The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-01
M'LAURIN'S SPEECH.


Hartford Courant.
Colleague Ben Tillman has no further
use for Colleague McLaurin. after that
speech to the cotton manufacturers He
denounces him as a Republican at heart,
a deceiver, masquerader and misleader, a
man who deserted his party i'm a great
crisis Uhe vote on the treaty Of Paris I'M
der suspicious circumstances a man with
out principles or conscience, and a plagiar-
list into the bargain. IF necessary" he
says, II will meet him face TO face in any
forum he may choose" This last remark
is not to be construed as foreshadowing a
physical encounter. Tillman fights with his
mouth exclusively. McLaurin is not i'm the
least frightened. He says that Tillman
began his career by slandering better men
than himself, and is merely keeping il up
Il have a contempt" continues McLaurin.
for an intellectual bully and shameless
pretender masquerading as a statesman
a moral pigmy posing as the champion of
honesty. L neither court nor desire his good
opinion or friendship
Tillman's predecessor in the Senate, Gen.
NJ. c. Butler, says amen to the Charlotte
speech. He considers the talk about mill
tarism' and imperialism" all hubdub He
H'fANAo eAhN a "a NAAll hdo oAAhPAJ
done his duty. He is for retaining all the
islands the Spanish war brought us. He is
weary of reckless demagogues. The great
need OF the South, he. says. is broad, af-
firmative, progressive craftsmanship. He
doesn't know what effect McLaurin's
speech will have in South Carolina, but the
best possible thing for the State, politically
and in a business way, would be the build
ing up Of a vigorous and respectable oppo-
sition party. There Is no telling. says
General Butler, what twelve months will
bring forth in the politics of this country.
If | had been in the Senate l would have
voted just as McLaurin did, with the ex-
ception. perhaps. of his vote for the snip
subsidy bill. And yet there are plenty or
precedents In Democratic history to Justi-
fy a vote for that bill. South Carolina sub
sidized every railroad built in the State by
subscribing to the capital stock of the COM
panies, up to the breaking out of the war.
Senator Clay. of Georgia, thinks that
there are no McI.aurinites there. Governor
Gambler, also of Georgia. says IL is not the
negro question that is going to keep the
South Democratic, but the desire 10 see
the government checked in its mad career
of empire" On the other hand. Hon. Harry
Skinner. Of North Carolina. says that the
well-informed business men VINO are IN
agreement on all important points with
the present administration ought 10 vote as
they think. 1T seems to me TO be suicidal
he says. for the South to continue to
throw the weight of its influence against
these governmental policies which mani
testify tend towards our betterment.'
The Savannah News frankly admits that
the silver question is. 10 all practical in
tents and purposes. a dead question. "Of
course, there is going TO be considerable
shifting about in the membership of par
ties II says. "McLaurin has evidently
gone over to the materialists, the money
power" says the Chronicle, of Augusta,
Ca. In the opinion OF the Nashville Ban
ner. McLaurin's speech, If il does nothing
more, will give emphasis TO the demand
upon the part of a large and increasing
body of Democrats for a party rehabilita-
ton which will sever IL entirely from
Populism and the fads and vagaries that
have been catered to by the Bryan domina-
Florida Times-Union. the McLaurin revolt
is foredoomed to failure. because bur
dened with the appreciation of the federal
government In the opinion Of the Louis
Vile Courier-Journal the Democratic party
cannot retain it's present hold on the South
by ''clingins 10 dead issues and by exist
ing only as a party OF opposition In the
opinion of the Richmond Times. the politi-
cal slavery 10 which white voters have
submitted as the lesser OF two evils IS about
TO he abolished. ut IS impossible for this
thing 10 last I'm the South" says the Nir-
ginia paper. Southern men are by nature
brave and independent. and they are sick
and tired OF the party yoke. Hence they de-
termined to get rid OF the menace OF negro
rule, and so open the way 10 a new declara-
ton OF independence. Senator McLaurin,
Of South Carolina. has sounded the bugle
note. and the clans will rally
The leading editorial article In yester-
DAYS New York Journal will disturb Mr..
Bryan. II IL does not Jar him Ii praised
Tom Johnson and Carter Harrison for
knowing live issues from dead ones. II ad-
vised the Democratic party to acquire hat
very useful knowledge as quickly as rossi-
BILE. 1T is evident said the New York
paper. edited by the president OF the Ma
tiOnal League OF Democratic Clubs. that
the silver mummy has been finally sealed
in its sarcOphagus.