The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-27
THE STATE CAMPAIGN

In South Carolina does not seem to
be conducted on that high plane
which was expected, especially on
the part of one of the candidates for
subernatorial honorS. Mr.. \. How
ard Patterson OF Barnwell, candidate
for Governor, at the opening meeting
at Orangeburg precipitated oll oI
mud-slinging by accusing Go!e5noi
McSweeney of patronizing bllnu u
gers, failing to enforce the dispenser!
law and paying for newspapers out
of the contingent fund. AS 10 Uhe
first charge Governor McSweeney
nromDtly branded that contemplate
ei,eoarion as absolutely false, on
eyerv occasion where it has been re-
nas+ed bv Patterson. who attempted
70 prove the charge by producing an
article which originally appeared in
the Oeonee News sometime since, in
which the names Of Certain gentle
men were used to prove the allega-
ton, the names of the gentlemen al
luded to as having given the infor-
nation being Mr.. T. G. Duncan of
Union, Mr.. William Barnwell of Co
lumbia, and a certain man named
Green, formerly OF Greenwood, now
Of Alabama, as alleged by the editor
of said newspaper. The initials Of
the mythical Mr.. Green are not
given. Mr.. Duncan and Mr.. Barn
we'll each denies that he made any
such charge against Governor Nc
Sweeney. So Mr.. Patterson's ride
ulous charge as to the blind tiger
business falls fiat. His other charge
as to failure to enforce the dispen-
sary law is equally untenable, as 1t
is q fact that cannot be successfully
refuted that the dispensary law
without making invidious compari-
son against former administrations
has been more satisfactorily en-
| forced, and with less friction, under
Governor McSweeney's admlnlstra-
tion than ever before.
Mr.. Patterson's charge that the
Governor is paying for newspapers
out of the contingent fund Is the
smallest sort of clap trap and unwor,
thy any aspirant to the high ana
honorable position of Governor OF
! South Carolina, and is not only dem
asogic, but covert insinuatlon that
it is an attempt upon the part OF
Governor McSweeney to subsidlze
the newspaper press of the State,
and that in the Governors opinion
their editors are purchasable al a
very cheap price. -.
The sending of newspapers to the
executive department and being palo
for out of the contingent fund was not
inaugurated by Governor McSwee-
ney, but has been the custom for a
number of years, and has never be-
fore been found fault with or crlti-
cised. It was deemed essential years
ago, it seems, that the Governor
should receive the newspapers OF the
| State for his information, and if so,
they should be paid for. A pub
Usher could not be expected to send
his paper to the Governor without
charge.
Mr.. Patterson will have to take
some other tack, if his prolific brain
can find one, in order to inJure the
Governor and to forward his own po-
litical aspirations. He should stand
upon his own merits, if he has any.
Governor McSweeney has admins
tered the affairs of the State success
| fully, in business-like manner.
This fact his strongest opponents
cannot deny; and he is making a
clean, dignitied canvass. He de-
serves to succeed himself, and we be-
lieve the people of the State will see
that he does so.-Laurens Herald.