The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 09, 1912, Image 5

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* ) / I \ HITS TEDDY H ; PRESIDENT TAFT PUTS HIM IN THE ANANIAS CLUB. RECORD PROVES CHARGE ? ' ? Never Heard Harvester Discussed by Cabinet, Quotes Other Members 'Of Roosevelt's Cabinet to Some Effect, and Proves by Record He Was Not In Country at Time. President Taft issued the following personal statement from the White House on Monday: "Mr. Roosevelt, in his speech at Worchester, as reported by the public press, referring to the Harvester Trust suit, said: "As a matter of fact, Mr. Taft was a member of my Cabinet when this identical case was fully dis cussed before the Cabinet and he cordially approved the action taken; and, indeed, as a matter of fact, my memory is 1 v I 1 # ,1 ~ * Vl O IHUi ii(j ni Hint.* I J. untuu uu v mu liuu tunt, there should bp no prosecution of the Harvester Trust pending the Investigation into the trust by the bureau of corporations.' "Mr. Roosevelt's memory is very much at fault. I am authorized to say by 'Mr. Root and Secretary Wilson both of whom were members of tho Cabinet at the time, that they havo 110 recollection whatever of ever hearing the prosecution of tho Harvester matter discussod in the Cabinet. And Mr. Root is very certain that he never saw or heard of Mr. Herbert Knox Smlfh's letter to Mr. Roosevelt under date of September 21, 1907, on tho subject. "I am able to say the same thing. So far a" my recollection goes, I never heard tho Harvester Trust matter mentioned in any Cabinet meeting that I attended; and I cannot be mistaken in tho statement that I never saw or knew of Mr. Herbert Knox Smith's letter of September 21 to the President, until after my administrator. had begun and the time when the question of tho prosecution came up in 1910 or 1911. And I never saw or read tho letter until about two months ago. "This correspondence showB that the subject matter of the prosecution of the International Harvester Company came before Preaident Roopevelt August 22, 1907, which Is tho date of his letter to Attorney General Bonaparte; that Mr. Herbert Knox Smith's ldtter discussing the question and advising against suit, was dated September 21, 1907 and that Mr. Smith's letter was forwarded by direction of President Roosowelt, under date of September 24, to the Attorney General with direction to the Attorney General to bring the letter to the President that week, to talk over the matter. u ? "The official records show that if i * President Roosevelt left Washington K in June, 1907, for Oyester Bay, and i returned from Oyster Bay to Wash\ \ ington on September 24; that on ' September 2 9 he left Washington Sfor a trip down to the Mississippi Iii\or, returning to Washington on October 23, 1907; and that lie remained in Washington from that time on. "Tho offcial records of the war depariment show that I left Washington in June of tho same year and went to Murray Bay, Canada; that I | remained there until August, when I visited Oyster Bay on August 13, and then went to Washington on the I ' 14th and left Washington on August 18 for a Western trip through Okla. homa, Missouri, tho Yellowstone Park, Oregon and Washington, reaching Seattle on September 8, and sailing form Seattle for the Philippines oud September 13. I did not return j ffihi to tho United States until tho 2 0th m of December, 1907, ' | "1 have a letter from Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of the bureau of \ ?' 1/ corporations, written at my request in which he uses tho following lanI gua co: i "On November 7, 1907, which date I fi.v from my personal diary, I telephoned Mr. Perkins at tho President's order that the President took the view that tho bureau's investigation \ should como before the'suit.' H " this indicated with certainty tho /j time when tho matter was aeciaea I and shews that If the matter did coi o before the Cabinet at all, it j must, have been after September 24, \ \m ' and on or before November 7, 1007, [ a period when I was out of tho Coun^ try, and could not have been present! ti / and certainly could not have made a Y m?:ion or suggestion in the Cabinet! I that no suit bo prosecuted until after 1 ^ tho investigation." jL TKanlc Pictures Tabooed, pi Because physicians having attendJ ed a number of women who suffered J \ nervous shocks from seeing moving . I pictures of the Titanic disaster, May1 I or Kberhardt, of Terre Houte, Ind., I \ has forbidden picture theatres there I \ to display tho views. I \ r * * * I Bays the Boiler Burst. J Daniel Buckley, who was a steer| age passenger on the Titanic, In his J testimony stated that a fireman said Ij1 I that the disaster was caused by tho ^ { bursting of ttirq engines hollers. r I SCENE OF WILD PANIC ? THE GREAT FLOOD PROVES TOO MUCH FOR THE LEVEE. The Water is Now Rapidly Hushing Through the Inundated Country. Near Torras, la. Rushing about the streets of Torras, La., like persons left bereft of their reasons, women screaming and men yelling as they hurried into their homes and grabbed their children, and the stampeding of animals, were some of chaotic conditions that prevailed in Torras Tuesday night when the alarm was sounded that the levee at the junction of the Old and Mississippi rivers had given away. Although it had been known that several weak spots had developed where the break occurred, little attention had been paid to this by the 1 citizens of Torras and they were ] caught unprepared. Within a few , minutes after the break had become known, the townspeople were thrown into a panic, which continued for two hours before any semblance of quiet ! was restored. i Few thought of going toward the ? crevasse and making an effort to stop it, safety apparently being the only thought in their minds. Be- ' fore the streets were entirely submerged a majority of the Inhabitants had sufficient time to reach places of * safety. Three hundred women and children were placed aboard a 1 freight train which had just arrived in Torras. These were taken to a ? point below there. 1 Practically the remainder of the 1 population spent the night on the * levee along the embanament of the Texas & Pacific railroad and in the railroad station, which were out of < roach of the flood, being built on high I piling. No loss of life has been re- 1 ported, but it is feared that some I fatalities may occur in the interior as 1 the water is rushing through the t country so rapidly that sufficient < warning may not have reached those 1 living in districts remote from wire ] communication. < N. P. Phillips, head of the levee board at thip place, was on the levee ( when it began to crumble. He gave j the alarm and called for aid but there 1 was no material available. Finding f himself powerless, he ran to his own \ home to save what ho qpuld of his property. Mr. Phillips' place is in , the path of the crevasse waters and he saved practically nothing. Many ^ of his horses, mules and cattle were drowned. I The breach this mornfng is about 140 feet across. An army of men was rushed there las* night and ho- * roic efforts are being made to check * tbo How of water, but apparently ' there is little hope of a successful fight, at least until an enormous ' damage has been done to the sugar 1 cane fields which lie directly in the < path of the flood. If these efforts ] fail millions of dollars of loss will i be caused by the devastation of some 1 of the most valuable farms and plan- 1 tations in the state. 1 Eleven parishes with a total popu- ' lation of a quarter of a million will < eventually bo partly inundated by i the new break. Food supplies haive been massed near Torras by the government in anticipation of a break there and < those in charge of the work are pre* i paring to give relief to 40,000 persons in this vicinity. Four hundred tents have been ordeded from the , war department and every available sraft has been secured by the gov ? ? k k^ twm f r?nf Intn thn a.f i;rii 111t;u l lu ijo r>v u l uuu w. ? ~ fected territory In sotting the people and livestock out of tho danger zone. ? ? ? EXCHANGING VILE EPITHETS. ? Beckham niul Watterson Are Abus( ing Eacli Other. A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., says the fend between farmer Governor Beckham, who has espoused the cause of Woodrow Wilson In Kentucky, and Henry Watterson has reached the stage of personalities. Under the heading, "A Diseased Liar" and "Tho Fulmination of a Coarse Blackguard and an illiterate Blatherskite," the Courier-Journal this morning prints an attack on Watterson made by Beckham in another paper Thursday afternoon commenting by way of introduction to what Beckham said: "The following rigamarote of dirt, malevolence and lying was yesterday put forth by the most infamous member of tho llrm of Daly, Bockham & Co." Accompanying the article was an editorial by Mr. Watterson in tho samo vein. The attack on Mr. Wat terson by former Governor Beckham is no less severe, charging him with "deliberate and wilful falsehood," "being devoid of all sense of honor and wanting in every instinct of a gentleman." Stole Booze From Club. The Lexington Social club was entered by robbers some time during Sunday night a week ago, and sovoral quarts of whiskey and a lot of beer is alleged to have been stolen. The burglars entered by breaking through two dpors, supposedly with an axe. APPEAL TO VOTERS TILLMAN ASKS RE ELECTION BY THE DEHOCRATS SENATOR IS GRATEFUL For Past Support and Expresses Ilia Gratification for the Liove and Confidence That Have Been Given liiin by the People During His Dong Political Career. We have received from Senator B. R. Tillman an address to the people of South Carolina asking their support in his race for re-election to the United States Senate. Senator Tillman has been advised by bis medical advisors not to take the Btump, as he would like to do, and adopts this method of reaching the Democratic voters of the State. The Senator's address to the people is as follows: Eo the People of South Carolina: Twenty-two years ago I asked you to elect me to the office of governor. You did it, after a very hot campaign In which I spoke in every county in the State. Two years later [ asked for reelection. You gave me the office a second time by an overwhelming majority. After four rears of service in the governor's ofQce, I asked you to elect me to the senate, and again, after a heated canvass, you placed mo In the office [ now hold. I have held this office for nearly lighten years, and I am asking you to relecet mo to it, although my health is broken and I am no longer the strong and vigorous man I once was. I have a ripe experience and thorough knowledge of the working | >f the government, and have many warm personal friends in the departments and in both branches of jongress. I came to the senate in a cloud of Dbloquy on account of newspaper ( ibuse at home. I have fought my way in spite of it and have lived to *ee most of the newspaper ftipn in :he press gallery my friends. By long service and hard work, I have won an enviable position In | Washington, and the State is entitled , :o whatever benefit I have in places 3n the committees which can only be obtained by such service. I have flattered no man and feared no man in debate, and I have a 3trong desire to "die in harness," Cor sentimental reasons only. I have no words that ean express my appreciation and gratitude for tne confidence and love you have giv?n mo in all those years. If I did not feel that my experience and Intimate acquaintance with public affairs will enable me to give acceptable service in the futuro, I wohld not ask. reelection at your hands, but conLent myself with the full measure nf the honors you have given me already. When I first came into public life i met a storm of opposition, which was very bitter and Intense. It required intense and aggressive action to overcome it; and being combative by nature, I fought with all my might for thoso things I thought were right, - - 'i T ii.nn Kn/ioiion vAii nnnrnvoH niv tl 11 II X WWII UUV/II IIUO JWU u uu u policies, my utterances and my actions. Amid this exciting contest, many things were said and done on both sides that, perhaps, had hotter been left unsaid and undone. Men are but human, and when fired by strong convictions, they speak and do things which they afterward regret. As God is my judge, I never said anything but trut.^, or did anything as governor or as senator, I did not believe to be of the public welfare. As I look hack over my career, I can see mistakes and blunders, plenty of them, hut they wero honest blunders, and I have never permitted selfish ambition or petty revenge to control my actions. I have tried to bo senator of all the people, as I was governor of the whole Stato and my ambition has been, In the senate, to give the people the best service of which I was capable. Owing to my poor health and in accordance with the advice of my physician, I shall not make any speeches during the canvass this summer. All of the old men In the Stato have already heard me speak, and if there are any young ones who have not and desire it, I shall take pleasure in mailing such pamphlet copies of some of my best speeches which I have yet on hand. Nothing would delgiht me more than to bo orrain fn sop mV old frleilds auiu unw dn?i? w ~ww ? faco to face, and it saddens mo to think that I shall never havo this pleasure again. I shall hope that the people of South Carolina will not displace me by voting me out, but that in some way you will indicate a wish for mo to retire from this position because of your belief that I am no I longer physically capablo of perform-) ing the duties of the office. Tho sen-| atorship has always been regarded by me as a sacred trust, and I knew you wanted mo to surrender it, I i WILSON SWEEPS TEXAS DEFEATS CLAHK AND HARMON BY A LARGE MAJORITY. Harmon Comes Second to Wilson and Champ Clark Brings up the Rear With Few Votes. Wilson seems to have carried Texas almost unanimously notwithstand* " A V* L <vm/1 f ?Mt f 11 rv nnrnSnot h I m 1I1? 111U U?1 U HftiiL jiui. U)/ u(,auioi iiilu by Dalley and Hearst, representing Harmon and Clark respectively. Heturns from one half the precincts in the State give Wilson 29 6 votes in the State convention; Harmon 83, and Clark 26. A later dispatch says Woodrow Wilson's long lead over Champ Clark and Judson Harmon in Saturday's idential preference precinct primary was increaded Saturday night by further returns from the State at large. Out of about one-half of the State receive up to midnight Wilson followers are assured of control of a sufficient number of county conventions to give the New Jersey governor 296 votes in the State convention out of total of 623; Harmon had 83 and Clark 26. Should this proportion hold out with tho part of the State yet to hear from Wilson would have about live hundred of tho 623 delegates to the State contention. This would bo about four times as many delegates as Harmon and Clark would have put together. Claris made a very poor run. The election gives Wilson tho 4 0 votes from Texas. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Man Kills Brothers Wife and Then Killed Self. At New York Mrs. Marchesl, the young wife of Theodore Marches!, a printer, was shot twico in the heart and killed shortly before midnight Thursday night in her home in the upper East Side by a man described by the police as Joseph Marches!, her brother-in-law. After killing Mrs. Marchesl the man shot himself and was taken to a hospital in a dying condition. Mrs. Marchesi was the daughter of a wealthy Italian nobleman. Iler husband was her childhood friend, who came to this country and prospered. A year ago he decided to king his brother, then a school teacher in the old country, to America. As Theodore was unable to leave his business, ho sent his wife back to Italy to bring his brother to New York. During the trip the brother, it is said, became enamored of the handsome young matron, and her coolness caused him to threaten her life. She repeatedly had told friends that she feared he would kill her. The husband was not at home when the tragedy occurred. ? RECEIVED ONE DOLLAR. ?, As Reward for Finding Large Slim of Money for Man. At Chicago, Edward Stone, a brakeinan on a, local train running between Cliacigo and Libertyville Thursday night held in his hands an old shoe box containing $25,000 without being aware of its contents. The box had been left on the train at Morton Grove by Herbert Schoenberg. Before the train departed Schoenberg dashed into a car and asked Stone if ho had seen the box| It was handed to Schoenberg who explained to the brakeinan that it contained money for starting a new bank. Stone was rewarded with one dollar. LADY KILLED BY AUTO. Thoso in the Machine Wore Painfully Injured. At Augusta, Mrs. Aurelia T. Jones, widow of the late Judge R. P. Jones, of Waynesboro, died at tlvo o'clock Friday morning as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident Thursday. Mrs. Jones became panic stricken at the approach of a car driven by DL M. S. Levy, of Augusta, and Jumped in front of it. In the effort to avoid striking her, Dr. Levy wrecked his car, was bruised badly himself and his companion, Dr. G. S. Woodbury, of Augusta, sustained a broken shoulder. ? Killed by Bursting Boiler. Late Wednesday afternoon at Cassetts, a small station a few miles smith of MoBoe. the boiler of an en gino at a shingle mill exploded. One man, Marion Shull of Banner Elk, N. C., was Instantly killed. Mr. Shull had been married only about a month. Several others were slightly hurt. Killed About Card Came. At Atlanta recently C. Richard Harper, member of a prominent Jack-' sonvlllo family was killed and Kell Potts was dangorously wounded in a fight following a quarrel over a card game. The men used knives.' would gladly lay it down, conscious that I have done my duty always to the best of my ability. B. R. Tillman. i - . / . < DOES GREAT WORK ? WINTHROP IS PREPARING FOR A GREATER USEFULNESS NEW TRAINING SCHOOL With Impressive Masonic Ceremonies the Corner Stone of the New Building Was Bald on Friday, Commemorating Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Founding of the College. Friday was a glorlus day for Win throp College and Rock Hill, and as evidenced by the many visitors, for South Carolina as well, the institution Friday celebrating in ample form her twenty-fifth anniversary, and laying tho corner-stono of her magnificent new Training School for Teachers. Everything combined to make tho occasion an auspicious one. After the assembly In tho auditorium of the College, and tho roll call of the delegates, the guests and students repaired to tho front of the main building to await the arrival of the Masons who were to conduct the ceremonies of laying tho cornerstono of tho magnificent Teachers' Training School building. In double line and forming a wide lane extending from tho gravol entrance of tho College to the corner of the new building were stationed tho seven hundred and fifty Winthrop girls, and never in tho history of the State has the most Worshipful Grand Lodge of South Carolina had the privilege of parading a more beautiful avenue than. this. The procession niached as follows: Marshals: The Masonic Order, the Grand Master and president of Winthrop, tho trustees of Winthrop, the delegates and specially invited guests, tho faculty of Winthrop, the tho alumnae of Winthrop. The Rev. Alexander Martin, of tho Presbyterian Church, made tho invocation and was followed by President Johnson, who read a statement covering the development of tho institution from its beginning in tho Preston stablot in Columbia with two teachers, tho present spacious campus of fifty-eight acres and a group of buildings costing almost one million dollars. Of this tho Stato of South Carolina contributed some thing over four hundred tnousana. Dr. Johnson did not so state, but thd remainder was raised by his efforts, of which ho is and should bo, Intensely proud. The corner-stone ceremonies were then conducted by Most Worshipful Grfind Master Geo. S. Mower, assisted by Deputy Grand Master M. II. Sandifer, Grand Chaplain T. C. O'Dell, Senior Grand Warden Joseph Llndsey, Junior Grand Warden A. E. Smith, Grand Treasurer V. B. McFadden, Grand Secretary John Hart, Grand Senior Deacons C. K. Chrietzberg and W. C. Willis, Grand Junior Deacons W. W. Moore and W. A. Pressley, Grand Stewards J. Wdlson Moore ahd S. George Moore, Grand Pursuivants, R. E. Browno, Grand Tiler W. W. Lewis, Grand Marshal J. F. Reid. The tirowel used in the ceremonies was the beautiful historic T.nfnvpttn trnwol and travel, one of olive wood presented to the Rock Hill Lodge by the Lodge at Jerusalem, through the late lamened Rev. James Spratt White, who traveled in foreign countries. The following articles were placed in the corner-stone: Coins, Lincoln penny, five cent piece, dime; newspapers, Rock Hill Record, Herald, State, News and Courier. List of churches and pastors, latest statements of the local banks, list of school trustees, superintendent and teachers, list of Masonic Order, Grand officers and members, Bulletin of Summer School, first, report of Winthrop Training School, last report of Winthrop College, view book of college, illustrated post, card, programme, Winthrop Journal, Alumnae Bulletin, poem by member of senior class, copy of Dr. Johnson's statement, copy of l>r. Joyne's address, copy of Mr. Lawton B. Evan's address, Winthrop Col lego Catalogue, a Bible. The exercises In the Auditorium consisted of addresses by Dr. Edward L. Joynes, >M. A. LL. 1)., processor emeritus of modern languages, University of South Carolina, and Mr. Lawton B. Evans, M. A., superintendent of the city schools of Augusta, Georgia. Dr. Joynes, who was introduced by Dr. Johnson as one who had been associated with Winthrop College even before its beginning, and as being a very part of it', whoso wise * ~ .1 | judgment uui mucn m cuiicvivmx ami shaping the plana of tho infant institution and in guiding its policy since its development. Dr. Joynes in sketching the history of Winthrop showed much feeling, and in paying a tribute to David Bancroft Johnson as tho young man with whom he had become acquainted in Tennessee, whoso career ho had watched and whom he had brought through his iniluence to South Carolina bis voice was full of emotion. Dr. Jones' sketch was complete. The venerablo educator was listened to with greatest interest. From tho Auditorium th? gnesti ' / kl ' v?^H CLARK'S MAN BEATEN ] DELEGATES FHOM MA8SACHU- I ?Mnr urkv | SIV1T? Alitt rviv U11A7W, | Congressman Burleson, of Texas, Ex- | plains Exactly How the Matter I Now Stands. I Representative Albert Burleson of I Texas, chairman of the Democratic I house caucus, who campaigned Mas- I sachussetts for Gov. Wilson until the I polls closed, said of the primary re- I suit: J "The situation in Massachusetts / was anomalous. The candidates for | delegates at large and the district delegates who were elected were pledged to Gov. Foss for nomination. On the ballot each name is followed by this notation, 'Pledge to Gov. Eugene N. Foss for president.' "Of all the candidates for delegate, as far as I know, only one, George Fred Williams, was an outspoken Clark partisan and he was defeated by a vote of more than 2 to 1. Before the primary took place it was decided that Gov. Foss' name should not go on tho ballot for presidential j preference. "Many Democrats, knowing that jthat tho Foss delegates were sure of ...? election, went into tho Republican primaries and voted for Roosevelt. jTho vote as between Clark and Wil! son is not tho expression of the maiorltv of the MnssnohiiBetts Demo crats, and the delegates at large do not so consider it and so declared in advance. "A poll of thirty-five Democrats elected as delegates from the State shows that a considerable majority of them will voto for Gov. Wilson, If Gov. Foss is not a candidate before the convention at Baltimore. Mayor Fitzgerald of Roston will head the Massachusetts delegation and he has repeatedly said that ho will not vote for Clark as a second choice." SAVED FIIOM WATERY GRAVE. Colored Man Rescued Two Roys From Drowning. The Greenville Piedmont eays for the cool head and quick work of Sloan Allen, a colored man in the employment of the Greenville, Spartanburg & Anderson railway two white boys, Otis Green and Bud Nesbit would have probably gone to a watery grave Thursday afternoon when their boat capsized on the Reedy river. Suddenly the boat capsized, "turned turtle," as the expression goes and tho two boys were thrown into tho water. Allen quickly grabbed a rope and threw it to one of the boys who caught it and was pulled to the bank. When the rope was cast to the other hoy ho missed it and went under. Ho arose and grabbed tho rope when it was thrown to him a second time and was drawn to the bank and to safety. ? BRAVERY IS REWARDED. ? Poor Mail Gets Big Sum for Rescuing Two Little Girls. A dispatch from Marlon Ind., tells of the reward a farm hand received for his bravery. At work on a farm, and with only eleven cents in his pockets, William H. Prickett Friday was told that he had inherited $25,00 from Frank Ilorch, a ranch owner of Pocatello, Idaho, for having rescued lloreh's two daughters from their burning home several years ago. Prickett, then a circus bill poster, risked his life by running into the blazing house and carrying the girls to safety. lloreh's brother, J. H. Horch, came here to notify Prickett of the bequest. repaired to the dining hall and moro than thirteen hundred students and guests sat down to a splendid luncheon, for which Asbury's Orchestra, of Charlotte, furnished music. At the conclusion of the lunchoon Mr. W. .T. Roddey, as toastmaster, called upon the following, who responded with short talks: Tho Hon. ,T. 10. Swoaringen, Prof. I.. ,T. Paker, University of South Carolina; T. W. Palmer, of Montevalo, Ala.; Prof.. J. M. Donglow, of Davidson College; Prof. C. M. Furman, of Clemson; Messrs. T. F. McDow and W. W. Lewis, of Yorkville, and John CI. Anderson, of Rock Hill. The happy occasion of Wiqthrop's birthday closed with a brilliant reception in tho Carnegie Library Friday evening, whore tho town folk as-? seiubldd to meet tho visitors. ? Moots a Tragic Death. Lieut. Hay Straith MacDonald, U. S. N., died in the Brooklyn hospital as tho result of a fraotured skull sustained in a fall from a trolley car. Lieut. MacDonald, who was stopping with his brldo at a Brooklyn hotel, attempted, to board a car at the ^ Brooklyn end of tho bridge when hi# foot slipped and he was hurled against an elevated railroad pillar. ? ? . J vjP Two Thieves are Caught* * Two men giving their names as j, ' William Goldstein and David Bigg# * are being held by the police of rob\ blng the reeidehce of W. J. Murray,