The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-06-23
PROUD OF McLAURIN.


in the person of Hon. john L. Nc
Laurin, representative who is truly
"a watchman on the tower" and his
speech in the Senate last Thursday
was not only full of convincing argu-
ment, but one of the greatest expos
ures of Republican discrimination we
have ever read. He eloQuently hurled
into the teeth OF those who seek TO
injure him by charging him with be-
ing protectionist, a strong denial OF
the charge and proved by the records
the Inconsistency Of some members
of the Senate WHO are posing as
teachers Of Democratic doctrine. Nc
Laurin showed up Mills, Of Texas;
and Vest, of Mississippi, and prodded
old Cleveland's Democratic principles
McLaurin is not a proteetionlst,
and he denounces that doctrine as
wrong in principle and pernicious in
practice, but if the principle OF pro
lection is to obtain, he is unwilling
for the South to be the victim OF the
greedy Northern leeches. He wants
the products OF the South to have the
same protection as those OF other
parts of the Union, and in denounc-
Ing the Dingley bill he proved be-
yond a reasonable doubt that it was
a bold, bare-faced sectional measure
drafted with malice aforethought, to
rob the people of the South and to
continue the iron heel of Northern
oppression upon the necks of the pro
ducers of this section in order that
the South may continue bearing trib-
ute to the campaign fried manufac-
turers of the East and North. These
people who are charging McLaurin
with being protectionist take good
care not to tackle his arguments;
they simply call him a protectionist.
hoping to play upon the credulity OF
the masses who look upon the doc
trine with fear 4 few politicians IN
South Carolina are attempting to
build opposition to McLaurn upon
this very issue, but we will wager
doughnuts that none of them will
have the nerve to meet McLaurin on
the stump and discuss his position
before the people. Fl is all very easy
to give out slurring interview at
distance, but when you meet your
opponents face to face, it is either
put up or shut up"
We read what purported to be ex-
Governor Evans remarks on the duty
on raw cotton, evidently intended for
home political consumption to create
a feeling Of distrust among the people
and when we read his reported utter
ances we thought, whether or not he
enters the race against McLanrin, it
would have been more diguifed in
him to have waited until he reached
South Carolina. II Ex-Governor Ev-
ans wants to be candidate against
Senator McLaurin, it is his privilege
to do so,and he has the right to differ
with him on any and all public ques-
tons, but if he differs with him IN
Ger the present conditions, he would
show more sincerity and statesman
ship in joint discussion whereby
the people from whom he expects
votes may judge between the two.
We expect McLaurin to have op-
position and so does he, and it VS.
because there is opposition to his
views, that in his letter accepting the
appointment from Governor Ellerbe.
he demanded primary. John Nc
Laurin is the last man il the State
who would hold position against the
wishes Of a majority of the people,
and when the primary comes on and
his opponents will show where he is
wrong, the people have been educated
sufficiently to decide between men
and measures, and they have pro-
gressed sufficiently to Judge whether
it is best to carry rock in one end
of the meal sack because their grand
fathers did or to utilize up-to-date
methods and keep up with the pro-
gressive procession.
Never since the days of Calhoun
has South Carolina attracted more
attention than she is doing now
through her representatives in the
Senate; their voices are heard on all
measures and when it
comes to measure affecting South
Carolina, McLaurin and Tillman
strike gigantic blows in her defence
and at no time in the history of this
Union has a new member OF the
United States Senate taken so proml,
nent and influential position in such
a short time as John L. McLaurin.