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'.ia is a proscription prepared especially ' tt MALARIA cr CHILLS & rCVLR. ; iv> or six doses will break er.v cave, and ' : !-jn men sj a tonic tlie Fever will ret i -turn. it cci.3 cn the liver bettor than | r.iomel and does no: ?ripe cr side.:. 25c ; Grace Will Ao Ch Will Make no Further for though Believes He Was Primary?Thinks Will Charleston, Nov. ?In a statement | gl- en cut for publication today Mayor j 6ia.ce declares that he will make no j further congest ior the mayoralty j nomination; that he will accept and | abide by the result, altaough he be-' lieves he was unfairly beaten, and that .he leal will of the majority has been defeated. states that it has never been his intention to bolt the primary I i j and appeal to the general election, | j and that he will make no case in the i j court;' though he feels that he would be awarded the protested box from Ward 10. Mayor Grace charges his ! opponents with employment of the j most reprehensible methods to comi ???<!.- Hp Hpriarps however. uic uvkmv. -? -??. j -? ^ _ that he realizes any step taken by him i at this time to embroil the community j !s more gravely to be considered than the gratification of winning an election, and he will not add chaos- to j gloom by any rash steps. The Charleston Evening Post of Fri day quotes Mayor Grace as follows: "Even since the morning after election I have been in a great quandary. At 8 o'clock on election night, it was clear to me that I had won the day, figuring the returns by the votes indicated at that time. Suddenly there came a slump; I was compelled to revise my estimates. >The last box was very slowly counted, apparently only kppnins? steD with the exigencies of I Mr. Hyde's case. It was not until this box came in that, on the face of the returns, it seemed 1 had been beaten. However, I had been beaten by fourA /Vw? ^ leen votes me icn?cu j nineteen), and I at once said' to my friends, who were gathered around me, that although they and I were disappointed, still the people had spoken, and even a difference of one vote was enough to command from me the utmost acquiescence; that I did not want anv recount and that for my part, 1 was willing to concede the election. But they begged me by no means to do so saving the result was still unofficial and very suspicious, and that I should at Iea:t wait until the nominees of tin primary were officially declared. I ,went to bed, therefore, with mixed feelings; my own being to grin anti bear and accept the result, and, struggling with these, those of my good friends, whose views I could not ignore, being to stand by our guns for i while longer. "The whole complexion of things changed the next day. I was aroused : early by messages from thore who toid of many irregularitfc-s. It was pointed out that the total vote cast was very 1 high, being 6,455, or over 500 votes J more than four years ago. When it is considered that severe restrictions 1 obtained this year, and that all unnaturalized persons were excluded, it is fair to say that this increase of 500 is equivalent to an increase of a full one thousand votes under old conditions. Whence had they come? Either Charleston had grown more remark- j ably Mian we had claimed under my administration, or there was fraud somewhere in the voting. My opponents had had absolute charge of the machinery, the ballots, the boxes^ the i stamps and everything. I began to betV-Qt fhoro ViqH hppn fraud and ilC'C tuuw V w ? to see many suspicious items as I weni carefully over the returns. But beliefs and suspicious were not facts. So I was still disposed to let the matter go. Then I began to learn of telephone conversations proving plots to have th? box of Club 2, Ward 10, thrown ore. These conversations, I am sure were correctly reported to me; and j their effect was to impress me <vervj unfavorably as to how far the conspirators might possibly have gone in stealing the whole election. Imagine, therefore, what a change came over) me. It was one thing to be a good 1 sport, and in that spirit to accept defeat gracefully, if even by the narrowest margin. But it was quite another i thing to be robbed! What should a: man do under those conditions? Whan J did he owe his friends?a majority of the people? What did he owe in loyalty to our government system whose basic j * *- Al- ?- ? o i nrif f ? principle is me ngm ui mc uinjuni,.' , rule? These arc questions which even now puzzle me. "A? change of eight votes in the : count, according to figures then avail-j able, would mean my election, not. con1 ? * 1- ~ . ? 11/-\?> T-nf, c A ft or s:uv*niii; tm' liii-.nn.tcu unr.-, - ^. carefully checking the matter off. it seemed we would gain a n. t sixteen \otes to be placed against the majority, | which the Hyde side then seemed to' claim of fourteen, thus giving me (he. election by two votes even without a recount. "1 also knew or votes that had been cz u and counted illegally. There were J cept arleston Result Mayoralty Nomination, AlUnfairly Beaten in Recent ' of Majority Defeated. I ; two vots counted for Mr. Hyde in Ward : a met a v. r Sfharnoff and a Mr. ! Bennett, who had written their names across the ballot. As the object of the Australian ballot is to preserve secrecy .n rhe.e cases the votes became void. In how many other boxes were there .mh.ar errors? 'Tnder the urgeiio\. therefore, of m>friends, and under my own misgivings, I reluctantly decided on Thursday o ask for a recount. When the petition was handed to Chairman JbiacK ne stated to the gentlemen who served it mat he thought we were "entitled" to a recount, and that we would get it, but tnat he was going to ask for police protection at the meeting of the executive committee to be held the iext day. Accordingly on Thursday night I got a letter from him asking for protection, and I at once replied that it would give me pleasure to grant it. KV'e took special pains to send a very large squad of experienced | nnlirpmpn tn that fatal Fridav meet-1 ing. My hopes indeed ran very high Far from wishing any disturbance at that meeting, I had everything to gain and nothing to lose by an orderly, judicial, impartial hearing of the case. Every one of my friends understood that we were going there only in the spirit of peace and justice, carefully prepared to put up a meritorius case. Brown, who began the firing that day, and McDonald, who instantly reinforoed him, on the other hand, went there in a completely different spirit. Brown had been one of the main participants and was a disputant as to Club 2, Ward 10. He had been a manawr nf tb-at hnx Although the slight fact of not keeping the poll list was entirely due to the plot, and although Brown and :Cole, the other Hyde manager, had acquiesced in its correction, when one of our watchers discovered it; and notwithstanding people kept on voting lawfully all day; that night Brown and Cole recalcitrantly refused o sign the returns. "If the executive committee had met on that Friday, had counted the box from Ward 10, had adjusted the challenged votes honestly, but had point blank refused to grant me a recount, I would instantly have accepted the decree, although I should always have felt the injustice. "Without a recount, and under proper adjustments I would have been beaten by three votes in the whole city. The Scharnoff and Bennett votes, which on a recount would have had to be thrown out, would have brought th* net difference down to one vote. If " ~ ~ T V. n rl lnof fh o ol ATI U pun d 1CV.UU111 i 11UU lUkll V.UV V.V.VI.W.. by that on-e vote, I would, of course, have acquiesced. But when, upon the committee's con?venement on that fatal Friday, Brown and McDonald, bitter partisans and active participants in, and deeply personally interested in the affair of the Ward 10 box, began the meeting with bloodshed, I was shocked and grieved beyond expression, indeed outraged, and my feeling of sportsmanship to accept even so narrow a fedeat, gave way to the utmost resentment and indignation. Since then, 1 have hardly cared to s-a.v anything at all on the whole bloody J subject;-feeling at times as if I would just let ihe matter go without another word, and then again feeling as if I should go into court; in fact, not knowing what to do or say. "I have at no time, nowever, had any intention of bolting the primary. I do not mean that I would not be justified in doing so; for fraud vitiates everything that it touches, and I am con vinced that from the beginning to the end of the campaign there was frauo on Mr. Hyde's side, without scruple. Moreover, force and duress vitiate everything. Xot only did we have- a fraudulent election, but we did not have a -free election. Every influence and violence were brought to bear to prevent the people from expressing their true will at the polls. For a full year, or during Mr. Hyde's whole j campaign, the real thieves were going around shouting "Catch thief." -There " ^ v.-or. ? n-nron r>a m na i crn nr 1 V i 71 J? i lie v ri ^ ao <*1 ? ui oc ik- *^0 and back-biting. Xor has there ever been, anywhere, a meaner appeal '.o un-.American bigotry. Even the characterless off-scourings of my own church were hired and inspired to 'bear testimony* to the 'do.-igns' which I had on our government, and poor, pitiable, narrow-minded creature s *vere convinced by such methods that 1 was at the head of some conspiracy against j our schools, our liberties, etc. The most vicious circulars were stuck under the doors of susceptible, but ignorant, people. and even some of the more intelligent were made to believe that I had taken a bloody oath to destroy and subvert our government and as far as I was able turn it over to some foreign 'prince or potentate.' This whole question was one of such delicacy that if 1 had followed my own usuaal way and fought it out in the open, | my perverse enemies would at once j have shouted that 1 wa- bringing re| Mgion into politics. They who wer,? r fattening every wolf of bigotry upon | it Now thai the campaign is over, j may 1 not at least say that if it be pos; sible that I had any such sinister inj tentions, was it not strange that I had I lone so much to improve our schools and play-grounds and other educational and charitable institutions? Why was it that I divided my patronage so carefully among all classes, sects and nationalities? That surely was a trange way to build up any one class or creed. "All legal writers on election and all decided cases hold that one conducted ii-nrlor snrh rsrrnmsfan^ps ic shsrvlntolv wwv,.? V... v, v*. ^K, V* V* w>~A j void. Mr. Hyde is no more entitled to the nomination than was Becker entitled to escape punishment for the crime which he instigated and of which he was the beneficiary and for which he was electrocuted only a little while ago. But I realize that any step taken by me at this time to embroil our community in further trouble and perhaps bloodshed, is more gravely to he considered than the gratification of winning an election. I thank my friends, of all sects and sorts and conditions, for what they have done for me. Their loyalty was of that immeasurable sort j n ? /% V? nor?T?iA^ f a 4 n a /\f I v> iiiv^n taiiicu uu^in IU ciic jyuiuc \/i facing cruel and reckless murderers. They offered themselves to me on the altar of friendship. 'Greater love hath no man than this, than that he lay down his life for his friend.' There will be other days, perhaps, when I can repay them in some measure, and when we can retrieve our political fortunes. The night is dark, and I confess I can not see the dawn; but I will not add chaos to the gloom by indulging in wild and frenzied conduct. I could go into the courts- and beyond doubt I could have Ward 10's box counted. Hhis, as I have said, would, with the other corrections, bring the difference to three votes. O'oer these I have talked at length with a trusted friend, and we are agreed upon this conclusion; but the fac!: remains that there would still be that difference of three votes. I do not know of any way in which I can better show my respect for the great principle upon which our government is founded than by saying that, though the difference be bu: three. I do not intend to challenge the will of even such a slender alleged majority, but will accept and abide by the result, well and sincerely feeling in my heart of hearts that I have been rcbbed and cheated, and thai the real will of the majority has been deafeat. ed. It might be that the courts, under the circumstances, would (as they should) order a recount even though the difference be but three. I do not concede the election to Mr. Hyde. On the contrary, I will always feel, and so will my friend's., that, like Tilden, I have been sacrificed, and perhaps, as in his case, for the good of South Carolina. Mr. Hyde will be looked1 upon as history looks upon Hayes. For four years Hayes, who 'defeat d' Tilden, was regarded as a fraudulent president; hut- at thp onri nf thai timp hp never came back, and has hardly ever been heard of since. "Let us then ha<'.e peace. I know the people have short memories, and it has been said that republics are ungrateful. 'The evil that men do lives after j them; the good is often interred with .Iieir bones.' So let it be with me. I am satisfied in my own conscience; and therefore it is supremely unimportant to me what shall be said of me. My friends, I trust, will always love me, as I them, and what matters it if my enemies will ever remain too narrow and bitter to see and know the truth? I am not vain enough to care much about the place that I -will hold * * * * ? i i?n _ r in our nuie local uau vi rauie. m- j deed, I will only be too glad to share j the fate of being remembered only for i whatever evil I have done, if by the J same token those who did infinitely j grater evil to Charleston will be also j remembered. I hope that our com-1 ' ? ?> Y% ?r\ -n crr\+ f "h V*rin ci r\ <y I UiUUll V JLllaj> novel luigct UiiuSiu0l against the city government's protest, into our midst of deputies, who In reality had no authority, and who left behind them only a bloody trail: or the mockery of the militia, almost as if the town bordered on the brink of revolution and anarchy. Martin. Manning and Hvde were the trio with) whose names must be forever linked this new outrage, only in keeping, however, with the record of Martin of lon.q a<ro. For twenty years I have fought! him for the evil that he has done. I have never been able to find any goo*! in him. such as in charity rmight be only too happy to inter wiiu ins uunes. Ho has been all for self?nothing for Charleston. As lie grows old, he seems to grasp more energetically at every new chance to abuse our love of home rule, and thereby to prolong his political existence a little while. I believe, j Z_ I though, he ha? done it for the list tim> I will not resort to that which : lie would in my place resort to?the I general election. For less cause he has I done ?o in the past. But I will await ( calmly he day near at lu.nd when the j people, reacting against the methods ! wherohv Vip Vmc en nftpn moHp r'o ci rl | ton suffer and which he has once more ! employed, will cast him from o::~ j midst. This is the consolation I gath| er from the otherwise inexplicable j Hoyde 'victory.' Next year I believe it will be Martin's turn to go?at last.'* I JUDGE THOS. S. SEASE ILL; I LEXINGTON* COURT HALTED Recess in Common Pleas Session Until November 22?Condition *>f Judge Sease. Xews and Courier. Lexington, Nov. 5.?Judge Thomas 3 Sease of Spartanburg is confined to his room here at the Meetze hotel a very sirk man snrl sc a result of his. un* expected illness there will be no more common pleas court for Lexin~Ion until Monday, November 22, at which time, in the event that Judge Sease is not able to resume his duties on the bench a special judge, or one of the regular judges of the state, if one can be found at that time, will preside over che court. .This was the decision reached bv the members of the bar to day, after it was learned that Judge Sease would not be able to continue the court, after a recess which was taken on Wednesday afternoon, by reason of the fact that a number of cases set for trial that day and for yesterday had been settled by agreement, and that the witnesses for the other cases on the roster were absent. x The court adjourned until this morning. The case of Miller against the Parr Shoals Power company had been set for trial today and a number of witnesses, many of them from a distance, together with <v1siting attorneys Dencn in tms siaie. Jtie is ioveu, nouored and esteemed by every one at this bar. His manly courage and strong convictions have won for him a higa place in the estimation of law-abiding citizens the state over, and the announcement of his illness has occasioned supreme regret and much -sor^ row among his friends here. It is > J v.. ?111 V ? lioyeil ixiaL lie wui swu i/e muiocii. again. He is under the care of a physician and every attention possible is being rendered him. Cyrus L. Shealy, clerk of court, is today sending out notices to all jurors who had been summoned by the sheriff to appear here on Monday, November 8, to report for duty on Monday, Noi vember 22, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. It is planned to have two more weeks of common pleas court tfiis fall, the regular term having convened on Monday of this week, for a four week's session. NOTICE Of Special Meeting of the Shareholders of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad Company." 'To the Stockholders of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad Company: T'oL-a ki/-ifiV.o. in npnnrrtanoe> wif.h Section 11 of the By-laws of the Columbia, Xewberry and Laurens Railroad Company, and under the authority of Section 2883 of Volume 1 of the (Code of South Carolina, 1912, a special meeting of the stockholders of the Columbia, Xewberry and Laurens Railroad Company has been called by the Board of Directors, and by a majority of the stockholders of the said com pany. at their regular annual meeting, to be held at the office of the company in the City of Columbia, South Carolina, on Tuesday, the 23rd day of November, 1915, at twelve o'clock, noon, for the purpose of taking actioE. with respect to having the charter ol! the company amended so as to extend nA^noi-n'fv anA in snrh nthp?? J:? .:ic in j/ci ptiunj uiiu ~ ? ? rcspects as the stockholders may determine. COLUMBIA, NEWBERRY AND LAURENS RAILROAD COMPANY, By John F. Livingston, President." 1 interested in tne case, were nere. There was much disappointment by the announcement of the illness of Judge Sease.. The iMiller case against the Parr Shoals Power company is now set for trial at the top of the roster for Monday, November 22. Judge Sease has not been well during the whole week, and on Monday he was suffering from a hoarseness for which he was unable to assign any cause. He has been feeling slightly worse each day, until last evening ho took to his bed and a physician was summoned. He has some fever today ami as lie expresses it, his limbs pain him all over. He is also complaining of a severe headache. Last night he suffered a severe chill, and this, it is thought, brought on the fever. He at pmpted to dress at one tiir 'iy. intending to go to his home in Spartanburg, but he found himself too weak to make the attempt. Judge Sease is one of the most wide.lv known and popular judges on the