The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-24
M'LAURIN SCORED.
His Terriols Araignmsnt b7
Senator TillmaD.
CHARGES Of DISHONESTY.

CHARGES OF DISHONESTY.
Has 3 u,hsdT for South Carolina or
| His Account and Northern
Gentlemen Have Shared
His Feelings.
Senator Tillnsn wss seen at his home
at Trerson Friday night and replying
to request for his opinion on Senate,
McLaurin's Charlotte speech, says:
1T is contradictory, full of para
doxes and seems intended to pave the
way for the senator's passage into the
Republican camp. It may excite sur
| prise outside Of the Slate, but the only
| thing which astonisles us here is his
continued effort to pose as Democrat
Democracy has q broad or general
meaning aud special or locsl mean.
ing as applied to one Of the great ns
tional par les. My colleague tsys, MY
definition of democracy is liberty for
man formulated into theory of gov
ernnent; it means mans inaliensble
ownership Of: himself. It means free
i, though, and free speech This is not
the deiioition given in any dictionary,
nor is it the definition given by Jefer-
son, AID it ia only intended to justify
the senator's desertion Of his party, his
treachery to its principles and his be-
trsyal of the people Of South Carolina
who have trusted him. The Kansas
CITY platform is the only tm5od 'ment
of Dem ,cratic principles that can now
be recsgnized aad no msn can be con
sidered Democrat who ignores the
principles and policies laid down in
that platform and persistently votes
with the Repu olioan administration in
both lis foreign and domestic policies
"Se:ator McLsurin iterates and re-
iterstes the charge that the new De-
mocracy' is scott 'nsE p!r;y and then
,ruthfully claims that the south which
in the last canpaigo was slone Demo
cratic, is the Amer can end Of Ameri-
ca. Srsuge that Decsuss Of this fscs
and our 7eneration and love for the
prime piles upon which our government
rests uaat this broad American states
man and new born Democrat Of .
hitherto uuknoTn type should council
our people to accept conditions as they
are and make the most Of them
''S-uatcr McLsurin declared in '98
that 'McKi,ley should be renominated
by acclsmstion,' and if his speech
means snythingit means that the De.
moorat:c party ought to surrender all
Of its traditions which he claims are
long since dead, become an echo to
the Republican party, endorse its for
eign policy ss we'll as its domestic p oil
cy, ship-subsidy, large Standing army
and ev, rything, and subside absolutely
as a Democratic party.
II the administration policy is right
in every respect what need is tn; re Tor
the Dem ocrstic party as political fac
tor. have never believed that my
colleague would dare face the people Of
South Carolina in any political cam
paign again, knowing what | do about
him, but as he indicates his purpose to
still masquerade as a Democrat aud
while attacking ME covertiy as one Of
the leaders Of the 50 called new De-
mocracy, it is his purpose to lead our
people into toe Republican camp, duty
compsls me to speak out aad tell certrin
things.
"Mr. MoLaurin made in the senate,
January 1899, a speech which was as
ultra and as pronounced in its denun-
citation of the acquisition Of the Phil
ippines and portr syed the many dan
gers which threatened our couatry in
consequence as any every delivered in
that body. Up to Saturday night be-
fore ne voted on the treaty with Spain
on Monday, February Z, 1899, he re-
peatedly told me and other senators
he was bitterly opposed to the ratif-
cation and would not vote for it. Be-
tween adjournment Saturday evening
and the vote on Monday the mantle Of
broad American statesmanship' de
scented upon him and few minutes
before the senate went into executive
session to consider the treaty and take
a vote as ageed, he gave 8 halting
and lame explanation Of bis intended
chsrg Of front, His vote secured the
ratification because on the first roll
call Mr.. Jones Of Nevada who had also
told US he would vote against the tres-
ty, passed when his name was called,
and feel certain if Senator McLsurin
had stood by his party and by himself,
Mr.. Jones would net at the end have
voted for ratification.
CONSCIOUS as be is that his vote
was the governing factor in the train
Of m,mentous consequences 80 far
reaching and terrible and involving
the war Of subjugation in the Philip
pines, the expenditure Of hundreds Of
millions Of dollars, the loss Of thou
sands of lives and other dire rea1lts
whi,h no man csn foresee, it is nasu-
raj Tor Senator McLaurin to make
desperate effort to vindicate the Presi-
dents policy and his own action. The
declaration Of independence Of course
has become absolute and an abandon
ment Of dead tradition is the policy Of
a man who behaves as be has done.
Such man has no conscience or
principles. The eloquent speech which
he delivered in the senate was largely
stolen from sermon delivered by the
Rev. Dr.. Henry Van Dixie on Thanks
giving Day, November 1898, in the Brick
Church Of New York city, two months
before Senator McLaurin delivered it
in the senate.
Il have not only had to blush be-
cause McLaurin had dessrted his party
in a great crisis under susnicioua cir