The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-10-30
McLauSin And the Cabinet.


The rumor in Washington that
Senator McLaurin will likely join
President Roosevclt's cabinet probab-
ly is the result of the prominence the
Senator has attained in the scheme OF
the Presidents new Southern policy,
and there may be nothing substantial
in it. At the same time, it is not a
fantastic proposition by any means, and
is certainly not without the bounds OF
possibility. Should it come to pass, of
course, Senator McLaurin would leave
the Democratic party and Tillman and
his allies would be spared the danger
Gus undertaking OF throwing him out,
and the impossible task of sitting his
arguments. .''-Charleston Post.
Senator McLaurin may be in
vited to join the Roosevelt cabi-
net and he may decide to accept
the position for the benefit which
he may be able to confer upon
the south, but our Charleston
contemporary is entirely mis-
taken in saying: Should it come
to pass, of course, Senator Nc
Laurin would leave the Demo
cratic party. ETC."
In the first place if President
Roosevelt should extend such an
invitation to Senator McLaurin
it would be as a distinct compli-
ment to the South, which is solid
ly Democratic and will always
remain so. He will be reques-
ted to join the cabinet, if at all,
as a Democrat, representing the
progressive: broad. up-to-date
views of the Commercial Demo
cracy as opposed to the anti
quated, anarchistical: revolu-
tionary tendencies Of Organism
and Tillmanism. Senator Nc
Laurin will not be asked TO
change his party, nor would he
accept a position in Mr.. Roose-
velt's cabinet upon any such
condition. Nor will his accept
ance of such a position as aDem-
ocrat be without ample prece
dent. Judge Key, q Democrat,
was a member of President
Hayes cabinet. Mr.. Gresham
was a Republican member of
Mr.. Cleveland's cabinet, The
cabinet officers are the Presi-
ident's advisors, touching the
several branches OF the govern
ment. President Roosevelt has
indicated Enthusiastically that he
intends to carry out President
McKinley's Southern policy, the
key note of which was the per-
feet reconciliation Of the two
sections, by a non-partizan, equi-
table distribution of the federal
Offices in the South.
It seems to be impossible for
the Southern press and more es-
pecially large number Of the
newspapers of South Carolina to
realize that a Republican Presi-
dent can truly be in earnest when
he announces his intention Of
appointing the best men to Office
irrespective of party. 1t is not
unnatural, with the experience
of a long line of Republican par,
tizan Presidents before US, that
we should be a trife incredulous
when fair play and proper re-
cognition Of our peculiar politi-
cal condition is promised. But
we believe that with the MoKin'
ley administration an entirely
new era opened for the South
and that it only remains for the
Southern people to throw off the
narrowminded prejudices Of the
past and accept the proffered
hand of friendship in good faith.
We are not asked to surrender
either personal or party princi-
pies. We are simply invited to
join in obliterating sectional
lines and in harmoniousiy work
ing towards the common pros
perity Of our country.
We believe that President
Roosevelt is moved by neither
selfish nor partizan motives when
be appoints Democrats to federal
offices in Alabama and South
Carolina as be has recently done;
and we believe that if he should
tender Senator McLaurin q cabi-
net position it would be simply
that he is convinced that in Nc
Laurin he would find Southern
Democrat, best qualified by his
broad, liberal views to aid him
as a member of his advisory
board in solving the Southern
problem, by methods entirely
outside Of party lines.-Green-