The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-04-16
TILLMAN COMING.

announces his intention of com
inc to Manning to speak Friday
April 25th, the day before the
clubs are to elect delegates to
the county convention. The fol-
lowing is the telegram:
washington, D. c., April 18th, 1902.
Hon. NJ. G.. Galluchat, Manning, S. G.
Please announce through the Clar-
endon papers will speak at Manning
Friday April 25 at II O'Clock.
B. R. TILLMAN."
It will be remembered that
petitions were circulated in sew
eral parts of the county inviting
the Senator to come here to
speak as he had in a letter prof
fered to do in connection with
editorials which appeared in
these columns. Now that he
has fixed the date as his tele-
gram to Mr.. Galluchat shows,
we hope the people who come
will do so prepared to Judge of
what he says impartially. Sena-
tor Tillman has way of catch
ing the crowds and whirling
them into a pitch of excitement.
He knows just what to say to
bring about applause, and he is
a master in the art of distracting
attention from himself.
In the days of 1890, excitement
ran high and the people were in
no mood to listen to argument
and reason, but such ought not
to be the case now. We are an
intelligent people, capable of de-
Gliding an issue upon its merits,
and it is due to ourselves that
we give attention to the speech
of Senator Tillman, in which we
presume he will endeaver to ex-
plain the various statements,
casting a shadow upon his char.
acter. We hope that the people
of Clarendon county will conduct
themselves on that day as is
their custom on public occasions,
and thereby show to the outside
world that for the qualification
of politicians they will not be
blinded to reason.
Senator Tillman's coming here
the day before the Democratic
clubs are to elect delegates to
the County convention is not
without significance, and does
not require a very keen sighted
man to see through the scheme.
The editor of The TINES is a
member of the State Democratic
Executive Committee, and he
has shown a disposition to act on
that committee as his Judgment
dictated; everything went along
smoothly until the attempt was
made to convert the committee
into a machine of oppression,
that he protested in spite of the
majority made him marked for
defeat by the head Of the ma
chine. Therefore it is our opin-
ion, that Senator Tillman's com
ing here to speak the day before
the assembling of the clubs, is,
ostensibly to refute the charges
which have been made against
him, but really to dictate the
makeup of the county conven-
ton. If he simply wanted to
show that the charges made
against him were groundless we
had offered him the use of these
columns, and the offer remains
open. He knows, we will not
attempt anything like joint de-
bate with him, and he dares not
accept our proposition to answer
the charges.in cold print, so the
people could quietly read what
he has to say and what we have
to say, and then Judge whether
or not he has been unjustly
charged.
In order that there may be no
misunderstanding, we repeat our
offer to publish any article he
chooses to write to any or all Of
our editorials, and we will in the
same issue of the paper reply so
that there will be no advantage
taken of him. But if the politi-
clans who are on an anxious
perch with their mouths open
waiting for Tillman's coming to
drop a political worm, are ex-
pecting US to get into a wordy
scrap for their entertainment and
profit, they might as well come
down and do their own scratch
ing for it matters not what the
effect of Tillman's swooping
down upon US will be, there is
one thing certain, it will take
something else besides screech-
ing to crafty the political appe
tites ofcertain hungry politicians
who are craving for plums that
Tillman might shake out of the
political tree.
Tillman telegraphs Mr.. Gallu-
chat that he will be here April
25th, and will speak at II o'clock,
we hope our friends will turn
out. that he will be given such a
hearing as becomes an intelli-
gent people to a man who occu-
pies a high place in the councils
Of the Nation, and We will gaur-
antee to show to every unpreju-
diced man. that the editorials re-