i r \ ~ DEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1.1912. TWIC1 A WIEX, llil A IlAJfc VOLUME L, 30JKB1B 87. ' . ' VICE PRESIDENT SHERMAN EXPIRES AT II11CA HOME END COMES AFTER MANY HOURS OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS. I Nation's Second Highest Official Breathed His Last at 9.42 O'clock Wednesday Night. i v v Ont. SO.?After a long U UVU, 4^. ? illness, Vice President James School- | craft Sherman, died at his home in this I city at 9.42 o'clock tonight of uraemic poison, caused by Bright's disease. He had been sinking since early morning and it was realized that death was only a question of a few hours. There was a slight relief shortly after 7 o'clock, caused by an apparent improvement in the condition of the Jt kidneys, but it did not prove real or, lasting and at best gave only temporary hope. At 9 o'clock the patient's temperat* ture rose to 306. From that time his condition rapidly became worse until the end. Mr. Sherman was unconscious j when the end came and had been in i that condition for hours. " TVootli r amn * ni 1/cnui uwuvv All the members of the immediate family were witnesses to the final ^ scene. In addition to Mrs. Sherman, there were in the death chamber their thre sons, Sherrill, Richard U, and Thomas M. Sherman, and their respective wives; R. M. and Sanford "Sherman, brothers of Mr. Sherman, and Mrs. L. B. Moore, and Mrs. H. J. Cookin'ham, sisters of Mr. Sherman. 1 Soon after Mr. Sherman's death, Dr. Fayette H. Peck, the attending physi? ~ 1 * *? clan, issued me icmowmg . "The vice president died at 9.42 p. ; m., without regaining consciousness for a moment. He was perfectly quiet. He died in the presence of his wife, . her brother and sister; his brothers and his three sons, and their wives, ie i 1-ad been 'entirely unconscious' since 7 * o'clock when he had a p iriod of par- j t^i consciousness, lasting-lor about 1"> 1 m putes, hea?'t uiseasc d artejlo sclorsis " " ?J 11 ? ? ice rrcsiurui ? vai CC1 | The twenty-iSfcventh Vice Presid t j of the United States, and the only one J Tenominated, was christened Jame-s I Schoolcraft Sherman. But, in nearly ! a quarter of a century of public life. ' "Jim" Sherman he was to his intimates. and probably half the nation referred to him as "Sunny Jim," a ^ sobriquet he earned as one well might * ? imagine by a never-failing, all-yearround sunny disposition. 01 ? era A t.rw thp crhftftl Of i ciieriuaii uciun&tu w - - , Republicanism nowadays popularly j called "Regular," and fought his poli- j tical battles shoulder to shoulder with men of his faith without compromise or flinching. Like every public man, he had critics, some bitter; but h-^ j also had friends, who were a match ; f for his enemies. The events he helped 1 to shape are .so comparatively recent! lV-' u;~" rinf Qocion hiii hi?. ! lllcll J V/O-ii nv/c in 4* w - ? I proper place until it also records the I work of his contemporaries. To the house of representatives of the 50th congress he came in -the win -j ter of 1887, just passed his thirty-sec-! ond birthday, with the energy and optimism of youth, college-bred from the : halls of Hamilton, which has given to; f public life many other statesmen and public figures, none without some i mark of distinction. He had been j v. elected mayor of Utica two years before. Like many others who came to , lead in the national legislature, he brought with him an education in law. He was well horn and well bred. His father, Richard l\ Sherman, was an j editor and public figure in New York State. ! Elected Vice President. Twr> sessions of congress found Sherman defeated and out of office, ? but not for long. Henry W. Rentier,; /k "f Rooneville, Oneida county, beat him by less than a thousand votes in the i race lor the ."2d congress. In the in-j terim, Sherman went back to I'tica, built up his law practice and returned j "* *' n-itVi o oiornnl vir>_ to tne '> h W. Bailey, la'cr a senator; iiv ;:?r.ridue. Bryan. Bourke, Cockran, Crisp, Dalzell, Dingley, Dolliver, Henderson, Payne, Paynter, Raynor, Reed, Wadsworth, "Fighting Joe" Wheeler and a score of others whose na ^es became household wor-is in diycussion of the tariff and other national policies were his fellows. The senai.e held such men as Aldrich, Allis m, Cockrell, Daniel, Frye, Gorman. Hoar, Hill, Teller, Vest and Wolcott. aii were not Republicans; but all were "Jim" Sherman's friends, and in such an environment he worked to a high place in the councils and finally was No. 1 of the Big Five in the. house. Cannon, Dalzell, Payne, Sherman and Tawney were the great quintette during the comparatively recent years in which congress was Republican. Each of them invariably wore a red carnation for a boutonniere, and when siiprmfln went lo Dreside over the senate and occupy the coveted marble room in other wing of the capitol, he took the custom with him and the flower always appeared at every session of the upper house. The Rural Telephone. The farmer who enjoys a telephone at his home does not see how in the world he get along without one?and so it is with his rural delivery in the matter of mail. The .other day a farmer told US' that he wanted to see about tobacco?he was going to go to a market a days distance from his home, and he happened to think about uAtTA the telephone?wmcn ne uiuu l imvc. So he went to a neighbor's a mile distance, used his 'phone, and ascertained a fact that surprised him to the effect that the Greensboro market was paying prices much higher than he expected to secure?so he came to Greensboro and was getting busy to see if he couldn't have the wire run into his home, and said that the one trip would pay for what it cost. And all the farmer needs do is to wake up? tn look around and he can get about as many conveniences as the city chap? and yet escape the exactions of city life. The telephone has made all other things possible for him?he is in touch with the town and with its people, and he can sell on a rising market or escape a falling market by talking three minutes with his merchant. Wonderful what electricity has done for the human race?to say nothing about (Electrocution.?Greensboro, X. C., Everything. ?^? News of Excelsior. Excelsior, Oct. 31.?Miss Rosalee Wheeler left Saturday for her school . at Fountain Inn. Mr. E. G. Counts has been on a few j days visit to Columbia. Mr. P. S. Cook spent a few days in Columbia last week. i Mrs. Ernest Addy and children, c-f; Saluda county, spent Saturday and j Sunday with her father's family, Mr. i J. D. Stone. Miss Lucile Agnew, of Donalds, has been elected principal of Ht. Pilgrim . school and opa*?d the same Monday < morning. Mr. E. M. Cook's large new barn is: nearing completion and will be a convenient building. Soma few of our people are attend-; iusi the fair in Columbia this week. Of course the farmers are busy gathering their crops, but *he use of the split log drag would gt a great j thing to help keep good roads. Mr. T. L. Wh eler showed us a few : days ago a large potato h? had gathered from his patch that weighed 4 1-4 pou ids and was of tlie Xancy Hall variety. Mr. Wheeler has :i large patch and will make an abundance of them. The Rev. M. M. Kinard, of Salisbury, X. C.. stopped c.v ; with his broth'.r, Mr. H. .1. Kinard for a f w hours on Thursday, while or. his way home fro n the Lutheran syncd he'd in Newberry. This was Mr. Kinard's first visit to his former home here in seven years. Mr. Kinard was looking well. Sigma. No Chance* "And what is your occupation?" asked the accident insurance agent. "I'm a woodsman. During the hunting season L act as a guide. "Oh, I'm sorry, but my company won't write a policy 011 your class." vvny not; ouiciy i m it guuu uon. "My doar sir, you'rr v.rt a ri=k: you're a certainty."?Detroi: Frer Press. MRS. CLEVELAND TO WED. Engagement, of Former President's Widow Announced. Princeton, N. J., Oct. 29.?Mrs. Grov t Cleveland authorizes the announcement of her engagement to Thomas '.Joseph Preston, professor of archaeI Viictnrv /-?f of Wol 1,J r-A1 - | ClJlU ilic* IL/l J U1 d i LO, UV II V?*'J vv lege. The date of the marriage is not . yet determineid, but will be announced later. Mrs. Cleveland is a graduate of 'Weils college, and has been a trustees of that institution since 1887. Her .'wedding to President Grover Cleveland, which took place in the execui i | tive mansion during his first administration, was one of the notable events in the history of the White House. Her 'father, Oscar Folsom, was a law parti f niATrntonrl toW 11 r?r?n TVTV ! j 'U' (r Ui .VII . LICVCUUIU, ? uv,r, ..... , Folsom's death in 1875, became Frances Folsom's guardian. After his retirement from the presidency Mr. Cleveland made his per manie/nt home in Princeton, and Mrs. i Cleveland has continued to reside i there since the former president died, in 190S. Her two daughters, Esther amd Marion, and her son. Richard F.t r I are living with her here. II ' The annoinrcefmnt of the engagement! i was made tonight by President John , Grier Hibben, of Princeton university, S who said: i | ' "Prcf. Preston is- 50 years of age. J He is a graduate of Princeton, and one ! whom we hold in very high etsteem.! < ! | As a young man he began his studies i at Columbia, which, however, were inI terrupted on account of illness. At that time he gave: up the idea of com, pleting his education and went into j I business, in which he made a very j ; rapid and notable success, establishing I ! himself at the head of a yery prosper-!, ous manufacturing company in New-j j ark, X. J., after securing a substantial j I fortune and feeding keenly that con- \ tinued business success could not com- >. i pensate for his abandoned college \ i : career he determined to attain a long desired enid, which his earlier years had denied him. Although nearing the ; age of 40 he, nevertheless, closed his active business career and wnt abroad j ; to study for two years at the Sorbonne, j I Paris. "Returning to America, he camf? to ' ' Pr.nceton for two more y?: rs of a (Mi j . : - . ~ J- r\-n o?/ii-v.,n+ /ir 1 h o M*ir\OiI I Asia: fc'tUUJ'. \Ju auvu jui u. my. iu v | range and unusual excellence of his j work, both in under-graduate and i i graduate studies, he took at the same!. commencement not oniv the degree o! . Litt B, but the degre of Ma as well, a , very unique attainment. He was also f?le;:ted at that time to Princeton', chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa society. I "Prof. Preston was exceedinglv pop- ', uiar and made many friends while .it' < Fi i;:ceton. He was iubf ;nu^ntly ap-j pointed fellow of the American; ; School of Classical Study at Rome, ni.u later >\ji in a com pet lion . ^ rens; \V. R. Krown. of Spartanburg; ( L. S. .Matti-on, of Columbia; C. B. Ed- j wards, of Darlington, T. 0. Lawton, Jr., of Greenville; S. -J. Watson, %of ] Winnsboro; W. H. Hm'.t, of Newberry; , Lieut. Gov. ("has. A. Smith, and otb- , O"" HJI 1 To Meet ill Columbia With i National Corn Exposition. The State. 30th. The eo.uniittee chosen to look to the 1 entertaining oi' the American Berk- r shire congress is composed of A. G. Smith, Columbia; Dr. E. Barnott, Co- i lumbia: A. 1). Hudson, Newberry; J. i R. Fairev, chairman. Fort Moth*. and T. C. Moss, St. Matthews. ; ? THE QUESTION OF SUCCESSION. Several Problems Presented by Death of Vice President Sherman. New York, Oct. "0.?The death of Vice President James S. Sherman gives point to the serious discussion of the question of the succession to the vice pre-sidency. As is well known, there is no provision of law for filling a vacancy caused by the death or re tirement or a vice preside.11. oui Mr. Sherman was a candidate for re-election and his death prior to the' election or prior to the action to be taken by the electoral college in January is giving much concern. His death occurring prior to the election, it would not be necessary to make any change! in the ballots already printed for November as cast directly for the vice president. Electors are chcsen to cast the ballots' of their constituents for candidates for president and vice president, and while there is a moral obligation resting 011 those electors to support the nominees of the narty. the instructions are merely directory and, not mandatory. The death of Mr. Sherman, of course, relieves them, if elected, from the moral obligation to vote for him. As j it is a party matter and the governing body in the party is the Republican r-itional committee, it would bo the proper function of that committee to recommend to> them a candidate for vice president to be voted by them. It would be essential to hav?> concerted action in either of two contingencies? first, if the Republican ticket is successful, and, second, if the election is to be thrown into the house of representatives. The> Republican national convention delegated to its national committee power to fill a vacancy on the ticket, but it is known that the committee will not be assembled at this time. Should the Republican ticket receive a majority of electoral votes, the im i _ l portance cf selecting vice presidential i candidate is evident, but if next Tuesday no presidential electors receive a majority of the electoral votes, then, by the constitution, the election will be thrown into the house of representatives and the candidate to be voted for in the house by States would be limited to those voted for by electors I in the electoral college, but the housie, ! as at present constituted, would be j unable to make a decision, because the States' vote units, and about one- j half of the- States are represented in j the congress by Democratic members. J The decision would, therefore, go to | the senate. I The senate is limited in its choice to , those- two candidates who receive the highest number of votes for vice presi-1 dent in the electoral college. If it results on Tuesday that the election rests with congress, th-c selection of the candidate for vice president ha ? j the utmost importance, because the Democrats are in a minority in the nrpsent senate, and if a Republican candidate for vice president is selected he succeeds to the presidency. Alrp-Tdy tlierr has been discussion of the availability of Governor Hadlry, Governor Deneen. Senator Borah, Senator LaFollette, Former Vice Presic7 nt Fairbanks, Senator Root, Senator Burton, Senator Lodge. Governor Goldsborough and others. Sumhiv School Convention. Township Xo. 7 Sunday School con- J portion will n et at Morris church, j /-iv.?l*. Qafnrrl;iv. XoveiU- I r n I" Lnr dinner. "Who should seilect the officers and , teachers of Sunday schools?"?Rev. , T. C. Croker. "What interest should parents take \ n the Sunday school?"?Dr. W. D. =knn. "What is a Sunday school worth to a. community?"?J. R. Irwhi. Doing a Good Work. Mrs. George F. Milligan, State organize of the Anti-Cigarette league of America, is in Newberry, visiting the schools and colleges. The high school boys and girls lis ienea veiry auenxiveiy 10 me lecture delivered Wednesday morning and Mrs. Milligan expressed herself as delighted with the calibre she found in Newbeirry. The following splendid boys signed the pledge for life: """Realizing the danger from the use of liquor and tobacco, I hereby pledge myseir, witn (joa s neip, to aostain iwr t. life from their use and to use my influence to induce others to do the same." ! Th-s business men of the United States are asking for boys and metn who do not use the cigarette and in many cases any kind of tobacco. These boys and young men will be; nnrippri nn nnr streets, wearing the I A. C. L. badge: William Halfacre, Julian White; Robert West, Irwin Satterwhite, Willie Mayer. Bailey McCullough, James Gaillard, Joe Norwood, Marion Baxter, Carl Julian, John Kinard, Neely Cromer, Thomas Ray Gallman, John D. Davenport, Henry Rikard, Douglas Hornsby, Eldridge McSwain, Abraham Vigodsky, David Thornton, Lonnie Franklin, Forest Dickert. John Higgins, Fred Paysin-' _? . I rer, Charlie West. Willie Wiener, wnlie Thornton, Carlisle Fridy, Strother j Paysinger, James Dennis, Thomas Parks. Boundary Street School Boys?Nat Gist, Dewey Addison, Emory Bowman, Clark Floyd, Callii? Boyd Parr, Clyde; Ward, Tommy Paysinger. Dwight Jones, Otto Klettner, Tincy Davis, Jno. Floyd, Ellis Williamson, Harry Epting, Worth Spearman, Gary McGraw, For1 ^ A 11 T ? ? - ~ ? ? T Tm/J f\ w? n n 66X uroiwen, jua wrencc naiucmaii, Trwin Lea veil, Edgar MacConnell, Robert Lee Schumpert, J. T. Senn, Win. Daggett Norwood, Carroll Summer, Bachman McLntire, Edgar Paysir.ger, Foster Smith, Oscar R. Summer, William Ward, Hansford Earl King, Caldwell Simms, Robert Ross Davi=, Robert Lee Norris, Marion Wicker, Harry Hardeman, Vernon Porter, William Sample, Luther Cousins, Jamss Bowers, Earl Adams, Earl Chandler, Malcolm Williams, Walter Denning, Fred Rodelsperger, Jerry Howard, Walter I.ee. Tennie Derrick, Harry Summer, Sam Norris, Cornelius Davis, Herman Dickert. Speers Street Boys?For life: Arnold Davis, Frank Davenport, Paul t Dean, M. L. Bullock, Tommie Davenport, Jack Dunston, Jon-ss Long. Horace Al>ewine, Grover Thomas, Vernon Taylor, Enoch Bradley, Ful-mer Wells, j Edwin Setzler, Burton Wells, Herbert' Franklin, Edward Davis, Walter Burton, James Lane, Joe Vigodsky, Floyd Dav'inport. Beal Cromer, Junius Fox, n iro -rV* a t- "Raitkh T^ansrford. VJCL/1 C) v' UjU X li CCA f-- w Walter Lindsay. Thos. Hair, Geo. Amnions, Frederick Sale, Ambrose Donahue, Ernest Digby, Ed. Morris, Lee McSwain, Claud Tarrant. Till 21: Horace Jones, Adrian Summer, Turnie Sum-, mer, Joe>l Werts. KEEP *WILS0X-3TARSHALL DAY." Columbia Democrats to Hold Big Meeting on Saturday. I Columbia. Oct. 29.?With the pur?nf rwhtflinine" a rally of JJUS5C 1X1 * )> I-" yj ? the Democratic voters to celebrate "Wilson-Marshall Day" on Saturday with the people of the nation. County Chair nan Edmunds has a?k:d the presidents of th? city D.inocratic clubs to meet in Washington Clark's office tomorrow afternoon to arrange for a mass meeting of all th cluV^ n the citv to bf1 held jointlv at the theatre on - 1 Saturday. At that time: the rousing rally will 1 take place, and the message of Gover- ] nor Wilson will be Tead to the voters, 1 as it will be done to the Democrats of 1 the nation at the sa.ne tinr. ( ''Iniiivnn 1 1 iiroima uricais \ icui.v>.., Special to The Herald an The result of the gathering was a unanimous endorsement of Mr. W. F. Verdin, of Austin township, as the independent candidate to oppose Mr. Hendrix Rector for this highest executive office of the county. In the meeting were- men from all walks of life. The mill operatives, the farmer, the clerk, the merchant, the mill superintendent, the mill president, the banker the broker and the barber were all represented. A more comprehensive collection of men it would be very difficult to find. The meeting was the culmination of the opposition to Mr. Rector, because of the alleged part he took in the arrest of Messrs. Gilreath, Gosnell and Phillips. Thief meeting was not ex- tensive ly advertised, being more im the nature of a voluntary uprising of the. conservative citizens. Of the approximately one hundred and fifty men who were on hand, perhaps twenty-five gave expression to their views. The % keynote of all these speeches was that the oaths of th*e primary were absolved, because of the fact that matters have now risen above the standard of politics. " The qtrt&srlion, as these speakers pjut it, is no longer one of loyalty to a more or less perfunctory form, but of "loyalty to the manhood, prestige, dignity and welfare of the county." As one of the gentlemen who addressed the gathering stated thft call wa& no Ioneer one of politics, but of "simple manhood and decency." It was pointed out that the movement on foot is not one to split the Democratic party, but to preserve it from men who would vitiate it Rector Confers With Vaughn. Columbia, Oct. 30.?Hendrix Rector, nominee for sheriff of Greenville, and two other men, the (names of whom are not definitely known, held a conference here today with T. U. Vaughn. Just why the conference was held and the matters discussed is not known. STATE WITHDRAWS WARRANTS. Cases Against Greenville Officers Probably Ended. Grecmville, Oct. 30?0. K. Mauldin, Esq., attorney for the prosecution', withdrew this warrant;therefore, no charges exist against this defendant, and he is honorably discharged by this court. ii-mtii tlio varorah'u Pant Stra/l KJ\J ** X V tV/ til Vy I V44V4 V. V VM^yv. ^v. ley this afternoon across the back of each of the warrants issued for Police Inspector .Jeff D. Gilreath, Patrolman A. A. Phillips and Constable Reubaa Gosnell, charging them with aiding in liberating T. U. Vaughn from the county jail last June. The judgment of the court was inscribed on the instruments upon which thes-c- well-known and respected citizens were confined in jail last Sunday night, under the most humiliating con,1; V ; /-v n c- /-vnlv o f ftii? thA nTiSPPlltiOn had UU l\y II O, \JIXLJ C4?.V.v*i. a.. requested that the warrants be withdrawn, as they we