The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-02
WEDNESDAY. JULY 2 2. 1890.

orally organized tnelr Dehoctatic
clubs, regardless Of the action OF the
executive committee.
Rev. E. j. Meynardie, D. D., of the
s. C. Conference, Methodist church,
died last Monday in Camden. He
was about sixty-three years OF age.
The News and Courier last week in
one of their headlines makes the as
sertion that Tilmanism after all is
nothing but Radicalism against Dem
ocracy.
The people are thinking for them
selves this year, and the old political
leaders have found out that for once
they cannot get the masses to follow
them ike sheep.
Another conference of the Anti-Till-
NANTES has been called, to meet in
Columbia, July 10th. Any Democrat
opposed to Tillman is invited to at
tend. But Tillman will be governor,
nevertheless.
Foreston, which has been counted
the strongest Anti -Hlman den IN the
county, has come forward manfully
and organized club solid for TIL
man. A majority of the Democratic
voters in Foreston have joined it.
On our FIRST page will be found a
defense from Senators Smythe and
Buist, for their vote on the census
respportionment bill The taking OF
the census was not necessary, and We
st the time fully agreed with the ma
ierity, who declined, for the little
GOOD it would accomplish, to place
this heavy tax on the people, and we
have had no reason since for changing
our opinion.
In a primary in the town OF
Geogetown last Friday, for the pur-
pose of electing delegates to the
county convention. the votes stood As
for Tiilman and 49 against him.
Georgetown, which was thought to
be strong Anti -Tillman, proves to be
for the peoples candidate. The coun-
ty is said to be largely in his favor.
We shall not be surprised if 1illman
carries every county in the State.
Tllman is still far in the lead, and
his prospective majority for governor
grows larger every day. At Aiken it
was hoped to dam the food tide, but
the little opposition was washed away
with q submerging wave Of enthusi-
ssm. The meeting yesterday at
Winnsboro was the hottest yet. There
were several fsticufs, and strong
effort was made to keep Tllman from
speaking, but he did speak, and gained
converts too.
Candidates who desire to come be
fore the public should do so at once.
It is not at all improbable that Clar-
endon will, on account of the hot 10
htical feeling in this county, and to
get matters ouieted as easily and as
early as possible, nominste the various
county officers at the first county con-
yension, which will assemble in about
8 months time. Those, therefore,
who propose being candidate, SHOULD
at once make their announcements.
In the heat and din Of the fierce
political contest now wsging in this
State it is indeed refreshing to have
the political situation thus discussed:
aWho,n shall We nave for governor:
Tillman, Earle, or Bratton? This is
now the all-absorbing question with
Tie average Caroiinian. A much
older but far more important ques-
ton receives much less attention. 1t
is this: Shall Christ or Satan rule
over me? We may not get the man
Of our choice for governor, but no
one need be subjected to the domin-
ion Of Satan unless he so chooses for
himself"
Some of our Anti -Tiliman friends
claim that we are one-sided in what
we publish about the campaign.
Upon close inquiry, however, we find
that they are careless readers, and
this probably accounts for many Of
them being Anti -Tillman. The TINES
is unusually liberal in It's publications
The account of the Columbia meeting
as published in the World, was entire
y too long for US to reproduce, so we
take it. from the Greenville Neus, g
strong Anti-Tillman paper: There
are numerous ittle innuendoes and
unfair expressions in this article, but
Tllman is so strong he can stand all
such. The Columbia meeting was
not Tllman meeting, but it came so
near being q Isllman meeting that it
took all the glory from the "ring."
We also publish Senators Smythe
and Buist's defense of their vote on
the reapportionmert question.
The State Democratic Executive
Committee has assumed a strictly
partisan position in the present cam
paign, and are trying to work up
some plan tsfor anything to beat Till
man" The farmers platform did de.
mand primary for delegates to the
State convention, but this was refused,
theNid apparently being that if the
old political leaders took the field,
they would easily annihilate Tillman
and the Tillman Influence But when
the campaign began, and at meeting
after meeting it was undeniably evi-
dent that Tillman was sweeping every
thing before him, and that the old
leaders no more could lead the people
by the nose; then they took another
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