The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-08-15

Manning, S. c.
Dear SIR
have noted your Editorial
in YOUR paper dated the Sth inst, head
lined "Have we a Guardian
You set Yourself up as a critic on ana
because | have written letters advocat-
inc Major H. B. Richardson's candi-
dacy for the Senate. Replying 70 you
sir, I want to say IN the outset tnat IL
is the shit dog" that alwa.ys sets up
howl. Now. MIR. Apelt, inasmucn as
YOU saw fit to criticise my letter, and
by insinuation make charges that are
absolutely false, common decency
would have demanded that the letter be
published along with your charges: so
that the reading public could have
iudoed whether or not you were trying
to put me in a false light. Your dirty
insinuation that the letter was written
Ipresume YOU ment by Major Flchard-
sonl, and that he was swlnlng on to my
coat tail, could only have been concelV-
ed in the mind of a political trlchster,
as YOU are. for there is not one clntllla
in nv letter that would warrant any
such construction, and I assert most
emphatically that there has not neen
anv bargain. understanding or coIluslon
between Major Richardson and myself
as to his candidacy, or in anything else.
and that he did not know anything OF
nv having written any letters advocat-
inc his election, and for your anfor-
nation MIR. Apelt, will state that |
wrote the letter without consultation
or dictation from any source whatever;
did not even ask your consent. You
try lvery hard to drag the Hon. j. W.
Kennedy into this controversy, thlnk-
inc thereby to make a political friend
of him, and possibly profit by It,. Mr.:
Apelt, let me disabuse your mind, ana
set YOU straight. When | wrote the
letter advocating Major Richardson,
Mr.. Kennedy had not announced nlm-
self, and the language used, to Wit:
"you can depend upon whatever plat
form or promise Major Richardson
makes to the people will be carried out
bv his vote and influence when elected,
and this cannot be said of some OF the
men who are asking for our votes
does rot apply 10 Mr.. Kennedy. whom
Ihave always found to be man OF a pro-
| nounced sense of honor and staoltlty.
This cap fits you so nicely Mr.. Apelt,
that I cannot but say that you must
wear it alone, as | do not KNOW OF
another man in the race for any office
| that it would fit, and who could wear 1t
with as much grace, and strut as big as
YOU could DO You challenge me tor
the proof Let's go back eight years.
Do you remember that in the campaign
then that you declared on the stump be-
fore the people st every campaign
meeting that you advocated the disper'
sarv as the best solution Of the whlskey
question? Do you remember that after
You were elected, land if my memory
serves me right at the first session q
the General Assembly, you introduced
a local option bills Was this not golne:
back on your promise, or what you hec
advocated? The people haven't fcc
gotten it if you have,
| No doubt you will try tolreconcile
this bv saying that you wanted to sub
NIT it to the people, and let them decide
kYou can fool some Of the people, bu'
unless the signs of the times fail, yor
viii be a little bit wiser after the ISL
of August.
AS to your request for me to name
Legislative ticket, you have got the
coon, and gone on with a voter: Yol
have the honor of trying to be the die
tator and Mogul of Clarendon County:
politics. Your allusion to the manner
in which I do business with the farmer:
at Summerton, of which you know
nothing, is unworthy of notice, and
answer you by inviting you to come K
Sunmerton, and I will furnish you witt
a list of my customers, take you rounc
to everyone of them, and if nine out O
| ten do not pronounce your charge
-, promise to plead guilty anc
quit business.
You say something about me beins
afraid to put my little record before
the voters for reelection. In repl.
would say that my record would prove
that :, er betrayed the trust reposet
in me by constituents, and l feel su1t
that had I desired to enter the race fo
, reelection against you, would have hat
no fear of the results.
Inconclusion Mr.. Apelt, as q fre'
man, I have a right as well as an.
other citizen Of the County, to advocate
by letter or in any other honorabl
way, any candidate I may choose to
Notwithstanding what you say to th'
contrary.
In Justice to myself and the peopl
; of Clarendon County, request tha
:. YOU publish the letter that you com
plain of, with this reply to your crltl