The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-09-12
DAVE TUCKER
Consoles With Defeated Candidates, and
Lectures Them Free Gratis.

Consoles With Defeated Candidates, and
Lectures Them Free Gratis.
Come up here, all you fellows what
run for Office and got left, and range
yourselves humble like on these front
benches; I want to sorter comfort you
all I can. Two years ago, I advised
some of you to steer clear of this
Office running business, but it ap-
pears you have not profted much by
It. For such I havn't got much SYM
pathy, for you knowed better. Now
you fellows that are new hands at the
business. I accord to each and ev-
cry one of you, my most profound
commiseration, and viii try and ap-
ply the oil of consolation to your
blasted ambition, in the hope that
you will profit by your sad expert
ence. It appears to me every time
we have q short crop, and It's election
year, that every chap thinks he must
have Office and run for it, some of
whom know nothing of the legal re-
quirements of the Office he wants, and
is Just about as competent to fill it,
IS my old COW is to teach latin, yet,
notwithstanding all this, be gets mad
and curses every one if he is defeated.
This is all wrong, you vii! never get
Office that way. No doubt some OF
you now enjoy the fruit Glitter it
may be) of some indiscreet word or
action of yours, accruiug years ago.
I hope NOT, and that your defeat was
cause entirely from the fact, that the
other fellow got the most votes. Then
again, I heard it whispered about
that some of you fellows lauded to
the uttermost your own virtues. and
in the same breath spoke disparageingg-
ly of your opponent, and sometimes
what you said was not true. Now this
did not help you in the least; the aver
age voter can see through it all, and
Judges that merit attained in the one
by an exhibition Of the faults OF an
other is questionable and generally
rebounds with disaster. Now didn't
charge any of you with this, but it
might have happened. You see, there
fore, that there may be some damage
to character, that it will take you
some time to 1epair. No doubt you,
are painfully aware Of the fact that
you are not by half the respectable
men now, as before the canvass be-
gan, but weep not, for by persistent
good behavior, you can, in the next
two years, patch the old affair up and
be in good trim to try your luck
again. I know you must feel sad and
lonely, but cheer up, this is q big
county and viii manage to get along
some how without your wise coun-
sells.
An appreciative public will make
just as much cotton and corn as they
ever did; viii keep on paying taxes
and making roads just the same.
There will be just as many Sunday
school conventions and cross-road
fights as If you never had been born;
so you see you are sorter no achsne.
What are you going to do about it?
Why, justgo on in the same old beaten
paths; gather your crops, and pay
your leins like men. Prepare your
lands, and plant q big oat crop this
fall, and quit cursing this and that
fellow for not voting for you. Then
bury all prejudices and IL feeling,
and work as hard to elect your oppo-
nent IS you did for yourselves, and
when all is over with, We can have q
regular love feast, for "Alls well that
ends well"
But, bereaved friends, I have learn
ed some solid truths from this can
vass, and nay observations thereof
teaches me thusly:
| 1ss. That all the fools are not dead
vet, for notice you all still survive.
End. That the fellows that hollers
the loudest are not those to carry
votes.
| Srd. That the fellow that tells You
| that if he can't do you any good VIII
| do you no harm, viii vote snd work
| hard for your opponent.
And, lastly, would advise each and
every one Of you to let politics alone,
now and forever. Il is an unknown
quantity, composed OF sounding brass
and tinkling cymbals-
You are dismissed now, and can re.
tire to your respective homes, and in
the bosom Of your families, I hope
you viii find that sympathy and ap.
preciation denied you in the late can
vass. DAVE TUCKER
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