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

title in big headlines for your
daughters to read. But it was a
terrible thug when the Governor
said hell"
The News and Courier and the
Columbia State and other papers
displayed with great glee the dir
test campaign joke and lie that
has been told in South Carolina
in century. They say, 1--WE are
family papers; we can't publish
any reply Of the Governor, be-
cause it hasn't the proper langu'
age" But they could send to
your daughters, sweet girls If
teen to sixteen years of age, the
dirtiest lie that ever fell from the
dlsgraced lips of anything shap-
ed up or called Grace.
Now, gentlemen, another mat
ter that l desire to call to your
attention is this playing OF foot
ball. You certainly ought to put
some restriction or regulation on
it. I hold in my hand headline
in the paper, HAS Broken Nose. !"
Another big headline, John
stones Spinal Column is Wrench
ed; May Be a Helpless cripple"
I am proud to Say that under
stand that the young man is get
ting better, and 1 hope he will
be restored to his strong man
hood. But. here we find an ar
tlcle written by the editor of the
Columbia State, in which he
has the efrontery to say that
football is the quickest device
ever invented by which many a
lad may overcome college
handicap, and going on to say
that it breaks down the barriers
of social distinction. and by be
ing good football player the
lad gets to be better in society,
has more recognition. The fact
Of his being a football player
carrying him into society he could
not otherwise reach, says the Co.
lumbia State. Gentlemen, that
is the first time in NY life I ever
heard that man had to show the
capacity of a prize fighter cc a
bull dog to become a gentleman.
Yet here it is in the great advo
cate of your State colleaes-the
great paper that hollers for your
Sta tie colleges. The Evening
Record comes out and says, with
big headlines, Dirty Football, :"
and writes of the dirty manner in
which the game is played, the
dirtymannerin which some young
men take of others to cripple
them, if you please, and get them
out of the game.
Now, gentlemen, think you
ought to do one of two things,
either abolish football playing in
your colleges, or else fix degree
for it. and confer upon a man
Doctor of Society because he has
the tendency of a bull dog or the
fighting of a Durham bull.
Now, my friends, from every
city and hamlet in South Carolina
we hear the song of prosperity.
Notwithstanding we were told
that if Blease was elected Cover
nor South Carolina would be
financially ruined, thatshe would
go to the dogs, yet if you will
read you will find, in all the his.
tory of your State, the year 1912
towers in prosperity above all the
years that have gone before. More
capital has been-invested In your
State than ever before, and today
one Of the appeals that is beng
made to you for higher appropri-
ations Is based on the fact that
the State is so prosperous. And
yet they said if Blease was elect
ed the State would be ruined.
l want to call your attention to
another false impression that the
newspapers are tying to create
They are trying to lead uninform-
ed people in this State TO believe
you have a special Act on the race
course in Charleston. There is
not a word of truth in it, and the
editors wire these things know
ing they are writing what is not
true. Here is your Act
THAT any person within this
State, who engages IN betting at
any race track, pool selling, or
bookmaking, with or without
writing. at any time or place; or
any person who keeps or occupies
any room, shed, tenement, booth
or building, float or vessel, or any
part thereof, or who occupies any
place or stand of any kind, upon
any public or private grounds.
with this State, with books, pa.
pers, apparatus, or paraphernalia
for the purpose of recording or
registering bets or wagers, or of
selling pools, and any person who
record or registers bets or wag-
ers, or sells pools or makes books,
with or without writing upon the
result of any trial or contest of
skill, speed Or power of endur-
ance, OF man or beast: or upon
the result of any political nomi-
nation, appointment )r election"-
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