The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-24

wherein. MCLdUrln SalG III Ui1e
outset Of his Charlotte speech.
II AM CONTENT TO ADVOCATE
WITHIN DEMOCRATIC LINES THE
POLICIES WHICH I BELIEVE TO
BE BEST FOR THE SOUTH, AND
WHEN I CAN NO LONGER DO THIS
l AM READY TO RETIRE TO PRI-
vATE LIFE" Here is solemn
declaration publicly delivered,
that unless he can make his fight
on Democratic lines he will not
make it at all. Can there be any
mistaking those words? It does
strike US that with declaration
| like this, it ought to put stop
to the continuous clamor that
McLaurin has gone over to the
Republicans. Senator Tillman
has been petted so long, that he
is like a spoiled child. if he can
not have his own way in every
thing, he will spoil the game.
Because McLaurin would not
play me-too to him, he needs
some one else in his business,
and his recent public deliverance
is in keeping with what has been
suspected by McLaurin's friends,
as Tillman's private work, ever
since McLaurin began to show
that he had influence at the seat
of government; what inten-
sifed the strained relationship
between the two Senators. was
McLaurin's success after Till
mans and Latimer's failure in
the matter of securing aid for the
Charleston exposition. No un-
preiudiced mind can read Nc
Laurin's speech which is I'M
mediately followed by Tillman's
vehement excoriation without
reaching the conclusion that the
interview was shrewdly got
ten up for the purpose of
detracting from the speech;
any school boy can read that
speech and understand it, but
it will puzzle him to know
where Senator Tillman finds a
line in it which reflects on him.
He seems to think that McLau-
rims references to Allen, Teller
and Pettigrew, the Republican
trio who were seeking favor from
IPopulist-Democrats was a covert
attack upon him. We dc not see
why he should thinks so. Nc
! L.aurin in speaking Of the recent
national campaign and its conse-
quences, says: ''In an insane ef-
fort to secure party success at any
cost, the attempt was made to
combine socialism, populism and
'sectionalism, with nothing but
sentiment and traditions of Dem
ocracy. The real Democratic
leaders in the Senate for the
past three years have been Allen,
Teller and Pettigrew This
was called the New Democracy"
McLaurin refused to follow that
class of men, because they have
always been Republicans and
are Republicans today on every
question except silver, and only
.are they with the Democratic
party on silver, because they are
personally interested in silver
mining. McLaurin in giving his
definition of Democracy says:
DEMOCRACY IS LIBERTY FOR
MAN, FORMULATED INTO A THE
DRY OF GOVERNMENT; IT MEANS
MANS INALIENABLE OWNERSHIP
OF HIMSELF. IT MEANS FREE
THOUGHT AND FREE SPEECH. "
Tillman says this is not the
definition given in any dictionary,
nor is it the definition given by
Jefferson" There are many
words when analysed have a
fuI..er meaning than is laid down
in The narrow limits Of a
dictionary, and there are
many words attributed to Jefer-
son which have a fuller and
a broader meaning than some
Iof the statesmen of today are
willing to apply to them.
We do not believe that Sena-
tor Tillman will find that
Democracy means IF there is to
be any stealing I want my share"
as he was won't to say on the
floor of the Senate on one &C.
casion, nor do we believe there is
any Democratic creed which de-
mands that lifelong Republicans
should be thrust upon the Demo