The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-02
We Have no Kick Coming.

w PUBLISH ELSEWHERE " 1SILei 1lOlu
Capt. W. c. Davis relating to the
action of the election Commissioners
with regard to the advertising of cleo
ton notices, and the only point in the
matter which we regard as being nee
essary to reply to, is where he says If
YOU knew Mr.. Editor, as you say, 'that
T did not intend giving ofense. and
being present, to avoid doing me an
| injustice it would have been far more
in keeping with the amenities OF this
| life to have sent for me, when the gen.
tlemen could have been easily set
straight, and this I was due by you
and the Commissioners
What we said with regard to the
Commissioners taking ofense, at TAX
ing members.of privately, instead OF
making the request of the Board, was
an opinion of our own formed from re-
marks made by some of the Board after
the adjournment, and not from what
took place while they were in session,
therefore there was no opportunity to
send for Captain Davis had we been so
disposed. But the Captain seems to
think that our being ''onlY a clerk"
we had no right to-. respond to Mr..
Montgomery when he stated the re-
quest made of him by Captain Davis
with regard to his request for copy OF
the notices of ''The Farmers" 1t was
our understanding that we were there
not only to act as clerk, but to assist
the Commissioners in their work, and
when Mr.. Montgomery repeated the
request made by Captain Davis, his re-
marks were addressed to US, we
thought we acted properly in telling
him. in effect. that the matter of pub
fishing the election notices was alto
gether for the Board-It was for them
to decide whether they would publish
in both papers Or only one, and we do
not see wherein such a statement from
us could have influenced the Boards
action against the other paper. or how
Captain Davis can construe it to mean.
that we meant he''was interrneGdling
where he had no business" Any citi-
zen had a right to solicit business for
the other paper. and it is clearly g
province OF the Board to say in what
paper they shall give It's matter for
publication We would not have said
anything about the matter at all in our
last issue had it not appeared from the
publication in The Farmer that it Sc
cured the notices sail the same" when
the fact was, at Captain Davis request
we furnished him for The Farmer a
copy. :,
The list of managers, we could
have refused, as it is known that
when matter for publication is given to
a newspaper, it does not become public
until it is published: but when the re-
guest was made of US for copy we did
not wish 10 even appear discourteous:
either to Captain Davis, or to The
Farmer and we unhesitatingly made
the copy for him, and which we would
have done for the editor of The Farmer,
had he made the request. We are
satisfied now. from what we have learn
ed since, that The Farmer was not in
foamed who it was that furnished it
with the copy, and had it been it would
have given us credit for the courtesy.
This little ''temptest in a teapot"
does not warrant a controversy. The
action of the Commissioners was not
Influenced by US, either by word or act,
at or before their last meetlng-nor
will it be by any future meetings. OF
one thing we are certain, and that IS,
we had not the remotest idea of being
discourtecus to either Captain Davis or
ony one else, nor do we see how any
action of ours can be so construed.