The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-04-30

have them read on the stand. II
further stated: Il propose to anSwe
YOU fully and every one Of your lies a
ready published shall have my atten
ton. but | must know what the other
are before l can answer them. Sena
tOr Iillman then read the following
letter from Editor Appelt, which wa
marked personal:
EDITOR APPELT'S SECOND LETTER.
MANNING. S. c., Dec. 80, 1901.
Hon. B. Il. Tillman, Trenton, 5. c.
Dear Sir: Your letter reached m
this evening too late to give it space il
my columns this week. but if you in
siSt upon it OF course | shall publish i
in my next issue.
| So far as, nay meeting you before
Clarendon audience, or any othe
for that matter, l would not b
50 foolish, for the reason that
haven't the ability to cope will
you. The matters which have Of
Tended you, and to which you refer, a:
you know, are altogether from state
ments which have apptaltd in th'
newspapers and with no pretense o
any personal knowledge. l regret eX
ceeding that you think l never wa
d friend OF yours. | was. and a mos
faithful one, and my unyielding sup
port to your cause and to you PERSONAL
Iy caused a rupture in my own family
which time has not healed. | Wa:
your friend regardless OF what you may
think now.
The light am making is for free
and open primary, one that will permit
any man TO so into the primary anC
discuss any iSSue he desires, and | take
it from what | can understand OF yOul
acts that YOU will use your intence tC
prevent those who differ with you or
certain national questions from getting
in the primary. 1 have commented or
the charges that have been brought
out against you without ever once say
ing they were true and would not say
they are true unless had the proof.
Probably in my zeal TO keep the pri-
mary free for all white men may
have allowed myself to take for some
OF my ammunition the charges OF
newspapers and went beyond bounds.
Notwithstanding this L think your
language towards me is not merited,
but as l have punched you suppose
you feel right to punch and banter me.
! would much prefer not publishing
your characteriZationS of me, but will
do so if you insist, not because you de-
mand it, but because l propose to per-
nit any man to use my columns that
l have written about.
Now, senator, you are provoked. i.
You have a way Of saying hard things.
l know you and ! do not believe you
mean to be as offensive as your letter
appears. Your rough letter will not
drive me into the Republican party,
nor will any action you and those who
think like you take. | was born a
Democrat, raised one, and expect to
die one, and whatever action the State
convention takes I will submit to-.
This have said in my own paper and
elsewhere and neither will your harsh
language to a man who at Sumter
threw himself between you and man
by the name of Nillancan and saved
you from being diSembowelled, cause a
change.
am personal friend of Senator
McLaurin, and you goading him has
had something to do with fighting the
attitude you have assumed toward
him. / make no charge but refer to
what is said by others. and if you
want to come to Manning to make a
speech come ahead. am certainly not
going to invite you to come here to
"cuss'' me out, nor would l, if you
were to come, attempt to question you,
but if you want an invitation to come
here I have no doubt that there are
others who would invite you, especial
ly if you would make known your pur-
pose.
And, then, would not invite you to
abuse me, because would not care to
stand by and hear language such as
you use in yvdr letter, and would not.
Therefore if you come you will have
to do so on the invitation of another,
and I certainly would not obligate my
self to be present.
1t was no longer than this day that
I said to friend: Il do not like the
recent developments at Washington,
ard ii McLaurin really means to go
over TO the Republicans l am done. l
have stood to him and possibly gone
further than | would for any other
man, but l cannot SO with him into
the Republican camp. l am going tc
quit popping at old man Ben and let
him and Mac do their own Scrapping.
l regard your letter a remarkable
~ N,rA
your reply with the hope you will
withdraw 1t. Yours, etc,
Louis Appelt.
SENATOR TILLMAN GOES ON.
Tillman said that The Times OF De-
cember contained SANDERS against
him to the effect that he was thief.
He had ignored similar accusations
from others II lie took time to an
Swer the thousands ot lies against him
he might grow to the age OF Methuse-
lah without getting to the top OF the
pile. At Gatfney he told McLaurin to
go before the people because he want
ed to stamp out treachery, and he knew
II he killed tie head Of tie snake the
other part would rot and die. Since
then the little whipper-snanDer news
pap>rs that McLaurin had bought,
such aS the Grcenville News and the
Columbia Record d-ono with the post
Office at Grecnv;lle and The other with
the collectorship 1T CJlumbia-had
kept their columns filled with abusive
charges against him.
1t was only when my friend here,
who got your votes because he was the
biggest Tillmanite in Clarendon. un-
dertoOk to father these accusations that
| deemed it worth my wnile to answer
them. | demanded that his ISLANDERS
cease. but he replied with four col
umns OF sluSh and with the cunning OF
the5 devil reiterated them. So an,
here. Bat | want TO say that am
here more particularly because as we
are about tOOrganiZe the party it isWel,
that one OF your leaders come and tel
YOU some things t. assist YOU in main.