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4 THE PROHIBITION MOVEMENT.
Rev. John L. Harley Writes of the
Work Done in This State.
j Editor The Bamberg Herald:
Please allow me through \our columns
to make some report on the
temperance work in South Carolina.
For six months we have been on the
1 firing line, and in that time we have
seen things new and old, and have
learned as we never knew before
what it means to contend for civic
* righteousness. As we look back over
the field we are constrained to say
thank God something has been achieved
in our beloved State. .
Any who will take the pains to
look over the personnel of our Senate
1 ^gill note quite a change in that body.
1 tho r?lr1 Spnntp
iSCVCiai gcuuciu^u ui tuw w.v. ? vwho
stood for the dispensary system,
did not make the race for re-election,
and gentlemen of different views on
j the liquor question will take their
places in the new body. In other
counties where former dispensary
Senators stood for re-election, they
were defeated by gentlemen of prohibition
proclivities. In fact we lost
51 only two prohibition Senators in the
whole State. It is encouraging, also,
to note that a large majority of the
men in the House of Representatives
stand for State-wide prohibition. But
the liquor question in South Carolina
is not settled yet. The old dis*
pensary faction is dying hard. At
the next session of our legislature all
sorts of moves will be made, doubtless,
to thwart the prohibitionists in
their plans. Some of the gentlemen
'elected to the State Senate, and also
* to the House, are in favor of Statewide
prohibition, while others favor
referring the matter to the people
' as was done in North Carolina last
spring As we see the matter from
our viewpoint the latter is a better
k plan for more reasons than one.
If we can have a State election,
with all personal features eliminated,
and let the soveign voters of the
State cast their ballot for or against
the dispensary system, our victory
will be so signal that it will make an
impression upon the entire country.
Moreover, it sucn an eiecnon is planned
the people in every county in the
State, will be educated in the cause
of temperance through the meetings
which would be held, and thereby
create a sentiment which would go
far toward enforcing the law after it
is passed. We have had some indication
of what can be done and how
& the people feel by the victories won
In Laurens, Union, Clarendon, and
Chester in the past few days. A few
speakers went into each of these
counties and held public mass meetings
in the interest of temperance a
few days previous to the election, and
* while these counties may have gone
prohibition anyway, it is safe to say
'.1 4 that a three to one vote would not
hive been polled. We have now 22
counties with seven hundred thousand
population in South Carolina
where no liquor is sold legally. Tweni
ty counties yet hold on to the dispensary
system, but some of them only
have one dispensary. Hence, it is
plain that the legalized sale of liqquor
in South Carolina is being
greatly curtailed.
We have arranged for Dr. P. A.
Baker, our national superintendent
of the Anti-Saloon League, to be with
us at Laurens, South Carolina, and
speak on Sunday before the South
Carolina Annual Conference the 29 th
instant We sincerely hope that the
people in the surrounding country
will make an effort to hear this noted
temperance advocate at that time.
Dr. Baker will also speak in the First
Baptist church Spartanburg, South
, Carolina, Wednesday night, Decem?
ber the 2nd.
Our plans have been perfected for
' s a great State Convention, to be held
In the hall of the House of Represen'
tatives, Columbia, South Carolina,
Thursday, December the 4th. We
hope that every member of the State
executive committee of the Anti-Sa..
loon League of South Carolina, and
C-' every other officer of the organization,
will be able to meet with us in
the Senate chamber at Columbia Wed;
^ nesday afternoon at three o'clock,
December the 3rd. Every minister
{ of the gospel in this State, every
State Senator, every legislatureman,
and other gentlemen will be es4>ecially
Invited to attend this
meeting. Please, brethren, make
your arrangements now, and be
c sure to go. We have written
Dr. Anderson, our national legislative
- superintendent, and hope to secure
his services for the State Bap11
tist Convention, to be held in Union,
' December 8th-13th.
Many things are transpiring
1 thoughout the whole country to encourage
us and to urge us on to victory.
More than nine thousand barrooms
have been closed in the United
States since January first. According
to the report of the commissioner
of internal revenue there has been a
decrease because of the great prohibition
wave this year, of $16,178,094.74.
We have now nine whole
States in the prohibition columns.
1 Only five States in the union are regarded
as purely liquor States, while
many others, because of their local
ODtion laws, are sweeping everything
before them. From Maine to California.
and from North Dakota to Southern
Texas, the same cry, "the rum sai
loon must go" is heard
At the present rate Tennessee,
Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois
in the near future will sweep
into line at the next s ssion of the
legislature. Many good suggestions
have been made by several of the
brethren in regard to the work in this
\ State, and we are sorry that we have
not been aUe as yet to carry them
out. We hope soon to place in railroad
waiting rooms in South Carolina,
a large chart giving facts on
prohibition throughout the country.
But just now the law enforcement de*
partment of work is claiming our attention.
If outstanding subscriptions
now due are paid we shall be able to
make this work count for good
throughout the State at once. Let
t% every Christian soldier stand by his
gun, and never cease fighting till the
State is rid of the curse and the law
enforced. JNO. L. HARLEY,
State Superintendent.
y Spartanburg, S. C., Nov. 7,1908.
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A TRUE BILL FOR COOPERS
EX-SHEK1FF SHAKPE ALSO IXCLUDEJ)
IX INDICTMENT.
The Three are Jointly Accused of the
Killing of Ex-Senator E. YV.
Carmack.
Nashville, Tenn., November 13.?
At 2:15 o'clock this afternoon the
grand jury of Davidson county returned
a true bill in which Col. Duncan
B. Cooper, his son, Robin J.
Cooper and ex-Sheriff John D. Sharpe
are jointly charged with the murded
of ex-Senator E. W. Carmack and in
which Sharpe is also indicted on the
phnrere of Deing an accessory before
the fact. The names of six witnesses
appear on the back ot the indictment
as follows: Mrs. Coby u. Carmack,
Mrs. Charles Eastman, Carey Folk,
Dr. James Wittenberg, Mrs. Martha
Morgan and Miss Mary SkefBngton.
The Mrs. Carmack in the list is
the widow of the former senator.
Mrs. Eastman it was to whom Mr.
Carmack had spoken just before the
snooting began. Carey Folk is deputy
insurance commissioner and passed
along the street near the time of
the killing. Mrs. Morgan lives diagonally
across from the scene of
the killing. Dr. Wittenberg runs
an optical establishment in the
west end of the Arcade through
which the Coopers accompanied
by Sharpe are alleged to have
passed shortly before the tragedy
occurred. Miss Mary Skeffington is
State librarian.
There are two counts in the indictment,
the first charging the three
men jointly with the murder and the
second one charging John D. Sharpe
with being an accessory before the
fact. The name of S. Carmack, a
brother of the slain man, appears pn
the indictment as prosecutor.
Robin J Cooper will in all probability
be able to be moved in several
days to the county jail.
The Memphis conference of the
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Methodist churcn, soutn, in sessiuu at
Covington, Tenn., to-day adopted resolutions
declaring that Carmack died
a martyr to his convictions of duty
and to the cause of temperance and
of righteousness.
impeachment of Patterson.
Memphis, November 14.?The first
of many serious moves from that political
faction which has been loyal to
the late Senator Carmack in all of
his career was made known to-day
when open announcement was made
by Gilbert D. Raine, owner and editor
of the Memphis J?ews-Scimitar,
that an effort would be launched also
to impeach Gov. Patterson, of Tennessee.
Charges of having been aware of
an alleged conspiracy to do bodily
harm to Mr. Carmack are made.
Mr. Raine claims he vpices the sentiment
of the Carmack following in
this State by' declaring that Carmack
was not murdered by a man, but by
a system.
"The News-Scimiar will employ
every proper means it can command
to impeach M. R. Patterson and remove
him from the high office he se
cured by misrepresentation,, deceit,
force and fraud, by such methods as
he and D. B. Cooper would devise,'
says Mr. Haine in an afternoon editorial.
Raine further attacks Gov. Patterson
by charging that "Every selfish,
corrupt, and vicious interest and institution
in the State, including the
governor, was behind Cooper and
gave his cowardly mind courage to
devise final pursuit of Carmack to his
death.' They felt Carmack was in
the way."
Kentucky School Law Upheld.
In deciding the case of Berea college
versus the State of Kentucky
favorably to the State on Monday,
the Supreme Court of the United
States 'held that a State of the union
may constitutionally legislate to prevent
the co-education of the white
and black races The case was instituted
to test the validity of the State
law of 1894, prohibiting white and
black children from attending the
same schools.
The higher State court took the position
that the white and black races
are naturany antagonistic, and that
the enforced separation of the children
of the two is in the line of the
preservation of the peace.
1 ne opinion 01 me supreme euuit
-was handed down by Judge Brewer,
and affirmed the finding of both the
Kentucky circuit court and the court
of appeals. Justices Harlan and Day
dissented.
Berea college is an institution at
Berea, Ky., largely sustained by rich
Northerners, for the education of
both races and both sexes together.
It has over fifty professors and more
than a thousand students; an endowment
fund of over half a million
besides large benefactions, with an
income of more than one hundred
thousand a year.
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SHOOTING AT WAYNESVILLE.
Dave B. Vaughn Probably Fatally
Wounded by James Moody. .
Ashevillo. X. C., November 12.?
James Moody, son of ex-Congressman
Moouy, shot and probably fatally
wounded Dave B. Vaughn, a travel
ing salesman, at Waynesville early
this morning. The affair occurred
on the Main street, just at dusk. The
difficulty leading up to the shooting
is not definitely known, but it is
stated by eye witnesses that Vaughn
stopped Moody on the street for the
purpose of apologizing for an alleged
insult that Moody called Vaughn a
d rascal and immediately shot
him and then made his escape before
he could be apprehended. The bullet
penetrated the abdomen.
Bystanders picked up the wounded
man and medical aid was given him.
Later several physicians were called
to the wounded man from Asheville.
Taft's Plurality in Ohio.
Cincinnati, November 8.?Eightyseven
of the 88 counties of Ohio, Lucas
being still incomplete and not included
in these figures, give Taft
555,977; Bryan 481,367; Taft's plurality
74,610.
Eighty-seven counties, Belmont being
still incomplete and not included
in the figures, give Harmon (Dem.)
for governor 540.788; Harris (Rep.)
533,897. Harmon's plurality 6,891.
Total vote for president (87 counties)
1,037,344; for governor 1,074,685.
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