The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-06-12
TILLMAN TALKS.
He Viii Not Answsr the GoVsr-
1or's Last Letter.
GOES FOR McLAUR'N.
Says ;he Junior ssna;or AcSeo
Oishonorably In Withdrawing
His Resignation. as it Was
2 .lcine Corrnsct
a joint Compact

Wednesday on bis way to Rock Hill,
he had not received Gov. McSTeeusy's
letter but was shown copy Of "a given
to the press. He read this a-d then
said that he ssT very little in it to call
for notice from him, ''He's little
hot he feels that bis dignity has been
outraged little, ETC., etc. he doesn't
say anything sbout the really important
point, that he had claimed the right to
decline the rssignations. l scknoTl-
edged that he had the right to return
the resigoati9ns but he did not stop
there. He went on to assume au au-
thcrity he did not possess"
The senator was then asked if he had
noticed that Gov. McSResney was re-
csiving great macy letters Of COM
mendation in regard to his course in
this matter. He answered that be ! ad
and then went on ID say: Il notice
that most Of the letters be has received
are from my old, inveterate, dyeo-in
the.wool -emiss. also see that he
has receiv one from a Richmond
capitalist. 1t is rather remarkable that
our governor should be taking the I'D
vice Of men from Richmond in regard
to local matters.
LETTING NJ MLAURIN OUT.
"The hue and CRY shat has been
raised about breaking the peace, and
inter1upting the prosperity Of the
State has been the main lever Of those
opposed to this campaign and Gov.
McSEeeny himself has used it as 81
excuse for letting MsLsurin out Of his
dilemma. Next year, judging BY the
last canvass, We will have st least 25
candidates for Stste Offices. There will
not be less than FIVE OF six sspirants
for McLaurin's seat. There will be,
then, an aggregation Of 80 men going
around over the State attempting to
discuss public questions and show their
fitness for the highest Offices in the gift
of the people.
"The cnly possible result will be that
McLsuriH will claim, If he enters the
race then, that he is being double
teamed on and prosecuted and ought
to have more time than his opponents,
which, Of course, will be unfair TO
them, for no man can discuss these
matters in less than an hour or an
hour and half. So that with Eve
candidates for senator it will take all
day for their discussions. But this
year ne would have had an opportuni-
ty to discuss these matters without re-
- on-th;r1 also
''Gov. Mcsweeney has defeated it and
lent himself to McLsurin IS ladder
Of escape. Now iftbe people think he
is right Of course can do nothing
but take what comes. I have offered
myself as target to be shot at aad
was ready to permit combination be-
tween my candidate Gonzales might
have gotten out vi b the M,LauriD
following. Ard I believe that as the
people understand fully the result Of
Gov. McSKeeney's action that instesd
Of patting himself on the back and
taking the little dozen or two doz:n or
forty or hundred letters he has re-
ceived as a consensus Of public opinion
he will fod that he hiss made an az
ful bIunder IS a Democrat.
II think the primary next summer,
unless some scheme is arranged By the
Democratic committee to have double
set Of canvsssers meeting each other
from opposite sides Of the State, will
be fares. Thirty men cannot get up
and addSess anybody with aay sstis
faction to themselves OF anybody else
il one dsy. All Of the niror csndi-
dates will have to be ruled out. There
are some people in the State who would
be glad to kill the primary"
Being asked if he would resign his
seat and enter the race sgainst No.
Laurin next SINNER, he said: II will
not enter the primary next yesr. l
only resigned to get at McLaurin. l
never would have gone to Gsfney but
for the fact that the candidates who
wanted to get at him were not in
position to do so, and be was taking
advantage Of the situation to go about
the country propagstipg Republican
Doctrines. There will be plenty of 9th
ers 20 attend to him next yeaEs-it he
Cont get sick And by the way, thst
sickness Of his is rather funny. Now
you see it and now you don't"
"Iwas invited to NeWberry," he said,
'sbut declined on the ground that I had
already an appointment to speak at the
college commencement and did not
want TO speak there twice within few
weeks"
A QUESTION OF HONOR.
SIN regard to this question Of
whether I am entitled 20 resign or not,
# Senator McLaurin did not have a
Republican senate in Washington that
would almost certsiuly maintain that
be has the right to withdraw his resigna
ton, would contest the matter there;
but as he is in full accord with that
crowd they are not going to vscate his
seat and establish q precedent. He is
the first man, though, in the 125 years
that We have had 8 government that
ever resigned and afterwards withdrew
his resignation, so far as my inVestiga-
tions 60. This is not a parliamentary
question at all. Il is a question Of
honor. He made a compact with me
and aneng gentlemen such compacts
are not broken unless both parties are
willing to do so. He has Hunked out
Of this proposition through Gav. Nc
SWeeney's instrumentalities. # | hsd
known he was going to try this game
and that the governor was going to al
low him to get out could have writ
ten the designations and sen! them to
Roosevelt. But I was not looking that
far ahead. He was making out as if he
was 'spiling for fight and really
thought he was ready for the fray.
ssThe claim that 7acancy had to be
created before any action could be
taken by the Democratic executive
committee is contrary to all precedent.
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