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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-14
SULzER To Use
EVERY WEAPON
IN HIS POWER
Declares Assembly Had No
Constitutional Right to Con-
slider Impeachment at Its
Extraordinary Session.
REFUSES TO GIVE
UP HIS POSITION
Martin H. Glynn, Lieutenant
Governor, Claims to Have
Succeeded Automatically
to the Office.

ALBANY, n. v. Aug, 13.-With Gov
ernor Sulzer impeached by the assembly
and the date of his trial before the
senate and the judges Of The court of
appeals fixed for September is, The
srectacle was presented tonigh: of two
men claiming to be governor Of the
state Of New York
As soon as the articles of impeach-
ment, adopted at an early hour this
morning by the Democratic majority IL
the assembly, were presented to the
senate, shortly after clock this aft
erncon, Lieutenant Governor Martin H.
Glynn announced his intention Of oc-
cupyJng the executive chamber.
Friends Of Governor Sulzer snid that
the governor intended to continue in
office, and would use every weapon in
his power to maintain his position, on
the ground that the assembly had no
constitutional right to consider inn
peachment at its extraordinary session,
Some asserted that the governor
would 90 so far as to summon military
protection if necessary TO prevent the
lieutenant governor from occupying the
executive chamber
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-14
Statement of Counsel.

D. Cady Herrick, who will ast as
chief counsel for the governor at his
trial, said tonight that "talk or resort
to force is the merest rot
''He will meet the charges against
him in IN orderly and dignified way"
the lawyer said, "and will do nothing
uubecoming the dignity of the state, He
will engage in no phyalcal scramble to
obtain his rights and will discharge the
functions of governor.
The governor himself was silent. He
was in his office at clock tonight,
where he had been closeted the entire
day, and was asked if he expected to
return tomorrow.
Yes, stree" he replied in angry
tones
So far as could be learned 10 at
tempt was made by Lieutenant Govern
or Glyun In any awy to exercise the
functions Of chief executive today, but
there was every indication that there
would be a clash of authority tomor.
row when both men appear at the capi-
tol,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10

be eminently desirable were 1t not for
the color question; we fully agree with
Senator Tillman in his view as to what
would necessarily follow the drawing
Of party lines among the white people.
OF course there are those who will
claim that the whites will never ask
for negro votes; but the claim is not
founded on reason or common sense.
Every partisan of one side in politics,
understands how it Is second nature
to assume that the other side will de-
scend to any expedient to carry a
point, and IL one side should appeal to
negroes, then the other side would have
to do likewise or submit to government
by negroes with white leaders. People
who remember how this used to work,
know the intolerable conditions that
followed, and grown men Of today who
do not remember, ought to have sense
enough to reason 1t out without being
told.
AS to just what the legislature can
do to ensure greater honesty in elec-
tions we do not know-the problem is
beyond us; but on one point we have
no doubt, and that point Is the grave
necessity of not doing anything that
may seem calculated to disturb white
unity.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10
ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr.. R. R. Peoples Of Matthews, N. c.,
has been visiting friends and relatives
in Yorkville.
Miss Eula Good, Of Hickory Grove,
Is visiting Miss Lois Plexico In Rock
Hill.
Mrs. C. L. Mauldin Of Yorkville, Is
visiting relatives and friends at Beau
fort, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Inman, Of Will
kinsville, visited relatives In Yorkville
this week.
Miss Matte Smith, Of Hickory Grove
is visiting Mrs. Boyce Whisonant, IN
Wilkinsville.
Mr.. r. A. Patrick Of White Oak, was
In Yorkville, Wednesday, shaking
hands with his many friends and ac-
quaintances. He came up to attend to
some private business.
DR.. B. G. Black, who has been suf-
fering for some days past with an alb
scessed ear, Is now very much better
and able to be at his work again.
Major w. w. Boyce, Of Rock Hill,
has gone to Mexico on a visit to his
son, Rev. William Boyce, who is q
missionary Of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church at station about
forty-five miles beyond Del Mais.
Charlotte Chronicles: Mr.. Thomas
P. Moore and family Of Yorkville, S.
c.. have removed to Charlotte for
their future residence. Mr.. Moore
has been engaged in the cotton manu-
featuring business in Yorkville and
has disposed of his interest In the
firm of which he was member there.
He will be identified with the manu-
featuring business here, plans for
which are not yet ready for announce
ment.
Gastonia special to Charlotte Obser-
yer: Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel N. Boyce
have issued invitations announcing
the marriage Of their daughter, Miss
Ruth, to Mr.. R. Grady Rankin, of this
city. which event will occur Wednes-
day evening, January %, at Z o'clock,
in the Main street Methodist church.
The bride-to-be Is one Of Gastonia's
loveliest and most accomplished young
ladies'. Mr.. Rankin is a promising
young business man, who has already
shown evidences of business ability OF
a high degree.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10

have entirely disappeared, and one
room buildings have grown to be re-
garded as primitive as they formerly
were. Two and three-room buildings
have grown common, and more than
ne-story Is not unusual. Where
$3.50 used to be considered good out
lay for the construction of an ordinary
country school, people are no longer
astonished at 500 or $500 or even
$1,000, and the tendency of the general
ambition is even higher.
We would not give the impression
that York county is filled with the bet
ter class of school buildings described;
but only that they are growing more
common, and it may be taken as a fact
that sentiment generally is more en-
lightened. Where formerly but few
people had any definite idea Of the i'm
portance to be attached to the school
building; now there is general appre-
citation Of the fact that the school Is
second in Importance only to the
church, and all are agreeing that the
more pleasant and comfortable II can
be made for teachers and pupils the
better the results that will be secured.
From what has been done and is being
done, it is a pretty safe prediction that
York county will show up more school
development during the next ten years
than it has been able to show during
the past fifty years.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1913.

from nearly a dozen southern states
will also take part In this unique
feature Of the exposition. The Ma
tional Corn exposition opens Janu-
ary 27. The boys who attend this
school will be housed in a special
building at the exposition grounds
Arrangements have been made for
the entertainment of the girls in some
of the best homes in Columbia, and
plans are being perfected for social
features. The girls will spend prac-
tically the entire day at the exposition
grounds hearing lectures In common
with the boys, and attending special
courses of instruction covering do
mestic science and arts, canning,
cooking, lectures on floral culture,
growing of vegetables, poultry rails
ing and kindred subjects. Special at
tention will be given to the exposition
exhibits. J. B. Hobby Of Auburn,
Alabama, Is superintendent Of this
school for prize winners. Each state
will send five prize winning tomato
club girls to this exposition school.
The tomato club work Is conducted
by the Farmers Cooperative De-
monstration work Of the Federal de-
partment Of agriculture, in co-opera-
ton with the state agricultural insti-
tutions. The special agents in charge
of the work for the several states
are: Virginia, Miss Ella Agnew,
Burkville; South Carolina, Miss Edith
l. PARROT, Rock Hill; Mississippi,
Miss Susie v. Powell, Jackson; Geor-
gia, Miss Mary Crosswell. Athens;
Alabama, Mrs. BERTHE I. Robinson,
Auburn; Florida, Miss Agnes Ella
Harris, Tallahassee; Tennessee, Miss
Virginia P. Moore, Nashville; North
Carolina, Miss Jane s. McKinnon,
Raleigh; louisiana, Miss Elizabeth
B. Kelly, Baton Rouge. In Arkan-
sas, Texas and Oklahoma, the girls
work is handled by the authorities In
charge of the boys corn club.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10

To Abolish leebergs.-A plan for
abolishing icebergs is to be laid be-
fore congress. The New York board
Of trade and transportation announc-
es its endorsement Of bill which
Congressman Calder, Of Brooklyn, will
introduce, calling for government
commission to study the feasibility
Of constructing a huge jetty across the
Grand Banks Of New Foundland. The
idea was explained by its originator,
c. L. Riker, of Brooklyn. He said he
would obstruct the Labrador current
by laying a steel cable ten inches In
diameter across the Grand Banks
against which the current would de-
posit and form a ridge extending
for two hundred miles to the east to
Cape Race. This, he declared, would
be sufficient to shift the current so
that the warm gulf steam and the
cold Labrador current would COM.
mingle, and eliminate icebergs not
only from the regions Of the Grand
Banks but also from the entire Arctic
Banks but also from the entire arctic
circle. Greenland, he maintained,
would be transformed into garden
and England would be surrounded by
q current as warm as the Caribbean
Sea. Mr.. Riker declared that, how
ever wild this project might seem at
first sight, 1t had received much en-
dorsement and even the United States
photographic office considered 1t feas-
able. He said the work would cost
about $2o,000,000. -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10
THE PARCELS POST.

Much that has been printed about
parcels post has been confusing.
Your town is the centre Of your
world. That's all Of 1t. II you mail a
package to be delivered by letter
carrier in your town, or by rural free
delivery running from that town, you
pay sc postage for one pound and 1c
a pound after the first and up to IL
pounds-that's the weight limit.
Eleven pounds at your local rate goes
for Is cents.
II parcel goes within so mile zone,
first pound costs &c; additional pounds
&c each.
II parcel goes within $50 mile zone,
first pound costs &c; additional pounds
&C each.
If parcel goes within 800 mile zone.
first pound costs 7c; additional pounds
&c each.
If parcel goes within 600 mile zone,
first mound costs &c; additional pounds
&c each. ..
If parcel goes within 1000 mile
zone, first pound costs 10c; additional
pounds &c each.
If parcel goes within 1,400 mile
zone, first pound costs lie; addition
al pounds SC each.
II parcel goes within 1900 mile
zone. first pound costs lie; addition
al pounds 10c each. .r
II parcel goes anywhere beyond
1900 miles, even to the Philippines,
first pound 12c; each additional
pound 12c.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10
LOCAL. AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

National Union Bank, Rock Hill
Gives some solid advice and sug-
gests that you apply 1t to yourself.
Cloud Cash Store-Invites special at
tention to its stock of shoes. 1t has
Walkover shoes for men, and the
Reid shoes for ladies.
Loan and Savings Bank-Says its
purpose is to make itself Of mate
~ rial benefit to the community and
wants to help you.
JIG. Wilborn-Offers the Yorkville
Buggy company's building for rent
]. White Ware, Gastonia-Wants q
cropper for the Scott Wilson farm
near McConnellsville.
Mcconnell Dry Goods Co.-Has lot
Of misfit made-to-measure clothes
and offers them bargain prices.
Palmetto Monument Co.-Wants the
orders Of people who want monu-
mental work Of quality.
Yorkville Hardware Co.-Tells about
the runaway horse incident and
cites the quality Of its hardware.
Southern Railway-Gives information
in regard to the fifth national corn
show to be held In Columbia the
last of this month.
M. e. Plaxico-Is prepared to do gen.
eral draying for all who desire his
services.
City Meat Market-Will buy all the
butter and eggs they can dispose OF
at present prices.
York Drug Store-Talks about pre-
scription work and wants yours.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10
Good Law and Poor Justice.

IF attorneys based their arguments
more upon an innate sense Of natural
justice, common sense and fair play,
instead Of fortifying themselves with
decisions Of other courts. I believe we
would get better results"
So said Judge Dickson of Minnesota,
one of the district judges Of that state.
IF all the law books in the country
were burned in single night we would
have better laws in ten years than we
have at the present time"
So said Judge Kelly, another Of the
district judges Of that state.
This is pretty strong talk and COM
ing from the bench. 1t is peculiarly i'm
pressive. What this country needs to
grasp is the idea these two judges are
setting forth.
The laws should be respected, but
justice common sense, and fair play
are the things the laws must sustain
and promote If respect Is to be accord
ed to them.
AS long as the judges are clear
minded on this point, precedents which
veer away from these lines will not be
reverently regarded.
BY the effort to give the law certain
ty and stability, this extreme rever-
ence for precedent has been fostered.
The results are by no means fortunate.
Precedent should square with a broad
grasp of justice, fair play and common
sense, before the wise and upright
Judge can lend himself to their guild
ance.
1t is this ability to grasp the funda-
mental principles upon which the
structure Of the law is built, which
marks the difference between good and
poor judges.
The subtleties and bubbles of adroit
minds are misleading and attorneys
who base their arguments more upon
the decisions Of other courts than up
on simple justice, succeed too often In
shaping the judgment Of the judges
away from the true line Of justice.
But, while much mischief is done by
hardening and crystalIizing the legal
structure as it diverges from the
plumb line of justice, these errors
should not be too freely ascribed to
wickedness and corruption on the part
Of the courts.
It Is a confusing thing to ferret out
justice, with the mind constantly be-
set with the battling sophistries Of sly
and keen -witted lawyers, and judges
were made of the same clay with the
rest of US.
To err is human and judges are not
yet divine. The decisions, so far as
they square with the broadening ideals
of justice, which the progress Of civili-
zation brings, are Of immense value;
so far as they obstruct and pervert
these ideals, they are worthless and
pernicious.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10

Parcels Post Rules.-It Is likely, In
the Judgment Of authorities of the post
office department, to be only short
time until books and other printed mat
ter now handled as third class mail at
eight cents a pound. will be made
mailable as parcel post matter.
Steps, 1t became known yesterday,
already have been taken to induce
congress to so amend the parcel post
act as to permit printed matter to be
sent by parcels post.
In line with this idea, Postmaster
General Hitchcock decided yesterday
that senders Of parcel post packages
containing merchandise might enclose
printed matter descriptive Of the con-
tents without affecting their classical
ton. His order Is an amendment to
existing parcel post regulations which
provide that the inclusion in a pack
age Of any printed matter, subjects the
entire package to the third class rate
of postage.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10

For the protection Of the Sa-
vannah river, the national forest re-
servation commission on Friday ap-
proved for purchase, under the
Weeks law, $4,000 acres Of land In
Georgia and South Carolina, along
the headwater tributaries Of the riv-
er. The Savannah Is navigable for $50
miles; but the government survey
made a report stating that nowhere
in the southern Appalachian region
is the danger Of erosion greater than
in the section where the lands for
purchase lie, and that the control OF
the lands was important for the pro-
lection of the flow Of the river The
commission expressed itself as pleased
with the days work, because the land
selected had to be bought from 81
owners. It lies in Rabun county,
Georgia, and Oconee county, South
Carolina, on the south slope OF the
Blue Ridge. Permanent farming In
the region, 1t was said, was not pos
sible because, after being cleared, the
lands eroded violently. Due to the
failure Of agriculture in the section,
the population there is less than 1t
was twenty years ago. Negotiations
will be carried on for the purchase
of other lands in the same section.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10

Man has showed no improve
ment either In intellect or morals
from the days of the earliest Egyp-
tians and Syrians down to the keel
laying Of the latest dreadnought," ac-
cording to a survey which DR.. Alfred
Russell Wallace, known as the grand
old man of science" has completed,
on the eve Of his pinetieth birthday,
Wednesday. In his survey in the
London Daily News he declares that
for 1000 years morals and intellect
have been stationary. There has
been, of course, a great accumula-
ton Of human knowledge, but for all
that, we are no cleverer than the
ancients," he declared. There IL
still most abominable vice going on:
every kind of cruelty to the poor and
children; adulteration in every COM
modify, and lies everywhere. The
average Of mankind will remain the
same until natural selection steps in
to raise It" DR.. Wallace qualified
his remarks with the belief that there
was no cause for worry for the fu-
ture, however, as the outlook Is hope
full. .. .....
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10
The Modern School House.

While 1t is not to be claimed that
the sentiment Of the people Of this Sec
ton Is as broad and enlightened on
the subject of better school houses as
II should be, still there has been tre-
mendous progress during the past fifty
years.
Previous to the Civil war there were
very few school houses in York coun-
ty that were worthy Of the name. One
of the best probably was the Judge
Smith building in Yorkville, burned
down as the property Of the late Major
James F. Hart some thirty years ago.
1t was erected in the early part OF the
century as a residence, but was after
ward converted into boarding school
for girls. The first fairly good build
ing erected for strictly school purposes
was what was known as the old
Brick academy" in Yorkville, erected
on the corner of Congress and Char
lotte streets, about 1910. This was fol-
lowed by the Yorkville Female college,
on the present site Of the Yorkville
Graded school, and the Kings Noun
tain Military school building, now oc-
cupied by the Church Home Orphan
age.
But all these buildings were in
class extraordinary. They were not
considered in any sense as common
school buildings. The common school
building, even at it's best, previous to
the civil war and for many years af-
terward, was quite an humble affair."
Sometimes it was an abandoned hut
constructed Of logs and mud. occa-
sionally the construction was of the
straight up and down type, sometimes
with the cracks stopped and sometimes
not, and ordinary clapboard floors,
with a big fireplace, wide enough to
take in whole sticks of cordwood with
out cutting.
The common sentiment of the coun-
ty, even until we'll into the SOS was
that the school houses described were
good enough. AS matter of fact. but
few people seemed to think that any
thing better was desirable, even If 1t
were available. Parents generally
were so busy trying to get bread and
clothes that they felt that their chill
dren should be satisfied at being al
lowed to spend their time in what was
commonly looked upon as semi-idle-
ness under any circumstances.
There has been a wonderful change
during the past ten years and the
change is still going on for the better.
The former types OF school houses"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10

came to the rescue Of their charges.
The police generally Joined in the
drunken saturnalia, and were little or
no defense against excess. A story was
published to the effect that in a crowd
ed car a young woman with the assist
ance of her escort thrust her foot
through the handstrap in the top Of
the car and hung with her head down
while forty or fifty people applauded.
Someone passed a hat and returned 1t
full of contributions and the young
woman repeated the performance. And
according to the newspaper corre-
spondent, this young woman, as well
as the people in the car, belonged to
what Is considered Chicago's respect
able class. The wildness Of the excess
.es reached their climax In the early
hours of Thursday morning after New
Years. and many Of the people who
are not accustomed to such things, are
still suffering from the immediate ef-
fects of the debauch.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10

Senator Tillman has introduced a
bill prohibiting Federal judges from
instructing juries as to facts in cases
tried before them and confining judi
cial instructions strictly to the law.
This bill, If it becomes law, will
greatly diminish the power of Federal
judges and increase the power OF law
yers for the defense. In olden times
in this state. judges were allowed to
charge juries as to facts and had vir-
tual power to instruct verdicts In GRIM
inal cases. This power was continued
under the constitution of 1868, al
though 1t was not specifically author
lied under that constitution. How
ever, conditions were such that wher-
ever a Judge thought there should be
he could bring conviction
about. The lawyers Of the state real
izing the tremendous advantage thus
exercised, secured the Incorporation of
a provision in the constitution Of 1895
that took away the power Of judge to
make any reference whatever to the
facts in a charge to the jury. Since
then the lawyers have had more pow
er with the juries than previously. 1t
is generally understood throughout the
country that Federal judges now have
almost unlimited power in bringing
about a conviction that they think
should be brought about, and 1t is con-
ceded that this power Is generally used
in the interest of right and justice, ex-
cept that an occasional venal judge
will use the power improperly. Theo-
retically the idea that the jury should
be the sole Judge Of the facts and the
Judge only the judge Of the law Is
good; but it would not be safe to claim
unreservedly that the theory always
works out best in practice. One thing
is quite certain and that Is that If this
bill introduced by Senator Tillman be-
comes a law, the power Of Federal
judges in jury cases will be greatly di-
minished, and the power of lawyers
will be correspondingly increased.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-10

Report of the Ginners.-The eighth
cotton ginning report Of the census
bureau, issued at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning, announced that 2,919,257
bales Of cotton. counting round as half
bales, of the growth Of 1912 had been
ginned prior to Wednesday, January l,
to which date during the past seven
years the ginning averaged 92.8 per
cent Of the entire crop. Last year to
January there had been ginned 1A-
317,002 bales, or 92.1 per cent Of the
entire crop; In 1908 to that date, H.
465,298 bales, or 95.3 per cent, and In
1906 to that date, 11,741,03s bales, or
90.4 per cent.
Included in the ginnings were 77.7s9
round bales, compared with s6,227
bales last year, 109,292 bales in 1910,
143,94s bales in 1909 and 230,672 bales
in 1908. if
The number Of sea island cotton
bales included were 67,S29. compared
with 105,988. bales last year, SO 611
bales in 1909 and S5,52s bales in 1903. !.