The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-06-19

low priced wheat than ever did before.
They tell you cotton and wool are
cheaper than they ever were, yet there
is a greater army of tramps walking
up and down our highways and our
byways today in rags for the lack of
this same cheap cotton and wool.
They tell the farmer East that what
he needs to make times better IS
higher protective tariff. In certain
parts of the West they tell him what
he needs to be prosperous is free trade.
You have to give this tariff question
as medicine according to the locali-
ty. Now the fact OF the matter is tar
1T has nothing to do with monetary
panics and its about time the people
gave it long needed rest, and I be-
lieve they are going to do it. There
were two monetary panics under a
high tariff and two under a low tariff
and think this shows the tariff has
nothing to do with this.
The President says he is afraid the
silver dollar will depreciate, but the
only way the dollar can depreciate is
for prices to rise. This equivalent to
an admission by the Haesident that he
is afraid prices will rise. If the Presi-
dent would divide his anxieties more
equally between the persons who pro,
duce the wealth of the country and
the limited few who absorb them, he
would make better chief executive.
The magnificent patriotism of Mr..
RothSchild, who, although an alien,
was willing to come 10 this country
and save it for the patty consideration
of 50, 600, 600 which the people of the
United States lost and which he gain
ed, is worthy Of note as is also the
magnificent patriotism Of Mr.. Cieve'
land in thus helping to save the coun-
try Bat if these two men could save
the country they could also wreck it.
with the mints open to the uniin-
tied coinage of silver and gold there
Will be no more talk of a fifty-cent dol
lar They say our shores would be
flooded with silver if the mints were
open to free coinage. Now that is not
true, and if it were true we would
simply give them something to have
rather than for something we would
rather have.
Banker Cornwall of Buffalo, made
a speechin Chicago the other night to
a lot of bankers and the next day re-
porter showed me the article and asked
what l thought Of it. I told him if he
would have number Of copies print
ed and distributed to all the voters in
the United States would never make
another speech on the silver question,
but would rest my case on his argu-
ment. He tells the bankers they must
keep their thumbs on their customers.
We have felt the thumbs of the bank
ers heavily in the last fewye
"We must win this fight in 1896. II
we do not win it then it will be too
late. There will be two avenues open
to the people after 1896. One will be
reputation and the other revolution
and both I dread. If the English were
to land in New York you would help
to drive them out, wouldn't you? The
English'are in New York; they have
been there for years. VIII you drive
themout; even if party lines have to
be dropped?"
The convention then adjourned un-
Ill tomorrow.
SECOND DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
MEMPHIS, June 13.-The first thing
the convention did this morning was
to adopt platform which will be
found elsewhere in this issue. Al
though nothing was said in the reso-
lutions about abolition of party lines
as proposed by Sibley, Stewart and
others, the speakers Of the day, almost
without exception, took care to assert
| their Democracy and to repudiate any
athliation with either Republicans or
Populists.
The committee on resolutions intro
duced the following resolutions,
which, like the platform, was unani-
mously adopted:
Resolved, That a committee COM
posed of one member from each State
be appointed by the delegates thereof
in this convention whose duty it shall
be to correspond with the representa-
tive advocates of bimetallism and bi-
metallic societies in the different Sec
tons OF the Union and devise meas.
ures to advance the cause of bimetal-
lism throughout the United States.
That this committee shall have power
to cause a national conference of bi-
metallists whenever, in the opinion
of the committee, the cause of bimet-
tallism can be advanced thereby.
Said committee shall have power to
fill all vacancies.
At the beginning of the afternoon
session Secretary Wade announced
that these letters endorsing the work
of the convention had been received :
Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama
John p. Jones. of Nevada. and Jas.
L. Pugh. of Alabama and E. G.. Wal
thall, of Mississippi. The letters were
voluminous and were not read to the
convention.
There was uproar and applause
when Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
arose to read the report of the COM
mittee on resolutions. 1t was received
with widest enthusiasm and adopted
without dissenting voice. \ resolu.
ton providing for the appointment OF
delegate from each State to a Ma
tional Monetary Convention was then
introduced by Senator Jones and
/ unanimously adopted.
Senator Jones was called on for a
speech. He SAID: Il have made my
speech already. The resolutions en-
body all that could say about silver.
| do not think it is necessary for me
to trespass on your time. l have un-
bounded confidence in the people OF
the United States, and | believe they
will settle this question and settle il
in the right way. think they vii!
make no mistake. The prosperity and
happiness of this country are insepa-
rably united with the cause Of silver
and l believe there is no help for the
country until the coinage Of our
fathers is restored
Governor T. RradfOrd Prince OF