The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-01-30
"CAR0LINA'S CROMWELL. "
EX-GOVERNOR TlLLMAN WANTS A
NEW NATIONAL PARTY.

w" IVA IOlSHL- FNEhl
He Writes Letter Suggesting the Plat
form--Directed to the Leaders of the
Western 'Sew Reform Party" Idea.
COLUMBIA, S. c.. Jan. 23.-It has
been quite long time, nearly a year
in fact. since the statement was made
that Governor 3. R. Tillman, the
'sMoses" of South Carolina, was set
ting his cap for something beyond the
United States Senate; that he was
looking to the possible organization of
new National third party in Ameri-
can politics, and to being put up as
one Of its leaders Nearly every one
perhaps has forgotten TIE interview
the new Senator gave along this line
about the middle of March last, but
his utterances at the time will be easily
recalled when one reads a letter he
penned few days ago.
For some time Thomas T. Byron the
editor of the Des Moines, Iowa, Far
mers Tribune, has been agitating the
organization Of new National third
party. to be known as the National
Reform Movement" Hehasbe pub
fishing series of letters from all the
big Western and Southwestern leaders
of the old Third Party and of the
Democratic party. Many of the lead
ers differ on certain particulars. but
all agree that the time has come for
new national party to be founded
party differing in its demands from
the Third party in the last national
campaign
Byron, after getting theviews of all
the Western and Southern men on the
matter, wrote to Ex-Governor Tillman,
whom he refers to as the Cromwell
of the South" and asked the new
United States Senator for letter.
This letter was written on the Sth ulti-
mo, and Byron considers the letter "a
powerful one" The following is a
copy of the letter as sent on by the ex-
Governor:
Trenton, S. c., Jan. s, 1895.
Thos. F. Byron, Esq:
Dear Sir-Your valued favor of the
3rd, with marked copy of your paper,
have been received and read with in
terest. Thanks for your kind words
about myself. I am called a 'Popu.
list by the Republican papers and by
the Cleveland Democrats-God save
the mark.
Both of these names are beginning
to stink in the nostrils of good men.
Beginning2 Alas, they are byword
and Kissing to the Democrats who
believe with Jefferson and Jackson,
and the Republicans who followed Lin
coin. I see no hope of relief or of saw
ing our institutions unless the farmers
of the South quit voting the Demo
cratic ticket and the farmers of the
West quit voting the Republican ticket.
We must get together, and names
should not divide us. But the Popu-
lists have too many cranks among
them and want to do too much. We
cannot enlist the conservative masses
unless we appeal to- reason and COM
mon sense; and the more reforms we
demand the fewer we Will obtain.
Plutocracy is drunk with power and
the success it has had in analga2
ing Republicans and so-called
Gratis under the lead of Sher1s
Cleveland. The tops will b.
down tighter and after ay
thing Will explode. Sou
is ready with baggage PAD
the new party of emanS
emancipation of the mas ~
men from the slavery toj
trusts and monopoGes.
The name Democrat 6
conjures here The nam
its memories, not its pre-
tons. A new party nag
cessasy, and all we ask
to the principles of old II
cy: Equal rights, equ
ties, equal burdens. Ar
Americans, an asylum forS s..|:
industrious hor1eseeker but . q +;
anarchists and law-breakersS
as well as the poor. Free coinS
gold and silver, and no paper mo
except legal tender greenbacks. X
tariff that will enable our manufactur-
ers to supply the home market with
out becoming millionaires at the ex-
pense of the farmers; tariff that will
give work to all who wish it. a f.
nancial system that will give fair
price to the farmer for every bushel of
grain and every pound of meat" This
is platform enough, and any more will
confuse and divide US on these essen
tials.
If the scoundrels and traitors who
now rule in Washington are to dictate
the policy and name the ticket, our
electoral vote Will not 90 to Dem
ocrat'' in ,96 It cannot go to e Repub-
lican under any circumstances; and
Populism, as now organized and led,
cannot getit.
1t is the part of wisdom and patri-
otism for the Third party leaders to
retrace their steps and be less radical
in their platform. The conditions are
similar to those existingin '26 and SO.
Jackson and Lincoln were the outcome
Let US hope the people Will be again
victorious.
have great faith. This country is
not ready yet to sink into servitude to
money Ballots or bullets will bring
relief. The Chicago strike caused
demand for an increase in the army.
In 1879 the national guard of France
fraterniZed with the starving masses.
People who1l have ballots should not re-
quire bullets. The people are now be-
wildered but angry. Let US pray that
the mists will clear away BY 1896, and
that the lost sheep will have found a
shepherd
Abe Lincoln said: 'sYou can fool
part of the people al the time; you
can fool all Of the people part Of the
time, but you can never fool all
the people all of the time" 1t is a
grand truth, and while we believe it
we can hope. Yours truly,
B. R. TILLMAG.
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