The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-06-06

every couaty in the state this sum
mer, hold independent meetings and
discuss the principles upon which the
Warehouse system is built and the
pIcolems tnat have to be sol ed
Evans Letter.
The following is the letter of Chair
man Evans tC Senator Banks, under
Late Of May 18th:
Il have your letter in which YOU
ask me this question: Is not the Of
nee OF State warehouse commission
er State office? And if so does not
tie law require that the commission
er be nominated in the primary, and
if so should he not have place in
the campaign. In my opinion the Of
fee of State warehouse commission
er is State office, but in view of the
action taken by the recent conven-
ton of the Democratic party, held in
Columbia on the 18th inst. am of the
opinion that the State warehouse
commissioner has no place in the
Democratic primary nor in the cam
paign.
LAS chairman of the State Demo-
cratic committee am bound by the
action of the State convention, and
that convention expressed, more than
once, its desire that the office OF
State warehouse commissioner should
not be considered a political office,
and that it should be kept out OF the
primaries. In fact the sole object OF
your resolution was to place this Of
fee in politics and the debate shows
that the convention intended to keep
it out.
"Mr. Graydon of Abbeville is quoted
as saying in the debate: If you want
to kill the system put it in politics..
He argued that it should be entirely
business Office Mr.. d. S. Henderson
Of Aiken stated that: The question is
not the efficacy of the warehouse sys-
tenn but the matter of changing the
system from a business organization
In q political machine Don't let US
drag it into politics. We have not
FORGOTTEN that this man who wants
this system put in politics, wanted to
introduce commercial democracy IN
South Carolina" 1t will thus be seen
that the opposition to your resolution
was not as you state. that the state
committee had the power to allow the
commissioner to carry the matter into
politics. but whether the warehouse
system should he endangered and de-
stroyed by the ambition of discred-
tied politician seeking to carry 1t into
politics for personal reasons.
81, therefore, hold that the acton OF
the convention was an instruction to
the State committee to keep his Of
fee out of politics. There is no place
in the Democratic primary election or
campaign for the warehouse commis-
sioner and shall endeavor to carry
out the intention as we'll as the ex-
pressed desire of the State conven-
ton"
McLaurin's Reply.
Senator McLaurin in reply to State
Chairman Evans, said:
"The term 'discredited politician
comes With poor grace from ex-Goy-
ernor Evans. l defeated him for the
United States senate on the issue OF
Commercial Democracy and have
never been defeated for any Office for
which | was a candidate, while he has
gone down in defeat time and again.
He has never forgiven me the terms
'apist' and 'imitator,' the squeak OF
soueedunk, trying TO initiate the blast
of trumpet That showed hlm up,
and the people of this State took his
measure. He is now lined up with
his former enemies trying to crash !
his former friends. am standing by |
the same principles 1 started on, ami
will die there.
ale owes his position as State