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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1907)
TAYLOR BALKS AT IMMUNITY Outlawed Governor Demands Guar antee of a Fair Trial* FT ATE S HIS POSITION ITorts of Kentucky to Draw Him From Safe Retreat in Indiana Are Consid ered-Is Willing to Stand Trial. William S. Taylor, formerly govern rr of Kentucky, whose extradition has t>eon sought by the authorities of that state since the assassination of Gov ernor William Goebel seven years ago gave out a statement at Indian • polis, Indiana, Friday night, which he said is the first public statement 1 he has made since leaving his native state. He first dlss f ctg the promises of Immunity, said to have been offered ill in recently should he testify in ihe Caleb Powers case and then says to the Kentucky authorities that he is willing to return to his hem? slate and stand trial on the charge against himself If granted certain guarantees The statement says: “For more than seven years I have borne in silence the slandtr and per secutions of those who l-obbed me of wh if heaven knows Was my own and who, to conceal that crime against lib erty and for no other reason, indict ed and drove me into exile. 1 trust an indulgent public will permit me now to break that silence. “Commonwealth's Attorney Franklin of Kentucky knows that I have fully testified in the Powers case by dipo- \ sUifm. This testimony is a Part of j the record of the case, and is ac«*-si- Me to him. He knows, too, that he had a right to cross-examine me at the time I gave it and aid not do so. Me knows that neither lie nor any other officer or combination of officers In Kentucky lias the legal right to , grant such immunity and that were 5 to return under such promises o immunity 1 would be arrested, denied bail and, like Mr. Powers, be subjected to nothing less than a mock trial by , a partisan court, before a packed par tisan court with a SIOO,OOO corruption fund as a powerful incentive to con victloin The law is clear that Mr Franklin or any other officer has no yower to promise immunity. “Hut inasmuch as Mr. Franklin abounds in propositions and pn raises and seems enamored of the idea that he can do things, 1 will say this: “If he will in some way provide mi absolute guaranty—not merely a promise—a guaranty that will Inspire confidence among sensible, level-head cri, honest men —a guaranty the spirit of which may not be violated though the letter be observed, that I will be given a fair and impartial trail 1 will gladly return to Kentucky and sub mit to trial. “In other words if Mr. Franklin will cause what remains of the one hun dred thousand dollar corruption fund ho be returned to the treasury of Ken tucky. no part of it to be used in the prosecution; will guarantee Hal •11 trial jurors in my case shall be composed of six upright democrat* and a like number of upright repub licans; will guarantee that bail will he granted me within the limits of $100,000; will dismiss the indictments against all parties used as proweuting witnesses except myself, and, lastly, will, i,a advance, by mutual agree ment,. select an impartial jury judge to try my case, I will, without any promise of immunity, voluntarilv re turn to Kentucky not only to testify fn (he Powers case, but to submit my self to trial." DIVIDEND CUT BY SOUTHERN. Drastic Legislation and High Cost of Main tenance the Reason. The directors of the Southern Rail way company, at their meeting, in New York, Friday, cut the semi-annual dividend of the preferred stock of the company from 2 1-2 to 1 1-2 per cent. President Finley made the following •tatement: “The directors considered that un der txisting conditions of high prices of supplies, material and labor, of in creasing taxes and legislative reduc tion of revenues, it was the part of «oiwsc rvative prudence to limit the dis tribution of the profit of the company et least until the permanent effects of »uch conditions can be fairly meas ured.” STRIKE ON THE WANE. Telegraphic Business is Slowly Assuming Normal Conditions, Notwithstand ing Reports to the Contrary. S. J. Small, president of the Com mercial Union of Telegraphers, arrived in New York from the west Sunday, i He was met at the station by a large delegation of striking telegraphers. In the afternoon he attended a meet ing of the striking telegraphers and made a brief address in which he de tailed the general situation, refraining from discussing local conditions. Mr. Small gave out an optimistic statement regarding general strike conditions, in which he said: “We have fully 80 per cent of all the commercial telegraphers in. the United States on strike. This applies to small and large cities. Thousands of one-man offices are closed and the keys to the doors are in the possession of city of ficials to be turned over to the inspec tors of the company when they arrive. • We have started to raise a large fund —two of them, in fact. One of these is for the benefit of the strikers ar.d the other to be expended in favor cl government control of the telegraph lines. Although the call for fund 3 has only been out a few days, many remit tances were received before 1 left Chi cago. "Nothing has been published about arbitration but the cry from coast to coast is ‘no arbitration.’ ” In the face of the statement by the president of the striking union, both the Western Union and the Postal tele graph companies emphasize their dec laration that the situation is improving daily and that, barring a few unimpor tant towns, conditions are gradually getting bttter and assuming a normal condition. They announuced that they are handling all the business offered with dispatch. Once more Belvidere Brooks, super intendent of the eastern division of the Western Union, asserts that the strike is over as far as his company is concerned. "The strikers are whipped to a fin ish," Brooks said. “If they do not knew they are whipped they will know it soon. We will run our own job here, without dictation from any one or any union.” The telegraph companies are say ing little and improving their service. The following contract of the Postal Telegraph Company, just issued, is in dicative of its policy, and means not only that there will be no union re cognition, but that even a committee from the ranks of the strikers will net be treated with. "I hereby agree, if given employ ment by the Postal Telegraph-Cable company, to render full and faithful service at all times retraining from all agitation and interference with the company’s business; and 1 further agree that I will work carefully and well with every operator, be he union or non-union.” The foregoing applies to every appli cation for employment in every Postal office in the country. While the Wes tern nion has not adopted any form of contract, it is requiring each oper ator to make application for work. INSULT TO DAUGHTER OF DAVIS. Old Proclamation of Lincoln Caused Pro test and Was Removed. When Mrs. Margaret Howell Jeffer son Davis Hayes, daughter of the president of the Confederacy, learned that a member of the fighting Fif teenth Pennsylvania cavalry, attend ing the reunion at Colorado Springs had hung on the walls of the Antlers hotel a copy of the old proclamation offering a reward of $300,000 for the arrest of her father and other Confed erate leaders for alleged complicity j in the assassination of President Lin- I coin, she immediately raised a protest ! to General Palmer. Before her protest had been received, however, General Palmer bad heard of the proclamation and ordered that it be taken down CASH CINCHED FOR CANAL WORK. Proposition of Colonel Gcethals is Ap proved by the President. The president has aprpoved Colonel j Goethal's request to continue expendi tures in excess of the pro rata allowed j for the construction of the Panama ea ' nal for the present fiscal year on ac ! count of present necessities and un foreseen developments since the esti mates were submitted. Congress will be requested at the next session to make an appropriation to cover the deficiency, which is plac | - d at eight millions. SOUTH URGED TO BREAK UP Taft Bids for Votes in the States of Dixie Land. SOLIDITY IS DRAWBACK Roosevelt's Candidate Opens Kentucky State Republican Campaign in Speech at Lexington. With a discussion of the race prob lem and of general political issues, and with an appeal to Kentuckians and other southern men to come to the aid of the republican party in support of those principles, which he believed they favored, Secretary of War Taft, Thursday, opened the republican state campaign In Kentucky at Lexing ton. Calling attention to what he cal*, •d the south’s lack of representation, In the councils of the nation, he de clared that this was true “because one single issue has made it the perpetual tail of the democratic party, so that, however small the northern head It wags that tail. “The south has permitted the shad ows of an issue that circumstance ought long ago to have removed from political controversy to bind it solidly to the democratic party, no matter what principles or candidates that par ty has adopted.” Ha called attention to the prosperity of Kentucky, its developing industries and agricultural wealth, and express ed the belief that Kentuckians who favored a protective tariff had blindly voted the democratic ticket b cause of the feeling of the race issue. Then, taking up the race question, he said: “I am not a pessimist with respect to the rac? question. I am convinced that it is working itself out, and I am convinced that nothing has so much contributed to its gradual solution as ths thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.” After mentioning the various means of disfranchising voters, declaring that such laws were proper if applied with equal fairness to both white and black, he expressed the hope that the colored citizens, under the leadership of such meu as Booker T. Washington, would become respected business men of communities in which they live. The secretary continued: “And When they exercise independ ence of judgment in resptet to politi cal issues we may be sure that grad ually the right to vote will be accorded them, aud they will exercise a far more useful influence as intrtligent and solid members of the community for the benefit of their race than the ig norant members of their race would have exercised had they been allowed to vote. In this way through devious ways, which cannot be justified or approved, we may still reach a result that will square with the requirement of the federal constitution, and will give to the negro every political and economic right, and will confer great benefit upon the colored race. “The negro is necessary to the south »s a skille*d and unskilled. Were the negro to be withdrawn from the south, the difficulties agriculture would labor under can hardly be over stated. The negro is an American, he has no other couutry than this and can have no other country than this, and when called upon to defend It lays down his life with the same free dom that the white man sacrifices his. It is our duty to see to it that his path is made as easy as we can and that his progress is as incessant as proper encourgement can make it. His best friends —the one that can do most for him and the one in many respects w'ho sympathizes wtih him most—is who sympathizes with him most —is the southern white man." ENGINE CREW LOSE LIFE. Engineer, Fireman and Brakeman Meet Death in Boiler Explosion. An engine on the Central railway blew up about 4 o’clock Sunday morn ing, near Raccoon, Ga., killing three men. Engineer Will B. Hutchings, Fire mau John Bord-rs aud Brakeman Ar thur Welcher, colored, who were on the engine, were killed. The cause of the explosion is not known. ALABAMA HOLDS AI.OOF State Refuses to Have Anything to Do With Proceedings Before Judge Jones in Federal Court. In a sensational statement made Sat urday to the United States court for the middle district of Alabama, in Montgomery, Judge Thomas G. Jones Presiding, Attorney General A. M. Garber said that he did not appear in answer to the application for a blanket injunction by the Louisville and Nashville for the reason that the court, in an elaborate opinion, had already given ks views of th e case, and to make any effort at all would, he felt, be futile. He said that this opinion had been sent in pamphlet form all ever the state, one of them having reached him at his office. The incident arose over the effort of the Louisville and Nashville to have a blanket injunction issued restrain ing the solicitors and sheriffs of the state from indicting or prosecuting for violation of law’s now restrained by the federal court. Saturday had been set down by Judge Thomas G. Jones of the federal court for sheriffs and solicitors to reply, also for the attorney general to make answer, the state, in a sense, having been made a party to the proceedings. Attorney General Garber said that, in exercising the discretion granted to the attorney general and railroad com mission in the summons served upon them, that the attorney general and the counsel for the state had decided not to appear, and that they had reached the conclusion because the court had within a day or two after granting the restraining order, issued an elaborate opinion on the case be fore counsel for the state had been given an opportunity to argue the questions involved in the case. The attorney general declared that, so far as he knew, this action 1, Judge Jones was unprecedented. Having made his statement, Colonel Garber asksd to be excused from fur ther attendance upon the court, which request was granted by Judge Jones, and the attorney general immediately left the court room. More time being asked by some of the solicitors, Judge Jones held up the hearing for some days, during which time he extended the order made several days ago, which is in itself a restraint. Later in the day Judge Jones as sured a delegation of railroad men who called on him at his office that they would be protected from indig nities on the part of state officers and if arrested by any of them for failure to observe state railroad laws under restraint by the federal court parties making arrests will be at once arrest ed and severely punished. EXCURSION TRAINS IN COLLISION. Four People Killed Outright and Thirty More or Less Hurt in Crash. Four persons were killed and thirty more or less injured when a westbound St. Louis and San Francisco passen ger train Saturday and eastbeund pas senger, both loaded heavily with ex cursionists, collided head-on near Sa pulpa, Indian Teritorr, The wreck is said to have been due to the failure of the dispatcher at Sa pulpa to issue an order to the east bound train to take the siding at Red Fork. ERRING YOUNG WOMAN DESERTED. Miss Whaley Left in the Lurch by Parson Who Eloped With Her. Deserted and about to become a mother is the terrible situation of Flo retta Whaley, the 17-year-old heiress who eloped last April from Hempstead, L. 1., with the Rev. Jere Kencde Cooke, then rector of the exclusive St. George church, to which August Bel mont and other rich New Vorkers be long. The whereabouts of is unknown. QUARTET OF DAGOES TO SWING. All Four Will Drop From the Same Gal lows in Lancaster, Pa. The death warrant for the hanging of four Italians in Lancaster, Pa., on October, is the first warrant for four persons to be executed in the state in many years. There have been num erous double hangings, and one or two triple legal executions have been known in recent years, but the issu ance of a warrant for four to be hang ed on a single scaffold is without pre cedent in the memory of men serving In state offices. R. O. JACKSON, Attorney-at- Law, MCDONOUGH, GA. Office over Star Store. E. iVI. SHITH, Attorney at Law, Me Donough, Ga. Office over Star Store, south side sqiar®. 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Exceedingly low rates have ■ been authorized by the Southern Railway to Norfolk, Va., and return, account Jamestown Ter-Ceutennial Exposi tion. Stopovers will be allowed on sea son, sixty day and fifteen day tickets, same as granted on summer tourist tickets. Tickets will be sold daiiy commencing April 19th, to and inclu ding November 30th, 1907. The Southern Railway is taking a very great interest in this exposition and doing everything within their power to promote its welfare fcfr the reason that it is located on historic and southern grounds, and has evi dence of being one of the most import ant and attractive affairs of this kind that has ever been held. Through train service and sleeping car service to Norfolk during the ex position has not yet been announced, but it is expected that most excel lent schedules will be put in effect so as to make the trip comfortable and satisfactory in every way. Full and complete information will be cheerfully furnished upon appiir-a lion to any ticket agent of the South ern Railway company. rf INCITER OF RACE RIOTS HELD. Negro Editor Stays in Jail on Order of Virginia Governor. Sergeant Lawler of Norfolk, Va., Fri day afternoon received a telegram from Governor Swanson at Richmond, directing him to hold the negro editor. J. D. Uzzell, who surrendered to the authorities as the result of the Onan cock race troubles on the eas-tera shore of Virginia, and whom the state’s atorney of Norfolk declared was being held under no charge and could leave the jail at will. The gev -rnor telegraphed “Hold Uzzell.” put In Norfolk city jail by Colonel Not tingham, subject to the authorities of Accomac county. You will hear fr m sheriff and prosecuting attorney at the proper time.” Most men think they know a lot more than they know, they know.
