The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-04-23
The Wal. O?a Boodler.

ScIHtoT ljept". New OH,
make3& stab at tn" South by introduce
ing an amendment in the United
State Senate TO III" resolution passed
= !ew weeks ago by the House of Re-
prescnta,ives altering the manner Of
choosing senators, making their cleo
tion dependent upon popular vote in
future. The amendment, which pro-
vides that the quaiitica tions Of citi-
ZcnS entitled 10 vote for United States
senators and representatives in con-
greSs shall be uniform in allthe states,
and congress shall have power to en-
force this article by appropriate legiS-
lation and provide for the registration
OF citizens entitled to vote, the conduct
CT such elections and the. certifcation
OF the result" is intended, of course,
to give the United States government
the right to supervise the elections in
all the Southern States and to abolish
all the restrictions these States have
put on the negro vote. This amend
ment practically kills the measure, as
the South would never agree to it's
adoption, and if it's included in the
original bill every Southern Senator
would be compelled to vote against it
in defence of his section.
The late Coz Altgeld, in speaking
of Senator Depaw, said he first at
tracted attention many years ago as a
lobbyist at Albany. where he, for a
long time. was engaged in the highly
honorable business Of putting meta
phorical collars on the New York
legislators, so that, to the public, they
appeared to belong to the Vanderbilts
and the New York Central railroad.
According to reports, this business
was reduced to such d science that
whenever the New York Central rail-
road wished to buy a legislator they did
not even stop to negotiate with him,
but simply put him on the scales and
weighed him. 4 train of slime and
corruption was stretched across the
state Of New York city, by way Of
Albany, to Buffalo, polluting legisla-
tive halls and even filing courts Of
justice with odor. This was the beginn-
ing Of that food Of corruption which
is today washing the foundations from
under the whole governmental fabric.
No man could be dealer in this
prosy without soiling his fingers,
and am told that since that time Mt.
Depew has never been seen without
gloves.
He made of all this a stepping
stone to greatness. He wrapped the
Stars and Stripes about him. He be-
came a red, white and blue orator-he
changed his calendar SO as to make the
Fourth Of July embrace 365 days,
leaving but six hours for the remain
der Of the year, and then he started
for the white house. Subsequently
the Vanderbilts, finding him to be a.
greatconvenience, made him president.
of New York Central railroad and paid
him a salary Of $4,000 year. The
old railroad men smiled at the idea-
but they had not yet learned thatone
of the most important features of the
modern railroading is to construct
railroad near courthouses and operate
a line through state capitols. In the
art Of engineering money cut Of the
public and into the pockets of private
individuals he has no superior. And
it looks as if his career will compel
the American people to adopt an
eleventh commandment reading as
follows: Go thou and do evil, that
thou mayest live on the. fat Of the
land, and that thy sickness may be
the wonder of men. This is a good
picture of this man who pretends to
be so jealous of the purity of the bal
lot.