The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-08-12

not support ulin "ueu ue ufsI caue
out? He is no abler to-day than he
was the day he made his announce-
ment with its "I-will-supplement-
Tillman's-eforts-frills," nor is his
position any better un-
derstood. We believe the
tactics OF the opposition will fail of its
purpose,for the reason that as soon as
the Reformers discover the Conser-
vative faction are, as a faction, going
to support Judge Earle, those who
are inclined to give him their support
will come back and stand true to the
colors under which they have been
fighting the past six years. We have
no hesitsncy in saying that the Con-
servatives are going to support Earle
and there is considerable feeling in
their support; as little incident with
us will prove. The Times had cor
respondent in near village, and he,
of course, had been reading some OF
our editorials; this gentleman belongs
to the Conservative faction, he had
nothing to do with the editorial pol
icy of the paper, his part was to send
US the news whenever be felt so dis
posed, and we will say to his credit
that we valued his letters, because
they were well written, reliable,
and full OF interesting items.
It seems that our editorial
utterances were too strong
for him and he sent US notice that he
would not correspond for US any
longer. In his letter he uses the fol-
lowing language: "What little in
terest I take in politics is so widely
divergent in character from yours
that I can not with any pleasure con-
tribute to your paper. Your last at
tack on Judge Earle was so blindly
partial that it has precipitated my
action"
We quote the language used in
the letter merely to back up the opin-
ion we have already published. Here
is gentleman who takes little in
terest in politics, and who occasional
ly sends a news letter to his county
paper;thst because the editorials in
that paper does not handle the can
didate OF his faction with kid gloves
he throws down his pencil and with
draws his contributions. The little
interest he takes in politics is about
the same kind of 'little interest
eight out of ten of his faction will
take, and we say to the Reformers
that if they want to support Judge
Earle they have a,ight to do so, bui
they must do it with their eyes open:
they shall NOT, if we can help it, be
fooled into believing that the Con.
seryatives have laid down their arms
The are up and doing and their pres.
ent plan is to break the Reform lines
with flank movement. We admit
there are some Conservatives who will
not support Earle and who have laid
aside factional prejudice, but these arg
few and far between. If the Reform.
ers are ready to surrender what they
have gained, then those feeling that
way should come square out and re.
pudiate what they have done since
1890 and apologize for it But il
they want the movement to go on,
grow, and be stronger, they should
stand by the leaders who they put
forward. John Gary Evans is the
only candidate for the United States
Senate that has been at all conspic.
uous in pushing through the Reform
measures. The records of the Gen.
eral Assembly will clearly show who
it was that did the fighting on the
floors of the General Assembly; il
was John Gary Evans who was en-
trusted with every important meas
ure that Governor Tillman wanted
put through, and he had no bed of
roses to sleep on either. He showed
his ability as legislator when in his
mastery debates in the house against
John C. Haskell, his voice went ring
ing through that hall, and by the
hardest kind OF parliamentary battles
be pushed to success the demands oi
the people. Tben afterwards in the
Senate chamber Evans, was day after
day met in oratorical combat and van
quished such able orators and states
men as A. ]. Smythe, Buist, Moses
Barnwell, Mower, and others. Shall
we now turn our backs upon such g
leader because men who are aspiring
for the same position are making
charges by insinuation which they