The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-09-03

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fore he shall be elected blood
will flow. and if | pop my knife
into him, I Will be safe. my
friends have the money and the
! influence to keep ne from harm"
| I was cautioned to watch this
man. and two or three times the
! drunken creature tried to draw
Inc into q conversation with him.
and several times, he passed me
with offensive familiarity. This
! is mentioned to show, that from
! the intense hatred Of some inilu-
entail antagonists, there has
sprung q similar feeling in tie
breasts of an initiative cle-
ment whose passions can only
/ be inHamed with whiskey. Are
| the people willing to be ruled by
the trusts: | say, when seven
cotton oil mills have combined
themselves into an ''assOclatlon'
for the purpose, is Mr. Davis
admits, in his published letter,
Ito buy supplies and sell their
product" it is a trust and nothing
else, let him call it what he will.
Here, according to his own pub
| lished admission he is president
of an oil mill which has gone in
! to an association Of mills, with a
general manager who resides in
Darlington. and this general
manager is to buy supplies for
the association Of mills and to sell
their products. What does this
mean: Mr.. Dargan sits in his
office in Darlington, and gives in
structions what shall be paid
for seed by the mills in this as
sociation, and what shall be
charged for meal, these are the
supplies and the products for,
and Of cotton oil mills, then, we
find that Mr.. Dargan who is
general manager Of the seven
cotton oil mills one Of which is
the mill which Mr.. G. NJ. Davis
is president of, has recently or
ganized a little corporation at
Summerton bought out the gin
4-ery of Mr.. S. r. Cole, and it is
now known as the Summerton
Ginnery Company, with T. S. Ro-
gan, R. K. Dargan, and W. F.
Early corporators, the two last
named gentlemen live in Dar-
lington and one is general man.
ager of the association of oil
mills which Mr.. Davis admits he
belongs to, and the other is assis-
tant and he makes very frequent
visits to the Davis mill. What
does Nj. Dargan want with a
ginnery in this county: Do the
people believe he has taken his
money from Darlington to in
vestat Summerton for his health? ?
Or 90 they believe it is part and
parcel Of the scheme to get a
monopoly of the ginning, crush
cut the country ginner, and once
driven out, the farmer is at the
mercy of the trust, then they can
make him dance as they fiddle;
when they raise the price, farmer
must pay it: for he has no where
else to go.
If the trust was not anxious to
get as many friends in the legis-
lature as possible, do you be-
lieve these men who have no
political aspirations and who
do not usually become active in
politics, would be SO deeply in
terested in my opponents behalf,
unless they believed that his
moneyed interests are identical
with theirs: In other words they
are in the same boat. Then is
it not to your interest to vote
for me whether you like me
personally or not:
Let me cali your attention to a
matter that shows which way the
straws blow, and points right
square to the place to indicate a
mans financial leanings: several
years ago while Mr.. G. N. Davis
was a member of the lower
House, there came up a bill to
separate the races on railroad
trains: this was to put a stop to
the crowding Of offensive ne
groes into a car with our wives
and daughters; the railroad
companies opposed the passage
of the bill because it would en-
tail upon them additional ex-
pense to have a car for white
people and a separate car for
negroes, these great corpora
tions had their attorneys and
professional lobbyists in Colum-
bia, and while one Of the rail
road bills was pending, a very
handsome and attractive woman
lobbyist from Washington was
there in the interest OF the
Pullman Car Company: it was a
hard fight and a number Of the
Legislators who were putting up
q stiff fight to pass the bill: linn
bered up after the pretty woman
came in contact with them; she
either got them to vote against
the bill or cease their fight for
it. In the recent campaign
touring, one Of the candidates
for the senate showed from the
records (House Journal 1897,
page 409,) that Mr.. c. NJ. Davis
voted against the separate coach
bill. in other words he voted in