The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-05-23
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entirely whose OK is gored, or
whose interests are at stake:
A few years ago a former Sena-
tor from South Carolina was
charged with intimate relations
with Republican Senators IN
Washington. and this charge
was taken up by the politicians
and wrung over the State. re-
sultine in suspicion Of dis
LOYALTY to the Democratic party,
and as a consequence, the politi-
cal prestige OF Hon. John L. Nc
Laurin was so badly damaged
that, although the man was do
inc all in his power for the peo-
ple of the South, and was fast
making for himself a high repu-
tation as a statesman, the fact
that Senator Tiliman had char
ged him with intimate relations
with Senator Mark Hanna had
the desired effect Of removing
McLaurin from the public stage
Of action.
The recent controversy over
the manipulation Of the railroad
rate bill that Senator Tillman
was put in charge of by a Re.
publican Senate brought out a
Striking fact, but it is not neces-
sarily an indication of party dis
loyalty for a Democratic Senator
to be on friendly terms with a
Republican. It turns out that
Senator Tillman is not aversed
to association with Republicans,
as is manifest by his connection
with the notorious Chandler OF
New Hampshire, who is no long
er a member of the Senate be-
cause of having been defeated
: for reelection. W. E. Chandler.
the intimate friend Of Senator
Tillman, was one of the South's
bitterest enemies. It was he
who figured extensively in the
civil ri ghts and force bill legis-
lation. It was this same Chan
dler, when the white men Of the
South made a mighty effort to
rid themselves from negro dom
ination. that manipulated the
electoral vote ofLouisanna, Flor
ida and South Carolina; so that
the Republican party with the
aid of Federal bayonets stole the
presidency from Samuel j. Til
den and gave it to Rutherford B.
Hayes, the Republican. W. E.
Chandler was, the next to Gen
eral Sherman, a most heartily
despised man by the people Of
the South, and today we have
the spectacle of South Carolina's
senior Senator cheek-by-jowl
with him.
Chandler has never done any
thing since, to Indicate a re-
pentence for his dirty conduct
in 1876. He is still an extreme
Republican. He has no love for
the Southern people, but he was
defeated by his party for re-
election, and he carries a grudge
about with him against that
party, just he harbored malice
against the people Of the South
after the war. Tillman and Chan
dler are closely allied with one
another, and it was through this
intimate relationship that Till
man secured the services of
Chandler to do detective work to
obtain sufficient evidence to
warrant the Democrats who
we're buncoed by the Republican
railroad Senators, to criticise
President Roosevelt and place
him before the country in an un-
enviable light. If Latimer, who
we believe is still-yes, still in
the United States Senate had
been placed in the position now
occupied by Tillman, and there
was any likelihood ofhim overshad
owing the senior Senator, the
very atmosphere would have
been sulphuric with the denun-
citation of Latimer, by Tillman,
and the close relationship with
the South's arch enemy W. E.
Chandler, would have been
pointed to as proof. But then
Tillman is not Latlmer, and too,
Tillman is a law unto himself.
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