The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-07-19
CHEATHAM CHARGES
Hyde With Being Just as Guilty as
Holmes Was.
He Says Secretary Wilson Brought
in Price to Turn Attention
Away From hyde.

the Southern Cotton Association, wht
made the charge Of fraud against tht
United States department. Of agricul
/ ture, relating to advance information
being given out, Statistician Hyde ane
his private secretary are just as guilty
Of the offense Of giving away depart
ment secrets as Holmes, the man wht
was discharged.
Mr.. Cheatham says further that
Secretary Wilson brought the name
OF Theodore Price into the affair t
turn the attention from Hyde. Every
effort was made, according to Mr.
Cheatham, to bring Theodore PRICE
into the 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 Cheatham returned *
Atlanta Monday afternoon. Since he
first got evidence Of the leakage ir
the department. be has been hard al
work securing evidence to present tt
the department of agriculture. Now
he has fully convinced the department
officials as well 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 ttckerS or
the advance information received, and
and made thousands OF dollars.
Mr.. Cheatham was In charge OF a
number OF the government secret ser.
vice men, and they went right out at.
ter all the necessary evidence. When
they got it and turned it over to Sec.
rotary Wilson Holmes was promptly
fred out, and, in the opinion OF Seere'
tary Cheatham, Hyde and bis private
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. Cheatham believes that the In.
vestigation will result not only In the
further dismissal Of Hyde and his
secretary, but of Secretary Wilson
also. In telling OF the status OF the
case Mr.. Cheatham said:
''We found terrible state OF al
fairs. You known that Holmes has
been dismissed for his duplicity in the
matter, but, in my opinion, Hyde and
bis secretary should also 60. The eVi.
dence against them is strong, and II
Mr.. Jordan will take the matter to
President Roosevelt, I 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, if possible, that he had been
getting rich out OF specializing on ad.
vance information furnished by of1ci-
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 be is using it as a
blind altogether"