The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-04-19
DOESN'T THINK MUCH OF
GUBERN ATORIL ASPIRANTS
Summerton, S. c., April Is, 1922

| have been frequently asked if it
is really true that 1 will make the
race for Governor of South Carolina
during the coming summer. l under
stand those two Old stale demagog-
ues, John Gary Evans and Cole L.
Blease, will be candidates, and those
who are supporting these gentlemen
remind me very much of certain
class of people in London, whom a
well-known phi!anthropist wished to
uplift by building them modern, up
to-date homes, at cheap rate of rent,
installing in them electric lights,
water-closets and bath rooms. After
several months, the philanthropist
visited his tenants, and he found that
in lieu of bathing in the tubs, the
tenants were using them for deposit
ing coal, and in lieu of using the water
closets, the tenants we're using bar
rels in the backyards o. the respective
homes. Now, people have an abso-
lutte right to use barrels in lieu of
water closets, and at the same time,
vote for demagogues like John Gary
Evans Or Cole L. Bleasc, but God have
mercy on the judgment Of such peo-
pie. l understand that my college
classmate, Bill Coleman, who is the
president Of Il cotton factory, and AS
bury Lever, who deserted his Con-
gressional district, in order to accept
fat job in Washington, will run
around and endcavor to capture the
votes of the farmers. am. informed
that Lumpkin, who married rich
widow in Columbia, is now running
up and down the State, feeling his
way to the Governorship, by placat-
ing the boys who clipped the ears
and punched holes in the bellies of the
Germans in No Mans Land. A great
many people will vote for Swearin-
gen, in case he should decide to aban-
don his present job, solely because of
his blindness, but it is mighty poor
policy to elect man to an important
executive position, merely from the
standpoint of sympathy for his mis-
fortunes. Bethea of Columbia, who
ran for Governor two years ago on a
platform of whipping the Germans,
and although a rich bachelor remain
cd at home, put on uniform after
the war was over, and then mulcted
the Columbia Record for big sum
in damages, because the Record told
the truth about him, will probably go
rafting around the State for his per-
sonal amusement. Hodges Of Marl-
boro County, who has acquired con-
siderable expcrtness at the noble art
of sterilizing hogs, will probably
throw his hat in the ring, if fully
persuaded by the swine growers of
the State. Now, history shows be-
yond any reasonable doubt that the
human race, in times Of misfortune,
can be led astray by demagogucs,
who cause the people to tear down all
the institutions which they have
buildcd up, for their own good and the
good of their children, through many
generations, and who array class
against class, stir up strife among
the people, oppress the minority, and
sometimes cause the people to forget
God and repudiate we'll established
moral principles which have safely
brought our fathers and iorc-fathcrs
thus far in the race of life. Calhoun
was great man in some respects,
but he was entirely ignorant of the
tread and evolution of history, he did
not have sufficient intelligence to COM
prchcnd that Christianity was estab-
fishing beyond doubt the fatherhood
Of God and the brotherhood of man,
that as a result slavery was doomed,
and Calhoun caused the drcnching of
the soil of the South in the blood of
the finest manhood that ever walked
the green earth, when Calhoun had it
IN IS power to persuade the United
States to pay the South for it's pro-
perty, which grew up as naturally as
the forests, in lieu of having this
same property stolen, taken and car
ried away by the most righteous
bunch of thieves who have ever grac-
cd the pages of history.
Tillman was greater man than
Calhoun and established certain in
stitutions in South Carolina, which
are accomplishing much good for the
people, but Tillman was righteous
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