The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-05-19
AN APPEAL TO CAESAR.

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ated by Col. I. L. CAN'T, editor of
the Piedmont "HeadEght,'' he only
succeeded in giving certain politi-
clans and newspapers a subject to
quote from when they endeavor, by
insiuuation, to besmear the character
of Senator Tillman. Can't, in his
interviews and in his editorials, made
broad hints at Tillman's dishonesty.
He almost said that Iillman received
rebates through the Dispensary, but
with bis usual shrewdness he left a
hole to crawl cut at, whenever the
falsity of his charges were made ap-
parent. Can't has certainly endeav-
ored to injure the Dispensary system
and the question in our mind IS, did
he co this with any mercenary mo-
tive9 No one will ever accuse CAN'T
of being fool, but on the contrary,
he is one of the 'tslickest ducks" in
the State. If McLaurin's estimate
of him is correct, who knows how
much he received from the opponents
of the Dispensary for all the racket
he kicked up. His cry for an inves-
tigation from 'Hell to Holland with
the opponents of the Dispensary'' to
sit as judges, may sound to some
people as an honest wish for a thor
ough investigation, but to US it does
not.
There should be thorough inves-
tigation and the committee should be
made up os friends Of the law-men
whose characters are above reproach
and who have no political aspira-
tons ; they should be well known
business men, and they should be en-
powered to force witnesses to testify.
CAN'T may paw the earth and he
may fill the air with his exclamations
of "my hands are clean" and with
his insinuations against others; but,
before he Will be able to make much
of an impression, he will have to give
better explanation of his own con-
duct than he has so far.
B. R. T., not "Beckroge's robbed
trunk but B. r. Tillman, you stood
up in the United States Senate cham
Der and demanded an Investigation
of certain charges made by news
paper correspondents against Sena-
tors. You did right. We hope an
investigation will be made; but at
home newspaper editor and a man
who has professed to be your friend,
within the last few days made serious
charges against you. What will you
do about it? It's true, your
former colleague said that Larry can
out-lie them all, but in the light Of
recent events, we do not think you
will be doing yourself nor your ad-
mirers justice by disregarding the
charges made against you, even BY a
man with Gantt's reputation.
Senator Tillnan, if you value the
confidence reposed in you by thou
sands of honest men, gobtain a leave
of absence from Washington and
Join in the effort to show to the peo-
pie their confidence in you has not
been misdirected. Come home and
crush out forever the ISLANDERS that
have been breathed against you. 1t
will not do to consider the source"
Charges have been made, and you
must refute them and then help to
expose all of the rottenness, whether
it is stealing, bribery or conspiracy.
Not few people think that there
are men not directly connected with
the Dispensary, who are manipulat-
ing this great big scandal for poll
tical purpose. We well remember
how one of our Reform leaders in the
last campaign was defeated and the
same tactics are being again resorted
to for the crushing out of somebody
else. The people feel that they were
buncoed in the last primary and they
do not want to make any more mis-
takes, it is therefore necessary that
we hear from you with no uncertain
sound; We beseech YOU not to listen
to the advice that was given to John
Gary Evans "pay no attention, the
people are not taking any stock N
Your enemies charges" they did take
stock to such an extent that he was
defeated and now has to wait for