The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-24
.sTHE WICKED FLEETH."

The MANNING ZINES ana Inc state
are keeping things warm this deHght-
full weather.
Wonder if would bel Governor Gen
eral n. G.. Gonzales, the Weylerite and
dictator (?) OF the press will order the
THE TINES into outer darkness ;nd
eternal banishment from the light OF
influence of his spanish malice, preJu-
dice and hate.
You should have swallowed the IN
suit. Brother Appelt, and written
column editorial about the Scholarly ~
Christian (?) Gentleman T.: who pens
such manly and masterful editorials IN
the greatest paper on earth e. with
more or less syncophantlc gush; ana
this Narrow Gauge Weylerite would
doubtless have appointed you Master
OF the Horse This job would be more
pleasant now than it used to be Wnen
he was in the swalnps of Cuba dodglng
his ancestry, from Spain.
Should this imitation WeyIerlte cut
YOU off and conSign YOU to lonely
prison cell in exile, to feed on the stale
bread and water of the other eX-
changes of the State and deny YOU the
broiled (canned) steak and condensed
milk and honey OF his great paper; we
shall offer you sympathy. Let us KNOW
how you feel.-Johnston Monitor.
Oh well, we feel like we i'm
agine one would after probing
in some hiding place with a
stick, and coming across that
species of animal which emlts an
obnoxious liquid as a means OF
defense. This miserable contro-
versy was not begun by US, nor
did we desire such. A discus
sion of public questions on-a high
plane can accomplish good, but
a villifying match will only graf
ify an element who revel in
broils. We were slandered by
The State to crafty a long har-
bored spleen, and when we
showed resentment by demand
ing proof the creature squlrted
his matter and then hiked out
for the seashore.
The State of 10Th, inst, re-
plving to an editorial in The
TIMES of last issue, wherein we
clearly showed that Jas. .A.Hoyt,
Jr., did not produce the proof for
his assertion that we were ''eco-
nomical in the use of the TRUTH"
but he undertook to deceive the
public by citing his own asser-
tions; for instance, he said the
South Carolina Baptist retracted
it's charge against Colonel Hoyt,
having been an advocate OF high
license. and that we did not make
the correction. We have never
seen such retraction, and from
information received since this
'sJas. A. Hoyt, Jr.," made his
assertion, we can defy him or
any other being on earth to pro
duce any editorial from the South
Carolina Baptist where such a
retraction was published.
When proof is demanded, the
people are able to distinguish as
sertion from proof, and we are
ready to take the paragraphs quo
ted by ''Jas. A. Hoyt, Jr., !" from
THE MANNING TIMES, and prove
their truthfulness by the files of
the very paper that this S'Jas. A.
Hoyt, Jr.," refugees under. We
never charged Colonel Hoyt with
ever having advocated high IL
cense, that charge came from a
religious paper representing the
church of which Colonel Hoyt
holds his membership. If there
was any lying, those Baptist
ministers who edit the South
Carolina Baptist are responsible.
But why continue, "Jas. A:
Hoyt, Jr.,'' has not made good
his claim. He submitted his
assertions, called Us a liar and
black-guard" and then pulled out
of Columbia s'for the seashore,"
without our bothering to seek
him. Any street gamin might
throwa brick-bat at a gentleman
and then run up dark alley, but
when it comes to facing one with
the terms s'liar and black-guard"
as "Jas. A. Hoyt, Jr.," has had
frequent opportunities to do, it
makes decided difference.
The editorial of the Columbia
State of 10Th, inst, is so much Of
an enigma that we cannot com,
prehend it's meaning, there seems
to be in it, a food of words and a
drought of thought, except that
it has tone of haughtiness and
self importance; really, degree
OF Importance that can only be
appreciated by Editor Gonzales.
We challenge the Columbia State
to produce the editorial of the
South Carolina Baptist which re-
tracted it's charge against Colon
el Hoyt having been an advo-
cate of high license. We pro-
pose to convince even The State
on this and other points quoted
by "Jas. A. Hoyt, Jr."