The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14
and Democrats, but not mora 50 than
this proceeding Of yours.


this proceeding of yours.
In his double character as prosecut-
ing witness snd sttorney against me,
Senator Tiiimsn is reported as saying
before your committee that | have
voted with the R=pu olicsns in inpcr.
tart matte.s," and that he has seer ne
coafe1riog with Republican senators.
As ! will show by the records, he him
self frequently voted with the Repub-
iicsns III importsnt mstters," 81 al
ether Democratic senators have done
fr<m time to time. L is frequently
necessary proper and courteous to confer
with members of the opposite party, IS
he knows and as every man of practices!
S; nse knows. These expressions Of his
sre attempts to take advantage Of Gre
6ulity snd ignorance. | do not tnic <
there is man il South Carolina so ig,
norant SIS to be resily deceived By them,
He cannot put ma under suspicion as he
has pus himself by his own acts.
have not in public omcs retrogradeo from
., perhaps, honorable bankruptcy 20 dis
honorable ard uGexplained wealth. He
and have drawn the ssme salaries, but
l have found it impossible to save a DOL
lar from nine. | have never, however,
truckled to corporations vita the favn-
ing of tanned spaniel, made speeches
sgsinst them, then voted for them, aud
accepted fa7ors as he has done. | have
meyer been the sole boss and buying
agent Of newly created whiskey trust,
with it's rebates Of $50, 1000 to $4,000
year, none Of which ever reached the
state treasury. | have never had the
handling Of a state bond retunding
scheme with $4,000 of commissions
never yet accounted for or explained.
A year ago Senator Tillman went into
North Dakots and made speeches advo.
eating the re election of Rspublicao
senator, Mr.. Pettigrew. Senaror Tillman
and this senator we're prominent in pre-
venting, by hlilbustering tactics, vote
on the subsidy bill. The newspapers
said that Mr.. Hill, head Of the Northern
Pacific lobby sgsinst the subsidy bill,
gave Senator T,llnan's friend and asso-
ciate tip which paid him $3.50, 600 in
ths stock market. Birds Of feather,
gentlemen OF the committee, always
flock together.
Has Senator Tillman, prosecuting at
torney against my Democracy, ever
failed to abuse Democrats and Demco.
racy? Do you know that in the last TWO
Democratic national conventions he
has supported the nomination of Rspuo-
licans? 10 1896 he favored Senator
Teller for president, an old line Rapub-
lican and one of the bitterest foes of
the South in reconstruction days. He
had himself appeared before the con-
vsntion as competitor Of W. j. Bryan
and been ANONYMOUSLY showed under.
In 1900 he was for Towne, also a Rs
publican for vice president. Is he the
man to be supreme srbiter and judge Of
what is Democrsoy in South Carolina!
In the senate I have ls5ored, as the
records will show, to broaden the pros
perity Of the country, to promote the
interests of my own people, to spresd
civilization, to enlarge and increase op-
portunity for our young nsn acd to
simulate enterprise. His whole
political course and method have bsen
to tear down, to abuse and oppose, to
blight and restrain, to bite where he
dared snd to fawn where be feared OF
sought favor. I shall ask the people to
contrast the records srd shall claim my
right as free man, bora snd resre6
Democrat and q senstor from South
Cagolina, to do it regardless Of the
o1d.rs OF twenty one members Of the
executive committee. I shall ask the
people to decide between the man who
has tried to help cotton factories, open
highways of commerce and to 80 com
nand the Democratic party as command
for it the confidence and respect Of the
business and lsboIing elements North
and South, and that Of the nan whose
conduct and record has been to sink the
party to disrapute and impotence, I
shall ask than to say whether they pre-
fer the senator who has tried to retain
for South Carolina the honor and dignity
Won by Ioug line of illustrous sons
and glorious deeds, or the senator Who
has postured as bufoon and bully and
who proclaimed on the floor Of the sen
ate that hs represented constituency
Of ballot box suffers and nurderers
who wanted their share Of the stealsge.
He is now il northern state holding
up our people as negro murcerers and
bsllos box thieves.
You have u2derssken to Condemn and
expel and cspose me, not only wishou:
hesri9g bu5 without evidence. Upon
| what grounds are ny gcod faith as q
senator and ny 62eiitg as Democrat
| asssi;ed? Il is on the tariff? None ci
you Of the committee can prove 70 the
people t5at the Democratic party is g
5Ies trade party, 1t hss opposed tsrifl
fer protection only, but as ear!y as 1891
| We had protective tariff, and We have
| never in the one hundred sn6 four
years sincs knoHn free trade. Genera
Hancock, the psrsy nominee for presi-
dent in 1880, regarded the tariff as g
local question. Ssmde! J. Randall, fol
years the lacty leader and speaker 0!
! the house, wss protectionist. In every
congress where the question has beer
presented numbers Of Democrats have
voted against sad helped to kill free
trade. 1 have contended that Southern
products should be put on equality viii
others, and in 1897 I fought to have
rice, pine lumber and cotton protected
The Lcry Of Republican" was rsiset
against me then, but the people, before
whom the issue was squarely put, en-
dorsed me by an overwhelming vote
Are you nov undertaking to reverse
that 7erdict2
7 have favored ship subsidies. I
is great question and one, I submit
on which the people of this state art
competent to pass after hearing ful
argument. The subject has never beer