The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-10-22

ship of the National Republican party.
Let the negro in South Carolina stand
bv the man Who stood by him. !hp-
plause.] ,..-.
I am not here for glory or discussion.
declare my choice. | stand by Aleck
Haskell, because he stands against the
men who conspire against our liberties.
He did not ask the negroes in the upper
part Of the State, whose persons were
| In danger, TO take this fight upon them
selves, but from Richland 10 the sea
let the negroes roll up a majority Tor
Haskell which couldn't be overcome.
Applause. He would rather have the
negro working with the best native
born element than have the entire
Federal army for his protection.
I"Hear hearr' Don't sleep on your
rights. Don't adopt these resolutions.
Resolve to stand for Haskell, because
. ne has shown sn indication as lea.s TO
stand by us. Cheers.
S. W. McNinlay, OF Charleston. agreed
in toto with Jones, ju5 thought TIC
matter should be left in the hands 81
the executive COMMITTEES. The WHO'S
Atlantic coast was for Haskell. The
committee would carry out tIc spirit
and intent of this Conference. No man
| loved South Carolina more than hH d!d,
her glory and hcc fame No man more
admired that element Of her cllIZ-H.
ship that had made her great. No man
like Ti!lman, who had traduced the
State, could haye loyalty in his heart,
could be an honor TO It or its proper
representative.
Even if Haskell withdrew he would
go to the polls anu vote for him. No
Tillmanism in his-Io slaughterer Of 4
defenceless people should ever receive
his support. He was proud OF South
Carolina's history, and Of her chlva:-
rous men. The grandeur oG Il people
comes from the best elements which
control their action. Sc that marching
onward under the Haskell banner nc
would feel assured OF victory aud homer
fer the old Palmetto State.
Geo. ". Murray, Of Sumter, chair
man Of the last Republican State Con
vention, declared that with heart and
hand open he would vote fer Alex. G.
Haskell for Governor Of South Caro-
lima. The condition Of affairs in this
State, which closed the school houses
and ballot-boxes. was due solely to the
existence ot two political parties, orc
composed exclusively Of whites andt tie
other of colored AS long as parties
were SO constituted one would rule AID
the ether would suffer, and tiie one to
suffer was the colored party.
OF all the papers he ever read the
manifesto OF Judge Haskell WAS the
yrandest and wisest. He was one o.
South Cardinals chivalrous sons about
whose head a dazzling glory hung, and
he had called for free speech and free
ballot. [Applause.] What was the
effect?
The newspapers were crying Tor
peace and against b!oodshed at the
polls. Why? Because two white can
didates we're before the voters. Ihe
opportunity for free speech and free
ballot had come. Let the negro en-
brace it-nos because it was thought he
would be put in Office, nor because the
supremacy Of the race was expected,
but because they wanted the equal
rights to which they were entitled, and
which. he would remark, they never
had even before 1876.
One of the Democratic parties nov
existing was composed almost eXclu-
siyelv OF an ignorant rabble. The other
embraced the wealthy. educated class,
and every mar knew the educated, in
telligent white man had always been 4
friend to the negro.
Carroll, Gnterrupting } Who diVid-
eG the Democratic party Of South Caro-
lima so you could have the privilege o.
saving who you could vote for?"
Murray: 1T makes no difference
who divided it. l rejoice in the
division" [Checrs and laughter
Carol: Don't you think the man
who divided it ought to be rewarded"
Murray: Let US reward men for
what they did intend to do, not Tor
what they have done. [Shouts Of laugh
ter and cheers. Though Tillman NAV
be credited with the division Of the
white people Of South Carolina his in
tention was not to benefit the negro.
He boasts that he has rifle now il his
parlor with which he killed negres at
Hamburg and Ellenton." Cheers:
"Hurrah for Ben Tiilman.' Great
Carroll: Haven't a majority Of
Democrats gone into Office since '76 by
boasting of what they did in '76?"
Murray: Senator Hampton and
other gentlemen boasted of their war
records, of their contests with Northern
soldiers, equally armed, but when Ben
Tillman was pressed to say Why ne
should be Governor he boasted Of his
achievements at Hamburg and Ellen, !,
ton against defenceless negroes.
[Shouts of applause.] ~
Carroll: Didn't the so-calied
Straightouts do the same thinS?
Murray: ''In all cases where negroes
have been lynched, in all cases where
they have been assassinated, it has been
bv the poor whites led on by men like
Ben Tillman.' [Uproarious cheering
and applause, delegates waving hats,
chairs, etc.
Carroll: "Were they not led on 10y
aristocrats as well as common men!
Murray: II expect that every negro
when he looks through the jury which
! is to.try him and sees two arlstocrats
on it knows that he has d chance, but
wher he sees the jury composed OF such
men as are following Tlllman he knows
he is doomed. Cheers and laughter.]
When every man can go to the polls
and have his vote counted, when ne
can secure his rights without applying
to the National Government, when
that day comes, | expect to sec some
colored men Republicans snd some
Democrats. When we crowd al white
men into one party and colored men
into another, South Carolina Will be
filed with murder and bloodshcd. We
do not favor the Haskell movement be-
cause we expect Republican or negro
ascendancy, but because the colo.ed
people will hold the balance OF power,
and both white parties will make fair
terms with them"
E. B. White, recently OF Louisiana,
wished the negro vote divided. He
was proud Of Mr.. Haskell, proud o. the
line race of white men who had been
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