The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 30, 1914, Page EIGHT, Image 8
SHOOTING AFFAIR :
CAUSES SENSATION
GREAT TENSENESS IN SENATORIAL
RINGS ON ACCOUNT
OF THE 8HOOTING.
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DOCTOR DENIES SIGNATURE
Mcintosh Says it Was Clever Forgery.
Governor Offers Reward?At Laurens,
Lexington and Saluda.
The overshadowing event in South1
Carolina politics during the past week
has been the shooting of Dr. J. H.
Mcintosh, a prominent physician of {
Columbia. This event created quite a
sensation, as it came at a time when'
there was great tenseness in the atmosphere
as regards the senatorial
situation. The relationship came
about by the divergence of statements
of the governor and Dr. Mcintosh in
regard to a certificate read by the
governor last week in Abbeville in
which Dr. Mcintosh is said to have
advised the governor to pardon Richey,
the Abbevilie man who had been
aent to the penitentiary for committing
a heinous crime against his fourteen-year-old
daughter. The governor
tated that Dr. Mclntoeh signed the
.statement, and Dr. Mcintosh denied
the authenticity of his signature, in a
statement given out to the press, and
in which he stated that not only had
he told the governor that Richey
should not be released but that ne
ttm feigning paralysis. At the Greenrllle
meeting, Mr. J. W. Norwood was
dubbed a "coward" when he asked the
governor hi regard to the Mcintosh
tatement, and the governor stated
that he would ask the physician to be
on the stand in Columbia at the meeting
to be held there, when he would
read the statement and ask Dr. Mcintosh
if he did not sign it. This
meeting was held Thursday, and early
Thursday morning Dr. Mcintosh was
waylaid on his way home from the
Knowlton hospital and shot, the
wound, however, proving not to be
serious, but sufficient to prevent his
of fha niepfinc Dr. Mc
ayyoai uvu ?v wv ?vV??D
Intosh gave out a statement immediately
after he was shot saying that
the man who did the shooting said
in escaping, "Now you wont bother
Colie tomorrow." The shooting proved
a sensation all over the state, and
J. W. Norwood, of Greenville, offered
a reward of Ave thousand dollars for
the apprehension with proof to con ict
of the man who instigated the
hooting.
Governor Blease read the statement
at the meeting in Columbia Thursday,
expressing regrets that Dr. Mcintosh
had been shot and that he was unable
to appear: that were he present
he would ask him if he signed the
statement after inspecting the signature.
He offered to give a hundred
dollars to anyone who proved that the
physician did not sign it.
Statement by Dr. Mcintosh.
Dr. Mcintosh Saturday afternoon
pave out a statement in which he
tated that he had not signed the
statement, that it was a clever for
gery of his signature, and that he had
given the governor no statement upon
stationery of the Knowlton hospital,
the statement as read by the
governor being upon stationery of
the hospital.
The candidates have only two meetings
this week, one at Edgefield Wednesday
and the other at Aiken Thursday.
At Laurens, where the first meeting
of the past week was held the
friends of the governor were in the
majority. He was carried on the
boulders of his friend? and received
an ovation. This was one of the features
of the week, and the reception
acoorded the governor were marked
u ?ai 1 a ~11 !
7 uiucn euuiusiasiu ai an ui uw
meetings. At Lexington he was placed
in a wagon upon which sat six
pretty girls leading a procession of
several hundred people. The same
reception was accorded him at the
Saluda meeting Saturday, while at
the Columbia meeting he received
several tokens. Six little girls presented
him with boquets of flowers.
Senator Smith's friends have likewise
been active the past week in
taging receptions for their ca:t"iidate,
and at all of the meetings he
was placed upon a bale of cotton lead ,
by a number of farmers on horseback.
The attacks of W. P. Pollock upon the j
nrrl of thA cnvArfinr AIRO hppn
ft feature of the week, the speaker
receiving the attention of his hearers
and much applause. L. D. Jennings,
also made vitriolic speeches against
the record of the governor, and at
Lerxington stated that he hoped his
wife and ctildren would leave him
if he ever grasped the hand or Blease,
this being said in answer to the statementof
the governor that he did not
speak to him and Mr. Pollock on or
off the stage.
Meeting at Columbii.
By far the most interesting meeting
of the week wa* the one held at
Colombia. People from all over the
state had come to the capital city in
tive expectancy of seeing something
"break" .va the governor had promised
at the two meetings held last week
to answer the statement of Dr. Mcintosh
in regard to the Riohey etate*?ent.
There wm ft teneenes* tn the
air all over the state and when the
news was spread abroad that Mcintosh
had been shot the night before
many more people came to Columbia
to hear the candidates. Dr. Mcintosh
had stated that he would certainly be
on the stage at the proper time to
prove that he did not sign the statement.
L. D. Jennings Speaks.
The first speaker of the Columbia
meeting was L. D. Jennings, who had
great difficulty in making his speech,
there being a great amount of heckling
b> the friends of the governor
when he denounced him He told his
auditors that he Intended having his
speech regardless, and excoriated the
chief executive mercilessly upon his
ro/>rtr?H Whan h? rpfprrpd to the i
reign of lawlessness and the shooting
down in the dead of night of men he
was lustily cheered. He finished his
speech under greet difficulties. Tho
next speaker was Senator Smith, who
launched into his record at Washington.
He told of his labois in behalf of
the working man, and while ha received
some heckling at the hands of
the supporters of the governor lie received
marked atfertion from the
audience. When he at first aroto to
speak he was accorded an o- ation
lasting a full minute.
He did noi refer to any of the other
candidates running and when he sat
down he was presented with a ncnch
o* flowers.
Bleat* Cheered and Hitted.
lilt? no a i o^rraivci n a o uv*?i uv*
Blease, who came forward amidst
cheers and hisses. A part of the
audience hissed him for some time,
making it difficult for him to make
his speech, but he bitterly donounced
them, and stated that it was a crowd
of Metropolitan and Columbia Club
members. The hissing kept up, aud
he ordered the state constables to go
up to the Columbia Club and tho
Metropolitan Club and close them up
until he heard from him He said he
was doing this in retaliation and asked
his enemies to continue hissing as
it was making votes for him all over
the state. He was presented with a
large number of flowers as he began
to speak, an umbrella and a loving
cup. He launched into his enemies,
paid his respects to the newspaper?,
and said he had beat them all two
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J cai^5 OUU pi CUltlCU liiai nvum
beat the "hound" out of them on the
twenty-fifth of August. He then began
upon the Mcintosh statement,
reading the list of records he had read
at the Abbeville meeting where he explained
his release of Richey. He
then read the statement he says was
given him by one of the most prominent
lawyers of the state as having
been signed by Dr. Mcintosh, wherein
the latter stated that Richey had "a
neurosis simulating paralysis." He
said that If that signature to the
statement was not Dr. Mcintosh's that
it bad been forged, and that he would
do all he could to catch the man who
committed the forgery. He stated
that he was sorry Dr. Mcintosh was
not present and that he had been
shot, saying that no Bleaseite had
shot him, that Bleaseites do not shoot
people down at midnight. He closed
his speech by predicting that he
would be elected on the first ballot.
Pollock Denounces Blease.
The speech of W. P. Pollock attracted
a great deal of attention, and
he answered his hecklers with blistering
replies. He found difficulty in
speaking on account of the friends of
the governor, but met with more attention
than did L. D. Jennings. He
denounced the record of the governor
in scathing terms, and when asked
about the record of the governor at
the University he stated that that
was a private matter and that he did
not propose #o talk about the private
record of any man. He told of his
own record as a member of the state
legislature and that it was he who
had introduced the Jim crow passenger
coach law. He promised if elected
to serve the interests of all the
people and said that the people of
this state were more interested in the
enforcement of law and order. He
told of the pardon record of the governor
and held up the red republican
ticket he has been exhibiting upon
which is the name or one or me governor's
colonels and said that he had
appointed upon his staff a dago from
Charleston who had not at the time
of appointment citizenship papers. He
mentioned the asylum Investigation
and accused the governor at attempting
to ruin the name of a pure and
innocent woman, referring to Dr.
Saunders.
At the meeting in Lexington there
were a large number of farmers and
a good many visitors from Columbia
an Newberry. The meeting was without
any particular feature, as was
also the <ase at the meeting the next
day at Saluda. At the Lexington
meeting the governor stated that he
had a complete organization throughout
the state, and that he could tell
at the shortest notice the number of
votes and the number of people enrolled.
He stated that State Senator
Sharpe wa6 the president of his organization
and that his private secretary
Jno. K. Aull, was the secretary.
He referred in admiring words to Geo.
Bell Timmerman. the countv chair
man, who he said was a strong Bleaseit*.
Dr. Mcintosh's Statement.
The following ia the statement
which ha6 been issued by Dr. J. H.
Mcintosh last Saturday:
The Knowlton Hospital.
Columbia, S. C..
July 25, 1914.
Ob Thursday, July 23, 1914, I was
still ao much under the Influence ol
the anasethetic and of anodynes frora
the operation of the eight previous
that I did not see the afternoon paper
and consequently did not know
until Friday morning what had been
said at the campaign meeting on
Thursday. As soon as I saw on Friday
morning the certificate set out ini
The Slate purporting to have been l
read from the platform by Governor
Blease I imedlately sent my father,
Dr. James Mcintosh, and a friend to
the governor's office to request that
he send the certificate to the Knowlton
Hospital by his private secretary,
Mr. Aull that I might have an opportunity
of seeing and inspecting it. Mr.
A ..11 KAntlAmen V, o Vi A
nuu iuiu mrnc uriiiiciiicu inai cue
certificate was not in the office, but
that Governor Blease had it in his
pocket at the Lexington campaign
meeting, but that he would obtain it
and that It would be In the governor's
office on Saturday morning.
On Saturday morning, on application
at the governor's office, Mr, Aull
told my father, Dr. James Mcintosh,
that Governor Blease had come to the
city Friday night but had not come
to the capitol and consequently he
had not secured the original certificate.
The only certificate I signed In this
case bears date of January 9, 1912,
that being the date of our visit to the
South Carolina penitentiary and of
our examination of R. A. Richey. It
rvvrt nn T-rv/1 an/1 o t fm/wl in tka rtffi OA
woo |/zc^micu aiiu oiguuu iu tuv vu*v?
of the South Carolina penitentiary immediately
after our examination. It
is written with pen and ink and is on
one of the letterhead* of the South
Carolina penitentiary. It 1* in my
handwriting, and it contains no recommendation
of pardon or parole. It
**? signed by both Dr. Knowlton and
myself, and I understand that It was j
turned over by Dr. Knowlton to Mr.
W. R. Richey.
When this true certificate is produced
I will identify it and will stand |
by its statement. And this is the .
only certificate that I have ever sign-'
ed in the Richey case. Unfortunately,
there is no copy of this certificate in !
existence to my knowledge?we made
no copy of it that afteraon. and I have
not seen the original since.
This certificate as written by us
was not satisfactory to Mr. W. R.
Richey, and on several days subsequent
to our examination various
typewritten modifications of our certificate
were submitted to Dr. Knowl-,
on and myself for our approval and |
signature. Kach of these, after read- i
Ins carefully. I returned unsigned, as
In my opinion they did not cover the ,
case properly.
The certificate published In the j
newspaper aR having been read by j
Governor Blease. purports to be writ- j
ten on the letter paper of the Knowl-1
ton Hospital and' bears the date of j
January 19. 1912. whereas the only j
certificate I signed was written on j
letter paper of the penitentiary and <
bears date of January 9. 1912. The
certificate set out in the newspaper
is not the true certificate: I did not
sign it and any signature thereto pur- j
porting to be mine is not genuine.
(Siged) James H. Mcintosh, j
The governor, after this statement j
was issued, sent the original state-'
ment to the hospital for inspection [
by Dr. Mcintosh. The physician ,
stated that he did not sign it. and said 1
that it was a clever forgery.
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CAND'DA"
Since 1867 the South cont
. $1,429,000,000.00, practically no
- sions. The Northern and VVesu
monev but in addition the Feder
in aid of building trans-continen
improving the vast arid lands of
in the form of taxations exacted
the Federal Government now be
the country, part, at lease, of th
to that end I ad vocate generous
HON and AGRICULTURAL D
Up to the advent of Wooc
as a step child of the general go
nality had been showered on the
help pay the bills and look on.
South back into its own when b;
acter he placed on the statute b<
Law and the Repeal of the subs
ihe Panama Canal. For these r
ment of the administration and
Agriculture being the bas
country, RURAL CREDIT, givi
ing of his crop, and permanent i
gage indebtedness, will be the c
AGRICULTURAL EDUC
from the Federal Government, '<
take my seat in the Halls of Cor
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vote tor a. j
Items of General Interest.
H E Jones, Jr, a street car conuctor
for the Consolidated Coriv
any of Charleston, shot and mortalj
wounded John Jones Monday dbr-!
lg a fight between the two on
leeting street near the car barn, j
he homicide grew out a dispute
bout a five-cent car-fare.
XXX
Wednesday of last week.in the Haile
line section- of Lancaster county,
ear Kershaw, R A Love, a well
? * r i.t.-.i. .
nown iarmer 01 mai vHiuny, wan i
atally shot by George Roberts, a'
rominent citizen of the same com-1 I
mnity. The weapon used by Rolv1
rts was a shot gun and it is said
lat Love was shot in the stomach. I
: is said the men were quarrelling
ver some matter of minor signifi-l
ance.
XXX
Manning Forrester, a white man.
ho lived near Landrum, in Spar-'
inburg county, was struck on the1 j
ead Sunday with a baseball bat; ?
'ielded by a negro at a negro res-1
aurant in a quarrel over the price
f a fish, Forrester died Sunday j**
fternoon from the effect of his in- j "
tries. Several negroes have been 1 p
rrested, but, as they refuse to tell __
ho struck the fatal blow, the identi-1
/ of the guilty party is as yet un- j
etermined. ?
A Good Investment. |
W D Magli.a well known merchant j
f Whitemound. Wis, bought a stock
f Chamberlain's medicine so as to!
e able to supply them to his cus)mers.
After receiving them he
as himself taken sick and says that!
ne small bottle of Chamberlain's'
olic,Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy j
as worth more to him than the cost J
f his entire stock of these medicines,
or sale by all dealers.
The People's Mercantile Co have
ist received a fresh lot of Kingan's
ure Lard and Hams, and they are
nxious to have every housekeeper j
y this brand, because they believe
's the best. 7-30-2t 'i
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ributed to the Federal pension fund
ne of which ever came back to the Sol
jrn States not only received all of
ol r.nvarnmowt hag hogn gnpnOincr mil
1,1 >JW? v? w( "O
ital lines of railroads to the Pacific Cos
the West, to all of which the South e
from it by the Government. It is hij
gin to return to the South, in commo
ie millions that we pour into its treasu
government aid for DRAINAGE, GO
EVELOPMENT.
(row Wilson in the White House the S
wernment and while paternalism almo
i East, the North and the West, the Soi
Woodrow Wilson changed the entire s
y his indomitable will, honesty, integr
x)ks the Democratic Tariff Law; the
idy to the Shipping Trust in the form
easons, if for no others, I pledge mi
policies of Woodrow Wilson,
is of all prosperity, particularly so
ng the farmer immediate relief in the
relief to the small land owner so as to i
hief aim of my Congressional career if
NATION can be materially advanced b;
ind to that subject I shall also pay dili
tgress to represent my district.
L. Hamer for (
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a sum, approximating
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this enormous sum of
lions and billions there
tst and in settling and
ontributed its full share
rh time, I believe, that
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rv vear after year and jT
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outh was looked upon
st" to the point of crimiith
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vstem and brought the
ity and force of charBanking
and Currency
of free passage through
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cultivation and harvestrelieve
him of his mort:
I am elected.
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