The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
Will SOON OPEN.
The National Campaign is Begin
ming to Thaw Out
AND GREAT ISSUES

And GREAG aSSUES
VIII Be Discussed On the Platform
by Thousands Of Irators. SEN
ator Tillman viii BE Prominent
Among Them. Some of the 9th
er Speakers on Both Sides Are
Given Below.
National political issues will be
discussed to a greater extent the
present spring and summer than they
were during the recent session OF
congress.
This statement may seem odd. but
it nevertheless, is true. A change
has came over the people of America
in the last decade-a change that IS
particularly noticeable in Washing
ton. Years ago, political campaigns
were conducted practically through
only three or four months, IN a pres
>idential contest, and during ON! TWO
or three months in congressional
contest. Times have changed and so
have political methods. There is no
awaiting now for the presidential
carpaien to begin next sprlng or
summer. It is ION" at the moment.
Candidates, in their personality, may
not be discussed so much, but issues
of the campaign are being threshlo
out from every rostrum in the coun-
try.
Political arguments and partisan
appeals formerly were made eltneT
through the newspapers or at stateo ts
gatherings OF one or another OF the
political parties. In the opln1lon OF
the best political observers, the day
of the political meeting, as such, Is
passing, if, needed, it already has
not gone into history. So far as IN
Ruence is concerned, it has become
reminiscence. People attend polltl-
cal meetings as a matter OF curiosity
or to put in the time, but not to geV
instruction as to how they shall vote.
Ina few years more the spe!lDln-
Ger" will be out Of a job, because ne
no longer is able, in the Judgment OF
the politica managers, to denver the
For several years the lecture plat
form has been increasing IN import,
ance and influence. It supplements
thoroughly the newspaper press IN
conveying: to the people facts and IN,
formation about the government ano
about the live questions OF the Gay;
This is indicated by the number OF
prominent Americans--rnen who are
identified with the political life OF
the countrywide have appeared or
the lecture platform and who prac:
tically have abandoned the polltlca
rostrum. Year in and year out they
preach their doctrine from Chautau'
qua platforms and lyceun1 stages
The discussions Of issues which they
present to the people are supposed
to be non-partisan. but as matter
of concrete fact they are as partisan
as is the individual who dellves the
address.
Political lecturing is not only profit,
able to the man who is successful a
it, but it enables the lecturer to reacf
q greater number Of people whom ne
probably desires to reach than any
other method. Several members OF
congress have lecture engagements:
which Will consume practical y all OF
their time between this and the con-
vening Of congress next December,
For these lectures, which are elthei
plain political speeches OF dlsserta-
ton on various phases OF social or
economic life, those who deliver
them receive $50 to $3.50 each. The
price varies with the lecturer and
the subject. .,,
It is not unlikely that Senator Till
man Of South Carolina, will deliver
his lecture on the race question LOO
times before congress reassembles
next December. In that time he Will
earn many times his salary as Uni
ted States senator, for he is Yankee
enough to get a mighty good price
for his lecture engagements. Every
lvceum manager and lecture promot-
er in the country eagerly sought Sen
ator Tillman's services this year, for
he draws enormous crowds wherever
he is billed to appear.
Senator LaFollette, the dlnlnutlvee
statesman from Wisconsin, will spend
much Of his time during the spring
and summer on the lecture platform.
William Jennings Bryan, too, will
appear frequently at important pub
lie assemblages as, also, will Senator
Beveridge, Of Indiana, who just now
is conducting a debate with Mr.. Bry-
an on the issues Of the next presi-
dental campaign. Former Senator
Fred Dubois, Of Idaho, will attack
the Mormons on the lecture plat
form. Representative Champ Clark,
Of Missouri, Governor Folk, of the
same state, and Governor Cummlns,
Of Iowa, also will be prominent sum-
mcr lecturers who will seek to
strengthen their political pocket
books by talking politics for a sub
stantial consideration.
Farmers and Telephones.
Many farmers do not realize the