The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-01-21
NEW SOUTHERN PARTY.

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WHY THE SOUTHERN PROTECTIVE
TARIFF LEAGUE WAS ABANDONED.
Republican Promises and Pledges Unful-
Presidon: Harrison, Lodge, Hoar and
Company.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 1.-the Manufac-
turers' Record Of Baltimore will pub
lish this week an article which PTesi-
dent Harrison, Senator uoar and Rep
resentative Lodge would read with
profit. It will state that the New YORK
Tribune, in pursuance of a plan to get
funds from Southern protectionists for
the purpose of campaign OF educa-
tion, addressed an appeal to Major j.
B. West of Tedega, Ala, whom 1t de-
scribes as ''the head of land and in
dustrial company that has S1,5OO,OOO
capital. Born and educated at the
North, and imbued with It's ideas, he
has always been a protectionist of the
Henry Clay school, and an earnest Re
publican"
In an interesting reply which the
Record will print, Major West says:
"Y on will pardon me for expressing the
conviction that the movement Is much
like locking the stable door after the
horse has been stolen. Three years ago
was the time for such movement" he
saws, and continues: cat that time |
knew number Of Southern business
men who were Republicans at heart,
and who would have come to the front
with enthusiasm and force if the lparty
had offered any guarantee that the next
Republican administration would turn
its back upon the Objectionable negro
and white people who then had control
of the party organization IN the South.
He continues: "At the time | write
of, leading members of the American
Protective Tariff League held out the
idea that should the Republican party
| win in the impending presidential cam
paign, something not only tangible but
great would be done to bring out the
latent protectionism here; and party
leaders were at the same period profuse
in promises that reorganization OF the
party in the mineral Southern States
would be accomplished in such a way
as to give control,of the respectable ele-
ments of society and to make 1t nossi-
! BILE for decent people to take an active
part in party affairs. Their prospects
and promises encouraged US greatly,
especially after delegation OF prom1-
nent nrotectionists visited the Presi-
dent-elect at Indianapolis and received
satisfactory assurances as to what
would be the policy of his administra-
ton of the matter.
"A Southern protective tariff league
was put in process of organization.
Leading, cultivated and wealthy men
in the Virginias, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, Alabama and Louisiana were
actively engaged in the movement. A
call for convention at Chattanooga
was printed and ready to send out. The
writer, in conjunction with others, COM
menced the publication of the Southern
Protectionist. Then they appealed to
their Northern allies for help"
He continues: 1--WE were told that
all the money of the Northern people
would be needed for the Congressional
elections Of 1890, and thatifw we wanted
to undertake any Southern proposition
we must find the means ourselves.
"Now, it became manifest very soon
after the Inauguration of Benjamin
Harrison that the party organlZatleli
| in the South was not to be changed;
that none of the assurances extended
to the Southern protectionists were to
be given practical effect. The elements
generally recognized were getting as
bad as ever. Conviction, which was
universal on these points, dissolved
our embryo protection tariff league.
We stopped publishing the Protection
ist, and suspended the tight.
'Then the force bill gave the coup
de grace to the whole thing. Repubii-
cans engaged in every department Of
material development, production or
trade everywhere protested unanimous.
ly against the bill. Their protests have
been uheeded, except as to negroes and
a few politicians. The Republican par
ty died in the South with the force bill.
Res pectable men Of affairs and family,
miners, manufacturers and merchants
in this section, prefer low tariff with
out the force bill to high tariff with
t...o force bill and consequent race and
| OlSput UouSCS. L Oo " LII 1lN S''sN
thinking Republicans here, who under
stand the social questions of the sec
tion much better than the Eastern die
tarians can be expected to, would not
be well pleased to lave their interests
and progress attacked ly a national
party which Is only humanitarian In
the case of the negro, while 1t is at the
same moment highly and violently util-
itarlan by the oppression Of other col
ored races, even to the extent OF viola
tion of solemn treaty obligations.
"In short, what with indifference at a
time when action might have been pro-
ductive of good, with the violation OF
promises and the commitment OF the
party irretrievably to a policy vastly
obnoxious to every element of decency
in the South, our Northern protection
lists and Republicans have at a blow
murdered protection and respectable
Republicanism in all the Southern
States with the conditions of which the
writer is at all familiar. Both ele'
ments are dead beyond the power OF &
irst-class miracle. You will only
waste your money in trying to work
one of them In any of the common
wealths have named above"
Major Vests letter was dated Decem
Der 81, 1890.
A Terrible Accident.
PARIS. Jan. 13.-A terrible accident
, by which nine persons lost their lives
occurred here to-day. The Seine, witt
the exception of the centre CT the river
has been frozen over for some time