The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-13
ON PHE HCSTINGS.
THE CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST IN
THE FIFTH DISTRICT.

THE CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST II
THE FIFTH DISTRICT.
! Congressman IIemphiIl in Consultation
With Representatives of the Farmers
Ailiance-Ie Makes !, Speech at Kocl
Hill Which has Good Effect.
Rock HILL. S. c., August 6.-Not
withstanding the great and paramount
interest Of the Agricultural and Me
chanical Society proceedings for thu
people OF Rock Hill, they are to q yer.
great extent concerned in the outcom,
of Congressman Hem mphill's conference
with the representatives. of the Ali
ance in this Congressional district, anG
he has been treated with marked indi
cations of loyalty and honor since bis
arrival in town. Last night he wa:
serenaded at the Carolina Hotel, the
band being accompanied by a very large
gathering Of the citizens. Calls were
made for the Congressman, who re.
sponded with a brief social speech.
It was understood that he was to be
examined by the Congressional confer.
ence this afternoon at 5 o'clock. It
was rather later, however, when the
delegates met at the old fire engine
hall. j. r. McGill, president of the
kershaW Alliance, presided, with Mr.
r. H. Glenn as secretary. No reporter
was admitted. The proceedings were
intended to be kept secret and the con-
ferences, certainly precluded anything
like a verbatim report of the proceed
ings. All that is known. and all that
is worth knowing, is that Mr.. Hemp
hill was asked the questions proposed
by the National Alliance. Mr.. Hemphlll
agreed to all of the propositions, except
a part OF the proposition on the sub
treasury matter. Thereupon the ses-
sion adjourned to meet again to-mor-
row morning, when the discussion will
be resumed.
Mr.. Hemphill has been asked to sup
port the sub-treasury bill or to report a
substitute in the morning. All of the
delegates, it is said, are disposed to be
liberal in their demand on this point of
difference, except the delegation from
Lancaster, who, it is thought, have in
view an opponent for the present in
cumbent. This delegation cannot,
however, control the conference, and it
is belived that Mr.. Hemphill will not
meet with any opposition except in the
county OF Lancaster, should it deter
mine to oppose all the other counties in
the district.
Tonight at 9 o'clock MI. Hemphill
addressed very large crowd at Rod
dy's Hall. Among the audience were
many of the Alliance delegates. The
speaker was also complimented by the
entrance during his speech Of quite a
number of the ladies of Rock Hill.
The incident was applauded by the au
dience. He was handsomely introduc-
ed by Senator Wilson, of Y ork County.
who paid Mr.. Hemphill some deserved
compliments, all of which were so gen
timely applauded that it Is quite safe
to say that it was a Hemphill meeting.
Mr. Hemphill spoke almost entirely
on national issues. He first took up
the Lodge bill, which he explained in
all its details. He denounced it in Wig
orous terms, illustrating the opposition
of the people of this State to it.
In another branch of his remarks he
the audience by the hope
of a defeat of the bill in the Senate,
and the almost certain change of the
in the House of Representa-
tives at the next session.
He dwelt with great force on the ne
cessities of tariff reform, and called the
attention of his audience to Blaine's
change of policy. Blaine being man,
he said, superior in some respects to
any in either political party. He also
spoke ON the exactions of the Federal
taxes, the burdens imposed on the far
mers and all other classes by the pro-
tective tariff. He explained his vote
against the issue of silver certificates.
Touching on his relation to the farm
ing element, he said:
is the duty of the Representative
in Congress to lift, so for as be can, the
burden of taxes from the agricultural
classes.
"The occupation Of the people of
South Carolina must be forever that OF
farmers. The class of the farmer pro-
duces the purest manhood, the highest
type of citizenship, and those sterling
citizens from which the cities and
great institutions are continually fed.
say that the farmers have not had
fair chance in this country. Applause.
say that whether organized or unor-
ganized it is the duty Of the Nan who
expects their suffrageS to see that the
burdens are lifted from their shoulders
and to give them fair chance in the
race of life, and if I never do anything
else J. trust I will always have the
courage and honesty to proclaim here
and everywhere that this people have
not been fairly and honestly treated at
the hands of the Government" Great
Mr.. Hemphill's speech tonight is re-
garded as one of great force and effect.
It is even said that it will have great
weight with the committee OF the Con-
gressional conference, which will re-
assemble tomorrow morning, and
which has appointed a committee to
give certain parts of its proceedings to
the press.-News and Courier.
The Farmer as Target.
In the last number of The New
Professor w. II. Brewer,
who holds the Norton professorship of