The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-10
WEDNESDAY, December 10, 1890.
BILL NYE
Issues 4 Thanksgiving rrsclamalicn.

The following proclamation may
not reach the people in time to affect
the celebration of Thanksgiving day,
but if not it may be used as reverie
or message to congress:
Whereas, it appears by reference to
the history OF the world and other
statistics that the past year has been
one unusually prosperous III many
respects, and especially to members
of the legislature throughout the
length and breadth of the United
States; and
Whereas, no serious plague OF fam
inc or war has laid waste the fair face
Of the republic; and
Whereas, the wages Of a crew Of
nearly thirty men working in button
factory in Vineland, n. j., have been
advanced Is per cent. ad yalorem since
the passage Of the Mckinley bill; and
Whereas, now times begin to bright
en- up all over our land as result Of
the payment of my election bets; and
Whereas, the man who was on the
stump q few weeks ago, and now in
the pottages, has ceased to state that
We are now upon the eve Of one OF
the most important elections in the
history Of this or any other country;
and
Whereas, the reception Of the liter
ary works of Tolstoi and McAllister
have given US good reason to believe
that the scayenger and the snob must
still keep outside Of good society;
and
Whereas, 7 feel ike it;
Therefore, I, Edgar Wilson Nye, of
Che county Of Richmond, and state OF
New York, do hereby constitute and
set aside the Thursday following the
publication of this proclamation as a
day Of general Joy and thanksgiving
throughout the land.
The year last past has been one OF
almost uneSampled prosperity from
the subscribers standpoint, and
Thanksgiving proelamations are gen.
orally written by a man who is feeling
pretty comfortable himself. The year
has indeed been real prosperous. Our
growth throughout the length and
breadth Of the land has been phenom-
enal, and in some cases reprehensi
bic. IF padding had been as high
before the census was taken as it is
now many United States cities would
have been eyether much depressed in
figures or hopelessly in debt. Another
cause for congratulation is that for a
few months New York has not been
ashamed Of her babies, bringing out
many from concealment and counting
the noses of nations yet unborn.
Over and above all, we congratulate
everybody and shake hands with voters
and ourselves because the election is
over. The loud smelling torch and
candidate have been laid aside till
another time, and the campaign lie,
with large, irregular nailhole in it,
is in the he'll box of the country paper.
There are many canses for personal
graduation and congratulation. The
stout lady who had q room above
mine at the boarding house, and who
was jumping the rope in order to re-
ducA her weight, has decided that it
is not beneitting her and has ceased.
We are having a new ceiling put on
my room. Also to the roof of my
head. I do not find large pieces of
plaster in my bed in the morning,
and soon can take of the piece [
have on my nose.
But the clearing pof the political
atmosphere is the chief cause for ma
tional Joy, ;;and the greatest. Why,
By the way, should We have elections
so Gequently? If they were two OF
three times as far apart we could al
most afford TO let congress pass any
bill it wanted to, and we could meet
it with our savings from sin and ker-
osene. And to whom does the great
shoreless sea of campaign funds go?
Does t go to the church or the state,
the widow,o or the orphan, the honest
industrious or afflicted?
Nay, beautiful reader with The vio-
let, breath; nay, soft v6eed reader with
the high, intellectual sealskip sAoul-
ders On your wrap, the grand old
ocean of campaign funds steals net up
to lave the feet of the starving, or
cool the brow OF She invalid. It
ouenches not the. thirst of the dying
and it softens not the bed of suffer
ing.
wheels ofswiH rolEnglobs, Itprints
and distributes traces: which nobody
reads. b1bnss che 'sryices of unmu-
sica bands, whose nttes are protested
on every corner, aid the. juice Of
whose alto horns ae 3fazored with
the demon rum. L buys coal oil
which seeks to outshnch the record
of the candidate.
It buys orasory WITCH .woall make
the auditorium of pedition hiss, and
create q. coolaess even. among the
hands in,the engine room of Satan's
great exposition. t buys speeches
that would empty a union depot,
speeches that sBona stop q clock,
speeches that wouldremove superfu-
Gus hair, speeches slst would cut holes
ina steak, speeches hat would remove
warts, speeches that would scour
knives, set saws, :enaoye verdigris,
grease stains, moth patches, freckles
or wooden buiidins.
Then the great balance goes down