Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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JB c"* H^H?ar<> ' is' WHAT HE SAID twim BImm Difcals Hi* Actiaas Bdart a Largt Crawl. , TELLS ABOUT FELDER ' T > *'?' f-A The Governor Describes His official Career and Tells Why He Did Certain Things.?He Discusses Many Other Things, on All of Which He Speaks Oat Plainly. The Spartanburg Herald says Gov. Cole L Blease addressed two immense and enthusiastic audiences or cotton mill workers on Tuesday at Cowpens and Drayton iM'Ills in Spartanburg County. The following is a report of the speeches as we find them in the Spartanburg Herald: Gov. Blease began his address in a formal manner and then said that he would talk about anything his audience wanted and suggested that somebody give him a text. Someone shouted "Prohibition." "If you can show me hhere there Is any prohibition in South Carolina,' said Gov. Blease, "I'll talk about it." He referred to prohibition again later in his address He said he had received requests from the authorities of various counties to send State constables into these counties to enforce the liquor laws. But, said Blease, he told them that since they had voted to be dry they could err i ? i? i- ^, rorce tne liquor laws as ueai, mcj could. The governor then switched from one topic to another rather abruptly. He told a story of a little boy whom he toad taken into the govffnor's orflce in the State house and Had tola him that it was his office, as well as that of Cole Blease, and followed up the story by saying that the State j House and the governor's office were I the property of all the citizens. | "But by citizens," he said^ "I mean white men?not apes and baboons." He then launched into a tirade against negroes. The Caucausion race must dominate, he said, and if an Inferior race got in the way it must be got out of the way in the most convenient manner. "And a little gunpowder and a few buckshot," he said, "are often the most effective remedy " Later he said that on a previous occasion he had made a statement which had been taken to mean tbat he favored lynching. He said he saw no reason why he should not be perfectly frank about it?that he did approve of lynching. And the reason, he said, why there had been no lynchings in South Carolina during the six months in wnich he had been governor was because the negroes knew that -- * ? HU- 1 ^ be would not can out tne mnuary iu protect them from lynching if they Insulted white women. Negroes, he said, are so fond of notoriety that often they are willing to make a sacrifice and take a chance of losing their lives in order to get their names emblazoned in the newspapers. But they knew ,he said that while he was governor there was no possible cance of their being saved from an infuriated mob. Gov. Blease said that if any women of his famiy was insulted by a negro all he would ask was that the negro be caught; he would do the rest himself. Gov. Blease took up various of his official .acts which have been criticised and defended them. The purpose of revoking the commissions of the notary public was to get rid of negro notaries. He now makes it a rule, he said, not to issue commissions to notaries without the recommendation of <a member of the legislative delegation of the county in which they live. Regarding his veto of appropria- j tion bills, he said that by so doing he the State 867.000 He declared the government of South Carolina was the most extravagant of any State of the Union. He denounced the extravagance of the State educational institutions especially. Gov. Blease declared that there were men traveling in Ehrope and enjoying themselves and at the same time drawing salaries from the State as members of the faculty of some of the State educational i/nstitutions. He said the excuse for permitting them to travel in Europe was that they were being trained to teach. "Rut why the devil," he asked "were they employed to teach if they didn't know how already?" He said he bad respect for the educational institutions conducted by the State, and yet they had given no men to public office, whereas other colleges in South Carolina, notably WofTord College, had produced illustrious men. He mentioned that Wofford had produced Senator E D. Smith, with whom he had ridden to Spartianburg from Florence. "And Henry Synder," he said, referring to the president of Wofford college, "has more sense and education than Dr. Mitchell has brains enough to learn." Speaking of his tilt with the Supreme Court over the appointment of special judges, Gov. Blease said that tie did not Intend to (appoint special judges when regular circuit Judges I, were sitting around In club rooms, drinking cocktails and playing pinochle. And he added vehemently that he could prove tjiat this had ?4V I been the case. Concerning his liberal use of the pardoning power, he said that men ought not to be punished too severely for crimes committed In the heat of passion There was no excuse, he said, for premeditated robberies, but when a man got into a quarrel and drew a pistol and killed his antagonist he ought not to be judged too severely. "There are good men in the penitentiary," he said, "men of good families as yours or mine. And there Are a lot of people in the penitentiary who ought to be out, and a lot who are out who ought to be in. "I am going to do something very soon," he continued, "which will cause me to be severely criticised in \ Spartanburg county. But gentlemen have you ever considered what a terrible thing life imprisonment is?" firm Illnoan aairl I# hnH tlAAn In VJ V T , J./| VUUV WM?\4 V v M - sinuated that he sold pardons In answer to that charge, he said, he desired to say that with the exception of Brigman of Florence, who had only had three more months to serve anyway, there was not a man whom he had released from the penitentiary who had money enough to buy a nel suit of clothes after paying his railroad fare home. < And, he added, a rich man went to : the penitentiary not long ago, and he is going to stay there. With regard to the charges of bribery made against him by Col. Thomas 13. Felder, of Atlanta, Gov. \ Blease said that if Tom Felder would produce a letter asking a bribe or acknowledging the receipt of a .bribe, and any three men familiar with j Blease's handwriting would say the i writing of the letter was his, he ] would resign the governorship in 15 i minutes. * ] On the other hand, he said, if he , could not prove that Felder had of- < fered a bribe to a State official, he ] would not only consent to resign The j governorship, but would move to the j Philippine Islands Gov. Blease said he was not averse i to Felder's being given a change of i venue if there was any doubt as to his being able to obtain justice in New- j berry County. g Gov. Blease spoke at length about ^ standing by his friends. He said tie j | loved his friends so much that he wanted to be with them after death, j no matter where they were. He declared thvat his enemies need expect nothing from him ^ He had been told, he said, that this was not the proper spirit, and that he should consider the example of the Savior, who said of those who persecuted Him: "Father, forgive 1 them, for they know not what they do." Gov. Blease said he had no forgiveness for his enemies because they \ knew very well whiat they were do- s Ing. c He mentioned among his enemies f the newspapers. He said the engi- c neer of a train could not stop his ^ train to pay attention to the curs that r an out and barked at the train. And neither, he said, could he stop for r the snarling curs, the newspapers, t He said he would like to call them by ?] another term, but it would be un- ^ parliamentary 1 Chief among his newspaper enemies, he considers the Columbia State and he said it was controlled by Cubans and they were foes to organized government. One of their ancestors he said was exiled from Cuba because he was a foe to organized government. Gov. Blease also paid his respects to The Spartanburg Herald He asserted that this newspaper was owned by The Columbia State, ana tnat the editor published nothing until he had telephoned to Columbia and had obtained permission. The Henald, he said, published an untrue story to the effect that the girls of Winthrop college had asked that their diplomas be presented to them by somebody else than Gosernor Blease. This story 'was la er found to be untrue, he said, but the Herald lacked the manhood to come out and admit it was untrue. He w<aB warmly applauded snd one man shouted that he had stopped his subscription to The Herald because of its unfair attitude towards Governor Blease. Gov. Bloase made slighting re marks about Northerners several 1 times. He said that of 160 voters I in a Newberry cotton mill 154 voted for him. ( "The other six," he said, -"were 1 the Yankee bossess " ( While speaking of the penitentiary he devoted some attention to the 1 hosiery mill, which he proposed to J abolish. He said that prisoners were 1 put to work in the hosiery mill who 1 knew nothing about making hosiery, but who were required to do just a? 1 much work as skilled operatives. They had to work ten hours a day, he said, and were kept standing the entire time. A lawyer, he said, might be put to work alongside a skilled worker. The lawyer would be given the sam*? toask as the other man. If the lawyer cause of his ignorance of the work, failed to complete his task, even though it was an impossibility, because of his ignorance of the work, he was taken to the stocks, his arms placed In it, his clothing removed to the waist, and the lash applied Gov. Blease, in the course of his speech, made several remarks about Spartanburg men, which pleased the crowd. When Congressman Joseph T. Johnson aame upon the rostrum he said that a United States Senator had told him that Mr. Johnson had more VERY STRANGE CASE YOUNG WOMAN TRIES TO LEAVE BABY ON A TRAIN. She Was Required to Resume Posses- ! sion of the Child, Which She Cure to a Man. The Augusta Chronicle says a sensational story was told In Augusta Monday of a mysterious attempt of an unknown young woman to desert an infant on the Atlantic Coast Line train, from Savannah, upon its arrival V?mooaa an<l Kalnar npAvanta/1 frArM aw A CUIWWDV nuu ,1/^1115 [/?vwi>wvu A viu doing so by the passengers, carried it with her on the C. & W. C. train 1 from Charleston to Augusta, where 1 she is said to have presented the baby to a gentleman from Augusta who ' to hlsid$kg'FFd.dh. .etaoinshrdlucm 1 brought the new member of his family to his home In this city. 1 Neither the name of the supposed 1 mother or the present possessor of the child could be learned. According to the story as related here by 1 excursionists from Charleston Sunday j night, the unknown woman arrived at Yamesse on the train from Savannah. ] A number of the men who were on 1 the train, and whose attention had < been attracted to the child, noticed \ that the lady had got off the train and \ changed to the C. & W. C. train, < bound for Augusta. ] She left the infant on the train and as she evinced no attention of re- I turning for it, they sent to her and i required her to take the baby with 1 her. After the Augusta train had 1 left Yamesse and the unaccountable conduct of the woman had been cir- j filiated among the passengers, the man from Augusta became a charac- 1 ter in the story, by offering to take a :he child and provide a home for it. \ His offer was accepted, the baby t svas placed In his charge ana nt wrought it on to Augusta with him. t The lady, who was young and good 8 ooking, left the train at Varnville, a * station in Hampton County, South f Carolina, between Yamesse and lampton, without any one, so far as * :an be learned, having ascertained 1 ler identity. She spoke to no one t sxcept as related and offered no exSanation of her strange-and mysterous conduct. 11 ? ? ii SITFER IN CHICAGO. * ? s Tlie Awful Heat Drives Folks from g Their Crowded Homes * r The poor people of the large cities, vho live in the crowded tenements, c uffer greatly from the heat. A Chi- t ago dispatch says thousands of peo- p >le spent Monday night in the parks q >r on the sidewalks in an effort to t jet relief from the intense heat. At v nidnight the thermometer was hov- d ?ring close to 90 and during the light it did not get below 85. In s he crowded West Side district early h ruesday the sidewalks were lined n vith people who found it impossible t ndoors. Twenty-two permits to r jury babies were issued Monday ano he health authorities predict that be number will be largely lncreas>d if the heat continues. i ;ense than all the other South Carina congressmen put together, and his, he said, confirmed his own judgnent. v He said that his friend, Represen- r ative H K. Osborne, who was also a >n the rostrum, was coming his way, t ind if Spartanburg county sent Mr. c )sborne to the legislature for a cou- T )le more terms he would probably be b >n the Blease platform by then. 'Blease hud a kind word for the t State detectives, John F. Miller and t Robert E. Miller, and said that Dan I diles was the best supervisor in 1 South Carolina. s Gov. Blease spoke at some length s >f his fight for the governorship, 1 vhich he said had been the crowding \ imbition of his life He said that r vhen his father had been on his \ leathbed he had called him Cole and t ,oid him that he wanted him to be c 3overnor of his state, and that all f lis life and that every dollar fie had nade had been devoted to attain the governorship. Ho said he was content with the r Jovernorship, but conditions might irise which would make him a candiiate for United States Senator. There has been talk of impeaching liim, he said. But if the legislature, it its next session, should impeach | tiim, he asserted, he would make a 1 tour of the State which would result 1 in his going to the senate as the successor of Benjamin It. Tillman. In concluding his speech Governor Blease said there were six empty u/v^?/\nma in hla manshion at Colum IICUI V/V7 1I1U mmm ...w ... bia and though they were poorly furnished, he Invited any of hie audience who visited the capital to come to the mansion and stop there. He declared that he owed his success in politics largely to the cotton mill men Gov. Blease was succeeded on the rostrum by Congressman Johnson, who gave a short general talk on representative government. ? ? ? Deaf and Dumb Meet. A political meeting of an extraordinary character was held in Berlin last week. Deaf and dumb workers of both sexes assembled In large numbers to air their grievances in public and to devise means of improving their position in the world. CAUSE MANY DEATHS HEAT RECORDS OF YEAR SMASHED EVERYWHERE* Fatalities from the Torrid Weather Are Recorded Ovnr the Entire Country, This Week. A dispatch from Washington says the country over Monday early reports to the weather bureau indicated that hot weather records might 1>? K.nlrnn in manv inn a unH Intop ?J%r Ml VI\VIA #u AUMM^ WVV??VUW MMW reports verified the early indications. At Philadelphia the government thermometer on the top of the post office .building registered 99 at one o'clock. The hottest day since July 24, 1901 when 103 was recorded. There were nine deaths and scores of prostrations. At Pittsburg at 2 o'clock the temperature here hovered around the 100 degree mark. During the forenoon four persons droppd dead, one committed suicide and two were drowned in the river while bathing. The prostrations run into the scores. At Baltimore the hot weather took heavy toll Monday, although the official maximum temperature of 95 degrees was two degress lower than that of Tuesday. Four deaths, one of them a suicide, two attempts at suicide and twelve prostrations were reported as a result of the heat. Chicago sweltered and suffered as :he torrid wave, which held the city n its grasp, continued. One death ind half a dozen prostrations are re)orted. The death rate among the abies is extremelf high since the beginning of the hot waves. At Newark, N.J., tne tnermometer egistered 100 degress in the shade it ten o'clock that morning. There vas one death and numerous prostraions. At St. Louis the heat wave coninued over eastern Missouri and outhern Illinois. The temperature s 94 and rising. The two men died rom heat. At Milwaukee there were two prosrations and one death from heat, "he hot wave prevails through out he state. The thermometer record letween 90 and 95 dgrees. Five deaths from the heat and lumerous prostrations were reported n Kansas City Tuesday. A teraperaure of 103 in the afternoon established a new record for the year. One eath from heat occurred at Atchion, Kan., where the mercury regisered 108, the hottest July 4th on ecord. A dispatch from New York says the umulative effect of three days of he hottest weather that city has exerienced in years manifested itself 'uesday in a list of twenty deaths atributed to the heat. Prostrations fere counted by the score and nine rownings were reported. Philadelphia dispatches under date ays nine additional deaths from the ot weather were reported that night, naking a total of 34 deaths within he past three days. The mercury ecorded 94 degrees at 3 o'clock. ? ?. WAS SHOT BY HIS SON. fan Killed For Threatening Treatment of His Wife. McRay Kirkland, aged about 65, vas shot and killed early Monday nornlng by Willie Kirkland, his son, iged 25. The killing occurred at he home of a farmer in Kershaw ounty, 20 miles from Columbia. The younger Kirkland, it is said, tilled his father to save his mother. McRay Kirkland, it seems, drove ds wife out of doors last night. She oo refuge at the house of a neigh)or. This morning McRay Kirkand drove to the neighbor's house ind called the occupants out. He eized his wife and threw her into lis bu^gy, menacing the bystanders vith a knife. Willie Kirkland denanded that his father release the voman. The elder man paid no atention to his son and the latter Arid once the bullet taking effect in the 'athers' head. ? BLEASE SEES JOE BATES. rile Governor Visits the Condemned Man in Jail. While in Spartanburg Tuesday night Governor Blease visited in the county Jail .ice Bate's, the former Spartanburg police officer, under sentence to hang on July 12. The governor has recently been asked to commute Bates' sentence to life imprisonment and the belief is here he will do so Bates had been sentenced to hang on three different occasions, but each time nis attorney's have succeeded in having the sentence stayed. A commission appointed recently to pass upon Bates' sanity reported that Bates was not insane. He shot and killed a young woman because she left him and got marri ed. Oil Tank Exploded. Tim Carroll, Frank Blaise and Michael Leonard, a negro, all hostlers, were killed by an explosion shortly before midnight Monday at New Orleans, when Carroll stuck a lighted torch into the crude oil tank of a Southern Pacific locomotive, to ascertain how much oil it contained. The explosion also resulted in doing $1,400 damage to the locomotive. BANK Of (Jonwa Hat largest capital and surplus of i than the combined capital and surj CAPITAL STOCK.. ... SURPLUS.. ....... LIABILITIES OF STOOl 8ECURITT OF DBPOSI1 DIRE( Robert B. Scarborough, EL L. Buck, Gteorge J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc will justify, and we SOBBBT B. BOABBOROUOF, I President. We continue to pay 5 pe f FIRST NATH j]L OONWA ? CAPITAL STOCK ? SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS X DIREC (IS J. A. (McDermott, John ( A B. G. Collins, H. L. E a: M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui A Successor to the Bai^k ot aC Horry County, and a pioneer TO ly allied with the recent dev m Republic. Backed by the < ia United States Bonds, we are p W tomers any reasonable acoomr ? H. A. SPIVEY, | Cashier. PROFESSIONAL. CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councilor At Law. CONWAY; a O. A B. SCARBROCGH CONWAY, a c. Attorney at Law. WL H. BURROUGHS PhyilcUa and Bargeoa. CONWAY, a CT B. WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at La/, Bank of Horry Building. CON WAT, 8. C. MEWORLDS GREATEST SEWIN6 MANURE > / / ftl Muu want el ther a Vibrating Shnttleu RotaA Shuttle or a Mingle Thread (CAoriaAtfcAj Sewing Machine write to m ?IW HOME SEWIM MACHINE OOMPAII Orange* Mats* Mtapaewfna machines are made to tell wiaHUaN gaattty. but the New Home U made to weaa Oar cuaranty never runa out. irii ft* aatharlied deal? ?d|?| ioaMiaw J BURROUGHS A OOIiONS OB* Oonwaj, 8. O. Steam Shovel Fatal By the overturning of a steam shovel on the New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad at Orchard, Ala., Wednesday evening, Engineer W. H. Doolittle and a negro named Lee Bonn<a were killed, and Ike Cotrell and a negro named Wales were badly hurt The accident was due to an overload. ? Mother and Child Struck. The bodlee of Mrs. H. M. Harmon and her infant son, who were struck by lightning near Cullman, Ala., were shipped to Little Mountain, this state, Fridjay afternoon for btirial. They were natives of Lexington county and had moved to Alabama several years ago. * HORRY, y. S, . iny bank in Horry county. Mora / >lu* of all other banks in tne county. ... II0.M9 ECHOLDBRS .... 60,S00 rOR8 ..111,690 ^IORS D. V. Richardson, , W. A. Johnson, * Will A. Freeman. ommodation which their accounts solicit your business. >. V. Richardson, will a. fbkbmab Vice Phesident. Cashier - ??. ? ?-i? T ccm. on ycany ucpusuo. 3NAL BANK| lY, S. O. ro .. $26,000.00 ^ 2,600.00 m .... 126,000.00 JL >f)r TORS: 3r 3. Splvey, D. T. McNeill, Ak \ tuck, W. R. Lewis, D. JL ittlebaum, D. A. Splvey. ! Conway, the oldest Bank In In Eastern Carolina. Close- Jr slopment of the Independent w government and secured by JfiL, repared to extend to our cu?- x nodationi. w B. G. COLLINS, X President. ? 1 HOT TIME AT AUGUSTA. Olnnlnnu Vnni^h Will, Itu TTciimI A cidents and Flghto.. Augusta's record for July 4th i& perhaps the darkest, numerically, on ^ the police blotter, it has been in any J year's celebration. One killing, twostabbing8, two rendered unconscious: from brickbats, one chopped in thehead with an axe and 34 cases of* drunk and disorderly. The jail was; filled. Wm. A Lauder, aged 24 years, was disembowelled with a pocket knife' late in the afternoon by W. S. Hall,. Jr., of about, the same age, in the* * western section of the city. Both, young men are fairly well connectedIt is learned that the two were in love with the same young lady and' quarreled over her. Lauder died immediately after being placed in an* ambulance. Two negro women were knocked in the head with bricks and rendered; ^ unconscious; both of them being taken to the negro hospital. Neither will die. Tuesday night two stabbing cases demanded the attention of thepolice, in which the victims are in the hospital but will recover. John Cook, a negro, was chopped in the? head with an axe and may die. MAIL CARRIER SHOT DOWN. ^ Rody and Wagon Found Just Off the* Public Road. The .bullet-riddled body and wa?on> of Linnie Maury, a rural mail carrier of Edison, Ga., who has been missing, since Saturday, have been found im a swamp several miles out of town and just off the public road. With the body was found a note to the* dead man's wife in an attempt to* make the crime appear as suicide. Maury was evidently driving along the public road unsuspicious of danger. The wagon bottom was bloodstained. The small pouch was found near the body. It is not known J whether It had been tampered w.^h. Posses are scouring the country with track do.gs in an effort to cap ture the slayer of the carrier. Maury went out on his route Saturday morning as usual. When he failed to re- ^ turn a search was instituted. The- r dead man is a member of a prominent, family and is survived by his widow and one child. GREAT PRESENCE OF MTNI>. ? Lady Saved Herself from Most Terrible Death. When the clothing of Mrs. F. K. McCutchen, a prominent and popular young matron of Dalton, Ga., caught fir? from an alcohol lamp Saturday, Instead of becoming terrified and losing her head, she calmly caught up a <???? ! ?? or?a vrtinnaH If nrminri Hap. Finding that this did not check the ^ flames, she ran. to the bed and got t between the mattresses, this smother* ^ tng out the flames. It was only this wonderful self-possession whilo she wae suffering severely from the burns that saved her life. An examination of the burns showed that, while they were very painful, they were not of a serious nature, and she will suffer no disfigurement as a result, e ? o It Is oftentimes better to surrender a present good that a greater good may be attained later on.