Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-07-30 | Page 4 | Sensitive South Carolinian.

j SENSITIVE E SO SOUTH UTH CAROLINIAN Senator of South Carolina has been I subjected to violent and continuous abuse from lom the partisan press of the South The negro menace has solidified edthe the white voting population of that section section sec sec- I tion tiou of the country to such a de that degree except as asan asan asan an organization for the control of Federal patronage patron age the Republican party has no existence in several several sever se al of the old slave-holding slave States For any man in these States to differ from the tIle Democratic machine in hi the least to express approval approvals with any degree of warmth for Republican ln policy or purpose is to invite ite the most bitter hitter condemnation of the negro negro- hobes of the South The Republican party part is not LS as a matter mattel of fact in favor of Ig giving ving the negroes supremacy in the tho South a as a whole or in any State Stafe of the Union But facts are arc facts and one of the political facts in this Republic lic is that an any white hite whiteman hiteman man now breaking away in the South from the Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- cratic organization lies open to the charge of favoring favoring favor or ing a return of negro rule with its ignorance robbery rob bery bely lawlessness and rascality Senator McLaurin lik like hundreds of oC other oilier white men of thought and worth h in the former ormel Confederate States came in time to see that the Dem Democratic organization wasI was I not all perfection and ind the Republican party not all imperfection lie Ic had the candor and courage to proclaim his views in this respect whereupon the Tillman Tiliman and other extremists read him bim out of the par party y Pt President nt no Roosevelt s sevelt elt the Senators Senators Senator's Sena tors tor's true worth recently appointed him to the United States Stales Co Court lt of Claims But ut the appointment having baving inspired a a. Democratic editor to write charging him bim with selling to the Administration Administration Adminis Adminis- for in hi qu question stion Se Senator atol McLaurin I declined d the llos position tion The rhe question which the Senators Senator's Sen I tors tor's declination suggests is important Is a man so BO io sensitive e to adverse alverse foundationless criticism fitted for judicial judici ll 11 honors nors and duties