The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-08-04
Str1C ger than Ev r.

The Peoples Advocate utters an &C.
kuowledd truth when it says this
age has produced no more wonderful
man than W. J. Bryan. He stands
todsy before tie American people
their most DterleSs citizen although
the shadov Of defeat is resting upon
him. His popularity, instead of
wa2icg, has irc:eased ard the sfffc.
tio2 ci The people for him is something
remarkable, the like of which has not
bcen Witnessed sioee tie days of JET.
ferson, Jackson ard Henry Clay.
Wherever he gees the people turn out
in crowds to hear and see him. And
this is not all due to the nan himself,
but to the cause he represents. This
is rot local but the cry comes from
every State ard Territory in the
Union. Not long since a B VIII
is,us, late OF the Greenville News and
a bitter oppor ent of Bryan, bore tes-
tinony 10 the fact that if the election
were held to day Bryan would be
overwhelmingly elec.ed. All the evi-
dence from the doubtful States, where
the tide of battle was turned against
L: q last gear goes to show that the
cause he represented is stronger than
ever. Hon. Champ Clark, who cam
paigned in tie First Missouri district
lately and afterwards delivered an ad-
dress at Roanoke College in Vereiria,
says he found It the same everywhere
that the one thing mcs5 certain to
bring dcwn toe house vas the predic
ton that Bryan would be inaugCrated
resident n 1901. Taere has recently
asen convention OF democratic edi-
tors OF Missouri ard Indiana which
was il the aura Of conference, and
the almost unanimous opinion Of
those editors was that there should be
no bsckdown from the Chicago plat
form and that Bryan was the logical
candidate in 1900. The seatiment
was almost unanimous and universal
IN favor of continuing the fight for
silver. One Of the most prominent
editors OF Indiana said that the men
who worked for silver in 1896
were Just as devoted to it es ever and
hundreds who opposed it had come
over ard if the oattie were to be
fought over now Bryan would carry
the State by tremeD2oUs vote. a
Mr.. Wolff, who istas president of a big
iron and ship-building plant at Por:-
land, Oregon, and Republican be,
sidzs, says If al election were held
now for president the whole Pacific
slope would vote to elect Bryan over
any man the Republicans could
name" There is no weakening OF the
liaes here iu this State, as we we'll
know, and the testimony from all
other quarters is the same. Even in
Ohio the Republicans are qnaking in
their boots for the promised prosperity
upon the election of Mckinley which
has not come, and IL Kentucky the
Republicans are making no pretenee
to a ghost of a chanc2 OF carrying
The faL eIelections. Toe gold men
are foud OF nugging the de!usion ta
fheir boso1s that the silver cause IS
dead and they talk and write glib?y
about the passing OF Bryan The
wish is father to ths thought. Br:an
Is passing bu: not pas:ing awsy. E7
is only passing on to d higher plane
of popularity and to deeper deutbs in
the hearts Of the 2eopl=. The people
feel that the argument IS closed aud
the issue j,ined and there is nothing
to be done now but fght it out to
successful issue.