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

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State in said convention. am also re.
uuesied, through you, to invite your
senator's and Representatives IN Con-
gress to be present, and to request the
boards of trade and other commercial
bodies, and the authorities of the cities
and towns of your State, to appoint
such number of delegates to represent
them as they may think proper.
The interest to be considered at this
convention are CT the utmost impor
tance to the cotton and grain groWiog
States, and | earnestly hope that you
will be present, aud have your State
largely represented by good men who
are interested N tue Important subject
to be considered.
Will you kindly name the delegates
at your earlist convenience aud notify
3. W. Griffith, E:q, secretary, Vicks-
burg, Miss.
lam, sir, your obsdleNt servant,
J. NJ. STONE, Governor.
In accordance with the request the
Governor has appointed the following
delegates:
First Dissrict-J. Adger Smith,
! Charleston, and J. II. AYerilj, Beau
tort.
Second DistricJ-Maj Harry Ham
mond, Beech Island, aAI Gen. johnson
Hagood, BarnIell.
Third District-W. L. Durst. Green
WOOD, and w. a. Courtensy, NewTy.
Fourth District-W. J. Murray, Co
lumbia, and l.. 2. Walker, Spartan
| burg.
Fifth District-W. J. Roddey, Rock
Hill; Leroy Springs, Lancaster.
Sixth District-C. S. Mccall, Beu-
nettsv.lle; J. E Ellerbe, Marion.
Seventh District-J. Il. Aycock,
Wedgefeid; J. W. Summers, Orange
| burg.
State at Large-Altamon Moses, I.
r. McGahan. Charleston J. ?. O'Neiu,
Char!esJon; J. 4. Crawford, Columbia,
and G 60. II. Cocnelsop, OraDgeburg.
The ADDRESS Issued by the com mittee
calling the convention reads as fol-
lows:
II the Cotton Planters, G:ain Growers,
Factors, Commission Merchants,
Bankers, and all Others Interested
in the Agricultural Interests OF the
Country:
The undersigned, joint committee
of the Vicksburg Board Of Trade anc
the Vicksburg Cotton Exchange, desire
| to call your earnest attention to a con-
uention to De held in the city of Vicks-
! burg, Miss, on the Goth day of NoVem-
Der, with the vieW-of impressing upon
| the United States Sonata the impor-
tance OF passing the Hatch bill or some
kindred measure at the coming session
of Congress. We also appeal to you
for your hearty co operation, and ask
| you to use your influence with others
| In your vicinity in this behalf.
The present condition of the Hatch
| bill is such, that with the proper eff
forts by its friends in the agricultural
| States, there can be little doubt OF Its
being passed and receiving the sigma
ture of the President.
It passed the House by an oVerwhelm
ing majority, and there Is reasonable
| nopa that majority OF the Senators
are favorable to 1t in It's present form
OF to 1t as 1t may be amended, to make
1t more effective.
The work In hand Is to secure action
on it by said body as promptly as posi-
BILE. While two thirds of the Senotors
may be opposed to future gambling"
| there are some who are opposed to at
tempting its suppression by the Fed
eral government, and they might 80
delay action Oh this bill, or any similar
one as to defeat it. It Is to guard
against this delay that this convention
of the people is called to meet in the
centre of the cotton Oelt. It should be
large and influential convention, and
it should take such measures as will
prevent the dangerous delay to which
we have alluded.
In this appeal to the people to aid in
suppressiDg this great evil which has
fastened itself on our commerce and
agriculture, we can only refer to a
few Of its worst features. Future
gambling" as 1t is universally termed,
has at present the protection Of some OF
our largest trade bodies. 1t is backed
byan unknown and vast amount of
money. 1t has invaded banking, CON-
merce and agriculture to such an ex-
tens that it is no aggeration 20
state that more money is erl-
pIoyed in gambling in some of the
exchanges IN the cities than Is employed
In leglClm2.6 commerce.
Its pernicious effects are so seriously
felt that 1t is matter Of grave doubt
whether The law of supply and demand
regulates the price Of leading agricll-
tural products. To illustrate this re
would only refer TO one exchange. For
many years the NV y tx Cotton Tx
change h.s done little except to bet OF
the price Of cotton. At this exchange
! In single mon tle sales (bets) OF
fictitious cotton have reached the total
of the average crop of the United
State. 100000 bales, and In one year
over so eco 600 bales, while the sales OF
actual cotton during the Same year at
Sew York were only $4,000 Gales and
the net recelp:s Of actual cotton at
that port 101 900 bales. Such bets c&n-
not possibly aid in tae rapid handing
and delivering of cotton and ID secur-
ing its manufacture and sale TO con.
sumers. On the contrary, the effect
can be nothing but eVil,an the longer
it is permitted the greater the extent TO
which the evil will be carried.
This is but single illustration. Ii
there was any way of presenting the
ACTUAL SG0L-SGLSS ~ 1OlSiS ScAANAt1S 49,
cotton, wheat, corD, oats and otner ag-
ricultursl products il New York, Chi
csso, st. Louis, New Orleans and other
cities, the showing would be such a
one as 10 arouse the people al over the
Republic.
The people are masters Of the situa-
tton, but they must unite and act.
,inen there Is TO longer reason to
doubt the sentiment of the people their
wishes will be enacted into law, and
that law will be executed.
In view of the foregoing we hereby
invite all prisons in sympathy with
the purposes of this convention to at
tend, and it is desired that all COM
munltles be epresented.
Senators and Representatives from
this and other States favorable to the
movement are invited and expected.
Arrangements have been made with
transportation lines for reduced rates.