The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-07-05
MIR. Cothrau is not a Candidate. d.

| MT. Cothran IS not Canoloale.
Editor The Times:
With your kind permission l would
like to get u few facts before the people
of this county, through the columns Of
your paper.
! l want to state in the outset that am
mot a candidate for any office, and not
asking the suffrage OF the dear people
at this time. I want to mention one
thing 10 particular that has been IN a
dormant condition, so TO speak, in this
county for good many years. II what
I am going to write about turns out to
be campaign data and picks up sufi-
cient interest to be made a real issue
at this coming campagin, will feel
that have been amply compensated
for this little effort.
From campaign year to campaign
wear we have heard would-be represen-
tatives say from stump to stump what
tney intended u do if the dear people
would send them to represent their
county 10 the general assembly. We
have heard them talk all kiud OF prom
ises from the most insignificant thiog
that has TO do with their office up to
things that would come under the
jurisdiction of the congressman from
this district. Of course the later
promise being only an error on their
part. He would then pose, think and
run his hand through his hair 10 see
if he had LETT off anything. On, yes.
one thing was about TO forget fellow
citizens, favor good roads TOO: the last
shot being fred from blank cartridge,
he having used up all his ammunition
IL promising TO do things which were
| mere dreams of what would happen
when he got over To Columbia, where
| he would hold the house of representa-
tives spell bound at his mercy, she'd
lug Iears over his eloquence and mas
terful oratory. He dreamed that under
cuudtious like this he would nave rep
reSentaJlves from all The counties at
bis mercy, and that the good deeds IN
| the shape Of high class measures that
would be introduced by his masterful
brain would be passed, and unlike
what was said of Julius Ceasar OF old
| by Mark Anthony when he delivered
his famous Grafton at his funeral, that
has come down through the ages 10
this good. The good that | do will
live after me, while the evil will be
| Inferred with my boneS.'
You will pardon this little DEPRESSION
and let Us get down to facts as See II.
! We are very much in need OF gooo
! highways in this county. | know the
road question is dry proposition when
il comes TO putting it square up to the
people, 1t is question that we have
| learned ourselves to think is the func-
tion of the county supervisor and the
| insignificant chaingang. We talk as
though the supervisor had many thous-
anu negro convicts at bis command and
that he is fitted up with large motor
-~ucks by which he can move the
cnaingang from one section to aoother
with the rapidity of William Henry
Ford, he OF course having private
hying machine and going ahead to see
what place to move TO next.
WANT 10 fess up that | have been
guilty along with the rest Of the citi-
Zenship of giving him my full share OF
cuvsing. l have thought before now
that he should be made TO serve at
least thirty days himself when | would
get stuck in some mud hole. l would
get out by the help OF kind fellow and
we both would lambast the supervisor
aud my friend would say that when he
Comes through here asking for our
voies that he promised Us we should
have good roads and We have not seen
him since. How many times have |
heardthis. You just let him run again
and we will show him in this section
what he will get. etc. Now isn't this
perfectly natural.
Well, says some one, | think ne Is
guilty and should be put out OF office
for not performing his duties.
Friends, We are all mislakep, he Is
only human and has made US good
officer. He has done fully as we'll rs
any OF the rest OF US could have done.
The trouble is simply this. He has
more task than ne can perform with
the little force he has at his command.
, We have something like seven hun.
dred miles OF public highways in this
county TO be worked, SO am told, and
in most cases the majority OF the roads
need rebuilding, not merely cutting
bitches and filing up holes, but they
have grown up and have to be reopened
by removing the trees in good many
Instances and then widened.
am ready, for one, TO say that We
, have cursed the supervisor unlust!y.
am ready to take ny hat of to MeSsrS
| McFaddin and Davis. Both OF these
gentlemen have built Us some good
roads
. [ have heard different people in dis
cussing the road question say what
about the comutation tax? under
| stand il amounts 10 about ten thousand
dollars in round numbers. Well says
some one it should be expended IL Tie
various townships from which 1t Is de-
Irived. about this have nothing to say
vou can lind out by asking the proper
couuty officers.
would like 10 see this question
brought before the voters OF the coup
, ~ and let them say bv their votes what
they want. | understand our revenue
derived from all sources both real ana
personal including railroads amounts
10 approximately four million dollars:
II seems TO me that an extra levy OF
say tive mills would suffice, this would
rive Us about twenty Thousand dollars
per year. we will say fol 4 period OF
i've years Oh longer whicl ever meets