Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-01
Columbia, S. c., Aug. 20, 1871

Columbia, S. c., Aug. 90, 1914.
NY dear Friend:
The second race for governor, as you
see, is between Richards and Man
ming. The election of Manning means
the overthrow Of the rights or the la
boring people of this state. Manning $
grandfather was governor, ana ms
father was governor, and he comes ul-
rectlv from the "aristocracy," as they
term themselves. His votes in the
House of Representatives and in the
Senate, when he was there as a Repre-
sentative from Sumter county, were
always against the interests of the Ia
boring people. and his election to the
Governorship means the loss or every
thing that the laboring man has work
ed for since 1890 in the politics OF this
State, and it will take years for them
to recover and get justice and their
rights if they sit down now ana allow
Manning to be Governor. l beg you,
not for myself, but for the people whom
| | represent, to get busy and do every
thing within your power to elect Major
Richards, Governor. All l can do Is to
beg the people not to make the mistake
of clecting Manning, and | am begging
you.
Manning voted in 1902, as Senator,
when a bill was introduced to prohibit
trusts, against the bill and for the
trusts See Senate Journal 1902, pages
462 and 472. At the same session, when
the railroad relief bill for employees
was offered, he voted to kill the bill
and against the interests of the en-
ployees. See Journal, pages 262, 276
and 5O4 BY voting to kill this bill he
voted to prevent the family OF the
railroad employee who was killed by
negligence of the railroad, or it's SER
wants, from recovering any damages
from the railroad corporation. AT the
same session, when the State was en-
deavoring to repeal the charter of the
Virginia Carolina Chemical company
| a trust throttling, or attempting tC
| throttle the farmers of South Carolina
! and which Attorney General Bellingel
and his assistants were fighting with
all their power Mr.. Manning voted
against the bill to suspend this corpor-
alton. and against the interests OF the
farmers and laboring people. See
Journal, 1902. page $50. In the session
of 1900, Journal, page 2O6, you will see
whore Mr.. Manning voted against the
child labor bill and against the inter
est of the cotton mill employees. In
| 1905. as Senator, he voted against the
| bill to prevent strikes and lOckoutS
which was introduced to meet emer-
genCieS and to help the cotton mill en-
ployeeS. thus voting against the labor
ing man and in favor of the corpora
ton. He also voted against the bill fol
ten hours in cotton mills. You will
| find that in session of 1893, House
Journal, page lS6. Also in the Senate
Journal of 1900, page 365, he voted
against separate coaches for the two
races, thus voting for white ladies tC
he thrown in the same coaches with
negro men.
1t will thus be seen that this man
who is now the president of bank IN
Sumter. and a director in many other
large corporations in this State, on eV-
cry occasion, as Senator and Repre-
sentative, voted against the interests
of the laboring man and for the cor
poratiOns, and he is today the candl-
date for the corporations and their Of
ficers and attorneys, and is receiving
their unanimous and solid backing.
| In addition to this, he was in the
Sheppard convention, which met il
March, 1892, as a delegate from sum
ter county. which convention denounc-
ed Ben TillmanS administration il
these words: We pledge ourselves tC
the most rigid economy in the admins
| tratiOn of the government, made more
than necessary by the miSfortuneS OF
the people and the impending def
the unwiSe management of the present
administration" At another place, in
! speaking of the then Governor h. +