The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-04
He IS A WINNER.
New York Will Go for Bryan This
Year.
so SAY A SCORE OF SIGNS.
Alfred Henry Lewis Also Says So,
and Gives His Reasons for
Believing It Is

and Gives His Reasons for
Believing It Is
True.
Alfred Henry Lewis, writing from
New York to the Atlanta Journal, pre-
diets that Bryan will carry New York
next fall. He says Bryan will insist
on demand being made in the plat
form for free silver at lG to | in specific
terms, and that the very words of the
Chicago document be given place in
the coming platform, and he thinks
Bryan's wishes will be carried out.
Lewis says:
have made diligent search among
all classes and sorts of business folk,
from the day laborer and artisan to the
merchant, the banker and the stock
spccuIator of Wall street in his lair,
with the one purpose Of discovering
their sentiment in that matter, and
learn the probable effect of reitera-
tion of silver at IL to on the New
York vote in November To be entire
ly frank, | do not believe, from all [
listened to, that it will have any NAL
effect or indeed any effect at all. Fl
nance cannot, Of course, even by word
tricksters, be called as Hancock called
tariff, "a local issue" There is no ques-
ton of its general character. Bat in
terest in finance as a topic of politics
shifts with the region investigated. In
some states it burns; in others it is dull
and dim. This latter is the condition
in New York. Brysn's argument is at
fault SO far as this state is concerned.
The delegation was instructed" to
vote for him at the convention, and it
is blithe to obey that command But
neither the instruction" nor its cheer
full acceptance by delegates depended
or deoends on his silver pose. His
New York endorsement was a compli-
ment to his matchless genius for lead
ership, and came to him because Of
his popularity with the people, and for
that the party leaders here believe him
"a b., in general terms and for general
! rather than for specific reasons, capable
Of polling the most votes on election
day.
Interest in finance as a subject was
never so warm nor so cogeut in New
York as in the west and south. 1t
wasn't in 1896; it isn't now. There are
two sorts of original silver folk; the
man (west) who has silver to sell
and aims to promote price, and
the man (south) who, pinched for cir
cu!atiog medium, seeks to exrand the
volume of money with free silver.
New York never had silver to sell, and
always had money enough. When
money was scarce in the west and south
the New York banks-and for that very
reason-were stuffed with it. When
the west was borrowing at II per cent,
and her mine enterprises tagging
through the low price of silver; when
the south was paying 10 per cent for
loans, New York was borrowing money
at , and and at most per cent. To
day it would employ the day and night
diligence of the best business man to
keep 81 600, 600 loaned on fair local Sc
curities at + per cent. cite these
facts of money condition, past and
present, as the reasons why New York
has not warmed and does not warm to
finance as subject. She has never
been pricked By the bayonet of a money
or silver need.
In 1896 the New York gold man was
red faced with fear. The silver man,
or he who for his Democracy should
have been called so, was listless and
full Of sluggishness. The gold mans
excitement did not rest because Of any
apprehension of local silver triumph.
The New York gold man was afraid that
the general, national silver sentiment
might avalanche itself upon him by
carrying the rest of the country. For
that he trembled four years and con-
tributed his treasures to Hanna and
fought tooth and nail. Today one finds
that change has come over the New
York gold man; today he is as cold and
indifferent to finance as topic, as is
tha! thick and thin Democrat, who, al
ways voting the ticket. was perforce
silver man four years ago, and will be
again If silver l6 to l is the platform.
And the cause Of the gold mans indif
ference to finance is this: He no longer
fears; he believes today that if silver lG
to l is put in the Democratic platform
and Bryan elected thereon still there
can come no change. Silver, he be-
lieves, come what may, is out Of reach
of its adherents for at least four years.
And so his apprehension goes to sleep.
AS | cast the search-light of inquiry
into this concern and that Of New
York's bustling humanity, found, as
stated, that here at least the ques-
tion of silver and the platform utter
ancc on it would cut no great figure.
The labor folk, those who work for day
wages with their hands, are, | found,
almost to II n for Bryan. And they
are highly enthusiastic; they regard
him as certain of victory. But neither
their loyalty to Bryan nor their hopes
Of his coming success, base themselves
on silver. They care nothing about
silver and one couldn't hold their at
tention moment while discussing it.
They are for Bryan because they re-
gard him as the poor mans candidate,
and look upon him as fashion of labor
Moses with mission to lead them into
a promised land Of shorter hours, steady |
work and better pay.
Among those not strictly Of the la
Dor class, but who may be called mer-
chants and other handlers of money in
larse amounts. | found many Bryan