The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-06-22
GOV. ELLERBE ATTACKED
6Y CNg OF TIE GU6ERN3TC RIAL
CANDIDATES.

! CANE DATES
/ ,l.e cove, o! ID ,nouzces His Accuter aod
K pei, the ACCUSE ions with Great
vehemeoce. TO tie Delight Of His
F:isndr.
L2st Fridsy, which vas Dorchester
cay or the political proersn1, was sig
nalized by cne Of the most scathipg
&uG remarkable attacks upon Gov
e:Lcr GEd candidate ever known upon
lhe stump n rscent yeers. Governor
EAerbe was h9 tsrget and Col Wat
son the m2l kSman.
Tie occurrence was IS unexpected
as it was remarkable. TIE man from
SsluGa cane dowu upon him like a
Thousand of bricks, spurning the Ian.
guage Ct diplomacy and roasting him
upon bare spit. BE denounced the
Governor 2s Io1itical trickster and
ader in whom the people had no
confidence.
When Col. Watson concluded it
waS plain that it wss crucial time
for the Governor. His manhood was
q: stake, his POLITICAL existence was
trembling 4 the balance, and should
be fail to rise to the supreme impor-
tance Of the occasion by some master
ful effort, he would be swept aside by
the mighty tide.
Ard the Governor realized it. He
summoned up all the vieor OF his ia
ture into his reply, repelling the accu
sations and denouncing the accuser
With yehemerce that delighted his
| friends. During his remarks he got
irto tilt with Uncle George, who
wanted to force the fighting and state
MS csse On the spot. After brief
passage alarms, amid the din of ap
plause from the adherents OF each. the
Governor turned his attention to Col.
Watson, and his remarks below will
sho7 Inc character of MS reply.
HOT SHOT FOR ELLERBE
Col. Watson said it was an Unprece-
danted thing that there were seven
candidates for the Office OF Governor.
| Eilerbe had been backed by United
STATES Senator and q Governor and
got the lagest vote ever given to q
! car didate for Governor. Why, then,
Was he opposed?
Col. Watson then proceeded to at
tack in the plainest words Governor
Ellerbe's record. The reason for the
opposition to him was patent. Before
he mad been in Office year he was
| heartily despised. Ellerbe's friends
were ashamed of him and his enemies
were disguised with him. He has
been untrue to his friends and unfair
to lis enemies. He has sough. By
patronage to buy MS enemies and has
never remembered his friends. But
for his correction with the reform
faction &c never would have been
heard Of.
He Was elect=d with a promise that
he void remove the metropolitan po
lice from Charleston. He delayed lis
removal for one master, removed 1t
for another and received the Just con
| tempt OF these who elected hin.
| I believe it was trade when he ap-
pointed Epton as Comptroller General.
| The Legislature rebuked him. In all
his appointments it is believed he has
trsded from first to last. # he had
been content to be W. H. EIlerbe and
had not condescended to political
trickstering, we would not be mere to-
day 10 oppose him.
Col. Watson eloquently commend
ed the gallant officers at tae head Of
South Carolins's volunteer troops, but
said lie, to help himself Governor
| ElIerbe ignored all the colonies, the
| Confederate veterans and sons OF Vete-
rams IN his appointments. He ap-
ocinted only one officer from his own
f&cion to high Office. and that man
could not drill q squad. do not know
cut one man IN my county who will
vote for him, and that one says it is
because Ellerbe is going to pardon a
man sente1ced to betanged. Gentle
men, you may go al over the State
| and you will find a concensus OF opin-
ion that he is an utter failure
ELLERBE'S MANLY DEFENCE.
Now We are going to near 1t, " was
the remark as the Governor came
forward. He said he had been SLAM
&ered and misreprese and he chal-
langed his opponents to prove one
charge made against his admins ra-
ton. He welcomed criticism that was
honest. He had always advocated
the dispepssry as the best solution OF
| the LIQUOR problem. When Col. Till
man said the dispensary had not
made any profit he misrepresentea the
facts.
Tui3 ELECTED q re nark from y 4cle
George VINO said that he had great re,
spect for Governor EllerOe personally,
bat when he IN his message to the
legislature said educational system was
without headship, without order and
full OF reduplicstion and followed
that with the statement that its i'm
proYement was not practicable, then
lie show ed lack OF backbone.
Gov, Ellerbe conoatted this and
called upon Col. Tillman to prove his
statement that some men got their
fertilizer without paying for the tags.
Col. Tillman: Ill show it beyono a
reasonable doubt from the facts, if
you'll let me- speak.
Governor EIIerba replied that he
had no time to spare, but if the proof
was Submitted he would retire from
the rrce.
Then ensusd almost indescrible con-
fusion, Col. Tillman was endeavor-
ing to get in a reply, with the COVER
nor talking simultaneously. Friends
of both disputants crowded up meta.
phorially patting each game chicken
n the back and urging him on. The
governor refused to relinquish the
stand and turned towards Col. Wat
son.
Il supreme n,oneut. for the