The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-01-09
panies to Anderson, where there had


not been the slightest disorder around
the mills since the strike had been Oh.
Don you know with the mill officials
having a magistrate that would do
anything in Gods world they wanted
him to do, if there had been any dis
order, they would have had warrants
out for them and had the last one Of
them in Jail. Now, they would try
TO leave the impression on the pub
lie, that these people are lawless, re-
gular cut throats, that the magistrate
and his constables could not even
serve a warrant on them, but they
are trying to create false impression
in order to ease things over for Gov
ernor Manning and make some ex-
cuse for his sending the military
companies here, but no excuse can
be made except that he lost his head
over the telegram l sent him. Now,
Mr.. Editor, the citizens of South Car
olina as a whole praise President
Wilson for keeping the United States
cut of war, yet we have a Governor
in South Carolina who tries to use
the militia, this at the expense Of the
State, to cause blood shed and not
to prevent it and # he keeps on send
ing the militia out merely to satisfy
his own feelings, the first thing he
knows he will cause some uprising
that he cannot stop with all the mill
tia in South Carolina. l wish to be
understood, have no feeling against
the military companies that came to)
Anderson for all the boys treated me
nicely and I treated them in the same
manner. Practically all Of the off,
GERS realized that there was not any
use of the militia coming to Ander-
son and felt that Governor Manning
had made mistake in sending them
here and this is why Governor Man
ming did not keep the companies here
for quite while longer.
Now has Governor Manning chang
ed his mind from the time he wrote
Mr.. ]. P. Gossett, refusing to send the
military companies to Anderson in
the Brogon mill strike or did he prom
ise the mill authorities between the
primaries that he would start up the
mills by the use fthe militia? My
opinion is that when he visited An
aerson between the primaries, he
promised them he would send the
militia to Anderson and by doing so,
he reversed his action from that of
the Brogon mill strike in 1915, when
he denied Mr.. j. P. Gossett the use
Of the militia, telling him then that
he must arbitrate, exhaust every
means of the courts, and that the
right of jury should be inviolate, and
refused to send the military compan-
les to Anderson. Now this was one
year before the election but now that
the election Is over, he feels that he
can treat these people as he sees ft.
The strikers were denied the right Of
jury trial by man by the name Of
W. +. Cox, who built the Equinox mill
and which bore his name as the Cox
mill. He had his troubles with the
operatives and allowed northern cap
italist as selling agents to squabble
up and run the mill in debt, until il
could not run any longer, taking the
citizens money just because he was
drawing good salary. Being COM
PEELED to shut the mill down, it was
then sold and now is owned entirely
by the Wellington-Sears company.
The Governor did not say to Mr.. Cox,
stop Judge Cox, you must give these
people hearing by jury as he told
Mr.. Gossett they were entitled to. He
did not tell Mr.. Lyon you must ar
bitrate your troubles, but sent the mil,
itia to break the strike instead. Hei
has been called Military Dick. Inl
my opinion he has his right title.
Now, Mr.. Editor, in regard to the
Gluck mill wish to y they are as
law abiding people as l know OF
In four years there has been only
three arrests made there and they
have had no deputy for the last six
or eight years and I don't think they
have needed one for there's nothing
tc do there. when the militia was
sent to the Chuck mill did they go
down there and throw those people
out of their houses? No, the same
as at the Equinox; they threw the;
gates open, and started up the ma
chinery and said, all of you throw
down your union and everything will
be alright, the ten per cent will
be coming later. They stayed at the
Gluck about a week and could not
get anything at all to publish in the
newspapers to justify Military Dick
in keeping the militia at the two mills !
in anderson, so he slipped them off
from Anderson and no one much knew
that they were going. Just few
of the corporations and their attor-
neys knew they had left Anderson on
Sunday morning.
Now, Mr.. Editor, the starting of the
machinery at each one of the mills
at the first presence of the militia
shows what Governor Manning sent
them here for. That he sent them