The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-09-24
TIRED OF HIS OLD PARTY.
In Leaving it Ex- Governor Cameron Uses
Some Vigorous English.


PETERSBURG, Va, Sept l9.-f;x-Gov-
ernor Cameron has published an open
letter in which he formally renounces
his allegiance to the Republican party,
both State and National. EX.Goyer.
nor Cameron is considered to be one Of
the most brilliant men in the State and
was elected Governor over Senator
John ". Daniel in the memorable cam
paign Of 1880. He justileS his action
in withdrawing from his old party as
follows:
The Republican party preserves no
longer the Semhlance Of speaking for the
entire country, but bases its claim to
supremacy on sectional prejudices and
sectional interest, pure and simple.
Not only is this so, but the directors Of
it's policy have not hesitated in the at
tainment of their ends to prostitute the
plighted faith of the party in sight of
all the world, and to renounce in their
Congressional enactments the promises
solemnly made in the Chicago plat
form. They stand self-conyicted, not
only Of false pretense and punic faith,
but of mathematical malignacy in seek
ing to retain power by reinyoking the
war sentiment at the North and West
and by resurrecting all the stock phrases
OF fanaticism and sectionalism which
could stir the South into resentment
and retort.
Their object was and is to force the
fighting as between asolid North and a
solid South. and at the same time to use
the small contingent Of Southern Re
publicans in Congress to minimize the
power of the South by such political
denominations as the Lodge bill, and by
so framing q tariff law (under pretext
of protection to American labor and
American products) as to increase
every burden of the customs upon the
weaker section, and as to leave in force,
in all its shamelessineQuallty, the reve
nue. tax upon tobacco"
In closing, Colonel Cameron says:
president Harrison has done moth
ing South of Mason and Dixon's line:
since his Inauguration except to recog-
n:Ze with reluctance that any such
country existed His appointments,
with just few enough honorable yaria-
tions to prove the rule, have been Of
men not representative in character,
influence or capacity. He has shown
utter inaptitude to square his actions
with his utterances, his performances
with his promises, his principles with
his prejudices, or his Status with his
stature He has been the Instrument,
willing or unwilling, of the machine
elements of his party. and for the want
of bold and brave catholic action he
has made himself responsible for the
fact that in the North and West there
is a divided Republican party and that
in the South there is none worthy of
the name"
"The utterances of Mr.. Mckinley in
the House and the action Of the Senate
in regard to the tobacco clause consti-
tute an open declaration of war against
Southern development. This action is
q deliberate, wanton and absolute ialsi.
fcation of a solemn promise given to
the tobacco States.
The record on the Blair bill is nc
better, and the tariff Act, with its So
called revision and equalization of i'm
port duties. bristles with discrimina'
tions against the South"
The Governor says the Lodge bill, II
passed, would paralyZe the commercial
progress of the whole country and set
back Southern development half a cen
tury. The main sufferer would re the
| negro.