The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 11, 1912, Image 6
SKETCH OF WILSON
NOMINATED BY THE DEMOCRATS
I FOR PRESIDENT
WAS BORN IN THE SOUTH
He is a Man of Splendid Attainments,
a High Toned Christian Gcntlrnan,
Sprang from the Sturdiest Stock of
the South, and lias Made Good in
Politics.
Woodrow Wilson, Governor of
New Jersey, a man of Southern birth
and of unblemished record, has been
r.amed by the Baltimore convention
to lead the Democratic party to victory
in November. He is a man of
scholarly attainment, of wide breadth
of knowledge, of unimpeachable
stock of the South; born in Virginia,
reared in South Carolina and GeorV>
1 o fnrhonrH finETaEOd ill
fiIU| ?* UCI *3 Alio 1U1 ~ . ? 0.-?
ministerial and educational pursuits.
He is a man of splendid ideals, understanding
throroughly the science
of government and the application of
progressive ideas and methods.
He was born at Staunton, Va., December
2 8, 185 6. Married 'Miss Helen
Louise Axson of Savannah, Ga.,
on June 24, 1885, and they have
three daughters. As Governor of
Now Jersey Woodrow Wilson's administration
has been marked by the
purification of politics, the dethronement
of bossism and the general betterment
of the State. In an article j
on "Woodrow Wilson: Polictical
Leader," in McClure's, Burton U.
Hendricks, a noted writer on current
matters, makes this statement:
"When Woodrow Wilson was made
the Democra/tic candidate for the
governorship of New Jersey, in 1010,
there were many citizens who did
not cordially indorse the nomination.
Outside of New Jersey itself, the
fact that this distinguished educator
had been persuaded to enter public
life was generally acclaimed as the
beginning of better things in a sadly
corrupted commonwealth; within the
State, however the prevailing atmosphere
was one of distrust.
"The unpleasant fact was that the
men chiefly responsible for Mr. Wilson's
nomination, were leaders of the
Democratic machine in rsew jersey.
And it was no secret that these politicians
had forced Mr. Wilson upon
a convention that, left to itself,
would probably have chosen some
other man. With ex-Senator Smith
Jr., of Newark, and "Bob" Davis, of
Jersey City, valiantly fighting for the
president of Princeton University,
the average citizen could hardly understand
how Mr. Wilson's election
necessarily implied the destruction of
boss rule.
"All this in view of the happenings
of the last nine months, seems rather
crrotesuue. and, in fact, this atti
tude was equally rediculous a year
ago. For Woodrow Wilson's whole
career furnished a sufficient rejoinder
to these suspicions. ProbaJbly 110
American citizen ever went into public
life with a more intelligent comprehension
of existing evils or higher
ambitions to eradicate them. From
his earliest days (Mr. Wilson has been
a Democrat, with both a large and a
small 'd'; and a slight glimpse into
his ancestry shows that he comes legitmately
by his millitant spirit.
"On both his father's and his mother's
side, Mr. Wilson is of Covenating
blood. His father, the Rev. Joseph
It. Wilson, a Presbyterian clergyman,
was the son of Scotch parents
who came to America from the North
of Ireland; his mother, Jessie Woodrow,
was the daughter of an Independent
Scottish clergyman of Clarlisle,
England, and the descendant of
a long line of scholars. Roth Mr.
Wilson's father and mother, in addition
to making him virtually a pur.-jblooded
Scotsman, contributed certain
definite traits to his character,
His father was bold, aggressive, firey,
a good hater, and a stalwart upholder
of the cause in which he believed,
Though horn in Steubenville, Onic
ho spent the greater part of himature
life in the Southern State*
and acquired great distinction during
the war, as an unbending advocate
of the Southern cause.
"He was fond of public life, was ?
pulpit orator of distinguished elo
?-> A nvmntnotttl v loft llij
(iUCIlCUi unit iti UUMUV..V.J ....
church in the discussion of public at
fairs. Mr. Wilson's mother, on t"n?
other hand, was quiet, gentl*, reserv
ed, and scholarly, the constant corn
panion of her son, and especially
made happy by his early manifoste(
fondness for the things of the m'nd
All his lifo Governor Wilson has fel
these two tendencies pulling him ii
opposite directions. His ambition
have constantly alternated between i
desire for active public life and ;
liking for the quiet consolations o
scholarship.
"In his earliest experience, evident
ly the paternal strain in his heredi
ty got the upper hand, for, after hi
four years at Princeton, from whlcl
Mr. Wilson was graduated in 1879
lie took a law course, went to Atlaa
ta, Ga., and opened an office. 1<
those days the law, in the South, wh
the essential preliminary to publl
life; 'law and statesmanship' were In
dlssolnbly Identified. And this wa
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT
WITNESSED BY OVER THREE
THOUSAND PEOPLE.
Melvin Yaniman and His Entire Crew
of the Airship Akron Plunged to
Death.
While three thousand spectators ,
8 to oil too startled to utter a single
sound, the big dirigible balloon Akron
was shattered by the explosion of
the gas bag and blown to atoms Tuesday
morning, a half mile from shore
over Absecon Inlet, at Atlantic City,
N. J. Melvin Vaniman, who had built
the airship with the idea of flying
across the Atlantic ocean; Calvin
Vaniman, his younger brother; Fred '
Elmer, Walter Guest and Grover
Dourtillion, his crew, were instantly
killed.
The dirigible was sailing at a '
height of 1,000 feet and been in the
air since 6:15 o'clock when the a.cci- 3
dent occurred. She was a quarter of
a mile south of Brigantine beach, 1
which is across the inlet from the ci- ''
ty. The huge envelope containing
thousands of cubic reet of gas, was '
rent by the terrific force of the explosion
probably caused by expan- '
sion from the sun's rays.
It burst near the middle. A mass ,
of flames hid the ship from view. For 1
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a space of possibly ten seconus iue
half million dirigible was invisible, f
while the air about the spot where
she had been hovering seemed to be 1
all flames. The fire dissipated and
then the ship's outline against the 1
sun-rise was seen to fall like a plummet.
First the understructure or car '
in which were penned the unfortu- (
nate men held in by a net work put '
u after the second trip of the balloon '
three weeks ago, unable to escape, 1
broke away from the envelope.
It up-ended, the bow turning down- 1
ward. Directly above, twisting i/i a
long spiral, was the gas bag, a smoking
mass of rubber and silk with
flames shooting out from a dozen sec1
tions as it collapsed. It fluttered a
moment and then streaked down afcr
the car. In the descent something
which appeared to be the body of a
man shot out to the left of the wreckage
and hit the water before the rest
of the descending mass. It was reported
that this, was the headless
body of Calvin Vaniman.
Thousands of persons from every
part of the resort are gathered along
the inlet, broadwalk and above the
Vaniman cottage and just above the
hangar at the inlet where Mrs. Vaniman
collasped and was unconscious
from the shock. A physician was in
attendance. The greatest excitement
prevailed for a time. Iloats were
darting out from the inlet and along
the shores of the thoroughfare and
beach. -Police reserves, wno neipeu
to launch the craft, which sailed
along gracefully until the accident
occurred, kept the crowds from about
the Vaniman villa.
its chief atttaction then for Mr. Wilson.
Two years' experience, however,
disillusioned him. The practice
of law, he discovered, was incompatible
with that spirit of independence
which he regarded as indispensable
to efficient service.
"Instead of actively appearing in
the court room, Mr. Wilson spent
the larger part of these two years
writing the first draft of his book on
'Congressional Government'. Soon he
found himself, as a graduate student,
at John Hopkins, specializing in polices
and government; And, in part the
next twenty years, he ascended in his
academic career until, in 1 902, lie
11? .. ? !.'? >( Af Prin^fnn
Decanie um iiresiuciu wl a
University. Here lie displayed the
same aggressive qualities that have
marked his administration as Governor;
and the objects fought for in
both cases were the same?the demoralization
of life.
"And so, as a result of the assertion
of real leadership by a governor
of great intelligence and force, there
, must be recorded a real miracle in
politics; New Jersey is a 'progressive'|
, State. Its legislation is as far 'ad-1
, vanced' as that of Oregon, California,
j and other Western commonwealths.
> Hut it is progressive not only in
- measures, but in methods. Governor
- Wilson's real service is that he has
displayed a great American governt
mental superstition; the idea that po_
litlcal parties should work under a
j divided leadership; that a governor,
. elected by public opinoion on certain
, definite issues, should divorce himself
. from public opinion and those issues
. immediately on assuming office. He
^ has shown the necessity of uniting,
I under centralized party control, both
the executive legislative branches,
i and has proved that, once such a eentralization
is established, the power
* o! the boss system disappears. That
^ Ik Mr. Wilson's great contribution to
a the solution of our political probf
lems."
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Will Aid Wilson Men.
A pledge of $5,000 to pay the bills
s of Wilson delegates to the Baltimore
h Convention was made Monday night
>, by Samuel Ludlow Jr., a banker, and
- Joseph 13. Bernstein, a merchant, of
i Jersey City. Reports from Baltimore
s that, because of the extended sesse
ions, many of the delegates were
- "hard up", caused the Jersey City
s men to make their offer. .
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MANY LIVES LOST
?
FORTY PASSENGERS ARE KILLED '
IN A RAILWAY WRECK
MANY OTHERS INJURED
?
The Signals Obscured by Fog, Cause ,
Given by the Engineer of Express :
i
Train, Locomotive of Which, Hun- ,
ning at Terrific Speed, Demolishes j
Ill-Fated Train. '
Westbound Lackawanna passenger ,
train, No. 9, from New York, duo to ,
arrive at Corning at 4.47 a. m., com- ^
posed of two engines, a baggage car, j
three Pullmans and two day coaches, (
in the order named, was demolished ,
at Gibson, three miles east of Corn- j
Ing, at ?T:25 .o'clock Thursday morn- ,
[ng by express train No. 11, due at (
Corning at 5:10 a. m. Forty-one persons
were killed and between fifty (
and sixty injured.
Many of the victims were holiday i
[jxcursioners bound to Niagra Fall*
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A lio naa Doaruea mo umu m puuno (
ilong the line.
The wreck was the worst in the '
history of the road. Its cause, accord
ing to Engineer Schroeder, of the ex- '
press, was his failure to see Blgnals (
3et against his train. The morning ,
was foggy and he said he could not
make them out.
The wrecked train stood on the j
main track blocked by a crippled
freight train. There was no flag
out, according to Engineer Schroeder.
The signals which Engineer ,
Schroeder declared it was too foggy '
to see were just around a curve. The
fixing express plunged past them and
crashed into the rear of No. 9, bring- ,
ing deatli to over two score of its '
passengers.
Schroeder had taken No 11, at El- ,
mira, 15 minutes before. It was a
few minutes late. The stretch of
track from Elmira to Corning is fitted
for fast running and he was sending
his train along at G5 miles an
hour. No. 9 was supposed to be half
an hour ahead of him. He had no
warning until he made out the rear
coach pf No. 9 through the fog. Then
he threw the reverse without cutting
off steam.
The jerk threw the train off the
track and the locomotive piungea 011 ,
to splinter the two day coaches filled
with excursionists and tore through
the last of the Pullmans. Schroeder
said the impact threw him from the
cab and landed him on his shoulder
011 the roadbed practically unhurt.
The 100-ton monster continued its
plunge through the middle of the
train, grinding everything in its path.
When finally blocked by the debris, it
remained 011 the roadbed in the midst
of the desolation it had caused, while
hundreds of persons rushed in every
kind of vehicle to lift and pry the
dead and injured from the tangled
mass of wreckage.
Taking advantage of the holiday
excursion rates to Buffalo and Niagara
Falls, many excursionists had
boarded No. 0 at all points from Hoboken,
including Scranton, Binghamton,
and Elmira. There were also
many passengers for the West. By
the time Elmira was reached the
train carried so many passengers that
a second engine was attached, long
before extra freight train No. 61,
bound from Buffalo, had pulled out
of Elmira.
When the heavy grade at Gibson
was reached, a drawhead was pulled
out and No. 61 was crippled. Signals
which she put out stopped No. 9. The
first engine was uncoupled and sent
at work to push the "dead" engine of
the freight into a siding to allow No.
9. and No. 11, which was due in 25
an minutes, to miss. The work
was slow, and during the wait many
passengers from the day coaches got
out.
Meanwhile the signals had been
thrown against No. 11. These failed
to stop the express and the crash followed.
Rescuers were quickly on the
scene, In what seemed an incredibly
short time, hundreds of automobiles
had lined the highway which led to |
the wreck and the work of getting
the injured to the hospitals and the
dead to the morgues was impeded by
the blocking of the road.
TWO VERY FOOIdSH MEN.
A Shooting Scrape Followed a Political
Agunieiit.
At K" in eat roe W. B. Stanton was
shot Tuesday afternoon by J. E.
Pearce, the ball striking him in the
left side and ranging down into the
hip joint. At this writing it is not
to tell whether the wound will prove
serious or not. The men are first
cousins and both are farmers of good
reputation in that county. It seems
that both parties had been together
and that tho shooting grew out of
what at first was good natured Joking
and guying each other, as
to political views. Tho Stato campaign
meeting was attended with enthusiasm
and feeling waxed warpi.
Both men have families and tho affair
is much regretted. Pearce hat
been lodged In jail.
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, Swat the mosquitoes as well as the
flies.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
NUMMARY OF THE VERY STRONG
DOCUMENT GIVEN.
[t Covers Every Subject of Importune
Which Has Been the Subject
of Party Discussion.
Reaffirms party's devotion to the
principles of Democratic government
js formulated by Jefferson.
Declares for a tariff for revenue
ly and denounces "the high Republican
tariff as the principal cause
of the unequal distribution of
wealth."
Favors immediate downward revision
of present duties, especially
upon necessaries of life. Favors
gradual reduction, so as not to interfere
with or destroy legitimate inJustries.
Denounces President Taft
for vetoing tariff bills of last congress.
Condemns Republican party
'for failure to redeem its promises
jt. 19 08 for downward revision".
Takes issue with the Republican
platform as to the high cost of living
contending it is largely due to
iiigh tariff laws.
Favors vigorous enforcement of
the anti-trust law. Demands such
additional legislation as may be necessary
to crush private monopoly.
Declares for presidential preference
primaries. Direct national committeo
to provide for selection at primaries
of members of national committee.
Pledges party to enactment of law
by corporations and unreasonable
campaign contributions by individuals.
Favors single presidential term
and making president ineligible for
re-election.
Felicitates Democratic congress on
its record, enumerating important,
achievement, and pledges an adequate
navy.
Denounces Republican administration
on charge of extravagance and
demands return to simplicity and economy
befitting a Democratic government.
Favors efficient supervision and
rate regulation of railroads, express
companies, telegraph and telephone
lines, and a valuation of these companies
by the interstate commerce
commission, and also legislation
against over-issuance of stocks of
corporations. In connection with a
demand for such revision of the
banking laws as will give temporary
relief in case of financial distress,
there is a denunciation of the Aldrich
bill prepared by the monetary commission.
The present method of depositing
government funds is condemned and
the party is pledged to the enactment
of a law for the deposit of such
funds by competitive bidding in state
or national banks, without discrimination
as to locality.
Recommends investigation of agricultural
credit societies in Europe to
ascertain whether a system of rural
credits may be devised suitable to
conditions in the United States.
Pledges party to enactment of legislation
to prevent devastation of
lower Mississippi Vailey by floods,
and the control of the Mississippi is
declared to he a national, rather than
of of n nrn hinm Tho maintenance I
(I niatti JJI uu.vx..
of navigable channel is also recommended.
Bristling with Democratic progressivism
the platform on which rhe
Democratic party will stand during
the approaching campaign w(is completed
by the committee on resolutions
and awaits only the approval of
the presidential nominee to be presented
to the convention.
From first, to last, the committee's
deliberations were characterized
by the utmost harmony. The unanimous
demand was for the most pronounced
declarations in favor of progressive
politics all along the line,
and the only difference of opinion
j arose over the best method of expressing
this tendency. The result is
a platform of generally advanced
views, although many of them are
less radical than tha party declarations
of othor years. The document
covers every subject of importance
which has been the subject of party
discussion.
Frenchmen Protest.
The French ambassador Jules Jusserand,
Thursday presented to Secretary
(MacVeagh at Washington a protest
from the Limoges chamber of
commerce against the termination of
the agreement between that body and
the United States, which for many
years has regulated the appaisement
of china and pottery importations
from the Limoges district of Franco.
The treasury department will decide
within a few weeks whether the
agreement shall be abrogated on September
1, as had been planned.
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The immense capital now needed
to establish industries makes very
remoto the possibility of workmen
become omployers, and it is likely
this fact prevents workers from taking
the same amount of interest in
their work that was seen under the
ujnoirlfli np<t?r. when it was
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comparatively easy for a man to go
Into the business for himself on a
small capital.
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Evoryono should have a clear, well
defined purpose in life. He who has
ft not ha* not yet learned how to live.
BANK OF
Conway.
Has largest capital and surplus of say
than the combined capital and surplus
CAPITAL STOCK.* .? ?.
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LIABILITIES OF 8TOCKHC
BOUmiTT OF SQDFOftlTOB
DIRECT
>bert B. Scarborough,
i. L. Bmok,
isorg# J. Holiday,
Wejoler our customers every accom
will justify, and we soli
SOBEST B. B0A1B0B0UGH, D. V
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We continue to pay 5 per c<
BOLD BOBBERY IN AIKEN =
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THIEVES HOB AIKEN-AUGUSTA i
RAILWAY OP $100.
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a Clever Huso They Succeded in
Getting the Watchman Away From
the rower House.
A daring robbery was committed
In the early hours of Sunday morning
at the power house of the Augusta- **"
Aiken railway and electric company,
near Clearwater, in Aiken county.
Practically the entire collections
of Saturday, amounting to between
$400 and $450, were secured by the
robbers, who made their escape, and ?
although bloodhounds were put on
their trail, they were not apprehended
and there is no clue as to their
identity.
It is customary for the conductors
to deposit such moneys as are collected
at the power house, which is
located in a little valley near Clearwater.
There are only a few houses ?
near the power house. Two men are
on duty there all night, one regular
watchman and cue emergency motorman.
This fact was known to the
men who committed the robbery.
About two o'clock Sunday morning
the telephone at the power house
rang, and one of the special men on i ?
duty answered. He was told by a 9
voice over the wire that a wagon ! i
had broken down on the trolley track
near Belvedere, a few miles from the
power house, and that the superin- j
temlent of the road had asked the
person talking to telephone and instruct
the men at the power house to
go to Belvederq crossing and remove
rhe obstruction at once.
Running out a special car the two
men left the p'ower house, but when
they reached Belvedere and found
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no obstruction oil wie traca men sus-i j
picions were aroused and they ran ' I
the car back to the power house at I
full speed. They were too late, how- 1
ever, for in their absence the robbers,
and their appeared to be at least two
of them, had broken open the company's
safe with a crow-bar and secured
all the money, which was mostly
in silver.
[ Early Sunday morning the sheriff
of Aiken county was notified and ho
wired to Columbia /or the bloodhounds.
They reached there about ^
noon, and placed on <he trail of the
robbers. The dogs followed it for _
only a short distance, however, and
the authorities have no clue whatso- g
ever on which to work other than i
that the robbers were apparently
familiar with the arrangements in
effect at the power house.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE TOWN. _
If you don't like the kind of town
That this town seems to be,
If buildings here are tumbled down Q
A way you hate to see,
lf something isn't up-to-date,
Or good as thinks of old,
While other towns are simply great
(Or so you have been told); S
If you would like to see a place o
That's full of push and snap, P
A town that hits a faster pace, a
A town that's on the map; o
Yes, if a way you'd like to know S
To find it in a jerk,
I'll tell you where you ought to go? c
You ought to go to work. 1
You needn't pack a trunck or grip t
And leave the folks behind, r
You needn't go and take a trip,
Some other place to find, a
You needn't go and settle down
Where friends of old you miss? t
For, If you want that kind of town, i
Tuaf rnnkn it out of this. ?
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Francis Apologizes to Bryan. c
A personal apology to W. J. Bryan r
Monday night by Former Governor 8
David R. Francis, of Missouri, who 8
said he was not in the Convention 1
hall during the afternoon when Clark 1
adherents placed In front of the Ne- 1
braska d. legation a banner inscribed I
with Mr. Bryan's former eulogistic ^
estimate of the Speaker.
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Senator Tillman s Prayer. j
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina ?
, telegraphed to Governor Wilson: ?I (
have prayed to live to see a real Dem- 1
ocrat president before I die. Next a
(March my prayer will be answered, i
i Congratulations to you and to our ?
country.0 J?
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CONWAY, 0. G.
Attorney at Law.
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THEY WILL NOT HOLT. f
cnalors Can't See Need for Any New
Party Now.
Several progressive Republican
onators at Washington, conferring
ver the situation growing out of the
residential nominations at Chicago
nd at Baltimore have voiced the
ninion that a third nnrtv in tnnir
tatoa was unnecessary.
Their several opinions are that
lectors in sympathy with Former
^resident Roosevelt will be on the
egular Republican ticket in Califoriia
and Washington, Kansas, Nebras;a,
Minnesota and the Dakotas
,mong others.
None of the% progressive senators
ias announced any intention of leavng
the regular Republican party,
lenators Works of California and ^
Iristow of Kansas have to':d their *
olleagues that the progress.vo elenent
was in control in their States
tnd that there would be nothing to
ain by joining in a third party movenent.
Senator Poindexter of Washngton
said h? believed that It would
>e. unnecessary to organize a third
>arty In his State.
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Soldier Kills Himself.
While the 12th company, C. A. C..
vas riding early Thursday morning
it Fort Screven, Private Robert S.
)*Connell, the company clerk, alone
n his office, placod a 38-calibre Colts
irmy revolver under his chin and
>ulled the trigger. The bullet went
mtlrely through his head and lodged
In the celling*
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