The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1901-04-24
M'LAURIN SCORED.
His Terdbls Araig 1msnt by
Senator Tiilman.
CHARGES OF oIsAoNe esTY.
Has 3 u,hsdfor South Carolina on
His Account and Northern
Oentlsmsn Havs Shared
His Fsslin9s.

Senator I1llman WAS seen at his home
at Trenton Friday night and replying
to request for his opinion on Senator
Mclaurin's Charlotte speech, says:
'lt is contradictory, full of para
doxes and seems intended to pave the
way for the senator's passage into the
Republican camp. Ii may excite eur
prise outside OF the State, but tho only
thing VIII on astonishes US here is his
continued eff yrt to pose as a Democrat.
Democracy has broad or general
mesaing aud a special or local meau-
ing as applied to one of the great ma
tionsl par les. My colleague says, My
definition of democracy is liberty for
man formulated into a theory Of gov
ernment; 1t means mans inalienabie
ownership Of: himself. 1t means free
though, and free speech. This is not
the defnition given in any dictionary,
nor is it the definition given by Jeffer-
son, and it is only intended to justify
the senator's desertion of his party, his
treachery to its principles and his be-
trayal of the people of South Carolina
who have trusted him. The Kansas
CITY platform is the only mbodims snt
of Dem ocrstic principles that can now
be recognized and no man can be con-
sidered Democrat who ignores the
principles and policies laid down in
that platform and persisteutly votes
with the Republi administration in
both its foreign and domestic policies
"Senator McLsurin iterstes and re.
iterates the charge that the new De-
mocracy' is a sscti0nsl parry and then
truthfully claims that the south aich
In the last campaign was alone Demo
cratic, is the American end Of Amcri-
cs. Srsnge that because of this fact
aud our veneration aud love for the
principles upon which our government
rests that this broad American states.
man and new born Democrat OF
hitherto unknown type should council
our people to accept conditions as they
are and make the most of them
Senator McLsurin declared in SO
that Mckinley should be renom:natod
ry aoclsmstion, and if his speech
means any thing it means that the De-
pHrat!c party ought to surrender all
It's traditions which he claims are
= since dead, become an echo to
|oomestic p oil
oy, fhip- p-sCbsidy, large standing army
anItv, rything, and subside absolutely
as a Democratic party.
'If the administration party is right
ahat need is there for political fac
tor. | have never believed that my
colleague would dare face the people of
Sou.h Carolina in any political cam
paign again, knowing what | do about
him, but as he indicates his purpose to
still masquerade as a Democrat and
while attacking me covertly as one Of
the leaders of the so called new De-
mocracy, il is his purpose to lead our
people into the Republican camp, duty
compols me to speak out and tell certrin
things.
"Mr. McLaurin made in the senate,
January 1899, speech which was as
ultra and as pronounced in its denun-
citation Of the acquisition of the Phil
ippiues and portF .ycd the many dan.
| gers which threatened our country 10
consequence as any every delivered in
that body. Up to Saturday night be
fore we voted on the treaty with Spain
on Monday, +, bruary Z, 1899, he re,
| peatedly told me and other senator's
nc was bitterly opposed to the rat Il
cation and would not vote for it. Bs.
tween adjournment Saturday evening
and the vote on Monday the mantle OF
broad Am ,rical siatesmanship' de
scenied upon him aud few minutes
before the senate went into executive
session TO consider the treaty and take
vote as sgeed, he gave a haltinl
and lame explanation of his intended
change Of front His vote secured tht
ratification because on the hrst roll
call Mr.. Jones OF Nevada who had ais
told us he would vote against the trea
ty, passed when his name was called
and feel certain If Senator McLlu-il
hSd stood by his party AID by hlnseli
Mr.. Jones would net st the end hsv
voted for ratification.
Conscious IS he was that his vot
was the governing factor In the trsi
Of mJmentous consequences so far
reaching and terrible and involvin
the war of subjugation in the PhiliI
pines, the expenditure of hundreds {
millions Of dollars, the loss of thou
! sands Of lives and other dire result
r which no man can foresee, il is nstu
3 raj fof Senator McLaurln to MAKE
desperate effort to v!ndicate th3 Pres
dents policy in his own action. Tn
! declaration of independence of cour.
D and an abandonment of dead tradition
is the policy of man who behaves 4
o ho has done.
Such s man has no conscience
principles. The eloquent speech whic
; he delivered IN the senate was large
stolen from sermon delivered by II
y = Rev. DR.. Henry Van ID, ke on Thank
= giving day, November 1898, in tn, Bri,
Church Of New York city, two montl
. before Senator McLaurin delivered
y. in the senate.
= IL have not only Lad TO blush b
r. cause McLRuriu had dessrted his par
10 great crisis under suspicious c
cumstGnces aud contrary to h
avoTed purpose but have had tho mC
ifJaaiol of having other senator
80 northern gentlemen, speak OF the de
10 radiation to which South Carolina h
20 como in being represented by N
10 who would boldly steal the brain VIC
n of another by whole sentences a
10 paragraphs and have the effrontery
g. deliver it in tho senate.
G. "The people Of South Carolina CT
N not be further deceived or misled
es this man and speak now in orc
As that they may fully inform themselv
IT on all Of these matters and stand rea
u to furnish the proof of everything
,ir say and il necessary will meet \
At McLaurin face to face in any for