The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-02-24

that made my Indictment against th
slanders OF South Carolina in regar
to crime an excuse for Villi6cation an
abuse OF me personally. I can stan
it because l am used to it. Can th
editors Of tie Mountaineer and III
News justify themselves for befoulinI
South C:4rolina's good name in tb
way they have?
This much for the Mountainee7
Now for Jhe Greenville News.
That paper makes illusions to N.
lecture tour in West last summer, ant
speaks thus:
'Wher be was spouting fire OF
that spectacular trip this neWspape:
declared that Senator Tillman We!
killing of all hope Of bringing desil
ably class Of immigrants to this State
by bis alarming speeches." I recall
the fact that some garbled and dis
torted reports were sent abroad while
the debate with Senator Burton was
/ going on last summer, with a view tt
creating a sensation. I cannot discuss
the immigration question in an article
like this, but in presenting the view
to the Nothern people that with $780,.
coo negroes and only 560,00 white
people in our State that absolute
equality before the law meant domi-
nation by the blacks, and that the
whites would resort to fighting before
they would submit to it, I thought !
told the plain, unvarniShed truth, and
I think so still. I am thoroughly well
satisfied that race war would result
should Northern fanatics again en-
deavor to force negro equality upon
US.
think it did good to tell those peo-
pie this and let them understand the
true situation. II it drives immi-
grants away from our borders we'll and
good, but certainly the statement
which has been made in cold blood by
South Carolina newspaper men that
murder and lawlessness were rampant,
that jurors were perjurers, life and
property we're unsafe, ETC., were cal
culated to deter home seekers much
more than the threatened shadow of a
race conflict, as predicted and which
may never come. / mentioned immi-
grafton in that interview tor the pur-
pose of showing the inconsistency and
the idiocy Of those who proclaim such
a condition Of affairs in South Caro-
lima, and yet we're urging the eXpen-
diture Of our taxes for the purpose Of
bringing immigrants to our State.
The News charges that spoke thus
because I was paid to DO it while
claiming that ISLANDERS by it and
others voiced the sentiments Of the
decent law abiding people in protest
ing against the disgrace Of the COM
monWealth and it did so believing
that it was performing public SER
vice, and not because there was re-
ward" At first blush it would appear
that because l received money for my
work and the newspapers did not, l
am in the wrong. 1t is bad bird
that will befoul its own nest whether
for reward OF without it. In standing
up for white supremacy before North
ern audiences and proclaiming frankly
and boldly our intention to preserve it
at all hazards, and driving the hypo-
crisy and political greed Of those who
were apposing it, I may have been in
error, but what defense can be offered
by him " 40 befouled the States good
name eitte truthfully or untruthful-
ly. No good whatever has been ac-
conplished, and I really cannot see
what my having been paid has to do
with it.
The conditions in South Carolina
are not such as / would like to see,
but those who charge that the dispen-
Sary law, as The News does, is respon-
sible, must first answer for the educa-
tion Of the people to which I have
made allusion in the belief that it was
right and proper to override that Law
by any and all means. They have
sown to tle wind and are reaping the
WhirlWind.
want to say further that when
The News says that the existing
condition, in South Carolina are due
to the weak politicians who have beeo
elected te Office and nearly all Of these
men are disciples Of Tillman,'' that
it is well known that the last two
Legislatures Of South Carolina have
had majority Of former Conserva-
tive in them, and our present brave
and noble-hearted governor, who is
doing his whole duty towards enforc'
ing this obnoxious law-obno2ious tt
The News and the Mouutineer-is vel!
known to have been a Conservative.
close by saying to The Greenville
News that am not worrying about
the immigrants I have kept away
from South Carolina nor those Whe
may be deferred from coming to South
Carolina by its own slanders, but lei
us keep the record straight, and let
the people understand that thei1
senior senator may be violent anc
turbulent as the Mountaineer says
and The News may not have any
faith in bis sincsreity" about immi
grants or anything else, but they have
not cleared themselves from tht
charge be made Of having slanderet
South Carolina, and what is more the.
cannot. They have simply abused mi
to hide taeir own fault.
B. R. Tillman.
Washington, D. c., Feb. 16, 1904.
Anti-Treatin2 Esill.
The anti-treating bill has at las
got through both houses, though
variously amended. In its presen
ebana the hill reads. 'It. shall be un