The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-08-03
TO BEAT DR.. STOKES.
q Startling Report Comes From New
York CitY.

More plotting went on behind closed
doors in Wall Street yesterday to carry
out the Doodle campaign started against
Congressman Stokes Of South Carolina.
The shysters Of all the wind exchanges
are making fight for life. The Hentz
gang of the Cotton Exchange, the
kneeland crowd Of the Produce Ex-
change and the Wormser tribe Of the
Stock exchange were closeted with
thugs who have been hired to do the
dirty work in the Seventh Congressional
District Of South Carolina. The alarm
has been sounded in all the dens Of
wind trading throughout the country.
The wolves in the wheat pit Of Chicago
are showing their teeth The little
jackals in the wind exchangens Of the
lesser cities are snarling. The whole
horde of speculative shysters who make
the prices for the things which they do
not handle are terrified at the pros
pe2t of their Infamous system being
,egislated out of existence, and they
turn to the only argument Of the crook
the argument of bribe money.
Wall Street dollars and La Sale
Street dollars are TO be used without
limit in the desperate struggle against
the South CaroIinian. The Doodle
campaign has even extended to the dis
tricts of other Representatives who
have taken an active hand in the fight
against the wind exchanges. The spe-
culative swindlers are aroused as they
have not been since the time OF the
Washburn and Hatch anti-option bills
several years ago. The swlndlers
strangled legislation then, and they are
ready to sandbag legislation now. The
desperate fight of the crooks in the
halls of Congress is to be repeated with
the beginning in political conventions.
The thugs that fail to defeat 4 Con
sressman in nominating convention
will bring all the power Of their money
TO bear upon the polls. Wholesale
bribery will be attempted and the rights
of voters ridden over roughshod to pur-
sue the corrupt war against the candl-
date Of the people. Millions are at
stake for the shysters. By their infa-
nous system they have robbed tens Of
thousands. The robbery is still going
on but the voice Of the people, to be:
heard not only in South Carolina, but
throughout the Union, will sound the
death knell of the swlndling horde.
1t is the same corrupt ring that used
its dirty dollars to dig the political
grave of other Congressional opponents
The Hentz- -Kneeland gang, which beat
Hatch and other congressman when
anti-option bills were pending is the
gang which is now plotting to do its
crooked work against Stokes and his
allies. The boodlers did their dirty
business before without exposure but
their hand is revealed now. The warn
ing is given to the people, and in their
hands lies the weapon OF the ballot box
to crush the miserable horde attempting
to rob them Of their rights by political
bribery. The people OF South Carolina
who stand by Congressman Stokes viii
stand side by side with millions who
applaud his fight for human rights, the
rights of the cotton planters, the rights
of the wheat growers and therlghts OF
all producers who are suffering incai-
culable wrong at the hands OF swlndlng
exchanges.
The Importance Of this issue is being
recognized as it never has been before.
The Infamous system BY which ex-
change shysters fix the prices for the
things which they do not handle IS the
crime of the century, to which the eyes
of the people are being opened at last;
The enormity Of it is being understood
when it is seen how the cotton planters
of the South and the wheat growers of
the West are forced to take less than,
living orices simply because the shys-
ter speculators beat down the quota.
tions with their bets. Henry Hentz,,
without pound Of cotton to his name:
GOES on to New York Cotton Exchange
and yawps that he has 900 bales tor
sale at cents. He has 40 cotton to-
sell. but he has the cool etfrontcry to
sell what is still IN the planters hands.
The planter must feel L great JOY over
the Kindness Of this shyster offering TO-
beat down the market with wind cotton.
If lIeutz had the real cotton he would.
manifest less enthusiasm about throw.
ing it away for : cents pound. But
he has simply made 4 bet on the price
falling still lower, and then all the rot
ten machinery Of the cotton PIT rs
brought into play to win that bet by
slaughtcring the price, Imaginary sales
takeplace betweencroOks acting IN collu-
sor, who bid lower and lower, I'd these
bids become the quotations. When
the price has been washed dowa to =
cents. lIantz demands the difference
of oont pound on the 1000 phan-
tom bales his victim bought. Hentz
wins $4,000. but not 4 bale Of cotton
has been boug ht or sold.
The same Swindling system which
has given 6-ccnts cotton to the South
has also given G0-cent wheat to tie
West. The planters and farmers
have not gIutted the market, ana
the law Of supply and demand would
today accord them far living
price for their products. bat sup
pIy and demand arc throttlel by the
wind trading on the exchanges. The
bill framed by Congressman Stokes will
rive the producers their rights. The
fi.ht he has begun must 90 on. The
vultures and buzzards Of the exchanges
uust he annihilatcd.
THE MAN on THE FLOOR.