The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-05-27

votes IN the coming primary.
Clifton made the strongest kind
of an argument to show this per.
sonal enrolment requirement
would operate against farmers
mainly, and give to the cities,
towns and mill centers. an over.
whelming advantage.
We were anxious to hear Hon.
R. D. Epps on this question as
he will oppose Clifton for the
Senate Epps endeavored to get
recognition from the chair but
after the wonderful harangue
made by his law partner Mayor
L. D. Jennings, he made no fur
ther effort, whether in disgust or
Endorsement, we do not know.
Jennings took an opposite view
from his colleague Clifton, and
from what we could gather from
his so lung power argument be
belongs to that element who re,
Gently broke into society with a
golden key, and favors restrict
ing the ballot to as few as posi-
bic, providing that few can be
controlled by him and his kind.
We hardly think Mr.. Epps,
although Jennings law partner,
would endorse such extreme
views, because, we have it on
good authority that he has de-
clared himself in favor of Gov
ernor Blease for the United
States senate, and no supporter
of Blease would want the country
vote curtailed, neither would the
conservative supporters of Sen
ator Smith want the country
vote injured, for both sides re-
allied the danger of q party ma
chinery which will cause any
number of good white men from
being disqualified in the primary.
If it is true that Mr.. Epps has
declared himself a supporter of
Governor Blease, we know that
Senator Clifton is rot, nor has
he ever been, a Blease sup
porter, yet at the same
time, while not a supporter Of
the Governor he did have the
manhood to stand by the Execu-
tive when he thought he was
right, and especially was this
demonstrated in the senate's &C.
ton on the appropriation bill.
Clifton stood by the Governor for
cutting down these excessive
appropriations, while on the
other hand, Epps was always
looked upon as among those who
fought against anything the
Governor favored, therefore,
when we heard he had declared
for Blease it came to US some
what as a surprise, and we think
| it will be well for the friends of
the Gov. to get a public decla-
ration from him that they may
know whether to support a man
who is open and fair or one who
is running with the hare and
barking with the hounds.
We feel an interest in Sum
ter's representative in the SEN
ate, because we. appreciate his
valuable services to that body,
but if the people of Sumter are
to displace him for another,
which in our opinion would be a
great mistake, they should do so
with their eyes wide open, and
not be carried away with mans
prominence in fraternal orginiza-
tions,or aprohibition hobby;they
should notbe guided by the badge
worn in conspicuous place on the
coat, or the profe. sions of piety
when in pious company, but the
record made, and the ability to
have influence with the repre-
sentatives of the State. There
is not a man of greater force and
Ii ,nce in the Senate Of South
Carolina, merited by his splendid
ability. his absolute fairness
and wise craftsmanship than
John H. Clifton, and there is no
man in the entire general ass
emily, who has less of the trim
mer qualities of the small poll
tician than he. Whatever he
stands for he makes it known
unequivocally, and, in this day
when the lines are drawn he will
not gumshoe his way through
the campaign, but is outspoken
in favor of the present incum-
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