The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-10-02
BLEAsE AND BULL MOOSE PARTY.
". P. Beard Sees Some Political Posi-
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To the Editor of The News and Cou'
rier: There are two events billed for
this week that will have more influence
On the future of South Carolina, from a
political standpoint, than anything since
the Democratic Convention. in the face
of deposition from the better element y
nominated Wade Hampton for Cover
nor in 1876.
One is the final sitting of the State
executive committee of the Democratic
party, which meets tomorrow, October
/, to hear reports from the sub-commit-
tee as to charges of fraud and to declare
the result of the primary, and the other
is the meeting of Theodore Roosevelt's
Progressives for the supposed purpose
of putting out an electoral ticket in this
State for the "Bull Moose" 1t there
fore behooves the committee as whole
to think we'll aud long before they do
anything that will act on public senti-
ment like unto lighted match thrown
into a powder magazine. Should they
decide adversely to Governor Blease it
is a foregone conclusion that his friends
and supporters will 20 to the general
election with him as the real nominee
of the primary. and the names of those
nominated State officers who refuse to
support him as such will be withdrawn
from the regular Democratic ticket and
real Democrats nominated instead.
The candidates of whatever degree
who acquiesce IN the invalidation of
Governor 'Blease's nomination by this
arbitrary and illegal procedure of the
committee by the same token invalidate
their own, hence the voters who main.
tain the validity Of the first primary
and the election of Governor Blease
therein will not be bound either legal
ly or morally to vote for them at the
general election.
That is the proposition and the way
people are talking, and among them
many influential men who supported
Judge Jones. The electoral ticket nam
ed by the committee would under such
circumstances be the only one with a
semblance of legality, and their title
would be, to say the least, very doubt
full. They were named before the COM
mittee by its illegal actions made all its
subsequent acts invalid.
But people are beginning to discuss
the expediency of the South longer re-
naming in the Democratic party, and
to weigh the attitude of Wilson against
that of Roosevelt as regard the future
enfranchising of the negro. They are
aware that the Democrats are doing
everything in their power to get the
negro vote in the Northern and border
States, and are disgusted with the ac-
tion of the Woodrow Wilson campaign
management, with his consent, in send
ing the negro preacher, Richard Car
roll, among the negroes in pivotal
States to represent and speak for South
ern white men. There is fear general
also that il case the factions 60 to the
general election in the State, with a
full ticket, that these Wilson elector
candidates who are Jones men as well,
will stand with the Anti-Blease factions,
and will bring the negro, Carroll, down
here to speak for Woodrow Wilson and
against Blease among the negroes OF
South Canolina.
We will ask the question, if such o
state OF affairs should occur, how do you
think the white people OF South Caro-
lima will take it? And also would not
such combination of circumstances af-
ford the Bull Moose" the opportunity
he Graves?
He will paw the ground here Friday,
the 4th OF October, and mark this pre-
diction: If ne is represented by upright.
honorable South Carolinians, declares
for white government, and a maintain.
ance of the status quo, as we have it.,
then makes few speeches here him
self, somebody is likely to feel his ant
lers in November.
The Jones faction had the advantage
OF the Bleaseites as regards finances,
but it is well to. remember that the
''Bull Moose" can more than match dol
lars with them, and besides, it takes
physical force, as it ever has, to carry
an election of that nature in this coun-
try, and to do that it will require uni
ted action. Think you that T,043
Bleaseites feeling themselves outraged
and robbed, will break their necks to
put meu in Office who habitually refer
to them as the clover element" the
Ignorant, vicious, and prejudiced?"
Not likely. AS said, many of our best
people are growing lukewarm toward
Woodrow Wilson for employing negro
to speak for him. They are saying that
it is wrong to recognize the negro in
politics, North or South, and if the Dem
ocrats do it, they are no better than Re-
publicans. Hence, from what We know,
hear, see and feel, We must conclude
that, in South Carolina Roosevelt has
fertile soil in which to SOW the seed of
another and better political party.
There is another thing calculated to
hurt Wilson's chances, not only in this
State, but all over the country. 1t was
conclusively shown at very important
convention held recently at Charleston,
| that Governor Blease is a national