The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-04-23
INTELLECTUAL BULLY
AND A MORAL PIGMY.
SENATOR DI'LAURIN EXPRESSES Ills
VIEWS OF TILLNIAN.
Won't Engage In Contfoversy--lror Benefit
or senior Senator's Candidntc.-Roasons
For VOtiDg-Hns Declined Honors,
News ana Courier, April q. |

News and Courier, April q. /
Senator John j.. McLuurin, who
came to Charleston to confer with Ex-
position directors and others interested
In the great Fair was hardly expecting
TO receive the volley directed 10y Scna-
tor Tillman, which appeared in The
News aud Courier yesterday morning.
Tho Senator was not unwilling to "iirc
back" however, and when approached
by q representative of The News and
Courier ho made the following state
mcnt.
81 have only this to say in reference
to Senator Tillman's interview. So far
as his personal attack on me is con-
ccrncd, the public prints aro not the
place to reply. neither court nor de-
sire his friendship or goodIopinion. Nor
40 propose for the benefit of some one
else, to be drawn into controversy with
him. am ready to do my own fight
ing and want other people to do tho
same.
VI did intend to vote with the ma
jority OF the Democrats against the
ratification of the treaty, for reasons
purely Of party consideration. | never
said anything to Senator Tillman or
anyone else to give him the right to
truthlully say that 1 was bitterly
opposed TO its ratification. 1t is and
has been intensely unpleasant for me
to ditrcr from Sc many OF my party asso.
ciatcs. had just been through Il cam
paign full OF bitterness and desired If
possible to avoid further differences.
The appeal was made to me to defeat
the treaty, and secure the tactical ad-
vantage OF defeating the Administers
ton and forcing them to call an extra
session. 1t is pretty low plane of &C.
| ton, but for the sake Of peace and to
avoid just what has occurred since |
concluded to vote for tho rejection O.
the treaty. 1t was with this idea that
l went home Saturday night. Sunda'
| afternoon, sitting in my dining roo
| heard pcwsboy calling extras
and sent out and got one. I saw that
| the natives had opened fire on our
| troops and when l read the account
| made up my mind at once that the
| treaty should be ratified so as to fix the
status of the United States in a foreign
| war already on. 1t made the people
| firing on our troops rebels, and not as
lntrudcrs. The thirty days lacking be.
Tore an extra session could be called
| might be productive of untold harm. |
have never seen the day since when 7
was not glad that did have the strength
to vote as | thought right. I did SO
| freely and with no promise or pledge
| from any man.
Immediately it was published to
the world that l had been Dromised
Judge Simonton's place. A moro in
famously false and cruel SANDER was
never perpetratcd.
"Thcrc hasn't been time in five
years when ! haven'6 wished that |
could dcccntly and honorably get out of
public life. When President Mckinley
offered mo the place intended for a
| Democrat on the Philippine commission
declined and told him that l never
wanted lanything for myself at his
hands; but that if.through me he could
help South Carolina I'wanted.him to do
1T. This Is all L ever desire or expect,
and II did not feel that was helping
and could help my State nothing on
earth couldIinduco me to submit one
hour longer to such vituperation and
abuse.
"1t Is no now role for Senator Till
man. He began his career by abusing
and slandering better men. I have
naught but contempt for and intcllec-
tual bully and shameless pretcnder
masquerading rs statesman; moral
pi"my posing as the champion OF
| honesty.
$50 far as plagiarizing DR.. Van
Dykes sermon Is concerned, it was
lagcly due to accident. was much
struck with the beauty Of thought and
diction. / had borrowed copy and
dictated from it three orIiour:sentences
to my stenographcr, and in the original,
which any one can see, are the words
'paraphraslng the rocont utterances of
q distinguished divine, etc. These
were left ont in the copy. After MAX
Ing the speech went South on the next
train, and never saw the speech again
until 1t was in print. My secretary
did not notice 1t and had distributed
several thousand before my attention
was called to it, I sincerely regret
the modification to the sensitive, deli
cate and refined nature of my oi!eaguo.
Honors are easy, however, for can as
sure him that have experienced similar
pangs at somo Of the 'pitchfork tunes
which he plays to the disgust OF the
Senate and the delectation of the gal
lery loafcrs."
| Married
Saturday evening, tho 2Otn inst. by
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