The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-05-12
MAKE EN- ALL ''PEACH".

With MY Dear Clark letter on one side
of the chimney jamb. and My Dear Ap-
pelt" letter on the other, all that is needed
to make every South Carolina sitting room
attractive is the motto ''God Bless Our
Home" hung over the mantelpiece.-Regis-
ter.
Yes, Register" reference to the
"My Dear Appelt" letter at this time
will show that this is not the only
prophecy McLaurin made which
has come true. What he said OF
CAN'T & Co. in 1894, when charged
byGantt with treachery to Tillman and
the Reform movement, is interesting
reading and throws considerable
light on the author Of the 'My Dear
Clark" letter. Listen IF the test
came, like the miserable vultures that
they are, they would be the first to
turn and rend his vitals. I would
have died a thousand deaths before 1
would let one of the political hell
hounds, that can be bought ike a
piece of dogmeat in the market, pop
his whip and drive ME cringing to
his masters feet"
Again, speaking OF the same crew,
he says: miserable parasites and
barnacles that can only exist amid
uncleanness, and who, unless scraped
off at regular intervals, eat through
the hull and sink the stoutest ship"
Again: "When I think of the
dream I had, when we started out in
1883, to smash rings and to have
free speech, free thought and truly
popular government, do not want
to see established as absolute des.
potisrn as there is in Darkest Russia,
the alliance and all those great fnan-
cial and governmental issues freight
ed with the life or death of a nation
dwarfed into the single question of
how whisky shall be dished oat to
thirsty souls. .
Has not this prophecy come to
pass?
When one reads the My Dear
Clark" letter, the mind instantly goes
back to McLaurin's famous speech
in Sparta1burg, when to Gantt's face,
he denounced him as San imported
Georgia hireling, too deep in the
filth, dirt and mire for a gentleman
to notice. and when he said that ''the
huge Dispensary IL Columbia, with
it's host of officials, was too cumber-
some and would finally corrupt any
set of officials on earth, that the profit
feature of the Dispersary was NOR
ally wrong, and only needed time to
work its own downfall .
The Beckroge trunk, "My Dear
Clark" letter, the Iocus pocus key,
'.put Secretary Of State Tompkins on
the stand and ask him was not some
adulterated, Dispensary-made corn
whisky once shipped out labeled
chemically pure and guaranteed to
have been analyzed by the State
Chemist" and other developments
now in progress, makes the utter
ances of statesman four years ago
very, very interesting reading.
The TINES is believer in the Dis
pensary system, but if the institution
must continue to breed scandals, the
sooner the thing is done away with
the better. The developmentsin the
recent investigation has proven a
whole lot of little rottenness, and
while no one was hurt to any extent,
vet there was enough corruption
proven to make as strong an advo-
cate of the Dispensary system as We
are, shakey as to the ACCESSIBILITY OF
continuing the concern.
Not long ago we suggested to
Governor Elierbe the propriety Of
EMPLOYING some Of 'sPinkerton's
finest, and when we made the sug-
cestion we had in mind the various
insinuations made during and since
the primary. Now, that the ball has
started to roll we renew our sugges-
ton that the best detectives in the
land be employed to ferret &. he
corruption Of the Dispensary, If any
exists. Ben Tillman should come
home with his p:.chfork and plunge
it into that seetb;ng mass of filth now
permeating the political atmosphere
about the State Capitol. 1t is his
duty to lend helping hand in ex-
posing whatever rotton PLACES there
might be.