Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-11-07

Governor Goes After Sumter Man Be
causs of Editorisi.

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AS an aftermath OF the attack by
Governor BIease on the candidacy OF
Richard !. Manning OF Sumter, came
the governors statement late today on
an editorial appearing In the Sumter
Daily Item Of yesterday. 49,,
The Items editorial explained Mr..
Mannings stand before the gtate exc
cutive committee and gave reasons for
his introducing q resolution to- probe
the primary last summer affer the
Blease-Jones contest The Item said
that Mr.. Manning would have served
on the subcommittee, but for the fact
that he was called out OF the state on
business and wished to see q speedy
termination of the investigation and
that wheushe returned and found moth
Ing much had been done, he wrote
John Gary Evans. state chairman. to
get busy. n
follows: ~ .s
Il do not care to have anything fur
ther to say upon the political situa-
tion just at present, except possibly to
notice little article from the Sumter
Item in reference to Mr.. Manning's
resolution. -
at presume there are q great many
people in South Carolina who have
not yet forgotten Mr. Manning's fop
from Conservatism and local option to
become a -worshiper OF Ben Till
man and the leader Of the state dis
pensafy forces when he went down In
defeat before Ansel.in 1906. am sat-
isiied that they have not yet forgotten
Manning's little song when he saw the
Mansion light which was pointed out
to him by Tillman. Notwithstanding
his bitterness against Tillman and his
fight against the state dispensary at
one time, he suddenly dropped upon
his knees and exclaimed: ~.
"rAnd now consecrate my all to thee
Ben Tillman and the state dispen-
saree!' =.
.T do not blame him now for trying
to get back with his old line up, but /
haven't much idea that they are going
to take him up, for his past record
for Inconsistencies will be as giaring as
was another candidates In q recent
gubernatorial race.
"As to his resolution before the exe-
cutive committee, 1t was made direct
ly, the very wording Of IT shows, at
the entire white people Of South Car
olina, charging all Of them with fraud,
bribery and perjury, and ] do not be-
lieve that the white people, OF South
Carolina are going to elect any man
governor who would make this whole
sale charge. And then he lodged be-
hind his own resolution, and refused
to accept a place on the committee to
90 forward with the investigation. Az
ter he started Il he certainly ought to
have accepted a place on the commit
tee and helped to carrysit through.
"The Sumter Item has always been
very bitter, against me. Nothing II says
affects me, but articles OF this kind viii
affect Mr.. Manning very considerably
IL he sticks his head up In the guDer-
material race. My friends are watcn-
ing"
Mr.. Manning has thus far ignored
any Of the attacks made upon him. he
did not reply to the governors state
ment made at the informal conference
held at the Jefferson hotel by the
Blease forces a few nights ago. While
there Governor Blease announced that
he would fight Mr.. Manning In the
latter's race for governor. Summaries
of the political situation by several
South Carolina papers are to the effect
that the lines are being drawn and
that the fight will narrow down to
Manning and a Blease candidate. Mr.
Charles Carroll Simms' candidacy was
taken up at the recent conference but
many people are wondering what Ell
feet Tillman's attack on Mr.. Simms IN
his recently published statement VIII
special Of November
6, to Charlotte Observer. r ~