The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, October 12, 1904, Image 2
TMCU86EIS.1
rilUBLOW S. CARTER,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
rssrEn tvepnksday and ?aiti;i>ay
N7EDNESDAT, OCTOBER ll2, liJOl
ITBMfmiPTION JiftOPEP YEM!
NATIONAL TICK 1ST.
For President,
AT,TON B. PARKER,
of New York.
For Vice-President,
HENItY G. DAVIS,
<>t West Virginia.
Honor to Editor Mamel.
News and Courier.
Wo printed yesterday an editorial
from the KershawEta which is
not only a credit to its writer,
hut which is a credit to South Cur
oliua journalism and to South
Carolina citizenship. The editor of
the Kershaw Era is .1 W. Maine*.
Ho \vnn ?n nvo.wilnocc
brutal murder of \V. T. Floyd by
John T. Morrison and bo paints a
picture of that tragedy which
brings the incidents of it and the
participants in it vividly before
the public mind. But the feature
of tho editorial m the Kershaw
Kra which wins for Mr.
HAmel the esteem aud respect ot
his fellow craftsmen of tho press
and which entitles him to tho regard
und gratitude of his follow
citizens gencraly is his courageous
condemnation of lynch law in
any circumstances and his frank
criticises of those influences which
finally brought about au instance
of mob violence in Kershaw.
It is one thing for au editor in
Greenville, Columbia or Charles
ton to condemu a lynching in
Kershaw, and it is quite another
thing for an editor in Kershaw to
do so. Mr. iianisl wrote of his
personal acquaintances, h i s
neighbors, his fellow townsmen
and his fellow countymen. Tho
audience to whom he spoke know
kim and the individual members
of bis audience were known tohim
Yet be does not hesitate to speak
with a candor and a couragewbich
cannot he too highly held or
nnmtrifindad Mr tmmnl nnn.
deoins the lynching of Morrison
hut he did not fail to condernu also
that failure of public servants
to do their'duty, that failure of
the courts to perform their functions
which resulted in the crime
which roused popular indignation
to tho point of frenzy and which
impelled the people of Kershaw to
obtain through disregard of law
the puniahment for crime which
they feared would not ba accorded
by the Conrts. Mr. uamel
has set an exrmple werthy to be
followed by his brother editors of
South Carolina, lie has discharged
fearlossly and well his obligation
as a citizenas well as his responsibility
us a newspaper man.'
Says Mr. namol:
uWo appeal to those who huvc
the execution of the law in their
hands to conscientiously and
faithfully discharge their dut\
iu the punishment of all
violators of law, which will create
a wholesomo fear and respect for
the law as well asu confidence in
it and wo appeal to the pouplo of
our county to forhear taking the
law into their own hands, but to
put their strong public sontimont
behind the enforcement of the
law and their just condemnation
against nl' miscarriages of justice
in whatsoever particular thev may
occur. Then wo may hopo t*
seo evil-minded persons fear to do
evil and the good citizens con*,
fidont in the security the law nf
IV > <!a
II ii ai> appeal ilal ?* tiim-ly
iu.?. li.at is well made. It is mi
appeal ;ti which every editor and.
every citizen in South I'and inn can
oiu an>l should i'do.
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Hoy! Hayes (iiven
Two rteeks Longer.
Governor Hoy ward Has Granted
a Reprieve -Was Too l*nwell
To Investigate.
1 lie State. 1 Till ins!.
'craving been tsick since the
lay the case of the State against
lioyt it ayes was presented to me
on application for commutation,
I have not had the timo 1 would
have I iked to investigate all facts
in connection with this cuso, and
I have therefore decided to re
pt iovo Hayes for two weeks, until
Fiiday, the 28th iu:-t. The
reprieve simply means that I have
not had sufficient opportunity
to investigate the case. 1 will
send this leprieve to Sheriff
Moss."
The above is the text of a letter
sent yesterday by Gov. iieyward
to Messrs. .Jaynos A Slider,
Striding ?Scuei ndon and Jamo;
P Carey,attorneys for iioyt naycs
viis was to have been hanged
Friday and perhaps Sheriff Moss
<>f 0 :onre had already begun preparations
on the scaffold. But
Gov. iioyward was too unwell to
consider application for clemency
after the attorneys appeaaed before
him last \\ odnesduy and lie
wants to investigate the matter a
little further.
Sent to Yorkvillc to Await Trial
In Higher Court.
Officer Devinney arrested a
negro, Paul Welsh, Saturday afternoon,
who is ohurged with an
ussuuu upon u negro woman wun
attempt to ravish. The assault
occurred Saturday evening two
weeks ago in the neighborhood of
o ~
the Graded School. The police
have been on tho outlook for
Welsh since tho occurrence, and
Saturday afternoon Officer Dovinney
succeeded in capturing him in
a house near Craig's Corner.
Welsh was taken before Magistrate
Hock ham Saturday evening
and practically made a clnan breast
of the affair. Ho was anxious
that tho Magistrate should send
him to the chaiu gang, hut it was
decided by the court to send him
to Yorkville to bo tried in the
court of general sessions at the
approaching term. Constable J.
V. Wingato took Welsh over to
Yoi kville Sunday afternoon and
lodged him in jail.?Hock Hill
Record. J
Burch Morgan To Hang.
Burch Morgan, whom Sheriff'
Douglas cune near capturing last
year, was tried in lYoy, N. C ,
two weeks ago And found guifty
of murder iu the lirst degico.
He was sentenced to hang. Asa
Morgan and Bane Morgan wcro
st ntenccd last year to 20 and 30
years, respeetivel y, in the penitentiary.
Kisa Morgan was sen.
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iuu<.uti i'? jl w _) CHI >. \ Ml llUll Xitlllt'
escaped from the penitentiary and
it is now feared that they will
make an attempt to liberateliurcb
before the day set for hanging.
There were tivo of the Morgan
brothers and \\ ithin the pust fonr
years four <>f them have been eon
vietedof murder an done murdered
Asa, Lane and lvisa were captured
in this county, near Mt
Croghan.?Chennw Carolina ( i
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" - ? ? ? Watch
Hie Kidneys"
"When Ihey 'ire affected, life iiti
danger," sjiys Dr. Abernctby,
the gioato? Kniili.sh ph\>uian.
Foley's Kidi r?y Cine t;i:?ko-< sound
kidneys ?S 1 ! l?y Fund burk
Pharmacy. I
I'reacl.j) Roasts Whiskey
Suva State is Puling Debt Iii Ter.
rible Crimes.
Special to Greenville News.
Spartanburg, Oct. Jib. ? At
Central Methodist church lust
e ening lU;v. \V 11. Hodges,. of
Lancaster, preached an able serin
m on "sowing and renmncr."
? ,?In
nis disoour.se ho slated that
South Carolina, as a corporation
was dealing in the liquor business
and tlio press of the stato gives
full accounts of the harvest of
lawlessness which is being reaped
in murder, degradation,aud sin.me
The Creator cannot change the
law of sowing and ^reaping the
minister said but lie can forgive.
The man whj repents is forgiven;
but the result of his sowing remains
in the harvest ho reaps,
no ra ule an earnest, forceful sppeal
to his congregation to take
admission so that their sowing
will reap a harvest of good and
not evil.
Railroad Collision.
Twenty Nine Persons Killed and
Sixty Injured. ? Missouri Pacific
Wreck.
Warrensbnrg, Mo., Oct. lb.?
Twenty nine persons wore killed
and 00 injured by a ?head on collision
nf Missouri Pacific hams
three miles cast of Warrenshurg
today. The trains were t no seen
ond sec'ion of a nnsssRuo! trai'
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from Wichita for St. Louis and an
extra freight train. Most of the
dend were residents of Missouri
aud Kansas as are the injured.
The passenger train, consisting
of two day coaches, a Pullman
and a caboose, was tilled with
excursionists from Kansas and
Missouri. The Wichita pusscn
gor tiain had beeh cu\ into at
Pleasant Hill on account of the
heavy load and a locomotive attachcd
to the front car without a
baggage car as a liuflfer. The
extra freight had been sidetrack
cd at Mont Aorratt for the tirst
section of the Wichita train whiyh
carried signals that a second train
was following A local passenger
train passed and the freight
crew took the local for the seeeon
J section of the Wichita train
and pulled out of the sidetrack.
Three miles west the freight met
the second section The impact
telescoped the tender of the passenger
locum live and the front
ear which was full of passenger^
and it was here tha* the seeriiice
of life took place. The passenger
conductor, K- L. Humes, ran
all the way to Wnrronshurg to tell
of tho wreck. Every physician in
Warrensburg and hundreds of
citizens hastened to the wreck
to assist the woun led
BROKE INTO HIS llOU^E.
S. Lb Quinn of Cavendish, V7t.,
was rol>hed of his customary health
by invasion ofChi onicConstipatior
When Dr. King's New Life Pills
broke into Lis house, his trouble
was arrested and now ho's entirely
cured They're guaranteed tn
cute. 25c at Crawford Bros., J.
F. Mackey & Co., and bunderbulk
Pharmacy, Drug Stores.
The Ben Bonnctt case has been
disposed of. The man convicted
of tho killing of his own wife will
serve sentence of tiveyears on tin
chiungang o? Hampton county.
???\r> > rwk" Never
Ask Ailvlcc
When you h.ivo a cough or cole
don't ask what is good for it are
g? t some medicine with little) or n<
merit i.fhl perhaps dangerous
\sk for Foley's Honey and Tar,
(ho greatest throat niul cold rein
ody.it cures coughs,colds quickly
Sold by Funderbuik Pharmacy
Foley's Money and Tai
for children,saft ,sure. No opiate
? Subscribe to Tho Ledger.
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