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MARTIN IS MAD. Attacks Ex-Gov. Heyward In the : 4 Baptist Courier. hpppr WRITES WARM LETTER The SuperHitendent of Kdurutiou ( Takes the Courier to Task Coil" t wiuiHK a I'cetlietiou it Made a Short Time Ago That Kx-Gov. lleyA ward Would lie K lee ted Senator at the Com ins: Primary. Hon (). B. Martin, State Superintendent of ICdueation, and a candidate for United States Senator has opened his letter writing batteries on the Hon. I>. C. Heyward, former Governor and also a candidate for the Senate. Mr Martin's ire seems to have been aroused l>v the publication in the Baptist Courier, (Mr. Martin is a Baptist) under the Note and Comment1 Column, conducted by the Rev. l<. J. Bristow, of a prediction that. Mr Hey ward will lu? elected Senator and the assertion that he will reflect honor upon his State. Mr. Martin Friday made public a letter 1.0 the Baptist Courier in which lie refers to the testimony before the investigating committee referring to expenditures alleged to have boon made in Governor Heyward's behalf i?y some of his supporters in Spartanburg County in 1002. In bis reply, published in next column. Governor Heyward says he has nothing to conceal about this matter, aud that the expenditures were made and investigated by his friends. The item in the Baptist Courier is as follows: "Mr. Dan S. Henderson, who was announced as a candidate for the United States senate to succeed Mr. Gary, has withdrawn from the race. There are still left, however, five avowed candidates, of whom the leading are former Govs. Heyward and Evans. Mr. Hoy ward has probably gained by the withdrawal of Messrs. McCnllough and Henderson?two of the most scholarly and intellectual men in the State- and the present indications are that Mr. Hey ward will "wiu out." If ho should, South Carolina would have a representative in L the senate equal in every respect to " j any member of Inat body, and one whose acquaintance and inliuence would be worth a great deal to the state." .Mr. Martin's Letter. To the Editor of the Baptist Courier: Dear Sir: The enclosed clipping Was been noted by me and also sent to me by Courier subscribers. I regret that you use the influence of your paper and your gift of prophecy to try to line up the votes before the campaign opens. I have always believed that your sense of fairness would have prevented such action. it is possible to prostitute a religous paper in politics. I wonder if you have read pages 327-346 of the testimony of i lie dispensary investigation committee? Mr. W. It. Dillingham, of Spartanburg, swore that he spent several hundred dollars for Governor Heyward upon his authority in me race for governor in 11)02. Dillingham said that he was conducting the campaign upon the Mark Hantia system. Several men swore that Dillingham collected $r?<), each, from men whom Gov. Heyward ap-i pointed dispensary constables. Some of/these fellows had to "borrow moae'y* for rent and rations." Chief Fant swore that Dillingham toftd him that he spent $1,0S0 in Hoyward's campaign, is a man responsible under the law for the acts of his agents? Does the Courier stand ior this? it is well known that Gov. Heyward said before Senator Latimer's death thnt he would not run for senator because of his business matters. Did Senator Latimer's death immeliately affect Gov. Heyward's business matters so that he could get into the senate race in less than an hour? Would, he have much influence in Oongros* where he would be known as the post mortem candidate? Did you see the dally papers in South Carolina which announced Senator Latimer's death and Gov. Heywnrd's candidacy at the same time on front page In large head linee? Some of the congressmen appointed to attend the funeral saw them and expressed their opinions of the same. South Carolina generally - respects the dead and their families I \ especlall in the solemn hours of their deepest grief South Carolina, too, believe in giving every man a fair change. I think your paper would not loose anything by hearing the arguments and reasoning before It decides definitely for the people of this state ao*to whom they shall elect for any of* Sincerely yours, O. B. Martin. SlIBSCJ HEYWARD REPLIES. SOItltY Mil. MAUTIN HAS IJHGUN MIJI> SLINGING. K\1?lttins the Spartanburg Naltw, iui<J (Quotes Wluit Mr. Mart.iu SuJd Of Him Last Summer. Wheu Gov. Hoy ward was shown a copy of Mr. Martin's letter and was usked if ho had any reply to make to this attack upon him, ho said: "1 am very much surprised and very sorry to know that Mr. Martin has soon fit to begin mud-slinging in the senatorial campaign. When 1 was not a candidate for the same office to .which lie also aspires ho seemed to entertain for me a very high regard. The people of the slate win recall that when Mr. Martin last July got mad with Governor Ansel and made a bitter attack upon'the chief magistrate of South Carolina he referred 1). C. Ileyward as: "That delightful and considerate gentleman who adorned that office during the past four years.' Hut since that delightful and considerate gentleman is now Mr. Martin's opponent, and is pronounced by a leading religions newspaper its the probable winner in this i"| pi i \ 1 ? \t 'I ft i ?? eivnme f ? ? elvo n <r/v l?tc opinion of him entirely, but i am certain that he cannot change the opinion of the people of South Carolina. "The testimony before the investigating committee must have been known to Mr. Martin when he spoke of me so kindly last summer, as it has been public property for nearly three years. The people of South Carolina know what sort of campaign 1 conducted in 19 012 and their confidence in me was clearly demonstrated by the fact that i was re-elected governor in 1901 without even a hint of opposition. "As to tiie alleged expenditures in 1902 in Spartanburg county, as brought out by the investigation, 1 have nothing to conceal and have never had. I will be very glad for you to publsh a copy of ths testmony, whch I herewith hand you. Hundreds of my friends throughout the state know the circumstances in the case. Between the first and second primaries I made my headquarters in Spartanburg and necessarily a great deal of expense was incurred. I was under the impression that all of these expenses had been settled at the time but two and a half wears later a statement was nresented to me lroin Mr. Dillingham, which alter an invest ipat ion by some of my friend* and upon their advice paid. As shown by Mr. Dillingham's testimony the amount was not nearly so large as Chief Pant had thought, and, furthermore, the tes imony will show that it was entirely disconnected with the constabulary. "As to my alleged disrespect to Senator Latimer, I wish to say that my candidacy for the senate was not announced until I read in the afternoon paper an account of the funeral of Senator Latimer, and it war announced only because I v\n-i leaving the next day for Philadelphia t.< be absent for sometime on account of tlie illness of my wife. Anv previous reference to my probable car.fi course without authorization or in course without authorization on in stigution from 1110. "Mr. Martin's consideration for the feelings of Senator Latimer's familj may in his own words be termed mortem regard, because it 's we! known that Mr. Martin was preparing to attack the personal and politica record of the late Senator had Mr Latimer lived to entdf the campaign "This is shown by Mr. Martin's an nouncemeut of bis candidacy for tin senate." ' THROWN FROM TKAIN. - - O A Woman Was I ntnjuivu nni .m?h \wit Was ni'okon. As Atlantic Coast Lino train No 85 was approaching Winston, Fla. Thursday night, John Jackson, en raged because Lizzie Holmes persist ed in going to Tampa threw her fron the platform of a coach and thoi jumped after hor. The train wa running 35 miles an hour. 'i n? wo man landed lightly and was unhurt but Jackson's neck was broken b; the fall and he was found dead, hi head sunk deep into the mud in i ditch near the track. ITALIANS DIUVKN OUT. At Clinton, III., Mob Chases "Illacl Hand*' ^dement. Thirty Italians employed by th Illinois Central at Clinton, 111., wer driven from that town Friday nigh by a mob who intimiated them wit a fusilado of shots from guns an revolvers. There has been much in dignation against the Italians sine the Mayor received a "black hand letter threatening his life. tIBE NO NARROW ESCAPE Of Deputy Sheriff Poulnot in a Desperate Struggle i* WITH A DRUNKEN MAN Tito Mao Had Wounded His Child and the Officer Hushed Into the Hotise Where the Shooting Had Taken Place and Found Himself Looking Into a Hig Pistol, Which lie Secured. The Charleston Post says Deputy Sheriff .1. M. Poulnot had a desperate handtohnnd conutet 'tnuisuay afternoon with a big negro in a house on Inspection street ami he experienced j the narrowest escape of his life from! being instantly ...neu. it. was only j presence of mind and physical strength hacked by coolness and courage, that saved him. In consequence of a fit of drunken temper, (Jilinore McCoy, a negro, living at r> 1-2 Inspection street, is at the police station somewhat battered , up with two charges of aggravated assault and battery, with attempt to! kill written against him. nis ..one girl, about four years of age, is at home suffering from :> i>niut ...i r. - - ? ? ?vt n V/ll im iii her shoulder and Deputy Sheriff I'oulnot lias a torn hand as a reminder of his hard light with the negro. The deputy sheriff was walking near Inspection street Thursday afternoon between 1 and 2 o'clock, and heard the screams of a child. He hurried into Inspection street to investigate and was told that there was a colored man up in No. 5 1-2 trying to kill his child. Mr. I'oulnot s a man of courage and quick action, and as he was armed., he did not hesitate, but hurriedly entered the house whence the screaming proceeded. He met three or four colored men on the stops, but the mother of the child told him | that none of them was to blame and so ho went on. Suddenly turning into a room at the top of the steps, he found him self looking into the barrel of a 44calibre revolver, and quick as thought the deputy snipped the pistol, and then entered Into a desperate fight with McCoy, who was drunk and in an ugly mood. Mr. I'oulnot had no time to draw his own revolver, hut had to light to get posession of the negro's weapon, and at the same lime prevent him from using It. Cor i several minutes the two men struggled and dually the deputy sheriff succeeding in breaking the pistol open and so unloading it. Meanwhile I lie wife of McCoy forgot her fears of the drunken man, and seized Mr. I'oulnot by the shoulders. This gave McCoy time to get iiwhv. Policeman Aulberry, who lives near the scene of the excitement, rushed into the room about this time and Mr. Poulnot told him to go after McCoy, which he did. He fired a shot at the negro, as he was about ' to jump a rear fence, and McCoy re turned to the house, where he was captured by the deputy sheriff, and placed under arrest, after a short struggle. The child shot by her inhuman father is not seriously injured, al5 though hit by a large bullet. It r seemed to have touched no vital parts. McCoy was beaten severely in his light, but was sent back to ' > the police station from the hospital ' in a short time. * 1)1 KI) IN PKAJtltt F1KK. r An Awful Death Overtakes Family in North Dakota. Louis Orian, his wife and live children perished in a prairie fire which swept, the country 12 miles west of Cogswell, North Dakota. Orian hurried his family into a wagon, but lost in a race with the tlafes. The lire ? was spread all over the country by " a wind which travelled at 4 0 miles " an hour. Dozens of farmers lost 1 barnes and granaries. Live stock 1 was burned on several farms. Ser 8 geant country has never known so * destructive a Are. * 'l y Machines Are Demolished. At Pittsburg, Pa., Friday sixty* eight steel machines, confiscated by the police upon complaint that, they were used to operate games of chance were demolished. About 4,000 pennies were taken from the machines ^ and added to the police pension fund of that city. o School Teacher Fears Itudly. e VV. W. Hutton, principal of the t high school at Manhattan, Kansas, h was waylaid by three men, beaten ^ into insensibility, robbed and thrown under the wheels of a train on Sun? day night. The professor was rescued after one leg had been cut off. The * robbers escaped. W TO WILL N01 RUN. Mr. Feattiersfcno Announces His Withdrawal From Race. GIVES HIS REASONS. Ciov. .\nsol Has (.'limbed I'pon His ( Platform ami .Thmforo, His Can- i dhlucy, This Year Would Not Help the Cause of Prohibition.?(jov. Ansel's liUtest Position on the l.i- ' puor (Question Stated. Mr. C. ('. Coatherstone announced Friday morning his withdrawal from the race for governor. His entrance into the contest several weeks ago was before the exact platform of (lov. Ansel was known. It was supposed that Mr. Ansel would run on the same platform upon which he was elected two years ago. hut in a lottor to Mr. Featherstone al few days ago. part of which is below! quoted, it will bo seen that Mr. Ansel now occupies the same position M at Mr. Feat herstone announced last fa'l. namely, a reverse local option law, under which the counties will all ho dry until the dispensary is voted in, lints throwing the burden on (lie people who desire the dispensary. In announcing his withdrawal. Mr. Featherstone says: Col. Foal horslone's Statement. "Several weeks ago I antu a need my candidacy for governor of South Carolina, upon a State proh!nitlo i pla t form. "I believed then and I still believe, that the people are tired of the liquor traJlle, and that thov are ready to take a great step forward and sweep tin' legalized tradio out of the SitntO. "The announcement of my candidaev was made at the suggestion of some of our leading prohibitioni ts men who have been with me in Hie fight since the campaign of ISIS. They believed that there ought to be in the campaign a candidate who would make an aggressive light, and were kind enough to suggest ;hat I ought to lead the movement. "As I have already stated, personally it did not suit me to go into the fight at this time, but I yielded to what I conceived to lie n call of duty. "1 did not hesitate to say that if would be a source of gratification to me to be governor of the State, but the desire to gratify my personal ambition alone would not have been sufficient to induce me to enter the race at this time. "Shortly after the announcement of my candidacy it was publicly suggested by (Iov. Ansel's friends that he was also in favor of prohibition and that he would offer for re-election on that platform. "It seemed to me that the cause ol prohibition might lie weakened by having two candidates in the field, and that if lie would espouse that cause it would lie the part of wisdom I for me to withdraw. "Acting upon (his idea and with the approval of my prohibition friends, I wrote (lov. Ansel (on I'Vh. 20) that if he expected to make the race on that platform I would not oppose him. ? "1 an) In receipt of a letter from I the governor informing me that he expects to advocate the reverse of our present local option plan. He says: " 'My position on the liquor question is what I call restricted local option?that is, local option as between county prohibition and county dispensary. Those counties voting to sell liquor shall he restricted to one dispensary in the county and that one at the county seat, except in those counties wherein there is a city of more than 25,000 population, in which counties more than one dispensary may be established. This is in accordance with my recommendations to the general assembly as set forth in my annual message of 10UH, is in the interest of temperance and will minimize the sale of liquor. " 'With the experience that I have had in the past two years in the proposed elections that were desired in some counties on mo liquor question. I am of the opinion that it will be better to enact a law by which a county can vote on the question of voting in the sale of liquor as above restricted, instead of voting it out.as now provided?that is, make all the counties dry until a majority of the qualified voters of a county vote to sell liquor in that, particular county, and, if a majority of the qualified voters vote to sell, that one county dispensary then Im Established as above set forth, with the right to vote ! the dispensary out at a subsequent election.' " 'This is practically the plan that i I outlined in an interview given out last lull.* 1 State Ready for I'rolihition. ! "As I see the situation now, f believe the State is ready to take even 0 THE I LEAPED FROM TRAIN. M |{. F.liV ? :. SMYTH OF HAItTSYII.I.K COMMITS Si U Il?F. lumped Out of Window Without Warning iiiid Died After lloiug Curried to Columbia. The Stuto says as train No. &3 an the Atlantic* Coast f.lne reached the l 7-tnile post, nenrlng Columbia, ruosihiy morning, 101 y K. Smith, demented and under escort to the State Hospital for the Insane, raised himself out of the seat in the smoking oar and dashed out of the window. The art was clone before any of the horritled passengers could stop the unfortunate man and when the train was stopped and the body recovered it was seen that there was very little chance of recovery. Within a few minutes after arrival in Columbia he died and his body was at once shipped back to liis home in j 1 lartsviile. Mr. Smith has for two years had I mental trouble, being injured by ai fall from a building. lie never recovered from the result of inn injuries received by this fall and while not violent Ins mind gradually grew weaker and it was decided to place I him in the State Hospital for the Insane. He was carried to Columbia, escorted by the chief of police of the town. IV 11. Kirk patrick, and by l>r. .). L. I'owe, who was on Itis way to the meeting of the State* Medical association in Anderson. The man was always quiet, although, his two companions deemed it host to keep a close watch on his movements. When Chief Kirk pat rick left. Ills seat for a minute a stranger who came into the car took his place beside tin* lunatic and a second later Smith had raised himself out of the car and disappeared out of Hu* open window. Railroad ( ommissioner Barlo, who was on 1 ho oar, had tltT? train stopped and a short distance hack the body was found. man was unconscious and a hasty exaxmination showed that ho had no chance for recovery. <>n arrival at Columbia he was Riven medical attention but died within a few minutes of removal from the train. The body was shipped back to llartsvillo to the family for interment.. Chief Kirkpatrick and Dr. I'owe regret the affair very much hut according to the statement of those who witnessed the suicide nothing could have stopped the unfortunate man from his deed. ClintCII TIIIKF. Woman Arrested for Robbing Worshippers While at I'rayer. As she rose front her knees, crossed herself devoutly and walked out of St. Klizaheth's Roman Catholic church, in Chicago on Sunday, May O'flara, alias May Miller, was ar rested by a police sergeant ana mree patrolmen tor stealing the purses ol' worshippers. The woman's rooms, which site occupies with Frank Cunningham, a former pockey, were found to contain between forty and fifty purses and handbags, all of which are supposed to have been stolen by May O'Hara while she was pretending to be in prayer and was in reality searching the seats in front of her for plunder. a greater step towards prohibition than this; but such a plan will, practically, give us three-fourths or more of the State for prohibition. "With the policy of the Stato declared to bo opposed to the trallic, coupled with the good effect produced by the practical workings of a prohibition law, the counties will be very slow to exempt themselves from the operation of the law and to place themselves in direct opposition to the well defined moral policy of the State. "Under such circumstances, T do not believe that my candidacy tnu year would bo productive of good to the prohibition cause and I will not be a candidate. "Whether the State Democratic Convention will be asked to permit a direct vote upon the question in the primary this summer, I am not now prepared to any. I have my own personal views upon this subject, but before any definite conclusion if reached it may be necessary to have a conference of the prohibitionists. I am seeking to do what is best for the ultimate good of the causo. "Personally, I nh.nlI continue to go into different sections of the Statr and advocate prohibition. I shall offer my services to any section that may desire them, whether it be to make speeches generally throughout the State or in counties whore campaigns are being made under the pree ent law. "The light is on and the prohibi ttonlsts expect to keep it up untl they stop the legalized sale of liquoi in South Carolina." ' HORRY H KILLS HIMSELF After Shooting His Sixteen Year Old Daughter Twice. SHOCKING TRAGEDY Ore u retl in u Girl's School at As ho* villc. The Voting l.ndy had Tuken Part in April Fool .lokc and her Father visits her at School, Shoot* 11 or,and then Commits Suicide. A torrlblc tragedy was enacted at Ashoville, ?\. C., on Wednesday. Knraged nt his 16-ycur-old daughter Not lie. because of a harmless school girl prank, Dr. I) O. Swiiinoy who recently went to Ashevllle, from New York, fired two shots, at her, fatally wounding her, and men turning tno revolver on himself, he placed muzzle in his mouth and puiien the I trigger, dying almost instantly, i Hndly wounded as she was, with two I bullets oinmheddod in her skull. Miss Swlnne.v ran from the room up-stuirs to the principal's room before sho fell The tragedy oecurned in the reception room of the Normal ami school for girls, where Miss Swinney had boon a pupil for the past session .lust what occured prior to the shooting is not known as there were no witnesses and the Kill, while stilt conscious could glvo but a vague account. Dr. Swinney, who, up to a few years ago. had been a promintno physician In New York city, lias been in poor health, and of late it is alleged his mind litis been unbalanced. Recently bis daughter was one of a number of school girls, who, as an April fool's Joke, absented themselves from school, and the father brooded over the little escapade until It assumed to liim the proportions of actual wrong-doing. When Dr. Swinney called on his daughter at the school this afternoon about :? o'clock ho was shown into tin* reception room, and a few minutes later his daughter came down and went into the room, closing the door behind her. She sat down at the piano, her father sitting beside her. Half an hour later girls and teachers were startled by four shuts ringing out and a few seconds afterwards .Miss Swinney, with blood streaming from the wounds in her head, cams rushing from the room. In a few minutes Inter the wildest confusion reigned, school girls and women teachers ran here and there, but Miss Robinson, the principal, speedily restored order and nastilv suinmoneil a physician. Miss Swinnoy was desperately wounded and there is . ittlo chance for her recvery. The room in v/hioh the tragedy occurred showed signs of a hard struggle; chairs were overturned and the piano stool, with one Iok broken, was lying in tin; middle of the room. The father was lying on the floor, at one side of the room, face downward, with the revolver with four chambers empty under him. The attempted murder and suicide were evidently deliberately planned, as before going to the school Dr. Swinney purshased a revolver and two rounds ot cartridges at. a pawn shop. Although, it is said, his mind has been unbalanced for some tltno he had never been violent and his family were totally unprepared for tho fearful tragedy. He was a father-inlaw of Dr. J. A. Sinclair, a prominent dentist of that city, and since his return from New York a few weeks ago had made his home with him. ESCAI'EI) MIHACULOl'SLV. Boilers Explode With Fearful Effect, but No One ? A battery of boilers in tlir5 Tipton i Ice Plant,at Tipton, 111., exploded on > Sunday. Charles Colvert, the engi, neer, was blown some distance, bet was not injured. IMec.es of much in: ery, heavy timbers and thousands < C l brick crashed through the sides and s roofs of the houses, but not a person was hurt. One piece of machinery i weighing 500 pounds, went through , a roof and landed in a bed. Many i windows wore demolished. The loss I is $25,000. The engineer cannot account for the explosion. I'AHTOU COMMITS HUIOIDK. i 1 > The Kev. George A. Thompson Shoot* Himself in Head. ? Rev. George. W. Thompson, the ? pastor of the Woodbury (N. J.) Pres byterian Church, a fashionable congregation, was found dead in his room at a hotel witn a bullet wound - In his head. It is believed he com mitted suicide. A week ago Thonir son announced his engagement to a * wealthy member of his church IERALD.