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

actlOn; or pOSSlOly II you Will DISK
the State Superintendent of Ed
ucation, Hon. John E. Swearln-
gen, or if you will summon be-
fore your committee DIR. D. B.
Johnson, the president of Win
throp College.
Now. gentlemen, if the two
colleges are to fight one another
if Winthrop is to fight the I'm
iversity, let Winthrop fight the
University like man; or, if the
University is to fight Winthrop,
let the University fight Winthrop
like a man; but, for Gods sake,
don't let them use such methods
as I have received this informa-
ton Of; don't Let one of them say,
after it has received its measly
! pittance, that it is willing that
the balance should go to educate
free negroes in South Carolina.
That is q matter for you to IN
vestigate. and it is a serious mat
ter. If they had let Winthrop
alone, I am informed she would
have got 100000, and possibly
considerably more, but oy this
underhanded fight she was cut
down very considerably in that
appropriation, and you will be
called upon this year, as result,
to make a larger appropriation
than you would have had to
make if Winthrop had received
that money. I tried to get the
facts palmer to lay them before
you: l wanted to get them in
writing; but I am satisfied that if
you will send for Professor John
son he will tell you what he told
me, and when he does tell you l
am satisfied that you will lind Ut
you will excuse a common ex-
pression) a pretty dirty transac-
ton on the part of somebody.
This is plain talk, but that is
exactly what I came up here for.
Now, gentlemen of the Gener-
al Assembly, want to call your
attention to another matter. l
want to ask you, when these COL
leges present their estimates.
and the appropriation bill is
drawn, that you require that the
items be separated. Some of you
have been elected on a platform
of economy; some of you promis-
ed on the stump to try to help to
reduce taxes. I stand here to
| join you in that fight. whatever
may be the consequences. And,
my friends, don't let the South
Carolina College come in here
and say, for the South Carolina
College s216,0O0; don't let Win
throp say, for Winthrop sl18, 900;
don't let the Citadel say, for the
Citadel S3S, 500: If you do, don't
be surprised.if I apply the veto,
for, in that event. I expect to do
| so, even if it shuts up the col
leges for the balance of this year;
am going to do it: I am going
to put the matter squarely up to
you, because I promised the peo-
| pie, by the help of God, that l
would do what I could TO reduce
taxes, and I am going to do my
part. The 72,045 people who
voted for me shall never say I
did not carry out every promise
l made them, if God gives me the
strength and lets me live. But
they will come in and say. "Oh,
|if YOU sustain that veto you will
shut up the colleges % Then put
it this way: For maintenance, So
many thousands; for new build
ings, so many thousands. Then
if an item for new buildings is
vetoed. you can kill it without
hurting the college; if an item
for any other particular purpose
| is included, that can be vetoed,
and you can sustain that veto
without hurting the college. But,
gentlemen, if you allow the bill
to pass your House and Senate
making an appropriation IN bulk
sum for such and such college so
much money, then, when the
veto is applied, the appeal will
be made to you upon this floor
and over yonder that if you sus-
tain this veto you will shut up
the college. Gentlemen if the
Ways and Means Committee and
of the Finance Committe, I beg
you, in behalf of the constituency
whom you first begged and then
pleaded with last summer, to
stand here like men and help me
reduce taxes in South Carolina.
You may think the people are
not watching, but I think if you
would wire this morning to some
of the members Of the last Leg
islature they would wire back,
"Yes, the people are watching.
because we are at home" "
Now, gentlemen, there is a
man I want to warn you against
| Il have had experience in this
House and yonder both-and that
lis Mr.. Professional Lobbyist.
Sometimes he a lawyer and paid
lobbyist; sometimes doctor;
sometimes he is a man who has
forsaken the Lords vineyard-a
preacher, who has forsaken the
Lords vineyard and gone into