The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-08-16
PUTTING sCARECRoWs OUT.

PUTTING scARECRoWs OUT.
1t will take but few more edi-
torials such as appeared as a lead.
er in last Mondays issue of the
News and Courier to solldify
those who supported Governor
Blease in the last primary; there
are many who are not altogether
pleased with the record the gov
ecnor is making, they are consid-
ably disappointed, but, they will
not stand for this everconstant
abuse of that official, and, if it is
kept up by the two leading. dali
les in the State. Blease will be
reelected as sure as the time
comes. The Times did not sup
port Blease. nor did it give sup
port to F'eatherstone, the former
has never been the choice Of its
editor, he has never voted for him
in a primary, and the latter. he
could not, and would not support
because of a lack Of confidence in
his political faith. Featherstone
began his career as a Prohibi
tiinist, then veered around to-
wards Loca; Option, went back
to prohibition when he thought
the Prohibitionists had the poll
tics of the State cinched. He
worked the churches for his po-
litical aggrandisenent, set him
self up as the defender of a relig-
ious and a moral principle, was
the exponent of those things
which went to build up morality:
to carry out this grand idea he
enlisted the good women and the
preachers in his cause, but, when
be woke up the morning after the
first primary, and found that the
Local Optionists were in the ma
jority, a change came over the
spirit Of his dreams, and he tried
to odrop the prohibition issue. Like
the News and Courier OF the
olden day, when in it's correspon-
dence with one Woodruff it said
:'damn principle it's money we
want. !" Featherstone didn't say
it, but his future conduct said it
for him, damn prohibition it is
the Office I want" Then and there
The Times editor lost faith in the
man, and could not cast a vote
for him, nor will he ever cast a
vote for political hypocrisy if he
knows it.
If ever the Prohioitionists ex-
pect to elect a governor, the next
primary is about as good a chance
as tley will ever have, but they
must put one in the fsld who is
really a true blue prohibitionist,
not merely a seeker for an official
Job. We do not believe prohibi.
ton can win in this State at all,
matters not who is put forward
on that issue, but the Prohibs
should not let themselves be scar
ed out OF the running by such
clap trap as we see in some Of the
newspapers;Eif they are sincere
in their professions we do not see
how they can keep out Of the next
primary with an avowed issue,
and a candidate. The last pri-
mary showed clearly that probi-
bition was not the sentiment Of
the majority, but this should not
deter the sincere Prohibitlonists
from carrying on their warfare
for the principle they advocate;
unless they are not in reality so
much after prohibition as they
are for the feshpots Of political
Office, they cannot avoid hosting
their white banner again, regard
less Of the advice Of the News
and Courier. and the other news
papers which are assuming to
scare the prohibition crowd away
from the political trough. Should
there be a prohibition candidate
in the second race in the next
primary with Blease: according
to the News and Courier, Blease
will surely be in the second race,
then we shall expect to see the
spectacle of newspapers like The
State and the News and Courier
advocating the election Of the
Prohibitionist in their editorial
columns. and, their advertising
columns filed with liquor adver-
tisements. Inconsistency is not
an unusual attitude for either Of
these newspapers to be guilty Of.
The Times, while it did not
support Blease, has endeavored
to be absolutely fair to him, and
to his administration; it has not
and does not, hesitate to express
its disapproval of what it thinks
is wrong in his acts, neither does
it withhold from him credit when
it thinks he is right. The News
and Courier, however, has dem
onstrated it's dislike for the gov
ernor when it permitted its pre-
iudice to demand, from It's ack-
nowledged faithful reporter, his
resignation from the governors
staff, and The States prejudice is
so well known that it is useless
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