The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-07-04


T,ndsl,. Ellsrbe, Evans cnd Other Can
d,cst.s Make Speeches Representing
| Tteir Claims.
BENNETTsVILLE, S. c., June 27.-The
campaign is just hummlng along quiet
" now as summer sigh. The Cover
nor continues to prod CleVeland's "olo
fat ribs with his pitchfork and &. w
Whitman is still blowing up Hell
Gates by the gross without touching
the South Carolina College, but all
traces of blood have disappeared from
the Senatorial moon. A majority OF
the meetlus favored Tillman.
Representative Whitman was the
first speaker. He jerked the bell cord
of the welkin and rung it for all it was
worth He put on his political diving
bell and blew up He'll Gate again. He
declared that in order to find out a
mans politics these days one had to
revert to genealogy aud The records
He had several other He'll Gates in the
shape of the corporations and the mon.
ey power to blow up but did not have
time to fix the dynamite. He thought
it was time to rotate May6ald out OF
the State House and rotate him in.
Secretary of State Tlndal spoke next
| He said that one South Carolina had
passed away and that the reform move
ment was making new one and read
justing the social lines on a new basis.
The agricultural college had been es-
tablished 10 enable the boys to apply
science to their work. The South was
iftv years ahead of the North except
in one respect-the North has more
skilled artisans. The reform move
ment had taught the railroads and the
corporations that they could rot die
tate to the State. It had reduced the in-
terest on the State debt from s to 4 K
This govesnment has been taken out OF
the hands of the few. thus preventing
them from rehabilitating it on ante
bellum lines. If the people wanted to
continne to progress and properly ad-
| just the affairs of government they
must watch and not let another ring
be formed. A government of the whole
people would eventually result in
government of the best people. There
was no reason for strife to continue to
mar the peace and progress of the State
1t could result only from the mere de,
sire of one set of men to dominate over
the other. He hoped Tillmanite and
Conservative would remember this
The conflict between the towns and
the cities was deplorable. This came
from a misconception of the Alliance
by the town people who would not open
their eyes to see the object of that
great organization. Mr.. Tindal
sketched the history OF the Alliance,
showing that it was through it that the
nation was awakened to its interests;
that it overturned the Republican par
i TO and placed the Democrats in power:
and that it stopped the sugar bounty
and the giving of land to railroads. In
stead of saying damn the Alliance"
every farmer should join 1t. He
warned the people not to allow the Al.
lance to commit itself TO any political
party. If elected Governor he would
ndeavor to administer the affairs of
government in equity and justice to all
alike.
Senator John Gary Evans was the
second Gubernatortal batsman. He
paid beautiful tribute to the Con.
feaerate soldier, especially to the veter.
ans of the Pee Dee. Discussing national
affairs, he said that the only real Dem
ocrats in the South today are those
who stand on the Ocala platform. He
declared that he believed the Sub-Tre-
asury plan, if adopted into law, would
destroy the Yankee nation. l. would
make the South the most prosperous
section of the United States, and would
transfer the financial fountain head OF
the country to the South. No law, be
said, could be passed which would not
benefit one serction at the expense OF
another. The country is too big. He
advised the Alliance not to surrender
one of its demands or principles. It
will win in the end.
Senator Evans spoke next of his con-
nection with the Reform movement
and of some of the bills which he had
introduced and seen become law. He
| believed his county government bill
one of the creates ever passed and that
it would make splendid roads for the
people. 1t had been commented upon
it every part of the country. He said
be introduced a bill to establish separ-
ate public schools for white and color
| ed children. It had been defeated by
members from Charleston and Colum'
bia. He said the article published IN
the Columbia State that he had oppos-
ed the tWo-mill tax was false. The
people, be said, should vote for con-
stitutional convention. This conven-
tion would change the arrangement for
bublic schools.
Teaching on the Dispensary law,
Senator Evans said the Supreme Court
had tried to become the Legislature
| of the State. 10 prove that the law
was constitutional, be said the whiskeT
| men of Charleston had employed law
gers to get their advice on the law
and were told that it was sound and
constitutional. Every circuit judge IN
the State except one bad decided that
it was constitutional. He quoted decls'
ions of the Supreme Court showing its
inconsistency IN Whiskey cases. Ten
years ago it decided thac the right to
sell whiskey Was not inalienable. This
year it had decided just the opposite.
| SSualOE CfduS oUlJ uolCuOCu tue
Dispensary law. He showed how much
that decreased drunkness and how
much good it had done. The people
want the law and are going to have it.
The speaker attacked prohibition as
farce. He told a good joke on Bennetts
vile when it had prohibition and
showed that liquor had been more
plentiful then tnan now. He was lib.
orally applauded when be finished.
General Ellerbe then took the bat in
the gubernatorial game and he knock
ed some hot grounders and several sky
scrapeIs at the Aiken game cock
When he repeated his statement MADE
at Chesterfield that Evans had ssid
there was ring in the State House
the Senator got up an denied he had
made any such statement, that what he
had said was that be was ready to
smash rings. Ellerbe replied be was
glad that Evans had the manliness tc
Say that be had been misrepresented
as be belonged to the State House
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