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tiff OLUXE LI, yCHBEE SC. KEWBEEBT, S. C., TTESDAT. MAT fi, 191S. TWICE A WEEi, flit A TEAS. * ?????????^??? ? (MiMMaMBBHMMDBaaaHnMMaaBBWMBHHMUBnavi MENCY BY GOVERNOR GIVEN TEN PRISONERS j*i#.\RD OF PARDONS IX SESSION LAST WEEK. : Governor Took Up Petitions Following Report of the Board.?Reasons for Action. Special to The Herald and News. <C*7umbia? May 5.?-Following the report of the board of pardons, which -a.v3c in cpssiou here last week consid -ering a large number of petitions for -executive clemency. Governor Blease took up the petitions before him and extend-ed clemency in ten cases. The fniinu-5 and the reasons aic ao .. moving the chief executive speak for themselves: Cunningham, John; (Colored).? Convicted at the July, 1907, term of court for Chester county, of man* civ vears slaughter, ana semeuccu iu .. ? imprisonment upon th-e public works or in the State penitentiary. ?' "'This is a request for clemency from the board of county comniis sioners of Chester county that they De allowed to give the prisoner credit of three months on his sentence for good behavior. If the governor's authority is necessary to do this, we think probably a parole would be better. We, therefore, recommend that the prisoner be paroled during good behavior, as the sentence is served if a credit of three months be allow ed." Upon this recommendation, the defendant was grantee a parole, during good behavior, May 3rd, 1913. | Gates, C. W.; (white).?Convicted I at the January. 1013, term of court ( for Richland county, of assault and battery with intent to kill, and sentenced to six months imprisonment - upon the public works of Richland . county. The board of pardons, under date of j i May 1st, 191>3, made the following recommendation: "-jfudge Riley who conducted the preliminary and Coroner Scott whoj knows all the circumstances surround- j ing the case was heard for the petitioner. This is a very large petition L signed by the neighbors of the prisoner in the mill village surrounding the mills of Columbia. We find eight of the trial jury have signed the petition asking for executive clemency. Under the showing made, we recommend the prisoner be paroled during good be-J liavior." Upon this recommendation, the defendant was granted a parole, during good behavior, May 3rd, 1913. Pye, R. Wm (white).?Convicted at , the July, 1912, term of court for/Spartanburg county, of forgery, and sen" 'oar's imnrisonment up HJUWU iv# uu? j v?> on the public works or in the State penitentiary, and to pay a fine of $1.00. The board of pardons, under date of May 1st, 19.18, made the following recommendation: _ "This prisoner has served half of his sentence. The petition is signec by .T. F. Floyd, Sam J. Xicholls, C. C. Wyche and Frank Hodges and others. ^Judge Seiase recomiflfends clemency and we therefore recommend that the prisoner be paroled durin? good behavior." Upon the recommendation above quoted, the defendant was paroled, 5'irinf good behavior, May 3rd, lyia. Radcliff. Louis, (white).?Convicted at the June, 1912, term of court for Richland county, of grand larceny, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment upon the public works or in the' State penitentiary. The board of pardons, under date of April 29th, made the following re \ commendation: "This petition ca**>-* to us with the favorable endorsement of Solicitor ^.Cobb, and is signed by many good citizens of Columbia, including B. P. MpMaster. John A. Willis, D. H. Gable, B. L. Caughman, William H. .Gaston, T. B. Roach, ex-Sheriff Coleman, e?" t.yjayor Sloan, Postmaster Hugging, Clerk of Court Walker, members of ihe house, A. M. Lumpkin, R. H.? ' Welch, City Councilmen Steigleitz and Blalock, City Auditor Wilson, UierK ana Treasurer i^uoper ei m. Under this showing we recommend parole during good behavior." In view of this recommendation, and the prominence of the gentlemen signing the petition, a parole was granted to the- defendant on May 3rd, 1913. ? * Barnes, Berry, (white).?Convicted at the January, 1912, term of court for Hampton county, of assault and battery- with intent to kill, and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment upon the public works or in the State penitentiary. The following recommendation was made by the board of pardons: "Mr. M. L. Barnrs, his father, was heard in his behalf. It seems that the prisoner served several months in jail before the trial, although bond approved by the cler1- of court of his home county was offered for his release, and also that he has now served fourteen months of the sentcnce. One of the members of this board lives in the county where the prisoner was tried (which was not the prisoner's home county) and knowing tne case and some of the circumstances surrounding it we follow his advice in recommending a parole during good behavior." Upon this recommendation, the defendant was granted a parole during good behavior, May 3rd, 1913. ~ " ' * V /^l Hendricks, John, (coiorecu.?convicted at the October, 1900, term of court for Pickens county, of burglary, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary. The board of jpardons, made the following recommendation: "Attorney Samuel B. Craig was heard in behalf of the petitioner. This prisoner who was only sixteen years of age when convicted and has served about twelve and one-half years. The petition is a very strong one and includes six of the jury: Magistrate " ,"A T~k? o ~ ? Tir-r.;? ! > * q,, norvi snr I Jbramiei, uv. uui/v.. -~~. Craig, Deputy T.'S. Marshall Alexander, ex-Sheriff Jennings, ex-Treasurer Richards, Treasurer Stewart, Sheriff Roark, County Auditor Christopher, Ctferk of Court Boggs, Coroner Hallman, Hons. J. E. Boggs, I. M. Mauldin, the chfcf prosecuting witness et al. "Under this showing we recommend that the prisoner be paroled daring good behavior." Upon this recommendation, the defendant was granted a parole, during good behavior, May 3rd, 1913. Higgingbotham, J. J., (white).? ConVicted at the Februaiy, 1910, term < of court for Aiken county, of larceny of one bale of cotton, and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment. The board of pardons, under date of April 20th, 1913, mad<e the following recommendation: "This is a petition to restore citizenship by pardon and is based upon excellent conduct of the prisoner during his service of sentence. It seems that hp received fifty-six days credit on this account. We recommend that citizenship be restored." Upon this recommendation, the defendant was granted a pardon, in ord<;r that his citizenship may he restored. he having served the sentence imposed upon him, ?May 3rd, 1913. McCullough, Marcus, (colored).? Convicted at the November, 1905, term of court, for Chester county, of as sau J t wirn intent 10 ravisn, auu sentenced to ten years imprisonment m the State penitentiary. The petition presented is signed by Mr. John Fraser, Mr. T. J. Cunningham Hon. S. E. MoFadden, ex-Sena tor J. L. Glenn, Clerk of Court J. E. Cornwall, and many other prominent citizens of Ches^r and the vicinity. The hoard of pardons, on April 29th, 1913. made the following recommendation: "This prisoner seems to have plead guilty, although about ten or twelve years of age. The solicitor, Henry, doubts the guilt of the prisoner and further says of the signers of the petition. 'They are 'our justice loving citizens'. Many of them are wr.ll known to be of high standing and includes Hons. S. E. McFadden, David Hamilton, J. L. Glenn, T. J. Cunningham, .T. T. Hardin, Drs. H. E. McConnell and REMBERT 15 THE RACE. Announces His Candidacy For Governor in The Campaign of Next Summer. Special to The Herald and News. Columbia, May 5.?George R. Remr\f f>?Q />'/\1ntr?V>;o V\ot anr? mpmhpr i fK A L . \j JL iut ^unuuuia uui t uuVi of the house from Richland county, has definitelyNannounced his candidacy for governor in the campaign of next summer. In announcing his candidacy Mr. Rembert gave out the following statement: "I consider it rather too soon to make a definite announcement, out my friends from all over the State have urged m^ to let them know what I intend to do: therefore. I will say that unless something unforeseen happens, I shall be in the race for governor m>.t year. I shall, to the best of my ability carry forward the fight for the people that Governor Blease has made. We have differed and do differ about some things, but we have never dif fered in the fight for the masses of the people against the political ring, which would constitute itself into an oligarchy, dictated to by certain newspapers and a few whom they would perpetuate in office. For Tax Reform. "t oVioii fiorht ft? T haw fnnsrht in X otiaii A155** v 4. ?? w - ? ?0 the legislature for a reform in our tax system. We have about the most inequitable system in the United States. For years the burden has been upon the masses of the people, upon the small farmer rfiid the merchant? upon those having tangible property nlone, while the intangible property of the very rich has paid little or escaped taxation altogether. I shall fight for <->Viqr>croo nc will lighten the bur --O den on the shoulders of the weak, and place it where it belongs, upon the shoulders of the strong. I shall fight for a tax on water power. Millions of rlollars in natural resources have been given away, while the people have slept and it is time to stop. Would Make Newspapers Behave. "I shall fight as' I have fought for o low fhnt will makp the newsnaners behave themselves, and force them to give to every man. regardless of his politics, a square deal. "I shall fight for the election of judges by the people. It is the only way to keep them from ultimately belonging to the corporations. The peoDle should have as much right to say who shall construe their laws as they have to say who shall make them. "There are other important matters which I shall incorporate in my platform, all of which will be fuly discussed In the campaign. "My political and legislative record is before the people and in possession of my opponents. If they haven't it I advise them to get it, for I hare theirs." H. M. Rose. "We recommend that the prisoner be granted a parole duMng good behavior." Upon this showing, the defendant was granted a parole, during good behavior, May 3rd, 1913. Chestnut, M. T., (white).?Convicted :it the May, 1912. term of court for Horry county, of violating the dispensary law. and sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars or to serve three months upon the public works. Petition was prcsented by Hon. M. M. Stanley, member of the house of representatives, from Horry county, in which, by personal letter, he particularly asks that this petition be granted. The petition is signed by the clerk of court, auditor, treasurer, sheriff, clerk county board of commissioners, probate judge, foreman of the grandjury.two of the magistrates, and one of the county commissioners, of Horry county, and by more than one hundred of the citizens living in the neigh ^ jj i. bornood wnere mis aeienaam. resiuco. Upon this showing, the defendant was granted a parole, during good be\ * havior. and, upon the further condition that should he ever again be convicted of violating the dispensary law. he shall be required to serve the sentence above mentioned. The auditorium of the Allendale high school has recently been furnished with opera chairs. GOVERNOR BLEASE ON DELAYS OF THE LAW CITES XUMBEK OF RECENT HORRIBLE CRIMES. Says the Law's Delays are Responsi ur ivr v vuuiuuu vi .1 mui i"?.i State. Special to The Herald and News. Columbia, May 5.?Citing a number of recent horrible crimes in South Carolina. Governor Blease in a vigorous | statement given to the press, says the delays of the law, including delays i in bringing cases to trial, appeals on J frivolous technicalities, and delays in J final judgments in eases on appeal, are | responsible for the condition of affairs, j j and asks when the courts are going to j ' nvvalrp to the necessity of a speedy dis- j : position of cases and how long the legislature is going to permit the present methods to continue. j Commenting upon the action of the ! sheriff of Chester in bringing prison! ers to the penitentiary on Friday for i i safe-keeping, Governor Blease said: "The Chester sheriff insisted that his prisoners should be brought here and lodged in the penitentiary. The sheriff i of Florence recently had to slip some J prisoners around by Charleston to get J them here, and the Newberry sheriff had to bring one of his prisoners here not long ago for safe-keeping. "The situation in this State is due to the law's delays?to delays In get- i ting a case to trial, appeals upon technicalities, and delays in getting a final decision in cases. It is getting to be a serious proposition and unless the courts or the legislature provide some remedy, I fear for the results. We j have now the Bethune case from ! Clarendon?the murdep of a white 1 i man by a negro four or five times sentenced to death, and each time the s ntence set aside, by some frivolous technicality of law. We have the case i of the murder of the little boy at I Florence 011 appeal on some technical ground of a frivolous nature. We have the horrible and brutal murder of -- -- - ti the two little Doys rear Deuueusnuc, in Marlboro county?another conviction with a death sentence, and a trivial technical appeal holding off the execution. Recently there was another horrible crime in Florence, and a mosOrutal and outrageous murder in Chester?negroes kflling a white man Vnw lust iiiion the heels of that, comes this awful tragedy in Hampton. We wonder the deputy sheriffof Chester, the home of a law-abiding and peaceful people, who seldom are aroused to that pitch where they take law into their own hands, begs to be allowed to bring his prisoners tn this oitv to be Dlaced in the peni tentiary, on account of fear of lynching. "How Jong the white people of South Carolina are going to stand this condition of affais, I don't know. When negroes assault heir women, when they burn their property, when they murder their neighbors, they sit by as law-abiding citizens, and allow the law to take its course, as they are adVvtr the 0-roat nnholders of law Y iOCU Mjf vuv vmV v. _ and order to do, and the course of the law is delay, delay, delay. Negro societies take up collections for and contribute to the defense of those who assault white women, murder white men, or burn white men's property, lawyers are found who go beyond the scope of an honorable attorney, and accspt this petty chicken change as a fee to defeat or to delay what they know to be justice, even where the issue is between the white women and i the neerro brute. Then, when the ] white people, realizing this fearful condition, not knowing what moment the crime of all crimes most terrible may be brought home to their wives or daughters, or what moment their lives may be taken or their property may go up in smoke, get aroused and take the law into their own hands, the newspapers and others come out and yell, "The murderers, the hood-, lums, the anarchists, take the law into their own hands." "I know that it will be charged, as j it has been charged, Uiat I am in favor j of lawlessness, and my record of par-j dons and paroles will be pointed to j bear out the charge. I care not for j ? - ' ? this charge, because the records prove It untrue. I have paroled a great many peripte, but my record speaks fot itself, and it speaks in loud and no uncertain terms. In very rare instances ?only in two or three cases?have the paroles which I have granted been | violated. It is not the people I have paroled who are committing crimes. It is the kind of people who would never secure executive clemency from me who are committing these recent horrible crimes. When it comes to the issue b.tween the negro and the white man, the records will show what has been my course as to executive clemencv. When it is negro against ne gro. or when it is white man against white man, or jvhen it is white man against negro, the record speaks for itself. When it comes to a negro placing his hands upon a white woman, or upon a white man, or upon the property of a white man, the record speaks for itself. "When are the courts going to awake to the necessity of pronouncing their j decrees speedily upon the people who commit the kind of crimes which are , now blotting the fair name of this State, and putting the stamp of their! disapproval upon appeals upon tech-j nicalities which are trifling and fri-' volous, and the only object of which is to delay and, if possible ultimately to defeat justice? How long will the " * 1 - *- 14 -J4-O W non CQV legislature permit it; Uiau o?.ix VV.J, but it can easily be seen that the white people are-getting restite and ex-j trembly impatient under these conditions. And when it reaches that point where summary justice is dealt out, those who deal it out because of this outrageous condition of affair's, will not be nearly so much to blame as those who are defeating the ends 01 justice by aiding and countenancing the delays in the courts." Death of an Infant The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Johnson, of West End, died on Friday morning at 3 o'clock and was buried on Saturday mprning at 11 o'clock, service by the Rev. A. M. Gardner. R. H. Welch is Also Running. Columbia, Maj* L?Robert H. Welch a prominent attorney at the local bar, announced definitely this afternoon that he is a candidate for the position of associate justice to succeed Justice Woods, who was appointed to the federal bench. ? Mr. Welch came to Columbia from Newberry several years ago, where forj Tvrsotirpri his Drofes 3UU1C lliUC uv f. sion. He was associated with Col. George Johnstone, at Newberry. NEGRO NOT TET CAUGHT. I ??? j Search For Richard Henry Anstln! Pro res Fruitless.?Many Rumors ] Afloat Hampton, May 2.?Two nignts ana; three days of continual search by aj large body of white men for Richard] Henry Austin, the negro who attempted criminal assault on the wife of aj prominent Hampton farmer and killed j two white men and wounded three others on Wednesday, have provedj fruitless. Every bay and Npond and negro hut and hovel in the Barton and Luray section has been searched. The negro to all appearances has disappeared. Many and various were the rumors heard here today. Upon being J traced out these rumors were proved! to have no foundation. The first report was that Austin had been captured at Sylvania, Ga., about 20 miles from the South Carolina ?nd of the shooting. When Sylvania was com- \ municated with by the local corre- j spondent, this report was found to be 1 groundless. Next the report was that1 the negro was at Clio. Then at 6 p. m. I today a current rumor was that near Allendale at a house carefuly barricaded the man lay wounded but armed. This last rumor was not verified, but several men started to Allendale in an automobile from Estill, ou- noorrftnc phnreeri with obstruct-! OlA ? ing n posse of the searchers, have bem lodged iri the Hampton jail to await trial. Dr. George Lyman Kittredge, head of the department of English at Harvard, gave a lecture' at the University on March 29. " - CONDEMNS PRESENT-DAY STYLES AND FASHIONS fc A < GOVERNOR BLEASE ON WOMEN'S EXTREME DRESS. ' Says It Would Be Wfll for women t? go Back to Days of Their Mothers in Dress. Special to The Herald ^nd News. - - Columbia, S. C., May 5.?Wf?en asked by a Columbia newspaoer man for a comment upon the action of the Student's Co-Operative association,, the i class presidents and officers of the Y. | W. C. A., held recently at the College ! for Women, condemning t.hp laxity i nnH inrU of Hrpss in nresent-dav styles ! - . j for women. Governor Blease said: I "Some days ago, when asked by a. newspaper man for my views upon the subject of present-day styles and fashions. T said that the sinister, per I . j suasive, ingratiating evil influence of fashion causes me uneasiness. We can i and will protect our women against tho deadly foes we can put our hands i upon, but our women themselves must j protect themselves against themselves, j "I think the action of the young college women to which you refer is not only proper, but it very timely, and they are to be commended for it, ana T would he gald if similar institutions would take similar action, and if all i our ladies, young and old, would us? | their influence to revise the present* j styles, and to sro back to the days of t our mothers. It would be much to the v : advantage of thp present veneration, j ?nd certainly verv. verv healthful for i th" coming generations, for 'if the -Til-rf 1-1 or. T fAnr that tninsr goes iimvu uuu>vi * . | young nien will fail to have that high j rseard for the virtue and miritv and1 j ?anctitv of our womanhood which has, V>een characteristic esfcciallv of the true men of the South, an<f which was characteristic of our fathers?that hieh regard which many of us do have , and all of us should, f ... j "t mrcpif remember when if you ' 1 loHv'c tinlrlp. or | >- ......?? ? ! phnvp hpr ton. hp^ause of a short , ?t was thought that she was im! nrnnprlv pttired. I also remember whpn to hold a yoains: lady's hand waa rnnc,,^'5''o^ o v~rv hish and intimate 1 ?11 T fair nnw that, it i? gret | " T~" V | 11 t- >1,,, 4 IIUJ ,M,? _ j ting po this is considered no privilege 1 at all, and that even sometimes an f I innocpnt "kiss is not considered goinff ^ery far. ; "Some of the styles which we see j upon our streets ought not to be seen in public, in my opinion. I think in I some instances it would be well for I some of the ladiep one sometimes sees j on the streets to Stand in the front of i their homes before leaving home, and I let their mother or some Other near i woman relative, stand behind then*, v and if, after such test, with the lad$ | between the mother or other relative I and the light, the mother or other rei lative says the lady should go upon , the streets dressed as sfce is, men tec | her go; otherwise she should either | stay at home or put on more clothes. | "That is my honest opinion in the matter. Possibly it would be better if '1 ' 1? * oil fVtincrci I should say nornm UUl ui an i,uiuno on this earth that I am interested in, that which I am most deeply interested in is the womanhood of my State, and I am ready, as I have often expressed myself, to go any length, either as a private citizen or a public officer, to defend h^r, regardless of the consequences." Dommick for Congress. Anderson Intelligence. It will be of interest to note that the assistant attorney general, Col? ' tt ViQr- Qnnnnno onei ? rea ti. uuiuu- vn., ed his int-ention to be a candidate for congress in the third district to succeed Wyatt Aiken. Col. Dorainick, with the assistance of Mr. Eugene S. Blease, managed the details of Governor Blease's campaign for re-election last summer'and in that campaign Mr. Dominick came to the front as one of the leading public men in the State. Since assuming the duties of assistant | attorney general he has not only done j credit to himself, but to the legal de-: partment of the ?tate, and his friends in Columbia and elsewhere are anxiously interested in his future..