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LOBBYIST AT WOP FJilLS WAIL STKi IT MEN AND ! LAW If LBS UN TtLLPHONE ' POSES AS CONGRESSMEN ' * David I.ainar Arouses Committee to Laughter With Story of Impersonations and Organized Efforts to Influence Financiers, Told in Naive Manner With Apparent Enjoyment. A story of misrepresentation, impersonation of public men and organized effort to influence Wall Street financiers, probably without parallel In the history of congressional investigation was unfolded Wednesday before the senate lohhv committor* A prosperous-looking, self-possessed Individual, calling himself David Lamar, of New York, self-described as an "operator in stocks" and admittedly the bearer of several assumed names, was the principal in the remarkable session. With entire abandon arousing the committee to laughter at times by his naive admissions, he told of his impersonations, his participation in attempts to influence Wall Street operations, and his association with Edward Lauterbach, a New York laweyr, in efforts to have Lauterbach retained by the Morgan firm, tho Union Pacific and other great interests to head off congresssional activity in Washington. He telephoned to financial men and lawyers in tho names of Representative Palmer and Representative Riordan. He assumed tho guise of Chairman McCombs, of the Democratic national committee, to telephone to Chairman Hilles, of tho Republican national committee. Lewis Cass Ledyard, of New York, counsel for the Morgan firm, was one of his attempted victims. Mr. Ledyard came to the witness stand armed with almost a verbatim account of all the conversations had with Lamar, who had represented himself as Congressman Palmer. As he read tho record of the conversations, in themselves unusual in their tones, Lamar sitting nearby, laughed and nodded, saying, "that's right," and slapping his leg with apparent enjoyment. The purpose of his impersonations, Lamar contended, was to secure rein * t.tn < -! -1 T ? . . 4 1 >. oialciilvll l? 1U1 IllO II lfllll I jcl 11 LI I llill. II, in the good graces of tho Morgan firm. Members of tho committee demanded that Lamar remain in Washington for reappearance before them. Lamar denied that there had been any attempt at extortion of money from any of tho New York financial men. The story evolved during the day, mainly through the Ledyard testimony, indicated that the latter had been to various members of the Morgan firm to tell of tho "steel trust" investigation resolution which Lamar had prepared, but that none of the Morgan firm members would pay any attention to the matter or make any effort to stop it. Lamar paved tho way for Lauterbach to call upon Ledyard, according to testimony given by Ledyard and corroborated by Lamar. In an interview February 8,1913, between Ledyard and Lautefbach, tho latter declared ho came direct from Senator Stone, who represented Speaker Clark and that he had a proposal to make to tho Morgan interests for the heading off of congressional activity against the Steel corporation. Senator Stone took tho stand hefore Ledyard had finished and denounced the whole thing as a "malicious fabrication" and a "common lie." Members of tho senate committee agreed in tho belief that it was a fabrication and Lamar laughingly clinched the matter by breaking in and admitting there was no truth in tho allegation, lie admitted that he had prepared the outline of the con ditions that should he submitted to the Steel corporation attorney; hut he could give no epxlanation of his purpose except that the whole thing was a farce. The story of how Ledyard had kept Lamar on the telephone time after time until he could locate the real Congressman Palmer in Washington; how he had once succeeded in getting Palmer over the long-distance telephone when the bogus "Palmer" was on another telephone; and how he had finally traced the impersonator to a telephone in Lamar's apartment on Riverside Drive, held the committee and spectators almost dumbfounded for more than an hour. Paul D. Cravath, one of the attorneys for the Union Pacific, and Maxwell Evarts, counsel for the Southern Pacific, testified briefly as to their experiences with the telephone impersonator. During his testimony Lamar interjected an attack upon the Union Pacific, claiming there had .been a falsification in the hooks of the company in 1901, by which about $80,000.000 had disappeared from its sur plus. Mr. Cravath Immediately denied this, terming Lamar a "liar," a characterization -which the committee insisted should bo withdrawn. Cravath declared the attack had been expected for several days as a part of a bear raid to depress the value of the stock for speculative purposes. While Lamar was on the stand r. That Insidious l/obby. Pr^si 'ent Wilson know what ho vas talking about when ho charged hat an insidious lobby was at work n Washington to defeat the will of he people in certain legislation. The 3\poBure of the lobby of the National \ssooiation of Manufacturers by The New York World shows how the country was governed while the Republican party was in power. Hy making common cause with the lobby and the interests that employed the lobby, decadent and llannai/ed Republicanism was content merely to register the decrees of monopoly. The people had no chance, whatever. It was this lobby which wrote and enacted the McKinley tariff, the Pingley tariff and tho Payne-Aldrioh tariff. It was this lobby which prevented promised tariff revision downward by Republicans. It was this lobby which brought about the veto of bills passed by Democrats and Progressives to reduce tho cost, of living. If it had not been for the denunciation of this lobby by President Wilson and the prompt investigation undertaken by Congress, a genuine reform of the tariff would not now be on the eve of adoption. The lobby has been exposed and defeated. The World's revelations are the final blow. And we now have the President's word that "it has ceased to embarrass his Administration". There will he no more lobbies of this kind in Washington unless the people at the polls aguin yield to the influences that thrive upon privilege and and loot. For this deliverance, men who have sustained the lobby are to be congratulated no less than the millions who have been plundered by it. Mark llanna's system had placed the whole country under tribute. To get an advantage in the laws, manufacturers and others have submitted to blackmail on all sides. Nothing that will happen to them following the passage of .lust laws can be worse than the terror and the cost inflicted upon them by tho leeches of the lobby. In one of the letters produced by Col. Mulhall it is said that the manufacturers were complaining of tho intolerable demands that were made upon them. The Republican National Committee, the Republican Congressional Committee, tho State District and County Committees, candidates in person and schemers innumAXnltln r,U K1...1 Uw.... ? ?U?!_ 1 l_ CI NUIU, <111 UU'll IIII'MI. V'll llll'ir IllM'lJS came the National Association of Manufacturers, the various Protective-Tariff Leagues and all the harpies of graft and corruption. This was latter-day Republicanism! To be a manufacturer under this system was to confront a loaded pistol in every campaign. To be a Republican was either to co-operate honestly or dishonestly with political brigands or bo destroyed. The people did not rule. The party did not rule. Roth were overruled by a power that became invincible. Our laws ran in the name of the Senate and House of Representatives, but many of them originated in this lobby, and laws which the people asked for in vain never got beyond this lobby. Such was the impudent usurpation which was put upon the defensive by the election of President Wilson. Such was the "embarrassment" which he encountered at bis inauguration. Thus far the tide of events has beaten heavily against it. Is it possible, in the light of The World's [exposures, that a single Democrat in Congress will be found base enough, for any reason, to stand forth as its champion ? Fifty Years After. The New York World says "fifty years ago the most distinguished livfought for three years under the diet* who commanded the'Confederate army at Gettysburg. To-day the most distinguished living son of Vir ginia ir tne President of tlie united States. "On the bench of the Supreme Court of 1he United States sits a grave and learned Chief Justice who was once a rebel soldier. With him sits an Associate Justice who served four years in the Union army and was three times wounded in three different battles. There sits also on that bench another Associate who wought for three years under the Stars and Pars." Yet Governor Please says this is a Yankee Nation, and he wants as little to do with it as possible. Besides the men named above, thousands of other Southern men are holding high positions under the Democratic Administration in Washington. These Southern men with other men from all parts of the country, make up the greatest government on earth. Call it a Yankee ^Nation, if you picnic. Col. 10. TT. Aull, Editor of The Newberry Herald and News made a most excellent talk on improving the rural schools before the Press Association After hearing this talk we have no hesitancy in saying that the people of Newberry made a mistake by not keeping him in charge of their school affairs. Chairman Overman endeavored to make him give his real name, hut the witness refused. He admitted under Overman's questioning that he had been in Denver, under the name of David IT. Dewis, but denied he had used the name of Simon Wolf. He said I^amar was not his name, but declined to give the committee further information. V The lioliby of Terror. With 4,000 active members controlling a capital of ten billions and | employing 5,000,000 persons, the Na- I tional Association of Manufacturers might have been a legitimate political party of the first rank, as The New York World says. Hut the National Association of Manufacturers is not a political party. Political parties operate in the open. Their purposes and principles are more or less public. ' Their agents are known. Possessing some of tho resources of a political party, the National Association of Manufacturers attempted to exercise its power In secret and on all sides. It bullied labor. It coddled capital. Yet it claimed to rep4 1 K ~ ~ r, ,....11 14-1 ?4 i unum, muni an ? kz i i u? lupiutl. it was Republican in some places and Democratic in others. It had rewards to bestow and pains to inflict, as its correspondence now proves. In its finances it followed the methods of commercialized politics. If collected money from manufacturers for various uses. Some of it went to fight labor unions, to bribe their leaders and to carry on costly litigations. Some of it was devoted to the maintenance of a lobby in Washington. Some of it was used to re-elect friends of the association to Congress and some of it to bring about the defeat of enemies. That this organization, strong in numbers, wealth and secrecy, undertook and for some years succeeded to a large extent in the task of making individuals, parties. Congress and Legislatures subservient to its interests. It had prodigious powers which it used without scruple, but in nothing else was it so mighty as in its concealments, its disguises, its deceptions. These things are fully set forth in the extraordinary revelations of Col. Martin M. Mulhall in The New York World of Saturday. They do not rest upon Col. Mulhall's word, though The World has testimony that this is good. They are supported by 20,000 letters, telegrams and reports which came into his possession during the ten years that he was a lobbyist, field-worker and strike-breaker for the National Association of Manufacturers. In tho terrorism thus exerted in behalf of gluttonous industry we can find no difference morally from that maintained for so long a time by the MoNanuiras, who are now in the penitentiary. Many distinguished names give dignity to the National Association of Manufacturers, but under their shelter men and interests have been dynamited as truly as any of the victims of the structural iron workers' plot that was formed at Indianapolis. It was not fair politics. It is not the old vulgar lobby of wine and women, of an occasional bribe, of ground-floor investments, of almost miraculous winnings at cards, of providential tips in the stosk inorket or of lavisli and inexplicable attorneys' fees. It is the new lobby of terror, that works in the dark, that stabs in the back, that assumes to speak for millions of men and billions of money, that has resourceful agents in every State and in almost every Congressional district, that even in the presence of the people's sworn representatives boasts of a higher authority, wheedled the weak, bullied the timid, corrupted the greedy and destroyed the self-respecting. To say, as the President did, that this lobby is industrious and insidious is an understatement. It is all-pervading and in many cases omnipotent. It is hidden. It has none of the virtues of a lusty though a perverted partyism. It is not content to boss one party. It seeks to rule all parties. Its aim is from a corner of the Capitol, from a private ofllce, from a star chamber, to govern government! HOLDS VP MONEY. ? Comptroller Jones Declines to Pay Mi' I ><mi in icL Comptroller-General Jones said Wednesday afternoon that he had held up a claim of $ 1,250 presented by F. II. Dominick for attorney's fees in connection with the test suit on tlie bond refunding act. It is expected that the matter will he carried to the supreme court. At a meeting of the sinking fund , commission Wednesday afternoon , Mr. Jones introduced a resolution to disallow the claim of Mr. Dominick. The resolution was voted down. At . a meeting of the commission several , weeks ago the claim was allowed. ' [ > Admits He Killed Wife. With a gaping knife wound in her throat and several bruises on her face, Mrs. Anne Mattingly Owens . twenty-five years of age, was found on a lonely road near Uiver Spring, I about fourteen miles from Leonardtown, Md., Monday night. Bennie > Owens, an oysterman, husband of the dead woman, has surrendered himself to the county authorities and admitted that he had killed his wife in an altercation. . I , Cigarette Caused Girl's Death. Miss Catherine Brcen, nineteen years old, died in a hospital at Patterson. N. J., as the result of burns caused by falling asleep while smoking a cigarette. Before her death the girl said she hoped her experience would bo a warning to all girls and women to refrain from contracting the cigarette habit. FARMERS CONFERNECE ?. MANY IMPORTANT Ql'KSTIONS TO Ho DISCI SSI:i> At Annual Meeting of St a to Farmers I'nion at the Isle of Palms, July 2.1 ami 21. Questions of vital interest to the farmers of South Carolina will bo discussed at the annual meeting of the South Carolina State Farmers' union, according to an announcement by E. \V. Dabbs, president. The annual meeting of the union will be held at tho Isle of Palms, Charleston, July 23 and L'4. A feature of the gathering will bo the discussion of marketing. President Dabbs has addressed the following communication to the far mors of South Carolina: "The letter b< iov to the members of the Farmers' union from National President P.arrett should awaken some pride in your calling and in your State. There are some Farmers' union enterprises in South Carolina that are succeeding. Why not make them so numerous as to cover the State? The papers have recently been full of additional plans to help the farmers to do better marketing. First the Farmers' union secured the national bureau of markets: next North Carolina's hoard of agriculture established a division of markets; now Commissioner Watson will organize a market section in his great department of the State government; and every conference has some feature of marketing on its program. "If you could realize how much the Farmers' union has contributed toward these constructive measures and others that are making for economic and social betterment, you would till want to be in the Farmers' union. On July 23-24 at the Isle of Palms, Charleston, tho seventh annual meeting of the South Carolina State Farmers' union will be held. The first day will he open to the public, farmers and business men of the State. This meeting will he devoted to a study of three things that ought to appeal to every man who stands or/Mr Mw* Tlx I w ||| Uf,u-nji ill l lie OI ?1 I ill*" III it Iketing of cotton; the use, misuse and purchase of commercial fertilizers, and how to build up the Farmers' union. "You are all invited to contribute your part to the solution of these three important subjects. A full program will be published just as soon as we are sure what speakers will accept the invitation of the executive committee to make addresses." C. S. Hnrrett, Union City, (ha., president of the National Farmers' union, has addressed the following communication to the officers of the State unions; "I have just completed a trip oi 1 1,000 miles. I visited many States, and in that long journey, taking practically a month, I personally saw hundreds of Farmers' union enterprises, and not one that is not prospering and doing well. "Just think about that a little, brother. If there has been a failure of any importance among union enterprises in the past several months I have failed to learn about it. "You who are constantly decrying the lack of a plan, or plans, have some food for thought in that. Everywhere 1 found a growing spirit of co-operation among farmers, particularly in the Farmers' union, a purpose and intent to stand by our enterprises, to boost them, to stick together, to make them successful. "Isn't the fact that no failures have occurred for some time, that a majority of the enterprises are sue cessful, growing, expanding, something to put courage and faith and hope in you? When you think of the number of thousands of failures throughout tho country in almost every line of business from month to month, one takes heart of hope over the showing made by the farmers, cooperating, pulling together and making their enterprises go. "As further evidence of agricultural progress I want to tell you that the State of Washington has just passed a special co-operative measure, which will give the necessary machinery for intelligent launching of enterprises among farmers. "The idea is growing, too, and is sure to spread across the country. Those Far Westei n fellows have grit and hustle and ability. They are far advanced in co-operative work; they see its value because they have tested it thoroughly; they are becoming powerful factors in the mighty progress of that section, because they have learned and are practicing the art of co-operation. "I wanted to drop these few thoughts about the advancement in co-operation among men who get their living from tho soil, and tc actress tho fact that practically all enterprises are going ahead and do ing something to back up weakkneed, timid, easily discouraged brethren. Don't sit down and expect theorists and uplifters to work out your sa'vatlon; stick to your union and its enterprises, and you will begin to go*, somewhere towards the farmer's teal emancipation." The Charleston Post congratulates everybody concerned that no orders were received from Columbia for,bid ding the tide to rise last week. SUMMER HEAT WAVE1 RUNS UP HIGH DEATH SCORE IN CENTRAL WEST. OYER KUNDRED PERISH Chicago, Illinois, and Tucson, Arizona, Hottest Places in the I'nited States?Prostrations Occur by the Hundreds Throughout the West, I Causing Many Heaths. The heat wave, which has continued uninterruptedly for six days, extended from Denver to Pittsburg, and ; as far north as Pake Superior, Chicago, with a temperature of 102 degrees was the hottest place in the United States except Tucson, Ariz., where the temperature also was 102. Intense suffering was reported in all the large cities enveloped in the heat wave. * * Thirteen deaths from heat in Wisconsin were reported Monday. There were scores of prostrations. In Milwaukee eighteen have died fro*n heat ill the last four days. * * * More than twenty heat prostrations were reported in Minneapolis and St. Paul Sunday in addition to two drownings. The maximum temperatures ranged from 9 4 to 92. * * Heat Sunday caused the death of six persons and ten prostrations. The Government kiosk in the down-town district of Peoria, 111., registered 109 degrees at three o'clock Sunday afternoon. ? * * Five deaths, one person driven insane and several prostrations is the result of the intense heat at.South! Bend, Ind., Monday. The teiilporature at four o'clock Monday afternoon reached 100 degrees. * * * At Crank Rapids thirteen deaths and nearly fifty prostrations have occurred since Sunday morning. Intense heat prevailed all over lower Michigan Monday, death and prostrations being reported from several other points. * Eleven deaths from heat and nearly a score of prostrations were reported in Detroit Monday. Of the aeaci, inroo were aauits and oignt infants. Otlicially the maximum temperature was 95 degrees but the thermometer in the street registered 103. * This was the hottest June day recorded in Chicago since the Government records were first kept in 1 872. Ninety-nine degrees was tlie official temperature, but the Government thermometer on the street level showed a temperature of 102 degrees. ? ? Thirty-nine persons are known to have died in Chicago Monday as a result of the intense heat. This number includes only the cases reported by the coroner and the police, and It is expected will be increased by reports of private physicians. Of these deaths, thirty-two were the direct result of he.it strokes, five persons committed suicide as a result of the heat, and two deaths were of children seeking relief. JACOBS WAS CRAZY Some Relieve That I.exington County Farmer Killed Family. A special to the State says that John D. Jacobs, found dead with his wife and four children in their burned home near Peak early Saturday morning had been of unsound mind lor two years is me statement made by Dr. II. G. Eleazer, a physician of Peak. This revelation was made to the press Monday. "John Jacobs has suffered from disorder of the brain for two years or more," said Dr. Eleazer. "Fully two years ago he came to me for consultation, after which ho visited a specialist in Columbia. His last consultation with me was not quite three weeks ago, when ho said: 'I don't mind dying, but I can't leave my family behind. This thing can't last much longer with me.' " BANK Ol Coil WE HAS LARGEST CAPITAL AND Sill 1 COUNTY. MORE THAN THE COM ALL OTHER BANKS IN THE COl > I CAPITAL STOCK.. .. SURPLUS LIABILITIES OP STO< I SECURITY OF DEPOJ ; DIRK ROBERT R. SCARBOROUGH, j M. L. ZUCK, GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS AO 3 COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND W - Robert 1L Scarborough, I) President. THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY, S. C. I TIII KSDAV, .11 LY 10, 1013 PROFKR8IONAL. CAKDo ' H. H. WOODWARD * Attorney aiitf Councilor At La%, CONWAY, 8. O. *. U. ttUAKUKOLGM CONWAY, 8. C. | Attorney at Law. M. It. BUHKOLLIHA i*hy?tcl?u and Hurgeoa OONWAY, H. C. W. E. McCOlW, Dental Surreon CONWAY, 6'. C. i 1 i 10N10 HAVENKL J<nn<l Surveying ; and Drainage Spivey HuildinK Conway, H. O. ?t WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE RUNNI^^ {Vyoa want ei ther a VIbrnting Shuttle, RotMQP BbulUc or ft Hlnglo Thread [Chain/ Sewing Machine write to M BEW HOME 8EWINQ MACHINE CQMPJU* Orange, Mass* Many sewing machine* are made to sett regartflMSflft' *H>tlif_ hnl the New Home la made to we?, ? Otnr guaranty never rtm? out. B If utlioriiod dealer* mmRffaY W ?OH SALS Wf* * Gambling in Cotton Futures. Gambling in cotton futures will be virtually prohibited if the Underwood Tariff Bill becomes a law as it leaves the Senate. An amendment has been added to the bill by the Senate Finance Commitee, which is intended to stop cotton speculation in futures. The amendment provides that sales of agreements to sell cotton for future delivery in conformity to the rules of cotton exchanges or other similar places shall be subjected to a tax of one-tenth of one cent a pound* with a provision that if the cotton is actually delivered the tax shall be refunded. It requires all contracts to be in writing. The tax is to be paid by affixing stamps to the written contract. The necessary machinery is provided for the enforcement of the amend ment. Many Southern Senators have long sought to prevent gambling in cotton futures. Many measures have been introduced with that end in view. Oik* passed the House durincr the. lasi session of Congress, but failed in the Senate. One offered by Senator Smith of South Carolina and several others are now awaiting consideration in committee. t Negro Customs Deputy Removed Quickly heeding the protest of Brunswick, Ga., citizens against the placing of Kugene R. Belcher, a negro, in the position of deputy eusi toms collector in charge of the port of Brunswick, Secretary McAdoo, of ' the treasury department, Monday revoked Belcher's designation and named Li. H. Johnson as deputy collector. ? IIOliRY, ty. S, C. [I PLUS OF ANY BANK IN IIORRY B IN R.I) CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF LJ NT Y. $50,000 12,500 . ] CKHOLDERS. . .. 50,000 31TOIIS 112,500 CTORS W. A. JOHNSON, WILL A. FREEMAN, D. V. RICHARDSON. COMMODATION WHICH THEIR ACE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. >.V. Richardson, Will A. Fryman, Vice-President Cashier.