The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-06-12
NO MANS MAN


man; he isn't tied l.. any mans or
mems coat-tails OF 10 any politica:
faction, except that he is closely al
lied with President Woodrow Wilson
and the national Democratic party in
their efforts to properly lead the
world to a glorious victory over Ger
man-Austrian barbarism.
Mr.. McLaurin, it is true, became
a candidate in response to the de-
mands of hundreds of good and pa
triotic South Carolina Democrats Of
all political factions, who recognized
in this trained, diplomatic, scholarly,
yet successful business man and far
mer, with fourteen years of iegisla-
tional legislatures, the right man to
head our state government during
the criti.tl times Of '!,e present w&r
when braiIi, statcsn"nship excel
tive and administrative ability, uui
patriotism are not only needed ';u,f
but will be required Immediately
following this war wh,l the great
rcadjustmcnts IF cconcm', political
and soeicl afiai::; are tc I've rIannrL
along broal lines in the interest OF
the laborng man and woman, the
farmer, merchant, banker, profess
sional men and women, and all others
ana Oh dll nations.
The sovereign states of the United
States will each be called upon with
in the next two years to furnish much
IN solving the economic and political
problems of the nation. South Caro-
lima has done it's duty during this war
in Legislative, financial, judicial and
patriotic ways. We have had the right
men, SO far as patriotism and sup
port of the national government and
support Of our soldiers and sailors arc
right, in the governors chair, and for
the most part in our Legislature, and
mostly in South Carolina congress
sional delegation, too. We are GO
ing to continue to need such men.
But the right kind of Il leader in the
governors office who can serve as a
friend and adviser of the president
when the war is over and terms of
peace arc to be agreed upon, that is
what South Carolina is going to need,
and require of every sovereign state
with the right kind Of Legislation in
Columbia and Washington.
from the bitterness and the preju-
dice of South Carolna-s political fac
tions, but also peculiarly allied with
and familiar with national politics
and with international affairs, po-
litical, social commercial and other
wise. MIR. McLaurin does not har-
Dor anmOSiticS nor seek to revenge
himself upon his poiitica! enemies.
He is too far above that in heart and
mind.
No better illustration Of his big
hearted, Christian and broad minded
traits Of character could be pointed
out than the magnanimous way he
has treated his worst enemy, and
his most unjust prosecutor, tina. lead
e. of disGcnsion and discord who is
now being hoistcd by his own pctrad
. Benjamin Ryan Tillman. McLaurin
, could have and could now turn on
and rend Tiliman, the latter who is
now whining for the support that
he ought to be able to command pro-
third aS important and as Influential
Il man ard statcSman, as he, TIL
man, claims to be in Washington,
and in South Caroline, too But
Mr.. McLaurin il just, magnanimous,
forgiving, he realizes shat w!:ilc Till
man did him, McLaura, lots Of dirty
and almost unforgivabie injury, that
now that Senator Til!man is helpless,
old, practically useless, and that Till
mans sins have found him out, and
inevitable rctribution has ovcrtaken
Tillman. yet Mr.. McLaurin knows
.nat Il the course of time righ, W.
prevail. that truth crushed to earth
will rise again, and that history re-
social environments of states, ma
meats itself. always in political and!
tions, and the entire world So Mr..
McLaurin leaves Mr.. Tillman to his
nod and his country and &C.. state.
Mr.. McLaurin does not depend up
on Mr.. Tillman's downfall or upon
the reputation or failures of Sena-
tor Tillman, for Mr.. McLaurin's vir-
tues to be unfolded to public view.
Mr.. McLaurin never has nor is he
now running on the demerits Of other
men, or upon the alleged demerits of
other men as Mr.. Tillman ran and
achieved prominence chiefly by his
vituperative, untruthful and rough
neck assassinations Of the regulations
Of other men better than he was
And we would not take from Mr.
Tillman anything to which he is en-
titled. He has been a big man, as
big men go, in Tillman's way. He
has done something for his state and
country. We even concede that
man of Mr. Tillman's calibre was
needed as "the man Of the hour" i'm
mediately prior to 1890, as "a man Of
the hour" like John t. McLaurin, but
a man Of an entirely different type
than Mr.. Tillman is needed in South
Cardinals present, immediate and fu-
ture political and business affairs is
needed now.
1t seems to be the irony of fate
that Tilman and McLaurin, two po-
litical giants in years gone by, should
have worked together, but along diff
fcrent lines, to achieve independence
of nnlitina ncfinn for Tho nnor,ln &C