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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-05-16
GOVERNOR REFUSES A
PARDON TO W. 7. JONES
BARE CHANCE OF NEW TRIAL HIS
ONLY HOPE.
Convicted of Wife Murder-Sentence
Life Imprisonment-Third Appeal
Pending.

Columbia. May 14.-W. T. Jones, the
wealthy Union county farmer, who IS
under life sentence for the murder OF
his wife, has been denied a pardon by
Governor Blease. Barring the meagre
possibility of a reversal of the circuit
Judge in The appeal now before the su-
nreme court for a new trial, and the
nossibilitv of future executive ciemen-
CIV, the noted prisoner will have to
come to the State penitenttary soon
and commence the serving of the long
sentence
I'm view of the statement and rec
ommendation made by the Hon. T. S.
Sease, then solicitor, and now Judge OF
the 7th judicial circuit, who prosecut-
ed the, case against the petitioner for
pardon; of the history of the case CIV
en- by the Hon. R. w. Memminger, pre-
siding Judge at the trial at which the
petitioner or applicant was convicted,
and also OF the present status of the
case. I am constrained to deny this
application for pardon, and the same
is, therefore. hereby denied.
*'Cole L. Blease, Governor.
columbia, S. c., May IS, 1911"
Governor Blease announced his ac-
ton on the petition for pardon today.
Prisoner in Union Jail.
W. T. Jones is now a prisoner IN
the Union county Jail, where he has
been since his arrest upon a warrant
charging him with causing his wife to
take poison. or actually administering
it. It has now been nearly three years
since Mrs. Marian Jones, the wife OF
the defendant, went to her death. In
those years a legal battle, the like OF
which has rarely been known IN
murder case in this State, has been
waged. Following the conviction OF
Jones, at the January term, 19O9, IN
Union, a jury having found him guilty
of murder and sentenced him to life
term, a motion for new trial was
denied by Judge Memnninger, the pre-
siding judge; from this an appeal was
taken to the supreme court. Here, in
a decision handed down March 3, 1910,
the supreme court refused to grant a
new trial. A rehearing was sought
and again on May 9, 1910, Jones lost,
for the supreme court in an order
signed by the whole court, refused to
let the case again be argued in the
highest tribunal of the State.
Before special Judge W. B. Gruber
counsel for Jones next appeared and
made a motion for new trial. This
Judge Gruber turned down, and upon
the appeal from the order refusing a
anew trial the case is now in the su-
preme court. Governor Blease's ac-
ton, therefore, comes in advance OF
the pending decision upon the, last
phase Of the case by the court. Gov
ernor Blease, it is known, has awaited
the decision before himself acting IN
the case, but the delay caused him to
act now.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-05-16
SUICIDE THREAT HALTS POSSE.
DesDerate Plan Of Greenville Man to
Avoid Arrest-The Ruse That
Worked.

Greenville, May 11.-After holding
at bay for nearly two hours the coun-
ty sheriff and a corps of deputies, by
pressing against his temple a cooked
revolver and threatening to blow out
his brains if any member Of the posse
advanced a. step nearer, Robert Hen
ton, a white man, was arrested on the
outskirts of the city this afternoon and
lodged in the county jail. Henton was
induced to surrender only when bond
necessary for his release was shown
him On the spot
In arswo~ d call se-t in about z.:0
o'clock, the sheriff and his deputios
made a hurried departure for the
scene of trouble. 1t was reported that
Hsnton lad shot his wife ard was
about to annihilate the nejgnbo 1oc l.
The man learned Of the sheriff 3 ar
proach and forthwith sent a cOurl>r
to meet the wardens of the law and
inform them that if they attempted to
arrest him, he would shoot his head
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16
in behalf of principles and policies
borrowed by him from Democratic

in behalf of principles and policies
borrowed by him from Democratic
platforms.
OF itself the Republican party at
', ashington can be depended on to
do just nothing at all. Nominally
controlling every department of
government it cannot control itself.
1t is pointing nowhere, getting no.
where. A Republican congress is
presenting the spectacle of great
legislative body in mutiny against
the people. Whatever of cohesion,
of unity, of definite program, of
fixity of purpose is found in Wash
ington today exists among the Dem
ocrats. Whatever foreign policy
that has merit in it which may es-
cape the storm must depend prin-
cipally on Democratic support and
Democratic votes for it's life.
1t remains only for the coming
Democratic Congress to attempt to
fulfill in good faith, it's obligations
to the people, to measure up its OPP
portunities by convincing the coun-
try that it is sincerely loyal to the
principles of Thomas Jefferson, and
the Republican, party, under it's
present name and in it's present
form, will have won its last victory.
st Joe Observer.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16
TAX FERRETS AND TAX
DODGERS.

The tax ferret has been lawed
out of business in Iowa. Now, if
the solons at Des Moines will also
abolish the tax dodgers We'll still
be happy. We never liked the fer
ret way of collecting taxes, but the
ferret is less Objectionable than
the tax dodgers. The tax ferret has
been banished, now let's get rid of
the tax dodgers. Banishing the
ferret without touching the dodgers
will build fence around the
dodgers concealed money and mort
cages, leaving the widows and or
phans, outside the fence to pay the
dodgers taxes. OF course every
man ought to pay his just tax, but
he doesn't. The number of persons
who are ready to perjure themselves
in order to conceal wealth taxable
under the present laws, is astonish-
ing. 1t would be more astonishing
If the list could be made public.
Abolishing the tax on moneys and
credits is advocated by many as a
means to get rid of tax dodgers.
If the present legislature will give
US law that will make tax lodging
Impossible, that will make all pay
their just taxes, we will say, "Well
done," etc., and overlook all the
shortcomings Independ-
ent
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16

The commission form of civic
administration Is an excellent one.
A city government is not a sover-
eign government like state or
national government, but is bust
ness corporation. The idea Is to
have five directors to conduct the
affairs of the city. There Is no rea-
son that I know of why a commits
sion system of administration
should not be successful in large
city like Denver"
In reply to other queries, Mr..
Folk said:
II do not favor the new nation
alism" because I think the integrity
of the states should be preserved.
The perpetuity of the nation de-
ponds upon the dual form of gov
eminent under which we operate
the government of the states and
the government of the nation. If
one of these is, strengthened at the
expense of the other, the ship of
the republic will sink.
1.-THE chances for democratic sue
cess in 1912 are bright If the dem
ocratic party advocates real princi-
pies. BY these l mean those princi-
pies embraced in the maxim, equal
rights to all, special privileges to
none This prohibits protective
subsidies and bounties in any form
for the benefit Of the few at the
expense of all.
privilege says to a man, Come
with us and we will give you a
tariff, with subsidies enabling you
to make money at the expense of
your fellow men, True democracy
says, Come with us, we cannot offer
you any advantage over others, but
promise that others will not have
any advantage over YOU Privilege
appeals to avarice and greed, true
democracy to brotherhood and con-
science. One stands for the selfish
few and the other for the common
good.'
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16
RECIPROCITY VS.. OLD TREATIES

One of the stand-pat reasons ad-
vanced for the defeat of the reci-
procity measure is that it's enactment
would make great deal of trouble
for the State Department under the
MISREPRESENTATION" clause of our
treaties with divers countries. That
clause is one guaranteeing to each
with which it is in effect the same
commercial concessions that may be
granted to the most favored of 9TH
err nations.
1t might seem on hasty consider
alton that the enforcement of the
maximum tariff provided for in the
Payne-Aldrich law would give ground
under these treaties for the same
sort of protests as the passage OF
the reciprocity bill. However, the
application of the maximum tariff
schedules to the products of coun-
try with which we have a treaty
containing MISREPRESENTATION"
clause would be evidence that that
nation is itself violating the treaty.
None of the other nations with which
We have similar treaties would have
ground for protest because we i'm
pose greater duties ON the products
of this one country than on theirs.
Secretary of State Knox negotiated
the reciprocity agreement, and if he
in SO doing the rest of officialdom
can discharge its own duty in re-
spect to reciprocity without great
deal of concern as to how he is going
to get himself out of the trouble.
No doubt Mr.. Knox knows now pre-
cisely what he is going to say when
some country-for instance Ger
many-makes protest and insists
that it Is entitled under treaty OBJ
legations to precisely the same tariff
concessions that have been accorded
Canada.
The most natural and effective
answer to be returned in such a
case would, of course, be that if
Germany, or any other country, wants
the concessions granted Canada it
can have them on precisely the same
terms. Reciprocity with Germany
would have even less of objection
than reciprocity with an almost ex-
clusively agricultural country like
Canada.
1t would admit free to Germany
many of our agricultural and manu-
featured products on which that
country now imposes heavy restric-
lions and admit free to ours very
few of those things to which Ger
many has surplus to sell-St Louis
Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16
REPUBLICAN PARTY is Dis
SOLVING.

No great political party has ever
gone to pieces as swiftly AND surely
as is the present republican party. 1t
is sharing in the fate of the Federal
lists and the Wings who preceded it,
and for similar reasons. 1t Is q
party of expedients rather than OF
principles. Such principles as 1t has
making for special privilege, for a
distrust of the people, for govern
ment by and for the better classes"
are not such as are calculated, in q
great republic, to give enduring life
to the party which processes them
or rather, hardly dares profess them,
but presents them in disguised and
sugar-coated form.
The Republican party in its incep-
ton rendered very great service
to the country. But as time passed
on i became more ann more tainted
with it's own principles. Good
American citizens, born into 1t, rev.
erencing it for it's glorious youth,
have from time to time grown dis
gusted with it and sloughed off into
new parties and have been known
as mugwumps, greenbackers, popu-
lists, silver Republicans and now as
insurgents. None of these new par
ties survived, nor will the insurgent
movement in it's own entity. Each
has wound up with the members
who were in earnest going on over
into the Democratic party, where
they belonged, and with the camp
followers finally blacksliding into
the Republican party from which
they came.
The Wing party in its last days
was not in more deplorable condi-
ton than is the Republican party
right now. 1t is divided into two
distinct factions.
The trouble is that there are no
vital, basic principles, acceptable to
patriotic Americans, to which the
Republican party can go back for
guidance. 1t has no fixed standard
by which to measure conditions as
they arise. Reciprocity was once a
Republican policy-was perhaps the
nearest of all ideas of the present
generation to bring policy that
might be said to have had it's BIRTH
place in the Republican party. The
splendid names of Blaine and Nc
Kinley are indissolubly associated
with it. It's application, at the pres
ent time, would answer to the in
surgent theory of revising the tariff
schedule for schedule" Yet when
Republican president at last in
vokes it We find that at least half
of the insurgents, to our utter sur
prise, turning ferociously against it,
and we find the standpatters di-
viding and fighting among them
selves whether they shall uphold or
oppose it. The upshot of it is that it
is Democratic votes on which the
president must depend if he is to win
his reciprocity fight, just as Roose-
welt had to depend on Democratic
votes to win the fight which he made
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16
No More Whiskey Advertising.

The WEEK REPUBLIC
of st. Louis, Mo-, makes the an
nouncement that no more whiskey
advertising will be printed in it's
paper. This will be good news to
most of our readers. The TWICE.
A-WEEK REPUBLIC is the oldest,
biggest and best metropolitan semi
weekly newspaper in the United
States, and by cutting out this line
of advertising it should greatly in
crease its circulation in this COM
munity. The subscription price is
SO cents year, but for short time
only they will make a special rate
of three years for 81. Be sure to
take advantage of this liberal offer,
and by all means advise your friends
and neighbors of the fact that all
whiskey and liquor advertising has
been discontinued and that 81 will
pay for three year subscription
Write for free sample copy. Send
orders to The st. Louis Republic,
st. Louis, Mo-, or the Leon Reporter.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16

Five hundred and seventy-eight
public offices, with salaries, amount
ing to nearly one million dollars
year, will go to democrats, as a re-
suit of capturing the house of repre-.
sentatives. The Washington COR
respondent to the Louisville (Ken-
tucky) Times, says: When the next
congress convenes-whether in
March or next December-the re-
publicans will turn over to the demo-
Gratis more than 100000 year
in patronage. Employees Of the
house, to the number of SIS, now
repu blicans, will be succeeded by
democrats. The total annual salary
of these 57S is $744,333. Add to
this sum the salaries of eighty-four
secretaries of eighty-four new demo-
cratic members, at $1,50C each, and
the million is accounted for. South
Trimble, of Kentucky, who will prob
ably be the next house clerk, las
seventy-tive offices at his dis
posal, an annual salary list of $780,
$50. Among these are chief clerk,
at $4,000; journal clerk, at $4,000
two reading clerks at $4,000; and
seventy other employees. Speak
err Champ Clark has eighteen ap-
pointees, among them secretary,
$4,000; messenger at $1,400; six
reporters of debate, at $4,000 each;
and one assistant reporter at $4,000;
four committee stenographers at
$4,000 each; and one assistant COM
mittee stenographer, at $4,000.
The next sergeant-at-arms, to be
either Stokes Jackson. of Indiana,
or w. H. Ryan, Of Buffalo, has 100
Offices to fill, thirty eight of which
are capitol policemen, with all an
nual pay roll of $84,665. To the
doorkeeper, who will probably be
Joe Sinnott, of Virginia, 211 offices,
with an annual salary of $203,9O5,
fall as plumber. This does not in
clude special messengers. 1t is like
iy that the persent blind chaplain,
Rev. H. C. Couden, will be retained.
In addition to these officers, the
house must select thirty-nine COM
mittee clerks, 233 assistant commit
tee clerks; twenty-five session
clerks; three stenographers and for
ty-seven janitors and messengers, all
at good salaries. To the committee
chairman will fall many of these
plums.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16
DEMOCRATIC, stPROsPECTS FOR
~ 1912 ARE BRIGHT. --r.

The Denver times of March 1st,
printed the following news item:
Declared former governor Joseph W..
dimpled-chinned man of forty-one
years, when talking with times
representative:
."These are some of the things I
favor
"A reciprocity treaty with Can
ada.
Popular election Of United
States senators.
Commission form of administra-
ton for cities.
uniformity of laws in the sever
al states.
"And l believe that the national
democratic party will be successful
in 1912 if it advocates real demo-
cratic principles.
II am opposed to-
"The new nationalism of Mr..
Roosevelt.
Protective tariff, bounties and
subsidies in any FORM
Mr.. Folk did not become heated
while expounding his views. He is
a calm man. He is cheerful, dark
complexioned, little above medi-
UNI height and carries hearty
handshake around with him on his
journeys Just now he is here be-
cause of a contract that he had with
the teachers club of Denver to de-
liver an address at Trinity NJ. E.
church.
II favor reciprocity with Canada"
said Mr.. Folk, in his room at the
Brown hotel, because it will open
up a vast domain to American trade
and will not cost the country cent.
The United States are spending mil
lions of dollars to open up trade
in South America. The United
States is spending hundreds of mill
lions of dollars in building the Pan
ANA canal for the purpose of ex-
banding trade. The proposed treaty
with Canada will cost nothing. I
believe that it should be adopted by
congress.
GAS to the election of senators
by direct vote of the people, it SIM
ply is another step in government,
not only of and by the people but
government for the people. When
our constitution was being framed
the fear was that the people might
confiscate the property of the we'll
to-do. That the time would ever
come when the rights of the people
would be in danger through accu-
mutation of capital, did not occur
to the fathers of the republic, so
they provided a house representa-
tive to represent the people and for
a senate elected by the legislatures
of the various states to represent
the property.
1--WE now have learned that prop
erty interests should not be incon-
sistent with public interests, and
that officials should represent no
class but the entire public.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16

Remarking that the legislature
takes an adjournment until the eight
of the month and that the members
are going to take time to figure over
what they have done so far, the
Tama News says "To the ordinary
citizen, who depend upon newspa-
per reports of the work of that body
it would appear that about twenty
three minutes would be ample to
figure up the work of the session
up to date"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16

Senator Cummins, of Iowa, is do
ing some strange things these days.
Not long ago he shocked many who
were inclined to admire him by say
ing that so far as he was concerned
any republican was better than the
best democrat. Now he is fighting
reciprocity. The Denver News
says: Senator Cummins, of Iowa,
will do himself and the cause of in
surgency no good by helping kill
the reciprocity agreement in the
present congress. He will, likewise,
do reciprocity no harm. Presi-
dent Taft is sure to call an extra
session; and that extra session,
fresh as it is from the people, is
equally sure to indorse the reciproc-
ity agreement now pending, and call
for more of the same kind. If Sen
ator Cummins is capable of half the
logic we believe him to possess, he
knows that his alarm for the future
of the American farmer under rec
iprocity with Canada is purest hum
bug. The American farmer has to
sell his goods in a free trade mar
ket, and buy his goods in a tariff
walled market now; and such has
been his condition for forty years.
You cannot knock holes in the in
famous tariff wall, and still keep
it intact. You cannot maintain your
own pretense of graft, and get
rid of the other fellows real graft.
If Senator Cummins cannot see that
in the distribution of tariff peanuts,
the trusts have had the meat and
the farmer the shells, we have much
overrated his intelligence
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16

What's the use talking about
spending millions to fortify the Pan
anna canal, when a $3.50 aeroplane
with a $25 per week aviator and a
few 30-cent dynamite bombs could
blow all the Notifications into king
dom come in few hours? inquiries
the Manson Democrat.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16
EXTRA SESSION APRIL i.

= President Taft has called congress
in extra session on April 4th. Dem
ocratic members will caucus April
2rd. In the meantime the new ways
and means committee of the house
will be at work preparing for tariff
revision. The special session is call
ed particularly for the approval of
Canadian reciprocity.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16

The three cities in the United
States of greatest population are
New York, 4,766,883; Chicago,
2,1S5,2S3; Philadelphia, 1,549,008.
Seven cities have over 100000, the
other four than above being Bal
timore, Boston, Pittsburg, St. Louis.
The last named has 6S7,029.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16

The Keokuk Gate City offers the
following good suggestion: Iowa
might do worse than adopt the ar
rangement in force in Kansas. In
that state the legislature may con-
tinue aftefs March 2, but the pay is
cut off,"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16

1t may be good thing to pray
for things you want, but your faith
will be more likely to be rewarded
if you follow up your prayer by
getting out and hustling for what
you want
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16

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Reversible Tabulator Rack
Simple Stencil Cutting Device
Drop Forged Type Bazs
Perfect Line Lock
Dichrome Ribbon
Uniform Touch
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Column Finder and Paragraphes
Decimal Tabulator
Visible Wiring
A Key for Every Character
Perfect Era.ins Facilities
interchangeable Carriages
Right and Left Carriage Release Leven
Swinging Marginal Rack
Protected Ribbon
Gear Driven Carriage.
Ribbon Controlled from Keyboard
Variable and Universal Line Spaces
Perfect Dust Guard
Back Space Lever
Carriage Retarder .
Improved Marginal Stops !
Escapement, Speeches. Ever Devised
These are features which make the
Smith Premier the choice Of the
man who investigates comparative
advantages.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16

Cheapest. accident insurance DIR.
Thomas Eclectic Oil. Stops the pain
and heals the wound. All druggists
sell it.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16

Great men are seldom appreciated
while alive. Even the Savior was
one of the most maligned men dur
ing life.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-16

Governor Carroll signed the tax
ferret law last Friday and it is now
unlawful for cities, TOWNS or coun-
ties to contract with tax ferrets.
The Detroit times., 1911-04-22

success. II Is folly To think that any
one can wire a car. You would not
expect a blacksmith to repair your
watch and you should not expect a
general repair man to successfully
wire your car. II Is small town,
indeed that has no electricity In
these days and where electricity Is.
there is sure TO be an electrician
that can properly do such work.
In the city of Detroit there can
be found a large number OF enthusi-
astic users OF electric lights, a num-
Der SO large and growing so rapid
ly, as TO prove beyond a doubt that
proper electric outfit, properly in
stalled, makes the ideal automobile
light. These users are among all
classes, the man who uses his car
In his profession, in business and
purely for pleasure; the man who
drives a runabout, touring car,
coupe, a limousine or truck. In not
few instances. improperly designed
equipments have been installed with
the inevitable result OF failure.
These have been replaced with right
outfits, rightly installed. and disgust
has been turned to praise.
Inc buCCtSb VI ciCNNiiN hbhbS hoc
been as thoroughly demonstrated for
the automobile as for the home, the
public building or the street. II has
been proven on city streets and on
country roads. in pleasant weather
and in mud and wind and rain
The user Is beginning TO demand
electric lights on his car. Some man
ufacturers are making II their stan
dard equipment, others are making
II optional while still others, and
some OF them. the so-called progress
sive ones are not furnishing II at all
These latter ones will wake up some
day in the near future to the fact
that they have not been keeping
abreast OF the times. They are not
keeping up with the procession TO
say nothing of leading II.