The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 13, 1911, Image 1
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VOL.XXXIV
BARNWELL. S. <J.. TRURSDAT. JULY 13.1911
NO 45-
WHAT HE SAID
Sivenir Bleate Besends His Adius
Befire a Large C' wd.
TELLS ABOUT FELDER
The (iovernor l)e8erll>e*i His official
Other Things, on All of Which He
Hpeaks Out Plainly.
The Spartanburg Herald says Gov.
Cole L Hlease addressrd two im-
report of the speeches as we find
them in the Spartanburg Herald:
Gov. Hlease began hi-; ^address In
ought not to be punished too severe
ly for crimes committed in the heat i
of ixassion There was no excuse, he
said, for premedltsited robberies, but
when a man got Into a quarrel and (Jaxg HOLDS I P AND
drew a pistol and killed his antag
onist he ought not to be judged too
severely.
"There are good men in the pen
itentiary,” he said, "men of good fam-
il^s as yours or mine. And there
are a lot of people in the penitentiary
who ought to be out, and a lot who
are out who ought to be in.
"I am going tg do something very
soon,” he continued
COWARDLY ATTACK
BOLDIA
BEATS SEN ATOR BILBO.
Physician States Injured Man’s Skull
Fractured, But Wound Not Neces
sarily Fatal.
FELDER SPEAKS I ™ s SIATE
j
vau ablk /
He Sajs Crirntnals Role Sauth Carolina;
Refering to Blease.
AORICYLTI HAL STA
TISTIC PI BUSHED.
State Senator Theodore Ulllx), ran-
"whieh will didate for Lieutenant governor of
Career and Tells Why He Did Cer-1 caus€ me ,0 ^ severely criticised in Mississippi, was attacked and sovere-
! Spartanburg county. Hut gentlemen ly beaten at Starkville, Miss., Thurs-
taln Things.—He Discusses Many have you ever considered what a ter- day by J. J. Henry, claim agent of
irible thing life imprisonment is?” y; the Mobile, Chicago & New Orleans
Gov. Hlease said it had been in- railroad, and former penitentiary
sinuated that he sold pardons In warden, the en ounter coming as a di
answer to that charge, he said, he i e ( >t gpquel to a campaign speech de-
desired to say that with the exception ( iivered by Senator Hllbo at Hlue
of Brigman of Florence, who had only Mountain, Miss., recently in which
mense and enthusiastic audiences orjh a( j three more months to serve any- Hilho is credited with having vigor-
eotton mill workers on Tuesday at way, there was not a man whom he I ouslytassailed Mr. Henry, impeaching
Cow pens and Drayton Mills in Spar- ha,} released from the penitentiary hj 8 character.
tanburg County. The following is a , w ho had money enough to buy a Thd affray occurred aboard a rail-
nel suit of clothes after paying his roa( i train in which Mr. Bilbo was
illroad fare home. 1 proceeding from Columbus to 'Stur-
And, he added, a rich man went to j g| s _ xlies., where he was to have
a formal manner and then said that, the penitentiary not long ago, and he 1 S p okon | Thurs dav afternoon. Roes A.
he would talk about anything his Hs going to stay there. I Collinsi candidate for attorney-fiend•
audience wanted and suggested that With regard to the charges of i ali who| was accompanying State Sen-
somebody give him a text. Someone i bribery ™ade against tam by Col. | B | bo to s turK ig at the time of
bluuU^' PLUllihitionJ^,,,^^....,., LTitKMiMMii B, Felder^.oL. Atlanta, Gov. i frls pnnbnnter with J. ,1. Henry, has
“If you can shew me hhere there , Hlease said that if Tom Felder would , glven X, t |>e following statement:
is any.prohiliition in South Carolina, produce a letter asking a bribe or "Wh^n the train reached Starkville
S; .id Gov. Hlease. "111 talk about it." ' acknowledging the receipt of a bribe. ' j was Jeated directly in front of Sen
ile referred to prohibition again an d any three men familiar with | ator in the smoking compart-
He said he Hlease's handw riting would say the ! ment ( alking with Mr CarrutherSi of
\ alue of Crops in South Oirolina Per
READS A FEW LETTERS I Square Mile Keachr<l Second of all
the States.
The Atlanta Attorney Give* Some In
teresting Dope at Dublin, (in., on
lr»st Tuesday.—In the Letter He
Read Citizens of thi.s State Roast
ed Governor Blease
i *
A dispatch from.Dublin, Ga , says
the barbecue and good roads rally
held there on the Fourth, was a big
success. A large crowd was present,
and all throughly enjoyed the address
of Hon. Thom is H. Felder,
lanta, a former Dtiblinke.
Some interesting statistics on the
agricultural situation in South Caro
lina have been prepared by CommTs-
fioner Watson from the recent federal
c -nsus. As tins been announced thin
HUNDREDS SUCCUMB
THE HOT WAVE PLAYED HAVOC
WITH THE PEOPLE.
It Caused Over Five Hundred Deaths
In Four Days In the North and
West.
USED HIS KM
t
* ,
4 Cittiif Affnj ■ Hewltrry Ctnty
That Kaj lesilt FataHy. T
TELLS STORY OF FIGHT
TTie loss of more than .'00 Uvob is Griffin Williams Cuts Andrew Dave*-
to b.- credited to the general heat
wave of July 1 to a, 1011. The torrid j
lH*riod will lie memorable in weather ;
,, , annals .for its wide eatent. Its Iouk .
. . . . v | duration, its record-breaking temjier-j
atures in many places and the long
list of fatalities which it has caused
The news dispatches which cities
r. nk in agriculture
The value of the agrl ultural pro
ducts of th«' State increased by 28.4
per cent in one year. The value of
Hie crops in 1010 was J 1 40,000,000,
which was an Increase over 1009 of
$?, 1 .oou.oon; an increase over 1900;
port at Old Town in Newberry
County.-—According to the Story
Williams Was Attacked and Forced
to Defend Himself.
A dispatch from Wards says Mr
later in his address
had re eived requests from the an- writing of the letter was his, he | We9t 'p oint Carruthers left the train
thoritms of various counties to send would feslgn the governorship in 1 5 I at stakville and I was looking out of
State constables into thrse counties minutes,
to enforce the liquor laws. Hut. said
the window at about half a dozen
()n ’k 6 other hand, he said, if 1 people on the station platform when I
Hlease, he told them that since they eouid not prove that Felder had of- beard a loud dull lick I heard a
bad voted to.be dry they could etr- fered a bribe to a State official, he, and saw Senator BUbo Jail
force the liquor laws as best they would not only consent to resljtf Jhe at the b]ow from a pi9tol Imnle( iiate-
couid. governorship, but would move to the , ]y man covered the crnWd ln thf ,
mmc
The governor then switched from Philippine Islands
one topic to another rather abruptly. Gov. Hlease said he was not averse
smdrking car with a pistol, and I un
derstand that another person stood
He told a story of a little bov whom to Felder s being given a change of £ . 1] ^ rd wlth him. Everbodv was made
he bad taken into the go\ *— | r's ot- venue if there was any d mbt as to his
fice in the State house and Rad toln being able to obtain justice in New-
him that it was his office, as well berry County.
as that of'4'ole Hlease, and follow, d Gov. Hlease spoke at length about
up the story by saving that the State standing by his friends. He said b-
House and the governor's office were loved his friends so much that he
the property of .all the citizens. wanted to be with them after death.
"Hut by citizens," he sald # "I mean no matter where thrv were He de-
white men not apes and baboons." dared tbit his enemies need expect
He then launched into a tirade nothing from him
against negroes. The Caucausion ra e He had been told, he said, that
must dominate, he said, and if an this was not the proper spirit, and
inferior race got in the way it must that he should consider the example ho 'had l.e'en paid a sum of monev to
he got out of the way in the most of the Savior, who said of those di" furstVM , ex _c, 0 verno r James K. Var-
refivenient manner per Sec uted Him Father. forgive . .. - ■ ,
eonventeiu manner i .daman in (lie senatorial caucus of
"Anil n iit♦ itriin'iowdel and a few Tb* - m, for thev know- not what thev , , ,,
.\nu a hi’ it gunpowiiii .um .» » . . l a st year, winch el cted I nited St ites
Senator Ia>roy Percv as tile successor
to the late Senatof McLaurin.
Following the legislative inquiry a
court trial w is had of a Percy sup
porter in the senatorial campaign,
and he was a quitted of the charges
of bribery prefered by Hilbo l>nr-
to \ a a: the car, and the two men
i r^vented an> one entering while J J
I i an ry administered repented blows
upon Senator Hilbo's lie id and l>oil>
with the tm't of a pistol Some peo
ple on the outside of th- car thinking
Hilho dead, begged Mr. Henry to stop
which he did after having inflicted
probably 2b or 2r> Mows "
Henry was a witness before the
legislative ri n vest i gat ion subseqm nt
to the charges of Senator Hilbo that
of At- fSS.ng.a.fiOO over 1910, all of which!
shows that the value of the crops has
| Mr. Felder was greeted enthusias- increased over 100 per cent, during-
tically by the large crowd. Quite a te past decade.
number frain a distance came in ttu-j With reference to the value of the
tomobiles to be present at the harhe- j crops per square mile South Carolina
jcue, Macon sending a good delega-1 ranked second of all the state* with
tion The barbecue was hMd under 34,518. Other States in comparison:
the auspices of the Dublin chamber Georgia, $3,T4jT
of commerce, and was the first pub- Texas, $1,369
lie function by that body. | All other Southern state* show the
; "I am unable to restrain a natural value of crops per square mile to
impulse to refer to an episode in my lie less than $3,000.
life of recent occurence, which has. The cotton crop of the South ac<-
ibrought me into unpleasant r.e’nrietv e 0d fng oceo802FN’.Plah-AGIVxTflfT.
if in doing so I trench u|«on the pro- cording to the statistics gleaned for
prieties of the occasion, I plead in ex- 1910 went on the market for $963,-
cuse and extenuation the fact that I 180,000. The crop of 1909 was
crave above all things the continued i worth $81 2,000,000 and for 1908,
confiedence and friendship of the peo-j $ 81,23 0,000. It will be seen that
pie of Laurens county. It is not my i the cotton crop of 191C| was worth
purpose to tax audiences with the full 1 $1,1,000,000 more than-F»44r There
details of this episode, but I mere- are In the South 440,000,000 acres
ly desire to briefly advert to it that' of land available for cotton and only
you may understand that I shall in 'one out of 12 acres Is planted Of
the end receive from you the welcome the cotton crop 19 per cent was con-
piaudit; 'Wen done, thou good and'sumed in the United States; 49 per
faithful s rvant ' cent was exported and 36 per cent re-
' About four v ans ago I was oni- : ma,ned ,n ■ ,h,B country U p to Feb-
ployed b> the state of Sooth t'aroli- ruary, 1911.
from the North Atlantic seaboard i Grlffln Williams, of Newberry, who
w est to the Lisins States have ex-1 80 seriously and perhap* Catally cut
changed during those four days, ac- 1 Andrew Davenport, a White man, at
. count, according to a review Wednee-' old Town Tuesday went to Saluda
ot $62,288,000 and an Increase of lay nlght for
the death of 431
sons.
Incomplete as the record U from
the failure at many points to report
specifically the number of deaths, It
Is as serious as shown, as remer-
bered for many years If not a record.
The number of prostrations is *titl
moreTDtH*nil to compute, hut It ap^
pears that thousands have been seri
ously overcome by the heat In the
great cities.
Scores of Deaths Reported.
At New York, although the fore
caster's prediction of "not quite so
warm" was literally true Wednesday,
the maximum temperature waa only
1 degree of Tuesday’s extreme heat.
The exhausting effects of the hot
wave were manifested in a record
tally of heat prostrations. The day's
list of deaths from neat in the metro
politan district was thirty-six up to
midnight
A Boston dispatch says another day
of excessive heat wilted New England
ers Wednesday. More than forty
deaths were reported In New England
Wednesday, although the tempera
ture was slightly lower than Tuesday,
half a dozen degrees being reported,
p er . Wednesday morning and placed him
self in the custody of Sheriff Sample,
awaiting the results of the trouble.
From what can be learned Williams
tried hard to avoid trouble with Dav
enport at Old Town, where a Fourth
of July barbecue waa served. Old
Town la just across the Saluda River
. JjuNewberry^fVninty; hath aaea ew> ,
Newberrisns.
It appears thst several days ago
1 cun in modesiy sac Hint Gm* tusk
was no: only honorably and credita-
. blv performed, but 'be sen in s met
with the .approval of tile best people
Williams, who was working ss a con
stable In Saluda County, seised some
whiskey found In tbe possession of
Carv MeCsrthy, near Denny's. Last
week, so the story goes, while Wil
liams was at Silver Street, la New
berry County, Davenport approached
him and stated that he, Wllliama, had
gotten one of hlr, Davenport's kins
men In trouble over in Saluda County,
referring to the Selsnre of Qary Mc
Carthy's liquor, and he tried to In-
volvo WlWams In a difficulty about
It.
It Is said that Davenport cursed
Williams on thst occasion and said
some pretty tough things on him.
It Is likewise stated that Williams
kept his head and although urgod by
some of his friends to resent wfcat
Davenport said, made the statement
that inasmuch as he was an offeier
he would not allow himself to he
drawn into s difficulty Tuesday at
Old Town, Davenport again approch-
c ludiqg twelve babies, and prostrated e d williams and rebuked him for tak-
the do "
Gov Hlease said tie had no for-
uiveness for his enemies because they
knew very well 4vUat they were do-
wtiicii had been taken to mean that 1,1> '
lie favored lynching He said he sa*
no reason why tie should not be per-
burkshot," he said ".ire often
most effistive remedy
' Later he said that on a previous oc
casion te hid made a statement
na to assist her splendid a'torney Concening the value per bale of
general in the Herculean task of boHon the following comparison There were fifteen deaths due dlrect-
( leaning out her Argent sta les of i 1S 8:1'*’11: Yalue per bale. 1910, $87.- ly to the heat within the limits of
th Ir tilth and cornu tion. 1 fee) that ' ’ value per bale, 1 904, $50.37; Boston during the day.
value per liale, 1 898, $30 22. • Heat k „ lpd thirty-two persons, In-
It Is pointed out that ihe sum of
$t,e| was received for.20 bales °f j dozens in Ghic.ago Wednesday, the I ing McCarthy’s Uquof and saying thai
cotton In M98 while the farmer re-, flfth day of thft I)re8ent heat wavp 1
t eived $1,7 43 for the same number In The temperature was recorded at
! 101.5 In the weather bureau at 2 30
In South ( arollna there were In , Wednesday afternoon, equalling the
10 1 0 1 75,1 80 farms or an increase ; high ()olnt regl ,q pred Tuesday, while
of 13 [i;t cent over the preceding 1
decade
buildings increased hv 16 2 per cent:
of that sfati
tion to th.'
soaked and
prox i in a: <•! v
. resiil' ing in the r. stit u-
treasi]r\ of that graft
er ift ridd. n people aii-
had' iiiilliou dull irs, and
feotly frank about it that he did
approve of lym-hing \nd the rmson,
he said, wliv there had been no Ivnch-
ings in Son'll Carolina during the six
months in which he had been govern
or was because the negroes knew that
he would not call out the military to
proto t them from lynching if the; '
insulted w bite w omen
Necroes. he said, are so fond ’ of
notoriety that often they are willing
to make a sacrifice and take a chance
of losing the.’!' Ii\es in order to get
their names emblazon'd In the news
papers Hut tho\ knew .he said, that
while he was governor there was no
possi de came of their being saved
from an infuriated mob Gov Hlease
said that if anv women of his famiy
was insulted b\ a negro all he would
ask was that 'the negro he. caught;,
he would do the rest himself.
Gov Hlease took up various of his
otficial icts which have been . riticis-
< d and defended them The purpose
of revoking the commissions of the
notarv public was to get rid of negro
notaries. He n >w makes it a rule,
he. said, not to issue commissions to
notaries without the recommendation
of a member of the legislative dele
gation of the county in which the;
live..
He mention'd among his enemies
the newspapers. He'said the engi
neer of a train could no; stop his
train t<> pay attention 'o the eurs that
ran out and barked at the train. And
neither, tie said, eouid he stop for
the .snarling curs, tip' newspapers
Ho said he would like to call theni by
another term, hut it would be un-
parliamentarv
Chief among his newspiper ene
mies. he considers the Columbia State
and he said it was controlled by Cu
bans and thev were foes to organ-
ved guvernmeut ('tie of their an
cestors he said was exiled from Cuba
because he was a foe to organized
gov. rnment.
Gov Hlease also paid his respe ts
'o The Spartanburg Herald He as
serted that this newspaper w-as own
ed hv The Columbia State, ana mat
the editor published nothing until
lie had telephoned to Columbia and
haiT obtafri'ert permission.
The Henald. he said, published an
untrue storv to 4he effect that th-
girls of Winthrop college had asked
ihH their diplomas be presented to
them by somebody else than Gosetm-
or Hlease. This storv was la er
found to he untrue, he said, but the
Herald lacked the manhood to come
out and admit it was untrue.
He wus warmly applauded and one
ing the present political campaign
charges and countercharges between
sev' ral of the candidates have fol
lowed fust and partisan feeling lias
reached a high tension
Rei*>rts as to the extent of Hilbo's
in'uries are conflicting At first ;t
was said that his wounds were not
serious, but late this afternoon a des
patch from A> k' ritian. in the immedi
ate vicinity of Sturgis, quotes. Dr
Murphy, who was called to attend
Hilbo. as s iving that his skull is
fractured, ’ott he is not necessarily
f a i a 11 v hurt.
man shouted that he had stopped his
Regarding his veto of approprla- subscription to The Herald h. cause I
tion hills, be said that by so doing he n f jt s unfair attitude towards Gov-
saved the Mate $6.,bob He declared ernor Hlease.
the government of South Carolina
was the most extravagant of anv
Shate of the Cnion. He denounced
the extravagance nf the State edu
cational institutions especially. Gov.
Blease declared that there were men
traveling fin Fhrope and ertjoying
themselves and at the same time
drawing ^ilasies from the Stale as
members of the faculty of some of hosiery mill, which he prop°f>ed to
IriSllLulionB. aholiMVr-—Me-said that prisoner-H-wepe-
Gov
Hit
a so in a do s
light!
ng ro-
'"arks
a ho’
ut Northorn
ors
8o\ ora
times.
Ho
said that of
1 6 "
votors
in a Newh rry cot ion mi
11 15
1 veto 1
for him.
"Tho
nt h
or six." ho
sa'd,
11 woro
l h o Y a n
koo
hnssopt! "
While
SI'O
nking of tho
nouit
ontiarv
ho dovotod
soni" atton
tion
to the
and if Siecr'antiurg county sent Mr
Osh'rn to the legislature for a cou
ple more terms he would probably he
on the Hlease platform hv then
Hlease hod a kind xrorri for^the
Mate detectives,. J-ohn F -VMller and
Robert K. Miller, and said that Dan
Miles was the best . supervisor :n
South C irolina.
Gov Hlease snoke at some length
"f his tight for the governorship,
which h siid h id been the crowning
ambition of his life He said thu,
when Ms father had In'cn on ItG
deathbed he had called him Cole and
toid him that he wanted him to tm
Governor of his state, iand that all
his life antMhat every dollar Te hud
made had been devot'd to attain the
governorsh ip.
He said he was ron'ent with the
Governorship, but ondifions might
arise whirh would make him s candi
date for T'nited States Senator.
There has be n talk of imnesehing
him. he said Hut if the legislature
at its next session, should imnearh
him. he asserted, he would make a
'our of T he Stite which would result
in his going to the senate as the suc
cessor of Penjamin R" Tillman.
Tn concluding his speech Govern
or Hlease said there were six empty
bedrooms in his nianshion at Colum
bia and though they were poorlv fur-
ni'-'hed, he invited any of his audience
who visited the capital to come to
the mansion and stop there.
He declared that he owed his suc
cess in polaGcs largeh' to the cot
ton mill men Gov. Blease was suc
ceeded on the rostrum by Congress
man Johnson, who gave a short gen-
Bv
Steam ShAvel Fatal
the overturning of a steam
Uie editchtion' 1
He said the excuse for permitting j put to work in the hosiery mill vvho
them to travel in Europe was that Vu/>T nothing about making hosierv.
thev were being trained to teach. hut who were required to do just a-
"But why the devil." he ask n d rurch wojk as skilled operatives. Tlm4
“were they employed to teach if they find 1° wmrk ten hours a day, he said,
didn't know how already'’" q n d were kept standing the entire
He said he had respeej for the ed- time,
ucational institutions conducted by \ lawyer, he said, might he nut
,1 the State, and yet they had given m. to work alongside a skilled worker
men to public off! e, Whereas other The lawver would be given the sam*
colleges in South Carolina, notably ji^sk a s t^ye other man. If the lawyer
Wofford College, had produced Ulus- rnuse of his Ignorance of the work, , ,, , ,,
trious nifm. lie mentioned that Wof- -tMled to complete his task, even rra ,:1 on 3 eovein
ford had produced Senator E D. though it was an impossibility, be-
Smlth. with whom he had ridden to cause of hts ignorance of the work,
Spartbinburg from Florence.i 4 he was taken to the stocks, his arms
"And Henry Synder,” he said, re- pT.a*ed K*, It. his clothing removed **<"■•*' n u the New Orleans, Mobile
ferring to the president of Wofford to the waist, and the lash applied Chicago Railroad^ nt Orchard,
college, "has in ore sense and e'duca- Gov. Bleaise, In the coursp of his Ala. Wednesday evening, • Engineer
tion than Dr. Mitchell has brains speech, made several remarks about TV- H. Doolittle and a negro named
enough to learn ” Spartanburg men, which pleased the I^e Bonna xvere killed, and Tke Cot-
Speaking of his tilt With the SO. crowa.- .. na # m ^ ^ ales w ? re
preme Court over the appointment.of. —Congrapsmaa- -Josef^V T. - h " dlv Occident was due
special Midges, Gov. Biease said that Johnson oame upon the Nostrum he to an overload,
he did not intend to i/opoint*special said that a United States Senator had * * *
iudges when regular circuit judges .told him that Mr. Johnson had more, G*™ Life for Dog.
were sitting around In club rooms, ! sense than all the other South Car- In the va'n effort to save the life
drinking cocktails and plaving pin- lira congressmen put together, and of his dog C. L Grant, of Danville,
ochja. And he added vehemently this, he said, confirmed his own Judg- Va.. was struck by a Southern R*il-
that he could frrovd that this had ment. jway train Wednesday night and died
been the case.' i He said that his friend. Represen- an bmir later at a hospital. Grant
Concerning his liberal use of the'»at!ve H K. Osborne, srho was also had cleared the traces but had gone
pardoning power, he said that ©en on the rostrum, wa$ coming his way, back for th# dog.
I h ' /
in the indict numt hi the grind juries
of the sev. ral , m iring rii.'rOof of
more th in a score of thb ves and
I'lundorcrs
"In tho lust gubernatorial . lection
4he criminal element of that st it ■ suc
ceeded in electing one .f their num
ber to the go\erm»rship 1 am in
po-sessimi of ■ videnco. written snd
■ ral. which in my jadgmi'iif. would
not only justify, bir demand his im-
I'.'.i' hno tit If I could read in Giis
presence tlie tiun ir< d< of 1 tiers from
the good but graft-ridden people of
fbaf once glorious comnionwmltb in
which their greatest to knowledce-
ments are fetid re.i and their prayer
ful God speeds are wisffed nie in the
groa' w rk at hand in ridding them
of this moral and politic il leper, his
confederates and allies. I am ,sur>‘ I
would receive from this audlenc.
shouts of approval as would make the
welkin ring 1 will detain you long
enough to read >ou extracts from hut
a few of these letters "
Co! mol Felder then read the
low ing e.xtracTs from Tcters
"The offense which von have com
mitted. which js grev ions to the sigh'
of our present governor, is the great
success yon have attained in expos
ing him and his friends in crime."
"'Have you r.:ul with interest the
proceedings in th" eontroversv be
tween vourself and our vagabond
governor* * * *| want to say
with Huh Evans. Hlease and Fred
Dominick right in N'ewberrv, and in
control of things there thev could
convict most inyhodv they wanted to
by picking a jury and th" plunder
bund of South Carolina, knowing tlia*
you are the man will go to any extent
in perjury and forgery to convict
you, and Blease is making every effort
to discredit you in this state and thus
ittempt to weaken the evidence you
tiroduee against him by declaring
nnon the ignorant rabble that he had
you prosecuted for attempted bribery
* * Governor H! ase's requisi
te.n is bear Lily approved b-v every
decent law-abiding citizen of South
Carolina."
"Hermit me to sav that while l do
not approve of all you hnv./said and
done in this ma'ter, yet if is impos
sible to escape th" conviction that vnu
at the street level, and the mercury
The value of the lands and i r || m h ed j 0 degrees
itnolements and machinery 112 per
lent lands 169 per cent; increase in
labor Mil 76 per c. nf
These statistic* show that there
were 20.825 farms added. There
are 64.227 owners, or an increase of
$ 1,v 1 n. and of these farms 1 4,987 are
mortgaged. The tenants number 1 1 .-
097. The Increase In the number -of
tenants during the decade was 16.-
113, and the same In preeeedlng de
cade, 26,non
I’RKDBTS DKMtM'RATM VKTOKV
Well
It
Known Tennessean Hays Re
publicans Will Lose.
A dlspateh from Cleveland, Ohio,
Isays a light breeze Wednesday morn-
; ing caused the mercury to drop sev
eral degrees, «fter It had reached
j 96 degrees In the weather bureau
and 102 at the street level. The
] deaths of eleven babies were attrib-
I uted to the heat.
I At Baltimore thr<je deaths from the
j heat and twenty-eight prostrations
were recorded Wednesday The niax-
; imurq i official temperature was 97
, degrees at 4 P. M
I At Philadelphia, Pa., twenty-nine
j deaths from heat were reported*Wed
nesday making a total of forty-one
sin e the heat wave begun.
At Albany. N. Y , the official mer-
[cury climbed to 9 8 at 3 o'clock Wed
nesday and four deaths were report
ed.
the boltef of Henton McMlI-
l.m, of Tennessee, for twenty years a
leader among the Democrats tn con-
grexs that the party will sweep the
nation next year and hake possession
fol- ' AT every branch of the federal gov-
"ernment. Mr" McMillan hAs been In
Washington the past week, and he
his conferred with Democratic lead-1
er- in both tho senate and house.
'! was an elector of the TUden 1
•icket." said Governor McMillan Mon-|‘ ,re8lf,enf of the Mott lron Wori{8 >
of which his grandfather was the
DIED FROM A MOLE,
Made Its Appearance on the Arm AJ-
niost One Year Ajjo.
Augustus W. Mott, of New York,
"and I have parti ipated in ev-
founder and well known as a yachts
man, is dead at his home as the
'In y
cry
but the partv has not been In bet-
*.t shape for a great many years ! rwui,t of ,he development of an on
Th" situxition today ts the reverse of: dinj'ry pigmented mole Intc^ mallg
what it has been In past p^esideJltlar J
contests. j
In the past the Republican party
has been united and the Democratic
party divided. Today wo are united
and the Republicans divided hope
lessly so. Tho division are not !o-
al, hut general. The more advanced .
and enlightened Republicans have ; malignant growth he had always
rente to realize that in the language enjoyed good health. This forjn of
of President Taft, at Providence, the is very rare.
Chinese wall.' has to come down.” 1 1 ♦ ♦ ♦
Inasmuch as one of his kinsmen had
been gotten Into trouble, Williams
would have to get him into trouble.
The story goes that Williams tried
to avoid any difficulty and quietly
walked away, going to Chapman’s
store It seeims that Davenport fol
lowed him, and after some words at
tacked him. In the tuasl* both men
went out of the .store door .in the
little plazra at the froat, her* th«
fight waa continued as one of Wil
liam's legs got fastened between some
slats nailed around as banisters, and
swaying backward fell and Davenport
fell over him and out on the ground.
While In this position. It Is said,
that Davenport collared William#
the latter reached for hie knife and
gashed him acroas the musc.e of the
left arm and acroes tbe heart. As soon
as he waa cut Davenport. It aeeas.
loosened his grip on Williams and
running a short distance fell; he bl#d
profusely, and It was thought he
would bleed to death before medical
aid could be had.
A telephone meseage from Newber
ry stated that he was not dead, but
was in a critical condition Williams
came across Salutie River after th#
trouble and spent Tueeday SlgirTil
Saluda County. We4ne*day morning
on hearing the Davenport waa dead
he came to Saluda and delivered him
self Into the hand of Sheriff Sample
end Ts now occupying a room at the
Herlong Hotel.'
Williams la a brother-in-law to
Governor Blease, and until a few
days ago was operating In Saluda
County as a special constable. Upon
being advised by the supervisor thst
a constable was not needed In the
nant growth. The mole which uras
on Mr. Mott’s right arm showed the
first signs of Irritation less than a county both Williams and R. L. Wert*
year ago. It developed rapidly Into who was also a constable, were iiie-
what Is known as a molane sarcoma, missed by Governor Blease. In case
Medical science has no cure for this Davenport should die Williams will
disease. Mr Mott was not yet 50 at once surrender himself to Sheriff
years old. Until the development of Buford at Newbarry.
BLEASE SEES JOE BATES.
SI FI FR
IN CHICAGO.
-
The Awful Heat Drives Folks from
Their Crowded Home*
Th" poor people of the large cities,
! The Governor Visits the Condemned
Man In Jail.
While in Spartanburg Tuesday
n the crowded tenements.! ni * ht Go , v< ;™ or visi u cd the
(county Jail .ice HaMt. the former
.Spartanburg police officer, under
The
who liv*
suffer greatly from the heat. A Chi-
now hold in your hands very largely ' W dispatch says thousands of Peo- p . , , ,,
the State of South Carolina for the i^ 1 ' ri'cM Monday night in the parks t , ...
next few years at JBast. It, is to he
A DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT
— ♦ 1 ~
Mr. Luther Hutchinson .Meets Death
From Scalding (Ream.
Luther E. Hutchinson, an employ*
of the Dargan Lumber company's
planing mill at Effingham waa fatally
scalded by the bursting of a throttle
early Friday morning, dying that
night. The funeral, which waa la
carge of the Woodmen of te World,
was held Saturday In the Preebytar-
or on the sidewalks In an effort to „ , ,
. ■ - i , .. commute Bates sentence to life im-
presumed that you fully appreciate ^ ^ hnv ! prlsonment and the belief Is here
the gravity of the r-sponsihHHy. m dnight the ^ ^ ^ ^ Banes "lal Men sen-
which by reason of nrcumstances ering close to 90 and during the hang on three different <*.
nipnt it (lin not get below 85. In , ^ »
the rrowded West Side district early ? a8ion8 ’ but , ea ^ Gra f 018 atr ° r t Dey 8
Tuesday the sidewalks were lined have succeeded In having the sentence
with people who found it Impossible 1 8tave<1 ' A commission appointed re-
Indoors, t-—i cently to pass upon Bates sanity
governor has recently been asked to ian church Rev. M. B. McL*ughU&
conducting the service#. Mr. Hnteh*
i
irests upon you at this time. There
may not he with you the motive tq
act that would move a citizen of this
state, but many are hoping that you
will justify the confidence placed in
you by our people.
"fn conclusion permit me to sav
that If the reprobate who occupies number will be large
the governor’s chair can he induced ed H U 16 heat continues. J
'to ac-ept your challenge f which the * • •
good people of South Carolina feel ' 8*®® After All
sure you will never he able to dot. | Revised figures on the number of
Twenty-two permit, to' centl >' to P 388 f$3t88 ’ (
reported that Bates was not insane.
He shot and killed a ><zuhg Ionian
ecanse she left I him apd fcot marrt-
ed. ‘ j'
bury babies were issued Monday ana
the health authorities predict that
Will Start a Fend.
With the killing of ! Leslie Ly&a at
to sue you for libel, It will give me deaths and injured In the United i Sayre, Ala., Tuesday bly his fatber-in-
| pleasure to furnish you a list of 5nq; states indicate the celebration of, law Alec Brewis, It is believed that
| of the most prominent citizens rpsld-;1911 cost 3 8 lives and 1,117 were j one of the most serious feuds ever
ing In every portion of South Caro-, injured. ;as compared .with 44 killed'engendered in the mountains of Alg-
, Ilna who will cheerfully swear that and 2,485 injured last year, and 82! bama has been precipitated. Foar
they know the general character of . killed and 3,345 Injured In 1909. fiamilies are involved, including aboat
Please, that his character Is "bad and Fireworks claimed 18 victims; fire- 20 grown men, all of whom reside
in and around the section known as
from a knowledge of his character arms 12; gunpowder 5, fqd toy pis-
they would not believe him on oath '’ j tola 3.
inson Is survived by his wife and two
children, jMrs. J. P. Moon and Her
bert N. Hutchinson. Ho la also sur
vived by bis father and three broth
ers.
Cat mountain
(
Peculiar Accident.
Policeman Horris, of the Yorkviile
force, waa aerloualy wounded,in a bi
cycle-motorcycle collision Wednesday
afternoon, and fears are entertained
for his life. MRjipins that Hand*
was. riding a bicycle attached by a
rope to * motorcycle ridden br a Mr.
Fink, of thet place. Jnat ontsMe *<
Yorkviile s tire of the motorcycle
burst and threw Harris
the rear on the^Meyele,
collar-bone and gaoriag the i
of his pletol. tie ball
the upper edtoe of the
fitetihg a aerieta «
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