The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14

inning up, 2no DuylnS up newspapers.
Are oa ready to say the people must
give way to these modern idea leaders.
who want to look out after all interests?
They ars not making much Of q racket
yet but perhaps like snakes in the grass
thsy are sneaking around to sting you.
When Sou do eaton them you are going
to crush their heads.
The Democratic party's dootrine is to
teach the people and then trust them.
If I have any hold on you it is because
I have trusted you collectively. I have
always been trusted and you have fol-
lowed me; I'm not always right, but
you have been with me. Ny proudest
boast in Washington is tnat I rep
resent my people; that when I speak
you speak. When I feel that I have
lost your confidence and respect then
I'm going hcme. And it is that sense
of poHer-becauss I feel I do repre-
sent you-that maks me- so sassy.
(Laughter, It was that which made me
last week go into Republican strong
holds in the northwest. 1t was sluzury
70 tell them to their teeth when they
ASKED re to discuss the race question
that they didn't know blame thing
about it. l told them that l Eoald
lead mob to lynch a negro Or any one
else guilty Of the crime Of rape and
they spplauded me to tie echo. Blood
is as thick up there as it il here.
spoke of the fact that Ualon had
made great progress. I want to sag
that few co ton factory men are be-
hind the story that this new doctrine
is strong in these industries and in this
section. l deny that. know Of some
mill presidents who are not. I give
them credit for having some sense and
if they do try 10 cosrce ytu they will
butt stone wall. I believe that you
will stand to the principles Of sslf-
government, because you love your
rights and will sustain them. I want to
give word Of warning TO these cotton
mill men who have gone north and
come back with these new ideas. There
are some Of these weak people around,
m,ybe they include one-half Of these
officers. When did cotton milling in
South Carolina begin to grow? In 1890
ne had only handful. Isbegan when
Cleveland vas in the White House.
DID it owe Cleveland anything? deny
it. Since Mckinley has come in the
mills continue to 60 up. The building
of mills continue because it was dis
covered that it vas more profitable to
build and operate mills here than any
where else on earth. Then why should
We all join the Republican party?
Where is the contentious basis? It is
humbug and lie. 1t is as plain as
two and two makes four. Why do our
mill presidents then wish to fall in be
hind these new ideas? ] can see no
other hypothesis unless they have been
bootlioking the money men north. 10
order to curry favor they must take the
whole doctrine. They can't take the
operatives with them. Why won't they
b, persuaded or coercsd? Because
they ara men-gome Of the best men
We have. IWant to tell these men why
I know they won't follow. When you
were working night and day to make
the big profits, did the officers raise
your wages, etc? No, in some in
s:ances they cut wages while doubling
their money inside Of year, and then
they say you must be Commercial
Democrats because it is to their inter-
ests. They tried to vote these people
against me in 1890 and in 1892, but
they didn't do it, and when they try
to make them vote for John L. McLau-
rim to go to the senate next year to
misrepresent the State they are not
going to do it. (Cries-"Rurrah for
Tillman. They tell US ne must allow
latitude for the mill owners to control
the mills. With the new constitution
hoW dare these mill presidents come
here to lead these people into the Re
ruoliccan party and turn them over to
Mark Hanna? The time may come to
call down those who have no right to
meddle and try to run the politics Of
South Carolina. Are We to have this
rule of wealth come here. Il you have
sunk SO low as to be herded then it
will come; if not, it won't; I suppose
there will be row raised. l am not
arrsying the mill operatives against
employers. I'm telling factory owners
to attend to their own business. That
is all. Ii they try to cosrce operatives
I pledge you l will 60 to every village
and talk to these free white men and
tell them Of the inquities they are try
ing to practice upoa them.
South Carolina has fostered cotton
mills. The constitutional convention
left the thing open and there has been
no adverse legislation, but there may
be-.
They tell you that the negrois ont Of
the way. My God, don't seduca your
self into believing that. Every man
who wss in the constitutions conven-
tion knows that the Sword OF Dauocles
hangs over our head; that the suffrage
provision is only temporary at best,
as long as the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments are 10 force. h explained
the provisions.
When aWhite man mesinfamous
the ore educated he is the more infa-
nous he is. In the Ros ;Iu5ion not one.
half Of the men who made South Csr.
olina free could read or write. You
can't put the yardstick of education.
Then there is the question of caste.
Whether We are better than the negro
we are going to run this country. The
effort 10 re7olutionize the party means
that the negro who is eduosted will be
the balsnce of power between the
blacks and whites and the white man
who comes nearer being niger will
get the m3st votes. Let me show you
something. BE cited the Ohio Republi.
can platform just adopted-in the pres
ident's own State. He read the clause
relating to the south's depriving the