Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-05-29
RESIGN
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of the fight and his mouth shut. If you
elect him I'll take it as notice that you
do not want me. If he Is a Democrat
am not. All the other fellows want Is
a chance to meet him on the stump.
Let him resign and test the situation
He said he would like to talk longer,
but wanted to keep to the agreement
and stopped amidst applause.
At the conclusion Of Senator Till
mans speech there was a movement on
the part of a number Of his partizans,
who had evidently gathered for the es-
pecial purpose of applauding him, to
leave the hall. AS many as rs left; but
within a few minutes the seats they
had vacated were filled with people
who had been standing in the back part
of the hall or who had not been able to
get in, and their absence was not seri-
ously felt in the audience.
Senator McLaurin In Reply.
AS soon as Senator Tillman took his
seat, Senator McLaurin arose in reply.
1T is remarkable" he said, 1.-The diff
ference to be noted in man when ne
Is speaking on the right side OF a ques-
ton, and when he is trying to hold up
for that which he himself knows to be
wrong. I came here in great trepidation
lest this man might succeed, by means
Of logical, convincing arguments,
in demolishing my position as so plain
ly set forth in my speeches at Char
lotte and Greenville and again here to-
day. But here you and 1 have been
listening all this while to mountain IN
labor, and behold it has brought forth
what? A mouse! I ask you, as fair
minded men and women, If he has at
tempted a single argument, or present
ed one fact by way of refutat1on OF
anything 1 have had to say. ask you
If he has arisen at any time In his long
speech above the meanest appeals to
the lowest elements Of human nature
passion and prejudice? Has he? lap
plause and cheers]. I've told you the
difference between he and 1. l do not
want this movement stopped because l
have gotten all that it can afford me.
He does, and by means of demagogy ne
would rob you Of the fullest fruits OF
your efforts.
why am out here today?" he asks;
and he knows, and I'll tell you. Last
Il,
sickness and helpless, he and another
who wants the seat now occupy were
running about over the state slandering
and misrepresenting me to the people.
Is it not fair that should have the op-
portunity to come before you, If you are
willing to listen, and tell you face TO
face that I am not the traitor they rep
resented me to be? Have I not the
right to ask you to judge me not by
what my former friend says I am, but
by my own speeches, and by my acts
as 1 am able to explain them to you?
And why is he here today? He says
it is because I am a Republican, and
that he Is the only man who Is In po-
sition to meet me. Does he consider
you a set of fools, that he has to have
himself invited here as your guardian
to keep you from being led away to
YOUR destruction by me, whom he calls
a Republican, because l will not SUBJ
NIT to his bossism?
THE only charge he Is able to bring
against me is that I stole sermon.
Upon making this statement, Senator
McLaurin turned around to Senator
Tillman, and shaking his finger in his
opponents face, he declared with start
ling vehemence:
And you, sir, If charges be true,
have stolen things of much more in
trinsic value than sermons!
This remark was made with an
emphasis Of unmistakable meaning,
and the speakers manner indicated
that he was able to control himself on
ly with the greatest difficulty. He halt
ed and hesitated as If doubtful whether
to go on and then reached firm resolve
not to do so.
mo, for the sake of former. friend
ship, I shall not say 1t; but you
all understand what 1 mean. If he
had read more sermons perhaps, he
would know better now how to treat
his fellowman with becoming decency.'
He tells you that he had himself In
yited here. 1 am frank to say that l
did not want to meet him. He knew IT.
He knew that the condition Of my
health was such at this time that
cannot stand the excitement, and that
was the reason Of his brutal tactics In
writing that IF were afraid to meet
him." He knew, too, that 1 was not
afraid. am not a bully; but there Is
no coward in my blood from either side.
I'll tell him something now that there
Is one thing 1 have known from the
first campaign I made with him, and
that is that there Is one man In South
Carolina who Is able to meet him on the
stump.
He speaks of Hanna's Doodle. do
YOU mean to say or insinuate that any
of it has come or Is coming to me? If
you do, sir, what you say is absolutely
and unqualifledly false, and the insinu-
alton is unworthy Of a senator or a
gentleman. If you mean to say that
am a sham, tell you that am neither
q sham nor a demagogue.
Fellow citizens, you listened to his
speech. and you heard no argument.
You heard no attempt to answer any
of the arguments that have made.
Instead, he wandered off on pensions,
the cotton tax, and other things that
have nothing to do with the points at
issue. He falls into his old tactics OF
insinuation and abuse, and tells you
that 1 am a Republican in favor of the
protective tariff, ship subsidies, expan-
ion; but tell you that eveG one OF the
questions, upon which I have differed
with my party associates have arisen
out Of the Spanish war, which was
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