The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, May 26, 1910, Image 1
SAME OLD WAYS
Ike, State Denecratic Conrentioi Sticks
to the Old Rales.
C
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DEFEATS AU, CHANGES
Sugi^sted in Them. Afier ainsidera-
ble Diseussion.—Fight on Wilie
Jones I'all Through.—Attorney
General Wickershant Condemned
and Senator Smith is endorsed.
After a figJit of two hours in com
mittees and nearly three hours on
the floor of the house the State Deni
ocratlc Convention Wednesday night
killed two important changes sug
gested in the constitution and rul^s
of the party. These c.hanges were:
1. Requiring that the same quali
fications obtain in ttv primary as in
the general electioiF.
2. That thv convention horeaf'er
elect the chairman of the State Dem
ocratic executive committee, instead
of the committee, as at present.
There were other matters brought
up and discussed, says the State, but
it was armmd these two proposi
tions that members ivorked for or
against and discussed in lobbies and
on the streets. On the first propos
ed chanye ther« was a roll call. Oi
the second the vote was viva voci.
Then there was a resolution con
demning the Cnited States Attorne;
General for his r-cmt action in pro
secuting certain cotton dealers and
also commending United States Sen
ator Smith for his stand in the mat
ter.
Everything else was routine and
harmonious. In fact it could not
have been called anything but har
monious. With the exception of
some remarks made the night before
on t.he Stevenson resolution there
was no feeling.
When the report of the ootnniU-
tee on constitution «nd rules cam'-
up an unfavorable report was read
on resolutions affecting the qualifi
cations of voters in the ‘Democrats
primaries. These were offered by
Samuel McCrary, Richland delega
tion, Sumter and Aiken delegations
The committee defeated the proposi
tions by a vote of 27 to 9 after a
vigorous defense by Mr. McMahan
The committee reported unfavor-
ably the resolution offered by Mr
Stevenson proposing to amend the
constitution relating to tii-e election
of the State chairman.
The resolution read as follows:
"Resolved, That the party const!
tution he amended In article 8 as
follows: Insert in line 4 after the
word ‘office,’ the words ‘except the
State chairman, who shall be elected
by the State convention.’
"Add at end of the article the
.following: Provided, if the Stat
chairmanship shall become vacant,
the commit’ee shall elect a chairman
to act till the next State convention.
The committee reported favorably
mi the r solution by the Lexington
delegation, making th" r::lp c . more
explicit and allowing the county ex
ecutives committee to fix the dates
for county campaigns.
The comniitt°e also suggested that
the word "president" apply to the
presiding officer of ttio convention.
It also suggested that a candidate
In the primary must Tie a Democrat
before, being allowed to run.
Ry a v te of 17 to 1 fi.'the com
mittee de' ided the rules should lie
change 1. so that should a voter
In the orevious primady and his name
had been accidentally left off th
looks, the voter be allowed to cast
a bollot.
T.he question of qualification of
voters upon which majority am 1
minority reports--were maty by the
delegations started the tight. The
minority report hjf Mr. McMnhai re
commended the amending of wie. con
stitutii n so that only registered o.en
ters lie allowed to vote.
The names signed to the miaorit
report are: B. B. Caldwell, for Ches
ter; .Jno. J. McMahan. Richlan L Jno
H. CLfton, Sumter, J. (’ Ulliott,
Lancaster:- Thos. J. Kirk’cnl Ker-
sham: W. F. Stevenson, Ohedtrf' id
R F. Smith, Pickens; J. U. Mao ey,
Fairfle'd.
After some discussion, tin major
ity report of the commit 1 * uliirh
favored the qualifications ~f voter-
in the primary remaining what it '?
now was adopted :y a vbte of 21 o
to 79.
Following the disposition of U’o
prim^rv matter, the unfavorable re
port of th>' committee on the propos
ed change In the constitution re
specting the election of the state
chwfrmaft wfts taken up. .a
After some discussion, the prev-
1 oil is quest To fi war WJWnefMrTid by - a
large majority the resolution was
votecT (TowfT ftHff the unfavoraWo-re
port r’opted.
There was some discussion on the
propocaJ chfrn?e In the rules allow
ing a vet r to prove that his name
was on the club roll. The favorable
report was tabled. •-—^
TJle foBowing^resoIutlon was then
•udopted cn motion of Mr. Steven
son by a rising vote:
♦“Resolved, by the Democratic con
tention of South Caiolin&^thct the
'***?:-'Vlifaz;?! this convention'be and
ARRANGES HER OWN FUNERAL
PYRE BEFOR HUSBAND.
Restoring to Three Different Methods
to Take Her Life Young Mother
Finally Succeeds With Fire.
Resorting to three different meth
ods to kill herself, wnile her family
was asleep around Yrer, Mrs. J. H.
Deal, who lives a little over a mile
from Maiden, N. C., committed sui
cide Thursday morning beforeday ity
saturating herself with kerus ne oil
and setting herself on fire.
Her husband was a.wakeued by the
flames fr,om her dress and ran to her
rescue, but too late to save her.
A razof and an axe were lying near.
She tried first to cut her throat and
then to cut her head with the axe.
Ill health was the cause. She
was 2 7 years of age and two chil
dren survive her. She suffered a
great deal from, the awful mode t^he
adopted to put an end to her exist
ence. ’• , "
A MYSTERY SOLVED.
Wife of I>ead Asheville Bogus Lord
Is Now Known.
Th* body of Sidney Lascelle, alias
Lord Beresford, alias Charles J. As
quith, convicted forger and said .to
have been a bigamist sixteen times
over, was Thursday shipped to Wash
ington, D. C.,- after laying in an un
dertaker's establishment at Asheville,
X. C., for eight years, to he cremated
and the ashes to be sent to wife No.
1, whose identity is kept a profound
scent. The undertakers, attorneys,
and agents are sworn not to divulge
her name.
That she belonged to a prominent
and wealthy New York family is ad
mitted by those who have handl d
the case. She ran away from her
mother, escaping while her mother s
attention was occupied at a book
store, and ,witn Lascelle hurried to
the "Little Brick Church Around the
Corner" in New York, and was mar
ried twenty years ago.
The name of Mrs. T. J. Summer-
field, Passaic, N. J>. is given as the
woman, a sisL r-in-law of wife No.
1, who, becoming horrified upon find
ing that her brother-in-law's remains
have been unburied for eight years
and were being viewed by thousands
of people yearly, took steps to se
cure its cremation.
BITE OF WORTHLESS Cl R,
Causes a Bright LHtle Hoy to Die in
Great Agony.
Raymond Livingston, the gjx year-
old sen of James K. Livingston, of
Cliarlestan, who was bitten a few
weeks ago by a mad dog. died Thuis-
lay morning in frightful agony. The
attending physicans unable to aid the
iittl sufferer, who. Is said, barked at home ai,f1 * t,road ’.' we a^,
as a dog and had to be confined to
his bed with great force.
PLATFORM AIKHTED BY
STATE DEMOCRACY.
It Mashes the Toes of Some of Onr
OongrcsMiien and Newspapers Who
Favor Protection.
The following is the platform
adopted by the State Democratic Con
vention on Wednesday.
“The Democrats of South Caro
lina, in convention assembled, ex
press their gratification that the signs
of the times point to general dissat
isfaction with the administration ot
the government by the Republican
party, and congratulate the represen
tatives of our party in congress on
the approval given their course in
the—rec nt elections in Massachusnin
and New York, at which Repnoiicaus
were defeated and Democrats sent
to the congress in their place The
people of all sections are concug to
realize that the Republican party
stands for special privileges at the
cost .of the multitude, atid that
through the favoritism shown to the
trusts by tariff legislation the coun
try is now suffering from conditions
which make the cost of living ee
high that even the Republican con
gress is compelled to institute an
investigation.
“The only substantial and lasting
relief is to be found in the adoption
of the historic Democratic doctrine
demanding a system of tariff duties
sufficient to raise revenues adequate
to the ecomonical administration of
the government. Material reduc
tions should be made in the tariff
upon the necessities of life.
"The protective tariff makes pos
sible the combinations which are call
ed trusts and only by revision of tar
iff duties downward can the growth
of the trusts be chdrRed. The fail
ure of the Republican administra
tion to enforce th^ civil and criminal
laws against the trusts demonstrates
anew the obligations of that party
to the trusts which render it impos
sible for the country to secure r?lief
from that source. Favoring public
ity of all campaign contributions, the
Democratic party throughout the
country enters upon the coming cam
paign for congress this fall as the
only ag< ncy to which the people can
turn with the expectation of genuine
tariff reform and genuine trust reg
ulation.
"The Democratic t»arty has long
favored the imposition of a tax on
incomes as a just method of taxa
tion, when fairly levied and collected,
and we favor such a tax.
"Believing with Jefferson in the
support of the State governments in
all their rights as the most compe
tent administration for our domestic
concerns and surest bulwark against
anti-republican tendencies, and in the
•preservation of the general govern
ment in its whole constitutional vig
or as the sheet anchor of our peace
The child wag dying about two
days. Given prompt treatment at
the Pasteur Institute at Atlanta with
Indications of recovery up n ins i o-
cetit return home, th' little fellow
'.dels another victim to Die policy
which prevails in Charleston of giv
ing the dogs the rights of taxpayers
as far as the run of the streets is
concerned.
A SERIES OF TRAGEDIES.
Habit's Mother Dead.—Grave Digger
Soon Follows.
MU Columbia while digging the
grave of the mother of John Rabb,
tbe negro, who is held for the mur
der of Hilton Smith, the city jailer,
it Potter's field late Thursday, Hen
ry Barber, the aged nesro grave dig
ger, dropped dead. The cause of
the death is supposed to he heart
trouble. The inquest over the itody
will be held by Coroner Walker. The
aged mother of JJohn Rabb died
while the officers were searching the
house for the negro on Wednesday
night. She, did not know that her
son was being sought as a murderer.
MET AWFUL DEATH.
Enveloped in Gasoline Flames Child
Fatally Burned.
At Tampa. Fla.. Manuel Hackney,
a five year old boy, met a horrible
death Thursday while playing in his
fath r’s yard. A tank on a gasoline
stove exploded and while it was still
burning was thrown into the yard by
a fireman, who happened to be pass
ing the house at the time. The
burning tank struck the child, the
gasoline spreading over him, burn
ing him so batfly - Ihai.'le'fllgfl'twd
bourn later'.. TwoJiauje.a bujned as
a result of the explosion.
Shot Herself Before Children.
Calling about 50 children from
the street and neighboring houses
in the west end section of Pittsburg,
Pa., Mrs. Clementine Dorenzo, aged
36 years, Thursday night, shot and
killed herself in the’piesence of her
juvenile guests. 1
strength, trusting that he may soon
be able to resume -his duties In that
body where he has so ably repre-
1s hereby extended to our senior *«$-' tented the Democrats of South Caro-
st*r. the Han. Benjamin R. TtHman, I llna for 15 years. 1 ’/
hist sp—dy and Utter
restoration to hsalth and 1m c
the usual resolutions of thanks,
convention adjourned.
opposed to the centralization poli
cies of tiie pp sent national adminis
tration. We insist trat federal rem
edies for the regulation of interstate
commerce and the pr ventation of
’■ri' ite ni"nopoly shall ho added t >,
not substituted for State remedies.
Tbe sub-committee on platfoim
consisted of ^las. A. ollyt, Geo. S
Mower. Richard I. Manning. J. H.
Los* sue and S MoG. Stmkins.
MUST HAVE GONE WRONG
BISii'*”': ORDAINED.
Solemn Service by the Methodist Gen- i
oral Conference.
The ordination of the new bishops i
elected by the General Conference J
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
took place at Ashvllle on T.’nns lav.
The services were very impressive
and were largely attended. -< i
The new bishops. Revs Collins
Denny, John C. Kilgo, William B.
Murrah, R. K. Waterhouse. Edwin
I). Mouzon and James McCoy, each
accompanied by two of his closest
friends, entered t.he church amid pro-,
found silence. The opening hymn j
was announced by Bishop A. W. Wil-I
son. the collect was read by Bishop j
E. K. Hoss, prayer was offered by |
Rev. C. H. Briggs, and epistle was
read by Bishop H. C. Morrison, Bish
op W. A. Chandler, concluding with
the reading of the gospel. Bishop
A. W. Wilson delivered the ordina-j
tion sermon.
Examination of the bishops-elect
was conducted by Bishop Hendrix,
while Bishop Key recited "Veni Crea
tor Spiritus.” --finch bishop placed
bis hands on the heads of the hish-
opsrellt. each of whom" was pre
sented with a Bible, Bishop Chandler
presenting > ach parchment' while
testifying to t.he ordination. The
benediction was pronounced by Bish
op WUsott.- -Wixea of life, .bishops- j
elect were given seats of honor.
At Any Rate It Did Not Do \Yh»l
It Wiut Scheduled to Du, aud Now
the Scientific Sages Disagree A*
to Wlwre It Is or What It Will
Presently Do. —
The comet seems to have fooled
the scientists for once, as it failed
to keep its engag* ments on Wed
nesday.
Prof. Asahp Hall of the naval ob
servatory at Washington said at 4
o'clock Thursday morning that the
earth would not pass through the
tail of Halley's comet until sometime
that day.
|From three o’clock on Thursday
morning until dawn, said Prof. Hall
there was visible in the east, ex
tending from, the northeast in a
southerly direction, the dim beam
of a light of the comet's tall. As
tiie moon descended westward the
shaft athwart the heavens grew
plainer and was easily visible to the
naked eye.
According to Dr. Campbell of the
Lick observatory at San Jose, Cal.,
there is a possibility that the eartli
may not pass through the comet's
tail after all. In a statement issued
early Thursday he said:
"The tail was visible as soon as
the moon set. It is probable that we
shall miss passing through the tali
because it is lagging by several mil
lion miles. The comet's orbit is in
clined to an angle with the earth's
orbit and it is probable we shall not
pass through the tail at all.'’
Calculators Confounded.
Setting at variance all scientiflr
figures and predictions and dumn-
foundling the astronomers at Yerkes
observatory at Williams Bay, Wis.,
the tail of Halley's comet was plain
ly visible just before daybreak on
Thursday. The astronomers have no
explanation to proffer for the action
of the comet.
Prof. S. A. Mitchell, of Columbia
university, Prof. Edwin B. Frost,
head of the Yerkes observatory staff,
and Prof. Edward Barnard, of the
University of Chicago, say tiiat any
one of the following three explana
tions may he right:
1. The curvature of the comet's
tail first discovered and noticed by
Prof. Barnard on Tuesday night may
have developed to a wholly expect
ed degree, whil* the head of the
comet has passed the eartli on sched
ule.
2. Like Borellis' comet of 1903.
Halley s comet may have ceased its
tail making activity, cutting off th''
glowing fan that is now puzzling the
scientists.
3. It is possible that all calcula
tions are wrong and that tiie comet
lias not yet passed tiie earth.
As nearly as could be computed
the period of the appearance of t.h
cornet's tail in the east extended from
lo.38 o'clock Wednesday night to
3.jo o'clock Thursday morning. It
was still plainly visible at a time
when tiie asti Hioni'rs were confi
dent the earth would have passed
i ,:.’p!o’'‘!y through the tail.
Daybtoak Statement.
Aft* r ie.tv ing his telescope at day-
K Th'.islT.v, Prof. Frost issu d
t e :. tl..w :ng statement:
(i eater than all the- theories
The P»rtjr Needs More Funds Than
*
It IMd Formerly and the Candi
date* Mn*t Make D Up.
The State Democratic executive
committee decided Tuesday to in
crease the assessments on candidates
enD-ring the race for various Stale
offices.— The raise was made lieeause
there is very little money now in
the treasury. The matter was left
with a special subcommittee and af
ter going into the matter thoroughly
their report was adopted, although
there was some-opposition to dt at
first by Robert Lide, of Orangeburg,
who thought that the expenses of
the committ'e should lie cut down.
The old assessments provided thai
candidates for governor should pay
an entrance fee of $50, other State
officers $37.50, solicitors $25 and
congressmen $50. The new assess-
menta provide for $125 each for
congressional candidates, $50 each
for other State officers, $50 for lieut
enant governor and $75 for governor.
•Other suggestions of the subcom
mittee were ^adopted. Chairman
Jones appointed as members of the
subcommittee to arrange the Itin
erary A. W. Jones and D. J. Grif- ° f ^ e ca t* Btro P h ®
fith. " ’
The following is the report of the
committee:
"Your committee appointed to
suggest assessments and the date of
opening of the campaign and the
itinery, respectfully reports:
“That, after maturF deliberation
and Investigation, we find that the
cost of the campaign of 1908 was
$2,956, and would therefore suggest
that the assessment on congressmen
be $125, for governor $75, and oth
er State offices, $50, which from In
formation received would yield $3,-
075.
“Your committee would suggest
that the date for the opening of the
campaign he fixed for June 22.
"VVe would further suggest that
a eommitt*e of three, consisting "f
the State chairman and two mem
bers of the executive committee to
be appointed by the chairman, be
appointed to make tiie arrangements
for Hie ibinerary and revising of
rules of any change or in the con
stitution.
"All of which is respectfully sub
mitted.
"D. L. Sinkler, Chairman.’’
STOLE RIG HUM OF MONEY..
Two Are Killed.
vi.: all tbe computations are the
1 f -v And the Oct is that tbe
! t f the comet has be n appear-
1 i c in the east in practically the
s . e position as it appeared Wednes-
I . . y. Tin-re is no question about
| tiU'f. The tail which glowed from
* the horizon clos*- to the milky wa>
from before midnight until dawt.
Th .rsdoy has not yet passed across
'the earth. That is a certainty. In
addition, it is also certain that there
is no material diminution in the
size of this tail as compared with the
tail of the day b fore.
“We are confident that the calcu
lations for the passage of the head
of the comet between the sun and
the earth are correct. Unquestion
ably astronomical experts working
independently of each other in all
pr is of the wo rld arrived at these
calculations, which have been cor-
* r -;e 1 In de’ai 1 ever'since the comet
passed Verms on May 2.
e are aLo confident that the
head of t.he con et made its transit
as per schedule. But the mystery of
he p- ,.c- . .. je of toe tail in the
cast''iiiu.soax u..Qrn:n? is the great
ppzzie. It can net be explained sat-
isfa.-mriiy at this time."
—. .. -Vneved it* Tail.
The earth did not plunge Dirough
ftiFThH 6T -mrrr*-<~nr>'t at-the
Took Express Envelope Containing
Over $30,000.
Three packages of money contain
ing $32,024 24 w<re stolen from the
Pennsylvania depot at Oil City, Pa.,
at .3.30 o'clock Thursday morning,
while John J. Trilby, the station
agent, was loading baggage on to a
Buffalo-lsHind train. The money was
being shipped ity the Adams Express
company lo Philadelphia.
The railroad detectives investigat
ing the robbery are of the opinion
that tiie theft was the work of one
man. The packages were too bulky
for storage in the small station safe
and Night Agent Truby placed the
money under a sack behind the tick
et counter, covering them carefully
At 3 3U o'clock a train pulled in
to the station and Truby stepped
at on (lie platform, closing t.he
off/e door behind .him. The door
is s* If-Lcking. While about 200 feet
trim the station offiee. Truby saw by
he light on the station platform that
the office door was unclosed.^ Hurry
ing back he discovered that the t-hree
packages of money were missing.
Two almost simultaneous explo
sions of stores of dynamite, supposed
to consist of 3,060 pounds, complete
ly demolished the rural guard bar
racks In the city of PInar D*T Rio,
Cutia, Thursday afternoon. Fully
100 persona were killed and nearly
as many were wounded.
Most of the dead were rural
guards, hut the entire families of
a* veral of the officers of the rural
guard, it ia reported, were killed
also, ag well as several employes of
the public works department and res
idents of the city, on which fell a de
luge of masonry and debris from the
blown-up building. It is not known
yet whether the exptoeion was the
result of an accident or was due to
an g-.t of conspirators, hut the form
er la considered the most probable.
Several •‘dief trains carrying aur-
geons, officers and n»en of the rural
guards and government ttgrted that
afternoon from Habana to the scene'
Stupid Division.
Whiskey can not be legally lent
for the use of a sick friend is a
ruling handed down Thursday by the
Alabama supreme court in the case
of Presley Clarke against the State.
Clark" was convicted of exchanging
prohibited liquors and entered the
p!ea that a quart which he trans
ferred was given to a neighlmr. mem
bers of whose family were 111.
The names of the dead have no!
yet been reported with the exception
of Capt. Ravens and CapL Bel
li ncour of the garrison and their fam
ilies, who are believed to be burled
in the ruine of the officert’ quarters
adjacent to the barracka.
The barracks was a massive build
ing of Spanish construction and oc
cupied a site on the outskirts of
the city to the north. During the
late intervention It waa the head
quarters of Col. Parker’s regiment,
the Eleventh cavalry. Adjacent to
the barracks was a long row of offi
cers quarters. The barracks waa oc
cupied by the public works depart
ment and four troops of rural cav
alry.
In consequence of the alarm over
race disturbances tbe government or
dered ail deposits of dynamite In the
city in the poaesalon of contractors
for road construction and other pub
lic works to lie removed to the bar
racks for safekeeping. Thursday af
ternoon the work of removing the
dynamite from the barracka for ship
ment to the government magazine
was liegun by employes of the pub
lic works department, assisted by ru
ral guards.
According to reports received the
mangled rem&lna of victims were
found In the street of the city s
mile from the scene of the explosion.
There la great anxiety In Habana,
owing to the fact that a large num
ber of the rural guards at Plar Dei
Rio recently were sent from the city,
where their families reside.
The explosions occurred at five
o'clock, a few second before the men
would have quit work. It la general
ly believed that ihe Oral resulted
from the accidental fall of a box of
dynamite, which was being lifted on
a wazon. it is impossible, however,
to determine absolutely the cause,
for the reason that all In the Im
mediate vicinity were blown to frag
ments. It is believed the majority
of the wounded are residents of the
town, as practically all within the
barracks were instantly killed or bur
ied in the rulna.
The work of exhuming the dead
and searching for those who may
be alive l.i going on but is greatly
retarded by the destruction of the
electric wires and the fear that a
quantity of unexploded dynamite re
mains In the ruins.
REWARD FOR AVANT,
^ , time schedi'yed by astronomers, ac-
As a resuTroTa botter explosion at ■ T(fr , riT g Tj-'prof. h-eury'Norris Rus-
the saw mill of J. R. Brown, in geil of p r i nce ton, N. J., and Zacch-
Jones County; Ga., Thursday after- j eug discoverer of three
noon, L. J. A. Brown, a prominentJ C0Iliet ' 8 ta jj because it was curved
planter, and son of the owner of the
mlli, and William Hutchins, a ne
gro, is dead, and the mill is wreck-
in making the journey.
This failure of the comet to be on
time, they said, was due to the fact
ed. Brown was killed outright and ^at the tail had developed a pro-
the negro died in a few minutes. nounced curve aiqd it was long kfter
• •-* [sunup in this section of the couq-
Died from Wound. ‘ | tr y before the passageof the earth
Hilton Smith, the Columbia city through the comat’C'tfppcndage.
Jailer, who waa shot by the negro,f- Prof. Russell at 2.«5 a. m. noticed
John Rabb, died Wednesday night at a distinct streak of light In the east
comet's because the tail was curved
away from ns, and that the sun would
be well a\>ove the horizon when the
passage w&a made. At that time he
said the hetfd of the comet had pass
ed the distance of the sun and was
well on the\other side of the sun.
Shortly afterward 3 a. m. Thursday
the light in th^ east disappeared and
Prof. Russell Raid it was possible
for the inhabitants of Hawaii and
possibly the astronomers at the Lick
observatiory in California to detect
in tbe darkness t^he "passage of the
earth through the tan.
. -IlroL Ruasall added that the reas-
"ii why most astronomers had not
been -able to tell that tha-tail..waa
curved was because they had been
looking- ui -the- tall, edgewise. Ml
Daniel said that he aish noticed the
light in the east shortly before 3
a. m. Thursday and also suggested
that the earth had not passed through
the tail of the comet because of the
curvature of the appendage. He ex-
[ pressed the belief that the passing of
| the earth through the tall would
j make the curve more pronounced.
: The time at which the earth made
. the passage, he said, could not be
He Sends Letter* From Atlanta That
He 1* Running Away.
A dispatch from Georgetown says
D. \V. Avant, uncle of W. B. Avant,
who is wanted at the Penitentiary
to serve a sentence of three and a
half years for the murder of Mrs
Ruth Crisp Bingham, received a let-
•ter from the missing man dated May
17, and postmarked Atlanta. Ga..
reading as follows:
"Am in Atlanta, running away.
There was also a letter from Avant
to his wife, which was at once taken
to her, three miles off from the post
offiee, at Harper's the contents of
which have not yet been ascertained
Avant’s'bondsmen are his uncle, D
W. Avant, and L. A. Parsons, his
broJ.her-in-law. The amount of the
bond is $3,000. These men are good
thrifty farmers. They have offered
reward of $100 for the apprehension
of the Lugitive.
Eaten by Sharks.
Tire flojrrtir wdrich~W HRam Ols*
William Peterson, Albert Thomas
and R. ZebbsVr started frefffi TOTt
Gaines on Tuesday night and went
to their'Heath was found Wednes
day morning by a aearching party
aboard the tug Texas. It la fearet
the bodies have been carried away
by man eating sharks.
and that this .Other repbrta mere adopted; and a local hospital. Tbe negro was ar- that res^mlnej the milky way. * He
rested that afternoon at Bianeys, then, came to the .conclusion.{hat tue
near Columbia, and ia now In Jail. sarth bad not passed through the
Crack of Doom.
Hundreds of negroes in Savannah
spent Wednesday night fasting sad
praying, ^ fearing every moment to
hear the‘ crack o’doom.” Not muck
ascertained at Princeton because the labor was gotten from them dartaj;
arch of the curve was not known the day, to great ia their fear o
there. Mr. Daniel explained that it the comet. The evident concern b
waa not unusual for comet*’ tail* the negro quarters of the city waa aa
to be curved. ' ’ very greet ~ ^Tbe
Court.—Eulogies on the Lots
•tor Caramrk Elided
Applause.
(Governor M. R. Patterson and the
to / .
State Democratic executive commit
tee were bitterly denounced
day at Nashville In speeches anf
olutlona, by the largest
Ing of voters ever held In ffFVtste
of Tennessee, called ror the pnrpose
of protecting against the action nl
the Governor and executive commit
tee in attempting to force all jud
iciary candidates to submit their
candidacy In the general primary of
June 4. This action of the commit
tee wes contrary to precedent sad
resulted In several of the candidates
for tbe Supreme Court and OOert of
Civil Appeals announcing themselves
as ln<!
(The convention, a£
than five thonaand Democrat* of the
State were present, nominated a fall /
judiciary ticket and appealed to the
voters of the State to refuse to par
ticipate In the primary on Jnne 4.
Governor Patterson and the exec
utive committee were “naqoallfledly
denounced and condemned,” for their
efforts “to overcome and coerce the
Supreme Court of the Skate In the de
cision of e case pending before It,”
this reference being to the Cooper
ease. —
'Eulogistic references to the late
Senator Carmack elicited prolonged
applause, while every deasactery re
ference to Governor Patterson was
greeted with great enthualeam. The .
judiciary tickets endorsed were aa
follow*: j,
Supreme Court: W. D. Beard,
Memphla; If. M. Neal, Trenton; J. K.
Shield*, Chattanooga; D. L. Lene-
den, Carthage, and Grafton Green,
Nashvm* ' . .
Court of Civil Appeals: 8. F. Wil
son. Neahville; J. C. Higgins, Shel
by vtl|e; J. ’Mi Taylor, LedlngUDn;
F P. Hall, Dresden, and H. T.
Hughe*. Taaewell.
The following tysopsls of th* dec
laration ot principles was adopted
by the Convention:
That the people have the inalent-
able right to alter, reform or abol
ish any agencies of ihefr owa crea
tion whew those agencies seek fa
thwart the *overlgn will.
That tbe doctrine of noa-vesist*
ance against arbitrary power Is ab
surd and slavish.
That the independence of the three
coordinate branches of the Govern-
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at
ment Is essential to the stability of
the commonwealth a«d the freedom
of th* people. \
That any attempts to coerce the
Courts In the exercise of their prop
er functions is destrqctlve of pence
and snfeiy and should hp resisted
by all lawful means knows to free
men.
That the paramout laau* before the
people of Tennessee Is the Independ
ence and Integrity of their Courts.
That half a century ago an amend
ment to the Constitution was adopt
ed, proving that a day should be ap
pointed for the election of Judges
and Attorney General, separate and
apart from the day for election. |nv
political offices, ao that merit and
efficiency should not be obscured by
heat and strife of a political cam- _
palgn, and has alwaya since been
recognized by both political parties
of the State as wise nd patriotic,
and aa prompting the Independence
of the Judiciary.
That the so-called State executive
committee, opt one of whoa* mem
bers was eleMfed by the people, and
a majority of whom were appointed
by the Governor, has attempted to
repudiate the well settled and safe
method of selecting candidates for
the judiciary and has attempted to
deprive the Democrats of the State of
the right to hold their own elec- '
Hons, to make their own platforms
and to appoint the committees, and
being completely under the control
of the Governor has adopted a plan
designed to aid their master In ble
attempt to coerce the Supreme Court
to to perpetuate their own power..
That by these acts of naurpatlnC tSn
committee and the Governor have
disrupted the Democratic party and
have given sufficient grounds tor re
pudiating the committee.
That the. committee .be repudiated
and the Governor denounced and
condemned for hi* effort to coerce
The-supreme Court in
.before It. and that endorsement be
given Juaifeee Beera, BbeTTfl* uff
Nell, of the Supreme Court, ha m*
fusing to snbmlt to the an-Demo-
cratio plan, and that eo»«l*m**il«i
be given Judges
rtf
Higgins. Wilson and Taylor for
claims direct to the
That every Democrat who
in the Integrity of
the right of the people to
their own affairs, be. palled
fuse to pertkipnte
ordered tor twm
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