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MANNING. S. C.. JUL ! 3. 1912. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY communications mwst De accompanied by the i pame and address of tie writer in order to recaite attention. Wo communication ot a personam cnaracter CHu be published except as an advertiseient. Entered at the Postomce at Manning as See ond Class matter. THE STATE DOES NOT ENDORSE OR UN DERWRITE. The Columbia State may be playing a shrewd game in not ha ing much to say editorially these days on the gubernatorial situa tion, but every now and then it rolls certain charges under its tongue as a sweet morsel, to let its readers know it neither en-' dorses these charges, nor does it underwrite them. If it believes the charges made by Mayor, Grace, it should conie out in the I open and say so: it should doj more. it should do all in itsI power to secure the evidence to Convict the governor, the fact that no effort is being made to verify Grace's charges is deemed sufficient to cause the masses to look upon them as without foun dation. When the Columbia State declines to endorse or un derwrite criminal c b a r g e s against Governor Blease it is high time for the rest of his of his enemies to play the game fair. The Bleaseites have not made criminal charges against Judge Jones, did they do so, we would be the tirst to denounce it. the only charge brought against the Judge is based upon his record as a legislator, and his decisions as' Judge, these do not reflect upon his integrity. The record of a public man is an open booik, the same as the records in the cohrt house, everybody has a right to examine it; when the public rec ord of a man is questioned, it is for him to make a satisfactory explanation, this he cannot do by abuse, he must get down to facts and show why the records pace him thus, if he cn justify the record made by himself, it will be well for him, if he cannot, it is his misfortune, but it does not injure his personal character. Therefore we say that the bringing out every few days reminder of an ugly charge made by Grace, but refusing to under write or endorse it does not fool anybody, but on the other hand it does convince many people The Statei * not playing fair. It is eas: to make charges, any one can ac cuse but when it comes to proof tihe charge must be true oefore the proof can be obtained; there is a difference between proof and witsnesses, some men can be se cured to testify for a very little. and it is not an unheard of thing for witness to be bouglt to give out manufactured testimony, but usually their evidence has no force. JUSTICE THWARTED. The defence in the case of Joe Malley on trial for murder of two little white boys at Bennettsville, will, so it is stated, question the right of the court to tr-y the de fendant on the ground that when the act was committed the pen alty for the crime was hang ing, but since then the -leg islature changed the penalty to electrocution. The case wil go to the supreme court for that tribunal's decision, if it car, decide. but if it cannot, it may call the entire circuit bench to its aid. Hon. W. F. Stevenson and his firm is raising the ques tion. This is another case of "as long as the purse holds out to supply so long will justice be robbed of its due." Here was a most diabolical murder of two little boys, the people exercised a most wonderful control o f themslves in not seeking sum mary vengeance, tehe children are of promainent parentage, one of them the child of the county treasurer, yet Marlboro waited for the law to take its course. The case was called at a for'ner term but continued on account of * a technicality, now here is an other technicality sprung that will cause further delay. What difference does it make whether Joe Malloy, if guilty, is hanged or electrocuted? There is no doubt about it. the people should demand another constitutional convention, a n d there build a constitution wtuch will be .teghnicalityv proof, but the only *My this can be done is to keep the technical law wers out of such a convention. It is be coming alarming, nearly every case where there is a good fee to be obtained, we find juntice be-ingr robbed of its uwr by law\ wr- w bo are paid we-ll fo ther ,.mee--* ib matt~wrS tot bi. w outr..->., crime, if the perpetratur, either in person or through his friends or l.odge connections. can raise the required fee, the services of lawyers can be secured to rob jistice. We would be the last to raise our voice against the hum blest having a full and :: fair trial before the courts. They should be allowed all the protcc tion the law promises, but we cannot endorse the manipulations of the law as is being done by members of the bar, who possib ly had much to do with the mnak ing of the laws; these lawyers go t o the legislature and frame laws, but as soon as the op port-unity presents itself. f o r the money they are paid. go mftC court to expose the weak places in the law they made themnselves. It is not honest. and it is a crnne against the country. It bodes no good for the legal profession. The people will not stand for it much longer. THE erPOSITION GRAFT SYMPATHIZERS. It is a pity that Ge neral Lyon fels called upon to go up and down the State denouncing those i who may not be friendly to him. His wordy altercation with Julius Schwerin of Sumter, at the lorrv meeting was uncalled for, he could have ignored the question er if he saw tit or It he did not desire to do this, ie should have answered in a dicrent manner. Schwerin is known to many of our readers and be is not the kind of a man to run from a tight with Lyon or any body else, but when Lvon intimated that he was in sympathy witi grafters he got back an answer which might have been expected, Lyon may just as wel have called Schwerin a thief, and no wan likes to be called that. We do not think that all those who are going to vote against Fraser Lyon are thieves, nor are they in sympathy with the graft ers: there are two gentlemen op posing Mr. Lyon who are men of integrity, these will get votes, those who vote for them have no sympathy with the gratters, they simply think Mr. Lyon has had the position long enough. We do not endorse all the attorney gen eral has done, but whenever lie asked the legislature to give hni aid to prosecute these graft cases we did what little we could to give him the aid, at the same time, there where others who felt the appropriations he asked forl' were un.ecessary. and especial- I ly, was he spending too much in employing lawyers to do the work be was elected to do. It would be outrageous for Mr. Lyon to claim these were in sym-1 pathy with the grafters, and we hope he will desist from this line of argument. WHY MISREPRESENT? We note that Judge Jones at several places has referred to THE MANNING TIMIES in rather a satirical manner, we suppose this is what we get for endeavor ing to be fair to him. He has no right to complain of this news paper for it has not been ex tremely irtisan, nor has it ever spoken of him disrespectfully. The Judge has a right to conduct his campaign as he sees fit, but when he complains of unfair treatment he should not be un fair' himself. THE MAMIMING , TIMEs has made it a rule from tne very outset of this campaign t) give its readers as near a non partisan view of the political sit nat:on as it linows bow, at the same uIm-t, it did not keep from its i-eaders the persoma position of its editur. We have made no charges against Judge Jones nor have we given publicity throught these columns to some things which have been going around the State that might be taken to be operating against him in cer tain sections. It has been our sincere purpose to give both sides in this controversy justice-. Therefore when we noticed that Judge Jones spoke of us toA strange audiences in a manner t create the impression that we have not given to him all he is entitled to, he misr-epresents this Z newspaper, and its editor, who has always bad a high personal regard for the judge. If it is the intention of Judge Jones to drive us from a friendly to an unfriend-4 ly position we can open up and go to the full extent of our abil ity in a partisan conduct of a newspaper.- - Woodrow Wilson, of New Jer- I sey, was yesterday nominated by the' Democratic convention for President of theuh Unitd States by the <letermination of Bryan It was Brvan who made the vic tory for Wilson. The fear of Bryan made hundreds of dee gates give up their own choice. Fortunately for the Democracy the chisni in the Re ubhcan party gives every hope oi victory for the Democratic nominees. It * took 46 ballots to get a decision,~ a n d' throughout the balloting there was much excitement and bitterness. Bryan hurled insult at New York and those who were voting with New York, but the fear of Bryan's power with the masses made the necessary two thirds bow to his will. The bit terness will be forgotten, and the Democratic party in solid phalanx will nieet the dismem bered forces of tihe Republican party in November and then re ceive the confirmation by the American people. Governnor Mar shall, of Indiania, was nominated Vice-President Byron's Curis. sWere Byron's earls a intural doee! opent? Iu-~s an article off faith wit b his udmiirers that cut had nothing to do with his ringlets. The yomutl Direi reproduced themn. and his 'ur v, 1i:i've S rope Davis that ~indie surprise Dyron's secret process. The two were ('n familiar terms at Trin ity. Davis walid into Byrons rooms one morning and found him still abed and with his-Lair in unmistakable curl papers. ."I thought your hair curled naturally," Serope remarked. "Con fonud you. so it does:" the other re-. turned.s "I take care off that. But dont you tenl anybody." off course Scrpe told everybody. Still. Byron was curiy headed at II:rrow. 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