The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 13, 1920, Image 1
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Wilson Tells F
To Stc
"'HONOR OP NATION" IN HANDS
OF DEMOCRATS, HE
WRITES.
Must Measure Up
To Opportunity.
Violation of Promises Made to World
to Attach Reservations Which
Whittle it Down or Weaken
Document Says President.
/
Washington, May 9.?Call to the
Democratic party to go into the campaign
standing foursquare in favor of
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the senate's reservations was issued
tonight by President Wilson in a tele\
gram to Oregon Democratic leaders,
s made public at the white house.
Declaring that the party had "the
honor of the nation" in its hands, the
president said that the Lodge resolutions
were "utterly inconsistent" with
the role of world leadership whichj
. the United States must assume. I!
The only true Americanism, the!"
president said, was "that which puts
America at the front of free nations
and redeems the great promises which
we made to the world." It would be a 1
violation of such promises, he said, I(
to attach reservations to the treaty j
which "whittle it down or weaken it; 1
as the Republican leaders of the sen-j^
. ate have promised to do." !1
The telegram was in response to the I(
following message from G. E. Ham-jJ
aker, of Portland, Ore., chairman of;1
the Multonomah county Democratic j(
central committee: I1
"Primary election May 21. Please |
it lTVinrvr. i 1
Wire WUCIUC1 tuuoiu^l n, imjt/ui | tant
to nominate candidates pledged!(
to ratify Versailles treaty without 1
Lodge reservations." 1
Mr. Wilson's Reply.
The reply of the president follows:
"I think it imperative that the
party should at once proclaim itself
the uncompromising champion of the
nation's honor and {he advocate of
everything that the United States can .
do in the service of humanity, that it ^
should therefore indorse and support
the Versailles treaty and condemn (
the Lodge reservations as utterly in- .
consistent with the nation's honor
and destructive of the world, includ- ^
and destructive of the* world leader- ^
ship which it had established and
which all the free people of the world,
including the great powers them- ^
selves, had shown themselves ready to j '
welcome. ,
"It is time that the party should
a
proudly avow that it means to try,
without flinching or turning at any ^
time away from the path for reasons!
i r
of expediency, to apply moral and j
Christian principles to the problems i
of the world. It is trying to accom- j
plish social, political and internation- i *
al reforms and is not daunted by any
of the difficulties it has to contend
p
s with. Let us prove to our late associates
in the war that at any rate the
great majority party of the nation?
the party which expresses the true
hopes and purposes of the people of ^
the country?intends to keep faith
with them in peace as well
as in war. They gave their
treasure, their best blood and ^
everytmng tnat tney vaiuea in
order, not merely to beat Germany, ,
but to effect a settlement and bring about
arrangements of a peace which j
they have now tried to formulate in t
the treaty of Versailles. They are g
entitled to our support in this settle- \
ment and in the arrangements for c
which they have striven. f
Hope of World. t
"The league of nations is the hope
of the world. As a basis for the t
armistice. I was authorized by all the t
great- fighting nations to say to the a
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posing peace to establish a general t
association of nations under specific f
covenants for the purpose of afford- t
ing mutual guarantees of political in- s
dependence and territorial integrity s
to great and small states alike, and v
4 the covenant is ratified and acted s
upon with vigor. We Jan not in honor 1<
whittle it down or weaken it as the t
Republican leaders of the senate have o
proposed to do. If we are to exer- t
cise the kind of leadership to which f
the founders of the republic looked
forward and which they depended g
upon their ancestors to establish, we n
must do this thing with courage and ii
unalterable determination. They ex
''arty
ind On Treaty
ARTHUR DALEY GIVEN TERM.
Slayer of Late Wiggins Convicted of
Minor Charge of Assault.
Orangeburg, May S.?Arthur Daley,
charged with assault and battery with
intent to kill, plead guilty and was
given two years by the court here yesterday.
Daley admitted making an attack
last month on N. L. Kittrell, a peace
officer of Eutawville, S. C., when he
had him in custody, he having been
arrested under a charge of being
- ?- *? j j *. u
aruriK. ine oiow was ueuveieu wnu
a scantling and Mr. Kittrell's collar
bone was broken. Daley escaped
and was later arrested in Pinopclis,
Berkeley county.
There is a charge of murder yet
standing against this negro, he be- (
ing alleged to have killed Magistrate
Jeff Wiggins at Elloree several
weeks ago.
Daley was at large when Magistrate
Wiggins was killed, not having
been arrested after his escape from
Officer Kittrell, and during the ,
search of the county by the officers
of the law for the slayer of Wiggins,
Daley was found in Berkeley county.
He was tried yesterday for the' af"N
fair with Mr. Kittrell and the charge
against him for the alleged killing
of Magistrate Wiggins still stands.
Several cases were heard in court
ioy consent of both sides, after the
jury venire had'been quashed, but
ffie defense in the case of Daley
charged with murder refused to con- .
sent to a trial at this term, they
laving that right since the quashing
of the jury, and the case was con:inued.
There have been many doubts expressed
about Daley being the slayer .
of Magistrate Wiggins and there- .
oromises to be interesting develop- ,
nortfc when tVio r>ooa ic PolloH
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HOLDS ALLIGATOR PARTY.
Inimal Measuring More Than Seven 1
Feet Killed.
St. Matthews, May 8.?Geo. W. \
fairey, member of the house of rep esentatives,
and a leading member
)f the Methodist church here, introiuced
on last Friday an innovation 1
n the shape of sport. Mr. Fairey
?ave an alligator party and hajd as
lis guests, his pastor, the Rev. J. T.
3eeler, and members of their respecive
families. Mr. Fairey furnished
t *
he alligator and the rifle and each
nember of the party in turn paid
heir leaden respect to the animal,
dr. Fairey discovered about a year
igo that the g~tor had taken up his *
ibode in his fish pond about four '
niles out of town. When they ar- 1
ived the top of his head was noticed *
ibove the water. Mr. Fairey, who
ised to shoot them when he was a
outh at Branchville, killed the alligator.
It measured se\en feet and
ras a fine specimen. Mr. Hungert
>eler took his hide as a trophy.
Appearances Deceitful.
"Appearances are deceitful," said
Irs. Maloney solemnly.
"They sure are," replied Mrs. Ca- (
ey. "When Oi se the old man sur- 1
Dunded by a squad of cops these days, 1
)i don't know whether he's got pinch- 1
id or is going to wurk in some non- (
mion plant."
>ected the United States to be always t
he leader in the defense of liberty^ ]
md orederd peace throughout the 1
vorld, but w? are unworthy to call ?
mrselves their successors unless we t
ulfiill the great purpose tney enterained
and proclaimed.
4,The true Americanism, the only
rue Americanism, is that which puts
America at the front of free nations
nd redeems the great promises which
re made the world when we entered
he war which was fought, not only
or the advantage of any single naion
or group of nations, but for the
alvation of all. It is in this way we
hall redeem the sacred blood that
ras shed and make America the force
he should be in the counsels of man:ind.
She can not afford to sink into
he place that nations have usually
ccupied and become merely one of
hose who scramble and look about
or selfish advantage.
"The Democratic party now has a
reat opportunity to which it must
aeasure up. The honor of the nation
5 in its hands. '
"WOODROW WILSON."
DEATHS FOLLOW
MEXICAN MOVES
BLOODLESS REVOLUTION NO
LONGER QUIET.
Reports of Slaying.
Many Political Executions Said to
Have Been Ordered When
Government Falls.
Washington May 10.?Mexico's latest
revolution, after srettine: under
way with a remarkable absence of
fighting, apparently has not been
without the usual tropical season of
blood letting.
From behind the veil which obscures
the events of the last few days
are beginning to trickle the stories of
wholesale political executions, counter
executions and other accompaniments
which have so frequently marked
struggles for supremacy in the Latin-American
countries.
Carranza, variously reported captured,
in flight or in hiding; Candido
Aguilar, his son-in-law, and minister
of foregn affairs executed with Gen.
Francisco Marguia, commander of the
garrison in Mexico City, after a wholesale
slaughter of political prisoners
including 15 generals; forces of the
revolution in control of the capital and
most of the metropolitan cities of the
country, while American warships and
marines continue to move into strategic
positions, were the foremost features
of today's news.
Communication Not Easy.
^Communication between the United
States and the Mexican capital continued
intermittently and uncertainly.
Reports received here c^f the cutting
of the telegraph lines which carry
cable dispatches overland from Vera
Cruz to Mexico City, are supported by
border reports that the line of Car
ranza's escape is held by the revolutionists.
The telegraph lines which
stretch down over the Texas border
ind, reaching across the northern desert,
ordinarily connect Washington
with Mexico City, flicked off their last'
dots and dashes yesterday afternoon
and were occupied for a few minutes
with a stack of dispatches which had
been accumulating for days. What
happened in Mexico City or somewhere
along the line to interrupt them ,
is one of the mysteries of the revolution.
From all reports, Tampico, Vera
Cruz, Monterey, and Puebla, as well
as Mexico City now are in the hands
of the rebels. Search of the city of
Vera Cruz has failed to find Carranza.
Cne report had him under arrest in
Esperranza.
The last message received from the (
American embassy ir Mexico City said 3uiet
prevailed on Saturday morning
after the departure of Carranza with
10 "unusual disorders," according to
he state department's announcement.
"The only untoward incident reported,"
the statement continued,
'was the capture of one of President
Carranza's trains on May 7, at Guada- <
[oupe Hidalgo, about 275 miles north
if Mexico City, an incident in which {
ihere were several casualties."
No mention of the fate of Carranza ,
vvas made by the embassy. ]
Care for Americans. %
General Obregon, Carranza's form- ,
3r right hand military man and now .
lis opponent, has ordered that the (
president, if captured, be treated ]
vith consideration and taken to Mexi- .
?o City. Reports published in Mexico (
Uity newspapers and received here to- r
lay flatly announced Carranza's cap- ,
;ure together with Ambassador Bunilas,
Carranza's representative in ^
ft'a'shington until a few weeks ago j
md later one of the candidates for
;he presidency. (
Meanwhile the American govern- j
nent while continuing a policy of ]
vatchful waiting, took some measures (
o afford refuge to Americans. There (
ire estimated to be some 6.000 or j
r.000 such in Mexico, some of them
iraft dodders and radicals who fled
>ver the borders to escape process of
aw. For the most part, however,
hat class probably is far in the in- ?
erior, and the Americans who might i
eadily avail themselves of aid are i
jrincipally oil men and planters i
liong the gulf coast. <
For their assistance the navy de- s
)artment has ordered the superdreadlaught
Oklahoma from New York to 1
Cev West for possible duty in Mexi;an
waters. She will take on a full I
:ompany of marines before steaming '
;outh. Meanwhile the naval trans- '<
)ort Henderson will load 1,200 ma- i
ines from the navy yard and pro- i
;eed to Key West to awail develop- <
CARLOS CORBETT TO
FACE TRIAL LATER
DEFENSE COUNSEL Sl'CCEEIXS IN"
POSTPONEMENT.
Gap in Jury Selection.
The Alleged Slayer of Three Men
Will Hardly Stand Trial in
Special Term.
Orangeburg, May 8.?Following
granting by the presiding judge of a
motion by the defense to quash the
entire venire cf petit jurors drawn to
serve at this term of court, the case
of Carlos Corbett, slayer of three men
and the blindness of another near his
home near Salley, S. C., on the night
of March 27th, last, was brought to
an abrupt close before it had gotten
under way to any extent yesterday
morning in the court.
The defense charged that the lawwas
not adhered to in the matter of
postponing and advertising notices
of the day and hour when the drawing
of the names of jurors would
take place, stating that according to
the law 10 days must elapse between
the time the notice is given and the
time of drawing the names of the
jurors. In this case, they charged,
but six days notice had been given.
The prosecution admitted the truth
or tne cnarge out contended that it
constituted merely an irregularity
for the postponement of the case, all
other requirements, they stated having
been met.'
After considerable argument by T.
M. Raysor, for the prosecution, and
W. C. Wolfe and Mendel L. Smith,
for the defense, the motion was granted
and the case was ended as far as
this term of court is concerned.
The court house was packed before
the time set for the trial and
perhaps 800 persons were in the
room from all over this county and
from other counties. The crowd was
orderly and there was no semblance
of disorder. Relatives of the defendant
as well as those of the dead men,
were in the court room.
There have been reports that a
special term of court will be called
in the very near future in order to
call to trial the case against prisoners
now in the county jail. At such
a term the trial of Corbett could be
resumed but there has been no authorative
statement to the effect that
it would be taken up at a special
term, should that term be called.
There is every indication that a
\.
fight would be made by the defease
for a continuance until the September
term of court should the case be
sailed at a special term.?Orangeburg
Times and Democrat.
COTTO V SELLS HIGH.
Forty-Four Bales Sold at Orangeburg
for $20,280.88.
The sale of forty-four bales of long
staple cotton was made at Orangeburg
on yesterday when Slater Bros.,
of this city, purchased the above cotton
from Fred Way,* paying for it the
sum of $20,280.88 says an Orangeburg
dispatch.
M. K. Jeffords, manager of the
Orangeburg Marketing association,
announces the sale of 683 bales of
ootton by a prominent farmer living
near Elloree yesterday, Mr. Jeffords
making the sale to a local cotton buybt,
the price being 40% cents basis
niddling which is as good as any price
paid for so large an amount of cotton
in a long time in this section. The
price paid was the very best considering
the other markets in the state.
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.' ir. jeiiurus, wiiu is iiicijucigei" ui tuc
)rangeburg Marketing association has
been quite successful of late in handling
large amounts of cotton. The
Drangeburg Marketing association is
:loing a great work in Orangeburg
for the farmers of the county.
Cleveland has the first two women
graduate safety supervisors in the
United States.
nents. American destroyers have arrived
at Tampico joining the gunboat
Sacramento, and the cruiser Dolphin
ilso has reached that port. Other destroyers
have reached Tuxpan and
Vfora Cruz., and three more will go
vith the Oklahoma.
None of today's fragmentary dis)atches,
coming from various sources,
made any mention of armed resistince
by the Carranza forces to the
'evolutionists but told an almost uniform
story of federal garrisons going
)ver without a struggle.
Baltimore Edit
The C
Richard H. Edmonds, of Mai
tion Must Look to South f
Commends Work of Ame
Columbia, May 6.?Richard H. Edmonds,
editor of the Manufacturers
Record and one of the best known
economists in the South, yesterdaytelegraphed
from Asheville a message
to the South Carolina division of the
American Cotton association, in which
he heartily commends the work which
the organization is doing. Mr. Edmonds
had been invited to speak before
the division but left Columbia before
the meeting was held. His niessage
follows:
"The greatest business achievement
for good of the first half of the 19th
century was the development by the
South of a cotton industry which represented
more capital invested than
that invested in the entire manufacturing
industries of the United States
during the same period and which
largely shaped the politics and the
finances of Europe and America.
"The greatest business achieve
ment for evil of the second half of
that century was the complete domi'nation
of the South's cotton producing
interests by the cotton manufacturers
and financial interests of Europe and
New England to the 'degree that they
enchained the cotton growers of the
South in economic slavery and poverty
to a greater degree of suffering than
the slavery of the black man prior to
I860. *
"Every man who during the last 50
years has sought to beat down the
price of cotton has to the extent of
his ability been responsible for the
appalling poverty of the cotton growers,
white and black, for the illiteracy
which has cursed the South, for j
the bad roads and other ills fastened
upon this section by the enslavement
of the people who raised the bulk if
the world's cotton.
"The progress of civilization may
be measured by the consumption of
cotton goods and the advance of the
world will be helped or hindered by
the extent of the supply of cotton. For
half a century the South has done the
greatest business missionary work in
human history; it has impoverished
its soil, drained the vitality of its
people and borne great poverty while
it enriched the world with its cotton;
it is safe to say that the South has
thus made to the world's welfare a
contribution of not less than $25,000,000,000
or say as much as the cost to
the United States of the world war.
Only through working women and
children in the cotton fields and only
through'continued desperate poverty
to produce cotton to sell in competition
with that raised in India where
labor is paid about $10 a year, was it
possible* for the South to keep on
growing cotton.
"No cotton crop in 5(/years prior to
three years ago sold for one-half of
its intrinsic value.- But so great was
the power of the cotton interests of.
Europe and for a long time of those
in New England against a fair price
for cotton that prices were kept below
the cost of production and the
soil and the cotton growers were
steadily drained of vitality. Every i
man engaged in fighting for a fair'
price of cotton, and that price has notj
yet been reached, may well feel that i
he is doing a religious work which
means more and better schools, more
and better churches, more and better
home comforts for millions and better
roads and a general advance of the
hiaterial and moral education and
religious life of a section in which
live one-third of the nation's population.
"To lift from these people the pall
of poverty, to quicken their lives in
every sense is in itself a mighty missionary
work for God and humanity.
"I rejoice therefore in the splendid!
work of the American Cotton association
and in bidding Godspeed to those
who are carrying on this great campaign
I believe I am cooperating in a
work which will reduce the cotton
growers from poverty, which will
stimulate the educational and religious
activities and help to advance
every good cause in the South and in
doing so prove a great blessing to the
whole nation, for the development of
the South means the enrichment of
the nation and the rounding out of a
broader spirit of national life and of
patriotism. The world is desperately
or Dicusses
otton Situation
lufacturers Record, Says Naor
Increased Food Supply,
irican Cotton Association.
short of foodstuffs; a food famine of
such an extent as to make present
prices of foodstuffs very low is im-pending.
In such a food scarcity with.
inevitably higher prices the germs of
revolution are hatched.
"The safety of our country and of
civilization largely depends upon our
utmost efforts to increase our food
supply. The nation must look to the
South for increased food supply. It
can not depend upon other sections.
It is therefore vital for Southern
?-f'
farmers, regardless of the price of
cotton, to raise all of their own grain
and provisions and at the same time
do as much as possible In helping to
feed other sections.
"To this task the American Cotton
association may well address its most
earnest efforts in order to secure an
ample food production first, with cotton
as a ^secondary or surplus crop.
In this diversification of agriculture
lies safety for the South and for the
nation."
BRING BOY TO PENITENTIARY.
|
Charged With Having Killed White
Child.
Columbia, May 6.?Sidney Riley;*
a negro boy about 16 years old, who
is alleged to >have inflicted mortal
'injuries upon Vanis vvarKmon, or
' Pineland, was brought to Columbia,
yesterday by the sheriff of Jasper
county and was placed in the state
penitentiary. \
Searching parties have been looking
for the negro for several days, ac!
cording to advices from Ridgeland,
I and it is said that he was captured
about 20 miles from the place where
the crime is alleged to have been
committed.
Accounts from Ridgeland are to the
effect that Vanis Workman, the nine
year old son and only child of Mr.
and Mrs. V. H. Workman, of Pineland,
went out in his father's field
near his home, where some negroes
were at work. The negro boy, Sidney
Riley, is said to have resented some
remark made by the white child and
to have struck Vanis in the side. The
boy fell to the ground and all the
negroes in the field left at once and
it was with the greatest, difficulty that Nkthe
little boy got home to his mother,
his father being absent at the time.
A doctor was hastily summoned and
it was quickly ascertained that the
child was seriously injured. He was
taken to a hospital in Savannah,
where an operation was performed
in an effort to save his life. The child
died at the hospital May 3.
BAPTISTS MAKE DONATIONS.
Report Shows Contributions of $21,
250,000.
Washington, May 16. ? During
1919, Southern Baptists, with 500
churches not reporting, contributed
to all church purposes at home and
abroad $21,250,000, according to the
annual statistical report to the Southern
Baptist convention, made by Dr.,
Hight C. Moore, of Nashville, Tenn.,
, one of the secretaries of fhe convention
and acting statistician. The contribution
to home causes reached
$14,000,000 while those to budget benevolence
were in excess of $5,000,000.
During that year^there was a gain
of 9,218 baptisms, while other advances
for that period, the report
sets forth, include a gain of 38 Sunday
schools, 76,728 in Sunday school
enrollment, $4,299,636 in the value
of local church property, $1,055,356
in contributions to home purposes,
$2,530,339 to budget benevolences
? f O ^7i 7 in a <rcrra(*at a OfiTltri
CtiiU. ipo,"I I "I,VX I 1U "CO*
butions to all purposes. t
Reports for the year were received
from 25,117 churches with a combined
membership of 2,296,091. The
value of the local church property of ?
these congregations is in excess of
$75,000,000 while the value of school
property owned by Southern Baptists
is $25,000,000.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of former
President Taft, acting head of
Bryn Mawr College, is the youngest
College president in America.