Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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McLAURIN starts ROW WITH I blease, cooper and aull ; ' ' : . ' ? CLAIMS KKKOKT WAU MAI?K AT ItOI/l' IN twit*? ALSO ANUltV AT COOrKIt ? It KI'l. IKS MAOK HV ?\LL T1IOSK ASSAILKI) IIV CAN l>ll>ATK KHO.M MAItLIIOJtO. ?Late Jast Saturday afternoon The News and Courier a ^atement from eX'senator John L. McLauriu mak i 1 1 K a bitter attack ui>ou llobert A. Coo per, candidate for Opveruor ; upon Colo L. Hleasef candidate for tin* Lulled States Senate, and upon John K. Anil, (Jovernor Itleatje's secretary while Gov ?Tiior, Mr. MeLauriu's secretary while he was warehouse commissioner and at ! present manager of tljp Columbia liu-, ivan of the Charleston Americ an. The article wan roleused for publica tion Sunday morning For rea*ous which it considered sound the Ncwh and (5our lor did not pnhliKh it, hut the Coiuuibia State did, Yesterday the State publish ed long replies from ex-fovornov Itloaso, from Mr. Aul! and from Mr. Cooper. (n bin statement Mr.- McLauriu do-! no tin cod Mr, Cooper very bitterly, cull ing him a "coward" and a "character f uHKiisKiti," claiming that Cooper had' been showing people a letter, kIvcii liim by Anil, Mease's former secretary and po litical lieutenant, which charged that hu (McLauriu) "endeavored t*> sell out the Democracy of South Carolina in the fall of 1010 for the huiii of $45,000." Me Laurin ridiculwd the xuguostipn that the people of South Carolina would suspect him of selling his honor at any price. It has been his plan in this campaign he went on .to say, to expose <5ole L. I {lease as "n traitor tn the I>emorratif party." who "would sell it for a money price." He had. lie claimed, laid a trap for It) ease. Itcferi'jnj; to the establishment of the warehouse system, MeLaurin said that to win this fight ho "made concessions to the Mease faction" and "agreed to the selection of John K. Anil as secretary if the bill wont through." The bill passed and Anil was appointed. In the spring; of 1010 111 ease, according to MeLaurin, enmo to him in person, and also wrote hiir?f unking for It i h HHjHtorl for Hover-* > nor again*t ? Manning. Thin McLaurin i|i ?'liin <l, l luit ho ? \|m ? l. (| to sup | port Muiinlhg Manning hud been Mantling bo bind the wan-house develop ment. "Ifrofu that date," Mcl,aurin suys "f noticed u difference in (he: attitude and conduct of Anil, mid before long I wuk morally certain he was in my office tu; a l?Mi| and spy ? ?f Hlease." After tin* second primary of there wax . talk, Mcl.aurln says, of u bolt, uud ho claims. that Hlcuse asked liiin to run an an independent candidute, llo rofus ?>d and says that Hiram* asked him to put up the money *o finance an inde pendent ticket. lie refuued this also, but ?u{ge*tod that HI rose might b? able to get the money through John O. Capers, who wan high in the council* of the Re publican party. "Thin was ubsurd," Mc l.aiuin hu.vh, "but Hlease apparently took the bait, and in order to lead him on I frequently called John Aull to tuke dic tation for letters on this nubjeet uddrcss ed to Cooper." The lettera were not mailed, according to McIjAurfn, but says Aull thought they were, and tiled carbon copies, , He claimed that Hlease tried to gel; him to put his name oh the Hughes ticket, telling of an interview Hlease had in a Chicago paper predicting the election of Hughe**' election, ami then tells of a visit which lie paid to John ('aperj< in Washington, in company with Aull. He quotes n letter from Capers, dated June 27, 1918. relating to this interview, cha racterizing as ubHurd any KuggeHtiou that McLuurin might have gone in with the Republican party in H>1<>, "and telling of Capers' talk with Aull. who, according to Capers, talked about fraud in the Democratic primaries, "the determination of thousands of peo ple not to stand by the primaries," and led Capers to think that the time might he propitious for an independent move ment in South Carolina, this idea being dissipated however, as soon as be talked with McLmuriu. Mi'Laurin next at tacks Hlease for his relation with \V. 1'. Heard, claiming that I (curd's independent ticket was at the suggest ion of Hlease, and excoriating Hlease fur having, as he says, deserted Heard, who Is now in the penitentiary Speed ? Speed ? Speed! Uncle Sam pushed the clock ahead one hour to give more light. Take advantage of it. You owe it to yourself and your country to make every minute count. ^ Use your car ? passenger or com mercial ? to thelimit. Samuel P. Colt, president of the j United States Rubber Company, ? helped awaken the country to the ! economic value of the automobile ! last fall. He said ? 44 Everything on wheels must be used and mobilized. 44 The automobile is second to the railroads as an adjunct and supple* mentary to them in collecting and distributing merchandise. ''Owners should use their cars, both passenger and commercial, more and more." Make the most of your car by using the tires that will extend its usefulness to the utmost. Use Qood tires ? United ^ftates Tires. They last longest and carry you farthest at least cost. There is a United States Tire for every car or truck ? to guarantee un interrupted service and greatest economy. Our nearest Sales and Service Depot dealer will tell you which ones will serve you best. United States "Tires are Good Tires We know United States Tires are good tires. That's why we sell them. CAMDEN MOTOR CO. W. O. HAY k KING'S GARAGE, Bethun*. for violation of the espionage act. "I j ruu prove by Heard'* letters," h? suyst i '*1 lk?it please has refused to help him 'In nil J way and litis not so much as given a dollar to Ikurd'H family ? -for Heard Jh! 110 longer useful to bim." Mr. M<*l<auriu roiieluih-d lii >. Irtt?r .With the statement that be expects to) join I lie i-;tuipuign "" 'i'huisdny. IHcasc's Itcply. iu his reply' to McHauriu'H statement e<-govcrnor Hb'usv start* off by Maying ; *' I Am satisfied that McLaurin's pa?t i-onduct in South Carolina polili. ?, pecllillv as. a iiii'in l>er of the Senate of the Inited States ih such that no bonMt < in 1 1 k i ii>; man will give credence to auy statement which lie might tuake in ref erence to my attempting to bolt the Dem oerat'ic? party, in vi?w of my serviee to the party in the past and iu view of the further fact that every frieml 1 have in tb<> State of S<^uth Carolina knows thai I di*(*ournged any effort at a bolt in 1010, und no man cun show a line that t bui'e ever written, or bonetftly repeat a word 1 have ever ?|>okeu encouraging any bolt oh that occasion." Aull, Hleuse says, told bim on bis return front Wash ington of the transactions which took place on that trip and told bim alfco that lie was going to -resign from the ware bouse commissioner and have uotbiug further to do with. it. He denies that Aull eyer in any way betrayed AlcLaur in's confidence while his secretary, point ing to the fact that he was for eight years court stenographer of the old Kighth circuit and is now stenographer of the Itiebland circuit.- -He denounces ax a lie the statement that he eiicourug ???.! Heard in putting oujL a ticket, claims tnat on tlie contrary , he warned bin) against doing that and claims also that lie warned Heard frequently, about art!-' eles that he was Vriting and. {old him that "if lie was not careful he was go iu V to get in serious trouble." Jle d? nies that he ever suggested putting his name or that of Mclaiurin on the He puhlican electoral ticket, asks why if McLflurJiv, thought lie was such a had man lie spent so much time and money tuul effort trying lu put bim in the Gov ernor's office for a third term in the lust campaign, claims thut the 'trouble with McLaurin is that he is mad be cause he, Hlcnse, is not now supporting hint for governor and denies that there is any truth in McLuurinV recital of the manner- in which Aull came to be ap pointed as secretary of the Warehouse system, Aull's Keply. It) 11 two-column statement Mr. Aull say.s that ho knows nothing of the let ters to Capers which McLaurin claims to have dictated to him ; that this is the i first time he ever even heard of MeLau riii writing such letters. He denies that li? ever gave a letter of this kind to Mr. Cooper." nx any other letter to Mr. Coop er. lie suggests that the lettor to which Md.aurin has reference is' probably one ' which he. wrote U? Victor Cheshire of | the Anderson Tribune, at a time when Cheshire was attacking Aull and other newspaper men at Columbia for not hav ing published a story about a persona 1 altercation which took place at the State Capitol. Aull says that this was not published liecause it .was a personal Af fair and that Governor Manning appeal ed to the newspapers not to print it be crtUfV it might interfere in .securing funds neccHsniy to equip the home militiu. He wrote io Cheshire last January, he says because 1 1*? heard that .McLaurin, whom Cheshire was supporting was fixing up a big statement to give oul to the press attacking lilease and Tillman ; and (Ches hire continuing to make personal refer ences to him. he invited him to come to Columbia and make his statements face to faee. and also warned him that "none of the newspaper men involved (in the suppression of the fisticuff is subsidized by a candidate for Governor, as you ure, and none of them is supporting a man who. in the face of his previous record, went Washington after the campaign of 11M0 and offered to carry the state 'Republican' if $1,000 for each county was put up by the Republican Commit tee." Aull says he gave a copy of this let ter to the city editor of the Columbia state, to the Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier and another to Governor Manning, and lie supposes that' it must have been from one of these i sources that .Mr. Cooper secured the let- | t^r. which was not a secret document. Cooper did not Ret it' from him, Aull says, and lie adds that if McLaurin had wanted a ?t?py of the letter he would gladly have furnished it to him. He denies that there was any deal with Mc Laurin as to his being made secretary of the warehouse system in return for Hlease's support. He claims that it was no* until after McLaurin bad been made coioinvssioner that the subject was broached at all. While he was McLau rin's secretary, he says,, ho gave him faithful and loyal service. He reviews McLaurin's fretpient changes in his at titude toward lilcase. and charges him with double dealing. Referring to Mc Laurin's charge that after the interview with Capers "Anil got into sue)* shape as to make ? further t fa vol impossible, and I brought him home and made the New York trip later." Mr. AuU'-aojs: "As to Mr. McLaurin's reference to my condition, there is also no truth in that. I was taken by him into the office of Cajjcrs in Washington, and they took me up on the mountains ami showed me all the valleys and fertile lands below ( and told me they could be mine, but the old orj^r of things down hero in South Car olina was at no time obscured in my vision and I came on back home, sever- ' ed my connection with the State ware house system and with Senator McLau? rin and have had no connection with either since. I have nothing to do with Senator McLaurin's campaign for Got-) ernor and have no de?qro to meddle with ; it : I have nothing to do with his polit- : leal r:<"?rd ?nd no desire to refor to it : I but while he is making thi.? uncalled for and untrue Attack on me he might tell the people of the State if b* did not withdraw his cotton from the warehouse HV*tena ?? ?oon a* hi* connection with it wuh severed, nixl if he has had auy ; cotton iu ii ^iutf. i uoU the ppbulhl? j iug of the Hyuti'in I'm owe of the *brv? masons wliii'ti ho says induced him ' ma Hi) the race for tiovefHOf." ('om|k'i' his reply l>y -aviug thai when ho Hi'xt read Mc|>auHii'* j hunt bin Jinpiil 00 was "to have Hindi- , answer (itln r than through the public j print*," but thai upon WiflficllOU "I ihink I am hardly Jitetltied iu giving liliu tW? notice," since "Ids past fx>l itio?I hiitory, an wtdl (18 till". confession . which he wftliw in Ids long article ami his effort to show , that he wan only* trying to entrap arc sutUciftut to coudetn n him iu tho eyes of all good and true Mr. Cooper Muya he liaH never seen nor heard of tin* letter spoken of hy Mr. McLuurin in his Mtutement, and suggests that McLau i lin, ''couBeioiiH of his own guilt, attempts I to tnrn State's evidence before the evi? (JtnCB which he knew existed had been i /produced against him," and now asks the public to believe that aH Concerned lu tho. plot ax exposed by him wertf guilty except himself." Mr. Cooper aayw that- the only copy of a letter which lie haw was that writ ten by John Anil to V. B, Cheshire, this | letter being the same to which Mease and Aull made reference. The letter came' iuto Mr. Cooper's possession, he says, through W. J. Cormack, of the Now* ami Courier's Columbia Hureau to whom it was wnt by Mr. Anil. Mr. Cooper prints u statement from Mr. Co rm nek who told Mr. Cooper that the' letter had been released by Anil for pub lication and it was not n private docu ihorif. Mr. McLuurin in his .statement ha?l quoted .1. VV. Cruin, of l>enmark, as telling him, McLuurin, that Cm>per had told him that lie did not propose to use the Aull letter against McLuurin until After the campaign when McLaurin could not answer it . Mr, Cooper ?}ay.s that Cruni denies telling McLuurin anything of tin* Hori . lie also says tjuit Kentierly Bayfield who had also been quoted by Mr. McLuurin. likewise makesdeniul i hat lie made any such statement to Mc Laurin. Mr. ( 'on per snys that he did show the letter to Mr. ('rum. "I was debating in my own mind," he says, whether 1 would use it at all. I 'knew that the people of Month parollna had conclusive evidence of Mr. McLaurin's political perlidy iu the 'Dear Archbold ' . letter of May &0, 1002, in which Ml*. McLaurin says, 'I can heat Tillman if projM?rly and generously NupiH>rted.' With this knowledge and other matters con nected with Mr. McLaurin'a political life familiar to the people of the State 1 did not regard him as a factor in tbo race and did not care to stultify my hau liood by striking a cringle. I did feel, however, that the people ought to know of McLanrin's efforts to lend the state into the Republican party in 101(1 as al leged in the Aull letter and conferred with Mr.* Crum and other friends us to the course I should pursue." Referring to McLnurin's attempt to tag him with Mlenseisni, Mr. Cooper says: "I have never supported Mease nor have enterertr into or considered any combina tion with Mease. Mouse, McLanrin and all the 1 (lease leaders know this. I sup ported Governor Manning in the second primary in 101-1 and 1010 und so an nounced myself in the press of the state immediately after the result of the first primary was known. Tho effort, there fore, to align me with Mease is too rid iculous to fiier it serious thought," KERSHAW NEWS NOTES | Interesting Happenings Gathered From The Era of That Place. i From Last Work's Paper.) 'l'om McLiiro, sun of Thos. II. MvLurc, colored. who enlisted in the navy nearly a year ago, is here to visit his parents. McLure says that lie was on the trans port Lincoln when she wa^ torpedoed by a German submarine and had a full view of the torpedo ay it made its way to ward the ship. .Morris and Joseph Mogulcseu of Cam den, are spending the week in Kershaw at the home of M. Bluestein. Fred E. Culvern, manager of the Ker sl^aw Oil Mill, returned Sunday from Washington, where he attended a meet ing of the Southern Cotton Seed Crush el's Association. Miss Henia Croxtoii who left several weeks ago to become operator in the Western I'nion office at Benncttcsvillc. spent the week end her*1 with her mother. She' left Monday for Latta, to which place she has been transferred to become operator there. Jos. II. Hough's car. which was stolen one night tbe past week from in front of his horne( was brought back Sunday night and abandoned in the rood near the home of John H. Baker. Sergeant Ernest Roberts, of Camp (ireene, visited his parents nenr Ker shaw last week. Sergeant Roberts spent six months at the aviation camp at Wa co, Texas, where he gained the office of Sergeant of the Hrst qjass in the signal corps. He was recently transferred to the aviation camp at Camp Greene. Char lotte. Miss l/ouise Haynesworth, of Colum bia, came to Kershaw Friday to attend the Snipes-Truesdel marriage. Shp will remain in Kershaw a while and will temporarily fill the position of^&tenog rapher at tho Kershaw Oil Mill. Mrs. W. F. Russell of Camden, is spending a few days in Kershaw with her sisters, Mto. Martha Kirklev and M rs D. O. Fletcher. American Regiment to Italy. Washington, June 27. ? A regiment of troops in Gen. Pershing's expeditionary forces has been ordered to Italy, proba bly a* an advance guard of additional forces to be sent laterf to complete the unity on that front of Italian. British, French and American troops. Secretary Baker announced today that (Jen. Pershing hadTbeen Instructed to se lect a regiment now in training in France for immediate movement to Italy. It will be replaced by s regiment to be neat from the United Mtatew LKK OQI'NTY NEWS Item* of IlUMt <J*tl?*r?wl 1'ioui Bi*h op\ illc Vindicator. Mi .luck Mt < 'uskill of the Antioch MMtion, uu() Mi*u JMlo Price, of lteedy Jlrnnch, were tuiit^i) on June S58; Mr, Mc('u*kjli is a Win of Mr. F. Mc C, i kiil. iiikI Mi> h tfliqe is tt daughter of | Ale. William I'rice. Wrv. L <>. Mi < 'utelicon, who l?ys re. rruily id urned to his missionary work in Koreu, met with a mishap about the middle of April that came near being very M rinus. While visiting his ihIhhIou stations ami io crowd ug out* of tin* I"?o n un mountain** ho was riding in a sulky driving a mountain mule; The mule took' fright at Moiuething ami ran nwayi up setting the sulky and throwing Mr. Me < 'utcheon out on the hard rook. His hip was dislocated and his urm at the elbow was also dislocated or fractured. Ho luy uueoiiHciouw for some time, but for tunately a Korean came along and got assistance and took him on u stretcher to the nearest town, which wu4 130 miles A Way. He was .ri<> miles from his home. The last letter from him says he Is get ting on very well and doing as well us could he expected. Sir. McCown Wilson, who spent a few du.\ s ut his Old home here visiting his sisters. .Mrs. 10. 1$. Duraut, left last Mon day afternoon for his home at Itoncevert, W. Vu. He has volunteered for service in the war and is expecting to be culled to the colors at any moment. Mrs. IC. It. Ilrown, who has been very ill. is convalescing satisfactorily. It? v. .lames Cousar, who Is chaplain in ami) at Newport News, is home on u short furlough to ?oe his mother, who lias been quite sick. .Misses Kuth and Marion .Manning left 'J'urvdny morining for Mot) treat. While there .Miss Kuth will attend the summer School, .Mr. W., \. McLeod with his mother, M rs. LUliax Mcl.eod, and Muster Tom Mcl.cod. left last Friday to visit his sister. Mrs. Heiinigan. Mrs. McLeod and Muster Toin wilh spend the summer out there. The Times of London is responsible for u story thiit redounds to the credit of the (J reek troops tighting on the Ma cedonian front. Notable Athenians, in cluding' the mayor^ hiid offered money prizes for the (Trcek soldiers who should bo the first to capture a Bulgarian gun or tlag. or carry an enemy trench. These public offers, when communicated to the (Ireek troops, created feelings of wound ed patriotism. "You may tell Athens," said officers and men alike, <,to the arch bishop who was visiting them, "that we are not lighting for money, but only for laurels" ? Christian Science Monitor. "The Reason Why.'1 It The. I. Ills St.H'k lUMllHli..' the 1>e?t. they are ^utlfkmi,^ and all medW-lne. Tlu-y keepflgj dp. ami the tv? ?l bill down, 'r^i u cause for every effect, rvm0^ cm iso aid 'i'4' effect remove* itm#. i iit. iNmit r> Remedies m ;iZS Muuic t ? ? nil the '1Wa.s?h? in l\>w l family such an Cholera uu i fa and tuaVOH the Hens lay. The Hog ltemedy will m[[i <>|V w Cholera. 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