The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-09-06

ernor, when urged for a decla-
ration. accepted invitations to
discuss the question, and, at
Edeefeld and Anderson. he re-
iterated his Gatfney declarations
and gave out the details OF ms
plan to purify the dispensary, at
the same time declaring the dis
nensarv must be purified OF be
killed, and he also declared ne
would tight license system: :
One of the principal features OF
Senator Tillman's reformation
plan, is to make the Governor
its Il head, just as the law was or
iginally enacted. -,
After Senator Mannlng's bill
failed in the Senate, nothing was
heard from him Oh the subject
until after Senator Tillman re1t-
crates at Edgeheld and Ander-
son the speech he made at Gatf-
ney before the legislature met
then Senator Manning is again
heard from, and this time with a
proposition so similar to Sena-
tor + Tillman's that neither can be
distinguished from the other
thev are twins.
The minds of great men run
in the same channel we admit.
Senator Manning had a right to
approve and endorse Senator
Tillman's position, and incorpor-
ate it in his platform, but in do
inc so, he should have boldly ac-
knowledge its origin.
Senator Manning may have an
original plan which he has dis
closed to Charleston's morning
daily, and this may he the rea-
son for the News and Courier's
hiding a part of the record, but
the public has not come IN pos
session of it as yet. and has only
received from him a second
handed, declaration, which was
originally made by Senator Till
man three months before "Sen-
ator Manning, < int tro.
duced a bill at the last session OF
the General Assembly, designed
to make Dispensary frauds i'm
possible
With such record accessible
in the files Of the News and
Courier, it would seem tous that
our Charleston contemporary
can be convinced that The Man
MING TINES did not do s'palpa-
BILE injustice to Senator Richard
I Manning" but that the News
and Courier "does palpable in
Justice" to the author of the Dis
pensary law by intimating that
Senator Tillman has hltched on
to Senator Manning's coat.tall.
Naturally we should like to
support Senator Manning if he
runs for Governor, his friends
here are our friends, we were
pleasantly associated with him.
We have confidence IN his busl-
ness. His business qualhca-
tions are recognized, as is attest
ed by the fact that be is proml-
nently identified with railroads,
factories, banks and other busl-
ness enterprises, and heis very
courteous gentleman, but not
withstanding these things, our
support of him must depend
upon whether or not there will
come into the field man equally
qualified, who is nearer our
views upon the liquor question,
if this question is to be an issue
in the next election.
We want to support a candl-
date of ability and integrity,
who shas a clear cut, posi-
tive Local Option platform. The
Dispensary under State control
has been faithfully tried, and the
State is groaning under the
shame it has brought on, Prohl-
bition will not be enforced as
a State measure, but as a local
measure we believe it can be.
County control is to our mind
the solution. Therefore If a
good man, competent TO be Gov
ernor, will come out on a straight
out Local Option platform, we
will lay aside personal admlra-
ton, and glady support the
principle.