The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-06-11
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The Necessity OF Organization.

The supporters of Capt. Tillman consti-
tute, we believe, largely the majority of the
Democratic party in this State.
The Tillmanites assert that they consti-
tute 80 per cent Of the party; the best judges
of politics in the State, connected with the
opposition to him, concede Tillman'S
strength to be about 60 per cent. Of the Dem
ocratlc vote.
1t would look, then, as if Tillman wa
sure of winning in any emergency; but that
is not the case, for in politics, rs in war,
organization counts rs well as numbers.
To win, Tillman's forces must be Snffic-
iently strong in the different counties and
sufficiently well led to make it too danger
Gus game to have anything but a fair,
square deal at the primaries.
The plan of campaign against him is now
defined, and is to trot out as many candi-
dates as possible, and to draw to them as
devoted following rs personal popularity
and local pride may allow; then in the con-
vention, when eDhusiasm for the man Of
their choice has been excited to Il pitch by
every artitice which the opposition can bring
to bear upon the Anti-Tillman crowd, TIE
mass will be stampeded to some man, prob
ably with such character rs to have never
excited any enmities.
The galleries, on the occasion of the con-
vention, will be packed with crowd bitter
ly hostile to Tillman, and, if there are any
timid men for him, they may be influenced
by the storm of cheers which will perpetu-
ally punctuate every peroration against
Tillman's s side of the question.
All during the convention at odd inter
vals the chairman will probably threaten to
clear the galleries, but the chances are that
the whoop of the opposition will continue
throughout the proceedings.
An accurate knowledge OF parliamentary
procedure will be no contemplate aid to the
opposition, and it will be found that when
ever the instructions Of the executive COM
mittee may be evaded with success, they
will be, while they will assuredly be quoted
against Tlllman whenever they suit.
Above all money will, in all probability,
be spent lavishly, and money is powerful
factor in politics, Tor, while it is not proba-
bic that any individual will prowl about the
State, distributing greenbacls, yet there are
thousand ways in which the influence of
money can be made to tell in politics.
Let no friend OF Tillman imagine then
that he will have a walkoyer, for he has
challenged powerful organization 10 nSnt
for its existence, and no fight is as desperate
as that which is for existence.
Every candidate who comes out for the
nomination comes out first and foremost rs
an Anti-Tiilman candidate. We repeat,
whether he comes from np-country or low
country, whether he be lawyer, farmer or
doctor, he comes at ''Old Guards suggest
ion, carrying dagger for Tillman.
Whether, then, the candidate is the Doc
tor Mauldin of Greenyille, the Lawyer Earle
of Sumter, OF the Farmer Bratton Of Fair
field, every vote cast for any of them is q
vote cast to perpetuate the existing state Of
affairs and againsta change.
II by any accident or neglect, then, Till
man should be beaten il September, it will
be idle to dream Of any attempt at change
for ut least ten years.