The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-10-28
IN OLD KENTUCKY.
MR. R.JoHNSoN, OF SPARTANBURG, TO
The BLUE GRASS FARMERS.

Great Ou;pourlngs OF the People Greet
Hlm-GoldbuG Democrats and Hanna
Republicans Working In Accord to Elect
Mckinley.
FRANKLIN, Ky, Oct. let was ar
ranged for me to 60 into Illinois next
Wednesday, but the Kentucky cam
paign committee wired the National
committee to let me remain IN this
state a week longer. The National
committee instructed me to speak in
Kentucky until nes5 Saturday night.
I will go into Illinois on Monday 26th
instant.
In this great contest my movements
are OF small moment. What is the
outlook2
After writing you from West Vir-
ginia I made two other speeches in
that State. My belief is that Bryan
will carry it by a good majority. I
came mo Kentucky at Ashland and
made my first speech at Grayson, the
county seat OF Carter county. Carter
is strong Republican county, but our
people have the promise of two hum
dred Republican votes for Bryan and
will lose thirty gold men. In all the
county districts the Democrats will
make large gains. The gains will
come from silver Republicans, Popu-
lists and men who have not heretofore
voted. For instance there are three
brothers in this county who have not
voted in twelve yeers. They are red
hot Bryan men and will vote and
work for him. Our people are conf
dent OF carrying this State for Bryan
by thirty thousand. 90 not know.
While the Democrats will gain enor-
mously in the county, it must bs re-
membered that the losses will be con-
siderable in Louisville, Lexington,
Covington, Richmond and other
towns. The Louisville Courier-J Jour
nal, The Louisville Times, The Louis
vile Post and many more heretofore
Democratic papers are sighting Bryan
sa7agely. These papers are as anx-
ious for McKinley's success as The
Mail and Express of New York, but as
they still dub themselves Democratic
they can do US more harm than they
possibly could do if they were Rspub.
Iican. Any news unfavorable to Bry-
an is published under flaming head
lines, all reports favorable to Bryan
are suppressed.
I heard Bailey OF Texas make
great speech in Lexington last Thurs
day night. The papers Friday morn
ing did not report one sentence nor
give synopsis of the speech; but
ported the fact that Bailey spoke to a
full house. In the same issue In let
! tess ftess larger than your eaterprising ad-
verfSers use it was announced that
BourkeSocklan and John G. Carlisle
would maSsSQemocratic (D speeches
in this state. "a Friday | had a joint
debate with goldaan At Lagsenee-
burg and on Saturday m6Snlng T9
Courier Journal reported tlie oe9alz
complimented the other feG70W and
did not say one word about my part OF
it. I merely mention this toshow you
how extremely bitter the contest is
here and how these papers suppress re-
ports. I care nothing about the fail.
ure to report my part of the debate,
because left the happiest crowd of
Democrats you ever saw, many OF
them accompanied me to the depot.
The Democrats in this State have
more to contend with than outsiders
can well imagine. Jonn G. Carlisle,
Buckner, Lindsay and Breckinbridge
have aIl been honored by the Demcc-
racy of Kentucky. They are all able
men and each has a personal
following. I made two speeches
in Hart county, the home OF Buckner.
His vote in that county is estimated at
from 80 to 100. Breckinbridge will
be supported for Congress by the Re
publicans in the 7th district. The gold
Democrats and the Republicans are as
amiable and loving as you please. l
think if some OF our gold friends down
South knew that the gold men in this
section were working in complete har-
mony with the Republicans, they
would pause to ask themselves how
the Democracy will be any more pre-
served by turning the country over to
| Mckinley and the trusts than 10 bry-
an and his followers. When the gold
Democrats speak here their audiences
are composed almost exclusively OF
Republicans. The Republicans talk
about Clevelad and Carlisle and that
crowd as statesmen and patriots. Are
Palmer, Buckner, Carlisle, Cleveland
ard that crowd fighting Mckinley
ard Republicanism: Are the Repub-
licans lighting the gold Democrats
They are both fighting Bryan. The
boilers calling themselves the only
pure Democrats and the Republicans
are working to one common end and
that is to defeat Bryan in the interest
of the money power. The unholy alli-
ance will fail. The people will render
their verdict on November 3rd in these
words: We find for the American
people; we find that men, not money,
shall rule this country; we find for
W. J. Bryan and bimetsilism.
J. T. JOHNSON,
in Spartanburg Herald.