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0BW?'mrnmmm,, II , III, Jill .11. . IIII1I It Would Seem "Under-TheTable" Now Well Crowded , . .. ? * . ,fi My dear Mr. Redfearn Three weeks ago, upon ill advice of one or two of your friends, you stuck your neck out, when you were meddling Into something you had no business. When I mentioned selfish politicians und their henchmen in my jirst statement to the people, I in no ' way whatsoever directed it to you, 1 had always had a high regard for you and Vour ability. But it is said, that when you step on a fellows toes ho la going to yell and now I believe that is true.' What puzzles me though is under which group do you come? A selfish politician or their henchman? I would never have thought you were either, but since you have admitted being one, I wish you would go a little further and tell the people which. As was clearly seen in last week's article, yon are trying to draw your neck back in, but bofore you get It all the way, I would like to add one more laurel around It for you to juggle. I do not know how the -Other county officers feel, but on Thursday, May 22, In the Senate Chamber In Columbia, the Senator expressed his regrets at your ever having put anything In the paper. He seemed to be sincere, too. In your article last week you could find little argument, so you resorted to the weak strategy of calling me all kinds of '"complimentary" names. You called jp^a Hitler, Ooering, liar, simpleton,- crV*y man and graolous knows what else. That is all right? I do not feel hard at you, I'll be all those things in your eyesight, und like it. Now, you be what you can. In the eyesight of the people. 1 will be willing to do that, and still feel like I am getting the better bargain. Mr. Redfearn, you know when a fellow calls another names^ In such an ungentlemanly, unchristian way as you did, he either has little argument, or I is weak up the baclfbonerRegardless of your tactics, I will never resort to mudslinging. In order to further my political ambitions. From our past experience in campaigns, the people ought to know which of us is the professional mudslinger. I certainly am glad to hear that you I have changed your tune in regard to free textbooks, since the last time we discussed them. I wonder what has brought about this radical change in you. Maybe now we will be~*able to get them next year for these poor children, that you confess to love so much. Why are you so anxious for the state to furnish them? Could it be because you are hoping that tbe state won't he able to do so soon? Textbooks are textbooks and it does not make sense to say that you?favor the state and not the county giving them, when the county is able to and should furnish them. Another thing, probably one which you have never thought of, if we can get control of our textbooks, we can save our people hundreds of dollars by knocking out this racket of changing books every year or so. I rejoice very much in the fact that we won't get any more opposition from you on litis matter. Furthermore, I am glad you have 'softened up in regard to the chain gang guards. I thought "you would see your mistake in this matter. You accused me of not having intelli: genre enough to know the difference betwoen them and the county offi cersr I do not know if that is?a proper way to measure my Intelligence or not but I say this?in my eyesight those guards are Just as Important as the county officers, even . Including you. In fact, if I had to make a choice betwoen them and some of the countjr officers we have, hb to the services they are rendering, r I vould take the guards two to one. A b to the amendment to the Constitution, you and yotur lawyers could not Interpret properly, did ypu see any information In the whole constitution as to where the director of a > township had any right to set a salary. Mr. Redfearn, you must bear in . mind that your office is not a constitutional office. It is only an office created by the legislature and can be abolished at their wilL You must learn that you are responsible to the legislative delegation and not them t0 you, if law means anything to you. You complain about having no mofo money now to run the chaingang than you did in 1984. Did not you ffet the amount you asked for? Yes. Did we cut you one cent? No, and you don't dare to dispute it, so why should yon be throwing that up now? Why did you refuse to come back 0n the straight-salary-for-the-county officers issue which was up for discussion and which you wsrfe so bitterly opposed to? Art y?f ajxrat to change your views On that Issue too? I hope yon and the others are because yon know and the people "to T - . Btarted all this friction, and kqpt the ! delegation from working out a supply I bill. I can tell why you didn't come back. Those two bills of which 1 ! spoke of last week and which yofl did not know had passed through the house and sent to the senate put a damper ' on that. When the 8enator killed thoso bills that would cut fees In half, and abolished the tax execution penalties, he demolished all argument you had that we were hurting the poor people of this county 1 don't blapio you for staying quiet about that now. You have referred to the prohibition question and accused me of embarrassing the preachers. If you had heard or read my (ipeech or know what you were talking about, you might not be so misleading. The people know how I voted and If you were so Interested you would know too. I have no apologies to offer on the stand I took In regard to this. In fact, I am proud of 'It and If I had to do It over I would do the same thing. Wouldn't you? Don't worry, I'll account xfor myself on that Issue in the next campaign. You wanted ' to know If I Was a Democrat? That all depends. Are you one? If you are one and if there is llot but one kind, I don't think I would want to put myself in the class. I do try to think of the majority of the people and not Just a 'ew, and I believe that is a democratic principle. So draw your own conclusion. Mr. Redfearn, I always give honor where It is due. You did a pretty fair Job of beating around the bush. You tried to answer very few of the ' questions I asked you. Why don't I you leave the .allbies and blunders out land shoot the straight facts. I can take them and enjoy it. When I asked you if you did or did not know the surplus last summer?how much you thought the surplus was?why you refused to correct the old members of the houBe when they were misinformed?you resort to calling me a liar and haven't answered yet. You never even mentioned^ the sections of the constitution in regard to who had a right to levy taxes and in regard to taxing the people and not letting them know about it. You refused to answer why you borrowed money and taxed the pepple to pay lb? Interest, when yo^ haJP money In the banks drawing no Interest. You denied knowing anything about the delegation giving you authority to borrow $8,000 to build the Armory and then you wouldn't do it. You called me a poor simpleton and referred to a section of the 1940 supjay bill, which had no -.connection. Now, let's see who is the poor simpleton. Look to Act 1233 on page 2{>68 of the statutes at large approved April 24, 1940. No, please be.Bure and make a note of this, read the act ; carefully, and let me know In the next letter who is the poor simpleton. I know you. won't forget this. I am amazed at A man of your intelligence and business ability letting such a modern act slip by. And too, it -til: right next to the 1940 supply bill, which I bet you know forward and backward by now. I Just wanted to mention these things, in case you had forgotten them. You expressed your opinion of my ignorance in dealing with the finances of the county. You said I had an opportunity to?see-the audit. Yes, I kept it several 'days and studided it, and I must admit that it was a great help to us in turning up a surplus of money In the county that the people knew nothing about. But let me ask you this ' question and I think it 4? reasonable. What good do you thirty an audit that closed on June 30, 1940, would be to a fellow who was trying to find what the conditions of the county was in January of 1941? d you know that was when we tried to find out. I may be dumb, but don't think I am quite that dumb. Why do you we have a county treasurer and auditor f I* * representative of the people can't go to the court houee and find out in any nfonth of the year what taxes have been collected, what our assets and liabilities are. then , there Is surely something drastically ( wrong along the line somewhere. Now, the resolutions you speak of. You say I have resolnted more money ? in my short time than any former i delegation ever did before. All right, i let's do a little arithmetic and see i whether you told the truth and 4 whether you gave an incorrect state- < ment. From last June when thejer J islatnre adjourned, np until Novem- 1 her. which fs five months, there was ; over $20,000 resoluted. Is that not j true? All right, from November up , w wr-rtW. ?. ! reeofatedT ~not over fl^OO. Is th?r .1 correct T Chock tto report. If It u not. Whoo I too* orlthmotlc In Wkx* Sy OT?r ' J? . - r^? 4 " times as much as $1,800. I don't known what kind of arithmetic you took in school, but whatever kind it was, has sadly left you, or you have jumped it. Maybe that five miles you walked every day was too great a strain. No, you either swallow that Incorrect statement that you made and digest it, or prove that I am wrong. I did sign three resolutions. The first one for $1,500 for the airport and I had a legal right to do" so as it was specified in the act of 1940. The next one for $60 for the cotton festival, which I am not begruding. And the last one of which you speak so fondly was for rent on a N. Y. A. building for the negroes. I guess I did g^o under the table with a negro, but I couldn't help it, Mr. Redfearn. When you and the negro went under ahead of me, each pulling me by the arm, and the Senator coming under behind me, what chance did I have. I promise though, I won't do it again. While speaking of resolutions, you did not think of mentioning those illegal resolutions, you and the Senator tried to cram down our throats. Why don't Vou dispute the ruling of the Attorney-General of South Carolina? Maybe, you will. You have seen fit to poke fun at my being poor and my education. Mr. Redfearn, I know that I am a poor fellow and never had too much of an opportunity to get the education I wanted, but I hate for a person higher in the world to rub It in. I realize i I do-not enjoy the conveniences and luxuries of life as you. Where you drive new - cars and have an extra one for your family, I can only drive a dilapidated one that belongs to me 1 and the finance company. Where : you have a modern city home with i all the conveniences, I can only live ; in Hy farm home and get by $he best i I can. Where you own far^ns and < dairies and have someone jdo the 1 work, I can only run a one horse 1 farm and help do the work myself. j Where you have a big business with j clerks and secretaries to depend on t for a living, I have to get mine the I bSst way possible. Yes, I am poor 1 and can't help It, but have I ever been I to you or jou* relief for help? As ' to my eduoatiofe^ Idealise I did not i attend Yale of Harvard, but what I 1 did get means more by me, than a j Yale education would to your type. < fee, 1 worked two days a week and 1 every summer for five years to get a ' tour year course, but there Is one con- < solution?I never had to go to yon or 1 any other man to help me through. I 1 ednfftt that I am poor, poorly educat- 1 wC but with all the odds against me, l I would not swap places with you, 1 aven with your brilliancy, wealth and < prominence thrown in. ; I am sure I rou are ashamed for bringing up per- ? tonalities instead of Issues, but you ays too proud to admit ft. You ask I what I have contributed to the wel- 1 rare of the people in the county, j Nothing I must confess. In less than** I year I hare been In puttie life. Tou^ a.. i ' " -. - ~ "" ~~ ?-Vs and one or two others stood in the way. Now, it is my turn. What have you done in the last ten years that contributes to the welfare of the county? Please tell me. I have never heard anyone bragging about what you did, except you. You accuse me of blasting the old members of the delegation. I think you have the wrong slant on that. The people of this county know that I spoke in the highest regard for Mr. Estridge and Mr. Clyburn on every stump in this county. I don't know of any couple In this county that I think more or than I do of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Clyburn and they will tell yon, that- we have always been on j the best of terms. You don't have to believe me?ask them. And as for you trying to get them to feeling hard toward me is unfair and unwarranted. ^Qnn't try to shift my blasting to them. You are the one I am blasting for doing them the same way you tried to do us, but failed so miserably. As to my ever bragging about you on the stump, do you have any record f I do say now though that I could very conscientiously boast of one-half of the board and be proud of it. Why did you pick such a logical time to shut off the W. P. A. work? You had no right to cut off the sewing rboms, the lunch rooms, nursery school, housekeepers aid and the W. P. A. library. You know that the same amount that was appropriated for these projects last year, is again appropriated this year. Every one of these projects is taken care of in the 1940 supply bill and we have,Just fallen back on that same bill for the year of 1941. Yes, the money is there, so why did you cut those protects off? I can tell you the reason and X am not afraid to do so. Yon 91d It for selfish, political reasons and the people know it, even some of those working on the W. P. A, Yes, rou were willing to drive those people sway from their only means of a living?yon were willing to tee them with empty stomachs, with bare fecks and without A shelter, in order to promote your own selfish motives, fop were willing to d,o It and give hem the impression' that my colleague and I were to blame. Yes, rou were willing to sacrifice the security of the poor people of the county In order to stick a dagger in our fecks. If I had to have these principles about me in order to satisfy my conscience, I think I would crawl In a hole, pull (t in behind me, and tot try to dig out. By the time this foes to press, I hope you will have Krt those people hack to work in crdsr to prevent xAj colleague and I 'rom having to bring any action igainst you from higher authorities, rou know wo can do it The only , project that yon had any right to ivvp ill tne rota won* ana we are i roing to provide ierihat Wo protided for It once, as anyone cduld see t> "i ' Iklr in this paper but in order to save the financial welfare of one or two of your cohorts, you helped to turn it down. Now, as we make another attempt to provide it, don't be led to think that we are doing It to save your neck. We are only trying to save the necks of those poor people, you and your crowd put on the chopping block. The same way you did about the hospital money. In previous years, it had always been paid in advance, quarterly, but what happened this year? You would not pay them when you had the money to do so with and then tried to lead the authorities to think that my colleague and I were holding it up. You ^ now the hospital money comes from a perpetual fund, and it should never be stopped whether we ever had another supply bill or not. Just mentioned that as another example of. your tactics in politics.. You very boldly referred to my being a lieutenant for an ex-politician and a politician but refused to name them. I challenge you to name them, * whomever they are. I think they will be able .to take care of themselves. I I challenge you to open my eyes. You refused to open the eyes of the people in 'rgeard to some of the things going on. No, my friend, I do not have to run to somebody to tell me what to do. I do not even have to get someone else to write my articles, neither do I have to sign the articles of someone, who is ashamed to do it himself. That is one reason that you fellows hare it in for me so. Just because I wouldn't come by your offices Tuesday mornings, beforp going to the legislature, to find out what I could and could not do, and report back on Friday. No, Mr. Redfearn, I am not In the habit of taking orders. Yoti contend that we are trying to disrupt your present form of government. I would not doubt if that Is 1 not true. But, if changing the fiscal ' pear, if putting ; the officials on J straight salaries, if trying to let'the ' people know how much money the county spends and had is disrupting ( the peoples* government of this county. then woe be unto democracy, j What you are worried about Is that we are trying to disrupt this thing of 'ring rule' controlling the county gov- j eminent and put It back Into the ( hands of the .people. ; I am not mad with you or any j other county pfficer. My hand of friendship is eatended to all of you, \ that Is, if you want it. 1 am not and ' do not'expect to try to force it upon . you. You can make the choice. As ' I have told the Senator many times, I am willing to meet aQ of you half-way but I will not let any of yourun over . me, although I might be the Ignorant, crasy, poor simpleton that yon have spoken of so highly. As to fair dealings, I don't think i would hare mentioned it, if anyone had been as nice to me, as, we were to yon and then I turned my bank upon them. Since your recent actions I think it - ,:. -IV -j&IA:1 1' | hopeless for you to learn a lesson ! in fair dealings. But there is one lesson that I hope and believe you will learn and that is to keep your nose out of other peoples affairs. Everybody knows you had no business taking sides in ours and the Senator's dispute.' It was a friendly, non-personal one and you should have stayed out of It. If y.QU are Interested In continuing this newspaper battle, let me say, stop beating around the bush. Answer questions I have asked and then ask me yours. You can ask me questions, personally or politically. I am not ashamed of any act I did, and I trust you are. the s&me way. So answer my questions. You know the ones you have dodged that I asked before. -Answer them, not for my benefit as I already know, but for the peoples'? they want to know. But if you insist on beating around the bush, I want to make one suggestion: When you get behind it again, stay there; and don't let someone fool you into coming out. As to your idea of running for governor or the U. 8. A. Senate, let me give you a little advice. Run for governor, as I hear Edgar Brown is going to run for the Senate. And if he ever got' a hold of you, I am afraid this little battle we are having would seem like a pleasant dream to you. With my continued best wishes and personal regards, I am Sincerely yours, Ji-Clator Arrants ? 1 1 ?=aw?gp??p?aaa?? . "i =?? ; ; t :?. w v-w?? i ,u?wp?mmesmm??wcca; III I III "l , , i ' I. |Eji! i-V: - ~ SAUSfWRY .. , ' : ; , UOtN0j;_ . . . -- N.C.-?C. 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The directors report that, with few exceptions, all landowners, that have been contacted, have readily signed the maneuver ????i^??Jb????I??a?w right form granting the Army per* mission to maneuver over their property. Major A. R. Wellwood, Executive Officer of the Fourth Corpa Area Rents Board, Fort Jackson, S. C., reports that there are 5,353,000 acres in the Carolina Maneuver Area and that maneuver rights have * been granted on 3,892,836 acres which is 72.6 per cent of the land in the area. The landowners feel that these maneuvers are for their benefit, as the Army is training its men to protect their country, homes and property and that they are having a part in the National Defense Program in granting permission for the Army to use their land. NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will en Friday, June 20L 1941, after due publication of this notice apply to the South Carolina Tax Commission, for a License to operate a Retail Liquor Store la the City of Camden, South Carolina, located at 627 Rutledge Street in said city. . E.R. DIXON Camden, S. C., June 4, 1941 ll-13pd NOCnCE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will on Friday, June 20l 1941 after due publication of this notice apply toithe^ South Carolina Tax Commission, for a License to operate a Retail Liquor Store in the City of Camden, South Carolina, located at 607 West DeKalb Street, in said city. ;LR. DIXON Camden, S. C. June 4, 1941 ll?13p<L ".r \ /- 1 >V JO. . . vjJ LEMOCO(r^S> PRODUCTS \ *0*0?/ PHt/uutn v^/ Camden Hardware