The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-10-01

S4lS speech Accepting t4lt >o'.A-A--'' 'S-> "
Concress-A Trap for Southern Farmers
About "Our Brethren OF tho West
Handling Macune without Gloves.
AUGUSTA, &C., Sept 25.-The follow
ing is George D. Tillman's speech DE-
fore the nominating convention at
Aiken Friday as reported n the At
guSta Chronicle:
Mr.. Chairman, gentlemen OF the Con
vention and Fellow Citizens Fer the
eighth time in succession have / had
the proud grasifcation TO rece!ve the
nomination of the people Of this dis
trict for Congress. To say that | am
grateful and proud Of it wouid De TO
tell the simple truth 70 be chosen 50
often as representative from this his
torical county, to elonger than any
other congressman in this State, a dis
trict once represented by Calhoun and
his distinguished successors, says 4
great deal either for me or for the peo-
pie OF this district, or sor both. / an
not vain enough to take this display
of regard as evidence of any ability in
me, but because you have faith IN me.
You know that l will serve you to the
best of my ability. and under 10 cir
cuu.tances betrav your trust.
What adds to this qualification IS that
Ihave been chosen during most trying
times. We have Just come out CT &
war. We have been plunGered ever
since we were conquered. but all con-
oue.cd people must suffer. Untortu-
natslv we have an unfortunate race IN
our midst, whom our enemies have
sought to raise to our standard, or
rather level US 20 theirs. ! am sorry to
say YOU are 4 conquered people, and
your enemies are trying to see how lar
negroes can be made into Whlter men,
how far a people can be taxed and pay
tribute to the conQuerer and survive.
The harder the agricultural class
works, the more SELF denial they prac-
stice. the poorer they get. The reason
Of it is the higher taxes you must pay
to GO out in pensions. High taxes
don't impoverish people provided
they are spent among the people who
pay them, but when they are paid out
to another people the one who receives
grows richer. So as Ireland is lmpoV-
erished to enrich England you are
being impoverished to enrich the
North. but the taxes they pay they get
back in appropriations and pensions.
You pay between fcrty and fifty mil
lions a year taxes simply because You
were on the wrong side. Your chill
dren must continue to pay these taxes
and your grand children. Neither the
sub-tTeasury nor any other deTlce can
stop it. There IS too much taxation
and too little money in circulation to
meet the taxes. You ought to do al
you can to have an income tax TO the
rich men of the North. The East
owns the West and South. They own
all the rail roads. There arc 81 char
tered roads in South Carolina and the
citizens of the State do not own q ma
jority Of the stock in any and the
tracks all go one way.
BY the time you meet the interest on
your debts and pay your taxes and
fixed charges there is not enough
money left to bring fair prices on your
products. You want an income tax,
and vou want to abolish the tax on
whiskey and tobacco. l do nos mean
to have free whlskey and tobacco, q
see one friend shake his head over
there but to get rid Of the horde Of
official vermin who go around and
smell your bottles and nose around
your tobacco and who as much as say,
help Yourself, II you dare. Let the
State and the Counties and cities get
the benefit Of the whiskey and tobacco
eax.
am sorry can not go into long
speech on the sub-treasnry and give
YOU something better than that bill.
You ought to issue more money. If
YOU do not the North viii own you
body and soul. They own the West too.
but the West is more bitter against the
South than the North IS. They put a
tax on Southern cotton seed oil so
that it will be fit for nothing bnt ma
nure. Where were your Western sub
treasury friends when Congress taxed
your cotton serd oil; when it added 300
per cent. on your cotton ties; when that
Infamous force bill WAS passed, and
when the West refused to vote for free
silver.
1t is slckening to see the South talk
about forming 4 political alliance with
the West. II IS not worth Hhi.eto go
into details about the suh-treasury.
(Cries Of go on; tel us all about it,
Well, l will tell you aboutit.
Mr.. Tillman then reciteG the pro
visions Of the bill. Continuing he
said:
1t is paternalsm and protection ran
mad. Ii is = proposition 10 let the gov
eTnmeDt take care Of your crop and
after wE:i;e tel yoti how TO run tt.
Na1a ptosa and Colicion woU,d nc; get
a ware house
A Eoiee-Hn! does not the b:ll pro
vide that TWO or three coiinties may
combine ard g-t1 ware house?
Mr.. Tiilmau-Yes, bU: ]: stipu!ates
tina; yon must carry your produce 20
the nearest ware house.
McCune is the originator OF that bill.
He is q reformed Republican, who fail
at dentistry in Indiana. tiuated about
California for : while. and finally went
down to Texas. where &c manipulated
Alliance money.
Is there any justice il taxing other
industries to build warehouse Tor the
products Of the farmers. The Alliance
processes equal justice to all and SPECIAL
favors 10 none. II that aint special
favor what Is 1t?
p~., Nsl1
There is no Democracy in It, It is 4
bridge to carry the Democratic party
over, horse, foot and dragoon, to the
Republican party. 1t provides for th::
election OF warehouse managers. but
the constitution says federal officers
must be appointed and not elected, and
yon know whom the Republicans vii!
appoint. It says there shall be an c,ec-
ton to decide where the warehouses
shall be built. 1t will be 4 federal cleo