The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-11-14
Peace, Unity and Reconciliation.

relieved from oil political excitement. and
this peaceful interval should be employed
in reconciling our white voters, in educat-
ing the white people on the great public
issues of the day, and working for the pros
perity and upbuilding of our State. Let
the dead past bury its dead" and look
only to the future. Partisan politics and
bitterness never really benefited people
or built up o afeountry. A house divided
against itself cannot stand, and neither can
q people, who must live together and who
have common interest and common des-
tiny. Last week, in an address favorlng
constitutional convention, Governor TIL
MAI sounded the keynote of the political
situation in our State, and gave utterance
to patriotic sentiment, when, in speaking
of the selection of delegates to the oonven-
ton, he said, the people should choose
'men of the very high st character. purest
lives, greatest wisdom and knowledge, and
they should be selected without regard rs
to Low they stood" We should adopt this
rule in all future contests IL our State, for
what applies to member Of that constltu-
tioaal convention will apply with equal
force to county, State and federal officers.
There is much work to do in the next
two years. First, that chasm OF factlonal
bitterness that has divided our voters since
1890 must be bridged, so that the people
may meet togeather as fellow South Caro-
iiaps and fellow democrats, discuss their
differences, and see if we cannot, by mutual
concessions and appeals to reason, get to-
gether once more, and then 60 to work for
the advancement of our grand old State.
The financial situation is most impor-
1ant matter to be solved, and in this the
farmers and business men are alike equal
ly interested-for when the tiller of the
soil is iml .!e::shed and oppressed, all
other lines of business must alike feel the
injurious effects, for it is most truthfully
said, 'the farmer feeds the world" There
fore by next spring the merchant the farmer,
the professional man, and every other class
and avocatiou interested in the prosperity
of our country. should get together, and by
an interchange of views, try and discover
where their trouble lies and what remedy
it is necessary to apply. It will take
longe pull, a strong pull, and pull alto
gether to circumyent and overthrow the all
powerful influence that we must combat
but We can do it by all working together.
If BY next fall We can add one cent to every
pound of cotton grown in South Carolina,
it will be WORTH more to our farmers than
all the politicsebat you can pack in the
capital at Columbia. But just so long rs
one faction of our white voters are pulling
in one direction, and the other faction IN
directly opposite direction, each trying to
nulllfy what the other is doing. there IS no
hope for the people, and who are the VIC
TINS to this unwise policy. There should
be no material differences among the demo-
Gratis of South Carolina for they have
common country, common interest, and
q common future. Let the motto of every
true Carolinian be, IAN injury to one is the
concern Of ALL"
Then again, every patriotic citizen wants
to see his State prosper and build up.
South Carolina now outranks all of our
southern states as cotton man nufacturlng
centre. and the eyes of not only American,
but European capitalists, are now directed
towads us. But SO long as our people are
divided on politics, and are fighting and
pulling against each other, We can never
attain that degree of prosperity as we would
otherwise attain. We must quit our foolish
pickering over factional politics, snd.turn
our talent and our energy in more prof.
table direction. If we can make two blades
of grass grow where one grew before, or
manufacture two bales of cotton where We
are now only manufacturing one bale, it
will be far more beneficial, and far more
commendable work, than making two re-
form votes, or two anti-reform votes, where
the rival factions now have only one vote.
And our own county and city of Spartan
burg are vitally interested in this matter, for
even the London, England, papers speak
of this section as the Manchester of the
new South. So for the next two years let
US devote special and untiring attention to
the development Of our manufacturing
and instead Of our home pa
pers publishing to the world the libel that
capital is not safe ID South Carolina, let
them show up the unrlvalled advantages
that We can offer to investors, and then tell
capitalists that ours is the only southern
state where the blighting hand of popullsm
has not been laid, and that South Carolina
is absolutely ruled by her white people. II
certain newspapers in our State will devote
one-half the space to advertising its re-
sources that they are now doing to bring
it into disrepute and distrust, you Will see
in the next two years many Of our idle
water-powers enchained, many Masterpieces
built up, and the wilderness made to BIOS
som as the rose There is nothing more
timerous than capital, and when the monied
men Of the country see an influential ele-
ment of our home people distrus.ing the
honor and stability of their states govern
ment, they very naturally take fright.
And in this connection we wish to say
that our agricultural classes are vitality in
terested in encouraging manufacturing en-
terprises, for the day is not far distant
when they must give up the production of
cotton as money crop, and turn their at
tention to something else. Now, if We can
dot our state with mills and manufactures,
giving employment to thousands Of people
who must depend upon the farmer for their
sustenance, We then open at our doors a
ready and profitable market for other pro-
ducts than the heecy staple. 1t is mis-
taken idea that the furmer should array
himself in hostility against the town and