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\ / T0Li;ai. L1D^ ^xMBEli 4. XEWBERRY, S. C, Fit I DAY, JANUARY 14, 1916. TWICE A WEEK, $U# A YEAB. Manning "Bleu Him, Sa IMTCWCCIV IWTEDECTfWf! in 1L110LL1 ill 1 LiIVLiiJ 1 lliu STATEMENT IS ISSUED MR. LUX; -ACCREDITED AS BEING RLE ASHE. ' Magisterial Situation at Union Reviewed by Man Wl)o Has Served His People Well. <2r>opiai trv The Herald and News. Union, Jan. 13.?Former Sheriff J. G. Long, Sr., of this county, Confederate veteran, conspicuous in upholding white supremacy during Reconstruction, sheriff of his county for four successive terms, then chief of police of the city of Union, and then sheriff of his county again, has issued a statement on the magisterial situation at Union, which is an intensely interesting contribution to the ihistory of factional politics in this state. Sheriff Long's statement best speaks for itself. It is as follows: "Facts las to Magisterial Situation at Union, S. C., for Union Townsjiip -*nd County at Large, Joseph Sanders, who was elected oy the rvople in the general election in August, 1914, forwarded to Governor Manning, some time during August, 1915, his resignation to become effective on December 1, 1915. It seems that Governor Manning took no action as to the appointment of a successor for Mr. Sanders until some time during the latter part of November, 1915, when he addressed a letter to Hon. J. A. Sawyer, the president of the Union County Bar association, in which he stated that it had been reported to him that the Union county delegation were hopelessly disagreed as to a successor for Mr, Sanders, and requested that Mr. Sawyer call a meeting of the Union County Bar association and recommend a suitable and competent man to succeed Mr. Sanders as a magistrate. This meeting was called for this purpose and all member^ of that association were present, with t'ne exception of Mr. A. C. Mann and Mr. Hamilton Munroes, who asked to be excused from the meeting on account of being applicants for the position. At this meeting the names of all applicants for the position of magistrate were submitted and resulted in myself receiving the unanimous endorsement of this association, of- which recommendation irr.-mo^intoiv forwarded to Gov. Tf ao ' Manning. It appeared, however, that the matter of a successor for Mr. Sanders nad never been submitted to the Vnion county delegation. After receiving the recommendation of the Bar association, however, Governor Manning did refer the matter to the county delegation, who unanimously endorsed the recommendation of the Bar association. Governor Planning failing 10 appoint me within a reasonable time and after -receiving lae recumiiicuuam/u vi Bar association and the county delegation, I made a trip to Columbia and talked this matter over personally with Governor Manning. Governor Manning stated to me t'iiat he toad the matter under advisement and would make the appointment with the idea of doing away with the political factionalism that had existed in Union county He later sent one of his private detectives to Union and had him call into consultation several parties ior the purpose of recommending a successor for Mr. San-ders as between Mr. Colson and Mr. A. C. Mann. Several J of the parties Governor Manning had requested to be called into this consultation refused to attend on account of the fact that they were aware that Governor Manning had made a special request of the Bar association and county delegation to recommend Mr. Sanders' successor, and that I had been unanimously endorsed by both parties. In addition to the endorsement of the Bar association and county delegation 1 ihad the endorsement of the most influential and representative citizens of the city of Union, as well as the coun^ty, consisting equally of Bleasites and -^Blnti-Bleasites. I am an old Confederate veteran and have always served my country, county * and state faithfully bofca. as an officer / / m _ V :k Listed" ys Sheriff Long f ana a citize n, and am satisfied that I have the ability and possess the can- (: fidence of the people of Union connty j . to fill the place of magistrate. , A. C. Mann, whom this drum-headed j court recommended to fill the office of , c r was, at the I magistrate at I nion, - not time he applied for ^ eligible to AH 1 * r'; Had not paid 1 here sometime - ty; and did 'any ?xes in ^e 4th day of Octonot register done after he ber' myeTL Z magistrate's office had applied lor in this county. Governor delegation. betore on the 1 WaS * 1 am ot December, 1870. night Of the esvine, ten miles, I My home ?as^ above Union. I was, at that time, clerking for Lynn & Co., sleeping in I a back room of the store house. An j old negro, by the name of Ed. Fernandes, who was our butler, came to! me about 2 o'clock of that -night se-1 cretly and made this statement: "I went down to the Union league meeting tonight, Marse Gid, and was initiated into the order, and at the end of the meeting heard the negroes blacklist you, Mr. R. E. Brewton and Mr. Charley Sims. I heard that Capt. Alf. Walker, our negro captain, with his militia were coming to kill you ali tnn iorV> + " I IVUlguu I then dressed up and sent word to Mr. Brew ton and Mr. Sims; and notified several others to meet us well armed. We went about half a mile below town and waited for several hours, but they failed to come. We heard the next morning why they failed to arrive. The negro militia had started that night about twenty or thirty strong, and when they had j come as far as Upper Fair Forest Baptist church they met G. Mat Stevens and Ben Robinson, both old Confed, rate soldiers (Mr. Stevens having lost an arm in the war) coming towards Union with a dray wagon loaded with two barrels of whiskey. The negro j-j captain halted tftem ana aemanaeu i some whiskey. Mr. Stevens told them that the whiskey <lid not belong to him, bat gave them a quart he had in his pocket. When iMr. Stevens had driven about forty yards from them they ordered him to halt and a*: the same time fired a volley into the wagon, killing Mr. Stevens. Mr. Robinson escaped and ran to the home of Mr. John Scott for protection. The negroes bursted "the heads out of the barrels and all got drunk. That was the reason they did not get to Jonesville. As I ?r<rm ac thp news reached us I organ ized a crowd of good men and we gathup all the guns that belonged to the negro militia and turned them over to . rhe sheriff. We asked him to notify Governor Scott, who was a carpet- bagger from t'tie State of Ohio and had armed these negroes. In the course of a few weeks people began to find out some of the negroes who were in the murder scrape. A number of them had barricaded themselves in a house known as "the Yellow House," near the Southern railway tracks in Union. Deputy Sheriff Dan Smith went to this house and demanded that they surrender. Instead of doing so they fired through the door, killing him. This aroused the people so much that I sent my Knight-Hawk to Limestone Springs to notify *,he Grand Cyclopse Capt. J. Bank Lyles of Sout'n Carolina, and ihe ordered all the clansmen that were organized in Spartanburg and Union counties to report to me at the "old hanging ground," which they did, and by the | efforts of this organization we brought I law and order out of chaos in the Piedmont section of South Carolina. During t'je year of 1871 President Grant declared the counties of Union, Spartanburg, Laurens, Newberry, York and Chester under martial law and suspended the writ of habeas corpus in these counties. He sent the United Stafes troops to investigate and make arrests of any members of the Klu Klux-Klan they could locate. It wag then I had to leave my home (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2.) NINETEE MINtRS SLAIN BV MEXICAN BANDITS ANOTHER SA3IE ADDED TO THE DEATH LIST. ^rassacre of the American Said to Have Keen Ordered by One of Villa's Generals. I El Paso, Jan. 12.?Pablo Ix)pez, a ! Yaqui chief, and Gen. Reyna, two Villa j gt-nerals, led the men who assassinati ed a., group of American miners on Monday near Santa Ysabel, (Mexico, and the massacre was committed close i in the wake of a Carranza troop train, : according to information of the affair i gathered tonight. Statements made by ' J. Gaudelupe Gardena, a conductor of the train bearing the Americans, and j Thomas B. Holmes, the only known i survivor of the American party, indi ; cate that the murder of the United ! States citizens was deliberate. i I It was also learned that the total % ! Americans slain numbered 19. The bodies are now on the way to El Paso from Chihuahua, west of which city the massacre took place. A mass meeting to protest against the failure of Mexican authorities and against the attitude of the United States governmen on the Mexican situation, planned for El Paso tonight, was postponed until after the arrival of the murdered mPTV , j Conductor Gardena, in an affidavit given to the British consul at Chihuahua, said that the train bearing the Americans was stopped by a de| railed train in a cut. ilhis train is ! said to have been part of the equipment bearing Carranza troops. The conductor said that Gen'. Reyna held the trainmen under guard while the I Americans were robbed and shot to death. Details obtained tonight were to the I pffect that a score of (Mexican armed men attacked the train which was bearing the mining men to mines owned by the estate of Potter Palmer of Chicago. There were some 200 other bandits grouped as reserve force along the right of way of the railroad. Holmes arrived in El Paso from Chihuahua today. Thomas B. Holmes, the sole foreign survivor of the massacre, reached the j border here about noon in a state of collapse. Lansing Calls on Carranza to Act. Washington, Jan. 12. ? Secretary Lansing, with the approval of President Wilson, today dispatched to Consul Silliman at Queretaro for presen| tation to Gen. Carranza a note denouncing the slaying of Americans near Chihuahua by Mexican bandits, an^ calling upon the head of the de facto government for the immediate pursuit, capture and punishment of the perpetrators of the deed. The note urged the sending of troops to other districts where Americans are in danger of losoing their lives or property. At the same time the state department ordered an investigation of the murders with a view of determining whether they resulted from the failure of the de facto government to give proper protection in a zone known by it to be dangerous or whether the men lost their lives' as the result of a bandit outbreak which could not have been foreseen. Instructions to seek information on this point were telegraphed to consu* ' - *- J lar representatives in jueAicu auu cuvu6 i tlie border. In the note to Gen. Carranza the killing of the Americans was described as a dastardly crime, committed in territory announced to be in control of the Carranza forces. Yital Statistics for City of Newberry. Births. White males 53, white females 47; total white 100. Black males 20, black females lo; total black 35. Total births 135. Deaths. While miles 14, white females 20; total white '64. Black males 24, black females 25; total blacks 49. Total deaths 83. Respecfully submitted, S. S. Cunningham, Sec'y Board of Health. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ! IS STEADILY AT WORK COMMITTEE AGREES TO HOLI) DOWN APPROPRIATION BILL. I .Measure Introduced to Give Governor $.>0,000 For Prohibition Enforcement?Other Mesures. (By Jno. K. Aull.) Snecial to The Herald and News. Columbia, Jan. 13.?The ways and means committee of the house of representatives, which has in charge the preparation of the appropriation bill, met on the first day of the legislative session and agreed that the bill which the committee will present to the house snail call for appropriations aggregating not over two million dollars. Following is the resolution which was adopted by the committee: "Resolved, That the total amount of the appropriations to be contained in the ways and means committee approA priation bill for 1911 shall not exceed S2.000.000.'' Should a bill lifited to $2,000,000j reach final passage, it would mean a curtailment of more than one-third in tne estimates submitted by the various deparments and institutions, and it would carry something over four hundred thousand dollars less than the amount carried by the appropriation bill at the session of 1915. Prohibition Enforcement Costs# A measure was introduced in the house on Wednesday, however, to provide a fund of $50,000 to be placed entirely at the disposal of the governor fv>.r t'no onfrvrrpment of the new prohi bition law. The bill, presented by Messrs. Crum, Wagnon and Sellers, is as follows: 'Whereas, the people of South Carolina in their wisdom and sovereignty have voted for a law prohibiting the sale of alcoholic liquors and beverages in this state, and, "TTT1 ? +.Vi ? r-> r) c- fnr til o on fnTPP VV UCX ca&, Liic lunuc i\jx merit of the liquor laws heretofore have been derived from the profits accruing from the sale of said liquors and beverages by the various dispensaries in the state, and, "Whereas, it is the express desire of the people of the state that said law prohibiting the sale of such alcoholic liquors be enforced, "Be it enacted by t'ne general assem bly of the State of South Carolina: I "Section 1. That the sum of $50,000 be and the same is hereby appropriated ! * - j ? to be used by the governor at nis ais-; cretion for the purpose of the enforce-1 ment of the law prohibiting the sale j and importation of intoxicating | liquors and beverages within the state. "Sec. 2. That this act shall go into effect immediately upon its approval by the governor." It will be recalled that Governor Manning in his annual message asked for "adequate provision for the pay of special deputies whenever and wherever needed" to enforce the prohibition law. Free Tuition. ... Both houses are rapidly getting down to steady -work. Uhe matter of free tuition in the state colleges, and the abuse of the scholarships by those able to pay tuition, came in for considerable discussion in both the house I and senate on Wednesday. Some of the members want to abolish free tuition altogether, while other contend t*hat these scholarships can be properly safeguarded so that only those en titled to them by reason of lack of means to pay tuition can receive the benefits. The statement was freely made in the discussion on Wednesday that men worth thousands of dollars were swearing they were unable to pay tuition fees. Some action looking towards providing a remedy for this glaring evil will probably be taken at this session, as it should be. 17 Bills by One Member, j Seventeen bills were introduced iD the house on the opening day of the session by one member?Mr. S. M. Wolfe of Anderson?and eight were Kv aru-v^her member Mr. Jno. I lUbi V/UUVVU K! J ?w *?W ? J. ATahan of Columbia. Among the measures introduced by Mr. Wolfe is a bill looking towards divorce in South Carolina upon certain grounds. Mr. McMahan's bill providing for an increase in the salaries of state officials has been unfavorably reported by the committee to which it was re-' <?> v THE IDLER. ^ <S> <S> 'He that is not on speaking terms with his neighbor is not within speaking distance of-heaven.?Ex. Now, that sounds to me like pretty good sense. I have known some people who would stop speaking to people, they didn't like?or I reckon they didn't like. It always did seem to me to I K/-. i nr-Attir nnnr- nrov tr? TVliniiGVi Ano ur Cl t l/Lj " WJ lU Jk/Uiiiuu VJUV by not speaking to him, and, yet, I, have heard of people who would pass right along by other people and not speak. A fellow who won't speak to !Ms neighbor must feel mighty bad all the time . And I must believe that this Ex. is true when he says that these same fellows, who won't speak to you as they pass, are not within speaking distance of heaven. Though I have known some who stand mighty high in the sanctuaries of men and the church militant. But toow about the church triumphant? There is a whole lot of difference, or that is the conclusion I have reached after hearing the preachers explain this-' subject. But I .am going to talk about something else. Now, I am going to ask permission to preach another little sermon by just quoting a thought that I read the other day, and the subject of the quotation is "A Thought." Read it, young man, and then read it again, and then think about it. I hope you will follow the voice that is calling you to "the slowly rising sun of human brotfherhood," "where are heard the glad shouts of humanity and where 'honest effort is rewarded with immortality." A Thought. Young man, life is before you. Two voices are caning you?one coming from the swamps of selfishness and force, where success means death, and the other from the hilltops cf justice and progress, where even failure brings glory. Two lights are seen in your hbrizon?one the fastfading marsh light of power and the other the slowly rising sun of human brotherhood. Two ways lie before you --one leading to an ever lower and lower plane, where are heard the cries of despair and the curses of the poor, where manhood shrivels and possession rots down the possessor; and the other leading off to the highlands of the morning, where are heard the glad shouts of humanity and where honest effort is rewarded with immortality.? John Peter Altgeld. j And this reminds me of a resolution j that Buster Brown resolved after he h&d entertained two fair visitors at his home by making Tige do tricks, that j somehow were not altogether agreeable and pleasant to the fair visitors at his home. He thought they were funny?the tricks?no doubt, but they ?the fair visitors?did not enjoy them and left m disgust, anu. mm. mu>&u Buster to resolve, and here is what he resolved: "Resolved, That there are some funny people in the world. The idea of those ladies not enjoying the tricks. But they must think I am funny, too. ! Well, we are all more or less funny ' I ferred. For Six Per Cent Interest. Already a bill has been introduced to make the legal rate of interest six per cent. This measure has been urged I I in previous legislatures for some years. It has a- better chance of passage this year than ever before, but if it meets defeat at this session it is only a question of sJ short time when it will become a law. The senate discussed at some length on Wednesday Senator Carlisle's resolution to submit to the people a constitutional amendment to permit "women to hold the positions of notary public and school trustee. Senator Wightman of Saluda was afraid it was a step in the direction of woman suffrage. This was "vigorously disclaimed by the advocates of the measure. The resolution will come up for further debate today. Endorse Wilson Administration. The legislature has endorsed the Wilson administration and put itself on record as favoring the re-nomination of President Wilson, Both bodies "have accepted an invita tion from Governor Manning to inspect che state hospital for the insai;c8 this [ i swicj a-j^Luiai icr tie msanoe i&ii afternoon. ' \ - v'w. : and different, and. there's so mucil good in the bad people and so much cussed bad in the good people that we should never dare to criticise each, other. How do we know what we would do in the other fellow's place. "Judge not that ye be not judged'* means do the best you can and mind your own business. So here's to you. as good as you are, and here's to me as bad as I am; but as good as you are and as bad as I an??I'm as good as you are as \iA as I im?I think. of course I ucj.' know. Oh waII " ?0? I feel like saying, "0, well," sometimes, too, just like Buster said, and yet there are some good people who feel like they are privileged to criticise you, but if you dare to criticize them they hold up their bands and say, "Suppose you try the job, if you know so much about it." Well, I reckon it is best to mind your own. ^business, and yet I feel sometimes if j I didn't 'nave something to say about things that didn't go just as I think they should go. why, what in. | the world would I write about?" And, yet, I reckon there are those among the goody good people who think t'nat T icVirwnlHn't /^r*i H /?i onir nn/i Wall +/* u ViAWWUV VIA J V/JAV^. Gil, w be frank, I am going to say what I think just as I think it, and I am going to try to think honestly and right, and if it doesn't suit other people, and they think I am trying to attend to their business, why they can just think so, so far as I am concerned, and I don't care a snap of my finger about it. I have no favors to asfc, and am in no position to grant any, but I am going on saying what I think so long as the editor will print it, and I want to say that it is always said in the very best of good will and with no intention to do injury or hurt to any one, but to help the Whole. . ^, I said in my last that I was going to talk about some things that I # thought should be done in this town* on/? T ro^l'An fhoro aro thfico will be ready to say that he is kicking and v knocking, and I don't care if there are, I and if they don't like what I say, why ! let them help themselves. I could mention a good many things that have ! come about in this town as a direct result of what I tiave written, tout | you couldn't get any of the good peoI pie to admit it, but I know it, and I don't care whether they admit it or give me credit for it or not. I know when I am carried over to Rosemont and laid quietly to jest, that they will say he did a good work for this town, and that will .be satisfaction enough. I am not expecting anything in thia world execept a bare existence and sufficient to keep me alive while I am . permitted to exist, and all they say \ about me will do me no hurt. ?o? / Some one told me the other day that a good lady who was walking along the streets fell over a fence tnat wa3? but had decided no longer to be, and had laid quietly down on fhe sidewalk, and she came very near being badly hurt. Fortunately she was not injured. This is mentioned only to call to the attention of the property owners of this town that it would be well to look a little more carefully after the condition of their holdings and keep their fences from trespassing upon the property of the town and getting in the pathway of the ladies. Look out for my next. I am going to take a whole night in which to write it, and T om trnino- MV <5r>mp> thing's that will X Ctiii W ? not please everybody, but what T say will be the truth, and don't you ever forget that. THE IDLER. MISSING COPIES WANTED. (Wfe would like to (have three copies of The Herald and News of October 12, 1915, two copies of October 16, 1915, and two copies of November 19, 1915. We need these tocomplete our fileg for permanent preservation. If any friend has any one or all of these missing copies we would appreciate it if they would send or bring them to the office. Please look around and see if you can find them about the 'house or the office and send them to us at once. Death of Mrs. Parketo?. Mrs. Narcissus Parketon died on mesaay at me uume ui uau&u^i, Mrs. Irene Smith, in West End, aged about 70 years. She was a sister of Mr. Butler Morgan of the citj. She was ijrw^aea&v*"