The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-09-09
TURNING TO BRYAN.

URNlNG | y SHY9N'
Many Republicans Leave Their Party to
Support Him.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.--As straWs
which indicate the direction of the po.
litical wind, here are handful OF ex-
tracts from letters received at Demo
cratic headquarters here to-day:
NJ. B. Holland, secretary of the Bry-
an Free Silver Club, Of Nebraska,
says:
1--WE have Bryan free silver club
organized here with a membership of
ITO, and still growing. Seventeen
Republicans are among the number"
J. W. Bovgess, president Of the
Bryan Free Silver Club, of Pax, Mo-,
says that his club numbers at present
106 members. three-fourths of them
being Republicans. Pax Is a mining
town.
From Horton, Kan, W. I. Short,
secretary of the W. j. Brayn Free
Silver Club, writes:
I'VE have club here OF $50 mem
bers 190 of them Republicans, and we
are growing daily. Weare organizing
free silver clubs in every precinct"
G. H. Morgan, of Frederick, Md,
IN making application for the Bryan
and Sewall Free Silver Club in the
national association, says:
"Our club is composed mostly Of
the working and farming element,
among them several Republicans, and
it would take Gatling gun to turn
them"
Edward NJ. johnson, secretary Of
the Bryan and Sewall Club, of Elk
town. Md, writes:
There is a strong and growing sill
yer sentiment here, which we wish to
promote" :"
T. B. McJenkin, president OF the
Bimetalic League, of Butler. Pa says:
owe have silver league here, with
700 members, one-ffth of whom were
former Republicans"
M. L. Lockwood, president Of the
free silver club, of Zelienopee, Pa,
writes:
eff there is any such uprising in the
Eartern part of this State as there is
here we will skesp the State"
Alpheus <. Fidler. Of Arlington,
W. Va, writes:
81 called a meeting 10 see if we
could not organize a Bryan and Sewall
Club out here. Before I could get in
the house thai night the crowd was
calling for s. speech. I took vote to
see how many would support Bryan
and Sewall and the silver cause. Not
Withstanding the crowd was made up
of about one-half of men who have
been voting the Republican ticket
heretofore, only one man in the crowd
would not vote for Bryan"
Charles E. Chsppealear, Mayor of
New Lexington, Ohio, and secretary
of the Bryan Free Silver Club writes: ;
eve have just organized free sill
yer club, with a membership of nearly
800, 90 per cent. being former Repub-
licans. There are scores of other Re.
publicans who are on the fence and
need but little to help them over on
our side. Within the next ten days
there will be free silver club in ev-
cry voting precinct in this perry
county. Although Republican by $50
majority last year, we will carry it by
500 for Bryan and Sewall and Fink,
our candidate for Congress.
a. r. Altman, of the Bryan Silver
Club of Salem, H., writes:
''Our club numbers about GOO mem
bers, seventy of whom were former
Republicans, and we will increase
thatnumber largely"
Secretary Charles S. Dix, of the
Bryan Free Silver Club, of Prospects,
Ohio, writes:
1.-The Democrats and free silver
Republicans Of this city have organic
ed a Bryan club of over 200, and it IS
still growing. OF this number twenty
or more havealways been Republicans.
The Republicans have been having a
majority of ei yhteen to twenty in this
township, but we expect to make it
from seventy-fve to a hundred Demo
cratic. Can assure you that we will
carry the township"
J. II. Grier, secretary Of the Silver
League, of Aurora Mo-, and also Sec
retary Of that city's board of trade:
1.-The situation here is this: We ara
a lead and zinc mining camp. and in
Republican Congressional district, the
Fifteenth. We have about 100 Re-
publican voters out of a total vote Of
900 who are dissatisfied and have ad-
vocated silver for some time, but the
Republican managers are after them,
trying to whip them in line. ! under
stand the situation, having been avot
er for twenty years, but this will be
NV first.