The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-24
J. ]. CHNTEY EXPRESSES
HIS VIEWS ON The
COMING CAMPAIGN

COMING CAMPAIGN
Summerton, S. c., May 20, 1922.
Editor Of The Manning Times:
do not think l have ever written
an article for your paper or any other
paper, unless l had in mind moral
motive, and it has, always been my
pleasure to throw a rock now and then
into the crowd and watch the little
cur, who has been hit, come rushing
out, with limping leg, and barking at
the wind. This is a political year in
South Carolina, and it is just as well
to let the people understand that sal
walton does not comes through poll
ticians and that the only fellow who
fellow who gets elected to office. In
South Carolina, during a political
year, it is the custom of the people
to say hard things about each other,
to hurt the feelings of each other
about this or that candidate, and
sometimes to end e-long friend
ship because Of our enthusiasm about
this or that individual politician,
when as matter of fact, there never
was and never will be a politician in
this State who has ever put any lcgi-
'i@@'c money in our pockets or any
ar" in our larders, and all that the
nniEn lual citizen ever gets out of poll
," the yelling, the cussing and the
tiw ig, while the fellow who gets
" |, gets the money and the hon
IN nty-fivc or thirty years ago, cer-
jan politicians in this State, inaug
@'",al what we were pleased to call
.' reat reform Tillman movement,
a'.. re pulled out the eyes of each
aU.> and spilled the blood of one an
. on account of one Tillman, but
wv see how foolish all of us
."t because there is not man in
a.g Carolina who can discover
y@. he ever secured single legi-
.r, G penny from the great Till
'n3" movement, whereas Tillman
al"C managed to secure term of
,.u years as Governor and eighteen
as United States Senator, as
pr irst-fruits of the Tillman move
en-, ten or fifteen years ago, there
t"i. into existence the very amusing
HD..h cotton moveemnt, when Smith
p. led up and down the State like a
U.y am rooster, and the people yelled
.M hurrahed for Smith, but I chal-
any man in South Carolina l..
"aa,ion one legitimate penny he ever
ricrlE ed from the Smith cotton move
an, while Smith of course has been
#h to seat himself for a period Of
,- cen years in the Senate of the
ed States, by and through the in
mentality of the Smith cotton
:ment, while all the rest of us
had to stay at home and grow
60. n tytn nrIn tn g., I'll, ~. IL.
thing to talk about.
ter the Tilman and Smith move
S, the people Of South Carolina
wild over the ludicrous Blease
IN movement, but Blease and a
number OF criminals were the
people who derived any benefit
.". the Blcasc dclivcrancc, while the
OF us stayed at home, chcwed the
voted wrong either on account Of
100 hatred for or on account of our
" iration for Blease, the Fatty Ar
lie Of South Carolina politics.
'rtamly, old Barnum was not very
wrong when he stated upon oath,
" being duly sworn, that during
Y minute Of the day fool is
" in the United States of Ameri-
All of us had just as well come
... he conclusion Of the great He
teacher, who established the
ciple that the only method of
nig success and happiness in this
d, is to engage in some useful
ton and therein work hard and
Il living by the sweat of
brow, and thereby render
'.. useful service to our fell
men, either as farmer or lawyer
erchant or otherwise However,
' are certain kinds of Govern
:, which we do not want in South
lima. For instance, when our
athers settled this country, they
Ilishcd the principle of the sepa-
n of the church and the State,
red for freedom Of religious opim-
and in their constitutions signed
31a sealed the dcnth-kncll Of an &C.
".. astical form of Government. We
Id not endure in this State, a
w. trnment of, for, and by the male
""n 'lation, since history shows that
B" has always been selfish animal.
.a has always assumed the moral
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