The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, October 11, 1912, PART II PAGES 9 TO 12, Image 9
PART II.
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EXECUTED J I
VOL. LXn. NO. 41.
CITES FOUR MIS
'OF SEP
W. H. L. McLaurin, Reply in;
Declares He Holds Tillmai
sary and Indirectly for
tending Its Adi
The following reply by W. H. L.
McLaurin of Latta to a letter to him
by Senator B. R. Tillman is self-explanatory:
Latta, S. C., Oct 1, 1912.
Hon. B. R. Tillman,
Trenton, S. C.
My Dear Sir:
Today's mail brought me your letter
of September 28, together with
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copies 01 same, puuusnea in win ox
the leading papers of our State: The
News and Courier and The Columbia
State.
It gives me pleasure to note the
spirit of your letter, which not only
does credit to your own name, but
will commend you to those who are
not of your views, whom you style,
always, as your "enemies."
As to the general statements of
your letter, senator, it is not necessary
to reply, because history either
contradicts itself, or the record you
have * kept, and that kept by others,
have not kept pace. The answer to all
those questions, however, will be
found in the official records of your
"incumbency," and the files of the
newspapers of that day.
The one question under considera
tion is not whether you are or were
responsible for all, or any of the corruption
that naturally, and necessari
ly followed in the wake of the dispensary
the great "moral institution,"
for which you claim responsibility, in
its origination.
The except from my letter, which
you use as a basis of your defense,
does not charge the responsibility of
any or all of the corruption attendant
upon tiie dispensary, upon you at all.
It only charges that you are the
"paternal ancestor of the dispensary,
and of Bleaseism;" the first of which
you frankly admit, the last you repudiate
in a former letter to me.
Since then, you admit being the
original parent.of the dispensary, and
grace, in so far as your intentions
were, or are concerned, but in so far
as a sower may be responsible for
the harvest, by the seed he sows, you
are responsible, for all the disgrace,
and fruits of that sowing. It is not
sufficient to Henv resnnnsihilitv on the
grounds of good intent. That may
mitigate the crime, but never excuse.
So that it must be said in all candor,
and in considerateness of your feelings,
senator, which I do not in the
least wish to wound, that you are
indirectly responsible for all the disgrace
brought upon the State by the
dispensary, and its fruits as well; and
that you are directly responsible for
the dispensary?a disgrace within
itself, too true to be denied.
To make this clear to your mind it
may be well to review a little history,
and point a .moral or two. If memory
serves aright, the State, by the voice
of the people ( which you were so fond
of magnifying, when you were seek.4.1
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jug tu ucbiirune tne nuvucnus una
grafters," of your early campaigning)
had spoken by an overwhelming majoriftr
for prohibition. It was your
clear duty as their servant, which you
gladly proclaimed yourself to be, to
have acquiesced in that will, and as
governor of the commonwealth, seen
to the enforcement of the law appertaining
thereto, as religiously, as you
would, or did, any other law on the
statute books. You had been elected
governor, not senator, or representative.
It was yours to execute the laws
not to enact laws. It was neither
your prerogative, nor the lawmakers,'
to institute the dispensary or any
other form of sale, of whiskey, until
the voice of the people had spoken
again, authorizing you, or rather the
legislature?to do so.
If this is a Democratic government?a
government of the people, by
the people, for the people, a doctrine
which you fondly proclaimed,
^ then beyond all cavil, the voice of the
people, as expressed at the ballot box,
must be obeyed by those elected to
serve, or a. trust, solemnly imposed,
has been betrayed. It is not sufficient
neither becoming to assert that the
great State of South Carolina did not
snow wnai mey wanted, or wnat was
best for them at that time, or now.
True, it is, that at times, in the history
of every State, by the use of
money and whiskey, and other dirty
means, the elections do not represent
the best interest of the State; but
here was an election fought out between
the great moral forces and the
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JATOR TILLMAN
jj to Letter Given to Press,
n Directly for the Dispenthe
Corruption Atministration.
whiskey element, and in site of all
the crookedness and debauchery of
the antis the cause of prohibition,
which is the cause of God, was overwhelmingly
successful.
And be it said, senator, to your
everlasting discredit, you who proclaimed
your eternal subserviency to
the voice of the people, you who had
made war on the autocrats, and the
plutocrats, you, senator, of all men,
disregarded and defeated the will of
the people as expressed at the ballot
box, their best, and only effective
vehicle of expression, and projected
the great moral institution?the
greatest source of demoralization the
State has ever known, which still
bears your name, and paternal sanction.
Can you surely disclaim the disgrace
of such a progeny, while still
claiming its sireship ?
to make plain my meaning?you
not only admit the authorship, and
institution of the dispensary, together
with declarations of your qualifications,
by reason of the thorough and
exhaustive study you had given the
question, but you still believe in your
disgraced offspring, and doubtless you
would now wield your trenchant pen
in its defense, if occasion required, as
you did six years ago, when you
stumped the State for its retention,
knowing that it was reeking with
rottenness, and ruining the State.
It may not be amiss, senaor, to
say, that with all the mistakes you
have made in your public career, some
of which have amounted to crimes
against society, I still have very great
respect for you, because of your sincerity,
courage and .undisputed intellectual
"acumen." So that I may
say, sincerely, my feelings are of the
very kindest nature, but in saying
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una, 1 cannot avoid, ir l would, ttie
facts of history, which stand out before
me, that makes you responsible,
largely for the blight upon our great
State, of the dispensary, and its resultant
corruption. May I set forth
in summary the four greatest mistakes
of your public'career in closing.
1. The example you set in campaigning,
of appealing to the passions
and prejudice of men, instead of appealing
to their higher instincts, and
reason?which has made possible
Bleaseism, and gave him the key to
success, by the same route; rather
than the broad plane of constructive
statesmanship. And the trouble is
not ended yet, South Carolina will
suffer for several decades yet from
the blight of "Peanut Politics" until
her masses have been educated above
passion and prejudice to the broader
pianc ui reason ana principle.
2. Your assault without discrimination,
upon the press of the StatN
which destroyed the confidence of the
people in newspapers, to a very large
degree. Not the intelligent or educated,
"to be sure", but the ignorant
and illiterate, who were, and are, and
always will be, the easy dupes of designing
politicians, and unscrupulous
officeseekers.
This destruction of confidence in
the press, has shut up about the only
effective and available means of wide,
quick communication with the people.
and made the ignorant and illiterate,
the pitiful plastic tools of the vicious
political parasite, in every corner of
the State. True it may be, that you
were unfairly treated, maligned,
slandered?by some?the result of
your wholesome charges against the
press, so destroyed the people's confidence,
that Bleaseism has been made
possible.
3. The installation of the dispensary,
the curse of the ages, with all
its debauching consequences, was your
third and greatest, /nistake. You will
never be able to clear yourself of the
guilt of that great sin in this life, or
in the next. It will not stand the
test of time, or eternity. Neither the
laws of God nor the laws of society
can never justify it. That sin, along
with the others, must be pardoned,
not justified. God only can do that.
And" He will?upon an honest repudiation
of the whole thing, and not until
then.
4. The last but not the least of your
political mistakes, was your insistence
upon the retention of the dispensary
six years ago and your presumptions
canvas of the state to that end.
Coupled with this, was your public
assertioiT "that the preachers, barkeepers
and the devil, were in league
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UNIOX, S. C., FRIDA
FELL 500 FEET
raviu A DALLUUIN
Tuscumbia (Ala.) Man and
H. G. Petty Killed at Fair
Grounds, When Parachute
Failed to Open.
Tuscumbia, Ala., Oct 3.?Lorenzo
Howland, 15-year-old son > of L. D.
Howland, and H. C. Petty, Nan aeronaut,
fell 600 feet from a balloon and
were instantly killed at the State fair,
grounds here today.
The tragedy was witnessed by a
large crowd of spectators, which had
assembled to witness the ascension.
Howland 1 previously had been
standing near the balloon while it was
being inflated. When it soared upward
spectators were startled to seo him
dangling, head down, from ono of the
ropes on the balloon. In some manner
Howland's feet became entangled
in the rope before the balloon was
turned loose.
The aeronaut made heroic efforts to
rescue the man from his perilous position.
When the balloon had reached
a height of about 500 feet he cut
thp nnrnriuifA IAAQO frnm fk<i KOIIA^M
downward.
For some reason the parachute failed
to open. The men plunged to the
earth and were killed. Howland
struck the earth first and the aeronaut
landed on top of him.
When spectators reached the two
men both were dead.
'$1,000 CORN PRIZE
WILL BE AWARDED
The corn contest committee proposed,
because of the facfe that the
drouth had injured the corn crop, to
cut the $1,000 prize in half, and give
only $500 this year and the remaining
$500 next year.
But the directors of the** Chamber
of Commerce decided yesterday to
give the full amount of $l,0f>0. The
Chamber of^^ommfrceJMU riven
$500,
association $200.
The raising of more and better
crops is one of the very things in
which the Chamber of Commerce is
'most interested, and specially desires
to promote. The com contest has
resulted this year in the growing of
2,000 more bushels of com than would
nthArWIQA llOVA Konn
county, and it is corn of a superior
quality.?Spartanburg Herald.
WITH WHEELS OF BUGGIES
LOCKED MEN FIGHT DUEL.
Kershaw, S. C., Oct 4.?Edward
Gregory is dead and Oliver H. Watson
fatally wounded as the result of a pistol
duel in the road near here today.
The two men met in buggies - and
when the wheels of the vehicles became
locked both began to shoot at
close range. It is Said that a feud
had existed between the two for
years. ,
Gregory was shot through the head
and instantly killed.
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n nisuu is wuunuea in me leu lung
and has little chance to recover.
to defeat the dispensary;" an assertion
you must have made out of resentment
to the preachers for their interference
with the life of your offspring,
which might have been proper,
had you not known the falsity of the
accusation. True it might have been,
that all of these different callings, and
persons, were in array against the
dispensary, but how different the
viewpoint, and motive, and who better
than you, senator, knew, "that politics
makes strange bedfellows."
Such supercilious allegation against
men, wholly unselfish, .and sincerely
patriotic, as were the ministers you
placed in workinc alliance, wtth ?ha
"arch fiend," who made you say it,
is, and was wholly indefensible. I
trust you have seen this, in this light,
ere this, and that your sense of justice,
will yet lead you to frankly
apollogise to these, the noblest of no*
ble men, of the highest and holiest
calling yet given to men.
Yes, senator, I believe you Are responsible,
indirectly, for the corruption,
and directly for the dispensary;
now disgracing and destroying our
people and commonwealth. My sense
of honor and truth impel me to say so.
It WnuM CM VP ma i-??l ?a. a?
tirely exonerate yon from any and
all responsibility, bat the record is
against you. There is but one way
to amend and do the right?acknowledge
your error, and repudiate your
progeny, and God, and men will forgive.
To this end may 1 humbly
exhort you. ,
Very sincerely yours,
W. H, L. McLaurin.
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DEMOGRAPHY AND
WHAT IT MEANS.
Interesting Conclusions are
Reached by Scientists and
Specialists at the World's
Congress of Hygiene.
Washington, Oct. 4.?The world's
congress of hygiene and demography,
which has just closed its 15th annual
session in Washington, has moved
spme of the epitomizers of the capital
city to incase its results in the
I traditional nutshell. Everyone knows,
of course, what hygiene is, but nobody
except those who look it up or
happen to meet someone who has
looked it up, knows what demographphy
is?an dit isn't safe to take
the word of any newspaper article, if
one really wants to know what it is.
There are thousands of people in
Washington, though, who have learned
within the past few days that
demography is, in a broad sense, the
drawing of inferences and conclusions
from medical and vital statistics. It
doesn't include just any kind of conclusions
or inference?it has got to be
a scientifically drawn one.
Among the more important discoveries
announced during the sessions
of the recent congress are those
enumerated below, which are said by
the epitomizers to comprise the results
of the congress in a nutshell:
Mine explosions can be reduced
through the use of a new chemical,
which absorb* coal dust, the chemical
not being named.?Sir Thomas
Oliver, England.
Sneezing and not the scales from
children having measles carries the
germs of the disease.?Drs. John Anderson
and Joseph Goldberger, Washington.
TV?o r\ roo rtf io n 4
*?1V utvau Vi. IIUII^VA AO a [/VVCIIV
factor in the development of socialism.?Dr.Max
Rubner, Germany.
Infantile paralysis is carried
through the bite of the stable fly.?
Dr. M. J. Rosenau, Harvard Univer**^he
gland virui ef rabies is better
as an antitoxin for rabies than the
brain virus.?Dr. Warren Poor, New
York city.
Insects are the carriers of typhus
fever, a proposition which has been
disputed during the congress.?Drs.
Joseph Goldberger and John Anderson,
Washington.
Infantile paralysis is carried from
person to person through the secretions
of the nose.?Or. Alfred Petterson,
Sweden. Disputed by Dr. M. J.
Rosenau, of Harvard University.
Benzoat of soda in food preparations
is not harmful, despite the conclusions
of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley.?
Dr. John H. Long, Chicago.
The virus of a new micro-organism
used in a hundred bilionth of a centimeter,
will kill rats carrying bubonic
plague.?Dr. Frederick Novy,
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Tuberculosis in Children.
Fully 600,000 public school children
in the United States have traces
of tuberculosis.?Dr. S. Adolphus
Knopf, New York.
There must be an economy of woman's
energy if the nations of th*
world are to maintain the high standards
set by the age.?Dr. Frederick
Zahn, Germany.
The great advancement in science
will make it possible for the next
century to realize Ponce de Leon's
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William H. Taft.
Farmers are the healthiest class of
humanity and liquor dealers the most
sicky.?Dr. Jacques Bertillon, France.
Dwarfs can grow, no matter how
long the stunted conditions has existed.?Dr.
Lafayette Mendall, Yale
University.
The child should make its own
moral code and have any kind of
food 11 wants when it wants it.?Dr.
Woods Hutchinson, New York.
Infection by the air is no longer
the chief factor in the spread of infectious
diseases.?Dr. Charles V.
Chapin, Provodence, R. I.
All milk fed to babies should be
pwaMsurueu, 10 insure neauny miiK
being fed to children.?Nathan Straus
New York.
Immunization from influenza meningitis
can be obtained through the
virus of the serum of persons suffering
from the disease.?Dr. Anna
Wollstein, New York.
Prevent Malarial Fever.
Malarial fever parasites can be produced
artificially, thus opening the
way for the prevention of malarial
fever.?Dr. C. C. Bliss, New Orleans.
A specific yellow fever parasite exis?
and was discovered by him. Disputed
by the United States army
medical officers.?Dr. N. Fornet, German
army medical college.
Bone is not dead tissue, but is constantly
changing, and that new bone
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PROGRESSIVE F
LAUNCH1
With B. Sherwood Dunn, of
tional Committeeman, th<
Launched in South Caro
guard" Beard
Columbia, S. C., Oct 4.?Under the
leadership of B. Sherwood Dunn, of
Aiken, provisional national committeeman,
the progressive party was
launched in South Carolina today at
a meeting held in the Columbia
Hotel.
The progressives will put out an
electorial ticket in the November election,
but will not have any nominees
for state offices in the race against
the democrats and socialists.
At the meeting today Mr. Dunn
stresed the point that the progressive
party is an independent "white
man's" party, unaffiliated with either
the republicans or democrats.
The selection of a state chairman
and state vice chairman has been
postponed. The officers selected at
the meeting yesterday were: W. P.
Beard, Abbeville, state secretary; L.
W. C. Blalock, of Goldville, state
treasurer.
Members of the state executive
committee: First congressional district,
W. P. Utsey, second district,
Thomas Thomson; third district, C. E.
Gray, fourth idstrict, R. A. Hannon;
fifth district, I. H. Norris; sixth district,
C. R. Tabor, seventh district,
W. Boyd Evans.
Those Present.
Among those who attended the
meeting at which the progressive
party of South Carolina was started
were the following: E. E. Clement,
Inman; Captain G. W. Mudd, Columbia;
A. D. Palmer, Columbia, J. D.
Odom, Batesburg; W. A. Reckling, Columbia;
T. H. Wannamaker, Columbia;
Dr. V. P. Clapton, Shelton; C. E.
Gray. Westminster: C. Rav. Inman:
A. R. N. Folger, Seneca; W. W.
Bruce, Columbia; W. P. Beard, Abbeville,
R. A. Hannon, Spartanburg; L.
Coin, Camden; Lawson D. Melton, Columbia;
L. W. C. Blalock, Goldville;
W. Boyd Evans, Columbia, Isaac H.
Norris, Yorkville, John Cantey, Camden;
Ben H. Harvin, Harvin; Dr. C. R.
is being continuously laid down.?Dr.'
Francis M. McCudden, Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research.
Male immigrants marry American
or American-born women, while female
immigrants marry foreigners,
preferably those of the same tongue.
?Dr. William E. Chancellor, Norwal,
Conn., formerly of Washington.
Infant mortal itv throiicbont tho
world is on the decrease, despite increased
population and birth rate.?
Edward Burnell Phelps, New York.
Oysters in their raw state during
non-hibernating periods are not carriers
of contagious diseases.?Dr.
Herbert D. Peace, New York.
Inoculation of persons known to be
bacillus carriers is entirely impracticable.?Dr.
W. L. Moss, Johns Hopkins
University.
Not a class of humanity but what
has its stupid, dull, backward, or
sickly children, therefore medical inspection
of the public schools is a
prime necessity.?Dr. Helen MacMurchy,
Toronto, Canada.
Contagious diseases are spread
through the pollution of railroad
roadbeds, therefore there should be
laws for regulating these carriers.?
Dr. William T. Sedgwick, Boston.
Causes of Divorce.
Race suicide, refusal to accept the
duties of the home, and the desire
for fine clothes and pleasure are the
real causes for the divorce evil in
the United States.?Dr. Samuel Dike,
Massachusetts.
Heridity has nothing to do with
the character of a child. It is the
child's environment which is the de?
termining factor in character building.?Dr.
Charles Gilmore, New York.
Alcoholism is the result, not the
cause, of insanity among those predisposed
to mental disorders.?Dr.
Tom Williams, Washington.
Soap is the greatest civilizer of
mankind.?Dr. Yandall Henderson.
Yale University.
Reading and writing are unhygienic.
? Dr. Gardener C. Bassett,
Johns Hopkins University.
The Panama canal will be a meet,
ing place for yellow fever plague and
contagious diseases from eastern and
western North and South America, as
well as from Asia.?Dr. L. E. Gofer,
Washington.
Rural communities eat too much
fried meats, and bathtubs in farm
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EXCELLENT
1-^ ADVERTISING
I J MEDIUM
?1.00 A YEAli.
^RTY
liU JLIN COLUMBIA
Aiken as Provisional Nai
Progressive Party was
lina on Friday?"BodyState
Secretary.
Taber, Dillon; Thomas Thomson,
North Augusta: H. A. Murphy, Columbia;
E. A. McGregor, Batesburg;
W. King, Columbia; John McCravey,
Columbia; H. A. Simons, Columbia;
J. Bihari, Ridgewood; S. T. Westberry,
Columbia.
The meeting of the progressives
was opened today by a strong address
from B. Sherwood Dunn, of Aiken,
who declared that the party had been
formed to combat the invisible and
insidious powers, which were robbing
the people of th :r rights to rule.
The movement against the corruptionists
was dominated by a religious
spirit which was bound to make the
progressive party a success.
Pay Their Own Way.
Mr. Dunn sold of his conference in
New York with leaders of the progressive
party at which he insisted
I uiai oniy wnne men snould be affiliated
with the movement. Mr. Dunn
said that when he found that the progressive
headquarters were short of
campaign funds he informed Senator
Dixon that the party in South Carolina
could rely upon contributions
from individual members and not expect
any financial assistance from the
national headquarters.
Cash contributions from the pro- * '
gressives present at this meeting yesterday
made up a campaign fund of
nearly $300. ,, f>.
The progressive party plans to organize
in every county in South Carolina.
The executive committeemen r *.
in each congressional district will appoint
county chairmen. Progressive , "
! campaign literature will be broadcast ? ?;*
although the progressive party will ^
content itself with putting only an
electorial ticket in the field next November,
it expects to receive a good
vote. The short time remaining before
the general election deters the
party from holding a primary to nominate
a state ticket.
houses are as scarce as honest trusts.
?Dr. John Hurty, Indianapolis.
Ten per cent o fthe entire population
of the United States is inherently
defective and unfit to be parents.?
Bleeker Van Wagenen, New York.
Walking in the vet grass in your
bare feet is apt to bring on hookworm
diseased?Dr. Bailey Ashford,
Porto Rico.
The non poisonous tuberle bacillus
is an effective vaccine for tuberculosis.?Dr.
Victor Vaughan, Ann Arbor,
Mich.
An Appropriate and Useful Memorial
On a choice site in Nashville, upon
the campus of George Peabody Col- *.. ^
lege for Teachers, the Tennessee Division
United Daughters of the Confederacy
will erect a memorial to the
men and women of the Confederacy.
This memorial, to cost $50,000 will
take the form of a women's dormitory
for the descendants of Confederate
soldiers. A few days ago Mrs. N. B.
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Home Committee, entered into a mutually
satisfactory agreement with
the College looking to the erection ofr
this building as soon as the funds are
in hand. The members of the Tennessee
division U. D. C. will receive hearty
commendation and support in this
great undertaking. They could not
rear a more appropriate or useful
memorial than such a splendid structure
at this central Teachers' Collega
for the South.
J Stobo Young's Parole Extended.
Columbia, Oct 3.?It is understood
here that the parole of J. Stobo
Young, former secretary of the Seminole
Securities company, who was
serving a sentence of one year in the
state penitentiary, has been extended
by the governor from October 1 to
December 1. Officials at the penitentiary
said today that, while no
official order had as yet been issued
that it was understood that an extension
of time had been allowed.
Ycung was convicted at the same time
wit'?? John Y. Garlington.
At the meeting of the local chapter
of U. D. C. in Beaufort, it was decided
to have a "Woodrow Wilson
Tea," the proceeds of which will go
to the Wood row Wilson campaign