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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-01
his body. Speaks was 40 years old and
was wild and reckless.


Near Arcadia, Fla, Alexander Mer-
Ger was assassinated at Christmas en-
tertainment given at schoolhouse.
The young man was handing presents
from 3 Christmas tree, when load OF
buckshot was fred through window.
The charge almost tore off Mercer
head. There is no clue to the murderer
William Barlow, . white man. q
years Of age. was arrested at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. charged with outraging
little Doshia May Hurdy, white girl.
sged years, who is now In the hospit'
al and is expected TO die. The girls
mother is also in Jail as an accessory tc
the crime. A lynching is not improbar
bic.
The annual session of the state board
of charities was held at Raleigh, N. O.,
and reports on all state institutions and
from 81 of the Sc counties were receiv.
ed, and were the best ever made, the
public institutions having reached the
highest state Of efficiency. The percent
age of recoveries of insane patients was
the largest ever known
A search Of records on file at the navy
department has brought to light the
fact that Grover island, in Camden
county, Ca, is the property Of the
United States. For nearly 100 years
title to the island has been in doubt.
Records show that the island was cen-
veyed to the United States in 1779 by
Josiah Tattnan and wife, but title never
asserted.
Samuel Drew, e1-registrar Of deeds Of
Brunswick county, N. c.. and mem.
Der Of the mercantile firm Of Davis q
Drew, has mysteriously disappeared,
his whereabouts being unknown. He
conveyed his property, but it is found
that the property is already mortgaged
for full value. Drew left home to go to
Wilmington, and has not been heard
from since.
Louis Rebham, young mechanic,
has arrived in Louisville, Ky, for the
purpose Of letting his.parents know that
they had buried the wrong body when,
about year ago, they attended his fu-
neral. Rebham disappeared and several
weeks later badly decomposed body
was found in the canal. The parents
identified the corpse and mourned their
son Us dead until his temperance.
At meeting Of the Young Mems
Business league Of Charleston, resolu.
tions were adopted requesting the rep.
rescntatives Of South Carolina to use
their utmost to secure the passage Of
the Squire bill in the senate. Similar
action was taken by special meeting OF
the city council and resolutions of like
nature were adopted by the chamber Of
commerce and other commercial bodies.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-01
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

STATE OF SOUlH GAROLINR,
COUNTY OF CLARENDON.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
William F. B. Haynsworth and B.
Presley Barron, as Qualified Exec
utors of the last Will and Testa-
ment of Samuel C. C, Richardson,
deceased, Plaintiffs,
against
Wallace II. Plowden, Wallace S.
Plowden, and Henry C. Plowden,
Defendants.
Judgment for Foreclosure and Sale.
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF y
Judgment order of the court of COM
mon pleas, in the above stated action,
to me directed, bearing date October
10Th 1895, I will sell at pub
lie auction, to the highest
bidder, at Clarendon court house, at
Manning, in said county, within the
legal hours for judicial sales, on Mon
dav. the 9Th day of January, 1896,
being salesday, the following de-
scribed real estate:
Gall that tract or parcel of land,
situate in the County of Clarendon
and State aforesaid, containing thir-
ty-four acres, more or less, and
bounded as follows, to wit: On the
north by the public road leading
from Manning to kingstree and land
of James Mcdowell; south by the
Central Railroad of South Carolina;
and west by the lands of the grantor
herein and James Mcdowell, all of
which will more fully appear by ref
erence to plat made by P. 6. Ben
bow, surveyor, on November, 1886.
The land described herein will b
sold upon the following terms, to wit:
One-half cash, the balance on credit
of one year, with interest from the
day of sale, secnred by bond OF the
purchaser and his mortgage of the
premises sold, with leave OF the pur-
chaser to pay the whole in cash.
Purchaser to pay for papers.
D. J. RRADHAM,
Sheriff Clarendon County.
Manning, S. c., Dec. II, 1895.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-12
EVILS OF A FLUCTUATING CUR
RENCY.

Nearly all argument of the silver ques-
ton thus far has been devoted to demon
stratng the evils and dangers of a de-
based currency. The advocates of sound
money have taken the ground justified by
commercial logic, that the free coinage of
silver would cause the silver dollar to sink
to it's bullion value and bring our paper
currency down to thecs level. Thus at
the beginning of the campaign they had a
great deal to say about 53-cent dollars and
later about 50-cept dollars, those figures
representing the actual value of the metal
in the dollar 1t is impossible to overes-
innate the evils and dangers of free silver
coinage from this point of view. but there
is another point of view equally as impor-
tant, viz the certainty that the silver
standard would be a constantly fiuctuating
one The evils of a debased currency would
be UNNECESSARILY increased if it Were also
a fuctuating currency. There are not many
men now in business who are old enough
to recall the conditions during the war
when merchants had to sell goods day by
day at prices fiuctuating with the currency,
but there In fact, these condi-
tons existed from the suspension of specie
payments, in January, 1862, until the re-
sumption in 1879. Taking the average of
each year greenbaeks were worth eighty
eight cents in gold in 1852; in 1863 they were
worth So cents; in 1864, 40 cents; in 1865. 63
cents; in 1866, II cents; in 1867, - cents;
in 1868. Il cents. From this time they rose
gradually to 50 cents in 1876. 80 cents in
1877, and finally, when resumption was
sured. to par. These figures represent the
average value OF greenbacks during each of
the years named, but they f1uctuated from
month to month. from week to week. and
from day to day. This continual fiuetua-
ton of the currency kept merchants mark
ing their goods up or down all the time
and made it very difficult to do business.
The first effect of free silver coinage
would be to bring all our silver and paper
ard. This. of course would cause wide
spread panic and revolution in trade, but
that would not be ALL If the currency, aft
err being thus debased. would remain sta
tionary. business would in time adjust it
self to the a3-cent standard, the 50-cent
standard or whatever 1t might be. But il
would not remain stationary. It would
ffuctuate with the price of silver bullion,
and that varies constantly The market
value of silver has not been exactly the
same during three consecutive years for
two hundred years. The fluctuations have
not been great from year 10 year. but al
ways enough 10 disturb the established
ratios between gold and silver. In 1856 1t
was worth 80 cents an ounce. and now
II il worth only 6 cents TO be par with
gold It should be worth si.ae ounce.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-12

elected there viii be no more interference
by the national government to enforce law
or suppress strikes in Illinois. President
Bryan, say these propa gandists of treason
will not raise finger unless Governor Alt
geld asks him to, and that the Governor
will never do. The Constitution requires
the President to enforce the laws of the
United States in every part of the coun-
try, whether the Governor of a State asks
him to not. No President would think
of interfering with the enforcement of
State laws, but if he failed to enforce
United States law he would violate his oath
and deserve impeachment. Governor Alt
geld hates President Cleveland because the
latter performed his duty and used the
power of the United States government to
enforce United States law and protect
United States property in Hin without
asking permission of the Governor And by
the same token, AltgeId faI ; Cfic cleo
ton of Bryan because he has 81 p. Jason
to believe that Bryan ayr Nr., that
the national governp,eI:t : - only by
sufferance of the State It remains to be
seen If railroad men VIII ie influenced by
these insidious appeals 10 aeir disloyaIty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-12
FROM SILVER TO TILLMAN.

It appears from an Atlarta dispatch that
Chairman Jones has sent for Senator Till
man to come to Chicago. and that he is
Carolnian was regarded early in The cam
paiGn. as one whose speaking would be
more advantageous to the Republicans
than to the so-caled Democracy. the call
ing of Tillman is significant. He was in
this State some time before the Chicago
convention and made several speeches
which were regarded by silverites as dam
aging to their cause. His speech in the
Chicago convention was regarded as SO wild
and damaging that another speaker felt
called upon to disclaim it the sentiment
of the party. Since the convention Mr.
Tillman has been permitted to make
speeches in Pennsylvania and where he
could do no particular injury by his wild
and anarchistic rawlings.
In view of these facts, if Mr.. Tilman has
been called by Chairman Jones to speak in
such States as Illinois, Indiana and Wis
consin, it is fair to assume that. in the
judgment of the managers. the Democratic
campaign has drifted so much toward Alt
geldism and Tillmanism that the speakers
who can hereafter be of the greatest BEN
eft TO the Bryan campaign are those who
array one section against another and
those who seek to array one calling against
all others-that the orators who utter the
most violent language and most vehement
ly assail and threaten the institutions of
the country which were established by the
fathers are those who will win the most
votes to Mr.. Bryan. Time and again since
the Chicago convention. Mr.. Tiiman has
declared that the Supreme Court would be
overthrown or pitched out During his
political career in South Carolina he has
devoted himself to arraying element
against another and TO stirring up strife.
He has played the tyrant as no man has
dared in any State. He has ruled courts
and Legislatures, employed the militia 10
suppress local government, and his attempt
10 control the liquor traffic in the interest
of the State has forced upon the people a
vast system Of corruption. That the col
ored voter shall not assert his rights. he
led in the adoption OF the new constitution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-12

without submission to the people. which
thousand colored freemen of the right of
suffrage. His growing arrogance has at
last offended a portion of his followers SO
that his candidate for United States Sena-
tor was defeated III the recent preliminary
election required by the Constitution of
ances in vain to find one broadly patriot
ic sentiment. Even now he procaiIns that
the solid South the Southwest and extreme
West must be arrayed against the older
States. In short, he is so vicious man
that leaders in the Democratic party in
speak in them.
Mr.. Bryan has been giving primary in
struction in Tillmanism. Possibly Chair
man Jones, judging from the acclaim with
which Mr.. Bryan has been received in his
efforts to create jealousies between en-
prepared the people for the strong meat
of the anarchism of Tillman.
This is the man whom Chairman Jones
has called for some service during the last
weeks of the campaign. Last July Senator
Jones would have been delighted if Tillman
Have the Democratic managers come to
the conclusion that Tillmanism the essence
of sectionalism, class hate. lawlessness and
violence, is their best card during the last
three weeks of the canyassp
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-12
A MOST IMPORTANT REPORT.

About two months ago the Trades and
Labor Assembly of Chicago which is made
up of representatives of all the labor or
CARNATIONS in that city, selected two of
its members to go to Mexico and investi-
gate the conditions of labor in that country
The men selected are those who have been
to1lers in factories all their lives. and be-
ing members of labor organizations. are in
full sympathy with the workers of other
countries. These representatives. P j.
Mas and Patrick Enright having spent
some time in Mexico have returned and
made report the main portions of which
are printed in this issue. 1t is report
which every wage Garner in the land should
read. They tell of the condition of the
people who labor in Mexico not as coming
from others. but as they saw It. and they
tell it in manner which shows that they
have been close observers. These repre-
sentatives of labor more than confirm all
that has been written of Mexico and its
life. The wages which quoted are in
Mexican silver. The railway engineer who
receives $40 month really gets S105 The
man who works in a broom factory for
so cents a day gets equivalent of .
cents in the money of the United States.
The man who makes shoes. or what an
swers for shoes. receives 81 per dozen and
receives half that amount when reduced to
our money. This is because Mexico is on
a silver basis. Since Mexico became a
silver-standard country the intrinsic value
of the Mexican silver dollar has fallen from
20 cents to almost so cents in gold. Wages
it is said, have been materially advanced,
but the depreciation of the silver money
in which labor is paid has reduced the plr-
chase power of wages in all the necessaries
of life, except such as are produced III that
country. not less than one-third. Thus
with the wages now paid in Mexico if the
country upon a gold standard. labor
ers could purchase almost double the guam
tity they can for the money they are forced
To take The dollars are called dollars
when they are not. The very fact that the
people are paid In a deprecated money pre-
vents their progress toward better things
even IL they desired them. Cheap money
and cheap labor go together. and labor is
made SO cheap BY the money, which has
lost half Its purchase power In twenty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-12

When the present campaign opened the
metal in a silver dollar was worth IS
cents: now it is worth only 80 cents. On
the sth of October. 1895. as appears in the
regular market report of the Journal of
that date, bar silver was worth e7ss cents
an ounce. Day before yesterday it was
quoted at Sd cents an ounce With free sill
yer coinage and the country on a silver
basis, our silver and paper money would
share in these fluctuations of bar silver.
The Mexican dollar does now Making the
greenbacks legal tender did not prevent
them from greatly depreciating during the
war, and legislation was ineffectual 70 stop
IT. So it would be with currency based
on silver. 1t would fuctuate with every
change in the market price of silver bull
lion and no human power could prevent it.
Therefore, it is misleading to talk about
a 53-cent dollar a 50-cent dollar as a
result of the free coinage of silver. 1t
might be a 50-cent dollar this week, 40
cent dollar next week. a 52-cent dollar n
week later, and During 1894 the bull
lion value of a silver dollar was as low as
10 cents, and the average value during the
year was 10 cents. These are facts for bus
mess men TO think of.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-12
INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION.

Want of labor and not lack of money is
the real secret of the present extremely
hard times.-Clay City Reporter.
Bryan is thought to have made more
speeches out of a single speech than any
man now before the public.--Goshen Times.
The treasury deficit continues to grow
And yet one of the presidential candidates
says he has no time to devote to the tariff
Paramount Times.
Free coinage of silver will not open a
factory or mill or raise the wages of a
single workingman employed in those now
open.-Muncie Times.
With free coinage of silver the rich sill
Vel mine owner will pay the day iaborer
one dollars worth of silver for two dol
lars worth of labor.-Knightstown Sun
II Bryan does not make a more favorable
impression in other places than he did in
Hammond his tour of the country will not
yield a very good crop OF CONVERSATIONS
mond Tribune
The preservation OF national honor by
the maintenance Of sound-money stand
ard will haxe the immediate effect of re-
storing confidence and herstlding prosper
ity.-South Bend Tribune.
Bryan is opposed to any politics in the
pulpit" Just the same, the pulpit is OPP
posed to Bryan politics. The pulpits are
few and far between that advocate repudia-
Banner
How TO get the dollars is what Is agitat-
ing the people. Major Mckinley refers them
to a plan that worked successfully for
nearly thirty years. Mr. Bryan tells them
to vote for free silver and have faith
Auburn Dispatch.
If the Mckinley tariff law had not been
repealed there would be no occasion to dis
cuss the silver question to-day. The dis
contentment that gave birth to the Bryan
movement is largely chargeable to the Will
tariff law.-Richmond Palladium.
If the defeat of Bryan is as oyerwhelm-
ing Is it promises to be the Senate will
be in such a position will allow the pass
age of laws to give the government suffi-
Client revenue and American industries
proper observation-disclosures Republican,.
There is no way to judge the future but
by the past. The p.st teaches that the
only way to float god and silver side by
side is to coin money of these metals at
a ra ito corresponding exactly with the COM
mercial ratio existing between thena.-Mid-
dletown News
The Democratic plan for making times
better is to cut the dollar down 10 fifty
cents. The Republican plan Iii to enact a
tariff law that will supply SUFFICIENT rev
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-12
State are as follows:
S324 16G- 90 SI-G 994 go

Forty-three of the above-named seventy
three mines paid 10 per cent. dividends and
over at the last declaration. Twenty-six
of the forty-three paid % per cent. divl-
dends and over and some paid so per cent
or over. Seven of the nine mines in the
Nevada group paid from % to 50 per cent
dividends the last dividend day. The en-
tire dividend of the Nevada group of mines
has been 12o per cent. on the capital stock
The Ontario mine, in Utah in which the
owner of the silver organ in New York
is one of the largest stockholders, is capt.
talzed at $15,000,000 and has paid $13 100 900
in dividends. The last dividend being but
10 per cent, several stockholders protested
because the dividends were not being paid
as fast as earned. These stockholders
We're sent copies of the Inter-Ocean Mining
Review last February, with the following
paragraph, marked:
While the output of the Ontario mine
policy in view of the possibility of better
price for silver is very questionable.
This means that silver was being held
back in the hope that Congress will adopt
free coinage of silver when the ounce now
worth 65 cents could be stamped as legal
tender money for 81. 90
A month more ago the silver mine own
ers in Utah We're asked to contribute $780,
600 to the Bryan campaign and a commit
tee was appointed to make the collection
Secretary Merrill, of the Silver Mine Own
erS' League, called for this amount on the
ground that it was one-twelfth of the adj
dtional profits which the Utah mine own
ers would receive if a free coinage law
could be passed. That is the annual
profits of one small batch of mine own
ers. ali millionaires or multi-miIiioraires
would be 6.o0oO 900 if the Bryan programme
should succeed.
The names of the leading mine owners
in this conspiracy to force this country to
silver isis are all known. They are not
over one hundred. and the most active ones
do not number over a score. They alone
would be the beneficiaries by the free coin
age of silver, which nine-tenths of the
business men of the country are convinced
would cause such a panic as would para
lyze business and close a large part of the
factories in the country for an indefinite
period.
There is not a man in Indiana who works
for salary or wages who would not be
a most serious loser by the success Of this
scheme of the greedy silver miners trust
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-12

mills for the employment OF American la
bor--Seymour Republican.
Mr.. Bryan has come and gone. and in
his coming and going injured his cause.
His speeches in cold type more than off,
nave secured. There is nothing to them.
They are empty and devoid or fact ar
acknowledgements Journal.
Bryan did himself no good opening his
mouth at North Vernon, and Republicans
Were much encouraged by the meeting. as
it caused a show of colors among Republic
ans somewhat surprising Two-thirdS of
the crowd of 1.500 people wore the golden
rod as an emblem of Republicanism--No North
Vernon Republican.
Mr.. Bryan's appearance gives an impress
sion Of great physical strength and will
of iron rather than any idea of deep in
telligence. When compared with the late
leaders of the Democratic party. men who
have been recognized as great statesmen
in the Nations affairs. he suffers in COM
parison. Mr.. Bryan may become states
man in the next twenty years. but he does
not look like one now did not talk
like one.-Winamac Republican.
The spirit of coercion is shown in Gov
ernor Matthew's words condemning the
business men of Indianapolis fer failure
to decorate their places of business in hon
or of Mr.. Bryan on his recent visit to the
capital The Governor reminds the BUSH
ness men that they have Democratic Gus
toners who should be considered. "--Muncie
Times.
The same quack statesmen who succeed
ed in fooling the people four years ago
are on deck again with new panacea,
the virtues of which they parade in noisy
harangue much after the manner of the
street fakir who persuades people, even
against their better judgment to buy his
worthless noStrumS A great majority of
the people can be fooled only once by the
same imposters.-Angola Magnet.
Every man is entitled to the fullest en-
joyment of political and religious liberty,
and it is just as tyrannical for the major
ity of a labor organization to dictate Il
policy to be pursued by fellow-Working-
men, regardless of their natural lncllna-
tions, as 1t is for employer to undertake
to say what an employee shall do or leave
undone in matters pertaining to pupnc al
fairs.-Lafayette Courier.
Wheat would now be worth 81 per bushel
in the United States if the wage earners
had full employment at American wages
during the past three years or If they were
fully employed now at their 1892 wages
We now have about all the surplus grain
of the world and all that we need to OBJ
tain it's full value is to restore the conn
dence labor and business of the American
people by overwhelmingly defeating free
silver and free trade in the November cleo
tion-Richmond Telegram.