The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-07-21

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set IN trcabie fcc SAYING things aCoUI
MS fSrrer.:iEe &p0eaFauce
! McLaucin cUShtto have been beaten
! when re wra:e jhst SQEedUuk letter
and be understood mat McLau-iu aaG
! &C, z4IsS tboucGt OF runn:Dg !udepen
/ den: tickets against The Nominees to1
! he constitutional conve".!9n Gen.
! 32;ier rad NcLtr.in,S $ blacklist re
moved and he wsnlsd 70 kc.0w VIA
Gen. But!er was 20 Get fer this. aac;
F.; Ee wsr.S3 tc k0ow where AcLaurln
! then srcc6 and who be nov favors,
! and if be wss for Tiljman sre election,
IS that was sn issue sud he wanted
i &~LauriG asked low he stood as tc
TiIluao.
SENATOR MCLACRIN.
! Mr McLsurip said i he were such 3
! remarkable man IS 10 BE- ; PupuilSt,
! Republican aud Democrat, and could
arrange so m&py desls be would ro:
+! think of ruoni1g for Senator, but
would sim higher This was the first
/ tine he had ever been sassed by
corcSe, he tod in connection with 9
joke.
| The talk about his being IN COM
ainaticn was entirely 10 throw people
of Of the scent OF toe. com bination
aeairst him. He compi:nenteo lrby s
political shrewdness AS to there being
zny com binaiior against Mclver, he
and Mr.. W. D. Evans DID as much as
anyone to eject McIver, and as to
! Irby's bprrahirg about defeating
!: grand cid men, he would remind him
| Iihat Troy defeated Wade Hampton,
who had dore much for the State. he
! voted for Irby as perry man. and his
only regret was that Icby did not use
his ability and brain 10 Eli the place
as ne had hoped he would. He saio
j Governor Evans had been unfair to
him in attacking h,n1 IL his own hons
and trying TO make cspitsl out OF MS
+; ;opposipg the Jim crow" car bill. a
mai iority OF the Democrats defeated
the bill, and he opposed it because OF
certain features II it. His people
knew how he stood and that there vas
nothing in this sort of talk. His pee
pie for generations were known IL his
| section, and no one before ever tried
10 make him appesr as opposed to
white men and women. He now and
has always rented lis LANDS to white
tenants, although be could, 10 doubt,
get more from colored tenants, but be
was doing what hethousht right and
what his people before him had done.
His every vote he conterGed was
strictly on the party platform, and be
has never been protectionist. He
thought it robbery to get more money
! than the government wanted. be
cited the following as an illustration
OF his position: Suppose the people
voted for graded school system and
carried it, and he psi6 his taxes to
support the system, would there be
any sense in lis keeping his children
away from the school because he die
not believe in graded schools? 50
with the tariff. There was a Republi-
can House and Senate and President,
and none of the Democrats made the
bill or had much 10 say; but should
they try to make II IS much non sec
tional as possible, or notl Should
! they try to equalize the bill or not?
The bill was going to pass; nothing
could defeat it, and the question was
whether to sit down and let it 60 as it
was prepared ard presented, or 20 try
and get something cut OF ii for his
people by trying to get justice and
teolahty. He wanted such things
eQualized. There was never proposed
sny increase in the price ci eating
rice, aud the bill does not raise tie
price, but simply changed the cles:lh
cation so as 10 lax the rice the brew
ers have been using.
| As to the fallacy Of the argUmen!
used egainst tas cotton tsx: Last yeaS
snort stsplo cotton was brought to
New Orleans from Mexico, and more
will coue unless there is q duty. Sen
atcr Bacon, and not he, proposed this
tax ou cotton. he saio he would keep
up his fight for all time for free bag
giGg AID ties.
AS to lis rot ser ding cut his first
speech he sent out SO. 900, SIS many as
| he could afford, ard it wat printed il
! nearly every paper, aud he stood by
lit. He was no: 2 proteo:lonlSt. as re
! said, but held that the people 0! South
! Carolina had as many rights as any
ether people. he never remem bereo
! saying the people fingered ard loafed
sco long around CalhounS grave, but
i occurred to him Evans likes 10 LOAF
! around the grave he was pat in last
yesr. He said he and fillnan stood
today were Calhoun and Hayne stood.
/ Hayre assisted in fixing duty on IL
digo, and held it was in strict con
formity with ali of the principles o.
| the bill. Ee and George D. TillmaD
also held very much the same ideas.
! AS to voting for the high tariff on
! wool. that was ia committee, ard mad
irothirg 10 do with he bill. Il was q
fight between Mcmillan and Bailey,
and he stood py Bailey, whn, hs said,
some we're trying to sc: IN mole.
| The committee hxe3 this, :egardleSs
Of his vote, and twas q pOrsly SIDE
fight.
Evans did not seem TO know how to
get along without Ellnan's coat-tail
! He thought he was on it, but Eow
Tillnau says oiS views sre ideDtlcai
with bis own, ard ETaGs is still hold.
| ing on TO the coat, but the man inside
! o. i was soEe.
| TIE great objection 10 him has beer
! that ae would 40: support every thing
sore people wacted. HewouI6 not
|! have csred i sCcle ore hsd been put
up against hin ai;sr the ''sQue6Onk
letter. He wrote every word oI il &c
Applet and had no regrets 10 expires:
for it. He sa;d after me primary ne
would write EVans's epiSaph, and !!
would read:
Here lies poor shote,
! Who grabbed at Ben'S coat,
! To pull him IN tie boat,
And missing bis hold,
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