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4 ~Kg4 ERA U ..f-- - 0 18 ? -E V/B _E R R Y . 1 . C e, 1i'. I U ) rf , A .i.J ( JS __ T Y 4 C A TV 1i:~ E .' o A McLAURIN'S FIRE. E!Xt':U;UTVIVE 0OMMITTEE 18 THHEATED AS MISLED 1OM. Henuattor's lioply Arrives-Itegarle Action of (omunittoo its HIlicul4a iud of No Le. girl Efect or Wolgit---Mce (oneral 1).fOnco of Iecord in Congrr Ultes T1ll1ntan'.. Voto With ltep(bicanu. Below is a copy of the looked-for reply of 41. S. Senator McL aurin to the oflicial coiiunication from the State Democratic Executive commit to.), informing him of the action roeontly taken by that body and on closing the resolutions adopted: Paris Mountain, S. C., August 5th, 1901. To the Domocratic Executive Con mitteo, State of South Carolina. Gentlemen: The oflicial notice of the action of the majority of your committee of July 25th was received by me on August 1st, five (lays after it had been announced in the nows papers. This publisled announce mont was the first notice I had that any action affecting mo was to be taken by your committee. I am now officially informed that the majority of your committe condemus my course in the sounate, demands my resigna tion and undortakes to expol me from the Democratic party, Twenty-one men have attempted to usurp the powers of the 90,000 Democratic voters of South Carolina and, as an incident, in a meoting called for an other purposo,havolhastily endeavored to do what can be done only by solemn proceeding of impeachment, expressly pro'ided for in the consti tution of the United States. I hold my commission from the Democratic voters of South Carolina. I recognize no authority but theirs, take no orders from any source but them, and shall in due course appeal to thom for judgment on my course as a senator, and my character as a man and a Democrat. A QUEsTION OF TAs,TE. Forsonally I am indifiorent to your action becauso nobody has made you my master or censor, and I regard what you have (one as merely ex pressing the malice and fears of the one individual, Senator B. R. Till man. But for this alwa) s evil and indecent influence, ordinary respect for the proprieties, would probably have prevented the four of you who are my declared competitors for the seat I now have tile honor to occupy, from attempting to use the power entrusted to you by your party to remove a rival from your path. As ai citizen and a Democrat of South Carolina, I am mortified by your action, because it has brought upon the State the condemnation and the ridicule of the press and the public throughout the country. Un happily, those who are not intimately acquainted w ith our conditions accept the action of your majority as repro senting the intellbgence and Democ racy of our State and both are made objects of derision. Against this I wish to enter my solemn protest. I shall demonstrate how unfai:-, absurd and undemocratic your action is; and I shall trust to the Deocrats of uth Carolina to repudiate it when aportunity is given them. Your is to deny that opportunity. trong contrast ith the Senator Tillman at rial before the iimself as ni h t.ives may havo boon, the purport of your action is to facilitato the sonator in dodging mo and to deny the peo plo the opportunity of passing on my position8 and conduct. 11 soems to mo the Democratic masses of South Carolina are competent to say at the polls whether or not I havo boon a faithful sonator and a consistunt Democrat. Why should you attempt to provent them 1I Til.LMAN AN ASSASS1N. It is no cause for wonder that Senator Tillman should seek to make political assassins of you to avoid open and fair fight. JIe has climbed to powor by venomous abuse of many of the purest mon in tho State who opposed him, for which ho has always carefully shirked personal responsi bility, and on the political lives and fortunes of those who befriended him while ho needed friends. . Norris, Tindal and )onaldson, men representing earnest purpose and the interest of the farmers of the State, and, therefore, strong, woro used by him to promote his own interests and then thrust aside. Irby, Shell and Farley died despising him becauso of his treachery to them and to the peo plo. I am now in his way, and be cause hohins failed to strike in down, he incites you to attempt to strangle me , and at the samo timo to destroy a white primary, to his advocacy of which he owed nmuchi of the best of his early following. Party principles are fixed, and to th-e principles of the democratic party I have been un iformly faithful. Party politics are determined from time to time by party elections and conventions, and no man, nor body of mon, has the power to say between thtso elections what politics shall be the test of party loyalty. Senator Tillman is assuming the prerogative of supreme boss and dictator to say who shall or shall not be regarded as a Democrat next year. I do not concede any such power to him nor to you. He, or all your committees together, has not the power to exclude from can didacy nor the polls at the demo oratie primary the humblest citizen of South Carolina who declaros him self to be a democrat and pledges himself to support the nominees. Suppose in 1890 the executive com mittee of the State had ruled out of the party all who or;aged in the "farmers' movement ?" Suppose two years later it had excluded all who favored the sab-troasury idea ? Such action would have been unjust, ty. rannical and insulting to thousands of good cit.izens and democrats, but not more so than this proceeding of yours. 4'DIsHoNoR ABlLE wEALTrI H1" In his double character as prose outing witness and attorney against me, Senator Tillmnan is reported as saying before your committee that I had voted with the republicans "in important matters," and that he has seen me (conferring with republican senators. As I will show by the rec ords, he himself frequently v.t,ed with the republicans' "in important matters," as all other democratic senators have done from time to time. It is frequently necessary, proper and courteous to confer with mem bers of the opposite party, as he knows and as every man with prac tical sense knows. These expressions are his attempts to take advantage of credulity and ignorance. I do not think there is a man in South Ca'ro lina so ignorant as to be really de ceived by them. He cannot put me under suspicion as ho has pat him 1 y his own acts. I have not in oilce retrograded from a per 10e bankrnptcy to dis unexplained wealth. drawn the same fund it impos m mine. I led to cor a tam ainst scheme with $28,000 of coimIIissiont; never yet accounted for or explained. MolE IIINT'S OF IIOODLI. A yoar ago Sonator Tillman wont into North DIIakot a and made speech os advocating the ro election of a lRopublican sonator-Mr. Pottigrow. Senator Tilliman and this senator wore prominiLnt in proventing, by filibusterin.g inetics, a vote on the subsidy bill. ''ho newspapers said that Mr. 11ii, head of the Northern Pacific, who lobb)ie( against the ssub. si(y bill, I;\ Senator Tl'iilhuann's friend aul is-oriato i "lip" which paid him $.so,0() in the stock mar kot. B3ird:t of a feather, gentlemen of the culnitteo, always flock to got her. Has Senator Tilhman, prosecuting attornoy against my J)emocracy, ov or failed to abuse Domo3rats and Democracy Y Do you know that in the last two Democratic national con ventions ho has supported the nomi nation of RepublicansY In .1896 he favored Senator Toller for president, an old line Republican and one of the bitterest foes of the South in ro. construction days. lie had himself appoarod before the convention as a competitor of \V. J. Bryan and been ignoninously snowed under. In 190O he was for Towne, also a lie publican, for vice-president. Is ho the man to be supreme arbiter and judge of what is Democracy in South Carolina? 115 WISHEs A COMPARISON. In the senate I have labored, as the records will show, to broaden the prosperity of the count ry, to promote the interests of my own people, to spread civilization, to on largo and increase opportunity for our young men and to stimulate on terprise. His whole political course and method have been to tear down, to abuse and oppose, to blight and restrain, to bite where he dared and to fawn where he feared or sought fa vor. I shall ask the people to contrast the records and shall claim my right as a free man, a born and reared Democrat and a senator from South Carolina, to (1o it regardless of the orders of twenty-one members of the executive commit tee. I shall ask the people to decide between the man who has tried to help cotton factories, open highways of commerce and to so commend the Democratic party as to command for it the con fidenco and respect of the business and laboring elements north and south, and that of the man whose conduct and record has been to sim k the party to disrepute and impotence. ~ shall ask them to say whether they prefer the senator who has tried to retain for South Carolina the honor and dignity won by a long line of il lustrious sons and glorious doeeds, or the senator w~ho has postured as buf foon and bully and who proclaimed on the floor of the senate that he rep. resented a constituency of ballot box stuffers and murderers wvho wanted their share of the stealago. He is nowv in a northern. State ~holding up our people as negro nmr derers and b)allot box thieves. CIIAIIdEs IONORANcE. You have undertaken to condemn and expel and depose me, not only without a hearing but without evi dence. Upon what grounds are may good faith as a senator and my fidol ity as a D)emocrat assailed ? Is it. on the tariff ? None of you of the com mittee can prove to the people that the Democratic party is a free trade party. It has proposed a tariff for protection only, but as early as 17977 we had a protective tariff, and we have never in the 1.04 years sine knowvn free trade. Gen. Hancck, the party nominee for president in 1880, regarded the tariff as a local question. Samuel J. Randall, fo years the party leader and speaker of the hous", was a protectionist. In every congress where the question has been presented numbers of Democrats have voted against and helped to kill free trade. I have contended that southern products -ould be put on an equality with --a, and in 1897 1 fought to have -mie lumber and cotton protect e cry of "Republican" wvac ainet. me then, but the pio II~ (luaroly imt. o lorn; i:sol to n by rtn ovorwhohlingiit{, vote. Are you now uidortaking to ro"voI-O that vordlict ? AS TO -Ii .sU siell-s, I havo favored Ship subsidies. It i3 ia great. (uoSitiotn, and one, I suib mlit, on which ho th oplo of thi.s Stato aro com1tot)t. to pass tftor bearing full arguenitoit. The nuject has never Lcn di iviiscs(l hoforo iltnm, although it is of vast import. anco to the pro-pei ily of ti h t ate. ''ho purpose of the m;lhsily ii to tlco vololl the buihting aiud oporatiot of great Iloots of Amer'ican h ips. It touchos tho interest. of our sea port:, of our lumber industries, of "! our mnanufacturing enltorpri ss and ot great agricultural products. It. is i question On whi(i ;O;,so of tho alelHst Domocrats of t he touso and senat o are divided. I most lhuunbly sub mit that, it is not in ordor for t wont v. onoI members of your cornitten to rtle that the11 Dcrmloeratic mlayse; f South Carolina :shlsil not att thir campaign moetingts1 hoar this miatt r of vital interest to them discuqs(se1; and that the people of the seacoast cities, who wo1tuld liko to see new tides of con merco brought to their harbors, and t.ho Iumborniut atndl owners of forest lands, who woull bo glad to soll material for more:ship1, are to bo thrown neck and heels out of the part.y because hey favor ship subsidiem. Senators Carlisle,' I'ugh and Morgan votod fo: at subsidy bill, which has boon in forco ton years, and which hanr holped our 1 razilian trado, in a ieoasurre, iit least. Aro they not I)emlocrats, necording to the decision of Senator Tillma an (l your committoo? I believe that it is our duty to d vclop the now t'rritory which has come into our possessioti along Com11 morcial and industr,il lines, to civi lize them and make ilthem the equal of our own States in material pros IiONI BuILD CAS But grasp Opportun Dont think that you wil and bye, "BYE AND E empty. Do it NOW wh tunity. Remember c around waiting for you fly, you must catch thei The Opportunity yot will beon- ----- MONDAY AUGUST When the beautiful ti of City. and now ownedc and commonly know facing on Gauntt Stre Cotton Mill property, b< in the City, will be s You Stand on th and Bid Y There has been greg Real Estate during the will only be a short laps ations will be way up. One new Cotton Mill a: pects for the second. '3 Purchasers at recent offeredprofits on their BE ONTHEGl~ 0 YOUR Dont pay your wise, fars, what you have equal dhant A FREE LO*wllaa get a Ticket. FREE CARRIAGESi"'' and leave Court H-ouse at THE EAS Only 1-4- cash, balance p ayme nts, with interest a You will never miss the paa Sale Commenc Your own price--Free ...EASY' National Auction d 3. H. PHILLIPS, PRtESIDENT. R1EPRE[ the protection of Simini to hit 1opo lrss i;trugglo as lilt italeperndoet il tion, without resources ior elf- pro (oct ion. Forluiteily for us, tho ro cordls:lhow that inl bUildling lholm up1 wVO art' going to bnllolit our owin coul try. 1 want to givo that torrito:ry tho host fornt of goverillnit ill i lie world; ho doe: n()%2 wiat. to givo it ill) fr U!r11(if k,ov 1ninen a)'I . aiill. .\NOT11n.1;11 I'11:t'Xt'1'e. lt:l t\ a s '"I'r,( mh0 ,r or" bu)t ." I ;y tilty 1 nlrlI0I n jl n g'' lo have lit Ho(d that. tl l.; onl at theo bI'llot, box. .1 amrll for a :o01md1I enrlrecy'I andlcl v)n :tait emptlIoyent for ill who Wiaes. Ii: wo citluIot ivo wVithou1. t n o;tlot for our 1su1irpl )rod+luct:, oil e<ul ti erm1) with all of our col I)I'titIH in tho 1matlr:wtsof tho ' lll. Do yol think the onrrgotic, i;V0, p1rol'gro ssVI) yolli g )usine ss lolln of tih South will long pe)rlit the a:l': !s of a fow" hclmoIilig I)liticiil t o fm be1(1)twoo;n thl m andll thU a(ttain moeii of thweo glorioui endi; y I f this i:; not dt'miocrney, th10n, ge(ntlonmon, I inVito youl to "joinl hatnds: with mel in inaiingt it so. Thl ar- the l:olinIg questioris onl whllih I 1undiel tandll my Dolmocracyv an11,d II o Il V hltVe 1)Ol'll be lt a:illld11. ITho rocorls givO u) litllo light as to what furhl ir grou i tioro tiay ho for your actionl. Allow moo to iuinuaiiiri.o Ih bi hrieily. In tho lir.:1 )O'iioIn of the Iifty liftht c.)ton r :.s Senlator TilbnanL' andl imlyoolf voted tlog th~ er ill IT'i of 1,50 yOt atndl nay 1int es. I v'ol;'dl agi1 h . im l for p)rotoci ionl to tlh(, faLrmert)I t fll itnn ieIdmoet. t; the tii'' hill, l1r"o oedh1 by Sentator 101esi of Ar ittluu,s, p)resont chiairmuian Of the )0'I1moe dit oxecutivo con-.1liit too. possibly you may rc,llvone your collinlitte.) mnd re:al him onA of tho party. I Voted with Jones, \eti, ties as they Fly Past. I invest in property bye NYE" is a land positively ile you have the oppor >pportunities dont lie to pick them up. They rm on the wing. . have been waiting for 12th at 9:30 A. M. -act of land lying West I by Purcell and Floyd, ni- as Wardlaw tract, ~et, and adjoining the sing the Highest point ubdivided and sold at *e Lot You Want our Price. it activity in Newberry past two weeks and it ie of time before valu Get in before the raise. surety and good pros 'ou know the results. Auction Sale have been investments already. R~OUND FL~OOR SELF. eeing, neighbor a profit on 2e on. -a be given away to some the ground. Be sure and carry you to and from sale, /' will be at your command 9 a. mn. Y TERMS divided in twelve monthly .t 8 per cent. per annum. ,ment s. es at 9.30 A. M. Lot-Free Carriages TERMS... t I mprovemuent Co., LOUIS FEN DIG, *SEN T ATiI2-..NE WRY n OiTEp. Mtorganr and1( all tho other )rtnioer1at, sxco)t. SoilIator, I'ilhniin and1(1 Mo EnIoyry, who votod with tho Jnl)bli Can111. It wNas ia sit raight party volo. (I another ateindilent to the oamlib bill I vot(d with t he I )olicrltH. Souiator Tilhnllan wa: tho no I)oto crat voting with the I optblicain. See Coigress;ioltt hI(cor(1, vol. :tO, paI go I,,177. lit ho tlecoll teission of t bo t,amlo (lonrI( Set'ilor T1ilhnnlt lr1 a itmy. sti0 vottd togothor onti '2 of . roll ca! Is. One vot con wi1i we di Iored Wls o)n at motiol to iad"j,tirnt in ton(ed to defeutt ai rtsohition calling upon the preiitlont. to itt'rvneo ii ('uht. "onator Ti1111an volodt withl) I I thotion pevaile1 by on vote. I votoul With t he deoIll4at I:. ''h tot hi ior votes on which we d11'iered( wero nn implortatnt, and not party gtuo;lions+, tho parties dividing on all. I fat voredi tho atccotattncn of tho ILltwati i1n islatn(ld, iolg wiith such dom. crtts ai (;orniti, Kylr, Monley, lor ;;+n, Petttus a nd Sullivan, and1 ho, witht the other dettocrats an1d somo rnpiblican5, wro 0l)1)Op(1d to it. On pagi. *s8, vol. 31 of tIhe lI cord, it is showit tlatt I voto(d, wit i all tho leiocrait'; but thre; e ni fll tho republicanns, for a bill to ioo. vido for ari) trat ion of dS!itt0 Ihe t ween rtilv:ay cotnpanlio:: aind their (+npIloy('H. tionator TCilhtttn was;'or,o of (ho t.lrce agatiins;t it.. \\o a ho differod on i bill plrhil)iting, intoxi ctt ing; liquors t(o b !old1 in t h terri tory of Alaska111. . ivorcd aid ho oi)1)Os (o prohibit ion. It)sil ]y hto had viOwH on i di'pelhnsary ad ro haittes t hore. Ohi a voto to rcco0utnit Iho eoitfer ei0 report on the river it1,1 harh(r hill I voted for tho recoinmtitmt11(tit with suht1 domIlocrati all Chilton, lloitfeldt, Konnoy, M ills, Rawlins aind1 Ttirntor. lio votod 'ga6it with such republicans as Allition, hiir rowH, Clullom), i )avir, ,lkins, I orlor, alitlo, Ilawlt)y, I oidge, Ir'okins1, l'IttI anid Quay. In the first 50s1sion of tie fifty. sixi co iross Senator Tillini find 1 voted( togetherol (4 not of 71 roll calls. In each of t ho four (as0 in which wo diflered1 the parties woro divided. The most, notabl)o of these wis on Cho admission of Sotator Quay. I votod for it. wit h Sonators I)aniol, Konny, 1l%einory, Al\organ and Taliaferro, dmtocratt. .11n op. posed1( with mtiof thle d~ieorts and1( eleven reipullicaris, i rieliid ing ilanina, P latt., lVoratker, ( allIintger In the latix session of thle salut conigross Sontotr TJilbiianr andt miy. self vo0ted togothier ini 121081 of the fai votesi taken. Ont a resiolution requir ing the presidlont in ten daysto is)s8uo1 at proclarnation dlisclaimlinIg ariy lmr to OxercisO sovereigty over the' t.or, K yle, Lindsay, l\lorgani and1( Sullivan, democratn, Senator TPillhun wash 01n Of 22 inYoring it. On an ame'indmnt~ dlelaring that it wasi not the puirpOoe of thie United States to exercise peirmnanbent conitrol over lie P hil ippi nos. Senator TilI lnhn withI most of the deimocrals antd Snaitdor Hotar, rep~uican(31, voted( " ay '." I, with Senaitor.t Fost.er, and Lin dsay, d1emnocrats, voted "rm11y. On the- uil passage of tihe iWrmy bill wo di ffered. I1 vot~A4 for~ it and1( had wvith mue Sonaitors' l'X)stor (id sauy, M\organ antd Sllivant. We voted together for amendml(llents oIx teniding the consit,i ition of the United Staltes over the Pi lipjpilnos 0on strict palrty lini's. On the question of governing our outlying possessiions ho and( 1 votedl toget her, and It IIis his that (dolor mlinecs the matter of imiperialismt, not the possession of the territory. I voted to taiko poseion and 11( rtlo jw t. ly. Hot v:>tod niot to take p)osstlosi, but to rnlo. Hof antd I voted toget her on all party questions exce pt I hoise conicern ing the Philipppinos;, which my judgment, exercised asi a senator andio a representative of tlho peol, told mon wasI a nuestion of fornign rola liun-, inilviig onttirely now prol lows, al , t hereforo, not p,rop,orly a party qletw;Ion, aund ont which n.y p,oliticatl jud,gnwn'ft, told mol( the cotuc try wts practically unitod. ''h1e Demnocratic iparty was wrecked by bOing forcod in this matter into a policy o))od to its; own tradtitionr, fid tho over.vholugr Hontim;ont, of iho count ry, against miy 1rotest andot ihat of othcr loyal Demnocrals. I)ovolut,iflts havo proved thait th1os 0 vi mtinticotl In hu the pau'iticati< n "'f thes-i1 trhin,lr wats itllpo5sIble, that, the pew-,h would nve'r accopt orr cunt rul, a:ndl 1ha. 1 hnir rot01ntion wouhtl b,o unl rolit ahlo and dlisastirous,, wer1,4 wron71. I amt ro.adty to g;o hO foro th" pe"~opl of South Carolina u1n t s;how thoiml the facts. Do you utndel'rtake to sIy tiutt I lust resignt itud put, mysielf oitt of my party he ctuyc, I ftvoredl upholding tho dig.. nity of the Al1nriaa flag after itr Iroops had holn lirod on, and op l,osod at cowardly abandlotnm'nt of 1 hie people of t 1iemo islan11dS to chac s lI tho proposition to punish 11o be 1Oautstt 1 lid not. bhtiovo Aguitnaldo to bito ho cud of ( (oorgo Vash ington or concole thatt he i ilipinos could in Stlntly and uniguithtl organizro for hthmselves it i;tabl0 govorttnm'lt an,t a high civilization'? ttte) l Mo Co>em 1.lv. Save hIr)t at solo plls to Sho\v frtomn t ho records, by volum110 an d page,ithat. wltr onator ''illbnann tnl I dilfor inill co'ngllrcss iL was not on 111ri'y c lucst bons; and that, ho voted wit i ho I"l,npu licans t.t loat;4 asl often is, I did, and that inl ove'ry ca:; wheoro we divtclod I hadl with mno D1enocrats who p+os.sr tho conilidonco of tho mirty throughout tho couitry, ind wi'c .)eni craCy not Oven his rock I.nd stslandorlS inSolonco dare to atssii1. I chttl, go furthor and show othe stn iiHttl;t'e3n which he lan voted against. tho groat majority of his party and otel against iis own declarations ---notably inl tho Platt mu0mlnent, to t.ho Unhan bill. lIc, ha)d leclartl hi1s IutrpIO to opp1os;0 atnl fight this to the la diltc' mt. h,, votted for it.~-,sHomo of his, pres ont, nwpapiler friend sid at the timnn that ho d]idl it to curry favor with t.lhe (:harloston vote, hoping to trado 1he 0xposil ion thrttough. If tltt was the caso Iih was the KIitllow vic tim of it p,olitical green goods gamt( man il tl limself for siawdust. But I havc sastil onouigh, I think, to provo to you, and to tho public hat, you liko nmlty who liavo risen and gono betfoiro youi-imvo pe'rmiitted your.. sOlvesM to hoe rerado tools 1by Senattor Tillnumtl, to1 prornloto hisH own basoi fn'rm ia struiggltt hi folurs to face, ho-' crauso he kniowsi the faels anid atrgn men'lts atre all algainist 1him. Hlis hoj 0 is! to keep tho(so4 facts aid1 argunliont H from the pe'oplo of South Ciarolinii. Accept. my condlolence on the un happy andit atbsurd situationt into which thisl would-ho dictator has h d yout. You mairy be aHaureod that lie will finid ia crevice through whlich to e'rawlv, leaving you to sitanid the fire when it becomesi hot and that having ushed y'ou lie will cast you asHido l ike manyi) lie has formerly used(. 1 (des1rr to prVoclaint to tlio world hat you (do inot represent the intelli gonco, the D)emocracy or the peop)lo lof South CIarolinta; and( to you anld j-,nator Tilman that lie has never been miy maitster antd shall1 never b1); h bat lhe sha11 niot (escapo the vengeance that muist isuroly fall upon himi when th peo~plo have hoon miadd to undor st and1( hisn motivos, his methods, hisR r~eord. Tlo tbat, grand consiervator of free governmenit, the roserved pa-' trittism and1( common sensoO of the peopleI., I make appeal, againist patr ti isan intolerance and tyranny. Vory respectfully, Jo)hn Lowvndos McLamuin, Te'lhng1t an 1 untruith is likc leavinrg thec highway and( going into a ttngled1 forest. Youn know not how lonig it wvill take you to get back, or how much yout will suffecr from thle t.hornis and11 briers ini the wVi ld woeods. How much better is it to tcll theC truth att all times,