The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-10-28
REPUBLICAN GHOST
Returned to Haunt us-Stewart
Dodges The Lily-Whites and
Crawls Back to The Black
attend.
and TanS


The Republican supposed-to-be.
corpse woke up from It's trance and
with mach beating Of a drum drew
around it on the court house sqaure
last Saturday about two hundred /
woula-if-I-could-voters 1t was a
big publican rally" to endorse the
nominees Of National, State, and Con
oressional conventions, and from the
tenor ofthe speeches the meeting was
to give "old Samps Pope" de debbii
fur linking de niggers sech fools to
Glib him Office when de Tillmanite
kick him IL de gutter cause be was
rotten.
The stand was wagon auG il i;
were a number OF de leaders fGom
de country, whom our town petite
ians need in their business. R. :.
Stewart, ex-Lily White, but now a
devoted regular since the Lily-whites
got bounced at St. Louis, presided
over ''de meetin.' The first orator
was a mahogony colored, spectacled-
eyed statesman from Sumter by the
name of ". W. Ramsey. He made a
large impression on the atmosphere
and his audience. He talked long
and loud, using SC lie very nice SEN
ter ces from reported speeches of
otter distinguished orators Of lis
party. He showed conclusively that
It was the first time lie had, had the
pleasure of speaking to his hearers on
their own native soil; and although a
foreigner himself, being from Sumter,
he loved to talk to his friends in Ciar-
endon to their faces. He then went
on and gave a history Of the Lilyg
white gang, which made Stewart :
blush, and ja-yehii CHOSEN words be
showe&yyhat his faction, tie regulars,
ssS5se.ese the only loyal republicans He
peppered Pope, Melton and Brayton,
and kept his audience entertained.
Bob White, a regular Of regulars,
who has always stood by "de party"
and would not allow himself misled
by Brayton when be was here last
summer, and who was ';de county
chairmun" until Stewart slipped up
behind him and took ''de chair" from
under him, to show his loyalty, and
that lie was rot corpse, bat was ia
the ring if he didn't get athing, read
a long address. He gave out TIE
lines in regular campmeeting style
and at its conclusion ne looked sur
prised because the crowd did not
cheer, well they did not.
The last speaker was the we'll
known Edmund H. Deas. He IS
without doubt one Of the most prom
inent colored politicians in the State
and he has undergone more trial ard
punishment for his party than any
man in the organization He is
never at his best unless he is fighting
some body, and at this meeting be
gave his adversaries, Pope, Brayton,
Melton & Co., fearful drubbing
Deas is not only wora-fghter, but
he backsup what he says and the
others Of his party know it and they
usually give him a large, wide berth.
He is on altogether a different line
from Ramsey. Deas calls spade
spade, and some of his uttoGances
here were what might be called
cusses. He discussed every conceiv-
able political subject and wound upI
with a financial argument which be-
came very uninteresting to his hearers
before he finished, because they knew
not what their Moses was speaking OF.
He gave the audience some good
advice and they cheered him quite
Justify. He told the crowd which
Stewart recently belong to, Hail Co.
lumbia and Bob White, lie did grin
while his fellow Republican Collegue
Stewart smole a sickly smile and
looked upon the floor.