The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 05, 1911, Image 6
HIGHER PRICES
Stale CjUod Confection Takes Actios
Looking to Tkat End.
WILL CANVASS THE STATE
Farmers, Hankers, Merchants and
Other Business Men of State Attend
Meeting, Discuss the Situation
Generally and Formulate Plans to
Aid Cotton Sellers.
The State cotton convention, called
by E. J. Watson and E. W. Dabbs,
president of the State Farmers' union,
in response to the action of the
Southern Cotton congress, recently
held at Montgomery, Ala., was held
in Columbia Thursday in the hall of
the House of Representatives. It was
one of the most largely attended conventions
ever held in the hall, and
the personnel was such as to cause
many to remark that seldom had
there been seen gathered together for
conference a more representative
body.
The convention was composed of
Farmers' union men, farmers, merchants,
bankers, and business and
professional men from all parts of the
State ,and throughout the proceedings
there was perfect harmony of
thought and action and a unity of
purpose was manifested with a. d?r
gree of determination indicating the
character of the fight that the people
of this State propose to make
throughout for a higher price for
cotton.
The action of the convention in the
end provided machinery extending into
the vigorous prosecution of the
holding, warehousing and financing
movements, with the object in view
of causing a substantial cessation o!
the rush of cotton to market.
Action was taken on almost every j
phase of the cotton situation and
considerable work was cut out for
this State's representatives in congress
to undertake. Along this line
the plain intimation was given by the
convention that the time had come
for some kind of national legislation
to be insisted upon in regard to the
marketing of the cotton crop, now
representing nearly $1,000,000,000.
In calling the convention to order
Commissioner Watson, who is also
the president of the Southern Cotton
congress and a member of the national
cotton campaign committee,
along with President Barrett of the
National Farmers' union and Congressman
Ileflin of Alabama, declarlizi
11 r ci a frlrwl til A )l fill I* had
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come in South Carolina when the producer,
the business interests and the
banking interests of the State could
meet to discuss a situation involving
the welfare of every material interest
in the State and indeed the very
life-blood of every man, woman and
child in South Carolina.
He said that the hour had arrived
at last for intelligence to hold sway,
for the thinking men of the South to
realize the value of their cotton. He
felt thankful to the bears that they
had hammered cotton down to 10
cents in the face of this convention
for, perhaps 10 cents cotton would
stiffen the backbone of some people
why, if cotton were above 10 cents,
were likely to rush it on the market.
The conference was convened in
the hall of the house of representatives
at 3:30 o'clock. The meeting
was called to order by E. J. Watson,
commissioner of agriculture. J. Whitner
Held was named as secretary.
Following the roll call of the dele
pates present a permanent organization
was perfected and Commissioner
Watson was named as president.
Mr. Barrett had asked him to say
to the convention that negotiations
were under way but had not yet been
concluded, that he hoped, however,
they would be completed at an early
day. A message from Mr. Barrett
was also conveyed to the effect that
there was every indication of a reaction
in New York almost immediately
in the rice of cotton, and he urged
the convention to do everything in
its power to hold every possible bale
of cotton off the market.
Commissioner Watson further announced
that the national committee
members had about determined upon
a whirlwind campaign through the
cotton belt with a series of monster
meetings and that United States Senator
Smith of this State and United
States Senator John Sharp Williams
of Mississippi had been requested to
take part in this campaign. This will
give five men, posted 011 cotton, to
conduct the meetings, the committeemen
being Messrs. Barrett, Heflin and
Watson.
Mr. Heflin in his remarks at the
opening of the night meeting presented
a number of essential facts
bearing upon the marketing and handling
of the cotton crop.
Committees on resolutions, composed
of one member from each congressional
district, was appointed as
follows: W. McL?. Frompton, R. M.
Mixson, Alan Johnstone, O. P. Goodwin,
W. P. Pollock, Douglas Mclntyre,
E. W. Dabbs, chairman.
There were calls for United States
{Senator E. D. Smith and in a very
few moments Commissioner Watson,
referring to Senator Smith's work in
behalf of cotton in the movement
jthat carried the price to 15 cents,
presented "Cotton" Smith to his people
amid the vociferous cheering of
the delegates.
At the conc.uslon of his address,
as frequently during his remarks,
Smith was most enthusiastically and
vigorously applauded.
At the afternoon session the bankers
present were called upon for
statements as to their views in the
matter of assisting in the holding
movement by financing the crop.
These statement were not only most
significant and reassuring, but were
of such a character that each caused
a speedy manisfestation of pleasure
of the delegates.
At the opening of the night session
Commissioner Watson announced
that he had hoped to be able to give
some definite information from President
Barrett as to the $75,000,000
loan from the French-British syndicate
for the purpose of aiding the
holding movement. He announced
that he had within the last half hour
had been talking with Mr. Barrett on
the long distance telephone.
That the banks of the State are
friendly to the farmers was brought
out by expressions from well konwn
bankers at the congress. Every
banker present promised to cooperate
| in a substantial manner to assist the
farmers of the State in their fight
for a higher price for cotton. The
expressions by the bankers followed
a general discussion.
Thr> iniouitous cotton exchanges
was repeatedly attacked on the floor
of the House of Representatives and
two resolutions of proceJure were reported
by the committee formed by
one member from each Congressionl
district and appointed by Commissioner
of Agriculture E. J. Watson.
W. P. Pollock favored a petition
to Congress, asking that the use of
Inter-State means of communication
be denied the exchanges, but this
meeting with objection on the ground
of possible legal resistance, a sub- (
stitnte motion was adopted after the
debate.
An agreement brought about was
that Congress be memorialized to
regulate dealing in cotton by the exchanges
so that real cotton will be
the basis of all contracts and actual
delivery ho had.
The following resolution was also
adopted at the night session of the
Convention: "Resolved, That the
county farmers' unions of the different
counties of the State be requested
to appoint a committee consisting of
not less than three men in each township
in each county to canvass the
farmers of their county and ascertain
how many bales of cotton they will
pledge themselves to hold for the
agreed price unless otherwise instructed
by the State Farmers' Union
to sell.
"That the secretary of the county
unions he requested to forward reports
from these committees to the
secretry and rpesident of the
State Farmers' Union be requested
to co-operate with Mr. Watson to
have this plan carried out in all of
the cotton growing States.
'Be it further resolved, that the
president of the State Farmers' Union
be requested to keep the local
unions posted as to the number of
bales of cotton pledged in the different
States in conformity to this resolution.
"Be it further resolved, That the
chairman of this body be and is hereby
authorized to name from each
county a special committee of business
men and bankers to represent
each and every bank in said county,
designating which banker is to be
the chairman of said committee, the
duties of this committee being as
follows: They are promptly to ascertain
from every special committee
appointed to canvass the cotton growers
the number of bales of cotton to
bo held, promptly arrange for financing
as many bales of the said cotton
as possible."
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MOB LYXOIIES WHITE MAX.
Killing of Two Deputies Loads to
Violence in Arkansas.
Forcing their way into the Desha
County jail at Dumas, Ark., between
fifty and one hundred men, members
of a mob formed so quietly that the
authorities had not the slightest
warning, overpowered the deputies
iii charge and took Charles Malpas,
Sr., white, to a water tank and hang- 1
ed him early Wednesday. The mob
then dispersed without demonstration.
None of its members is known
to the authorities, according to their
statement. <
The lynching followed a pitched
battle at the home of Malpas the
day before, in which the sheriff and
two deputies were killed. The wife
of Charles Malpas, Sr., a negress, and
tho Malpass younger son, a young
mulatto, escaped from the house during
the fighting. The authorities say
they do not think tho negress and
the boy engaged in the battle and
for this reason it is not thought the
two will be sought further in connection
with the affair.
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Falls to Ills Death.
Lieut. R. A. Cammell, of tho British
oviation school of Farmborough,
England, was killed recently while
making a flight at Hendon, six miles
from the centre of London. *
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They Ran Him Down.
Bill Suber, who killed James Baukknight
,was run down by bloodhounds
and captured at his mother's
house .Monday night. He is said to
be a bad negro. , |
THE REDJHIRTS
Annual Reunion of Vetorans of Rtccnslruction
Held.
VERY GOOD ATTENDANCE
Col. John S. Mobley, Miss Grace
Lumpkin, and Governor IHcukc
Speak at Formal Opening of Ileiinion.?Senator
John Sharp \V11liums
Unable to Attend.
A Columbia dispatch says no more
demonstrative gathering of men and
women has probably been seen in
Columbia in recent years than the
assembly which crowded the lower
floor and two galleries of the Columgia
Theatre Wednesday night at the
formal welcoming of the Red Shirt
Veterans, who began their annual re
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By far the large majority of the
men in the gathering wore the red
shirt, and aside from the picturesqueness
of the view of .blazing red mingled
with the fashionable gowns of the
fair sex, the spirit of good humor was
abroad in all its vigor, and, time after
time, bubbled over in cheers, applause
and shouts upon the slightest
provocation.
Col. John O. Mobley, commanderin-chief,
presided over the gathering
and by hLs side 011 the stage sat the
sponsor, Miss Elize Stribling, of Pendleton,
and her two maids of honor,
Misses Agnes Ravenel, of Spartanburg,
and Zena Evans, of Cheraw,
and Miss Grace Lumpkin, who delivered
the welcome to the "Men of '7 0."
After the prayer and the Doxology,
sung by the entire assembly, Col.
Mobley in brief but well chosen
words, introduced Senator Francis H.
Weston to the audience, and he, after
a stirring recital of some of the
scenes and conditions of reconstruction
rlnvs introduced Miss Luinn
kin.
-At nearly every possible interv.il
in the remarks of the speakers, applause
broke sontaneously from those
seated near the front of the house,
most of whom wore the red shirts
and cheers were not infrequent during
the middle of Col. Mobley's talk,
while he was mentioning some of
the leaders who took part in the red
shirt days of reconstruction.
A life sized portalt of Gen. Wade
Hampton, which had been veiled until
now, was suddenly placed in full
view of the vast assemblage when the
name of that political leader was
mentioned; instantly there arose
from every male voice in the house
cheers upon cheers, and the ovation
given the portrait of the old chieftain
required several minutes to j
spend its force.
In a thrilling voice Miss Lumpkin
welcomed the "Men of '7G" to Columbia.
She recited briefly some of
the things that the Red Chirt Veterans
had accomplished and assured
them of the gratitutde and love of
everyone who enjoyed the great heritage
they had left.
Governor Blease, who next arose
to welsome the Red Shirts on behalf
of the State, was welcomed by the
veterans with prolonged applause. He
was several time interrupted in his
remarks by cheers. Governor Rlease
spoke of the return of the soldiers
after the war, the Reconstruction
times, conditions and what had b$en
accomplished by the wearers of the
red shirts during the days of '7G.
lie spoke also of the prosperous condition
of the State at present due to
a large extent to what the men of
'7G had done.
It was a matter of general regret
to all that it was impossible for Senator
John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi,
to be present. Col. John 0.
Mobley, commander-in-chief, announced
Wednesday night that he
had just received a letter from Mr.
Williams stating his inability to be
present.
It would he a hard matter, indeed,
to conceal from even the most
casual observer, the fact that the
Red Shirt veterans of the State are
making an invasion of the Capital
City. Clad very, very, distinctively,
Ir shirts of the reddest red, set off
by black trousers, and broad rimmed
bats, even a single one standing in
a crowded street, is easily singled
out by the eye as a mark of special
interest.
ltlonse's Pardon Record.
Gov. nicase granted a parole Friday
to Wess Williams, who was convicted
in Newberry county in 1008,
and sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary on the charge of manslaughter.
Since assuming ofllce of
governor has extended clemency in
23 3 cases, as follows: Paroles, 124;
pardons, 109.
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Three Men Were Killed.
At Louisville, Ky., an avalanche of
bricks from upper walls of a burning
six-story building, in the Main
street wholesale district, crashed
through three floors of an adjoining
building, killing three flremen and
injuring two others.
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The orphanages of South Carolina
are a credit to the State and the work
which they are doing is the work of
the Lord. Every one should help
them along. ,
The Call of (I10 Brute.
Vice Admiral von Ahlefeld, a reired
naval oflicer of Germany, has written
an article on "World Peace",
which concludes as follows:
"According to natural laws only
the weaker and inferior will and
must go down. That this is
so is salutary from the point of view
of the perfection of the human race,
and who the weaker is can be determined
only by war, never by a court
of arbitration. People who are well
acquainted with the African hunting
grounds assure us that game thrives
best when it grows up with beasts
of prey. As soon, however, as otherwise
man kills off the predatory animals
for the sake of eternal peace
the high-class game also disappears,
in this case, too, nature teaches that
fighting ennobles while peace leads
t( degeneration. Our view is, therefore,
expressed In a few words:
Comprehensive world courts of arbitration
are an absolute impossibility;
if they were possible they would not
give us world peace, and if they ga.ve
us world peace it would be misfortune
for the perfection of the human
race."
This quotation, which we clip from
The Commoner, Mr. Bryan says is
published in his paper that its readers
may see to what degredations the
war spirit can bring a, human being.
The idea t'hat war enno.bles?
that man would become degenerate
unless kept up to battle-tension by
an occasional blood-letting?this idea
belongs to the past. The German admiral
is a survival of the dark ages.
To be a man it is no more necessary
to fight like a dog than it is: to eat
like a hog or bellow like a bull.
There is a moral realm which Alilefeld
has not explored?he is of the
brute, brutish.
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About One in Twenty.
Secretary MeClure, of the National
Wool Growers' association, returned
from Washington to Idaho through
Omaha and the Omaha World-Herald
of August 18 reports him as saying:
"The general opinion is that the wool
industry is limited to a few indivuals,
but the census shows that last
year there were more than 600,000
individual wool growers."
Well, says The Commoner, assumming
that every wool grower is a
voter, that is less than one voter in
twenty. Why should one man tax
the other nineteen for his benefit.
There is no good reason. And why
do some congressmen and senators
pay more attention to the one man
who has sheep than to the nineteen
who are taxed for his benefit? Hecause
the wool grower is supposed to
put his pecuniary interest in sheep
above everything else and to vote for
the man who will protect him no
matter what the man thinks or does
on other subjects.
The Commoner goes on to say that
when- the wearers of woolen goods
form an association and 3end lobbyists
to Washington to threaten legislators
the senators and members of
congress may pay some attention to
the consumers. The conflict between
the tax eater and the tax payer is an
unequal one because the tax eater
is always on guard at the national
capital while the tax payer is at work
trying to raise the next assessment.
Dispense With Mourning.
"A Southern physician of recogniz3d
skill and eminence urges that all
outward symbols of mourning should
be abondoned," says Munsey's Mag
azine euiroriany. i-or inuny yeaia ue
has expressed his views. Fie has won
over a large number of people who
see no reason why the heart should
advertise its sorrow by the conspicuous
insignia of gloom. "There are
or have been peoples wiser in their
generation. The Romans of the days
of the Republic wore blue as a sign
of mourning, it is the proper thing
in Asia Minor now. The Turk mourns
in violet and the Persian in pale
brown. Until a French Queen set the
present fashion in the latter half of
the fifteenth century, white was the
color of grief in Europe, as it is now
in China, and other Eastern countries."
The dispensing with black
mourning would be a most sensible
thing to do. It has caused the death
or sickness of many who followed the
custom. If our people would follow
the custom of the people of the East
and use white instead of black much
of the dangers of the custom would
be mitigated. Why don't some one
set the fashion?
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The Farmers and Hankers.
The State says, "Readers of the
reports of the meetings held in various
South Carolina counties Tuesday
to elect delegates to the cotton
growers convention will not fail to
observe that leading bankers of the
towns were present in tho meetings.
In some of the county meetings all
the banks were represented and numbers
of hankers and merchants have
riinson as dolomites to tho con
vcnt.ion. The business ability of the
South whether engaged in farming,
banking or merchandising, is united
on the cotton question, as it should
be. There was a time in Couth Carlina
when movements of farmers proceeded
on the theory, preached by
politicians who were seeking office,
that bankers and "town men" were
their natural enemies, but of those
movements only the ofllce seekers obtained
benefits. The eyes of the hard
working farmers of today aro opened,
and they and the business men
are making common cause. Their Interests
are inseperable?practically
identical." i
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Successor to the Bank of
Horry County, and a pioneer
ly allied with the recent dev<
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fa United States Bonds, we are pi
^ tomera any reasonable accomn
I li H. A. SPIVEY,
/|j Cashier.
BRYAN ANSWERS TAFT
SAYS WHEN A TKIST MAGNATE
IS PUT IN JAIL.
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He Will Give Weight to the President's
Defence of the Decision of
the Supreme Court.
W. J. Bryan answering the challenge
of President Taft made at Cherrydale,
Kan., that he produce an example
of restraint of trade, which
would not come within the purview
of the Supreme Court. Bryan said
on Monday night befoie leaving for
Knoxville, Tenn., for Cincinnati:
"If President Taft would take time
to read the dissenting opinion of Justice
Harlan in the case and report
of the judiciary conmittee of the
Senate, filed by Senator Nelson when
the committee refused to recommend
the amendment, which the Supreme
Court injected into the law, he will
understand my view of the subject.
"I believe with Justice Harlan and
the Nelson report that the Suprme
Court has practically nuliiled the
criminal clause of the anti-trust law
and will wait until the President succeeds
in putting a trust magnate in
the penitentiary before I give any
weight to the President's defense of
the desession of the Supreme Court.
"It took four years and a half to
get a decision in the Standard Oil
case. If it takes that long to find
out whether a trust magnate can be
sent to the penientiary under the
law as emasculated by the Supreme
Court, President Taft nay bo able to
bluff his way through another campaign
on the trust question as he
did through the law, but the bluff
ought to deceive anybody who is really
opposed to the trusts."
This was "Bryan Day" at the Appalachian
Exposition. The Xebraskan
arrived recently and went to the
exposition grounds early in the day,
where he made a tour of the various
exhibit buildings and participated in
pleasures of the exposition. This
afternoon at 4 o'clock he delivered
an address at the exposition grounds
upon the theme, "The Signs of
Times."
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HELP THE ORPHANS. j
Don't Forget That Next Saturday Is |
Orphanage Work Day. J
For the last few years the various
oiplianages of the State have united
in asking the good people of the state
to give the proceeds of one day's labor
to the orphans. The last Saturday
in September has been set apart
as "Work Day," and all, both grown ,
people and children, who feel inter- (
ested in helping the orphans are ask- (
ed to give that day's labor or income .
to the orphanage of their choice.
There are about 250 orphans at
Thornwell orphanage (Presbyterian), (
Clinton; almost as many at Connie
Maxwell (Baptist), Greenwood; 225 i
at Kpworth orphanage (Methodist),
Columbia; 60 at the Church home
(Episcopal), Yorkville.
These orphan children are being
clothed^ fed and educated entirely by
the gifts of the people, and it is ear- I
nestly hoped that a liberal response 1
will be made to" this appeal. Let <
nono fail to send the wages or income
of one day's labor to the orphanage 1
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ny bank in Horry county. More
lus of all other banks in the county*' J
950,000
12,500
:kolders .. .. 50,000
ors 112,500
hors
D. V. Richardson*
W. A. Johnson,
Will A. Freeman. *
:>mmodation which their account*
solicit your business.
. V. Richardson, will a. freeman
Vice President. Cashier
cent, on yearly deposits.
)NAL BANK. &
Y, S. C.
125,000.00 2r
2,500.00 nk
125,000.00 ^ ^
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. Spivey, D. T. McNeill,
uck, W. R. Lewis, D. At >
ttlebaum, D. A. Spivey.
Conway, the oldest Rank in
in Eastern Carolina. Clo?ejlopment
of the Independent CTy
rovemraeut and secured by
repared to extend to our cu?~
lodations. W
B. G. COLLINS,
President.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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H. H. WOODWARD
Attorney and Councelor At Law*
CONWAY, S. O.
R. B. SCAKBItOUUH
CONWAY, 8. C.
taitvi u\ / m%f m f? i
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H. H. B (Jit HOUGHS
Physician and Surgooa.
CONWAY, 8. C.
B. WOFFOHD WAIT. ^
Attorney at Lav/,
Bank of Horry Building. j ]
CONWAY, 8. C.
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Orange* Mail* . '
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BURROUGHS a uiLLINfl CO.,
Conway, B. C.
of his olioice. Make remittances by
check, postofllce money order or by
express to either of the four orphanages
named below:
Dr. J. F. Jacobs, Clinton, S. C.
Rev. A. T. Jamison, Greenwood, S. 'f
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Rev. W. B?. Wharton, Columbia, S.
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The Church Home, Yorkvllle, S. C.
Fight Caused Death.
Intense excitement while witnessing
an altercation between Leon
Combs and John Duagherty, one armed
with brass knucks, caused William
Nettle, aged 50, to drop dead from
tieart failure at Manor, Ga.
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