The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
TIE CHICAGO PLATFORM.

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tracing unusual attention ali
over the country, and naturally
the newspapers of the South are
Delaying especially that section
which proposes to cut down our
representation because OF our
suffrage laws. The Atlanta Con-
stitution makes the following
epitome of the Republican plat
form and tersely criticises it:
The Chicago platform is pecu-
liarly fitted for its candidates to
stand on. 1t is a composite OF
egotism. It bears every ear
mark of having been made to Or
Ger.
About the only thing the Chi
cago platform does not claim
credit for is this seasons har-
vests. The omission is explica-
bic because the outcome of the
harvests is still to be spoken of
in the future tense. The party
could not afford to take chances
on a crop failure. It deals only
in sure things.
However, the Republicans in
national convention assembled, do
not hesitate to claim the credit
for every bumper harvest since
the s:panic of '93.'' The country
has undeniably prospered within
the past seven or eight years,
mainly because the God of the
harvest was with the husband
nan. We have taken the con-
tract to feed the world. WHAT'S
our feast has been the famine OF
other nations. It is easy to float
down stream. Because the
country has prospered in spite
of it, the Republican party gets
chesty, and, tapping its bosom
pin, cries, Il did it!!''
That's all very ABSTRACT. Inc
genuine elements in our national
prosperity are not made or un-
made by politics. The part that
is not genuine and can be affect
ed politics is what the intelligent
voters will analyze in this cam
paign. In this connection, what
4 of the ssfull dinner pail?'' What
of the cost Of living in comparl-
son with the standard of wages?
Did you see anything of that
specific nature in the prosperity
boast of the Chicago platform?
The farmers are prosperous, it
is true, but they would be more
prosperous if they could buy
their agricultural implements as
cheaply as the American imple-
ment trust sells them in foreign
countries. The towns supported
by the farmers prosperity would
be more prosperous if well nigh
everything their citizens have to
buy was not exorbitantly high as
y the result of trust greed and
monopoly. The consistent pro-
tective tariff" the Chicago plat
form boasts of is responsible for
the trusts that have SO reduced
the purchasing power of the av-
erage American citizen that he is
about as poverty pinched today
as during the ;'panic of '93, "
with the difference that he is
working twice as hard to keep
poor now.
Stand -patism" means trust
ism, and nothing else, for the
DIngley tariff does more to fos-
ter and protect trusts than all
other influences combined. This
is the theory of the 'sIowa idea
which was thrown bodily out of
the Chicago convention by the
trust bouncers and it is the delib-
crate conviction of a majority Of
the American people. The Chi
cagoplatform admits the posi-
) bility of conditions" becoming
so bad that ''the public interest"
may demand tariff revision, but
it does not promise to abate one
lot or title of Dingleyism. It's
pronouncement on reciprocity is
very much the same, this species
of duty relief being promised
when it's accomplishment is
consistent with the principles
lof protection to the trusts. The
real love of the Republican man
ayers for reciprocity is plainly
evidenced by the big batch Of
Mckinley reciprocity treaties
smothered in the pigeon holes Of
the United States Senate.
What the Chicago platform
boasts of having done for the
army and navy has been done
in the mischievous spirit Of i'm
perialism and militarism, which,
at bottom, may be nothing worse
than jingoism. We hope it is
nothing worse than that. 'sWe
set Cuba free" Yes, but would
you have set Cuba free had not
Senator Teller, Democrat, forced
a resolution through the Senate,
along with the declaration Of
war on Spain, solemnly pledged
the United States to act toward
the struggling Cubans after their
liberation in strict accordance
with the spirit of the American
Declaration of independence and