The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-01
M'KENLEY FAT FRYING.
RAISING A CORRUPTION FUND OF
S25O,OOo.
A Republican Squabble Which Probably
Will Not Hurt Dem Chan
dler ATTACKS the O.,io Candidate

dler ATTACKS the OIio Candidate
WASHINGTON, March 26.-McKin-
ley's ''fat-frying" methods continue to
annoy Senator Chandler. He has in
formation that the Ohio candidates
managers are trying to raise $3.50, 900
10 make the nomination of their man
certain, aud he is determined to block
the game If possible. He made fresh
onslanssht upon Mckinley tonight
which abounds in good campaign ma
terial for the Democrats. 1t is based
ostenslbly, upon misrepresentation
which the Senator says crept into his
published statement Of March 16. He
declares that he said nothing unkind
OF Mckinley personally in that state
ment, but ''called attention to certain
methods of his managers and protest
ed against their adoption" Then he
proceeds to fay the candidate in this
vigorous way:
THE substance of the charge made
BY me was that the same men who
had assisted in raising the money to
pay Mr. McKinley's debts were calling
upon the owners Of protected indus.
tries to make contributions to help
| nominate him for President Although
the charge has been denied by Gen.
Grosvenor and others, a review of the
subjects confirms my conviction that
1t IS true.
las barring upon the question,
| whether the COLLECTION and the use Of
the funds are for reasonable and legit-
! mate nomination expenditures. I add
that the fund which it was planned to
raise was to be $250,00O sum which
could not be needed except for illegiti-
mate purposes.
In view of the effort to raise this
large fund from protected interests,
my points were very simple aud clear.
Such movement is unfair and unjust
toward the other candidates, in whose
behalf it is certain no such large sums
of money are being raised or used.
'Messrs. Reed, Morton, Quay, Gull
lom, Allison, Davis and Henderson
are as devoted friends OF protection as
Mr.. Mckinley is, and the triumph Of
any one of them would be as sure as a
guarantee of the enactment of Judi
cious and effective tariff laws as would
be the victory of Mr.. Mckinley. For
manufacturers to contribute large
sums of money to be expended In
nominating Mr.. Mckinley over any
other candidate hitherto named would
he a most unjust and uncalledfor
proceeding.
The interests of the Republican
party will be seriously injured by de-
manding and receiving such large
4 contributions from the representatives
of protected interests. 1t has been a
continuous cause of attack by the op.
ponents of protection-the belief that
the system has been maintained, Re
publican victories achieved, and par
ticular tariff schedules secured from
Congress by the money of manufac.
turers.
Whatever may be said in justifca-
ton of reasonable contributions from
such interests toward the expenses of
Presidential and Congressional elec-
tions after the nominations are made,
a system of using money to control
Republican nominations for office
would be scandalous in the highest
degree and fatal to all attempts to
maintain the purity and honesty of
the party organization.
"Thess things I said. If the facts
which were the basis of my utteranceS
do not exist the truth will appear, and
no one will suffer but myself, for no
one else suggested or was responsible
for or knew of my statement. shall
be very glad to te convinced that l
was mistaken. Moreover, if the at
tempt to raise the fund of $3.50, 900 has
been arrested by reason of the public
ity given to it shall be equally re-
joiced.
"If, however, the facts are true, and
to the natural popularity and strength
of Mr.. Mckinley, Messrs. Osborne and
Hanna are to continue to add the ex-
penditure in improper ways of large
sums of money collected by them
from the owners of industries protect
ed by the tariff, thoughtful Republi-
cans will do well to consider the con-
sequences a nomination thus made,
the character of Ghe canvass which is
to ensue, the possible defeat which,
even with the bright prospects before
us, may come if we rush headlong in
to any egregious blunder, and the con-
troversies which, even if we are sue
cessful, are to follow such an admis
sion of the standing charge of our op-
ponents that gross venality and cor
ruption attend the maintainance Of a
high tariff system by the Republican
party, which charge we have hitherto
truthfully denied
To those who engage in vitupera-
ton of me on the ground that what
ever may be the size of the money con-
tributions which are being raised by
Mr.. Mckinley's friends. or the use
which is being made OF them, it is in
| JULIUS W IuC 4e OOOllCdH pal " anu,
therefore, mistake for me to call at
tention to them, little need be said
| Their argument recognizes no time or
circumstances when it is proper for d
faithful member of a political party to
expose and condemn the faults aad
vices which develop in every party.
This precept is a false one, and has
never been needed by men in a polltl.
cal life of forty years Whatever may
be said in favor of such restraint dur
ing the heat Of a political canvass,
after the nominations are made there
ought not to be two opinions on this
question, whether at all other times
faithful Republicansshould detect and
make public, correct aId destroy dls-
honest methods W wnich may be growing
up in the organization, and which, If
kept concealed through false notion
| of nartv fidelity will soon BRING the