The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 13, 1913, Image 4

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SEND SMITH BACK SAYS SENATOR TRIM AN IN REPLY TO M'LAURlN. ^ ? ? MAKES A GOOD SENATOR And Han Supported Prosiilont Wilson and tlio Democratic Administration, While Governor Please lias Oussed Out the President and the Democratic Administration from the liCKlnning. In reply to Senator John L. McI^aurin'a letter Senator Tillman makes the following statement: "I have just read McLaurin's reply. There are some things 1 want to answer. He says I 'rubbed sand in his eyes'. I had no such purpose. It is not chivalrous and generous to do such a thing, and I think I have somo chivalry and generosity in my nature. I simply told the truth. That is all. "Ho says: 'That letter discloses why I couldn't got on with Tillman, why Latimer couldn't and why he and Smith can't agree.' Latimer and I never had any clash at all, and Smith and I never had one. We have simply been unable to agreo about patronage. That is all. "I want it distinctly understood that when I said 'I for the first time since I denounced him on the floor of the Senate believe ho has at last become a patriot and wants to do tjie State all the service ho can during the balance of his life,' I did not mean I would under any circumstances support him myself, for I am going to do all T can to re-elect Senator Smith. While Senator Smith has mado some mistakes here, he has been loyal to the people of the State. He deserves re-election, and our people will make a fearful blunder if they do not send him hack to the Senate. Ho can do better service hereafter than he has already done, for he haa learned a great deal, and Is just beginning to understand the Senate. Blease can do nothing for the State, because he abused President Wilson before lie wna nnmln?t. ed, criticised him for his Merican i policy on his last trip to Wnshington, has shown absolutely no loyality to the Democratic party and would ' necessarily have no influence with the Administration. "While our people are not so crazy for patronage that they are ready to bootlick Woodrow Wilson or anybody else, they do deserve to have a man here who is loyal to Democracy, and from Pleaso's past record and his selfish ambition, I would not bo sur prised at anything ho might do if he were sent here. The Democrats have a majority of only seven votes in the Senate now, and the possibilities are that this will dwindle rather than increase. B?ut whether it does or not the President is entitled to loyal support from South Carolina, for South Carolina had more to do with his nomination than any other one State. "Please has shown that he is not broad enough and high enough to fill a seat in the Senate with credit to / himself or anybody else. How would the people of South Carolina like to have a Senator who 'recognizes his friends'? Had I pursued that policy the Gonzales brothers never would have voted for me last summer, and a great many other old political antagonists and personal enemies would not have voted for me. "This may possibly be my last pub lie utterance. But if it were, and l\ could speak to the people of the whole State in one meeting, I would emphasize their duty to support the Democratic President by sending him a loyal friend to the Senate. Woodrow Wilson grows bigger in the estimation of the Democrats here and the people of the United States every day do otherwise than increase his Demoof his life. It would be criminal to cratlc majority. Wo do not want a Riddleberger or Maliono from South Carolina. "Another thing: The State warehouse idea with agricultural products as a bankable asset originated in the Ocala platform. The scheme to have the State place its credit behind the farmers and lend them money to finance their crops is a good one, no matter who originated it. I hope to see it worked out in a practical way, and the sooner the better. "I realize oniy too sadly that my star is sinking to its setting, and McLnurin is very much mistaken if he thinks I have any desire to 'dim the lustre' of his. If it be dimmed it has been by his own actions. Noth4 r* CT T ho trft en 1/1 h ?'? ^ " 14 TT- ? MMifs '?'? ooiii unn wuuu 11. ill! biiyS that he has 'long ago forgiven mo, but my letter shows that I have nover been able to forgive him.' He must make atonement to the people of i South Carolina, and demonstrate the purity of his patriotism and his desire to serve the public weal and the State before I can forgive him. "His illusion to 'bravo Hugh Farley', the polished Tindal, dear old 'Wash Shell', and 'curly-headed Johnny' gathered around the fierce old 'lion that dominated us all' brings' back sad memories of departed friends, who worked with me In the long ago, and who are now on the other plde, where I will soon be, too. HIT IN HEAD WITH AXE ? sIjAYkk placed poor ox chest AND IIKWKD MAN. | ? Killing of Hons Yonguo, of Chester County, One of Most ltrutal llomi- ( cidiK ou HocortL ' Details ot out) of tho moat coldbloouod houiiciUoa iu tho mouiory 01 any living uiuu in Chester county wore brought to light early Sunday morning, when Deputy Shoriif S. W. iiindeman and J. G. ilowao returned troin tho Stover neighborhood with Ed Sibley, who ia charged with the killing ot J. ltosa Yongue with an axe Friday evening about 7:30 o'clock, near the home of Sibley's sou. After tho affair Dr. C. C. Croaby waa summoned, and seeing the frightful condition of Yonguo's cuts , hurried him to tho Magdoleno Hospital. Everything possible waa done , for him, but lie passed away Saturday , night about 12 o'clock. It is said that Yongue had gone to Great Falls Friday and secured some , whiskey, which ho imbibed quite ( freely. lie returned and stopped'at the home of his brother, Ned Yongue, ] where I10 lived. It is thought that he was 011 his way to J. W. Hanksliead's store, ft littlo distance from Sibley's house, when ho met Sibley. The } quarrel, it is alleged, had its inception in an old feud between the de- , ceased and Sibley. The feud, it is : claimed, started over a fight between j the two when Yongue got tho better of Sibley. ( When'not very far from Sibley's , house it is said that Yonguo, being i intoxicated, fell to tho ground, and that Sibley grabbed up an axe, and, j placing his foot upon his chest, gavo him one severe cut with tho Hharp < edge of the weapon in tho head, ^ reaching his brain. I It is stated that Yongue bagged j pitifully to be permitted to get up, but his requests were met by three other blows, one across tho left eye, one across the right forehead and the other across the right cheek. All of the cuts were deep and ugly ones and tho hospital authorities were surprised that Yongue lived as long as he did. When Deputies Bindeman and Howse got to Sibley's home Mrs. Sibley came to the door, and upon being asked the whereabouts of her husband stated that ho was somewhere In tho fields. Deputy Bindeman noticed some tracks leading to a cotton house in tho yard, which he followed and discovered Sibley in the house talking to some other men. Ho made no effort to get away and came to Chester with tho deputy, where ho was placed in jail. Sibley is a married man with three children, whilo Yongue was not married. When I meet them I want to he able to say 'I have kept tho faith and fought a good fight for what we all struggled so hard.' Tho people have shown their appreciation and love for mo in more ways than I can repay them for. I am trying now to do what I can to keep them from making a monumental blunder, which would be a crime. "Tillmanism is genuine Democracy, the rule of tho people, and Tillman believed, and still believes, in tho Jeffersonian doctrine?'Teach tho people and trust the people.' When they rightly understand things they never make mistakes, for the great heart of the people is always in the right place. But, oh, how pitiful it is, and what fearful blunders they make, when demagogues fill their minds full of sophistries and falsehoods! "When I telegraphed Governor Rleaso my congratulations in 1910 and wound up by saying, 'Let the heathen rage,' I meant it. Rleaso says I did not support him in 1910. I did not in the first primary, but I Hl/I In -- ' 1 vi vx 111 nio mm i m;?, ana no Knows It. Ho has failed of being a good Ti 11inanito because bo puts selfishness above duty and the Interests of the people. No Governor can run the office on the basis of being good to bis friends' alone. T never did it, and I have not run the Senatorshlp that way. No great man ever does it, but be puts duty above all other considerations, patriotism and lovo of the State and its people next, and then considers himself last. Blease has 1 'made the heathen rage,' and has 1 made good people mourn, and almost cry?sometimes it seems out of pure 'cussedness' only. "McBaurin can do the State more good right now than at any previous time in his life. He snva-. 'T om_ ing to act for the host pood of the State, as I see it.' Ret him make that his religion?cast sentiment and consideration of himself to the wind. If he shows that he has been converted and makes duo atonement, the people may forgive him. Rut it is not worth while for him to expect to get to the Senate, at least not next year. He is not too old to come horeafter perhaps. However, he must servo the people honestly and loyally, 1 and convince them that he is no long- < er playing for his own ambition and f self-aggrandizement?if ho would win their confidence again. He says: i 'Our people must bet together.' I ' say they ought to get together, and < I believe they will get together. Rut i men's ambition should cut no figure i in that fight for South Carolina's 1 good name, which would he hopeless- < ly stained if our people should send lilNNI RS Rl PORT . ! \LMOST IDENTICAL WITH THIS TIME LAST YtAlt 8,835,913 BALIS lilNNLO Largo Incrcauo in Gimiiiigs of Soa Island Cotton? Comparisons for Last Year and Other 111# Crop Years Willi Percentage Ginned Prior to This Time in Those Years. The fourth cotton ginning report of the season, compiled from reports of census bureau correspondents and agents throughout the cotton belt and issued at 10 a. 111. Saturday, announced that 3,83 5,013 bales of cotton, ?counting round as half bales, of tho growth of 1012 had been ginned prior to November I. To that date last year 8,809,222 bales, or 65.8 per cent, of the entire crop, had been ginned, in 1911 to that date 9,970,005 or 04.1 per cent, of tho crop had been ginned; in 1008 to that date 8,1 91,557 had been ginned, and in 1900 to that date 6,906,395 bales or 52.2 per cent, of tho crop had been niiod Included in the total ginntngs were 51,820 round hales, compared with 54,639 bales last year, 68,2 18 bales n 1911, 81,183 bales In 1910 and 109,621 bales In 1909., The number >f Sea Island cotton bales included tvas 12,760, compared with 28,887 Kiles last year 56,563 bales in 1911, 10,504 bales in 1910 and 55,237 Kilns in 1 909. Ginnings prior to November 1, by 4tate, with comparisons for Inst fear and other big crop years and the >ercentago of tho entire crop ginned >rior to that in those years, follow: Alabama. Ginnings. P.C. 1 913 1,01 2,940 1912 .. .. 809,662 61.0 1911 1,088,737 64.2 1908 891,667, 66.9 Arkansaa. 1913 430,557 1 912 440,482 57.1 1 91 1 444,401 48.9 1 908 ... .. , . 536,785 53.9 Florida. 1913 47,317 1912 35,362 60.1 1 911 56,070 59.4 1908 43,254 61.2 Georgia. 1913 1,602,482 .... 1912 1,112,419 61.4 1 911 1,908,764 68.3 1908 1,387,641 70.2 Louisiana. 191 3 221,900 .... 1 912 261,701 69.8 1911 232,245 61.0 1908 287,885 61.7 Mississippi. 1 913 567,71 9 19 12 511,678 50.9 1911 584,199 50.0 1 908 893,1 18 55.1 Nodth Carolina. 1913 385,225 .... 19 12 496,537 54.8 191 1 597,940 53.1 1908 373,713 54.7 Oklahoma. 1913 536,015 1 912 559,1 90 59.6 191 1 554,933 54.6 1908 217,629 31.6 South Carolina. 1 n 1 o ~ ~ ' - ? i sio . . .. .. 861,190 .... 1912 730,690 59.7 191 1 1,02 2,G 1 4 60.4 1908 821,608 67.6 Tennessee. 1913 1,739,925 1912 1 18,485 44.3 1911 211,128 49.1 1908 198,783 59.5 Texas. 1913 2,950,439 1912 ... ..3,709,735 79.9 191 1 .. .. ..3,21 1,752 78.2 1908 2,502,862 69.0 Other States. 1913 ... 46,204 1912 43,291 48.1 1911 58,302 42.0 1908 36,602 50.0 The ginnlngs of sea island cotton >rior to Novombor 1, by States, folow: Florida. Year. Ginnlngs. 191 3 16,221 191 2 11,067 1911 21,038 h e A A jyuu 19,740 (Jeortfh*. 1913 24,570 191 2 16,276 1 91 1 33,841 1909 31,277 South Carolina. 191 3 1,878 1912 1,5 4 4 1911 1,684 1909 4,220 [lleaso to the Senate. It Is time for lemagogy to tako a back soat and rtatesmanship to come to tho front. \bove nil, high private character and unimpeachable Integrity of purpose will govern In the long run. Presl1ont. Wilson has set everybody such * high example of unselfish patriotism that it ought to be easy for small politicians to be picked out and retired?as they ought to be. "Bt. R. Tillman." SCHOOL EXPENDITURES WHAT SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTIES PAY PER CHILI). White Average for the State is Negro $1.87?Beaufort Leads All (bounties. "The figures speak for themselves," said J. E. Swearlngen, State superintendent of education, announcing the statistical table of the State department of agriculture showing the per capita expenditure according to enrollment in the public schools of South Carolina. According to the table, the average amount spent for the education of each white child in the State was $13.39, the average amount for negro child $1.87. The average for both races was $7.23. The greatest amount, $3 6.89, was spent for the education of each white child in Beaufort county. The lowest amount, $6.72, was spent in Horry. Greenville ranks next to lowest, with $6.98 for each child. Richland is fourth among the counties in respect of per capita expenditure according to enrollment. The following tablo was given out by Superintendent Swearlngen: Both White Negro Races Abbeville . . .$16.04 $1.23 $ 6.29 Aiken .... 15.76 2.09 7.76 Anderson ... 9.14 1.75 6.32 Bamberg . . . 19.90 1.14 6.79 Barnwell . . . 29.82 1.40 10.49 Beaufort . . . 36.89 3.57 8.83 Berkeley . . . 9,05 1,17 3.59 n ~ i \? - ? - ~ - * uinuun .... 18.12 1.00 5.43 Charleston . . 25.62 8.32 14.58 Cherokee. . . . 8.34 2.34 6.41 Chester .... 16.23 1.34 6.33 Chesterfield . . 7.93 1.48 6.06 Clarendon . . . 16.81 1.23 5.69 Colleton .... 7.40 1.01 4.67 Darlington . . . 15.52 3.28 8.19 Dillon . . . . 25 56 1.28 12.84 Dorchester . . . 12.47 1.17 6.70 Edgefield . . . 12.57 .96 4.21 Fairfield .... 16.31 1.06 5.15 Florence . . . 19.78 2.00 11.01 Georgetown . . 17.15 2.35 7.60 Greenville.. . . ?.9g 2.05 5.52 Greenwood. . . 15.33 1.25 5.84 Hampton . . . 14.84 1.26 7.80 Horry .... 6.72 1.40 5.33 | Jasper .... 23.74= 1.86 8.83 : Kershaw . . . 11.93 1.48 5.92 Lancaster . . . 8.24 1.10 4.73 Laurens .... 12.69 1.33 6.44 Uee 15.69 .92 5.92 Lexington . . . 9.09 1.10 6.25 Marion .... 29.54 2.65 18.41 Marlboro . . . 16.75 1.22 7.62 Newberry . . . 18.08 1.32 7.37 Oconee .... 8.05 1.53 6.28 Orangeburg . ; 1 4.13 1.20 5.86 Pickens .... 7.47 1.90 6.25 Pichland. . . . 27.22 3.53 1 4.40 Saluda 8.03 1.00 4.1 9 Spartanburg . . 8.79 1.89 6.33 Sumter .... 21.98 1.50 6.52 Union .... 8.95 1.35 5.06 Williamsburg . 1 2.53 1.1 2 5.25 York '. . . . . 13.18 1.21 6.51 State 13.39 1.87 7.23 w ?. CONSERVATION NECESSARY. Eminent English Scientist Says Man Is Too Destructive. An English scientist, Sir Ray Lankester, says that civilized man la thn most active instrument of destruction that has ever appeared on earth; that ho has burned up forests, produced deserts, polluted rivers. He says that the most repulsive of the destructive results of human expansion is the poisoning of rivers and the consequent extinction of flsh and nearly every other living thing that is in them. Ho predicts sterility to meadows and hillsides drenched with nauseating chemical manures from factories. The New York Medical Record speaks in like fashion and says that these words of the British scientist should awake an echo on this side of the Atlantic, for in no other country of the world have the beauties of nature been so wantonly debased as here, and in no land have the rivers and lakes been so polluted to satisfy the greed of the individual. Added to this is the disaster that will certainly come to the masses for such flagrant disregard of the health of the people. There is much truth in what Is said above. Our people are on the rush for the almighty dollar and they are willing to sacrifice everything they have to get it. We will have to call a halt, or suffer the more direful consequences for our disregard of the commonest rules of health and well-being. Wo want the almighty dollar, hnd it makes very little difference to us what it costs to get it. , Discord Leads to Murder. John Wilson, a Frenchman, struck and killed Hugh Gothrie, a Scotchman, when there was a discord in the songs they were trying to sing In B.irminkham, Ala. One was singing Scotch airs and the other French at the time of the fight. Gets Desired Drink and Dies. J. B. Buckner, of Tippecanoe City, O., Is dead In Waycross, Ga. He was suffering from acute Indigestion brought on by excessive drinking. He hogged for a drink of whiskey, was accommodated and died in a few minutes. HUtKTA liNMUVtl) ? Nil INIIICATIUN THAT HE WILL COMPLY WITH DIMANI StNDS DIPLOMATS NOTE ? Says That New Congress Will bo Installed?Plans Continued Occupancy of Presidency of Mexico I'ntil New Election Can be Held and Defying U. S. K?en to War. CJen. Huerta has shown no indication that ho will comply with the American demands for his resignation. On the contrary those who profess to havo his confidence say his program includes the continued occupancy of the presidency until some time late in the year, 1914, and that he intends to carry out his plan of organizing the new Congress and defying Washington oxen to the point of war. It la not forgotten, however, that the unexpected in Mexican politics never is surprising, and as evidence of this fact every hours brings a new rumor regarding Iluerta. One persistent report was that he had turned the government over to the foreign minister, Senor Moheno, and had gone to Vera Cruz. Another was that he had committed suicide. There is some basis for believing the United States has served on President Huerta a supplementary notice that his ofliclal career must he brought to an end by Monday night. It Saturday was reported that John TJnd, President Wilson's representative, was the medium employed by Washington. Mr. Ldnd and the Mexican officials deny this, but the rumor originated in the National Palace. Those who insist that Gen. Huerta will resist all overtures say he admits financial weakness, but is convinced that from time to time he can get enough money to keep up a dogged, if intermittent, campaign I againat the rebels. According to these Informants Gen. Huerta does not expect to bring about pacification for many months, hut until it la acI complished he will not resign. They add that he Is still determined that the new Congress must meet, and he expects it to annul the recent elections, leaving him in the Provisional Presidency until elections are held at his call. That the new Mexican congress must not meet is a point insisted upon by the United States since it is he1 I r\tr a/1 V*? * 11 " * 1 iicicu Hint un? 01 ine nrsi acts of tlmt body would bo to legalize certain concessions considered undesirable. Hut it seems very probable that it will meet for in a formal note to the foreign diplomats, Gen. Huerta, after calling attention to tho efforts he has made to pacify the country and dwelling at length upon his reasons for dissolving Congress, makes the direct statement that the newly elected congress will bo installed within a few days and will pass upon tho election of the President and Vice-President. Gen. Huerta reminds the diplomats that, prior to the elections, he told them neither he nor Gen. Blanquet would accept an election, on the ground that his own election would be illegal, and he calls to the attention of the diplomatic representatives the conference which lie had with the presidential candidates, at which he observed theid promise to abide by the result. "Now, in view of the fact, according to the reports which the government has received," continues tho note, "that there exists an earnest presumption that, because it has been impossible to carry on voting in a number of polling places prescribed by law, tho elections fail to bo considered a true manifestation of tho will of the people, and because it is foreseen that said presidential elections would bo declared null, tho tcy. ecutive wishes to make known once more to the country and to the whole world that In accord with this determination he will continue exerting himself for the pacification of the country in order to be able to guarantee freedom and efficiency in the new elections, which congress must call as a necessary consequence of that declaration. "In the same manner he wishes to make known once more before his friends and thoso outside the Republic that, being regardful of the law and persuaded that, by virtue of his hnving occupied the post of President of the Republic while the elections wore being held, ho considers himself constitutionally impeded from being validly elected, ho will on no account tako into consideration the vote which may have been cast in his favor and no matter what may be the r\ inasuu ui ouuKruaa, no will not accept in this case the constitutional Presidency of the Republic. lie relies as President on the solomn promise of honorable citizens who figured as candidates for the Presidency, and who represent all the political parties of the Republic, and he is sure that perfect harmony will reign between the three powers of the union and that the governments of the world will recommend without exception that only the present government can call new elections THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY, S. C. ' t Till KSI>AY, NOYKMHKH III, 1913. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. _____ ,ei7i7 ,7TT*,,l!7u<>TT7wriTT7r ,e,'^ e Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CONWAY, S. C. 11. B. SCAHliOltOLOll. Attorney at law. CONWAY, B. C. If. II. BURROUGHS, Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. C. W. E. McCORD, Dental Surgeon CONWAY, S. C. RFNK FA VENFTL land Snrveyinar and T>rata?Bre Rpivey Rntldlnc Oonwty. R. O. t A LIFT TO TilK KAHMKHH ? Demoncratic Administration Is (living Them a Helping Hand. In an address before the International Farmers Congress at Tula, Oklahoma, last week, United States Senator Core, who is very near President Wilson, gave assurance that legislation tending to better the condition of the American farmer would be considered by Congress immediately after the pending currency bill is disposed of. Senator Gore declared, too, as a result of the recent investigation of rural credits in Europe a plan would be devised whereby money with which to raise the crops would b? loaned to the farmer at four per cent., interest. President Wilson and his Administration has already done much for the farmers of the South and West by loaning out Government money tothe banks to move the crops. Had this action not been taken. Wall Street would have precipitated a ready-made panic and made money scarce. Farmers need only to let their minds run back a few years when Wall Street brought on panics and forced them to sell their cotton and other produce below the cost of production, to realize what President Wilson and his Administration has done for them by making money plentiful. Had not Wall Street been checked by President Wilson and his Administration, who gave the money trust notice that it would not be allowed to hold up and rob the farmers as they had done in years gone by, cotton never would have sold this season for more than seven or eight cents per pound. Wall Street was getting ready to bring on a money panic by hoarding money in its banks,, when President Wilson and Secretary McAdoo gave notice that the Government had money and that it would he used to aid the farmers in moving: their crops. This knocked Wall Street out of the box completely, and the bankers up there loosened up at once, and gave out that there was plenty of money. Just before this they were* writing the Southern and Western bankers who have to borrow money to move the crops that money wast awful tight and that squally times was ahead. They were getting ready to squeeze the farmers of the South and West out of their hard earned dollars, and they would have done it too If it was not for the iuat ma Government at Washington was in the hands of honest men, who are true friends of the people. In the face of what has already happened, it does not surprise us to hear that President Wilson and his Administration are planning to do more for the farmers of the country. President Wilson is a great and good man, and he knows what he is doing not only for the farmers, but for the whole country. All right thinking men should do what they can to hold up his hands. He is having some little trouble with the currency bill, but we think he will get it through as he wants it, finally. Why Governor Please should denounce and abuse a man wno nns aone as much (or our farmers as President Wilson has, is on? thing we can not understand. and guarantee their freedom and efficacy. He liopes to be able to fulfill easily within the period which congress shall designate his sacred duty, consulting the national desire to consecrate by the suffrage of the people the Executive who is to rule definitely the destinies of the country. Otherwise the realization of the Executive's program would not be possible within a long period of time. Men of activity usually long for ease and relaxation, but when they have gained it they are usually wretched until they are active again.