The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-08-05
DEMAG0GISM.

preston he can make which is
not literally a lie is legitimate,
and, it is for the other side to
straighten out the tangle or
prove to the contrary. Not long
since there took place a mock
campaign meeting for the benefit
OF charity, one of the debaters
charged his opponent with fav-
oring social equality, and by in
direction proved his charge. He
said that his chafeur was at that
time wearing the clothes of his
opponent, and his opponent
could not deny it. The impress
sion sought to be created was,
his opponent and the negro
chafeur were on such terms of
social intimacy they would wear
each others clothes, the fact is,
the chafeur was really wearing
a suit of cast Off clothing given
him by the gentleman debating
on the other side. In other
words, a truth half told is often
the wicknGest kind of 2, lie.
Mr.. W. P. Pollock, one Of the
candidates for the United States
Senate attempts to make politi-
ca. capital out of the fact
that in Charleston county
there, are many foreigners,
or as he terms them 'sFur-
rlners'' registered to vote,
and shese aFurriners" kill the
votes of the natives. His idea
Z is to create a false Impression
through prejudicing the unthlnk-
ing, against class of citizens
who are entitled to vote under
our constitution and laws as
much so as is the native to the
manor born. The names Pol
lock reads at the campaign meet
ings are natnralized c...2 T.; t:4,
forebears of many Of them have
been in America longer than the
forebears of Mr. Pollock, they.
can trace their ancestry back to
the time when they left their
native lands without. compulsion
TO come to the land Of the free
and the home of the brave. Mr..
Pollock's ancestry may be able
TO do the same, but we have
never seen a record that gave
his ancestors a clean sheet or
clearance card.
The aFurriners" referred to
by Pollock are not only citizens
Of today and entitled to all the
rights Of the native born, but
they were citizens in the days of
the revolutionary war, the war
with Mexico and the war be-
tween the States. Scan the
records and the same names
Pollock undertakes to speak of
so scornfrlly, are to be found on
the rolls Of the German Artil
lery. the Fuzilers, Lafayette
Artillery, irish Volunteers,
Washington Light Infantry.
Sumter Guards and the several
companies of Charleston that
placed themselves upon the
altar of their country-the bloody
fields of Virginia, Tennessee and
the other fields where the soldier
of the Confederacy was ordered
to defend the principles of the
South. Read the names upon
the Monuments erected to the
memory of the confederate
dead and the names of these
same sFuryiners" will be seen.
Take the name Of Pollock" if
it is not a foreign name, then we
confess that the name Of the
pawn broker usually seen on the
signs in a city with the prefix
s,Uncle, IFS altogether American.
Pollock's harangues about the
'.Furriners" are disgustingly
ont of place; we venture to say
did the Italian, French, German,
Scotch, Irish: :Swede, Or Scandina.
Wan societies, one or either of
them invite this same Mr.. Pol.
lock to deliver an address before
them, he would, instead of gllbly
speaking of them in terms of
scorn and derision as he is now
doing on the hustings. he
would be singing their praises,
lauding their ancestors, and
picturing tn EN- as tn e
greatest people on earth, but he
is in politics now. and is ob-