The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 26, 1910, Image 5
RINGRULE
Will Not Be Submitted to by the Tennessee
Democrats Who
DENOUNCE PATTERSON
And the Other Kings tors for Attempting
to Coerce the Supreme
Court.?Eulogies on the Lute Senator
Carmack Elided Prolonged
Applause.
Oovernor M. R. Patterson and the
State Democratic executive committee
were bitterly denounced Wednesday
at Nashville in speeches and resolutions,
by the largest mass meeting
of voters ever held in the State
of Tennessee, called for the purpose
of protesting against the action of
the Governor and executive committee
in attempting to force all judiciary
candidates to submit their
candidacy in the general primary of
Juno 4. This action of the committee
was contrary to precedent and
resulted in several of the candidates
for the Supreme Court and Court of
Civil Appeals announcing themselves
as Independent candidates.
The convention, at wJiich more
than five thousand Democrats of the
State were present, nominated a full
Judiciary ticket and appealed to the
voters of tho State to refuse to participate
in the primary on June 4.
Governor Patterson and tho executive
committee were "unqualifiedly
denounced and condemned," for their
efforts "to overcome and coerce the
Supreme Court of the State in the decision
of a case pending before it,"
this reference being to the Cooper
case.
Eulogistic references to tho late
Senator Carmack elicited prolonged
Jinnlause while every denunciary re
ferenco to Governor Patterson was
greeted with great enthusiasm. The
judiciary tickets endorsed were as
follows:
Supreme Court: W. D. Heard,
Memphis; M. M. Neal, Trenton; J. K.
Shields, Chattanooga; D. L. Lansden,
Carthage, and Grafton Green,
Narhville.
Court of Civil Appeals: S. F. Wi'son,
Nashville; J. C.- liiggins, Shelbyville;
J. 'Mt, Taylor, Lexlngtfon;
F. P. Hall, Dresden, and H. Y.
Hughes, Tazewell.
The following synopsis of the declaration
of principles was adopted
by the Convention:
That the people have the lnaleninble
right to alter, reform or abolish
any agencies of their own creation
when those agencies seek
thwart the soverign will.
That tlie doctrine of non-resistance
against arbitrary power Is absurd
and slavish.
That the Independence of the three
coordinate branches of the Government
is essential to the stability of
* * * - * ' r.. rt .i
the common wealth ana mo uvonuin
of the people.
That any attempts to coerce the
Courts in the exercise of their proper
functions is destructive of peace
and safety and should he resisted
by all lawful means knows to free
znon.
That the paramout issue before the
people of T? nnessee is the independence
and integrity of their Courts.
That half a century ago an amendment
to the Constitution was adopted,
proving that a day should he appointed
for tho election of Judges
, and Attorney General, soperate and
apart from the day for election for
political offices, so that merit and
efficiency should not be obscured by
heat and strife of a political campaign,
and has always since been
recognized by both political parties
of the State as wise nd patriotic,
and as prompting the independence
of the judiciary.
That the so-called State executive
committee, not one of w.hoso members
was elected by the people, and I
a majority of whom were appointed J
by the Governor, has attempted to,
repudiate the well settled and safe)
method of selecting candidal s for
the judiciary and has attempted to
deprive the Democrats ot t.'ie State of
the right to hold their own elections,
to make tlic-ir own platforms
and to appoint tho committees, and 1
being completely under the control
of the Governor .has adopted a plan
designed to aid their master in his
attempt, to coerce Uie supreme wmn
to to perpetuate their own power.
That by these acts of usurpation the
committee and the Governor .have 1
disrupted the Democratic party and
have Riven sufficient grounds for repudiating
the committee.
That the committee ho repudiated
and the Govennor denounced and
condemned for his effort to coerce
the Supreme Court in a case pending
before it, and that endorsement he
given Justices Dearer, Sheilds and
, Neil, ?of the Supreme Court, in refusing
to submit to the un-DemoSUBSGf
TELLS TWO TALES
TAFT SEEMS TO HAVE A VERY
CONVENIENT MEMORY.
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First Denied and Then Admitted the
Truthfulnotts of the Charges Made
by Korby.
Zach McOhee, in his letter to The
State, says when the New York
World reached Washington Monday
morning with the suggestion that a
new department of the government
as five pounds to fifty gallons of \vt"department
of common sense," the
sentiment seemed to meet with uni
versal approval.
Young Kerby, Uie stenographer,
who disclosed Saturday the startling
fact that President Taft's letter, exonerating
Secretary Ihillinger, had
been in part prepared by an attorney
in Mr. Ballinger's own office,
was Monday dismissed from the service,
as was expected.
What startled everybody was that
President Taft, after 011 Saturday
denying Korby's statement, 011 Sunflay
admitting the whole thing and
even worse than Kerby had charged.
And a still more monstrous fact is
just now beginning to dawn 011 the
public, that 011 Saturday the man
through wJiom the president's Jmiif!
was made was none other than Mr.
Ihillinger himself.
Taft was out playing golf w.hen
Ihillinger rushed to the White House
with a copy of the Washington Times,
which first printed Kerby's story.
Over t.he telephone from the golf
links the president told Ihillinger to
go ahead and d'nv the whole thing.
The denial was accordingly fixed
up then and there at the White
House and given out The next day,
Sunday, the president realized that
Kerhy's story would be believed,
that, in short, he was caught, and so
he decided to admit it.
It is a second case of Roosevelt
and Ilarriman, although in this case
there is no corruption, but just a
case of ordinary gullibility and general
incompetence, Roosevelt emphatically
and indignantly denied any
collusion with Ilarriman and calV/d
Ilarriman a liar, but when ho realized
that Ilarriman himself might give
out the letters, in short, that Ilarriman
had the goods, ?ie decided to
give out tin? letters, which was a
confession, not an altogether open
one, however, for he garbled ore of
the letters.
Xow Mr. Taft follows in the steps
of "my policies." A representative
of Kentucky, one of the most brilliant
of the congressmen, remarked
to me Sunday: "The whole truth is
that Taft and that crowd aruond him
were brought up in a school of ethics
which sees no wrong in that kind
of double entendre. This school
teaches that a deception or a lie in
business is all right, so long as it
is not exposed. When exposed, it
is only a mistake, not a moral
wrong."
F1VK l\Jl m:i> IN AI TO.
The .Machine Skidded While Ikdng
ltapidly Driven.
As the result of an automobile accident,
about one mile from Kershaw,
.Mr. .1. \\ . ingrain is severely, miii
not. seriously injured, and the machine
of Mr. C. W. KtMpiarth is badly
damaged. W.hile turning a curve at
a rapid rate the rear wheels skidded,
sending the car into a small bridge.
The bridge being demolished, the car
then ran into a nearby wood pile before
it was a'2-ain gotten under control.
Otic of the occupants, Dr. VY.
C. Twitty, jumped. All live were
slightly bruis d, but Mr. Ingram;
more severely hurt than t.he others.
I'setl Them nt Last.
Mrs. lOva Simon, 03 years old,
was buried in her home town of Wa- '
basli. 111., bast week, in a shroud and j
burial outfit which she prepared <>s
years a?o for .her funeral. All the
' since that time she has ki }>t |
her burial clothing iti good condi- i
t ion. * i
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LOCII! Option.
The State |> mocratic convention
in Montgomery, Ala., last week, declared
for local option, a liberal attitude
toward capital, and more of
it.M'iivu ami imJiri'iivr mining iu?o.
cratifi plan, and that condemnation
he given Judges Handsden, Hall,
Higgins, Wilson and Taylor for their
claims direct to the people.
That every Deniiocrat who believes
in the integrity of t.he judiciary and
the right of the people to control
their own affairs, he called on to refuse
to participate in the primary
ordered for June 4, and any other
Convention or primary ordered by
said committee.
That the candidacy of the above
named aspirants for pudicial honors
be formally endorsed.
IIBE NO!
A WIERDSTORY
Body of a Mai Held in Asheville oF
Eight Years is Claimed
BY AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
?
Tlio Body, Which Has Been in an
Undertaker's Establishment, Was
Tliat of a Noted Forger and Generul
Confidence Man, Who Was
Credited With Sixteen Wives.
The remains of Charles J. As
quim, tilias i^ora ueresiora, anas
have at last been claimed. The
l>ody of Asquith or Lascelle, the man
who died at Asheville, N. C., in Octi
ober, 1902, and which has remained
in a local undertaking establishment
ever since, was last week shipped to
Baltimore on affidavit of wife No. 1
that the body was of her husband
and the remains will be cremated in
that city.
The name of wife No. 1 is withheld.
Negotiations for the body
were conducted through a friend,
Mrs. T. J. Summerileld of New Jersey,
who made affidavit on be.half of
wife No. 1 that tlie body was that
of her husband. The undertakers
being satisfied as to the affidavit!
turned over the body upon payment
of certain costs, incident to embalming,
etc., and the body went to Baltimore
for cremation.
That Asquit.h or Lascelle or Lord
Beresford was a thief, a forger and
a bigamist is certain. It is alleged
that lie had been married fifteen
times. lie was known in Georgia,
Colombia, Texas and other states, and
bore an unsavory reputation.
The man went to Asheville in September
or early October in the year
1!M)2. He was very sick at the time
and, althoug-h supposedly well off,
when his death occurred two or
three weeks after his arrival, it was
found that he had no funds and apparently
no friends or relatives. The
body was embalmed by an undertaking
firm and in the absence of
pay, and in the absence of information
and advice from friends or relatives
the body has during these
eight years remained unclaimed at
the undertaking place until last week
when wife No. 1, through her representative,
made claim to the body;
made affidavit that the body was that
of her husband and paying all expenses
claimed and secured the body
for shipment to Baltimore.
The shipment of the body of Asquith
or Lascelle ends a most interesting
and mysterious story. During
the years that the body has remained
unclaimed in Asheville, many
hundreds of people as a result of
the notoriety that the incident attracted
have visited the undertaking
rooms and sought to identify the
body. Several times it was thought
that the body had been identified
by one or more wives, but always the
identification proved a false alarm.
It is said that the man Asquith,
whose body was claimed by a woman
who alleges that she was Jiis
original wife and married to the
woman some twenty years ago in
the "Little Brick Church Around the
Corner," in New York; that they
went to lOurope and lived happily for
a time and that then the man disappeared.
That was the last that
was s> en of him by his wife. It
is said that he was in jail in lOurope;
that he was finally liberated
and later appeared in Italy where
.he sold somebody's yacht and again
"got in bad."
ills care r was checkered and
just how he found his way to Asheville
was never explained. It is
known, however, that when his death
occurred in A.-.h< \ ille ho wore a tie
that was purchased in Texas and
also other el thing purchased in the
Lone Star State, which indicated
that he had come from Texas to
Ashes ill . it was stated that the
real name of the woman who claiini
d the body of her husband is not
named; that, in fact, all persons
ha.ing anything to do with the taking
of the body away will not divulge
t.heir names and the undertakers
and others interested arc pledged
to secrecy.
It is understood that although the
local undertaker who has held the
body of Laseellc for eight years turned
it over to wife No. 1 upon the
payment of actual est, $110, t.hat
the undertakers were recently offered
$5,000 for the body which they
refused in an effort to comply with
the North Carolina law. *
Sato Ilobbers at Work.
At Fargo, Gii., yeggman blow open
t.he oflice of tho Southern Express
Company early Sunday morning and
secured several hundred dollars in
coin, together with a small collevtion
of rare coin placed in tho safe
for safekeeping.
f TO
HORROR OF QUAKES
SURVIVORS FROM COSTA RICA
TKLL OF TIIKIR KSCAPK.
When the City of Cart ago Was Destroyed
and More Than Fifteen
Hundred People Were Killed.
The first survivors of the necent
earthquake in Costa Rica, in which
niore than fifteen hundred lives were
lost in the destruction of Cartago,
.have arrived in this country on the
streamer Prinz Joachim. There were
nearly a dozen of them, mostly tourists,
among them Prof. Philip P.
Calvert of the University of Pennsylvania
and his wife.
Prof. Calvert a well known entomologist,
and his wife had spent
nearly a year in Costa Rica gathering
specimens for the university.
They had a narrow escape when the
one-story abode and plaster hotel in
Cartago, whene they were stopping
was wrecked. Mrs. Calvert thus describes
tlu ir experiences:
"Hotween April 11t and May 4 we
had 1 GO seperate shocks in Cartago.
The one which played the worst havoc
came on the night of the 4th.
We were in our room, when suddenly
t.h> re came a tremor and crash
and everything came down and all
collapsed. How we escaped I don't
know and never will, hut all we got
was a shower bath of dust.
''It was a terrible "experience. The
whole city was simply laid in ruins,
with bodies litering the streets. It
was a scene 1 am very anxious to
forget."
Dr. Walpole Brewer, surgeon of
the Brine Joachim, told of the rescue
work done by the ship's crew.
The Joachim was at Ptr>rt Limon
when Cartago was destroyed, and
when appeals for help came Dr.
Brewer was sent there with six
army nurses. The party arrived at
Cartago twelve hours after,the disaster.
"Our special train," Dr. Brewer
said, "took us through a country
alive with men and women running
hither and thither, shrieking and
praying to be delivered from death.
Sonne tried to scramble aboard the
train and two or three were ground
to death beneath tho wheels as we
sped past. It was the most frightful
spectacle of panic I ever saw.
"Cartago was a city of dead and
woundied. Every person who escaped
injury .had run away. The town
was wrecked and leveled. The Cainegie
Peace palace had less than half
a single wall standing. Every church
was down. At the very (entrance I
found five men and women lying dead
beneath the spire of the cathedral.
In every block we came upon blacks
and whites, wo mien and children,
dead in the debris of houses, stores
and churches."
For two days the relief party remained
in the stricken city, aiding
the wounded and shipping them out
of Cartago. No Europeans or Americans
were found among the dead
or injured." *
LYNCHED THE FIEND.
W'lliv \ i 4 JMfti vif iW 1 hi \wwillllt !l
Child Swung.
Because lie w;is c.harged with attempting
to criminally assaut the
I eight-year-old daughter of Harry Tison,
residing in the western part of
Itaker County, (la., Charlie Wilson,
a negro boy, about I 8 years old, was
lynched at a late hour Friday night
by a mob of citizens, who took the
negro by force from a bailiff before
.he could be landed at the jail at
Xewton. Wilson, it is alleged, attempted
to assault the Tison child
Thursday afternoon, but her screams
wore heard by her father, who caught
the negro and turned him ov r to
t.ho oliicers. Wilson was hanged from
a tree standing near a nuieh 'traveled
road and iiis body was riddled
with bullets. *
TOWNS TOKNADO TORN.
'.term Deals Death and Destruction
in Oklahoma.
Maysville, a small town 1" miles
northwest of Paul Valley, Ok In., was
wiped off the map early Friday evening,
and several persons were killed,
according to meagre reports received.
The town of McCarthy, near
Maysville, was nea.dy all swept aw \y,
and three persons t.hore were k; ied.
All the wires are down. Belief
trains probably will be sent out.
One of the hardest hail storms in
the history of the region swept over
a stretch of country ileal Paul Valley
Friday evening. In places destroying
all signs of vegetation. *
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Trainmen Cremated.
Two trainmen were cremated by
33,000 volts of electricity when a
sleeper on the Illinois Traction system
collided with an electric train
near Lovelace, Mo., Friday. *
THE HOI
DIED IN FIRE
?
Thirty-five Prisoners Cremated When the
Siockade Burned.
FIRE STARTED BY THEM
?
In an Attempt to Make Their Ehoai>e.?All
Efforts to Save Prisoners
Were Futile.?Gruesome Scene
Presented When Flames Subsided.
Fate of Several Unknown.
Thirty-five convicts were burned
to death at an early hour Monday
morning at the I.ucile mines, of the
Red Feather Coal Company, located
in Bibb county, fifteen miles north of
i Cartersville, Ala. The men were cremated
while making desperate efforts
to escape from a burning stockade,
in which they were confined, and other
prisoners were with great difficulty
saved from the same fate.
The stockade was fired by & convict
in attempting to escape, and he,
too, met death in the tlames. Guards
of the camp were aroused by cries
of anguish from the suffering men,
but the stockade burned so rapidly
that their efforts to save all inmates
were futile.
Those who escaped from the stockade,
in w.hich about 100 were confined,
attempted to escape custody,
resulting in one being shot to death.
After the lire the stockade pre-1
seated a gruesome scene, the ground
being covered with baked bodies,
while the groans of those injured
added to the horror of the scene.
All convicts at the Lucile mines
are leased by the State to the Red
Feather Coal Company, of which H.
W. Perry is president, and J. H. Taylor,
superintendent.
-Official information is to the effect
that twenty-six men were burned to
death and twenty-one, several of
w.hom have since died, were seriously
burned. Three white convicts wore
confined at the camp, hut it is not
known whether these met death.
Several guards were slightly bumon
while attempting to rescue the convicts.
State Convict Inspector Hugh
Wilson .has been sent to the scene,
and the Governor has offered assistance.
The camps were inspected
several weeks ago and were repor.ed
in good condition.
The stockade was fired from the
inside, a plan having been formulated
to make a general escape. The fi-o
burned more rapidly, it. is be'isvel,
than the man who set fire to the
building expected, and instead of furnishing
a means of escape, the men
succumbed to the flames.
The fire was discovered after it
naa maae sucn neauway, an; iu?
guards and other men, who ware nttracted
to the scene, had all they
could do to got out some of the men
who wore locked in the colls and to
prevent those who were released f-om
getting away.
News of the fire spread through
Bibb county, and other coal communities
have gone to the assistance
of the Rod leather Company. Th<
bodies of the convicts will ho binned
near the scone of the conllagvatdon
as soon as the company and S.no
officials have made a full investigation
in the matter.
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.\ I.itle Charleston Lad Is (In* Latest
\ ift im.
The News and Courier says at mid-J
n i -*.lit Tuesday night a report from!
the hedsivie of little ltaymond Livingston,
the six-year-old c.hild of Mr.
.1. K. Livingston, who was bitten by
a stray mad dog at Ceorge and St.
Philip streets on the morning of j
April 10, was to tin? effect that the i
child was not expected to last through
the night.
IHr. I'Mward M. Poykin was in at-!
tendance on the little fellow at that
hour and stated that the child had a
genuine- case of hvdroph >i>ia, an 1
! 1
would not live to see t ne dawn. l.no!
lad was s i/.ed with an attack on
.Monday, and although all was done
for him taht was possible, his life
was dispairod of almost from then. 1
Th e sympathy of the entire city is,
with the child and his stricken paronl
c
V ".O. |
Raymond was given the full Pastour
treatment at Atlanta ami returned
to the city the early part of
the month, apparently on the road to
recovery. The wounds 011 his face
were practically .healed up and it was
thought that all danger of hydrophobia
had been eliminated. On Monday,
however, a change set In and
the fellow sank rapidly. All that,
medical science and loving and ten-1
dor hands could do for the suffering
child was done, but, it Is feared, all
to no avail. J
1RY HER
ONE HUNDRED DEAD
AM) AS MANY MOKE WOUNDED
BY TWO EXPLOSIONS.
A Ton and a Half of Giant Powder
in Cuban Guard Barrack* Goeii
Off.
Two almost simultaneous explosions
of stores of dynamite, supposed
to consist of 3,000 pounds, completely
demolished the rural guard barracks
in the city of Pinar Del Rio,
Cuba, Thursday afternoon. Fully
100 persons were killed and nearly
as many were wounded.
^ r * i* ~ j *
must ui tin,* ut'au were rural
guards, but the entire families of
several of the officers of the rural
guard, it is reported, were killed
also, as well as several employes of
the public works department and residents
of the city, on which fell a deluge
of masonry and debris from the
blown-up building, rt is not known
yet w.hether the explosion was the
result of an accident or was due to
an act of conspirators, but the former
is considered the most probable.
Several relief trains carrying surgeons.
officers and men of the rural
guards and government started that
afternoon from Habaua to the scene
of the catastrophe.
The names of the dead have not
yet been reported witJi the exception
of Capt. Ravena and Capt. Heiancour
of the garrison and their families,
who are believed to be buried
in the ruins of the officers' quarters
adjacent to the barracks.
The barracks was a massive build
nig ui opuiiisu cuusii uuiiuii <uiu uuc111)ie(1
a site on the outskirts of
t.he city to the north. During the
late intervention it was the headquarters
of Col. Parker's regiment,
the Eleventh cavalry. Adjacent to
the barracks was a long row of officers
quarters. The barracks was occupied
by the public works department
and four troops of rural cavalry.
In consequence of the alarm over
race disturbances the government ordered
all deposits of dynamite in the
city in the posession of contractors
for road construction and other public
works to be removed to the barracks
for safekeeping. Thursday afternoon
the work of removing the
dynamite from the barracks for ship
meat to tne government magazine
was begun by employes of the public
works department, assisted by rural
guards.
According to reports received the
mangled remains of victims were
found in the street of the city a
mile from the scene of the explosion.
There is great anxiety in Hubana,
owing to the fact that a large number
of the rural guards at Piar Del
Rio recently were sent from the city,
where their families reside.
The explosions occurred at five
o'clock, a tew second before the men
would have quit work. It is generally
believed that the first resulted
from the accidental fall of a box of
dynamite, which was being lifted on
a waston. It is impossible, however,
to determine absolutely the cause,
for the reason that all in t.he immediate
vicinity were blown to fragments.
It is believed the majority
of the wounded are residents of the
town, as practically all within the
onrraoKs were instantly Kineu or ouriod
in the ruins.
The work of exhuming t.he dead
and searching for those who may
he alive i; going on hut is greatly
retarded by ihe destruction of the
electric wires and the fear that a
quantity of unexploded dynamite remains
in t he ruins.
They <?ot Scared.
Hoys sent up a number of lire balloons
with skyrockets attached during
Wednesday night at Talladega,
\la., and many negro, s set ing them
and thinking the comet was going
to do damage, lied in t rror. The
reports reaching .hero say that practically
all th inhabi'ants id' certain
quarters rushed away and gathered
it anotiter place and b gan at once
to pray.
("rack of Doom.
Hundreds of negroes in Savannaa
spent Wednesday, night fasting and
praying, fearing ev- ry moment to
hear the ' crack o' doom." Not much
labor was gotten from them during
the day, so great is their fear of
the comet. T.he evident concern in
the negro quarters of the city was
very great.
Youiiir Dank Cashier.
Earl P. Martin, of Donald's, S. C.?
holds the record for neing the youngest
hank cashier in the United States.
He is eighteen years of age and was
elected cashier of the Bank of Donald
Tuesday. E. A ft Merger, of Belvit,
Kas., aged 20, is the next youngest
cashier.
ALD