The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 07, 1908, Image 6
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ONB HORT OF ?E.NKROSJTY.
Sheriff Kppvraon I? a very generous
considerate official, or, at least,
*a*> says he in. as his excuse for or ex
?UnatIon of his refusal to Insert any
wM tha legal advertising of his office In
Msls paper. Ha says he must look out
Set* and take oar a of the poor people
trtso have to pay the advertising bills,
axed ha therefore gives his advertising
to the paper that charges him only
?gS.lO each lor delinquent tax sales.
In the face >f the fact that there
a law on tha statute books speoify
g the rate to be paid newspapers for
m official advertising. When
If he applied the same rule
his own fsea and took care of the
sf people by presenting them with
-m port of the compensation allowed him
my low, ho said that that sort of thing
an entirely different matter?that
O herd snough time gettlug
now on what he gets out of the
He also objected strenuously
to tha proposition that It would be
|wj business according to his the
to farm out tha SherlfTs of
to the lowest bidder. "Oh. no!"
ha/ ' the law says the office goes
to the man who gets the most votes.'*
Bot, ha was reminded, the law says
that you, as sheriff, shall pay the
pstater a specified amount per Inch
twr advertising public sales, and you
to do it. in order that you may
up a reputation for generosity
tha prtntara' expense. "Oh, no!"
ha. "that hi an entirely different
N To which, a wayfaring man,
he be a fool, will agree. It Is an
osittTify different ^matter. The state
4 county and all the officers, treas
sr. sheriff, constable, auctioneer, ct
get the full and exact fee commis?
si and percentage allowed by stat?
ic a liberal allowance It It for
work?while a generous sheriff
?are of the needy public and his
itioa for frea-handedneas by cut
down tha lawful advertising rate
depriving the printers of their
off, so to speak.
Turning aside from generalities to a
example of how the Sheriff's
operates, we find by refer
to his moet recent tax
advertisement that If ha
up In the bill of coats
Robert Bentley, the sum
? t lo for the advertising, ne
rcbarged him exactly SO cents, for
the legal rata this advertisement
lid amount to only $2.00. There
other Illustrations of tha same sort
Ist same fat of tax aale advertiee
Sherlft Epperson and other
i sly disposed public officials
la the long run It la the wise
to stick to the law and not try
pfcay too role of special providence
the public?at the expense of news
Suppose he try his hand on
down tha legal fees of the
tor for making out the execu
and the fees of his special con?
fer serving the executions. We
id ho amused to see how it would
Bot that would be an entirely
it matter?we presume.
John I* McLaurln, ones a shining
of the re fawn movement and la
a United States Senator, Is a cu
cuss. He admits having been
it with the goods and says he is
ij of It
s e ' e
McLaurln wsnt all the way 10 Xew
Tora to consult Archbold, his em
r. before he dared to say a word
it the exposure of the fact that
was on ths Standard Oil pay roll
representing South Carolina In
io Senate and seeking re-election,
e e e
If John L> McLaurln Is so proud of
s> connection with the Standard Oil
and his having received money
Archbold, the dispenser of the
t's political corruption fund, why
he not tell the people of South
Carolina, when he was seeking their
votes, that his campaign was being
financed by ths Standard Oil Compa
sryT
see
Once upon a time one John L. Mc?
Laurln wrote a letter to his political
frtead and confidant, "My Dear Ap?
pell." In which he spoke c ?ntemptu
of a breed of polttlcsl mercen
who could be "bought like dog
meat at so much a pound." Did he
leave his transactions with Archbold
tn mind whsn he wrote the famous
??My Dear Appell" letter?
see
The United States have fallen on
evil days when the President and his
rabl ist meet in f ?rmsl session to dis?
owns and frame a partisan cumpulgn
document. Mr. Roosevelt and his
Cabinet have deliberately taken the
position that the Roosevelt adminis?
tration Is a government of, by und for
the Republican party, and not a gov?
ernment of the whole people. If Mr.
Moosevelt Is to be believed, the peo?
ple who vote the Democratic ticket
Inmve no part Ir the government, have
tea lights that ought to be respected
amd are a set of Ignorant, corrupt and
various fools who must be kept In en
subjection It Is high time that
ist. the Roosevelt policies and
Roosevslt brand of politicians
wer? relegated to tha rear. A decade
of Rooseveltlsm would utterly de?
stroy the democratic form of govern?
ment In America. Rooseveltlsm stands
for absolutism In the executive branch
of government, subserviency In the
Judicial, pliancy In the legislative, and
a big standing army to enforce the
, will of the chief executive In the event
that the mass of the people become
restive.
? mm
Why did Harrlman, a practical
man, and the Steel Trust, Standard
Oil and all oth.r trusts, all operated
by practical men for their own bene?
fit, contribute to the Republican cam?
paign fund? Were they disinterested
philanthropists working and giving
far the public good only, or were they
practical men working for their own
pockets all the time?
Bryaii In California.
Washington Herald.
George Valentine, a retired busi?
ness man and prominent Republican
politician of Los Angeles, Cal., Is at
the Rlggs. Mr. Valentine is accom?
panied by his wife, and is making a
trip Bast for hU health.
Discussing the political situation
along the Pacific coast, Mr. Valen?
tine, who Is prominent In the ranks
of the Republican party In his State,
said that there had taken place a
most remarkable change of heart In
favor of Bryan, and that the Demo?
cratic candidate had excellent chances
of carrying California.
"The Republican party seems to be
In a bad fix." said the Callfornlan,
"and if the) Bryan sentiment is as
strong In other parts of the country as
it la in Los Angeles and California,
there Is nothing under the sun that
can prevet his election. I know quite
a number of Republicans personally
who will vote for Bryan.
"Labor, whether organised or not,
will support Candidate Bryan as a
rule. The laboring men, notwith?
standing all reports to the contrary,
are paying the closest possible atten?
tion to the views of Mr. Oompers In
tho matter; they are convinced that
ha has their Interests at heart, and
that he is fair and square and honest.
"The Japanese question Is by no
means disposed of along the Pacific
coast. It is merely dormant, and by
no means dead. There is no doubt
in my mind but that it will bob up
again in tho most unexpected mo?
ment."
_ WALK-OVER
4jkm TUB IDEAL
||n SCHOOL SHOE.
THE 8TJMTER CLOTHING CO.
DANGERS OF PLUTOCRACY.
American People Will Have to De?
stroy or Be Destroyed.
New Orleans Picayune.
The presidential campaign entan?
glement In the tentacles of that all
powerful, as far as money Is power,
I octopus, the Standard Oil Company, Is
rapidly becoming one of the most
flagrant and hideous political scandals
In the world, and It Is exciting com?
ment in every civilised country where
there Is a newspaper press.
It has already twined Its snaky
folds around leading men, who hold
positions of high trust in national
and State governments. It has paid
them large sums of money to com?
mand their services In securing de?
sired legislation for or against
measures ln( which the octopus was
Interested and It has been claimed 10
be able to work Its will throughout
tthe country, to exercise the right to
violate the laws with absolute Impu?
nity, and by donations through Its
chief owners In college and universi?
ties, to be seeking to control the
education of the younger generations
of the American people to regard it
with favor.
Money Is coming to be a great
power In this grand republic of ours
It is already becoming the basis of
what Is claimed to be the highest
American social aristocracy, and that
fact of itself creates a wonderful de
sir* and motive power on the part
of the American people to get wealth
The ability of great financial corpor?
ations to create and control politi?
cal conditions in their interests has
been demonstrated. If It shall be
developed that such sinister instru?
mentalities shall be able alr.o to dom?
inate society and education also,
then there comes up the certainty,
sooner or later, that the American
paopfs will have to destroy a power
so deadly to civil liberty, to political
BOfOty, to social purity, and to truth
and honesty, or their republic will
be destroyed by it.
?WALK-OVERS.**
FOR HOYS
AND MEN.
THE SCMTER CLOTHING CO.
A wise man gives his tongue a rest
at ths expense of his ears.
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HISTORY OF HASKELL.
Some Particulars of Ills Vurh?
Career.
The New York World of last Fri?
day, save in a dispatch from c.uthrk\
Oklu., the following account of the
career of Mr. Haskell:
Charles X. Haskell came to Musko
gee, then in Indian Territory, in 1901,
from Fayetteville, Ark., and about
the same time was at least for a while
located in San Antonio, Texas.
It defending himself against the
attacks of William R. Hearst it is ad?
mitted by Haskell that he was living
in New York city when the alleged
Standard Oil bribe was offered in Ohio,
early in 1898. Between the time he
left New York and located in Okla?
homa he was for a time in Old Mex?
ico, but that he lived there under
the name of Brown Is not corroborat?
ed.
While in Texas he organized the
Commercial Telephone company at
San Antonio. The company later
went Into the hands of a receiver and
was sold to satisfy claims against it.
Coming to Oklahoma, Mr. Has?
kell, as he had been in Ohio, became
prominent immediately as a railroad
promoter. He was president of the
Indlanola Contracting company,
which built, besides various railroads,
the Turner hotel at Muskogee, the In?
dlanola office building, three other
business blocks and a $40,000 opera
house.
^Recently Attorneys Bailey & Bailey,
of Ottawa, Ohio, began proceedings
in Muskogee for the appointment of a
receiver for the contracting company,
alleging that Haskell was drawing $6,
000 a year as general manager. They
also have sued him here for $9,900
attorneys' fees In representing him in
various suits at Ottawa, his former
home, for thirty years. Recently also
he was sued for a $1,235.25 board bill
for himself and family at the Turner
hotel. As to this he declares in an
interview that "a larae part of the ho?
tel stock Is owned by our family," and
that the board was applied on the
rent. Last Saturday the city of
Muskogee took over the hotel for un?
paid taxes.
On coming to Oklahoma, Haskell
joined in the movement to organize
single staehood for Indian Territory
Through Chief Pleasant Porter, now
deceased, of the Creek Indians, Has
kell Interested the chiefs of the other
Indian tribes In this movement, and
the Sequoyah constitutional conven
tlon was the result, with Haskell as
the guiding star. He practically die
tated the constitution drawn by the
convention held in Muskogee in 1905
Later, when congress gave Indian Ter
rltory and Oklahoma joint statehood
Haskell was sent to the constitutional
convention in Guthrie from the Mus
kogee district.
The, polling list obtained through
the election held In Indian Territory
In the Sequoyah constitution was
used by Haskell to obtain a mailing
list for his newly launched paper, the
Muskogee New State Tribune, a per
sonal organ. Through this paper he
was able to build up a strong follow
lng In old Indian Territory, and when
the constitutional convention met in
Guthrie there were 333 of his former
associates there as delegates. With
these he was able to control the con
ventlon. The prominence he obtained
made him governor after one of the
most biter personal campaigns In the
southwest's history. He Is still under
bond for criminal libel resulting from
articles appearng In his Muskogee
paper during the campaign.
Being able to place In the State
constitution and also on the statutes
many of Bryan's Ideas, Bryan made
him a confidant In national politics
which later resulted in his selection
as chairman of the platform commit
tee at Denver, his declining from
Bryan the management of the nation
al campaign, and later his appoint
ment as national Democratic treas
urer. He turned down the vice pres
Identlal nomination as early as last
April.
As Governor Haskell obtained
writ of prohibition from the State su
preme court to prevent Attorne
General Charles J. West from prose
cuting the Prairie Oil nn 1 <Tas c >m
pany (a Standard oonccTnl f<>!" bull1
lng additional pipe lines In OHHhom
without first domesticst!n3, as r
quired by the constitution. The corn
pany was operated with Mr. Haskell
consent when West commenced h
suits. The State supreme court re
cently gave the governor supreme Ju
risdlction in initiating suits in th
name of the State, thus shearing th
attorney general of all power.
It Is generally understood he
that Haskell went from Ohio to Nt
York with Cal Brlce. This has nev
been denied by him, although fre
quently published. Charles E. N.
Coles, who was with Haskel'i in New
York and in railroad promoting deals,
was brought here early this year by
Haskell and made warden of the
State penitentiary. The former busi?
ness connections between the two
have never been revealed.
Thro is now pending in the Federal
court here a suit against Haskell.
brought by Cornelius S. Loder, of
New York city, to collect $42,235
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/
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of Fall and Winter garments here.
DON'T FORGET
That our Clothing is made by the best
Makers known to the trade.
PONT FORGET
That our Hat and Toggery stock con?
tains all the best styles and creations.
PONT FORGET
That we would like to see you when
you are ready for your Fall Outfitting.
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THE D. J. CHANDLER CLOTHING CO.,
The Clothiers.
Phone 166.
Sumter, S. C.
balance due on a loan of $42,000 ob?
tained by Haskell from the Illinois
Steel company in 1898 while promot?
ing the Detroit and Lima Northern.
The suit is on a judgment obtained
against Haskell In the supreme court
of New York county. Haskell in his
answer admits borrowing the money, I
but says the securities in the case are j
still owned by the company, and not
by Loder, and he pleads also the stat?
ute of limitation. j
During the past week In Muskogee,
judgment was rendered against Has?
kell and Ira L. Reeves for $500 for
attorney fees due H. C. Meacham of
Fort Smith, Ark., In obtaining a fran?
chise there for an electric rallwa}
promoted by Haskell and others.
In June of last year suits were in?
stituted by the government against
twenty-eight business men of Musko?
gee, including H?skell, for the recov?
ery of town lots alleged to have been
secured from the Creek Indian na?
tion by fraudulent means.
While Haskell was a resident of
Muskogee In 1907 the city tax collec?
tor made affidavit that Haskell refus?
ed to give a list of property for tax?
ation, and that the city officers were
compelled to make an arbitrary state?
ment of $1,600, which Haskell per?
mitted to go unchallenged.
Former Attorney General Frank S.
Monnett of Ohio, came to Oklahoma
City during Haskell's campaign for
governor, and on September 12, in the
Oklahoma City convention hall, he
made a two-hours' speech, in which
he said:
"Charlie Haskell has stood In my
Judicial district first as a young law?
yer and then as a contractor. He went
up against such men as Calvin Urice
and Sam Thomas, and he asked no
odds or quarter from them. Haskell
never was a politician. Mr. Sheets has
said that if I came here I would tail
you what occurred in regard to the
Standard Oil bribery matter, and I
am only too glad to tell it. He has
charged Charlie Haskell, or says that
I have charged him thvough one
Squires, with something which I have
ever since tried to give him an oppor?
tunity to straighten out. From the
very first moment tils charge was
made Haskell stood ready to straight?
en It out, but Sheets told >'?>?. and the
records show, that the case was dis?
missed before he ever had a chance
to testify. The charge was made on
the answer of Squires. When they
asked him whom he represented he
said "Frank Rockefeller and Has?
kell." We named those just as he
gave them, and the name of Haskell
appeared, Haskell, of Clevelaed.
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E. S. DesCHAMPS, - - Manaseiy
"Now, there is another Haskell in
Cleveland. I don't remember his ini?
tials, but his name was Haskell. He
lived in that city and he was often
there. He was connected with the
Rockefeller crowd and it was very
easy to confuse the two. Charlie Has?
kell was not living in Ohio then; he
was living in New York, and the mo?
ment he Heard, that the charge was
made against him he offered to come
back and face the charge; and Charlie
Haskell was th<i only one of the bunch
who ever was. Haskell denied that he
had any connection with that charge,
but we didn't get a chance to have
him testify, because of the fact that
the case was dismissed, and not be?
cause he was not ready to come."
THE SUMTER CLOTHING CO.
HASKELL TO SUE HEARST.
Oklahoma Governor to Prosecute
New York ICditor for Hla Charges.
Kansas City, Mo., Sept 29.?A spe?
cial to the Times from Guthrie, Okla.,
says:
Qov. C. N. Haskell Is preparing to
bring suit in The next few days against
William R. Hearst because of the lat
ter's charges concerning (>ov. Has
kell's alleged connection with an at?
tempt to bribe Frank S. Monnett for
the Standard Oil Company. The suit
will be brought in Missouri, probably
at Kansas City. H. C. Simrall, of Mex?
ico, Mo., is here as attorney for Gov.
Haskell preparing the petition.
Miss Inez Cooper has been appoint?
ed postmaster at St. Charles, vice ?
Qreen, resigned. There were a number
of applicants.
Notorious Negro Captured.
Lauren?, Oct. 4.?John Henry An?
derson, a notorious Waterloo negro,
for whom Governor Ansel offered a
reward of $75 a week ago, Andei
being charged with the murder of
other negro and fin alleged assault
on a young white man, was captured
yesterday afternoon in Waterloo
Township by Kr. Irvine P. Moore and
two other citlaens, who brought An?
derson to Leurens last night and de?
livered him to Sheriff Duckett. ff
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