The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-06-26
Williams Z Flrehrand.

VI
If A. B. Williams, of the Greenville
News, is correctly reported, he is the
most consumate ass that ever trod in
shoe-leather.
When he tells the Conservatives
that they can win the fight for the
Convention if they will "bring moral,
political, pecuniary, physical, and
other influences" to bear on our farm
ers, he simply means that our farm
ers can be bought up like so many
cattle and driven to the polls.
The idea of a mau pretending to
have common sense, saying that the
votes of our farmers can be secured
by their creditors putting the screws
to them. Every sensible creditor
knows that if he was to undertake to
force our farmers to vote against
their wishes it would be a game the
farmers could play at also, and busl-
ness would be entirely disorganlzed.
Mortgages on property would be no
security for the reason, that the
mortgagors would combine to pre-
vent the mortgages on their property
being forecloSed.
Such erratic and silly threats as
were made by Williams does more to
separate the people than every
thing else.
Williams comes out in card deny
ing the language attributed to him
by the reporter of the Register. This
denial convicts him and leaves Mr..
Williams with nothing to do but to
go off and hide his head in shame for
having uttered such u foolish threat
about white men.
The following paragraph is taken
from Mr. Williams's denial, and If his
language is not resented by the Con-
servatives themselves We will be mis-
taken. Listen to what he says in
his defense:
What Your reporter obviously tried to
describe was reply Of mine to the sugges-
ton of somebody that "the ring" having
the election supervisors and managers
would force victory no matter how much
strength its opponents might develop. l
said it, and I have already expressed the
same iiea editorially in the Greenville
News, that with the moral, social. financial,
commercial, physical, and intellectual force
the opposition would represent, organized
and applied, the chances would be in IA
vor Of securing fairness in the election.
went on to say that nearly all these cleo
ton officers will have social or business
connections with people on our side; some,
or many of them, would probably be IN
debt or under obligations of friendship or
relationship, or otherwise, to their oppo-
nents; that in the face Of these facts did
not believe any general scheme Of fraud
could be carried out; that there were very
few men who could be trusted to de!iber-
ately swindle their own neighborS, friends,
kinsmen, and associates and incur the just
Ill. Will of those whom they might be or e1-
pect to be under obligations.
In the national campaign of 1884 a
preacher said if the Democratic party
succeeded the country would be
ruled by Rum, Romanism, and Re-
bellion, and this foolish utterance
cost Blaine the loss of the Presi-
dency. Had not Burchard made
that statement New York State
would have gone for Blaine.
In South Carolina the people want
to get together, but every time they
make an effort some fool of a Bur
chard lets his brains fly out of his
mouth and spoils things.
If Williams and few like him
could be Gagged for the next two
months the country might have some
relief.
Farmers, Williams of the Green
vile News intimates you can be
bought; what do you think Of him !?