The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-01-15
. THE STATE DID NOT CALL NAMES.

THE STATE DID NU1 CALL NAMED.
The Columbia State of last
Saturday had three columns of
it's leading editorial space, devot-
ed to extracts from the editorial
page of this newspaper, and al
though it displayed a disposition
to refrain from mentioning our
name or the name of this paper,
it was fair to both Senator Till,
man and ourself. We presume
it's reason for not mentioning the
name of this paper is on account
. of a personal antipathy the edi-
tor of The State has toward US,
and we regret exceedingly that
such a condition exists, for we
can say in all sincerity that we
bear the editor Of The State no
i'll will: we have at times differ
ed with his views on public mat
tiers, and perhaps have struck
him hard, possibly through mis-
understanding, but through II
all, we have never entertained
the slightest i'll will towards the
man. Aside from some thrusts
that we might expect from those
with whom we have contested on
opposite sides, we were very
much gratifed by the extended
notice The State devoted to the
controversy we had with the
senior Senator.
Notwithstanding the fact that
we have been a very enthuslas-
tic supporter of Senator Tillman,
we have on a number of occa-
sions criticized his course. as the
files Of The TINES will show:
and zen we were defending him
from the frequent published
charges affecting his personal
character we were sincere in the
belief that the charges emanated
from enemies for political pur-
poses and that there was no
foundation for them. We be-
lieved all along that Tillman
was a shrewd politician, but our
confidence in his personal integ-
rity was absolute, and it remain
ed so, until the whiskey concern
refused to show their books to
an authorized committee; that
circumstance was the beginning
of our consenting to anything
like a willingness to even listen:
and at the time, we urged that it
was Tillman's duty to himself and
his trusting people to see that
an investigation was made.
We admit that it is rather aWk-
wark at this time to bring
charges of corruption after we
endeavored to defend him when
the charges were being made by
Tillman's political enemies, but
when they made the charges
they relied solely upon bitter as
sertions and did not attempt to
show any proof or reasoning. 1t
was absolutely impossible for US
to get any tangible evidence 60
ing to show that charges which
had been frequently made had a
foundation. Up to the early part
of last October all the informa-
tion we could getwas based upon
rumor, and since then we have
seen documentary evidence which
knocked the scales from our eyes.
Senator Tillman becoming a
director in a corporation had
something to do with opening
our eyes, and our willingness to
see proof if there was any against
him; the inconsistency was too
glaring. He denounced such
things everywhere, and at all
times, and then to see his name
associated with one, and him too,
in a position to guide it's business
policy was enough to open the
eyes of the dead, not to say the
living. It is known to all men
of business that corporations are
not in business for pleasure or
charity, they go in for dollars
and cents, and the direction Of
the investments is usually look
ed after by the large holdings Of
stock, a nominal stock-holder is
not favored with a dictatorship;
it therefore takes money and a
whole bunch of it to enter the
directing circle. When we first
saw it stated that Tillman was a
director in a corporation char
tered in New Jersey we said
nothing about it for sometime,
expecting to see the statement
denied, but no denial came, and
we commented upon it which was
our right. When we used to see
the hints about the governor
getting things from the peniten-
tiary we thought his political
opponents were making noun
tains out of mole-hills, and that
what he did get was an occasion
al basket of vegetables for the
mansion table; we never had the
slightest suspicion that ship
ments were regularly made from
the penitentiary to Trenton to
Tillman's home, and only since
last October has anything like
tangible evidence been shown to
us.
We have our sins as other
men, but those who know US will
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