The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-07-31
A Large eathesiag-Speeches and Dinner.

there is beautiful shade and grea
flowing wells OF as pure water as tn
earth sends forth. The attendanc
was hard to estimate because the peo
pie were scattered, but in the writer,
Judgment there were not less than
five thousand. We were told by L nal
that he attempted TO count the vehicle
and after having counted to the mum
ber OF =. 900 he got tired and quit.
This was the occasion OF the annua
reunion of Company Il. 10Th, regimen
South Carolina Volunteers, and thell
number is getting fewer and fewer
every year, but while the picnic i:
under the uspices of these veterans, il
is really everybody's day, and every
body that can goes there TO meet rela.
tives and friends. 1t is u great place
for the smiling candidate for Office. and
the man who hopes some day to be.
and it is also the most ideal spot on
earth for the lads and lassies, the
widow and the widower, all are on
their best" and are participating for
the love of real enjoyment.
The veterans had erected a large
pavilion for speaking purposes, and
upon the platform were seated Hon.
W. W. Lumkin OF Columbia, the ora
tor of the day, Lieutenant Governor
Thomas G. Mcleod OF Blshopvll!e,
whose home is not far away, and he
was where everybody was kin 70 hlm'
and Congressman y. +. Lever, OF Len
ington who so ably represents the 'th
congressional district, and who IS last
becoming senatorial timber on has
merit. His work in Congress has dem
onstrated his fitness for such work, and
without doubt he and George Legare
have accomplished more for their con-
stituency than all the rest OF South
Carolina's representatives put together.
Lever, is the Idol of the Ith district,
and he has made himself so, not by
any spectacular tactics, sensational
newspaper attitudes. employed press
agents, and other schemes to keep IN
the limelight so frequently employed
by politicians, but by studying the
welfare of his people, and then going
to the place, and the people 10 control
to work necessarily to accomplish prac-
tical results. Lever has done vast
amount of practical good for the
farmers all over the State. 1t was he
that procured the appropriation Tor
the Improvement Of our inland water
WAYS. the experiment in dairying, and
other things which 60 TO make the
facilities better, that
tend to encourage the draining and
developing of the lowlands, and that
actually touches the pocket nerve OF
the entire people. His work has been
so satisfactory, that although ne IS
being urged from every county IN the
State to enter the senatorial race, his
constituents in the 7th do not wish to
hear to it, fearing they will not AGAIN
have such 'sa friend at court" and
while they feel proud that the people OF
the State appreciate the merits OF thelr
representative and know that ne de-
serves promotion, they would very re-
luctantly consent in giving him up,
even to take United States Senator
ship.
The writer went to Beulah on a
crowded train over the Alcolu railroad.
and reached the grounds too late tc
hear the speeches, and Only In time to
be pushed forward to acknowledge his
pleasure of being present, by the mis-
chievous Tom Mcleod, now lieutenant
governor, who we predict Will be Gov
ernor at no great future date, and he
would make good one too. AS we
before said we did not hear the
speeches, but we did hear the COM
ments of the people, and if all the
GOOD things said about the speeches OF
all three visitors could have been
poured into their ears instead OF ours
chev would have had to exchange their
hats for umbrellas to cover their heads.
me people were delighted with Tom
McLeod's forceful arguments and 1t
ting Jokes, and it was one OF these that
gave him an opportunity to get even
With US, they were spell bound by
Lumkin's oratory and eloquerce, and
when he would burst forth. we were
told by an elderly lady, into one Of his
tributes to women, she got right good
looking: Who? we asked. why,
Preacher Lumkin." Lever VINO can
be as ELOQUENT as the others when he
win. seemed to have captivated his
hearers by furnishing them with val
liable information and good advice,
and his speech made such an impress
sion that he was the recipient OF enough
extra attentions to make the others
jealous, we believe Lumkin was
iealous. because he kept butting in to
tell the women how good looking they
were. and it did please these old LADIES'
so much to know their beauty was ad-
nired by so distinguished q man.
The dinner, Just imagine the guam
tity of food it takes to feed between
four and five thousand ravenous peo-
ole. little and big. but it was there
and that too in the greatest abundance,
and what was better still, those who
men and women, made 1t
their special business to see to 1t that
everybody in that immense throng was
supplied.
It was a regular old time country
picnic dinner, fried chicken and rice,
ham, barbecue, chicken pie, cakes and
pies. coffee, fruit and melons, all spread
upon the ground and everybody en- JOY
ing the open-hearted hospitality, char
acteristic OF people who are only fol-
lowing in the foot steps of their fore
fathers, and where selfshness and
greed has not as yet found its way. 1t
was a great dinner among as great
people as the world knows.
The town OF Beulah is nestled in the
center of rich agricultural section,
it is surrounded by as fine farming
lands as there are in the State, be-
coming more aud more developed ard
productive. There was time when
this hidden wealth was unknown to the
outside world, and there lived in con
tentment people who were satisfied
with their humble surroundings, the
lands could have been, and some were,
sold for Sl.50 per acre, today they will
bring anywhere from $50 to $50 per
acre. The olden time people lived in
log houses, crude and illiterate, but
famous for good living, today, they re.
tain the ''good living qualities of their
parents, and have demonstrated the
value of education, by building school
houses, educating their children and
tenderly laying aside the crudeness OF
.ho;r forofathers and taEino m life re