The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-01-18

party is pledged to a platform of eco
nomy, to cut down expenses. Every
body the world over IS cutting down
expenses except this Congress, and
1--WE bring in bill latter bill to raise sal
aries when the farmers are compelled
to cut down or go into the bankrupt
ey court. Honest, truthful Mr..
Beegg! Will someone kindly page
Massachusetts is still talking in
hushed voices of the Governors banA
quet and the terrible spill which oc-
Cured. Just picture the scenes 4 There
in the staid old city of Boston, in the
Commonwealth Of Massachusetts, the
| home of Whittier, Daniel the Godlike,
Gamaliel Bradford, and the Puritan
colony, were gathered together the
great elders of the Republican party,
the party of correct living and the
New England conscience. No wicked
wine gave its color in the cup, nor
strong drink which rageth-leastwise
not on the banquet table. Nor did
champagne sparkle in the glass-er,
that is, at least, not exactly on the
table. Of course not-hadn't the
country gone dry an daren't all the
| blue-ribboners in the State endowed
with the vote Of course not-at
least, not right thcre in the public
gaze. But just across the corridor an
few steps down to the left, or was
IT just to the right? Any way, it was
there-hootch,, booze, quantities of
drowned the orator yacross the hall, !,
and the banqueters, by twoes and
threes and singly, came and went,
and Waxed happier and more care
free. But, hark! what is that discor-
dant and blatant sound that smaks
of the rude and plebeian, breaking, in
on the JOY of this latter-day Bel,
shazzar's feast? Has hand come
| out upon the wall and writ as if on
sand-the fingers of hand, soli-
tary hand? And is some Daniel
come to read to the trembling creatu-
res those letters of fire? Is the
Mede at the gate and the Presian on
the throne of dear old Boston? No,
the new Mayor is an Irshman named
Jim Curley, peace to his ashes when
he has any. No, it is worse than the
Mede and the Persian all put togeth-
cr; it's the dry enforcement gang of
rough-necks. and all the blessed while
pale e-cheeked on the right of Governor
/ Cox! But how could such an accident
occur? 1t took the Bostonese, shock
ed beyond expression, full week TO
learn al labout how it happened. It
, turned out that the chief enforcement
officer had a lieutenant who had q
grudge, and this man selected we'll
his hour for revenge on his chief,
| and, incidentally, on the whole Repub-
lican outfit Of the State. The ban
qucters were not pinched, but truck
load of hootch was confscated, and
there are those who do say that it
may have been hootch that had been
co.fiscated once before from sundry
other persons, mere bootleggers and
such.
Postmaster General Hays, who al
ways buys a childs size hat, is ar
ranging to take the finger prints of
all deposltors at. postal savings
banks. He has already begun using
the system wit hpQstal employees. Up
to this time the system has only been
in use to Identify crooks and is used
at all our best Hpenitcntiaries. Bill
should write brochure on IInnova-
tion Calculated to Popularize the Ad-
! ministration. It's easy to be a great
organizer when you have all the cam
paign fund and all the landslide on
your side, but whc nit comes to hold
ing job requiring some horse sense,
it's another thing altogether.
Speaking of finger prints, it
wouldn't be q bad idea to hold conven