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de. VOL. Mv 1ANNINGq St C, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 3, 1912 WATSON TO GO Ravred That Gveror Blease Will Give His Place to A. D. Hudson. WATSON HAS MAE GOOD He Has Made a Splendid Commission er of Agriculture, and Has Done V Much Good Work for the Farmers d of the State, But He is Not a Bleas ite. t] The State says for 'weeks there t: have been persistent rumors regard- , Ing changes conteminated in the State s department of agriculture. These re- S ports have caused much comment throughout the State because of the C great interest the public takes in the ' work that has been accomplished by the department of agriculture under Commissioner Watson. One rumor is that E. J. Watson is to be displaced when his term ex pires In March. His place, offered to -( one or two others before, is now of fered to A. D. Hudson of Newberry. ' Of -all the departments of the State government ihere is more patronage attached to the office of the depart ment of agriculture than any other. I The State department of agriculture is constituted as follows and receives the following appropriations: Direct appropriation about $19,- d 000. h About $20,000 is received from the to feed stuffs stamps. This work em ploys about ten men, including in spectors and chemists. so The legislature appropriates $10,- st 000 for the United States farm dem- ar onstration work and an additional aP- ra propriation of $25,000 is received i from the national department of agri- sil culture. The State aid is included in th the direct appropriation. pC There are employed in this feature lu of the work a State agent, two dis trict agents and more than 40 county pj agents. The county agents come un- di der the direct supervision of the State at agent and also come in direct contact ac with more .people in the State than any other class of representatives of the State department. st There is also an appropriation of ec: $3,000 for cern breeding work, which Cz is expended under the direct super- at vision of the commissioner of agri- wi culture and two other members of a ci commission provided by the act. or During the past soveral weeks Com- an missioner Watson has been very ac- sh tive in his work to help the farmers ie! of the State and the South to devise fil4 some plan or means whereby the sit- pa uation with reference to low priced sei ootton might be relieved. Early in er: the fall he attended a meeting of the an ootton growers and business men In pu Montgomery, Ala., and was elected th president of the Southern Cottonscon gress. jst The election to this position de.. th volved upon him the leadership in is the flght for a higher price for cotton. ed Later acting as the agent for the ha farmers of the State and South, he of attended a conference in New York, Itic when a loan of $50,000,000 was prof-o feed on the cotton crop in the South st by a syndicate of New York .bankers.'w The proposition met with some ad- ce verse criticism at the time and has th never been worked out. m< Several weeks ago Commissioner so Watson, as president of the Southern po Cotton congress, and not as the com- tiu missioner of agriculture of South sit Carolina, Issued a call for the presi- su~ dents of the Farmers' Union and the tin representatives of the governors, tak-. sil ng part In the New Orleans cotton conference, constituting the executive It committee ,to meet in New Orleans Si< on December 18 to discuss plans for or a reduction of the cotton acreage. I It was the intention of Commis- fo saner Watson to attend the meeting uc of the commilttee. Just before Coin- ~ missioner Watson was to depart from er the State a letter, it is reported, was - sent him by the governor Informing ri< him that the position of commissioner of of agriculture, commerce and. indus- the tries would be declared vacant should w. he (Commissioner Watson) attend th the conference. The governor further pc stated in the latter that Mr. Watson sc must ask permission to leave the ex State In the future or leave witliout F! his positIon.m To get back to the tangle in con- cc nection with the farm demonstration fir work this much is certain: w The next State farm demonstration th agent must be acceptable to C. L. O( Blease, governor of South Carolina. If the next farm demonstration agent se is not acceptable to the governor of ru Sorh Carolina, then the governlor 're will ruse his veto power and cut off 1w the State-aid appropriation of $10,- at 000. Itt Let it be remembered here that the T1 national government gives $25,000 to c assist in the work. This means that 0f the State farm demonstration agent. u: who has charge of the expenditure of er $25,000, must be acceptable to the ti governor of South Carolina. 10. Why the antagonism of the gov- ti ernor against Ira W. Williams? t It is a long story and started nearly p a year ago, just after the governorn was indueted into office. I The ways and means oomminttee of the house, of which Lowndes J. B-owning is chairman, 2nished con- i sideration of the appropriation bill in a a remarkably short timie. Included a among the various items was the one giving $5,000 to the South Oaroliao Corn Breeders' assoeiationLe foreor breeding work in this State and for a the corn exposition. When the meas ure came before the committee for j final consideration, A. B. HIudson, t: with others associated with the expo- t stion, was out of the State. Membersp of the ways and means eommitteev were averse in their opinions to the 'I appropriation, contending that no C mnateri zfesults had been obtained. r W. Wm~am' han sa ezpert ag-. HAT BLEASE SAYS )ENIES OFFERYNG E. T. WA SON'S JOB TO A. D. HUDSON. or is Ira W. Williams Transfer Georgia Due to Feeling Betweq Himself, the State's Executive. When asked while at Newberry < 'hursday as to the report that Ii Williams, of the Government far emonstration work, has been tran rred from this State to Georgi supposedly because of opposition I e Governor," and that Commissiol - Watson is to be displaced when b rm expires, and that Mr. Watson lace had been offered to A. D. Hu( >n, of Newberry, Governor Blea. td: "I have seei the article In to-da olumbia State, to which I suppo u refer, I was informed some tin nce that Ira. W. Williams was t ) transferred from this State. T hat point I do not know. Mr. Wi ams supported me in the sampaig 1910, so I have been reliably ii rmed, and he and I are the best c iends, and I am sorry that be is g< g to leave this State. The stat ent that he and I are at enmit: - that he is leaving on account c y feeling between himself and m3 If, is absolutely and unqualified1 .Ise. I would be glad if Mr. Wi ims would stay in the State, and J will stay-I will ask the Legislatur keep up the appropriation for hi partment and do next year, as Lve done this year, all in my powe assist him in his demonstratio: )rk. "I have never offered Mr. Wat n's position to anybody, but merel ated on one occasion to John Fich -ds that I was sorry he accepted th ilroad commission position, becaus expected to appoint him commis >ner of agriculture, and the repor at I have offered Mr. Watson sition to one or two others is absc tely false. "As to Mr. Hudson, he told me em atically on two occasions that h d not want Watson's position. a informed, however, that ho woul cept the position held by Williams "As to the letter to Commissione atson, I wrote him that my under nding was that he was appointei mmissioner of agriculture for Sout] .rolina, and not the Uhited States d that if he left the State agaii thout my petmission I would de tre his office vacant and put som< e in it who would stay at hom, d attend to it. I meant that an< all carry it out to the letter. Cop ; of my letter and his reply are on< in my office, to which the news pers are welcome, as there ate ni rets in the Governor's office. Ev Fthing that is done there is opei d above board, is placed on thi blic files, there are no secrets fron : newspapers. "As to the next State farm demon ation agent being acceptable ti e Governor, as I understand this, i a matter in the hands of the Unit States department, with which ye nothing to do. I know nothini Mr. Baker's candidacy for the posi in. I shall uphold the departmaen agriculture and the farm demon -ntion work, and do everythini thin my power to make it a suc as. And if I had been consulte< is year in regard to' the depart mts, I think I could have give: me very valuable suggestons, an< ssibly saved some people from put tg themselves In very awkward PC ions. -But as I have not been con Ited In regard to any matter, I an no manner, shape or form respon >e for the turn affairs have taken "When lir. Watson's term expires will .be time enough for me to con ler whether I shall reappoint hit give the position .to someone else understand that the Constitutiot chids life tenure of office, and I di t presume there is any exceptioi ide in the case of the commissiOn of agriculture."~ uulturist, was called in by member the committee and as an official o a federal department of agriculture i asked to give his opinion as ti e results secured trom the corn ex sition and the Corn Breeders' as ciation. He gave his opinion, th act nature of which is not knowi >lowing this conference the com ittee cut out the appropriation fo rn breeding work. Just before th al adoption and when the measur i before the finanee eommittee c e senate, an appropriation of $3, 0 was inserted. During the latter part of the las ssion of the legislature it wa mored that Mr. Williams would b m oved from South Carolina, andi a reported that Dr. Knapp wa iout to take this action on represe! tons made by him by Gov. Bleas' ae governor, it is said, refusedt sent to the appropriation of $10 )0 for the farm demonstration wor iless this was done. Later, howes -,Mr. Blease withdrew his obje< on and consented to the retainmer Mr. Williams here. It is know~ at, meantime, Ira W. William! gthr with several friends, e: aned to the governor that he ha tt mixed in politics and that he ha ever waged a eampaign against ti overnor. The appropriation of SIC 00 for the demonstration work weI arough and nothing more was hear bout the removal oI Williams unt few days ago. It is said that L. L. Baker of Bisl pville, a district agent of the wort spoken of for the position of Sta The State agent is appointed by D rddford Knapp on the decommend; on of the commissionler of agricu are. The State agent hns the a otment of 40 or 50 subordina corkers throughout South Carolin~ 'hat is an explanation of the intere f the governor in an election year ....n~ the dearment operated SOON BE EVEN White Population of South Is Making th Greatest Strides to HOW THE RACES STAN n0 In Ten Southern States the Numbe: ^a m of WThite Persons Increased 24 Pe S- Cent., While Negroes 10 Per Cent a, Since 1900.-South Carolina'z Per .0 i- centages Are 21 and 6. .s A preliminary statement of the population of the United States ac ;e cording to races, nativity and per centage, has just been issued by th Census Bureau. e According to it South Carolina ha, e 156,000 more negroes than whites *o but in this State, too. the increase it 0 white population is far greater thar - that of the negroes. The increase it n whites in ten years is 21 per cent., - the same as Georgia, while the in f crease in negroos is but 6 per cent. - Georgia out of a total population of 2,609,121 has 1,431,816 whites and r, 1,176,987 negroes. The increase in If the white population since 1900 has r been 21 per cent. and the Increase y in negroes 13 per cent. There are - 250,522 more white people in Geor f gia than in 1900 and 142,174 more e negroes. s Alabama has 1,228,841 white and 1 908,275 negro population, an in r crease of 22 per cent. in whites and.9 a per cent. in negroes. The total pop ulation has decreased 1 per cent. and - white increased 11 per cent. in ten y years. Florida out of a population of e 752,619 has 443,646 whites and 308, e 669 negroes. The percentage of in crease of negroes is greater in Flor t ida than in any other Southern state, s being 33 per cent. since 1900. North Carolina in a total of 2, 206,287 population has 1,500,513 whites and 697,843 negroes, an in e crease of 18 per cent. in the former I and 11 per cent. in the latter since 1 1900. - Mississippi has a total population r of 1,797,114, of wtich 186,119 are whites and 1,009,487 are negroes. SBut in that state the increase in white population in ten years has been 22 per cent., while the increase in negroes has been only 11 per cent. Vi'rginia has a population of 2, 061,612, of which 1,389,809 are a white and 671,096 are negroes. The increase in negroes is but 1 1-2 per cent., while the white population has increase 16 1-2 per cent. A table of populations of most of the Southern states shows the divis ion between whites and negroes as follows: State. White' Negro. Georgia. . . .1,431,816 1,176,987 Florida... . . 443,646 308,669 Alabama. . ..1,228,S41 908,275 SMississippi. .. 786,119 1,009,4S7 tLouisiana. .. 941,125 713,784 S. Carolina. .. 679,162 835,843 N. Carolina .1,500,513 697,843 Tennessee. ..1,711,433 473,088 SVirginia. . . .1,389,809 671,096 ;Total. . .13,917,360 7,4S5,092 - Trhe following is the total popula tion of the States named: - Georgia.... .. .. ....2,609,121 i Florida.. .. .. ...... 752,619 i Alabama ...............2,138,093 - Miississippi . ..-. . . . . .. -1,797,114 - Louisiana ..............1,656,388 - Texas..................896,542 i South Carolina .......-.-1,515,400 - North Carolina ..........2,206,287 .Tennessee) of the Southern states irginia ..........2,01,612 STotal ...............20,817,965 Following are the percentages of increase in white and negro popula tion (in the latter case a decrease in ITennesse) of the Southern states - sice 100:White. Negro. - Georgia .............21 13 s Florida..............9 3 f Alabama ............22 9 ,Maississippi .. .. .. .. .. 22 11 Loisiana ...........29- 9 - South Carolina.......21 6 -North Carolina. .. .. ..18 11 e Tennessee ..... ......11 -1 .Texas ...............32 11 - Virginia...........16 1% r This shows the white population e of the ten Southern states named has e increased a little over 24 per cent.. fwhile their negro population has in - creased but a little more than 10 per cent. t Some peculiarities are found in s the shifting white and negro popu e lation as shown by the report. New tHampshire and Vermont, sister s states in most things, differ in regard -to negro population. Since 1900 .New Hampshire's negro population has decreased nearly 3 5 per cent.. -while Vermont's negro population k jhas increased 96 per cent. IOth:r states which show a marhed -increase in negro population are t North Dakota, 115 per cent.; South~ n Dakota, 75 per cent.; Idaho. 120: 1. Wyominlg, 137; Utah, 70: Nevada, :-12Sf; Washington. 141; California, .d 96; Oklahoma, 147. e Making Themselves Solid. The members of the Charlestor dispensary constabulary presented t:e Governor with a gold watch chair as a tok~en of their esteem. A gold headed cane from the members of th Columbia constabulary was theou Christmas remembrance to the Goy ernor. aMade Two and a Half hBales. .1- n a cotton contest at Newman. Ga -held last week Miss Clara Haynie wot t he Erst prize of :wenty-five dollars a. Malachi Towns wo~n the second prizi sof twelve and a half. Miss THyni of made two and a half bales per acre to and Mr. Town two bales. Miss Hay -ie was also w nr ofrhe corn prize K!LLUED BY HUSBAND HORRIBLE CRDIE CODITTE NEAR GREENVILLE. Victim Was F ound in Bed With Hea Laid Open by and Axe With He Babe by Her Side. In one of the mill villages 0 Greenville the coroner is holding a inquest into the death of a woma *prho was found in her bed at daybrea Wednesday with her head split ope with an axe and her 2-year-old bab immersed in a .pool of blood by he side. The woman's husband is locke in a cell at the county jail, and finge nails bearing blood stains uncleane by water used in erasing other trace of the foul crime point at him as th guilty man. At 6:30 o'clock Wednesday morn ing Sheriff Poole received a call fror Brandon mill, and in responding dis covered one of the most hideou crimes that has stained the pages o Greenville's criminal history in som years. In their three-room apart ment the sheriff discovered Mrs. Alic Campbell, wife of LaFayette Camp bell, grovelling in her bed in a poo of blood. Her head had been mutilated somt time during the night with some in strument, a huge gash laying open th< skull over the temple. A horribli bruise on one cheeck and othe: wounds about the face almost blotted out her identity. The woman wai not dead, and by her side lay he babe, unharmed. Physieians were called to tend the woman but after removing sections of her skull a, ma jor portion of brain, she died Wednes day afternoon shortly after 4 o'clock Immediately the sheriff and his as sistants went to work to apprehend the person g'uilty of the crime. Living in the house was another family, but none of them bad heard any distrub ance during the night. The husband pointed out the bed in which he said he had spent the night, but it was in another room from that in which his wife slept. Going on into the kitchen the of ficers discovered an axe leaning against the wall and resting upon a cow chain which had been piled on the floor. The chain itself was bloody, but the axe had been washed of all but a few stains of crimson. This led- the officer to .believe that immediately after the commission of the crime the bloody axe had been stood upon the chain; that later it was taken up and the blade of it cleansed, then stood once more upon the chain. The officers also found an old sack in the kitchen, which, thoughL fresh-ly washed, showed trices of blood. In the stove they discovered scraps of burned rags bearing traces of blood. Later in the day suspicion began to point to the woman's husband and traces of blood on his finger nails led I the sheriff to place him under arrest and carry him to the county jail. The murdered woman herself ha. been in the courts of this county. Some years ago while defending her husband from an attack by her own brother she secured a revolver and fired four shots Into the latter's .body. For a long tmie it was thought the woman's brothers would die. The case dragged through the courts for some time and finally wore itself out without any one being convicted. ASSAULT ON BAMBERG OFFICER. Negro Who Attemipted it is Shot Twice by Policeman. At Bamberg on Saturday night a negro man named William Zeigler was arrested for being disorderly and taken to the guard house. As the door was opendd he made a dash for liberty and succeeded in making his escape. About one o'clock Sunday morning he reappeared on the streets loaded up with booze and attempted to take vengeance on Policeman San dy Nevils, and in detence of himself Mr. Nevils had to shoot the negro. One ball passed thrcough his arm and entered his side . It Is nof, thoughi he is dangerously wounded, but the extent of the wound in his side can not yet be definitely determined, and it may prove serious. THE GIRL MAY ALSO DIE. Two Dead From D~rinking Beer Thal Was Sent the Family. At Henderson. Ky., a third mom ber of the household may die as the Iresult of the poisoning Friday nigh1 of the f'amily of Thomas Royster Three members of the family and tw< negro servants became suddenly il' after drinking beer said to have beer furnished by Philip Burr!ss, an ad mirer of Blanche Royster, who wa the only member of the family no poisoned. Sunday night the physi clans in attendance upon Lorine, the thirteen-year-Old daughter, said he: condition was such as to make her re covery doubtful. The funerals o Henry Royster, an eighteen-year-ol< son, and Ret Davis, who died a fev hours after being poisoned, were helt Sunday afternoon. Ten Women Claim Him. Owen Callan, in jail in Bath, N Y., on charge of obtaining $3,00! from Mrs. Aleda Jacobs, of Hornell N. Y., when he promised to marr; her, Is said to have ten wives. Al are aiding the district attorney il builing up the case against the pris onr, B'lown to Atoms by Dynamnite. Edward Van Bever, of Little Clea Creek. Kr., was blown to atoms o. Chritmas night while dischargin dnaminte. Van Pever, with a part of friends were celebrating Christ m'as. Thinking that the fuse at tacd to the stick of dyna'mite ha ieen extingguished he walked up t tedadiv evplosive to reliaht it. WHAT HUDSON SAYS ) SAYS HE IS IN NO SENSE A CAND. IDATE. I Newberry Man Denies That He Has r Been Offered Position of Commis sioner of Agriculture. f A. D. Hudson of Newberry Thurs 2 day made the following statement to The State over the telephone from his home: "My attention has been called to the article in The State of this morn r ing. I have had only one conversa tion on the matter with Gov. Blease, r and that was during the corn exposi tion. The only allusion he made to the department of agriculture was that the department was a farce as now operated, and he inteneded veto ing the appropriation for 1912, un less he had some assurance of its do ing some good for the farmers. Noth ing was said about offering me the position. I am in no sense a candi date for the place. "The suggestion that I was con nected with Mr. Williams' removal is not true. When I found that Wil liams had gone before the ways and means committee (and, I was reliably linformed, without invitation) and opposed the appropriation for the corn exposition, I took the matter up with Dr. Knapp and requested that Mr. Williams be required to at tend to his own affairs. I was sure there was room for us all to work for the betterment of agriculture in this State, and I have neither the desire nor the inclifiation to bring about his removal. "The party that furnished you this story knew the facts but deliberately distorted them. This same party did seek to secure Williams' removal, but rumor had it that Williams had a great deal of influence with Gov. 3lesse. Then came his usual cbange of front and ever after he has been a, ardent supporter of Mr. Williams. It does not take a very brilliant mind to understand why. I am not In any sense an appli cant for the position of commissioner of agriculture or 'for Mr. Williams' position. Ahex D. Hudson. NEGRO CHmLDREN SLAIN. Greedy White Man Paid Negro Man to Kill Them. When the trial of D. C. Allen, a negro, charged with murder in con nection with the death of Herbert and Castella Sell, two negro chil dren, at Taft, Okla., March 23, last, .:.s resumed Wednesday, Allen en -red a plea of guilty and was sen tenced to life imprisonment. William Irwin, a white man, last Thursday was convicted of conspir acy In the same case, on the charge that he promised to pay Allen $2, 000 for .placing and exploding dyna mite under the house in which the children met death. F. L. Martin and John Coombs, the latter a wealthy oil operator of Bar tlesville, Okla., are also charged with conspiracy in the case, the alleged motive having been a desire to se cure possession of oli land owned by the Sell children and it was valued at about $250,000. ONE HUNDRED RUSSIANS DEAD. Results of Fighting at Tabriz. Cause of Trouble. A telegram from Tabriz says that the total loss of the Russians, killed and severely wounded in the recent. fighting there, Is atout one hundred. Several bodies of Russian soldiers have been found partly burned. The, director of the Persian department of the Russian foreign office, in an in terview Tuesday, said that the Gov ernment was convinced that the Per sian Government was not concerned in the Anti-Russian outbreak at Ta briz or elsewhere. Those responsible were principally Armenians and crim inals. DIED) WITHOUT GIVING CLUE. Killing and Robbing of Tampa Watchman Baffles Police. At Tampa, Florida with both of his eyes battered out and his skull brok en by thugs who assaulted and 'robbed him, L. P. Cutting, a night watchman at the Tampa Steam Ways died in the Gordon Keller M1emorial Hospital Sunday, following a trephi nal operation. He never regained consciousness to tell who his assail *ants were and the police have no clue. A niece of the deceased, on her way from Lexington, N. C., did not arrive in time to find her relative alive. TRAIN CRASHES INTO BOULDER. Engineer Fireman and Brakeman Killed.-Another Injured. Three men were instantly killed and a fourth probably fatally injured LISunday when a double-header freight train on the Virginia and Southwes tern Railway ran into a houlder, which had fallen on the track in the natural tunnel, forty miles west of Bristol. Tenn. The men killed were , Engineer W. S. Adams, Fireman Lee Glober and Brakeman Clinton Sprottes, and the injured man is Brakeman S. S. Carriger. The tun - nel is being cleared of wreckage as rapidly as possible. Whipped, then to Prison. At Winnipeg. Mfan., twenty four i lashes on the bare back and twelve years each in the penitentiary com prised the sentences given Wednes - day to Lugi Giaimintto. Jose Frotino - and Nick Detteire, convicted on the charge of robbery with intent to kill. Te crime was committed December OPPOSE WRSON Big Business and the Trusts Using th Favorite Son Dodge in THE SEVERAL STATE! To Prevent the New Jersey Governor From Ge-ing Votes Enough in the Democratic Yational Convention t< Nominate Him, and Thus Force in Their Candidate. A Washington dispatch says fav orite son candidites for the presiden cy are among the devices being used by Big Business and the Tariff Fed Trusts to obtain control of the Dem ocratic National Convention. The situation is illustrated by the recen1 angry passage between Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri and Ex Gov. Joseph W. Folk of the same State, each of whom is playing for the vote of the Missouri delegation. A few days ago the Washington correspondent of the Kansas City Star sent to his paper a story that Clark was being used as a stalking horse for a candidate who would be satis factory to big business. This state ment angered the speatker. He wired the Kansas City paper that the as sertion was untrue. The speaker's denial of the story led ex-Governorn Folk, who was in the East at the time, to send a telegram to the Kan sas City paper in which he said: "Replying to your telegram, I in fer tMr. Clark dehied that the Har mon forces in St. Louis are boosting him. That practically all of them are doing so and that many of these so called friends of Mr. Clark have a first choice in Governor Harmon and are using the speaker's name as a "Aeans to a reactionary-cand-Idate can not be truthfully denied. Mr. Clark, perhaps, should not be judged too harshly for his intemperate language. He may not know the truth." The Clark statement also drew out an expression from Lon Sanders, president of the Missouri Democratic league as follows: "Mr. Clark cannot shift attention from the truth by an intemperate de nunciation of the Washington dis patch to the Kansas City Star. That the reactionary forces are boosting Clark against Folk no one familiar with the situation can doubt. The agents of special interests are all for Clark as against Folk in St. Louis. f by chance these men should control the delegation to the national conven tion It is fair to assume it would be roted for Harmon when Clark is out of the way. Mr. Clark denies that his friends have a second choice. He shows a remarkntble insight into the intentions of his friends, e-pillly in view of the fact t-i. he denies all knowledge of headquarters belug pened in St. Louis'and claims to be gnorant of what his friends are do The talk among well-informed Democrats in Washington for some ime has been that there is a well eveloped plan to prevent, if'possible, the nomination of Woo drow Wilson y bringing into the field numerous avorite son candidates, whose sup orters at the proper time will go to candidate that will be satisfactory o the conservative wing of the party. verybody realizes that as the situ ation presents itself today the race Is etween Governor Harmon of Ohio nd Governor Wilson of New Jersey. The favorite son -candidates already n the field are Champ Clark and oseph W .Folk of Missouri, Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana and Eugene . Foss of Massachusetts. If the information that reaches here is trustworthy, other favorite son candidates are to be .brought out within the next two months. Tam any Hail, which ise still in control f the-New York State organization, undoubtedly intends to hide its real purpose by standing by a "favorite son." Whether this "favorite son" hall be Governor Dix or Mayor Gay nor has not yet been determined. Until recently the prospect was that Governor Dix would be brought -out as the New York candidate, but re ent developments have pointed to Mayor Gaynor as the man that is to be used by Tammany. The forces that are at work to pre vent the nomination of Wilson are also looking for a favorite sen cand idate from Illinois. The statement was 'made here today by a prominent Illinois Democrat that the old Hop kins machine in that State is under pledge to trot out a favorite son. No one asserts that these so-called favorite son candidates are parties to 'the scheme t0 prevent, if possible, the nomination of Woodrow Wilson. A Democrat who kr~ows, or at least thinks he knows what is going on, said today that he is confident that most of these favorite son candidates are absolutely innocent so far as be ing mixed up in any intrigue is con cerned. "The fact Is that most of them are in the hands of designing politicians," said this man. "They do not realize that the men that are urg ng them on are planning to make up delegations to the national conven tion that may be used to prevent the nomination of Woodrow Wilson." The anti-Taft Republicans have al o hit on the "favorite son" sc;heme as the most feasible one for use in at tempting to build up opposition to the renomination of the president. For a while Senator La Follette of Wis cousin had the anti-Taft field all to himself, but he was not making any progress, and so the whole scheme of oppoition to the renomination ol the president was recast. Big busi ness, which does not want either Taft or Wilson in the White House. agreed to support a Roosevelt movement. Then came a decision on the part ol the anti-Taft Republicans to bring ou1 some favorite son candidates. Senato Cummins of iowa was urg "TATE"SWN, Interesting Statistics Giiu Suptfiiitedent SwearigeL NUMBER OF SCHOLARS Value of School Houses, Groundsi and Equipment.-Average Enrol ment, Attendance and Number of. Pupils to School-Length of Terms and Other Information. of Value. Many interesting and valuable facts of the educational life of the State is contained in the syn6pslis of summaries, prepared by State Super-:. intendent of Education Swearingen, relative to the schools of:South Caro Una. A. study of the same is of 'in-s. terest, says The News and Courier. The value of school houses and. grounds is $3,547,741.6.3, divided as follows: White, $3,109,028.55; ne gro. $438,713.08. The value . of school equipment is: White, $315 318.38; negro, $65,414,13, making a total of $389,732.51. It will .be noticed from the follow ing figures that the enrolment of whites exceeds, the negroes in. the towns, but that .in the country and State the negroes are in a majority. White Enrolment-Town: Boys, 31,170; girls, 32,421. Total,. 63,-. 591. Country: Boys, 49,176; gir'%'' 48,063. Total, 97,239. State: Boys, 80,346; girls, 80,484. Total, 160,830. Negro Enrolment-Town: Boys, 18,712; girls, 23,713. . Total, .42, 425. County: Boys, 69,006; girls,. _' 82,009. Total, 151,015. State:" -Boys, 87,718; girls, 105,722. Total, 193,440. The average attendance is: . Avk;ge Attendance '- hIte - Town: Boys, 21,820;- girls, 24,336 Total, 46,155. Country: Boys, 30, 192; girls, 31,006. Total, 61, 19S State: Boys, 52,012; girls, 5,341 'otal, 107, 353. Average Attendance, Negro Town: Boys, 12;904; girls, 6,565 Total, 29,469. County: :.Boys,:43, 905; girls, 54,302. - Tota4;' 9-8,207 State: Boys, 56,809; .1rls, 70;86. Total, 127,676. It will appear from the folovIiii figures that the average inumber of negroes to a1.school Is much larger than the average number of Average number of pupils school: White 60, negro age number'pp White 38, negro'/Z - it will- )bgby*beaWt note the whites b $ 29C02,-_whie the teachers average, men $ men $98.38. The average ..-a ture per pupil foribotb. racess596 divide,'white $1" 2 ndegrdes $?t The total1 school evenues' are $2- " 1709L0.9 and. the exeireude wble $1,81867-881, .nerof $30$ 834.60, makinig a total of $,168; 543.41. The total balaince offsnd July 1, 1911, was $348557Z.61'' The average length of the school terms follow. Average -eeks' Session Whiite- ' town 32;coantry 23, State 24 Ne e gro, town 22, country13, State 1 The following~ figures are of Inter est: Number of districts in State,. 1,901; number of disiicts levying special tax, 927 numberlof .districts not levying specia tax, 97 4;,number! of districts voting..or inrieing Zevy' during the year, 223; district' ith outstanding .,s'hool bonds, 11, amount of outstanding sdhooi bonds, $1,316,937A48 +-k: Certificates issued during:the'year White, men 190 womien 678;ft~tl 868. Negro, men 110, women 322-; total 432. Institutions of highe edctio White 30, negro 11.' TotalI1 c credited cdl1eges: White 20, egro 9; total 29. Nu.mber di-higi schools accepted for Stite aid 125,number o1' other high zchools 39 'Public Schodls-Whte town 35'9 country 2,313~ State :2,672. .Negro town 219; cdliiry 2;182, State- 2 - 401. ' Public Schdol Nduses-White' , 399, negro 1,777; total .4,1'T6.' Private Buildings Used- for Public Schols-White 154 negro 609, to tal 763. - Value of ,School Houses ani Grounds-Wlte $3,109,028.55 ne gro $'438,'13.48; total $3,54774 63 Value of School .Equipment White $352318.38; negro $65 414.13; total' $389;732.51 Buildings ?~ceiving State aid dur ing the year 82. -'White Teachers--Men 831, women 3,424; total g,55 ; Negro Teachers-Men 812, omren 1,940; totai,75 MANY DADT FORM POISON. Putrid Fish Probably ?ause.-Home. less Blerlin Men Victims. At Berlir-thirty-six homeless mien whosoughtwith decayed smoked her ring to add to the frugal meal of bread and noup served to them at the municipal ;lodging house Wednesday night, are'dead. More than forty Iothers are sick, several of whomrn are believed to be dying. - The cause of death-fiss-nuet yet been announced, but the anthobrities are confident that the putrid fik- is responsiblel /Tb partially complet ed autopiisi lappear to. substantiate this viewfL'Al those known -to have partaken'Fof. the fish are~ dead, 'r:i such conition as to be unable de.O trowliiht on the subject.' " It is believed, however, that ne. of the vichims found the Si: garbage pite-of a nearbymaktZ4' divided them among his' coma~ The men became sicky earlyT day mnornin0 deaths following 1 . LIVE IN MIERY DRIVEN TO CONFESS HIS CRIM] BY VISIONS OF VICTIM. News That Another Was Held Fo Crime Drove the Fugitive Murder er to the Confessional. Haunted by visions of his victim John Henry Marty surrendered ti 'the police at Baltimore Wednesday declaring that he was the murdere: of William H. Mickle, an old store keeper in 7th street. Washington, or November 17 last. Martin, who appears to be a ner vous wreck, said that he entered the store, struck the man over the head with a wrench, took the contents o the cash drawer and fled. He said that he went to West Vir ginia and did not know that the mar he assaulted was dead -until he read it two weeks ago in. a Washingtor paper. He saw also that someone else had been arrested. for -the crinie The memory ofhis deed and the thought that an - innocent person might suffer for it, drove him to a confessional where he told bis story to the priest. It -iras on. the advice of the latter, Mrartin said, that he surrendered himself. , Martin formerly lived at Cumber land, Md. He has been in Baltimore only a few days, he said. Martin toli the police that his first thought after reading of the arrest of another fo the murder, was that he had had a lucky escape. "Then," he said, "I began worry ing. I could not rest; I could noi sleep. I have been in misery. I would rather be hung or have any thing else done to me than to be tormented by my thoughts. The man I killed kept a clgar store on 7th street, Washington. I went in there asked him for money. "He refused me and I st'uck him over the head with a monkey wrench. Teen I ran away. I went to West Virginia and came here about three weeks ago from Berkley Springs. I am a baker by trade and am not mar ried. "Ever since I read that I -had kill ed the man I struck I have seen faces at night when I was in bed. I can see the picture of that cigar store." 0 '0 SLAYS FAMILY, HANGS SELF. - Arkansas Farmer Murder Seven Be fore Committing Suicide. Despondent, according to a note found Thursday, James Grant, pros perous farmer and merchant, clubb ed his wife, five children and stepson to death, at his home near Benton, Ark., -Wei n d te haned himself. Grant's body was otnd suspended to a rafter in a barn and those of the woman and children about the farm dwelling their skulls crushed. Hugh Grant, a sixteen-year-old son* ade the gruesome discovery when e returned from a holiday celebra ion on a neighboring farm. The ote explains that, "owing to deep [espair and that I see nothing for me r my children, who I believe would be better off in Heaven, I commit t;s act." Instructions were given where money might be found to cov er burial expenses and a request that rant's parents not be notified runtil fter the bodies had -been buried. The body of the woman was found in a sitting p~sture, partly disrobed. Apparently she was preparing to re tire when she was killed. Those of the children, ranging in age from 5 to 13 years, were found in their beds.' A heavy oak club, covered with blood, was found near the bod es of the children. THINKS TEDDY WILL HEEP IT. Roosevelt President for Life, if Elect ed Says Watterson. "If Roosevelt is put in the White House in 1912, we will never get him ut again except feet first." This was the statement at Atlanta Monday of Col. Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, in com menting on the Republican situation throughout the country. Mr. Watter son expressed the belief that the long looked for change of parties was at hand but -he has not declared his choice for the Democratic nomina tion. Col. Watterson declared that, in his opinion, the Republicans could not elect either Roosevelt or Taft and said the election of the former Presi dnt, abrogating the third term tra dition, would be a step toward ab soltism. DIDN'T GET THE MONEY. Bold Attempt at Highway Robbery. Detective Wounded. At Patterson two men armed with automatic revolvers, held up Freder ick Wilde, a manufacturer, and a city detective,' who were guarding a sat chel containing $2,000,. In the street Saturday The detctive, John H K Tracey, was shot in the leg- in the struggle, but the money, which had just been drawn from a bank for the Christmas pay roll of a shirt factory was saved. The highwaymen escaped and up to a late hour Saturdaynighi no trace had been found of~ them. Tracey's injury may cripple .him fox life.. ed to permit the use of his name it this connection, and the understand ing now is that he will make a fighi for .an Iowa delegation pledged tC supp.ort him. The real object is, ol course, to prevent, if possible, thE Iowa delegation being instructed fox Taft. A good deal of consideratiol was given to the situation in Indian by the antis. It war finally deoidec to use the three names, La Follette Beveridge and Roosevelt, -in an ef fort to prevent instructions in thal gSta for President Ta.ft.