The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-09-05
Mr.. MOONS MANIFESTO.
PLATFORM WITH GOOD, BAD AND IN
DIFFERENT PLANKS.

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Dog Lsw-Wandering cp Fioapce and
Whiskey-Believes In the olden Rule.
NEWRERRY, Aug. 30.-Mr. Frank
Moon, who announced last week
that he would be a candidate for Gov
ernor at the November election, even
If he did not get but one vote, was in
the city yesterday. He has been labor
ing upon his address to the people of
South Carolina, and the following is
what he has brought forth. 1t is not
as strong or a5 lively or as Interesting
as l expected it would be When he ask
ed me last week to announce his can
didacy, though I had no idea then
what he intended to say to the voters
of South Carolina, for up to that time
| never had an idea that he contem-
plated making the race. He says,
however, that he means business, and
is going to stay In to the bitter end.
Here is his manifesto:
10 the Voters of South Carolina:
AS people expect the reasons why
one runs tor Governor, I give mine: I
| am outdone at the Way In which per-
sons calling themselves Reformers
have out -Heroded the same Herod
whom | have been fighting, tooth and
nail, for twenty years, trying to "re.
faWn" themselves to the highest bid.
der, with the most specious promises
and least fulfllment. The one salts.
faction resulting is to see number one
kicked out into the cold, even though
the kicker be no better. 1t seems like.
ly to prove repetition of the fable Of
the fox, the flies and the swallow. The
new swarm will take the last drop.
They want the earth.
enter my protest in the form of
putting up my carcass to be shot at
that Is. "cussed" at. [ have proved In
the past my competency to tote more
"cussing" than anybody, and still stand
alone. / consulted with no living man
about this move. | believed 1t thu duty
of somebody. | can't mark out a line
of action for other people; therefore,
I'm in myself. l am little known, but
it is better thus than to be known a
scoundrel. Most persons in our town
know me, among them plenty of en-
emies. am willing to leave the telling
Of the truth to any or all Of them. am
| what Is known in Piersons's "saciety"
| as "hiSh kicker" When they get too
bad, kick them out, ] am Rsformer
in the sense Of trying to get all the
good we can. and the supposition Is
| that under a Democratic form OF gov
ernment every one will b3 the same
way. The question, then, is, what is
| best for US all in the long run. | don't
kick at the measureas of Reformers, So
called, 80 much as at their methods of
.pertuation.
! AS to the questions of the day:
Agricultural colleges-I am In favor
of making these self-supporting, or as
| nearly so as possible, and If scientific
farming is not delusion, We should
come very near it. Ifit be a delusion,
the sooner the bubble bursts the better
for all hands. l would have it so that
every poor child can, by it's labor, earn
| sufficiency of wholesome food and
comfortable clothing and at the same
| time prosecute its studies. In case Of
| war the State furnishes gun, rati0ns
and clothing. The nation properly 3D.
| ucated, | would hope to save the eX.
pense of the gun, 80 that swords might
be turned to plows and spears into
pruning knives. No well educated man
will deny that the ethics Of the Chris
tian religion would, If carried out, be
the best thing to live by in all the
| world.
AS to the liquor question, I think the
| dispensary, under government control
of that terrible moral explosive, alcohol
the best plan yet discovered. OF course
experience, under management devoted
to the highest good of the people, will
modify and improve the carrying out
| of the law, and it will not be on the
line of money profit to the State.
| have pet theory concerning dog
law in which our Reformers have sorely
| disappointed me-. Certainly they will
| not allow that the subject Is above
their comprehension, and If thay claim
that it is beneath them l Will boldly
assert that it will take very little
"screeching" for them to get down to
it.
| MY idea of the financial question,
which is today agitating the country,
| is that inasmuch as the money OF the
State, yours and mine, has been loaned
| to the privileged class, virtually With
out interest, for about thirty years, by
| means of which they have been able
to put their feet upon the necks Of the
producing classes, they depositing gov
ernment bonds as security, that turn
about being fair play, we the pro.
ducsrs, by pledging land, and land be.
ing certainly the most stable of all
commodities, should be entitled to at
least equal privileges from government
especially as the tlller of the soil occu-
pies the most important part in the So
cial system OF any business whatever.
And noWI come to something far
more important than anything else, be-
cause tue sum of all things must be
greater than any part of it can be-
the religion enunciated by Jesus. This
is a socalled Christian nation, and
quite large number of voters pro.
fess today to follow the teachings Of
this great EXemplar. l am called by
many persons an intidel, but l say to
you in His words, "Unless you exceed
the righteousness of the Scribes and
Pharisees you shall all perish" Let
US come together. Let US see what
these doctrines say as to the treatment
of our fellow man. Pot youtself in his
place, is Bible doctrine, and IL Is Dick.
eng, too. Certain it is that we shall
not be worsted by this philosophy In
the long run. FRANK Moon.
Blackmail,
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 30.-John