The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-01
The Tariff a Real Issue.

1haJ the hepuOllcdllS aie Ill q
great tangle over the tariff ques-
ton cannot be successfully de-
MED any more by any of that
party. The withdrawal of Speak
er Henderson from the race for
Congress in his own district and
from the Republican campaign
generally is a fash of lightning
that shows the dire confusion of
the party at a glance. The com
ments of the leading men and
newspapers of the party on the
incident display CONSERVATION
and resentment and a deep feel
inc of bitterness. The Wash
ington Star, a staunch Republi-
can organ, sounds this regret,
which is probably characteristic
of what we shall hear from the
party press generally against
Gen. Henderson: "Gen. Hen
derson retires in the face of the
enemy. The bugles are sound
ing and the drums are rolling,
and everybody is falling in. But
Gen. Henderson sheathes his
sword. He is a brave man, and
if the soldier spirit had domln-
ated him at the moment he
would not have taken this STEP"
Evidently the Republicans are
very sore on Henderson, not
only because he is a gutter, but
because in quitting he exposed
the straits of the party.
But the Henderson incident'
sensational as it is, is not the
only occurrence of the past few
| DAYS to show the dissensions IN
the party on the matter of the
tariff. Practically coincldent
with Henderson's withdrawal
from the race for Congress oc'
cured the conference at Oyster
Bay of leading Republican Sen
ators with the President. The
reports from the conference are
very carefully guarded, but they
| indicate an interesting condltlor
of affairs. The New York Times
of yesterday. in a dispatch iron
OYSTER Bay, stated that it was
understood the President hac
not consented to yield anything
of his view on the necessity fo7
a revision of the tariff and fo7
reciprocity with Cuba and tina
he insisted that he would urge
these policies during his West
ern tour. 1t was said that tn
conference had been rather heat
ed in it's tone, the Times repor
saying: =,
return from the President
home that there had been trouble
and it looked as if the Preslden
| had declared his intentions yer
plainly and had held to his idea
in a way distressing to his ad
visers. It was even rumore
that he had practically told the1
that he was the chosen executlV
of the people and would DO a
he thought best.
The same paper contained l
it's local reports the following;
The party of Senators wh
visited Oyster Bay. yesterday
ION reaching this city last eve
ming, went TO the Waldorf-A'
toria. where they held an earnes
conference. One of them, o
being told that it had been r.
ported that the conference {
oyster Bay had broken up in
rumpus, and that the Preslde1
had remarked that he woul
speak on whatever subject +
pleased and in the way he sa
1T. said: ssThere is,a whole X
of nonsense in circulation an
the least said the better-it IS a
undesirable situation" Anothf
said that "the situation was NJ
irreconcilable, and it would con
out all right"
Here is admittedly a gre
mess. The Republican Speak
quitting the game entirely o o
cause the views of his constlt
ents are too liberal to suit nj
and the Republican Presldel
insisting on continuing 6 to LEI
from the tariff revision SUI
against the advice and appeal
the big machirists of the part
In the face Of these clrcul
stances, who can say that tt
tariff is not a present issue
our national politics. or that Il
Democrats have not great O
portunity before them to ma
something of their long-declar
and twice victorious principle:
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