The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-12-12
BUYING UP VOTES.
How Money Was Lovishiy~Usad
by the Republicans.
ANYTHING TO ssAT sRYAN.
Sale of Votes in Nsw York
State. SONS Inside Facts
on the Late
Election.

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The Washington correspondent Of The
Baltimore Sua lets n con.i;erahie !igh;
on TIE late election He says: Vo'e'
brjb ng IL Kentsnd other Eastern Shorr
counties of Maryland, IS recently se'
! forth in The Sun. hxd its parallel ii
Western Shore ccuniies OF the Sfa1c
and in hundreds Of coun ties in d,f r-n'
| States Of the Uuion. Iftbe rrsc'ice q
buying votes is not broken up it viii
ausin to such an extent that elections
will universally b, decided by the coT-
rupt use Of money, aud not by the free
will Of the peolo.
Campaign committees and subscrip-
tons by vested interests for the defray-
ment Of election expenses were practl
cally uokuown in the poiltios Of the
United States until after the close Of
Civil War. The poores: and most
obscure man in the hsckwoods would
have promptly resented as au insult any
proposition looking to the purchase Of
his vote. |, is true there We're election
frauds; witness the Psq lenlnes frauds
in Louisiana and the repeating aud
false counting which we're done under
Know Ko.hlng auspices in the ciSy of
Baltimore. But bribery, which has
DOW taken ceep root 10 every doubtful
State sud every doubtful Congressional
district 10 the entire Union, had no
part in the determination Of election
contests.
A REPUBLICAN PRODUCT.
L is one of the manifold blessings
which has cone through the rise and
progress of the Republican party. From
campaign to campaign it has grown uu,
I'll now it d0urishes like green bay
tree. Tne story told in the The Sun
Of Kent is startling eneu1h, heaven
knows It is very far from being the
whole story if any reliance can be placed
ou the current political gossip which
4 ats in this direction. According to
This, a sum in the neighbor hood Of
$50 600 vas spent in the interest of the
h pub lean Electoral and Congressional
ticket Oh the Eastern Shore of Mary
land. The same policy Of buying votes
was pracciced in almost every county
on the Western Shore, and 1umOr places
the expenditure at $50, 900.
1t is rot understood that any vote
buying Of consequence was done in the
city of Ba!tiuore. 1t seems to be the
fact that 10 the large cities there is rot
nu,h of this kind of business. For
various reasons it is rather dangerous
operation IN the cities and one which is
very likely TO get those concerned into
into trouble.
OTHER methods IN cITIEc.
There sre other methods ofimproper
ly iLfleDc;ng city votes, which are
literally s7i!ed of-nethods perhaps
not 50 bad as bribery, but certainly Of a
character which those responsible for
would hesitate very long before intro,
ducipg into private business transao,
sions. Politics in the Uuited States is
fast becoming a vast gambling game,
#here brag, b,uS, trickerg and stacked
cards are the leading features. The
princical players show very often that
private motives, not public policy. In
huencs sll their actions.
The csupaign in Maryland just end
ed furnishes more than one striking
illustration Of this. Suspicious were
entertained, and upon several occasions
found utterance, that several gentle men
supposed to be active in promoting MIR.
Bry ans prospects at heart were really
taking 40 interest IN the cause and IN .
covert way were throwing all the cold
water upon it they could. These
charges we're Indignantly denied by
those affected. Since the election the
stories have been revived aud brought
to Washington by Maryland Repuol Ii.
caus, who make great sport over 1t, and
aH;m they know what they are talking
about.
HIS FIGHT NEXT yEAE."
A very prominent Maryland Demo
crat of the regular persuasion,
speaking to me night or two before
the election Of another not less proni-
nent than he, said: i believe If he
thought it would not be found out he
| would Jump in vote for Mckinley" /"
A friend of mine, who does not reside
| in the State of MarylaDd-a man
worthy of all confience-told me the
gentleman who has for years been known
as the Democratic boss Of Baltlm ,re
said TO him in October that he was tax
ing no interest n the fight; that it was
no, his fight; his fight would come next
year.
Oae of the most noted Democratic
ward bosses Of Baltimore, who was os-
tensibly working very hard for B:yan,
IN his confidential moments had no
hesitation in expressing the most cor
dial 1ishesf for his defeat. All Of these
gentlemen Will be in the fight next year
n Maryland tooth and toe nail, because
it will be their fight, and, as politics
goes, itmay possibly make nc difference
that passlvely, ifnot actively, they as
sisted 10 the downfall Of the national
candidate Of the party.
HOss.RIDDEN STATES.
The to7tuous ways of M-rglaud poll
tics are, Of course, no, much better and
not much worse than the politics of
other States ruled by bosses who think
Of themselves only. You will recall
that grave doubts were expressed dur
ing the campaign Of the sincerity OF
Richard Crokers professed devotion to
Byan. | had that doubt myself, aod
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