The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-07-21
CHEATHAM CHARGES
Hyde With Being Just as Guilty as
Holmes Was.
He Says Secretary Wilson BrouRh,
I'm Prioe to Turn Attention
Away From Hyde.

lie Atlanta journal says according
to Secretary Richard Cheatham, Of
the Southern Cotton Association, who
made the charge Of fraud against the
United States department. OF agrlcul.
turc, relating to advance information
being given out, Statistlcian Hyde and
his private secretary are just az guilty
of the offense Of giving away depart
ment secrets as Holmes, the man who
was discharged.
Mr.. Cheatham says further that
Secretary Wilson brought the name
of Theodore Price into the affair to
turn the attention from Hyde. Every
effort was made, according to Mr..
Oheatham, to bring Theodore Pcice
into tile affair, but these efforts failed,
and now his belief Is that the depart
ment Of agriculture has rung Price
into it to shield other favored EN-.
plOyes.
Secretary Oheatham returned to
Atlanta Monday afternoon. Since he
first got evidence Of the leakage in
the department. he has been hard at
work securing evidence to present to
the department. Of agriculture. Now
he has fully convinced the department
officials as we'll as the whole world
that the department. had been tamper.
ed with, that the secrets Of the de.
partment were sold to Wall street
spectators, who played the tickers on
the advance information received, and
and made thousands of dollars.
Mr.. Oheatham was In charge Of a
number Of the government secret ser.
vice men, and they went right out af-
ter all the necessary evidence. When
| they got 1t and turned 1t over to Sec.
retary Wilson Holmes was promptly
fired out, and, in the opinion Of Secre.
secretary should 60 too, for they were
just as much in on the deal as Holmes
was. And Mr.. Cheatham discovered
further that this leakage had been
going on for some time.
When President Jordan, OF the
Southern Cotton Association, returns
to the city Mr.. Cheatham will present
the evidence which he has against
Hyde and his secretary and will re.
quest President Harvie Jordan to lay
the whole matter in the hands OF
President Roosevelt. In that event,
Mr.. Oheatham believes that the In.
vestlgation will result not only In the
further dismissal of Hyde and his
/ score etAry, Z but Of Z. Secretary i4 Wilson
i'ais0 TniteiiinR oI sth5 status Cf sii it
case Mr.. Cheatham said:
I'VE found a terrible state of af-
fairs. You known that Holmes has
been dismissed for his duplicity in the
matter, but, in my opinion, Hyde and
his secretary should also 60. The evi.
dence against them Is strong, and II
MIR. Jordan will take the matter to
President Roosevelt, ! believe that
even Secretary Wilson will be dropped
This thing has been going on for a
number OF years. After we showed
our hand and told what we know
there was considerable excitement in
the department.. And when the re.
port OF the secret service agents were
made you never saw such excitement
as there was In Washington.
Secretary Wilson has brought
Theodore Price into this thing for the
purpose Of shielding Hyde and his sec
retary. We did our best to find some
evidence against Price, as we wanted
to show, II possible, that he had been
getting rich out Of spcculating on ad
vance information furnished by ofllci-
ais Of the department. Of agriculture,
but we couldn't get enough evidence
| to connect him with the affair While
we have no love for Price, and while
we would have liked the best In the
world TO have gotten him mixed In
this affair, yet we do not think Sec
retary Wilson has done the fair thing
and believe that he Is using 1t as 9
| blind altOpether