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TKiC Sl'MTKH i WATCHMAN, E?a?l nnnolidated Aug. 2, 18M PuhU-hnl VYeditenria) nutl Saturday ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 8UMTBR, 8. C. Terms: II 60 per annum?in advance. Ad % rrtlsementa: One Hquar? flmt Insertion.11.00 Every subsequent Insertion.60 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private Interests will be oharged fo? as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects wHI be charged for. PKiEONS GIVING Tltot I1LK. With TtM*m It Is Almost 1ni|>osHihle To Have Garden*. There Is considerable complaint In town about the depredations of pig? eons oaVYOffetable gardens. One gen? tleman reports that pigeons have stripped his tomato plants of all their limbs and systematically pull up his vegetables. He asked us to call at? tention to the law against allowing fvwls to run at large. There Is a city ordinance, which says: it shall be unlawful for any own? er or person having charge of any kens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guin? eas, or other fowls, to permit them to run at large on the lands of an? other without consent of such land? owner. Any person convicted of vio? lation of this ordinance shall be fined not exceeding" ten dollars." This ordinance make It unlawful for any fowl to run at large on the lands of another. Now then the question Is. Is a pigeon a fowl? If It ' hi not a fowl, what Is It? Some claim that this ordinance does not apply to pigeons. If <t does not, then nc man can claim ownership to pigeons I running at large, for they belong 9 to the land on which they go at large. Aside from the law on the subject. Is It right for one neighbor to let his stock bo a nuisance to another? It snow id not be i eoessary for the law to be called upon to give a man pro ) faction from his neighbors. It Is an? noying to have pigeons destroy what you have planted and nursed. It Is enough to have to put up with Ush sparrows. against which there Is no redress without having one's neighbors turn pigeons loose on you. It Is pretty certain that If the pres? ent law does not apply to pigeons that an effort will be made to have an ordinance passed that will apply to them. HOCI Will.I I \ III NM ItV'K. I From The Dally Item. April 21. Messrs. Handle and Stubbs who went on the sociability run to Pine hurst last Tuesday returned last night well pleased with the trip. The reporter was talking to Mr. Handle nabout the run this morning and he r expressed himself as delighted with the trip. He thinks It would be a good Id' a for the commissioners to take a trip up there and s?e the roads that have been made of clay and sand. Me talked with the road ( commissioner about them. He says I r that the plan of bulldln.c Is to let the road out by contract, and that It cost on an average of about $250 a mile to build them and about three dol? lars to keep them In repair. Mr. Handle la very enthusiastic over the frpTuads. and wants Sumter to get i ? ..n ?>? tter r ..ids ill. (,,,\? i norslilp. The announcement that Hon. Hi< h ard I. Manning of Sumter will not gymake the race for governor this year comes as a surprise, for, while Mr. Manning had not formally entered the race, he had been looked on as a certain candidate and one of the strongest who could announce for the offl<e Mr Manning being out will strengthen Mr I ?'. ath? rstone very materially. If no other candidate should enter the race t<> further di? vide up the vote. There Is some talk In Spart.in?.urg ,,f State Senator H. It. Carlisle of this county making the race. Mr. Carlisle Is a man of ability and hay. taken a line stand In the senate, where he Is chairman of the Judiciary committee. lie? Is use? ful snd popular st home and through out the state. .,nd whether he makes the race this year or not. he will he heard fr??m no doubt in State polities here ?f t. r S;. i rt ini-urg .trn.it f Mr Maek. the architect on staff of the Kress Co.. was here Monday looking over the ground and getting suggestions as to the new building his Arm Is to erect on Main and Calci well streets. Lined April. IHM) "tc Just AI ?. SU BROCK WANTS INVESTS5ATI0N. V-KS <;o\\ ANSF.L TO APPOINT A (OI HT OF INQI IKY. The Assistant Adjutant General Makes Itoply to the Charges From Gen. J. C. Boyd. Columbia. April 21.?Col. W. T. Brook, assistant adjutant general, has demanded of Oov. Ansel that re? mit charges against Col. Brock be heard by a court of Inquiry. These charges were made by Col. Brock's superior officer, Adjt. Gen. J. C. Boyd. It had been expected that Col. Brock might resign from the position as assistant to Gen. Boyd, but his ac? tion has put a new face on the mat? ter and developments will be watch? ed* with Interest Col. Brock does not ask for a court of Inquiry upon the general conditions in the adjutant general's office, but merely with ref? erence to the charges made against himself. Col. Brock has also given to The State a card in which he does not speak with any feeling of Gen. Boyd's attack, upon him, but presents the case dispassionately. On a court of inquiry, the board would consist of officers of rank equal to or greater than that of the officer whose conduct would be re? viewed. Therefore a court of Inquiry in Col. Brock's case would be made up of officers of the grade of colonel or higher rank. Capt. M. C. Willis, of Yorkville, who brought Col. Brock's statement and letter to Columbia last night, an? nounced that Col. Brock would have preferred to have brought the papers in person, but he conceived it to be his military fluty to continue the in? spections, and he goes to Spartan burg today to inspect the company there. In the original copy of Gen. Boyd's statement, the word "traitor" was used. Later be amended this to read "man.* but unfortunately one of the original copies reached the news de? partment of The State. Following Is Col. Brock's statement In reply to Gen. Boyd's charges against him: To the Editor of The State: The card of Gen. J. C. Boyd, pub? lished in the newspapers of the Stole yesterday, in which he arraigns me and accuses me of disloyalty, has been called to my attention. This card Is addressed to the militia and \oters of South Carolina; if It had '?een addressed to the mlllMn only it would not be necessary '?r me to make reply, but Inasmuch as it is ad? dressed t> the public generally. I feel that I should take some n )tice of It. In discussing with Gen. Boyd the ?i iestlon of his entering the race for teelei tlon. he had stated '.hat he in? tended to be a candidate if the con? dition of his health would permit, and on my part I had always Staled ra; i would not oppose htsjt Thfie Is absolutely no trui'i In cr foundation for the statement that Clot Boyd requested me, w he i I started on the tour of Inspection of tin* militia this year, to ascertain what his chances of reelection would l>e; and If such a request had been made of me I should have flatly re? fused to comp v. as I feel that It is Bsbecosniag an aanear to mix politics with military duty. I have made the Insjpsflllom oi the militia for three consecutive years, and have just about eosnpleted the tour for the fourth year, and have never broach? ed the aoujeet of pol nice while on this duty. However, there Is not a place i have rtetted on the present tour of Inspection that the subject of Gen. Boyd's reelection was not mentioned to me and It was the opin? ion of the large majority that, due to Oes. I'.oyds physical condition, he CO Old not be reelected. When I started on the present tour of Inspection, Gen. Boyd was critical? ly 111 and had been for eight or ten davs When I returned to Columbia, after making about DUO*third Ol the tour. I soiled on Oen. Boyd at his room, where he was still ill. and in consideration of his physics! and mental condition I would not dtSCUSS politics with htSA. A few days i ater, ? bog bis condition bud Improved, und '.pon the adv'ce of his friends I ?tut l to him my opinion w ith regard to his chances of roe lection based up? on what I had heard the militia ofli OSn say. I have- been assistant adjutant gen? eral for nearly four years and during all of this time 1 have done my full duty, as I saw It. to both the State Of South Carolina and to Gen. J. C. Boyd, the adjutant general ami now, when I am charged by Gen. Boyd with being a traitor to him, I am per? fectly willing for sack and every one of my official and personal acts to be inraatigjatod and will stand upon the result of such Investigation. I em? phatically deny that I ever stated to id Fear not?Let oll the ends Thou Aln MTER. S. 0., SATU1 LKVER RETAINS SKAT. Com in It too Refuses to Indorse Consti? tutionality of Suffrage Statutes, But find* Protest Insufficient. Washington, April 20.?A decision to allow Representatives Lever and Legare of South Carolina to retain their seats In the house was announc? ed by election committee No. 3 today. Counsel for both members at a hear? ing this morning virtually sought in? dorsement of the constitutionality of the South Carolina election laws bearing on the elimination of negro suffrage. The committe would not take that view, but agreed to seat the two members because their contes? tants, H. H. Richardson and George Prioleau, respectively, both negroes, did not receive sufficient votes. SMITH AND ALDRICH SPAR. Discussion in Senate Over High Cost Of Living. Washington, April 20.?The Aid rich-Payne tariff bill came squarely before the senate today In a sparring match, with Senator Smith, of South Carolina, on one side and Senator Aldrich on the other. The matter arose when Senator Lodge attempted to have passed the resolution appro? priating $65,000 for the investigation Into the cost of living. Senator Smith said that the bears on the Cotton Exchange in New York city are using the Attorney General in an effort to depress prices. The bears, he claimed, have sold short many thousands of bales and have at? tempted to purchase the cotton from the producers. On account of the high prices, they have been unable to get cotton at a profit. He declared that a higher price for cotton means increased prosperity for the South. An Increase of 2 cents a pound for cotton, he said, meant an importation of $80,000,000 of European gold. This assertion regarding higher prices for cotton brought Senator Aldrich into the discussion. He asked if he would also argue for higher prices of all products similar to cotton. Senator Smith made no admission, declaring that he saw the effect of a statement of that kind. Then he turned to Sen? ator Aldrich and asked If the Rhode Island Senator thought the tariff had any effect in producing high prices. ?*I believe in the protective prin? ciple," replied Senator Aldrich. "It gives prosperity and with prosperity and higher standards of living come higher prices." "Then you think the tariff has caused the high prices." persisted Senator Smith. "You did not listen to my argu? ment In full," replied Senator Aid rich. Senator Smith continued to prod the Rhode Island Senator and de? clared that he proposed to keep up the fight to ascertain why the present high cost of living Is maintained. Mvstcrioiis Knowledge. Some years ago an expedition from th"? University Of Pennsylvania was sent to one of our Southern States for the purpose of observing a solar eclipse, The day before the event, one of the professors said to an old colored man belonging to the household wherein tue scientist was quartered: "Tom, if you will watch your chick? ens tomorrow morning you'll find that they'll all go to roost at 11 o'clock." Tom was, of course skeptical; but at the appointed hour the heavens were darkened and the chickens re? tired to roost. At this the man's amazement showed no bounds, and be sought out '.he scientist. "Perfessor," said he, "how long ago did you know dem chickens would go to roost?" "About a year ago " said the pro? fessor smilingly. ?Well, ef dat don't beat all!" was the man's comment. "Perfessor, a year ago dem chickens wa'n't even hatched."?Ladles' Home Journal. The whiskey shipments to Sumter have fallen off almost to nothing. The as ? rage is eight or ten packages B day. One week now will not compare with the shipments of one day some months ago. The people are getting Used to doing without it arid they do not order so often. (U n. I loyd that I had deceive,! him. Instead of entering Into a newspa< per controversy, 1 have decided to re? quest the governor to appoint a court of Inquiry, In accordance! with th-j provisions of section 80 of the mill ? r. code of South Carolina, to In? vest'gute the ( barges made by Gen. Doyd and I ask that all interested will await the decision of that couri. WILLIAM T. BROCK. Yorkvllle, April 20, 1910. i as't at be thy Country's, Thy God's an *DAY. APRIL 23. 19 MAYOR ONTO HIS JOB. . Sumte* Automobilist Had to Go From Home to Get What Was Coming to Him. The Intendent of Summertoc is on? to his Job alright. The lUlontoblUs?! must respect the law in that town. One of the a'utomobile owners of Sumter visited Summerton Wednes? day and undertook to do as auto drivers do in Sumter and was prompt? ly relieved of ten dollars. The law In Summerton must be respected. GOVERNOR GLENN'S SPEECH. leader of Laymen's Missionary Move? ment spuke on Home Missions. Governor Glenn, of North Carolina spoke to a large audience at the Pres? byterian church last night on home missions and pressed the question home so close to the people that the sum of $535 was raised for the Cause. This was a fine contribution when it is considered that the church has just finished a campaign for foreign mis? sions and raised $1,100. This con? tribution reflects something of the im? pression the Governor made. The speaker spoke of the condi? tions right here in Christian America, and the need of our people doin.? something, not only with their purses but by personal endeavor. Governor Glenn is a poular speak? er, and had the knack of hel ling ihe attention of his audience. His ad drebs was listened to with a great deal cf interes*". THE CONSOLIDATED INSURANCE AGENCY. New Concern With Strong Board of Corporators Given Commission. A commission has been issued to the Consolidated Insurance Agency of Sumter with a capital of $10,000. The petitioners are RlchErd I. Manning, Nelll O'Donnell, Isaac Schwartz, L. D. Jennings, C. T. Mason, C. G. Row? land, T. Wilson, W. B. Upshur, Archie China ~,?d G. D. Shore. The company Includes among its corporators some of Sumters' best business men. Others interested in the enterprise are of equal standing with the corporators. It is the purpose of the company to do a general insurance business, such as fire, health and accident, plate glass and life Insurance. The charter will give them the privilege of dealing in real estate, but this fea? ture will not be put on at present. A Man Swindles a Boy. One of The Daily Mail's carrier boys in a nearby town writes as fol? lows: "I have one customer, Mr -, who owes for four weeks and will not pay what he owes. Every time I ask him about it he eusses and says he will not pay, and yet he is the superintendent of the Methodist Bun day School. I don't know what to do. What do you advise? I have quit delivering him the paper, as he won't pay." This seems to be a very aggravated case, and we are glad to say it is the only case of the kind ever reported to this office. It is not clear whether the Sunday school superintendent Was curbing the carrier boy or the paper when he refused to pay. We are glad the car? rier boy did not curse him back. We commend the boy for his self-re? straint under what was undoubtedly great provocation. This carrier boy will learn as he grows older that a good many people will try to beat him out of the paper. Sometimes those In whom he least expects such conduct will do this. A good rule, in dealing with persons not known to be absolutely honest, will be to require the cash in ad? vance. We think the boy has done all that can be done in this particular ease. He has quit delivering the p i ? per to the profane man. lie has learned a good lesson at a trilling cost. And as for the profane rm n. well, he has scaled bis own doom and it would be useless to grieve over him.?Anderson Mail. The withdrawal of Manning from the gubernatorial race is likely to have some very considerable effect upon the said race. Already other candidates are being talked off. Man nine; was looked upon as a formid? able candidate. Those who would not have supported him were not tin appreciative of bis abilty anil of his worth as a man and citizen.?Winns boro News and I b raid. Efforts w ill be made to offer prizes for the best decorated store front during the fireman's tournament In June. d Truth's." 10 THE TR? New Seri THE PARDON OF COOPER. As Seen By Editors of Different Shades of Opinion. Nashville Tennessean. Cooper was convicted in a court presided over by a judge who resol? ved practically every doubtful ques? tion in his favor. Cooper was con? victed in a court whose sheriff had shown him every favoritism. Cooper was convicted in a court whose cler> was a brother of one of his co-def' dants. Cooper's sentence was aF ed by the Supreme Court of the Su after a trial, In which, as in the low? er court, the most able attorneys money and influence could command had made a brilliant, though losing fight for him. Thus with everything in his favor and with every obstacle possible in the way of the prosecution Cooper was convicted of the crime which he had boasted he would com? mit. And hardly had the echo of the last words of Justice Shields ceased to reverberate in the court-room when a pardon was granted by the creature who befouls the governor's chair. Why? Was the pardon granted be? cause there is no longer a govern? ment in Tennessee? Because organi? zed anarchy reigns where law and order held sway? Because favorites are licensed to take human life? Be? cause the governor's friends can com? mit no crime? Or was the immediate granting of the pardon due to other motives? Was it a sequel to the damaging contradictions made by the governor the night Carmack re? deemed Cooper's threat? Men may differ as to the motive that under? lies this pardon, this outrage on de? cency, this invitation to crime, this licensing of gubernatorial favorites to go man-hunting. Some may assert it was due to favoritism, others may couple the pardon with Patterson's contradiction the night of the murder and attribute It to even baser mo? tives, but all men agree that in par? doning Cooper, Patterson has not only further debauched and besmirched himself, but he has disgraced Ten? nessee in the eyes o* c'vilizatiou. Tra nessee, stripped naked of the law's protection to humaneiife, stands hu? miliated and disgraced, and hone: Tennesseans everywhere hang their heads in shame when they are forced to admit they are citizens of the State of which Patterson is governor. Chattanooga Times. This action of the governor has been expected, and that renders it all the more dangerous. The prediction was based on the facts: (1) That the fatal quarrel between Colonel Cooper and Senator Carmack grew out of the former's advocacy of and close relation to the candidacy of Gover? nor Patterson; (2) that Colonel Cooper is and has been a warm per? sonal friend of the governor, and (3) that the latter would be forced on these accounts to issue a pardon. < None of these reasons is good in morals or official ethics. The par? doning power is not vested in the in? dividual. M. U. Fatterson, for the re warding of friends or personal sup? porters or for taking revenge upon his political or personal enemies. It is vested in the governor of the State for the protection of the people and it was intended that it should be ex? ercised only when the right of an in? dividual had been violated, undue penalties imposed in cases where the courts had been misled by false tes? timony and where through the ex? igencies of penal servitude the con? vict may be reasonably declared to have suffered enough for his crime before the full penalty had been paid. No governor has a right to pardon criminals simply because they were his friends; had supported him and counseled with him, and especially is it a monstrous doctrine to hold that he is justified in pardoning them be? cause they committed their crime as a result of their allegiance to him. To excuse his act on the plea that Colonel Cooper did not have a fair and impartial trial is to impugn two courts and is repugnant to the facts as we understand them. It was a hard place for the gover? nor to fill, but it gave him a magnifi? cent oppotrunity for a display ofthat courage of which his friends boast for him and an exhibition of that lofty devotion to the laws and to the best sentiments of the people which he has so often declared, both of which finalities he would have shown if he had at least delayed his ac tion until he had time to study the opin? ion of the court before he arbitrarily set aside its decree and nullified its solemn findings. Mr. T. L. Kahn, of Maye. ville, is making arrangements to build a resi? dence In that progressive town. He has let the contract for the plans to Mr. J. H. Johnson, architect. K SOUTHRON, Established June, ISM es?Vol. XXXI. ?o. 17. HEARST TURNS REPUBLICAN. YELLOW JOURNALIST COMES OUT FOR TAFT. Multimillio Newspaper Publish? er a IV jf Taft and an Advo? cate > Trust Fostering and Stp ^r" Administration. ?"V ______ ? igton, April 20.?William ? ph Hearst, former aspirant << .he Democratic nomination for presidency, issued tonight a re? writable statement over his own sig? nature, in which he unqualifiedly in? dorses Mr. Taft. In doing so, he also criticises in severest terms the administration of President Roose? velt and in so many words warns the American nation against a renewal of the poltical domination of the former president. Mr. Hearst called at the White House this afternoon. He spent a half hour with the president. Upon leaving he said he had called merely to pay his respects to Mr. Tatt, whom I he said he admired. Later, he issued I his indorsement of the Taft adminis I tration. j "No one can talk with the presi I dent without appreciating his earn I estness and sincerity," the statement . I proceeds. "Personally, I believe also I in his efficiency. He has been a year j in office and he has certainly accom I plished more in that one year than I Roosevelt did in his first year. I "It is hardly fair to compare Taft's I one year with Roosevelt's seven, and I yet I am not sure that even with that I the comparison might not be to I Taft's advantage. Taft's methods are I not those of Roosevelt, but then Taft I will probably not conclude his term I with a panic. "On the whole, it seems to me that J a quiet, earnest gentleman who came j into office when the country was in J the slough of adversity and after one I year in office has placed the country j on the high road of prosperity, is J quite as valuable a president as that J spectacular person who found the j country in the heighth of proseprity I and left it in the depths of adver? sity." ( Mr. Hearst says that the president I is trying to stiffen into an active I force the "spineless railroad bill" of J the Roosevelt administration. He I gives Mr. Taft credit for the prosecu I tlon of criminal trusts and for throw I ing his powerful influence behind I many needed laws, among them the I corporation tax bill, the over-capital I Isatlon bill, a bill providing for postal I savings banks, the parcels post meas I ure and the income tax bill. "All the measures are good," he J continues. "Feme of these the Roose I veit administration wilfuly omitted, j others it fairly neglected, some it J discussed but never accepted. "if the people want more of achievement that Taft is giving them j they must turn to another party, for II do not believe that there is another j man in the Republican party who will I do more or as much." .* CTATEMUXT FROM PATTEN. Denies Being Under Agreement With Any Other Interest. New York, April 20.?David H. Miller, a member of the New York Cotton Exchange, and one of those subpoenaed in the government's in? quiry into the alleged bull pool oC raw cotton, issued a statemnt tonight commending the government's action and denying that the investigation was induced by complaints of the bears. He also absolves the New York Exchange from any official con? nection with the matter. *ames Patten, of Chicago, denied flatly today that he was associated with any other interests in the cotton market, and said that he proposed to stand by his present position in the market. Mr. Patten said: "I am not under any agreement with any other interest in the market. I was long of cotton before I even met the other gentlemen who are supposed to be bulls in the market, but naturally as we are on the same side of the proposition our interests are to that extent mutual. I intend to take up the cotton called f.-i by my contracts and to pay for ii. i am willing to make contract*) to supply mills anywhere in the world with cot? ton so far as my holdings wii! go. If the government wants to stop traf? fic in futures why is not a plain state? ment made to that effect, instead of instituting proceedings which merely tend to confuse the entire trade." The Federal grand jury's Investi? gation Into the alleged pool will be? resumed tomorrow. The largo tent for the Carradine meeting on Main and Bartlett streets has been taken down and moved away.