The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-01-05

l have nearly always ignored Ine
SANDERS and falsehoods which have
from time to time appeared in the
papers in South Carolina which have
opposed me since have been in pub
lie life. l cannot correct all OF the
statements or notice them, because it
is waste of time, and most of my
frie ads know them to be false. As
for NY enemies, they believe them be-
cause ttey can see nothing good in
me, and love to feed their hatred on
any food that keeps it alive. I de-
part from this rule in the present in
stance because it involves personal
and familiar matter.
In the Columbia State of yester-
day the following editorial appeared:
SELFISH, NOT FIENDIsH.
Senator TillnaD IS reported to be
q very sick man, but it is said that
when the possibility of his brother
George becoming a candidate for
Governor was suggested he managed
to say that he would take the field
against him if his health permitted.
The evident hatred B. R. Tillman
bears his elder brother, hatred
which led him to oppose if not defeat
him for Congress, is something fend-
ish. A campaign with the two Till
mans as star actors would be q rec
ord-breaker for feroclty.-Spartan-
burg Herald.
ssThe Herald is unjust to Senator
Tillman. He does not hate his
brother George, and it Sas not hat
red that Influenced his course in the
congressional campaign OF 1892. 1t
was merely sel6shness. He was
afraid that Talbert would run against
him for Governor and cause his de-
feat, so be turned him into Georges
preserve-not to defeat George, but
to get him out of his own way.
$50 now when he threatens to run
against his brother for the Cover
norship next year it does not imply
hatred. It means that he considers
the perpetuation Of the dispensary
necessary to keep alive the factional
issue. on which le relies for re-elec-
ton to the Senate in 1900. He would
not object to Georges election if it
did not Interfere with his own plans.
But as it surely would do this, he is
prepared to sacrifice Brother George
as he did before.
"Of course lie has no notion OF
running for Governor himself, for he
will not let go the Senatorship OF
any chance whatever He only means
that he will put up proxy for the
Office if he cannot otherwise disturb
the peace. We are not at all sure
that the success of Ellerbe on
quasi-prohibition and unity platform
would rot be quite as offensive to
him as that OF his brother on a
straight license platform.
"Watch!'
Both Of these editorials are the
double distilled essence of faisehood
and "iendish" maiignity.
I have not seen Mr.. J. B. Bussey,
the correspondent fer the State 10
this city, during my illness or since
my recovery, except to pass him Oh
the street and bow, and I have said
nothing to him about South Caro-
i lima affairs, and have not said to
him, or any other person, a word
about opposing George D. Iillman
for Governor. What I have said I
will repeat: that I will stump the
State, if need be, neSt summer in be-
half OF the dispensary law, and that
without regard to who may be in the
race as candidates. I propose to
stand by the law in the Senate and in
the State; not to "keep alive the fac
tional ISSUE" but because I believe it
is the best solution of the liquor prob
lem. l don't "rely on factionalism"
to re-elect me, should | offer for re-
election. did not create factlonal-
ism in South Carolina. n. 6. Con
zales and J. c. Hemphill are its au-
thors, and they famed the embers Of
the fight OF 1890 into flames in 1892,
and their undying hatred for me
comes from their retirement as rulers
IN orr State effairs