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MAYOR GRACE IV WARM RE: Gives Out Statement An tack.?Tells Why H Epithets When M "Of course it was anticipated by j w al **" ^ " "" t51 mama Ka aatr?_ t Tli me inai ltu>. oicasc wuuiu wm-i pelled at the Charleston meeting to i M t take notice of and, if he could, j S answer the charges which I have so i s< publicly made against him," said al Mayor Grace, in a statement replying ] si to the attack made upon him by the j governor in his speech at the State I campaign meeting held Friday even- i tl ing at the Hibernian hall. It will be 1 a remembered that Gov. Blease, when h he had finished his attack on Judge w Ira B. Jones, spoke of the breach be- j o: tween Mayor Grace and himself, i el which grew out of his appointment b; over Mr. Grace's protest, of whiskey j fi constables in Charleston. This led tl up to charges by the mayor that rr graft could be traced practically up i c< to the governor, which accusation di was followed by the dispensary in- sc vestigating committee of the legisla-: w ture coming to Charleston and hold-, ai .. ing an investigation. i tl The governor denounced any man | si accusing him of having received graft! p] through ,the whiskey constables as a malicious character-thief and coward- n< ly liar. He read a letter from May- Si or Grace asking him not to dismiss a f? local notary who was a negro. The ai feature of his address which made B the deepest impression, was that if e} Charleston voted for Jones, he would gi do all in his power to place the met- j hi ropolitan police here and governj Cc Charleston by injunction. He refer- j p] red lightly to the results of the re- ai * cent investigation held by the legisla- j b: tive investigating committee, and j oi said that if any one would say to! ec * Chief Constable Stothart's face that j he had received graft, furnishing the; proof, he would discharge him. j tt Mayor Grace was in the audience at i w the Hibernain hall when Gov. Blease | iS attacked him so severely, but he held : ai nis peace ana maae no repij. i^asu i tc night he gave out the following state-j p, ment: st The Mayor's Statement. O "Of course it wts anticipated by i tt me that Gov. Blease would be com-! e( pelled at the Charleston meeting to j ta take notice of, and, if he could, | hi answer the charges which I have so j Sc publicly made against him. There e] was no escape from this necessity, j t 1 The only matter over which I had n any doubts was whether or not 11 Vj should attend the meeting, and with; S( my own ears hear what he had to u say. My friends practically unani- 0] mously advised me against it. As it | [Z happened, I was on the Isle of Palm^ 0( at the State Bankers' Convention i r( and had I cared to lend plausibility' to my absence I could readily have tc evaded it. But I determined, that n come what might, it was my duty to : p( go to the meeting. As a Democrat, f a; I have never missed any of these w meetings, and the only thing that j q could nave Kept me away wuuiu nave ; u been, whatever others might have j thought of it, cowardice on my part, i ' "Having made up my mind, there-; jc fore, to go, the next thing which u bothered me was what attitude I should assume toward Gov. Blease,' fj howsoever personal and bitter he ] might become. As I had deliberately 1 ir gone to the meeting I was equally as I p deliberate about what my course a should be. I remembered that I j 0 was mayor of Charleston; that the p \ hall was packed with men who, at j a the slightest threat of personal in- j _ jury, would spring to my side i through a devotion that is unexcelled j anywThere. The police force, while j composed largely of men loyal to me, i B I would have required myself to do its duty, and under the orders of the chairman I, and even my most de* voted friends, might have been sum- 11 marily rembved from the hall, to B which extremity I would have bowed ^ in obedience to law. With these 81 r\ mere outlines of a riotous situation flooding my mind there was but one * view for me to take?to swallow anything. I did it with complacency, h and I think the public, from what I hear, approves of my course. The Beer Incident. a -\ r ,J ; J S' .viui BUYCi, vvxiai uiu it mattci what Blease said? Did he not in the n very speech in which he so violently 0 by indirection, denounced me, also ^ give utterance to the rankest indecen- i ^ 1 D cies and anarchy? Think of a gov-p ernor replying as to how he stood on j the beer question by shouting that if ; a his questioner (in violation of the, ^ law) would bring him up to the stage j v a drink of beer he would be better : able to answer the question. Of jn course, it was grilling to me to have!c to sit and listen to Blease's lies. The j 0 idea of his making it appear that the beginning of our troubles was when he refused to appoint a negro notary public, whose appointment, * by the way, I had asked only as a v favor to gentlemen in Charleston 5 IAKES PLY TO BLEASJ swering Governor's Al e Did Not Resent lade by Blease. ho were not then, nor have ev< een, my political friends. Ai [essrs. Nathans and Sinkler also ni ro lovers? And do they believe i )cial equality? Certainly not. It [most sickening to have to answ< uch tommy-rot. The Dispensary Constables. i?mi ^? xueic was uut uuc cause, au iat was (as I said in a publishe rticle recently,) Blease had broke is public promise and his privai ord. I expected him to be governc f South Carolina, and when he w? [ected I was happy. Any intimatic v* him that I wished to usurp thos mctions is more than absurd. 1 ie presence of many others he aske ie if I would name a man for chi< unstable, and in their presence enounced the whole propositioi lid that I would hold him to h ord not to appoint any, as I kne ad had told him in writing, thJ ley would be grafters. They ha\ nee demonstrated it. What moi roof does he need? "Talk about facing Stothart! Wi ess after witness under oath face tothart, and then finally Stothai iced himself, and looking himse id his own guilt, (and I believ lease's mountainous guilt) in tfc re, he refused to answer on th rounds that it might incriminat imself. Why didn't Blease read th instable letter?the letter of a pr< tietic warning which I wrote hin id in which I told him that he ha roken his word, rather than switc i on the irrelative tangent of alle* 1 social equality? Blease's Threat. "Of course, his nasty threat aboi ie metropolitan police is in keepin ith the rest of his character, but in no way disquieting. If it mear lything it means simply this: U ? August 27th, no matter what th eople of Charleston do, the coi ables will stay here as graft agent n August 28th, if by their vote: ie people of Charleston have resen i his dirty adminstration, he wi ike it as a sufficient crisis in th istory of the State to justify his r< >rt to whatever extraordinary pov * he can stretch the laws to meai he metropolitan police bill has bee jpealed, but he refers to som igue, obsolete power whereunder )rt of martial law might be foiste pon us?a power of course, und? ur institutions necessarily lodgin i our executive, if upon any rai ->rasinn a citv held itself in ope ibellion against State authority. "That such conditions in Charlei )n could suddenly spring up ove ight upon his defeat could only a] eal to his diseased and lawless mini nd were he even so disposed, 1 ould find that the courts of Sout arolina, for which he professes sue tter contempt, would stay his vengi ll hand. "We knowr that Charleston also tc mg has bent under the fear < surpation, but I believe that there :il pride and resentment left, an -om now until election day I expe< ) call upon her people by their unai nous vote to spurn the bribe < eace at the price of independenc nd I ask them now in the languaj f Patrick Henry, 'Is life so dear, ( eace so sweet, as to be purchase t the price of chains and slavery?' -Charleston News and Courier. IOWA BANK ROBBER KILLED toilet from Posse Pierces Bandit Heart?Money Recovered. Rome. Iowa, July 5.?After shoo lg Cashier F. W. Hileman, of tl Lome Savings Bank, in both arm his afternoon, and escaping wil Bveral hundred dollars in cas iharles Clark, of Mount Pleasan owa, was shot and killed to-nigl i a running fight with a posse, whit ad pursued him for several hou i automobiles. The stolen mom ras recovered. Clark fired repeatedly at the po e. J. O. Laughlin, a prominei lerchant of Rome, one of the leade f the posse, was shot in the bac ut his injuries are not serious, ullet fired by some member of tl osse had pierced Clark's heart. The injuries of Cashier Hilems re not serious. Clark entered tl ank as the cashier was finishing tl rork of the day, and when Hilemj efused to turn over the money lyir ear the window in the cashier age, Clark shot him, grabbed a pi f bills and silver and escaped. Rub-My Tism will cure you. $25.00 up, suits to order of fii roolens, fit perfect; also ready-ma< lothes, all wool, from $10.00 u] rash suits $4.00 up. Write F. < 4ERTINS, Augusta, Ga. NEAR-DROWNING NEAR COPE. r* Brother Saves Young Charles Henerey from Watery Grave. Cope, July 4.?Yesterday being a national holiday, all the stores closed t- their doors, and gave the clerks a day off. A great many from town attended a picnic at New Bridge, and report having had a most pleasant time. What came near marring the pleasure of this occasion was the narrow 2r escape of Charles Henerey from re drowning. While he and several othe ers were in the river swimming, he In was seen to sink; the first to go to is his assistance was John Tatum.but he ?r carried him down; next, young Mr. Powell, of Bamberg, swam to him and was also carried under; then l(j Mr. Harry McKenna, and he likeJ(j wise was taken under. By this time (n his brother, Parker, (who was pre?0 paring to dress,) learned of the )r trouble, and got just below where ls Charles was, and, holding to a limb in with one hand, reached out with the ,e other and caught him as he came hy, n and pulled him to safety. Parker l(j lent a hand to some of the others, who were pretty tired by this time, j and pulled them out also, although a they were not in any real danger. is "Silent Cities of the Dead." w it Eight years ago to-day our darling re Fannie died, and for' eight years to'e day we have visited her grave, on this the greatest day to the nation, t- but one of the saddest of not the sadid dest to the writer. The little one, too ft true, was blind and never saw its If father's face. We took her to the e> best oculists in the State, and we te had hopes of removing the cause of te her blindness, but death came. She :e was only a mite, yet I loved her to madness, because she loved me so. > On our annual trips we go alone to commune with our dear ones dead, d Some people have a perfect horror h of the graveyard, but let us see, in ?- part, what these sacred spots have done for man. It gave to architecture the Corinthian order, a masterit piece of art. Callimacus of Corinth 5 was passing by a grave, where an it acanthus root had been placed upon is it, on the root was placed a basket P of toys, over this basket a tile. tVhen ie the root sprouted the leaves met an obstruction, and bended out. The s. artist saw at once a model and the s, Corinthian order is the most perfect t- even now. 11 Grey's elegy was written in a 6 graveyard, and no poem in any tens' guage will ever meet its diction or its sentiment, i- Longfellow has a poem or at least n in a poem, refers to the graveyard ie as "God's acre." a Byron who said more pretty, and !d as many ugly things as any writer *r calls the graveyards S "The Silent Cities of the Dead." *e Shakespeare in his wonderful trag;n edy, "Romeo and Juliet" reaches the climax in a graveyard. There is 3- shown what science can do. There is 'r shown what hatred can do?what ?- love can do. There ends some charming lives, too beautiful for ie death to claim. There ends a feud k as bitter as feuds have ever been, h and in that graveyard was raised in pure gold, by former deadly enemies, the images of two lovers dead, Ro10 meo and Juliet. I often think that no picture ever had in it as much is beauty, yet as much horror, as this one drawn by the master-mind, Shakespeare. a~ Adams and Jefferson died the ^ same day, July 4, 1826. Daniel Webs' ster delivered the funeral oration, >e and this piece of word painting will )r never die. The finest oration that ever fell from human lips was that delivered by Bob Ingersoll, over the grave of Congressman Eben Ingersoll. It is the brightest jewel in the tiara of ;g Western literature. It strikes the heart-chords with a symphony as sweet as Seraphs ever sung. It turns t- words to jewels with the splendor of le the noonday sun. s, We might go on, but time forbids, th but so long as we shall live each h, 4th of July will be spent among our ,t, graves, and there upon them shed tit tears of fond remembrance and tears ;h of bitter grief. rs No use to fear the graveyard for ?y ere long each and all must have it for a home, a dwelling place till s- eternity begins, and may it be to at each and all, "A blissful place of rs rest." A. W. BRABHAM. k, July 4, 1912. A ie Natural Curiosity. Small Girl (entertaining her mother's caller)?"How is your little ie . girl?" 16 Caller?"I am sorry to say, my in dear, that I haven't any little girl." *5 Small Girl (after a painful pause ,S in conversation)?"How is your little 1 o boy?" Caller?"My dear, I haven't any little boy, either." Small Girl?"What are yours?" ie m\ *e Stetson hats and other fine makes, PI $2.50 up. Also straw hats to close 3. out cheap. Write F. G. MERTINS, Augusta, Ga. LINCOLN'S GREAT MEMORY. Told of Trivial Incident After Twenty-five Years. Judge Landis, of the northerr district court of Illinois, is fond ol telling this anecdote of Lincoln: In 1834, when Lincoln was a candidate for the legislature, he called on a certain farmer to ask for his support. He found him in the hay field and was urging his cause when the dinner bell sounded. The farmer in'vited him to dinner, but he declined politely, and added: "If you will let me have the scythe while you are gone I wil mow round the field a couple of times." When the farmer returned he found three rows neatly mowed. The scytne lay against tne gate post, dui Lincoln had disappeared. Nearly thirty years afterward, the farmer and his wife, now grown old, were at a White House reception, and stood waiting in line to shake hands with the president. "When they got near him in the line," says Judge Landis, "Lincoln saw them, and, calling an aide, told him to take them to one of the small parlors, where he would see them as soon as he got through the handshaking. Much surprised, the old couple were led away. Presently Mr. Lincoln came in, and, greeting them with an outstretched hand a warm smile, called them by name. "Do you mean to say," exclaimed the farmer, "that you remember me after all these years?" " 'I certainly do,' said the president, and he went on to recall the day he mowed round the farmer's timothy field. " 'Yes. that's so,'said the old man, stili in astonishment. 'I found the field mowed and the scythe leaning up against the gate post. But I have always wanted to ask you one thing.' " 'What is that?' asked Mr. Lincoln. " 'I always wanted to ask you, Mr. President, what you did with the whetstone?'' "Lincoln smoothed his hair back from his brows a moment, in dee? thought; then his face lighted up. " 'Yes, I remember now,' he said, 'I put the whetstone on top of the high gate post.' "And when he got back to Illinois again the farmer found the whetstone on top of the gate post, where it had lain for more than twenty-five years."?Youth's Companion. Xegro Lynched Xear Little Rock. Little Rock, Ark., July 5.?Johr Williams, a negro, was taken froir officers by a mob and lynched, neai Plummerville, Ark., 40 miles northwest of Little Rock, late last night according to news received to-day. Williams was a participant in 8 general fight at a negro picnic neai Plummerville yesterday. Sheriff Taylor, of Conway county, formed a posse and went to the picnic to restore order. Paul Disler, a special deputy was shot and killed by the negrc when the posse attempted to make ? - ArrV.4- TirifV arrests. Alter a ruuuiue nsm. the posse, Williams escaped, but was later captured and held in hiding tc prevent mob violence. While the authorities were hurrying with the negro across country to Plummervillc they were met by a mob which overpowered the deputies, hanged the negro to a tree and riddled his bodj with bullets. Those in the posse assert inabilitj to identify members of the mob. Nc arrests have been made. The Champion Liar. An old negro in Mississippi was on trial for stealing chickens. H< had denied'his guilt, and one of the deacons of his church was called tc ; testify to his reputation for trutl , and veracity. i "Now, deacon," said the prosecu i tor, "do you know this defendant?' "Yes, sir." "How well do you know him?" "Oh, I know him tahlable well." "What is his reputation for trutf and veracity in the neighborhood ir which he lives?" i The old man looked thoughtful foi a minute. "You know what I mean," continu; ed the lawyer. "Does he tell the truth? Can he tell the truth? Dc , his neighbors believe what he says?' "That niggah tell the truth? Does * ?- l-i?o nn,,r anyDoay Deneve mm: lawyah, when that niggah wants tc call his hawgs at feedin' time he ha: to git somebody else to holler fol him." ! Cutting Repartee. ''How," said a lawyer to a witness 1 "how can you possibly bear such tes , timony against this man who yoi , say is your friend?" "Sir," said the man, "he is mj friend, and I love him, but I lov< Truth more." "You should be ashamed," repliec the lawyer, "to turn your back on i , friend for one who is a perfec 1 stranger to you." Rub-My Tism will cure you. SPOILED A SPANISH PLOT. * Reward for Dutch Boys for Sav Amsterdam's Stock Exchange. ; Of the many quaint and curi< ^ customs, traditions and privile prevailing in Holland none isv m extraordinary than a certain pri i ege that has been enjoyed by boys of Amsterdam for nearly I ' years. At a fixed time each summer th boys gather by the hundreds in 1 great square called the Dan, situa in the center of the city. Each 1 5 has a drum slung over his shoulc ^ Facing this square is the stock change, and on the occasion in qu ' tion, just as soon as the day's bi * ness is over, as many of the boys : can crowd into the building. T] proceed to the floor of the exchan s where, pursuant to this odd cust< * they are permitted to march abc ^ singing and beating upon th * drums. The origin of this custom, it ' saia, is as iuuows; L One afternoon in the year 162: ^ crowd of boys playing in the D lost a ball in the canal that in th 1 days skirted one side of the squ? ' One of the lads, while climbing ^ among the piles on which the bu ing stood, found instead of his 1 1 a boat moored in a dark corner i 1 loaded with boxes of gunpowc This showed clearly enough, w was afterward ascertained with c ! tainty, the intention of the Span conspirators to blow up the stock ' change while it was crowded, as 1 was every day, with the leading c 1 zens of the city. The boy who stumbled upon ' gun-powder at once hurried to town authorities with his news. 1 boatload of explosives was quis sunk into the canal and the Span plot thus frustrated. When the burgesses asked the 1 ' - * -a i? J? a 4-u A ? wnat reward ne uesneu iui mc ^ vice he had rendered' the town he ! plied that so long as there was stock exchange in Amsterdam boys of the town would like to > permitted to make the floor of exchange their playground durinj certain part of the year. The requ ! was granted, and so the custom s vives.?New York Sun. % ! "Johnny,' said the pretty teacl ^ "what, is a kiss?" 5 "I can't exactly put it into wore returned the boy, "but if you re? want to know, I can show you." Highes* prices paid for beef cat H. G. DELK, Bamberg, S. 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