The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-05-14

u hounds spew them out OF your mouth
l They are time-serving politicians ano
y place-hunters.
CLAIMS A PRECEDENT.
It is strange when We look about
3 to see in what a futter and in what a
: distressed condition the politicians
have been put by the March Con-
vention Compare it with the coudi-
tons in 1880, when we had as candl-
mates for Governor Johnson Hagood
| and Martin Witherspoon Gary. The
, crowd who have dominated the State
since lS76-who do now and intend
to continue if they can-they called a
convention in June to choose dele
gates to St. Louis tonominate can
didate for President. They controlled
| the county conventions and when
they got to Columbia they found they
could nominate Hagood. And. they did
It. It was smart trick then. It was
politics.
Now, we farmers have called con-
vention in March, and not nominated
but suggested a candidate, ,and what
howl goes up.
| SOME SENSIBLE SUGGESTIONS.
Captain Tillman, continuing, said
among other things that he had heard
something of their forming q Tillman
club in that county. He didn't want
any Tillman club. but wanted them
to send delegates to the regular Dem
ocratic Stnte Convention to vote for
Tllman if they would.
He also s,ad that the Alliance was
| not political machine and ought not
to be used in politics at all The
Alliance had it's duty, and they
had their duty as Democrats. In al
luding to the Alliance matters, he
said his remarks were general and
had no reference to Mr.. Aeares, who
had explained satisfactorily in that
connection, or to Colonel Youmans.
THE REAppoRT1oNMEsT QUESTION
was next touched on by the speaker
who had number Of tables in refer
ence to this matter. One table show
ed the population of the various coun-
ties by the census of 1880, the unit
of representation in the General AS
sembly and also the number of repre-
sentatives the counties would be en-
titled to under what he called just
apportionment.
He had also considerable portion
Of his remarks on this subject com. |
mitted to writing, having done SO, he |
said,to prevent the possibility of error |
on the part Of the newspaper men IN |
reporting him.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Below is presented a portion of the
matter thus prepared:
7 will now give you some conpar1-
sons as to how fair, just and honora-
BILE are the methods of the party as
at present constituted for nominating |
State officers according to Messrs.
Jones, Woodward & Co.'S claim. /
Compare Hampton with IS, TAI and
delegates to Georgetown with 49,
613 and delegates, Lexington Is, 564
and 6, Clarendon 1890 and 6, MARI
boro 2O.598 and6.
Charleston with 10000 has twenty
five delegates, and Edgefeld with
5,S44 has twelve deleg. ,es. Compare
the following Richland, 2S,573, with
~; Greenville, 37,496, with 10; Spar
tanburg, 4O,4O7, with 10; Sumter,
37,O37, with 10; Laurens, 9,444, with
s; Marlboro, 20,50S, with 6; Beaufort,
30.176, with S.
It takes more than 10000 people |
in three of these counties and over
5000 in another for one representa-
tive, while in Richland STA people,
mostly negroes, send representa-
tive to the Legislature to vote away
the farmers money and to oppose q
school for farmers sons. In Edge
field we have one representative for |
5000 people, Charleston one for 5000
and an extra Senator to boot.
In reference to the question OF re-
apportionment In the Democratic Con.
vention I desire to be clearly under
stood. It does not matter who wrote |
the platform adopted by the March
Convention. It was adopted by that
body without any material opposl-
ton. It therefore represents the
wishes and opinions of that conven-
ton, and, we believe, a large major1-
ty of the people of South Carolina.
When adopted not twenty-five men
in the convention knew who wrote
it. I am the exponent of that plat
form and the leader chosen to give 1t
| Lie and force. I have shown how
unequal and unjust the apportion-
| ment at present obtaining is to GER
tain counties.
I have pointed out the crime COM
Nitted against the just distribution
| of political power among white mel.
bound together by every tie which!
should make them honorable and
lust to each other. I ask you now
whether this wrong committed by
| the Legislature, under the influence
of Charleston and Columbia, shall be
righted by the Democratic party as
far as it can be done, or shall we
take the risk of division among the
white people which failure to 90 so
may ental'
THE PARTY CONSTITUTION QUOTED.
The constitution of the Democratic
party provides as follows: The
State convention shall be composed
of delegates from each county III nu-
merical proportion to which the
county is entitled III both branches
of the General Assembly"
!! No one disputes that according to,
| the last United States census (Which
the constitution now recognizes as
the legal basis of representation
seven counties are each ''entitled' to
one more member of the House OF