The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-31

racy," for have held and advocated,
even before the last democratic con-
ventiou the same views that l now
entertain.
And will state further that I have
no aspiration for public Office, and there
is not position within the gift OF the
people, or any individul oficeholder,
that would accept or have. | have
permanently retired from journalism
for good and all. | am now farmer,
live on my farm, aud intend to follow
that avocation for the remainder OF my
days. l have always stood by and bat
tied for the cause of the farmer and
laboring classes, and advised what l
honestly believed to be their best
interests. And in the series OF letters
which shall write on the political sit
uation, 1 will advise that policy which
l believe will result in the upbu!lding
of our own State and Southland, in the
honor and glory of our common coun-
try, and which will promote the en-
| llightenment, the happiness and pros
perity of the whole people.
1t is not my mission or my purpose 10
advance the claims OF any candidate
for any Office whatever, but shall dis
cuss State and national issues, as they
appear to my mind, and the people can
then accept or reject them as their
Judgment and reason may dictate.
am well aware that there are GER
tain politicians in our State and the
South who denounce as emlsarles and
hirelings of Mark Hanna every demo-
crat who refuses to longer follow the
leader-strings of VIM. ). Bryan, and
advocate any new departure from the
old, beaten track. My democracy has
never been questioned. I devoted the
best years of my life and every talent
God has given me, to battling for the
cause of my party, and, in the line OF
public Office, have neither asked nor
received one copper IL return for my
labors
But in all candor I can see but very
little, if any, difference whether man
be the follower of Mark Hanna or Tel
ier. And so far as I am individually
concerned. I do not propose to be
guided by either one or the other. With
the single exception of his opposition
to the gold standard, Teller endorsed
every plank in the republican platform,
and he was aligned and in harmony in
its work with that party when it was
hundred fold more oppressive to the
South and its institutions than that
same party is today under the domina-
tion OF President Mckinley and Mark
Hanna. If Teller ever opposed those
outrageous reconstruction measures
against the South, the placing of black
heels on white necks, and the filing OF
every Federal Office in the South with
venial carpetbaggers and ignorant ne
groes, would like for some Of those
democratic Tellerites to show wherein
he has ever befriended our people.
On the other hand President Mckinley
has greatly advanced and improved the
public service in the South, and is Civ
ing prominent positions to representa-
tive, prominent and competent South
erp-born white men
But as already said, so far as I am
individually concerned, I do not pro-
pose to be q follower of Hanna, Teller
or any other republican or ex-republi-
can leader. I shall think and act for
myself, but when the democratic
party meets in convention assembled,
formulates a platform and nominstes
candidates. shall then, and not till
then, bow to the will of the majority
and Loyalty support the standard bearer
Of my party.