The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-11-27

capt taking whiskey rebates, get
ting groceries and brick from the
State penitentiary without pay
ing for them until exposed; nor
do they charge him with becom-
ing a director in a New Jersey
corporation with d capital stock
Of IS, 100000, or with suddenly
becoming largely interested in
Mexican copper mines. They
do not charge any OF these
things, but they do charge nm
with the fearful crime Of WELD
ING influence at the National
Capitol. the extent that he has
kept this State from being
covered with obnoxious office
holders: they also charge him
with being able to influence the
government to send some Of its
money to banks in South Caro-
lima, the same as it does for
New York, and when d number
Of country developers such as
the Southern Cotton SpinnerS
Association. and the New York
Chamber Of Commerce call up
on McLaurin to address them,
he foolishly accepts their invi-
tation and pleads with them to
invest their money in the South.
These are the crimes McLaurin
has been guilty Of and, Of course,
it makes him Republican, and he
should not be allowed to discuss
national questions before his own
people. We would like some of
our party monitors to tell US just
what constitutes Democrat in
this State. Is it a part of the
party creed, that. in order to
remain in good standing, a man
must go around with a pitchfork
and whenever a Republican pro-
poses a measure calculated to
benefit the farmers of the South,
lab the pitchfork into his fat
Sides? To remain in good
standing, must one make excur-
sions over the country and lee
ture on the subject How Mig
gers are lynched in South Caro-
lima" for a syndicate who run
these lecturers the same as a
theatrical manager runs troupes
for all that can be made out Of
the business? Is it a part OF
Democratic creed that one must
go over the country and de-
nounce corporations and trusts,
and abuse the State of New
Jersey for being the incubator
of fraudulant charters, and then
become a director in IS. 900, 900
product of this incubator? Is it
absolutely necessary to hold feal-
ty with the Democratic party, one
must abuse the administration IN
power for giving appointments
to Democrats, and then get all
appointments possible for kins-
men?
If these things which we have
enumerated are the absolute re-
uuirements to make one a loyal
Democrat then we will have to
admit that McLaurin has not
and is not loyal to his party, be-
cause, his entire record shows
that every step taken by him
was with a view to materially
beneftting the South: every ap-
pointment secured through his
influence, has gone to those who
were no kin to him. He did not
denounce corporations, nor is he
a director of one. He does not
"jab" a Republican ::in his fat
sides" for proposing a measure
calculated to help the South,
but joins with him to bring it to
a successful finish. He does not
take excursions over the country
delivering lectures for a syndi-
cate on the gruesome subject of
lynching, where an admission
fee is charged, but he does ac-
cept invitations to deliver ad-
dresses to audiences whose sym
pathy he seeks in aiding US to
build up our material interests.
If this course Of conduct is un-
democratic, then we want to see
argument to prove it, instead of
the miserably mean and belittling
lies and fings. Readers of news
papers are entitled to fair deal
ing and, when a newspaper rep
resents to it's readers that which
it knows is untrue, it simply
swindles it's patrons. There is
too much of this sort of thing
these days, and for this reason
we want the people to be put in
a position to judge for themsel-
yes. In another column we re-
produce McLaurin's New York
speech and we want any of our
readers to find anything .Repub-
lican in it.
STATE OF OHIO CITY OF TOLEDO. '.