The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 18, 1898, Image 5
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AH A3 WANTS NASOTH'S ViNEYAftS.
By a Sc-:pt'j-a'P.iraiie! t*"?2 Co-."man
Pour/Hot Sho* ?nto
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^ 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.
With regrets and sorrow for the a
necessities which compel this ai- v
tide, I am, h
Sincerely, ?
T MfDJ Vadtax? B
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