The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-09-05

Wham's Lawn, where its correspondent
said he got SO illustrated when asked y
question that he did not know the diff
ference between expansion and ship sub
sidy. He then went for MCLaurin, who
would not come out to meet his ONNO-
ents, and said the News WAS constantly
misrcprcscnting him, while they were
urging fair treatment for McLaurin.
Trace it down and YOU find the Green.
vile post Office behind it, He did not
want to go to the Senate il he WAS not
qualified. He then rccountcd what Nc.
Laurin wanted them 10 90, which is to
join the Republican party, and he invit
ed any one to deny this statement. Nc.
Laurin wanted to 60 into the Rcpuhli
can party. He touchcd upon the tariff
and brought in the refusal Of the Rcpub
lirAn majority to give the Charleston
| EXPOSITION i cent.
Ls,imcr then discussed ",hc Philip
Yiuc business" He wanted to show
| what this loCtgiur Johnnie McLaurin
was .cacuiHG would 10 for the people
before him He repeated the two meth
otS q! expansion pointed out before.
ana gave the history Of cnacting treaties
When he said McLaurin never had an
, original idea in his life he WAS chccrcd
vociIrr"Us,y. He gave pungcnt ac.
count oE MCL9urin's political acrOb0tiC
. Performances, and told how McLaurin.
Styni. and himsc t had been bNCk,iGlcd
IL the post office department at Wash
iuCtou because they were populis,s. and
nc had caught up with it, Mr. llcmphiu,
Mr.. I0nMstOnc and Senator Batter were
the aCcusrrS, and when h" asked for an
I opportunity to face these gent cmCn and
/ the day had been appointed, McL"urin
! hNd llunked and gone home. ilc said
/ MCLaUrn had built his fort on Paris
/ Mountain, fired few shots down the
! line, and when he heard that we were
coming lc got up and ran away" He
! had sympathy for q man when there was
! sickness in his family, but there had
! been too much reliance upon sickness in
| this case He believed NCLaurin's sick.
ness in lNH, sent him TO the Senate He
roasted McLaurin for voting to ratify
the Paris treaty, and said he had q pri.
vatc secretary with ten times as much
| brains as himself, who was once n shin .
| ing light in the Republican party.
McLaurin had betrayed everything he
had ever had anything to DO with. He
had started out opposing the Reform
movement. He had undertaken to run
the campaign Of w. ID. Evans and elect
ed himself He had been opposed to the
dispcnsNry after the Darlington trouble
MCLaUrin had como to Congressman
| ''ti tll hli'i ~ WIN huN hiIllSCll tliNi nav
tried to get them to sign proclamation
with MIN to lead tho people into the
fopulist party.
MIR. Latimcr said he WAS in favor OF
building every cotton mill possible il
South Carolina, and Of attracting every
dollar Of home and foreign capital ob
tainablc to build nS many as possible ant
bring good people to work for them
He for one would fight for equal right
for all Of them, but he wanted them I
! understand that the way to get rcsul,
WAS not the way McLaurin pointed out
: but was by Joining hands with the Dem
ocratic party and its principles. II
l wanted all these presidents in the hgr
with him. He would do as much fO
Il the cotton mills aS any Of them. a
Il this WAS simply continuation Of III
r policy he had always advocated. Frol
The foundation of the government Ne,
:, England had taken out $2 for every i
Il placed i'll the national treasury. NJ
lntimcr then spanked Mcl.aurin again
the audience hca tiy approving, an
concluded with the argument that if W
Z went ahead and spent much ON I'll
d Philippines We would be the loser. f,
other nations 10y rctaliatory measure
t. could force Ms to put the ports on n
If equal footing with the United States.
. HON. DANlEl. =. uENDEKSoN.
W When Chairman Austin introduc,
Hon Daniel $ Henderson, State Sen
~. tor from Aiken County, he took I'll
10 stand amid applause and WAS evident
~ among friends and aumircrs lie sa
~ that tho people Of this county had gott,
/ the first taste Of the Senatorial cam paiu
- when MIR. MCl,aurin delivered his opcl
10 ing speech in May. NJ. McLmurin ha
NJ started out Il short time ago and raise
a 1907 ,,,l, ti,.,,, ,t.r
his opponents he WAS not here. I'll
. faculty would like to meet him in arg.
~ mcnt on harA facts, not gcncralitc
:, These meetings hnd shown that the pc,
+ pie were not going to DC 10 ! away 0ftc
, false gods He told ~ good sea stor
= illustrating the usclcssncss of commu
ton, fuss and feathers. The people ha
, awakened to the situation and wer
looking into these matters Nobod
, wanted to abuse Mr.. McLaurn. but III
would tell the truth. Then he tool
Up the issues McLaurin had presented
and said that while presenting them h,
was shouting: 81 am q Democrat ii,
wanted them to look into the facts abou
the preacher Of these doctrines. He Wig
oroTsly presented McLaurin's change o
front on the treaty and proceeded t,
read thc opposition speech of the uniOl
senator, which he made only few days
before the treaty was ratified. 1t was
dcm"Bogy TO mix religion with cxpan
sion.
-, When McLaurin was u Democrat he
had advocated what his opponents were
now advocating. McLaurin had held
up 10 the country that the Democratic
party Is dead that it has no leaders, and
} th"' they should DC routed out. Then
4 he asked why he did not 90 to the State
I convention and tell his nartv tbnso
s Things? That would have taken courage
ana mhnhood' lie then referred to the
constitutional convention and soid Nc.
la hH"rin ;n WAS not wi'lingto take the politi
Cal risks following the solving Of tho
suffrage problem. He dcyot,1 son'o
time to cNplniEing the falacics Of Tho
arguments for the new expansion All
we want is the open door for orr trahn
and for our missionaries
MIR. Henderson applied a new mule
joke to the Eastern question aud tho
| audience saw the point Ic made -,