The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 03, 1909, Image 4
OLD BEN GOT MAD
With McCumber's Tactics and
Voted Wrong.
TILLMAN EXPLAINS
Why Ho Voto<l With the Republicans
Against Free Lumber?Had
He Not Been So Tired ami
Thinking More Clearly Would
Have Voted for Free Lumber.
Zaclt McGee In his letter to The
State says Senator Tillman's voto for
a duty on lumber Monday against
...w.iinHHort declaration for free
tui: u i.vj v.?. ......
lumber in tho Denver platform was
a great surprise here. A short while
before the vote was taken in the
senate Senator Tillman arose, Interrupting
Senator Burkett of Nebraska
and said:
"Mr. President, will the senator
from Nebraska inform me why it is,
although wo were told tho other
day that there were only live razor
manufacturers In this country, that
8 0,000,000 Americans were compelled
to pay those live fellows a tribute
and increase the price of razors
if you are going to put lumber on
the free lis-t. I am going to vote to
put lumber on the free list, but 1
just wanted to understand the contradictions
in the reasonings and the
arguments on that subject if possible."
That was not strange, for tin*
senior South Carolina senator along
with the junior senator had declared
time and time again that he was
going to vote lor free lumber. Just
before the vote was taken Senator
Bailey made one of his bold, emphatic
speeches, in which he said
he utterly refused to be bound by
the Denver platform on lumber because
he said it. was "undemocratic"
and loudly declared in effect that no
man was a Democrat who voted for
fro? lumber.
Immediately after Bailey sat dowu
the vote was taken and Tillman had
for some reason changed his mind
for he voted against the free lumber
amendment. Senator Smith, as
stated in the dispatch of Monday,
was paired with Senator Warren of
Wyoming. He stated he would vote
for free lumber if Mr. Warren was
present.
Senator Tillman lOxplains.
W. Sinkler Manning, Washington
correspondent of tlie Columbia Record,
in liis letter Wednesday says:
"To me Mr. Tillman explained that
his vote came from displeasure at the
maneuvering of Senator McCumber,
and not from any change in regard
to the duty itself. Shortly before
the McCumber amendment was vote.l
on, Mr. Tillman had supported the
Johnston amendment, putting all
building materials on the free list,
/xud as long as Mr. McCumber left
his amendment, removing from the
dutiable list all kinds of lumber,
Mr. Tillman said that he had intended
to vote with him. At tlie last
moment, however, in an attempt tc
strengthen his cause, Mr. McCumbei
modified his amendment leaving cor
tain cheaper grades of lumber under
a duty of f?0 cents.
"I just got disgusted with thai
kind of monkey business," said Mr
Tillman, and decided to vote against
the whole tiling. If the lumber
schedule had come up today I in
tended to offer an amendment putting
the whole paragraph on the free
list, and I may do so yet just as
a matter of record. But there Is
no chance of passing such an amendment;
half the Democrats are vot
ing the other way. I was very tiroc
at the time, but if I had been think
ing more clearly perhaps I woulc
have contented myself with getting
what I could and voted for the Mc
Cumber half-hearted proposition
But 1 was too disgusted just then.'
A Further Explanation.
Zach McGee, in his letter to Th
State, says Senator Tillman state*
Wednesday that when he said o
the floor of the senate Monda
that he was going to vote for lumbe
on the free list he meant it, and tha
he voted against Senator McCuir
ber's motion only because 1t di
not include all lumber, but left cei
tain kinds of sawed lumber and som
other kinds dutiable at 50 cents
thousand. Senator McCumber jus
before the vote was taken aros
and said:
"I wish to amend my amendmer
so that it will be limited somewha
"f move to strike out all after tl
ii>/..wl < .v. r./. n.. 11 ~ ~ O
tvvji u ini-iisiin: in iint- n, pcii agraf.
197, down to and including the re
of the paragraph. That simp
leaves the paragraph reading 'sawr
boards, planks, deals, sycamore ar
basswood, 60 cents per thousat
feet hoard measure.' "
The rest of the paragraph, wti!,
Mr. McCumber proposed to stril
out, was "sawed lumber, not spec'a
Jy provided for in th's section, \
p?-: thousand feet, bo.iri measure
and the pro/i?o of f>? ce.?iH addition
for each side planed, .< >:.! so on.
Senator Tiiiroan s*ys he was
favor of striking out the entire par;
graph, and as McCumber, the R
publican "Insurgent," dtd not coi
WfcALTH TO POVtHTY
NO MONKY IN SIGHT, AMERICAN
KILLED HIMSELF.
Had Hcon Living in Affluence, Hut
the Tide Turned and When Wife
Refused llel|?, He Died.
There i* a sad story behind the
suicide at Versailles, Franco, of Edward
Sandford, a well known lawyer
ward Sandford, a well knowl lawyer
of New York. As a young man he
married Ella HofTuian, daughter of
the late Gov. Johu T. Hoffman, of
V* ...
f ? 1 W I IV .
From the beginning his married
I life was unhappy, und several years
ago he came to Paris, where for a
! time he was one of the leaders of
the American colony. His brother,
Lewis, lived here with him. Edward
Sand ford often rode in the gentlemen
races at Longchumps and he was one
of the founders of the fashionable
Laboulle CJolf club.
Mrs. Sand ford was rich In her own
right, hut the couple were unhappy,
and several years ago Sandford
secured a divorce and obtained the
custody of his daughter. Since that
time he had kept up appearnces, hut
he led a more or less precarious existauce.
Mrs. Sandford, who resumed her
maiden name and who is living in
Paris, has claimed that Sandford
pursued her for money, while Sandford
alleged that his former wife,
who is said to enjoy an annual income
of $20,000, did not keep to
the arrangement by which she was
to provide for tin* daughter.
The daughter is at present at
Wiesbaden. Of recent months, Mr.
Sandford had been living in seclusion
in the hotel at Versailles where he
killed himself. in pJtovhfing Tor
himself and his daughter his resources
had become completely exlia
listed.
A, few days ago the proprietor of
i,uc v?ihjui in; uwi'U
threatened to put hi mout into the
street uuless ho paid. Appeals were
made through third parties both to
his former wife and to his brother,
Lewis, but no response came, and
is is presumed that in a lit of desperation
Sand ford decided to take his
own life. *
KuserK13 BY YACHTSMAN.
Boat Overturned and Occupants
Ne'urly IVarisli.
Without waiting ro remove his
clothing, Capt. Jarnes Clobel, of the
yacht Ondowa, anchored in Gravesend
bay, New York, dived overboard
and rescued three men who, unable
to swim a stroke, were lloundering
their rowboat having overturned.
Capt. Gobel was supporting one
I of the men who was unconscious
I when a man came to his assistance
1 with a rowboat and hauled the hope|
less man aboard. The two men then
went after the other two, who were
| still struggling, and after considerable
dilliculty pulled them aboard. *
They Stole a Safe.
, The grocery storo of William I.
. Forney, near Mont Alto., Mil., was
entered by burglars and a 1,000.
pound iron safe was carried off bodily
by tho thieves, and hauled a half
mile away on a wheelbarrow into the
mountain, where it was opened with
. sledge hammers. The burglars se,
cured $120 in cash.
Snake in Mail.
? When John C. Greenwood, of Norj
walk, Conn., a rural mail carrier,
i put his hand into his mail hacr he
. withdrew it in a hurry, for, curled
. up in the bottom, was a three-foot
I rattlesnake, with ten rattles, alive
. and in good working order head to
I tail, judging from the hissing and
r rattling. *
suit him, or so far as ne knew, any
other Democrat, before modifying
his amendment, he just deidi.i tc
p vote against the whole thing.
. Then he expected, ha say*, to of'
fer another motion striking out tin
I entire paragraph. The senate immediately
adjourned, however, anr
t the next day took up tho isugai
( schedule.
^ But, he says, he intends yet tc
offer the motion to strike out al
rthe
lumber paragraph, thus puttinj
all lumber on the free list.
a
Lever's Joy Short Lived.
*3 In Mr. Tillman's vote, it can b<
stated generally that Mr. Lever see
it justification for the action of him
t. self and those of his colleagues win
te voted for protected lumber in tin
?h house, though Mr. Tillman's explana
3t tion will probably disappoint him
ly Perhaps Mr. Lever finds additiona
?d justification in the fact that Senato
id Bailey not only voted for protectee
id lumber?on the grounds* of ,reve
nuo, to 1)0 sure?but spoke for it
?l Hut in speaking of Qrovor Clevolan<
and in spite of his wordy declaratioi
of rospoct for the last Democrat!
; president in the abstract, ho lef
the defense to Senator Aldrlch. Be
aid08s Senator Bailey has been play
ing ?o close to Senator Aldrlch ant
;n the Republicans 'through Oil thi;
fight that his support must be grade*
below par, from a Democratic view
j. point.
mmi* /ir-iiiiiiii
CANT AGREE
The Firemen's Strike Causes
Great Tension.
TRYING TO SETTLE
Transportation Facilities Along the
Lino Consist Cliieily of Automobiles,
Mule Curts and Hand Ourn.
Ail Auxious to Knd Strike and I<av
Ugly Spectre of Uaco Conflict.
A dispatch from Atlanta says the
tension in the Georgia railroad firemen's
strike is increasing with each
hour's delay in settling the race question
involved. This was the uttitude
in which negotatioue for terminating
the strike were conducted
Wednesday in Atlanta. United States
mails held up since the heginnlug of
tin; week, a dozen counties facing
demoralization of business, and the
race issue brought continually into
unwholesome prominence were the
factors which spurred the negotiations
through hours of discussion.
Although no statements were made
as to the ground covered, it was
learned that a very quick settlement
is looked for, provided any agreement
can be reached.
It was learned that a feeling of
nervousness exists on both sides in
the controversy over the gravity of
further delay. This was taken to
indicate the possible* approach of
an agreement despite a report that
.Mr. Scott has practically refused to
consider any basis of settlement that
does not permit recognition of the
seniority of certain negro firemen.
.Mr. Scott, however, has not refused
outright to enter into arbitration.
That .Mr. Scott urged Gov. Smith
to issue a law and order proclamation,
in the communities bordering
the railroad was reported. Gov.
Smith 111:1 i 111 ;i i neil his ore vimi* mi
I nounced attitude that until there
have appeared some definite danger
that property will be destroyed or
lives jeopardized no such proclamation
should he issued.
Gov. Smith and General Manager
Scott of the Georgia railroad had a
long conference, tit which was discussed
the feasibility of submitting
the trouble to a board made up of
men conversant with local conditions
along the railroad. United States
Commissioner of Labor Neill called
on Gov. Smith.
Gov. Smith and Mr. Scott conferred
again and there were several
meetings of the representatives of
the opposing interests.
Various towns in the strike district
took inventory of their visible
supply of food. Madison reported at
least 15 days of plenty in prospect.
Washington reported a shortage in
yeast and prices rising.
At Lithonia Mayor Brand said:
"If supplies should run short and it
becomes necessary 1 shall simply condemn
the train load of perishable
goods now on the siding at Lithonia
and tell the citizens to help themselves."
There are 1 1 cars of provisions
at. Lithonia and ice has been supplied
to maintain the perishable portion
of their contents in good con- I
dition.
in addition to the visible supplies,
the towns have their visible means
of transportation, headed by a traction
engine traveling nearly a mile
and a half per hour, automobiles
with daring drivers and dangerous
roads, mule teams with darkey driv....M/.hl.w,
...Ul.w. ?li 4 1
ci n cum v>i<i^i\iiif^ ? uijja cilLUfcUtiier 4\
combination which had furnished a
bright side to the strike and many
a holiday prank for rural communities.
This good nature of the country
along the silent railroad was a reassuring
feature during the negotiations
in Atlanta for one of the gravest
aspects of the strike has been
uncompromising sympathy which has
backed it all along tho line.
An offer of aid in moving the
mails was sent to Washington by
Vice President Hall, who is conducting
the strike, and who wired the
j postmaster general as follows:
"It is currently reported that an
effort is being made to charge the
) Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
1 and Enginemen with responsibility
, for Interference with the United
1 States mails on the Georgia railroad.
So far from this being true,
we stand prepared to aid you in get9
ting the mails through. 1 should
s be glad to confer with any representative
of the postoflice department
9 designated by you and to aid you
0 in accomplishing this result."
The hand car which is carrying
j mail out of Atlanta went nearly lu
miles to Union Point. '
Six strikebreakers who left tho
employment of tho Georgia railroad
Saturday complained to the Atlanta
ponce commission charging that
* they had been brought hero by mis1
representations and had been pracc
(ically prisoners for several days In
a hotel, Anally getting into communication
with strikers by notes
dtopped from the windows. A detec*
live agency which has had chat go
3 of the squad of strikebreakers
* answered the cha ge, declaring them
" intrue.
No plan for starting train service
THE HOUSE FLY.
18 ItY FAR TIIF MOST DANGEROlS
ANIMAL ON EAliTH.
Ho Ih Uio Carrier and Spreader
of Deadly Diseases and Should be
Exterminated.
The Augusta Chronicle says "u
well known citizen of Augusta?
even though his residence happens
to bo in Suininerville?sends us a
marked copy of Harper's Weekly,
containing a highly interesting ar
note on mo danger or uie common
house 11 y. lit? suggests that we
keep up the crusade agaiust the
house tly in the hope that all citizens
may be aroused to a proper understanding
of tiie subject?and to
action.
The writer of the article in Harper's
Weekly points out that tlie most
dangerous animal on earth is the
common and despised house 11 y is
the conclusion, not of sensationmongers,
but of cool-deaded and cautious
scientific investigators.
It is by a jury of experts drawn
from most of the principal cities of
the United States and Canada that
this decision has been reached. The
case was that of The people vs. Musca
Domestica?otherwise the common
house 11 v; and by this verdict
the defendant has forfeited all right
into life and liberty.
"Hitherto the 11 y has been regarded
complacently as a harmless nuisance
and considered to be an annoying
creature with great persistence
and excessive familiarity,"
said Dr. Daniel D. Jackson, in a
speech read before the joint convention
of the American Civic Association
and the National Municipal
league last fall at Pittsburg. "Regarded
in the light of recent knowledge,
the 11 y is more dangerous than
the tiger or the cobra. Worse than
that, he is, at least to our climate
more to be feared than the mosquito,
and may easily be classed, the world
over, as the most dangerous animal
on earth "
The Uy, says the article in Ilarner's
Weekly iias been found gutl'y, 0
fact, of being the chief agent in the
transmission of numerous bacteria,
including those of tuberculosis. bp',
principally the bacilli of typhoid and
intestinal diseases. That Hies are
carriers of disease lias been recognized
by sanitarians for a decade or
more, but it is only during the last
two years that the extensive investigations
have been undertaken,
which have exposed the constant
danger to health which these pests
convey?and which have also, fortunately,
demonstrated the ease with
which Hies may he eliminated from
properly kept households.
Quoting further, we learn that
seven different varieties of Hies are
found in our houses, ninety-eight
per cent of which are represented by
the common house tly. Flies lay
their eggs only in fermenting and
decaying substances?by preference
in horse manure. Hence every stable
is a center of infection unless periodically
disinfected. The tly maggot
is also hatched out in latrines
and ash-pot refuse, s\^Rh as bedding,
straw, rags, paper, scraps of meat,
fruit, etc., on which substances the
larve subsist after they hatch, which
occurs in about twelve days after
the egg has been laid. It is estimated
that a single fly, laying 1*20
eggs at a time, will produce a progency
amounting to sextillions by
the end of the season.
The writer of the article In Harper's
Weekly then offers the following
facts ~ about the tly, which
every one should know:
The common house fly is a carriei
of disease.
Typhoid fever, diarrhoea, dysentery,
and tuberculosis are carried bv
(lies.
Flies feed on food and also on
filth. They go from the one to the
other. In this way they carry disease
germs to the table. One fly
may convey six million bacteria.
Flies breed in manure heaps, outhouses,
refuse, ash-pits and all doci'inpof
ng anima. or vegetable mat;< .
and uncleaa places. I)o not a'?
low decaying mateiial of any sort to
accumulate on or near your premises.
If such exist, cover with lime
or kerosene oil, and remove as eaiiy
as possible.
See that your ce^earge system If
in good order.
Sdreen all food; cover food after
a meal; burn all scraps and refuse.
Screen all windows and doors.
Burn pyrthum powder in the house
if flies should gain entrance.
If there is no filth there wil he
no flies.
The man in the moon they tell
about is changeable enough to be
a woman.
/ :is reached hv t* n . of tho
encea. The question of putting
guards on trains was mentioned as
a la^t resort, to be avoided by all
means on account of the enmity it
mi?ht stir up.
An agreement to arbitrate appears
to be the only other moans of settling
the strike and there was some
doubt that tlie mere fact of such
an agreement would remove the
danger to such of the roads negro
firemen as might work pending a
final settlement of the dispute.
Southern States !
meo
plumwng^
CO L_ U M B
NIGHT RIDING ~j:
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Outrages in Kentucky and Ten- "
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nessee Caused i?
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BY THE TOBACCO TAX !
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And Senator ltrndley, of Kentucky, ^
Says CJoiiktoks Should Act?lie j1
Predicted Itecurrnneo of Violence j
p
if Oppression of Tobucco Trust is
Allowed to Continue,
That the outrages of the night j
riders iu Kentucky and Tennessee
resulted from the oppression of the
American Tobacco Company and that
unless the internal revenue tax 011
leaf tobacco in the hand is repealed
these outrages will again occur, was
the declaration made by Senator ^
Bradley of Kentucky Friday in urg- J
iug the adoption of his amendment
to the senate tariff bill. This amendment
proposes to restore in the tariff
hill the house provision for the free
sale of leaf tobacco by the farmer,
which was stricken out by the li- j
nance committee of the senate.
Mr. Bradley reviewed the growth ^
of the American Tobacco Company .
from the time of its organization in
1JS 0 with a capital stock of $25,000.000
to tlu> ni'nflpnt iln v with
stock, including that owned in subsidary
companies, amounting to more
than $500,000,000. Not content f
with destroying all competition in
the United States, Mr. Bradley said j
the American Tobacco Company j
drove the Imperial Tobacco Company
of Great Britian, its chief competl- 1
tor, to a compromise and obtained an 1
agreement by which the Imperial (
yielded up all competition in the *
United States. ''
"France, Austria, Italy, Portugal f
and other countries each meanwhile *
I decreed that the government would
buy and import tobacco as a business,
the profit going into the coffers
of the government under what
is known as the Regie system," said I
Mr. Bradley. "The American To- t
bacco Company, seeing the danger t
in this direction, entered into a con- <
spiraey with the Regie agents by '<
which the territory should be and *
was divided, all agreeing to pay the
same fixed price and alloting the !
territory into well defined districts'
so that there could be no conflict of :
interests."
Thus the producers found themselves
powerless and hemmed in on
every side, continued Mr. Bradley,
and after appealing to congress without
effect, as a last resort organized
the pooling societies which resulted
In a saturnalia of crime in Kentucky
and Tennessee. White denouncing
the night rider outrages, Mr. Bradley
declared that the tobacco leaf
growers were sorely pressed, that
they were forced to combine to pro1
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icti uiuiiiaeives ana mat ilie crimes r
which resulted were due to the I
trust's oppression. "If congress refuses
relief, in my judgment," said
Mr. Bradley, "the same conduct will
he re-enacted, people terrorized and
the States materially injured."
Before reviewing the tobacco legislation
resulting in the conditions
which he represented as existing, Mr.
Bradley said, "I will state in the
beginning that under the present
statutes and rulings of the commissioner
of internal revenue, the producers
are so hampered and restricted
in the sale of their leaf tobacco
that they are substantially placed at
the mercy of the great trust which
has blighted their hopes and desolated
their homes."
Mr. Bradley said the two principal
objections made to his proposed
amendment were that It opened the
door to fraud and rendered uncertain
the enforcement of the tobacco
tax, aad that it materially decreased
the amount of revenue collected.
He asserted that no law could bo
devised which.would entirely prevent
fraud, and that the amendment was
in substance and effect the re-enactment
of the McKinley bill, which, he
said, operated well for three years,
both as to fraud and revenue and he
could see no reason wfty it would
operate otherwise now. He quoted
Commtssinnor Ynrkna In nn|n,,,n
x/? ?mv/M III V ??Vv WJM UiVMI
that the decrease, of revenue would
be comparatively small.
The effect of his enactment, said
( Mr. Bradley, would be that tho farmer
and all others would be able to
sell unstemmed tobacco In the nattA
strong blast, with 1
BUFFA1
The ideal port?
COLUMBIA SUPPLY
Supply Company
Supplies HwjMH
SupgHett* AV
IA. S C
iral leaf without the payment of
ny tax or charge. "In my judgnent
the passage of this law will
ot only give justice to a deserved
lass of people but will withstand
11 lawless elements and restore good
rder throughout the land," said
lr. Bradley. In concluding, he made
n earnest appeal to the senate in
ehulf of 1,000,000 Americans, who,
io said, have beoit stricken down
>y the ponderous inace of an allpowerful
trust. "If that call shall
o unanswered, we may at least inulge
the hope that while n?r on
iressors escape hero, there will come
time when they shall bo weighed
n the balance of a just Goil, whose
udgment will be, 'thou are weighd
in the balance and art found wautug.'
"
Til KM 10 1>IK IN WRKCK.
lugiuc and Caboose on Freight
Train DIU-ImhI.
Three men were killed and one
eriouslv injured when an extra
reight engine and caboose of ihe
Iobile & Ohio railroad shortly after
raving Mobile at 4:L'0 Saturday afernoon,
ran into n washout about
mile north of the city on the lino
f the Mobile, .lacksn & Kansas City
ailroad, over which line all Mobile
c Ohio trains in this vicinity are
teing operated, owing to high waters.
The dead: lOngineer J. H. Al
right, Meridian, Miss.; Fireman
VHI Kvans, colored, Meridian, Miss.;
Conductor W. F. Carter, Mobile.
Injured: Switchman Chas. A.
Welder, Meridian, broken collarbone
nd bad cut on right cheek.
The wreckage is under several
eet of water.
Killed Himself.
Mr. David J. Young of the Stover
ieighlK>rhood of Chester county c >mnitted
suicide a few days ago 1 y
utting his throat with a razor. He
darted to where his 1'other w:n
u wori; no:?;* 'lie house, and wh?1
'ound was dead The en use is a'rihuted
to poor health. He was 62 y
rears of age.
Gets Two Years.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Bingham, of
Springfield, Mass., was this week senenced
to two years in the penitentiary,
after pleading guilty to the
;harge of manslaughter. She shot
ind killed her husband because, she
uiid, lie had habitually abused her.
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