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The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-10

Club roll books opened yesterday;
don't waste any time getting your
name there.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-10

Will the city administration to be
elected favor commission form of
government:
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-10

This Is the last day to get yoal
name on the club roll for the munic'.
pal election.
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A large circulation than any other
sswspsDer In this Congressional Dis
eF5e4 g
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-10

k4Outu0
IN ADVANCE
Member of the Associated Press and
Receiving Complete Daily Telegrsphic
HeTvice
A large circulation than any other
yswspaper In this Congressional Dis
eT1ea
EELEPHONEss
Editorial Bz7
Business Office s21
Job Printing -608-L
Local News g27
Society News 821-
The Intelligencer iD delivered by
carriers In the city II you fail to
get your paper regularly please notify
us. Opposite your name on label
OF your paper is printed date 70 which
your paper is paid All checks and
drafts should be drawn TO The Ander-
on Intelligencer.
The Wenther.
Washington. June 9.-Forecast:
South .Carolina-Fair north, local
thundersliowers south portion Wed
nesdny; Thursday fair.
Well, Just anything to lay the dust
is called n rain these days.
- o.
Tn, tho yr,nr,,nr,, 80 tl,o <t.lo..
liant there was rain that wet the
ground.
Club roll books opened yesterday;
don't waste any time getting your
name there.
Will the city administration to be
elected favor commission form of
government?
name on the club roll for the munici.
pal election.
Spartanburg is all wrought up over
the prospect OF enforcing the blue
laws" Take a dose 1t doesn't .hurt.
All persons who knocked" tn,
ground hog last Fehruury are now nr.
the mourners' bench.
-.-O@
Georgia is having gubernntorial
campaign again. II Is conducted from
the hotels. In Atlanta.
The city Of Dayton. last year wash
ed away in flood. proposes to come
back much strong and has elected
city manager.
If Anderson police are to he pfoI
tected by coats of mail. buy them steel
armor. But these heavy suits for sum
mer are inhumane
With Porfirio Diaz and Col ROosc-
welt, both on the soil OF France. tn.
land of the flcur de lis should change
Its emblem to the tiger lily.
The campaign for governor prom
ises to he the big ring in the circus.
and the senatorial campaign may take
second place In interest.
That Atlanta sheriff Is the wise
man. He broke up n hunger strike
with a dish of Strawberries. The Lon
don league will draft him presently.
The Anderson Daily Mail seems to
hs coming to our way OF thinking that
paving and the dust tax should he the
issues In municipal campaign in
Anderson.
A man who was locked up In the
jury rom for two hours died from
nicotine poisoning. and he had never
used tobacco in his life. This upholds
Senator Tillman In his pleu for no
smoking.
Louisiana doesn't care for the no.
MES. That has always been cons!d-
cred the most liberal" state In tho
country on moral issues. but It re-
fuses to have the crooked horse races
that Charleston enjoys.
We feel that Anderson made a mis-.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-10

Spartanburg is all wrought up over
the prospect OF enforcing the "blut
laws" Take dose. 1t doesn't hurt
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-10
A SPLENDID DAY,
CLEMSON COLLEGE

Continued From Page One)
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-10

All persons who knocked" tn
ground hog last February are now ni
the mourners' bench.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-10

We feel that Anderson made a mis-.
take not to adopt commission form
OF government and we trust that the
incoming council will have the legis-
1ature to pass laws preparing the way
for first class form of 1t for An
derson. the best city In the country.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-10

Georgia is having n gubernntorial
campaign again. IL Is conducted from
the hotels. In Atlanta.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-10

The city Of Dayton. last year wash
ed away in flood. proposes to comc
back much strong and has elected
a city manager.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-10

Louisiana doesn't care for the po.
nies. That has always been consid-
cred the most liberal" state in the
country on moral issues. but 1t re-
fuses to have the crooked horse races
that Charleston enjoys.
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Welsh Tract Baptist Church, near Newark, Del

torn from me l care not how soon fol-
low. ! leave in a short time for West
Point. State of New York. where 1t will
always give me pleasure to hear from
you.
Kiss the children for Uncle Jeff. Pre-
sent me affectionately to my brother
Isaac; tell him I would be happy to hear
from him. and to yourself the sincere re-
CARDS of your brother, JEFFERSON"
From Pennsylvania University Ken
lucky, In 1924 Davis went as a cadet to
West Point, where he proved far from
a first rate student, but developed great
popularity in a class that included some
of the most eminent officers OF the civil
war and soldierly qualities. that won
him the respect OF his superiors He
was commissioned as a second lleuten-
ant in 1928 and proved a first rate SOL
dlcr In the Black Hawk war, In which
Abraham Lincoln was volunteer
officer. Davis was immensely liked by
the soldiers whom he comma nded at
lonely frontier posts In Wisconsin, I'LL
nois and Arkansas, and he showed such
tact In dealing with the Indians that
one tribe made him titular chief,
Lieut.. Jefferson Davis Of the Black
Hawk war and the years Immediately
before and after that little skirmish
was an attractive person. lie was n
blue eyed young man. more than feet
tall. slender but active, with a finely
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in the administration OF Martin Van
Buren,, among the former Franklin
Pierce, who became his lifelong friend.
Davis returned In 1887 to his planta-
ton and lived the life Of planter and
rccluse student, taking small part In
the social life OF the region and almost
burylng himself In his brothers library,
where he found the English and Ameri-
can reviews. the best newspapers Of the
day, much Of the best English litera-
ture and a great deal OF American po-
lltical history and political philosophy.
His least favorable Southern blographer
says that his eight years ~ contact with
books rather than with men really un-
fitted him for a constructive political
career, tended to nurture his pride and
vanity and accounted for many OF his
mistakes In the administration OF the
Southern Confederacy and for his fail
ure to retain the cordial cooperation Of
his political equals.
For n dozen years, between 1924 and
1886, Jefferson Davis had seen little OF
slavery in the concrete. Now as n next
door ncighbor of his brother Robert he
saw slavery under its most favorable
conditions. Robert Davis. who was salt
at the opening OF the civil war to he
worth "A million dollars, had a model
plantation, with plain, ample house,
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to prevent his being a popular stump
speaker.
Pride. a high estimate OF self. was
strongly characteristic Of him then as
always. and he was reserved and sensi-
tive. Curiously enough. however, he
escaped quarrels. In lS+s he actually
came to blows at his rooms with a fell
low Senator, but the principals and all
others acquainted with the facts agreed
to keep the matter quiet, and II did not
become public until nearly a quarter Of
a century later. 1t seems to he the only
incident Of the kind credibly recorded
In his life.
About dozen years before, when
he had not yet entered politics, there
occurred at Washington The only in
stance Of alcoholic excess recorded
against him. He returned to his lodg-
ings after dinner at the house Of n
public man, and fell, knocking his head
against piece Of furniture so that he
was seriously hurt. A rather grave i'll
ness followed. He relates the story
himself.
His attitude toward women was chiv-
alrous and all his life he had devoted
friends and admirers among them. and
that without breath OF scandal attend
ing such relations. Both his marriage
were unions ~ sentiment, and he might
perhaps have escaped capture at The
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still wander over the arid wIlds of Ari-
IONA. Had there really been Great
American Desert the experiment might
have proved fruitful.
From the first Of his career Davis
gives the impression If having de-
seconded upon politics. Perhaps this is
one reason why he was more popular
with the mass of his constituents than
with the public men about him. When
he was first in Congress h" scornfully
rejected the offer If "A log rolling bar
gain in the matter of river and har-
Dor bill.
one gathers from the description of
Carl SchurZ that Davis had the charm
so common among the men of the far
South, with "A touch Of aloofness that
New England could understand better
than his fellow Democratic leaders Of
Mississippi. When he passed eight or
ten weeks Of the summer and early au-
tumn 81 1858 on the Maine coast he
charmed those whom he met and
pleased his audiences although he stood
to his guns and solemnly warned New
England that there was grave danger of
d!sunion. lie spoke IN Fan-uil Hall in
October Of that year and was reCclv Il
with great cordially not only by his
audience but in the homes IL promi-
nent Bostonians.
As matter Of fact Davis risked bis
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Heirs Ask War Department to Give Up
Woman's Waterproof and Shawl
Worn by President of the Confed-
eracy When Captured-History of
His Life and Family

the sons OF the family, young jefferson
excepted. worked in the fields side by
side with their fathers slaves. The
eldest son, Joseph, studied law in Ken.
lucky, and eventually became man
Of rather wide culture and a wealthy
planter in Mississippi.
From the first care was taken to give
young Jefferson a chance for the best
education that the Southwest could
AFFORD. His father, in a letter written
from Philadelphia. well expressed but
rather badly spelled and capitalized and
hardly punctuated at all, congratulates
Jefferson in 1923 upon being at college
and says. knowledge Is power, the
want OF which has brought mischief and
misery on your father in his old age"
Next year the father died, and here Is
the letter. sounding curiously priggish
from a youth Of 16, which Davis wrote
to his sister-in-law in answer to hers
sending him the news of his loss.
DEAR SISTER: 1t is gratifying to hear
from "A friend. especially one whom I have
not heard from so long as yourself: but
the Intelligence contained in yours il more
than sufficient to mar the satisfaction of
hearing from any one. You must imagine,
l cannot describe. the shock my feelings
sustained at the sad intelligence.
In my father ] lost a parent eeer dear
to my heart, but rendered more no (if
possible) by the distress that attended his
declining years. When saw him last he
told me that we would probably never
more see each other again. Yet l still
hoped to meet him once more. Heaven
has refused my wish.
This Is the second time I have been
doomed to receive the heartrending intel
ligence of the death OF n friend. II all
the dear friends of my childhood are to be
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close OF the civil war had he not turned
aside to overtake his wife, whom he
thought in danger
Daviss devotion to study had not
spoiled him for active military ser> ice
in the Mexican war, nor did ii avail 10
cripple him as an administrator in he
Cabinet OF Pierce. He was one Of the
ablest War Ministers the country ever
had. He vastly improved the army.
looked keenly to every important mat
ter connected with his Department pro-
NOTED important scientific investigations
and showed himself faithful and tire
less. while declining to grant special
favors to the South in the matter Of
fortifications. by this time he was SO
ardent an eXpansionist that he advo-
Gated the promotion Of n Southern Taci-
hc railroad for the special purpose Of
developing the West and binding Cali
fornia closer and more firmly to the
Union. One Of the most curious monu-
ments 1T DaVis's work as Secretary OF
War Is public document emhodying
the report upon camel raising and the
uses Of the camel in war and peace. This
report was made by an officer whom
Davis sent to the Orient for the pur-
pose. and before the close Of Pierce's
term Davis had imported number ~
camels into Texas for use in the Great
american Desert. Their descendants
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formed, well matched Uranium, wide set
frank blue eyes, an aristocratic nose. a
high. full brow, a good though not
heavy chin. firm and almost ascetic
lips and an expression Of great intelli-
gence. He was graceful In carriage and
winning, though dignified in manner.
One man, however, he could not win
and that was the very man whose
daughter he wished to marry. Col. Zach
airy Taylor. When old Rough and Ready
saw that his daughter was falling In
love with Lieut.. Davis he forbade the
young subaltern his quarters, and even
tually Davis, perhaps at the wish of the
Colonel, was transferred to O distant
post In Arkansas. Miss Taylor. the
Coloners daughter, went to stay with
sister in Kentucky and Davis and the
girl eloped and were married the Lieu
tenant about that time suddenly resign
ing from the service.
Davis and his young wife having
bought ten slaves, settled on a planta-
ton OF 1000 acres next his brother
Joseph's huge plantation of Hurricane
on the Mississippi at Davis Bend. all
the land Of which bend the brothers
came to own. Jefferson Davis's planta-
ton, most OF II rather rough and I'M
conquered ground was given to him by
his brother in lieu of the younger mans
share Of his fathers moderate fortune.
The young wife died In a short time
without ever again seeing her father,
and Jefferson Davis, broken in health
and depressed in spirit, went to Cuba in
search of warm winter climate. A few
months later he returned to America and
at washington made the acquaintance OF
many men prominent in Congress and
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Jefferson Davis.

popularity in the South by taking a
relatively conservative attitude at
times. ii" was uncompromsng IN his
doctrine, hut he never professed q
hatred Of the Union until after the
break came. and even then he was more
! temperate In utterauCe than men Of
coarser mould. He was bitterly criticised
in Mississippi! for his conciliatory atti-
tude in New EnG,and during he sum
mer and autumn If 1888. When he
took his final farewell. # the Senate and
the Union in January. 1851. many OF
. his hearers wor. in tears and few
doubted the sincerity II his sorrow at
the parting.
Had jefferson Davis died after that
farewell address and before his election
| as the head # the southern Confed-
| eracy some other man would have been
the scapeguat If half a nations Rrie-
vous error AMI he would have been re-
| memhered as the able, sincere and cour-
teous advocate Of STATE rights. slavery
and national expansion. With his new
| role, however, as the head and front OF
what he denied was rebellion, came a
| four years flood Of v!tuperatlon, fol-
lowed by a quarter of century Of UNI
| compromising condemnation, little
| softcned AT his death. but still to-day
| the active sense Of his fellow country
| men in the North and West.
The years when Davis was most bit
| terly assailed were, 1t should be remem-
hered, precisely those In which the only
| President of the United States ever rec
oenized as supreme master of English
prose was brutality caricatured as a
crude and ignorant hackwoodsman.
Davis was now accused If tmbezzling
| regimental funds in the Mexican war.
In the new post, as head Of military
Confederation. where civil matters
could claim little attention, the prig-
gish youth Of 1874, the eager student Of
| fifteen years later, the brilliant doctrin-
aire senator and capah." Secretary of
War began To- develop the defects of
| his qualities. The South. in the finely
tempered steel that It had chosen for
| aggression and defence. had graspcd
| far too slender weapon. and one even
whose temper suffered in the trial
| Of the two men in the two white
| Houses the great one was not the
| courtly and scholarly aristocrat of the
| first generation at Richmond, but the
ungainly giant at WASHINGTON, the man
Of the humorous tongue ana Of the
| melancholy eyes dark with the pro-
phetic shadow Of assassination. Davis,
with all his courage, courtesy, will and
| address, lacked the humor, patience and
humanity Of the greater man,
Jealousy or ov,rwocning sclf-conf-
drnce made it difficult for DAVIS To keep
| able men AT his side, and led him into
| meddling with his commanders in the
| field. With rcv"rsrs came criticism
| and increasing unp"pularity Davis
was charged with desiring to establish
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many thoroughbreds in his stables and
comforts and conveniences such as only
the most successful planters could afford.
He was accounted a philosopher, and
he combined the apparently incompati-
lie characters Of a phllanthropist, pro-
viding education for many needy
youth, and a connolsseur in affairs OF
honor. His many slaves were well
housed, fed and clothed and discipline
was administered at a plantation court
ever which presided a slave judge who
had been educated in a Northern coll
lege to fit him for his judicial duties.
The oversecr was a highly Intelligent
slave who came each morning to con-
suit with his master.
II Mr.. Davis offered the ovcrseer a
cigar !,e understood that he was in
vited to sit down, and If during the
conference the master ordered "A mint
julep the overseer had one also. In
the end after the civil war the ovcrseer
came to own large part of the plan
tation, had excellent credit at the banks,
educated his sons and was accounted
worth n quarter Of a million dollars.
jefferson Davis, as one Of the fore
most champions OF slavery. must al
WAYS nave ndu MS OWL anu MS hTOtn-
er's plantations in mind when defending
the institution. In speech in Con-
gress n dozen years or more after he
began his life of study in Davis Bend
he declared that the evils of slavery
were attendant upon ii for the most
part only where the slaves were So nu-
merous that they could not be person
ally known to the master. SO that the
institution became commercial rather
than domestic. In domestic slavery he
saw perhaps the most humane relation
of capital and labor.
when jefferson Davis came out OF his
brothers library in 1SI3 he was essen
TALLY Puritan Of the South. The
young planter who threw himself at Sc
into the campaign Of 1874 was IA dis
tinguished and almost austerc figure.
a portrait of him made about four
years earlier shows n youthful and al
most beautiful smooth shaver face. with
clear. strong gaze. and an expression
Of gentle gravity. Whatever Of the
prig was in the man 1t did not avail
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request for Return of jefferson Davis's
Garments From Government Recalls
Many Disputed Points of His Career

IrlRS VI Jefferson Davis have.
Fl asked that the garments he
wore when captured be given
up to them by the War Depart
II, a' n rharge Of which they have been
ir tust half a century. The objects
enumerated are woman's waterproof
and q shawl. No mention liz made Of
the h."pskirt and the woman's bonnet,
n winch Northern caricaturists were
fond Of representing him as having
mas,ucradcd in the dusk of the May
morning. 1855, when he was overtaken
in rs flight by a squad OF Federal cav
airy not far from Lewisville. Georgia.
rs q matter Of fact there Is some room
for doubt whether he actually assumed
the shawl and the waterproof with de-
hh,rd;" intent to disguise himself, ana
accounts of those present ON the one
SIDE and the other materially differ as
p, ;l. nature and extent OF whatever
Disguise he may have assumed. Davis
Ims''f declared in a publication issued
the year after his death that in the
haste Il dressing when the approach of
the Federal soldiery was announced he
cau-At up by mistake for his raglan
his Wt,s waterproof. and that she has
u,y ,dst over him the shawl as he left
Their tent.
Two "r three years ago one of Daviss
captorS declared that the fugitive Pres
dent II the Confederacy was seen not
far from the tent and mistaken for an
old woman till a bit of upderbrush
caught up the edge Of the long water
proof and displayed his cavalry boots
Davis says that he threw of shawl and
Waterproof ut the approach of a Federal
trooper with intent tn unhorsc the man,
mount and ride off, when Mrs. Davis,
h"li,ving the attempt foolhardy. pin
toned his arms and made his immediate
capture certain.
The controversy over the circum-
stances of jefferson Davis's capture Is
FAR from being the only disputed point
.n a career upon which an intense light
4 publicity beat for much OF his life
ana has beaten at times for the quarter
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How Northern caricaturists were
fond OF picturing the escape
Of Jefferson Davis.

Il CENTURY since his death. His an
',s'iy h.S first marriage. his early ca
i''g CTS q soldier have all been SUBJ
'.,s Il dispute.
Jefferson Davis used to be held up a.
'i' ~ the Southern aristoCrat In
politics. As matter OF fact he GER
fanny rimc Of simple yeoman stock,
'Ad .> vas the first generation Of the
lAm"t This country to have education
HAd $50 18th. while he as the youngest
IN 81 very large household seems
=" lI'. 'ren the only child Of his par
H'S III ' spared "A physically laborious
'uI,h
NI'..I a very few years there has
zen ."Hud pretty strong evidence that
'S hiS american ancestor. man OF
'""m"l estate, who could neither read
h'r "..'n, came to America as a cOlonlst
g." ''' Welsh Baptist settlement estab-
She, y grant of William Penn in
I'"l 'cucader Hundred, New Castle
.'H" delaware, a few miles south Of
no dairy afterward established as
''"' Hd DlXon's line. The region is
".' 'Nn as the Welsh tract and still
."'"i .Hj ny descendants of the original
'i'. "h" still worship at quaint
WE :. meeting house built in 17i7.
y Davis family had 400 acres in the
Wei act as early as l7l7 but the
'n'i # the family from whom JEFF
''N. '..NIs il supposed to he descended
was ,.,sessed of his property. which
ms brother David. and Evan
'd' g Of the dispOssessed brother,
IA to have joined an orshoot
l"laware Welsh tract colony
ed on the Peedee River In
'' ao"lna. There Evan married
" Williams, whose maiden
'",. ! been Emory.
J. - a very successful man, re-
Georgia and left one son.
~" revolutionary soldier, whose
t. Jefferson Davis, was born
now Todd county, Kentucky
''N oS \ cousin Of Evan Davis
'""' Samuel Davis, who spelled
me Davies, an eminent Con-
minister and once president
u College.
avis, the father Of jefferson,
we'll educated nor materially
II" moved back and forth
- areas Of the wild South
'llv settled upon moderate
'f'.on in Mississippi. where
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