The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-09-26
THE POLITICAL POT.
POLITICAL PARTICLES THAT RISE
TO THE SURFACE.

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Quay's Failure to Fry Fat-The Mugwumps
Propose to Support the President but to
"ysosst" the Governor-Attemptt to Get Up
Yellow Fever Scare-Mysterious Mur-
derous Assault on Broker Bennett.
NEW YORK, September l7.-Thc dismal
failure of Senator Quay's begging tou'
among the iron bsrons Of Pennsylvania
has furnished good deal of sport for the
gentlemen at the Democratic headquarters.
That delicate operation described with pc,
euliar picturesqueness by Deacon Foster,
the high priest of the Republican clubs, as
'.frying the fat out of the manufacturers"
seems somehow to have missed connection
this year. Especially is this the case with
reference to the men who have built up
colossal fortunes from the iron foundrles
of Pennsylvania, while their halfstarved
operatives have been engaged in desperate
struggle for the necessaries of life.
Following up Frier Fosters invocation,
Senator Quay promptly dispatched trust
ed emissary to do the begging act, and it is
said upon tolerable authority that the trip
nssted all totd less than $4,000 in cold cash,
TO say nothing of innumerable snubs and
rebuffs calculated to try the soul Of any
Christian statesman.
To say that Boss Quay was indignant
gives only a hint of the storm that ragged
in the enemy's camp upon the missionary's
return. Scorning the profered services of
other trusted agents, the shrewd Pennsyl-
vsnian seized his gripsack and started out
to try his own luck. He has been gone
now some days. and, if the Democratic
managers are to be believed, has met with
most frigid reception.
A very amusing phase of this dilemma
is the attitude of the Republican Senate on
the question of tariff legislation. Quay,
disgusted for good cause. insists that a
curb be put upon Senator Allison. or there
viii be an immediate end to the fat frying
business. The best tariff bill for the Re
publicans, he asserts with great earnest
ness, is no tariff bill; while Senator Sher-
mans recent talk indicates that in spite Of
this solemn protest, which has about it q
ring of desperation, some sort of tariff
offspring will be evolved from all this Sen
atorial travail.
After all the Republican blowing about
the great victory In Maine, you may be
surprised to learn that the Democratic
managers are actually using the returns as
g campaign document And we'll they
may in the plain light of common sense.
The fact that out of an increase Of about
1000 votes since the election of 1884, the
Republicans have taken only about Is per
cent, while the Democrats received 40 per
cent, is certainly not discouraging to the
htter's cause.
Politicians are still discussing with en-
ergy the effect of Hills nomination for
Governor. Imes M2gwump of consid-
erable note the other day and asked him
what he thought of it. Hill will have 8
hard row to hoe, was the solemn Mug
wumpian response, 'but with Warner
Miller on the other side he may pull
through by the skin of his teeth To me
Il looks like good year for the Independ-
ents to vote in the air as regards the State
ticket. OF course we will all be with the
President, and now that the lines are drawn
50 sharply between he policy he stands for
and that upon wtich Governor Hill rests
his claim to public consideration, We Mug
wumps win do all in our power to sustain
the one and rebuke the other"
This seems to be very fair presentment
of the case. If the Mugwumps can beat
Governor Hill, believe they will do 1t,
even though they have to vote for Miller,
and that makes them all the more jealous
In their support of the President to empha-
size, if possible, their own importance.
On the other hand, there are great
many Democrats of the old school who
have the greatest faith in Hill, and believe
that he viii help the national ticket. No
man is more popular with the masses in
this city and Brooklyn, the great Demo
cratic ssrongholds.
There was an effort last week to get up
yellow fever scare here on the strength of
the death of Professor Proctor, the emi-
nent astronomer New York has such q
vigorous way of dealing with contagious
diseases that no other case has been report
ed and no apprehension Is felt by the
people.
There has been considerable excitement
here for some days over the peculiar cir
CUlISLouSSS SU1@OSl0LuS IAS SoSS VI vSoIsay
stock-broker Bennett, who was murder
ously assaulted in his bed, and is lowering
between life and death The case has
many features in common with that of the
celebrated Nathan murder case, which all
the craft of the Metropolitan police was
never able to unrayel. As in that case, the
party most generally suspected is the son
of the victim. Thoug gh little circumstances
tell against him strongly and the police
are convinced of his guilt, the absence
of any apparently sufficient motive for so
atrocious 8 deed helps him considerably
In the matter of public opinion. Old man
Bennett, though he has been conscious
much of the time since the act was CON-
mitted, seems to be unable or unwilling to
give any information to the police. It is
next to impossible that he can live more
than few days, his skull having been fear
fully crushed by succession of powerful
blows with some heavy instrument.
Agricultural Department Notes.
The Department of Agriculture received
today for the State exhibit at Augusta
fine lot of domestic wine from Mr.. J. A.
Daniels, of Anderson; splendid cotton
stalks loaded with fruit from Capt. J. A.
Peterkin; fine corn from DR.. R. R. Hud-
gina, of Clarendon, and fertilizers from the
Stono Phosphate Company. The Com
missioner hoo haop e,iyieeS of other shin