The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-08-24
CAME TO BLOWS.
McMahan and Mayfield Go it for
One Brief Round.
HOW 1T ALL HAPPENED.
As Usual the Other Candidates
Had Their Little Say and
Retired. The Fighters
Arrested.
Arrested.

tt'S'' StaAiS >~''N
Retired. The Fighters
Arrested.
An appeal to fists was the finale Of
the campaign meeting at Anderson on
Tuesday of last week
The meeting was i large one, about
nine hundred persons attending. All
the speakers were heard attentively.
By WAY OF INTRODUCTION.
Just before the meeting was called
to order, Mr. McMahan announced that
Superintendent of Education Mayfeld
had circulated a document purporting
to be his campaign speech containing
references to himself. He said he
would reply thereto when his turn
came near the end of the meeting, and
he hoped the crowd would remain.
ELLERBE AND TILLMAN.
Gov. Ellerbe began by naming Ben.
Tillman as the author of the dispensary
law. and declaring that his brother,
Col. George Tillman, had stated that it
was originated to corrupt the morals of
the people.
II did not say any such thing"
quoth Uncle George, tartly L said it
was gotten up to control elections and
for the politicians to divide the spoils "
"Oh, we'll, " said the governor, that 5
the same thing, that would lead to cor
ruption,
Uncle George-No sir, you may re-
peat what l said, but don't put words
in my mouth.
Gov Ellerbe-It amounts to the
same thing. You dry up and let me
speak
Uncle George would not have in
terrupted you if you had not misrepre-
sented me.
MORE LIBERTY AND LESS TANES.
Uncle George Tillman stood for more
liberty and less taxation. Liberty was
invaded by the metropolitan police, by
the whiskey constables, by the cxecu
tive appointment of township officers
instead of by election. The people had
managers of election that they didn t
want rammed down their throats. There
ought to be township government in
South Carolina as is the ease every
| where else except in the south, where
the negro has been the bugaboo. The
constitution. however, had removed
this, and, besides! the Spanish war had
caused decentralization between the
north and the south.
SCHUMPERr FOR HIGH LICENSE.
Schumpert appealed for a good sen
sible disposition OF the liquor question
so that candidates could have higher
issues to discuss. He had given great
study to the subject Of prohibition,
first studying it in Europe. It was not
because 1t did prohibit that he opposed
it, but because it was sham theory
that debauched the citizenship. Even
under the strictest prohibition law We
are obliged to have whislley. for medi
cine. for sacrament, for science. 1t in
culcated secret sin. He stood for local
option with license so the county could
manage its own affairs.
wATSoN'S RIDICULE.
Col. Watson ridiculed severely what
he termed the so-oalled prohibition
movement, and bitterly asked if strict
temperance man like himself was to be
cast aside by temperance people for a
raw recruit in the cause. he dared to
say that large majority of the prohi-
bitionists were those who called the
State officers spies and tried to kill
them, while they would buy whiskey
from wagons and never inform. The
border counties wanted prohibition
law because they could go to the stills a
few miles off and buy untaxed whiskey
| for 81 per gallon
| WITH FLOWERS AND CHEERS.
The prohibition candidate. Mr..
Featherstone was recaived with flowers
and cheering. He was glad to sound
the prohibition tocsin in a county where
so many noble men had fought all their
lives for the cause. It was time for the
protesting Christians of South Carolina
to call a halt. Watson boasted of
preaching temperance for 40 years, but
had been voting for the sale of liquor.
Unlike the Irish soldier who telegraph
ed, ''We have the enemy and we are
his'n." If the people of South Carolina
would vote as they pray, after the smoke
of the battle had cleared away on the
Both of August, they would send a
message in the language of one celebra-
ted general to another; ''We have met
the enemy and he is ours" Great ap-
plause and lots of flowers.
''wHo IS ARCHER?'
Mr. Archer was greeted with dose
Of his own medicine, at Spartanburg he
had asked who is Featherstone?" and
today he was met with the question;
'sWho is Archer?" from score Of
throats. He INDUCED in biographi-
cal sketch, and when he stated one Of
his ancestors had fought for the indc-
pendence of the colonies, an old fellow
exclaimed, "Hurrah for him against
England. :" Mr.. Archer said he repre-
sented the bone and sinew Of the land,
and was severe in his dcnunciation Of
the educational policy Of the State. He
declared it was only the children of the
leaders who were catered tc. Scores of
Legislators had sons who're received higher
education from the State and the fact
was that it was a case Of you vote for
my appropriation and LII vote for
yours.
SINCERITY AND WHEELING.
Mr. Whitman declared that Ellcrbe
was not in the race. Mark Hanna TO
the contrary notwithstanding He him
self would gct 10. 900 votes, and dcclar-
ed sincerity was part of his nature.
Watson didn't have any backbone, and
his criticism Of t:llerhe was simply the