The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-06-14
'Ir.I'LLM | [. 4 | ], AN TALKS,
tis lF''' . VIII Not Answsr3 tho q over-
ss nor's Last Letter,
GOES FOR. McLAUR,N.}

Q DIshonorab'y. In Withdrawing
Ills Resignation. as it vas
a Joint Compact
The Columbia State says when Scna-
tor Iillman passed through that city
Wednesday on his way to Rock Hill,
ne had not recoivod Gov. MoSweeney's
Y letter but was shown copy Of it aa given
SSto tho press. Ho road this AID thcn
\ said that no saw very little in it to call
for notice from him. "Ho's littlo
4 hot ho fools that bis dignity has boon
outraged q little, otc., oto. Ho doesn't
say anything about the really i'm mportant
point, that no had claimed the right to
dooline tho designations. / aoknowl.
edged that he had tho right to roturn
tho resignations but he did not stop
there. lie went on to assume an au-
thority no did not possess.
Tho aenator'was thon asked if ho had
\ noticed that Gov. Mos woenoy was re-.
ceiving a great mapy letters Of com
mondation in regard to his course in
this matter. He answered that ho ! ad
and then won't on t, say: II notice
that most Of the lottors no has received
are from my old, invotorate, dyed in
the.wool onomies. also 500 that no
has received ono from Richmond
capitalist. It is rather remarkable that
our governor should be taking tho ad
Woe Of mon from Richmond in regard
to local mattors.
LETTING M'LAURIN OUT
"The hue and ory that has boon
raised about breaking the peaoof' aud
intorrupting tho prosperity Of tho
State has boon tho main lover Of thoss
opposed to this osmpaigu and Gov
McSweeny himsolf has used it rs an
oxouso for letting MHLaurin out Of his
dilemma. Next year, Judging by the
last canvass, wo will have at least 25
candidates for State oflicos. Tbero will
not bo less than five or six aspirants
for McLaurin's seat. There will bo,
then, an aggregation Of 80 mon going
around over tho State attempting to
discuss public questions and show thoir
a.assE foS tho highest Offices I'll in tho gift
Of the people.
Tho only possible result will bo that
McLaurin will claim, if he ontors tho
race then, that he is being double.
teamed on and rorsooutod and ought
to have moro time than his opponents,
which, Of course, will be unfair TO
them, for no man can discuss these
mattors in loss than an hour or an
hour and a half. So that with five
candidates for senator it will take all
day for their discussions. But this
year we would havo had an opportuni-
II, {n -
ference to anything elso.
Gov. MoSweeney has defeated it and
lent himself to MoL.urin as ladder
of escape. Now if tho peoplo think he
10 right Of courso l oan DO nothing
but take what comes. | havo offered
myself aB target to be shot OF and
was ready to permit combination be-
tween any candidate Gonzales might
have gotten out with tho MoLaurin
n following. And l believe that az the
people understand fully the result Of
Gov. McSweoncy's action that instead
Of patting himself on the back and
taking the littlo dozen or two dozen or
forty or hundred lottors he has re-
ceivod as consensus Of public opinion
ho will find that he has mado an aw-
full blundor as a Democrat
think tho primary next summer,
unless some schemo is arranged by tho
'Dom0oratio committee to havo double
set of oanvassers meeting oaoh other
from opposite sides Of the State, will
bo faros. Thirty mon cannot get up
and address anybody with any salts
faction to themselves or anybody olso
In one day. All of the minor oandi-
dates will have to bo ruled out. There
arc some people in the State who would
bo glad to kill the primary"
Being asked ifhe would rosign his
scat and enter the race against Mo.
Laurin next simmer, no said: II will
not enter the primary next year.
only resigned to got at MoLaurin.
mover would have gone to GAtfney but
for tho fact that the candidates who
wanted to get at him woro not in a
position to do 80, and he vas taking
advantage of the situation to 60 about
the country propagating Republican
doctrines. There will bo plenty of 9th
ors to attend to him next yoars-if he
don't get sick And by tho way, that
sickness of his is rather funny. Now
you SEQ it and now you don D." ~s
II was invited to Newborry. /" ho aaid
but declined on tho Ground that I lad
already an appointment to speak at tho
college ..eQro.;Iilencomont eQro. and did not
want to ppeak thero twico within few
weeks"
A QUESTION OF HONOR.
I'm regard to this question Of
whether 1 am entitled to resign or not,
if Senator MoLaurin did not have
Republican senate in Washington that
would almost certainly maintain that
he has the right to withdraw his resigna
tion, | would contest the matter thorc;
but as no is in full accord will. that
orowd they arc not going to vaohte his
scat and establish pre- codcnt. HIS is
tho first man, though, in tho 125 years
that wo hayo had a government that
over resigned and afterwards withdrew
his resignation, 30 far as my invcstiga-
tioDs 60. This is not parliamentary
question at all. L. is question Of
honor. Ho made q compact with mo
and amcng gentlemen suob oompacts
are not broken unless both parties arc
willing to DO 80. He has Aunkod out
Of this proposition through CIV Mo