The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-16
''The People are Misguided Fools"


''The People are Misguided Fools"
EDITOR MANNING TIMES the
grand army of reformers who are
bearing the victorious Tillman BAN
ners on to the sea needed one word
of cheer it was abundantly furnished
in the mad antics of those pure and
disinterested patriots who again met
in Columbia on last Thursday to de-
wise more desperate remedies and
measures to "save the State" Itnow
appears that the free and :ninter-
rupted flow of public pap for fourteen
years in a certain carefully guarded
channel has so inflated and developed
the imbibers that in their now i'm
mense corporosity and egotism they
constitute the State, and to save the
dear OLD commonwealth it is essential
they be given life tenure of office.
What 4 disgusting spectacle is the po-
iltical death-throe of these perpetual
Office holders! How hard they die!
While the conference was not COM
posed as a whole of the Office holders
they were nevertheless there il the
interest of and at the earnest soicita-
ton of these gentry as put forth by
their mouth-piece, "the great mogul"
at Columbia Note too the temper and
attitude Of these would-be dictators
when they had assembled. The first
speech after the installation of officers
was delivered by a Broad street Char
lesion lawyer, full of blood, thunder,
defiance, and insult. He swore that the
sovereign will of the people of the
State as now being expressed in thun-
der tones for Tilllman as their chief
executive should never be fulfilled.
The clearly defined choice Of three
fourths of the voters of the State for
their next governor set at defiance by
the powers that be. The News and
Courier declared that this escape Of
Broad street gas fairly enthused the
faithful, and the meeting went wild:
the hoary headed senators, the ring,
and their sympathizers in their i'm
pending fate so near and certain, clam
bered upon chairs and frantically
tossed their hats in the air. The meet
ing, therefore, by their action, enthu-
siastically endorsed this revolutionary
declaration, and has thus served time
ly notice upon us. We will be certain
to furnish them the occasion, and we
defy them to try it.
Being so long and loudly applaud
ed, this Broad street Demosthenes
loses his head, and insultingly declares
that he and his brother patriots are
fighting an enemy uascrupulous and
sIiuful.
Was ever o grosser insult thrown
in the teeth of party !? who have not
deserved it, and should promptly re-
sent it by holding the Hon. Joseph W.
Barnwell, of Charleston, to speedy
account.
Now, sir, in contrast with this bonn
bast, which clearly reveals the animus
of our opponents, let US recall the
loyal and patriotic words of the heroic
Tillman. He declared in his address
to the March convention that this was
purely q family quarrel; that the fight
would be made strictly within the
party lines; and that he who received
the nomination for governor would
receive his hearty and unqualified sup
port. This he has continuously re-
peated from the rostrum, and | have
yet to know a Tillmanite but that
swears eternal allegiance to the party
and an enthusiastic support of the
September convention candidate for
governor. AS opposed to this fealty
and adherence to party hear the
means and chickering's Of the Ants.
The mayor of Columbia says be will
leave the State upon Gov. Tillman's in
auguration; the editor of the News and
Courier prefers return to Republican
ism, so reported; and King Joseph, OF
Broad street, Charleston, summarily
disposes of the whole matter by
swearing he shall not be inaugurated
at all.
But, sir, with the glow Of an as
sured victory already pervaaing our
being, and with the magnanimity of
brave conquerors filling our hearts,
we have already forgiven and will
soon forget these mdemocratlc, un-
brotherly, and ungenerous speeches.