Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SOME HOT SHOT Fron Governor Coleman L. Blease at the Press of the State SAYS IT OPPOSED HIM What the New Governor Had to Say About the Newspaper* of South Carolina in llis Inaugural Addreaa When Inducted In Office Last Tuesday. The following Is what Governor lease had to say about the press In his inaugural address: 'At the campaign meeting at Florence In 1910 I said: "I notice in the editorial columns of The State newspaper of this day, 'We shall in a day or two have something to say in regard to the candidacy of Candidate Rleaso that will not be regarded as endorsement.' I believe that the people of South Carolina are In favor of fair play, and I now request and invite the man who wrote that article to come on the rostrum at Columbia, at the State campaign meeting at Columbia, next Saturday, August 6th, and have hia 'something to say in regard to the candidacy of Candidate niease,' to my face, where I can and will have the opportunity to make reply. And if he declines this, then I demand that he name a time and place where he will agree j to meet me face to face and make his statement. Two years ago this paper published articles about me, and ; when my friends sent replies to these articles, the publishers of the piper j refused to publish them, thus cutting j me oft from any opportunity to prove j their statements false to the readers of their papers. A brave man comes ' out in the open and fights face to , face; a coward lurks in the dark, or hides behind his editorial desk, and. assassin-like, strikes from behind. To which class does the writer of this article belong? Hla future actions will show.' " At the campaign meeting In Columbia on August 6 I repeated the statement as made at Florence, and called for the writer to appear. He failed to do so. and 1 repeated the question, "To which class does the writer of this article belong??and said, "He Is a coward." I do not believe that It would be possible for any other man ever to have to undergo the vituperation and abuse from the press that. I had. And why did I have It? Because of my professional connection with a noted criminal ease In this State. I most respectfully recommend that you gentlemen of the general assemoly pass at thi3 session an act providing that any newspaper editor or reporter who shnll publish, or cause to bo published, any article reflecting upon the private character or the public record of any citizen of this State, which Is not true, shall be punished by a fine and Imprisonment. An act of this character, in my opinion, will save much hitter feeling, and possibly bloodshed. In future campaigns In our State. I beg leave In this connection to call your attention to a leading editorial in the Newberry Herald and News of September 9, 1910, which Is as follews: 'The Menace." "It Is a good subject at this par mumi iimo, nun n? importance nan been driven home. "The people of South Carolina are menaced. "The menace Is unfair newspaper methods. "The Columbia State of Thursday carried on its first pane a cartoon of Mr. Cole L. Rlease, over the label. 'The Menace.' "The Columbia State knew at the time the cartoon was published that It was as unfair as it was false. The Columbia State know when the cartoon was designed that It was misleading and false. The Columbia State knew that the publication of the cartoon had for its object the niis'pading of the voters of South Carolina, and was, therefore, maliciously false, and was a malicious slander of a man who led all the rest of the candidates and received .10 per cent of the votes of the State. is 1 that not an intentional and gross insult to ono-third of the voters of tide State? ( "Mis side will have no showing in the Columbia State. No reply will be allowed. "That is The Columbia State's method. "That Is the menace.' "The Columbia State has a large circulation. There are people who read The State and who do not see i the other side, because The State does not print the other side. "That is 'the menace.' "Hefore the first primary the News and Courier, the Columbia Record and other newspapers in South Carolina were charging The Columbia State with unfairness, and, in fact, with malicious falsehood. "Simply because these newspapers now agree with The Stato's policy in the cubernatorlal race, wiil they keep silent under the same conditions which existed when they brought their charges against The Columbia State?because, forsooth, then The Columbia Stat? was going against the grain and now it is cutting along with It? . "Surely the manhood of the newspapers of South Carolina la not a thing of the past. "The newspapers of South Carolina have in the past wielded a wonderful Influence. It Is because they have made for themselves a reputation of fairness, and, presenting both sides, have urged the claima of the aide which the newspapers thought would be for the lntereets of the State of South Carolina. "The course which some of them are aow pursuing may help the men of their choice In this particular race ?though we doubt It?but the pro leatnun suiters. "Why not give everybody a 'square deal?' "The Columbia Staie, ior Instance, and other autl-Blease newspapers will reprint in their news columns comments favorable to Mr. Featheretone, but Ignore anything favorable to Mr. Blease. That la 'newspaper' business with a vengeance. "So far as The Herald and News is concerned, wo delight in being ignored by The Columbia State?or boycotted, or put on the famoas 'black list, as you please?but what we started out to say waa that the cartoon In The Columbia State Thursday morning waa the limit downward In newspaper business as we havo observed It. "The days of factionalism and personal prejudice in South Carolina are happily over, and we believe that the people of South Carolina, when the matter is brought to their attention, will resent under-hand and below-the-belt methods. "For that reason, which is creditable to the people of South Carolina, we believe Tho Columbia State and other newspapers who are taking unfair advantage of Mr. Bleaae in this race aro doing him more good than harm. "It 1s not for Blease that we mourn, but for the newspaper profession. " 'The menace'?the real menace? will be met by tho people of South Carolina, as they have met all other questions. "During the campaign and be'ore the first primary election. The Columbia State made a strong fight in an argumentative manner against Mr. Feathorstone and thereby brought down the wrath of a la ge majority of the papers of South Carolina charging it with 'unfairness.' They had practically nothing to say alrout Mr. Blease, he having distinctly defied them to make their charges, if any they had, to his face. They failed to do so. Now they are making one of .he ugliest and most slan UV IUUD vauipaiKIIB itglllllBl Mr. l>IC.~liC that has ev?r been waged in the State of South Carolina. What do tho newspapers think of this fight at this time? Is it fair? Mr. Blease and his friends have no manner now in wTiich to answer them for they will publish nothing favorable to Ttlease; he can not answer it on the stump, the campaign Is over." And aleo an article from the Shreveport, La., Journal, of Septemi>er, 1910: "Speaking of Tho News and Courier, the election was a striking example of the wonderful 'power of the press' to mould public opinion. Every newspaper in the State, with an exception of two country weekl'ea supported Featherstone and called llleaBe out of his name. They succeeded in making the people believe Hleaso a regular Satan in one respect ... A newspaper possesses power to direct public opinion only to the extent of Its Independence, its honesty and its impartiality. These three things are hard to find in combination in a newspaper of today." And also an article from the Edgefield Chronicle: "We do not join hands in the avalanche of abuse that has been heaped upon the head of the governor-elect. If personality was the issue, how sad a reflection on Mr. Featherstone that he could not carry his own county, w'hllo Illeasc carried his by a substantial majority." And also a comment from tho Columbia Daily Record: /'Disliking to do so, for obvious rn.uiinc vnt T v,o ?i ' /. V . nv; nl'iuiu IHIW IIMMS constrained to say, as a supporter of Fratherstono and an opponent of niease, that the repulsive cartoon in The State of Thursday, portraying Hlease as a vulture, is offensive to tho sense of decency and fairness." And an article from the Macon, (la., Telegraph, of September 25, 1910: "There Is a citizen over in South Carolina by the name of Blease, who has done a remarkable tiling. Tho readers of almost any South Carolina newspaper a week or two aRo would have found Rood reason for the bleief that Illeaso was everything that was bad or undesirable, to say the least; that in expressing a desire to become governor he hail shown unpardonable presumption: that his candidacy was a fit subject for jest, and that he had not the ghost of a chance. The Charleston News and Courier contemptuously reported the fact that onlv three newspapers in tho whole Stale hail ventured to endorse tho candidacy of Mr. Rlease. All the dailies, large and small, the religious papers, nondescript and what not, thund re.; at Rlease continually. Moreover he was bombarded front tho pulpit. . . . ' And an article from the New Orleans Picayune of September 14, 1910: "The vote today hinged very largely on the personality of the two candidates for governor. In the Inter WOMEN IN TRAGEDY ONE vSHOOTS ANOTHER TO DEATH WITH A REVOLVER. Mrs. T. Brooks, Wife of a Prominent Lawyer, Shoots Mrs. Mary Ilinford, a Saleswoman, Fatally. Shooting with the coolness and skill of a native l>orn Texan. Mrs. 1. IM. Brooks, wife of a prominent Furl Worth attorney. Tuesday afternoon fired five ixillets from a .38 calihre revolver into the body of Mrs. Maiy BInford, department manager of a I local dry goods store. All of the bullets went true, death resulting almost instantly. Both Mrs. Brooks and her husband refuse to make statements that would lead to the cause of the shooting. The shooting occurred on the second floor of the establishment, where Mrs. Binford was employed. Making her way throuch the lower floor, Mrs. Brooks smilingly bowed and stopped to chat with acquaintances. As sne stepped from the elevator, Mrs. Brooks inquired for Mrs. Binford and as the latter appeared. Mrs Brooks drew an old fashioned revolver from her muff. The women grappled. Mrs. Brooks finally freeing herself and forcing the other woman against the wall. In the souffle the weapon was discharged, the bullet ploughing its way through Mrs. Binford's hand. With her victim at bay, Mrs. Brooks stepped backward and fired four times, each time aiming at her adversary's head. The second ball struck Mrs. Binford in the left shoulder and the third one one inch higher, and the fourth entering the base of the neck, severing the spinal vertebrae. Before the woman fell to the floor Mrs. Brooks fired again, and this time the ball struck Mrs. Blnford behind the ear and came out through the top of her 'head. Shoppers witnessing the tragedy were hysterical. Making her way through the crowd. Mrs. Brooks went to the office of her husband, two blocks distant. As she handed the revolver to Mr. Brooks she said: "I am sorry," and then fainted. The waist worn by the dead woman caught fire from the flames of the revolver's muzzle and the body was badly burned before clerks regained their presence of mind and extinguished the flames. Before securing a divorce from her husband, about two years ago. Mrs. Blnford was wealthy and very popular. Mrs. Brooks and her husband are also well known. Mrs. Brooks waived preliminary trial before a justice of the peace and readily furnished bond In the sum of $10,000 to guarantee her appearance Tuesday morning, when an examination will be held. TAKES ISSl'K WITH HIM. Prof. Wilcox's 11aby Declaration Stirs I'p a Ilow. Prof. Walter F. Wilcox, of Cornell, who predicted the other day that there would be no more babies after 201 5, has awakened a rather stirring sociological discussion among New York's club women. Mrs. Clarence Rums, president of "The Little Mothers' Association," an organisation supported by society women, which provides for the mre of the small children of poor families, the mother of which Is obliged to work, takes isaue with the pedagogue and figuratively says he is a blithering, blooming romancer. "It is evident that Prof. Wilcox ia not familiar with the conditions among American families on the East Side," said Mrs. Burns. "You see, the average family has from five to eleven children. But I must say t'nat 1 believe that nowadays the average parent looks to quality rather than quantity. There was a time, say about twenty or thirty yearB ago, when the mother of the poor class thought nothing of having from thirteen to fourteen children. They do not It n ? 1 ijinic no in*uj now, nowover. "I must take exception to the learned professor's statement and say that 1 do not believe that there will be a dearth of children In 2015( although I have never gone into the matter from ?a mathematical standpoint. It 's a very simple matter to prove almost anything, however, by statistics, and I do not doubt but from that angle Prof. Wilcox is right." According to Prof. Wilcox there will be no babies left in the United States after 2015, and if we want any wo will have to bring them from abroad, the same as we now import Parisian gowns and other finery. * Crushed by Concrete. At Norfolk, Va? caught under ten tons of concrete, with the collapse to- j day of the cable house, on the roof of a six-etory building. Wm. A. JohnBon, aged .15, and James A. Morris, aged 3 2, carpenters, were instantly killed. Both men leave families. val between the two primaries the press of the State made a strenuous flght upon Blease, attacking his record as a legislator, attorney, anil even as a private citizen. Kvery dally and all but two weekly newspapers were aligned against him. . WILL NOT DOWN. White and Negro Childrea in the Same School Caoset Trouble. DEMAND IT BE CHANGED Row B? <.;an by a White Girl Refusing to Dance With a N'pijro Hoy, and the Teacher Compelling Her to lh> So Against the Wittbo.? of tlio Girl's Fat Iter. The New York World says because two or three little girls at recess gathered around 12-year-old Beatrice (Jhapmann and chanted "Oh, for sham*! You danced with a negro!" the village of Flushing is excitedly discussing the color question, and a movement was started Tli'ursday to segregate the negro children in the public schools. There are 500 colored children among the 7.000 pupils in old Flushing. In the folk danceB and games in school colored children have danced with white children ever since dancing was taught in the schools, and no parent ever thought of objecting to a little colored boy dancing with a white girl or a white boy dancing with a colored girl until Wednesday, when some of her companions in the !,iticoln School poked fun at little Beatrice. She went home and told her father, Charles E. Chapman. He told hia daughter to tell the teacher that thereafter she wa? not to dance with colored children. She says the teacher answered: "Oh. it's too bad about you." "I have nothing against the colored race and I bolleve that it should l>e educated," said Mr. Chapman, "but I think that the two races should be educated seperately for the good of both. Discussion of the reaaon does no good to any one. I do not blame the young teacher who told my daughter to dance with 13-yearold Charlie Davla. She was following the rules of the Board of Edu ration, I suppose. Rut the board should do something to remedy the condition. I would suggest separate class room for colored and white children, "specially after eight years of age. I did not give publicity to the matter. A friend of mine, T. J. Rurnett, heard of it and brousht it up in the meeting of the Flushing Association. It caused a sensation." The Flushing Association appointed a committee consisting of A. E. Sholes. William R. Parsons, Richmond Weed, John R. Vandewater and T. Jefferson Rurnett to investigate and take it up with the Roard of Education. Mr. Sholes, the Chairmen, a veteran of the civil war. born in V.hods Island, and who lived in the ^outh thirty years after the close of the war, said: "There is no doubt that it would be a good thing to send the Hve or six hundred children to colored public echools if it could be done We have .tome very good colored people her* and the public schools are as much theirs as they are ours' hut it would be to their own good to be educated In schools where there would be r.o race feeling to detract the'r attention from study. They would Iihvc as good scheols as the white schildren. "With our constantly growing population it seems beet to avoid race 'eeling as much as possible, and this would be done, it seems to me. by following the action of Jamaica and establishing aeperate achools." The matter was dismissed thoroughly in m.'St Flnshing homes and will be taken up in some of the women's c.luba. Mrs. Heard, wife of Dan Heard, the naturalist and author. said: "It is a difficult problem. YearH ago, before Flushing became a part of Greater New York, the colored children were segregated, and this same Lincoln School, which my husband named, then in the old building. wae a colored school and had colored teachers la some instance*. They were very good teacher*, too. "The thing to do is to separate the races and give good schools to each. Then there will not occur these annoyances and both races will be benefited by their school life." Little Heatrice Chapman said: "1 do not dislike Charlie Davis, the colored boy. I have nothing agnlnst him. He vu never rude to me or to any one else that I know of. But I didn't want to he singled out by the girls as a laughing stock because of it. At first I told the teacher that I had a pain in my side and didn't want to dance. I thought that a polite way to get out of it. But she made me. I think It would be much nicer If white children dnnced together and colored children together." Man Severed His Own Arm. To save his life, Charles Deaton, a farmer of Champalvn county, O., cut off hie arm with a pocket knife. He had been caught in a corn shredder and his companions found they were unable to release the arm w'thouc taking the machine apart. Knowing that he would bleed to death before this could ne done, Deaton as^el f?'a pockot knife and coolly amputafo 1 the Imprisoned member. BRYAN FOR CLARK. IIIH CLOSE FRIEND MAKES SI(- S NIFICAN'' wiBCH. Ho Wnrns I)piii?cr?t? ilul llryan In Still n Rower Id the Party nml Still a Factor. A Washington dispatch says Deni UV1MV.IV CUUVUI O CftllVi irjM cot" lil JllV l.'? (>| who attended the Jackson da/ ban- w qust in Baltimore wore discussing ]< with unusual Interest Thursday th* w significance of a warning note which i> came from former Representatlvi V Theodore Bell, of California, recog- ii nixed a? the representative of W'l- a 11am Jennings Ilryan. t? Mr. Bell did not attempt to Btart Ii a Bryan hoorn; In fact, he eliminated the Nebraakan from any further eon- h elderatlon as the Democratic mm I- h nes either In 1?13 or any succeeding n presidential year. "Fate undoubtedly has decreed." Tl he aald, "that Mr. Bryan shall not be si nominated a fourth time and that a he shall never be elected president li of the United States." <l But Mr. Bell warned his hearers tl that If they were seeking a harmony y which might bring about future t< Democratic success, they must not si continue a policy which omitted Mr. li Rryan from consideration as a lead- a er In the party councils. Mr. Bell T declared that the affections of mil- 0 lions still were centered sn Bryan and that his views must be given the w moat serious consider*-, on. o Previous to bis references to Mr. n Bryan, Mr. Bell had taken oil slon b to pay g hlgn tribute to Champ ClatU d as a man 'u whom the middle and n the far west hid implicit conl-leime ' Tie did not go so far us to name Mr. Clark for ihe presidency, but by ^ inference his meaning was clear nr 1 there are many presidential watch- S( era In Washington who regard th< incident as the lining up of Ihe Bryan element In the pa^ty hj'ji.nt Mr '' Clark, as against Governor Harmon, 1' Governor Wilson, or any of the oth- " era who have been mentioned fo s1 the Democratic leadership. Another factor to which "ntten- ' tlon haa been called Is that Champ 1 Clark is like Governor Wilson, of New Jersey, by birth a southernor 1 lie wns horn In Anderson county. vv Ky. T.Ike Wilson, he was also a col- 'J lege president before entering polltica. t c n PRESIDENT F1NI.EY APPROVES. 11 tl S' lie Wnnfs Columbia to Hn\e Nation- \ al Corn Show. u 1! Editor Gonzales, of The State, li writes as follows to his paper from Washington: W. W. Finley. president of the Southern Railway, earnestly ftp- () proves the efTort of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce to bring the next national corn exposition to Columbia. "The spirit of enterprise manifested by the people of South xv Carolina in corn growing and of Co- " lumbia in reaching out after this ex- n position is splendid. It is encouraginc. We must keep up this sort of ? thing. I want to help." Unfortunately for Columbia and " South Carolina 'he laws stand in the ? way of free cars or free tickets for a u party of Columbia boosters to get to " lumbus, Oiiio, but the Chamber of " Commerce can lie assured of a contribution to the cause from President ? Finley. And it will be made whether the campaign is conducted by mail, wire or a movement in force on Co- n lumhus. ? Will Columbia do the rest? ? THEY DIVIDER THKIK LOOT. fr . S Robbers Had Money Spread Out on 11 c< Red anil Chairs. \] The tale of a negro bellman at a | Hot Springs, Ark., hetel of great () lilies of money lying about a room (. led to the arrest of Charlefi H. Everett. charged with having secured t $1,800 from the People'* Savings hank of Seattle, and for whom deteellvao V? ^ ~ ? aV V, uirn null ucril nrnillllllK Llirwllgll it half dozen States. Four men occupied a room, according to the negro. and when he was summoned to bring them liquid refreshments he saw huge stacks of bills distributed on t.he bed and chairs. When the police arrived fhe men tiau disappeared, but memorandums were found showing that various groups of figures, in the aggregate $286,000, had been di- v vided into four parts. Circulars 1 brought bank detectives he-e post ' haste and the arrest of Eveteit, who '' had engaged the hotel apartments. ' followed. . . , Ji Takes a Fatal Ix?ap. At St. Louis H. E. Whitmore, aged 68. leaped from a window in the eighth story of the Marquette Hotel 'f to the pavement below, killing hint- 11 Belf Instantly. Despondency over his ? continued illness and the death of '' his wife is given as the cause 'or the act. Whitmore was a member of '* one or the wealthiest and best known St. Louis families. Four IVopIo Killed. H At Niobrara. Neb., an explosion '' of the gas lighting plant occurred at the 11 u )>l>ard Mouse. The dead are: w Mike Kindall, Annie Duseka, Ken- '' neth KlndaJl, R. F. Crosby. " I* GAVE UP JflFE ACRIFICE OX THE ALTAR OK" LOVE HE LIVES HYING. nve llcr l"p to Her Former Sweetheart ami He (ioe? to the Hospital to Hie. His great act of self-sacrifice aconiplished by giving up the English ife he loved to the man she loved, wunisan Tnomata. the son of a ealthv Japanese of Tokyo, is dying 1 the charity hospital at Vicksburg. liss., of a broken heart and a wasttg disease, while his former wife nd the man she married are, by nder attention, trying to make his ist hours easier. With the stoicism of the oriental, e suffers and savs nothing, but beind his suffering lies a strange rolftnop Almost a decade ago Helen A. Itint, whose father was mayor of a mall town near London, England, nd well-to-do, loved a young Engshnun named James Gibson. A uarrel with her sweetheart caused te girl to come to America. Eight ears ago she found herself In Mosul penniless. While working In the tore of M. Yamataro there she met nomata. The Japanese loved her nd his gentle ways won Miss Hunt, hey were married and went to New rlea ns. The girl fell ill and Inomata orked night and day to make nough money to pay doctors' hills nd hospital fees. His own health ecame undermined and he became espondont. Some months ago, hile Inomata and his wife were in ackson. Miss., on business, she met ihson, he, too. having come to inerica. On sight of him the girl eclared she still loved him and Gih>ii swore that he had loved her al ays. After days of silent anguish. Mrs. U nomata confessed to her husband fl hat she loved Gibson. The Japanese stened with stoical silence to the flj lory and abruptly left his wife to link it over. On his return to their ^ oarding house in New Orleans, lno- ' lata said to his wife: 'I am failing in health. You go to ackson, bring suit for divorce and I ill not oppose it. 1 will say noihlg. Then go and marry this Engshman you love." The girl followed his advice. On lecember ;>, accompanied by the inn who had been her husband, and tie man who had been her by-gone weet heart, the woman came to 'ickshurg. Here she and Gibson ere married. That night Inomata. tie Huskin of Japan, went to the ospital to die. * MOltE MOLKLK TltAt'K LAID. ii Southern System HPtwrcn Washi nut on and Atlanta. The Sfouthern Railway company ill soruro an addition of praetica'ly >n miles to the double track on its tain line between Washing'on and tlanta by the construction o' a secnd track just authorized south of ranklin Junction. Va. The n^w *ack will he connected with ;ho .-tend track urcady laid to Whr.i-y, liich has ..ever been used. When le new strcf.i is completed th" five tiles of single track between I tankn Junction and Sycamore w '.1 le uprated a.-; : gauntlet under absoite block, tnus giving all the proactive features of double tr.i?k, :s o train will he permitted to enter Ithcr end of the gauntlet while anther is on it. The 28-mile stretch of doublo aek extending from Montvlew to ycamore will be increased to a 50ille stretch !iy this addition and tho impletion of the 12 miles from [ontvlew tc. Monroe through Lyichurg, which is just going into serice. The construction of the secnd track just authorized in connecon with the double track now in so will add materially to the faoilllos for handling traffic over this uportant line. The completion of tho Lynchburg ltprovement gives the Southern 22 0 liles of double track out of the dis nce of f>48 miles between Washingr i ti on,I ..III I...i * - ......Ill will nil IIK lilt* IOIHI f double track on this important ighway of commerce to 2 4'.? miles. Ilnilrnndcr, Shot loJt Times, Sues. Charles Stein, a railroad employe, ,lio was mistaken as a member of lie gang that robl>od the Burlington iinited at Prescott, Wis., has sued hat city for $25,000, or $103.50 for acli of '.lie 163 shots fired into nis ody. He will recover from his inuries. Liquor CaiiHcd Killings. Liquor caused 258 out of 630 horn- :$? >ldes in Alabama during the last ao years, according to the report ^Bj f the attornov eenornl thin .n -J? luring the previous two years Hn ^ ;i11 caused 348 out <>f 656 kill- ^ Brothers Wed Three Sisters. B Three brothers, John. Henry nnd ^^8 ort Peek, anil three sisters. Nellie. <>,. :iii11 Anile Walker, wer th< ^B rldegroonts and brides at a triple redding, which took place at the onio of the brldo'H parents, at Araaahow, Okla, this week.