The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-30
THE FORCE BILL DENOUNCED.
Iusincs;, Men See Only Disaster Follow
ing its Passage.

COLUMBUS, ONO, July 24-The Fed
eral elections bill is attracting more
general attention than any proposed
legislation during the last twenty-five
years. Within the past week the force
measure. despite the Republican State
Convention, has formed the great topic
in all the political clubs, the hotels,
and, in fact. among travellers. BuSl-
ness men having a large Southern
trade have become interested, and the
belief is expressed that in the event of
the bill becoming Il law such CONNER
cial centres as Cincinnati, Columbus
and Cleveland, in Ohio, would suffer
the loss Of Southern trade. y repre-
sentative of Il large manufacturing eS-
t&bliShment in Cincinnati having a
valuable trade South expresses the
most serious apprehensions, and says
that from what he can learn there Will
be an organized protest sent to the
Senate against the passage of the bill
! by the business men of the country, a
protest so strong and vigorous IN tone
that the Senate will not fail to heed the
warning.
It now tranSpires that it is not Dem
ocrats alone that oppose the passage of
the Lodge bill, but large and intluen-
:ial body of Republicans who have
grown weary over the constant aglta-
ton Of the Southern question. and the
rights of the negro. In conversation a
well-knoWn Republican, speaking OF
the force bill, remarked: There is
quite as much need for peep into the
election returns in the district repre-
sented by Speaker Reed as in any Con-
gressional district in South Carolina.
There are districts in Pennsylvania
also quite as bad, when it came to an
hon est count, as any in the Southern
States. 4 great deal OF money from
Ohio has been placed il Southern en-
terprises, railroads, mines and manu-
featuring industries, and fears are eX-
pressed that the political agitation in
cident to the passage of the force bill
will seriously disturb all elements OF
society and retard the building up OF
that section Of the country, if it does
not permanently derange all of the
more important industries that have
been so prosperous and promising
during the past few years. What the
South needs, what the country needs,
and will insist upon, is peace instead
of agitation and strife. When there is
principle at stake, when there is an
issue. the people will not be slow to ex-
press themselves and enforce obedi-
ence, but When a measure so radical
and so i'll advised is presented by the
party that for the time being is in full
power and control Of the Government
for the sole and only purpose Of in
trenching itself to retain its position,
it will not receive the endorsement OF
the great body of the American people.
The passage of the Lodge bill will
create a reaction, and it would not be
surprising if the voters of this State
should pronounce their verdict by de-
feating the Republican State ticket by
$4,000 majority. The Southern ques,-
ton will work its own solution IN good
time if left to itself. Experiments and
ouack doctors will afford no relief, but
on the contrary will only aggravate
the disease, aad in the end retire with
less dignity than the carpet-baggers
some years ago.