The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
IIANN.l'S N ETH0DS.
A Terrible Exposure in tha United
States Senate.
BY SENATOR 0EFTlGREW

-Four Hundred Thousand Dollars
Given to the Republican
Campaign Fund by
One Firm.
The Washington correspondent of
The News and Courier, writing under
date Of June ), says: Sena,oc Hanna
aud the Republican party we're given q
bad hour and more to-day by sensa-
tional disclosures in the course Of po-
lltical debate begun by Senator Bacos,
and in which Senator Pettigrew played
the role both Of prosecuting attorney
aud chief witness. As witness the
South Dakota Senator told Of a transac.
,ion which occurred in the campaign of
1892. when the Cramps, the famous
shipbuilders, contributed four hun
Gred thousand to the Republican cam
paigu fund, with the understanding that
they were to be reimbursed in ship con-
tracts with the Government. lnclden-
tally because of Senator Hapnas S
promtness in jumping to the defence Of
his party and making a genera! cisclsi 81
er of Republican innocence, Senator
Pettigrew opened upon the same line
which Senator Clay followed in his
speech Ct Saturday, reviewing the
charges which had been made against
RathboDe and Senator Hanna himself
in connection with the alleged bribery
and attempt at bribery growing out of
the Hanna election.
ANTI TRUST CONFIDENCE GAME
This was the most sensational event
of day full of sensational political de-
velopments. 1t started over the fight
which the Democrats made tosecure the
consideration of the trust bill, which
the House passed on Saturday. In the
House the Republicans had posed as
champions Of antitrust legislation, but
to. day the Democrats succeeded in put
ting them squarely on record against
the confederation Of the measure which
they had been claiming as their own in
the House. The Democrats showed
that if the Republicans were in earnest
in the support of antitrust legislation
they could readily enough allow the
consideration and passage of this bill
before adjournment. That there was
no need of adjourning Wednesday, no
excuse for such haste except the Re-
publican desire to get away. They
charged that all of this trust bluff was
put up by the Republicans for the dual
purpose of foolipg the people and OF
holding up the trusts for great cam
paigp fund. In his speech on this line
Senator Bacon referred to the state
ment which had been made that the
Cramps had contributed four hundred
thousand dollsrs to the campaign fund
in 1892. This charge brought cut
denials from Senator Hanna and Sena-
tor Carter, of Montana, who was chair
man Of the Republican national COM
mittee that year.
pETTlGREw,s $ DAMNlNG CHARGE.
1t was in response to these deniaIs
that Senator Pettigrew made the SEN
sational statement that Mr. CIamp him
self had told him that he had con-
tributed four hundred thousand dol
lars to the Republican campaign fund
that year with the understanding that
be was to have shipbuilding contracts
by which he could get his money back;
that he was satisfied the money had not
been used for the purpose promised;
that it had been diverted from its use
in the campaign, as he had been told 1t
was to be used, and that he had salts
fed himself of this fact by employing
private detectives. 1t will be recalled
that Senator Pettigrew was then very
active Republican. The two men we're
coming home from Europe on one OF
the ships Of the American line when
the conversation occurred. MIR. Cramp
was then anxious to see if there was any
way he could get his money back from
the national committee. Senator Petit
grew said that he had afterwards re-
ferred to this conversation when talk
ing to Senator Carter, the chairman Of
the national committee that year,
and that Sesator Carter had simply
smiled and said, "Well, we did hit the
old man pretty hard.
THE ARMoR PLATE swINDLE.
The efforts Of the Republicans under
the lead of the Republican majority in
the House to force contract with the
armor plate people for something over
thirty thousand tons Of armor at such
figures as the Secretary of the Navy
may see fit to pay, giving him unlimlt-
ed power, in other words, was charged
up to the Republican determination to
make the armor plate people put up a
vast contribution to the campaign fund
this year. ltwas charged that such a
contract would mean a net profit to the
armor plate people of over seven mil
lions Of dollars, and they would un-
doubtedly be expected to give at least a
seventh of that to Mr.. Haunas COM
mittee.
After Senator Pettigrew's charges
both Senator Hanna and Senator Car
ter entered general disclaimers Sena-
tor Hanna referred particularly to the
bribery charges in which his dear
friend Rathbone figured, declaring that
that was simply a conspiracy gotten up
by the Democrats and few Republican
traitors. lie was very severe in his
denunciation of Senator PettigreW and
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