The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-17

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 many of his lieutenants have incau- tiousiy admitted it. It would pc m.
 possible, however, for MT. McLau:in
 iust now to burn his bridges penino
 him and declare himself a Repuniican'
 because he could not then be candi-
 date for reelection to the ohiteo
 States Senate.
 If is the custom here, where there IS
 only one party. to hold Democratic pri-
 maries and vote for all the candidates
 to office. This is sort or preiinl-
 nary election. Any man who wants
 to be Governor or Senator or Congress
 man or hold any other gift 0r ire
 Democratic party has his name placed
 upon the ticket, and in August sil
 Democrats arc allowed to vote TOT their
 choice. The Democratic ticket at the
 ensuing election is made up of the oaL- didates receiving the highest nuin5e: of votes at the primaries, and the StnAe
 legislature unanimously ratifies the
 choice of the party for United States
 Senator so expressed. Therefore if
 Mir. McLaurin should formally with draw from the Democratic party he could net be a candidate for re-elsction to the United States Senate at the p-i- maries and no one would vote for h'm in the legislature. Hence he will 6e compelled to remain nominally mera- Der of that party until the election 's over.
 The Tillmanites or regulars propose to read him out of the party and maze 1t impossible for him to be candl- date by adopting resolution at the State Convention providing that every many who goes before the people al the primaries shall pledge h4s faith to the support of the platform, ana tnen make a platform denouncing expan- sion and advocating free trade. free coinage at IS to 1 and other Populistic which it is notorious that McLaurin does not believe in. This would be a good thing for several req sons. although 1t might be rather pain full for McLaurin. It would bring the issue squarely before the people and make a fight on the principles and not on the man. It is believed, too, that McLaurin would be much stronger 1T ne forces this issue than If he tries to return to the Senate by the back door. He admits that he favors protection expansion. a single gold standard, sub- sides. and other Republican doctrines. and, if he asks all the people of South Carolina who agree with him to cast their votes for the candidates for the who are pledged to support him for the United States Senate, the real sentiment of South Carolina VIII be disclosed.
 The other candidates for the Senate will be Representative Latimer or the Seventh District, who is supposed to have Tillman's support. and Daniel s. Henderson, a lawyer of Aiken, Who IS also friendly with Tillman. It IS un- derstood that Henderson and Latimer are working together with some kind of an agreement as to the results. Latimer has taken charge Of the tioe- water counties and the lower part or the State, while Henderson is working in the Piedmont region among the manufacturing districts, where McLau- rin is strongest. A third caniidale Is Wylie Jones cashier of the Carolina National Bank of Columbia. He was colonel of the 2nd Carolina Volunteers during the Spanish war and Is chair man of the Democratic State Executive Committee.
 McLadrin las already begun his although the election does not take place until August, 1902. His recent speech at Charlotte may be called the keynote, but on May 22 he appears at Greenville, when 1t Is ex- pected that he will define his attitude and creed more in detail. He intends to make "a campaign of education speaking in every county in South Car olina on the gospel of progress, expan- sion, protection, sound money, subsi- dies, liberal appropriations for public and other Republican doctrines, but 1 understand that ne does not intend to go into State issues at all Unfortunately his health IS poor, and it is doubtful if he can endure the, labor that is required to carry out his plans. He has never been able to stand excitement. He has nervous is disposed to insomnia and has broken down in every severe he has ever undertaken.
 The Tlllman people are planning to drive MT. McLaurin from the canvass: They know his weaknesses and will worry him until he quits. They are aware how sensitive he Is to criticism and have already attacked him in the rear, as it were, by accusing hm or pla giarism in one of his recent speeches. Senator Tillman makes the charge himself. He declares that Mo- Laurin stole a considerable portion os an address delivered by Rev. pr. Hen ry Van Dyke of Princeton University. using t as original in a speech in the Senate and printing it without quota tion marks in The Congressional Rec ord. Senator McLaurin says in his re- ply that he did use portion of pr Van Dykes sermon. l was much struck with its beauty of thought and diction. borrowed a copy and dic' tated from it three or four sentences 10 my stenographer, and in the original, which any one can see, the the words 'paraphrasing the recent utterances or a distinguished divine" etc. These were left out in making the copy. AT. ter making the speech in the Senate went South on the next train and never saw it again until 1t was in print. My secretary did not notice IL and had dis several thousand copies be- fore my attention was called to it."
 Senator Tillman says: "T have not
 only had to blush because McLaurin
 deserted his party in great crisis un- der suspicious circumstances. and con-
 trary to his avoWed purpose. but we
 have had the modification of having
 other Senators, northern gentlemen, speak of the degradation to which
 South Carolina has come, in being rep resented by a man who would bodily
 stea, the brain work of another by
 whole sentences and paragraphs and