The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, March 27, 1913, Image 3
WILSONJTIRES
DOES ROT AGIEE VITO PRESI
DENT ABOUT THE
BRYAN GIVES HIS VIEWS
SECRETARY OF STATE AGREES
WITH PRESIDENT.
CHINESE LOAN HATTED
Assistant Secretary of State's Re
quest That His Resignation be Im
mediately Accepted, Respected by
President Wilson, Who Acts Ac
cordingly.—Had Agreed to Serve
Cntil Successor Could be Named.
Huntington Wiison, Assistant and
Acting Secretary of State, has resign
ed that office and insisted upon im
mediate acceptance of the resignation
because of his radical difference of
opinion with the administration re
garding its Chinese policies.
President Wilson immediately ac
cepted the regisnation.
Mr. Wilson, like all assistant sec
retaries in the various departments,
t<-niiert‘d resignation as a matter of
form to President Wilson directly up
on the latter's assumption of office.
Mr. V, ilson was ret)nested to continue
in his place until it should be con
venient for the President to name his
successor. He consented to do so to
accomodate Secretary Rryan in his
desire to mako his present visit to
Lincoln, Neb.
The issuing of the statement from
the \\ hitc House defining the admin
istration s attitude regarding the Chi
nese loan negoiationa is believed to
have been regarded by Assistant Sec
retary Wilson as sufficient to Justify
him in requesting to be relieved at
once from duty.
After telegraphic notice to Secre
tary Mryan of his intentions, Mr. Wil
son late Thursday afternoon dis
patched a note to the White House
terminating hie own service, and
President \\ ilson at once designated
Second Assistant Secretary Adee to
act as Secretary of State during Sec-
letary Hr>an s present absence
A probable result of the r<-«igna-
t:*n isill tie the immediate api>oin?-
niei,' uribr a rec**ss commission, o
Ji't.ti i-a.-i.-tt Moore as counsellor of
tti-- department uf State with author
it> to ait as s.s retary
In a tbousai. ! word letter to Pres
Met.' \Nil«nn the former Acting Sec
retary of Stale set forth that »hen he
consented to continue for a time with
the new administration he did not
und-rwiand there were to be any rad
b a 1 ' tianges of policy for which he
wonl! t„. , ailed upon to act as
s;H>W-t«nian The letter continued In
par'
!.»' be. ornes the duty of the
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ACTED VERY BADLY
HAD A HOT THE IN A POVERTY
PUT AT ONION
He Also Makes Rome Comments on
the Resignation of HU Republican
Assistant.
Secretary of State Bryan Thursday
said he was entirely in sympathy with
President Wilson in the latter’s gtt*-
tude on the proposed Chinese loan.
He declared also he was unable to
agree with what former Ass'sUnt
Secretary Huntington Wilson had to
say concerning the six-power agree
ment.
“I can not, of course, agree with
the former Assistant Secretary,” said
iMr. Bryan, “in what he says concern
ing the six-power agreement. Tho
representatives of a group of bankers
were heard and the matter was con
sidered by the President. The prin
ciples involved were such that it did
not require any great length of time
for the President to understand or
act upon them.
“The Assistant Secretary handed
in his resignation when President
Wilson took the oath of office and ex
pected to sail for Europe last Tues
day. Having to leave the city for a
few days, I asked him to delay his
departure until T returned. This he
consented to do, but he seems to have
felt that the change of policy prevent
ed his remaining. He looked at the
Chinese loan proposition from the
standpoint that former President Taft
and the late Secretary Knox did.
"I have no doubt that in the mat
ter of the Chinese loan, the late Pres
ident and retiring Secretary and As
sistant Secretary did what they
thought best for our country and
China, but I am entirely In sympathy
with the attitude of President Wil
son and heartily endorse both the
position taken and the language em
ployed by him. and I may add that I
am sure Europe will approve of the
change in policy I am equally confi
dent that China will rejoice at our
nation's atMtude
“My associations with the Assist
ant Secretarv Mr Wilson have been
verv pleasant I have found him
courteous and helpful during my con
nection with the department ''
TALKS OF MARTIAL LAW
WARNED AGAINST BECKER
MAYOR GAYNOR WAR TOLD HE
WAR A VERY RAD MAN.
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\t the !*le of Palms and Take Trip to
\ew York by Water
The executive committee of the
State Preaa Association met in Co
lumbia Erlday night and selected
Thursday and Krldav. June 19 and
2b, as the date* for the annual meet
ing ahlch will he held at the Isle of
Palms. <"har!e*ton It wa* decided
to take a trip to New York following
the meeMng. the party to sail from
Charb-non on Saturday moralng
June 21
It was onlv after miph correapon
C. D. Fortner, a Member of the Legis
lature From Hpartanburg and a
Commissioned Constable of Gover
nor TUease Created Excitement at
Union and Was Knocked Down.
The following from The Union
Times will be read with interest:
There was quite a stir in Union
Saturday night, near midnight, and
in Poverty Flat. C. D. Fortner, a
member of the legislature from Spar
tanburg and a man named Forbes
have been operating in Union as de
tectives for Gov. Blease.
Fortner came to Union Tuesday
and gave his name to Chief of Police
Evans as “Smith”, representing the
Virginia Life Insurance Co. He ask
ed Chief Evans questions about Geo.
Fowler ,1^., and the breaking in the
U. & G. S. depot. Chief Evans soon
found that "Smith” was operating
under an assumed name. Forbes
claimed to be acting as detective in
the Coleman and Edge murder cases.
On Saturday night Fortner was
acting badly in the Flat. The trou-
ble commenced at Purcell's alley;
Forbes was rolling on the alley.
Fortner was holding his coat. Fort
ner wa« cursing so that Mr. Purcell
had to call him down. Mr. Painter
also called him down. He continued
cursing until a policeman was sent
for. When he found out that a po
liceman had been sent for he said he
would search Will Estes’ place that
night: that Estes had liquor stored
there and he was going to get it;
that Estee had made his threats he
was going to show him wat he could
BO
He went out and met Policeman J
H May told him he was going to
'search Will Estes' place and to come
on with him He was talking !n a
loud tone of voice ''I'm going to
search the place or put the whol».
town under martial law " U<- came
to police headquarters and met M
M Stroud, tie put | red Stroud to go
with him and raid Estes When
Stroud refused to go stating he could
not le^ve, then he tried to force
Stroud to go Stroud knocked him
down He then deputtxed Police
man Hli. the latter refusing to go
without orders from Chief
'Where ran I get him" '
Over the telephone " he was fold
Chief s telephone rang Just as he
got home Fortner phoned <*hlef
Evans I am Fortner Chief State
detective ' Said he wanted to raid
some places In town that he had
found a lot o' Pj.ior there, and hr
The Condemned Man’s Brother-In-
Law Given Him a Very Bad Record
All Around.
At New Tort on IFTlday letters
read before the Aldermanic commit
tee Inveetigating police graft showed
that Mayor Gaypor and Police Com
missioner Waldo were warned
against the character of Police Lieut.
Charles Becker as far back as Au
gust, 1911. John F. Lynch, brother-
in-law of Becker, bitterly denounced
the former police officer in a letter to
the, mayor. The letter was referred
to Commissioner Waldo, who told the
Mayor that "this seems to be a fam
ily row”, and “Becker is doing excel
lent work.”
“One of my sisters is, unfortunate
ly his wife. She works for him,
teaches school,” Lynch wrote of
Becker, “and he, hero-like, takes her
money. She being away, he asked
another of my sisters to come to his
house yesterday to cook, but imme
diately attempted to assault her.
She successfully resisted him, threat
ening to cut his throat with a knife,
whereupon he got his revolver and
shouted that he would shoot her.
“By yelling ‘murder’ she was able
to get out. He threatened her with
arrt st and said he would get one of
his squad (the ‘strong arm’ squad)
to catch her on the street some night
and lock her up for soliciting. She
came home crying and with her waist
torn."
In a postscript to his letter to the
mayor. Lynch »aid:
“Aa further evidence of hl« char
acter, I would »ay that he has fre
quently expressed the Bentiment re
garding your misfortune of a year
ago that Gallagher should be electro
cuted for not having killed you.”
The Gallagher referred to wa* the
man who shot Mayor Gaynor aboard
a steamship at Hoboken
Another letter, written to the mav-
or last March by one Henry' Williams,
asked that Meeker be Inveatlgat 'd
He ih getting more money than *
former chief of pollre. ' the wr:• e-
aa'.d, naming the chief This missive
was sent by Mavor Uaynor to pol e
headquarters there it was turned <>v
er to Meeker himself, the record
showed for Investigation and re
tort" Ms-rker a ret>ort was tba* fe
had aaalRned a detective lo fird thi
writer and that the detective had fall
* d to do ao
VISITS DOZEN STATES
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Hundreds Injured, Mjany of Whom
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ty Damage Goes into the Millions.
Weather Increases Suffering.
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h,i\ #■ now r> luiqutshed
I bad no reason to suppose that
the officials now on duty at the de
partment of State would learn first
from the newspapers of a declaration
of pollcv which I think shows on Its
fa, e the inadequacy of the considera
tion given to tlu* facts and theories
involved and the failure dearly to
apprehend the motives to and the
purposes of the policy superseded. I
had no reason to suppose that the
fate of negotiations which had so
long had the studious attention of the
foreign offices of six great Powers
would be abruptly determined with
such quite unnecessary haste and in
so unusual a manner.
“These methods, against which I
respectfully protest, are the very ex
traordinary circumstances which I
feel vitiate my understanding with
Mr. Mryan and completely relieve me
of any further obligation in the
premises:
President Wilson replied:
“My Dear Sir: Allow me to ac
knowledge the receipt of your letter
of yesterday, and to say that I ac
cept your resignation, as you suggest,
as of the present date.”
The correspondence was given out
at the White House Friday. Mr. Wil
son's letter of resignation was dated
Thursday. The President's accept
ance was dated Friday.
i i at •• i u «.• i u ring *<> • • .' on.i ■ j
r:. te
The matter of aecuHnr iu ora'nt
'or the annual meeting w .u 1 ■ 0 with
the president, ami he wa* »■ m po a d
to complete ahy arrangements r.e< r*.
sary for the annual meeting The
master printers of the State will
probably hold their annual (’onven-
tion In Charleston two days previous
to the meeting of the Press Associa
tion
Reservations for the trip to New
York should be made at once, an 1
those desiring to go should commun
icate with H. L. Watson, of Green
wood. Those attending the meeting
Friday nigh* were: Robert Lathan.
E. H. DeCamp, A. Ik Jordan. H L
Watson. .1 L. Sims, A. H. Seats and
W. F. Caldwell.
AMAZING COST OF WAR.
Set on Fire by Pipe.
At Elnora, Ind., Mrs. Wm. Sneff
SO years old, while smoking a pipe
Wednesday night allowed some of
the burning tobacco to drotp on her
dress. Before other members of the
family could rfeach her she had been
so severely burned that she died a
few hours later.
Some Idea of the Cost of Keeping Cp
Vast Armies.
An estimate was recently made of
the cost of a great European war
which should involve the important
countries of Europe, says a London
special. The figures in tho estimates
were most impressive. There would
be under arms something like 22,-
000,000 men. At a conservative esti
mate the cost of keeping these men
would be between two and three dol
lars a day per man. All this would
be quite aside from the damage
which would be done by such tre
mendous forces coming into conflict
and the work which would be left
undone, when these many millions of
men became parasites instead of
workers.
Sixteen Killed by Snow.
At Christiana, Norway, sixteen per
sons were killed by an avalanche
which overwhelmed three armies in
the Guddbrands valley In Southern
Norway Thursday.
Kindness Brings Fortune.
Mrs. Albert Hunkers, wife of a
farmer of Warrensburg, Mo., has fal
len heir to $40,000 through her kind
ness to John Rohan, an aged Irish
man, who two years ago went to the
Hunkers home seeking shelter. The
pair cared for Rohan until he died,
two weeks ago. On tep of a pile of
valuable papers found among his ef
fects was a note directing that every
thing be given Mrs. Hunkers. Rohan
had no known relatives.
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xv.itit voM to (oin«* and anhi*'
fh»-of r.w In ’
Chw-f Evans found him at Will
Ei< 1 *•* pla< •• v*;th Sheriff Kant A
large crowd had gathered Thu* was
11 Sat ti rdav night
Forbe« wa* standing at the foot of
the step** Chief Evans called Fort
ner down and told him he would have
to cease curHinK. and a*ked to be
shown his commission Pulled out
one. 191J, signed by Gov Please
Chief Evans askt-d him what he
wanted He said he wanted to go in
that building.
Chief Evans said ‘ I could not
break down any door without a war
rant.’ He then asked for a State
warrant
Forbes and Chief Evans went to
Magistrate Puckett and got out a
warrant. In their absence Will Hs-
'tes came and said he had no objec
tion to the sheriff or Chief Evans
searching, but did -object to having
Fortner, “A d— rascal and spy,’’
searching his place.
Fant said: “I have already search
ed.” They went through again. No
whiskey was found. In the mean
time Estes was arrested by the sher
iff and put under $200 cash bond.
On Sunday before this same buil 1-
ing was searched, but nothing ex
cept a few empty bottles was foun'i
Fortner came out after the search.
He then searched Purcell's place
without any warrant: said he did not
have one. Purcell called Sergeant
Wood and told him to search the
place, but that he did not want this
fellow Fortner to search. That he
had been kicking up a racket all
night. Purcell swore out a warrant
for disorderly conduct against Fort
ner.
No one appeared against Stroud.
The detectives left Sunday for
Chester. Fortner has notified parties
in Union that he will return and
stand trial upon the charge of disor
derly conduct.
♦ .... .
Associate Justice C. A. Woods, of
the State Supreme Court, stand# a
good chance of being appointed a
United States Judge. He would make
an able one, and we hope he will be
appointed.
F (iordull w as
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E t hapman x barn, at Mount Zion
w a* d» moll*h*'d and a niuU» kilb-pi
Man> tv-U'phon** polos aiol tr*-os wor«-
u:-ri)ot**d Tho banks of tho Miildlo
Tigor w oro dtvoupiod of largo wator
oaks
Children on their wav to s< hool
were knocked down, ami even adults
wore severely buffeted Magistrate
.1 M Dean was hurled against a
fence by a particularly violent gust.
The storm was at its greatest fury
for only a few minutes, and did the
most damage in a narrow strip of
country about an eighth of a mile
long r
Al TOMOIULE FOR NOTHING.
A
Rock Hill Man’s Good Luck in
Gueesing Contest.
Hore than sixty persons are re
ported killed and hundreds more In
jured, some mortally, by a gtorra of
tornado intensity which raged over
Central, Western, Southern and parts
of Eastern States Friday. Propct ry
damage will run well into th3 mil
lions.
Definite advice® have been recei ved
accounting for at least 40 persons
dead, with reports from points tom
porarily cut off from wire communi
cation by the storm, adding hourly to
the list.
Reports from Alabama show the
loss of life was heaviest in that State,
the number of dead there being al
ready definitely placed at 28, with c l
ditional fatalities reported, but not
confirmed. Two towns, Thomasvllle
and Lower Peachtree, were practical
ly wiped out. Two are dead in In
diana, two in Tennessee, three in
Ohio, two in New York, cne in Michi
gan and two lu Louisiana.
Accompanying the death Hats ars
estimate* of the Injured totalling
more than 200, with additions c lin
ing in at brief interval*.
Coming up out of the southwest
early Friday morning, Ju*t aa ■pCu*
wa* ushered in, the *torm swept witn
startling suddenness diagonally across
the country from Northern Texas to
Western Pennsylvania and New
York, bisecting the Mississippi Ys -
ley and moving northeastward actoes
the Ohio Into the Great Lake region
Shifting winds of great violence
accompanied in various section.* by
snow, sleet and hall, rharaclente 1
the xtorm. easily the most destructive
of the >esr snd rsrely equalled in the
extent of Its sweep snd damage
Mulldlngs toppled before the blow in
nearly a dozen atales and death lay
all along in Its wake.
The property loss was heavy along
the storm's track Besides demolish-
trig or unroofing buildings and falling
trees, the high winds, rain, hall and
■ leet did aertoua damags to aarly
crops, according to raports from aoma
of the affected sections. Estlmataa
of damage to property from Indians
and Michigan alone aggregate 12
on** ooo. shout evenly divided be
tween the two state* Early report*
of losaea. ranging from 125 000 to
|’,oo,ooo. or more, from section* of
the xtorm region Indicated that the
total would reach large figures
\\ lr.«w 'e,; m all directions bafor*
the Mow Not in many >esrs has
•'.•!• Peon *u! h prostration of tele-
Kfiph and telephone a*-rx|ce Cht-
: « it" wa* rut off for hour* from com
munication with points caat Only
> devious route* w*g connection
l finally •■etablished
| Thursday night conditions had Im
prove] materially, but it will be sev
eral day* before normal service Is re
store Railroad traffic was seriously
delayed In many districts, where wire
communication was crippled and
washouts occurred
The wind which wiped out so much
property snd cost so many live* at
tained record velocities at some
point* Figure* given by the weather
bureau in Washington showed that
at I>etrolt It reached 8* miles an
hour, a new high record In that city;
84 miles at Toledo, 88 miles at Buf
falo; Memphis, 64 miles, and Louis
ville r>3 miles.
Cold weather is trailing the de
structive blow. The *torm seems to
have spent its force and to be taking
the accustomed route of such disturb
ance's out of the St. Lawrence Valley.
Here is a piece of luck which will
strike us all once in a while: Mr.
Hamilton C’arhartt, the well known
manufacturer of Detroit, Canada and
Rock Hill, several months ago offer
ed a $2,50t) automobile to the pur
chaser of his products who would
come nearest guessing the number
of votes cast for Woodrow Wilson
in the election in November. Mr. W.
A. Orr, of Edgemore, near Rock Hill,
bought $2 worth of Carhartt supplies
from a local merchant and recorded
two guesses. When the official vote
was canvassed It was found that Mr.
Orr had made the closest estimate
and he was much surprised and de
lighted when notified of his good for
tune.
Bat Reaator Ttlhnaa Gaa’t
stand How Mhrtia
His Head to Becoase a
The Augusta Chronicle says while
in Augastn Saturday Senator B. R.
Tillman, with characteristic rigor
and his old time Are had aome snappy
and terse comments to make upon
the recent Democratic caucus In
Washington. He repented hla warn
ing against what he considers the
“ravenous scramble for office” in
which the Democrats are indulging.
Senator Tillman’s utterances enme
as a suggested afterthought to hit
sensational speech, delivered before
the caucus, in which he yielded his
contention for chairmanship of the
appropriations committee which, by
right of seniority, he claimed should
have fallen upon his shoulders but
was given by the steering committee
to Senator i.Martin, of Virginia. Thti
surrender, the Senator told the cau
cus, was made for the sake of party
harmony.
Asked what had been the effect of
what he considered a gross injustice
and a violation of the rule of senior
ity, that has obtained for so long in
the Senate, and also what effect it
would have on his attitude to the
Wilson adminisration, Senator Till
man said:
“I am not brooding over it. I am
not unhappy about it.
“Perhaps it was a special provi
dence to keep me from killing myself
at work for the success of the Wood-
row Wilson administration.
“What pussies ms,” ths Senator
said, “Is how Martin Jumped over my
head to become a Progreeeive, and if
he was not progressive enough to be
made chairman of the caucus, why h#
should have been made chairman of
the appropriations committee.” Then
as if to dismise that thought, he
added. "But I more earneetly dee Ire
Wliaon’s eucceee as president, and
the realisation of the hopes of the
country, than anything for myself.
My name In history ia made; my
fame Is secure.
“If anybody thinks the upheaval
in politics last November was brought
about by the people solely to turn
out Republicans end put In office
hungry Democrats they are damned
badly mistaken Only when a Demo
crat la efficient, or caa soon become
so. should a Republican be tnrned
out to make room for aa appoint
ment
“I believe there are enongh Demo
crats to fill the offices and they ought
to have them as soon as we are cer
tain we have the right man for the
place, but it is an wise as well ee un
patriotic to turn efficient and honest
Republicans ost Just te torn green
and hungry Democrats In. The Amt
care should be for efficiency of gov
ernment. snd I hope and believe that
will be President Wilson’s policy.”
Although asked for an expression
of opinion on the political situation
In South Gsrollna. Senator Tillman
xtould not dlscuas State politics, ex
cept to say “I am holding my nose
every time I think of the situation
snd wishing I was strong enough to
get on the stump again and talk to
the people about it.”
Senator Tillman, however, intimat
ed that he expected to as plods a
bomb in th# political camp in hla
State, although he refused to any
what It was. “Ton mny Juat any,”
he aald. "that I am Incubating some
thing for South Carolina people
which I will let off before I return to
Washington.”
Arson Crimes to Amaze Public.
The remarkable extent of the ar
son frauds by means of which the in-
surance^companlea have been swin
dled out of millions were disclosed at
Chicago Tuesday when Judge Wade
issued seventy warrants for persons
implicated by evidence in the hands
of Assistant States’ Attorney John
son. The latter said at least an
equal nur. her of warrants would be
taken out later. He declared the
public wonld be amazed when the
full story of the arson ring is known.
Five llodies Recovered From Ruins.
Workmen Thursday continued
their work to recover bodies believed
to have been buried beneath wreck
age of the Malcolm Canning Co.’s
main building at Medicine Hat Al
berta, when it was destroyed by fire
ami a gas explosion late Wednesday.
Only five bodies have been found, but
there were persistent rumors that 3 0
employees were in the building when
the walls fell. A small blaze started
after a broken gas main filled the
main building with fumes. Property
loss has been estimated as high as
$100,000.
Marries Sweetheart’s Mother.
Irving Volkee, 19 years old, of
Dover Plains, N. Y., after courting
the young daughter of Mrs. Amanda
Colby, aged 69 years, changed his
mind and decided to ask the widow
for her hand. He was accepted. The
woman owns a fine country home
and is said to be very wealthy
Volkes is a caretaker.
Evidences of Sen Tragedy.
Fragments of wreckage picked op
Monday on the coast of Norway gave
conclusive evidence that the German
steamer Peru via, with ita crew of 28
officers and men, waa lost In a storm
there some time ago.
TILLMAN'S REQUEST GRANTED.
Statement to Oancns Will Go in Con
gressional Record.
When Senator Tillman arose In
the Senate Monday to request unani
mous consent for the printing of his
statement to the Democratic caucus
last Saturday in the Congressional
Record, Senator James, of Kentucky,
asked if it was Intended to include
the letters th&t were read with ths
statement.
Senator Tillman explained that it
was not Intended to do so unless the
author of one of the letters gave his
consent, wher^pon the Kentuckian
expressed his satisfaction and the re
quest was granted. It is understood
that the letter under consideration
was from President Wilson, and that
the South Carolina Senator is wait
ing to hear from him on the subject.
Marriage Creates Sensation.
A runaway marriage in Washing
ton created a sensation Saturday, and
as a result Mrs. Anna Middleton,
wealthy and prominent In society Is
prostrated while her daughter now,
Mrs. William P. Storty, says thjt she
defiantly “does not care what the
people say”. The couple were mar
ried December 17 last. The marriage
only leaked out Saturday.
Taxicab Bandits Rownded Up.
Joseph Taylor, a dapper cane-twirl-
Ings young man, who coolly confess
ed to the police of New York Monday
night that he is the leader of a head
of taxioalb bandits. Is expected by the
police to make revelations which will
lead to further arrests. Besides Tay
lor, ten men are held as the resell of
the detectives* work.
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