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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF McDOWELL COUNTY.
ESTABLISHED 1896.
MARION, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1912.
VOL. XVI NO. 29
BUND TIGERS IN MARION lltt,e detective work (without their where he cot bis liquor. If ho
being made wise" by some friend says he ordered it he can bo mado
Town Officials Are Criticised for beforehand.) and thev can easilv I to tell whp.rft from and in tchn:fi
Failure to Enforce, the Law be caught as certain as they keep name, and the caso can be held
Against the Sale of Liquor.
BUCKNER CASE SETTLED
Sensational Damage Suits Against
S. Sl W, Railway Compro
mised for S10,000.
The case of Charles Buckncr,
WoodGn Wheeler and ChapDcl
Wyatt, the three boys who. it was
claimed, . were arrested and so
cruelly beaten, at Camp No. 9,
when the S. & W. Hail way was
being built, havo been compromis
ed; and the case of J. A. Gibson
against the same defendants, for
false arrest, upon the claim that
he was enticing lahorersa'vav from
the South & Vrsurn Railroad
works, has also bpcn compromised,
with the attorneys for the plain-
at it. Our chief of police has open and the express agent, with
served in that verv resnonsihlft his records snt for tn va if it'a
That there are now, and have position for manv vears. and wJso. If he "so nrl cn" rf it
long been, three or more places of been retained by every Board of to him, that party can be sent for
business, owned by white men, in Aldermen, of whatever faction, as a witness and put on the stand
iu tuwu wiisr nquur is irwijf for to fifteen years FrQm testify if SQ jf tho trQth
sold, is openly talked day by, day this it would certainly seem that is not tcstiGed to by the defendant
by. scores of people, as all or us he bas dealt with the "blind tmer" the mavor has ureat nownr as to
know. It seems strange that they problem, as well as other problems, punishment, by 6ne, and iraprison
seemtobe, for some time past, to the satisfaction of the people of ment, (and imprisonment has never
exempt irom prosecution. the town thoueh he takes his or- been thought to severe ounish-
is there among us who knows ders of course, directl y from the ment for false swearing.) If
enougn io care wnat, nappeub, umt Mayor and Board of Aldermen, everybody is made to know what
does not feel morally certain, that Stjn 1 say four men out of five ;n lhcy HAVE to do, people soon
at least three, and possibly four, the town are opposed to the sale of take notice.
white men (th.ere being on open Hauor at all. and especially throueh, The people of the whole town
suspicion that one of these men has "blind tiger" service. So what- have been timid about this matter. llffs' the total amount of the com-
a silent partner) have for a long eyer the mysterious influence (and Veteran prohibition leaders have Promise being MO.009.00.
time been, and are now, making whoever the man, or men, under for a time been silent. And citi- Th videnc- in tht; Huckner
money by the sale of liquor in C0Ver) that makes Marion's con- zens and church members have, it cavs which was trWnl nt Ashcvillc
large quantities? A man of such dition as the blind tiecrs uos. seeras to me, tacitly assented to. llLSt Nvemlipr (md is no.r in the
effeminate innocence ought to be sibl6) to the damnation of the bo.vs this bold liquor dealing by failing Supremo Court), among other
leaned eye-glasses that he may see, ftliA town ?c in vinlotn rf tn to riQt thoir lwmlc nr thoir vni things, was to the i-lTect; that a
and an ear trumpet that he may wishes of the large majority of the against it, and are at least PART- prison house, with iron bars over
hear, (and meantime somebody people of the town or l am ffreat LY RESPONSIBLE for it. For lhe windows in which laborers
ought to give him a pair of good ly mistaken in the people of this that reason, as I now look at it, I wer oiUn imprisoned, was kept
soft velvet gloves for fear he may community. Strange it is that the should refuse to prosecute anyone in lhe otilcc building of J- H
hurt (1) somebody.) people of the town, including the df these dealers for auy sale up to IIarris Superintendent of camp 0;
'But we say: "it is none-of my members of the Anti-Saloon leaerue this date, except -in connection that Huckner, N heeler and Wyatt,
business," "I am not an official of (I am told this is so) have made no with a violation hereafter, but I cre arrested by Harris and others
the town," and if we say that much demands upon the present town hereby declare my readiness to aml confined in thi? priaon, be
we'd aswel! keep on, with the officials for the enforcement of the hereafter lend, without cost, to the cau?c ,l as clatinl that they
same consistency, and say, "I don't law against the sale of liquor, let mayor, or the board of aldermen, owed transix)rUtion (they claimed
careyhat parent has to put a it hurt who itfmay; and officials or to a band of six or more 'good hey.did no) whichs they wcrt,
. drjinfcE mep,. who will organic themselves tryidg to leave without paying;
put niy OTfh boy to bed drunk; one take any;Tery ,miln't'4fef6rma- together and declare openly that that they wem driven underdrawn
of ese nights, than to offen of the this business shall stop, and stop Pistols to this prison and loyktd
neighbor by - meddling into his appreciation, and active and hearty now, my best efforts as a lawyer up, and kept there until after dark,
business," for boys in this town co-operation, of at least4 some ap- in the prosecution of any man, anc len ken out, one at a time,
are now debasing themselves with preciable number of their people, friend or foe, to the full limit of from the prison, and a toe-sack
linnnr mnrA than at, ftnxr nrpvinne i On mann aiiU n n.lilKUiAnt tlm Unr fnr one cola rf linnnp I drawn UOWD OVCT tbClT bC&ds to
time during the past ten years, and a high toned christian gentle- hereafter made in this town, or in
What's the trouble? That ques- men, has been timid and conserva- any other part of the county,
tion might be answered by asking, tive and too easy (as all of us have where such an effort may be tin
who is trying to find but what's been.) He owes it to himself, to dertaken.
the trouble that this liquor selling the cause of prohibition and to the I realize that I may be criticised 1DK cursed, kicked and treated with
can be carried on in violation of enforcement of the law, to demand for this action, and I do not forget Krcat cruelty, were horribly beaten
one. First the South and Western
Railway Company plead that tfca "
work was being done by the Caro
lina Company, and Independent,
contractor, and that it waj tot
liable for the acU oj the Ctrolina
Company; then Bcckccr wentwett,
to Colorado, and Wheeler and
Wyatt went to South Ctlina; "
later Buckncr returned homo, list
again went west, and the cawi had
to be continued until he returned "
a second time before it cull bo
tried; meantime it is taid. tho
agents of the defendant did lhir
utmost to compromise the cases
direct with the boyf, without tho
knowledge or consent of thir . at
tnrnrtys; then efforts were mde to
'Vttle' with th attorneyi of these
parties without the kr.owlp!c of
their clieoU, this offer, at Mr.
Morgan states, being refund and
spurned, it binir rerded by the
attorneys fpr plaintifft as a nro
pwition to them to tjctray their
clients. The cava were finally
compromised with counsel for
plaintiffs through Hon. Ixcko
Craig of Ashe? die. and Mr. J.
Socmen t Powell. Gen. Counsel for
the Railway Co.
their waists, carried off into the
woods, laid across a log, and while
one man sat upon their feel, and
another upon their head, after bo-
law with .impunity? What sort of of his Board of x Aldermen if he that there may be room for such on ine nanca docij wun a leatncr
man is it, anyhow, who does not has not done so (and if he has done criticism on account of my having wan trace; that when they were
care whether the law. and one of an thp. nonlft aro P.ntit.ld toknnw "dabbled" with lmuor in tho past released nistols were fired at them.
I 1 V A.I I ! .
fU mnCt imnAnf cfatntoc w iA offlrt;f I mougn i nave maay umes, ana as tney were driven oil in the
have for the Drotection of bovs fnr, t. Sta thi "hlin t W 'f uce. ule,eD??lSenl .?r l"e darknovs and the woods; that Hucli-
" M i r proniDiiion niw in iciowcii couo-1 . lfi , . . . ,
and women and children,, is en- business, and stop it now (anvbodv tv rofncod to take rmnlnvmont ner a 13 3'wsoia. w Kicked
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forced or not? And if a man does knows it CAN be done), and if from any person charged with the ou oi a oank anu so severely rup-
not care enoush to ACT unon his tW should rafnsa tn pn-onPrflta violation of that law, but regard- tu red that as tie scrambled along
concern what is the use to profess with him, ACTIVELY, he should
to care?. should tell the public at once what
The enemies of, the prohibition the trouble is. If we have a pro
law are wont to insist that "the hibition board let us know it, or
law will not prohibit." Of course if we have a "blind tiger" board
the law itself should not be ex- let the people know it, or if we
pected to walk up before-an official have a set of officials who admit
and demand -enforcement against they "can't" do anything with the
its violators, nor can the law "blind tigers" they ought to come
against, murder, or against steal- out and own it, after telling the
ing, do so. Men have to enforce public what efforts they have made,
the law in all respects or it stands Yho knows, and who has tried
as a dead letter, and a reproach to to know how much liquor the
the community. owners of certain places handle?
- Do I mean to criticise our town Tthink it could be found out by
officials? I make bold to answer going at it right.. The records at
that I do (and they are good men the depqt show, and the agents of
and my friends.) But T would the Southerir Railway Co.7 and of
have it understood that Is criticise the Express , Co., are ; subject to
mem no more iaau tuo,uiuz,eus ux suupoena, req.uinu tuopruuuuiuu
the town (all of us.) The chief of of their records in' court, just as
police in any town, I say, if he has other people, are. But v nobody
the active co-operation of hisFBoard seems to have demanded - that any
of Aldermen, can stop the illegal investigation be made (except in a
sale of liquor except now and few cases that a negro, or some
then a "walking blind tiger" in the other obscure person, shall have
person of some no account loafer their faces turned toward the roads
who may sell a pint once in a for selling a. single .pint.) When
whilei.and he can "spot" him and a man or a boy is brought before
start him to the roads within twen- the mayor : for being drunk (and
ty-four hour&!in most cases, if he the sooner. he is brought up and
is any account as an officer, and made to tell itALC, the better for
cares Hci canVsit-eyery';place the inan or the boy) the mayor caiji
v where liqubu is 'sold, and then a require him ' to tell under oath
m a m - - - i k. . ....
ress or any amount oi cruicism, on his way to Marion, he had to
which may now, or hereafter be walk slooped over with his hands
t. n otl tnwm in his pockets to hold up his bowels
this proposition any longer, for, 1
as I see it, to fail to fight the 9ut of lh,J ruptured pirts; that
"blind tigers" is to, at least half- next morning one of these bojs
Bridgewater Hews.
Bridgewater, March IS. Mines
Eldie Young, Iillian and Edith
Ionon of Nebo spcntSatuxJay asd
Sunday here with the former's
grand raents.
I. S. Peek who i home was re
cently burned has bought a fana
aiKi moved his family near Jlax
mbny Grove churclu "
Mrs. A. K. Keal of Marion spent
a few days here with her grand-
father, D. IL Brown who hat bca
seriously ill for the past week, but
is improving.
Miss Gertrude Gibson left San-
day for Rocky Mount where she
will take a business course.
MrsR- A. Abcrnethy. Misses
Pearl Tate and Cecelia Ballow were
shopping in Marion Thursday.
Mrs. W. Lyerly spent Saturday
in Hickory.
We had a heavy rain Thursday
nighL Muddy Creek was up high
cr than it has been for several
years.
M. F.Tate wis in !tfa,rioa oa
business Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Tate havo
returned to their home in Ashe
ville. Joe Simpson of Black MounUta
has accepted a position here as
depot agent, ,
Bi:i i i'c
way
favor them.. - ,
V. T. MoiiOAK.
March 12th, 1912.
went into the office of V. T. Mor
gan and told his story and showed
his terribly bruised body, which
For Sattervihite for Treasurer,
KDrmit Mauion Pkogiicss:
We were pleased to read the
communication by A Citizen in
As to the Next Treasurer.
Editor of The Progress:
t-oo -AArk ix t, t , x, , your issue 6f the Hth, and to know
was seen also by Dr. J. O. ueid . . i tx ...
. t , . , that some good Democrat, mier-
and Mr. James Morris; that
Charles Carson acted as "sheriff"
Will you allow mo space in your at tne camp, and took charge of
pap?r to say something in regard these men from the hands of Har
ris, who turned them over to him
to lock up &c &c the whole be
ing a story too gruesome to relate
in detail.
to the next treasurer of McDowell
county. Indeed wo are blessed
with good Democrats and many
who would like to be in office. But
& l e . t. I.
as uitizen' sam in last week's
paper, "all can not bo officers,
Therefore we should look after tho
man who will win. He is a man
It b said that while the Buckncr
case was being tried in Asheville
who will stick to tho party through tDat maDJ citizens flocked into the
success and defeat. He is a leader court house, and stood aghast as
in Crooked Creek township in any they listened to the horrible story
gooa cause, especially m cnurcn, related by the witnesses who saw
schools and good roads. This is , , , . . , , .
the kind of man the people want ? card what Opened to these
in office. Mr. A. W. Gilliam has bclplcss boys.
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oeen wmuug utueuuy ior mauy Tbcsc suit3 wcrc broutrht bj W-
is not a salfkh man and now I don't T- Morgan who has labored bard
think, we ought to ask him to wait M"" long (tho suits were brought
any longer. in lOOo) to. get some redress.
To show him our appreciation! through the 'courts, for thesa hov
1fn for the outrages they suffered at
party, let us give him tho nomina- , , n. .ue; ' j. tu
tion for treasurer. If nominated tbo;bands of these pcopIe. The
he will bo elected. ' He is a vote cases havo been difficulty to handle,
winner. A FriendI I it is said, for more reasons than
ested in the welfare of his party.
had remembered the good work
and loyal support given the party
by Mr. T. K. :attcrwbite of
DysarUville; and knowing whnt it
takes to constitute a winning can
didate, had brought to notice of
Democratic voters of the county
this man, who possesses these quali
ties. W e believe we voice tho
sentiment of the Democratic voter
of Brackctts township when we
asK mat iir. caiierwniie do given.
the nomintUoa for county, treas
urer. A TaxArrifl
Vein Mountain, March 18.
House Passes Free Sugar Bill,
The Democratic free surar bill
passed the House today l$S to 103.
At the last moment Representative
Martin, of Colorado, blocked aa
attempt to Gt plans for considera
tion of the excise tax bill, which
through taxation of incomes is ex
pected to make op the rcTcnce lost
by the free logsr measure. The
bill went through as originally
framed. "