The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-13
A CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN.
That Is What n Neighbor Says About


DR.. w. II. Zimmerman.
Mr.. Editor: 1 noticed in last weeks
Edgetield Chronicle an article signed
J. W. Brooks, admonishing the people
not to vote for a wicked man. He
concludes by saying: Il think the
people would make a wise choice by
voting for Talbert or Heyward." a
stranger to the other candidates
would infer from this article that Tai
bert and Hayward are the only chris
tian gentlemen in the race. do not
wish to be understood as opposing in
particular any one Of the candidates:
but feel sure that If we all take Mr..
Brooks good advice to vote for the
hest and ableSt christian gentleman
in the race, DR.. W. H. Zimmerman
will be Cur next Governor. I have
known DR.. Zimmerman for more than
thirty years, and ! regard him as not
only the purest man in the race, but
one of the purest and most conscien-
tious christian gentleman have ever
known. He is not given to going
about wearying religious gatherings
with long -winded, noisy Sunday
School addresses, so strangers may not
know much about him; but his near
neighborS zone Of whom | have been
for twenty years. will gladly testify
that the sincerity of his religion is
proven beyond question by his beauti-
full, unpretending, consistent chris
tian life, which daily speaks for him
more eloquently than all the speeches
that could be made. In his communi-
ty he has always been a leader in
every good cause, and is pillar in his
church Both financially, mentally and
spiritually. He has been a leader in
providing good schools for his commu-
nifty. and has often insisted that those
not financially able to attend should
do SO at his expense. AS physician,
1 dare say he has done more charity
practice than any man in the State
and has done it SO quietly, cheerfully,
and unoStentatiouSly as to remind
one Of the Master who went about
healing the sick.
AS d farmer, he has always been
abreast with the times, giving his
community the benefit of his pains
taking research and experiments. AS
a neighbor, I have never one time
known him not to do as he would be
done by. AS man, he is simple in
taste, quiet in manner, sympathetic
in feeling, courageous in action, sue
cessful in business, temperate in hab-
it's, and irreproachable in character.
He is no politician. If he could
have stopped to the underhand tricks
of some politicians: he could have
held a high and paying office long
ago. He is a patriotic statesman Of
too pure a type to compromise his in
tegrity for the sake of the highest Of
fee in the gift Of the people. He has
been identified with the public life Of
his county and State fol more than
twenty-five years, and during the
whole time there has never been a
shadow cast on his Spotless records,
yet he has never held paying office
but once. Brother Christians and
Democrats, now is the opportunity of
your lives to reward this good mans
consecrated life by making him Gov
ernor. BY so doing, you will honor
not only him but yourselves and
your State. In him we would have a
Governor who would always be on
Sunday in his church pew, and on all
other days in his Office, attending to
his lawful business. You will have
in him a Governor whom the most
refined lady can approach at any
time and feel benefited by his
presence. He will never be fnan-
cially enriched by public office, for
his pockets will never be, soiled by
brides, whiskey rebates, ETC., AS to
his executive ability to fill the ettice,
a lifetime of painstaking performance
of both private and public duties, and
the rare combination of tact, common
sense and good Judgment which has
always marked his successful career,
prove beyond doubt that in him we
would have a governor of whom the
whole State might well be proud.
John Galloway.