The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-08-26
ATTACKS MANNING
BROWNING ADDS SPICE At The
EAlRALLA MEETING
OTHERS SPEAK As USUAL

ReaSe Factory inspector ana De-
tective. Whose Report Seemed to
Have Come From E. j. Watson.
Lowndes J. Browning, candidate
for governor, assailed Richard l.
Manning in the meeting Of candidates
for State Offices at Walhalla Tues
day on his platforms for governor
eight years ago and this year and
asked him to explain why he has Col.
Leon NJ. Green so constantly with
him. He told of Mr.. Green as fac
tory inspector on the staff of the
governor. and questioned the sim
cerity of Mr. Manning on law en-
forcement. He also took a fling at
the press.
Mendel l. Smith, candidate for
governor, spoke of his work in the
legislature and as speaker Of the
House. The first topic he touched
was the Aiken plan of elimination,
which he bitterly denounced. He
! asked that the voters cast their bal
lots as sovereign men,. He said
that he was in favor of local option
compulsory education law because Il
was Democratic and because schoo'
districts knew best what they need
ed.
Lowndes ]. Browning then pre-
sented number of pertinent ques
tons" for Mr. Manning to answer
and said that the voters of South
Carolina are entitled to frank and
candid answer. There is nothing
enjoy more" said Mr.. Browning,
than to puneture gas bag or ex-
pose hypocrite and I am going to
do one or the other to-day. Soon
you will hear at the other meet
ings we have heard, lawlessncs.: de
The ca2' 'idate rears up on the toes
OF his hind legs and declares that
no house burner, yeggman, safe
cracker or rapist need apply to him
for pardon He does not say, how
ever, that he will not. if governor,
pardon a common thief.
Eight years ago when the State
dispensary had become stencil in
the nostrils of the people, when only
such men as John G. Richards and
Mendel L. Smith still stood for its
corrupt and corrupting influences.
Richard Manning came forward to
save it Many believed then and some
believe yet that he attempted to boil
ster its waning fortunes for the sake
of the governorship. did not then
Z consider him so low as to sell him
self for Office. I attributed it to a
never too strong mentality, but of
course I rnay have been mistaken.
: year for governor.
Now ne is candidate again for
the same high Office and proclaim
ing most loudly for the enforcement
of the law. Let US see, and to do so,
we must go back a little. On page
PIG, Senate Journal Of 1912, you will
find message from Gov. Blease,
transmitting to the general assembly
) the report of his special factory in
/. spector, Col. Leon NJ. Green, of the
) governors staff, and this report COW
ers to page $40 Of said Journal. The
governor congratulated himself that
: the year before he had vetoed the
item of s3,40o for two factory In
spectors and had had this work done
by Col Leon M. Green at cost Of
only $1,000.
eSeing striking similarity be-
tween Col. Leon NJ. Green's report
and the report of the commissioner
OF agriculture, commerce and indus
{ tries, E. J Watson, I compared the
two and found them identical. !
then sent J. Rutledge McGee to Mr.
Watson's Office, demanding the CORE
spondence between Mr.. Watson and
Col. Leon M. Green ON factory in
spection. I go. the originals of Col.
Leon M. Green's letters and carbon
copies Of Mr.. Watson's replies, and
reading these letters to the House I
proved that all the work Col. Leon
NJ. Green had done was to copy about
% pages of Mr.. Watson's report, for
which the State of South Carolina
paid $1,000.
stCol. Leon M Green was then,
and think is now, a member of
Gov. Blease's staff. This exposure
was in the papers on the front page
in large headlines. Col. Leon NJ
Green was then dubbed Scissors
Whether that non-de-plume still
sticks, do not know.
"Mr. Manning must have. known
all this. He knew the moral charac-
ter of this. Col. Leon NJ. Green and
yet, is he not in Mr.. Manning's en-
ploy now? Yesterday I asked the
clerk at the hotel in Anderson if Mr..
Manning was stopping there. He re-
piled: yes, he is in No. 4 I then
asked if Col. Leon NJ. Green were
there, and he replied: Yes, but not
registered. He is with Mr. Manning
in No. 4. Do you wish to see him?'
Il did not. If Mr.. ManrS g is so fear.
fully earnest in his desire to have
Z the law enforced. why does he have
Col. Leon M. Green so constantly
with him? He must know his char
acter. Does Col. Leon NJ. Green
write Mr.. Manning's speeches? He
wields rather facile pen; his men
tality is above the average. Did Mr.
Manning employ Col. Leon NJ. Green
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thrust upon him by Mr.. Manning's
capitalistic backerso Is Mr.. Manning
sincere in his denunciation of law
isssness or is he only bidding for
votes? Does not Mr.. Manning's con-
nection with Col. Leon NJ Green
leave the impressio nthat he is swing
ing to Blease's coat tail with one
hand and to the capitalists with the
other? These are pertinent ques-