The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-05-04
I'VE KNOW WHEREOF WE SPEAK.

Mr.. Joel L. Brunson, candidate 1or
Governor, recently nominated or
suggested by the prohibition fac
ton in a convention in Co.
lumbia. has felt called upon to
read us lecture for making pub
lie the political career Of the Pro
hibition candidate. This it did
without doing us the fairness to
renroduce the whole of the edito,
rial complained of. The editor
of the Record is young, and per
haps when he has been at the trl-
pod longer he will be more falr'
and let his readers see the cause
of his complaint against another
editor. Now, that our readers
may Judge between us, we here
with reproduce the Record 5 COM
plant:
THE MANNING TINES usually bases
its editorials upon facts, but when IL
said in last weeks issue that Mr.. Joel
E. Brunson has been persistent
seeker for Office until the hope OF
gratifying his ambitions was SO Tor
lorn that he was forced to give 1t up,
it left it's usual path, The editor OF
the Times must to have been mlsln-
formed as to who Mr., BrunsoD is,
for never but once has he been can
didate for any Office, and was then
elected in the primary, but was left
out by the convention which made
up the ticket.
The occasion referred to is the
same one that THE TINES mentions,
when Mr.. Brunson opposed Dr.
Woods for the legislature from the Sa-
lem section in Clarendon county,
and Mr.. Brunson was then the sue
cessful competitor, and not DR..
Woods. as The TIMES asserts. But
perhaps fifteen or eighteen years
affect the memory of the pugnacious
editor of THE TINES.
The Record is correct when 1t
saws THE MANNING TINES usu-
allv bases its editorials upon
facts" and in the case the Record
complains Of, The TINES editorial
was based upon facts which we
are prepared to prove if Mr..
Brunson will, over his signature,
deny our assertion that he 'has
been a persistent seeker for cfiice,
and for the information Of the ed
itor of the Record we will say we
were net "misinformed as to who
-aIr. Brunson IS" because we have
known him for many years, and
had a little to do with the politics
of this county when he, although
a stranger to the people, WAS a
conspicuous member Of our con-
ventions. We know Of our own
knowledge that at all OF these
conventions. executive committee
meetings and public gatherings
Mr.. Brunson's conduct was such
as 10 cause him to be regarded by
everybody as a chronic office seek
er, not as Prohibitionist, but fol-
anything, oh, Lord, so it was Of
fee.
The editor of The TINES. I'M
like the editor of the Record, has
lived in his county the best part
of his life and he could not afford
20 make the statements he does
were they not true, because there
are too many living witnesses who
we'll remember Mr.. Brunson ca
reer while he sojourned amongst
rs. The Records editor is COM
paratively a stranger to the peo-
pie of his county and he is not IN
:. position to defend, Of his own
knowledge, the past political ca
reer Of any citizen. He must de-
pend upon hearsay, and in this
case We presume he obtained his
information from Mr.. Brunson, as
that gentleman used almost the
identical language in conversation
with us.
Thinking perhaps there WAS
something in the fact that about
eighteen years have gone by since
the alleged defeat Of Brunson by
Woods we concluded to ask some
of those who figured in politics
in those days and every one OF
them say we are correct.