Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cht Bfatripn ui) ^outbrou. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1910. The Sumter Watchman was found? ed In 1860 and the True Southron in lit*. The Watchman and Southron ?ow haa the combined circulation and Influence of both of the old papers, and Is manifestly the bust advertising medium in Sumter. According to Attorney General Wickeraham, sometime counsel of the Standard I >il Company, It is a high v rime and a misdemeanor for speculators to advance tho price of cotton, and he summons the leaders of the bull campaign before the grand Jury, but he does nothing to the bear leaders who havo spent months of labor and millions of money to de? press the pri -e. Ill It seems that the refusal of Mr. Manning to enter the race for gover? nor Is the cause of widespread re? gret In all sections of South Carolina. If the newspapers correctly reflect public sentiment. The license tax dodgers will now have their day In court. Some forty odd merchants and others, whose license tax returns are suspiciously low in comparison with the appar? ent and rei< f i magnitude of their business, have been summoned to ap? pear fcifOfl BHd M .b-nnings to testi? fy, under oath, as f? their gross sales last year. Interesting and enlighten? ing facts are expected to be brought to light and Incidentally the Income of ?he city will be materially aug? mented. It has been a matter of common knowledge that many, per? haps a majority, of the merchants have tor years made license tax re? turns that bore only a faint relation to the actual facts, and the practice has been so common that tho public and official Mssloten e had become slightly calloused to this form of law? lessness. Hut the time for a radical change In methods and morals has arrive.! and Mayor Jennings, who went Int.. otllee pledged to do the things that were needed, Is going | his business in a way that will bring results There are other things that ne. done and we believe he will get around to them in good tlnn ? ? ? Senator Carlisle, of Spartanburg, Is being urged to enter the race for gov? ernor and he receives the urging with every appearance of satisfac? tion ? ? i Ttiose who say that the election of Featherstone Is assured by the re? fusal of Manning to enter the race, must have forgotten all about one Thomas G. McLeod. of Lee county. Mc'eod ha*-, always been lucky in politics and the o Is no reason to believe that his luck has deserted him. In fact, this may be his luck? iest year. Ws are not so sure that he will not win out by a safe margin la the second race. ? ? ? Just a fe-- ,vords concerning that mod' rn bottd C\.t Sumter needs and has nccJed f< r this long time. Ws do not pi r this time to relter? ata any <>f the arguments In support af the 'assertion that Sumter needs said could support a first class hotel, but merely wb-.h to direct attention to an artbde in the MfWl columns on the subject. Head what Dr. Pell, of Spartanburg says on the subject of hot. Is * nd what they mean to a town. sea Adjutant and Inspector General I to t .-asses his assistant, Col. Brock, of bamboozling him and mak? ing him 1 allaift that he could not hi re-. ?? ted Col. Brock may have awn sin'a re In his belief that Gen. Ho Is a h 11 !'?'( n. A go.nl many oth 1 think Sjf-. ? ? ? V. r on< ? in a life time the South? ern cotton in Ids have the New York cotton fa ash let! In a corner and not even WY kersham Ml extricate them. The . ..tt-.n mills haw I.ought the cot? ton f-.r future delivery, and they are determined to ha ? the a> tual cotton, even though the gamblers have to snnd to Liverpool for It. If the beat loaders had su? < e. d. d In putting cot? ton down l.elow the pfioi at which they sold futures they would has. been Just as SjSjfttll to go Into court to for., th. nulls md their bull allies to ll\ ? up to their contra- ts and ac ? cept ilk mNm at the agreed price. If Wl k.T iharn should |W ? tad ll his effort to prove that buying cot? ton 'or future delivery Is unlawful. ih<* New York Cotton Kxchange will have to go out of business, for If one deal Is Illegal every c.ntra t execut? ed on tb>- exchange Is Illegal. If Krown and Mayne are gamblers nnd their bull campaign Is contrary to the puldb welfare, the entire? busi? ness of th*? cotton oxebunge It un? lawful and StaCJ) no ml?, r and pat roil ot tlo e\< hange Is a gambler. sei William Randolph I b and will probably find hi? |>o< ullar tab tits more highly appreciated and more liberally rewarded In the Republican Farmers' Union News ?AND ? Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers (Conducted by F.. W? Dabhs, President Fanners' Union Of Sunder Comity*) Tho Watchman and Southron having decided to double its service by semi-weekly publication, would improve that service by special features. The first to be inaugurated is this Department for the Farmers' Union and Practical Fanners which I have been requested to conduct. It will be mv aim to give the Union news and official calls of the Union. To that end officers, and members of the Union are requested to use these columns. Also to publish such clip dngs from the agricultural paper* and Govern? ment Bulletins as I think will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori? ginal articles by any of o^r readers telling of their successes or failures will be appreciated and | ablished. Trusting this Department v ill be of mutual benefit to all concerned, THE EDITOR. All communications for tl ?s Department should be sent to K. W. Dabbs. Mayesvllle. S. (\ PATTEN DENIES CORNER l>i:cLVBi:s MONOPOLY of COT? TON ( KOI* IS IMPOSSIBLE. (.rand Jury Takes a Best?Adjourn Probe I ntil Next Week After kx amiiiing Six Witnesses?Important Find Kcpo'tcd. New Y(?rk, April 21.?Tho sudden ad n.urnment today of the Federal in? quiry into the alleged cotton pool be? fore the special grand jury sent a thrill of hope In certain quarters of the financial district that perhaps the government had decided to call off the investigation. Clark McKercher. assistant attor? ney general, soon dispelled that hope by later announcing that other wit? nesses were to be called at further grand jury sessions. Plans for a deeper probing of the alleged cotton pools will. It is said, be laid In the n. \t few days at Washington. James Patter of Chicago this af? ternoon declared with emphasis that he was not in the game to "squeeze" any one, and further that there would be no corner In cotton. Said he: "I have bought cotton on the theory of supply and demand. I be llsva that the mills here and In Eu? rope will (dose down In August and September because they will have no on on to work with. They will then ery. (Jive us cotton, we must have it.' Xow there it is in a nut shell. If I am wrong, why show me up? I am kMMj on cotton on this theory. "I became long on the product be? fore I ever saw the New York cot? ton men or had any dealings with them. I am in my present position through legitimate speculation. If the government steps in and stops B].ulatlon. why, then I shall stop, but It will be an evil day if such a ?tap Is ever taken. "There has been a great deal print? ed to the effeet that Frank Hayne, ! rty than in the Democratic. He has doubtless found neither honor f nor profit in being the boss of his own party and has derided that he w 111 fare better as a mercenary in the ranks of the plunderbund. ? ? ? I bjb kkt llM annual meeting of the Kir. men's Association a success, that is to BUY to make the occasion credit aide to the city of Sumter. eleven hundred dollars are needed, it is not a question ol can the money be raised, but how it is tO be raised. Sumtcr is committed lO the undertaking. there ran be no backing out, Ws must let together, raise the money without delay and go forward with tin- arrangements for the entertain ment of the firemen. The entertain? ment must not be undertaken In ? half ?hearted way. but we must put enthusiasm into it and do our level best to give our guests the very best time the\ have tveff had at an annual meeting, it is for Bumter that wt must work and plan and spend a little money and the man who does n-'t feel that be owes it to Sumter to do his share at this time Is not ani? mated with the proper public spirit and has the wrong conception of till duty in a citizen. We must get to c ther for Sumter. * * * A Y. M. C. A. Is not a charitable Institution, hut ? business proposition, and tile hardest headed and coldest I I coded business men in America have spent and are spending mlllloni of dollars to establish end maintain Associations throughout the country The great railroad corporations, tin great Industrial trusts and the great manufacturing companies that have no souls, know nothing of charity and think and act In dollars, are building and supporting Y. M. C. A.'s for the benefit that they derbe directly from the physical and moral betterment of their thousands of employee, a y M C, A. makes better and stronger and more useful men and that Is why corporations spend money on them if a corporation that looks only to dl red mutual benefit can afford to Invent money In Y. M. C. A.'s a com? munity can assuredly afford to do so. W. P. Brown, W. C. Scales and my? self are engaged in a eonsipracy to corner the May crop of cotton. No more ridiculous statement was ever made. "it would bo a financial impossibil? ity for the four of us to corner Mu> (<-tton. Why, there are 2,000.000 bale* of May cotton in sight. At $75 I bale it would require $150,000,000 to maintain a corner. It is a matter Of history that no man has ever suc? ceeded in cornering a cotton crop." The grand jury which has been in? vestigating the bull cotton pt>ol stop? ped work on the case until next week, after it is said, it had secured pos? session of a document having an im? portant bearing on the case. Wheth? er the government investigators had unearthed a copy of the alleged pool? ing agreement could not be definite? ly learned. It li on the contention that such an agreement was made that the government bases its case. Six witnesses were examined today, which, with the witnesses who testi? fied on Tuesday, completes the list of those originally subpoenaed, with the exception of two who are out of town and two who are excused from testi? fying. ARGUES PINK FRANKLIN CASE. Attorney General Lyon lief ore United States Supreme Court. Washington, April 21.?Unusual Interest was shown today by the Su? preme Court of the United States in the argument of the Pink Franklin murder case, of South Carolina, when Attorney General Lyon of that State, addressed the court. Each Justice had questions to ask concerning the conviction of the negro on a charge of having murdered Special Constable Valentine, who had entered Frank? lin's cabin to arrest him. on a charge of having violated the "agricultural contract law." That law has been denounced by former Attorney Gen? eral Bonaparte as an attempt to re? duce negroes to captivity. Attorney General Lyon, in his open? ing argument, said he would consider it just as much a disgrace for South Carolina to take the life of an hum? ble negro without warrant ns if it were to execute unjustly the highest eltlien in the land. He admitted that the "agricultural contract law," under Which Valentine sought I > arrest Franklin was uncon? stitutional. "As long, however, as the magistrate who issued the war? rant had the pow? r to do so and the warrant was regular on its face, the ( onstable was clothed with the pro tectlcfn of the law of the land in mak? ing the arrest. Repeatedly the various Justices piled the official with questions as to whether there was any distinction to be made between reslsltlng arrest on a warrant issued under a constitu? tional and an unconstltutonal law, Mr. Lyon Invariably replied that there was none, As to tii*- regularity of the warrant, lie contended that no question on that point ever was raised until Mr. I Bonaparte imagined it to be in the record. Mr. Lyon argued that the State of South Carolina was not attempting to reduce the negroes to a state of peon? age nor to den.? them their consti? tutional rights. Union Brokerage Co, has just re? ceived a car of very fine quality grits. Phone B11. 4-10-21 W. it 1 ?adieu be sure and examine my Spring Millinery before busing your hats. New goods come In often. Pretty turbans and large ready-to wear hats. Also other styles. Yours to please. M R8. W. <;. BRl >WNE. No, i? Rast Liberty street. it l?i? \i>ii want a Coun? y Ham? ii s>> Ph >ne 544, Union Brokerage Co. 1-19-21 w. it. Mr J. L. Qlllls, maglstarate at Rembert had the misfortune to lose a mule Saturday. Country Lard at Union Brokerage Co. Phone 6 11. 4-19-lt. W. It MARK TWAIN DIES. Samuel L. Clemens, Famous Humor? ist, Fieses Away. Redding, Conn., April 21.?Samuel Langhorn Clemens, 'Mark Twain," died painlessly at 0:30 o'clock to? night of angina pectoris. He lapsed into coma at 3 o'clock this afternoon and never regained consciousness. It was the end of a man outworn by grief and acute pain of body. Yes? terday was a bad day for the little knot of anxious watchers at the bed? side. For long hours the gray, aquil? ine features lay moulded in the in? ertia of death, while the pulse sank lower and lower, but late at night Mark Twain passed from stupor into the first natural sleep he had known since he returned from Bermuda, and this morning1 he woke refresh? ed, even faintly cheerful, and in full possession of all his faculties. He recognised his daughter Clara, Mrs. Ossip Gabrielowitch, spoke a1 word or two and feeling himself un? equal to conversation5 wrote out in pencil: "Give mo my glasses." They were his last words. Laying them aside lie sank first into reverie and later into final unconsciousness. There Aas no thought at the time, however, that the end was so near. At 5 o'clock Dr. Robert Halsey, who had been continuously in attendance, said: ! "Mr. Clemens is not so strong at j this hour as he was at the corre- j spondlng hour yesterday, but he has] wonderful vitality and he may rally' again." Albert Blgelow Paine, Mark Twain's biographer and literary executor, said to a caller who desired to Inquire for Mr. Clemens: "I do not think you will have to call often again." Nevertheless Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Loomis, who had come up from New York to give their love In person, left Stormfield, Mr. Clemens' house, with? out seeing him and only heard of his death just as they were taking the train to New York again. Mrs. Loomis was Mr. Clemens' favorite niece, and Mr. Loomis is vice presi? dent of the Laekawanna railroad. Similarly Jarvis Langdon, a neph? ew, who had run up for the day, left even earlier and wholly unin? formed. At the deathbed were only Mrs. Gabrielowitch (Clara Clemens), her husband, Dr. Robert Halsey, Dr. Quintard, Albert Bigelow Paine, who Will write Mark Twain's biography and is his literary executor, and the two trained nurses. Restoratives were administered, but the patient failed to respond. A tank of oxygen still stands un? called for at the Redding station. The valvular action of the heart was not disordered. There was only an extreme and increasing debility, oc compani? d by labored respiration. Angina pectoris la a paroxysmal affection of the ehest of battling and obscure origin, characterised by se? vere pain, faintness and deep depres sion of the spirits. Toe pain is se? vere and of an oppressive, crushing or stal bing charai tei. Mr. Manning's Decision. The announcement made first in | The Record of Monday, that Mr.' Richard I. Manning will not be a candidate for governor in the Demo ( cratic primary of this year means a j radical change in the campaign pros? pect. His declination to enter the race will be a disappointment to his prospective supporters and the align? ments will be now greatly changed. As senator from Sumter county Mr. Manning impressed his conservatism, his thorough ability, and his high re? gard for dut\ upon all who are fa? miliar with public affairs in South j Carolina. In 1906 he made the race for governor, and to the disappoint? ment of many of his strongest friends and admirers he took a postlon on the dispensary question, then the paramount issue in South Carolina, which alienated the support that un? der other conditions would have been his. As it was, Mr. Manning in the first prirnary of that year reecived 23.20S votes and went into the second primary with Mr. Ansel. In the sec ' ond primary he received 3 7,089 votes j as against 47,550 for Ansel, who had I the advantage of a popular platform. I The State dispensary, advocacy of which defeated Mr. Manning in 1906, is no longer an issue, but prohibition Is. It can not be denied that under conditions now existing in this State j a candidate for governor who has j consistently supported prohibition '< has an advantage; while his previous i position on the liquor question might have worked to Mr. Manning's disad? vantage had he entered the race this year. With the liquor question out of the way?which all should hope will be soon?Mr. Manning would be a most formidable candidate. He would make a splendid governor at any time. He would enforce any laws that are on the statute books. He is clean, honest, safe, progressive patriotic. He would never do any? thing or say anything that a South Carolinian would be ashamed to have the governor of the State say or do. j That he will not lose his interest In \ politics is evident from the statement I given out and it is not at all unlikely j that his State will before long show j her appreciation of his worth and of his services. Mr. Manning is a busy man. He has large interests of his own and is trusted with the management of ex? tensive affairs for others. Recently, through the death of an associate, there has been thrown upon him un? expectedly a large business burden that he had not expected to carry, ami this is doubtless one of the pri mary reasons for his decision to stay out of polities this year. Had he been '\ candidate the three adjoining coun? ties of Sumter, Lee and Kershaw would each have had an aspirant for the gubernatorial chair; that condi? tion would have split up considerably the vote of that section between Man? ning, McLeod and Richards, and from that standpoint the principal beneficiaries of his decision are Messrs. McLeod and Richards. Mr. McLeod also benefits by his decision in that it leaves himself and Mr. Bleaae as the only anti-prohibition candidates now in the race, while Mr. Richards profits by reason of the fact that both he and Mr. Manning would have appealed to the old State dispensary faction, of which both were leaders a few years ago. From the present situation it ap P? ars that the race for governor will open up with Mr. Featherstone ap? pealing most strongly to the prohi? bition vote, by reason of his long ad? vocacy of that policy, and to the con? servative, business element by reason of his ability as a lawyer and busi? ness man; Mr. McLeod will attract much of the local option faction, with elements of personal political strength; Mr. Richards, on a platform that demands State prohibition, for which he has consistently stood since the destruction of the State dispen? sary, will appeal also to the agricul? tural element because he is himself a farmer and has been active in leg? islation affecting the agricultural in? terests of the State; Mr. Blease, who polled 38,000 votes two years ago, will advocate a local option law, in? cluding prohibition, dispensary and high license, and will devote himself to a discussion of fiscal affairs large? ly. Should Mr. Hyatt enter the ring he will make all the other entrants sit up and take notice.?Columbia Record. Watch, Clock and Jewelry repair ing by C. M. Joye, at Savoy. 4-15-lw The devil has his martyrs among men.?Dutch. Spectacle and Eye-glass lense matched and frames repaired. C. M. Joye, at Savoy. 4-21-tf. The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light.?Swift. Does your clock keep accurate time? If not, send it to C. M. Joye, at Savoy. 4-15-lw. How harsh it sounds to hear a man criticise your pet hobby! Prompt work a specialty. C. M Joye, Watchmaker and Jeweler, a Savoy. 4-15-lw There is no chance In results.?Em? erson. OUR CLOTHING Is made to satisfy you, to please your friends and to boost our reputation as good clothiers. We are doing our utmost to attain all these ends? Unhesitatingly we say "the makes we handle cannot be excelled." You'll find this out when you wear them. The Sumter Clothing Company