The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 12, 1910, Image 6
DEALT DEATH
And Destruction to Hundreds of Miners
Down in the Mine
WITHOUT ANY WARNING
Nearly Two Hundred Workers Are
Ituried Alive in an Alabama Mine.
There Is Very Little Hope that
Any of tlie Unfortunate People
Escaped Death and Are Alive.
Forty-five white men, and between
130 and 145 negroes, are entomued
in No. No. 3 coal mine at Palos,
Ala., as a result of an explosion occurring
Thursday afternoon at 1:30
o'clock. Palos is forty miles west of
Birmingham, an.l the mines are
owned by the Palos Coal and Coke
Company, controlled by Drennen
Brothers, of Birmingham.
State Mine Inspector .Tames Ilillhouse,
who is on t.he scene thinks
all of the men in the mine are dead.
Two bodies were found early Thurs
day night, but it is expected that
few of them can be recovered before
morning.
The flames reaching from the explosion
shot into the air from the
, mouth of the slope for two hundred
feet, and the shock was felt for miles
around. Timbers from the slope
were hurled several hundred feet
from the mine's mouth, and rocks
from the roof of the slope caved in
and made access to the mouth very
difficult. The fan machinery was
badly damaged, but air is being
pumped into the mine in the hope
that some of the men are still
alive.
Local rescuers at Palos began at
once to do what they could, but relief
work was not started in earnest
until the special train from Birmingham
arrived in Palos, shortly
after four o'clock. This special train
carried State Mine Inspector James
Hillhouse, J. J. Uutledge, Government
expert, in charge of the geological
station at Knoxville, Tenn.,
wko happened to be in the district
investigating the recent disaster at
Mulga; eight physicians and surgeons,
four undertakers and a numf
???>/ . 5 r? 1 b 1 r\ A V O
Ut)I U1 spcuai o.
The hospital relief car of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad Company,
was also taken. This car contained
helmets and all of the other
necessary paraphernalia for entering
gaseous mines.
Tho first rescuers who went into
the mine after the explosion, were
overcome by fire-damp and had to
be carried out. Mr. Rutlege was
among the first to enter, and after
working his way 1,400 feet down the
slope, found a second right entry
cave-in. The two bodies recovered
were in the main slope.
(James Gousby, a mail carrier, was
killed thirty feet from the mouth of
the slope, and his body was hurled
thirty feet. It was judged from this
that the force of the explosion was
such that none of the men on the
Inner side could possibly be alive.
There are a number of mining
camps within two or three miles of
the Palos mine, and within a short
time after the explosion a great
crown had gathered about the ilJfated
slope.
Hundreds of women and children
were around the mine, wringing
their hands and crying piteously.
The Palos mines have been worked
for a number of years, and the
entries were extensive. The only
hope that some of the men have escaped
and are still alive lies in the
possibility that they were far enough
away from the explosion to have
missed its force. It is thought that
the explosion was caused by the accumulation
of gas in some of tho old
abandoned entries, which are rarely
visited.
The Palos Coal and Coke Company
is owned entirely by the Drennens,
of Birmingham. The mines
have a capacity of over 600 tons I
and have done an enormous business
for the past two or three years,
working night and day. The como
A %_? _ * 1 .. A 1 .11..
pany whs 0110 01 me iew in me ui?trict
which has always signed up
with the miners' union, and they
have always worked union miners
only.
The mines are in what is known
as the Warrior basin, and are within
two miles of Flat Top and the
Jlessie mines, two of the largest and
most valuable mines in the district.
The disaster is regarded as especially
distressing as coming so soon
after the Mulga explosion, Thursday
April 21, in which 41 men lost t.heir
lives. The lied Cross and other relief
work for the widows and orphans
at iMulga hag not yet been
completed Two Government experts,
J. J. Rutledge. and George F.
Rice, have been in the district since
the 'Mulga explosion, investigating
its cause and botdi of them have
gone out to Palos.
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Rig Shipment of Kggs.
From Hickory Harris & Little on
Monday shipped 180 crates or 5,100
dozen eggs?a big carload. This is
said to be the largest shipment ever
going out of this leading egg emporium
of North Carolina.
WASTED PUBLIC MONEY |
GEN. IW>YJ> MAKES THIS CIIAKGE
AGAINST imOCK.
And Calls for un Investigation of the
Expense Account and Action of
that Gentleman.
A statement Issued on Wednesday
at Columbia by Adjutant General
Boyd, asks that Governor Ansel appoint
a court of inquiry to investigate
the expense account of Col. W.
T. Brock, the assistant general, that
was incurred by inspecting the militia
of the State.
It is charged by General Boyd
that Colonel Brock .has wasted the
money of the State. It is asked that
Colonel Brock's other actions as an
o flic or of the State be investigated.
Both are in the race for adjutant
general. General Boyd recently attacked
Colonel Grock in a statement
with reference to politics. Colonel
Brock immediately asked for a court
of inquiry. Governor Ansel refused
to discuss the situation. The statement
follows:
To the People of South Carolina:
"W. T. Brock, my assistant during
the past several days, has spent
several hundred dollars more than
was necosc1 ?*y in making the inspections
of the State militia.
"He has wantonly wasted the
State's money, and 1 hereby call upon
him iu give proof that ho spent $12
and $33.50 (for two days) for hotel
hills at at any hotel in South Carolina.
"The United States has made the
inspections of the State militia for
the past several years. 11 is expenses
traveling over the same route as
Colonel Brook's were as follows:
1907. $140; 1 908, $144; 1 909,
$ 1 f>0.02. The first year that Colon"
1 Brock made the inspections of
the State militia he spent $400. Last
year he spent $4 20. This year he
dre'< out $500. His accounts on the
surface appear to be in a tangled
condition.
"I would like for him to explain
the matter of lending the United
States army officer who accompanied
.him the sum of over $1S0.
By what right did the State of South
Carolina have to defray the expense
of a regular United States army officer?
His itemized accounts show
that he claimed to have purchased
four mileage books. I would like
for him to show to the public of
South Carolina where he traveled
4,000 miles in making the inspections.
"He has extravagantly spent the
money of the State and his itemized
statements of expense will not bear
investigations.
"I hereby call upon Governor Ansel
to appoint a court of inquiry to
make an investigation of the expense
accounts and other acts Colonel
Brock has committed while in
the service of the State as assistant
adjutant general. J. C. Boyd."
BOY KIDNAPPT1) IIIMKLF.
Started for the West After He Had
Seen Moving Pictures.
Tn New York Harry Spindle, a
bnisk little boy of 13 years, is being
held by the Children's Society
on his own confession that he kidnapped
himself, terrorized his parents
with hlackhand letters, and
then, when they failed to procure
the money he needed toget. west, in""' '"l
i o-rit .rinh.ii 11 iclr sphnnin that
nottod him $100 in hes than a week.
A string of sad little girls, his tools,
and their angry mothers, his victims,
corroborated his story.
Harry's plan, as told by himself
was to find some little girl on the
street, at tor her with news of how
her father had just been elected
president of a lodge, and then get
the mother to borrow $11, $1 or
$f> from the corner grocer to buy
flowers for a surprise to father when
he came home. Then Harry would
offer to run to the orists with the
money, but .he never came hack.
With his pal, Arthur Gulden, 12
years old, Harry left home more than
a week ago, fired with an ambition
to go west, after having seen a thrilling
moving picture show.
The Itoyd-llrock How,
The Boyd-Brook row continues to
excite a certain measure of interest
at the State House. Thursday Adjt
Gen. Boyd sent Col. Brock a communication
stating that his resigna'
tion would be accepted. Col. Brocn
declares that he will not act upor
this request, and he does not consider
tJhat Gen. Boyd is qualified tc
mako it, holding that such a re
quest should come from the Governor,
and for cause.
Mlephant Kills Trainer.
nn i.i p/mic (inuilnvn 'I'lio Willi-il Jl T) (
another fatally Injured as the resuii
of an outbreak of an elephant ai
Marietta, Ohio, Monday. Samue
Montgomery, an animal trainer, was
trampled by the infuriated beast and
fatally hurt. Wm. Evans took refuge
on top of a wagon but fell frorr
it during the excitement, suffering s
chuahed skull. Ho died a few minutes
later.
A thing of beauty is a Joy until
the styles change.
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SAVE THE GIRLS
White Slaves Are Being Bought and Sold
oo the New York Market.
DEALERS RAN TO EARTH
Two Young Karnest Women Workers
Make Most Revolting Discoveries
ami I*ncover the Vilest ami
Most Horrible of Trollies and
Itring the (juilty Fiends to Justice.
The New York World says white
slavery in that city was suown m
l>e a real, hideous ract in the last
P'\v days. The following proof of
the above we take from the World:
After three months of careful
planning by District Attorney Whitman
and John I). Rockefeller, Jr.,
foreman of a Grand Jury now in session,
four girls were bought in New
York by an Assistant District-Attorney
and two courageous women,
graduates of Smith and Radcliffe
Colleges, who had worked* with the
Rockefeller Grand jury on the cases.
The girls were purchased in the
open market. The I^strict-Attorney
has the receipts for the money
paid for them. The were sold with
the direct understanding that they
were to be carried to Alaska for immoral
purposes. They were sold as
slaves, without any reservation, according
to the evidence in the possession
of the District-Attorney.
lEach of the girls gave her age
officially as sixteen and seventeen
years old. One girl wJren found by
the authorities cried bitterly for a
half hour because she had been taken
so quickly from a home of vice
that she did not bring her doll.
Another little girl cried equally .hard
for her Teddy bear.
Three arrests have already been
made in the cases and other arrests
are predicted by the District-Attor
ney within a short time. The first
was that of Harry Levenson, 2 7
years old, living at No. 16 East 3rd
street. The District-Attorney charges
that through the agency of Assistant
District Attorney James D. Reynolds,
and the two college women
two girls were purchased from him.
The second arrest was that of
Belle Moore, a negress, living at No.
34S West Forty-first street. The
District Attorney charges that two
white girls were purchased from her
last wvek by the same agents. In
connection with the woman's arrest
the District Attorney stated that
not one-quarter of the facts could
be made public at this time.
Later in the evening Alex Anderson,
who is employed in the Union
Cafe in Broadway, near Fortieth
street, and which is said by the officials
to be under the management of
George Considine, was arrested. The
officials admitted that warrants are
out for several other persons, but
said they did not expect any more
I o vraetu hwfnro morniner.
While the arrests were being made
the police were searching all the
hospitals in the city for an eleven
year old girl, w.ho had been bargained
for and who, it is declared,
would have been sold but for the
fact that she became so ill because
of niistreatement in an immoral resort
that she had to be sent to a
hospital. There is reason to believe
that the girl has been found
and will tell her story later, but
her whereabouts are being kept secret.
The investigation was made by the
grand jury and Mr. Rockefeller, who
each devoted a large sum of money
to the search for the root of the
white slave trade. it was found
for them by two young college women
who had devoted thorns- Ives to
the interests of their distressed sisters.
They went to Alaska, where
the traffic is fierce, and there got acquainted
with theuuder world and
with the people who trafllced in debauchery.
They got in touch with their correspondents
in all parts of the country,
and finally got letters to parties
in New York, the state for which
they were working. They returned
home, took the district attorney's office
into their confidence, and with
a member of the grand jury nailec
the trafficerB beyond question, as
> ronnrtful above.
They found that formerly \vhit<
girls could be bought for $5 t<
. $50, but the activity of the grain
. juries all over tho country ha<
; made the price of these articles o
i commerce rise, so that the dealeri
. claimed $200 for the great risk tha
) they ran.
Tlrcy found also that little whit
. girls were brought and sold for de
bauchery to w-hite men or negroes
They found many things most re
volting and sensational, but they wil
. not talk much until tho cases an
^ brought to trial. The recitation o
t much that is published, even nov
j may well make one question w.hoth
^ or this is a christian country or not'
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Village Destroyed.
i The village of Plymouth, six milei
i southwest of Emporia, Kansas, is re
. ported to have been destroyed by i
tornado 'Monday night. Plymouth 1
a small town with 4 00 populatioi
I and on the Santa Fo railroad. A1
wires are down.
THAT COTTON POOL
SENATOR SIMMONS ARRAIGNS
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
Which, He Said, Had Only Undertaken
to Prosecute the Roosters
of Cotton Prices.
In a speech delivered in the Senate
Wednesday Senator Simmons, of
North Carolina, attacked the methods
of the department of justice in
the matter of its prosecution of the
cotton pool. Jle did not complain
because of the suits, but because the
cotton producers and spinners had
been inovlved in the matter.
Complaining of partiality in the
enforcement of the Sherman antitrust
law, Mr. Simmons said that
in undertaking to prosecute the
bulls and not the bears, the department
had undertaken only a partial
prosecution. He said that the proceeding
amounted to a usurpation of
authority.
Senator Simmons made oitter
complaint against a course which he
said had had the effect of placing
t.he real cotton men in the light of
speculators when the efforts had
been in exactly the opposite direction.
"If the cotton spinners of the
country will co-operate in the same
line which the cotton spinners of
the South are pursuing, all the exchanges
of the country will be on a
spot basis instead of a paper basis,"
he said. He contended that contracts
for future sales of cotton should be
for a real and not a sham delivery.*'
The Attorney General's attitude
toward the price of cotton was
sharply criticiced. He said that official
had attacked prices not because
of the pool, but because he
considered them a national evil.
"He has the whole matter wrong;
prices are not abnormally high,"
said Mr. Simmons, they are certainly
not above the level of prices fixed
by the tariff and in the interect
of monopoly." He said there had
been no protest from the Attorney
GeivfTal when the bears had squeezed
$15 out of the price of cotton.
He contended that the high prices
of the present day were due to short
crops and other natural causes. He
said prices were not high -nough,
and he thought they would go higher.
"And the Attorney General cannot
prevent that, whatever proceedings
he may institute in the interests
of foreign buyers," he added.
'Mr. Simmons refused to concede
this Government the right to interfere
with the purpose of affecting
the price of the staple. "It is as
startling as it is unpatriotic and it
is as unpatriotic as it is untenable,"
he declared, speaking of the Attorney
General's course. As our chief
article of export, he declared, that
the price of cotton should be kept
up. He said that while the South
always would be the first to receive
the benefit of any increase the whole
country would profit.
1)KPIX)KKS CHRISTIAN DIVISIONS
Hisliop Anderson Urges Unity in
Kvangclization.
"Enough energy and money are
wasted by rival railway and overlapping
of the different denominations
in America to preach the Gospel
to the entire world. We must
get together and stop this waste."
Thus spoke Bishop Charles P. An
derson, of Chicago, before the 'Men s
National Missionary Congress in that
city Wednesday.
"Our divisions are unchristianlike
and unstat smanlike, the speaker
continued. "They are une.hristian,
for Christlike Christians cannot be
kept apart. A reunited church posessessed
with faith and zeal would
ho irresistible. It could evangelize
the world in a generation. Let us
spend our lives and money unifying
the church and in universalizing the
Gospel of Christ."
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mi ki>i;i{i:ks idextifikd.
By One of the Men They Attempted
to Assassinate.
t
I Tt begins to look as if the two
; negroes who held up a car, murdering
the motorman, and danger3
ously wounding the conductor, near
i Atlanta, Ga., some time ago has been
1 caught. Willie Johnson and Charlie
1 Walker, have been identified by
f Conductor Walter Bryson as the asp
sailants of himself and Motorman S.
t T. Brown. Brown was killed on
spot. Almost by a miracle Bryson,
b w.ho was shot through and through,
- is fast on the road to recovery. He
. will be released from the hospital
- within a day or two. Bryson, who
i ~ r.. i ? In hie I <1 f?n 1 1 fi !
I lU!Vei I <11 1171 Oil wnv.v in mu
b tlon, says the negro .Jackson shot
f him and that Walker killed Brown,
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A Fatal Fall
In the collapse of a scafTold on
W'hich the bricklayers were working
at the new Central of Georgia ltails
way shops Monday at Macon, Ga.,
- four men were injured, one of them
ft dying a few hours later at the Macon
b Hospital. Without a moment's warni
ing the temporary structure gave
1 way, and the men fell a distance of
about fifty feet.
FARMERS UNION
Meet in Convention at St. Louis to Discuss
General Matters.
W. J. BRYAN WILL SPEAK
The Assembly Represents Millions of
American Producers.?President
Barrett Sounds High Note for the
Planters.?Farmers Should Command
and Not Bog.
The joint convention of the Farmers'
Educational and Co-operative
Union of America, the American Society
of Equity and 400 subsidiary
organizations opened in St. Louis on
Monday morning.
Ninety addresses are on the program,
which concludes Saturday
nip lit with jiii nddross bv W. J.
Bryan. Samufl Gompers, president
of t.he American Fed-eration of Labor,
spoko Monday afternoon and
outlined his plans for bringing about
a ne.v political party through an affiliation
of the farmers with the laboring
men.
President Barrett in opening the
meeting made an excellent speech.
He began his speech by saying that
as the "representative of 3,000,000
militant American farmers, whose
organized army rests one flank upon
the Atlantic and the other upon the
Pacific ocean, I give to you a cordial
greeting, which shall know 110
boundaries of State or section, no
narrowness or political partisanship
or bigotry, but a tolerance as broad
as justice and as wide as that sincerity
that underlies our common
heritage of American citizenship."
Among other things he said: "the
American farmer of tradition has
been the farmer of the more of less
humorous cartoon or caricature, variously
represented as fair prey to
the green goods man or the gold
brick artist. And the farmer has
been slow in awakening. His environment,
in the first place, was
against his awakening. The tardiness
of facilities for communication,
the infrequency with which newspapers
penetrated to the far rural
districts, and the natural suspicion,
which is a part of his temperament
all militated to keep him in shackles
as to his own jxiwer, and his duty
of self-government in the premises.
"The era of sleep is at an end'
The era of wakefulness to self-duty,
to the obligation of self-help, to the
obligation of duty to country is already
dawning! I do not say that
the farmer as a class is roused to hiB
national importance and to his notional
obligations. But I do assert,
with all the emphasis at my command,
and supported by all the experience
of a lifetime, that the leaven
or readjustment of revolutionary
change is stirring throughout the
mass of the American farmer."
After stating that vandalism and
graft are b'dng eliminated from our
political life, the speaker said: "We
are standing more resolutely each
day for a literal interpretation of
the doctrine of the 'square deal.' We
are determined that the people and
not the politicians shall rule. The
Farmers' union is responsible both
for the awakened farmer and the
awakened nation, as regards the farmer.
I'lonriintr far sincere. constructive
leadership among the farmers. President
Barrett said in the degree that
this pervails, now and in the days
to come, "we shall solve the agricultural
problems perplexing the best
and most consecrated thought of this
country." lie said the solfir.h leadership
is inevitable incendiary and destructive.
"For it is almost criminally
seltisJi aims it is willing to turn
the farmer against his neighbor
against his merchant, against the
banker, against the resident of the
city. It is ledership for revenue only,
without one redeeming aspiration.
"A distinct part of the rural problem
is the cultivation of a better and
a more cooperative spirit between the
city man and the country man. Af*
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t't all, t iioy dhvg hiiuum t*vci ^ iuih^
in common. We ate both interested
in the curbing and purging, not the
destruction, of great agencies of civilization.
We are noth interested in
building up a more staunch AineriI
can citizenship, free of pollution from
damaging alien strains, bred and
brought up to fulfill the ideal of pure
and militant Americanism. And unless
we realize this close mutual relations
we shall both suffer."
Speaking of the campaign of the
t/>?v,' union for the enactment o(
r ai uiui o Univ.. .?
certain national legislation, Mr. Barrett
said: "Politicians in general
have paid and are paying more attention
to the farmer, and that is because
the farmer is paying more attention
to the politician. Once let
the public ofilcer conceive the id'\i
that he is being watched continually
by his constituent, and that the latter
is carefully comparing promise
with performance, and we shall elevate
the standard of public sorvicc
in this country.
"I have urged upon Farmers' union
members to refuse to let their
attitude toward their congressmen
be colored by any trival gifts on the
part of the congressmen, the bribery
of a petty office for a relative, or a
cordial hanshake from the great man
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TILLMAN IN AUGUSTA I
IS QUITE FEEBLE BUT IS LOOKINU
VERY WELL. 'Vj
The Visit of the Senior Senutor Was
of a Personal Nature, but Took a
Shot at Teddy.
The Augusta Chronicle says Senator
Tillman was in Augusta for a
few hours Tuesday, and while t.hero .
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Morrison. Senator Tillman was accompanied
by his wife. The object
of his visit was of a personal nature, 1
to look after t.he improvement of certain
property of his in the city.
"Senator Tillman was seen by a renni't
/ 'rPho Pli i*/\n i/il/i { not h/>f a*?/\
|/u? tv. i \/i i iiu w?i i wu iv/iv; j uni. uui v;i ^ te
boarding the train Tuesday afternoon J
for liis home. The senator, though J
somewhat feeble, and lacking the ac- ]
customed heartiness of handshake, 1
was very cordial in his answers to {
questions regarding his health. . y/Jj
Having found that his visit was T a
purely of a personal nature, the re- \ \
porter asked Senator Tillman if .he
had kept up with the happenings of
ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. ;
Tho senator's look and silence
spoke more than any amount of sarcasm
or ridicule could have done.
After a few minutes he mildly replied
that he no longer tried to k<?ei>
up with Roosevelt, that in his family
the newspapers were read to him, J
htit all references to Roosevelt were
skipped. ^
"He is the grandest fakir in the
world," said the senator, "and he has
t.he best staff of press agents that
there is in the world."
IWihen asked to talk further upon
topics of tho day, especially the I
switch of Republican strongholds to
Democratic strongholds, the Renator
asked to be ercused, pleading weariness.
ills menus in Augusta wore glad VJ
to learn that the senator was well |
enough to make the trip to Augusta.
He came to Augusta from his home
in Trenton, S. C., and returned there
Tuesday afternoon.
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Sl'MTEK MAX SUICIDES.
Charles S. Poole Ends His Life by j
Taking Poison.
Anothern suicide has occurred at
Sumter. Leaving a sealed not addressed
to his wife, the contents of y
wJiich is unknown, and with no
known reason for the act, Charles S.
Poole died (Monday at the Hotel '
Sumter, at 3 o'clock, from the effects /
of a large dose of bicloride of mercury.
which he administered to himself.
Mr. Poole, who is a native of
Sumter, but who has made his homo
away for the past several years, was
in the city on a visit. To all outward
appearances he was his normal
self, and there was no reason to
suspect his rash act.
Sunday night he registered ar the v
Hotel, was assigned to a room, but
do fore retiring, he went Into the
writing room and there wrote a letter,
which afterwards proved to he
the one addressed to his wife. Ho
went to 4iis room after 2 o'clock, and
shortly before three, a hell hoy wsib
summoned to his room. He was
found in a horribly nauseated condition,
and instructed the boy to
phone for his w'fe, and to inform
her that .he was dying.
Mrs. Poole was summoned and a
physician s'lit for at once, every possible
effort being made to save him, ?
but he succomed to the terrible ravages
of the drug at three o'clock
Sunday afternoon, just twelve hours ^
after it was administered. Poole was
twenty-seven years old.
HKVNION OP VKTURANS. v
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The Old Confods Will Meet in Spartanburg
in August.
Spartanburg is potting ready for
the Confederate reunion. At a joint
meeting of committees from Camp 1
Joe Walker, of the Confederate Veterans,
the city council and the Chamber
of Commerce, held Thursday \
morning, August 17 and 18 were the
dates set for the annual reunion of
Confederate Veterans, to be held in
that city. These three bodies will
cooperate in making all arrangements
for the entertainment of the
, old soldiers and arranging a pro.
gramme for the reunion. It is \
, thought that reunion this year will
be the largest that the Veterans
, have ever held in this state, and the
i city of Spartanburg Is making plans
, for giving them a royal welcome.
Alabama I/ooal Option.
Alabama had an election on Tucr
day and the returns from sixty-seven
; counties show that Emmet O'Neal?
l local optionist?was nominated for
uovernor in me lwiiiuuiiuii; ijinuni;
.hold in that State by a majority of
s 1,200 over his opponent, II. S. D.
Mallory. Mallory ran on a state-wide
> prohibition platform.
himself. The tost of worthiness of
continued endorsement at the polls is
i deeds, not flattery, and that man is a
> traitor to his country and to his
r ideals who betrays his fellows by coni
sidering a public obligation cancelled
i by a private favor.