Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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; f SENATORS DISMBEE EACI IAS CANDIDATES EDI FED ERAL OFFICES WOODS FOR THE BENCH Tillman Barks J. W. Thurmond and Jas. L. Sims for District Attorney and Marshal Respectively, While , Smith Apparently Barks F. H. Weston and J. A. Drake for Same Offices. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says under date of March 11, at the time this dispatch Is sent, it appearts likely that the South Carolina Senators will endorse rival candidates for the posi tions of district attorney and United States marshal of South Carolina. Senator Tillman Monday presented to Attorney General McReynolds the name of Mr. J. W’m. Thurmond, of Edgefield, for the district attorney- ship, and will present in a day or two the name of Mr. James L. Sims, of Orangeburg, for the marshalship. Senator E. D. Smith is believed to favor Mr. Fransis H. Weston, of Co lumbia, for the former place and Mr. J. A. Drake, of Ilennettsvllle, for the latter. If the Senators do not agree upon two men, the Administration will have to choose between their candi dates in each case. Senators Till man and Smith both called at the White House this morning at dif ferent time and talked with Presi dent Wilson briefly The Senior South Carolina Senator called oh Secretary of State Mryan also but would not say what for I Is conjectured that the Senator may have talked with Mr itryan about tne situation in the Senate, where •h- r is a fight among the Democrat against his having the chalrmanshln of the appropriations committee with the outcome in doubt Former Governor John Gary • v ana, President Henry N. Snyder, of Wofford College. Kalph K Carson of Spartanburg, president of the State Bar Association, and P A Will cox, a prominent lawyer of Florence called on Attorney General MrHey noida Tuesday In behalf of the can dldacy of Judge Woods, of Marlon for tbs vacancy In the 4th Federa Judicial circuit caused by the elec tioa of Judge Nathan Gftff to the Sen ate from Weat Virginia Both of the floeth Carolina Senators have en dorsad Judge Wood# for this poet tlon, and so has Congressman Hags dale. WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC EFFORTS BEING MADE TO SAVE YOUNG GIRLS. - LE1DSJN CRIME EIGDT BUDDED HURDEIS IN A SINGLE COUNT! GO\ KILN MENT l»V Ft HI.ICITY. That la WUat Wr He »e Now, I*. Frank (Vane. Dr Frank Crane aa'a the hiatory of secrecy makes a long black smudge down the page of time Noth ing la truer than the saying that "the wicked love darkness rather than the light". And this proverb has a bear ing we do not usually suspect We assume It ko have reference to rob bers. footpads, sneak thieves, muti nous seamen and home breakers. It does. It also refera, however, to any other group of people who work In the shade You can set it down in your books that any business for which the claim is made that It is better to transact It under rover, that it is un wise to have it Investigated and that the public has no right to m.-ddle in It. it is crooked (>f course, I do not Include the affairs of purely personal nature, but only such matters as ha\e to do w ith the public The whole history of government before the day of newspapers Is a retort! of tyraimv and unjust privi lege. St) long as the common herd was ruletl by a select few, who pre sumed to dt) bet11 r by the people than the people could do for them selves, the result invariably was lux ury ami fine feathers for the elect and starvation and rags for the many. Vested rights thrive in dark ness. It is only in the light of pub licity that human rights grow. There - -mvvec-- -w-ae—a- bribe - ladmrg judge ousted from the bench, a cor rupt politician retired to private life, a governor or mayor or sold out to colorations and was exposed that did not hate newspaper reporters above rattlesnakes. This is not a government by law. Law does not govern. It is merely the rear guard of government. It is a government by publicity. It is newspapers and magazines, the publishing of facts, that govern. Torpedo Berths to be Built, Senator Tillman had inserted in the recent navy bill, as it passed the Senate, an amendment fixing the ul timate total cost of the torpedo berths at $300,000. The amount of the outright appropriation for these berths was $150,000, This work will be done at the Charleston navy yard. Home of Them Tell of Their Down fall, Low Living Wage Being Nam ed an the Cause. Fifteen hundred white men and three ^hundred negroes live off the earnings of ‘‘white slaves” and wo men of the underworld In Chicago, according^ to testimony given by a one-time “cadet” to the members of the lllniois State commission inves tigating vice conditions in Chicago. The commission has just begun its work of endeavoring to trace the causes of vice, and one of the first things did was to issue subpoenaes for twenty of Chicago’s most promi nent citizens merchants, owners and managers of big department stores and mail-order houses, proprietors of factories and others who employ thousands of girls—to appear at fu ture sessions of the commission for examination. The action is said to be prompted by the evidence given so far which leads to the belief that low wagbs paid girls were one of the chief con tributing causes to white slavery among women workers. Scores of girls, many of them in mates of underworld resorts, have testified before the commission, ami one Chicago dance hall already has been closed as the result of the sto ries told by several of these youthful witnesses. Due girl told how she had been fishing on the banks of the river at Water Valley, Jnd , when she was suddenly seized, thrust into an auto mobile and taken to a notorious re sort at West Hammond, Just inside the Illinois state line Cater she was transferred to a house In Chicago Mlsa Virginia Brooks, the \<>ung woman who has been trying to rid West Hammond of its notorious re sorts, wat another witness She de dared that talks with resort inmates in that place led Wt-r to believe tha Insufficient wages was the cause o the downfall of nearly all "A gir In Chicago needa $ 1 l! a week to live decently," she concluded Two girls froni the State Training achool told of their downfall I nin vltlng home conditions were blamed by them Each told the same ator of aale to owners of dives for from llu to SIS each, and established the fart that many men made tkla a reg ular business Another witness, a girl of 14 years appears on the record as "Miss M She said the was introduced t>> he dder sister to a man who said he a detective and he took her to a re sort in Chicago The man. she said remained with her a seek and 'hen wnt aw *> According to her t.»t; nionv she had been earning |'■ i week In a Store pe fore * ti e took t to fa'al ate;, Mott of the girl witnesses who peared declared the) were sold in'i the "Puslnesa at Gary. Ind Some went there to become wives of we| known ' cadets", others on mere pleasure Jaunts, but all wound up at one destination, immoral resorts When they were forced to live im moral lives, they testified the\ had to give all their earnings to the men who put them there, the men In turn dhlding half with the keepers of the dl yea None of the girls were over lx years of age, and tin t te.-titled the) earned from to $ 1Ja week m resorts One stated that, after period of two months, she had $ for herself Kadi witness told of meeting other girls uho had heeti dnwn Into a similar life, ami marly al! of them the> testified, were there hei ,| U Se of low wages Four states. Indrana. Ohio. \\ s cousin and Michigan have been ask- eu to join hands with Illinois m this war on white slave traffic in th ■ Mid die West Lieut. Gov. Barrett Ollara. head of the Illinois investigating commission, has sent letters to the governors of each of these st ties, asking their eo-operation. Evidence already in the hands of the commission tend to prove the ex istence of an organized traffic center- tig about Chicago, with agents in iiikdc.uf. theaa imir stales. The. lieu tenant governor believes that prob ing committtes similar in purpose to the one in Illinois might be created in each of these states. HURING THE PAST YEAR Arabs Shot by Turks. Fifty 1 mutinous Arab soldiers be longing to Turkish, xegiments guard- ng the peninula of Gallipoli and the Dardenelles straits, were shot as an example to others. Most of the men guarding the lines In this district nave been brought from the warm climates as Asia-Minor and nave be come mutinous owing to the extreme cold. They declare they are too numbed to fight. Eleven Years for Nickel Theft, Convicted of stealing a flve-cent bcttle of coca-cola and given 11 years In the reformatory, the Supreme Court of Georgia has decided that Ollie Taylor, now 13 years old, must •errs out his time. The boy has al ready served three years and will be of age when he comes out. Baker Lands Good Job. A Washington dispatch says J. id. Baker, of South Carolina, asis l ant Ibrarian of the Senate, was nominat ed by the Democratic caucus for sec retary which is equivalent to flec tion. Baker was educated at Wof ford College. The A tvful Record of Jefferson Coun ty in Alabama, Which Leads All CountleH in the World in the Num ber of -Murders and Other Crimes of AH Kinds. Jefferson county, Alabama, is the greatest crime center in the world. The county does not pride itself on ibis fact, however. Neither does the city of Birmingham in which crime centers. T’qe people of the county' and the citizens of Birmingham, oth er than those who drift into the dis trict from the outside, are remark ably law-abiding, high-minded and sensitive about criminal records. If they knew how to do it they would rid themselves of the criminal popu lation which includes 1 0,000 ex-con victs living in Birmingham alone. But they do not know how to rid themselves of this population, and face a record of two murders a day for the past year. The causes which brought about this remarkable re- ord are discussed in the following irticle, the facts having been obtain ed from county officials, prominent Birmingham business men, and em ployers of labor: Astounded at last by the official cvelHtmn^ of widespread crime in Jefferson county, citizens are de- niamhiiK that extraordinary measures be taken to curb the carnival of rnur- ter which has made the county th) art >ear the most criminal section n the who!** worll With an av.-r- of over a murder a day for the part 1 f tn )nt!.s, JefT* rrou county stands unique Iti no ►’re* iitv o' the world is ■ 1 fe held mu cheap its in this blood- ittuined count), not in the whole o he United Kuncdom, the .it) of Con ion Included. w.:e then- as man) • lav mas as In this prosperous roa and Iron rtn *itv m no equal n.M’ion of territory in the whole world have men and women been slain so ruth «**aly so uselraalv so wantonly as in hat rich count) of aliuhtl) over Ju.j ""<) Inhabitants On the surface, this remarkably rlmlnal ci>un:> presents the acme o industrial success un lern.-a'h the surface are rotten cesspools of v i. . ilabolt.a! murder traps at.! ia'k p ‘s iif irttn> The avt-rak* - ti/.-r Birmingham is law Bidding but. v moral, and .!*••; !v .mprise. I a '( to- industrial sui.ess of the »'»•• l.i-t ropo! 1 s of the *v..l'h 1 h« a v e r ag• '!/• :, s • , d* • ; - l 1 • r * st ed in f u r t to f I h g 'to- .ulus rial pros, err . of J• ff* r son . o . i,t . lot! he pave It'll*- nr no attention 'c 'aw enforcement betng content to let the vp-e situation nandle itself a best it mav Taking advantage o the ,-asv attitude OrMhvd Into • House. At ClDcinnatl one man killed and •everal severely Injured Wednesday when a College Hill street car jump ed the track and crashed into an apartment hooee at Lodlow avaaaa. citizens and >f the inability of the county officials '<) prosecute effectively the trails greaaors of the law. Birmingham and its surrounding town*, such as Bea st trier, for instance, are overrun with crooks of the first water, hundreds of whom have been driven from o'h ei mien !y vigilant police (►finals The Birmingham district is a dumping ground for the criminal im of thi- and other nations V gfot-s by no means are the predomi nant 'Timinais. although the gr*-tfi st 'lumber of mur.b rs ;s ( ommif. d bv men of ’to black no e \\ lore i.ip 11 c r me- art- :. ■. k o t o * d to. the fiat, It'd' vearlv n a small disttot. min 1 r crimes are counted bv the thou- sands*. many of the i.tpitul crimes be- itig a din-i t result of minor crimes, in this crime rar-s.-l community, therefore, minor infractions of the iaw are without end. No man is safe off the well-lighted streets at night. The gun and the black jack work overtime in the Birmingham district. Mere figures are uninteresting. The coroner reported nearly 70b kill ings in the county last year, and he reported only the cases he viewed. There were scores Of murders Tn Che county never recorded by the coron er. One of the chief causes of the as tounding murder crop is the wide practice of carrying concealed wea pons. In the mining camps, in the steel works, In the pig Iron estab- ishmonts, in the dark wards of the cities, men carry guns tucked away in their trousers. John Smith takes one into a saloon because he knows Herbert Jones has a gun on him and a gun would be handy to have in case of an argument. The foreigners, Italians, Slavs, Hungarians, Russians, and Greeks, working in the mines and in the in dustrial plants, carry guns when hey start forth to spend their hard- erned dollars in the inevitabte bar rooms. They are prone to enter into heated arguments, which often re sult in “self-defense” slayings. The foreigners fight among themselves, the negroes among themselves, for it is unlawful for the races to mix in the saloons of this district. Contributing to the murder causes are gambling dens, negro "dope” dents,, cheap dance halls, poolrooms where the Ught-ftagered fraternity and gamb}eft of the tin-horn type hang ont regularly. The county of ficials have vainly tried to earb gam bling In the district. They are bow threatening to go after the owners of properties In which gambling games are conducted. Gambling li openly done In the poolrooms, young chape being enticed into games of chance by designing crooks. Young men who become In debt to crooked gamblers of the poolroom type are encouraged by their creditors to steal so as to make good their gambling obligations. This phase of the gambling sit uation is accepted aa deplorable by the citizens of Birmingham, yet no very strenous means are applied to curb the evil. The cheap dance halls have their well-fixed place in the crime of the city. They are the stamping ground of the white slav ers, of whom there are many In this district. Unlawfully, drinking is done in the coat rooms of the dance halls, this feature of the resorts often leading to serious crime. These dance halls cater to the lower class of whites. In fact, it is the lowest class of the white population which "figures in thv-dPCrinie recorc j g 0 f comity. While the saloon figures largely in the crime of the county in an indi rect way, the saloonkeeper of the Birmingham district is a stickler for law observance as far as closing hours are concerned. The saloons close at 11 at night. They abso lutely close. There is no breaking o the Sunday closing law. Saloon li censes are worth $3,000 and holders of license guard them*Teal- ousy, as the prohibition fight is ex tremely keen, the county going wet at the last election by a few over 9uo votes. 1 say the saloons figure indirectly in the crime of the county, for there are scores of capital (Times in the county yearly due to the drinking of saloon-purveyed liquor. Whci the county was "dry", the critnes due to "blind tiger" liquor w.-re more than the present-day crimes due to well-regulated saloon liquor Throughout the county to-day there are some "Mind tigers", which, how ever, are conducted with the utmost mm re< v. for saloonists paving J .""o I quor licenses do not tolerate the existent** of non - r*-v .-ti i mg - pa> ing com pet itors ()\.-r ' ; er rent of the rrltnes in !e''t r&on .oitnt) is ommitted by ne gro- - Negro . nil. lulls have Mocked in there from all over the Sou'h Th* v find Birmingham *-asv It is openly stated that the pressing clubs maintained by negroea are nothing more than place# for receiving atolen clothe#, which are altered, dyed, and so changed they are hard to identlf) Such clothe# are then sold or pawn ed The Whole count) is their stamp ing ground Th*- worst negro criminals are hah "-)*•♦•» of dope dens, in which thev snuff .ok*- powdered cocaine .\ (ok** * ra/ed negro do*-* not stop at murder when he is dr v«-n to ba\ The negroes are hmivv drink, rs It is 1."' urius .a! 'or .t negro bar ’o take :n S "i on a Sat ir !a- t, ah' tn B.r in ngharn or B*-s»*-tn- r Some ..f the negroes have mtnh mon« v 'o spend ns there are those who make fx to $ ! " a shift at tile steel works Thev • re not provident In this region a negro would lose caste among his pais if he did not go armed The criminal negro uses the black Jack oti members of his own race when hard up for money A short time ago. a negro was brought Into Bessemer from a min ing camp seven miles awav He was Nathed and shrouded In an under takers establishment, where he was b-ft for the night During the *-,trl> . veiling the supposed corps** came to With a veil of terror. h»- sprang from hi- open coffin and plunged through ,i glass door to the street, running like mad for home He was later ar- t'-s'eil and fined $1" for breaking tin* w ndovv . Th*- negro had been black J a. k ed . Jefferson county assists tho crim inal element by imposing small cash 1 ail upon men charged with bur glary, pickpocketing, and other crimes of that sort. As a conse quence, then* are professional crooks by the hundreds at large in the county, practicing their nefarious profession while under bail. Others, thinking things are getting too warm for them, skip out under the small cash bail. A notorious crook a few days ago robbed a man of $37 7. The judge imposed $500 bail on the crook. He furnished the $500, partly composed of the stolen $377 and then prompt ly skipped the state. While Jeffer son county is wonderfully rich in natural resources and in great In dustrie^ while labor is well paid, and while the county as a whole is prosperous to a degree reached by few counties in the South, it is pay- ng dearly for its crime. NEGRO FINED AGAIN GOVERNOR'S CHAFFEUR PAYS SE COND FINE FOR SPEEDING IN AUTO MEAN MEN ARE SCORED THEY ARE THE CAUSE OF GIRU? GOING ASTRAY. Young Lad Was Drowned. The State says Louis Reeves, the fourteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George B-. Reeves, 2627 Divine St., was drowned at the heal of the Co- umbia canal, two miles north of the city, about five o'clock Wednesday afternoon, and George Galletly, sev enteen years old, had a very narrow escape from death, when a boat with Galletly in it and Reeves clinging to it swept through the main gates. Jailed for Lack of a Penny. Irving Cuter, of Mobile, Ala., will have to Btay In jail ten days for lack of one cent unleM his friends come to the rescue. He was fined that MBooat In court but was unskble to pay. HI ease Pardons the Negro at Once, and Threatens to Put Columbia Under Martial Law if His Negro is Hauled Up Again by the City Authorities. The Columbia Record says Gov ernor Blease Tuesday morning, after nis chauffeur had been fined $15.75 for being convicted of exceeding the speed limit on Main street Saturday night, issued him a full pardon, and addressing an order to Mayor Gibbes and Chief of Police Cathcart to re mit Harrison Neely's fine. The chief of police took the same position in the matter that he took on the other pardon Saturday. He has refused to act on the matter un til the city attorney decides'if Gov- ior Blease has the legal authority to\pardon from municipal courts. 11 are awaiting with intense in terest the final disentanglement of the differeno-s between Gov. Blease and the police department. Much talk is floating on the streets con cerning the affair, and speculation is rife as to the ultimate outcome of the dispute. Recorder Verner Tuesday morning fined the governor's negro chauffeur. Harrison Neeley, $15 or thirty days ior excelling the speed limit on Main street Saturday night. Neeley paid the fine. Approximately * one-half dozen witnesses were examined, and ail were agreed that the automobile was running at a rate of speed ex- cxii-eding the limit allowed by law. The trial of the governor s chauf feur for violating th** speed limit has created intense interest In th** city Tuesday the recorders court was crowded with spectators who follow ed the trend of the testimony closely Probably .’"0 persons were present > This is the second time that Neeley has been fined for speeding Satur day the recorder aaaeaaed htm a fine of $3 7 5 for violating th*- law on Kn day Shortly after, on the same day the chief executive pardoned h:s dri ver. and Chief of F’ollce Cathcart re fused to honor It until he bad recelv »-d legal advice from the city attor- nev H N Edmunds Th** speed ordinance does not a! low an automoidle to go at a greater rat** of speed than tw**|\e n. P-- an hour on Main s'r***t N*-.;,) th** Governor's to k ro. r*-fu***-s to make ati) statement, sav.tig 1 have n<> statement to ttiak* tio* governor was w ;th me an S I w as iD. v i.g him Coin ••man Thatkam wa- th** firs’ witness called H** said ’hat h** saw Neeley driving an automobile on Mam street Saturdav n.gtit at about x 4 1 ' o'clock between Blttnding and Laurel streets, that h** did not time tha machine, but ' it was going from 35 to 40 mtlea an hour Thackam said the governor was an occupant of the car The next witness called was R E Wheeler, a Columbia fireman H** claimed that he saw Neele> driving a ear between Blanding and Laurel streets on Main street Saturday niktht. that, while he could not esti mate th** speed, it wa- going faster than allowed b> law Wheeler said to- driv.-s a machine, and can judge the Speed on** is going (Gorge \ Bruns testified that he saw Ncelev in an automobile as it was passing t!o* intersection of Blanding and M.t.n -’reels on the lat ter thoroughfare Saturday night He* said: "1 would not like to ex press a rate of speed, but he i Neeley i was going over the speed limit." John H. Kleazvr, a merchant, testi fied that he was in his store about L’O feet from the’ door and “heard a Claxton horn and thought it was the fire department. I went to the door and saw a cloud of dust.” Mr. Eleaz- er did not know whose car it was W. W. Pearce testified as follows: ‘T did not see the driver. My wife and I Saturday night were crossing \Main street going from Watson's shoe store to J. H. Eleazer’s store, ^.n automobile passed us at a very rapid rate of speed, and some one said: “ ‘Great God, look at the govern or.’ ” Mr. Pearce said that he did not catch the number of the car; that he did not know Harrison Neeley, but that the automobile he saw was ex ceeding fifteen miles an hour. The last witness, Policeman Hin- nant, testified that he saw Neeley driving an automgbile Saturday night on Main street, between Washington and Hampton streets; that he did not hold a watch on him. Hinnant said that he was standing in front of the Lyric theater when he first saw the automobile; that “I judge he CNeel- ey) was going between thirty and forty milea a hour." Women of the Underworld Warn Young Girls of the Pitfalls That Lay in Their Path. Letters received Wednesday by the Illinois State Senate Commisjion in vestigating vifce in Chicago from wo men of the underworld mocked at the work which the legislators are do ing. One of these letters signed ‘‘K. R. L.” reads: “To the Commission—Girls don’t go wrong because they are hungry, or because they need clothes. They go wrong because they are tempted by lies and overpowered by the evil in men. “They listen to the fair and pretty things that men tell them and they fall because they think they can trust themselves and trust the tempter. It is not the employer. I was a good girl and I worked in a store. “I didn’t get much money, but that didn’t matter. I lived on $8 a week and would be living like that now— but I met men. They seemed to con sider me their prey and all the time it was fight, fight. They wanted to be nice to me, they said and to take me to the theatre and treat me fair— and give me a chance to enjoy life. “I didn’t know men were bad—all had —where a girl is concerned. I thought only women were bad. I thought all a girl had to do to remain good was to be truthful with herself. God pity women who think that and who keep their trust in men until it ;s too late. "Every day it was someone else always smiling at m** always trying to give me a fair chance' to be happy In the street thi v followed tn**. These 1 could avoid; but the 'friends' who hung around’ That is the big secret of the thin*; that makes a good girl bad. if th**> had !»•?: in** be if they had only left in** he oiil) let me live as 1 wanted to. 1 would not have had to slink into the room when your com mission was trving to solve things and wouldn't have had to sit in a corner with my veil down, afraid to look a good woman tn the face " Another cry from the underworld echoed the words of this letter. It was more bitter, though, and it road In part "You're looking for the things that made such women as I low wages Dame halls’ Hunger’ Cold’ They all helped a bit, but they did not turn the tru k themaelvoa You re all a bunch of h'pix rites, afraid to look Hi** thing In Hie face and afraid r,* learn the tru’h I don t know an' girls who sold t he m -e 1) ew for ni**ti**v to b.v Proa 1 or i o' h* *• But I d" know int.t of u* who *1 ' loud for ll*-il. because a 1.0 of ! a kg i.ird- k* p’ hounij.n^ t.e.r ro’ten attentions' he men and not us all right when w.* strat All to be left alone There is and hundreds of kids and -por's who hang »rn.im] State street and wait ami look like wolves for tto* tired girls to leave the storea. W by don't )ou make the men good’ All the wages in the world won t help us Make th** in**n good ami t he girls will be good Now they haven t got a chance ami thev never will have as long aa th.* law smiles at one and spits at another j t hern w r :i 1 • lO't help V. .- r. We Heed . are hundr MCI \i BIN FOR (,o\ KKVOK. Timers Heavily Fined. Greenville city treasury was richer Saturday night by $4,300 in colltu:- ed fine* from blind tigen, who late Saturday compromised 200 oases, growing out of a raid several days ago. This is probab|- the largest sum ever paid in cash in a South Carollaa slty court. Criticism of the Marlboro Senator is Resented. A Columbia dispatch says that for mer Lnited States senator Jno L. Mc- Laurin will be in the race for govern or in 1 !* 1 1 is believed by those who have been watching recent political events. Mr McLaurin has made no dftfinate announcement of his plans, hut it is generally understood that he will offer for governor of next year. Mr Mcl^aurin's criticism of the leg islature, “as the product of a campa ign conducted upon a low plane of thought, nearly every man the pro duct of a bitter factional fight.” brought forth a bitter denounciation from Representative J. J. Evans who denounces Mr McLaurin “as a cheap demagogue and a politician unworthy of the support or thought or consid eration of intelligent men.” He also denounces him as a “Standard Oil De mocrat.” It is believed that if Mr. McLaurin finds enough encouragement that he will undoubtly be in the race for Governor. He is at present State Sen ator from Marlboro County. „ ^ • » ♦ Will Serve Out Time. A Washington dispatch says per haps the most important deeision reached by the new administration in any of its departments ^as the fu ture policy of the post office depart ment that present Republican ap pointees, regardless of how much longer their commission might run, would not be disturbed to make place for Democrats except in case of inef ficiency or neglect of duty. Roper Gets a Fine Place. A Washington dlapatch aaya D. F. Roper, of South Carolina, has been appointed Firat Assistant Postmaster- General. He receiveed his education at Wofford CoUega. vr.: