The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-09
Endorsed by the Democratic Voters
of Marion County
FOR RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
He is Honorcd Where He Was Born
and Those Who Know Him
Best Speak in Highest
Praise of Him.
Praise of Him.

Resolved, That we. the Democracy
of Marion County, in convention as
semblcd, endorse his candidacy and
commend him to the voters of the
State as one qualified to perform the
duties of the office with credit to him
self and fidelity to the State.
Whereas, w. Boyd Evans is an
nounced as a candidate for Railroad
Commissioner: and, whereas. we, the
Democratic voters of the township in
which he was born and reared, know
ing him to be qualified in every partic-
ular to fill the office to which he as
pires with credit to himself and honor
to the State: therefore, be it
Resolved. That we. the Democratic
voters of Kirby Township, in meeting
assembled, do endorse his candidacy,
and instruct the delegates elected to
the County Convention to offer suit
able resolutions commencing him to
the citizens of this State for their sup
port.
The above resolutions were passed
unanimouslC.
To the Voters Of South Carolina:
No public question Of recent years has
elected more common interest in South
Carolina, and, indeed, in the whole
country, than that of the regulation
and restriction Of great corporations
and combinations within the bounds
of the law.
OF these great corporations none
have so close connection with our
great material welfare and interests as
do the railroads, as upon them depends
our intercourse and commerce with
the outer world. They are, indeed,
the very fibre of our material growth
and development as State and a peo-
pie. BY the maintenance Of just and
equitable laws as between our people
and the railroads public SER
vants-alone can these creatures Of
the law be rendered most seryiceable
to the State as a whole and assist in
the progressive march which the State
has begun, and at the same time,
yields the best returns to those who
own their stock.
In the light of these principles our
State has enacted laws providing for a
Railroad Commission, composed Of rep
resentative men to be elected from her
people, whose duty is to regulate and
adjust the passenger and freight rates
Of the respective roads within the
State with justice and impartiality,
assuring to the people equal rights to
all and special privileges to none.
That the spirit of this law may be
fulfilled it is eXpedient and necessary
that this commission, in whose hands
lies more OF our material welfare and
prosperity than in any other depart
ment of our government, should be
composed, not only Of men OF the
highest integrity, but of education,
experience and tried business capacity:
men, who by profession and training,
are able to cope with the finest busi-
ness and legal talent that money can
buy.
Realizing as we do the necessity and
utility of the most vigorous admins
tration Of the affairs Of this Commits
sion and it's establishment upon a
stable business basis, and. moreover.
that these great ends can only be OBJ
tanned by maintaining the highest
standard in the personnel Of its men,
bers, we, the undersigned citizens of
Marion County, present for your at
tention the name Of Mr.. W. Boyd
Evans, a man hailing from our midst
and whom we believe possesses those
high attributes which will qualify
him to meet the obligations Of the
office to which he aSpireS with the
greatest efficiency and honor. Wefeel
that a word setting out what manner
of man he is will not be amiss.
". Boyd Evans is the son of a gal
liant Confederate soldier. He is eS-
Sentially a self-made man, for his
father lacking the means to bear the
expense of his college education, he
met those expenses himself unaided,
by dint of hard work and untiring
perseverance.
While still at college, Mr.. Evans was
elected against sharp competition to
fill the position Of Secretary Of the
Judiciary Committee of the ConStitu-
tional Convention of '95, and in that
position exhibited such marked ability
as to have attracted the attention Of
VIM. II. Ellerbe, who afterwards, be-
coming Governor CT the State, ap-
pointed him as his private Secretary.
Mr.. Evans held this responsible po-
sition with the utmost satisfaction to
his chief. and during the last des-
perate illness Of Governor Ellerbe,
covering the greater part of a year,
during which time the duties and
responsibilities Of that high office de-
yolved almost entirely upon his should
ers, he acquitted himself with ability
and dignity.
During the performance OF these
arduouS duties, however, he found
time to enter upon and complete the
study Of Law at the South Carolina
OO.tSSS. Oll!SC IiIS iltASiOiA
Of his term, practiced his profession in
Columbia.
After the return of our regiments
from the war with Spain, Mr.. Evans,
discovering that these soldiers could,
under the National laws, claim further
awards for their services, entered
claims for about fifty thousand dollars
with the War Department in Wash
ington for back pay to South Carolina
soldiers: of this he collected and turn
ed over to them upwards OF twenty
thousand dollars, which, but for his
sagacity and energy, would have been
lost to those brave fellows.
For period Of nearly eight years
Mr.. Evans has been connected, in one
capacity or another. with the Legis-
lative Department of our Government,