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VOL. XXV MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1911 0. 48 WHAT HE SAID GSveruer Blease Defeeds His Actions Before a Larg- Crowd. TELLS ABOUT FELDER The Governor Describes His official Career and Tells Why He Did Cer tain Things.-He Discusses Many Other Things, on All of Which He Speaks Out Plainly. The Spartanburg Herald says Gov. Cole L Blease addressed two im mense and enthusiastic audiences or cotton mill workers on Tuesday at Cowpens and Drayton Qills in Spar tanburg County. The following is a report of the speeches as we find them in the Spartanburg Herald: Gov. Blerase began his address in a formal manner and then said that he would talk about anything his audience wanted and suggested that somebody give him a text. Someone shouted "Prohibition." "If you can show me hhere there Is any prohibition in South Carolina.' said-Gov. Blease, "I'll talk about it." He referred to prohibition again later -in his address He said he had received requests from the au thorities of various counties to send State constables into these counties to enforce the liquor laws. But, said Blease, he told them that since they had voted to be dry they could enr force -the liquor laws as best they could. The governor then switched from one topic to another rather abruptly. He told a story of a little boy whom he blad taken into the gov!?nor's or ftee in the State house and RaA tolo him that it was his. office, as well as that of Cole Blease, and followed up the story by saying that the State House and the governor's office were the property of all the citizens. ' But by- citizens," he said, "I mean white men-not apes and baboons." ' He then launched into a tirade against negroes. The Caucauslon race must dominate, he said, and If an inferior race got in the way it must be got out of the way In the most convenient manner. "And a little gunpowder and a few buckshot," he said, "are often the most effective remedy." Later be said that on a previous oc casion he had made* a statement which had been takei tosmean that he favored lynching. He said he sa% no reason -why he should not -be per -fectly frank about it-that he did approve of lynching. And the reason, he said, why there had been no lynch :ings in South Carolina during the six months in which he had been govern or was because the negroes knew that be would not call out the military to sprotect them from lynching if they insulted white women. Negroes, he said, are so fond of notoriety that often they -are willing to make a sacrifice and take a chance of losing their .lives in order to get their names einblazoned in the news papers. But they knew ,he said, that, while he was governor there was no possible cance of their being saved from an infuriated .mob. Gov. Blease said that if any women of his famly was Insulted by a negro all he would ask was that the negro be caught; he would do the rest himself. Gov. Blease took up various of his official acts which have been criticis ed and defended them. The purpose of revoking the commissions of the notary public was to get rid of negro notaries. He now makes it a rule, he said, not to issue commissions to notaries without the recommendation of 'a member of the legislative dele gation of the county in which they live. Regardinfg his veto of appropria *tion bills, he said that by so doing he saved the State $67,000. He declared the government of South Carolina was the most extravagant of any State of the Union. He denounced the extravagance of the' State edu cational institut-ions especially. Gov. Blease declared that there were men traveling in Ehrope and enjoying themselves and at the same time drawing salaries from the State as members of the faculty of some of the St-aI' educationey jinstitutionls. He said the excuse for permitting them to travel in Europe was that they were being trained to teach. "Bnut why the devil," he asked "were they employed to teach if they didn't know how already?" He said he had respect for the ed ucationlal institutions conducted by the State, and yet they had given nu men to public office. whereas other colleges in South Carolina, notably Wofford College, had produced Illus trios men. He mentioned that Wof ford'had produced Senator E. D. Smith. with whom he had ridden to Sparta.burg from F'lorence. "And Henry Synder," he said, re ferring to the president of Wofford college. "has more sense and educa -tion than Dr. Mitchell has brains enough to learn." Speaking of his tilt with the Su preme Court over the appointment of special judges, Gov. Blease said that he did not intendi to appoint special judges when regular circuit judges were sitting around in club rooms. drinking cocktails and playing pin ochle. And he added vehemently that he could prove that this had been the case. Concerning his liberal use of the pardoning power, he said that men ought not to be punislied too severe y for crimes committed in the heat of passon There was no excuse, he said, for premeditated robberies, but when a man got Into a quarrel and drew a pistol and killed his antag onist he ought not to be judged too severely. "There are good men in the pen tentiary," he said, "men of good fam ilies as yours or mine. And there are a lot of people in the penitentiary woogt to be out, and a lot who are out who ought to be in. "I am going to do something very soon," he continued, "which will cause me to be severely criticised in Spartanburg county. But gentlemen have you ever considered what a ter rible thing life imprisonment is?" Gov. Blease said it had been in sinuated that he sold pardons In answer to that charge, he said, he desired to say that with the exception of Brigman of Florence, who had only had three more months to serve any way, there was not a man whom he had released from the penitentiary who had money enough to buy a nel suit of clothes after paying his railroad fare home. And, he added, a rich man went to the penitentiary not long ago, and he is going to stay there. With regard to the charges of bribery made against him by Col. Thomas B. Felder, of Atlanta, Gov. B14ase said that if Tom Felder would produce a letter asking a bribe or acknowledging the receipt of a .bribe, and any three men familiar with Blease's, handwriting would say the writing of the letter was his, he would resign the governorship in 15 minutes. On the other hand, he said, if he could not prove that Felder had of fered a bribe to a State official, he would not only consent to resigh the governorship, but would move to the Philippine Islands. - Gov. Blease'said he was not averse to Felder's being given a change of venue if there was any doubt as to his being able to obtain justice In New berry County. Gov. Blease spoke at length about standing by his f:-iends. He said he loved his friends so muclt that he wanted to be with them after death, no matter where they were. He de claied thlat his enemies need expect noting from him 'He had been told, he said, that this was not the proper spirit, and that he should consider the example of the Savior, who said of those who persecuted Him: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Gov. Blease said he had no foe giveness for-his enemies because they knew very well what they were do ing... He mentioned among his enemies the newspapers. He said the engi neer of a train could not stop his train to pay attention to the curs that ran-out and barked at the train. And neither, he said, could he stop for the snarling curs, the newspapers. He said he would like to call them by another term, but it- would be un parliamentary. Chief among' his newspaper ene mies, he considers the Columbia State and .he said It was controlled by Cu bans and they were-foes to organ ized government. One of their an cestors he said was exiled from Cuba because he was a foe to organized government. Gov. Blease also paid his resperts to The Spartanburg Herald He as serted that this newspaper was own d by The Columbia State, ana tnat the editor published nothing until he had telephoned to Columbia and h'id. obtained permission. The Heriald, be said. published an untrue story to the effect that thE grls of. Winthrop college had asked that their diplomas be presented to them by somebody else than Gosern or Blease. This story 'was la er found to be untrue, he said, but the Herald lacked the manhood to come out and admit it was untrue. He was warmly applauded and one man shouted that he had stopped his subscription to The Herald because of its unfair attitude towards Gov ernor Blease. Gov. Blease made slighting re marks about Northerners several times. He said that of 160 voters in a Newberry cotton mill 154 voted for him. "The other six," he said, "were the Yankee bossess" While speaking of the penitentiary he devoted some attention to the hosiery mill, which he proposed to abolish. Hie said that prisoners were ut to work in the hosiery mill who knew nothing about making hosiery, but who were required to do just as much work as skilled oper'atives. They ad to work ten hours a day, he said, and were kept standing the entire A lawyer, he said, might be put to work alongside a skilled worker. The lawyer would be given the saint 'ask as the other man. If the lawyer r'ause of his ignorance of the work, ailed to complete his task, even hough it was an impossibility,. De cause of his ignorance of the work. 'e was taken to the stocks, his arms oaced in it, his clothing removed 'o the waist, and the lash applied Gov. Blease, in the course of his seech, made several remarks about Spartanbrg men, which pleased the When Congressman Josenh T. ohson came upon the rostrum he said that a United States Senator had told him that Mr. Johnson had more sense than all the other South Car lna congressmen- put together, and this, he staid, confirmed his own judg He said that his friend, Represen tative H KI. Osborne. who was also on the rostrum, was coming his way, nd if Spartanbulrg county sent Mr. Osborne to the legislature for a cou ple more terms he would probably be on the Blease platform by then. .'Blease had a kind word for the Sate detectives. John F. Miller and Rbert E. Miller. and said that Dan Miles was the .best supervisor in South Carolina. Gov. Blease spoke at some length of his fight for the governorship, which he said h.ad been the crow-ning ambition of his life. He said tha, when his father had been on his deathbed he had called him Cole and tid him ,that he wanted him to bE Governor of his state, and that all his life and that every dollar i'e bad made had been devoted to attain thE governorship. He said he was content with ths Governorship, but conditsions mighi aise which would make him a candi date for United States Senator. There haen talk of imneachint COWARDLY ATTACK GANG HOLDS UP AND BOLDLI V BEATS SENATOR BILBO. I Physician States Injured Main's Skull V Fractured, But Wound Not Neces sarily Fatal. State Senator Theodore Bilbo, can didate for Lieutenant governor of aI Mssissippi, was attacked and severe- i ly beaten at Starkville, Miss., Thurs- CE day by J. J. Henry, claim agent of Si the Mobile, Chicago & New Orleans rg railroad, and former penitentiary warden, the encounter coming as a di- di ect sequel to a campaign speech de- lx livered by Senator 'Bilbo at Blue tl Mountain, Miss., recently in which w Bilbo is credited with having vigor- $1 ously assailed Mr. Henry, impeaching of his character. $1 The affray occurred aboard a rail- sI road train in which Mr. B-ilbo was in proceeding from Columbus to Stur- te gis, Miss., where he was to have spoken Thursday afternoon. Ross A. cr Collins, candidate -for-attorney genei- ra al, who was accompanying State Sew. 3 ator Bilbo to Sturgis at the time of Il bis encounter with J. J. Henry, has T4 given out the following statement: "When the train reach-ed Starkville v2 I was seated directly in front of Sen- be ator Bilbo, in the smoking compart ment, talking with Mr. Carruthers, of co West Poin. Carruthers left the train cc at Stakville and I was looking out of 11 the window at about half a dozen 1 people on the station platform when I wi heard a loud, dull lick. I heard a $ man groan and saw Senator Bilbo fall th at the blow from a pistol. Immediate- $1 ly a man covered the crowd in the ai smoking car with a pistol, -and I un- Of derstand that another person stood 01 guard with him. Everbody was made th to vacate the car, and the Lwo men Sti revented any one entering while J. J. ce Henry administered repeated blows In pon Senator Bilbo's head and body ru wifh the butt of a pistol. Some peo ple on the outside of the car thinking c Bilbo dead, begged Mr. Henry to stop is which he did after having inflicted 1l probably 20 or 25 blows." va Henry was a witness before the egislative investigation- subsequent $( to the charges of Senator Bilbo that cc he had been paida .sum of moniey to ce forsawe ex-Governor James K. Var- 1 daman in the senator:.I caucus of last year, which elected United States enator Leroy Percy as the .suecessor of to the late Senator McLaurin. d -Followigthe legislative inquiry a ht ourt trial was had of a Percy sup- i porter in the senatorial campaign, ce and he was acquitted of thejcharges la f bribery prefered by Bilbo. Dur ing the- present political campaign w charges and countercharges between a! several of the caididates have fol- $4 lowed fast and partisan feeling has m reached a high tension. - 0 Reports as to the extent of :Bilbo's te n-uries .are conflicting. At first it I1 was said that his wounds were not. C serious, but late this afternoon a des patch from Ackerman, in the Imiedi- P1 ate vicinity of- Sturgis, quotes Dr. V'urphy, who was called to attend w Bilbo, as saying that his skull is fractured, but he is not necessarily fatally hurt. GOES FOR FATHER'S BODY. l Waited Forty-one Years to Recover ne it From Glacier. e Miss Edith Randall, daughter of W~ John C. Randall, a banker of Quindy, he M~ass., who. lost his life in the Alps er nearly fortyone years ago, is now on her way to Chommonix, where she ti' hopes to recover her father's body de when the Glacier des Bessons gives ex up the bodies of those vrho were froz- hi n at the top September 6th, 1870. te On arriving at the little village at T the foot of the Alps, where the glac- w er gives up its dead. Miss Randall Cc will stay at the same hotel where her father lodged and will met the ht children of the guides who also lost 9J their lives on that occasion. ai Randall ascended the Alps with le twc cther tourists cnd nine guides. ci The party was caught in the snow al storm and all died. Recent discov- C( eries indicate the bodies will .be re-J (' covered within a few weeks.C It takes forty years for the glac-, oer to travel from the pl~ce where the men perished to the little village at the bottom. *T1 Peculiar Accident. Policeman Horris, of the Yrnkville force, was seriously wounded in a bi- w cycle-motorcycle collision Wednesday st afternoon, and fears are entertained ce for his life. It seems that Harris p, was riding a bicycle attached br a 0i rope to a motorcycle ridden by a Mr. g Fink, of that place. Just outside of m Yorkville a tire of the motorcycle er burst and threw Harris who was in a the rear on the bicycle. breking his tl collar-bone and causing the discharg'e T of his pistol, the ball entering near w the upper edge of the hip, and 'in- in flicting a serious and perhaps fatal, b1 wound. t Queer Place to Fight. e Renewing a feud of several years' standing, three Galamores and four Swains .began firing at each other in a church yard at Paint Creek, Ky. si Albert and Martin Galamnore are fat- ii ally shot and Wmn. Swain is danger-- p. ously injured. The members of each ti family engaged in the pitched battle is ad attended the services. On corn- g ing from, the church they began fir- a n, the members o~f the two families a iing up with their kin. d Steam Shovel Fatal p By the overturning of a steam shovel on the New Orleans, Mobils and Chicago Railroad at Orchard, Ala., Wednesday evening, Engineer o W. H. Doolittle and a negro named V Lee Bonns were killed, and Ike Cot- w nell and a negro named Wales were a: badly hurt The accident was due h THIS STATE LEADS ALUABLE AGRICULTURAL STA TISTICS PUBLISHED. alue of Crops in South Carolina Per Square Mile Reached Second of all the States. Some interesting statistics on the ricultural. situation in South Caro- I ia have been prepared by Commis ner Watson from the recent federal nsus. As has been announced this :ate jumped from 21 to 13 points In nk in agriculture. The value of the agricultural pro- 4 icts of the State increased by 28.4 ,r cent. in one year. The value of .e crops in 1910 was $140,000,000, hich was an increase over 1909 of 1,000,000; an increase over 1906 $62,288,000 and an Increase of c 8,685,000 over 1910, all of which d ows that the value of the crops -has creased over 100 per cent. during past decade. , t With reference to the value of the ' ops per square mile South Carolina I .nked second of all the states with. s ,518. Other States in comparison: , nois, $5,122; Georgia, $3,743; t -as, $1,369 o All other Southern? states show the s ue of crops per square mile to s less than $3,000. The cotton crop of tht South ac- s ding .oceo802EN.Plah-AGIVXzfff.. t rding to -the statistics gleaned for s 10 went on the market for $963,- y 0,000. The crop of 1909 was- s >rth $812,000,000 and for 1908, f 81,230,000. It will be seen that i e cotton crop of 1910 was worth. 9 .,1,000,000 more than 1908. There v e In the South 440,000,000 acres land available for cotton and only 9 Le out of 12 acres Is planted. Of I e cotton crop 19 per cent was con- a ed In the United States; 49 per nt was exported and 35 per cent re- b ained in this country up to Feb- a ary, 19 11. .9 Concening the value per bale of tton the following comparison , given: Value per bale, 1910, $87, ; value per bale, 1904, $50.37; 0 lue per bale, 1898, $30.22. It Is pointed out that the sum of a 04 was received for 20 bales of tton in 1898 while -the farmer re p ived $1,743 for the same number In 410. . t] In South Carolina there were in '10 175,180 farms or an Increase 13 per cent over the preceeding t cade. The value of the lands and ldings increased .by 16.2- per cent; iplements and machinery 112.per at: lands 169 per cent; izicrease in bor bill 76 per cent These statistics s16* ihat there re 20,825 farms added. There e 64,227 owners, or an Increase of ,810, and of these farms 14,987 are rtgaged. The tenants number 11,- c 7. The increase in the number of t] nants during the decade was 16, 3, and the same in preceeding de- p de, 26,000. ~EDICTS DEMOCRATIC VICTIORY ~ . A eni Enown Tennesseani Says Re- e publicans ill Lose. It is the belief of Benton McMil- s a, of Tennessee, for twenty years a I ider among the Democrats In con- C ess that the party will sweep the i .tion next year and take possession t: every branch of the federal gov- 14 nment. Mr. McMillan has been in 9 ashington the past week, and he s .s conferred with Democratic lead- c s in both the senate and house. la "I 'wias an elector of the Tilden a ket," said Governor-McMillan M~on- p y, "and I have participated In ev- t: y caipaign from then 'till now, I: it the party has not been In bet- g r shape for a great many years. v ie situation today is the reverse of j bat it has ,been in past presideintiar g tests.s "In the past the Republicar. party s been united and the Democratic z trty divided. Today we are united la id the Republicans divided hope- C ssly so. The division are not 10- 1 .1, but general. The more advanced t id enlightened Repub~egns have c me to realize that in the language S President Taft, at -Providence, the~ t hinese wall' has to come down." t: SUFFER IN CHICAGO. f e Awful Heat Drives Folks from Their Crowded Homes, : The poor people of the large cities, t ho live in the crowded tenemernts, iffer greatly from the heat. A Chi- 1 go dispatch says thousands of pea e spent Monday night In the parks -on the sidewalks in an effort* to t relief from the intense heat. At idnight the thermometer was hov ing close to 90 and during the ght it did not get below 85. In eO crowded West Side district early1 esday the sidewalks were lined ith people who found It impossible ~ doors. Twenty-two permits to iry babies were issued Monday ane e health authorities predict that e number will be largely increas I if the heat continues. Will Pay Indemnity. The pose office Department has is ied an order, giving notice that an enuity not exceeding $25 will be iid to the owners or senders of the Lird and fourth class domestic reg-t tered matter, Iosjt in the mail, be-t ning on July 1. The payment of 1 indemnity for the loss of mail is 1 extension of the service, which ill popularize the mail since It in-t emnifies the owners and senders ofc ickages from loss. * Gave Life for Dog. i In the vain effort to save the life 6 his dog C. L. Grant, of Dan'ville, a., w'as struck by a Southern Rail- f ay train Wednesday night and died z hour later at a hospital. Grant ad cleared the tracks but had gone i USED HIS KNIFE -6 ACutting Afray in Newberry Conly That May Result Fatally. TELLS STORY OF FIGHT Griffin Williams Outs Andrew Daven port at Old Town In Newberry County.-According to the Story Williams Was Attacked and Forced to Defend Himself. A dispatch from Wards says Mr Griffin Williams, of Newberry, who so seriously and perhaps fatally cut Andrew Davenport, a white man, at Old Town Tuesday went to Saluda Wednesday morning and placed him self in the custody-of Sheriff Sample, awaiting the results of the trouble. From what can be learned Williams tried hard to avoid trouble with Dav enport at Old Town, where a Fourth of July barbecue was served. Old Town is just across the Saluda River in Newberry County; both men are Newberrians. It appears tiat several days ago Williams, who was working as a con stable in Saluda County, seized some whiskey found in the possession of Cary McCarthy, near Denny's. Last week, so the story goes, while Wil liams was at Silver Street, in New berry County, Davenport approached ,him and stated that he, Williams, had gotten one of his, Davenport's kins men in trouble over in Saluda County, referring to the seizure of Cary Mc Carthy's liquor, and he tried to in volve Williams in a difficulty about it, It is said that' Davenport cursed Williams on that ocoasion and said some -pretty tdugh things on him. It is likewise stated that. Williams kept his head and although urged by some of his friends to resent what Davenport said, made the statement that inasmuch as he was an' offcler he would not allow himself to be drawn into a difficulty. Tuesday at Old Town, Davenport again approch ed Williams and rebuked him for tak ing McCarthy'. liquor and sayi -g thaL inasmuch as one of his kinsm had been gotten into tronble, Williams would have to get him into trouble. The story goes that Williams tried to avoid any diffIculty- and'quietly walked- away, going to Chapman's store.- It seems th'at Dlavenport fol lowed him, -and affer some words at tacked him. In the'tuslptmen went out of the store door in the little plazza at the front, here the fight was continued as one of Wil liam's legs got fastened between some slats nailed around as banisters, -and swaying backward fell and Davenport fell over him and out on the ground. While in this position, It is said, that Davenport collared Williams and the latter reached for his knife and gashed him across the m-uscle of the eft arm and across the heart. As soon as he was cut Davenport, it 'seems, loosened his grip on Williams and running a short distance fell; he bled profusely, and it was thought he would bleed to death before medical aid could be had. A telephone message from New~ber ry stated that he was not dead, but was in a critical condition. Williams came across Saluda River after the trouble and spent Tuesday night in Saluda County. Wednesd~ay morning on hearing the Davenport was dead le came to Saluda and delivered him self into the hand of Sheriff Sample and is now occupying a room at the Herlong Hotel.' Wlliams is -a brother-in-law to Governor 'Blease, and until a few days ago was operating in Saluda County as a special constable. .Upon being advised by the supervisor that a constable was not needed in the ounty both Williams and R. L. Werts who was also a constable, were dis missed by Governor Blease. In case Davenport should die Williams will at once surrender himself to Sheriff Buford at Newberry. A DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT. Mr. Luther Hutchinson Meets Death From Scalding Steam. Luther E. Hutchinson, an employe of the Dargan Lumber company's planing mill at Effingham was fatally scalded by the burstIng of a throttle early Friday morning, dying that night. The funeral, which was in carge of the Woodmen of te World, was held Saturday in the Presbyter ian church Rev. M. B. McLaughlin conducting the services. Mr. Hutch inson is survived by his wife and two children. Mrs. J. P. Moore and Her bert N. Hutchinson. He is also sur vived by his father and three broth Deaf and Dumb Meet. A political meeting of ah extraor dinary character was held in Berlin last week. Deaf and dumb workers of both sexes assembled in large num bers to air their grievances in public and to devise means of improving their position in the world. him, he said. But if the legislature, at its next session, should impeach him, he asserted, he would make a tour of the State which would result in his going to the senate as the suc cessor of Benjamin R. Tillmanl. In concluding his speech Govern or Blease said there were six empty bedrooms in his manshion at Colum bia and though they were poorly fur nished, he invited any of his audience who visited the capital to come to the mansion and stop there. He declared that he owed his suc cess in politics largely to the cot to mill men Gov. Blease was suc ceeded on th'e rostrum by Congress man Johnson, who gave a short gen eral talk on representative govern FAVORS CLARK 6 ougressman Fidley Believes the Speak er Our Strangest 1an. WKS HE WL WIN wses His Opinion on the Great Pop ularity of Clark Among House As sociates and Remarkable Ability He Has Displayed, Considered im Connection With Present Status. In an interview with the Washing n correspondent of The News and ,ourier Representative D. E. Finley, f the Fifth South Carolina District eclares that in congressional circles he belief is growing that of the men us -far mentioned Sbeaker Clark rould be the stronikest candidate the )emocrats could name. Mr. Finley tated thlat the party had in the past ron its victories on the tariff ques ion. He is also strongly of the pinion that Speaker .Clark is the trongest available - candidate, and hould be no-minated. "The Democratic party is in better have to-day than it has been at any Lme within the last eighteen years," aid Mr. Finley. "In 1892 the party ras united on the tariff question and wept the country, gaining, for the rst time since the clvil. war the ,residency and- both houses Q Coli ress. In 1894 the unfortunate dl ison within the party on the money estion cost us the control of Con ress. Happily the money question ; ow out of the way and the tariff is gain a live Issue. For 16 years the Republican party as perpetuated *t-lf in iwer as result of Democz-1ic divisions on uestions other than the tariff. Now e Republicans are divided on the riff to as great extent as the. Dem crats were during$ Cleveland's' sec ad administration. The old line Re blicans, the party of Cannon, Payne ad Dalzell, stand for ta protective triff... The so-called insurgent Re ubcans, who hail from the agri ltal States of -the West, proclaim ieir opposition .to a protective tariff ness it is on some product of their nmediate section. But generally ieir attitude on the tariff is well lustrated in-the vote in the House f Repretntitives. on the passage of xe farmers'- free Hst bin iamd the bill educing-theitariE on wool, when ractically all of them voted - with ie Democrats. Today there are'no ivision in our party on any su,bject. rext year we shall enter the national ampaign with a record of achleve ient in tariff reform, and lessening ie high cost of living, which we ex ect to carry us to victory. "Much isI being said in the public rnlts and by individuals in every alk of life as to *vho will be the emocratc candidate <for the Presi ency in 1912. Fortunately for the untry, the Democracy is in a most ~vorable condition today. This con Ition .Is creditable entirely to the plendid record of the party in the [ouse of Representatives in the last ongress. We were a minority party that Congress, of -course, but, banks to the wise, able and patriotic adership of Champ Clark, our party r'as able to make such favorable bowing of its purposes in the way of arrecting abuses and bringing about reduction of the oppressive taxation nd discountenacinig the wasteful ex end~itures of the public money by be Repu,blican party that the people a Congressional elections last fall ave the Democrats an overwrelming8 Ictory, changing a Republican ma ority of forty-five in the 61st Con ress to a Democratic majority of ixty-five in the 62nd Congress. "The Democrlats in the House were ot slow to recognize the poteutial edership of Mr. Clark, and when ongress met on the 4th of last April e was unanimously nominated by be Democrats and elected Speaker f the House of Representatives. The peakership Is a great office--unlques. ionably the second greatest office in country. Speaker Clark has more bn fulfilled the expectations of his "Whatever hope the Democracy aas for 1912 is necessarily based on e welldoing of its Repyresenta5tive a the House In the last Congress and rhat they have done and will do in he present Congress. Under the lead *rship of Mr. Clark the ,Democrats tae put through the Ca'nadian re ipprocity bill, which will enlarge the liarkets of Canada to American pro Lucts. We have also put through the rouse the farmers' free list bill, plac zig thereon something like one hun reed articles, used almost entirely by armers. Following this the House >i11 will reduce the oppressive wool en schedule of the Payne-Aldrici ariff law more than 50 per cent, neaning an annual saving also 01 aillions of dollars to the American leople. The Democratic prograzmme nclludes a general revision of the "No man in Congress or in Amer ca is able to compete with.Mr. Clarb n the matter of carrying out the )emocratic programme. The country eaa-izes this and there is a very large .nd growing sentiment that he of all he Democrats IS best qualified tolead he party in 1912. There are other ~reat Democrats in the country; in act the party is well off in this re pet, but objection is miade to prac ically every one of them. The only bbjiction that has been urged to the ,oominationl of Speaker Clark -foi >resident is that at some time dur ngg the last few years a Democratit tate Convention in Missouri -ave out iti-mation that it was at that time or he nomination of Ex-Governor nolk, of Missouri, for .President nexi eaar. At the time he was given this nore or less useless and valueless ndoe-nE-+ ovenoa r Folk was S HUNDREDS SUCCUMB THE HOT WAVE PLAYED HAVOC WITH THE PEOPLE. Iyt Caused Over Five Hundred Deaths in Four Days in the North and West. The loss of more than 500 lives Is to be credited to the general heat wave of Jury 1 to 5, 1911. The torrid period will be memorable in weather annals for Its wide extent, its lonb duration, its record-breaking temper atures in many places and the long list of fatalities which it has caused. The news dispatches which cities from the North Atlantic seaboard west to the*Plains States have ex changed during those four days, ac count, according to a review'Wednes day night for the death of 431 per sons. Incomplete as the record is from the failure at many points to report specifically the number of deaths, it is as serious as shown, as remer- 1 bered- for many years if not a record. The number of prostrations is still more difficult to compute, but it ap- 1 pears that thousands have been seri ously overcome by the heat in the great cities. A Scores of Deaths Reported. At New York, although the fore- I caster's prediction of "not quite so 1 warm" was literally true Wednesday, the -maximum temperature was only 1 degree of Tu y's extreme heat The exhaustiag ffects of the hot wave were- manifested . in.a record tally of heat prostratigts. The day's list of deaths from heat'In the-metro politan district wastbh-Irty4ir up to midnight - ) A Boston dispatch says another day etcessivi heat wilted New EIJlaid ers Wednesday. More. than forty deaths were reported in New England Wednesday, .*although the tempera tre -was slightly lower than Tuesday, half a dopen degrees beilng ieporten, There were.fifteen deaths due diret-. ly to the heat .within the miof Boston during the.day. ' Heat killed thIrty-two*irons, in-. cluding -twelve gab0le, andprostrated dozens In, Ghicago Wednesday, -the fifth day of-the pinsent heat wave. The temperature :-was rec6rded' at 101.5 In the' w ,eaer bureau at 2 30 Wednesday afternoon, equalling the high pcklnt registered Tuesday; while at the street levelW-and the mercury climbed to.;,108 degrees. - A -dispatch from^ Cleveland, Ohio, says a light breeze Wednedsdayiorn Ing caused the mercury to drop-se eral degrees, after It had reached 96 degrees in the weathsr ,15ureau and 102 at the street level. The deaths of eleven babies-wer attrilb uted to the heat. At Baltimore three deaths from fhe heat and twenty-eight prostmtions were recorded Wednesday. The max imum official temperature was 97 degrees at 4 P. M. \ At Philadelphia,.Pa., twenty-nine deaths from heat were reported Wed nesday making a total of forty-ohe since the heat wave begun. - At Albany, N. Y , the official mer cury climbed -to 98'at 3eo'clock Wed nesday and four deaths wrere report DIED FROM A MOLE. Made Its Appearance on the Arm Al - most One Year Ago. Augustus W. Mott, of Ne- York, president of the Mott Iron Works, of- which his grandfather was the founder and well known as a yachts man, is dead at his home as the result ot the development cof an or. dinary pigmented mole into malig-1 nant growth. The mole which was on M~r. :Mttt's right arm showed the first signs of Irritation less than a year ago. It ~eveloped rapidly into what is known'as a molane sarcoma. Medical science b'as no cure for this disease. Mr Mott was not yet 501 years old. Until the development of the malignant growth he had always enjoyed good health. This form of disease is very rare. BLEASE SEES JOE BATES. The Governor Visits the Condemned Man in Jail.1 While in Spartanburg Tuesday night Governor Blease vlsited in the county jail Jce Bat's. th.e former Spartanburg police of ficer,~ under sentence to hang on July 12. The governor has recently been asked to I commute Bates' sentence to life im prisonent and the be'.ief Is here he will do so Bates ha-1 been sen tenced to han'g on three different oc-) casions, but each time nis attorney's 1 have saeceeded in having the sentence stayed. A commission appointed re cently to pass upon Bates' sanity reported that Bates was not insane. He shot and killed a young woman because she left him and got marri supposed or avowed candidate for the Utnited States Senate from Miissouri. There were politicians who eliminat ed him fr-can the race by making a vague and indeffinite promise that they would some day support him for President. The public is of the opin ion that if any politician in 'Mipsou i profited by the agreement with Folk he is so much ahead of the game but the country as a whole is not found by any such political fichem ing. Cerflainly Mr. Clark was not a candidate for Senator and did not profit by any agreement between the Democratic candidates for Senator in Missouri two years ago. "The impression is growing among public men that the country is turn ing to Speaker Clark as the most available Democrat to nonminate for the Presidency in 1912. His friends are becoming active in his support. If he is the nominee his election will follow ; K. F. M. FELDER SPEAK S. le Says Cdminls Rule Seth Car1ha, Refefing to Bleas EADS A FEW LETTERS [he Atlanta Attorney Gives Some Is teresn Doo at Dublis.,u G , n Last Tuesday.-In the Letter He Read Citizens of this State Boast ed Governor Blease A dispatch from Dublin, Ga.,'says he barbecue- and good roads- raHy ield there on the Fourth, was a big success. A large crowd was present, Ld all throughly enjoyed the address >f Hon.. ThorxAs B. FeIder, of At anta; a former -Dublinite. Mr. Felder was greeted enthusias-, ically by the large crowd. Quite 7- " iumber fram--a distance same in, omobiles to-be present athe b :ue, Macon sending a good 1A ion The barbecue was -held :he auspices of the Dublin;hamb )f commerce, and wasthe firs pi I function by that, body. am .unable to restrainisa n. -.se'torefer -tosan epbidd In, fe of- recent occurence whi orought nie into, unpleasant notoriet. : in d.ng soI-trench 'nh ,rietles of the occaslon, I plead in~ez iuse and extenuatioi the factt mave bove all gs theContl d :onfedence 'an ensi'ofh >1e of Iaurens outity. i o .urpose to tax audiences wit1hthe etols 6f. this episode, but,. y desire to briefly advert to it rou may understand that I all11 he gnd'receifrom you thewe flaudit, 'Well done, thou good ithful servant' "About foc years-dago- I wg se loyed by the state okSouth ujd assist her :splendid a e in the7Hercdlestak1 :leaning out. her- Augea stables heir $ith and corruptionIeel ti c an in modesty saytliat the as not only honorably a'ndrdi >1y performed, bu4 the services-nt with the appr'voal of the best people of that state, resuiting in ther5'estit in to. the treasury of that graft. caked and graft ridden people >roximately, half miion dollers, and n the indiotue'nt by the grand juries of the several couities thereof 6 nore than -a score of- thieves and olunderers . -4 "In the'last gubernatorialstection he criminal element of that state sue :eeded in electing pne of their num er to- the gvernorship. 'I am in ossession of evidence, writtenand ral, which In my Judgment, would tot only justify, -but demand his Imi eachment. If I could read in this oresence the hundreds of lettersrom - he good hut graft-ridden people o hat once glorious' commonwealthin hich their greatest ackno'wledg nerits are tendered and their prayer 'ul God-speeds are wished me in the ~reat work at hand in ridding them f this moral end political leper, his onfederates and allies, I am sure I ould receive from this audieneb houts of approval as would make the elkin ring I will detain you long nough to read you extracts fromibut few of these letters:"' - Oolonel Felder then read the f01 owing extracts from letters: "The offense which you have corn itted, which is grevious to the sight >f our present governor, is the great ~uccess you 'have attained in .expos g him and his friends In crime." " 'Have you read with interest the ,roceedings in the controversy be ween yourself and- our vaga~bond ~overnor* * * *I want to say with Hub Evans, Blease, and Fred )ominick right in Newberry, and in ontrol of things there they could onvict most 'anybody they wanted to yy picking a jury and the plunder >und of South Carolina, knowing that ro~u are the man will go to any extent -n perjury and forgery to convict o, and Blease is making every effort o discredit you In this state- and thus -- Lttempt to weaken the evidence you produce against him -by declaring .ipon the ignorant rabble that he had rou prosecuted for attempted bribery * * Governor Blease's requisi ;ion is heartily approved by every lecent law-abiding citizen .of South "Permit me to say that while I do it -approve of all you have said and lone in this matter, yet it is imapos ible to escape the conviction thatsyou iow bold in your hands very largely he State of South Carolina for the iext ew years at least. It is to be yresumed that you ,fully appreciate :he gravity cf the responsibility, which by reason of circumstances rests upon you at this -time. There nay not be with ye'- th-, motive to ct that would move a citizen of this itate, but many are hoping that you will justify the confidence placed in rou 'by our .people. "In conclusion permit me to say bat if the reprobate who occupies - :he governor's chair can be induced ;o accept your challenge (which the rood people of South Carolina feel nre you will never be able to do), :o sue you for libel, it will give me -- ,leasure to furnish you a list of 500 )f the most prominent citizens resid g in every portion of South Caro ia who will cheerfully swear that :hey know the general character of lease, that his cbaracter is bad and rom a knowledge of his character :hey would not believe him on oath." Flesh Torn From Fliger. While Mr. Guy Pitts was talking ver the telephone at his Ice plant t Clinton Tuesday lightning struck the wire and gave him a very se vere shock. The flesh on one finger was torn and his arm badly burnt Iho shock knocked him to the floor and rendered him unconsicous. for a rew minutes.