The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-31
THE DUTY OF DEMOCRATS.
They Should Support the Nominees :
Pope Hit Hard.
from The Piedmont Headllght.l

Let every true Democrat in South Caro-
lima, without regard to past factioual lines,
go to the polls on the 9th day of November
and vote the straight State ticket. BY the
Conservatives doing this, it will do more
than anything else to restore political fel-
lowship between the factions. We are par
ticulariy anxious that the city of Spartan
burg give the regular Democratic ticket a
large majority for it will have a good effect
here after, and do much to build up the
business of our towu. You may talk about
bridging the political chasm, but unless
the minority show by their votes that they
are ripe for reconciliation, the people Will
not believe them.
DR.. Pope is an Independent candidate,
an6 is not such man as any self-respecting
voter would wish to support. He held for
vears lucrative Office under the Reform
administration, and was most violent and
abusive in his criticism of the Conserva-
tives. He helped to draw up those Laurens
and then withdrew from the primary be-
cause his own suggestions were accepted.
He started out making speeches strongly en-
dorsing the dispensary law, but Topped over
and now one of the most violent denouncers
of that same law. While claiming to be a DEM
ocrat, the Doctor advocates high protective
tariff, which is straight-cut Republican doc
trine. DR.. Samps. Pope is worse than a
political turn.coat He has gone back on
his own people, and is now denouncing
everything he once supported. And man
who will desert one party will desert an
other party, when it his interest to do so.
How any Conservative can vote for DR..
Samps Pope, with his inconsistent and
treacherous record before him, IS beyond
our comprehension. Such voter must
be in sore straits indeed, as was the old
maid who went into the woods to pray to
the Lord to send husband, when one Of
those old horned owls in a tree overhead
screeched out, ''Woo! Woo~
The old gal thinking that her petition
was answered, eagerly replied, Just any
body, on Lord Just anybody you will send
and who will have me" When Conser-
vative votes for DR., Pope, he is certainly
in hard row of stumps, and the best
thing we can advise him to do is to 60 out
and hang himself.
But in the event that the Ants and ne
groes unite on Pope and our Reformers
remain away from the polls, there is dan
ger of his coming in. Information has
reached US that the blacks are secretly Or
ganizing all over this county, as we'll as
the State, and the last one of them intends
to vote for DR.. Pope. Now, this black vote
will amount to but little unless the dis
gruntled whites go with them. and our
farmers fail to do their duty and turn out.
In that event Pope would be elected Gov
ernor Our Reformers must not imagine
that their work was finished when they
nominated John Gary Evans and a State
ticket. 1t is true that their crop has been
made, but they must go to the polls ID
in November and gather it in.
And another thing: We believe that DR..
Pope is backed by Republican campaign
money. If not, why is he supporting
protective tariff so earnestly? And then,
where does that money come from to print
several hundred thousand election tickets
and campaign the State, stopping at fine
hotels? DR.. Pope is very poor man, so
we are reliably informed, and poor folks
can't indulge in such expensive luxuries
without outside help.
We have nothing against DR.. Pope per-
sonally, but his position Of late has been
so inconsistent and treacherous to his for
mer faction and former friends that we
have lost all confidence in him. So so to
the polls on the 9Th day of November and
vote the straight ticket, with every dotted
and everyt crossed. This is a duty that
you owe to yourself, to your party, and to
your State We cannot imagine greater
humiliation that could be inflicted upon
South Caralina than that DR.. Samps. Pope
should be elected Governor. But there is
no danger of this if every Reformer will
turn oTt and vote Even the combined
negro and anti vote could not then over
come the Democratic majority.