Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, June 02, 1908, Image 2
Scraps and |acts.
? The vice president last Saturday
night announced the appointments of
Senators Aldrich, Allison. Burrows,
Hale, Knox. Daniel, Teller, Money
and Bailey as members of the currency
commission recently authorized by
act of congress. Mr. Knox is the only
senate representative on the committee
who Is not a member of the committee
on finance. The speaker appointed
members of the commission
on behalf of the house as follows:
Vreeland (New York); Overstreet, of
Indiana; Burton, of Ohio; Weeks, of
Massachusetts; Bonynge, of Colorado;
Smith, of California, (Republicans);
Padgett, of Tennessee; Burgess,
of Texas; and Pujo, of Louisiana,
(Democrats). Of these Weeks,
Burton and Pujo are members of the
committee on banking and currency.
? Chicago, May 30; James H. Patten
who is credited with having
ciearea ji.uuw.vw m mc tui mm ket
within the past two weeks, has
celebrated his success by presenting
$150,000 to Northwestern university
for a gymnasium. Announcement of
the gift was made by President Harris
last night at the annual convocation
of the students. Patten's deal
in May corn began last October when
the price was down around 48c. Yesterday
corn reached 82Jc.. the highest
ligure in many years. At times
Putten was carrying fully 20,000,000
bushels. Patten's deal in oats was not
so successful, however. He had a
holding of 15,000,000 bushels at one
time, it is said, and stands to lose
fully $500,000 on this deal. J. Ogden
Armour has had absolute control of
May wheat, and probably took a profit
of $750,000, although his loss in
corn would reduce these winnings by
a half. His holdings in May wheut
were as high us 115,0u0,OOO bushels,
it is said.
? Emanuel Cedrino, a noted automobile
driver, was instantly killed
on Pimlico race track, Baltimore,
last Friday evening. He was preparing
for races which were to be run
on Saturday, and was making some
very fast miles. One had just been
finished in 51 seconds and he had
passed the grand stand and rounded
the first corner of the track when
spectators saw his car shoot into the
air and turn an irregular somersault,
landing on the track upside down.
Those who rushed to the spot found
Cedrino stretched upon his back,
dead, with a horrible gash in the
buck of his head. He was some distance
from the car, from which he
had apparently been thrown as it
went over, and it is supposed that his
head struck the fence. The accident
appears to have been caused by the
collapse of the front wheel on the
right-hand side of the car. It was a
wooden wheel and small fragments
of It were all that could be found after
the accident. The tire was found
practically intact. The machine was
wrecked. At the time of the tragedy
Cedrino had gotten his car to the
speed of a mile in fifty seconds.
? New Orleans, May 29: Secretary
Hester's weekly cotton statement issued
today shows for the 29 days of
May a decrease under last year of
16,000 and a decrease under the same
period, year before last of 108,000.
For the 272 days of the season that
have elapsed the aggregate is behind
the 272 days of last year 2,218,000
and ahead of the same days year before
last 283,000. The amount
brought into sight during the past
week has been 87,463 bales, against
85,640 for the same seven days last
year and 118,976 year before last.
The movement since September 1st
shows receipts at all United States
ports 7,950,747 against 9,608,584 last
year. Overland across the Mississippi,
Ohio and Potomac rivers to
northern milis and Canada 692,112 j
against i.no.oia last yeai", micuvi
stocks in excess of those held at the
close of the commercial year 186,379
against 173,035 last year, southern
mills takings 1,931,000 against 2,069,287
last year. These make the
total movement since September 1st
10,760,038 against 12.97",584 last
year. Foreign exports for the week
have been 45,105 against 44,602 last
year, making the total thus far for
the season 6,904,812 against 7,999,560
last year. The total takings of
American mills, north, south and
Canada thus far for the season have
been 3,566,347 against 4,492,764 last
year. Including stocks left over at
ports and interior towns from the
last crop and the number of bales
brought into sight thus far from the
new crop, the supply to date is 11,108,044
against 13,275,354 for the
same period last year.
? Washington, May 29: Almost
simultaneously in Washington and
New York indictments were today
returned against Theo. H. Price, a
prominent New York cotton operator,
Frederick A. Peekham and
Moses Haas, both of New York, and
Edwin S. Holmes. Jr., of this city,
formerly assistant statistician of the
department of agriculture, for alleged
participation in government crop
report leaks. Price is charged with
having conspired with the other men
to furnish advance information regarding
the crop reports of the department
of agriculture and Price,
Peckhatn and Haas are charged with
conspiring to bribe Holmes to shape
the official reports to suit their interest.
There were four indictments
brought in by the Federal jury in
both cities. All but Price have heretofore
been indicted under true bills.
returned here in October, 11?o5. following
the sensational exposure of
the crop report leaks. After a long
legal fight Peckham and Haas succeeded
In preventing their extradition
here from New York. but
Holmes was placed on trial in June,
1 HOT, the jury failing to reach an
agreement. The indictments were
returned here late today. According
to one of them Price made $7?U,U00
as a result of his advance information
regarding the report for December.
1904. and paid Haas $125,000
out of this sum. While not stating
how much Holmes received as his
share the indictment charges that
Haas paid Holmes $1,000 for information
on the June report of 1905.
The indictment, which sets out seven
overt acts, says that on May 31. 1905,
Price and Haas conspired by promising,
offering and giving to an official
of the United States a sum of
money to induce Holmes, in violation
of his duty to furnish such advance
information. It recites the conference
in New York on May 31 between
Price and Haas, following
which Haas came to Washington,
met Holmes and promised to pay
Holmes for advance information;
that on June 1 and 2, 1905, Haas received
such information from Holmes
and it was conveyed to Price and
that on June 2 Haas paid Holmes
$1,000. The second count of the indictment
says Haas and Price conspired
to bribe Holmes to arrange
the June report so as to show a
greater cotton crop than the information
in the statistician's otlice justified.
The other indictments charge
the three New York men with bribery:
charge Holmes. Peckham and
Haas with conspiracy to defraud the
government by getting information
in advance, and the fourth indictment
charges Peckham and Haas
only with conspiracy to bribe Holmes
to give out advance information.
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YORKVILLE. S. C.t
TUESDAY, JUNE 2, IMS.
Sknatok Aldiich took advantage of
a blind man in order to procure a vote
on the currency bill, and many people
say that Senator Aldrich is shrewd.
Theodore Price lias long enjoyed the
reputation of being one of the smoothest
and brightest citizens in the cotton
gambling business, and the government
is now making an effort to establish
this reputation as a fact
IK Theodore H. Price is convicted of
using a cold deck, it will not mean
that there has been anything unusual
in the practice; but only that Theodore
is one of the few that has been
caught.
There are those who claim that
Smith stock for the senate fluctuates
with the price of cotton. There is no
denying the fact that Smith did some
good educational work for the farmers,
and whether cotton ~oes higher or not
he is entitled to recognition.
The principal office of the new currency
law seems to be to provide a
lawful means for the issuance of clearinghouse
certificates. It is possible,
however, that after the law becomes
effective, means will be found to extend
its operation to other uses.
At a meeting of the state presidents
of the Farmers' Educational and Cooperative
Union, commenced at Memphis,
Tenn., yesterday, an estimate of
the cotton acreage planted to May 30,
was given out at 28,832,000 acres, as
compared with 31,311,000. the government
estimate for 1907.
Hon. W. J. Bryan says that the
emergency currency law is merely a
wedge looking to the change of the
basis of security for national bank circulation
from government bonds to
other collateral, and he regrets that
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lilt? JL>euiui;i u ir> ui 111c sniaic uiu nwv
exert themselves to defeat it.
The Knquirer begs leave to acknowledge
the receipt of several letters
from the Flint Hill neighborhood commending
our write up of the church
occupation and expressing appreciation
of what the writers are pleased to
characterize as a fine piece of work.
To the writers of these letters, one and
all, we have no hesitation in saying
that their letters give us much pleasure.
Cottox is now worth close to 12
cents; but those people who think that
all the cotton that is being held or a
considerable part of it. can be rushed
on the market at that price, will if
they try it. find themselves badly mistaken.
Give the spinners enough to
satisfy them for two weeks ahead
and the price will immediately show a
decline. The way to keep cotton up is
to market it slowly, letting it go in
quantities barely sufficient for the
needs of the spinners. Still better than
that, it is well to hold until the maximum
price is reached.
Debt.
The most satisfactory way of get
ting rid of a debt is to pay it.
The best way of keeping out of debt
is to buy nothing on credit that can be
dispensed with.
The man who contracts a debt in
the absence of a definite idea as to
how he is going to pay it, is very dishonest
or very foolish.
There are men who think it smart
to get the money of their fellowmen
under pretense of a loan to be repaid:
but there are other men who think
this practice very criminal.
The suspected sneak thief stands
pretty low in the estimation of honest
people; but he stands several points
higher than the known debtor who
continues to use money for his own
pleasure and enjoyment while his honest
debts remain unpaid.
Of the people who hold that the
world owes them a living, some understand
that the living is to be secured
through honest work: some think that
they are justified in resorting to burglary.
sneak thieving and highway robbery:
others more contemptible and
cowardly than the last named class,
prefer to resort to the practice of betraying
the confidence of unsuspecting
fellowmen.
The sneak thief and the highway
robber can be reached by the law when
they are caught: but- the fellow who
depends upon borrowing that which he
does not intend to return is safe from
every form of punishment except the
well merited contempt of honest men.
The servile beggar is far better
titan the man who borrows with the
deliberate purpose of swindling.
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The Vreeland-AUlrich currency bill,
which has been taking up the time of
congress during several weeks past,
became a law during the closing hours,
despite the most strenuous opposition.
This Vreeland-Aldrich bill has not
commanded the support of the country.
Smaller bankers everywhere have been
opposed to it. It is only the larger
bankers, the men who dominate the
financial policy of the country, who
have stood behind it. and they have
won out.
After the bill had been agreed upon
in conference committee, the Democrats
of the senate, who had opposed it all
along, laid down on it: but Senator
LaFollette of Wisconsin, made an effort
to kill it single-handed. His phin
was to talk it to death. After he had
held his ground for some eight or ten
tj
hours. Senator Stone of Missouri, and
blind Senator Clore of Oklahoma, came
to his aid. and in relays, they kept up
the fight until a late hour Saturday
night, when Senator Aldrich, with a
simple parliamentary trick, took advantage
of them and forced a vote. If
the Democratic lender. Senator Culberson,
had been so disposed, he could
have Insured the success of the filibuster,
anil there was much criticism
of him for his failure to do so.
The Vreeland-Aldrich law is intended
to provide emergency currency, and
the underlying idea of it Is practically
the same as has heretofore governed
the issue of clearinghouse certificates.
National banks in contiguous territory
with aggregate capital of not less
than $5,000,000, are authorized to form
what are to be known as National Currency
associations, and upon the deposit
of approved securities such as
bonds of various kinds, are to be al
lowed to issue notes against such securities
to the extent of 90 per cent of
their value. At the time of issuing
these notes the banks must pay 5 per
cent tax to the government and then
1 per cent a month thereafter until
the total payment aggregates 10 per
cent. The notes are furnished by the
government which, secured by what is
presumed to be ample collateral, will
guarantee their payment. The whole
idea - seems to be to provide against
currency famines in time of panic, and
at the same time to impose upon this
emergency currency such burdens as
will discourage the continuance of its
use after the necessity of it has passed
away. The act expires by limitation
on June 14. 1919.
The sponsors for the new law hold
that this country now has all the currency
that it needs, and thai the new
law will till every requirement as a
safeguard against failures caused by
panicky conditions.
REPUBLICANS UNEASY.
Political Outlook Is Not at All Encouraging.
Republicans in congress are in a
bad humor, says a Washington dispatch
of Wednesday. Things legislative
and political have not broken
well for them during the last winter.
They are disappointed and anxious,
and the leaders are trying to foist the
responsibility for existing conditions
from one to another. Many blame
President Roosevelt. The president,
on the other hand, blames the congress.
Xo doubt exists that the Republicans
are concerned over the presidential
and congressional elections that
are to take place next autumn. They
are not scared, but the fact that the
legislative programme which was recommended
by the president has not
bee. cairied out leads to the belief that
something may happen during the aprn-ntiohinir
pamnaiEn.
An apprehension is felt that Secretary
Taft, if nominated for the presidency,
may be defeated. The realization
is that Taft will be nominated,
and it is not going too far to say that
the Republicans, in and out of congress
who have carefully gone over the situation,
are fearful of the result.
President Roosevelt regards Taft's
nomination as a foregone conclusion.
He, too, entertains some misgivings
about the result next November, but
he lays the blame for the condition
that may bring about such a result at
the door of congress. He points to
the fact that the leaders in the two
branches of congress have taken this
year to settle some old scores with
him. There is no doubt of that fact.
With an assurance that Roosevelt
would succeed himself, congress undoubtedly
would have treated his recommendations
with greater consideration
during the last winter. It was
taken for granted, however, that he
was to retire early next year, and the
congress has played horse with him.
More bitterness of feeling than ever
before has been created between the
house and the senate. Criminations
and recriminations have been made
by the one branch and by the other.
Speaker Cannon has been charged
with all sorts of things by the senate
and the leaders among the Republicans
of the senate have been charged
with ignoring the public will and
standing only for their own selfish desires.
Thus, a serious condition of political
affairs has been created. Generally,
it is believed that Taft and Bryan
will be the opposing candidates. A
short time ago, it was expected that
the Republican candidate would have
practically a* walk over at the election,
but in the last month there has
been a notable change in sentiment.
Among both Republicans and Democrats
it is conceded that Bryan has a
strong chance of winning this year.
Some Republicans even are pessimistic
about the November results if Taft
be nominated. It is realized that
there will be a spirited contest with
the result much in doubt.
It is perfectly evident that the Republican
physicians have not been
able this year to prepare the country
for the great operation next fall. In a
speech on the financial measure a few
days ago, Senator "Bob" Taylor, of
Tennessee, told this significant story:
"I am confident that before the Republican
financial physicians get
through with the job they will have
the country in the condition of the
old man in my state who was very
sick: 'Old man. you are dying; have
y<?u any wish to express before you
pass over the river?'
" 'Yes,' whispered the feeble old
man. 'T wish I had got another doctor.'
"
THE MAY CORN CORNER.
James Patten and Associates Made
Big Money Out of Deal.
The corner in May corn which has
been run by James A. Patten, of this
city, and his associates, came to an
end today and the "Patten crowd"
is generally credited with having made
about $2,000,000 on the deal, although
it is admitted that all estimates are
largely guess work. Mr. Patten personally
declared today that he did not
know how much had been made.
The market today was highly irregular
and nervous in wheat, corn and
oats. May wheal ranged between 100
and 111 and closed at 1101. Corn sold
anywhere between 771 and 82g and
closed at 522.
Rvoif^ment ran hi ell todav in all of
the grain pits when the weakness was
greatest. Values changed with such
bewildering rapidity that traders were
puzzled. Shorts were anxious to cover.
and brokers for the bull leaders
had, at times, plenty of grain to sell.
It is said that the shorts have del'vered
to Mr. Patten and nis friends not
far from S.imio.uOo bushels of corn
and close to N.xltO.uftO bushels of oats.
"The corner." has been largely in May
corn, and Patten's holdings of this
option were accumulated at between
Sf? and 60 cents. Subsequent buying
necessary to support the market at
critical periods raised the average
purchase price by about 5 cents a
bushel.
The deal began early in October,
1907. In that month May corn sold
up to 65J cents. The financial troubles
which set in about that time tumbled
the price to cents. After the
financial flurry had abated the price
of May corn advanced slowly. During
February it sold up to 62i cents and
in March at 6Xi cents. Since then it
has continued to climb and shorts
have scoured the country for corn to
deliver on their May contracts. Immense
quantities of the grain have
been delivered to Patten but he has
paid for it all and apparently stood
ready at all times to take more.
Marly in May the shorts began desperate
efforts to (ill the Chicago elevators
with corn, and many of the
western railroads issued "rush" orders
to apply on all corn shipments.
Despite this, however. Patten and his
associates were not compelled to let
go. nor was their hold on the market
weakened to any apparent extent.?
Chicago dispatch of May 29.
LOCAL AFFAXR9.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
CJ. H. O'Leary?Is announced as a
candidate for mayor of Yorkville.
J. E. Lowry?Announces himself as
a candidate for the office of mayor
of the town of Yorkville. subject to
the choice of the voters in the coming
election.
J. Frank Ashe. Pres.?Olives notice of
a Farmers' Union rally to be held
in Yorkville on Thursday. July 2.
President B. Harris of the State
Union will make an address.
Palace Theatre?Tonight will show
"All Baba and the forty thieves."
Thursday and Friday night it will
show in pictures the famous "midnight
ride of Paul Revere." on& of
the best moving pictures ever produced.
John J. Hunter?Announces himself
a candidate for recommendation
for reappointment to the office of
auditor of York County, subject to
the action of the voters in the primary
election.
Blue Rock Mineral Springs Co.?Is
ready to supply the trade with wa
ter from its ramous spring, me water
of which, analysis shows, to be
equal to the best spring waters for
medicinal purposes.
J. L. Williams & Co.?Have picked up
some extra bargains in white and
figured lawns, ginghams and calicoes,
that they put on sale tomorrow.
Loan and Savings Bank?Invites you
to investigate its banking facilities,
when you have any banking business
to transact.
J. W. Dobson?Says he has very select
lines of crockery and glassware
that he is selling at very close
prices. Also has nice stock white
j lined enamel ware.
York Supply Co.?Has grain cradles,
grass blades, snaths, etc. Full line
of fruit jars and rubbers. Shipment
of guano in this week. Cane and
pea seed.
M. W. White?Points out that cotton
Is jumping in price and that real
estate will follow. He wants to help
you make money in real estate.
Luther Baber?Will do work for ladles
in their homes on request at a
moderate extra charge.
Thomson Co.?Offers specially low
prices on ladles' trimmed hats?big
variety for selection.
Sam M. Grist?Explains that it makes
no difference, under some circumstances
what kind of fire insurance
you buy. But when you want real
protection it is well to be sure of
what you buy.
York Drug Store?Asks you if you
have decided about the paint that
you are going to use on your buildings.
If not. it wants you to consider
S-W. paints.
W. M. Kennedy, Agent?Tells you to
get some of his ice cream salt,
which helps to save ice better than
common salt. Full variety of field
seeds for late planting.
First National Bank?Advises you to
have a bank account, even if you
start it with only a dollar. It pays
4 per cent on savings deposits.
Strauss-Smith Co.?Is showing a full
line of gents' furnishings. Including
"Monarch" shirts, underwear and
all other articles necessary for comfortable
dressing.
National Union Bank?Tells you that
creating a reserve is not difficult, If
you start your saving systematically
and select a safe bank for your
funds. It shows why it is safe.
York Furniture Co.?Offers $12 and
$15 pedestal extension tables?golden
oak?6 and 8 foot lengths, at
$6 and $8. for cash. Only has a
few of these tables.
Yorkvllle B. & M. Co.?Extends the
time of Its 10 per cent discount sale
of dry goods, shoes, etc., to June 15.
There will be an eclipse of the sun
visible In this latitude on Sunday,
June 28.
The pin advertised in the last Issue
of The Enquirer by Mr. Jep Campbell,
was found by Mr. Thos. F. McDow.
Yorkville is proceeding quite rapidly
in the direction of a general license
tax on all businesses for revenue purposes.
^
The York county rural carriers h&e
the road situation sized up about right.
The question now is, what are the people
going to do about it
Along the roads there are acres and
acres of cotton that look as if it has
never been thinned. Closer examination
shows that the hoe has been
through; but that it was while the
cotton was very small and the thinning
lacked a good deal of growing down
to a stand.
The speculators have already commenced
an active campaign for future
cotton. They are offering about 10
cents for October delivery. It was
these future sales that did so much to
hamper the market last fall. Except
for these future sales, prices or spots
would have ruled much higher.
Altogether there were only about fifty
entries recorded in the state corn prize
contest, and that makes the number
of entries in the York county contest
look pretty good. And there is another
encouraging feature connected with
the contest. It is conceded, that corn
land generally has been better prepared
and is being better worked than
is usual.
CORN PRIZE CONTESTANTS.
Yesterday, June 1st, was the last
day for new entries in the corn prize
contest, and Mr. A. L. Black, secretary
and treasurer of the Farmers' Union
has kindly furnished us a list of qualified
contestants as follows.
J. L. Wood No. 6, Yorkville.
J. E. Beamguard Clover.
W. E. Land No. 1, Yorkville.
D. J. Forbes Clover.
N. S. Black No. 5, Yorkville.
M. C. Willis Yorkville.
M. A. McFarland ....No. 4. Yorkville.
C. W. Wallace No. 1, Filbert.
E. U. Caldwell No. 1. Filbert.
W. A. McKinney No. 8. Yorkville.
C. II. Smith No. 4, Yorkville.
J. H. Uaughrldge No. 5, Yorkville.
R. N. Whitesides No. 1. Filbert.
J. Frank Ashe McConnellsville.
J. A. Steele Sharon.
S. F. Black No. 1. Yorkville.
JUNE SALESDAY.
Yesterday was salesday for June,
and it was undoubtedly the dullest
salesday that the town has known for
a long time, probably for years.
There were a few people In from the
surrounding country; but hardly more
than on ordinary occasions, and not
enough to make a show of there being
anything unusual.
The county board or registration,
consisting of Messrs. Black, Wallace
and Beamguard, was in session in the
county commissioner's office, but did
nothing in the way of issuing certificates.
the people generally understanding
that there is little use to apply for
new cert ideates until t lie re-enrollment
commences on the first of July.
There was but one auction sale of
real estate. This was a tract of eight
acres under a tax execution, the owner
allowing it to go to sale in order to
protect the title.
Even the horse traders were conspicuous
for their absence, and business
generally was dull.
WITHIN THE TOWN.
? Several small lots of cotton were
sold in Yorkville last Saturday at 12
cents. There was a good deal of inquiry
for cotton during Friday and
Saturday and the inquiring continues
strong.
? The Winnie Davis chapter U. D.
(\. has arranged to celebrate the 103d
anniversary of the birthday of Jefferson
Davis on the court house lawn tomorrow.
June 3. with a picnic dinner
to the Micah Jenkins camp U. C. V.,
and other local veterans. The programme
is to include the bestowing of
Crosses of Honor on veterans and descendants
of veterans. ^invitations to
the number of sixty-five have been
sent out to veterans.
? Announcements were made from
the pulpit of the First Presbyterian
church Sunday morning of a series of
services to be held in that church, beginning
next Sunday morning and continuing
for a week or ten days. Rev.
William Black, the evangelist of the
synod of North Carolina, has been secured
and will do all the preaching. He
will be accompanied by his singer.
Mr. Andrew Burr, a native of Chatham,
New Brunswick, Canada. Two services
will be held each day, to which
the public is cordially Invited.
? The labor trouble on the sewerage
work has not yet been corrected. It Is
altogether a matter of pay. The contractors
have been trying to get the
work done for $1.00 a day and the laborers
want $1.25. A number of negroes
came here from surrounding
towns, Gaffney, Gastonia and elsewhere
to go to work. Some have gotten down
in the ditch, worked a few hours and
gotten out. Some have satisfied themselves
with the advice of others that
the work is "too hard for a dollar," and
declined to try. It Is probable that the
contractors may resort to machinery.
THESE GET CERTIFICATES.
As the result of the recent examination
of applicants to teach in the public
schools of York county, certificates will
be issued as follows:
Whites, First Grade?Miss Lessie
Patrick. Miss Florine Carothers, Walter
H. Quinn, Miss Bertha Black. Miss
Ina I. Ashe, Miss Lillie May Foster.
Miss Clara Rivers, Mrs. S. A. Mitchell,
Miss Mary Williamson, Miss Bessie
Sherrer. Miss M. M. Creighton. Miss
Louise Fewell, Miss Nellie S. Moore,
Miss Ella Carroll, Miss Jennie Currence.
Miss Eula Jackson. Miss Winnie
E. Fitts, Miss Eorine I. Nabnette, Miss
Lillian Mitchell, T. N. Farls, Miss Florence
Malinda Whiteside. Miss Maty
Dobson. Miss Nan Blaine, Miss May
Russell. Miss Mary Ethel Clinton. Miss
Nina M. Gettys, Miss Margaret McKenzie,
Miss Annie Foster, Miss Julia
Foster, Miss Delia E. Steele.
Whites, Second Grade?Price M.
Fails, Claud B. Faris. Miss Blanche
R. Cain, Claude L. Faris, Miss Nannie
Ferguson, Miss Ruth Ferguson. Miss
Alice Clark. Miss Farie Quinn, John
M. Hutchinson, Miss Salllo McMackin.
These, too young to qualify, won
second grade certificates: Miss Ruth
Crosby, Miss Ruth Ferguson, Miss
Rose L. Jackson, Miss Marie Moore,
Miss Claire M. Crosby.
Colored. Second Grades?Jennie
Spencer, Allie Vincent, Delia Garvin,
S. A. Giles, M. E. Guthrie, Lizzie
Hood. Paralee Hill. James Meader.
Mary M. Mitchell. Maggie Hardy.
Colored, Third Grade?R. S. Beckham.
Amanda Bigger, Lena Gibson,
Bessie Hall, Geneva Hall, Ida Heath,
Nannie Ervin, Burnette Jacobs, Daisy
Knox, Francis Lowry, Pauline Lowry,
Eugene Lowry. Elizabeth McClelland,
Mary E. Moore. Maggie Moss, Mary
Nelson, Madeline Orr. Amanda Pen(lergrass.
Cora Roach, 'William Ross,
Ada J. Tate.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Miss Mamie Rose is at home from
Davenport college, Lenoir. N. C.
Miss Sarah Doggett of Charlotte, N.
C'.. is visiting Miss Mattie Caldwell.
Miss Leon White Is at home from
Chlcora college for the summer vacation.
Miss Emma Neil has returned to
Yorkville from Chicora college. Green-'
vllle.
Miss Agnes Walker of Gaffney, is on
a visit to the family of Dr. M. J.
Walker.
Mrs. D. L. Shleder and children left
Saturday on a visit to relatives and
friends at St. George.
Misses Connie Baber and Essie
Lindsay of Gastonia, are the guests of
Mr. R. E. Montgomery's family.
Miss Emma Rogers, who has been
teaching a private school In Yorkville,
left Saturday for her home at Society
Hill.
Mr. Sumter L. Lowry of Tampa. Fla.,
arrived in Yorkville, Saturday, on a
short visit to his brother, Mr. J. E.
Lowry.
Dr. Henderson L. Cartwright of
Burkesville, Ky., Is spending some time
with his brother, Dr. A. Y. Cartwright,
in Yorkville.
Miss Emma Kennedy, who has been
teaching in Hardeeville, is spending the
summer months with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Kennedy.
Miss Grace Whlsonant is spending
a few days with her sister. Mrs. J. P.
White, on her way to her home in
ohpmkpp countv. from Lancaster.
Miss Ola Caldwell, returned to her
home In Yorkvllle last week, after
closing her school at Wilson, N. C.,
and will spend her vacation with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Caldwell.
President W. S. Weber of Cen'enary
college at Shreveport. La., and a son j
of Dr. S. A. Weber of Yorkvllle, has I
been honored by the Wesleyan college
at Winchester, Ky., with the degreei
of L. I,. D.
Mr. Lindsay Caldwell of Yorkvllle,
who for the past eight months has
been the agent of the C. & N.-W. rail-j
way at Hudson, N. C., has accepted a
position with the Atlantic Coast Line
at Florence and left for that city on
yesterday.
Mr. John R. Schorb. who has been
quite ill for some weeks past, seems to
be improving steadily and surely, much
to the pleasure and satisfaction of his
family and friends. Mr. Schorb is In
the 89th year of his age. He has enjoyed
the best of health during his long
life until very recently, and when he
became ill his family and friends were
naturally very much alarmed. He was
able to go out to his studio yesterday,
and there seems to be reason now to I
hope for his speedy recovery. ,
Dr. M. J. Walker-has been named as!
a member of the local advisory committee
of the American Health league,
as representing Yorkville. This is a
sub-committee of the "Committee of
One Hundred" of the "American Association
for the Advancement of
Science," with headquarters at New
Haven, Conn., having for its purpose
Federal regulation of public health.
The ultimate plan of the movement is
to create a Federal health department
to be presided over by a secretary of
health. Dr. T. A. Crawford has been
named to act as member of Rock Hill's
local committee.
THE R. F. D'S. AT CLOVER.
The Rural Free Delivery Curriers'
association of York county met in annual
meeting at Clover last Friday, and
had quite an interesting and enjoyable
session as well as a very pleasant day
with the good people of this most delightful
little community.
There are about forty rural delivery
carriers in York county?thirty-eight
to be exact. Of these twenty-four are
members of the association, and eighteen
were present at the Clover meeting.
which is unanimously declared to
be the most interesting and profitable
that has yet been held.
The meeting was called to order by
President E. W. Comer, and after the
invocation of divine blessings by Rev.
Mr. Hardy, Hon. J. E. Besimguard delivered
a hearty and appropriate ad
dress of welcome, which was responded
to by Carrier Robert J. Robinson of
Edgmoor.
M. B. Jennings, Esq., of Yorkvllle,
by special invitation delivered an interesting
address on the road question,
and after quite an earnest discussion
of the whole subject. Carrier John W.
Miller, of Yorkvllle, proposed the following
address:
["Fellow Citizens of York County:
"Of you. for you, serving you dally,
and under endless obligations to you
for the countless kindnesses and other
evidences of appreciation that you
have shown us at every opportunity,
we, the members of the Rural Carriers'
association of York county, beg
your sympathetic consideration of
this appeal in behalf of better roads.
"We do not feel that it is worth
while to enter into an argument as to
the benefits to be derived from better
roads. It would be a waste of words
to expatiate on the comfort and convrArilArtoo
tn h^> uppnrpd thrnnch rnflfl
improvement. There is no need to
tell you of the great saving of live and
rolling stock, and it would be equally
useless to attempt to estimate the extent
to which real estate values would
be enhanced. You appreciate all of
these things as well as we do, and It
gives you as much pleasure as it does
us, no doubt, to dream of the blessings
that macadamized roads would
bring to every citizen of our beloved
county.
"All of us have been talking better
roads for years and years; but besides
talk we have done next to nothing.
You know why, and we know why. A
frank confession of the plain truth
will compel .us to admit that we have
been knowingly and wilfully trying
to deceive ourselves. As men of the
high intelligence that all of us claim,
we know that we cannot improve
roads without expense. We know also
that other people are not going to
bear this expense for us. There never
has been a time when we did not understand
that we ourselves must do
the work if it is done at all, and we
know also that the only way to do It
is by taxation.
"Heretofore our representatives in
the legislature have refrained from
providing a practical road law, adequate
to the end desired. The real
reason for their reluctance we are not
warranted in assuming; but we can
suggest an explanation that is not altogether
unreasonable. There is an
old story that seems to illustrate the
point. A negro preacher, very devout
so far as mouth service went, kneeled
behind a stone wall, and in the midst
of a loud and fervent prayer said, "O,
Lord: If I do not love thee better
than all the earth, I beg thee to throw
this wall over and crush out my hypocritical
life." Just about that time a
sacriligious negro who happened to
be on the other side of the fence
pushed down two or three large
stones. The preacher jumped out of
the way and ran for his life, shouting
"Lordy, Lordy, can't you tell when a
man is only joking."
''But now, fellow citizens we have
a law. Dr. J. H. Saye has taken us at
our word and provided means whereby
the roads can be improved. Shall
we stand to the issue and do our dutyas
becomes the great people we aspire
to be, or shall we stampede in Ignominious
flight and protest that we are
only joking?
'Fellow citizens, the roads are goon
now. They are always good in the
summer when there is less business
need of them; but they were fearful
last winter and they will be fearful
again next winter. They will continue
to be fearful until we go at them like
grown men and fix them as they
should be.
"Of course the Saye law may not be
perfect. It would be far wide of the
mark to say that there ever was a
perfect man made law. But this Saye
law is the only road law that we have
ever had that was worthy of the
name.
"And now what we want to ask of
you fellow citizens, patrons of the rural
routes, is to stand by this law and
see that it gets a fair trial. Of those
who offer as candidates for the office
of supervisor and for the office of
county commissioner, we beg you to
support the men who seem best qualified
to enforce this law in letter and
spirit. It all depends upon you, fellow
citizens, and by your faithful attention
to this matter, you will confer
a great boon upon your humble servants,
the rural carriers and inestimable
blessings upon yourselves and
your posterity."
The proposed address met with general
approval except that some of the
carriers feared that it might be construed
as an attempt to interfere in local
politics, and upon motion a resolution
was adopted disclaiming any such
intention. It was resolved also that
the address be printed at the expense
of the association for free distribution
among the people of the county.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: D. C. Clark, president:
John M. Smith, vice president;
B. R. T. Bowen. secretary and treasurer:
E. VV. Comer and W. H. Pursley
delegates to the annual meeting of the
state association in Aiken on July 3
and 4. and John "W. Miller and W. T.
Sims, alternates.
Before adjournment it was agreed
that the next meeting of the association
will be held in Yorkville on the
First Monday in September, Labor
Day.
The delegates to the convention were
very much pleased with the warm hospitality
of the Clover people. All visitors
were assigned to homes and when
they got together again in the afternoon
each declared to the others that
he had enjoyed as fine a dinner as he
had ever sat down to.
LOCAL LACONICS.
We Will Send The Enquirer
From this date to January 1st, 1909,
for $1.16.
Call to Mr. Anderson.
At a congregational meeting of the
Bowling Green, Beth-Shiioh and Allison
Creek congregations yesterday, a
call was made out for the pastoral ser
vices of Rev. R. S. Anderson of Gastonia.
Mr. Anderson is pastor of the
Second Presbyterian church of Gastonia,
located on the Loray mill property.
Rev. Mr. Anderson has not yet
given the committee any intimation as
to what he would probably do.
Foxes For Bethany.
King's Mountain Herald: Mr. W. B.
McGill of the Bethany section, York
county, S. C., received Tuesday a crate
of gray foxes for his place. There
were ten in the 'crate and it is understood
that Mr. McGill will turn them
loose on his place and give them a
chance to multiply. The animals came
here from Shelbyville, Tenn., being
shipped from the yards of the wellknown
breeder. J. D. Stodghill. Mr.
McGill is associated with others in his
neighborhood who are trying to make
fox hunting a lasting sport. There
have been quite a number of foxes
turned loose recently and if the number
is kept growing by additions foxes
will be plentiful in York.
? Due West, May 31: Yesterday
afternoon the annual senior's farewell
of Due West Female college took
place on the college campus. The
exercises Kent the large audience in
J a continued roar of laughter. In the
programme, however, there were sew
eral senior papers, which were
heard with deservedly good attention.
After the salutatory by Miss Mary
Lindsay and roll call by Miss Clara
Blake. Miss Kathleen Boyce gAve
"Who's Who." The historian, Miss
Julia Moffatt; the poet. Miss Eleanor
Reid, and the prophet, Miss Ona
Choat, each contributed a share to
the programme. "Jokes" were read
bv Miss Bess Lightsey; Miss Anna
Steel McCaw gave a recitation to the
iuniur class, "College Events" were
furnished by Miss Lizzie May Carmlchael
and "Statistics" by Miss
Marion Lightsey. Miss Irene McCain
read the valedictory essay. In "The
Faculty" Miss Pauline Orr severely
scored the instructors. The reading
of the class will by Miss Lavinia Kennedy
and the customary bonfire closed
the programme.
DEATH OF GEN. S. D. LEE.
Official Announcement From Army of
Northern Virginia.
The following general order has been
sent out by Gen. C. Irvine Walker:
Army of Northern Virginia Dept., United
Confederate Veterans, Charleston,
S. C.. May 28. 1908.
The department commander announces
with a sore, sad heart the
death of the distinguished commanderin-chief
of the United Confederate
Veterans, Gen. Stephen D. Lee. It is
fortunate that our beloved chief ends
a life well rounded and of good to himself,
more particularly to his fellowmen.
It was good that he lived. Mankind
has been bettered by the influence, example
and leadership of this pure,
true, noble man.
To us, his comrades of the United
Confederate veterans, with which organization
he has been more prominently
associated from its very birth,
he endeared himself by his wise and
u i K.f tha
conservative guiuauce, aim uj
hearty, loving cheer he always had
ready for the humble as well as the
high. He was always true to his Confederate
convictions, and while he met
those of conflicting opinions with frankness
and liberality, he never wavered
in his devotion to and advocacy of the
holy memories of the hallowed past.
He was a Confederate during the war;
he was a loyal Confederate veteran,
and he died with an unutterable conviction
of the jilstice and righteousness
of the Confederate struggle. On no
bier can the Confederate flag more
consistently rest than on that of our
friend, our commander, our chief.
C. Irvine Walker,
Commander A. N. V., Dept. U. C. V.
Richard B. Davis,
Adjutant General. Chief of Staff.
A GIANT WHITE OAK.
It Is One of the Largest Irt York
County.
A big white oak. which stands at the
Mrs. James Gordon's place, five miles
east of Yorkvllle is one of the largest
In the county.
About two feet from the ground this
tree measured 16J feet in circumference.
It is about twelve feet from the
ground up to the flrst limbs.
From the extreme end of the limbs
on one side to the extreme end of the
limbs on the other side it will measure
over 100 feet.
The big limbs run out straight from
the body of the tree.
Several questions or problems are
suggested by this giant oak.
If it could speak verily it could
a tale unfold, reaching back over a
period of perhaps 100 years.
If it was cut down and split Into
wood how many cords would it make
and what would it be worth?
If the trunk was sawed up how much
lumber would it make and what would
be its value?
If the immense mots were dug up
and made into hames how many and
worth how much?
If the bark were stripped off and
sold to a tannery how many cords and
how much would it be worth?
(Of course all of these questions can
be answered approximately.)
And if the value of time can be estimated
that has been spent by scores
of people beneath Its wide-spreading
branches in social converse or gossip,
or in quiet repose?blissful ease-?or
"balmy sleep"?how much corn and
cotton would the time thus spent represent
and what would be the equivalent
in money?
This noble tree suggests the beautiful
poem "Woodman, Spare That
Tree," Etc.
W. S. Gordon.
MERE-MENTION.
Olga Nethersole, the actress, last
week got a verdict for $2,500 against
a Cleveland, O.. newspaper for libel.
She sued for $ 100.000.... Representative
Burton of Ohio, will make the
speech nominating Mr. Taft for the
presidency, at Chicago. I. J. Dunn,
assistant city attorney of Omaha.
Neb., will nominate Mr. Bryan at
Denver The bluejackets of the
* ?, tiooKt Movflou/or nrpvpnt -
' prcmuciii o javui, rnwj mw it v> i t- * ?
ed a serious disaster at the Washington
navy yard Friday night, by removing
nearly two tons of explosives
from a burning powder magazine....
Two persons were fatally Injured and
several others more or less seriously,
at Memphis, Tenn:, Friday night, in a
collision of an automobile with a carriage...
.Delia Fox, an 18-year-old
girl, was sent to prison at Atlantic
City, N. J., for sixty days last week,
for flirting with men on the boardwalk
The flfty-two hounds, and
twenty-eight puppies of the Myopia
Hunt Club of Hamilton, Mass., imported
from England and valued at
$2,500 were killed last week, because
of rabies.... Eugene C. Chadwlck, 20
years old, was acquitted at Atlanta,
Ga., Friday of the charge of killing
his father in October, last Wilbur
Wright of flying machine fame, is now
in Paris, where he will build a flying
machine for demonstration to the
French government... .It will cost
the United States government $90,585
to furnish Indian school children between
the ages of 6 and.21 years,
with shoes during the year 1908
The appropriations of the last congress
are considerably more than a
billion dollars. Appropriation bills
carrying more than a billion dollars
were killed... .Crops in Iowa, Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska and Illinois
were badly damaged by storms Friday.
One man was killed by a tornado
near Topeka, Kan Frank Merritt
a New York man, has permitted
himself to be inoculated with tuberculosis
germs, in an experiment by
Dr. Craft Carroll, who seeks a cure
for the disease... .The names of General
Clement A. Evans of Atlanta,
and General W. L. Cabell of Dallas,
Texas., are mentioned us successors
of General Stephen D. Lee as commander-in-chief
of the United Confederate
Veterans Ten persons
died in Pittsburg, Pa., Friday, as a
result of the excessive heat The
attorneys representing Hearst in the
recount proceedings in New York,
claim that the final count will show
that Hearst was elected mayor by a
plurality of at least 15,000 Thousands
of peasants in the famine districts
of Portugal, are living on olives,
which is their only food. . . .Aek Hale,
charged with murdering his sweetheart,
Lillie Davis, was convicted at
Bristol, Tenn., Friday, and sentenced
to life imprisonment... .Cotton mills
giving employment to more than 10.000
operatives, went on full time in
Ithode Island yesterday, on the
strength of better conditions in the
textile industry... .J. Theodore Ross
a Portland, Ore., banker, has been
sentenced to serve five years in prison
and pay a tine of $576,094 ufter conviction
for wrongful conversion of
state school funds. . . .The Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad company
last week tiled a mortgage on
its property for $300,000,000.... Victor
Shanley, a New York lawyer, was
sentenced to prison last week for not
less than five nor more than ten years
for forgery Indictments were
returned against nineteen NightRiders
at Frankfort, Ky., Saturday.
More are expected... .A sale of 111
head of imported, blooded cuttle at
CoopersDurg, fa., amuruay, urnugni
a total of $38,400, an average including
calves, of $320. Last year at the
same place the sale of cattle averaged
$752 a head The Pennsylvania
railroad is considering plans for electrifying
its track for several miles
out of New York upon the completion
of its tunnel work.... Lee DeForest,
the wireless telegraph inventor, has
succeeded in talking a distance of
seventy-eight miles by wireless telephony
The famous Belmont
stakes, worth $20,765, were won by
Jas. R. Keene's horse, Colin, at Belmont
Park, X. Y.. Saturday. Colin's
winnings total $160,000 for his owner,
having won fourteen important races.
....As the result of a new Maryland
liquor law, the number of saloons in
Baltimore is reduced to 1,812 as compared
with 2.152 a year ago....John
D. Rockefeller h;is given an additional
jr.00,000 to the Rockefeller Institute ?
for Medical Research. New York. His
total gifts foe this purpose are $4.5oo 000
Yesterday in Indiana 16..too
coal miners resumed work after several
weeks of Idleness on account of a
strike.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Columbia, June I: All doubt that
he tire and life Insurance companies
doing business In the state will tight
the payment of state, county and
sehool taxes, amounting to over seventy-tlve
thousand dollars a year, on
the ground that these taxes are unconstitutional,
is removed by a letter _
received today by Comptroller General
Jones from General Counsel Mcintosh,
of the new York Life, who says that his
company will not pay for this reason. I
He will be here tomorrow for a con- ^B
ference with the state officials. Comptroller
General Jones is preparing attachment
proceedings against the Columbia
office furniture of the company.
This company's tajces amounts
to four thousand dollars a year. Jones |
finds that the code of 1902, providing 1
a penalty of five hundred dollars for W
violating any chapter ana tne revocation
license for failure to pay, was
so amended later as to apply the penalty
only to solicitors for unlicensed 29
companies.
? Columbia State, Saturday: Practlcally
every county in the state will f
be represented In the corn contest
this year. The prizes . offered are
very liberal, there being an appropriation
of 5500 by the state legislature,
a national prize and several prizes
offered by some of the counties. The
record made by this state last year in
the corn contest attracted general ,
attention and it is certain that some
growing and producing records will
be broken. The list of those enter- ' *" ming
the race as compiled by Commissioner
Watson are: J. W. Bethea,
Marlon; X. L. Broughton, Plnewood;
Alex Bethea, Marion; W. D. Caughinan,
Jr., Lykesland; Wm. Cooper,
Cooper postortlee; A. J. Clark, Lan- \,
caster; J. R. Fairy, Fort Motte; J. F.
Garrett, Laurens; J. C. Graham, Jordan:
R. H. Hayes, Page's Mill; G. C.
Hatchel, Tlmmonsville; J. J. Harby,
Sumter; J. P. Haselden, Lambert; T.
J. Hamble, James Tsland; B. F. Kennedy,
Jonesvllle; C. F. Moore, Cheraw;
X. J. McKlnnon, Horrell; W. P.
Pollock, Cheraw; F. C. Rogers, Marion;
Frank Rawllnson, Jordan; Jas.
M. Starr, Yorkville; W. B. Strlngfel- ^
low, Chester; J. A. Sligh, Sllghs; W.
T. Thrower, Cheraw; J. C. Whittlngton,
Horry county; W. M. Webster,
Cowpens; R. B. Watson, Ridge
Springs; D. L. Whitaker, McColl; J.
W. Waters, Gaffney. The list of
counties gives the following: Marion
4, Clarendon 3, Richland 2, Williamsburg
2, Lancaster 1, Calhoun 1, Laurens
1, Florence 1, Sumter 1, Charleston
1, Union 1, York 2, Chesterfield
3, Chester 1, Xewberry 1, Horry 1,
Spartanburg 1, Saluda 1, Marlboro 1,
Cherokee 1, making a total of thirty.
About twenty additional entries have
been filed with the members of the
state commission resident at Clem- A
son. A
? Columbia, May 30: Gus Deford, ^
the noted yeggman, is thought to be
on the high seas bound for London,
and the secret service sleuths, who
have been following him for years,
are counting on nabbing him when
he lands in England. Deford, it will
be recalled, escaped from the train
at Cade's S. C., on the 19th of Feb- ""^1
ruary, 1905, while he was being taken
from Xew York to Charleston in
the custody of a United States marshal
and an assistant. His escape
must have been well planned and
timed, and he doubtless had confederates
on the train or on the outside,
for he disappeared and all efforts to
recapture him have failed. Now,
however, the authorities think he Is ^
on his way to London and are preparing
.to have him arrested when he
arrives. He will be met with extradition
papers from the national gov
ernmeni ana me siaie jsoveriuiicin ui
South Carolina has also been asked
to take out papers so that when he
Is brought back to this country he
can be tried on each of the many
charges that are laid against him.
Under the treaty between this country
and Qreat Britain a criminal "extradited
can be tried in this country
only on the charges named in the
papers of extradition, and for this
reason it is necessary to have all the
crimes specified for which the prisoner
is to be held. There are several
postofflce robberies for which DeFord M
can be tried in the Federal courts, ^
but in addition there are several
state indictments against him in this
state and in Massachusetts. DeFord
was one of the most daring of the
gang of safe-crackers who operated
in this state, with headquarters in <J|
Columbia, in the year 1902, nine of ^
whom were afterward convicted in
the state courts and sent to the penitentiary.
One of the nine, Edward
Duggan, died in the prison. The
gang spent a brilliant life in Columbia
and left their fame in the tenderloin,
where they spent money freely,
a circumstance which led to their
capture. DeFord was one of the
gang which blew open the mill company's
safe at Enoree, Spartanburg
county, on November 26, 1902. For ^ M.
this crime his pals. Tom Nolan and '
Charles Howard, were convicted at
Spartanburg last year and sentenced
to ten years each in the state penitentiary,
having already served five
years under sentence of the Federal
court for the same robbery since the ^
postofflce at Enoree was in the mill
store. The gang got about J 10,000
out of this job. The same gang was
also charged with the robbery at
Mullin'8, the same year, but they
were acquitted .when tried at Marlon
Just before the trial at Spartanburg.
DeFord was also in the safe robbery
at Fort Mill, the same year, and
doubtless there are other crimes for
hn nAiiM hn trifiH if all tha
were known. There Is a reward of
$250 for his capture, and he is advertised
as a desperate criminal. *
? Atlanta, Ga., May 31: The governorship
of Georgia will be decided
Thursday, June 4th, when the Democratic
state primary is held. With
the count complete Gov. Hoke Smith 0
will know whether he succeeds himself
for two years from January 1st,
1909, or whether Joseph M. Brown,
the man he dismissed as railroad
commissioner, will take the gubernatorial
chair. The Democratic state
primary in Georgia is the election.
The Republican and other parties do
not bother with a state ticket. In the
last contest live Democratic candidates
developed strength and hunted
the governorship. This year the governor
and Mr. Brown are the only
ones in the field. The campaign has
been heated, but in a unique way. *
Hoke Smith has traveled from Brunswick
in the south to Trenton in the
north, speaking everywhere, while
Mr. Brown has remained in his Marietta
home, with an occasional visit
to his headquarters in Atlanta. He
says himself he cannot speak to an 0
audience and he has confined his
campaigning to newspaper articles.
Not once has he appeared on the
platform. The fight is unique also in
that both candidates stand on similar
platforms. Both declare prohibition
shall continue, that they favor the
disfranchisement of the negro, these
being perhaps the two most important
questions which have been under
discussion. An interesting phase of
the campaign is the fact that when j
Governor Smith was inaugurated for ^
his first term Joseph M. Brown, his
present opponent, was a member of
the state railroad commission?probably
the most important board In
Georgia. Within a very short time
the governor had dismissed Mr. A
Brown. The reasons for this dismiss- ?
al have been under discussion ever
since. An element of mystery pervades
the matter because of a mysterious.
sealed letter which is continually
referred to in the present campaign,
Mr. Brown declaring that he sent
this letter to the governor, and the
governor replying that it was returned
unopened. What the letter contained
no one seems to know. It was
sent before the dismissal of Mr.
Brown and it has been suggested In 4
various quarters it contained his resignation.
The contest therefore has
a personal side. The primary also
elects to the state convention, where
the delegates to the national Democratic
convention will be chosen, but
the national contest practically has A
been forgotten In the warmth of the
state campaign. The state convention
will be held June 23rd.