The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-11
FOOLISH CHARLESTON.
Many OF Her Business Men Vote for
McKinley.

Mckinley.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Nov. bryan
carried Charleston County by plu
rality, but not by majority OF all the
votes cast. The figures, so far as tab.
ulated, give the regular National
Democratic electoral ticket 4S6, while
the three ether electoral tickets IN the
feld-the two straight Republican
tickets aud the Palmer and Buckner
ticket-if their supporters had conce"-
trated their forces on one set OF names.
would doubtless have given majority
against the Democratic standard bear
er, as aggregated, they make total
of I'LL votes against him, differ
erce of 225 votes. The Palmer aud
Buckner ticket ran behind the strong
est OF the two Republican electoral
tickets as well as behind the Bryan
ticket. 1t is evident, Indeed: that
more Of our former nationaI Demo
Gratis voted directly for Mckinley than
was included in the number of those
who stopped at the Palmer and Buck
ner hal. way house. OF the vote SO
far tabulated, the highes! aggregate
Of the old-time Republicans IS un-
doubtedly found in the sum Of the
votes cast for Murray and Cohen, the
two Republican candidate for Congress
as against Elliott, the Democratic can.
didate, the number Of which IS oSl.
Take this number from the total OF
!, I'll votes cast for the three opposing
electoral tickets, and we have $50 left,
which would seem to be the number
of our former Democratic citizens who
saw fit 10 vote directly for Major Nc
Kinley. This result is not strange.
considering the bitterness of the fight,
both open and avowed and secretly.
which has been made here against
Bryan. 1t only tends to illustrate the
fact that the balance OF power having
been removed from the hands of the
colored voter by the operation OF the
new Constitution and election laws,
the white voters will naturally f%lE
apart and divide up between the two
great parties, as their opinions or in
clinations may dictate. Nor do l
think this result by any means unde-
sirable. Il seems to me that there
would be less rancor and bitterness
than has marked the course Of our
family jars in South Carolina.
In the meantime, it will be interest
ing to observe who here will come IN
for the Federal patronage under the
regime OF President Mckinley, if his
aover-clained election should indeed
be assured. Il is more than probable
that of the 600 and upwards OF former
Democrats who voted squarely and
fatfootedly for Mckinley, there will
oe some promising neophytes who
appear at the front when the spoils OF
office are ready to be Labeled out.
Will DR.. Crum, Of the Republican
Regulars, for instance, again receive
the appointment of a Republican Pres
ident to the local postofhce, only to
be finally defeated by the retention Of
our present model, polite and eco
nomic postmaster. Or will the new
aspirant and convert, who is spoken
of on the quiet as yet and who seized
opportunity by the forelock recently
to put himself on record by enphati-
cally denouncing Bryan and his asso-
ciates as anarchists" intervene and
carry off the place from both? But.
this is matter for the future.
Major McKinley's election is not as
sured up to the present writing, and as
time passes it become more doubtful
and uncertain hourly. Last nights
dispatches, as summed up in this morn
ing's News and Courier, apparently
gave everything to Mckinley aud
were calculated to make the hearts OF
his stoutest supporters sink. For
hours last night the representative
crowds gathered in front of It's bulle
tin canvas expressed their feelings as
it flashed the doctored news. With
rather dim and uncertain light be-
fore their eyes-the Mckinley contin-
gent, colored and white, coming out
strongest as it continued to give Nc
Kinley majorities, ia the main; the
Palmer and Bucknerites emitting
feeble sound once. only, and that when
the venerable coUntenances OF Mckln-
ley's decoy ducks were thrown on The
canvas; and the Bryanites, who civi:!
ed the crowd nearly equally w.tn the
former Democrats and colorcd R-pub-
licans, giving full vent - thei: pleas
IRE at long intervals. when some
piece of good news for their candidates
was vouchsafeG to them by the one
sided canvas and its news vecders. At
the clubs and other points ziSssElstss.IIss.
only news Of q sinniIaglI+-s-: 1cier was
to be had, and.ytHe Mckin!eg ties,
one and all, were wild with JOY.
But, oh what difference in the
morning. 1t was early apparent TO
those who calmly compared the claims
OF the Republicans, even with the dis.
patches upon which they we're based,
hat they had over'ione the business
The News and Courier had pat North
Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, NebraS.
l;a, Indiana and Missouri in The Nc
kinley column, and as one after an
other of these in succession had TO be
given up to the Democrats, the faces
and tunes of the people on Broad
street this forenoon underwent sin
gular change. Those who had sung
hosannahs during the night began to
look anxious and doubtful, while the
Bryanites plucked up courage wonder
fully. When The Register arrived at
noon With Chairman Jones declara-
ton, wi ich had been carefully eXclud-
ed by our morning daily, that the Re
publicaus were In charge OF the
news avenues and were playing a
'DIutI" game, many were found ready
10 believe him. And the end is not
vet. 1t is safes: not to whoop until
one is ont Of the woods
JAMES Il. MOORE,
inCo!umbia Register.
Suicide in New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. An. J.. No
vera, we'll known merchant and lnsur-
aace agent whose name was recently
opnofinJ, vritb tho