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State Warehouse ( Ajlr* J /y ??vs n iflLI^UUI III x 1 p u Assails the State Democracy. Editorial in The State, June 2. The charge brought by Mr. John L AfcLaurin that ex-Governor Evans "owes his position as State chairman to the fact that in 1912 scorne man not restrained by conscientious scruples was needed to overturn the verdict of the people at the ballot "box" is a charge not so much against Mr. Evans as it is against the DEMOCRATIC PARTY IX SOUTH CAROLINA It is supported bv no evidence. It can be supported by none. Mr. Evans has been, in times past, the object of unsparing criticism, but it has remained for John L. McLaurin to originate this accusation. In 1914 and again in 1916 Mr. Evans was elected State chairman and if what i^r. McLaurin says is true, or half true, the Democratic party in South Carolina does not deserve the sup port of honest men. If The fState believed dt The State would leave the Democratic organization in preference to sacrificing its self-respect and if Mr. McLaurin believes that the / Democratic party is so corrupt and rotten as the repeated election to the head of its affairs of a man unrestrained by conscientious scruples to * - - A- ij J.' i ^ v direct mem /wouiu muicaie, uvw uue& fce justify his continuance in it and acceptance of honors and emoluments at its hands? Where is the man who regards his own honor that in one breath denounces as corrupt the management of the party with which he affiliates and in another seeks place 1 and power from it? Time was when . "Mr \foTjiiirin .was held in tender af- I tection by another party, the Republican party, when lie was offered ofHce -by it, when some of its directors in South Carolina were his companions. Accepting his expression about 3be Democratic organization now as sincere, when he hated the Republi. . . - > can party most ne must nave loveo. ft it better than ever he loved the party >of which John Gary Evans is the head in this State. 'Since the return of Mt. (McfLaurin to activity in the Democratic party of *South Carolina, The State has generally refused to publish references to v.?_ c?A. ?. 5 TV*? I ' aijs uiuort-uiiui-t; ytmucai iaviu. iuau after election to the United States \ senate under the most auspicious circumstances, as the candidate of all ^factions, he left that body at the end oi his term a politician discredited, in the Democratic party is the truth. That Chairman B ans bluntly restated it may have been unnecessary and ungracious, but, disregarding that, it does not excuse an accusation that, aimed at Mr. Evans, strikes the Ttemnrracv of the State. We have I been disposed to allow the incidents Oi 1901 'and 1902 to be forgotten; within the last month we have re? - jected communications bringing Mr. McLaurin's record into the limelight, and we have given him the amplest juse of our columns to exploit his - Warehouse system. Now, despite the ifact, which he will scarcely himself *deny, that only a few years ago his * wa; rrmrh better amone He I publican leaders, national and State. < than it was in his own party, and that lie had the ear of a Republican administration in Washington, he presumes to attack the DEMOCRATIC PARTY 5B SOUTH CAROLINA. t The 'State therefore respectfully ' * -* -L* - n AAftOCOrV ISHDEQllS *lA?Lt 11 is ictir auu uc^ccoui; *o consider the charge brought by <Mr. McLaurin together with Mr. McX>aurin*s political conduct and affilia":?fc3is during the last twenty years and that "whatever was its intent, its naif ral effect would be to plant -in the f minds of the people of tne siaie ui&irust of the party organization and to "teach them that they may expect that ike ballot box will be corrupted. St is within the rights of Mr. Mc-l^urin to oppose the Democratic 'party. "Republican" and "Prgorseaive" are not, in the opinion of The State, terms of reproach. The State is not endeavoring to read Mr. McLaurin out of the Democratic party, h?t The State does say that the I ofearge, ridiculous as it is, that he brings against Chairman Bvans, is better calculated to injure the party than though it came from an AVOWED Columbia, June 6, 191 . (Editor The Herald and News: Dear Sir: In an editorial in its is- | ?ue Qf June 2, The Columbia State, in j commenting upon a statement Which I made in regard to a letter from ex- j Sldnotnr .T A. ! I. VjrOVfcjruui XL# vcliio iv ?. Banks, in which Mr. Evans made a f'\. gratuitous and uncalled for attack up-! on me as a "discredited politician,"! fry said that my statement as io Mr. Evans was a charge against the Democratic party, which vras "better cal8 culated to injure the party than Commissioner \eolies to The State J ? r> _ _ A x * / \. V1 *n T"\ I mougn ii came irom an IvEPUBLICAX." I enclose a copy of my reply to The State, wliich, as you will see. is made up almost entirely of quotations taken from its own editorial columns. The editor, after repeated attacks of this character upon me, has refused to print my reply. I am sending you a copy of same, ivl-iinh in incfirp nnf onlv tr> me but to the people of South 'Carolina, should be made public. Respectfully, Jno. L. 'McLaurin. Columbia, June 6, 1916. To the Editor of The State: In its editorial, "Assails the DemoJ cracy," in its issue of June 2. The CoJ lumbia 'State contends that "the charge brought Dy Mr. Jonn l.. cviCL,aum; that ex-Governor Evans 'owes his position as State chairman to the fact that in 1912 some man not restrained by conscientious scruples was needed to overturn the verdict of the people at the ballot box' is a charge not so much against Mr. Evans as it i" against the Democratic party in Souta ( Carolina." The Columbia State mistakes a political convention ring for the Democratic party of the State. (Mr. Evans was repudiated by the people of South Carolina in 1896, while he 'was stili governor of the State, and The Columbia State led the fight for his repudiation, and none gloried in ' it Imore than The Columbia State. He ifcac noon rp-nndiaferi hv the Deonle [ ?" ??- - -- - - 3very time he has sought office since. No harsher things could be said about any man than The Columbia State said about Governor Evans then ?and surely the office of governor is a higher office than that of State chairman. No harsher things could easily be said than The Columbia State has said about other men whc r\<> drill+ V> rarftUnO WCIT; gutciuui ui uvu^u uui Democratic governors elected byDemocrats after being nominated in a Democratic primary. No charge has been brought against the Democratic party in South Carolina. A charge has been brought, however, and The Columbia State is the only witness necessary to prove it. The contention ring wnicn was casting around in 1912 for a State chairman "not restrained by conscientious scruples, to overturn the verdict of the people at the ballot V?\" would naturally turn to the files ef The Columbia State to select such a man. Nothing would be more natural?for aren't all the political records written theTe, and hasn't The Columbia State fought, bled and died I with this ring in many political con- j " - * 4 A A 4 i tests since February is, ley,:,, uu which day it -was given birth to fight the "Reform" movement? Who was the logical man for the task to be performed? Some man who had the experience, of course, And who had the experience? Why, John Gary Evans, according to The Columbia State, then edited by the late Mr. X. G. Gonzales, whose name still appears at its masthead. What had Mr. Gorzales said of Mr. Evans ae fr\ hi* willinsness to "overturn the verdict of the people?'' Listen to his words in the issue o? his paper of 'August 29, 1896: "It is rumored that Go?v. Evans has induced by indirection the delay in the declaration of the primary vote for senator until to-day in the hope that Senator Tillman will persuade the executive committee to throw out j enough 'boxes in Charleston to give! him a majority. We are not worried;' ^? not that Pithor Till-' iui n c uv uui v.wui ? ? man or the committee would with open eyes sacrifice the 'Reform' party to the sucess of a weakling like Evans. 'Such an outrage would double the number of those 'Reformers' who have revolted against Evans. It would smash the party as nothing else would." It must have been on account of this experience in political chicanery that the convention of 1912 made him State chairman. It could not have | been on account of his merit, and he | could not have been the choice of the people, because The Columbia State, edited by Mr. N. G. Gonzales (whose name still floats at its masthead), >awav haek in 1896 tbat THE | PEOPLE would not risk any further experiments with him, and that he could not rise by his own merit. Listen to the words of Mr. N. G. Gonzales in the issue of The State of 'September 14, 1896: "Ordinarily we would feel sympathy for any opponent under such defeat J 1 "EV-q n O .hoc n ri | 2.UU IlUUlliiiliiUii ao iuitauo uuc ?> < i but in his case we cannot be sympa! thetic. He never deserved to be a ; governor, much less a senator. Neither his abilities nor his character war' i i ranted him in aspiring to the h'ghe-t |offices of the State. He gained one j such office by makn? himself the tool i i > anl today of another amii. and in that office he has so conducted himself . that even his master could not help him to another. Neither that master NOR THE PEOPLE WILL RISK ANY FURTHER EXPERIMENTS' W7ITH HIM; AiXD HE CANNOT RISE j i BY HIS OWN MERIT. HE SIMPLY j SINKS TO HIS NATURAL LEVEL, j AND THERE'S NOTHING IN THAT TO GIVE US REGRET." Surely The Columbia State does' not think that Mr. Evans stands for | the Democratic party in South Car- j olina and that a charge again, t him or against the convention ring which; made him chairman is a charge against the Democratic party! Surely The iState is a Detter Democrat than j that, and surely, if not, The Stateshould retire from the party, for, i verily, such a charge, "ridiculous as ; it is, is better calculated to injure j the party than though it came from : an AVOWED REPUBLICAN." Who is this man whom The State would make synonytoious with the Democratic party? Again, let us call The State as a witness: On July 6, 18^6, (Mr. X. G. Gonzales (whose name The State still bears at! * its masthead), said of him: ''The campaign of education has! progressed so finely that now the sug- j gestion that the governor (this same Mr. Evans, who was then governor? a higher position than State chair- j man) will get a $15,000 fee out of the j bond deal excites no surprise. In his j speeches throughout the campaign i meeting, Governor Evans has at- j tempted to snow tnat Mr. uuncan was j making an attack on Rhind for doing what all South Carolina wanted him to do and which no one else could do. He has gone off on a half dozen tangents, but he has not an-1 swered these very plain questions: j How much of the commissions do you I expect to get? Had you not an un-1 derstanding with. Mr. Rhind 'before j you recommended him to Governor Tillman? Can you not, by obtaining Rhind's "twoks and other evidence, make clear, without quibbling, your : whole connection with the bond re- . funding, so there will be no further dcubt as to just how you stand? Will . he answer them? No." Again, on August 28, 1896, after his failure to be nominated for the Unit- . ed States senate in the first [Democratic primary, The Columbia State, j then edited by Mr. >X. G. Gonzales (whose name still appears at its masthead), ssid of Mr. Evans: "In the common cause of decency;. ! J and in the further behalf of official honesty and manliness, we offer to the many thousand of 'Reformers' who voted against the election of' John Gary Evans to the? United States I ""iota nnv mnsf hpartv oonsrratula-1 i ovaubv w* i w ? I tions. * * * The issue 4 the cam-; paign was not between 'Reformers* and 'Conservatives/ but between honesty and dishonesty * * * No, it is not a Conservative victory, and means no resumption of old alignments. The cities and towns cast as a rule hardly two-thirds of their nor mal vote: some of them?lite Colum-1 I bia and Charleston?hardly half of it. While the returns from the cities came in it looked as if the vote of th? State would not exceed 55,000, but ! when the back districts were heard j from they increased the estimate by 1 over 20.000 votes. .And of these votes. ; cast mainly by 'Reformers,' Evans j j hardly received half. The 'Reformers' j did it. and we freely accord them tir^ credit. "It is no secret why they- did it. Thev doubted the honesty of this slated candidate. They recognized his lack of ability. They realized that he could not be a creditable representative of this 'State in the United | States senate. They did not propose \ i to support a tainted candidate because lie had got a clutch qu the coattails of a bigger man and expected to be hauled into a position many sizes too large for him and ten times too high for him. They didn't vote for Evans because they couldn't trust him; because by his course he had forfeited all confidence in his personal in- j legr-ii/. Again, listen to the words of Mr. N. G. Gonzales in The Columbia State on September 8, 1S96, and remember 1 that Mr. Gonzales' name still appears at the masthead of The State: " Finally, there is to be taken into account the dispensary revelations.! They come too late to have their full 1 *-1- - ' "O ? | j and proper influence upon cue x\.e-1 form' voters, but they nave already reached a great many of them, the reading and thinking members of the party. They behold Evans in the center of a very maelstrom of suspicion, j crimination and corruption; tney see ^ that, at the best, he has been cover-1 ing up rascality and condoning it. 1 ' and, at the worst, has been taking < J I pari in it; they see the .1:.-pessary, under his management, a shame and a .scandal; they realize that in beginning the exposure of its more than 'incipient rottenness' he is guided by foQVc onH rDl'oniroi a 11 /-? 11 At I)'.' a sense of public duty." And on September 9, September 11. and September 12, 1896, Mr. X. G. | Gonzales (whose name still appears at the masthead of The Columbia | State) again added his testimo , as witness the files of his paper: i QoT-i+am Viot" Q 1QQC ?n e n ao l-ino r>f ixi yt A u, i u */ u, ill kj * the defeat of Governor Evans by Judge Earle: "The hosts of darkness have not conquered. The people are unbribed and unsedifced. Thg votes of honest men have told for the right." September 11, 1S96: "John Gary Evans failed betause the people were against him and not all the strength of Tillman, and the dispensary machine, and officialdom, and partisanship, and corruption combined could seduce enough of them from their position of antagonism to him. Had these agen-j cies not been employed he would i have been buried under a majority J five times as great as that which van-j quisnea mm. mat an tnese usually i potential influences failed to have him ! is at once a demonstration of his ex-! treme obnoxiousness and a tribute to j the integrity and patriotism of the; majority of the Democratic voters of, South Carolina." September 12, 1896: "The Jotm! Gary Evans that The State said could' be beaten is the John Gary Evans! W'Vi r\ id VtAO f An n/MT .Ua Q AAA I %? uu i-o uvaiciiv ?> . . lit iuv-atu u,vuv j votes of reaching the maximum we; declared he could not pass. %The John Gary Evans whom The State prosecuted almost alone so long is the same John Gary Evans who has now 1 been pronounced guilty by the people. The John Gary Evans whom the constitutional convention adjudged to 'be so honest that he would not filch a rri5>ttor nf five vnfps ic t.hp same John Gary Evans who is now adjudged by | 43,000 votes capable o? a 'divvy' of! $15,000 in bond commissions and untold sums in whiskey rebates." The "Columbia State also added some testimony as to Governor Evans" unpaid 'bill to the State penitentiary for "rations" while he was governor. r* 4 A nrvw.TTIr%y- 1 auu d-fe iu luc jujci uaiui iai farm/' which it was "the highest hurdle of all, and we don't see 'how , it -can be jumped." '^=ee its issue of March ?A and March 25, 1899.) It bought testimony as to other matters, ad nauseam. (See its files from 1896 to 1908.) Such is the opinion held by The Columbia State of the man whom it wmilrl make svnonvmous with the' Democratic party in .South Carolina. ; Could a more serious charge be, broi\ .it against the party? T..e charge is not brought by me, | e'cJier against the party or against j ex-Governor Evans. i There are two cLear-cut issues: 1. The Columbia State vs VMr. Evans. 2. The Columbia. State vs. The ' Democratic party.. Happily, neither The Columbia: State nor John Gary Evans is the Democratic party, and happily, neither has been delegated by the party to speak for it. The people of South Carolina are yet free and. independent. Conve'n- j tions ma}- be '"controlled,'" tKit tie i people can't be. "'Let the heathen rage."' The God of Si-ai still directs the destines of men. "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further.- and here shall thy >proud waves be stayed," watrld control th? oceans today as firmly as in the days r>f Tnh Hp still is master of the i winds, and even the Atlantic Ocean someifm.es ywlds upi to those who love the Lord voluminous records which, have been blown upon its waters by the raging storms, which hover around j and sometimes wreak their ren- j geance upon the otherwise peaceful i little city of Beaufort and other sea- i coast towns of South Carolina. -J-'* - c T.. ^ r*K I lOUr tJUlLWiai l>i JUUf Oku, ucaucu '"By Way of ^Reminder," is -unworthy a great newspaper 'like The State. It utterly mistakes the issue. It is not the maintenance of the warehouse system as at present conducted, which j is the question, but the development of its powers so as to fulfill its mis nPViii-. tr ha OiUil. 1 aid tdii UULJ by a legislature and governor in thorough accord with the purpose. The fight in the legislatures to which you refer, was not the development of the system, but merely to prevent its destruction. Let me state what we farmers n * o -?+ Y1 v*. II C , 1st. To .place the system on a basis which is absolutely self-sustaining, where no further appropriations will be necessary. 2d. A system under which the State will enable us to carry the insurance on warehoused cotton, with- j j civ. uepe-utlenc-t cu the insurance ; trust. :::i. A licensed graders system. ; and tne sale of all <.otton on standara | grades. I 4th. The sale of cotton as nearlv | direct as possible from the farm to ! the mill. Now, Mr. Editor, you know that ; such progressive plans as these n | never be attained, except by goin^ j direct to the people. You further I know that if the warehouse system is i keut iust where it is. a mere conven I ience for borrowing money, that it I will die a natural death, and that is ! your purpose, and the purpose or those whose mouthpiece you have been, are and will be. I have no newspapers; I have no way to get I these .Eflues ^fore the people, except from the s?iump. <* uo not wish to be drawn into factional controversies; my heart is sick and sore with useless strife You are doing your utmost 10 maKe me r.ne representative of a faction in South Carolina. It is my humble daily prayer that God will give me a knowledge of the right, so that I may govern myself -by His law; that no deceit may mislead me, nor temptation corrupt the patriotic purpose which so far has protected me in this great work for the people of the South. i.Vhen I think of some of i. T_ 1 J ~ 1 J . i? muse- who yitJieuu ue u itiiius ui the system, T am reminded of how Joab concealed a sword in his cloak, met Amassa with a friendly smile, "Art thou in health, my brother?" and then, as he kissed him, smote him under the fifth ri'b and emptied his bowels on the ground. And I am also reminded of another tragedy recorded in Holy Writ. In the Old Testament we are told how the Ephraimites tried to pretend that _ c T Llk-t. J* tuey were 01 bue triuc 01 -jtHmuian <tuu would have overthrown them, but their identity was discovered because of their inability to pronounce the word "shibboleth/' and they vere mercilessly slaughtered by the Gfleadites, led by Jephthah. If you will keep up such discussions as you are now starting you will find out, when the votes are counted next August, that the people have no donbt as to the identity of false friends. For history .will have repeated itself, and the slaughter will be appalling. You are the recognized spokesman of the Bphraimites, and I earnestly commend to you a careful study of Holy Writ, and an application of the lessons therein taught. n tt tvesyecuuiij, Jno. L. MeLaunn. 11 You'll" j'j Money 1 M , % I " Those Totally Differe, I ^ I I "Wea | \ at $3.50 w I \ m \ ' ?because, quality ^ cost you less thai I p | Shoes beanng the ^ j have an overflowi d* \ Comfort and Dur ^ j Our new assort ^ \ <^3p"Weari \ includes a pair ir 'HA Va s tliat wi 1 make vo dollars take on W financial stroke. 1 Have. us dem nstrate % the patented. light-weight, built-in aj "f . -i L 1 h 10 uiose wnose arcnes ^ \ sive feature of the ^5 | ! T. M. S. I ! w < Newber V } t . / i TiKhl) OK iiAl.SIXi M THE YANKEE KL I ' I Fact That He I'ullcit it I)?wn Eiefl ?i . , *ia L :. ?.i . i. S i;a> lii'ci'jii iii-u .^aui r iciu> so Senate Job. ^ Washington, June ">.?The follow- ^ ing story relative to the time when JB Gen. '.v*. C. Butler came to Washing-^ ton as senator^ carried in The PostM and i< cecidedlv interesting: \ ^mSm "When the late Gen. >1. of South Carolina came t^J j ton as l-nited States se^| i'70s the passions born of J war were still considerably 9 dence around the national c9 said J. B. Ezell of South Carol j "The man higher up, men oM '' B-itler's calibre, had, indeed, mfl ! their minds to let bygones be b? hut amnnp- tho rani* anH fila j North and South, considerable | amount of rancor and prejudice still ; lingered. As a reward for faithful personal service the senator brought along with him frcm his liome county ^ a most bitter partisan and unreconstructed rebel by the name of Sam Fieids. Through the senator's influence a place was secured for his trusty lieutenant among the employes of the senate. A few days rolled by and the protege sought out. clie senator and the following dialogue ensued: "'Gen. Butler, I am greatly obliged to you for bringing me up here to Washington and giving me a go.vern- ^ ment position, but I reckon as how I'll bid you good-bye and go back t.* old Edgefield county.' "'Why, what's the matter, 'Sam? replied the general. Ms your work too hard?' "'No, sir; that ain't it. I wouldn't mind it if it was twice-as hard. As a matter of fact, general, about aU I have to do is to raise the flag every ' iiiuruuig ti*cr cue aeuaie uuxiumg, ouu to tell you the truth, sir; I am sick and tired of hoisting that doggone Yankee flag every morning of my life.' " 'Well, Sam,' Quoth the senator, 'supposing you do raise a Yankee flag every morning, don't yon haul it down every night? It looks to me as though that ought to even up for your morn mg periormance. "Sam swore by the bones of Andrew Jackson that he had not thought' of it in that light before. 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