The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-07-07
BRADHAM NOT NARROW-,NINDED.

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freely circulated in this County for
the purpose Of showing the various
complimentary notices given by the
newspapers TO Mr. ]. NJ. johnson, OF
Marion, candidate for Congress, and
in order that our readers may not be
misled, We will say that these com
plimentary illusions are not necessa-
rily endorsements. Nj. Johnson, like
all the other candidates, requested OF
the editors an editorial notice, and
by reference to The TIuEs it will be
noted that we complied with the re-
quest, and we also call in this week S
issue attention to the announcement
of Capt. Ferd D. Bryant, another
candidate for Congressional honors.
Captain Bryant is receiving the same
kind treatment from the newspapers
that Mr. johnson received, and so IS
our own candidate, Captain Bradham,
and if dozen more candidates
should enter the race and place their
money in the hands of the editors
and their announcement in the pa
pers, kind things will be said Of them.
It is hardly necessary for us to call
attention to this matter, for the peo-
pie understand these things as well
as we do and all this stuff counts for
as little with sensible reader as the
shower of letters that are being cir
culated all over the County. Claren
don has only one candidate in the
field; that candidate, of course, has
local political enemies the same as all
public men, but in contest Of this
nature, the County becomes as one
family, and they will regard with
much suspicion any attempt to divide
the vote in this County.
Captain Bradham's nature is open.
He is friend or foe, and when he
espouses a cause he does it with a
frankness and aygressiveness that
even attracts the admiration of those
he is fighting. There is no neutral
ground with him. He never rode a
fence upon any issue, nor has ne ever
sneaked his opposition, AID be is
faithful to his friends. Captain Brad
ham is a broad minded man and
when factional strife was at its bitter
est and opposition to our present So
licitor, who is q Conservative, began
to show itself, Bradham had the man
hood to lay aside factional spirit ard
uphold man who had made faith
full officer. No opposition to our
worthy Solicitor in the days when
factional spirit ran high and the lines
were distinctly marked was, in a large
measure, due to the efforts of Capt.
D. J. Bradham, who urged the recog-
nition of merit.
When the issues Of 1890 were con-
verted into law, it was Captain Brad
ham among the first in the State to
advocate the putting aside CT factional
hate and to bring the white people
back again into one happy family.
He was a member of the famous
stPeace and Unity" convention: and
there labored for q reunited Democ-
r&cy In the Constitutional Conven-
ton he won host of friends by his
liberal views and his indomitable
energy.
We mention these things to show
there is nothing narrow about the
candidate of our choice and that IN
stead OF being little narrow minded
politician, he is man with the cour-
age of his convictions, one who can
rise high above factioral feeling to
recognize merit and one who labors
for the best interests Of the people.
His record is known and if Captain
Bradham should succeed in winning
the Congressional prize Clarendon
will feel proud Of him.