The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-06-11

Ropubl!canism and John McLau
rlnlsm has boon received, but ns all
tho dnilios have discussed tho merits
Of your evasion it has left mo moth
ing to say. Now John, ( | am lit.
tlo familiar and you will excuse it
from the fact that wo once pulled in
tho samo political harncss) | sol II
trap for you. l knew that you had
a good opinion of John McImurin's
abilities, and | presented an impos-
sibility and you have bit at the bait
and attomped to demonstrate it, and
In doing SO, John, you have got
your fcot in deeper, and 7 was will
ing to loavo you noundering about
and under the guns Of the State and
The News and Courier, but circum.
stance has intervened which requires
\ mo to answer in part your reply, and
in the beginning. Iwant you to un-
derstand that what is said is politi-
cal and intended in no ways person
al, so you must consider it whom tho
blush mounts your cheek. You
havo undortakon to Republicanize
South Carolina, and you realize that
Democracy is of tallismanic origin in
South Carolina, hence you ondeavor
to preach and perpotuate your Re-
! publican doctrine under tho namo of
Democracy.
Now, John, | served in tho war, as
your Republican party styles it,
"the war Of robellion," but, if we
were rebels SO were George Washing
ton and those who followed him, and
as a consequence of my experience 1
will state that we nevor countenanced
traitors in the camp. We fought
those who faced us and gave to them
if captured the conditions Of civilized
warfare, but a spy in the camp met
death without further parley. You
say that the Republican party has
gotten on the Democratic platform,
andafrom that fact you have taken a
seat in their band wagon; the driver
of that band wagon is Willie
Mckinley and the brakeman is Mark
Hanna and, John, if you will stick to
the wagon they may give you some aid
in way of Federal appointments and
money.
With this explanation, John, I
come to the point that you and your
followers should not be allowed to
participate in Democratic primary,
which views I expressed in the Kings
tree County Record, and which is the
circumstance alluded to. 1 think,
from my knowledge of the people of
South Carolina, that our running in
q Democratic primary is merely a
matter of diversion, and if it was the
only issue 1 would not oppose it, but
as to your supporters we have right
to know who they are so that whom
they pop up for office as Democrats
we can single them out and rolegate
them to the rear. Hence, John, as
a Democrat, I opposed your running
in the primary.
AS for you, John, T feel no uneasi-
ness. You kno " it has been charged
against you that in your short career
you have executed the feat of boxing
the political compass, and your sup
port of the Republican party is no
surprise to those of your friends who
have watched your course. There
fore, I repeat, that if you were the
only factor in the equation we would
not care whore you ran, for defeat
stares you in the face under any and
all circumstances, but in after times
some of your supporters may get into
a posi-, .on to do the State harm un-
der the false impression that they arc
Democrats.
You have done the State some SER
vice. Elected as an alliance man,
you for time advocated the princi.
pies of the alliance, but when you
went to Washington and saw the
grand entertainments of the corpora
tions and the trusts, and compared
them to the humble cabins of the
farmer, you got disgust for rural
life and lost no time in getting on
| Mark Hanna'a hand xuooon