The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-03-13
Why Irby Is Kicking.


Senator J. L. NJ Irby is now en-
gagged in the harmless amusement of
doinga good deal of talking through
his hat. As the Charleston Sun sayshis
first letter Oh the Constitutional COM
promise was strong one in its way
and from personal standpoint but he
begins now to talk like rag.baby.
Senator Irby is quoted in an interview
with Washington correspondent as
saying:
IF the proposed compromises effec-
ted and the contract, which is signed
and now in the possession of men who
showed it to me, is fulfilled, it can only
mean the death knell of the Reform
movement aud the Democratic party
in South Carolina. l have heard from
a man whose word cannot be disputed
to his face and who had right to
know their secrets, that young VIM
| C. MCGOWAN, of Abbeville, who at
tended the conference, is to succeed
Latimer in Congress. Dan Il. Hen
derson. of Aiken. who also attended
the conference. is to take Talbert's
place. Ira B. Jones, an old enemy Of
| DR.. Strait is to displace him, and VIM.
D. Evans is to take McLaurin's scalp
NJ. L. Donaldson, of Greenville, whom
the people repudiated as one of Cleve-
lands cuckoos. is for Stanyarne Will
sons place. Joe Barnweu IS to get
the nigger's or Col. Elliott's seat IN
the House. Cal Hemphill seems to
be satisfied with the prospect OF be-
coming the successor of the late Capt
Dawson, the brainy editor of The
News and Courier, as the political
generalissimo of the Democratic
forces in South Carolina. do not
vouch for this programme, but one
equally inimical to the people of South
Carolina will be promulgated. AS far
as l am concerned, I have burnt my
bridges and expect 70 stay in the fight
as long as plank in the Reform craft
is afoat
We agree with the Charleston Sun
that nobody will give credence to lr-
bv's assertion that there is contract,
written or otherwise, between Senator
Tillman and the Conservatives who
attended the late conference. No Re
former Will believe for one moment
that Senator Tillman would be guilty
of doing ANYTHING that would hurt
the Reform Movement. lrby has seen
no such contract as he processes to
have seen, or else he would not fall
back on hearsay evidence to let the
public into the stip"lations Of the con-
tract. lie is simply talking through
his hat. with the hope that what he
SAYS may iniure Senator Ellman, but
:, he very much mistakes the temper of
l the people i he thinks any such tao
ties will succeed
As the Sun goes on to say the future
5 may hold in its womb some of the po-
; litical changes which Irby predicts,
not because ofany agreement, butfrom
5 the natural course Of events. but
:: there is one mental spectre in
! this panorama OF fate which
most ills Irby's soul with des-
. peraticn and fear and yet which he
5 carefully excludes from the printed
: category hoping, it may be, that by
). silence the ghost in his thought may
best be laid. It is the spectre Of the
l dumb, cold corse of his own political
5 career: the blighting breath of the
charnel house, the pail, the gloom,
: while above it climbs, with steadfast
: purpose and singleness Of ainl,: that
): recks not of any obstacle to his ambi-
T ton the man who late the Senator
helped to pull above the heads of 9th
: ers and now tears his hair and vents
e impotent imprecations upon his folly,
!: as he sees his pupil and protege praid
! ly forging ahead to the first place IN
e the political race, which the former
| fondly thought to hold to the end Of
J, time, and already become his masters
" master
Had Irby taken up the thick-witted
Ellerbe or the conservative and, tlmld
Tindal in the 1894 campaign for the
Reform standard bearer he would
have forestalled his sad fate. It took
no prophet to foresee when he cham
e pioned the cause of the enterprising
n son Of Aiken that he was pursuing the
t srTest method of comprising his own
V downfall. We predicted this trend of
n events from the start and cannotthere-
! fore think that it was wholly hidden
n behind the veil of the future. Sena-
9 tor Irby at last fully realizes what is
5 in store for him and no agreement that
$ now ca, be arrived at will placate him
:. which { YES not include a pledge that
h will prune John Gary Evans political
: pinions to flight short of the United
g States Senate. He fondly hopes to-
t interest and identify with his own the
e fate of others sufficient to give success
:. full battle to the new coalitiot.2-The
l. Times and Democrat.
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