The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 08, 1912, Image 4
CLAIM IS FALSE
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History is Opened on Colonel Vat tenon
and His Tildeo Ciain
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THAT HE HAD MADE HIM
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Samuel J. Tilden Was a Great Man
Before Colonel Henry Watterson
Was Out of His Swaddling Clothes,
Which Shows the Absurdity of His
Boastful Claim.
Governor Woodrow Wilson's hosts
of admirers in every State of the
Union wero informed several days
ago that his candidacy for the Presidency
received its death blow when
it was repudiated by Colonels Watterson
and Harvoy. The letters in
which these warriors withdraw their
former
flamboyant support of the
Wilson candidacy met with the hearty
approval of all tho opponents of the
New Jersey statesman, including; corrupt
machine politicians and press
organs of the big ousiness interests.
But the predicted has not happened.
At the end of tho week most of the
leading newspapers of the country, at
least all that were free to speak
frankly without fear of offending
what Senator Newlands terms the
"big interests," ail were poking fun
at Colonel Watterson and Harvey.
For the extraordinary claims of the
two Colonels could not appear otherwise
than humorous to any editor
possessing the sense of humor. The
respective claims of the Colonels?
one claiming to have discovered
Wilson?the other claiming that his
ar>socia>e had created the Wilson candidacy?the
Kentuckian asserting
that he had acted as the political wet
nurse, so to speak, was Indeed
"enough to make a horse laugh," at
they say down in Louisvillo.
The foregoing was written solely
With a view of keeping readers posted
as to the status of the fight against
and the fight in behalf of Governor
Wilson's candidacy. Naturally, tome
of Ihe young men who are entering
the field of politics, as some of the
age are letiring, may have thought,
because cf the flaring headlines and
the considerable space accorded to
Colonel Watterson in the newspapers,
that what he has to say about Governor
Wilson 1b entitled to very serious
consideration. For the Colonel
is practically unknown to the prosffonftrsit
ioil of VJUnff VOtfrS.
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And feo it is for instructive purposes
that the facts below, gotten together
and published in the Brooklyn
Citizen by W. H. Mull, an experienced
as well as able writer 011 prolitical
subjects, are submitted. In
his letter to the public, Colonel Watterson
said, among other tilings intended
to discredit Governor Wilson's
candidacy:
"Colonel Harvey stood toward Wilson
much as I stood five and thirty
years ago toward Mr. Tilden. I was
hoping to find in Governor Wilson another
Tilden in point of intellect and
advisability."
This was apparently intended to
create the impression that Colonel
Watterson had discovered Mr. Tilden's
availability as a candidate, or
his qualities as a statesman.
It was Samuel J. Tilden who first
said, while commenting in court upon
an assertion made by the venerable
David Dudley Field:
"The last infirmity of a noble mind
is the remembrance of things that
never happened."
Samuel J. Tilden was born in 1814.
Colonel Watterson was born in
1840.
Samuel J. Tilden was prominent in
1U- rvf Mu Qfata hnfn rA Pnl.
VH'tJ Jiuillica Ul luin L.IIUIU
onel Watterson was weaned.
Mr. Tilden's great abilities, his
statesman-like qualities of mind, had
made their impress upon the mind of
Martin Van Buren before little boy
Watterson had cut bis teeth. Mr. Tilden
did not have to wait to be "discovered"
by Colonel Watterson thirty-five
years ago, lor long before the
year 1 877 he was prominent in the
field of politics.
'Mr. Tilden was in the cunning for
the Presidency several years before
the "thirty and five years ago" when
the Kentuckian had established with
the illustrious New York Democrat
relations similar to those which
Colonel Harvey made with Governor
Wilson.
Mr. Tilden was elected Governor of
this State a dozen years or more before
1 887.
In the year of 184 0 Mr. Tilden was
active in National politics. It is writ
ten of him:
"The memorable Presidential campaign
of 1 840 aroused his deep interest.
He was a warm personal friend
of Mr. Van Huron, and, what was of
more importance, he was s. zealous
and intelligent supporter of tho President's
policy."
The year of Colonel Watterson's
birth was 1 84 0.
In 1845 Mr. Tiiden was a member
of the Legislature of this State, that
was v hen Silas Weight was Governor.
In 1848 the news that v/ar had
been declared between tho United
States and Mexico reached Albany,
and the day before the adjournment
of the Legislature, Mr. Tllden introduced
a joint resolution authorizing 1
PASS THE STEEL BliL
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REDUCING THE DUTY ON ALL 1
KINDS OF I ICON GOODS. \
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Hou.se Democrats Votes to Make the I
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Stool Trust Take Its Hands Out of
the People's Pockets. 1
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The Democratic revision to make 1
reductions averaging 35 per cent,
from the existing steel and iron dut- 1
i
ies of the Payne-Aldricli law passed ,
the House by a voce of 210 o 109.
Republican efforts to amend or debate
the bill were brought to a sudden
end when O. W. Underwood,
Democratic leader, refused to permit
the offering of further amendments
and forced the bill to a vote on t&e
iinal passage of the measure. (
Twenty insurgent Republicans
voted for the measure, while the ,
Democratic delegation from Colorado,
Representatives Martin and Tucker,
voted against the majority.
Defeated repeatedly in their attempts
to force amendments into the
measure, ths Republicans rallied for
the last attack upon the motion of
Representative Payne of New York
(Republican), former chairman of
the ways and means committee to ,
recommit the bill to that committee,
with instructions to hold it until the
tariff commission made its report upon
the pending investigation of the
metal tariff. This motion was defeated,
205 to 103.
The regular Republicans protested
to the last against the application of ;
rules closing the debate. Mr. Underwood
was charged by Jas. R. Mann,
Republican leader, with the "ruthless
application." of the force of the Dein- (
ocratic majority.
Many attempts to strike out sections
of the Democratic free list were
made, but amendments by Mr. Mann,
to restrict the Democratic free list,
which includes typewriters, printing ,
machinery, machinists' tools, sewing
machines and other articles, to countries
that do not discriminate against ,
American cottonseed oil, lire cattle,
meats and meat products, were defeated.
The Democrats express hope that
the oroeressiva Republicans In the
Senate would Join with them In the
same condition that enabled the senate
to put through the tariff bills at
the extra session and to leave the
Issue squarely up to the president.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
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Killed by Accidental Discharge of
Cun While Hunting.
Mr. P. C. Johneton, Jr., one of
the most prominent citizens of Dorchester
county, accidentally shot and
killed himself while out hunting Friday
morning about five miles from
Si. George. He was accompanied on
his bird hunt by Cal. Whetsell of
Reevesville, who was only a few
yards away when Mr. Johnston in '
some way stumbled and fell, causing
the gun to be discharged, the whole 1
load of shot entering his head and
causing death almost instantly.
in the loss of Mr. Johnston, Dor- 1
cheater county has lost one of her 1
best citizens. He served his county 1
as clerk of court for twelve years and 1
refused to offer for reelection at the 1
request and solicitation of his num- 1
erous friends in order to retire to private
life, where he has since run sue- '
cessfully a very large farm. Mr.
Johnston was forty-nine years old '
and is survived by his father, P. C. '
Johnston, Sr., who is the present
clerk of court and who succeeded his
son to that oftlce, and his mother,
Mrs. P. C. Johnston, Sr. ,
Mr. Johnston is also survived by
five brothers, all of whom are doc
tors, save one. n.e uromerB are.
Dr. J. II. Johnston, Dr. Carlisle Johnston,
Dr. McRea Johnston and S. L. '
Johnston, Esq., of St. George, and (
Dr. A. R. Johnston of Ree\esville,
and three sisters: Miss Connie John- '
ston and Mrs. L. A. Reed of St. George
and Mrs. Fowler of Spartan- burg,
besides a wife and four chil
dren and numerous friends and rela- !
tives throughout the county and Stato '<
to mourn his untimely loss. Mr. <
Johnston had many friends In this
city and county, who were shocked to <
hear of untimely death. {
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the Governor to enroll r>0,000 men, <
and appropriating $r?0,000 for the 1
purpose. He was a member of tho <
Constitutional Convention of 1846. 1
In lSSf) he was elected Attorney Gen- 1
eral of this State. In 188f> ho was a
leader of the Har, associated in one 1
celebrated case with that great law- <
yer, Charles O.Conor. Mr. Tilden had '
won National distinction beforo Col- i
onol Watterson war 15 years old. i
These are some of the reasons why <
I have recalled Mr. Tilden s historic i
remark:
"Tho last infirm! y of a noble mind
is the remembrance of things that
nnvnr h a nnonrsd." I
Colonel Wattorson found fault with i
President Cleveland, later found fault i
with William Jennings Rryan?in
each case found fault for very much <
the same reasons as he assigns for 1
his difference with Governor Wilson. 1
Do all the good you can hut don't
make a noiRe about it. Some people
like to shut their doings from the
house tops and then wonder why others
suspect their motives. <
Steel Trust Petted.
In his testimony before a committee
of Congress investigating the
Steel trust, Andrew Carnegie made
two statements that are attracting
considerable attention. His first
Btatrement was that the Steel trust
does not need the tariff; his second,
that the Steel trust made its money
from the sales of its products to the
consumers of them. Questioned carefully
regarding each statement, he
emphasized the first and admitted
that by the "consumers" he meant
ihe people generally.
The construction placed on the first
statement is that the Steel trust so
completely controls the market that
it can tlx the pricis of its products
as it pleases. This construction appears
to be borne out by certain fact*
that the committee of Congress has
established, the more important of
which are that the trust controls 0<?
ner cent, of the iron ore production
of this country, and supplies SS per
cent, of tlie steel consumed therein
Such control establishes a monopoly
btrong enough to defy not only competition
at home but that from
abroad. Thus being able to meet
both domestic and foreign competition
it certainly nas no need of the
tariff.
The construction generally placed
on the second statement Is that the
Steel trust having a monopoly of
both resources and products, has fixed
prices for the latter more or less
arbitrarily, always with the view of
forcing the highest profit that the
market, will stan in other words,
that the tiust has compelled the people
to i nv nigher prices than they
wctild have rnicl, ff the market were
controlled by s:.jl? and demand.
STEEL TRUST wa3 petted?TWO..
1 ho committee * .s unable to force
Mr. Carnegie to admit this in so
many words, but bid testimony seemed
to be sufficient confession of the
fact.
Mr. Carnegie's evidence before the
Congressional committee did more
than anything else to convince its
members that, a re I #e?.ion of duties
on iron, steel and their products
.vas imperative in the interests of the
people. It also hud the eftect of
causing President Taft to change his
tariff programme that he might advise
Congress immediately to give
r.trentlon to schedules relating to
iron and steel. I ndoubtedly the
President was induced to make such
change lest Democratic members of
Congress should anticipate him and
thereby discredit the Republican administration.
Still while the President
may formally aavise he cannot
possibly deprive the Democrats of
credit for having obtained frank admission
of conditions which all pub
lie men have suspected for some
time.
Grit says it seems strange that
though three Republican administrations
have filed 43 bills in equity
against trusts and obtained 47 indictments
against them, not a bill
nor a indictment has involved the
Steel trust, which appears to have
levied millions of dollars of tribute
annually upon the people, and to be
one of the most grinding monopolies
that this country has. It is high
time that Congress undertake to do
what Republioan presidents and departments
of injustice has failed to
[lo, for, until something has been
done to regulate this monopoly, all
the victories over trusts and combinations,
including that over the Standard
Oil Company, vill stand for little
or nothing. Mr. Carnegie's flippancy
in making statements before
the Congressional committee ought to
be regarded as a challenge to Congress
on which it slieuld take immediate
action.
SERIOUS FIRE AT ST. GEORGE.
Was Checked Just In Time to Prevent
Large Conflagration.
What bade fair to be the most
destructive fire that the town of St.
George has ever witnessed occurred
Friday morning when a blaze startE3Ci
in the rear of the livery stable of
\\ G. Lennard, ju.it to the rear of the
Methodist church, on Raysor street.
From the stables the fire soon consumed
the largo two-story building
fuljoining, which was recently purchased
by Mr. Lennard.
The brisk westerly wind enabled
Lho angry flames to leap across the
street to the largo two-story dwelling
of A. J. Patrick without being
checked until the dwelling and outbouses
were destroyed. At the same
time the dwelling of Pillio T>yrd, together
with the stables and barn,
went up in flames.
Other dwellings in close proximity
were badly damaged, and it looked at
one time like several others would
burn, but by this time the crowd had
gathered and fought with bucket and
the small hand pump, which is the
only means of fighting (Ire the town
affords. Even at this, the water supply
was soon exhausted.
It is hard to toll tho exact loss.
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aiosr or i no iurninirp was uavou. v/u
some of the buildings there was insurance,
while others were not insured.
It. is estimated that $10,000
will replace the loss. There is no
clue as to how the Are originated,
only that it started in the feed part
ot the livery stable of N. G. Leonard,
who was not in town at the
time, but who had left some negroes
there to work.
The Outlook could scoop 'em all.
Have Teddy interview the Colonel!
CURB STONE CHAT
SOME
CRUDE THOUGHTS FROM
AN ODD EDITOR'S DRAIN.
Who Gives Ilis Ideas for the lleneflt
of the Many Readers of The Times
and Democrat.
The habit of treating those who
are nearest and dearest to us with
discourtesy and disregard, is one that
clouds tho sunshino of too many
homes.
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Nothing so helps a woman through
the long weary days of worn as the
knowledge that what she does is appreciated
by those she loves and for
whom she toils. Think of this, husbands
and fathers, and remember
that a kind word is always in season.
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In too many families the mother
assumes' the care of everything and
her daughters are hut genteel loungers
in the household. The work
which could be so easily and quickly
done if each bore a share, is left
for the hands already weakened by
heavy burdens.
Children should be trained to behave
at home as you would have
them behave abroad. It is the home
life which they act out when away.
In the actions of children, strangers
can read a history of home life.
Some thing is wrong in those homes
where the little courtesies of speech
are ignored in the everyday home
life.
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lie who loves beauty and Is looking
for it will find it everywhere. And
the mother who keeps her enthusiasm
alive by working with her children,
developing their perception of
beauty and love fcr the beautiful
truths divine, will give them a
blessed inheritance which will lighten
their burden as they grow beyond
her sheltering care, and bring more
of cheerfulness, and hopefulness, and
youthfulness into their lives.
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Probably nineteen-twentieths of
the happiness you will ever have you
will get at home. The independence
that comes to a mi n when his work
is over, and he feel3 that he has run
out of the storm into the quiet harbor
of home, where he can rest in
peace with his family, is something
1 If rlnoa n n f mnV? mnrh HifFfir
ence whether you own your house
or have one little room in that house,
you can make that little room a home
to you.
Parents, do you wish for your children
to love and respect you? If you
do, when your child comes to you
for advice be sure to give good advice;
don't say, "On, go away, don't
bother me, go ask your mother," or
some such answer. Or if they come
to their mother perhaps 3he says,
"Go to your father, I am Iwisy." The
child will soon get afraid to ask advice
for fear of being rebuked, and
it will be apt to seek advice some
(where else. If you take an interest
jia your children then they will take
an interest in you.
You look at the housewife who
has a place for her things, and these
things in their places, and you find
a woman who is systematic in her
work; and when she needs anything
she can put her hands on it in a niQr
nifcnt. She plans and calculates
whenever there is to be extra work,
extra cooking, extra washing, etc.,
and she knows before hand just what
there is to do, and what she wants to
do it with. And this same woman, so
exact in her doings, gets more time
to rest and read and instruct her
children in the paths of right and the
social duties they owe to all. Padies,
we hope you are of this class,
receiving the blessings of your husbands,
and the praise of all who
know you.
"The old woman." A nice phrase
ha noinr fthnnt the dear soul who
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kept her vigil over you in your infancy,
kissed away your tears in
childhood and remaining your trusted
friend in maturity. Is this all the
lovo you have for the silver-haired
mother who bathed your scorching
brow all through the long sleepless
nights of affliction, when your brain
was wild with burning fever? Is
there no other term you can find for
her whose love has followed you
through every trial, tribulation and
misfortune of your life? Has mother,
through all these years of labor,
watching and waiting, been wasting
her love on a worthless bunch of clay,
who, in the rosy dawn of manhood
has no other term more fitting than
"the old woman" by which to address
or speak of his mother?
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Every husband can have good cofenmn
mnrntner. the coffee is
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a shade too brown to suit your taste,
do not scold about it; and, on every
other morning when it is delicious
say so. Try this way, and you will
find your coffee and everything else,
to your taste much oftener; and besides,
you will give the ones you
ought to love best the sweetest consciousness
that they are doing the
work well, and giving satisfaction to
the one, of all others, they most desire
to please?thus inspiring them
I with renewed energy to strive for the
merited reward of kind, appreciative
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than the combined capital and surp]
CAPITAL STOCK
SURPLUS
LIABILITIES OF STOCK]
SECURITY OF DEPOSIT<
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Robert B. Scarborough,
3. L. Buck,
Gteorge J. Holiday,
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Horry County, and a pioneer
ly allied with the recent dev<
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1 H. A. SPIVEY,
(MS Cashier.
TURNS UN HAKVtt
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I LEAPS ABUSE UPON THE ?1AN HE
WAS DEFENDING.
Says the Editor of HarpePs Weekly
Was Playing Double With Him and
Governor Wilson.
A dispatch from Columbia says
Colonel Henry Watterson, who spoke
there Wednesday night on the arbitration
treaties, issued the following
statement on the mess he has gotten
himself into by meddling with things
that did not concern him:
"Touching the Harvey-Wilson letters,
I have to say that, from first to
last, I have been acting, not only
with Colonel Harvey's full knowledge
and approvel, but upon his insistence;
that, from tne beginning, he
was most impatient of delay, sending
a personal representative to me
at Atlanta, the 24th of December,
and again the same representative to
Richmond, the 31st of December,
urging me to take the initiative;
that he was unqualified in endorsing
my statement of the Manhattan Club
incident, wiring forthwith to declare
it 'perfect' and that he was with me
at the New Willard, in Washington,
up to last Sunday right, sharing ail
1 did and had done.
"The refusal of Governor Wilson
to submit an issue of veracity raised
by himself to a tribunal having due I
regard for the rights of their parties,
which I proposed, should, and 1 think
will, be regarded by fair minded people
as confession that he dare not
face the facts.
"As to those Democrats who have
made a hero of Wilson because of his
square themselves with the eternal
verities now that they learn that Wilbreak
with Harvey, how shall they
son and Harvey are weeping upon
one another's bosom."
BRUTISH FIKXD LYNCHED.
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Assaulted Young Lady and Was
Strung Up ly a Mob.
A special dispatch from Cordele,
Ga., to the Atlanta Constitution says
shortly after seven o'clock Monday
>n Eleventh avenue Cordelo's principal
residence street, and within flf
y foot of two resiliences, a burly ne- I
gro stepped out from behind a fence
seized a prominent young Woman of
the city, choked her and dragged her
behind a high hoard fence and committed
an assault upon her.
After accomplishing his heinous
purpose ho fled and left her helpless.
After a few minuter she recovered
< lent strength and crawled back
upon the street, where she was discovered
by Mr. A. i<\ Churchwell, who
carried her to his home, a few yards
away, whero medical attention was;
; given her.
Shortly after the occurrence the re-'
pert was given to the sheriff and the
police, and they, together with hundreds
of citizens, set. out in search
of the negro. Sheriff Ward has bloodhounds
on his trail, but they have
made poor progress on account of the
heavy rafn, that fed a few minutes
after the crime.
The dogs ran the fiend down and
he was caught and lodged in jail^
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.. .900,000
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HOLDERS .. .. 60,000
)RS *.112,600
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W. A. Johnson.
Will A. Freeman. ?
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V10E I'HKSIDKNI .C/ASHIBR
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$25,000.00 ?
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H. H. VVOOIl W Alii J
attorney and Counceior At Law.
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Attorney at Law.
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pPhysician
and burgeon.
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W. WO/FFOKD WAll.
Attorney at JL*v,
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Bank of Horry Building.
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land Surveying
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Drainage
Spivey Building Conway, S. C.
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Wednesday morning. A mob of five
hundred people stormed the jail a
few hours after the fiend was put
in it, took him out, carried him before
his victim who Identified him.
The mob then took him and hanged
him to tree, and riddled his body with
bullets.
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Gov. Wilson made a lucky escape
when he broke with Watterson and
larvey.