The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-08-23
MANNING. S. c.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 49,

subject Of farmers institutes and the
benefits to be derived if the farmer:
Will take the proper interest in them
In the North the institutes have proved
very successful BY the cooperation Of
the farmers and the farmers wives.
The senator said what the farme,
needs IS to raise his living at home
Yesterday he had listened to the wheat
growers, but fool as he was he had g
better remedy against weavils than any
Of them. 1t is to grind as soon as you
gather it. He gave the farmers some
advice as to cultivating their crops and
told of the great things tobacco had
done for Darlington and the other east,
ern counties. His own experience in
tobacco raising aud its failure was
humorously told. He thought there
was land around Greenwood that would
grow tobacco and urged the farmers to
try it His experience, that Of a fail.
ure and fool was that there is nothing
for our farmers in experiments with
Asia grasses, because Asia is an arid
climate.
As Senator lillian was about to sit
down, bystander asked him aboat his
Sumter reference to the prohioitionistS
and the diSpeosary.
In reply the senator said he went to
| Sumter at the invitation of all factions
and in his morning speech mentioned
only national issues. After dinner
Mr.. f. D. Smith made speech in
which he endeavored 80 rub the but
ter off my back.
My friend y e. says in pursuing a
! polic: If corciliation my course is to
civ, li.em sclt talk and sugar. Well,
I've siven them enough vitriol in the
Ia>t and ought to be allowed to say
something nice now.
Smith attacked Clemson, Winthrop,
etc, and said that Tillman when gov
ernor lai& great burdens Oh our people
and l want him to come back here and
remove those burdens. 1t was the first
time I've been asked in the open to ac-
knowledge that I'm damn rascal and
damn fool both. Smith rubbed off all
the butter and | in reply discussed the
questions he raised.
| did not say the prohibitlonists are
towards and hypocrites. | did say that
prohibition would make towards and
hypocrites of oui people. Some Of the
prohibitionists are towards and hyro-
crltes. Featherstone rushed into print
and abused me, saying I was born with
abuse and couldn't do without it. III
leave him and Gonzales to settle it. |
have no policy Of either sort.
The man who comes at me like a
gentleman III meet him that way but
if he comes at me with abuse I've got
as good vocabulary of hard words as
any one. He said prohibition would
make men get physicians certificates,
etc. Prohibition don't prohibit.
You've got prohibition in Greenwood
and l can buy liquor here today and
you've got the constables to help en-
force it.
He said there was no use to talk
ab01t the dispensary as 1t was mere to
stick. He was told there was rot a
tiger in Sumter, where the constables
were once rotten egged. What he said
at Sumter was that he did not believe
prohibition could be enforced ami that
he took the Athens plan and pat ii in
the prohibition law 1t has proven to
he better law than prohibition. He
claimed no credit, except to enforce the
law on the statute books. The dispen-
sary law is better than prohibition, so
far as results go.
The only fight in State politics in his
opinion would be on the liqnor Ques-
ton. He would fight for the dispe7-
sary and sc down with it if it must go
down Talking about Mr.. Latinlers S
speech he said the factory operatives
were as good people as any and although
the factory officers tried to vote the
operatives against him but they could
not do 50. Mr.. Latimer said all he ar
gued was that the operatives might be
misled because Of the lack Of organiza-
ton. Thlman said this was so as the
operatives mightssbe misled to support
the Hanna-Payne measure and the like
on the representation that it would do
them good.
Thesepator defended the dispensary
and said he would fight for it and go
down with it.
Taking up the Philippine question,
he scored Mckinley and benevolent
assimilation y He had not asked the
president to give him any appointments
in the army for he felt it was villain
Gus war and no decent man ought to
engage in it.
Senator Tillman said he thanked the
gentleman who asked him about the
Sumter speech. He didn't mean to in
ject anything unpleasant but he wish
ed to deny misstatement Ny two
good friends, J. c. Hemphill and \.
G. Gonzales, have recently ia their
editorial columns entered into COM
pact TO ignore me. The State and
News and Courier have been my Jest
friends. They have told what | said
and the people took it for what it was
worth and it did me good They gave
Featherstone column and didn't give
me space to tell what | really did say.
The News and Courier did give me a
line or so, but The State didn't.
Senator Tillmans speech closed the
morniDg exercises and in the afternoon
the farmers institute was held.
a Turse's Horrible Deeds.