The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-06-29

think the commission would ever d
any good until railroad passes fo
themselves and their families Wer'
taken away from them and thei
salaries were paid by South Carolin
and not by the railroads.
BE then spoke OF various disparitie
in the rates in this State and in othe
southern States, and attributed tn
difference to lack Of attention by th
railroad commission. He spoke a
length of the accident on the trestl
at Fishing creek which had not beel
properly inspected by the commission
Mr.. Evans said that he had the SOLE
support Of the people Of old Marion
his native county, and hoped the peo
pie Of Sumter would see fit to Civ
him their support.
Mr. ]. Il. EARLE.
M. John H. Earle of Greenville va!
the next candidate for railroad com
missioner to be introduced. Mr.. Earle
was in the county Of bis birth ant
among people whom be had known
from childhood.
Mr.. Earle said that he had no rec
ord save that as private citizen anl
lawyer to stand upon. He did moi
owe man a dollar, and be had nevel
done a man a mean trick. That Wa.
the record be stood upon.
He did not care if railroads were il
the hands of receivers, they should be
required to give the people good ser
vice. Greenville, one Of the most i'm
portant cities in the State, mad a little
depot which had been there beyond
the memory OF man. All that he
could say was that be would do his
duty. That was all he promised. He
would see that the railroads got JUS
tice, but be would also see that the
people were given justice. The com.
mission was the only body to which
the people could look for a correction
OF their wrongs. The commission die
not have all the power it should have
but it should apply to the legislature
for more power.
Mr. Earle denounced the use of liq.
uor and money in elections, and put
himself on record as against al such
methods to secure an election to Office.
MR.. JOHN G. MoBLEY.
Mr.. John G.. Mobley of Fairfield,
candidate for railroad commissiner,
was the next speaker.
Mr.. Mobley thanked Sumter for the
vote given him two years ago, when
he carried Sumter county against bis
nine opponents. When Mr.. Caugnman
was elected, which the people Of South
Carolina had done as a reward for the
Jim Crow car bill, just and proper
law and one which deserved the grail
tude of the people Of the State, he
retired into private life with clean
conscience. He conducted campaign
on his personal merits then, He pro-
posed to conduct the same kind this
time. He would never obtain single
vote by unfair OF improper means
He believed that time had come for
the people of South Carolina to look
about the Office of the railroad COM
mission.
He said in the case Of the Fishing
creek wreck the commission had been
guilty Of this great neglect, and the
blood of the victims OF that wreck
cried oct against the reelection Of Mr..
Garris.
He did not have time to point out
all the wrongs done by the railrods,
which the commission should correct.
He said that an engineer had told
him that be hoped be (Mobley) would
be elected. For the engineer felt that
when Mobley was told of defective
piece Of roadbed that the defect would
be cured. He said that the railroads
by their policy OF discrimination were
making the farmers and other pro-
ducers, the backbone Of the country,
poyrer and poorer.
He Gecried against the delay Of
trains for the service Of rich Yankees
and their dogs. He did not believe in
fighting railroads because they were
strong and powerful, but be did be-
lieve in making them deal justly dy
the weak.
Mr.. Mobley said that in the days
when tie railroads we're owned by our
own people the Determinations Of to-
day did not exist. But now that the
roads were in the hands of bloated
bondholders whose only purpose was to
bleed the people for all they could, the
methods Of conducting the railroads
were different.
THE LAST SPEAKER.
Mr.. H. ]. Gignilliat Of Oconee was
the last candidate for railroad commits
sioner tn be introduced. Mr.. Gignil-
1iat, ca:5 that from the SpeecheS OF