The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-09-01
AGAIN THE ALLIANCE
GREAT GATHERINGS OF TIE CLANS
IN UNION COUNTY.

! SenarOr k!liu8o 1&LRS 60 neul-IAe ID nc
csiv.d with The Old Time Enthusiasm.
Durc Ripborn and Wilson Also
Speak.
Ooe Of the largest gatherings ssen
in Union County for years was held
a. Duck Pond church Thursday, four
miles above Union, tbe occasion being
the Union County Al!iSnce rally. It
had been given out some days ago
that Senator Tiliman would be pres
ent to address the asSenblage, and at
al early hour Thursday morning
clouds CT dust were seen on ail the
roads leading into town from the low
er portion OF the county. caused by
people going to the meeting. Many
went up on the morning train to JOIN
the tbrong. There were between 1 SEQ
and 2,C0O people present, including
quite large number OF ladies.
Mr.. D. P. Duncan was the first
ispeaker introduced. He urged the
Alliance to reorganize and stick to-
sether. He told them of their strength
and how they were feared by the
trusts, whose whole aim is to grind
down the people and make them ply
exorbitant prices for anything that
they could get control Of. He illus
trated by recounting the great fight
that was made against the cotton tie
trust and the great advantages thatre-
suited to the farmer by the success OF
the fight. He said one would haze
some idea what al enormous profit
would have went into pockets OF the
trust if they had not made the fight,
| If the multiplied half million bundle
ties necessary for the crop OF the south
by the 70 cents raise they had put on
each bale.
He spoke for an hour telling Of the
good work the Alliance had done IN
the way of bringing the agricultural
and laboring classes together through
out the land, Notwithstanding the slurs
OF the newspapers in their squibs, say,
ing the Alliance was a corpse, was a
dead thing Of the past, and that those
same people would some day find to
their undoing that the Alliance is the
most lively corpse they ever had any
thing to DO with. He complimented
Senator Tillman for the work he was
doing in the senate, and said that he
was keeping wide awake to the ln-
terests of the farmers. he told Of the
trouble the Alliance had at organize.
j ton By politicians going in for per-
sonal advantage, getting leftand drop
ping out. He said we need statesmen
we don't need so many leaders. The
icountry, if ever saved, would be
through the Alliance principles and
not by politicians; that the politician
dares only for the people while trying
to secure their votes.
He deplored the fact OF Texas going
into the cotton raising business and 60
ing out of sheep raising. Give them
wool tariff, so they would raise sheep,
and let US raise the cotton. Texas
Ecould raise bale to the acre without
fertilizer; we can't con- pete with them.
We want more manufacturing indus
tries. We need to manufacture those
things which We buy from the north.
We want people mere who will con-
sumo farm produces and not produce
them. This will give us better prices.
Mr. Wilborn of York, president OF
| the Alliance, was next introduced. He
told OF the work he was doing and pro-
posed to do in the way Of recognizing
the Alliance, and told of the soreheads
who had gotten into the Alliance and
doneit more harm than good because
their personal expectations were not
realized. He urged the reorganization
in every section OF every county OF the
Alliance, until the entire yeom&nrv CT
the State should move solidlv together
in anv measure looking to the advance,
ment Of the general welfare OF the
agricultural Interests OF the country.
Mr.. Ssanyarne Wilson was next in
troduced as the silver-tongued orator
of Spartanburg, and spoke for forty
minutes mostly upon national issues.
Advocating the cause cf bimetalism
as the remedy for hard times, he said
that when silver was cut down that
there was about an equal amount OF
silver and gold. The result was the
cutting OFF half our money; and scarce
money always caused hard times,
while plenty OF money caused good
prices and good times. Prices had
gradually advanced ! per cent year
! for twenty years pricr to 1873, ard
since then in six years the price went
idown to % per cent. He said the IS
sue of greenback bills was the starting
point of the money monopolists in
their destructive work. Greenbacks
were a necessity, but the bankers in
ISertea a clause thst they should not
be go1d for interest on the national
debt and import duty. From this be-
ginning they had gone step by step
until they now have their clutch on
The very throat Of the government.
| He was opposed 10 the tariff on cotton !;
vas IL favor Of getting as low tariff
as possible; showed the extra cost the
TO per cent. tariff would make on wear
ling apparel, etc. He said the tariff
was not revenue, and that while ten
/! millions Of revenue would be raised
one hundred and fifty million will go
into the pockets Of the manufacturers,
who are thus protected against for
elgn importation. We should not tax
cotton, because we export il; should
tax rice, because we import it. Egyp
tan cotton is no more IN competition
to our cotton than It is to wool. Il IS
az entirely different article.
| After dinner Mr. Ti!lman was intro
Iduced. The CROWD had patiently
| waited to hear the senator, and from
the cheers that went upit was evident
that he had lost no ground IN Union
county. He was the same blunt Till
| man that faced the Union people IN
| 1890 anG since, and he ait lst as hard
! icks as ever. Hs inci!eo questions
from the audience, and got tnem and
gave quick and ready answer to all,
which got the audience as enthusias-
| tic as of old, and many remarked that
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