The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, April 16, 1914, Image 3
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FOR LAW WDUCATI
ION
Wofford Professor Outlines His Views
on the Importance of People Unit
ing for the Sake of
Doesn't Want the Office at Cost
Personal Bitterness and Hate.
Dr. John 0 Clinkscales, professor
of mathematics at Wofford college,
Spartanburg, candidate for governor
In the Democratic primary the com
ing summer, has given out the fol
lowing platform in a 8tatenreiit"~to-f-*t
the people:
When any man presumes to offer
himself for any office in the gift of
the people he is expected to have rea
sons therefor and it is his duty frank
ly and sanely to state them. The
people he would serve have a right to
know even beforehand what ho thinks
about vital matters of common good.
It has, therefore, become a custom
for candidates for public office to an
nounce a “platform” in which they
are supposed to lay down the princi
ples and policies they expect to advo
cate. . ‘
^ With such an announcement I'now
come before the people of my native
State, whose history and traditions
are dear to me, and whose future
progress along right lines is of deep
patriotic concern to us all. I do not
like to describe what I have to say as
“my” platform, preferring "our” plat
form in the thought that it expresses
the sentiments, the views, the hopes,
the aspirations of thousands of right
thinking people in this great com
monwealtb, regardless of whether
they shall vote Tor me or not.
Measures Not Men.
must j-emqmber thgfr in the nature of
things it U onl/' a beginning we are
making and a preparation for future
realization. The achievement of the
great ends we have In view depends
absolutely on what we do with and
for the l^uman material in the State.
This leads me to the subject that has
been with me a lifelong passion—uni
versal education. Democracy means,
of pourse r the right to rote and equal
ity before the law. But there is a
conception of it that goes deeper than
Ills, and that Is, equality of opppr-
unlty, the giving of every child the
^pme chance to realize his best self,
to\conquer his surroundings intelli
gently and therefore fruitfully, and
to serve co-operatively the collective
interests of his community and State.
From-my standpoint, the child as a
future member of society can only
tain these giseat ends by being ex
posed to the creative and "developing
process called education. The right
to this opportunity nJs, in my view,
the most fundamental right in a de
mocracy. For we get nowhere wise
ly in anything except through a train
ed and enlightened cltizensuip. The
costliest liability of this common
wealth is ignorance. All our progress
Sr
1. I believe the time has come for
iis to have in our political life less of
abuse of persons and more of a sane
discussion of policies and prlaeipiee.
We can not think clearly for the com
mon good if we have in mind the de
feating of men rather than the pro
moting of measures. Certaihly fo
me no office is Mg enough to cause
me to want it at the cost of personal
bitterness and hate. If the campaign
■closes with my opponents not more
friendly to me than when It began I
shall be greatly disappointed.
2. I believe the time has also come
when we should think of ourselves as
one people with, common interests
«nd hopes, and that whatever conten
tions may have divided us in the past,
we are at bottom united by too much
that belongs to us all not to see that
whoever would disrupt us into warr
ing factions, poison our sentiments
towards one another with susplcian
and distrist, and keep stirring the
unwholesome ferment of bitter class
prejudices is an enemy to our peace,
our prosperity, and our largest pro
gress. r I repeat, therefore, we are
one people, and we must do our
thinking in terms of the largest good
to pH the people of the common
wealth without regard to class con-
( Editions dr previous alliance of any
-mrt. And even shonld I fail of elec-
tfon, I shall count the service render-
•ed worth any cost If In my campaign
I shall sow the seeds that shall fruit
In a greater harmony of feeling and
purpose than we have recently known
in South Carolina.
Harmony and Unity.
X In this spirit, the spirit of har
mony and unity, the time has come
for a study of conditions in Sontir
■CarolfnaTas they really are with a
▼lew of applying the administrative
and legislative powers of the State to
*^the great end of promoting the mate
rial welfare and progress of all the
people. We are engaged in varied
tasks and labors, the tasks and la
bors by which we get a living and
hope to get a little more than a liv
ing. Our problems are thus largely
economic and industrial in character.
They grow out of what we do in shop
and store and office and on the farm,
and concern the happiness and pro-
gress of our entire citizenship,—The
world about us, other states, is on the
big Job of developing its natural- re
sources in the fullest and most profit
able manner. Are we on this Job In
South Carolina? It seems to me that
■our duty has at last come when real
izing our common needs and gather
ing all the knowledge we can of what
others have successfully accomplish-
edi we should set our political ma
chinery to work. In the most scienti
fic way, to advance every Industrial
Interest. In saying this, I have in
mind no special Interest or pet
scheme, but rather I am possessed
with the conviction that we have
reached a point In oar history when
We should begin In the spirit of per-
- feet fairness te apply the" most mod-
era methods to conditions as they are
—for example, to the great question
' .of equitable taxation, to the efficient,
economical* administration of the,
functions of government, and to the
betterment of both rural and urban
life as far as this is a matter of legis
lation. To these ends I solemnly
pledge what Inllnance I,have. *
waits upon what we do to banishNlt
of ouV
forever from us. The reform
laws, the Improvement in the efficien
cy of ou^ legislative and administra
tive machinery, the proper regulation
ol our Industrial Interests, the devel
opment of our material resources, the
all round welfare of the people—all
linger and halt till we have trained
our citizenship to know what ought
to be done and how to do it. And
this Is the task of the school, the col
lege, the university. I, therefore,
have fixed In my mind the vision of a
vast army of children in a school sys
tem administered liberally and effl
clently, an ever increasing body of
young men and young women in our
colleges and school and college con
sciouslw moved by the high ideal of
service un the upbuilding of the
State. The common schools, the high
schools, the university, Clemson, the
Citadel, Winthrop, shall receive my
most cordial support, and I shall ask
every denominational and private In
stltutlon to Join In friendly co-opera
tion in hedplng a great common
wealth realize its beet life, social,
moral, political fcnd Industrial, by
properly training all the youth of the
State. This is our Mggest Job and
all else Is but a baffling dream till we
have done this.
Observe the Law.
5. In the last place, I believe ft Is
time for us to come to a realization
of the use and meaning of the law.
Nothing we have Is safe—life, liberty,
property—unless It be protected by
the law. A lawless people with Jus-
tive perverted or laxly administered
are a people who are rel&splng into
barbaric conditions. But, however
easy and frequent seems the violation
of law in this State, we simply must
not remain a lawless people. What
we need is to be called back to our
best selves and to be reminded that
to“perslst in our dangerous habit of
lawlessness is to forget what is fine
in our history and traditions and to
be faithless to a noble future whose
guardians we are. If I am elected to
the position of chief executive of the
State, I pledge myself to try the tonic
effect of enforcing the laws without
regard to section or class. I believe
the results of shch a course will be a
stuffening of our moral fibre and a
cleansing of the moral atmosphere to
such a degree as to make South Caro
lina a better place to live in
and South Carolinians proud of
their citizenship. We dare not go on
as we are, ahdjf I should imagine for
a moment that as-governor I should
have to make a truce with lawless
ness of any sort, I should continue
teaching boys in the hope tha$>they
one day would be able to accomplish
the reforms impossible to this gen
eration.
Accordlpg to papers filed with the
secretary of state Monday the gov
ernor has granted fifteen paroles to
prisoners serving terms in the State
penitentiary and the county chain
gangs. Eight manslayers are includ
ed in the list of those released. The
paroles were issued to the following
prisoners:
Willis Perry, cottvicted in Green
wood in 1906 of carbreaking and lar-
'[ooncy and sentenced to two-years in
the penitentiary.
Arthur Byrd, convicted in New,ber
ry in 1908, of manslaughter and sen
tenced to ten ye^rs.
. Bud Ligon convicted in Oconee in
lx 13 of murder and sentenced to life
in the penitetinary.
Gilder P. Yarn convicted in Char
leston fh. 1904 of grand larceny and
sentencedHo six months on the chain
J. G. Clinkscales.
nine Workmen killed.
Fatal Explosion in Caisson of Bridge
Being Constructed.
A -dispatch from Memphis, Tenn..
says between four and eleven work
men were killed and as many injured
in an explosion of gas Monday in
Caisson No. 6 of the new J. T. Hara-
.han bridge being constructed across
the Mississippi river there. The dead
and injured are being removed slowly
from the caisson because of the gases.
The explosion is said to have oc
curred when the tube was driven into
a pocket of gas near the Arkansas
shore. The men work In the caisson
in shifts of eighteen of 1 twenty , and
it Is said a change oi shifts had just
been concluded. The dead and Injur
ed are being placed on beads to
carried to Memphis.
Escape-From Jail.- - —
After forcing their Jailor Into their
cell with a pistol two youths held for
burglary Monday eecaped *from the
Tulsa, Okla., county Jail. A waiting
automobile whisked them to safety.
■■■■■■ • e a . ■
Killed Trying to Escape.
Three convicts were sh®t and kill
ed and two others Injured probably
GOV. BLEASE TURNS MORE CON-
VICT8 ON THE PEOPLE.
TWELVE SLAYERS FREE
Among Released Are One Guilty of
Criminal Assault, Two of Arson,
Five of Larceny—One of Burglary,
Otoe of Highway Robbery, Several
for Violating Dispensary Law.
gang.
Ely Freeman, Cbhvicted in Green
ville county in 1^43 of arson and sen
tenced to ten years in the peniten
tiary.
Amanda Truesdale convicted In
Kershaw in“l914 of lafc&ny and sen
tenced to six months .on N the' chain
gang.
Bud Simmons, convicted in Sgiuda
of manslaughter and sentenced\to
two- years.
Majoe Smith, convicted In Abbe
ville in 1909 of murder and sentenced
to life. On February 20 the governor
reduced kto sentence to twenty years
on condition that he serve on the
county gang. Noy he Is parolled.
Frank Williams, convicted in Hor
ry in 1913 of manslaughter and sen
tenced to two years.
William' Gantt, convicted In Edge-
field in 1896 of murder and eeulenc-
ed to life imprisonment.
Stephen Turner, convicted in Ma
rion in 1912, of manslaughter and
sentenced to ten years in the peniten
tiary. .
Ambrose Scruggs, cpnvlcted In
Cherokee in 1912 of Manslaughter
and sentenced to five years.
J. W. Sykes, convicted in Cherokee
of practicing dentistry without a li
cense and sentenced to pay a fine of
8100 or serve thirty days on the
chain gang.
. James Bull, convicted in Darling
ton In 1906 of criminal assault and
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years. On February 17 the governor
reduced his sentence to .nine years
and eleven months on the condition
that he serve time on the county
chain gang. Now he is paroled.
Herbert Tarrant, convicted fn
Greenville in 1913 of arson and sen
tenced to 12 years in the peniten
tiary. V - , . ^ I
On Thursday of last week the Gov
ernor paroled fourteen others. Three
were sent up for manslaughter and
one for murder. They were:
James Jeter, convicted in Chero
kee in 1901, of murder and sentenced
to life. Early this year his term was
commuted to twenty years.
John Lawrence, convicted in Pick
ens in 1912 for assault and battery
with intept to kill and carrying con
cealed weapons and sentenced to
three years.
Otis James, convicted in Richland
in 1909 of larceny and sentenced to
ten years.
E. L..Pound, convicted In Lexing
ton in 1913 of obtaining goods under
false pretenses and sentenced to three
months of a fine of $450.
John Lindsay, convicted in New
berry in 1913 of violating the dispen
sary law and sentenced to six months.
Will Guyton, convicted ki Ander
son in 1908, of burglary and Beptenc-
ed to 12 jrears.
Cato Williams, convicted in Marion
in 1908 of highway robbery and sen
tenced to nine years.
Dennie Wilkes, convicted in York
in 1913, of violating the dispensary
law and sentenced to a fine of |400 or
serve 12 months.
John Smith, convicted in York in
1913, of housebreaking and larceny
and sentenced to one year.
George Epps, convicted In Union
in 1912 of manslaughter and sen
tenced to four years.
J. C. Judson, convicted In Wil
liamsburg in 1912 of assault and bat
tery of a high and aggravated nature
and carrying concealed weapons and
sentenced to five yean,
j John Walker, convicted In York
in'1912, of mahslangHter and sen
tenced to two yean. . v
Mansell, convicted In
Pickets In 1911, of aseanlt and bat
tery of a high and aggravated nature
and carryl ngr concealed t weapons and
sentenced to two yean. -. .
J. H. Haynes, convicted In Oconee
in 1912 of violating the
jawjuid
ALABAMA SENDS HIM TO SENATE
I
BY BIG MAJORITY.
Richmond P. Hobson Is Snowed Un
der—Democratic HoOse Leader
Will Wear Senate Toga.
, Oscar W. Underwood, for nearly
twenty yean representative of the
ninth Alabama district in the lower
houee of congress, swept the state In
his battle with Congressman Rich
mond Peanon Hobson for the nomi
nation for United States senator, ac
cording to Tuesday night’s returns
from Monday’s Democratic primaries.
Mr. Hobson conceded the victory to
his rival candidate before noon Tues
day, although returns still were in
complete.
Mr. Underwood’s nomination ter
minated one of the most spectacular
political contests in the history of the
state. With the exception of a whirl
wind speaking tour during the Christ
mas holidays, the successful candi
date’s campaign,^ was conducted by
his friends. One of the chief claims
for recognition for their candidate
advanced by Mr. Underwood’s friends
was the charge that Representative
Hobson was neglecting his.duties as
a congressman to conduct the cam
paign.
Mr. Hobson entered the senatorial
race nearly two years ago. He visit
ed every county and town in the
gtate. In stump speeches he charged
his opponent with having been In
fluenced by the liquor interests. He
also charged that corporation in
fluence was behind the campaign of
Mr. UnSerwood for the presidential
nomination in 1914. All of , the
charges were denied by Mr. Under
wood.
The activities of the distinguished
candidates attracted nation-wide in
terest in the outcome of the prima
ries, when Mr. Hqbson sent the fol
lowing telegram/to Mr. Underwood:
"Accept my cl&gratulations upon
yourmomlnatlonl As the Democratic
nomlnfee you can count on my Sup
port in the election.
'IJIlfhmond P. Hobson.”
F \ f
CARRANZA SPEAKS HIGH OF WIL-
SON AND BRYAN,. -
HER IN IIGR ESTEEM
Constitutionalist Leader la Carefully
Worded Paper Explains the Atti
tude of His Party Towards Ameri
can Statesmen and Their Adopted
Policies. ,
AMOUNTS FORWARDED TO THE
V VARIOUS COUNTIES.
THE
How They Are
Business. Mind
E SMOKER
Unflit for
Dull.
All narcotic poisons teftd to be
numb the nervous system, weSVen the
mental power and corrupt the moral
nature.
The boy who begins to smoke
arettes before the age of twelve will
doubtless .become a degenerate, and
the first symptom of his degeneracy
will be to lie about his being addict
ed tp the habit.
Many a fond mother baa been fool
ed by the heartless lies of her fiend
ish cigarette offspring, too far gone
in depravity to care a rap whether
he has any mother.
If such boys live to get out of their
teens, they generally manage soon to
get into prison cells.
A large percentage of heartless
criminals are cigarette fiends.
Judge Gemmill, of Chicago, recent
ly stated that of twenty-five thousand
or more criminals that have passed
before him, many of them had the
tell-tale yellow stains on their fin
gers.-
Go to the cell of the neyly arrested
murderer, and you will see the cigar
ette in his teeth or hear him calling
for it _ ~
Cigarettes harden the heart for ter
rible deeds, and unfit the mind for
any useful service.
"Smoking cigarettes,” says an im
ploring mother, “hAs made a wreck
of my son, once bright and full of
brains and ambition. Now he can’t
think^ he can’t hold a subject in his
mind. He was a stenagrapher, but
now he is nothing.”
Japan and China have prohibited
cigarettes and opium, but we Ameri
cans who think ourselves superior to
the yellow races are allowing our
youth to practice a habit which will
utterly ruin the nation in one genera
tion unless checked and suppressed.
A carefully worded communication
from Gen. Carranza dealing with the
rebel foreign policy tras made
"“I Mon day by Dr. Henry Allen Tupper
of the International Peace Forum at
El Paso, Texas. Doctor Tupper inter
viewed Gen. Carranza gt the request
of Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas.
The letter says in part:
T possess a deep admiration for
the American people and hold In
great personal esteem President
Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of
State William J. Bryan. I know they
are men of the very highest paental-
ity as well as moral and political,
aims and for that reason I think that
their friendship toward me, and-the
Sympathy evinced for the principles
of the Mexican Constitutionalists, are
not only sincere but entirely disinter
ested, and are the result of the exist
ing harmony between the alms of the
cause which I have the honor to rep
resent and the ideals of the AmerL
can democracy. ^
“As long aa I am at th« head of the
Constitutionalist army, or in any oth
er office my policy will be to strive in
suet way as tp. have our International
obltgkttofii with foreign governments
become more and more cordial, and
especially with euch countries at have
their destiny linked with the politi
cal economic and personal interests
of Mexico.
"I sincerely regret that Incidents
of an international character should
have given rise to an Interpretation
not entirely In accord with my real
attitude as the chief of the Constitu
tionalists. I have striven to place
myself Jg the legitimate light deserv
ed by the high’ alms of our party,
without overlooking the cordial sug
gestions which were offered me with
in the attitude Just expressed, netth
er evading responsibility nor Ignor
ing diplomatld fUSiMhe and usage.
"In eurpuance Sf this attitude all
representations and fHattere called to
pur attention by the United States in
unofficial way have, In the past,
received our prompt attention and I
assure^ you that hereafter the same'
attention will he given to all repre-
sentatlond\and matters presented to
Iis through\he United States in be
half of other nations, In conformity
with international diplomatic usage
and custom notwithstanding the fact
that we always have'deemed It prefer
able to avoid responsibility being
thrust upon the United States by oth
er powers as a result of Its attitude
toward the political conditions now
existing in the republic of Mexico.
"I can conceive no better evidence
of the spirit of cordiality and friend
ship which we hear towards the Unit
ed States than onr willingness to re
ceive unofficial representations and
claims' made by the United States
government In regard to all matters
concerning its citizens within the re
public of Mexico. I must, however,
call your attention to the fact that
we could not, without sacrificing onr
hard-fought for prestige, consider
representations made through the
good offices of the United States In
behalf of foreigners, unless we be
previously Informed that such media
tion has been requested of the United
States by the interested nation."
Tbs Comptroller-General
Money to Counties- Lot ot
■loners During Year Was 28
The State pension report wee an
nounced Monday from the often of
the comptroller-general. The total
fund to be paid this year for State
pensions is 1289,488. The total i
her of pensioners is 8,780. The roll
in 1913 was 9,102. During: the pest
year 849 pensioners died. During
the year themwere 596 pensioner*
the rolls. The application*
t pensions were considered at * re
cent meeting of the State pension
board.
Following amounts will be sent to
each county in the State: .
Abbeville .7. ~
Aiken .. . ..
Anderson ... ... *.... •.
Men Overpower Watchman.
v Three men who entered the depart-
ment-atore of Timothy Smith & Co.
in Roxhilry, Mass., Sunday night, ov-
rpowered the watchman and blew
pen the safe, escaped with several
ousand dollars. The burglary was
n!*t discovered until early Monday
when the watchman was
Girder Hite Five Men.
A 20-ton steel girder broke loose
from a derrick and crushed three
floors of the frame work of a build
ing on lower \firoadway Saturday,
carrying six workmen with It.
of them were injured fatally.
Five
Department Store Robbed.
Three meu~entered a departmlbi.
store of Bocton Sunday night, bound
and gagged two watchmen aad rob
bed the safe of $2,000
f Bring Oat Heavy Vote.
Alabama Democrat* yesterday east
ballots aad ended long fight between
Underwood had Hobson.
4.892
9,912
.. 15,284
.. 2,988
4,329
729
2,099
984
Charleston 7,584
Bamberg
Barnwell
Beaufort
Barkeley
Calhhttir^T:
!•
• * • • •
9,924
4,248
8,389
8.989
9,024
Cherokee
jCheeter ... ... . .. . .^
Chesterfield
Clarendon
Colleton .
Darlington ... ... ... v.. *■' B J78
Dillon... 3,402 .
Dorchester ^ , ,,, Y.«0»
Edgefield 4,104
Fairfield ,,, ■ ... 3,504
Florence ... 8,504
Georgetown 2,128
Greenville ^ 14,712
Greenwood .,>, ... ... 1.8Ilr
Hampton ... ... . ..... 8,888
Horry 8,744
Jasper 1,828
Kershaw ... v .. 4,llf
Lancaster M78
L*«r«nB 8,288
... ... 2,8ft
Lexington ... ... 7,488
Marlon 4,988*
Marlboro J..' 94ff
Newberry 4,888
Oconee ... ... . ,,, ,,, 7,484
Orangeburg ....... 84tf
Pickens ... ... 8,t44
Richland ... 11,879
... 8,788
Spartanburg.., ,.. ... 17,128
lumter 4.488
Union ... ... ... ... ... 9.824
Williamsburg 4,449
York 8,949
SPEAKS
FOR
—a
BRYAN.
znghter In
Johnson Says Commoner Shu Passed
\
- Through Criticism Unscathed.
The uniforms of state department
footmen, their compensation, * the
Panama tolls fight, Secretary Bryan’s
salary and bis Chautauqua lectures,
and half a dozen other subjects, oc
cupied the house Saturday during
consideration of legislative, executive
and Judicial appropriation bills.
Estimates included provision for a
coach and footmen for the Bryan car
riage, which provokes comment Rep
resentative Johnson of South Caro
lina, in charge of the bill, read from
the Bible the -story of Abe fiery fur
nace and declared Secretary Bryan
bad come through a furnace of
'‘criticism, sarcasm and ridicule .with
his hair unsinged and hit body un
scathed.” \ \ \ T -
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Asked to be Jailed for Murder.
Henry Goldsby approached a ‘Dan-
X poMeeasan Tneeday -night
aad said: "I’m a murderer and want
to b« arrested.’* He claims he killed
| a Georgian named Hell at Douglas,
Oa. - - \ ■
— "
• - Killed Mcr for Visiting.
Because his wife, a bride of seven
months, persisted in visiting her
riz Adfeaw Zuniga, of San An-
Total
— .9288,488
FIGHT HOG CHOLERA.
Annual Drain on Animal Industry a
1
Serotns Menace.
Experts of the department of agri
culture estimate that the annual loss
from hog cholera In the United
States Is $75,000,000. They regard ^
the eradication as one of the most
serious | problems that faces the bu
reau of animal industry, for the loss
caused by it approximately as great
as that from all other animal diseases
combined, . .
The loss from hogs killed outright
by ..cholera In 1912 was estimated at
$60;000,000. The loss to the hog In
dustry Indirectly resulting from the
disease Was about $15,000,000 mot*.
The cholera Is most common In the
corn states of the West and South.
The two other -chief animal diseases
are cattle tuberbolosis and Texaa
fever.
Statistics upon tl}4\annual losses
from these two dlseasek. never have
been gathered by the department of
Agriculture. Texas fever ahd cattle
tuberculosis do not canto anything
like the number of deaths as
cholera, but the Ion to the cattle
dustry through illness. Interference^
with reproduction and making cattle
unfit for marketing Is heavy. The
losses run Into many millions of dol
lars a year.
SHOT THROUGH WINDOW.
Two Negroes of Grier Engage In Fatal
Shooting Scrape.
After Homer Arnold’s wife had
locked him up In his home at Grlet
Monday to preveht his killing Gofer
Paden, whom he had been chasing
about the house with a pistol, Paden
stepped MDund to the wlndo . of the
window of the room In which Arnold
was locked and fired two shots at
him through the window pane, both
taking effect and resulting la the
death of Arnold several hours later.
Three Killed la Wrack.
■Three persons were kWsM^
thirty-five Injured at Attlea. lad.,
Sunday when a peseenger train fell
Into the Wabash river. The trestle
'• » ■• ^ . Mr**>*r; - i-i ■ • .
A pyromsniae fired e bulldlm.
Augusta Tuesday in three plaeee, aad
failing to bore It, later fired tt the
second time.
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