The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-06-17
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A TOUGH LOT.


recent State convention than ev
er, but not withstanding it's jug.
CLING with a mass Of words, and
it's leaps from one craig to an
other, it will never succeed in
making it's readers believe that
one faction in Charleston is a
whit better than the other-both
are unsavory;the Records editor
outht to know it, and we believe
does. Editor Moore was a hired
writer for one of the Charleston
newspapers, and lived in that
city when his brother-in-laW }.
Elmore Martin, was in the
zenith of his political power and
glory. We have no antipathy
to Sheriff Martin, and we must
confess that we admire his
shrewdness, if not his methods
he is the political sphinx of the
State. Neither have We any
antipathy for another political
genius Mr.. R. G. Rhett, former
Mayor, under whose administra-
tion Goose Creek was brought
into the things famous, but when
Sheriff Martins brother in-law
now editing a newspaper IN Co.
lunbia, undertakes to hold up
such politicians as Martin and
Rhett as paragons of virtue. and
by doing so create the impression
that Mayor Grace is the oppo-
site, then, with our understand
ing of conditions in the city by
the-sea, we protest against any
such unfairneSs.
Whatever, or however oad
Grace's methods are, they are
the result of the teachings of the
political school of his predeces,
sors-Ferguson. Barkley, White,
Rhett, Martin and their cohorts.
Grace was very active in his
support of Rhett, and he was
highly regarded even with the
s.better element" almost entlt-
led to membership in the St Ce-
celia, or to an entree in the
shrimp aristocrisy of tue
'.bottry' until he struck out to
crafty his own ambition, which
was fixed upon the sherif's Of
fee as the goal. He did not win.
Why? The men he had helped
to elevate by giving them OF his
time and talents, did not sup
port him-he claims betrayed
him, they throwed him down to
effect a deal with the State ad-
ministration, by giving their
support to Mr.. Martin, notwith-
standing the fact that Mr.. Mar
tin did not belong to Charleston,
but was forced upon those peo'
pie by Governor Evans under
the power of the metropolitan
police Act-an Act of the gener-
al assembly which was conceiv-
ed in hate, and born in political
corruption. This Act was the
rawest deal ever put over a
proud people. yet, instead OF
showing resentment when in po-
sition to do so, they submitted to
the degradation, and to such
further humiliation as their then
leaders manipulated for their own
selfish purposes, by embracing
and accepting Governor Evans
instrument he sent from Barn
well county, to mortify and hu-
initiate them; when the people
of Charleston gave to j. Elmore
Martin lucretive Office, and poll
tical leadership, twas as repug-
nant to the people of the State,
as would have been the political
elevation by the people of the
South of General Nelson A.
Miles, the man WHO had irons
placed upon Jefferson Davis.
Did these politicians then in
control, believe they deserved
the humiliation the State admin
istration visited upon them? If
they did, their conduct must
have been revolving indeed, but
when they bended 'the knee
that thrift may follow fawning,"
and placed laurels upon the brow
of the man who was imported to
executee the outrage Governor
Evans afflicted them with, by
giving him the fattest Office IN
their gift and the political con-
troll, right there and then it sent
shivers oyer the people through