The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-07-20
THINGS GREW HOT.
CANDIDATES HAD A MONKEY
AND PARROT TIME.
Thomas Called Evans an Ape and
Evans Said He Would Prove
Thomas a Liar and So On.

l !lS.t NtiS d UIdI iiiouAS. RIN I'"I
rot time among some Of the candidates
at the Darlington meeting last week.
The meeting opened by romkinS. Then
the candidates for Adjutant and In
spcctor-General had their say. After
Mr.. Feathcrstonc had spoken Senator
Archer took another shot at Col. Larry
Can't today in exchange for the latter 5
eight column broadSide. said he:
CENT proposed to me in his office that
if | would put up $3.50 to buy Congress
nan Wilson'S stock in his paper, he
would support me as :; candidate for
congress in Wilson's place. He has
seen fit to call me all manner of things
in sheet which Mr.. Epton. Il candi-
date for comptroller general. is circula-
ting. in which my record is exposed !.
and if anybody else wants a copy he
will furnish it.
Rather serenely Mr.. Archer smiled
as he read this choice culling about
himself to the audience: why you
could cntwine the character of Judas
Iscariot in garland and place it upon
the brow of such man. and it would
appear as 4 halo of glory daughter. }
Well. remarked MIR. Archer, Il can
only reply as did the preacher to his
blackguard neighbor, / don cuss, but
you are the same. sir. am not here
to be elected. on the impurities or un-
worthiness Of others. 1t is absolutely
impossible for me to measure words ac-
cording to this man style.
Mr.. Archer said that in passing he
would add that in the face of CAN'T 5
charging him with penuriousness. he
had received a letter stating that two
of his neighbors had just named their
infant sons Ed. Archer daughter
y DYNAMITE GUN.
Dynamite Walt was the next candi-
date to tread the winepress. and tears
of laughter began to flow He referred
to Mr.. Archer as the rurest Of the pure.
but Just little cranky. y few years
ago he himself had been considered a
crank because he was enough ahead Of
the rest to get left generally. lie was
a man of education, law, medicine.
metaphysics and other physics. arts and
sciences. Some of the candidates were
climbing on his platform. He had
made the issue Of opposition to higher
education by the State and now that it
was popular he was having lots Of imi-
tators. He scorned such c0wardice, and
if elected he would swear to hold a
check rein over the legislature until
they gave the people relief. (''Busts
of applause.
DEFENDS HIS ADMINISTRATION.
Governor Ellerbe made plain but
firm defense Of his administration.
Unless governor had 4 legislature in
sympathy with him his hands were tied.
Because a candidate favored prohibition
or high license it did not indicate that
he could bring about such a law. If
the legislature passed it he would en-
force it. Prohibition was miserable
failure as far as reducing the consump-
ton of liquor was concerned, and it en-
couraged hypocrisy and lying. If Col.
Tillman knew there was anything wrong
about the fertilizer tax he should have
expressed it at once and not waited un-
til now. His information came from
Connor, who had been fighting this law
for years, and according to Conncrs s
own statement, that he used the tags a
second time, he ought to be in the pen
itentiary today.
IN SERIOUS WAY.
Col. Tillman spoke in a vein Of ear
nestness. He had competency Of this
worlds goods, but, thank God, he did
not steal it. He wanted to be governor
for the honor, but he realized that the
people. wanted good, honest service.
All his life had been devoted to politI-
cal study. He had been elected Tor
over 80 years whenever hc asked cleo
ton except once. wien the subtreasury
scheme broke loose. and If he had ia
vorcd that political makeshift he would
have felt so mean that the dogs would
have barked at him. He was the only
man living in the State who had been a
member OF the constitutional conven-
tions of 1865 and 1895. Col. Tillman
touched up the fertilizer tag business,
alleging that it was left to a little clerk
at Clemson to collect or not collect the
tax as he chose. The system at Win
throp and Clemson was wrong. Indus
try or handicraft could not be success
fully taught in college. The young
men were thinking about positions and
the girls about husbands.
on THE SAME LINE.
Col. Schumpert said he would 90 to
the governors office with only one pro-
mise-to execute the laws and do his
best to suggest Improvement therein.
His friends said he had the experience
and ability and he would modcstly see
ond their claim. He said that prohibi-
ton was delusion and dream.
DENIES MCDSLINGING.
Col. Watson denied vigorously the
Cotton Plant assertion that there was
mudslinging in his criticisms of Cover
nor Ellerbe He was incapable of mud
Singing and he had not made use Of
the personal remarks that Ellerbc had
used towards HIM Parenthetically, he
remarked that the governor had skip
ped the Horny meeting. Ellerbe did
not want to see those people and they
returned the compliment. We have had
enough Of having boys for governor,
said he. who don know what to do.
and we had better have grown man
for governor. Ellcrbe had written down
Wardlaw name for colonel Of the Sec
ond regiment. but after his criticism
that he was ignoring the Reform party
that created him politically, the cover
nor substituted Jones
EpTON FIGHTS OPENLY.
Candidate Epton. in replying to Mr..
:Archers allusion, gloried in having cir
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