Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-22
vITUPERATION AND SANDER.
One of the Penalties Incurred by
Men Who Would Help Their Fell

One of the Penalties Incurred by
Men Who Would Help Their Fell
| lows.
The editorial that follows Is from
the Charlotte Times-Democrat, and
was published as a "criticism' Of Sem
ator McLaurins Greenville speech. 1t
was handed to THE ENQUIRER by an
anti-McLaurin man who desires our
readers to see the other side Of the
question" Ordinarily we would not
publish such stuff, because we do not
! feel right about it even when we find
ourselves abusing dog. If, how
ever, this is all the reason" and ar
gument" there is on the "other side or
the question:" we hasten to dispose of
the nauseous dose, with only few
comments on such facts as have been
referred to and without attempting to
inauire into the motives that may have
moved our North Carolina and Penn
sylvania contemporaries in their SLAM
derous attack:
| When a certain class Of politicians
begin to realize that their power Is
| waning, it is the most natural thing in
dependence of thought" and cant a
man call his soul his own?" and the
machine is trying to stiie free
speech" and, in fact a great many
cries are uttered to distract the minds
of the people from their real purposes.
To succeed in any line of enterprise,
whether it be private or public, there
must be method Organization.
When any man or set of men join
| forces to obtain certain ends, they are
expected to be loyal to the interests in
volved, or withdraw from the associa-
| ton.
There can be no other path of duty.
If Mr.. McLaurin had pursued such a
course, when he "benevolently assimi-
lated" the entire Republican faith, i'm
perialism, prohibitory tariff, ship-sub-
sidy, subjugation, colonial carpetbag-
ism and all the other political nos
trums OF the Republican apothecary
shop, it would have been his affair.
But when he writes a prescription for
Democracy, composed Of all the in
gradients antagonistic to that partys s
principles, loads his little syringe with
the concoction and expects the Demo-
cracy to bare it's good right arm, and
mixture into it. we fear he will meet
/ with disappointment.
The Philadelphia Record is gold
standard paper that the so-called, in
dependent free speech -free-thought to-
h-l-with- element, reVel IN
quoting and holding up as paragon
for all benighted bimetallic Democrats
to bow to.
For their special edification and con-
sideration we give space to the 1ol-
lowing editorial from The Record:
Contempt says the proverb, Will
pierce the shell of a tortoise: and the
unmeasured contempt which the De-
mocracy of South Carolina have be-
slowed upon Senator McLaurln has
driven him to the invention or new
excuses for his political conduct. 1t is
not so much his recent course In the
United States senate that they resent;
for in the past two or three years ne
has on most occasions separated him.
self from his political associates to vote
for administration measures. CD. Ne1-
ther the Democrats at home nor in the
senate have put any trust in him. (Z)
But what has given chief Offense to his
constituents is his contempt to use the
patronage of a Republican admins
ira atiOn for personal and political cor
ruption. General Wade Hampton eX-
pressed the indignant sentiment of his
Democratic fellow-citizens in spurning
Senator McLaurin's bribe of the Co.
lumbia postoffice.
In his apology at a meeting which ne
called in Greenville on Wednesday last
Senator McLaurin still kept up the
pretense that he is a Democrat,
knowing full we'll that under the Dem
ocratic banner alone could he serve his
new associates. He says that when
man cannot agree with his party on
, international questions he should seek.
if possible, a party with whom he can