Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-25
GRACE AND MANNING
Mayor of Charleston Has His Say at
tho Governor.

Mayor Of Charleston Has His Say at
tho Governor.
The Columbia Record Of Wednes-
day prints an article about the
sending Of constables to Charleston,
including an account Of the corre-
spondence between the governor and
Mayor Grace, concerning the liquor
situation and also the governors let
ter to Sheriff Martin. In this article
is an interview over long distance
telephone with Mayor Grace, scoring
Manning sharply.
The Columbia Record, as to the in
terview with the mayor, prints the
following:
when communicated with over
long distance telephone Wednesday
afternoon, Mayor Grace said that, in
his opinion, Gov. Manning is playing
to the galleries all over the state, and
intends to take an active part in the
municipal campaign waging in Char
lesion. He imputes hypocracy to Gov.
has suppressed news that would make
the chief executive appear in a ridicu-
lous light. He characterizes the plac-
ing Of constables in Charleston as an
Gct Of political cowardice on the part
Of Gov. Manning.
Mayor Grace said that he under
stood that the constabulary are max
ing raids in Charleston Wednesday,
hut he could not say how many men
were there assisting Sheriff Martin.
He did say a number had been import
and that the chief constable is w. Clint
Cathcart, formerly chief Of police Of
Columbia
Mayor Grace in commenting on the
ing the appointment Of constables in
Charleston said to the Record this
afternoon:
Il am now convinced that Gov. Man.
ming has decided to take part in our
Charleston municipal campaign. Ev-
cry act Of his has confirmed this sus-
picion. He has also, believe, been
playing to the galleries solely for po-
litical purposes Of his own throughout
the state. He has emphatically de-
MED both these charges, but I am
now compelled to say that I doubt his
word.
MY doubts are confirmed by the
fact that he projected into the great
est publicity his letters and telegcams
to me, giving them out even before
they reached my hands. On the other
hand, he has deliberately suppressed
certain exceedingly compromising let
ters written by me putting him In a
ridiculous dilemma, and in one in
stance, when suppressing letter
which he was called upon to give out
he even tried to create the impression
that it had been suppressed through
some wish Of mine.
Even when l was in the infirmary,
stricken, he expected results from my
sick bed and whatever results
achieved, although in one breath he
complimented me for them, he would
in the next breath criticise me for
not performing miracles.
The reason why he has resorted to
the subterfuge Of billeting constables
on Charleston ostensibly to assist our
sheriff, Is because on the one hand
he Is politically afraid to apply the
Kershaw logic to the Charleston sher-
iff, and on the other hand because the
Charleston sheriff Is himself afraid not
to respond to the demands Of the gov
ernor. Therefore, this ridiculous d.
vision Of authority and responsibility.
$50 far as any statement Of his that
does not absolve me in the matter. my
answer is: That whatever RESPONSE
bilities Of office devolve upon me, they
are created by law. 1t Is neither his
to bind nor loose; I am performing my
duty as l see it, and l believe, in all
l can say am just as big a
man in every respect as Gov. Man.
ming and need no absolution at his
hands"