The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-22

1t Will be the last but most sanSuiA-
ary struggle ever waged for the in
alienable rights of man If these
principles again triumph a new Dem
ocracy will be established on broad
er and safer basis than ever before.
The experience Of the past will make
the task easy. The new republic will
be based on organic ideas that will
be invulnerable to the attacks of the
classes that hate the liberty of the
masses. The laws will be made and
upmade by the direct vote Of the peo-
pie. Our present dangerous judici-
ary system will be a thing Of the
past. Our President will be shorn of
bis veto power, and the bribery of
Legislative bodies by corruptionists
will be impossible.
No man will hold Office Of any
kind other than by appointment of
the people received at the ballot-box.
4 new republic and new civilization
will be inaugurated never dreamed OF
even by the fathers. But il these
great principles of the equality OF
nan, God ordained and imperishable,
60 down in the coming conflict, the
the banner Of mammon, hideors and
hopeless, will float in triumph over a
nation writhiug in the most abject
slavery and serfdom, Liberty vii!
take its last departure, and the race
will plrnge down into darkness and
barbalism with its hope, its love and
its grandeur lost, until the coming Of
the eternal king. Grover Cle7eland' S
place in the worlds history will be
fixed. His name will stand at the
head of the list of his day as the most
prominent actor in the wreck OF
American liberty, and by the
victors bis name will be called
blessed and they will have it so writ
ten. In these trying, tragic and rev.
olutionary times he stands out as the
most prominent figure, and as the
champion of tie right of the few tc
rob the many. II the cause of In
humanity and plutocracy are victo-
rious in the impending and irrepres-
siJle crisis, then his place in the
annals of our country can even now
be determined. The class, that IS
and ever has been, the tireless foe OF
liberty and mans natural and mali
enable rights, wi! write bis name
high upon the dark and bloodstained
arch of time, and the names Of JET
ferson, Jackson and Lincoln will be
efaced. The few who rule the
world to plunder it; whose god
(moDey) has destroyed and devoured
the nation, and convert I'd Gods her
itage for man into a hell for NAM
mon, will reverence his name for all
time to come, as greed's demi-sod
towering even above the hideous
CORY human monsters OF the past
By the favored few who hold to the
idea that God has decreed that the
fttest only shall survive, Cleveland
will be worshipped as the incarnate
god of self.
. 1t may be said that I am over
drawing. Have l? The question con-
froutipg the people to-day is. shall
liberty survive or shall it perish. Let
US see what Cleveland has done to-
ward forcing the enslavement of his
people. He entered on his second
term surrounded by the most auspic-
1ous vuuditiv1, ~. 5oed. Creator ep
portunities to endear himself to bis
country were never in the grasp OF
man. In him the people had placed
their most cherished hopes. The de,
preston ard paralyzed condition OF
the country, caused by the open and
shameful surrender of the country
into the hands of the national bank
ing power and organized corporate
wealth by the Republican party
created CONSERVATION and caused the
people to drive that party from pow,
er even in its strongholds. That
party in its blind worship of the
favored few had forsaken the warn
ings and teachings of Stevens and
Lincoln. Cleveland had come up
from among the common people, and
they had all reason to trust his hon.
esty and moral courage. They were
not aware of the evil influences that
controlled him at the time of his
second election. Some men make
the conditions that surround them
and then control them; not so with
Cleveland. He was controlled by
the influences about him. Wall
street and the doors of the money
changers had opened to him. He
tasted Of and was caught and en-
trauced by the allurements Of wealth
and greed. Soon after his inangura,
ton ar edict was issued and sent
forth from the abode Of the money
changers, who make OF the temple
Of liberty the lcnSe Of woe and des-
olation; that their interest demanded
the destruction Of silver and large
issue Of national bonds. Ibey at
once set in motion their vast ana
inrircible political machinery.
Congress WAS at once convened ID
extraordinary session. Cleveland $
message came and behold. it was a
special plea for the deGaaa of the
mercy gang. lie put forth the
absurd and hypocritical plea that
the nation was going to perdition tor
the want of confidence in the money
circles, and that if the silver dollar
could be destroyed prosperity would