The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-10-01
ALL A TISSUE OF LIES
SAYS WHALEY, REPLYING TO
CHARGES OF GRACE.
Congressman Declares That the
Mayor is Actuated by Personal
Hostility to Him and His.

Mayor is Actuated by PERSONAL
Hostility to Him and His.
When Mr.. Whaley was asked about
the petition filed by Mayor J. P. Grace
he characterized the allegations as a
tissue of lies from beginning to end,
says the Washington correspondent
of The News and Courier. Mr.. Whal-
ey then made the following state
ment:
"The people of South Carolina and
the city Of Charleston know this to
be fact, if for no other reason than
that the allegations are fathered by
Mayor Grace, whose reputation as a
character thief, and whose vile oppo-
sition to me, politically and personal
ly, is we'll known to the people OF the
State and district.
"Tne man whom defeated for the
nomination, Mr.. Hughes, has made no
protest, although he could have made
such a protest to the State board OF
canvassers, and the House Of Repre-
sentatives in the proper way. If he is
complaining, hic complaint has not
been made known, and take it that
he, the real man in interest, who nat
urally knew best the situation, has
acquiesced in my nomination and
election, otherwise he would be the
contestant in this matter.
"I confess no surprise at the action
Of Mayor Grace; he is my political
and personal enemy, the personal and
political enemy Of my family for
years, and it is another evidence OF
the vindictive and urrelenting char
acter Of the man who happens. by
accident, to be the mayor Of Charles
ton. Mayor Grace has an inorganic
ed and insane mind, thinks like a
house afire and is about as destruc-
tive and illogical. He has ambition
and loves power as much as any man
/ have ever seen. He is a chronic
of6ce-seeker, having run fer the State
Senate and being Overwhelmingly de-
feated. He ran for sheriff, and was
overwhelmingly defeated by the peo-
pie Of his own county, who knew him
best. Then my brother-in-law, Ex-
Mayor R. Goodwin Rhett, was candi-
date for the United States Senate,
and Mr.. Grace entered the race with
the avowed purpose only Of defeating
nv brother-in-law. He canvassed ev-
cry county in the State, and yet his
purpose was so plainly vindictive and
vituperative that his total vote did
not exceed two thousand in the en-
tire State. He then ran for mayor Of
the city Of Charleston and by every
artifce known to the demagogue, and
by every appeal to passion and pre-
iudice, succeeded in winning this po-
sition by one hundred and eighty
votes. He has never been, and is not
now, the choice Of the progressive
business people Of the city OF Charles
ton. He is a disturber, and a dan
gerous iconoclast, who seeks to tear
down, without pointing out how to
build up.
"His opposition to me is not sur
prising, for I have regarded his meth
DDS as dangerous and have, there
fore, opposed them with all the
strength of which I am possessed.
His campaign against me last spring
was vicious. vile and evidently moved
by personal hostility to me and my
family. His candidate was defeated
by a clear majority Of the untram-
melel Democracy Of the district, and
his action at this time is an evidence
Of the fact that he is disgruntled,
sore, desperate and willing by impli-
cation to befoul his own nest.
"As far as I am concerned, / re-
gret that these dirty and malicious
charges should be filed against me,
but shall not let them interfere
with my efficiency as the Representa-
tive Of the First district. My eleven
wears as a Representative in the State
legislature of South Carolina; my
four wears as the chairman OF the
judiciary committee of that body: my
one year as Speaker pro TEN, and
four years as Speaker of that body
are evidence Of the esteem and respct
and confidence in which I am held
by the people Of South Carolina. The
further evidence of this esteem is
shown in my unanimous election as
president Of the State Democratic
Convention in 1910 and my election
last year as delegate to the Balt'-
more Convention.
"The charges Of Mayor Grace are
irritating, naturally, but those who
understand the situation and know
the facts, realize that they are inspir'
ed by the desperation Of man whose
admitted ambition. was to come tc
Congress, and who realizes that my
election destroys absolutely the pros
pect of the realization Of that ambi'
ticn. He is merely playing hand
guided BY mind obsessed and insan'
ed by personal hostility to me, and
am willing and ready to rest my case
upon the facts" .
Two Killed in Wreck.