The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-10-23

| want you 10 open tne galeS LOT III
people. The people were the real mas
ters and they didn't want to have t
hold one office before they could hol'
another. We are not going to TAX
the old party harness that has beer
worn all over and put it on ourselves
| Wanted to elevate the legislativ
branch of the government. The leg
islature should not be allowed to cleo
certain officers.
Tillman-Can you get rid of the oh
lection that if you prohibit men from
being eligible to office, you will keel
the best men at home?
| Mr.. Gage-The best men in m,
county do not 20 to the legislature.
say this advisedly. They don't wan
to scramble for election.
Tillman-Well that is an indictmen
against Democracy and the rule Of tn
people.
Mr.. R. R. Hemphill could see no US
of such a provision. He had serve'
three years in the house and eigh
years in the senate. He never knew
man there who could be Influenced
He differed with Mr.. Gage. Good mel
had been elected judges in the past
The legislature had elected Judge Nc
IGowan, than whom no abler or bette,
man ever occupied the bench-a maj
that was honest and conscientious
Then they elected Judge Hudson, al
honorable man in every sense of tn
word. And there was Judge Wither
spoon. These men he differed with OF
some things, but nothing could be sait
against them.
The motion to strike out section 8
was carried by vote of 70 to 70.
FUTURE CONVENTIONS.
Senator Tillman then offered the fol
flowing amendment to be known as sec
ton 3S:
Section Ss. The general assembl.
shall submit to the qualified electors IL
the year 1895 and every twentieth yea
thereafter the question of calling ;
Constitutional convention; and if th'
majority of the electors shall vote II
favor thereof, then, at its next session
the general assembly shall order al
election for delegates to said Constitu
tional convention.
After it was voted down Senator Till
man said he wanted to speak. He want
ed to make brief explanation. He
called attention to the two-thirds vote
necessary to get amendments in or cal
convention. The theory Of the State:
government was the rule of the ma
jority. He referred to the trouble they
had had in getting this present conven
ton called.
Mr.. Prince raised the point of order
that section of the article oD amend
ments covered the samesubject matter
President Evans sustained the point
He ruled that the only way it could
get in was for it to be adopted as 6
| part of the legislative article and lei
the committee on style and revision pu
| it in its proper place or get that com
mittee to report it to the convention,
There was quite kick against the
ruling of the chair and Presiden'
Evans allowed the convention to take
vote as to whether they would consider
the matter or not. The convention
voted to do so.
Mr.. Haynsworth suggested that as
1915 was an off year they had best
make it read 1916. This was agreed to:
Governor Sheppard said he hoped
that this provision would not pass
The two-thirds vote should remain
there forever as protection to the peo
pie.
Tillman-Are you afraid to trust the
peoples
Sheppard-There has been no man
since the days OF Thomas Jefferson
who has a higher regard for the opin
ion of the people than I have. But
why make it obligatory upon the leg
islature to do this2
The vote was then taken and the Till
man section was killed, the vote being
~ to IS.
PENSIONS.
Mr.. Johnstone offered a substitute
for the amendment to section IS, which
made the section include allowing pen
sions to be granted to naval veterans
NEGRO BLOOD.
Mr.. W. D. Evans offered an amend
ment to section 81 which read as fol
lows:
Section "a. The marriage Of white
person witha negro or mulatto, or per.
son who shall have any negro blood
shall be unlawful and void and punish.
able as the general assembly may dl'
rect"
The amendment read as follows:
Provided, that this section shall
not be so construed as to disquallfy for
marriage with white persons any per,
son of his or her issue who shall have
at or before the adoption of this Con:
stitution the status of white persons.
This brought ''Uncle George" TIL
man to his feet. He very unwell.
He wished he was able to speak. BE
said no felt Inundated the other day
when the negro delegate from Beau.
fort clapped his hands and said the
coons had the dogs up the tree. The
Junior United States Senator and the
gentleman from Newberry brought
this humiliating matter in. If the sec,
ton stands as it is the convention will
stultify itself. The Mississippi lone,
eighth" clause, he had found, was cop
| led from the old South Carolina law.
He knew many families in Aiken, Col
Teton and Barnwell who would suffer
terribly from this. Let this stand and
there are hundreds of families in these
counties who would be in fearful
condition families regarded as among
the best. The full-blooded Caucasian
race has gone. You have either In.
dian blood, negro blood, Arab blood
or some other blood in your veins.
The first white man was wild barba,
rian and was not civilized until he had
crossed in some measure with one OF
the lighter colored races. All knew
how people would fly after property
which belonged rightfully to other
people, particularly against their own
kin folks. Did they want to offer a