The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, May 01, 1913, Image 6
PS ■
► - - • W'k.
1.-
THE MID
VU K UK n SHIV
RArrsGtttm
IT UST SAILED
'■h t
i j 4 ■
.^ir
?#•
Tbc Fleet That Will Make the Trip
^ Will be Mach Larger Than the One
That Sailed Around the World
Daring President Roosevelt’* Term
Of Office.
When the American fleet sails for
tb* Mediterranean in January, it will
tai a fleet of nearly twice the muzsle
energy of the famous buttle fleet sent
around the world in 1907 by former
.‘President Roosevelt and a fleet of
half again as great tonnage.
1 The schedule and ports of call re
main to be worked out, and it merely
hoe been announced that the big fleet
»WPnM tour the Mediterranean in di
visions. It was the original plan, in
connection with the opening of the
. Panama canal, to have the fleet pass
through from the Atlantic to the Pa-
dfllc about January 1, the tentative
date of the opening. This practically
is disarranged by the decision to send
the fleet abroad, but it was pointed
out that from the Mediterranean it is
comparatively a short voyage thru
the Sues canal and into the Pacific
and the fleet could return that way,
making the passage through the
canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
The main ships of the line to go on
the January cruise will be the battle-
skip Wyoming. Florida, Arkansas,
''Delaware, North Dakota, Utah, Ver
mont, Louisiana, Michigan, New
’Hampahlre, ftouth Carolina, Virginia.
Ouorgla. Nebraska, New Jersey.
• mkode Island, Minnesota, Connecti
cut. Kansas and Idaho.
Comparing these ships with the
buttle fleet which went around ths
, world, they aggregate a tonnage of
Ift.ieO as against 223,(00. Navy
point out that a more striking
pie of the advance In the navy's
fighting power is shown by
a comparison of the mutsl* energy of
Ike main batteries of the fleet with
tke world girdling fleet of 1007.
la round figures the mussie energy
of tke buttle Suet of 1107 summed up
l,tS0.00f-foot pounds Tbs main bat
teriee of the fleet, which will make
Ike Mediterranean trip with total 9
IIS.000-foot pounds -almost twice
as much.
The battleships will be arcompa
uied by all the destroyers that can be
gpqrsd sad so aerompan!mo*t of re-
pair-aad supply skips. This official
uasouaosmeat by Secretary Daniels
makes it apparent that the ships will
go fully equipped
While It Is the plan now to have
tke ah Ip* sail about January 1. and
make their first call at Gibraltar
with possibly a stop or two on the
way, a schedule and plan of the ports
of coil has sot been worked oat
Those who will watch the tour of the
test are evincing n greet deal of In
ter net as to what the schedule win
provide.
Tke Navy Deportment's official an
oouBcement declares the fleet will be
too large to be accomodated at any
one time In many barbora to be visit
ed and that at Gibraltar It will he
divided and make a tour of the Medi
tsrranean la divisions.
Official announcement of the fie«‘t *
movement, as made at the Navy !>»•
partment, declared th#*hbject waa to
send the fleet jm a pleasure cruiac to
tlmulyjo uadfstment and educate o
cert and men Accompanying the
announcement was a comparative
statement of the fighting strength of
the fleet as pgalnat the battle fleet of
1907 and also a short review of the
first of the new navy to cruise in for
sign waters and the cruiae of the
battle fleet of 1907.
The White squadron had four ves
sels. Their total tonnage was 16,-
220, Just that of the Connecticut,
Evans’ flagship in the famous battle
ship cruise. The total muzzle energy
of the squadron’s main battery was
120,000 foot tons, that of Connecti
cut la 370,000. A salvo of the squad
ron flrecl.4,900 pounds of projectiles;
that of the Connecticut 7,500 pounds.
The New York, launched October
80, 1912, with 27,500 tons displace
ment, 15,0,00 pounds and 700,000
foot tons In a salvo Is nearly twice
the size and fires three timee the
weight of metal, with six times the
energy of the w'hole Jamous "white
squadron" In 1890.
The battleship fleet of 1907 wa«
composed of 16 battleships, five aux
iliaries and the second torpedo flotil
la. The fleet called at Trinidad. Rio
de Janeiro, Punta Arenas, Callao,
Magdalena bay and arrived at San
Francisco iMuy 6, 1908, a total dis
tance of 15,000 miles. Thence Die
fluet visited Puget sound, returned to
San Francisco and sailed on July 7,
via Honolulu, New Zealand, At i tralia
and Manila, for Yokohama, arriving
there October 18, 1908 after a jour
ney of 16,000 miles and spending a
Week of courteous exchange of com
pliments. The fleet assembled at
Ifaailla, departed thence December 1,
, via Ceylon. Sues and Gibraltar
anchored In Hampton Roads
28. 1909, 12,465 xnllsa sail
completing what is
Iks greatest practice cruise
history of as vies.
SCORED BY TILLMAN
WRITES HOT LETTER TO ONE OF
THE PROTECTED.
South Carolina Senator Says Nation
at Large is Going to Get Its Share
or Stop Stealing.
The Washington correspondent of
The State says Senator Tillman wrote
a red hot letter Monday to John Fis-
ler of Philadelphia, who is largely
Interested In the Worsted Spinners’
association, in answer to one from
him, In which the South Carolina
senator takes Issue with the man
from the Quaker State as to the Un
derwood tariff bill being “radicaNy"
wrong.
Mr. Flsler’s letter is as follows;
"There are many members of con
gress who know that the Wilson bill
now before them is radically wrong
in a very great many respects. They
know it is a deadly blow at the work
shop and yet they are doing nothing
to defeat It. Why? Is It the promise
of political patronage? Is it the
promise of committee appointments?
If so, do they intend to sell out this
great, free, liberty-loving people, for
a ‘mess of pottage’? Don't you be
with them, anyhow.”
To this Senator Tillman replied:
'Yours of April 19 received. Are
you right sure that you are correct In
charging that the tariff bill now be
ing considered by congress is 'radi
cally wrong in a very great many re
spects’?
"Are you not one of those Repub
lican protectionists who have fatten
ed all these years at the expense of
the people and have grown rich with
out honest work from lfV Pennsyl
vania has had her full share of the
graft and stealing wrought by the
protective tariff and the rest of the
country Is now trying to get Its share
or pull you off Iletter revise your
viewpoint and give other people the
credit of being an patriotic and wise
as you are "
< l/OHING AT WOFFORD.
ttp8.
Forty ie the Graduating <lo/m Thin
Veer at Great School.
The 1913 Wofford rommenre-
ment programme has recently been
completed Saturday. Juae 7. will
be the opening night and the princi
pal feature of that evening will be
the annual junior debate After the
debate tarloun medala for a< holar
ahlpn. raaayn. poetua and ntonea will
be delivered, alao rupn for athletic
feats
The commencement sermon will
be preached Sunday morning June
K. by Hlshvp K l> Mouron. < lasa of
'M of San Antonio. Tema Pr»-m
d»-nt Henry N Snyder will d»i »er
the bacca 1*ur«at«* aiblr'n* on Sun
day evening at * 3" Hoth of
exerclae* will be held in I'entral M
K Ufiurch
Monday. Jane 9 wrill be nommenc*-
ment day At the morning eier< Ue»
atv seniors will make addrtaaaa di
plum a* will be delivered, announce*
menta made and the annual addreea
will be delivered (o the graduating
claaa by Dr John K White of At
lanta. the well known author and
Itaptiet mtnlater
Monday afternoon, from 5 to C
o'clock, the clasii of 1913 will hold
farewell exer< tee* on the Uwn In
front of th*- main building Imuu-i
lately following thewe exercises there
will tie a reception given bv (tie fac
ult and ttieir wives to the friends
and r-iatUes of the senior clis> i in
Carlisle Hall
Mondav night will tie alumni
night At s Mr K It. Smith, ot
fhe class of 1S77, now editor of the
Paltimorp American, will make the
annual alumni oration At t" t"
P M the seniors and old Wofford
men will meet in the dinning room of
Carlisle Hail for the alumni banquet.
LUMBER PLANT BURNED
DAMAGE WILL REACH HALF M1U
I JON DOLLARS.
Plant of the Atlantic Coast Lumber
Company at Georgetown Almost
Entirely Destroyed.
The plant of the Atlantic Coaat
Lumber corporation at Georgetown,
said to be one of the largest lumber
plants in the world, having a capacity
of one-half million feet per day, Was
almost completely destroyed by a Are
which broke out Tuesday morning at
about five o’clock. Fanned by a
strong wind from the north which
increased as the flames made head
way it seemed that nothing In the
pathway of the flames could escape,
but one of the mlHs which was locat
ed north of where the fire commenc
ed and another which was not direct
ly in the direction of which the wind
was blowing remain standing.
Two mills, together with the pow
er house and two dry kilns and a
vast amount of lumber, some 10,000,-
000 feet, were destroyed.
The loss Is estimated at about one-
half million dollars, completely cov
ered by insurance.
It Is quite a serious proposition to
a great many people who were em
ployed In these mills, as well as to
business generally in Georgetown
and vicinity, as this was the chief in
dustry in this section, but the man
agement has announced that the
work of rebuilding will be started at
once, and that the two mills which
were not burned will be run day and
night, so it Is hoped that it will not
turn out to be as serious as was at
first anticipated.
Owing to the fact that most of the
pumps were put out of commission
during the early stage of the fire very
little could be done to check the
flames HoweYer, the plant of the
Dupont Powder company, which
manufacture* alcohol from sawdust
whs hhv• » tiy heroic work on the part
of th* igement and employees of
that p ■(
re ottrai-fed great
•ntton
ar
irge crwwil of jieople in fart
*• me who could poar bly get out
tu . |J out to wit new* It
TOOK HIS OWN I JFK.
<'an*r of Haeh l^erxl Due to Poet Ufe
of Hu I ride.
The following from a Concord N
C paper give# further detail* of the
■ utrtd** of G VS Allen, the former
resident of Greenville who had *erv
*-d a term in the South Carolina pen
Itenliary for murder and wtioae
daughter took her own life at her
home in Gre«nMile aeveral month*
ago
Standing In the presence of hi*
M'ung wife a bride of only two
month*, and with n.-r frantiral!>
pleading for him not to do *o G \V
Allen, an employee of the Globe
Tonic Company, fired a bullet Into
hi* breaat in hta room at the Hopkin*
Houae on K*m Depot atreet. Inflict
mg a mortal wound, from which he
died an hour later The rauae of the
rash deed appear* to relate to the
dead man » paat life in South Caro
lina
He had been in Greenville only
'hre«* weeks, w a* know n only to a few
people and n<> one with the poaslble
except Ion of his business associates
were familiar with his pawt life In
qulrles. however, reveal the fact that
Ins career m that State had been
checkered A former wife, it devel
ops, js living In South Carolina and
1 from whom it not known whether
In* secured a divorce and on account
| of whom h>- shot a m an in South C ar
|ol:n;a and was sentenced to a term In
prison, being pardoned in Ibln by
(lovernor Ansel.
MCK BY FIEND
IITHEI AND SIN HABIT HDBT
IN THEII HOME
TRIED TO MAKE ESCAPE
THEY ARE SHUT OUT
No Federal Otticea fa»r the New Jer
sey (Vowd.
E. Tracy Landerman, friendly to
the Wilson branch of the party in
New Jersey, is exiaected to get the
postmastership at Hast Orange
though Washington Cross was en
dorsed by Representatives McCoy
and Townsend and supported by-
Smith and Nugent Democrats. A
similar situation exists at Atlantic
City. The white house let it be
known that John F. French is con
sidered to be allied with the Smith-
Nugent people and the post probably
will go to supporter of Wilson, Wil
liam B. Loudenslager.
. Kills Husband This Time.
At Calumet, Michigan, one year
ago, Mrs. Anna Kusasio inflicted
injuries which almost ended fatally.
She was afterward committed to an
asylum. Tuesday the woman who
recently discharged as cured again
attacked her husband with an ax as
he lay sleeping and killed him.
Knpw at Caeaar’s .Head.
A Greenville dispatch says theree
Inches of snow is reported in the
mountain* at Caeaar’s Head, twenty-
five miles north of that city. Moon-
talneera comlnj into the city Tues
day say the snow commenced to fall
Monday afternoon at t.SO o’clock,
and continued until nightfall.
DIES OF SOME DRUG.
Young Woman Takes Her Own Life
in a Moron Hotel.
An unknown woman, whose name
is* said to be Ktliel Adams, died re
cently at the Macon hospital from an
overdose of morphine and cocaine
administered by her own hand. Since
she came to Macon in February she
has been stopping at the Elberta
hotel, from which place she was re
moved just before she died. The
body has been prepared for burial
and will be interred at the expense
of the county, as she left no funds or
effects that would divulge her Iden
tity. She was a very attractive
blonde and appeared to be about
twenty years of age.
Ready to Meet Death.
At New York, "Happy Jack’’ Mul-
rqney, recently reprieved from the
death chair for sixty days on the
pleas that he allowed himself to be
wrongfully convicted of the murder
of "Paddy, the Priest," because he
was unwilling to squeal on a pal,
wrote Judge Rosalski Wednesday
that he was "willing to take my medi
cine.” and asked that proceedings in
applicatloq for a new trial be aban
doned.
Herman Kelly, a Negro, Was Arrest
ed, Charged With Striking the
Wife ancl Young Son of Coast Line
Employee With Wrench, ami
(Vowd Wanted to Lynch Him.
Tli<‘ Florence correspondent of The
News and Courier says an attempt,
.supposedly to take the life of a well
known Florence lady and her son,
Ferdinand, at their home, 104 East
Front street, about 9:30 o'clock Sat
urday night, was made by a negro
with the use of a part of a heavy "S"
wrench. But for their screams and
prompt response of neighbors and
members of the police force, both of
them no doubt would have been mur
dered. The husband, who was at
work in the A. C. L. yards, was ap
prised of the deed later in the even
ing. The story as given by Chief of
Police H. M. Brunson, who, with
Foreman Mack Worrell, of the chain
gang, soon ran to earth the negro
supposed to have committed the as
sault, Is as follows:
The lady, the wife of an Atlantic
Coast Line trainman, and her twelve-
year-old son. were alone at their
home. Rome one knocked at the
door and upon investigation It proved
to be a negro, said to be named Her
man Kellv. who had been sent there
to buy milk He did mft have a v*—-
•*e] to take the mil* tn and he w a.~
lent a pitcher which he was to re
turn Later in the evening Kelly re
turned with the pitcher and. accord
!ng to th*' police story, as he han I d
the lady the vessel he caoght her by
the arm and struck her over the Lead
with a part of a steel ' S" wrench,
which is u-ej by Tick force* for
tigh'enmg rail holts Th* 1 tdow par
Dally felled her and she began
acrer.rnlng The a»sail*nt ir’rurk her
sgaln and hy this tlm* 1 her »*>n wh -
had been a*leep, was awaken*-! and
he ran Into the yard screaming
Thinking that he had probably
»l*ln the lady, the negro ran out
after the boy. felling him Hy this
Mme neighbor* began to reach the
place and fearing he would be caught
the negro, auppoaed to hare been
Kellv ran through the hack var i and
attempted to scale a high fence to th*-
aide of the premises In doing wo
however, a board broke with him
and he fell heavilv to th** ground
Vs h*- fell hi* arm w.»s caugh' on the
end of a picket and th*- »k n torn off
In th;* condition and with hP>o!
from his rP tlm • wound# smear*-!
over ID* clothing he mail*- good for
Die time Ills e«( a;>e
It was not long afterwards before
a great crowd gathered and the po
lice ofTcera proceeded 'u run down
the negro <*hl* i f Hrunsoc and (i'f,c#-r
Worrell followed a clue and •hortlv
after midnight a' the horn** of Jack
Black, whose wife Is an aunt of K*-l
!v s They arrested Kelly, who i*
charged as being the man who corn
mltfed th* 1 deed
When arrested Kelly Is said to
have had 'he scratch on ’he arm
whlc h 11 ,h thought was mad** in the
fall over the fence The officers took
Kel
for* 1 hls v ictitns. w ho Idc-nt.
Child Choked to Death.
A small colored child from thi«
county died on a train on iU way to
Charleston recently from choking. It
gqt a nut of some kind lodged in it*
throat, and waa on its way to Char-
leeton for treatment.
fled him .is being th** right party
Kelly w i- th*-n carried to the swioti
hoimo and Inter removed to th* 1 i.v.l
Pv th Is t'me there were various
run.or-. .1 - to what would be clone
with him ,f Die ctowd could get at
him Throughout the day yesterday
tho deed committed was the talk of
the town, and as the day grew into
night squads of men who were seen
talking soon gathered in a crowd.
Shortly after nine o'clock it had
reached sonic 1 l.nO or J'lO men. It
seemed that this gathering proposed
to take* summary action on Kelly;
and not only .velly, but the McIntosh
hoys, who, it will be* remembered,
arc; in jail under the senteneb of
death for the murder of little Andrew
Jackson last February one year ago,
and who are awaiting the Supreme
Court’s decision, and lynch the three
of them at one time. About ten
o'clock a move was made and the
crowd proceeded to the jail, and Jail
er Bryant was called up. Upon open
ing the door several of the crowd
called upon him to surrender the
keys, which he refused to do, but
which he was later forced to give up,
and while held captive an attempt
was made to gain entrance to the
cell room in which the cages are
located, but it seems that Bryant
gave up the wrong keys and the mob
failed to reach their prey.
By thi§ time a telephone message
to the police station from the jail, or
from some one in the neighborhood,
reached the chief, who happened to
be in the central station. With Desk
Sergt. Joseph F. Turbeville, he hur
ried to the jail, and at the same time
the chief made a call for other men
who were out on their beats. When
the crowd saw the officers coming
down upon them they quickly scatter
ed, and only a few remained. Chief
Brunson, it is said, rushed in upon
the crowd with Sergt. Turt>eville
close at hls heels and palled some of
the men back from the Jail door.
This broke op the sappoead at-
i
SCHOOL KIDS STRIKE
HIVE THEIR VIEWS
TIE PAITT LEADERS TALI ABOUT
THE TARIFF
THEY DIFFER GREATLY
THEY REMAIN AWAY FROM,
THEIR CLASS ROOMS.
»— -
The Dietorbance Was Designed as a
Protest AgaioHt - Live Retention of
Hupertntendent.
The strike of school children at
Pittsburg against S. L. HeetCr, su
perintendent of the city’s public
school system, spread rapidly Tues
day and resulted in one death. A
little girl was run down by a street
car and killed during one of the dem
onstrations.
Beginning (.Monday w hen hundreds
of children remained away from
schools a protest against Heeler, who
last Friday was acquitted by a Jury
of two serious charges prt-leired by a
female domestic employed at his
home, the strike gained great pro
portions Tuesday, in all parts of the
city thousands of school children pa
raded the streets, tying up traffic at
a number of busy points.
Police reserves were called out to
maintain order. Late in the after
noon when the demonstrations had
ceased the Pittsburgh board of edu
cation held a meeting at which a
committee of seven prominent men
was asked to investigate the various
alleged charges of immorality against
Heeler.
The committee follows-. W. H.
Stevenson, president of Chamber of
i ommerce; Valentine Parle, presi
dent Iron City Central Trades coun
cil; Bishop C L. Whitehead of the
Pittsburgh diocese; A. Leo Well,
president of the Voters' League of
Ptishurgh. Bishop J R Canvin of
th* 1 Pittsburgh Roman Catholic, dio-
rt-se, the Rev. Geo. W. Shelton, pas-
•nr of the Second Presbyterian
Church, the Rev Hr M J Levy,
rabbi of Kodehh Shalom synagogue.
The unique strike caused th* 1 police
considerable inconvenience A score
of the youthful marchers were detain
ed at the various police stations until
their parents could b** notified One
little girl was run over and killed by
a street car during th excitement or
rasloned by one of the parade*
('has McCool. aged 33. was arrest
ed in front of a school building an 1
charged with disorderly conduct He
H alleged to have been seen attempt-
.ng to prevent children from enter
mg school William Slater aged 67.
was taken Into custody, charged with
Inciting a riot
Slater and several women attacked
two officer* who were breaking up
banners carried bv children Inscrlb |
ed ' Kick Heeter t>u'. ' Banner* of)
all description*, some of them tnflam 1
matorv. are In evidence all over the
. 4. - *,,-I „ „ ■ 0*«>**e who had amaased fortune* un-
ctrv At a number nr points during-
. , d*-r it !. »v, . onirolb-d Die gov. rnm.-nt
the lav Heeter w a* hanged and burn
Chairman Underwood, the Able
Democratic Leader, Plainly Points
Out Wherein Protective Policy
Fails and Revision Measure Takes
Place of Evils of Republican Plan.
Beginning the debate in the house
Wednesday on the Democratic tariff
revision bill Representative Oscar W.
Underwood of Alabama, the majority
leader, predicted great relief for the
nation through the passage of the
pending bill, Representative Angus P.
Gardner of Massachusetts voiced Re
publican skepticism, for the country’s
future under such a tariff system as
that proposed, and Representative
Kelly of Pennsylvania expressed the
opposition of the Progress.ve party
to all tariff bills framed under the
present system.
Mr. Underwood In out'rning the
bill severely criticised the protective
tariff theory based on the cost o: pro
duction difference's at home and
abroad, and praised the competitive
tariff theory, declaring it would
strengthen American industry and
send Am* rican products into the
world’s markets.
He denounced the raising of taxes
by tho proteitive tariff as unjust, be-
cau-e he said it taxed equally the
working men ami the multimillion
aire He pointed out that the rates
in Mi* 1 pending bill were substantial
red net ions from the rates in the ex
isting law and declared that the low
er rates wouli r-sult in a reduction
in the cost of living to the consum
ing pu' lie Mr Underwood did not
discuss the income tax feature of the
bill, leaving that to Representative
Hull of Tennessee, who will Speak
later
"The enactment of this bill Into
law will mark the end of an ttxa In
the fiscal administration of this
country and the beginning of a new
on* 1 . Mr Underwood began, while
the Democrats applauded Mr Un-
derwi.ol disruased the origin af Die
present ' high tariff ayatem". declar
ing tbit it was instituted a* an emer
gency n)*-a«ure during the War Be-
tw *-en t he Sect ion*
Tl •-**«' tin;u*' war taxes ' be said.
I' lav. been maintained ever a.n< *• ami
el In eft-g'
SMITH sT\KTs 1<> WORK.
♦ —
Active In Ketialf of A|>*>ll< anl*. f.*r
1 esleral J.*t»w.
The Washington correspondent of
The Stat*- Has* South Uarudan* who
are waiting fur federal pla.es ami In
* ‘ o** 1 behalf Senator Srul’h I* work
Ing will be glad to know that th*- lat
ter Tuesday 'tarted out Ir* mediately
after breakfast while the senate was
not in session, and visited a number
of th* 1 departments rrom which thear
appointments are expee'ed to come
When Senator Snu’h saw th*- seer*-
’ary of the navy. Die attorney gen
> r.tl ami other department beads, h* 1
-ai l tnat ju>t at th s particular turn 1
I.*- d.id not care to say anyDiing about
Du-se matters for publication , xc.-pt
Diat he w a> mmdi encourage 1 and
be!,evt'd that at least on* good ouDl
Danilina app-en* im-i.t nUgh* 1 • an-
mmm ed when the senate tm >'s to
day
ex ept 'or one hr:.-' in'* 'val
In I. a d s< llssloti he followed ( !o*e-
1. ’: .* r. ie n t ' outline! in D-* 1 re
port .d ’be 11* tno. ra’ic map r.ty of
! lib way* an I - all- committee
<iur great r«-a[*< ns 1 'ell'v ," d* i < lar-
• ! Mr ! mlerwoud ' la t.’.e Interest
am! rig’bla of the great mass of con
sumers among the American people.
From our v . w point industry muat
be considered a* secondary to tho
rights of the consumer
Kelerrlng to the increased cost of
liviig Mr Underwood said
\ great proportion of this in-
rrease was caused by th* 1 abnormally
high protection given to the great
manufacturing interests of the count*
fi > under th* 1 tariff."
Mr Underwood said, however, that
? he pa-sago of t lit
b 11 would
1 o w • • 1 by r•
ID mg-
' U.llU I bell
Munocratic tariff
mmediately fnl-
ueMotis in the cost of
add* 1
"that
W II I. I II I. THE RILL.
Editor L ike \\ ill Land Spartanburg
Job.
/A
Congressman Joseph T. Johnson
announced at Spartanburg Wednes
day. afternoon after a day of confer-
ence with friends concerning the
post office situation in Spartanburg
that lie w:.ould appoint his former
secretary, P. H. Fike.
Mr. Fike is at present city editor
of the Spartanburg Herald and is
one of the best known newspaper men
in the State. Pike's appointment will
co far toward healing many of the
wounds that have been made by the
bitter controversy over the matter
that has been engendered during the
last few weeks.
Mr. Fike is a native of Laurens
county, a graduate of Wofford col
lege and has bees in newspaper work
for more than fifteen years, liis ap
pointment is accepted in Spartanburg
situation.
it is said there is a powerful lobby
in Washington trying to defeat the
tariff bill. We do not believe it will
he able to corrupt the Democrats and
sidetrack the bill.
tempt at violence and it was only a
few moments before the crowd dis
persed, but not before being ordered
by the chief to do so. The mother
and son are badly Injured, but are
getting along fairly well, although
both of them are very nervous over
their experience. Robbery is suppos
ed bo have been the motive for the
deed.
within a reasonable time after trm
merchants have disposed of the goods
-ought under high protective tariff
the people of tins country will find
the cost of living decreased.”
Representative Gardner admitted
that the people of the nation had
repudiated the Payne tariff and that
the Republican parry had been dis
lodged from power because it had
'-been too slow to recognize growing
evils and permitted a "far too power
ful oligarchy” to run the government
In its way instead of in the people's
way.
He cautioned the Democrats to live
up to their promises to the people,
declaring he believed that if they did
not, the people would turn to the new
Progressive party.
"Suppose that the Democrats fail
to carry out their radical program,"
said Mr. Gardner, "will the country
turn to our party? I doubt It.
"The people wish to try some of
these new ideas and are willing to
risk the consequences of their prov
ing disastrous. The Republicans
have not given them what they ,wish
ed. If the Democrats follow our ex
ample it need surprise no one should
the people turn to the Progressive
party. In fact, this Is the only direc
tion in which I can see a future for
that party.’’
In presenting the views of the
Progressive party, Representative
Kelly criticised bitterly the present
method of tariff legislation. He said
that the Underwood bill, like every
other tariff bill in the history of the
country, was "framed on a basis of
insufficient information and political
and partisan logrolling.” The solu
tion of the tariff problem, he declar
ed, could only be found in the adop
tion of the progreaalve policy of plac
ing the tariff in the hands of a cap
able, nonpartisan commission.
-ft