The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, September 30, 1896, Image 3
LOUIS APPELT, EDITOR.
MANNING, S. C.:
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1896.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY.
THE PEOPLE'S CAUSE.
Forestspringfarm, Libertyville, Ill.,
Aug. 12, 1896.
To the National Bimetallist:
I have opposed free coinage of sil
ver until I was aliost forced to in
vestigate the question six months
ago. Then I was on the fence until
the bankers began to "draw in their
funds" and the Henry Clews and the
Slaughter circulars came out. Now
I am writing and talking to free my
country from the consequencesof the
gold wrong of '73 and the danger
threatened it by the money power.
Theseself-constituted paternalistshave
tricked and hoodwinked this ingeni
ous people and filled their coffers off
their hard earnings so long that they
really seem to consider us their pe
ons, their serfs, their slaves. That
this United States is their's and that
we, the tillers of the soil, the miners
and the mechanics, are now allowed
to work here for a poorer and poorer
living and that the rest of the earth
belongs to them to luxuriate and
feast and drink and revel in. I did
not think their greed and presump
tion would lead them this far. I
have known how.matters were drift
ing but did not think their greed and
presumption would lead them this
. far. Will I -it here at my ease while
my people are being plundered and
pillaged and sold out to England by
a lot of greedy, selfish, cruel, narrow
minded money sharks and tories?
On, no! I can tell Henry Clews and
the likes of him and Chauncey De
pew and the likes of him-all the
money-bags and their consciousless
hired men, that they have gone too
far. There is patriotism left in this
country. They have aroused thou
sands and tens of thousands of in
telligent men of independent fortune,
men of the West and South and East
who will not let England by the aid
of her American allies bring this in
genious sovereigg people to the con
dition of her starving, fawning mil
lions. The fight is on and we are in
it to the finish, whatever that finish
may be. I can see and hear and feel
that tall Virginian delivering the
Declaration of Independence. I have
letters from men of the West and
_East who think as I think and feel
nasi feel. The great financiers of
London and Wall. Street have been
forging chains for this people for
these manky years, but they shall not
7 put them on. If Boss Hanna's com
-mittee on finance were worth five
thousand times five hnndred millions
they should not put them on. We
will drive them from his temple of
liberty first. Money is a mighty
) power, but it has reached its might
iest mightiness. What ! this people
to be ruled by an oligarchy of gold ?
Oh. no! This blessed land of War
j~~raTyrand Henry and Paine
"and Washington and Paul Jones and
Lincoln shall be ruled by tens of
millions of patriots. They propose
to elect by their ballots incorruptible
servants to the presidency. and to the
house of representatives and to the
senate who will undo the unconstitu
tional trickery of '73 and make just
laws for the,whole people. They will
first give us the money of the consti
tution, the money that whipped Eng
land, the money that helped the na
tion and the people to prosper.
What will you do, Mr. Henry Clews ?
I would sit at the scanty board of the
yeoman who is clearing a way the
forest or breaking the prairie sod, or
the mechanic who is pounding at the
forge while the sweat drips from his
honorable brow to provide a home
for his wife and children and feel
honored, while I would look upon
you and your gold and its power
with disdain and contempt since you
sent out that inhuman, unchristian
circular. Was it the likes of you who
gave us our independence from Eng
land, ever the enemy of my country,
or who whipped her in 1812? No !
but it was your crowd and the six or
seven in Congress with Sherman at
-their bead who gave us single gold
standard, which has enabled her to
- whip us terribly for twenty-three
years and to very nearly ruin this
nation and people and now when
they desire to undo your mischief
you-would say, "too late, your chains
are forged, if you squirm or try to
hold up your heads and do not now
submit we will starve and ruin you
and the nation itself by the power of
the wealth which we have wrung from
you by means of the law of '73."
You have nearly ruined the best plant
that was ever set up, set up by the
wisest and best body of men that has
assembled on this earth to form a
civil government. You have plunder
ed it and would now bankrupt and
starve its workman. You shall be
stopped in your mad career for gold
and nower.
You have flattered and intoxicated
and euirnpped and corrupted our
secretaries of the treasury at your
dinneia in New York. You shall do
it no umwre-youa and your crowd.
We have a champion clean and pure
and wise and incorruptible as Lin
coln whom your wine will never in
toxicate nor your flattery nor your
gold corrupt, who will save us from
your uholy trickery. You can force
repudiation on a most honorable
debt-j'o ing, law abiding people and
you possibiv can force revolution as
oligareLies have done in other coun
tries on a people who only want jus
tice,-but before you attempt to carry
outyourthreat-you and your crowd
I would advise you all to send your
funds on ahead and prepare to take a
hasty leave of this country ar Tories
have done before. You and your
crowd can stav in this country while
you behave yourselves and have the
rights and respect you deserve like
other citizens, but when you attempt
by your circular you must go to
"Yurup."
I know your crowd. I have studied
your thoughts and assumptions and
ambitions by personal contact. If it
has come to this, that you are to rule
this country by greedy, relentless
avarice or we are to have a sbakeup
and commence again, I am for the
shakeup. I am only telling what
would be done were you to attempt
to carry out your threat-you and
your crowd. But you will not do it.
You are the biggest cowards on earth.
You may talk wisely of the finances
of this country which means how you
can make most and raise a lot of
money, millions to corrupt and buy
up your fellow citizens, but I and
others will tell the people to take your
illgotten "funds" and vote you down
anl you will go down and count your
loss and loan your gold and take in
Daddy Dollars and gold dollars as in
terest and serve the purposes for
which you were created-you and
your crowd-which is not to rule this
country. I was not intending now to
write you a letter, Mr. Editor, for
publication, but I have been prompt
ed to try this much by the following
circumstances. Two days ago a law
yer friend in Chicago who, like my
self, has become a Bimetallist recently,
sent me some of your papers, in one
which has Henry Clews' circular.
I am a farmer and want some new
milch cows. Yesterday I went to a
dealer who said he had none to suit
me, but that most any of the farmers
would sell me their best cows. I
asked him how that was, since we
have so much feed which we can sell
for hardly anything. He replied that
the farmers are very poor and will
sell anything to get a little money.
This morning my next neighbor
came to me and said he wanted me
to talk to him about this money ques
tion. He is a hard working, intelli
gent man-a republican-owns his
farm and lives as closely as any man
should. He said he had looked over
his assets and finds he has not so
much as he had five years ago, and
was beginning to think something
must be wrong. He said all the farm
ers were thinking the same way.
Many of them have told me the same
thing. Then I thought how for many
years the tillers of the soil and other
workers have toiled and lived on less
and less and have been getting poor
er and voorer. No wonder they are
getting suspicious of their gold
standard hired newspapers and want
information. Then I saw in the pa
pers that the great Hanna had in
Union League Club, New York, or
ganized that famous $500,000,000
finance committee.
These farmers say this is a good
country and as a whole must make
money. Where does it all go. WE
who own our farms and live close are
getting poorer all the time.
0
1he gold standard. men are organu
izing clubs (pretty little bits of men
most of them) to educate the people.
I get their weeklies. I can say to
you, Mr. Editor, that if education
goes on, and there is time enough,
McKinley will not carry a congress.
ional district, much less a State, and
there a-re people in Chicago whc
know I have been something of a
politician. They better look out for
Lake dounty. Several of the most
prominent republicans are pronounc
ed for Bryan and I know others are
leaning that way. I think I canitruth
fully say that I know thispeople from
the Atlantic to the Pacific as well as
any living man and will, in closing,
advse Henry Clews and his crowd to
go a little slow.-C. C. COmEAND in
National Bimetallist.
ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY.
The Experinent Suggested by Franklin and
Performed by D'Alibard.
To Benjamin Franklin belongs the
merit of having perceived that a direct
experiment was needed to prove what
so far was only a guess. In an article
entitled "Opinions and Conjectures
Concerning the Properties and Effects
of the Electrical Matter Arising From
Experiments and Observations Made at
Philadelphia, 1749, " the followving pas
sage occurs:
"To determine the question whether
the clouds that contain lightning are
electrified or not, I would propose an
experiment to be tried, where it can be
done conveniently. On the top of some
high tower or steeple place a kind of
sentry box, big enough to contain a man
and an electrical stand. From the mid
dle of the stand let an iron rod rise and
pass, bending out of the door, and then
upright 20 feet or 30 feet, pointed very
sharp at the end. If the electrical stand
be kept clean and dry, a man standing
on it when such clouds are passing
low might be electrified and afford
sparks, the rod drawing fire to him
from a cloud.
"If any danger to the man should be
apprehended, though I think there
would be none, let him stand on the
floor of his box, and now and then
bring near to the rod the loop of a wire
that has one end fastened to the leads,
he holding it by a wax handle, so the
sparks, if the rod be electrified, will
strike from the rod to the wire and not
affect him."
The experiment suggested by Frank
lin was successfully performed in Marly,
France. by D'Alibard, on May 10, 1752;
in London by Canton, in Spital Square,
on July 20, 1752, and by Wilson in
Chelmsford E~ssex, on Aug. 12 of the
same year. Franklin himself described
having use~i kite in Philadelphia in a
letter damn~ Ocr. 39, without giving the
date of his observat5,ns. But this must
be supplied in some passage which I
have not neen able to find, for Rosen
berger ("Geschichte der Physik," vol
unie 2, page 316) mentioned that it was
dno in June.
Franklin's disbelief in the dangerous
character of the experiment must have
received a severe shock when he heard
of the death of G. W. Richmann, who,
in the year 1753, was killed by an elec
tric discharge drawn from the clouds
by means of a k-ite.--Nature.
Lord Ellenborough's Wig.
Lady Ellenborough, a renowned beau
ty, on one occasion accompanied the
judge on circuit, on the distinct under
standing that she should not incumber
the carriage with bandboxes-his ab
horrence. During the first day's journey
Lord Ellenborough, stretching his legs,
chanced to strike his foot against some
thing under the seat. It was a bandbox.
Down went the window and out it flew.
The coachman, thinking the box had
fallen out, at once pulled up, but his
master furiously roared out the order to
"drive on." On reaching the next assize
town, Lord Ellenborough proceeded to
equip himself for the bench. "Now,"
said he, "where is my wig?" "My
lord," replied the attendant, "it was
thrown out of the carriage window. "
HARDWARE!
H. W. DURANT & SON,
somrPEa, s. c.
To Our Clarendon Friends:
We are now prepared to offer lower prices than ever. Call or write
for what you want. Our Stock is complete. We have added to our im
mense stock of hardware a large line of
PAINTS, OILS, ETC.,
at low figures.
Harness, Saddles, Rubber and Belting, Leather, etc.
Great bargaius in Guns, Pistols, etc.
Headquarter for Powder, Shot and Shells (loaded and empty.)
Engine Supplies, Belting, etc.
HEADQUARTERS FOR COOKING AND HEATING STOVES (WARRANTED).
16 Sixteen to One.
I
This is what is agitating the minds of the I)eople
of the country, but whether this wins or the gold
banner floats on the br'eeze
You are Compelled to Shoe Yourself,
Wife and Children,
and there is no place in the State where you can be
better suited in shoes than in Sumter. and
No place in Sumter can compete with
WALSH & SHAW.
Now if you have 16 children or 1 it will pay you
to call and see us. We make it a study, SHOES
EXCLUSIVELY.
WALSH & SHAW,
The Sumter Shoe Store,
Sumter, S. C.
CENTRAL WAREHOUSE,
DANVILLE, VA.
One of the Leading Ware
houses on the Largest Loose
Leaf Market in the World.
Has ample means and every facility for handling
and selling tobacco to the best advantage.
gisWe desire a share of your patronage. Correspondence solicited.
Letters of inquiry promptly answered.
J. H. WILSON, Manager.
~~RENCE-"Border Grange Bank," Danville, Va.
Bargains ! Bargains !
WAGONS, BUGGES,
AND HARNESS.
Mowers, Rakes, BriCk, lime, Hair,
Hoses, Mules
AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.
We will receive in a few days a car of the Auburn wagons, one and two
horse,wide and narrow tires. These wagons are bought for cash and at prices
that we can under sell any wagon of like value.
We have on hand a lot white hickory wagons, one and two hoise, which
are worth the money.
We bave built a convenient house for storing baggies and we will carry
a full line of all kinds of buggies and harness, which we will sell cheap for
cash. Be sure and give us a chance to show you bow cheap we do sell for
the spot eash.
Don't forget that Thomas & Bradhazii can sell you almost anything you
want from a brick to a saw mill.
THOMAS & BRADHAM,
Manning, S.C.
HORSES.
Our first Car Load will be
here on the 16th inst.
H. HARDY,
Sumter. S. C., Sept. 10, 1896.
W.ill accept notes for tuition, or can
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232 MEETING STREET, CHARLESTON S. C.
State Agents for the Sale of
Wholesale- dealers in
Stoves, Tinwares, House Furnishing Goods,
Tin Plate, Sheet Iron, Tinners' Supplies.
Galvanized Gutter and Rainwater
Pipe in ten teet lengths. We
Manufacture TOBACCO BARN
FLUES and Deliver Them.
Freight Prepaid to Any Sta
tion.
Send for our Cireular znweig tu
showing plans of acco best tyl e..............
Percival Manufacturing Co.
Doors, Sash and Blinds.
478 to 486 MEETING ST., CHARLESTON, S. Q.
ESTA13LISHED 1868.
L. W. FoLsoM,,
Sign of the Big Watch,
S OM EWL . . S. V.
-'A BIG LINE OF
Bidhday, Wedding and Chdstinas Prosent
- WATCHES, DIAMONDS -
Fine Sterling Silver Clocks, Optical Goods,
Fine Knives, Scissors and Razors, Machine Needles and
All repairing guaranteed.
THO.\MAS WILSON, H. E. JAQUES, JOHN WILSON,
President. Manager. Secretary and Treasurer.
The Carolila Grocery Compaly
SUCCESSORS OF BOYD BROTHERS,
Wholesale Grocer aiid Coilmnissionll erchaits,
No. 195 EAST BAY,
-.. s- . A . - s.0 .
TO CONSUMERS OF LAGER BEER :
The Palmetto Brewing Company of Charleston, S. C., have made arrangements
with the Sonth Carolina State authorities, by which they are enabled to fill orders fro$
consnmers for shi pments of beer in any quantity at the following prices :
Pints (patent stopper)................................. 70e per dozen*
Four dozen pints ini crate................ ............$2.80 per crate
Eighth-keg.................................---..-..--.---- $--1.25
Quarter-keg..........................................,.......$2.25
Half-barrel. ......................... ................ ---....5
Exports, pints, ten dozen in. barrel.............................9.00
It will be necessary for consumers or parties ordering to state that the.beer is for
private consnmption. We offer special rates for these shipments. This beer is guar
anteed pure, made of the choicest hops and malt, and is reoommendied by the medica
fraternity. Send to us for a trial order.
The Palmetto Brewing Company, Charleston, S. C.
T HOS. S. R OGA N,
--DEALER IN
Cliiia, Glassware, Lamips, Lamp Goods,
Woodenware, Brooms, and Tinware.
Oil and Gasoline Stoves, Fly Fans, Fly Traps, Ice
Cream Churns, Fruit Jars and Jelly Glasses.
AGENT FOR THE HOME PRIDE COOKING STOVES AND RANGES.
Big Bargains Always on the 5c. and 10c.
Counters.
Opera House, Opposite Court House, Sumter, S. C.
HOTEL CALHOUN
On the American and European Plan.
A DELIGHTFUL AND COMFORTABLE
PLACE FOR COUNTRY VISITORS.
BOW MA N & LE VIN, PROPRIETORS,
King Street (Business Centre of City),
C~liarleston, S5. C.
Rates. $2 and $3 Per Day.
SSubscribe to The 2Lanning imes, $1.50 per Year.
JosEPH F. RHAMLE. W . C. Divrs. H S. WILSON,
R~ UdME & DAVIS, TOr dC d
A7TORNEYS A2 LAW,
MANNNG, . c.MANNING S. C.
LEVI BROTHERS!
HERE WE ARE
To tell the people of Clarendon that glib-tongued orators may
keep the country in a state of agitation about the financial
problem, but what is more of interest to them now is to find
the best place to buy goods cheap.
Levi Brothers have a good reason to feel proud of their
success in business and to no people are they more indebted
than to their old home folks in Clarendon. Goods are cheap
and this season affords our farmers an opportunity, of obtain
ing a fair price for cotton and a chance to buy goods at a low
cotton basis price.
We have for years been acknowledged as leaders in the re
spective lines that we handle any it is our purpose to contin
ue leading.
Dress Goods.
This department has been selected with unusual care and
our stock is not only varied and large, but a lady can find
the very latest fabrics with the necessary trimmings to match.
Wash Goods.
There is no store in the city of 'Sumter tlat can excell us
in this line, and we defy any house in eastern Carolina to
show up a prettier line of prints.
Cassineres and Jeans.
This line we carry in large quantities and can say with
safety that no where south of Baltimore can you get a better
value for your money.
Notions, Hosiery, &c.
Every buyer is invited to examine our line of Ladies',
Misses' and Children's Hose, Handkerchiefs, Buttons, Tow
els, Doilies and other articles too numerous to mention.
Plaids. and Brown
Goods, Long Cloths,
and Sheetings.
This stock was bought when cotton was at its lowest price
and we took advantage of the depression.
Clothine Hats, and G ent's
Furnishings.
We can say without fear of successful contradiction that we
have the most complete line that can -e found anywhere.
Trunks by the car load.
Shoes, Shoes, Shoes
Every kind and style that is manufactured by first-class
factories is handled by us and we take a special interest in
this line.
Groceries, Groceries.
Our stock is up to date and our farmers can save money by
buying from us.
Remember, we pay highest prices for cotton.
Yours, &c.
L EVI BR OT HE RS,
Sumatez-, S. C.
NEW STORE!
-NEW GOODS8I
LOWEST PRICES!
In opening our branch store we aippeal to the Cfartdon
people for a liberal share of their patronage. Qir appeal is
based on the fact of our giving you the
In Return For Your Money.
Below we quote you a few prices, and a call will con
vince you that
We Sell Goods as Advertised.
10 doz. Suspenders, worth 25c, our price 10c.
10 doz. sample Undervests. 50e, 75c, and $1 50: just
one-half of their real value.
250 sam~'ple lhats and Caps sold at less than 50e on the
dollar.
All-Wool Suits at $5.00.
A handsome Cutaway Suit for $8.50:
Boy Suits from 3.5c up.
In fact every thing in our store is a genuine bargain,
LEADING CLOTHIERS OF MANNING AND SUlMTER, S. C