The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-28
Democracy and Rspub'icsnFsT7
Clearly Defined.
gy HON. D. 8. HEN0E2soN.
a clea~ Cut Visw Of the Offer
ence ssswsaH The TWO oTsas
Parties il tha United
STATES.


ences between the Democrats ard he
publicsns in this country, SIS follows:
Fellow Citizsns:
Isis esteemed high privilege to be
invited to address the people OF this
favored section Of South Carolina.
When your unexpected and unsolicI-
ted ;p7itsticn cane, TO come hitner
and address you on the grave naticnsi
issues pending before the American
people it was accepted as csn to du:y
! have felt that in the discussion OF
these issues at this meeting, IN sn OF
election year, which is only the pre-,
liminsry of many which may follow
next year, it were best not to address
you in an of hand, extemporaneous
manner, which is best suited TO per,
sonsI political debate, but to connls
my reflection to manuscript II the
hope that nsy be more sccurste, Sue
cinct and clear.
Issues are brought about by the hap
pening Of events, which genersts ideas
Of interest and concern; snd being dis
cussed and acted upon By the public
become formulated into concrete facts
as the basis Of public and private SO
tion.
Nations are initiated or destroyed sy
the result Of snch issues; s1o It Is the
duty Of every liberty loving citizen, as
the best indicis to his right to citizen
ship to take an active part IN such
events.
We should bring to the consideration
Of such matters not Rhetorical pyro-
technics in speech and glitEering gen.
eralities from history, but common
sense snd reason and apply the su5je't
at hand to our home needs and home
duties.
As people, as a nation, by the per
mission Of Providence We occupy the
greatest country Of the earth. Born
amid the pesns Of liberty; liberty Of
conscience; liberty Of speech, and
liberty Of religion, she has been baptized
in the Waters Of adversely and IS now
marching up the slopes Of spparens
prosperity and power.
It is the people who compose the
government. It is the people who
formulate the ideas that guide national
growth; and it is the people who must
decide The issues which the formula-
ton Of such ideas bring about.
All nations Of the nature of cur
American republic must have rival
political parties. It started soon after
the breath Of life was blown into the
body polite Of this National republic
IS. the necessary concomitant of the
fact that men run the government.
They have existed ever stree under
various names, creeds and banners and
will continue to remain as long astaa
republic lives, CT until its enemies,
they have their way, sink i.into !nperl-
alistic oblivion.
TIE written charts which bind US
together, namely, The DeclaIae Of
Independeucs";; ''The Articles Of Coz:
federation" and ''Tae Constitution Of
the United States Of Americs" we're
begoteon in the revolt Of liberty against
the Royal Imperislist1c colonization
idea. The Constitution was grant Of
power from the people; what was not
therein granted to the government
thereby formed vas reserved absolutely
to the people.
QEvery line, every syllable Of this
Magma Charta Of the people was e7ol7
ed from struggle Of debate between
centralized government on the one
hand snd a government Of the people
on the other. .
The dust Of bstsle which vindicsted
the liberty principles Of the Constitu-
tion had scarcely rolled away when
Hamilton and his followers espoused
the cause Of Centrsiis I'd government;
and Jefferson and his followers the
cause Of 3 Democracy pure and simple.
Ever since through various mutations
and changes, amid shifting scenes and
circumstances; amid battle snd treason
and traitorism and tyranny and pros
perity and adversely, the struggle has
continued; and it subsists toiay.
You called this meeting to- day be.
cause it was still going on.
The Haniltonian, Federalistic or
Republican party bending all Of its
energies to centralize all power IN one
Federal head with the machinery for
the promotion Of It's combines sud ee-
Tendencies to perpetuate the power Of
that head; and the Jefersonian or
Democratic party bending its energies
for the preservation Of popular govern.
ment and q strict construction Of the
constitution handed down BY tbs
fathers.
The same Democratic party has seen
defeat and stood it like Spartan hero.
It has seen victory and dispensed
power; and stood that success with
equsnlnity and dispensed that power
IS an even handed governor Of the pso
ple'B rights, -,
It may again see defeat, but 1t will
again sec victory if its sons sre true to
its cause.
It has stood as the Crest Conservation
Of the business interests Of the country;
demanding competition in all the
msrts Of trade. So that labor and in,
dustry IN al modes OF lie csn be com
pensated.
It has stood against the encrosch-
ments Of the greedy money gstherel
and for the promotion Of the healthy
trade and enterprise in al departments.
For the extension and protection oi
commerce to the renotest regions o!
the earth so that American progres:
and American enterprise by the making
Of better goods at cheaper prices coui5
command the msrkess Of the world
and it advocates to-day the promotion
and protection Of that trade and com
mercs to the fullest extent.
L has stood for the enforcement 0!
its own life bought doctrine that there
must be no further encroschment upor