The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-03-25

very much appreciated from Af. 81 5sss;szs'
--Newberry Os.se1TsassirssIzlzs5y
1sssSE Know why Mr.. Latimer has
withheld public documents from the Oo'
server, but it occurs to US thatit IS cheeky
business for Mr. McLauriu9 10 be under.
taking to supply Mr. Latimer's constituents,
or any of them, with public documents
We do not think be has any business med
ding in the 81 district. and it must be that
he has some axe to grind. Probably his
own constituents would like to lave those
documents It seems to Us that the Ooser-
yer and all other New berrians ought to
have the kindest feelings towards Mr.. Lati-
mer for he has, we think, labored harder
to get the claim Of Newberry college
through the committee aud congress than
anv other representative this district has
had, and We believe, if we are correctly IN
formed, he is the only one who has ever
succeeded il getting favorable report
jastice to Mr.. Latimer, who has labored
constantly for the public good, and has
now pending before congress two bills that
have more merit IN them than any two
other bills tha. have been before congress
for many years so far as tie people OF this
Stale ars concerned, and they are the bill
to collect the State taxes from railroads IN
the hands Of federal receivers aud the bill
to make the original thirteen States equal
with the newer States which bill will add
something like SI,250,Ou0 to the public
school fand OF the State. He may not get
these bills passed Us ne is only one Of the
400 members but it is greatly to his credit
tina. he has gone into IL field of legislation
untouched hitherto BY any other member
Peoples Advocate.
There is such thing as decency
in this world, but it has rot reached
the Office Of the Anderson Peoples
Advocate, if the above is sample of
It's appreciation. Hon. John L. Nc
Laurin sent to the Newberry OBJ
server some public documents at the
request of its editor and no doubt
the request was made because the
representative Of the district in which
the Newberry Observer is located, on
account of factionul differences did
not send the documents as he should
have done, and because Mr.. McLau-
riu did send the documents, the adj
vocate u supporter OF Mr.. Latimer
pitches in 10 slur and insult Mr.. Nc
Lsurin, but in doing so it displays
It's long ears and leaves the friends
OF McLaurin room to question the
credit the Advocate is giving Lati-
mer. Why it is, we can not say, but
the tact is that McLarrin is called
upon from all over the State to at
tend to matters in Washington; this
We know and only recently have we
seen a letter from a very prominent
firm in Charleston calling on Nc
Laurin for aid in q matter Of great
importance to certain busi-
ness interests of that city; we
are glad and very proud
of the tact that the Sixth Congress
ional District has sent man to Con-
gress whose mind is broad enough to
see beyond the confines of factional
limits. It is matter OF pride with
US that McLaurin's ability IS 50
recognized and appreciated that
whenever matter of Importance is
up in Congress in which South Caro-
lima or section Of it is interested he
is called upon for his aid and that be
gives the aid asked for. The Advo-
cate should not ever-reach itself in
its praise for Etr. Latimers services
in obtaining a favorable report for
the Newberry college matter, because
if it will make search of the records
it will be seen that Mr.. McLaurin
was largely instrumental in engineer
ing the favorable report safely
through the committee. We do not
wish to detract from Latimer, but we
must protest against the jealous spirit
exhibited by the Advocate. If its
friend Latimer wasso narrow minded
ard so filled with factlonal prejudice
that he withheld public documents
from the Observer. It should have
made no comments on McLaurin for
treating the Observer with the com
mon courtesy of complying with its
requests for documents. When a
Congressman fails to supply his con-
stituents with matter at his diposal
he fails to do his duty and when that
failure a,ises from factional prejudice
his cord.ct is small and petty. 1t is
a common thing for US to receive
public documents from representa-
tives Of Western and other States.
but we do not think it is cheeky,
nor do we think they shave some axe
to grind" The truth of the matter
is, we know that our representative
has done his full duty in Congress
and that he reeds no factional flag
waved to encourage his constituency
to rally to his support. Right now,
every step McLaurir takes is watched
and commented on. He seems to be
hornet in the breeches of certain
politicians and they not knowing
when and where he will sting, puts
them all on the anxious bench.
Aspirauts for gubernatorial honors
stand ready to sand bag him should
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