The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-24
MANNING, S. c.:
WEDNESDAY, JULY "a, 1895.
S,,n Keeper shepperd Martyr.

c,a,,nerd. the ColuluoAe1
Who was sentenced by Judge
townsend to the penitentiary los
-;o,a+inc an order of the court, was
+-ea+ed the same way as every o.heF
s.s;sonar in tina, institution-hls halr
was clipped and he was put ~
stripes. a other
The News and Courier and othes
whisky advocates are terribly workea r,e
np: they think it is an ontras. 'l for
non sent to the penitentlary 'of
.-;olatine the whisky law should nave
tho same treatment as other prs
onars. an We suppose the antl-alspeh
sarvites would have man sent 10 .ne
nenitentiary for violating the ois
nensary law, taken out every aise- s
poon for a carriage ride and be fur-
nisbed with all the latest perlooicais,,
maeaziues, newspapers and works OF
ar+ :. that the prison authorities
should place a few telo".oou
.:.+s vt his disposal to wait upon
NV and furnish him with various
other luxuries. ,;,-a
Anti.dispensary newspapers IKE
the News and Courier, the Columo,a
S+ote and their little yelpers through,
ont the State, are raising a big racAe'
over this man Shepperd, and VINO IS
ba, He is a notorious law-oreaAer'
and at the time of his arrest "a'
running a dirty dive, sum- heli-ho!s'
where the vilest of the vile oo'N
male and female, regardless OF color
consregated nightly, and iroln 'nas
reeking pest-hole great por1aoh "
the debauchery, house-oreaAihs,
sand-bagging, pickpocketins ana
otber crimes which fill up the court
dockets of Columbia eninated; then
for newspapers pretendins to De
working for the upbulldlns o.
moral sentiment, to hold up the'r
hands in holy horror and defeno
spch a creature-for political puf
poses-because this father OF crime
is incarcerated in the penitentlarS' Is
a sin and shame.
We will venture the assertion 1ha'
not one of the editors who now pre-
tend to be so indignant because
shepperd was put in the peniteh-
tiary by our State courts but VINO
clapped their hands with Joy wheh
the State constables were locked up
nv the United States courts, would
be seen coming out of Sheppero
nlace of business for nan
their incomes, and we doubt II
anv of these editors would speak to
the shepperd if they met him on the
street; yet they WILL denounce' iof
politics sake, the States officers lot
attempting to rid decent com
munity of pest which, if not re-
moved, will do untold damage.
We do not know whether the high
est courts will sustain the law under
which Judge Townsend sentenced
Shepperd but, as long as the statute
is not declared unconstitutional, the
State courts will sentence those con-
yicted before them to the State penl-
tentiary, and the authorities at the
State prison will show no discrim-
ination. Once man is within the
walls of the penitentiary as a con-
yict he is q convict, whether sent
there for riot, theft or selling whisky,
and if man does not want to go
there he must not violate the law.
The News and Courier has more
grounds for raising rumpus in the
McAllister case than in the Shepperd
case; but, while the McAllister case
should be stencil in the nostrils of
all decent people, that newspaper
silently let's it alone because it has
no factional significance, and the
morals of the community is not what
it is after right now.