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. TO THE STATE. .
The Press and Banner is always
glad to liave its conclusions reviewed
by those who are willing to concede
to it a purpose to serve the best in..
terests of the state. That others do
not agree with us, is no reason why
we do not respect their judgment, as
we expect them to do :* ours, even
when disagreeing. The State believes
that the reasons assigned by us for
opiwsing the re-election of Governor
Manning are "allegations indefinite,
vague , and illusory." Perhaps so.'
But wben the Columbia.State undertakes
to tell us why. the Governor
should be re-elected, "We find nothing,
op which the black ink of emph^is
ii placed except the ' second
term argument.
iff the State admits the right of
Mr^'Ca$p$r to offer for governor at
this time,'and the fight, if' not, the
propriety, of Mr. Blease to offer for
a third iermj thenitshould admit
that^the sole question before ue
voters of /this state JsCtfa to the best
man for the office'* That a man must
msfte atdpg'iafid .expensive campa$nij
i$T, tW office of. governor is;
nothing jof, which Governor Manning
has..any right to complain. ,He has
not'idvocated, as we have, the adoption
i>f' sdme other system of nominating^
officers which wOuld do ' away
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paigns.
Conceding ih? right of all candidates
n<^r running io offer for the
office, the sole consideration for the
voters as before stated, would appear
to be the fitness' in point . of
character, training . and patriotism,
of the respective candidates, and the
selection of the one who will best
serve the interests 0& the state, the
one most representative of all the
people of the state, .the one most
respectful of the rights of every
person in the state, the one farthest
removed from factionalism, the one
most likely to heal the breaches of
the past, to get the people vtogether,
so that they ;may, enter upon a constructive
era, the one most representative
of a democracy. '
We presume that the State and
the Press and Banner may meet on
common ground in thus stating the
case. Our respective solutions may
not be the same. The one may be
wrong and the other, therefore,
right. But we assert that when the
second term argument is brought in
?.t ,n >uo uiovuxuuii, we {jet away irom
'T- the real question. We get away
from an argument as to principles
and get back to individuals. Governor
Manning should hot allow his
friends to seek his re-election on
this ground. He should demand that
the people vote for him solely on his
nerits or not at all: _ We must get
Sway from personal considerations,
if a better man is in the race.
And we assert, that in this emergency
there is a better man in the
race. He may Ife as mucn the representative
of what the State terms
"good government" as is Governor
Manning. We believe that he is. But
he is not the representative of a faction.
He has never waved the factional
banner. The State wrill not
deny that Mr. Blease is the representative
of an extreme element in
cne faction. Will it deny that the
re-clection of Governor Manning
would be taken as the triumph of the
extreme element of another faction?
Will the State deny that the reelection
of Governor Manning will
mean a continuance of Bleaseism
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ana anii-Dieaseism: win it no* ian
afresh the flame of factional strife
in South Carolina?
Will the State not admit that the
election of Mr. Cooper will be a rebuke
to factionalism? Will the State
not admit that if he is elected Governor
he will be the representative of
no .{-*** '?? in the State, byt the representative
of people who are tired
* of factional politics in the state, and
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* fre? froUv"tK0'-'bittfitfaa of^fbrmer ]
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--van ?as ,eqow<?; a.w ,,u
tu&s, it-i^neOeSatfpy that every
Jtwill-be worth nothing fat tii
In order to enroll it is ne
of the State for two years, of
for six months, and of the to?
sixty days.
Enroll today. The books c
primary. Do not wait. . '
political differences? If so, why
may we not support him?
If the State believes that the fight
is one between good government and
misgovemment, surely the State,
more so this year than two years ago,
should seek the most available candidate.
If the situation .two years
ago was so much fraught with danger
that the State believed it to be
the duty of that paper to accept "the
most available candidate" representing
"the better aims of government"
and the state is still of the same
opinion with regard to the cause espoused
by Mr. Richards, it should
egain name Mr. Cooper as its . first
choice. If Richards was the representative
of misgovemment surely
his chief Mr. Blease is more so.
If it was necessary in 1914, in the
opinion of the State, to beat Mr.
Richards, it must be necessary to
beat Mr. Blease this year. We do
not think there is any danger of a
second race between Manning and
Blease, but Blease will be in the second
race unless all signs: ;faiL We
have become convinced of this since
the campaign began 1 We did not
think & ,before. If Blease is in the
secondracewith Cooper,-he will be
defend.'- If he is in a second race
with Manning, the State hath as well
get ready; for. two more years of
Bleaae^as governor. The people in
the 1723^ sections of the Piedmont,
as .the t slightest investigation will
prove, will not accept Manning unless
there is a big change of- heart,
which there will not be. . They are
now. almost solidly for Cooper. Those
who believe, that the election of Mr. .
Blease would mean two more yean
of calamity to the State should vote
to avoid it,.
To. the Press and Banner.
, The Abbeville Press and Banner,, a
self-respecting and highly respectable
newspaper, opposes the re-election
of Governor Manning for a SECOND
term, but his opposition, is
grounded-on allegations indefinite,
vague and illusory. Nothing that
The Press and Banner, says of the
Governor touches hid integrity, his
honesty, or hiB patriotism. It is without
sympathy with the wild and silly
charges designed to arouse the passions
of the ignorant against him so
that their votes shall be gained for
vicious government. '
Familiar as The State is with The
Press and1 Banner, it would risk the
assertion that that newspaper would
with pleasure: say that Governor
Manning is a man of worth, sincere,
honorable, democratic, resolute to
do his duty in public and private station.
In a word, The Press and Banner
is enthusiastically pro-Cooper
rather than anti-Manning. In its regard
for Mr. Cooper The State
shares and The State has lost none of
the confidence in him that caused it
when availability of candidates representing
the better aims of government
was the main question, to point
to Mr. Cooper as first choice in 1914.
The State DOES NOT SHARE in
sympathy with any suggestion that
Mr. Cooper is guilty of impropriety
or unfaithfulness in entering ' the
present contest. The law makes the
term of governor two years. No
man has a RIGHT to a second term?
much the less of a third.
Since. 1876 unbroken custom of
the people of South Carolina has given
to every elected governor a second
term. Is it not fair to assume that
the custom is rooted in the wisdom
of the people? The people have a
way of getting at truths that the politicians
. don't' tell them. Before
1861 governors were not usually re'
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elected, DUl in woae any a uie guvw
norship was not what it is now. The
legislatures elected the governors.
After election they were not even
required to'live in Columbia. Their
duties, relatively, were small. Now
a governor, before Section, must
make a long campaign $nd his campaign
for a second term must begin
after he has served about one year
?half his first term.
Does The Press and Banner regard
Mr Manning a vicious, bad, rascally;
and dangerous governor? -We are i
3ure that it does not. . - * <.
Is not even The Press and Banner j
willing to concede that, on the whole,
he measures as an executive to Tillman,
Evans, Ellerbe, McSwecney,
Ansel and Hey ward? *.,
Does not The Press and Banner
know that the cost of the State government
of South Carolina is very
low as compared with that of the average
of the other 47 American
States and that, therefore,- the cry
of extravagance is hollow and hypocritical?
The Press and Banner does not
[ want a governor who will unlock the
doors of jails and penitentiaries. It
does not want a governor who uses
I the veto power with such freedom
and recklessness as to threaten the
legislative branch of the government.
Nor does it want a governor who is
unable to live without friction and
collision with the supreme court.
The Press and Banner would have
for South Carolina about the same
kind of governor that The State
wojpldhave. We do not think that it
wsxjjt Advocate as "a principle thai
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Siofflyiftr that ftdtmtifMfcfr
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cessary that you be a resident
the county in which you enroll
wis hip in which you enroll for
lose thirty days before the first
no governor should serve more *h?"
one term. It will hardly dispute that
the Manning administration nas been
marked by constructive progress.
What is substantial in The Press
and Banner's contentions?
The margin between government
and misgovernment in South Carolina
is protected by too small a nam*
ber of voters for informed and intelligent
men to indulge in acrimonious
controversy. The State believes
that when a man of Robert Cooper's
character enters public life he serves
the State and it believes that it
could not assail him without striking,
a blow at the cause of good government.
For exactly the same reason,
it will not deny Buppprt, for a second
term, to Richard -Manning.
It will not ask that the people choose
him for the first elected governor in
40 years to be rebuked at the polls.
We strongly believe that the jut
claims of Mr. Manning to a second
term will, before the campaign cads, .
so impress the p?opl* of South Caro
linn that they will in the FIRST
PRIMARY re-elect him. Their common
sense will assert iiself. What
do they care about the ambitions of
politicians and their petty differences?
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The State believes that equally
with itself The Press and Banner has
at heart the highest interests of
South Carolina, that is why we ad-dress
this article to it, but unless
Richard I. Manning is a bad man, unscrupulous
and dangerous to good government,
or a- foolish, emptyminded
weakling, The State is right
in this contention and The Press and
Banner, is wrong?and we well know
that our contemporary is not ashamed
of Governor Manning or fearful
that the commonwealth will be rtfn
on the rocks while he is at the h6lm.
?The State. *" \ ' ...
' SAVE THE TREES.
The grove of maples in the rear of
the Court House is one of the prettiest
to be found anywhere. The
rear yard of the Court House could
be made as attractive as it is in
front if grass was sown on fche laws/
and the trees cared for. As it is
now, the space is used as a hitching
lot for anyone who desires to hitch
there.
The Supervisor should not allow
the grounds to be thus used. He (
should take steps to make the yard
attractive and to keep the trees in ^
growing condition. Most of all he
should fee that they are not destroyed
by being bitten /by horses and
mules. We hope the matter will
have attention.
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1 E.LL UJ A nL A IVv A ?
Will the esteemed Spartanburg
Journal tell us whether it believes a
friend of Mr. Cooper or a would-be
friend of Governor Manning started
the report that Blease would withdraw
from the race, if indeed it
believes that any such report has
been started. If it does not believe
that a friend of Mr. Cooper started
the report it should not so insinuate.
We suggest to the Journal that the
report was possibly started by the
party who is following the campaign
distributing the Manning circulars,
published ostensibly in the office of
the Edgefield Chronicle, a Manning
supporter, in which a pretended
friend of Mr. Cooper (in 1918?always
remember that) tells us of a
line up to beat Manning.
THOUGHTS ON THE SITUATION.
Everything is running sweet.
The people have a way of getting
at truths that the politicians don't
tell them.?The State. We have an
abiding faith that August 29th will
prove it.
The party which nominated Judge
Parker for president some years ago
has every reason to believe that it is
a great mistake to get a candidate
from the bench.
The negroes who attended the
county-to-county circus in Laurens
Friday, and who prepared the feast
of mullet fish with watermelon for
dessert had evidently fed a Laurens
crowd before.
If all the friends of Governor
Manning want to vote fdr Cooper in
1918 as the Edgefield circular intimates,
we want to know what will
become of Dr. Clinkscales? When
will the Manning men consent to al1at?
liim fn Mini Will hio Croon.
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wood friends please answer?
In truth, brethren, what is the
good of acknowledging the right of
a candidate to run for office and in
decrying "acrimonious controversy,"
and then saying that the people
"care nothing for the ambitions of
politicians and their petty differences?"
To S: J. L.?We admit our inability
to teach any man anything ^ about
polities who buys a new ear the day 11
before the price drops sixty dollars. I
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