Show I DEGREES OF DISGRACE i Senator McLaurln of South Carolina made a speech at Charlotte N C last week in which l he called upon the I South to cease looking backward and to look forward He called attention to the progress < which the South was making In her manufactures which arc possible simply through protection He explained that expansion was an original Southern Instinct and while he talked like a Democrat of sixty years ago In all things except that slavery ruled then and free trade was the slogan the fact of his speech has called down upon him all the blUer antagonism of the Bourbon element of this country North and South Of course Senator Tillman of South Carolina Caro-lina attacks him with all the venom of his nature and no nature has more venom He Is exceedingly personal per-sonal In arraignment as he always 18 because he Is pitchfork Tillman But there must have been a sense of humor in his mind as he talked because be-cause in the course of it he was called upon to blush for his State to think that South Carolina has been degraded by being represented In the Senate by Mr McLaurln This same Tillman has stood up in the Senate of the United States and boasted of ballotbox stuffing and every other crime up to murder to preventnegroes from votIng vot-ing andyhavlng their votes counted In the South although they are just as much native there as Mr Tllhnan and thousands of them are better men If after being represented for some Years In the Senate of th TTlt I I mi ummu State by Mr Tlllman anything can disgrace South Carolina In a political way It Is hard to see what It can belt be-lt will be remembered that last winter Senator Tillman declared In the Senate that 95 per cent of the people n the South regretted that the war to breakup break-up the Union had failed and that they still wished that the cause of the Con federacy had succeeded The Phila delphia Press recalls what the Mobile Ala Register said at that time as follows Senator Tillman Is certainly a mlsrep rcacntiulvo of the South He stands for nothing Southern we know of His hatred or of tim negroes IH abnormal his opposi l I tlon to capital Is a deterrent force hlB mania on the liquor question bus made war 1 ot peace In hiM own Slate and now ho tlellbcrutcly t maligns the South by say Ing In the Senate that 85 per cent of our People regret that tho union wus not I divided at the Limo of the war between t I the StuluH That In a display of Ignorance I on Tlllhians part or irnpudcnco or self > advertising we do not know which Is It I not certain that If any considerable por i lion or the Southern people were hostile I lo the Union there would In the thirty live years that havi followed tho war have been aomo manifestation of that hostility cither to ircdural officials tho 4 Hug of the Union or In disinclination to obey iliotlatva er stand = up for the rights of the country i 4 I The natural conclusion Is I that no 4 matter what Senator MuLuurln has i done or said he cannot disgrace the I State of South Carolina any worse than It has been disgraced by the I presence JnIth J Senate as her representative repre-sentative of Mr Tillman I |