and 'Thursday is said have been the largest on record. The prohibition state executi' committee has declared against ti advisability of nommnatinlg a state tic et next year. It is said that mn app)ropriation w be made from the Ogden fund for ti Norris High sccool, a colored educ tional institution .ax miles from U ion.. A cottage belonging to Clemsi college and occupied by Prof. B. ] Parker, a mem.ber of the faculty, w burned with practically all of its co tents. The building was insured the college, but Mr. Parker had: isurance.. In federal court in Greenville Jud Brawley directed a verdict for t defendant in the suit of Cely agair the Southern railway for personal jurie sustained while crossing t Southern's tracks at Rock Hill. The judge held he plaintiff to be guilty - of contributory negligence. Governor Heyward reviewed the Clems)n cadet batallion at Columbia t on Fridav. r Starling Brannon, a machinist, in the Hermitage Cotton mill at Camden fell through an elevator shaft and seriously crippled himself. Dr. J. W. Jervey and A. D. Hoke have returned to Greenville after an automobile trip of over 2,000 miles Atlanta, Chattanooga and other points were visited. Charles Smith, a colored brakeman, I was killed by being mashed between r two cars which he was coupling on, . the C. & G. division of the Southern, I four miles from Greenville. Mrs. J. 0. Mayfield was awarded a verdict of $5,000 in federal court at Greenville for the death of her hus band who was killed in the SouThern yards at Spartanburg some time ago. Mrs. Mayfield's suit was for $20,000. 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