The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-10-16
THE JoNES-STATE'S SCHEME.

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of the Senatorial candidates tc
step aside and give General Wade
Hampton an uncontested right
away to the United States Senate,
has not met with the unanimity
the projectors Of such a scheme
would desire, in fact, the propo'
sition does not meet with the ap'
proval of all of the Anti-McLau'
rim newspapers. A great many
believe as we do, that it is a trick
for the purpose of giving aid te
the candidacy Of one Of McLau
rims opponents.
The Columbia State has been
delivering itself of series o5
lectures to the former Conserva'
tives. the purpose was to draw
factional lines against McLaurin,
It wanted the Conservatives tc
vote solidly against McLaurin
and of course cast their votes fol
the man that paper would name
later. These lectures to Con,
servatives was only part Of the
plot; the next move was to get
Willy Jones to make a grand
stand play for applause, and to
have George Johnston ready as
willing sacrifice.
Willy Jones did his stunt beau
tifully. He made the great
patriotic sacrifice of giving up
his candidacy for the United
States Senate because ''business
interests" needed him at home,
and he want his opponents to dc
likewise. Willy Jones did not
take into consideration that the
other candidates were not en-
gagged in business interests
which made it necessary for
them to remain at home: not
one of them is anational banker,
nor are all of them capitalists,
they can. without any detriment
to their business interests, be-
come public servants, hence
Willy Jones was not doing the
patriotic after all, his retirement
was because of being weighted
down with money bags, but to
his play for applause. his hand
was called by George Johnston,
who it is stated was about to re-
tire from the senatorial race
anyway, to enter the congression-
al fight in his district. The
scheme to get Hampton brought
prominently forward to help the
State in it's fight for George
Johnston worked fairly well.
Jones retired, Johnston willing
to sacrifice his ambition for
Hampton, Latimer says he will
not, Hemphill says nothing, and
Henderson has said less. Hamp-
ton will not go into the fight,
and the State will make John
ston it's candidate, and strain
every nerve to get the friends OF
Hampton to support Johnston
because Johnston was willing to
sacrifice himself for Hampton.
The State will attempt to draw
the factional lines by urging the
Conservatives to vote soiidly for
Johnston arguing that the
election of Johnston will come
near making amends for the
wrong done Hampton. If the
Conservatives can be led by the
State, the other candidates will
divide up the Reform vote,
and probably the fight in the
second race will be between two
Conservatives. It is a great
scheme the State has fallen upon
to defeat McLaurin and Lati-
mer both, but will it work? We
think not. The people of this
State have laid aside factional
lines; there is no such thing as
Reformers and Conservatives
now, both factions pulled against
each other to their own detri-
ment, and the people do not
want a return of these conditions,
but Notwithstanding all of this,
the Columbia State and it's few
little echoes, is making every
endeavor to get the Conservati-
yes drawn up in solid phalanx,
and the use of Hampton's name
in connection with the senatori-
al race, in our opinion is simply
a trick to build up a sentiment
in favor of the man whom the
State has selected to play the
sacrifice act. If George John
ston remains in the race for
Senator, watch the State, and
you will find it playing the
Hampton string for him, for all
it can make out of it. and if he
decides to run for Congress, the
State will take a heavy hand in
that fight and appeal to it's rea-
ders to support George John
ston because he said he was
willing to give way to Hamp-
ton.
Johnston will be quite a load
for the State to carry we mag
inc, because the people have not
forgotten how he acted when he
was defeated for Congress by
Latimer, they recollect how he
hung around the departments
at Washington and kept Repub-
licanS in Office, by throwing