The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-12-19
Wednesday, December 19, 1894.
Peace Without Sacrifice.

The Columbia State of the 18th
instant will have it that "The Man
ming Times, which may be consid-
cred the best reflector of Congress
man McLanrinss views" is afraid to
come out and name the ''ple-hunters
and place -grabbers" it referred to in
its last issue. We desire to inform
the State that the editor of this paper
does not wait to learn the views OF
Congressman McLaurin or anybody
else, but should his views meet with
the approval of Congressman NC
Laurip, it is a source of qualification
to know it.
In our editorial of last week we ex-
pressed the hope that the people
would come together and we are SIN
cere in that hope. We do not pro-
pose to 90 back to find who is re-
sponsible for the division among the
people, but we are going to make our
fight to restore peace in the ranks OF
the white Democracy in this State,
and we will succeed if not thwarted
in our purpose By extremists who
will see no good in the Reform
movement, and who stand up in the
Senate chamber and hurl 'war to the
knife" into the teeth Of Reformers
that offer the olive branch OF peace.
The Manning Times did ''repel
with indignation the intimatlon that
McLaurin had betrayed the Reform
movement" as such papers as the
Headlight endeavored to make it ap-
pear. McLaurin wrote letter ad-
dressed to the editor Of the Times,
and in it he gave expression to his
views on certain matters OF pubic
concern, which every man has the
RIGHT to do. There was nothing in
the letter that showed betrayal, but
on the other hand there was a~great
deal in it that showed McLaurin was
on the watch towerlooking out for
danger. When we first read the let
ter'we did not approve of some of the
expressions he used, but when we
learned that his references to
':squedunks" meant men, who to
catch popular applause, were trying
to initiate Governor Tillman, We
agreed with him that instead of the
people taking up ilnitators they
should seek men with merit of their
own. But the last campaign is a
thing of the past, and there is no use
in sitting old ashes. What the peo-
pie are Interested in now is the fu-
ture, and instead of those newspapers
that formerly opposed everything
suggested by the Reformers continu-
ing such a policy, we hope they will
come with US and join in to bring
about a better state of feeling than
now exists.
The Manning Times is a strong be-
lever in tie principles of the Reform
movement, because it believes those
principles are founded on right, and
while we are anxious to see the white
people of this State q unit IN sentl-
ment, we do not want to see the Re-
formers sacrificing those principles
for the sake of peace. Peace can be
obtained without the least sacrifice OF
principle, and it must be. The
cause of our differences is not that
our principles are wrong, but because
a few politicians in and out of Office
find it to their personal interests to
keep the people as vide apart as pos
sible with turmoil and strife, just as
scandal-monger goes from one to
another in community spreading
discomfort.
The time is at hand for people to
know who are true Reformers, or Re
ormers-for-revenue-only, and if they
will sift out the Reformers from the
others, the war that has been on US
for the past four years will be at an
end. Father will again meet son in
loving embrace, brother will greet
brother with a warm grasp Of the
hand, and neighbors will again meet
at the cross-road store to swap lies
and tobacco.