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1 Established 1891. BOUGHT POSTMASTERS HIP ? J. O. McElhaney Says He Paid 1 $50 lor jrori Min Ottice. "ihere wusu't anything surprising to uie in the newspaper ; j stories sent out from Wasiungton ( a lew days ago telling that bena- , tor Dial was opposing the eont'ir- j niuuon of Joe VV. Tolbert us mar- j hal for the western district of ( South Carolina on the ground t t.? at ttie itepuoncan organization ; :n ihis State, of which Tolbert is ? chairman, had usscssed postmas- \ ters and other federal office-hold- ] era who have been appointed ( through the organization's influ- 4 ence since Harding became presi- 1 dent," a day or two ago said J. j C. McElliaiiey, who was postmas- j ter of Fort Mill from July 1, 1921, to August-15 of the same year, j 441 secured the post mastership i of Fort Mill through the influence < of the Kepublicun organization," ] ^ continued Mr. McElhaney, 4'and 1 paid $50 for its assistance. The < money was sent by me to one of i the Kepublicun bosses in the State i who has since been uppointed to 1 and is now holding an impor- I tunt federal office. 1 had a con- 1 versution with this man before I was given the postmastership in i which he asked me if 1 would pay i $50 for the job. 1 told him 1 i would. He then directed me how < to send him the $50?not by post- 1 office money order or by bank* i check, but to purchase an express < money order for the amount and 1 to forward it to him-in that way. 1 This I did, and if the records of the express office in Kort Mill do not show that on April 1, 1921, I sent this man $50 it will be because the records are not there or hnve bene destroyed. "Here is the receipt I was given at the express office when 1 bought the money order," said Mr. McElhaney as he handed to The Times man a small slip of blue paper bearing the number A-60060G0. Beneath this number was printed the wording "American Express Oonmany Money Order. Remitter's Receipt; Keep This." The receipt is now in possession of The Times nnrl nn it is v/iitten in ink the name of a well < known South Carolina Republi- I can politician as the person to < whon the money order is said to * hae been sent. ? ? m> < Missionary Union Meeting. ] The Woman's Missionary union- ( of the York Baptist association < met. yesterday and aguin today j with the Fort Mill Baptist church. 1 A good representation from the various unions in the association ] and affiliated young people's so- ] cieties is present. Mrs. J. T. i Garrison is president of the un- ] ion and Miss Moselle Thomasson < is secreary. Among the speakers ] from a distance are Mrs. George < E. Davis of Orangeburg, superintendent of the South Carolina Y. 1 W. A., and Mrs. Maude McClure, 1 president of the Woman's Train- < ing school, Lousiville, Ky. , Wm. O. Olawson Dead. , "Wm. O. Clawson, son of Mr. , Tift Mpa -T Tl J 'lutimnn ?? ? *# \ tun nun, UICU ni j the home of his parents in Port j Mill on August 19. lie had been L iit for some time. lie was 35 , years old and had spent practi- t cally nil his life in this coinrauni- \ tv. Besides his parents, he is , survived by one brother and j three siste'ra. The interment was ^ in the Fort Mill city cemetery. , L Stewart Elected Senator. j In the race for the senatorship ( In Lancaster * county. Dr. . T. J. j H Strait, former congressman, was decisively beaten in the Demo cratic primary Tuesday by Roach { S. Stewart. In the name primary W W. P. Robinson and E. J. Horton were nominated for the house of j representatives. . In the election Tuesday Blease ' got 76.298 votes to 65,490 for MeLeod, 23,048 for T>aney. 8,745 for Coleman, 1,795 for Duncan 1 and 1,338 for Cantey in the race 1 for governor. Blease and MeLeod will enter the second pri- ] mary on September vs. j J The comptroller general today ! 1 ordered the time for the payment < *\ of Btate and county taxe* extend- J \?d until September 15 without : * panalty. ?*>' \ * rHE F TODAY'S CRIME WAVE. Writer Claims Bar is Not Efficient or Honest. The United States is today being swamped by the greatest jrime w^ave in its history, says a writer in the Dearborn independent. Contempt for law by a portion of our population is only equaled by the indifference of he remainder. The average eitiseu pursues the daily record to exclaim: "It is terrible. Somehing ought to be done about it." But he . himself does nothing. Occasionally in some Southern or Western States citizens take the aw into their own hands and organizations such as the Ku Klux tvlan spring up. Crime and criminals we have always had. There are men and women whose diseased minds ?ausc them to nrev udoii fcoeietv. a - v ?ar ?~ v ~ l*ut criminals in the past to a arge' extent were isolated; their rimes were sporadic. Today there a an interwoven fabric of crime ;ovenng the continent. Crime has >ecome a business. Crime has taten a leaf from the book of big jusiness. Crime, which itself is defined is any violation of human or dii.e law, can be roughly divided nto crimes against property and ;rimes against man. These can >o subdivided into crimes of guile md crimes of violence. Crimes >f guile are compassed through rickery; crimes of violence by lie application of force. The first llmost in variably v leads to the leeond. A brainy crook will sellorn resort to violence, but for lie crook of low mentality it is he only resource. The success of naster crnnltK insnirtMi tlm InwiT ritninals to emulation in thi' only r, a liner of which they are ca>able. The center of crime is today, as t has always been, in the large ;ities. In these congested ceners of population, where no one cnows his neighbor's business, he criminal can work to better idvantage than in the country or smaller towns where all eyes are focused upon liim. In the cities jriminals of all degrees have gravitated into the very citadels :>f the officers whom society has .'hoscn to defend it. It is this discovery by criminals of the value >1 organization together with the laxity and indifference of the mineral public that causes the Rl'imo U'frVn nf '" I." "c . ?<v vi iwiuj iu or ui juch potential menace to the nation. From New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, Seattle, New -Orleans, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detioit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Kansas I'ity and many other cities- these rings of arch criminals radiute out to the surrounding country. Here we have rings of automobile thieves, bank robbers, bootlegyers. white slavers Hnn?? m?H. ? ? - 1 ?rw rv%* illers, bunco men, blackmailers ind even murderers. These rings, through liberal use of money and political influence, have corrupted members of the State, county and city police forces; have purchased the bar bind often reached the bench itself, until honest officials who really wish the law enforced find themselves helpless, their halt Is virtually tied.- Thus the public is left defenseless, at the mercy of the enemies of society. The press, which should sound the alarm sn.d awaken the lethargic public to its danger, usually extends its energies to exploiting the results but ignoring the basic cause. There is a remedy for this menacing state-"bf affairs, it is.an obvious remedy, ami a simple ?ne. If the members of the legal profession, if 50 pbr cent only of the members of he bar, would forget their private interests and devote themselves unreservedly to the public welfare, the crime wave could be wiped out in six months and future crime reduced to a minimum. The truth is that the bar, upon which the public depends for the proper administration of justice snd protection from those who flout the law, is no longer either efficient or honest Graft, mental snd moral' corruption, the greed for money and notoriety, the "let George do it'' spirit have / ORT ] i. m FORT MILL, 8. 0., TH ??r-mmmmm?mmm+mmmmmmjgj?? NEWS OF YORK COUNTY. Items of General Interest Found in the Yorkville Enquirer. Charged with killing her husband, Harper Williams, in Rock Hill Thursday night, Alma Wil* Hums was committed to jail on Friday. She has confessed the killing, accordiug to Sheriff Quinn. Miss Rachel Wylie, a teacher in the Yorkville ' graded school, Xif /xr? /I n *r 4 #*** ? /vf iviutiicu uiuituaj 11 uui a ivui wi Europe. She arrived in New York last Saturday on the steamer LaFrance. Other York county members of the party included Misses Helen Elliott O'Neal, Aletha Fennell, Mary O'Neal and Kate Whitner of Rock Hill. The first bale of new crop cotter offered on the Rock Hill market was sold in that city Saturday, Aug. 26, by Horace Brown, well known farmer living near Rock Hill. The cotton, which graded strict middling tinged, was bought by T. L. Johnson for 23 cents a pound. The bale weighed 495 pounds. Ira B. Ouulap, deceased president of the National Unioii bank of Rock llill, carried the largest amount of insurance of any South Carolinian who died last year, according to the Insurance Field, a national insurance magazine published in New York. The life of the late Mr. Dunlap was in *i;re<t for TO,000. Deed to the property on which Tirrah church is located as conveyed by John Carrel to the members of the congregation was filed for record in ^he office of the clerk of court Monday. The deed is 99 years old and the parchment on which it is written is yellow with age. while part of the writing is lost because of holes that have appeared in the paper through folding. So far there have been no eligi* ble applicants for the two fouryear scholarships to which York county is entitled at Clemson, tl)OK?> who tfUilr tllO avuminutiitn having failed to pans. The oneyear scholarship has been awarded to Wm. H. Grier of Fort Mill and the agricultural scholarship to B. R. Smith of York No. 1. The Citadel scholarship goes to Thos. O. McFarland of York No. 3. The congregation of the First Baptist church of Rock Hill has extended a call to Dr. Walter L. Alexander, now pastor of the Mentura Baptist church of Philadelphia, to become pastor of the Rock Hill church. The congregation is hoping that Dr. Alexander will accept the call, as the Rock Hill church has been without a pastor since the resignation of Dr. ,T. P. Tucker several months ago. Governor Harvev has revoked the parole granted some time ago tc Andrew (Buck) Adams, Rock Hill, who was convicted of grand larceny in July, 1920, and sentenced to serve two years on the roads. Adams was paroled by foi iner Governor R. A. Cooper. Adams, who is an ex-soldier and the son of a former superintendent of the Carhurtt mill at Rock Uill, is said to have recently been convicted of a crime in Chester county. While traveling into Hickory Grove Thursday with an automobile truck carrying six cows, Porter B: Good of the Bullock's Creek section was only slightly bruised when the truck rolled off a fill and tnrned over twice. Five of the six cows, it is said, were thrown out of the truck, while the sixth cow remained in the truck despite the fact that it turned over twice. One of the cows suffered a broken horn and it was deemed best to kill her. Tii>A ? nvuiyci jwiimuih who were with Mr. Good at the time of the accident were only slightly braised and the truck suffered only slight damage. Yes, Johnnie, flhihermen may refer to their profits as net earnings. Some people are so simple that .they look for a square deal in a political ring. brought it to a point where, instead of acting as a crime deterrent, it functions largely as a crime inciter. i '- V .';;/,.. f : . - * t ? ' Mill t URSBAY, AUGUST 31, 1922. Hi I i ll I I. f TOTE OF FORT BULL. Choioe Expressed for State and County Officer-. The vote of Fort Mill township m the Democratic primary Tuesday was off almost exactly onefourth from the total enrollment, there being only 368 votes east out of a possible 470, with something like 40 ballots going into the discard as a result of having been placed in the wrong box. One of the candidates for the hcuse of representatives suffered u considerable loss by reason of bis name being the only one left 011 the ballots for the office. For two or three hours after the polls opened at 8 a. m. it looked as if the managers of tne election would have their hands full .throughout the day, but the bulk of the vote had been cast before 1 o'clock. A number of automobiles were busy during the morning scurrying around to bring in voters, but these found little to do in the afternoon. The result of the vote in Fort Mill for the.county and State tickets follows: Congress?Stevenson 341. House of Representatives? Heumgiutrd 192, Bolin 75, Bradford 257, Carothers 120, Kennedy 75, Pursley 150, JSpratt 262, ThIlev KMi Treasurer?Douglas 30, Guy 34, Hart 68, Logun 40, Mrs. Quinu 47, Sheider 28, Thoinassoii 25, Williams 11, Willis 41. Auditor?Love 341. Superintendent of Education? Carroll 252, Slaughter 74. Supervisor?Boyd 128, Brown 78, Gordon 54, Latham 68. Judge of Probate?Cain 44, Gwinu 48, Houston 172, Smith 61. County Commissioners?Lumpkin 216, Kirkpatrick 178, Merritt 189, Shillinglaw 60. Governor?Blouse 211, Can toy 3, Coleman 7, Duncan 3, Lane> 41, MeLeod 66. Lieutenant Governor ? Adams 89, .Jackson 108, Owens 84. Secretary of State?Dove 120, Dozier 216. Attorney General ? Eubanks 113, Winter 37, Wolfe 177. ll n i i-v vuuipiiuiH'r vieucrai ? i;unciiii *269. Gooding 65. State Treasurer?Carter 336. Superintendent of Education? Mrs. Drake 65. Hope 67, Seay 15. Seigler 8, Swearingen 38, Mrs. Wallace 98. Adjutant General?Craig 100, Marshall 228. Commissioner of Agriculture? Harris 166, Wightman 154. Vote of York County. In the York county Democratic primary held Tuesday a total of 5.076 votes were cast, divided as follows among the various candidates; r Congress?Stevenson 43)06. House of Representatives ? Ream guard 3,260, Bolin 1,184 Bradford 3,017, Car others 2,394, Kennedy 2,039, Pursley 2,353, fr.ll * rnr. upan. 6,iuu, inuey i,oof. Treasurer ? Douglas 627. Guy 436, Hart 706. Logan 328. Mrs. Quinn 1,061, Sheider 349, Thomasson 849, Williams 266, Willis 174. Auditor?Love 4,768. Superintendent' of Education? Carroll 2,950, Slaughter 1,909. Supervisor?Boyd 1,401, Brown 1 868. Gordon 869, Latham 742. Judge of Probate?Cain 1,000, Gwinn 542, Houston 1,823, Smith 1,449. County Commissioners--Lumpkin 3.016, Kirkpatrick 2.972, Merrill 1.679, Shillinglaw 1,374. Beatnguard, Bradford a n*d Spratt are elected to the house, with a second race between Carol hers and Pursley necessary to Relect the fourth member of the delegation. The run-off for treasurer will be between Mrs.' Quinn and Thomasson. Carrol was chosen to succeed himself as county treasurer by a big majority. The race for county supervisor will be between Boyd and Brown. The result of Tuesday's vote calls for a run-off between Houston and Smith for judge of probate, and in the race for county .commissioners Lumpkin and Kirkp*tr\ck were chosen to succeed themselves. The eounty voted as follows for the candidates for State office: Governor?Bleaae 2,671, Can Time; ? POWER OF THE PRESS. Senator Sheppard Says Confess N Has Three Houses. Calling attention to the power of the press in a speech he delivered in the senate of the United States a few days ago. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas dupli-. cated the compliment paid newspaper men nearly a century ago in England. The original compliment, in which the term "Fourth Estate" was coined. y.*as made by Edmund Burke in the house of Parliament, according to Thomas Carlyle. Burke is said to have pointed to the press gallery of the most august assembly of Englishmen in the world, and declared in perfervid terms, 'There sits a bodv of men who form the fourth estate of this kingdom, equally as powerful as the other three." He referred to the nobles, the clergy and the commons as the three other estates.. Senator Sheppard's remarks as reported in a news dispatch follow : "The newspaper men who occupy seats in the press gallery of the American Congress are in effect a third house, a factor in American life of far reaching influence. The reports which they transmit to the American people are in large degree the foundation of public judgment and public action. "Their estimates becohie to no small extent the people's estimates, not in the way of mere echo or imitation, but because they convey to the country a conscientious and impartial analysis of governmental affairs. Years of contact with ofliciais of everv type of observation of human conduct in emergencies of every proportion, of devotion to the highest conceptions of their profession, have qualified them for the unmasking of pretense, the penetration of fraud, the rovealmeiit of truth for the sake of truth, and the maintenance of loyalty to the fact which no blandishment can shape, on temptation destroy." York Men Killed in Georgia. 1). P. Lattimore of Hickory drove, York county, was notified Monday morning that two of his sons, Bratcher Lattimore, ~28, and Dan Lattimore, 26, were shot and killed in Cainak, tia., by a railroad guard Sunday night. It seems that the two young men were going to the station to ... ? a? A _ .. ? iizwi it i itii it party 10 arrange a hunting trip when a railroad guard, who evidently mistook them for intruders, shot them down, one in the back and the other in the head. The man who i? believed to have done the shooting is under arrest. Dan Lattiinore had been in Camack for several years, being in iL 1 1 P I ine employ or a power company. His brother, Bratcher Lattimore,' was visiting him. Both were vetel aus of the World war and were well known throughout western York. The young men were cousins of J. M. Gamble of Fort Mill township. Parks Elected Magistrate. In the race for magistrate of Fort Mill township in the Democratic primary h(*ld Tuesday, E., S. Parks was nominated over the j incumbent, J. R. Haile, by a vote of 224 to 134. In the primary two years ago Mr. Haile defeated j Mr. Parks, who was then a can-1 didate for renomination,. by one vote. tey 26, Coleman 139, Duncan 38, Laney 540, McLeod 1,482. Lieutenant Governor ? Adams 1 058, .Jackson 1,185, Owens 2,174. j Secretary of State?Dove 1,715, l>orier .3,201! Adjutant General ? Kubanks 1 209. Winter 1,037, Wolfe 2,540. Comptroller General?Duncan 3,074, Good in? 1,761. Treasurer?Carter 4,736. Superintendent of Education*? j Mr*. Drake 1.614. Hope 2.775. i Scay 152, Seigler 92. Swear ingen 846. Mrs. Wallace 578. Adjutant General?Craig 2,021, Marshall 2,843. Commissioner of Agriculture? Harris 2,957, Wightman 1,155. s. $1.60 Per Year. 1 T SEEKING HIGH OFFICE. _______ \ Nine Women Selected to Run for Seats in Congress. In the 24 States that have thus far nominated candidates for the Congress of the United Staes, nine women have been selected by the major parties, one for the senate and eight for the house. Mrs. Peter Olesen. who was put up by the Democrats of Minnesota for the senate, continues as the only woman in the United States lo be nominated by one of the larger parties for the upper body of Coil ?'ri??S hull" k'unnittv who sought the Democratic nomination for the senate in the Mississippi primary last week, did not make much of a showing, although her several thousand supporters will hold the balance otpower in the run-off between the male candidates. In Wisconsin, Mrs. Hen llopper holds the unofficial Democratic indorsement for the senate anil her friends confidently predict hei nomination in September. Miss Alice Robinson of Oklahoma. the only woman member of the house at present and the second woman ever to hold member-..i.: ? -* i - i ? m;ij? in mm nouy, nas been renominated by the Repnblieans .of Iter district. In the event of Miss Robinson's reelection, she may have a woman companion in the next Congress in the_person of Mrs. Winifred Mason lluck of Illinois, whiP has been nominated by the Republicans of that State as Con rrossman-at-large, to succeed her father, the late Win. 10. Mason. A not her woman candidate with err,ml plinnnno ol.w?t ?/x?? ? A1 ?... . ....... . n <>i rivviiiru ir* IU I S. I.ouella St. Clair Moss who has beeu nominated by the Democrats of the Stli Missouri .district. Other women candidates for the house are Kathleen O'Keefe, Democrat. Kith Indiana district; iMrs. Lillian Cox (fault. Democrat, |.'lrd Minnesota; Ellen Dunne Da|vis and dune K. Leonard, both Democrats. 2nd and 27th Pennsylvania districts, respectively, and Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, Republican, *5th North Carolina district. Many Anderson Cars Sold. Evidence that business is improving throughout the country was demonstrated at a convention of dealers of the Anderson Motor company at the factory in Rock Hill last Friday evening when dealers eontructcd for practically the entire output of the factory for a year. In ten.minutes after the new model Anderson light ulumiiium six was shown contracts had been signed for 4,225 cars of this model alone. With dealers from the Pacific coast delayed, and with a capacity of 5,500 cars annually, an in( pouiiii Iii < I." - - 1 vavuov ill IIIU | ? I i I I I ( ir> COM I t'lllJJIU I ill to meet the demand. Of new ears, New York eon* tracted for 800 cars, Chicago 400 and a number of big cities 225 each. Dealers from all over the {country are reported enthusiastic over tile fact that the first Southern made automobile is fast gaining in popularity. Nebraska to Burn Corn. Farmers in Nebraska are not worrying about the strike of eoal miners. They are planning to load their old "barrel" stoves with ' corn, keep warm and save money. Burning corn has been successC. .11-- A-t ? iuiiv ineu uciore, Out it appears that this winter will see the first wholesale use ol" the new kind of fuel. Corn as fuel is eheaper than coal, the farmers say. Coal sells at about $15 a ton, while corn brings about 50 cents a bushel. It' is cheaper for the farmer to k...? u:.. ' .... 'in it him ci#i'ii i ii<i 11 TO IIHUI It tO the railroad, sell it anil then haul coal back to his farm. Besides, tiie coal supply will be uncertain this winter. Seven million, five hundred thousand acres in Nebraska are at work producing the State's fuel for the winter. The weather conditions out there .have been ideal for the Jast few weeks for corn growing and a bumper crop is expected. The tariff duty on hides will , show the ultimate consumer Where the shoe pinches. _