The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-02-02
Learn How to Transfer.

| During a heated discussion in the
House the other day, over the Ciyi
Service law, the Hon Joh n VI. Aller
of Mississippi got the floor. We
print below a part of his ffteen-min,
utes speech. 1t is well worth read.
ing:
Mr.. Allen. l am net mean, hard
hearted man. | am no brute. 1t
seems to me man must be hard
hearted and wholly without sympathy
who will jump on the Republican
party in the straits in which it finds
itself here to-day Laughter. ]
did not get up to taunt you, gentle.
men, on the Republican side with
your troubles in this fratricidal strife
came to tender you my friendly
Offices as a mediator, as your great
and good friend. (Laughter)I came
here to try to help you out of your
trouble.
Why, Mr. Chairman, man who
would attempt to take advantage OF
the Republican party and jump on it
and pound it in the condition in
which we find it to- day must, have q
stony heart indeed. With taxes 60
ing up and revenue and wages going
down laughter with Secretary Gage
trying to retire greenbacks and fasten
the gold standard, and with many
Republicans under the lead Of Sena-
tor Chandler trying to stop him; with
New York and other states going
Democratic with promises to Cuba
unfulilled and strife and dissension
in the Republican party everywhere,
bolt in the Legislature Of Maryland
and a revolt against boss rule in
Ohio
A member. That is all over, all
fixed up.
Mr.. Allen. Yes, I agree, it is all
fixed, but it is said that it took a
good deal to fix it, and I wish to re,
mind my friend from Pennsylvania
Mr.Brosius] who got after General
Grosvenor to-day, that he has
harder heart than I have. Whatever
the provocation was, he should have
had more consideration for a man in
General Grosvenor's situation, who
has been busily occupied in jumping
between here and Columbus, Ohio,
leading q bolt from the Republican
platform in this House on the civil
service and coercing back the boilers
from Hanna in the Ohio legislature
all this time. Laughter.
I do not think it is right 10 jump
on man that has that amount Of
trouble on his hands. daughter.
1t is true, l understand that the Ohio
matter has been fixed up. I believe
they fixed it according to the logic Of
the darky in Mississippi that friend
was telling me Of He heard a darky
impressine upon another this fact:
Il tell you, said the darky, what de
trouble is wild de niggah and why
he don't prosper like de white
man. He don't know how to trans
fer. Now, de white man kuows how
to transfer Now, if I gives my note
to white man to git money to make
crap with, and he transfers it to de
merchant and de merchant transfers
it TO de commission merchant, and
den he transfers it to de bank,
and de bank transfer it to anudder
bank, and every one Of dem gifts
money on It, and nobody has to pay
it but me-" laughter De niggah
amt gwine to do nutbin' till he can
learn how to transfer. 1t seems tc
me that out in Ohio several gentle
men in the legislature of that state
have learned how to transfer, and the
suspicion is that Hanna has to do all
the paying. Great laughter.
Now, gentlemen, I am not going to
take any side on this question
Laughter. I am not going to make
fun of you. l simply got up to tell
my Republican friends that it seems
to me amid all your other troubles
being taunted on every side with your
broken promises and with your fail
ures; with the Dingley bill falling
short in revenue and the manufacture
ers reducing the wages Of labor; with
Cuba betrayed, and Ohio and Mary
land in revolt; with disaster if not
dissolution, staring you in the face
instead of this unseemly wransle
ABOUT matter with which You will
do nothing, itseems to Inc you should
stay your fratricidal hands and love
one another. Laughter and ap-
plausa.