The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-09-25
GEORGE MURREY
Sleeds His Race-Bob Stewart Wants
to Be County Chairman-So
Does J. DuRant and
MANY Others
Many Others.

contenting himself with having the honor
of not receiving the Republican nomlna-
ton for the Constitutional convention, was
the presiding officer, with Number Seven
Delaine as secretary There seemed to Le
Il great CT confusion about electing county
chairman in the place OF Syfax Milton to be
great lnosul OF that party, who is, It was
said, ''insufsticasea Oh account OF bad
health" from further attending to the
work Of chairman.
4. a. Stewart, amid considerable haras-
sing interruptions, endeavored to show the
convention that it was necessary for them
to elect a new county chairman, aud lntl-
mated in a delicate but firm manner that
his own shoulders were sufficiently strong
to bear the b .rdea. He had strong and
stubborn opposition from aJulius DuRant,
who punctured Stewards sentences with
jumping up as if ne had just sat on tacs
to cal. the gentleman to order. The chair
of course would request Parliamentarian
DuRant from Packsville to state his point
of order, whereupon this irrepresslble
statesman would launch off into a speech
foreign to the subject under discussion.
lie finally succeeded in getting Stewards
heels knocked from under by having q
nlot;on made to postpone the election OF
county chairman.
TIE convention was 4 stormy ana no.Sy
ccc: some OF the members seemed 20
think their preseuce would not be known
unless they raised a racket. One tall,
skinny, yellow preacher from the st. Pau:
section had q speech, and II he did not get
a chance to let i of, combustion may have
been the result
The court room was we'll filed, and at
times things looked as if row could not
be kept down, but every time things looked
sora!iv some of the leaders would have
business in the jury room unit! quiet
could be restored. 70 make long story
short the convention WAS 4 strong one, the
weather was hot, AMI amid the excitement.
oessiculationS and burning eloqneDce It IS
wonderful that the writer IS not also '.A.
snist;cated.
To wind up the couTention's work &
member announced that 4 distinguished
gentleman was in town, AID . committee
should be appoiatea to invite him into the
hall.
The suggestion was put into motion
aal Stewart seconded It.
IL appointing the committee the chair
man seemed to have q political knife up
his sleeve for Stewart and ignored him, al!
though he knew that the man referred to
was guest ut Stewards house.
The mover, noticing tais fragrant breach
OF convention etiquette, requested that
Stewart be placed on the committee IN
stead Of himself.
The convention then took c recess, and
after about half al hours wait, the coca-
mittee arrived, escortiDg a tall black gentle
man whose name is George Washington
Murrey, but instead OF going back into
the court house, they very CONSIDERABLY
took their guest on the stand in the public
square, where a sympathislng wind could
wait away and weaken the strength OF
such crowd.
Every fellow felt his prominence and
climbed upon toe stand in the wake of
Murrey.
As soon as quiet could restored R. A.
Stewart, in real, Intelligent style, intro
duced the statesman, logician and philar-
thropist," and up went the huzzas of an ad-
m;rins multitude All the while that
Stewart was delivering his eulogis:ic
speech Nurrey sat in the center OF the
stage with thG whites Of his eyes looking
like snowballs in the side OF a coal mine,
and at the conclusion Of the Introduction
he came forward with Gignitied tread and
modestly referred to the nice things his in
tyoaucer had said Of him.
He gave his hearers a lecture on the
rules of the Republican party, which
seemed to fit the dilemma eve Repubii-
can is il" Just now about the election CT 4
county chairman. lie roasted State Cha;
man Webster, teru;ng INN a ''wc;lk!iaa."
Murrey had good deal to say about TIE
discrimination against the negroes II the
South, and to:a them such MAS not tie
case in Cleveland. Ohio; that there the
white aad colored children sat side by side
in the same schools; society was open to
the colored folks, and that as loDg as the
negro would content himself to live IN log
cabins Oh white the mans plantation his
condition would never be better.
We inferred from his speech that he al
vocated the negroes leaving the farms and
crowd into the cities and towns. He was
very so,icitoIls about the dowD-trodden and
hungry condition of the negroes, himself
as sleek any shiney as :. polished billiard
ball. Then came the real object OF his
visit.
After first endeavorinG to arouse the pre-
iudices Of lis ignorant hearers by telling
them that the .'roor buckrn" had control
of the government at present, and that
such men as Tillman were constantly
packing the white men together with the
cry Of 'swhite supremacy" he said tho rea-
son these poor buckra" did Let want the
.niecer" to have any showing IN politics
was becarsa they were afraid the nlgSers
woa!d he marrying their daughters.
He also told them that someof that fac
ti,, known as Conservatives were dis
posed to be more just toward them and
soc;o,lv end politically; but instead Of the
..nissers" standing by such people they
wonl3 take to the "foreign jew, Dptchman,
Irishman or any others wHo Wo"!o PAT
than, on the back and call them mime
friend" and tEeu, after the 'n:55efS A""
| lifted them up and the ot4er |h..e pH'9te
began to notice them, the foreigner was
worse on the .suigger" than home folks.
One of his illustrations was saat : group
of white men would be s:anGlcG Il the
street ard beyond was a WOMAN coM'h9
from tne direction AMI another t:i!n AZ
opposite direction. One was c@ioEe:'. As
tic resress approached TIE wnl!e msn
barely gave ker vcom to PASS, b"t when the
white woman c;liao along, these se;ae wElte
men would phil of their Aat5 ana almost
fall over enc another to give her ROOM