The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-05-20

voked the order because he tOunC
Colonel Benton had not neglected hi:
duties, but he wished it distinctly un
derstood that while any man held office
under his administration he did MOI
approve to his dab5ling in politica
canvasses Or endeavoring to put hi:
opinions before the people OF the United
States.
As I have said, the President of the
United States, while he revoked thi:
unjust order, accompanied it with the
declaration that under his administra
ton of the government public official:
whilst holding office should not dabble
as he expressed it, with political mat
terS.
Now wha. is the conduct of the ad
miuistration in regard to this money
question before the people of this coun
try2 Mr.. President, Isay it with deer
regards that this administration ha:
given its whole influence all is patron
age, all the power of eloquence and ot
logic on the part of its Cabinet officers
to influence the opinions of the people
of the United States and to influence
the snap conventions of which the
Senator from Illinois has spoken
There was not long ago-a year ago
a Democratic convention tn Nebraska,
and the next day it was flashed across
the country tina: the people of Nebraska
had decided for honest money, sound
money-this the cant falsehood that is
used to entrap the innocent and lgno
rant voters. When the truth was
known it was found the convention
was made up Of officeholders-post
masters, marshalS, collectors Of inter
nal revenue-men who are living
upon the patronage of the Federal
government. and whose lungs were
filed with the air that came from the
Treasury of the United States. This
was triumph of sound money
Where, then, was the civil service re-
form that gives us today 80, 600 new
incumbents of offices who can only be
removed for cause?
Why, Mr.. President, there has not
been week when there was more
than barely majority of the Cabinet
ministers present in Washington to
discharge the duties for which they
are paid by the people of this country
They have been traversing their re,
spective States, and even other States,
haranguing the people in joint and
single debate, denouncing the silver
lunatics," and talking about 'unsound
and deprecated money" Have we
heard single whisper of censure from
His Excellency in regard to these pro-
ceedings2 Have we heard any lecture
from him such as was given to my
friend when he dared to advocate the
cause, CT the Democratic party at that
time?
But more than that. I do not read,
as a rule, from newspapers, butI hap.
pen to have this statement, fortified
by private letters, from the Adrian
Mich Press, whose editor is man
Of high personal character and unques-
toned veracity, and who was dele
gate to the late convention IN that
S.ate. The Senator from Illinois
talked of snap convention. Let the
Secretary read that from an eyewlt-
ness who participated in that conven-
ton.
The Secretary read as follows:
"Of the S2S delegates elected to the
convention, 725 were present either in
person or by substitute, as shown by
the first ballot. -Four hundred and
ninety-seven were elected under IN
structions from their county conven-
TORS to vote as a unit for Is to sill
yer resolution. Granting that the As
absentees were all silver men,
the silver cause ought still to
have 452 votes in the convention.
''As the vote for Judge McGrath
(31O) was fair test of the relative
strength of the first candidate of the
gold crowd and the
first candidate of the silver, 1t follows
that there were 142 silver backsllders
in the convention.
Every mothers son of the 142 is
presumed to have acquiesced to In
structions of their home conventions
to stand by the silver standard to the
last ditch, yet they came to Detroit
and bolted at the start into the camp
of the goldbug administrationlsts,
where they were received with open
arms.
"Here is where the backsliders came
from, together with the number from
each county: Barry County, entire del
egation of II instructed for 1t to l and
ali deserted and went over 10 the gold
bug adnlinistrationiSts. Calhoun, IA
instructed for silver; Is turned trait
ors and voted with the goldougs. st:
Joseph, entire II delegates instructed
for silver; 8 were backsliders. Muske-
eon, Z instructed for silver; all proved
to be traitors. Oceana, all :? instruct
ed for the white metal, 4 deser ed to
the goldbugs Iosco, all 5 Instructed,
4 deserted. LNnawe, % Instructed, 5
deserted. Hillsdale, Is instructed.
3 deserted. Cass, 10 instructed, de:
serted. Menominee, Z Instructed, all
backsliders.
In other counties where no instruc.
tons were given, silver men deserted
asfollows: Alpena, l; Bay Z ;Berrein,5 ,5;
Charlevoix, 8; Cheboygan, 2; Mar
ouette, 1; Midland, 1;Monroe, /; Sagi-
nav, 12; Shiwassee, 2; Van Buren, 3;
Washtenaw, 4.
1.-The silver men had list compiled
from the returns of county conven
tons showing that had every county
sent the full number of delegates, and
had there been no backsliding, they
would have had, counting only in
structed delegates, msjority OF 16l.
Chairman Stevenson's private Big
ures yesterday morning-not the hg-
ures that were given out for puollca'
tion-showed a majority Of IS for the
administration"
Mr.. Vest: Mr.. President, l caused
that statement to be read instead OF
reading a much more lengthy one
from the Detroit Tribune and an
other from the Cincinnati Enquirer,
giving the details more in extenso; but
| should not have had any newspaper