The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
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ENEMIES.

WE DECLINE ~ EOENA-4>-H>
ENEMIES.
We had about determined to pay no
further attention to what appeared in
the other paper published in this town;
hacause. we believe the concern was
conceived in jealousy, and born in NAL
ice. and to continue noticing it, will be
simply playing into the hands OF It's
parent, and gratifying his fendlsh
spleen. We therefore give notice that
after this issue we will take no further
notice of it. matters not how gross It's
misrepresentations are.or what 1t might
saw, but we shall 60 right on express
ing our opinions in a fearless Journals
tic manner, always with strict regard
for the truth, as we see II, ana with
full responsibility. morally, phys
icallv and financially for what we
write. On account Of a gross and
malignant misrepresentation which
appeared in that sheet last week,
and which we believe was writ
ten for a purpose to deceive, we are
compelled to refer to its statements
about the tickets of TWO years ago, and
correct the misrepresentation. That
paper said. Two years ago, after the
polls had been open for an hour or more.
our attention was called TO the fact that
no State ticket was to be found except
the one printed. and sent out by our
Col" Upon inquiry, the county chair
man found the State tickets IN the eX-
press Office at the depot, brought them
ND town" etc. This was intended to
create the impression that there was
sharp practice. The facts are, that on
Saturday night preceding the Tuesday
of the second primary, package OF
tickets reached the Manning express
Office addressed TO ID. J. Bradham
and on the morning of the election Rev.
J. 90. Cough accoSted County Chairman
]. Ebert Davis. and complained to him
of there being no State tickets. Mr..
Davis told him that he did not think it
was customary for State tickets to be
sent for the second primary, the voters
generally used the tickets left over from
the first primary. Mr.. Cough told him
he understood the tickets had been
shipped. Mr.. Davis then protfered to
walk to the depot to ascertain, having
received no notice. Whereupon Mr..
Cough offered him his horse and
Mr.. Davis rode down to the depot, and
INQUIRED if there was any express mat
ter for him. The agent told him no.
and as he started out, he remembered
Captain Bradham having been county
chairman just before him. he inquired
if there was package for ID. j. Brad
ham County Chairman" No. was the
answer, and as Mr.. Davis was about to
leave the office the agent called his
attention 10 q package addressed ID.
]. Bradham." Mr. Davis asked to see
it, and it having the appearance OF a
package of tickets, he obtained per
mission to deliver it to Captain Brad
ham. II will thus be seen that if any
body was at fault for not distributing
the tickets in second primary. it was
the man to whom the package was ad-
dressed. We do not complain at his
not getting the tickets out to the boxes
because, had he received notice OF the
arrival OF the package, that notice
would not have been sent him before
the day before the election, and it was
TOO short a time 20 have them distri
buted throughout the county. What
we complain OF, is his attempt to. by
indirection, put the blame on the editor
OF this paper whom he sneeringly speaks
ofas Col" The editor of this paper was
not county chairman never has been. and
therefore not responsible for those orr any
other tickets, and in fact had nothing
whatever to do with them. The State
ticket he speaks of as having been fur
nished by US was the very ticket we
had at the head of our editorial columns
for weeks, and one of the names on 1t
was For Secretary OF State Daniel j.
Bradham." He did not complain OF that
ticket then, nor did we hear complaint
from him until after the election, and
then his complaint was not OF that
state ticket" OF ours, but of Cooper
and his whiskey.''
We must apologize to our readers
for wasting so much space, and we
promise them, in the future, we will
heed nothing more from that source as
We do not propose TO give that paper
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