The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-05-02
SERIOUS CHARGE.
THE LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGAT-
ING CoMMITTE CRITICISED.
It is Asserted That It Is q Political
Machine to Tefeat Senator

It is Asserted That It Is q P0lltlca
Machine to Cefeat Senator
Tillman.
Mr.. W. W. Price, the Washington
correspondent OF the Columbia Be
cord, sends the following to that
paper:
1.-THE legislative committee appoint
ed to investigate dispenssry affairs Is
fast developing into a mere adjunct
OF the machine in South Caroli5e
that is trying to defeat Senator Till
man" was the important statement
m ade here Wednesday by a prominent
man from that state. 1T Is too ap
pzrert fer even the most ope one mind
to remain il ignorance, and there is
much feeling in the state among the
senator's friends"
Then the South Carolinian, who
has been an intimate friend Of Sena-
tor Tillnan for years, went on to say:
Il suppose the leaders Of the outfit
have come to the conclusion that nc
body IN the state has sense enough
to see what all sSE:s means. / do not
know worse example Of apparent in.
territorial desire to involve Senate:
Tillman In trouble than has recently
been shown. 1t is getting so open
that it begins to look as If the whole
OBJECT Of the committee Was to find
som: thing that would hurt the South
Carolina senator. O: course they
can't do this, as there is nothing to
fad. Why doesn't this committed
handle the important and kaotty
affairs they have in hapd-the Illegal
purchases Ct supplies for the institu
tion for the last two years2 DO net
believe that drop Of whiskey has
been legally bought for the dispensary
in two years. Yet I don't see any
profound effort to get busy on this
subject. II this committee was go.
pointed to make an impartial investi-
CATION and leave personal and politi-
cal bias out o. it there is plenty Ct
room for a complete change Of po
gram.
while this new outfit that Is try
ing TO come into power IN the state Is
bitterly hostile 10 the dispsnsary it's
whole game IS to involve Senator Till
man II posi- bic, 10 matter whethsr it
has to be cone by dirty insinuations
about piano purchases OF any other
cay. VII, I imagine that before
the senator and his friends get
through with some Of these chaps
there will be something doing.
The game the people OF South
Carolina want to watch now Is the
little one OF how we are going to set
tie up the question OF these illegal
payments. This is full Of more posi-.
bilities than all the trips to Circinna-
tt and elsewhere to find whether
Senator Tillnan returned rebates
thirteen years ago. It's funny ho"
earnestly some Of thess people are
digging after matters thirteen years
Old, yet with wha5 ponderous slow
ness latter day sffsIrs are being gone
into. Isn't it stra3 gs?
THE next legislature, If it repre-
sents the voice OF the people, as l be-
lieve it will, msy take a new tack at
the investigating business. | 60 not
wish to go into details now, but l
should not be opposed to a blanket
investigation, taking in everybody
and everything right on down to the
present moment That might bring
out some interesting things"
The statement IL made that Sena-
tor Tilman's friends In South Caro-
lima and out are writing him letters
Indicating that there is getting to be
disgust in many quarters with some
of the present methods and that there
is not the confidence there was some
time back.
I do not know anything about these
matters except what I hear. l DO
know, though, that people coming up
from the state, both friends and op-
ponents Of Senator Tillman, rather
agree in the idea the prime object In
some directions seems to be to hunt
she earth over tor matter that may
injurs Senator Tillman, no matter
what the expense OF how it Is done.
The publication Of the dispen5ary: 1t
is declared, is simply secondary At
fir. Anything to get Tillnan IN
trouble" was tee way another South
Carolina man put it.
Murderer Wanted.