The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13

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}. hurled from every stump. Public mer
: have been threatened with assassina
! tion and their followers branded as
, thieves and worse. Descendants of the
old families whose pride of ancestry is
their most precious heritage, have been
; held up to merciless ridicule, termed an
, oligarchY and an aristocratic ring OF
, political corruptionits by Tillman and
his followers IN the Farmers Alliance
. On the other hand, the latter factions
, are denounced by the Bourbons as an
archists and social revolutionists, as il
literaSe followers of political Judas Is
CARROT, a mob composed Of the element
:. that twenty years ago were known as
the Ku Klux and Night Riders of re-
construction days; all this, remember,
among people whose political principles
are a part of their religion, and who
never forget or forgive an insult to
either. The breadth and depth of the
breach can thus be appreciated. If
Ben. r. Tillman is nominated for Gov
ernor, as from indications he surely
will be, the breach in the dominant par
ty will be lasting for generation, for
the old Burbons, whose pride has been
laughed to scorn, whose honor and in
tegrity have been lmpugned, will never
forgive the insult.
THE COLoRED VOTE SIGHTED.
Through all this turmoil the negro
has held aloof; to-day the despised race
stands Ikea black tide whose flood gates
wait to be opened by the hands hated
and political jealousy. TilIman is as
crafty as a fox. He has declared his
opposition to the colored vote, and has
challenged the straight-out old Bour-
bons to appeal to their one-time slaves
if they dare. at the same time tho
Alliance, appreciating the value of the
colored votes in fighting their battle
for recognition and supremacy, have
been busy organizing coIored Alliances
that will support the Alliance candi-
date, no matter how much he may dis
claim against them.
The Bourbons have been all along re-
sponsible for the oppression of the col
ored vote in South Carolina 1t was
their action that nullified the Haskell
resolutions of 1876, according a repre-
sentation to the colored race, and yet
if they expect to defeat Tillman and his
party, they must do it with the Tote OF
the colored man, no matter what gall
and wormwood it may be to them in
making the appeal.
OPPOSED TO THE LODGE BILL.
It is this condition of affairs that has
led the intelligent Republicans Of South
Carolina to deprecate the passage of the
Federal elections bill and to counsel a
postponement of action upon it. The
passage of the Lodge bill at this time,
they say, would tend to solidify the
white Democrats now in open war, and
the possibility of an honest vote. now
so bright in prospective, would be re-
moved.
DR.. Joseph A. baltimore is one of the
wealthiest planters and cotton manu-
facturers in Greenyille county. He is
a Republican and native Of the State.
Speaking of the Alliance movement he
said:
all my sympathetics are with the
Farmers Alliance. I am not a men,
Der of it and cannot be, for am man
ufacturer, and they are debarred from
admission. We have never had Re
publican form of government in this
State, and the triumph of Tillman will
give US at least a semblance of it. The
Farmers Alliance is making war not
against the Democratic party but upon
an oligarchy that has ruled all classes
alike with despotic hand. The white
citizens of this State are just tawakening
to the fact, and that is what makes the
alliance and its candidates so pop
ular with the middle classes. The alli-
ance is great educational force. The
people are beginning to think and act
for themselves; they want clean, pop
ular government. The alliance has
wrought great change in public SEN
tlment. There is greater liberation
now for political sentiment than there
has been since the war. The people
are discovering how they have been
led like sheep by set Of men whose
aims were entirely personal gain and
and aggrandizement.
II know Mr.. Tillrnan intimately.
He is a good man who has been
maligned because he is endeavoring to
bust an oligarchy. I shall vote and
work for the alliance, for its success
means honest government, and progress
and prosperity for the State Of South
Carolina"
BOURBONS SEEKING COLOEED VOTES.
Regarding Tillman in the light that
the Bourbon Democracy do, namely.
that of political and social revolu-
zionist, the latter's implied threat in
daring them to appeal to the negro, is
acting more as spur than check
upon such movement. Feelers have
already been put out by Bourbon
leaders to intelligent colored men with
| view to enlisring them on the side of
their former masters, but the answers
have been unsatisfactory and evasive.
The colored man trusted the Bourbon
once too often in 1876, and there must
be definite understanding now. If
the negro is to fight the battle OF his
old master he must have the assurance
Of protection hereafter in his rights as
q citizen.
This is the view of educated leaders
of the colored race, with whom the
Press correspondent has talked. There
is no longing on their part for supre-
macy, as was the case prior to '16; there
is a desire for recognition at the ballot
box, not as negroes, but as American
citizens, and the colored men of South
the achievement Of this result only
through division of the negro vote.
| The Farmers Alliance, since its en-
trance into politics, has started the
entering wedge by organizing the
negro, and when the Bourbons also
appeals for the black mans vote the
result will be accomplished. With the
dominant white minority divided and
compelling each other to recognize the
citizenship of the negro who holds the
balance of power. the race question
will be settled, at least so far as South
Carolina is concerned. BY their own
action the whites will thereby establish
a precedent, will demonstrate what an
honest election in which all the votes
are polled and counted can accomplish.
with the result that the old order of