The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-08-15
WAR TO THE KNIFE.
Edi'or Can't Coos for tn at Whit. w Ash
Ing Committee.

Edi'o or Can't Coos for til at Whit w ASH
| Ing Committee.
SpARTANBURG, S. c., Aug. 10.-The
! Piedmont Headlight, OF last week pub
lished the following:
The blacklist and meanest negro IN
South Carolina, when arraigned, has a
right to employ counsel, to face his ac-
cusers and enter adefence. The thought
of arraigning, trying and condemnlng
man IN secret counsel, and without
his even knowing that he is on trial, or
that case has been made against him,
is so repulsive to every sense Of fairness
and justice as to disgust our American
people.
And yet this is just what the State
Alliance of South Carolina did in the
case of the editor of the Piedmont
| Headlight. We received notification
from that body that the charges we
made against D. 2. Duncan were to be
investigated, or that our loyalty to the
| Order was questioned. So while we
were in blisstul ignorance of the fact
Aiken, and while at our office, more
than one hundred miles from the scene
of the trial, we woke up one morning
to read in a daily paper thrown at our
door that the charges Of T. l.. CAN'T
against Exchange Manager Dun.
can have been investigated that
Duncan was "Vindicated" and that
Can't expelled from the Alliance
Here we find this representative organ,
lzation of farmers, whose motto is
Equal rights to ali and special priVi-
leges to none," guilty Of an act OF des-
potism, tyrany and Injustice such as
was never before known in any civi.
liz5d and Christian land.
But this croWning outrage does not
stop here. The committee in that State
Alliance, to which the charges against
US were referred. brought IN report,
in which they stated that eve find that
the charges against Brother T. l.. CAN'T
are not proven" But what did that
Convention do? NJ. l.. Donaldson, one
of our bitterest enemies, and the man
who went on to Chicago and worked
for Grover CleYeland's nomination
while we were opposing him and up
holding our Alliance demands, and con-
tending for the selection of a candidate
in harmony with the people, arose in
that Convention, and in bitter speech
exclaimed" ,"Great God! Not proven you
say? Not proven" and then went to
demand that those resolutions be re.
committed, and with instructions tc
make a report condemning US; and this
was done: Since the days of Jekries
when he made an unwilling jury burn
Alice Lilies at the stake, never was such
an outrage as this perpetrated.
| That Alliance Convention was con-
trolled by our political enem1es-men
who wanted strike US down because the
paper that we edit stood in the way OF
their selfish ambition-and in order tc
do this they packed a committee upon
us; and even when that committee, ter.
rolzed by the outrage that they were
chosen to perpetrate, wanted to eVade
the dirty work, its members were dri.
ven back into their room by the lash Of
seme of Grover Cleyeland's supporters
and made to do their work over again
No. That Convention was composed
of our political enemies, and presided
over by a man who had gone into q
Sunday caucus in Spartanburg and
disappointed candidate for Governor
Failing to silence or crush the Head
light, they aimed and assassip's dagger
at US in the dark, and the stab came un'
seen and without warning.
This action by the Spartanburg Sub
Alliance will be re-echoed by Alliance:
throughout our Piedmont section. Oul
farmers are just and fair.minded, anC
will not remain silent and see a brother
member prosecuted and bounded down
for no other reason than that he STANDS
in the way of the ambition OF certain
ofice-seeking politicians, and tells tht
people the truth: Now. what will
President Evans do? Our own Sub
Alliance refuses to obey his despotlt
and tYrannical commands, and T. L.
CAN'T will continue to meet and affiliate
with the Order. Will President Evans
expel the Spartsnburg Sub-Alliance'
It is the only thing left. And W.
predict that after he is through witt
this lodge be will have many other:
in our own and other counties to dea
with; and so the public will be treated
to the spectacle of a Sunday caucusel
and would be Governor, acting on
small scale the Tycoon of Swat, am
and with his tyranical hand tearing tc
pieces the organization that he is elect
ed to build up. The issue is now
clearly drawn between L. L. Can't,
plain Alliance man, and W. d. Evans
president Of the State Alliance. We
refuse ito obey his commands and quit
the Order. 10 this determination the
sub. Alliance, of which we are mem
Der. stands at our back.
Now, what is President Evans going
to Go about it? How is he going tc
help himself and vindicate his author
tty r To remain silent will make him
the laughing stock of the country
President Evans has issued his pronun'
ciamento expelling T. L. Can't, but T
L. Can't refuses to be expelled, and
his lodge declares It's intention of con
tinuing to receive and recognize him
So this Alliance Dictator, who assumes
unto himself the right to try and con-
denim member without the accused
even being informed that he is under a
charge and on trial, has now two horns
of dilemma placed in his hands. we
are anxiously waiting for the next step
to be taken by President Evans.
A Narrow Escape or Train.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, Aug. 6.-The most
remarkable feature Of last nights at