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m 1 SENATORS DISAGREE EACH HAS CANDIDATES FOR FEDERAL OFFICES ? WOODS FOR THE BENCH . Tillman Harks J. W. Thurmond ami las. Ij. Sims for District Attorney and Marshal Hespectivtdy, While Smith Apparently Hacks F. II. Weston and J. A. Drake for Same Oflices. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says under date of '.March 11, at the time this dispatch is sent, it appearts likely that the South Carolina Senators will endorse rival candidates lor 1110 positions of district attorney and United States marshal of South Carolina. Senator Tillman Monday presented to Attorney General McReynolds the name of Mr. .T. Win. Thurmond, of Edgefield, for the district attorney) ship, and will present in a day or two the name of Mr. James G. Sims, of Orangeburg, for the marshalship. Senator 10. 1). Smith is believed to favor Mr. Francis 11. Weston, of Columbia, for the former place and Mr. J. A. Drake, of Bennettsville, for the latter. If the Senators do not agree upon two hien, the Administration will have to choose between their candidates in each case. Senators Tillman and Smith both called at the White House this morning at dif forent time and talked with President Wilson briefly. The Senior South Carolina Senator called on Secretary of State Bryan also but would not say what for. It is conjectured that the Senator may have talked with Mr. Bryan about the situation in the Senate, where there is a fight among the Democrats against his having the chairmanship of the appropriations committee with the outcome in doubt. Former Governor John Gary fiivans, President Henry X. Snyder, of Wofford College; Ralph K. Carson, of Spartanburg, president of the State Bar Association, and P. A. Willcox, a prominent lawyer of Florence, called on Attorney General McReynolds Tuesday in behalf of the candidacy of Judge Woods, of Marion, for the vacancy in the 4th Federal judicial circuit caused by the election of Judge Nathan Goff to the Senate from West Virginia. Both of the South Carolina Senators have endorsed Judge Woods for this position, and so has Congressman Ragsdale. ? G()VKK>.MI?J.\T lil l'l iSLiui i. Thai Is What We Have Now, Says Dr. Frank Crane. Dr. Frank Crane says tlie history of secrecy makes a long black smudge down the page of time. Nothing is truer than the saying that "the wicked love darkness rather than the light". And this proverb has a bearing we do not usually suspect. We assume it k) have reference to robbers, footpads, sneak thieves, mutinous seamen and home breakers. It does. It also refers, however, to any other group of people who work in the shade. You can set it down in your books that any business for which the claim is made that it is better to transact it under cover, that it is unwise to have it investigated and that the public has no right to meddle in it; it is crooked. Of course, I do not include the affairs of purely personal nature, but only such matters as have to do with the public. The whole history of government before the day of newspapers is a record of tyranny and unjust privilege. So long as the common herd was ruled by a select few, who presumed to do better by tho people than the people could do for themselves, the result invariably was luxury and fine feathers for the elect and starvation and rags for the many. Vested rights thrive in darkness. It is only in the light of publicity that human rights grow. There never was a bribe taking judge ousted from tho bench, a corrupt politician retired to private life, a governor or mayor or sold out to corporations and was exposed that -JS.1 Ix. unii'unn nni> Vonrtl'toPS U1U IlUt llcltu uv; ? i v |?vy* bv> above rattlesnakes. This is not a government by law. Law does not govern. It is merely the rear guard of government. It is a government by publicity. It is newspapers and magazines, the publishing of facts, that govern. ? ? Torpedo Berths to ho Built. Senator Tillman had inserted in the recent navy bill, as it passed tho Senate, an amendment fixing the ultimate total cost of the torpedo berths at $300,000. Tho amount of tho outright appropriation for these berths was $150,000. This work will bo done at the Charleston navy yard. Eleven Years for Nickel Theft. Convicted of stealing a five-cent bcttle of coca-cola and given 11 years in the reformatory, the Supreme Court of Georgia has decided that Ollie Taylor, now 13 years old, must serve out his time. The boy has already served three years and will be of age when he comes out. WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC EFFORTS IIEING MADE TO SAVE YOUNG GIRLS. 1 ? . Some of Tliem Tell of Their Downfall, Low Living Wage lSeing Named as the Cause. Fifteen hundred white men and three hundred negroes live off the earnings of "white slaves" and women of the underworld in Chicago, according to testimony given by a I one-time "cadet" to tho members of the Illniois State commission investigating vice conditions in Chicago. Tho commission has just begun its work of endeavoring to trace the causes of vice, and one of the first things did was to issue subpoenaes for twenty of Chicago's most prominent citizens?merchants, owners and t. 1 ? managers ui nig ui'i'iu iiiiuiii oiwiud and mail-order houses, proprietors of factories and others who employ thousands of girls?to appear at future sessions of the commission for examination. The action is said to be prompted by the evidence given so far which leads to the belief that low wages paid girls were one of the chief contributing causes to white slavery among women workers. Scores of girls, many of them inmates of underworld resorts, have testified before the commission, and one Chicago dance hall already has been closed as the result of the stories told by several of these youthful witnesses. One girl told how she had been fishing on the banks of the river at Water Valley, Ind., when sue was suddenly seized, thrust into an automobile and taken to a notorious resort at West Hammond, just inside the Illinois state line. Later she was transferred to a house in Chicago. Miss Virginia Brooks, the young woman who has been trying to rid I West Hammond of its notorious resorts, was another witness. She declared that talks with resort inmates in that place led her to believe that insullicient wages was the cause of the downfall of nearly all. "A girl In Chicago needs $12 a week to live decently," she concluded. Two girls from the State Training school told of their downfall. Uninviting home conditions were blamed by them. Each told the same story of sale to owners of dives for from $10 to $15 each, and established the fact that many men made this a regular business. Another witness, a girl of 1 8 years, appears on the record as "'.Miss M." She said she was introduced by her elder sister to a man who said he was a detective and he took her to a resort in Chicago. The man, she said, remained with her a week and then went away. According to her testimony she had been earning $5 a week in a store before she took the fatal step. Most of the girl witnesses who appeared declared they were sold into the "business" at Gary, Ind. Some went there to become "wives" of well known "cadets", others on mere pleasure jaunts, but all wound up at one destination, immoral resorts. When they were forced to live immoral lives, they testified, they had to give all their earnings to the men who put them there, the men in turn dividing half with the keepers of the dives. None of the girls were over IS years of age, and they testified they earned from $50 to $125 a week in resorts. One stated that, after a period of two months, she had $5.50 for herself. Each witness told of meeting other girls who had been driven into a similar life, and nearly all of them, they testified, were there because of low wages. Four states, Indrana, Obio, Wisconsin and Michigan?have been asked to join hands with Illinois in this war on white slave traffic in the Middle West. Lieut. Gov. Barrett OTIara, head of the Illinois investigating commission, has sent letters to the governors of each of these states, asking their co-operation. Evidence already in the hands of the commission tend to prove the existence of an organized traffic centering about Chicago, with agents in each of these four states. The Feutenant governor believes that probing com mitt tea similar in purpose :o the one in Illinois might be created in each of these states. Arabs Shot by Turks. Fifty mutinous Arab soldiers be longing to Turkish regiments guarding the peninula of Gallipoli and the Dardenelles straits, were shot as an example to others. Most of the men guarding the lines in this district have been brought from the warm climates as Asia-Minor and nave hecome mutinous owing to the extreme cold. They declare they are too numbed to tight. ? linker Iannis Good Job. A Washington dispatch says J. M. Baker, of South Carolina, aslstant librarian of the Senate, was nominated by the Democratic caucus for secretary which is equivalent to election. Baker was educated at Wofford College. Crashed Into a House. At Cincinnati one man killed and several severely injured Wednesday when a College Hill street car Jumped the track and craehed Into an apartment house at Ludlow avenue. LEADS IN CRIME : EIGHT HUNDRED MURDERS IN A ; SINGLE COUNTY ; < DURING THE PAST YEAR : ? i Tli? Awful Record of JelTerson County in Alabama, Which Leads All Comities in the World in the Nuin ber of Murders and Oilier Crimes of All Kinds. Jefferson county, Alabama, is the greatest crime center in the world. The county does not pride itself 011 this fact, however. Neither does the city of Birmingham in which crime centers. The people of the county and the citizens of Birmingham, other than those who drift into the district from the outside, are remarkably law-abiding, high-minded and sensitive about criminal records. If they knew how to do it they would rid themselves of the criminal population which includes 1 0,000 ex-convicts living in Birmingham alone. But they do not know how to rid themselves of this population, and face a record of two murders a day for the past year. The causes which brought about this remarkable record are discussed in the following trticle, the facts having been obtain od from county otlicials, prominent iiirmingham business men, and employers of labor: Astounded at last ,by the oflicial revelations of widespread crime in Jefferson county, citizens are demanding that extraordinary measures be taken to curb the carnival of murder which has made the comity the past year ihe most criminal section in the whole world. With an average of over a murder a day for the past 14 months, Jefferson county stands unique. In 110 grt city of the world is life held so cheap as in this bloodstained county; not in the whole of the United Kingdom, the city of London included, were there as many slayings as in this prosperous coal and iron cucuty; in 110 equal section of territory in the whole wor^d have men and women been slain so ruthlessly, so uselessly, so wantonly as in that rich county of slightly over 200,000 inhabitants. On the surface, this remarkably criminal county presents the acme of industrial success; underneath the surface are rotten cesspools of vice, diabolical murder traps, and dark pits of crime. The average citizen _ r n : ; 1 i ? ... i? nr lnVl,. ()I I>1I~ llllli^iiiiiii 1? i(i?-auuuiig, 111^11ly moral, and deeply impressed with tho industrial success of the steel metropolis of the South. The average citizen is so deeply interested in furthering the industrial prosperity of Jefferson county that he pays little or no attention to law-enforcement, being content to let the vice situation nandle itself as best it may. Taking advantage of the "easy" attitude of citizens and of the inability of the county officials to prosecute effectively the transgressors of the law, Birmingham and its surrounding towns, such as Bessemer, for instance, are overrun with crooks of the first water, hundreds of whom have been driven from other cities by vigilant police officials. The Birmingham district is a dumping ground for the criminal scum of this and other nations. Negroes by no means are the predominant criminals, although the greatest number of murders is committed by men of the black race. Where capital crimes are reckoned by the hundreds yearly in a small district, minor crimes are counted by the thousands, many of the capital crimes being a direct result, of minor crimes, in this crime-raesed community, therefore, minor infractions of the law are without end. No man is safe off tho well-lighted streets at. night. r,,l* " ?> '1 1 h a Kin /*lr ? n nlr \if/\ ?? b I III? ^ 1111 <111 it tin; uiav?\ j?i. i\ ? \j i rv overtime in the Birmingham district. ' Mere figures are uninteresting. The coroner reported nearly 700 killings in the county last year, and he reported only the cases he viewed. There were scores of murders in the county never recorded by the coroner. One of the chief causes of the astounding murder crop is the wide practice of carrying concealed weapons. In the mining camps, in the steel works, in the pig iron establishments, in the dark wards of the cities, men carry guns tucked away in their trousers. Jo in Smith takes one into a saloon because he knows Herbert Jones lias a gun on him and a gun would be bandy to have in case of an argument. The foreigners, Italians, Slavs, Hungarians, Russians, and C.reeks, working in the mines and in the industrial plants, carry guns when fimv Htnrt forth to snend their hard ernod dollars in the inevitable barrooms. They are prone to enter into heated arguments, which often result in "self-defense" slayings. The foreigners fight among themselves, the negroes among themselves, for it is unlawful for the races to mix in the saloons of this district. Contributing to the murder causes are gambling dens, negro "dope" dents, cheap dance halls, poolrooms where the light-fingered fraternity and gamblers of the tin-horn type hang out regularly. The county officials have vainly tried to curb gam I iling in the district. They are now hreatening to go after the owners )f properties in which gambling ;ames are conducted. Gambling is >penly done In the poolrooms, young ihaps being enticed into games of chance by designing crooks. Young men who become in debt to crooked gamblers of the poolroom type are encouraged by their creditors to steal 30 as to make good their gambling obligations. This phase of the gambling situation is accepted as deplorable by the citizens of Birmingham, yet no very strenous means are applied to curb the evil. The cheap dance halls have their well-fixed place in the crime of the city. They are the stamping ground of the white slavers, of whom there are many in this district. Unlawfully, drinking is done in the coat rooms of the dance halls, this feature of the resorts often leading to serious crime. These dance halls cater to tJie lower class of whites. In fact, it is the lowest class of the white population which figures in the crime records of the co unty. While the saloon figures largely in the crime of the county in an indirect way, the saloonkeeper of the Birmingham district is a stickler for law observance as far as closing hours are concerned. The saloons close at 11 at night. They absolutely close. There is 110 breaking of the Sunday closing law. Saloon licenses are worth $3,000 and the holders of iicense guard them jealousy, as the prohibition light is extremely keen, the county going wet at the last election by a few over 900 votes. I say the saloons figure indirectly in the crime of the county, for there are scores of capital crimes in the county yearly due to the drinking of saloon-purveyed liquor. When the county was "dry", the crimes due to "blind tiger" liquor were more than the present-day crimes due to well-regulated saloon liquor. Throughout the county to-day there are some "blind tigers", which, how ever, are conducted with the utmost secrecy, for saloonists paying $.3,000 liquor licenses do not tolerate the existence of non-revenuing-paying competitors. Over 05 per cent, of the crimes in Jefferson county is committed by negroes. Negro criminals have blocked in there from all over the South. They find Birmingham "easy". It is openly stated that the pressing clubs maintained by negroes are nothing more than places for receiving stolen clothes, which are altered, dyed, and so changed they are hard to identify. Such clothes are then sold or pawned. The whole county is their stamping ground. The worst negro criminals are liabituees of "dope" dens, in which they snuff "coke", powdered cocaine. A "coko" crazed negro does not stop at murder when he is driven to bay. The negroes are heavy drinkers. It is not unusual for a negro bar to take in $500 on a Saturday night in Birmingham or Bessemer. Some of the negroes have much money to spend, as there are those who make $8 to $10 a shift at the steel works. The) are not provident. In this region, a negro would lose caste among his pals if he did not go armed. The criminal negro uses the black jack on members of his own race when hardup for money. A short time ago, a negro was brought into Bessemer from a mining camp seven miles away. He was bathed and shrouded in an undertaker's establishment, where he was left for the night. During the early evening the supposed corpse came to. \\ri?n <i vr.11 r?f Inrrnr tin ?nrnnPr fmm YY III. CI J l* 1 W? ..w ~f,. 0 his open coffin and plunged through a glass door to the street, running like mad for home, lie was later arrested and fined $10 for breaking the window. The negro had been ,black jacked. Jefferson county assists the criminal element by imposing small cash bail upon men charged with burglary, pickpocketing, and other crimes of that sort. As a consequence, there are professional crooks by the hundreds at large In the county, practicing their nefarious profession while under bail. Others, thinking things are getting too warm for them, skip out under the small cash bail. A notorious crook a few days ago robbed a man of $377. The judge imposed $500 bail on the crook. He furnished the $500, partly composed of the stolen $3 7 7 and then promptly skipped the state. While Jefferson county is wonderfully rich in natural resources and in great industries, while labor is well paid, and while the county as a whole is prosperous to a degree reached by few counties in the South, it is paytnir rlnnrlv for its crime. n f ? Young Lad Was Drowned. The State says Louis Reeves, the fourteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George B>. Reeves, 2G27 Divine St., was drowned at tho heal of the Columbia canal, two miles north of tho city, about five o'clock Wednesday afternoon, and Georgo Galletiy, seventeen years old, had a very narrow escape from death, when a boat with Galletiy in it and Reeves clinging to it swept through tho main gates. Jailed for Lack of a Penny. Irving Cuter, of Mobile, Ala., will have to stay in jail ten days for lack of one cent unless his friends corae to the rescue. He was fined that amount in court but was una,ble to pay. * . * \ NEGRO FINED AGAIN GOVERNOR'S CHAFFEUR PAYS SECOND FINE FOR SPEEDING IN AUTO Please Pardons the Negro at Once, and Threatens to Put Columbia Under Martial Law if His Negro < is Hauled Up Again by the City Authorities. The Columbia Record says Governor Please Tuesday morning, after his chauffeur had been fined $15.75 for being convicted of exceeding the speed limit on Main street Saturday icbiio/1 him jl full nardon. and 111^)11 V; \? ? - ? addressing an order to 'Mayor Gibbes and Chief of Police Cathcart to remit Harrison Neely's fine. The chief of police took the same position in the matter that he took on the other pardon Saturday. He has refused to act on the matter until the city attorney decides if Governor iBlease has the legal authority to pardon from municipal courts. All are awaiting with intense interest the final disentanglement of the differences between Gov. Blease and the police department. Much talk is floating on rne streets concerning the affair, and speculation is rife as to the ultimate outcome of the dispute. Recorder Verner Tuesday morning fined the governor's negro chauffeur, Harrison Neeley, $15 or thirty days for exceding the speed limit on Main street Saturday night. Neeley paid the fine. Approximately one-half dozen witnesses were examined, and all were agreed that the automobile was running at a rate of speed exoxceeding the limit allowed by law. The trial of the governor's chauffeur for violating the speed limit has created intense interest in the city. Tuesday the recorder's court was crowded with spectators, who followed the trend of the testimony closely. Probably 200 persons were present. This is the second time that Neeley has been fined for speeding. Saturday the recorder assessed him a fine of $3.75 for violating the law on Friday. Shortly after, on the same day, the chief executive pardoned his driver, and Chief of Police Cathcart refused to honor it until he had receiv ed legal advice from the city attorney, H. N. Edmunds. The speed ordinance does not allow an automobile to go at a greater rate of speed than twelve miles an hour on Main street. Neeley, the Governor's negro, refuses to make any statement, saying: "I have no statement to make; the governor was with me and i was driving him." Policeman Thackam was the first witness called. Ho said that he saw Neeley driving an automobile on Main street Saturday night at about 8:40 o'clock between Islanding and Laurel streets; that he did not time the machine, but "it was going from 35 to 40 miles an hour". Thackam said the governor was an occupant of the car. The next witness called was R. E. Wheeler, a Columbia fireman. He claimed that he saw Neeley driving a oar between Branding and Laurel streets on Main street Saturday night; that, while he could not estimate the speed, it was going faster than allowed by law. Wheeler said he drives a machine, and can judge the speed one is going. (Icorge A. Bruns testified that he saw Neeley in an automobile as it was passing the intersection of Blanding and Main streets on the latter thoroughfare Saturday night. He said: "I would not like to express a rate of speed, but he (Neeley) was going over the speed limit." John H. Eleazer, a merchant, testified that he was in his store about 2 0 feet from the door and "heard a Claxton horn and thought it was the fire department. I went to the door and saw a cloud of dust." Mr. Eleazer did not know whose car it was ,If T)nnpnn fnatiflnrl ns fnllo WS! \V . VV . 1 CClI v^v> ivun t!vx. "I did not see the driver. My wife and I Saturday night were crossing Main street going from Watson's shoe store to J. H. Eleazer's store. An automobile passed us at a very ?i BANK Oi Conwa Has largest capital and surplus of than the combined capital and sur CAPITAL STOCK. . . ? SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOC1 SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIRE jbert B. Scarborough, i. L. Buck, leorge J. Holiday, All* ructnmffd PVCfV SO W C UU CI VUt VMU.-'? ? - ? J will justify, and we ftOBKBT B. SCARBOROUGH, 1 PBB8IDBNT. We continue to pay 5 p ' I THE HORRY HERALD f CONWAY, S. C. ' f V THUKSDAW MARCH, 20 1013 PROFESSION Ali CARDS. |l| H. H. WOODWARD fl 4tton?7 and Councalor At Lam. 11 CONWAY, S. C. W M1 A H. SOAKBJKO U OH f| CONWAY, 8. t ifl Attorney mi Litw. II. U. Ill KHOOGHA H S'bjalclAo and Surgeon. J CONWAY, 8. O. fl IV. E. McCORD, II Dental Surgeon ; || CONWAY, S. C. f j i RENE RAYENBL f' Land Surveying and ' Drainage N " l 1 Spivey Building Conway, 8. O. , j SHE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWIN8 MACHINE j^^HT RUNNING ^ i \ ( 0JPUU want ei thera Vibrating Shuttle, RottA ' i bntUeoraHlngle Thread [Chain/ V 1 Sowing Machine write to ? w , M KV HOME 8EWINQ MACHINE OQMM* Orange* Mass* | ^ NMaysewlDsoi*chlnee are madeto sett rctefdle*^ ( 1 ?atllj. hut the New Home is made to wis. ' Oof guaranty never runs oat. ~~ \y iNi If authorised deslsm cMr I | w ros sals m 1 rapid rate of speed, and some one 1 said: \ 1 " 'Great God, look at the govern- L lor.'" jr. Mr. Pearce said that ho did not I' catch the number of the car; that he did not know Harrison Neeley, but i, that the automobile he saw was ex- r eeeding fifteen miles an hour. * I The last witness, Policeman Hin- , \ nant, testified that he saw Neeley < {, driving an automobile Saturday night \ on Main street, between Washington and Hampton streets; that he did not ; [ hold a watch on him. Hinnant said that he was standing in front of the \ Lyric theater when he first saw the automobile; that "I Hidge he fNeeley) was going between thirty and forty miles a hour." Will Serve Out Time. 1 ; A Washington dispatch says per- 1 haps the most important decision reached by the new administration in ' any of its departments was the fu- [ ture policy of the post office depart- v ment that present Republican ap- 1 pointees, regardless of how much k longer their commission might run, 9 would not be disturbed to make place ? 1 for Democrats except in case of inef- jt flciency or neglect of duty. ? The Cincinnati Enquirer saya that ? the average size of the American fam- $ ily is four and one-third. The frac- 1 tion represents the father. Not in /f oil cases. 2 ? HORRY, | iy. S, C. | any bank in Horry county. Mtro. w* plus of all other banks in thk counye Ij .. ..$50,000 ffj 12,500 ft (HOLDERS .. .. 50,000 TORS .. ..: .., ..112,500 f CT0RS I ARDSON, I W. A. Johnson, ft WillA. Freeman f commodation which their account* | solicit your business. D. V. Richardson, will i. nnmi S Vioi Prmidrmt. .OiSBUS | er cent on yearly deposits. |