Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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: *\>( ivAT FAKTV UNSCRUPULOUS I Tb*? tireat Necessity oi Making South Carolina uSafe for Democracy*' Again Charleston American. Columbia, Aug. 19.?It has been the *lisjposition of the Reform faction of . the Demicratic party, when a wrong Twas righted, to let the matter drop, j iWhea Congressman Fred. H. Domi-1 -silck's law partner, Mr. Neal W. Workman, was not admitted to the ^-officers' training camp at Fort Ogle -! rthorpe, Mr. Dominick entered his provtest, rigorously and forcibly. It was caf no avail, however, it being con-' fended that Mr. Workman could not .pass the physical examination. .Mr. Workman applied for admission to the second officers' training camp, j and ias been granted admission, thu3 | completely sustaining Dr. uommicK s j contention in .the first instance. Mr. .Dorninick, Mr. Workman and all thetr :iriends were willing to let the matter j drop there. Mr. Workman had finally j -.secured his right, and that was the tfind of the matter, so far as they were | <?oncen*ed. I Not so with the anti-Reform party, i "iioweyer. The Columbia Record has "fcegun to rake up old scores and to fan smouldering embers of partisanship in this matter, which it had been ^elt was closed. That is a matter with t3te Record and for its own judgment, except for the fact that the Record has not correctly presented'i the case in any respect. Says that j newspaper: Oh, Te Record! "Politics are a funny animal. Some ciiLie agu vuugicssuiau wiuuuvn j thought his law partner had been unfairly treated, in fact, discriminated -.against, and he very properly took up tfhe defense of his friend. If we are -SHft mistaken the congressman's friend < subsequently was given admission to the training camp at Fort Oglethorpe! and made good. The point of the mat-1 ier is that Mr. Dominick practically J ralleged that his partner was made to! isnffer because of the congressman's ; reformer uronounced Dro-Germanism ! ; and anti-administration policies. We ' aiever took any stock in that part or f v the complaint/' etc* The Facts i lAe matter of fact, v Mr. Workman j -was not admitted to the first officers' i trainng camp, and the reason assign-1 qxioting from a Washington dis-j patch to the Charleston American of! JM*y 27: ! i "The letter of the adjutant general; ssc&iag that Workanm was rejected for| 53, pnysicai aisaoimy iunows 111 part; ; ^ "Tfae commanding general, South-1 tsastern Department, was called on to r?na&e a special investigation and fur-i Tolsii a report by wire. The report has "been received and shows that Capt. Graham did not forward the examin*.>ti<m record of Mr. Workman to Fort 111 I m ^More Courteo and B< "Jones, I like that p: ways being ready to tal jphone calls from you. 1 "If thprp is anvthm^ ** "***'* """ J c i5n the course of a busy ^office boy or girl call . and then ask me to w minutes, as the case m; known telephone calle .me. "I believe it is the man who is calling t< - - snnn his nartv answi 'uVWA* MW ^ ? ? j ? - "We should never iiug friends or business stating anyone we call ""It is not only more business practice, to h< party answers, but I be SAVES TIME." SOUTHERN BELL T AND TELEGRAPH Oglethorpe because of physical dts-; ability. This is the reason why he was ! rejected. These papers are now at the, headquarters. Southeastern Depart--: nient, Charleston. j " 'Mr. Workman is reported to weigh 19i> pounds, with a height of only 3 feet. S inches, and with the high pulse of 110.'" 4 | Subsequently Dr. W. G. Houseal. of Newberry, whose reputation as a physician is well known in South Carolina furnished the following under date of May 27: "I examined Mr. Neal W. 'Workman this morning. I weighed and measured him on a standard scale. Hi3 weight is 195 pounds. His height is 5 feet. 9 1-2 inches in his stocking feet His pulse was 84 and he was some" - - * t T~ wnat excuea. l nave ueeu uis yu.vsician since he has lived in this city, since 1913. I have regarded him as sound physically and have never discovered any organic disease." That the examination of Dr. Houseal must have been correct is evidenced by the fact that Mr. Workman did pass recently the examination \>r th?" sceond trainng camp, which he would ' J1? 1? ~ J fV>r? avamiri!). naraiy iiitvc uwuc iiau luc tion reported from Washington been correct. All this matter was fully threshed out at the time, and Mr. Workman having finally secured his rights, the incident should rightly have been closed. And it was closed, so far as the Reform party was concerned. Bur the anti-Reformers, who are continually making the claim that they are non-partisan, while showing the most bitter partisanship in the history of the Democratic garty in this state, not only have to reopen it, but one of their newspaper representatives does so in a mannev not in accordance with the ' +/\ 7*11 Q fQ \T H liACIS ctllU. Vcliiuiaicu yiuvv Dominick in a false position. The Lesson This is simply another evidence of the extent to which factional bitterness is being carried in South Carolina. but it serves the useful purpose of impressing upon the people the need for an administration which in matters of life and death will know no factional lines, and which will give the state a real government of the masses, and npt of the classes. As matter of fact, the government in this state now is really not even a government of the classes. It has passed beyond that stage. It is a government of a small inner circle among the classes. As has been repeatedly urged, there i'? but one *ay to remedy conditions. Little can be expected as long as the machinery of the Democratic party of thfe state is in the hands of a partisan executive committee, chosen by a minority 01 tne party, urgamzauuu is the watchword?an organization determined that the party shall not be arbitrarily ruled against the wishes and the votes of a majority of the us?.. iv. ? Jiter Business ractice of yours of alk when I answer tele * \ that does irritate me day, it is to have some me to the telephone ait one, two or five ay be, until some unr 10 r/=?orhy tn tdllr with 1 lO 1VUUJ IW VMOk I? ? ?? responsibility of the > be ready to talk as ers. tolr/a o rliijnrp nn Ins ICUVV U VHMXAW W by unnecessarily irri : courteous, and better Did the line until the lieve in the long run it ELEPHONE ffm\ COMPANY VifPy? \ \ I , , f V\a:te peoy.e o; south (,aro;:na. The people are waking up. Tils 1 campaign is wow in progress. Seven? 1 ceiing.;. crran; ed hy the pjo;ie a a 1 not by any candidates, have already j been held, and others will ge held dur-; ^ .."U ? ^mnr TIlOVO Wl'll hp a 1) 1 ^ ! mg nit; ftuiuui^i. * iiv. ^ ~~ ( mass meeting at Pickens on next Sat- i j Lrday, at which former Governor, 1 Blease will be one of the principal j 1 speakers. These meetings are not ad- ; 1 vertised as political meetings and, in j ! a sense, they are not?but they are; | meetings at which the people of the j j state are getting together and discuss- j ! ing issues and making up their minds j ! upon policies and politics. The war! ! I emergency has not caused them to for- I i +1-.Q nnn nnr? annrrmriat.inn bill ! ! SCI. Liic <pc?,uv/v,vvv -r | under_ which they are laboring; th*; i highest county levies in the history of j any Democratic administration, and J thousands of dollars being spent for the maintenance of a state constabulary. while the state was too poor to | put its mobilization ground in shape ! for the accommodation of its soldiers, j ; the United States government having ! ! to perform this duty for the state by j " ^ - J - 4 1 ? 4.^ +V.O. rrntr-\ sending me iruups uuanj- cu mc &u>- j ernment camp at Greenville. Nor are ! the people forgetting that today their j two regiments in Greenville will be j under a foreign brigadier general bej cause the governor of the state arbi- j trarily refused to permit the organiza- I j tion of a third regiment, on the ground i I of poverty, notwithstanding the fact j j that about the 30th of June the state j j had to its credit from United States I j government funds for equipment of i militia, more than $20,000, which AdI 1 TV/f AAT?rt rt* V> r*r-i Y%a oO \X7 | J U LCI II L UOUOl U. X *UUUi C| T* U^U IXC OCA. ? | i that it was about to revert to the fed! eral treasury, succeeded in getting J the government's permission to use in ; the purchase of extra equipment for i i the organizations already in existence, j He deceives himself who thinks the people are asleep, for there is a movement under wey n this state which promises to be even mX esroryrher j promises to be even more sweeping j than thai of the late eighties and the early nineties. REV. CLARY STIRTS FUND j As Reward for Capture of Woman's Slayer The following is from Saturday's issue of the Washington Post: The first step toward the creation of a $1,000 reward fund for the arrest and conviction of the brutal murderer of Lottie May Brandon, at her | Annapolis home, was started today I by the Rev. Amos Clary, pastor of the i Mt. Tabor Baptist churcn. The Rev. Clary brovgnt to The; Washington Times 4 1 a check for $1 which he wis 3. .0 be the first contribution to a n $500 which will be collected in .dition to ths $500 reward already offered by Tho Times for the apprehension of the | murderer. 1 The check is marked "Brandon Reward Fund," and the pastor believes there are hundreds of people i? Washington, Baltimore ana Annappolis, and surrounding territory, who j will be glad to contribute. The I crime committed in the Brandon home is one of the most mystifying and brutal in the police annals of Maryland. Coming at a time when thousands of American homes are without their natural defenders, who have been or will be called away to the colors, Pastor Clary thinks every incentive I should be thrown behind the hunt | for the Annapolis assailant. Pastor Clary's check was brought to The Times office this morning by the minister himself. He said: "I want to be the first man in thte city to Subscribe to a fund which will give a greater spur and impetus to the monster who invaded the Brandon home. Here is a chance for everybody to contribute. Give any tnmg y^u can anora, ana let this criminal be brought to justice. "Already, I have broached the plan to a number of people in my church and they have been enthusiatic about it. "With $1,000 as a reward for the apprhension o fthis murderer, The Times and the people of Washington will be doing a tremendous service in making it next to impossible for a criminal to get away with a foul deed of this kind. "The reward of $1,000 will attract to Annapolis the most expert detective talent in the United States. In that way, every possible clue will he run down. d n i rvnnivr UJlXJUlJxl A 1*1 MJ I Ballentine, Aug. 18.?Mrs. Fannia Wessinger has returned home from a 1 visit to relatives in. Littlee Mountain. Miss Elvira Shealy has returned home from i. v '.sit to Chapin, Little Mountain and Columbia. Miss Leo Shealy of Litttle Mountain I is visiting friends and relatives near j Ballentine. Miss Arabel Bouknight is spending a while with relatives in "Proaeprity. MIST ( I T IT OI T Yorkville Enquiier. Cease the practice of wriiinz ivecfccriptions for narcotics l'or habitual drug users at once or take yo;?r chances 011 serving a sentence in the -J ??, ?\ tln?(n Tli -> ' r euei cii yeiiictriiiiai y ill .niaina. in substance, was the ultimatum de-j Iivered to physicians and druggists of! Yorkville by Dr. George W. Long,; United States narcotic inspector, at a meeting held in a local physician'-? j office here Friday evening. Declaring that there were more drug users in ! Yorkville and Chester than in any two towns in South Carolina, Dr. Long / told the physicians that it was against the letter and spirit of the Harrison ; Narcotic law for them to continue th? j nran+ino nf -a-ritinor nresrrintions for iyiwv,'ivv " * - O tr "dopers" and for druggists to sell the' stuff to them, and that it had to cease at once, regardless of consequences. Dr. Long gave the doctors to understand that they had violated the narcotic law every time thev had issued | a prescription to an addict since the Harrison law became effective more than two years ago, and he made it plain that should the cases be pushed, every Yorkville physician and dru#?- > gist could now be convicted of vio-' lation of the law and imprisoned in the Federal penitentiary. However, since the same condition prevails or rather has prevailed all over South (Sarolina. physicians ivill not be held responsible for their past delinquencies. , i Following the inspector s interprei tation of the law, local druggists and j physicians made it plain that from I henceforth they would issue no prei scriptions for narcotics for regular j addicts and they will likely sign a pledge to that effect within a few I days. Morphine addicts . who ap* j proache/d physicians Saturday for j prescriptions for their regular supI plies, were refused, and one YorkI i ville drug store at least probably for ! the first time in its history, refused | to sell upon prescription the narcotic to customers of long years standing. It is Conservatively estimated tuat there are in York ville more than forty ! persons, white and black, male and | female, who are addicted to the use of morphine or some other narcotic j whose sale is forbidden by^ Federal statute. In almost every case they i | are persons of small means. <vVhat is. going to become of them is the question that is now confronting the physician. There is but one alternative for them and that is to break loose from the habit, a proposition that in a Dumber of cases will be well nigh j impossible. TVipta is at the state hosDltal for j the insane in Columbia, a ward where a specialty of treating drug addicts is made. One Yorkville man addicted to the use of drugs was serl there some time ago by the local relief as( sociation and was cured of the habit. Another is there now and the understanding is that provision will be made whereby all persons addicted to l the use of drugs will be sent there for treatment if they so desire. j The cost of the treatment at the state hospital is J41.65 and arrange, meiits have been made with the si:ate I : board of charities and corrections | whereby the board will pay the cost , of treatment in each case where the j unfortunate is unable to pay, the un| derstanding being that the addict re! pay the board at some time in the | future. Commitment papers for at least three local addicts were issued CJofm-dnv nnd ntliorc Tiri 1.1 f A1 1A tir UUCiti UttJ anu vent.* & n m *.^4iv ii . There are in Yorkville people who | have been using morphine and other drugs for at least twenty years and in other sections of York county are j some who have been addicted to the habit for a much longer period. They must take the cure. No longer will i tViav Kd ollr?n.-orl tr? hnv thp ririlST. I . 1 ENTENTE AGAINST PEA E AT THIS TIME j President Wilson Expected to Make Reply to Pope's Proposal Within Next Few Days ______ j Washington, Aug. 17.?There will be no armistice as the result of ths pope's peace plea it became apparent i today at the State Department and among the allied embassies. ' An armistice wouuj v?uu ?-u u^tinctly in the interest of Germany that I the allies will guard against a ces| sation of hostilities at this time. This is believed to be the reason for the ! coldness with which the note has been received in allie dcountrLea. i | But this doe? not mean t'.iat the ! note is done with. It lies tonight on I President Wilson's desk. \ot Considered Allied diplomats at Washington have already transmitted to the president at least an informal outline of , the attitude of their countries. "Each one of them has told him that peace ! cannot be considered at this time. ; But the pone's utterances is in such striking pnr^lel with the utterance* of tbo nres^ent that the latter cannot ig.iore the appeal. He already has a fairiy complete summary o? the feeling of the United States upon the subject. He is rapidly accumulating the world opinion. it is beiieved tonight that he will take the whole problem off with him tor the same sort of intensive study with which he treated the sinking of the Lusitania, our entrance into th I war and all of the great crisis through which he has been called upon to gride the Cnited States. Answer Soon In a few days an authoritave utterance may be expected from the president. The best prediction in Washington tonight is that this will be a respectful acknowledgement of the pope's note, agreement with its major torms, and a question as to whether the pope can say that the Teutonic powers are ready to grant the United States and the allies all they ask. 3y the time this statement is trans| We Do It Right I When you need repa car try our Repair D< ly find the trouble an our statement. Mr. charge of this depart] Satisfaction. Our bi I ice. Try us. J. D. QUA! Prosperil I Students. Enlist For Colle; I Newberry College offers cour logy, Bible, French, Spanish, Religion, Economics, Latin, C and History. It offers a course in Military ' with credit. It prepares for Law, Me< Teaching and Business. I General Wood says: "The \ young men TO FINISH THE Secretary Baker says:. "We food; third, EDUCATED MEJ Write for catalogue and desc College. Session begins Septer President J. 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