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But I am speaking as I do, not for the purpose of influencing the jury, or public opinion for or against t:.e j men who are indicted. I am only using the c?se to illustrate the argu- J meet I am making on the demoralizing effects of womani suffrage and -;asy divorce*. ^ Among our very rich people in ^ America degeneration and bestiality have gone so far that swapping wives | | i sa common practice. Family life is j I no longer what it ought to be, and the j l watering places and hotel resorts in the mountains afford opportunities i for getting acquainted with other j men's wives and other women's hus-1 bands. Lust takes the place of love, twith the result that divorce is soon j arranged and the swap is perfected under the forms of law. The women are just as bad as the men and divorce their husbands on any slight P pretext, if they come across a man they like better who makes love to ! the**;. w 1 A most disgraceful and mortifying fact which every American must blush for is to see how the American mil- I lionaires are buying their daughters; titled husbands. Some count, baron, j or lord, no matter now much of a de- i bauchee and scoundrel he may be, is ; K looked up by the rich father and pur-: chased it the open market just as he j f would purchase a horse or a stallion.' The women submit to legal prostiru% tion for a time. Then the titled dehaiifhoa whnsp rplativp? havp snperpd at the plebeian wife all1 along, are re-1 lieveci of her presence. A divorce fol-; lows and the unnatural alliance be- i tween money and scoundrelism is ended. Oh! the shame of it, but that is the way modern society is progress. ? ing. God save the mark! To me such people seem to be go- ! ing straight to hell, and I am no stickler for religion. I only abhor i from the bottom of my soul the degradation and rottenness now becoming too common in society. Warns Agjainst Weakness. The danger, if danger there be, in giving women the ballot at all is increased by the cowardice of public nvar-mn-liorQ "Dr> 1 i t i /">i o r> O tVl?> U"Ar] r? liiCil ^ JH Ul^.i JL VIXIXVIUUO ViiV " V* *\* over nave always had a keen eye to ! see which way they think the people [2T cOirg; and it seems to me that the / men politicians are trying to make j peace with the wonpn politicians and get on their good side now while it is j fair weather. I noticed in Saturday's ; paper that the headlines threatened dire consequences hereafter to any put-lie man who dared oppose tne demand for woman suffrage now. I am ' afraivl some of the weak-kneed men I wiW te infiuojerd :j their attitude on ; this momentous subjrvt by this fear. No man, vho is a man worth stand-1 ing ill snue learner, win ue muucnucu by any such motive, and only cowards wil! yio.M :in::r ccnvu'J-ons and vote to give the women the ballot unless they Relieve honestly that it is for the best interests of the women and of tne country. The history of the world is full of "crazes," or what they now tat call obsessions. The crusades are an illustration of what I mean. Peter, the Hermit, a fanatical monk who was very eloquent, aroused the religious fervor of the Christians in I Western Europe to such a pitch that hundreds of thousands enlisted for the Holy War against the Infidels. Xo doubt this fervor was necessary to prevent the Crescent from supplanting the Cross. It was like two storms coming from opposite directions and meeting. The Saracens overran Egf-'pt and Northern Africa, and crossed the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain. They crossed Spain and invaded France, and were only beaten back by Charles ; Martei, who aeieatea mem at me ua,itle of the Tours. It was six centuries before the Moors were expelled from the Spanish Peninsula and compelled to return to Afric%. Later when the Turks had conquered Constantinople the followers of the Crescent overran Southeastern Europe I up to t'ne walls of Vienna, where tne r* rising tide of Mohammedanism was only stopped by John Sobieski. The recent war in the Balkans has wrested almost all of that peninsula from the Turks, but there was os little Christianity, patriotism and sense among the allied nationalities that racial and religious prejudice and hatred* brought on a patricidal strife among themselves, j Children's Lives Sacrificed. In one of the crusades the children Tvere crazed by the priests and tens of thousands of tnem gathered and be gan to march towards the East. What they could do after they got there never seemed to enter their minds at ail. They were simply lunatics frenzied with the religious idea. First and last, historians tell us l that upwards of one million, one hun| dred thousand people perished. The L pitiful story is told that five shipWW loads of these children who started for Palestine were sold into slavery f to the Infidels by their so-called r Christian leaders. The rest of the children died from exposure and starvation. It may not be worth while to recall these things, and I only mention them t ANGRY MOB STORMS SPARTANBURG JAIL OFFICERS WOUND THREE MEN IN DEFENDING NEGRO. Sheriff and Deputies Cause Crowd Bent on Lynching Negro to Withdrawn. Spartanburg, August 18.?"Gentlemen, I beg you not to proceed through rrr\+/-\ T r\ rv\ > OirnQct T Liu a gaic, i. am in ucauij tax uwow. x will kill the first man who advances a step, though he should be my best friend." W. J. White, sheriff of Spartanburg county, thus addressed a mob bent on lynching Will Fair, a negro prisoner, accused of assaulting a white woman, when a crowd of five hundred men, after being repeatedly repulsed iwth pistol shots, blew down the gate in the outer wall of the county jail late tonight with dynamite. The mob were impressed with cVioriff ooirl orifl rlicnorcpr? It was reported that the mob proposed to break into the armory of the Hampton Guards, the local military company, or into a hardawre store and procure arms and ammunition with which to renew the attack. It was also reported that a detachment of the mob had gone to the construction camp of the Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson Railway to get nitro-glycerine. Earlier in the evening three men were shot when efforts were made to batter down the jail gate with logs and steel rails. Sheriff White and a deputy held the crowd at bay at first by firing blank cartridges. Members of the mob returned the fire with bullets, however, and in the confusion and darkness Frank Epply, J. C. Owensby and John Turner were wounded, though it is believed not seriously. They were taken to a hospital. Hundrds of pistol and rifle shots were fired when the mob began to use dynamite, but so far as can be learned only one man, was wounded. A bullet passed through his hand. His name was not learned. Governor Blease tonight refused a request that he call out the militia to protect Fair, but announced that he would order a special tsrm of court to try the negro. , Story of Alleged Crime. Will Fairj a negro, was arrested this afternoon charged with assaulting a ly-year-oia wmie womau, uc<n twmvstone, this morning. It was about half-past 10 o'clock when the assault is alleged to have been committed. The young woman, a bride of last Christmas, had been to a neighbor's house. On her way home through a patch of woods she saw a strange negro, who. leered at her. Trembling, she hurried on followed by the black. She entered her home safe, and locked the front door. Under her own roof she gained assurance, and as the v>-?o negro naa seemingly cuuuuucu uu uio way, she gave the matter no further serious thought, but went to her bed room and was brushing her hair when the next chapter of the tragedy was written. Suddenly she heard the footsteps at her back and almost immediately a hand, thrust from behind her was pressed closely against uer muuiu, another hand seized her by the neck, and the rough voice of a negro said: "If you yell I'll kill you." The girl then threw every ounce of her energy into an effort to escape from the negro's clutches, but in vain. Picking up a heavy stick, which lay on the window sill, the black brought it down for the purpose of directing attention to the dangerous forces which are being set in motion by those who are preaching and agitating for woman's rights. I am aware that in reciting all these horrid and cruel things I am chargeable with making a jeremaid ornament of the decay of our civilization. 10 others there may be no appearance of decay at all. I may \)e blinded or giving away to vain imaginings, but it seems to me very real, and I speak my thoughts frankly and bluntly as I have always done, having been taught by j my mother long ago to always tell the | truth, or to try to, and to shun every, thing like hypocricy and double-dealjing. "Of all man's possessions unspeakably most sacred are his symbols," and his highest earthly symbol is woman. She is his goddess of innocence and purity, and if ever she steps down or man removes her from her high , place at our altars, then God have mercy upon us; for the golden bowl of ! purity will be broken, and the silver chord of chastity will be loosed, and the sound of mourning will be heard i in the streets, and the rule of chaos I and old night will have come. I pray God my foreboding evil : prorhpcies may never come true. I would depart whert my time shall I come with much more confidence in the future of my country if I could believe that the women of our great | land would always remain as pure and jhigh as the majority of them now are. f r upon her head itwh crushing force, and the girl, bleeding from an ugly j scalp wound, dropped like a dead per: son. When she regained consciousness, a half hour later she <:ad been dragged to another part of the room. Husband Arrives. The unfortunate raised berself unsteadily to her feet, tainking to fire | a shot gun, which was suspended from the wall and thus summon her husband. She swooned again as she was reaching for the gun, and was lying on the floor unconscious when her husband happened to enter the house a few minutes later. The husband took his wife to his father's house, a half-mile away, called a doctor and then went to Glendale and gave the alarm. About 500 people, including a number of Glendale mill operatives started in search of the negro, of wl.om a good description was given by his victim. Sheriff W. J. White headed one posse and Chief Mose P. Hayes, of tne Spartanburg police, another. A posse of which SamueL J. Nichols, a well known Spartanburg attorney, was a member, found an old negro who said he had been within fifty yards of the scene of the assault a negro corresponding in description to the as| sailant, and told of the direction in which the man was walking. He said the n?jro tiny were seeking was named Will Fair. Will Fair was traced to Glendale, where he was seen to board a car for Spartanburg. Other clues were obtained which leu to the I arrest of Fair several hours later at the Southern Railway station in Spartanburg by Rural Policeman J. M. Williams. Officer Williams concealed the negro in the bottom of an automobile, which he pressed into service, and carried him into the county jail by the rear entrance before any but one or two people knew of the arrest. Fair denied that he was the negro u;or>to^ hnt nffinprs said tonight they felt confident t'lat the chase was over and were only waiting for the identification of Fair as her assailant by the negro's alleged vicitim to "make cure. When he learned of the assault Mayor 0. L. Johnson ordered all the social clubs to be closed for the day. Failed to Get Arms. Members of the mob broke into the armory of a military company after midnight and took seventeen rifles. A militiaman with loaded rifle surprised the marauders, and by threatening to kill them, made them return the firearms. Pair Landed in Penitentiary. Columbia, August 19.?Chief Moss P. Hayes, of the Spartanburg police force, brought the negro, William Fair, charged with criminally assaulting a white woman in Spartanburg county yesterday, here this morning and placed him in the penitentiary for safe-keeping. When Chief j Hayes made affidavit that Sheriff White, of Spartanburg, could not afford ample protection to- the negro, Governor Blease issued an order to the penitentiary authorities to hold him there for safe-keeping. Chief Hayes slipped the negro out of the back door of the Spartanburg jail this morning a'nd placed him on a train and took him to Charlotte, from which place he brought his I prisoner to Columbia. The chief said that after the mob was beaten off by j Sheriff White last night, and blew j down an outer part of the wall sur! rounding the jail, there was no fur I tner Qernonsirauuii, <niu vci j icn ! pie were in evidence this morning i when he slipped the negro out and caught the train for Charlotte. Had Ordered Special Term. Governor Blease had only yesterday | ordered that a special terra of the ! criminal court of Spartanburg counI ty be convened on the 2d of September to run for three weeks, if so much I be necessary, in order to try some of the criminal cases. Solicitor A. E. Hill | had made the request for the special term, stating that the jail was con| gested, and Chief Justice Gary had signed the order for the special term to be held in September, beginning the 2d. Last night Governor Elease j told Solicitor Hill and the Spartan' burg people of this special term and the negro charged with the crime can be given a speedy trial. It is understood that the negro denies the crime charged against him, , but he is said to tally with the description given by the lady. Chief Hayes' Affidavit. Following is Chief Hayes's affidavit: "State of South Carolina, Richland county: Personally appeared before ' me M. P. Hayes, who, being duly i sworn, says: | "That he is chief of police of the city oi Spartanburg, S. C. j "That on yesterday, August IS, 1913, one Will Fair, a negro, was lodged in the county jail of Spartanburg, charged with rape upcn a Mrs. .near Whitestone, in Spartanburg county. "That the said Will Fair was held i in the Spartanburg jail during last I night by Sheriff W. J. White, and was this morning turned over to deponent J with the request that the said Will Ask It tells you how phone line with I same high-class 1 now enjoyed by % | If you havei tell you how to You do not obli; AH/Ifpcc npArp WWW Farm SOUTHERN B AND TELEGI 163|South 1 i STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 117 COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. ff Court of Common Pleas. I I Thomas B. Shealy and George W. | J Shealy, Plaintiffs, | against 0 Robert S. Shealy, Luther P. Shealy, ^ John G. Shealy, Lillian M. Wicker. Mattie Estelle Summer, Mary N. Mettz, Chrissie Shealy, David LeRoy Shealy, Annie May Shealy, Wm. D. Shealy, Sidney Shealy, and ttieheirs at law of Phillip Sligh,. deceased, whose names, ages and residences are unknown, defendants. *01 I Amended summons for relief. (Complaint not served.) To the deferdants above named: You are hereby summoned and re-/ A quired to answer the amended com- U plaint in this action, wnich is on file * * in the office of the clerk of court of i common pleas for said county, and I to serve a copy of your answer to said amended complaint on the subscriber, at his office at Newberry, S. C., within twenty days after the service herecf, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the said amended complaint within ^ 4; the time aforesaid, the plaintiffs in this action will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the-"said amended complaint. H. C. Holloway, Plaintiffs' Attorney. Dated July 19, A. D., 1913. ^ '1 - j- *?j ? * Untve ot law nf I 10 XI16 tHCiiucinu licxio en, you the said Phillip Sligh, deceased, up whose names, ages and residences are ^ unknown. Tor Take notice that this action is com- gaf( menced for the partition of the tract of land described in the amended com- 0? plaint herein, which was filed in the an^ office of the clerk of court of common j. fnr Kowhprrv nounty on July | picao ivi *ivf> ? 19, 1913. this H. C. Holloway, Hqi Plaintiffs' Attorney. giv. 7-22-ltaw-6t. bot it. Fair be brought to the State peniten- faij tiary because the said Sheriff W. J. ^ White and his deputies were unable cen to protect the negro from the people ^ of Spartanburg county. That said deponent has broujht the said -negro, Will Fair, to Columbia, with the renar quest that Governor Blease issue an _ Toi order for his safe-keeping in the State T^( penitentiary. If. P. Hayes. anc "Sworn to before me this August 19, 1913. Jno. K. Aull. "Notary Public, S. C." Governor's Order. 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