The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-09-05
Stand by the Nominees!

Stand by the Nominees!
We often read in patent medicine
advertisements "when you are troub-
led with that tired feeling" take the
medicine advertised, but we can say
to our readers if you do not wish to
be troubled with that 'ttired feeling"
do not pay any attention to the po-
htical twaddle our friends of the op-
position are indulging in. They give
IS a reason for not participating in
the recent Democratic primary that
they were ylisfranchised and not al
lowed to have voice IN selecting
the nominees of the party. Let US
see if this is true OF merely an excuse
to disrupt the Democratic organiza-
ton as organized. Two years ago
the Conservative faction in the coun-
ties throughout the State sent repre-
sentatives to Columbia and nomi-
mated full State ticket, with Shep-
perd and Orr at its head. The Re-
formers we're not consulted, nor were
they expected to have voice in that
selection, because it was strictly q
iactional affair to be submitted to the
voters at the Democratic primary.
The representatives from the coun-
ties were selected by a few men IN
each county without the formallty of
a convention being called for the pur.
pose. This year the Reformers held
factional convention, but instead OF
selecting the delegates to said con-
vention by a few, the entire faction
was called upon to assemble at their
respective clubs and vote for the can
didates of their choice with the dis
tinct understanding that any white
voter who would pledge himself to
abide the result should be allowed to
participate, and with the further un-
derstanding that whoever was select
ed as the Reform standard-bearer
would make his fight for the nomina-
tion of the Democratic party at the
general primary, and if defeated to
abide the result and support the sue
cessful nominee. If the Conserva-
tive faction had wished to enter can
didates there was nothing to prevent
them. They could have repeated
their action of two years ago, and
pitted their men against the choice
of the Reformers In the primary.
Waen-+tshsy did it before it was not
considered wrong, and the reason
they did not repeat it IS because past
experience taught them it would be
& useless task. The fear OF defeat
kept them back.
It has been said the Conservatives
are always doing the wrong thing at
the right time, and their recent con-
duct proves it. They claim that
great dissatisfaction exists in the Re
form ranks, and base that claim upon
the light vote polled in the Reform
primary. If they really believed in
the dissatisfaction existing why did
thew not take advantage of it by put
ting out a ticket in the Democratic
primary? No, they knew the feeling
among the Reformers; they knew
that many refrained from voting in
the Reform primary because either OF
the Reform candidates would suit
and the necessity for polling a full
vote did not exist. To show the cry
Of dissatisfaction has no foundation
in fact, one has only to take the hgg-
ures given in last Saturdays News
and Courier. That paper shows the
full vote in the primary Of 1892, with
the two factions fercely contending
against each other, when the lame,
the halt, and the blind was broug ght
to the polls, to be SS,l92, and in the
recent primary, with no opposing
ticket in the field, the vote was 5S,4l3.
Deduct the entire vote polled in the
Conservative counties of Charleston,
Beaufort, Sumter, Richland, and
Georgetown, which was 1888, and IN
some OF these counties the Reformers
polled considerable vote. Sumter,
for example, the Conservatives won
by a bare majority, and it still shows
Shat the Reformers, without any op-
position, and without anything to
cause any excitement OF exertion,
poned 5O,S15 votes. What hope the
Conservatives have of making fight
in the general election without the
aid of the negro vote, we fail to see,
for the reason: if the Democratic vote
of 1892 after hot canvass and each
faction spending its entire energies
polled SS,192 votes, and this year the
Reformers alone without counting the
votes polled in the Conservative
counties and without opposition
brought out 50,sl5 votes, where is
their hope of success? for the figures
show a Reform majority of nearly
10000, which will surely turn out at
the general election and stand square
no to the nominees Of the Democratic
party as now organized.
From our standpoint the ConserVa-
tive faction is in an inconsistent po-
sition. First, they now condemn the
Reformers for selecting factional
candidate before the primary, which
the Conservatives themselves did two
wears ago. Second, they recognized
the Democratic organization as now
organized by putting candidates in
the field and voting for them in the
primary in those counties where they
felt sure of winning Third, in the
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