The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-09-06
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The readerS OF The TINES Will
recall the public letter OF Hon.
r I. Manning in last weeks IS
sue. also our editorial criticism.
After reading Senator Mannlngs
letter we arrived at the conciu-
sion that his position is not org
inal, but on the contrary ne
echoed declarations formerly
made by United States Senator
Tillman.
1st, in one Of its leading edlto-
rials. without reproducing The
TINES criticism in full, but takes
from it a short extract, proceeds
TO argue the 1.-THE NAMING
TINES does palpable injustice to
Senator Richard I. Manning" IN
so doing, we claim the News and
Courier "does palpable injustice"
to the reading public when it
does not publish the whole
truth.
!. To take extracts from an edl-
torial to bolster up an argument,
is like picking out extracts from
the Bible to reason that it con-
tradicts itself, and which, to our
view. is not fair: we therefore
give to our readers what the
News and Courier SAID and will
J show that it's conclusions are not
warranted by the facts and the
record.
NEVER \ COAT-TAII. SWINGER.
The following expression from THE
MANNING TIMES does palpable injuS-
cice 10 Senator Richard l. Manning. OF
Sumter: ''Senator Manning's letter
was a Disappointment to US, not that we
expected him to agree with the views
we entertain. but because we have not
discovered any original marks IN It:
but on the contrary. we see where ne
tracks in the ruts of Senator Tillman's
band wagon;
United States Senator Til!man rather
cracks in the ruts'' Of State Senator
Manning. Until about TWO months ago
Senator Ti!lman was laying great stress
on the absence of proof OF corruption IN
the Dispensarv. He admitted that sus-
: picions existed, but he emphasized that
no evidence had been offered, and he
compared the charges OF fraud with
those made against himself more than
ten years ago, which he denounced
with exceeding bitterness.
Senator Manning. on the other hand,
introduced bill at the last session OF
the General Assembly. designed TO
make Dispensarv frauds impossible. 1t
was predicated. we suppose, on Mr..
Manning's belief that corruption had
entered the DiSpensary. AT any rate
it was stated at the time that. the leg
islative friends of the present admins
traitors of the Dispensary. assisted IN
defeating the measure on the ground
that it's passage would amount to q
reflection upon those officials. Thus.
at a time when Senator Tillman was
refusing to entertain suspicion Of Dis
pensary managers, instead of following
him Senator Manning took the respon-
sibility of leading in a policy which the
Dispensary masnates. through their
friends, accepted as an attack upon the
: integrity of their conduct. We are not
in sympathy with Senator Manning's
views, but he is at least entitled to i'm.
munity from the charge OF coas-tall
swinging.
Senator Manning's published
letter is what we criticized, to do
this, we necessarily had in mind
his public acts, and those of
others in connection with the
dispensary question, and since
our Charleston contemporary is
about to reverse the record by
claiming that instead of Senator
Manning tracking ;'in the ruts
of Senator Tillman's b q
wagon" as we claimed, the News
and Courier would have it that
it is United States Senator Till
man rather tracks in the ruts' of
State Senator Manning" This
is a direct contradiction. and it
is up to US to make good our
opinion that the Manning letter
had ssno original marks in it, but
on the contrary, we think we see
where he ;'tracks IN the ruts Of
Senator Tillman's band wagon. !"
What are the facts on which
such an opinion is based? On the
22nd, day Of October 1904, near
: " three months before the Gen
eral Assembly convened: United
States Senator Tillman, by invi
tation delivered an address in de-
fense of the dispensary at Gaf-
ney, aud in that speech he de-
clared the law was being violat-
ed, the institution was per-
mitted to run loosely, and that
the State Board should be abol-
ished, and the management re-
turned to the Governorand other
State officers. He even suggest
ed that members of the judiciary
be added to the board. Follow
ing Senator Tillman's Gafney
declarations, State Senator Man
ming introduced bill in the
Senate, the provisions Of which
carried out the suggestions
made in Senator Tlllman's
speech at GaHney, the bill failed,
but since the adjournment, the
dispensary question has been
alive and active: everybody ex-
cept prospective candidates for
Governors discussing it, and the
newspapers We're clamoring for
declaration from gubernatorial
aspirants, but nothing was com
ing from them, The distin-
guished gentleman from Green
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