The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, June 30, 1911, Page FIVE, Image 5
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nees made yestrda morningat theny
locahe oocs mus ghe Chlst& isst
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atnned byntise n Charlesto- etr
to'o,ia Effetine. Jn 0t n
The first ulma 1. il ev
aharleonstFriday morning on thei
Greenvofies ofth4 'cchaetafnon.Wet
Orn Cthlin follway, aturday,in
Tuy1 he firs Pullman car will leave
Ghresnvil ray22 moock, on train1
No. 52, arrvt 61o'lCk,aetn rach1
o'clock p. in.
It is safe to say that not withina
decade has any news been given out
at the local offices of the C. &. W. C.
railway which will cause as much
genuine felicity with the public as this
announcement made yesterday morn
' ig.
For years past Greenville has work
ed and hoped for service of this kind
on the C. & W. C. railway. In fact,
so long had Greenville woried for
such service without results that de
spair settled in .the hearts of many.,
Now that the "dream of years" is to
-be realized, the general public will re-!
The time of year for the inaugura
tion of this Pullman car service is es-:
pecially appropriate. A trip to Co
lumbia or Charleston, or any station.
between, in one of the regular day
*coaches in the summer months is not
so pleasant as One might wish. That;
a trip may be made on this road. in a1
modern Pullman car is something
which will appeal strongly to those
who make use of the railroads.
With tourists leaving Charleston1
and Columbia for the mountains of* -
North and South Carolina this Pull- i
man car service will prove a boon.
A handsome Pullman car was thor
oughly renont~ed at the yards of the1
Southern railway yesterday, and put I
in readiness for its maiden trip over 1
the C. & W. C. railway next Saturday.
Leaving Greenville the train will, as1
heretofore, run over the linies of the
C. & W. C. railway to Laurens. From 1
Laurens ti Columbia the tracks of the:
Columbia, Newberry C: Laurens rail
way will be used. From Columbia to
Chiarles'ton the tracks of the Atlantic
FCoast Line railway, via Sumter, wil]l
be traversed. I
Residents of towns and cities be
tween Charleston and Greenville will
hail with joy the announcements of 1
the inauguration of this Pullman cari
service on the C. & W.. C. railway, as
"astness and importance of this sale.
Mimnaugh has been phenomenally
;uccessful in the mercanitile business
n Newberry, and has built up one of
hre greatest mercantile establishments
n this section of the State. One of
:he secrets of the success of the gi
;antic sales which he puts on is that
te offers fine 'bargains, that he adver
ises them so that the people may
~now what he.has, and that he then
~oes ahead and does what he adver
ises.
Mimnaugh is prepared for the big
~ro'wds which will attend this, his
~reatest sale.
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STHE FELDEBREQUISITION. *
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Jolumbia Record.
The Charleston Evening Post pre
;ents an unanswerable discussion of
overnor Brown's refusal to honor the
requisition for Col. Felder. Unfortu
iately, it may be impossible for a
south Carolina paper to present this
iew of the matter without being
~hrged' with siding with Governor
Bease in the Blease-Felder contro
rersy, Yet it is only just and fair to
ay that no matter what the merits of
he accusations brought against Col.
relder, there was nothing for the gov
~rnor of Georgia to do but to honor
he South Carolina governor's requisi
ion, unless Governor Brown preferred
a defy the constitution of the United
states. The legal phase of the case,
n our opinion, is well stated by The
Evening Post, in the editorial which
we reproduce 'today, yet TJh' Evening
ost might have gone even further in
ts citation of the constitution.
Section 2 of Article IV of the federal
~onstitution says:
"A person charged in any State with
~reason, felony, or other crime, who
hall flee from justice, and be found in
nother State, shall on demand of the
~xecutive authority of the State from
hich he fled, be delivered up, to be
emoved to the State having ju.risdic
ion of the crime."
The question was raised that Col.
Gelder is not a "fugitive" from jus
ice. In the technical sense of the
ord "fugitive" it is impossible to see
ow this contention can be sustained.
'Fugitive from justice, a person who,
aving committed a crime, withdraws
imself from the jurisdiction in which
t was committed, without waiting to
bide the legal consequences of the
dffense," is the definition of.,the Cen
ury Dictionary, and if Col. Felder's
ase does not come within this defini
ion neither does that of any person
vho leaves a jurisdiction in ihich he
nay months or years after his depar
ure be accused of having committed
; crime that was unknown at the time
f his departure.
Section 1 of the same article of the
~ederal constitution above quoted
ays: "Full faith and credit shall be
iven in each State to the public acts,
ecords and judicial proceedings of
very other State." The official de
laration of the governor of South
arolina that a person has been in
icted in that State, or that he is a
ugitive from justice, or that a war
ant has been sworn out for hinm is a
public act" of that State and entitled
o the full faith and credit demanded
y the constitution. The ion of
lovernor Brown - give
ds full ff!h apunhie
act of South Carolina is certainly (.]
a par legally with the refusal of the
governor of Indiana to honor the re
quisition of the governor of Kentucky
for 'ex-Goxernor Taylor, charged with
complicity in the Goebel murder.
It remains to be said that Co). Fel
der, aside from the legal aspect of the
case, has not by his refusal to come
to South Carolina, impressed the peo
plc- of South Carolina with his prepar
edness to refute the charges brought
against him. It is to be hoped not only
for the sake of his own reputation
here but the general clearing up of
the situation that he will make good
his promise to visit South Carolina,
of his own free will, and not only
bring with him proof of his own inno
cence but any other proofs that he
may be able to present in connection
with his exceedingly interesting but
as yet unfruitful controversy with
Governor Blease.
I A Bad Example.
Charleston Post.
The Atlanta newspapers are unani
mous in commending the governor of
Georgia for his refusal to honor the
requisition of the governor of South
Carolina for the delivery of T. B. Fel
der, the Atlanta lawyer, to the courts
of this State for trial of charges lodg
ed against him. They declare that the
whole case against Felder is ridicu
lous and that the pursuit of the law
yer is merely a matter of personal and
political animosity on the part of the
individual now filling the office of gov
ernor of South Carolina. All of which
may be and likely is true, but it is
wholly irrelevant and 'entirely without
the field of cognizance of the governor
of Georgia in connection with the re
quisition made upon him by the gov
ernor of South Carolina. The gover
nor of Georgia has fallen into the
loose ways of those "stewards of the
public welfare," who think they should
administer their duties according to
their personal judgment rather than
according to the law as written in the
books. Under the law the governor of
Georgia is bound to deliver to the law
officers of South Carolina, upon the
requisition of the executive authority
of this State, any Individual charged
with crime who is a fugitive from jus
tice. It is not for him to inquire into
the mer-its of thes charge against the
person sought, not to consider the
executive making the requisition. The
one Is for the .court of justice of South
Caroline to do, and the other is for
the peoplie of South Carolina to judge:
It Is enough for the governor of iGeor
gia to know that the requisition pre
sented to him is official, that the per
son making ~is the governor of his
State, and that the individual demand
ed to be delivered up has been charged
with crime. He has no business with
anything back of that record.
Coleman L. Blease is a poor figure
of a governor, but he is governor, none
the less, by the suffrages of the peopl'e
of South Carolina. His executive acts
are valid and they must be regarded
and respected as far as they are sup
ported by thie law. His requisition up
on the governor of Georgia can not be
put aside because he is not approved
and his Aiotives are condemned by tlie
governor of Georgia. He is exercising
the authority committed to him by the
people of South Carolina, and, though
'the people of South Carolina should
have better judgment than to put such
authority into such hands, that is not
a matter for the governor of Georgia
to pass upon.
If the requisition of a bad governor
may be refused by a good governor,
the requisition of a good governor
Imay be refused by a ~bad governor.
The rule will work both ways, and
the only way to prevent it working to
the ends of injustice is for the expon
ents of righteousness and law to ob
serve the statutes to the letter that
they may insist that all others do
likewise. What sort of an example
of respect for the law does Governor
Brown, of Georgia, set to Governor
Blease, of South Carolina, when he vio
lates a provision of the federal consti
tution to keep a citizen of Georgia
from answering in the court of South
Carolina to a charge which he thinks
utterly without merit and, therefore,
presumably to be dismissed by the
courts of South Carolina upon a sim
ple showing by the defendant?
Editor Atlanta Journal:
I have read the editorial under the
heading, "A Commendable Decision."
in your issue of the 24th inct., in
which you proceed to. arraign Glov.
Cole L. BI'ease, defend the acts of
Thomas B. Felder, Esq., for whose
arrest a warrant has been issued on
the charges of conspiracy to defraud
the State of South Carolina and at
tempting to bribe a State official, and
lastly-mirabile dictu!--to commend
an act of Governor Brown!
Tis editorial would :pass unnotic.ed
were it 'not for the fact that a glaring
missen of fact appears therein,
and i+ is +n this that T would enpec..
[fully call your attention in order to
keep the records straight. You state
in your editorial: "In addition to this,
it is a significant fact that a grand
jury in session at Newberry county,
South Carolina, had refused to indict
Mr. Felder on these very accusations."
I do not know where you obtained this
ineo.rmation, or rather, misinforma
tion, but in order to set you right on
the subject, let me state that no indict
ment has yet been handed out to the
grand jury against T. B. Felder. How,
then, could the grand jury have refus
ed to indict the accused, when the mat
ter has never been before that body
for its consideration? Furthermore,
since when has it become necessary
for a person to be indicted by a grand
jury in order that a warrant and re
quisition be of force and effect?
You state further that "in this case
the !evidence all shows that his (Gov
ernor Blease's) attack upon Mr. Felder
was groundless, and the indications
are that it was actuated by petty per
sonal spite." If this be true, why
should Mr. Felder fight extradition?
I Does he, or anyone else in South
Carolina or Georgia, think for a mo
ment that any jury in this State would
convict a "citizen of Georgia" or of
any other State in the union, "on the
unsupported charges of a man" whom
"the -public of both South Carolina
and Georgia have ceased to take se
riously in any of his numerous explo
sions ?" Such an igsinuation is an
insult to the citizenry of South Caro
lina. I am not prepared to say wheth
er these charges are supported or not,
as I do not know what evidence the
winding up commission has in hand,
but it does seem to me that if Mr. Fel
d+er "has been grossly attacked with
out reason or justice," he would de
mand vindication at the hands of a
jury of his countrymen, and by so do
ing, not only clear his good name of
any stigma, but at the same time offer
a rebuke to his accusers. A fight
against extradition is not generally
regarded, as a. proof of innocence.
As to the "seriousness" with which
Governor Blease is taken in South
Carolina, I will state-not in his de
fence, but as a matter of history and
fact-that his candidacy for the gov
ernorship last summer was not taken
"seriously,'' according :to more than a
hundred newspapers of this State.
Nevertheless, it is now GOVERNOR
Blease!
Respectfully,
Harry W. Dominick.
Newberry, S. C., June 28, 1911.
Too Much Delay.
Greenville Piedmont.
The unexpectedly large vote last1
year for Barney Evans, for attorney,
general, in the Piedmont's view there
of, was not so much an endorsement
of his candidacy or a condemnation of
. Fraser Lyon personally, as it was
a protest against the long-drawn-out
nature of the winding-up proceedings
and the delay in pushing for an out
come of the prosecutions instituted as
a result of the dispensary investiga
tion. What has happened since has
made the public all the more anxious
for some end to the whole mattei;,
which threatens, like Tennyson's
brook, to go on forever. Few people
Iwhose opinions are worth much be
lieve that any of the business men ap
pointed by Governor Ansel on the dis
pensary winding-up commission are
other than high-toned, honorable
'men, who earnestly strove to do -theiY
very best for the State in the ardu
ous, difficult, thankless -work thrust'
Iupon them, work whose pay in no way
Icompensated them for their neglect of
their own business intersts. Of
course, no man is above suspicion, but1
it will take more thanu suspicion-Or
unsupported c-harges by politicians
to make those who know the~p think1
any evil of such men as Avery Patton,
Steele Brice, A. N. Wood, W. J. Mur
ray, John McSween or C. K. Hender
son. But, there is an idea abroad that
the lawyers connected with the in
vestigation-and who naturally had
almost a free rein in its legal matters
are somehow responsible for the de-i
lay in the winding-up. Some good
men suspect a play somewhere for
political advantage. There are some
things that seem inexplicable. For
instance, the vehemence with which
charges are hurled against Governor
Blease, after he chan~ged the personnel
f the winding-up commission, when
prior to that time tbhe only thing
brought out against him was hearsay
testimony that while State senator he
was an agent for a Baltimore whiskey
firm. If Felder knew the horrible
things about Blease he says he knows,
why were they not charged and a trial
had during the four years preceding
his election as governor? Why was
nothing said about them until the
charges were brought against Felder?
During those years there was a story
afloat in Columbia that Felder's em
ployment and- his succesS in his work
were due to a familiarity with the
methods with the State dispensary, ob
The Great
End of
Sale of l
We slaughter the price,
house. It is our aim
spring hat, come to tl
price sale of up-to-date
in Newberry,lall trimmi
etc., go at your price in
a few of the great cut i
by us.
Lot $5.00 and $6.00
hats to go at
Lot $3.50 and $4.00
hats to go at
. Lot $2.50 and $3.00
hats to go at
Lot $2.00 trimmec
go at
Big lot fancy ribbor
to go at
Big lot fancy ribbons
to go at
Big lot Taffeta rmb6
to go at
All Childrens' Headwei
DON'T FORGET THE
Mrs. Hair's Mi
NEWBERI
taned through .is legal services ren
ardd'some of them. This story fur
ther aileged that a part of the consid
eration of his retention was a prom
iof immunity for two of his clients,
whiskey house for which he had
bee attorney and "Hub'' Evans. The
Piemont does not know that there
wa any truth In the story, but It does
ow there has been no real prosecu
in of the whiskey house in question
and that, while "Hub" Evans was in
:ted, he was never tried, tbcugua he
teach term of court demanded his
cstitutional right of speedy trial.
e case against him was reently $01
>ssed, the reason alleged therefor
eng the. death of G. H. Charles, said
obe a material witness for the prose
tion. But term after .;termn of court
ased while Charles was alive with
t a trial. And other prosecutions
re not pushed which may fail be
cse, when trials are finally reached,
terial witnesses in them masy
ed. And it now seems that Attorney
neral Lyon does not want to try! i
y graft cases while Blease is gov-~
ror. *Even those who will agree1
wth him in that may wonder why
trals were not had aurhig the four
ers Ansel was governor.
ny way you look at it, the whole I
thng is an awful muddle with no end
insight and the public very tired of it.
Every grafter should be punished.
aBthe Piedmont sees it, Attorney Gen
erl Lyon's duty Is to go ahead and'
psh for trials, doing all al'can to se
cre convictions. That is his official
uy and he should do it, not govern- ]
ghis conduct by fears of what Gov
eror Blease may do. If he do his'
dty, his credit therefor will not be
ssened should the chief executive
ie pardons to those convicted. But,
Ifthe, chief executive misuse his par-'
doing power, the people will deal 1
Ih him.
it does not seem to the Piedmont a
suficient excuse for further postpone
mnt of trials that there is a fear that
epardoning power will be perverted
topermit criminals to go unwhipt of
jutice. Let the attorney general do
ework of his office. He is not re
posible for what the governor does.
Te longer trials are postponed the
les chance of conviction. Death will
cim others beside poor "Lody" Char
An Editor's Invoice.
Clfton Chronicle.
North Carolina editor has kept
trak of his profit and loss during the
yer and gives an invoice of his busi-f
ns at the end oi Lwelve months of
hsups and downs:
ee broke 361 times.
Had money 4 times.
Praised the public 9 times.
Told lies 1,728 times. 1
Told the truth 1 time.
Missed prayer meting 52 times.
Been roasted 441 times.
Washed office towel 3 titmes.
Missed meals 0.
itkn for npr ae 11 times. Je
Cut Price
Season
illinery
s of every hat in the
not to carry a single
is the cheapest cut
Millinery ever put on
ags, Ribbons, Notions,
this sale. Here are
price bargains offered
trimmed $349
trimmed $2.75
$1.75
I hats to
S worth 50c.
worth 35c.
t worth 15c.
ir to go at half pric!.
PLA , COME. TO=:
tY, S. C.
Mistaken for capitafist 0.
Found money 0.
Took baths 6 times.
Delinquents who paid. 23.
Those who did not pay, 46
Paid in conscience 0.
Got whipped 0.
Whipped others .23 times.
Cash on hand at beginning $1.75.
Cash on hand at ending, 15c.
Couldn't Take His Place..
Joseph P. Sherer told a humorous
xperience while automobiling riding,
which he said illustrates the sarcasm
which a woman is capabe' of when oc
~asion demands.
"We were going along at an awful
~eed," he said. "I didn't see the 9og,
ut I heard his 'li-y.i,' so I ordered
ie chauffeur to stop. Going back, we
~ound an irate lady sta'nding over he7
lead dog-one of the ugliest dogs you
ver saw.
"She met us with a tirade of re
aarks, telling ud in no uncertain
:erms what she thought of . us and -
,utomobilists in general, finishing up
y calling us the murderers of her
log. It was then that I thought I
would pacify her.
"'Madam,' I said, 'I will replace
rour dog.'
"'Sir,' she said in a freezing tone of
roice, 'you flatter yourself.' "-Milwau
ee Sentinel.
Card of Thanks.
We desire to express our heart-felt
~ppreciation to those who were so'
rind to us during the last illness and
leath of our dear husband and fatherI,.
specially to Dr. Dunn, who was so'
Lttentive and faithful to him until
leath. We most earnestly pray that:
od will reward every one and when
lone with us here on earth, may we
)e prepared to all meet in heaven. -
Mrs. S. P. Long and Children.
Didn't Look Right In Print.
The advertiser who had received a
ree pull entered 'the p'rovincial of
lee with anger and disgust written all.
ver his face.
"I'm sure you meant well," said he;.
'but that's a nice thing you've gone
ud printed in your paper this week.
bout my business."
"Whats a nice thing?" asked the
"Read it and see."
The editor read: "If you want- #Pw
gve a fit wear Brown's boots."-Red
Safe Manufacturer-The safe was
adly burned.
Merchant-Yes, it was.
Safe Manufacturer--AnId yet the
ooks were not harmed?
Merchant-No, they were not.
Safe Manufactuirer-Ah1, that's goodt
erhaps you will allow me to write a
'ateImnt to that greet for you to
Merchant-All right. But maybe I
ad better tell you that the books
. 'r no in teae when the fire oc