The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, November 27, 1906, Image 1
VOL XLIII. NO. 98- NEWBERRY. S. 0. TUi'S DAY. NO'V EM-1 2RP7. 19013. TIEAWE.S.0AYK
. TILLMAN rOR PRESIDENT.
Unreserved Praise for South Carolina
Senator From Discrimina
ting Correspondent.
"Savoyard" in Charlotte Observer.
Ben Tillman is bluff, blunt, honest,
intensely Southern and intensely
American. He can get more votes in
Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and
Minnesota than W. J. Bryan or W. R.
Hearst; and I make no doubt - that
against the man the republicans are
likely to nominate he can get a batch
of electoral votes out of that squad.
And why not? His only fault is lie
speaks the truth. Can you find other
in him? I have tried and failed. Will
some gentleman put me on track of
one? There he is, standing up before
the American people, his heart on his
sleeve, and all can see that he would
not flatter Neptune for his trident
nor Jove for his prayer to thunder.
He too, would carry a big stick and a
deck of cards. Not as able a man as
Bailey, perhaps; not as cultured a
man as Williams, certainly, not as
self-poised as Culberson, manifestly;
lie has more of the human in him than
any of them, and with him Christ
would have sat at meat. If every
voter of the United States knew Ben
Tillman by hand grasp, had rubbed
up against him, felt his splendid per
sonality, realized his wonderful indi
viduality, he would be the next Pres
dent of the United States as sure as
the American people put character
above place.
As I said at the outset, the demo
eratic party is invincible when it is
united and impotent when it's divided
It bag been demonstrated that Mr.
Bryan cannot unite it. It was.4hown
that Judge Parker could not unite it.
It is clear that Mr. Hearst cannot
unite it.
Any man at the North who would
vote for any of these thre would vote
for Ben Tillman-that is to say. unl
less Mr. Hearst should run as an In
dependence League candidate, as he
probably will. And if he does he will
poll as many republicans as lie will
democrats. -
Certain it is, tile country is tired,
the times are out of joint. For the
republiepn party the returns are om
inous. The selection was not a vote
of confidence in even the Roosevelt
administration-certainly not in the
G. 0. P. It is also here that tihe re
turns say to the democrats inl every
laniuage and1 inl every dialect of lang
uage: "You are too big a )I to be
given place and power at thii' ime.''
Put Ben Tilhman on a sf%fe an( sane
platform and let him tour the North
spitting out the truth, as only lie can
do it, and we would see a good many
things in the returns you Wot not of.
Truth is mighty. Let, us democrats
try it. if not only for a chlang.e.
Told of Prof. Lounsbury.
The iecent unolnicial opinion of the
JUited States supreme courit in the
matter of, simplified spelling lends
especial point to the following anmc
dote Of Prof. Lounsbury, thme noted
grammarian of Yale, who, as is well
known, has democratie and liberal
v ~iews of the subnject of thme English
l\ angulage. Prof. Lomnsul)try, accord
ing to Hlarper's Weekly, o)poses
t hose who would subhst itte for simlel
t)Iems pedanitie ones-fhose who would
claim, Ifor instance, t hatI. the phriase
LTomnoirow is S11uday '' is inliorrect,
,', and would write instead : ''Tomorrow
wilbe Sunidajy.''
Prof. Lounsbury, discussing thle
question of simple English, said at
Yale onie afternoon:
There was a little boy who began
to keep a diary. HI-s entry was 'Got
imp this morning at 7 o'clock.' lie
showed the entry to his mothier, and
she, horror-stricken, said:
''Have you never been to school?
Got up, indeed I such an expression I
Does thme sun get up? No, it rises'.'
"And she scratched out 'Got up at
7, amnd wrote 'Rose at 7' in its place.
"That night the boy, before retir
ing, ended the entry for the (lay with
the sentence, 'Set at 9 o'clock.''
Thle young~ man who thinks his boss
can 'It et along without him may have
Sto get along without his boss later in
the game.-Chicago Daily News.
IMMIGRANT SITUATION. t
Trouble at Anderson Not Yet Adjust- I
ed, But About Thirty Have Gone 1
Back to Work-Dissatisfac
tion the Direct Result of
Agitation of Socia
lists.
Anderson Intelligencer.
The immigrant situation in this
city is still muddled, and there are
slim prospects of an adjustment that
will keep the foreigners here and
cause them to return to work. It ap
pears to be characteristic of these peo
ple that once they become dissatisfied
they cannot be reconciled. They are
slow to listen to argument. They ap
pear to close their minds to reason.
In our last issue we gave the facts
as the dissatisfaction manifested by
fifty or sixty of these immigrants at
the Anderson Cotton Mils Monday.
Because of the difficulty of communi
cating with these people (none of
them speak En,lish) it has been a
considerable task to ascertain the true
cause of their dissatisfaction; and it
is doubtful now whether the true
cause has been learned, as the immi
grants claim to reason, while facts
point to a third and natural cause.
It is claimed first by the immi
grants that the circular issued by the
Columbia Immigration Bureau is mis
leading, some of them going so far as
to say-that it misrepresents fact's. But
this a altogether untrue. Mr. 0.
Geisberg, of this city, a German schol
ar, carefully read and interpreted the
circular to the writer and no intelli
gent percon can find a misleading
statement. It is claimed, second, by
the immigrants that when they called
at the mills for an explanation they
were told that they must at once va
cate the houses they occupied and
find employment elsewhere. This
claim is not true. The mill authorities
did oder two or three of the leaders
in the late rebellion to vacate, but
nothing of the kind was said to the
others. To the contrary, indications
point to the fact that the mill people
were anxious for a reconciliation, and
it is learned that. they were successful
to ( tie exLent hat nlearly if nlot quite
half of the immigralnt, families return
ed to work Tuesday morning.
The true cause as poiited to by cer
tain facts is that thIee are tlrec or
more socialists, of the German school,
among the immigrants and they are
responsible for the unrest that is be
ing manifested. The circular issued
by the Columbia Immigration Bureau,
above referred to, furnishes, in tle
hands of these agitators, a Imeanls to
create dissatisfaction. It is easy for
them to read it, especially where it
refers to the opportunity to own
small farms, and when it gives aver- 1
ages of wages paid, and interpret, put
a construction on the statements made
entirely different from that intended,
and in this way cause trouble. It
was to these agitatoirs the order to
leave was given.
In intelligence they are above the
it is learned that there is an emissary,
an agent emiployed to advance ini a
covert manner, the interests of ecr
tain farmers, and that helias been ac
ively at work among I hese immi
gvrants trying to indiuce them by mosy
humed tales and promises of ri hnd1
immuediate rewards, to quit their pres
cnt p)osit ions and go to the farms. The
name of this emissary cold not bo
learned, buit it is said that lie is an
Anudlerson County man.
When these last facts aire taken in
counetion withm thle furt her fact that
these immigrants knowv absolutely
not hing of the customs and condlition
of this country, it can be undlerstood
howv easily t.hey can he effected and
inifluenced to just such conduct as was
manifested at thme cotton mills Mon
day. This bunch of .immigrants se
cured by Anderson firom the Witte
kiiid is made up of Bohemians, Hun
garians, Gahatians and Kroatians, arc
under thme Anderson government.
n intelligence they are above the
average of the immigrants coming to
this country, and if they wore free
from the influence of socialistic agita
tors, especially in their own ranks,
and from the blighting effect of a paid
emissary whio, under cover of night,
visits their homes and makes promises
of reward for labor that are never. in
ended to be fulfilled, they would
rove a highly desirable class of Ia
iovers oil the farms, in the mills or I
Inywhere else.
It is learned that of the fifty or
ixty who manifested so much dissat
sfaction Monday, only twenty-nine or
hirty signify their intention of leav
ng. The others have either returned
o work at the mills or say they will
emain in the county and secure work.
Plsewhere, Commissioner lins tele
'raphed to ascertain the number who
vant to return to Columbia, which
voild indicate that the Immigration
3ureau of the State is prompt to look
ifter the interests and general wel
are of the immigrants.
It is hoped the entire buneh, except
Ahe socialists and agitators will de
ide to remain here.
Tuesday afternoon a Dr. Goldsburg
irrived in the city as the interpreter
Ind agent of Commissionir Watson.
Wednesday morning Dr. Goldsburg,
iccompanied hy Mr. 0. (eisburg of
lis city, started out to ascertain the
rouble and if possible pacify the im
nigrants and effect a recoiciliation.
Little headway was made during the
norning. Ini the afternoon eight or
:en of the immigrants claimed to have
)ecii apointed a committee by the
>thers and, upon suggestion, went in
;o meeting in the Court House. Mr.
[t. E. Ligon being present by request
mnd Dr. Goldsburg and Mr. Geisburg
icting as interpreters and advisers.
Everything possible was done to ef
leet a reconciliation but without sue
iess.
Later in the afternoon there appear
,d some hope of straightening matters
)ut.. By the efforts of Dr. Goldsburg
and Mr. Geisburg, 'places of work
were found for twenty-eight of the
thirty. Nine who had determined to
leave.
Mayor MeCully offered to work
Lwenty on the streets at $1.00 per day
intil they could do better. Eight
were offered to be provided for by
wivate families. This left cleven of
Ate dissatisfied and it, was decided
lhat these should leave. This was the
way matters stood Wednesday night.
Yesterday the situation changed
l>aek to the original status. Durin'g
W'ednesday night a change had been
Mrou1ghit about, and it is Said that one.
'Irisler, one of the immigrants, is re
;ponsible for the change ; that lie is
lie principal disturbing element.
When Dr. Goldsburg andl Mr. Geis
mrg talked with the thirty-nine yes
erday they were told that all wanted
o leave, and as they could not be dis
maded a telegram was sent to Con
nissioner Watson asking that trans
)ortation be sent. The departure of
1his crowd will leave about twenty
ive at work in the mills and else
vhere and apparently perfectly satis
'ied.
Immigrants Who Left Anderson.
Columbia, Nov'. 24.-F~ifteen of the
mmigrants wvho started to walk from
\nderson to Columbia yest erday werec
rurnished railroad t ranisport at ion
Priom~ Belton to Coluiaiii by Comimisi
a(iner EL.1J. Watson. TheIiy have ar
irived1 in C'oluimbia , anid C'ol Wa tson
P'ereint. parts of thle State(.
A te'legr'am fromn Anmdersoni this afC
ern'Iooni says that thle imigirants who
remained there are all satisfied and
iverythlingi is running along smoothlly.
Laying For Him.
'There 's a newv youngw maon calliig
m Miss Maud this evening,'' said the
Cox terrier, ''and lie seems real nice.''
''Yes, I heard hemr say he was nice
mnoigh to cat,'' replied the bulldog
m the lawvn. ''That's what I'mn wait
.ng for. ''-Philadelphia Ledger.
Women always consider it an unfair
i(dvanitage for a pretty widow to have
murly hair.
When a millionaire runs over you
wvith his automobile lhe thlinks lhe is
nighity consderate of you to pay for
'ouri funeral.
A woman begins to sit up and~ take
mt ice whenh other womeni say n'ee
hijoiam nhnont l' husbnalno.
MISTRIAL FRANKLIN CASE.
First Verdict Was for $25,000-Cod.
Johnstone Wilil Move Another
Trial This Week.
Col. Oeorge Jonlistonle retirn-led
from G reenville on Priday afternoon,
where he had been engaged in tihe trial
of tle Franklin case.
It will be remembered that Mrs. H1.
H. Franklin sued tlie Southern rail
way for 50,000.00 damages, and the
ease was tried in Greeinville and a
verdict of $25,000.00 was reidered in
favor of Mrs. Fianlklinl. Tie case was
taken to the Sulpreme Court an(] that
cour't granted a new trial, wlich took
place last week. It will be seen from
the Greenville News of Saturday that
there wils a mistrial in the ease at
this time. The News says:
"A fter being out. sixteen hours, the
jury in the Franklin ease returned
to the court room yesterday morniiin
and aiiouiced that they had beeni in
able to a ore oil a verdict. Ti
jole's cha rge was coniclluded or
Tinrsday aflenio0in at 5.30 o'cloeli
anld tile juiry repoited 1 9.40 o'eloek
''It is said fliat the .jurors stood 1(
to 2 inl favor of a verdiet, wifle ti(
eleveti i man was willing tliat thc
plaintiff receive money eiionigh to cov
er tHe ex)penses of her sickiiess. Ti
twelfth mainii held out altoget.hei
against giving a verdict for the plain.
tiff. From what could be learned
it -seems that. the ten jurymen, wil
were in favor of giving a verdict foi
the plaintiff, wished to give a verdiel
inl the neighborhood of $10,000.
''As soon as the announcement of i
mistridl was made, Col. George John
stone, leading counsel for the plain
tiff, gave notice that endeavors woul<
)e made to bring the case up for tria
again next week.
''it is rather unusual for a case <
he tried twice during the same lerm 01
eoulrt, bt when sufficieint reasoiis an
given showing tliat. the ease shou<
be tried, the presiding judge allow.
te case to come up for re-trial.
''The Fraikliin case hias excitei
imicli intri(e, it beiiig one of tle larg
est civil suits Iried inl 11his State. 'Th
amount iiivolved is $50,000.
'The title of the case is Soda L
Vranklini and loward H. Frankih
vs. tle Atlanta and Chariloftte Ail Lim
railway. This is a suit for damage:
by Mrs. Franklii against the Soutih
ern IHailwaY for insults which she al
Ieges she received at te hanis of r
drn1ken m1ani on tHie train betweel
reenville and Atlaiita on April 1
1903:.
'Driig tle trial just conlcludet
brillianof ar.gum1ents were made by Ilh<
lawyers on bothI sides. For tle de
'ense Messrs. '. P. CotIllan 3 and A. U1
I)ean made a good fighIt and Messrs
(GeoI're Jolis(one, i. J. Haynsworli
aid L. 0. Patterson, for tle plaintiff
Ilikewise fought hard for a verdict foi
their clienits.'
Off to Conventions.
Thle SouthIi(' Calinia con ference of
he M. E. (churchel Soulth, will con vene
in (Coilum ibia thIiis week in its annual
Th'le t following trom Ne wberry wvill
atfend:
IRevs. II. MU. (ri('r. J1. ii. Kilg.re, A,
11. I test, \ as,.1J. W. II anibert , M rs,
I'. S. Ilerhiert and Mr. W. I I. Wallace,
Th'e SoothI C'aroliau State laptist
Associat ion will meet ini Spartanurng
this week.
The following will afttend froim
Ne wherry:
Revs. (I. A. Wright, L. 11. White, .
W.r MIit~hiellI, Mr. 1?. Y. Lecavell, Dr,
.James MIlintoshi and Mr. lE. H. WVil
buir.
Will Remain this Week.
D)o not forget thait. Dr. Crimm, thec
well known eyesight sp)ecialist, will
remain ini Newherry until Sat urday
5 p. im., the first of D)ecember, only,
and no0w is the time to get prioperly
fit ted glasses at. reasonable prices. D)r.
Crimm 's skill is known all over the
state. Doh not imiss to see him i. No
chinrge for exam iniat ion.
Officee over the old post office.
A woman has a finrd timue convine
ing herself tht hier boy would be
smarter if lie had more brains.
r
How the Red-Shi
Rode
Remiuiscences of ti
Lived in tt
W. W. Ball, in New
It. must have been late in Septem- i
ber or early in October when ''11amp- 1
ton Day'' arrived in Laurens, for 1
remember that the air was crisp, the
sky clear and the roads dusty.
I I lad a red-sihirt, so did my cousin,
who was still younger, but it was a
keen disappointment to me that I 1
could not. ride inl the lprocession and,
besides, my shirt was of turkey-red
calico and the rown men wore red i
1lann1lel. Tle ealico was lealper and 1
the village stores had sold out of red i
1l1a1tm1el aihllow, Sol my graidiot her
a vigorous wolian 1111der sixty, and 1
a Deimocra mainly because she was
still ''a rebel,'' not merely unrecon
striieted but militant in polities, il- I
sisted that the calico would have to I
answer.
We 1hildrei lad a more or less iii
telligent idea t' politics even then;
we had been ''raise('' on it, but we I
had come to have a sort of hopeless- I
less of the Democrats winning. I
could remember two elections and my I
father coming home in the night time
to say, "The Radicals have counted
us out,'' and we would settle down
to get along as best we could for an
other two years, while the negro "hep
men,'' as the other negroes called the
negro militia pairaded in triumph
through the streets, under the prof eet
ing eye of the rfidicil colstablilliry,
or' 'Yankee'' garri11. 1it some
times, I reea oice in particiulalr, be
fore '76, my fathier did not come home
uintil late at night. and the terror that
lie was in jail was a very real one to
me-for lie was a leader among the
county DemocraIts and tile womei of
the family Iever knew wlin le would
be tle ne(.Xt to) be arrested, aid tile
idela ha.1d not lbevi lost oni mte. Trite,
since tie ''riot'' five olr six yea rs be
fore, wlenl a 11i1nuber of nle.rIoes :11
Voltiy Powell, a youn0 arpet-baig
Ier Q rv m Ohio, had beetn killed, the
ner 1es laid not been insolent, bult the
iread of mlilore roulible every (ay anld
every houi. Was presen.
The Cry of the Campaign.
'llbroughot tile s1mnmieri of '76 the
cry of 'f'Hurrah for Hlam1pton!'' haid
constailtly gtownll more famiiiliart in
L.au1rels un1til the forn and figu of
Ham11uptonl, wliom we yoiln, onles had
never Seen, seemed to )v ridi 11111oin .ong
i. a0 tlie tiie. En yv:hore ee could
see white men riding, but. tle red
shirt was not familiar until ''Hamp
Ion Dany'' and after. Nearly every
inight th le homes oif thle leaders in thle
village were filled with men who had
riddenet fromi the banks oif Saluda on1
one( sidle aind Enolree oni the ot her, and
many camie from the a oheri sides of thle
rivers, Abibeville andl Unaion atnd
Spairtanbunrg and o)1her couties; and ul
Ithey caine from thle ' 'T'ri angle '' and
'Sa rd is' ' and Seu ff1letown an iPilow-1
IT's Slop andt (Cross Iilill and1 Island 1
Depot, (rra ma51il'liverv' has rob- I
rode1 up to) thle house of thle lawyer or ;
I le dolctor or (lie merchant in thei
village and11 arouhnd to thle st able, ','puit
.up'' his oiwn hiorse- ort mile, and1
spet thle niighit anid receiv~ed1 thle best1
that was to be had ; for ' 'LIaurens
ICourt House,'' as the village then
Iwas known, was hieadqjuarters for' the
Iridlers.
For' everybody ro~de. One's mind
turning back to thbat. summer and fall
*of '76 is filled fiirst with the picture
Iof an eightleen-year-old lboy oii a mule
or' younmg Veterani, p)ossib)ly a one0
ar~medi or one-liegged Veteran, mount
''l'e-l e'." they calld hlimii ,( od, irest
his gallanut soul. hut. st ronig and1 virile,
a nd 'toalloping al wJys. The one sees 01
t he iiriers malt ipl y, and11 ther' e ar to
and(1 fouri and1 eight and sixt een-Athere
are riders, riders everywhiere'-the
ads and woodsanre filled with them
rts
with Hampton
ke Days when Men
ie Saddle.
and Courier.
tid the 2,500 white men, including
oys and gray heads, who are the
mpillation of the county, are 25,000,
vhlo, night by night and day by day,
,ceim to crowd the highways and cov
-r the 800 or 900 square miles of the
.ounty. One never loses sight of a
-ider.
And Yet Peaceful.
Yet generally all is peaceful. Now
mnd then one hears of a homicide or
I shootl.g scrape, but usually it is
l0t directly connlected with polities,
! Radical Can(lidilte Coies to town
nd t ' ' boys'' (the saloons were
3pen in '76,) find him al his hotel
uid they are not civil-they sing ri
nild sonlg's um11iler. his nlose and twit
imii and guty himi and perhaps aire
mnpolile, but they do not. kill him.
-'oeit iies, inl Imlost Cases, they are
imid, these ''rads'' and sneak away
it oeeasionally they are brave and I
lave the picture of one before me, a
Soutlh Carolina scalawag, not Carpet
>agger, a bright, young fellow, often
Irmiken because ashamed, who one
might dared the score of young devils
who hooted him as he stood by the
bar counter to fight him one by one.
Poor fellow1 Renegade that he was,
aven in his abasement lie could not for
get his breedini(r. Ile was defeated for
office and soon after, in a year or
two, died-drowned, in whiskey.
IBut no mne aeepted the Republi
en's elfllenle to tight. Wade 11famlp
l('1, Ihen camiing inl Charleston
or Ill Beailort. or. elsewhere, saved his
life. The( lea'dership of Inipton
meait a eampaign wit lhout bloodshed.
That, I le one thoulllt lie 111tered
m11ost 1121 ipa) Sized as essentvial to
SuIC(ss Mlo f1ina1lly it brllOded over
S utt1h (aroin u111 ntil every 111111 felt
it to rest(rill lin ; 11i1s 1 as his passion
Ir)Ose. The s (u s of the vaulse laly ill
preervn-Owh pem-f- and the gre-at,
(4ff41r- (d 111m11ptonl wnd his conildenl
li'll l ilmtonaillts, -rten dlY Veleranl
(ou1tlIldes (t lis. w'as to prexveill olit
!renks tlint w rod 4w iwoville (-X(S(- for
Feddrnd interference. 11-ampin w-ould
nio)t have jltitiivd i le inlsilIts to tle
y(1uniig "Se:1awng" I 1ave uenftlionoed,
but, nlevertheless, 111 (lamlpi.-1ign was
n11e of demonstration--continu1s, ex
titlat, lvrrifYin- de,s,r-in Nev
mr w%ere the ne roes :m114l wlite Repub
!e. '. , Iohi they were
inl 187(, it wohll not- do to shoot and
kill, and everyhody knew it; that was
Ile word Ithat went omut from thle conin
l y leade rs to4 thle conuntry boys and the
village boys; thiere wats 11ot the slight
est initention to hurt anybody, that
wras the word from IIampton and( his
l'rends conlstantlIy from every stumplI
-but the everlasting r'idinlg and1 lie
da ' 'rebel yell'' linging and ringing
Shirou'.hl I le hills and ravines had
hoeir (effec. It was5i intimiidation on
y ini s) far as th~ le neg ~ro voters lack
d 11he couragei~ to aissert thlemselvyes,
meked ais t hey were by thle Federal
When Men Were in Earnest.
Nor do0 I meanoi to say tiat it wats all
hlbluff. '' I 1ad( th liepub)121lican been001
ig.riessive, ii p robiably would have
>0011 imipossibile to) rest rain t he '"red
hlirts, '' buit Ihiimpton knew that the
iat tle could( be only won and should
>e. w~on withoumt resort to violence. It
Wvas the dleepseatedl, almost idolatrous
raith in t his great. soldier' in the hearts
>f the peophe that restrained them
failhI wh'ib a t thIiat time nio other
living man could have inspired.
Maniy a man of that (lay might have
led a charge through the State but
none otheri leadinig it could have kept
thie sabres of his meni in their sealb
l)ards. That was the one wvay to win.
But to '"llainpton Day'' again. It
reailly (1awnied, so to speak, the even
ing herIore. Our gra ndmot her took us
>vr o th e thler side of' thle vil lage, to
"ol. Tlomi 'rews's hioiuse, where there
bvere0 boy friends of ours who liad red
thjirts and a goat well broken-so that
we could hae ed-s.hirt riding, tnn....