Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-08
McLAURIN AT NEWBERRY.
Reiterates His Greenville Charges
| Against Teller and Bryan.

Reiterates His Greenville Charges
Against Teller and Bryan.
Senator McLaurin spoke at the fire.
mems tournament at Newberry last
Thursday, according to appointment.
The first part of his speech was in
commenda tion of the firemen's organ
ization, brotherhood banded together
for the benefit of mankind, and the bal
ance was an exposition of his views on
the different questions before the peo-
ple especially expansion and ship SUBJ
sidy. During his speech he paid his
respects to Messrs. Bryan and Teller as
follows:
propose now to discuss some of the
great national issues before the people
affecting the honor, the prosperity and
the destiny of the country, and bespeak
your attention with that of the others
present.
Senator Teller when shown copy Of
my Greenvilie speech, said that 1t was
untrue in every particular. He declar-
ed that he had never said that the Ne
gro was the equal of the white man,
ion that the Negro was entitled to the
same rights under the laws as the
white man. AS chairman of the COM
mission which investigated the cleo
tions in South Carolina, Senator Teller
said that the South could never prosper
until it ceased to make distinctions on
account of color.
The people of South Carolina can de-
eide for themselves what the senator
meant when he declared that no dis
tinction should be made on account or
color.
Senator Teller also became indignant
at the assertion that he had not oppos-
ed the force bill. He said that he had
voted and worked against that meas
ure when it was before the senate. AS
no vote was ever taken in the United
States senate upon the force bill, 1t Is
Impossible that Senator Teller could
have voted against it. In a subsequent
session Of the senate he himself, declar-
ed that while it had not come to vote
and he had made no speech against It,
he had opposed it in committee. Sena-
tor Hoar, who was his colleague upon
the committee which reported the Dill,
accused him upon the floor Of the SEN
ate or stating that which was not true
and declared that he had not opposed
the bill in committee.
The record discloses an admission
from Senator Teller that he had neith-
es spoken or voted against the bill, and
as he now says he did both, the ques-
ton OF veracity between Senator Tel
Ter anu Senator Hoar, fully set forth
in the Congressional Record, would
seem to be in favor Of Senator Hoar.
His own utteranceS convict him OF un-
truth in his declaration that he worked
against the measure in committee.
1 did not make the statement as to
Teller without good authority. In the
record room of the United States SEN.
ate is the report of the commission OF
rs, of which he was chairman, which
report forms the basis OF the force bill
and led up to it. In that he says the
country would never prosper until the
Negro is accorded the same rights as
the white man.
The local papers in the election of
1894 did not give the Details but it Is
we'll known that Mr.. Bryan was
against Crisp, of Georgia, for speaker
OF the house of representatives because
he had been a Confederate soldier, and
he said that no eX-Confederate could be
entrusted with the SpeakerShip. Hon.
Urey Woodson, OF Kentucky, mention
ed this matter at the Kansas City con-
Vention, and there was conSlderaple
comment upon it among the delegates
opposed to the reiteration Of the 16 to
l plank.
/ have a pretty good memory, and if
I am not at fault, when O'Farrell was
nominated by the Democrats in Virgin
ia in 1894 for governor and the Popu-
lists put up a ticket in opposition, Bry-
an was under arrangements, with
dates fixed, to stump the state for the
Populist candidate; but O'Farrell, who
was then a member Of congress, man
aged in some way to break up his
plans. Bryan cannot claim any In
structions to help the Democratic tick
ct in that matter as he did when ne
voted for Weaver, the Populist candi-
date for president, in 1892 1 will read
an extract from an interview in the
N. Y. Herald, of May, 1900, with Henry
Watterson, in which he says that
Bryan claimed that when he voted in
the Democratic caucus against Crisp
for speaker of the house of representa-
tives, he knew Crisp was clean and
capable man, but that he had been a
Confederate soldier, and Bryan thought
that a vote for him was to risk his own
reelection to congress-