The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-08-12
A PAT RlOTlC LETTER.

APAl RloTlC LETTER.
Fonn the Chairman fthe Populist Nation
al Committee.
ATLANTA, GA, Aug. 5.--Senator
Marion Butler, chairman of the Pop
ulist national committee, telAgraphed
to the Atlanta Journal this morning
the following signed statement in re-
gard to Senator Jones interview critl
cising the Southern Populists, in which
it is claimed Jones said the Southern
populists should go with the negroes
where they belong:
You wire me purporting to them
terview with Chairman Jones as 1t ap-
pears in Monday World and ask me
for statement with reference to the
same. 1 am not prepared to believe
Senator Jones was quoted correctly.
The election of Mckinley would mean
not oly four years more OF Sherman
ism and Clevelandism but also many
additional and culminative resulting
evils
mo intelligent, patriotic voter, no
true American citizen, can by his &C
ton or inaction, be responsible direct
" or indirectly for such threatened
calamity. The only possible way
that it can be averted is by a complete.
harmonious and enthusiastic union OF
all parties opposed to the destructive
rule or corporate greed and British gold
upon the candidate for President and
Vice President that represent Just the
opposite of what Mckinley and Ho-
bart represent.
ssThose upon whom IS the great re.
sponsibility OF the consummatlon OF
this end should not do say anythlng
that would produce friction, but
should. on the other hand, subordl,
nate ali minor differences and bend
every energy for harmonious union
and victory when the cause of outrag'
ed and suffering humanity is trem-
bling in the balance, when victory Tor
American independence and prospefl-
ty is in sight.
"What e humiliating and sickenlng
snectacle it would be should the folly
of personal ambition and the demon
OF party spirit step into, confuse and
divide the allied majority and deliver
our people into the hands OF the enc
mics of republican Institutions But
this cannot, this will not happen.
The American people are not now
in anv humor to be trifed with, They
realiZs the cause Of our evils; they
fully appreciate the threatened dan
GER. They will this yeaar drive the
British money changers and their
American Tory allies from the tenn
| pie of liberty and take charge OF then
own affairs.
"Iswould be better fer candldates
| and chairman to do less talking for the
present. But in spite of the lndlscre'
lions of individual and so-called lead
ers the American people have deter
mined to win the fghtand they will DC
it. ''(Signed) MARION BUTLER. !"
WHAT JONES DID SAY.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Senatoi
Jones. chairman Of the Democratic
national campaign committee, dlctat;
ed the following statement in regard
to his alleged utterance concernlg the
Populists: With reference to the
| New York World story, | simply
want to say that 1 had a conversation
with two newspaper men, which l re
earded in the light Of a private con
versation, in which l said something
of what appears in The World inter
view. There are however a number
of inaccuracies. If it was the lnten
ton to make me say that Mr.. Bryan
would not accept the Populist nomlna
ton. that was unauthorized. l haC
no authority, did not intend to make
any such expression, and did not MAKE
it. stand IN substance that the Pop
ulists from the north and west at 81
Louis were, as far as observed them
seemingly a more conscientious oooy
of men than those from the south
though there were, of course, a mum
Der Of strong and able men from the
south who seemed to be animated oy
| the highest motives of patriotism.
said in substance that the Popullst:
were divided into two classes II the
southern states, one class, in my opln
ion. men who were Populists for The
chance of personal advancement o.
promotion with little regard to public
| inte tests; that the other, the larger
class of southern Populsts, were pa
triotic citizens, unselish in their point
ical wishes, and expressed the ide<
that this latter class would, in ali hu
man probability, vote with the Demo
cratic party, while the others, from
the fact that their selfish ends coulC
more easily obtain, would vote with
| the Republicans. You may state posi-
lively that used no such expression
as Going to The negroes where they
| belong. There are anumber OF olhe
inaccuracies in the report, which
suppose were not Intentional, as ne
attempt was made to take notes OF ou
conversation. In fact, L had NJ
thought of there being such repor
of the conversation as the one | ind II
The World