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EsFrA iLISTIED 1865. ___ NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, I)ECEMBER2(,10.TIEAWJi ueA.YR We appre ave brough1 5c. to 50c.1 DOLL We have 'em ar of crockery. old as well as th< ance to buv st MR, McLAURIN'S POSITION A NORTHIRN VIViW 01' 114 I'OLI'I UAL AZ rtirUDC. Mr. Henry Loomis Nelson Hays that the Junior senator frotn onth Oar"lina Is Simply a rtouthern Spoils I'olitlolan 'Hooking Poltia Position for himself by a Real Alliance with the Republican Party, While iolding on to the Name of i)oai orat for his Ow~n HellNi Itadts" [Boston Herald.] There is nothing new at all in the attitude of the Democratic Senators -toward Mr. McLaurin, of South Car olina. Mr. MoLaurin has not been unted as a Demogat for the last o years, and in some respects this a been greatly to his credit. So as he opposed free silver and the rious Socialistic theories which d their way into the Democratic orm upon wihich Mr. Bryan od, he was in agreement with a d many other members of te mooratic party who were out of Senate, and with some who were .Mr. McLaurin was not read out of the party, however, because he be lievedi in the gold standard and was opposed to Bryan. If this were a ~ercution on account of those duff q cnes of opinion which exist be. 9een the thousands of Democrats ~ho refused to vote for Mr. Bryan ~ndthose who voted for him, there would be very little hope, indeed, of the two wings of the party ever get. *ting together. * But the country knows pretty well by this time that the strongest of the Bryan Democrats, or those who have been tlye strongest, are not averse to the return of those whe abandoned the organization in 1890; on the con trary, they are quite inclined to wel come them. Senator Jones himself, who is the Democratic leader on the floor of the Senate, isiiot bigoted in thia respect, and he would be the last to recommend the reading out of MoLaurin or anybody ein'e simply because he had been opposed to Bry an and was in favor of the single gold standard. 10 BIG ciate the faci : you people ] or, and put ti S , and none over l Big lot of those 3young folks. V uff cheap. Our a FiVE The differences betweon Mr. Me Laurin and the remainder of his party are of larger importance than this, and they go to the very essentials. Mr. MoLanrin differs in opinion from every faction of the Democratic party, and is no more a Democrat in prinoi ple than Mr. Gorman himself. It is one of the strongest proofs of the en during value of a mere name that, if Mr. MoLaurin hi.-. continued to call himself a Democ' '.t, and to support bis assertion by attendance on Dem-. ocratic caucuses, no one would have dreamed of reading him out of the party. If Democracy means anything at all; if the Democratic party has any essential principle whatever, and if It stands for anything, in other words, that is opposed to tne Republican Iparty, Mr. Gorman ought to go with Mr. McLaurin. Perhaps, on the whole, it may be said, that Mr. Mc Laurin is taking a manlier course than Mr. Gorman has taken, or will take, by declining to participate in the consultations of fellow Senators whose final action he is bound to an tagonize on the floor of the Senate. Both Mr. McLaurin and Mr. Gor iihan are high protectionists; but while Mr. Gorman will undertake to defeat the pledges and purposes of his party in the caucus and by sub terranean methods, Mr. McLaurini frankly announces that he is with the Republicans, and will support them in debate, and with his vote. Mr. MeLaurin is also in favor of ship subsidies, as Mr. Gorman will proba bly be when he returns to the Senate. Mr. McLaurin also approved of the imperialistic and colonial policy of the McKinley Administration, and on every question on which a party is. sue could be made he sides with the Republicans. There is nothing against Mr. Mc Laurin in all this. He has as good a right to change his mind as anyone else, if his reason leads him to the conclusion that the policy ad vocated and put in practice by the Republican party is the right one. Every honest man will agree not only that he has the right to his changed nday H0 L : that money i floys for the lii ie price down - I Oc. Every imagi 50c. covered disl /e will only be wit even big stores 2 AND i SUMMER BLOC opinion, as much right as he had to former views, but that it is his duty to act upon his convictions and to change his party affiliations with his change of view. Mr. MoLaurin represents a very large element in his own State and throughout the South, and there can be no doubt that it would be greatly to the advantage of the country if men of his way of thinlUing would come out of the Democratic party and join the Republicapis. But when we have said all this and have ex plained Mr. McLaurin's principles, we have said about all there is to say that is good of Mr. McLaurin. The South Carolina Senator, what ever may be said of his collague, does not possess the courage of his convictions. He is not only a Republican in principle, but without~ much nici ty of concealment he is act ing with that party, although he is posing at the same time in South Carolina as a Democrat. Although he says that he is con vinced the people of South Carolina agee with him and will sustain him when the case is presente1 to them in his attitude toward the war, toward the new possessions, on the tariff, on subsidies and the vague thing which he calls "constructive statesmanship," he does not seem in clined to risk the trial, and is evi dently afraid of what would follow his confession that he is no longer a Democrat. There can be no other explanation of his persistence of remaining on the Democratic side of the chamber, and of taking Democatic places on committees, while, at the same time, refusing to attend Democratic cau cuses, and announcing at every op portunity and concerning every mina sure of importance that arises that he is going to vote with Republicans. A year ago, when 'The ship subsidy hill was before the Senate, Mr. Mo Laurin was not invited to attend the , caucus on the subject, and Senator Jones then said that he would no more think of inviting him to a Dem ocratic caucus than he ,vould Sena tor Lode or any other prnonce-d C0C s scarce this :tle folks, Big in the reach )OLIJ nable Toy that < ies for 1Oc. Chii .h you for a ver tre crowded anc 'EN C K, Next West's Republican. His vote was alway at the service of the Republicans which, as I have said, constitutes ut offence, and it is true that there il no concealment of his Republicai disposition to either side of th< chamber. It seems as thouuh he re mains a Dumocrat in name meroll for homo consumption and becaus( h,+ fears that the time has not ye arrived when q Republican in nami as wvell as in principles can be electet Senator from South Carolina. In a word, Mr. MfcLauirin's atti tui.i., has not been that of a very high-minded man. It is also th4 fimet that he has made use of his at titude for the purpose of controling patronage, while it is generally be Jieved on the Democratic side of thi Senate that he has said that Mr. Mc Kinley promised to make him a Uni ted States Judge at the end of him term in the Senate. 'Whether Mr. Roosevelt will carrj out sneh a promise, if it existed, ii doubtful. Roosevelt has a way of finding out a man of McLaurin 'm character before he is through witl: him, and he is not very likely to bE deceived much longer, if, indeed, hm has not already been undeceived. How far he has found1 him out il would be difficult, if not impossible, to say, because McLaurin is still distributor of p)at ronage for Son ti Carolina. He standa for the Rlepnh lican organization there, and the President is dependent upon him foi advice. Those who know the history o: McLaurin's recommnendations ah~ aware that they have generally beer of such a character as might havE been expected from a thoroughgoing Sonthern Republican organizatiori man. In short, they have been aboul as bad a lot as could be pickel up in'that unfortunate s -etion of the country. Trhe first appointment which Mr McLaurin recommended for an in ternal collectorship was that of man who fortunately was in Wash ington at the time of his selection When told that he was about to re ceive the appointment he ceeatnen embf ENT fall, cotton shl Toys, Toys y of all. @ ould be imported a, Glass and thot y short time now packed with goo< ENT S Furniture Store 3 his triumph by getting uproariously drunk and making a scandalous ex hibition of himself on the streets. When this came to the oar of the President he promptly changed his mind, and asked MoLaurin for an other man. McLaurin recommended another objectionable character and it. was impossible apparently to convince hin that what the President wanted was a good officer and not a man to devote his time to euring Roose. volt delogates in the Convention of 1004, until the President told him frankly that if he couldn't find any doecent Republicans in South Caro lina he would better name him a Gold Democrat, which he proceeded to do. McLaurin is simply the ordinary ~Southern spoils politician, seeking political position for himself by a real alliance with the Republican party, while holding on to the name of Democrat for his own selfish ends. It is well for all concerued that he should be smoaked out. If he were a man of high character his accession to the Republbean party, in South Carolina would be an advantage to the State and the country, and might lie the beginning of the regeneration of the South C]arohna Republican miachine; but McLaurin will add nothing in the way of character to the organiz~ation as it exists, and has no higher idea of politics than the employment of such instrumentali. ties as are to be found in Sonth Caro lina andl throughout the South for the simp)le pnrpose of getting and re taining office. Henry Loomis Nelson. FDUNDJ DKAD) UN BED. Trcnnn Man, KIlled by7 Gaq iu Washing Washington, Dec. 16.--Samuel .Pressly, of Trenton, was found dead in his bed this morning in his room in the honee adjoing that of Mrsa A da Gilbert Dennis. Pressley's death was caused by inhailing gas, but owing to the proximity of the two houses his death is being investi gated, and Mrs. Dennis is in a pre ncainna condition. AL ort and price ou have beer and sold for lOc isands of novelt and avail your; is and must be s TORE, COLLECTOR KOESTER. H11$ ('ONFIRM%Ar1ON I 3 tu1 Tl; 1I( 1 I N. A Statement Iy Mr. I(ncter naH to h,nctI Niono-ThI Futtle F'ight of ''reu,nnl En u(in(m .i .ute n l.in 4'it I lfl TIlInan"eP (a,nn11. (Columbia I tstord, I (t h. ) Collector Goo. It. KoIM(ter ret urnod yestordaIy from Wasini gtonui, wheiiri he had1( spont a woeok. 1I Illxpressed confidence that the~re wa.nbi be no' trouble over conifirmtution of hit ap-j) pointmnent by the sontIao, nol serins oppositio:n Iing boi <IVlovetld so far and( there being no prospict, of any. On F"ridlay, 10. 11. D ean, the co)lored State Rel~1Iicant (ebairman, fi led a protest with the sonto' fi nanee (com. mittee, to which Mr Koester's ap pointmont was referred in (i thegt reuar ordor of business. 'There wasn nth ing sublstanltial in the p)rot.est, wv hieh( accnsed PresidIent I toosevelt of hiv. ing railroaded Mr. K(oesteor's app oi it. ment and allegO(d thait Mr.. K'oE'ster was not a suitab)le person0 for co)l Il(' tor, as he had participaflt.ed int a lynch'I ing at Gaston in 1893. Doasi atintit. ted that he0 had boonu unable t.o seenror any aflidavits to sutnin n that ail lga tion. As his only subs)tanJ titiori of that allegation, D)ens filed cop)ies of The Columbia State and( t wo or thlrui other papers, charging Mr. Konter with being a lyncher. An the other papora got their in formation fromn T'he State's columns, what they nay amounts to nothing. It is undaerstood that Deas expected the editor of TIhe Stte, N. G. Gonz'/ales to furunish afli davtts to sustain his charges agairitnt Mr. K(ooster, but t hese havet not~ beeun producod and Dean has boon41 loft high and1 dry with nothing to support the newspaper lies anid slanders which induced himi to make a fight~ on Mr. Koester's appomotment. Hoe has been deserted. On Saturday, Mr. Konter filed his answer, which contained more than thirty sworn affidavits fromn citizens of Richianid, Lexington and Orangehnrg conntmes. wieh nrove: f i))) 3 low. So we i paying from 0 LLs . Also, one solid ies to delight the selves of this last old before Xmas. I . T'hrat. .\l r. ICK, ootr wasH primont Iat t h~ (his;toI vlynchin thlO oapat.. it of a rtit)rl-r H'nt thoro by the ( CoIIIIhoi I)t ily I{1giHtor, tho paper fo r whIich ht wa4 Workcing;. 2. 'T'iit he4 tolc no part in the lynichinig. :t. 'I'h t h did t)t lir a hot at tihl, t w, neg'rioo h! soIi v IyncUlhed. 1. 'I'I It h,+ IrgIu1l aI 1IgainMt burn ig W\~ill TIJIiJhornpso. 5. Tlhati atuigTr Pres o b iply ide hris duity in pre or at patrtienitrly itroc(ionsII cirme. (S. Thlat he piroJtIot(ld PrestonI ut ii his git. wasti- p)roven andic was ihon pow)ierlessf to saive- hiuin from 7. That it thie emninrent riek of his4 o)wn lific ho( proiviunted the buhrn tig to death hr Tum Protomn, which it iaijorit y of thle crowdc favored, itenn edlicatl inivestigitio p)1jroved Ar. Koo4tir wias amrteJd hisi de feinso was emnyh-iltc and( thoJrof r0 dlid riot stity ini Wainrgtoni to atwait atct)ti of Ihoii seaurt e l,i Iawo(ik, wh ich 8oi nh(Caroluiniani. in Waeshcington wou r idignan ti over li.he iniIcationsB or a alace, heit wit'n Dea a.)~i nd T'he S tat c to( deont M r lNoos tr. M r. K aoster heard SenaYito r McIOLan r ri's ispeiecti lat Mlondahy ini defense of huisc Deiriocratcy and1( his right to att for himsclf itndc niot~ to be bound Iby (Icnons ationi. The spocch was gIv (VclJ(IosEst itt tInt ion by hoth D emuocrat it aid ttIopaiIbli(Ian senartora, anld Mr. K uistotr pironoinnood it One of the1 miost0I( o<inouit andc logical Cloer(1 deredl b.y Seonaitor MoLan. rin. It nutdo it p)ro)foundi impression, whic~h wias niot all o fitedu by Sona tors Jonesi iandc Tihlhnani, wvho alone atteted)t to reply to it. Senaitor Me L:twrin a w through Tuina' gamne at onco. The senior senator wias trying to goadc the jnnior sonator upon thie eve of assembling of,a logislatture which he belioved he co'ntrolled sufflent.ly to etisure his owni ro election andl( deifet his ool.. Ieagnoii. There wvogld be no time for it ctampaigni, as the legislature woulId have to elect on the second Tuiesdaly of ibtl Fs(On and ould not be bomund to support any body.