Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-12-13
Scraps and facts.

THE consumer is the man l am af-
ter" These words were attributed to
James B. Duke, the tobacco magnate.
by Albert H. Hil,man, tobacco jobber,
who was a witness today in the $780,
900 damage suit brought by John E.
Locker, of Brooklyn, against the Amer
lean Tobacco company, which is being
tried in the United States court in New
York. Hillman described discussion
regarding tobacco prices he had with
Duke about the time of the organiza-
tion of the Metropolitan Tobacco COM
pany, which it was claimed was the To-
cal selling agent of the American. He
said he protested that jobbers could not
stand an advance in prices and Duke
replied: Raise your price to the re-
taller. Let the retailer raise his price
to the consumer. The consumer is the
man l am after. If the retailers won't
raise prices we will establish retail
stores of our own" Counsel for Lock-
er offered evidence to show that the
American Tobacco company had con-
spired to injure independent jobbers,
but the court ruled out such testimony.
Alexander Scott, or Lucky" Scott,
or Death Valley Scotty," arrived in
New York a few days ago from Vera
Cruz, Mexico, on the Ward liner Es-
peranZa after a seven weeks visit, says
a dispatch. Scott says he represents
friends of Felix Diaz, and that he and
four Ans ricans went to Mexico on
secret mission. They were Joined there
by some more Americans, and ne has
left eleven of the mysterious friends,
behind. He said they conducted their
business with Diaz in his eel through
Diazs lawyer. Diaz, he said had been
removed from his cell in the municipal
castle to the fortress of San Juan de
Ulua, which commands the entrance tt
the harbor of Vera Cruz and which was
stormed by Gen. Winfield Scott. From
here, Felix Diaz is allowed to send out
and buy such fare as the prison does
not provide. "DiaZ was double cross
ed" says Scott. He had an army
around Vera Cruz Of from $500 to 5000
men and he had good machine guns.
Gen. Pascal, an o,d college chum of
his, sent him a letter in which he said
he was going to join Diaz with force
of 600 men. Diaz trusted him and in
vited him to come to Vera Cruz. Pas
cal marched into Vera Cruz at the head
of his complement, showing the Diaz
colors. Diaz met him, alone and un-
armed, in a public square in Vera Cruz
and Pascal took him prisoner. Pasca ..
troops made just a show of fighting
awe the townspeople. I found the SEN
timent of the country generally in IA
vor of DiaZ."
Leading members of the Atlanta
bar are so outraged at public utter
ances made by Rev. Hugh Wallace,
pastor of the Jones Avenue Baptist
church, rejecting on the honor and in
tegrity of the judges Of the loca.
courts, that they are talking of prose-
cutting the minister for slander. The
Rev. Mr.. Wallace is quoted as saying
from his pulpit: Justice in Fulton
county is weighed by the dollar mark.
God have mercy on the courts OF
community when they reach such a
condition as this!" And further in the
same sermon, Red handed murderers
have been turned loose on this COM
munity by the courts simply because
they were backed by money and infiu-
ence. 1t Is a shame, men who are guilty
Of cold b,ooded heinous crimes should
go free and disgrace the name of JUS
tice, simply because they have money
and influence" The charges Of the
Rev. Mr.. Wallace have made stir all
the more sensational because never be-
fore in this generation has judge of
an Atlanta court been accused Of We
nality. This preacher should be made
to prove his charges or should be fore
ed to leave the community" said an Of
ficer of the bar association yesterday.
The judge Of the superior criminal
court in this city, Hon. L. S: Roam, Is
an upright, God-fearing gentleman
Christian and a splendid character.
The whole personnel of the judges on
the Atlanta bench is such as to place
them individually above the reach of
such outrageous slander as that indulg-
ed in by this minister, but his utter
ances none the-less hurt the communi-
ty; they hurt the dignity Of the law;
they are sensational and miserably un-
true"
Washington, December IL: Denun-
citation of the legal procedure under
which a "brown-hued, black-skinned
thick-l Tipped. bruta.-hearted African
can walk into an office of the law and
demand an edict guaranteeing him le-
gal wedlock to white woman" was
one Of the many sensational features OF
a speech in the house today by Repre-
sentative Rodenberry. of Georgia, in
favor Of a resolution he had introduced
earlier, to prevent inter-marriages OF
whites and negroes. Mr.. Roddenberry
prophesied that the legal sanction OF
mixed marriages ultimately might
bring this country to a conflict. He de-
clared that mo brutality, infamy or de-
gradation in all the days Of southern
slavery possessed such villianous char
acteristics and atrociouS qualities" as
mixed marriages" The measure. a di-
rect result Of the recent marriage Of
Jack Johnson, the negro pugi.ist, with
a white girl, did not get to a vote. In
Chicago, Mr.. Roddenberry said, not
only is the white slave traffic carried
on. but the white girls of this country
are made the slaves Of an African
brute, sanctioned by the laws of the
state, and solemniZed by form of the
marriage ceremony" Mr. Roddenberry
added: I'VE say this is great coun-
try with it's morals, traditions, virtues
and examples deserving to be emulatec
and envied by the other countries of
the earth. But we see an African witt
much brutal force, with no moral
the office of a probating magistrate or
other legal officer in that city and call
ing on him to issue to me, Jack john
soma marriage license to wed a
young American woman, of our own
blood. our own color" The speaker de-
clared that ''in the fellowship between
the blacks and the whites in the south,
the blacks respected the superiority of
their former masters and would COM
NIT self destruction before entertain
ing thought Of matrimony with a
Wytheville, Dec. IL: Thirty five
years in the penitentiary was the pen
atty Sidna Allen will pay for the part
he played in the shooting up of Carroll
county court house on the fourth of
March last, when five persons, includ-
ing the presiding judge, the sheriff and
the commonwealth's attorney were kill
ed by members of the Allen clan and a
number of others wounded. Aliens
nephew, Wesley Edwards, will spend
twenty-seven years in the penitentiary.
These two sentences were the result of
a compromise this afternoon following
a verdict of voluntary manslaughter in
the case of Sidna Allen for the murder
of commemorative attorney William
N. Foster the jury fixing the penalty
in that case at five years imprison-
ment. Allen already had been found
guilty of second degree murder at a
former trial for the killing of Judge
Massie, for which he had been sentenc-
ed to fifteen years in the penitentiary
and the other indictment pending
against him for the murder Of Sheriff
Webb was compromised by letting him
plead guilty to second degree murder
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