The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29

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Il. Edwin Dudley and wife, Boston,
Mass"
Innocent as the entry appears, 1t IS IN
fact the outward sign of the latest eNnl-
bition of life n the McLane movement
in South Carolina, and Mr.. Dudley IS
Columbms visitor pot for health, not to
examine our material resources, but TO
sound the political depths OF MeLane In
dependentiSm, at the instance of Senator
Hoar. Henry Cabot Lodge and other
prominent Massachusetts, Republicans,
with view of aScertaining the posi-
bilitv of union of the South Carolina
Republicans with the Independents, So
called, under the leadership OF the latter.
Mr.. Dudley. it is learned, first pur-
sued his Investigations IN Charleston,
then went to Geol getown, and from that
place came to Columbia.
With his wife he occupies Room 4 at
Wright>S, and there yesterday received
the white Independents, who came
thither of their own accord, and mum:
Der of colored Republicans whom he
summoned to conference with him.
Early in the day he was closeted with
DR.. Y. P. CLAYTON, J Hendrix McLaneS
trusted lieutenant in this locality, and
who spent considerable time in MasSa-
chusettS last fall 1t will be remembered.
Later he received visit from Mr..
Simeon Corley of Lexington, who was
accompanied by several of the white
men diSgruntled over the Democratic
County nominations in Lexington last
fall and three or four colored Repuoll-
cans from the same section.
Mr.. r. a. Lynch, librarian Of the Su-
preme Court, editor of the Eceea7ag Re-
cord, and candidate for the position
of District Attorney, was also seen in
his company, and ex-Sheriff Berry OF
Marion, who happened" to be IN the
city, called on the Massachusetts, mis-
sionary.
He suggested that the Republicans Of
the North had about come to the con-
that the solid Democratic South
ald not Be broken by keeping up the
ssent Republican organization, and
they consider the only promising
6oa, of doing it was by the. dividing
gthe white vote by appointing lnoe-
Spendents to>office and placing IN their
hands the policical control Of the State.
He further expressed the opinion that
Brayton, Taft and \Some of the other
white leaders of the Repub-
hcans in the State Mad accom-
plished nothing in the ten Nse twelve
years 49, had been n-tbe leaa ana
that 11ine7iv OF :. .ssszz sssSNnt
leaders was worth trying. As
seemed to intimate that the men ne
named were obnoxious to the white
people of the State, and that their ap-
pointment to Office would only arouse
ill-feeling and secure no accession to
the Republican party and would not
strengthen it.
Last night Room 4 was the scene OF a
conference which lasted several hours, /
and at which, besides Mr.. Dudley and |
Mr.. Lynch, there were present the tol-
lowing colored Republicans: John 7.
Lopez, eS-Unlted States Marshal; r. j.
Palmer, candidate for the Columbia
postmasterShip, John Barre and one or
two others.
Mr.. Dudley stated his object to be TO
a the real strength Of the lndepend-
entsSip South Carolina, and
also if s%pniesuv net be
effected betweeS szSspu ol5s7
cans of the State under the lea6ersnlp
of the Independents holding the Federal
Offices. He said he had been lead to
believe from what he had heard in his
travels through the State that there were
thousands of white men who would join
such a union under such leadership.
He intimated, it is understood, that
of course the regular Republicans, col
ored as well as white, would have to
stand back while the Independents took
the Offices, and said he had heard that
at present a certain portion of the
party in the State controlled all its con-
ventions and those not in the ring had
40 showing.
This picture of a back seat in the
peanut gallery as lockers on at the
performance, while the chief parts on
fhe stage were taken by white men who
but lately had been fercely opposing
them, did not strike favorably the
majority of the colered auditors of Mr..
Dudley last night, however pleasing the
prospect might have appeared to his
one white listener.
~5061 Barre and John Lopez proceeded
TO inform Mr.. Dudley at some length
that the Independent party Of Hen
Dirk McLane, of which he spoke,
was in reality a myth; that McLane
had not one-tenth of the following he
claimed, and that there would be more
loss than gain by sending regular Re
publicans to the rear, while ex-Demo-
Gratis were fed on official pap.
Some Others of the colored men pres
ent seemed favorablv inclined to the eS-
,seeriment Mr.. Dudley suggested, agree
stbat their present leaders had ac-
somplished nothing and that it might
pay to try new ones. They did not en-
thuse over McLane, however, whom one
Of the number after the conference de- |
nominated as ''erank.
Mr.. Dudley, it is understood, also
made some inquiry as to the prospects
of the Ece1aing Record, of which Mr..
Lynch is the editor, DR.. Clayton the
treasurer, and Governor Oliver Ames of
Massachusetts, one of the stockholders.
Mr.. Dudley thought it a very independ-
ent and liberal newspaper, ne said.
The conference ended shortly after 10
O'Clock last night without any distinct
results, so far as is known. 1t is proba-
~0le the search for information will be
continued to-day.
If Mr.. Dudley will call at TIE REGIS
TER office, great pleasure will be taken
in placing him in the way of securing
much information that he will be certain
10 miss under his present methods of
seeking knowledge of things political in
South Carolina, and by few minutes
walk he can be introduced to a gentle
-..o., toll him 1nn0ra ahNnt ] |