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RKKVARl), NOKTll CAROLINA, FRIDAY. )IAY ‘U,
NUMBER-21
MR. D. L. ENGLISH
ADDS A POSTSCRIPT
also asks a few PERTl-
NEM 01 ESTIONS
It Appears 'I'liat He Still Has a
Lot of Curiosity in Regard to
the Political Situation.
I'oflii r •Hsiih'diiid
As Mr. \V. K. Bri't'st', Jr., in liis
article v>f iXlay 1has takon it n])oii
hi!iis('lf to answer llu' ]n'0])le’s
cluir^os a.Lrain^t tlu' slu'rilV, uiul has
uiulortakr]! t" tho issm* and
utterly tailfil to answi'r a sinj^le
(‘harj^o as io tli.' acts of tho sheritY,
l)ut on tlic other hand has at-
t('Tii])tcd tt) mislead and di'fc'ivt' the
p('0])le hy devntinL' his answer to
otht'r matters, a ])ortion of
which was a huT’l'Xjue on ?n(‘, J
sliall call lii> attention ti) a fi‘w
facts.
In the tnst jilact' I d>'sire to say
any c*itizen wlio may not believt*
what I stated in niy statement of
facts of May 1 if tlu'y will call at
my olHci‘ 1 will ])i'ov(‘ to them all
that I said hy the written antliori
tii's left witli n,e :ind still in my
]>ossession. aiui if any bn»' thinks it
was campuiLrn fimds. 1 can fnrnisli
tluuiHidavit ef tho.^e who l(‘ft th»'
money to show whose money it
was, and how it came to be left
with mi*.
Mr. Bressc doires to avoid a
news])a])cr eontrovcrsy, and 1 do
not blame him alter what has oc
curred and froDi the looks of
thin<;s, ])resnmahly u])on his ill ad
vice, as he has as>nmed the burden
ef att(‘m])ti7ii; to an>\ver. and his .so
doin<]j shows to all fair minded men
who was b;ick of the sclieme. And
it was such a >illy one. Any four-
yt'ar-old polii’ei.m would have
known better than that, Mr.
Breese, but I ktiew if the people
just let you r;in tlic thin”; awhile
you would ])ut ' \ in a h(»le, and into
a holi‘ you have tli-iitxired it. and in
your article you liave tried to pull
the hol(^ in al>o. I did not say a
sin.i'le word aliout you, but it is
said that the •■hit one hollows,”
and yon mns't )\nvr been hit for
you have hollowed irood and loud,
but you did not answer the charges
ma<ie aj^ainst you l>y a ^ood demo
crat. nor the chanres ai^ainst the
sheritY. Y('s, you would yell out
"fire” and try to maki* the people
b«*lieve that our jail has been ut
terly destroyed and the, lives of a
family seriously endun<;(*red, when
in fact the neirr< <tnly burned a
hole in the jail with a nail or some
instrument of that kind, and never
set lire to tht* jail at all. And you
^vould hollc)w; 'SlieritY, run to
{south Carolina (luickand take your
office de])uty with you; don't take
time to leave utiv one in your
otllce. Your ne^^ro is right ovt'r
there. Don't leave any one to pro
tect the homos and ])oo])le of Tran
sylvania county or your home du
ties, but f^o, sheriff, and go now,
even in the wee earU' hours of the
morning. Have tlial negro at all
hazard.” Now, Mr. Ih’eese, where
is that escap(‘d ne^roV The sherift'
can’t tell—probalily you can—and
all the good citi/ens want to know.
If the sherilY had to go, as yon
say, "wonld it not have been very
easy for him to have loft a deputy
tax collector in hi.s office? Oh ! but
you say he left two dt*])uty sherilTs
who arc tow*n tax collectors. That
may he true, but the gentlemen
yon name w'ore not county tax col
lectors, and that yon know, and if
one deputy could not take county
tax money* two others could not,
that is certain. They were here in
town those two days, various peo
ple were enquiring of them ahont
the sheriff, both democrats and re
publicans, and they never once
breathed, so far as I know, that
they could take the money and
issue the receipts, nor conld they
any more than Mr. J. A. Galloway.
You can’t fool the i)oople \vith any
such a claim as tliat. If th( y ar('
county tax (‘ollectors now they
must hav(‘ bc('n a])])ointi'd after tlu*
sherifY's rcdurn to covi‘r ii]) tin'
oversight.
I ha])]M‘n to know some tliiiiirs
abinit that conti'ntion that i Itavo
iU)t yet made known. It is true,
however, that yon havc^ been fool
ing some of the ])i“o])lo a long timi*
with just such atteni])ts as your
oni‘. but I am of th<^ o]>inion that
tlu‘re are many goi)d democrats in
Transylvania county that you will
not mi.slead lu'ri'afti'r. Tht'v don't
stand for that kind of ])olitics as
you will .see and feid to your sor
row in November.
Now, Mr. Breese, as to my aj)-
l)roaching the sheritY in a blufling
manner, you are seriously misin-
form('d. I a])i)roached him in an
amicable manner, just as I stated
in my other articl(‘, and I believe
yet he world have given th(' re-
C(M])ts had he not b(‘on acting upon
the ill advice of . Now, who
advised him. Mr. Ureose? You
know. Tell the ])oo])l(‘.
As to till' law a])])li('abl(‘ to the
cas(', that ought to be wtdl known.
Hut you must not have known it.
or if you did you were afraid to
risk your judgment, for as soon as
the tender was made to the sherilY
on tho morning of May tlu^ *,?nd,
YOr, yes ytm, vvt're running to
counsel to know wlmt to do. and it
you had taki'U tlu* ct)un.sel given
y(ju by a loanu‘d and honorable at
torney (who is a democrat) all trou
ble would have bec'n av('rt»“d. Now
tell the ])oo])le what that advice
wasy If it was not a trick, and
y(^u did not know of it, why were
you running to counsel so soon ;
why didn’t you let the slu'riff gt*t
counsel I It is W(>11 known that if
tho moni'y had btMMi mailed so as
to have reached tlu; shorifY b('for»‘
May 2nd he would have Ikh'ii com-
])elled to issue tlu* roc»'i]»ts. You
know’ that, of course, and most
likely that is the reason tho sheriff
left; anyway he left and did not
leave his address, and the money
could not find him within the tinu*.
As to what the Hon. R. H. Zach
ary .said y(*ars ago. He said it,
many lu*ard liim say it, and 1, for
om*. bt*lieve he was consciencious
in what he said ; but if I wore you
1 would not (luote him. If Mr.
Loftis’ charges of May lOth an*
tru(‘, and we are comi)ollod t<j as
sume them true as you did not an
swer them, nor have you i)racticed
what he preaclu'd, wlu*n on elec
tion days you have challenged
w'hite men who were regularly reg
istered and because they did not
have their tax receipts with them
were not allowed their franchist'.
No, my friend, your rugged politi
cal honesty may be all right, but
from what I know I must say it
laoks dusky to your “Uncle Fed.’’
Mr. Breese, do you set yourself
u’'j as the democratic organization?
If you do, and that really consti
tutes the organization, I pity it. I
did not approach you about the
paying o« those poll taxes, but
many other good democrats were
approached, and elYort afte^r effort
made to pay the tax, both property
and ]»oll, but they had not been ap
pointed and could not take it, nor
could they tell where tho sheritY
was. So it must be presumed that
Messrs. C. C. Kilpatrick, B. A. Gil
lespie, Cos Paxton, J A. Galloway,
T. T. Loftis, the Whitmire boys
and many others that I conld men
tion are not members of the demo
cratic organization, and the next
time we republicans and democrats
can’t find the tax collector, we w’ill
take up and down the street crying
and calling for organization deaio-
crats.
Yon need not try to make past
events the issue, Mr. Breese, and if
you attempt it further, you will
force me to call the people’s atten
tion to some matters of less than
two years standing, that have not
been kept entirely secret, even
though the attempt to do so was
desperately undertaken. Your
promise that the boys will not be
challenged does not constitute law.
Their names not appearing on the
Continued on page three.
BREESE WINS IN tHE
RACE FOR THE HOUSE
REYNOLDS CARRIES COUN
TY—LOSES DISI'RICT
Impossible to Get Exact Figures
From Many Precinsts for Pub
lication in this Issue.
Tho ])rimarit'S for P.r<*vard town-
sliip was op(*ned at ‘A o'clock by M.
W. Galloway, township chairman.
T. II. (lalloway was elected as tem-
])orary chairman, R. L. (Tash was
ol(*ctod S(‘cretary, and A. M. Vor-
dery and Ora L. Jones were made
assistant secretaries.
Locke Craig was unanimously
endors(‘d for governor bv^ a ri.^ing
vote, as was also Judge Frank (’ar-
tor, who is a Candidat(‘ for judge.
It was decided to take no action on
tho other candidates foi- stat(*
otVices at this mt'etiiiLr, tlu* matter
going over to the county conven
tion next Saturday. No nominat
ing speeches wore made for the
ditYorent candidati's.
A ruling was made to clost' tlu‘
ballot boxt*s at t> o'cIock. ('. K.
Osborne, H. K. Paxton and (tJ. C.
Kil])atrick w<‘ro a])])ointed as judg(*s
to .-^u])ervi.s(* tlu* ballotiuLr.
After tho.si' matt<*rs had bt*(*n ar
ranged the box(*s wor(* o]>on»*d and
voting continued witlu)iit any h:t
u]> until tlu! timt* for closing. Ev-
♦ ■rything wont oiY v(*ry smoothly
for the most ])art, there bt*ing a
few little argunu*nts about tlu*
rights of certain men to vote in tho
])rijnary. About two hundrcHl :ind
fifty vott*s were cast.
After tho votini; tho following
committee was a])])oint('d to select
d(dogat(*s to the cotinty conv(*ntion
whicli moots n(*xt Saturday : W. W.
Zachary, T. \V. Whitmire, \V.
Henry, A. M. Verdery and W. L.
Wiley. Th(*y rocomm(‘ndi'd the
following d(*l('gat('s : W. H. Allison,
J. W. McMinn, T. H. Shi])man, W.
W. Zachary, T. W. Whitmin*, W.
M. Htmry, A. M. Verdery, C. K.
Osij(n-ne and T. T. Loftis
Tho following township (;xoou-
tiv(' committoti was a])])ointod : W.
M. Henry, chairman ; T. W. Whit
mire, J. M. Kil])atrick, C. K. Os-
l>orne and W. H. Allison.
Tlu* votes w(u*e then counted
with the following rt'sults :
For Rejiri'sontatiVf-
Wliitniirc
52
Hicosc
l.S
For Slicriff
Shu ford
6f
I-'<T iit'^istcr of I)cf(!s
Nicholson
M
(lallov.av
12
For Tn-asurcr
Nichols
71
Henderson
6
For County Commissioners —
Lv(hiv
Reid
U2
Hrooks
f)l
Denver
27
(’lallowav
7
Kd Whitmire
7
Henrv
4
McCall
1
IllUSTRtlEO LEGIUilE
ON PUBIIC HEJ.LTH
SECRETARY STA 1 E liOARD
GIVES FACTS
I Common House Fly V\^is Com
pared to Bed Bu<4 Witii Every-
thinj^ in the Bu^’s Favor.
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH
For Confjress— Total Vote
Conven
tion Vote
Reynolds
137
5.29
Gudger
%
3.71
For Representative—
VV. E. Breese, Jr
141
5.42
W. P. Whitmire
92
3.53
T. S. Wood
1
05
For Sheriff—
F. E. Shuford
183
8.23
J. C. King
17
77
For Register of Deeds
—
B. A. Gillespie
122
4.77
Colemen Galloway..
66
2.58
D. D. Bracken
37
1.45
Z. A. Nicholson
5
20
For Treasurer —
Z. \W. Nichols
.182
8.71
B. W. Henderson
. 6
29
For County Commissioners—
G. T. Lyday
.166
7.70
T. B. Reid
145
6.70
L. W. Brooks
136
6.31
R. R. Deaver
56
2.55
G. W. Wilson
. 32
1.49
T. C. McCall
. 20
98
C. K. Osborne
. 8
39
W. B. Henderson....
. 7
35
T. H. Galloway
6
33
W. M. Henry
. 2
10
L. R. Scruggs
. 2
10
For Coroner—
Goode Cheatham....
. 14
4 84
G. T. Lyday
. 8
2.77
W. J. Wallis
. 3
1.00
Walking Bear
. 1
39
For Justice of the Peace—
E. T. Henning
.117
9.00
For Surveyor—
A. L. Hardin
. 13
5.95
Carl Wike
. 8
3.05
The house occu])ied b\ Pol Kil
lian. C()l(jr('(i, n(‘ar tho railroad on
Oaklawn av(Mm(“ was t*ntir('ly de
stroyed by lire (>arly Tuesday nutrn-
ing and his six year old daughti'r
was burn(‘(l to death. It is not
known how the fire started, and it
had too gn'at a start before b(*ing
discov(>rod to save* tlu* child or the
hous(‘.
Tho fir«' company madi' a (|uick
run to tlu* bla/.e, but the distance
1o ])e ti'aveled and tlu* lon;^ striniT
of hose to hv. laid caused (;onsidor-
ablo delay. ('ompany numb(*r otu*
did not luivt* eiuitigh hose t<» r(*ach
tho fire, but this was i-(*modi<*d by
tho arrival of company number
two. After the hose lino was laid
tho flames were extinguished with
out delay.
"^I'lu; little child wa*^ sl(*(*])ini; in
tho lower rooTu of tlu* houst* wlien
the fire broke out, and from tho
position she was found it is Ix*-
li(*vod she had crawled out i)f tx vT
and madi* an (*fYort t(j oseajjo.
When found her limbs W(‘r(^ i*n-
tir(*ly burnt'd away, and tlu* trunk
did not have the appearance of
anything human.
It was a ptitetic scone. Tlu* child
on tlu‘ inside* of tlu* bla/ing build
ing screaming for h(*l]) and tho
mother on tho outside wailing and
moaning, being ])rovi*ntod by strong
hands from dashing into the build
ing to save her child. There w'ore
many men tlu*re willing to render
any aid possible, but all wore help
less.
After tho fire* was extinguished a
collection was taken for the relief
of the family and a tidy litth* sum
w'as given.
PICTURE SHOW OPENS
Catheys Creek.
For Congress—
Gudger 54
Reynolds 43
The Brevard Amusement (’om-
l)any ojjened their moving i)icture
show’ last Friday night by giving a
free show. The pictures were good
and vvere very favorably com
mented on by the crow’d present.
Two reels were shown, “A Board
ing House Mystery” and “The
Hero.” Both were comic. About
450 people took advantage of the.
free show and standing room was
at a bargain.
Saturday night the first paid per
formance was given, “A Midnight
Adventure” and “His Fidelity In
vestigated” being the films show’n.
A good sized crowd attended.
There will be shows Friday and
Satui’day nights ot this week. It
is not known at this time what will
be shown, but the management has
been promised something good.
On May the picture show* will
open, and after that date there will
be a show every night through the
summer months. On the lUst the
management w’ill have a feature
film, probably “Temptations of a
Great City.”
The management washes to as
sure the public that nothing objec
tionable will be shown, and every
picture will be of a high class. The
Auditorium has been fitted up and
makes an ideal place for the pur-'
pose.
The various shows ■will begin
promptly at 8:15 p. m. and continue
as long as the crow-ds justify.
On ThuTsday niuht of Iasi w(*ek
an illustrated lecture on (lis<*as(*s
an<l sanitation was delivered at the
court hous(^ by Dr. W. S. Hanldn,
secr(‘taiy f stat ; board ofl(*illh.
Acct)rdini; to ]>r(!vious annonnc(?-
nu*nt Dr. A. A. Kent, i»residi‘nt of
the N. Medical Soci('ty, was <*x-
]u*cted to take ]uirt in tin* ])j-ogram,
but lu* was not ])rosont.
The locturt'r followed in his ri'-
marks a .■^(‘I’ies of viev. > t iirown on
a scrc'cn. L’-ivimr })ictii7'es, di-iu’-i'am<
and statistics iKri.stratiiiu tlie causes
and cfYects of \ arion.'disea:^. •; and
the results of .--anitary i!u‘asur<*s.
The illustrations made those im])or-
tant facts much cl(*ar('r to the i^on-
oral intellig(*nce than any numb<*r
of bare soioniilic statenu*nts. Tho
whol(* loctui-c*. froTn beLrinTun:.: to
end, was full of us»‘ful information.
Amoi'iir tlu* diseases whicl; make
ravages on humanity hen* and
el.M'wlu-r*', a uood deal v%as said
and shown about malaria, yellow
fever, ty])hoid fi'ver, summer com-
])laint, small ]»ox and tuberculosis.
In the diseus>ion of tlu*st* dis(*as(*s
much stri's.-^ was laid on tlu*ir
causes. The niosfjuifo was mad<^ t*)
boar liis iniciuity for s])]-(*ading ma-
laiia and yellow fe*vei-. 'I’hese,
j)i*i'ha])S, did not a])])oal so much to
mountain ])oople. But when the
^'v was introducf'd—though lu;
needs no intrcjduction—tlu* s])t'cta-
tors had tlu*ir (*y('s irlued to tlu^
screen through a s(*ries of scones
whose fascination consist(‘d in their
disagrocablonoss.
Tho l!y was char<rod. tried and
convict(*<l of s])rt*ading many dis-
oasi's, es])ocially those* which attack
tho intestinal or^rans. Tin* ])ic-
turt*s showed the ])la(’e of his
birth—the horse staT)l»^—and also
his favorite ])laees of rt'sori
wherever filth is found, I'liding
with his invasion of tlu* kitchen
and dining room, w'lu'ro lu* do])OS-
its his accumulation of dis(*ase
seeds on the daintiest articles of
food. Dr. Mankin spiced this })art
of his lecture with a coni]>arison
between the homely and much de
spised bed-bug and the free-roving,
happy-hearted fly. Every house
keeper, he said, would bi* horror-
struck at the sight of the former
on her table cloth, nor would she
rally from tlu; shock in a week ;
but she can view the excursions of
a fly over the food she has ])ro-
])ared and remain undisturbed.
Yet the unmentionable bed-dweller,
spending his life to a great extent
on cold iron, is clean and respecta
ble in comparison with the omniv
orous germ collector. Parallel col
umns t>f figures were thrown on
the screen to show’ the close rela
tion between the presence of flies
and the number of deaths.
The subject of careless spitting
in relation to tuberculosis was also
dwelt upon. Polluted water and
milk were discussed. The impor
tance of vaccination was illus
trated. The dread wdiite plague
was shov.’n to have more victims
than war. In the list of mortality
from various diseases the surpris
ing fact was brought out that scar
let fever, so much dreaded and
quarantined against, is less fatal
than either measles or w’hooping
cough, both of which are treated
with comparative unconcern.
This lecture on the public health
deserved a much larger audience
than it received. It Avas hardly
possible for those who attended
to go away without having their
ideas of the importance of cleanli
ness and sanitation ;n general
’ strongly reinforced.