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I 16TH YEAR PORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1907 NO. 30
1 SCORES KILLED.
An Indiana Town Practically Destroyed
by Terrific Explosion
I HUNDREDS INJURED.
rowilfr Plant Blown Up, Scattering
Destruction in Every Direction?
The Concussion Was Felt Two
Hundred Mile* Away?All Build*
ingn in the Town Wcru Wrecked
and Inhabitants Killed or Injured.
The town of Fontanet in Indiana
was practically destroyed Tuesday by
the explosion of the plant of the Du
pont Powder Company.
The dead number from twenty-five
to fifty. More than six hundred persons
were Injured and every building
in the town was wholly or partially
levelled to the ground.
Where stood a thriving and busytown
of 1,000 people Tuesday morning;
Tuesday night there is ruin and
scattered wreckage.
Five hundred inhabitants, all more
or less seriously injured, have been
taken away.
Five hundred inhabitants, all more
or less wounded, remain to gather
their scattered household goods and
?le?p under tents and on cots, guarded
by soldiers of the State.
Without warning the powder mills,
seven in, number, blew up at 9.15
o'clock Tuesday morning. They employed
two hundred men, und of
these seventy-five were at work when
the first explosion occurred in the
pros mill.
In quick succession the glazing
mill, the two coining mills und the
powder magazine blew up, followed
by the cap mill.
In the magazine, situated several
hundred yards from the mills, were
stored 40,000 kegs of powder. When
It blew up the concussion was felt
Dearly two hundred miles away.
Farm houses two miles away and
school houses equally distant were
torn to pieces and their occupants in
jured. A passenger train on the Big
Four Railroad, four miles away, had
every car window broken and several
passengers were injured by flying
glass.
The mill went up with three distinct
explosions, followed ninety minutes
later by a fourth, even more serious
than the others, when the magazine
blew up.
Immediately following the explosions
the wreckage Caught fire and
the inhabitants of the town, who
rushed to the rescue of the mill employes,
found themselves powerless
to aid those burning in the ruins.
They worked frantically, in constant
danger from possible succeeding explosions,
unmindful of their ruined
homes.
Dead and dying were picked up
and collected. Eighteen bodies burned
and mangled were carted to a protected
spot to await identification,
while the badly injured, numbering
upward of fifty, were put on a special
train and taken to Terre Haute for
hospital accommodations.
\!ilO rl nvor\r r*no r\ f t Un Ann t hniio
i and inhabitants carried blood on
hands and (ace from his or her own
wounds or those of people who had
required aid.
The mills were located one mile
south of the town. With the first
explosion the employees ran for safty,
but most of them were killed or
wounded by the quickly following explosions
in the other mill.
When the heat from the burning
mills exploded the main powder magazine,
later, practically destroying th?
town by the concussion, many o
those engaged In rescue work wen
badly injured and severul were kill
, ed.
' Superintendent Monahan, of the
plant, was killed while sitting in hit
office, and his wife and sster-n-law
were killed in their home some distance
away.
That the death list is not far greatw
Is due to the fact that the people
in town had left their houses at the
S m first explosion and were not in them
when the explosion or the 40,000
kegs of powder in the magazine
jjHF hurled their homes to pieces and
scattered their household goods in
heaps of debris.
Among the buildings totally destroyed
in the town were the Methodist
and Christian churches, the depot,
all business blocks, including a
large block just completed, a large
ware bouse and 500 homes.
Three school buildings were destroyed,
two at Fontanet and one al
Coal BlufT, two miles away. All
were filled with school children ?.n<i
every one of these were more* or lest
Injured by the collapse of the buildings.
A four-room school building wat
torn to pieces and not one of the twe
hundred children escaped unhurt,
none was fatally hurt. The schoo
building at Coal Bluff was turnet
over and collupeed. The teacher ant
ninety pupils wore more or less in
Jured.
Terre Haute and Brasil sent physi
clans and nurses with supplies it
i \ carriages and automobiles acrosi
|| the country, while special trains wer<
9 made up and run qver the Big Foui
f Railroad for the cat* of tb? injured
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MORE MONEY NEEDED
, And 6ov. Ansel Wants ta Raise
The Tax Levy.
His First Annual Message Will l>eal
largely With the Problem of Taxa*
tiou and the Needs of the Behoofs.
A dispatch from Columbia to Th^
Florence Times says in his annual
message to the legislature Governor
Ansel will recommend that the state
tax levy be increased, but just to
what figure he has not himself yet
decided. He has hoen mnaM?rin.
the advisability of recommending an
increase of two mills for three consecuetive
years, being anxious to
yank the state out of its disastrous
floating debt policy and place it upon
a firm cash basis to remain, but the
legislature would never do anything
of the kind with an election coming
upon them next summer, and so it Is
likely that a more moderate increase
will be recommended. Bay something
like half a mill.
The present levy is four and a
half mills, having been decreased half
a mill by the present legislature and
a half mill by the preceedirig legislature.
In 1905 the levy was placed
at 5 1-2 mills upon the recommendation
of Governor Heyward, also for
the purpose of placing the state on a
cash basis. Afterwards the leglsla
ture banking on an increase in tax
values reduced the levy, although it
increased the appropriations each
year.
The reports of county auditors are
coming in rapidly now, and the comptroller
general's office will in a few
weeks be in a position to say what
the total tax values for 1907 will be.
N'eurly every county so far show a
decided increase over the previous
year, due principally to the increase
in railroad assessments. Some of
the counties show increases of over
a million dollurs, while many show
additions of half a million or more.
It is estimated that the total increase
will be about $20,000,000. The railroads
alone have been increased over
$12,000,000.
The state's total assessment for
1906 was $249,534, 532, the Increase
being due to the quadrennial assessment
of real estate. The 1907 assessment
will therefore be about
$269,500,000. Half a mill additional
levy on this would vield $134,500
and the five mills on the twenty million
dollars Increase would bring in
another $100,000 bringing up the total
income for next year $234,000
above that for the present year. This
would about cure the floating debt
evil, provided the appropriations are
not increased. The state treasurer
has already borrowed $2 50,000 this
year for current expenses, in spite of
the big increase in tax values for
1906.
It seems practically certain that
the appropriations of the coming legislature
will reach high water mark
in spite of the warning of next summer's
elections. A strong tight, lead
by Governor Ansel himself, will he
made to have the salaries of all state
officers raised, and an equally determined
effort will be made to have the
supreme court and circuit court
iudges' salaries raised and each court
stenographer provided with an assistant.
Which will mean an additional
appropriation of about $10,.100
to $15,000.
Winthrop College will ask for $60.>00
for a new dormitory, the eleclons
will cost $20,000 extra, the
date board of health will ask for the
establishment of a $50,000 tuberculois
hospital for the state hospital for
he Insane, the reformatory at Fior nce
wants sabout $5,600 to pets it*
>ork properly started, the new high
hool system will need about $50.000
and the militia! will ask for
bout $110,000 to enable it to so
-nulp itself as to be able to pass the
requirements of the Dick law.
Governor Hanly, at Indianapolis,
or dered the Terre Haute company of
the Indiana National Guard to patrol
the ruined district and to protect life
and property. The governor arrived
Tuesday eveniug about the time the
soldiers reached Fontanet. Tie brought
with him 700 tents and cots for the
use of the homeless.
The condition of the bodies were
rrightful. Ilurned and mangled in
i every conceivable way. writhing and
s distorted, the rescued heap of dead
and dying presented a ghastly sight
and the screums of agony were nerve
: wrecking.
I The powder mill, which has suffer
i ea neavy josses in previous explosions
? gave employment to 200 men, work
ing In three shifts.
At the time of the exploson about
i sixty-five men were In the plant.
> The first explosion destroyed the
press mill and the glazing mill, the
I coining mills and powder magazine
I and the cap mill followed.
I The country school near Fontanet,
- with an attendance of fifty children,
hid just been called to order when
- the explosion occurred.
i The roof collapsed, but none of
a the children were seriously injured.
? The teacher. Miss Susan Bishop, of
r Terre Haute, was struck by a fall.
ins beam and fatally injured. ^
WILL BE SUED.
Both Drs. Bates and Timmerman, 1
Lata State Treasurers,
DECLINE TO SETTLE.
Dp. Timmerman Kays Bonds Wrrr
Stolen by a Subordinate Not of His
Choosing, and He Holds That 1
Neither Legally Nor Morally Can 1
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He Be Held Responsible For the ^
Acts of a Subordinate. t
Attorney General Lyon has re- c
rotvo/4 a ??' - ? s
...-vu iwtvi uuui i/r w . tl. 1 mimorman,
former state treasurer, in 1
reply to Mr. Lyon's letter requesting c
him to arrange the shortage caused '
by the theft of bonds from his office *
during his incumbency by a clerk, 8
who had charge of tho bond de- c
I
partment. Dr. Timmerman declines t
to recognize his liability for the c
theft of bonds by his former clerk, p
Daniel Zimmerman, and consequent- 1
ly the attorney general will institute *
suit on the former treasurer's official _
bond for the amount lost during his L.
administration, which is about $14,- j
000, including interest.
The letter from Dr. Timmerman is
as follows:
Hatesburg. S. C.. Oct. 14, 1907
Hon. J. Fraser Lyon. Columbia. 3. C. s
Dear Sir:?Yours of the 12th in- c
stant is received in reference to stolen
bonds claim. In answer thereto I t
will say that 1 do not consider myself
morally or legally bound for the t
value the said bonds. I therefore
will abide the decision of the courts
upon the question of liability. I will
be slow to believe that the state of
South Carolina will be so unjust as
to require of me payment for the ^
stealage of a self-confessed thief,
with the aid anJ instigation of a convicted
criminal, neither of whom has t
as yet received any punishment for
their crime. And especially since 1
was denied by statute the free exercise
of my judgmeut in the naming
of clerks in the state treasurer's office,
do 1 refuse to make settlement.
Very truly yours,
W. H. Timmerman.
Dr. Timmerman'8 reference to the
fact that he was not allowed to put
in thp nfRpfl rlprl/c r\f Kio
? >..% w-tvv v,.? no wi aio U n II DCICIT"
tion refers to the fact that when he
went into the office he desired to appoint
a kinsman as bond clerk, but
under the statute forbidding nepotism r
he could not do so and he then re- j
taiued Zimmerman, who had been
appointed by his predecessor. l)r. W. j
T. C. Bates. ^
Zimmerman has confessed the t
theft of nineteen state bonds, worth (
$12,500, but his case has been ap- ,
pealed on a technical point and will
not be argued until this winter. (
Meanwhile he is on bond. His alleg- (
ed confederate. T. J. Gibson, quite an (
old man, a broker of Columbia, was
convicted of receiving stolen property,
knowing it to be stolen, but
Gibson has not been well enough to
appear in court and have the sealed
sentence read to him, so that he too
is virtually free, so far as the sentence
of the court is concerned.
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DR. BATHS WONT ??AV. 1
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He Too IHwlines to Make 1'p the 1
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Ho ml Stcnl ShortuRc.
Dr. W. T. C. Hates, formerly state I
treasurer, has taken the same course !
as his successor. Dr. W. H. Tlmmerman,
and will decline to make pood
the amount stolen in bonds by his 1
\iond clerk. D. Zimmerman, during
the administration of I)r. Dates. In
a letter to Attorney General Lyon, acknowledging
the receipt of Mr.
Lyon's letter in reference to the matter.
Dr. Dates says:
"I cannot admit responsibility, by
reason of any act of mine, far any
reissue of State bonds by such clerk,
and therefore I respectfully decline
to make settlement as requested by
you in your letter."
The amount for which it is held
Dr. Bates is liable is $1,517.50, inpi
11H in c? intoro?t
It is an interesting fact that Mr.
Zimmerman was first appointed to
the clerkship in the office of the
state treasurer by Dr. Dates and was
then retained by Dr. Tiramerman and
by Capt. Jennings.
State Treasurer Jennings, who is
liable for several thousand dollars,
has indicated his probable intention
to settle without suit.
KILLED RY INDIANS.
Seven Persons Are Anibuslied and j
Murdered in Texas.
A special from El Paso, Texas, I
says: Four men and three women, j
one of the former being a govern- i
ment mail carrier, were ambushed
and killed between San Jose de Hila
and La Colorado, east of Herraosillo,
in the lower Sonora county by the
Yaquis. The killing was discovered a
short time afterwards by a party of
American mining men who were traveling
over trail with an escort of
Mexican eoldiers. _
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TRAINS CRASH. T
Horrible WrecK on the Southern i
RaHway Near Greensboro
In Which Four I'fnons Were Killed j
Outrighf and a Score Injured in
the I>entoli*hed Cars,
A horrible wreck occurred on the ?
Southern Railway near GreenBboro.
V. C., Friday morning before dayight,
when the northbound passenger
train. No. 34 ran into an open
switch at Rudd. a small station only
VMI P mllfta ri- *
?< uiiico uui lii ui urwusuoro, ana
ushed at full speed Into the engine
if a freight train standing on the
iiding, killing four and injuring be- H
ween thirty and forty persons, some o'
if them so seriously that they will, A
n all probability, die. The passen- ?
jer train was runnng at the rate of tl
ibout sixty miles an hour, and the ti
rash was terrific, as the cars fell in s<
ulns along the track. When the M
errlflc crash came the engine turned e<
?ver and the baggage car was com- ir,
iletely demolished. The car next to w
he baggage car was spilt in two, and hi
u this car the large number were inured
and some killed. Strange to '<
ay some of the passengers in this ri
ar escaped uuhurt. The people in a
Millman cars were only slightly in- tl
ured. H
The dead: t
Mrs. June Thomas, of. Danville. a
D. Allen Bryant, travelling repre- tr
entative of the Richmond Paper el
ompany. ui
A foreigner who could not be lilen- tl
ifled. m
The colored fire man of the freight w
rain. p<
The injured. vi
Jim Shelton, Danville. ti
A. M. Gregg, Portsmouth, Va. fc
John Lineberry, Randolph county. |{
R. \V. Dunaway, Kernersville. W.
/a.
June Thomas, Danville.
A man from Canada, who refused h
o give his name to the reporter. n
John D. Ferrell, Danville. Va. c,
Charles Holton. p
W. C. Davis, of Gustonia, N. C. r
Mrs. \V. C. Davis. Gastonia, N. C. H<
O Wemple, Danville 8,
J. D. Kitcbin, Clay county. f,
Dr. F. D. Moor. Charlotte.
W. M. Giles, Charlotte
Samuel A. Kindley, Gastonia, X. C.
Mrs. George S. Wells.
C. M. Clayton. Danville. v
Joe Sledge, Daville
John Gordon, colored, Virginia. |f
At the passenger station Thursday ?
tight was a hundred or so of people tI
rom Reldsville and other local ?
Kiints north of the city who were
Attending the fair and who were p
rery anxious to go on No. ;>4 hut the S)
icket agent would not sell the tick- w
?ts, making them wait for local train
S'o. 12.
The head brakeman of the freight
Lrain, who left the switch open and
caused the disaster, ran and has not
aeen heard of. p
TWO MKN SHOT 81
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P
\t Res Moines, la., by a Pool Room f(
Keeper. s
a
At Des Moines, la., C. H. Morris, S
mine owner, canitallst and former u
president of the lown Mine Operators'
association, and E. C. Johnson, man- u
tiger of the company store at Enter- p
prise Mines, eighteen miles north of
that place, were shot Thursday morning
by J. C. Cain, proprietor of the 0
Enterprise Pool Hall. p
Physicians hold out hopes that Mr. o
Morris will recover, but it is not. be- p
lieved Johnson can live. e
Cain is still at large. Johnson and a
Morris had been instrumental in hav- p
ing Cain arrested on a charge of c
"boot-legging" and the ill feeling t
which resulted was the cause of the H
shooting. |]
NEGROES ARRESTED.
c
e
Attacked I>ady and Daughter in the f
Streets of Danville. j,
John Basce, the negro who attack- 1
ed Mrs. Ferrell and her daughter in r
the streets of Danville, Va., Thursday '
and his brother-in-law, William Hen- H
derson, were arrested that night be- 1
fore the hounds put on their trail e
came up with them. There was dan- 1
ger of a lynching for awhile, but It c
passed. 1
TREMENDOUS STORMS. s
t
Tho Whole of Southern Europe in the
Grasp of Floods.
The whole of Southern Europe is
in the grasp of a tremendous storm,
accompanied by torrential rains. This
coming on the heel3 of unprecedented
raiu falls and floods of the past three
weeks, is causing great distress.
PRISONERS SHOT.
Fire Men Killed by the Government
of Hayti.
Five political prisoners were shot
recently in Hayti. according to a dispatch
received at the state department
at Washington.
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KICKS AGAIN.
fhe State Superintendent of Education
Scores Gov. Ansel.
)BJECTS TO A LAWYER
tolng Appointed on the Hoard of
education, and Writes a Caustic
Letter to the Governor For Not
Consulting Hini and Appointing n
Lawyer?Says He Will Not Stand
For Re-election Next Year.
The appointment by Gov. Ansel of
[ayne F. Rice of Aiken as a member
f tU. Qi.t. * -
i mo oiuio uo?ra 01 education to
11 out the unexpired term of J E.
oland, resigned front the second dis ict,
has caused Mr. O. M. Martin,
te State superintendent of educaon.
to write Gov. Ausel that the
election is not satisfactory because
tr. Rice is a lawyer and not an
iucator. The letter also makes the
iteresting statement that Mr. Martin
ill not be a candidate for the office
e now occupies again.
The situation in what is called the
cabinet" by the newspaper men is
ither strained Some time ago Gov.
nsel announced that he had offered
te vacancy in the second district to
on. John C. Sheppard. Superin ndent
Martin wrote the governor
very strong letter of protest and
i the controversy Mr. Sheppard deined
to serve. The vacancy resided
until after the meeting of
le State board of education last
ionth and when the appointment
as announced Tuesday it was supjsed
that harmony once more pretiled.
The letter notifying Mr. Marn
of the appointment was as fol?ws:
on. O B. Martin, State Superintendent
of Education, Columbia,
S. C.
Pear Sir: I have appointed the
ou. Hayne F. Rice, Aiken, S. C.. as
member of the State hoard of edultion
to filll the unexpired term of
rof. J. E. Rolaud, resigned. Mr.
ice has taken great interest in
:hool matters for years, and I feel
ire that he will make a very useil
member of the board of educa
on.
Yours Very Truly.
M. F. Ansel, Governor.
Mr. Martin received this letter on
Wednesday morning and at once relied
with the letter published be>w.
In talking over the matter, he
lid that he did not wish to withdraw
om his educational work as he planed
it. He believed, however,
lat when the terms of the
resent board expired Gov. An?1
would appoint, lawyers or men
ho are not familiar with education1
work and thus interfere with the
ork of the educational department.
The announcement by Mr. Martin
!iat he would not be a candidate for
selection will probably cause a numer
of announcements to be issued
hortly. He was regarded as the
trongest man in the coming camaign
for the office and therefore his
rmoval will change the line-up conIderably.
So far only one man has
nnounced himself. E. C. Klmore of
partanburg, but several others are
poken of for entrance.
Mr. Martin's letter to Gov. Ansel
ras as follows:
ion. M F. Ansel, Governor, Columbia.
S. C.
Dear Sir: Your letter notifying me
f the appointment of Mr. H. F.
Lice of the Aiken bar as a member
f the State l>onrd of education was
romptly received. So you have suceeded
in appointing a lawyer and
Iso in not consulting the officer who
i responsible to the people for the
onduct of the educational affairs of
he State. I wish that it were posible
for me to think of your action
11 this whole matter other than as
mall-minded, officious and perniiotis.
I prefer to think of the govrnor
of my State as liberal minded,
otential and statesmanly.
I note that you say that Mr. Rice
ias taken an interest in school maters.
Likewise many of our school
nen have taken an interest in law
?ut it does not follow that they
hould be put upon the supreme
>ench. They are hardly competent to
ixamine applicants for admission to
he bar and to discharge the numerous
complicated but tecnical duties of
he supreme court.
To take a charitable view of the
lituation 1 believe you utterly fail
o grasp the duties of a member of
he State board of education. Some
ime ago when you made your second
ippointment of a lawyer on this
>oard. I characterized your action
with such language as seemed at that
ime appropriate, I applied the milliard
plaster which afterwards seemed
ather pungent. The conclusion is
aow hearing down upon me that you
ire furnishing a concrete exemplification
of the characterization above
referred to. The appointee whom I
ihall designate as lawyer No. 2 happened
to be too broad-gauged a man
to accept any appointment in a department
whose head had been ignored.
Appointee lawyer No. 3, "Prof."
Rice of Aiken bar, may he of a similar
calibre but if I am to believe the
report given to the press concerning
BADLY FOOLED.
A Young Woman Became Engaged
to a Man She
Had Xever Seen nud Went to l^ake
)
Park, tin., to .Marry Him und
Found Her Intended a Negro.
A dispatch from Valdosta, Ga.,
says the spectacle of an intelligent
and good looking white woman coming
2,000 miles to nierrj' a man
whom she founa to he a negro has
greatly exercised the people of I^ake
Park. Ga. Information of the affair
reached Valdosta Thursday.
On Saturday afternoon there alighted
from a Georgia Southern and
Florida train at Park Lake a young
woman who was a stranger to the
people there, and who. afte.- awaiting
around the station some time, as
if expecting some one to meet her
ventured to inquire of bystanders, if
they knew Rev. J. J. Roberts.
The man first appealed to thought
a few moments and finally confessed
that he did not know of any one by
that name in the town. Another party
told the lady that the only J. J.
Roberts in the town was a negro
preacher known locally at "RurntEyed
Jake," who got his name from
the fact that he had lost one eye in a
fire.
The lady was escorted to the Lake
Park hotel by some of the sympathetic
citizens, and it was there that
she told her story. She said her
home was in Vermont. Some months
ago she began a correspondence with
Rev. J. J. Roberts, of I^ake Park
getting in communication with him
through a matrimonial paper or correspondence
bureau.
She had become engaged to him
and he had sent her money to pay
her way to Georgia, where they were
to marry. She fearlessly began the
long journey, believing that her affianced
was, of course, a white man,
and one prominent iu his section.
After hearing her story citizens of
the town went out to look for the
negro, and he appeared as greatly
surprised as the wotnnn had been
He admitted that he had been corresponding
with a lady in Vermont,
but thought she was a "cullud lady."
He protested that he had never
dreamed of his correspondent being
a white lady.
The citizens of Lake Park were
very gpnorous in ineir proners 01 assistance
to Miss Mlddleton. and will
aid her in returning to her home If
she needs assistance.
I'RKACHEH WHO EI/OPED
With a Married Woman IK'clami to
lie Deranged.
The Rev. Maxwell Walenta, pastor
of St. Lucas's German Evangelical
Lutheran church, Sutton street, Williamsburg,
N. Y., and his affinity,
young Mrs. Dora Mauer, were arraigned
in the Manhattan avenue police
court.
The case resulted in the discharge |
of the prisoners, with, the preacher
consenting to accompany his father,
an aged minister, to the Brooklyn supreme
court, where he confessed his
willingness to be sent to a sanitarium.
Young Mrs. Raur wus taken by
her lawyer to the home of an aunt,
to live. But as her aunt took her
away, she cried:
"I will always love Mr. Walenta
and when he call me, I will go to
him. I will love him to the end of
the world. I will love him as no man
was ever loved before, and although
we may never meet again, 1 will keep
nn Invintr hint until tho nti/l !*%-?** "
his appointment I should say that he
is at least ambiguous, amphibious,
ambidextrous, uhiquitious and indeterminate.
These characteristics may
appeal to you. As you perhaps know
you have next year the appointment
of the remaining members of the
State board of education with the exception
of the secretary who holds
the position ex officio as State superintendent
of education and I have
the supreme satisfaction of knowing
that 1 do not have to sit with them
nor be bound by their actions. I wish
to give yo i the pleasure of knowing
here and now that I shall not be a
member of that board any longer
than is necessary for me to discharge
my duty and obligations to the people
of South Carolina. For two terms I
have been elected State superintendent
of education without opposition
I have discharged my duties fearless
ly and vigorously. I feel the satisfaction
of having done some good for
my people. I shall not ask for reelection.
I mention this in order that
you may indulge and cherish the fond
hope of getting a satellite of your
own ilk. I am somewhat in the pos^
ition of the old negro woman who
went into a dry goods store and asked
for three yards of red ribbon. The
clerk was very bow-legged. He staged
across the store and said: "WalM
this way." The old woman said, "No
sir! I'll do without the ribbon before
I'll walk dat way " And I'll do with
out my ribbon before I'll walk you.
way. Sincerely yonrs.
4 O. B. Martlu.
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GRAND OVATION
Given William Jennings Bryan
People of Spartanburg.
LECTURED AT NIGHT
On "the Prince of Peace" in lh?
Itaptist Church to Kightecn Hundred
People?The Most Ilrilllant
Audience That Kver Assembled ir
Spai-tanburg, Not Excepting the
Music Festivul.
In speaking; of the visit of the Hon.
William Jennings IJryan to Spartan
burp on Inst Friday the correspondent
at that place of The State gives the
following account of the honors paid
the distinguished gentleman by the
people of Spartanburg. The correspondent
says:
This day has been largely given
over by the people of Spartanburg to
the entertainment of their distinguished
guest, William Jennings Bryan.
During the morning the ladies
of the city gave their time and attention
to making beautiful the interior
of the Y. M. C. A. hall, where at 5
o'clock this afternoon a public reception
was given in Mr. Bryan's honor
attended by fully 2,000 persons, with
whom the Nebraskan shook hands
and greeted with that broad smile so
characteristic of the man.
Tonight Mr. llr.van addressed an
audience of 1,800 people in the auditorium
in the First Baptist church,
delivering his lecture, "The Prince of
Peace,' He was presented to his audience
by Dr. Henry Nelson Synder.
president of Wofford College.
This day has been ideal and tonight
was perfect, in great contrast
with the weather conditions which
greeted Mr. Bryan here three years
ago when a terrific rain prevailed and
the crowd that heard him wns small.
A wreck on the Southern railway
delayed Mr. Bryan's arrival two
hours and a brief stop at Gnffney between
sections of his train added
another half hour to the time. The
crowd in Spartanburg had to wait,
thus putting him here a few minutes
before four o'clock. At the station
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shook hands with him before his carriage
left the depot, carrying him to
the home of Prof. Game well on Wofford
campus.
In the hour he spent there before
going to the reception in his honor
he received a State representative
and talked of his recent trip in North
Carolina. When asked if he would
tie a candidate for the Democratic
nomination in 1908 he smiled and replied:
Now. young man, you are getting
on dangerous ground," and declared
that he would have something
definite to say along that line later in
the fail.
The reception of Mr. Bryan this afternoon
was the most largely attended
event of its character ever held in
Spartanburg. The great company of
citizens and people from the county
who passed in line to grasp the hand
of their guest being augmented by a
line of ."00 young ladies from Converse
college and fully as many Wofford
students.
Those in the receiving line were:
Senator and Mrs. Howard Carlisle.
Mr. and Mrs.. Stolio Simpson.
Dr. and Mrs. Henry Nelson Snyder.
Dr. and Mrs. John S. Wntkins.
Ml', ana mrs. jonn n. v^iev^mun.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Payne Pell.
Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Roper.
Mr. and Mrs. John Gary Evans.
Prof, and Mrs. D. A. DuPre.
Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Massabeau.
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Jones.
Prof, and Mrs. John G. Clinkscales.
Mr. and Mrs. George Nicholls.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Simpson.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren DuPre.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. F. Chapman.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Burnett.
Congressman and Mrs. Joseph T.
Johnson.
Judge ancrMrs. D. E. Hydrick.
Tonight Mr. Bryan's audience in
the First Baptist church was one of
the most brilliant ever gathered in
the city not excepting the great festival
crowds. He did not leave the
text of his lecture upon Christ as the
Price of Peace, and only in the briefest
way spoke of things politcal and
the problems of government.
The address is a powerful sermon
upon religion as the basis of all government
and the idea that hv a man's
service to the world is his greatness
measured.
Speaks at Gaffney.
A dispatch to The State sayH Hon.
J. C. Otts, representing Gaffney's
hoard of trade, and J. R. Bell, ropro
senting the city of GafTney, left
i for Charlotte Thursday night to meet
Mr. Bryan and escort him to Gaftney
> where he spoke.
Mr. Bryan spoke for twenty min;
utes at GafTney Friday while on his
, way to Spartanburg between trains.
? More than 1.000 people heard the
great commoner. A large number of
people crowded around the train to
shake his hand after be had finished
peaking.
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