The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-09-04

FOR THEM THEY DO NOT KEEP Up WITH TIE
CURRENT EVENTS OF TIE DAY.
We received card yesterday from a
gentleman in the Fulton section saying
that the people there did not believe the
negroes there were going to vote. and that
they. looked upon our efforts to get the
Democrats to vote as trick to make the
Conservatives vote.
If the people Of the Fulton section were
a reading community and kept themselves
posted on whc. the rest Of the world are
doing, they would not be so hard to oo-
lieve when warned of their danger. lis a
pity that people laying claims to lntelli'
eence should be 80 far behind the times
when, for few cents. they can keep them
selves posted.
Why send missionaries abroad when
they are needed at home?
In reply to the above the follow
ing caustic letter was received from
Major Richardson:
Fulton, S. c., August 27. 1895.
Mr.. Louis Applet, Manning, $. c.:
DEAs ApPELT-I am sorry my postal
card should have stirred your wrath to
the extent Of bringing down on the heads
Of the innocent people Of Fulton such
philippe as was contained in your paper
of the 2lst instant.
I alone am responsible. and cantlet the
community be blamed for my indivldus!
want of intelligence and discretion. was
wrong to answer your card, but forgot
was writing to an editor and not merely 9
feilow-citizan.
Perhaps if you had awaited the returns
from our precinct, we might have escaped
your Interpretation and sarcasm.
As it is, I can only hope your magma.
nimity may equal your animus, and you
will some day see fit to do justice to the
Conservatives of this section, who have
supported ticket by no means represent
ing their views on several points. and
when no prospect of political prgernenl
or the plums of Office could actuate them
in the remotest degree.
I would have taken no notice OF the
article except that am not willing the
people of Fulton should be charged with
what I alone have committed. Yours
truly, HENRY b. KIcHARDs son.
His complaint appears to be that
we did the people Of Fulton an in
justice when he alone is responsible ;
that we did not wait for the returns
from his precinct.
If Major Richardson in his card to
us, when he said, "There is no be.
lief here" ETC., and some think it
is a trick etc., was not speaking
for the people Of Fulton, then he
owes those people an apology for
presrming to speak for them with
out authority.
But it strikes US that the Major
did have good reasons for thinking
that his people would not take part
in the election, because his clubs
resolution meant nothing more OF
less that, unless the county executive
committee bowed to the dictation OF
the Fulton club and divided the
delegates to the convention as die
tated by them they would take no
part.
In justice to the people Of Fulton
we will here state that good many
of them did go to the polls and vote,
and we have been informed that the
Major and several of his relatives
only voted after considerable hesita-
ton and talk from friends and neigh
bors; but, be that as it may. they
voted, and we are glad they did. 1t
might be inferred from the Majors
letter that it was quite q sacrifice
for him and his friends to vote the
ticket when no prospect of 'po-
litical preferment' or the 'plums Of
Office could actuate them in the re-
motest degree
Surely he does not mean to say
that he and his friends hesitated
about voting for white men against
negroes because there was no pros
pect of political preferment or plums
Of Office in sight for them.
When the Major was himself can
didate the white masses of the
county saw no prospect of political
but they did see a pros
pect of patriotic duty, and it was
that which actuated them to vote.
The same spirit existed when all of
the Richardson's and Mannings were
candidates for Office, even when one
Of them was placed on the ticket
the people having been con-
suited. We refer to the nomination
If the Hon. J. P. Richardson for
The Legislature in 1878 when
le was placed on the ticket
after B. Gather Pierson resigned
| short while before the gen.
raj election. The people loved
20 honor them, and did shower more
lonors upon them than any OF the
'ther families in the county, and for
his very reason we think that as
ong as there exists Richardson and
. Manning the people have right |
o expect them to do their full duty
Without hesitation when an emer-
.ency arises.
1t is not our purpose to speak |
for we have the kindest |
ceilings for Major Richardson In