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. ?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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SEEKING HIGH OFFICE.
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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.:
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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
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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.
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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. _