The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 25, 1909, Image 11
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| ;? SHARP REPLr
m. ' To Senator Tillman's Criticism of the
Plan of Fuunaig the
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Copt. W*. K. Gonzales, Member of
th? Central Committee in Charge j
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. of tlie Arrangements, Explains '
1 ^ Why Free Tickets Were Not Is- j
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1 * sued to the Columbia Function.
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; > . The following statement Is published
by Capt. W. E. Gonzales, who
t was on the central committee as the,
representative of th? t??>
rj C^ani^er of Commerce, to provide
1 for the entertainment of President
Taft when he visited Columbia recently:
4'As a member of the central comI
B "initTee and as the individual prij
^ niarily responsible for tho method
? of President Taft's entertainment at
* 'lunoheon in Columbia, a method
* characterized by H. H. Tillman as
If, 'indecent,' and criticized in chorus
I by a more or less thoughtless, uninformed
or malicious newspapers, 1
make the subjoined statement of
facts. The vicious assault upon Coambia
by Tillman, broadcast
through the country in press disSp
patches, is a collection upon all
;,1' *, South Carolina.
U jj^Last winter the President-elect
V 1/ was Invited to Columbia by the Gov- j
L ^ernor, the president of the South
ik> ^'{\roliua Bar Association, and president
of the Columbia Chamber of
i. I* Commerce. He could not then some.
I * Later the invitation was renewed by
the Governor, the mayor and the
president of the Chamber of Con?;
merce. lie accepted that invitation.
' Three mothns ago organization for
| ' the caro of the President and his
f entertainment was begun by the for' /.
mation of a central committee, of
V'. -which the Governor, representing
Cl/Mit K haKuo woo oh (i S rtHti n \fn V- i
II I u vai UIIIIU, n ill) wiiUM 111(111, ..?**% j
or Reamer and myself being the other
members.
-a "The first suggestion for the President's
entertainment was by Goverj
nor Ansel, who proposed tendering
him a luncheon. I opposed that
. ^ plan on the ground that the coming
j ./ of the President to the Capital, on
%: the invitation of the city and State,
f " was State-wide in its significance,
and his hosts should be the representative
men of the State; that any
/formal function at the Mansion must
.j?**t"?f necessity be restricted, and, there^
fore, the idea of n State entertainrgL0:--tment
could not be carried out. As
a substitute suggested inviting a
' pertain number of representative
* men of South Carolina to participate
I^Ln giving this luncheon. The cost
was estimated at $10 for each host,
Jthore to be no "guests" except the
'President, his immediate party and
. members of his Cabinet. That plan
f* r was accepted, the Governor deciding
to give^ the President a breakfast.
Mr., T&ft ut that time expecting to
. arrfve here in the morning.
" Was State-wide Affair.
"Members of committees were
1 - 1 - Ati.1 * (i.i in i , 11 ni it f ,i, i
** p letter it II 1>"U , UIIU I IIU v v/ mtu i b iw
011 invitation forwarded to the
thousand persons selected to he giv&
eu the opportunity to participate
in entretaining the President, a card
t>f invitation, in stereotyped form,
, hearing, as symbolical of the scope,
a" engraving of the ttag of South
">- { Carolina. There was absolutely
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\ ^ nothing upon that card suggesting
X- ' Columbia as the host. Another card
carried the information to South
Carolinians invited that the first
thx^e hundred to avail themselves
y orthe invitation, and pay the amount
? fixed upon, would participate in the
luncheon.
V*. "Invitations were essential be*
cause limitation and selection were
1 / necessary. No one was invited beA
cause he could pay his way. Of9
^ ficial South Carolina, the press, the
1 men of learning and of worthy
/ achievement were recognized as ful;
ly .as possible in the effort to have
assemble here a representative and
Ik distinguished body of South CaroT
linians to meet the country's Chief
|[l Executive. Private entertainment in
!J1 ' Columbia would have saved the comj'J
mlttee's infinite troubles and trials,
J but would necessarily have eliminatI
ed that State, feature of the enter
talnment, to which the rresiaem ho
feelingly referred in his addresb
here.
I ' "Further carrying out the Statewide
conception, a reception coramitt
tee was appointed, on which every
1 county in South Carolina had representation;
there Veto two aldermen
from Columbia and probably a dozen
members of the General Assembly
on that committee.
"The design and inscription for
the menu card, choAen by the lunch
eon committee, a full month before
, the event, emphasized the scope of
t.ho function. In addition to the
^engravings of the Capitol, the coat
'of arfns of South Carolina and a
paltneH# tree, the declaration that
the hmfel&Qn was "Given to President
Taft Jw South Carollnans" was
OonclusIvejM its purpose.
"At the beginning of the preparation
it wdecreed that there should
bo no 'guests' at the luncheon excopt
the President, his party and
members of the Cabinet. And ther(
was none. Every South Carolinian
present was there as a host. The reporters
for the Columbia Record,
The News and Courier and the State,
the members of all committees?the
men who bore the responsibilities
and did the arduous work of prepation?were
hosts, each contributing
his share toward making fitting
South Carolina's hospitality to the
nation's official head.
"There are two practicable methods
of defraying the expenses of public
banquets. One is by using the
taxpayers' money to pay for an entertainment
from which more than
99 percentum of the taxpayers must
of necessity be excluded, and the
other is that those acting as hosts
do the part of hosts and defray the
costs. Hy the first plan the many
pay for the benefit of tlie few; by
the latter there is equality and jusj
tice. And tlie later plan is practi.>..11..
,,n:,,?.oni
j V.UIIJ uunu i n?i.
Sumo IMiui Followed Klsowliere.
"After Tillman's ill-bred outbreak
in the face of Columbia's and South
Carolina's approaching guest, I took
the pains to inquire of four towns
that either had entertained the President
or contemplated so doing, as
to the plan followed. Here are extracts
from the replies:
"Washington: 'The dinner given
to President Taft was arranged by
a joint committee of the Chamber
of Commerce and board of trade.
The committee issued invitations to
a few distinguished guests, who, of
course, paid nothing. All others
who attended paid $20 a plate. The
list was limited.' The list, however,
was not con lined to Washingtonians.
j "New Orleans: 'At the banquet
i tendered President Taft here last
February, just before his inauguration,
all those who attended were
invited to pay with the exception
of Mr. Tail's party, the'press
(of New Orleans) and possibly one
lor two guests of honor.' Those invitations
to participate were not
confined to citizens of Louisiana.
"Atlanta: '1 have just wired you
that we did exactly the same thing
here in Atlanta, and it is the usual
custom, not only here in the South,
but in every other city in the country.
. . . It seems to me it is
a very sensible custom. . . Somebody
lias to pay. Why not, therefore,
those who are there in the capacity
of hosts? ... So far as
I have heard this is the only instance
of complaint of this kind' on
record.
"Savannah. 'The Taft banquet
will be attended by 350 persons
j About thirty will lie guests of the
city; the 320 who are not special
| guests will pay $20 per plate for the
occasion. In eighteen years 1 do no
recall a function of the sort in this
city that was not similarly financed.'
Invitations to participate in that
banquet and its expense?a banquet
given in the name of Savannah?
were sent to Atlanta and elsewhere
in Georgia.
"The direct charge that Columbia
was attempting to make the State
at large pay for her frolic, and the
infamous insinuation that the plan
of a committee, of which the Governor,
tin; mayor and myself were
the members, had engaged in a money-making
scheme, warrants reference
to what was spent in Columbia
aside from the luncheon?whose cost,
by the way, was not covered by the
estimated $10 a plate. Aside from
the entertainment in the State Mouse
the outlay was, as accurately as 1
can now secure the figures, $5,800.
Tillman Tartly Censured.
"I have no means of defining the
motive prompting It. H. Tillman to
make the gross and insolent reply
he did to the invitation to be a host
instead of a guest at the luncheon
to the President, and it is immaterial
whether he imagined it an opportunity
to hurt Columbia, or to embarrass
his political opponents on the
committee, or to hoodwink gullible
backwoodsmen. But his ill-bred
tirade, bis maliciously false statement
of Columbia's position, his
charge that our plan was a violation
of hospitality and 'indecent,' would
have been ignored by me had not
papers In South Carolina, some of
them perhaps misinterpreting the
committee's silence while the guest
was approaching, indulged in wholly
unjustified, and, as a distinguished
Georgian writes me, unprecedented
ccriticism of this city.
"That Tillman, who has never
balked at the price of a dinner when
paid for with the money of taxpayers,
should essay the role of a Ward
McAllister is grotesque. The man
who us h mn:m 01 nonor 111 unarieston
'took the hide off his hosts ami
then 'rubbed in salt,' and gave Charlestonians
a stomach-turning from
which they needed years to recover,
the man whose coarse speech when
making addresses by invitation has
brought the blood to the faces of
farmers' wives and daughters in
South Carolina, the man whose profanity
before women has shocked in
South Carolina and in Washington
?this man's criticism, I say, of
hospitality and etiquette is grotesque.
The animous is revealed
when Tillman, notorious for lack of
courtesy, lack of refinement, and for.
general uncouthness, and boastful
of his disregard of the conventions,
attempts to be mentor of Columbia's
manners. And when it comes to
maintaining the good name of South
Carolina, for which he now essays
to ho jealous, Tillman's display of an
i appetito for getting something for
nothing or much for little, which
I had its inceipient manifestation when
' he was Governor in the cultivation
TWO LIVES ARE LOST
TRAIN WRECKERS REMOVE
RAILS AND WRECK TRAIN
Near Denmark, .Killing a . Colored
Fireman and a White Tramp, Who
Was Stealing a Ride.
A special dispatch to The News
and Courier from Denmark says
train wreckers are responsible for
the derailment of the south bound
mail train on the Seaboard Air Line
Railway, which passed Denmark at
1:46 o'clock Thursday morning, the
death of two men, a negro fireman |
and a white tramp, the injuries sustained
by Engineer Poteat. the shaking
up of the passengers and the
destruction of the engine.
The trail was in charge of Conductor
llarry IJutler and Engineer
Poteat. While going down grade
just before reaching a curve, two
miles south of this place, Thursday
morning, the engineer saw just
ahead the end of a rail turned in
toward tho middle of the track.
Scarcely had he blown for "down
brakes" when the engine reached
the dislocated rail and left the track,
plowing its way along the ties until
it was completely wrecked.
The engineer was hurled through
the top of his cab for quite a distance.
In his fall he sustained a
broken nose and several bruises, but
was not seriously hurt. Tho negro
fireman and a white tramp, who is
supposed to have been riding on the
cow catcher, were instantly killed,
the body of the fireman being burned
to a crisp when removed from the
wreckage, and that of tho tramp
badly scalded. The baggage master
and express messenger were bruised
11 p. but were not seriously injured.
None of the passengers were hurt.
Resides the engine, the mail, baggage
and one passenger coach left
the rails and were thrown across
the track. The other coaches were
loose li uiu me i riu kh dui uiu aoi
leave the rails. After the wreck
investigation revealed the fact that
two rails had been removed, a crowbar,
a large wrench and a bottle of
kerosene oil, which had been used
to loosen the nuts where the rails
are joined, being found at the side
of the track.
The accident occurred not far
from the camp of the Bamberg County
chain gang, where bloodhounds
are kept, and the dogs were soon on
the scene. They immediately took
up the scent and followed the trail
Into the corporate limits of Denmark,
where it was lost. Detectives
arrived 011 the scone Thursday and
are scouring the region for clews
that will lead to the detection of
the guilty parties.
It is believed that the wreckers
are the same ones that caused the
wreck of the same train at Otside,
just a few miles further south only
a few months ago. The wreck Thursday
morning was more disastrous
in that two lives were lost and the
damage was greater. Conductor Butler
was also in charge of the train
that was wrecked on the previous
occasion.
The detectives who are working
on the case claim to have their suspicions,
but they refuse to say anything
for publication. It is intimated,
however, that very probably
the motive was vengeance, as some
of the ofiicinls of the road were on
the train.
Engineer Poteat was in the wreck
between Swansea and Sweden six or
seven years ago, when two passenger
engines collided.
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MANY INSERTIONS IN ARMY.
Annual Report Shows That
Men Resorted |\?.st Fiscal Year.
Continued extensive desertions in
the United States army during the
Inst tlscal year forms the leading
feature of the annual report of Adjutant
General Ainsworth. After
showing that 4,993 men deserted
from the enlisted force of the regular
army, General Ainsworth concludes
that only a strict enforcement of
severe penalties will diminish materially
the practice of taking
"French leave" of the soldiers.
He regards as rather alarming the
fact that the number of desertions
during the last lineal year was greater
than in the preceding 12 months.
Of the whole number of enlisted men
4.9 7 per cent deserted during the
last fiscal year, while the desertions
of the preceding year amounted to
4.59 per cent. General Ainsworth
says the abolition of the canteen,
the monotony of garrision life, the
increasing amount of work and study
demanded of a soldier, and the ease
with wnicn remunerative employment
can be obtained In civil life
in those prosperous times are causes
of the evils mentioned.
Many a girl who is fond of Jewelry
has no use for a rolling pin.
of a private oat crop at public expense,
and its latest development in
the Oregon land affair, might be detailed
as startling inconsistency between
tho word and the deed.'
"If Mr. Taft knew anything about
the reason Senator Tillman gave for
absenting himself from tho luncheon,
he said nothing about it, but enJoyed
a good dinner. A. K."
A MANLY SPEECH'
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Jtb Mitchell Says Dramatically Thai He |
Endorses Boycott. 4
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AROUSES ENTHUSIASM j
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llo HiKlitfully Declares That No ^
Ooncorn lias it Property Itinht to j
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Washington is Watching Proceed- /
ings of tho Con volition. /
Endorsing a report of the committ.ee
on boycott, John Mitchell. /
one of the three olllcers of the /
American Federation of Labor, who /
are under sentence for contempt of \
court, made a dramatic speech to the ;
convention of that organization now
in session at Toronto, at Wednesday's
session. He declared that as
far as he was concerned, regardless
of consequences ho Intended, while
at liberty to declare for the rights
guaranteed him by the organic laws (
of his country. "
The report which drew forth ]
Mitchell's speech, and wl^leh was
adopted by the convention among
other things declared:
"We say that when our cause is
just and every other remedy has
been employed without result, boycott;
we say that when the etnployei
has determined to exploit not onlj
adult male labor, but our women and t
children, and our resources and oui
appeal to his fairness, and his con 1
science will not sway him, boycott;
wo say that when labor has been
oppressed, browbeaten and tryannized,
boycott; we say that when social t
and political conditions become so
bad that ordinary remedial measures
are fruitless, boycott, and finallv
we say, we have a right to boycott
and.we propose to exercise that
right. In the application of thiv
right of boycott, to paraphrase th<
president ((iompcrs), we propose to
strive on and on."
The convention broke into loud
cheering for Mitchell as he eonclud
ed, and there were cries for "Mor
rision." The secretary did not respond.
President Gompers was absent.
Mr. Mitchell said he realized that
every statement made by those on
tho convention floor, especially by
those who on next Monday will have
to deliver themselves to the courts,
is being closely scrutinized.
"I want the people of the United
States to know my position," he
said. "I shall not speak defiantly;
but be the consequences what they
will, I shall not surrender any right
guaranteed to me by the constitu- ]
tion of our country. I am not sure
how much mental and physical suf- ^
fering will be necessary to make me
submit, but if I know myself, not ]
any amount of suffering will persuade
me that I have not the right
to spend my money where 1 please
or that I have not the right to write
and speak as I please, being responsible
under the law for my acts.
"Whether the boycott 1)0 a bene- ?
lit or a detriment each man must
decide where he will bestow li is ,
patronage. I maintain that my patronage
is my own and no merchant
has a property right to it.
"I understand that cognizance is
being taken at Washington of the
utterances of men on the floor of
thin convention, and 1 want clearly
to state my position. I propose in
the future, as I have in the past,
to exercise the 'rights secured to
me by the fathers of my country;
and I propose, if I am sent to jail,
to decalre again when I come out
that I shall not for myself purchase '
any product of the Huck's Stove &
Range Co.
"I repeat that so far as I am concerned,
and hit the consequence be
what they will, I intend while at
Ijberty to declare fo rtlie lights
guaranteed to mo by the organic laws
of my country. I am proud of being
an American."
Mr. Mitchell said he had grown
up as an American with a stepmother
so poor that she could not buy
bread, and related how he had crept
out of bed at night to get his father's
soldier coat to keep him warm. "Hut
1 want to see the word
American stand for all the sentiment
that is symbolized by the Hag of our
country," he continued. "I want
real liberty. I don't believe in the
liberty enunciated by some of our
courts that men and women should
have the right to work themselves
to death. I don't believe in the liberty
enunciated by Judge Tuthiill
of Chicago, who declared unconstitutional
the 10-hour lnw for women,
and by that act compelled them to
work 14 hours a day."
Mr. Mitchell said ho believed the
preset proceedings would bring
home to the people the necessity .
of working in concert. "Is the tinio
going to come on onr continent when 1
the badge of faithfulness to labor '
must be the brand of imprisonment?" 1
ho said in conclusion. "Surely I *
hope not. I hope that the govern '
ment may bo so conducted that no 1
citizen may fool that ho has not (
been given justice and an equal right
with every other citizen."
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A good sign for the seller of clocks
and watches would be, "Our time
pieces are the boat going."
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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Attorney and Counceior At La*
CONWAY, S. C.
C. K. ST. AM AND,
Attorney at Law
Conway, 8. C.
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CONWAY, 8. O.
Attorney at Law.
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Over Bank of Horry
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COWVAY, 8. a
Woman Iturm-d to Death.
At Salisbury, N. C., Mrs. Sadler
Irown, aged fifty years, was burned
o death at her home Friday, her
l)ody being burned into a crisp.
>ho was seated by an open fire, and
tier dross ignited and in an instant
she was enveloped in flames, her
clothing being burned off. The onl>
member of the family present was
her father, aged 80 years, blind am
helpless. '
The stuck-up stout persons woub
fiosh.
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V has been for til? upbuilding of
Willi this in view no cxlt'inl *?P
nimble accommodation consH- j|n
! solicit the uccounts of iudividio A
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Standard Oil < 'nnipnny Ordered to
Ilisolve hy the t'ourls.
A dispatch from St Paul. .Mi up.,
says in an opinion written b> Judge
Walter N. Sanborn of St. Paul, and
concurred in by Judges Vandei \ nler,
I looli and Adams with a special coi)earring
opinion by Judge Hook, the
United States Circuit Court for the
eastern district of .Missouri Saturday
banded down an opinion declaring
the Standard Oil Company i?i New
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?... < hll> ? will lllllilllOII UpCfating
in restraint of tratio ami ordered
its dissolution.
In this (Incision the governmimt
of the United tSatcs wins a sweeping
victory, and according to Trunk
I). Kellogg, who was the government's
special prosecuting olliepr,
the government has won every point
for which it contended.
The case will he appealed direct
to tho United .States Suprenn Court
as the judges who signed tin* decre#
are in effect the judges of the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals,
although they were sitting for tho
puropse of trying this case as the
circuit court for the eastern district
of Missouri.
The decree of the court dissolving
the Standard Oil trust heroines
effectivo in thirty days when no
doubt a stay will he granted for tho
purpose of trying this case as th*>
. decree takes effect, unless a stay is
granted, an Injunction will he issued
restraining tho Standard Oil Company
from a further continuance of
its business under its present formation.
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Stormy Times Attend.
There are stormy times ahead for
England. The irrepressible conflict.
Is at hand. On the one side is the
people and on the other is the vested
rights of the few intrenched in
the lords of the realm. In the end
the people will win and democracy
will gain another great victory. The
conflict, which Is now between the.
House of Lords and the House of
Commons over the budget, has tplvanced
another stage. l)y the tremendous
majority of 239, which
showed an unbroken front on the
part of the liberals, the budget passed
its third reading in the commons
and now goes to the lords.
What they will do with it is uncertain.
Probably the lords themselves
have not yet decided. That they
would like to reject it everybody
knows, but they are aware of the
crisis such action would precipitate
?a crisis that would likely result
in a radical change of the constitution
of the house itself. As the
lords have recently intensified nubile.
hostility by practically destroying*
the Irish land act fhoy may well
hesitate as to their tinai action.
Whatever their action, the cause of
the people will triumph, and Kngland
will take a decided step to- *
wards a democratic government.
lt<*mut'ftai>lo Murder Story.
A remarkable murder story was
revealed at Washington, I). ('., Thursday
following the confession of
Mary llatson Howard, a negress,
that she killed her 8-year-old daughter
because the man she loved threat'
ene.d to leave her unless the child
was sent away. Her description of
the crime is gruesome. Under the
pretense of taking the child to the
4 woods for a romp, she lured her to
' a secluded spot, where she slashed
her throat with a razor. *
1 A novel devoured must be a story