The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-04-07

drawn the patronage of that bank
from The Times-a bank IN
which a number Of friends OF
The Times have their money in.
vested in, and who are patrons
of both his bank and The Times.
These construe his action to
mean that he withdrew his pat
ronage b cause he was fnan-
cially interested Gin making SER
iouS inroads into your (ouD
newspaper business: and be,
cause of his action he forces
these loyal supporters and well
wishers of The Times to aid in
his design-they feel and be-
lieve a bank is a business inSti-
tuition aud not a political or a
personal cudgel to crafty per-
sersonal likes or dislikes, thatit
should devote it's energies to
making friends of the public
rather than humoring the whim
of It's executive head.
The alIusion to what was said
in the Governors Office at the
time when certain interested
parties appeared before the
Chief Executive to urge him not
to sign the Act, is made us if
Lawyer Davis had found some
thing in the nature Of after dis
covered evidence-a wonderful
discovery.
Is there man in Clarendon
who does not know or who has
not heard of the unfriendliness
Of certain individuals, and their
interest in ''making serious in
roads into your (our) profits in
the newspaper ,business?" AT
ter the treatment we had receiv-
ed from those who were fighting
as candor, prompted US to say
that we retaliated, but this was
not necessary. the Governor is
we'll informed of the conditions
existing in Manning as we'll is
he aware Of the intimacy exist
ing between those who are fight.
ing US in every conceivable way
the 1.asses are also aware Of
it, and why.
1t is with a degree of pleasure
to state that all Of the banks are
not unfriendly to The Times.
The Home Bank and Trust Co.,
The Bank Of Manning, The Bank
of Pinewood, and The Bank of
Turbeville have not manifested
al unfriendly spirit, aItho' we
are informed an effort was made
to get at least one of these
named to do so, but it declined;
all but one of the banks
herein named have a contract
with The Times which makes
their quarterly statements cost
them practically nothing, the
other banks could have secured
the same privilege if their man
agement had exerted the same
good business sagacity; these
contracts are not new, they have
been going on from year to year,
even when this newspaper was
in the field alone, and since. The
law allows one dollar an inch for
a single insertion is true, but
that does not prohibit the max
ing of a SPECIAL CONTRACT FOR
LESS, and as the presidents Of
the banks named, are conduct
ing their institutions for the
benefit of their stockholders on
business principles. in the mat
ter of advertising it gives them
an advantage of saving money,
thereby increasing dividends.
Our reference to the lynchins
case in which Lawyer Davis was
a prominent actor, was to illus
trate his respect for law where
he had a fee in prospect, and his
defiance of law when his inau-
cial or his political interest was
involved-in seeking to make
"serious loads into your (our)
newspaper business" But since
he has seen fit to mention
this case in this connection, we
confess our surprise at his secur
ing a verdict, not that we ex.
pected a jury would stultify It's
self, no indeed, but from the evil
dence we hoped they would be
able to find sufficient to justify
them in refusing to award a yer
dict. The law relating to lynch.
ing was incorporated in the con