The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-28
MelAgRIN MENTIONED FOR GOVERNOR.

Iaurln sentiment.
There is no question that Mr..
McLaurin would make a spien-
did governor. He is a statesman
OF high order, a man of affairs
ia the business world, he is in
close touch with the farming in
terests is well known, and that
he has been a close student of
their needs is also we'll known,
but the order of the day seems
to be intense factionalism, as a
result the people lose sight of
qualification. We regard con-
dition like the present unfor-
tunate, because, when factional-
ism runs rampant over tn e
country, the interests Of the peo
pie are not eonsidered-one side
looks upon the other as enemies
not to be trusted, and it matters
not what is proposed it is re-
iectsd without it's merits being
thoBght of.
How are the people to rid
themselves of such a condition?
The best way is for the men
of both factions to be honest
with each other and see to it that
conservative men are selected,
this was done years ago by
the Forty Movement that result
ed in wiping out factionalism
after a seige of bitterness. Hon.
John L. McLaurln was the in
spiration of the Forty Movement,
it was he who proposed it, and
1T was he who used his then
powerful influence to make it a
success, and, because of this
stand many of the oldtimers
whose political lease of life de
pended upon keeping the people
apart, and in a state of frenzy,
conspired to bring about his
political destruction and drive
him from the arena by raising
the false cry of Commercialism,
thereby mpressing the unthink-
ing with the idea that McLaurin
had gone over to the Republicans
because he advocated ideas which
were not born of political ex-
pediency, but of sound states.
manship. The very theories then
advocased by him. and for which
he was mathematical by every
small politician throughout the
State, are today the strong
pianks in the platform of the
leaders of the Democratic party
IN congress. Leader Underwood
believes just as McLaurin as.
serted, the only way to give to
the American people, especially
TIE cotton growers of the South:
a just showing for the transpor-
tation of their products, is for
the government to encourage
the building of American ships
to take to the high seas and carry
American products in eompeti-
ton with foreign vessels. Nc
9Laurin as a student foresaw this
country's unequal opportunities,
that the southland was a great
sufferer from transportation fa-.
cihties, because of being prac-
ticany a one crop country with
its moving facilities monopolized;
he e1deavored to arouse con-
gress to come to the rescue of
this southern industry, and have
the government to subsidise
American ships the same as did
8 Germany and England, whose
ocean carriers by this advantage,
had driven the Stars and Strip
from competition, thereby plac-
ing this product of the South in
the grasp of the transcontinental
railroads, and the subsidized
foreign ships; it was this kind
of craftsmanship which brought
upon him the prejudice that
caused him. to retire from the
political field. He knew his
enemies were IN the saddle, they
had the machinery, and it would
have been folly to have at that
time. gone before the people to
defend his course in congress.
Today, however, while there
is a different kind of factional
division, yet, the State is divid-
ed ap between two opposing
factions, as intensely bitter as
the divisions created in 1890;
whether the coming contest next
year will have the man who
both sides can center upon with
a purpose to wipe out factional
division remains to be seen. For
the task of undertaking such al
desired result we know Of no
one better qualified than John
L. McLaurin of Marlboro. Hei
was not identified with either of |
the contending factions last
year that aroused such intense
feeling, and so far, it has never
been said who he voted for, |
whether Jones or Blease, but
his personal vote was about all
OF the support he gave. He
was not in active politics then |
but exercised his right of citi.
zenship-to vote as he saw fit,