The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-23


Mr.. Blease then nominated Senator
Tillman for member Of the national
Democratic executive committee. He
was unanimously elected.
1SsTRUcTING DELEGATES.
Senator Tillman then presented the
report Of the committee on platform
and resolutions. The following was
adopted:
Resolved, That the delegation from
this State to the Democratic national
convention be, and are hereby, in
structed to vote as unit on all matters
pertaining to the interests ofthe Demo
cratic party. All questions coming be-
fore the convention shall first be voted
upon and decided by majority Of the
delegates, the chairman of the delega
tion casting the vote Of the entire dele
CATION.
Resolved, further, That the delega-
ton from this State is hereby instructed
to vote for William Jennings Bryan as
nominee of the Democratic party for
president.
The following resolution denouncing
the j1te trust was also adopted:
Resolved, That ne, the Democrats Of
South Carolina in convention assem-
bled, do condemn this great inieuity
against the agricultural interests and
pledge our sympathy, aid and coopera-
tion in every legitimate way in aiding
the farmers in their fight against this
evil, aud We call upon the farmers Of
other States to unite and cooperate
against this trust.
ENDORSING A SENATOR.
The following resolution was then Of
fered:
Resolved, That we endorse the course
Of Hon. B. R. Tillrnan in the United
Sa.es senate, aud especially the able
manner in which be has exposed and
condemned the hypocritical imperialis-
tic policy of the Republican admins
trutiou. That his efforts to inculcate
honest methods in public expenditures,
asd his expose Of frauds and steals in
| armor plate contracts entitle him to the
thanks of his State and of the replblic.
The resolution was about to be adopt
| ed to all appearances without dis
senting vote, when Col L. W. You
mans Of BarnRell county took the floor
and moved that SO much of the resolu
tion as endorsed the course Of the senior
senator be striken out. The motion was
seconded and there was buzz and sew
eral motions to lay Youmans motion On
the table.
Senator Tillman was sitting near the
head of the main aisle. Col. Youmans
stood only few feet away in the aisle.
When order was restored he pulled out
some manuscript and began to speak
in support Of his motion in a most ear
nest manner, walking up and down the
aisle near the press stand. all listened
closely to hear what he was going to
say.
He stated at the outset that he could
not approve of some of the senator's ac-
tions. He did not think such endorse
ment should be desired unless it was
fully and freely given When voice
against it was raised the reasons must
of necessity be stated. Sometimes a
senator's views were not go much IN
accord with those of his constituents
as to make it wise to ask endorsement.
Again there was the question of con-
duct. The senator was in accord with
| the policy Of free silver. He was not
in accord on other important issues.
Continuing he said that while Senator
Tillmsn may have deported himself
with becoming integrity and dignity,
still his views and sentiments preclud-
ed the propriety Of an endorsement by
the people. He.is on record as being op-
posed to free trade and free banking two
of the three cardinal principles Of De-
mocracy, he is on record as favoring only
nationa! currency, currency having
tendency to congest at trade centres
and leave rural districts subject to most
| usurious rates of interest.
This was shown in Senator Tillman's s
efforts to incorporate in the Chicago
platform a prohibitory clause against
| private banking. On the cardinal
principle of tariff for revenue only"
| where does Senator TilIman stand?
Comparing Senator Tillman's record
| with that of VIM. Mckinley, whom
Tillman calls "a lo7able man" the two
| stand together, on protection, the class
legislation of the favored few. He
onoted from letter to Thos. f. Byron
| from Tillman in 1895, and from The
Congressional Record, in which he had
favored protection, or McKiuley's doc
trine. Strange that Senator Tillman,
protesting to be a farmer, should bold
ly declare his willingness to close the
foreign markets to our consumers and
to open them to our manufacturers.
Senator Tillmsn is included By Gros-
venor Of Ohio among those who have
| left Democracy on these cardinal prin-
ciples of feee trade and protection.
Ga the race question we see him sid
ing with the north rather than the
south. At Topeka, Kansas, in 1895,
Senator Tillman said that he concur
red with Abraham Lincoln in his dec
laration of independence making the
negro the equal of the white man. He
eulogized Lincoln in the Uaited States
senate.
As to Tillman' loyalty to party, Col.
Youmaps charged that in 1890 he was
a simon pure Edgc6eld Democrat; in
1892 half populist; in 1894 green
backer; in 1895 in letter to Thos. +.
Byron-''I see no hepe of relief unless
the southern farmers quit voting the
Democratic ticket and the western
farmers the Republican ticket"
In his eulogy on Senator Earle, he
said that the aristocricy before the
war, gave this country as pure a GOV