The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-06-18
ROOSEVELT Is SORE.
Said to be Disguised With His South
Carolina Experiments.
BLAMEs M'LAURIN AND CAPERs.
The Only Satisfactory appointment
in This State Made Against Their
Advice. Senator McLaurin's
Judgship Uncertain.
Advice. Sena

The Washington correspondent OF
The State says President Roosevelt Is
very sore over the failure Of his eX-
pertinent to build up a Republican
party in South Carolina by using Sena'
tor McLaurin and the indications are
that in the distribution of Federal
offices in the Palmetto State in the
future there will be a new deal. The
president in talking with Republican
senators has manifested irritation over
the trouble he has had in filling the
South Carolina offices and has express
ed ia no uncertain terms his disap-
pointment over both Senator McLaq-
rim and Mr.. John Capers who has been
acting as Republican referee for the
State upon the endorsement Of Nc
Laurin.
When the nomination OF Mr.. Harris
to be postmaster at Charleston was
Withdrawn, one of the leading Repub-
licans Of the senate called upon the
president and asked why this step had
been taken. President Roosevelt ex-
planned the difficulties surrounding the
case of Mr.. Harris heeaIse of the dis
closures Of his non residence and then
he went on to recite some of the trou=
bles which he Lad met in epdeaVoring
to fill the South Carolina offices and
did not mince words In telling why he
was disappointed in the situation in
that State.
He recalled that the most saGisfac-
tory appointment he has made-that of
Mr.. Cunningham to be marshal-was
made in the face Of the strong efforts
of Senator McLaurin and Mr.. Capers.
who were doing all they could to secure
the reappointment of Marshal Melton.
He held these two gentlemen RESPONSE
BILE also for the troubles over the nomi=
nation Of Mr., Koester as collector Of
internal revenue, and Mr.. Richardson
as postmaster at Greenville. In pretty
language he expressed his opinion that
the combination Of McLaurin and
Capers is failure in political leader
ship and intimat ted his purpose of look
ing elsewhere for endorsements to
South Carolina offices in the future.
Some intimation of the presidents
feelings in this respect has reached
Senator McLaurin and the result is
that he is extremely nervous over his
own fate. He believes he has prom
Use from the president of the court Of
claims judgship, which he has been so
earnestly seeking, but he realizes that
nothing is certain in politics until it
happens. He is afraid that the efforts
of Republican politicians to prevent
the president giving so good an office
to what they call dead one" may
cause the man-in the White House to
overlook him. Then, too, he is disap-
pointed over the failLie IF his friends
to secure for him the endorsement of
Democratic senators, He started out
by claiming that he had letters from a
number Of leading senators, but inVes-
tigation Of these claims proves that
they have no substantial basis. The
list which his friends gave out con-
tanned seven or eight names, but so far
as can be ascertaiDed not one of these
Democratic senators have sent to the
White House the desired letters of en-
dorsement.
This fact and the further fact that
there would surely be fight over his
confirmation have combined to make
Senator McLaurin anything but
happy. Now his friends, who some
time ago were claiming that his ap-
pointment would 60 in Immediately
after the vote upon the Philippine
bill, are hoping that it will go in as a
recess appointment Immediately after
the adjournment of congress but they
are not at all certain that this hope
will be realized.