The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-09-02
Slapderipg tho South.

York Ias: week Bourke Cochran, who
up to t:le line he made that speech
claimed to be Democrat, took coca
SION 10 use the folio wing language in
reference to the friends OF silverin tue
West and South:
Men Of New York, toilers of Ameri-
ca, guardians Of your own homes, will
you allow your rare OF wages to be af-
fected (Cries of Never" Never by
any man who never has paid wages al
all he could get out of it? Will you
submit to this conspiracy between the
professional farmers, the farmers who
cultivate the quarre.s of their neigh
bors, farmers who labor with their
jaws, Populist agitators Of the West
and the unreconciled shareholders of
the South2 This is a conspiracy be
tween professional farmers who want
to pay low wages and the unreconciled
Shareholders who would like to pay
20 wages at all. (Applause.) Here is
the real root of this conspiracy.
In commenting on Cockran's TRADE
the Augusta Chronicle says it is an in
suit to the men of the South and the
West which they will not soon forget,
and one which they will promptly and
effectively resent. When MIR. Cock
ran insults the majority OF the Demo
cratic party with the assertion that
they are made up o. farmers who Ia.
bor with their avs acd the unrecon-
ciled slave holders of The South who
would like to pay no wae es at all, )" he
allows prejudice to run riot with his
reason He demonstrates, too, that
down in his heart he still holds his
prejudice and hatred Of the South,
and that he only needed congenial
audience before which to speak his real
sentiments. Cochran was speaking
when he uttered the above SANDER, for
the party in national politics this year
that is supported in this State by such
newspapers as the News aud Courier
and few of it's ''me toos." In this
day of peace and reunion it comes
with poor grace from a boasted Demo
cratic leader to be beinsulting Democrats
of the South, who, year after year,
have Loyalty supported the candidates
offered by Democrats of the North;
and we much mistake the temper. and
self-respect of Democratic masses all
over the country if they do not resent
the persistent references to their Pres
idential candidate by Mr.. Cochran, as
a ''Populist." Mr.. Cochran is an ora,
tor, and he may have pleased his mil
ionaire employers, but he will ind ne
has afronted the masses of the Demo
cratic party, South and West, and ce-
mented them together more strongly
for Bryan and silver coinage.
Those Patriotic Bankers.
The patriotic" banks not only took
special precautions to be able to get
back their paltry loan" OF sls,OOO,-
900 from the United States Treasury
whenever they wanted it, but they
have been and are adopting systemat-
ic means to place the Treasury and
other sources of money supply entire
ly at their own tthe national banks)
tender mercies. The following ex-
tract from an article in the New York
Journal will make clear how the banks
do it: The scarcity of greenbacks in
the hands of the public was illustrat-
ed by an incident which occurred yes
terday Saturday in an Office at No.
10 Wall street. There were present
six persons, including E. r Holden,
a banker of Colorado, who said:
Gentlemen. will wager that there is
nota man in this party who has other
money than silver or silver certificates
in his possession There was a prompt
turning out of the contents of wallets
and pockets. While at least three OF
the party had in excess OF Sl00 in
bills in their possession, every bill
was silver certificate. Mr.. Holden
then.remarked: i. have observed Tor
several weeks that all my money was
in silver certificates. Finding that
several of my friends had noted the
same thing, I accompanied one OF
them to well known bank in Wall
street, where he presented check for
$1,000 to be cashed, The larger por.
ton of the money was paid IN new
silver certificates and the balance IN
national bank notes. People are talk
ing in such narrow way about the
dreadful result of Mr.. Bryan's election
and what infinite harm silver will do.
They seem to forget that the only me
dunn now in circulation among the
people is silver or silver certificates.
If we depend for our currency on gold
or its specific form of circulating note
there would be hardly dollar ia the
country except the holdings of the
banks or the Treasury Department"