Waycross weekly herald. (Waycross, Ga.) 1908-19??, July 11, 1908, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTHE WAYCROSS WEEKLY HERALD THE WEEKLY HERALD A. P. PERHAM & SON. Editors and Publisher*. Entered at the Post Office at Way- cross, Ga., as second clas matter." The Evening Herald Is published •very evening except Sunday. The Weekly Herald every Saturday. All subscriptions are payable In advance. Advertising rates rearonaMe and made known on application. HATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally, One Year $1.00 Dally, Six Months I2.&0 Dally, Three Months $1-25 Weekly. One Year 60 WAYCROSS, QA., JULY \ 1908. Maine has elected a prohibition gov ernor. 3o has Georgia. A number of Hhots are being fired at the convict lease system In the Gen eral Assembly of Georgia. + It Is reported that a Savannah man Johnson for president and Bryan for vice-president. That Is the Her- ild's ticket, and that ticket might win. +—.— When the Brunswick resolutions reach Denver, there may a scattering and a panic. Who knows? —+ (•fuse! eat. lie probably wants artillery puneh. Heab Wright says keep prohibition In polities. All right. Mr. Wright, then you will see where prohibition will land. We don’t cure much what becomes of the railroad conilsslon In Georgia so you don’t touch Uncle Obe Stevens. He U the best of the lot. Plans are already being made to no tify Bryan of his nomination. Noth ing wrong nhqut that, but it would be bad If some otner fellow got the The nomination of some one beside Bryan at the Denver convention woul certainly add diversity to the seen, and might prove beneficial to th party. The boys had a grand time at the Convention which nominated Brantley at Brunswick Saturday. * If the outside press will please let us alone now. Waycross will settle down and try to attend to her own i formation If such a thing Is needed. * * Brunswick Is a great town and full of big hearted people and among those who lead the procession are Mayor Rob Hopkins and Albert Fendlg. ^ Fitzgerald has placed the license to ?e!l near beer at $100. Fitzgerald Is too far from Waycross to do us any good. Beautiful Brunswick, the charming c(ty by the sea, Is surely coming Into her own at last. May she grow and nourish like a green bay tree. 4- T.ie Denver Convention opens up today and will probably last the oetter port of the week. Mr. Bryan will pro bably bo the nominee of the Detnocra- for president. tic p Some people say that It Is hard to tell the color of the present legisla tion. Notwlth. tending that it Is th* "in ■ old crowd, It has been suqgt* The South needs canning factories and plenty of them. No doubt about that. 1 4- 1 1 All Opposiflon to Wm. J. -Bryan seems to have been put to rout at Deavw. 1 —4- It looks like—in fact the matter Is settled—it is Bryan, Brown and Brantley. 4. No matter what Brown wrote to Smith, ha has been vindicated by the verdict of the people. Henry Watterson sayH Bryan wll defeat Taft. Then we will hare some thing else to be thankful for. 4- The mania for new counties in Ca.. seems to be red hot. It Is very doubt ful if we neej anymore new counties at this time present. If you are a democrat make up your mind to vote for Wm. J Bryan for President. He will be the choice of the party. -4. Hearst says he Is quite satisfied with the recount In New York and It is quite likely that McClellan feels the same way about it. 4. It Is reported that Georgia has de clined to be left out In tne cold and has climbed on to the Bryan band wa gon at Denver. y It Icn Ex-Governor 7!.oman 'an*s Roosevelt to rim .<* presidential ticket. As 1 •ina-krd: "Anything to pie of Colorado, with Bryai Taken In nil, It will be many a day efore Georgia will have a man In the lovernor’a office who can write such document ns Governor Smith’s ccent message.—Yldalia Advance. Yes we presume we will have to alt until next June. One hundred and thirty two years ago tomorrow the IT. S. declared Its Independence from the English gov ernment. Let us celebrate the occaa- sion. There will be n very sober and prob ably very dry crowd assembled Brunswick tomorrow. Nevertheless they will do some good work . Brant ley will be nominated for Congress by acclamation. "The merchant who desn’t adver tise may deceive himself Into the be lief Hint he Is economizing, but a real ization of his mistake will come ©very time, usually accompanied by ’kick me’ reflections,” says the Albany Her ald. On the contrary, the average Spain’s new royal baby was given eleven names nt the christening the other day, while his big brother, the Prince de Asturias, aged two, has twelve names. If Alfonso and Ena are not more economical of names they merchant who doesn't ildvortlse hasn’t 1 may presently find themselves with a Joe Terrell was there. They found aim and he bad to talk. "The best governor Georgia ever had ” cried a voice from the crowd—just ' everybody there felt.—Columbus En quirer-Sun. * The Den and Bryan mocr.icy's dent. cr Convention is at work will be nominated as De- tandard bearer for presi- The Denver convention seems likely to be as large as the recent Joe Brown gathering in Atlanta. It may be as large but it can never be so enthusi- lastic. The Immense Mexican oil field 00 tween Tampico and Tuxpan are burn ing. The lire Is visible 100 miles away on the gulf. The light Is intermittent and, therefore, dangerous to mariners. LITTLE MEN. Hoc. Gus Morrow, ct Jonesboro, a delegate to the Denver Convention and a man of small stature himself, though full of Infinite shrewdness anJ wisdom, has this to say of the personnel of the convention and Its honorees: "One striking effect of the verdict made by the people of Georgia on June 4th was the placing In evidence at the convention of Tuesday of men of small stature. First, and foremost of course, was Little Joe Brown. Th**n there was Hon. B. M. Blackburn, the game and brilliant "little" ban tam who was chosen secretary of the convention and the state executive committee. Then, P. W. Meldrlm, the courtly and captivating “little” cavalier of Savannah, who was se lected as the head of the delegation to the national convention. Then, Hon. Clark Howell, the true friend, the loyal democrat and the sterling statesman, who was re-elected as the “little” representative of Georgia on the national executive committee. What would this old world be good for. anyway, if we didn’t have the ‘little' ones.” There is no prettier city In the state, naturally, than St. Marys, Its wide streets, shaded with fine old oaks, beautiful scenery, and n water front unequalled In any part of the country. Pull for St. Marys and the road tn Waycross.—Southeast Geor gian. enough to ever realize his There Isn’t a bit of use In the press of the North or South throwing fits jfver the recent mob from Hickox who wont to Waycrss and lynched two negroes. The “law and order" ele ment Is a mighty small faction when pitted against frenzied fathertr who know of the crime which Invariably lends to the formation of a mob.— Brunswick Journal. supply unequal to the demaud. “Does It pay to drink alcoholic b«V- ♦rages-" asks tl\e Americus Tlmes-Re- corder. And the Macon News sefTds back this unswer: "Not that we have ever heard of. In fact it costs most folk* the shirt on their backs. All we have ever been able to loam about this question Is that It pays well to sell 'em. but not to drink 'em. Yon will notice that it Is the dealer that wears the diamonds and not the drinker. This question can be best answered by a remark we heard a whiskey drum mer make when asked to have a drink, ’’Excuse me, I sell It and let fools drink It." 4. Mr. Flagler writes that he wishes tt were true that he had drawn $30. 000.000 In dividends from the Stand ard Oil stock In the past ten years; that the report that he Is building “the biggest hotel In the world" oa Plantation Key Is mere fiction; that he has resigned as vice-president hut tret a director of the Standard Oil Company, and Instead of being la feeble health his health Is most excel lent. With these exceptions the Item that this paper recently printed is correct We are certainly glad that he is enjoying nigged health, and re gret that his dividends have not been largely more than printed: enough. Indeed, to have enabled him to have dotted hotels like a string of pearls from Jacksonville to Havana. How ever. we are gratified for what he hat done *for our state, and rejoice to fcfiow that his health Is robust enough for him to continue with his work of der*fega«t.-Oc«a BUM*. f.nek • tick* + Remove ihn causo an,! the effect ceases, that’s what the doctors say and that Is the kind of doctrine to preach. And when It comes to lynching of negroes or anybody uso for outraging Southern women, you need not preach any other. If you want to do something with your loud mouth, rightiousncsH, go to work to prevent the outraging of your little white glrla by negro brutes. - +— The following very pretty tribute to Joel Cu&ndlcr Harris, Is from the pen of Douglas Glesaner. pf Griffin News: “In tho death of Joel.Chand ler Harris, the South has lost the Ini mitable representative of Its humor and pathos in the person of “Uncle Remus,” and not only humanity but the whole world of animate and Inani mate nature. Including the "critter folks," the flowers of tho field and the mossy atones in the brooks, has lost Its best and most apprlatve friend. Yet Is he still with them, an Indestruc tible unit tn the cosmos which he so well apprehended. Most of the delegates to the Brant ley Convention aft Brunswick*, return ed Saturday night In good Spirits, that is to say—well they were all feeling good. ——+ It now transpires that the E. A. Young of New York who claimed to be a brother of Joan R. Young deceas ed of Savannah, Is a fake. We knew it all the time. 4. Bryan will be nominated again Denver anti we shnll vote for him usual. It Is unnecessary, however, stntc-the amount of enthusiasm with which we shall deposit our ballot * s A number of Hoke Smith men we delegates to the Congressional Con ation which assembled at Bruns wick Saturday and a Smith man was temporary chairman ol meeting. We are all together again. The action of the convention of tho Eleventh Georgia District In inviting Mr. Bryan to withdraw In favor of Gov. Johnson will not be without Its weight at Denver, though there Is no reason to think that the foregone conclusion of Mr. Bryan’s nomination will be changed. Tae matter has progressed to that point at which Mr. Bryan could hardly retire, even If he could be brought to see tho expediency of his doing so. He Is bound to respect the wishes of the great majority of the delegations that have been Instructed for him. The opposition to Mr. Bryan has .waited too long and the Nebra skan has already won hla convention game.—Savannah News. The Brunswick resolutions dM net ask Mr. Bryan to with draw entirely but tt simply take second place on the ticket ft Democracy can win at all The Georgia Delegation at Denver Is said to be booming Clark Howell for tho Vice-presidentIaI nomination Clark Is all right, but what In the world does he want with a Job like that when he can stay In Georgia and run a newspapr-r. —Albany Herald. * The Houston Home Journal eaps “the people of the'south need a big corn crop more than they need a big president." But the prospect now Is that the south will not ge( either. What U the matter with Bryan for big? * — Hoke Smith beat Clark Howell and kicked little Joe out. Wouldn't the ’Irony of fate" be getting there with both feet If \.lark should be elected ico-presldent and little Joe Brown Governor of Georgia? It seems that Georgia is likely to have two candidates for the presi dency, Scab Wright, on the prohibi tion ticket and Tom Watson, on the populist ticket. We shall be compel led to vote for a Nebraskan. America Is no longer English except in language, and even that has been broadened and Improved upon until it has becomo distinctively American. That is what Mr.' C. F. Murphy, of New Yorlt—not the political Mr. Mur phy but a commercial gentleman of the tame name—told a Paris audience on the Fourth of July. If Washington were restored to life today, Mr. Mur phy thinks he would feel much more, at home In London tfcan ir New York. The American who leaves his place In this world for minutes will come back and fled It occupied by some one else," said Mr. Murphy, "and when Roosevelt returns from Africa l .wouldn’t be a bit surprised If he had considerable difficulty In explain- WORKING ON THE CONVICT QUES TION. T he Constitution says: A joint committee from the house an.I senate has been appointed to draft a bill which will be offered to the legislature as a solution of the convict question. This was decided at a meeting of tho joint penitentiary committees front'the house and senate, following a hearing at which there were pres ent three members of the prison com mission. Chairman Holder, presid ing, named that Committee as coin- posed of Senators Brock, Akin, Repre sentatives Holder of Jackson, Johnson of Jones and Jones of Merriweather. Tney will report to the House and Sen ate Committee on next Wednesday night. In this report it is thought that ttie bill will declare in favor of re-leasing the convicts, all the convicts, where 1 the counties elect, or working all, where It shall be decided, this way. It Is further expectedhat recommenda tions shall be made for seperatlng the white and black convicts and aiso for seperatlng the women convicts. Chairman Turner, In his remarks from the prison commlsJlbn suggest ed, that the practice of judges leasing misdemeanors to private individuals, should either be stopped or legalized. He hinted broadly at the idea of peon- age In such practice. It is believed that tho proposed bill will declare in favor of abolishing such leases. That the convicts will bo re-leased for another term of five years Is as It has always been, a foregone con clusion. MAKES A REPLY ANSWERS INTERVIEW O' JUDGE PARKER RECENTLY PUBLISHED TOM WATSON WILL SPEAK IN ATLANTA, Hon. Thomas E. Watson, will speak In Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, July 9th, Mr. Watson will speak at St. Nich olas Skating Rink, Ponce Do Leon Park. This auditorium Is the largest In the South and will accommodate at least 15,000 people. y 3Ir. Watson will make two speech- i.| * The first one at 10 o’clock a. m, In which he will discuss State Poll tics. At 8 o’clock at night, he will be notfled of his nomination for Presi dent by the National People’s Party and he will deliver his speech of ac ceptance-, which will cover all the National Issues of the day. GLENMORE CELEBRATED FOURTH OF JULY Glenmore,* Ga:, July 8, 1908 Saturday July 4th win long be re membered by the people of Glenmore and vicinity. The entire white popula tion came together and gave an old time Barbecue. Together with five carcasses, well cooked, cakes, pies pickles, etc., a regular banquet table waa aet, with lemonade and Ice cream for the ladies and children,(and It Is supposed that the men had something else), a splendid dinner waa set. At night until a late hour the boys kept the town lit up with rockets and cannon crackers loudly tecalled' the fact that It was the nat ent national holiday. Quite a number from Manor Ruskin and Waycross and the Imme diate neighborhood was on hand with friends to enloy the day. Mr. C. E. Call, of Valdosta, Mr. J Warren, of Sparks; Mr. G. W. Spur lock, of Adel; Mr J. W. Spurlock, cf Owens Ferry, were some of the onte from a distance present, A return of the day will be lookfd forward to with pleasure by many it has become a custom with the e good people to celebrate the 4th of July with a fine barbecue and nothing — — 1 *iiB ■ one oaroocue and Ini why he la not an undesirable cIU- ic better or more appropriate sen." America has, indeed, produced 1 a distinctive people, filled with ner-l I11 answer to ao interview from Judge T. A. Parker recently publish ed Sheriff D. A. Woodard makes the fol.owing reply: “To a purported interview from Judge Parker published Wednesday, I have been urged by my friends to p-ake reply. I deeply regret being forced into the newspapers to defend- myself against an attack, unjustly as It may have been, and especially when the attack comes from such a source. My duties under Judge Parker for the past IS months has shown me that uprn the bench he Is always govern ed by an ever commendable sense of fairness. All who come before his honor for trial are given tne oppor tunity to place before him and the jury all the evidence whicn will throw light upon their side of their case. Judge Parker. In preparing his terview," has not accorded me right which he gives the* lowest crira inal. I have been condemned by him without the opportunity to giv defense. The world has been told that I have been negligent in ty. 1 have been branded as fleer of the law who through gross mismanagement, has played into hands of a mob. Should I not make reply? JuJce Parker’s Information on lynching of tho two negroes last Sat urday has evidently come from a per son utterly misinformed on the true f' cts of the natter, or from a person who has sought by intentional mis leading statements to Injure me, believe Judge Parker should havi heard my side. It would have been his wish to accord the two ngi this privilege had they been brought before him for trial. Judge Parker states that tea 1 Ing Is to be Investigated. It Is my great desire that tills shall be done, and I do not doubt but that his hon or’s charges of negligence on my part, or on tuo part of any of my deputies, will meet with every exhoneration the hands of a fair minded public and at his hands in the end. In answer to Judge Parker’s Inter view I desire to say: The two negroes were brought the Ware county jail about 8:30 Sat urday morning, In company Deputy Sheriff Lyens and two other Je puties from Wayne county. I formed of the charges against the ne groes and I urged that they be carried through to Jesup on the 10:30 train, as there was a train leaving here that time. The deputies Informed me that they had brought the prisoners through the -country during t~e night to Hoboken where they boarded the train for Way cross and would have carried them on by the way of Tlfton If they had had the money. I loft the Jail thinking that the deputies would leave with the men for Jesup at 10:30. About 9:30 I received a telephone message from Deputy Srelff Walker cf Wayne county. Informing mo that he would arrive here on the 1:30 train and asked me to hold the men until he came. __ I met Mr. Walker at the train, and he Informed me that he desired to car ry the negroes back with him at o’clock. He asked me if I thought there would be trouble here, and told him that I believed not—that so far as I knew, few persons were In formed of the presence of the negroes In Waycross. Later in the afternoon, upon return Ing to my office at the court house, I was informed by Deputy Lyens of the report that a mob was coming In from Hickox on the afternon train to lynch the negroes. We discussed the matter and then called on Orldnary Lott, who was In his office across the hall, Judge Lott did not believe that there was any danger from the Hickox section, because he believed, he said, that the negroes would have been lynched the day before If the men had wanted them, but he thought there might be some danger from a Waycross mob. Finally, Judge Lott, Deputies Walk er, Lyens and myself, decided to lay tho matter before Solicitor General Bennett, and we all went to hla office for this purpose. Mr. Bennett was ab sent, so we laid the matter before Mr. A. Wilson, his law partner. We In formed Mr. Wilson that we had made arrangements with the railroad com pany to atop the Jesup train at the Butler street crossing where wo thought it best to board the train, thus escaping the Hickox mob, should they con»« in on the Brunswick train. The Jesup train wa. due at the crossing U ten minutes aft*r the arrival of tl 2 Hickox train, and we could not t* 4 - lieve that by any means a mob cou l get to us in time should they hav j come in from Hickox. at this Him we might have won with voua energy and unlike any other 1a 1 Fine crops are reported all ever the ... “>• wort! ... V->«g-41M B*C^t Joo Brows crops Our Information from conductor Mc- Plpkin was that the train would leav* the depot here at 6:30, so I turned tae prisoners over to Mr. Walker and his deputies at the jail at 6:10. I had ar ranged for a closed hack to carry the prisoners and guards to the crossing believing that this plan would prevent attracting any attention. Hackman Johnnie Walker was present with hi* closed hack ready for the trip, but Do puty Walker declined to accept it, sta- ting that he prefared to walk them over. There were five officers from Waynn county, and they marched with the negroes, through iuc streets, about three blocks to the crossing. I was asked to show the way to the crossing which I did. We arrived Just a few mlnut sebefore the train was due. There were no one at the crossing when we arrived #and possibly eight or ten men and boys had followed us from the jail. I entertained absolutely no apprehension that a mob could pos sibly congregate before the arrival of the train, then about due. In the meantime, however, crowds- began to congregate. They displayed only curiosity to see the prisoners. Once or twice I pressed the men back who were crowding la too closely. They took this good naturedly an l obeyed. At the station we could see an engine headed our way, those pres ent, as well as myself believed that we had only a few moments to wait. I had just assisted in quelling a p« r- sonal disturbance between two men when Ordinary Lott, touched me on the arm and informed me that Solici tor General Bennett desired to speak to me over the ’phone about the pris oners. I started across to Mr. Lott s house to answer Mr. Bennett, and just before reaching his gate I heard tne cry: “They have got them." I turned and went back to the crowd, but the leaders in the mob already had the neg'*oe8 and were rushing across the e.n, nnkment. The Wayne county de puties had been disarmed. In company with Marshal Collev I followed the moU. I pleaded to tiie men to allow the law to take Its course and I finally gained tho promise front several that the smaller negro would bo spared. The mob was several hun dred strong, and there was absolute determination to lynch the larger ne gro. Fair minded persons who were pres ent consider that I did my duty. In answer to Judge Parker’s state ment , I desire to say that the plan which we had arranged to get the pris oners on board the train was the be3t could see It, and It was approv ed by Solicitor Bennett’s law partner and Ordinary Lott, In Mr. Wilson’s of fice. I was not negligent, and I don’t believe that the brave Sheriff Lyens nor any one else could have done more, notwithstanding Judge Parker's statement to the contrary. I desire to deny positively that I as requested by any person to carry the prisoner* back to the jail until Ordinary Lott informed me that Mr. Bennett wanted to speak to me over the 'phone. Judge Lott then said that he thought tho Solicitor wanted them taken back and tho military company called out, to which--! readily agreed, the mob at that moment showing the first Indication of the attack on the of ficers, which came a moment later. Judge Parker says that the fact that the train was late was no excuse. That we should have taken the prisoners back to the Jail. I would agrse wtih him had we been Informed that the train was late. We only learned this fact by seeing It fall to appear as minute after minute passed. Now in conclusion I desire to say that I believed then, as I do now, that would be unwtse and absolutely Inexcusable to order the deputies to fire Into the mob. I am sure that many innocent lives would have been sacri ficed, and in the end the negroes would have been taken. There were some ladles on the outskirts of the crowd and numbers of boys, and I feel sure taat there were many others who had no desire to take part In the lynching the negroes. I did ray duty as I saw it, and I do not now desire to apologize to Judge Parker nor any one else, nor do I regret my actions In the matter. I feel, and my friends believe, that Judge Parker haa been unjust to me. He has not displayed bis usual fairness and I ask, and I feel sure the public asks, a correction of his Interview bo as it applies to my actions before J the lynching of the negroes. j Again I state that I did my duty aa *4 saw it, and I do not believe that his ' Sheriff W. B. Lyens, of Jesup, could have done better. _ PUT THROUGH COURSE OF HOT DRILLING. Savannah, Ga.. July 7.—The mem- hera of the FIrat Regiment of Infantry National Guard of Georgia were put through a course of hot drilling last night, preparatory to their departure next week for Lytle, near Calckaman- ga, where they are to go into campt CoL Arthur Gordon had charge of the --—* injraouauy iur a UHie ana uv “ X.'XJi?- to 'tii« m au thn tor aa boar oa cmrrTltttrot*