The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-11-17
THAT FLANK MOVEMENT.
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E}itor S.ovs!i has beer soundinz ?
some of he politicians, aaG rtport> as
ioila s:
Il asked snr4wd Stale politician 4
inst q t5r !he elections the other day
II he thought free silver would con.
trol the uext presidential election. !
douo it. said / e. lam free silver
man, bIt think probably ahe fight will
be trans erred to some line OF currency
reform. Si!ver as a solitary and a
Winning issue has had lis dav Pop.
ulism "oald rot fuse with Democra
c7 again uooG Bry&nisG1 l reaIiz
lh&t. BatI ,e.l you one thing. Free
silver will control the state election
sad nalioG=i elec,ioQ rext year IN
Georgia. iGe shop,d stand on the
last national platform TIL we have
Smother sven tooush am convinced
;nas the presidency in 1890 vii be
fought out on different lines. The
EEK. governor OF Georgia must s:and
io- silver,
Tnere is much tax Of this kid, and
some ofilclmes from men wlo call
tbemzelve free silver advocaces :"
Chere will be 8 como!nStion formed
OF ''s,raGdlers. dodgers, and harmo
n;zhrs," 5.sed 0a mere party spoils
s.slen Although Dlvid B HUI
dilu'l pul 10 an active appearance
during Ine Eea York election ne rad
4 havo iu il, and worked by proxg.
Wst.erson CrooEer, G,rmon Smith
of Nc jersey. Carer Harrison prob
ably Hyke S NTH, H&rfi'y, aud poss
bly Mel ga, of OHIO. sre said TO be
The mosiag spirits in this camp palgn Of
''dropoipg silver and substituting
sJmething else. The Springfield Re-
publican shrewdly noting this attack
on "Bryausm" shows:
1t is too early to venture predic-
tionS, since mUcl Will depend upon
the e,ents of the coming year and
toe congressional elections OF 1898
Judging By the elections OF last Tues
day, however, the outlook is not eX
actly promising. The iY in the oint
ment IS IL the results elsewhere than
IL NV York. German was beaten
on straodle. The silver passion in
Virginia, representing the south, aud
in Iowa and Nebraska, representing
the west, showed no signs of weaken
ing, whatever par!lsens may say. Il
must be remem bered by those who
would figure coidly in these matters
that Nebraska, an old R. R-publlcan
state, gave silver about rs large a ma
)ri.y This year as last, while n Iowa
lhe Democrats, after campaign on
the silver issue, pol!ed within 80 900
as many votes as 10 the presidential
year, or total which was the larges.
IN their history IN stite elections, with
ore Reception. These results in Iowa
and Nebraska must be viewed IN con-
nection with the fsc. that they are
wheat growing states. Tne rise in
What aud the prosperity 70 the farm
ers. therefore, which was expected to
seriously ccippl- the silver movement,
absolutely failed to damage the silver
Cause in TIE prairie common weal!as.
Was there anything IN flesd lays e.ec
ton more surprising than that one
fact? No~, next year wheat wi.l be
down again in prica, ana hog are tbs
Dem cratic harmonizers to aptUra he
party IL The west and south, which
furnlshed The delegates who made sil.
yer the issle aud Bryan the candidate
in 1882"
THESE are clear and for!ble preseu-
tatiols OF :ae case, and they come
from paper favorable to toe gold
Standard, bls emiaently fais and
courageous. We advise the com oines,
II they be really plotting, TO avail;
eveais. We 90 not count on their
oeiDg able 10 control tns nexsEational
Convention Ga such liues as they are
accredited with, but th5y will bear
wa;c1ing. Perhaps, IN selecting
candidate for governor OF Georgia
next lime, man VINO is DISPOSED 10
straddle ia 1890 should be KEEP: IN re-
lirement-AUgus;a ChronicIe.