The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-11-24
KOEsTER CLAIMS OF ''NOBLER''
BREED, BUT HIS ACTS INDICATE
THE yALLER HIND.

THE yALLEk AIND.
The Columbia Record Of last Sat
urday, in about column editorial
gives vent to some groans and grunts
and in endeavoring to show how
weak our defense of Governor Eller-
be was, it gives the public a song and
dance on matters irrelevant to the
subject, and it tries to lead It's read
ers of, that they may not have an IN
teliigent idea as to the nature OF the
defense we made Of the Governor.
The Record says, My Dear Ap-
pelt' rushes to the defense OF Cover
nor Ellerbe. The Record has no OBJ
lection, for 1t woult; be pleased If a
clean bill of health could be made out
for the Chief Executive" :" The TINES
will always be found endeavoring to
hold up the hands of any official who
is performing the duties OF his once
honestly. When we see newspapers
taking advantage of every occurrence
to make political capital against an
official for no other reason than some
private spleen we feel it duty to e1-
pose their hypocrisy, if we can. 1t
would not teke wise man to see that
some personal matter actuates the
nassing editorials against Governor
Ellerbe in The Record. We do not
thiok the public has any desire to
know what that personal matter Is, as
It has "iroubles of its own.
The Record is welcome to all the
glory it finds in dragging John Gary
Evans into its editorial and our sup
port of him in 1896. We did sup
port Mr.. Evans for the United States
Senate against Judge Earle and gave
him hearty support then, and would
have done so again had not q person
al friend entered the race against
him, because we did not believe there
was any truth in the charges OF cor
ruption that were made against hlm.
Mr.. Evans represented wha: we re-
garded Reform principles and Judge
Earle did not. This year when John
L. s;cLaurin entered the race we
gave him our support against Evans
aud we would have given him that
support against any man ln South
Carolina. Mr.. Evans professed to
scorn the tactics of those who opposed
him in 1896 and undertook to wln
sympathy for himself by reminding
the people that he was defeated By
falsehcoa. He was defeated by un-
fair methods, we believe, but when be
resorsed to the same methods be de-
stroyed what good there was IN his
plea. lie went upon the stump and
slandered Col. ". A. Neal ir an out
raeeous manner and it was for this
that we repudiated him. The editor
OF the Record may be noble "doS,
aud we are glad to see that he, ct
least, is proud OF being dog that
:spul!ed down the stag" that is The
kind Of pulling he does, is Ii? 1t IS
we'll he informed Us, for we might
have mistaken him for the kind that
pulls down hen nests or the kind that
pulls the legs of prominent men.
The editor of the Record must
have borrowed feather to tickle
himself into the idea that he had any
influence in the Sixth District and be
displays powerful lot of cheek or q
mountain of ignorance when be at
tempts to create the impression that
he ia a skingmaker. But as q mat
ter OF fact The MANNING TINES sup
ported Hon. J. E. Ellerbe against a
half dozen other candidates and the
people OF Clarendon endorsed the
candidate of TIE TINES by giving
him Is per cent. Of the votes and by
giving Candidate Norton less than 10
per cent. Other counties did better
for Nr. Norton and our candidate
failed to get into the second race.
The fight then came between Norton
and Johnston and Clarendon gaze
Norton her vote. The TINES, II ac-
cordance with its promise, was "hands
off, in the second race For the in
formation OF the Record we will state
that our choice only fell short of a
few votes of getting into the second
race aud these few and more were
lost to him in this county on account
of two funerals which kept more than
enough o: Mr.. El!erbe's supporters
away from tie primary to have put
him into Tie second race agsinst
Johnson. The TINES supported E.
lerbe and he received 6S1 votes; the
Record supported Norton and he re.
ceived 50 votes. We think Editor
Rooster chad better leave such COM
parsons alone