The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 02, 1913, Image 1
One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2,1913. Established 1891.
? COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
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SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
, County and Elsewhere.
Country Correspondence.
EmHH Since the cool wave has blown
over, ideal Indian summer is a welHmBmP
come guest.
Miss Eva Hughes, of Elmer, is
K|^BP spending a few days with her father's
family in our midst.
H Miss Virginia Hill left last Wednesday
for Gaffney to attend Limestone
On last Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock, at the home of Mr. J. T.
Smoak, his youngest daughter, Marie,
was married to Mr. Hughie Clayton,
HgBaK. of the Colston community. Quite a
crowd had been bidden and was present
to witness the beautiful and imHHb
pressive, yet solemn ceremony as perHH
formed by Rev. E. A. McDowell, of
HRF Ehrhardt. The attendants were Miss
BBhFP *Jerilee Sandifer and Mr. Grayson
Hix, Miss Nettie Clayton, sister to
HWF~ the groom, with Mr. Conner Smoak,
brother to the bride. The wedding
jCc party was a pretty scene. The bride
is one of our community's younger
girls and we are sorry to lose her to
another community, yet our very best
wishes follow her to ner new nome.
The groom is the second son of Mr.
Frank Clayton, of Colston, and is a
rising young farmer boy. May their
lives be long and full of happiness
* and prosperity.
We must comment, yet we can't
do justice, to the beautiful sermon
of Rev. W. R. McMillan, at the BammT
berg Baptist church Sunday. He was
L~ introducing and paving the way for
W the protracted services now in session
there. His text was taken from
E the 4th verse of the 22nd chapter of
" St. Matthew. He likened the con?
ditions of man to some of the wonders
of nature. The darkness of sin
* to the Mammoth cave, the depths of
ruin to the Niagara Falls, and the
height of glory which the earnest followers
of Christ are trying to climb,
to Mt. Blanc. Mr. McMillan gives
hi6 congregation good spiritual food
every Sunday and so appropriate to
r the work he is trying to do this week.
A large crowd was present and had
something rare to carry away. Special
mention must be made of the good
music as rendered by the choir, assisted
by Miss Kate Rentz on piano,
Dr. Faust on violin, Mr. C. W. Rentz
on cornet and Mr. Clarence Black on
"hnss vinlin.
For the first year since the writer
has been teaching, we will be in a
different community to that of our
, own. We are going to cast our lot
in the Denmark, Ghent's Branch
neighborhood. Now that is a short
way from home, but when we come
to think of never teaching only near
enough that we could drive or walk
to our work every day and could
visit our church and teach our Sunday-school
class every Sunday we, to
say nothing of leaving home, feel
- like we are going far away. But we
feel sure we will like our new labors
and devoutly trust there will be more
earnest workers to take up the labors
of-our past at each post of duty,
for we have labored to do our best.
Fairfax Fancies.
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Fairfax, Sept. 27.?Quite a number
of persons from this place attended
the funeral at Brunson, of the late
Judson Lightsey, Sr.
Dr. Wilber Tuten, W. E. Harter,
and others from here attended a deer
hunt over Savannah river this week.
^ * - Two deer were caught. They brought
one home with them, cooked and
j^> ate it! Said it was nice.
P L. S. Bryan and family, of Barton,
p: were here trading this week.
i Misses Gussie and Carrie Pollard,
F of Hazen, Ga., are guests of Mrs. H.
M. Harveley. These young ladies
have visited here before, and we are
glad to welcome them back to Fairfax.
There was an entertainment Thursday
evening for the benefit of the
library association. A nice sum was
realized, and all carried out their
parts on the program beautifully.
Particularly cute and sweet was the
song sung by little Fannie Wilson,
"You Can t Guess What He Wrote
on My Slate." The quartette by
Misses Harrison, Kenny, Albergotti,
I and Porter was well executed, and
very sweet. Misses Harrison and
Sadie Harter gave fine instrumental
music. The closing scene, The Spelling
Class, was intensely amusing, but
they won a book to present to the
library, for best speller.
There was a lecture Wednesday
evening at the school hall by Rev.
OI K SMOKE AM) OKIMv BILL.
! It Keaches the Enormous Sum of
$2,700,000,000 a Year.
Frank Fayant shows that the
smoking and drinking bill of the
I
j American people now reaches the
j enormous figure of $2,700,000,000 a
; year.
"Since the time when Columbus
' braved the unknown seas in search
I
j of the treasure of the Indies, man
has dug out of the earth $15,000,000,000.000
of gold." he says. "Since
j the panic of 1907 the American peoj
pie have spent for alcohol and tobacj
co $15,000,000,000. Or, to put these
j two statements in the form of amathI
ematical equaton;the product of 4 20
I hnmon frtll oo^rifico Q r? H
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bloodshed, of daring discovery and
exploration of continental wilderi
ness, of cruel wars of aggression and
! conquest, of wonderful engineering
j triumphs, in the never-ending search
for the precious metal, equals six
years easy going expenditure of the
American people for the weed that
soothes and the cup that cheers.
"How much is $2,700,000,000? If,
a thousand years before the time of
j Moses the Lawgiver, the the ancient
i Egyptians had begun hoarding a
j treasure of gold at the rate of a doli
lar a minute, and if ever since then?
everv minute, dav and night, these
I ?
' thousands of years?the accumula!
tion of this treasure had continued,
i the golden hoard would to-day be
! 500 years short of the $2,700,000,I
000 we spent in one year for alcohol
and tobacco."
Mr. Fayant says that the bulk of
this money is spent by wage-earners,
j It is equal to the earnings of more
j than 4,000,000 workers. It is two
I and a half times the wages of all the
: men on the railroads. It is fourteen
j times the great pay roll of the Steel
corporation.
Sir George Paish, the English economist,
estimates that the American
people are saving the great sum of
$5,000,000 a year?that is, that we
! are putting this money into new rail!
roads, factories, farms, homes and
| other productive investments, and
thus adding to the national wealth.
| Birt we are spending this sum every
| 22 months for tobacco and alcohol.
Our enormous savings bank hoard is
the wonder and envy of Europe, but
we spent in 20 months as much money
for tobacco and alcohol as we have
laid by in the savings banks in all
these years of prosperity and thrift.
Every month we spend more than we
add to our bank savings in a whole
year.
More than half the total wealth of
the United States is incorporated in
manufacturing and industrial companies.
banks and other financial institutions,
railroads, telegraphs, telephones
and other public service corporations.
The combined profits of
all these businesses are less than the
expenditure for smoking and drinking.
The $27,000,000,000 annual
outlay is greater than the total cost
of all our government, from the president's
salary down to the cross-J
roads school house. It is three
times the national debt. It is more
than all Europe is spending for war
and preparations tor war.
"If our habits do not change," says
the writer, "we shall consume more
alcohol and tobacco in the next 35
years than could be purchased for the
entire wealth of the United States
today?the total value of everything
possessed by everybody from the Atlantic
to the Pacific."
A quarter of the $27,000,000,000
is spent for tobacco, and three quarters
for alcohol?that is, the drinking
bill is three times as large as the
smoking bill. Of the two billions
spent for drink $1,170,000,000 goes
for beer, $700,000,000 for whiskey,
brandy, gin, rum and for wine. The
$700,000,000 tobacco bill is thus divided:
$446,000,000 for cigars and
little cigars, $73,000,000 for cigarettes.
$157,000,000 for smoking and
chewing tobacco, and $244,uuu,uuu
for snuff.
Mr. Favant's figures show that
beer is the drink of the American
people, and that cigarettes are rapidly
becoming the national smoke.
The consumption of cigarettes has increased
500 per cent in ten years.?
Munsey's Magazine.
Xungazer, of Estill. The ladies of
the Baptist missionary society were
in charge. Mrs. 0. J. Youmans gave
a fine recitation. A collection was
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taken for the society. Miss Joella
Padgett led the music. A vocal solo
"U?.- pArvirkfAn n'Oo rrtn/?Vl
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The Lutherans are putting an important
addition to their manse, which
is to be occupied by Rev. D. B. Groseclose.
now at Ehrhardt, in November.
Audrey Sanders is also putting up
out buildings, so we hear the saw and
hammer all around us.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Roiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Wade Bright, white, convicted at
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law and sentenced to a fine of $175
or five months on the gang, has been
paroled by the governor on condition
that he pays $25.
Brack Edwards, colored, committed
suicide in Aiken on Sunday by
jumping into a well a hundred feet
deep. His body was found Monday.
He had been threatening for some
time to kill himself.
Mary Alice Rollinson, colored, shot
and killed her husband, Nero Rollinson,
at their home at Wedgefield,
Sumter county, Sunday night. The
evidence showed that the husband
had cursed her and shot at her with
a shotgun, when she shot him with a
pistol.
Mayor John P. Grace of Charleston
has filed a petition with Speaker
Clark asking for an investigation of
the election of Congressman Richard
S. Whaley of the first congressional
district. The petition charges that
Congressman Whaley spent more
than $60,000 in the Democratic primaries
last summer, which is a violation
of the law. Whaley says the
charges are bold, baldface lies, cooked
up to hurt his reputation in the
house.
J. B. Tipton, the Southern Railway
conductor who was arrested in Greenville
charged with complicity in the
robbery of $16,000 at Parr Shoals,
and who was later released on his
own recognizance, was dismissed
from custody at the preliminary hearing
in his case before Magistrate
Douglas at Parr Shoals, who issued
the warrant for his arrest. Mr. Tipton
was completely exonerated, and
it is said that he is planning to bring
suit against the detectives ^ho
brought about his arrest.
DOG TEARS OFF COW S HORN.
Ih-ize Canine and Thoroughbred Jersey
Meet in Unequal Combat.
St. Louis, Sept. 26.?The inbred
enmity of dog and cow, shown long
ago by the "cow with the crumpled
horn that tossed the dog," broke
forth anew in the pasture of Samuel
McCIuney, a wealthy St. Louis broker
in St. Louis county, when Rodney
Stone, Mrs. T. L. Hausmann's prize
bulldog, tore a horn from the head
of McCluney's prize Jersey cow,
Daisy.
Mrs. Hausman is a neighbor of the
McCluneys in Hampton Park. She
took the bull dog for his daily exercise,
without the restraint of a lesh
and the result was a confiica of tooth
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A REPUBLICAN TRIBUTE
Tarheel Postmaster Says Wilson is
Great Chieftain.
Norfolk, Va., Sept. 25.?Although
only a few Democrats are among
those attending the joint convention
of Virginia and North Carolina postmasters,
which met here to-day, a
tribute to President Wilson by C. F.
McKesson, Republican postmaster at
Morganton, N. C., was applauded with
enthusiasm. Mr. Kesson said that,
although his loyalty to the Republican
party was unswerving, he believed
President Wilson to be the
greatest chieftain the nation has possessed
since the death of Thomas
Jefferson. The applause which greeted
this assertion was spontanious and
prolonged.
GETS TRUNKS AGAIN.
St. Louis Broker Pays and Recovers
Family Property.
New York, Sept. 29.?By the payment
of $450, the home value of the
gowns and hats worn by his wife and
daughter, Henry Nicholaus, a wealthy
St. Louis brewer, today obtained
the release from customs stores of 12
trunks seized last Saturday, when it
was charged that the owners had failed
to declare dutiable gowns and
jewelry valued at $4,000.
Examination of the baggage disclosed
that the only articles which
Mr. Nicholaus failed to mention in
his declaration were the gowns and
hats purchased abroad, which were
being worn by his wife and daughter.
The Nicholauses arrived here last
Friday from Europe aboard the
steamer Kaiserine Auguste Victoria.
Highest prices paid for pecans. G.
A. DUCKER & BRO., Bamberg, S. C.
JiLKVEXTH VICTIM OF HACK KIOX ,
1
I Detectives Investigating Cause of
Trouble at Harriston, Miss.
I
| Harriston, Mies., Sept. 29.?AnI
ntbor victim nt' flip SnnilflV riot died
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! here to-day, bringing the death list
, up to eleven, three white persons and
i eight negroes. Homer Aiken, a nej
gro, to-day succumbed to wounds he
[ received at the hands of the two
i .Tones brothers, who began the riot ]
I which ended when they were lynched. <
j Officers here, in trying to find the ]
real cause of the riots, to-day work- ,
i ed on the theory that the Jones boys <
| were advised to begin their reign of t
j murder and in their drugged condi- i
i tion readily acquiesced. It has been j
| predicted that if the mother of the ]
I boys should be brought back to her 1
I home from which she fled when the <
j shooting began, she might be sum- <
I marily dealt with. She was captured <
I at Port Gibson, Miss., early to-night. ]
! It has not been decided whether to '1
; bring her here at once. 1
Detectives are also investigating.
John Prophet,anegroofChampaign, 1
j 111., who recently came here and was 1
{ seen frequently with the Jones boys. 1
i He and Robert Patten, another negro, 1
j are in jail. It is said Prophet organ- <
j ized negro lodges and vielde some l
I influence among the more ignorant 1
! negroes here. <
I Funerals A Sheriff G. B. Hammett,
! Claude Freeman and Frank Keinstly
j took place at Fayette to-day. 1
1
Two Others Expecte<l to Die. 1
Natchez, Miss., Sept. 29.?His life 1
hanging in the balance as a result 1
; of gunshot wounds received in the 1
riot at Harriston, Miss., yesterday J
former Sheriff Orrin Gillis was struck
| in the face and on the body by plaster ;
j which fell from the ceiling of his j
i room in a hospital here to-day He <
! was not seriously hurt by the plaster, ]
I but physicians say lie is not likely to 1
i recover from the wounds recived i
j yesterday. i
! Dewey Haywood, a negro shot in 1
I the abdomen, who also is in the hos- (
i pital here, is not expected to live.
j On the advice of Governor Brewer i
II he negroes, John Prophet and Rob- i
| ert Patterson, arrested in connection i
j with the shooting and brought here, j
j were not taken to Fayette to-day for <
j preliminary hearing.
I B1XBY XOT GUILTY, SAYS JURY. .
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Long Beach Millionaire Freed of
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Charge of Wrong Against Girls. ,
Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 29.?Geo. '
H. Bixby, a millionaire of Long
Beach, Cal., charged with having con- 1
tributed to the downfall of minor '
young women, was found not guilty
by a jury to-night.
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Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe instructed
the jury to disregard the allegations
of conspiracy made by Bix- (
by himself on the witness stand and
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to convict him if he were deemed
guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The <
offence related to the millionaire's
alleeed relations with Cleo Helen
Barker, a 19-year-old girl, and one 1
of three young women who have sued J
him for an aggregate of $150,000 .
damages.
Bixbv was tried on one of two in<
aictments based on charges preferred
against him by Cleo Helen Barker
and habitues of a resort.
Bixbv's defense was that he had
visited the place only as a philanthropist,
who had spent thousands of
dollars to save young girls and had
been requited by being made a victim
of a blackmail conspiracy.
Cotton Goes Back. {
New York, Sept. 30.?The condition
of cotton, as compiled from near- s
ly 1,900 replies of special corres- 1
pondents of the Journal of Com- ]
merce, bearing an average date of ?
r, ^ i e\n n i _
oepiemuer -a, is 01,1 pci ^cm,, vum
pared with 71.4 per cent a month 1
ago, or a decline of 4.3 points. This 1
compares with 70.3 per cent a year <
ago; 70.8 in 1911, 65.7 in 1910 and {
59.5 in 1909. The ten-year average
is 68.2 percent, while the average 1
decline for the same period is 5.3 1
points. (
Deterioration occurred in all States,
but was most severe in Louisiana,
Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri and
Oklahoma, all of which lost 10 points
and over. Texas nearly held its own, 1
losing only 0.5 point. J
I
Bits of Philosophy. j
A man sometimes does not know ]
who his friends are until he finds he 1
hasn't any. ]
We never quite realize the sting J
of hard words till we have to take i
them back. 1
He who strikes while the iron is <
hot doesn't always succeed In mak- 1
ing warm friends. 1
CONSTABLE KING KILLED
SHERIFF DOUGLASS AXI) DEPUTY
ABBOTT HURT.
Posses Pursuing Wife of Jim Davis,
Who Escapes After Husband Meets
Death in Glowing Embers.
McBee, Sept. 28.?J. M. King, a 1
member of the sheriff's posse, was
shot and instantly Killed and Sheriff
D. P. Douglass and Deputy J. R.
Ahhntt u-orp nninfnllv wounded to
jay in trying to capture James Davis,
i negro deperado, who fought to
;he last and is believed to have pershed
in the ruins of the burning
house near Middenorf, this county,
cvhere he had been besieged since
?arly morning. Davis' wife, who aid2d
him in his defense and subsequently
escaped, is being sought by a
posse. The end came after a battle
vith the negro in which many shots
cvere fired.
Summoned by Lester Burr, ginners'
*eport man for this county, who had
Deen fired on by the negro yesterday,
md other prominent men, the sheriff
md his deputy went to Middendorf
?arlv to-day. Arrived there, they
Jound the object of their search, and
the deputy at once demanded his
surrender.
The First Fight.
As the officer approached the negro !
tvhipped out *his pistol and opened
ire. In the fusillade which followed
:-oth officers were wounded?Sheriff
Douglass in the right leg?and Dep
Jty Abbott in the left hand?and the
legro, the sheriff thinks, was also
lit.
Davis fled into his cabin nearby
and there barricaded himself. Assisted
by his wife, he prepared for
lefense. Davis' house was well prepared
for a seige. The negro was
:ieavily armed and had a quantity of
ammunition. With his wife, who had 1
assisted him in the first fight with i
:he officers, he was able to put up a ;
lesperate resistance.
Sheriff Douglass, though wounded, 1
-emained in charge of the situation,
and went to McBee for reinforcements,
leaving a small party on
?uard to see that the negro did not
escape.
Returned to Front.
At McBee the wounded sheriff raised
a posse and soon returned to the
scene ready to take the house by
storm if necessary. There were no
signs of life, and the posse began
a search for the negro.
Mr. King stooped down to look
mder the house and was greeted by
i shot from the negro's weapon. The
lullet took effect almost squarely between
the eyes and the brave constable
fed dead.
Undaunted by the sudden fire, the
ifficers continued their efforts to
:ake the desperado. The house was |
jurroundered and then was fired, the |
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DDject Deing 10 rorce uit; ucgiu mw
he open.
The heat and smoke proved more
:lian Davis could stand and he dashed
from the burning house, only to
oe met by a volley of lead. Seemingly
hard hit, he turned back and
sought shelter beneath the blazing
structure.
Cowers 'Xeath Blazing Beams.
There, hiding from the bullets of
:he posses, the negro cowered, while
;he flames ate their way through the
frail building.
The roof and floor fell in; the neiro
had not appeared. He was burned
to death beneath the house which
Pad given him refuge, while he pour?d
forth hi6 fire at the officers is almost
certain.
Davis' wife had escaped, while the
sheriff was gone, it is supposed, as
there was no trace of her when the
posse returned. A posse ie now
searching for her.
J. M. King, the dead man, has been
iving here for several months. He
fvas magistrate's constable for this
iistrict. He was married and leaves
1 wife and eight children.
Davis is said to have been a very <
bad character. It is believed that ;
le was wanted in North Carolina for
crimes committed there. j
Arm Mangled in Ginnery.
Olar, Sept. 25.?Frank Kirkland, a ,
aegro about 30 years of age, who ,
ives near this place, came to town
:his morning with a bale of cotton
for the ginnery operated by G. 0.
Barker. In some way, while assisting .
the hands emplo}red at the ginnery,
his right hand got caught in the
saws, His arm was so mangled that
t was necessary to amputate it just
below the shoulder joint. Drs. McBormick,
Hartzog and Ray performed
the operation. Their opinion as to
his recovery is favorable. I
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SKA BOARD CHARLESTOX-BOUND.
Laying Ties and Rails on ElorencePoston-Charleston
Division.
Florence, Sept. 29.?The laying of
crossties and rails on the South Carolina
Western Railroad, the Seaboard,
on the Florence-Poston-Charleston
division, was begun here to-day. The
track-laying force began work on the
south side of the Florence-Mars Bluff
Road, near the new Plough Factory
plant, which is located on the old
Munford G. Scott plantation. Until
the South Carolina Western can get
their viaduct and approaches completed
across the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad freight transfer yards they
will be compelled to move their rails
and ties from the southern terminus
of their track to the Mars Bluff road
or northern terminus ;n wagons, but
this is being done regardless of time
or cost and it will be only a few days
now before they will have in a connecting
track at the Plough Factory
with an Atlantic Coast Line siding.
The work on this new line will
now be rushed with all possible dispatch,
as the cuts have been made,
the grades reduced and the trestle
work over Jeffreys Creek and Willow
Creek has been erected and made
ready for the ties and rails. It is now
stated definitely that trains will be
running between Florence and Georgetown
by January 1, 1914, and into
Charleston by January 1, 1915.
McNAUGHTON WILL NOT HANG.
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Gov. Slaton Commutes Sentence of
Man Convicted of Murder.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 27.?Tlie sentence
of Dr. W. J. McNaughton, who
was to have been hanged October 3
for the murder of Fred Flanders, today
was commuted to life imprisonment
by Governor John M. Slaton.
In announcing his decision Governor
Slaton said that while the evidence
showed the physician guilty, it was
all more or less circumstantial, and
that expert testimony by physicians . - v:
of high standing, offered since the
trial, impressed upon him the fallibility
of human judgment.
"Human life is sacred," said Governor
Slaton. "Its protection is the
highest function of the law, and the
Governor, an officer sworn to enforce
the law, should remember the sacredness
of life to the condemned criminal
as well as to the victim."
Dr. W. J. McNaughton was found
guilty of poisoning Fred Flanders in
Emanuel County, June 4, 1910, and
was sentenced to death at the October
term of the Emanuel Superior
court. Mrs. Mattie Flanders, wife
of the dead man, was indicted for
complicity in the murder. During the
illness of Flanders, and after his
death, Dr. McNaughton, who lived
at the Flanders home, diagnosed the
case as acute nephritis. Experts who
examined the dead man's stomach
declared that their analysis revealed
the presence of poison. The indict
merits of Dr. McNaughton and Mrs.
Flanders were based on this testimony.
The case against Dr. McNaughton
had been through all the courts, including
the Supreme Court of the
United States, before it reached the
Georgia prison board. In each instance
the original verdict was sustained.
An extraordinary motion recently
was made for a new trial, on
the ground that new evidence had
been discovered, but this also was denied.
Governor Slaton had the case
under consideration since the hearing
before the prison board closed two
weeks ago. The board on September
11 recommended a full pardon. Dr.
McNaughton probably will be confined
at the State farm at Milledgeville.
Mrs. Flanders has not yet
been tried.
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Expected to be Pardoned.
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 27.?"I am
much disappointed," said Dr. W. J.
McNaugnton nere to-mgm wneu
told of Governor Slayton's decision.
"I had confidently expected
a complete pardon. I feel no resentment
or bitterness toward those who
are responsible for my condition and
have persecuted rather than prosecuted
me.
"I will begin my sentence without
a word of reproach, for I have long
since reached the point where the
worst has no terrors for me."
Dr. McNaughton expressed the conviction
that be would be cleared "at
the day of final judgment."
Richard I. Manning, of Sumter, has
issued a statement that he will positively
fce a candidate for governor in
the Democratic primary next summer.
He also believes the primary
laws -should be changed so as to insure
absolutely fair elections.