The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-09-04
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1nQ1F1Qual.
Mr.. James NJ. Richardson, in his
defense of his friends, did not put
himself to the trouble to get fully
informed as to the circumstances
which brought forth our comments.
However, we will give his letter to
our readers, and let them, after
coupling it with the above, judge OF
it's merits
PANoLA S. c., August q, 1895.
Editor Manning Times:
have Just seen in your issue Of the 2lst
instant flaming headlines commenting IN
most upfriendly manner on two families
IN the Fulton section.
Now, would say that I can not under
stand how you can preach peace and unity
in one part Of your paper-even il the
| issue referred to-and in another place say
all you can to arouse the passions Of
some.
These gentlemen to whom you allude arr
retiring and unobtrusive. You and your
| paper both, am sure, arc far from their
thoughts. They, we all know, are among
the very best people of the State. am
satisfied they have always treated you-as
it Is their very nature to treat everyone
with consideration.
Why do you try to prejudice s,'lne OF
our people against them? As for myself,
I can not understand how such things as
saw in said paper could havo enaanated
from any mouth influenced by a proper or
even manly heart.
You accuse these men by inference of
saying that the negroes they did not think
were going to vote.
This was very reasonable opinion at
the time, no demonstrations having been
made. We in this section-Panola-had
much the same idea.
heard one man say that he went out and
4 tasked his hands the morning of the elec'
ton left them in the field. and was sur
prised when they turned up with him at
i the polls Almost every one was surprised
they turned out so solidly.
You accuse them again in the same way
of looking upon ''our efforts TO get the
Democrats to vote as trick to get the
Conservatives TO vote"
Any fair-minded man of reasonable lu'
telligence coull read "between the lilies
of your issue previous to the election and
see the meaning. for which l accord you
credit. But why condemn them and al
most deny that which is true? believe
every one would give you credit for carry
ing the general election.
Perhaps why you think those people t"l
a few cents might keep themselves postee
is because you only know that they do no
take certain paper and have not seer
your insulting remarks.
Hoping you will give this the same pub
llcity as you did the subject-matter. am
respectfully, J. NJ. RICHARDSON.
We are preaching peace, and NEAR
what We say; but how can there bt
any peace when white men distrus
each other and think that every
thing done or said is "trick ?
4 How can there be any peace whel
little handful of men undertake tt
dictate to large majority?
The action of the Fulton club
whose membership is made up prin
cipally of members of two families
and they really are but the same
family-say that unless division il
had they Will DO nothing. Ihls, TOO
coming from people whose kitt
and kin have been honored time anC
again by the same people who make
up the present majority. Then whel
a prominent member of this club anc
one of the same family respond to 6
warning with the insinuation that
the warner was trying to trick hin
and his, it was sufficient provocatioI
to write as we did.
/ We will make no further comment.
on Mr.. James n. Richardson's letter
only to say that what We have writ
ten was not in spirit of malice, but
what we felt to be duty we oweC
our fellow-Democrats.