The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-01-29

home. My actions were so fine
on the occasion that even my dis
tinguished friends, the Cuban
mixed-breeds, paid me a compll
ment. And yet they holler fraud
in the primary. I wish you would
appoint a committee to investi.
gate that fraud, and let me come
before it, and let me send you
SINE witnesses from Buncombe
street in Greenville, Ward l in
Spartanburg, from some pre-
clncts in Charleston, and one or
two in the county of Orangeburg.
We were ready for the fray; we
were ready for the investigation;
but, like all bubbles. it went out.
Now, gentlemen, what | would
advise is this-and I want to say
to you right here: You got here
on the bridge Of the primary.
Are you gong to burn the bridge
that brought you over? If you
do, you will do it by a two-thlrds
vote. But, gentlemen, here is
what would submit to you: Pass
an Act at this session requiring
the County Boards of Registra.
ton of the various counties to
open the books of registration in
every county in South Carolina
during the months of July and
August, 1913-two full months
and require those Boards to go to
every township in the county one
day or two days, if it should be
necessary, so that you will give
every white man in South Caro-
lima a fair opportunity to register
in July and August. Then, if any
man does not register, certainly
he can not blame anybody else,
and when you come back here
next year, after your books of
registration have been open for
two long months. and you have
given to every white man The op-
portunity to put his name on the
books of registration, then you
will be in position to pass upon
the question as to how you will
amend your primary law.
Thev hOller fraud. Who CON-
mitted it9 Where is it, Nearly
all the County Executive Com
mittees were against me; the
State Executive Committee, with
all it's machinery. was against
me. When I asked the Chairman
at Spartanburg to give me one
Manager of Election at each pre-
cinct, b.. refused it. How, in the
name of God, could the Bleaseites
steal, when the other side had all
the machinery in their hands?
The only way you can account
for it is on the theory that the
other side will admit they were a
set of fools and did not know what
to do with it after they had it.
Now, they accuse my friends
of being ''hoodlums:" and say
they would not support Woodrow
Wilson. You get the returns of
last year and look at the State
vote and the Presidential vote,
and see who failed to vote the
State ticket. Why did Wilson get
so many more votes in South Car.
olina than I did? If Blease peo
pie did not support Wilson, why
was it Wilson ran so far ahead of
me? ..:-
Now, gentlemen, I shall not
take up your time in answering
some of the things that were told
on me last summer. It is beneath
my notice and beneath yours. But
| I want to mention one thing.
When a Yankee actor or actress
comes through South Carolina
and the South Carolina aristoc.
racy sits in the theatre and the
best definition I know of for aris-
tocracy is some fellow who does
nothing, lives on his daddy's
name and doesn't pay his debts
when they all sitin the theatre,
and some man comes out, as, for
instance, IN ''The Pink Lady. !"
and says, II Will be damned if [
do it," oh! the ladies all yell with
delight. When a woman comes
out in "The Lonesome Pine" and
a fellow says to her, Country
maiden, you must reform; love so
and so'-naming the family she
hates, and she says, II could put
them in hell" there is loud ap-
plause in the Columbia Theatre.
In minstrel shows, when the dir
tiest songs are sung. going just
far enough to leave the most vile
Interpretation in the minds of the
young, loud applause comes from
the men and women. But when
the Governor of South Carolina
goes to Richmond, Va, and says
what he has said all over his
State, then the newspapers come
out and say, 1T is a horrible
thing that the Governor said
hell"
I tell you, mem bers of the Leg
islature, today, what I said then
Il repeat it now. Notwlthstand
ing the oath of Office which l have
just taken from my distinguished
friend from Lancaster, who stood
by me through thick and thin.
and who wasre elected Chief JUS
tice of Lancaster if they did fight