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?1}? Bamberg ISjrralb = ESTABLISHED APRIL. 1891. A. W. KNIGHT. Editor. Published every Thursday in The KiiiMinOr An Main fitrppt. In nciaiu uuiiuxu^, vru ? the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, cylinder press, folder, two jobbers, all run by s electric power, with other material l, and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year, $1.00, or 10 cents a month for less than one year. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political char A ft rt ?*Acril1or qH flCltfr art? uuargcu ii/i ao uu vertising. Contracts for advertising ??.- not subject to cancellation after first insertion. ?Y Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters of those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or I offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions ex pressed in any communication. i Thursday, Nov. 10,1910. One wouldn't think money was scarce in this section if he judged by the amount of whiskey being shipped in here by express. It seems that men always have money to buy whiskey when they haven't it for anything else, even to pay their debbts. A wonderful impetus has been given to corn growing in South Carolina by the boys' corn clubs. We do not know who started the movement, but ihe is certainly enuueu 10 t-uugidmIations. There is no estimating the good done by these boys' corn clubs. t Wonder -who started that fairy tale s about county seats at Ehrhardt and Denmark? There is absolutely no movement on foot to annex any part of Barnwell county to Bamberg, and the Bamberg citizen quoted by the Press and Standard has been listening to hot air talk. - The Press and Standard of last , week devotes a good deal of attention to the movement to annex a portion of Warren township to Bamberg county, and quotes Mr. A. W. Brabham, of the Buford's Bridge section of this county. Mr. Brabham in a letter to our contemporary, states that taxes in Bamberg are 400 per ' cent, higher than in Barnwell or Colleton. He is simply mistaken. We are willing to leave the matter to the auditors of the three counties, and if they say Mr. Brabham is correct we will donate any amount up to $100; to any charity he will name, provided he will do the same if these gentlemen say he is wrong. We do not go! into details here, but these can bej easily arranged if the proposition, suits him. Somebody has evidently been giving our Ehrhardt correspondent a large fairy tale. No one that we know of believes that any aspirant for congress in 1912 issued the circular letter in the congressional campaign this summer. That circular contained statements reflecting on C. W. Garris and J. O. Patterson, so many people conclude that it was issued to injure these candidates. Events, or rather the lack of events since the primary, are hard to understand. But we are still hoping to < hear that some efforts are being put j forth to run down the author, and in the meantime we intend to keep the matter fresh in the minds of the people of the second district until - ? ? or sinno TVio mat tllltfl t: IS bUUlCUUUS uvuv. i .... ter went too far long ago to be dropThe Press and Standard speaks of the expense of transferring records. vThere was no expense of this character when Bamberg county was cut off from Barnwell, and there need be none in this case. Our clerk of court has put in writing his agreement to record free of charge any papers on record in Colleton for the people in the territory to be cut off, ? ; and there will be no need to spend a whole lot of money to transfer dead * records, as was the case we understand when Dorchester county was formed. This is a mere bugaboo on the part of our contemporary. Our |i>: friend is also harping on the question lis- of stock law and says he is now willing to give the people stock law. Why this conversion at this late day? ? - Why didn't you give it to them before? But it is too late now, when the people have made up their minds to change, to hold them by promises ?havo hppri made long WUIV.U SUUU1U _ ago. We have an idea that some people around Walterboro would be willing to promise anything to Warren township now, but' it is too late. Ej|' ' GRAFT TRIALS IN CHESTER. ? Cases Commenced Against Former State Dispensary Commissioners. Chester, Nov. 7.?The "graft" cases which have been pending in the courts of this State for two years were called to trial here to-day. After the grotesque verdict of a Richland jury in the Farnum case a year ago when the defendant was acquitted and later pleaded guilty to almost the identical charge, the attorney general decided to go to trial in some other county with the remaining cases. Chester county was selected beoause the principal in the conspiracy charge, Joe B. Wylie, is said to have got the graft money in Chester as an outcome of his part of the alleged conspiracy. Had the cases been tried here a year ago pubI lie sentiment doubtless would have j forced a verdict, but there are said to have been at work here agencies whose presence can be sensed rather I than explained, and the State, with all of its mass of evidence and con fessions, may have an up-hill fight. The Defendants. The defendants are John Black, Jodie M. Rawlinson and H. Lee Solomons. The original indictment named also Morton A. Goodman. Jno. T. Early, Joe B. Wylie and James S. Farnum. These four will not be tried at this term. After the attorney general, Mr. Lyon, had read the indictments this morning, L. Gaston, of the Chester bar endeavored to get Mr. Lyon to tell why these four were not under trial. Mr. Lyon said that was a matter belonging to him, and in this he was sustained by the court. The indictment charges the defendants with having conspired to defraud the State of South Carolina and with having taken $133,000 which belonged to the State of South Carolina. The presiding judge is Ernest Moore, of Lancaster, representing Judge Klugh, who is ill. The Counsel. The attorney general, Mr. Lyon, is assisted in the prosecution by W. F. Stevenson and B. L. Abney. Solicitor T * * - ?11 3 *~ K*r T .Henry is m aim is icpicscmcu uj ?. C. McClure, of Chester. The attorneys for the defendants are as follows: For Rawlinson, Weston & Aycock and R. H. Welch, of Columbia; for John Black, John M. Wise, of Chester, and M. P. Howell, of Walterboro and Nelson, Nelson & Gettys, of Columbia; for H. Lee Solomons. A. L. Gaston, of Chester, a former State dispensary leader in the legislature and a member of the investigating committee. May Consume Week. The hearing of the case promises to last a week. There were no dilatory motions to-day, no questioning the venue, no plea of former jeopardy for Black, but the case was entered upon at once. However the defense has contested every inch of ground fn admitting into evidence extracts from the bid book, purchase book, minute book, invoice book and check book of the dispensary board under which this particular graft is alleged. Judge Moore polled the jury and the attorneys on both sides and secured unanimous consent to go on with the trial Tuesday, which is general election day and a holiday. The Defendants. Of the defendants, Jodie M. Rawlinson is a farmer of Richland coun ty, John Black is a native of Colleton county, was shipping clerk at the dispensary, later represented a whiskey house and after that was elected on the board. This board in February, 1907, was removed from' office by Gov. Ansel on motion of Mr. Lyon, and the supreme court of the State sustained the attorney general. Lee Solomons is now a business man of Estill, Hampton county. He represented in 1906 the Big Springs Distilling company of Savannah, Strauss, Pritz & Co., of Cincinnati. Witnesses. Among the witnesses here to testify are Jno. T. Earley, who then represented Fleischmann & Co.; W. D. Roy, head of the Belroy Distilling company and secretary of the whiskey trust, and Col. C. W. Dudley, of the United States Distilling company. Col. Dudley has been very much in demand for a couple of years, but a stroke of paralysis has kept him away. His presence nere was quuc a surprise. In the hay-dey of the dispensary he was the representative of the Live Oak Distilling company and later he represented Clarke Bros. & Co., of Peoria, 111., in their famous transaction with the board now under indictment. The presence of "these witnesses leads to the belief that they will testify as to the agreement of liquor salesmen with dispens'ary officials to have a regular scale of graft, as was testified in Columbia a year ago. Joe W. Wylie, of Chester, who has turned State's evidence, will again testify to receiving graft under the scale agreed upon. An unfortunate split in the Democratic ranks in Tennessee caused the Republicans to win a victory in that I State Tuesday. ETCHINGS FROM EHRHARDT. (Continued from page 1.) unbounded satisfaction and while he was standing holding little sorrel by the bridle and shaking his finger threateningly at the panting, wornout creature, the bard fired his third and last charge, then beat a hasty retreat for home. Here it is: "The chase wound o'er hill and dale, And thrill'd thro' marsh, dell and fields, The way that loosened Caper's joints, And smarted him from head to heels, But grinning he viewed the sorrel o'er, Trembling with fear 'neath curses ban, And said: you're no longer sorrel, You're you-youbedam, youbedam!" Anent the Byrnes circular, that gave the last primaries such an inky hue, it has been intimated recently that the author of the scurrilous paper was perhaps conscientious in his effort of vulgar blackguardism to elect Mr. Patterson one more term, whom he believed was on his last political legs, and in the campaign of 1912 would offer for the place himself. If the suspicion of honor in himself, and what "would the author of such rash indecency not stoop to do to accomplish selfish ends? The only reason the voters of the &cond district could assign for allowing them-, selves represented in the national assembly by such an one would be that the elevation woulcl add to a putrid Republican congress the indefensible odor of a basket of unfledged sapsuckers. Why not any other serpent with forked tongue and rattlers on his tail prove as dependable? But in all candor, it is up to Mr. J. F. Byrnes to say what the discoveries, if any, of the Pinkerton man were in the case. Would he have given the facts, if he is. in possession of any, had he been defeated? Certainly. Does election to office so plaster one's scoundrelism that elevation to the high position suffice in the nonexposure of crime? Hardly. What was the Pinkerton man brought here for? And what did he do? If secrecy in the case is made of necessity, why? Chief Justice Copeland gave the horse and buggy thief, Boy Kearse, four months on the chain gang for his cupidity the night of the 30th ultimo. Mose Jones came clear. The negro woman, Susie Grant, got thirty days on the gang for being accessory to and after the fact, and she also-jgot thirty days for contempt of court. But scarcely any punishment will dampen her ardor for devilishness pure and simple. Though warned by the court that if she was ever brought before his honor again, "in addition to the sentence the law imposed, she would either have to hang four hours by the neck to a briar or be required to kiss a billy goat till he bleated his brains out," she was singing during the evening of her first day's service upon the county and gleefully engaged in a shuffle upon the streets here while whistling: "Big fooot nigger you ca' dance, crismus holler day." Supervisor J. B. Kearse was a welcome visitor upon the streets here Thursday of last week. It was delightfully pleasant to meet him again in the flesh, after the lapse of twenty years or more. The fates have dealt kindly with Jimmie; his heart is as warm as ever and in work so faithful in the performance of his duties that it is the heart's wish that he growmuch grayer than he is in the harness of public service. H. M. Graham, Esq., of Bamberg, was in town one day last week. He is one of the manly and pleasing characters not found easily in the everyday walks of life. After his pleasant visit he seemed anxious to get back home in response to mandates of the ton mtip Grahams then anxiously awaiting the father's return home that night. This correspondent had the pleasure of reviewing one wing of tjie little army of grace and beauty one day last summer at their venerable grand-father's, Dr. N. F. Kirkland, Sr., of the Buford's Bridge community. It is an army of hope and promise, indeed. Meeting with Daniel 0. Hunter, County Commissioner-elect Folk, and "Bubber" Fender on the streets here last Friday, was the renewal of an old acquaintance engendered in puppyhood days, and which ripeped into friendship as all grew older, the ties of which it is hoped will last and please memory till the quartette find pleasant fields in which to dwell and labor, not made witth hands, eternal I in +V>?? T-Tp*jv<sn<a Particulars of a general row at Mrs. George Anne McMillan's on Saturday night, in which a guilty apd turbulent negro outraged all decency in abuse of the white family, are so meager that an extended account is delayed until next week. WALTER S. EAVES. For something handsome in cut glass, go to Simmons Hardware Co. Nice line at low prices. VICTORY FOR DEMOCRAT: ELECT GOVERNORS IN FOUR RI PUBLICAN STATES. Will Con trol Next Congress and Ele< Democratic Speaker?Senate Majority Reduced. Elections held throughout tt country Tuesday resulted in a polit cal convulsion of far-reaching e: tent, similar in many points to tt famous tidal wave of 1882 and a] parently more widespread in its effec The national house of represent! tives has been carried by the Demi crats, who will control that branc of congress by a safe working majo ity after March 4, next, reversing tt present Republican majority of 4 Republicans. Champ ClarK, or mi souri, has announced his candidac for speaker to succeed Speaker Cai non. The United States senate will prol ably have a reduced Republican mi jority as a result of legislative ele< tions held in many States. Started at Top. In New York State, John A. Di: Democratic candidate for governo is elected over Henry L. Stimson, R< publican, by a plurality of about 55 000, revising the Republican plural ty of 70,000 in 1908 for Governc Hughes. In New Jersey, Woodrow Wilsoi Democratic candidate for governor, elected over Vivian M. Lewis, Repul lican, by about 15,000 plurality, r< versing the previous Republican pli rality of 8,000 for Governor Fort. In Massachusetts, Eugene Fos Democratic candidate has defeate Eben S. Drapdr, Republican cand date, reversing Governor Draper former plurality of 8,000. Reversed Big Plurality. In Connecticut, Judge Simeon I Baldwin, Democratic candidate, elected governor over Charles 1 Goodwin, Republican, by about 4,00 plurality, reversing the 16,000 pli rality of the Republicans. In Ohio, Judge Judson Harmoi Democratic candidate for reeleetioi appears to have carried the State L about 40,000 dVer Warren C. Har< ing, Republican candidate. In New Hampshire, Robert I Bass, Republican candidate for go1 ernor, is leadin? Charles E. Car Democratic candidate, by about 6 000 plurality. In Pennsylvania the election ( John H. Tenor, Republican candidal for governor, is claimed by a larg plurality. In Rhode Island, Gov. Pothie Republican candidate is slightly i the lead over Lewis A. Watermai Democratic candidate, with a plura ity much reduced from that of 190! Hooper is Elected. In Tennessee, the fusion candidat Ben. W. Hooper, is apparently electe by 15,000 plurality. Democratic governors have bee elected in Alabama and South Can lina. In Iowa the Democrats claim tt election of Claude R. Porter for go1 ernor, but this is not yet conceded. In Wisconsin the^ election of t! Republican candidate for governo Francis E. McGovern, is elected by reduced majority and the return < Senator La Follette to the Unit* Spates senate is assured. In Michigan, Chas. E. Osborne, tt Republican candidate for governo appears to have a 3afe lead over ] T. Hemans, Democrat. True Bill Against Blocks. Chester, Nov. 7.?In the circu court here this afternoon Attorne General Lyon handed out an indie ment for conspiracy against the owi ers of the Richland Distilling cod pany. The persons accused are I. V Bernheim, of Louisville, Ky., Isa* Block, of Cincinnati, Nicholas J Block, and Alexander Block, of M con, Ga. It is alleged that these pe sons entered into a conspiracy to d fraud the State of South Carolina i the m^ter of selling whiskey throu? a board consisting of Joe B. Wyli John Black and J. M. Rawlinso The specific amount named, in th indictment is a check for $1,575 pa to Joe B. Wylie in Chester. The allegation is that the accuse violated the common law against co: spiracy by violating specifically sta ute 382 against giving rebates ar extra compensation. While the; persons are named' individually i ^1 t vl TT>11 C maieiaciors, me agcutj iu which they reached the dispensai directors was the Richland Distil ing company. The witnesses summoned hefo: the grand jury in this case were: \ D. Roy, head of the Belroy Distil ing company; Henry Samuels, i Chester, and Joe B. Wylie. T1 grand jury, after examining the: witnesses briefly, brought in a "tri bill," through J. M. 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