The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-06-26
POLITICS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

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POLITICS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Piedmont Headlight.
Since the decision of the court OF appeals,
we do not understand how any intelligent
man, unless he desires to make himself 4
voluntary political outcaSt and who has
Deliberately made up bis mlnd to turn his
back on his own race and color and swing
to the coa.-tal OF the little remnant Of the
Republican party in South Carolina, with
the hope of catching few Of the tedera!
loaves and fishes should that party chance
to capture the Sovernmei III 1896, can
longer oppose our Democratic prinar e
and refuse 70 go therein.
White supremacy in South Carolina has
been clinched by the decision OF that
court of appeals last week N Richmond,
and the negro will be retired from the po
liticai boards in our State. l: IS folly to
kick against pr;c!;s, and you are simply
battering your brains ont when yan talk
about overriding the decree OF ON Whit
primaries They will certainly be hel;!.
and their nominees lec:ed b. ovcrwhelm
ing majorites.
This is q foregone conclusion and a set
tied fact, and our Conservative friends haI
Just as well make up their mind to grin
and bear the inevitable. They must sub
NIT to the rule of the white maj joritT, not
only in the election of delegates to oar con-
stitutional convention, bpt for TIE remain
der of their days.
Now, we know it is a waste Of words tc
try and change man who Is stepped II
bitterness ard hate, and whose whole
system is impregnated with gall against
popular rule; and to such We say, we Meth
er desire your ear or support. Like &c
enveromed and bruised lnoccaSin, yoa Can
turn around and sting yourself to death.
and waste your poison striking It; every
thing in reach But the raok ana file G: the
Conservative faction are men oi intr!il-
gence, and to such we appeal 20 stHp their
senselesS wraDgIing OVER what thcy cannot
help, and gracefully bow 10 the Wi! Of the
majority
For five years You have H:rayel yourself
against the controlling clement in So0th
Carolina, and what have voG Sccomp' iShe'!
Iou are to-day no nearer power than yUa
were in 1880 We do not insult M honest
man by asking that he sacrifice his con"ic-
tions for the purpose o.: getting on t.:
slloiS o4ue' o"t ~ o'1 Dei"'1's'!| 'i''--'''
II Is hot dsH.anued tA"t You i'"'"e's'' ''nH
eSpecla! Il1e OF poi;cy' 3Ht oH'y H"?HoF
the larry Nominated caA"''!a''S,
III our Farmers are "ro'l@ III 'He,r N'%"S.
WHY reason Win 'h'A'' ~, ~. >H'"
Sh"" tHe!a 'ue!t error. ~ a.,
open 10 argument anu coHNic'ioA, b''
don you Know that You can never cN'!H@e'
or even reach the ears ci i re'H!r 80 !".!@
rs you are arrayed IN hostile faction
against them, an" are ahSef!nS apH IuH1'I-
ing them
Nee. the Eetormers Is friends aEl'I te.,
low-citlzeIs, express yonr views ire'!y ana
honestly, and y";l VIII be gwen 4 Respect
fnl hearing IEiS Is the WY 70 "f'As
about peace anu unity III on: state aEa
draw tie whites tcg"ti"r 1"0 must get
peace and unity from the people d:ics;.
and It c&n never DC scared ny ahnS2 ana
ridicuie.
The R,farutrS II assure IL control
our Con>titat oHal convention. ANA they
Should control il, too. They a:a r,s.ioi'-
s!b!e for every law enacted S:ntc lo''o All"
it wonld be Very nowist ta.2lve q faction
that has fought those laws power to ov"i-
turn them.
But there IS not tne slightest ':'"aScf OF
that convention ih1HAalh9 upon 'ie Fights
of any man or any business:
You have lived under the Reform admin
istratlon FOR five years and South Carolina
has prospered above III her sister Southern
States. Besides. our people are learning
more about government, and are much
better qualified to rule low than in 1879.
1t is right that the minority should have
representation IN our convention, ana they
assuredly wl!l nave representation 'Aefe;
But their representatives, mus. oe FE"c'lG''i
business men, and not Pohticiahs' WHO
will 80 to Columbia 70 lufther tleir sellSn
ends. And neither should they be elected
as Conservatives, but as South CaroIlnAns.
for we can never destroy iactlonal lines by
recognizing the very political division that
we seek to obhterate
AS to the co!ored voter, lis every right
will be protected.
The farmer works the negro ana he de-
sires 10 see his laborers prosperous and
happy. Bat experience has taught our