The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 25, 1921, Page 2, Image 2
COOPER SAYS NOT
UNDER "MOB RULE"
SMARTING UNDER CHARGES OF
DIFFERENT S. C. PAPERS.
Takes Newspapers to Task.
t Editorials Had Reference to "Hide
and Seek Game" Officers Played
With Brazell Murderers.
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 19.?Smarting
under the charges made in different
South Carolina newspapers the
last week that South Carolina had
surrendered to mob violence, Governor
Cooper returned.to Columbia to.
day from Paris Mountain, where he
is spending the summer and issued a
statement taking the newspapers to
task for their utterances.
"These papers virtually charge that
a mob of armed citizens has defied
the law and the officers,' says the
governor, "has been holding up citizens
on the public highway and
searching trains and no steps have
been taken to prevent it. I assume
that some one connected with these
papers is in a position to give specific
instances of such acts of violence. I
have endeavored and am now endeavnwi-nrr
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channels to find out the truth about
these matters. I did not deem it advisable
to publish in the daily press
that an investigation would be made
and the persons who violate the law
brought to trial; but since the newspapers
are determined to have a
newspaper trial, I feel compelled to
ask for my 'day in court.' "
| Mobs Invades Trains.
The editorials had reference to the
'"hide and seek" game which officers
were playing with the confessed murderers
of William Brazell, Columbia
taxi-driver in Lexington county, Sunday
night, August 7th, and the activities
of the mob in Augusta and near
Columbia. Two of the prisoners were
brought to Charleston from Savannah
last Sunday morning and lodged in
the Charleston jail. Sunday night
the train on which Sheriff Roof, of
Lexington, was returning to Columbia,
five armed members of the mob,
with masks over their faces passing
through the coach on which Sheriff
Roof was riding. A representative
of the Columbia State and also a representative
of the Charleston News
and Courier were oh the same train.
Another train was gone through by a
mob this same evening only a short
distance aw*ay. If the newspapers
are unable to make good their charges,
the governor presumes they will
apologize.
He says:
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upon every citizen, and -especially the
newspapers, to furnish me any information
which will enable the proper
officers to ascertain who composed
the personnel of any mob or assemblage
of persons in connection with
the Brazell murder case. If the newspapers
who have made the charge
that state government has abdicated
and surrendered to the mob are unable
to make good the charges which
they make, I assume, of course, that
they will make due apology to the
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they can furnish the information def
sired they should have done so and
should have given the legal authorities
an opportunity to act before
charging them with indifference and
inactivity."
The statement further says:
Blames Newspapers.
"It is not out of place in this connection,
to say that the chief difficulty
which the officers interested seem
to have had in dealing with the threat
of mob violence was the fact that the
newspapers published to the world
every movement of the officers and
therebv enabled those who would do
violence to the law to have the advantage
of advance information.
When there seemed to be danger of
violence to prisoners in legal custody
my first concern, naturally, was to
prevent any act of violence.
The sheriff of Lexington county I
where this horrible murder was committed
went to Savannah, Georgia,
where two of the prisoners were in
custody, and the fact of his departure
was published in the afternoon papers.
When he left Savannah, ostensibly
for Columbia, with his prisoners
in charge, the fact also was given
wide publicity. When his prisoners
were delivered to the sheriff of Char
lesion county a.uu were sccuieri>
guarded, the officers, as well as the
* governor, were charged again with
surrendering to the mob because the
pisoners were not bought fothwith
to Columbia where the mob was sup- ]
posed to be forming.
"To have adopted this course would
probably have meant the shedding of
blood and the unnecessary sacrifice of
human life. It is a well known fact
that the jail at Lexington is insecure,
if ther was no danger of violence
from without. These prisoners must
be incarcerated, therefore, elsewhere
than in Lexington until the time of
trial. I am unable to see where the
state government is failing in its
duty when it decides to hold prisoners
in the jail at Charleston, in preference
to placing them in the jail or
penitentiary at Columbia. The penitentiary
is not a detention house but
it is a prison where persons are incarcerated
after conviction. It frequently
happens, of course, that prisoners
before trial are placed in the
penitentiary for safe keeping. There
would be no objection to such a
course in the present case, but there
is no necessity for it unless there is
reason to apprehend danger of a successful
attack on the Charleston jail.
In Touch With Situation.
"There seems to be an idea, also,
that the governor of the state cannot
discharge the duties of his office
unless he is at his desk in the governor's
office in the state capitol. I
wish to say that I have been in constant
and continuous touch with this
whole situation, by telephone and
telegraph from my temporary residence
on Paris Mountain and have
given the same instruction and advice
that I would have given had I been
in Columbia. It is neither customary
nor advisable, in my opinion, for the
governor to be personally in charge
and immediately on the scene of a
disturbance of this character. It frequently
happens that such an outbreak
is threatened in a distant part
of the state from Columbia, and I
have never known but one instance
where the governor left his office to
go to the scene of ,trouble.
Says Sheriff on Job.
"As soon as I was informed that
there was a probable danger from an
act of violence and that a mob was
forming in Columbia, I communicated
with Sheriff Heise and directed him to
lico hia onHro nnlire force and I would
give him additional men if necessary,
and that every person found in his
county who was participating or
threatening to participate, in any act
of violence, or who was going armed,
making demonstrations to the terror
of the peace of the community, should
be arrested and committed to jail. I
am assured by Sheriff Heise that he
has been vigilant and has been unable
to discover any threatened act of violence.
He assures me that persons
who were supposed to have gone to
Augusta, Georgia, and entered the
jail there, left the city of Columbia
quietly, and when he was informed
of their departure, he notified the
sheriff of Augusta, Ga. I was unable
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Sheriff Roof, of Lexington, but I have
had a conference with him today and
he assures me that he has been vigi-j
ant and active in the discharge of his i
duty. I did get a message to him
similar to the one given Sheriff Heise.
"It is rather significant that in almost
every instance where I had occasion
to use either the telephone or
telegraph, information as to the contents
of my conversation or message
in some mysterious way found its way
to persons on the streets and to members
or sympahtizers of the would-be
lynchers. This matter I would like
to call to the attention of the authorities
of the telephone and telelgraph
companies."
Was to Answer Hammond.
Columbia, Aug. 19.?Governor
Cooper, who has been summering in
flreenville returned to his office in
Columbia today to handle the situation
surrounding the holding of the
two prisoners in Charleston, C. 0.
Fox and Jesse Gappins, charged with
the killing of William Brazell, Columbia
taxi driver. The governor
arrived shortly after noon and had a
conference with Sheriff Alex Heise,
of Columbia. After the conference
it was stated that there was nothing
for publication; that the governor ha
not made any plans of action regarding
the recent crime situation in
the state. It is expected that the governor
will make some statement late
this afternoon on tomorrow.
Asked whether the governor would
send to Charleston for the two men
held there, it was stated that he had
reached no decision in this direction.
It is understood the Columbia sheriff
asked the governor about a reward
for the apprehension of the negro who
early Wednesday morning shot and
killed policeman Henry Brown, of the
Columbia force.
A large posse of men and officers
left Columbia tbis morning ior
Blythewood to take up again the hunt
for the man who killed the policeman.
This is the third day that the man
hunt has continued without success,
the bloodhounds which were in use
were found to be of little value and
were sent back to their owner. Sheriff
Blease, of Newberry.
Governor Cooper stated this afternoon
that he was preparing a statement
on the situation surrounding the
mob activities in recent days and
would make this public later. Regarding
the two men in Charleston
the governor stated that if he had
any plans regarding them he could
not make the matter public. "There
has been too much newspaper publicity
in regard to this matter already"
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FIVE MILLION LOAN.
Citizens and Southern Hank Secures
Sum From War Finance Board.
Washington. Aug. IS.?An application
for an advance of five millions
to the Citizens and Southern Bank, of
Savannah, Ga., for financing exports
was approved today by the war finance
corporation.
The adVance will be made to finance
cotton, cottonseed cake, pea*
nut cake and naval stores for export
sale. The commodities, the corporation
cniri will be for the most part
products from Georgia, Alabama and
South Carolina.
A statement by Mills B. Lane, president
of the bank, was made public
by the corporation.
"The funds will be used," Mr. Lane
said, "as financial resource and facility
in addition to the usual federal
reserve bank facilities for the betterment
of the people in my part of
the country. The war finance corpor
ation's emergency help will be an added
source of strength in the orderly
marketing of the crop from our part
nf the nrmnfv."
Grand Finale.
Two dusky soldiers who had learned
the manly art in the A. E. F. were
putting on a farewell bout at the demobilization
camp. As they advanced
to the center for the preliminary
handshake one said:
"Yo' bettah git ready fo' da mawn'in','man,
cause when dey blows reveille
yo* ain't gwine be round fo'
breakfast."
"Huh!" retorted the other scornfully.
"Dey is gwine play reveille all
right, but 'yo ain't gwine hear it. De
las' moosic yo' hears is de taps Ah's
gwine serenade yo' with."?American
Legion Weekley.
the governor added.
In his statement, the governor will
deal with the activities of the mob,
the demand of Judge Hammond of
Augusta, for an apology, and the recent
demand made by the press in
many parts of the state for the bringing
to Columbia of the two men now
held in the Charleston jail.
Thinks His Honor May Be Joking.
The following is from the Augusta
Chronicle:
Editor Chronicle:
Sir:?It is with temerity, that I attempt
to reply to the extra-ordinary
and surprising letter of Judge Hammond.
For one so learned as the judge,
he makes some glaring mistatements.
Only a few years ago a mob composed
entirely of Georgia people went
to Xorth Augusta, S. C., and assaulted
the crew of an Aiken trolley car
and seriously wounded one of the
crew.
About the same- time another mob
composed entirely of Georgia people
j went out to Belvedere South Carolina
and assaulted another crew of an A.
& A/ car, seriously wounding another
man, and would no doubt have killed
him had he not been rescued and given
attention by the citizens of South
Carolina.
Even this year your paper gave an
account of of a mob going from Georgia
to McCormick county, South Carolina,
to lynch a fleeing criminal. I respectfully
commend the occurrences
to the investigations of the judge.
It may be perfectly alright ffor
Georgia mobs to invade South Carolina.
It certainly is with us, when
they are looking for their own wayward
ones?but it seems to be quite
a different thing in the opinion of the
judge, when South Carolina people
do the same thing.
The governor of South Carolina
may be induced by the eloquence of
the judge to offer an apology to the
governor of Georgia.
If it is a usual and courteous thing
to do under sucn circumstances i am
sure that the governor of South Carolina
would not be found wanting. If it
is not, I am equally sure that the
citizens of South Carolina will back
up their governor, to the last drop
of South Carolina blood in his refusal.
And I am just as sure the citizens
of Georgia would do the same thing,
under similar circumstances.
The business interest, the blood
ties, and the affections of the citizens
of Georgia and South Carolina
are so interwoven, that it would never
have occurred to any except such a
remarkable mind as that of the judge
to suggest anything that would be
likely to cause a rupture between the
two.
After all perhaps this is only one
of the judge's inscrutable jokes, only
intended to enliven the monotony.
Let us hope so anyway: and if happily
it is so, he will surely tell us
when it is time to lauuh.
With the best of good will to all
Georgians, including her adopted ones
and all.
I am for my native state, nrst, Jast
and all the time, and Georgia next.
Yours truly,
JXO. T. FAULKNER.
North Augusta, S. C., August 17.
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