Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-05-15
M'LAURIN As A PROPHET.
Pungent Extracts From the "My Deal
Appelt" Letter Recalled.

Pungent Extracts From the "My Dear
Appelt" Letter Recalled.
Manning Times.
With "My Dear Clark" letter on one
side of the chimney jamb and "My
Dear Applet" letter on the other, all
that is needed to make every South
Carolina sitting room attractive is the
motto, "God Bless Our Home" hung
over the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Yes, "Register," reference to the
"My Dear Applet" letter at this time
will show that this is not the only
prophecy McLaurin made which has
come true. What he said of CAN'T & Co.
in 1894, when charged by CAN'T with
treachery to Tillman and the Reform
movement, is interesting reading and
throws considerable light on the author
of the "My Dear Clark" letter. Lis
ten: "If the test came, like the mis-
cradle vultures that they are, they
would be the first to turn and rend
his vitals. I would have died thou
sand deaths before would let one of
the political hellhounds, that can be
bought like piece of dogmeat in the
market, pop his whip and drive me
cringing to his masters feet"
Again, speaking of the same crew,
he says: miserable parasites and
barnacles that can only exist amid
uncleanness, and who, unless scraped
off at regular intervals, eat through
the hull and sink the stoutest ship"
Again "When think of the dream
1 had, when we started out in 1888, to
smash rings and to have free speech,
free thought and truly popular govern
ment, 1 do not want to see established
as absolute depotism as there is in
Darkest Russia the Alliance and all
those great financial and governmental
issues freighted with the life or death
of a nation dwarfed into the single
question of how whisky shall be
dished out to thirsty souls"
Has not this prophecy come to pass {?
When one reads the my Dear
Clark" letter, the mind instantly goes
back to McLaurin's famous speech in
Spartanburg, when to Gantt's face, he
denounced him as "an imported Geor-
gia hireling, too deep in the filth, dirt
and mire for a gentleman to notice." I"
and when he said that "the huge dis
pensary in Columbia, with its host of
officials, was too cumbersome and
would finally corrupt any set of Off
cials on earth, that the profit feature
of the dispensary was moral ly wrong,
and only needed time to work its own
downfall"
The Beckroge trunk, "My Dear
Clark" letter, the hocus pocus key,
"put Secretary of State Tompkins
on the stand and ask him was
not some adulterated, dispensary-
made corn whisky once shipped
out labeled chemically pure and
guaranteed to have been analysed by
the state chemist" and other devel-
opments now in progress, makes the
utterances of a statesman four years
ago very, very interesting reading.
The Times is believer in the dis
pensary system but if the institution
must continue to breed scandals, the
sooner the thing is done away with
the better. The developments in the
recent investigation has proven a
whole lot of little rottenness, and
while no one was hurt to any extent,
yet there was enough corruption
proven to make as strong an advocate
of the dispensary system as are shaky
as to the advisability OF continuing the
concern.