The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 02, 1910, Image 4
REVILES LEE
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Sone Pension Drawer at Chicago Slanders
the Great Soldier.
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STILL AFRAID OF DIM
Compares Great Southern Patriot
and L/eader to Benedict Arnold,
and Objects to His State Itemain
ing in the llall of Fame, in (lie I
City of Washington.
Inveighing against the placing of
the statue of Gen. ltobt. E. Lee, in
the Hall of Fame, in Washington,
Col. Jasper T. Darling, past commander
of Columbia Post, G. A. It.,
Chicago, Monday night addressed the
initial camp fires of the State encampment
of the Illinois G. A. It.
'He compared Robert E. Lee to
Benedict Arnold and prophesied that
the acceptance of the statue of the
Confederate leader would be a step
toward pensioning Confederate soldiers
and opening the way to the
Federal Government assuming the
burden of Confederate war bonds..
In part the speaker said: "So long
as treason is considered a crime
against constitutional law, the stat
- f T s*nr\ li a vo no
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' abiding place in that pantheon dedicated
to the heroes of the Revolution,
and to those whose achievements
have contributed to the triumphs
of this Republic."
The main portion of the address
was in support of the contention that
Gen. Lee was not convinced of the
justice of the cause for which he
drew his sword and that he, therefore,
should have no claim to the
name of patriot. The speaker based
his argument on a letter from Gen.
Lee to his son, Curtis Lee, the text
of which he obtained from a publication
of a Southern historian.
"Speaking of the impending war,
the letter as published," said Mr.
Darling, read: " 'The framers of our
Constitution never could have exhausted
so much labor, wisdom, and
forbearance on its formation and
surrounded it with so many guards
and supports if it was intended to be
v.*.*-,!*-anv momhpr of thfi Con
U A Vf 1\ V-? 1A U J J *? V >vvr- ? - ? ? - - federacy
at will.
" 'It is intended for a perpetual
union, so expressed in the preamble,
and for the establishment of a Government,
not a compact, which can
be dissolved only by a revocation
of the consent of all the people in
convention assembled. .
" 'It is idle to talk of secession;
anarchy would otherwise have been
established and not a Government
by Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson,
Madison and all the other patriots of
the Revelution.'
"The words of that message and
his subsequent acts cannot be reconciled,"
said the speaker. "If his
conscience dictated tJiat letter, then
what accursed influence caused him
to embrace anarchy just nimety days
later?anarchy as he himself had
pictured it?
"What does all this mean? It
moano^'mj a solid Sout.h. the Daugh
ters and Sons, propose to make
Washington a Westminster Abbey
for the rebel uniform; and so not
only vindicate, but glorify the rebel
sword.
"Then what? Simply another bill
pensioning all Confederate soldiers.
And long before this century reaches
its meridian British bondholders will
knock at liberty's treasury door and
say: 'Redeem.' "
THE WAGES OF SIN.
Young lonely School Teacher Takes
Her Own Life.
Miss Minnie Alders, 20 years old
a school teacher of Princeville, 111.
was found dead in bed at a hote
at Peoria, 111., with three bullei
wounds in her body Sunday. On<
had pierced the left lung and th<
other entered her heart. Her com
panion, S. T. Easterly, of Chillicothe
111., a freight conductor for the San
ta Fe, is detained by the polio
pending an investigation. No charg
has been entered against him. Eae
t?riv and Miss Alder came to Peori
on Saturday and registered at th
hotel as man a"d wife. Accord! ;
to Easterly, the girl spent most o
the time in tears. Ho said 1m lef
her early Sunday morning and wen
down stairs. He was absent abou
15 minutes, he said. When ho r<
turned he found her dead.
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Tears Shoe to Shreds.
At Wilmington, N. C., during
severe electric storm Miss Caledoni
Roderick was struck by lightnin*
and her right shoe torn to shred*
She was knocked unconscious bu
f examined later by a physician show
ed that no injury resulted other tha
I the severe shock and a slight bur
on her right foot.
Snow Storm.
Northern New Mexico was in th
grip of a heavy snow storm Sunda
night. The storm evidently is a cor
tlnuation of the one that swept ovf
IE southern and* eastern Colorado Sa
urday. Considerable live stock wil
be lost.
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WANT SQUARE DEAL
FOR THE NEGRO BY THE SOUTHERN
WHITE PEOPLE.
Some Broad Statements Made at the
Southern Baptist Convention on
the Race Question.
When B. D. Gray, secretary of
the home mission board, responded
to the call from hundreds of voices
at t.he Southern Baptist Convention
he did not prove disappointing, says
the Baltimore American of Saturday.
As the negro was the question for
discussion, he seemed to voice the
sentiment of all present when he
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said: "We have got to treat the negro
right; we have got to get rid of
some of our inherent meanness and
give them a Just deal. The best
thing to do for the negro is to
set him a good example. There are
10,000,000 in our land, and not the
hundreds of millions in Africa of
this or any other race concern us as
much as those in our midst."
The Rev. Dr. George W. McDaniel,
of Richmond, Va., in another address
on the negro problem said he hoped
to see the day come when the negro
would be given justice in the Courts.
"I blush," he said, "when I think
of the negro given the limit of the
law for a petty crime and the white
man set free for the same crime
merely because his skin is white and
ho has the influence. Negroes are
not Baptists because they know so
little, but because they read with
unbiased minds the Word of God.
When we think of them and how they
were the guards of our women when
the men of the South were oh! to
war?I say we need to do the negroes
of the South justice. '
I>r. MoDaniel reported on negroes
for the committee appointed to consider
thr.t subject, tie stated, from
the report, that the Baptists were doing
nr. r to evangelize the 9,000,000
negroes of the South than all the
other denominations combined. He
said that $12,000 had been expended
in the work, and that 25 negro
missionaries were employed. Two
hundred and sixty-five Bible conferences
had been held, he said, for negroes,
at which 1 9,555 pastors and
deacons attended. ' Ho explained
that the missionary work among Hie
negroes was done by the home mission
board of the Northern Convention.
He stated that the relations
between the white Baptists and the
negroes were of the most cordial
character, and recommended that the
present policy be pursued in the personal
activity of the pastors coming
among the negroes in evangelizing
them.
An appeal from the Baptists of
the North, asking that their or?thr\t
tKn Cmith q(H t V> 0 m In t ^ U ; n ?v
1 V-li \J L MiV UVU1U MIV4 vtviu V.-.. , care
of the negroes, was referred to
a special committee, and may create
a grave crisis in the Convention
should it come up at a future session.
The appeal came from the
American Baptist Home Mission Society,
with headquarters in New
York. For years the sentiment of
Northern Baptists toward the mgn
has been gradually changing, and,
as one of the delegates stated, "The
Northerners have come to realize
that the negro is no angel and we
are not heathens." "They used to
call us heathens," he said, "because
we didn't go at the work very strenuously.
Our policy has been to
evangelize the negro and educate
him in morals and the Bible. This
appeal is very much out of place.
T.he Northern Baptists want us to
educate the negro along their lines
by giving him an education in
science, literature, philosophy and
what not."
1 MAKES LONG FLIGHT.
In Aeroplane and Is Given a $10,000
Prize.
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1 Glenn II. Curtiss flew from AlI
bany to New York city in an aeroi
plane Sunday winning the $10,00C
a, prize offered by t.he New York World
He covered the distance of 137 miles
in two hours and thirty minutes, ant
I came to earth as calmly and as lighi
,, as a pigeon. His average speed foi
e the distance, 54.6 miles an hour, sur
_ passes any record ever made by at
a aeroplane in long distance flights
e and in its entirety his feat perhapi
g eclipses anything man has ever at
f tempted in a heavier than air ma
. chine.
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t Killed Abont Game.
At Anderson Hugh Alexander an<
John Polite, negro lads of 17 am
13 years of age, respectively, quar
relied over a game of checkers. Al
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g examer picavu up ? uuui^uu c?nv?
a ed on Polite, the shot causing instan
r death. Alexander attempted to rui
5' away, but was captured.
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r. Must Remain.
n The department of Illinois, G. A
n R., at Freeport, 111., Thursday table*
as "ill advised" the resolution call
ing upon President Taft to take step
to remove the statue of Robert E
e Lee from the Hall of Fame at Wash
y ington and return it to the custod
l- forty-five thousand.
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I- A girl is awful smart to be
II with a man so as to make .him
he is the one.
TILLMAN'S CONDITION
THE SENATOR IS STILL RAPIDLY
IMPROVING.
The Dispatches from Atlanta Saying
He Had a Relapse Were Entirely
False.
Dispatches from Atlanta Saturday
to the effect that Senator Tillman had
(.eveloped raeumatism follow'*!# an
effusion of blood 011 the brain nod
had been ordered to a sail'tar mm
in that city for immediate tr?u meat
f j this new affection are exa<aC?to
| end misleading, according ro Dr.
.1. V. Labcock and Col. August. Kohn
of Cn)cinijia, uot.ii of whom hav ' 'ir.>i,i
V UPHI1 P-Jinsts of Sfi'iatOi* Til
iv-.i af Trenton.
After a careful study of Ili3 st?.ator's
condition, Dr. Babeock made
the following statement:
"I find Senator Tillman in a very
comfortable condition; in fact, lie is
rr.noil be*i r tnao i r-o'er expvlt-l to
see him again, considering the nature
of the attack he had last winter
in Washington. His expression
is good, and his speech natural. The
only effects remaining from the paralytic
attack are a numbness and
dragging of the right foot and leg.
"The treatment followed so far
has largely been that of rest and
diet and under this regimen }e
has reached his present improveed
condition; therefore the future
management of the case will be along
these lines and every effort made to
secure for him rest, quiet, freedom
from care and worry. For the pres*
ent the senator has decided to return
to the sanittarium in Atlanta,
where experience in formed iluiej-s
has resulted in benefit. Suggestions
are frequently made that Senator
Tillman spend some months abroad.
This question cannot be determined
at the present time, and its ultimate
decision will depend largely on Senator
Tillman's physical strength.
"Considering th seriousness ? f
his attack last winter his present I
condition is all that his physicians
could have any rig.ht to expect. '
"How about Senator Ti'l.nan.n
Rheumatism?" Dr. BaUcock was
asked.
"Senator Tillman has no rheumatism,
as far as I could see, or he
could describe. He continues his
gymnastic exercises, as he has been
doing since his return from Europe,
and says that sometimes his right
shoulder joint is 'rusty,' meaning, I
suppose, that motion of the joint is
less free than 'formerly. This, 1
suppose, is the basis of the rumor
that he has rheumatism."
Col Kohn says: "This was Dr.
Babcock's medical view of Senator
Tillman's condition, I saw him about
six weeks ago and then wrote an
account of his condition, and to a
layman's eye there Is the most marked
and decided improvement in Senator
Tillman's condition. Six weeks
ago he had to be supported in walking;
now .he can and does walk without
any support. He used a Swiss
walking cane, but he gets about without
it. Six weeks ago he spoke in
monosyllables; now he talks freely
and starts discussions. He laughs
and cracks jokes and is in the best
of humor. This may mean much or
little medically, but is indicative of
.his feeling."
STRUCK BY LIHTNING.
Thirty Thousand Barrels of Oil Is
Burned Up.
A severe electrical storm, accompanied
by rain and wind, vis;' :.J
Sour Lake, Texas, Sunday morning
between 12 and 1 o'clock, doing considerable
damage to derricks and
ot.her oil property. Lightning struck
a steel tank belonging to the Texas
i Oil company, which contained about
3 0,000 barrels of oil, valued at $4
a barrel. The tank and contents
were totally destroyed by fire. This
is the second storm in the vicinity,
> within the past week, which has destroyed
and damaged oil fields prop'
erty estimated at about $150,000.
J 1)1101) FAR FROM HOME.
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North Carolinhui Out West Mwt>
1 Sudden Death.
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b The decapitated and mangled bod)
" of A. A. Icaru of Hudson, N. C., was
" found on the track of the Northerr
Pacific Railway near Lester, Wash.
Monday. He had been drinking ant
it is supposed lay down on the tracl
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1 and wont to sieep. j\. s\. icmu ?n<
J 21 years old and came from Nortl
- Carolina about a year ago, it is said
- and was employed as a logger. J
- cousin, George Icard, took charge o
t the body and will send it to hi
q home for interment.
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Hums Proved Fatal.
Mrs. Joseph T. Patten, of Onaws
l. Iowa, who was burned Thursday al
rt ternoon while washing out a "rat
I- used irt her hair, in gasoline, an
s was hurried to a hospital, died earl
j, Friday.
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v Made IIim Leave.
* Following thr? publication of al
d offensive articles in his papei
N. Hryant, a negro was driven on
j ?>r Hrookhaven, Miss., and his plan
mid residence burned.
MET IN FOG
Large Steel Steamers in Collision in^the
Night on Huron Bay.
BABY AMONG THE DEAD
Several Sailors Were Killed by Fall*
ing Hatches Before They Could
Jump Overboard.?It Is Not Now
Known llow Muny Were Lost in
the Accident.
News reached Port Huron, Mich.,
Tuesday that 17 lives were lost in
the collision of two bis steal freight
steamers on Lake Huron, north of
Point aux Barques, in a dense fog
Monday morning and that the steamer
Frank H. Goodyear of Cleveland
was sunk in 4 7 fathoms of water.
The steamer James B. Wood, of
Cleveland, which struck the Goodyear,
limped into Port Huron harbor
Tuesday, with a big hole in her
hull, carrying half a dozen survivors
of the Gocdyear.
The latter carries a crew of 23
men and several passengers. Capt.
F. It. Heminger, of Algonac, Mich.,
who commanded the Goodyear; Chief
Engineer Gibson, Steward Davis Barrett,
one wheelman and two passengers,
Mrs.. Thomas H. Bassett and
daughter of Marine City, Mich., were
saved and brought to Port Huron
on the Steamer Wood.
The only hope of the survival of
the others who were on board the
Goodyear lies in the possibility of
their .having been rescued by the
steamer William Siemens, \v*hich was
near the scene of the wreck.
Both the Wood and the Goodyear
are big vessels, the Wood 514 feet
long and t?lie Goodyear 43 G feet. The
former is a steel s.hip. The Goodyear
passed the Soo downbound at 10.30
Saturday and the Wood passed Port
Huron up-bound at 7.20 p. in. Sunday.
Many of the Goodyear's crew were
killed by falling hatches before tiiey
had a chance to jump into the water.
All had life preservers when their
vessel sank. The Goodyear's cook
had his baby dashed from his arms
from a falling hatch and the infant
was lost.
FIGHTING IN NICARAGUA.
Fourteen Insurgents Killed and a
Great Many Hurt.
Two days fighting near Rama.
Nicaragua, cost the Estrada forces
fourteen In killed and twenty-niuc
wounded, according to a report to
afofft nAn?rtment from Consul
Moffat, at Blueflelds. The casualties
of the 'Madriz forces, he adds, were
not learned. Gen. Menan retired, after
the fight, to his retrenchments
Large quantities of amunition and
provisions, said to be the entire stores
of the Madriz forces at Bluefields,
he reports, were said to have been
captured by General Mencada, of the
Estrada faction.
ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE.
An Alabamian Who Tries Various
Ways to Die.
At Cottonwood, Ala., W. J. Lord,
a prominent farmer and a leader of
the Christian Science sect, is in a
precarious condition as the result of
four alleged attempts to commit suicide.
With his mind wronght up
over the proximity of Halley's comet,
it is stated, and believing that he
had sinned against the Holy Ghost,
Lord is said to have made an attempt
to shoot himself. Unsuccessful
in this, he jumped off a roof,
and fell on his head, knocking out
his teeth and sustaining other injuries.
He then cut his throat and
jumped Into a well.
? RAIN
STOPS FIRE.
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Timely Showers Prevent Destruction
of a Town.
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A fire at Texakana, Ark., which
destroyed thre> business houses at 2
'* o'clock Sunday morning, caused a
j Joss of $i 00,000. The flames origi
tnated In the second floor of a cloth.
ing establishment. The Norwood
1 building, one of the oldest landmarks
* in the city, was destroyed. The fire
8 department, was hampered from the
"? lack of water pressure and a heavy
? downpour of rain at an opportune
^ time prevented the flre sweeping one
f of the principal business blocks of
8 the city and the city hall.
They Got Scared.
Boys sent up a number of flre balb
loons with skyrockets attached dur
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~ Ing Wednesday nigiu at immuvga,
Ala., and many negroes seeing them
d and thinking the comet was going
y to do damage, fled In terror. The
reports reaching here say that practically
all the inhabitants of certain
quarters rushed away and gathered
I- at another place and began at once
r, to pray.
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it One good deed can deserve anot-h
er a long time without getting it.
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jZc Horry County, and a pioneer
ly allied with the recent deve
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jLL United States Bonds, we are pr
tomers any reasonable accoinm
fll. A. SPIV MY,
Cashier.
NcjLjro and the Courts.
Dr. George W. McDaniel, in an
address on Uie race question before 1
the Southern Baptist convention said
he hoped to see the day whsn the
ngero would be given justice in the
courts. He said he blushed when e
thought of the negro being giver- the
limit of the law for petty crimes and
. >e whise ut.-n ?vas set iicc when
charged with the same crime simply
because his skin Jo white and he d
'rfluence.
The good doctor is clean off his
base if he thinks for one moment
that the negro does not get justice
in our courts. So far as his properfv
rights are concerned, th^ negro
has "e san;-> chance before oui
en i? that the white man has, a? d
we have never known a jury to fail
to protect a negro in his prrperty
rights. On several occasions ju -ijs
have given negroes negroes heavy
damages for injuries on railroids or
in factories or in mills.
So far as the criminal Bide of the
court is concerned the negro gets
more than justice. Hundreds of
them who should be convictel an 1
punished for crime are acquitted by
white juries all over the South. The
fact that more white men escape
deserved punishment than negroes
who deserve punishment furnishes no
argument that the negro is done an
injustice by the juries and courts. I
If every negro guilty of crime is
convicted and punished, and every
white man guilty of crime is acquitted,
no injustice is done the negro.
He has only been punished for violating
the law, which is right and
proper. The injustice is done the
law abiding public by the acquittal
of white men who should be punished.
The fact that white criminals
escape punishment is no reason why
negro criminals should not be punished.
Instead of eternally harping on
the failure of the negro to get justice,
we should harp on the failure
of our courts to convict white criminals
the same as it convicts negro
criminals. It is not a question of
justice to the negro, but a questior.
of t.he miscarriage of justice in the
failure to convict white men for
crimes they commit. There are not
too many convictions of negroes that
deserve punishment, but there are
too manv acquittals of white men
who should be punished.
Trainmen Cremated.
Two trainmen were cremated by
33,000 volts of electricity when a I
sleeper on the Illinois Traction system
collided with an electric train
near Eovelace, Mo., Friday. *
It is said that the reason why King
Edward's ol>sequies are made such
a holiday event is because things are
so slow in England t.hat even a fun
11 Hlrr? n fostlvitV. It is a
U lit 1 1 WW IV o nil V u .
pity we don't adopt some of England's
slow ways.
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Wlhen it is remembered that Teddy
represents us at King Edward's funeral
no fear need be entertained of
the success of the solemn occasion.
Teddy will show Uiem dull forefathers
of ours a funeral strut that
they will never forget.
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At a dinner to be given in St.
i Louis on June 2 the friends of Joseph
W. Folk will launch his cami
paign for t.he Democratic nomination
I for the presidency in 1012. If Gov.
? Harmon succeeds himself as governor
of Ohio this fall. Folk's friends
will have to keep him on cold storage
. until 1916 as Gov. Harmon would
get the nomination in 1912.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
H. H. WOODWARD
Attorney and Councelor At Law.
CON WAV, 8. C.
n, u. ov//tnui>vuviu
CONWAY, 8. C.
Attorney at Law.
H. H. BURROUGHS
Physician and Bargeoa
CONWAY, 8. C.
a WOFFORD WAIT.
Attorney at La/
Bank of Horry Building.
CONWAY, 8. O.
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Dr. B. D. Gray, on the floor of t.he
Southern Baptist Convention at Baltimore
last week, said: "We have
got to treat the negro right; we have
got to get rid of some of our fnheri
ent meanness and give the necro a
square deal." In what way is the
negro not given a square deal in the
South? Our good brother ought to
specify. Such talk does the South
great harm w.hen it comes from
such a man as Dr. Gray. The negro
has just as square a deal here as he
! does anywhere in the universe
The petition to pardon Morse V
securing many names, and some ol
those who howl the loudest about
the "man higher up" being brought
to justice were among the first tfl
sign it.
The more money a man will spend
on dowers for his wife the less h4
| will want to spend on necessaries for
j her.