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A Republican Senator Talks Out Plainly
on I he Race Question
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THE NORTH HYPOCRITE
in Opposing Amendment to Ilesoltition
for Direct Klertioii of lulled
States Senators, itorali Maintains
Treatment ^cconicd Negro in
North No IJetter Than in Sontli.
That, prejudice against the negro
is just as intense in the North as in
the South and that the North plays
the hypocrite in its contentions to
t)i" contrary, was boldly and bluntly
asserted in the Senate Thursday by
a Republican Senator.
U/.?nI llnm. V, rif I d n tin vi'!i? f )l f>
Ol.Ilft I \/| I M/J (III, V - I V(>< > \/, <f ?% > v v
speaker. Wis declarations regarding
the negro were made at tlie close of
a prolonged speech, in opposition to
the Sutherland amendment to the
Senate resolution providing for the
election of Senators by popular vote.
The amendment would have the effect
of giving Congress control of
Senatorial elections.
Mr. Borah's pronouncement on
the race question was made in response
to the recent assertion of
Senator Root, that without the Sutherland
provision the resolution would
deprive the Southern negroes of Federal
protection in the exercise of the
franchise. Mr. Borah dissented
from the New Yorker's view, and in
doing so used language which elicited
congratulations from many Senators.
Mr. Borah contended that as the
resolution stands, notwithstanding it
gives State legislatures control of
Senatorial elections, Congress would
still have the right to interfere in
protecting any citizen whose right of
franchise had been interferred with.
The Idaho Senator expressed deep regret
that the race question had been
brought into the controversy and asserted
that its introduction was intended
only to imperil the resolution
j "I wonder how long the North is
going to play the hypocrite and the
moral coward on this questijonf"
said Mr. Borah, and added that that
section always had assumed more
wisdom and more tolerance in (tearing
with this problem than had been
displayed elsewhere. He insisted
that a call of the roll of the Northern
State In which there ;is any
apreciable number of negroes, would
demonstrate that the North had not
dealt more leniently with the negro
than had other sections.
"The Northern States have .exhibited
the same race prejudice that
has been shown elsewhere, ' he is/
"Sorted. "In the North we burn the
negro at. the stake and there, as in
other sections, we have our race
wa s. We push our negroes to the
outer edge of the industrial world.
We exhibit the same prejudices, the
game weaknesses, the same imoiera
nee (hat is apparent in the Southla
ml."
Mr. Rorali declared that if Congress
had power under the existing
provisions of the Constitutior, giving
'yvCongressfonal control over Senatorial
elections, i( should he exercised.
"If that right exists, (he North naa
the greater obligation under it, because
it. makes claim to it. We
assert the power, but we admit that
we haven't had the moral courage to
exercise it."
For himself, he denied the existence
of any such power, and. said
that he resented such a position aeon
use of the position in which Congress
was placed by -11. Concluding
he said:
"The negro has been used as a
political football about as long as
our own senne of decency and his
developing intelligence will permit.
We should no longer mistreat him,
but we should have the courage to
Inform him as to the real situation.
T( does not benefit him to make him
the subject of our sopliomoric rhetoric.
The negroI' advanced to tne
point where we dispense ,
with the peret '
KILLED BY FATHER
MURDERER UNMOVED BY THE
VICTIM'S PLEADING WIFE.
The Young Man Drives Wagon on
Yard Against Father's Orders and
is Shot Down.
With the wife of his victim clinging
to him and entreating him not
to shoot, and her four children
standing by, awe-stricken witnesses,
William .Martin Lanioru, a ui-yeaiold
Confederate veteran, early Wednesday
morning put a bullet Into the
heart of his son, William David
Lanford, 3"> years old, killing him
almost instantly.
The son and his family lived with
the old man on a plantation on the
Bnoree river, three miles from
Woodruff: Because of constant
bickerings the son had decided to
move. When lie came with a wagon
j to take away his household goods
the father bade him not drive upon
the yard under pain of death. The
young man ignored the command,
and was shot through the heart.
After the killing, the old man
mounted a mule and, with head
erect, glancing neither to the right
or left, paying no heed to the curious
persons who followed him,
rode to Woodruff, calmly announced
that ho had killed his son and said
he was going to Spartanburg to suirender
to the sheriff.
The train had gone and Danford
accordingly went to Foster & Dryson's
store and rep nested Hert
Weathers, a clerk, to telephone the
sheriff, W. J. While,, to come for
him. This was done and Dan ford
was committed to jail late in the
afternoon.
In jail he complained of begin ill
and Dr. William G. Sex I on was
called and prescribed. It is reported
that Danford is suffering from pellagra
hut the report lacks confirma'ion.
The old man said at the jail
that during the last six months he
J,as had 15 physicians treat him for
intestinal trouble and none had been
able to do anything for him.
Dr. Sexton said that owing to the
larkness of Lanford's cell he had
not, noticed any skin eruptions, if
here were any, but he would make
more careful examination next day.
Coroner J. B. Turner had the in*
? ? t- Ci rni,
quest in inn u i leniuuu. i m-m w.im
difficulty in obtaining a jury because
of the r?0 or 6 0 persons called nearly
all worn related to the Danfords.
Tbe jury finally chosen found that.
W. D. Tyanford had corne to his death
by a gunshot wound at the hands of
W. M. Dan ford.
The testimony given was in effect
he same as the story given above,
"fhere was evidence that Lanford
had consented to his son moving and
did not object to his taking away
:he furniture hut ordered him not
*r> drive the wagon on the yard.
MYSTEKY IS CLEAltED.
Coal Gns Caused Sudden Death of
Young Couple.
A dispatch from Cumberland, Md.,
says that Chas. E. Twlgg and Grace
Closser, the young couple found
dead in the parlor of the Elossor
home on December ,11st, last, the
eve of their wedding day, came to
their sad end from "?rbon monoxide
?"oal ga?) poisoning was ui? condition
o1' the Washington and it a 1 1
imore cnemisls who tester the
blood cf the two victims. State's
Attorney Robb announced the result
of the chemical analysis Monday.
Heretofore the authorities have
maintained that the pair mot their
death hy cyanide of potassium, the
coroner's jury returning a verdict to
that effect.
^ ? Brokers
and breakers are often
synonyms.
i
soothing syrup and cive him solid
food in the way of facts. We should
toll him the truth and conceal nothing.
"The negro Is beginning to realize
that the white man of the North is
of the same race as the white man 1
of the South, and that in his blood
is the virus of dominion and power.
Ho should know, while his slave
chains have been broken, the chains '
of industry are being forged around
him and will continue to hold him
unless he himself breaks them. This
badge was placed upon him by his
maker, and it can be removed only !
)w th<* noorn liiinsplf with tho ;ti.l
of those who have the courage to toll
him the truth, which is that we
have the power to guarantee to htm
the equal protection of the law and
to protect him against discrimination.
To attempt anything more
would he ruinous to the colored man
and demoralizing to the whole political
body. lie must work out. the
problem under the Constitution.
"When the exigencies of debate
are over it will be found that no
measures will bo offered in this Senate
to protect any supposed right of
the. colored man anywhere. If t/hose
who are interested will turn to the
Constitution, they will find there the
one universal rule of equality, the
only rule to be applied to the negro,
and the only rule under which
we can legislate. If applied, it will
ho proveh to be the correction rule,
the rule for all of us."
MAY RUSH TO WAR
RELATIONS TO RUSSIA AM)
CHINA ARK STRAINED.
Russian Troops Are to be Dispatched
to the Chinese Frontier to Scare
Them.
A dispatch from London says the
relations of Russia and China are
strained to the breaking point. Russia
Thursday notified the governments
of Great Britain, France and
Germany of her intention to make a
military demonstration on the Russo-Chinese
frontier owing to China s
?,.l i t),n Uohil'c.
persiQiuiu nuwiiuii ui I I>? ?j?-. & v??> >burg
treaty of 18X1.
Russian troops will be sent forthwith
to the district of III. The extent
of the demonstration, it is said,
added in the diplomatic note will depend
entirely upon the attitude assumed
by China.
'I'he vital questions involved are
free trade in Mongolia, the extraterritorial
rights of Russians in China
and the establishment of a Russian
consultate at Koebdo, Mongolia.
There have been rumors recently
of an intention by Russia to bring
pressure to bear upon' China because
of alleged violations of the
Russo-Chinese treaty. That the situation
was acute, however, lias been
denied both by the Chinese foreign
hoard and the Russian legation at
Peking.
It. has been admitted that there
were differences in the interpretations
of the international agreement
made at St. Petersburg and Peking.
The treaty adopted in 1.8 81 expires
"lis month and it has been reported
that China was unwilling to renew
it, nt least not until certain modifications
have horn made.
The changes have been closely
guarded hy hoth powers and what
stage the negotiations have reached
was not indicated until yesterday,
when the St. Petersburg Gazette announced
that an important conference
had been held at. the war ministry
to consider "China's persistent
flouting of treaty stipulations."
The province of 111, to which Russian
troops will be sent, lies in the
northern part of the Chinese empire.
Hy a provision of the Husso-Chinese
treaty of 1881 the western portion
of Hi is incorporated with Russia In
order to serve as a place of establishment
for the inhabitants of Russia,
who, having adopted Russian
dependence, had to abandon the
lands which they possessed there.
FOIXJHT OVER A CORPSE.
Two Rival Colored 1'ndertakers Delay
a Funeral.
The spectacle of two colored undertakers
fighting, like tigers for possession
of a corpse shipped for burial
confronted passengers alighting from
the afternoon Seaboard train at
Americas, Ga., on Friday.
One undertaker, Joshua Simmons,
with caparisoned horses and hearse,
was removing the casket from the
train when Dennis Rarnum, his rival
undertaker, undertook to scoop the
remains instead.
In the battle resulting, Rarnum
was knocked cold with a brickbat
and ere he recovered, Simmons had
captured the prize and departed in
triumph. The undertakers' battle
created intense excitement in colored
circles, and will be umpired in the
court. *
\ Vopv Sliiu-t Rnv.
Tlie shortest hours of any union
workmen in the country are those
of the caisson workers in New York
City, who have just reached an
agreement with their employers for
the year 1911. Three hohirs a day.
with no minutes off for luncheon,
and daily wages of $r> is the stipulation
of the men who work under an
air pressure of "three atmospheres."
Three Trains Crash.
Ten persons were killed in a
wreck caused by a double loHislon
near Paris, France, Wednesd night
on the western section of the State
railroad when expresses for Paris
and Prest dashed simultaneously
into a freight train which was being
sidetracked. The wreckage immediately
caught fire. *
Made Them Pay Well.
Ml.,n ^kn/llmn I
,ntn ii il?f mirvo uvnt: v imuiiii-i, wx
St. Paul, Minn., was compelled to
listen to abusive language from a
passenger in a street car, the railway
(Company will have to pay her
$.100 damages. The failure of the
conductor to eject the passenger furnished
grounds for the suit. ,
Physician Arrested.
Dr. DeFoix Wilson, a prominent '
physician of Spartanburg, has been
arrested on the charge of failing to \
report a contagious disease. The case
in question was one of smollpox, and .
t is stated that two other cases have '
resulted from coining in contact with 1
this disease. *
The waste basket is a potent faciei
in keeping up the standard of literature.
i
?
Money ninv not bring hap.dness,
hut it will purchase a lot of substitutes.
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WEEVIL SCARE
Mtn Reported Sees Distributing Thrm
oo Plantation* in Georgia.
WERE LOOKING FCR AID
Is What They Said When Caught
Small Holes?President
Barrett Calls on Farmers to Protect
Themselves?Says Kvery Precaution
Should he Taken hy
Thorn.
Have the alleged boll weevil distributors
been operating in Columbia
county? is the ouestion that is
agitating the farmers of some sections
of that county, according to
a telephone message received by the
\ugusta Chronicle Thursday.
The message stated that near
10vans. Oa., two men were last week
seen driving in their bugiies over
several of the plantations in the section
and digging small holes here
and there in the fields, and occasionally
making smaller holes wh.i
spikes. To some who questioned
them later they stated that they
were looking for indications of oil.
This incident occurred before the
publication of The Chronicle's story
of the rumor that one man had come
to Augusta for the purpose of sea.
tori ng the l)o!l weevil in I lie notion
RpMs of that section, and after road
in.a: the story the farmers of that section
of Columbia county have hecome
alarmed over the happening,
and fear that it is probable that the
weevils may have been placed in
their fields.
No one took any special notice of
the men, so no pood description
could he eotten of them. Oiu was
said to he in a buggy drawn by a
very dark horse, and the other was
driving; a horse of somewhat lighter
color.
What llnrrott Says.
'Following the publication of an
alleged amazing plot on the part or
schemers to infest the C.eorgia and
South Carolina cotton fields with
the boll weevil, Charles S. Barrett,
president of the National Farmers'
union, in an open statement, declares
that, the advancing sweep of the
plague of the cotton holds jeopardizes
the entire agricultural welfare
of the South.
President Barrett deplores the
fact that ccSGon growers of Georgia
and adjoining states are lethargic
over this grave menace and assorts
that "had this visitation, which in
its drastic destruction of values, is
entitled to rank with the plagues
of Egypt, fi^st shown its head in
anv of the trained and disciplined
nations of TCurope, the concerts
wealth and skill of the threatened
government would have been mustered
to stifle the danger."
TTe points out the fart that the
South holds practically a world monopoly
in dot ton, hut that the very
foundation of this monopoly is menaced
by the onwa.d sweep of the
pest, which all the science of the
hest. skill has been unable to effectively
curl) as yet. TTe sees hope,
however, in the tremendous possibilities
of diversification throughout
the cotton belt, where soil and climate
combine to make possible almost
any crop grown elsewhere in
the world.
Just at this time, when the weevil
seems destined through its natural
channels to invade (Teorcia
within the next year or so, his article
should be read with the closest
attention and interest. President
Parrett is a plain spoken man. Tie
doesn't use round-about or evasive
methods or language. He lias the
habit of driving direct at the point.
Therefore his utterances are not
those of an alarmist, hut words or
wisdom from a careful and observant
man, whose life has been and is
being spent in helping the man who
tills the soil. He says:
"The motive of this present appeal
is to stress upon Southern
farmers evervwhere the absolute
necessity of taking precautionary
measures at once. Had the farmers
of Texas and Louisiana adopted this
plan they would have avoided millions
of dollars in losses due to the
boll weevil. The only sensible pro- I
eedure is to recognize that the en- j
tire South seems destined <o be af-j
dieted by an unoscapable pest and i
to go about lessening or removing ils
possibilities for evil before it shall
have reduced us to panic by its sudden
appearance.
"T have always held that the
Southern states are so fortunatelv
i
endowed by nature that they should;
he absolutely independent of other j
portions of America. The hoi! wee-'
v*11 is mo ojuogeon wkh is aoing ioi
make us romo into our heritage
sooner than wo had expected In
this respect it is a blessing in dis- j
guise, but it is essential to act in
time if we are to reap the advantages
of the situation."
l.ost His Mend.
At Oroenvillc J. T*\ 'owe, machinist
at the South O-rolina Cotton Oil
Company's plant lost hi. right hand
Wednesday in the lintor machine.
He was engaged in making some
minor repairs when his hand go:
caught.
RUIN COTTON CROP
A CONSPIRACY SAID TO BE ON
FOOT TO DISTRIBUTE
Thousands of Live Cotton Boll Weevils
hy Night in Georgia and This
State.
An alleged conspiracy by crooked
speculators to ruin the south's cotton
crop by secretly distributing thousands
of live boll weevils in the fields
under cover of night, was brought to
light in Atlanta Saturday when tlovernor-elect
Hoke Smith made public
a letter of warning, sent him auoniymously
by a New Orleans business
man. This man called at M*\ Smith's
j office Friday afternoon, made known
I his identity and good faith, and corroborated
all the statements in the
letter.
Two men approached him in New
Orleans a short time ago, he declares
and solicited his help in a diabolical
scheme to curtail this year's crop by
inundating Georgia an* South Carolina
with the weevils, buyin; great
quantities of October cotton now, and
selling when the crop shortage sent
prices higher, making a fortune for
themselves, at the awful expense or
devastating one of the richest agricultural
sections of the union not
only for one year but for years to
come.
The author of the letter says h<
swore to the two men that he would
not disclose their names, and insists
t 1mt his own be withheld from publication.
Mo came clear from Birmingham
Friday to assure Governor
elect Smith of his good faith. IB
convinced Mr. Smith that ho was
not a crank, and not a grafter, for he
wanted nothing. lit1 simply folt it
his duty to make the matter public,
just as Mr. Smith now feels it his
duty to give the contents of the letter
to till the farmers of the south,
through the newspapers.
Georgia State Entomologist Lee
Worsham says the scheme as set
forth is entirely feasible and possible,
and that any one of a mind to
commit such an appalling act. could
work so unobtrusively that it would
be practically impossible to detect
them. lie does not. know anything
more of the alleged plot than contained
in the story and letter given
out by 'Mr. Smith, of such a thing
being done, and asks that all farmers
and others he on the watch for
any suspicious characters about the
State.
"It was pretty well established
some six years ago that the boll
weevil was surreptitiously introduced
on Audubon farm in Mississippi
by some unknown miscreant," said
Mr. Worsham. "The pest bad appeared
nowhere in the state up to
that time, and was not within many
miles of the farm. Suddenly and
without warning it appeared. Government
experts were summoned
and after a careful investigation declared
that the weevil could not
have appeared there without having
been brought in from a distance. No
trace of the perpetrator of the outrage
could be found.
"It would be possible for a man
to scatter the pest from the window
of a fast moving train. Enough
would find lodgment to get a start.
Once it begins its spread is rapid,
history showing that it travels from
75 to 150 miles every year into now
territory. A scoundrel mean enough
to do such a thing would commit
the act with due care, and there
would be small chance of ever detecting
him.
"I estimate that the weevil will
| cross the line into Southwest floor
gia Into next year, but will not be
seriously felt until the year following.
All we can do is to get ready
to combat it by every known and
possible means at hand."
Mr. Worsham was asked if the
ouail would destroy the weevil. He
stated that it would not eat them at
first, but had Anally come to like
and destroy large quantities of them.
This is one of the arguments some
lawmakers will put forward for
stringent laws to protect the quail
from further slaughter for a period
of years. Field larks and orioles
will also eat the weevil.
Hoth he and Mr. Smith are inclined
to believe that the widespread
publication and exposure of the
scheme, putting the farmers on notice,
and arousing them to protect
their Aelds, with armed force if necessary,
will force the conspirators
to abandon their plans. Here is the
letter received by lion. Hoke Smith:
Anonymous Letter.
"New Orleans, Jan. 31, 1011.
"Hon. Hoke Smith, Governor of
floors? i a:
"Dear Sir: In writting (his letter
1 do so because I feel it is my
duty and 1 know you well enough by
reputation to know you will appreciate
it fully. I will he as brief as posshile
and get ri :ht to the point.
"There are two men, one from
Texas, and I am not just sure where
the other is from at this writing,
hut I should say Oh'cngo from his
talk, are going to distribute boll
weevil in every cotton-raising county
in Georg'a and South Carolina in
the next Ob lays. They claim to
have over 100,000 live insects now
and they showed me a box containing
I should say 000 of them.
"Their eb' -*t in discussing it with 1
me was to v t me to help distribute
the weevil and share In the profits.
That is, 1 was to buy 1,000
WANT SQUARE DEM
THAT IS ALL T1IE FARMERS OF
TIIE COUNTRY ASK.
National Master Mulium .1. liar holder,
of the National Orange, Re
nlics to Secretary Wilson.
The proposed Canadian reciprocity
agreement is attacked in a letter
sent on Monday to Secretary James
Wilson, by former Governor Nahum
J. Bachelder, of Concord, N. Ii., national
master of the National Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry, and chairman
of the executive committee of that
organization. The letter is a reply
to the communication favoring the
agreement, sent by Secretary Wilson.
on February 0. Mr. Bachelder
declares that the agreement is unfair
to the farmers of the United States,
who "asked for nothing but a squate
deal?equal protection for all classes
and interests, and they will take
nothing less." The letter says in
part:
"In reply to our statement that
tho nendinur hill was ntio-?irloil and
unfair to the farmers, in that it
makes no material reduction in duties
on manufactured articles, you
attempted to defend that conseouenee
of a high tariff for mnnufac
urers along; with free trade for the
farmers, by claiming that it is the
protected workers who furnish the
[farmers with their chief market. We
would respectfully submit that you
re simply repeating the pot. argument
of the domestic maul" icturers,
ind that in asserting that the prosperity
of the farmer depends upon
the workers in protected industries,
you are claiming what is exactly the
reverse of actual conditions. We
cannot understand how at this late
day you should be found repeating
the stale and exploded theory that
the farmers exist by the grace of
protected manufacturers or any one
else on earth.
"The solo question before the
people is whether they shall have
free trade in all farm products and
high protection for manufactured articles.
We understand that you aro
a Protectionist. What kind of protection
is it that would compel the
farmer to pay . from 45 to (10 per
cent duties on everything he buys,
and subject him to free trade competition
in farm products in Canada
than in this country?
oxr i i i. . i . i _/? !> .
you kiiow inai uie price or larm
land is much lower in Canada. You
know that the wages of Canadian
farm laborers are much lower than
we have to pay. You know that the
Canadian farmer buys his manufactured
articles cheaper, because his
tariff duties on foreign goods are
lower. You know that the farm
lands of Canada are mostly virgin
soil, requiring no fertilizer, while
our lands have heen cropped so long
that we must use immense quantities
of fertilizers. And yet, knowing
all this, you would strike down the
very moderate tariff, averaging about
25 per cent, which they now receive,
without giving them the benefit of
any real reduction of duties on manufactured
articles.
"We can only conclude that you
have been deceived by the special
interests, which have been cunningly
nlottin? to allay the country-wideclamor
for an honest revision of (he
tariff by making the fanner th?
scapegoat for the workings of high
tariff."
hales October cotton. I think from
(he talk that one man has already
-one to Augusta with several thousand
in small box.
"How I happen to be able fo writ?
vou tHis information came about in
bis way: 1 met one of the men,
whom 1 have known for several years
and wo had two or tlive drinks together
and the conversation drifted
i rot ton. 1 expressed a belief that
otton would decline ion points or
nore. Finally he said if i would
give him my word as a man he would
tell me something; out of which 1
cor.hi make a fortune. i promised
him and this was the scheme he disdosed
to me. lie gave me a mass of
details, etc., that for the present are
worthless. The second man seemed
afraid to trust me, or any one, in
this case the man whom I knew assured
him I was all O. K. Hence
the confidence. 1 felt it was my duty
to do something, so 1 thou ; ht I'd
write you and let you advise the officers
and farmers to he on the lookout
for suspicious people. 1 am a business
man here and do :.ot want
any notoriety, so must make this
an annonymous letter. Am leaving
for New York tonight. If you are
interested, insert a 'personal' in the
New York Herald and sign it (leorg!a
in next Sunday's paper. 1 am
willing to come and see you and do
promised upon my honor I would
not disclose any names, hut I might
help you and your oflloers intercept
the insect and arrest the men with
t hem.
Mr. Smith received the letter on
Wednesday, February 1. lie communicated
at once with Commissioner
of Agriculture Hudson and S ate
Entomologist Worshnm. As a result
of their conference (Joverriorelcct
Smith published the "per opal"
in the New York Herald on S nduy,
the r?th. They also agreed t ?t
the letter should be published to nut
the public In posession of the fa is.
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