The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 12, 1908, Image 4
THE CRUEL CLAN
That Tennessee's Military Power j
is Now Rounding Up.
IT SWORE ITS OATHS
i
In Dripping lllood, Kitformi lis
Orders With Torture mid Wunton
Murder, and Lived I'p to Its Motto,
t4l)ead Men Tell No Tales," Knforeing
Without Merey.
Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 7.?Dead
men tell no tales.
Neither do the oath-hound members
of the dread Night Rider clan,
men who took their obligation in
the wild forests around Reel foot lake
and signed their names in dripping
blood, while about them the stillness
of a night as dark as lCrehus was bro
nun uniy oy i nc weird scream of the
heron or (ho loud too-hoo of the
swamp owl.
But the terrible secrets of this
tierce clan are being given up?and
by the living. Lips that have been
sealed through fear of death,
through fear of the silent riding
band of masked men and horses with
inutlled feet; lips that have feared
the oaths, the threats of the nuduight
assassin, the noose, the swing
of death.
The bloody rule of the night riders
was enforced by torture and wanton
murder. It was unchallenged while
the sufferers were residents of the
wooded country surrounding the
lake. It promises now to be broken
by the power of the State backed
by the flashing bayonets of the national
guard.
Crimes local in their character had
been safe. When the red-handed
outlaws lynched Captain Quintin
Rankin and attempted to kill Colonel
It. Z. Taylor they awakened the
law-rcspeeting sentiment of the State
and brought their leaders to thi
shadow of the gallows.
"Thank Cod, 1 can talk at last; i
and i will." was the cry of a mother
in the Iteelfoot lake country who \
she beheld the soldi rs and realized
that, law was to supersede the rule
of murder.
She was the mother of a lad who
had b. en forced to join in a raid
to Hickman, Kv., wh< re a family of
negroes was wiped out by the night
riders. This hoy, who went unwillingly,
never returned, and after the
ouuiiurs arrived a story leaked out
of a newly made grave in the woods.
A sweet-faced girl, wearing black
in memory of the lover who lay in
the grave, came to camp and the
secret of that raid was revealed.
"Tid" Burton, who was induced to
turn State's evidence, is a hunter
and fisherman. For hours lie was
silent and defiant, but the temptation
of the promised reward of $10,U00
and a feeling of safety inspired by
the presence of the soldiers won him
over lo the side of the State. He revealed
the secrets of the night riding
clan, and this and other information
gained by the authorities his
resulted in the arrest of 100 men.
/Governor M. K. Patterson, who is
personally directing the work, believes
that the ring-leaders are
among the prisoners, and that the
blood of Captain Itankin will be
avaiLged.
Tom Johnson, who is said to be
the captain of the night riders, s
one of those taken into custody. He
has maintained a dogged silence.
His time is spent in pacing the narrow
confines of his cell, while he
gazes furtively and longingly toward
the recesses of the forest.
While the grand jury investigation
is held secretly as possible, it is said
that the constitution and by-laws
of the Night Riders clan have been
offered in evidence. The penalty for
betrayal of the obligations imposed
by the ritual is death. The names
of members are signed with their
own blood. The clan decreed that
members should not employ negroes
after June, 1909, that banks should
not exact over (5 per cent interest
on loans, that merchants should not
make over 10 per cent profit, an l
that cotton and other commodities
should not bring less than a certain
figure.
Many of the men who have settled
on the lake are said to have left
y for other regions between two suns.
In fact, at Reel foot, as in the Pan
handle of Texas, it is said to he "bad
form" to ask some peopje where
they came from, a breech of ethjuet
that will be promptly resented.
Crack shots, men who know not the
sense of fear, men convinced tint
^others of means were depriving them
of their just right to make a living?
of such are the night riders of Heelfoot.
.
It is believed that prompt and effective
action by Tennessee will tend
to stamp out the scourge of
night riding that has spread from
Kontucky over a wide area of the
South. *
' Our farmers will please notice th
Taft.'s election has not helped the
price of cotton. We believe that corton
will go up later, but the election
of Toft will have no more to 1o
with Jt than the sneezing of the man
In the moon. But keeping It off the
market will.
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THE NEXT HOUSE
DEMOCRATS GAINED NINE SEATS
THIS ELECTION.
The Democrats will Have I7?S Representatives
and Republic"ins 1SIU,
According to laitest Figures.
The Republican party will, accordlug
to present returns from all Congressional
districts in the United
States control tho next national
House of Representatives by a majority
of 4 1. The figures so far received
show the election of 21 tl Republicans
and 175 Democrats, a gain
for the latter party of 9. The majorities
in several districts are reported
as extremely close, and it is
possible that in a few instances the
official count may change the figures
given above.
The following table shows the
number of Representatives elected
from all the States:
State. I)em. Rep.
Alabama 9
Arkansas 7
California S
Colorado 3
Connecticut 5
Delaware 1
Florida 3
Georgia 11
Idaho I
Illinois G lit
Indiana 11 2
Iowa 1 10
Kansas 8
Kentucky 8
Louisiana 7
Maine
Maryland 3
Massachusetts 3
Michigan 1
Minnesota 1 ?
Mississippi N
Missouri 1 1'
Montana 1
Nebraska & 1
Nevada 1
New Hampshire
i\ew Jersey J 7
New York 11 3*'
North Carolina 7 3
North Dakota Ohio
' ! 1 Oklahoma
3 .5
Oregon
Pennsylvania -* 37
I > 1 1 ? 1 *
iuiuiii1 i si iiiui 2
So ut h Carolina 7
South Dakota* 2
Tennessee 8 2
Texas 10
Utah I
Vermont 2
Virginia U 1
Washington 3
West Virginia f>
Wisconsin 1 10
Wyoming 1
Total 175 210
COXSTAIILK KILLS NKUHO,
Wlio Attempted to Outrage a Pennsylvania
White (airl.
Uniontown, Pa., Nov. 5.?While
attempting to arrest Jesse Uice, a
negro at ttiverside, near here, last
night, Constable llrown shot him
dead and was himseuf fatally shot in
the abdomen by the negro. Nevis
llrown, a son of the olllcer, was also
shot in the arm by Uice.
Two months ago a warrant was
issued for the arrest of the negro
on a charge that he had committed
an asualt on a young white woman
at Masontown. Uice, however, disappeared,
and yesterday Constable ,
llrown, of this place, learned ho was
living at Riverside.
The officer went there to make the 1
arrest and the shooting followed
?m ii iiiu negro oiierea armed resistaneH.
lillYAX CAHHIKS GEORGIA.
Got Over Thirty-two TIioumuhI More
Votes TIihii Taft.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 5.?Complete
returns from 139 of the 146 counties
in Georgia give the followiug result-)
in the presidential election on Tuesday:
For Bryan, 73,GOG; Taft, 41,268;
Watsoa, 17,514; r?el>s, 7G7; Chafin,
4 S3; Ifisgen, 83. This shows a total
of 133,238 votes aud gives Bryan
a majority over all of 9,632.
Bryan's plurality over Taft is
32,638 votes. Not over a half vote
was polled. Had all the votors turned
out Bryan's plurality over Taft
would hare been near 80,000. The
Democrats elected evory Congress
iiiitu uy boou majorities.
TKHUII1IJ0 TltAGKDY.
A Crazed Hotel Man Kills Wife and
Son.
John Hagan, 50 years old, propria- ?
tor of a hotel at Scranton, N. Y., on
the outskirts of HofTalo, near the
Lackawanna steel plant, shot and in- '
stantly killed his 17-year-old son, 1
George, and sorloualy wounded his (
wife, Carrie, at ten o'clock Thursday '
morning. Hagan Is in tho custody of 1
deputy sheriffs and tke district at- I
torney has gone to the sceno of the t
shooting. ThJa man la believed to be
Insane. , , t f
LESS WE FORGET
TWO HOOKS SOUTHERN HOYS
NllOt'lil) KKAl).
So as They Will Know What Our
l'eoplc ICmlured for Ten Years
After the Close of the War.
The following letter was taken
from the Keowee Courier:
Wo wore asked a short while ago
if we did not think that "The Leopard's
Spots" was overdrawn? We
declare that it is not, while it may
l)e tinctured a little with fiction, hut
even that is based upon solid facts.
Road, if you please, a history written
by I)r. Roland, of Greenwood, S.
C., called "A Voieo from South Carolina."
This book was written in
about the years 1 872. Then you
will agree that tho Leopard's Spots"
is a true story.
"Rest on, embalmed and sainted
dead,
Dear as tho blood ye gave;
No impious footsteps here shall tread
The herbage of your grave; j
Nor shall your glory be forgot j
VlUllln '"m" ? * *
....vj Ktiiic lit-1 record Keeps,
Or honor points tho hallowed spot
Where valor sproudly sleeps."
This Is one cf the verses on a
beautiful monumen' wo looked upon
with tearful revere'ee while walking
through Koseinont cemetery, at Newberry.
'Such acts as the murder >r
Crozier are some of the things thai
keep a man from forgetting the war.
Does history record any noo.er
sacrifice? Damon was the friend of
Pythias, 1 >111 this man Bowers was a
stranger to Crozier Much more of
this pathetic story is recorded In the
"Annals of Newberry." Crozier
yielded up his life that another
might not suffer. The memory rf
that, day is of a tragedy never to bo
forgotten. The war had ended, and
t.he soldiers of the discharged Confederate
army and paroled prisoners
were passing through South Carolina
to their homes in the West. Among
them was Calvin Crozier, a Texan,
who arrived at Xowherrv on September
7th, 1865, and was delayed there
over night. lie had some ladies
under his care, and, as hotel accommodations
were very meagre, they
decided it would be best to pass the
iiikiii m mo car on which they had
traveled. Late in the night some ii"gro
soldiers, under the command of
Colonel Trowbridge, who had arrived
at Newberry that day entered the
car whore Crozier and the ladies
under his care were qu'etly reposing,
and made themselves very offensive
to the ladies. Crozier requested
them to leave, but they refused
to do so, and a difficulty ensued.
In the scutllc which followed
one of the negroes was slightly cut
by Crozier with his knife. The regiment
to which they belonged was
encamped in a graveyard near the
depot, and very soon after the difficulty
occurred a mini her of them
appeared .at the depot bent on revenging
the one who had been dealt
with by Crozier. In their madness
they seized Jacob S. Bowers, who was
then General Superintendent of tin
Columbia and Greenville Railroad,
and were about to lynch him When
Crozier learned what they were
about, without, a moment's hesitation,
he presented himself and told
them that he had wounded the negro
soldier. He was ut once tied arc'
taken to the camp mentioned nbov
and was shot to death by the fiends.
His body was thrown in a shallow
grave, and they dhnced in ghoulish
glee noon his nnw.m?'i?
.. iUUMO hl ilVt', I I1G
oflicers of the pegro regiment principaly
white, woro appealed to in
behalf of Crozler, but in vain.
Throwbrldge, the colonel of this regiment,
declared that he took upon
himself all the responsibility of the
act.
Prince Rivens, a negro ofheor,
wishing to save the life of Crozler,
went to him and begged him to deny
the fact that he cut the negro, but
he refused. Seldom indeed do we
And such heroic, solf-saeriflee as *s
embodied of this noble Texan. lie
might have gone free to his far
Western home had he permitod an
innocent man to suffer. How fondly
he may have dreamed of his ariiva
at. his Texas home, Galveston, and
lie greeting of loved ones there!
lie gave it all up and laid down ids
life that another might live.
No ignoble spirit could have acted
as ho did, and where lie now sleeps
must be holy ground. His body remained
there where it was burled by
the negro soldiers until 1801, when
the neonle of MpwI.?!> ? i?"'' -1
i j nil 111 IS I'l!*
mains buried in ltosemont cemetery,
and erected an enduring monument
to ills memory. In erecting this
monument they have honored themselves.
These are stubborn facts known
to this writer, and are in keeping
with tho "Leopard's Spots." Every
Southern boy (and girl as well)
should read a book written by Or
Ueland, of Greenwood, called a
"Voice from South Carolina," and
tho "Leopard's Spots." They will
hen learn what the Southern people
mdured for ten years after tho war
intil they all rose up as one man in
1876, with tho immortal Hampton as ?
heir standard bearer, and threw off i
he iron heel of despotism. i
As we have stated before, titlouthern
peoplo are the product of a
SOME GOOD ADVICE
DON'T FATTEN MOOS ON COHN
ALONE.
Vou Are Losing Money if You HaveNot
Blunted Some Legumes for
Them, Says a Bulletin.
Bulletin No. 143 of the Alabama;
Experiment Station, gives the results
of a three-year feeding test, conducted
with ninety hogs, and compares
the results of feeding corn alone and
witli other feeds.
Somo very interesting facts were
brought out by this experiment. For
example, It cost to make one hundred
pounds of gain on the hogs
used in the tost, $7.63 when corn
alone was fed; $5.75 when the ration
was two-thirds corn and one-third
cottonseed meal; $o.l8 when it was
nine partB corn to one of tankage,
and $f>. I 1 when it consisted of corn
and cowpeas half and half. "When
corn was fed alone but 4 8 cents was
realized for each bushel used." To
feed 7-cent corn profitably one must,
if ho feeds corn alone, get seven
cents live weight for his hogs.
Cottonseed meal gave good results,
reducing the cost per hundred pounds
of gain to $:>.7o, when used for onethird
of the ration. There is danger
in its use, however, and one who
j feeds it must be prepared to assume
this ri.-k. Four deaths occurred as
I a result of the use of cottonseed
meal; but all these took place afte?"
the hogs had been taken off the
meal and placed on other feeds.
This suggests that, something yet
is to be learned about the effects ot
cottonseed meal on the internal machinery
of a pig.
Tankage proved to be a cheap and
satisfactory feed. Hogs fed on one
part tankage to nine parts corn meal
made a gain of 1.04 pounds per day,
the same as those fed on the corn
and cottonseed meal. Those fed on
corn alone gained only .60 of a
pound daily. The cost per hundred
pounds of gain was also reduced
$2.4r? by the use of the tankage.
Cowpeas are a profitable feel
when they cost eighty cents to a dollar
per bushel. Alter they reach
$! .Of) they cease to pay. They were
fid with an equal quantity of corn.
The cheapest gains were obtained
from the use of corn along with
peanut and soy bean pastures. To
make one hundred pounds of pork
with a peanut pasture cost only
$2.14, and with soy bean pasture
$2.74. This is after taking the cost
of raising the crop into account and
crediting it with the fertility added
to the soil. This was estimated at
* ; r. a ,w... ?- -
i?v;i ?n;i? in eacn case.
Sorghum and chufa pastures use 1
in connection with corn made a very
poor showing. The hogs grazed in
the sorghum gained only .37 of a
pound daily wheh fed on corn alone,
and .46 of a pound daily when fe 1
on the corn and cottonseed meal
combination. In the first case the
gain cost $11.90 per hundred pounds
and in the second, $7.7 9. Chufas
and corn gave a gain of only .7 2
of a pound per day and cost $8.8">
per hundred pounds of grain. The
cost of raising them was charged the
same as with the legumes; but no
credit was given for any returns they
made to the soil, for, alas! there
was nothing to credit.
A good long sermon?several of
them for that matter?might be
preacljed from this text; but what's
the use? These are the results of
actual and accurate experiments.
The quesiton is; Will you try to fatten
your hogs on a one-sided ration,
as corn alono is, or will you supplement
it wim cottonseed meal, tankage,
or some other nitrogenous feed?
Then next year will you or not have
a peanut, a cowpea or a soy bean
pasture for your hogs?
MOTIIEH AND SON POUND DEAD.
Woman Shot Through Head aiul Son
]>ead from (ins.
At New York Mrs. P. Voit and her
son, J. Nelson Volt., a Wall street
broker, were found dead In their
rooms in a large apartment hotel on
upper Broadway late Wednesday.
The mother had been slu t in the
head and her body was iii her bedroom
while the son was lying suffocated
by gas on the floor of the bedroom,
with pillows under his head.
The door of the bathroom was
locked and this was held as evidence
of probable suicide on his part, follau'l
o J 1 ' "
nit- uitHi.il or nis mother, probably
at his hands.
TILLMAN WHITING A HOOK.
John Porter 1 loll is Unpaged lu Research
for the Senator.
John Porter Mollis, a Wofford
graduate, Is in Washington for a few
days, engaged in research work for
Senator Tillman, in connection with
his forthcoming book dealing with
the race question.
nation which could not wear a yoke.
The Anglo-Saxon was born to govern,
to bo free, to create, to build a
?ociiil and political structure, mighty
and masterful.
J. RUSSELL WRIGHT
Walhalla, S. C. !
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TARE ON COTTON
THE WEIGHT OF MAGGING AND
TIES.
Some Suggestions About this Mat*
ter Tliut Cotton Makers Should
Think About and Act On.
There is almost as wide variation
in the weight of bagging and ties
used as a covering for tlie cotton
crop as there is in the different names
and numbors used by cotton firms
and exchanges to designate the various
grad<?s of cotton, says the
Cotton Journal. With regard to bp ging
and ties there is an allowance
of 0 per cent off, or 20 pounds to the
bales for tare by the foreign trade,
in Savannah there is an allowance
of 7 yards of two and a quarter
pound bagging. The New England
spinners have agreed to an allowance
of 2 2 pounds of bagging anl
ties to the bale, while Interior buyers
insist on only 6 yards of bagging
and 6 ties. The majority of farmers
buy light bagging, so that the
average weight of the bagging and
ties on a bale of cotton delivered by
farmers to buyers amounts to about
21 pounds.
In this wide complication of differences
in the weight of bagging
and ties the farmers as usual get
the worst end of the bargain. Nearly
65 per cent of the crop goes
abroad, and in tine price paid for export
cotton the farmers have to
stand a loss of 2b pounds to the ba'e
for bagging and ties, so that if they
put on 21 pounds they lose !> pounds
of lint in addition to bagging and
ties they pay for ar.d put on the
bale.
. Spinners do not pay for bagging
and t ios. The buyers do not pay
f ll It f !1 ?-lv?lr?t-o f ? ?
......wio ini,t IIIIIIK IUT naggnii?
and tics. No farmer lias ever sold
a pound of bagging and tics to anybody.
The bagging and tics on a
baie of cotton is a net loss to the
man who had the bale ginned.
The cotton growers of the South
are losing millions of dollars annually
on account of their indifference
or ignorance regarding this question
of bagging and ties. There is but
one correct, fair and business-like
method of settling this matter on a
basis of equity to all parties at interest,
and that is to sell cotton
strictly on net weight, just as the
spinners buy it from the cotton fac-1
tors or exporters.
The weight of all bagging should '
be uniform and the same numb r
of yards used on each bale. Good,
heavy weight bagging should be used
ami under existing regulations every
farmer should put on the full allowance,
else he loses a portion of his
int. This is a serious matter which
should he remedied by mutual agreement
of all parties at interest, the
grower and the spinner. There is
too big a margin left for graft, call
it legitimate or what not, which the
farmers should no longer stand for.
We have called attention to this
matter many times and the farmeis
are getting sufficiently organized to
secure a sentiment of the tare question
on a fair and systematic basis.
We are continuously noticing articles
in papers devoted to cotton information
stating that the farmers
ninlfo !? ni'nfit iwO.. i-.. 1
.. t>n uifir u<igging an'i
ties. This is a delusion, which onlv
reflects on the Ignorance of those
making the assertion. As a matter
of fact, more than the average value
of the bagging and ties is always
deducted front the price paid the
farmer, the same as freight and all
other fixed charges.
Governor Threatened.
Nashville, Tenn., Nov. G.?The
stand taken by Governor Patterson
in his attempt to suppress recent
night rider outrages in Lake county
and other sections of the State has i
been followed by several anonymous ?
threatening letters to the goveronr
but they are causing him little worry.
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BUY AN SWEEPS HIS 8TATE.
Nebraska Goes Bemccratic Both In
State and National.
Returns from Nebraska show
that Bryan won a sweeping victory
in his own State last Tuesday. While
the pluralities are not phenomlnally
large, they are complete, the State
ticket and candidates for Congreis
in most instancos running parallel
with Bryan.
Complete returns from a third of
the counties and scattering precinct
returns from most of the remainder
show that Bryan Will have a plurality
of not fewer than 10,000 votes
and Shallenborger, Democratic, for
Governor, and the rest of the Demo,
cratic ticket will have about 9,000.
But the Democratic victory do>38
not stop there. Five of NebraskWx
six Congressmen are Democri^^^
only one Republican, Hlnshaw, in
the 4th district, escaping defeat *>y
700 votes, although his district gave
Bryan a plurality.
The greatest surprise of all 1b the
overwhelming majority the Democrats
will have in the Legislature.
Of the 133 Senators and Representatives
elected, the canvassers of returns
could find only 18 Republicans
who had won.
Lancaster county, In which Lincoln,
Bryan's home city is located,
which for thirty years has elected
none but Republican members to (
both branches, this year sends 3 Re- V|
publicans and three Democrats ' - ,
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Agents for The White, Maxwell,
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For Sale?Thoroughbred Berkshire
Bigs, Biltmore Stock, at $S and
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Crenville, S. C.
Wanted?Live Wild Turkeys. Also
Squirrels, Tame Deer, Red Foxes,
Partridges, Pheasants, Wil I
Waterfowl, Etc. Dr. Cecil French,
Naturalist, Washington, 1). C.
Wanted?To purchase timber from
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write and give full particulars, to
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