The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 25, 1910, Image 6
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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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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
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LYNCHERS UNKNOWN
SUCH IS THE VERDICT IN THE
HONEA PATH KILLING.
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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. .
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CAL'SE OF LOW PRICES. t
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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.
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Has largest capital and surplus of a
than the combined capital and surp
CAPITAL STOCK
SURPLUS
LIABILITIES OF STOCK
SECURITY OF DEPOSIT
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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
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CAPITAL STOCK
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^ TOTAL ASSESTS
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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."
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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
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
H. H. WOODWARD
attorney and Councelor At Law.
CONWAY; S. C. ^
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A B. SCARBROUGH
CONWAY, S. G*
Attorney at Law.
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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
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: ^iSfruttle or a Single Thread^f Chain Ai/oAJ^
I> Sewing Machine write to
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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. ,