The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 23, 1907, Image 2
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FIXING THE GUILT'
Government Witnesses Tell
of Brownsville Affair,
THEIR EVIDENCE DIRECT
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Negro Soldiers Were Seen With Guns |
and Were Seen in Act of Shooting?Foraker
Fails to Shake
Testimony.
The examination of witnesses on behalf
of the government began Wednesday
in the Brownsville investigation
before the senate committee on military
affairs at Washington.
George W. Kendall of Brownsville,
Texas, the first witness, testified that
on the night of August 13, when the
, affray occurred in Brownsville, he saw
men whom he declared to be negro
soldiers, climb over the brick wall
from Fort Brown and enter the town.
He said that he also saw a group oi
from three to five men inside the
.garrison gate and saw the flash of
two or three shots fired by men in
this group.
At Thursday's session two other
witnesses testified that they saw negro
soldiers shoot up the T.exas town*
on the night of August 13.
One of these witnesses was Lieutenant
Dominguez, of the Brownsville
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police, wno receivea a uui:cu imuu&u >
the arm, and had his horse shot from I
under him while trying to warn citizens
of the approach of the armed
men, whom he declared positively to
be negro soldiers from the garrison,
and another was Policeman Padron,
who described a busy quarter of an
itlve that the men doing the shooting
hour dodging bullets. He also was poswere
negro soldiers.
Dr. Charles H. Thorn, a dentist, testified
that he heard a group of men
firing at the rear of his house and
shouting commands to each other. He
gave as his judgment that the voices
were those of negroes. F. A. H. Sanborn,
manager of the Western Union
Telegraph company, who occupied a
room opposite the garrison, testified
to seeing the negro soldiers enter the
post at about the time the firing
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Policeman Senaro Padron testified
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and Fourteenth streets shortly be!',
lore midnight and that he saw soldiers
in the alley half a block away,
sand that they were shooting. He said
he could distinguish their uniforms
when the guns flashed. He told of the
meeting with the lieutenant of police;
but contradicted me statement ot
Dominguez that he had said the men
had just finished "shooting up" the
Cgwan house. /
According to Padron's story he accompanied
Dominguez back to Thirteenth
stret and part of the way to
an alley near the Miller hotel. He
said he went no further because Dominguez
would^iot heed his warning
t not to cross the alley. He told of
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seeing negro soldiers rush out and
Are at Dominguez and follow him
abme distance down Fourteenth street.
He did not see Dominguez when his
k, f horse was shot from under him, as
the men saw him (Padron) and started
firing at him. Padron told of the run/
ning from place to place to escape
danger and finally of taking refuge
in an obscure doorway.
The witness was cross-examined by1
Senator Foraker at some length without
affecting his story. Dominguez
also was cross-examined by Senator
Foraker, but his story was not changed
in the least.
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Rumor in San Francisco of impending
^ ' Municipal Change.
- It is rumored in San Francisco that
A movement is on foot to bring about
A change in the municipal administration
by forcing the resignat'ion of
snd choosing: in his
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? stead Frederick W% Dohrmann, a
prominent wholesale merchant, as
mayor. The report lacks official confirmation.
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED.
Accident on Central of Georgia Shakes
Up Odd Fellow Delegates.
The southbound Central passenger
train from Athens, Ga., due to arrive
in Macon at 11 o'clock Monday morning}
was wrecked three miles south
of Hillsboro, and twenty-three persons
were injured and three cars
were badly torn up. >.'<> one was killed,
< and the engine did not leave the
trie?.. Among the passengers were
many delegates to the state convention
of Odd Fellows in Columbus, and
several of these * were severely in"in?*
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VANQUISHED BY BOOZE. J
Nineteen Drinks Kiil a Boastful Ne- J
gro Cab Driver.
To prove his capacity for wbisnej
Thomas Taylor, a negro cab driver in
St. Louis, boasting!} , wagered that he
could drink a large quantity of liquor.
He 'consumed nineteen drinks without
a according u tiic
and died a few hours later.
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LION FRIGHTENS ATLANTANS. j
Ices pes Curing Theatrical Perform- j
ance and Creates Pandemonium.
Many Atiantans were treated to a
genuine, hair-niisifig fright Saturday
light, when a large, firce-looking lion
oaniei at will up and down the
streets in the center oi' the city for j
ialf an hour, Fondemoniuni reign- j
Jd supreme, people climbed telegraph j
>oies and exc.te.uem was intense.
A horse was bitten by rhe animal.
I jut the beast was finally captured by
seven men in the Eikin-Watson drug
J store, without having killed any one,
| -uid wirhcut being injured itself.
! At 10:15 o'clock, just at the conclu
1 siou of the last act of the performance
given by "The Great Laiayette"
shows at the Bijou Theater, a
iurge lion, fully four and one-half
feet in height and weighing fourteen j
hundred pounds, broke one of the j
steel stays oi his cage, and set him- | .
self free.
But for the quick work of one of
the theater managers in closing the '
door leading into the main auditorium, i
the wild beast would have walked .
out into the'pit and created a panic
among the large audience. Instead
he was forced through a rear door 1
into the street. 1
When the animal reached the sidewalk
in front of the theater a police- (
man drew his revolver and attempted ]
to shoot, but Lafayette, the owner j
of the shows, who was following in
hot pursuit, jumped in between the po- (
liceman and the lion, thus prevent- .
ing the policeman from shooting the (
beast. ,
Lafayette had a pistol, with blank j
cartridges, and by shooting them at .
the lion, succeeded in guiding him, ,
and preventing him from doing great
damage.
The animal ran from in front of the
Bijou, up Marietta to Forsyth, up Forsyth
into Broad, up Broad to'Walton, ,
across Walton to Peachtree, and down
Peachtree into Elkin-Watson's drug j
store, at the corner of Peachtree andfl<
^arietta.
z Just as the lion reached Peachtree, ]
a hackman came driving down the !
hack No. 89, came driving down the .
street. The beast made a wild dash
for the horse, biting a large piece (
of flesh from his front fore leg.
When the beast entered the drug
store, he went at once behind the
counter, and was in complete control
of the store, l'or the clerks had climb- .
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ecT upon the showcases, and one had
gotlen up on top of the soda fountain.
Considerable damage was done in
the store by the breaking of the glass j
covering the showcases. Once he had
been -quartered in the store, the doors
were quickly closed, and his capture '
effected.
Lafayette, the owner of the shows, t
was taken into custody and carried j
to the police barracks, where he was j
placed under a $200 bond, lie put
up a cash bond.
NINE MEN CHASTISED. <
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Sensational Whipping-Post Exercises t
in Wilmington, Delaware. c
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The mosi sensational whipping in j '
the history of the state of Delaware
took place at the work house in
Wilmington Saturday. Nine ?nen .
were stripped to the waist and given
from five to forty lashes. Adam
Ward, aged 19, accused of highway .
robbery, received forty lashes.
During the lashes Ward loosed one
hand and cried: "Oh, God, I will ,
be good. Please stop." His plead- !
ing was not heeded, however. .
CONTRACT FOR HEADSTONES !
For Confederate Graves Soon to Be
Awarded by War Department. ,
The war department will award (
within a few days the contract for *
20,000 white marble headstones to
mark the graves of confederate sol- 1
diers and sailors who died in federal
prisons and -military hospitals
in the north during the civil yvar, ana c
who were buried near the place of
their confinement. *
This will be the first step toward '
action by the government to mark ^
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these graves.
"WILD BILL" IN LIMBO.
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Noted eGorgia Illicit Distiller Flushed
by Officers.
Charles T. Williams, the man who ,
has tramp3d the state of Georgia, as .
an illicit distiller for many years un- .
der the assumed name of "Wild Bill" (
?Hmvn timv 1-lastman
Williams, w?*a ? ?
Tuesday night by United States Dep- ,
uty Marshal R. L. DeLoach. The offi- 1
cer had company when he found
"Wild Bill," but there was no resistance.
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Three indictments await \\ illiams. ^
He was placed in the Macon jail in j
default of a bond fixed at $1,000.
STEPHENSON SUCCEEDS SPOONEh
The Wisconsin Senatorial Deadlock is *
Finally Broken.
The Wisconsin senatorial deadlock ?
was broken at Madison Thursday 1
night by the nomination on the first ?
ballot of the republican caucus of for- c
mer Congressman Isaac Stephenson of i
Marinette, to succeed Senator John ^
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FERTILIZER TRUST
Will Once More Be Target
for Your Uncle Sam.
TO RENEW THE ATTACK
New Indictments Are Ordered and
This Time Individuals Will Be
Tried in States in Which
They Reside.
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A Washington special says: The
government has decided to renew the
cases against the so-called fertilizer
trust before the United States district
court at Richmond. Va. About
a year ago the government secured
ihe indictment and arrest of a large
number of persons residing in different
parts of the country on a charge
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of evading the Sherman anti-trust law
turd sought to secure the removal to
N'ashviile, where suit was being begun,
of such defendants as resided
outside of the state of. Tennessee.
The Virginia defendants, however,
contended that, before they could be
removed from the state, tney snouid
be given preliminary hearings to determine
the sufficiency- of tap evidence
on which their removal was
asked. Tne court sustained the government
on this point, but on an appeal
taken before tne United States
supreme court about two months ago
found against the government, but
without prejudice to its case, and ordered
mat the defendants be discharged.
The department of justice has now
decided to try the individual defendants
in the states in which they reside,
and will almost immediately proceed
to secure the indictment and rearrest
of the Virginia parties to the
alleged combination. Otner cases and
arrests will, it is said, be made in
Tennessee and other states. It is said
here are thirty-one fertilizer companies
in the alleged combination, and
.hat originally twenty-four individuals
were indicte'd and arrested.
FURNITURE COMBINE HIT.
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Eleven Companies Assessed Hea\Af
Fines for Violation of Law.
In court at Chicago Monday, Judge
Landis fined F. A. Holbrook, of the
American Seating company and the
V H. Andrews company $5,000 each,
ind nine other furniture companies
unounts ranging'from $500 to $2,00o,
or vilolation ef the anti-trust laws in
'orming a conspiracy' in restraint of
.rade. The defendants pleaded guilty.
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Judge Landis preceeaea tne ueuvny
of sentence by scathing denunciation
of the methods adopted by
lie church and school furniture trust,
leclaring that the punishment fixed
jy law is inadequate to fit the crime.
"When I reflect upon the methods
esorted to," said Judge Landis, "1
vonder wyy men engage in such
lusiness to get money. Almost any
nan, I should think, would prefer to
,vork in a ditch at $1.30 a day. That
s unquestionably a more dignified
nethod."
Judge Landis said that Hoibrook
icted as a sort of clearing house for
he combine, which called itseif the
Prudential Club. Hoibrook apportioned
the contracts and by means of
dummy'' bids, members of the cornfine
avoided competition.
Judge Landis said the comparative
>overty of the smaller firms of the
eombine made it his duty not to iniict
the maximum punishment, as
hey might be forced into bankuptcy.
"To keep them in independent operation,"
said Judge Landis,. "is the
mly hope consumers have agaiust
he big concerns. If we were to put
hem out of business the Andrews
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LULU AUICi ik.au
vould liave no difficulty in taking
ull control."
FATAL FIGHT HIGH IN AIR.
Workman on Tall Building Knocks the
Foreman Through Scaffolding.
Seventy feet above the ground
imong the steel beams of the new
[ederal building in Macon, Ga., Thomas
Battle, a man more than fifty years
Df age, during a quarrel, assailed D.
M. Berry, a foreman 35 years of age,
rhursday afternoon, knocking the vic.im
through the scaffolding to the
'round, killing him instantly.
At thu ^nvnnof'c inv&cTiiTQf 5r>ri u
harge of murder was made against
Battle and he was locked up at police
station.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF WORLD
Represented at Internationa! Convention
in Rome, Italy.
The fifth international Sunday
School Convention was opened at
tome, Italy, Saturday night in the
iresence of 700 delegates, representiig
nearly 30,000,000 , arsons throughmt
the world. All the countries of
ilurope, as well as America, China,
uistralia, Japan, the West Indies, In,:a
and Africa, were represented.
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Election Ordered in Spartanburg. 1
j The Spartanburg city council has,
| ordered an election to be held June
4. for the purpose of voting on the
question of municipal ownership of
the waterworks plants.
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Three Men Held for Murder.
The coroner's jury, which was reconvened
at Columbia to further investigate
the murder of R. T. Wescott,
a merchant, about ten days ago,
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! while men. be held for the crime.
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Charges Against Teachers.
j The South Carolina Military Acad-!
! eniy board of visitors met in Charles- i
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I ton Tuesday to consider charges;
against Professor Pond and Profes- [
j sor Moore of the Citadel faculty ior
j-publishing against the rules certain j
j matter in the Alumni magazine.
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Mistrial in Wash Hunter Case. j
After remaining out for twenty,
hours, the jury at Xewberrv in the
Wash Hunter case, charged with the
murder of Elbert Copeland a year ago, I
reported to the court that it v as im- i
possible for them to reach a verdict, I
and a mistrial was ordered.
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Negro Dead at Age of 127.
Adam Frost, aged 127 years, died a
few days ago at his home at Cedar
Springs, four miles from Spartanburg.
Frost was perhaps the oldest man in
rho niiiipd Sraies. certainly the old-1
I est man in South Carolina. According
to a record written in an old,
worn and faded book by a man named
Hunter, the old negro was boin on
Sullivan's Island, at Charleston, in j
the year 1780. Adam was formerly
owned by the Darytons of Charleston ^
and later by the Frost family.
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Grand Juryman a Gambler.
In general sessionsj court at Greenville
Judge Gage sent three witnesses
| in a gambling case to jail on a charge
! of perjury.
Grand Juryman Belcher was excus-!
ed from the grand jury and the judge
dismissed him. Other jurymen pre|
ferred charges of gambling against j
him. The action of the jury in asking j
for Belcher's release from duty creat- j
ed something of a sensation. It was
alleged that Belcher was found playing
craps with a lot of negroes on
Sunday in an open field near the.city, j
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No Interest on Stolen Bonds.
State Treasurer Jennings publishes
an official notice that interest will
not be paid 'on July 1 next on the
! bonds purloined from the state treasurer's
office through the operations of j
j Clerk Daniel Zimmerman. This notice j
covers five $1,000 bonds and six $ouo r
bonds, eleven bonds in all of a total
: face value of $3,000. But there "were j
J nineteen bonds stolen from the state i
j treasurer office by Zimmerman; 13
j $500 bonds and six $1,000 bonds, so
! that there are not. represented in this
{ statement seven $500 bonds and one
j $1,000 bond, making a total of $4,!
500. The explanation is / that these
I eight bonds not included in the no|
lice have been exchanged for certifiI
cares of stock during the last few
I years, since the theft by Zimmerman
! and sold in the market.
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Woman Prevents Negro's Escape.
j Ulysses Mayes, a negro prisoner
j held for the killing of Shelly Paul,
| about three weeks ago, at Bamberg,
broke jail one night the past week,
and "Doc" Xelson, also colored, who
is under sentence of death, pending
an appeal, was prevented from escaping
only bv the bravery of the
wife of Sheriff Hunter. Mayes,
who was chained to the floor
| of the jail, made a false key, which
-u? tVion cau'on
uiiiociieci a i aie im:iv. xic mvU
a hole through the grated window, let
I ting himself to the ground by means
! of a rope made of bed clothing. Mrs.
} Hunter, the wife of the sheriff, saw
| Mayes and fired three shots at him,
j but without effect. Just at this time.
"Doc" Nelson poked his head through
the newly made hole. Mrs. Hunter
firea at hint, .and he ducked back and
remained quiet until" assistance arrived.
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Anderson-Athens Road Planned.
For several weeks the people in
Ueurgia and the people in the -Anderson
section of this state have been
j talking about building a railroad from
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i Alliens, ua? 10 auuci &UU. XX UUJW .
j ago Mr. W. L. Hodges, a lawyer of
' Hartwell. who has been spending conI
siderable time in working up the propj
osition, conferred with a number of
1 business men of Anderson. He has !
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| conferred with representatives of |
Athens, Royston, Hartwell and sev-,
t eral other towns in Georgia, and he
| feels sure that the proposition will
be completed.
Charters have been asked of South
Carolina and also of Georgia, and as
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soon as ?hey are issued, the boohs j
01 subscription will be open. The j
road will be 67 miles in length. For
Anderson to have a road to i
Athens, da., means that Anderson will i
be connected directly with the great j
i west and also the city of Atlanta.
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Death Claims Captain Pifer.
Captain A. P .Pifer, one of the few
surviving mepibers of General Lee's
personal bodyguards, died suddenly
of heart failure at "his home in Newberry
las: Sunday, aged dS \eurs.
Captain Pifer was a native of VP- i
ginia, coming to Newberry shortly j
before the outbreak of the war to accept
a chair at Newberry College. In
1S6.1 he was appointed by' Genera'.
R. E. Lee commander of his body
guara, wnn tne rank ot captain. He
served in this capacity throughout the
struggle. After the war Captain Pifer
was given a professorship in Newberry
College. He afterward conduct-j
ed a female academy in the city. In
! alter years he devoted his time to.
| the study of insurance, beiiig ccn[
nected with ail insurance company j
| as state agent. Captain Pifer leaves
1 a wife and one son.
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Cashier Fully Exonerated.
Last September John W. Pairey, ?
cashier of the Edisto bank of Orange- j
burg, left town mysteriously, and a j
few days later a letter from him,
mailed in Chicago, told the president
' of the bank that he had found his
accounts hopelessly involved and
could not tell what was the matter.
He declared that he had not taken a
cent of the bank's "money.
! Fairey has now returned to Orangeburg,
and his assertions have oeen
proven true.
He went 'to New York, then .to
Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, San
Francisco, Honolulu, back to California
and- then to El Paso, Texas. He
was recognized by Samuel M. Deal ofColumbia,
who is in El Paso for his
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iitaiui. ucai auu r axicj iiuu oci
in the Spanish-American war together
and knew each other well. Deal wrote
back to Orangeburg and started the
effort to get Fairey back. Fai rev's
family had searched for him in vain.
He was assured that his integrity was
admitted on all sides 'in his( home
town and he would be welcomed home.
He came and began work on his old
accounts. It has turned out that in
handling large cottdn business during
the early fall, one large draft was
incorrectly entered and caused the discrepancy.
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WOMAN PROTECTS HER HONOR
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But Must Stand Trial for Slaying
Would-Be Libertine.
Languishing and sobbing, in her cell
in the Bibl> county jail in Macon ana
wondering whether the great state of
Georgia will condemn her to death
at the end of a hangman's rope, Mrs.4
Saliie Freeney sits day by day waiting
for her trial to take place in
Dodge county.
And while she waits and wonders,
her attorneys are preparing to make
. one of the most strenuous tattles for
a woman's life ever waged in tne
courts of Georgia. '
On March 9, last, the crime for
t wnicn Mrs. r reeney musi siauu mai
before a Dodge superior court jury
was committed. At least, the state of
Oeorgia says it was/ a crime. Mrs.
Freeney, through her sobs and tears,
graphically tells how she dealt out
death to protect her honor.
On the date in question, W. P. Harrell,
one of the most prominent and
wealthiest citizens of Dodge county,
visited Mrs. Freeney's house. The
next known was that Harrell was
dead, and Mrs. Freeney, crying and
rfy: iterical, admitted that she fired the |
fatal shot, and was arrested and lodged
in jail.
The dead man had many friends,
Mrs. Freeney was poor and her
friends were numbered among those
of her own circumstances. The killing
created a great sensation, and
the many friends of Harrell were incensed.
Mrs. Freeney was placed in
jail, indicted, and later transferred
to the Bibb county jail.
The trial promises to be bitterly
fought and sensational. The story
that this accused woman tells is one
which, if true, shows that she killed
Harrell for that reason, for Which
Harry Thaw says he killed Stanford
White. Mrs. Freeney declares that
she shot to protect herself from Harrell.
At the time of her arrest. Mrs.
Freeney, who is 32 years old, was
attractive, but the three months behind
prison bars, with the.worry and
the thought that she may go to the
gallows has told upon her. TheTe are
rine? under her eyes and her cheeks
are marked by a sickly pallor.
STRIKERS KICK TO GOVERNOR.
Cigar Makers In Havana Present
Grievances to Magoon.
The striking cigar makers in Havaua
called on Governor Magoon on
Thursday and said that the blame for
the men remaining out lay with the
manufacturers, who had declared a
lockout against them. The men desired
to return to work if the employers
desired them to do so. Women,
it is said, will be put in the place of
the striking men.
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FARMERS OPPOSED '
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the Immigration Movement
in State of Georgia.
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UNION GOES ON RECORD
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Strong Resolutions Adopted at Meeting
in Atlanta?Cotton School is
Established and Warehouse
Plans Are Projected.
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The Farmers'. Educational and Co J
Operative Union of Georgia met in the
.egislative hall at the state capital"' - j
in Atlanta Wednesday. It was a call' : >.
meeting, but practically every county
in the state was represented.
It was definitely decided to have a [ j.
cotton school, the purpose of which,
will be to teach interested parties how \to
judge and price cbtton. The officers 0
of the association?President K. F. .
Duckworth, Secretary J. L. Barron/*^?*?
Organizer J. L. Lee, Business Agent .
J. G. Eubanks and Lecturer G. M.
Davis?were appointed as a board o? .
managers to take charge of the school.^ IS
All of these are from Barnesville,
where the school will be in session. .
A committee on the school, reypresenting
the various congressional dis- T (
tricts was named. A warehouse com*,
mittee "was also chosen. The purpose . . *
of the warehouse committee is to report
to the convention the result of /
the effort to establish a uniform sys- ^
tem of warehouses over the state to ;
be owned and controlled by the Farm- -sr0
ers' Union.
The convention went on record as ,
opposing the immigration - movement
by passing unanimously the following . ' M
set of resolutions:
"Whereas, steamship companies of
most all nationalities,, for the sole -h
motlno mnnPV havo their
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paid agents soliciting immigration to "fj
this country regardless of morals, political
consideration or religious faith* IsMM
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'Whereas, said immigrants are now -MJg
landing on Ellis Island, New York, at
the rate of nearly half million a year ~ ' ^
and are only now limited :by me car
pacity of the steamship companies, -MM
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"Whereas, the register shows that
immigrants landing in this AQVQ^^flj
since 'la80, as a rule, are nou-Ohristian
and differ with the American in
government, religious belief and moraiity,
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"Whereas, as we find a disposition vjg
on the part of some of our fellow
citizens to 'increase, invite and ipduce
said immigrants to this state,/- and> i j^4
"Whereas, history shows that
"through the ages men, have often set |
in motion events which once started '
'they could not control, therefore be
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"Resolved, That we, the Farmers'
Educational and Co-operative Union ^j|
of Georgia, assembled in convention at
Atlanta, Ga., May 15, 1907, do oppose .
the further introduction of immigrants
to this good heritage of ours in any. r'Q
rform or by any means by the state ||
of Georgia, believing it will be detri- r |
; mental to the general welfare of the
people of our state.
"Resolved, second, That we mqst-respectfully
ask our legislature that ^
is to meet in June not to appropriate
one cent of the state's money to encourage
immigration to this state 7'
without referring same to the people, 7'!
"Resolved, third, That we most re- gs
spectfully ask our members of the . j
general assembly of Georgia and oar
.senators and members in congress
from this great state of Georgia to , .
do all in their power to restrain
the tide of immigration to these Uni- - .
ted States as a primary step to the . - J
perpetuation of a pure government.
"Resolved, fourth, That we have ;
an abiding faith in the great intelli- ; %
gent white people of .Georgia and the ]
south to so direct oux domestic affairs ^
with our present citizenship and our
natural increase to manage our agricultural
and industrial affairs to meet
the legitimate demands of xour count - ^
try without the aid of immigration." v v
NOT GEORGIA WATSON. "v
Criticism of Gompers Aimed at South *?Carolina
Commissioner.
Through a misapprehension, which r
he shared with the majority of those *
who heard the address of Samuel , ||
Gompers, of the American Federation'
of Labor, in Atlanta, Friday night;
the representative of the Const!ta- .?%
tion who reported the speech made ^
it appear that the labor leader attacked
Thomas E. Watson, the well '$
~?*? i
known tieorgiau.
It transpires that Mr. Gompers was
referring to J. R. Watson, the South
Carolina immigration commissioner. .sjj!
CHILDREN BEING GIVEN AWAY.
v*j&
Fifty-Eight Charity Waifs Are Distributed
in Louisiana.
Fifty-eight babies and children under
seven years of age, from New
York charitable institutions, are be- ?
ing distributed in New Orleans and
Louisiana. The children are one o?
several consignments to the state...A.< .'Jfc
train load, carrying about one hundred ; ;v
children, arrived in New Orleans two '
weeks ago.
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