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SETS TASK FOR MCLAURIN KILL BLEASEISM AS A PENANCE, SAVS SENATOR TILLMAN. Senior Senator Makes Reply to Charges in MeLaurin's Speech at Columbia. Washington, November 2.?That John L. McLaurin, as a penance due the people of South Carolina, undertake to destroy Bleaseism, is suggested by Senator Tillman in a statement which he has issued in reply to charges maae Dy jur. roui^auim m m? recent speech before a gathering of Blease followers in Columbia. Mr. Tillman says that if McLaurin will, he can destroy Bleaseism better than any other man in the State, and that he (Senator Tillman) will help him. Mr. Tillman's statemeut is as follows: 1 read in the South Carolina papers John L. McLaurin's farewell address. or statement, withdrawing from the Governor's race and bidding adieu to politics forever. It is a pathetic utterance?pathetic because it is the swan song of a very brilliant man, who failed to be a very great man because he lacked the moral fibre to always be true to himself and his convictions of right ' rather than allow ambition and selfishness to warp him. His life, in a way, is a sermon, which young men everywhere ought to take to heart. Nothing in the State's history is more lamentable. If he had only been true to true Tillmanism, to which he says he was converted in 1910, he would be in the United '* ' ' / * - ? - - ? ~ ^ K/\ on I stales senaie now aim nuuiu uc ornament to it. Believed Him a Traitor. McLaurin says: "It is the irony of fate that I. wlio suffered most injustice from Tillman personally, should now be the sole defender of Tillmanism." There are two things about this ; statement upon which I desire to , comment. I never did have any personal ill-will towards John L. Mc- , Laurin and have none now. I de- nounced him in the Senate because ; I believed he was a traitor to the j people of the State who had sent liirc there. The people were convinced , that my charges were true and have j sustained it whenever they had an , opportunity. < When he says he is "the sole de fender of Tillmanism," he means among those Bleaseites to whom he ' was speaking. He, of course, knows < \ there are tens of thousands of Till- i manites, some of whom voted for j and some against Governor Blease ] last year, who have never wavered \ in their adherence to Tillmanism as j they understand it, and as he now ] understands it. Mr. Charles Carroll Simms outheroded Herod in his Bleaseism, proclaiming that it is higher than Till- \ manism. He illustrates Byron's } couplet: ( "He stood a foe with all the zeal < Which young and fiery converts j feel." s i\.nas an Anarcmsi. i He is, no doubt, as sincere in his I Bleaseism now as he was in his Has- : kellism in 1890. He never under- 1 stood Tillmanism at all. Inheriting i a grand name he thought he was an I aristocrat and has ended by becom- ; ing an anarchist, and wants to run i into the Governor's office on dema- 1 gogery. Truly "politics does make i strange bed lellows:" and if the l Tilimanites who deserted me last j year on account of Blease. vote for i Simms for Governor, it will only i show how wild men can become ; when their political passions are aroused, and how little wisdom, or 1 reason, governs their actions. Wise to Withdraw. ] There are some things about Mc- 1 Laurin's statement that are very admirable, and 1 say now that I for the first time since I denounced him 1 on the floor of the Senate believe he : nas at last Decome a pairioi ana < wants to do the State all the ser- : vice he can during the balance of his ' life. Of course, he has played poli- i tics so long and used diplomacy so much that even now he cannot drop ] the role all at once. I have felt < heretofore that he was trying to < "come back" into politics under the spur of ambition, and I still believe < that was his motive. I 'have been < hoping that Governor Blease would < endorse him as a successor in the 1 Governor's office, feeling that that : would be enough to damn both of them in the eyes of the people. But Blease had too much political sense i to make such a blunder as that, and McLaurin is wise in withdrawing < once for all into private life. Disowns the Paternity. Tillmanism is charged with being the father of Bleaseism: Tillman dis owns the paternity, except as a bastard. Bleaseism is the incestuous child of unscrupulous ambition on the body of Tillmanism. Blease has '"stolen the livery of Heaven to serve the devil in"?that is all", and has done it very adroitly. He has stolen most of his thunder from my speech AMBUSHED BY SUFFRAGETTES. Premier Asquith Whipped by Militants with Dog Whips. Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 1.?Premier Asquith was attacked to-day by militant suffragettes armed with dog whips. He was driving in an au tomobile. accompanied by his daughter, Miss Violet Asquith. and Sir John Graham, a Scotch justice of the peace. The victims of the outrage were more frightened than hurt. The automobile was passing through the village of Plean, five miles from Falkirk, when it ran into a suffrag<^tte ambush. The "wild women," as they are called here, under cover of a shower of papers, rushed at the car and belabored the premier and his companions. They disappeared before the police car following that of the premier had reached the scene. Four women well known in Edinburgh and Glasgow as militant suffragettes to-night were arrested as principals in the attack on Premier Asquith. Mr. \V. P. Jones is now in the West buying another car load of horses and mules for Jones Bros. Wait and see this load, for they will be as nice a load as they have ever shipped in.?adv. es. 1 was the originator of the phrase, "To hell with the Constitution." I * used it in Chicago; and have always in season and out of season, whenever I have spoken on the subject, proclaimed that lynching ought to follow rape. Yet this has been Blease's stock in trade. He has used it whenever opportunity offered, and the people have such short memories they have forgotten that the idea is mine. Blease is a past master at demagogy. That is how he has deceived the people so. A Shrewd Politician. What McLaurin says about "factionalism making South Carolina a little Mexico" is all too true; and 1 aaree tullv with what he says about the necessity for the good and true men of both factions getting together. and electing a Governor who ftill be .Governor of all the people ind not the Governor of "his Iriends" only. iMcLaurin has always been a shrewd politician, and he realizes fully*, as ail thoughtful men * must realize, that the loud mouthed shouters at the Blease banquet are 'office-seekers," and nothing more. The statement, "I don't suit them. They don't suit me, so I had just as tvell be a man. That is better than being Governor," is very, very admirable. But I would have liked it Detter in this form; "I do not suit :hem. They do not suit me, so will be a man hereafter, and my own master?not a slave to ambition, rhat is better than being Governor." Should Work for the People. idcLaurin has such great ability :hat it is a pity his brains can be of to service to the people in a public :areer now that he has come to his senses. I agree with him that his ' a - J political career is enueu, uul ue ? still a citizen Of South Carolina and there are many avenues open to him for doing the people service. He should seek out the one which he likes best and work for the betterment of the State and its citizens. He has no equal in the State as a stump speaker. I know, because I trained him as he himself will acknowledge. If McLaurin will run for the t'nited States Senate in order to be permitted to speak at the meetings? :he rules of the party would bar him if he were not a candidate?he can analyze and thus destroy Bleaseism far better than any other man I know of. He can do what my health will no longer permit me to do. and make amends for his past sins and blunders. Suggests Penance. If I had been able to make even three speeches in South Carolina last l^ear I do not believe Blease would tver have been elected Governor. and if I were able now or dared to make speeches he could not be elected to the Senate. Because I have faith in my own honesty of purpose and patriotism and think I could show beyond possibility of doubt that he is unfit to come to Washington as a Senator from South Carolina and is no more to be trusted than was McLaurin. I would undertake to do this anyway had not the physicians,'all of them, warned me that it would result in my death while speaking. I am willing to die for the State if necessary, but 1 realize only too sadly that my strength now is not equal to the task and I can no longer play the role of the giadiator on the hustings, it may l)e that the good God will restore my strength so that I will be able to take the risk. But if .McLaurin. as a penance, will undertake the work, there will be 110 need whatever for me to speak a word. All the moral force I possess?and 1 realize 1 have a great deal of it among my fellow citizens?will be exerted in this fight for decency in State politics. MCLAURIN Ql'ITS RAi RONE WITH POLITICS FORK DECLARES SENATOR. Issues Statement as Result of ( Reception Accorded His Vie* Given at RIease Conference Columbia, October 30.?Joli McLaurin withdrew from the ra( Governor this morning and ann ed tiiat ne was auue v>nu p*. forever, as a result of the chill ception he met with at the B conference last night. Mr. McL was formerly United States Se and was a prominent lieutena the Tillman ranks until they p company. From ten years o scurity he emerged to fill oui unexpired term in the State S from Marlboro County and had understood to be in the rac< Governor to succeed Govt Blease. Senator McLaurin in withdra from the race for Governor issi formal statement declaring the believed factionalism had gont far and that the people would nt together. He said he was out of mony with the Blease conferen expressed last night, and main that "Bleaseism is not highe nobler than Tillmanism." He the people that unless the fact fight is halted, they "will ma little Mexico out of South Carol and says of Bleaseism: "This prostitution of that great upr of the people in 1S9(V His fc statement says: Statement of Senator Mcl^iu "I will not be a candraate for ernor. There is no field for a of really conservative views. I 1 factionalism has gone too far, i am thoroughly satisfied that the pie are not going to be permitti get together by the leaders on e side. "The views I expressed at the ference last night do not suit e extreme, and I long ago made u mind never to advocate any) which my inner consciousness t< es rae is wrong. 1 stand just v I stood in 1890, for the people. "That movement gave the first liberty that the masses in S Carolina ever enjoyed and I find self entirely out of sympathy the views expressed by the < speakers at the conference. I d< think that 'Bleaseisra is higher nobler than Tillmanism.' "The spirit that animated manism in 1890 was higher and than the sentiments I heard exp ed last night. It is the irony of that I, who suffered most inju from Tillman personally should be the sole defender of Tillmai "While some of the men whc inciting class hate and prejudice get into office, I know that p gained by such methods is epher and that the State will suffer. I there like a man, said what I hi say. I don't suit them. They i suit me, so I might as well be a That is better than being Gove Through With Politics. "I am out of politics once and ever, and feel like a load is 1 off of me. "Instead of a conference of t partisans there should be a co ence of men from both factions, are not office-seekers, and a made to control the next State vention. Then go on and elect a Governor who will know no fa and neither friend nor foe in administration of public affairs. "If we do not call a halt we make a little Mexico out of ? Carolina and what for? Mere put this man or that into office, is a prostitution of that great u ing of the people in 1890 which cannot prevent, I at least will r< to assist." The withdrawal of Senator Mcl in leaves Mr. Charles Carroll Sii of Barnwell, as the only out-an< Blease man in the race for Gove His stock went up among the B men to-day following his speec the Blease conference last night ?? * ?V?/\ /I r* i f a i-kf W Itil L11C uciiuuc Wiliiuianai ui Laurin, who had been thought 1 bidding for the Blease support tendency of the Administration lowers to rally around the Ban man became pronounced throug the day. Manning Stock Goes Up. The declaring of war on the c; dacy of Richard I. Manning by ernor Blease sent the Sumter r stock up among the anti-Blease pie to-day by leaps and bounds a decided tendency to solidify anti-Blease forces around Mr. ning was declared to be the dri some well-known political obser Political aopesters here to-night observing what they declared t swinging around towards dra the old lines of last summer witl Simms as the Blease candi Friends of other candidates rel this suggestion and expressed t selves as pleased with the turn a: had taken. United States Senator E. D. S fp ALLEGED ROBBER WOUNDED. .Man Accused of Pinewopd Burglary VER, j in Sumter Hospital. Sumter. October 31.?John Swing, | who is alleged to have broken into a ^ ^ store at Pine wood on Monday night, vs and been severely shot while doing so, was captured yesterday near Rimini, where he has been in hiding in l since the occurrence, and brought ,e for to the Tourney Hospital here for ounc- treatment- companion, whom he says is C. C. S: .is, was also arrested, ^ re_ and is in custody of the Clarendon (lease count>' sheriff. aurin While Swing is peppered with the nator shot helow tbe waist, only one shot ? + entered the body. This went in the nt in arted side? an(* *s thought to be lodged in f ob- Gle ^ver* An x"Ra>" was taken this t the morning in the effol*t to locate the enate' shot, hut was unsuccessful. The sebeen riou?ness of the wound cannot be dea for termined until the shot is located. Irnor and 110 ?Peration wil1 he attempted until a successful X-Rav picture is nving taken' led a Swing, it is said, claims that his it he a*lege(* companion, Sams, planned the robberv and had him to execute i too >t get as he' ^ams, was CI'ippled and . ^ar_ could not get about well. On the . other hand, Sams was the man who CC dS warned the owner of the store about tains T or the proposed robbery and put him tells on his suard. ional Swing admits it is said, that he j. is an escaped convict from a North . ? ,, Carolina conntv chain gang, but reina, . fuses to tell what county that he is a . . ? escaped from. He says he is from using trmal EIon College, Alamaace county, X. C., and that his companion is C. C. Sams, from Burlington, N. C. irin. ' Gov" CLAIMS ASHES FROM SEA. man think [>ox Containing Them Was Cast From ind 1 Pier, But Rid Not Sink. peo sd to George A. Haffa, of Philadelphia, ither came to this city and claimed the box which was picked up 1 ^ miles' con- from the shore by Capt. Horace ither Smith containing the ashes of his P my mother, Ida Haffa. thing He wanted to bury the box in the u . . ; , , , sacxi- ocean, lie said, ana was amazea wnen rhere the box of heavy brass did not sink. as he cast it from the end of one of : real the piers. He found he could not louth get it again, and told one of the I my- workmen of the pier to look out for with it in case it washed ashore, an<0of3ther fered a reward of $10 for its return d not to him. and Haffa told Chief of Police Woodruff that the body had been exhumed Till- from one of the old cemeteries of finer Philadlphia, after having laid in the ress- grave five years, and was cremated fate, last Tuesday. He took the box back istice- to Philadelphia and will have it innow terred in one of the cemeteries there, lism. Atlantic City (X. J.) Dispatch to ) are New York Times. may ower Living and Wages. Q6I*cll ??? A writer in the October Atlantic discourses on the Monopoly of Labor and seeks to prove that the rise in don t . .. . . . wages is necessarily accompanied by man" a rise in the cost of living. He speaks rnor. io years from 189.7 to 1907, in ^ ^ which wages rose from 99.2 to 122.4 ~ or 23 per cent, while retail prices fof 1 te food rose from 96.3 to 120.6, or 25.5 per cent. Thus the purchasing power utter wageg ?ejj 2.5 per cent. Thus, all n terthe struggle for higher wages during who that decade was for naught. And there he inquires whv is this so? And Con- ., . thus he answers: 3aan An increase of wages paid for the c 10n same productive effort increases the the expenses of production and the prices of articles consumed by the lobarer ^1 of articles consumed by the laborer ,out^ as much if not more, than the inly to . u crease in money wages. He is just where he was before without any pris" gains for his plans. ' ^ * This is a plan statement of a problem that has probably disturbed many people, because the solution of it has "aur~ not been" anticipated. That lies in aims. tjie future But it provides a subject i-out ^or how aB this antagonism rnor between capital and labor will result. 163.SP If the cost of living is to neutralize at the rise of wages and both parallel ' ancl themselves through the future, where Meis it going to end? Will it be a new L? relation and what??Ohio State Jour the nal. fol lwell is here attending the Fair and his ;hout friends were in conference with him constantly, and to-night one strong Smith man smiled when asked what andi- the outlook was. He declared that Gov- he was confident Senator Smith nan's would hold the farmer vote, and peo- with the addition of the militant and anti-Blease following would prove the victorious in the race for re-election. Man- Congressman Lever is here, and j ft by while he has not given out any statevers. ment, there is a strong feeling that were he will not enter the Senatorial race. .0 be H promises a definite statement soon wing on the matter, but opinion in politi1 Mr. cal circles is that Mr. Lever will not date, be in tne senatorial ngnt ana uuu u hited will be left to Governor Blease and hem- Senator Smith. fTairs Governor Blease and his friends are well pleased with the result of mith last night's conference. I Now Will I 3 "Thedford's Black-Draught B B is the best all-round medicine B B lever used," writes J. A. H m Steel man, of Pattonville, Texas. H jj| "I suffered terribly with liver B ' B troubles, and could get no relief, U m The doctors said I had con- n B sumption, I could not work at B B all* Finally I tried 9 I THEDFORD'S I I BLACK- I I DRAUGHT I fig and to my surprise, I got better, |f| ggg and am to-day as well as any R| |H man." 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