Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
HON. JOS. C. MANNING
PASSES AWAY.
Great Champion of Human Justice
and Foe of Disfranchisement
Succumbs to Deadly Cancer.
Especial by A. j. Gary)

New York City, May 19.-Hon.
Joseph Columbus Manning, former
legislator of Alabama, champion of
human justice and foe to disfran-
chisement, Black Belt frauds and
peonage in the South for more
than forty years, died early this
morning at Cavalry Hospital after
three years of lingering death from
cancer of the throat.
Born at Lineville, Ala, May 81,
1870, the youngest sons of Rev.
Henry and Martha Manning, and
was educated at State Normal Col
lege, Alabama, at the age of 20,
he became editor for the Ameri-
can Press Association at Atlanta,
Ga. Having become deeply inter-
ested in politics and the Farmers
Alliance, who was opposed to the
Democratic oligarchy, young Man.
ming took the stump for the farm
ers.
White Champion of Human Justice
Joe Manning, as he was famil-
iarly known, was the greatest cru
sader of human justice ever born
in America; he hated injustice
from early youth he was a defend
er of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth amendments; his en-
tire life was spent in exposing
Southern conditions aimed at the
black man; he tried to right the
wrongs suffered by a defenseless
race; pinning these last words to a
friend: II go to my end without
a regret"
Exposes Trickery to North
From 1892 to 1900 young Man
ming had the honor of Republican
leadership and was appointed post
master at Alexander City, Ala,
and served under Mckinley and
Roosevelt. In 1908 he was prin-
cipal speaker before the Middlesex
Club, who commemorated the birth
of General Grant in Boston, Mass.
On the program were such men as
Governor Bates, Secretary of the
Navy Moody, and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Gordon, of Ohio. Manning's
speech was heralded throughout the
country as the greatest speech ever
listened to. In this he used no
kid gloves in his exposure of politi-
cal, racial, black belt frauds and
peonage under the very nose of the
government. This inside exposure
of Southern conditions aroused the
Democratic South to fever heat, the
name of Manning became a by
word; the Republican party was
elated that they had found a pow
erful leader in Alabama.
An Active Life
Mr.. Manning has been statesman,
political leader, author of several
pamphlets; two of his latest books,
"Fadeout of Populism" and From
Five to Twenty-Five" are remark
able stories of his Efe's work.
Never firing, he was always in the
forefront defending the rights of
colored people, uprooting facts, and
exposing wrongs of the South and
it's Ku Klux Khan. The stand he
took against the South separated
him from his brothers and his i'm
mediate family, and made him an
exile from his state.
A Last Request
Realizing his death was immi-
nent, he requested the Rev. w. P.
Hayes, pastor of Mt. Olivet Baptist
Church, New York City, and an
old friend, to officiate at his fun
eral. Hon. Robert S. Abbott, pub
Usher, Chicago Defender, and Hon.
A. j. Gary, a former New Yorker,
and a close friend of Mr.. Man
ming for many years, has been re-
quested to compile his biography
and continue the fight to liberate
the colored and poor whites from
the enslavement of black belt
frauds and disfranchisement now
perpetrated in the South by bour-
bon democracy.
Mrs. Charles H. Denison, widow
of the late Colonel Denison and a
noted Republican of New York,
took charge of the funeral arrange
ments, and after simple funeral
rites, as was the wish of Mr.. Man.
ming, the body was inferred in
Kensico cemetery near his friend,
Colonel Denison. Mr.. A. j. Gary,
4103 Vincennes Avenue, Chicago,
ILL.,, will be director of Mr.. Man
ning's works.