The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-10-17
SERIOUS CHARGES
Made by Senator TiiIman Against
Mckinley and Hanna.
SAYS THEY ARE CORRUPT.
How the Republican Party Raises
Its Immense Campaign Fund
TO Corrupt the
Voters,
Voters,

Voters,
Senator Tillman has been speaking
in Illinois for the Democratic ticket.
One Of the statements with which the
Senator opened vide the eyes of the
Democratic farmers of Illinois was his
assertion that Mark Hanna had raised
50 600, 600 or $1,000, 600 from the ar
NOR plate makers and was using it in
the campaign. Il vas on the naval
committee with William E. Chandler"
the Senator said, "and l know come
thing Of the armor plsta business.
There are two concerns in the country
which make this amor plate-Carnegie
and the Bethlehem. We had con-
tract on which We had been holding
them FIVE years. We had been keeping
them down to $500 a ton. This year,
on the last day of the session Of Con-
gress, Mark Hanna took charge Of it.
He went in and oydsred his henchmen
to give authority to the Secretary of
the Navy to make contract for armor
plato at what be saw fit. Twelve Re
publican Senators who had stood with
US before fell down and voted to give
Carnegie and Bethlehem this contract
for sl7, ,00G 600. III swear that Mark
Hanna, to the best of my belief and
knowledge, had an agreement with those
two firms to give him 81 900 600 or
s3,OO0,0 900 for the presidential cam
paign. So you see you send men to
Congress to vote for contracts which
furnish the money to buy votes with.
Some of Senator Tillman's decla.
rations about bribery and corruption
were reckless even beyond his usual
freedom Of speech. There are great
many millions of good Republicans,
said Senator Tillman. The only
trouble with them is they are wrong up
here" The Senator tapped his fore
head. 81 can say equally" he con-
tinued, that some of our Democrats
arc wrong up here" The Senator
tapped his dome again. The crowd
laughed and waited for the application.
Il wish to say Of the Is, 600, 900 voters
who will march to the polls in Noyem
Der II 900, 900 are so narrow and par
tisan they would see you in hades be-
fore they would vote for the party
other than the one they belong to.
They are Republicans and Democrats
because they were born 50. There are
100000 such Republicans. There
are 1000, 600 of such Democrats.
Therefore, l am making my appeals to
the independent voters, to those with
sufficient intelligence to vote for what
they believe to be the best interests of
the country. want to make an appeal
to the independent voter, because his
vote, even if he votes for dollar a day,
counts for just SIS much as the vote Of
John D. Rocsefeller; that is if John
D. Rockefeller's millions cant find
some internal scoundrels among these
dollar. a-day fellows to buy.
NO stream can rise higher than its
source, the Senator went on oracularly,
after his astonishing left-handed lick
at the dollar-a-day man, and began to
talk Of corruption in Congress. Il
wish you could see those fellows who
sell themselves in Congress as | have
seen them. | have not seen the money
actually passed, but if l had been on a
jury and had had the evidence before
me as saw it l would have found them
guilty"
Senator Tillman quoted from Presi.
dent Mckiniey's letter Of acceptance
the passage declaring the duty i'm
posed by honor toward the Philippines.
That means, said the Senator, that
President will rely upon Mark Ranna's S
money to buy enough votes to enslave
you and your children forever" =" This
was the Senator's starter on the sub
icct of imperialism. He proceeded
Douglas and Lincoln went up and
down this State. Douglas contended
that when We said government derived
Its just powers Irom the consent o1 Iue
governed it was intended to leave out
the niggers. Lincoln said it was the
other way. The North arose en masse
in 1860 and sided with Lincoln's views.
And now you's got $1,000, 900 niggers
down South to projick on, to exercise
your ingenuity on. But you are turn
mo +hem over to rs to shoot and kill
How will you old soldiers, who march
ed through South Carolina, and dldn t
lea, anything but the chimneys stand.
ing, answer the Confederates you killed
when you meet them up yonder, aud
they ask YOU, Well, johnny, how are
things? You Il have to say the Repub-
lican party now says Douglas was
right and Lincoln was wrong. IouV's
got to 20 to God pretty soon and answer
for your votes.