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GOVERNOR BLEASE THE FIRST
SPEAKER?SAYS HE KNOWS
NO FACTIONALISM.?McLEOD
PRAISES THE FARMER.
Columbia, June 20.?The state
campaign got under way here today
with a large audience hearing the
two women candidates and the host
of male aspirants for state offices. The
candidates for Governor spoke first,
each allowed twenty minutes. Cole L
Blease spoke first. He read a state
ment, declaring that he would deliv
er a public address in Columbia at a
later date. He stated that he was
in favor of reduced taxes, the aboli
tion of useless offices and liberal ap
propriations for state institutions,
but that he was against extravagance.
He favored building up the public
school system, paying school teachers
more, laws to further protect labor,
liberal and even extravagant support
Confederate Veterans, and strict
enforcement of the laws.
Mr. Blease said he would know no
factionalism and would not inject
personalities into the campaign, un
less others injected them first. He
said he favored abolition of the tax
commission, which he described as a
useless office. He would reduce the
tax levy to the lowest possible limit,
without crippling state governmental
agencies. He favored a one mill levy
for state schools, a board to make'all
purchases for the state, a water pow
er tax, biennial sessions of the legis
latures, and federal care of the Ca
tawba Indians.
J. J. Cantey of Summerton and
William Coleman of Whitmire, can
didates for Governor, were absent.
George K. Laney, of Chesterfield,
stated that he was tied to nobody's
apron strings, that he would repre
sent every citizen of the State if elect
ed. He said he believed ail business
interests should rise to the assistance
of the agricultural interests, the far
mer being the basis of all welfare of
the state. He favored rigid economy
in government, without injuring effic
iency; he wanted to relieve real es
tate of the heavy burden of taxa
tion; he favored reclassification of
property for taxation; he would seek
other means of raising state revenue;
he favored continuation of the tax
fofft-rmc erf-nrfeH hv the last legislature
he plead for support of education; he
wanted liberal support of veterans
and the State hospital; he stood for
law enforcement.
Thomas G. McLeod of Bishopville,
former Lieutenant Governor, charac
terized the farmer as the backbone of
the State's Progress; he favored
equalization of the tax burden; he
stated that he thought the best ef
forts of his life had been those in be
half of the schools of his community,
he said that he stood squarely be
hind law enforcement, for upholding
the verdicts of juries and for the
punishment of criminals.
William Coleman of Union, stated
that his ambition was to serve his
State. He announced that he would
speak again to the people of Colum
bia from the capitol steps, this even
ing.
John- T. Duncan attacked the "sys
tem" and wanted natural resources
conserved.
Both Mrs. Martha Wallace of Co-|
lumbia and Mrs. Bessie Rogers Drake
of Bennettsville, candidates for State
Superintendent of Education, were
given ovations, flowers were brought
to the stage.
JOHN KLUGH ILL.
John Klugh continues sick at his
home in the city. He was taken sick
just before the closing exercises 01
the school and was not able to at
tend the graduating exercises of hisi
class. Supt. Fulp presented his diplo-j
ma personally the next morning. His i
coatinued illness is a matter of re
gret to his many friends, <
BRITISH WELUUMb .
[ CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT
CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED 1
STATES APPEARS AT BAN
QUET?GREAT LtUAL minuj
OF ENGLAND JOIN WITH FIVE
MEMBERS OF CABINET.
London, June 20.?Britain's fore
most statesmen, jurists and lawyers i
and a jfreat body of American friends <
joined in an impressive reception to -t
William Howard Taft, chief justice of
the United States, upon his first pub- ]
lie appearance in England tonight. ,
He was the guest of honor at the Pil- ]
grims' banquet at which five members ,
of the eabinet, many former cabinet t
ministers and the greatest legal minds (
in the country lent their presence. ]
Rarely before has a visiting Am
erican received such a spontaneous
welcome. The king, the Prince of
Wales and Duke of Connaught sent
messages of greeting and the Earl of
Balfour and the Very Rev. William
Ralph Luge, dean of St. Paul's, testi
fied to the affection and admiration
in which Mr. Taft is held by the
English people.
Those who sat at the principal ta
bles with Lord Desborough, Chief Jus.
tice Taft and Ambassador Harvey in
cluded the Archbishop of Canterbury
the Earl of Balfour, the Earl of Der
by, the Earl of Devonshire, Viscount
Cave, Lord Lee of Fareham, Lord
Carson, Lord Buckmaster, Lord Sum
ner and James M. Beck, solictor gen
eral of the United States.
The other guests included Viscount
Astor, the American consul general,
Robert P. Skinner, and the staff of
the American embassy.
Mr. Taft proceeded briefly to re
view the history of the relations be
tween Great Britain and America, in
the course of which he said: "No
trouble arises between the two coun
tries that we of America do not look
forward to its settlement either by
negotiation or by arbitration. Any
other event is not considered for a
moment. This American state of mind
is a constant factor in our relations;
it sometimes produces an apparent
indifference or lack of excitement on
the part of our people over irritating
issues that is misleading to the Brit
ish observer."
TOM HOWIE HAS FEVfcK
Tom Howie, the fourteen year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. T. V.
Howie, is sick at the home of his
parents with typhoid fever. Tom is
one of the fine boys of the high
school contingent and his school
mates, as well as friends of the
family, will regret to know that he
is sick. Tom is also the "devil" at
the Press and Banner office,
where he is a consistent and faith
ful worker and the "force" will
greatly miss him while he is whip
ping the fever.
TO LEAVE ABBEVILLE
J. L. Anderson expects to leave
Abbeville about the first of August ,
for Laurinburg, N. where he will (
go into the furniture business. He ,
was engaged in that business in Col- ,
umbia three years before moving to ,
Abbeville. Mr. Anderson will move
his family to Laurinburg the first of ,
August also.
VISITING THE OU> HOME.
Mrs. B. A. Maultsby and two chil- ,
dren of Bennettsville, Mrs. Maurice
Garner and her young daughter of
Union are in the city for a summer (
visit to their mother, Mrs. J. C.
Klugh. Miss Margaret Klagh, who has
taught successfully in Columbia is
also at home tor tne vacation.
ENROLLMENT SLIM
The enrollment, on the Democratic
club books is slim. The last day to ,
enroll for the primary election in
August will be July the 2fth. ,
\Wt M'lVtK
DIES SUDDENLY
MONDAY AFTERNOON IN DAR
LINGTON WHERE HE WAS
HOLDING COURT?-BODY CAR
RIED TO CHERAW AND FUN
ERAL HELD YESTERDAY.
Darlington, June 19.?Judge Ed
;vard Mclver of the Fourth judicial
circuit died at the Hotel McFall here
it 3:45 o'clock Monday afternoon.
Judge Mclver had come to Dar
ington for the summer term of court
vhich he opened this morning. He
lad not been well, but his condition
aras such that he opened the court
ind continued business until 12
j'clock when he was forced to adjourn
because of his illness.
Judge Mclver showed signs of im
provement after being taken to the
lOtel and the ill man advised against
;aJling his family. He had suffered
similar attacks previously, and he
thought it unnecessary to alarm his
"amily. Within a short time he be
;ame worse and died at 3:45 o'clock,
rhe body was taken to Che raw Mon
lay night for interment.
Judge Mclver was the son of the
ate Chief Justice Henry Mclver and
vould have been 64 years old next
Dctober. He was bom in Cheraw and
lad lived here practically his entire
ife, his early education being re
vived in the Cheraw schools. He re
vived the degree of bachelor of laws
from the University of Maryland and
n 1878 was admitted to the practice
>f law. Mr. Mclver served as secre
;ary to Representative Hemphill in
Washington and then returning to
Cheraw took up the practice of his
>rofession. For years he was a leader
>f the Cheraw bar, nls knowledge of
;he law being given official recogni
;ion in 1918 when he was named
udge of the Fourth judicial circuit,
lis first term expired in 1922 and at
he last session of the general assem
>ly he was again elected to the bench.
WILL HIVE VOTE
ON SHIP SUBSIDY
Washington, June 20.?President
larding tonight gave formal approv
il to plans of Republican leaders in
;he house to bring the administra
;ion ship subsidy bill to a vote at this
session immediately after the tariff
>ill has been sent to conference by
;he house.
The president's position was stated
n a letter to Representative Mon
iell of Wyoming, the Republican
eader, which embodies also detailed
arguments advanced by Mr. Harding
n favor of enactment of the mea&
jre at the present session.
Public interest will not admit of a
postponement of decision on the pol
icy to the next congress or the ap
proaching short session, the president
said, but advantage will result in a
ielay of a short time while house
members particularly, many of whom
are now away from Washington, con
sult their constituents. The subsidy
bill, he declared, is needed to g?t
the government's ship holdings into
private hands and into economic us
age, if for nothing else, and this
question, he held, is "not to be pre
judiced by the old and wornout cry
against subsidy."
The exact time fixed for voting on
the measure, the president said in
describing his agreement with house
leaders, is "approximately such time
as house members will be called in
active attendance to send the tariff
bill to conference."
CHILDREN'S DAY AT GILGAL.
Children's day service will be held
at Gilgal church Saturday, June 24th.
Also third quarterly conference. Dim
ner on tllfe grrouids.
UtLAT IU UOIVIt
MADE SPECIAL ORDER AFTER
TARIFF?MOVES TO UPSET
PLANS OF REPUBLICAN MA
JORITY FAIL?MUCH TIME IS
CONSUMED.
Washington, June 20.?The sol
diers' bonus bill was made today by
a vote of 52 to 8' the special order
of business of the senate immediate
ly after the final vote on the tariff
iKill unless i+. is disnosed of before
that time.
Adoption of a motion to this effect
came after an all day fight at the out
set of which an effort to get the bon
us before the senate failed. Several
senators gave formal notice that they
would continue to press for action
on the bonus ahead of the tariff.
A move to upset the program of
the Republican majority calling for
action first on the tariff was launched
by Senator Walsh (Democrat) of
Massachusetts, who made a formal
motion that the tariff bill be displac
ed by the bonus. Senator Watson
(Republican) of Indiana moved to
lay this motion on the table and bis
motion prevailed 51 to 22. Eight
Democrats supported the Watson mo
tion and two Republicans voted a
gainst it.
With the announcement of the re
sult of this vote the bonus row began
in earnest and waged continuously
for five hours. In the midst of it, Sen
ator Watson of Indiana offered a mo
tion that the bonus be made a spe
cial order of business immediately
after the final vote on the tariff and
that thereafter it be held continuous
1v before the senate unless two-thirds
of the senate voted to displace it.
Senator Underwood of Alabama,
the Democratic leader, and an oppo
nent of the bonus, made a point of
order against the two-thirds vote pro
vision, pointing out that this was In
the nature of an amendment to an
amendment to the senate rules. The
point of order was sustained and that
provision was withdrawn.
IS VERY SERIOUS
San Antonio, Texas., June 2G.?
Twenty-one thousand acres of Rio
Grande Valley land with crops valued
at $2,500,000 flooded in Hidalgo
county, a fresh rise in the lower
stretches of the Rio Gjrande as the
it a 1 j. Aowla|
result UI 11UUU WttlCia wmm v.aui&
down late yesterday from the San
Juan river in Mexico, while the cloud
burst flood of the upper river is near
ing its crest at Laredo, 150 miles up
stream, summarized the border flood
situation early today.
Meanwhile the fate of 18,000 in
habitants of Piedraas Negras Mexico
across the river from Eagle Pass, iso
lated since railroad and highway
bridges were swept out Sunday night
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The city, is surrounded by water
and the food supply is thought to be
short.
The flood stage at Laredo this
morni?g was 27 feet and rising. Late
last night a stage of 40 feet was re
ported at Palafox, 62 miles upstream
and that border village was threaten
ed with inundation. Apparently the
flood is traveling at the rate of 13
miles an hour. Its crest probably will
not reach the swollen stretches of the
lower Rio Grande before late Wed
nesday.
The section, situated in the Hil
dago and Cameron counties, contains
nearly twenty prosperous towns and
is a highly developed agricultural
section settled largely by farmers
from the middle western states. The
total population exceeds 190,000.
J. H. Hall of Bethla was ia town
today.
WAY UNIUN5 r
IE
^GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP S"
1SJOT Tft HP ice v tp t a nrwn I
BODY AGREES TO WITH
HOLD REAFFIRMATION OF
STAND IN FAVOR OF POLICY
Cincinnati, June 20.?Govern
ment ownership and operation of
the railroads will not be an issue in
the threatened strike of 1,000,000
shop workers and others, spokes
men for the rail unions told the
American Federation of Labor
convention today Which responded
to their request by withholding a
reaffirmation of the federation's
stand in favor of the adoption of
sucn a policy.
"The rail unions have not aban
doned the program of public own
ership, or grown lukewarm or in
different," declared William El
Johnston, president df the ma
chinists' union, in explaining the
request "We ask no declaration,
however, because we iave a most
unfriendly and unsympatlhetic ad
ministration at this time. Our ene
mies Would say if the strike occurs
in the very near future that the
fight was for government owner
ship. I believe the strike is inevi
table for there is no other way out
and we want the issue clear out.
The issue is the amelioration of
the wrongs committed by the rail
road labor board/'
Similar pleas by others, who are
the prospective leaders in the
threateed walk out, led Max Qayes
of Cleveland to withdraw his mo
tion for a redeclaration of the
government ownership policy. The
question was injected into the con
vention's work when it, for a sec
ond time during the day, went on
record as favoring repeal of the
transportation act, In which con
nection it denounced the railroad
board for its order, especially
those reducing wages and changing
Working conditions. .
In addition to its big program of
work, the convention was marked
by the beginning of a movement to
run Mr. Lewis as a. candidate for
president of the federation in ,op
postion to the reelection of Samuel
Gompers.
TPIP TO THIMNFY ROCK
sr
Walter Sherard drove Mr. and
Mrs. R. T. Gibbons, Mrs. D. M.Gib
bons and Miss Clarice Gibbons to
Chimney Rock Sunday. They left
Abbeville about 7 o'clock in the
morning, and reached Chimney
Rock at 2 o'clock in the afternoon,
making stops at Greenville and
various places enroute. They came
home after the heat of the day,
without mishap. In fact the nearest
they came to an accident was when
a courting couple, drivng on the
Greenville highway, rolled off the
side of the highway into a ditch.
COTTON REPORT
The best price for cotton on the
local market today was 23 5-16
cents. Futures closed
July 2/2.81
(October 22.81
December 22.61
January _ 22.49
(Futures closed Tuesday
July 22,48
October ? 22.42
December , 22J26
January ?j 22.18
COMMISSARY BROKEN INTO
The commissary of Hill and Fri
day was broken into this morning.
Hill and Friday are contractors
buildng the Oalhoun Falls road and
their commissary Is on the War
renton road just beyond the Coun
ty Farm. Sheriff McLane was call
ed about 12 o'clock and went to
the scene but had not returned at
the time of going to press. ^
AVUKABLt floftlil ?
FOR BIG BUSINESS
rEEL PRODUCTION AT RECORD
FIGURE FOR YEAR?MORE
COKE PLANTS IN OPERATION
AND MORE BLAST FURNACES
V
BEING BLOWN IN.
New Yofrk, June 20.?Industrial
id financial conditions in the last
eek presented a generally favorable
spect, notwithstanding the reaction
y tendency in the securities market,
hich apparently was connected with
le technical speculative position.
Steel production exceeded the beat
?te previously attained this year,
[ore coke plants were started and
lore Diast furnaces blown m. Uoai
reduction was greater and some ob
jrvers believe that plants were in
reparation for reopening anion min
3 in the Pittsburgh district.
Detroit employment figures show
i another increase, thus confirming
atements of automobile manufac
irers as to the continuation of sat
factory business.
xiauroaa car loaamg ugiires tuu
nue good, although the absolute .
amber reported, during the week
id, June 3, was smaller than in the
revious week, the rate was higher,
' allowance be made for the Memo- .1
al day holiday.
A similar calculation showed that
le gain in the absolute amount of
)tton consumed by mills during May
? compared with April was not ac
rnnted for merely by the greater
amber of working days in the later
onth. May's takings correspond al- |
ost exactly to the average for the
st ten months, which in turn were * y
3 per cent, greater than those in '
ie corresponding period of a year
jo. If the present rate c>f consump
on is continued during June and
ily the total for the crop year will
nount to nearly 6,000,000 bales. Ex
>rts during the same interval will . |
ive drawn slightly more than an- ?
:her 6.000.000 bales from our sup
y. As the actual yield of the last
op totaled 8,300,000 bales, it was
jlieved that the carryover will have
;en reduced by approximately 4,
)0,000 bales. It will be, in fact, ?
mewhat less than normal. Prospect9 V
?r a full crop in the coming year
eanwhile remained doubtful and
peratives in the New Hampshire
ixtile mills were . reported to be
lowing a greater disposition to re
irn to work.
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The week which brought unusually
rge financial transactions by the
easury passed without creating any
isturbances in the money market.
hese transactions, which centered on
line 15, included the collection of
300,000,000 in income taxes, the pay
tent of $125,000,000 in interest on
iberty bonds, the paying off of $380
00,000 in maturing certificates of
idebtedness, the redemption of $250
00,000 in Victory notes and the flo
ition of ?2t>u,uuu,uuu in new certm
ates.
The rate on call money, the most#
jnsitive index of the market's con
ition, ruled at close to 3 per cent,
iroughout the week and at 2 3-4 per
ent., touched what was virtually a
ew low since October, 1917.
VISITORS FROM KERSHAW
Mrs, Alma 0. Gibbons returned
rom Rock Hill Friday where she
as been attending the short
ourse. She and Mr. Gibbons made
tie trip home through the country
oming by way of Camden, and ,
ringing home with them as guests
Irs. D. M. Gibbons of Kershaw
nd Miss Clarice Gibbons of Moun*
lion for a visit of a week or more.
LAW GOVERNING SE,INING
The present law makes it unlawf
ul to seine on Monday, or Tue?
ay, but Wednesday, Thursday,
'riday and Saturday are perfe?tly
iwful days to use a sei*e in Soutk
laroldna.