The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, August 29, 1906, Image 6
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WtillNHSDAY AUG. 29, 1006.
Mr. J. E. Peurlfoy who has bee*
•Alter and owutr of the Kalterboro
Press aud Standard for asrersl years,
he* sold the pa|ier to Mr. W. W. Rmoak,
Jr , and will retire from journalism
whuh we regret. Mr. Peurifoy gives up
Mis newspaper in order to devote his
•ttUi r lime to his profefwiou of law, he
I*«***»..ig a lai-^e and growing practice
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Mr. Suuak isa gradnate ot toe citadel,
mud has been principal of the Walter-
boro graded school, bat for the lent few
jeers has been cashier of the Farmers
aud Merchants Bank of Walterboro. Be
la a brave and bright young man and
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rill he an addition to gonth Carolina
THB ELECTION. _
The election held yesterday was but
the expression of a preference by indi
vidual votes of their choice for officers
to serve the ensuing term. Taken in
the aggregate we have the Will of a
majority, and the candidates so favored
’ b) the voters are ’‘electwl.” Of cours?, j
all of the candidates could not be j
elected. Some of them must of neces
sity bow their head in defeat. To such
we would say: Be a man. Do not le
disgruntled, bat be the first to oiler
your hand in congratulation to the sue*
0 ssful aspirant. Bid him God speed.
Sympathize with him, for' an office
holder this day and time needs more
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genuine sympaiay than a mnn with
leprosy. Don t say hard things abooi
.he ma:i that won, others will do that
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for you during the next two years
Don't ory c ver yonr defeat, Gat up and
try again. Superb manhood is built ou
the foundations of defeat. be It in
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whatever field the effort wee first made.
Sometimes the things ws want are not
KUKAL POUCH.
W e reproduce this week an article
from The News rfnd Courier in advoca
cy of rural police which we commend
•o the careful consideration of our
leaders. In norther county do condi
tio ns demand snob a police system more
■o than in onrs, and we hope soon to
know every township is petroled by a
•Donated uniformed officer of the law.
If his services are never needed the
effect of such a force as deterrent agents
-WfH! he worth the expenditure.
AN URGENT NEED.
We have thought for some time that
Colietou County could not expend a
•nmU sum to better advantage than in
n
the purchase of a pair of good blood
«bounds. We are now in the light of
cf receut events, more convinced than
•ver tluii wo need thu .t Ided saiegnard.
As longas the jail staudo in it* present
®o*»ditU'U, pxisoners av 0 Ukelv to escape.
Blood hound* would be invaluable in
tracking them. A crime is committed.
The criminal Seeks to esoape. Blood
bounds are iavalaable in tracking him
Aown. Xhe purity of tfnme home" is
violated. The traducet' ('scapes. How
•nt»y to bunt him down if blood hounds
it
•nt quickly oa the pcene
We refer this mutter to the proper
•nttioriUes for action. The need is
lu the State campnigu meeting lit
Grei-uViUc, A. C. Jones Injoame iucenved
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•t Jcel E. Brunson, hot!' caudblates for
gc^ern ir, and slapped hii» face. Mr
Bruuson is a < ue-nrmed man and every
where indignation is fell that Mr Jones
should have lowered his manhood by
•triking aono-armM rpnn. At Laurens
Mr Brurson in speaking of it sajd he
ctirtd not swear at Jones, but after
reading w hat he says, wc shall all »d*
that m cotapansta any “cuss”
Word would seem tame:
'•lako the character of f^nilp from
•Old Curiosity febop,’ and transform his
greed for gold into greed for office.
Then take the ctiaracter of darker from
•Oomhey and Son’ for his hypocrisy;
Urn* take the character of Arbaoes from
Mdw. Mulwer Lyttou’s ‘Last Days of
FD•lMii , for hi# nitrewd low canning;
take from the Gospel as written by
of Judea Iscariot
journalism. While we sincerely regret- tbe things fo* ns to have. In
the retirement ol oar friend Penrifoy,
we rejciop that his place is to be filled
•0 well .-^Bamberg Herald’
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to protect, if need be, to the extent of
life itself. Such aoticn on the pert 9!
tL's sheriff and hi^ deputy is a disgra* e
to IX^rchoster «or.u4y and to Souib
Carolina, They are no less guilty cf
the murder of Willie Spain then the
mob who *hot him to death.
We hope Governor Heyward and
Solicitor Hildebrand will probe this
lynching to the bottom, and see that
those guilty ot this crime pay the full
penalty of the law.
jn»e lew as to prisoners being taken
from law officers by a mob is as follow*:
t “Sec. 12S. In the case of any person
lawfully In charge, custody or control
offtny office, State, county or mnnici*
pel, being seized end taken from and
offioed through his negligence, permis
sion or connivance, by a mob or other
utdnwiul assemblage cf per*onn and at
their hands setturing bodily violence or
[ death, the mid officer shall be deemM
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon true
bill found shall be deposed from his
office pending his trial, and upon con
viction shall forfeit his office, and shall,
nnless pardoned by the governor be it
eligible to hold any office of trust
of profit within this* State. It
shall be the doty of the prosecuting
attorney within whose circuit or county
the offeuse may he comm, ted ro lorth-
with institute a prosecutic" against said
officer, who shall be tried in s^'b ,onu*
ty in the same circuit other than the
otfis in which the offense was commit-
tad, as the attorney general ^may elect.
The fees and mileagsT of- all material
witnesses, both for the State and de-
fensivfchall be paid by the Stare treas
urer on a certificate issned by the clerk
and signed by the presiding jndge,
showing the amount of fold fees doe the
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everything it is for the best.
“There is a divinity shapes oar end*
Rungh-hew them how we may.”
We would nrge the successful caudi-
date* not to^prget tluu they have by
the voice of (he majority become public
servauts, not public masters. There
have been promises made in the cam
paign that must be fulfilled. A con-
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tract has thereby been made, the terms
of whioh are just as binding as if it
were in legal form and duly executed.
Tou have assumed voluntarily the
responsibilities of yonr office, and you
will be held to the performance of yonr
duties. Let u* forget the strife of the
compaign and all together work for the
glory of Oolleton—than which there is
to grander eounty. • •
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Gentlemen we congratulate yon.
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ANOTHER LYNCHING.
Verily we cannot contemplate the
frequency of unlawful killings by mobs
without experiencing c fecliug* of
horror. When the orinxd is such as that
coirmlttftd by Bob Davis in Greenwood
C’ouuty, v e can condoue tbo act of ihe
mob. In that esse the crime <‘oiomit*
tsd was one extremely revolting and
rsleulated to aronse all the imlignution
of our Southern manhood; the mob
wns composed of the best, citivons cf an
entire section of the State: ami the
negro who commiUei the criTie had not
been in the custody of an officer of the
low. As we said last w^V we, are
opposed to lynch law, but ta such cases
as v the above, until onr laws are so
amended ns to make the punishment
sure and swift, we would not condemn
such a lynching. fc
But we do condemn and denounce
j such mob violence as wu* enacted in in their hearts that a would-be rapist
onr sister county a few days ago. In
this lese the negro had only attempted
to break in the house. Perilap* his sole 1 so in the deterrence of punishme nt,
object was to steal. From the reports I fil° r ying so in the display of knowl*
this seem* prolwble. He wu* caught; on technksalitiosfThat the Vote
and turned over to the sheriff of the '8 often allowed •!! extra and unde*
county who locked him in .. A 1 on ^‘ e * Wrongwl men
“mob” composed of about fifteen men j With this,
came to the jail ahd overpowered ( v )| fourth, the fact that
the sheriff and his deputy, took the
prisoner, carried him to the neighbor
hood of his attempted crime and shot
him to death. ^ .
If reports be true the sheriff of Dor
chester County must be eadly in need
of some red blood corpuscles. It is au
Lynch Law.
There teems to be do way to stop
lynch law except there b ; .ound a
way^o stop the crime ti/ul bring!
swiftly in its wake the lypching* In
our sane, sober moments, and when
it is some other mao’s wife daughter,
or sweetheart that ii assaulted we may
say ‘ let the law take its coarse.”
And it is true that the law should
take its course but it never will, so
long as the blood that runs in our
veins is the blood of freemejx snd
brave men. That’s all there is to it.
Let the rapist oease upon the earth,
then will oease the spirit of ivnehing.
But so long as it doe^ exist there
seems to be no remedy, a sad fact, but
verily the truth; and we had just as
well face it and be done with it.
We stand for law and order al
ways and everywhere. But Is it not
thinkable that our state's laws are at
fault and inadequate? If not, why
such frequent violations by sane and
sensible mui; for some of our very
best citizens, law-abiding and true,
are members of these lynching par
ties? 1 >0 they not jee and feel that
they must - net in defense ot their
homes? The very faci of so much
lynching gives food for thought along
this line.
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Here, we thick, are four causes
why lynch law | revails:
First and foremost, the crime
which the lynchers seek to avenge.
It is of such horrible nature that'
mcii’a blood boils and clamors for
speedy retribution.
Second, an attempted rape is not
punishable by death, and men know*
merits death, nothing less.
Third, our lawyers seems to glory
ininU td the intelligence of any right
thinking perocu to believe for an in-
■wd toll them into one human akin, and 4 aLt that a “mob” of fifteen persons,
1 present to you Adam Oranc Jones.”* could so awe a brave sheriff and hts
-n* crowd cu**red Brunson and jeered . deputy as to cause them to unlock their
Jones •derisively.
[ jail and taro over to tbt mob's tender! (Union Times)
must appear in the court before a gap
ping, curious, vulgar crowd and tes
tify to her shame.
These seem to us to lie the causes
of lycbing, and until these causes, of
which lynching is only the result,
are removed we may expect lynch law
to countinue. The- legislature of
ISouth Carolina may just as well take
up the matter, for something be done.
Lynching will continue unless there
is a change, and if not, we may ex-
ject a veritable rei; of terror.—
Alteration Sale
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Reduced Prices
On All Lines
We Must Close Cut Ra
Many Good* as Possible To
Make Room for Important Alterations.
The headlines tell the story in * wotsheil.
As you may - have heard we have planned a
thorough remodeling of this store. We are going
to make it over into the best equipped and hand-
* somest business estalMi«hrr.ent in town K-ir the
next three or lour week^ carpenters he busy
renovating and remodeling "the in tire a«.ot and
interior of store. x t *
And we want to get the goods out of their
way just as much as we can. With a sffivfc turned
topsy-turvy, there is great danger of grWb being
damaged; there is in any case, great inconvenience
in moving them about from one part of the store
to another.
So, to avoid all the trouble we c»n we are
going to let you have almost anvthing fou want
from this stock at a price that will make i pay you
well to buy it now. In this “Remodeling Sale,*’
we shall put greatly reduced prices on eve ything
Mens Clothing, Boys Clothing, Shoes Hau,
Underwear, Shirts and everything elan Uie store
. contains. , «
The New Store
Just a word about the new store. Tbe splen
did growth of our trade for the pait two or three
seasons has been ihc direct inspiration which has
set us at work transforming the store mw a hand
some, up-to-date place of business.
Both the appearance and the convenience of
the store will be vastly enhanced. The fittings
and general arrangements will be attractive in
the highest degree: while the stock will oe dis
played to much better advantage and me e r
vtnience of shoppers will be in all way* grea liy
facilitated.
BWrk
TAYLORS
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We have anticipated your every wish and. req' ice
ment in th e way of Fall goods, and will appreciate a
call. Our line of goods are coming in C* every
steamer, and we are Opening them" up. Our show fng
will eclipsp, all of our former efforts and Rr styles and
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up-tp dateness, will be equalled by but rsw and ex
celled by none. We are prepared to prove it if you
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let us. We have ibpught Jwith-the-crop condition in
view and the prices will be accordingly.
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