Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TALKS OF TEDDY I ttht Saje Kaaievclt u Hal a CaiJiJalt far die Piuifiuj. WHICH MEANS NOTHING While He Snjra Rooeevelt le Not Seeking the Nomination, He Doee Net Say That Roosevelt Would not Aocept It if It Was Offered Him by Republicans. Col. Theodore Roosevelt la not a candidate for the presidency, according to Lawrence F. Abbott, president of The Outlook company of New York, with which Mr. Roosevelt was actively associated. This pl^tement Was made Thursday in The Local Press, a weekly newspaper published at Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y., the home of Mr. Abbott. The statement is lengthy and reviews Mr. Roosevelt's connection with national politics during the three years. It was brought out, so the editor of The Local Press says, when he asked Mr. Abbott whether Mr. Roosevelt is a candidate for the presidency. "You must understand to bogin with," Mr. Abbott says, in what is termed a dictated statement, "that what I say in answer to your question I say solely 011 my own responsibility and without any consultation with Mr. Roosevelt. "You ask me whether Mr. Roosevelt is a candidate for the presidency. I answer no. He is not a candidate; ho does not desire to be a candidate. He has discouraged and is discouraging in every possible way all talk of his candidacy and he will take no active share of any kind in th? contests of various contest, which are always in evidence preceding any na tlonai convention.' Mr. Abbott then reviews At length Mr. Roosevelt's connection with aatlonal politics during; the last three years "In order to understand the present political situation with regard to the presidential nomination next summer. He then tolls how Mr. Roosevelt declined the Republican nomination in 1908, "which he very easily could have had," and now Mr. Taft's nomination and election were brought about. "His (Roosevelt's) political experience contributed so largely to the successful result of the election that his critics have said that he alone nominated and elected Taft," Mr. Abbott says, and continues: "Unfortunately seme of Mr. Taft's advisers took this mistaken view or the case and urged him to separate himself so thoroughly from any Roosevelt associations that his administration could create its own policies and that thus he might be renominated and reelected In 1912 on his own Individual merits without any taint of Rooseveltism." Mr. Roosevelt has never failed, Mr. Abbott declared to respond quickly and cordially to the slightest wish expressed by Mr. Taft for his eomthe private interviews at New Haven pany or his views and he instances during the autumn of 1910 between Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt. That meeting, he says, it has been un-j fortunately announced, was sought by Mr. Roosevelt to get some help in his contest with the "old guard," of the State. He adds: "The facts are??nd I have learned them not from Mr. Roosevelt, but from a friend of Mr Taft who knew all the circumstances?that Mr. Taft sent word to 'Mr. Roosevelt asking him to come In order that Mr. Taft might get the benefit of Mrs. Roosevelt's advice regarding the serious split in the national affairs of the Republican party which resulted from the light of the progressives against sccalled Cannonism." Mr. Abbott declares that whatever Mr. Roosevelt does or says will be Interpreted by some critic to his disadvantage and he instances an article of Mr. Roosevelt's on the trust question published several weeks ago. It was held by some, Mr. Abbott says, to be an indication that Roosevelt was seeking the presidency and that the appearance of the article was timed by him at the psychological moment to produce the greatest effect. If there was any political astute ness in its appearance, according, t< Mr. Abbott, it should go to the edl tors of his publication, who sug gested the publication of it and flxe< the date for Its publication. If Mr. Roosevelt Is elected presl dent again, it will not be because h seeks or because he wants the offic but because the country wants hlr tc perform a certain job, Mr. Abbot says. Charged With Taking Jewelry. Several members of a carnival com pany which pretended to show at SI Matthews last week, but which had i hard time staying on the earth wit! their tents, got into trouble. Two a man and his wife, broke into th s* trunks In their boarding house am plundered them of several pieces o Jewelry, and other trinkets. The H were caught in Columbia and rturne to St. Matthews, where, in the mag < Istrate's court, they were tried Tuei ^ day morning and fined. pyt,t DIES FROM CAS FUMES ? INHAJLHD THB POIflOIf AX W PAVXLXJOCf lOOA, The Two Brothers Hod Tftafeted Ww lee torn to Buj Veeehetowo Me a' Deceased Brother, * - ^ ? -O Til ? J . . Tft# JXews All uoirwr *c rnmr moraine tolls of a sad tragedy tkat occur rod la Ckarleston this week, by. which 011? young nam lost his life and his brother Is lying at death's door. Her? is th? story as told by The News and Courier: C. Bellinger Folk, of Bhrhardt, S. C., died shortly. after < o'clock Thursday afternoon^ at the Riverside Infirmary, as the result of Inhaling a large quantity of Illuminating gas in his room at the Pavillioa Hotel during Tuesday night. His brother, James Folk, whe is a victim of the same accident, was pronounced at a late hour Thursday night to be In a very critical condition. His system, however, seems to be withstanding the effects of the poison better than that of his brother, and a slight hope is held out against his death. The two young men, who ar? of a well-known Ehrhardt family, came to this city Tuesday to buy a tombstone for the grave of a brother who died recently. They engaged a room at the Pavillion Hotel Tuesday night and retired about 9:30 o'clock. The next morning they were found lying on tho bed overcome by the f^mes of the illuminating gas, which was escaping from a jet which they had failed to turn completely off before retiring. From tho first it was seen that Bellinger Folk could not recover. He nas attacked by convulsions Wednesday night, and his condition never improved until he died Thursday afternoon. Several of his relatives, I both in this city and in Bamberg I Pnnntv. had been summoned, and were at his bedside when the end came. At a late, hour Thursday night James Folk's condition had not changed In any respect from what It was earlier In the day. Dr. Lane Mullally la at work on the case, and has done everything in his power to save the life of the surviving brother. SEEKS TO ENLIGHTEN WORLD. By Means of Her Revelations to American Statesmen. The "visions and revelations of the Prophetess Irene," in eight big handwritten books, the first of which reached the office of Speaker Champ Clark at Washington Wednesday is the latest advice offered to the Democratic leaders on the management of national affairs. "I will send you seven or eight more of these records containing the full copy of all the words entrusted to my care just as fast as 1 can get It all copied," say* tho *>pro>heiese. "J wsnt you to allow W. J. Bryan, Mr. Taft, Teddy Roosevelt, Sec?etary Ccrtelyou, the chief justice, the secret service and all statesmen to knew and have copies of each and all of the eight books you will have sent to you. Some day I will see you and may talk to you if in need of any Interpretation of this word." In the 404 pages of manuscript are (the visions which Speaker Clark's correspondent says must be followed If the United States Is to escape the doom of Sodom and Gomorrah. Included In the revolutions are Instructions for petrifying and drying Ice so It will resemble pjpcorn, burning water, making cheese out of straw, shoes out of dog salmon skins, meat of the bark of trees, and window panes of frozen air. The first of the books of the new revelation was packed up and returned to the sendei at Trenton, N. J., with express charges collect. DEATH OP ADMIRAL EVANS. ? . The Old Hero Sails Out on tlio Sea of Eternity. Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, , "Fighting Rob" to and admiring na tion, died suddenly late Wednesday t at his home in Washington. Acute Indigestion ended the career of one - of the most popular officers in the > I navy. Ho was 111 less than two -.hours. Admiral Evans, born 65 I irnoro ? rrr\ In POlintV. Virginia. I J U WftV ??? * , - -- o i I arose Wednesday, apparently In betI ter health and spirits than ho had en"i Joyed in some time. For years a ? sufferer from old wounds sustained ? in the War Between the Sections and 111 from recurrent attacks of rheut matic gout, the aged fighter seemed to have shaken off the burden hit advancing days. He displayed higt spirits at breakfast and ate a heartj . luncheon at noon. a Helped the State Treasury, h Secretary of State McCown turnec >, $35,905.92 into the state treasury o from charter fees the past year, d ? f That recent hanging in the open y ihouse at Jackson, On., seems to havi d , been an exclusive social function wltl f-| re! a tires of the murdered man In th< i- i boxes and friends of the sheriff In th front seata. WILSON TALKS.; ? Be Ml* Uu M<? Ywk Wuld Wbw? He Su?U *o 8i| Qwetiwu 1 THE PEOPLE MOST ROLL * } * * ? DiacussM Ywrloiu PubMt SfMAer* Now lief ore the Coaeftrjr, Uut Iioldw Ttmt the Tariff ie the L?ul> lug Issue to lie Settled in the Coiur lug Presidential Eloctlott, Gov. Woodrow Wilson, of Now Jersey, was recently interviewed by a reporter of the New York World, and ho talked freely on the Questions now up for settlement by the people. When asked "What is a Progressive Democrat," the former President of Princeton University paused for a moment, unhooked his eye-glasses from a little gold catch on his vest and, holding them in his hand to emphasize his reply, said: "I can best answer that question by first trying to define a Republican. I do not mean a progressive Republican?for a progressive Republican is only a Republican in a ' way to become a Democrat?but an orthodox Republican, still dominated ' by the older standards of his party. 1 "An orthodox Republican is a man ' wAo really believes that the Govern- ' ment of the country ought to be a 1 sort of trusteeship; that those who '' have the biggest material stake in 1 its industrial affairs should be the 1 trustees, ahd that all policy should ' be made to conform to theii judg- ' ment and interest, in the expectation 1 that, as trustees, they will hand on 1 to those whom their enterprise con1 1 ? ? * ? ? ? ? n Kl/\ O r A r\f irOlV U i<A 1 i iiliu IcuauuaLfio oum v vt the prosperitj of business. ^ "Now, a progressire Democrat Is a 1 man who sees, what ought to be patent to everybody, that these selfconstituted trustee* hare been both 1 blind and selfish; that a dangerous and Inequitable system of business < has been built up and that ehanges must be affected which will square the commercial and Industrial methods of the country with th* general interest, the interest of the people 1 themselves and not by special coteries. When the representatives of 'big business' think of the people, they do not include themselves." "What policies characterize progressive Democracy? All those policies whose object is to wrest government from the control of special groups of men, and restore it to the control of the general opinion of the country. All the policies that re-establish the connection between representatives and the people. All wellconsidered measures that will tend to re-establish general opportunity and freedom of enterprise. "It will need wide common counsel to work such policies out. No one class or group of men can work them eut alone. The mam of affairs and the politician must eome Into conferee** with the student and the ardent reformer." "Do you not think that there it 1 everywhere manifest a very great diaeeateat with existing oondltions?" was the next question. "Most assuredly. It is discontent with the trusteeship and its results." "Is the demand of business men to he 'let alone' reasonable in the circumstances " "The demand does not como from the rank and file; it comes from those who have created the very conditions we wish to correct. They wish?so far as I can make their programme out?to havo the Government accept the consequences of | what they have done, legalize them, ^ 1 ^ ' V* wrlfVl/viif anu assume cuntiui ui mt'in, ihhiuui, tho least effort at correction. "There is nothing the matter with the mass of business In this country. It is as sound as it ever was. No change contemplated need touch ordirary business men at all, except to set them free of some of the? trammels and disadvantages under which they now labor. The very object in view is to set business free?free from tho control of the few?and then let it alono to follow its own right laws. "Who are the business men of the country? Are not the farmers business men? Arc not the small traders business men? Is not the subcontractor a business man as well as tho contractor-in-chlef; the man who is building up enterprise as well as tho man who has built it up? Is not the man whose credit is small and i 'on tho make' a business man as well I the man whose credit is unlimited I and established? Is not every em ployor of labor, every purchaser of I material and every master of any eni terprise, big or little, and every man i in a profession, a business man? f "Ttinon omnllnr mnn. who COnstl tbte the body of the nation, so far as business is concerned, do not want to be let alone. They want to be set 1 free of artificial tiammels, of high j prices, and of the restricted opportunities that have been created by our tariff-walled system or prlvl* lege/' b "What is to he the greatest issue ti of the coming campaign?" There e was no hesitation In Got. Wilson'i e answer: "The tariff, of course. It aiust b< ANvifHtK BAD MEGBO L'URNED LOOSE ON GOOD PHOPJLB DT TUB GOVHBNOB* | i OleaM Stirs Up the People of WiiMjunNbiurg CoH>t|r kf Penlaninf a Murderer* The County Record. published at Kiugstree in Williamsburg County, ] takes Gorernor B lease to task for | pardoning out of the penitentiary a , notorious negro criminal of that county. The Record says an 0dg?~ ' Held lawyer by the name of Simpkins, who holds some petty ollico in the Mouso of Representatives, seemed to bo interested in getting the negro out of the penitentiary, as he wrote over to Kingstreo making enquiries about the murderer. The Record says: 1 "Governor B lease celebrated Christmas by releasing thirty more prisoners from the State penitentiary, including several life-timers. Among i the latter was the notorious negro, | Henry Davis, who, in 1903, was convicted of murder with a recom- * inendatiom to mercy and sentenced I by Judge Aldrich to life imprison- , ment. "It will be recalled that the homicide took place at Salters depot, the / victim being one Sam Nelson, anoth- t ?r negro, against whom Davis held i s grudge. As wo remember the circumstances ef the case, Davis came 10 Klugstree and bought from a lo- / cal merchant a number of steel balls 4 *bout the size of buck-shot, ostensi- \ t>ly to use for bicycle bearings. With ' the3e balls he loaded his gun and at i lark crept up to a house where his 1 snemy was sitting in a chair, and 1 riddled the unsuspecting victim's body with tho deadly missiles. < "Henry Davis entered a plea of i not guilty' at the trial, but when 4 ht was being taken to Columbia to 1 the penitentiary, the train was held ui> near Scrantoa by masked men who were after Caro Williams, a egre who had slain a white man. 11 is laid that the crowd first grabbed Davis, mistaking him for the negro they were after. Then, as the story goes, Davis, in fear of his t life, cried out: T never killed no r white man, boss, I Just killed a nig- y ger.' He was then let loose and the f search continued for Caro Williams, whose fate has passed into the an nals or WllllamsDurg uounty . "It is this Henry Davis, self-confessed assassin, to whom our eoinplaisant and tender-hearted Governor gave his liberty as a Christmas present!" so by its very nature. No frank mind can doubt that the great systems of special privilege and monopolistic advantage that have been built up have been built up upon the foundation of the tariff. The tariff question is at the heart of every other economi? question we have to deal with, and until we have dealt with that properly wa can deal with nothing la a way that will be satisfactory and lasting." 1 "We have under our Federal syeteas a great many governments to sapport. Direct taxes must, for the most part, be left to the individual < States. The Government at Wash- ?, lagtoa must depend chiefly on indi- 3 rect taxea. \ "But a great system of Industry ( has, as a matter of fact, been built , up on the basis of a protective tariff, ? and the questloa of statesmanship | ahead of us la one of fairness and ] good judgment. It is a question of expediency ia the large sense of that , word. Where shall we bring our ( tariff duties to a revenue basis at ( once? Where must we go slowly and ease the process off by well-considered, gradual, measures of reduc- , tion. "With regard to some schedules it is already abundantly evident what it is just and necessary to do. Congress in the special session showed that it understood which they were and how they ought to bo dealt with. The President did not seem to understand either the spirit and purpose of Congress or the temper and opinion of the country." "But, Governor, It Is being urged that the interests of the East and West are divergent as to the tariff. Do you think that is so " "No; the interests of the East and West do not seem to me to be divergent in any important matter of national policy." "What effect has the tariff had on wages?" Gov. Wilson was next askad. "Very little, directly. When wages have risen they have generally risen more in response to the demand of organized labor than from any other cause. The men who have chiefly profited by the tariff have not many of them voluntarily shared its benefits with their workmen. The working men of the country have been grossly deceived about this matter flraf Rut. fortunatelv for II U 111 til V AM M U V t ?' ??| ? w the country, their eyes are being opened now to the real facts and to tho real forces that are at work." ? ? ? Wife and Husband Sue City. Because a fence fell and broke her collar bone, Mrs. Elizabeth Jones of Moreland avenue, has sued the ) city of Atlanta for $5,000 and her > husband, Jim Jones, has sued for an i additional $1,000, to compensate him, he says, for seeing his wife sufI fer. BANK Of t'onwa I rlas largest capital and surplus of a ban the combined capital and surp capital stock 8URPLUS liabilities of stock security of deposit DIREC Robert B. Scarborough, 3L L. Buck, George ?T. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc will justify, and we i ROBERT B. SCAB BOROUGH, D PBEHIDBNT. . We continue to pay 5 pe f*FIRST NATH |ji oonwa I? CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS A DIRECT !fj J. A. McDermott, John C fQ\ B. G. Collins, H. L. E jZf M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui ft Successor to the Bank of |k Horry County, and a pioneer ^ ly allied with the recent dov J? Republic. Hacked by the ( W United Statos Bonds, we are p * tomers any reasonable acoonn ? H. A. 8PIVEY, )) Cashier. WHAT W. J. BRYAN SAYS. I. bout His Being the Next Democratic Candidate. "I can not conceive of any condilon that would make it possible for ne to consider the question of my >ecoming the candidate for the >residential nomination of the Dem- , icratic party in 1912," this was the! leclaration of Col. William Jennings Iryan shortly after his arrival at Tampa, Fla., Wednesday afternoon rom Habana, in company with Mrs. 3ryan. They left Wednesday night or St. Petersburg, Fla., where they vill spend several days before gong home. Mr. Bryan declined to lomment on the action of the pro-, jressive Democrats ot Ohio recently, n pushing his name to the front as i candidate and the utterance of ormer Congressman Lentz, who has laid Mr. Bryan was the natural canlidate of the progressive Democrats. GIRL POSING AS A BOY. doomed With a Holiness Preacher at Spartanburg. "Oscar Owens" who was known as * boy laborer in the Spartan mill at Spartanburg, and at Saxon mill for a rear or more, has turned out not to se "Oscar" but Mary Ownes, a very jomely young woman, who says by way of explanation her disguise, that ihe adopted men's garb in order to better trace a husband, who deserted her some time ago. The discovery that "Oscar" wasnot a boy came about when "he" decided to become "she" again, abandon the search for her husband and return to her dress as a woman. She made the change without attracting suspicion at the mill village, but after she reached the city persons who knew "Oscar" notified tho police that he was down town masquerading as a girl. When approached by the oilieers she denied that she was "Oscar" saying "Oscar" had just gone to Ten nessee, and that she, his sister, had 4ust arrived in town. It developed that "Oscar" Mary roomed with a holiness preacher who claimed that tic was not aware that he was really a girl. He has noi been seen for two days. The girl and her family have been ordered to leave Saxon, but there will be no prosecution In the case. ? ? will plead guilty and hang. hp Young Bandit Who Killed Bank President Talks of Crime. The young bandit who shot and killed Lawrence Bar, president ol the Farmers and Merchants' bank al Centralia. Wash., in an unsuccessfu1 attempt to rob the bank last night talked freely today, but refused tc give his name. He said his hom< formerly was in Syracuse, N. Y. Or one side of his silvei watch was en graved the word "Ernest," and or the other "Riblet." Bar's slayer ex pressed willingness to plead guilty t< murder, and said ne was aware tha tho penalty would be death. e At Champaign, 111., George W Smith, horn a negro slave in Tennes , see seventyflve years ago, left proper I t.y worth $.119,000, according to hi I will filed for probate. 1 HORRY, Y. S, C. ny bank in Horry county. More lut of all other banks in Uie county* ^ .. ..tao.aa* .. lijttt HOLDERS .... 50,000 ORS .. . . . . ..112.SO# noRS D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnson, t Will A. Freeman. * ommodation which their account* solicit your business. >. V. Richardson, will a. frbema* Vice President Cjahieb r cent on yearly deposits. ^ .*pp .JjyiT# 7w *SM 3NAL BANK 1 y, s. a j|y |2&,000.00 3J 2,600.00 TO 126,000.00 ^ ^ torh: x J. Splrey, D. T. McNeill, ? . !uck, W. R. Lewis, D. iii ittlebaum, D. a. Spivey. JIT 1 Conway, the oldest Hank in kfo in Eastern Carolina. Close- 7*. elopment of the Independent W iorornmeut and secured by kl> repared to extend to our cut- 31% nodati on?. Jt' B. Ci. COLLINS, JK I?rMi4?at. yjjf PROniMlOll AL CARDS. H. H. WOOD WARD litornejr and Coaaoalor At La* COM WAT, 0. C. > K. B. BCAKBHOUCiH ' CONWAY, 0. i Altornoj at law. H. I. BI'RRODOH* mad Rnrgear CONWAY. R. O. B. WOfYORl) WAIT. Attoraty at l/a Baak of Horry RalMtig. nomriY. i. c * N 1UBNB RA\TSNBL Land Surveying and Drainage ^ Spivey Building Conway, S. C. ME WORLDS GREATEST SEWIH6 MACHINC t JLIGHT RUNNING^ fltfuu want either a Vibrating Shuttle, RotMR tontile or a Mingle Thread (CAo<a??ofc| / Sewing Machine write to 9m SEW KOMI tttyINQ MACHINE 8QMPA* I Orange, Mase* , ifcereewtnrduchlnea are made to tell rec*rifleee?tf 1 MMttty* but the Mew Homo la made aa week ' f Oar guaranty never rune out. (M If Mtborlied dealMf ?to t v Moat *aim m ' i BURROUGHS & COLLINS CO., > - ~ 5 Conway, 8. C. 4 1 ^ Almost Miraculous fOscaue. Her horse killed, her buggy dc3 molished, and herself hurled high in t the air, Mrs. Minnie B. Allen allgnted on the engine pulling the "Florida , Flyer" on the Evansville and Terre ' Haute railroad, which struck the ve>. hide In which the woman was riding g near Terr* Haute, Ihd., and escaped with only a seVere shaking up.