The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-04-26

DEFENDS D / / / | HIS VOTES.
s.SenatorsJ ..McLaurin Fires
Ills First Gun.
EAs REAL CAM pAloM OPENER.

~ REAL G AM p PAlQ ~ OPENER.
This work for southatn states-
n mon as He Ssss q. insists
55.ls on Beirg independents
4! on. Great issues
Senator John i. MoLaurin spoke as
follows at the banquet Of the Southern
Manufacturers Club at Charlotte on
Thursday. Ho said:
i55 l desire to mako statement Of some
what q persohal nature before proceed
y ing with this speech, which [ intend to
deliver tonight. A oeitain newspspor
oorreaponden ntIinitho city of Washing
ton has ,persistently spread tho report
that ] was eoming to Charlotte to mako
J q speech which would launch now
party IN the south. The report is ab-
holutelY false. If I had any suoh in
4 tantion good taste would prevent mo
4 from taking advantage Of an oppor.
tunity ofithis kind. lin oontent TO
advocate within Dom ooratic lines tho
polioes which believe to be best for
\ the south, and when osn no longer do
this lam ready to rotiro to private lifo
.}5 In the south .ygo are today realizing
5 some of tho sdrosms Of it's far reaching
! satatosmen. and businoss mon of fifty
& years:ago With prophetic eye, they
faaW, tho industrial and commercial pos
Msibilities ofiour highly favored south
Land, WithS an advance of thought that
is really eGrprising, thoy suggested on
stofpfis6e> Of Wondorful magnitude for
,tita sGphuildiig, ,and commercial domi
s nano6. Rromst83 to 1860, oopvcn
&tionssW Wefo$h held to voioo tho domandsof
{ q deepseatad.public sentiment for in
duatrlAl pgoRTes6 The story of these
Z movements lie ohronioled in q South
Y Uarolina publication, which, under tho
ii namo of DehoW's Roviow, did for tho
Z old sout b what tho Manufacturers Re
Il cord is doing for tho south today.
The same spirit which enabled our
a fathers to leave the field Of defeat with
\ nothing but their courage and their
charaoters loft still live IN the south,
and inapirea yog today in your great
4 undertaking. The plans Of tho great
II southern business men and statesmen
b of fifty years age, are no longer idlo
dreatns. Postponed BY . cruel war
Il $wkiSh destroyed our social and indus
q trial syptem, and which for years reach
ed & cooperation in national undertak-
q ings almost impossible, such mon as l
& #tSInsat here tonight are making those
4 $dreans actual sliylng realities. a
s:ss alk about tho b 8 Az the
IL v is saafis
,5kol dgpir rit reyi Yed which Bi ixtys yohrss ago
ss1naae tho go1th the dominant power In
& $& this nation Is posi- tion OF which moth
Ing but 8 ~ ar could have robbed her
SfhW WhntiWe need now to again attain that
@ proud Saminenco is the Same broad con
y ception apd tho same comprehensive
n grasp OF the true situation. The last
Il twenty years have wrought an industrial
& revolution in the south, which must
find expression in our social and politi
( cal life. B. 4. +. I,
Tho timo is past for tho discussion as
y to whether this government is to be ono
+ consolidated In Its structure or loose
aggregation Of (so oalled) sovereign
!. States. The civil war settled that.
at ig ugeleesit to discuss the question of
whether this is to be a purely theo
retioal Democratic government or an
s expanding and giant Republic. The
B Spanish 5 war settled that. Why not
II thon accept conditions as they are and
mako the most Of them?
The agitation of such issues only
I serves to sidetraok broad American doc
4 trinqs and should not be mado party
\ questions because they grow out Of
actual ;politioal and economic con
4 3ditionsy which 1t is beyond the power
A. Of either'party1to to change. l care not
of what political faith the occupant of
4 the white house might have been; for,
4 It o true American, mindful OF tho
honor and dignity Of tho nation, the
i reauitsof the Spanish war could not bo
1 widely different from wi a. they are to.
day. Why should our people be tho
s only ones to CLOSE their eyes to what is
x going on? Why should we move along
In the Same old 1uts and ineist that
i political policies and old traditions,
II long einoe dead are vital living issues,
4 and depend upon them for the saliva
& tion Of tho south?
The triumphant reelection Of Mr..
n No Il kiDloyl in the last campaign Is full
\. OF eignificance. It's q stubborn fact
confronting the Democratlc party to-
y day; suggestive OF reproaohful romem-
Y braneos and fearful menacor. What q
K flsotion that this new Democracy did
4s not carry o State where the isssues
4 were discussed and judgment passed by
the people upon thom on their merits.
IL or course with us it has boon impos
aBibleto decide elections UPON issues.
i hos been simply question Of white
& supremacy. In tho north and tho weBt,
& dissolved into factions, tainted by tho
h errors o3 republioanism and tho follies
of populiem, the patty could not with
stand the tide Of popular opposition
{ excited by unreasonable criticism Of
the eonduot of foreign war, and by
the.ylSious and inaendiary appeals made
u during tho last month Of the campaign
to olssg hatradland prejudioe.
Fund ani6ntal principles were lost
sight Of, and In an insane effort to se-
& scurS suocesS at any cost, the at
q q SStempt Was made to combine socialism,
Sgpoptllism and seotionalism, with moth.
6 Ing bit the sentiment and traditions Of
N Dan 6stsoy, The real Democratic lead
& efs,' ,'of tho tehate for the past throo
gesfs have been Allen, Teller, and
II rev, all Of them able men, but