Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-30

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follows: Maintenance, army engineer
officer; transportation, naval ohcer,
electrical engineer, army engineer OF
ficer; captains Of the terminal ports,
naval officers, superintendent Of shops
and dry docks, naval constructor;
chief health officer, army medical OF
ficer, chief Of the quarantine DIVISION,
officer of the public health bureau,
and chief quarter-master, army or
ficer.
- Secretary Bryan on Wednesday
told the Common Counsel club in
Washington that adoption Of the pres
idential primary plan would mark the
completion Of the movement by which
the people are coming into absolute
control Of the naming Of their presi-
dent. Never again, he declared, would
Wall street have anything to say In
the election Of president Mr.. Bryan
denounced senate rules allowing un-
limited debate. referring to them as
the last stand Of the reactionaries,
which permitted few to do what
they ought not to do and prevented a
done. Louis D. Brandeis told the club
that the government ought to furnish
to the small industrial, commercial
and business man Of the country, in
formation to enable them to conduct
their affairs with the same scientific
management employed by the big bus
mess man or concern with large capl-
tai This, he asserted, would be the
first step in progressive democracy.
Columbia special Of January 2S,
to Charlotte Observer: Senator Neils
Christensen Of Beaufort, raising a
question OF personal privilege In the
senate this afternoon, replied to
Governor Blease's special message as
to the Beaufort county negro school
Of which Senator Christensen Is
trustee. Senator Christensen pointed
out that Governor Blease was a trus-
tee tor some years Of the negro col
lege for which he was a candidate
in 1902 before the legislature which
elected him." Mr.. Christensen said:
THE propriety of my conduct as a
citizen is called in question by Gov
ernor Blease in a special message to
the legislature. This because Of the
fact that i am trustee of the Port
Royal agricultural school and be-
cause Booker T. Washington is nam
ed on a letterhead Of the school as a
reference. The said message also in
sinuates by questions and phraseolo-
gy that whites may be teaching ne
groes, that social equality may be
taught, and that the school may be a
state institution. The facts could
have been easily secured by the gov
ernor from the same source through
which he secured the partial informa-
ton used in this message. Briefly
stated they are as follows: The Port
Royal agricultural school is a private
school for negroes and uses no pub
lie funds. The four trustees are
white. The letterhead in question
was printed for the negro principal
at his order and for his use and so far
as I know it is not used by anyone
else. The principal is a graduate Of
Tuskegee and 1t is but natural that
he should refer to the principal Of
that school as one who knows him.
All the teachers Of the Port Royal
school are negroes. Nearly every
school district in this state has ne
gro schools in it and each of the white
public trustees Of this district is a
trustee of negro schools. Governor
Blease himself was for some years q
trustee of a negro college for which
position he was a candidate in 1902
before the legislature which elected
him. So there is no objection to a
white man acting as trustee to
negro school, the only question is the
kind Of school he is in charge OF.
The school in question is located in
Beaufort county, five miles from the
town Of Beaufort, 1t is known by the
public school trustees Of the dis
trict who heartily approve it. I have
discussed its policies and methods
with former superintendent of Edu-
cation o. B. Martin, and the pres
ent State superintendent of Educa-
ton ]. E. Swearingen, who have ap-
proved Of same. 1 believe that no
school for negroes in this country is
so free from any teaching Of social
equality"
- Washington, January %: By a
vote Of 227 to SO the house late today
refused to investigate further the
election contest between Representa-
tive Whaley of Charleston, S. c., and
Mayor Grace, and then passed a reso-
luton to seat Whaley. A discussion
of the report favoring the seating of
Representative Richard S. Whaley
Of South Carolina, against whom
charges had been fled by Mayor
Grace, Of Charleston, was resumed in
the house today. Defending the mi
nority report against seating of
Whaley, Representative Borchers Of
Illinois, declared that if the charges
should be expelled from the house.
Mr.. Brochers quoted from allegations
made by Grace, contending that the
matter had not been thoroughly
sifted, and that 1t was wrong for the
house to permit Whaley to remain
without further challenge. Repre-
sentative Frear, of Wisconsin, also
protested against the committees ma
jority report. He said that the house
ought to go into the investigation
that the inquiry by the committee
had been inadequate, and the ma
jority report, he intimated, was a
whitewash. Members who protested
against seating Whaley under the
committee report declared the house
undoubtedly would rest its vote up
on the discussion on the floor. At
their instance the house was called to
order several times so that all the
members could hear the speeches.
Grace charged that Whaley spent
100000 in his campaign, that he
bought votes, and that he made five
false affidavits. Representative Frear
said that the procedure under the
corrupt practices act governing the
election of members had so far been
"a fraud and sham," and declared
that Whaley had been proved, by the
leSllIuOny uelOTe TIE COlllHllllSS, W
have used 100000 to buy votes in the
primaries preceding his election.
Under your present law" he said,
mo matter how corrupt conditions
might be in the southern states,
and they could be no more cor
rupt than they have been in Whaley's s
case, this house could do nothing in
the matter. The committee complains
that no official contest has been insti-
tuted. But no contest could be insti-
tuted in the south, where only one par
ty participates in the election, and the
fight is in the primaries. This COM
mittee would make the corrupt prac-
tices act nullity pretense and a
sham. Fifty-five per cent Of the
vote in Charleston is disfranchised.
Not negro votes. Not a negro votes
in South Carolina. But $4,000 was
used on both sides of the contest to
buy votes, not negro votes. but white
votes" Frear urged that the corrupt
practices act be strengthened and
vigorously enforced. Frear said the
mayor Of Charleston was knocking at
the doors Of the house to purge the
record of that city, which Whaley was
representing in the house. Did not
the mayor Of Charleston himself ad-
nit" demanded Representative Crisp