The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-06-12
A WORD IN REPLY
To Senator McLaurin's Letter TO
Mr.. CLAYTON.
EVADED QUESTIONS ASKED.
McLaurin Does Mot Attempt TO
Deny that He Supports Re-
publ can Poiciss and
Thus Evades.

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torial in The State Of last Thursday.
It presents the other side Of the ques-
tion and will repay perusal. The State
says:
Senator McLsurin's reply to Mr..
Claytor's letter is very clear evasion.
He pretends to show that the Rerubli-
can policies Of today, Wich McLsurin
supports, are in accord with the fanda-
mental principles of Democracy, bit in,
stead Of proving that proposition
which would be impossible-the senator
reviews none too accurately the history
Of the parties up to the time OF the
Civil War, and from that point jumps
to the declaration that the south is in
tolerant and should become liberal-by
which hs may mean that the south is
Democratic and should become Repub-
licau.
The contest between Hsmiltonien and
Jefersonisn ideas is an historica. fact
for the discovery Of which Mr.. MoLsu-
rim can claim no credit. he CAD, how
ever, receive the greatest measure Of
praise if he will prove that the E:spub-
licsrism Of today is in accord with the
Jefersonianism Of century ago and
that the Democracy Of 1901 is IN line
with the Federalist doctrines advanced
By Hamilton. This he oaaDot d.. Mr..
McLsurin knows well enough that the
R. pub!ican party nov stands for a
strong national government, centraliza-
ticn Of power, a large standing army
and special favors to classes through
tariff protection and subsidies 10 cor
pcrations. The Democracy of Bryan
opposes all these, just as the Dsmoc-
racy of Jefferson opposed them.
Itwould be foolish to assert that the
Democratic party has bsen right at all
times and in every position it has
taken, but it is true and cannot be con-
tradicted that the Democratic party has
always stood for the rights Of the peo-
pie as against class privileges, And
today the only hope for the preserva-
ton of true republicanism is off sred by
and through the Democratic party.
MiIitarism, congressional a5solutism,
coloniaIiam and favoritism are a, few Of
tie ''isms" not monopolized by the
Democrats which threaten to obliterate
the IDEAS Of Jefferson and to sell up in
their stead the theories of Alexander
Hamilton. Against these the Demo
crats are arrayed. He w!o is not for
US is against US, and though every
Americrn citizen has the right to take
cilher sid, tho secret servias Of Re-
pablicsniSm in the ranks Of Democracy
is esteemed dcspicable and dishonest
,resodery. Ana, sad to say, tt at is the
cn&rge brought against John L,wndes
Mel 3urip, a senator from the S;ate of
South Carolina!
Mr. Mel lerin does not attempt to
deny that ne supports Republican pol
ices. That is whore he evaded Mr.
Ciayton's pointed question. Instead of
answering, he di.cants, as ne have
said, upon the diferenc, which have
so long distinguished the two great
parties and then proceeds to asssil the
wisdom Of tie Democratic alliance With
the Papuiists of the west. The force
Of Mr.. McLaurin's attack at this point
is 1uiiiied by the recollection that st
the tins when the southern Demo
Gratis were smsrting under the leader
f Grover Cleveland, then sus.
and afterwards proved guilty Of
treschery, Mr.. McLaurin was
most eager for that same western slii-
ance. He even went so far az to sWal-
low the Ocala platform without any
sugar coating and was almost as vigi-
liant as "Bra7s Ben" himself in seeking
that elusive Eight out Of the west" If
the Ocsla demands were not Populism,
what were they? If Bryan was not a
Democrat in 1892, what was Nc
Laurin? Did not the Ocals demands
pledge their sdherents not to recognize
the authority Of the party cs,ucus?
The statement that "the only Office
which William J. Bryan ever held he
was elected to by the Populists" is a
perversion Of facts unworthy a lover
Of the truth. It is we'll known that
Mr.. Bryan vas elected to congress as
the Democratic candidate in a strong
Republican district By the combined
support Of Democrats and Populists
The ''fusion" between Democrats and
Populists in certain western States of
which Nebraska is one is necessary to
keep the Republicans from control and
as polioY Of the party it has been ap-
proved by Democrats Of every variety
from Grover Cleveland to Ben Tillmsn.
But these false assertions and intima-
sions regarding the man who has twice
been nominated as the Democratic
presidential candidate and who as such
last time received the largest popular
vote ever given Democratic candidate
show just what kind Of Democrat John
L McLsurin has become. As late as
1897, when he was candidate for the
senate, he professed allegiance not only
to the Chicsgo platform Of 1895 in full
but to the leadership Of Bryan as we'll.
Now be sets himself up as a critic of
Bryan and the whole Democratic party
as at present constituted, but We do not
think the Democrats of South Carolina
will take political lessons rom one who
in turn has been snti-Tillmanite, Till.
msoite, Ocalsite, Brsanite and Fortyite
ard is now McKinleyite and Hanna
ite.
Mr.. McL,urin says good deal about
free silver and some Of it is true. lti is
| true, sor instance, that up to the last
campaign both parties hal always pro:
fesssd to support the princi pie Of
bimetsllisn. 1t is only recently that
the Republicans have corle out square:
ly for the single gold standard. Until
this submission to the demands Of the
money interests, the Republicans had
avowcd themselves bimetallists. The
sincerity Of their profession being
doubted By the real friends of that