Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

h ! — mmiiMwu*-- THE CHRONICLE Strives to be a clean newspaper, complete, newsy and reliable. II Yoti Don’t Read The Clinton Chronicle You Don’t Get The NEWS VOLUME m CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th, 1919 NUMBER 26 PUtEWH WANTED BE PEOPLE President Convinced Coun try Stands Together for the League of Nations. MURDER VERDICT IN BRAMLETT CASE CLASH AVERTED IN JUNE FIELDS On Board Pres. Wilson’s Spe cial Train, Sept. 10.—To a crowd which surrounded his private car today at Mandan, N. D., President Wilson declared a week of travel in the heart of the country had con- v;uml®htui. that 4he nation StffndJr sentenced to death by electrocution together for an international guar- *. i '* antee of peace. “I am glad to get out to see the real folks,” he said. “To feel the touch of their hands aud know as have come to know, how the nation Prominent Greenville Contractor Must Go to Chair for Killing Mother-In- Law Unless New Trial is Granted. Greenville, Sept 11.—A verdict of guilty, carrying the death sentence, was returned tonight by a sessions court jury in the case of Hugh T. Bramlett, contractor, a member of a prominent Greenville family, who was tried for the murder of his mother-in- law, Mrs. L. C. McHugh. Notice of a motion for a new trial was entered by counsel immediately after the pro nouncement of the verdist. Unless a new trial is granted either by a cir r cuit judge or ^is a result of an appeal to the supreme pouit Bramlfttfcr adti Charlestown, W. Va., Sept. 7.—The several thousand miners who took up march across country yesterday with the avowed-purpose of forcing non-union miners in Logan County to organise were prevailed upon today to desist in their efforts after almost the Ellipse in Washington, marking the start of the war department trip to San Francisco, is dedicated, Presi dent Wilson will deliver the address, the event to take place at the conven ience of the chief executive of the na tion. . __ hourly telephonic conferences through out the greater part of the day be tween Governor Cornwell In this city and Frank Keeny, president of Dis trict 17, United Mine Workers, the men were started back to their homes late this afternoon from Danville and Clothier at which points they had camped overnight They were brought back In special trains sent to the ren dezvous by the governor and the union officials said that all will return to work tomorrow morning. The men had taken up the march without in structions or counsel with President Keeny. Rumors and reports that are said to be false and misleading in- jadaeffl- ftftdr.wtth-on^ aes- tion of the little army It was the de termination to remedy the reported condition in Logan County. Some of the reports that reached the miners in • the Kanawha field were that women and children vtore being murdered by min^ guards in liOgan County and It was their determination to put a stop to it. Saturday morning President Keeny was cdlled upon by the gov ernor to go to the men who were at Danville, Boone County, and urge them to disperse and return to their homes. President Keeny notified the governor that the men had voted to return and upon that notification three "special trains were sent to bring the men back. It was expected that the men would-eoifce-back- at trains were on the scene at 1:30. ^It was 3:55 before the first train startejl away. In the meantime on the gov ernor’s desk was a telegram to Gen eral Wood at Chicago, who has hid two regiments of troops under waiting orders, at Camp Sherman for. 24 hoars. These troops were held under orders to move at a moment’s notice and juat when the governor was about to give up hope of a peaceful diapersing of the men President Keeny telephoned that the men were boarding the trains and would move out at once. Three hundred men, who are at Cllthler, nearby refused to board the trains and apid they would return as -^1 stands together in the common pur pose to complete what the boys did who carried their -guns with them over the sea. ‘‘We may think that they fin ished that .job, but they will tell you they did not,-that unless we see to it thtat peace is made secure they will have the job to do over again and we in the meantime will rest under a constant apprehension that we may have to sacrifice the flower of'our youth again. ‘‘The whole country has made up its mind what shall happen; and presently, after a reasonable time is allowed for unnecessary debate, we will get out of this period of doubt and unite the whole force and influence of the United States to steady the world in the lines of peace. And it will be the proudest thing and finest thing that America ever did. She was born to do these things and now she is going to do them.” The speech was cheered by the crowd, which included many In dians. Then a woman called out: ‘‘Where is Mrs. Wilson?” and the other took up the cry persist ently until the first lady of the land appeared. There were cheers for her and the Pre*id<|nt as the train pulled out. . At a number of other short stops during the jJay Mr. Wilson came out on the rear platform to shake hands, hut on the whole it was a day of rest while his train sped westward, across the North Dako ta plains. The only set speech dur ing the dtay was at Bismark, the state capital, during a two hour noonday stop and for the first time since he left Washington a week ago, there was no night addresses. The Presidential Special picked up a second engine late today as it began to climb into the Rockies on one of the longest continuous pulls of its ten thousand mile journey. The next scheduled stop after Bis mark was at Billings. Montana, where the President will speak to morrow morning. at the state penitentiary. The Jury deliberated only about an hour after a trial lasting eight days, which is the longest murder trial on record in the county and perhaps in the state. Scores of witnesses were ex amined and the defense staked all on the plea that Bramlett was insane when he shot his mother-in-law and sister-in-law at their home in Green ville on the night of June 18th, last Bramlett drove his sedan automobile to Mrs. McHugh’s home, stopped the car, bounded up the steps and fired three shots at Mrs. McHugh and daugh ter, leola. As he started back down the steps, he turned and fired another bullet into the prostrate form of his mother-in-law. A boarder sitting on the porch was not struck. Bramlett, tes^fying in his own be half said he remembered nothing of what happened at the McHugh home. He insisted he was justified* in killing children from a bondage of hatred, secuted him t and continually came be tween him and his wife and children. Around this story counsel built the defense of insanity, and among the ex perts who testified that Bramlett was Insane, suffering from paranoia were Dr: J. W. Babcock, for twenty-five years superintendent <jf the South Car olina Hospital for the Insane, and DrrTSaa'c Taylor, owner of a hospital for mental diseases at Morganton, N. C. Local physicians also testified that they believed him to he insane. The State introduced a score of witnesses to rebute the testimony of insanity. The case was hard fought throughout by a brilliant array of counsel. Bramlett is the y flfth person to be convicted of first degree murder at the present term of the court, a record un paralleled in this state. In 01d e "Virginia " "Where Cigarette Tobacco was boot * ArfK FOR BILLION ======== TO BUILD ROADS SIR EDWARD CARSON FLATS NORTHCLIFFE Publisher Described as Detotee of Man Hunting and Absentee Irish Capital ist. Belfast, Tuesday, Sept. 2—Sir Ed ward Carson, in opening a new anti home rule campaign here tonight made a fierce attack upon Viscount North- cliffe, the newspaper proprietor who he styled as “the greatest absentee Irish capitalist and the greatest ex ample of an Irishman who under the union has made untoffr wealth in Eng land. "He dearly loves man hunting,” SHr Edward said. He hunted Earl Kitch ener, Field Marshal Viscount French, Viscount Jellidoe, Viscount Milner and J. Austen Chamberlain and more re cently Premier Lloyd George. I have thought this over and believe to have found a solution to the question. It is to make Viscount Northcliffe prime minister. The only disadvantage would be that as prime minister, he would have to meet in parliament face to face those he assails and could not Experts See Need for Enormous Sum to Construct Federal Highway Sys tem^ Idea Meets Approval* Washington, Sept. 6.—A billion dol lars is the sum now mentioned in a matter of fact way in connection with the building of a Federal Highways system. Word reaches the national capital that Dr.' S. M. Johnson’s re peated reference to this large sum at the various stops In the transcontinen tal journey of the U. S. Army .motor.. transport corps invariably invokes the most emphatic soft of approval. This has been particularly the case in the extreme western country, where the need of highways is vital and essen tial to early development. Dr. John son, who is a member of the executive committee of the A. A. A. good roads board, thus summarizes the national roads problem: “The unpaved parts of the United States are held back In their devel opment precisely as are the unpaved parts of a city; and the unpaved part is the part where the food is produced, while the paved parts, especially the cities, are suffering because the un paved parts lag. To correct social cleavage and excessive costs, we must >ave the road beds oMhe lagging re gions, and we must do it now. The financial loss due to operation of our rolling stock upon improper road beds is so great that it must not be permit ted to continue. The greatness and urgency of the task makes quick ac tion on a large scale an imperative necessity.” Following Dr. Johnson's talk at Ogden, the business* organizations of that city wired the Utali senators and representatives urging that the amount in the Townsend bill for a ^ • Federal system be increased to a bil lion dollars. When the permanent milestone on attack them from the editorial arm chair. What -a statement! It is a man. who, whdfi he pleases Viscount Northcliffe, betrays every interest in trusted to him. ^ • “The wharvee were the chief mceHog-pIecee of the eat lore. And there they would gather, puffing their pipea of rich Virginia tobacco, the while telling merry talee of foreign porta end of recent happenings in the colonies.’* —il&rly Vir'ir.ln Ccttlcre Don’t lose any of that good_ Virginia-Carolina Taste S UN-ripened—mellow V irginis- Carolina tobacco _has a lively, appetizing- taste that' other .tobaccos do not have. - But,mark this—Virginia-Carolina tastes best when smoked straight. Mixing it with other leaf takes away some of that fine fullness of flavor* If you want the real Virginia- Carolina flavor—all of it.*—smoke Piedmont * ^ —• — — — — - The Virginia ~ Carolina Cigarette -> l NOTE—Virginia-Carolina tobacco,unlike fbreign- grown tobaccos, ba* no Import duty to pay. That is why Piedmont’s quality does not coet you moret Import duty dost not make a cigarette taste any better. Why not get all your money’s worth to tobacco quality f SftittH wwmw