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

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the question is raised, as it can
only result in bitterness). DR..
Geiger will, we think, be con-
vinced he is not voiciug the SEN
timent Of this community.
He is Voting for Neither Blease nor Smith
(By Request
Seneca, August, 18th, 1908.
EDITOR The MANNING TINES
Your ingenious effort to divert the
point of my correspondence in your
last issue, perhaps, makes it neces-
sary that l come out in the open'
and say that I am not supporting
Mr.. Blease. neither sincerely nor IN
sincerely. judge that you have COM
pretended that I am not support
ing Mr.. E. d. Smith either, but fear
ing that you are still in darkness
about it, and incidentally to en-
tighten my friends and Kinfolk in
Clarendon I beg that you allow
my ''temerityn to suggest headline
for this piece. Please, Mr.. Applet.
put it this way: He is voting for
neither Blease nor Smith.
Now won't you give US a two
column eulogium on Mr.. Smith, his
virtues, his senatorial qualities, how
he gave his what time and talent"
to the purpose of the association,
spending his personal afortune," }"
how he drought the spinners from
Europe over to ask for terms.0 how
fifteen cents per pound was siren
uouslyideulanded as the minimum" ;"
and particularly tell us how those
terms were arranged. in that the
''spinners from Europe and else
where are now giving less than
twelve cents per pound; tell Us how
in the emberment of Sumter to
form Lee County, Mr.. Smith was re-
tanned in neither, but appears to
have been spewed over Lynche;s
river into Florence county? Tell US
how, in accomplishing all these
things, there has been not g. breath
of scandal" at the sametime, they
are circulating all manner of reports
against Smith, Won't you let me
help the Herald a little bit by get.
ting THE TINES to develop more and
more the great fruitfulness Of Mr..
Smiths lectures, as he travelled over
the entire cotton belt, conferred with
bankers, manufacturers, and ap-
peared at the exchanges"
Is it becoming in THE TINES to
withhold these fruitful results in
negative form, should it not con.
tinue to develop them in glowing
colors, and thus become magnanl-
nous in supplying to the sutfraglst
of South Carolina correct lnforma-
ton?
Why should his native county
withhold credit?
lit is cause for people to inquire
before voting for him.
Come up to the mountains, Mr..
Applet. and get cool. l'll be glad to
see you.
Respectfully,
Jos. H. BURGESS.
It is to be hoped that our cor
respondent, Mr.. Jos. Il. Burgess,
does not regard every man who
moved from his native county as
having been 'sspewed" into the
county to which he has made his
new home. Mr.. Burgess is a
Clarendon man Of excellent fam
lily connection, and up to the
time he left Clarendon, he bore
a good reputation, there has
never ueen the least intimation
to cause the people of his native
county, to 'spew" him from
their midst, but he left US, and
now if the good people of Seneca
will keep a close watch on him
we have every reason to believe
they will be convinced he was
not sspewed" out from Claren-
don. That Mr.. Burgess has come
out into the open to say he is not
supporting Mr.. Blease" we are
sure will be an assurance to
to his friends and kinfolk that
leaving home young and limo.
cent. has not caused him to lose
his virtue.
We gather from Mr.. Burgess
attempt at humor, his opposi.
ton to E. D. Smith lies in that
Smith has not succeeded in sec
uring fifteen cents for cotton.
Why? Because of an element in
position to influence the farmer
to let enough cotton go on the
market to keep the mills run.
ming. 1t is a fact that many
farmers in debt: and wishing
their creditors to feel safe had
their cotton stored with the
creditor. who shipped to Char
lesion, Wilmington and other
warehouses to be held. but per-
mitted these warehouses to let
the mills have the stored cotton,
subject to the price on day of
instructions to sell; with suck
an arrangement, the storing, of
cotton was a humbug. The
farmer thought his cottosl was
being held from market: but he
was deceived, his cotton was do
ing the very thing Mr.. Smith
was trying to prevent: and
which the farmer was trying to
prevent, but those whom he en-
trusted with the staple played
into the hands of the mill men,
kept them supplied with the raw
material, and as a consequence,