The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 11, 1910, Page SEVEN, Image 7
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SAYS HODGES,
MAKES UGLY CHARGES AGAINST
ELLERBE SUPPORTED BY DOCUMENTARY
EVIDENCE.
At Dillon Tuesday of last week
v additional interest was injected into
the heare 1 Congressional campaign
in this district by sensational charges
made againsi Hon J E Ellerbe by
Mr P A Hodges relative to a circular
letter sert out two years ago on
the eve of the election accusing
Tjodges of having unpaid judgments
on record against him and defrauding
his creditors. At the time Hodges'
charged Ellerbe with being responsible
for this letter and according to
f I
Hodges. Ellerbe not only disclaimed
responsibility for it, but denied most
emphatically any knowledge of such
, a letter prior to its being circulated. |
Mr Hodges now presents the evidence
tending to show that Mr Ellerbe
handed him the "double
cross."
The account of this feature of the
Dillon meeiing, as taken from The
State of Wednesday, Jnly 27, follows:
"The candidates for Congress are
continuing to make it lively in this
district and the unexpected and only
sensational feature of tqday's
meeting was the presentation by F
A Hodges of certificates to prove
his claim that Congressman Ellerbe
had in the campaign two years ago
resorted to an eleventh hour attack
on Mr Hodges' character. Mr
Ellerbe is alleged to have declared
a: that time that he was guiltless of
any such work, but Mr Hodges today
confronted Mr Ellerbe with
signed statements, which place the
Congressmrn in a very unenviable
light, to say the least.
Congressman J E Ellerbe has been
reported to have the Sixth district
"in a sling" in this campaign for re
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election,out trie opposing canaiuai.es
are going after him with a sharp
stick.
P A Hodges, former mayor of
Bennettsville.who ran against Ellerbe
two years ago, declared that it j
fcsd been a matter of great pride to
\him that Mr Ellerbe on nearly every
stump had thanked him for the courJ
teous manner in which he had conducted
his campaign. And yet that
at the last minute when he had no
chance to defend himself, there was
issued surreptitiously an attack upon
his integrity and he received rumors
that such an attack emanated from |
Ellerbe and his friends. Mr Hodges!
read his circular letter, which he
presented at Hartsville the Saturday
before the primary, that being
his only opportunity of defense.
I-I"? ?An/J fkie lottar IQOfi'
IIC K'flU I 1 VI I 1 Wllio JV'VVWA V/A AVW* |
- __*It .is a piece of political trickery as!
old as it is contemptible to circulate;
campaign lies on the eve of the elec-1
tion when there is no time to an-,
. swer them or prove their falsity.'
Mr Hodges declared that the;
charges against him were false and
malicious. He was describing how, !
at Hartsville two years ago, Ellerbe !
j had raised his right hand to heaven :
j and hoped that God might strike him |
dumb if he had had anything to do i
with circulating these charges j
against Hodges, when Congressman;
Ellerbe arose and interrupted, say-j
ing that at Hartsville he had admit- j
ted having seen the letters defaming'
Mr Hodges, but he disclaimed any
any connection with the matter.
Mr Hodges then presented three
certiricates from persons who attend- j
ed the Hartsville meeting, H Lide
Law, G W Mcljeod and J W Good.
} son, -.ach of whom declared that 'I
heai 1 him deny emphatically any
know', dge of a certain circular let- j
ter that wa- being distributed
against P A Hodges.' Mr Law added
inj Is statement that Congressman
El'.crbe had even denied being in
Benr.ettsville at the time.
Mr Hodges then presented to the'
audience a signed statement from T
i it gers.a 3iamx>ro politician anu a
ther-in law of the late W II Ellerbe.
It was R<>gvrs who issued the
circular against Hodges two years
ago and here is what he says in a recent
statement: 'I wrote the card in
the interest of .J E Kllerhe, whom I
was then supporting for re-election.
The same was su'.?mitte-i t-- Eilero**
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an t approved by him before it was
given publicity. I have been since
informed that K'ierbe stated that I
wrote and issued -aid reply without
his knowledge or approval. if he
made such a statement, he lied. He
n >t only knew of them.but he helped
direct and mail the enve!o;>es inclosing
them.'
0 P Townsend, a lawyer, apivnds
the following: 'I know the above
* i r r* r*i
statement is correct. 1 anu j r. nailer
be together directed the envelopes
in which Mr Rogers' reply was
mailed and Ellerbe carried them to
the post-office. Ellerbe selected the
list of persons to whom thev were
sent.'
To show that the charges made
against him two years ago were
false, Mr Hodges submitted the following
affidavit from J A Drake,
Clerk of Court; 'I do certify that
there are no judgments in this office
against P A Hodges and there were
none against him in 1908 on record
in this office.'
Mr Hodges then concluded by saying
that somebody had lied. Was it
T I Rogers and Judge Townsend?
Was it Lide Law and Goodson, or
was it J E Ellerbe? If a man would
be false to party principles, as Ellerbe
had been in this lumber tariff
proposition when he violated the
very pledge he had signed, if a man
should prove false to those who had
befriended him, as Rogers had befriended
Ellerbe, if a man should
prove false in these things, was he
fit to go to Congress:
The last speaker was Ben B Sellers.
He pitched into Ellerbe fore
and aft and derided the Congressman's
excuses that he had got money
/rom the pork bairel for his district.
Sellers claimed that Ellerbe had been
quite cheap in his demands, after
letting the others get so much. He
denounced Ellerbe as a Republican.
Ellerbe's Defence.
The day following at Marion Mr
Ellerbe spoke first and made the following
reply to Mr Hodges' charges
at Dillon as reported by Col WilWilliams
Banks, the same reporter
for the Columbia State who reported
the Dillon meeting:
J E Ellerbe was given a rousing'
reception today. He declared that
in this race he had intended saying
nothing against his opponents unless
forced to do so. But at Dillon legit
imate debate had been abandoned
and personalities were indulged in
by an opponent. He then stated his
side of the T I Rogers controversy.
Two years ago he went to Bennettsville
Friday before the primary and
saw this circular letter in Hodges'
office. Ellerbe disclaimed having
had any knowledge of the letter until
then. He told Mr Rogers at
Hartsville that a copy of the letter
had been mailed to Hodges by Rogeas.
Ellerbe then declared that these
three men at Hartsville who had
made these statements as to what
he had said were mistaken. He had
told Mr Hodges to come to the hotel
at Hartsville and get copies of the
letter but Hodges never came.'*
WHAT THE KIDNEYS DO.
Their Deceasing Work Keeps Us
Strnnn anh Hpalthv
ull vuj| uuv iivuiiuj
All the blood in the body passes
through the kidneys once every three
minutes. The kidneys filter the
blood. Tney worK night and day.
When healthy they n move about
500 grains of impure matter daily,
when unhealthy some part of this
i npure matter is left in the blood.
Tnis brings on many diseases and
and symptoms?pain in the back,
headache, nervousness, hot, dry
s tin, rheumatism, gout, gravel, disorders
of the eyesight and hearing,
dizziness, irregular heart, debility,
drowsiness, dropsy, deposits in the
urine, etc. Hut if you keep the filters
right you will have nu trouble
with your kidneys.
Mrs R H Smith, Logan St. Kingstree.
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(COMPLAINT NOT SERVED.)
IT ATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF WILLIAMSBURG,
Court of Common Plea?.
D W Avant, Plaintiff,
vs
William B Avai.t, Defendant,
the Defendant, William B Avant:
fou are hereby summoned and reired
to answer the complaint of the
lintiff in this aetion. which was filed
til thederw of the Court of Common
as for Williamsburg county, State
resaid, and to serve a copy of your
swer to said complaint on the imbibers
at theirofticeinKingstree.SO.
thin twenty days after the date of
? sei vice hereof upon you; exclusi ve
the day of such service; and if you
1 to answer the complaint within the
le aforesaid, the plaintiff in this ac
will apply to the Court for the ref
demanded in the complaint.
Gilland ?fc Gillaxd,
Plaintiff's Attorneys,
the Defendant. William B Ava.it:
Takk Notice: That the complaint in
is Action was filed in the office of the
>rk of Court of Common Pleas for
lllamsburg county. State aforesaid,
King?tree. in the county and State
>re-aid, on the :Wth day of June,
I) 1910. Gili.and & Gilland,
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