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B&j SAME OLD GANG Ctv. Wiltta Pokes Fob al tkc Repablicao Staodpatters Plalfoim. IS STOMPING BIS STATE He Says the Rosses Are All Out of Rreath Trying to Keep Abreast of the People.?Wants to See Camden Redeemed from lloss Rule as it Is at Present. Governor Wood row Wilson is stirring up intense interest in New Jersey in his campaign for the election of senators and assemblymen who will support progressive measures when the legislature meets next winter. The Trenton True American says the Governor is evidently deriving great delight from poking fun at the Republican "Hoard of Guardians," as the association of G. O. P. bosses has come to he known in New Jersey. He has also found a lot of humor in the recently adopted Republican State platform, lie has spoken to immense audiences in the southern part of the (State recently and his meetings have been marked by a keen revival of interest in State politics. "The Republican platform," said Governor Wilson, to one audience, "is one of these old-fashioned, smooth-bore, brass-mounted affairs, that goes off like a blunderbuss. I do not see the slightest difference between this platform that was adopted by the Republican conven-J tion Wednesday and the Republican | platforms that preceded it; it has j the same boasting about things that never existed; it has the same claiming; of credit for everything good that was done; it has the same promises put in such phrases that they can be read backward or forward and mean the same thing, just the same thing; just the same kind of thing you have been familiar with and never did know the meaning of." The Governor seemed to una mucn solid delight in jvoking fun at the Republicans for asking for a rest .before more new legislation is enacted. "We have carried out so many of the pledges made in our last year's platform," said he, "that the Republicans in their platform say the State needs a rest. I don't wonder that their stomachs are too weak to stand the kind of food we have been feeding them. Their statement that they are out of breath from passinjg! so much legislation is practically an implication that they want to stand still a little while. They always wanted to stand still, the same old standpat idea is still in their heads. "If you paint a post white and r ant to keep it white, you must keep touching it up once in a while. So today, if things are to be kept right, you have got to bo a radical, you have got to keep things jacked up to where they belong. And it puts the Republican leaders out of breath to jack thinjgs up. So many of our platform pledges were carried out that the poor, breathless representatives of the Republican party admitted that they were out of breath fliey jiejfl up their hands in protest and said, 'lit God's name, let us go slow a while'. i J don't wonder. They had never been accustomed to such exercise. They had never in their time felt Vkinrwi (iuicken by movement. I li t i 1 A - , They had experienced the unusual intoxication ol* seeing something done. They had never intended while they were in (lie saddle to let anything be done. They had Intended to let everything ?0 its normal course, that everybody who then had control of the affairs of stale might sleep at nijght without any apprehension that in the morning his control would be gone." At Camden, where four thousand citizens crowded into the opera house to hear Gov. Wilson he declared that the first returns he should ask for when the votes were counted would be Camden, for if that county should rise up and declare its independence the day of self-government by the people would appear to have fully dawned, lie said, I should feel very proud if 1 might lead Camden County out of her bondage. You know that when there in a government in an uiu ie?t ut the State to reclaim it from it political servitude, everybody says that Camden is hopeless. "People speak of this as a Pourton county. Now what is a Itourban^ He is defined to be a man who never learns anything? and never forgeti anything. Never forgets the things that communities ought to turi their backs upon, and never learni the way by which to escape fron .^.continual servitude. Is that goinj to be true of Camden county Camden county so far, as is indicat ed from the Republican side, ha not learned or forgotten a singh thing. The proof that the same oh things are .being done is laid befor you like an open book. You hav it In the prompt rejection of Sena tor Bradley. The minute that be showed tha He was going to use his own cone I # THEY MUST LEAD THE PROGRESSIVES MUST IXK>K TO THE DEMOCRATS. Democracy Controlled by Progressives While Republicanism 1b Controlled by Standpatters. In one of his speeches Gov. Wilson tells why the Progressives of all parties will have to look to the Democracy for leadership, not only in New Jersey, but in the naton. Here is what he said: "1 believe that both parties have been singularly slow in waking up to the meaning, of a new age, and what. 1 want to call your attention to is that a large proportion of the men now active in leading the Democratic party have waked up to the meani.wr tiio npw time and have waked Ill t, VI w?v .. up, too, to those who are leading the Republican party. The facts speak lor themselves. The actual leaders of the Democratic party in the States which have put in a Democrtic administration and in the nation at large, in /congress and out of congress, are the progressvies in the Democratic ranks. Can we candid men gainsay that? "It is not true that the progressive element of the Democratic party now dominates that party. Does not every man know that if the circumstances should change and the retrogressive element should get in control of the Democratic partv that it would lose all possibility of success? That it would lose all the changes it apparently now has to lead the nation? The Democratic party realizes that and the nation realizes it. "Very well, what is true on the other side of the house? There are splendid men, and splendid men by the score, among those who stand prominent in the leadership of the Republican party, who are just as j progressive, just as clear-sighted on the issues of the time as anybody on the Democratic side, but are they dominant in the councils of the Republican party? Answer that question frankly. Are they dominant in the councils of the. Republican parly in this State or in the nation? "You know very well that they are not. They are practically without dominance and they are opposed by leaders, front the President of the United States down. And for the present everybody knows that neither now nor in the immediate future will they gain control. What is the moral of that? The moral is that the progressives of this country at this time?1 am not saying anything as to the future, for I cannot forsee it ?but the progressives of this country, in New Jersey and out of it, at this time, must look to the Democratic party for leaders." ANOTHER FIEND LYNCHED. Admitted His Attempt Before fie Was Strung Up. Near Jrvinton, Ga., a negro named Andrew Chapman was taken from Bailiff W. T. Co wen by a masked mob of forty men and hung to a pine tree near Butler's Bridge, and his body riddled wth bullets. The deputy was cn his way to the county jail with the negro, who had been given a commitment trial and bound over to the next grand jury. The officers was overpowered and the prisoner taken from him, The negro admitted his guilt and said lie had no regrets. 11o attempted an assault upon one of the host known you nig ladies of Wilkinson county, who is still prostrated as the result of the shock. The negro had a bad reputation in the community. The body of the negro hung on the tree two days, until the sheriff ordered it removed. ? ? . Both Father and Son Shot. At Sumter, in a tussle to get possession of a pistol, Leonard Wood, a negro, was shot ill the breast and dangerously wounded. The only witnesses to the shooting were the two sons of Woods, Marion with whom he was tusseling, and Leonard. The younger Leonard Wood was also wounded in the wrist. White Slaver Pleads Guilty. At Louisville, Ky., after pleading guilty to two Federal indictments, charging violation of the "white sinvn" laws arrowing out of sending a girl from there to a resort in Tam pa, Fla., Edna Shelley, formerly - cashier in a motion picture theatre, was fined $200 late Thursday after noon. The fine was paid. clence and his own judgment and i not take orders from other men, 3 just as soon as ho showed that ,he l was absolutely rejected. He waf s put out of the councils of the met i who have ruled Camden county lr ; past years . He was notified tha ? that sort of thug would not oe en - dired. What sort of thing? Car s tying out tiv: pledges that had bcei e written as plainly in the Republicai platform as they had been written ii d the Democratic platform. He wa e punished for keeping faith with th< e people of New Jersey. Those ar< not matters of conjecture. Yoi don't need to have me tell you o t them. You konw that they ar i* true." rnmmmmrnmm %$' ,.' * / LORE OF A GIRL At the Drep tf Her Fai lea Became Her Willieg Teel aii Dope HELP HER BEAT BANKS How a Young Woman Crossed the Continent on Her Wits, Collecting Thousands of Dollars From the \ 1/I*wr # tin I 'II 1'H'lll Jfuunn lll'Mlf, 1I1V of Her Travels. A dainty little fan, dropped seemingly by chance in fashionable hotel dining, rooms in towns from the Pacific to the Atlantic, was the starting point in a series of little dramas which had their last curtain last week in Bridgeport, Conn., when nineteen-year-old Alice Black of Colorado Springs and Francis A. Mohler, who says he is the brother of a Pittsburg millionaire, were arrested. The young woman is charged with having passed forged checks and the man with having forged them. The girl says she believed the checks were good. Just how the fan was dropped was told in the local agency of the Pinkertons at No. 92 Liberty street. Early in September, in the Italian gardens of the Hotel St. Charles in New Orleans, a young and exquisitely gowned woman was dining. At a table were three gilded youths of the Creole city. They were commenting upon her beauty when her fan fell to the floor. Instantly one of the youths started to leave his seat. The others siezed him and insisted in whispers that they must draw lots to see who would restore the fan. The one to whom the lot fell rais ed the fan and, with his best bow, gave it to the girl. She smiled and, modestly casting down her eyes, asked if he wouldn't sit down for a moment. lie did. "You know," said the girl, " I feel that I am very unconvenient, but I'm such a globe trotter, you know, that I feel perfectly safe in doing this. I've been all over the world alone. I'm Alice Pullman, of Pittsburg." The youth brought over his two companions to meet "Miss Alice Pullman, a neice of the Pullman car family." That was on a Saturday night. The following Monday "Alice Pullman" asked one of her new found friends if he knew of some "good, safe bank." He knew of several. 'So he trotted her in the WhitneyOrient 1 Bank and introduced her to Edward H. Keep, assistant cashier. "Miss Pullman" opened an account, depositing $50 cash and what purported to be a $150 certified check on the Union Savings Bank of Pittsburgh, signed by Harry Pullman. The nr>vt rinv flrpw nut her entire ac count. On the following day she returned with another "Harry Pullman" check for $75 which she wanted cashed. The cashier told her he would wait until ho had heard from the previous check. "You won't have to wait long," he said, "because I'll telegraph. "Yes,do," she answered, "and send the answer to the St. Charles." The answer came. It was, "Forgery." But she had left the St. Charles by that time. It was found she had left New Orleans for New York with a man who said he was F. A. Christy, a brother of Howard Chandler Christy, illustrator. After the flight from New Orleans news came of banks and hotels in Colorado Springs, Col.; Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah; Sa*.remento, Los Angeles, and Sail Biega, Cal.; and 101 Paso, Texas, that had cashed checks after the prelude of a falling fan or like device. The checks ranged from $00 to $150 apiece. The total was several thousand dollars. The Pinkertons took up the trail and traced the pair Eastward to Bridgeport, Conn. In the other cities where the fan had been dropped the girl had seemed sometimes to blaze with diamonds. Especially noticeable was a large hatpin in the shape of a tiger's head, compose of imitation diamonds. Detective Fon of the Bridgeport police and two of the trailers saw a woman in Bridgeport wearing just such a pin. They followed her to boarding house and there found her man companion. In one of their four suitcases, th< police say, were blank checks of the Pittsburg bank and the stamp will ... I, I .-.v. l\n,l hoiui "PortillPll.1 ? 11 11 II v, nuv no muvi mvv.. "Christy" or Moliler would not tall much about himself. He wrote a tel egram to Harry Moliler of Pittsburg . but the police did not sond it. I The young woman at first was si , lent.. Put the police showed her i > postal card, sent to Moliler by i j young woman, which showed Mohle i had paid attention to the sender 1 Then the girl broke down and sal t she would tell all she knew. She said she was a graduate of th - Cutler School, in Colorado Spring! i and that she had planned to ente 1 Colorado College this fall. She me i "Christy" in July, and he told he b that he was a West Point student o e a furlough. He had struck a prom b nent man in New York and was i j Colorado hiding from detectives, f "I believed his romantic tales, e sold the girl, "and became foolislil infatuated with him. (Before I feu \ ' > LYNCHERS UNKNOWN SUCH IS THE VERDICT IN THE HONEA PATH KILLING. I Mother of the Fiend Refused to Take the Rody, Which Was Debarred from the Cemetery. That Willie Jackson came to his death from gun shots at the hands of an unknown mob was the verdict reached by the coroner's jury 'at 1 Honea Path on Wednesday. The horribly mutilated body wa3 viewed by the jury and was cut down from the telphone pole by Coroner Peasley. The mother of the fiend refused to take the body, saying sne would not have anything to do with a son of hers that would <commit such a crime. The negroes refused to al- , low the body to ,be interred in their burying grounds, so it was buried at the expense of the county on the home nlace of Melvin Ashley. Several fingers of the negro were severed for souvenirs during the night, and the rope, as it fell to the ground was cut in pieces and distributed among a large crowd that gathered to see him cut from the pole. Coroner Bea.sley and Sheriff King arrived on the scene at 9:30 o'clock and after experiencing a little trouble in getting a jury willing to serve, the inquest was begun. The body was viewed and the jury then repaired to the otllce of Magistrate Wilson to hear the testimony. Five or six witnesses were examined, but it was impossibie#to locate any person who admitted seeing the lynching. Everybody in the community was reticent and the examnation of witnesses required only a short time. Sheriff King forwarded a short report from Honea Path to Governor Blease. In the report he referred the Governor to the newspaper acounts, which the sheriff stated were correct in every particular as far as he could determine. Citizen Joseph Ashley was not a witness of the lynching an.I neither was his son, Joe Ashley. These men left the mob' Wednesday with the negro before the crowd reached Ilonta Path. At Honea Path Mayor Sullivan pleaded that the law be allowed to take its course. lie read a tel- ( egram he had received from Governor Blease, asking that the mob allow the law to take its (course, stating that he would obtain a special term of Court to try the negro within two weeks. All of the pleading was of no avail, < however, for after taking the negro , before the little girl for a second , identification, the crowd proceeded to the scene of attack and there he , was strung up by his left foot. The j negro's body was literally riddled , with bullets, not a spot as large as , a silver dollar remained where bullets had not pierced. Everything is ( quiet at Honea Path and 110 further ( demonstration will occur. One nei2ro man was dealt with for , making an insulting remark to a gen- , tleman looking on the body Wednesday morning. The remark was about blocking the road. The negro was < not injured, being subjected merely , to a light whipping. . ? j CAL'SE OF LOW PRICES. t * i Gin iters* Report and Receipts Indicate Rumpor Crop. j 1 a Aew yotk ciispaicn uuuer aaw of October Oth says cotton prices du- ( clined owing to favorable crop weath- 1 er and ginning reports, together with heavy receipts and large selling. 1 The South has been a persistent and ( libera' seller on hedges. This is explained by the dullness of the mar- 1 kets for act ml cotton at the South. 1 On the basis of the crop report of ' last Monday many estimate the crop 1 at from 14,000,000 to 16,000,000 1 bales, though others put it under 14,000,000. There is a prevalent belief that the crop is the largest ever raised. It is also considered one of the earliest in point of development. With the ginning up to September 25 reaching the unprecedented total of 3,663,000 bales, bears have been i greatly encouraged. ; i'/ed the foolishness of what I was doing ho had induced me to leave my I home. 1 was stricken with remorse, but did not have the moral courage j to go home. > "My infatuation for him lasted oni ly a week. Then I began to discover ' the kind of man he was. He said he i received a regular Income from his - mother by check, but she made out , the checks in different names to throw off pursuit. She told of their journeyings a through the West, in which they used r? alv <Uc<>ront. names. r "I know this morning that he was \ planning to leave me, from the way d he acted," she said. "My family -is not wealthy, but I have some wealthy e relatives and if necessary I shall ask i, them for assistance. 1 will not fight r extradition but will return to New >t Orleans." r A telet?ram from Colorado Springs n said the girl, "and becaim foolishly i- said the girl had passed forged n checks at two hotels there. Her father is David Brown of that town. " A Pittsburg dispatch said there was ly no wealthy Harry Mohler in Pitts1 burg. X tfAAK OF ('onwa' I Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIREC Robert B. Scarborough, B. L. Buck, Oeorge J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc< will justify, and we j SOBEBT B. BOARBOROUOH, D President. We continue to pay 5 pel ?ETPQT MATIf oonwa CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS ^ TOTAL ASSESTS 1 direct J. A. McDermott, John C /iv 13. G. CoJlins, H. L. B 'iz M. Burroughs, C. P; Qua Successor to the Bank of 'jjfL Horry County, and a pioneer ly allied with tho recent dev ^ Republic. Backed by the ( 4p United States Bonds, we are p ? tomerg any reasonable accomr jl h. a. spivey, /|\ Cashier. Ml UAVION MR1G0S AID PLANNED FOR COTTON RV SOUTHERN GOVERNORS. Governor Colquit, of Texas, Urges a Meeting to Devise Means to Check Decline in Price. The decline in the price of cotton is becoming a serious matter to The South as well as to the whole country, and something must be done to stop it, Gov. Colquit, of Texas, will probably ask the governors of the cotton growing states to meet at Dallas, Tex., October 23, as his guests to suggest ways and means to hold up the price of cotton. In reply to telegrams, governors Df every cotton-producing state except Tennessee and Georgia have replied that they favor a conference to discuss this matter and the question of the place and time of meeting alone remains to be settled. Only one governor has suggested Texas for a meeting place and hence the idea comes to have the governors go to Texas as Governor Colquit's guests. The secretaries of agriculure are also expected to participate n the meeting. In indorsing the plan proposed by 3overnor Colquit, of Texas, to call v meeting of southern governors and representative men of tho cotton belt o devise a method lor checking the lecline in the price of raw cotton, President W. 13. Thompson, of the STew Orleans Cotton exchange, said hat the South should rally to the call. "The way the cotton producers of :he south are now throwing the staple upon the market is commercial suicide," said Mr. Thompson. "It is by no means certain that the cotton crop will he as large as many have nrrwHrtpd it will lm A nreat deal can ! happen between now and the time the crop is harvested. "It is a pity that cotton should be selling in the country for nine cents a pound. Because of the increased cost of living the planter is not receiving a penny more than ho did several years a.20 when cotton was six -cents per pound. "I hope they will awaken to the situation that confronts them. If they will only hold back their cotton and let it go gradually, prices will immediately begin to soar." ? ? FELL IX GOOD IIAXDS. Two kittle Girls Were Left Alone in the City of New York. Two pretty little Georgia girls, Ludie Martin, twelve years old, and her sister, Josie, eleven years, were remanded to the care of the Gerry Society recently in tho children's court of New York city. Their father, John Martin, a wealthy land speculator of Hahira, Ga., was taken from the Hotel Churchill, Broadway and Fourteenth street to Belle vue Hospital, where ho is recovering from choral poisoning. According to the elder of the sis ters, they came to New York witt -their father to Join the Glidden au tomobile tour which starts south 01 Saturday. Both were provided wit.l auto veils and had clothing with in dicated their people were well to do The nearest largo town to theii ' horlty, y. S, C. ny bank in Horry county. More , lus of all other banks in the county* * 160.000 i ? # 12.600 HOLDERS .. .. 60.000 ORS 112.600 hors D. V. Richardson* W. A. Johnson, y Will A. Freeman. * ommodation which their account* solicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a. fbkema* Vice President. Oashiib r cent, on yearly deposits. ^ )NAL BANK | Y, 8. O. ^ $25,000.00 ? 2,500.00 125,000.00 ^ rORS: jT J. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, ojk> ^ luck, W. R. Lewis, D. A ^ tttlebaum, D. A. Spivey. ar Conway, the oldest Rank in A in Eastern Carolina. Close- jb elopment of tho Independent W" jrovernnient and secured by Ak, repared to extend to our cu?~ jjLI Qodations. It. G. COLLINS, A President. f "rzzz=zzz===zr_ ) PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD attorney and Councelor At Law. CONWAY; S. C. ^ y A B. SCARBROUGH CONWAY, S. G* Attorney at Law. ????? 4 H. H. BUlUiOUGHS Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. C. ft*. WOFFOHO WAII. Attorney at La-/. Bank of Horry Building. j OONWAY, fl. O. HEWORLDS GREATEST SEWIH6 MACHINE k J.IGHT RUNNING ^1 f jMEj. : ^iSfruttle or a Single Thread^f Chain Ai/oAJ^ I> Sewing Machine write to III KW HOME SEWINO MACHINE COME Alt, I Orange* Mass* 1 (Mtonjroewfnr machines are made to Belt mudlaarf gnlitjr*but the New Home Is made to weMt' Our guaranty never runt out. * ' If Mthorlied dealers M|Klj ^ HOI IALI Mr -^ 4 UURHOUGiiS A COLLINS O0H Conway, H. C. home is Valdosta, Ga. Here they have relatives, with whom the au, thorities have communicated. Their , mother has been dead for some years , and but for the activities of the children's society when their father I was taken td the hospital they would ^ have been entirely alone in a big . city. 4' . Homicide in Georgia Hotel. At Cuthbert, Ga., 13. IS. Baldwin, of . Montgomery, Ala., was shot and killi ed by Charles W. Worrill, a young - attorney. The tragedy occurred in * i the wash room of a hotel. There i were no eye-witnesses and no alter cation was heard. Worrill declined . to discuss the affair. Baldwin was r on a .business trip. ,