The sun., 1901-08-07
TOOLS OF TILLMAN, HE SAYS.
MLAURINS ANSWER 70 QHB
EDICT or EXPULSION.

Doom't Recognize tho Order q @ veDus
Calls Tlllman IN Aseaau1n, end
Makes Ugly Reference. = Ens Wsalth
DTlllman Voted WITH Rspubaioans.
COLUMBIA. 8. c.. Aug. e-The Demoorstio
State Executive Committee to-day received
reply from Senator McLaurin TO their
resolutions reading him out Of the party
that they cannot make much Of. Il was
scorcher for Tillman and treated the
committee as II they were foolish boys,
led astray by big, disreputable companion.
McLaurin says he received an official mott.
fcation Of the committees action five days
after It was published In newspapers. He
adds:
Personally. I am Indifferent to your
action, because nobody has made you nv
master or censor. l regard your action az
merely expressing the malice and fears OF
one man, Senator b. II. Tilman. But for
his always evil and indecent influence. or
dinary respect for the proprieties would
probably have prevented the four Of you
who are declared competitors for my seat,
from attempting to use the power entrusted
to you by your party TO remove rival from
am mortified by your action. because It has
brought upon the State condemnation and
ridicule. Unhappily, those not acquainted
with our conditions accept the action Of
your committee as representing the intel
ligence Of the State"
McLaurn describes the proceedings as
OF star chamber order. He thinks the
Democratic masses are competent to pass
judgment. He charges Tillman with
being political assassin, who has struck
pure men to advance himself and always
avoided personal responsibility. Irby,
Shell and Farley. he says. died despising
him for his treachery. He adds
Because he failed to strike mo down he
has melted you to attempt TO stranSIe me.
He cannot put me under suspicion, Is he
| has himself by his own acts. have not
In public ONCE retrogradod from perhaps
honorable bankruptcy TO dishonorable and
same salaries, but / find II impossible to
save any of mine. have never, however.
made speeches against corporations. then
voted for them, or been the sole buying
agent Of self-created whiskey trust, with
ts rebates Of $50 900 TO $4,000 year, none
Of which ever reached the State Treasury.
l have never had the handling Of State
bond refunding scheme. with $4,000 Of
commissions never yet accounted for"
McLaurin says the people can decide
between him and Tillman, who, on the
floor Of the Senate. represents his con-
stituency as ballot box suffers and mur-
derers wanting their share OF the steal
ings. He says:
"He is now in Northern State holding
up our people as negro murderers and ballot.
box thieves"
McLaurin dares the committee 70 prove
that he IL not Democrat He quotes
the record to show that when he and TILL
man voted on opposite sides. Tillman went
with Republicans as often az he did The
people Of South Carolina he SAYS, had
never had submitted TO them the question
OF ship subsidies. IL is one on which they
should pass he thinks. He SAYS Demo-
Gratis are divided on il.
Mclaurin makes a running defence Of
his position, then says:
II have said enough, think, TO prove
TO you that you have permitted yourselves
TO be made tools Of by Senator 1illman
TO promote his mean. base and brutal ends,
and TO protect him from a struggle he
fears to face. because he knows the facts
and arguments are all against him.
Accept my coincidence on the unhappy
and absurd situation into which this would
be dictator has led you."