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1 I The Horry Herald, CGNWAY, S. C. Thnrsd*v. Jun* 7. 19^6 IiNOTHERW" Between the Investigation Committee and a Witness. WOULD NOT RfiPJKAT Rumors Brcause He Thi,./ht People's Character Too Sacred to be Hurt in Thtt Way, and He Was Ruled i n ~ ? A i _ i il. lur vuiiiciupt ui ine Committee. The lnvest'gating oommltwe has another row on its hands. The State says as a result of having become excited and used profane largusge in the presence of the dispensary invest! gating committee, Mr. W O. Chllds, 1 president of the Bank cf Columbtr ard also of the CoHimb , Nevb^rry and Laurens railroad, ha bien cited to appear before the committee on the o^arge of contempt. It was apo&rent at the time that Mr. Cbilds did not mean to show oontempt for the committee, bu j he ' meant to express very forcib.y his I position in regard to testifying against certain dispensary people through the < medium of repeating anything which he hid heard in a joking manner and might be taken to rdlect upon the integrity or nonoranie men. Mr. Lyon was trying to get the information 80 that the committer could pass upon its relevancy. lie had 1 submitted the matter fur the cim- ' mlttee as & whole to pass upon when Mr. Ohilds ^ery excitedly exclaimed: "Well, by God, I would go to jUl be ! fore I would tell these jokes, aud Mr. Lyon had a right to confer with mr before if be wanted to " < Mr. Lyon stated that he would leave the matter to the committee. Mr. Hay, the chairman, stated that 1 Mr. Ohilds could be excused from the witness stand. The latter went out of the senate cba aaber vowing that hewould not tell anything to re-lkc* 1 upon an>b )dy else if he had heard It in a.joking way. Mr. Lyon, thinking that Mr. Child* 1 had exceeded the proprieties of the occasion in defying the committee before the testimony had been insisted upon by the committee, made the re quest that Mr. Childs be made to re peat the jokes he had heard so as the committee could judge If they were relevant to the investigation. Chairman Hay replied: "Well, Mr. Lyon, 1 do not know that we should discuss this matter any further right now. We can take it up In the committee and discuss It among ourselves?the bearing of It." Later on the committee Issued an order for Mr. Childs to appear befort the committee on Tuesday and show cause wny be should not b3 attached for ontempt uf the committee in be log gull'y cf disorderly conduct and oonterr pt in the presence of the com mittee (ii Friday, the 1st day of June. A. D.. 19C6.. Herein fail not. The position taken bv Mr. Cni.d> in refusing to repeat tbese rumors J? not a surprise to those who know him. lie i> just such a man as would do & thing oi the kind, aid just such a man as will go to jail if he continue? cf the opinion that he ought not to repeat these rumors. WHAT CAUSED THE ROW. The following is the testimony of Mr. Chllds which lead up to the troub e, Mr. Lyon was examining Mr. IChd'd: Q Have you ever heard anybodjT confess or acknowledge in any way that they received a' y profits or dividends arising from either the R ehlflr H niofillern v\nv?o f L ?w* u i/uumui y V-/v11*i VJihLL j ui vuc v>u* lumbla G as8 Works? A? No, sir. Q Now, Mr. ChlJds, you are In active business around the city of Columbla here, I presume, frfquently? A I vc-y seldom ever leave my J fire except lo go to dinner or on business. Q Your bank does some collecting foi creditors of the dispensar) ? A. I think bo. Q. Don't the I'quor drummers go to your bank there or ycu have ? good deal of correspondence or things of that sort with them? A. Yes, sir; liquor drummer* come around when they want checks cashed Q Have any of them ever stated than they paid any graft to any of these dispensary (fflolals? A. 1 have no recollection of anything of that kind. Q Let's see if you can't remember? a. It would not be fair for me in a joking conversation to make a remark that, would reflect upon any body, and I never heard anybody say In eerlounnees that they paid rebates. Q, Tell us the jokes. ~ a. I cannot remember the jo^s. It has been four years ago. Q. What was thXtui of those Jck s? A. I wculd notifiable tf^teetify as to jokes in remark! made. X,have never heard any remarks reflecting seriously upon the members of the board of oontrol. Q. We want to know the nature of I / a fk \' 1 a# M the Jokes. A. 1 do cot remember distinctly enough to sptoify. Q. You know distinctly enough to state whether tbey we e complimentary or whether tbey were not complimentary. A No, sir; I do not. Q You do not? i A.t No, sir. j Q". And vet you recollect that there were joke*? A. Yes, sir; there always was and there Is now. (J And It Impressed you sufficiently to remember that there was all i kinds of j >kes going on, but you can- i not remember the nature of those I joke* ? A. No, sir; I cannot remember be- I cause it might retlect upon somebody < and it wou d be unjust to retisct upon ; them". Q Could you remember who th" I men wre who were doiDg this joking? I A. N), sir, It was just some of those traveling men and not men who : would b? taken on the inside. Q. llow oau you reach the conclu- I slou that these parties would not be l t&ke^f on the inside of the gra'tlng matter If anything wa> going on? < A. Because if anything was going on the heads of the concerns would be i doing It., not the subordinates. Q. That is the oplulou that, you I draw from the 1 quor drummers? A. Ye?, sir; 1 say if there was any- i thing of that kind going on the heads i would not entrust it to any of their i clerks or subordinate drummers I know If there was anythlrg going on ] in anything that I was the head of 1 would he the only one that knew it. < <^. You cannot remember any of i t.K. ^.Q inl/A O wuvrmo juivo:. j A. No, sir. i Q. Now, Mr. Cbilds, this is a very I Important matter that I am q lest.on i about. I A. Yes, I think it is. If I knew < anything that would assist you iu the matter I would be glad to give it to 1 yon. Q. Esp?cially this matter cf the I Uaiolina Glass company. I wish to understand the matter fully and free- l ly, and if I understand you, you know i nothing about any stock being held In trust for anybody else? I A. No. i That you have never been a < party tr< any such? A. No, sir. I Q. That you have not transferred i aDy stook for any one? A. Yes. I Q. You deny that without any i mental reservation? I A. Yes. Q. That you have stated everything fully and freely without any reservation? A. Yes. 1 Q Now, did Mr. Lanahan ever dlsouaa with you trie matter of graft and rebates and so ol? A. No, sir. Q. He never made any statement UU jtvju 1U ioioiouoo bU intfttbers Ol Laai kind? A. No, sir. Q. Mr. Childs, how many miles are /ou president of In South Carolina? A. Seventy-live. Q. Seventy five? A. Yes, sir. Q. How many miles of railroad has the Southern In the state of South Carolina? A. Oh, I have no Idea. Q. Well, sir, you have a rough Idea? A. I think live or six or seven hunired. I have never figured it out. Of y>P'?io i c u'd d > it. Q How n an) ha: the Atlantic Coast Liu ?. A. Oh, I shou'd think three or four bundrid. May be more. Q. Well, st;; what about the Seaboa ro ? A. Well, the S?ab >ard has about three huucbed or four hundred; about tnree huudred and tifiy miles 1 would say. Q Now, Mr. Childs, you keep up, 1 presume, with the freights that pas* over these llDes, you have a general knowledge on that subject of the freights that come into the state of South Carolina? A. I have a general knowledge of what comes In on my road. I do not know ab ut anybody else. Q. What percentage of the dispensary business do you handle? A. I haven't the slightest idea. Q. Have you any id<>% about what your road handles at al ? A. No, that would ha & matter for the auditing department. He could figure it up for you witnout any trouble Q. It Is not a matter of belief that y< ur road handles the larger part of the freight that comes Into the dispensary? A. I think we ought to. Q You think you ought to? w. Yes. Q Wbj ? A. Because we are the only Tlllmanite road In the tnwv und It. ia a TlUmanlte institution, and when the. dispensary was started every road boycotted It. When the Darlington riot came the other roads out it. 1 went right up to Governor Tillman and stood right by the admlnistrotiou and the C. N. and L. stood right up to It and Senator Tillman and myself i are personal friends, and we have been gettiDg a big part and ought to bavj a big part. Q Are you sure you are accurate in those statements you have made? A. Yes. Q Are you postive of it? a. I am. You never heard of any oar being shipped ten or twelve miles out of town on the C., N. and L and blind tigers unloading the wlskey from it. Q Explain the situation. A. If you read the papers you v ould have seen where a man got killed sending his wife op on that road. Q. Dirt you ?ee that? / A. I read it io the papers. Q. So that it hearsay? A. Yes; hut you are making me give yO'? t*?rsay. Q. Wont yen give us hearsay on those Jokes? A. Nc; that la too serious; I would not tell a joke that would (fleet the character of somebody else. Q Don't you regard that as serious ?this man getting killed? A. That is his own fault. Q Well, he got shot down? a. He wasn't shot down; the train ran over him and killed him. I suppose the ciuris will will adjudicate that. Don't you know that the Sea hoard road paid those taxes along it the same time that you paid yours? A. Yes and did It at myjsuggestton oecause I was very close along with thnno. g I supnosed you said that you paid ycurs first? A They didn't do it until I got bhem to do it. I wanted them to bring th?*. Western whiskey In here. Q 1 thought you said they protestsc > a. The seaboard did protest at first \v" afterwards reconsidered It. Q Who were these alleged Jokes that vou A. Oj, I am not going to toll you anything ab ut these jokes. I do not remember lj detinitoiy enough to make Mr. Chairman, of course It Is impossible to bring loformation to know whether it ie reeeiant or irrelevant. I iid not expect that Mr Cbilds would give me a conference te ore he was put*oo the stand, consequently I did oot go to him. 1 did not know what he knows about that at all but evi lontalv he has heard something and It seems to me that he ought to be repaired to do it. A. Well, by God, I would go to j ill before 1 would tell the jokes; and Mr. Lvon had a right to confer with me oefore If he wanted to. The Cnairman(Senator Hav): You nave not been required to answer yet, Mr. Guilds. Witness: Well I will say right now that 1 ain't going to answer and, it necessary, 1 think 1 should be allowed to he represented by counsel. Mr. Lyon: I do not cure to examine the witness any further, Mr. Chair man. He is with the committee. Witness: (As he was leaving) you know where to tind me if you want me. 1 am at my ctllje, but I am not ?Olng to do injustice to anvhody. DENA1 U&) Z <?i> ALCOHOL. Uongreaa Haa a Bill Taking Off the Tax. rue nouse nao adopted the senate amendments as to deuaturn&sd aloonol and the htil will become law. b> some inexplicable way we attirst uu derstood mat this bill had reference to taking cIT the tariff. borne other editors fell into the same mistake. The bill takes oil the revenue tax ano not the tariff tax. but at that it lb a good measure and it is hoped that inrough tnis aicouoi the btaudara On c^m^auy may be struct a serioub blow. It Is said to be buperlor to oil as an iliuminant to be used In the ordinary lamp. A gallon of It oosth less and burns twice as long. For motor eDglnes it may take tbe place of gasoline. It may be manufactured cheaply, it is said, and may be made from grain, fruit, potatoes and prooabiy from other farm products. Perhaps a new and profitable Industry will be opened up for farmers. First, though, people will have to get ac customed to its use. Wnile all who wnl be thus benetited arc doubtless indignant at trust exactions It will be feund hard to get a general change from oil to alconol. but if it is so far supeilor, safe and lasting and less costly a good market ought to be | opened ior it in time. We agr#?e with the Columbia Record that it would be the greatest pity if people with this chance lo swat the octopus should neglect it, especially when they can better themsems financially and otherwise. We hope overybody will encourage the denatui ized alcohol Industry. Prohibitionists may balk at the name, tut they can embark In the business wlthiut deserting a principle. Such alcohol Is not drinkable. Let's bave a denaturized alcohol campaign. How ittuuli ih Situ Worth? If a man has the misfortune to lose his wife, atd there is no member of the family to take her place, he begins to realize that a housekeeper Is a oostly luxury. Besides, the tirst expense of her weekly earnings, there will be a vast difference in the cost of running the house, for witnout a personal Interest, many of the little economies of housekeeping will not be practised. A word to the wlt>e is sufficient. How muoh is your wife worth to you, leaving sentiment entirely out of the question? Is she worth a washing machine, a bread mixer, a clothes njiu)(oi| a uiwu taiiiaKC kuu m naio horse, or a few kind loving words every day? _____ Monkey ?u(l Parrot Time. The Democratic state convention of Tennessee, which convened at Nashville on Tuesday, of last we*k, became a regular mob. Several fighi s took place on the floor, and the police had to be called in to preserve order. A truce was finally patched up, and the convention adjourned over to Wednesday. There were three candidates for governor?Jno. I. Coi, the Incumbent; Congressman M. R. Patterson and Judge Jno. R. Bond. It is easier to keep a friend than to recover him when lost. . The Qomitlon of Taxation. The true reason for the prominence of the tariff question and other tax questions lies In the fact that taxation is always with us, go where we will. It is like a shadow that clings to us until we reach the grave. President Madison, writing to John Adams, in 1818, about the discussions ot the taxing power in the convention which framed the Federal Const itution, said: "The at tempts to distinguish between legislation on the subject of taxes and other subjects terminated in the dis- 1 closure that no such distinction exist- 1 ed." Taxation, therefore, enters as an ele- < ment into all legislation, and is the basis of all. If it bears equally upon persons in proportion to their abi.lty to pay, it Is just. If it discriminates in favor of any person, corporation, or 1 class, against any other person, corporation, or class, it is unjust. A protective taritT necessarily and avowedly makes such discriminations, and is therefore unjust. It can only be sustained upon the ground tnat injustice is right, because it results in prosperity to certain individuals and corporations. Piracy, high-way robbery, and ' larceny could be sustained by the same ' argument,. ' If a few men were privileged by law to loot every ship and every city they i could find, and rob everv person they met, the privileged class would soon t become as prosperous as the trusts and I monopolies which have grown up under * the Dingley Tariff, and for the very same reason?they would get someing for nothing under the operation of law. The law in the one case would he the shelter of rugged and bloody men, and the law in the otherca^e would lie and is, a shelter for soulless corporations and trust magnates; with the same general results?the accumulation of all wealth in a few hands. A law licensing highwaymen, pirates and thieves to take all of every man's property above a certain amount in the name of taxation, would he more direct and more honest than the tariff law which the stand-patters are so strenuously defending. The 1 resident is, therefore, more honest than the majority of his party, c when he boldly advocates confiscation 'j as a refuge from the effects of the j Dingley tarritf, which the stand-pat- j tersseek to perpetuate. And the abuse j of power in the name of taxation, t which he proposes, violates theconstl- 1 tution no more flagrantly than the 1 nrotective tariff does. Hut between 8 the two evils, the honest man will 1 choose neither. Both schemes prove by their glaring iniqut ies, that a grad- , nates income tax, which would take | only from those who are able to spare I somet hing from their surplus revcnu- ( cs,and only in proportion to such ability, is, after all, the only just solution of the Federal tax questjpn, and, therefore, of all other questions of legisla- , tion; there being at the bottom no distinction between legislation on the | subject of taxes and on other subjects. The slncerest tribute that can be , paid to superiority is Imitation. The many imitations of De Witt's Witob flazle Salve that are now before the oubllo prove it the best. Ask f ir Dr. Witt's. Good for burns, scalds, chatf- I ad skin, eczema, t?tter ,outP, bruises, boils and piles Highly recommend- | ?d and reliable. Sold by Couwa> Drug Go. Tirctl ol liftw'H Di.'lny. Robert T. Rogers, awaiting his third trial for murder of Jess? brown, was taken from j vtl at Tallulah, La., on Tuesday nlgur. s?ud hanged to a telegraph pole. The poopie got tired of the law's d?Uv uog R )dgers. Ycu oaunot induce a lower animal to eat heartily when not feeling well A sick dog starves himself, and gets well. Trie stomach OLce overworked must Lave rest same as your feet or eyes. You don't have to starve to rest your stoma oh. Kodol Fok Dyspepsia takes up the work for youi stomach, digests what you eat ard gives It a rest. Puts it back in condition again. You can't feel good with a discor led stinxch Try Kodol. Sold by Conway Drug Co. l>o<ljctt(l Bombs. Advices from Kutais, Trans-Caucasla, state that two bombs were thrown Thursday at General AUvhanofT, form* er governor general of the province, while he was driving to the railway station. He was wounded In the thigh. One bysrander was killed by the ex* plosion and three others were Injured. The would-be *?Ha?s'n escaped. T lousauda annuaiy bear witness to the eltioiency of Eirly K'sers. Taese pleasant, reliable little pills have long borne a ret utation second to none as a laxative and cathartic They a~e as staple as bread In million* of hoir es Pleasant but elTactlve. Will promptly rellev*. CjnsMpation without griping. S( 11 hv Conwav Drug Co. Some will see retributive justice in the killing of live men by lightning at a Sunday baseball game at Mobile, but, as the Newberry Observer says, it might have been the same If they had been on the spot on some act of mercy, or h n nau oeen Saturday or Monday. But, all the same, the American people are fast forgetting the commandment, ''Uemember the Sab both day to keep it holy." Constipation makes the cold drpg along. Get It out of you Tak Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar the cough syrup. Contains no opiates.?Sold by Conway Drug Co. BANK OF CON W/ CAF1TAL STOCK, $20,000.00 TOTAL ASSET OFFIC B. o. COLLINS, Frmidbvt. O. P. QUATTLEBAUM, V-P?is. Oar Mailt, beiag a loeal iaetitut boildtag of Horry Coaaty and for tb< tuiag tkia policy w? take pleasare is accoumodat ioa wkti eooeietant with With gratitnde for tbe liberal ] cordially solicit your future bueiuees Ree pactfu D. A. SPIVE Robt. it. Scarborough, 11. 1 President. Vic?-11 BANK OF Conwa1 Capital Stock DIREC Robt, 11. Scarboroagh, Elal L. Buck, Joorge J. llolliday, We will pay you f> per cent, intei ?h Barings bank* to thoee wishing Pry our plan for saving yonr nicklee i hese little banks and tho internet we telp yon. T t SHOE FOB This brand on a shoe means i The best for //nor money call VJ. 11;. J> '> 1 " "IA1 P '"I I'-'T'Jt "'J' Tuere Is lio need worrying ai<mg in , ilsomfort because of a dis irdnred di- | restlon. Get a bottle of Kodol Fok [>yspbi?sia, and see what it will do or you. K )dol not only digests what rou ear- and gives that tired stomach 1 needed rest, but is a corrective of ihe greatest ttli'.lenoy. K >dol relieves in llgestion, dyspepsia, palpltaiion of ohe h??art, flatu'^cv *vd sour itomvch Kodol wl" make your ?tonaon vrutnr and h-al ^u..i Yju will worry j 1st in me proportion that pour stomach worries you Worry means the loss of ability to do your uest. Worry is to he avoided at all times. Kodol wdl tAke the w <rry cut jf your Hti mnc 1. Sold by Cjnway L>rug Co. AHttKhtilllAUHl. A special from Washington, Ga., <ays: At a o'clock Tnursday morning William <4 Bryant, one of the most prosperous planters of Wilkes c unty, vas found lying dead in the front of his home, near Bessie, Ga., from a gunshot wound in the side. Thursday eight, after an investigation lasting all day, no ehie h<*rt b?*or> found. Tiifj swurnrtUie venb of the manufaiturers pr itects you from opiates In Kennedy's Lixative Honey and Tar ? the cjugn syrup that drives the old 0110 of your system. Sold by Conway D'ug Co. Boon old Stoessel! They are going to shoot him dead because he surrendered Port Arthur after a six months' heroic defense seaiee.lv without nam 11 el in the annals of war. That is the verdict of the Russian courtmartial. If anything was left to stamp infamy upon the Russian depotism this act crowns that infamy. -with constipation, biliousness, I headaches and fovers. Colds attack lH ;l the lunpa and contagious diseases R take hold of the svstem. It is safo M H to say that if the liver were always n I Kept in proner working order, ftO illness would t/o almost unknown, n Thodford's Black-Draught is so pj successful in curing such sickness because it is without a rival as a H liver regulator. This great family H medicine is not a stror.rr una j drastic drug, but a mild and H healthful lasativo that cures con- H stipation and ma/ bo taken by a KB more child without possible n harm. Eg The healthful action on the liver H cores biliousness. It has an in- H vigorating effect on the kidneys. RB Because tho liver and kidneys do Itf not work regularly, tho poisonous IB n 1 re tifUK *^* H TV 6 HI UiO VTA01O 1IUIU 7 S the bowels get back into the blood K and virulent contagion resuils. ?9 Timely treatment with Thed- 11 f I ford's Black-Draught removes the flj I dangers which lurk in constipation. H liver and kidney troubles, and will 171 positively forestall the inroads of K] fcl Bright's disease, for which dis- Cj || ease in advai^vod stages there is | i J no euro. Ask your dealer foe a 25c. package ?f Thedford's Black- H CONWAY. kY, S. O. 8UURPLUS FUND, $20,000. S, $180,000.00. JilRS* D* A. SPIVEY, Cashier. M. W. COLLINS, Asst. CASHimi ion, kw alwava striven for the npi betterment of her citiaene. in perexteudiag to our customer* every lound baukmg. patronage received in the past, we 11 v jonrs ^ Y Cash i e: r ,. Ruck, Will a. Freeman, resident. Cashier. HORllY, y. S, C. $25,000 TORS: W", ft Lewis, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman "Cfct on yearly deposits. 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