The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-02

primary election to be held in eac
county on the last Tuesday III Angus
of each election year.
Section calls for the abolition Q
the Board of Agriculture and that a
matters pertaining to agricultural IL
terests except the control Of the State,
phosphate interests be placed III th
hands OF the trustees OF the Clemson
College.
Section 5 demands that the Soutl
Carolina College shall be literally sup
ported as 4 classical and literary instl
tuition.
Section demands that school dis
tTicts in the various counties be a,
nearly square Us possible of an are;
to allow only one white and one col
orcd school III each district and thai
school trustees be elected instead o
appointed.
Section : calls for rigid economy i,
public expenditures, the abolition q
useless officers. reduction OF salari,s
and fees of all officers, State an0
| county.
Section demands railroad com,
mission be given all needed power to
protect the rights and interests of the
people and that the commissioners be
elected by the people after nomina-
ton by the Democratic convention.
It is declared as the sense Of the
convention that salaried attorneys of
railroad and phosphate companies be
ineligible TO seats In the Legislature.
Section 9 demands survey OF the
States phosphate beds and their clas-
sihcation into three grades, and that a
commission composed Of the Cover
nor, Comptroller General and Attor-
ney General shall control the mining,
and that the bedsshall belet at public
auction for Il term OF years after a
minimum royalty has been fixed by
the commission.
Section ten demands the call of a
constitutional convention.
Section eleven demands that can
didates for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor shall and all other aspi-
rants for State Offices are invited to
canvass the State
The document closes with q warn
ing to the people not to be forestallel
as they We're two years ago in some
counties and the injunction to let no
delegates to the State Convention be
appointed before the joint discussion
IS heard.
The platform was read and adopted
by sections and then adopted as a
whole. There We're several feeble
efforts to amend but they all signally
failed. 4 motion by Whitmire, Of
Greenville, to strike out the con-
stitutional convention provision was
showed under.
4. E. Padgett, OF Edgefeld, offered
a resolution that for the purpose of
educating and arousing the masses Of
the people the convention proceed to
suggest candidates for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor vino favor the
measures advocated in the platform,
and that those who differ with those
views be invited to do likewise, SO
that there may be a free and full dis
cussion inside the party lines. This
was the signal for the opening OF the
great fight for nomination and the
convention quickly worked itself into
a stir.
The first gun of the nomination
wing was met by John r. Harrison,
of Greenville, who moved to amend
Padgetts resolution SO as to state
that it was the sense of the meet
ing that no nominations be made by
this convention. This fairly opened
the battle, and the next moment half
a dozen men were striving for the
chaiImans eye. Harrison supported
his amendments in a short, ringing
speech.
Irby, of Larens, moved to lay the
amendment on the table, but the
motion was lost by a viva voice vote.
This discussion opened was lengthy
and tedious, and went out III roar,
Tillman making the closing speech. A.
McGiven, of C Chesterfield, H. c. Burns,
of Darlington, Theo, Holhouser. Of
Lexington, 3. ". Beatty, OF Darling
ton, J. J. Dargan, OF. Sumter, Z. r.
Waters, of Orange5urg, and H. D.
Padgett, Of Clarendon, spoke against
nominations On the other side, the
speakers were L. E. Porter, of
Coneton, A. Z. Padgett, ofEdgetield,
". \. Merchant, of Aiken. J. A.
Sigh, Of NewbeIIy, and Ben Till
man.
Iillman took the floor III response
to loud calls for him from different
parts OF the house Tilllnan said that
in the history Of South Carolina poll
tics no public man had ever occupied
more embarrassing position than he
did. Whatever he might say he
would be charged with talking for
himself Withoutany active movement
on his part hisname has been brought
forward for Governor. The conven-
ton had met under call which he
was accused Of having written and
he had been charged with attempting
to entangle the Farmers Movement
with himself. Hehad had something
to do with that as the Governor was
witness. He did not do it for his
own interests. The convention had
adopted platform which would
astonish it's opponents with its con
servatism. Just here occurred
AN EXCITED Personal DEBATE
between J. J. Dargan, Of Sumter. and
Nj. Tillman. Tillman called for any
man on the floor to define him and to
tell what Tillmanism-was.
Dargan sprang to his feet and de
clared that if the reference was to
him he could explain. He had used
the term Tillmanism before the Sum
ter mass meeting. and by it he meant
departure from the regular methods