The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-04

he was OemOcIaG WaS NOT, ana l
merely gave voice, in all my de1ouncia-
tious Of Cleveland Democracy and
threats Of leaving the party, to the over
vhelming sentiment in control Of the
State. In other words, Wss absolute
ly loyal at all times to the majority of
m7 fellow citizens, who were Demo
Gratis, but not Of the Cleveland type,
and what I said about leaving the party
then wss not the prevailing sertimsnt
II South Carolina.
| made speech in Memphis and one
in St Louis in which
DENOUNCED CLEVELAND
and his policy as Uni Democratic and
proclaimed my willingness aDd purpose
to fight to recapture the Democratic
party from the wreckers, and, failing
there. to organizs a genuine Democratic
party, which should maintain the Drin-
eipIes of Jefferson, the father. I an
nouuced this policy as the spokesman
Of the Democracy Of this State on the
floor Of the Senate on the lst Of MAY,
1896, in debate with D. B. Hill; I
announced it in speech at DsDver,
one in Wichita, one at Lexington, Ky,
at Dallas, Texas, and Atlanta, Ca. in
all Of which the slogan wss ''16 to l OF
bust" The South Carolina State Con.
yantion, which sent delegates to the
Chicago Convention in 1895, was go
thoroughly inbued with the purpose to
have a different kind Of Damooraoy
from that Of Cleveland and his follow
ere that they sent a delegation to that
Convention with instructions to with
draw and return home for further coun-
sci in the event ne did not get plat.
form to suit US.
IHAvE NEVER AT ANY MOMENT
OF any time or any place given voice to
any feeling or sentiment about the
Democratic party that was disloyal to
the will of the msjority Of my fellow
Democrats in this State. I have al.
ways claimed to voice the will OF the
majority Of the people Of the
State and to be representa.
tive Of the majority, and every
vell.informed man 10 the State knows
that what / have spoken is capable Of
proof from the records, and, therefore,
I repeat what I aaid at Union, that any
msa who charges me with disloyalty OF
with any purpose at any time Of oppos-
ing the genuine Democracy OF South
Carolina as represented by the majority
lies, and knows he lies.
lam CALLED A PoPULsT NOW
by Republican and gold bug papers
that are 80 much in love with Com.
msrcial Democracy. always have, aod
always will, spurn Cle7elaud's Demo:
cracy ss nothing but thinly di guised
Republicanism, and McLsurin's De-
uocracy is even less respectable. CleVs-
land never played the hypocrite, while
McLsurin was as eager once to press
Populiam, pure and simple, as be is now
to advocate McKinleyis m, and Bow
den, the apostle of Populism in South
Carolina in 1892, WAS the first man be
gave 8 job to after his appointment to
the Senate, and it is said that this
Same Populist leader is now strong
supporter Of Senator McLsurin's last
brand Of politics.
Some Of the newspaper editors and
other ardent supporters Of Senator Mo-
L.urin have been very much shocked
and outraged By what I said st Union
as
A WARNING TO NILL PRESIDENTS
not to attempt to coerce their opera.
sivas. It is considered an unrardon-
able sin that I should dare to threaten
to interfere in this matter. What I
said on that occasion was for the puc-
pose Of warning these men against at.
tempting to go too far. Recognize the
right Of every man to try to persuade
others to vote with him, but deny
that the employment Of men in mills
carries with it a right on the part Of
the mill to corecs or control the votes
Of the employees. The relation be.
tween the mill owner and the worker
in the mill is one Of mutual advantage,
and the mills were not built for the
purpose Of giving employment to labor,
but for the purpose Of making money.
All men who work in the mills give ls-
Dor for the money they receive. The in
terests Of mill 7ner and the mill hand
may be Identical or may be antagonis-
tic. T. has been com non in the North
for the laborers employed in the maui
featuring establishments to,bs driven
when they cannot be osjoled into vot'
ing the Republican ticket, and the
threats Of disoharging laborers and
closing down works in '96 and even in
the last Presidential election no doubt
secured the Mckinley triumph.
THE OWNERS OF COTTON MILLS
that have sprungup so rapidly in South
Carolina are in many instances North
ern men, and possibly more Northern
capital has been invested in this indus
try in the last ten yesrs than homa
capital, but that does not carry With it
any obligation on the pant Of the opera
tives to vote for Republican WHO comes
either openly or in disguise. The mills
in South Carolina have been treated by
the State Government, Gh;ch is Demo
cratic, With grest ljbsralisy, but if
their owners attempt tc drive our na-
tlve-born South Carolina Dem ocrs:s
into the Repusiican camp the other
Democrats Of the State will not calmly
submit to is, and the operatives viii ba
the 6rst to resist suoh action. Tnere
is no proof in the world that msoufac-
turing in South Carolina owJs anything
TO the Republican party. The
MILL OPERATIVES ARE NATIVES
of this and adjoining States. They are
as thoroughly grounded in Democratic
principles as the farmers OF any other
class Of oEr citizens. They are as 6 BOD
people as ne have, and l only declared
my purpose, if an attempt to ooerce
than Vas made. to 20 to the mills st