The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-06-15

appeal to the preachers ana women
to push forward the mite box that
the Necessary funds be come-at-able
for the expenses Of the Prohibition
campaign.
Our friend Jones says that "Iessrs.
Zimmerman, Tompkins aud Epton
were represented as strong Prohibi-
tionists or they would not have been
suggested BY our convention" 1t is
very strange that the convention was
made up Of such innocents that they
did not know Zimmerman introduced
the dispensary bill in the Senate, and
Tompkins was member OF the State
Board OF Control. But then, after the
convention they found out that linn
norman and Tompkins were neither
in favor of the Prohibition movement.
Why did they invite Tompkins Oft,
and permit Zimmerman to remain,
when both are in the same boat?
Then there is Thompson, nominee
who is said to be high license man,
and Epton, a dispensary man, they
are allowed TO stick as having been
suggested by this convention which
was not authorized by the Demo
cratic party, but in distinct defiance
of the constitution OF that party.
Mr.. Jones says "the charge that
Prohibitionists are making the fight
with ex-barkeepers is not true" We
take issue with our philantl.l opic (:)
friend right here, for we know it to
be a fact that many of the eS-bar-
keepers and notorious blind tiger
men are enthusiastic supporters OF
the Prohibition ticket and they do
not attempt to conceal it either, and
here is where Jones, the immaculate,
iuiects little more of his political
strategy and by it we do not doubt
that his sweet words will have an en-
couraging effect on those for whom
they are intended.
Jones says in his letter, "there are
just as good men in the State who
sold whisbey under the old bar-room
system as the men who are keeping
dispensaries While we give Mr..
Jones credit for being good poll
tician, yet he lacks one very neces-
essary essential = memory In the
Newberry county convention in ad-
vocating lis Prohibition theory he
said: s'No man can sell whiskey either
under the bar system or the dispen-
sary and be respectable" The diff
ference is this, Jones was not at
that time trying to catch the whiskey
dealers vote, and they could not be
respectable, but now, taat vote will
60 towards helping the ticket he IS
chaperoning and on the principle OF
sall's fair in love and war" they can
be as respectable as anybody else, at
least for the time being; his Ian
guage is fitted to the occasion. Mr..
Jones thinks our editorial was so un-
fair that be concluded it was written
BY the devil" in the editors absence,
or that the editor had been spending
several days at the State dispenssrY."
The editorial criticized contained
a statement of facts not denied in the
inceniously written advertisement OF
Mr.. a. c. Jones, who has recently
returned with samples from Philadel-
phia for his fall trade; it was not
written by the devil but we mag
inc our 'sholier than thou" friend
who grabs the official emoluments
in reach, wonders how the devil"
we found out so much about him,
and while we were in Columbia
spending several days some OF the
candidates on the Prohibition ticket,
nominated in violation of the constl-
tuition of the Democratic party, were
with US.