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The Senatorial Steal.
JUDGE REIVSSEN DENOUNCES REPORT THAT HE SOLD OUT C.
R. RAMSEY.
W. H. Bennett is Charged With Having Spread the Report,
as Authority Messrs* E. D- Beard and Enoch Johns,
which They Deny. Mr. Bennett’s Letter.
TO THE PEOPLE OF LINCOLN COUNTY:
For the last month reports have been reaching me of the
of a rumor in the various sections of the County to the effect that I
the guilty person, who several years ago, sold out C. R. Ramsey in
senatorial race with Milton Reese. The matter would have been attended
sooner, but it was only last Friday, the 8th day of June, that I was enabled
to trace it to any one, circulating the infamous falsehood. On that
W. A. Flannigan, a reliable and responsible gentleman, came to my
and informed me, that W. II. Bennett had told him, that I was the
man, and that Mr, Enoch Johns, of Washington, and E. I). Beard,
Danburg, Ga., saw me paid $750.00 and saw me turn over the returns
the election to the parties who paid me the money. This was the
tunity for which I had been waiting and watching. 1 at once indited
W. II. Bennett a letter to the following ffect:
LETTER TO MR. W, H. BEX NETT.
Lincolnton, Ga., June 8, 1900.
Mr. W. II. Bennett. My Dear Sir: I am just informed that you
spreading the report throughout the county that I was the guilty
who sold out This C. R. I denounce Ramsey in his senatorial infamous race falsehood with Milton IteeBe several
years ago. as an and dare and defy
any one to attempt to substantiate it. The author of the infamous
ment has got it down so fine as to who paid me $750.00 for the job. In
other words Mr. E. I). Beard and Mr. Enoch Johns are the parties
saw the There money paid and word saw me truth turn in over the the returns of the election
them. is not a of statement and it you heard
them make any such statement I desire to make them establish the fact,
and if they did not, I shall certainly proceed against the man or men
currency to such a false and slanderous report. A quick reply is
Yours <£c., T. H. Remsen.
This I registered to him at Double Branches, Ga., on the 8th day
June, but up to this date, the 16th day of June, have nep?r heard
word in reply. I also wrote Mr. Enoch Johns, and sent it to him
Washington, Ga., by the hands of my son T. H. Remsen, Jr. The
ing is a copy of my letter to Mr. Johns, and also Mr. Johns’ reply:
LETTER TO MI£. ENOCH JOHNS.
Lincolnton, Ga., June 8,1900.
Mr. Enoch Johns, Washington, Ga. Dear Sjr:—There is a
MMMjPUn bein g ci rculated seiiaTbriul in this county witli by a Milton certain Reese, jwrtv,tBat several I, nut c. It
his race years ago,
Pmg. lllpholding The report the returns is to of the Lincoln effect that county and and received E. D. Beard $750.00 know for all
you ($75.0.06)
about the matter and that you saw the money paid over to me.
This I deny as being absolutely false, and I desire to know personally from
you whether or not you saw me receive any money or whether you know
anything at all concerning said report, or said alledged transaction.
An early reply will be appreciated. Yours T. &c., II.
Remsen.
MR. JOHNS’ REPLY.
Washington, Ga., June 9, 1900.
Col. T. II. Remsen, Lincolnton, Ga. Dear Sir: Yours received and
noted. In reply beg to say that I have not circulated any such rumors. I
heard it talked very often, but not being interested, gave the matter
consideration. I do not know anything about any money transaction,
neither did 1 tell any one such a thing. Yours truly,
E. S. Johns.
I at the same time time wrote Mr. E. D, Beard and sent it by the same
hands, asking him if he knew anything of the matter, and the following
is his reply:
MR. BEARD’S REPLY.
Danburg, Ga., June 10, 1900.
lion T. II. Remsen, Lincolnton, Ga. Dear Sir: Yours of the 8th rac’d
and contents noted. When Charley May died, several years ago, John 1).
Shumate and 1 attended the burial and staid all night with Lucious Cole¬
man ; we were talking about the Lincoln county returnshaving been
stolen. Mr. Coleman said that Tom Hollenshead and Lyon had left Lin¬
colnton a short time before the mail went out and as the mail went through
an office kept by his sister, he had always believed he H., got the returns
there and carried them to Augusta. This spring when Hollenshead was a
candidate for state senator, I being asked by Enoch Johns to vote for
Hollenshead, I told him Johns, that I had been told by Coleman that
Hollenshead had gotten those Lincoln county returns. Johns said that
was a mistake, that you was the man that got the returns, and that you
was paid $750.00 and that he knew that to be a fact, that he saw the
money made up. He Johns, also told II. E, Smith the same,
Johns said they thought at first of giving you a check, but thought
they might be caught at that and made up the money. Mr, Smith, R. E,,
told me that Johns and some other person whose name he would not give
to me, told him the same that Johns had told me. I did not believe it
then nor do I believe it now, and told Johns that you could not have got¬
ten the returns except from the postmaster at Lincolnton, he said the
package was never mailed. R. E. Smith told me that Wyatt Sale and
him put the package in the office the 1st time and the 2nd time Ben
Wright and him put them in the office. Now I have written you all
the information about this theft that you may exonerate yourselt and
place the crime, if possible, on the guilty party. Write R, E. Smith,
Again assuring you that I have never thought nor accused you of the
crime, and no man living nor dead, ever heard me say you did the stealing,
have on all occasions denied your complicity in the crime, I remain
Yours truly, E. D. Beard.
Both make denial of having circulated any such report, and positive
denial of ever having seen $750.00 or any money paid me, or having seen
me turn over any election returns to any one. Now here are the two
witnesses which Mr. Bennett gave Mr. Flannigan as the parties who gave
him lxis information, and that they knew all ahout the transaction, from
having seen the money ($750.00) paid over to me, and as having seen me
turn over the election returns. I believe it is an axiom, in law, if a wit¬
ness is seen prevaricating on one point that his whole evidence becomes
worthless, and is not entitled to any ciedit whatever. Well here is a man
who charges his political opponent with false and slanderous charges which,
if true, is enough to d—mil him in the eyes of all honorable men for all
time to come whose two witnesses by their open denial of his statements,
places Mr. Bennett in the position of the witness who is caught prevarica¬
ting, to wit: Nothing that he has said, or slated, is entitled to any credit
whatever.
While Mr. Bennett has tried to ignore the matter altogether by not
replying to my registered letter to him on the 8th of June, I propose to
give him an opportunity of proving his charges in another forum. I hold
my character too dear, as to place it in charge of every slanderous person
who may feel disposed to malign or assail it, for personal aggrandisement.
Before closing this article, which is written to vindicate me before the
people of Lincoln county, I desire to say to Mr. Bennett that I am pre¬
pared to show, by other good and reliable witnesses, that Mr. Flannigan is
not the only one to whom he told the infamous tale—as base and infamous
a falsehood as was ever uttered against man. Respectfully,
T. II. REMSEN.
P. S. Since writing the above, I hare this, the 18th day of June,
received the following reply from Mr. Bennett in reply to my registered
letter of the 8th inst. I respectfully request the good people of Lincoln to
read and compare the above letters and to draw their own conclusions.
T. II. R.
MR. BENNETT’S REPLY.
Double Branches, Ga., June 15,1900.
Mr, T. H. Remsen, Lincolnton, Ga. My Dear Sir: Yours of the 8th
inst. received and contents note! 1 will say in reply that the report is
current. Mr. Beard and Mr. Shumate told me about it at court, and told
me that Enoch Johns would swear that he saw the money paid, and Mr.
Beard told me if I wanted to use it against you, I could get twenty men in
Wilkes who would state that they heard Mr. Johns make the assertion. I
told Mr. Beard I didn’t care to use it against you, but whenever I am
asked about it I tell them what I heard and where I got it. I think you
ought to investigate the matter and haye it cleared up. I have no doubt
but what Mr. Beard will tell you what he told me, and it will put you in
good shape to get at the root of the matter. Yours Respectfully,
W. II. Bennett.
GENERAL. NEWS.
The United States court of claims
has passed upon the suit of admiral
W. T. Sampson and others under
his command at Santiago of the destruction for prize
money on account
of the Spanisn fleet. The court de¬
commander-in-chief, clares that Admiral Sampson and that was Com¬ the
modore Schley was the commanding there¬
officer of a division or squadron
of, on duty under the orders of Ad¬
miral Sampson. The Spanish squad¬
ron is found by the court to have
been inferior to the A merican force
and a bounty of $100 therefore was
awarded for every officer and man
under Admiral Cervera’s command.
The total amount of fa^Si bounty .money
ral allowed Sampson is $16f^ will Qtt j $9,335, ^dmi- and
receive
Admiral Schley about $3,000. Be¬
sides finding that Admiral Sampson
was in command during the battle,
the court declares that the New York
was among the vessels engaged.
Arch McCay, an aged man of Blue
Ridge, Ga., and his 12 year old
daughter, were killed by a freight
train on a trestle north ofEllijay last
Wednesday aftjrnoon. The old man
and his two children, a boy and a
girl, were walking the railroad track
to Ellijay. He was deaf and could
not hear the prevented approaching train engineer and a
sharp curve the
from seeing them. The boy jumped
from the trestle and was unhurt.
For playing a ball game with the
Chicago “bloomer girls” team, five
students of the University of Ten*
nessee have been given notice of ex¬
pulsion.
A report from South Africa says
the British soldiers complain much
of cold. There is much suffering
among them and the hospitals are
full.
News has just been received at El
Paso, Tex., of the terrible punish¬ Wil¬
ment and final death of James
son, an American prospector, at the
hands of the Mago Indians, in the
state of Sinaloa, Mexico. Wilson be*
came enamored of a pretty young In*
dian girl and induced her to go to
his camp. Once she remained over
night. Finding her father, she de¬
clared that Wilson had taken her by
force and abused her. A posse was
sent for Wilson. He was stripped
and staked firmly on an ant hill.
The ants covered him, the flesh was
soon eaten from his bones, and he
died in agony two hours later.
Attorney General Donaldson, of
Chattanooga, Tenn., has received a
letter from a woman residing at Mi¬
lan, Tenn., signing her name as
“Mrs. Ida Peters,” who says that she
was married to C. W. Peters, confined
there on a charge of bigamy made by
Mrs. Blanch Bru Peters, of Cincin¬
nati. Peters is a paint merchant,
formerly of Cincinnati, and more re¬
cently of Chattanooga. The Milan
woman says that her husband, after
living with her for a short time, de¬
serted her and that they have net
been divorced. This makes three
wives so far as heard from credited
to Peters,
Mrs. Gladstone, widow of William
E. Gladstone, the English statesman,
is dead.
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t F# in McC orm,c*
FOR THE TRADE OF
who are finding it greatly to their interest to go there witli their cotton,
and buying their necessaries of life &c.. and M. L. B. STURKEY, a former
Lincoln county boy, is the principal leader in the fight, and is determined
to get his share of the Lincoln business.
_ READ FEW PRICES BELOW:
Early Rod Bird Tobacco, in 10 lb. Caddies, at 35 ct.s.
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EamHy'pIonr, Patent, at $4,. OO.
Good Codec IX c ts, worth ia 1-2 cts in Augusta.
All .,, , rnmily groceries at Augusta prices, freight. added. We also carry full and complete line
Dry Clothing, o
Goods, Shoes, Hats, Farmers’ Implements, etc. Plows, in any quantities, at
FREE.—When desiring to oonverse with me, on business, 116 charge
will be made for use of my ‘Phone at Leverett. And only 10 cents charge
for talking or conveying messages to anyone else.
I still have Messrs T. J. Bentley and Jas. II. Walsh with me, who will
be delighted to have their friends call and see them. We will expect you.
Come oyer and try our market. Yours Respectfully,
M. L. B. Sturkey J
McCorr.|ick, South Carolina.
iiii TO THE PEOPLE OF LINCOLN mi
I want to say that I am still at my old stand, having succeeded
the old firm, and in a better position than ever to offer you the
best goods at lower prices in our lines.
Staple Dry Goods and Heavy Groceries,
I to be found in middle Georgia, and especially in Washington,
j See me before buying. Yoiip trade especially solicited.
1
K. A. Wilheit,
Washington, Ga.
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Friends =:= and ’’atrons.
The Spring and of wish 1900 to brings extend good to you tidingslip l| ft the wishes hearts for of
everyone; we our a
prosperous from the best season. markets, The the good largest, times has handsom«mnd enablej||s to purchase the most
varied ren.—A assortment large and of nobby fine Clothing, line of Hats for and Men, Hif^Hkhing |S||s and Goods. Child¬
We have in connection with our Chilch*s a Ladies’
Department, where our lady friends can find almost anything
they want. We extend to you a welcome invitation to visit
tis. Remember that our desire is to give the BEST GOODS
for the most reasonable PRICE.
I. C. LEVY’S SON & CO.,
Tailor-Fit Clothiers, AUGUSTA, GA,