The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-16

from their business and the eX-
penSc Of going to Columbia,
wrote out a list of eight names
whom we knew held similar
views to our own, and made a
humber of copies, we wentamonS
the members, submitted a list to
them. and they either copied the
| list for their own use, or we gave
them from what we had written.
! Nothing was unfair in this, not 4
man whom we approached was
cornneIled to take the ticket we
had and when he took it he was
not compelled to vote it, nor was
any promise eNacted from him
that he would, and the fact that
I69 out of g. representative men
voted against those who were de-
feated is proof conclusive, that
the defeated ones were not de-
sired to represent the Democracy
of Clarendon in the State conven-
ton at this particular time. The
tone of the articles. is display
of bad judgement; when defeat
under such circumstances, causes
the temper to become rutf1ed,
and the writer says unklnd
things, he forgetS himself, and
puts behind him the many kind
nesses shown him in the past. by
some of the very men who have
always stood to him when SIN
cere friends were treasures to
him: these men whom the artl-
cles intimate were manipulated
| bv one man will resent such an
unjust attack upon their man
hood, and the people whom they
represent will resent the slander
also. The day should have never
come and gratitude should have
forbid. when from memory was
blotted out the staunch support 4
majority Of the members OF this
convention gave to him, and by
that support he was aided from
straitened circumstances to a
condition of afluence. Let US
throw the mantle of charity
around the singing sentences
used and say they were i'll ad-
viSed.
The white voters Of Clarendon
county are men who cannot be
manipulated at the will of a sin
gle man, and when they cast
their votes so solidly as they did
in the convention, it was because
over two-thirdS of them were
holding the same views Oh GER
tain issues. No man has, and
no man can tote" the votes Of
'Clarendon'S white men in their
breeches pocket to be delivered
at will. 1t cannot be truthfully
said, that the ticket elected was
alone worked for, some Of those
who were defeated had friends
on the floor, and they
worked in their interests. We
know this from personal OBJ
selvation. then again, we have
it from pious gentleman, who
was elected a delegate from
his club under a misappre-
hension, that when he thought
over the position he occupied
as such a delegate, he would
mot deceive his club, and
asked to be released; this man
was approached, and asked to
appoint in his place one whom
the club had refused to elect, he
declined on the ground that the
rules of the party gave him no
right to appoint substitute, it
was for the delegation to fill va
cancies: had the gentleman given
way, and the party been placed
on the delegation, it would have
caused confusion, and trickery
in such a case, could have been
truthfully charged, because, the
party who was trying to get his
defeated friend on the delegation
knew he was defeated by his
club, and he also knew that his
friend would not represent the
views of a majority of the club.
Those who worked for the
| election of the defeated had a
right to do so, it was any mans
right to change, and any mans
privilege to work for his friends.
As to on calling out men and