Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-07-05
AULL DENIES Charges
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was capable for him and the stat,
warehouse system.

was capable for him and the state
warehouse system.
AS to any change in py attitude on
account OF Mr.. McLaurin's frequent
changes of position in the guberna. .
torial race Of 1916. that is simply an
evidence Of the senator's imagination
which too often leads him to believe
that those who are trying to serve
him have some double purpose. Ny
recollection Of the senator's position
in the race Is that he wrote Mr.. Blease
urging that the Blease candidacy
would elect Cooper, and that Blease
should get out of the race in favor OF
Manning; that he then played to the
Manning regime until Manning threw
him down in the state convention. and
Fred Dominick and l, in that conven-
tion. came to the rescue OF the state
warehouse system. Then he came out
actively and openly for Blease. and
made speeches in his behalf. When
Blease was defeated, he then drops
Blease. He then has petitions circu-
lated asking himself to run for gov
ernor. and in reply to one OF these,
signed by certain members Of the An
derson delegation, he takes occasion
to excoriate these gentlemen who had
paid him the highest compliment
they could: cusses out Tillman and
Blease and sets out tc create a Nc
Laurin faction in South Carolina. He
then has the idea drumming for gov
ernor. Later he concludes he can beat
both Tilman and Blease, and sets
about feeling his way towards an en-
trance into the senatorial campaign.
Before the lists close. however. hc
drops back into the gubo rnat torial
fight. and now in his latest political
address, II anybody can figure out
what he Is driving at, they can do
more than | can. | happen to recall
that in the campaign OF 1914 he s.'r'
Beard around the state. in the inter-
est of Manning, telling the people that
Cooper had promised. If elected. to
make me his secretary and that would
simply mean n continuation Of the
Bfease regime. wheE he has admit
ted to me that he had TO id"1 that
Cooper had even made any such
promise, but that he was doing II for
political effect to secure the election
of Manning.
AS to Mr.. McIaurin's reference TO
m, condition, there is also no truth in
that. ! was taken by him into the
office of Capcrs in Washington; and
they took me up on the mountain. and
showed me all the valleys and fertile
lands below. and told me they couli
be mine; hut the old order Of things
.'own here in South Carolina was at
O time obscurcd in my vision: and ]
came on back home, severed my con-
nection with the state warehouse
system and with Senator McI.aurin,
,nh have had no connection with
either since.
I have nothing TO do with Senator
McLaurin's camp. IN FOR governor,
and have no desire to mcddle with 1t;
I have nothing to do with his political
record, and no desire to refer to it;
but while he Is making this uncalled
for and untrue attack on me. he might
tell the people of the state If he did
not withdraw his cotton from the
state warehouse system as soon as his
connection with 1t was severed. and If
he has had any cotton In IT since.
~ regret that the matter ms come
up in this shape, but I feel that ]
owe 1t to myself to make clear eX-
actly any connection l may have had
with the things to which nc refers.
John K. Aull.