The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-13
WADE HAMPTON FOR SENATOR.
strong No, ement Noet to send hin 10
wasfinxton Again Prom south Carolina.

CoLrnBI.. s c, Oct. R-The propo-
sition 10 send Wade Hampton back 10 the
United States Senate has greatly stirred
tbs. people ~ the State. hut there are CON-
nic'ing currents Of opinion and many
politicians And themselves In the mosl
awkward predicament Of their lives
In $50. after serving twelve years Ia the
senate, and being fairly worShipped by
the men, women and children Of South
Carolina. Hampton was rndely stricken
from the list % the States sons worthy
Ia ha honorpd
In a FRENZY % political excitement per-
hap~ never witnessed in this country b.
fore this Lieutenant General Of the Con
federacy. the man who had. In 1879, led
South C~olinians 20 victory, the hero
in war. the no less hero Of peace, the man
whose illness when Governor had caused
n hu-h 10 fall over the State while tho peo-
ple prayei m churches and by their hearth
stones this man Wa displaced In order
hat the manager Of Tllman's successful
campaign might he rewarded.
Ri, those who ave bccn near Gen Hamp-
ton have known that the old chiefiain
was sorrly wounded by this evidence Of
his peoples ingratitude Never n word
would he say 10 indicate his feelings to
the public. but he has believed the people
were w islead and that In time they would
realize the wrong done him. And that
time has been coming for year,, with the
subsiding 81 factionAl bitterness has come
a return Of the Did reverence for Hanp-
ton. The Generals home was destroyed
by FIRE, and by united action all over tho
State and without publicity a fund was
subscribed with which n handsome homo
was built for him With the limits of Column
lin as an evidence ~ South Caroina's
love for her most distinguished son.
This was IN" soil therefore into which
State Chairman Jones q few DAYS ago threw
he -..ad for a lila mrson Senatorial harvest
next wear He was a candidate Tor the ONCE,
hut withdrew and asked the other randi
dates Ia do likewise In order that the people
81 the State might without a contest be
stow the once on Hampton Among we
siS candidates there were thrsr shades
81 %poli,ic- State Chairman Jones y
Congressman lAttiner belong Ia the Th-
man faction. Former Congressman hamp-
hin and tombstone and state senator Hen.
der-on 10 the obi CONSERVATIVE side, and
senator MciAurn. formerly OF the III.
man side. nov representing views oppo--i
by leaders u both the old factions ana
against whom tho others have ~cotnhineu
col Jones has s,epi-~i q ana ", - takcn
for granted tho Three apn~'fNanN'~ VIII
GLADLY make way for Hampton.
Tha, lsaves 1Attimrr and Mciauttn.
Tn. former u supposed 10 b" Senator T1l.
mans choice for the ofncc, tut IN view 81
~. populsr belief that 1illman y the father
~ this now Scheme. Il h believed that he
Ia. alr-ady brcn assured that lAtun"r
will stem out 20 III. wav There " doubt es
20 ~hai cpur~e MciAurtn viii take, or
"a h.,her 10 wtll In the ucar future cutninit
him-~lf His opponents argue N I've VII
- slad of tins opportunity e~rac~fuhN '"
,r,ir, from tho ~yrplitical h"ld without rsh-
ips , ~rn,~-, in which tho dds are against
hir Dther. maintain that be- wth rcnnAii,
a CANDIDATE and II Hampton v run against
h,r and d.foais him th-rc gill IL no do
gracr MrIAuun's FRIENDS huld " y
I-aInd 10 aEh' fut ~. princips~. although
assured that whatever a." Tr-tuon ot une
t-.ot,ls an 'ls QU~~ii"ns Involved, suit
,,-ni vii eles Hampton hv a. oy~r~ helm
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