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uu VOL.- XXVI MANNING-, S. C.9 WEDNESDAY* JUNE 12. 91 THEY ARE NEEDED MARINES ARE LANPED TO PRO TECT OUR PECPLE WHO MAY LIVE IN CUBA Will Be rsed to Guard Plantations in the Eastern Part of the Island, Owners Fearing Death and De struction of Property at Hands of Rebels. Frank confession of President Gomez that he was unable to meet the demands of the largo plantation owners in Eastern Cuba for adequate guards against the ma iuders and Insurrectos. was the factor that prompted Capt. Kline, commanding the United Staies naval station at Guantanamo, to dispatch nearly half of his available force of marines Into the Interior of Cuba. His action gave the signal for the departure from Key West to Guantanamo of half of the second squadron of the Atlantic Fleet, which had been lying at an chor at Key West for the last week. The facts, as disclosed at the State department. are that several of the large American, British, French and Spanish ccxpanies operating planta tions and mines in Ertttern Cuba, tel egraphed the Cuban Government, through the Alcade, of Guananamo, a demand for 100 regular troops for each of their mills and fifty for each of their cane fields. In reply President Gomez pointed out that a compliance would require the use of 1,250 of his best troops and he could not spare them. Meanwhile, complaints multiplied, the situation In Guantanamo was be coming more alarming and the Guan tanamo Sugar Company had definite information that the rebels intended to destroy one or more of the foreign estate there. The manager of the Spanish-American Iron Company, near Cuero, was threatened with the destruction of all property between that place and Juragua. To add to all this, the owners and representatives of several of the large American properties near Guan tanamo, having failed in their appli cation to the Cuban Government, ap pealed directly to Capt. Kline. Capt. Kline, Judging that the gravity of the situation demanded the use of Amer ican guards, sent 450 of his marines from the naval station by boat up Guantanamo Bay to a landing place near Calmanera, the terminus of the railway running up to the city of Guantanamo, fifteen miles inland. The gunboat Paducah, about the same time, reported the situation at Santiago so critical, which determin ed Capt. Kline to call upon the navy department for more marines. Ac- I cordingly, Admiral Osterhaus prom-ptly dispatched from Key West to Guantanamo the fourth division of the Atlantic fleet, comprising the bat tleships OhIo, Missouri. Mississippi, and Minnesota. They are under command of Rear Admiral Usher, who, by virtue of his superior rank, 'will assume command at Guantan-1 amo, when he arrived there yester day morning. Admiral Usher can easily land 1, 200 marines and blue jackets, which force, with the marines and sailors available for landing parties, would make a formidable little army of about 3.000 men. If this force is not sumcient, Admiral Osterhaus's remaIning four vessels may be called upon for further levies. For the present it is the policy of the State department to maIntain fhe third division of the fleet at Key West to guard against any uprising in Hav ana. In one way the distribution of the American marines as plantation guards will serve to test the real pur pose of the Cuban Government. It is calculated that Gen. Monteagudo's troops, being relieved In large part from the onerous duty of guarding plantations, will no longer have ex cuse for failing to move Immediately and relentlessly upon the insurgent negroes.I There is grave intimatIon in re cent tragedIes that this may become an International duty If the Cuban Government longer delays action. Mi!nister Beaupre reported a case of horrible atrocIty which occurred near Saviga, In Oriente, which Is belIeved to be only one of many similar cases. His information, derived directly from the Cuban secretary of State, was to the effect that a band of ne groes entered the house of a former whIte ometal of prominence, tied him and his son and outraged his wife and two young daughters before his eyes. The son was killed in cold blood while endeavorIng to break his bonds and rescue his mother and sisters. Man Killed by a Pin. A pin which he accIdentally swal lowed fifteen years ago is believed to be responsible for the death of Eu gene Fetzer, an iron worker at Leb anon, Pa. An operatIon for a pelvic abscess disclosed the presence of the pIn in Fetzer's body. Fetzer was. fifty years old and of maznlieent build. Thirty of a Mob is Killed. At Verviers, Belgium, a mob as sailed the gendarmes wIth mIssIles. The gendarmnes opened fire. ThIrty of the me-b were killed or wounded., Seven gendarmes were insured and many arrest made. Killing Near Pinewood. On Sunday afternoon at Pinewood at the home of John Richardson, Nathaniel Bracy. aged seven, acci dentally shot and killed Janett Cor des, aged nine. All partIes are col ACT OF A CRAZY MAN CTTS THE THROAT OF HIS TWO 1MAR-OLD SON. -4 Prisoner Lodged in Jail to Await Ac tion of Authorities to Determine His Mental Condition. News reached Washington, D. C.. on Thursday morning of one of the most brutal cold-blooded and atrol cus murders ever committed in that county, when John R. Gibbs, a white man residing in Bath about twenty miles from Washington, killed his two-year-old son, by cutting his throat from ear to ear, with a razor. The facts, as nearly as can be as certained, are that Gibbs who was a widower, and resided with his moth er and child, Wednesday afternoon came home and found his son play ing on the floor with another child. He called the child to him saying: "come here, honey, daddy want you," and took the child In an adjoining room. His sister happened to pass the door a few minutes later, and hear ing a gurgling noise, thought the father was putting his son to sleep. She opened the door and was horrl fled to find the child lying on the bed with his throat slashed from ear to ear and nearly severed from Its body. She immediately screamed, and the rest of the family rushed Into the room, the father in the meantime leisurely walked out on the porch, a.nd sat down as If nothing had hap pened. When questioned, he said he had a motive in killing the child, but would not divulge it. The murderer was arrested, and brought to Wash Lngton and placed in jail. Feeling is strong against the pris oner in the town of Bath, and much ndignation has been expressed over the affair. A coroner's Inquest was eld over the child's body and ver dict rendered that child came to its death at the hand of John R. Gibbs. Opinion is divided as to prisoner's 5anity. Some think he was crazed by dope or whiskey. His mental con ition will be inquired into by the authorities. WELL WAS A DEATH TRAP. Four People Lose Their Lives Trying to Save a Man. Five persons perished as the result )f being overcome by gas fumes in a grain well at the dairy of Jacob achs in Fairmount near Cincinnati. 3 k fireman who went into the pit to ;et out the bodies also was overcome t mnd lies at the city hospital in a seri- ' yus condition. Two of the dead are women. Four of the victims forfeited their t ives in efforts to rescue Jacob Sachs i the first victim. Henry Ester- 1 nan, a city fireman, was overcome while being lowered into the well byi neans of a rope. He was pulled outc tnd rushed to the hospital.1 The firemen then used grappling i ooks and brought the bodies to the urface. The well was used by Sachse 'or the storage of wet malt feed,C which he fed to his milk cows. The t rain had fermented and generated 4 leadly gases. A ladder was thea neans of entrance and exit. WILL VOTE FOR HARMON. e Fhey Become so by the Adoption of the Urdt Rule. Governor Judson Harmon Wednes fay won his fight in the Ohio Demo ~ratic State Convention for applica :ion of the unit rule by a vote of 597 : 355 and will have the undivided mpport of the State's 48 delegates n his candIdacy for President at the I Baltimore Convention. The Anti-Harmon forces, led by'' Mayor Newton D. Baker, of Cleve Land, made a determined fight on the unit rule proposItion and declared :hey would file their protest at the ational Democratic Convention. Nineteen of the forty-eight dele gates to the Convention are Wilson adherents elected at a dIrect primary, but under the unit rule will be oblig ed to cast their ballots for Harmon at Baltimore. Sheriff Saved Fiend. Sheriff Tull, of Somerset County, having in his custody, Wesley Miles, a negro, aged forty-five, who it is al leged twice attempted to assault the fourteen-year old daughter of Wil- V i Maryland. eluded a mob which pur sued the prisoner with the avowed purpose of lynching him. True Bill Against Beach. The case of Frederick 0. Beach at Aiken for assault and battery wIth Intent to kill, whIch offense he is! alleged to have perpetrated upon his wife by cutting her throat at their winter home at Alken last February. was given by Solicitor R. L. Gunter into the hands of the grand jury at, 12:10 o'clock Tuesday. Cotton Acreage Reduced. In his report on the cotton situ a tion In the South, Commissioner Wat son, who is president of the Southern Cotton Congress. and charged with the handling of the acreage produe tion, estimates that the acreage has been cut 16 1-2 per cent throughout~ the cotton belt under the "Rock Hill Plan". Three Asphyxiated in New York. The bodies of Mrs. G. M. Warner, her son, 26 years af age, and her granddaugter, two years old, were found Tusday in the Warner home in the Bronz. All had been killed! by Illuminating gas. Cracks in the M4ndows and doors were stuffed with E'TALK WITH THE DIEADI SAY& TITANIC TICTIMS HAT TALKED WITH HER. Washington Society Woman Clain E She Received a Message Fro: Major Butt for the President. Fashionable society in WashIngtc was astonished by the announcemei n that one of its brilliant and excli sive members ,Mme. Margaret I w Meissner, widow of a distinguishe Russian statesman and scholar, t e become a psychic. In making th. announcement Mme. De Meissne stated that she had been in commux e ciation with the spirit of Major Arcl ibald Butt, who sank with the Titai Of ic. "I do not see ghosts," said Ma ame Meissner, "but I can hear spi 5its when they speak to me. Freqi ently the voices come when I am si ting or reading quietly. I have ha * many messages from victims of th Titanic. One that came from Majc r Butt on April 24 was a private mej a sage for President Taft which I hav communited to him. I am sure th message must have been a comfort t e the President in his grief. d Major Butt stated that when, aJ , ter falling into a great gulf, as I e were, he came to his senses, he wa e standing in the present of Williai o T. Snead, Frank D. Millett and Isado y Straus. 6"We had no Idea we had died," h said, "and were amazed when som one told us we were In another worl I think It was Mr. Snead who re marked that there was no such thin as dying. It is simply marveloui r the passage from life to what me: a call death." h "I asked Major Butt if he had me c John Jacob Astor," continued Mimn c De Meissner. "'No, I have not seen Mr. Astor, he replied." e SOUTH DAKOTA FOR WILSON. t New Jersey's Governor Gets Ali o the Ten Delegates. Governor Wilson gained a signs victory in South Dakota, winning a the direct primaries a solidly in structed delegation that will cast 1 votes of that State in the Baltimor convention. This victory is especial t ly important in view of the fact tha South Dakota is the home of ex-Sena tor Pettigrew, one of the chief sup porters of Speaker Clark. Nineteen Wilson delegates electe by the people in Ohio were bound b unit rule in instruction to vote fo Governor Harmon by the Ohio Stat convention, although many of Gov ernor Harmon's friends opposed suc1 action. The New Jersey delegation, whic] stands 24 for Wilson and four fo 8Jim Smith, had a meeting in Tren ton Wednesday. The 24 Wilson de legates decided that as the voter e of the two Essex county district had elected anti-Wilsonr delegates, I would not be proper under the direc primary system to adopt the uni rule. -The South Dakota primary and nc the Ohio convention is indicative o the prevailing opinion of the Demo cratic masses -that Woodrow Wilsoi is ftc only Democrat who can hop . to defeat the nominee of the Chicag convention, both in the east and i r the West. Wilson as the Democrati nominee will not be a sestional candi date, even as he has not been see 1tional candidate in the preconven ation campaign. Six More for Clark. .1 West Virginia's six delegates a e Ilarge were instructed to vote fo a Champ Clark, at Baltimore, as lonu a as there was any hope of his nomina r tion, by the Staite Democratic Conven ,ton here to-day. At district con e ventions earlier in the week Clar1 t received six instructed delegates, tw' I uninstructed were favorable to hix a and 'two more uninstructed 'wer, said to favor Governor Harmon, o Q. h-o. I instructed for Clark e By a vote of 334 to 242, the A2 kansas State Democratic Conventio: refused to embody in its platfort ean indorsement of the so-calle, "grandfather clause" as a qualifi e tion for suffrage. Eight delegate C at large with half a vote each, as wel Sas the district delegates, were ix struted for Speaker Champ Clark. Blaetold newspaper men that h had received a letter from a citize: of a Georgia town asking that one Sthe warrants pending in this Stat against Felder be sent him, and stai ig that he intended to go to Balti more and arrest Felder and secur the $200 reward offered for his ri yturn to this State. er value and force than a years vwor of a less able or well-known ma Alexander H. Stephens was an invali e for the best part of his life, but h Swrote a book with his trembling fit a gers which will live as long as th n memory of the pen of Davis or th -sword of Leo. John Milton spent hi SpowerfulI youth In helping Cromnwel o tc reform England, and wrote th Iimmortal Paradise Lost when age e iand blind. As long as Ben Tillmna -. can 11s on a couch in the Capitol an n tell those around hi mnto keep the fi h hot, South Carolina would do well t skeep him there. As a matter of faci ehe is not now b~y any means so er e feebled, but can still do what woul abe a big day's work for most mner but if the day comes-as come ymust for us all-then let him end hi days as did Galhoun--borne to hi yrest from the scene of his life-Iou L labors, with his last breath encam: aging his friends and colleagues t :e keep up the Eght for lite"ts an HEY ARE ALL [000 FOURTEEN REASONS WHY SEN TOR B. R. TILLMAN SHOULD STAY IN SENAT They Are Given by Mr. Phillip Ve ner, Son of the Late John S Verner, Now a Resident of B Opispo, in the Canal Zone, in ti Reawee Courier. The following fourteen reasons ai given by Mr. Phillip Verner, of 0 )nee County, but now a resident < Bas Opispo in the Canal Zone, wh senator B. R. Tillman should be r lected to the United States Senat. ind published in the Keowee Cou: ,er: First. Ie has been a leader of tl progressive movement ix the Dem< ratic party longer than any othi Democrat in the United States. H: Irst speech of national Important was made four years before Mr. Br: Wn's great Chicago deliverance. B was the target for the assaults an ;cornful cartoons of the reactionarit or years until "Insurgency" becan ashionable. He has lived to se rheodore Roosevelt taking up th est of his contentions, when twent rears ago that statesman was callin aim a "populist" and a "dreamer' ie secured a primary election twei :y-four years before they had becom L universal demand. Second. During his long care iis private character has- nev( yeen successfully impeached. I he fi,.rce light which beats on hig laces In these days of microscopi malysis of character In the publi ress his moral Integrity has stoo mnshaken and undimmed. Third. His Incorruptibility In pul Ic service has been such as to be th lespair of his enemies and to warrar he implicit confidence of his consti1 ients. In a Senate of millionairlei e is still the tribune of the peoplo Ls unimpeachable as ever was tb racchi. Fourth. The impregnable strengt >f his will has been and still is :ower of resistance to the insidiou fforts of reactionaries In the Demc :ratic party who now hope to use ths )arty as their allies in the other cam Lave so long used the Republican paa Fifth. The high order of his Inte ect enables him to see and to ana: rze conditions at the present time i . way to be of the highest benefit t he people of the State and natioi rhe complicated state of political a 'airs makes it fortunate that Sout )arolina has a big brain at WashinS on. Sixth. Past services are not tb est reason for keeping a public ses rant at his post, unless those ser ices Indicate a character likely to b >f further service. Senator Tillman rork has been exactly of this kind t was not one sporadic act of blazin rlliance but a series constituting ruly remarkable whole. Among thes ne of the most Important was his at ivity in educational matters. A numeration of what he did cove! imost a generation of the life of th ~tate. Seventh, lie founded and develoi d Clemson College. Eighth. He did the same thing fo Vinthrop College. Ninth. He probably saved the Sout arolina College and the Citad cademy from disintegration at ime when they might have been sei ously infured. I can bear person2 estimony to th'is myself, for when h Lad ust been elected Governor i: .90, he asked me to come to see hi! when I was at the head of the Junio lass in the South Carolina Colleg4 nd I earnestly urged upon hIm th lection of Dr. Woodrow as Preside! f that Institution, a step which ink will be admitted to have bee mf the utmost advantage to that Co: ege in the existing state of affairi )r. Woodrow knew how to keep hi nouth shut as few men did, and h iavigated the old College throug he shoals of politically troubled wai mrs as perhaps no one else might hav lone. Tenth. He began an era of activ nd interested participation In publi fairs on the part of the whole whit eople of the state vwhose steady II uence ever since has been to kee he State in the forefront of intell: rent progressive political activit: dr. Bryan once told me persone-ll .hat Senator Tillman had done mor .o awaken the South to new life I olitical lines than any other man I he country. Eleventh. He saved the Democrai party in the State from disruptio y securing a white primary referer lum nearly a Quarter of a centur go. He later kept the State fre rom the attempted introductionC he new-RepublicanISm as represen d by John L,. Mcbaurin. Twelfth. He chrystallized whIl c''s government In the Constitt :Ional Convention, and built upon th iour.ation laId by Wade lUamipion I no ?edenmption of the Stacc fromr re' cal rule an edifice so solid and er luring that it is hardly ever likely i all again. Thrteenth. Hie taught the peop: that they were stronger that the co: porations. He proved his contentic In the State, and took the lesson wIt him to Washington, where he he been teach~ng the nation the san thing. Or.ly a small tithe of what I has done in this respect ever g'e into the papers. They may not Pu' lish what he says always, but the go to hear him and they quote hi: and hIs words find an echo one wr or another from Maine to Californi Fourteenth. His experience in pW lc affairs has been such as to mali .,a feard from him now of grea STOLE WILSON VOTES E DELEGATES ELECTED FOR HIM GIVEN TO HARMON. is The Washington Times Comments In M Severe Terms on Adoption of 'nit Rule by Ohio Convention. ,n How Gov. Wilson was euchred out it of a large block of votes in the Ohio i- State convention is told as follows e in the Washingtca Times today: d "Nineteen Wilson delegsites, re Ls presenting nearly one-half of Ohio's is vote in the Democratic national con r vention, were disfranchised by the - Ohio Democratic State convention i- Tuesday. L- "In the Ohio primaries Gov. Wil son captured 19 out of. 21 district I- delegates to the Democratic national r- convention despite the fact that Gov. L- Harmon was making much the same t- sort of a 'do-it-to-please-me' cam d paign that Taft was making on the e Republican side. r "It was a great victory for Wilson and the progressive element of Democracy. But by the same sort of t private office manipulation of the 0 State delegates that distinguished the Republican State convention, Gov - Harmon's forces secured control of t the Democratic State convention and - put in force the unit rule on Ohio's n Baltimore delegation. This disfran r chises the 19 Wilson delegates as well as the great body of Ohio Demo e crates who elected these delegates. t 0 "Thus by arts known to politicians d we witness one presidential candi date robbed of 19 delegates elected 1 to vote for him and wanting to vote for him and another candidatejagainst C whom thousands of his party regis- 1 tered an overwhelming protest Is t given the right to vote'these 19 op ponents to his own advantage. If t ,he does not want them he can, t through the enforcement of the unit rule, deliver them to some one else equally as undesirable to them and their constitutents as he is." The New Jersey delegation, which f stands 24 to 4 for Wilson, at a c meeting on Wednesday refused to I adopt the unit rule, which they had t i a right to do, holding that the peo- c : ple having refused to instruct the t - four delegates that were not Instruct- ( D ed, they would not do so. This Is f B the right view to take of the matter. t - In Ohio the people instructed nine- a t teen, and yet the State Convention t reverses the people and instructs Wilson's nineteen delegates to vote e for Harmon. That is the kind of r ring rule that brought about the b y present revolution. c r I TAFT DELEGATES IN OHIO. a SIe Was I[ndorsed WhileRoosevelt c Was Voted Down. r Ohio's Republican State Conven tion awarded President Taft the six delegates-at-large to the national con vention by a vote of 390 1-2 to 362 s 1-2. The state ticket will be chosen tat the adjourned session, which was tcalled for July 2. t JHe was also victor when the con vention adopted the majority report: t of the resolutions committee, as fol f lows: - "We do heartily endorse the ad 1 ministration of President Win. How e ard Taft." . 'j Warren C. Harding, former candi I date for governor, who addressed the. C convention for President Taft, was: - hissed by Roosevelt supporters when. - he declared that in supporting the - former president "they were driving their Titanic full speed ahead Into the ice." t Pure political ,brigandage," said rColonel Roosevelt at Oyster Bay Wednesday night of the capture of Ohio's six delegates-at-large to the -Republican National Convention by -supporters of President Taft. HEAT HAS BAD EFFECT. S Makes Two Men at Greenwich Cut s Up No Little. "Crazy with the heat" is given as -the cause of the antics of two Green a which, Conn. men Wednesday. a. August Johnson, fifty-six years d old, tried to drown himself near the SBelle Haven dock, first by jumping s into the creek at low tide and sniffngc 1 up handfuls of water In his nose andi -mouth and by holding his head under water. When rescued he broke away and jumped in again. He was put in a padded cell. eHugh Elliott, thirty-nine years old, disrobed at his home on Rail ~road avenue and in Adam's Garden of Eden attire paraded the village t streets calling for Eve. Instead of Eve, Chief of Pelice Ritch came post haste in an automobile. Elliott was .wrapped in a blanket and taken to a sanitarIum. A Very Quiet City. 3 SThe city of Indianapolis Is cer Itainly a quiet sort of place, for re cently a thief managed to get away with the horse of a. mounted police man. The Richmond News-Ledger e suggests that the policeman should have been taught to sleep in the! 1saddle.1 8Another Atlanta Drowning. An Atlanta dispatch says the pub d lic bathing reserve at PIedmont park e claimed its second victim last week Swhen Charles Campbell, aged 11, was drowned Saturday afternooa. The other viotim was James Silms, aged d2.Both fell from capuszed hoat. tI Steamers Ice Bound. 51 Upwards of fifty steamers, mostly .s of fereign register, are marooned in g an unprecedented ,jam of ice floe in -the neIghborhood of the Sviatol-Nas ' lighthouse In the White Sea. A Nor dwegian Ice breaker has left for the scene to release the Imprisoned craft.g SAYS HE CAN'T WIN FRIENDS Of TAFT WILL DESERT HIM FOR HUHES. MARKED FOR SLAUliBTER The President's Most Intimate Pol itical Friends Are Afraid of His Wealmess Before the People and Believe That He Would Be De feated in the General Election. The Washington correspondent of ;he Atlanta Journal says a well ;hought-out plan to deprive both Wil- t lam H. Taft and Theodore Roose relt of the Republican presidential c :omination has been devised by lead ?rs of what is known as the reg ilar faction of the party. The men rho entertain designs hostile to Taft tnd Roosevelt, are the men who 'orced the nomination of James S. herman, of New York, for the vice )residency four years ago, in oppo iltion to the wishes of Messrs. Taft nd Roosevelt. On the surface, these leaders favor he re-nomination of President Taft. [hey have come to the conclusion hat Mr. Taft would be certain of do eat if nominated, and that there vould be no more hope of success in aming him than there would be In he attempted burglary of an empty afe. Vice-President Sherman, Elihu toot, Joseph G. Cannon, William B. o cKinley, Senators Smoot, Crane, enrose and Gallinger are the mem ers of the Old Guard who, outwardly upporting President Taft, are secret- b y devoting their time and talents to ( he introduction of a third man in c he race. 11 They wil Igo to Chicago, prepared ti .t the proper time, to present the ame of Charles E. Hughes, of New ork, associate justice of the United tatesStates supreme court, for dis ussion as the presidential candidate. 'he members of the Old Guard men- r oned have practically given up hope 0 if nominating President Taft and C hey will go to any extreme to defeat s1 ;olonel Roosevelt. They are far 9 rom convinced that they will be able e o attain their ends, but they are in 0 desperate situation and intend to ; lay the game to the limit. It is safe to say that practically S very rogular Republican leader of rominence is frmly convinced that a e will pass from public life, if Col- C nel Roosevelt is again elected to the s 'residency. It is a fght for survival nd therefore a fight to the finish. a Although the Roosevelt-Taft forces -ere in control of the Republican onvention of 1908, the Old Guard d ,as successful in its efforts to nom- T ate Mr. Sherman as the vice-presi- 0 ential candidate. The scheme to tl ut Sherman on the ticket with Taft| ras batched long before the conven-|b, ion was held. It was conceived and it romoted in secrecy. t During the closing days of the fight tl n Mr. Taft, who was 0. K.'d by Mr. A toosevelt, the Old Guard sought to C et some glory out of the contest. ei hey went to work in behalf of Mvr. h herman, and the name of the New ,n orker was sprung upon the conven- o ion with a suddenness that swept the e toosevelt-Taft leadere off their feet. q It became known that some weeks h .go President Taft was strengly urg- a d by certain regulars to give coun- t< enance to a movement for a third c an. The president, so the story a oes, agreed that his nomination it robably meant party defeat. How ver, his reply to the suggestion that c: e should consent to be sidetracked t ras couched in language so expres- 1 ive that it was never repeated. 1 The regulars above named are go- t ng to Chicago in an effort to push 1 side the president and predecessor b .nd place the standard in the hands 1 f Associate Justice Hughes. They .re not sanguine of success, but the takes are so large that they intend to lay the game as indicated. EASY THIfNG, SATS MACK. )emocrats Won't Have Any Difficulty in Winning This Year. "The Democratic party has several y andidates for the Presidential nom- a nation and any one of them is strong nough to defeat either Taft ora loosevelt," remarked Normar. E.f dack, chairman of the Democratic o 3mmittee at New York, while on a t "fhalf what Roosevelt and Taftt re saying about the Republican par- a y is true, then that party ought to o >e indicted by the grand jury," con-c inued Mr. Mack. "The American ~eople have made up their minds to dtic the Republican party out of oer and it doesn't make any dif erence whether they nominate Taft ltoosevelt, or a dark or brown horse,' Built Bridg Quick. Company M, Third batallion of en ~incers has set a new army and the rorld's record for building a ponton >ridge. Sixty men of the command + onstructed a bridge across Merrit akeo near Leavenworth, Kan., 120 3 eet in length in sir:een minutest Ld thirty-five seconds. I i g Spoony Girl Lost Diamonds. Miss Nellie Burns, of Uniontown, . Y., has complained to the policee hat after a stroll in the moonlight' r!th a yo'ung man at Yonkers, whom I he permi-ted to hold her hand, shee nissed her diamond ring.a Lad Drowned at Savannah. t The surf at Savannah claimed its I irst victim of the bathing season uesday when Joseph McNally, aged 0. was swept beyond his depth andc ras drowned before he could be riven assistance. SHOULD BE FORMED 'LAN FOR A STATE WIDE CHAM BER OF COMMERCE. Dollar Dinner Will Be Given in Co lumbia, Which All Business Men Are Urged to Attend. A South Carolina Chamber of Com nerce will be organized in Colum >Ia at a dollar dinner to be given on ruly 9th. The idea is for not only he commercial organizations of the tate, but for all citizens to get to Fether and work for South Carolina, L preliminary meeting held in Co umbla Wednesday Lewis W. Parker )f Greenville was elected temporary )resident and A. McP. Hamby secre ary of the Columbia Chamber of ,ommerce, was selected temporary ecretary. A call to the business nen of South Carolina was issued. "Those who attended the meeting >f the Ad Clubs of America In Dillas, 7exas," said Mr. Hamby Wednesday, 'were impressed with the pull-to ,ether spirit of that meeting, and hat is what we want in South Car olins,. Petty financial and alther ealousles should be dropped and verybody should work for the whole state. After the permanent organ zation has been perfected meetings vill he held from time to time, and ember from every section will be Lrged to attend and tell their tron les or what they have done to ad ance their interests. The dues will e very light and every good citizen s urged to join, whether he be a 2ember of a chamber of commerce r a board of trade or not" The towns and cities represented t the meeting either by proxy or erson included Charleston, Colum Ia. Sumter, Florence, Orangeburg, reenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg, eorgetown and Greenville. The dol r for the dinner must be sent in ) Secretary Hamby not leatr than une 26th. The following Is the call Issued: To Business Men and All Good Cit izens of South Carolina: "A meeting of the commercial sec etaries of the State was held in the ffices of the Columbia Chamber of ommerce today for the purpose of arting something, in the line of eneral State publicity, which means listing the interest and services f the business and public spirited tizens of the State. "Lewis W. Parker, of Greenville, C., was unanimously elected tem orary president of the organization d A. McP. Hamby of the Columbia ihamber of Commerce, temporary ecretary, who was authorized to ive due publicity to the movement ad arrange for. the permanent or anization on Tuesday, July 9, 1912. "The proposition is that a dollar inner be given at Columbia on uesday, July 9th, next, at 8:30 'clock p.*m., to all men throughout ie state, who send in their dollar ot later than June 26. There must e a limit to the time In order that ie preparation may be made for l exact number who will attend 1e dinner. At this dinner Dr. M. sbly Jones, of the First Baptist hurch, Augusta, Ga., will be invit to deliver the same address that e made at Dallas, Texas, ~during the eeting of the Associated Ad Clubs I America, and as near as I can ame to describing this address is to uote the expressions of several who eard him, which were that 'It was orth the trip across the continent > hear him.' There may also be ne or more addresses made .by other ien of national reputation in the no of advertising and city-building. "The organization meeting will be lled at three o'clock p. in., at which me the views and opinions of the ~adng business men of South Caro- 1 .na will be expressed with respect Sthe purposes of the organization, oking to the advertising and up uiding of the State of South Care na in its entirety. "The Meister singers of Charleston rho have made for themselves a na lonal reputation, will be on hand to rnish vocal music for the occasion, s well as the Columbia Ad Club uartet, which will, among their se actions, render their famous song, Co. 23.' "It is probable that a brass band rom Sumter and one from Columbia rill be on hand to furnish the instru tental music. "In addition to the business men nd all others interested in the wel are of South Carolina, the editors f all papers In the State are Invited I o participate and to join this organ ation and all officials and other in eresed in the agricultural develop- 1 ent of the State, at whose head Is I ur esteemed commissioner of agri- 1 ulture, E. J. Watson. 1 "All county paper8 are rrged to opy this call and to do all in their ower to bring about a large attend .nce from each county.. At least five epresentative citizens of each coun y in the State are expected and urg-. I to attend this meeting and as many tore as will send in their dollar for he dinner. "Nearly all of the secretaries who :ttened this meeting today also at ended the m:eeting of the Associated d Clubs of America In Dallas, exas, during the month of May, and her determination to organize a hamber of Commerce for Statewide ood is but a manisfestation of the 'exas spirit, which made possible the reatest convention of business men ver held in thIs country. "We have everything that the State 'f Texas has and more, too, with one xcepton and that is what we are. .fter now, viz: thorough cooperation n the part of every man and town in he State in letting the outr~ide world :now what we hare to offer. "very county In South Carolina rl1 be comumn~cated with by one 'f those prespnt at the meeting to ay, and the chambers of commerce1 .. b~a of t+de will be urged tol. BRYAN NOT IN [IAL SAYS SO IN LETTER READ TO DU TH CONYENfTION MINNESOTA FOR WILSON Statement from Bryan Stops Effort to Stampede Minnesota Democrats to Commoner-Wilson Adherents Dominate State Convention, which Instructs Delegation for Wilson. Minnesota Democrats in State con vention at Duluth Thursday voted to end a full delegation of 24 delegates to the Baltimore convention with In tructions to vote for Woodrow Wil son. It Is agreed', however, that when ever, in the opinion of two thirds of the delegation, Wilson's nomination is impossible, the vote may be thrown to another candidate. Victory came for the Wilson forc es only after followers of the Champ Clark and William J. Bryan had made an attempt to have the dele gates either Instructed for Bryan or mot instructed at all. As a result of th'e attempt to tampede the convention for Bryan, the hall was an uproar for more :han an hour. During all that time, iowever, the name of Clark was not nentioned, even by those who con ended for an unfnstructed delega Ion. Several delegates who are said to avor Clark are not on the list but hey are under Instructions to Tote or Wilson. The Clark manager, H. S. Wil ams, said after the convention that ie would carry his fight to the na onal convention at Baltimore. The Wilson men selected Fred B. ynch of St. Paul for national com itteeman. It became evident early in the con rention that the opposition to Wil on was hopelessly in the minority, rohn M. Freeman, a Wilson man, was Lamed temporary chairman without >pposition. C. M. Tiff of 3innea >olis, was made permanent chairman n the same manner. Several laudatory speeches were nade in favor of the Nebraskan and is name was loudly cheered. The clamor for Bryan ended when ruy Thomas of Minneapolis read a etter from Mr. Bryan saying he was Lot a candidate for president and rohn W. Freeman made an address rging that as the mojority of Mtn Lesota voters had named Wilson as heir choice, the convention should tand by him. IDERTISING AS A GUARA"ER t Proves Tat a Merchant Believes In -His Goods. When a business concern Invests a arge .sum of money in a handsome. tore and equipment for retail mer handising, the public feels a certain legree of confidence that the concern tas goods worth examining. People rgue that unless they had establish d a reputation for fair dealing and inless they had goods that they knew 'illed a need, they would not dare pend so much money. Advertising, likewise, acts as a ~uarantee of substantial business haracter. When a firm spends mon y freely on this necessary form of alesmanship, the public concludes hat it must have goods back of it hat have demonstrated their worth, >r the firm would not have set apart his sum of money for selling them rough the newspapers. A concern that does not advertise mpresses the public as merely an ex >eriment. The fact that it may have een in existence for many years does lot help it so very much. The pub Ie may even look at mere existence or a long term of years as a disquali 'ication, indicating preference for old ie methods. It takes advertising :o prove that you have confidence in our goods. I I Tires Out of Paper. Pneumatic tires of chemically reated and compressed paper have een brought to notice in France and ermany. The material is said to be is strong as steel and as elastic as -ubber, yielding tires that are noise ess, waterproof and cheap. Cuban Town Bnrned. Estosez, the real leader .pf the ne ro insurgents, has captured and urned the town of Lamnaya, on the ranch line of the Cuba Railroad, hirty miles from Santiago. The gov rnment gave out this information londay night. Five Burn to Death. Five negroes were burned to death hen tire destroyed Morri's Turner's ome near Lynchburg. Wednesday. 'uner's three children and two ~randchidren are dead. end at least five represenltative- men rom each county and as many more s will come. "Bear in mind that only those who ae forwarded their dollar to the ndrindwill be provided for at his dinner, also thiat Wednesday, June 26th, is the last day when seats nay be procured. "It may be well to state here that t matters not whether a city or :own has a chamber of comnierce or oard m. trade at present; the reprne entative citizens of every town and ity In the State are invitedi to .ioin' n this movement and help to put South Carolina where she belongs in the line of agricultural and manu facturing pursuits. "A. McP. Hamby, Temporary Secre tary, s. C. Chamber of Commerce, Columbia. S. C-"