The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-08
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LISUOR 4 WARM ISSUE
HIS EFFORT FALLS FLAT

HIS EFFORT FALLS FLAT
Attacks Clinkscales as Candidate Of
the Press and Says He Advocates
Statewide Prohibition - Cink-
scales Says He Would Enforce All
Laws.
Speaking at Darlington Monday
Lowndes J: Browning, candidate for
governor, violently attacked John G..
Clinkscales, one of his opponents, and
also John G. Richards, another op-
ponent. He also made desperate ef-
forts to drag the liquor question into
the arena of debate, but only DR..
Clinkscales, to whom his questions
we're addressed, deigned to answer
them.
Mr.. Browning opened his speech by
asserting that the press was behind
John G. Clinkscales in his campaign
for governor. "The choice of the
newspapers for chief executive is a
man of but two ideas, one of them
compulsory education and the other
Statewide prohibition" declared Mr.
Browning. "IGMr. Clinkscales will
put all the arguments he has edVanc-
ed for compulsory education in the
nine speeches he has made in this
campaign into writing, can answer
all of them in 80 seconds" he added
"It was the press that gave the
State it's present governor" averred
Mr.. Browning.
"Hurrah for the press!" shouted
somebody.
-Four years ago in the race for
governor the people, led by the press
followed fanatic, two years ago a
fossil and this year joke" declared
Mr.. Browning.
John G.. Richards has every one
of Blease's vices with thin veneer
of religion covering them," asserted
Mr.. Browning. "On the other hand,
he lacks all of Blease's virtues; for
Blease has virtues, one of them is his
loyalty to his friends"
eve know that" interrupted some
one in the crowd.
."For the past ten years Mr.. Rich
ards has held to B. R. Tillman with
one hand and to William E. Gonzales
with the other" contin led MT
Browning. "Can you find Two more
discardant elements? Now Mr.. Rich
ards has the Blease crowd by the tail
with a downhill drag" declared Mr.
Browning, amid applause and cheers
Nobody has accused Mr.. Richards
of coat tail swinging" protested Mr.
Browning, "but VIII Irby Of Laurens,
who is a candidate for governor, a
Blease man and an honest man, has
called Mr.. Richards camp follow
er." Mr. Browning said that any Con.
federate veteran present would know
what a camp follower did after the
fight was over. Camp followers come
on the battlefield and rob the dead" /"
he declared.
John G.. Clinkscales, speaking I'M
mediately after Mr.. Browning finish
ed, said that he did not know that he
was the newspapers candidate for
governor, but that if they were sup
porting him that did not constitute
cause for a scnism. Mr.. Clinkscales
spoke with a considerable show OF
feeling about his position on the IL
quor question, addressing many OF
his remarks to Mr.. Browning person
ally.
Mr.. Clinkscales said he did not
know that the liquor question was an
issue, but that if any man had the
experience with liquor his people had
had and inherited a taste for it, he
would be "contempti5le coward"
not to be an uncompromising enemy
of it.
"If you had my life back Of you
and if the demon Of strong drink had
fastened his fingers on your family as
it has on mine, Mr.. Browning, you
would never make peace with rum, "
declared Mr.. Clinkscales. "Tf I had a
chance to vote against the sale Of
liquor I would do so if it damned me
in every election"
Going further Mr.. Clinkscales said
that he would not advocate a State
wide prohibition law, but that he
would see that the law was enforced
in the dry and wet counties alike and
fight blind tigers everywhere. II hate
liquor, Mr.. Browning, because love
it so," said Mr.. Clinkscales. He add
ed a moment later that he did not
know how it tasted, but he had in
herited an appetite for it and the
odor of it enticed him.
"I hope this liquor question will
not be brought up again, for 1t has
nothing to do with the campaign"
said Mr.. Clinkscales, who then con-
demned lawlessness, the prevalence OF
which he said was due to the abuse
of the pardoning power. He declared
that in his opinion the last State con-
vention saved the Democratic party in
South Carolina from disruption and
that had he been member he would
have voted for the adoption of the
enrolment rules now in force.
SPEAKS BOLDLY.