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YOIXME LI., >"OTBER 7S. DEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 11)13. TWICE A WEEK, fl.50 A TEAE. ? ? ???? m 11 ?^?????????r^?? ^ THE BLEASE FORCES TO HOLD A MEETING 1VILL LAY PLASS TO CAPTURE PAUTY MACHINERY. ^ Conference of ftorernor's Followers W Called m Colombia.?Will Begin Willi Club JHeetiugs. P Columbia, September 30.?Leaders of the Blease faction in the democratic party in South Carolina will meet in o Annforonfci in fnlnmbia durins: Fair Week, to map out plans for capturing the next democratic State convention and controlling the election machinery of the democratic party. This announcment was made today by Governor Blcase, in conversation with Tne i Is'ews and Courier representative. The r conference will be participated in by ^ the Blease leaders from every county V in the State. It s likely that the ball W room of the Jefferson hotel will be usf ed as the meeting place of the conference. The call for the leaders to come to the conference has already gone out. Administration leaders at every county seat and in every section of the - v State have been summoned to gather in Columbia for an important meeting ^ during the week of the State Fair. *"* "? ~ lost fwrt rlavs 'ine comercu^c maj ia^i ?,.?v K Clubs to State Convention. jip] Plans for a full attendance of the W Bleaseites at every democratic club r meeting next April, when they assemble to elect delegates to the county -conventions, will be talked over. Through control of the club meetings the Blease forces plan to capture the county convention, or a majority there of, and through them the next siaie convention, whdch meets in Columbia on the third Wednesday in next May. t Control of the county conventions will insure control of the State democratic executive committee and the State con. vention, and thus place the machinery vof the democratic party, under which are held, in the IUC 1UMU J , control of men friendly to Governor Blease. Any radical change in the rules and constitution of the party will be dek feated if the Blease forces carry out their plans and capture the next State | convention. Governor Blease, in talk- ! - * - -i:?^ ing this morning, saia ne uenevcu m every white man being allowed to vote, believed in letting him go to the polls untrammelled, either by money persuasion or threats of losing his position. He said he anl his faction would favor every plan w'lich would afford the freest expression of the will of the I white people, but they will fight to the - ^ - ?? ^ +V? A T\ri_ uttermost any resnricuvu ui mc mary to registered voters, or anything I which will make it cumbersome and " burdensome on the voters casting their ballots. Marked for Slaughter. Former Governor John Gary Evans, the present chairman of the State democratic executive committee, and the others who are at present prominent in the running of the party, are marked for the slaughter by the administration forces. If the Blease forces control a majority of the county conventions throughout the State next May, there will be a complete overturn of the election machinery officials. Chairman Evans and his fellow workers of the Anti-Blease faction will be relegated to the rear and new men, high in standing with: the present State administration, will be placed at the helm of the democratic party. At the Blease conference here Fair | Week the plans will be mapped out to the smallest detail and the leaders will then return to their various home counties and pass tbft word around for all the Blease voters to attend their club meetings in force. "We are not going to be caught napping, as was the case last year," said Governor Blease this morning, refer rng to the overwhelming manner m which the anti-administration people captured club meetings, county conventions and the State convention in 1912. "We are going to have a full attendance at every club meeting in the State and we propose to capture the county conventions. Rest assured we are going to control the next democratic Statie convention," emphatically declared the governor. irfc11 A T 4 flans jc uriiiru ijvag The plans for the Blease forces to control the conventio2is and election f machinery next year were formed right [ on the heels of the re-election of Governor Blease last summer. Leaders of that faction of the party have been working on the details ever since ana they have called the conference for Fair Week to put these plans in action, and perfect such other details as will be deemed advisable to carry the i ; matter to a successful conclusion. | Following the conference, according j to the governor, several public addresses will be issued to the voters of ' ' * _ ? ? A-1-* ~ Aii/l tli r\ l r% tne staie, urging uicm iu aucuu (.n^u next club meetings. This matter will be emphasized to the voters friendly to the administration. "The Conference," said Governor Blease, "which will be held here of his faction during Fair Week will be open and above board." While some of the meetings may be executive sessions, j still the governor is of the opinion ' - * ?ill "WTa tnat many 01 mem win uc u^cu. are not going to carry 011 any underhand fighting; we are going at the matter open and above board and we are going to win," concluded the governor. TRIED TO BEAT UP TRAIN CREW. Because Tliey Refused to Carry Dogs Officers of >"o. 14 Attacked. Columbia. October 1.?Angered because of refusal of the conductor to allow dogs to be carried on the train some party at Parr Shoals, twentythree miles from Columbia, this afterI noon knocked down Conductor T. W. I True and his porter and slightly in I (jured Engineer Orr, either by a stray bullet or billet of lumber, as Train No. 14, of the Southern Railway, pulled out of Parr Shoals for Columbia. The conductor is said to have been hit acro?s the head with a piece of wood and is painfully bruised. It is + +Vir>+ TTnorinoor Orr wac hit hv LilU U 3AA L tUCLU WAX ?? ?-v ? ^ a bullet fired by some member of the crowd, but this is uncertain. He was only slf.ghtly wounded. The negro porter was knocked down and bruised. According to the information available here, it seems that when Train No. 14 reached Parr Shoals some parties there wanted tp put two dogs on ?n +V?at7 nraro n nrA Lilt; tram, uui' ao wcj ?vi uw yA.^ vided with either collars or chains, as required by law, Conductor True declined to permit the dogs aboard and signalled for the train to go ahead. The ones wanting the dogs carried, angered by the refusal, are said to have started towards the trainmen. Conductor True received a lick across the head with a piece of wood. One story is to the effect that the negro porter rushing to the assistance of the conductor was confronted by a gun in the hands of one of the party and abruptly halted only to be knocked (down. The trainmen recovered theml selves and got aboard, but Engineer 1 Orr received a wound either from a ! stray bullet or from a piece of wood. As far as known no arrests in connection with the affair have been made at Parr Shoals. Tho mnttpr fnncpd rrmrh comment. especially among the railroad men, and there was general indignation at the treatment accorded the conductor and engineer. Parr Shoals authorities will likely be asked to make a rigid investigation into the affair. >0 CHANGE 1> ATTORNEYSHIP. Sim? Sppnw tn Havp Inside Track for Marshalshlp, Washington, October 1.?Senator Tillman saw President Wilson for a short time this morning at the White House and discussed the district attorneyship. When seen later at his office, Senator Tillman said that there would be nothing done at present about the attorneyship and marshalship. It is understood that action by the president on the attorney general's South Carolina recommendations is delayed indefinitely pending efforts to compose the trouble. It is further understood that both of the senators are holding to an agreement which they made some time ago, that there should be no dark horse in the race ior aisinci attorney. senator nnuian says that so far as he is concerned there need be no further applicants for the marshalshp as he has turned that place over to Senator Smith. Senator Smith declares that he * stands his former statement, that he would not oppose J. L. Sims, if the : latter should be nominated. With the | recoiimitjnuauuu ui uue aiuuiiic^ general behind him and neither senator opposing him, Mr. Sims seems to have the inside track. While strong influences in and out of the delegation are working for the proposition to have another Federal Judge and marshal in fhe State, the chances for the consummation of this plan seem to The News and Courier's correspondent to be remote. Tasted as Good. The reporter acknowledged "1 the receipt Tuesday of a fine looking apple from Mr. H. H. Blease, which "looked good," but hadn't been tasted. Later. It was as "good as it looked." ' >VANTS SOME INFORMATION. Some Nice Things About Newberry and the Progress and Growth of the Town in Thir/y Years. i * To the Editor of The Herald and News: I have been wondering, think-; ing and reviewing the business capacity of your city, and when my mind runs back something like thirty or | forty years ago, and sees the wonder- j ful development and progress and en- j >!<of hoc monifoctpd itself i LCI J[Ji IOC uiai within this period of time', I can hardly realize that this is old Newberry. It is needless for me* to undertake to mention the various manufacturing and commercial industries that have j grown up within the time mentioned. f | Those who have the Annals of New! berry can see for themselves. That same spirit of progress is still looking the business men of Newberry OQVinOr* "T-Tprp square 111 uie ia^c I am, use me; or^ reject me, just as you please, I am only before you as a business proposition." Now, Mr. Editor, I am going to ask a few questions if you, please. What gives rise to the rapid growth of any and all enterprises on earth. Of course you will say, cooperation and a united. action of all who are concerned. J This comes first in all things. And | this Las been the main driving wneei that has brought Newberry to where she siands, but what is the life of trade. It is trade that builds a town and without trade a town becomes a dead Issue. Some tellow may say, ple'ity^of money is the life of trade. In one aspect it is truly so. It takes money to make the mare go. But mo:iey will not make trade unless it is the right kind of trade. Then what makes the right kind of trade. Competition is the only thing that will regulate trade. Without competition business becomes a very onesided affair. Then you may say, hasn't Newberry got plenty of competition. Yes, it has got plenty of competition in almost ' . . . M . * _ every tning, except ^nat tne iarmer is mostly interested in, especially at this season of the year, and that is the weighing of cotton. vMr. Editor, would you be so kind as tr_ find nut and tell me whv there is not but one cotton weigher in your city. In most of the town the farmers elect a cotton weigher. I wonder if they have the same prerogative in Newberry. Please find out if Dr. Brown, or some other good farmer would call a meeting of the farmers that are interested in the cotton market of your city and elect another man to v/eigfo j [cotton, would it be acceptable to the cotton buyers. | There must be something like twenty thousand bales of cotton marketed at Xewberry in the run of a year. This, of course, brings about a rush of business a great many times, causing a great many farmers to sit on their wagons for more than half a day waiting for his :ime to come, while therp is plenty other good men that would like to 'help, if they were just put to work by some authority. Now, fellow farmers, think over the matter. This is purely a business proposition. I merely mentioned Dr. Brown's name because he is one of our prominent farmers, and is usually put foremost in such actions, not that I have consulted the doctor in this matter, n? or especially cwc. Very Respectfully, T. J. Wilson. October 3, 1913. *r? Major Nance Visits His Old Home. A. R. Presbyterian, Due West. Major F. W. R. Nance and Mrs Nance are on a visit to friends in Due West. Major Nance said to a friend: | "Sixty three years ago this fall my brother, Drayton and I first came to Erskine." That was some four years before this scribe first saw the light? near the good old town of Newberry, S. C., and some erroneously think of him as getting old. Major Nance sees great changes and notable improvements in Due West. The Major reads the Presbyterian, even the jokes. So when he started up here last week he called Mrs. Nance's attenton to the old darky's ioke on the mule: Massa! Massa! dat mule, he done gone and et up de place where he's gwine." All Looking to Roai Working. Graffney JLeager. The autcmobI!e manufacturers are doing much to encourage the building of <;ood roads Citizens arc demanding good rc::'1?. County authorises are doing what they can to meet the* demands of the people; and the ques tion of convicts being worked on the roads has recently geen given much proiniiiinc.'-. i COTTON GOES BACK 4.3 POINTS. Deteriora/ed in Every State During' Past Month* Xew York, September 30.?The condition of cotton, as compiled from nearly 1,900 replies of special corres- t pondents of the Journal of Commerce, bearirg an average date of September 23, is 67.1 per cent, compared with 71.4 ner cent a month ago, or a de I cline of 4.3 points. This compares with 70.3 per cent a year ago; 70.8 in 1911, 65.7 in 1910 and 59.5 in 1909. The ten year average is 68.2 per cent. [ while the average decline for the same period is 5.3 points. Deterioration occurred in all States, but was most severe in Louisiana, Ar- ; Kansas, Tennessee, Missouri anu <jh.iahomaa, all of which lost 10 points and over. Texas nearly held its own, los- j ing only 0.5 point. Details by,States follow: Cotton by States. Oct Sep. Dif. N. Car 74.3 80.2 2.9 S. Car n.o o.o. Georgia 75.8 79.0 3.2 j Florida 77.9 79.4 1.5 j Alabama 68.2 73.6 5.4 j Miss 68.0 73.6 5.6 . Louisiana 62.4 72.4 1.0 j Texas 64.6 65.1 0.5 j Arkansas 67.0 77.6 10.6 Tenn 68.0 81.0 13.0 Missouri 52.8 66.8 14.0 Oklahoma 50.5 60.2 9.7 nATr in t ljii t v ir irrr"Tk IxUI. I>JUJDA?3Hi X-^TAXJDJLr TO ALABAMA 1 To Attend Flag Placing Ceremony at Mobile. Columbia, September 30.?Governor Blease today received a letter from Mrs. Thos. M. Owen, of Montgomery, Ala., president general of the Woman's Auxiliary 01 tne oyuiuciu Lummciviai i congress, telling him that at the eighth j session of this convention in Mobile on October 28. at night, a flag placing j ceremony will take place. A young I%dy will place the flag of her State in i | the standard of the convention and during tois ceremony the company will i sing the State song of the State whose flag is being placed. On request of Mrs. Owen for the appointment of a sponsor to represent South Carolina ; at this ceremony, Governor Blease named Miss Edith Parrott, of Bishopville, the daughter of the mayor of that city, who is also president of the Farmer's Loan and Trust company. There will be sponsors from each State, according to the plans of the leaders of the convention, and the placing of the State flags will be during the singing of the State song. South Carolina, so far as is known, has no State song. "Alabama is expecting the governor of South Carolina and his family to come to our great convention in Moing picture "magnate," has been sick ! Blease. POWER OF R. R. COMMISSION. i Attorney General Says Commission Can Require Short Mileage Pulled. Columbia, October 1.?Attorney General Peeples thinks the railroad commission has the power to require the railroads to pull short-line mileage, i thus making mileage books holders on a parity with cash fare passengers. Of this matter the attorney general says: "Under the facts stated in the ex- j tract from your minutes there ^s no doubt in my mind but that there is a j discrimination by the railroads in fav or of the man who pays his cash fare and against the holder of mileage to j these points where short haul of the passengers applies. "In my opinion this matter can be j remedied by the commission and I am of the oipnion that the commission, , under the statutes quoted, can go fur- j ther and not only provide that the j * .? ;irrnulloH chcill rint PX- I iAIIlUUIIL U1 mileage punwu ceed the amount of cash fare paid for such competitive points, but by proper resolution and rule, after due notice to the railroads as prescribed by law, compel any railroad which has on sale mileage books to pull mileage for the short distance to said points only and 1 no more. "I have not before me any special agreements or special rules which may have been entered into by ana oetween the railroad companies and the rail- . road commssion in reference to these mileage books, and consequently this opinion is not rendered in accordance ; with any such contract or agreement that may be in existence, but it is 1 ^ /v Dasea upon tnc powers ui iuc iamuau commission as prescribed in the statute law of this State.'' GRACE-WIIALEY CHARGES HEARD.! Chairman Post Quo/ed as Being Inclined to Think Committee will Make Invowtiffofiftn in DoppniliA.' AU T V>?iJ^Ul'VU iU VW-^-r/V*. Washington, October 1.?After this morning's hearing in the Grace-Whaley case before Elections committee Xo. 1, Representative Post, of Ohio, chairman of the committee, said that it had been decided to defer further consideration of the case in the committee until December 1. Mr. Post seemed inclined to man*. mai iiie committee would then proceed to an investigation. Besides filing with the committee a number of affidavits which the committee has not yet examined, Mayor Grace brought with him today the following witnesses, who appeared before the committee in person and testified in support of the Grace petition: H. Leon Larisey, Frank Hogan, Michael Barry, Steve Sargeant and William Wingate. The Times, an afternoon paper here, gives this account of the hearing: "Mayor John P. Grace, of Charles~D 1 /vV?OT/1 IOI1, W UU Sil^S bUllgi cssrnau Whaley, of the first South Carolina district, spent $60,000 to be nominated and elected to the house as the successor of the late Congressman Geo. S. Legare, sought to substantiate his charges Deiore me nouse eiecuuiis committee at noon today by bringing Charleston witnesses who participated in the spirited campaign. Frank Hogan, a policeman and designated by Mr. Whaley as a political follower of the mayor, told the house committee * TXTU r, 1 nrr Vl o r? eoiH 'T Q TV) OTli Tl P" til ILiitl >v iiaiCJ' iiuu ouiuj j. 0w?0 congress or I am going broke/ "According to Hogan, whose dialect made him a picturesque witness, he was working for Candidate Hughes, opposing Whaley, and handled a campaign fund of about $1J200 in the first .primary, and about $1,600 in the second. Mr. "Wlhaley, Hogan said, tried to crat him tn cwitY?:h. his S5UDT>Ort. 'He asked me to handle some money for him,' testified Hogan. 'I told Whaley I was a Hughes man straight out. Whaley suggested that I take $50 then, but I didn't. Harry Friend told me he got $300 to use for Whaley in Ward 9, and I saw the money.'" Members of the committee asked if Friend was the sort of man to be carrvins around $300 of his own money, 'Hogan thought not, saying he believed Friend was out of a job at the time. The witness also said he had heard that Bob Wickett got $200 from Whaley and that Louie Marilia and Barney Carey got about $2,000. Testifying that money seemed to be plentiful in the primary campaign, Hogan said that the night before the election men were going about Charleston streets saying, "There was lots of money down at Whaley headquarters/' and asking one another if they "got any." Mike Barry, of Charleston, testified that J. J. O'Shaughnessy had a big pile of Whaley money in the second primary and that it was well known that it was Whaley money. He quoted O'Shaughnessy as saying that "he had the mazuma to carry the day/' Barry also testified that John Cameron had handed out Whaley money. Steve Sargeant, who said he was an employee of the Coast Line Railroad, told the house committee that J. M. - " 1-5 ^ f'li.r. + Reeves was paia ior ms vuie dliU iinau the Whaley people soent money freely, buying whole families. He said the head of one family got $50 for his vote. The witness said he believed Whaley spent $8,000 in the second prmary in the 9th ward, and that 'the Hughes workers spent between $4,000 and $5,- | poo. Much of the testimony today was of the hearsay character, and Representative Stevens entered a protest against the consideration of so much second hand testimony. Before taking any action on the Grace charges against Congressman Whaley the committee probably will want to hear a number of additional witnesses. Congressman Whaley took dinner today with Speaker Champ Clark, at the Speaker's invitation. There were about a dozen in the party, which included Mrs. Clark and Miss Genevieve Clark. Tlctory, 'Says Grace. The following telegram was receiv ed yesterday afternoon by Edward C. Powers, secretary to Mayor Grace: "Washington, D. C., October 1, 1913. "Mr. Edward C. Powers, Charleston, S. C.: We have won a complete victory. Tell the glad tidings to everybody. John P. Grace." Which One? Which store in Newberry has the J prettiest salesladies? Several tiave. pretty ones. 1 / PRES. WILSON CAN'T COME; SENDS REGRETS WOODROW WILSON WON'T BE IN COLUMBIA FAIR WEEK. May Eyen Have to Abandon Plans to Attend Meeting of Southern Com mercial Congress. Columbia, September 30.?President Wilson, in a letter received by Commissioner Watson tonight, said that it would not be possible for him to visit Columbia and South Carolina during the State Fair on his return North from attending the convention of the Southern Commercial congress at Mobile. This will be learned with re' gret by the people of the State. The president's letter to Commissioner Watson, dated Washington, September 26, is as follows: President's Letter. "All/vrcr rrt n tn o or? era +Vi o ro. ceipt of your kind letter of September 24, and to thank you very much for writing me. Unfortunately, if I am able to go to Mobile I shall have to | hurry both ways and it will not be pos| sible to stop going or coming, or add _ | anything to the trip. Let me assure you that I deeply appreciate your kind. nocc in fhio mni.fpr " j Commissioner Watson, in comment; ing upon the note from the president, said: "I must confess that I am genuinely disappointed. To be perfectly frank, I felt sure that Mr. Wilson Was going to accept this invitation, and I am sure now that 'he fully intended to do so: Some inmortant matter of public policy has unquestionably occurred since I saw him in Washington. This is indicated by the reference in his note to the trip to Mobile, regarding which he now expresses doubt. When I was with him he expressed no doubt whatever in regard to that trip. Why He Was Wanted. "Presenting the invitation, in which * ? At- - <TT I particularly stressed me nume ing Welcome' idea, which had appealed to him in Washington, in my letter to him, I referred briefly to our efforts in the past six years towards ithe upbuilding of the State upon the 1J 1 ~ ~ frnHc in I UI oau 11UC VJl sccniug Li uiig, n uiv? the soundness of men. I referred to the fact that the average man in this ) ; State was doing more thinking for himself upon economic lines than perhaps in any State in the Union, and said to him: 'It is not my purpose, however, to recount the achievements of the past six or seven years. They are known to all men. We are preparing our people to do their part upon * > * -n * n 1 ? tne opening or tne ranaina uanai m the making of a greater nation. The movement has a momentum that nothing can stop. I feel, therefore, when I consider that the methods that we have employed in this State are now hein? adonted all over the country by those promoting the cause of agriculture, that a visit from you to your old home at this particular moment would mean more to the future of our country, perhaps, than your visit to Mobile. It would prove a successful stimulus to the masses of people rather than to the few representatives of the South, such as I am, who will greet you at Mobile.' "I deeply regret that the president "annnt r?nm-p to us at this time. If he had done so it was my purpose to enlist the student bodies of the various \ colleges, the school children of the State and all of the tomato club girls and boys' corn club boys, in giving the president a welcome that would have I been unique and would have made a lasting impression upon him." WHITMIRE SCHOOL OPE>'& y*' Largest Attendance in Its History on First Day. Whitmire, Sept. 30.?The Whitmire school opened yesterday with the largest attendance in its history. It has seven teachers headed by Mr. i Wall, tne principal. Addresses were made by? Messrs. Friday and Corder, F. W. Fant, M. J. Wall, the principal. fhiirrh \otlce. Rev. R.'C. Holland, D. D., a prominent Unted Synod official, will preach ,at St. Paul's Lutheran church, Kibler's bridge, next Sunday, October 5th, and make an address in the afternoon. The occasion will be the regular fall communion. Everybody is asked to bring dinner and spend the day at the church. Preaching on Friday, October 3rd, at 3.00 p. m. woman's missionary meeting and church council meeting at the church, at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon.