Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-05-26
TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1914.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS

Carolina National Guard will be 10
Gated at Augusta, beginning July 10.
1t is expected that about 10 600 troops
will be encamped altogether. three reg
iments at a time, and each brigade re-
naming ten days.
H. T. Thompson, white man or
Greenville county. was convicted IN
GreenVille last Saturday, or crlmlnally
assaulting his 17-year- old daughter
rant was sworn out by Miller's own
l,rother at the instigation of the son
and the daughter victim was the prin-
cipal witness.
The jury in the case of George w.
Tidwell. Sr., who was tried last week
for the murder of R. Emmett walker
in Greenville. some months ago. on
Friday afternoon brought in verdict
of manslaughter, after having been OUT
eight hours. Tidwell was sentenced 10
twelve years at hard labor in the state
penitentiary.
Supervisor D. NJ. Miles Of Spartan
burg county has declined to order an
election on the question Of rehaoltat-
ing the dispensary system in Spartan
burg county. The petition included
, 5O6 names but the registration DOCKS
carry $4,000 names. Under the law the
signatures of one-third OF the rree
holders are required for the hololns oi
an election.
B. Roach, of Columbia, who was
charged with carrying concealed Wea
mons and with assault ana pattetS
with intent. to kill in connection VIII
the recent fracas in which DR.. GRIMM
of Columbia. struck DR.. Gritt1th, mas
haen hound over to Richland sessions
court and the case will probably De
called either this week or next weeh'
The libel prosecution brought by MT
w r. Blackman, stenograpner III Iite
office OF the governor against 1asiie'
~ Moore editor of the Columbia Rec
Ia iS also to be called this week or as
soon as II can be reached. Speclai
Jndge w. A. Holman is presiding
Spartanburg Herald, Sunday:
nitched battle between two Woftoru
college students on one side ana hali
dozen Spartanburg youths, members Vi
a ..pane" bearing the suggestive soprl-
Uuet of Midnight Crew, late iaSe
night in front of the Lester theatre, Oh
East Main street, resulted III .ne | Sa
ting of Clarence Stlles son son VI n,,T ~" The
Mrs, w. ]. b. Stiles, OF TINS CITY. ine
knife that did the cutting is alleged 10
have been welded either by Houston
Manning of I.atta, a Junior at WoHoi
coIIsqe and son of Senator Manning
of Dillon county or Rutledge Z. Us
borne Of Anderson, sophomore o ottles
received only two insignificant gashes
in the left side, said Lieutenant fpI
ing of the police force, and ne was re-
leased from a local hospital, 10 whic!
be had been taken, shortly after MS
wounds were dressed. From the YER
sion of the ARRAY given by seVerai oI
tho college boys it seems that tnere
has heen a continual warfare between
Wofford students and members o. I.
Midnight Crew" which culinllla'eu
last night in what might have been
Sarious difficulty. For some time past,
cav the college boys, the members Oh
the gang have concealed themselves IN
tho dark at the Carolina, Clinchhelo
and Ohio freight depot and, when Wot-
ford students came along North Church
street, they were volleyed with ROCKS,
in many cases being hit oelore tney
could escape from their assallants' Us.
borne and Manning claim tnaI ias.
night, members Of the "Mldnlghl rev
while they were on East Main street
applied opprobious epithets on them
and assaulted them with rocks. Ihey
were forced to fight their assallants'
they say, in self-defense. They clalih
that they were attacked by al ieasl SIN
members of the gang" and In tne re-
sultant melee, Stiles was cut. cases Oh
alleged disorderly conduct were DOCKET
ed against Osborne, Manning, stiles
and James Mcowan. another alleged
member of the gang. The 1our
Youths were released on bond to make
their appearance at police court TO-
morrow morning. About two score
Wofford college boys went TO the po-
lice station last night TO ASSIST tnen i
college mates in every way that they
could. ,,o 90
The Charleston Post of May 22,
nrinted the following statement from
Mayor John P. Grace giving his view Oh
the treatment his faction received at
the hands of the recent state conVeh-
ton: II can hardly speak with com
placency about what was undoubtedly
the boldest, barest piece OF pontlcai
inhherv and robbery ever enacted
within my personal knowledge. In tne
first place, even the reports or the
convention are fraudulent. one Woulu
gather an impression that our slde was
fired out Of the convention unanimous
lv. This is false and misleading. NOT
withstanding the committee on creuen-
tials was carefully picked out FOR the
sole purpose or eXcluolhS US tioiit .io
convention, yet when the facts came
ont there was a very manifest waVer-
ing and uncertainty as to what the
committee would do. Many members
Of course. were blindly intolerant OF
even giving US a hearing at all. They
wanted to cut us off with 3O minutes
although the convention had ADJOURNED
for six hours, and they had nothlns
else to do but listen to us. l coulu
easily nick out several members of the
committee who WINGED every time we
made a point, and who chuckled when
Mr. Barnwell became personal anu
abusive of me; but upon the snshteSl
retaliation by me, roared their opposl-
ton to anything that had TO say 1el
with all this, when the hearing was
over one of the members of the COM
mittee got up and proposed that, as we
had made such a good showing, Dotn
our delegates and Mr.. Barnwells should
ne admitted to the convention. Sever
al members of the committee, DOtn
from their looks and mods OF appro-
val to this motion, were ready 10 vote
for il. Before it could be debated, now
ever one of the ultra anti-Grace MEM
bers of the committee got up ana de-
iyered himself of bitter attack on
Charleston, and in this attitude he was
ably seconded by one or two others, 10
such an extent that our friends in the
committee were Squelched. Then an
other member of the committee 80
up and said, in substance. that he had
listened attentively to the whole case
and he was convinced for instance, as
TO Ward l. Club. l. that our side was
entirely right and the Barnwell SIDE
wrong and irregular. | am sure lrreg-
ular' was the word that he used. He
talked on then in such n strain that
ANYBODY would have sworn that he was
going to decide with us. and ask that
our delegation be seated. He then took
up some of the other clubs, such as
club .. Ward 8, and said that the whole
situation in respect to the contested
clubs was jumbled, and that as OUTSIDE
of the protested clubs the Barnwell
side would have had majority on the
temporary roll, Notwithstanding that
he practically admitted that the CLUBS
which they had fictitiously protected
would have been seated, he suddenly
and abruptly moved that the Barnweli
delegation be seated in The convention
This was, of course, the only point
that the committee was anxious to con-
slider. They didn't care about the hows
or WHY'S or the wherefores, or the rea
soning or lack of reasoning. All they
cared for, it seemed, was to steamroller
the thing through: and in few sec
onds the question was put and carried
OF course it was carried unanimously