The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-10-08
A PEEP At 1910
POLITICAL OUTLOOK AS IT AP'
PEARS TO SAV0YARD
SAYS G. 0. ?. IS DEAD

Veteran Political Writer Tells of Re.
/ publican Rejoicings Over Recent
Maine Election and Then Proceeds
to Show That the Party is Dead
A Few Words on Teddy.
By a reduced majority the Repub-
| licans carried the old James G. Blaine
district in Maine the other day, and
the Democratic candidate at this by
election polled within about 100 of
1.-THE number of votes Woodrow Wilson
get in that district at the regular
presidential election Of 1912. But
all the standpatters in this town, in
congress and out of congress, are in
an ectasy and assert that the cam
paign Of 1916 is already decided in
their favor by the verdict" from
Maine, where Republican was chos-
en- to succeed Republican in the
Sixty-third congress by a plurality
200 less than that cast for the Re-
publican candidate last November.
/ Nobody begrudges the G. o. P. this
little dab of consolation. 1t is go
long since they have had anything to
rejoice over that we are glad they
have emerged without annihilation
from a conflict which all must agree
was drawn battle.
If the Republicans had chosen the
ground for this little tryout, they
would have selected the Third Maine
district. For many years James G.
Blaine was it's representative. 1t has
long been as intensely Republican a
tcommunity as. Lancaster cou. ,
PENNSYLVANIA, or the Western Re-
serve of Ohio. Nor is that all-the
new tariff puts on the free list three
great products Of Maine; viz: lun-
Der, potatoes, fish. And yet they
carried the Third Maine district by
a beggarly 500 plurality when they
had 700 plurality the year before.
Any man who has been about this
capitol for a third of century as I
have will be slow to charge DR.. War
rem with. unwarranted license Of ro-
nance when he created the character
of Tittlebat Titmouse in 'Ten Thou
sand a Year.. Here are grave solons
who not only profess to believe, but
actually do believe, that in Judg-
ment pronounced against the Demo-
cratic tariff by single Republican
constituency in Maine more than a
fortnight before it was possible for
that measure to become the law OF
the land is binding on the entire
American electorate the autumn OF
1914 after the new tariff shall have
been in force more than a twelve
month? -...--..
Some of 'em have come up to me
with smiles nearly as broad as that
| Ollie James wears when he hears OF
a Democratic victory, but not quite,
and said: "It's all over, old man, the
country has weighed the Democratic
administration and found it want
ing"
Bosh! The day after this by-elec-
ton in Maine the United States Sen
ate passed the Democratic tariff by
more than the Democratic majority
in that body and it was a material
reduction in the rates Of the Under
wood bill. The very next day busi-
ness gave opinion Of that result by
advancing the prices Of all the legiti-
mate securities Of our vast corporate
enterprises. Mark you, the stand
patters in congress had predicted
"woe to business. The following
Saturday the great. concerns OF Dun
and Bradstreet came out with roseate
pictures Of the situation. The bill is
not yet law, but doubtless 1t Will
be ere this Stuff is printed.
Then there will come out Of bonded
warehouses some s15e,e0O;00o worth
of merchandise, mostly raw mate
rials, which will go into our shops
and mills to be fashioned into fin
ished product. That will give en-
ployment to- labor, and before the
present administration expires by
lapse Of time, March 4, 1917, I conf
dentl y predict that the American
manufacturer will be as much OF a
free trader as is the British manu-
! facturer. Mr.. Redfeld, secretary OF
commerce in wilson's cabinet, Is one
of the most successful manufacturers
in the country, and he is as nearly a
free trader as any man in public life
A year from now mis- tribe will be
legion in New England, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio
In 1911 when Oscar Underwood and
Champ Clark were "projeckin' with
those "pop-gun" tariff bills of the
Sixty-second congress manufacture
er was here from Illinois and he made
declaration that il they would give
him free wool he cared not a rap II
they put his woolens on the free list
also.
So it just amounts to this-if the
country is prosperous the fall of 1s1
the Sixty-fourth congress will be ov-
erwhelmingiy Democratic and the
Wilson administration universally
popular. On the contrary, If indus
try languishes the Republicans, OF
Bull Moosers, or whatever name they
take, will come in; but even If they
do, they will not dare rehabilitate
that shameless robbery, that arrant
knavary, "protection," which is as
dead as African slavery, its twin
relic.
The day after the election in Maine
there was printed manifesto from
Col. Roosevelt, in which he served
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