The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-30
TiIlman Gaining Strength.

TiIlman Gaining Strength.
EDITOR MANNING TrMEs:-l have been
thinking tor some tine past of writing few
lines for your paper lam not q subscriber
now, but with these rambling sentences you
will find the price of subscription.
had not been in accord with the senti-
ments expressed by a number of your cor
respondents until kind neighbor loaned
me copy of last weeks issue. Pamela
Farmer" and conservative" were so earnest
that it put me to thin king whether or not
could afford to hang on to set that have
been ruling us and by their ruie have caused
our people to array themselves almost solid
ly against them, or join in with my brother
farmers and battle for what they believe to
be just and right.
Now in these battles some get excited and
hurl anathemas at the opposition, accusing
them Of corruption, extravaganza, favorit-
ism, and of allowing the government to be
run by rings. In my humble Judgment,
unless the corrupt or extravaSant official can
be named and his conduct examined into I
think it very wrong to make such sweep
ing charge for when called upon to sustain
that charge failure is the result.
I an! satisfied that the present State GOV
eminent has been honestly administered, |
believe that all our State officials are honor
able men, believe that they have South
Carolina at heart, but I believe that the
management Of the government can be made
more economical. IL the first place the laws
as they stand allow many offices which can
be done away with: in the second place too
much money is being spent where the peo-
pie are but little benefited (stenographers);
and in the third place the legislature in try
ing to make people believe that by being in
session about thirty days they are practicing
economy, whereas all the work is done in
the latter part of the session, and in the
hurry the laws are badly gotten up and cost
the people more than they are worth.
am fully convinced that with such man
as 3. r. Tillman at the head of affairs, and
a legislature holding the views that he holds,
something will be done that will be OF ben
eft to the people, and after such men have
served until they become Indifferent then
invite them to step down and ont for new
set. am the last man that would charge
fraud, corruption, and extravaganza to the
men that have been leading rs in the past
because do not believe them guilty, and I
only favor change because there is dissat-
isfaction and unrest among the people, and
a new Set Of men to rule them may harmon
ize things and put 4 Gtop 10 the everlasting
cry and howl that is making night and day
hideous all over the land.
Captain Tllman was selected by q con-
vention of farmers, and ever since that con-
vention some newspapers have done nothing
but fill their editorial columns with abuse.
They have called him all kinds Of hard
names, have even gone 80 far as to rdicnlc
his personal appearance, spoken sneerlngly
Of his having only one eye, until the abnse
Of Tillman amounts to persecution. There
is no better way of gaining sympathy for q
man than for the newspapers to begin
bounding him down without q just cause,
and this everlasting crying down and trying
to besmirch Tilhnan has done more to
strengthen him than any Of his sincere
friends have done for him.
What is the matter with Tillman? What
has he done to bring about I'll this wrath :?
Has he been shrewd enough to outwit some
body, and by doing so will get a position for
himself or for somebody else that WIS Sc
lected for another man? If so helsa "daisy,"
because know that man 10 outvit crowd
Of men that have made politics :. lifetime
study and profession must be Of no ordinary
ability, and believe he would make first
class general to lead a people in war Of
this kind. This fight is nothing more or
less than question of ''you are in and 1
want to get in; yon have been in until yon
have grown careless; if get in will insti-
tuts certain reforms because 7 am fresh from
the people that were promised reforms"
My neighbors all around me are being at
tackled by the Tillmania epidemic, and be-
fore it is time for the clubs to elect delegates
I doubt if Tillman will have single oppo-
nent wonld sign my own name to this
communication, but my friends down here
would not let nc rest after hearing my sen
timents against T!lman 4 week ago. It
would be Il told you 3d., OF ''yoa took
water, etc TnLAIAN CoEsiHr.
Foreston, April 30, 1890