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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIV., No. 347 NIKI sms MAKE ZELAKA PAYPEBALTT Declares Indemnity is no Recompense For Murder. Should Make an Example of Zelaya. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Speaking to Ills resolution offered in the Senate last Friday authorizing the president of the United States to take all ne cessary steps to apprehend President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, and bring him to trial on a charge of the murder of Groce and Cannon, the two American citizens, recently executed in Nica ragua, Senator Rayner, of Maryland Monday addressed the senate at length. Senator Raynor’s speech, stirring and denunciatory‘in tone and characterized by dramatic fervor, was an unsparing arraignment of Presi dent Zelaya whom h e designated as one of the criminals of the age. “Punish Zelaya.” “What I am concerned in now,” said Senator Rayner, “is not the ques tion of the belligerent right of the rev olutionists, or in case of their suc cess their recognition either as the de facto or the de jure government, but in the speedy apprehension ana punishment of Zelaya. This desperado is everything that the secretary of state says about him, and a great deal more. If the country knew what is known in official circles m ref erence to his general depravity, it would regard the secretary’s commun ication as exceedingly temperate, as it shows upon its face the restraint under which he was laboring In deal ing with such a character. “I have watched for years, the rev olutionary history of Central America and am familiar with the career of a great many of he impoter. and usurpers and re grotes and mot ly leaders that have sprung from their chaotic institutions, but Ze laya probably the most despicable figure that has ever risen in their midst, if he were simply a highwayman,, we might identify him; if he was simply a tyrant who oppressed the people for the purpose of robbing them, we might particularize him; if he was a usurper who was only holding on to power so long as there was any money in the treasury to steal, or any further territory that he could sack for private plunder, we could assign him a proper place in the J an^ s of some of his predecessors, and if he was purely an assassin who regarded murder as a legitimate profession through which he could despoil his victims of their possessions until the time came for him to flee from the hands of retributive justice, it would be an easv task also for anyone ac quainted with the political history of Nicaragua to classify him. Zelaya Arraigned. “He is, however, all of these things combined. In th e school of corrup tion dishonor, perfidy and crime he stands without a peer, and exhibits in one glow of associated harmony the pride of every model and the perfec tion of every master. He has put to torture and then to death two American citizens who were not guilty of treason; who were not spies, but whom he had captured as prisoners of w T ar in the army of the revolutionists. This act was not only the act of a fiend, but was an insult to the honor of this Republic, and can not remain unavenged. “It is absolutely preposterous for us to talk about indemnity. Indemnity is ito recompense for murder. Even if we wer© willing to accept such a compromise, there Is no one to give us Indemnity, because~fhe revolution ists will soon be in power, and the comrades in arms of these unfortun ate men should never be assessed for compensation for their unlawful death. Make Zelaya Example "This government is a cowardly government If It does not make an ex. ample of Zelaya before the eyes of the civilized world. This case will not admit of any trifling or concessions. If two American citizens —I care not who they were or what they were, citizens ’in high standing as they have been reputed to be or soldiers of fortune —have been murdered by Zel aya; the n he must be made to pay the penalty of his crime. Once spread before the American people the de tails of the execution, and our people will rise in arms and demand retribu tion. They have not yet fully absorb ed the significance of this deed. No matter how It was done, no trial by court-martial can justify it. These men, as I have shown, were prisoners of war, and they were not subject to trial by court-martial.” Must Take Action “If . ya had the right,” the sen ator / »dnued, "to sentence these men to death and execute them in cold tyopd, then w e must acknowledge that rsffj,' and recognize it before the nations Xt the world. If he did not have that right, no matter how petty ♦ *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦« ♦ THE WEATHER. ♦ O Conditions favor partly cloudy weather and colder in this sec- ♦ O tion tonight and fair, cclder ♦ ♦ Tuesday. ♦ ♦ O ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« METHODIST PASTORS ARE GIVES POSTS Announcements Made at Abbeville to tlie Confer ence Monday Morning by Bishop Wilson. Special to The Herald. ABBEVILLE, S. C.—The sixth days’ session of the Methodist conference met at 9 o’clock in the opera house, Rev. John 0. Wilson presiding, Bishop Wilson being too unwell to be present. Reports of various boards and committees were read and adopt ed. A memorial to th e general con ference to fix the church ownership of Vanderbilt was reported favorably and adopted. Rev. J. D. Crout, of Laurens, asked for a location, which was granted; no reason was given. This was the sensation of the day. Th e usual reso lutions of thanks were passed and ap pointments read, as follows: Charleston District. W- T. Herbert, presiding elder. Allendale, J. W. Welling; Appleton, J. T. Peeler; Beaufort and Port Royal, J. M. Rpgers; Circuit, C. L. Durant; Black Swamp, W. W. Williams; Charleston, Bethel, W. B. Duncan; Trinity, Peter Stokes; S. A. Weber, Su pernumerary; Spring Street, J. H. Graves, Cumberland; D. W. Keller, Mt. Pleasant, Hamlin Etheredge; Cot tageville t J. P. Inabinit; Cypress, S. D. Vaughan; Ehrhardt, A. B. Watson; Estlll, J. R. Copeland; Hampton, J. W. Elkins; Hendersonville, J. H. Montgomery; Ridgeland, R. C. Bcwl ware; Ridgeville, W. S. Goodwin; South Hampton, W. D. Patrick. Sum merville, J. C. Chandler; Walterboro, H. J. Cauthen; Young’s Island, A. Sassard. Cokesbury District. J. C. Roper, presiding elder. Abbeville, Henry Stokes; Butler, W. P. Way; Cokesbury, F. E. Dibble; Greenwood, Main Street J. W. Kilgo; Greenwood and Abbeville Mills, E. C. Wells; Klnards, D. P. Boyd; Newber ry, Central, M. L. Banks; Onealle street and Mollohon, W. C, Kelly; Newberry Circuit, J. M. Friday; Ninety-six, J. A. Cook; Parksville, J. M. Lawson; Phoenix, L. L. Inabinit; Prosperity, S. C. Morris; Princeton, Foster Speer; Saluda, B. P. Taylor; Verdery, W. E. Wiggins; Waterloo, Felix C. Whitlock; Whitemire, F. A. Jeffcoat; Lander College, John C. ■Willson, president Southern Indus trial Institute; D. E. Camak, instruc tor. Columbia District. J. W. Daniel, presiding elder. Aiken, J. B. Tray wick; Batesburg, S. O. Cantey; Batesburg Mission, W. D. Quick; Bath, E. P. Green; Colum bia, Washington Street, E. O. Watson, J. A. Campbell, supernumerary; Main Street, A. N. Brunson; Green Street, A. E. Holler; Granby, L. L. Beden baugh; Brookland, J. W. Neeley; Edgewood, D. F. McLendon; Shan don and Waverly, J. W. Lewis, W. S. Stokes, supernumerary; Elgefleld, L. D. Gillespie; Fairfield Circuit, J. I. Spinks; Gilbert, C. S. Felder; Gran- Itevlllo C. A. Norton; Johnston, E. H. Beckman; Langley, E. A. Wayne; Leesville, S. H. Booth; Lexington, J. C. Counts; Lexington Fork, C. W. Burgess; North Augusta, J. L. Stokes; Ridgeway, J. K. Inabinit; Springfield, C. M. Abney; Swansea, J. C. Davis; Wagener, J. E. Taylor; Columbia Col lege; W. W. Daniel, president Ep worth Orphanage, W. B. Wharton, su perintendent; Paine College, Geo. W. Walker, president. Orangeburg District. C. B. Smith, presiding elder. Bamberg, T. G. Herbert; Bamberg Mills, to be supplied; Barnwell, E. A. Wilkes; Branchville, Allan McFar lane; Cameron, C. E. Poole; Den mark, T. E. Morris; Edisto, G. T. Har mon, Jr.; Eutawville, J. P. Simpson; Harleyville, H C. Mouson; Norway, T. F. Gibson; Orangeburg, St. Paul's, H. W Bays; Orangeburg Circuit, C. W. Davis; Orai-ge, T. L. Belvin; Providence, J. J. Stevenson, J. F. Way, supernumerary; Rowesvllle, A. R. Phillips; Smoaks, J. E. Rushton; St. George, J. W. Arlall; Student Van derbilt University, L. E. Wiggins. and insignificant he may be In the eye of diplomacy or upon the sphere °f the world’s action, no matter how triv ial and unimportant a station his gov ernment may occupy, this government Is his assucer, and If he Is guilty he must be awarded the doom and fate that he deserves, so that every tyrant on this earth in every nationality i*v der the sun and In every government, large or small, and especially these dictators In several of these Central American states, who hav e received every favor and consideration at the hands of the United States and to whom has been extended the official hospitality of our land, and who in return therefor hav e exhibited to us at times the bitterest hatred and vis ited upon our citizens the most cruel Indignities and outrages, shall be told I once and forever that our flag follows our citizens wherever they go, and tfiqt when an assassination like this occurs the malefactor must take his place like any other culprit at the , bar of criminal justice and must an swer for the deed with his liberty or 'his life.” AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 13, 1909. . ’ : : .V .. > l-atf- The photograph was taken when Mrs. Brokaw was on the stand undergoing cross-examination by Mr. Mclntyre, her husband’s lawyer. Those indicated iu the picture are: No. 1, Justice Putmau; No. 2, Mrs. Brokaw; No. 3, \y. Gould Brokaw; No. 4, Lawyer Mclntyre; No. 5, Lawyer Baldwin. SUGGESTIONS OF COMMITTEE FOB CAROLINA ASYLUM Special to The Herald. COLUMBIA, S. C. —The special leg islative committee appointed to in vestigate conditions at the State hos pital for the Insane will hold its final meeting next week, when the com mittee hopes to formulate its report to the legislature which meets on the 11th of next month. The committee is divided on several important phases of the investigation and it is thought likely that majority and mi nority reports will be submitted. The position of the board or reg ents of the institution is set forth in a paper summarizing what .the board thinks the legislature should do to remedy conditions at the insti tion. This paper was submitted to the investigating commit,|ee after it had about concluded Us investigations in July, but is made public for the first time. Want Changes. This report which will be the basis of the board’s report and recommen dation to the legislature, covers flvo typewritten pages, but is “meaty” and full of important suggestions and recommendation. There are so many things the board wants done that it suggests that in order to lighten the financial burden that the changes be made gradually in order of their Im portance. This summary is divided Into, seven sections. Section one asks for revis ion of the law governing the institu tion so as to make other provision for the criminal insane than having them committed by judges of pro bate. Section two asks for an an nual conference of charities and cor rections to consider these problems. Section three suggests separation of the races and cottage plan of liouse ing, the future policy including a colony for the chronic insane, a cil lage for epileptics, a school for the feeble minded and a hospital for ine briates; development of hospital wards in poor houses; improvement of the medical staff and a consulting board; state aid for the pellagra and tuberculosis problems. Amusement Features. Section four recommends immediate special care of tuberculosis patients in separate wards; separate wards for excited negro men and women, a pa thological department, amusement features, a nurses' home, better bath ing facilities, completion of the Tay lor building and all departments re furnished, repainted and recovered. Section five asks for a battery of boil ers, enlargement of the dining room facilities, renewal of the plumbing and heating plant, establishment of an ice plant, remodeling of the fire protection equipment. Sections six on the farm. LURTON’S NOMINATION SEN TO THE SENATE WASHINGTON, D.C.—The nomina tion of Judge Horace H. I.urton, of Nashville, Tenn., to be associate jus tice of the supreme court of the United States in succession of late Justice Peckham, went to the senate Monday. THE NEWS OF THE DAY. Santa Claus in the Xmas Ads of The Herald. Read Herald ads daily for tho real helpful hints you need in your X-mas shopping. Don’t trust this to luck or look around. Fortify yourself with the news of value of the day as given In The Herald. Merchants who desire to do tho X-mas trade, make their dally an nouncements of bargains and nov elties in clean, crisp English, straight and to the point, tn their store news and announcements In The Herald each afternoon. They can and do tell you the news of Importance better in this way bet ter than they can possibly do so even in the store and in person. Read Herald ads daily For the real news of important Santa Claus happenings In Augusta. SCENE IN COURT ROOM DURING BROKAW DIVORCE TRIAL HAWICK SAYS ACTION Of EVES WAS UNSCRUPULOUS, DISCOURTEOUS AND TRICKY THIRD VICTIM OF THE SAVANNAH MURDERER DEAD Special to The Herald. SAVANNAH, Ga. —Mrs. Maggie Hunter, the third victim of the mur derer who killed Mrs. Eliza Grlbble, and Mrs. Carrie Ohlandor, on Friday afternoon, died Monday morning at the Savannah hospital. She did not regain consciousness sufficiently to throw any light upon who the mur derer was. AIKEN LIQUOR CASE li SUPREME COURT Senator Croft Says Legis lature Will Probably Pass Statewide Prohibi tion Bill Before Verdict is Reached. Special to The Herald. COLUMBIA, S. C.—The Aiken county liquor case Is being argued before the supreme court Monday on a writ of certiorari from the decision of the state board of canvassers. Sen ator Croft says the proceedings will likely have no practical effect, as llm legislature will probably pass a state wide prohibition hill before the decis ion is rendered. ZELAYA RULING WITH mi 1111 Reign of Ter or Continues at Nicaragua’s Capital— Prisoners Treated Badly. SAN SALVADOR.—The reign of terror continues at Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. President Ze laya Is ruling with an Iron hand. Po litical offenders, real and suspected, crowd the jails. The government’s food allowance for prisoners Is ab surdly small ,and as a result many are half starved. The routine of the prison existence is broken by heat ings which the authorities order. The men in chains number several hundred. SHAKE UP 111 THE STATE ISYLUM (Herald Bureau, Candler Building.) ATLANTA, Ga.—A shake-up in the management'of the state sanitarium will, it Ih thought, he the outcome of i the substitution by the governor of [ seven new members for as many for | mer members of the board of trus- I tees. As Is known charges against the Institution mainly by former In mates have been plentiful during the last year. Several investigation* have been made. It will not he sur prising should the newly appointed board make some changes that in the Institution. ROOSEVELT BANQUETED. NAIROBI, East Africa.—Col. Roose velt was given a farewell banquet by Governor Jackson. Others will be tendered him before his departure. Prince Albert , Next Belgian King Prince Albert Leopold, the pros pective successor to tho throne of Belgium after the death of King Leo pold who is critically ill. Prince Al- Ibert 1s the son of the Count of Flan ders King Leopold’s brother. Prince Albert’s father Is next, in the line of succession but he retired seven years ago In favor of Ills son. Prince Al bert is beloved by the Belgium peo ple for his democratic wpys. KING LEOPQLB IS REPORTED DYING Following Consultation of Doctors the King Sum moned a Lawyer Presum ably Relative to His Will BRUSSELS. -King Leopold Is re ported dying Moodily, but the report lacked confirmation. Tho condition of his majesty has reached a critical, stage. There wan a consultation of physicians Monday morning* Fol- j lowing the consultation the kin# sum moned a lawyer relative to ills will. UNll PM II lit mo casE ? Special to The Herald. UNION, 8. C.—The Rev. Dr. A. G. Wardlaw, believed to he a brother of Miss Virginia Wardlaw of the Orange. N. J. bath-tub mystery, though l),-. Wardlaw was very reserved and nev er discussed his family affairs, re signed from his pastorate here a few days ago and left almost. Immediately for Chrlstlansburg, Va., where he had visited before, almost immediately at. ter resigning. He appears riot to havr. told any thing here what his intentions were regarding tils trip to Virginia, But. the ChriStiansburg end of the mystery oc cupies a prominent place In the press dispatches and it is believed he Is there in connection with the mystery. The pictures and descriptions printed [of Mrs. Martha Wardlaw tally well with the recollections of Dr. Ward law's mother as Union people who have met her knew her. She has vis ited Union. DAILY AND SUNDAY, SG.OO PER YEAR. Asserts That Judge Eve and Osxvell R. Eve But ted iu on Time of Savan uabians Without Invita tion and Made Political Capital Out of It. Special to The Herald. (By Ralph Smith.) WASHINGTON,- It C.—Congress man Hardwick Monday characterized as unscrupulous, discourteous and tricky the action of Judge William F. Eve and Oswell R. live in trying to make political capital at his ex pense out of their unusual and un heard of action in Washington last week. Incidentally it may he stated that Mr. Hardwick was “on,the job” at the national eapltol and would have gladly presented the Eves to the Rivers and Harbors committee had either of them Hu him know of their presence in Washington, al though he realizes that both are his political enemies. What Judge Eve and Oswell Eve did was to “butt In” on a private hearing before tho Rivers and Har bors commission and Infringe upon the engagement of the Savannah dele gation. The Savannah delegation had wisely and properly arranged for a hearing before the committee through their congressman. Neither Judge Eve nor Ills nephew suggested such a thing as a hearing before the commission to their congressman, In deed, they so far disregarded the proprieties of the occasion as to tg nor him altogether. Learning of the private hearing ar ranged for the Savannah delegation, Judge Eve and his nephew trailed them to the eapltol and requested Congressman Edwards to give them a few minutes in which to press the upper Savannah river claim to im provement. Congressman Edwards could not deny them the request. To cap things off nicely, the Au gusta Chronicle printed an account of Oswell R. Eve's appearance before the commission neglecting to tell how he managed to “butt in,” how ever. The Augusta Chronicle edi torially, seized upon the incident to criticize Congressman Hardwick, which fact only tends to confirm the trickery of the whole tiling. Neither Judge Eve nor tiis nephew whom the Chronicle applauds, called to see their congressman, and neither they nor any one else from the Tenth district ever suggested a hearing t>"- fore the Rivers and Harbors commis sion. They simply saw an opportun ity to get in the limelight. Congressman Hardwick says that 'the people of Richmond county shall Ibe fully advised of what happened and how It happened before the campaign "mis. NEGRO KILLED AT HOT SUPPER WILLISTON, S. C.—At 2 o’clock 'Sunday morning at a hot supper at iGoose I’oihl, about two miles from [here, a negro named Ned Klnard got. into an altercation with Sherlman [Owens, and shot, hirn through the heart, killing him Instantly. Klnard claims that the killing was done in self defense, and came right. ;on to Wllliston and gave himself up. SUIT your advertising to your goods. “Circus” methods are Jilting enough to exploit a “tent show,” but fatal to an established business with dignity to uphold and traditions to preserve. THE REFORMERS li CONVENTION II WASHINGTON Societies of All Kinds Working For Teinper ence and Other Reforms Have Delegates in Wash ington. WASHINGTON. The afTormers* Conclave, a convention unique In the fact (hat it Is the first, in which prac tically all the national temperance organizations have co-operated In a joint convention, began a five days’ meeting here Sunday afternoon. It is novel also iu several other respects, for example the delegates are to have collations several times a day at which after-dinner speakers will tell of the aims of the reformers, and which it Is hoped will greatly increase the Interest iu the convention. One of the principal plans of the convention is the organization of a United States Army Total Abstinance association, such as exists in the Brit ish army. Another probable outcome of the convention will be the reor ganization of the Congressional Tem. perance society, the oldest of all til# temperance organizations of the coun try, which has been for a long tlnta In a. condition of suspended anima tion. Some Reforms. The afternoons of the Conclave will he devoted to hearings, chiefly on temperance measures, though anti gambling and Sunday congressional hills will also receive attention. There will also ho meetings to con sider that legislation and law enforce ment is needed to limit or prohibit, except for medicinal purposes, the use of cocaine and opium. The meeting Sunday afternoon was for the purpose of Inaugurating the Army Total Abstinance association, which was successfully launched. It is proposed to organize In all the army posts of the United States and foreign possessions brunches of the association. Monday morning at 10 o’clock there was a union preachers' meeting, at which the Congress on Alcoholism I will lie discussed and mass meetings will he held at various churches throughout the city. As announced liv the speakers at the meeting Sun day morning, the Conclave wishes to express public opinion to the congress ami to President Taft In behalf of all moral measures; to develop closer land more effective co-operation among the various temperance forces; to en able reformers to exchange informa tion on their work and to call the country to a more aggressive and persistant campaign against, organized j evils. Many Delegates. A unique part of tho program is t tie exhibit of colored charts, gather ed from all over the world, showing the effect, of alcoholic liquids on or gans of the human body. ; Among tho delegates and repre sentatives of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, American Anti- Saloon League, international Reform Bureau, National Temperance Soci ety, Good Templars, Sons of Temper ance, Rechabites, American Society for Study of Alcohol and other Nar cotics, Interchurch Temperance Fed eration Temperance Department of the International Sunday School As sociation Twentieth Century Pledge- Signing Crusade, National Purity Fed eration, National Vigilance Commit tee National Lord’s Day Alliance, Na tional Federation of Churches and other reform associations. CAROLINA WILL NOT HAVE SMALLPOX PEST 100 SE Special to The Heral. COLUMBIA, H. C.— Tho state hoard of health decided to do away with pest houses and guard quarantines dealing With smallpox. Hereafter the cases will tie merely Isolated. ‘I he publlo must protect itself by vaccination.
