The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-29
THE SOUTH TO GET A LEMON!

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presidency Of the New York
Cotton Exchange, and that there
is a possibility that he may ind
a place at the head OF
the so-called reform ticket
also. This is news indeed:
news we regret to say that's not
likely to inspire feeling OF pro
found gratitude in the South.
news that brings with 1t remln.
iscences grimly suggestive OF
what may be expected from the
Cotton Exchange of New York
under such a management, such
an executive. What does Char
lesion think of her exotic son
who is about to be so honor?
What does South Carolina think
of Dr.. James? Harking back
twenty-five years to the time
OF his voluntary exile. one
might find the fly in the amber
of our keen appreciation Of what
the New York Cotton Exchange,
purposes;to do. Parker's repu-
tation in Charleston was known
when he was a cotton factor
there, and the echoes and tombs
have come down the years
losing none Of their effectiveness,
and they illustrate pretty clear
ly what the astute clique in con-
trol of the Cotton Exchange ex-
pect when they name him for
the presidency. Their candidate
promises all the necessary re-
quisites, wealth, superficial re-
specability, latter-day honesty:
with the approved color blind
ness in all manner of things
where the interests of the in
siders are concerned. We have
no personal hostility to the en-
inent Doctor Parker, but from
the point Of view Of the South,
which has suffered so long from
the debased New York contract.
we protest against putting up
this man and clothing him with
any pretensions to friendliness
to the South, or with record
inspiring of the hope that seeing
the light and knowing it, he will
follow it.
The advent and exit of Parker
in Charleston marked the cul-
mination of that city's great
prosperity as cotton centre.
He Killed the cotton factorage
business, and down the years
have followed the testimony Of
many and the belief of all that
he was one of the ''slickest ar
ticles" that ever made the owner
Of a plantation or a small farmer
curse in impotent fury the fate
that entangled him in the snare Of
Parker or others Of his ilk. No
one who has lived a generation
in Charleston needs to be re-
minded of these things, and no
one who has kept in touch with
business history can fail to trace
to it's proper source, the cause
Of Charleston,s depreciation as a
cotton centre.
Cotton men in the South know
that the primary purpose of the
present existing contract on the
New York Cotton Exchange is
to facilitate gambling, and divert
the blue chips to the clique in
control.
Does anyone honestly believe
that they will give up this graft
for the sentimental reason that
it depreciates the price of good
cotton9 Does anyone believe
that we figure in their plans
other than as a pawn in the
game to circumvent the authori-
ties: True we raise cotton, out
if annoying statutes did not in
tervene they could just as we'll
deliver waste paper, as the stuff
that can come in, (properly iden-
tilted OF course) and be classified
as good tenderable cotton.
Is the nomination Of Parker,
the perennial candidate for Pres
ident of something or other, in
tended as sop to the South? Is
it intended that we shall subside
because one Of US has been made
President OF the Exchange.
It is a pity that old man I. V.
Bardin and Andy Simonds
are not alive at the mo-
ment to catalogue the Parker
civic and other virtues properly.
It is too bad that Caldwell, the
defaulting cashier of Parker
does not come back from the
void to tell why it was that Par
ker would not prosecute him.
It is too bad that tradition
should have failed to hallow the
business methods Of Parker as
ne understood them when ne was
using South Carolina cotton
growers as a foundation for his
subsequent wealth and til e
1urtherance of his social aspira-
tious.
we cid not know when he was
among US that he had a banker
ing for society, and birth and
breeding and good manners and
an appreciation for moral and
business cleanliness. He did
not manifest any social desires
he sought another class and en-.
loved himself no doubt, hnt if