The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-27
ABUSED FARMERS,
Roosevelt on Record as Saying They
Are a Base Set.

! Roosevelt on Record as Saying They
Are a Base Set.
He EXPECTS FARMERS VOTES.
But All Self Respecting Farmers
Should Vote for Judge Parker,
Who Honors Their No
BILE Calling.
Should the Democratic party go up
to victory in November next fate will
show herself in ironical mood in this
year, Roosevelt will meet defeat at
the hands Of one Of that class Of cur
American citizenry which he holds as
the bassst in the land, for Alton
Brooks Parker, Democratic nominee
for President, is small farmer both
by birth and prediction, and one Of
his special delights is breeding fine
cattle on the 90-acre farm, his home
at Esopus, n. Y.
Surely the farmers Of no section o1
this broad land will consider for a
moment the possibility Of doing aught
which will tend to continue in power
the mau who has expressed such mer-
c1less contempt for the farmers and
laborers Of our country.
Hon. Claude Kitchin, Of North
Carolina, during the last session Of
Congress, speaking on the subject OF
Mr.. Roosevelt's estimation Of various
classes OF American citizens, said:
After attributing to the cowboys
of the westa moral depravity Of which
no cowboy has been guilty within a
half century and against which l
protest; after declaring that they
were 'brutally dissipated,' that when
drunk on villainous Whiskey they cut
mad antics, ride horses in saloons firing
their pistols right and left: etc., in
his Ranch Life and Hunting Trail
up 9 and 10y he adds:
"They are much better fellows and
pleasanter companions than small
farmers OF agricultural laborers; nor
are the mechanics and Workmen OF
great city to be mentioned in the
same breath
In a speech made by him in New
York in October, 1896, at Sound
money meeting in the Wool Ex-
change, reported in the New York
Journal October %, 1896, Mr.. Roose-
Yelt said:
''Mr. Bryan and his adherents have
appealed to the basest set in the
land, the farmers
Search the world over, ransack bis
tory from the beginning and you will
look in vain to find another who has
in any way maligned the farmers OF
his own country. 1t is a marvel
that any party should offer as candi-
date for the Presidency a man who
has so Viciously traduced the character
of the best type Of our citizenship,
the American farmer"
It will be the part of wisdom for
our farmers Of the North, South, Z st
and West to weigh well what the
chances for an administration Of the
government for the best interests Of
our agricultural population are likely
to be in the hands Of a man who has
expressed openly and on various occa-
sions both in writing and speech such
unmistakable contempt for the char
acter and lives Of those farmers upon
whose votes, it is claimed, be is large
ly depending for his continuation IN
power.
Surely there is no farmer ia these
United States who will not in his turn
regard with contempt the character
of the man who since his earliest man.
hood has fought and Striven for pub
lie Office and has lived up-n public
money, money gathered into state and
Federal treasury in large part as a
result Of the unceasing toll OF the
great class of farmers whom he so
thoroughly despjs 5. Surely again it
will give these same farmers the very
greatest satisfaction to show Mr.
Roosevelt in November neyt that
while he may not despise them quite
so intensely as not to take play for
their votes, they do regard him as 50
utterly unfit for the Presidential Of
ice that they will cast those votes fpr
man Of their own. man who while
performing the duties Of Chief Judge
OF the Court OF Appeals in the great
State OF New York is yet living the
simple and dignifed life Of a farmer,
himself the product Of several eener-
ations of small, hardworking farmers
1t was doubtless this simple and hard.
ly life which bred in Judge Parker
the courage to send to st. Louis that
telegram which, he well knew might
cause the withdrawal OF his nomi-
nation for President by the Demo
cratic Convention.
That Mr.. Roosevelt has not chang
ed his opinion OF the lack OF wisdom
or even good sense possessed by the
farmers OF the country is very evident
since it is constantly asserted in Re
publican papers that it is to the rural
districts that be is looking for the
majority OF the votes which are to
give him four years longer occupancy
Of the White House.
He made big play for the labor
vote last summer when be rushed In
to, the anthracite coal strike but he
doubtless knows now as well as do the
labor leaders themselves that there IS
an organized opposition against him
in several OF the largest branches of
the Labor Union, and consequently
be is looking away from the cities to
the rural districts where reside the
men whom be has designated as the
basest in the land" Will they in
Noven Der next honor with their votes
this unan?
Will they vote to continue in the
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