The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-02-01

IN their votes for delegates to the
District meeting to be held in Sumter;
February End. G. R. Sprott and D..
r.. DuBose were elected delegates to
this meeting.
The following letter which appear
ed III recent issue of The Southern
Tobacco Journal was road and, after
quest The Manning Times to publish
this letter and the Associations re-
ply, which was adopted unanimously
by a rising vote.
Manning Tobacco Market Will Con-
tinue to do Business.
Manning, S. c., Jan. 7, 1922.
Editor Southern Tobacco Journal,
| Winston Salem, N. C.
Dear Sir:
will appreciate space in your
paper to state for the benefit of the
tobacco trade that the Manning to-
bacco market will again operate as
heretofore for the sale of leaf tobacco
for those that did not sign the tobac-
GO cooperative marketing system.
do not think that over ten per cent Of
our growers in Clarendon County have
signed up. There are others that lean
to the small side that may claim more.
Sufficient to say that we will have a
market as usual. We are expecting
good. crop to be grown this year
! believe our farmers are tired of
trying to grow tobacco that is not
profitable. I believe an effort will be
put forth to give tobacco better at
tention than ever before in our his
tory of tobacco growing. I do not
think however that large crop can
! be grown owing to financial condi-
tions. n my of the poor class will not
be able to get help sufficient to farm.
am not prophet-hcither am the
son of one but l expect to see good
prices for good tobacco in 1922.
expect to see Manning sell double
the tobacco she sold last year. l am
expecting that that we will have the
same luck y at Covington, Ky. did on
her opening day. l am also expect
ing to sell tobacco from some of nv
cooperative friends, because they
have friends that will accommodate
them-BrOwn, Smith and Jones are
familiar names and the men that wear
them are good feIlows."- South
ern Tobacco Journal.
In reply to this letter we wish to
! state that our Association in Claren-
don County has 335 members and O.
250,000 pounds of tobacco signed up
which does not include quite num-
Der of Clarendon farmers who signed
in Florence and Williamsburg Coun-
ties. We leave it to the intelligent
citizens of Clarendon County to Judge
the correctness of Mr.. Cothran's state
mcnt that mot over ten per cent. of
our growers in Clarendon County have
signed up"
| We consider the letter part of the
third paragraph in Mr.. Cothran's let
ter an insult to every member of our
association. In it he suggests a
method by which a member who is
without principle or honor might
break his contract, and he makes a
clearly implied bid for the patronage
of any such person who may desire
his services.
Mr. Cothran thus makes clear the
plan he has in mind for breaking
down the association and the part he
proposes to play in it. We will let
the PUBLIC pass judgment on Mr.. Goth
ran and his scheme, but in oder to
carry it out he must have certain
number of traitors to join with him.
The names of our members have
been published in The Manning Times,
and, with this list of names before
him, he deliberately publishes a state
ment he expects some Of these men,
bers to lay aside principle and honor
and accept his bid for their patron
age.
At present every member of our
association stands indicted before the
public by Mr.. Cothran as a possible
traitor to the association. When he
makes thY statement that he expects
some Of his friends in the association
to sell tobacco under fictitious name
through him, he must have some
reasonable ground on which to base
this expectation.
We, therefore, demand of Mr.. Goth
ran that he give us valid reason for
his statement or retract it. If he has
good and sufficient reasons for the
assertion that he expects some Of our
members, his "friends," to join him
in his scheme to injure the associa-
tion, we want the names Of those
members. He has uttered q slander
against every true and loyal member
of the association which can only be
removed by publishing the names of
those whom he has picked for traitors.
Give us the names.
By G. r. Sprott.