The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-23
THE NEW MOSES A PLAG1ARIsT,

senator T1llman is out in an interview
denouncing Senator McLaurin for advo-
eating the Republican policy and mas
that McLaurin in January, 1899, made an
ultra speech against the acquisition of
the Philippines and adds:
up to Saturday night before we voted
on the treaty with Spain on Monday, Feb
ruary Z, 1899, he repeatedly told me and
other Senators he was bitterly opposed
to the ratification and would not vote
for it. Between adjournment Saturday
evening and the vote on Monday the
mantle of broad American craftsmanship
descended upon him and a few minutes
before the Senate went into executive
session to consider the treaty and take
vote as agreed, h.. gave a hating and
lame explanation of his intended change
of front. His vote secured the ratifica-
tion because on the first roll-call Mr..
Jones, of Nevada, who had also told US
he would vote against the treaty, passed
when his name was called, and | feel
certain if Senator McLaurin had stood by
his party and by himself, Mr. Jones would
not at the end have voted for the rati-
fication."
After thus showing that there was some
suspicious circumstances attending the
conversion of his colleague, Senator Till
man says
Such a man has no conscience or prin-
ciples. The eloquent speech which he
delivered in tho Senate was largely sto-
len from a sermon delivered by the Rev
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, on Thanksgiving
Day, November, 1898, in the Brick Church
of New York city, two months before
Senator McLaurin delivered it in the Sen
ate.p
The new apostle of better Democ-
racy'' is uncovered as a plagiarist! How
do his admirers like their new Moses?
What answer does McLaurin make to the
change of plagiarism? Here is his ex-
PLANTATION in his own words:
so far as plagiarizing DR. Van Dyke
sermon is concerned, it was largely due to
accident I was much struck with its
beauty of thought and diction. | had
borrowed copy and dictated from it three.
or four sentences to my stenographer, and
in the original, which any one can see,
are the words paraphrasing the recent
utterances of a distinguished divine,
etc These were left out in the copy Al
ter waking the speech | went South on
the train and never saw the speech again
until it was in print My secretary ala
not notice it. and had distributed several
thousand before my attention was called
to it."
Isn't he nice Moses to lead the South
into the promised land of better politics?
His plagiarism and his sudden CONVEX
sion NAV get him that Federal judgeship
no is "hankering" after, but it will guar
antee his retirement from the Senate
where he misrepresents his people, and
then with pharisaical cant spreads broad
his phylactery and thanks God he IS
NOT as other men-eyen Bacon, Morgan,
Daniel, Vest, and the great Southern
leaders of the great Democratic party.
And he rattles around in the seat once
filled by Calhoun and his admirers nail
him as worthy of the seat SHADES Oh
the mighty prophets forgive the profana-
ton, Hyperion to a satyr! Bengal
tiger to a singed cat!
And North Carolina .'mugwumps' import
this new apostle" to be the Moses OIL
both the Carolinas in the new move
meut. for a better Democracy! Honest
North Carolinians how do you like
Moses who steals his speeches and advo-
Gates the principles of one party while
claiming the name of another