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\; --\ PROMISING JOCKEY RUINED 1 TO MAKE A SENATOR And New Charles Curtis of Kansas Finds Weight No Handicap ; E. B. Chapman in the Dearborn In-: dependent. A skilled rider of running horses had turned 16. He had been riding since he was nine. In those seven years he had won many races. He expected to win many more. His employer owned two of the fastest horses of the time. The lad was paid $50 a month and 10 per cent of the winnings. It was a lot of money for those days. And the jockey, intimately acquainted with the distasteful side of poverty, already was saving some of his pay, which helped make him an unusual jockey. His parents were dead. His mother had died when he was a baby and he still was a small boy when death relieved his father of a disease, dating from his service as a captain in the Civil war. The youngster then had gone to live with his grandpur-! ents. As time for the racing season of 1876 approached, the jockey noted his grandfather studying him silently, several times. He didn't understand that, but gave the subject r little thought. A few days later th< grandfather explained his actions. "Charlie, you are getting big-1 and fat," the - grandparent said. "You can't ride* many years longer. What are you going to do?" The jockey didn't know just what he was going to do. It never had occurred to him that he couldn't always ride. * i "You've saved a little money," the grandfather suggested. "Why not go to school?" j The jockey thought it over. A ('ay or two later he visited his employer. It was explained the boy wished to go to school. "But I'm under contract to ride," he said. "Pel like to have you let ,me off. If you don't let me off, I'll ride, just as I agreed." But the employer ^vas more than* that. "If you'll go to school 111 do more than let you off," he said. "Here's $50. Use it to help in getting your education." ; So a jockey entered high school. At Christmas another 50 came from the employer. In the meantime, an ancient cab had been found in !a liv-. ery stable. The jockey made all the trains late in the day and until midnight. He went to school mornings and early afternoons. He ^studied be tweeri trips and as he had time, at school and at home. The cab receipts were divided with the livery man.. The jockey's share provided enough1 to keep him in school. A few weeks ago, after the death of Senator Knox, a new chairman of the rules committee, one of the important committees of that body, was sought. Thv senator chosen to succeed to that chairmanship was Curtis of Kansas. Curtis of Kansas was the ^ jockey and cab driver of the seventies. It is a long way from the chairmanship of the rules committee to the cab driver at the railroad stations - ? ? T\ . . t "1 _ J* X 1 of TopeJca. tfut tne moae 01 travel in making the journey is the same, virtually* at all stages. It is work. The cab driver worked his way through school. He studied lessons while waiting for the trains. Thus h$ graduated from the Topeka high IB school. But he did more than study K the lessons in his books. He studied the people he hauled; he studied the men who were in the public eye. He made friends. One of the two or three great law\yers of Kansas in those days was A. W H. (Hib) Case. He appeared in vir tually ail cf the higher courts of the Middle West, particularly in Kansas. ^ eH had known the cab-driving student when he was a jockey. Returning from journeys he usually rode wn+V* vr.nnc man Thp\,* became quite friendly. One day after graduation, young Curtis called at the office of his lawyer friend and expressed a desire to study law. The older man pointed out 'the discouraging features of legal practice. ' The town was filled with poor lawyers who couldn't make a living. People didn't need lawyers as much as they formerly did. But the student wouldn't be discouraged. It finally was agreed he should sweep the office and combine other janitor duties tVirtoQ /->? r.r>v 5r return for the privilege of reading Mr. Case's law books. Again the former jockey went to work. His cab-driving days had taught him how to avoid the waste ? of time. His only interest, was his work and two months after ..e began studying law he was taken to a justice court to assist Mr. Case in handling an action. Six months later he was doing all of that work for the ^ older attorney. He was the firm's ' collector and in Topeka they still tell how Curtis would get money from tardy debtors. A couple of years at that sort of hing- and Curtis was admitted to the bar. It had oeen necessary, meanwhile. to have him declared a citizen.Indian blood inherited from his moth-! t er had given him membership in the Kaw tribe. Curtis became a member of a Re publican club, as his first dip into politics. He marched in processions that were frequent in those days. He wasn't an orator but he had an all-. absorbing interest in politics. He never wondered what his own precinct would do, he found out by a personal talk with most of the voters in it. After a while that knowledge of conditions was extended to include the ward. Of course, the next step was to ascertain conditions in the city. ? j That involved a tremendous amount of work. Bur work and the young lawyer were the closest of friends. And Curtis even then had developed a characteristic that has been a big factor in keeping him in public life. He knew every one of any consequence in town. And he knew a lot of people who were not of the consequential sort. As a iockey every one had known him. He added to that a< uaintance as a cab driver. His appearances in justice court added to his list of friends and even as a bill collector he met people who liked him. Not only did these peo pie give him information but a surprisingly large number were fond of him. Ana so Curti> was equipped to keep close tab on the situation in the city, particularly as regarded politics. Curtis was a delegate in the county convention in 1884, the year of the Rl^ino firrVit Hp vv.qq t.hp vounTPst delegate and was expected, along with most of the other delegates, to do as he was told. But Curtis, sure of his ground because of his perfect knowledge of conditions, jumped into the fight for Blaine. Ke wasn't an orator but when he concluded his speech that afternoon the convention instructed its delegates for Blaine. That knowledge of political condiInnc Viae? Koon u nntVior nf tVtf* VIV/liO Iia-O WVV41 W4IVVHVI w* ?*?w Curtis characteristics. It alone saved him when enemy interests became so powerful, in late years, that they took away from him the district he ha<J got in the habit of carrying in his race for congress every two years and made his county a part of the district thickly inhabited by enemies. But to go back to the convention. Curtis didn't upset the program at the convention without making enemies?and friends. On the advice of the latter he decided to make the race for county attorney. Ho had,, in the meantime, become a partner in the firm. In those days the liquor interests still were hoping to defeat prohibition ir\ Kansas. Curtis's firm was retained by them at the rate of $500 a month, whether there were cases to try or not. And Curtis an * J J Z JS . nounceu ins cciiiuiudc^ on & pianunu that called for the resubmission of the dry amendment. ) : Five of the leading local attorneys were drafted by the prohibitionists to defeat Curtis. The most bitter campaign the county ever knew followed but Curtis was elected. He saw virtually every voter and so did his opponents. It was charged CJurtis was a former cab driver and hadn't studied law regularly. As one resident of the town says of the campaign, "all the hammers were worn out nailing lies." But Curtis was elected. ? The new county attorney took office in January. He inherited 100 liquor cases from his predecessor in OA ^1,-, office, mere were sume ou carrying federal liquor licenses. Curtis prepared to try one of the leftover liquor cases and half of the men accepted for jury service were known to be "drinkers." Curtis told; them he didn't like the law but it wasn't up to him to say whether it was good or bad. He was sworn to enforce it. They were sworn as o?-' ficers ~f the court to do their duty, j He expected them to convict. And they did. , ! A month later there wasn't an op en saloon in the county. In the four, years Curtis served, a saloon operated /our hours, one time, at a fair before the authorities learned of it. That is all. And the surprising part of it is that Curtis, the resubmissionist, never took a drink. ' "I had no high-flown moral principles against drinking," he^said, ".but I had seen loafers ?nd beggars who hnr..ri crnrtr} VincVinri.^c uml fn+linve **?.4VA ISWW44 ^ WV4. ?. ? 11 saw how liquor broke down men. took away their pride, made wrecks of them. I let it alone." In his first term, Curtis prosecuted all the 100 leftover liquor cases, obtaining convictions in virtually all of them. He handled the other cases, too. That term he lost only five criminal cases. The next term he didn't lose one. After he had cleaned up the ciry \ and county those who had opposed him accepted him. He was pointed to with pnde. It was believed he had accomplisned the ultimate. From a poor Indian boy to the county attorneyship of KansasV second largest and most important county was some jump. He was pointed ou* to youths ' ? <-* ? r\ r\ci > 1 ?IS <l nuiiuin Bat that was only the beginning for Curtis. He decided to make the race for congress from h's district.' the fourth. He was elected after a traitor in his ranks defeated hm: fori ! the nomination rhe iv-st time. H( denounced the traitor, pledged his help and gave it in electing hi? op1 ^ ? A a ma4-\ vn i li n f ponpm, ano sti iu wuitv tu jcuac ?.nai>. individual at the end of two years.;1 He did it. I After his first#election it came tobe just a matter of the lead each election would give him over his opponent. Kansas went to the Pupulists but Curtis returned to congress. \ Then came the gerrymander, that masterpiece of political manipulation , that was expected to end the career of the Indian, as his enemies scorni fully called him. Shawnee county ; was taken out of the fourth district ; and attached to the first district where powerful men, each opposed to 1 Curtis, controlled each of the counties with which Shawnee had been '< allied. ' But work and Curtis had remained : friends all through the years. And Curtis recognized early in his politi- > cal career the importance if organi- zation and personal acquaintance. So he accepted the challenge and went to work in the remodeled dis- ; trict. Beginning early in the spring he * visited every community in the district. It was said he shock hands and had a personal visit with some ' 9.000 voters in the campaign of that ( year. It was a battle. Each county had a candidate. The bitterness of the first campaign for county attor- j ney deemed pleasant compared to the ( onslaught in the congressional tight. Rut the "congressman without a district." as he had been called, would- 1 n't give up. And on the 714th ballot J he was nominated. He was elected. < All told he spent 14 years in the ( house. Meanwhile, the Curtis acquaintance had grown. His friends and enemies extended to every nook and ** HP /?An(rr*ftC5, corner uz cue Ma^c. ? i man from the first district, more than half his mail came from other sections of Kansas. His old friends in the fourth district were takfcn care of just as when he depended on their 1 votes for reelection. A letter from 1 a man a hundred miles west of the district brought a response as quick- 1 ly as one from one of the leaders at home. And eventually Curtis ran 1 for the senate. It didn't seem possible Curtis could be a candidate in 1920. All was too ^erene in Kansas politics. There was no crowd out "after Curtis." It was all too peaceful. ! ~ ^ ? ? i 1. Senator uurtis ana wors stm ?ic good friends. He is about 60 years old but still he wastes no time, the plan which began with the lessons studied while waiting for trains still being the Curtis plan. He has a tremendous correspondence. Any one in Kansas that desires anything writes to Curtis, it would seem from the sacks of mail that go to and from his office. No letter is unanswered. If the asnirinsr or requesting Kansan desires anything within reason, it is obtained for him. Pensions. In his "docket" are the names of more than 10,CC0 veterans for whom ho obtain- , ed aid. That is one of the reasons his enemies couldn't end the Tope- . kan's political career. No matter ' what was the story the orders or the request carried "to the family of an old soldier, if "Charley" had obtained the pension the effort* were useless. Often they were useless because of thp knowledge of a friend who had been thus assisted. And the politicians point out, Curtis is a "handshaker." He is more. He has one of the most remarkable memories for fac?s and names of any one in the West. | "I always associate som? incident with a man's name and lace," ne ! explained. "When I see him again it is easy to call him by name.'' At one time or another he has had ! tht? opposition of every faction of his party but one. That is the Curtis faction. There are many factions in i Kansas. From Boss Leland to Willi?* A!l?n White thev all have fought the senator. But he insists ' the ocople never indicated thev wishj " j ed i;o retire him. Even when he was j defeated he cou;d prove hy the returns how the majority cf the peot pie really were for him. * | Senator Curtis doesn't make a good speech as speeches by public men go. His tie is mere likely tc be out of plumb than in it. His trousers arc -ss" likely to be uncreased as creased. But he works all the time for Kansas I and Kansans. He gets what he asks jfrom the departments at Washington. I i He has been hierh in the councils of i his pai\y 80 year?, a ever a flashy j legislator. he has been influential. He; is said to be the first in the senate j as he was in the house on keeping his j ear to the grass roots. He knows Kansas from the ground up, where to get anything any Kansa.n, black or white, Republican or Democrat, wants if it can be obtained and why ii can't be obtained if it can't. DR. HiCFCSON SAYS HE WILL ;v PiSTOP OF rHITRrw! 1 111 t? * i ! 1 Moderator of Broad River Associa-! ] tion Issues Statement Challenging | Authority of Deacons to j] Dismiss Him 1 ! . , ^ I>r. F. C. Hickson. Gaffney minis-j tor, who is moderator of the Broad i \ River Baptist association, Tuesday1] issued the following statement con-|< i r\w the action of the deacons of . , * o the Skull Shoals Baptist church in j \ asking him to resign as pastor cf , that church: j] ''Please annoonce that I shall fill j < my regular appointment to preach i * at Skull Shoals Baptist church on the j 4th Sunday and ask every member! t to be present at 11 o'clock. i j "At my last appointment, 4th Sun- ( day in August, we had a most de-: < lightful service, baptismal, commun-j( ion and preaching. j ] "The pastor conducted the revival j services this year, first of August, j; himself. So far as I could see from j, the size of the congregation and ] hearty cooperation 01 me j ship the church was never so united < and hopeful, nor so cordial in their! < support of me as their pastor. j ( "1 shall make no reply at present :< to statements attributed to Mr. Wii- ] kins in today's Ledger until I see the ! ( church. 11 "The public ought to know that 17 the Baptist church government is purely democratic and that the dea-1 < cons have no authority to cell or dis-i1 miss a pastor. < ' There was not a member in the church, certainly not a one of those < named, who did not-know from my j ? Ll?T " ?? <?> r\-f Rnri ? 0W21 lips tllciU X WSS ill ia>ui Vt ~ ? Cole L. Blease for governor before < the 1st primary. ] ' In 1912 I was pastor at Skull 1 Shoals and opposed Mr. Blease in the Ledger and otherwise. Those who J were friends of Mr. Blease at that 1 time made no objection to me as their pastor. 1 "The fact that those who oppose ; Mr. Blease now object to me being j pastor because I now support him, 1 unly shows that Mr. Blease's friends ' have more of the Christian spirit than his enemies. "I have always taken an active ? Dart in politics wherever I have lived or preached and this is the first time that any church, or part of a church, has taken exception to it. "My reasons for supporting Mr. Blease this time were my honest convictions and will stand the test of time as to their wisdom. ''My motive in this and in all my actions was purely unselfish. There / was nothing for me to gain and everything for me to lose. took my stand with Mr. Till- ' man in the eighties when I was a popular town pastor and I took my stand against Mr. Wilson on the war from the same motive, viz: that as > a human and especially as a Chris-1 Lisn, my sympathies are with the weak against the strong. The question of Germany and England did not influence mo at all in my stand on the war. I saw clearly that in my own country the poor and weak would suffer, and that the rich and strong would profit. If I had not been a Christian, I would have been human enough not to hesitate in choosing my pai:i. .nw ?>?... * ? , bathed rav soirit in the teachings of | v j Jesus, the world, the flesh and the | devil could not move me. "Hew much that stand cost me my inhuman enemies know, for they have .measured every ounce of it to - * * 1 a. me, in the spirit oi savage atvuu.v. I have taken it without voicing onee. ''If God were not God, and Jesus were only a helpless martyr, and the consensus of human opinion and hope that right will receivc its reward, were only a fiction, I still would act as I do, and feel as I do, and hope a? I do. 'The only reason I don't spit contempt on my persecutors is that I pity them." hack at School JilVi VII..U1 Vli and will be expected ta unlearn a lot of things that they learned from their fathers and mothers during vacation. A composer says "jazz music is still in its infancy." Well, no jury! would convict the public on the ! charge of non-support. Down in middle Georgia a fellow j opened a restaurant and advertised it as a filling station and he is doing a rushing business. j BONUS BILL IS KNOCKED COLD FOR THIRD TIME Senate Sustains Veto of President After House Had Overridden it ?Fight Wiil Continue Washington, Sept. 21.?For z third time soldiers' bonus legislator has failed of enactment. The senate late yesterday sustain ed President Harding's veto of the Fordney-McCumfcer bill, the vote of 44 to 28 falling four short of thcinn invitv that would nave Deen necessary to have made it a law without the executive's signature. Five hours before the senate acted, :he hoUSe over-rode the veto. 258 to 54. The action of the senate makes mpossible veterans' compensation at east until the next session of congress, which wili begin early in December. Meantime, however, it is -- ^ tn .tit! puipu>c Ui SUIIIC i' i Ujju .IV ?. V.J ? ? continue the fight am? the bonus may Decome an issue in some of the congressional and senatorial campaigns :his fall. The first Hbonus bills were introduced in the house and senate early n the special session of the 66th congress, which began May 10, 1010. 3o many different proposals were offered in the hoyse that all were referred to the ways and means committee, which began hearings or Sept. 29, 1919. No spokesmen for veterans' organizations appeared, however, and action was delayed. Hearings were reopened by the committee on March 2, 1920, and continued for three weeks. The original "five fold" plan was draft?d and che bill reported to the committee on May 21. It was passed ?ight days later by a vote of 289 to )2, and was sent to the senate which eferrtd it to the finance committee. Fhat committee reported out the bill >n February 28, 1921, but it failed with the adjournment of the 66th jongress. After the present congress was i-alled in extra session by President t Harding, convening April 11, 1921. lumerous new bills were offered and 3n June 20 the finance committee reported out the "five-fold" plan with ^he cash bonus feature. The senate sent this back* to the committee however, ?uly 12, at the request ? 1 . TT J * _ Df President riarujii?. Last Jan. 31 the ways and means committee began new hearings and after some discussion and conferences with members of the finance committee and President Harding the bill killed yesterday was drafted. II was reported to the house or Marc* 14 and was passed on March 23, b> a vote of 333 to 70. The next daj CITATION OF LETTERS OF AD MINISTRATION The State of South Carolina, Count} of Newberry, by W. F. Ewart Probate Judge: Whereas, Corrie L. Moore hatlm?de suit to grant her Letters oi Administration of the estate and effects of W. L. Moore, deceased. These are. therefore, to cite anc admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said W. L Moore, deceased, that they be ant aope^r before me. in the Court 01 Probate, to be held at Newberry, S n WnnHov Cirt. 9th. next, aftei Uil ^UV/11\(UJ ? >. ~ , nubl'*cation hereof, at 11 o'clock ir the forenoon, to show cause, if an} they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given und?r my hand this 18tl day of September, Anno Domin 1922 W. F. EWART, P. J. N. Co. I | ."Feeling | W P* S?* v?; fine! e .'ID "I was pale and thin, h2rdiy (|| able to go," says Mrs. Bessie ^ ^ Bearden, of Centra!, S. C. "I ^ (yj would suffer, when 1 stood or. (p niy feet, with bearing-down ^ ^ pains in lny sides and the lower ^ m) part or my "body. ; did r?oi r-jst M v/ei! and didn't want ar.ytr.ui2 yy to eat* My color was baa ana v> <?) I felt miserable. A trier.d z'l 0 mi^tolda^c^ g ^ aa M jq. -o-c v^. # 7 ' # <? 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