The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-11-20
REORGANIZATION IS THE ONLY REMEDY.

ond Class matter.
REORGANIZATION IS THE ONLY REMEDY
We are asked to say, IF the
Democrat tic party as now organ
lied is a failure, what can be
done to bring the party back in.
to good standing and confidence
with the people:" The first
thing to determine, is the Demo,
cratic party as now organized, q
failure? In 1896, the country's
condition was such that the ar.
guments fora more elastic money
circulation found great favor
with the masses in the South,
and in some parts of the West,
"the Democratic party went into
the campaign with every prom
ise of success. The Republican
party, representing nearly all
of the invested capital of the
country was thoroughly alarmed,
as William Jennings Bryan went
over the land and from the plat,
form of a railroad train, preach,
ed the doctrines of free and
unlimited coinage Of silver
at a ratio Of sixteen to one and,
various other ideas that had
been the tenets of the Populist
party of Nebraska and Kansas.
The country was wild and en-
thusiastic, everything pointed
to Democratic victory, notwith,
standing the fact that some OF
the ablest men of the party whose
counsels before that time, were
eagerly sought, refused to be
drawn into what they termed
ssthe capture of the Democratic
party by a band Of Populists
whose theories of government
we're little short of socialism and
anarchy" These men stayed
out, and either voted for Palmer
and Buckner, candidates of the
gold Democracy, or directly fo1
William Mckinley the Republi,
can nominee; the result was.
that the Democratic party went
down in defeat. It was said that
the morey power did the work,
that the masses at heart were
with US; grant this to be true,
what good is it for the ''masses
at heart" to be with US, when the
masses" go to the polls and
with their fingers place in the
ballot box a ticket against US.
It is not how the masses at
heart" are, it is how they vote
that does the work.
The party leaders IN order to
swing on to their control, sent
Bryan to lecturing throughout
the States that the Populistic
fires would be kept burning,
and wherever there was poll
tician who got in on the free
silver platform, regardless of
our crushing defeat, he used
the ingenuity he could command
to keep the people from making
any change because changes
would likely result in a repudia-
ton of leadership. The people
of the South listened to the
wooing of their leaders who
clung to the ship that carried
them into a polit cal heaven, and
again in 1900 accepted the lea
dership Of Mr.. Bryan with his
once repudiated ideas, under the
promise that the money power,
not having fulfilled the pledges
made in the proceeding cam
paign would be wiped off the
earth. Again we threw aside all
principle and combined with all
things earthly to make the fight;
we made combinations with Pop
ullsts, Socialists, Republicans,
Laborites, Anarchists, Single
takers, and everything Or po-
litical organization that could
give US a promise of votes. We
went into the campaign
fighting trusts and the Republi-
cans proved that the chairman
of our national committee was
at the head of a trust, we fought
the Republicans and they proved
that the head of our ticket never
voted Democratic ticket in his
life until he was the nominee for
Office. We denounced Mark Han
ma as a dictator and a boss, and
it was shown that our Chief not
only dictated the action of our
convention, but refused to stand
upon the platform if his wishes
we're not sustained. At every
turn we made, the Republicans
were there to meet US; when we
said the people were depressed,
they confronted us with the
dinner-pail overfowing with
substantial food.
We simply permitted the bull
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