The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-04

hatred Ct the administration, / disco7
cred surdry matters. The Germans,
French, Aus;rians and Italians turn
from Mckinley because Of Militarism.
They are against an army, or an army
increase, rather. They look on it as
the beginning of what will end in that
system of compulsory enlistment in the
army from which they fed. Thous
ands of native Americans, men Of best
and purest American stock, and who
voted for Mckinley, are now his most
acrid and determined foes, because of
Imperialism. l found 70 end of these.
They regard our present antics in the
Orient as little less than treason to the
very spirit Of American institutions as
founded by the fathers
Of all issues, so called, however, it
was plain that the subject of trusts ex-
cited widest concern. This was pecu-
liarly truce Of young men of ambition
and force. "Why," as one man said to
me, TRUSTS in their last legitimate ex-
preston shut the final door on any
thing like individual success. The
best that man can get out Ct it IS to
work all his life for wages. 1t, the trust
system, sentences him to be servant
all his days. No matter how good you
may become at whatever art or trade
you follow, you can never grow to be an
employer-never be anything but one
of the employed. 1t is killer to indi-
vidual independence, and puts shackles
on ones spirit of enterprise. Its the
feudal sy stem restored; or the padrone
peon system of Mexico The worst
feature of the trust system as |
look at it, is Mt the elevation of prices
of goods; the worst feature Of trusts is
that they lower the standard Of man
hood. "
As this man talked, SO do nine of
ten of the young men of New York,
not born to ease and riches, feel. They
are against trusts, aud thew look on the
Republican party aud Mckinley as the
promoters and champions Of trusts. For
which reason, avoiding Mckinley, they
will vote for Bryan. My search for
facts, confirmed in twenty fashions,
that the Democracy and Bryan are to
carry this state. 1t is in the air, and
will soon gain general advertisement by
being in the general mouth. The state
taken as whole is no longer afraid of
silver nor any platform Of it; the state
is afraid of trusts, militarism and i'm
perialism. Also, it is aroused over the
frauds and venal iniquities which have
marched through the present admins
tration tee or heel, one pressing on an
other in very lockstep of corruption.
To add to the above, and in favor of
the Democracy, is the certainty of
Platt's intended treason to Mckinley
which each sun makes more plain. The
knife is terrible weapon of politics iE
a machine state like New York. Platt
can, if he will, drive it to the heart Of
full 80 900 votes which had else lived
and voted for Mckinley. And fear not
but he'll do it. Revenge for the senate
taking eff Of Quay; his own safety in
the future; and his natural and jealous
resentment of the apoplectic Hanna in
that chair of party control which he
himself should fill, will set Platt to the
knife this fall with as eager heart, and
as warm grace as ever Borgia went
a. poisoning with. This state, silver in
or silver out of the platform, will go for
Bryan in November, and SO on every
hillptop of politics say score Of signs
and omens.