Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-11-04
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WANTS MeLAURIN TO BE MARTYF
TilInan Urges Marlboro Man to Take
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the Stump. '5f
Washington, Nov. 2.-Discussing the
announcement made a day or two ago
by Former Senator John L. McLaurin
that he would not become a candidate
for governor Of South Carolina in the
primary of next year, and denominat-
ing this statement as the Swan song"
of very brilliant man who failed to
be very great man, and declaring
further that he disowns being the
father of Bleaseism, Senator B. r,
Ti.lman today gave the press an in
teresting story concerning these. mat
ters. ... 4
II read in the South Carolina papers
this morning" said Senator Tillman,
"McLaurin's farewell address or state
ment Withdrawing from the governors
race and bidding adieu to politics for
ever. 1t is a pathetic utterance-pa-
thetic because 1t is the swan song OF
a very brilliant man, who failed to be
a very great man because he lacked
the moral fibre to always be true to
himself and his conviction Of right
rather than allow ambition and sell
f1shness to warp him. His life, in a
way, is O sermon which young men
everywhere ought to take to heart.
Nothing in the states history is more
lamentable. II he had only been true
to the Tillmanism to which he says he
was converted in 1890, he would be In
the United States senate now and
would be an ornament to It. y.sa
Two Things ne Denies.
"McLaurin says, Tt is the irony, Of
fate that ] who suffered most injus-
tice from Tillman personally should
now be the sole defender Of Tillman-
ISM n ...'...r .'.. r.. .ea r.ac
There are two things about this
statement upon which desire to COM
ment. never did have any personal
Ill will towards John L. McLaurin, and
have none now. denounced him in
the senate because believed he was a
traitor to the people Of the state who
sent him there The people were con-
WINGED that my charge was true and
have sustained 1t whenever they had
an opportunity. ..s
when he says he Is the sole de-
fender of Tillmanism,' he means among
those Bleaseites to whom he was
speaking. He, Of course, knows there
are tens Of thousands Of Tillmanites
some Of whom voted for and some
against Gov. Blease last year, who
have never wavered in their adherence
to Tillmanism as they understand it.
"Mr. Charles Carroll Sims out -herod-
ed Herod in this Bleaseism, proclaim
ing that 1t is higher than Tillmanism..
He illustrates Byron's couplet:
"'He stood foe with all the yea!
Which young and fiery converts feel
He is no doubt as sincere in his
Bleaseism now as he was in his Has
kellism in 1890. He never understood
Tillmanism at all. Inheriting grand
name, he thought he was an aristocrat
and has ended by becoming an anar-
chist and wants to run into the gov
ernor's office on demagogy. Truly,
politics does make strange bedfel-
lows and If the Tillmanites who de-
serted me last year on account of Blease
vote for Sims for governor 1t Will be
a remarkable transformation. 1t will
l1, xxio or
governs their actions. o..
Something to Admire. -
There are some things about Nc
Laurin's statement that are very ad-
mirable, and I say now that I for the
first time since I denounced him on
the floor Of the senate believe he has
at last become a patriot and wants to
do the state all the service he can
during the balance of his life. OF
course he has played politics SO long
and used diplomacy so much that
even now he can not drop the role all
at once. I have felt heretofore that
he was trying to come back into pol
itics. I have been hoping that Gov.
Blease would indorse him as a sue
cessor in the governors office, feeling
that that would be enough to damn
both Of them in the eyes Of the peo-
pie. But Blease had too much political
sense to make such blunder as that,
and McLaurin is wise in withdrawing
once for all into private life"
Senator Tillman here goes into some
detail in denying that Bleaseism is the
honest child Of Tillmanism and goes
on to say that the governor has stolen
much Of the old time Tillman thunder.
What McLaurin says about fac
tionism making South Carolina a lit
tie Mexico is all too true," the sena-
tor continues, land agree fully with
what he says about the necessity for
the good and true men Of both fac
tions getting together and electing a
governor who will be governor Of all
the people and not the governor Of
his friends only.
"McLaurin has always been a
shrewd politician, and he realizes full
ly as all thoughtful men must realize,
that the loud-mouthed shouters at the
Blease banquet are 'office-seekers' and
nothing more.
Might Be Better.
1.-The statement-I don't suit them;
they don't suit me, so I had just as
we'll be a man. That Is better than
being governor'-is very admirable.
But 1 would have liked 1t better in
this form: I do not suit them. They
do not suit me, so I will be a man
hereafter and my own master-not a
slave to ambition. That is better than
hainp poyernor'