The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 19, 1908, Image 3
A BATTLE LOST
A War Just Begun, Says William
Jennings Bryan,
DEMOCRATIC LEADER
l>etiores Tlutt tile l'arty Must Fight
On or be Dissolved?The Principles
and Policies of Democracy
Are Not lleud?The People Will
Yet Turn to It.
IJncoln, Neb., Nov. 12.?"A batt.
,J?st?a war but becun." is th?>
caption of the first page editorial in
this week's issue of William J. Bryan's
newspapc r.
"The election of 1 908 is over and
the returns disclose a signal victory
for our opponents, hut the principles
for which our party stands, the policies
for which our party contends,
these arc not dead. A good propo i
lion is not made bad by rejection at
t'he polls; a needed reform is not
made unnecessary by an adverse
Vote.
jJThe legislation asked for by the
"democratic party in its national platform
was not of a temporary character;
it was legislation which will be of
permanent advantage when it is secured
"Does any one believe that the
American i>e pie will permanently
permit secrecy as to campaign cj itribut
ions?
"Docs any one believe that the
American people will permanently
permit the will of the voters to be
thwarted, as it is now hy the elec
I...U ui si-iiiiiors mrougti Jegis]
a tu ros ?
"Does any one believe that t no
trusts will be permitted perinaiKnt'.y
to exploit the masses?
"Does any one believe that the
consumer will permanently permit
the tariff to be written by the privileged
of that tariff?
"Does any one believe that the
public will permanently tolerate
estrangement between labor and capit
aj?
"Does any one believe that the
fifteen milions of depositors will for
ever permit th;ir savings to be jeopardized
as at present?
"Does any one believe that the extravagance
of the government will
go on forever unchecked?
"Does any one believe that our republic
will permanently consent *o
a colonial policy with its humiliations
and financial burdens?
"There must he a party representing
the people's protest against
wrong politics and against the oppressing
of politics and against the
oppression of the struggling masses
The Democratic party must continue
its fight or dissolve. It could not
exist as a plutocratic party.
"During the twelve years the Democratic
party has accomplished more
out of power than the Republican
party has accomplished in odice, and
this is a suflicient reward for those
who fight for a righteous cause. I;
would haw been pleasant to have
been able to reward worthy Dem
crats with official positions; they
art? looking for good government
and they labor unselfishly for the
promotion of Rood bovernment. The
will neither be disco urn Red nor dismayed
by defeat. They cannot
cease to be interested for the government,
for indifference would only!
invite worse abuses than those from
which we now suffer. The fight
must be continued, because a goo 11
government is the richest legacy that
a parent can leave to a child.
/ "As for myself, let no one worry
about my future. The holding of
office is a mere incident in the life
of those who are devoted to reforms.
The reform is the essential thing. If
one can advance reforms by holding
office, then the holding of office is
justifiable. If one can best advance
reforms as a private citizen, then
the holding of office is undesirable
The world owes me no.thing. I am
abundantly compensated for what 1
have been able to do. My life will
not be long enough to repay, tlie
people for the confidence which they
have expressed. My gratitude to
those with whom I have labored surpasses
language, and the days of the
future to work in the interest of the
people as I understand that interest
?n<l in nf I, .. r. e ?1 * *
...... ... ... .. ... xji. niuou H-IIII IMS wmcn
seom to mo to lio the best.
"I invito the co-operation of those
who approve, and 1 shall not bo deterred
by the criticism of those who
disapprove. With an abiding faith
in the triumph of the truth and an
unfaltering confidence in the righteousness
of our cause, I speak this
word of encouragement to those who
call themselves friends. T shall kr*"p
step with them and march on. The
measure of our work cannot be taken
in a day. If we are right, as I believe
wo are, it will vindicate us. !f
" /
" SUBSC
THE TAFT VOTE
IN GEORGIA WAS CAST BY
NEGROES SAYS
A Georgia Negro, Who Ilejoicee That
Homo White Men Have Been Led
to the Light by Negroow.
Washington, Nov. 15.?Former ^
Register of the Treasury jiulson W.
Lyons, colored, in a letter to a local
paper Wednesday asserts that cred.t
for the increased Republican vote iu
Georgia on November 3 is due almost
entirely to colored voters. He
says:
"A perusal of the vote cast last
Tuesday, as published in the Atlanta
Constitution of the 4th and 5th of
this month, will convince any one
that it is practically the same vote
as was polled against disfranchisement
on the 7th day of October la At
in the State election, with a few exceptions
in northeast Georgia, wherj
few colored people live.
"Taft and Sherman received 3 9.
uiiu vdh's. i nuHKui i>y t'neir former
political allies, they?the colore 1
men?succeeded 011 the 7th day of
October in having recorded against
disfranchisement, a measure thai
struck at their very manhood, practically
the same vote.
"It was suggested to the 'campaign
committee of live' that the best way
to carry the State in November
would be to arouse all Republican
voters to active opposition to the disfranchising
amendment in October,
but for reasons best known to those
gentlemen, they declined to take any
op"n or public part in that matter,
and the colored men were left to
their fate.
"It has been estimated that r Ojo
or 0, <)<? of the votes cast against
disfranchisement were by white men.
I think I run no risk of successful
contradiction when 1 say that the
vote for Taft and Sherman hut
Fuosday was jusi about the same,
lu other words, that not ovpr 0,000
or 7,000 of the !R;,0GO v >test cast
were bv white men
"As far as this may have been
recruits, all rejoice that at last the
virtues < f the party for which they
have persistently and consistent 1>
fought almost alone for a generation
are being recognized, and their oldtime
foes, like Saul of Tarsus, have
had the XfJllnt! of /I . In. I-' ?
.<> >iiu iiucaa BinuiU'l!
from I hoii* eyes, even though forty
years were consumed in the evangelistic
effort.
"Why this famous 'campaign committee'
should send forth from its
headquarters in Macon to the world
the negro did not vote,' 'it is a white
man's victory,' is past mv understanding,
unless by so doing they
hope to hold on to official pabulum,
which no one begrudges them, or to
increase t he same." *
ClI.AIUilOD WITH Ml'ltDKIl.
The Two Coopers and Sharp Indicted
in Carniack Case.
Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 13.?The
grand jury ret u rived a true bill
against. Col. I). 1\ Cooper and his
son, K. J. Cooper, and He-Sheriff
John 1). Sharp, who are charged
jointly with the murder of Ex
Senator E. W. Carniack, and Sharpe
is also indicted on the charge of being
tin accessory before* the fact.
The men charged with the crime
have been committed to jtiil without
bail. The State will make out a
strong case against them. Six witnesses
wv re examined by the jury,
till of them prominent people. There
is a strong feeling among a large
number of people that the trial will
I develon a woli lata
, ? .. >>*iu acy III
assassinate Carmack, as was done. *
KILLING IN BERKELEY.
Colored Man Shoots at White Mail
and Get* Shot.
Moncks Corner, Nov. 1 2.?Another
homicide occurred near Mt. Holly
on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad.
Mr. H. E. Brown attempted to arrest
a negro named Richard Drayton
and the negro attempted to kill
Brown. In fact, a bullet from Drayton's
pistol passed through Brown's
overcoat, whereupon Brown shot and
killed Drayton. There were no witnesses
to this tragedy, except the
participants. Brown came un and
surrendered to the shoriff. An order j
for hail was granted by Judge Aldrich,
and the l*>nd was promptly
executed and Rrown was released.
The killing occurred Monday. *
wo contribute, as I believe we are
contributing, to a cftuse that is
founded in justice, our efforts will,
weigh in the final victory." "
RIBE NO1
A HEROIC GIRL
Endured Great Suffering to Holp
Her Younger Sister.
SAVES CHILD'S FOOT
My Consenting to lluvo One IIundred
and Forty-four Inches of
Skin llcinoved From ller ltody
to 1h? Crafted 011 tin* Little One's
Hotly After an Accident.
Charleston, Nov. 14.?The Evening
Post says Mamie Merger, fourteen
years old, the daughter of Mr.
Martin K. Merger, the well known
cigar salesman, of 4 19 King street,
has now about recovered from the
operation which she underwent two
weeks ago to give up 144 squar>
inches of skin that was grafted upon
the flesh of her little sister,
Eleanor, the three-year-old child who
lost her. right leg and a part of her
left foot through being run over
by a trolley car in King street on
the awning of September 19. The
victim of the trolley car accident i
also improving and was on Sunday
brought home from the Riverside |
I n fi nnary.
Knr fnplilii.ln
. v.. .ui > l< IKK <11111 BU I I ?Sill II II OO ,
the act of little Miss Mamie Merger
deserves a high place among the annals
of heroism. About two weeks
ago the family physician of Mr.
Merger announced that while the
wound on the right limb of little
Eleanor was healing well the left,
foot showed a startling condition, for
the ilesli proved unable to grow its
skin again. Therefore it would b"
necessary to try to save the child
from horrible suffering, and give her
as good a foot as possible by attempting
a very d illicit It surgical operation?grafting
skin upon the stump
Wthout hesitation the older sister,
of the little girl, Mamie Herger,
begged that she be allowed to
provide the necessary skin. She is
a healthy girl, w? ighing some 170
pounds, and she was glad to do anything
possible to help her little sister.
Accordingly, after consultation,
the physician took the brave girl to
the Riverside Infirmary two weeks
ago today, and proceeds d to remove
enough skin to furnish a covering
for the foot and a portion of the
left leg of Eleanor.
Twelve strips of skin were removed
from the thighs and upper
limbs of Mamie linger. Each ?trip
was six by two inches in dimensions.
It took some two hours to perform
the operation. As the skin was removed
it was placed upon the flesh
of the younger child, and bound into
posit Ion.
For a week after giving up the
skin, Mamie Merger was unable to
leave the infirmary. She suffered
great pain, but was encouraged ny
the thought that she had do no something
for her younger sister, who was
so horribly mutilated on the evening
of September 1 !>. Today Mamie
Merger was able to walk about a little
more than for the past few days
and will eventually, it is thought,
have now skin in the place of that
given up.
The physcians report that the
grafting operation promises to Ik*
successful. Its outcome is being
watched with keen interest by the
physicians of the city. Every other
day the It tie girl has to be given
chloroform for this dressing of the
grafted skin. She seems to have a
chance now to recover from the
shock of the injuries, although for
some time after live accident it was
not thought she could survive. Her
right leg was amputated above the
knee. The left foot was badly mashed.
This afternoon in telling of the
incident, Mamie Merger did not seem
to realize that she had done anything
heroic. Her whole thought
was on the need of her little sister,
and possible benefit to follow the operation.
She said the cutting away
of her skin did not hurt much. *
EX-SHEIUFF IS A1UIESTED
Charged With Aiding And Abetting
\f iati'1'kM *
.... Mm Minnacu.
Nashville, Nov. 12.?John J.
Sharpe, ex-sheriff of this county, wis
arrested here today, charged with
the murder and aiding and abetting
in the murder of Senator Carmack.
It has been understood hero for
several days that warrants would he
issued for the arrest of Ssharpe and
his anvst today was no surprise.
It is alleged that Sharpe was seen
with Col. Cooper and Kobin Cooper,
aid i -< ?
n\ti v ouuriiy neioro tno killing
and was also at tho pcene of the
tragedy immediately after Carmaek
fell to the ground. Sharp was a'
once taken to jail. ^
(V TO
#
BAPTIST WOMEN
TO 11AIHE OVEH THIRTY-TWO
THOUSAND DOLLARS,
Which Amount in to be Expended
ill the Foreign and Homo Mission
Fields.
Charleston, Nov. 12.?Not content
with the large sum of $28,000 uppertioned
yesterday for missionary
work, the Woman's Baptist Missionary
union tit its session today at the
Citadel Square Baptist church adopted
the recommendations of the executive
committee, which provided
for the raising of $32,830 during
the coming year, to be apportioned as
follows: $ 1,33 0 for foreign missions;
$11,000 for home missions;
$3,000 for State missions and tin'
sum of $2,500, which will bo raised
I by the Sunbeam bunds and Order ot
I Royal Ambassadors for work in this
endeavor of the missionary union.
It was also decided to continue
the contributions to the endowment
fund of the Missionary training institute
at Louisville, as will as the
support to young women's clubs,
bands and the Order of Royal Ambassadors
The missionary union
adopted the recommendations of the
executive committee unanimously,
being of the opinion that the union
will able to undertake and carry
on successfully till that has be ui
planned along financial lines.
(Beenwood was selected as th
next place of meeting, the time for
the convention to lie determined and
announced later by the executive
commit t ee.
Among the reports which were
submitted and read was that of the
fWitntiiii ??x.t ... i f - '
c v>ii mini nun i UK (Ik-legate:;
to the Woman's Missionary union
auxiliary. Tho nominees were all
doclarod elected as follows: At
largo, Mrs. Sojourner, Mrs. Wingo
and Mrs. Quat tlohaum; northern division,
Mrs. .1. F. Vines, Mrs. 11. (1.
Miller, Mrs. L. M. Ho]> r, Mrs. Cudd
and Mrs. Candel; southern division,
Mrs. .1. A. Fizer, Mrs. Howard Jones.
Mrs. Eunice Williams; eastern division,
Mrs. J. E. Mcbaurin, Mrs. I.
L. Coker, Jr., and Mrs. Canielia
Napier; western division, Mrs. C. E.
Hurts, Mrs. \V. .1. Matcher, Mrs. ('.
T. Jamison; central division, Mrs. ().
10. Searhorough, Mrs. II. J. Morton
and Miss Lilly Mobloy.
State missons were int? rostingly
discussed hy Dr. Y. M. bailey and
Mrs. II. II. Wright, the latter representing
11 missions in Mouth Carolian,
with her headquarters at
I singley.
Telegrams of greeting and good
will wene ordered to he sent to Mrs.
C. E. Watson of the northern division;
Mrs. Fannie E. S. Heck, president
of the Southern Women's Missionary
union; former president.
Mrs. J. 1). Chaplin, and former members
of the central committee, Mrs.
John Stout and Mrs. M. L. Coker.
After a prayer for State missions,
ti collection was taken up for the
work <it Rock Mill.
Miss Lou Tindal presented an Interesting
statement on the work ot
tliio Margaret, home, and Miss Isla
Me.Kenzio spoke on the training
school. The report of the obiluarj
committee was received and referred.
The represents!ivos of church implications
were then heard as follows:
Dr. II. S. Thomas, of The
Courier; Miss A. L. Smathers, of
The W. M. IT.; Mrs. Fits Landford.
of The Journal, and Miss Cleo Attaway,
of The Home Field.
An interesting communication was
neceived from ltev. Dr. C. C. Drown
of Sumter, regarding assistance for
aged ministers. The missionary
union decided to co-operate in the
movement. |
The afternoon session was opened
with exercises hy Mrs. Eliza Hyde,
and then came a mission study in
which some interesting Chinese curious
were exhibited among the collections
of the Sunbeams.
The most interesting business of
the afternoon session was the election
of officers as follows: President,
Mrs. I. W. VVingo; vice presidents,
northern division, Mrs. C. K.
Waston; southern division, Mrs.
William Haynesworth; eastern division,
Mrs. J. P. Hauknight; western
division, Mrs. M. 13. Clinkscales, and
central division, Mrs. W. II. Mohloy.
e.orropjnomlt n cr u ~ ? ??
, ...... o?i<iciui7i ivirs. A. li.
Crutchfleld; recording secretary,
Mrs. J. W. Quattlebaum,
treasurer, Mrs. J. X. Cudd; band
superintendent, Mrs. \V. If. Hatcher,
superintendent of young people':*
works, Miss Eliza Hyde; superintendent.
young women's auxiliary, Mrs.
A. 1Crutchfleld, and local cxecutivj
committee, Mrs. W. If. Abbott, Mrs.
Eliza Romar, Mrs. Hannah Montgomery,
Mrs. lleverly Montgomery,
Mrs. Ii. M. Roper, Mrs. I). A. Switzer
land Mrs. W. M. Whiteside.
I At the session tonight Rev. I)r. T.
H. Ray of Richmond, secretary of
foreign missions, delivered an address
and the ederciaes were of genTHE
HOI
BLOODY BATTLE
To Capture a Negro at Okmulgee,
Oklahoma.
EIGHT MEN KILLED
lU>forr? the Outlaw, Who llurricudrs
Himself hi Ills House, Is Killed,
lie Is Shot to l>eath ami Cremated
in Ills House, Whieh Is Kurned
Down on 111 in.
Okmulgee, Okln., Nov. 15.?Eight
persons were killed and ten others
were wounded today in a light between
James Deekard, a negro desperado
and olllcers. The dead:
Edgar Robinson, shorifT of Okmulgee
county.
Henry Klaber. assistant chief of
police of Okmulgee.
Two negroes, named Chapman,
brot hers.
J. Deekard, negro.
Throe unidentified negroes.
The wounded: Steve draysou,
shot through shoulder.
Deputy sheriff, arm broken.
Seven others, slightly wounded
The disturbance began at the St.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad
station, where 1?<./?!* ? .t 1 -
........... .-Ilfiilgl'll III
;i light with un Indian hoy, Stove
Grayson, and beat him into insensibility
with a rock. Friends of
Grayson called the police. When
I'oliccman Klabor went to the station,
Deckard tied to his house nearby
and barricaded himself. When
Klabor approached the house, Deckard
shot and instantly killed hint.
Sheriff Robinson gathered deputies
iu a few minutes and hurried to the
scene. This party contained several
negroes, whom the sheriff commissioned
as deputies. As the attacking
party approached t lie Deckard
house, Deckard opened lire with a
title, tiring as rapidly as lie could
load his weapon. The sheriff foil
first, instantly killed. Then five of
the negro deputies were slain.
Deekard's house was soon .surrounded
by a frenzied mob of armed
men. Fire was set to a ltott.se just
north of Deekard's. Volleys of bullets
were pourncd into Deekard's
house and ho was shot down. lie
was seen to roll over, strike a match
and set fire to ltis own house, which
was soon a roaring furnace, in which
his body was baked. Deckard evidently
had :t large uuantitv of am
I munition stored in the house for
many cartridges exploded.
(Jovernor Haskell, at Guthrie, whs
advised of the fight and of the ha 1
fooling between the whites and negroes
that had grown out. of tz,
threatening a race riot. The Governor
at once ordered the mlliti.i
company tit Muskogee to prepare tc
go to Okmulgee, stud a special train
was made ready to carry the troops
The Governor remained at his office
to keep in touch with the situation
News of the preparation to sent:
militia had a good effect on the disorderly
element of both races, tint,
tonight the crowd dispersed. Further
trouble is not expected. When
it became known that 110 other negr
had assisted Deckard against tin
0 Ulcers the talk of reprisals sub
sided. "
HA1LKOAI) CASTA LTIFS
Cor tin- Fiscal Year Fading tin
Cast of June.
Washington, Nov. 12.?Then
were 3,704 persons killed and OX,989
injured in railroad casualties
in the United States during the fiscal
year ended June 30th, last, according
to an announcement of the Inter
State Comnwrco Commission today.
This is a decrease of 1,23 6 In the
number of killed and 3,279 injured,
as compared with the previous year.
In the fhree montbe ended June
30th there were 091 killed and 13,1
AOO i?i *
I u;>o injured, a decrease of 1,752
I from the preceding quarter. The 13
passengers kilked In train accidents
during the quarter is the smallest
ever reported in the quarterly record.
The dollissiorrs during the
quarter numbered 320 and derailments
1,310 of which 130 collisions
and 108 derailments affected passenger
trains. *
Disaster at Saw Mill.
Roanoke, Va., Nov. 13.?A Times
special tonight from Norfolk, Va.,
says that three men were killed
outright, t\v"o fatal, y injured and
two others were seriously hurt in an
explosion yesterday at a saw mill
plant in Wise county. *
oral intorest.
A number of the delgeates left
here tonight for their homes, hut
the bulk of the number will ieav)
tomorrow after a very successful and
pleasant session. *
m HER
V 1
MURDER MYSTERY
HOLVKI> HY TI1K HTKANGK PHIiSKXTMKMT
OF A SISTKK.
Who C^rrli* Searchers to the
Wherw Her Brother's Body in
Buried on Neighbor's Farm.
Chicago, Nov. J 5.?Out on a desolate
little plot of ground two miles
north of Marengo, a girl has uncovered
a murder mystery, the details
of which indicate so cold-blooded a
crime that farmers living in the vicinity
have been fascinated by the
scene.
The body of Oscar lloganson, a
young fanner, who was living the
lifle of v hermit on his own farm,
lias been dug out of the soft earth
I of a cnlckeu house on the farm of
John N. Bedford. Just a few feet
away a bloody hatchet was unearthed.
Bedford, like lloganson, had been
living on his farm, but disappeared
after lloganson's death. Such .1
mass of circumstantial evidence was
discovered which pointed to him,
that when lie dually was found in
Bllis, Neb., he was arrested and now
is being brought back to Chicago.
The man was taken while on his way
to see his mot la r at Beatrie, Neb.
A strange presentment of the
dead man's sister, Arvilla lloganson,
is credited with the discovery of
1110 body. The girl can not explain
I lie feeling which caused her to visit
the place and lead the searchers to
dig in that particular spot. She was
certain, however, that she had reached
tin - grave of her murdered bromer.
and the diggers soon verified her
bol ief.
The work of unravelling the mystery
began more than a week ago,
when Arvilla 1? gan to worry because
her brother had failed to wrbo
his weekly letter. The girl immediately
declared that somA> awful
thing had happened to him, although
she had no information upon
which to base such a belief.
After two days it was decided to
visit, the farm and learn Just what
'had happened to lloganson. So
Arvilla, accompanied by her brother,
James, visited the place early one
morning about a week ago. Thto
house was found in seemingly good
order. The man's clothing and boI
longings all appeared to be as ho
| might, have left tlieni, with one exel
ption?his throe horses were missing.
Inquiry was made among tho
neighbors and romehody remembered
having seen lloganson walking toi
wards the farm of Hodford, a dis1
tance of about a mile, on the morn
ing of October 29. Other ncighhorH
, it meinbored having seen a man
whom they supposed was Bedford
i at lloganson's place iu the evening,
? hitching up one of the missing horsi
es. The othrr two horses, they declared,
won? hitched to tlio rear of
; the rig. As the man drove away in
the dusk they were unable to mak?
1 certain whether it actually was Bed
ford. A few days after this Bedford
1 left the district.
Miss Iloganson stood silent listeni
or to the statement and theories of
) t lie farmers. "1 am satisfied that
> the thing to do is to visit this man
- Bedford s place," slue said. " 1 have
1 a feeling that we are going to settle
this thing right there." So the slater
and brother, together with a
crowd of curious farmers, hurried to
IU dford's place.
The girl walked straight to the
chicken house. Tho floor of tho
bouse was paved smoothly with
' round cobble stones, and to a super*
flclal observer meant nothing. But
j tin:* girl called attention to tho fact
I that several stones had been taken
up and replaced. Men began working
with picks and shovels and in a
few moments unearthed the body of
the missing man. He had been
, killed by a blow over his right temple.
*
GOES IT KOll LIFE
For Wrecking Train and Causing
Death of Two Men.
Spartanburg, Nov. 12.?Clarenci
Aknew, the negro charged with murder
and the wrecking of a passenger
train nn thn ? "
.... .Mini in-i ll uaiiway, near
Duncan, S. C., which resulted in the
killing of the engineer and fireman,
was found guilty with recommendation
to mercy here today. He was /
sentenced to life imprisonment. H?*
was one of the negroes whom the
mob sought to lynch here four weeks
ago.
' ' 1 1 "
(loing to Mexico.
Lincoln, Nel>., N'o\. 13.?Mr. and
Mrs. Win. J. Bryan will leave Sunday
for a trip to Mexico. They will
seek rest and recreation. Tha
itinerary of the trip lias not bee\
announced. Mr. Bryan will deliver
a commencement address in Phlla1
dolphin Decern bo r 23.
ALD