The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 22, 1897, Image 1
VOL. XL
The Prodigal's
Return.
" Yes, mother, he will come. Of
course, lie will eotuo!" and the girl
turned her drawn and anxious young
face toward the cottage door, just as
if her blind mother could seo the action.
It is probable that the old womau
divined tho longiug glance from tho
change in tho girl's tone, for she, too,
half turned toward tho door. It was a
habit those two women had acquired.
They constantly looked toward tho
door for tho arrival of one who never
camo through the long Summer days,
or through tho quiet Wlntc. evenings :
v. moreover, they r^roly spoke of other
things ; this arrival was tho topic of
their lives. And now the old woman's
l'f? ,y.. drawing to a close, as some
*" lives do, without Its object. She herself
felt it, and her daughter know it.
There was in both of tiiom a buhtlo
sense of clluging. It was hard to die
without touching tho reward of a
wondrous patience. It was cruel to
deprive tho girl of this burden, for in
most burdens there is a safeguard, in
all a duty, and in some the greatest
happiness allotted to human existence.
It was no new thing, this waiting for
tho scapegrace son; the girl had grown
up to it, for she would not know her
brother should she meet him in tho
street. Since sight had left tho old
mother's eyes she had fed her heart
upon this hope.
lie had left them eighteen years
bofore in a lit of passionate resentment
agaiust his father, whoso only
fault had been too great an indulgence
for tlie son of his old ago. Nothing
had been too good for poor Stephen
?hardly anything had been good
enough. Educated at a charity school
himself, tho simple old clergyman
held tho mistaken view that no man
can be educated above his station.
Stephen Leach's father, having
risen by tho force of his own will and
the capabilities of his own mind hold.
as such iuuo do, that he had only to
give his son a good education to insure
his career in life. So everything ?
even to the old parson's sense of right
and wrong?was saerilieed to the education
of Stephen Leach at public
school and university. Hero ho met
and selected for his friends youths
whoso futuros were insured, and who
were only passing through the formula
of an education so that no one could
say that they were unlit for the snug
Government appointment, living or inheritance
of a more substantial sort
that might be waiting for them. Stephen
acquired their ways of life without
possessing their advantages, and the
consequence was something very nearly
approaching ruin for the little country
rectory. Stephen Leach had expensive
tasLs, and ho unscrupulously
traded on his father's ignorance. He
was good-looking, and had a certain
brilliancy of manner which "goes
down'' well at the 'Varsity. Everything
was against him, and at last the
end came. At last the rector's eyes
were opened, and when a narrowminded
man's eyes are once opened lie
usually becomes stony at heart.
Stephen Louch left England, and
before lie landed in America his father
had departed on a longer journey. The
n'er-do-woll had the good grace to send
hack the little sums of money saved by
his mother in her widow hood, and
gradually his letters ceased. It was
known that he was in Chili, and there
was war going on there, and yet the
good old lady's faith never wavered.
" lie will come, Joyce," she would
say, " he will surely come."
And somehow it came to bo an unr1ni*iitnful
1 11 1 mr t hut Iia uioa tn i m
the afternoon when they were all
ready for him?when Joyce had clad
her protty young form in a dark dress,
and when the old lady was up and
seated in her chair by the tiro^ in
winter, by the door in Summer. Th^v
had never imagined his arrival at
another time. It would not be quite
the same should ho make a mistake
and come in the morning, before Joyce
had got the house put right.
* Yet ho never came. A greater infirmity
came instead, and at last Joyce
suggested that the mother should not
get up in bad weather. They both
knew what this meant, but the episode
passed as others do, and Mrs. Leach
was bedridden. Still she said :
" Ho will come, Joyce ! LIo will
suroly come 1"
And the girl would go to tho window
and draw aside the curtains, looking
down the quiet country road toward
tho village.
" Yes, mother, ho will come," was
her usual answer ; and one day she
gavo a little exclamation of surprise
and almost of fear.
) "Mother," she exclaimed, "there is
some one coming along tho road."
Tho old lady was already sitting up
in bed, staring with her sightless orbs
toward the window.
Thus they waited. Tho man stopped
opposite the eoHago, and the two women
heard tho latch of the gate. Then
Joyce, turning, saw that her mot her had
fainted. Hut it was only momentary.
By tho time she reached tho bod her
mother had recovered consciousness.
"Go," said tho old lady, breathlessly,
" go l'et him in yourself."
Down stairs, on tho doorstep, the
ndrl fmind :l tall man of thlrt.v nr there
a bouts with a browner faco than English
suns can account for. Ho looked
down into her eagor eyes withastrange
questioning wonder.
"Am I too late?" ho asked in a
voice which almost seemed to indicato
a hope that it might bo so.
" No, Stephen," she answered. "But
mother cannot livo much longer. You
are just in time."
The young man made a hositating
little movement with his right hand
and shuttled uneasily on tho clean
stono stop. Ho was an actor called
suddenly upon tho stago, having no
knowledge of his part. Tho return of
this prodigal was not adrumatic success.
No ono scorned desirous of learning
whother ho had lived upon husks
or otherwise and with whom he had
caton. Tho quiet dignity of tho girl,
who had remained behind to do all the
work and bear all tho burden, seemed
in somo subtle manner to deprive him
of any romance that might have attached
itself to him. Sho ignored his
haft-proffered hand, and, turning into
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the little passage, led tbo way up*
stairs.
Stephen Leueh followed silently.
He was rather largo for the house, and
especially for the stairs: moreover, ho
had a certain burliness of walk, such
as is acquired by men living constantly
in the open. There was a vaguely
pained look in his blue eyes, as if
they had suddenly been opened to his
own ulinphxtmliurd Ilia utliliutn
wit I'd Joyce wuh distinctly apologetic.
When ho followed the girl across
the threshold of their mother's bedroom
the old lady was bitting up In
bed, holding out trembling arms toward
the door.
Hero Stephen Leach seemed to know
belter what to do. lie hold his mother
in his arms while she sobbed and murmured
out her joy. llo had no words,
but his arms meant more than his lips
could ever bavo told.
It would seem that the best part of
happiness is the sharing of it with
some one else.
" Joyce," was the first distinct word
the old laily spoke. "Joyce, ho has
come at last. Ho has come ! Come
here, dear. Kiss your brother. This
is my first born?my little Stjve."
Toe young man hud sunk upon his
kne<;s at the bedside, probably because
it was the most convenient position,
llo did not second his mother's proposal
with much enthusiasm. Altogether
he did not seem to have discovered
much sympathy with his sister,
whom fie had left in iter cradle.
Joyee came forward and leaned over
the bed to kiss her brother while the
old ludy's hands joined theirs. Just
as her fresh young lips came within
reach he turned his face aside, so that
the kiss fell on barren ground on ills
tanned cheek.
"Joyce," continued the old lady,
feverishly. "I urn not afruid to dio
now, for Stephen is hero. Your brother
will take euro of you, dour, when 1
am gone."
It wu8 strange that Stephen hud not
spoken yet; and it was perhaps just
as well, because there are occasions in
life when men do wisely to keep silent.
" He is strong," the proud mother
went on. " 1 can feel it. His har/Js aro
large and steady and quiet, and his
arms are big and very hard."
The young man knelt upright and
submitted gravely to this maternal inventory.
" Yea," she said, " 1 know bo would
grow to be a big man. His little lingers
were so strong?he hurt mo sometimes.
What a great mustache ! I
knew you bad been a soldier. And the
skin of your face is brown and a little
rough. What is thisV what is this,
Stephen dear ? Is this a wound ?"
" Yes," answered the Prodigal,
speaking for the lirst time. "That is
a sword cut. 1 got thut in the last
war. 1 am a colonel in the Chilian
army, or was, before I resigned."
The old lady's sightiuas eyes were
lixed on his face as if listening for the
echo of another voice in his deep, quiet
tonus.
" Your voice is deeper than your
father's ever was," she suid, and all
the while her trembling lingers moved
lovingly over his face, touching the
deep eat from cheekbone to jaw with
soft inquiry. "This must have been
very near your eye, Stephen. Promise
me, dear, no more soldiering."
" 1 promise that," he replied, without
raising bis eyes.
Such was the home-coming of the
Prodigal. After all, ho arrived at the
right moment in the afternoon, when
the bouse was ready. It sometimes
does happen so in real life, and not
only in hooks. There is a great ileal
that might be altered iu this world,
but, sometimes, by a more chance,
things come about rightly. And yet,
there was something wrong, something
subtle, which the dying woman's
duller senses failed to detect ; her son,
her Stephen, was quiet, and bad not
much to say for himself. He apparently
had the habit of taking things as they
came. There was no enthusiasm, but
rather a restraint in his manner nio'*o
especially toward Joyce.
The girl noticed it, but even her
small experience of humankind bad
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vuu^nu *1^1 Uiiau an uvi i *ni\ i iiih:u
men are oflon thus. They go through
life placidly, leaving unsaid and undone
many things which some toink
tliey ought to say and do.
After tho first excitement of the
return was over it became glaringly
apparent that Stephen had arrived
just in time. His mother fell into a
happy sleep before sunset, and when
the active young doctor came a little
later in the evening lie shook his head.
"Yes," he said, " 1 see that she is
asleep and quiet?too quiet. It is a
foretaste of a longer sleep; some old
people have it."
For tho first time .Joyce's courage
seemed to give way. When she had
been ulone she .was brave enough,
but now that her brother was there,
womanlike, she seemed to turn to him
with a sudden fear. They stood side
by side near the bed, and tho young
doctor involuntarily watched them.
Stephen hud taken her hand in his
with that silent sympathy which was
so natural and so eloquent. He said
nothing, this big, sun-tanned youth;
ho did not even glance down ai. his
sister, who stood smalt, soft-eyed and
gentle at his side.
Tho doctor knew something of the
history of the small family thus momentarily
united, and ho had always
feared that if otophon Lcacf) did re
turn it would only kill his mother.
This, indeed, soomed to be the result
about vu follow.
Presently tho doctor took his leave.
Ho was a young man engaged in I
getting together a good practice, and
in his own interest ho hud been forced
to give up wailing for his patients to
finish dying.
" I am glad you aro horc," ho said to
Stephen, who accompanied him to the
door. " it would not do for your sister
to bo alone: this may go on for a couple
of days."
It did not go on for a couple of days,
but Mrs. Loach livod through that
night in tho saino sorni-comatosu state.
The two watchers satin her room until
supper-time, whon they left their
mother in charge of a hired nurse,
whoso services Joyco had boon forceu
to sock.
After supper Stephen Leach seemed
at last to tind his tongue, and no talked
in his quiet, almost gentlo voice, such
as soino big mon possess, not about
himself or his past; but about Joyce
and tho future. In a deliberate, busl"?
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CONWAY !
net-alike way ho prooeoded to investigate
tho a flairs of the dying woman
and tho prospects of her daughter;
in a word, ho asserted his authority as
a brother, and Joyco wus relieved ni d
happy to obey him.
It is not in times of gayoty thtt
friendships aro formed, but in sorrow
or suspense. During that long oven*
ing this brother and sister suddenly
became intimate; more so than months
of prospt rous? intercourse could have
id ado tliciu. At 10 o'clock Stephen
quietly insisted that Joyce should go
to bed while lie lay down, all dressed,
on the sofa in the dining-room.
" 1 shall sleep perfectly ; it is not
the lirst time I have slept in my
clothes," he said simply.
They went upstairs together and
told tbo nurse of this arrangement.
Joyco remained for some moments by
the bedside watching her mother's
peaceful sleep, and when she turned
she found that Stephen had quiotly
slipped away. Wondering vaguely
whether ho had intentionally solved
her dilliculty as to the fraternal goodnight,
she went to her own room.
The next morning Mrs. Leach was
fully conscious and appeared to he
stronger ; neverthless, she knew that
the end was near. She called her two
children to her bedside, and turning
her blind eyes toward them, spoke in
broken sentences :
" 1 am ready now ? I am ready," she
said. " Dears," I am going to your
father?and * * * thank God, I can
tell him that I have left you together.
1 always knew Stephen would come
back. I found it written everywhere
in the Bible. Stephen?kiss mo dear."
The man leant over tbo bed and
kissed her.
" All !" sho sighed, " how I wish I
could see you?just once beforo I die.
Joyce !" she added, suddenly turning
to her daughter, who stood at the
other side of the bed, "toll me what
he is like. But 1 know * * * I know?
1 feel it. Listen 1 lie Is tall and spare,
like his father. His hair is black,
like his father's?it was black beforo
ho went away. Ills eyes, 1 know, are
uin'k?almost dark, lie is pale?like
a Spaniard 1"
Joyce looked across tho bed with
slow horror dawning in her face, looked
into a pair of blue eyes beneath
tawny hair, eut short, as a soldier's
hair should be. She looked upon a
man big, broad, fair?English from
crown to toe.
For some moments there was silence.
Joyce stood pale and breathless, wondering
what this might mean. Then the
dying woman spoke again.
"Kiss mo," she said, "I * * * am
going. Stephen first?my first born !
And now Joyce * * and now kiss each
other?act oss the bed ! 1 want to hear
it* * .1 wunt * * * to tell * * your
father."
With a last effort she raised her
hands, seeking their heads. At first
Joyce hesitated, then she leant forward,
and the old woman's chilled
lingers pressed their lips together.
That was the end.
Half an hour afterward Joyce and
this man stood facing each other in
tho little dining-room, lie begun his
explanation at once.
"Stephen," ho said, "was shot?out
there?as a traitor. 1 could not tell
her that ! I did not* mean to do this,
but what else could I do?"
Iio paused, moved toward the door
witli that strange hesitation which
she hau noticed on his arrivul. At tho
door he turned, to justify himself.
" I still think," he said gravely,
" that it was the best thing t > do."
Joyce made no answer. Tho tears
stood in her eyes. There was something
very pathetic In the distress of
this strong man, facing, as it were, an
emergency of which he felt the delicacy
to bo beyond his cleverness to
t.u.i.ll..
" Last night 1 made all tho necessary
arrangements for your future?
just as Stephen would have made thorn
?as a brother might have done. 1? .
Ho and I were brother olllecrs in a
very wild army. Your brother?was
not a good man. None of us were."
His hand was on tho door.
" Ho asked mo to come and tell you,"
he added. " 1 shall go hack now."
They stood thus, ho watching her
face with his honest, soft blue eyes,
she failing to meet his glance.
" May 1 eoino back again?" he asked
suddenly.
She gave a little gasp, but made no
answer.
" 1 will come back in six months,"
ho announced quietly, and thon he
closed the door behind him.
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Delegates to The Monetary Conference.
A MAJORITY AKKRIMKTAIililSTH.
No Time for I lie Meeting Has Been
Set?How the AppoiiitmcntH are
Itecci veil.
Prosldent MeKinlcy has announced
tho appointment of Senator Edward O.
Woleott, of Colorado ; Hon. Charles J.
Paine, of Boston, Mass., and ex-Vice
President Adlui K, Stevenson as commissioners
to an international monetary
convention. Those appointments
are made under tho aot approved
March 3d, " for tho promotion of an
international agreement for bimetallism,"
and by its provisions do not require
confirmation by the Senate.
It has been generally coneodod that
Senator Woleott would bo made a
member of tho commission, ile lias
boon an active leader in the movoment
for a monetary agreement and widely
known as an advocate of tho sliver
cause. His trip to Europe last summer
I was conceded to be, at least semi-olliciaHv.
as tho rei>ro9entat,ivo of the
new adininistra -ion. IIIh tour extended
over several months and embraced
the ,loading European capitals. Ho
had audiences with tho more noted tinaneiors
and ministers, and it is believed
then laid the foundation for the
international conference which tho
commission appointed will endeavor to
bring to a conclusion.
Senator Wolcott is now serving his
second term in tho Senate, having
been elected to that body in 1885.
Whilo a pronounced blmetallist he, was
a staunch supporter of tho St, Louis
ticket. Ex-Vice President Stevenson,
tho Democratic member of the comI
mission, though generally known as an
advocate of bimetallism, was a supV
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B. O. THURSDAY, Al
norter of Bryun and the Chicago platform.
IIo and Senator Wolcott, howevor,
are said to bo in accord on tho
tinuncial question.
Gonorai C. 11. 1'alnc, who may bo
termed tho minority member, is a Kopubllcan
and was a McKinloy man.
Lie is one of tho most prominent business
men of Massachusetts and is said
to bo a deen student of tho llnancial
question. \V hilo ho is classed as a
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sup|>vi rar ui i 11 i' mi 11r>11., uuauu on 111toruationul
agreement, ho in regarded
us allied with tho sound money faction,
lie is a graduate of Harvard, being a
member of the class of ISfi.'l. General
I'aino is largely ident lied with railroads
and other corporations, being a
director of the Chicago, Ihirliugton
and Quiucy Head and other large concerns
and a director of tho lloslon Institute
of Technology ; was an intimate
friend and associate of Prof. Walker,
the financial author and authority,
lie is a man of large wealth. It is a
fact not generally known that General
I'aino accompanied Senator Wolcott
on his European trip last summer and
assisted him in that work.
It is believed that he went abroad
with Senator Wolcott with tho understanding
that he was to he made a
member of tho commission. It is not
yet known when the commissioners
will meet and organ'/". W>?n pn c
gaui/.ation is MY M ..uwuvcr, it is
believed th: t senator Wolcott will be
made presiv. cnt. It is authoritatively
stated the commissioners will not go
abroad bofo o May, by which time the
now ambus adors will be at their posts
and render the special envoys assistance
nece.1 jary n the consummation
of their mission.
The naming of the commissioners to
attend the international monetary
conference has caused a good deal of
discussion in Washington. Almost
without exception tho appointments
have been commended. The Senators,
regardless of party, were pleased with
the selection of ex-Vice President Stevenson.
It seems that this selection
is the President's own, no one appearing
to urge his appointment. The
President desired a Democrat who
stood high in his party ami who was
an earnest silver man. lie sent for
Mr. Stevenson, aud after talking the
subject over with him. decided to make
him a member of the commission.
President MeKinley desired that the
subject of international bimetallism
should bo lifted above party politics
and that the men selected should be
those who would work in harmony toward
bringing about an agreement. It
was also believed by the President
that the name of Mr. Stevenson would
give tho commission great weight
abroad.
Among tho earnest advocates of the
selection of Mr. I'ainowere Senators
Hoar, Allison and Chandler, all of
whom talked with the 1'resident, on
the subject and recommended him, expressing
the opinion that his selection
would bo a great benclit to the cause
of bimetallism.
It has been gonerally conceded for
some time past that Senator Wolcott
would bo one of the commissioners, as
his hard work since tho eloction has
boon in the direction of bringing about
an international agreement. Senator
Wolcott is very hopeful of success. lie
looks forward to hard work, but says
from what ho learned while abroad
last year he is most sanguine us to the
results.
Senator Wolcott believes in tbo selection
of tbo commission and especially
in naming Mr. Stevenson, a silver
man, and one who supported Mr. Hryan,
President McKinloy has convinced
everybody he is an earnest hi metal list,
bimetallism at homo and abroad, lie
says, will bo promoted by this selection.
Opposition to tho scheme for international
bimetallism lias developed
from an unexpected source. Moreton
Prowen, of England, who has given a
great doal of attention to tho subject
and who ha# visited this country several
times in tho intero t? of silver, is
now opposing an international agreement,
and declares that tiio money
question is one which each nation
must settle for itself. Mr. Pre wen
will oppose any agreement and use his
influence against tne commission when
it goes abroad.
Senator Woleott has said that the
gold standard countries would oppose
any further depreciation of silver, and
elTorts were now being made to provent
any further fall of silver in India.
Also that the demand for gold by .lapan
in establishing a gold standard
would cause a drain of gold from Europo
which would bo resisted by gold
countries. In the United States Sunn
tor Woleott anticipates little opposition
to bimetallism. What opposition,
Mr. Woleott says, there, is comes from
tho groat bankers of New York, who
are already fighting bimetallism and
whose opposition tho commission will
meet when it goes to Europe.
Ex-Vice President Stevenson, of
Mloomington, III., when asked about
his appointment on the monetary commission,
said : " I appreciate the
compliment paid to mo by tho President
and w'll cheerfully render what
assistance I can to accomplish the object
of the commission. Whatever our
views may be as to the ability of our
government to maintain tho free and
unlimited coinage of silver without
t ho co-opc-ation of tho leading countries
of Europe, it may bo safely assumed
that every friend of silver in
this country will welcome international
bimetallism. As to tho impossibility
of tho success of this commission, it is
known that tho trend of public sentiment
in European countries, as well as
our own, is undoubtedly favorable to
bimetallism.
" Many of tho publicists of England
and Germany aro in earnest accord
with our gov< rnment upon this cuestion.
Should public sentiment in those
countries justify, an international conference
would undoubtedly bo called
and action taken that would be deemed
proper."
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KX .IIDUK THOMPSON II. t'OOHH
llis l>cutli Occurred on Wcduceuln]
Morning Alter a lionn Illness.
Cireonvillo Mountaineer.
For several months the citizens ^on
orully of (ireonvlllo havo seen verj
little of ex- hiileo Thomtisoo II CJooWi*
who whs h familiar personago on oui
streets for many years. Kidnoj
troubles and kind rod complication!
have 1<? i t him at home, and for a (food
while he has boon gradually goinu
down the hill, with an iuereaso of in
tirmltics and a loosening of the cord*
that bind men to this life. The end
came on Wednesday morning, when he
went out peacefully into the realms ol
eternity. Ho was nearly sixty-six
years of age, and until a few years age
was a strong, vigorous man.
Judgo Cooke was a native of Fairfield
County, and the son of a Methodist
preaehor, Kov. John 1'. Cooke
who was a resident of Columbia when
he died in 18(10. The family lived in
Columbia for a number of years, and
Judge Cooke began his collegiate cdu
cation at the Arsenal, which was completed
in 18">1 at the Citadel. He
taught school in Lexington County,
and afterwards went to Orangeburg,
' "* ore ho had charge of the village
academy, and where lie lived until his
removal to Croenvllle. He studied
law while engaged in teaching, and
was admitted to the bar prior to the
war. Ho served In the Confederate
army, and when hostilities ceased lie
resumed the practice of law. lie was
one of the earliest converts to the lb publicans,
and was appointed trial
justico bv Governor Scott, acquiring
quite an i nil nonce in the party, so that
when Governor Orr was sent as minister
to Russia in 1873, ho was chosen
to preside over the Eighth Circuit for
the unexpired term, and was ro-olocted
the next year. As'a judicial ollleor,
during the period of 11 vo years he was
on the bench, he gavo general sutisfaetion
and was quite popular with the
lawyers of the circuit Judges did not
rotate in thoso days.
Judgo Cooko kept in touch with his
party after he wont on tho bench, ami
was almost always a delegate to the
btato conventions. Ho was sent to the
convention in September, 187b, and It
became known that ho was not in sympathy
with the purposes of the leaders,
who intended to place Cardo/.a and El
liotlon the ticket. Both of them were
connected with the corruption and
profligacy of the times, and Judge
Cooke boldly declared hie purpose to
quit the party unless those men wore
sent to the rear. Klliott and Cardo/.a
wore strongly Intrenched with the
rank ard tile, and the next day they
were nominated. The Hampton cam
paign had been in progress for about a
weok, and whon tbe Republican con
volition adjourned on Friday afternoon,
Judgo Cooke had decided to cast hit
political fortunes again with the native
white people of the State. Accorditiffly
ho made a visit to the roomt
of the Democratic exeoutivo committee
in Columbia, and after announcing his
purposes, be tendered his services foi
the overthrow of the party to which
ho had bolonged in this State, at the.
same time declaring his allegiance and
avowing his support of the national
ticket, headed by Rutherford B. Hayes,
Ho joined the Democrats to aid in establishing
home rule, and repudiated
the Republicans on account of misrule
and corruption. Tho next day wat
Saturday, when tho campaign mooting
took place at Abbeville, and was at
tended by an immense concourse ol
"red shirts" from four or live counties.
In addition to General Wade Hampton
and tii ; other nominees who made
speeches, General Robert Toombs had
enthused the crowd with an eloquent
and ardent speech, and the thousand^
who had cong regaled on Secession
Bill were in a great blaze of enthusiasm
when the train arrived from Columbia.
Judge Cooke bad sent a telegram ti
Judge J. S. Cothran, who was the
county chairman of Abbeville, asking
him to hold the meeting until tin.
train reached there, as he wanted U
address the people. Judge Cothran
sent an escort of " red shirts" to meel
him at the depot, and in a few moments
Judge Cooke was standing ir
the presence of the Vast audience
declaring his affiliation with tlu
Democrats for a definite purpose
and predicting the election of Ifamp
ton as jin assured ract. The excitcmenl
produced by this unexpected announce
inent was intense, as he wjis the tirsl
Republican of nolo to make a speec);
in favor of Hampton. It is true Judgi
.Maekey had acted simultaneously witi
him in deserting their political asso
dates, hut Judgo Cooke iiad the ear
liest opportunity of proclaiming il
from tiie stump. Ho was actively en
gaged in the campaign until it closed
and his speeches always evoked muci
enthusiasm wherever ho went. Om
of the largest gatherings of the cam
paign was just a week after his con
version at Honoa I'ath, and ho reeoiv
ed an ovation that was second only t<
Hampton, by whose side tie continue!
to work until victory was achieved.
The Republicans were very oittei
against Judge Cooke for tho course in
pursued, and gave out threats of ex
posing his record in their party in
damaging to his character, hut tliert
was no foundation for the assertioni
made, and tie defied them to do tiieii
utmost. His term of service on tin
bench expired in January, 1878, and in
failed of re-election, when lie began a
once tho practice of law in (iroenville
He was sent to the Legislature after i
memorable campaign in 1878, and wa
re-electod in 1880. Among the moas
uros lie introduced was amendments t<
the homestead law, which are regard
ed of much value by tho legal frater
nity. Ho was a faithful and industriou
legislator, and earned tho approval o
his constituents. Of course, he hecaim
a full-lledgod Democrat after tho cam
puign of 1870, and was at one timo th
president oi tno Central club in thi
city. In subsequent years ho a fill i ate
again for u short while with the Rc
publicans, hut renewed his connoctlo
with tno Democrats as a moinber c
the Reform faction in 18i?2.
Judge Cooke was a member of th
Rutherford Street It iptlst Church,an
I t?vo evidence in the last few week
j that in- had brighter hopes of a0Cc|
' tance with God. Ho lived in poac
I with all mankind, and was alwa>
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CHARUSION'S MAYOR AND I HE GOVtHNOR
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MAVOIt SMYTH'S STATI'lMI'lN'l'.
lie Ditl Not IJiiderstaiul that 1'iinni
tiioiiM Consent Was lte?|iiiro<l lor
Keiooval of Met ropolit an I'olleo.
Mayor Smyth, of Cha.'luston, has
published tho correspondence with
Governor iOllorho in regard to the removal
of the metropolitan police, and
in his statement to tho city council he
throws the responsibility upon the
(Jovernor for tho failure of the recent
i negotiations. The following is a summary
of the matter submitted to the
, council, with its action thereon :
Mayor Smyth's defenso was that the
situation had assumed such shape that
i he thought he should speak for himself
; that he did not understand tliat
i Governor lOllorhe required a unanli
piously signed agreement. If ho did,
, he says that ho would never have
brought tho paper out of Columbia.
On the contrary, Mayor Smyth is certain
that Covei nor Kllorbo's stipulei
tions did not provide* for unanimous
action 011 the part of council.
Mayor Smyth stated that when lie
, arrived at the capital on Governor Kli
lorbo's invitation ?and tho Governor
, began tho now famous conference with
! the remark that tho metropolitan s/s
torn had been desired by the city eoun.
cil, ho immediately corrected him and
t the first agreement drawn up, which
. started out with this assertion, was
cancelled. Moth agreements were oh(
jectionahlo, Mayor Smyth said, but lie
linallv agreed to the second as lie knew
that the people of Charleston desired
( to bo relieved of the system and he
i therefore assumed the humiliation ini
cidont to the acceptance.
Mayor Smyth said that tho more
i fact that ho wired tho Governor that
) 17 aldermen had signed and he was
I waiting his proclamation was evidence
I suHicient that he knew nothing of any
desired unanimous action.
The Mayor stated that tho Governor
I knew, or should have known, that he
( (Mayor Smyth) with the chief of police
( were the proper parties to enforce the
law and that council was not invested
1 with executive powers, further, that
f three-fourths of council favored the
removal, and wore willing and capable
i to enact any ordinances necessary to
I enforce properly the dispensary law
1 and bring its violators to justice, lly
, his action, the Governor admits hi*
, injustice, Mayor Smyth said, and the
i deadlock is on as a result of conditions
. unnecessarily imposed?condition*
. which tho Governor should have
known could not ho carried out in con>
sequence of Marshal Martin's openly
i declared friends, six In number on the
r aldermanic board.
5 Col. /. Davis moved that tho entire
> correspondence be spread on tho min utes,
which motion was duly seconded
t, and passed.
A sensation was sprung just as the
i motion was carried by Alderman Mat,
thies. one of t.hn cnimlon funll/.n V...?
) one of the seven who rofusod to sign
, tho agrooment. Matthles was a for
- mor wholcsalo IIquor dealer. Ho do
!> clarcd that ho hail long boon awaiting
- this opportunity to explain hi* posi
l tlon. lie indignantly denied that h<
wuh a friend of Martin. Ho said that hi
> was opposed to tho dispensary law and
) tho metropolitan police system, but
- that he had refused to accede to Gov
- ornor Kllerbo's unjust demands. Ir
t strong Gorman accents ho tragical 1>
declared that Charleston had sulToreil
t tho humiliation of a metropolitan po
? lico system for some time, but she
J could endure it for a few years longor
tho day of reckoning would come. Hi
- said that ho refused to sign tho agree
mont because ho considorod tho sign
> ing of it an additional disgrace upor
1 tho city.
Til K CJOVKItNOIt'B VKIiSION.
He Hays Unanimous Consent Wai
i Agreed Upon?A Clear Mlsumlor
n standing llotweon the Officials.
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5 special to News and Courier.
t Governor Kllorbo was very much in
. torestod tliis morning in the corros
i pondenco and statements published ir
s the News and Courier with roferenci
- to tho metropolitan police question
i) Governor KUerbo talked freely abou
tho correspondence and statoment o
Mayor Smyth, b t did not caro to hav<
s anytlting much to say about tho Issue
f as ho could not soo whore any good win
ir to curno of it. Ho, however, said tha
i- it may bo as well to call attontion t<
o one feature of tho matter. lie Is thor
s outfhly satisfied that Mayor Smytt
d should have understood from what hi
! said to him in tho intorviow in tho Ex
n eoutivo otlioe, that all of tho Aldormoi
>f wore to sl^n. If Mayor Smyth under
stood dillorontly ono thintf is certain
o and that is that Governor Ellorbi
d thinks that ho gave Mr. Smyth to un
:s dorstand that all of tho Aldormoi
>- were to si^n the agreement. Whothc
10 thoro was occasion or not for such a
s "agreement" is not now tho matter i
r. issue.
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Governor Ellerbe said if Mayor
Smyth or anyone would look over tho
accepted agreement, und which was
signed by those members of council
who did sign, it reads ''individually
hereby promise and pie 'go ourtolve*.
This was, ho said, clearly to his understanding
an evidence that tho members
of Council were to sign "individually,"
which mount all were to sign, [fit
nnr> hvv an uuuvhiuuu uuvornur CjlltirDO
suy? Mr. Smyth did not say so, and If ~
Mayor Smyth or Mr. Hacot did not
tliink thiit all tho members of Council
would sign this agreement or any
ugroement thoy never said ho to hiin at
any time, never wrote him to that effect,
and liavo never suid that they at
any time told >11111 that all of the memberH
of Counell would not sign the
"agreement." Mayor Smyth may have
thought that ho could got all of tlio
members or Council to sign tho "agreement,"
but Mr. Kllerbo insists that ho
never said ho to him in his otlico or
elsewhere. If lie hud, things may liavo
1 been differently arranged.
"llo did toll me," went on Covernor
Kllerbo, "that ho would personally
rather not have the metropolitan polh o
removed from Charleston, as It would
give him a great deal more work to
have tho change" If Mayor Smyth
was really In earnest in his desire to
1 have the police system removed, Covernor
Kllerbo suggested that it might
have been a very easy matter for blm
to have suggested the trouble of getting
all members of Counell to sign the
agreement, and avoid any trouble of
this character.
Governor Kllerbo was very much in
earnest in what lie had to say about
litis matter, and insists that ho lias
been telling the straight, absolute
facts in tho entire matter from tho outsot.
Governor Kllorbo said that ho only
sent one telegram advising Mayor
Smyth that the proclamation would
not bo issued until tho other members
of Council signed the agreement. Ho
says that lie lias no recollection what
ever of ever having sent a telegram to
tii is elToct:
"That U10 proclamation would not
ho issued at ail unless all ttie Alder,
men signed tho agreement, as wo had
decided should bo done at tho interview.
"
Moreover, ho says no ono has ever
said that ho sent such a telegram, as ho
lias not done so.
( )na t.lt i ntr ia nnidnin > lw* .??,? ...i%v.?H
vx/ ui> 111^ a.-* v>v> I vu 111 j UI1U IIIIJH UjJUIl"
tan police inatter is held up in midair,
with an absolute contlict of understand- f*
ing between Mayor Smyth and Govornor
Kllerbo.
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