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-TILLMAN URGES f REPORT BY LAW ADVISES LEGISLATURE TO SAFEGUARD PRIMARY Good (ioYerument Doomed I nlets Primary is put I'nder Same Reg-ulatioiis as General Election. Washington, D. C., Jan. 7.?"We must either reform the primary system by law or see it die," warns Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman, in an open letter to the South Carolina General Assembly, soon to meet, in which it is urged that legislation be enacted to safeguard the primary system of election in this State "If we do not safeguard the primary system," writes Senator Tillman, "and make it above . suspicion, good government in the ^ State is doomed." The senior senator ^ again warns the people against the negro being used in politics under white leadership; if the black population be thus mobilized, he thinks, of ilces of trust and power win oecome mere "pawns in the game of polices, to Jbe bought by the highest bidders." Following is the statement: "I dislike to have the appearance even of assuming the right to dictate to the general assembly, ana such is ' not my purpose now. But for reasons unnecessary to enumerate I feel that I have a duty to perform in the present instance. "The angry passions aroused last summer in the State campaign for Governor have in a measure subsided, and the people have cooled off. To my mind there was great danger to white supremacy and democratic uni[ ty which is now happily parsed. But unless every possible safeguard is thrown around the primary system, by law, rules and regulations made so onri of such a just and reasonable ? _ nature as to compel honesty and fair play in the primary-the system is doomed and the people of the State will settle their political differences at the polls in November just as they do now in all border and Northern States. Two White Parties Impossible. "There are many people in South Carolina who would be glad to see two "white parties in the State. Were conditions different I myself would like to Tiovo twn white Darties, but as things are now it would mean the mohilizaton of the negro and his active and aggressive return to State politics under white leadership. "I know of no calamity greater than this that could overtake our people. I speak advisedly, for I went through the reconstruction period and know the degradation to which our people sank, the rottenness and corruption that were in our politics, and made our i? ? hiccinc government a dj-wuiu auu a. and 1 know how hard it was to get the whiie men to line-up shoulder to shoulder and throw off the yoke. From 1868 to 1876 we had the vilest and most corrupt government in South Carolina that has ever existed in any State of the Union, except Louisiana. Offices as Pawns "The- negroes outnumber us in South Carolina by more than one hun ? i dred and fifty thousand, ana a large number of them, are either registered or eligible for registration. If they should eyer be mobilized and led to the polls by white men, in the struggle for mastery and control, then we can never save the State from a repetition of even greater corruption than we have already endured The State corporations and Standard Oil, to say nothing of the railroads, would use money lavishly, and the governorship and the statPfi senatorshios. to say nothing of the congressional delegation, would become pawns in the game of politics to be bought by the highest bidders. "The Democratic party of South Carolina, when it meets again in convention, will no doubt deal with this question, but the legislature ought to deal with it now, at this coming session, while the memory is fresh and knowledge of intensity of feeling has not faded away. General Ontline. "I can not and will not indicate just what sort of a law the legislature ought to pass. The details) must be worked out in committee, but I can and will outline the general policy which should govern us in this crisis: "First: The primary ought be honr? r? Kava oil tn?L a^Liu x?ii uu kj "Second: No man ought to object to whatever expense and trouble are necessary to secure such registration and preparation of the Democratic club rolls as -will insure honesty and fair play. It must not be left to hazard and guess work. "Third: Stringent rules and regulations are required. No man should participate in the primary to nominate who is not willing and able to stand the test of registration to participate t I iii the general election. | "The rules should b few, plain anu simple, but they must b<* enacted into law in order to compel compliance with ; them. Rigid punishment ought to be provided for anv man who neglects to i 1 ' comply with all conditions and rul'S or lie ought to lose his vote. An honest "and fairly conducted primary can and ; will command the endorsement and ; support of all right-thinking white J people; a dishonest one will command j the support of nobody. Reform or Death. "We must either reform the primary j system by law or see it die. Xo de- j cent man will obpect or resist the rule j of the majority fairly expressed. Let us see to it that none but duly qualified citizens vote at the Democratic ! i primary, and danger of trouble will; disappear. If we do not safeguard the j primary system and make it above j suspicion good < rnmeni in the State is doomed. We want no man in the ' Democratic primary who votes the Re'publican or other national ticket in ! the general election. "I write the above believing that 1' will never ask the people to vote for " m^ in another primary, because I bei lieve I will be dead before another t senator to succeed me is elected. I Therefore, no charge of selfish or p rsonal motive can be justly made CAgcUilSL Jilt litAillg tntr JJVSillUU 1 uu. It is solely because I know the danger, : having passed through the crisis once, i that I make bold to write this wav,": m i COLUMBIA ARTIST PASSED AWAY. I i ; Mrs. Annie I. Koberson Dies in Wash- j ! ington?Patriotic and Charitable. | Washington, Jan 7.?Mrs. A. I Rob- j I ertson of Columbia died at her resi-i dence in this city early this morning j after a week's illness. With her at I the time were her daughter and son-( in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Legore. j After a short prayer service at the re- j t sidence this morning the remains were j I taken to Columbia and wi!i arrive I there early tomorrow morning. Mra. j Robertson had many friends in Wash- I | ington and elsewhere by whom the j I news of her death will be received j with sadness. | WEST THROUGH BRICK WALL. i Prisoners in Dillon Jail Make Escape? j IN Mysterious Manner. Dillon, Jan. 7.?Four negro priso-1 ers broke jail Sunday night and made i : good their escape. For minor offences; i they had been locked up and were al-; j lowed the freedom of the large hall1 J ^ i /vK U? ? trT r* /v ft-nf tan ^ r~\ ' j UUXiUg L11C IllgUl. IKltUlg 1" I i their possession a heavy sash weight ! they picked through the brick wall, and when the jailer made his usual j morning rounds, they were conspicu- ! I ous for their absence. JUDGES MEET JANUARY 23. Thief Justiee Gary Postpones Con- j vent-Ion Set for Next Week. Columbia, January 7.?The biennial / convention of the judges, which was ordered for Thursday, January 16, has >been ordered postponed by Chief Jus-J ktice Gary to Thursday, January 23, ati i5 P. M. The change was ordered so j as to have the convention during the j meeting of the Bar Association. MORE COMMISSIONS REVOKED, j Number Removed as Result of Action \ by Governor Tuesday. The governor Tuesday revoked the commissions of the following notaries public: Thomas J. Cupstid, Blaney; George! W. Thomas, Dentsville; Capers Calvin! Dantzler, Georgetown; Ross C.. David, j riAArfrnf att'tj C rTJ "D t i c r? rvl 1 1 I >> ii , o. 1 iwuoocii, HUOOUI- , vile; Rivers Conrad Huggins, Lamar; j Homer S. Parnell, I^amar; Lewis. Josey Beasley, Lamar; Joe Cunning-: ham Wier, Ninety-Six; Jesse Righard Williams, Gaines; James Rogers, Ninety-Six; Wm. H. Nicholson, Greenwood; J. H. McCord, Hodges; Paul W. McCh;re, Greenwood; J. W. McCIassan,i Greenwood; William C. Lipscomb,. Ninety-Six; Lewis M. Lipscomb, Nine-1 ty-Six; Adam Franklin Hagan, Greenwood; E. R. Goodwin, Greenwood; i Frank Barron Grier, Greenwood; A. j D. Calhoun, Greenwood; W. C. Calhoun, Greenwood; E. H. Bowers, Epworth; A. E. Adams, Greenwood; Jo ttt-pu r ranxnn Aiman, ijreenwooa: | Claude C. Davis, Columbia. Capable. Smith?I see you're paying :he expenses of that painter who f?U off the rcof. Frown?Sure: he's too good a man to lose. As he went down he t ?uched up 'hree or four places which would ha\e been extremely difficult io reach in the ordinary way.?P. I. P. (>Ki>KK 5\ T!M.MA.\ CASK Control of Children II;i> hem Decided. Supreme Court's Decree. The final order for the control of i Douschka Pickens Tillman and Sarah I Starke Tillman, daughters of B. R. j Tillman, .Jr., and Mrs. Lucy Dugas was j signed Monday by the supreme court. 1 The order was signed by Chief Justice! Gary and Associate Justices Woods,! Hydrick, Watts and Fraser. The following was the order signed by the supreme court: "The parties to this controversy being unable to agree as to the details , referred to in the order dated Decern- j ber 9, 1912, the court orders as t'ol- j lows; The children, Douschka Pickens j Tillman and Sarah Starke Tillman,! are to be in the custody of their fath-: er. B. R. Tillman, Jr., every year dur; mg the months ot July and August,! subject to the right of the mother to j have them at all times when ill. They ' are to go to their father every year on December 26 and remain until January 2, following, and to spend with him any week in April of every ytar i that the mother may duly indicate to him as most convenient. ! "The children are to spend every other Saturday with their father when in their mother's custody, and with their mother when in their father's custody in July and August. "The duty is imposed 011 the mother to prove that the father shall have reasonable access to the children in j case of serious illness. "The children may be taken temporarily out of the State by either parent for their health or pleasure, but the undertaking of the State of South j Carolina mentioned in the former or-! j der shall provide that they shall not be removed permanently from the j State and that they shall be at all times subject to the order of this court. "The court adjudges nothing as to tne duty 01 me ratner 10 support me children, because that question is* not i before it in this proceeding, and there is no evidence that the father has re- j fused to support them." I "MOVIES" THAT CAN TALK PERFECTED BY EDISOX I New York, Jan. 4.?The first de- j monstration Edison's "Kinetophone" j will be- givsn in New York within a | few weeks. The kinetophone is the j name the wizard has given to his j talking machine that works in har- j mony with the moving pictures, and i is to be used to add the realism of! the voice of the actor to the scene j thrown upon the canvass. Within a short time it is predict- j ed the machine may be play- j ing in the mining camps of! the west. Weber & Fields may | be playing their funny pool game onj the screen while the machine grinds j out the dialect of the pair in Gold-; en Guleh, Nev. The great musical comedies will be caught by the machine and while music is being ground out the ac+ r\4- tV?/v tttiII crr\ An Kofnrn i LIU*I ci L liic ^vy vyii L/vjlv* V ! the audience. Mr. Edison has not ! said so, but his friends say he thinks it only a question of time before the | best actors in America will be per- j forming their best roles before the j moving picture camera while the j kineophone records their lines. After four years of the hardest kind of work to get the machine perfected that will make it possible for persons to both see and hear the drama, enacted elsewhere Mr. Edison has perfected the work so that it is now what he calls "fool proof." For tests in this city the operas, "Faust" and Illtrovatore" are to be given. The reels are ready and the records of the singers have been made that work in unison with them The names of the singers have not oeen announced. For the purpose of the illusion one j machine is in the balcony of the thea- j tre and one back of the scenes. The j one on the balcony throws the picture of the singers and the scenery of i the opera upon the screen, while the kineophone run by a second operator is working just back of the screen. Pointed Paragraphs. Chicago News. Women who marry for a home pay 'big rent. When a woman gets fat it doesn't hrnsHon rnind The surest stepping stone to matrimony i? a solitaire. 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