Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-22

agree" Of course, problems in inter-
national as we'll as in domestic policy
| have arisen (and will continue to riSe)
upon which the members of the DEM
cratic party cannot agree; and in such
cases they must agree to disagree
rather than abandon settled convic-
tions Of political duty. But there is no
questions Of any Importance on which
Senator McLaurin is in accord with
the party to whose followers he owes
his position. He boasts that when a
| member of the house he (3) voted for
high protective duties on southern pro-
ducts, in opposition to the whole body
Of Southern Democratic representa-
tives OF all the Democratic members
Of the senate, he alone advocates, and
| (4 voted for the Hanna subsidy spoil
alton scheme. A review Of his record
in the latest two or three sessions Of
| congress, as made by himself. shows
that there is not rag Of Democracy
still clinging to him to cover his
nakedness. Yet this senatorial spoils-
tion stands before South Carolina au-
diences impudently claiming that he is
Democrat!
In seeking to explain his intimate
relations with the administration as it's
chief distributor of Federal patronage
in the south, he says that he was CON
suited on certain occasions because
of his liberal views and patriotic
stand" One Of these occasions has
been rather prematurely exposed to
the public in the failure to bribe dis
tinguished South Carolina Democrat.
Senator McLaArin is the only Demo-
cratic senator Of the south who enjoys
the prestige of being consulted in the
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what he boasts Of as patriotism Is the
mere brutality of corruption. and it's
object Is to influence the politics of the
South. and Of his own state in particu-
lar. The pretender to sham patriot
ism naturally enough adds to 1t the
hypocrisy Of pseudo-reformer. In
his superlative zeal for the South he
votes for his tariffs, steamship subsidy
and all other measures to which the
Democratic party Is opposed, and in
the same zeal he uses the spoils Of a
Republican administration to seduce
and corrupt members of the party to
which he processes to belong.
BY his acts and confessions and ex-
cuses (Which latter are self-accusa-
tions) Senator McLaurin has complete
South Carolina. He Is no longer their
Democratic senator; but the corruption
agent of the Republican administra-
ton. But he and his patrons will dis
cover that the Solid South and the
Democratic party of Jefferson and
Jackson and Benton cannot be split
assunder and destroyed by any amount
Of official spoils mongering. The Re-
publican party can take it's McLau-
rim and welcome to him: for there Is
no longer any room in the Democratic
party for the man whom it has en-
ployed to ladle out the poisonous mix
ture of government patronage, with
the intention Of infusing it into the
healthy blood Of Democracy. There is
no place In the same party in South
Carolina for General Wade Hampton
and the senator who ignominiously
failed to corrupt the Democratic hero.
The upshot Is that McLaurin must go
to the party to which he belongs"
NoTE-No matter how hard the truth
may be. it Is always entitled to re-
spect: but truthful people are seldom
vindicative and indicative people are
seldom truthful. These facts recogniz-
ed. it is not difficult to find numerous
fatal misstatements in the above. For
convenience Of comment, we prefxed
some Of them with numbers and will
make brief statement as to each.
1. Senator John Morgan says Sena-
tor McLaurin Is one Of the ablest
Democrats in the senate, and that his
Democracy has never been questioned.
2. 1t was proven clearly that Sena-
tor McLaurin did not try to buy
Hampton. either directly or Indirectly;
but only signified willingness to help
get the Columbia postoffice for the old
general, provided he desired the po-
sition.
3. Senator Tillman worked for every
item Of protection that Senator Nc
Laurin worked for. and when Senator
McLaurin was afterward accused g
being a Republican on account Of hav-
ing worked for protection, Senator
Tillman said: IF McLaurin Is a Re-
publican I am a Republican"
4. 1t Is true that Senator McLaurin
favors the ship subsidy principle; but
he has never advocated the Hanna
subsidy spoilation scheme. He has
not advocated the bill now pending.
He has never voted for this, or any
other subsidy bill, for there has never
been any vote on the subject.
This is all we have to say for the
present. Because it is so obviously
vindictive and unjust, we would not
have published the foregoing, except
at special request. We do not mean
TO throw our columns open to the In
discriminate publication Of other stun
of the same character. This Times
Democrat-Record editorial Is only one
of thousands of it's kind. 1t is gem
in it's way, because 1t shows misrep-
resentation, vituperation and abuse
reduced to a fine art. Ordinarily such
stuff does not seriously engage the at
tention of thinking people. If it did.
a settlement Of our social, industrial
and political problems along safe. SEN
sible and conservative lines would be
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