The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-09-20
THE OPPOSITION AS PRESENT BY THE
NEWS AND COURIER.

our impression none OF the llst
mentioned by the good sister,
aud which she stresses 50 eXult-
antIy, ever did support Blease.
but are Of the number which
split their throats velping, and
following the lead OF The Colum-
bia State and the News and
Courier last Summer; it would
be cruel. and we haven't the
heart to say it: that their oppo-
sition was not as effective as
they had hoped. but if they will
accept a bit Of advice: we would
caution them against an insane
leadership in the future.
This list as given by our aged
sister, who shifts the salt
breezes from ';otf de Dottry'' and
bathes her feet in the breakers
on de oil Of prunes* is as fol-
lows:
THE Anderson Daily Mail.
The Chester Lantern. The Flor
ence Times. The Greenwood
Daily Jonrnal, The lIaurens Ad
vertiser, The Spa!'tanourg Her
aid. The Lancaster News. The
Orangeburg Times and Demo
crat. The Greenville Daily
News. The WaIhalla heowee
Courier, The Charleston Even,
ing Post and The News and
Courier. .
It is indeed a Line up" but it
shows the mighty have fallen,
by having their tail feathers
pulled out by 4 reading public,
who would not stand for their
methods Of building political
sentiment: it so happens the
: list Of newspapers presented by
our amiabIe friend as opposing
the reelection OF the governor,
have been engaged in opposition
to him so long, it has become a
habit, and the reading masses
pay little OF nc attention to
them, even should they happen
to let slip the truth; that this is
so. look over the election re-
turns of last year, and the very
counties where this list of news
papers are published gave to
the governor majorities not.
withstandlng the influence (0
and mighty opposition of these
same newspapers. But what we
can not understand, is why our
kind friend. of missionary ten
dencies. should have ignored
The Columbia State in its Line
up" of opposition: we are quite
sure The State did not support
Blease, and it has been our un-
derstanding that it did not ap.
prove Of his being the choice OF
the Democratic party, not even
in the second primary, neverthe,
less. the county OF Rlchland
where The State is published,
took up an idea that The State
did not represent the views OF
those people, and they actually
declined to accept It's leadership,
and bv the.way Charleston act.
ed similarly. strange to say.
There must have been some
thing il the atmosphere
throughout the State OF South
Carolina which was fatal to the
newspapers, especially those
that undertook to dictate to the
people how they must vote: the
;:darned fools s"would be stubborn
and do as they pleased with
their votes, in spite OF the gen.
tlemen who sat at the editorial
tripods. and manufactured an
anti -Blease sentiment. The
News and Courier also says sc
far as we are informed no news
paper had anything to do with
persuading the Chief Justice to
enter the contest for governor:
and we feel justified in adding.
80 far as we are informed, nc
newspaper had anything to dc
with persuading the governor tc
enter the contest" for re cleo
ton, but, should anybody charge
The News and Courier or even
The State, OF Columbia, with
having influenced Governor
Blease to enter this race, we
would feel justified in giving il
denial and demand the proof;
we should also enter a strong
denial were it charged that any
ios the newspapers listed III The
News and Courler's editorial OF
the 18th. has ever said u kind
word for and about Blease, either
before or since his election.
Now il our friend in Charles
ton really and honestly wants to
show to her readers that Blease
has lost strength with the peo,
pie, let it tell which of the news
papers that supported Blease
last year has turned against
him. and, if this is too hard,
then get the correspondents
throughout the State to canvass
the voters, and from them as
certain. the actual conditions: /,
live up to date metropolitan
newspaper intensely Interested
will 90 this, and give to It's read,
ers something definite. and not
a whole lot Of that other staff.