The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-07-26
RATLIFFI; TO THE
ATLANTA JOURNAL.
The EcLaurin Movement Spread
ing in South Carolina.
(From the Atlanta Journal }

rom Une AUlanUa journal
1t is matter Of much surprise to
me that the Journal, usually accurate
and we'll informed, has allowed Itself
to absorb and to disseminate such a
vast amount Of misinformation re-
lative to the POLITICAL conditions per.
vailing on this side Of the Savannah
You take the st. Louis Glohe-Dem-
ocrat to task for its very true decl"-
ration that "the people of South Car
oIna are rising in their might to en-
dorse the junior SENATOR aud add
"Ihe st. Louis Globe Democrat
knows as much about South Carolina
politics as it knows about the occu
patton of the Inhabitants Of Mars
McLdurin himself will smile when h.
reads that statement.
''He knows that the next time
South Carolina gets lick at him she
will discharge him from her service.
He must know that he does not re-,
resent her and that she is anxiouStY
awaiting an opportunity to repudiaie
and dismiss him.
The only benefit that McLaurin
has acquired by misrepresenting his
people is the achievement of a noto-
riety which would have been impossi.
bic if he had gone along in the sena-
torial path upon which he was SIT
and upon which he will never b"
placed again by the will Of peop!e
who were deluded into regarding hin.
rs II representative of their prince
Plies"
You will pardon me if / venture
the assertion that the St. Louis
G!obe-Democrat is evidently in closer
touch with South Carolina politics
than the Journal if the expression $
above are TO be considered Il fnc
specimen Of your political foresight
across the border.
No, sir; Senator McLuurin nor
Senator Tillman neither believe that
the people are "anxiously awaiting
an opportunity to repudiate and
dismiss" The former; but to the cor.
trary, the trends Of McLuurin were
never more confident, while Tillmau
and his followers realize the rapid
crystalization of pure Democratic
sentiment not only throughout the
towns, cities and manufacturing GER
tors, but throughout the rural dis
tricts as well-and here is the mos t
startling feature of the whole revn-
luton. The country people OF South
Carolina, who with progress are
growing in Independent spirit, are
chatting under the tyranny Of boss
rule and they resent this ofiici6us
meddIing Of the arch-boss Tillman
rs an aggravated otfense worthy f
their most emphatic rebuke. He has
been warned on two former occa-
sions to button up his lip and each
time more forcibly than before, so
that among his strongest quondam
adherents words Of the strongest de-
nunciation are being used with refer
ence to Senator McLaurin.
! happen to know that Senator
Tillman's cuckoo, Congressman Lat-
mer, who aspires to wear the senn-
torial toga, is not near so hopeful Of
McLaurin's reputation as you APP
pear to be, but is most fearful and
nervous as to the outcome. His
friends are already resorting to their
extremity in circulating reports Of
mill and bank organization to further
Mclaurin's campaign and candidacy,
hoping thereby to array labor agai nst
capital and the country against the
town-and incidentally to set torch
to powder magazine-and all for
the glory of scheming politician!
Senator McLaurin has been gaining
strength every day since TIllman
failed by coaSing, cajoling and pout-
ing to induce the legislature to re-
pudiate his course in the Senate, and
the Democracy he represents has
likewise been re-asserting itself in
the principles OF the people They
are nauseated beyond measure at
Populism, Atgeldism,
Iiilmanism, anarchism and all other
isms except the old line Tilden Dem
ocracy, of which they recognize Nc
Laurin as the exponent.
There has been remarkable revo-
luton in South Carolina, politically,
md your ign0rence of the changed
is not to be censured, for
the reason that our people are think
ing and working and accommodating
They are not blatantly galloping over
Lhe country electioneering and dam
aging every man that's got shirt +"
MS name. That day hes passed una
With it the blatant, wild eyed, llaln-
ty howlIng ponticiGu who has been u
milestone around Dem pcracy's ne
Tor the past eight years, The status