Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-09-04
CONFUSION
COMPOUNDED.
McLaurin Attends Last Session
of Summer School.
SENSATIONAL EPISODE
At ANDERSON.

al ANUhKDUN,
After an Already Hostile Crowd Had
Been Further Prejudiced Against
Him, the OutrageousIy Slandered
Junior Senator Puts In Sudden
i Appearance. and With a Brave,
Manly Speech, Changes Enemies
Into Friends.
Compiled from Daily Papers.
The Greenville resolutions. adontri
by the summe:' school faculty to the
contrary, Notwithstanding the heresies
that are being taught by Senator Nc
Laurin, have not been obliterated.
That fact was fully demonstrated at
Anderson last Friday by Senator Nc
Laurin himself in a way that cannot
leave the least possible doubt In the
minds Of the summer school faculty or
of the public.
The Anderson meeting was opened in
accordance with the previously ar
ranged programme. It was not under
stood that Senator McLaurin would be
there; but there had been special effort
to whoop up a large crowd to hear the
hitherto pretty thoroughly discouraged
summer school faculty, and the audi
ence that gathered in the court house
numbered some 500 or 600 people. Mr..
Hemph!ll and Mr.. Latimer spoke dur
ing the morning, both following the
same lines as in their previous
speeches.
Anderson Is in Mr.. Latimer's district,
and he has many strong supporters in
that county. His more enthusiastic
admirers were especially anxious to
hear how thoroughly he could abuse
Senator McLaurin, and the redoubta-
BILE candidate was at his best. He ac-
cused the junior senator Of having
been first against the Reform move
ment, then a Reformer, then Populist
and then a "treacherous traitor" of a
Republican. At every thrust his
friends would whoop and yell, and to a
man who did not know, 1t would have
seemed that the appearance Of Senator
McLaurin at that stage Of the proceed
lings, or anytime soon thereafter, would
have been the only necessary signal
for lynching bee.
;, About the time Mr.. Latimer conclu-
ded his remarks, the chairman Of the
meeting received a note to the effect
that Senator McLaurin was on his way
to Anderson, and was due to arrive at
1.30. The chairman made the an
nouncement. The news produced a
profound sensation. Many were un-
willing to believe 1t was true; but, upon
the whole, the meeting was strangely
excited. A conference was held among
the summer school faculty and new
arrangements were made. Mr.. john
stone.was yet to speak, and 1t was de-
cided to adjourn the meeting until 1.30,
when Senator McLaurin would open In
an hour. Mr.. Johnstone would follow
in an hour and half, and Senator NC
Laurin would be allowed half hour In
reply.
|. The train came in on time. 1t was q
special that Senator McLaurin had
hired at Seneca for the purpose. At
ter the Greenville meeting. 1t devel-
oped that the members Of the summer
school faculty were making capital OF
the absence Of Senator McLaur1n,
claiming that that gentlemen dared not
face the people. The senator's friends
urged him to go to Anderson. He was
on his way home at the time and their
kilograms met him at Norfork, Va,
where he had just arrived by boat from
New York. He determined to heed
the wishes Of his friends and hurried
on to Seneca, where he found 1t neces-
sary to hire the train, as stated, less
than a dozen people knowing of his
plans, and a few Of them going on to
Anderson with him.
Within 20 minutes after he reached
Anderson, Senator McLaurin was In
!. the court house. He had been seasick
on the way to Norfolk and he was well
worn out. But the stimulant that
made a man Of him again. AS he en-
tered the hall, his friends sent up cheer
after cheer, and Notwithstanding the
applause that had been provoked by
Mr.. Latimer, in those cheers there was
sufficient sincerity and volume to indi-
cate that the new arrival would at
least get fair play.
AS though needless of 1t all, Senator
McLaurin, Immediately after his in
PRODUCTION entered into a full, calm and
dispassionate explanation of the issues
he had raised. He discussed expan-
sion as distinguished from Imperialism,
gave his conception of what he consid-
cred to be our duty in the Philippines,
and told Of the commercial advantages
that may be expected to accrue from
those islands and from China. Then
also he explained the ship subsidy
question at length. making 1t plain that
il is his desire to develop our merchant
marine only as a means to the more
rapid development of our already grow
ing commerce. During all his speech,
he did not once refer to the vicious
thrusts that had been made at him
during the morning by Mr.. Latimer,
nor did he refer to Senator Tillman.
He explained at length his vote on the
Paris treaty. showing how between the
time he made his speech and the time
he voted, the Filipinos had fired upon
American troops. and the complications
thus brought about threatened a re-
newal OF the rupture with Spain, and
probably the interference Of France