The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, September 23, 1913, Page 2, Image 2
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EX-SENATOR V
BREAK Wll
The following Is the
series of letters oy ex-ui
Senator John L. McLaui
nettsville on Standard C
U. S. Steel. Tennessee Co
frenzied financial crash,
bold letters, etc.. publish*
day's Columbia Record:
Rack In 18 i? ^ I left my
in BennettsviUe for Was!
representative of my dist
Kress. Entering politic
Carolina when a very 3
barely thirty, I was the
serve my country and m
to climb the ladder of si
pointed to the senate in 1
ceed Senator Earle, I beci
ber of the national upper
190.1. In the meantime
come a breach between S
Tillman and mvself. that
the passage of blows on
floor. Rut the interestii
high finance ar.d the so-c
bold letters I shall now
they lead up to the subj
ferred to.
As previously stated bj
former Interview with y
two or throe of the letters
ten when I was not in off
one of these letters rels
public matter. I went 1
when I was about thirt
old and in about four yi
ho wavs and means co
the house. The hearings c
ley bill were a very vain
tion to any member at
They first made me realiz
rant I was and what a v
tion these United States
came the desire to learn
Every line of business at
dustry In the United Stat
review. Also our coinpll
national trade relations,
seems to have escaped i
regards the Dlngley bill,
the title that it was not
to raise revenue, but alsi
age and develop America!
The United States was
in a state of panic, fa<
closed, and able-bodied r
the streets In nearly ei
this country hunting wor
time following the famo
Croxey's army of unen
Washington, where this
traeted international atl
It was the main pui
Dlnglev bill to restore pn
the significant title mes
government Intended to
taxing power to build i
turing industries so as
ployment to labor and I
revolution that was eerf
way. The academic que
iff was not involved. It tc
tion at once that the Soi 1
her share of the burden
and was as much enH
other section to her si
benefits of this d'vlajed
On the floor of the h
a speech which attract*
Just at that time, owing
cance. from ocean to ocei
plea for fair treat mem
and an analysis of tli
showing where unjust di
existed in the hill. l?et :
at the newspaper file in
this Union at about th
they will see extracts :
comment verifying what
1 went to bed that nil
tively unknown, and w
morning to find mvsel
character I have rend
over since and realize th
so much the speech, a?
utter absence of section
and that it came from
Una. It would have a
particular attention fron
Democrat. However. 1
public eye for tlm mono
thing I said would be
lished and read. It w:r
logical moment to give
oped natural resources
a great advertisement,
actlv where to go to get
ed, much of it came froi
VT \' lHnlt or/li; t lut
road, the preatest adve
world. ! pot a couplp o
put them to work pettin
tistics. and followed my
with one on "The Soutl
portunitiea." A man w
South now. with its p
mills and electrical devt
hardly realize how d
evervthinp was in 1*">7.
reluctant to come ^out
somethinp to turn the ?
tors southward, where
reaources were poinp t(
expectations were more
Nobody in Spartanburp
on nr 1? t t A f Arf/ot thn IkrtA s2
cities. The effect on
tremendotis; and then h
of a "Commercial I>?-n
I was heralded as a s
W. Orady, and all that
Maybe, if I had died the
have built me a monu
will honestly admit. I
''swelled head;" that
cause of all the trouble
me afterwards. I was
praise and flattery?1<
inexperienced to know
popular applause.
Immediately, it seem
my office became a so
house for men In tin
wanted to build railr
mineral properties, etc
got to writing me afcou
things of that kind?
from South Carolina as
and Alabama. Then ca|
North began to look n
about these mills, tim
coal that I had been ta
was overwhelmed with
things, but I helped n'
rious Southern enter
days, and I never got
anybody from anythir
My acquaintance with
was the direct outgro\
fort to help people in
were seeking Eastern
velop their country.
About this time 3
died, and then my t
Every effort had beet
IcLAURIN EXPLAINS HI
1 TILLMAN AND THE
first of a me to run for the senate
lilted States Earle said he would not
in of Ben- j race if I would, but my lnsi
Hi, Morgan,'all against going to the s
al and Iron. I never went against my i
the Arch- my life that I didn't make
;d in Thura- Governor Kllerhe offered 1
pointment. and I could nol
home town temptation to don the sen
lington as a ga. I ought to have stayed
riet in Con- right where I was, on the
s In South means committee, and goi
r-oung man, the good work of Souther
ui eager to ment. My whole life, unti
y state and the senate, was an uninten
lecess. Ap- cess, and everything we
1897 to sue- there from the jump. Whe
ime a mem- tor showed me my office i
house until ate annex, it had "No. 1
i there had door. I took a ruler and
Senator Ren off. but the "hoodoo" stu
resulted in niy appointment, instead
the senate there quietly and attendl
ng story of duties I left and came to S
ailed Arch- Una and went iuto a heater
explain, as with ex-Governor Evans
ect just re- irby and Hon. S. G. Mayfk
was no use in it, I would
r me. In my elected anyway. They at
ou, all but on my tariff views, althoui
r were writ- Tillman shared them wttli 1
ice, and not voted alike on all the an
ited to any I got over-heated at Yor
to Congress had a long spell of brain f<
y-one years 1 got back to Washington
ears get on vous, sick and irritable, b
immittee of for a sanitarium than the 1:
?n the Ding- work that my duties calle
lable educa- relations between Senate
that time, and myself had become s
e how igno- don't know why it is; tw
ast proposi- from the same state slioi
were, yhen best of friends in the worl
all I could, very rarely the case. One
id every in- talk would, I expect, hav
es passed in ened things out, but I I
rated inter- wanted .Tohn Garv Evans
One fact league and I couldn't con
attention as enough just at that time t
It stated In it. So much by war of pi
only a bill I will come to those letter
a to enoour- Among the many schei
ti Industries, yelopment In the South
at that time nf)t oue ^at appealed
etorles were strongly as the proposal
nen walking road connecting the iror
rerv city of fields of Alabama with de?
k. It was a Rrunswick. r?a. The men
us march of with the proposition, origi
lployed into Southern men: but they 1
invasion at- }n a Xew York man for p
tentlon. forder to get capital. It
pose of the fectly sound, honest ente
jsperltv. and we had gone on as we
int that the would have succeeded.
exercise its ha(i no jdea of becoming
ip manufac- interested, but with the
to give em- McKinley, and Tillman
has avert a dominating the machine ii
tainly under j saw tliat I had small ch
stion of tar- mainlng in the senate u
10k the posi- jOWed him to dominate,
th must bear where I made a mistake: i
of this tax. my prifip than Tillman'?
tied as any ruJo j had found out t
iare of the a|,ujty to grasp a sltuatio
policy. present it strongly. S
ouse I made business men had also I
>d attention, out. and I determined eit
to its signlfi- trol or get out anil mi
in. It. was a career in the business
to the South knew that 11. H. Rogers ol
ie schedule ar,j oil was building a m
scrimlnatlon himself in the Virginia
any one look r0ad from the western cc
any state of Xorfolk, and Flagler doi
at time and with his Florida propoi
ind editorial was a road from Rirmli
I say here, nature made down-grade
;lit com para- which would be as great
oke up next j these, at only a small fra
f a national j cost. Some or the men
that speech I had introduced me to Mi
at it was not |:,?d it was my deliberate
? it was the induce him to back nie. I
nl bitterness. 1 up. he didn't look me u]
South Faro- was any "spider-and-fly
ttracted tin ,,, i?. in,, snider:
n a Northern ,.ailftht In my own web.
was in the \rrhbold's fault, but the
nt and anv- ; others. Tillman aiul 1 I
widely pub- |j1(. stump at Gaffney.
the psycho- ]ia,} a very ascrimonious
the undevel- tj,ink any one who was
of the South say that I turned a host
I know ex- tn'mv favor, and when w?
what 1 want- resignations. it was in k<
in the files of tllP p.irt of both, and I 1
nuthern Kail- tlionclit that I would I
rtiser in the fniman before the peopl
f experts and |lor McSweenev had not
c up the sta- aroPpt the resignations,
tariff speech , rould have made the car
i and Its Op-1 doubt, as I was still suffe
ho knows the with aiy head, which le
reat lumber txat.f?. Te letters publi
"lopment. can that tjmo were written t
nil an<l flat v,?i,i o...t others who eitl
Capital was Wired. There was gres
h". it needed a|)OUt fight between
>yes of inves- Tillman. I see they s|
our natural phrase "promptly and
-? waste ' supported," as meaning
than realized t0(1 a campaign <
or Columbia ; That is not so. I had j>
t. I gave those fprenoes in Greenville '
myself w*s j gentlemen, and surely,
icgaii the talk machinery in Tillman's li
locracy etc somebody "promptly an<
.enond Henry supported" me, I stoor
sort of thing. 1 .. ,
n. they would (However, we did not mt
ment. too. I Pa?Kn- and when I went
did eet the ahead making my arran
was the real what I saw was Inevitabl
that came to right up to there. Then
; too fond of | that was in me got upper
young and I been patient and foreht
how fickle is ; began to be as defiant i
\ I knew how. I didn t
. ??,? ??ld or did. so it anno
ed to in . that Thls brought down tin
rt ' y Senator Jones and other
L n only Intensified im ?b
Whv tbev U went on until Tillma
. L ",a a personal encounter on
th' ^uatr lm.
Ir,?? r:,.?r?h. II blame for that. I
pltalists In the that the results were i
ie up to know 'ol,s*
ber, iron ami As soon as I wont out
Iking about. I I dismissed polities ab?
these sort of tny mind, and with all
iany a nierlto- my nature, went Into tli
prise in those & Birmingham Railroa
, one cent for cultivated the acqualnta
ig that i did. influential men I had t
Mr. Arehbold selected to be president
vth of this ef- At this time 132 mllf
the South who from Brunswick to Oci
money to de- tion of the Southern a
This was a fine strategl
lenator Earle John Skelton Williams
roubles began, that magnificent fight
i made to get road from being gobble
THE LANCASTER NEWS, SI
Smen, In part, who had brought me
were backers in Baltimore of t
Seaboard. None of us had mu
D A Mir* nioney, but we had energy and bral
"*'' 1 1 i?aii (n nulillr" pstimatio
a niuv UIHl ??V?? 1 >* |/WV..v
i Mind you, I was not a senator, but
. Senator ' prl,vate citlzen at, 1thl,s ? 1t,I"e- T
enter the ?"ly way we could build the ro;
lincis were I ^ tby . ft8e"1"* f the bon^9- , 1 p
enat-? ami about $40,000 of my own hard ear
nstlncts inlln88?PrfcUcaHy all the cash I h
a mistake ?lnto the thing. Every time fi
lie the aD- Imi,es of roatl were completed, und
, rosjst theiour charter we could issue $20,0
iatorlal to-lof bon<l8- 11 wa8 through a lei
I contented country. and Mr. Machen, one of t
way8 .in(j most energetic men I ever saw, w
is on with president of the construction coi
II develon- Pany- He had ll,s every dollar
1 I went to stako and built cheaply; It dldi
runted snr- cost over $5,000 a mile, so we w?
nt wrong *15.000 to the good with every m
n the jani- constructed. The question was.
n thp son- P'ace the bonds; and that was wli
OI, the * hoped to be able to do. The
knocked it wero $1,800,000 of bonds held hy t
ck After Knickerbocker Trust Company, up
0<% atavlne which the Interest would fall d
ing to mvlJu'y we failed to meet it,
outli Caro- meant a receivership. I had met
1 campaign 'a* man with Machen, nam
Senator j Kmstcd. who was, I was told, a ve
'Id There wealthy iron and steel magnet. 1
have been was l?okinK ,nto the proposition wi
tacked me a v'ew of developing some interei
gh Senator be ba(' 'n Alabama coal and ire
lie. and we before 1 went South to go over t
lendnients property, I called on Mr. Arch he
kville and am' explained the situation to hi
>ver. When Absolutely, the entire transact!
I was ner- was one ?' Purp personal friendsh
etter fitted Never, while 1 was In the senate
leavv brain either directly or Indirectly?had
~ * * * 4 4 A ~ ?.llnri,|Aot fnu,
d tor. The done Mr. Arcnooiu m? ?iiKilim
?r Tillman I Thp only legislation that T ever kn
trained. l|of ,n which the Standard Oil was
o senators I terested was an amendment to t
uld be the 'subsidy bill, granting It to fast v
d. but it Is rels, and I made a speech against
good frank Ion thfr ground that slow vess
e straight- carrying cotton were the only or
thought he 'that would help the South. Howev
for a col- when I went over the situation
trol myself was very kind, and, seeing what
:o overlook desperate hole I was In, gave me (
'eface, now letter to the Knickerbocker Tr
*s. Company. His letter was neve** us
nes of de-1for reasons which I will stat- lat
there was Iand tbe original Is now In i . p
to me so t 3psslon- 1 merely wanted the Kni
for a rail- Grbocker to know that 1 was a nr
i and coal Iof somp strpngth whose word cm
?p water at 'be conftdentIy accepted. I filed tl
i connected I,pttPr for future use nearer July e
nally, were WPnt South. When I got back
lad to take *oun^ a npw and sinister force
resident in ?>owpr?thp most monumental sco
was a per-i<lrH 1 ever met- J Kufus Weill
rprise, and 1 ford ,s a P'^my to Frank A. Uinst
started, it : weighed 325 pounds and co
At first. I Gat *hre?? Philadelphia capons at <
personally Iba'1, *^G looked like money its
death of and wore a million-dollar smile c
absolutely i 'n b'8 RlppP- God knows wli
n the state I Maohen found him, but he sure
ance of re-'Itbe business for us. The Mllfi
nless I al- ' ,>ink Granite Company of Wor<
There Is ^aRS-. iR a good concern, and
It was more waR President of that with about t'
i desire to thirds of its valuable stock In
:hat I had l'?SSPSRlon, a hank hook which
n and then would carelessly show with a 1
everal big anCp ?f a fpw odd millions, am
found this black alligator skin hag. with a I
her to con-1 more millions In stocks and bo
tke a new which Machen and I were permit I
world. I 'n awe-struck wonder, to handle
f the Stand- i casionally.
onument to "This Napoleon of finance 1
tide water changed the whole thing. The II
>al fields to dinky railroad was too small;
ng likewise were going to organize the Indep
?ition, here dent Iron companies and build a
igham that plant In Brunswick to assemble
Mm vsnme nlail
to the sea, raw iuhu-i mi ?... .... ...
as either of the plant at Sparrows Point, Mf
rtion of the land?we would develop 50.
i interested acres of iron Umsted had in Alaba
. Arehhold, and take over the Tennessee Coal ;
purpose to Tron properties, making a combl
looked him tion that could put United St.>.
If there Steel on the bum. We were gi
business, I to understand that John W. fli
hut I got was at the back of it all, and
not by Mr. gunning for Morgan. Umsted
rascality of tainly had money and securities
Had met on his possession. He also had a le
S. and from Mr. Silas H. Dutcher, preslf
debate. I of the Hamilton Trust Company,
present will "After a careful consideration
ile audience your financial plan. I heartily
offered our dorse your policy and approve at
>od faith on figures." Mr. Dutcher was als
Have always director in the Mohawk Valley S
lave beaten & Wire Co., and chairman of
e, if Clover- board,
refused to The chief consulting engineer
provided I William CJarrett, also one of the
ivass; this I rectors. Everybody who knows i
ring attacks thing on the subject is aware of
ft me pros- high standing of Mr Dutcher,
shed about that tho Garrett-Cromwell Engin
o Mr. Arch- ing Company of Cleveland, C
ler wrote or stand at the very top of the pr<
it curiosity sion. and their figures are aoce
myself and everywhere without question.
;jeak of the have them before me now, and
generously show that one single plant car
that I ex- constructed for thirty million dol
contribution, whose output will he equal to Ur
list had con- States Steel, which is capitalize
~ ~ # A V/X.W I
with certain times cms uinuuui.
with all the plainly apparent that the profit
lands, unless the first named must be 20 time
1 generously great as the latter. All of the
1 no chance, prints were made and the a<
ike the cam- wo>"l< of construction bt?un In Bi
back I went w'?^igements
for Umsted was elected president,
le. I was all I first vice president and get
i all the hell counsel at a salary that made a
most. I had ator's "look like *20 cents." I
arlng, but I also made president of the ralli
and mean as bad .a private car and felt Ilk
uhcif i nohob. I believed every word <
yed Tillman, and I have the prospectus now b<
ill will of me, and it is certainly a "corl
leaders, and I can't help laughing as I read
etermination. modest declaration of war on
n and I had Steel Trust. Let mr read It to
i the floor of viz:
?ne of us was "Conservative capitalization,
am thankful welcome contrast to recently 01
10 more ser- ized corporations, manufacti
; syndicate shares under moder
of the senate, i nanclng. The Mohawk Valley
lolutely from & Wire Co. is capitalized on a
the fervor of moderate basis. Capital stock,
ils Brunswick 000,000."
d schemo. I i In the assets the summary sh
nee of all the \ $0,000,000 in the treasury; 5
net, and was acres of coal, ore and lime lan
. of the road. , Tuscaloosa and Fayette cou
s were built Alabama, and 50,000 acres li
11a, the June- . Birmingham district; 1,000 acr
nd Seaboard, the city of Brunswick and alon
cal polnY, for harbor for six miles, and the \
was making in process of construction, 16
to keep his hearth furnaces, 5 blast fun
d up, and the blooming mill, rod mill, cotti
I
X.
EPTEMBER 23, 1913.
in mill, shipbuilding plant, rail and car ton and livi
lu? mill. and kin.
Why should I run around to the Well, I g
Knickerbocker with Mr. Archbold's enough, unit
118 letter? I felt bigger than he did. I questions. 1
saw visions of wealth and power, but things, and
. " alas! all that coal and iron land, val- have read <
.' ued at forty million dollars, was a pectus since
U(t fake. Poor old Machen. it killed him ''Senator,
dead. Umsted did not have a thing Mr. Sibley."
n" but options. Here Is what hap- Well, Mr.
pened: thing to do
* ....... * t.n /.b Qrtii * b nAnfldant tbat thnt f ul/ar
4 nnil UOV. ?\ OUUVII, VVilllUVIlV VIIOV v????v A v? v.
** everything was all right. Umsted came out, t
took me clown to Baltimore with him, bold, or tha
I and I was vastly flattered that this him. Why.
_ financial giant should value my aid tonishment
518 and select me for the Important work else in the \
of negotiating for Tennessee Coal important fl
p: and Iron. He explained to me that I went there
he and I were coal and iron mag- silver speed
nates; that we had no use for a rail- bate on the
road except to get cht..p freights; rich man a
" that the real owners of Tennessee It is no uni
Coal and Iron were railroad men of Congress
rp most Interested in the Seaboard. We other. I hi
would trade the Brunswick & Blr- money, son)
011 niingham for Tennessee Coal and than once.
UP Iron, and give stock in the Mohawk Sibley once,
Valley Steed & Wire for the difTer- the loan. '
a ence. These negotiations were well action that
nn under way, and the independent iron is negotlatli
?y companies were dickering with us all the Green
1 the time. We had a whole floor of stocks, of v
'th offices at No. 100 Broadway, man I.atlmc
N. Y. The situation, as I size it up a good com)
>n- now. was that a real uneasiness was restored in
created in Southern Railroad circles much of thi
and United States Steel. A friend of "Senator,
m* mine In the senate, now dead, came Mr. Archbol
Pn and warned me to quit or I'd bo Well, phy
'P- wiped out. Well, that made me the with a big ]
I more determined. I never dreamed much mone
but that all of the resources In the after, no m
"r; prospectus were bona fide. I did mere money
have an Invincible repugnance to make much
n~ Umsted's coarse, vulgar ways?like is what w<
a fat hog at the feed trougn?but power. Th<
P8" thought that he was Just a type of or not, depe
. many new-made Western million- power. Mr
aires. I came near kicking out of lectual mar
,PS the traces, once, but he treated me fined. He
pr" so nicely and. raised my already big erous In hli
salary which, however, I never got lieve any n
a before the burst came. I had Just made to hli
j been to Columbus, Oa., to see the spend. He
as city council, and I laid over Sunday newspaper
p< at a pretty little town in Georgia, he helps ah
when I saw in the papers about a re- schools; he
8~ reiver for the Brunswick & Blrming- charity that
rlt~ ham. I left my private car (and the self.
,an Lord only knows what became of it) "Senator,
lll(1 as I never saw it again. Umstead was the cause o
lia* gone, the railroad in the hands of a Well, I
in(* receiver, and I was personal en- terests we
Idorser on $110,000 of construction Railroad th
'n , company paper. It was published in Trust, and
un~ the papers that I didn't have money men trying
n*"jenough to pay my hotel bill. Of trying to I
j"! course that was absurd, but the re- people with
11,(1 suit was surprising. I don't believe either bouf
3,ie any jnan on earth has ever had bet- was some 1
elf, friends than I; offers of assistance whom the
lon poured in from every side. One ex- terms. Tin
senator, God bless him. happened to count."
(ll(1 be in the city and came right down "Senator
or" and wanted to give me a check, and anything t(
'?8~ insisted on my going West as a law absorption
110 partner. Well, that is neither here nessee Coa
(VO" nor there. I came back, but with Yes, I dc
11,8 scars and wounds that none who figures of t
lie haven't been way up on the mountain you will sa;
)al" t.*p and then in the black pit can ap- them are a
1 a preciate. I worked in New York was this v
and made money, and left there be- eight-tenth
nds cause I prefer making corn and cot- the United
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uess J have said about ' undevelope
>ss you wish to ask some sted claime
I Hate to talk aooui inese ne uuiy u*
today Is the first time I . Morgan wi
>ver that Infernal pros- 1 and Iron, t
tion? Th?
you haven't mentioned terial enou
No, he ma
Sibley didn't have one when Roos
with It. I don't think ecutlous of
knew, until those letters panic cotut
hat he knew Mr. Arch- way.
t I was acquainted with ?????
that was a greater as- Safest
to me than to any one ?
vorld. Sibley was a very , e
gure In the house when ___ ___
i. He made the best free ri,. h
i in the house In the de- g I)"lap
Sherman act. He was a ..jjr jrjng
nd a great entertainer, her'trouhl.
usual thing for members JJy pr,'
to accommodate each Lancaster
ave loaned many a man comi
e from this state, more J
I borowed money from
for 30 days, and repaid STATEMF
The only business trans- * "
I recall outside of this,
lg to sell Sibley some of THEFARI
Consolidated Copper ,
,-hlch company Congress- located at
?r was a director. It is clOBe of b
pany, and If order Is ever .
Mexico a man that has r04"? aa
it stock will be rich.. Overdrafts
what kind of a man is f urniture
d?" Due froi
slcally, he la a small man _ bankers
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NT OF THE CONDITION
OF
VIERS BANK & TRUSTCO
Lancaster, S. C., at the
usiness August 9th, 1918.
RESOURCES,
d Discounts. .$141,249.It
1 2 986.97
and Fixtures 2,875.00
n Banks and
> 20.309.2t
3,673.00
9,42.60 ,
I Other Minor
126.60
id Cash Items 603.St
$171,666.00
LIABILITIES.
:ock Paid In. . $ 60,000.00
und 1,260.00
Profits, less
. Expenses and
aid 3,898.74
Unpaid.. .. 12.00
1 Deposits SubCheck
18.398.ff
tlflc&tes of De
10,088.17
Checks 10.00
Checks 10.80
1 Bills Redls1
10.000.00
able. Including
ates for Money
ed 80.000.00
$171,866.00
F SOUTH CAROLINA,
ty of Lancaster?ss.
me came W. H. Milieu,
>f the above named bank,
ig duly sworn, says that
i and foregoing statement
condition of said bank, as
the books of said bank.
W. H. MILLEN.
to and subscribed before
6th day of August, 191S.
W. P. ROBINSON,
Notary Pnblle.
Attest:
W. T. GREGORY,
A. B. FERGUSON,
W. P. BENNETT.
Directors.
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