The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-26
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"MY ENEMIES TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY
TO EXPOSE HYPOCRISY.

.My ENEMIES TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY"
TO EXPOSE HYPOCRISY.
Senator Tillman thinks his
free pass episode gave his enc
mics, and the newspapers an op-
portunity to make an attack
upon him. The newspapers IN
this State without regard to fac
ton certainly did not fail to give
expression to their disapproval
of what they regard Tillman's
inconsistency. not so much be-
cause they object to an officer
accepting courtesies at the hands
OF corporations, but because OF
the professions he made with
regard to such. Tillman de-
nounced in no uncertain terms
officials who would accept passes
and franks from corporations
and charged them with having
been bribed, and when it turned
out that he was the first to &C
cept passes, after the law was
enacted to prohibit their accept
ance, a great many accepted in
good faith his frank acknowl-
edgement that he did wrong and
made mistake, but when it is
learned that in spite of his apol-
ogctic declaration, he continued
to accept these courtesies, and
that in violation of the law of
his State, it is strong ground for
the charge of bad fsasitn, and to
conclude that his preaching
means "don't do as I do, but do
as tell You to do" Inconsist-
ency IS a mild term to apply to
his conduct. He denounced
those who accepted passes, as
bribe-takers ssbamboozled and
debauched." He denounced cor
porations. He denounced the
sitting Of free thought and free
speech. He was the first, after
the anti-free pass law was enact
ed to accept free passes, and has
continued to accept them. He
became financially interested in
corporations, and he exerted his
influence and power to stife free
speech, and on account of these
glaring inconsistencies. many
who endorsed the principles he
advocated at the beginning of
his political career, and who
still adhere to those principles,
are believing that he has drifted
from them and is no longer the
jealous exponent of them.
We were among the advocates
of the principles advocated by
Tillman and we still adhere to
them. We stand today upon the
same platform we stood in 1890,
but we never did, nor will we
ever worship any man and be-
come blind to his faults When
ever Tillman has said or done
anything which met with our ap-
proval, without hesitation we
gave his words and acts our
hearty endorsement, and on the
other hand when he said and did
things which did not meet with
our approval, without hesitation
we took issue with him, and this
course we shall continue.
We acknowledge Tillman a
man of extraordinary brain
power, and a man who is capable
of doing much for his State. He
has done some good work, is in
position to do more, and should,
because he is being well paid for
his services. In our opinion he
is not aiding his State by the
speeches he has been making in
the west, we believe more good
would result were he to devote
himself to encouraging a good
class of emigrants to come and
live amongst US. In the very
sections he has been lecturing
are thousands of emigrants seek
ino new homes. and by pictur-
ing to them the possibilities of
the South he might influence
some of them to try their for
tunes here, and thus build up
and develope the State, but he
is not doing this, on the other
hand his lectures create the i'm
preston that the people of the
South instead of getting up in
the morning and offer up prayers
as God-fearing people should,
they go out and slaughter a
s'nigger before breakfast The
result is, the negroes are'discon-
tented, labor is getting more and
more demoralized, and the home.
seekers are frightened away. .and
other sections grow and prosper
while we are kept busy holding
our own.
The people have done much
for Tillman and they have a
right to expect much from him:
they have a right to expect his
acts to be consistent with his
declarations, and when he de-
nounces an act as a crime, and
he commits the act, himself, he
is inconsistent, and the people
with sense are disappointed.
Tlllman's influence and power
has resulted in winning over to
him a class of former antago-