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SENATOR M'U Reviews at Length the Action of the Committee. IS SEVERE ON SENATOR TILLMAN. - - * Denounces the Action of the Commitfpp I IrtrpncnnnhlA mrtri Dpvnlii. tlcnary. Columbia. Special.?The State Demorratic executive has received Senator S McLaurin s reply to their action of July 2b. condeming his course in the Senate and demanding his resignation. It is of considerable length. Senator McLaurin v.-rites: Paris Mountain, S. C., August 5. 19)1. To the Democratic Executive Committee. State of South Carolina. Gentlemen:?The official notice of the action c? a majority of your committee c.r. July 25th was received by m? on August jst. five days after it had been announced in the newspapers. This published announcement was the first not: ? I had that an action affecting me was to be taken by your committee. I am now officially informed that the majority of your committee condemns ray course in the Senate, demands my resignation and undertakes IU fAjjt.j n* nuiii i;xtr t^ciiiuciniK \iaity. Twenty-or.^ men have attempted to usurp fh^ powers of 90.000 Democratic voters of .vouth- Carolina, and as an incident. i:i a meeting called for another purpose. 1 :.v > hastily endeavored to do what car. ..e done only by solemn proceedings if impeachment, expressly provided for in the constitution of the United State--. I hold rr.y commission from the D imocratit v;>.c'js of South Carolina. I recognize nc authority but theirs, take u> orders from any source but tliem. and shall in cine course appeal to them for judgment on my course as a Senator and my character as a man and a Democrat. Personally I am indifferent to your action lit. ause nobody has made you my master or censor, and I regard what you have done as merely expressing the malice and the fears of one individual. Senator B. R. Tillman. But for this always evil and indecent influence ordinary nsp'ct for the proprieties would probably have prevented the four of you who are my declared competitors for the srat 1 now have the honor to occupy, frcm attempting to use the power intrusted to you by your party to remove a rival from your path. As a citizen and Democrat of South Carolina I am mortified by your action because it has brought upon the State the condemnation and the ridicule of ~ '1 rtnMwi V> rAii cr"h t t'na lilt* rss rt.iu iiic |niuu\ uji vuguuui u.v country. Unhappily, those who a:e not intimately acquainted with oar conditions accept the action of your major ity as ^presenting the intelligence and Democra y of our State and both are made obi' ts of derision. Against this 1 wish to enter my solemn protest. I shall demonstrate how unfair, absurd and undemocratic your action is. an 1 I shall trust to the Democrats of South Carolina to repudiate it when the opportunity is given them. Your purpose is to deny that opportunity. It is in strong contrast with the blatant bonst of Senator Tillman at Gaffney to put me on trial before the party on the hustings with himself as prosecutor. As you know. I sought that test by accepting a proposal of appeal to the people, but the Governor saw fit to forbid it. Now Senator Tillman appears a3 prosecutor against me in my absence and by proceedings like those of the Star Chamber, which was the most infamous tribunal of English history, and thj most abhorrent to Anglo-Saxon instincts. seeks to exclude me from the nnrtv r-?.i debates and Dublic assem blages. It is your duty, as custodians of the party interests, to seek recruits and to strengthen the party. To save Senator Tillman from staking his record, strength and fortunes against mine, you to exclude me and my friends from the party. Whatever your individual motives may have b?en. the purport of your action is to facilitate the Senator in dodging me and to deny the peopl" the opportunity of pass'ng on my position'and conduct. It seems to me the Democratic masses of South Carolina are competent to say at the polls whether or not I have been a faithful Sfraror and a consistent Democrat. Why should you attempt to prevent them? It is no cause for wonder that Senator Tillman s' ould seek to make political assassins of you to avoid open and fair fleht. He has climbed to power by venomous abvse of many of the purest > men in the State who opposed him. for which he has always carefuily shirked personal responsibility, and on the political lives and fortunes of those who befriended him while h? needed friends. Norris. Tindal and Donaldson. mrn representing earnest purpose and the interests of the farmers of the State and therefore strong, were used by him to promote his own interests and then thrust aside. Irby, Shell and Farley tiled despising him because of his treachery to them and to the people. I am now in his way and because he has failed to strike me down he incites you to attempt to strangle me. and at the same time to destroy a white primary, to his advocacy of which he owed much of the bfst of his early following. Party principles are fixed and to the princi IURIN REPLIES. j: i i | : i pies of the Democratic party I have ' been uniformly faithful. Party policies! 1 ; are determined from time to time by , 1 party elections and conventions, and j 1 i no man nor body of men has the power , to say between those elections what j1 policies shall be the tests of party loy- i' alty. Senator Tillman is assuming tne j 1 ; prerogative of supreme boss and dicta- j ' tor to say who shall or shall not be re- i ' I garded as a Democrat next year. 1 do j' ! no: concede any such power to him nor j,s to you. He. nor all of your committee, ' ! together, has not the power to exclude . ' from candidacy, nor the polls at the ;' Democratic primary, the humblest citi- j 1 zon of South Carolina who declares ! ' himself to be a Democrat and pledges ; 1 ! himself to support the party nominees. J ' J Suppose in 1890 the executive commit- j 1 tee of the State had ruled out of the . party all who engaged in the "Farmers' |5 Movement?" Suppose two years later ; j it had excluded all who favored the ! < sub-Treasury idea? Such action would 1 have been unjust, tyrannical and in- ' : suiting to thousands of good citizens ; 1 and Democrats, but not more so than ] this proceeding of yours. I 1 In his double character as prosecut- ' 1 ing witness and attorney against me. ' Senator Tillman is reported as saying 1 before vour committee that I have 1 voted with the Republicans "in import- * ant matters" and that he has seen me ' conferring with Republican Senators. As I will show by the records he him- !1 self frequently voted with the Republi- > ; cans "in important matters." as all ' other Democratic Senators have done ' 1 from time to time. It is frequently nee- ; essary. proper and courteous to confer ' with members of the opposite party, as ' he knows and as every man of prac- ' tieal sense knows. These expressions of 5 his are attempts to take advantage of 1 credulity and ignorance. I do not think 1 there is a man in South Carolina so ig- i norant as to be really deceived by 1 them. He cannot put me under suspic- ' . ion as he has put himself by his own acts. I have not in public office retro- 1 graded from a. perhaps, honorable ' ; bankruptcy to dishonorable and unex- ' (plained wealth. He and I have drawn 1 the same salaries but I have found it ( impossible to save a dollar from mine. ' I have never, however truckled to corporations with the fawning of a tamed : 1 ' spaniel, made speeches against them, !( then voted for them, and accepted fa- i 1 i vors as he has done. I have never been 11 | the sole boss end buying agent of a 1 i newly created whiskey trust with its ! j rebates of $<10,000 to $70,000 a year. ' ! i none of which ever reached the State I Treasury. I have never had the hand- 1 ling of State bond refunding scheme 1 I with $28,000 of commissions never yet ' accounted for or explained. \ nor. Comtnr Till-n.in in- t ' to North Dakota and made speeches 1 j advocating the re-election of Repub- : ' lican Senator?Mr. Pettigrew. Senator j 1 Tillman and this Senator were promi nent in preventing by filibustering tac: tics a vote on the subsidy bill. The 1 newspapers said that Mr. Hill, head of the Northern Pacific lobby against the ' subsidy bill, gave Senator Tillman's friend and associate a "tip" which paid 1 him $450.0p0 in the stock market. Birds ! of a feather, gentlemen of the commit- : tee. always flock together. 1 Has Senator Tillman, prosecuting at- j torney against my Democracy, ever ' failed to abuse Democrats and Demo- | cracy? Do you know that in the last | ' two Democratic national conventions j he has supported the nomination o.' Republicans? In 1896 he favored Sena- ' tor Teller for President, an old line Re- ; publican and one of the bitterest foes of the South in reconstruction days. He j had himself appeared before the convention as a competitor of W. J. Bryan : ' and been ignominiously snowed under. | In 1900 he was for Towne, also a Re- ; ' publican, for Vice President. Is he the | rran to be supreme arbiter and judge I of what Is Democracy in South C3ro- ' Una? I 1 In the Senate I have labored, as the records will show, to broaden the prosperity of the count!y. to promote the 1 interests of my own people, to spread 1 civiliraticn, to enlarge and increase op- ' portunitv for our young men and to 1 stimulate enterprise. His whole politi- ' cal coursp and methods have b?en to 1 blight and rest:ain to bite wheie he blight and restrain .to bite where he ] dared and to fawn where he feared or j sought favor. 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 do it regardless of ( the orders of twenty-one members of! 1 the executive committee. I shall ask j ' the people to decide between the man ; who has tried to help cotton factories. I open highways of commerce end to so , < command the Democrat party as to M tn.r- it tho or<nitdpnrp and re- ' C spect of the business and laboring ele- a ments North and South; and that of J the man whose conduct and record h'as t been to sink the party to disrepute and > importance. I shall ask them to say 1 '< whether they prefer the Senator who j I ! has tried to retain for South Carolina > J the honor and dignity won by a long I line of illustrious sons and glorious I deeds, or the Senator who has postured a as buffoon and bully and who pro- j a j claimed on the floor of the Senate that 1 * he represented a constituency of ballot v box stuffers and murderers who want-: a j ed their share of the stealage. ' i j You have undertaken to condemn ani 1 expel and depose me. not only without i a hearing but without evidence. Upon I what grounds are my good faith as a f Sen- tor and my fidelity as a Democrat b availed? Ls it on the tariff? None of c u jrou of the committee can prove to the people that the Democratic party is a free trade party. It has opposed a tarift" policy for protection omy. but as ^arly as 1797 we had a protective tariff and we have never in the one hunIred and four years since known fre? :rade. General Hancock, the party jomiuee for President in 1880. regarded lie tariff as a local question. Samuel I. Randall, for years the party leader and Speaker of the House, was a proectionist. In every Congress where he question has been presented numbers of Democrats have voted against, and helped to kill free trade. I have contended that Southern products should be put on equality with others, tnd in 1897 I fought to have rice, pine lumber and cotton protected. The cry if "Republican" was raised against ne then, but the people, before whom he is3ue was squarely put. endorsed me by an overwhelming vote. Are you now undertaking to reverse that verlict? I have favored ship subsidies. It is i great question and one. I submit. >n which the people of this State are competent to pass after hearing full argument. The subject has never been discussed before them although it is of rast importance to the prosperity of this State. The purpose of the subsidy s to develop the building and operation of great fleets of American ships, it touches the interest of our sea ports, of our lumber industries, of all our manufacturing enterprises and our ?reat agricultural products. It is a question on which some of the ablest Democrats of the House and Senate ire divided. I most humbly submit that it is not in order for twenty-one members of your committee to rule that the Democratic masses of South Carol ni shall not at their campaign meetings liear this matter of vital interest to them discussed; and that the people of ' - ?? n'K a u'aiiIH 1 i Lr o f-r? me sea tuasi ?it tea, ?uu nuuiu ?%. | see new tides of commenrce brought to their harbors and the lumbermen aud owners of roset lands who would be glad to sell material for more ships, are to be thrown neck and heels out o: the party because they favor ship subsidies. Senators Carlisle. Pugh and Morgan voted for a subsidy bill which has been in force ten years and which has helped our Brazilian trade, in a measure at least. Are they not Demo-1 rats, according to the decision of Sen-1 itor Tillman and your committee? I believe that it is our duty to develop the new territory which has onie into^our possession along commercial and industrial lines, to civilize hem, and make them the equal of our awn State in material prosperity. Senator Tillman wou:d leave them, after we have deprived them of the protection of Spain, to a hopeless Jt". g gle as an independent nation without esources or self-protection. Fortunately for us the records show that in building them up. we are going to benefit our own country. I want to give that territory the best form of government in the world; he does not want to give it any form of government at all., lie says "free silver or bust." I say the American peopde have settled that auestion at the ballot box. I am for a sound currency and con-, -* ?* fnr ail who desire siani i-ui|iiuiiiicm us. n.. work at remunerative wages. This we cannot have without an outlet for our surplus products on equal terms with ill of our oometitors in the markets af the world. Do you think the energetic, live, progressive young business man of the South will long permit the cables of a few scheming politicians to stand between him and the attainment jf these glorious ends? If this is not Democracy, then gentlemen, I invite fou to join hands with me in making It so. -? laoUincr mipstinn nn i Licratr aic tiic tvuuii.Q M which I understand my Democracy and loyalty have been assailed. The recards give me little light as to what further ground there n.ay be for your I iction. Allow me to summarize t^em I briefly. In the first session of the 5oth Congress Senator Tillman and myself voted together in 148 of 150 yea and nay rotes. I voted against him for protection to , the farmers on an amendment to the j :ariff bill, proposed by Senator Jones. , af Arkansas, present chairman of the Democratic executive committee. Possibly you may recovene your committee and read him out of the party. I roted with Jcncs, Vest, Bacon. Bate, J i Berry. Daniel, Mills. Morgan and all , the other Democrats, except Senators Tillman and McEnery. who voted with ( he Republicans. It was a straght ] aarty vote. On another amendment to , the same bill I voted with the Demorats. Senator Tillman was the one ( Democrat voting with the Republicans. Congressional Record, vol. 30, page 1,577. In the second session of the same Congress Senator Tillman and m/self roted together on 82 of 95 roll calls. )ne vote on which we differed was on l motion to adjourn, intended to defeat ; i resolution calling upon the President i o intervene in Cuba. Senator TiKman roted with the Republicans to adjourn t .-J mntlnn nrovailpd hv One VOte. 1 LUU IUC v .... ? ? voted with the Democrats. The other i rotes on v/hich we differed were unim- i ;ortant and not party questions the < >artles dividing on all. I favored the < icceptance of the Hawaiian Islands 1 ilong with such Democrats a3 Gorman. j Cyle, Money. Morgan. Pettus arrd Suliian. and he. with the other Democrats ' ind some Republicans was opposed to ' t. | On page 4.S5S. vol. 3. of the Record , t is shown that I voted, with all the ] )emocrats but three and all the Rp- ( lublicans, for a bill to provide for ar- j dtration of disputes between railway s ompanies and their employes. Sena- j t tor Tillman was ore of the three against it. We also differed on a bill :inhibiting intoxicating liquors to b# sold in the territory of Alaska. I favored and he opposed the prohibition. Possibly he had views on a dispensary and rebates there. On the final passage of the army bill we differed. I voted for it and had with me Senators Foster. Lindsay, Morgan and Sullivan. We voted together for amendments extending the constitution of the United States over the Philippines on strict party linos. On the question cf governing our outlying possessions he and I voted together and it is this that determines the matter 'cf Imperialism, not the possession of the territory.) I voted to take po3sessioc aoid rule justly. He voted not to take possession but to rule. He and I voted together on all party questions except those concerning the DklllnnmM urVl!r.V> mv tllHeTTlPnf P*gr cised as a Senator and a representative of the people, told me was a question of foreign relations, involving entirely new problems and, therefore, not properly a party question and on which ray political judgment told me the country was praetiraJly united. The Democratic party was wrecked by being forced in this matter into a policy opposed to its own tnditions. and the overwhelming sentiment of the country. against my pretest and that of other loyal Democrats. Developments have proved that those who maintained that the pacification of these Llands was impossible, that the people would never accept cur control and that their retention would be unprofitable and disastrou-s were wrong. I am ready to ge before the people of South Carolina and show them the facts. Do you undertake to say that I must resign and put myself out of my party because I favored upholding the dignity cf the Araericait fiag after its troops had bean fired on, and oppo3ad a cowardly abandonment of the peopls on these islands to chaos? Is the prop osition to pumsn me, oecause i <110 not believe Aguinaldo to be the equal of George Washington or concede that the Filipinos could instantly and unguided organize for themselves a stable government and a high civilization? I have been at some pain3 to show from the records, by volume and page, that where Senator Tillman and I differed in Congress it was not on party questions; and that he voted with the liepublicans at least as often as 1 did. and that in every ca-:e where we divided I had with me Lhmocrats | who possess the confidence of t'bo | party throughout the country and j whose Democracy not even his reckless I and slanderous insolence dares to J assail. I could go further and show | other instances in which he has voted . against the great majority of h'.o party and even against his own declarations?probably on the Piatt amendment to the Cuban bill. He had declared his purpose to oppose and \ fight this to the last ditch; but he , voted for it. Some of h s present newspaper friend3 said at the time that he did it to curry favcr with the Charleston vote, hoping to trade the exposition bill through. If that was the case, he was the shallow viet.m of a political green goods game and sold himself for sawdust. Lut I have said enough, I think, to prove to you and to the public that you?like many who have risen and gone before you? have permitted yourselves to be maia tools of by Senator Tillman, to promote his own base and brutal end? and to protect him from the struggle he fears to face, because he knows that the facts and arguments are a 1 against him. His hope is to keep those facts and arguments from the ptople of South Carolina. Ai'i'Mt mv mnrlrvlpnpn on the nnhan py and absurd situation into which this would be dictator has led you. You may be assured that he will tlnd a crevice through which to crawl, leaving you to stand the flre whoa it becomes hot, and that having used you he will cast you aside like many he has formerly used. I desire to proclaim to the world that you do not represent the indulgence, the Democracy or the people of South Carolina; and to ycu and Senator Tillman that he has never been my master and shall never be; that he shall not escape the vengeance that must surely fall upon him wh n the people have been made to understand his motives, his methods, his debased character and hi3 shameful record. To that grand conservator of free government, the reserved patriotism and common sense of the people. [ make appeal against partisan intolerance and tyranny. Very respectfully, JNO. LOWNDES McLAURIN. News Notes. According to an English paper King Edward has pronounced that an automobile Is part of the necessary equipment of a gentleman, says the New Vork Times. The paper which prints this decree of royalty remarks gently that there was a time when a gentleman was defined as "one who keeps a 5ig." We hope that certain members 3f the summer colony at Newport will lerive just gratification from the knowledge that they are gentlemen iccording to the standard of Edward VII. But meanwhile it seems to orJioary human beings saddening to dear such twaddle from hint* who should be "the first gentleman of Eu ope." For a time it looked as if he vere going to be "every inch a King." jut if he is going to utter such eviiences of royal wisdom we shall all 'ind that he is still our old acquaintmce. the Prince of Wales. Let us hope :hat he did not say it. STRIKE SITUATION. ~ Both Sides Of The Great Steel War Claim Victory. . PRESIDENT SHAFFER NOT TALKING, Some of The Workers Refuse to Go Out On President Shaffer's Orders, While Aid Is Expected From The Federation of Labor. . Pittsburg, Special?The iron masters are claiming victory in the great steel strike. They base their claims upon the refusal of the Amalgamated Association at Chicago, Joliet and Bay View to obey the general strike order j o; President Shaffer, and the success ! in maintaining operations in other plants where it was anticipated there would be serious trouble. The strike leaders meet the claims of victory with the assertion that their cause is making satisfactory progress and that they will show themselves masters of the situation before the contest has progressed much further. They do not conceal their disappoint! ment at the refusal of their Western | brethren to join with them in the strike, but none of the leaders would discuss the defection. President Shafj for refused to meet the newspaper men who sought him and kept within ! the seclusion of his home. The other leaders who were seen intimated that i there would be developments Monday and throughout the week which would materially change the situation. They I would not say. however, what they had in mind or how their cause wa3 to gain strength. It was said they were counting upon strong aid from | the American Federation of Labor and other organizations of union labor, though these bodies have not yet given any public indication of what they will do. The Amalgamated Association has developed great strength in the Wheeling district and has made gains in some of the Pennsylvania districts, but it will be Monday before the lines of cleavage will bs marked with sufficient clearness for a count of the men. The strike headquarters were closed Sunday and it was claimed that no reports were being received from the outlying districts as to the progress of the strike except in a general way. The steel officers were in communication with their supporters and at il o'clock made public the result of their reports. The letter showed that South Chicago, Joliet and Bay View, at Mil"-, waukce, had voted to stay in; that the Ohio works of the National Steel C:mnanv at Ynunsstnwn. and the Kinc. Gilbert and Warner plants of the National Steel Company at Columbus had resumed without trouble; that the Homestead. Edgar Thompson. Duquesne. Upper and Lower Union, and. Howard Axle Works, of the Carncg a group, employing more than 15,000 men, had resumed without trouble; that the converting and blooming mills of the National Tube Company, at McKeesport, had started without difflcul if ovwl fViof Qx.11 a ira V? a H noon nnlv TVQ T tially crippled. They were adviser! also that the men of the Beaton Rolling Mills,at McKeesport.had notiiedthe National Tube Company that they would go out to-morrow, and thai while the National Tube Company a; McKeesport would be started in the morning, it wa3 certain that many men would go out. They were notified that their Wheeling plants were crippled and that it was uncertain what would be done there. The advices also said that the Clark Mill here, which has been running non-union for several days, would be started up as usual to-morrow morning and that there was no doubt about its successful operation. The steel officials were elated over their showing at the Carnegie plants and in Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin, and expressed confidence in speedy victory over the Amalgamated A3soc;% tion. England Favors Separate Terms. London. By Cable.?"Instead of 4 trusting the conversation of ad valorem into specific dutes to a cumbrous internationalcommission," 3ays a dispatch to The Times from Pekin, "Great Britain favors each power making separate negotiations as to tariff and securing the advantages of 'he most favored nations. The French minister desires to Increase the membership of the conservacy board. If his proposal is accepted, this will give votes to the United States and France." Bomb Explode d in a t hurch. Paris. By Cable.?A bomb was exploded Sunday afternoon near the altar of the Church of St. Nitizier and considerable damage was done to the windows, but did not injure any of the hundred children, who, together with a priest, were in the sacred edifice at the time. A Spaniard has been arrested on suspicion of being the ai* thor of the outrage.