The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-04-30
on trial for thievery, and that he
wanted Applet to have fair play.


e wanted Applet to have fair play.
+ Senator Applet then went on Will
: his presentation. He said he had sup
: ported Tillman as faithfully and a
S Loyalty as any man in South Carolina
: and with feeling said: SO help mt
? God, I've been bis friend and have
5 passed through a great deal for hin
right here in this county" He insist
ed that he had not gone back on The
Reform Movement. Circumstance:
brought about the present conditions
, and he and Senator Tillman's differ
| ence came about because of the prinay
: system and the restrictions that Till
! man favored, which ne did not think
necessary.
From the outset he stated that he
knew nothing, of his personal knowl'
edge, against Tillman and that what
! he charged was on written evidence OF
circumstantial evidence. He thought
) it proper to explain why he marked his
: letters as private, and that he did So
because he did not believe them to be
public matters and he did not look up
. on them as being 'two-faced." lie
insisted that he was Democrat and
that if it was shown that McLaurln
was not Democrat he certainly would
not support him. He intended to re-
) main Democrat as long as he lived.
No one had a right to charge that he
was an inSidiOuS enemy to the Demo-
cratic party.
McLaurin had nothing to do with
his editorials. He was friend OF NC
Laurin long before he knew Tillman
and as much as he was friend OF Nc
Laurin he has already told him that
if he went into the Republican party
he certainly would not support him,
and McLaurin has told him he has no
idea of going into the Republican
party, and he believed him. He has
always advocated the party pledge re-
naming as it now reads, and he saw
no reason at this time why there
should be change, and there was
especially no reason why Tillman
should favor change. as it was upon
this very primary pledge that Tillman
was selected as Governor and Uunlted
States Senator. He saw no reason
why small body Of politicians should
prescribe a mans loyalty to the party,
and what he stood for was that the
people should have the chance of
judging candidates Democracy,
otherwise the primary was failure,
Let the people judge of mans lit
ness.
APPELT QUESTIONS TILLMAN.
Editor Applet then read the follow
ing questions, which he suggested
might be considered as the charges
that he preferred, and that he really
had nothing further to add this time.
The list of questions follow:
l. Was not the primary system in
augurated to give every white man a
voice in the selection OF candidates for
office?
,. Does not our party pledge allow
every white man to be a candidate who
pledges himself that he is a Democrat
and will abide the result and support
the nominees Of the primary? Then
why change it now?
3. Was not one of the main tenets OF
the Reform movement to bring the
candidates face to face with the people
and that there should be free thought,
free speech, and free action?
4. Are YOU and some of your pre-
tending friends not in favor OF liking
the party pledge so that a man who
does not agree with you on certain
questions, Notwithstanding he claims
TO be Democrat, endeavoring now to
prevent him from giving the people an
opportunity to decide whether or not
he is a Democrat?
5. When the diSpenSary system was
inaugurated, did you not make large
purchases of the stock?
6. Did there not exist al that time a
''whiSkey trust," and did you not make
large purchases from a member OF that
trust?
:. Did not the trust have an agree
ment to pay its purchasers certain
rebate?
S. During several months of your ad-
ministrati0n large quantities of liquor
was purchased, was there any rebates
recorded On the books OF the lnStltu-
! rion:
8. Why do not the rebates appear on
! the books?
10. Did you ever get cotton seed meal
and have it charged to the penltenlla-
ry, and insist upon that Institution
paving for it, and only paid after two
years and then by compromises:
II. What authority did YOU have to
buv for your private nSe and have 1t
charged to the State?
y. Did you not get brick for your
private use that belonged to the peo-
| Die. of the State. Would you have offer
ed to pay for these brick had it not
been exposed through the Neal inveStl-
CATION?
l3. How many bushels of oats did you
get from the State farm and have ship
ped to you at your home IN IEen-
ton?
II. Did you have the right to run
private farm at the expense CT tie
State:
IL. By what right in law or morals
! did YOU get the authority at Stare eN-
penSe to get wood, coal and vegetables?
l6. Did YOU not continue to receive
products from the penitentiary at your
home in Trenton as late as 1897, not
even paving the express charges?
Il. Did you not denounce your pre-
deoessors in office and charge rotten
ness" because OF alleged pilfering from
the penitentiary?
is. Was not committee sent to in
vestigate the dispensary transactions
refused the right to examine the books.
and did not the members OF the trust
refuse to be subjected to an eNamlna-
ton on oath?
~. Was not your dealings with the
trust questioned. and did you ever de-
mand of the trust that they permit an
investigation OF your transactions?
20. Did you noJ on the hustings create
the impression upon the minds OF the
people that the cause OF their oppressed
condition was largely due to corporate