The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 12, 1914, Image 6

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' urns it mrutii1 ^ fj VTIIjSON Hl'KAKS TO CON till ESS AIW>UT 1* AN AM A TOIJ*S. WORLD DEEMS US WRONG ? racked (JaJlerles and Attentive g lleacliCN Hear Wilson Plead for Wrlct Observ&iicv, ??f Treaty Obll gallons to t.'reat Britain?Congress ( Will Probably Yield. f President Wilson went to congress ' Thursday and pleaded for repeal of the provision of the Panama canal f ot which exempts American coast- * wise shipping from tolls. He tersely ' assorted that his reason for asking 1 the repeal was because everywhere 1 in me i nitoa states, tho tolls 1 exemption wiw regarded as u viola- ? tion of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty 1 and ho further naked It In support of 1 the administration's general foreign poliny. n That tho president s request will be granted thero aoemor little doubt % Thursday night, despite the fact that ' th ore will ho vigorous opposition both ha tho Senate and the House. Aside c from tho bearing of tho message on r tho Panama tolls question, some of ( the phrases used by tho president attractod widespread comment In congressional quarters as relating to for- ' eign relations in general. In some quarters there was a disposition to , regard some of his statements in the ^ nature of a warning on the difficulties r involved in "other matters of even greater delicacy and nearer consequences." ' Hater in the day tho president him- 1 self, talking with callers, explained ' that those phrases had no significance beyond their bearing on tho need of v rigorous good faith in the Panama ' tolls questions, as an evidence of un- 1 ?a o vnrl n v rr/\/\/l #.% I 4 1* - n * nuiviiiif, laiiii on an oiner questions, and that nothing critical * waa pending In foreign relations. * But the language of the message con- f tinned to bo commented upon as lutv- ' ing an application considerably broader than tho Panama question. r Three points in particular were f noted: First, tho president's state- i raent that no communication he had 1 addressed to congress carried "graver r or more farreachlng Implications to t the interests of the country"; second, < that everywhere, outside the United t States tho language of tho Hay- c Pauncefote treaty was given but one \ interpretation; and, third, tho con- r eluding statement as to "other mat- i tors of ever greater delicacy and nearer consequence". c Tho president further told his call- a ars that while he never had received c U17 formal communication on tho v subject, he had understood that Phi- j ropean nations generally took tho y same view as did Great Britain?that 1 tho Ilay-Pauncefote treaty was vio- \\ latod by the Panama canal act. lie c pointed out that in dealing with foreign affairs, nations which believed c the United States did not keep a c promise 011 so important a treaty as e the llay-Pauncefote convention would v not be likely to believe the nation t sincero on other delicate questions, l Word had como to tho president of c a general impression in Europe that li tho United States was "sailing as s clone to tho wind as possible" In in- y terpreting promises made in its 11 treaties. No pressure had been c brought to bear by any nation but u the president was conlldent that for- s oign governments had this feeling on e tho subject. g The Panama tolls question has ii been a subject of dispute for nearly t two years. Diplomatic correspondence c between Great Britain and the United v States found the question unsettled when President Taft left office. Ex- t cept for an assurance to James Hryce, p then British ambassador, when he r left the United States a year ago that ii the question would be taken up in e the regular session of congress. Pros- a ident Wilson has never directed any h official communication to England on a tho tolls question. The president re- t cently told callers h? had never dls- u cussed tho matter formally or infor- a mally with the British ambassador \\ here, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, because s b.e bqlieved the obligation on the part f< of the XJnited States to repeal the ex- e omption clause was one which this h government Itself should realize without outside influence or pressure. f( The House chamber and galleries I were packed as usual to hear tho o president read his address. The c French and German ambassadors and d other members of the diplomatic n corps were in spaces reserved for tliem. No official of the British embassy was present. The Misses Wil aon nau pianos in tne executive gal- k lery and Mrs. Wilson for the first vs time was absent. She has not yet re- t, covered from the shock of a fall In the White House several days ago. President Wilson reached the capltol 10 minutes before the time for the reading and waited In Speaker a Clark's room until 12:110 o'clock P Eted Into the chum- w began reading his oon as a burst of d. ssago was so brief S od reading almost Ir led galleries real- tl FIGHT AS MOTHER SLEEPS r\VO BKOTIIEKS AT PELZEH ENJOIN IN DEADLY BATTLE. Mother Awakened by Pistol Shot Sees Ono Son Standing Over tlio I'rostrate Form of Her Other Boy. With their aged mother tranquilly deeping within five feet of them, Willain and Richard Brldgman, brothers >f Pelz^r, engaged in a drunkel quarel Sunday, which resulted in Ittchird, tlio younger brother, being shot o death, and William Brldgman boearfully gashed about the neck and ace. The tragedy occurred Sunday norning at 1 o'clock. The brothers had been drinking torothcr and after arriving at their lomo became engaged in a quarrel, tlchard stabbing Will with a knlfo n the face and neck. Will drew his dstol and fired, the bullet taking ofoct in the right side, just below tho irm. Tho killing was witnessed by ho mother of the men and a third irother. Tho mother of tho men (11(1 not twako until the pistol shot was fired, rho sight to greet her sleepy stare van that of the almost lifeless form >f her son, Richard, lying upon tho loor, and her other son standing otir him with a smoking pistol In hand ind blood coursing freely down his :oat front. Tho inon had nolselossly entered heir mother's room and she did not iwnkeu until tho fight had ended. A'llliam Rrlgd.nan was carried to Anlerson Sunday morning and placed n jail. He was fearfully cut by his jrcther before ho fired upon him. The iged mother is prostrated. zed ho had began. It took less than Ivo minutes and as another burst of ipplauso greeted Its close, Mr. Wll1011 hurried out of the chamber and vent back to the White House. Tho ioint session dissolved at once and lie two houses resumed their work. President Wilson's address, the diortest he has yet delivered to congress -exactly 420 words?was as olio ws: 'Gentlemen of the Congress: "1 have come to you upon an or and which can be very briefly per'ormed, but I beg that you will not ueasuro its Importance by tho num>er of sentences in which I state It. s'o communication I liavo addressed o the congress carried with it graver >r more far-reaching Implications to ho Interest of tho country, and I ome now to speak upon a matter vim regard to which I am charged In i peculiar degree by tho constitution tself with personal responsibility. "I have come to ask for tho repeal, >f that provision of the Panama canal ict of August 24, 1912, which ex mpts vessels engaged in tho coastvise trade of the United States from >ayment of tolls, and to urgo upon on tho justice, tho wisdom and tho argo policy of such a repeal with tho itinost earnestness of which I am apable. "In my own judgment, very fully onsidered and maturely formed, that xemption constituted a mistaken conomlc policy, from every point of lew, and is, moreover, in plain conraventlon of tho treaty with Groat iritain concerning the canal, conclud(1 on November 18, 1901. Hut 1 lave not come to you to urgo my poronal views. 1 have como to state to ou a fact and a situation. Whatever nay ho our own differences of opinion oncoming this much debated nieasire, its meaning is to ho debated outido tho United States. Everywhere lso the language of tho treaty is iven hut one interpretation and that nterpretation precludes tho exemplon I am asking you to repeal. Wo onsented to tho treaty; its language vo accepted, if we did not originate t, and we are too big, too powerful, oo self-respecting a nation to* interrot with too strained or refined a ending the words of our own prom*es just because wo have power nough to give us leave to read them s we please. The large thing to do 4 the only thing we can afford to do. voluntary withdrawal from a posllon everywhere questioned and misnderstood. Wo ought to reverse our ction without raising the question 1 bother wo were right or wrong and o once more deserve our reputation i or generosity and the redemption of very obligation without quibble or ' esitatlon. . i "I ask this of you in support of the 1 oreign .policy of the administration. 1 shall not know how to deal with J ther matters of even greater deliacy and nearer consequence if you ' o not grant it to me in ungrudging manure." ^ < itig Warehouse Collapses. One of tho largest warehouses In j wingstreo collapsed under tho heavy ^ eight of snow Friday. Tho strucuro was a complete wreck. ? ^ Murderer Slain In Penitentiary. f During a fight between a burglar < nd a murderer in a penitentiary at > lttsburg John Hallon, tho murderer, f as killed by Joseph Hoe. c I Cigarettes Cause Suicide. 1 Tr. a note found beside bis body, t1 arnuel A. Crane, 21, New York, gave 1 tability to quit the cigarette habit aa fl io cause of his suicide. t ONE YEAR'S RECORD ? A STATEMENT OF TIIK THING* WILSON HAS ACHIEVED. ? TRUE TO HIS PLATFORM A Numerical Reckoning of the ActioiiH of the Democratic Party ii the Past Year Under the Leader ship of Wuodrou' Wilson?Tarlfl and Currency Iteform Stand First One year of Woodrow Wilson's ser vice as president of the United Statej and leader of the Democratic part} has become history. One-fourth oi his elective period has expired. 11 taking stock no chief executive hat ever found such a remarkahlo record of performance to his credit. With persistence and wisdom he has steadfastly urged redemption of all pledget carried in the Baltimoro platform lie has been supported by bott branches of Congress to a more mark ed degree than any predecessor Here is the way the Democrat! range their constructive achievement of the llrst year: 1. Passage of the Underwood tarifl hill. The first tariff for revenue in a generation and tho first tariff passed without the aid of the lobby. The president impressed his personality upon this bill, as shown by his insistence upon freo raw sugar, despite the protests of Democratic Louisiana and tho beet sugar growers of the west. The bill received tho votes of Republicans and Progressives because it was an improvement over the "indefensible" schedules of the PayneAldrich law. As Mr. Wilson has said, the tariff question was but part of the general question of the development of industry, which, year by year, hae grown so complex and so difficult tc set apart In its elements. What effect the turlff Issue will have on the president's fortunes in tho fall campaign remains to be seen. 2. More important than the tariff, but part of the general question of development, was the currency legislation, tlie psychological effect of which went far to bring about the era of good feeling between the government and its old enemy, big business. Tho passage of this bill was <luo directly to the unwavering stand of the president for immediate action. Tho congressional lial)it of procrastination asserted itself at tho time in tho efforts of many members to have this question deferred until tho regular session opened in December. They wanted to quit work and go homo after passing the tariff in September, but tho president would not hear of it because he believed public sentiment demanded action. He aroused tho public to support the moasuro and overcome the opposition of such powerful institutions as the National City bank of New York and others who advocated a central bank. In tli's connection, the Democrats recall that seventeen years ago the Republican party was put in control of the government on a tight made on tho financial question, but it remained for a Democratic president to initiate and urge a modern currency system that meets tho business needs of tho nation. ??. Tho elimination of tho lobby from congress as a result of th exposure made by President Wilson. Special committees wore appointed by both branches of congress to investigate this lobby. The committees examined hundreds of witnesses and the result of that legislation is about to be introduced to correct this abuse, if legislation can correct it. 4. Tho perfection of tho first two amendments to the constitution since 1S70; namely, the imposition of an income tax, and tho provision electing senators by the direct vote of the people, Tho income tax measure, which is a feature of the new tariff law, "makes the fortunes of the rich bear their proportionate part of the burden of taxation," and will bring into the fpderal treasury $100,000,000 a year, according to Democratic claims. 5. The peace program of Secretary of State Bryan, who has negotiated treaties embodying the principle of "postponement" as an integral feature of intoYnatlonal law, with the purpose of divesting international disagreements to their inflammable ehnraeter. Seven of tho treaties embodying the plan have been negotiated. 6. Tho action of the president in bringing together representatives of capital and labor, resulting in the prompt passage of tho industrial employees' arbitration act by congress, thereby preventing a tie-up of railway passenger and freight trains east )f tho Mississippi. 7. Tho president's "constitution of jeaco" or "the now conscience", resulting in tho voluntary breaking up >f interlocking directorates. The withdrawal of J. Pierpont Morgan md his partners from the directories of twenty-seven different cor>orations has been followed in turn >y the retirement of (h-orge F. Baker md others from interlocking direcorates. They pursued this action In tdvnnce of the statute prohibiting inerlocking directorates soon to be I written on tho federal law books. 8. President Wilson's program of co-operation with the business interests of the nation, resulting in the elimination of tho American Tele' phone and Telegraph company, popularly known as the telephono trust, from control of tho Western Union Telegraph company. 9. Action of the secretary of the I treasury in depositing $">0,000,000 of I government funds in tho banks of tho south and west to assist in the movement of crops. Under previous ad ministrations this money has been made nvaiable only for the banks of 1 New York. 12. The foreign policy of the administration, which divorced the gov1 eminent from affiliation with the Now York tinanclal interests that were parties to the six-power loan to . China. . 13. Development and extension of r the parcel post system, comprising a r reduction of rates and an increase of , the size of packages. , 14. The inauguration by tho deI partment of agriculture of a system , of markets whereby It Is hoped scientific and modern business methods j will be applied toward tho elimination of wasto In distributing farm ! products. 15. Action of the socrotary of tho navy in forcing tho armor plate trust t to submit In competition bids for ar, rnor plate and for Iron and steel UBod In tho construction of Battleship No. 3 9, which effected a saving of $7 82,117; and similar efforts which socur1 ed a saving on projections of $1,098,1 4 60. Ifi. Action of tho secretary of agriculturo in extending the work of that department to tho home life of the farmer, so as to bring about a 1 bettor knowledge of farm domestic conditions, and to experiment with labor-Having devices and methods. This is an effort to help the woman on tHo farm. 17. Formation of a new public ' land policy by tho secretary of the interior, which combines conservation and tho proper use of tho lands of 1 our national domain. This policy is 1 one that lies between those things advocated by the exploiter and those advanced by tho extreme conservationists. His policy is that the land Hhould be used for the purpose for 1 which it is beat fitted* and that it should be disposed of by the government with respect to that use under such conditions as to prevent mon1 opoly. 18. Enactment of the Lever bill for farm extension work. It is ln1 tended to carry to tho farm the scientific discoveries made by the department of agriculture and the State agricultural colleges. The system proposed in the hill has been applied for 1 years by the principal nations of Europe. 19. Action of the president in advocating a primary system for the selection of nominees for the presidency. 20. Enactment of tho Alaskan railway bill, which it is believed will open up the resources of Alaska, one <>i tno most productive northern countries of the world. This measure provides for the construction of one thousand miles of railroad, under the direction of the president-, at a cost not exceeding $ 10,000,000. 21. Action of the secretary of the navy in putting into effect a system of academic, vocational and technical instruction for the benefit of the enlisted men so as to increase their eflieiency, and to equip the men behind the guns for promotion. 22. Dissolution of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific merger, and the surrender by tlie Pennsylvania railroad of its large holdings in its j competing rival, the Baltimore and Ohio, in which Mr. Me Reynolds insisted that dissolutions unler tho anti-trust laws should bo free from the defects of the plans adopted in the Standard Oil and tobacco cases. The attorney general succeeded in having! written into the decree in these cases mai 1110 siook oi tue Southern Pacific' owned by the Union Pacific should bo placed in tbc hands of a surety company for sale to the public. So much for domestic matters. In his foreign policy, Mr. Wilson lias had harder going than In domes-1 tic matters. In their inception, none of the problems in this field was of 1 his own making, except the Mexican situation and even this question was passed on to him by Mr. Taft. There has been more difference of opinion over the president's course in Mexl-| can affairs than in any other matter he has addressed himself to, not ex-.1 nnnHncr Maa loriff VIIV V(ll nil j Tho Mexican problem la Inherently ! dim cult ?ind has been made the more delicate because of tho conflict be-, tween tho high moral principles upon ; which tho president bases his policy 1 of watchful waiting and the materialistic sentiments of those who sympathize with the foreign concessionaries in the troubled republic. He says 1 there can not bo peace and order, ' without justice, and that tho bloody 1 hands of Huerta can not work out ' stable peace, hence his refusal to recognize him. Those who want to understand tho president's attitude, give him full credit for doing the best i ho can under trying circumstances. I \ The winning fight that tho presldent is waging against free canal tolls for Amc-vicar. coastwise ships, < the passage last week of the general 1 arbitration treaties with the Kuro- i pean nations and Japan, the proposed < payment to Colombia for the seizure i of tho canal strip and tho shelving < TALKS OF DAUGMtR GIKL ACCUSED OP MUIIDEH THIKD TO HELP FAMILY. MAN LED HER INTO SIN ? Mother of Floda Pendleton Says Her Child Wus a Good Girl llefore She Won Influenced hy Clement to Do Wrong?llud Not Ilcnrd of Her for Months. Breaking the Bllenco with which who has answered newspaper inquiries wince tragedy Btalked into her quiet homo a month ago in the form of a message telling her that her missing nineteen-year-old daughter. Laura Fleda Pendleton, was a prisoner In a South Carolina Jail, charged with murder, Mre. J. H. Pendleton, of Durham, N. C., Saturday threw a flood of light on obscure HDOtH In the irirl'H life ulnrv tallroU C, - - ~ 'VV. ^ , v?? ?U\I freoly of the family and Its history and told of Fleda's early association with Clyde Caldwoll Clement, co-dofendant and alleged father of her slain babo. The elderly sweet-faced woman strove heroically to control her emotion during her painful recital, but her eyes were frequently dimmed, and two little girls, Ruth and Margaret Pendleton, gazed in awed silence at tho spectacle of thoi? nwllier in tears. Fleda was always a good, obedient girl, the mothor said, until alio came under tho influence of Clement in Spartanburg. She attended Sunday school regularly and scrupulously respected her mother'ft wishes. Mrs. Pendleton said that Fleda and Clement knew each other when they were children together In Polk county, but her parents would not permit her to spend much time in his company because, according to Mrs. Pendleton, ho was given to rough ways. Miss Pendleton was mindful of parental advice then, and it wag because she could not come to her mother for counsel In Spartanburg, the latter said she believed, that Fleda yielded to temptation. The girl left homo to eko out the scanty family Income, which had been reduced by business reverses , and physical afflictions of her father, J. II. Pendleton. Ho was at one time a well-to-do merchant, hut his health gavo way, and with It went his ' money. His eyesight becamo affected, ho could no longer stand confinement, because of his Impaired health. ?>.?,! ~ ~ 1- f '? * * <inii iiu iwwft IU iiii niiug. itc was planning when Fleda last heard of him to accept a position as travelling i salesman for a shoe house, but fail- i ing eyesight forced him to abandon this plan. At present he is living in Mooresville, N. C., and is engaged in i tobacco farming. i It was duo to tho father's poor health that Mrs. Pendleton agreed to allow her daughter to go out into the world to work. What money Fleda could make was needed to help sup- 1 port tho younger children. Mrs. Pen ! dleton said it was not true, as re- ' ported, that Fleda was driven from home because she accepted Clement's 1 attendance; at that time sho would 1 have nothing to do with him. While the family were living in ' Polk County Thomas Pendleton, the 1 uiuuiti, iu pu IU 0|liirtanburg to study telegraphy. He per* ' suaded Fleda to accompany him, and ( both entered the Spartanburg School of Telegraphy. She soon mastered the Morse code and left the school, going to Atlanta, (la., to work. She 1 made several visits back home, and 1 while on one of these visits received 1 an offer from the Spartanburg school for her services as a teacher. This ' offer was accepted, and when she re- , turned to the school she again on me 1 f in contact with Clyde C. Clement, then a student in the preparatory department of Wofford College. Soon after the old acquaintance ' was reopened, Mrs. Pendleton said, } she ceased to hear from her daughter. 1 She telegraphed to the principal of p the Spartainburg school relative to ' Fleda's whereabouts and was told that the young woman could not be 1 found In Spartanburg, but was re- ( ported to be in Atlanta. Mrs. Pen- r dleton said that the last letter she r received from her daughter was some . time in August of last year. After losing trace of her In Spartanburg the mother never heard of Fleda v until she was Informed of the girl's c trouble. r ?. V Pushes Hill for New District. * With Senator Tillman behind It in 1 U ^ O A ~ * TV * 4 i.nu ouiiuie aim iiepreseniauve AlKen In the House action is oxpectd on tho bill to create a new federal Judiciary s listrict in South Carolina. 1 ? t legislature Adjourns. t Tho House adjourned Thursday light after overriding twelve and sustaining fourteen of tho veto in the lppropriation bill. r h if th<* Tapancac exclusion qucsl.on (i lave gone far toward removing the rritation that lias been felt in foreign capitals toward this country's nnnner of fulfilling lior international w obligations. s \ % FIGHT COLD AND WIND GEORGETOWN BOYS MAKOONMI) ON IUVEK ISEAND. (iasollno Launch ('aught lii IlrUk Wind and Driven Ashore?Spend Freezing Night on Island. One night and tlio bettor part ?f two days, Robert and Charles NVynn, of Georgetown, fought the wind and the cold on the lower VVaccaniaw, and had they failed of winning tt would have meant death by freezing or drowuing. Sunday morning they went up tile river in a small gasoline launch. The going at first was merely a little chilly, but the further up tliey got the harder tho wind blew and the colder became tho temperature. They went as high as tho Thoroughfare, where the Pee Dee joins the Waccamaw. At that point the wind was a? strong that the little craft could make no headway against it. They then threw over the anchor. It held for only a few mlnutee, when, with th? engine working and the anchor overboard, the boat began to drift with tho wind. Nor did tho drifting stop until the craft was piled up on th? bank. And all tho time it was getting colder. There being no shelter on the boot, the marooned young men went ashore, gathered some dry wood and started a lire. In the sweep of ths wind tho firo ate up the wood as if it were tinder. A pilo of fuel on th? hlft'/.n wnillri lust tr>n nfti??r? m<n_ utes. "Hob" Wynn Bays ho never worked ho bard in his lifo as ho did Sunday night to keep tiio flro going. Hut it was that or freeze. The mercury had dropped to 28. The night passed, as nights usually do if one waits long enough, but thero was no lull in tlio wind and no rising of temperature. And th# young men were without food. To cold was was therefore added hunger, and both spelled misery. The castaways realized that something inuit be done or the situation would aoon becomo unbearable. They, therefor#, struck out down the river bank walking, walking liitrd to keep up tho circulation of their blood. After som# hours they reached the fishing earn# of McDonald & company, some miles from where their "shipwreck" had occurred. AUTO TUKNS TU11TLH. ? c/nwriesura Man Meets l>e?tli nod Others Are Injured. Samuel M. Lockwood. employed as a mechanic at the Charleston navy yard, was killed outright Sunday and seven others, all relatives, were more or less injured when an automobile in which the party was returning homo from a pleasure ride in tin* suburbs, skidded and turned over on its side. Capt. Robert IT. Lockwood, the father of the young man, and who was at the wheel of the machine at the time, said that the cause of the accident was the result of the car skidding, and thn turning over on it* side., Capt. Lockwood said that he was engaged in a mutual raco with a young man driving a roadster. The latter was leading and he was attempting to catch up at the time. As lie was rounding the curve at a rapid rate of speed he says tho machine skidded. The car was closed, all the ;urtains being down at tho time hern use of tho cold weather. As the ca? skidded it is reported that its front wheels jumped, and hat the sudden jar caused the car to ilt over. The violent stopping of ho machine threw tho occupants Tom their seats, Samuel Lockwood >eing thrown into the roadway and he machine falling upon him. The vheels were facing tho direction in vhlch the car was going and tho top acing tho opposite wav. Others In the car were: Cnpt. Robert It. Lockwood, wrenched back; Robert If. Lockwood Jr., sprained inn and shoulder and internal injures; Mrs. Robert II. Lockwood Jr., iprained arm and Internal injuries; drs. Samuel M. Lockwood, minor inuries and shock; Miss Eftlo Ladd, ninor injuries and shock; Miss Lu ile Lp -d injuries about the heal; diss Sally Lockwood, internal injuies. Opens Fatal Machine. F. W. Mennerlch of Sullivan, 111., vas killed Sunday in attempting, to >pen an infernal machine, lie >ected its mlR8lon but thought hl? tnowledgo an expert repairman vould enable him to open it safely. Inttn Man looses Kyo. Arch McQueen of Latta shot at a impended hell. The bullet, clanging he clapper, striking the aide of the ell, rebounded and struck him la ho eye, putting it out. Policeman Kills Man. W. Th Brooks, a Savannah polie^rtnn, Saturday killed Charles Hartour of that city. He claims that the. cad man Invaded his homo. Man Wounded and Robbed. At Charleston Monday Rufus Jono? 'as held up by an unknown man, who hot him and then rlflod his pocketa.*