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M'LAURIN'S REPLY To !?3 orno eratic Executive Committee. PARIS MOUNTAIN, S. C., . principles are fixed and to the princi August 5tb, 1901. pies of thc Democratic party 1 have To the Democratic Executive Commit- been uniformly faithful. Party poli tec, State of South Carolina. cics aro determined from time to time Gentlemen: Thc official notice of j by party elections and conventions, the action of a majority of your com ! and no man nor body of men has thc mittec of July 25th was received by power to say between th<?sc elections me on August 1st five days after it j what policies shall be the tests of had been announced in thc oewspa- ; party loyalty. Senator Tillman is as pcrs. This published announcement suming the prerogative of supreme wai thc first notice I lia?! that any boss and dictator to sav who shall or any action affecting me was io be shall not bc regarded UH a Democrat taken by your committee. I am now next year. I do not concede any such officially informed that tho majority power to him nor to you. Ile, nor all of your committee condemns my of your committee together, has not course in the Senate, demands my ! the power to exclude from candidacy resignation and undertakes t" expel nor ?lip poll? ut thc Democratic pr: me from thc Democratic party. T von- j mary the humblest citizen of South ly-one men have attempted to usurp i Carolina who declares himself to be a thc powers of the 90,000 Democratic Democrat arni pledges himself to sup voters of South Carolina aud as un port thc party nominees. Suppose in incident, in a meeting called for an- , 1890 the Executive Committee of tho other purpose have hastily endeavored State had nilen1 out ol' the party all to do what can bedout- ?oily by solemn ' who engaged in the "Farmers' Move proceedings of impeachment, express- ; mont?" Suppose two years later it ly 'provided for in the Constitution ot' , had excluded all who favored the Sub the United States. Treasury idea? Such action would I hold my commission from tho ! have been unjust, tyrannical and in Democratic voters of South Carolina, j suiting; to thousands of good citizens I recognize no authority but theirs, and Democrats, hut not more so than take no orders from any source but j this proceeding 'd' yours, them, and shall in duo course appeal \ In his double character as proscen io them for judgment on my course as j ting witness and attorney against me, a Senator and my character as a man ; Senator Tillman is reported as saying and a Democrat. I before your committee that 1 have Personally 1 am indifferent to your voted with thc Republicans "in im action because nobody bas made you portant matters" and that he has sect? tny master or censor, and I regard mc conferring with Republican Sena what you have done as merely express- tors. As 1 will show by the records i ag the malice and the fears of one bc himself frcjueutly voted with thc individual, Senator B. R. Tillman. Republicans "in important matters" But for this always evil and indecent as all other Democratic Senators have influence ordinary respect for thc done from time to time. It is fre proprietics, would probably have prc- qucntly necessary, proper and cour vented the four of you who arc my teous to confer with members of the declared competitors for tho scat I opposite party, as bc kuows and as now have thc honor to occupy, from every man of practical sense knows, attempting to usc thc power entrusted These expressions of his are attempts to you by your party to remove a rival to take advantage of credulity aud from your path. ignorance. I do not think there is a As a citizen and Democrat of South mau in South Carolina so ignorant as Carolina I am mortified by your ac- to bc really deceived by them. Ile tion, because it has brought upou the eau not put me under suspicion as he State thc condemnation and the ridi- has put himself by his own acts. I have eulo of the press and thc public not in public office retrograded from throughout tho country. Unhappily, a, perhaps, honorable bankruptcy to those who are not intimately acquaint- dishonorable and unexplained wealth, ed with our conditions accept thc ac- He and I have drawn the sumo salu tion of your majority as representing rics but I have found it impossiblo to the intelligence and Democracy of our save a dollar from mine. I havo State and both arc mado objocts of never, howover, truckled to corpora derision. Against this 1 wish to en- tions with thc fawning of a tamed ter my solemn protest. I shall dem- spaniel, mado speeches ngainst them, onstrato how unfair, absurd and un- then voted for them, and accepted democratic your action in; and I shall favorB as he has done. I havo never trust to the Democrats of South Caro- boen tho sole boss and buying agent lina to repudiate it whon the oppor- of a newly created whiskey trust with tunity ia given them. Your purpose its rebates of $60,000 to $70,000 a is to deny that opportunity. year, none of whioh ever reached the It is in strong contrast with the Stato treasury. I have never had tho blatant boast of Senator Tillman at handling of a State bond refunding . Gaffney to put me on trial before tho sohemo with $28,000 of commissions party on thc hustings with himself as never yet accounted for or explained, prosecutor. As you know, I sought A year ago Senator Tillman wont that test by accepting a proposal of into North Dakota and made speeches appeal to the peoplo, but thc governor advocating thc re-election of a lle s:iw fit to forbid it. Now Senator publican Senator-Mr. Pettigrew. Tillman appears as prosecutor against Senatorr Tillman nnd this Son nie in my absence and by proceedings ator were prominent in prc like those of the star chamber, which venting by filibustering tactics a was thc most infamous tribunal of vote on the subsidy bill. Tho nows Eoglish history, anti thc most abhor- papers Baid that Mr. Hill, hoad of tho rent to Anglo-Saxon instincts, seeks Northern Pacific lobby against the to exclude mc from the party and its subsidy bill, gave Senator Tillman's debates and public assemblages. It is friend and associate a "tip" which your duty, as custodians of thc party paid him f-150,000 in thc stock mar interests, to seek recruits and to kct. Birds of a feather, gentlemen strengthen the party. To save Sena- of thc committee, always flock to tor Tillman from staking bis record, gcthcr. strength and fortunes against mine, Das Senator Tillman, prosecuting you undertake to exclude me and my attorney against my Democracy, over friends from thc party. "Whatever failed to abuse Democrats and Demo your individual motives may have craoy? Do you know that in the last been, the purport of your action is to two Democratic national conventions facilitate the Senator in dodging mc bc has supported the nomination of aod to deny the people tho opportunity Republicans? In 189G he favored of pas&ing on my positions and con- Senator Toller for President, au old duct. It seems to me the Democratic linc Republican, and ono of the bit masses of South Carolina are compe- tercBt foes of the South in rcconstruc tcnt to say at tho polls whether or not tiou days. Ile had himsolf appeared I have been a faithful Senator and a before thc convention as a competitor consistent Democrat. Why should of W. J. Bryan and been ignomin you attempt to prevent them? iously snowed under. In 1900 he was It is no cause for wonder that Sena- for T?wne, also a Republican, for tor Tillman should seek to mako politi- Vico President. Is he the man to be cal assassins of you to avoid open and ^Promc arbiter and judge of what is fair fight. He has climbed to power Bemooraoy in South Carolina? by venomous abuse of many of the In the Senate I have labored, as the purest men in the State who opposed records will show, to broaden the him, for which he has always care- prosperity of the country, to promote fully shirked personal responsibility, the intorests of my own peoplo, to and on the political lives and fortunes spread civilization, to enlarge and in of those who befriended him while he crease opportunity for our young men needed friends. Norris, Tindal and and to stimulate enterprise. His Donaldson, men representing earnest whole political course and method have purpose and thc interests of thc farm- been to tear down, to abuse and op era of the State and therefore strong, poso, to blight and restrain, to bite were used by him to promote his own where he dared and to fawn whero he interests and then thrust aside. Irby, feared or sought favor. I shall ask Shell and Farley died despising him the people to contrast the records and b?c??se of his treachery io them and bli all ul ai rn my righi ss a free man, a <"i the people. I am now in his way bora and reared Democrat and a Sena id because he has failed to strike me tor from South Carolina, to do it re UJ? I he incites you to attempt to gardless of tho orders of twenty-one Bira ../lo me, and at the same time to members of the Exeoutive Committee. ,"".',. " ?M? ' TN v- i I shall ask the people to decide be / nnstrov a white OTITOarVt to rn* nd- ? ? * * ..... / * * ' i L i . ~ ? : iweau une man wno nae tneu io neip / voeacy of which ho owed much of tna cotton factories, open highways of best of Lia carly following. Party I commerce and to so command the Democratic party as to command tor it tlx; confidence and respect of tire business uud laboring clements North and South; and that of the man whose conduct and record has been to sink . the party to disrepute and impotence. j I 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 deeds, or the Senator who has postured as buf foon and bully and who proclaimed on the floor of the Senate that he repre sented a constituency of ballot box stuficrs and murderers who wanted their share of thc stcalage. He is now io a Northern State hold ing up our people as negro murderers and ballot box thieves. You have undertaken to condemn and expel and depose me, not only without a hearing but without evi dence, lipon wini t. ground ?re :r.y good faith as a Senator and my fidel ity as u Democrat assailed? It is ou the turin*? None of you of the com mittee can prove to thc people that thc Democratic party is a freo trade pmly. it hu? opposed a tariff for protection ouly, but as early as 17D7 we had a protective tariff and we havo BC vcr in the one hundred and four years since known free trade. Gen eral Hancock, the party nominee for president in 1880, regarded ?he tariff as a local question. Samuel .J. Ran dall, fur years a party leader and Speaker >f thc House, was a protec tionist. In every Congress where thc question has been presented numbers of Democrats have voted against and helped to kill free trade. I have con tended that Southern products should he put on equality- with others, and in 18?J7 I fought to have rice, pine lumber and cotton protected. Thc cry of "Republican" was raised against me then, but the people, before whom the issue was squarely put, endorsed me by an overwhelming vote. Are you now uudertaking to reverse that ver dict? I have favored ship subsidies. It is a great question and one I submit ou which tho pcoplo of this State are competent to pass after hearing full argument. The subject has never been discussed before them although it is of vast importance to the pros perity of this State. The purpose of tho subsidy is to develop the building and operation of great fleets of Ameri can ships. It touches the interest of our sea ports, of our lumberindustries, of all our manufacturing enterprises and our great agricultural products. It is a question on which some of the ablest Democrats of the Rouse aud Senate are diviped. I most humbly submit that it is not in order for twenty-one members of your commit tee to rule that tho Democratic rnaases of South Carolina shall not at their campaign meetings hear this matter of vital iotcrcst to thom discussed; and that thc people of the sea ooaBt cities, who would like to see new tides of commerce brought to their harbors and the lumbermen and own ers of forest lauds who would be glad to sell material for more ships, are to bo thrown neck and heels out of the party beoanse they favor ship sub sidies. Senators Carlisle, Pugh and Morgan voted for a subsidy bill which has boon in force ten years aad which has helped our Brazilian tra<?.e, in a measure at least. Aro they not Demo crats, according to tho decision of Senator Tillman and your committee? I bcliove that it is our duty to de velop thc new territory which has come into our possession along com mercial and industrial lines, to civil ize them, and make them the equal of our own States in material prosperity. Senator Tillman would leave them after we have depri ved thom of the protection of Spain to a hopeless struggle as an independent nation without resources or self protection. Fortunately for us tho records show that in building thom up, wo aro going to benefit our own country. I want to give that territory the best form of government in tko world, ho does not want to give it any form of govern ment at all. He says "free silver or burst." I say thc American people have settled that question at the bal lot box. I am for a sound currency and con stant employment for all who desire work at remunerative wages. This wc cannot have without an outlet for our surplus products on equal terms with all our competitors in the mar kets of the world. Do yon think the energetic, live, progressive young bus iness man of the South, will long per mit thc cabals of a fow soheming po liticians to stand botween him and the attainment of these glorious ends? If this is not Democracy, then gentle men, I invite you to join hands with me in making it so. These are the leading questions on which I understand my Democracy and loyalty have been assailed. The records give rae little light as to what furthor ground there may be for your action. Allow mo to summarize them briefly. In the first soasiou of the 55th Con gress Senator Tillman and myself voted together in 148 of 150 ye? and nay votes. I voted *?ftinftt h'm for protection to the farmers on an amendment to the tariff bill, proposed by Senator Junes, of Arkansas, present chairman of the Democratic Executive Commit tee. Possibly you may reconvene your committee and read bim out of party. I voted with Jone3, Vest, Bacon, Bato, Berry, Daniel, Mills, Morgan and all tuc other Democrats, except.SecatorsTillman and McEnery, who voted with tho Republicans. It was a straight party vote. On anoth er amendment to the same bill I voted with the Democrats. Senator Tillman was tho one Democrat voting with the Republicans. See Congressional Re cord, vol. 30, page 1577. In the second session of the same Congress Senator Tillman and myself voted together on 82 of 05 roll culls. One vote on which wc differed was on a motion to adjourn intended to de feat a resolution calling upon the President to intervene in Cuba. Sena tor Tillman voted with tLe Republi _? " _ J :- ... J .t.- _ - Cuua vi/ aujuuiu auu tuc UL'/LIV/U jno vailed by one vote. I voted with the Democrats. The other votes on which we differed were unimportant and not party questions, thc parlies dividing on all. I favored the acceptance of thc lia wa i aun Islands along with such Democrats as Worman, Kyle, Money, Morgan, Pcttus and Sullivan, and he, with the other Democrats and some Republicans were opposed to it. On page 4858, vol. 31, of the Record it is shown that I voted, with all the Democrats but three and all the Re publicans, for a bill lo provide for ar bitration of disputes between railway companies and their employes. Sen ator Tillman was one of the three against it. We also differed on a bill prohibiting intoxicating liquors to bc sold in the territory of Alaska. I favored aud he opposed the prohibi tion. Possibly he had views on a dis pensary and rebates there. On a vote to recommit the confer ence report on thc River and Harbor bill I voted for the recommitment with such Democrats as Chilton, Heit feldt, Kenuey, Mills, Rawlins and Turner. He voted against with such Republicans as Allison, Burrows. Cul loin, Davis, Elkins, Foraker, Hale, Hawley, Lodge, Perkins, Platt and Quay. In the first acssion of the 5Gth Con gress Senator Tillman and I voted together on 67 out of 71 roll calls. In each of thc four eases in which we differed the parties were divided. The most notable of these was on thc ad mission of Senator Quay. I voted for it with Senators Daniel, Kenny, McEnery, Morgan and Taliaferro, Democrats. He opposed with most oi the Democrats and eleven Republi cans, including lianna, Platt, Fora ker, G-allinger and Hale. In the last session of the same Con gress Senator Tillman and mysell voted together in most of the 57 vote: taken. On a resolution requiring thc President to issue in ten days a pro olamation disclaiming any purpose tc exercise sovereignty over the PhiHp pines I voted "nay" with Foster Kyle, Lindsay, Morgan and Sullivan Democrats. Senator Tillman was om of 22 favoring it. On aa amendmen declaring that it was not the purposi of the United States to exercise per manent control over thc Philippines Senator Tillman with most of th Democrats and Senator Hoar, Repub Hean, voted "aye." I, with Senator Foster and Lindsay, Democrats, vote "nay." On the final passage of tho arm bill wc differed. I voted for it an had with mc Senators Foster, Linc say, Morgan and Sullivan. We vote together for amendments extendi? thc Constitution of the United State over the Philippines on strict paTt lines. On the question of governing oi outlying possessions he and I vote together and it is this that determine the matter of imperialism, not tl possession of 'he territory. I vote to take possession and rule just) He voted not to take possession but ? rule. He and I voted together on all par questions except those concerning ( ) Philippines which my judgment, exe cised as a Senator and a represent live of the people, told me waB questiou of foreign relations, invol ing entirely new problems and thei fore not properly a party question ai on which my political judgment to mc thc country was practically unite The Demooratio party was wreok* '. 1 being forced in this matter into policy opposed to its own traditio! and the overwhelming sentiment the country, against my protest a that of other loyal Democrats. I velopments have proved that thc who maintained that the paoificati of these islands was impossible, tl the people would never accept c control and that their retention wot be unprofitable and disastrous wi wrong. I am ready to go before ( people of Sonth Carolina and sh them the faots. Do you undertake say that I mast resign and put mya ont of the party because I favored i i holding the dignity of the Amerii flag after its troops had been fired ' and opposod a cowardly abandonna of the people of these islands to ohs Is the proposition to punish mo cause I did not believe Aguinaldc be the ecus! of George Washingtor. oonoede that the Filipinos could stantlyand unguided organize for th selves a stable government and a high . civilization? I have been at some pains to show from the records, by volume and page, that where Senator Tillman and I differed to Congress ?twas not on party questions: and that he voted with the Republicans at least as often as I did, and that in every case where we di vided I had with me Democrats who possess the confidence of the party throughout the country and whose Democracy not even his reckless and slanderous insolence dares to assail. I could go further and show other instances io which he has voted against the great majority of his party and even against his own declarations notably in the Platt amondment to the Cuban bill. Ile had declared his purpose to oppose and fight this to the last ditch; but he voted for it. Some of his present newspaper friends said at the time tuat he did it tu curry favor with the Charleston vote, hoping to trade thc exposition bill through. If that was the case, he was the shal low victim of a political green goods game and sold himself for sawdust. But I have said enough, I think, to prove to you and to thc public that you-like many who have risen and gone before you have permitted your selves to be mado tools of by Senator Tillman, to promote his own base and brutal ends and to protect him from a struggle he fears to face, because he knows that the facts and arguments are all against him. His hope is to keep those facts and arguments from the people of South Carolina. Accept my condolence on the un happy and absurd situation into which this would be dictator has led you. You may be assi.ied that he will find a crevice through which to crawl, leaving you to stand the fire when 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 intelli gence, the Democracy or the peoplo of South Carolina; and to you and Sena tor 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 when the people have been made to understand his motives, his methods, his debased character and his shameful record. To that grand conservator of free gov ernment, the reserved patriotism and common sense of the people, I make appeal against partisan intolerance and tyranny. Very respectfully. 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