The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 03, 1905, Image 1
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THE SOUTHBOUND.
Conditions Must be Met-The Com?
munity That Fails to Vote cr Sub?
scribe Bonds to Aid in Boild
This Road Will Not Get lt.
(Winston Journal.)
To the Eidtor of the Journal:
I wish I could feel as optimistic as
you indicated you do in your article
on tl te Southbou nd railroad in Tues ?
day's paper. You said, in comment
\ mg on the High Point movement, that
the Southbound will be built and
spoke ar. if there was not longer any
.certainty about it. As I said, in the
; ; ' beginning, I wish I could feel this way
about it, but to my mind it is by no
means a certainty unless every dol
J lar that is now proposed to be sub?
scribed by the various : towns and
townships is voted, but while I do not
feel it as a certainty, still I do believe
that to vote these subscriptions means'
the road, while on the contrary I feel
absolutely sure that the failure to
vote these subscription means the loss
of the road. My reasons are first, the
proposition is that we must raise
$500,000 to secure the road. Where
is it to come from? All that is in
sight- now if every dollar is voted as
now proposed, is as follows:
Winston township $100,000.
Broadbay $15,000.
Mi?way $5,000. - ?
' Lexington $125,000.
Jackson Hill $5,000.
Anson county $50,000.
This makes $315,000.
^ Snree parties here have subscribed
^ privately $10,000, making a total of
every dollar now in sight only $345,
000, which leaves $155,000 short of
the $500,000 dollars, required, this we
hope to raise iii Charleston, orf if
Charleston fails us, in Southport, or
from other parts, but this is by no
means certain, ? an is yet to be
done, but I will say that Col. Fries is
doing all in his power to get this
money up.
I have written this that the whole
"Situation may be freely understood so
that no friend of the movement may
relax his efforts to secure this great
enterprise for this section.
The effort being made by the differ?
ent sections to secure this road should
wake us up to the importance of this
movement and to realize w3?at we will
lose if we fail this time. My friends
I hope The Journal is correct but I
tell you in my opinion it is uncertain,
and we may make a serious and
grievous mistake if we do not contin?
ue . each one of us to do all in our
power to secure this road and I am
certain every subscription proposed is
vital to this measure.
, C. A. Reynolds.
THE NEW RAILROAD.
The Only Obstacle is the Price De?
manded for Rigbts-of-Way.
The Bishopville Vindicator, refer?
ring to the party of railroad men who
made a tour of inspection of the route
of the proposed railroad from this
city to Bethune and the Seaboard Air
Line, has this to say:
"The party consisting of Major
Bushnell and Captain Davis of Flor?
ida, Mr. W. H Ingram and Major .
Lorir.g Lee, reached here last Thurs?
day evening and spent the night. Next
morning, accompanied by Hon. T. G.
McLeod, they resumed their journey
over the proposed route to Bethune j
and were very much impressed with
the section of country through which
they passed.
The scheme for the new road is
by no means dead if the right of way
and terminals can be secured on rea- j
sonable terms. The people living be- I
tween here and Bethune are very j
anxious for the road and will do all
they can for it. Between here are !
Manville and the eastern limit of j
town seoms to be the hardest set from i
whom to get reasonable terms.
"It is sound business judgment to !
ask a fair remunerative price for
right-of-way, but an unreasonable de?
mand sows poor business tact and a
want of public spirit. Major Bushnell
and Captain Davis took the train at
Bethune and we may hear from them
again soon." i
' SOLICITOR'S BAD B3E4K.
ARREST OF KERSAW MEN FOR
LYNCHING UNWARRANTED.
His Detective Has Skipped the Corni
try and There is no Evidence
Against the Men.
Columbia, April 29.-It seems that
Solicitor Henry made a "bad break"
in employing Henry Dowie to work
up the evidence against the lynchers
! of ?John Morrison at Kershaw last Oc?
tober, and which culminated the oth?
er day in the sensational arrest of
such prominent men socially and in a
business way as Stewart W. Heath.
John L. Stevens, W. E. Belk, Dick
Belk, Burwell Truesdale, J. S. Holden,
S. F. Gardner, Jr., H. J. Gardner, S.
W. Welsh, Frank Hough, along with
a negro named Tom Shot Jones. At
the preliminary hearing before Mag?
istrate Caskey at Lancaster yesterday
Howie, who had skipped out, was put
on the gridiron hy the lawyers for the
defense, who denounced him as a
fraud who had spent the state's mon?
ey in joints in Charlotte, Atlanta,
Chester and elsewhere and had caus?
ed the arrests for nothing.
The solicitor admitted that he had
no witnesses and he shouldered the
entire responsibility for employing
Howie, but he urged the magistrate
to continue the case until Wednesday,
as Howie had promised to produce the
evidence by then. He admitted the ar
rest of the men was a surprise to him,
but said he had been given to under?
stand that it had been done to pre?
vent the defendants from deflecting a
certain important State's witness
whom they were after at the time of
the arrests. The case was dismissed
and the case against others for whom
warrants were out were nol prossed
by the solicitor.
"I was too busy to take the matter
up," said Solicitor Henry, when the
lawyers on the other side got to press?
ing him hard on account of the turn
the case had taken. "I had no time to
confer witt* witnesses. Why, your
honor, I kne*- that this would be an
honor, I know that this would be an
unpopular ca.de. I have life-long
friends in Lancaster county, who, I
knew, would become estranged. My
God, have I got to make enemies to
do my duty?"
Solicitor Eeuy wants to occupy his
time right no* forgetting all about
this affair so zar as what the people
I of Lancaster or anywhere else will
think of his conduct. He evidently
made a mistake of the head, which
the best of su do at times,
but it is impossible for as
fundamentally true and as nat?
urally fearless and honorable a
man as J. K. Henry to
i mistake of the heart. The
splendid personality of Mr. Hen?
ry is too well impressed upon
' the hearts of those whQ know him for
a thing of this kind to be of ar>y last?
ing importance against him.
A. C. L. SPREADING OUT.
Rumors Generally Believed That it
Has Leased the L. & N.
New York, April 26.-It is report?
ed that preliminary papers have been
signed leasing the Lousville and
Nashville railroad to the Atlantic
Coast Line on a guarantee of 7 per
cent, on the Lousiville and Nashville
stock. The report has not been con?
firmed.
Officials of the Atlantic Coast Line
declined to talk concerning the re
! ported guarantee on Louisville and
Nashville stock.
The Louisville now pays at The rate
of 6 per cent, per annum against 5
in the years 1901-4 inclusive. 4 in
1900, 3 1-2 in 1899 and nothing in the
five preceding years. The Atlantic
Coast Line purchased $30,600.000 of
the Louisville's $60,000.000 stock from
J. P. Morgan & Co., in 1202.
The purpose of guaranteeing a 7 j
per dent, dividend has been reported
in Wall Street ever since Lousville's
advance this season from 134 1-2 to
150. The stock sold up 1 3-4 to
156 1-4 today, but broke sharply
when the afternoon reports were cir?
culated. Atlanti Coast Line stock
fell today from 163 to 166 ?-2. It sold
at 169 1-2 last week. j
BALTIC FLEET AT DAGAL.
French Squadron Has Been Mobilized
to Preserve Neutrality of French
Waters.
London, May 1.-A correspondent
of the Reuter Telegram Company at
Saigon, Cochin China, says that the
Baltic Fleet is lying off Port Daga!,
forty miles north of Kamranh Bay.
The French squadron has been mobil?
ized the correspondent says, and the
neutrality of French waters is being
maintained.
TUE MONSTER COTTON CROP.
XO WONDER THE PRICE WENT
DOWN.
Census Bureau Report Places the
Crop Of 1904 at 13,584.457
Bales.
Washington April 28.-The cen?
sus bureau today issued the final re?
port on the crop of cotton grown
in 1904. The crop as returned by
ginners, including linters at 13,584,457
bales of 500 pounds, exceeds the crop
of 1903 by 3,491,386 bales or 35.4 per
cent. The largest crop prior t& 1904
was that of 1898, which, according to
the commercial returns, was 11,235,
000 bales.
Texas has held the first rank as a
cotton state for twenty years. In 1904
it produced 3,134,677 bales, Georgia
was second with 1,960,151, passing
Mississippi, which was second in 1903.
Mississippi was third with Alabama
in the fourth place.
PENSION FOR TEACHERS.
Andrew Carnegie Gives $10,900,000 to
Provide Pension for Broken Down
College Professors.
New York, April 27.-The an?
nouncement was made today that An?
drew Carnegie has given a fund of
^ten million dollars to provide for "re?
tiring pensions for teachers of Univer?
sities, colleges and Technical schools
j in our country, Canada and New
: Foundland. "Carnegie's aim is to in
?sure faithful teachers a competence
after they have reached the age lim?
it, to assist others who have been
forced to retire earlier in "life on ac?
count of physical disability and to
raise the standard of teaching in ed?
ucational institutions, where younger
professors wTould be able to continue
salaries. Everything is in readiness
ior the successful inauguration of the
scheme. A commission of trustees, in?
cluding all of the chief educators of
t?ie country has been selected.
THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR.
Laurens Paper Says Give Heyward
Another Term.
Tho Darlington News is a fairly safe
newspaper to follow in choosing men
to vote for. Its judgment of public
men is right in nine out of ten cases
in South Carolina politics. It is al?
ways outspoken. It has a way of say?
ing things bluntly sometimes but its
sayings are mostly true. Eecause of
the value that we place upon the
News and because we have more con
fidence in its honesty and candoi
?
than we have in some people's we
reproduce the following from its col?
umns:
"Of all those who have been spoken
of for governor thus far the Hon.
Richard L Manning, in the opinion
of The News, is best equipped for the
position. In addition to being well
versed in the affairs of the State, Mr.
Manning is a man of sound business
judgment, a quality much to be desir?
ed in these days when South Carolina
is making such strides in the indus?
trial world. Of course, the election
is too far off to commit himself, but
The News thinks that Mr. Manning is
the right man for the place."
Now we also believe in the worth of
the Hon. Dick Manning. We think
that there are few men in public life
in this state who are as good as he,
but we cannot decide for Manning for
governor just now. For two reasons:
We are suspicious of Manning's dis?
pensary views. We are willing to
swallow Hey ward, dispensary and ali,
but if a change is to be made we pre?
fer the dispensary. Captain Hey ward
has been a sugar-coat to the dispen?
sary pill.
?Our second reason is that we favor
compelling D. C. Heyward to run
; again next year. He can be made to
I run. We hope the people will dis
cr>ura,ge all others from running. Let
us have peace. j
The Newberry Herald and News :
; says that a third term would be a !
' bad precedent, that Heyward is a good
] man but "there are others." Newber
i ry has three men suggested: H. H.
Evans, C. L. Blease and A. C. Jones.
We take it for granted that the Her
I aid will support a Newberry man
one of the three. Six years, or three
terms as governor, is equal to one
term as United States senator. A
sheriff elected twice serves longer
: than a governor.
We should like to know who The
Herald and News favors. What has
it to conceal? If it has a man it pre?
fers to Heyward, why not name him?
If it has none it prefers to Heyward
why not join the Advertiser in urging
the re-election of the incumbent?
Laurens Advertiser.
i CONFERENCE FOR EOU?iTION.
I
i -
TILE OPENING SESSION HELD EX
j OPERA HOUSE.
A Large and Distinguished Body Of
Educators Present in Columbia.
Columbia, April 26.-The exercises
of the Conference for Education in
the South were formally opened to?
night in the opera house in the pres?
ence of a most distinguished audience.
The opera house was tastily decorated
with red, white and blue bunting and
flags of the Union, interspersed with
those of the Palmetto State. On the
stage there were men who have occu?
pied a focal point in the educational
world. It was a company, as Mr. Og?
den expressed it, with hearts attuned
to doing the most good for their fel?
low men. The opening night was de?
voted to the formal opening of the
Conference, the eloquent address of
welcome by Governor Heyward, the
annual address of President Ogden, of
New York, and a masterly address on
the interpretation of the Conference
for Education from a Southern stand?
point by Dr. George H. Denny, presi?
dent of Washington and Lee Univer?
sity.
The addresses were all of a high or?
der and particularly appropriate for
the opening occasion. The address of
Governor Heyward was received with
great enthusiasm. Then came the
views of the Conference from the
president, whose very name is regard?
ed as identical with that of the organ?
izaron. Mr. Ogden is quite a distin?
guished looking man, of somewhat ad?
vanced years. He spoke with convic?
tion and force and what he had to
say was frequently punctuated with
applause. His remarks relative to
many prominent educators were hear?
tily cheered, and Mr. Ogden laid spe?
cial stress on the fact that his ad?
dress was very general in the outline
in the work and scope of the Confer?
ence.
The chief address of the evening
was that of Dr. George H. Denny, the
distinguished and able president ot
Washington and Lee University, Gov?
ernor Hey war d's alma mater. The
evening was rounded out with a de-'
lightful reception at the State House.
The ceremonies were opened by Su?
perintendent E. S. Dreher, superin- j
tendent of the Columbia Graded
Schools, who introduced Governor
Heyward.
President Robert C. Ogden was
then presented and made a clear and
emphatic address, and especially on
the work of the conference, he made
a strong and excellent address.
The last talk of the evening was
that of Dr. Denny, of Washington
laud Lee.
There were many prominent educa?
tors on the rostrum. Besides Gover?
nor Heyward, Mr. Ogden and mem?
bers of his party, whose names are
; mentioned elsewhere, were on the
stage and in addition were: Dr. Wm.
T. Harris. United States commission?
er Of education; Dr. E. A. Alderman,
University of Virginia; Dr. W. B. Hill,
University of Georgia; Dr. G. H. Den?
ny, of Washington and Lee; Dr. J. W.
Abercombie, president University of
Alabama; Dr. Wickliffe Rose, Sean
of Peabody College; Dr. Burris A.
Jenkins, president Kentucky Univer?
sity, Lexington, Ky.; Dr. C. D. Mciver,
North Carolina Normal College; Dr.
C. W. Dabney, University of Cincin?
nati ; Dr. Brown Ayres, University of
Tennessee; Dr. D. B. Johnson, Win?
throp College; Mayor Gibbes, Dr.
Eenjamin Sloan, South Carolina Col?
lege; Judge I. B. Jones, supreme court,
' Gen. John D. Frost, Dr. G. B. Moore,
? South Carolina College; Dr. E. S.
Joynes, South Carolina College; Mr.
W. A. Clark, Columbia; Dr. W. W.
Daniel, Columbia College; Dr. H. A.
White. Theological Seminary; Mr.
Charles M. Merry, superintendent of I
public schools. Covington, Ky. Presi- j
dent Ogden mr.de the announcements
for tomorrow, after which the visi?
tors and hosts went to the State
House to attend the reception.
The newspaper correspondents with j
the Ogden party have been filing :
thousands of words of reports from
here of the opening session of the ,
Conference. The Western Union Tel- '
egraph Company had four extra oper?
ators at work tonight.
The reception at the State House j
tonight was a great success. It was
a surprise to the visitors and they |
said it eclipsed the receptions at pre?
vious gatherings in the elegance of I
the guests, etc. The State House, I
which was the scene of the reception, |
looked brilliant indeed.
Columbia. April 27.-The morning
session of the eigth annual Conference
for Education in the South was given
up to the Conference of Southern
States Superintendents of Education,
this being one of the features of the
big conference. The most interesting
feature of the morning was the rather
impromptu symposium in the chapel
of the South Carolina College at S:45
this morning, the speakers being Mr.
Robert C. Ogden, the Hon. Seth Low,
Dr. St. Clair McKelway and Dr. E. A.
Alderman. The students of the college
were gathered in the chapel for the
regular morning exercises which were
varied by these addresses. Mr. Ogden
said that although he was the presi?
dent of an educational movement, yet
he was remarkably ignorant, for his
life had been lived in a prosaic occu?
pation and he was only a plain Amer?
ican business man. That there was a
growing demand for educated men in
the business world he had no doubt,
as no work is so well done that it can?
not be done better. And in the callings
of life, in which young people wrere
brought into contact with other peo?
ple it w?as even more valuable for the
world demands intelligent and well in?
formed men in every line of business.
Mr. Ogden called special attention to
the common fallacy that modern col?
lege education did not fit a man to &
into the business world. In his opin?
ion the fact that education generally
tended towards idealism was commen?
datory in itself. Idealism and common
sense carried into any business in the
world would accomplish much.
Mr. Ogden was followed by the
Hon. Seth Low, who spoke upon the
atttitude which a young man should
have towards the various public ques?
tions of the day. It is too often the
case, he said, that men form their
ideals of things, and then go to work
to find the facts which sustain those
theories, ignoring those that are not
in accord with them He advised the
young men to get first their facts, and
base their ideas upon these. Mr. Low
referred to the time when he was
president of Columbia University, and
said that the name of Franis Lieber
connected that university with the
South Carolina College. The name of
Dr. Francis Lieber, who was for many
years a professor in the South Caro?
lina College, is written deeply in the
traditions of the College, and Mr. Low
said that it is the same writh Columbia
University, where he afterwards be
me one of the most distinguished
professors. That Lieber was a great
man, said he. was attested by the fact
that at the Hague Peace Conference,
to which Mr. Low went as a represen?
tative of the United States, the doc?
trines laid out by Mr. Lieber were
adopted with a few modifications. Mr.
Low laid special stress on the college
education, as it generally produced
open-mindedness and breadth of
thought. These qualtiies, he said,
were commendable in all walks of life
and were responsible for much of
the advancement of the world of to?
day. He told of a distinguished Ger?
man scientist, who, while visiting this
country, was a guest of Columbia Uni?
versity, and who said that if a man
discovered one new law of nature he
had done a service to the world of
lasting benefit
Dr. St. Clair McKelway, editor of
the Brooklyn Eagle, then addressed
the students, and in his usual delib?
erative manner of speaking made a
profound impression on his audience.
He said that he was beside a journal?
ist, a member of the state board of
regents of Xew York and that he was
deeply "r tcrested in the corai:?t?on of
the schools of the State with the State
University. He won applause when
he said that the State University in
South Carolina should be like Alex?
ander Hamilton planned that Colum?
bia University should be in New York,
the centre around which clustered all
the other schools.
Dr. Alderman, president of the Uni?
versity of Virginia, was the next
speaker and the last. He made a
speech which was received with un?
usually prolonged applause. Among
other things he said that he had re?
cently read an excellent article in the
Atlantic Monthly on the "Difficulties
and Dangers of a College President."
Sometime he said he wanted to write
or get some one else to write an ar?
ticle on the pleasures of a college
president. He spoke of the type of
the student in the South and said that
he vr?s more serious minded than the
student of other sections of the coun?
try, spending less time riding in au
tomobiles. yachts and the like.
A reception was given the attend?
ants on the confrence this afternoon
On the campus of the South Carolina^
College, at which four or five hun?
dred were present. The visitors were
received on the lawn in front of the
president's house.
At the superintedent's conference
the State superintendent of the fol?
lowing states were present: South
Carolina. Xorth Carolina. Georgia.
Alabama. Texas, Tennessee and Ar?
kansas. Each of these spoke on dif?
ferent phases of the recent progress of
education in the Southern states.
The Xigiit Session.
At the night session of the Confer
A MATTER OF HEALTH
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
OAS NO SUBSTITUTE
ence of Education a bright and clever
young woman, Miss Natalie Curtis*
won the honors of the evening. She
was a complete and most delightful
surprise. She has for years been a
worker among the Indians in the far
West and hers was a beautiful tribute
to the poor Indians, to their sense of
right, to their traditions, poetry and?
music, with a charm that was elo?
quent and the ring of the true woman?
she asked for an awakening of publier
interest in the Indian and the neces?
sity for saving the Indian race, the
Indian soul and their poetry, music
and traditions for the real American.
The Indians have a sweet and spon?
taneous regard for that which is pure
and right. Miss Curtis said that the
Indians had traditions as rich as any
in the world, and a music and poetry
that has merit and force. The Indian
war songs, she said, were really ex?
pressions of love and affection or*
sympathy. Miss Curtis illustrated her
pretty and eloquent talk by singing
some of the Indian songs. The wast
audience owes President Ogden a vote
of thanks for having presented as a:
surprise so charming a speaker as?
Miss Curtis. The audience tonight
was the largest of the session. Presi?
dent Ogden presided with delightful
ea.se. He made occasional announce?
ments relative to the special. trains,
baggage and exhibits, and he did so?
in a pleasant way, frequently throw?
ing a bit of fun. Tonight's program
included three excellent speeches, all?
of the orators speaking straight from
the shoulder. Superintendent J. H.
Phillips has been a marked success?
as superintedent of the city schools^
of Birmingham, Ala. He is one of the*
most successful of southern teachers
He has made a most remarkable ex?
ecutive officer. His speech on the?
schools of the south was excellent.
The subject of compulsory educa?
tion is one of all absorbing interest
and it was discussed with marked!
ability, vigor and force by Superin?
tendent W. H. Hand, of Chester. Mr
Hand had what might appear to be a.
dry topic, but he received a curtain?
call and won the highest commenda?
tion from a ciritical audience.
The final address of the evening:
was delivered by the Hon. Seth Low;,
the conspicuous and leading educator
of New Yorrk. Mr. Low made a most
favorable impression here tonight.
When he was presented he was hear?
tily applauded and in opening his ad?
dress he said that he came here- with
Mr. Ogden to see and learn, arid every
man and woman in Mr. Ogden's party
came to Columbia to see and leam;,
and could say with perfect candor
that he and ali would return home:
with new inspiration, new courage
and new love for our country. He had"
learned much and parenthetically her
said that the man most offensive to
him was the man who knew it all, andi
was unwilling to admit that he didi
not know it all.-News and Courier
NED MACK HINGED.
Negro Pays the Penalty in Manning:
fi>r Murder.
Manning. April 2S.-Ned Mack, fie
negro murderer, was hanged in the
jail yard today at 11:15 o'clock in
the presence of a small crowd of of?
ficials and witnesses. The trap was
sprung at 11:15 an 1 he ? was pro?
nounced dead in about 13 minutes.
Death was due to strangulation, his
neck not being broken by the fall.
It will be remembered that an ef?
fort was made to save Mack on the
ground of insanity and that Governor
Hevward granted a respite until as.
commission of doctors made a thor?
ough examination ana pronounced
him sane.
York. Pa., April 28.-A wreck of a
passenger train caused by a misplaced
switch, occurred at 8:17 today and
resulted in thirteen being seriously in?
jured. The railway officials believe
that an attempt was made to wreck
thc train.