The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
SAME OLD GANG
Gev. Wilsen Pokes Fun at the Republi.
can Ssandpaltels Platform.

is STUMPINC BIS STATE
BE Says the Bosses Are All Out of
Breath Trying to Keep Abreast of
the People.-Wants to See Cam
den Redeemed from Boss Rule as
it Is at Present.
Governor Woodrow Wilson is
stirring up intense interest in New
Jersey in his campaign for the cleo
ton of senators and assem- blymen
who will support progressive meas
ures when the legislature meets next
winter. The Trenton True Ameri-
can says the Governor is evidently
deriving great delight from poking
fun at the Republican Board Of
Guardians" as the association of G..
o. P. bosses has come to be known
in New Jersey. He has also found a
lot of humor in the recently adopted
Republican State platform. He has
spoken to immense audiences in the
southern part of the State recently
and his meetings have been marked
by keen revival Of interest in State
politics.
'"The Republican PLATFORM" said
Governor Wilson, to one audience,
els one of these old-fashioned,
smooth-bore, brass-mounted affairs,
that goes off like a blunderbuss. l
do not see the slightest difference
between this platform that was
adopted by the Republican eonven-
ton Wednesday and the Republican
platforms that preceded it; it has
the same boasting about things that
never existed; it has the same claim
ing of credit for everything good
that was done; it has the same
promises put in such phrases that
they can be read backward or for
ward and mean the same thing, just
the same thing; just the same kind
of thing you have been familiar with
and never did know the meaning Of
The Governor seemed to find much
solid delight in poking fun at the
Republicans for asking for rest be
fore more new legislation is enact
ed. Eve have carried out so many
of the pledges made in our last years
platform said he, that the Repub-
licans in their platform say the State
needs a rest I don't wonder that
their stomachs are too weak to stand
the kind Of food we have been feed
ing them. Their statement that they
are out Of breath from passing SO
much legislation is practically an
implication hat they want to stand
still little while. They always
wanted to staud still, the same old
standpat idea is still in their heads.
''If you paint post white and
-ant to keep it white, you must keep
touching it up once in while. So
today, if things are to be kept right,
you have got to be a radical, you
have got to keep things lacked up to
where they belong. And it puts
the Republican leaders out Of breath
to jack things up. So many Of our
platform pledges were carried out
that the poor, breathless represen-
tatives of the Republican party ad-
mitted that they were out OF breath
They held up their hands in protest
and said, In Gods name, let US go
slow a while.
I don't wonder. They had never
been accustomed to such exercise.
They had never in their time felt
their blood quicken by movement.
They had experienced the unusual in
toxication of seeing something done.
They had never intended while they
were in the saddle to let anything
be done. They had intended to let
everything go its normal course,
that everybody who then had con-
troll of the affairs Of state might
sleep at night without any appre-
hension that in the morning his con-
troll. would be gone
At Camden, where four thousand
citizens crowded into the opera
house to hear Gov. Wilson he declar-
ed that the first returns he should
ask for when the votes were counted
would be Camden, for if that coun-
ty should rise up and declare its in
dependence the day of self-goveTn-
ment by the people would appear to
have fully dawned. He said, ]
should feel very proud if might
lead Camden County out of her bon
dage. You know that when there
is government in all the rest OF
the State to reclaim it from it poll
tral servitude, everybody says that
Camden is hopeless.
people speak Of this as a Bour-
ton county. Now what is Bourban?
He is defined to be a man VINO nev-
er learns anything and never forgets
anything. Never forgets the things
that communities ought tc turn
their backs upon, and never learns
the way by which to escape from
continual servitude. Is that going
to be true of Camden county?
Camden county so far, as is indicat-
ed from the Republican side, has
not learned or forgotten 2 single
thing.
The proof that the same old
things are being done is laid before
YOU like an open book. You have