The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-06-19
A GREAT GATHERING,
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you upon the representative character
of this gathering. Some three or four
weeks ago there assembled in this city
body called to teach sound money.
After putting in motion all the secrets
of the use of illinlitable money and
drumming up delegates from this
chamber of commerce and that bank,
they assembled to tell US what was
the meaning of sound money. and
after having the people of this city,
whose loans from the banks make
them subservient to the banking in
terests. they succeeded IN drumming
up large gathering and they had
the Secretary of the Treasury to tell
us the difference between sound mon
ey now and sound money in 1873.
And. God save them, by request of the
President they had three cuckoos who
sold their birthright for the mess of
pottage, three congressman only;a and
I saw in the paper that there was not
a solitary farmer in that party in this
Southland where the proportion be-
tween the agricultural interests and the
rest is seventy-five farmers to twenty
five of all other occupations.
What is sound money? It is mon
ey which requires two pounds of cot
ton. two bushels of wheat, to get the
same quantity that it did few years
back. l claim that such dollar as
that is a robber dollar of two hundred
cents. They tell you about the fifty
cents dollar. Let US fling it into their
teeth. the two hundred cents dollar.
There was some talk in Congress
last winter by Mr.. Carlisle, who pre-
sented bill of financial scheme
looking to the giving of some meas
ures of relief (that poor Congress, that
pitiful Democratic Congress did have
the saving grace to reject it, but the
scheme is still on FOOT as promulgated
by the bankers convention in Baltl-
more that they shall have the green
backs retired; that the silver certii-
Gates shall be retired: that the govern
ment shall retire from banking and
that they shall have the issuing of all
the paper money in this country on a
gold standard, at that.
E. W. Carmack, editor of the Mem
phis Commercial-Appeal, said he be-
lieved the prosperity of the country
depended on free silver. Il speak"
he continued, las Democrat. I be-
lieveit will be the destiny of the Dem
ocratic party to achieve this triumph.
I stand here to protest anything that
has been done in the past. or will be
done in the future to prostitute the
Democratic party to the money power
in England, and to protest againstany
effort to disorganize the party. l am
here, however, to work in harmony
with all parties who have the interests
of the people at heart and wish to fur
ther the cause of free silver. AS far
as the South is concerned, all that IS
best in it is concentrated in the Demo
cratic party"
The following national committee
men were chosen by the State delega-
tons in accordance with the resolu-
ton passed at the afternoon session OF
the convention:
Alabama, J. w. Tomlinson !; Arkan-
sas, Charles Coffin; California, Alex
Delmar; Colorado, \. w. Rucker;
Georgia, Judge n. w. Longley; Ken
lucky, J. \. Parker; louisiana. Sena-
tor Blanchard; Missouri, J. G. Gage;
Nevada, G. S. Nixon; Nebraska, G. J.
Smythe; North Carolina, NJ. B. Ell
lott; Ohio, F. j. Scott; Pennsylvania,
4. G. Hopkins; South Carolina,J: W.
Stokes; Tennessee, John R. Goodwin
of Memphis, temporary chairman and
J. II. Acklen OF Nashville, temporary
secretary.
The committee will meet in Chicago
in July, the exact time not being
fixed, and there choose permanent Of
fcers and delegates at large.