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VOLUME LID, SORER 73. NEWBERRY, S. TIESDAY, OCTOBER 19,1915. TWICE A WEEK, $1JM A YEAR. MANNING USES MALll'IA | 10 HELP ELECT HM CHARLESTON SHERIFF 3IADE MiL-! ITAK1 UICXATUK. 3Isutiu Instructed ?o Swear in All j Deputies He Wants and 3.>U ^ Militiamen I nder His Orders. Sfc Special to Tne Herald and News. Columbia, Oct. 11.?Governor Man- j iag this morning telegraphed Sheriff ' J. Elmore (Martin of Charleston to , name as many special deputies as lie deemed necessarv, and ordered four! companies of infantry and three com- ! panies of the na;al militia to mobilize '' 3.1 their armories and hold themselves I I subject to the orders of Sheriff Martin, j - The city council of Charleston last j week formally protested against this | very action and declared the municipal J authorities amply able to supply their own police protection oil the day of the municipal election. Outside interterence ay uo> emui ; Manning and by Sheriff Martain, who I .has bitterly opposed Mayor Grace, it J is feared by manv wfto understand me t temperament of the Charleston people, may lead to serious trouble on TuesL . day. F Adjutant General W. W. Moore; un! der order of Governor Manning, went i to Charleston this afternoon and took command of the militia. The Charleston militia numbers about 3oQ men with a machine gun. They are assembled at their armories k *- - - - n-ill + /~ir> i crVlt clocn i mis anexiiuuix auu IUU^UI, I on their arms, ready for instant ser| Tice. I Mayor Joiin P. Grace stated some K time ago that if the municipal authorI ities were insterfered with in the policF ing of the city on election day he would have sworn in a sufficient force of special or extra policemen to outnumber the deputy sheriffs. The governors telegram to Sheriff Martin stated in part: ' "I hereby order and direct you to | ^ I appoint, equip and commission such number of deputies as in your judgment may be necessary and to see that peace and good order are preserved on the day of election and as long thereafter as necessary. "You are ordered further, if in your judgment it is necessary, to call on the militia through their proper officers to aid you as the duly elected civil autnonty. .^V-"Use the militia only in case of ne/ cessity." , CEXTENMAL CELEBRATION PEXDLETOX FARMERS' SOCIETY The following is the program of the centennial celebration of the PendleL ton Farmers' society to be held on October 12th and 13th at Pendleton, S. C. and October 14th at Clemson Col lege, s. u. Tuesday; October 12, 10:30 a. m., at Farmers' hall. Music. Society called to order and opened with prayer. Address of welcome by the president, Col. J. C. Stribling. Music. Introduction of orator of the day ? ?? Ttr iTT T? T Mr. .Clarence Foe, Dy i.vir. w. w. ijoug, state agent and director of extension," | Clemson college. L Address of Mr. Clarence Poe, editor k The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh^ N. C. Music. V Dinner. f 2 P. M. Parade of farmers' wagons and floats around the square. Parade of cattle, horses, and colts around the square. Award of prizes for best float or wagon, illustrating home-grown products ($10 for first. $5 for second, $2.50 ! for third.) ' Wednesday, October 13, 10 a. m., at Farmers' hall: Music. Society called to order and opened with prayer by Rev. W. Cuttino Smith. Address of welcome by the president. Col. J. C. Stribling, the mayor of l the town of Pendleton and Dr. W. M. I "R,if*frs nresident of Clemson college. * Music. ^ Address of Hon. R. I. Manning, governor of South Carolina, introducing Mr. Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern railway. A^dr^ss of'Mr. Fairfax Harrison. Music. Address of Hon. A. F. Lever, repre- ^ the m;hs ok prosperity. iiiterestinsr Hoc tin a: of Literary Sorosis?Hank Directors Meet ? inaiii ox i.nile iiiilu. Special to The Herald and News. Pio^perity, Oct 11.?Tue Sorosis met with Mrs. A. G. vVise on Friday afternoon. Shakespeare's "Pericles" was the study i'or the afternoon. The discussions were leu by Mrs. Quattlebauin and Miss Kibler and heartily entered into by the other members present. A most delicious salad course with cofiee was served. The guests of the club wejre Missei Kohn of Columbia and Airs. \J. l_uuiius. A meeting or the directors of the Farmers' bank was held here Saturday. Mr. Hoyt, former president, and Mr. Patterson, cashier, of Columbia, were present. i.Mr. Hal Kohn of Columbia was a visitor to our town Saturday. Mioses Agnes Mopts, Sarah Huffman, Annie Belle Long and Frances Boulware of Summerland college were shoppers here Monday. Mrs. L. M. Fellers has gone to Columbia to visit her daughters. Mrs. J. F. Brown, Misses Win-;*. Mae Wise, Marie Kohn, Marie Schumperr. Isoline Wyche and Mr. L. M. Wise attended the federation in Newberry. Miss Liliia Kibler left today for Wilson, N. C., where she will teach this session. Mr. F. W. Schumpert of Savannah spent the week-end at home. Miss Elizabeth Hawkins left Saturday for Nichols, S. ., where she will teach. Dr. E. P. and Mrs. J. C. Taylor of Batesburg spent Sunday with Re?v. and Mrs. E. P. Taylor. Mrs. J. A. Simpson spent Monday in Columbia. Mrs. Boyce Hawkins has gone to the Columbia hospital for treatment. Messrs. JLois Dominick and A. L. Wheeler were business visitors to Columbia on Monday. (Miss Marjorie Luther of Columbia paid a short visit to her grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Luther. / The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor died suddenly Sunday of a congestive chill and will be buried at St. Phillips Monday afternoon. The funeral service will be conducted by Rev. Y. von A. Riser. sentative of the Seventh district, chairman of house committee on agriculture, with reading of letter from President Woodrow Wilson to the society, and introduction of Secretary D. F. Houston. Address of Hon. D. F. Houston, secretary of the department of agriculture. Music. \ ' Dinner. 2 P. M. Society called to order. Address of Rev. W. H. Mills, on "The .Contributions of the Pendleton Farmers' Society to Southern and South Carolina Agriculture." Addresses of felicitation from th? Agricultural Society of South Carolina, the Darlington Agricultural so ciety, the Beech Island Agriculaural society, the Farmers' union, the Schultz Hill Agricultural society and the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical society. Music. Two-minute talks, by farmers, newspaper men, and others. Thursday, October 14, 10 a. m? in Memorial hall, Clemson college: President W. M. Riggs, presiding. Welcome address by Hon.Alan Johnstone, president of the board of trustees, Clemson Agricultural college. Address by Congressman A. F. Lever, chairman of house committee on agriculture. Felicitations by Mr. Fairfax Harri son, president of the Southern railway. Music. Dress parade of cadet corps at 12 o'clock. Dinner at 1:30 p. m., to the representatives of agricultural societies. 2.(30 to 4 p. m.. inspection of shops and laboratory. 4 to 4 p. m., athletic games. The Trinity schcol will open on the 18th of October. Miss Carrie Still of Hogdes will be principal and Miss Lucile 'Wilkinson of Greenwood assistant. \ BIG WAREHOUSES i MAY FORI COMBINE JIcL.U'RIN SAYS PLAN IS TO HEAD j OKK STATF SVSTK1L Owners Consider Plans For Company | Capitalized at Million Dollars, Says Report. I I ! News and Courier. Columbia, Oct. 7.?The formation of I ' a big warehouse corporation by merging the Standard Warehouse company | of Columbia, and South Atlantic Ware| house company of Augusta. Ga., is now ; ! being considered, it became known | here today. The idea is to have a company with a capital of $1,000,000, and to extend the warehouse sysleni throughout Georgia and South Caro- ^ 1 lina and possibly over the entire cotton belt. If the proposition goes through it is said that warehouses to store thousands of bales of cotton may be built at principal points in the two States. ' The proposition for the merger came j from the Augusta company to the Standard Warehouse company here, a ! financial representative of the Augusta ; company having come here from New York with the proposition. It is under- j stood that at a meeting of those in- j LC1CSLCU liCl C luuaj a. wujiuhics <> c*.o named to take up the matter with the J stockholders. The new company, if j formed, will buy up the stock of the ' local company, it is stated. The proposed warehouse concern \ would be a gigantic affair, one of the j biggest private corporations in the j South. They propose to negotiate' loans on warehouse Receipts for cot-! ton stored with them at a low rate or j interest. ' \ , - i State Warehouse Commissioner John L. McLaurin thinks this private warehouse concern is forming to combat the State warehouse. In a statement issued here tonight he said: McLau rin's Statement. "There 7*as a meeting in this city today of owners of standard warehouses in this State and Georgia to form a huge combination to head off the State warehouse 'system. I have in my possession a copy .of the letter calling this meeting at tne instance or large capitalists. They do not permit the farmer to store his cotton where it was grown, and they call specific attention to the danger to their interests of the South Carolina State warehouse system. Whether this cpnspiracy of a class whom Roosevelt described as "malefactors of great wealth" will destroy what has been done depends on the people. I have no millions "to hack me, only faith in God and hdpe in the people." ; T. B. Stackhouse is president of the Standard warehouse system, while Mr. Barrett is head of the South Atlantic i W arehouse company. The rumor that if the merger goes through that Mr. Barrett would move to Columbia and head this branch was denied tonight by an official of the Standard "Warehouse company, who said that Mr. Stackhouse on yesterday was re-elected president for another year. Few details of the proposed warehouse merger could be obtained, for it was stated that the Standard warehouse had not yet given a definite answer to the Augusta people. Senator iMcLaurin said tonight that the plan of the State warehouse system had all. along been 10 build a big concentration warehouse at Charleston, where the cotton would be collected for export. The new private warehouse company, if formed, may also build a big warehouse at Charleston. Meteorologrieal Kecord Sept. 1915. | Temperature? Mean maximum, 88.4 Mean minimum, 64.5. i e% a iviean, <o.t. (Maximum, 100; date 11th. Minimum!! 46; date 23rd. Greatest dail yrange, 33. Number of days with .01 or more j precipitation ?>: clear ">; fair IS; cloudy 7. Precipitation?Total 1.61 inches; greatest in 24 hours 1.13; date 30th. Hot. dry month. W. G. Peterson, C. 0. BLEASE DENOUNCES PROPOSED BIG MEAGER OF CORPORATION OWNED COTTON u-iUL'umvr iv cnJ'TII Wants System of Kural Credits, With Six Per Cent Money on Land 1 As Well as Cotton. Special to The Herald and News. Greenwood, Oct. 11.?Denouncing the proposed big merger of corporationowned cotton warehouses in the South, and defending the State warehouse svctom -which \va<s mpntmnpri as orip of the reasons for the meeting in Columbia looking towards a huge merger of these corporation warehouses, Former Governor Blease, before a big and enthusiastic audience here on Saturday afternoon, also urged for South Carolina a system of rural credits, which would force six per cent money on land just as it was being secured on cotton. Former Governor's Address. After thanking the people for their attendance, Governor Blease said that he desired to correct an impres sion which certain newspapers had made in reference to his Greenville speech. He did not charge the reporters with doing it intentionally, but said the way his remarks were reported, it made him appear to say what he really had not said; that he did no; "jump upon the ministers, who he said would never be brought about by minstayed in their pulpits and cease mixing in politics," as toe was quoted, but that, in discussing the whiskey ques tion he stated that he did not believe, nor did any sensible man believe, thai iporality could be legislated into people, and he contended that prohibition would neved be brought about my minlsteis of the gospel preaching political sermons or meddling in political affairs; .that if they would stay in their piilpits and preach the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ and Him crucified, and keep Christ and His life "prominently before the people?for without the life of Christ in the Bible, the Bible itself would amount to very lit tie, and the Christian religion would be a failure?that if they would preach that religion, and by precept and ex ample create within the hearts of men a love for Christ and for His religion, then and not until then would their hopes be fulfilled, and that they could not see these hopes realized by running .around dabbling in politics and abusing others for their political opinions. He said he had tried to be very conservative in his Greenville speech, o-n^ in foot hor? vcrv hi^hlv com pfti?ented both by letter and in person by people from many different parts of the State upon his speech, as a whole, both as to the positions be Jiad taken and as to the conservative 4?ae;of his remarks-. ? .. In diicussing the State warehouse system, and the proposed big merger of corporate owner warehouses to fight the State system, exposed by Senator McLaurin on Friday morning, Governor Blease said: Proposed Warehouse Merger. "My fellow citizens, you see the great benefits which the people of South Carolina have derived and are deriving from the State warehouse system, and certain financiers have become so jealous of it, because At has unhorsed them and forced them to a six per cent rate of interest that they are now trying to form a great merger of corporation warehouses to put the State warehouse system out of busi ness, and to prevent its spread in th^ other Southern States. Some of these capitalists are leaving their own States and coming into South Carolina and endeavoring to break down this State system which has given so much relief to tiie farmers?New York capitalists, and such men as Barrett of Augusta, and others, joining their hundreds of thousands to the capital of Robertson, and to the capital of Stackhouse and others, in Columbia and other parts of South Carolina and the South, to de slroy your State warehouse system by the formation of this gigantic trus*. And mark the prediction, if they succeed in this merger it will be a greater evil than the great cotton mill merger, to which I called attention some years ago. The people today see that I was right in that, and they see the evil which it is doing. But this latest merger-will bemore ruinous than that. If rhp farmers of the St-te and the t J people or' the State stand idly by an;i let it succeed it will destroy the State warehouse system, prevent the adoption of the system in Georgia and other States which are about to enact it into law. and after its destruction th? farmers will be in the hands of these corporation heads, and as helpless as before the warehouse system became a law. Corporation Warehouses Fear Stute System. Proof of this is shown in the very call made for this great merger meet ing in Columbia, in which the South Carolina State warehouse system is directly mentioned as the reason?or, at least, the foremost reason?for the call. Common sense shows to you, my fellow citizens, that the entire effort is 10 force the farmers to store their cotton in central warehouses in Columbia, Charleston, Augusta, Atlanta and other scumern cuies, msieau 01 siurmg n, as now, on their farms and in nearby towns, thereby forcing the farmers to pay freight on their cotton to thes? gneat centralized merger-owned warehouses, to pay high storage rates, high insurance to the insurance trust which McLaurin has broken into, and compelling them to place their cotton in the hands of the banks from whicn they borrow money. For, just as cer tain as you allow this merger to succeed and permit the State warehouse system to fail, certain banks?Robertson's, in Columbia, in particular?will be the head distributing centers, just as Robertson's now is for the Standard warehouse, and you will be forced to | place your cotton in their hands, and I it would not surprise me when this | is done if, when a rise in the price ; of cotton takes place, they would unI load vour cotton which they are hold ing in their warehouses to the mills, and when the price goes back down replace it with low-priced cotton, which will be forced upon you when you call for it with your receipt. Any \ man can see this who studies the situation and knows it, and who understands the system of the financiers of New York and of the South in the handling of the cotton crop. There are others wiser than I, but I am willing to stake whatever reputation I have in reference tg matters of policy I in the handling of the State government upon the prediction which I make to you today. I can, without boasting, but merely in passing, call your attention to the fact that not a political prediction, have ever I made upon the rostrum in South Carolina, or as governor of this State, but what has been fulfilled. The Law Against Mergers. "The power or corporations had become so great that in the constitution of 1895, article 8, section 13, it was provided "that the general assembly shall enact laws to prevent all trusts, combinations, contracts ar.d agreements against the public weli'are, and to prevent abuses, unjus*. discrimination and extortion," etc. Now I want to call .your attention to the statement made by a member of the federal reserve board in Washington, from the records of the comptroller of the currency, showing that there were banks in South Carolina charging as high as twenty per cent interest last year, and that the average rate of interest in South Carolina is around fifteen per cent. Is this section of the constitution a' part of the "law and order" propaganda, or is "law and order" only to be applied to a few blind tigers in the city of Charleston, and not to tne millions of Robertson, inherited from negro rule in South Carolina and increased by the purchase (?) of the Columbia canal? What is the difference in the sight of God between the burglar who blows open a safe and steals money, and the smooth, fatjowled banker who catches me hard r\ T-? r? + 1 Q YI7 VlV O Vi O T1 ft up cm u. ?lviax^o ?*~+ uj vjulw** me usurious interest? If society condones this criminal who sits in the "amen corner" of the church, why should not I, as governor of the State, have been merciful towards the ignorant criminal who committed a crime oftimes to feed his hungray wife and children? There ought to be a law which would punish the rich criminal as well as the poor criminal. I said there ought to be a law. And there is a law. It ought to be enforced, and then maybe we would have some real "law and order'' instead of the smirking. hypocritical pretense. I am curious to watch and see what is going to be done in the way of "law and or I i <?> ?- i' <?> $><$> ^ <$ -S> <? ^ ^ v> ? < > <$> | ( OTTOX MARKET $ | $> ?o? <? <? < > .Vewberrj. <S> / | ' / Cotton 12% / ( <S> Cotton seed, per bu bz>l/2 & j <8> $ j <y Prosperity. & j ?> Cotton 12 ! ? Cotton seed, per bu 55^ $ j <5> & j ?> Pomaria. y ^ !< > Cotton 12*4 ^ j '? Cotton seed, per bu...... ool/2 ^ | s> <?> ! <$> Little Mountain. * ' ^ /Cotton 12 ^ /is. j ~ "u., tt /fiv . v ^unon seeu, per uu 01 v ' <$> <?> 1 Sil?er?treet. & : Cotton 12 ^ ^ Cotton seed, per b"u 58 ^ 3> * 3> CMppells. ^ Cotton 12.40 <?> Cotton seed, per bu 61 l/t ? . <$> <S> <?> Kinards. v ^ Cotton 12% ^ i ^ Cotton seed, per bu 56 & I <$> <$> <S> Wbitemire ! Cotton 12*4 ^ j ^ Cotton seed, per bu 54 j <S> ; ? Prof.J.S/Wall. . ! The following from the Mullins Enterprise will be read with interest by many Newberry people. Prof. W^ii taught the Whitmire school very su<5? cessfully for two years. He is now county superintendent f>! education for [ Marion county. Prof. Wall is an ex-*; cellent schoolmaster, trained and edui cated for the work, and faltnful antr conscientious in its performance. Certainly he will make good: 4 "County Supeiintendent of Education S. J. Wall addressed the meeting in a splendid and practical manner Mr. Wall's speech was full of timely thought. It Wao nis first appearance' before a Mullins audience since he assumed the duties of office, and a number cf persons predicted that he will make one of the best superintendents that the county has oyer had. Te has already demonstrated his ability as a school official. He is on the job de voting nis enure time to tne woriv, ! British Casualties 31,000 Since ;IT> The First >ot October j London, Oct. 11.?British^ casualties reported since October 1 amounted to more than 21,000. The week-end casualty list published today gives 200 officers and 4,300 men.' This brings up. [the total casualties published in the;j London papers since the first of the , month of 981 officers and 20,351 men. I ; ?. der;" when 'applied to a set of mea j who propose to monopolize the storage I of cotton and the lending or money. I The State warehouse system, has 1 broken into their plans, and when MoI Laurin went to Atlanta and tackled j them there, forcing the extra session 1 of the legislature of Georgia in this regard, they concluded that the best j way to do was to take their millions | cf money and come over to South I Carolina and smother this baby where it was born. Rural Credits. "My fight for years has been for six per cent money. In the house and in the senate, and in the goverror's office, as the records will show, and as I my messages to the general assembly will show, I fought for it, and begged the legislature to pass a law making the legal rate of interest Biz j per cent. This six per cent fight has ; been won for cotton, through the State ' warehouse system, and now others are trying to follow in my footsteps by j trying to catch on to the warehouse systfem. This same cheap money whicifc the warehouse system has secured on cotton can be secured for land by a ; proper system of rural credits. Our ' congressmen haven't the ability to frame such a measure, and we don't > want national interference, even if j they had. We want a system of rural j credits for South .Carolina, and I hope the general assembly will get the proper information from the proper source and pass a law of this kind at. - CONTINUED OX PAGE 3.) "V