The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-08-08
HAVE We A GUARDIAN f?

opinion. The incident is hardly
worth an editorial expression be.
cause we believe the people OF
Clarendon will resent such M
pertineuce. We believe every
man who has received a letter
from &c. NJ. Davis" indicating
how he should vote, will ask
himself the question, 'sif Mr..
Davis is so solicitious about Sc
curing a proper man to represent
Clarendon in the Senate why Is
it he did not have the courage to
ask for re-election?" No, he
would not put his little record to
the chance Of being repudlased
by a people who were misled
into voting for him once, and
would do so again if given an
opportunity. SO he sits back in
his office in Su N m ert on
where he ties the farmer,
hand and foot with mort
cages, and when bound into a
helpless condition, sells him meat
and grits atdebt-increasing prices
and undertakes to dictate in an
indirect manner who shall be his
successor in Office. We have had
much experience in politics, but
we have never known before OF a
man retiring from office who was
Sc ignorant Of the proprietles, as
to undertake to send out elect
ioneering literature for his sue
cessor. The custom is, when a
man retires, to keep out of the
conflict, cast his vote for whom
he pleases, but take no active
steps for or against anybody.
In Mr.. Davis appeal to the
voters to crafty his egotlsm.
He uses language, that his own
friends cannot endorse. He says
"you can depend upon whatever
platform or promise Major Rich.
ardson makes to the people will
be carried out by his vote and
influence when elected, and this
cannot be said Of some Of the
men who are asking for our
votes" Mr.. Davis should not
have said this, because he knows
full we'll that up to the time he
wrote his letter there were but
two other candidates for the
Senate, Hon. j. W. Kennedy and
the writer, and We challenge him
to show a single instance where
either Mr.. Kennedy or ourself
fail to be as honorable, as chaste
and as moral as is Major Rich
ardson. Mr.. Davis in charging
that Kennedy or the writer will
make promises and break them,
could not have considered what
he was having written for him
before he affixed his signature to
the typewriter paper.
To our certain knowledge Mr..
Davis has had but small per-
sonal contact with Major Rich
ardson and has but little oppor-
tunity to Judge Of his integrity,
on the other hand, we have known
him many years, and can vouch
for his gentleness of manner, and
his ability to make himself
agreeable, but that he has a high
er order of integrity, or is more
moral. or more reliable than
either of his opponents we deny
with emphasis.
We do not think it credltaole
to Major Richardson's ability to
permit himself put in the posi-
ton OF appearing to be running
for the Senate swinging to the
coat-tails of G. NJ. Davis or any
other man, and the fact of Mr..
Davis presuming to ram down
the throats Of the people Of
Clarendon a successor, or a
substitute named by himself,
is an evidence that ring
rule should be repudiated, for
this is the boldest attempt the
ringsters have ever made. Now,
since this self appointed leader
has made known whom he wants
for Senator. will he oblige a
helpless people who are unable,
and have not the sense to make
their own choice, who he will
have for the House? We are
satisfied this retiring Senator
who has not dared to ask the
people to endorse his record by
standing for reelection, has
alsozhis men selected for the
House, let him display more of
his audacity and name the full
slate. At present he has only
given out a portion of the slate,
out we presume ne Will nCIQ
back his choice for the House.
as it will give him the three can
didates in Salem to play with, by
trying to make Green believe heis
the man, whispering into Woods,
that he was chosen, and to Epps
that he alone will be considered.
This is the game Of politics that
should be played out, because it
has been worked and fooled peo-
pie before, and when the election
was over the tricksters struck
their glasses together and drunk
to each others health, to cele
brate the fiim-ham game they
worked. Do the people want
a guardian :