The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
4 LEAF FROM PAST
SENATOR MC'LAURIN TO STAND.
Ard OIL MAGNATE;
WRITES A long: LETTER
he Warns John D. Ars!h,ld That
Roosevelt Said Some Day lie Hop
ed to Take a Fall Out Of the Stan-
dard OIL Gang.


ed to Take a Fall Out Of the Stan-
dard OIL Gang.
Standard Oil letters being pub
lished by William Randolph Hearst
in Hearst's Magazine are getting
more interesting to South Caroiinlans
because they are coming closer home.
After disposing OF Joseph Sibley, OF
PENNSYLVANIA, a member Of the House
of Representatives, and Boise Pen
rose. former senator from the same
state, and after showing their rela-
tions with the great trust, Mr.. Hearst
pointed out how the Standard. Oil
people were endeavoring TO control
legislation and how large donations
we're made to campaign funds.
Golfers Weekly branded these
Hearts letters as forgeries, but on the
witness stand, before the Clapp inVes-
tigating committee, Mr-Archbold ad-
mitted their genuineness. John
.owndes McLaurin, Of Bennettsville,
South Carolina, was United States
senator up until 1904 andtin the De-
cember issue of Hearst's Magazine
appears a photograph Of a letter,
written by hand by this ex-senator to
John D. Archbold and marked on the
upper left hand corner "conhden-
tiar", which word is underscored. The
letter follows:
Confidential
Bennettsville, S. c.
September 80, 1914.
Dear Mr.. Archbold:-
In the same mail by which your
letter came, was one that wish to
Quote a few sentences from apro-
DOS your remarks about Mr.. R.
The writer OF the letter was en-
ployed in a confidential way by
Senator Hanna in matters Of i'm
portance. He is a shrewd, close
observer, not overscrupulous, but
a very intelligent man, whose pub
lie experience and acquaintance is
wide. I knew him well in Wash
ington and when he saw my ar
ticle in the "Sun", he wrote me
long letter indulgins in some unex-
pected criticisms of the president,
to which I replied combating his
position. He says in part, viz,
know the man, his desires ane
| ambitions, and / can say to you
with a feeling Of absolute conf
dence, that If he succeeds himself.
there will be within eighteen
| months after the 4th of March.
su> an attack OF corporate inter-
ests as will produce a condition of
unparalleled disturbance among
our people. Reading on Sunday
Lawson's "frenzied finance" recall
ed to my mind q remark that I
heard him (Roosevelt) make, tha:
he hoped some day to be able TO
faIlsout of that: Standard Oil gang.
and II he succeeds himself mark
my words he'll try to make good
his statement, as he believes that
it will appeal to the masses and
keep htm in the center OF the
stage"
I thought 1t might be friend
ly act to copy this and give 1t to
you in strict confidence; from my
isolated position I can't say wheth-
er it is worth the ink or not. 1t
will show anyway that am not
unmindful OF your various kind
actions toward me. Many thanks
for your hopeful predictions for
the future, and I trust they may
be true. I regret inexpressibly
that I cannot be In Washington
for the next few years, but fate
has decreed, 1t seems, that I shall
merely sniff the odor Of battle in
stead Of enjoying the actual clash
Of arms.
A man who gets into politics at
twenty-one as I did, is meyer Fl:
for anything else, because he can
| never put his soul into tanner pur-
suits, and he is liable to find him
self at forty stranded like f1 ora
hulk on the shores Of the political
sea, suffering from that worst Of
Ills, "a waste of powers unem-
ployed'. With kindest regards.
Yours sincerely,
Juo. Lowndes McLaurin.
To Mr.. Jno. D. Archbold,
New York.
Commenting on the McLaurin let
ter Mr.. Hearst says:
Senator McLaurin was one Of the
Hanna, Bailey, Penrose, Quay crowt
of associated Standard Oil senators
eHe is not 'unmindful OF Mr.. Arch
bold's various kind actions toward
him: and he writes in the strictes
confidence which characterizes the
communications of all these corpor
alton attaches.
"Mr. Archbold had evidently writ
ten Senator McLaurin, expressing hi:
opinion OF Mr.. Roosevelt, and the
senator is encouraged by this frank
and obviously not fatterins opinion
Of a very intelligent man of his ac
quaintance.
"This man had served Senator
Hanna in a confidential way, an6
was mot overscrupulous'-as no one
! could we'll be who served Hanna anc
bis Standard Oil masters. That the
man was, however, a 'shrewd, close
| observer is borne out by his warn
ling which Senator McLaurin forwards
to Mr.. Archbold as a. friendly act.
''The Intelligent man warns Sen
ator McLaurin that he heard Mr.
Roosevelt make the remark that he
hoped some day to be able to take 9
fall out Of that Standard OIL gang
and continues this prophetic person
| and close observer, 'if he succeeds