The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 29, 1910, Image 6
MAD WITH TAFT
tepiblicaos Th uk Chief Justice Should
Be Kept io the Party.
CRITICISED BITTERLY
Some of the More Disgruntled end
Disappointed Members of the President's
Party Say Among Them?
fr|? '? Wan Bulldozed by
eives i ..v
Che Opposition.
According to The Washington correspondent
of The Norfolk LedgerDispatch,
nothing that President Taft
lias done in the twenty months that
he has held down the job has so
Alienated the Republicans as his appointments
yesterday to the Supreme
bench of the United States and to
the commerce court. I
He is bein? bitterly criticised on
All hands although the Senators and
Congressmen are reluctant to state I
their views publicly or to be quoted |
and it is hinted that it will require j
fl H?vi o f { nn
a hard light to secure cumu ni<.uw?
of the men named, with an even
chance that they may be rejected.
One prominent Republican from
Illinois said to the writer:
"1 am in favor of having the morning
prayer amended to read as follows:
"Oh, Lord, make us Republicans
o humble that we can view with
complaisance the daily appointment
of Democrats to high ofTice by our
alleged Republican President."
Continuing this Republican said:
"Out in Illinois, we hesitate to endorse
a Republican for a high office
for fear it will result in the selection
of a Democrat. Just see how
we have been treated by President
Taft. He took two members of bis
cabinet from Illinois, although one
of them claims Tennessee as his real
home. The first as a half Democrat
and free trader named MacVeagh,
and the other a Southern Democrat
named Dickinson. Since that time
he has invariably given Democrats
the preference in Illinois and now
?an? tho climax bv selecting Ju
uv vupw V .. V ?
Han M. Mack, of Chicago, a virulent
Democrat, to bo a member of the
new commerce court. In every instance
we have recommended strong
and able Republicans only to have
them passed by."
The main criticism against the
President in this last batch of appointments
is because he did not
stand on his prerogative and refuse
to be bulldozed by the opposition.
President Cleveland, Democrat, never
failed to select a Democrat for
the Supreme bench in the eight
years he held the office, and all of
the Republican Presidents since the
war have named Republicans. President
Harrison did name Democrats
to be circuit or district judges, but
that is as far as he went. All of
President Taft's predecessors In the
last forty years have made their selections
regardless of protests.
But in the present instance it looks
as If President Taft listened to protests
and has tried a compromise
that does not seem to please any.body.
Notwithstanding that he has
already appointed one Democrat to
the Supreme bench in Justice Burton,
President Taft was advised by
Senator Bailey, Democrat, to the
Supreme bench out of the three to be
named he would have trouble in having
them confirmed. Then Senator
Cummin?8, on behalf of the progressive
Republicans, suggested that if
the appointees were not satisfactory
to that faction, there would be trouble.
Instead of standing by his prerogative,
the President has advanced
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UU? uI Lilt" L/uiuuLiaiii; juontca iv
ohlef Justice (Justice White, of Louisiana)
over the heads of Harlan,
McKenna, Dey and other Republican
Justices, and then has selected a
Georgia Democrat, Lamar, for one
of the associate justices, leaving to
the Republicans but one Van Devanter,
of Wyoming. And this in
face of the. fact that nearly ever>
State in the Union presented the
names of one or more Republicans
who were qualified for the place.
Hence the Republicans disgust and
hence the reports that there will be
a lively time before the appointees
are confirmed.
It is pointed out that if Cleveland
or Roosevelt were in the White
House they would have defied the
Senate, would have selected their
men, and then dared the Senate tc
defeat their confirmation.
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Inherits a Fortune.
By the terms of the will of tin
late Robert Buist, the wealthy seeds
man of Philadelphia, Robert B. Deja
non, his grandchild, who disappeare<
from that city with a hotel walte
last December and was found In Chi
cago, is given in trust the bulk o
his estate, which is valued at abou
$600,000.
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Drank Poisoned Cider.
The fourth victim of poisonin
from drinking hard cider out of i
paint keg Is dead at Summit, N. J
EJour Italian laborers were member
of a cider party at the home of
frllend. The latter says he was no
aware that any poison was In th
kef.
KILLtD HIMStLF
ISKCAI7SH HIS WIFK \VI?II*I?KI>
'
Til Kill HA BY A IJTTKK.
Charles Ootes Shot VlliiiMolf on l*n*?
Friday and Alter Lingering t'ntil
Sunday IWea Away.
The State says Charles Gates of
Jacobs, who shot himself with a pistol
early Friday morning, as he sat
beside the bedside of his sleeping
wife and child, died late Sunday af
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ternoon wmiuut nniig wvudwubness.
"He shot himself because I
whipped the baby after he had told
me not to do bo," said young Mrs.
Gates at the Inquest, which was hold
yesterday at Jacobs by R. D. Walker,
coroner of Richland county. She tesiiiiou
mi.- n,0 from her bed, lo
which she lias ueeu confined since
her husband shot hlmsell Friday
morning.
After hearing a number of witnesses,
most of them relatives of the
deceased and his young wife, the
coroner's jury returned the follow- I
I lng verdict: "Charles Gates came j
to his death by a gunshot wound
at his own hands."
Mrs. Gates Is a handsome 17-yearold
girl with ll?ht hair, blue eyes
and a very fair complexion. Before
her marriage three years ago to I
Charles Gates, she was Miss Margaret
Grlmsley.
?
Mrs. Gates told the coroner's Jury i
that she and her husband had had
* tu -1
a disagreement mi niursuaj msm. *
She whipped their 2-year-old baby.
Her husband had forbidden her ever
to do this and grew very angry. They
retired for the night, but got up in j
the early hours of the morning on j
jar count of the baby, who was not I
-.veil. She was uncertain about the
i time, but was sure that it was still
dark. When the child was quieted.
} Mrs. Gates said that she went back
to bed.
Her husband walked out. of the
bed room toward the kitchen. This
was the last she Saw of him until she
was awakened by a pistol shot. Her
husband was sitting In a chair beside
her bed She asked him what
was the matter. He did not reply
but slipped out of the chair to the
floor. She saw blood streaming
from a wound in his temple and
fainted. When she recovered hei
senses, it was day break. Her screams
brought the neighbors to her assistance.
They found the baby, who
had crawled out of the bed, playing
in the pool of blood In which his
father lay.
Charles Gates lived over 60 hours
after he shot himself, although the
bullet passed through the frontal
portion of the brain, entering at the
right temple and coming out at the
left. He did not regal nconsclousness.
Saturday morning Magistrate Jacobs
of Jacobs reported the occurrence
tp Sheriff Coleman who went
to the scene at once with W. II.
Cobb. Coroner Walker was notified
of Gates' death by Magistrate Ja
cobs. The Inquest was hel l at Jacobs
at noon. Numerous witnesses
were examined, among then) Hutler
Grlmsley, the brother of Mrs. Gates.
Charlie Gates, who took his own
life, was a farmer. He lived about
a mile from Jacobs on the Two-Notch
road. He was not a man of means
bui came of a highly respectable
family of hard-working people. His
death was a shock to the community
at Jacobs where he lived all his life.
Peculiar Damage Suit.
The Ohio Supreme Court awarder
John R. Thomas, of Lima, $1.65:
damages for an electric shock he re
ceived while sitting on a fence. Ac
cording to the decision the Wes?
Ohio Railroad Company must pa>
Mr. Thomas the above sum. Tht J
current was declared to have accl
dentally charged the fence througt
the trolley wire owned by the rail
road.
Die From Gas.
Four wide-open gas Jets In three
adjoining rooms caused the death in
East Orange, N. J., of Mrs. Josephine
Harriman, aged 70, and Mrs. Delia
Zeliff, aged 4 0, mother and daughter,
both widows. Dr. M. H. Simmons
who investigated the case, declared
it to he a case of suicide and homii
cide hut could find no Indication of
which woman turned on the gas.
! Killed a Mad llorse.
'I'lifi Qtifo eovu T T a rl in f In
* spector of the Society for the Pre>
ventlon of Cruelty to Animals, was
recently called upon to dispatch a
horse, belonging to Rod Myers, of
Shandon, which Is supposed to have
? had rabies. The animal was shot by
- the inspector as the quickest method
- of putting It out of its suffering.
1 -
r Found Vncler Trestle.
The dead body of Prof. Leeah
' Sullender, aged 60, principal of the
1 schools at Glen Wilton, Va., was
found under a railroad trestle near
Buchanan, Va. It 1s thought he fell
from the trestle while hurrying in
% the dark last nlsrht to r??tch a train,
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Those people who are trying to
s read William Jennings Bryan out of
a '.he Democratic party seem to lose
t 4lght of the fact that the party would
e be doomed to defeat if they succeeded
In their efforts.
OPPOStD TO PARDONS
HUMAN LIFE IS TOO CHEAP, HAYfc
GKOKGIA'K GOVKHNOIt.
Gov. Joe Drown Sayw Punishment t'ot
Murderers Must be Made Sure au?J
More Speetly.
"Pistol-carrying and murders will
never decrease until the certainty ol
punishment, sufficient and severe, it
established beyond question."
With this emphatic declaration
(iovernor Drown put himself on record
as opposed to the proposition oi
cheapening human life by opening
the door of hope to the murderer
' 1 ? - ~ V. * V. i.nnolKII It U r\f OVAPIltl VO
LII ru 11K II tuc l/uooiunn; V.
clemency.
And It fol lo W8, therefore, that
when the governor comes to pass
upon the numerous recommendations
for clemency made In murder cases
by the prison commission and now
awaiting official action thero will be
many of them vetoed.
The governor's emphatic statements
anenl ihe exercises of executive
clemency in murder cases were
apropos of recommendation from the
commission in six mur ler cases, four
manslaughter cases and three attempts
to murder.
"Human life is held too cheaply,"
continued Governor Brown." It lias
come m, fi.i&H *h:it murder may be
">::nnf!t*v: .-.ail ;i:e guilty man escape
with only a few years in the penitentiary.
When he is given a life
sentence he serves seven or eight
years and then his case comes up tor
clemency.
"if wp urn not. to inflict, life sen
tenoe when the circumstances demand,
why not chnnge the law and
put the man In for only seven years?
If we are ?o:ng to inflict punishment
in this state for murder, then we
should le' the sentences stand after
a competent judge and jury have
fixed the penalty.
"Here are ten human lives taken
and I am asked as governor to extend
clemency to the nun who took
them. Think of it.
"The infliction of punishment for
taking a life is groan led in three
causes. First, the punishment of the
murderer for his offense; second, the
protection of society from a repetition
of the crime: third, the example
which it sets for others.
"When a man is convicted for
murder, given a life sentence and
then released after serving a few
years in the penitentiary, It not only
absolutely defeats the ends of justice,
but it puts a premium on crime.
Laxity in the administration of law
is largely responsible for the abundance
of cr'me ani It Is high time
that the criminal should know that
when he runs counter to law his punishment
will be swift and severe.
"There ore instances," concluded
Governor Brown, "when clemency in
murder cases is advisable. When a
rr.an sentenced to confinement for
l'fe in a murder char?e becomes
helpless and Infirm through old age
or disease an i is a burden and a
drain upon the State, it is frequently
well, if the circumstances justify
to give bun a parole or a pardon
and turn him over to the care and
keeping of his family or friends and
thus relieve the State. It is an entirely
different matter from the gen
eral proposition of extending clemen
cy to murderers."
nruNion very severely.
Supposed to Have Been l)ono b;
(iun^ of Tramps.
With his body from ankles to neel
la masfi of burns and his face and fee
frost-bitten, Edward Dillchor o
Scranton, Pa., Is lying In the hos
pital at North Hudson, N. j., Tues
day In a serious condition. Dillchor
absolutely stripped of clothing, rai
into the bar room of a small hotel ii
Granton, N. j., last night and fel
unconscious to the floor. When h
revived momentarily he was onl
able to tell his name and murmu
weakly:
"llujned In Are by men."
Dlllcher then relapsed Into uncon
sclousnoss ami later became deliri
oils. He will probab'y die. Th
I man's terrible condition and his dis
jointed utterances gave rise to th
be'ief that ho had fallen victim to
band of railroad tramps, who ha
t/.Klnrnil at, I ? #, l.luwl ll i til I (> I
I ll/l IUI VU (ill vl . *a ? i ? ?
illini to die from his injuries an
from exposure.
Fell mill Died.
As he was turning to climb dow
from a freight car to pick up his h?
which had been brushed off by th
"tell-tale" at the McDaniel stre?
bridge at Atlanta, Albert A. Ilurdei
yard conductor for the Souther
railway, lost his balance Sunda
morning, as the train rocked aroun
a curve, and fell. He wan killed li
wtan My
Body Found at Last.
A fishing cutter has found In tt
North sea, the body of Lieut. Lang
pilot of the balloon Saar. The Sai
and eight other balloons started in
, race from Essen on the Ruhr, Rhei
' ish Prussia, November 13. Seven <
'the balloons made safe landings. T1
Saar was never heard of agal
. | There were three persons on M
I Saar.
RUIN AND DEATH
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An Electric Spark Sets off Gas io Power
Haase Cansing a Mast
1 TERRIFIC IXPLOSION
| A Motor Car Breaks the Gas Pipe,
i Power House Filled, Falling Hanit
mer Makes Spark, Awful Explosion j
Sliakee Manhattan Isle from Centre
to Circumference.
The terrific explosion of Illuminating
gas In the auxiliary power house
1 ? r* m o n/I Pantrol a t Inn In New
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York which tore at the heart of and j
sent a tremor along the entire rock
backbone of Manhattan Monday
mornine, caused death of 10 persons,
two of them women, the Injury of
125 others and property damage estimated
tonight at from $2,000,000
I to $3,000,000. A fire broke out in
[the shattered ruins of the power
house again late tonight, but with a
treat corps of police, searchers and
firemen on the scene, the blaze made
little headway. It was a weird scene
in and about the station as the night
wore on. No additional bodies were
found, but in a hospital Cluthier
j Johnson, an electrician succumbed
j to terrible injuries, bringing the
I death list, up to ten. I
J Four workmen who are missing are
believed to have perished, and of the
125 injured OS were removed to hospitals.
Of those, eight may die. An
investigation by the police, the dlsItrict
attorney's oflice and the coroI
ner's office is under way. Traffic on
the New ' York Central Railroad
ceased entirely for some time and
| was disorganized for the remainder
1 of the day, but the new station itself,
now in process of construction,
was not damaged.
A passing surface car, carrying
seven passengers, was lifted from its
tracks and hurled into an automobile
running alongside. Four of the seven
passengers were killed outright,
but the chaffeur of the motor car
was only cut and bruised.
For some hours it was believed
that dynamite alone could have
wrought such instantaneous and pulverizing
havoc, but late in the afternoon
-Fire Chief Croker said he was
convinced that the whole explosion
was due to a mixture of air and illuminating
eas used in lighting rallnnr?
tonrhed off bv an electric
spark. I
The *as has accumulated In the
auxiliary power house from a broken
pine snapped off by a runaway passenger
car.
The force of the explosion ran
north and south from one to two
miles alon? the Rock Rid?e, that Is
1 the backbone of the Island, and east
| and west literally for a mile. Founi
datlons were jarred, walls shaken
'lout of pfumb, windows were blown
! j in by the thousands, ceilings crashL
i in? down on the heads of occupants
and the pavements were littered with
' a crisp tinklin? fall of pulverized
' plass that coated the shoe soles.
The full amount of the property
damaae is unavailable, but may ex'
i coed the rou?h and conservative estimate
of $500,000. The loss to the
i vnu, V/-,?.Lr Cnntrul Pnilrnail Hnmnanv
4 > vv 1 vs 1 n v/v 11 l ? i v- M ? , ?
Includes the physical damage done
to the power house, which was utterly
wrecked: the delay to construction
work and the damage done to
the carR standing near the power
Y house. The loss to shopkeepers and
property owners In the vicinity will
spread over a wide range of Items.
{ Christmas dlsplavs were blown backf
ward Into the shops, sucked Into the
f street or cut to ribbons by flying
glass. Whole fronts of buildings
were left without a window, like
Rlghtless masks.
^ As nearly as can be determined
this Is how the accident occurred:
j A train load of empty passenger
e coaches, hauled hy an electric motor,
In charge of A'bert Seagrotte. got cut
of control of the brakes, crashed
Into a steel and concrete buffer post,
snapped the post off, rammed a pile
of lumber behind the post Into a two
and one-half Imh gas main connect
4 ?UUl,
1 lng witn tno taps, irom wm^u 1,11*7
tanks of the passenger cars are
charged at 250 pounds pressuie. Hy
the testimony of the motorman and
(jjthat of John J. Qulnn, a bricklayer,
t I working on the main power house,
(j adjoining the auxiliary house, the
time of the break in the pipe Is approximated
at a few minutes after
8 o'clock. Two clocks, stopped by
' the jar, fixed the time of the ex11
plosion itself at 8.22. In the interval
the broken main had ample time to
0 pour high pressure gas into the lower
levels of tho auxiliary power house,
b When workmen set to clearing
n away the strewed lumber, it is a9y
sumed that one of them dropped a
d steel tool across the third rail, there
i_ was a flash of electricity and the
great reservoir of accumulated gas
exploded.
What happened then will nevei
it be adequately told,
e The roof of the Are house, No. 2,
directly across the street from th
power house, lifted like a magic cara
pet. A shower of glass, brick, moral
tar and shattered, spllntored timberi
it began to rain on the pavements, and
n in an instant streets were filled with
it] prostrate men and women blown flat
by the shock of the detonation and
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than the combined capital and surpl
CAPITAL STOCK
SURPLUS
LIABILITIES OF STOCK
SECURITY OF DEPOSIT!
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Robert B. Scarborough,
H. L. Buck,
George J. Holiday,
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will justify, and we i
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PRESIDENT.
We continue to pay 5 pei
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'.VS ly allied with the recent dev
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United States Bonds, we#are |)
" tomers any reasonable accomc
/j\ If. A. S1MVEY,
Xf Cashier.
Wants Big Damages.
Fright, caused by the sudden appearance
of a man in the rooms of
a dressmaker, where a dress was being
fitted on her, so injured tlie modesty
of Mrs. Minnie Fluor, of Cincinnati,
O., that she has brought
suit for damages in the sum of j
11,700.
Millionaire a Suicide.
Following fifteen hours secrecy
the family of PhiMp Medart, of St.
Louis, a millionaire manufacturer,
?i ? lit -J *!?<> Vi n uhrit and Lrillttd
HU III 1L Ltru luai uc
himself Saturday. Medart was 72
V#??rn old
the rush of air. They eat dazed
where they fell, picking slivers from
their flesh.
A mompnt more and crowds heTfTrj
epi neeMieq Jouiup oi nwSoq
the clattering gongs of ambulances
aid and clamoring for medicines, and
sieged the drug stores begging for
buildings. The tenements to the east
of Lexln?ton avenue poured thousands
Into the streets. Whole homes
were emptied in a twinkling. The
tall facades of the many fashionable
hotels in the neighborhood were
spotted with the faces of half dressed
guests, shaken from their sleep,
peering from broken windows.
Black-robed priests from St. Patrick's
Cathedral nearby, and white
coated ambulance assistants passed
each other on kindred errands of
consolation and comfort.
| On a technical charge of homicide
the police late today took into custody
Albert Seagroatte, motoriuan of
a train which humped Into and broke
one of the gas pipes near the station.
Seagrotte said he tried to stop tlio
train with his brakes and reversing
|pvor?. hut rnnld not do ?o
| The worst focus of death was the
spot at which the trolley car and
the automobile were hurled togelhj
er. The seven passengers were
dumped to the under side of the cai
j In a tangle of iron work, sharp fragments
of glass and broken panels.
'Miss Mary Pope was caught by the
head between a stanchion and the
overturned automobile beneath and
crushed to death. Three other passengers,
all men, were overwhelmed
with wreckage and died before help
! could reach them.
I Twenty feet away Miss Edith Offner,
aged 28, a stenographer on her
way to work, was speared through
the head by a flying joist. Polire'man
Toomey had Just signalled to
the trolley to stop, and was leading
! two little girls across the street. One
j was torn from his hand by the firs',
blast of the air and the other by the
I
rebound. The second girl, Maiy
Oilman, aged 12, had her right leg
torn off by a flying fragment of iron
railing.
In the Babies' Hospital, at Fiftyninth
streot and Lexington avenue
the infants were being given theii
.! mnrnlni? hath. Nurses were throwr
to the floor with bah lee In their arms
i other babies were tipped out of theii
t cribs and In two Instances, babies
i were popped upward out of theli
tubs as If they had been drawn on
by a powerful suction or ae if som<
one hit the floor a powerful whack
, One woman in the wrecked trolle:
i car had her hair caught and held ii
. a firm grip between jammed portioni
. of the timber. She had fainted am
i could not be lifted out until the Are
1 men cut her hair. She was foun<
i to be only slightly hurt. A long coi
t of this woman's hair is at the fire
I house awaiting its owner.
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HOLDERS .. .. 60.000
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repared to extend to our cm- XI
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Killed Two Brother*.
, I Two men are dead and one Is dy?
j ing as the result of a light between
Emmott and Lafayette Easterburg,
p two brothers, and Urbna Nash, at
^ Tacoma, Va. Sunday afternoon. At"
r ter being shot below the heart bj
t Lafayette Easterling, Nash returned
a the fire and killed tho two hrnthers.
^ With tlie Proof,
i Congressman Macon, of Arkansas,
a threatens trouble for Capt. Robert
i E. Peary, the Arctic explorer, if an
. attempt is made to honor him on the
1 floor of the House. He declares he
1 has seen no more definite proof that
- Peary reached the North pole than
that It was reached by Or. Cook.
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