The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-24
"Slab's' Nominations.
Editor The Manning Times:

Editor The Manning Times:
AS you was good enough to print
that little piece l wrote, will make
bold to try my luck again.
I see from the paper that several OF
the one-gallus boys seen my piece, and
was glad to see them fellows get a little,
small rakin' over. I jest know from
the way they write that they amt got
bat one gallus and wool hat, jest like
me. Mr.. Ben Tillman hit the nail
square on the head when he named US
the one-gallus, wool-hat boys. It looks
so natural, you know, to see one Of our
boys plowin' lank-sided mule. with
one gallus and a wool hat.
I believe, Mr.. Editor, that there is a
heap of people that jest believes that
because we don't dress fine and can
make up our minds to follow the bisness
end of mule for livin' that we ain
fit for nothin' else and can't do nothin'
else. But I'm tellin you that amt
so, for there's Ben Tillman. jim Tin
dal. John Peter Richardson and heap
more that I don't know. Beat them for
hard hoss sense if you can. Yes. Sir,
there's plenty OF sense scattered round
'mongst us farmers, but the great and
the grand trouble is, we don't stand by
one another and take up for one an
other like the other perfessions. We
acts too much like geese. You turn a
set of geese loose in a field and every
fellow takes his own course. All we
got to do is stand together like all the
other perfessions, and We'll be jest as
safe as cooter when he goes IN his
hole and pulls the hole in after him.
Now, jest suppose for instance that
these here cotton seed Oil fellows was
to come round here next fall and say:
"Look hear, fellows, I want to by
them cotton seed, I jest got to have
'em: done got my mill up and if I
don't get them seed my mill will have
to stop and I'll be at dead expence;
1 will give you ten cents a bushel for
'em." Now jest suppose we was to
buck right up to 'em like man and
say: "Well, sir, you jest can't get 'em
for ten cents: I want 20 cents bushel
for 'em, and if you don't give it to me
III put 'em to my corn next spring. .
Now where you reckon they would be
at if we was to tell 'em that and stand
to it?
I amt got nothin', not thing 'ginst
the cotton seed oil men, want to see
'em prosper: but they can prosper with
out grindin' the dus' out of US farmers.
1t shows a good, healthy condition to
see man wot's got money put it out IN
some sort of bisneSS so it can make him
more money-that's right and proper:
but there amt no sense nor use in him
grindin' somebody else into powder to
do it.
Now theirs already trus' formin'
to buy up all the cotton seed next fall.
All J. got to say is, they got more faith
than ole Peter had. Great snakes and
caterpillars, tie brass them fellows got
would run foundry for twelve months.
Why, the Gotten amt made yet and
they can't get cotton seed without cot
ton; but they jest got brass enough to
think that tina money viii make our lit
tie hoss run. Look Out your hoss don't
balk and leave you i'll the mud next
fall. We farmers want to see you cot
ton seed oil men have all the seed that
YOU need, we want to Ste your blSneSS
prosper, but we jest mutually amt a
goin' to give 'em to yol: we'll tNkv
seed and make a big corn cN
year fust. The mill mems d, . III
that the meal is just as good Tor mall
ure as the seed is, and l speck some
people bleave it, but I know it amt so.
The meal will start a crop quicker'n
the seed, but when the meal is done
gone them seed is right there maxim
that crop hustle: done tried it.
Now Jest word to the one-gallus,
wool-hat brigade and III stop. My
dear wool-hat brothers, what you reck-
on ole Peter is a goin' to say to them
trus' fellows when they gets to the gol-
den gate? Wonder if they got to meet
ole Peter fair and square like the rest
of US. Let them answer that, All [
got to say is, fellows, be men, don't run,
stand to your guns; be like Jackson
and his crowd of one-gallus fellows was
when that fellow hollered out, lyon
der's jackson standin' like stone
wall" And then another time our
fellers was behind brestworks and the
aminition give out. Did they run? No.
Each feller got pile of rocks and when
the Yanks got close enough they did
let them rocks fly, and the docturs said
that there was lot OF broke skulls after
that fight. That's the way to stand,
fellows.
BE not like dunn, driven cattle,
10 in the strife -