The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, May 07, 1912, Page TWO, Image 2
SENATOR B. R. TILLMAN!
WILL NOT TAKE STUMP
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CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION",
BI T CAN NOT MAKE SPEECHES.
Iu ail Open Letter to the People of
South Carolina the Senator Reviews
His Record.
To the People of South Carolina:
Twenty-two years ago I asked you to
elect me to the office of governor. You
did it, after a very hot campaign in
which I spoke in every county of the
State. Two years later I asked for reflection.
You gave me the office the
second time by an overwhelming vote.
After four years of service in the governor's
office I asked you to send me
to the senate; and again, after a heat
ed canvass, you placed me in the office
I now hold.
I have held this office for nearly 18
years', and I am asking you to re-elect
xie to it, although my health is brok
en and I am no longer the strong and
vigorous man I once was, I have a ripe
experience and thorough knowledge
of the workings of the government,
and have many warm personal friends
in the departments, and in both
branches of congress.
I came to the senate in a cloud of
obloquy on account of newspaper
abuse at home. I have fought my way
in spite of it and have lived to see most
-of the newspaper men in the press
gallery my friends.
By long service and hard work I
have won an enviable position in
Washington, and the State is entitled
to whatever benefit I have in places
On the committees which can only be
obtained by such service.
I have flattered no man and feared
no man in debate, and I have a strong
desire to "die in harness" for sentimental
reasons only.
I have no words that can express
my appreciation and gratitude for the
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confidence and love you have given me
in all these years. If I did not feel
that my experience and intimate acquaintance
with public affairs will
-enable me to give acceptable service
in the future, I would not ask re-election
at your hands, but conteut myself
"with the full measure of the honors
you have given me already.
When I first came into public life I
Diet a storm of opposition, which was
"very bitter and intense. It required
Intense and aggressive action to overcome
it; and being combative by na.ttlre,
I fought with all my might for
thrice thin<r<s T thnnp-ht were risht: and
I won because you approved my policies,
my utterances, and my actions.
Amid this exciting contest many
things were said and done on both
^i(fes that, perhaps, had better been
;left unsaid and undone. Men are but
"iiuman, and when fired by strong conviction,
they speak and do things
which they afterwards regret. As God
5-. -r.-.ir iti^oro T ndVPr flTlVthhlfr but
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truth, or did anything as governor or
-as senator I did not believe to be for
the public welfare. As I look back
over my career, I can see mistakes and
blunders, plenty of them, but they were
honest blunders, and I have never permitted
selfish ambition, or petty revenge
to control my actions. I have
tried to be senator of all the people,
-as I was governor of the whole State,
-ir,H mv amhition ihas been, in the sen
Mil VA , ate,
to give the people the best service
.>of which I was capable.
''Owing to my poor health and in accordance
with the advice of my phy.
siciaa, I shall not make any speeches
during the canvass this summer. All
of the old men in the State have al~ready
heard me speak, and if there are
..any young ones who have not and de
sairo it t chall takp nleasnre in mailing
such pamphlet copies of some of my
best speeches which I have yet on
hand. Nothing would delight me more
than to be able once again to see my
old friends face to face, and it saddens
ine to think that I shall never have
.this pleasure again.
'lisfcall hope that the people of South
'Carolina will not displace me by vot
ing me out, but that in some way you
will indicate a wish for me to retire
from this position because of your belief
that I am no longer physically capable
of performing the duties of the
office. The senatorship has always
.'i>een regarded by me as a sacred trust,
: aria if I knew you wanted me to surrender
it, I would gladly lay it down,
conscious that I have done my duty
-always to the best of my ability.
B. R. Tillman.
A Beggar's Luggage.
When Bridget Flanigan, who described
herself as "a poor lone Irish
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- VICTQW woman, was arresceu iur Lagging
at Wells she had the following
articles distributed about her person:
Tea, sugar, fresh cut beefsteak, piece
of bacon, two bloaters, bread and
cieese, four buns, bag of biscuits,
cooked fagot, two apples, onions, two
^clay pipes, tobacco, cigarettes and
?London Evening Standard.
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PROCLAMATION BY 3IAYOR.
I'rging Newberry People to Aid in
Home Coming of South Carolinians.
By the simultaneous action of the
j mayors of South Carolina's cities and j
! towns, issued May l, tnere nas uetm j
; proclaimed a great home coming of j
| South Carolinians residing in other!
! States, to take place during National
Com exposition, which will be held in
the capital of the Stat? next January.
The Mayor of Newberry has joined
with other mayors of the State in issuing
a proclamation, which is published
herewith.
It is Dr0D0sed that every person of
South Carolina birth and parentage, j
now residing in some other State, shall
be invited by personal letter to return j
to this State -during the National Corn i
exposition, and their relatives and!
friends remaining in this State are requested
to send the names and addresses
of these native South Carolinians
to the National Corn Exposition
association, Columbia, S. C., in order)
that the exposition officials may keep
j them informed as to the movement
j The railroads have already granted rerinreri
rates for the exposition, cover-!
! ing the territory east of the Mississippi
and South of the Ohio river, and it is
believed that this is an opportune time
for a genuine reunion of South Carolinians
living in other parts of the
country.
The National Corn exposition is a
great national agricultural show, and
it is already attracting attention from
the leaders in agricultural develop!
rnpnt throughout the nation. The leg
'islature at its last session made an
j appropriation to assist in this exposition,
and the federal government will
make an extensive and important exhibit.
Practically all the State agricultural
colleges and experiment stations
will also be represented.
Proclamation.
Whereas, there is to be held in Columbia,
the capital of South Carolina,
from .Tannarv 27 to Februarv 8. 1913.
a great national agricultural exposition,
under the auspices of the National
Corn association, and whereas at
that time there will be visitors to
South Carolina from all sections of
the country, men and women who are
concerned as to the adoption of advanced
methods in agricuture and as
to the general development of the;
country along all lines, and
W.hereas, it is the general desire of j
the people of South Carolina that those
of our kindred and friends who have
left this State to make their homes in
other portions of the country should
j be invited and urged to return for a
{trip on the occasion of this great na- j
| tional agricultural exposition.
| Therefore do I, mayor of the city of
Newberry, S. C., hereby call upon all
our people to write their relatives and
friends of South Carolina birth and j
parentage, now residing in other
States, and direct fcheir attention to
this home coming evenr, and further
do I by this proclamation request that
those of our people having relatives
and friends of South Carolina birth
and parentage living in other States
do send the names and addresses of
their relatives and friends to the Nai
tional Corn Association, Columbia, S.
C., in order that they may be kept
duly informed as to the plans and
scope of the said exposition and as
to the railroad rates and other arrangements
for that occasion.
Given under my hand and seal this
1st day of May, 1912.
J. J. Langford,
Mayor.
MOKE ABOUT A. T. DWYER.
(Said to Have Joined 3Iormou Church J
The Man Who Created Quite a
Stir in This Section.
Anderson Mail.
Many of the people of this section
will recall the Rev. A. T. Dwyer, who ;
operated in this section for more than;
a year, and who left the Flat Rock;
section last summer. ,
Information comes from an Ander- |
son gentleman, who states that a Salt j
Lake paper is on file in the public li- j
brary at Fountain Inn in Greenville j
county, and that the paper contains an
account of Dwyer joining the Mormon
church. This is not surprising to
many people, as Dwyer had changed
his chuch affiliations quite a number
of times previously. He claimed
originally to have been a Catholic!
nriftsf. Cthonsrh the Catholics denv i
this), and in sermons, lectures, etc., |
he bitterly denounced that church.!
The Catholics came back at him, and
printed a whole lot of things, with af-1
fidavits attached, about Dwyer which
were anything but complimentary.
Most of this controversy was printed
I in the columns of the Daily Mail.
For some months before leaving this
section Dwyer operated mostly in the
southern section of this county, in Abbeville
and other counties. He lec
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tured and showed moving pictures to
both whites and blacks. He had many
friends who strongly believed in him
and many more who looked upon him i
as an adventurer.
Dwyer had joined the Baptist church!
before coming to Anderson, and just j
before he left he made application to i
Cross Roads church at Starr to grant!
him a license to oreach. The officials i
i
of that church were making an investi- !
i
gation of the matter when Dwyer left
this section.
Dwyer had been preaching and lecturing
a good deal to the negroes, and
many of the whites resented this.
Just before leaving Dwyer had announced
that he would address the
negroes at Mt. Moriah church, five
miles below the city, and on the night
in question a number of whites gathered
at a point along the route with
home hickory switches in their hands.
Dwyer got wind of this, and did not
show up at the colored church. He
left a few days afterwards.
While in that section Dwyer made
I his home at Mrs. Jas. Long's and a
considerable amount of his belongings
are still there.
JOS. T. JOHNSON PLEADS IS TAIS.
Cutting Off Clerks' Pay, House Gobbles
Big Slice.
Washington, May 3.?After cutting
I the salaries of clerks and minor officials
in the various departments of
the government, the house today, 53
to 48, voted $216,000 additional . funds
to itself for individual clerical assist
| ance. In doing so the Democrats re-1
! fused to listen to the warnings and
pleas of Representative Johnson, of
South Carolina, in charge of the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill, and turned an equally deaf
ear to Representative Fitzgerald,
chairman of the appropriations committee.
Mr. Johnson is chairman. (Tf
the sub-committee.
Another amendment by Representative
Bartlett, of Georgia, Democrat,
making it compulsory to place the
TIOmAP Ap oil nl Arlrr A? o AAt*Af a a* ri -v i
j uauiuo wjl a.ii iyo VI OCUi cLCLi 1C^> &U
employed on a special roll of the
house, was adopted, 76 to 20. This, he
said, would answer the accusation
that members were putting the clerk
hire- in their own pockets. The house
also declined, by an overwhelming
majority, to cutvdown the mileage alI
lowance to members. During a debate
on the economy program Representa[
tive Page, of North Carolina, introduci
ed an amendment to the pending legislative
bill to reduce the mileage from
j 20 cents a mile to 5 cents.
For Economy.
This measure was framorl ctriVtlv !
along the lines of the "economy policy/'
which has been adopted by the
majority party in the house of representatives?except
in the case of pen- j
sions. There are many items which j
will attract attention and some which I
may occasion surprise.
Of the economies effected, some are i
of a broad character, as in the aboli-!
tion of the commerce court, and some!
will be attacked as narrow, as in thej
lopping off of "two charwomen" in i
I
the office of the auditor of the post- j
office department. Between these two i
extremes the bill provides for many!
changes of greater or less interest, j
Reviewing the features of the bill as a j
whole thev are found to be as follows: l
Compared with the appropriations'
fol the legislative, executive and judi- |
ul' departments for th.- current fiscal
i-.no ? n <4 i ~ ~ T OA mm it ?
ciiuiiig, .juiie oy, ?vi?, m6 Dili SUD- j
mitted today totals $2,638,015 less. It j
cuts the estimate submitted by the j
heads of the respective departments to J
the extent of $2,165,153. The reduction
is chiefly accounted for by the |
fact that in the present bill appro-1
priation is made for 406 fewer than 1
the 15,283 specific salaries provided.
for by existing law. Altogether the I
present bill appropriates $33,519,194. j
Rich, He Died Poor.
Atlanta Journal. !
It was the aspiration of Dr. Daniel;
Kimball Pearsons, a frugal and hardworking
millionaire, to die poor. He.
has achieved his ideal. At the age of
92 he has passed out of the world,!
leaving scarcely a fragment of the
large fortune he had accumulated but
in its stead a memory rich in good
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aeeas. lears ago ne nau uisiriDutea
tiie greater portion of his wealth:
among American colleges' and he!
seems to have favored especially those ;
institutions that were lean of endow-;
ment and were struggling for head
way.
There was an old mixture of gray
realism and luminous fancy in the doctor's
make-up. He delighted in making
money; indeed it appears to have
been his keenest enjoyment; yet he
cared little for its possession. He was ;
accustomed to speak rather proudly of,
the fact that in all his life he never j1
spent twenty dollars foolishly. "I j
went to the theatre only once," he de-:
clared, "and then I was ashamed of!
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aamBBan?BaamgiiifMiiiii ? IIIIIIH
That B^|
ot Yours!
It seems like yesterday that
mother mourned the transi
tion from skirts to trousers?
his rocking horse will soon
give way to the baseball and
the pigskin.
He's developing, changing
every day, and you havn't
had his picture taken in more
'than a year?yes, it's two
years last Christmas.
"There's a Photographer
in Your Town"
0. & T. E. SALTER'S
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T\7T A m A A miTl\ * A
ruuiu siuuiu
East Main Street Telephone No. 358
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1 HnDBBHBHR
myself. I never went to a football
game or a baseball game or a horse
race. I am doing all I am doing on
business principles."
Few men would envy him such a
rpnrvrri. ftVPn them eh if. Should grain
them his five million dollars. Nor was
his example one worthy of emulation,
Perhaps his life would have been more
diffusive of cheer and kindliness had
he lived in more intimate touch with
the common heart of his generation.
But the vital fact is that he lived fcrue
to his purpose and reflected the light
as his soul received it.
He narrowed himself to work, tc^be
sure, but not to the mere gold which!
the work produced. His philanthropy j
was eccentric rather than spontaneous !
and hrnari hut. nhilanthrODV it was.!
nevertheless. He wanted to be rich;
and he was. He wanted to be poor;
and he was. He wanted to do good;
and he did. His life, measured by its
purpose, was a success; and, after all,
it is what we are rather than what we
do that counts.
Newberry was among the colleges
which received aid from Dr. Pearson j
?$25,00f at one time and $10,000 at i
anotner.
The House of No Walls.
Idleness is the gate of all harms. An j
Idle man is like a house that hath no j
walls; the devils may enter on every
side.?Chaucer.
EANKIilTT SALE OF KEAL ESTATE
In the District Court of the United
States, for the Western District of
South Carolina.
Ex parte, Miss Bertha Wadsley, Pe- j
titioner, in the matter of Miss Nannie
J. Simpson, Bankrupt.
DECREE OF SALE.
Ly virtue of a decree in bankruptcy
in the above matter notice is hereby
given that I will sell on the first Monday
in June, it being the 3rd day of
June, 1912, before the court house
door in the town and county of New-<
berry, S. C., at 11.30 o'clock a. m., the!
following described real estate, to-wit:
All that lot or parcel of land with,
building thereon situate, lying and being
in the town of Prosperity, county
r\ f \* r\ xt* 1\ r\ v*\ ? ?? * r\ Ot??+rt A f ;
ui UC1 I J, Cl I1U. kJ LCI Ltr V-ri UU Cil vuw
lina, containing one acre, more or less,
and bounded on the north by Washington
street, and'on the east by other
property of the said Miss Nannie J.
Simpson and on the south by lands
of the estate of Mrs. Rosa Duncan, and
on the west by McNary street, the
same being the former l|ome of Miss
Nannie J. Simpson. The said prop
erty will be sold for cash to the highest
bidder for the purpose of paying
the mortgage indebtedness as provid-1
ed for in the decree in the above matter.
Terms of sale, cash, the purchaser
paying for the papers.
J. E. CRYMES,
Trustee in Bankruptcy.
Greenwood, S. C. |i
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Round Trip Excui
To MACO
VIAn
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southern 1
. Premier Carrier of
Account of Annu
United Confedera
May 7-9
On account of the above occ
Railway announces very low
fares to Macon, Ga., and return
5th, 6th, 7th and 8th, and for
arrive Macon before noon Maj
- ! ? pal _ 1 ? <N? A
turning until May idtn, iyiz
limit may be had by depositing
of fee of fifty cents, until Jui
overs permitted at many points
from Macon obtained. Roun
few stations in this territory as
Abbeville
Aiken Batesburg
Donalds -
Edgefield
Greenwood Johnston
Newberry
Leesville
- Proportionately
reduced" fares
Special train will be operatec
to Macon, May 6th, on the folli
Lv. Spartanburg
Lv. Greenville
Ar. Central j
DINNERLv.
Central - Ar.
Atlanta
Lv. Atlanta -
Ar. Macon . Special
coaches will leave
May 6th, and be attached the s
Spartanburg and one at Seneca
For the accomodation* of Ve
from Columbia and Charleston
the Southern parts of the state,
be operated, leaving Columbia I
leston 8:00 a. m. May 6th, runn
con via Augusta and Georgi*
Macon 6:00 p. m. Extra coach
will be operated on other trains
For further information, pi;
etc,, call on nearest ticket agen
J. L MEEK, A. G. P. A, A.H.
Atlanta, Ga.
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rsion Fares
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MBA. I
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Railway
: the South. $j
lal Reunion
te Veterans .
1912
asion, the Southern j
round trip excursion J
, tickets on sale May
* 4
trains scheduled to
*
r 9th, 1912, good re.
Extension of final
\ ticket and payment
f .1 1 Ai r? m c>
ne am, l^n.j^oiop;
and side-trip fares
id trip Jfares from a ^
follows.
m
$4.10
- - 3.10
- - 3.75
- - 4.50
- - 3.40
- - 4.10
3.40 r
- , 4.65
3.85
froml other stations
l|from|Spartanburg
Dwingj schedule. -ITX ,
= 10:45 a. m.
t
11:45 a. m.
- ' 12:45 p. m.
1:15 p. m.
C. T. 4:30 p. m.
4:45 p. m.
rr .4 r- j
/:4o p. m.
i
Columbia 7:10 a. m.
pecial train,3rone] at
L.
iterans and visitors >
i and other points in
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extra coaches^ will
5:30 a. m. and Charging
through to] Max
Railroad arriving
es and sleeping cars
i as may belneeded.
illman reservation?,
it, or
ACKER, I. P. A.
[Augusta, Ga.
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