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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
SHOOT UP THE COURT
OTHERS ESCAPE.
Wild Scramble for Places of Safety
When Prisoner Whisks Out Pistol
and Fires Three Shoots.

Judge, lawyers, policemen and
spectators were sent scurrying to
cover in the Criminal Court at Wash
ington late Monday, when Ray NJ.
Stewart, aged eighteen, fired three
wild shots in an attempt to shoot
up" the Court. At the first crack
Justice Wendall P. Stafford Gisap-
peared beneath his desk and out in
the Court room there was a wald
scramble for places of safety. Some,
frenzied by fear, leaped into win
dows and dropped to the ground fif-
teen or twenty feet below.
Justice Stafford had just refused
to release Stewart on probation af-
ter conviction for attempted highway
robbery. The boy whipped out pis-
tol and fred three shots, two Of
which narrowly missed Assistant
United States Attorneys Samuel
Hawken and Harvey Given and Po-
liceman Moffett. He was in the atti-
trde of turning toward the Judge as
| if to shoot when witness sprang
! upon him and choked him into insen-
sibility. In the confusion that fol-
lowed many thought Justice Stafford
had been struck by bullet, but the
Judge emerged from his haven with
out scratch.
Stewart had been convicted recent
ly of holding up negro in a Wash
ington suburb last December. He
had applied for probation as first
offender. The Judge had barely ut
tered the last word in passing SEN
tence when the prisoner began to
shoot and Just missed Hawken, who
ducked under the table. The next
shot went toward the jury box and
passed dangerously near Detective
Sergt. Grants head. It struck wall
and rebounded, falling near Justice
Stafford's bench. The third shot
struck the ceiling. AS the youth
wheeled and faced the bench, Edwin
Blame, a clerk in the department of
agriculture, who had been a witness
| for the State, seized the boy by the
throat and carried him to the floor.
By this time the Court room had
been nearly cleared Of officials and
spectators. Stewart lay unconscious
for several minutes after being dis
armed. Lated he was removed to
the cell room beneath the Court
room. Counsel for Stewart said the
youth was unbalanced as the result
of reading cheap literature. The
hold-up for which the boy was about
to be sentenced, had many features
Of the dime-novel variety. Monday
night the boy was in Jail awaiting
trial on the charge of shooting with
intent to kill.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
Show the Cloven Foot.

We have always thought that all
officers of an executive character
such as district attorneys, and others
of that kind, should be filled by well
known and trusted members Of the
political party that may be in power
at the time. These officials are the
representatives Of the Administra-
ton in the several States, and they
have power to help or hinder public
business and can reflect credit or dis
credit on the party m power as they
may choose. For that reason they
should be members of the party in
power.
AS an illustration of what we
mean, take the case Of John L. Nc
Nab, United States District Attorney
for California. He is Republican
holding over under the Democratic
Administration. He has no SYM
pathy with the Democratic party, and
when he thought he had chance to
make capital against it he most
promptly did so by falsely accusing
Attorney-General McReynolds of fav-
oring rich criminals, which was
promptly disproved by the publica-
ton of the facts in the case. The in
cident, however, shows that hold-ov-
er Republicans can not be trusted.
In his desire to injure the Admin
istration under which he was holding
an important position, McNab resigns
with a great flourish Of trumpets,
giving out his reasons at San Fran
cisco before they were sent to either
President Wilson or Attorney-Gen-
eral McReynolds. In his resignation,
which he sent by wire, he indirectly
accused Attorney-General Mercy
nolds of postponing certain cases be-
cause the defendants were rich and
influential. There was not word Of
truth in this charge, but it served
McNab's purpose.
The case was postponed solely on
the request of Secretary Wilson,
head of the Department of Labor,
who made the request purely in the
interest of the public service. The
action of McNab in this case shows
that the Republicans, holding over
from the last administration, will
hit the Wilson administration every
time they can get a chance to do so.
McNab's idea was to discredit the
Democratic Administration by at
tacking the Attorney-General, who
he accused of serving the rich defen-
dants instead of the government
The way he resigned shows his
animus, not only against the Attor-
ney-General, but against the Demo-
cratic party as well. Instead of
sending his resignation quietly to
President Wilson as he should have
done, he wrote most sensational
effusion and gave it out to the news
papers on the same day he sent it to
President Wilson. His object, of
course. was to iniure the Administra-
ton under which he held office, and
to which be should have been loyal
or resign. The McNab incident
should open President Wilson's eyes,
and make him resolve to pnt true
and tried Democrats on guard at
once in Offices that can be used to
discredit him or any Of his official
family
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
State Controls its Militia.

Governor Blease in speaking of the
withdrawal by the War Department
of the funds to the militia of this
State because he refused to let the
law be enforced, says he rejoices that
South Carolina is once again free
from the domination Of Yankee uni
forms, and once more in control OF
her own State militia" There never
has been a minute when the State did
not control its militia.
This is proven by Governor Blease
himself when he refused to allow
certain companies to be mustered
out for not complying with the mill
tia law of the National government.
If the State did not have control OF
it's militia, instead of withdrawing
entirely from the State, the War De-
partment would have made these de-
.linquent companies comply with the
law.
The fact of the business is, Cover
nor Blease by refusing to let those
companies which refuse to comply
with the law be disciplined by the
War Department, not only proves
himself that the State has complete
control of it's own militia, but he
Furnishes all the other companies in
the State, whose members have taken
an interest in the militia and passed
the inspection imposed by the War
Department in order for them to re-
ceive certain funds for their en-
campments and other purposes.
We are sorry Governor Blease took
the action he did when he refused to
let certain companies be disciplined.
If the members Of those companies
refused to obey the law there was
nothing left for the Government to
do but to discipline them until they
complied with the law. In refusing
to allow these companies to be dis
ciplined, Governor Blease did an in
justice to every company in the
State that had complied with the law.
No military organization can sue
ceed without discipline.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
EDITORS MEET TOGETHER.
Are Having Good Time at the Isle
of Palms.

Into Charleston's welcoming arms
trooped the editors OF South Caro-
lima Thursday for the annual meeting
of the South Carolina Press Associa-
ton, which commenced on the Isle
of Palms Thursday and will continue
until Saturday with large number
of the editors remaining over to en-
Joy themselves. Daily, weekly and
other sorts of editors, publishers,
business managers, in fact, all sorts
of newspaper men are here for~rns-
Convention and their sessions Thurs
day were enthusiastic. Between ses-
sions they amused themselves by
talking, walking, bathing, eating,
sending post cards to the country
and sundry other things which edi-
tors and others are prone to do when
visiting the Isle of Palms.
Three very, very busy sessions
were held the first day and lot Of
work was done. Yet the members
were not fatigued, because of the re-
freshing and invigorating atmosphere
which surrounded them. Many Of
them expressed themselves as charm,
ed with the Isle of Palms as sum-
mer meeting place, and some who
had not been at the watering place
for few years, remarked on the re-
cent marked improvements that have
been made.
The present officers of the Press
association are: President. II. T.
Watson, Greenwood Index; first vice
president, E. H. DeCamp. ~Gaffney
Ledger: second vice-presideut, Will
liam. Banks, Anderson Daily Mail;
treasurer. James L. Sims. Oran nseburg
Times and Democrat; secretary, W.
F. Caldwell The News and Courier's
Columbia Bureau. Fxecu+'--a COM
mitteemen and officers ev-oAr'o are:
Robert Latham. The News and Cour-
ier; Neils Christensen. Beaufort
Gazette: A. 3 Jordan. Dillon Herald.
All of these are present At tho meet
ing, except Senator ChristAnoen, Of
Beaufort, whe sent his regrets.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
Don't Try it Girls.

Most people will commend the
judge who refused a divorce to the
woman who married a drunkard to
reform him and failed in the attempt.
This marrying men to reform them
is the most foolish and disappointing
thing possible, for not once in a
thousand does it succeed. If man
will not reform before marriage there
is mighty little prospect Of his doing
so after marriage. And, anyway, the
man who pleads with a woman to
marry him to effect a reformation in
his morals is such a contemplate
specimen that he is not worth marry
ing under any circumstances. The
young woman who nlarries young
man who drinks to excess with the
expectation of reforming him, makes
A sad mistake. All of us know some
syeet, young woman who has tried
the experiment and failed. So we
would say, girls, don't.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
Bows Killed BY a Snake.

When Mrs. Dave Grant, residing
fourteen miles southwest of Beach
went to call on her two sons, aged
hre and seven, Sunday mornin, she
found them dead in bed with a rat
tlesnake lying between them. Dur.
ing the previous evening, just after
the youths had retired, each had
complained that the other was pinch
ing him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
Bitten by Strange Bug.

Bitten by a strange bug in Will
liamston park, Jim Bailey, Of Ander-
son, lay at point of death Tuesday
and the day before. He is now ex-
pected to recover. An insect bit him
on the ankle and the poison took
immediate effect. Physicians say if
they mad been summoned three min
utes later Bailey could not have sur
vived. Severe pain and swelling fol-
lowed and constant attention from
physicians and nurses was required.
The poison went through the young
mans system. The kind Of bug is
not known.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
SHUTS OFF THE FUNDS
SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA WILL
GET NO AID.
Governors Attitude Towards the En-
forcements of the Militia Law
Causes Action of War Department.

causes Action or W ar department..
Federal support of the National
Guard of South Carolina, amounting
to about $4,000 year, was with
drawn Tuesday by the war depart
ment because of ''the attitude of the
governor toward enforcement Of fed
eral militia law. The following tel
egram was received Tuesday by W.
". Moore, adjutant general, from
Brig. Gen. A. L. Mills, chief of the
division Of militia affairs, war de-
partment:
"W. W. Moore, Adjutant General,
South Carolina, Columbia, S. G.
"In accordance with action of war
department of this date, taken in
consequence of attitude Of governor
of your State toward enforcement of
federal militia law, as expressed in
his letters of May and 27 to you
and Of June II to secretary of war,
no further federal assistance, either
in personnel or equipment. will be
afforded the organized militia of your
State; nor will further expenditure
of federal funds in hands Of disburs-
ing officers be authorized by secre-
tary of war, except to cover such OBJ
legations as may have already been
incurred and approved by secretary
of war. Requisition for property
now. on hand in militia division is
disapproved and no further requisi-
ton will be honored. This informa-
ton is telegraphed to you in connec-
ton with plans for encampment OF
South Carolina organized militia this
summer, in order that you may be
guided by such telegram and act ac-
cordingly. Disbursing officer has
been informed Of action by war de-
nartment. stMills.
"Chief, Division Of Militia Affairs
Washington, June 3d."
Adjt. Gen. Moore said that the Ma
tionaI Guard of South Carolina last
year received about 100000 for sup
port from the war department but
the average amount was about s7O,'
900. He said that in 1911, when the
Joint manoeuvres were held, the
companies received about $4,000.
Under the order of the war de-
partment tbirty-fve companies of the
infantry will be affected and one
company of coast artillery. These
companies are made up of 1000 men
and officers. The annual appropria-
ton by the general assembly Of South
Carolina for the organized militia is
$4,000.
Adjt. Gen. Moore said that unless
the order was rescinded the encamp-
ments Of the three regiments, at
Camp Willie Jones', Aiken and An
oerson, would have to be called. on
He said that the war department
might also order all equipment now
held by the companies to be return
ed. The arms and ammunition, ac'
coutrements and uniforms, camp
equippage- fact, practically al
the equipment used by the citizen
soldiers-are the property not OF the
State but of the fedral government
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
Killed Bride - Wedding.

At Philadelphia l. 'iected suitor
Monday night ST. I'D killed a
young bride and nan who ettempt-
ed to save her, v ii !e three others,
one woman and ty r" n. were prob.
ably fatally Injured at the wedding
celebration in the northern part Of
the city. where the double tragedy
occurred.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
If the Democrats in CONGRESS pu

If the Democrats in Congress push
their currency bill through in the
same style that the tariff legislation
has gone thus far the extra session
of this year will go down as one of
the most famous in recent years.
Upon it's labors the success or fail
ure of the Democratic party depends
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02

Well tell you something but we
are afraid you won't believe it:-the
sun is something over ninety-three
millions of miles away from this
earth of ours. (Oh, we'll, we knew
you wouldn't.)
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02

It begins to look like McReynolds
has nabbed McNab.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
REFUSE MILITIA FUND
CAUSE OF ACTION BY THE WAR
DEPARTMENT.
Governor Blease's Refusal to Enforce
the Militia Law Left No Other
Course Possible.

Governor blcaSS ntluSdl W HAioASS
the Militia Law Left No Other
Course Possible.
The following are the facts leading
up to the withdrawal by the War De-
partment of the funds that has been
received for several years past by the
State militia from the National Gov
ernment, which amounted to about
$4,000 year. On May 27 last Ad-
jutant General Moore sent the follow
ing letter to Governor Blease:
II have the honor to transmit, for
your information, communication
received by this Office from the chief,
division of militia affairs, war de-
partment, Washington, D. c., and to
request that you will examine same
and inform me of your decision and
directions in this matter, at an early
date, in order that I may communi-
cate same to the chief, division Of
militia affairs, as requested by him.
T would respectfully invite your at
tention to paragraphs 8, 4, and 5,
page 5, of the inclosed letter."
The following letter was received
by Adjt. Gen Moore from Governor
Blease in reply on May 27:
"Your letter of May 81 received
with Enclosures from Brig. Gen. A. L.
Mills. You ask me to inform you of
my decision at an early date. I take
pleasure in doing so Immediately.
''In the first place have recently
expressed my opinion of the Dick
law, and repeat that I think that it
was a great mistake on the part OF
our people to go into it. Tha covers
section 8 Of his letter.
GAS to section 4, in which he states
it is not the policy of the war de-
partment to foster the maintenance
of organizations ETC., you can sim
ply say to Mr. Mills that, in my opin-
/ ion, the sooner he withdraws the con-
troll of the United States government
over the volunteer militia Of South
Carolina, the better it will be for
South Carolina, and all the people OF
the Southern States, and that this
would meet with my hearty approval
as governor and commander-in-chiet
of the South Carolina volunteer mill
tia.
GAS to section 5, in which he says
it would appear that the only way to
remedy existing conditions would be
to muster the organizations out OF
SERVICE as governor and commander
in-chief, I do not propose to do any
such thing. His letter was a waste
of time and material"
Eleven Companies Named.
In his letter to Adjt. Gen. Moore
J Gen. Mills said that the only way tc
remedy the situation in this State in.
sofar as the militia was concerned
was to muster out the following com.
panies:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02

In his letter to Adjt. Gen. Moore,
Gen. Mills said that the only way to
remedy the situation in this State in
sofar as the militia was concerned
was to muster out the following COM
'DanieS.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-02-27
any Favorite Love scene.v

find 1t a matter of very great diff
Guilty to select n particular love-
scene as my favorite, writes Ellen
Terry in the Strand. I can at least
say, however, that l have felt the
deepest affection and admiration for
the passage in "Romeo and Juliet" in
which Juliet makes apology for her
maiden holiness.
My reason for selecting this particu-
lar passage is that it serves to show
to the full the perfect refinement and
delicacy of S~hakespeare's conception
of the female character. In this pas
r~age--and, indeed, in all the rest
Juliet's heart, fluttering between joy,
hope and fear, seems to regulate her
speech in sc beautiful a manner that
the thought instinctively crosses ones
mind that here, at least, the feelings
of youth and of the spring are blended
together like the breath of opening
flowers.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-02-27
DIFFERENCE IN THEM
odd codger" Notes the Various
Points of Resemblance That
Mark the Small Towns.

How much alike the country vii
lagos look as you pass through them
On the train ruminated the Old Cod
ger. And in their daily life they are
as similar as they seem to the passing
stranger. Each has it's vitrio1ic town
row and its superabundance of real
estate agents. There is in every one
Of them the local Big Toad, bloated
and pompous in his small puddle, who
would never even cause a ripple in
the great ocean Of the outside world.
And here is the huge and jolly wife
with the little dried-up irascible hor-
net Of a husband, the society leader
with 2 following of three and a shape
ike & pouter pigeon, the fiashy grass
WIDOW. the shabby lawyer who would
he a wonder Of the world if he didn't
drink. the good natured handy man
who can do everything and never does
anytLing.--kansas City Star.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-02-27
Pay your taxes at the Bon
Homme County Bank.-Adv.

Pay your taxes at the Bon
Homme County Bank.-Adv.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
A. G. Vol, living near Kaylor last
Sunday night.
Mr.. Dillon, who sold his farm
west of town some time ago, is
loading three cars and will move
to Clay county.
Miss Josephine Sternhagen came
down from Parkston last Sunday
TO visit her mother, who had been
quite sick wit a severe attack of
the grippe.
VIM. G. KnDdt and wife of Hart
ford, arrived Tuesday and are
visiting at the home of her father,
Mr.. Weidenbach, and Der sister,
Mrs Fred Goehring.
G.. A Landmann has been elect
ed vice president and director of
the German Bank of Scotland to
succeed John Schmierer, who has
moved to Portland, Oregon.
Paul Weiland received a message
Wednesday stating that his SON
John, who has been working for
the Western Union company put
ting up wires, fell from a telegraph
pole while working near Ramona
and broke his ankle. He is ex-
pected to arrive home today.
Is it Coffee or Clark? That
seems to be an important question
for democratic place hunters te
decide. Mr.. Coffee, acting on the
supposition that his endorsement
would settle the question, has beer
preparing a list for appointment
and now Mr.. Clark Of Huron, hal
called a meeting of democratic
committeeman to be held at Pierre
March 3 to oppose Mr.. Coffee
list.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-02-27
present thought it a rare treat and
We're we'll satisfied with the effort
of our home talent.

Vim. Shaw of Parkston, was in
town Wednesday.
s. M. Brann of Springfield was
here today on his way north.
Rev. Wicks of Springfield was
here today between trains on his
way to Lennon.
John Gross who has been visit
ing here for a few days, returned
to his home in Kuhn, N. D. today.
Mr.. Aug. Joecem of Charter Oak
Ia, arrived Wednesday to visit bis
brother law, Mr.. Dahn. He
owns some land near Rec Heights
and he and Mr.. Dahn left today to
look after it.
F. D. Wicks returned from
Pierre today. He says investiga-
tions are quite numerous at the
capitol. Land Commissioner
Brinker has been arrested and is
under $4,000 bonds, and the in
surance department and secretary
Of states Office under the former
official are under investigation,
but no findings have yet been re-
ported.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-02-27
For Pianos see W. H. Miller

For Pianos see W. H. Miller
Adv.
VIM. Shaw of Parkston was in
Scotland Wednesday.
F. D. Wicks has been ut Aber-
deem and Pierre since last Friday.
]. L. Meighen has been watch
ing proceedings at Pierre this
week.
Chas. McKirgan is loading his
car and will move to Iowa, near
Des Moines where he will move
QUITO a farm owned by his father.
A car loaded with mill machinery
for Japan was put off the track at
the north end of the switch yard
Tuesday night necessitating the
bringing of a wrecking crew here
Wednesday.
MIR. Carpenter, representing the
Iowa Bridge Co., of Des Moines,
Ia, was in town Wednesday. He
says he travelled through Europe
last summer, being there aix
months and travelling through ten
countries and never saw but one
train behind time and that was
ten minutes late.
The last number of the lecture
course will be given in the opera
house Wednesday evening, March
5th. The speaker will be Ernest ]
sias whose lectures are noted not
only for their wit and humor, but
for a strong dramatic setting. and
with a teaching element predomi-
mating. In other words, if we are
to Judge by the press dispatches,
while Mr.. Sias is humorous he also
has a lesson and a purpose in his
talk, a feature that has been pain
fully lacking in some of the humor-
GUS lectures that We have beer
given.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-02-27

At the annual business meeting
of the West Side Ali of the Pres
byterianChurch, held Feb 20 at the
home of Mr.. Joe. Stevenson, the
following officers we're elected for
the ensuing year.: President, Mrs
Helms Vice Pres, Mrs. Irve
johnson; Sec. and Treas, Miss
Elsie Beecher. The Society num-
bers twenty eight members and
eighty-fve dollars we're reported in
the treasury.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-02-27

The program givenin the Me'ho
dist church last Tuesday night was
we'll attended, the church beirg
nicely filled. The program con
sisted es- recitatians, duets, a Trio,
qnartettes and full chorus work in
the anthems. There was enough
strength and variety to suit all and
bring out both quality Of voice and
harmony in the pieces sung. All