The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 16, 1910, Image 4
THE FIRST GUN
Hn StateCampaign Opeied on Thirsdaj
at a Large Barbecie
AN INFORMAL MELTING
All the Candidates for Governor Are
p?"^nt and Tell People Where
They Stand on the Public Questions
of the Pay.?Dr. Ray Criticised
Ivever's Vote.
The State campaign was opened |
at an informal barbecue held in a I
grove near Hatesburg on Thursday.
Bach speaker was allowed thirty
minutes and lots were drawn for the
order of speaking by the candidates
for governor.
Mr. Featlierstone drew first choice
and opened up at once with a plea
for prohibition. He had been told,
he said, that he could be elected governor
easily if he cut out that plank
in his platform and did not stress
it so much. He would rather be defeated
than cut it out because he
?iqh f^ncrht fnr it for twelve years
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before when candidate for governor.
The argument that prohibition did
not prohibit was absurd. No law
prohibits, but it reduces. Prohibition
would reduce the consumption
of liquor.
At least half of the inmates of the
asylums and penitentiaries cau trace
their present condition to the use of
whiskey. If prohibition would cut
this number down 25 or 50 per cent
would not that be of some benefit to
society? There were 3 47 homicide
cases in the State last year and of
these 65 per cent, were traced to
liquor. If liquor could be eliminated
would not that be of benefit?
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Thos. G. McLoed was next introduced
by Mr. Edwards. Mr. McLeod
referred to his official record
and to his services as lieutenant governor.
He discussed education and
the work he had done for schools and
colleges. The people had years before
made mistakes in not making
the common school the basic foundation
as was the case now. The spirit
of education was now abroad in the
land, which means much to the State.
He also stressed good roads and scored
the tax dodgers .heavily in his
argument for equalization of property.
He made a plea for a continued
appropriation for pensions.
As to the liquor question he was no
advocate for selling, but thee matter
must be sanely dealt with. He had no
apology to offer for defending that
Democratic doctrine of local option.
There was nothing for prohibitionists
to do but build up a sentiment
for prohibition, for no law could be
enforced unless there was a sentiment
for its enforcement. He thought
the whole matter "a carefully preserved
and canned issue" to be
brought up from time to time. He
did not believe in over-riding the
will of the people. He promised if
elected to perform all duties faithfully
and enforce the laws.
P. H. Hyatt.
After dinner F. H. Hyatt was the
next speaker. Mr. Hyatt went out
of the ordinary line and delivered an
address on the progress of South
Carolina. He did not consider it a
political gathering, he said, having
been invited by the ladies committee
of a church to deliver an address at
a church barbecue. Therefore he did
r?r?t tnuph at all on the whiskey
matter or on taxation. His opening
remarks called attention to rural
schools and their relation to good
roads. The two were closely connected.
Only one man in each hundred
ever thinks. The others let
this one man do their thinking.
Therefore, the necessity for schools
and colleges. He commended the
action of the State board of education
in selecting Prof. Tate as inspector
of rural schools. A man
very often paid more attention to
his stock than he did to the kind
of instruction his children were re-!
ceiving at the schools.
He briefly reviewed the progress
made in road building in the past
ten years and gave some interesting
figur? b along that line. He told of
the work of the farmers and the
Southern Cotton association in raising
the price of cotton and in urging
the farmer to plant other crops. Over
100,000 circulars had been mailed
out by the association describing the
Williamson plan for planting corn.
The wealth of the South was enormous
and constantly growing, but
there should be modern methods applied
and for this end all of us must
work.
John G. Richards was introduced
next. Mr. Richards reviewed his 20
years of service in oflice of which 10
years v/eTe in the general assembly.
He was proud to say that in this time
he had always favored education for
high and low. He had advocated appropriations
not only for the common
schools but for the colleges as
well. He pointed to the bills, introduced
by him and passed, increasing
the number of rural schools in the
State and the measures providing for
educational scholarships at Winthrop
and Clemson colleges; appropriations
that enabled the poorest boy or girl
to receive a college education. He
tressed the work being done for the
GEORGIA POLITICS
WATSON AND EDWARDS MAKE
THE WIRES HOT.
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Mr. Watson Threatens to Prosecute,
and Congressman Edwards Says
"Make Charges Good."
The Atlanta Journal saya a new
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controversy between Congressman
Charles Gordan Edwards, of Savannah,
and Thomas E. Watson, of
Thomson, concerning charges of immorality
made by Watson against
Edwards. Tart telegrams were exchanged
in an interesting passage at
arms.
Mr. Watson threatens to prosecute
Congressman Edwards for false
swearing. Mr. Edwards challenges
Mr. Watson to make good on his
original charge of immorality, or go
unnoticed in the future. j
Mr. Watson's telegram follows:
"Come into the jurisdiction of the
courts of Georgia and make oath
to the statements contained in your
telegram and in your card in the
Savannah Press, if you dare do it,
and I will prosecute you criminally
for false swearing.'
Congressman Edwards' wire follows:
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denounced your charges as false and
have challenged you to name witnesses.
Comply with this like a
man, ^otherwise you shall go unnoticed.."
Mr. Watson precipitated the controversy
with the congressman when,
in his paper, he called upon Mr. Edwards
to answer several pertinent,
not to say sensational questions. He
dared Mr. Edwards to deny a charge
of immorality.
Congressman Edwards accepted
Mr. Watson's dare. He did deny the
charge. He branded it as an infamous
lie, and so wired Mr.. Watson.
It was his telegraphic denial that
called forth Mr. Watson's telegram
Tuesday morning, threatening to
prosecute Mr. Edwards for false
swearing.
(.Vx>k Sues Peary.
According to dispatches Dr. Frederick
A. Cook, the artic explorer, has
entered suit in the Berlin courts
against Commander Robt. E. Peary.
farmer at Clemson and told of his
record as a member of tne warmers
union.
He was tired of the whiskey question.
He -had hoped that for once in
20 years .the candidates could come
before the people with matters of
more importance. Since, however,
the first fcpeaker had taken up as his
leading topic whiskey, he would inform
all how he stood. He was a
prohibitionist, both in theory and
practice.
Oole Jj. Blease.
Cole L. Bleaee took as his subject
"Render unto Caesar the things
that are Caesar's and render unto
God the things that are God'l." He
did not touch on the liquor question
but devoted his time to a review of
certain conditions in this State in
several periods?that of 1860, of
187 0, of 1 890, and the present. He
called attention to the work of the
men confronting him and their forefathers
that made the name# of Lee
and Jackson imperishable; to the
work of the same men in 1876 who
made Hampton governor and then
later, in 1 890 these same men made
the reforms possible under the leadership
of B. R. Tillman.
Winthrop and Clemson are monuments
to this movement. Two
years ago he had endeavored to
make taxation the issue with the people
of tne State and the newspapers
laughed at the idea. Examine the
tax receipts for the past several
years and show how the taxes have
gradually mounted. He wanted to
stress the fact that the legislature
makes the laws, the governor only
suggesting.
Jolin T. Duncan.
.In characteristic manner, John T.
Duncan, of Richland, addressed the
voters, lie said:
"Those who can't read have been
taught to curse Duncan," Mr Duncan
assailed the newspapers, proclaiming
himself to be a reformer. He touched
on the dangers of vice, the dispensary,
the "public offices and
Courts, reeking with rottenness."
and referred especially to the Asylum
investigation and many other
matters.
l>r. W. W. Kay.
Congressman Lever was not present
and W. W. Hay, was introduced
as his opponent Dr. Hay touched
on the tariff and the necessity for
the people becoming more familiar
with national subjects. He thought
the present high cost of living was
on account of the Hepublican tariff.
The party had broken faith with the
people.
.Dr. Hay attacked Congressman
Lever's vote for the tariff on lumber,
holding that Mr. Lever had, for the
benefit of the few gone back on the
Democratic platform and violated his
nlndc#> as a Democrat. This vote was
in direct opposition to the principles
of the democracy of Jefferson.
He was sorry Mr. Lever was not
present to answer certain questions
he would like to ask. If the man
serving the people proves true to
his trust, keep him in office; if he
proves false turn him oit
STALWARTS WERE BEATEN
Tlie Insurgents Cleaned Them Up in
Iowa Districts.
In Iowa eight progressives and
three standpatters were nominated
for congress. Following are the congressional
delegates:
Republican?First district, C. A.
Kennedy, standpatter; Second, Chas.
Grilk, progressive; Third, C. E. Pickett,
progressive; Fourth, Gilbert N.
Ilaugen, progressive; Fifth, James
Good, progressive; Sixth, N. E. Kendell,
progressive; Seventh, S. F.
Prouty, progressive; Eigth, S. M.
Tn,?noii atanrfnnttpr. f.John DarraJi.
progressive, claims it); Ninth, Walter
I. Smith, standpatter; Tenth, A.
Frank P. Woods, progressive; Eleventh,
E. H. Hubbard, progressive.
Democrats?First, B. A. S. Pollard;
Second, J. A. DeArmond;
Third, John Dennison, (J. C. Murtagh
claims it); Fourth, D. D. Murphy;
Fifth, S. C. Hubel; Sixth, Daniel W.
Hamilton; Seventh, Clint L. Price;
Eighth; F. Q. Stuart; Ninth, W. L.
Cleveland; Tenth, no " candidate;
Eleventh, no candidate.
Almost complete unofficial returns
from the Seventh district give
turns from the Seventh district give
Prouty 1,100 over Hull. This reversal
is decided, as two years ago Hull
was nominated by 4 0 votes.
BRAINS KNOCKTD OUT.
An Unknown Man Tries to Jump Off
Fast Moving Train.
a ?1-? m o n in f rvintr
/All IinMlunii n line man ill 1,1 J >.(,
to jump from Southern train No.
30, north of Toccoa, Ga., was killed
Monday night. His brains were
battered by the rocks in a cut as
the porter .held his legs to keep
him from jumping out of a train
window.
Passengers on the train noticed
the peculiar actions of the traveler
for some time before the accident.
Finally he went into the rear of the
coach. After a while the porter, who
feared that some trouble was brewing,
followed the stranger. He
arrived just in time to see him
jump out of the window. The porter
caught his legs, but the body
of the traveler out of the window
as the train passed through a deep
cut, the body of the man struck
the projecting rocks and his brains
were beaten out against tJie bank.
The body was taken back to Toe
coa. The man carried a ticket reading
from Augusta to New York, but
no other means of identification.
FIFTY THOUSAND STOLEN.
Hope to Catch the Thieves When Papers
Are Offered.
That William Miner, president of
the William M. Miner Company, of
Chicago, was robbed of $50,000
while en route from Chicago to New
York last Thursday night has become
known.
Detectives in New York have been
working on the case, but no aninouncpment
had heretofore been
made, as it was hoped that th.
thieves might be caught while trying
to disi>08e of some of the negotiable
paper included in the lot
amount.
The money was in a traveling bag
which he had at his side in his
berth in the sleeping car. He did
not discover his loss until he reached
his hotel in New York. About
half the sum was in the shape of
a negotiable letter of credit on which
payment has been stopped.
STUCK TO THE PLASTER.
Woman Puts Fifty IK?Ilar Iiill on
Husband's Hack.
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A s.nort time ago a III ere nam ui
Middletown, N. Y., on retiring for
the night left some hills on the top
of a dresser. He had a lame back
and asked his wife to prepare a porous
plaster. 'She did 60, hut after
heating it accidently dropped it on
the dresser. In picking it up she
did not. notice the $50 bill clinging
to it and applied it to her husband's
hack. The bill was missed and servants
were suspected of .haven stolen
Jt. The whohe household worried
over the matter until last night tJie
merchant removed his porous plaster
and the bill was found sticking
to it so firmly that it could not be
removed without tearing it to pieces.
The merchant wi 1 s<jnd the plaster to
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demption.
| Stormy Life Closed.
"My whole life has been bo stormy
that I can't believe that it is a sin
to go thie way." Leaving this brief
but pathetic message as an excuse
for her act, also a letter to her husband
in which she chided him for
his lack of affection and support,
Mrs. W. H. Heaton of Tampa, Fla.,
Tuesday committed suicide at an Atlanta
hotel by inhaling chloroform.
Fatal Fall from Trestle.
E. G. Hideout, of North Emporia,
Va., an electrician, working at the
Moncrief shops of the Atlantic Coast
Lin? at Jacksonville, Fla., while
walking back to the shops at an early
hour Monday morning lost his balance
on a railroad treBtle and fell.
He died later in the day from a
fractured skull, injured spinal column
and internal injuries.
THEY AWAITED DEATH
FUNERAL CARRIAGE CRUSHED
TO PIECES BY ENGINE.
Caught on Track Occupant** of Vehicle
Sat Paralized, Gazing at Onrushing
Engine.
An awful accident happened at
Haverstrow, N. Y., Thursday afternoon.
Three mourners, their pastor
and their driver, sat in a funeral
coach and watched certain death
come rushing on them at fifty
miles an hour. With a screech of
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grinding oruKeH, a uchv; ucat ?uvi?
freight train, hurrying south to pick
up a train at Weehawken, crushed
into the coach, scattering its occupants
along the right of way and
came to a stop 150 yards beyond the
(crossing. All the occupants were
either killed outright or fatally injured.
The dead.
Rev. A. Romath, pastor of the
City Methodist Episcopal church;
E.. V. Seifred, New York; Mrs. E. V.
Seifred, New York; William Beebe,
Haverstraw; Mrs. Parry Kesslers,
Haverstraw. Mrs. KeBslers died several
.hours after the accident.
The accideiit was not only unusual
but dramatic and horrifying to a degree.
It happened at the foot of
Creveyard Hill, in full sight of the
returning funeral procession, of
which the wrecked coach was the
first, and of the terrified and helpless
watchman.
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'1 116 W il IC11 III <111 W clb u uit&
of luncheon, in his little cabin, when
the tinkle of an electric well warned
him of an approaching train. Mechanically
he pulled the lever that
set the .heavy, balanced gates in motion.
Then glancing from the open
door he saw a sight that will not be
out of his dreams for many a night.
Just what happened will probably
never be known, but some eye-witnesses
say that the arrangements of
the crossing gates, late in descending,
blocked the coach after it had
crossed the first of two tracks and
held it prisoner on the rails, while
the terrified occupants sat paralyzed,
gazing at the on-rushing locomotive.
The driver lashed his horses in a
futile attempt to force the vehicle
from the track, until, with a sharp
crack, the picture disappeared and it
seemed as if the coach literally blew
up. Fragments of splintered wood
and mutilated shreds of humanity
were flung far and wide. The engine
stopped. There was absolute
silence, save for the hiss of escaping
steam.
'A search for the dead followed.
The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Seiferd
were found, side-by-side, fifty yards
down the track. The wife was just
returning from the burial of her
father, by w.hose death she had come
into a tidy fortune.
Young Beebe, the driver, was the
son of a wealthy livery owner. He
lay twenty yards nearer, stone dead.
The Rev. Mr. Romath was the clergyman
who had officiated at the funeral.
KILLED IN RACE FIGHT.
One Negro Dies From Shot and One
Other is Hurt.
As a result of a long feud between
certain elements of whites and negroes
at Orange, Texas, Rankin
Moore, a negro, was killed last night
by a fusillade of shots said to have
been fired by three white men. The
shooting took place during a heavy
electric storm. Earlier in the day,
Douglass lemon, another negro, was
found on the street, having been
shot to death by unknown parties.
No arrests have been made. The racial
feeling is such that serious
trouble may be precipitated at any
time.
Shot the Girl.
Miss Nancy Duncan was killed by
whitecaps near Columbus, Okla., on
Thursday night. For some time a
feeling of emnity against Duncan and
his four sons has existed. Thursday
night a company of masked men rode
UD to the Duncan residence and de
manded that Duncan and his sons
come out. This they refused, and
the men fired into the house, killing
the girl.
Negro Troops ltemain.
The president has flatly refused to
accede to t.he demand from Seattle,
(Wash.) citizens, transmitted to him
through Senator Jones, for the removal
of the Twenty-fifth infantry,
colored, because a soldier is accused
of assaulting a white woman.
Strikes Iteftiment.
At Dresden, Saxony, lightning
struck an infantry regiment that
was marching into the German camp
there on Tuesday. A whole company
was hurled to the ground. Several
soldiers were killed outright,
and fifteen others were seriously injured.
Took Her Ufe.
Frank L. Campbell shot and killed
Mies Lena Hanson because she
refused to marry him. He then shot
and killed himself. A picture of
the girl was found in his pocket.
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SURPLUS PROKITS
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A B. G. CoJlins, H. L. B
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At Successor to the Bank of
jjf Horry County, and a pioneer
^ ly allied with the recent devc
jtk Republic. Backed by the G
jjLi United States Bond6, we are pi
W tomers any reasonable accomm
Jk H. A. SPIVEY,
9 Cashier.
BANK OF
Conway
CAPITAL STOCK
8URPLU8
LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERSSECURITY
TO DEPOSITORS
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Robert B. Scarborough,
H. L. Buck,
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Uteorge j. noiiuay,
We continue to pay 5 per cent interes
it youraccount
bobebt b. 8cabborough, D.
President. \
GOOD FOR TAR HEELS
HOME HANKS OVER SUBSCRIBE
FOR STATE BONDS.
That the Sharks of Wall Street and
Other Northern Exchanges Tried
to Blacklist.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C.,
says following the conference of the
bankers of the State and the Governor
and Council of State on tne
State bond situation, State Treasurer
Lacy Wednesday evening announced
t.hat there are in hand bids for more
thah $50,000 in excess of the amount
needed to take up the remainder of
the $3,430,000 issue, the sale of
which has given so much trouble of .
late.
In addition to this he has a number
of bids in hand that have net
been opened and are not included.
Furthermore, it develops that the
bankers were prepared to subscribe
for $250,000 more than were actual
ly taken in the event it should be
found necessary. It is estimated
that when the final bids are opene 1
it will be found that the bonds are a
half-million or more over subscribed m
for.. '
Treasurer Lacy says that aftsr receiving
the liberal bid of the American
Tobacco Company, the principal
officers of which are North Carolinians,
he felt confident that the balance
of the bonds could be absorbci
readily by the banking and other
business interests. He calls spcc.al
attention to the fac* that it required
less than fifty minutes fjr th.1 hankers
to subscribe for an aggregate of
$ 1,045,500.
Governor Kitchin was enthusiastic
over the result ot' the conference,
declaring that it was a sourc? of
special gratificati >n to him that the
bankers responded so generally and
adequately to the appeal that it was
found necessary to make to them,
their prompt action havin/ obliterated
the necessity for the extra ees
sion.
There were fully one hundred
bankers at Raleigh representing thi
towns and cities from Wilmingt)a to
Asheville. There was a free diaous- ,
sion of the situation in whic.h it was
made clear that the hanks proposed ,
to look first to taking care of their
local business, financial demands, j
and that they proposed, after doing
this, to do all they could to relieve
the situation in the State bond matter.
And this they did most adequately.
Governor KitcJiin promptly witndrew
his call for a special sessiou of
the Legislature June 14.
This country may well congra ulate
the Argentine Republic on having
successfully completed a centenary
of national life. It is one of
the most progressive of SouUi American
states and its career and pres
* ohnii.ri a Stimulus
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to some other American republics
that seem to love war and poverty
rather than peace with Its resultant
blessings.
The Prussian government will do
well to withdraw the franchise bill
that has been defeated by the lower
i house of parliament. The bill was
intensely reactionary and the.efr.e
decidedly unpopular. The government
in its own interests cannot afford
to take a reactionary stand on
the franchise when in all other countries
the cause of popular government
Is making headway.
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CAtinrou f.Via nlrtuat Rank In X>
in Eastern Carolina. Closedopment
of the Independent ^
Overnnient and secured >by A
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D. V. Richardson,
W. A. Johnson,
Will A. Freeman,
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
H. H. WOODWARD
Attorney and Councelor At Law.
CONWAY, S. O.
R. B. SCAKBROUtiH
CONWAY, 8. C.
Attorney at Law.
H. H. BURROUGHS
Physician and Surgeon.
CONWAY, 8. C.
B. WOFFOKD WAIT.
Attorney at Lay,
Bank of Horry Building.
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There are many signs poinfinj ro /.
an increased sonee of decency in the
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uitwuicai unci puuiic auvenising.
For a long time purveyors to a depraved
taste -have seemed to vh?
with each other in covering billboards
with indecent pictures. Now
the International Poster Printers
Association has definitely drawn the
line and if it holds to its dioisvoa
Ihe immoral and suggestive poster
will have to go.
-Recent events in several states
connected with the election of United
States Senators will undoubtedly
give an impetus to the movement
for electing senators by direct vote.
Rightly or wrongly, probably "'thrly,
it is felt that legislatures ?.v. {..ore
easily influenced by corrupuonists
than are the people.