The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, July 03, 1908, Image 1
YOL XLY NO. 53 NEWBERRY. S. 0.. FRIDAY. JULY 3 1908. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR
SALUDA STRONG FOR BLEASE.
The Senator Has Many Friends in 1
That County?Good Meeting?
Ansel Absent.
Saluda, S. C., July 1.?While tlio
fanners in this scctiuii ai'e very busy, "
a goodly crowd attended the State s
campaign meeting here today. The v
meeting was held, in the county court i;
house. The building was well filled, ?>
some seventy-live ladies and three or J
four hundred voters Doing present. Ji
The county chairman. Eugene \Y '
Able, presided and bespoke for each e
candidate an attentive and respectful <'
hearing. This each speaker received. s
The crowd was in a good humor. 1
Gov. Ansel, Adj. Clou. Boyd, State >
Treasure Jennings, Atty. Gen. Lyon,
Lieut. Gov. McLeoit, Comptroller v
Jones, Mr. lirooker atnf Secretary '
McCown were absent from the meet
ing for various reasons. 1
All of the candidates for railroad
commissioner were |?^cseni, each one *'
receiving undivided attention and j
some applause. Major Richardson 1
discussed his war record. Mr. Fish- t
burne gave his views on railroad ques- s
lions. Mr. Summerset I argued that s
he was the most experienced candidate
for the position. Jimmy Can- 1
sler told his jokes to the amusement 1
of the crowd and Commissioner '
Caughman reviewed his record for the '
past six years. Saluda is Caughman's I
old home and he was received well 1
by his old friends.
Tt was evident everywhere that the
people were interested in the race
for the governor. There was much
disappointment because of Gov. Ansel's
absence. The governor has ?
friends in Saluda who are very much -1
worried that he did not sec fit to attend
the mooting. Chairman Able
read his letter and there was not even I
a handclap or ripple of applause t<>
I /
greet it. 1
Hon. Cole. L. Blense was in good '
form and spoke about thirty minutes
to the voters. ITe referred to the.
fact that his mother was a native of
Saluda county, that he had a number
of relatives among t!-r people present. 1
and knew hundreds of Saluda county
county voters personally. He was
glad to be among people two had
lenown him from his boyhood and ^
people who had known his parents in
the years gone by. Mr. Rlease discussed
mainly the question of extravagant
appropriations, useless of- v
fices, and high taxes.
Tie stated his views on the whiskey
question. His accm?-.r of how legislation
was o/trn secured by five or
six men even in the face of opposition
of a majority of the members of (
the creneral assembly, was very inter- (
ostin<_'. Many cheers greeted his |
statement that he was opposed to the |
money of the white tax-payers beiner (
expended for the education of negro ]
children. (
Si?n;?ior t'lease related how he had (
at Lexington demanded that Clover- c
nor Ansel inform the people of South, s
Carolina where he was and what he
was doinu in the days of the Civil s
War and where he was and what he (
was doing in 187(i when the people i
of South Carolina were making a I
very desperate effort to redeem the ;
State from the rule oT the negro and :
carpetbagger. He slated that he yet t
hoped to have his rxcellencv give 1
this information to fTie voters during ;
the campaign. I
Mr. lilease was loudly cheered at '
v the conclusion of his speech and it 1
v was apparent that he had made many
/ friends in the audience. All those who *
expressed themselves were strong for (
the senator's candidacy and it was 1
conceded by almost everyone present *
that he will get a big majority in I his '
county. s>
i
Favors For a Fourth of July Dinner.
Candy boxes made of white watered
paper emblazoned with flags and
the portrait of Washington will
comprise the favors. These arc filled ^
with that most patriotic of all sweets, |
candied cherries. The ices will be j
red and white cherries eaten with a
sliver hatchet. (
Some women would like to find se- I
crets out for themselves than be told. 1
GOVERNOR JOHNSON.
Vill Not Attend Democratic Convention
But Will be Represented by
His Friends.
l)es Moines, la., June 21).?"I am
10I going to Denver," said Gov Jolinon
in an interview today. "The story
k'as out that I would be (hero, but it !
s not true, 1 propose to 'tend to my
\vn knitting and run the State of
ilinnosota in the best possible wav,
n<l do a little chautauqua work on
he side. However, 1 will be represented
at Denver. Mr. Day, Mr. Mcyrs
and other good political aiti) peronal
friends of mine will bo there.
Tliey will attend to my interests, if
'on call it interests. '
"If Bryan is the choice of the condition
will you seek recognition from
ho national party b,y agreeing to ac opt
the vice presidential nominaton?"
"No, no," he said nurriedly. "I am
candidate for the presidential noinnation
of my party. If 1 do not get
t I am not a candidate for anything
lsc. My friends s'rictly under-1
land that point. They know coneluively
that I do not >ccl< other than
he nomination for the first place, li
s up to the parly. Tf they think 1
an add strength to the ticket as
iresidenlial nominee, then I am ready
0 exert the best leadership that 1
mssibly can to put the party into naional
power.''
Mr. Johnson addressed the chauauqua
assembly here tonight.
Advertised Letters.
Letters remaining in postoffice at
dewberry, S. C., for week ending
rune 27, 1908.
Mrs. Annie Adams.
Miss Steve Bcaciuuu, Miss Ethel
Srvson (.'{).
Miss Carrie Christa, Mrs. Lula
dolman, Mrs. Sula Gibson, Mr. Moben
filasco, Mrs. P. C. Graddick.
Mr. John Home.
Mrs. Bculah Jones.
Wm. Lee.
Mrs. L. C. Morgan, Miss Marric
da reus.
Mrs. Agassi Null.
Mrs. Sallie'Palmer.
Mr. R. S. Rede, Mrs. Hannah Releord.
Primastor Russell.
Miss Adamav Shamon.
Prank Wilson.
Persons calling for these letters
vill please say that they were adverised.
Chas. J. Purcoll, P. M.
Quebec's Battlefields.
Canadians of English or Prench
>rigin are embracing with equal cnImsiasm
the proposal to consecrate
lie baltlelields of the Plains of Abralam
and Ste Pov next year, when the
Jiicbec tercentenary is celebrated. In
HID the British soldiers serving in
'anada, under Sir Benjamin d 'Urban,
ontribuled a day's pay to erect a
olnmn in memory of Wolfe on the
spot where made this country British.
I'he amount of money thus raised was
small and the moiwment insignifi anl.
But the meaning of that final
rrnpple between the British and the
'rencl' grows yearly in significance,
md there is now taking definite form
1 plan to give permanent expression
o the honor in which Canadians hold
kVolfe and Montcalm alike. Today
is I lie immigrant comes up the river
o Quebec the first object he sees is
he jail on the promotory. It is
proposed now to remove the prison
md the Ross Rifle Padory. and to
set up 1 hero overlooking the river, a
olossal angel of welcome; to buy
and enough to make certain the preservation
of the batllefiehls as a naional
parlc, to build a fire-proof museum,
in which to store records' and
elics of historic value, and to construct
a magnificent driveway from
he citadel along the edge of the
lift', overhanging the St. Lawrence, t:?
he place where Wolfe's forlorn hope
limbed the height, along the road
>ver which Wolfe marched his men
efore they deployed to take up their
ine of two deep on the Plains of
\hrahani. on through the batllelield
>f Ste Pov, where Montcalm was vicorions,
and back to Quebec along I In*
teiglils overlooking the beaulifnl valey
of t lie St. Cliai les.
ARE REPUBLICANS UNITING?
Some of the Expert Politival Pulse
Feelers for Eastern Papers Say
So?LaFollette Again in
the Fold.
A Washington dispatch to the Columbia
State says:
The expert political pulse feelers
who have gone for Kasterii newspapers
out into Wisconsin, Town, and
other States of the Tdiddle West are
j doing what they were sent out there
to do. finding that differences in the
ranks of the (J. 0. P. are being healed
and that there is no chance for the
Democratic ticket. Angus McSween
has just written to the Philadelphia
Record that Taft will carry Wisconsin
easily and safely owing to the
fact that La Kid let te and the LaKolelle
men have quit knocking the ReI
publican machine and, while they do
not like Sunny Jim Sherman on the
ticket and are disappointed with the
platform, they will nevertheless do
all they can for the election of the
Republican ticket. Democratic leaders
have been expecting assistance
from the LaKollette followers in Wisconsin
and other Middle West Slates,
but in the opinion ??1* McSween they
will be disappointed. Another pulse
leeler lor the Washington Star signing
himself "X. (). M."?".lack"
Messenger is his name?has been
writing from Iowa, lie tells id1 how
the disappointed Cummins and the
disappointed friends of the Iowa governor
are taking oft1 their coats and
working for Taft and Sherman. Towa
is safely Republican, in the opinion
of "N. O. M." Both of these writers
say that these States will not give
such large Republican majorities as
they are accustomed to pile up. The
estimate by Republican leaders is that
Town will go Republican by ")0.000.
That itself is significant, for Roosevelt.
carried it by lf>0,000. A similar
prospective dropping off is reported
from Wisconsin.
These and the various other indications
of the proverbial getting together
after the party fight in the
convention, which has given the Republican
party such a wonderful vitality
and has caused that party to
triumph over the Democrats, are particularly
interesting in the light of
the efforts the Republican leaders
have been making to get up the Repub
beans' fighting blood. They seem to
be succeeding to a small degree at
least. Near the close of the recent
session of congress, one of the Republican
members of the lower house,
from Kansas in discussing the filibuster
id the Democratic said Id me
that l lie Republican lenders might
have appeared to be annoyed, and
(hat indeed I hey were on the surface
iintl lor the moment, but that in reality
deep down I he,? were rejoicing
greatly because the tactics of the Democrats
were making r?ie Republicans
mad so that they would fight. Kor
one thing, and so far as 1 can see for
only one thing, the country has to
thank Theodore Roosevelt; that is
for causing people. Democrats and
Republicans both, to begin to think
that after all party lines are not so
absolutely unbreakable and that Human
is to be considered above party.
N'ol thai Roosevelt himself hits ignored
party lines or party considerations,
for he has been one of the strictest
o| partizans, but he has made Republicans
think. The benefit to the connfry
will come if it is seen this yeai
' hat he has made them think to that
extent, which Roose\cll himself never
intended, that they will conclude
that if Roosevelt is bigger than parfv,
there might be another, even a Democrat.
It lias been noted here for the
| past few years thai in some stall's.
I especially New ork, Massachusetts,
J Minnesota and other States of the
Middle West, the people are ignoring
parly lines. This fact has really been
I he source ol more -rixlous concern
to Republican leaders than the factional
animosities e.gendered in the
ranks of the (J. O. 1'. by such rows
as the Koraker-Taft one in Ohio, the
. Cummins-Dolli ver differences in
I Iowa, the bucking of the machine l?v
j Hughes in New York, and the dissen)
lions created by LnKolJctle, or with
j ^al'ollelte. in \\ iscons?n, The fear oj.
II he part of Cannon, Sercno Payne,
ANSEL AT LEXINGTON.
But He Fails to Answer Blcasc's
Question.
\Y e take llio following from 11 if
report of I he Columbia Kword's special
correspondent of the campaign
meeting at Lexington:
Mr. Hlease had the opening speech.
As to his personal character lie referred
to his repealed endorsements hv
his home people in Newberry. Ho
renewed his attaeUs upon the present
administration and scored (lovernor
Ansel for not vetoing extravagant
appropriation ?>ills. 4 The more
you give them the more they will
waste,'' lie said, amid applause. Further
applause greeted Mr. lUcase%
suggest ion that if (lovernor Ansel
does not liUp his present salary ami
mansion, he might be retired by i\
Uiud-hearted people. Still further applause
was produced by the suggeslion
that evidently (lovernor Ansel
had been associating with high financiers
rather than with the people al
large. 11 is strictures on the departments
of immigration and of insurance
also struck responsive chords
llis criticism of (.lovernor Ansel's li
qnor platform was that it was elaj
trap intended to catch prohibitionist?
and gets the votes coming and going
11 e said (.lovernor Ansel could nol
claim protection of any alleged se<*
ond term precedent, because (lover
nor Ansel refused to vole for a sec
ond term for Jno. C. Sheppard.
Mr. Hlease said Ansel was beginning
to believe August would mear
Hlease, governor, else he would still
be having that "important business
in his olliee." This was applauded
The most general and hearty cheers
of the day came after Mr. Hlease had
said that he, if elected governor
would not send armed constables U
attend elections nor soldiers to guan
trial in Lexington county. Mr. Bleast
retired amid applau-o from all por
tions of the hall.
(lovernor Ausel came forward eonfidcntly
in tin* face of dead silence
lie launched vigorously into a defense
of liis ollicial record, devotiiiL
most of his time to explaining wh\
he had recommended a two per cenl
additional tax levy.
As to other mat lei s, nr said he ljao
done his duly as he saw it, hewiiu
to the line and letting the chips l'al
wher they might, lie declared thai
ou the immigration question lie am
his friend Hlease was as one, both fa
voring the coming of honicsccker:
and home builders and of no othei
classes. (lovernor Ansel urged tin
people to see to it mat all qualilioi
are registered to vole oil '.lie genera
elect ions.
I !< disclaimed having anv ropoiisi
bilily whatever for the mileage bool
rule, saying thai was up to the rail
road commissioners.
(lovernor Ansel said that in al
things lie had done what lie ilcemet
to be for the best interests of tlx
Slate and if reeled en would couliniu
to do the same, lie did not reply t<
Mr. Hlease's strictures upon him foi
sending armed constables to l.exing
Ion to attend a trial, (lovernor An
sel received a good round of applausi
a-- lie retired.
Never judge a man hv the talk hi
lets out in his own behalf.
(letting rich quick is as difficult ai
it is dangerous and exciting.
Crane, b'oosevell and the oilier Up
publican bosses has been not that (hi
Republicans would light one anothei
but that they might not be in a fighting
humor al all. They were no
'mail enough. The Williams filibuster
thought this congressman from Kan
! sas, was arousing the parti/.an spirit
; it was lining up the Democrats, am
j nothing can unite lire Republicans si
| well as for the Democrats to unite,
j So, after all, the bright prosped ol
a reunited Democracy, which ha:
J been the hope of the Democratic lead
ers, may be such an unmixed blessing
Whenlho Democrats gel together, tin
(I. O. I'. leaders get seared, they gel
the trusts and plutocrats scared am
j make them shell out the cash, and tin
rank and f ile of the (!. (>. I'. ar?
|'hen haranged and bullied and bought
Jlill all go to the polls and Vote ,/]"
l Republican ticket.
B. F. MAY OF GREENWOOD
TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
Highly Respected Citizen Shoots Himself
in the He jut-?Bad Health
Though to be the Cause.
The Slate.
Greenwood, July 1.?Greenwood
was shocked this morning when the
sad news was made known that Mr.
11. 1'. May, one of the most highly
respected citizens, had committed suicide
by sending a hullet through his
brain. While Mr. May had been a
resident of Greenwood only two
years, lie having moved hero from
Saluda, lie had many friends here,
who were deeply pained to hear of the
aw lid tragedy. No possible reason
can he niveii lor the deed other than
the I:i?-t that Mr. May has been itt
very bad health for some time. The
trayedy occurred this morning about'
.>..10 o clock at his residence on south
Main si reel, and I he deed was done
with a ..'iS-ealihre pistol, the ball entering
the left temple.
Mr. May. on arising this morning,
seemed in his usual health?at least
lie made no complarnl to Mrs. May,
who was in the room wrtli him. After
lie had been up a few minutes and
had dressed lie told Mrs. Mav that he
would wake the children, and while he
was <m this mission Mrs. M;iv left
the room and went into the kitchen
and Mr. May returned lo his bed
room and locked the door behind him.
In a minute or so the report of the
pistol was heard. When Mrs. May
leached him, which she did through a
rear door, he was dead, having died
instantly.
Mr. May was 1'J yc.-rs old. He was
a member of the Uaplisl church.
I hough a <|iiiet man and rather of a
retiring disposition, he had made
many Iriends here during the past
two years.
In Mr. May (!reep\ oil has lost a
good citizen, one she , an ill afford
lo lose. Mr. May leaves a wife, who
was Miss Me|lie ('Iegg, and four
Noung ^children, three bovs. Unfits,
lliran and I'ierce, and one litt!,- uirl,
Sndie. 1,'iifus. who is Iti, is (he oldest.
The inlcrmcnl will take place tomorrow
at the public ccmclerv at 11
0 'clock.
FOES OF THE LEVEES.
Sources of Danger to the Artificial
Banks of the Mississippi.
Mallimore American
"People who know liltle about our
system of levees, the artificial banks
'"'ill I" confine the flood Nvaters
l,i:" I"""- into the Mississippi. I),,
doubt imavine that the beavv rains
are the only enemy with which tin;
levees have to contend," said I >. .1.
Gerry, of Malon |{..u?e, La.
"On i he contrary, i lie levees, both
duriny Mines <d l'|o>.d and low water,
are subject |<> 11incessant attacks
ol living foes, | he destructive work
of which costs millions of dollars.
These foes are alligators, turtles,
miiskrals, field rats, fresh water terrapin
and crawfish. Of all these burI
lowers thai prey on fiie levees, excavating
n\ il bin them tiooilly chambers
or tunnels, the craNvfish do the most
damage, with the t miles and terra|
pins a ?ood second. The harm clone
b> I he alligators is eomparat ivclv
small.
j "In repairing the banks crawfish
j ll"'*'s "Men found ol immense
size. It is these lioliow spaces that
Mine o| Ircshcts cause a caving in
l>'?ak of the levees, which, of
course, brings on an inundation of" all
'adjacent country. The worst,
'' *'r' Mu> business fs thai, no way
<d' ' vlerminatinu these pests has vet.
and the onh thing lo'bo
done is to try to keep ihem awa.v
from Ihe banks as much as possible."
Best Limericks.
1 am told bv (he conductor of the
largest Limerick competitions that
tin- bcsl Limericks come from Scotland,
Ireland and Wales in thai order.
The Scotch, he said, have a peculiar
bent for neat and apl rvlimes,
j J1"1 vvi" v ; I lie Iri-li. but posse-.-i"
11 '' 'I'l'ier turn or phrase. And
'' v ;l' Mi:il a la portion ol Ihe
'prizes have gone north of the Tweed.
SET EXCELLENT EXAMPLE.
Archbishop Ireland's Civic and Patriotic
Courage Commended.
New York Herald.
The protests made hv a few Human
Cat holies against Archbishop
Ireland's net ion in congratulating Mr.
Tal'l upon his nomination are ridiculous.
As a?i American citizen, the arehbishop
has an undoubted right to
send his greetings lo Mr. Tal'l and
express his opinion of the nomination.
Those who object to his doing
' so furnish an example of a narrow!
minded spirit that does more harm
to religion and religions bodies than
; all the efforts of anti-religious deruaI
gogues.
1 There is nothing rn the action to
1 offend other Roman Catholics whose
political views differ from those of
the distinguished prelate. The mis'
lake that bigots make is in contusing
political and religions <|ucslions.
' They should remember that their
first duty is to the country of their
birth or adoption?that is to say, lo
the United States?no matter what
their religious convictions may be;
1 whether they are Woman Catholics or
" Kpiscopalians, Baptist or Methodist,
Congregat ionalists. t'nitarians or
Jews, Mormons, Shakers <tr Christian
Scientists, Buddhists, Mussulmans or
Shintoists.
In this country all religions enjoy
equal liberty. They are not legislated
against or deprived of their niater.
ial possessions as in France. The
Federal constitution Tn Article VI declares
that " no religions test shall
' ever he required as a qualification lo
. any office or public trust under tin*
t'nited State." and the first amend'
men! provides that "congress shall
I make no law respecting an establishment
of religion or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof." The constitution
affords to any native-born American
the opportunity of becoming
president, whether he he .lew or ({entile,
Kotnan Ca!holi?, or Protestant.
In return for Ibis priceless liberty
. il is the duty of all citizens lo place
L their allegiance to their country before
I heir allegiance to any parlieuI
lar church. As Mr. James P?ryce has
r tersely said: "llalf the wars of Euj
rope, half the internal troubles thai
! have vexed (European Slales, from the
I Monophysite controversies in the Roman
I-'mpire of the Piflh century
down to the Kull urkampf in the (!cr.
man empire in the nineteonlh, have
arisen from theological differences
I or from the rival claims of church
I and Slale. Tin* whole last chapter
of dchatc and shite has remained
virtually unopened in Hie I'niled
| SI a I es.''
The law recognizes no religions
body except as a voluntary associaI
lion of private citizens. As a result
. of (his absolute equality and free^
dom il is admitted Dial the inJ'l11ence
of religion in iliis country is
greater than elsewhere, and the
members of various religious bodies
are broader-minded, more tolerant,
and exhibit kindlier feelings toward
one another as workers in a common
cause. This aws strikingly illustrated
in the recent Carbolic centennial
^.celebration in I his city, when miuisl-I
ers of various IVolestani denomina- I
lions, Jews and (lentiles, citizens of
all creeds and of n<> freed joined in
congr.alulalions and good wishes lo
Archbishop Farley au?> his associates.
Thai any Roman Catholic should j
|. j he ol fended by Archbishop Ireland *s|
, jaelion is, we repeal, ridiculous. The
. ' members of everv religious bodv
I .
I must be, first of all, American ciliz.
I ens, and Archbishop Ireland has sel
. an excellent examp*' of civic and j
j patriotic courage which his Roman!
, ('athidic critics would do well to imitate.
Cautious from Experience.
The divorce court reporter on n
, daily paper must he very linsalisfacI
lory to his sweetheart when il comes
I I> writing letters.?Somerville Joiir:
nal.
; I
I i Always speak well of yourself. !
I There are others who will attend to
I I lie ol her side of it. i