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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-10-06

HERE WE ARE.
LEVIBR07HERs,
TO REMIND
Our friends in Clarendon that we
want continuance of the liberal pa
tronage the good people OF Clarendon
have always so kindly bestowed upon
us, and in thanking them we desire
to say that a great part of our success
in this busy market of Sumter is due
to the people with whom we were
brought up and who know us best.
We are truly thankful for this mani
festation of confidence and we can
assure our friends that we will guard
their good opinion of us with a jeal-
Gus care.
The season is at hand when goods
will have to be bought, the Home
and the Farm will have to be pro-
vided for. There never was time in
this country when it was more to
ones interest to look carefully after
purchases.
Congress brought on revolution
in the prices of manufactured goods,
but being in position to do so and
with our usual watchfulnesS of the
interests of our patrons and our own
interests, we 1grasped the situation
as soon as President Mckinley called
Congress together in extraordinary
session We knew it meant Tariff
and Tariff meant tremendous rise
in prices We hurried on and made
our fall contracts and the result is
that we are able to compete with any
house in the State, in Dry Goods,
Clothing, Shoes, Hats, and further
we are paying every cent the market
will permit for cotton.
Our Dress Goods Department
Is pleasure for any lady to visit:
there she will find perfect line of
the newest Novelties and latest ideas.
The styles are models Of beauty; de-
signs and colorings cannot be eXcelled.
CLOTHING,
We offer at prices surprisingly low;
the greatest triumph over high prices
we have ever known An eXamina-
ton is all that is necessary to con-
vince The customer gets full value
for his money.
SHOES, SHOES, SHOES.
The largest and best stock we have
ever handled and nowhere can better
bargains be had than at our store.
In this line we give the manufactur-
ers' guarantee, and when you buy
pair of shoes from us you get solid
leather.
GROCERIES.
1t is hardly necessary for US to say
anything about this line because it is
known that we buy direct; there is
no middle man to share in the profits
and our customers can get anything
in the Grocery line from US and save
money.
We want you to come to see us
when you come to the. city, and we
not only want to sell you goods, but
we want you to sell us your cotton.
LEVI BROTHERS,
SUMTER, S. C.
ISjlSS ljjSt5!iI!SjSS5Si!S5j
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28
Nature Study for Public sCs.Ools.

Nature study. or seeing familiar
things in a new light, ia valuable
factor in education. How many peo-
o can explain, so that child can I'M
derstand, why water puts out fire; why
some young squash plants bring their
shells out of the ground on the backs
and others do not, or show the differ
ence between a leaf bud and fruit
bud of the apple or tell from whence
all the house flies come? The world is
full of such common things, about
which people do not inquire. Yet
such subjects can be made very inter
esting to children and they can be
taken up in the schools, not as an ad-
ded recitation, but as q rest exercise
once or twice a week to relieve the
monotony of the schoolroom and later
can be brought into exercise-accurate
observation and the. power OF express
sing definitely what is seen.
The college Of agriculture of Carneu
University has, under the Nixon or
agricultural extension bill, Undertaken
to assist, free of expense, all teachers
who wish to introduce this work into
their schools. All parents and teachers
interested in this work are asked to
send their address, mentioning the
Peoples Party Paper, for more detailed
information to Chief Clerk, College OF
Agricult ure, Ithaca, N. Y.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28
THEY ARE RELIABLE.

We believe through careful inquiry, that ell
tlet ~ PC ~, 81 ,I ~ ~
works, upon complaint of a subscriber against
an advertiser, that shows on its face an irreg-
ulRr transaction we will use our best efforts TO
protect the subscribers interests, and il the
advertiser proves unreliable, he viii In future
be debarred from the use of these columns and
be promptly exposed. Rogues shall not ply
their trade at the expense Of our subscribers,
who are our friends, through the medium of
these columns. Let this be understood by
everybody now and henceforth.
Note, ~ the above offer is to actual "sub-
scribers" and only to them: ~ it holds good
two months after the transaction causing the
complaint, that is, we must have notice within
this time; (8) we do not guarantee pigs tail
to curl in any particular direction; in other
words, we will handle swindlers, but shall not
attempt to adjust tri1ing disputes between
subscribers and honorable business men who
advertise. Bear these points in mind hereafter.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

w. A. PETER would like to get back
to the Populist party, but he is afraid
to break away from the Butler gang
entirely, for fear he might only be
taken in at Nashville on probation, SO
when he writes about the conference
he fears it cannot be legally held, yet
admits that it ought to be held if pos
sible. The ex-senator need not worry
himself. There will be fifteen states
from the south, in which Populists are
compelled to fight Democracy or have
no excuse for existing, that will be
fully represented in the conference
Then, there will come from the west
ern states, a few faithfuls who have
not yet been delivered to Democracy,
who, by straight and manly course
in the future, may hope to accomplish
some of the reform work which might
have been accomplished ere this, if
such men as PETER, looking for job,
had not sacrificed the cause on the altar
of Bryan Democracy.-Girard World.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28
THE PEOPLE's PARTY PAPER.
Official Organ Peoples Party
State of Georgia.
OUR BUsINEss Plan.

THE PEOPLES PARTY PAPER gives no chro-
mos, puffs no swindlers, inserts no humbug
advertisements, and does not devote one-halt
its space TO telling how good the other half is.
1t Is published weekly and is furnished TO sub
scribers at one dollar year, postage prepaid.
Terms cash in advance.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

If so, see to it with
DO YOU FAVOR out days delay
that your county
oouEr1Eucr committeeman and
Congressional Dis
trict committeeman
and the State executive committeeman,
if one lives in your county, urges the
State Chairman to take action in the
matter. If our officials are our mas
ters, the sooner we know it the better,
and if they are still the party servants
the sooner that fact is settled the bet
ter. The Chairman says he has no de-
sire to oppose your wishes. II you
really want conference leave him no
longer in doubt of that fact This is
one of the occasions when, it seems,
the people are expected to lead the
leaders. u. N. ,.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28
Reports of Meetings.

Chairmen of county and district
meetings are earnestly requested to
have forwarded to this paper by next
mail after the meeting full report of
the meeting. Don't fail to attend to
this, It is important. D N. 5.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28
sidI.uis PHILOSOPHERS.

The Endorsement of Lyons by the
Augusta lawyers has come home to
roost. and is roosting very low. 1t
isn't wise to be too lavish of indorse-
ments, The habit never fails, at some
time. to cause it's victim a feeling OF
sadness.-Is
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28
EDITORIAL
COM M ENTS.


ton to speak against the Populist D ON
inee, and they have secured the servi-
ces of Champ Clark, and have also in
vited Joe Blackburn to help them"
We clip the above paragraph from
the Jackson (MissourD Comet We are
sorry that the democratic campaign
committee has not given Mr.. Bryan's
letter of declination to- the pnbic. We
are inclined to the belief that it would
furnish more interesting reading than
any page between the covers of his
noted book
Mr.. Bryan claims to be not a popu-
list but democrat. II he is a demo-
ctat at heart he should champion the
democratic ticket.
lism he should have the courage to
come out like man and say so. The
populists not only of the 1st Missouri
district but of the whole country would
like to know just why Mr.. Bryan re-
fuses to champion the cause of his par
ty against populist If he is looking
for populist support of his own candi-
dacy again in 1900, we beg to inform
him that even Chairman Butler and
the fusion members of Congress have
declared against all fusion in the fu-
ture. Whether Chairman Butler is
honest in this declaration we do not
know but there is no question that the
voters are.
If Mr.. Bryan wants to run for presi-
dent again in 1900, we advise him to
lose no time in making himself solid
with the voters of his own party
There will be no place in the next race
for fusionists or half-beeeds of any
color.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

The interview with a New York
banker published in another column
makes interesting reading. The honest
avowal that the millionaires of the
country are manarchists at heart,
should interest all who believe in d
republican form of government. 1t
will also be noted that our banker
friend has become convert to govern
ment ownership of railroads, not, how
ever, from a conviction that such pub
lie ownership will be best for the peO-
pie, but because the wreckers and
gam blers have made about all there is
to be made out of them and now, that
the orange has been sucked pretty
dry, they are willing that the people
should have the rhind by paying a
sufficient price for it. The declaration
that the money, now in the banks, is
is to be held for speculation, and not
for development or the promotion of
industry is also an interesting an
nouncement as is also the suggestion
that when the bankers force sale of a
thousand millions of bonds so as to
build up and strengthen the national
banks that the bank notes shall be
made redeemable in coin. This will
be beautiful arrangement to satisfy
both the gold bugs and silver bugs, as
the the bankers will continue to get
their coupons cashed in gold while the
people will get their bank potes cashed
in silver. We have never s., a grea-
ter quantity of interesting Information
packed into one short interview.
D. N S.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

Can the Chicago footpads who held
up a woman and took $1,000 from her
stocking be said to have turned the
hose on their luckless victim. -Videtts.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

Baz4sG lit Talmadge praises ii, :
Sugar Z broker, Chapman, -
defied G. 5igress, and refused to seTl
what Senators were implicated in Re
Sugar Trust Scandals
If broker can defy the law, and re-
fuse to give evidence, any witness can
do it.
If witnesses cannot be compelled to
testify, the courts will be paralyzed,
and crime will enjoy a regular Jubilee.
Mr. Talmadge does himself no credit
when he publicly gives aid, comfort
and encouragement to rich violators of
the law. T. E. w.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28
SHORT
AND SWEET.

gates to the state meeting and don't
neglect to instruct them as to what
YOU want done at the state meeting
and at the National conference.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28
j and Tom Cren-

@8- 1t u anu AOLn NioA
shaw to compel sM1an to leave the COM
forts and endearments of the home
circle, and the demands of private bus
mess, to listen to complaints against
such law-abiding innocents rs the rail
road corporations,
Griffin, Ga, firm made complaint
against the railroads of Georgia that
their rates were not uniform nor rea-
sonable, that they Disseminated in
favor of certain people and certain
places, that they gave through rates"
arbitrarily to some towns and refused
them, arbitrarily. to others, and that
the people were being oppressed to pay
dividends upon millions of dollars of
watered stock.
These were in substance the charges
made by Messrs. Brewer & Hanleiter
a business firm of Griffin
There isn't well informed mule in
Georgia which does not know that the
charges are true.
The Georgia Railroad Commission
was asked to lower freight rates 393f
per cent In this demand nearly every
citizen of Georgia was more or less
concerned, on the one hand, and every
railway company was concerned, on
the other.
Therefore at the hearing" it was
to be expected that both sides would
be numerously represented. Millions
were at stake, and the facts and the
law were heavily on the side of the
people. But at the hearing" it was
all one way. The whole proceeding
resembled the cut and dried programme
of political caucus of one of the old
parties.
The people were represented by Mr..
Brewer. Not brother merchant in all
Georgia stood by him. Not farmer
was there to give voice to grievance.
No lawyer attended to plead the cause
of the public. Mr.. Brewer was there,
and nobody but Brewer.
The railroads, however, were on
hand. In palace cars the Presidents,
and vice Presidents, and General Man
ayers, and corporation lawyers were
there till you couldn't rest The
ground was covered with them. They
couldn't all get into the room where
the hearing" was had.
This hearing" was perhaps the
raciest farce ever played even by those
our choicest comedians, the railway
commissioners of Georgia
These official humorists shut then
ewes and their ears to conditions which
a blind terrapin can see and hear, ant
they promptly flung Brewer down, ant
poured sand in his ears.
The Constitution of Georgia forbid
the buying up of competing lines : tn
Southern Railway Company has bough
up competing lines: the Governor ant
the Commissioners know it: but NJ
attempt is made to enforce the Law
against the law breaker for the reason
that the Southern is g rich corporation
and furnishes Doodle to the machin
Democrats of Georgia
In the matter of free passes, of dis
eriminations, Of excessive charges t
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

ment to help the laborer. What they
actually wanted was help for them
selves.
They wanted the Government to take
90 cents worth of silver and make it
dollar, by putting the Government
stamp on it.
They wanted ''fatism" to the extent
of 40 cents in each dollar.
But when a Populist would argue
that ''fatism" might create the dollar
as easily as it could create the 40 csnts,
these silver kings were ready to lift
their voices in one loud wall of pain
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

We notice from recent issues of the
Advance Guard, Defiance OHIO and the
Oklahoma Representative, Guthrie
Oklahoma that fusion and fusionists
have set our western friends to inquir-
ing not only where are we at" but
what snail we dc to he saved. Brother
Ayers, of Chairman Buffers paper,
who assures us that no body Is talking
fusion and nobody wants fusion should
read his western exchanges more
closely. We note with pleasure that
the genuine pops who were induced to
swallow the fusion prescription are
spewing up the nauseous dose. Fusion
and genuine populism will no more
mix than oil and water.
Where the dose lies on the stomach
it is a well nigh infallible sign that the
patient went into the party for pie and
not for principle.
The Senate by vote of Al to IA has
adopted Senator Morgan's resolution
recognizing that state of war exists
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

Throw twenty dollar gold piece
under locomotive, let it be fattened
into wafer, losing its identity, shape
and stamp-and then go and try to pass
it as twenty dollars!
You can't do it. Some man may
agree to accept it for twenty dollars,
just as some man may agree to accept
$50 pounds of lint cotton, or 2, 600 feet
of heart lumber; but no man is BOUND
to take it. AS long as the gold piece
Kept its shape, and stamp, it's legal
identity, every citizen was BoUND-to
take it, by law, in payment of taxes,
debts, and purchases. The moment the
gold piece lost the legal identity, it BE-
came mere commodity like lumber
and cotton, and all men were at liberty
to refuse it. !
The LAW made the money, not the
gold.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

We have received
MISTAKE IN several letters OBJ
jecting to the date
ruEnA~ set for the Nashville
Conference, the 4th
of July falling on
Sunday. The date was fixed upon be-
cause the Declaration of Independence
was promulgated on that day, and
without noticing that this year that
date fell upon Sunday. While great
many people believe it is right ''to do
well even on the Sabbath day." yet the
scruples of others will be respected
and the Conference will not be assem-
bled for business until Monday, July
5th, Friday and Saturday will be taken
up by the National Reform Press Asso-
citation meetings. All Sc disposed will
go to church on Sunday, and at 10 a.
N. on Monday the Populist Conference
will be raped to order. D. n. S.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28
EDITORIAL
NOTES.

ia. That is to say, two of the Commits
sioners developed energy enough to put
in appearance. The third Commission
er was too sick to come in person. He
hopes to be able to be strong enough to
draw his salary at the usual time. His
absence was not injurious to the rail
roads for he managed to muster up
sufficient strength to send in decision
in their favor, in a case which was
tried in Atlanta while the said Commits
sioner was sick in Americas. 1t occurs
to us, casually and incidentally, that
if one of these Commissioners can
legally decide case he has not heard,
the other could do the same thing. If
Judge Fort can lie abed, in Americas,
and decide a case (which is on trial in
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

We genuine Pops contend that Law
makes money: that there can be no
money without law: that whatever the
law endows with the power to gay
taxes and satisfy debt is money, and
that as money. in it's last analysis, con-
sists of purely legal quality given to
a certain form of currency, it is wholly
immaterial what commodity that cur
rency is made of 1t is the legal quality
which is essential, not the material
substance.
1t is not the gold which makes the
dollar, it is the PRIVILEGE AND THE
POWER which THE LAW gives to that
gold,
Let the law say the same thing for
linen dollars, or paper dollars or pew
ter dollars, and the linen, paper or
pewter dollars will be money in every
sense of the word, just as gold is.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

II Jne Principle OF Flatlsm fsSSaE nd,
it is sound all the way. 1t cannot be
just sound enough to make up the 40
cents difference between silver and
gold.
If the government stamp can make
40 cents out of nothing, it can make 100
cents out of the same material.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

County resolutions
for public a ito n
should be short and
to the point. Don't
forget to select dele
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

wv. J. Bryan has
written a letter to
the Democrats of the
First Missouri dis
trict that he cannot
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

shaw to compel eA1ln to leave the com
forts and endearments of the home
circle, and the demands of private bus
mess, to listen to complaints against
such law-abiding innocents rs the rail
road corporations,
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

Yes the Leadville strike has failed.
The miners were starved out With
the merits of the case we are not &C
ouainted, but we do know that the
workmen suffered greatly, that they
struggled for about year, and that
capitalism beat them down as relent-
lessly as was ever done at Homestead
or Chicago
Who are the mine owners?
They were free silver or bust" how
lers, the last one of them. They abused
Rothschild and John Sherman; they
denounced plutocracy and labor tyr
amy; they want d more money, so that
the poor workmen would have better
chance.
And they were gripping their work
men in q death struggle all the while
and showed exactly the same spirit
which actuated Pullman and Carnegie
and Gould and Vanderbilt.
They said they wanted the Govern
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

In Germany, the employers of labor
are required by law to insure their
workmen against accident, and to con-
tribute certain sum, each week, to
she insurance fund against sickness,
chronic lnvalidism, and the incapacity
of old age. A certain portion OF the
laborer's wages is withheld for the
same fund.
Under this system, the German work
man is guaranteed against want and
assured haven of rest when his days
of toll are over.
The English law now being enacted
is designed to do the same thing in
different way. 1t does not go so far as
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

That bowling hum
bug and frizzly fraud,
The Georgia Railroad
Commission, has act
ually held another
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

While the spirit of democracy covers
before insolent plutocracy in America,
it strides grandly forward in Great
Britain.
The Tory government has put upon
it's passage, in Parliament, bill which
is more sweepingly and practically
favorable to the laboring classes than
any legislation of recent years. 1t is
called the employers Liability Bill. "
Its purpose is to make the employers OF
labor, in certain industries, responsible
for injuries received by the laborers in
that work, regardless of the question
of negligence.
The law will not apply to household
servants, farm laborers, sailors, longs
horsemen, carpenters, masons, brick
layers, and many others; but it will
apply to those employed in the service
of railroads, factories, mines, quarries,
and engineering works.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

the German law, but it goes vast deal
further than anything we have in
America.
Under the English law,it will not mat
ter whether the workman is killed or
injured by his own negligence or not.
1t win be sufficient that he meets death
or injury in due course of employment.
The only question that will be asked is
did he get killed or hurt while working
for his employer
If so, he receives the benefit of this
new law.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-05-28

But the corporations are organized,
and furnish Doodle to the managers of
both the old parties while the people
are unorganized and have no Doodle to
furnish anybody hence the corpora
tions give commands and the people
obey them: the corporations levy their
taxes and the people humbly pay
them.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-09-23

No - Washington A South western Limited "
solid Pullman rsstihulsd train AtiAata -
N'~ fora. carrying Pullman Sleeping cars
birmingham 10 New ioys BLAZING rsr Atlanta
t. Gr..Hshoro And Warrington 10 NV YORK
*" = ' r.si N,ii .ullnas ,,auir.
room ilun't SIsepI1 cars Al anita to Now
YORK
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-09-23

diUus structure. and would be a credit
20 q larger town. Mr.. Haley In.
stocked four Of the store rooms with a
fine line Of general merchandise Mr.
=, Cohen, one Of the most progressive
and enterprising business men in the
state, is huilding n store in which he
viii keep n stock Of furniture 4 mum
ber If residences are also being erected
Mr. " A Gillespie has inst finished n
ferry boat TO be- used by J l. Haley on
RoehuCk lake.
During the dull times this same lake
j. fully appreciated Tacmiug with fine
N-h q day spout npon IA, bosom with
pol" aud line is fmUght With nmrse
mont. and jaran string, are the ruic
un' the exception
The two gins If MrS-rs Cohen aud
Haley Arr being kept busy aud it ia rx
p"rtra that they viii be- tnyrd to their
utmost capacity in tn" near future