The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-03-26

drained with government dlO iuu LION {
this country what it should be. He said
that since the country has been defor'
ested the health is impaired and the
remedy is drainage, which can be done
by getting the machinery low being
used by the government to be put into
operation in our low lands. Col. Pad
gett like the others stands upon the
party platform and pledges to work Tor
an income tax and inheritence tax.
which if it is made into law will add
much to the treasury and relieve the
poor man from considerable amount
of his present burdens. He also favors
an increase on the tobacco tax which
| would raise the revenue to large eX-
tent and not be felt by the people, just
as was done during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war He asked that city and coun-
ty lines be wiped out and the people
elect their Congressman from the view
point of fitness that now was the oppor-
tune time to elect man from the coun-
try to Congress if there was one in the
race qualified. He then gave an account
of his career, his early struggles for an
education, and his success as lawyer
and a citizen.
Hon. Edward W. Hughes was intro
duced, and he answered his opponents
who made capital of his having beer a
candidate for Mayor and withdrew, and
the circumstances connected with his
candidacy for district Judge. He said
his name bad been presented to the
President when it became known the
President was disregarding party ties
in selecting Judges for the South, that
he was endorsed by the Bar and by a
large number of the business interests,
including the bankers, as suitable man
to be placed upon the bench, that when
he found his friend Il. A. NJ. Smith
was also being urged be saw it would
be useless for both of them to try and
he therefore with his friends, helped
to push the claims OF Judge Smith who
is regarded one of the ablest Judges in
the State, and ranks very high as a
Federal Judge. Judge Smith is true
and tried Democrat. An insinuation
has been made by some that he has
been trying to win votes on account OF
his friendly relations to Governor
Blease, why, there is nothing to this,
it is true that he is seeking the votes
of all men and of whatever factions, he
is not in the race tied to any man, what
he wants is votes from those who be-
Iieve he is a proper man to vote for,
and as to the Peurifoy telegram this
is the first time he had heard of it,
which does not amount to anything one
way or another. He told his hearers
that if they had kept up with the
reports of the meetings they would see
the other candidates from day to day,
tried to absorb the ideas he had ad-
vanced at the beginning of this cam
paign. He solicits votes because he is
familiar with the needs of the people,
and will work for them earnestly. 1t
was he who began the agitation for
drainage and government aid for good
roads, and il was he who has advanced
the idea of interesting the government
to establish a system of rural credit as
is the custom in other countries where
it works successfully and the farmers
obtain money at a very law rate OF in
terest. This could be done through
the national banks being authorized to
make these loans. or through the pos
tai savings banks, and it would reach
the very people needing such aid. Mr..
Hughes said the tariff is paramount
issue with the Democratic party, it is
pledged to reduce the present inlquit-
Gus tariff, so that those who have to
buy will not be enrichlng the already
rich by making poorer the already
poor. If elected he will give his busi-
ness mind to laboring for this reduc
tion and the upbuilding Of the country,
especially the section OF the State
where the low lands abound and need
the water taken from them. He said
the farmers free list bill which was
vetoed by the President cost the farm
ers s390,000, 900, and by figures and
facts he presented the tariff question
in an able manner. At the conclusion
of his speech he was literally applaud
ed. Several gave applause who had be-
fore they heard him, spoke OF favoring
some other candidate.
The last of the congressional car1i-
dates was Hon. r. S. Whaley. He
started of by saying that "things had
broken loose today, somebody has
thrown an apple into the cage" but
said he, II did not do it," then turned
to Mr.. Won Kolnitz, and in manner
by his hearers, said:
II am delighted with the consistent
democracy of Mr.. Won Kolnitz, and that
Peurifoy is such a big Blease man, that
Hughes was farmer, that Padgett was
was a great man. He heard today that
Won Kolnitz was farmer and that he
was sent to the legislature, but he
did not tell the people there
was Senate and Lower House, and
what is known as the Third House
the lobby He did not tell of his con-
nection With the defeat OF certain
in the interest OF the farmers
when the fertilizer companies he rep
resented were to be affected. Mr..
Whaley argued that MIR. Won Kolnitz
has made record which makes him
sorry for him. Bryan read out of the
party Ryan, Belmont and Tammany
because of their treachery to the Dem
ocratic party in 1896, these men refused
to support the democracy because OF
the money question, they sol
out the party by giving t h cir
support to aid the election of the Re-
pQOllCaQ GFeSlOeul, duO OifdG3 "Aoo
he saw these men in the Baltimore con-
vention, had the bravery to denounce
and he tried to have them expelled
from the convention characterizlng
their acts as the treachery Of 1896. You,
he said, should send a man to Congress
whose democracy is above suspicion,
the commutation Sen
ator Tlllman has given to Mr.. Won hol-
nitz. He has an admiration for the man
who can toot his own horn. Peurlfoy
tells you what q great record he has
made as Solicitor, but tell you that |
hardly knew be was the Solicitor, had
it not been for one or two cases in which
I was employed ] could not have told
there was Solicitor. The record does
not show so much for Mr.. Peurifoy as
be claims for himself, and where there
was a decent defense his record is nil.
Why, says the speaker, Mr.. Peurlfoy
cracked few jokes and that was all
there is in his speech. He then referred
TO the telegram which was sent to Peu-
rifov's brother. but it did not say he