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r, ' NR. STALL'S REJOINDER E To Nr. J. D. Giliaod's Article of | Las! fceeli. Editok county Hecoriy:? Who is.this carrion crow that has f!t>pped himself up on the K' topmost branch of the dispensary tree and imagines himself an eagle? Upon what food hath this J. I). Giliand fed that he hath gTOwn so treaty I> it that he is some favored one of the ir^nii ;iml ill the i 4 breezes wafted from Olympus' heights laden with inspirations that were beg it the mind of Z$us? Or is il that the cup of Ba^hus is reserved for his lips andr the wines brewed for the gods sparkle for him alone, whereby his dreams are cast in rain-bow hues and he imagines in his deliriums that the earth is but bis footstool and that all mankind must bow the knee in obeisance to him? If this be not true, Chen by what right doth be Cake a poor mortal in his herculean grasp and hurt hin headlong from his imperial height down to bottomless perdition and decree that he shall there ever dwell in adaaaitine chains and penal fire. Wbots this mighty personage? Who is it, I ask, who signs his name J. D. Gilland? Is it the same fellow who a few short months ago tried to bneak into professional baseball and fail od? Or is he the feliow that Joaied around Kingstree and bydiis reckless driving of a borrowed automobile tried to show bimselt*off as the only Teal thing alive, and in his braggadocial way ruthlessly laughed when horses drivem by ladies became frightened? Or js be the fel low who found time between his professional games of pool to take the easy and lucrative job of juggler of figures in the office ofthe board of control? Is he one and the same fellow., or is the hidden ha?d of some one else being pia3Ted with this little ^clerk as bis puppet? Again I ask, who is this feLlow? f In your test feUbWfc j. i) aiiuwi.oc umns ip.'?u^eivzie<J tjijrrj me under an avalanche of words. My article <rf*lrflPweek*fifc does i not reply to, for the reason that he cannot. I made- a piaia statement el facts wtoich can not be contradicted, and he kuows 'it. So what does toe do? He . beats a hasty retreat from the issue atad tries djyert the public mind Jby'making^ a personal -attack on me. But let us see what was written, and let k no otie be deceived. . It appears that my article made this nice, little tootsy-1 woo tsy whiskey clerk *ery, very; mad. Surely | this fellow has, many oave places on hfon* ot else why does he wince and whin e and gTowl so much ? It appears that be wanted to "cuss" me in latin, but poor fellow^ he made a failure. "Ego"? whew! What a smart little chap be i& Not only can be juggle figures but he has also studied latin. "Ego" ?who would have thought be was so learned? But thank heaven he stops with "Ego," What a relief! Perhaps he took pity on me, thought I would not understand, or was it that his brain was so troubled with juggling dispensary figures that $e forgot to look in his lexicon for another word. "Ego"-?my, my, what a pity that this brilliant latin scholar who made such a brilliant record at college should hide bis light under a dispensary bushel tub. But this nice little dispensary elerk knows more then latin. Ob, yes, indeed, be is a smart i fellow". Should a doubt be lingering in anyone's mind, just . read the second paragraph of the second article of this pdlliwog of fermented water. Words of five syllables, Wfro would have thotgbt, that be. knew sp Ainteen Knfcs of printed./ 'Matter to say that there was nothing in my first article^ It Wonderful indeed is the mind ' 1 of this fellow, but oh, how un c kind. Not satisfied with throwing bi.? words at me as though js he was pitching spit balls, he 1 would have me spirited away |? to the far East and hid in sotne j recess of some forgotten sane- i tuary among the idols of the heathen. Why, pray, does he : want me so far away? Is it that 1 mignt never again look at the beautiful books of this genius of dispensary bookkeepers? 1 nr? rlnnht that I shall t ever be an unwelcome visitor at' bis office. Those who have eyes ! hut see not, ears that hear not and tongues that speak not, would be more welcome. In paragraph three the effervescent whiskey clerk quiets down a little and takes issue with me as to my responsibility in the report made by the grand jury. Here let nie say that if any one wiuts to thrust responsibility upon me for the said presentment I am perfectly willing to assume it 3ut the fact still remains that I was in no way responsible. A grand jury bas plenary power. They can accept my advice or ignore it In the examination of the dispensary board's office I offered no advice as to their report Mr. Mcftatcfeen is an intelligent and successful business man and Mr. Burgess is himself a bookkeeper holducg a responsible position. They saw for themselves what took wlace and both e xpressed an <?g>inion that J.D.'Gillairil did not ^understand h? own work. I wrote the report but before doing so I asked Mr. Hugh McCuichen, foreman of the grand jarv, what to say about iSilland's books and wrote as he suggest-i ?4. In paragraph four the disjpensary clerk admits that my Statement of the examination was correctyaad adds that when the figures were green me I soon found myself in a"vast and unfathomable abyss." Not i exactly, but J did find a vast and unfathomable abyss between ?his net profit^ and hi6 gross prof5 its. . I ; i v mm* clfrf;. understood his books at the time of the exam-) matibn and was desirous of j ! having full light turned on his i office, as as all good officials do, j why dad be. not explain his [books to the committee? Listen :to the reason he gives. This little smart .fellow who sna|>e his tigers in the tgoe of a graad jury a'nd then-turre ^jsp his cose; at them saying it was not tt6 duty. ?*t Aw duty. He is an official that ?tight to be putfn alcohol for safe keeping. (Lf not his daty to explain bis intricate system, or common sesse system, whichever it is, then why did he make three attempts to give the committee the gross profits? He discovered it was aot his duty whea be found himself in confusion worse confounded. But listen agaim to the figure juggler. He says that he informed the foreman that if the expert could aot make a true report that the bookkeeper would. Here this wonderful latin scholar, writer, bookkeeper, baseball player, pool expert, chauffeur, etc., makes a bad slip and contradicted himself outright. In one sentence he says ^ /\r? Ktf nnwd j lildl ooais taucc i/u uio yaii would have made the report nugatory, then follows with the statement that he offered the ] foreman his assistance. If his < assistance at the time of the i examination would have made j the report nugatory, why would it not ba,ve the same effect two i weeks later? Was it that at the ] time of the exanination this 1 office was not quite ready for 1 a visit from the grand jury? j Is it that later the office was j ready for examination? ] But what did this Tittle clerk ; say to the foreman? As I under- 1 stqod it, it was n6t to impel ! |onyprehension," but for s the : privilege of making a statement to the grand jury showing the s> igutes they had asked for and iid not get?viz, the gross profits. The clerk now admits that he studied the system of bookkeepng at least a week before assuming charge of the oftice. Again tlie clerk changes front. In his first article he said that the system was just common sense and that he could explain it to anybody, except Hugh McC linrn-uec 1 nrl Philit>. tUltUCII; V> V. KUIj^lgo u?u ? , Stoll, in.? short time. Vet it took the brilliant latin scholar bookkeeper an entire week to under- j stand it. Where is the consis-1 tency? Of the two columns written by this polliwogof the county's whiskey business only two par- ( agraphs mention the question under discussion, and in what 1 he does say he fails utterly to refute a single statement made by me. Finding himself at sea without oar or rudder, he lea /es the issue and endeavers to divert attention from himself and the gross profits by making a personal attack on me. That I once published The Weekly Mail has nothing to do with his books or the gross profit*. That I was candidate for the State senate in the last election has nothing to do with the grand jury's presentment My public record is before the public and of it I am npt ashamed. In my race for the Senate I made a clean and open fight and received a handsome vote from the people, tor which I am grateful. But whydoes this figure juggler, whocangivt net pro fits but md gross profit* mention my race for r^t us dip a little into this. The words "a defeated caddidate can see noth ing gwng ri^htr> explain it. Has this defeated candidate ever said that things were not goingon right? JTA? bag rharqed nmyGk'inig tcrong? The spit-ball clerk has here let the cat out of the bag. When I was a candidate for the Senate I opposed county dispensaries and said that they would not only be corrupt but around it would be formed a dirty political ring. What I said on the stump has not been forgotten and the man who entertained soch ideas two years ago and got defeated fpr expres*singN:hem, is not the man to be nosing around with a gr^ind jury in the office of a county dispensary'board. Did they (he or it) reaTiy take exception to Philip Stall beipg. around? Again I ask, What has my race for the Senate got to do with this matter? The booze-net-profits-calculator u'ndeHahes to write contemp tuo*sly.ot, the work dope by me for the graft* jury apd the compen^atioli *lN4ceiv?d. The grand jury is allowed $20.00 to employ some one to <msatst them in property writing their \ presentments and in examining the county offices. They usually get some member of the bar. and the work I did this year has been done at different times by several members our bar. No attempt is made to make an expert examination, for who would undertake to make an expert examination of eight offices for $20.00? Only an examination in a general way is attempted. I thought evervbody understood how this work was done but it seems that all fools are not yet dead. The clerk who holds such an honored position boasts that he does not work for 120.00 a year. Neither do I. My work for the 1 grand jury is about one day's work. I do what I am expected 1 to do and get $20.00 for it. I { lack a great deal of making a 1 fortune out of my profession hut thank heaven I am not ^ forced to the extremity of tak- ' ing job such as J. D. Gilland 1 now holds. Twenty dollars a year for the honorable clerk of the honOrable?dispensary board, j No, no, no. Who said so? Not 1 for a moment did?I think1 that \ the dispensary's clerk ways mak- i ing $20.00 a year out of his job*, % What he nets I am sure I do not, ' know, and heaven only kncws who does know. The opinion that a two-by-four whiskey clerk may have of me has nothing to do with this controversy. ^ Of his real opinion of me I know rot and care less. He is ot no ' benerit to me financially, in tel. lectually, socially, spiritually or in any other way, and what he thinks will do me neither good nor harm. And what I think ot him?well, i win noi sry, for as Roosevelt said of his opinion of the Oklahoma constitution, it is not suitable for publication. Rut as a monkey sees another monkey when given a 1 mirror, so did this dispensary J polliwog see himself reflected when he undertook to define the latin word Ego His definition was subjective and not objec tive. This controversy, Mr. Editor, I consider unnecessary and un* called for. It is evident that somebody is gunning for Philip Stoll, and that I was not wanted nosing around the office of this dispensary board, n It is very evident that somebody object- ed. Why? The answer doth i not yet fully appear, but per- i baps that is some future day it i | may be revealed. As stated in I my -former communication, I I I am not hunting a controversy 1 j and I will now add that I take no pleasure in mudslinging, but i when I am attacked without I couse and with malice afore- j thought as in this case, I con- 1 sider it my duty to defend my- ! self as best I can. Iam not a ! prize fighter neither am I a bul- ! ly, but I am a citizen and I ex- j ! pect to exercise my prerogative ! ! as such. I will say here, as ! ! Oliver Wendell Holmes said, ! i "Never argue with a fool, for j by so doing you put yourself on ! I an eoualitv vith him." This is j good advice and advice that I i should have taken. But since I am in the fight I shall stick to the finish. If this is the finish I am satisfied, for in this matter I feel like the barber to whom a donkey was carried to be shaved.Thc barber refused to undertake the job, saying that it was a waste of good father to shave a jackass. I am willing to let matters rest herg, as I do not care tp,. waste good lather in shaving, that fellow who misstakes himself for the mogul of the dispensary, instead of the polliwogof that fermenting rain barrel, Respectfully, * Philip H. Stoll. < V? Kesreo Drfikley. Mr. and Mrs. H. Vad-Keuren an? nounee the marriage of their daugh- 1 ter, May W., to Mr. Charley C. . Brinkley, Wednesday morning at 7 ' o'clock, November 6, 1907, at home on Main street, Rev. J. E. M haffey officiating. At borne af| ter November 15, Kingstree, 8. C. The bride and groom are both well known in Kingstree and have many friends both in town and county. The happy conple left on the morning train for Jamestown. Onr best wishes and hearty congratulations are extended to the bride and groom. Death it a Child. Cades, November 6: ? Winnie Mae, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Hodges, departed this life Saturday, November 2, at Cades, S. 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