The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-03-24
TILLMAN ON MARK HANNA
TIE DISGRACE OF THE LATE PRES!'
DENTlALELECTlON.
The Ohio Statesman is Rewarded for the
Wholesale Prostitution of the American

wholesale prostitution OF the American
People-Senators Should be Elected by p
Direct Vote.
Senator 3. R. Tillman wrote as fol
lows recently to the New York World:
The attitude of the World IN the last
campaign was disappointment to its
friends who had expected nat it
! would finally come out for free silver
and then give Mr.. Bryan hearty
support.
But while Democrats were disap-
pointed that the great Democratic
daily of New York city assn ned the
attitude it did, the telling blows which
it has dealt to trusts and monopoiies
and the courage and persistence with
which it leads the fight against corpo-
rations and their high priest, Mark
Hanna, must command the admlra-
ton Of every true patriot.
We are making history very rapidly
in this closing lustrum OF the nine
teenlh century aud the two opposing
forces ia American politics, the peo
pie and organized capital, are already
msrshalling their forces for the con
test of 1900. The last election, al
though it witnessed the triumph of
money, is acknowledged to have set.
tied nothing, and every student Of
current events must realize that the
condition of antagonism between man
and money Of our country is becom-
ing more and more accentuated every
day.
As soon as it became known that
Senator Sherman would receive the
portfolio OF State in the Cabinet Of
Mr.. Mckinley the question Of his sue
ce:sor came prominently to toe front
and for two months the figure OF
Mark Hanna has loomed portentious,
ly above the horizon as the man who
was to take Shermans place in the
American House OF Lords.
There has been reports, intervle VS.
and surmises almost daily leading the
psople to believe that Governor Bush
nell and Senator Foraker would re-
sist the demand for Mr.. Hauna's ap-
pointment to fill the Senatorial va
cancy. There were patriotic AmerL-
cans trained in the old school OF our
politics, both Democrats aud Repuoll'
cans. who hoped that official subser-
viency would not stoop 50 far that the
great State of Ohio might have as its
representative in the Senate one Wor-
thy to succeed John Sherman.
But the business methods, for the
first time made familiar to the Anerl-
can people in the recent Presidential
Canvass, have been too strong. The
news came to US within week that
! Hanna is to bs the next Senator from
iOhio. Organized capital faunts IN
the face of American people the COM
mission to seat in the Senate wrung
from a reluctant executive, and the
4!h of March, which will witness the
withdrawal of Sherman, will be fol-
lowed swiftly by the entrance into the
Senate chamber Of man who boldly
and unblushingly bought the Presl-
dency for his friend and patron.
say patron, for am not ready to
use harsher term which, however, IS
floating in the minds of the people,
nor to believe that Mr.. Mckinley will
permit himself to become the mere
puppet and tool Of Hanna and the
msn he represents.
The two men are very intimately
associated and one owes the other
much, very much, but shall hope to
see the new President perform the
duties of mis- high Office in a manner
that will reflect credit upon himself
and the millions OF true Americans
who voted for him, rather than lend
himself to the scheme OF the consplra.
tors who are pressing madly onward
either to defeat or revolution.
The American people have done q
great deal OF thinking since the No
vem Der election and the masses have
learned a great deal about the true ma
ture of the issues presented IN the las:
campaign.
It is fortunate for those who have
not despaired of the Republic and who
believe in the capacity OF mea Tor
self-government that Marx Hanna is
to enter the Senate. His advent
marks a further step downward, a
Lower deep" in the deoauchery OF
American politics. The election to
| the high office OF his Democratic pre-,
decessor W bribery has been charged
with much show of truth, and no eVl-
dence to disprove it ever saw the light
of day.
What, with the fact that Ohio cast
one vote in the recent election tor
every three and three-quarter inhaol::
tants and now sees the manlpulator OF
that election transplanted to the Sen
ate-it is easy to see that the down
ward course, the ''easy descent to
hell ;" is being rapidly trod. The
business methods which have
brought about these rerults and the
reward claimed and obtained SO IN
blushingly must mark an epoch IN
| American history.
The seat filled by bluff, honest old
Ben Wade and Grand Old Man,
Allan Thurman, is to be occupied oy
Mark Hanna and the question natural
ly presents itself, what IS the reason
Tor thus honoring this man2 Is It be
cause he has oppressed and robbed Ia
bor2 That he Is in fact the embodl
menI Of modern Republcanlsm VINCE
is more cruel than the ex-slageholderS
of the South and knows no God Ol
Mammon!
Let the cause be what it may, the
American people have only them
selves to blame for the condlIons II
which they now find themselves. Ihe
struggle for the control OF the govern
mem by the trusts and corporations ma:
caused US 10 witness strange hts with
10 recent years. The Federal patronage
and the possession Of the veto po"
er are the prizes fought for IN the
| Presidential election.
| A seat in the Senate, which IS tlf
fortress OF the wealthy classes and ia
vored Interests, is becoming 50 valua
hla that tho aleotioD Of Senator lu