The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-03-01
NOT YET BURIED.
Bimetalism Will be the Paramont
Issue In Next Campaign.
SO SAYS CHAIRMAN JONES.
The Chicago Platform is Gaining
Ground. How the Present
Activity in Business is
Accounted For.

is not iu accord with Mr. Croker, O.
New York, and Mr.. Wall of Wiscon
sin, regarding the paramount issue II
the next presidential campaign. In ;
recent interview he said:
ITO say that the next Democratic
National convention will reafirm the
position taken by the convention IL
1896 is to assert what every candid mar
even slightly familiar with existin!
facts, knows to be true. 1t is as Ger
tain as asauything human can be that the
question CT binetism will be the leading
issue in the campaign next year. Anc
it is reasonable to expect that tie ma
jority OF the people will next time de
clare for the party which means what
it says and will redeem It's pledges, anc
that they will not again be tricked into
casting their votes IN favor Of the enc
mics OF the principles in which they
believe
''On what grounds do you base your
hopes for success next year, he wa:
asked.
Some Of the reasons Why I an
strongly hopeful of the future Of oul
cause are as follows: In the campaign
Of 1896 both parties declared for bimet.
alism; the Democrats for independent
action by the United States the Repub.
licans for international agreement which
they pledged themselves to promote.
True. this declaration on the part Of
the Republicans was only made to catch
votes, and because the party leaders did
not dare to go to the polls without it.
[ think now no one any longer doubts
that the fixed purpose Of those who con,
trolled these leaders was to maintain
the gold standard, and to prevent, not
promote, an international agreement.
The declaration, however. served its
purpose and vast numbers Of sincere
bimetallists were persuaded to vote the
Republican ticket, in the belief that
they were voting for an honest effort
to secure international bimetallsm.
The leaders who were responsible fo1
this trick have already committed their
party to the single gold standard, sofaI
as they can, and if they dare speak out
honestly in their next national platform
it will declare for the single gold stand
ard
Do you believe that the cause Of bi.
metalism is improving?"
There are as many believers in bi,
metalism today in the United States as
there ever were, and all these are doubt
less now convinced that the only way
to accomplish bimetalism is through
the action Of the Democratic party.
The great efforts to stop the fall in
prices-the shrinking Of values-and
to relieve the distress Of business re-
sulting from these great evils without
injustice or injury to any class Of busi-
ness, is being more aud more under.
stood, and commands the respect of
honest and fair men always when un-
derstood, ana another campaign Of rid
icule and abuse such as that of 1896
whether dictated by ignorance or We
nality-cannot succeed against temper
ate arguments and appeals for simple
justice, when the people have time to
fairly weigh the arguments and form a
deliberate Judgment. There was great
unrest and dissatisfaction in 1896
throughout the country, resulting from
falling prices and shrinking values.
The Republican party promised that if
they were entrusted with power al this
would be changed, and that prosperity
should succeed existing conditions.
Mr.. Mckinley and the gold press now
assure the country that we have pros
perity. There is quite boom N stock
speculations in Wall street, but Wall
street is not the country. as we be-
lieve.
Great famine and short crop of
wheat all over the world except in the
United States naturally raised the price
of wheat while these conditions lasted,
and the bene6cient effects of this tenn
porary advance IN the price of single
article, which was so marked in tire
short period it continued is likely to
stimulate desire for return to that
coudltipn permanently and an extern
sion Of it to ali other products This
is our purpose. and was our purpose IL
1896, when the Republican party d.
uupnced any effort 10 Increase prices "a
crlue
Hos do You account fer the activity
in business?
;'There.has been necessarily an in
creased demand for LABOR within the
last few months, as the result of the
withdrawal Of large numbers Of Amcri
can citizens from the ordinary walks Of
life to be employed in the army, whose
places had to be filed There has also
been an increased activity in and de-
mand for all products which were neces
,ury to the maintenance and support of
large army. But all these conditions
are in the very nature of things tempo
rary, and all of US know that they must
pass away with the end Of the eondi-
tons which brought them into life.
Making due allowance for these three
causes, on the present condition Of the
country, there is today as much dissat-
isfaction and as much cause for it as
there was in 1896. No relies was or is
to be expected under Republican man
agement except such as zones by famine
abroad and war at home y condition
of constantly falling general prices is
everywhere recognized as condition
Of distress and hard times, and specu-
lation excitement in Wall street does
not change this. We believe that a
small volume of money forces prices
down. hence We have urged the coin
age Of silver as well as Of gold-not
only to check this grinding fallin prices
but to promote steadily advancing
prices.
Then you think the Chicago plat
form is gaining ground
Il most certainly Go. IN the elec-
.;o,. of 1,-- y-aor rhn nrirriOleS of that