The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-05-06

The president declared the result an6
the delegates receiving the majority
vote will represent Clarendon in the
State convention. We will state here,
LIT it should so happen that if any of the
elected delegates will be prevented
from going to Columbia they will make
the same known either to The Times
editor Messrs. E. B. Gamble or J. NJ.
| Windham, so arrangements may be
made TO fill the vacancy.
Just prior to adjournment a motion
was made that the elected delegates be
uninstructed, but the position was
taken that the convention had already
expressed itself without dissenting
voice when it adopted the.resolutions,
to turn back and undo by indirection
what it did directly, would be childish:
the resolutions do not do more than lec
the delegates know the sentiment OF
the convention, and they, as honorable
men will be guided by them absolutely,
even though the language in the reso-
luton does not say ''pledge"
The convention was one OF the most
harmonious we have attended ia years,
everybody was in fine humor, those
who were successful, naturally felt ell
ated but If their was any soreness with
the opposition it was confned to a very
few. Every consideration was shown
the minority. There was no attempt to
run rough shod, what was done was
open and above board, each side knew
the other side would have tick
ct, and both sides acted accordingly.
In this connection we will say that
while all of the delegates have hereto
fore voted for Governor Blease, they
were not elected as partizans, because
the only issue presented was the matter
of restricting the primary. and the
abolishing the county-to-ccInty canvas.
There vas no need for an issue between
Blease and Smith, or for any of the
candidates for Governor, that matter
had no place in this convention, and
those who were working among the
delegates on those lines did not Under
stand the real questions INVOLVED.
AS we have time and again stated III
@ese columns, conventions do not al
ways represent the true sentiment OF a
County, this was demonstrated two
years ago when the Jones faction car
ried the convention by storm: when the
writer was defeated as delegate, it
was featured in the newspapers, but
what did it amount to any more than to
give some opponents OF the writer a
momentary exultation, but when their
dream was over, and they awoke to a
realization of what happened to them.
they felt like Latimer's Billy Goat
when the bee stung him on the south
ern portion of his body rs he was trav-
elling northward.
We note large majority OF the
Counties have sent delegates who are
opposed to the State administration,
some of them have adopted resolutions,
which if adopted, will do more to-
wards closing up the ranks OF the sup
porters of Governor Blease than any
thing which can possibly happen,it will
make:every supporter of his secure his
registration certificate and tax receipt,
and when he gets it he will not entrust
it to some one else to keep for him,
but he will wear it next to his heart as
the devote catholic wears his cruclhx.
From the moment the State convention
adopts harassing rules. from that mo-
ment will the registration be active,
and every man who was in sympathy
with such a step will certainly be
known, and if a candidate at the COM
ing or future election, will be mark
ed bv those who feel the attempt was
made to disfranchise them. not by an
open declaration, but by indirection:
we believe further such a step will also
have the effect of hurting the chances
of certain candidates for governor, be-
cause they will be the victim of the
foolhardiness of their jealous friends.
There is no disposition to condone
fraud by those who oppose ultra action.
they are willing and ask for the rules
to be changed in certain particulars
such, or along the lines recited in the
resolutions adopted by this convention,
but they are unalterably opposed to
hampering a white man with regula-
tions that self defense prompted the
white man to put in force against the
negro.