Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-03
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STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
What Some Editors Think of Its At

What Some Editors Think of Its At
titude Toward Senator McLnurin.
Winnsboro News and Herald: 1t is
not difficult to see that the action of
the State Democratic executive COM
mittee in asking for the resignation Of
the junior senator was engineered by
the senior senator, who has felt most
keenly the support given McLaurin in
many quarters.
Charleston Post: Tillman rails
against McLaurin as a traitor to the
Democratic party because he voted for
the ratification of the treaty Of Paris.
This course was urged earnestly and
diligently by Mr.. w. ]. Bryan, who
was the recognized leader Of the Dem
ocratic party, and who was subse-
quently nominated for the presidency.
The Kansas City convention, in nomi-
mating Mr.. Bryan, therefore, approved
the votes on the treaty Of Senator Nc
Laurin and the three other Democratic
senators who followed Mr.. Bryan's ad-
vice, and repudiated the opposition Of
Senator Tillman and the others who
voted to reject the treaty. Senator
Tillman would put the Kansas City
conventions measure to Senator Nc
Laurin; he might try it on himself.
Birmingham, Ala, News: Tillman
and the South Carolina State. Demo-
cratic committee have ruled McLaurin
out of the party. When Tillman finds
he cannot conquer by fair means, he
has no hesitancy in adopting the other
kind.
Columbia Record: If the executive
committee had been polled in 1897,
when McLaurin was elected senator,
it would have found then that about
the same proportion Of its members
were opposed to him. The committee
did not elect him and he Is not respon-
sible to it for his actions; but to the
people who gave him his commission.
He will not resign to please the COM
mittee; but will serve out his term and
then give the Democratic voters Of the
state a chance to say whether they ap-
prove of his course and wish to contin-
ue him in their service in the United
States senate.
Columbia Record: Ben Tillman may
boss the Democratic executive commit
tee; but he cannot boss the Democrat
ic voters of South Carolina. The pol
iticians may be scared of Tillman; but
the people are not.
Augusta Herald: Real Democracy
means fair play and an equal chance
before the people. The South Carolina
State committee has usurped, or at
tempted to usurp, the power Of the peo-
pie. They have said practically that
there is no use of the party primary;
there is no use Of the people; the state
committee can and will decide all these
questions, though they properly belong
to the people. The action of the South
basic principles Of Democracy.
Gaffney Ledger: Senator Tillman
and his executive committee have
made a big political mistake in call
ing on Senator McLaurin to resign.
Their action will accomplish the very
purpose they were anxious to avoid,
and instead Of getting rid of McLaurin
by such means they will strengthen his
position before the people. He has the
right to appeal to the people, and no
set of men are authorized to stop his
mouth. We believe that the people are
tired of bossism, though they may still
admire the boss, and that they will re-
buke this action of the committee on
the first opportunity.
Memphis Commercial Appeal: The
State Democratic executive committee
of South Carolina has demanded the
resignation of Senator McLaurin, and
has fired him from the Democratic
party. The executive committee is do
ing large business these days.
Macon Telegraph: The Telegraph
has not approved Senator McLaurin's
course in some important particulars;
but it does not hesitate to say that
this drastic remedy for the stamping
out of McLaurinism in South Carolina
is a cowardly and brutal mistake. To
say that no man is a Democrat who
does not indorse the Kansas City plat
form is to say that Tillman was not
Democrat until the adoption of the
Chicago platform in 1896. He foamed
at the mouth from every stump in
South Carolina in opposition to Hamp-
ton. Butler and others who stood on
the Democratic platform in those days.
He held aloft the platform of Ocala
and trampled the Democratic creed
under his feet. Tillman Is a flannel
mouthed demagogue Of the most pro-
nounced type. and the pitchfork with
which he would now impale McLaurin
would have destroyed his own exist
ence six years ago.
Abbeville Press and Banner: There
can be no doubt that the senior senator
realizes the danger of his losing abb
solute control OF Tillman's Land. To
change the situation: IfSenator McLau-
rim should call together committee of
his friends from the different coun-
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