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Thurmond Replies to Dial's Letter. 1 To the Editor of. The State: The reply to my communication < recent date by Senator Dial necess tates a rebuttal, to keep the recoi straight. In his reply, Senator Di Says: "In 1912 and 1918 several < us were candidates for the senat Mr. Thurmond was manager of Se] ator Tillman's campaign both tim< and organized the state against me Senator Dial must have a nigh mare about those campaigns. Whi I was an ardent friend of Senate Tillman in those campaigns, Senate Tillman did not need a campaig manager when Senator Dial was i the race against him. The senate further says: "Mr. Thurmond is a so in error as to what transpired i Washington. I suggested the namin of my friend, T. P. Cothran, for a] pointment as district attorney, h being one of the strongest lawyei in the South, a lifelong friend c mine and a strong supporter in a my campaigns. The attorney genei al informed me he would consicle the matter, and we Would discuss i further. I left word at the Whit House to see the president at th proper time. A few days later Mi Thurmond's nomination came to th senate. I communicated with th White House and they were ver; much surprised and they asked me t hold Mr. Thurmond's appointmen up in the senate and also suggeste; that I see the attorney general. I de dined the latter suggestion. Late the attorney' general 'phoned to mi to come up as he desired to confe: with me and said he was ready t< appoint Mr. Cothran." I will nail that statement with thi ' following letter: Stroudsburg, Pa. . August 20, 1921 "Hon. J. Wm. Thurmond: I hav< your letter of the 20th instant. S( far as I was concerned while attor ney general no other action was eve: considered than your appointment a? district attorney, and I am quite sure that I never said anything either tc Senator Dial or anybody eise to in dicate any other intention. I did mj best to persuade Senator Dial tc withdraw his opposition to you While I have a high respect for Mr Cothran, I certainly never told Sen ator Dial or anybody else that I was ready to support Mr. Cothran. Yours truly, ;"A. Mitchell Palmer." Senator Dial seemed to forget thal the attorney general is still alive. The senator says further: "Mr. Thurmond is also in error about my not being able to defeat his confir mation in the senate, if I had desired. Any senator can defeat the confir mation of any one in his state in. a few seconds." Certainly Senator Dial was wrong in this instance, for evidence, is con vincing that he did all that he could to defeat me but did not succeed. He failed because the president, the at torney general and one pf the South Carolina senators were all for me. In addition to the fact that I had . been a friend of Senator Tillman, quite possibly, another reason that made him oppose me so strenously was, I guess that Mr. Cothran was disappointed in . not being selected district judge, and senator Dial feel ing his deep obligation to Mr. Coth ran desired to placate him by offer ing to him the position that I held. The senator's reference to the fed l eral judgeship contest reminds me of his camouflage tactics as given me by'a reliable gentleman of Green ville, who was in Washington, D. C., just after the contest ended. In it the friends of the different candidates . kept well acquainted with the move ments of one another, and the Green ville gentleman gave me the follow ing facts secured by him from re liable sources in Washington, to wit: Senator Dial appeared before a representative of the department cf justice and presented a list contain ing certain names, the first two of whom were , in the following order, Glenn, Cothran, and then others, and stated to said representative that they were all over 60, whereupon the representatives of the department of justice remarked, "Their age elim inates them, does it not?" There was a rule of the depart ment of justice forbidding the ap , pointment of any aspirant to a fed- ; eral judgeship if over 60 years of age 1 and Mr. Cothran was a little over 60 After this remark by the said repre- - sentative, Senator Dial produced an- 1 other list of names in the following order: A. C. Todd, C. C. Feather- 1 stone, H. H. Watkins and others. 1 Soth lists were already prepared, s Senator Dial notified the represen- i tative of the department of justice i that neither the name of Frank B. 1 Cary nor of Thomas S. Sease need 1 be sent to the senate for the position of district judge for he would not allow either one to be confirmed. So the senator's real el igible list was headed by his law partner, Mr. A. C. Todd, and by the way an excellent lawyer. Of course the department of justice would not appoint Senator Dial's law partner. The reasons are apparent. Possibly, Mr. Cothran's age would have preclu ded him. However it is a fact that the rule forbidding the appointment, of a federal judgeship of a person over 60 years of age has been waived and relaxed time after time. My recol lection is that Judge Woods was over 60 when appointed to the cir cuit court of appeals, I am inform ed that A. C. King of Atlanta, Ga., appointed as judge on the circuit court of appeals in the spring of 19 20, was over 63 years of age. So it appears that Senator Dial, in the fight for his partner lost both his partner and his next friend, for the Hon. H. H. Watkins was appoint ed to the district judgeship. The above facts ?tre given that the people of South Carolina may see what manner of man they have in the position once filled by Calhoun, Mc Duffie, Tillman and other such in telligent and broadminded statesmen, representatives of all classes. J. Wm. Thurmond. Edgefield. Three May Leave Harding's Cabinet. Washington, Aug. 31.-Washing ton, as a topic of common gossip, is now discussing the future disinte gration of the cabinet of "supermen," with the same interest and assu rance that Washington discussed some months ago, its organization. Briefly it is understood that: (1) Secretary Mellon of the "de partment of the treasury, finds the financial affairs of the government less interesting than his own, and that as soon as the pending fiscal leg islation is completed, he will ask to be permitted to return to the field of personal operation. (2) Harry M. Daughterty, attor ney general of the United States, will in the near future offer his resigna tion to the president, and return to private practice, as result of which he hopes to accumulate a fortune against old age. % (3) Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, is not satisfied with his opportunity of rendering vital and spectacular service at the head of a comparatively minor department, and that for his attitude as a "mute in glorious Milton," he holds the chief executive in part responsible. The Mellon report is denied, but it is a matter of discussion just the same. It is said that Hoover is not "sore" with the president, but that he longs for an operation in which he holds practically unlimited power. He is sponsoring Henry Ford as a bidder for the government's proper ties at Muscle Shoals, and is said to be chafing under the delay of the secretary of war in reaching a con clusion. It is regarded as true that the at torney general will retire. He is 65 years of age, and it was generally understood from the beginning. that he would not complete his term. He will return to a large practice with the prestige of having served as at torney general of the United States. As ? member of the Harding cabinet, he fias been regarded as the chief political adviser. He scored a suc cess in this field far superior to that of Albert Burlestori ^who played the. same role in the cabinet of president Wilson. As successor to Mr. Daughterty, Guy D. Goff is discussed. Goff is son to former counsel for the United States shipping board, and is now assistant attorney general. In this connection, secretary Hughes of the state department is said to be entirely satisfied. He is perhaps the most important figure ri Washington. In the beginning, however, it was regarded as certain ;hat he would ask for relief as soon is the administration got well under 'sail." Lawyers Sound Sharp Warning .Cincinnati, Aug. 31.-Commer- i :ial and social leaders who scoff * at ;he federal prohibition law are aid ng the cause of anarchy and pro noting mob violence, robbery and ?omicide, it was declared today in a warning issued to the people of America by the judicial section of I ;he American Bar association. "The people of the Unit?d States - lave undertaken to suppress the age- ? ong evil of the liquor traffic," the 1 ?tatement signed by Judge Charles 1. Woods of South Carolina, chair- ; nan of the section, said. "When for i he gratification of their appetites, awyers, bankers, merchants and I manufacturer, and social leaders, both men and women, scoff at this law, or any other law, they are aid ing the cause of anarchy and promet ing mob violence, robbery and homi cide. They are sowing dragon's teeth and they need not be surprised when they find that no judicial or police authority can keep our "country or ; humanity from reaping the harvest/' The statement was issued after a .large audience had listened to Wil liam Howard Taft, chief justice of the supreme court of ^the United States, urge measures to reduce de lay in the courts. He recommended appointment of 18 new judges, two for each federal district, to aid in clearing the dockets. Introduction of a report by Elihu Root, chairman of the legal educa tion section, in the sections after noon session, aroused considerable controversy over the requirements for admission to the bar. After a turbulent session, the re port was adopted and. will be pre sented to the association tomorrow It recommends two years college and three years law schooling, to admit to the bar, in schools maintaining certain standards. The patent law section heard a re with the same interest and assuy trade mark laws, which it referred back to the committee after discus sion for further revision. Three Lose Lives Near Green wood. Greenwood, Aug. 31.-As a result of a series of homicides in this coun ty last night, Willie C. Herring, a Thirteenth division veteran, is dead, shot to death by Policeman T. E. Dukes at Ninety Six, after Herring had shot six times' at officers: and two negroes , a woman and a two year old child, are dead, having been shot to death by Nathan Wardlaw, a negro at Hodges last night? in a fit of jealousy, sheriff E. M. White and his deputies are looking for Fred Chiles, charged with a third shoot; ing affair in which W. C. Hill, keep er of a country store on the Green wood-Saluda line, was slightly wounded in the face this morning with shot from a shotgun. Willie C. Herring, the former service man, who was shot, had stop ped in the business section of Ninety Six late yesterday afternoon, according to the officers, and ??N?? , ... f>\ cursing and creating a disturbance in the streets. Officers, T. E. Dukes and J. C. Rush started toward the scene and Herring began firing at them as they .approached. He is said to have shot four times at Officer Rush, the officer returning his fire, aiming at his feet in the hope of forcing him . to surrender without ! killing him, the officer declared. Officer Dukes covered Herring with his gun and ordered him to surrender after being shot at once Herring is alleged to have thrown up his hands and exclaimed, "I won't hurt you, Mr. Dukes." The officer dropped his gun to his side, and as he did so, Herring is said to have lowered his own gun, firing directly at the officer's head. Officer Dukes dodged and returned the fire, the bullet taking effect in Harding's ab domen. The wounded man was brought to the Greenwood Hospital last night, but died shortly after midnight. He had been treated for the effect of gas received on the French front. His twin brother, Jim mie Herring, was killed in France and he was severely gassed and shell shocked. The police officers came to Green wood and surrendered to the sheriff this morning. Andreila Belcher and her two year old niece, Tommie Romans, negroes were shot to death about ten o'clock last night near Hodges in this coun ty by Nathan Wardlaw, according to Wardlaw's own confession. He was in jail. Rebecca Belcher, the dead woman's mother, and her sister, Mag gie Romans, were also shot by .the negro but noot seriously hurt. 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By this compil ation it is shown that for 196 cities of more than 35,000 population each over 32 per cent, of the total popu lation of the country, 68,687 houses and 5,402 two-family houses were built in 1920 to accommodate the growing needs of 34,572,904 people. During the same period 93,121 gar ages were bu?t, or 12,018 more homes for automobiles than homes for families. The figures given above do not take into account 1,496 apartment houses or 239 apartment houses built with stores combined, it is explained by the News and Courier. However, Secretary of Labor, Davis Ts quoted by the Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia public ledger as saying that even after making lib eral estimates to cover the number of families who could be taken care of in these apartment houses, automo biles fared better than families. Sec retary Davis calls attention to the fact that during 1920 more money was spent on motion picture and other amusement places than on churches and hospitals combined, and the amount of money invested in school houses in the cities named was only about half as great as the imount of money spent on garages. -Augusta Chronicle. Peculiar Casa Up For Hear ing. The question arising in the case )f Wesley Scott and Mrs. Lena Seigler, of the Rocky Spring section, vho were arrested last week charged vith living in adultery, is seemingly vhether a second marriage of a :ouple, divorced from their former nates in another state, is legal in iou th Carolina. Both Scott and Mrs. Seigler claim o have been divorced from their 'ormer mates before their marriage our or five months ago but it ap >ears that both the former wife of Scott and the former husband of rlrs. Seigler are still living. The warrant for the arrest of the ouple was sworn out by the son ff the woman. 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