The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-08-31
Campaign Rag Chewing.

The campaign meetidg here last
Thursday was largely attended, the
crowd is estimated at about 600, and
Notwithstanding the dispensary was
closed there were a good many who mad
the bug juicein large quantities, bought
we have no doubt the day before. In
fact we saw one man going cut of town
with small box filed with bottles Of
LIQUOR, and we have no doubt but some
OF this same stuff was used in boiling
np enthusiasm Thursday. because sew
eral OF the loud-mouth- big-lunged-pa-
sriots were conveniently stationed
about in the crowdto cheer their favor
ties probably so much per candidate:
The meeting was presided over by
Capt. ". C. Davis and like at all OF
the other meetings the speeches were
very. very tame, because OF their me-
too sound. The legislative candidates
of course were glad to meet the people,
and all of them except Mr.. Muldrow
advocated the dispensary and opposed
immigration, and upon the question OF
immigration it was amusing to listen
to the dense ignorance some OF the
candidates displayed, they simply did
not know what they were talking about,
it was either ignorance or deliberate
pandering to ignorance. These legls-
Iative candidates that are opposing I'M
migration do not seem to have an idea
that they once had an ancestry, and
that ancestry did not spring from royal
ty, but most of them came from the
peat beds of Ireland, and arrived III
America with only their clothes on
their backs. and them scanty. Had the
owners of the lands Of this State IN
those;days taken the same narrow views
as our aspiring legislative demagogues,
and kept these immigrants out OF our
borders, we have no doubt at all, but
these modern jaw workers posing as
statesmen would now be among the
evicted tenantry of Ireland, or peas
ants in France, ,serfs in Russia and riff
raft" of Germany, Scotland and Wales,
and the scum of Italian cities. These
candidates would be obstacles in the
way of progress, because it gives them
material to appeal to prejudice and
ignorance. Some OF the same canoi-
dates in two years will be on the other
side of the fence as soon as they realize
the people are not blind.
The candidates for county offices did
their little turns" in regular order, ali
promising to do their duty. Rev. J. O..
Cough made an announcement for Mr.. S.
J. Clark who was prevented from at
tending the meeting on account OF sick
ness, and when Mr.. Cough finished his
speech for Mr.. Clark: he was cheered
with short but loud ''hurrah for
Cough
The most distinguished man in the
party of statesmen hunting job, was
NJ. John T. Pack candidate for Coroner,
Mr.. Pack was 'toted about upon the
shoulders of his admirers and was made
quite a hero, OF the long cared variety:
seriously, it was a disgusting sight,
probably most of the crowd was making
sport of the man but in our opinion
Pack has more sense, even if his little
'addressment" is dispointed. than many
in that crowd who were making sport
| of him. He took a hand primary with
gratifying results. Tosum up the meet
ing would be difficult task, out of the
entire number of speeches, only one
can be said to have merit as speech,
most of the others were nothing short
of vote-appealing lung exercises.