The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 06, 1910, Image 3
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ROBBER BARONS
Fleact the Pradactrs at Cattaa by the
Aid af Ike Tariff Law.
ip.
FARMERS ARE ROBBED
P>
Under the OfDerations of this Protective
Iniquity, and They Should
Combine and Work Together for
Self Protection, Says Senator Smith
-^1 in Kxplaining llis Position.
d
On account of the misunderstanding
on the part of some newspapers
with reference to the statement concerning
the cotton crop, issued by
Senator 10. I). Smith a few days ago,
tho senator Saturday gave out the
following statement with the view ol
clearing up the matter and putting
himself in the proper light:
"It is rather remarkable how a
carefully guarded, conservative
statement can be misinterpreted in40.
to just the opposite. In my interview
in regard to the cotton crop a
few days ago, I used the following
language:
" 'I shall hot attempt to dictate
to the farmers of the South what
they shall do. Hut under the circumstances
1 should he delighted to
see them combine and hold their
cotton from the market wherever it
i? nntudhle for thorn to do so, until I
it shall bring such price as shall
measure the artificial price placed
upon manufactured articles by virtue
of the tariff.'
"In reference to my own opinion
I used the following language:
" 'My honest conviction is that 20
cents for the present crop is none
too high, in view of the supply, the
cost of production, the comparative
value of cotton with other textiles,
and the artificial price that now obtains
on manufactured goods.'
"The headlines and newspaper
comments have made it appear that
I have advised the farmers to hold
their cotton for 20 cents a pound.
One newspaper, in an editorial comment,
has said that the farmer
should sell his cotton at present
prices and pay his debts. That past
experience has been to the effect
that where the price looked enticing
in the early fall, that farmers
held and suffered a loss. This is
true.
"I have never advised any farmer
who had pledged his cotton to a merchant
or to any one to withhold it
?marlrot whnn it caused em
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Ibarrassment or loss to the one that
credited him. But I have always advocated
the banks of the South and
the financiers of the South doing all
In their power to help these weak
and unforturate ones to wlthdold
their stuff from the market until It
should bring such a price as would
remunerate those that helped and
give a profit to the unfortunate ones
v/ho needed help.
"I have never advised any price
on cotton, nor have I stood for any
specific price on cotton until the
farmers of the South, in convention
assembled, determined what, in their
judgment, was a righteous price for
what they themselves produced, and
then I became on uncompromising
advocate for that which thoy, in
their judgment, deemed a fair and
legitimate return for their labor.
rave been criticised for standing
for 15 cents cotton. I stood roi
15 cents cotton when the farmers
of the South demanded it, and had
i some of my critics been as loyal to
V. the cause as I, the 15 oents mark
might have been the sooner obtained.
"I aometimes marvel that we are
as well off as we are, when I think
of the fact that the advocates of protection
with their newspaper organs,
their lobbies, their powerful advo
cates on the floor of the house and
senate shut out competition from
abroad, combine their capital in
America and force the price of articles
'beyond any reason, thus forcing
the producer of the raw material,
the salaried man and the wage-earner,
to pay exorbitant prices for those
J manufactured articles which are a
fc common necessity. It is a marvel
the seeming prosperity that the
masses enjoy.
"I am not asking, nor have i ever
asked, that there should be a legal
enactment protecting any one, Individual
or corporation. But when
the government is committed to the
doctrine of protection by legal enactment,
I think those who are the victims
should resist this unnatural
condition by Invoking the law of
W God?which is the law of supply and
demand?and, by standing solidly together,
force its operation.
"If the price of manufactured articles
is forced to artificial heights,
and the great hody of wage-earners,
laborers and producers of the raw
material are forced to pay these ex
orbitant prices, reducing them to abject
poverty, who shall gainsay their
right to combine in every department
of their life and demand such
remuneration for their labor and
their raw material as shall offset the
price what they have to pay to robber
barons of the manufacturing
Interests?
"Under the law, It Is wrong fox
me to carry consealed weapons, bul
should some one threaten my life
FRANK SALOON KEEPER.
HE TELLS WHAT HIS LIQUOR
WILL DO FOR ITS USERS.
The Remarkable Card lined by .1
Tombstone, Arizona, Barkeeper to
Advertise His Business.
The Medical Journal prints the
following and credits it to an unidentilled
"Lay Exchange."
"Tombstone, Arizona, claims to
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the United States. fte keeps the
Temple Bar Saloon and advertises
his business in a remarkable man*
ner. He has had cards printed bearing
the following words:
"Friends and Neighbors: I am
grateful for past favors and having
supplied my store witli a line line
ot choice liquors, allow me to inform
you that i shall continue to
make drunkards, paupers and beggars
for the sober, industrious respecable
part of the community to
support. 'My liquors will excite riot,
"They will diminish your cornPorts,
increase your expenses and
shorten life. I shall confidently recommend
them as sure to multiply
fatal accidents and incurable diseases.
"They will deprive some of life,
others of reason, many of character
and all of peace. They will make
fathers fiends, wives widows, children
orphans and all poor. I will
train your sons in infidelity, dissipation,
ignorance, lewdness and every
vice. I will cause as much temporal
and eternal death as I can. i
will thus accommodate the public; it
mav be at the loss of my never-dy
ing soul. Hut I have a family to
support, the business pays and the
public encourages it.
"I have paid my license and the
traffic is lawful, and if I don't sell it
somebody will. I know the Bible says
Thou shalt not kill, no drunkard
shall enter the kingdom of heaven,
and I do not expect the drunkard
maker to fare any better, but I want
an easy living and I have resolved
to gather the wages of iniquity and
fatten on the ruin of my species.
"I shall, therefore, carry on my
business with energy and do my best
to diminish the wealth of the nation
and endanger the safety of the state.
As my business flourishes in proportion
to your sensibility and ignorance,
1 will do my best to prevent
moral purity and intellectual
growth.
"Should you doubt my ability, 1
refer you to the pawnshops, the
poorhouse, the police court, the
hospital, the penitentiary and the
gallows, where you will find many of
my hest customers have gone. A
sight of them will convince you that
I do what I say.
"Allow me to inform you that you
are fools, and that I am an honest
saloonkeeper."
and I know not where nor when I
may meet him, what jury would con
vlcf me 101* preparing mysen iu defend
my life at any time or place
where this threatening foe might
meet me? Who shall criticize labor
organizations for combining and
demanding a higher wage? Who
shall criticize the producer of the
raw material for combining and demanding
a higher price, and by their
numerical strength and their necessities
to mankind forcing a recognition
of their rights, when the law of
the land is giving that opportunity
to the manufacturers, who have impoverished
and are imporerishing
the masses and creating the colossal
millionaire of America?
"I do not believe in class legislation
or class discrimination, but I do
believe in equal rights to all and
special privilige to none under the
law. And so long as the law gives
special privilege to some, it is the
manifest duty of those discriminated
against to protect themselves
against this unjust discrimination.
J And the best way to defeat the infamous
doctrine of protection is by
the farmers and laborers protecting
themselves. The Republican party today
is being defeated and driven
from power because its doctrine, carried
to its last analysis, has forced
such prices that the wage-earner and
the salaried man cannot live.
"The farmers of the South would
be willing to take less price for
their stuff if they might buy what
they need under the same circumstances
that they have to sell thsir
produce. They have to sell under
free trade and buy under protection.
And it is their duty to themselves
and to their country to do all in
their power that is legitimate and
hoi^irable to offset this legalized
robbery under the American system
of protection.
"I had some vague conceptions of
the enormity of the Republican protection
system, but never did I dream
of its unblushing effronter y and
boldness until I became a member
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of tl\e United states senaro. y\nu u
the people of America could realt7C
rather than vaguely know, the blatant
injustice being practiced by the
law, they would a long time ago
i have swept the whole system out
of existence.
; "In conclusion, I invite the attention
of my critics to the prices ob'
taining for wool, flax and silk under
: protection, as against cotton with1
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INFANTILE PARALYSIS
HAS TAKEN MANY LITTLE ONES
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DURING LAST YEAR.
Thin Disease Attacks Mostly White
Children, Very Few Colored Children
Ever Have It.
There was 569 deaths from acute ,
anrterior poliomyelitis, or infantile
paraysis; 116 from pellagra, 55 from
rabies or hydrophobia, and 9 death
from leprosy in 1909 in the death
registration area of continental United
States. which comprises over 55
per cent of the total population, according
to the census bureau's forthcoming
bulletin on mortality statis
tics for 1909.
it is reported that, of the 569
deaths from infantile paralysis, 55 2
were of white and only 17 of colored
persons. There was a somewhat
greater incidence of disease among
males and an increased mortality,
in August, September and October.
The bulletin states that no statistical
segregation of infantile paralysis
as a case of death has been
made hretofore, but the increasing
importance of the disease and its
wide prevalence throughout the
country in the form of local epidemics
render a statement of the mortality
important.
Like meningitis, which it somewhat
resembles, it is difficult to obtain
an exact separation of the
deaths from the specile infectious
disease, acute anterior poliomyelitis,
from other infections of similar
nature.
Acute anterior poliomyelitis is described
by the bulletin as an acute
1 /tlonaaa nli iofl v ?, ffnr> 11 II C
Ill I t'l.l luun uiounou vymvu^
children in the first five years of life,
and while not infrequently fatal is
of even more seriou sconsequence as
the cause of more or less permanent
paralysis and atrophy of muscles.
-Numerous outbreaks have occurred
in this country, the most important
of which were those in Vermont,
in 1 894, and in New York
and Connecticut, in 1907. The 569
deaths complied for the registration
area for 1909 were widely distributed,
and indicate endemic or epidemic
prevalence in many parts of the
country.
It should be remembered, the bulletin
points out, that the census data
relates only to registration
sources, and that for the non registration
States the deaths are only
those returned from the registration
cities contained therein.
MINISTTK AND WIFE SEDER ATE.
Presiding Elder O'Dell Makes Statement
About It.
Presiding Elder O'Dell of the Rock
vllle District, gives out the following
statement in reference to Rev.
H. R. Mills, who is stationed at Rock
Hill:
"Inasmuch as the press will in all
probability send out reports concerning
the unfortunate affair involving
the Rev. H. R. Mills, of the South
Carolina conference, I deem it my
duty to the church and to Brother
Vf vo IVf II Iq t n irivo thp f{|f. ts to
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the public.
"On Thursay, September 22, Brother
Mills came to me and told me
that he was in trouble; that he and
his wife could not live together any
longer and asked that I release him
from his work, as he would feel a
delicacy in appearing before his congregation
under the circumstances.
Having no authority to release him,
I told him that the best and only
thing to do was to have the matter
investigated in due form by a committee.
To do this he readily consented
and expressed a desire that it
be done as quickly as possible. I
appointed an investigating committee,
consisting of Revs. Matthew
Moye Brabham, D. Melvin McLeod
and S. D. Bailey. They very carefuliy
investigated the matter and reported
that a trial was deemed necessary.
There was nothing of a
scandalizing nature charged by eithei
Mrs. Mills or iMr. Mills, the sole
specification in the charge being that
Mr. Mills had seperated from his
wife, for other than the Scriptural
reason. The above is in brief a fair
statement of the case."
Mr. Mills and his wife came to
South Carolina about four years ago
from Kentucky. They are both
young.
WRAPPED IN MYSTERY.
The Body of a Young Lady Found
Badly Mutilated.
A special from Goderich, Ontario,
says Eliaabeth Anderson, aged 16,
regarded as one of the most beautiful
rrii'lc in ttlA P.itv U'JIS found mur
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c*ered Tuesday in a deserted house
in the outskirts of that city. Her
father led a searching party, which
found the body in a dark corner of
the cellar under a pile of clothing.
Her throat was cut from ear to ear
, and the body was horribly mutilated.
She disappeared Sunday, after being
seen in conversation with a stranger.
Will Decide Today.
Commissioner Watson is in Wash1
ington, conferring with the President
as to his acceptance of his recent apj
pointment. He will decide today.
CENSUS REPORT"
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Df Deaths by Suicide, Htnicide ud AccideaU
for Last Year.
FACTS THAT STARTLE.
The Statistics That Are Published
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for the Registration Area as Com. (
piled by the ureau Sholcl Set '
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All of I's to Thinking and Hunting t
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for the Cause. #
External causes, other than suicide,
were responsible for 47,1 Itf? of
the deaths reported for the census- j
registration area of 1909, it is stated
in the Census Bureau's annua)
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bulletin on mortality statistics for
1909, now in press. The death rate
declined from 97.9 to 9G.7 per loO,000
estimated population.
The total number of deaths from
homicide, as reported for 1 909, was
2,854, a decrease of 149 from the
number compiled for 1 908. Not all
deaths from homicide are specified.
o/-. f lm Mia iinnil)?>r I hut ilftnal.
OW ttltl t ttiv? VVVUI ** v?
ly occurred would be in excess ol
that compiled.
The increase in the death rate, 5.9.
from this cause for 1 909 over the
annual average rate, 2.9, for the fiveyear
period 1901-1905, is probably
due largely to greater precision in ,
the returns in this respect.
Among the causes of accidental
deaths, in the order of numerical
importance for the year 1 909, were
the following:
Railroad accidents and injuries.
6,659; drowning, 4,558; burns and
scalds, 3,992; injuries at birth, hereafter
to be classified under diseases
of early infancy, 3,508; injuries by
horses and vehicles, 2,152, not including
injuries by street cars, 1,723,
and automobile accidents and
injuries 632; inhalation of poisonous
gases, including conflagration.
1,837; other accidental poisoning, 1,779;
accidental gunshot wounds.
944; heat and sunstroke, 816; cold
and freezing, 251; lightning, 150.
There were 1,17 4 fatal injuries pj
machinery, chiefly in factories, but
the large number, 10,108, of accidental
traumatisms of unspecified nature
makes it necessary to consider
many of the figures given abov* as
only minimal, and it is important
that the means of injury be specified
in all returns of death from accidental
violence.
Tho alitrht n 11 mpri on 1 incrpflsp in
the deaths, 8,402 from suicide registered
for 1909 over the number, 8,332,
for 1908 is less than the rela
tive increase of the estimated population
of the registration area, so
that the death rate decreased from
18.5 to 17.2 per 100,000 population.
The most common means of suicide
for the year was poison, 2,464, followed
by firearms, 2,3 95; hanging,
1,215; asphyxia, chiefly by illuminating
gas, 989; cutting instruments,
536; drowning, 507; jumping from
high places 156; crushing 84; and
other or unspecified means 5 8.
Undoubtedly many deaths from
suicide fail to be reported so that
they can be compiled 'under this
head, but the increasing precision or
statement of the natrue of the death
in cases of deaths from violent vauses
renders the statistics more accurate
from year to year and thus accounts
for some of thfe apparent increase
in the death rate from sui
clde.
WHY SHE WANTED TO DIE.
Young Woman Scores Certain New
York Men Site Met.
Miss Vera Fitch, the young Californian
who shot herself in the Hotel
Astor, in New York on August
2 9, has given her reasons in an unusual
interview. She said she hoped
for reincarnation in a more moral
world. The case has been surrounded
by much mystery. The young woman's
relatives have refused to admit
her indentity and the only hint
of her motive was gleaned from a
letter to her mother, in which she
wrote:
"The fourth estate has proven too
strong for me. It is really deplorable
that a girl cannot succeed honorably
in New York. In some things
I might have succeeded had I acceded
to the wishes of men, cultured
usually, moneyed usually, but
minus morals. Death is preferable.'
It was known that she had literary
ambitions. Dying in the hospital,
where she is convalescing, Miss
Fitcli said: "I areameu or a uener
day when such men could he unknown.
When the world would have
one moral standard for both men
and women. In the belief, I might
live again in that purer time, I tried
to kill myself." Miss Fitch was
horn in Oakland, California, twentyfour
years ago.
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How Over a I)og.
As tho result of a quarrel at Perryville,
Ark., over a dog, Dub Thurman,
aged 18, died Tuesday night,
and Bob Owen, aged twenty, is charged
with the killing. Thurman was
fatally stabbed on Saturday night in
a fight which followed Owen throwing
a rock at the former's dog.
RAILWAY REGULATION.
PHE NEW YOIiK TIMES MAKES
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SOME COMMENTS ON IT.
t Says Even the Misfortune of til"
Railways Were Imputed to Them
For a Fault.
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In discussing the railway regula- ^
ion the New York Times says "alhough
there was little novelty in
he railway's presentation of their
;ase for the advance of their rates,
here was much that was novel in
he shipper's contention^. In Chicago
it was testified by one railway
hat forty million dollars of earnings
had been put back into tb?* ,
property. In this city it was tesi i- <
fled that some thirty-five millions of ,
dollars of earnings had been expend- I
3d upon the new Pennsylvania terini- (
tial. Tliis was in uccord with the ,
formerly approved rule of practice .
by the best roads?"a dollar for (
dividends and a dollar for betterments.
It. was this principle of ,
plowing the earnings back into the ,
property which has kept down the
capitalization of American railways. ,
at the same time that their rates (
have not risen with other prices for
services and goods. (
"On this formerly approved principle
the shippers' counsel joined issue,
taking their cue, it must be admitted,
from certain rulings of the
Inter-State Commerce Commission.
These improvements made from ear
nings wore regarded as grievances,
and in themselves as proof of extortion.
It was asserted as a right that
t lie roads should reduce their rates
by whatever sums of earnings they
have been accustomed to devote to
improvements. Even the misfortunes
of the railways were imputed to
them for a fault. For example, it
was alleged that because one road
had lost large sums by equipment
frauds, and had prospered nevertheless,
therefore it had oversharged by
the amount it had lost by embezzlement,
and should be held to reduce
its rates by the amount of its losses.
The broad prosition of those
assuming to act for the general public
is that the railways should he
allowed to charge 110 more than
would just prevent their setting up
a defense of confiscation. And, in
estimating their permissible income
the railways are held by these
spokesmen to be entiled to 110 more
than a reasonable income upon the
amount of their own funds which
they have devoted to the public use.
"These gentlemen seem in some
danger of winning a battle and losing
a campaign. It is conceivable
that they may prevent an advance
in rates, and come to regret the consequent
lack of vitaity in the railways.
American railways are far
from having attained their growth.
'rViou ore in hnorl nnt on 1V of inc.OIllG
enough to sustain their life, but to
stimulate their growth. There is a
certain justice in haveing the funds
necessary for their growth contributed
by those whose patronage of
the railroads is a source of profit,
rather than by the general public
whose gain from the railways is less
direct, if the railways are held to
capitalize their betterments, and
must borrow the money, interest
must be paid on the money borrowed,
and the rates must be adequate
to pay the interest and provide a
sinking fund for the extinguishment
of the debt. As interest and sinking
fund must come from earnings,
it would seem to come to the same
thing in the end.
"Whatever the merit of this argument
on either side, it is plain that
a new light is thrown upon what ?s
thought to be regulation of rates.
Heretofore it has been thought that
the function of government was
merely to assume that rates were
,11,1,1 -Snot Mint Jo noittwir
iUciouiiiiuit: anvi juot) u.n.,. iu, iiv*
extortionate nor discriminatory, toward
either persons or places. If the
position assumed on behalf of the
shippers is sustained there is no detail
of the management of the railways
too trivial for examination and
control. It is not enough for the
railways to sustain their claim that
they need more money. They cannot
justify on totals, but nust prove
in detail just how much they want
for terminals, just how much they
want for wages, how much for interest,
and so on inedfinitely.
"The railways plead that they
cannot do it, and that nobody could.
However that may be, it is evident
that the success of the contention
would establish a new definition of
railway regulation, and one not 111
accord with the present law.
SHOT BY GUN THAI*.
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Which He Had Set to Shoot Expected
Burglars.
J. P. Bcasley, a prominent merchant
and postmaster of ltockport,
Miss., met death in a peculiar manner
Monday. Several weeks ago
burglars robbed Beasley's store, and
the postofflce. In expectation of an-1
other visit from the burglars Heasley
had set a loaded shot gun so that
when tho door was opened the gun
would bo discharged. Forgetting the
trap ho had laid, Ileasley attempted
to enter the store and the gun was
discharged, killing him almost instantly.
TEDDY VICTOR
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fatten Temporary Cbairvaa 0?er VicePresideat
Sfaermaa.
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RESULT NO SURPRISE
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Complete Hout ?f tho "Old Guard1*
by "I*rogresHlvoK," I'mlcr Leader*
ship of tl??4 Foi'iuor PrcKldent, a#
Nrw York Itopiiblican State Con?
.volition at .Saratoga incsuuy.
Teddy Roosevelt rode Tuesday to
victory at Saratoga. X. Y , defbating
Wee-President Shen.u.aij .for t temnoriry
chairman of 'he Republican
State Convention and 1/cwling. qv&r
the "Old Guard" in .the tRst engagement
of a series of c.onfjh tg that iiro
sure to come. Koopevelt. waft in h ^
element. , . ... .....
After he had named the. ntemb'Jt*
df the three important oomiiiitfe?M
and the Convention had adjourned to
meet Wednesday Roosevelt, turned
to the newspaper men and remained
:
"1 said 'frazzle,' you may quote
on that." , 4
At Troy on Monday the former
President said he would heat his opponents
to a "frazzle."
There were 1,0 1 1 votes cast intr#t)
Convention, of which Hoosevel.t received
568 and Vice President Sher<#
T
man received 4 43. this electing tbo
leader of the "progressives" by. a.
majority of 1 2 5.
Roosevelt, did not vote. Sherman
voted for .John Doe arid two ot trie
Now York County delegates did not
respond when their names were cKlled.
The vote as officially announced at
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the Convention gave Roosevelt 6 67
and Sherman 4 4 6, hut an error In
the count was discovered that night.
Roosevelt spoke feelingly, saying
that the laws passed reflect high
credit "upon all who succeeded in
putting them in their present shape
upon the statute book; they reprosent
an earnest effort of the achievement
which is yet to come, and 'the
beneficence and far-reaching .importance
of this work done for the wfiolo
people measures the credit which is
rightly due to the Congress and to
our able, upright and disinterested
President Wm. Howard Taft."
The spectators and many of the
delegates warmly applauded the declaration
of Roosevelt, for a direct
primary plank.
'Roosevelt bitterly assailed the
"bosses," declaring that '.'the difference
between a ' hosts' drives. Tho
difference is that the leader holds
his place by firing the conscience and
appealing to the reason of his followers
and that the 'boss' holds his
place by crooked and underhand
maniuplation." .
Thunders of applause greeted tho
Colonel as he was escorted to the
Onnntrnn'n otnnil lllf \TW'a
Ollt'lVllCI a QVUIIU UJ > ivy m. yw.uvu .
Sherman and Cornelius ty. ^ C^jlins,
and it was same time befpre he; jould
proceed with his speech.. 'Thanking
the delegates for the honor that the/
had conferred on him, he caused tho
greatest enthusiasm when hp said:
"You shall not have cause now or
hereafter to regret .what you^have
done." , 11 ,
It was a day of oratory; it was a
day of hitter and acrimonious speech,
With the opening of,the Convention,
State Chairman Woodruff defined the
position of the "Old Guard'' ai^d announced
that Sherman hpd. beou releeted
for temporary chairman'.
And then the real ft^ht was on.
Col. Abraham Gruber, of MTqW* York
*. <. . p
City, had been selected to fire the
verbal shot of the "Old Gujard^" ami
his speech attacking the fofrpper ^resident,
which was a bitter, arraignment
of him, was ojften broken and
drowned by hisses and jeers.
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AUTOMOIUYjE CAUSKS RUNAWAY.
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One of the Throe Young Sfen in
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Riiggy Fatally Hurt. .
A sad accident occ.urre(\ ;at Abbeville
on Sunday afternoon. Lem
Ueid, a young man, died Monday
afternoon from injuries received in
the accident. Young Ueid, with hip
brother and Cliff King, vrpr/3 in a
buggy driving down Trinity street
when their horse became frightened
at an automobile. Just as they got
past the automobile the bridl^ broto
and as the horse bolted ali three
young men jumped. Young Ueid
fell and the back of his head,' struct
the curb, lie lingered until Monday
afternoon but never regained consciousness.
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Sent Up Ten Yejirs.^
The trial of Dr. \V. JLw Afcstel at
Hreensboro, N. Ci?, for performing
criminal -operation 011 a y 09 tig woman
at High Point, where he lived,
resulted in his conviction, and seuteneo
to the penitentiary til fard labj
or for ten years.
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Kills at Postoftlce.
At Vernon, Texas., in the midst of
a throng waiting for tho Sunday mart
at the postofUce Sunday morning, Dr.
A. P. Howard, a prominent physlbian,
shot and killed II. A. Purns. Tho
causo is not known. Dr. t Howardh?surrendered.