Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PUBLISHED THREE TJ3 THAT OlD YEL Heard on So Many Victorious Battlefields is Heard at Mt bile THE OLD CONFEDS ffiEETi Once More the Grand Old Heroes of the Lost Cause Assemble in Con vention, and Are Most Cordially and Warmly Welcomed to the City of Mobile. The Confederate Veterarp captur ed Moblie Tuesday, where the were received with open arms er 1 bright smiles of young and old. 'Although the opening of the Re union was set for 9 o'c'jck Tuesday morning, it was after 10 when .Mrs. J. Griffin Edwards commancer-in chief of the Confederate choir, swung her baton over the gray clad choir of women and a bugle sounded as sembly. The sessions of the Reunion art being held in a huge tout in Mon roe Park. It looks like a circus tent with thousands of seats in the ampitheatre and tier upon tier of che familiar circus benches rising all round. The tent was filled long before th*> opening number and finally the ?ic:es were raised and those outside were permitted to see even if they could not hear. fThe arrival of Gen. Clement A. Evans was the signal for the first ovation, which drowned out the ef forts of three brass bands, each one playing a different air, but when Mrs. Edwards signalled her choir to rise, and faced the audience, her slender figure almost shrouded in a huge silk Confederate flag, there was a roar that outclassed even the greet Ing to the commanding general. "Dixie," was the call from all over the huge tent; a band from Little Rock, answered the call, and ear splitting demonstration followed. The chairman finally succeeded in making his talk and then the de mands for "Dixie" were complied r with. Escorted by a score of Confed erate generals in full uniform, her self wearing a major general's insig nia, Mrs. Edwards took the stage. Surrounded by her choir, the or chestra struck into the War Hymn of the South. Mrs. Edwards' clear so prano filled the tent. When the song was over there was another demon stration. Miss Vera Williams, one of Mobile's prettiest young women, recited an original poem, and Gov ernor Comer, of Albaama, was intro duced, and extended a welcome to the old veterans to Alabama. (A speech of welcome by Mayor Lyons, the acceptance of the auditor ium by Gen. Evans, some more mus ic and the naming of committees on credentials and resolutions rounded out the morning session. The orator of the day was Judge L. B. McFarland, of Memphis, a dis tinguished officer of the Lost Cause. Judge iMcFarland reviewed the cause that led up to the conflict and dis claimed the South's responsible for the struggle, holding that It was pure patriotism that led the men who fought under the Stars and Bars to leave the Union, which he said, they loved, fought and died for in other days. Gen. Bingham has been assigned the subject of "Justice to the South," and he began by reciting the dying commission of Gen. Stephen D. Lee to the sons of Confederate Soldiers, the famous commission to defend and emulate the men who wore the grey. He next read some of the resolutions passed by the Grand Army posts, es pecially in Massachusetts, protesting against the erecting in the National Capital the statue of Gen. Robt. E. Lee attired in a Confederate uniform. He declared that he had not read "these base slanders" with any idea of answering them, because they "gained no credence even among the stupidest and most ignorant of our people." "It is but simple justice to add," the speaker continued, "that not all the people of Massachusetts are so wretchedly ignorant, so stup idly partisan as this extract from the resolutions read to you would indi cate." Then Gen Bingham told bow Cbas. Francis Adams, of Boston, bad de clared that had be been in Gen. Lee's place he would have acted as Lee did. Ringham declares that it was the duty of the people of the South to teach their children, to en enlighten their fellow countrymen, to tell the world the circumstances which brought on the war, the is sues that divided brothers, to see that future generations do justice, not only to the South, but to our coun try and our race. He declared the war was not one of rebellion in any sense, but merely a struggle to main tain the idea of local self-govern ment which the Southern people, be cause in their veins ran the purest on Anglo-Saxon blood on all the con tinents, had inherited from ancict.t times. "Yet. in the histories written by Americans, read by all our people, studied by children in all sections, the War Between the States is called the war of rebellion, and Southern people are branded before all the world as traitors and rebels. And further, these .historians tell our children that this War Between the States was not only a rebellion, but a rebellion caused by the desire of the Southern States to perpetuate the IES A WEEK. ?? /RIEND OF TRUSTS THAT i, -1U, ^RYAN SAYS OF I GOYEi*.. .-TUGHES. Galls Attention to Some Things in I His Political Career to Prove What He Says. I lAt Lincoln, Neb., Wm. Jennings j Bryan commented Tuesday on the appointment of Governor Hughes as I Associate Justice of the Supreme [ Court as follows: "The appointment of Governor Hughes to the Supreme Court bench will be regarded by many as a popu lar appointment. He has been put forward as a reformer and seems to be considered one by a great many good people, but his reputation as a reformer rests upon a few official acts which show him opposed 'to grafting and to the individual vices, but no one who will examine his Re cord can doubt that he is in close sympathy with the exploiting cor porations. "It will be remembered that he ve toed the bill for the reduction of railroad rates after a New York Leg islature?and a Republican Legisla ture at that-had passed the reduction bill. This measure gave to the con gested population of New York the two cent rate now enjoyed by the ?nore scattered population of the Western States, and .his veto of It is j conclusive proof that he obeys tiie dictates of the railway managers, in stead of listening to the voice of the public. "He is understood to be a close personal friend of Rockefeller, and the published reports show that the trust magnates have contributed, lib erally to .his campaign funds. He has not hesitated to show that he ac knowledges his indebtedness. In 19OS he was the chief defender ol inaction of the Republican party on the trust question. "It will be remembered also that he was the first prominent man to oppose the income tax, and his op position came after Mr. Rockefeller had announced hostility to the in come tax amendment. The corpora tion attorneys who led an argumeni against the income tax with the Al bany Legislature presented the same argument that Governor Hughes did, and these corporation attorneys, with Governor Hughes' powerful aid, bare ly succeeded in preventing the rati fication- of the amendment by the State of New York. "What would he do on the Su preme Bench if any question arose affecting the income tax? His var ious speeches show that he feels no hostility toward private monopolies, and there is no reason to doubt that his decisions would he In line with his speeches. "Governor Hughes exemplifies the individual vissitudes and natur ally demands honesty in the public service, but he is a shining illustra tion of that peculiar type of citizen developed in this country during the present generation?the citizen w.ho personally opposes vice and is a pun isher of small crimes, but shows no indignation at the larger forms of le galized robbery." BRYAN IS AN ELDER. Elected to Church Office and Xa.licJ as Delegate. W. J. Bryan was Sunday ordained as an elder in the Westm.nl v r Pres byterian Church, of Lincoln, Neb., and following his ordination was se lected as a delegate at large to the Ecumenical Council of the Presby terian church to be held at Ed.u burgh, Scotland, in June. The ceremony of installing Mr. Bryan as an elder occupied the entlr-2 service at the church. He made an ex tended address, accepting the place to which he had been promoted by the church trustees during bio ab sence in South America. Warm Up North. While it is freezing in the South record breaking temperatures have accompanied a hot wave tha: has been experienced' on the west const of Newfoundland for t.he past Few days. At points where the usual temperature at this season of she year would be below freezing, the thermometers have registered as high as S5 degrees in the shade. institution of slavery." rrhe speaker declared that this statement was maliciously false and that instead of six million foul trait ors, the South gave life to six mil lion patriots. He appealed to the future to remove this stain, -not only from the South, but from the en tire country, and declared that the South was animated by the noblest patriotism in seccession. Tie showed how slavery was an inheritance from British ancestry and how every man (who signed the Declaration of Inde pendence was a slave owner. He declared that it was only when the slave traffic became unprofitable in the North that New England rais ed the question of the wrong slav ery. Even when the war began there was no question of the continuance of slavery, he assorted, and it did not arise until two years later, when, in violation of the Constitution, the emancipation proclamation was is sued. He closed wit.h an appeal to the Sons of Veterans to wage un ceasing war against the slanders and falsehoods told in histories, and urg ed them never to rest until they had revealed the truth to the world. ORAN"GrEBlJJR MAKING A RECORD WHAT A WASHINGTON PAPER SAYS ABOUT SMITH. Thinks He Is the Fastest Speaker in the Senate and Makes the Repub licans Listen. Ever since Senator Ellison Durant Smith, of South Carolina, made his advent into Washington political lifa last year, local newspapers .have been having considerable fun at his ex pense. He has been called "Gatling gun," "Boll-weevil," "Cotton" and "Cyclone" Smith at times, as the oc casion seemed to demand. The Washington Times, witnessing the terrible dust raised in the Senate on Saturday, when Mt. Smith began to talk on the cotton pool, Sunday print ed the following story concerning his efforts: "Senator Smith, of South Carolina, has gained a sobriquet. He is called 'Cyclone Smith.' This is because of his cyclonic delivery in debate. He can speak faster than any man In the Senate. 'His first real debate came yesterday, when he attacked the At torney General because of the 'cotton trust' probe instituted by the depart ment of justice. The South Caro linian 'is a cotton expert. He knows his business from the seed in the ground to the frabric on the store shelf. He organized the cotton grow ers in the movement to hold the sta ple for better prices. "This fund of cotton knowledge was used to overwhelm the Senate yesterday. For nearly two hours the Senator spoke and ten relays of sten ographers were necessary to catch his remarks. Not a note did he use. All the torrent of talk seemed to rise spontaneously and the deluge was complete. "Withal, Senator Smith spoke to good effect for a new senator. He held the attention of more Republi can Senators during his address than many of his older Democratic asso ciates do when they rise to address the Senate. He did more. He bait ed Senator Aldrich until that leader rose to defend the tariff from the South Carolina onslaught. That wa? how vigorously 'the attack was made. Senator Smith is not exactly of the fire-eating type, but he borders close ly on it. It is suggested that a lit tle more Senate training will temper him somewhat and that he is, there? fore, destined to become a forceful dehator." ?If this keeps up South Carolina will have a regular "catch-em-alive" man in Die Senate before Congress adjourns. ALLEGED DEAN OF SWINDLERS. "Chappy" Moran Captured by Detec tives In Chicago. Charles Moran, better known as "Chappy" Moran, alleged by Post office Inspector Stuart, of Chicago, and Inspector Cortel of Philadelphia, to be the dean of American swin dlers, is under arrest at Chicago, awaiting removal to Philadelphia. In the last twenty years Moran's alleged illegal gains are said to ag gregate to a million dollars. He never operated on a small scale. As Detectives Moore and Elston, of Chicago, found Moran, he was occu pying an expensive suite of three rooms in an aristocratic hotel. A valet attended him and had plenty to do caring for his master's exten sive wardrobe. Moran is said to be known on both sides of the Atlantic, having in his earlier days plied the profession nf gaming on the big liners. Later hi became known as a daring and suc cessful wire ta:-ner. He is sai l fo have originated the "sick engineer" mining swindle, his first trial of this scheme having netted him $4 8.000. His picture is said, by Inspectors, to be in every rogues' gallery ir this country and Europe. There has !>? -en a standing order in New York for years to arrest him on sight, so it is said. SCENTS DEMOCRATIC VICTORY. Ex-Gov. Folk of Missouri Thinks the Party Has Fine Prospects. Joseph W. Folk, former Governor of Missouri, left New York Tuesday night for St. Louis with word's of cheer for the Democratic ot Ionic, comments on the high cost of living, and criticism of James Wilson, Sec retary of Agriculture. "Taft, doubtless, will be tha next Presidential candidate." he said. '?The Republican party wir. li ve to nominate him. Roosevelt must either endorse him or destroy h! u. H Mr. Roosevelt tries to JJStroy Mr. Taft be will place himself in tbo position of admitting that be com mitted as grave an error in trying to create a President as Frauken Stein did in his efforts to mane a man." Mr. Folk was asked whether be thought there was any chance of Mr. Roosevelt, entering the next, resi dential race. "1 don't know; there might be a third party." he said. Here It Is Again. A dispatch from Wash'utoi says more than two hundred delegates la the national convention of Daugh ters of 1812 were present whan tbo session opened Monday. Presidtni Taft will receive the delegates Wed nesday at the White House. G-, S. C, Til K DAY, AI ; NIPS THE CROP Snow, Sleet and Wry Cold Weather in Many Pdrts of the South. Cause df mm alarm Record Breaking Venther Through out the Southland, Damage:! the Young Cotton and Other Crops to the Amount of Millions of Dol lars, If They Are Destroyed. An Atlanta dispatch says with snow storms of blizzard proportions raging throughout east Tennessee, northern and central Alabama and the greater part of Georgia, and freezing temperatures . in other sec tions of the South, this section of the country Monday faced the great est loss in early cotton, fruits and vegetables experienced in many years. In Georgia alone, according to tiie Commissioner of Agriculture fully r>0 per cent of the cotton crop is killed. More than 90 per cent of the crop was above ground and reports indicate that a scarcity of seed will prevent replanting of vast acreages. It was sleeting in Atlanta Monday night. A snow and sleet storm struck northern Alabama Sunday nig-ht and Monday morning, and according to the weather bureau in Birmingham extreme cold weather is general throughout the State. At 8 o'clock Monday morning the thermometer registered 33 degrees, with no in dications of it going up. Reports are coming in that fruit is being dam aged, while truck will be killed alto gether. The records show this to be the coldest April day in the history of the State. Reports received Monday from many sections of Louisiana and Mis sissippi indicate that thousands ol acres of cotton have been severely damaged by the cold of Sunday night and the night before. In many in stances replanting will be necessary. Truck and fruit farms fiave suffered considerable injury. At Nashville, Tenn., snow began falling between 3 and 4 o'clock Mon day morning and continued until 8 o'clock with a fall of 1 8-4 inches, the first snow in April since 1 886. There was also a trace of snow the first of last May. The government thermometer registered 32 degrees at 6 o'clock Monday morning. While early vegetables will no doubt suffer from ;;his unprecedented cold snap it is believed that fruit will escape serious damage by rea son of its protecting foliage. A special from Adiarsville, Ky.. reports a snowfall of six inches at that place Sunday night and Mon day morning. Reports from Benton, Polk county, show a two-inch snow In that sec tion Monday morning preceeried by a heavy frost Saturday, which it is believed practically destroyed the fruit crop and growing vegetables. Snow and freezing weather ex tended as far south in Alabama as ?Montgomery, the greatest losses fail ing in the northern part of the State, where the damage is estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Light snow is also reported in North ern Mississippi, while extreme cold in northern and western Texas has also wrought considerable damage to I crops of all kinds. Gotten growers in the vicinity of Memphis declare that the present un precedented visitation of wintry weather has killed or injured all the crops. Replanting will be nec essary in a wide area. Monday the mercury registered 30 dPrrees at 10 o'clock. The records show no jiaral lel in 41 years. Five inches of snow covers the sec tion about Hopkinsvillo. The cold found many persons unprepared for it and there has b. en rome suffering among t.he dependent classes. Ad vices from Columbus, .Miss., says that snow and sleet fell Sunday night. Early cotton and fruit was killed and fanners in the Prairie sod ion of the State will be forced to r< plant the cotton crop. Advices from Dal las Monday state that eastern Texas is experiencing the coldest weather ever known. There was a light frost Sunday night and cotton will be re tarded in its growth. Fruit was badly damaged. In the northern and middle sec tions of Alabama the fruit is badly hurt, in most, cases killed, while the small vegetables are either killed or so badly Injured as to greatly decrease tho prospective yield. The fearful thing about th" loss of the cotton plant Is that it will 1.: practically impossible to re place it. Seed that may be had? and even these are scarce -are at least 2(\ per cent off in efficiency as compared to those already planted. 'For the first time in the history of Atlanta an April snow fell early Monday. A cold midwinter rain, which began Sunday night, turned into snow Monday morning and for three hours the fall continued. It was as heavy as. if not heavier than, any of the past winter. With cooler weather predicted, there is much ap prehension for the saf ty tof t.he fruit, much of which, it is feared, has been ruined by the drop in the temperature. Reports of severe damage were re yRlh 28, 1910 DISGUISED AS WHITES NEGROES HELP CP AND ROBBED CREWS OF TROLLEYS in > The Robbers Wore White .Masks and ' Gloves, and Hod Running Fight With Police of New Orleans. After successfully holding up and robbing the crews and passengers of street cars on several occasions a gang of negroes disguised as white men were rounded up by the New Orleans police on the outskirts of the city early Tuesday. In a running battle with the officers one of the negroes was fatally wounded. To throw off all suspicion as to their color, the dighwaymen wore w.hite kid gloves and m.asks that completely covered their faces. Fol lowing several holdups, Chief of Po lice O'Connor and Chief of Detectives Reynolds Monday night laid a trap, into which the highwaymen fell. The result was a running fight, shortly before daylight between Al fred and Ollie Smith, brothers, and Patrolmen Roy and Jackson, imme diately after the negroes had held up a car on the Peters avenue line. The negroes were making for the swamps and exchanged a score or more of shots with the patrolmen. Alfred Smith, one of the negroes, finally fell with several shots through his body and .his brother was cap tured a short time later. The capture of the Smiths result ed in the rounding up of several other negroes alleged to be members of the gang which .has been opera ting successfully for a week or more|, A trunk filled with valuables taken from passengers was being prepar ed for shipment when the subsequent arrests were made. REMEMBERED THEIR PRESIDENT Old Confeds Pay Homage to His Granddaughter. At Mobile on Tuesday a slender black clad, frig.htened girl stood on a raised platform and while six thous and Confederate Veterans cheered, and while the bands played "Dixie," a score or more gray-beared Confed erate general 'officers passed in re view before her, and, with uncover ed heads, kissed her hand. The young girl Miss Lucy W.hite Hayes, granddaughter of the only President of the Confederacy. The incident was the climax of the first day's session of the United Confederate Veterans. The big tent, which is said to seat comfortably six thousand people, was packed to its topmost tier of seats. The sides had been raised and the throngs out side had pressed in. When the new "Daughter of the Oonfederacy" was being presented to the Convention, the old Veterans went mad. The band was playing "Dixie"?three of them wore?but the combined brassies could not drown out the cheers. The Veterans surged forward but the ropes stop I ped them. Then one by one, the stately general officers on the stage moved in review before the- frighten ed, trembling girl and each kissed her hand as he passed. Miss Hayes's eves filled with tears and she seemed overcome with emo tion as she passed back to her seat, on the arm of her maid of honor, Miss Ella Mitchell. Hiss Hayes is the "sponsor for the Southern Con federacy" In the Reunion and take rank over all other sponsors and maids. CAUSED KY GASOLINE LAMP. Flames and Water Do Great Damage in Anderson. A defective gasoline lamp caused a fire in Anderson on Monday that caused a loss of more than $25,000. Harrison Ferguson who carried a stock of notions and dry goods of about $25,000 lit the lamp in the rear of Iiis store. The pipe leading to the lamp evidently had been leak ing for a puff followed and imme diately the rear of the store was afire. flood work on the part of the fire men confined the flames to the Fer guson store room, but the stock ill the two adjacent stores was damaged by water. T.he burned store room was owned by X. B., .1. iM., and Mrs. Leila Sullivan. The loss to the store room is about $2,500, with $2,200 insurance. Mr. Ferguson carried $10,500 insurance. Hud ( lose Call. At Sacremcnto, Cat, live persons in n captive baloon narrowly e?caj. ivl being dashed to death A'nei tho gas bag ripped and the- bai'oc, i de scended. The baloon was demolish ed. The passengers wer.' saved by the gas bug striking overhead wires (?? ived from practically all of the gulf States and States farther north re port conditions much worse than those in the far south. Texas is said to have suffered severely. Palestine Texas, reported ;i temperature of Z4 degrees. Reports of ice in many sections of Mississippi were received, ami the Georgia crop. <>n which nun? in large part the hopes of the bears was reported to have been severely damaged. All of the cotton which was ui> in many parts of the interior of the South is reported killed and the seed which had been put In the ground is said to be rotting. TALKS OF POOL PROBE GOES FOR WICKER-SHAM WITH GLOVES OFF. Gov. Croiner, of Alabama, Charges the Attorney-General With Pon dering to the Hears. In his address of welcome at the opening of the Confederate reunion at Mobiio Tuesday Governor B. B. Cromer of Alabama, in addition to greeting the eld soldiers in a cordial way, took a fall out of Attorney Gen eral Wickersham for his prosecution of the men who tried to break up the cotton pool holdings. He said "And now we .have the remarka ble spectacle of an attorney general of the United States instituting le gal process for the arrest of citizens who are trying to break the power of speculative cliques which through the New York exchange .have fatten ed by using millions of money to force the price of cotton up and down, and without regard to the effect on the grower, the consumer or the manufacturer. I say v.'e have an attorney general of the United States instituting processes of the court for the arrest of business men who are trying to establish regularity in the price of cotton, founded on supnly and demand." The governor asserted that the at torney general failed to show that it. is the purpose to prevent specula tive sales of cotton whenever it suits the speculators to press down the price of the staple. He charges that when the speculators are caught short and are forced to deliver the thousands of bales they never even saw, they call on the federal gov ernment, and in helping them the attorney general forgets the inter ests of the toiling masses of the South, the poorest paid labor in America. He was astonished at any officer thus attempting to injure the citizens of t.he South for the bene fit of the specultors in the South's great rroduct. "We of the South," he said, after condemning the Aldrich tariff hill, "have never asked for a tariff which would enrich us by levying a tax on t.he public for our benefit. We have oiever treated our patriotism, 'our citizens.hip, as a commodity; we have never commercialized our vote." In another place the governor says the South occupies an abnormal pos ition with regard to the rest of the country?that of an unloved step child. "I think it is time for t.he South to cease to be a province," he said, "and that we should take our rightful position in the national house and be treated like the rest the national governmentejrpxzfiflffiff of t.he family." He commended the national government for the loan of tents. To the old men of arms the gov ernor said: "Nothing could surpass yonr heroism in those four years' ser vice, in the 45 years since, in the spectacular self-denial shown in a thousand hardships in the patriotic discharge of duty. We pray God that your like will be perpetuated In the boys ami girls of the South." AMERICAN GIRL MURDERED. Body of Beautiful Young Woman Found Near Naples. The finding of the body of a beau tiful young woman on the beach near Naples has given rise to the suspi cion of murder. Apparently the wo man died about three days ago. The body was scantily clothed and this has led the authorities to believe that probably she was the victim of crime. The body was identified by the proprietor of the Hotel CasVlj as that of Miss Estella Reid, sup,"s.-d to have been an American, who was a guest at the hotel. She was fair and tall witli gray eyes and qu'te prominent nose ami wore glasses. The supposition that she came from the United States was strengthened Tuesday when the- police found let ters addressed to her from New York and St. Louis as well as from Canada. Several oT these were apparently love letter. Jumped Down Chimney. The finding of the body of Fred erick H. Smith in the smoak stack of t.he Ansonia 0. & ('? company at Ansonia, Conn., last week, revelas lie most remarkable suicide recorded in New England. Smith climbed the LOO-foot ladder to the top of the stack and jumped in. Roth legs were broken and the body was buried in a huge pile uf soot. Sealing Vessel I*>st. The pr ibable loss of the Brisish sealing vessel Aurora, with a crew of a hundred and eighty-seven men. was reporter at St. ohns, N- F., on Tuesday, by the steamer Boethic. Tiie Aurora has been missing since April 1st. No more definite news is exepected until the arrival of anoth er vessel from the fishing grounds. Quito Cool in the Clouds. Kites at ML Weather. Ya.. reach ed an altitude of 23,000 feet above sea level last week. The tempera ture at that height was 17 degrees below zero. At the surface it was 71 degrees above. TWO CENTS PER COPY THAT DEAL Senator Smiih Demands Federal Enquiry Ii the Sale of Cotton TO THE COTTON POOL Desires the Government to Investi gate the Matter in Connection With the Enquiry Already Com menced, and Charges that the New York Sales Were Illegitimate. Senator Lodge Monday gave no tice in the Senate that he would not further press his resolution appro priating $6",,000 for the extension of .he Senate's committee into the cost of living. He gave as the reason for his attitude the opposition of the Democratic Senators. As a mat ter of courtesy to Senator Percy, of Mississippi, who wished to speak, Mr. Lodge asked general consent to have the resolution taken up. Before Mr. Percy could proceed Mr. Stone entered a protest to Mr. Lodge's statement. "We do not accept the statement of the Senator from ^Massachusetts that .he cannot bring his resolution to a vcte because of the opposition on this side." Mr. Lodge said he was willing to have a vote taken at any time. Mr. Stone contended for the regu larity and propriety of the Demo cratic oppesition to the resolution, and he expressed the opinion that a vote might be obtainea at a compar atively early date. Mr. Lodge reiterated .his willing ness to take a vote on the resolu tion, but not to delay the railroad bill. When the resolution was taken up for discussion. Mr. Percy expressed the opinion that it was a political move and intended to save the wan ing fortunes of the Republican party. He said he could not bring himself to support it without an amendment extending the inquiry into cotton speculations, declaring that "in all the spoliation of the South through the trusts and combines under the Hew York Cotton Exchange, not once had the strong arm of the Govern ment been stretched out in the pro tection of that section." Declaring sectionalism a matter of the past, Mr. Percy declared that neverthereless it was coming to be generally recognized that the white man must control alTal: in the South. "The property holding and intel ligent class must govern, and that means a government by the Anglo Saxons," he said. Mr. Smith of iSouth Carolina then introduced a resolution providing for an inquiry into the sale of cot I ton to the cotton pool. He said 1 there had not been enoug.b cotton sold to influence the price of cot ton, and that the New York sales had not b^ot!. legitimate. HTC.HES ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. New Yorker Appointed to Federal Supreme Bench. President Taft late Monday receiv ed from Governor Charles E. Huehes of New York a letter accepting a tendered appointment, as Associate Justice of the Sunreme Court of the Fnited States. Five minutes after the letter was .handed to the Presi dent the nomination of Governor Hughes was on its way to the Sen ate. The body had adjourned for the day. however, and so .the Senate did not officially hear of the desig nation of Governor Hughes to suc ceed the late Justice David J. Brew er until Tuesday. While it is ex pected that Governor Hughes will be confirmed with little or no delay, it is understood in Washington that he will remain as the Chief Executive of the State of New York until next October, and will not take the oath of office until the fall term of tho Supreme Court opens on tin1 second Monday in that month. YOUNG MAX FOUND DEAD. Itody of Arthur Spears Discovered by the Roadside. Mr. Arthur Spears, a young whito man. was found dead in the public road near his home, in the Lydia sec tion 'of Darlington county Monday morning. Mr. Spears and a compan ion seperated after visiting near Mc Laug.hlin's Crossroads, in the same section Monday night, it is said, alter both had imbibed freely of strong drink. Later in the niglii some ono passing and finding thai Spears was unable to walk, lifted him to tho side of tile road and left .him. Next morning, when others found .him, ho was dead. An inquest was held and tho above facts were established. (iocs l'p in Price. ?A New Orleans dispiitch says freez ing weather in many parts of tho South has sent cotton up $1.75 a bale on the opening in the local fu tures market. T.he entire crop is reported killed in many places. Two Lives Lost. Two lives were lost in a fire which t destroyed Miller's Hotel and several other buildings, a livery barn and pool hall at Meadow, S. D. on Mon day.