The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-07-13

VAo oH" HS' oASS P"SO ~ ooNAnoh VA
! 1906, he voted against the dispensary
and for local option by state board
and again:t the hotel and beer privi-
leges. In the senate of 1899 he voted
for what was then known as the Ar
cher bill, which was direct thrust at
the dispensary. In 1904 he voted for
the Brice bill, and also voted against
the amendment which the friends of
the dispensary offered, putting on the
half mill tax levy. See Senate Jour-
nal, pages 39S 800. With this record
he is not consistent in his present
views, for he has, on all occasions, by
his votes. whenever the opportunity
offered, voted against the dispensary
system.
In 1902, as senator, when the bill
was introduced to prohibit trusts, Mr..
Manning voted against the bill, and
for the trusts. See Journal, pages 4G2
and 472. AT the same session, when
the railroad relief bill for employees
was offered, he voted to kill the bill,
thus voting against the employees.
See pages 262, 27G, 504. At the same
session, when the state was endcavor-
ing to repeal the charter of the Vir-
ginia- Carolina Chemical company,
trust throttling or attempting to
throttle the people of South Carolina,
and which Attorney General Bcllinger
and his assistants were fighting with
all their power. Mr.. Man
ming voted against the bill to suspend
this corporation. See journal 1902,
page 3GO In the session of 1900,
Journal. page 20G, Nr. Manning vot-
cd against the child labor bill. He
also voted aginst the bill t" prevent
strikes. lock-outS. etc. page 81, Jour
nal 1908. He also voted against the
bill for ten hours in the cotton mills.
In the session Of 1898, House Journal,
page lS6. also in the Senate Journal
Of 1900, page 365, he voted against
separate coaches for the two races,
thus voting for white ladies to be
thrown in the same coaches with neg
10 men. In the session of 1898, House
Journal, page 334, when the attempt
was being made to reduce the rate of
interest from s to per cent, in the
State. he voted to reduce ii. When we
were fighting sn hard to give the young
ladies of Winthrop Christmas holi-
days. he lined himself up with the
opposition and voted against the holi-
days, page Il of the Journal of 1906.
Whit this record | claim that Mr..
Manning is not consistent in his pres
cnt positions before the people, and is
not the friend to that element of the
people who need protection.
Col Sloan. while member Of the
senate. in 1892 and 1898, voted
against the disrcnSary every time he
had the opportunity. and used every
effort he could to kill ii. In the seS-
sion of 1898, page l63a. page
233a, page 236a he voted
against separate coaches, and
used every effort that was possible
to be used to kill the bill. and when
he finally found that it would pass.
he then moved to postpone its -oin"
into ettcc, until one yea: after date.
So n$ I" give another opportunity t"
defeat il before ii could be made cf-
fcctivr. There are other matters in
the record Of Col. Sloan 10 which
might refer. but So far rs | am IL
formed. he is conSiStcn, in still stand
ing for hem.
In 1908. Journal. 271. I defended
the diSpcnSary by my vote, and oppos-
cd allowing state boards to close
diSpenSaricS. While Il member of the
house l opposed allowing county dele
cations to name county boards Of
control, as my vote show, because I
knew then that the result would be
as ii is today, because the county
boards. in counties where the delega-
tions were opposed to the dispen-
sary would naturally be men who were
opposed to the dispcnsary. Those men
would elect dispensers and their clerks
who were opposed to- the diSpcnSary.
You would thus bar the friends of
the dispenSaries from holding posi-
tions in them. And such has been the
case. | opposed bonding state con-
stables. Journal 1900, pages 442, 447,
because I knew and said, as reported
in the News and Courier February s,
of that year, that it would hamper
them in thc Discharge of their duties,