University of South Carolina Libraries
/ The Herald and News VOLUME LI., SOTBER 69 . ? JfEWBERRT, S. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1913. TWICE A WEEK, $U0 A YEAR, WILSON REVEALS PLAN; "HANDS OFF" IN MEXICO APPEARS I> PEK5U> tShMittJb AMEBICAN C03GRESS. Received With Thunderous Applause l>y Senators and Representatives. , ^ Washington, Aug 27.?-President Woodrow Wilson went to congress today and revealed how the Huerta provisional government in Mexico had * rejected the friendship of the United States and its effort to aid in the establishment of peace and a government whicte could be recognized by this nation, and which would be obey ed oand respected by Mexico's own people. In a statement which breathed rer gret and sympathy in every phrase, the president clung tenaciously to optimism as to the ultimate result, notwithstanding the pessimistic facts confronting the two nations. After picturing the hopelessness for Mexico if she maintained her present position, ''isolated and without friends wiho can effectually aid her," the president announced the necessity of a firm neutral stand by this governt meat, a policy ol "hands off" to await the time of Mexico's awakening. He also voiced an urgent appeal for all Americans to leave Mexico and for I the United States to aid them in every r possible way but in emphatic language served notice upon those wlp assume to exercise authority in the revolution torn country that they would be held to a definite reckoning for loss and suffering to American citizens. Reeeived With Applause. The message of the president was (received wtih enthusiastic applause by members of Uhe house and senate gathered in joint session in the house chamber, and tonight the machinery of the government is in motion for making effective the policy of neu trality of "hands off," while the warring factions continue their struggle. To prevent the shipment of arms or munitions of war into any part of Mexico or to any faction, the ^ United States troops on the border f already have been warned to exercise increased vigilance. Whether more troops will be sent to the border is a question to be determined within the next few days. Maj. Gen. Wood, chief of staff of the army, who has been inspecting the troops i.n Texas, already is on his way to Washing[ ton. (Gen. Wfctherspoon, attached to the office of the chief of staff, said tonight that much would depend upon the operations of the next few days on the border in determining upon the order for more troops. Secretary Bryan planned to confer with President Wilson early tomorrow on the subject and the assurance was given that everything necessary would be done to carry out strict neutrality. Secretary Daniels conferred ^ with ^e president during the day and the navy department is ready to disW patch more ships to Mexican waters if required to prevent the shipment j of arms to Mexico by sea. Foreign powers, u wa? uuucioiwu tonigbt, have not been asked to place an emlbargo on the shipment of muni& tions of war or arms to Mexico, but the president in his message asserted that this government had been given the generous moral support of foreign nations in the proposals to the HuerH ta government which have been reBy jected. L It became known that the adm'n| istration has under serious consideration the ordering of several thousand 1 +V> /i ovir>Q TI hnrflpr ft more iruyps iu IUC iuvixvuu -v. K line, and it is said tihat cabinet members have urged that this be done. Ursred to Leave. The president's urgent request to ? Americans in Mexico to leave the country emphasized to congress the necessity for action on the recent request of Secretary Bryan for an ap^ propriation of $100,000 with which to 1 aid citizens of the United States in t their exodus from the scene of conflict. Such an appropriation is included in a deficiency bill now in the Tiands of the nouse appropriations HL committee and it is expected tlhat action upon it will be hastened. The slate department estimates that there Hksow are in Mexico no more thai 15,WuOO Americans, whereas there were 60.000 several years ago. In Mexico IpCity, it is estimated that there are m less than 2,000 Americans today. TLe diplomatic relations between the two countries, it is understood, m *ill remain as they are at present, each country maintaining an embassy Jwithout official recognition, presided over by a charge d'affaires. Though the president made it plain in his ! statement that all negotiations thus far have come to naught and the 1 rrv> ATinic-tAi- ^.Qmhrva 1 I iilCS^cX^C Ui. r ui C15U jxiuiov\.i vMiiiMVM, j rejecting for the Huerta government the American proposals, left no room for doubt as to the situation, the way c is open for future negotiations, either s at the initiative of Mexico or the 1 United States. 1 Up to O'Sliauglinessy. 1 Meanwhile, Nelson O'Shaughnessy c i probably will remain in Mexico City a I in charge of the American embassy, s | John Lind, the president's personal c | representative, still is in Vera Cruz I a.nd probably will remain there as e i 1 +-U : iuii? a.s mere is ciii> yusoiuic vuauv,c for a renewal of negotiations. ! 1 In his message, which was in the f nature of an appeal to the moral 1 forces of this and foreign nations, the J president made it clear that he based 1 ; high hope upon the effect to.e anI nour,cement of this government's pol- ( icy will have upon not only the peo- i pie of this country and the govern- I ments of other nations, "but upon the I people of Mexico themselves. Now i that the United States has exhausted 1 its efforts to bring about peace and : i a stable Mexican government, the j c | president believes that this govern- 11 I mont'c oYomiilo vTlO wnrlH Will ! 1 j v VV V > v* ? v? bring great good in the end. ( "The' steady pressure of moral < force," he said, "will before many ] days break the barriers of pride and i prejudice down and we shall triumph as Mexico's friends sooner than we 5 could triumph as her enemy?and c how much finer and higher satisfac- ? tion of conscience and of honor." The president told congress that i everything this nation ^did in the situation confronting it must he "rooted < I in nafion^p and dnnp witlh calm, dis- I . interested deliberation." ( He said he had .no word of rebuke t for Mexico. He reached the determi- t nation to maintain strict neutrality j after having presented the whole sit- i j uation to the members of the foreign relations committee ^n congress. Not ( i an essential did the president with- t hold in his presentation of the case, j ^ publishing to the world the reply of | the Mexican government to Mr. Lind I ( in which Senor Gamboa refers to the i / 1 American proposals as "humiliating/' ] denies the representation by Presi- j 2 dent Wilson that ^Mexico had never j made progress towards peace and { | though expressing appreciation of c i i.v~ p'rionHiv i.ntprpst of the | LUC dvuncui; n !vuuv {United States declares that "if such | good offices are to be of the charaeI ter of those now tendered us we ; should have to decline them in the : most categorical and definite man- J j ner." Everything tlhat Mexico had said to this government in response to th'e proposals was made public, including the Huerta alternative that .nothing i could be welcomed except unr'e- t ; stricted recognition of his govern- < j ment. ] I After he had concluded his mes- t sage and listened to tne appiause j which greeted it, the president turned ^ I toward the White House to await its ] effect. He believes that it will be t beneficial. ? Mrs. Wilson and her daughters and Secretary Bryan had taken places in ( j the executive gallery. Other mem- ( | bers of the cabinet had taken places x on the floor. Every head in the ( chamber had been bowed and the sol- j emnity of the occasion was impres> pii-o 05 thp hnuse chanlain, the Rev. | - OX ? Vx V?W _ Henry D. Couden, in his opening J prayer said: Ic "Rule Thou in the hearts of our r j rulers and sway the minds of these, ^ Thy servants, that as a nation we j may move forward to all that is pure j a.nd noble until all the people of all x the world shall recognize the purity A of our motives." Although a deafening volley of ap- t planse rang out as the president ap- ! c : peared, he plunged mio trie reaumg j. of his message wtihout delay and j with a bow of acknowledgment of the greeting. The president finished reading at ^ 1.21 o'clock. Another great applause \ j broke out. All tihose in the galleries j< stood while the president left the j J chamber a.nd started back to the j I White House. i , i1 The joint session at once dissolved, ] the house adjourned and the senate ? filed back to its side of the capitol. t Rejects Wilson's Offers. t j Washington, Aug. 27.?The text of j ' Senor Gamboa's reply to the propo- 1 | sals submitted through John Lind, by 3 I 1 (CONTINUED OX PAGE. 5.) j r LS TO COMPTROLLER GENERAL. Voter" Goes Into the Record of 3Ir. A. W. Jones as "Watch Dojr" of the State's Treasury. To the Editor of The Herald and Xews: In the Columbia State of recent late, Adolphus W. 'Jones, comptroller general of South Carolina, is prolounced a great economist in :he landling of the State finances ?.nd egarded by that paper's editor, evilentlv, ""as a political economist, ;:he vatch dog of the treasury, or, to speaK in more ansiourain; puiascui>gy, the'chancellor of the exchequer. Let us see if he is really and 1 rulj entitled to sucn praise. No one can truthfully state that le ever refused any claim made beore the year 1911, or possibly 1912. ^.nd why? In 1910 Mr. Jones was a strong 31ease advocate, but in 1911 Blsise retoed an appropriation item of $5,- | )00 to the ofnce which Jones then and i low occupies, and since then, as is ! peculiar to men possessed of Jones'! proclivities, he can find nothing too i nean to say about the governor, who ' lad the temerity to put the veto to in appropriation item that the chan-' :ellor of the exchequer had caused to j >e placed in the bill, and which vould place more money under his lirectio-n and control, and thereby lause him to strike lit e a blind ser)ent in every direction for his imagnary foe. Now what about-' the veto of that 55,000 item of the appropriation bill >f 1910? Did the comptroller genertl's office need it? The governor thought not, hence it * x . I ,vas his duty to say so. oy nis veio. i It seems that the comptroller gen-1 iral's office is still surviving, and Tones finds plenty of time to spend >n his farm at Abbevile, and to run ;he office, and a good portion of his ;ime in an effort to run the attorney general's office, as well as that of the nsurance commissioner In 'view of these facts, verily, it / loes not appear, to a man up a tree, j v>ot hie rpnnt.ation as ai economist | vould long survive. There are taxpayers il South Carina who think there might be some terns on the printing and supply "bill -educed, but in all likelihood, Jones md the Columbia v State are n thorough harmony on these maters as they have, in recent years, be;ome in all matters political. Vi,ter. August 16, 1913. BLEASE RECOGMZES SILZER. Says So Far As South Carolina Is Concerned William Sulzer is Governor of New York. ______ | Columbia, Aug. 26.?Gov. Blease vrote Governor Sulzer, of New York, ;oday that South Carolina recognized Sulzer as the governor of New York. 3e expressed sympathy for him and' ;old him to "let the politicians and ingsters howl and squirm and con- j -rince the people that you are right." -Ie continues, "Tru^t in God and the vhite people and you will always he i winner." Governor Blease says that he is convinced that Acting Governor Jlynr. is just trying to obtain a little lotoriety out of the misfortune of an>ther, "which kind of conduct no lonest man ever sympathizes with." The letter was in reply to one vhich Governor Sulzer wrote to Governor Blease outlining his side of the :ase and saying that Boss luurphy, of j Tammany Hall, decided to ruin him ivhen he couldn't make him his rubier stamp. The New York governor s confident, his letter says, of ultinate acquittal and that his policies vill prevail. The following is a copy of the leter Governor Blease wrote Governor Sulzer and a copy of the letter from he New York governor to Governor Blease: Letter to Sulzer. "State of South Carolina, "Executive Chamber, Columbia, S. C., Aug. 26, 1913. j 'Hon. William Sulzer, Governor, Albany, N. Y. My Dear Governor Sulzer: Your ette'r of August 23 has been received. am in full sympathy with you, and sincerely hope that you will be able :o convince the people of Xew York ind the people of the United States hat you are absolutely innocent: of < iny wrong-doing. I, myself, last sum-' rter, went thrcuph jrist about what *ou are going through now, except :hat they did r.ot attempt the imjeachme.U proceedings. T convinced ' < . . \ the people of South Carolina that I A*as being persecuted, and they stood by me, and the main thing for you to do is to let the politicians and ringsters howl and squirm, and convince the people that you are right, and they will .ne\ ^r forsake you. Trust in God and the white people, and you will always be a winner. "So far as South Carolina is concerned you and you alone are looked upon as the governor of New York. I think Mr. Glynn is showing very much the 'dog-in-the-ma.nger' spirit, and the best element of the people of the country, I am satisfied, think about Glynn as I do?that he is a cheap politician endeavoring to get a little notoriety out of the misfortune of another ,which kind of conduct no honest man ever sympathizes with. "With best wish, "Very respectfully, 'Tn lo T. Rloscp VU1V-. i/ivuwvj "Governor." To Prosecute Case. Chester, Aug 20? (Solicitor J'. K. Henry has received from tae governor all the papers concerning the J. G. White Construction company's al leged violation o? the Sunday statutes at Parr Sihoals. He was insti*ucted to lay the matter before the grand jury of Fairfield county. At last! New York the Mecca of Dennis O'Brien's desire. Here he would show :hem in the "ould counthry" how he could work, and what a name he would make. Almost immediately he obtained employment in the erecting of a new building, and the following epistie found its way to Trin: "Faith, this is great! All that 1 have to do is to climb up and down a fortybar ladder with bricks and mortar, and begorra, the men on the top do all the work!" Doubly an Agnostic. Professor Haley had been much annoyed by the persistency with which a young man, who boasted of being an. agnostic, discussed his religious beliefs in the history class. wae yivHi? his ClaSS a Wlic ua; m_ .. brisk oral examination. The young man, always ready to argue, was having a hard time with the direct, pointed questions that Professor Haley shot at him. "I believe," remarked the professor, after a bit, with his usual lisp, "that you are an agnothtic in religiouth mattrth." "Yes, sir," answered the young man, promptly, scenting an opportunity to escape from the^ grilling to which he was being subjected. -AT ?-Mi " cairi thp nrnfes X ca.il ilLIIUi C y\jLLy ouiu v.v x"~ sor, setting down a zero in his gradebook, "that you are an agnothtic in history ath well."?Youth's Companion. -f Had It In For the Enemy. Ellen, Mrs. B.'s cook, had invested several months' saving in an elaborate Easter hat and gown,- and had selected her afternoon off as the day in which she should burst forth in all her glory. Having carefully arrayed herself, and Ion ring for admiration, Ellen made an excuse to go into her mistress' presence and waited for a compliment. Knowing what was expected, Mrs. B. exclaimed: "Why, Ellen, how splendid you are in your new hat and gown! I 'hope you will meet all your friends this afternoon, so that they may see your fine clothes." Ellen smiled graciously at the com" " -x ?"U ^ pliment, but tossed her neaa at me suggestion. "Me friends, mum? What'll I be wantin' to see thim for?" s'ne as'ied scornfully. "Sure, I don't care to make me friends jealous. It's me enemies I want to meet whin I'm dressed up!"?OLippincott'ft In nearly all flocks there are pullets which should go to the market along with the cockerels. The underprized nullet. slow to feather, is listless and loafs around, instead of hustling out and foraging for part of her food, should be sold for food. Friday the Arcade and Airdome. "Joe Hibbard's Claim,*' Broncho. "The Protectory's Oldest Son," Thanhouser. "Hearts and Hoops.'' Majestic. "A Heart Reclaimed." Rex. Music by band. Watermelon contest between two boys, a milk contest between two boys. A 30-piece set of china drawn for at 9.30 at the Airdome.?-Adv. / # THE SEWS OF PROSPERITY. Educational Rally at Saluda Academy Old Soldiers' Reunion.?Personal. Prosperity, Aug. 28.?Mrs. J. B. CJ + ArtVvnnn V\ o c* o*rvr?n tr\ 11l o rn Ct HT1 j otvjLA mail uao jjUixv a.\j ?? xinuiucvvu for several weeks' stay. Mr. Vernon Wallace, of New York, is the guest of his sister, Mrs. George Harmon. Mrs. C. H. NVoer sspent Tuesday in Anderson. Mes rL. W. J. Wise and A. L. Wheeler. Misses Maud Livingstone, Jess*" T criok, and Mary Lizzie Wise visit ?d Parr Shoals Wednesday. Miss Lena Wise is visiting in Coi Inm'iia Miss Cornelia Capers has returned I to Washington after spending six ! weeks with Miss Willie Mae Wise. Miss Mary Frances Willieford, of Wiinnsboro, is visiting Mrs. J. S. Wheeler. Mr. L. M. Calhoun, of Barnwell, was a business visitor here Wednesday. Miss Rebe Langford, of Spartan| burg, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P.- L. Langford. I President J. H. Harms, of Newber, rv college, spent Monday with Mr. ! R. K. Wise. Mrs. A G. Chase, of Columbia, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. E W. Werts. The William Lester Chapter of U. D. C. will meet Tuesday afternoon, September 2nd, Vith Mrs. Jacob S. , Wheeler. j Misses Elizabeth and Mabel McWalters, of Atlanta, are visiting their aunt, Miss Mary Klnard. Mrs. G. D. Bedenbaugh and children, visited Mrs. J. B. Bedenbaugft, of Pomaria, this week. Miss Marguerite Wise is spending the week in Little Mountain. Mrs. S. C. Morris has as her guest Miss Lillie Stanley, of Columbia. Miss Susie Langford has returned from Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. Will Fellers and Miss Quattlebaum, of Columbia, spent TnocHav with Mrs. John Crosson. 1 UUOUUJ ?? A. Miss Ellie Cousin has gone to Tennessee to visit her brother. Mrs. John Grant has returned to Andrews, after spending the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Gibson. Mrs. Irvin Feagle and daughter, Miss Ollie, of Newberry, spent Wednesday -vith Miss Gertrude Bobb. Mr. Sam Spence and family .'nave moved into the Duncan house in McXary street. Messrs. Irvin and Plumer, of Columbia, spept the. week-end with Mr. J. H. Crosson. and Mrs. A. N. /Crosson are vis iting in Pomaria. Miss Nannie Simpson, of Spartanburg, will reach here next week to a visit of her many friends. Tomorrow at the home of Mr. J. Lindsey Bowers there will be a family reunion of the Bowers family. Master Marion Schumpert, of Vino ic visiting Master Frank UcUia, ua,, 0 Earl Schumpert. An educational rally wan held at Saluda academy Thursday. In the morning the following made excellent talks: Geo. Pitts, Laurens, superintendent of education; Geo. D. Brown, Newberry, superintendent of education; N. W. Workman, of Newberry; Prof. E. B. Setzler, of Newberry college, and Dr. C. T. Wyche, of Prosperity. Dinner was served on the ground and baseball was the drawing card in the afternoon. The old soldiers' reunion at Young's Grove Tuesday was quite a success. The William Lester chapter gave all the veterans their dinner, which was an excellent 'cue, furnish? ' mi - ? ed by Mills and Ciarreti. me auuicsses made by the sons of the veterans were splendid. Further Work Unnecessary. Pat could not find his watch, so he went to his friend, the lieutenant at the police station a.nd reported that^ bnri io?t it. The lieutenant assured him that he would not leave a stone in New York unturned until the watch had been found. Pat returned home much comforted bv his friend's a'ssurance, and a few hours later discovered, the wat^h in the lininsr of his vest, so he s^t out invnMipt-pIv for the noHc-4 station to inform th<> lieutenant of his find. As he was passing along his way, he saw somo '-pen who were tparin? nn stones in the street to out in rr"? "Viver mind' lads. I've found the nines, fo tppm siid: watc'i "?National Food Magazine. VICTORIES FOR THAW 3 RETURN HIM TO JAIL FUGITIVE FROM >E>V YOBK SCORES THREE TIMES. Judges Refusal to Recognize Empire State Authorities in Case Followed by Riotous Scenes. i Sherbrocke, Que., Aug. 27.?Harry K. Thaw won three victories over the New York State authorities today and was locked tonight in the Sherbrooke jail, immune for the time bei v ing from the Canadian immigration [authorities, after having received an ovation from the .townspeople of | Sherbrooke that v* ^ld have done honor to a prince of royal blood. ! So riotous was the scene in the su perior court when at the morning session Judge Arthur Globensky refused to allow counsel representing New York State to b'e party to the proceedings, that the court subsequently warned spectators that a repetition would mean jail sentences for the i % demonstrants. Speaking from the bench at the afternoon session, Judge Globensky 1 said that never in his experience as a | member of the bar and the bench, had he been a witness "to such disgraceful scenes." It was carried out | in the presence of court attendants i and four armed Dominion police who | stood immobile w!liile emotio-nal wo men rushed toward Stanford White's slayer crying: "Three cheers for Thaw! Three cheers for the British 1 flag! W^e will give you justice, Harry." Key Lost Xow. Tonight with Thaw's term of con' finement indeterminate and the key to the riddle still not found, there . was a general exodus of those who rushed after the fugitive's sensational escape from M af.teawan. William Travprc .Ternme. former Drosecutor of Tkaw and specialist on matters appertaining to his life, left tonight for Quebec, accompanied by Franklin ! Kennedy, deputy attorney general of -J \ New York. Sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of Vermont and New Hampshire, who were ready to string themselves along the border line and seize Thaw I in the event of. his deportation, are prenaring to leave. Messrs. Jerome and Kennedy will : confer at Quebec with the attorney general of the province in the hope that he, as the province's dhief officer ! of the crown, may be able to open the legal lock that holds Thaw in jail.* < The Three Victories. ! The three points in which Thaw's , lawyers were successful in their first | legal skirmish were: 1. New York State was denied the , (. right to be party to the proceedings in court. 2. Counsel for the State failed in their efforts to have Thaw arraigned before a magistrate and the commit mr. :z CD WHICH lie 13 liViTi iiassuca. This wou'd have released him to the immigration officers. 3. Judze C.lobcnsky grantel the tplea o^ Thaw's counsel for a discontinuance of, the writ of habeas corpus tfhteh might have brought about his release today. This remedied a strategic blunder made last week by That's attorneys, w.io apparently did not realize then that in seeking their client's release they were playing into the opposition's hands SUMTER nr WET COLUMN j Canvassers Find Small Dispensary Majority?Appeal to be Taken Sumter, Aug. 27.?Featured by heated arguments on both sides, the final session of the board of canvassers cf election resulted today in a declaration for the dispensary's reestablishment, the vote as officially declared being 470 for and 466 against > the dispensary. From the time tb2 session opened ' this morning at 11 o'clock until its 'adjournment at 4 this afternoon, the court house was thronged with spectators and supporters of both sides. Numerous affidavits were submit| ted on both sides, charging illegality j in vot; ^ at various precincts, but at i pver contested point the dispensary ites won out. The prohibitionists !have given notice of appeal, and prominent men from the "dry" ranks say they will fight for the election to the last ditch. This decision makes Sumter the eighth wet county of the 11 which voted. \ ' i