The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-06-26
EcLAURIN TO BE RULED OUT,
The Pledge for Candidates May Be
Amended Next Year.

NS~t7S ~~>~~SS~SSS SS
Amended Next Year.
The Columbia correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution says that Senator
McLaurin will be barred from the
Democratic primary next summer.
Senator Tillman said, before the recent
designations, that be would oppose
such action, but now says that while
he does not think it wise it is matter
with which he has nothing to Dc and
it has been already determined upon.
Tue State chairman Of the party, Col
onel Jones, was called on and asked
whether his committee contemplated
excommunicating the junior Senator.
II cannot speak for the committee
as WHOLE" he ssid, and I have not
seen all the members recently, but 80
far as | can ascertain of the forty mem
bers only State Senator Appelt is a
McLaurin man. And it is question
able whether the committee will meet
this year. If McLsurin gets to cut
ting up in the State and action is
deemed necessary, any five members Of
the committee can force me to call a
Meeting"
Colonel Jones will be candidate
next yesr himself. he thinks Senator
McLsurin is full hedged Republican.
The action Of ruling him out Of the
party is more likely to be taken by the
new committee or the State conven-
tiol. This committee will be cho:en next
April and the convention will meet
about May 1st.
There is where the 6cst fight will
be,'' said Chairman Jones. ''Mc.
Laurin will no doubt attempt to get
control Of the cnunty convention in
which delegates will be selected and
committeeman chosen"
The chairman felt certain that &C.
tion would be taken IN one way or
anoth:r that would prevent McL,urin
going into the Democratic primary.
If the convention does not foresta;l
the new committee next May and de-
clare McLaurin a Republican it can
add two or three lines to the. oath the
party constitution requires to be taken
by all candidates that would bar him
out. The addition Of "and that l
stand squarely upon the Kansas City
platform and will abide by Democratic
caucuses," will have the efectof elimi-
mating the junior Senator. These
oaths must be signed and put into the
hands Of the State chairman before the
first meeting Of the campaign. Those
who do not go subscribe cannot speak
from the stand during the hours fixed
for the meeting, cannot hava tickets
with their names upon them displayed
at the polling places and cannot have
any ballots counted, Itis pointed out
that McLaurir would not take such an
osth, but if he did, after declaring for
independence of action, it would be
disastrous to his influence.
This plan about the oath has been
devised by those high in authority in
the party and it is most likely to be-
carried through. It will attain the
same end as resding McLaurin out Of
the party without gaining him SO much
sympathy. It is feared that to put
him off from addressing the people by
a positive action, when he is willing to
take the regulation oath that II am
Democrat and will abide by the result
of this primary and will not be a can.
didate at the general election Of any
other party OF faction" will give the
appearance Of persecution.
Senator McLaurin says he dares
them to read him out Of the party, de-
claring that if flee speech is cut of
and the people are not permitted to
hear him he will split the party wide
open. But just what he will do in the
matter Of the oath has not been con.
sidered. In fact, bejunior Senator
is yet in ignorance Of this latest
scheme.
Governor McSHeeney, who will be
among the candidates for Senator next
year, and who was vice State chair
man for one term, was asked for his
views about the proposed barring out
of Senator McLsurin. The Governor
Was disposed to be non -committal. he
was not now member of the COM
mittee, he said, and could not properly
indorse or Condemn any proposed &C.
tion. However, it was evident the
Governor approved of a plan to keep
McLaurin out Of the primary. He
could not understand, he said, how
McLsurin could take the oath as nov
provided. He was rot in the party.
His greatest blunder vas in refusing
to stay in and abide by the Democratic
caucus. When he did not abide by the
decisions Of that body he disregsrGed
the ruling Of the inner circle Of the
party and put himself Oh the outside.
He could not properly olsim to be
Democrat.