The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-05-23

! much, to suffer as much and are as tru
to the State as he or his ever have been
to taunt them with being politician
while he and his are the true Democrac,
of the State. applause Tell us 0
real wrongs, tell us of evils that the peo
pie are really suffering, and we will tt,
and help the gentleman to relieve them
but it won't do to make vague accusa
tions, to charge all the suferings of the
people resulting from the war and the
period which followed upon the mere
system of making nominations. 1t vii
not do to charge the people of the State
who have done so much to bring up the
State to a higher condition of prosperity:
and who will be ever mindful Of her in
tercsts, with the responsibility of every
misfortune suffered by the people. Il
will not do to indulge in such glltterlne
generalities. Come down to the proofs.
They are here. Let him produce them.
Applause.
At the close of Mr.. Gary's remarks
Capt, Tillman again rose to speak, and
there We're crios of "Question! Ques'
tom"
Mr.. Tillman thereupon called out ct
the top of his voice: "You may gag me
here, but I will meet You before the
people"
Several delegates then moved that Mr..
Tillman be heard again, and cries OF
Tillman were heard from different parts
of the hall. After some hesitation Mr..
Tillman walked into the middle of the
aisle and spoke as follows:
''Gentlemen Of the Convention, /
thank you for this courtesy, and l will
try and not impose on your good nature.
l want merely to answer some of the
points made by some of the speakers.
The gentleman from Anderson is anxious
to save the dear people trouble. That
has been the cry OF all tyrants. The
Gar of Russia saves his people all trou-
ble, except the trouble of paying taxes
and stopping bullets. There have been
such outrages perpetrated in this hall I
hesitate to name them, and must speak
of them with bated breath. Charleston
stands here to-day with ten representa-
tives, which she is not entitled to if the
Constitution had not been traEp pied
under foot, and Richlend has two more
than she is entitled to, while the men
who did the brunt OF tue fighting in
1876 are disfranchised by the enormities
perpetrated by the Legislature. They
came here and took an oath at this desk
to support the Constitution; but after
they got here they were bamboozled or
affected in some way by Columbia water
or whiskey or by Charleston-what shall
I call it-brain? Charleston always
catches on her feet II she is tripped in
the House, she catches on her feet IN the
Senate; and if tripped in the Senate,
she turns up ali right in the House.
Laughter. While we poor farmers are
carried around by the dozen under the
arms Of such men as my friend from
Charleston, (Buist,) daughter If we
have q bright boy and send HIM here
to this College he gets switched of.
None but the fools come home. That is
why We want an agricultural college to
give US brain on the farm. The majority
OF you here don't represent the people
of South Carolina. You represent po-
htical cliques and rings in your different
counties. l won't attempt to go into
many details that I would like to if l had
tie time"
Mr.. Haskell here produced the Stat
utes and showed that in round numbers
the expenditures in 1879 had been $685.
900 and in 1856 S750, 600, to which should
be added about $4,000 to balance di-
rect appropriation to the Penitentiary of
of that amount in 1879, still leaving ex-
penditures for 1856 about $500 less
than 1879. Amid the applause that fol-
lowed Mr.. Haskell's remarks, Mr.. Till
man was heard 10 say: 81 will prove tie
falseness of those figures before the
people"
On the question OF adopting Mr..
Gray's motion to reject the committees s
report and prescribe the primary system
for State nominations, the vote was taken
by yeas and nays, and resulted as fol-
lows: Yeas So, nays 207. So the prlnaa-
ry system was rejected.
A PRELIMINARY CANVASS.
Major Buist presented the following
resolution, offered by Senator Murray,
with the favorable report of the commit
tee:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
convention that the candidates for Gov
ernor and Lieutenant Governor should
be afforded an opportunity formally to
address the people of the State before
the election of delegates to the nomlnat-
ing convention in each election year, to
the end that their views upon public
questions may be known in advance Of
the nominations, and to that end the
constitution of the Democratic party Of
South Carolina be and the same is here
by amended by adding thereto the fol-
lowing section, to wit:
'sThe State Executive Committee shall
in each year in which an election for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor oc-
ours appoint at least one public meeting
in each Congressional District, which
shall be publicly announced one month
before the day for holding the same,
shall be not more than three months
nor less than one month before the
meeting of the State nominating con-
vention, at which all of the candidates
for Governor or Lieutenant Governor
shall be expected to address the people,
and the State Executive Committee shall
make such arrangements for these meet
ings as they may deem proper"
The committee recommended the
adoption of the resolution and that tue
constitution OF the party be amended as
provided for. The convention adopted
the report of the committee and passed
the resolution.
The following resolution was rejected