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

correspondents question by coloret
man, whose name, for obvious reasons
is omitted. He is a college GRADUATE
and holds high position in the esteem
of his people and the native whites
He said:
"The black vote will be divided, be
lieve, but whether it will be this year O.
two years hence, cannot say; possibly
not till 1892 Iregard Ti]lman's elec
tion as foregone conclusion. no matter
whether he fights it out on his present
line, or comprises with the StTalghtou'
Democracy. I do not consider :
compromise possible. The straightouts
have been insulted and maligned BY
people of their own party and color tt
an extent never equaled by the widest
fanatic of the North. Senator Hamp
ton was jeered when he mace speech
recently, and considering his promi'
nence and his service to his party in
the past, the insult can never be con
doned or forgotten by his friends
This was only one of a series of similar
indignities inflicted by the Tillmanites
on the old line Democrats.
"rThe alliance has been steadily and
quietly organizing colored alliances all
through the State. 1t is a secret, oath
bound organization, and if there is one
thing more than another that negro
respects it is an obligation of this kind,
and especially where he expects per-
sonal and financial benefit as the al
lance promises. But there are tens of
thousands of colored voters not in the
Farmers Alliance. Their claims to
the ballot have been disregarded for
years past and their vote suppressed.
MERELY 4 CHOICE OF EVILS.
Between the Tillman party and the
Bourbons, the colored man has only
choice of evils; if he votes either ticket,
for they are both Democratic. In the
Bourbon party he sees arrayed all the
veal and intelligence of the white
race. lis old master, or his fathers
former master, perhaps, belongs to it.
When the latter comes to him and asks
for his aid and assistance, promising,
as he doubtless will, protection at the
ballot box in the future, this part OF
the negro vote will 60 to the straight
out Democracy. If there was a Re
publican ticket in the field he would
vote it, but there is not, and so he votes
for the Bourbons. The split in the
negro vote is therefore determined
thing, and the vote will be counted
fairly because the warning factions
compel it. It would be to the lasting
benefit of my race if its vote could be
divided for years to come, and it will
remain with the whites to say whether
it will or not"
STRUGGLE FOR DELEGATES.
What Is known as the preliminary
State convention will be held on Au
gust 13, At the outset of this remark
able campaign the Farmers Alliance
appealed to the Democratic State Com
mittee to call for a State primary to
make State ticket. The Tillmanites
feared that they would be cheated in a
State convention. The State COM
mittee declined to do so. In the mean
time the alliance went on capturing
county delegation after county delega-
tion, until they saw that they could
control the State Convention by two
thirds.
The State Committee, composed of
Bourbons, discovered the same fact
about the same time and decided for
their own safety to call State primary.
The alliance is as vigorously opposed
to this now as it was formerly in favor
of it, and the preliminary State Con-
vention will settle it, or rather the
Tillmanites will settle it, for they are
going to run the convention on August
13 if it has to be done at the muzZle of
q Winchester rifle.