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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1909. One Dollar a Year
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around
the County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, Feb. S.?We have had a
week of very fine, cool weather. The
farmers killed more, or better said,
their remaining porkers, and, as they
term it, "hung their meat" that they
had in salt for some time.
Sunday the wind rose high and the
temperature has registered several
degrees lower.
It is thought by most of our best
farmers that the oat crop in this section
has been greatly damaged by the
cold. Some fields show that they are
in bad shape, as the oats are yellow.
Even the rye patches about have
spots in them, where the grain was
advanced, have been killed.
Miss Move Brabham is spending
some time with her uncle. Chief J.
W. Priester.
Our town was crowded on Saturday,
hunting prices of fertilizer and
advances. Some are not securing
the latter as readily as last year.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Kinard
spent Sunday with their daughter,
Mrs. Sim Sandifer.
Mrs. Bertha Jones left Sunday for
Augusta, Ga., where she will spend
a few days with her husband. From
there she will go to Atlanta, Ga.. to
see the fashions and buy pattern
hats.
A few bales of cotton still come
to town every week. Some few bales
are still left for the farmers to look
at. JEE.
v Colston Cullings.
Colston. Feb. S.?We are having
some very fine weather for the past
few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bishop visited
their parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Folk, last Sunday.
Mr. Willie Bishop and sister,
Miss Emma, from Ehrhardt, visited
friends and relatives on Colston last
Saturday night and Sunday.
?Mrs. J. P. Bishop and daughter,
Ida, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Beard
and two daughters, and Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Fender and daughter, Hilma,
were the guests of Mr. J. C. Bishop
last Sunday.
Pindar shellings are the go
around here. There was one at Mr.
C. C. Fender's last Friday night, and
one at Mr. Abner Fender's last Saturday
night.
Mr. C. F. Padgett went to Olar
v Monday to see about ordering fertilizer
for this crop.
Mrs. Lizzie Walker and daughter,
Miss Reba. who have been spending
some time with friends and relatives,
returned home this week.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Fender visited
friends near Olar Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Philip Padgett is all smiles.
They are two boys.
Mr. C. C. Fender has a real sick
cow. It can't stand up. It seems to
have rheumatism or weak knees.
Mr. J. C. Avant and Mr. Frank
Padgett, from Lodge, visited Colston
last Sunday.
Miss Letitia fcfisnop spent last Saturday
night with Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Fender.
Mrs. \V. C. Folk, who has been
suffering with rheumatism, is still in
bed.
Mrs. J. M. Grimes and Miss
Adrine Padgett, from Bamberg, visited
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Padgett last
Saturday.
Mr. J. E. Bishop and Mr. C. F.
Spiessegger went to Bamberg last
Saturday.
Mr. J. C. Bishop went to Olar last
Thursday. A. L. B.
Oap Shooters Fight.
Atlanta. Ga., Feb. 8.?Search is
being made for six negroes who were
engaged in a crap game Sunday in
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policemen were assaulted and a
seventh crap-shooter was killed. It is
thought the negroes who escaped are
mostly seriously injured as probably
two dozen shots were fired in the
dark room and the negroes jumped
through glass windows in getting
away.
When the officers walked in upon
the crap-shooters they levelled their
revolvers at the negroes and ordered
them not to move. Instead of obeying
one of the negroes blew out the
light and immediately grappled with
Officer Butler, slashing his clothes
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into snreus, wimv nc nciu mc pun^cman's
pistol. Officer Walters came tc
his comrade's rescue and for ten
minutes bullets were flying thick
through the dark room.
When the fusillade had subsided
Henry Sherwood, a negro, was dead
and the other six negroes were missing.
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SOME COLD WEATHER.
"Old Timer" Writes of the Cold Spell
in 1886.
Kearse. Feb. S.?The blizzard of a
week ago wrought havoc with the
gardens, oats and flowers, the cabbage
and peas. Nearly all killed,
even the collards were hard hit. the
oats are thinned some, but enough is
left to make a fine yield if the seasons
are favorable from now until
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Friday night and high winds nearly
all the time it is a gloomy prospect
for early gardens this spring. Still a
few warm showers and warm sunshine
can work wonders in a fewdays,
and so it will be, for it is always
so to those who try and keep
trying.
I like the little blue violets, for
they teach the try, try again lesson.
The cold wind of Saturday, Sunday
and Monday last killed all the little
blooms that had the beds a mass of
green and blue. Their little blue
eyes lay shriveled and dead, but now
they are peeping through the green
leaves and will soon be as smiling as
if a cold wind had never blown over
them, and an old man can place his
hands behind his back and look with
admiration at the plucky little flowers
that stand the storms of winter
with smiles as well as fragrance.
As the wind howled around the
house corners and shook the very
foundations of it, could have been
found an old man snugly tucked
away in a warm bed on Saturday
night of January 30. and he began to
ruminate while the wind howled and
moaned and whistled, and thought of
one Saturday night in January, 1886,
when the greatest blizzard known
down here raged.
The winter was mild and open;
many wanted cold weather to kill
hogs for bacon, and they got it with
some to spare, for by Monday it
reached zero?15 degrees colder than
last week s Monday. un l uesaay two
men came to get out some shingles. A
pine tree that measured three feet
across the stump was cut and in the
center was a large windshake that
was filled with solid ice, and the log
was frozen so hard they gave it up as
a bad job to saw it into blocks for
several days; and the mock orange
trees and some oaks had the bark
split for several feet on the Northwest
side. The ponds were solid ice,
strong enough to skate on, and such
fun was had by some of the boys. A
few came out worsted, as a bruise on
the face or a knot on the forehead
testified, to the boy who slipped up
and his head came in contact with
the ice.
That same year, August 31, came
the earthquake that shook this old
State from start to finish. Not as bad
as some later ones have other places,
but hard enough to frighten nearly
all, and a few thought the end had
come, just as others in other places
have thought since.
Still the sun shines and the old
world rolls on to a greater destiny,
when all will be calmn and serene, is
the thought of
OLD TIMER.
Fined $150 for Killing Negro.
Aiken, S. C., Feb. 8.?Dave Jeffcoat
from the Western section of
Orangeburg county was tried and
convicted Friday evening for shooting
George Fogle, a negro who was
at work in his field last summer.
Jeffcoat had no lawyer to defend him
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and when he went on the stand he
was plied with questions by the solicitor,
and his answers to them
showed that he had been tried once
for rape, twice for selling or
distilling liquor, and once for
giving in too much mileage as
witness to the U. S. Court. There
were white witnesses testified that
Jeffcoat shot the negro without provocation
and excuse. The jury found
him guilty, and Judge Watts sentenced
him to two years on the county
roads or pay a fine of one hundred
and fifty dollars, it is believed that
he will be able to pay his fine.
Over Fifty Witnesses.
St. George, Feb. 8.?Your corresDondent
was to-dav informed by
Magistrate Moorer, before whom the
preliminary examination of the five
men charged with the murder of
Pressley Reeves will be held, that he
had issued subpoenas for approximately
50 witnesses. The hearing,
because of the voluminous testimony
to be taken, will last two or three
days, probably longer. Fairey and
two of the men charged with killing
Reeves have retained Lawyer Jones
of Branchville to represent them,
and it is probable that additional
counsel will be employed to conduct
the defense.
The unusual interest which has
' been manifested since the arrests
were made is creeping higher and it
' now looks as though a record breaking
crowd will attend upon the first
1 act of the greatest sensational trial
in Dorchester county's history.
Must Accept Mileage.
Columbia, Feb. 8.?By a vote of
91 to 5 the house to-day passed a
bill by .Mr. .M. l,. smun, repuieu uau'
didate for governor, knocking out
the present railroad mileage regu
lation. The bill reduces the maxi'
mum passenger rate to two and a
half cents from three cents, and
> forces conductors to accept mileage
coupons and station agents to check
? baggage without the exchange of
i mileage for tickets.
An amendment offered by Mr. K.
P. Smith to Mr. M. L. Smith's rail1
road bill requiring passengers to
1 provide themselves with tickets be
fore boarding trains, was killed
without division.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Roiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The house of representatives has
passed a resolution calling on Comptroller
General A. W. Jones to tell
why the assessments of railroad
property were lowered half a million
dollars last year wmie oiner classes
of property were raised.
The burglar who was killed at
Laurens was never identified, and the
body has been buried. A fund is being
raised all over the State for the
widow and children of Officer Stone,
who was killed by the burglar, and
about % 1,000 has been raised.
W. T. Jones, a wealthy white man
of Union county, was tried last week
for the murder of his wife and found
guilty of murder with recommendation
to mercy. His attorneys have
appealed to the State Supreme Court.
The testimony brought out the fact
that Jones was cruel to his wife and
often beat her and subjected her to
other indignities brutal in the extreme.
Physicians testified that her
death was caused by strychnine
poisoning. The trial was full of revolting
details, and the wonder is
that his neighbors allowed such a
brute in human form to live among
them.
The legislature is still at work
trying to elect an associate justice,
I hut thp dead lock continues, al
though Judges Watts and Gage have
withdrawn from the race. The candidates
now are T. P. Cothran, of
Greenville; Judge D. E. Hydrick, of
Spartanburg, and J. C. Sheppard, of
Edgefield. These three candidates
get about the same number of
votes, and a number of ballots have
been taken with the same result. It
is said the matter will be settled today
(Wednesday) and it is likely
that an entirely new man will be
elected. The senator and representatives
from Bamberg county are
voting for Sheppard.
Thomas Craft was tried in Lexington
this week for the murder of
Garfield Hutto. The jury found him
guilty of murder with a recommen|
dation to mercy, which means life
J imprisonment. The case attracted
considerable attention, and the accused
was well represented by counsel.
The facts of the killing showed
| that there was a country frolic at the
home of a woman named "Feg"
'Brown, and there was considerable
whiskey there. Craft became ofoffended
about something and went
| cut to the barn where he had hid his
Winchester rifle and securing the
weapon deliberately fired into the
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nouse, Kimng yuung nunu. i>u m
feeling to the dead man was shown,
j All parties were white.
Mob of 300 Lynch Negro.
Houston, Miss., Feb. 9.?Roby
j Baskin, murderer of the Rev. \V. Y.
I Hudson, was lynched by a mob here
this afternoon. A crowd of over
300 determined citizens took him
from the jail and hanged him to a
nearby tree. Not a shot was fired
and the whole proceeding was conducted
quietly.
Sheriff Dean, of Okolona, arrived
just as the negro breathed his last.
Leaders of the mob said the negro
had not been given a speedy trial
as was promised, and that they could
not be blamed for taking vengeance
into their own hands.
The prisoner was secured without
resistance and accepted his fate as
a matter of course, sullen and without
a word of entreaty or prayer.
He was hanged from an elm tree
w-ithin 200 jards of the county jail.
The representatives of the sheriff
here declare they consider their action
in surerndering the negro, in
view of the refusal of the court to
call a special term, justified in the
interest of law and order. Should
their action be criticised they declare
they will resign.
According to Baskin's confession
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would be arrested for the robbery,
shot and killed the minister, throwing
his body into a pond, where it
was found by searchers.
Itace Trouble Follows Girl.
Chicago, Feb. 4.?Coeds at the
Congressional college at Wheaton are
in furore to-day over the arrival at
this fashionable institution of a
young negro woman. The college authorities
may have to take charge
with a heavy hand to bring quiet out
of the affair.
The young woman, Miss Nelly
Bright, was recently put out of Berea
College, in Kentucky, as the result
of a race war, and her advent in
Wheaton threatens to precipitate a
like struggle.
in the case of the Berea College,
the authorities took the case to the
United States supreme court and
gained the power to exclude negro
nunils.
Lynched for Usual Crime.
Selma. Ala.. Feb. 8.?News has
just reached here of the lynching of
Will Parker, a negro, near Mexia. in
Monroe county, last Saturday. The
negro had mistreated the 3-vear-old
daughter of N. O. Bailey, the man
for whom he worked, on Friday. A
mob was formed during the night,
but the dogs were unable to take the
negro's trail until the following
morning. He was found in a corn
crib and when the sheriff's posse arrived,
about half an hour later, from
Mooresville, they found the negro's
body hanging to a tree.
KILLING IN COLLETON.
H. Q. Hudson Kills Peoples Heindon.
Result of Feud. '
Walterboro. Feb. 4.?An unfortunate
shooting scrape occurred at Mr.
M. Boodle's, about four miles from <
town, Monday night about 9:30
o'clock.
Monday several persons from this
neighborhood came to Walterboro, returning
a little aiter night. Peenles
Herndon, M. Boodle and John Sim- 1
mons returned together from to^n, 1
and it appears that the buggy which ]
they were driving broke down in s
front of Mr. Simmons' house. Sim- j
mons' horse and Herndon's mule had '
been driven to the buggy. It is re- 1
ported that these parties had imbibed 1
rather freely during the day and
Herndon had turned his mule loose, 1
walking on to Mr. Boodle's. About J
this time young H. Q. Hudson had {
gone to carry Mrs. Boodle some lint '
cotton which he had secured for her '
in Walterboro, according to the story j
told by friends of the defendants. 1
He was accompanied by Alphus Hick- !
man, 13 years old, and Eckie Burton, j
16 years old. Having delivered his
Darkaee to Mrs. Boodle they were re
turning to their home through the ,
field. After going about 150 yards ,
they discovered a man looking out
from behind a stump, who called to ''
them "Halt! d you! 1 am going
to kill you. I am tired of your d '
lies." With this the person came 1
from behind the stump and caught
Hudson, throwing his arm around his 1
neck and attempted to cut him with
his knife. Hudson drew his pistol [
and fired at his assailant, the bullet
entering a little to the left of the
center of his lower chest, ranging
upward. Hudson then broke loose
and went on. The boys who were 1
accompanying him had run as soon as [
the disturbance begun.
Parties in the neighborhood were
aroused bv the shot and by the cries .
and began to search and the body of
Herndon was found about 150 yards !
from where the shooting occurred,
about 20 minutes later. When* they 1
found him he was lying face down !
and life was extinct.
The inquest was held by .Magis- '
trate Bryan. 1
It appears that bad blood had ex- 1
isted for some time between Herndon
and Hudson. Herndon's father, L. 1
M. Herndon, had raised Hudson, and !
he and Peeples Herndon could not
get along well together, frequently "
having trouble.
Hudson claims that Herndon beat i
him without cause about five weeks
ago.- He had gone to his old home (
and happening upon Peeples Herndon
he was beaten unmercifully. ,
Hudson is employed at present by
Mr. J. W. Hickman to drive a cross- '
tie wagon. Hickman gives him a rep- ,
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quiet boy.
This affair is very much regretted
by every one. Herndon was a young j
farmer and leaves a wife and three
small children, the youngest being an
infant not three weeks old. .
Hudson came to town and surrendered
to the sheriff and is now in
jail. The sheriff was notified of the
killing, but Hudson had already come (
to Walterboro and surrenderede himself
to the sheriff.
Negro's Crime Stirs Town. ,
Bainbridge, Ga., Feb. 9.?Excite- ;
ment is intense here to-night over 1
the attempt of Ike Jones, a negro, lo 1
criminally assault the 16-year-oid
daughter of Joe Spooner, in the
western part of the county this
morning. The negro was captured
by a posse and placed in the town
jail at Iron City, being later removed 1
to the county jail at this place.
Many citizens of the section of the
county where the crime was commit
ted have come to Bainbridge ana
there are rumors of an attempt being
made to-night to take the negro
from the jail and lynch him. Miss
Spooner identified the negro and he
has also been identified as having
attempted to assault the daughter of
another white man in the same community
several months ago.
ROBBKR IX TRUNK.
(iendarines' Timely Find in Baggage
Left at Inn.
The other day two men drove up
in an automobile to the inn at
Savigny-Faye, near Poiters, and deposited
a large trunk with Mme. Simon,
the inn-keeper. They asked the
woman for permission to leave the
trunk in an up-stairs room until
night, when they promised to call
for it. Mme. Simon, who was alone
ot tho timp pnnsented. Ten o'clock
came and the visitors did not appear,
and the woman began to think
of closing up and going to bed.
At this moment two gendarmes
came along. They inquired why the
inn was being kept open after the
prescribed hour. Mme. Simon told
them the story of the trunk, and the
; gendarmes, their curiosity aroused,
decided to examine it. It was long
| and very heavy, and the men decided
to open it. Inside they found, lying
at full length, a powerfully built
man, who was armed with a loaded
revolver and two ''daggers. The
> gendarmes shut the trunk on their
! nriannor and sflt on the lid until
i ropes were brought, when the trunk
was tied up, hoisted upon a wheeli
barrow and wheeled to the police
t station. When the man's compan.
ions returned to the inn somewhat
, later they were also arrested.
There is little doubt that the
' man nnnppaled in the trunk had in
i tended robbing, if not also raurder
ing, the inn-keeper some time duri
ing the night, and to escape in the
? automobile with his companions.?
Washington Post.
KILLING WILL 8E PROBED
FIVE MEN ACCUSED OF HIS MURDER
ARE IN JAIL.
diaries McAIhany, the Last of the
Five, Surrenders Himself.
St. George. Feb. 6.?With the surrender
of Charley McAIhany this
morning all of the parties charged
ivith the murder of Pressloy Reeves
ire now lodged in the county jail.
McAlhany was not arrested with the
other defendants yesterday, it being
the intention of Sheriff Owens to apprehend
him this morning.
A preliminary examination into
the affair will be held by "Magistrate
Moorer Wednesday. The defendants
iemanded an investigation immediately,
but in view of the large number
of witnesses to be subpoenaed,
this was impossible. There are nearly
fifty witnesses to be summoned,
some of whom reside in other counties,
and it will take several days to
have them notified.
The defendants when interviewed
were not disposed to talk very much,
rhev all protested their innocence,
however, and said that they knew
absolutely nothing of the killing.
All of the men, with the exception
of Fairey, are confined in a cell together
on the first floor of the jail,
while Fairey is confined on the second
floor. They have been made as
comfortable as possible under the
circumstances, and apparently enter
tain no fear as to the outcome. In
fact they seem rather inclined to
treat the matter with ^difference.
Arant, one of the defendants, recently
suffered a stroke of paralysis,
and the effects thereof are still apparent.
He was unable to testify at
the inquest because of illness, and is
the only defendant whose testimony
has not been taken. When seen today
he was lying on the bed and had
his right arm bandaged, although his
condition is not such now as to necessitate
his being confined to bed.
Sheriff Owens and several special
officers have been conducting a
thorough investigation into the matter
for the past several days, and it is
thought that the preliminary examination
will develop features of a sensational
nature.
I,on Weeks, of the local bar, represents
the prosecution, while four of
the men charged with the killing are
panroaoTiteH hv John A. Hiers. ESQ.
The defendant. Fairey, is without
counsel as yet.
The kiling of Reeves was probably
the most exciting and sensational
homicide in the criminal annals of
Dorchester county, not only because
of the brutal and heartless way in
which the victim was slain, but because
of the fact that it is generally
accepted that his connection with the
Audubon Society was the cause of
his death.
The Edisto river, which runs
through the section in which the
murder occurred, was a favorite
place for people of that community
to fish, and Reeves being generally
regarded as a man of undisputed
courage, the violators of the fish and
?ame laws realized that his appointment
as game warden would cause
them trouble, especially since he was
a resident of the immediate section,
and was well acquainted with conditions
thereabouts. Then, too. there
existed a family feud of long standing
in the community, and young
Reeves had had several tilts with his
neighbors prior to his death, one of
which, it was said, was with one of
the defendants at Branchville, a day
or so before the killing.
The jury of inquest impannelled to
investigate the killing had three
hearings, but were never able to
agree upon a verdict. While evidence
produced at these hearings was cir-1
cumstantial, it is understood that the
prosecution has additional* evidence
to nresent at the Dreliminary exami
nation, and the arrests yesterdhy is
evidence that they have something
up their sleeves. The case has created
high interest in this section of
the State, and results are anxiously
awaited. The defendants are all
prosperous farmers, and will doubtless
be represented by able counsel.
Arant, especially, is well known,
and is said to possess considerable
property. Each side is equally determined,
and the matter will be
fought to the last ditch.
Juror Drops Dead in Court.
Yorkville, Feb. 8.?Quite a sensation
was created in the court house
this morning. Mr. J. C. Hill, a substantial
farmer and esteeemd citizen
of Bullocks Creek township, who was
a juror at this term of court, walked
into the room and in a few minutes
after sitting down he fell over into
the arms of a friend and expired before
a physician could reach him.
Heart failure was said to be the
cause of his death. He lived at the
Roseboro place, 12 miles from Chester,
was 50 years old and leaves a
widow and several children, two of
them grown.
Gun Play at a Burial.
Rowesville, Feb. S.?April Jennings
was shot by Dave Jennings at
Emanuel church in Edisto Fork Friday
and mortally wounded. The
row occurred while a burial was in
progress and was about a trivial matter.
April snapped his pistol several
times at Dave, but it failed to fire,
and David poured two loads of buckshot
into April. There is no possible
chance of the wounded man's recovery.
All parties are colored.
LOST.?One memorandum book
with dark red cover. Finder will
please return to C. R. Brabham, Jr.
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APPROPRIATION BILL.
Shows Redaction of $122,614.16
from Last Year's Appropriations.
Columbia, Feb. 8.?Chairman
Marion Rucker, of the ways and
means committee, to-night submitted
the tevt of the areneral aDDroDria
tion bill and supply bill. It has been
carefully worked out, and shows a
reduction in the aggregate of $122,614.16
from the appropriations of
last year.
The committee recommends a five
mills tax levy for State purposes
against the levy of five and a half
mills of 1908.
The following is concise recapitulation
of the act: Governor's office,
$13,500; Secretary of State's office,
$6,500; Comptroller General's office,
$11,550; Insurance Commissioner's
office, $7,400; State Treasurer's office,
$7,600; State Superintendent of
Education's office, $5,950; Adjutant
General's office, $16,700; Attorney
General's office, $6,725; Railroad
Commisioner's office, $10,350; State
Librarian's office, $1,550; Public
buildings, $47,326.88; Stace Geologist's
office, $3,400; Department of
Agriculture, $16,800; Judicial Department,
$94,606.25; Health Department,
$13,200; Tax Department,
$80,393.14; University of South r
Carolina. $82,871.10. Winthrop,
$109,845.6;"); South Carolina ,Military
Academy, $30,590.65; Colored
Industrial College, $12,000; other
educational purposes, $57,991.65;
State Hospital for Insane, $185,632; ^
Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, $28,800;
South Carolina Industrial
School, $4,000; Penitentiary, $6,550;
other penal and charitable purposes,
$12,700; Pensions, $250,000;
Historical Commission, $2,500; Interest
on public debt, $295,246.03;
Elections, $8,125; Miscellaneous,
$40,583.95; Senate, $14,796.10;
House of Representatives, $31,915.30;
Engrossing Department,
$5,115; Expenses, common to both
houses, $320; Grand total, $1,524,083.70.
The supply bill i#a separate act.
The Confederate Home is allowed
$2,000, as previously granted.
GARY'S FIRST SPEECH.
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Addresses the Senate on the Crum
Nomination.
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Washington, Feb. 8.?Senator
Gary came to the front in the executive
session of the senate to-day,
when the Crum matter was taken
up. He spoke about 40 minutes in '
opposition to the confirmation of
Crum, and after he sat down, a number
of senators on both sides congratulated
him. It was rather a
stormy session from the way senators
talked about it to-night. Senator
Tillman gave some of his well
known views on the race question
and made some rather startling
declarations of what he and others
used to do with tissue ballots and
other devices for cheating the negroes
in elections. He is reported by
other senators as declaring that at
one time he got so tired of cheating
in elections that he voted for a negro
for congress, meaning George
Washington Murray. A number of
the Democratic senators are saying
that Senator Tillman put the South
tor Tillman, when asked about it, replied
merely that he could not discuss
matters which took place in executive
session. Senator Gary re- '
fused to allow himself to be diverted .
by the general storm which broke
out in places about him, but continued
in a well studied speech to
discuss the inadvisability of confirming
Crum. He said that it was
sufficient for the senate to consider
that Crum was objectionable to the
large body of intelligent and business
people of South Carolina and
to the two senators from the State.
He pleaded that Mr. Taft should be
allowed the opportunity to carry out
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importance, he declared, that Andrew
Carnegie had had copies of it
distributed all through the South.
To leave Crum's appointment to the
next administration would give Mr.
Taft an opportunity to show that he
meant that speech, he said, and he
quoted passages from it. He said it
would be no injustice to the negro to
deny him the privilege of governing
the white man, and that the negro
was getting all he was entitled to
in the way of recognition, now having
been brought out of the depths
of barbarism and brought under the
civilizing influences of the white
man.
These are but a few of the things
Senator Gary said in his first or
"maiden" speech in the senate. Being
in executive session, the full
speech cannot be reported.
Returns to Scene of Crime.
Dublin, Ga.. Feb. 5.?Drawn by
some irrisistible impulse to return
to the scene where he killed a man
when he was 15 years of age, Manly
B. Tripp, after roaming over a good
portion of the world for ten years,
to-day surrendered to the sheriff of
Laurens county. For some time he
has been here and was an interested
spectator in the court house during
a trial. He was not recognized until
he voluntarily surrendered. He was
a well known youth and is prominently
connected. He shot James
Hood down on the street in 1899. He
escaped and efforts to recapture him
failed.
Clean cotton rags wanted at The
Bamberg Herald office. We will pay
three cents a pound. Bring tnem in.
Bring rags which will do for wiping
machinery, not scraps.