The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-11-18
A BASE MISREPRESENTATION.

DTOitlOlVtOillSlS. 1.A Sot4AS NNs'4
ties trouble is expected. The whiskey
men are making desperate efforts 10 re-
tain wh,skev. We we're in Clarendon
COUNTY the day after the election, and
wers told OF some of the methods there.
The Jaw requires thirty days' notice for
a special election. The supervisor was
approached repeatedly and urged to
pub :sh the notice. Each time he prom
ised 20 Go so, and each time he failed TO
keer his promise. His advertisement
gave only eighteen days notice. He has
admitted that a high official IN that
courty influenced him not to publish the
notice! He has given bond for the
faithful discharge OF his duties, and
should this election be declared void. OF
course his bond will De responsible for
allthe expense of another election. This
is only one evidence OF the efforts OF the
whiskev men to thwart the will OF the
people. Carthage delen6a est.
Notwithstanding the editor Of
the Advocate was; ';in Clarendon
County the day after the elec-
tion," and as he says was :'told
Of some of the methods there. ;"
he does not seem to have lost the
habit of getting kinks in his
facts. In the first place. he must
have gotten hold of Spartan
burg's lightning calculator who
gave out John Gary Evans ma.
jority just prior to the recent sec
ond primary, to figure the result
in the Dispensary or Anti Dispen-
sary election in Clarendon. The
number OF votes according to the
Advocate with two small boxes
to hear from polled in Clarendon
were 2,01S, when the official
count Of every box in the County
only shows 1,164, For Sale 27S,
Against Sale $780," thus showing
that the Advocates editor got
his data from some unreliable
source, he was evidently misled
with regard to the figures. But
says the Advocate, referring to
the County Supervisor. He has
admitted that a high official IN
that county Influenced him not to
publish the notice." We do not
believe this statement to be true,
we do not believe that Supervisor
McFaddin made any such admis-
sion, nor do we believe there is
any official high Or low in Clar.
endon who attempted to infu
ence Mr.. McFaddin in the mat
ter one way or the other.
It is unfortunate always, for a
secular newspaper to lnisrepre
sent the facts but it sometimes
happens that editors in their zeal
reach out too far to sustain that
which they are advocating. but
when the editor of a paper pub
lished in the interest of a great
church is careless about gather
ing his facts, and makes state.
ments that reflect upon the char
acter OF an officer it is more than
unfortunate. It is deplorably sad.
The editor of the Christian Ad
vocate was in Clarendon the day
after the election, perhaps he can
give 20 his readers the informa
tion. Tc whom did the Supervisor
admit that a hight official in that
county influenced him not to pub
Iish the notice." What S:high Of
fcial" exercised such a ponderous
influence over the Supervisors:
It would be surprising indeed to
the people Of Clarendon County
to learn that they have elected a
man to one of the most important
Of Offices who is nothing but a
puppet to be handled at the will
of some high official" # what
the Advocate says can be relied
upon, then Clarendon had better
pray for the return to Clarendon
of the editor of the Advocate, and
let him take a hand in the fnan-
cial management.
The entire reference to Clar-
endon's election published in the
Advocate is a balled up mess Of
inaccuracies. There are no whis-
key men in this County who vot-
ed to retain the dispensary in the
election just over The opposi-
tion had the liquor men on their
side. Those who favored reten.
tion were men who did not pat
ronize the dispensary and most Of
them were either teetotalers OF
very temperate drinkers. They
did not endorse liquor selling OF
drinking, but they took the posi-.
ton, if liquor was to be used and
sold il the county let it be done
in an open and legal way-these
men are not wniskey men, no
more so than was the editor of
the Southern Christian Advocate
a whislSey man, when two years
ago he endorsed the State dispen-
sary IL his churc, paper in
the last issue just preceding the
election. and thereby putting his
church in the false position Of
endorsing that Institution, with
out giving opportunity for the
church to repudiate its editors
endorsementin the church organ.
The Supervisor did not give
the notice required by law for the
election he called, and We believe:
if contested, the courts would
have forced a strict COM
pliance with the Act, this
being q special election: but
we do lot believe the Supervisor
Intentionally slipped over theI