The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-31

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| don't know which, and the conspir-
acv was consutnmated. The Demo
cratic platform was good enough to be
elected on, but not worth carrying out.
The result has been that our yardStlck
which measures values has been cut
in half, with the effect of doubling the
power of the gold dol:
lar. 1t takes now twice as much OF
labor, or the products of labor, to bny
a dollar. Everything has shrunk in
value except debts. To all intents and
purpose they have doubled. | will il.
iustrate. If a man had ten biscuits and
there were two plates of butter, one
white and one yellow, and YOU throw
away the white silver, there is only
half as much butter to the biscuit as
there was before. The shrinkage in
the amount of butter represents the
shrinkage of the price Of commodities,
and until we make them bring back
that other plate Of butter all the pro
ducers Of this country will have to
spread it very thin, and a great many
will have neither bread nor butter.
l. is clear that both old parties are
disintegrating and a new alignment is
in process of formation. Party ties
are weakened. Like drowning men
who catch at straws, the people are
casting about for means Of relief. The
issue has heretofore been obscured or
sidetracked, but in the next Presiden-
tial campaign the only question will
be the financial question. A new Ma
son & Dixons line is forming on the
one side with the Northeastern Sec
ton, consisting of the creditor and
manufacturing States. On the other
side will be Solid South allied with
a practically Solid West. An eXami-
nation of the census reports will indi,
cate the enormous increase in the
wealth of the New England and Mid
die States, as compared with the rest
Of the country, and even a fool must
know that it is the result of legal rob-
berry and unjust discrimination by
Congress.
Democracy is dear name to US, but
we no longer have the substance-we
have only the shadow. Aesop's fable
of the dog and the shadow will illus
trate the Situation and show the condi-
ton of those of us who cling to the
name, whilst we can't get the sub
We had very small bone
under the Sherman act. We snapped
at the shadow of a great relief prom
ised in the Chicago platform and the
restoration of the Democracy to pow
e., and we have lost the little bone we
Lad and got nothing. At Memphis, I
undertook to represent the people of
South Carolina and told the friends of
silver that if we could not get a man
whom we could trust in the Demo
cratic party on a platform that was
uneeuivocal and explicit, we would
cast our electoral vote for the candi,
date or some other party.
Did I represent you!" Zone or two
Noes and chorus of ''Yes" were
heard
"Well, I'll take hand primary on
it. I don't want YOU to declare your
selves Populists. l ask all Of you who
are willing to vote fora man for Pres
ident. nledScd TO free sii~er, WhAther
he be Democrat or not, to hold up
your hands.
There was forest Of open palms in
the air in moment, only one man,
Mr.. Hull, voting in the negative amid,
GeriSiva cries
Now, gentlemen, he's not to blame,
he's only blind. ] respect and admire
men who disagree with me, but who
have the manhood to stand by their
We are all white men,
but for Gods sake, for South Carroll
mas sake, never let it be said that the
white men appealed to the negro to
arbitrate their differences. | am no
Populist. The Democratic party in the
has been practically dis
banded in ten or twelve States. What
hope have we of electing a Democrat
ic President? What sort of hope
have we for genuine Democracy to
win in the next general election. The
result of the last election indicates
that the Republicans have strong
hopes of electing the next President
and there are many men IN the South
who think it a good time to join that
party in the hope of getting office. |
have been looking for some new con.
verts to that party in this State. but
so far none have announced them
selEes. Can we stand four more years
of this sort of thing, boys2 Well, we
havestood so much of it that | don't
belieYe you can starve US. Nothing
can dothat, but my God, it is SO aw-
fully tirsome, While the South is
practicalt; solid for silver our condl-
tion of financial slavery is almost in
tolerable. We must endure our suf-
fering until the hand of American
brotherhood is reached out to us by
the Northwestern farmers, and they
cry aloud in heir distress, Come,
help US The only hope is to ally the
South and West together against the
North and East, but don't let us i'm
pose the condition on those seeking
the Alliance that we 60 as Democrats
alone. Those people despise that
name. That hatred is an inheritance
Of the war-just as we hate the name
Republican. Those States contain a
larger percentage of Union soldiers
than any others, because they moved
there Just after the Ear to get SOL
dier's lomesteadS and they have been
accustomed to connect ire word De-
mocra and Copperhes,d together just
as we connect Republican and negro
together. Those people afe now be-
ing glolnd to powder between the up
per an1nether mill stones Why not
both sids give up party names and
meet hallway? If your house Is burn
ing down will you stay in it because
it is hbeed Democratic. We can't
take the name of Populist because
they hsve too many 'is1ns' and radical
ideas, nd they have pandered too
much t socialism. They call me an
anarcBt-a right bran new one-but
l canot stand many things in the
Populi platform. Why, in Gods
noma c%or bnra o,d ro 6ovr,, wit n