The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-17
IS IT A CONSPIRACY?

IS IT A CONSPIRACY:
The News and Courier is fol
lowing up the denunciatlons OF
President Roosevelt by Colonel
George Harvey, and gulping
them down as delicious plums.
Every time any one says some
thing mean and nasty about the
Chief Executive our contempory
makes haste to slap its hands IN
elee and say shit him again,
bully for you, and yet, should
President Roosevelt or any OF
his cabinet visit Charleston the
News and Courier woula throw
open, it's doors and say :Walk in,
it is al yours.
There would be some excuse
for the News and Courier to feel
sore at the president, if there
was not two sides to the Crum
affair. The president appointed
Crum to a federal Office in Char
lesion over the protests OF the
people Of that city. but there is
a rumor going about that
the loudest in their protests gave
to President Roosevelt a strong
recommendation of Crum for a
federal Office in another city in
this State: but be that as it may,
ever since the appointment Of
Crum as collector of the port at
Charleston, every fellow that
..cusses" out the president III.
variably gets the approval of
the News and Courier, and then
that paper would have the nerve
to ask the president for favors
for Charleston if they are at his
disposal, and feel greatly sur
prised and Disseminated against
did it meet with failure.
We see no good Judgment in
abusing the chief executive, nor
do we believe the utterances of
Colonel George Harvey is help
ing the Democratic party in re.
storing itself in the. confidence
Of the masses. The world knows
that no Republican under the
heavens can carry the electoral
vote of South Carolina, even if
Ben Tillman should say so; that
being the case, there is no rea-
son for South Carolina to be
represented as among the always
fighting til e administration,
we have nothing to gain
by it, but have much to
lose, because the irration-
al rawlings at the president by
representative, and we can
truly say, a leading Southern
newspaper is taken as the SEN
timent of the State and section,
and used in the North and West
as capital for the politicians to
arouse sectional prejudices, the
result is, we are made to butt
our heads against a sectional
wall to crafty the spleen of the
enemies President Roosevelt has
made in his fight against the
railroad syndicates and the big
trusts. Regardless of what our
leading Democratic journals say,
it is plain to the masses that
Roosevelt is hated by the cor
porate interests such as no other
president has been, and there
must be a reason for this. If the
president was not throwing him
self between the corporate rob-
Der barons and the people, to
protectpthe masses from being
crushed by the trust juggernant:
then why do these interests have
their paid satellites roaming
over the country to build up pub-
lie sentiment against the poll
cies of man who has time and
again announced he will not be
a candidate for denomination?
No one who is the least obser.
want will doubt that President
Roosevelt has incurred the dis
pleasure of the trust magnates.
and they will spend millions to
defeat the nomination Of any
man who will carry out the pol
icies begun by the present ad-
ministration.
The Democratic newspapers
are not all free from the infu
ence Of the great moneyed
interests. some of them are
owned body and soul by railroad
barons, and it is our judgment
much of the antagonism now be,
ing manifested toward the presi-
dent, by these newspapers, is
the carrying out Of orders from
Wall Street, where the Harri-
mans and Morgans have dis
covered there is a head to this
nation that gold will not seduce,
a man honest, as he is fearless,
and one who is nearer in touch
with the common masses than
any other president has ever
been, man who dares and does,
and his works will live long
after him.
According to the Democratic.
politicians, Roosevelt's good acts
no c+nldrn fro,oc D..