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I ) 1 68TH YEAR. NO. 78. SI LEAGUE OPPOSITION . MERELY PARTISA1 Republicans Are Ripped Up IJ Senator Harrison, of Mississippi. PRACTICING DECEPTION "Never Has Deception Been S Lavishly Practiced and Mil representation So Generousl Employed." Washington, July 24.?Partisai ship in their opposition to the leagi of nations and the peace treaty wi imputed to Republican leaders in t arraignment in the senate by Senati Harrison, Democrat, of Mississip speaaing in support of the league. "Never before in the discussion i a great national question," said Se ator Harrison, "has deception been i lavishly practiced and misrepresent tion so generously employed. "Just criticism is always accep able. But when opposition to into national policies, such as are co tained in this treaty, is founded ( rank partisanship and personal di like of a particular individual, it worse than Bolshevism gone wild." Naming Republican Leader Lodg Chairman Hays of the Republic.' National Committee, Senator Bora of Idaho, Senator Knox of Penns> vania and others Senator Harrist asserted that the Republican leade had sought to embarass Preside: Wilson at Versailles and now we seeking to "strangle" the treaty (< partisan purposes. "I appeal to you," said the Missi sippi senator, "to come out from th spell of partisanship! Help us rati this treaty! Give to the people tl peace they desire! "Do not think yourselves wis than your masters; do not think th the wisdom of the Republican par is lodged in your membership. Tl thousands of men and womi inrouKnnui ine country who ha never voted anything but the Repu lican ticket believe that this trea ahould be ratified. .Meet Issues in <)|>en. "Sirs, if you are to defeat it, 1 me appeal to you to meet the issi In the open. Do not put yourselv in the attitude of voting reservatio that are meaningless or ratify it wi n string tied to it, such a string th will strangle it." The reservations urged by Chal man Hays and other Republicar Senator Harrison said, are not on unnecessary, but would require t consideration of the treaty by all tl signatories and "destroy the hope mankind for world's peace." The Republican leaders he charge with having sought to arouse racii labor, religious, Irish and other pi Judlce8 in their partisan oppositic Their real opposition, however, he d clared. was because President Wilsi "had a hand in making it" and h cause they objected to the disarm ment and commercial equali clauses. In this connection, he poir ed out that munitions industries a Important in the states of promine senators attacking the treaty. "No argument has been too falla lous, no Illustration too far-fetched said Mr. Harrison, "for you to sei upon In your desperate efforts to I cloud the Issue. They became jes oils of the growing ascendancy of tl man (President Wilson). He was I: oming too popular, too influentl: Your opposition arose slnsply ai merely because he happened to be t spokesman and loader of nnoth political party. I had never bellevi partisanship would become so acu that jealous leaders would rather s the star of their country dimmed thi to witness the ascendancy of one 1 j dividual simply because he was different political faith. "You tried by every possible mea to embarrass him. No task was ev accomplished against such unfavt f able odds; in a foreign counti against a propaganda conceived 1 the chamber, adequately financed ai t consistently prosecuted, that his 1 fluence might be destroyed and I: pirns defeated, he won. "And now, with the work finish* and signatures of these able statt inen of the allied countries attache you have organized the machinery this body that their work might (Continued on Page Sight.) he, J. i- ? - . HE Lj _ 0 EMI-WEEKLY. VETERANS' REUNION f COMES TO A CLOSE ^ J ? S ' Col. I>. 8. Henderson and Miss ltutiierfortl Make Addresses?>h?ot V h( Sumter Next Year. Jl v ????? ^ Greenwood, July 24.?Major Gen. ' \V. A. Clark, of Columbia, was reelected commander-in-chief of the ' N South Carolina Division. United Con ^ federate Veterans, at the final session of their reunion here yesterday. ? David Cardwell. of (Columbia, was re3 elected adjutant general and chief of staff. Other officers of the division were also reelected. Sumter was selected as the place for holding the next reunion. The gathering of the heroes of the sixties came to a format ?mi with 10 " ^ the annual reunion ball for veterans , AS and their friends. ,,, til The closing day of the reunion was or p marked by two inspiring addresses by Col. Daniel S. Henderson, of Aiken, nj and Miss Mildred Rutherford, of Ath- ar of ens, Ga., historian general of the nUnited Daughters of the Confederacy. i0 Rain interfered with the parade a- ?*1 but the weather did not dampen the a( spirits of the Veterans, and the morn- y| ' Ing exercises were attended by a large ?? I ? CC and enthusia ic audience which re11" poatedlv chepred the ringing words * )n oi of Col. Henderson and Miss Ruthera. 7. ( ri is A most impressive feature were ^ memorial services to the Confederate ,, (t Hi ' dead. Gen. Clark reading the inscrip- . III tions on the monument in Columbia h '* ' erected by the Daughters of the Con1 federacy, and Gen. Dyon responding 1II 4 with the audience. "They died for rs their country." When the great pair . lit the women played for the Confedre * I eracy was road tho expression was f cir "God Rless the Women of the Confederacy." The audience stood dur3" ing the ceremony. . at During the business session the ^ names for the war were discussed, . ie the Veterans having before them a h( resolution to call it "War of Seces- . er sion." It was not decided to do this at 8f but "Civil War" was barred, ty ^ ai *e AMERICAN IS KIDNAPPED !l( su BY BANDITS IN MEXICO ve ir Outrage Reported to the State De- ^, partnient, Adding to Tension ^ Over Situation. et e* Washington, July 24.?The kid.... w napping of Uwrcnoe L. Shipley, an ^ es American citizen, by bandits near w 1,3 Fresnillo, Mexico, last Saturday, was | 1 lnl reported to the state department j( ai Shipley is a native of Yevington, Nevada. >r di The department had no other deis P' * tails on this last attack on an Ameri- ,, ly ( J can citizen in Mexico, but the otlicial , a. le announcement of the occurrence said an investigation had been ordered, of m The report, coming as it did, close- ^ ly after the attack and robbery of a c pd . ~~ boatload of American sailors near J v* Tain pi co, and the receipt of informa- ^ e~ tion vesterday of the robbery of $10,in 000 from the Purto hobos station of ,, le- ( the Atlantic Refining company, added 1)11 to the tension in official circles re"" suiting from continued attacks on a" American citizens anil property in the ? southern republic, it- 'I re 2.7."? PER CENT. BEER (1 nt UP TO HIGHEST COURT \h _ h; ic- The (Question of Right to Make It Reaches Superior Court in ZP .\|>|m*aIm Filial. >0- ? Washington, July 24.?The ques- p ''3 tion of the right of brewers to manu- ' ,e" facture beer containing 2 3-4 per cent " alcohol has reached the supreme u n(' court through appeals filed by the " government from federal court do- 111 er crees in Baltimore, quashing Indict- " P1' ments brought against the Standard ,l 1,e Brewing company under the food ,l1 RP control act of 1 V? 1 7. sn Because of the Importance of the 01 n" question In connection with the en- m ?' forcement of the war-time prohibition ,f net, court officials export the govern- fl na mont to ask that the case be expeer dited. Unless this were clone a de- r< ,r" cislon probably would not be handed tc 'y- down until after prohibition by con- H by stltutional amendment became offer- H tire. ,|ft Till: FOIIMEH KAIHKK MAY NOT BK TltlKD IN LONDON Rrt London. July 24.?It is possible ol ,B- that former Emperor William may fr 0, not be tried In London, according to s| of an announcement made In the house cc t,f. of lords today by Earl Curson of Ke- ni ?. dleston. government leader in the up-i h> por house. j ol I 4 \NCA5I LANCASTER, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 2 ONGRESSMAN SIXTH MEXICO .C. DISTRICT IS DEAD IN THE imes Willard Itagsdale Dies Legislative suddenly in Physician's Oflice Branches En in Washington. ing Lat< ODY TAKEN TO FLORENCE SEN. FALL ongress Adjourns in Respect Contradicts h to Dead Member and Commit- manding tee Accompanies Remains to Bodies Wea Last Resting Place. forms Hav< Washington, July 24.?The body Washington, Representative llagsdale, of South can situation o irollna, who died here suddenly of both the lee ednesday while in the office of his branches of the lysiclun awaiting treatment for Tension whic art trouble, will be taken home to- state depart me ght to the Hagsdale home in Flor- were received ice, S. C., where the funeral services blng of sailors ill be held Friday arternoon. from the Ameri Immediately after his death, word (,n the Temesi us sent to congress and both houses Meved sotucwhii Ijourned In respect. In the senate, account of the I ice President Marshall appointed a Commander Fl unmittee to attend the funeral com- Topeka. flagshi ?sed of Senators Smith and Dial, naval forces at ' South Carolina; Oshurst, of Arl- ,.,,,)or( , ma; Beckham, of Kentucky; liar- wen. (>n o|npi|i" son. of Mississippi; Femald. of ,)V (hrp? mpn ,, aine; Spencer, of Missouri: Ste- of whom rarr,e) ng. or South Dakota, and Suthe,- ,nformp(1 of thr nd. of West Virginia. A resolution KOVp,.nmpnt all ;pressing sympathy with the family J);|(1 Pxp|.P8Bpd , as Introduced by Senator Smith and ,sp(1 t() aUG|upt lopted. (Pv Gc thi The house, of which Mr. Ragsdale hovv?v,.r ? id been a member for six years, will a(temp(a had ,, ipoint a committee to attend the' , ... ... e Before tins ineral and adopt a resolution of con, state depart me ilences. , ...... ? . ? , Tampico that 01 Mr. Kagsdale realized after reachg.his physician's office that death ("ts ' .... , , . . , eompanv's oil as near, it Is believed, for he turned i his physician and asued him to ' u, Ito Dobos, t aid his hnnd. The physician com- m,? *Nhich was lied and In a few minutes the repre- Pan* s pajroll. mtatfve wn. in. During the d inounced as having been caused by tors an<1 101)M'S nite dilution of the heart, lie also stale depart in id been taking treatment for nasal ' I* let?*l olI,)le bassador to M? Hefore his election to congress in in "ie sol"^or !>13 to succeed J. Kdwin Kllerbe, MM,ato foreign r. Ragsdale practiced law in Flor- OI'dered favoral ice and had been a member of the 'u,'on 01 ^ena nith Carolina house and senate. lie ' la'1, ca'"nu 01 as 47 years of age and a graduate of 101 in lorn le University of South Carolina. 'i(,ns against as prominent in house debate and lMOP''it> in > as a member of the District of Co- >earBimbia and foreign affairs committee. (>n t,u> s*ma Resides his widow, who was a KePui>lican, N? uighter of the late Dr. \V. S. Joynes, P^ovloim staten resident of the Cniversity of South '<>ans billed ' > arolina. Representative Ragsdale "pulsing laids >aves a son and daughter. l)ast James Willard Ragsdale, congress- am' nien 'n un lan from the sixth South Carolina |,'('era' aimy. Istrlct, was born at Timmonsville. ,l"' nam . C.t December 4. 1872. son of l.ittle- ranza officers <1 >n Russell Ragsdale and wife. Kllen Americans, delaide Hyrd Ragsdale. He was Senator Fall lucated at the Cniversity of South statement beca arolina. He married Marie Louise H Krwin. coinn nynes. of Columbia. S. C.. November trol. had been 5, 1000. ated Press disf Mr. Ragsdale, whose home was .if saying that no loronce, was a member of the law ranza uniforms rm of Ragsdale & Whitney, presl- "i desire to r enf of the Farmers and Mechanics senator, "that link and direccor of the Citizens months, that link and the Peonies bank* lie was a former member of the'Seventh ('aval auth Carolina house of representa-| over the border ves and state senate and a member1 occasions reco\ f tho 63rd, 64th and 65th eon- I also desire ti resses, having represented his dis- ranza soldiers let in the lower house from 1!?13 to! killed, not onlj ie time of his death. In polities he |)Ut on the I.' as a democrat, of course. In re- well." gion he was a Methodist. He was a Senator Fall lember of the hoard of trustees of statement to sh ie South Carolina Industrial school; fair the news if member of the Columbia. S. club Associated Pre ad of the Army and Navy club at this," and add* Washington. In congress he was a to have an inv< iember of the foreign affairs com- tahlish the inf ittee. District of Columbia commit- General Krwin ie and the industrial arts and exnosi- !*.#<? ??-? ? on8 committee. during the VI The Hixth South Carolina district is came from the imposed of the counties of Darling- Carranzistas. >n, Dillon. Florence, Georgetown, orry. Marion, Marlboro and VVil- El Paso, Te amsburg. . shown the Ass< from Washing FORGIA RKFCHKS TO RATIFY pail as saying TIIK SITFHAtiK AMENDMENT several months Atlanta, Ga., July 24.? Ratification oight occc.sior f the federal stiff race amendment Seventh Caval died today so far as the present ses- over the border on of the Georgia legislature is con- occasions recoi trned, when the senate voted Hrigadier Gene <alnst ratification Jo to 10, and the jr,g the El Fa ouso took similar action by a vote ? I 132 to 24. (Continued / yr News (5, 1919. SUBSCRIPT IS AGAIN Moor I LIMELIGHT K.;A UNFA era I <Juits iIn* Army ami will and Executive Practice Law. ' Federal igaged in Discuss ?st Problems. Washington, July HI ?Lieut.-Col. . Samuel T. Ansell, rormer acting AlVKF^i uppvcu n d v oca t e general of the army itlAKLft M bfc( H aml the c,.n(ral fiK,lr?. in th? oontro- l>K'l Al versy within the war department restatement Of Com- far<linu mi,Uary justice has handed ^ his resignation to Secretary Maker. I el Officer 'I hat No Colonel Ansell is understood to Has rinj? Carran/.a Uni- liav<> taken this action in the hope e Iteon l,,at ,1U ,niRhl bri?K more forcibly be- 1 ' fore the public the fight which lie is Kesu making to have the rules of military July 24.?The Mexi- lria,s radically changed. He has coupled ih<j attention ma'ntained in congressional hearings 11 islative and executive be'ore congress and in spec hes be- a M)l > government Mondav. lorR 'aw organizations that under ^as unj h was evident at the Present conditions a private in the ' nt when first reports armv cou,d not hoPe for a ^ trial t>an ra Saturdav of the rob- Secretary Maker would not say auPP,jrt< manning a small bout whut action ho woulcl ti,k" on Colonel l eDK"K" can monitor Cheyenne s resignation. It is generally j,"tln 11 river July 6 was re- exPC(??*d. however, that it will be ae- f,OUH? 1,1 rented mandini? it by a more detailed p 4 Incident received from ('olonel Ansell's letter to Secretary " * nncy, of the cruiser Uaker consisted of A single sentence: . ' P of the American "r h,ireby resign as an officer of the , eral ' . armv " ed a sec Tnmn cn army. .... ,, .1 Colonel Annell plane to remain in 1 * J """ sn""rs- who Wnahlnmon to praellen law In ???. wl<" 1,1 I duly were held ?p i.(a||nn w|(h (.|>] R ||o ii civilian clot lies, tw i , . ., . , . ' working . ... , , , also ot the judge advocate generals "* 1 rifles, and that when , , . , San Fra . department, who is preparing to leave incident, the Mexican it was i , , the service. His friends sav that he ithorities at Tanipieo . -,, ,. , . ? , ' , idiom- r will continue his light for radical ' 1 leep regret and pro,,,- Pp 0, ?,i|i. Auorne, o catablinh the iden- , Just|,? cane. eves. It was added. ^ From ip to the present these I|()t'SK PASSES HILL TO | drew tin een fruitless. ' not recc dl.pd.eh came, the EM WE THE DRV LAW tha nt was advised from porate ii 1 last Wednesday ban- Mottsiuc With Drastic Provisions ami d he Atlantic Refining and mai loading station at IV?alties Adopt,si by V *"'* prosecut tear Tampico, of $10,- of iJM7 to ion. real inv intended for the com- Densmoi erate it lay n number nf genu* Washington, July 24.-? Ry a vote leader, entatives called at the of n<-'arly three to one, the house, -The ent to confer with we**ry of talk on prohibition, passed a said, "tl tier, the American am- hill ^or enforcement with pro- cuse to xico, on the situation visions and penalties so drastic as to dence tli n republic, while the hring from the men wlio framed it the law relations committee 'he prediction that it would forever nowhere hly reported the reso- suppress the liquor traffic on Ameri- sistency tor King. Democrat, (>an RO'l- work of i the state department Kxactly 10<t- -52 Democrats and 4S often of lation as to depreda- ""'Publicans refused to support it. Mctln Vmerican citizens and iiithis even hundred, tlie prohl- torney 1 lexico .luring recent hitionists, putting a solid trout to the cv were very last, polled 287 votes, and just | who de. to floor. Senator Fall, as 'result was announced, a little' grounds w Mexico, reiterated Kir' I" the gallery, too young to know eeutor < tents that among Mex- what It was all about, leaned over the porale American soldiers in "tiling and waved a tiny flag. It was posed t< across the border dur- n?t a signal for that, but the house c Oxm v months were officers broke into applause, the galleries, been Iforms of the Mexican on'-v half filled, meanwhile looking on more sa He read a telegram ',l silence. |rj ] 'j' es ??f some of the Car- A broad smile spread over the faces his atti nd men killed by the ?f the prohibition leaders, for their versed work in the house was ended and the "Sine said he repeated his '"ensure was ready for the senate, Densmo use Brig. (Jen. James wh<re many of its restrictions may ne.v's ca landing the border pa- be m "titled or stricken out. The there b <1 noted in an Associ- c'??k-room rumor persisted that all record * uitch from K1 Faso as of ,his l?'Kislation effort might end on further ' bodies wearing Car- a sl,oal ?? n presidential veto, al- (}u, <>r4,( had been found. though the general view was that it principi eiterate," declared the wm,,d tion. within the last several gcptni 'g / 11 ? n/.r. ,, . "And upon ciih,T s..v..? < HARC.E MADE ?on is troopers of the AOAINST COMPTROLLER weakne ry pursued Mexicans of Mrs. and upon six or seven I,, of Isabi ered stolen property. * ' S- Lili an,* October i reiterate that Car- Hel|?e<I Itelative Sell Land to (Joy- The r and oth ers were en. H11(I (;of r<?llIn,s>loi|. '> hou r ?n the Mexican side lv wrltt nited States side as resume Washington. July 21 An entirely line of said he made "this new s?'' of sensational charges was vestigat ow how absolutely un- sprung out of the fight on the reap evidenc. * as it comes from the Polntment of John Skelton Williams which t - as com III roller of Ihn rurrpppv ,..,.1, ..... d that he would like Representative MePadden. of eon.pan ?stigatlon made to os- Pennsylvania, appearing before the rotary ormation on which housfi ru'08 committee, charged that investig announced that bul- Williams assisted his brother-in-law. Mr s the border recently C- Williams, of Kicmond. Va been mi Ha attack on Juarez in the aa,r of nn offlre b?il(,lnK ?iu' Karding Villistas and not the ,n th* PaP?tal to ,he government and ceased that the comptroller shared in the ,/nd hac commission for the sale. McFadden hor cas x-is Julv 24 When declared if the rules committee did relation Delated Press dispatch not Provide for an investigation he aml Uu ton quoting Senator wo?,rt move ,ha Impeachment of the Gf the v that "within ihe last comptroller from the floor of the mnn of upon either seven or ho?ap- preside! is troopers of the Comptroller Williams immediately troublei ry pursued Mexicans categorically denied MePadden' thereafl and upon six or seven charges, declaring his brother-in-law to look ,-ered stolen propertv. a^ted as an attorney for property Infor >ral Erwln, command- owners, and that the comptroller not t,ons Cl so district, reiterated only ha" no concern In the transac- refuged It ion but received no part of any com mission. (C ' 'ION $2.00 A YEAR M DECLARED IRLY CONVICTED Investigator Asserts He Victim of Frame-up and Perjury. PHONE TELLS STORY Investigation of Case Heen Conducted at Re of Secretary Wilson and Its Are (Jiven. ington, July 24.?Charges c.f ulers that Thomas J. Mooney ustly convicted for participahe bomb throwing outrage in ncisco three years ago were ?l in a report of John It. e, special agent of the det of labor, submitted to the response to a resolution de: more information on the ensmore, now director of the employment service, conductret investigation of the case equest of Secretary Wilson, e aid of several immigration rs. he gathered his evidence, without the knowledge of ncisco authorities. Most of obtained by use of a dirtailaced in the office of District ,* Fickert, prosecutor of the the evidence Mr. Donsmore e conclusion that Mooney did ive full justice in his triat t he was the victim of corlterests in San Francisco who to discredit the labor unions ntain the "open shop." The ion was conducted without a estimation ;f the crime, Mr. re declared, and with delibitent to "frame" the labor plain truth is." Mr. Densmore -tat there is nothing about the produce a feeling of con flint the dignity and majesty of have been upheld. There is anything resembling con, the effect being a patchincongruous makeshift and desperate expediency." >ds employed by District AtPiekert in prosecuting Moonattacked bv Mr. Densmore, dared there were "excellent for believing" that the prosivas influenced by local ci>rinterests most bitterly op:? union labor. After Frank an. a principal witness, had oven a perjurer, Mr. Donslid, Fickert agreed to a new d later vigorously opposed ? *, tude being completely ree the Oxman exposure," Mr. re said, "the district attorse melted steadily away until i little left hut an unsavorv of manipulation and perjury, revelations having impeached libility of practically all iho it n iiianni n nil I ll?; prOSef 1if any additional con.ltmare needed of the inherent ss of lh?' rase, the acquittal Mooni'j on July 2 7. lb 17. and 1 Weinberg in the following . would seem to supply it." eport which was submitted to { se i oinained nearly 2o0 closeon pagen, including a general ol the Mooney case, an outthe manner in which the tnion was conducted, a mass of e and a lengthy summary in he charges of unfairness are il and formulated. It was acied bv a statement from SecA'ilson giving the reasons the at ion was ordered. Wilson said no attempt had ade to secure information rethe case until after it had to he merely n criminal case I become "an international lae." endangering the friendly s between the I'nited States ssia and affecting the conduct car. He was appointed chairmediation commission hv the it to investigate industrial * in the West and directly ler he directed Mr. Itensniore Into the Mooney case, mation regarding investigaonducted since the trial was by Mr. Wilson on the grounds " J