The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-17
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER II, 1890.

first page When the result Of the final
ballot vas declared, there was some kissing
done, but in o moment this contemplate
conduct was drowned by the immense
cheering for Irby The contest from the
beginning was narrowed down to three can
didates: Donaldson. who was put forward
as the special representative Of the Alliance.
with his allegiance to the Alliance first
above all things; Irby. the candidate
of reform element CT the Democratic party,
who was pledged to the farmers and their
interests, but who proposed to stand by the
Democratic party in nlaintainingit its suprem-
acy; and Hampton, the present incumbent,
who had done so much for the State and
had been honored so long that it was right
and proper to re-elcct him.
In the senatorial contest, Maj. DesChamps
and Mr. Richardson voted for Donaldson,
and DR.. Woods for Irby. It was slip OF
the pen last week in saying that Maj. Des-
Champs voted for Irby. He stuck to the
Alliance candidate to the last.
Col. Irby is yeta young man, who has
not been long prominently identified IN
pubic affairs, but he has shown himself the
past year, to be man Of fine parts and
deep scumen. His mastery conduct Of the
Democratic campaign against the lndepend-
ent movement, led by some of the most
gifted men of the State, showed him to bea
man Of great power. He will make good
senator, who will do honor to his State.
Hampton owes his defeat to his friends.
The people Of South Carolina are not un-
grateful, and will ever cherish his name for
AZ a. l. 49, h,xS hat
name Will not be written in as bright letters
{ as if he had never written that letter to 1rby
last October. The people did not demand
of Hampton that he should denounce the
friend Of his bosom, but they did demand
that he should express his disapproval Of
any independent movement. When he de-
elared that an independent was worse than
radical, it was against men for whom he
socially and politically cared naugEt, but
this independent movement, because 1t was
led by his social and political friends, was
handled gently, aye, it was even fondled,
and he declared that he would not advise
any man how or for whom he should vote.
Possibly this was right and honorable, and
Hampton should not have been blamed for
it, but South Carolinians, the great mass OF
them, demand that the actions of a man
shall not be determined by family influence
alone. IF it was wrong for man Of mod
esate influence to be an independent, it was
at least equally as wrong for Haskell and
his followers to be Independents, and
Hampton should have said 50. There was
no demand that he should on this occasion
repeat his oft-told thrust that an indepenl-
ent was worse than radical. He could
simply have said that he did not approve Of
the Haskell movement, and that he thought
1t was injurious to tie cause Of Democracy.
and then advised the people of the State to
vote the regular Democratic ticket. That
would have been the same Hampton the
people have known and loved and followed
so long.
We believe in the a3age. 'Spoils TO The
victor, and think that if Hampton had been
elected it would have been the heaviest pos
slble blow to the party. 70 be a Democrat,
on" must abide the decision of the rarty
) and vote for the nominees. The man who
in this last campaign, when the apparent
be considered full Democrat, and from the
highest to the lowest Offices should be left
alone. He has no business with any of the
pubic pap Such is the unwritten law of
the party. and in the future it will be found |
that the observance is better than the breach.
Prior to Sep. 10th the fight was within the
party, but after that date he VINO opposed |
the regular ticket must stand aside.
In this connection we reproduce the fol-
lowing from the Georgetown Times, which
IL the main comedies with our views:
while in Columbia last week, Governor
Tllman told several gentlemen, in our
presence, that it was useless for any man to
come to him for Office as an alleged Tillman
supporter; that he would appoint an Anti
Tiilman man to position just as quickly
IS he would one Of his avowed friends;
that he recognized the right of every citizen
TO vote for the man Of his choice, and he
should suffer no 6etrlment at his hands.
But {and this is the rub with some people,
If 8 candidate voted the independent Has
kel ticket at the last election, it WAS useless
to ask Office at his hands, for he would ap-
point coal-black negro every time, if he
knew it, in preference to the independent.
Some people are hard to learn. They seem
to think that in them is centered all that is
right and just and proper, and who differs
is denounced rs q anincompoop. That policy
last summer yielded very small dividend.
erhe supporters Of Hampton are now pur-
suing the same course, and it is to any per-
son of delicate sensibilties exceedingly
nauseating. Hampton was defeated because
he favored independentism. OF that there
IS no doubt. Now where is the good sense
in hurting anathemas upon those who voted
against HIM. It does no good, has done
none, and can do none. On the other hand,
II has done much harm. The people care
nothing whatever for this uncalled for and
indelicate abuse.
The Haskellians last campaign swore
that Tillman should never be governor.
What effect had it? They have already be-
gun preparations for the next campaign,
but their secret and early preparation have
no terrors for the old-time regulars. The
people will 60 on quietly in pursuit Of their
voca.ions till 80, and then as this year will
show whether the bosses or the people are
masters of the situation. The nominee for
governor on the regular Democratic ticket {
in 1892 will be elected the same as hereto
fore.
It seems to US that our Legislature is
practically doing nothing. Business IS
choked with local legislation. This should
not be. It viii be poor start in reform to {
have session of the legislature two or
three months long. We have lheresass.,assr
made no suggestions or comments~Sut Sut il is
time to speak, and to aeiSea1d that our leo
lslasoss scSssse csssse squanderng the peoples
-MS6ey so foolishly. The legislature costs {
more than q thousand dollars each day it is
in session, or about two hundred dollars au
honr, and matters that can be attended to
elsewhere should not be allowed to be
bro .ghs before the Legislature. The peo-
ple demand reform and retrenchment, and
this legislature is far from giving it to US.
Last week Attorney General Pope dis
,nissea one r 3 Rutlar from o clerLshin in