The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 18, 1912, Image 6
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&ILSON A WINNER
NEW YORK HERALD THINKS HE
; HAS A FINE CHANCE.
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' AS THAT PAPER SEES IT
Four Years Ago Tuft Needed Only
Thirty-Six to Vote, But Thin Year
He Will Have to Win Over One
Hundred and Twelve Votes or dive
f' Up Job.
|. According to the view of The New
|M| York Herald, after a careful sumI
'fining up of political conditions genI
4?rally' prospect^ for a Deinocrat1;
ic victory in November are strong
now, but the party must fight hard to
1/ win.
I That paper, which has won a repI,
utation as a sane political prophet,
F says that whilo the states carried by
I: President Taft cannot easily be taken
I* 2 from hhn, he can only safely count
U on 155 of the votes in the electoral
' colloeo. and must canture 112 of tho
i doubtful votes, while tlio Democrats
must secure only ninety-seven of the
? doubtful electors in order to win, 207
, being necessary to a choice.
I Tho situation is vastly different
i from what it was four years ago at
about this stage of the campaign.
A Then tho Republicans, at tho outset,
were reasonably sure of 200 electors
I. % and needed only thirty-six more to
I win, while Mr. Bryan needed elglityI,
\
[ ; one.
To-day many more of the states
are doubtful. Of those in doubt now,
J Taft in 1 908 carried Connecticut, IdF
aho, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, two in
i Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana,
'Nevada, New Jersey, New York,
A North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, West
f Virginia, and Wisconsin. Rliminatk
ing entirely here are fifteen States
with a total of 181 electors.
Tho States reasonably suro to go
i Repifbllcan are California, Delaware,
f Illinois, Iowa, (Michigan, Minnesota,
1 New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South
I Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington,
I and Wyoming. Total vote: 15fi.
[I Tho states which will cast Demo
[/ cratic votes aro: Alabama, Arizona,
Ii Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Misl
souri, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
I South Carolina, Tennesson, Texas,
Virginia. Total vote, 170.
I ? The Herald admits the so-called
progressives and the threatened third
(party present a riddle that did not
muddy the waters four years ago, but
believes that its forecast would not
I he affected even if a third ticket were
r placed in the field except perhaps as
i to the result in one State?Califorf
iiia.
The Democrats, the Herald says,
* have a good start, being reasonably
sure of 170 electoral votes in most
of the doubtful states, and with wise
and popular hominations they will
stand a better chance than the Re,
publicans because they have the advantage
of notable and telling victo|
ries in congressional elections. Coni
necticut, Idaho, Indiana, Maine, Mas1
sachusetts, New York, North Dakota,
( Ohio, Oregon, and Wyoming, have all
/ elected governor since they voted for
Taft in 1 008.
The Republicans, says the Herald,
"start out in the campaign very
4 greatly disorganized. One might sup
pose that after the terrific factional
struggle in the party it could not win
' a victory anywhere. And yet it must
not Perorgotten tnat me DUBinesu m|
toroHtR of the country who are oppos,
ed to tariff for revenuo only and beI
licve in the protective system as well
a' the financial interests that were
> practically drummed out of the Bal[
tiraore convention hy Mr. Bryan will
bo united for Mr. Taft.
"These Interests have actually controlled
every election since 1 884.
Tr.ey thr-v than influence for Hen
eral Harrison in 1888, for >Mr. Cleveland
in 1 892, Mr. Roosevelt in 1904
and Mr. Taft in 1908.
"In one respect the campaign of
1912 begins much as that of 1892.
In 1 890 the Democrats swept the
country and elected a Democratic
congress. Two years later the Democrats
carried the country again because
of dissatisfaction with the tar1fT,
which had really impressed the,
business interests of the country favorably
to Mr. Cleveland. I
"Kven split into factions as it Is,
With the Democrat* Of the west and
southwest arrayed against the Democrats
of the east, the advantage un.
/loUjbledly at tho beginning of the
fchtripaign is heavily witn me Democracy.
The Republicans are in much
worse plight in every way. They too.
have factions of the west arrayed
against the factions of the east. The
effect of the disturbances will bo felt
for a decade."
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Army Appropriation Pass.
The House Tuesday at Washington
again passed the army appropriation
bill in the same form as last February
before the senate amendments
brought it under the veto of President
Taft. The amendments affecting
the general staff of the army, one
of which would have legislated its
chief, Major General Leonard Wood,
out of the office and the provision
for a commission to decide upon the
number and location of army posts
were left o*t.
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CAMPAIGN MEETING
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY PEOPLK
AT RI DOE LAND.
Dot!) Aspirants for Gubernatorial
Nomination Devote Much of Their
Timo to Talk About Negroes.
Patience worthy of better reward
than it received was exhibited by the
persons?250 of them?who gave respectful
hearing Wednesday afternoon
to almost a dozen political harangues.
Itain fell without ceasing
and before long the coats and trousers
of men and the white dresses of
women were all sodden through.
The crowd stood in wet grass
among dripping trees in an old field
at the edge of the town. The attention
given the speeches by the people
in such circumstances was apparently
due not so much to Interest
in the arguments or to partisanship
as to a sense of the occasion's importance,
for this was the first Stato
campaign meeting to be held in the
new county of which Ridgeland,
fliniurh ofill u/11 >1 r?nt a entirf linnuo In
the county seat.
Barnard B. Evans, as it happened,
was the first speaker. The majority
opinion upon tho race for attorneygeneral,
so far as it was indicated
by applause, favored tho incumbent,
J. Fraser Lyon. No thrills were provided
Wednesday by Messrs. Lyon
and Evans. Honors in applause* in
the governorship race went to Gov.
Blease, with Judge Jones a close second.
Debates between candidates for
other offices wero featureless.
This meeting stands oLt sharply
from tho 16 previously held because
of the relatively extraordinary time
which Messrs. Jonea and Blease gave
to the alleged records and leanings
of themselves and each other with
respect to tho negro question. It
was not that any new matter was introduced
by either, but that each repeated
practically all that ho had said
011 tho subject elsewhere.
Judge Jones said among other
things that he has yet to hear of a
subject into which Governor Blease
could not lug the "nigger". It was a
poor compliment tho governor paid
his hearers when he charged Jones
at this lato day with being a "nigger
lover" in face of the fact that Jones,
after he had cast the votes which
Blease now Hays showed him to favor
social equality between negroes and
whites, was voted for by Blease for
speaker of the house, for associate
justico and for United States senator.
Gov. Blease himself, said Judge
Jones, was ex-oflicio trustee of the
State college for negroes at Orangeburg
and that position he could not
help holding, for it was part of the
governorship, but he was a trustee of
this college by election, before he became
governor, and as such he reported
enthusiastically on the education
being provided, even voted to
spend several thousand dollars on a
heating plant, and his county (Newberry)
had more of these "baboons"
as Blease now calls them, attending
the college than any other county
except Orangeburg.
Furthermore Blease, as a legislator,
though he voted against pensioning
Confederate widows at the age of
5f>, did vote to pension a negro.
Gov. Blease varied his routine
speech but slightly Wednesday. Such
new matter as he introduced was put
forward in brief asides. ITe said the
people were to be complimented on
their patience. He said also, "Tjist
night at the Columbia club, a man
who hnldo a nrnmlnont. nubile oflice
said the only way to elect Jones now
was to count Bleaso out."
Again: "Wash Clark In Columbia
has bet $.100 with a friend of mlno
that Jones will bo elected."
Tho governor urged the people to
smash a court house ring as soon as
they saw one developing.
He said that. "Jones corporation
convention" did not elect him a delegate
to the Baltimore convention and
he was glad of it, because during the
time he might have spent In Baltimore
he did good political work for
himself In tho Piedmont.
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CARRIED CORPSE ON MARCH.
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Strikers Use Body of a Comrade for
Queer Purpose,
An Unusual way to win additions
to their ranks was adopted by striking
steamship firemen at New York
Wednesday when they virtually made
a dead man a leader in their cause.
The body of Andreas Rodriguez, a
striker, who was shot to death in a
riot Monday night, was taken from
the hearst just after hundreds of
strikers had attended his funeral at
strike headquarters at it was borne
on the shoulders of men for more
than two miles through the waterfront
section. The empty hearse led
the procession and following the
bearers of the casket there were eightv
empty carriages, the mourners
having refused to ride. A throng of
thousands joined in the procession,
men and women struggling along
without formation behind the leaders.
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Three deaths and twenty-five prostrations
from heat occurred In Boston
Monday. A place where you burn
up in summer and freeze in winter lfc
to t>e pitied.
CASH SET HIM FREE
PAID10NE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR
HIS SON'S PARDON
IT TOOK CASH TO GET IT
Eugene Hogan Told Jurymen Thai
lie Paid One Hundred Dollars to 1
I
a Colonel on Governor's Staff to i
Get Pardon That Could be Had No J
Other Way. 1
(
Tills story, which we clip from the t
Sumter Item, will be read with inter- i
est: 1
While the Grand Jury was In ses- (
sion last week, Mr. Eugene I-Iogan j
told several fellow members of that
body in a casual conversation that he j
hud paid Col. Walter G. Stubbs, a j
member of Governor Blease's staff, t
one hundred dollars to procure a par- J
ole for his son, Eugene Hogan Jr. .
!n his statement he particularized the
following details: That ho first consuited
Colonel Stubbs in reference to
obtaining a pardon for his son; that ,
Col. Stubbs informed him that he j
would obtain a pardon, or parole, if
he was paid $100; that he (Hogan) ,
thereupon offered to give Col. Stubbs j
his check for $100, but Col. Stubbs f
declined to accept a check, saying (
that the cash money must be placed
in his hands; that he (Hogan) then :
1
decided not to pay over the money In (
advance of the granting of tho parole
and Anally agreed with Col. ,
Stubbs to deposit the money in the
bands of Mr. 11. IM. Handle, with inat
ructions to pay over to Colonel
Stubbs the said $100 immediately up- ,
on proof that Eugene Hogan Jr. had
been pardoned or paroled by Governor
Biease; that in tho pursuance of (
this agreement he deposited in Mr. j
Randal's hands $100 in currency? (
threo twenty dollar bills and four ,
tens?and that when Governor j
Biease shortly thereafter paroled Eugene
Hogan Jr., tho said sum of mon- j
ey was duly paid over to Col. W. G. ,
Stubbs. j
Those who are interested In tho details
of the Ilogan parole and the t
reasons assigned by Governor Biease
for the exercise of executive clem- j
ency will find the desired information
set out in Blease's Book of Pardons,
now being distributed for campaign j
purposes. ,
The fact that Mr. Hogan had stat- (
ed to quite a number of people that
he had paid Col. Stubbs $100 to ob- ?
tain a pardon for his son was a mat- |
tor of common knowledge about the i
streets for some time, and the fact f
was communicated directly to the ,
writer twico within the past two (
weeks. The first time it was assorted
that Mr. Hogan had made the i
statement to an individual, but not ,
in the presence of a witness. The f
second time the information came ,
from a. member of the grand jury, i
who heard the statement made in the N
presence of practically every member j
of that body. Mr. Tlogan making the j
statement voluntarily in a general r
conversation, and under no pledge of j
^ecrecy expressed or implied. x
But the fact becoming known to f
Mr. Hogan that the substance of his f
statements had been communicated r
to the writer, he sent two representa- f
tives to this office on Monday, July 8 1
to threaten the editor of this paper
with serious trouble in the event of
the publication that ho, Mr. Eugene ?
Hogan, had made the statements >
above set forth in reference to the c
ayment of $100 to Col. W. G. Stubbs |
in consideration of a pardon or pa**- e
ole, being granted to Eugeno Hogan f
Jr. by Governor Blease through the t
influence or uoi. w. u. suiddh. i n?i i
writer was at dinner when thoy call- f
od at this office and therefore did not t
receive the threats personally, Nit r
the threats were made to a member t
of the office force with tho request 1
that the writer bo Informed. The ]
message was duly delivered. The f
above is tho answer.
In conclusion tho writer would p
suggest to Mr. Hogan that ho must *
be fully awaro that tho facts of this c
transaction with Col. Stubbs aro gen- f
erally known in this community, as t
tho result of statements made by
himself to various parties, and that f
he was really desirous of keeping
secret his financial transactions with j
Col. Stubbs, of the governor's staff,
ho should not have made public the
details of the transaction with so
rrr^nt nnrtimi 1 ar 11v to so many people.
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RIG OITIKS WITiTi END.
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New York nn<1 Others to Fall, Ac- j
cording to Rowieite.
c
Wilbur Glonn Vollva overseer at (
/ion City, has predicted the desfruc- t
Hon of Chicago^ New York and other t
large cities, and now ho calls on his 1
followers to hurry to Zion City, s
which he says will be the only place r
spared when the devastation conies, f
"God's judgment Is going to fall on
the cities of the nations," he said, j
"You must come out of Ilabylon. f
There is no choice in the matter. I t
command you to come to Zion. Chic- i
ago will answer for rejecting Dr. 1
Alexander Dowle and you must be in t
Zion City to escape." i
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WERE THEY POISONED
ATTEMPT TO Ml'RDEK ENTIRE
GEORGIA FAMILY.
I doctors Now Trying to Discover What
the Poison Was ami Where it Came
Frotil.
Whether there is real foundation
for it or not, there is a wide divergence
of opinion as to whether the
poisoning of lifty-four members of
the Canady family connections was
malicious. Eleven doctors, all of
Lhem men of excellent professional
reputation, arc working on the numerous
cases, practically every one of
hem have gone beyond their professional
calling in making an investigation,
one way and another?but they
lon't all agree that tho calamity,
which is looked upon throughout
Emanuel County as the worst in that
jounty's history, is the result of eatng
barbecue hash, in fact it has at
ast been definitely proven the hash
masoning was not mixed in a zinc
a.b, as thought, but in a porcelainined
pan.
That theory was advanced by some
'? the doctors shortly after the death
jf Mr. Tillman Canady, and rather
lurriedly accepted by others, perhaps
a the absence of anything, then appearing
more a reasonable nature
was accepted, and not because of the
"act that it could not be a mistaken
heory. Investigations have brought.
.0 light at least one incident in conlection
with the Fourth of July famly
dinner which would seem to enirely
eliminate the theory of poisonMi
barbecue, even if the zinc tub and
icid poisoning theory hadn't been ex)loded?some
of the desperately ill
X'ople did not eat the hash at all, yet
t least one of those who (lid not is
imong the almost helpless patients.
The question of tainted ice cream
entered the consideration and for a
'me was accepted almost as hurriedv
as the theory of the zinc tub, but
bat, too, has been exploded as a tenible
theory, for the same reason that
he hash theory fails to stand?everybody
did not eat ice cream. The
emonade then came in for considerition,
and it was found that it had
jc:en made in metal tubs or buckets
?very probably both?and a very
strong idea prevailed that the lemmade
was poisoned, but investigation
:ias proven that all the diners did not
Irink lemonade.
In a word, there appears to have
been no one article of food which
:hero is any degree of certainty that
3\ery member of the reunion party
ite, therefore, the apparent well-reasoning
on the part o-f some of the
diysicians that barbecue meat with
vinegar, black pepper and other ingredients
poured over it was not
what has almost wiped out one of
lie largest families in Emanuel.
One thins, it seems, only one, can
)e definitely found whjlch everybody
;sed at dinner?water. Hence the
growing belief now <hat the water
mod at dinner, and after dinner, was
n some way?it is not yet even a
cry strong intimation that the effect
s the result of a deliberately planled
poisoning?sufficiently contamilated
to produce death. And, even
n this; there is a trace of the unustal,
in that some members of the
tiricken party showed immediate ef'ects
while others went for medical
atention for those only slightly afected
and have themselves since falcn
critically ill.
Hard to Ciet the Details.
Several things made it hard to
gather details of the incident, and to
verify them. Foremost, the entire
immunity is "torn up" and wildest
lossible stories are to he heard everywhere.
Then, the suffering ones
ire scattered over a pretty wide porion
of the North-Central part of
Emanuel County, covering a straight
stretch of more than twenty miles of
errltory. To further add to the cha
)t!c condition, a storm passed over
ho upper portion of the county latey,
disabling wires, and rural telephone
communication between the
icveral points is still crippled.
However, except that tho reports
icnt out had one too many among
he dead, the most conservative idea
>f the situation is to have been had
rom what the public has so far gotcn
of the tragedy.
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LEAGUE STANDS FOR WILSON.
Republicans Declare Tliat All Can
Support Hini.
Without mentioning tho name of
Voodrow Wilson, tho governing
)oard of the 'Minnesota Progressive
tepublican league gave him its enlorsement
in a resolution adopted
)ractically unanimously. It follows:
Resolved, by the governing board
>f the Progressive Republican leaguo
>? Minnesota, that we are unalter
ibly opposed to the organization of a
bird party at this time, and wo beievo
that all progressives in Minneiota
can find in a present candidate
low nominated a man who will faithnlly
carry out progressive policies."
According to George S. Loftus,
^resident of the League, Mr. Wilicn's
name was not inserted, as all
he members of the Republican comnittoo
bad not been heard from. Mr.
Loftus also said the league would
jend out speakers in the State in the
nterest of Mr. Wilson's candidacy.
BANK OF
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Has largest capital and surplus of at
than the combined capital and surpl
CAPITAL STOCK.. . ? .,
SURPLUS
LIABILITIES OF STOCK!
SECURITY OF DEP08ITC
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.>bart B. Scarborough,
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jrtOTg* J. Holniny,
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will justify, and we s<
ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH, D.
PRE^ID?*T. \
We continue to pay 5 per
BRITAIN EXCITED "
DOES NOT WANT AMERICAN SHIPS
FAVORED BY THE U. S.
Ai I Hi: PANAMA IANAL
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In a Note Presented to the State I>ei
partinent Asks That Senate Delay
Passing Hill Until Britain Presents
Protest, in Which Other Nations
May Join.
Great Britain's request that the
enactment of the Panama canal administration
bill be held in abeyance
until Mr. Innes, the British charge,
can present a note in behalf of his
government, confronts Congress and
tlie State Department at Washington
with an extraordinary situation. [
The request for delay has been
communicated to the Senate interoceanic
canals committee. It came
from the summer embassy at Kineo,
Me., late Wednesday and was sent
by Mitchell Innes, the charge, acting
for Ambassador Bryce, who is in New
Zealand. While the reasons for the
request are not stated in the charge's
note, there is no doubt that the British
government is concerned In the
clause to grant a free passage
through the canal to American vessels
in coastwise trade; and in the
article relating to the passage of railroad-owned
ships. The Canadian
ail ways are deeply concerned in both
and it is thought that some of the
representations will be made in their
behalf.
The canal bill Is now in the Senate
committee with prospect of being
reached very soon and will then go
to conference with the House. Lawmakers
at both ends of tlie Capitol
feel that if any Panama legislation
is to be had it must bo at this session
o' Congress.
Senator Brandeges has replied to
the State Department that the legislation
proposed Is regarded as extremely
urgent, and that the Senate
committee had planned to report the
canal bill to the full Senate some
time next week.
One of the provisions in the bill '
made it impossible for Canadian
ships to pass through the canal ifjl
they engaged in coastwise trade. J.
Then the question of free tolls of
certain classes of American ships involves
the old question of the Ilay- ,
Pauncefote treaty.
It is believed that the British government
will hold that ships of all _
nations must be on an equal basis.
The opinion among many American
statesmen is that to grant free tolls
to American ships is not a violation j
of the Ilay-Pauncefoto treaty terms.
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That not only Great Britain, but. *
all the maritime Powers might be ex- (
pected to protest against any discrimination
in afvor of American vessels
has been fully anticipated, yet notwithstanding
that fact, President c
Taft and Secretary Stimson, the
member of the cabinet directly charg- .
ed with the construction and operation
of the Panama canal, have after ,,
(i
careful investigation, committed r
themselves to the assertion of the ,
right of the United States to regu- t
late trafllc in the manner provided in t
the pending bill. I
The strongest statement of the administration's
positic.n was made by 1
Secretary Stimson in his Kansas City P
speech on November 11 last, dealing 1
with the Panama canal as a work
about to be completed. lie declared c
that he had not the least doubt of the ^
right of the United States to pay tolls
o.t American vessels using the canal 1
which would he equivalent to grant- s
ing them free passage. TTe pointed
out that substantially every Euro- r
pean government using the Suez can- 1
al pai(1 such subsides, and the TTay- '
Pauncefoto treaty provided that the *
rules of the Suez canal were to govern
the operation of the Panama canal.
Mr. Taft has let it be known that (
he proposed to be guided in the mat- 1
ter entirely by tho will of Congress. ]
So if the legislation is perfected on t
the present lines the legislative i
branch of th government will be 1
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1011 nd to lend unqualified support to
lie State Department ip what is aluost
certain to be n period of exreinely
activo and pregnant e.xhange
of notes with the great mariime
Powers. While it is true that
Ireat ttritaln occupies a position of
exceptional interest and power in re;ard
to any isthmian canal by reason
if her ancient undertaking of joint
ontrol with the United Stales It
reins certain that any representaions
the Uritish government mar
nake will bo supported by Germany
ind France and perhaps other Kuopean
Powers. Tho matter of monent
Is how far those Powers may go
v.* sustal na protest against the proo
sustain protest against the proly
the United States.
Great Britain's request is likely to
lave little effect in delaying the pasage
of the canal bill, according to
eading members of the Senate,
denvbers of the Senate inter-oceanic
anals committee who discussed tho
it nation declared that there would
>e no "hacking down" by the Senate
roni its position in favor of freo pasage
of American ships.
The committee has never been
ipreod upon that point, however, and
hero is a wide divergence of opinion
n the Senate as to the rights of tho
Jnited States under existing treaties.
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Dies From Deadly Drug.
At Macon, Oa., after vainly endeavoring
to persuade his bride of five
weeks to drink a deadly poison, R. F.
Howard, a mill operative, swallowed
[he drug early Wednesday and died
1 few minutes later. No cause for
[he act Is known.