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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1909)
THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIV., No. 208 ANDERSON OF CHATHAM SAYS BROUGHTON IS SEVERAL ASSORTED KINDS OF A LIAR Tells the Legislature the Preacher is Wilful, Ma licious, Reckless, Malig nant and Vicious Liar. REV. MR. SLADE ALSO ATTACKS BROUGHTON Minister-Legislator Takes Shot At Atlanta Divine —A n t i - Prohibitionists Pour in Hot Shot. Special to The Herald. ATLANTA, Ga. —The anti-prohibit ionists in the state legislature forgot the truce today, rolled up their sleeves, grabbed their clubs and sail ed into the opposition with such bit ter invective that an aged clerk shook his head and remarked: “Noth ing like that ever happened in the legislature in the forty years I’ve been attending it.” Th e fun began when Anderson of Savannah, who is fighting the near beer bill, arose to a question of per sonal privilege. He was white faced, trembling and had to moisten his lips several times before he found his voice. ANDERSON WHITE HOT. “I noticed,” he began, “that a local minister, named Rev. Len. G. Brough ton, is quoted in the press as hav ing said in a sermon that I was fight ing the near beer bill, because I had bought stock in a Savannah brewery after the prohibition biil was passed and that I was the only man in the state who made money out of prohi bition in Georgia. I desire to say that this preacher is a wilful, malicious, reckless, maliganant and vicious liar. I fully expected to be assailed and villified whe n I obeyed my. constitu ents’ will and opposed this Alexander bill, but I never even dreamed that a minister of the gospel, a follower of Him, who preached charity and taught the truth, would stoop to be come a slanderer and a common liar.” “In the first, place, no Savannah brewery, nor stock in one, has been sold since prohibition went into ef fect. Hence, this is another lie of the reverend hypocrite. About fif teen years ago, I bought ten shares In a Savannah brewery and paid SIOO a share. I w r as out of the state when th e prohibition bill passed, and when I returned and tried to sell my stock, I could not. It is now worth about SSO or SOO a share, but cannot be sold.” SKEW PROHIBITION MEASURE. “This Alexander bill is a new prohi bition bill, and we already have the strongest prohibition bill ever draft ed. If it be not enforced, then it is because the officers are negligent and the people do not want it enforced. I have never placed as much as a straw in the way of its enforcement. But you know you cannot enforce an unpopular law.” REV. MR. SLADE OPENS FIRE. Mr. Anderson sat dow n in a breath less silence and little representative J. A. Slade, a light dignified and a ministerial looking man arose Mr. Slade Is from Musoogee coun ty, and is a Baptist minister, the same church which Broughton serves. Every one expected a bitter retort to Anderson’s outburst. What was the astonishment of all, then, when Slade went even further than Anderson in denouncing his fellow clergyman. “I was astounded and insulted,” he said, “to hear the slander heaped upon a worthy member of this leg islature, by a man who professes to be a minister of the gospel.” THIEF IS MADE TO SWALLOW BEARD Hair is Cut Up Into Small Pieees and Mixed With Leaves and Given to the Guilty Native. BERLIN— A German missionary writing from his station in the Con go, says that as a punishment for stealing, a native was compelled to swallow his beard, after it had been cut into small pieces and mixed with leaves. NICHOLAS DELAIGLE DIED SUNDAY NIGHT Special to The Herald. WAYNESBORO, Ga.—Mr. Nicholas deLaigle, of Telfairville, died at his home Sunday night after a short ill ness. He was a prominent farmer in his community and his death is re gretted by a host of friends. THE WEATHER Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity: Shevyers tonight or Wednesday, F<s» Georgia and South Carolina: Unsettled weather, showers tonight or Wednesday. Cloudy and unsettled weather pre vails largely over the south today, and showers have occurred In most of th>-fotron belt districts, with heavy rains in Oklahoma, The eastern half of the belt is dominated by this pressure, and show ers are imminent in this section Tues day night. Augusta's maximum and minimum thermometer markings Monday we/e 87 and 72 degrees. It is somewhat warmer today, though not nearly so holt as the average for the summer. Nemesis Overtakes Oldfield — —— ——— Barney Oldfield, the famous automobile racer, whose picture is here shown, was knocked down by an auto in Chicago and badly injured. Three men have been killed by cars driven by Oldfield, apd he has knocked down more than forty persons, ac cidentally, during his career. ANNEXATION FIGHT BEGINS IN ATLANTA WEDNESDAY Delegations Leave Tonight To Appear Before Cor poration Committee. A HARD FIGHT Both Sides Will Carry Up Advocates of Tlieix* Posi tions To Present the Arguments. The “big fight” between rival dele gations from Augusta and Summer ville will be pulled off in the corpora tions committee room of the house of representatives Wednesday morninf- It will be a battle of eloquence in which each . side is determined to prove tha't the other is wTong. Chairman Kalbfleisch, of the an nexation committee of city council, who will act as spokesman of the mayor’s delegation, went to Atlanta Monday night, to get the lay of the land and reconnoiter. He will be followed Tuesday nigh'c by the remain ing members of the party, among whom will probably be the mayor, City Attorney Cohen, Councilman Austin Branch and others, who leave on the same train that will carry Summerville’s representatives. Intendant Burum of Summerville has added three names to the lis’t of the village delegation which will ap pear before the committee Wednes day morning and protest against an nexation. They are: Messrs. W. C. Rhoades, P. A. Steiner and R. J. Southall. Messrs. Bryan Gumming, Sam H. Myers, R. J. Southall and maybe one or two others will act as spokesmen. The strongest argument the village will offer against annexation is that ! er citizens do not want to come into Augusta. “Out of a population of 5,000, we have been able to find only four citi zens up to date who are in favor of annexation,” declared Mr. Burum. “Then increased taxation that would inevitably be the result of in corporation into Augusta is another one of our strong points. Even though our taxes were not raised in two or three years, there would even tually be an Increase. Within the pas’t year more than $200,000 worth of property has been bought and im proved in the village by winter visi tors. They bought It as village property, and are unwilling that It should be made city property. We are getting letters from them almost every day, piotesting against annexa tion. They are rich men, and have spent money unsparingly in the vil lage. When they bought their prop erty it was with the understanding that taxes should be a certain amount, not more." Mr. Burum adds ’that there 13 no agument to be advanced in Augusta’s favor in regard to the village streets and waterworks system. “We have water enough to last us 10 years,” said he, “and It Is better than city water. Our streets are in better con dition than any street In the city except Broad. You start to Judge Eve’s road In an automobile over any one of the city’s cross streets, and you’ll sbaire your car all to pieces. But ‘the same is not true In Summer AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 27, 1909. ville’, for our streets are all in fine shape.” The Summerville delegation will leave the city Tuesday night In a special car over the Georgia railroad Arriving there at an early hour Wed nesday morning they will call imme diately after breakfast upon the cor porations committee. The party will return Wednesday night. Chairman Kabfleisch, cX tho annexa tion committee of council, has al ready gone, leaving Monday night. The rest of the Augusta delegation will leave Tuesday afternoon. AIR LINE COMPANY WAS INCORPORATED ALBANY.—The New York Aerial Manufacturing and Navigation coin pany, of Brooklyn, was incorporated to carry _o'n the business of “trans portation of passengers, animals, freight, baggage and other commodi ties by such airships, aviators, aero planes anu other vehicles propelled as aforesaid for hire and the leasing and letting for hire of such airships, aviators, aeroplane and whatsoever for aerial navigation.” This is the first company of the kind to incorporate in this state. The capital is $25,000 and the directors are George E. Tinker, John W. Hughes, Francis Francis, Alfred Schletter and Oscar W. Smith, of Brooklyn, BANK CLERKS AND LAWYERS TO PLAY BALL GAME LRIDAY FOR MILK AND ICE FUND The bank clerks of the city and the lawyers have framed it up to have a ball game Friday afternoon at War ren ’/irk, and as both sides have all the money they want they have agreed to give the entire proceeds to The Herald’s Milk and Ice fund. As a matter of fact both sides are going to get enough fun out of the game 'to have paid a tidy sum for the pri vilege of playing, and we may work it that way next time, but this time the spectators are going to pay ten cents each, and the ten cents is going to be devoted entirely to the sick babies of the city. It’s going to be worth this and many times more—the game is. Then the sat isfaction of buying a ticket for this worthy cause Is going to be worth something Itself. “Bill” Erwin Is captaining, man aging, engineering, and financing the Bank clerks team. “Bill” is some thing of a . nancier, and he has prom ised a worthy collection of the bud ding hankers of the city on Warren park diamond at 4:30 p. m. Friday af ternoon to do things to those law yers. Mr. John J. Foster, is making a brief of the baseball 'talent, among the lawyers, and promises to have a nine on Warren field that will up hold the baseball prestige of the lo cal bar. The legal lights sorter had iTIFT WILL USE AUGUSTA IS HIS HEADOUARTERS While in SouLh Next Fall President Will Make This City the Central Point. WILL PLAY GOLF ON COUNTRY CLUB LINKS While Here Will Make Trips To Anderson and Columbia, S. C., He Tells Mr. Aiken. WASHINGTON. President Taft told Representative Aiken, of South Carolina, that -when he is at Augusta, Ga., in November he will take occa sion to pay brief visits to Anderson and Columbia, S. C. The president will stop In Augus ta on returning from his western trip long enough to play several games of golf over the links on which he spent so much time last winter, us president-elect. M'LBNDON CASE MAY COME ID AN [ID WEDNESDAY Resolutions of “Impeach ment” and “Reinstate ment” of Former Chair man Inti-oduced. Special to The Herald. ATLANTA, Ga. —Senator Burwell, chairman of the senate committee and the joint committee considering the suspension of Railroad Commissioner S. G. McLendon, Tuesday morning in troduced a resolution in the senate providing for the removal from office of Mr. McLendon, Under the rules of the senate action on the resolu tion was deferred until Wednesday. Various resolutions concerning the McLendon suspension flooded (he house Tuesday morning, calling for “impeachment” and “reinstatement” of the suspended chairman. The resolution calling for impeach ment was introduced by Mi. Hall of Bibb, and provided that the general judiciary committee should be in structed at once to prepare articles of impeachment. Mr. Hardeman of Jefferson offered a resolution provid ing that “S. G. McLendon he, and he is hereby, removed from the office of railroad commissioner.” Mr. Ander son of Chatham offered a counter res olution providing that the “Suspension of S. G. McLendon from the railroad commission be, and the same is here by, disapproved.” Resolutions providing that the Mc- Lendon matter shall be made a spe cial order to follow the general tax act were not lacking. All the reso lutions were referred to the commit tee on rules and will probably he acted on not later than Wednesday. IMPERIAL FAMILY AT KIEL. KIEL. —Emperor Nicholas and Em press Alexandra of Russia, accompan ied by their children arrived off Eck enfordo Monday morning ori board the royal yacht Standart. it on the hank clerks In their game last year and promise to repeat the dose. The bank clerks have enlisted some new talent however and promise to Bpring a surprise when the umpire calls time. The umps is a mooted queston. So far the official who will call Strikes and balls has not been selected. But one of the number under considera tion will be chosen by Wednesday when the line-up of both teams will be published. , Neither side has had much prac tice, and both captains are watching their pitchers for fear they will prac tice some, and be out of condition for the game. The exhibition promises to be well worth while. It is believed a large crowd will see the game, which jok ing aside will no doubt he well play ed by both, sides. The baseball man agement has generously contributed the use of the park and tickets, and several stores have volunteered To* help sell the tickets which will also be on sale at the park at the time of tho game. The tickets selling for ten cents will admit one 'to any seat In the stands, they get to first. Tickets can be found on sale nt The Herald Office, The Albion Hotel Cigar Store, Ives and Howard* Savoy. MINI KILLED IN THE STRIKE AGAINST ID Police Charge Strikers and Several Are Killed as People Protest against Spanisk-Moroccan War. PEOPLE RESORT TO MOB VIOLENCE Hundreds Are Arrested As Street Cars Are Stoned and Rails Torn Up By Mad Strikers. BARCELONA, via Perpignan, France. —Violence followed the dec laration of general strike here Mon day which was called for the pur pose of protesting against the' Span ish-Moroccan war. Strikers stoned street cars and tore up rails. Mounted police made repeated charges, and wounded several men. Hundreds of others were arrested. The streets are now deserted except for patrols and the majority of shops are closed. ELEVEN MORE PEOPLE KILLED. PERPIGNAN, France.-—During the street fighting at Barcelona, a captain and thrpe gendarmes and eight strik ers were killed. Score of other per sons were wounded. STRIKERS CUT WIRES. MADRlD—Strikers at Barcelona have cut the telegraph wires to the capital. The last despatch received here from this city said the strikers had invaded the factories and forced a complete cessation of work. DOZEN KILLED. CBRBERE, France—Travelers ar riving hero report the situation at Barcelona grave. Rioting was resumed on the main street Monday. Already a dozen persons have been killed by the police while repressing the rioting. SON STEALS PURSE; MOTHER KILLS SELF Toledo W oman Drinks Carbolic Acid When She Learns of Disgrace. TOLEDO, Ohio.—Because her son was arrested on suspicion of a theft, Mrs. D. F. Gates, a prominent Toledo society woman, took a heavy dose of carbolic acid a’t her home on Hicks street here this morning and is now lying at the Toledo hospital in a cri tical condition. The family is one of Ihe best known in Toledo and the shock and thought of disgrace to the family name was more than the mother could with stand. She will die. Her son, who is eighteen years old, is suspected of taking a pocketbook from a widow at a neighboring residence while members of the family were In an other part of the house. NEGRO TROOPERS WIN PHILIPPINE WIVES Government, Forces Sol diers to Take Care of the Women. NEW YOTfJC Eight of the negro troopers of the Tenth United States cavalry, which returned ori me trans port Kilpatrick, and who will take part in a parade and reception* to day, brought with them their Filipino wives. They will take them with the regiment to Fort. Ethan Allen, Vt., within a few days. The war department has taken a vigorous stand In reference to the marriage problem in the Philippines, in so far as members of the service are concerned. Tho government has Insisted that when a soldier, wheth er a private or officer, marries a Fil ipino woman, he must take her with him when he returned to the United States. WAYNESBORO CITY COURT CONVENES Only the Jail Cases Will Be Tried at This Session. Special to the Herald, WAYNESBORO, Ga.—The quarter ly session of the city court, convened Monday morning with Judge Wm. H. Davis on the bench. Only the jail cases will be tried at this session. Several tiger cases will come up. MR. KILLINGSWORTH DIED MONDAY The death of Mr. R. E. L. Killlngs worth, who has been 111 at the city hospital for a number of weeks, oc curred Monday. The funeral services were held from Mann's Chapel, on the Mllledgeville "road', a s 11 o’clock Tuesday morning, ’me Interment was In Wilkinson's cemetery. Mr. Kllllngswort.h was In the forty fourth year of his life. He is survived by two brothers, Mr. James A. Kill ingsworth and Mr. J. W. Kllllngsworth of this city, and two sisters, Mrs. Sallie Hennis of Columbia, S. C., and Mrs. Geo. Walker of Augusta, DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. DISPENSARY BOARD MAY DEFY ATTORNEY GENERAL AIKEN LEGISLATOR DECLARED INSANE Hon. Arthur R. Busch, of the Ellentou Section, Has Been Sent to the State Sanitarium At Columbia. Special to The Herald. AIKEN, S. C.—Hon. Arthur R. Busch, of the Ellentou section of the county was adjudged Insane here last Saturday, and carried to the hospital for the Insane in Columbia. It seems ifom the facts that can be gathered that Mr. Busch developed a violent case of insanity at his home last, week, and on Friday his relatives re quested the sheriff to bring him to Aiken. Drs. B. F. and J. F. Wyman ex amined and pronounced him danger ously insane. He was thereupon car ried to the hospital. Mr. Buscn m a member of the legislature irom Aiken county and served faithfully in that, capacity. NEGRO ATTEMPTS ASSAULT ON 111 Special to The Herald. FAIRBITRN, Ga. —A negro attempt ed to criminally assault; Mrs. James Barrow at this place Sunday night about, 7 o’clock. The county dogs were sent, for, but. were not used on account of so many being present and obscuring the tracks. Mrs. Barrow was at the lot milk ing when the negro approached and spoke to her. She screamed and the negro ran. Her husband went to her assistance and a crowd immediately gathered when the alarm was givtn. one negro was arrested but Mrs. Har row failed to identify him. The of ficers are stil in search of the guilty party. MARK TWAIN GETS BACK HIS HOME Former Secretary Gives the Humorist the House Presented to Hex* When Mai'ried. DANBURY. Conn.—Mrs. Isabel V. Ashcroft, who was Mtss Lyon, "Mark Twain’s” social secretary, reconveyed to her former employer the rural cot tage near the humorist’s Italian villa at Redding that he presented to her when she was married, a short time ago, to his financial secretary, Ralph W. Ashcroft. The cottage was attached when Mr. Clemens sued Mrs. Ashcroft recently re recover $2,000 which he alleged to be due him and she hurried back from her wedding tour in Europe when sh e heard of It. Mrs. Ashcroft will return to Farmington, her former home. Miss Clara Clemens returned to her father’s home soon after the wedding, and there was a difference of opinion between her and the two secretaries on many subjects, with the result that the services of Mrs. Ashcroft were dispensed with. The suit followed. GERMAN BOYS WILL VISIT IN ENGLAND RERUN—So successful was the vis it of the English Boy Scouts to Oar many that, a detachment of Ihe Wan dervoge], the national boys club of Germany, will pay a return visit In the early part, of August. Arriving In England, the German lads avoided railway trains and hotels making their way through the coun try on foot, carrying their kits and camping In the open fields. All advertising Is good but some Is better—with due apolo gies to antiquity. The best advertising is like an express train! If, gels up speed quickly, eats up fuel and Is hard on the rol- Ing stock. Its Importance gains for It the right of way at once, and woe betide any lesser obsta cle which tries to block the way. It Is expensive to run, but has a refinite thing to do within a cer tain time and it does it. This is the kind of publicity which results from being interest ed in one’s own product, a thor ough belief In advertising, a knowledge of the consumer's pos sibilities and a readiness to take advantage of every practicable Idea presented. Much advertising is run like a suburban local railroad train which is paralleled by another road, Its stops and starts are all regulated by what the com peting lin e Is doing not by any direct study of public needs. This is the variety of publicity which results from fear of com petition solely and not from any belief In the value of advertising per se or from any knowledge of Its effects upon the advertiser's Individual buying public. "One paper in the home is worth a thousand on the highway.’* Member of Board of Fair field County Says He will Open Dispensary on Day After Election. ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OPINION CONTRARY Says Dispensaries Mnst Remain Closed Until the Election is Declaimed. Oth er Boards Threatening. COLUMBIA, S. C.—A member of tbe dispensary board of Fairfield county writes that, he will not. close the dispensary in that county after the 18th., which is the day following the election, but will keep the same open. This is contrary to the opinion rendered by the Attorney General, who says that the dispensaries must remain closed until the election Is declared. Some other county board are said to be threatening the same thing. FRENCH HERMIT PIRNS DRRING TRIP Hubert Latham Says He Will Fly From Calais To Loudon. LONDON—Robbed of his antici pated triumph of being the first to cross the English Channel on wings, Hubert Latham, the French aeronaut, announced he would attempt the dar ing project of flying from Calais to London or the nearest point of the capitol attainable. Lookouts, conse quently, are being posted throughout Kent and motor cars are being scat tered everywhere between the coast and the metropolis In order to render all the assistance necessary. “DRYS” ARE WORKING HARD FOR VICTORY Result, of Election in Orangeburg Hangs in Balance. Result Hard to Tell. ORANGEBURG, 3. C.—Whether Orangeburg is to go dry, or will con tinue the present dispensary system at the election on August 3, cannot be definitely stated, but It is certain ly true that now the supporters of the prohibition faction in this county are working, and temperance thun der Is being sounded In every quarter of tho county. The supporters of tho dispensary are not saying very much just now, but l't Is expected that 'they will come In with a Garri son finish just, prior to the election. The prohibitionists have not, up until about a week ago, been doing very .much, but since that time, l’t has be come apparent, that they have their forces well organized, and a strike made In the most Isolated district* finds a well fortified opposition. The county executive committee of the prohibitionists Is now working hard, and they are pouring foots and figures Into the ears of the people. They have arranged for prohibition campaign meetings, and will bring prominent speakers here to talk on the subject. , In fact they have hand ed themselves together with the one aim, and that Is to win, and there la hardly a doubt that their effort* will be fruitful. LITTLE MISS THIGPEN OF MANNING IS DEAD MANNING. S. C. —On Saturday death claimed the little daughter, aged g years of Mr. I>awrence Thig pen, living three miles from Manning “Sissy,” was a sweet lovable, lltt}« girl and her early death Is greatly de plored. Mr. Thigpen is sorely afflict ed as her little son Is desperately 111. Still another, advertising moves like a freight train. Heavily load ed, clumsily built (as far as looks go), it travels slowly and Is oon tlnually hacking and filling and getting sidetracked. this is the kind of spasmodic publicity which results from be lief l n advertising combined with the idea that the advertiser must do it all himself. Now you se* his advertisement because he thinks he has a smart Idea (and often he has), or some business condition has forced him Into the bright light.. Nmty you don't, see It, because he Is busy about some thing else and cannot attend to It. Of course, he wonders why his business does not grow stead ily. Do you? There is also the trolley and the automobile for those who have time or money, or both, to go as 'hey please, or can, There are a few fantastic advertisers whose methods might, be likened to those ways of getting over the ground. However, any mode of travel 1* hound to get Its cargo somewhere sometime, Just as every kind of advertising Is sure to accomplish something sometime, but —don’t start an idea by freight and ex pect express results. That’* all.
