The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-11-04
1llL1,dAN SUGGESTS
TASK FOR M'LAUR|N
Kill Bleaseism as a Penance.
Says the Senator.
DISOWNS THE PATERNITY.
SENIOR senator Makes Reply to
Charges I'm McLaurin's Speech
at Columbia.

AT Columbia.
:, Washington Special to Charleston
news and Courier, Nov. 2.-That
Sonh II. McLaurin, as a ,penance due
the people of South Carolina, under
take to destroy Bleaseism, is sug-
gested by Senator Tillman in a state
ment which he has issued in reply to
cnarges made by Mr.. McLaurin in
mis- recent speech before the gather
ing OF Blease followers In Columbia.
MT I1llman says that If McLaurin
VIII, he can destroy Bleaseism better
than any other man in the state, and
that he (Senator Tillman) will help
him. MIR. Tillman's statement is as
follows:
l read in the South Carolina papers
John l.. McLaurin's farewell ad-
dress, or statement, withdrawing
from the governors race and bid
ding adieu to politics forveer 1t is
pathetic utterance-pathetic be-
cause 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 him
self and his convictions of right
rather than allow ambition and sell
hshness to warp him. His life, in a
way, is sermon, which young men
everywhere ought to take to heart.
Nothing in the states history Is more
lamentable. If he had only been true
to true Tillmanism, to which he says
he was converted in 1910, he would
be in the United States senate now
and would be an ornament to it.
BELIEVED HIM A TRAITOR.
McLaurin says: "It Is the irony
IN no
Justice from Tillman personally,
should now be the sole defender Of
Tillmanism."
There are two things about this
statement upon which I desire to
comment. I never did have any per-
sonal III will towards John L. Nc
Laurin and have none now. I de-
nounced him in the senate because 1
believed he was traitor to the peo-
pie OF the state who had sent him
there. The people were convinced
that my charge was true and have
sustained 1t whenever they had an
opportunity.
When he says he is "the sole de-
fender of Tfllmanism," he means
among those Bleaseites to whom he
was speaking. He, OF course, knows
therp are tens Of thousands OF Till
InNanites, some OF whom voted for
and some against Governor Blease
last year, who have never wavered
in their adherence to Tillmanism as
they understand 1t, and as he now
understands It.
Mr.. Charles Carroll Simms outher-
oded Herod in his Bleaseism, pro-
claiming that 1t is higher than TIL
manism. He illustrates Byron s
couplet:
"He stood a foe with all the zeal
Which young and fiery converts
feel"
ENDS AN ANARCHIST.
He is, no doubt, as sincere in his
Bleaseism now as he was in his Has
kellism in 1890. He never under
stood Tillmanism at all. Inheriting
a grand name he thought he was an
aristocrat and has ended by becom-
Ing an anarchist, and wants to run
into the governors Office on dema-
gogery. Truly politics does make
strange bed fellows" and If the Till
nantes who deserted me last year on
account OF Blease vote for Simms for
governor, 1t will be a remarkable
Transformation. 1t will only show
how wild men can become when
their political passions are aroused
and how little wisdom or reason,
governs their actions.
WISE TO WITHDRAW.
There are some things about Mo
Laurin's statement that are very ad-
mirable, and say now that for the
first time since I denounced him on
the floor OF the senate believe he has
lat last become a patriot and wants to
do the state all the service he can
during the balance OF his life. or
course, he has played politics so long
and used diplomacy so much that
even now he cannot drop the role all
at once. I have felt heretofore that
he was trying to come back into
politics under the spur OF ambition,
and / still believe that was his mo-
tive. / have been hoping that Gov
ernor Blease would endorse him as
a successor III the governors office,
feeling that that would be enough
to damn both of them in the eyes of
the people. But Blease had too
much political sense to make such a
blunder as that, and McLaurin is wise
in Withdrawing once for all into pri-
vate life.
DISOWNS THE PATERNITY.
Tillmanism is charged with being
the father OF Bleaseism; Tillman dis
owns the paternity, except as a bas-
tard. Bleaseism is the incestuous
child OF INSCRIPTIONS ambition on