The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-31
Republican POW-HOW.

Republican POW-wow.
Last Friday the ghost of the RepubllcaI
party held 2 seance in the coart house, AM
Rev. Joshua E. Wilson, and S m William
of Florerce and E j. Sawyer of Bennetts
vile, delighted their audiancA OF nb ,ut ont
hundred and fifty negroes, of all shades
with an indulgence of oratorlca! pyro
technics. Wilson is McLaurin's opponen
for Congress, and from his speech he evl
IDENTIFY has no hope of being elected, bat II
the event of a Republican congress. hs
hopes TO contest McLaurins Seat and even
tually win. He urged upon his hearers tt
vote against the constitutional convention
as it was trick of the Tillmanites to dis
franchise the neslo He told them if the
constitutional convention WAS held the
colored children would not again enjoy tie
school privileges they were now enjoying
He said "go to the polls and vote, offer tc
vote and if you are refused, there will be
some one at the place to take yoar name.
The time has come when the negro must
assert himself, and if he remains away
from the polls and allow the Tilmanites to
disfranchise him by holding the convention
he deserved not the name of man. Wilson 5
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not against the white man generally, but
ignorant followers.
The next speaker was E. j. Sawyer, a
ginger bread colored lawyer. This fellow
should have had an audience of white men
who are in favor Of disrupting the Demo
cratic party. They should have listened to
the advice be gave his hearers. mong the
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the South, have the effrontrey to think they
are competent to run this government.
he scored the farmers Of the country in a
manner that would have please the most
fastidious Independent. He told the ne
groes ''to put up colored peoples store in
this town and patronize it, that it would
open up an avenue of employment for their
sons and daughters; it would force the
white merchant to employ negro clerks,
where colored lady and gentleman could
be served by gentleman or lady of their
own color" He also urged them to turn
out and vote against the constitutional con-
vention. and with as much bitterness as he
could command scored the Tillmanltes-the
"white trash of the country" He said the
negro is the equal of the white man, and
that be was glad to see that fact being re-
cognized by the best white men in the State.
He said the Democrats were divided into
two factions one call themselves the Con-
servatives, the others Reformers; that as far
as he was concerned, he saw no conserva-
tism in the former faction nor any reforma-
ton with the other; but the war is Oh between
those two factions, and the conservatives
are ready to give the negro his rights in
order to defeat the Reformers-nott that they
love the negroes more, but the Tillmsnites
less. The interest of the conservatives is
the defeat of Tillmun and his crowd, and
| it is to the interest of the negroes also that
| Tillman should be defeated, therefore the
two interests are indentical; but with diff.
| ferent motives; the conservatives are after
the loaves and fishes, and to get them are
| willing to make any kind of promise, and
will help the negro to defeat a measure
which if successful, means no more "nigger
| in the political wood pile" The negroes are
willing to accept the promise and help of
| the conservatives, in fact are willing to ac-
cept anything that will give them the
promise of holding on to the ballot, because
| the day will come as sure as the sun shines
when the negro will be the leading political
factor of this country. It will only rake a
few years more of political liberty with our
present educational facilities to give our
colored boys and girls decided advantage
over the whites, but if these Tillmanites
succeed in taking the ballot away from US
and shutting off the property tax Of the
| white man from the colored schools, it will
retard our progress. He orged them to
vote for Wilson, whom he eulogized. He
said that McLaurin was from his own town
that he knew him; that he was good man
and smart, but he is Tillmanite, which
was more than he could stomach. Sawyer's
speech was applauded considerably, but
after the meeting. one darkey going down
the stairs told number of others that if
they were fools enough to listen to "dat
Sawyer" be wasn't. He said some of 'dese
buckra dat Tillnlan tex licker fom hire dat
niger to 60 tro de country to stir de mig
gers and try to mex dem believe dst de
rich buckra would stand by dem. shoe! dis
niger amt gwine to mex himself bres work
for none OF dem.'
The last speaker was the very, very black
chairman OF the 9Th congressional district
sam Williams. He could hardly get star
ted, but when he got warm under the COL
lar he began to perspire, and fume and
rave against the ''oneduc.ted white trash"
and against "TillAan wild his nlasgot char
ter power" This fellow dwelt considerably
on the colored men being the equal of the
white men and be quoted from the bible
when Racheal went tro de streets Of Rome
weeping and wailing and gnashing her
teet." He said "dis great maggot charter
power dat Tillman got must be checked or
in two more years de buckra' would tex
all de school tax money to educate de buck
"a children and we must not submit to it; de
time has come when We must raise up in
our manhood and show de Nllmanites we
is men"
The principal theme with the orators
was "the TillmaDiteS the school tax, and
constitutional convention. and had some
white men that are now thinking of voting
against the convention, been present we
are satisfied that this meeting would have
been convincer to vote constitutional con-
vention. Yes