The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-06-24

average reader" about the Sen
ators section, to the extent that
had it not been for that, he
would have :'paid no attention
to it. Too bad!
'sNow as to the bond business. :"
Yes, we know of some of the
bond holders, who they were,
and whether or not they chang
ed hands: oh yes, we do know,
and had we been able to invest
money at the time we would
have bought some ourself. as it
was. we did not have one cents
worth of personal interest in
them, nor were we connected in
any way with any one who did
have a cent invested in those
bonds.
Answer to questions:
/. VIII say we do not know
when it begun. 1t would be
like attempting to find a needle
in a hay stack.
2. It matters not when. wheth-
er, before or during his terms in
the lower house. In 1899 when
we went into the Senate, with
Hon. H. B. Richardson, Hon.
Geo. R. Jones and Hon. |. NJ.
Woods this $4,000 of past in
debtedness confronted US, and
the Senator served in the House
the preceding two years, and
two years previous to that; the
debt must have been made during
his two terms in the lower house.
There is no use questioning
when the debt was contracted,
it is enough for practical pur-
poses, to know that when Mr..
Davis came out Of the lower
house Clarendon county had a
heavy back Indebtedness and a
heavy levy with no public I'M
provements to show.
Then, the Senator goes on to
PROFOUND another series of
questions; to answer them cor
rectly, would take more time
than we have to spare to search
up the records in the treasurer's
and county commissioners Of
fee, and to those who are famil-
lar with the records of the coun-
ty commissioners Office, as they
were kept a few years ago, it
would take a large amount OF
labor. at east more than we
propose 10 put forth to get the
information, especially since it
does not affect the issue.
We do not propose to reiterate
our argument on the Jail matter;
we have given the public our
views, and have endeavored to
show why we believed the raise
in the tax levy was unnecessary,
how, in our opinion, the jail
could be built without an in.
crease in tie levy, and we also
endeavored to show that while
the $1,000 dispensary profits, was
not "taking directly from the
free school fund.-" it was taken
however, in a manner which
was equivalent to taking di-
rectly from the free school
fund" as the schools will not get
this $1,000, and they should, be-
cause it was promised them.
To now fall back on PROFOUND
ing a lot Of questions which no
man can answer correctly with
out the aid of records is stick
ling to divert the issue. The
reference to the old debt was to
show what was done in four
years with less taxable property
than we have now, also to back
up our reason for believing it
unnecessary to raise the levy,
and to take money from the dis
pensary to build jail, when it
could, and might have been ap-
piled to the schools.
1t matters not to US what Sen
ator Davis opinion is about 'sthe
free school subject" which hesays
we "are trying to connect and
drag in with the JAIL, which, ac-
cording to him s:has no bearing
whatever on the subject" and he
dismisses sit without replying"
He has right to do as he pleas
es, we know of no law to make
him answer, but we believe the
people of Clarendon agree with
US; the taking Of $1,000 from the
dispensary profits to build a jail,
could as lawfully been applied to
the free schools, and inasmuch as
many voted for the dispensary
system under the promise that
it would aid the schools, and the
profits are taken to build jails,
they can see the clearing" it has
"on the subject" with or without
the Senator's dismissal without
replying"
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