The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-04-24
LAURENS. $. c., April p, 1901.
Over the Pasture Fence.

w. G. Chatree has within the last
three weeks been appointed Post Mas
ter for Aiken, about a two thousand
dollar job-a plum not to be gr!nncd
at. Chaffee was born Il Democrat and
until recently lived q Democrat. Chaifee
was OF a well-knOwn family. John G..
C8pers prominently connected in this
State was appointed As a Democrat to
the Attorney Generals Office at WASH
ington and when Mckinley went in
Capers did not go out. Last year he
campaigned for Mckinley in West Nir-
ginis. Last week he was appointed
District Attorney for this State, Il lit
tie $4,000 place. lie goes in in July, Nc
kinley making the appointment before
starting on his SIX weeks tour towards
the setting sun region Of ~" great and
growing empire. These two appoint
ments are credited to the influence and
inspiration OF johnny McLaurin and is in
line with the authenticated policy of
Mckinley to build up a Republican
party at the South out of the socalled
old time responsibility. 1t is not sur
prising that McLaurin who has sup
ported the Mckinley policy should tack
in this direction. Ills future in this
State lies in bulldog up such Il party
and 1T can't BE- Il; an Eng shlnan wants
his greg, half water and halt strong
stun, or as he chooses to call it--''jo!y
arf md arf.n McLau"in will find and
all his following that he must be one
or the other Republicans or Democrat.
He has been located by shrewd OBJ
servers all along. That he should Sc
cure these fat places for young men Of
talent is not surprising. A we'll grown
and fatted steer when his own pasture
Is exhausted leans Against the fence of
DeighbOring fields and nibbles at the
tempting tufts within his reach. After
a while the pleasure forces the %enclos-
ure and he finds himself up to his girth
In the green ard juicy noighb boring
grounds. He is over and like one of
Esop's famed animals he presently sub
mits to wear the collar and the yoke
OF the master OF that field He calls to
the innocent, supple y%earlingS to follow,
but aS Il rule the herd are habituated
to old domestic grounds and not in a
hurry to change their grazing. This
will be the case in South Carolina and
we believe in the old Conservative
South. a century has passed siGce
South Ca DINA voted the Republican
or Federal ticket. If it be true, as it
so appears, that McLaurIn is in sympa-
thy with President McLaurin's South
ern program, then he is ~full-feathered
as a Republican and must AXE his
stand under Hnnna's cOlors. We con-
iidently expect himself and the year
llngS to be lonesome for a long time.
McLaurin will find himself fat and
risky and his horns adorned with
wreaths of roses, but for the butchers
stall. If manufacturers and their de-
pendenis are counted on it must be set
down that a half century must elapse
before the South in any practical sense
q reach Importance manufacturing.
At the lapse Of that period she NAV
manufacture adecimal of the thousands
of manufactured articles i'm use in every
household and business in this country.
L. S. Since writing the above Sena-
tor McLaurin delivered q speech at
charlotte before a commercial club of
that little town. We have not space to
review and dissCct this Official declara-
ton OF his views upon national Ques-
tons or opening speech in a campaign
for reelection to the Senate. 1t is a
pretty speech, and might suit a Boston
4th OF July occasion, and might we'll
have been written at the White House,
and nodoubt was there read and APP
proved. 1t is speciOus, deals in glitter
ing generalities, deScends to harmless
sophistry. and will fool very few peo-
pie. lie applauds the Republican
national program, everything re-
publican, condemns the recent course
OF the Democratic organization, and
PiopUSeS W ulc as Il Democrat In DlD lC
or private life. 1t looks very like he is
bent on figuring prominently q. pol
itical funeral.
Z. S. S. Senator McLaurrin pre-
coded to Charleston, where he could
not resist the Establishments Of q News
and Courier Reporter. or Tillman's
criticism among other sugar-coated
tidbits, he said:
ut is no new role for Senator Til
man. He began his career by abusing
and s~iandering better men. I have
naught but contemp. for IN in.ei-
lectual bully and shameless net nd.r
masqiIerading as Il statesman, q moral
P'gm! posing as The champion OF hoe
esty."
There is a venerable adage about
pot calling kettle black, but we would
not hini an thing of the Kind, for they
are Our dignillel Senators, four most
potent, grave, and rnverSnd signiors,
(our) very noble and approved good
masters
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