The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-08-19
ANsEL FOR GOVERNOR.

ANsEL FOR GOVERNOR.
Next Tuesday the white voters
of this State will ballot for the
nomination of men from United
States senator to coroner. 1t is
every mans right to vote for his
choice. In the senatorial race
the writer will cast his vote for
E. D. Smith. In the guberna
torial race he will vote for Mar
tin 2. Ansel. Why? He believes
Smith is fully competent for the
position and has, by his hard and
persistent work IL the interest OF
the masses, earned their support
for this honor.
He believes it is to the interest
of South Carolina to re-elect
Martin F. Ansel governor, be-
cause, Governor Ansel has made a
good. clean executive. There has
been none of the spectacular about
his administration, the Office has
been conducted in a business
manner. Governor Ansel has
made some enemies by resorting
to the injunction procedure to
enforce the dispensary law in the
large cities. He also made some
enemies for refusing to exercise
the pardoning power in some IN
stances. For instance, there are
some in this county who will vote
against Ansel because he refused
to pardon a young white man,
convicted by a Clarendon jury
for living in adultery with a negro
married woman. Those having
this objection claim the Governor
refused to recognize strong pc.
tition, signed by part of the jury,
some county officials and a num-
Der of citizens. The solicitor rec
ommended a fine, and the judge
made no recommendation. and be-
cause the Governor would not in
terfere with the verdict Of the
jury he is to be punished by oppo-
sition. Is this right9
Governor Ansel took an oath
to enforce the law, a young man
is scharged with an oHense against
society, a jury in the county
where he was born and reared
heard the evidence, and that jury
pronounced him Guilty The
Judge. under the law, was forced
to sentence. If he was guilty
should he not have been sentenc-
ed? The young man goes on the
chain gang, and some family con.
nection, a former county official,
circulates a petition to have the
young man pardoned, this peti-
ton was signed and sent to the
Governor, who, knowing how
easily. and thoughtlessly people
sign petitions went over the evi'
dence taken at this trial and from
it. he was satisfied the jury did
it's duty in bringing the verdict.
Then if the evidence disclosed 70
the Governor the jury was right:
would it not have been an un-
warranted interference on his
part to grant the pardon? Gov
ernor Ansel did not know any of
the parties, and the evidence was
his guide, not the petitions.
There is not a man who will
vote against Governor Ansel be
cause he refused to pardon a
white man for living in adultery
with a negro woman, the wife Of
a negro man: who will have the
temerity to acknowledge that he
favors a Governor who licenses
crimes of this nature. The prop
er course for the friends of this
convicted young man, was, if they
could do so, secure a new trial OF
the ground Of after discovered
evidence, if they were satisfied
this evidence would have revers-
ed the verdict Of guilty, but it is
absolutely wrong, and it is a re.
fection upon mans patriotism
to vote against the Governor fol
no other reason than doing his
duty. Governor Ansel used the US
ual methods to enforce the dispen-
sary lawn Charleston and Colum-
bia, this he found was not efec-
tive, he was oath bound to enforce
this law, and as a dernier resort
the injunctions were applied. Has
it been efective9: There are fewer
blind tigers IN those cities now
than ever before, and it was not
until Ansel took the cub, did we
hear of men tying out Of this
State to keep from going to jail.
He has done his best to enforce
the dispensary law, the laws
against adultery and all other
laws.
If a man is unfortunate, gets
into a fight and is convicted, an
appeal to Governor Ansel is fre-
quently effective, but if he steals,
or becomes a moral leper, and a