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r; ' PAGE SIX McLAUHIN, BLEASE, COOPER, AULL, IN % SIZZLING DISPUTE (Continued From Page One.) he could circulate It secretly, he slipped behind my back and hid his sneaking treachery with a smile. On its very face the charge is a lie. No man who knows me?and the majority of the people of South Carolina do know me?would suspect me of selling my honor at any price. I am not a money grabber and I do not need more than I have. This letter has been shown to a number of men who love decency and fair play, and several of them have writt"n me about it. Mr. Kejinedy Maytleld of Denmark was the first to tell me of its existence, lie had been informed by Mr. Cruin, a supporter of Cooper, to w horn Cooper showed the letter. Cooper told Mr. Crum that he would not use the letter openly until after the close of the campaign, so that 1 would have no opportunity to reply and defend myself. I love a fight with a brave enemy who will face me in the open. 1 de ?jtjuerai election as an independent 1 * k Candidate. I know that he would not 1 do this. for he Is not a fool. Hut I eaid nothing to discourage him, for I was beginning to outline in niv i x mind the plans of a trap that would , ,. catch him. I A little later he asked me to run as an independent candidate. Of r course I refused. He came hack again with another proposition, asking me to put up the . ^ money to finance an independent v 3b ^'ticket, and of course I refused this |also. jf: 'm By this time I saw that he would f certainly boR and attempt to set up ' enende.it party if he could find j^.'-^^^WGiftoney tg, finance the scheme. ~%asugffos teifto him that he nii"ht Ljv.hb able to get the money through -Jpapers. who was high in the , fctiu rolls pf the Republican party. * ^ ' ,i This \\as absurd, hut Blease npparently-fcofrk the bait, and in order to ? ileaM hi m on 1 frequently called Jo tin A.ull ,to fake dictation for letter on this subject addressed to Cooper. "Of- course the letters wete never * ..mailed for the whole proposition \ JSpi silly. !>ut Aull took ttie matt' . ? * jusly and I f>" sure that tie wn r *ing Rlease ?formed and that 1 "TJleaso would sooner or later expose \hifl hand. As my secretary. Anil ery properly file-l and preserved ) earbon copies of these letters. The originals I destroyed as soon as AuP was out of sight. They had accomplished their work as soon as they had fooled Anil and through Aull led . ' Blease nearer to the trap. , ' The whole course of Blease at this time was dictated by his belief that Hughs would be elected president. While the Republican State committee was In session at the Jefferson % ? xjjM ' . I r4* . 0 \ \ , hotel,<in Columbia, 1 was in the of he of Blease. He told W. P. Beard t go to the hotel, see Dunk Adam who was Republican State chaii man, and tell hini to pnt the name [of Cole L?. Blease and John L. M( Laurln on the tickets as delegates s 'large. 1 offered no objection in th i presence of Blease, but as soon a J Beard left I followed and caugt i him and told him that he must nc use my name and that I would hav I nothing to do with it. To mak doubley sure I called Adams on th , phone and told him that if Bear [mentioned mv name about any pre .position it was without my consen Blease had an interview in a Ch icago paper in which he predicted th |election of Hughes. He used t [wonder why no one attacked hii j about it. He really believed ths Hughes would be elected, and h [fully expected to control federal p; ; tronage in South Carolina. Br iic uwnin <1 rup> . 1 i|" Ilflf 1111(1 ?1T1' such a letter In my tile*, after an ex ha native search, nor have I any re collections of having received it. I do remember, however, durini the last week in September, I thin! It was. you and Mr Aull called a' my office and you Introduced him tf me as your secretary. 1 must hav< been considerably impressed wltl what he told me after you had lefl the office, especially as you had In trodured htm as your secretary and t presumed you were In sympath) with the statements he made to me So much so. that before your returr to the office I sent a wire to the then leader of the remnants of the^Re publican party in South Carolina asking him to come up to Washington I find a copy of that telegram and have it In my hand at this writing. When you told nie personally In our subsequent talk, that you ex pected to have nothing whatever t< do with aff Independent movomenl in South Carolina, that you were ar official of the State democratic ad min'stratlon and very warmly in fa vor of President Wilson I felt as i I had lost a great deal of v.aluahh time with Mr Aull. In spite of th fact that the renresentntions of th bitterness of the recent Democrat! nrimaries and the charges of frao .- t the election and th determ'natio of thousands of people not to stair by the primaries indicated encourap ing prospe'fs for an Indopender mfwnmonl v. ... . -.i-i i n un ll vt <111111 !' least the basis of tli formation f two political parties i" the State,. Your statement, hovcver that yo would have nothing whatever to i| with It, satisfied in" that I would pi myself in a ridieeloHs attitude if took the matter up at headuuartei in Now York without the ass'stanr of men of your reputation, servlr and character. My dear Mao., I have lieard you enemies charge you with a ere; many things but I have never y heard you aroused of being an idi< and you would certainly have piaro yourself in that class to contemplal J leaving a high State office In th Democratic administration of yot I State, with bright prospects for got jernor or for the senate in the fiftun I by vacating the office you held, leat Ing the party you belonged to an spise an assnssltv^vho knifes hip in the back under crtver of darkness. I will now tell the story of that letter from the beginning, and expose the crookedness and rascality that brought it into existence. In 1914. when I was serving in th" Rtate'senate and Rlease was serving ; Vftl? last term as governor. I intro v ducedthe bill providing for what has since become famous as the South Carolina State warehouse system. 1 knew the great good this system 1 would do. 1 had to make the fight j for it single-handed, and I knew that I could not* win unless 1 made concessions to the Rlejise faction. In order to win this support, and pre. j vent faie veto of Rlease. I agreed to the selection of John K. Aull as secretary-^ the bill went through. The bill pmaped and I. as its author, was j," electee-commissioner. I kept my bargain and <,")si?i?ointed Aull secretary. wrtcient and did his work . wellr^M?orght him a freind. In ^h*^ of 1916 Rlease came to me in^ pefWn and also wrote mo asking nm to rfitMort him for governor against Man?|g. I told him that I W nil 1M not aT I* ning hurt been standing behind the warehouse development, and that I had faith In Manning's futiu;^ support of this Institution. , . From that date I noticed a differ-1 ence in the attitude and conduct of Aull, and before long I was morally certain that he was in my office as a tool and spy of Blease. I knew also that Blease would from that time on use any means to "get" me. I welcomed the fight, for i had already determined ttiat it was my duty to show him up before the people and drive him out of South Caro !> v Una politics. Later, Manning' sattttude on the Insurance matter forced me to support Blease. against my lg? ^will, to protect the warehouse ?ysntera. * *, After the second primary of 1916. kflsn Blease had been repudiated by "theipeople. he told me a number of timeS'/'as ho told . others, that he ' '? would go before the peopje at the . ' THE LANCASTER NEW e in which you had rendered distill- j o guished service to lead or lend your s. assistance to a forlorn hope of that r- kind. Those who are trying to beat >s you for the nomination for governor j > must be very hard pressed for an it issue upon which to bring about e your defeat. is Very sincerely yours, it John Q. Capers. >t e 1 Aull got Into such a shape as to j 6 make further travel impossible and r v i brought him home and made the Nev? f York trip later. ' )- i1 j Anyway, I had accidentally secur-Jj, ? ed what 1 wanted?-a disinterested ^ | witness to the fact that the campaign \ _ manager and chief lieutenant of v n Illease had appealed to a prominent j ^ worker in the Republican party in p p an effort to pet funds to finance a bolt. And I knew that with this ^ |( proof 1 could face the people of ( South Carolina and expose this arch p traitor and drive him forever from s v the councils of a clean and decent "e democracy. Illease has ahilitv. lie could have I- o been a preat leader and could have n done preat pood. Hut he chose to ,_i prostitute his ability to pain an hour's applause and pratifv an in- (] sat able ambition for power. Once r lie was a kinp. Now there are none ^ so low as to do him reverence. ^ It may interest the people of South Carolina to know what Rlease v did to Heard. In the fall of 1 16 (> r Heard had finally put out an Inde- ^ pendent t'eket for the peneral ol'r1 tion. prompted and uriied to this i course by Illease. There appeared j no eh Miee of the success of this tick- f let. however, and Illease drew awav t n from it. Concerning this matter 1 ? 0 P have a letter from Heard, under date " I of March 15. 1018. in which he savs . .. I that Hlease put out and even named '' the "Hull Moose" ticket of 1012. and * I concludes: "Hlense encouraged me x to put that ticket at the following v (lOlfi) general election?which yov u again, advised me apainst. Then he ' 11 pot cold feet and left me in the1 lurch. Now he has deserted me.*' |v '"I N'o man in South Carolina has ? r-j served Hlease as Hoard has. Hoard ' a: was his bodyRuard In 1910, protect- ' ? i od him on the stump, and was al- 11 s| ways at his bock and call 0 Hlease claims to stand by his ' fj friends. Heard is in the penitentiary > ^ V; today as the result of following j? o where Hlease led and vet as 1 can n 11 prove by Heard's letters. Hlonse has ?j refused to help him In any way, and 0 has not so much as Riven a doil._- to j " Heard's family?for Board li> no >'|lonL'?*r useful to him. ' This sprinp, when I learned that s there was a concerted effort all over ' South Carolina to Ret me Into the r rare for Rovernor as a Hlease can didate, I declined. I knew that 1 -1 cou'd not. under any circumstances,' allow my name to be used in connee1 tion with this man who was a traitor c to his pat tv and an outspoken one-1 11 my of the government In WashlnR-! >;ton. s. The public will recall my correi spondence with certain Hlease memt;bers of the Andreson county deloRa-itlon In which I refused to ally my11 self with Hlease ri I knew I had a Rreat work ahead . I of me?& work that was biRRer than i luiLMMim ymuicN ttliu r?M USPH lO j I i ally myself with either the Mease or' - anti-Mease faction, choosing rather l to enter the campaign as a free man (and a supporter of principles rather i j than 'Isms This letter was probably put intoj jthe hands of Cooper by Atill at the i request of Mease. for secret use -j against nte. ) Cooper doubtless thought that t Mease and Aull were helping him, i but their real purpose was to g?t -(Cooper to do their dirty work, as he - has. knowing full well that when I f 'earned of it I would expose Coope er's sneaking treachery and destroy e him politically. They hoped by this e scheme to destroy me, and to use me c as a means of destroying Cooper, d leaving the Held t<> Richards, their n >n'y hope of power. d The s< heme has failed The treachery has serve ! only ty unmask it Cooper, and has given me the oppor't tunit> to expo-e Itiease at an earlier >f date than 1 expected. What reward John Aull hopes f.or Hi I do not know 1 feel sorry for him,! 0 for he i? a good boy when away froin j it i the inalU'ii 'lUluenee of Mease. 1 John Lowndes McLaurin. "s Rennett svlllo, S. C. : A WOM FOR MOTHERS |? It is a gi^ve mistake fo/mothers to , neglect their\thes and pai/s and suffer | *t in silence?thVonly k a</; to chronic >r sickness and oftVi shortens life. (I If work is tirinXif y/ur nerves are > excitable, if you fceraufguid, weary or depressed, Scott'sN&lmul^ion will ir Drove a wonderful stj/Vrthener. It possesses the /enablements to j invigorate the bldod, i\urish the f[ nerves and build strength. , wlii!"? he hoped for much from th < Republicans. he was shrewd enouc tr. holrl on to the Democratic part and shove Beard to the front as th ostensible leader of the indepenil ent movement. One day I had tp co to Washlnfctoi and New York on business connect !eel with the federal reserve l?oan and the Insuring of stored cotton an ti?ok Villi with me. He was fatnilia with tiie details of the warehous business and 1 had need of him. In Washington we saw John fa pers. What transpired there i 11 b explained by the following lette from Mr. Capers: June 25. IMS. Hon. John L. McLaurin. Bennetts ville. S. C. Dear McLaurin: I was amazed a your inquiry if you had written m a letter in the fall of 1M6, savin the State could he carried for th Republican party if an amount equs to a thousand dollars to the count could be provided. I do not believe you ever though 'such a thing possible, although yo have had no experience what ever i the Repullcan party. I have had a very pleasant exporl ence with that party in national al fairs for over twenty years and very sad and discouraging experienc with its affairs in South Carolina. A a result of which. I know that th State could not have been carried fo the Republican party In 1916 for lift thousand dollars to the county or ii fact, or any other amount. I do no know the date or the contents of th copy of a letter Mr. Aull is said t have in his possession purporting t be a copy of a letter written to me b; you in September or October, 1911] Nor do I know the date or content of the original of which it is allegei V. ^ I. ?1 .1- ? T J- " ' S, LANCASTER, S. C. ' VMERICA PLANNING TO th? LEND AID TO RUSSIA Ge sia liploinatlc or Political Mission Kill cer Be Means of Carrying Out ter President's Pur|>o?e. tal eai inv Washington, July 1.?Plans of the syf American government for aiding tuasia in rehabilitating herself, p(l, rhich became known, revealed that ua] hp first stpn rontomnliitthl in Infnr ?^ - ? noi nnl assistance through American msiness and industrial leaders, and ^ , lisposed of widely published reports ^ hat a diplomatic or political mission ^ , irould he the means of carrying out resident Wilson's promise to stand , iack of Russia. ev< The personnel of a group of men l>r( vho will carry expert advice and , naterial aid along with America's ( xpression of disinterested friendhip to the Russian people now is fpr icing discussed. They will include (n. mly men familiar with Russian conomic and transportation condiions. Ample police protection is expect<1 to he a (forded them, hut all show j jaj, if military force will he avoided. As Russia is in great need of p nany raw materials and manufac- ru ured goods, the I'nited States pro- i loses to license freely the export of _ jrhatever is recommended as nec- j ssary by the business men who will :o to the aid of that country. Ton- pj% lage will he provided for shipment j o Siberian ports, from where thc| upplies can be distributed to the in- jjj erior. As the material expression if the charity of the American peo-. ^ de. the Red Cross also is ready to j end relief supplies in large <juan- He ities. United States consuls in Russia nil rive active assistance in the vork of reconstruction an<l to this xtent only will the aid have an offi- ,ier ial aspect. mi, Startling news dispatches dealing nie vitli conditions in Russia made no (Rat hange in the plans already formu- in ated. Internal disturbances were1 In*: bought to accentuate the need of bet njecting a steady influence into the the ituatlon and officials said they pro-jwei osed to go ahead on the lines laid I los: own. Re-establishment of business wei rder is believed to be the best tro lethod of enablinK the Russians dra More Heat It. Heat It, little car They all wonitr what you Climbing all tnW hills on 1 Passing many others by. As it panned the fr^st man While the i^ond n^erely Hut the third man sal\: "1 It won't atop; It's a Cl\vr All consent with one acc<S It's.a car you can afford. In the swamp or in wet grt None of the others are In In the sand or in the mud It pulls out where others economical? Well, I shot None can equal the Che\ Summer, Winter, Spring < Has a little on them all. The price oT the Chevrolet v 25 per cent increase in freight < vance in price. W.E.GI ' i Lane as t i I / LANC. ?1 ^jr**' T * m * ' imselves to combut the menace < rtnany. The need of early action In R? also has been emphasized In r it otnelal dispatches, telling of tt ivltles of Germans In Siberia. A freeing and arming Germai ;en prisoner by the Russians In tt ly part of the war, the Germs aders have proceeded to carry bi itematirally and with Teuton >rouKhno.HB their system of strl; IK the country of everything va ble, aa was done in Uelgium, ar rthern France. * ?> + + + + + + + + TABERNACLE. + ** + Lancaster, S. C\, R. F. D., July We had a very nice rain Tuesdr ming and crops are much li >ved. The health of the community id at present. Miss Annie Mildred Rowell a ided the short course at Wlnthrc lege recently given to the Hon monstration and Canning cli lolarship winners. Misses Mabel and Julia Rowc t Monday for Heath Springs ;e a commercial course. Mrs. H K Rlyler is spending se il days with her sister. Mrs. J ihn Small, of the Rich Hill sectio Miss Rirch Funderburk is spendir ew days with her father, who hi n quite sick. Miss Odessa Plyler and Mr. Vs lor spent Saturday and Sunday i mp Jackson. Sriptor. * C, SENSATION CAUSED UY HUNGARIAN PREMIE Admits A ustro-Hungarian lx>ss< in Disastrous tXTonsivo Arc 100,000. Amsterdam, July 4.?I)r. Alexa VVokorlo, the Hungarian pr er, caused a sensation in parli nt Saturday with a declaration r ding the Austro-Hungai ian loss* the last Italian offensive, accon to a Budapest dispatch receiv* e. The premier said that durir last few days exciting rumo re helng circulated regarding tl ses. These rumors, he declare re much exaggerated. The Au -Hungarian armies were wit iwn on the Plave front in order 1 VRC Truth Than , One thing; are. Yon can't 1 iigh, Kasy rid In Heats the j cussed. If you thl fussed. We can ch: 'hey say On the hll olet." It can go 1 jd. Come and Going up t iss\ Maybe we Its etass. Hut this ci V We can m? Just chute. And beat y ild say Come and 'rolet. It will gaii Fall If you war And we ari v ill advanlfe $50 August l!a rharges. We have a few rail REEIVli er, cW<*^r and^U*^ A QMrpoilUCftl / v AHn vsc, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1913. ofj xo advance in riifru CATARRH ?3 For head or thfrfst Rv | Catarrh try'the 101 trydtinent /?jfS\ a Littla fedytiuinl fcn^Jur llon^NJfijfta 18 m sl~m ? J - i3 . Lui" LIB 1 ie Va ah ;+tw/j tinn 11 gjyl 25c K' $ 1 lit ^Sy 'c spare lives, he declared, since they ^ must have sustained very great losses had they held that line. id 1 "But, how great are cur losses? interrupted Deputy Zllnsky, + "The number of prisoners taken + was recently stated to be 18.000 the + . premier replied. "I must, however, ^ correct this statement. The truth 's that the Italians have taken 12,000, iv . . _ r- nnn Itallnno foil Into nnr wmiu ov^v.v iiuunun .v.. 11 | hands. In the case of an offensive ls'and a retreat this figure cannot be termed excessively high. Much sadder Is the loss we suffered in dead.* wounded, and sick, mostly sick. In the tenth and eleventh Italian oftensives we lost 80,000 to 100,000 men, , Now, however, our losses are simlI' lar, about 100.000 men." j 1 Great excitement in the chamber I marked this declaration. The prei inier continued: V"I am obliged to record this re-, p- * gretnhlo circumstance. It is true ' that of throe bridges thrown across '" the l'iave the uppermost unfortu[1S nately collapsed and then both of the others were carried away with it. This figure Includes the fallen, the I slightly wounded and those brought back as ineffectlves." R RUB OUT PAIN rs R??d 4>1 liniment. That's th^suredt Way to stop them. I h^ best rhbbing liniment is MUSTANG LINIMENT 5(1 [f Good for tnk Atfrh^ph of ft i Horses, Mulek CatQ^Etc. H ie Good for youioion Ache&^ Jj At || Pains, RheumaWm, Sprains, II 8. Cuts, Burks, Etc. || hb ire, If nothing more, be it It, bo don't get wore, g, very nice, ill o world for price, nk some other best an ;e your rnlnd by test, 1 < r In the sand to )eat the band, tr; It If you will, he Steepest hill, ar i talking funny ir h backed by money. > let you any day ' f 'on with a Chevrolet. ge , a demonstration ^ i > )ur admiration, it i car, come try it. ** ? f ire that you will hi!) it. nd in addition \here will b?*a i for delivery nfore the ad* MP trieal|er/ * 4