The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-04-03
BLEASE OPENED CAMPAIGN HERE
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needs it they are perfectly welcome to
, it. They can take it and not paw me
anything for it. l would be very will
ing to contribute it to the government
without any charge whatever if they
need it: You need not stand back on
any titles or anything else as to mine.
Go on and take it. 1t is all right, and
; II there is anything else can do for
you or for the government, l will be
very glad to do So" He thanked me
and left.
That has been and is my attitude in
this war emergency, as shown by the
record. These are few Of the things
! that l have done and said, but they
are a clear index to the entire posi-
tion which have taken all along, and
! they give the lie to the malicious mis-
representations of me made by the
anti Reform press of South Carolina,
which has descended to the depth,
while proclaimng pseudo patriot
ism, Of taking advantage of great
war emergency for partisan political
purposes, in an effort to defeat the
will of the people in South Carolina
and 1916. l have not got out on the
house tops and proclaimed every act
which l have done, nor have l run to
the press every time l turned around
to ask them to tell the people that
had done these things. If you will
go to the banks in Columbia today,
am satisfied they will tell you, if they
tell you the truth, that they are loaded
with Liberty Bonds right now which
were supposed to have been taken by
people whose names were heralded in
the newspapers, when, as a matter of
fact, they have not taken their bonds,
and, they are being carried by the
banks and owned by the banks.
At the convention of the Reform
party of South Carolina, held in Co.
lumbia, in January, l offered the fol-
lowing resolution, which was unani-
mously adopted:
That we again renew our allie
glance to the Democratic party of this
country and now once again offer our
services, both as members of the Re-
form party and as individuals, to the
government of the United States in
any capacity where we may be of
benefit and stand ready at all times,
as we have ever stood, to make any
sacrifice to help win the war in which
this nation is now engaged"
The Reformers of South Carolina
have done and are doing their full
part-not, so much in the campaign
work, by which this war must be won
for, as / have said and as you know,
loud talk never yet won war. The
Reform party is doing it's duty, as it
always has done in the history of
South Carolina and of the nation.
There are others in Sout., Carolina
who are doing their full duty be-
sides those who are receiving offices
and handsome salaries and making
charges against others to bolster up
their own loyalty, being without Other
means cf showing snything to justify
these salaries which they are getting
and resorting to misrepresentation OF
and lies about others. trying to hold
their places at the public trough where
they are being fed for the perform.
ance Of duties in which they are not
versed, and in positions which they arf
not properly fitted to fill Some oi
them are parading the state from
mountains to coast in order that they
may publish that they are loyal-ycs
loyal while the salaries are being paid
and their expenses in running about
over the state are being borne by the
already heavily burdened taxpayers.
What we need in this state now
above all else. is unity of purpose anc
of spirit, and it can not be brought
about by misrepresentation for par
tisan political effect, and those wht
wllfully make such misrepresentation:
are just as surely the enemies of tn,
nation and of the American ant
French boys yonder in the trenches a:
the man who would sell himself to tn,
enerly. There is no use to apply harsl
epithets. You know this is the fact
AS was concisely expressed by a sen
ator of the United States the othci
day: "We can not lose. We must win
The only question is whether we shall
through efficiency and concerted ant
united action, win without unncccssar,
loss of life, unnecessary waste O
treasure, or whether we shall, through
lack of unity in spirit and purpose
win only after fearful and unneccssar,
Isacrifices."
1t has been charged, falsely, that
have criticized the president of th
United States. That is known to b,
absolutely untrue. was against Mr.
Woo lrow Wilson for the Democratic
nomination in 1912, and in favor O
another. But after he received hi
nomination. | not only voted for hin
myself, but as the Democratic nom
inec for governor, wrote en- appeal t,
my friends, who at that time wer
being most unfairly and unjustl,
treated by being charged with fraui
iT the state elections, and when tn
Bull Moose party was attempting t.
make inroads into the Democratic
ranks in this state-I wrote and hat
published this appeal TO my friends
and begged them to go to the poll
and support the nominee of the ma
tional Democratic party, and to rol
up a, majority for our congressman a
nominated, in order that no contes
could be brought which might keel