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SENATORS DISAGREE
EACH HAS CANDIDATES FOR FEDERAL
OFFICES
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WOODS FOR THE BENCH
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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 ;
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DURING THE PAST YEAR :
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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
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()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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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"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
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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."
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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.
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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
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