The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-08-22
4 BITTER ATTACK
ON MR.. w. GiB8ES WiALEY BY EDi-
TOR kOGSTER
Ofthe Columbia Register, Who Declares
that the Reform Ring ia Charlsston Is p
Thousand Times Worse than the Old

Thousand Times Worse than the Ole
Ring.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Aug lG.-The Reg
lister, of last Tuesday, published the
following bitter attack on Mr.. w
Gibbes Whaley, of Charleston, which
was the cause of the difficulty between
Editor Koester, of the Register, an6
Mr.. Whaley, on Wednesday in the lobby
of the Hotel Jerome. The following
is the article:
If many delegates to the State Re-
form Convention were elected by meth
DDS az rotten as those used in Charles.
ton no true Reformer in the State Will
hays any respect for that Convention
or will consider himself bound by its
action. The Register is devoted heart
and soul to the Reform movement, but
it will be just as outspoken in con-
demning rettenness and unfairness In
that movement as in condemning those
qualities in the opposition. IT such
noXious weeds are allowed to grow un-
checked in the Reform garden they Will
soon choke and kill its valuable plants.
| Any Reformer who sees wrong doing
| by Reformers and allows it to go un-
rebuked is derelict to his duty.
We do not accuse Mr.. John Gary
Evans of any participation in the af-
fairs, but his managers in Charleston
stole the delegation from that county
to the State Reform Convention by
methods so outrageous as to be con-
demned when their blood was cool by
some who took part in them. Sher-
if Hugh Fergunson the boss rlag5ter
of Charleston, could learn lessons 10
polttic3l m 3nipulation from w. Glbbes
Whalay and his satellites. He never
dared 90 one.thousandth part as far IN
disregard of the rights of other men as
did the self. elected boss OF Charleston
Reformers If Reform ls to grow and
expand in South Carolina, or even to
retain its present strength, Rsformers
will have to disoWn and condemn such
political dishonesty as was enacted in
Charleston under the name of Reform.
The machine part of the Charleston
Reform faction needs most radical re-
formation. 1t would take the com.
bined waters of the Ashley and Cooper,
with large assistance from the Allan
tic, to wash it even approximately
clean.
The Reform Movement was aimed
and designed to bring about such po-
litical conditions as would secure fair
and square play among the white men.
With snat purpose as its main object 1t
rapidly gained strength; II that pur-
pose is lost sight of, it will just as rap.
idly lose strength. Those men in Char
lesion who c'alm to be Reformers and
who last Saturday night acted IN such
utter disregard of this most vital prln-
ciple of Reform should be pilloried be-
fore the gaze of the people of the State
by the Reformers; II the Reform party
is to shoulder responsibility for such
action, there are many men who Will
leave the Reform party.
a little description OF the way things
were manipulated in Charleston will
not be an1iss. Some of the leading
Reformers there say that W. Gibbes
Whaley, who has represented Charles
ton County on the State Reform COM
mites, was only self.elected to that
position: that he was never chosen oy a
meeting of Charleston Reformers. Ger
tainly be has In no way acted as he
should haVe in that position. The Re-
form committeeman from each county
was expected to act as a head to the
Reformers In his county, to direct
work to organize and strengthen them.
Mr.. Whaley has done absolutely moth
ing In Charleston to develop the
strength of the Reformers there. In
fact it looks as If he had no desire to
strengthen the Reform faction there; 1t
appeared as if he preferred to keep it
weak so be could more readily get his
desires filled.
The State Reform committee ordered
that the Reformers in the various pre-.
cincts should meet on the l1th instant
and elect delegates to thelr County
Convention, which would elect sele
gates to the State Reform Convention.
Ia Charleston Mr.. Whaley was given
the power to say whether the Reform
ers of that city should all vote in one
central club, or should vote in their
precinct clubs. A central club was
formed, but on Friday. she day before
the election, Mr.. Whaley had not DE-
cided whether the votes for delegates
to the County Convention should be
taken in the central club, Or IN the
twelve precinct clubs, and no public
notice was ever given Of his decision
on that subject. The voters were left
in doubt on material point, and their
doubt was not dispelled until after
Ringmaster Whaley had manipulated
things to suit himself.
we have referred to a Central Re
form Club in Charleston. 1t was formed
after slight notice and never held an
other meeting after that on which 1t
was formed, which was attended by
forty or fifty people. The secretary
elected at that meeting ls a man who
has always affiliated with colored Re-
publicans. The club never met again
until Saturday night, but its roll grew
in that time, according to the state
ments of its officers. These additional
names were never passed upon by the
club, but were simply put upon the roll
by its officers, as was right and proper.
Messrs. Therreli and Thomas were put
upon the roll in this manner, and the
editor of the Register heard the secre-
tary of the club and Mr.. Whaley assure
Mr.. Therrell, who was out OF the city
when the CLUB was formed, that he had
done all that was necessary to make
him a member of the club In full stand
ing and that he could participate in
the meeting on Saturday night. There
was no rule passed by the club at its
only meeting that members could only
be admitted on vote of the club.
When the CLUB met on Saturday night
it's second meeting, Messrs. Therrell
and Thomas, the leaders OF the Ellerbe
and Tindal forces respectively, were ad-
mitted. When the roll was called they
answered to their names just as others
who had been put on the roll since the
lirst and only previous meeting. They
were allowed to take part in the pro.
ceedings until it was seen they were
not Evans, when Mr. Whaley arose and
moved that they be excluded from the
hall, which was done. The Mr.. WhaleY |
who had them excluded was the Mr.. |