The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-02
They Want Office.
TC0l,mJiu Re1tSter.7

President Shell himself tells us, 'sthe Ey-
ecutive Committee of the Farmers Associa-
ton, composed Of one from eacu county,
calls this convention, which he tells us "is q
convention of those who sympmthiZe with
the views and purposes Set forth in the ad-
dress of TIE Executive Committee, and if
there be any delegates here who are opposed
to the Farmers Movement or the reforms
demanded by it, they are here either under
misapprehension or they have come as OBJ
very plainly intimated that the convention
should not allow such delegates tc sit as
members of the body.
1t is not enough that these delegates are
members of the Farmers Association, they
must toe the mark that has bee,, laid down
! for them, or be set aside. Here lsaTtocracy
with vengeance It is not enough that
such q delegate has been s-nt here as DEM
ocrat, as farmer, as good citizen ne is
told: You must DO rs We call sscu to 10 or
stand aside.
And yet these are the ve:y men, rs Farmer
Shell tells US, who gSfe trying to redeem the
Stazrrom rng rule, and ne,ke the Demo
cratic party carry out its pledges to the peo-
| Pile" They are not acting outside Of the par
ty, not they. They are not debating to the
Democratic party, not they. They are men
of splendid record, they are all patriots,
as are not others, and they come here to stop
this 'favoritism in dispensing the Offices,
to check that policy by which "a man must
| belong to certain set before he can expect
TO gain preferment" They have come to put
stop to that condition Of things, as Presi-
| dent Shell expresses it, when ''men once
elected to Office are kept there, often to the
public injury, provided their social and fam
( lily relations are arlStocratlc.
; 1t docs not matter, of course, if Farmer
Shell himself has held Office for six years.
He has been the choice Of the people. He
is favorite, it is true according to his own
showing; but he is no aristocrat, not he. He
has deserved the Office, and the people have
said so.
Other men, however, who like him have
continued to enjoy popular confidence, must
come to taw. The Shell Executive Commit
tee have said So and if any delegates Of the
people come here TO say anything for these
favorites, and aristocrats, and these legiSla-
tors, who have "created q suspicion of sin
lister influences" in the minds of President
Shell and his reforners, they must stand
aside, that's all. They are not going to put
up with this sort of thing any longer They
are not to "be cIoled Oh intim!dated" any
longer.
They have got 1t, as the so,called ''ring"
think, and President Shell says to his con-
freres, sin all earnestness": 'If we have
got it, let US keep it, and when the Demo
cratic Convention meets next August we will
give these gentlemen Il rest That's the
milk in the cocoannt. is it: They have not
come here 70 dictate to the Democratic par
ty, not they. They just want to give these
gentlemen q rest and walk in and hang up
their own hats. They have been forced to
do this thing against their own tender ma
lures. When they give these gentlemen a
rest" and come in themselves, it does not
matter then how long those OF he;r sci shall
stay in. That will be a!l right. They VIII
come II as the favorites of the people and
stay in as such. They wont claim any ar
iStocratic family relations" not they. They
will only continue to stay in until some new
band OF reforlaers comes IL and gives them
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