The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
Will Tillman Badger Smith out Of Party?

President Taft's anti-negro-oftlce-hold
ing policy, Mr.. Smith will find thai
Uncle Ben; Tillman will hound hin
out of the DemocIatic party like he die
Senator John l.. MoLaurin for darins
to agree with the republican admins
tration sometime. said one Democra1
tonight after reading portion OF Mr.
w. Sinkler Manning's interview with
Mr. Smith, published in tonight's
Daily Record.
The remarks of Mr.. Smith referred
to are as follows:
''If President Taft, said the uew SEN
ator from South Carolina, can carry
out the policy he declared in his in
augural address yesterday, he will not
only build up a strong Republican
party in the South, but in Senator
Smiths opinion, he will do the ssSouth
as a section, great good
" with the negro question hanging
over US, SAID Senator Smith: there was
nothing for us to do but to hang to-
gether, all of US. 1t mas bound the
South in certain grooves that would
ordinarily have been abandoned. and
has fastened her under the political
control of certain limited circles that
have not always been for the best good
of the South. If President Taft keeps
to his pledge ne will make some
changes in these things
But could Senator Tillman read Mr..
Smith out OF the Democratic party,
representing, as Mr.. Smith does, the
progressive element of the young Dem
ocrats of South Carolina, just as Mr..
Taft represents in no small degree the
younger element of the Republican
party in the North, without doing just
what Mr.. Taft would like to see done,
disrupting the Democratic party in the
old ''Solid South" That is just where
the issue hangs, and is fraught with
danger to the future solidity of the old
time ''lS76" Democracy of this state
which not Jew young Democrats
think, like the lien law, has served IT'S
usefulness, that is provided Mr.: Taft
really succeeds in carrying out his new
policies to get tae South in closer touch
with the national government.
1t is quite evident to those who know
Mr.. E. q. Smith, that be is of an inde-
pendent character which will not SUBJ
nit to Mr.. Tillman iomineering pol
itical tactics. II Nh. Smith decides to
vote with the republican majority oc-
casionallv, "and occasionally the Re
publican party is right and occasion
ally the Democratic paety is wrong"
as the writer heard Democratic SEN
ator in the National senate chamber
last March, and mosv particularly upon
questions which are to the material
welfare of the state Of South Carolina.
of party lines, and MIR.
Tillman undertakes 70 read or talk Mr..
Smith out of the Democratic party.
that is Just where the South Carolina
is going to wake up to the
fact that some of the boys in the old
family are inclined to be insubordinate
to old time political hid bound prin-
ciples.
The Democracy of the South might
just as well open its eyes to the fact
that commercial conditions alter poll
ticai conditions in the South, as mucn
as in the North. With the social stat
tus OF the South safeguarded bya guar
antee from the younger element Of the
National Republican party that negro
will cease where it IS
to the harmonious rela-
tions between white and colored, and
with Mr.. Taft's party adhearing to Mr..
declaration that the suffrage laws OF
the South, which guarantee white pol
itical supremacy, will not be interfer-
red with, then Mr.. Smith will be
backed by an independent element OF
Southern Democrats which will break
away from Senator Til!mau's policy
Of fighting the administration on strict
party lines regardless OF whether he
is noing his state good or harm. AS q
matter OF fact there are thousands OF
Democrats in the South who would like
to see less politics and more business in
the Democratic representation of the
South in congress anyhow. less use
less antagonism or personal political
aggrandisement--( occasionally.
So if Senator Smith takes notion to
run amuck and he free-lance" Demo
crat, like Senator LaFollette and other
free lance Republicans" +" why there
are those who think chat it will pay for
Senator Tillmar to handle Mr.. Smith
with gloves until they can talk over
matters, lest the free lance voters OF
the younger Sor5h Carolina Democracy
also become stanlpeded. and run amuck
too.
Careful readers and Observers have
noticed with keen interest that the
young Republicans ct the North, and
the young Democrats of the South are
fast getting together and forming kind
Of mutual agreement organization" IN
congress, and that there is a tendency
to break away from the old leaders OF
both parties. The most gratifying fea-
ture OF the amalgama5ion is the fact that
the Younger Republicans of the North
are well posted on the so-called race
problem in the South, aud are in SYM
pathy with white supremacy and white
political control in the South. The Re
publican party of today. as represented
by President Taft, appears willing to e
the South solve its race problems itse.t.
And as matter Of fact we are solving
it satisfactorily, and the beauty OF it IS
that the pegro race is doing its full share
to solve the problem so far as the polltl-
cal future is concerned, by the great
bulk of the negro race keeping out OF
politics and not caring to vote IN the
South.
Mr.. Taft's great popularity in the
South, and there is no disputing his pop
ularity with Soltheasterns, points to a
new political era down here, provided
he carries out his plans in regard to ne
gro Office holding 10 the South, and Sen
ator Smiths ideas as to the possibilities
of white Republican parry in the South
meets with the views Of many Demo-
Gratis in South Carolina, more than IS
generally thought. Many of the most
prominent democrats of the South be-
lieve that the time has come for the
South to get its share Of The dainties OF
the government pie counter.
Take the popularity of Congressman
a. F. Lever for instance, and yet notice
one fact which his constituents Will tell
you is his strongest point in serving his
district, she is worker :or the mater