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VOL. XXVII MANNING9 S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST fiRAIE TALKS AiAIN K TELLS Of A CONVERSATION HE HAD WITH BLEASE. BISUSSEII INTEIVIEW Says Blease Told Him McDaffie e Hampton Was Elected cn Southern ( Railway Money, Which Was Han died by Blease, Who Acted as Wet Nurse to Hampton. a In a statement given out by Mayor a Grace he says I said I would prove Governor Blease was guilty of cor- a rupt connections -with the southern b Railway. This I have also from his t: own lips, and to the best of my recol- h lection, it was in the same conversa- 1< tion. We had been talking about the primary through which he had just a passed and about the primary in gen- a eral and its operations in our Stat. t I told him that he never could have been elected Governor but for the pri- b mary system. He admitted that, but e: replied very contemptuously about Z the primary in general." W Mayor Grace then continues, and r in support of this second charge in -Y 'which he stated that he would prove si Governor Blease guilty of corrupt t! connections with the Southern Rail- tt way. Mayor Grace declares that Gov- a: ernor Blease told him in the course t< of conversation that he, 'Blease, prac- 1i tically paid the campaign expenses of -n a candidate for railroad commission- k er (whose name is given by Mayor w Grace) out of money furnished him w by the Southern vouchers signed by t the candidate in question for the it amount. h: Commenting his statement Mayor W Grace said: I want the people of tr South Carolina to consider this last cI statement with the greatest discrim- M ination of judgment. What does it tt mean? The railroad commission is tC established for the purpose of stand- 13 ing between the people and the extor- P! tions of railroads. They are practi- if cally judicial officers and upon their it decrees rest indenitely more of the ai interest of the people than any oc- h1 casional decision by the Supreme w Court in litigation between railroads ai ard individual suitors. When the pc railroad commission decides, it de- g3 cides, perhaps to the extent of mil lions of dollars at one time and it I can decide either for or against the g( people. I "Governor Blease insinuated that pC his cousin, Ben Abney, has been us- w ing Charlie Jones as a megaphone pl through which he could reach the _c Supreme Court. He has never pro- to duced any proof of this and it at amounts to an impeachment of our bi whole judiciary. If he Is a good wit- p< ness upon that point about whicb a after all he does not profess to know aT anything of his own knowledge, then w; a hundred times more is he a good m witness in respect to a matter of cor- oI ruption-in which he was the stake- w: holders." bi Mayor Grace declared that despite aT the fact that Blease had been elected w, Governor after a campaign in which w be posed as the peopte's friend, the w,. ant!-corporation man. and at the very de time when he was making "his hypo- pe critical speeches" against corpora- F tions he was dealIng out money In etc driblets for the Southern Railway to m a candidate so that the railway might get at least one man on the railroad a: commission. or "Perhaps," said Mayor Grace, "he th can tell whether or not he is now do- ca ing the same thing in his campaign so0g that they might get another-.v Discusses Blease's Interview. gi "And now as to Blease's character- de Istic Interview. I am very glad that W he has spoken at such length and &< that he has again lost his head be- I cause he Invariably tells lies when he he does so, and lies that are so easily detected. I will take It up seratim. "He says, speaking of me,.'I know if that he opposed me In the first pr!- y; mary two years ago and I have never mn believed that he supported me orm even voted for me In the second.' e This, of course. he knows is a lie'.t and fortunately for me the proof is In in 'writing. Not only did I support him B1 before and in the primary, but I wrote the strongest kind of editor- ~ lals, which were sent to him and cop- th led it some of the few State newspa- st pers that were supporting him, if I jt mistake not, In the Newberry Herald bi and News for one.- te "I am at Glenn Springs and have. no access to my letter files, but I re- t member dIstinctly receivIng a very appreciative letter from him thank- H injg me most cordially forthis support. th that is, in the second primary. More over, everybody in Charleston knows.. as they knew at the time, that It was r practically through me that in the first primary he got th'e votes he did get. I had been entreated to support 3fcLeod and In suppotting Blease I went hostile to overwhelming senti ment of Charleston and all its politi- ~ cal leaders, Including his friend. Capt. Martin. who supported McLeod,.r as he well knows. I was severely - blamed by the people of Charleston s for this and it operated seriously against me in my subsequent cram- IJ paign for Mayor.aw "But so clearly did B'lease himself understand the situation that imme- 1 diately after the first primary he sent p a man to Charleston. and it was y~ through him, acting in direct commu-1s nication by telephone with Blease ' from my ofmce, that all arrangements ie anc( conditions for the second pri- os nary were made and I am satisfied that when I go to Charleston I wi11 IT be able to dig up the original sten- si ographic notes of my stenographer b taken down over long distance in re- s spect to what Blease would do forg Charleston If we elected him. and h which I at once made the basis for i the campaign against Featherstone. In fact, when I get back to Charles- la ton ' will make this lie of hIs perfect- r ly c!rar. c1 "I have told before about my ap pointment upon h's staff and I went Ir into it in detail under oath before the a: ~vestiating comm ~ittee." Here the Mayor quoted from the G records.I Game Rooster Incident. o "As to his statement that I have I t never been In the Mansion but one: tIme. that Is also a lie. and he knows ~ It I do no': myseif know exactly how many times I w's the-e, but several ' times. at any rate, ar d particularly when he begged me t' come to the j Govrnor's recce'tion, whica I dIa. "Th Incident of the gam9 rooster, 013 RACE SPEAK OVERNOR TELLS MATOR TO SA WHAT HE PLEASES. - -- :lease Denounces Whatever State. rment Grace May Make About Hin a Lie in Advance. The following statement was issu . by Governor Cole L. Blease aftei t had read the story sent out fro= lean Springs, and in which Mayor oha P. Grace, of Charleston, prom sed to make startling revelatiom >ncerning the Governor provided thE itter would authorize him to tell nything he desired: "I notice this morning in The News nd Courier, in large headlines, ,race dares Blease to let him tell 11,' and, in the article purporting tc e from John P. Grace, he says that iere are things which I have told im in confidence which he would ve to tell if I would release him. "I desire to state that I have never tade a confident of John P. Grace in ay manner, shape or form. I knew at he opposed me in the first pri ary two years ago, and I have never lieved that he supported me or ev . voted for me in the second pri ary, and, as I have Def ore stated, he s appointed upon my staff upon the quest and upon the insistence of r. Rossler. I have never made any :atement in my life to John P. Grace tat I am not willing for the world P know, and he is at liberty to tell ything he pleases I have ever said o him, but I hope that he will con ae himself to the truth. He has ?ver been in the Mansion that I ow of, but one time, and that was hen he came to get a fine gamecock hich I gave him, and to request me appoint his brother to a position case war came on with Mexico. I ive never had any confidential talk ith him on any subject, have never usted him, because his eyes set too ose together in his head, and any an who is any judge of human na re knows that that is a fatal sign veracity or strict honesty; so he at liberty to te anything he eases, and when he belches it forth, it is the truth, I shall gladly admit ; if it is false, I shall so brand it. I did his Charleston falsehoods, to s face and in a meeting where he is surrounded by his police force td many of his friends and sup rters, and when he, sat silent and -inned." remember well. He said I came to t a fine gamecock, which he gave e, and also to request him to ap int my brother to a position in case ir came with Mexico. In the first ace I never knew he had a game ck until I got, upon one occasion. the Mansion. It may have been the time when I did go with my other, who is a graduate of West >int. and who has ever since been lieutenant in the United States my, stationed in the Phillipines. It ts a perfectly natural request for to make of one under such deep igations to me and for one to lom I am most tenderly attached. t it was not to get a position in the my. Of my own belief that Blease )uld give any preference to h4m, sen t was the easiest thing in the yrld for Blease to do it, if he woula signate him under some Act which rmitted him to designate to the ~deral Government the offcers in arge of the South Carolina regi ents. "If it was on this occasion, and I a almost sure that it was not, but whatever occasion it was, I recall at when I was about to go Blease Iled me and asked me if I liked .me chickens. I told him that I did ry much. He said, 'Well, I have a mecock that was sent me a few .ys ago by a man who said that he as sending me the best cock in uth Carolina. I don't want it and wll give It to you.' I took it and e it yet. The T. B. Letter. "But in connection with this visit, it was this visit, when my brother ts there with me, I distinctly re ember this incident and it seems to e to throw a flood of light on tether or not he trusted me. About is time there was a great deal be g said about the dispensary and ease's corrupt connections with it, rticularly the charges made .by Fel r. He said to me, 'I have some ing in nmy pocket that I want to ow you and I want to get your dgement upon It.' he went down in s coat pocket and pulled out a let r and handed it to me and said, ad this.' It was none other than e famous letter s~gned T. B., alleg to have been written by Felder to ab Evans, in which it was proposea at Evans and Felder organize some gantic graft scheme in connection th the old State dispensary. As I ad this letter I recalled a scene at right's Hotel the night before the auguration. It was the first insight ver had into Blease and the atmos .ere in which he moved, and I think :an say that without exception it is out the nastiest recoletion of my e. It was a grand carousa!. and I member that Hub Evans said to , 'John, I am going to call on you me day, because,' he said. 'you are at the man I want.' He then went length into his approval of the ay in which I had won the Morde i-O'Neill will case, which was at at time stirring through the news pers. He saId, 'I am goina to want > to take charge of all this dispen ry mess, and in that co~nnection 1 int to tell you one thing, I have one tter that is going to put Felder out busness.' The first thing that occurred to e, therefore, when the Governor owed me this Felder letter was )w In the world he could be in pos *ssion of a letter which Hub Evans as depending upon to stand between .m and the State of South Carolia .the efforts of the State to col'act tek hundreds of thousands of dol rs. It seems to me that It was the ost incomprehensIble and anomol s position for Blease to be in, and I mld draw hut one inference-that the fight then waging he had tak the side of those who were fight g South Carolina, of which he was overnor. and was in possession ef e main evidence which the people South Carolina were relying on for leir defeflce. I read over the letter refully, not once but twice, and anded It back to him. It soems to . that considerinr the fact that he ever trusted me, he certaInly had mfided In me the gravest of secrets. htch I wIsh to say I have faithfully apt, never mentioning the letter un rrConinued on last page.) BRANDS THEM FALSI BLEASE DENIES ALL THE CHARE ES MADE BY iRACE SAYS THE MAYOR LIE] Dlease Tells of His Political Rel1 tions With Grace and Possession C the Famous T. B. Letter and D( nies Southern Railway Story an All the Others. Denying the charges made by Mfa3 or John P. Grace of Charleston, a the Glenn Springs hotel this weel branding them as "infamously fals and contemptible," Governor Bleas Thursday gave out a statement fo the press. He says: "I have rea the statement sent out by John I Grace from Glehn Springs, S. C which contains that foul and dirt lie, displayed in large headlines I The Columbia State-"A Negro Stc ry." It is so infamously false ani contemptible that I do not desire t lower myself as a gentleman to fur ther notice it, and am satisfied tha all of the people of South Carolin; will agree with me that nobody wit] any gentlemanly Instinct whateve would make such a ro-ul and filth; statement. "As to his statement about thi Southern Railway,-that is absolute ly and maliciously false. I neve made such a statement to him or any one else in my life, and when hi speaks of the son of South Carolina' grand old hero, Wade Hampton, as common drunkard, he speaks falsel: and places himself beneath the notic4 of any man with pure white blood it his veins. Mr. McDuffie Hamptoi and myself were on the campaign to gether two years ago; we werq friends; I treated him kindly and po litely, as I treat all gentlemen. "The statement that I handle money for the Southern Railway and took vouchers from Mr. Hampton foi the same is as foul a lie as was evei spoken or written by a human being I have never handled a dollar o: Southern Railway money in my lifh and I have never delivered a dollal or any other sum of money to Mr Hampton during the entire campaign and I have never so stated to any ran-in fact. I did not even loan hiir any amount of money. On Grace's Support. "As to Crace's statement that he s;'pported me: he told me himsell that he did not support me in thE fii st primary, and I was informed b3 those who had charge of affairs foi me in Charleston that he was againsi me and for MIcLeod, but that hc claimed to be for me in the second race. If be was for me and worked for me in the first primary, he must have had very little influence, for ] only received 633 votes in the entire county of Charleston. "As to appointing him on my staff. I have already said that that was done at the request of -Mr. Roeseler. I did not want Grace on the staff, bul wanted Mir. Roeseler. Mr. Roeselei insisted that I appoint Grace, which I did. "As to showing him the 'T. B.' let ter. When it was given to me some weeks after my inauguration, along with the other letters, I immediately looked it up In my safe and soot thereafter transferred it to a stroni box in the Palmetto National Bank, where it is now, alotg with the oth crs and has been except when It was presented to the grand 5ury, and dis. pensary commission, and shown fox publication. I never consulted GracE about it or mentioned it to him in my life, and this is but another one of the false fabrications of a diseased mind, malicIous heart or a mind di seased from vindictiveness and a de sire to do injury to those it hates. lHe has never seen the 'T. B.' letter while it has been in my possession, and I do not believe he has ever seen the original at all. Denies "Carouse". "As to his charge that there was carousing at Wright's hotel the nigh1 before my inauguration, I herewith submit statements which I think will prove to the public conclusively thai he is a deliberate and designing falsi fier, and that the proof of this is ad ditional evidence of his lies in thE other instances. "State of South Carolina-County o1 Richland. "Personally came Robert Courtney Wright, who, being duly sworn, says that for ten years he was chief clerk~ and manager of Wright's hotel in the city of Columbia; that he remembers very well indeed the night before thE inauguration of Governor Cole L Please: that the said Blease arrived at the hotel about 11 o'clock at night, accompanied by his physician. Dr. W G Houseal, and members of his fain ily: that the said Blease was a des perately ill man and was taken imme diately to his room in the hotel and put in bed. and that only a very few or his most intimate friends were al owed to enter his room: that every. thing was kept quit and Dr. Hous al. being very apprenensive of said iBense's condition, remained In the room with him during the entirE night: that ho has noticed in this morning's State the following state ment made by John k. Grace: "'I recall a scene at Wright's hotel the night before his inauguration. I1 was the first real insight I had eves had into Blease and the atmospherE in which he moved, and I think I car sayv that wIthout exception it is abou1 th'e nastiest recollection of my life it was a grand carouse.' "The above statement Is absolutel3 urd infamously false. On the con trary, the room where the said BleasE was, was guarded In order that nc noise might be made, for we all fear ed~ that the~ result of his trip from his I omie in Newberry would prove fatal There was no carouse In the hote during that night: if there was it was r.c't known to this deponent, and mnos assuredly there was none in Blease' room. or in any ir- which he took pari or kr.ew anything about. Deponen1 further says that Governor Blease. as a private citizen, stopped many times wih hIm: that he hoarded at the ho. te! during the four sessions of the lo-ishrure that he was State Senator and that he always behaved himsel: in a cleaui gentlemanly manner: tha there was never any carousing o' eneral drinkir'g in his room at an: time.. and that he and the other mnem b'ers of the hotel family looked upox the governor as an esteemned kuest. "(Signed'i R. C. Wright. I"Sworn to before me this 31st da: POLICE SEIZE BRZE ! WAS BEING ILIULED TO ITS OWN ER WIIEN CAPTLED. Fifty-Seven Barrels of Beer Was: Ci Shipped to the Same ifan, Says the Drayman. The Greenville Piedmont says ten barrels, supposed to contain beer,: to seized from two dray wagons Wed- sc nesday morning as they were being to hauled to the store or John Quinn ta near Poe Mill. Policeman Fortner B: was standing on Main street and saw cc the wagons loaded witn beer pass. st As the barrels loolcea suspicious r Fortner stepped into the street and t, - halted the drivers. Upon investiga- in ti Von he found that the barrels con- or tained beer or some bottled drink. w; He then directed the draymen to fli drive to the police stacion, where the r stuff was unloaded aina put away in. r I one of the rooms or the police de- C] partment. tb By questioning the <raymen very n( closely Chief Holcombe learned that sb the said John Quinn had already re- fo ceived ten barrels of the "drink". or This, it is understood, thas been stor- gc ed away at his place of business near ch Poe Mill. E< t Chief Holcombe and his men are th the barrels and found that some of Gi I the bottles were labeled "malt beer" he while others had no label at all. Pc Some of the beer was brewed by the Ui Firemont Brewing Company of Ohio. A tic of July, A. D. 1912. "(Signed) Fred H. Dominick (L. S.) en Notary Public for South Carolina. Ca Inauguration Illness. ne "State of South Carolina-County of Newberry. ce "Personally came Dr. W. G. Hous- C ea, who, being duly sworn, says that stC during the fall of 1910 he attended th Cole L. Blease for three or four ne weeks, the said Blease being very Ill H with cholecystitis and jaundipe; that in the latter part of December, 1910, a the said Blease had a relapse and ist was desperately ill and that this de- H( ponent was very uneasy about him: that Blease was not allowed to leave gc his room, but was confined to his W1 bed; that on the night before his In auguration as governor, tais depon- Gr ent, assisted by some others, carried the said Blease from his bed room to the depot, on a cot, at Newberry a telegram having been sent in ad vance to the Pullman conductor to Fi have a berth made down and ready ahen he reached Newberry; that the said Blease was immediately put to bed in said car: that we arrived in the city of Columbia about 11 J' o'clock; that Blease was taken from M( the car and carried to Wright's hotel, no where he was immediately put in bed pr and only a very few of the members ga of his family and his closest friends de allowed to enter his room; that this deponent was so uneasy about dr BMease's condition that he persuaded pa Mrs. Blease to occupy an ad'oining be room with some of the other lady pri members of Blease's family, and this tho deponent remained in the room, dur- inc ing the entire night, keeping watch go over Blease, as he considered his con dition very serious: that he has no- 3cC ticed a statement made by John P. Ou Grace, published In 'he Columbia me State of July 31, 1912, column 3, p. qu 3, In which he says: se~ "'I recall a scene at Wright's ho-- 0f tel the night before his Inauguration. tIC It was the first real insight I had ever wa had into Blease and the atmosphere on in which he moved, and I think I can s say that without exception It is about the nastiest recollection of my life. It CO was a grand carouse.' a "The above statement Is absolutely on false. There was absolutely no whis- en key drank by Governor Blease for sn some weeks before his inauguration -1 and certainly none tMe night be.fore 31 or the day of the inauguration. There en was certainly no carouse in his room. ed for those who entered the room were very quiet and walked on tiptoes and were very apprehensive about the condition of Blease. 1t rnere was any Ra carouse around the said hotel during the night, the said Blease had abso lutely no connection whatever with it and knew absolutely nothing about It. and I certainly knew nothing aboutIr it; that on the next morning, this deponent went with the governor elect to the State hous.3, assisting himth along, and stayed rignt by his sideI during the entire ceremonies of the a inauguration, and that this deponentta knows that the said Blease did not l take a drink of whiskey, and had not wh taken one, as above stated, for sev-n eral weeks before; that immediately th after said ceremonies deponent ac-th companied the goverwr to Wright's nu hotel where he was placed in bed, and where he was when I left him, just co: in time to take the C. X. & L. 5 p.m. w train, and I directed that he remain' O ir. bed until next morning and he fe then taken to the governor's man- a "(Signed) W. G. Houseal, M. D. H "Sworn to before me this 31st day of July, 1912. m "(Signed) W. B. Wallace (L.S.) tw I(Seal) Notary rublic for S. C." "If Grace wrote any editorials in my behalf before the first primary. I have never seen them and I defy hIm Ge to produce a single one from the files of' his paper-the only ones ever hay-! ing been brought to my attention be Ing his articles in the two Issues of, his paper between the primaries. fr "As to his support of me in the second primary and the condition 5 tereof, his statements are wilfut and C maliious lies. which can tbe testified to by Mr. L. C. A. Rosseler. Grace's mayorality campaign manager, and ohrs, if necessary. Ihi "As to the charge of his having had a certain conversation with mr oer the phone, in which he says he oTh Ihad his stenographer sitting by his T side and taking it down, I desire to O say that this is somewhat strange. for when he went to talk to me. If he was the friend he says he was, that he would have a stenographer to sit right at his end of the line ready to F ake down every word said. I re-j 0 member of having no conversation Oi with him over the telephone. but S whether I did or not. he and his sten- 1 Iographer could fix up any kind of a" He and say that that was my state ment. I presume he worked this up sh n his mind after he read of the dic tora ph. Any one could sit down in his o~ee. take 3 stenographer, pick lup aphone. and say I am now talking ca: to so and so and have the stenogra- gr rher take down a supposed conversa- i tion. and, of course. Grace is low tj enough down to do that. and I have ter no dou'bt that he could employ some Iti selograiher who would be equally!i HEARD MAYOR CuRAUE] UES TALK TO THE WORKERS AT PACOLET 31LT. larges Blease With Saying if Wil son Should be Nominated He Would Vote for Taft. John P. Grace mayor of Charles n, spoke to an audience of 300 per-, ns Friday night in the Pacolet cot n mill village, which has the repu tion of being one of the strongest ease communities in Spartanburg unty and where previously this nimer speakers opposed to the gov nor have been howled down. Al ough he said harsh things concern g GoY. Blease Mr. Grace was not ly given a respectable bearing but -s heartily applauded when he had Lished. - Mayor Grace chai ged that Febru y 22, at the Commercial club in iarleston, Gov. Blease declared in e presence of a number of wit :sses that if Woodrow Wilson g ould be nominated he would vote h r Taft. Mr. Grace had with him e of the gentlemen who heard the i vernor make this remark-E. 'Mit- rn ell Seabrook, a cotton planter of isto Island and former member of ' e legislature, who corroborated Mr. -ace's statement. Mr. Grace said ' could also prove the statement by s stmaster Harris of Charleston, and e ited States Marshal, J. Duncan b lams of Charleston, men of unques- d ined veracty. a Mr. Grace explained to the audi ce that In voting for Taft in South .rolina, Blease would be voting for gro presidential electors. Mr. a ace spoke of the graft which he arged the governor had been re- b ing from the "blind tigers" of arleston through his chief con tble, Ben H. Stothart, and told of 3 executive's alleged corrupt con tion with the Southern railway. , said that in posing as the poor L'S friend Blease was a hyprocri!e d that on the contrary his admin ration was against their welfare. declared that Blease was utterly fit to be governor. Ben Mont- S mery presided at the meeting, D ich was held in a hall over the pa'iy store. He introduced Mayor s] E1PEROR OF JAPAN PASSES. or a s Son Becomes the Ruler of the a C1 Japanese Nation. in MIutsuhito, for 44 years emperor of !a ;an, died at 12:43 o'clocx. Monday k rning at Tokio. Yoshminto, Haru , iya reigns under the rormula m >ided by the legislation promul ed by Mutsuhito. "The king Is id; long live the king." MIutsuhito, who was the one hun d and twenty-first emperor of Ja a, passed gently away. He had m mn unconscious for many hours or to his death and the empress, C, crown prince and the most prom nt officials of the household and rernment were at the bedside. Alt the end upwards of 20,000 sub ts silently paid their last homage P :side the palace gates. It was a ti rvelous scene when messengers th jetly mingled with the crowds and pg .ttered and posted announcements tc the emperor's death. Deep emo- t n swept the multitude, but there - s no evidence of excitement. The y ly sound was a long drawn sigh of 3; -row.m Within the palace the deatn was nmunicated to the waiting imper- ti, princes and notabilities whereup- eg ,without delay, the accession cer onies were begun at the Imperial ar ictuary at one o'clock. The Crownin ince, Yoshihito was born August 1879 He was made heir-appar ;August 31, 1S87, ano. proclaim crown prince November 3, 188. HAMPTON DENIES CHARGE. C1 liroad Commissioner Says He Can *' Refute It. t 'The charge in the allegation that eeived any money from the South Railway through Governor Blease c false. I can refute this charge at proper time in the proper way. ave no further statement to makep this time," was the statement dic- t ed by Railroad Commissioner Mc-p fie Hampton Wednesday morning * en asked if he had any comment to s ke on the charge of Mayor Grace Lt Governor Blease had told him Lt two years ago he acted as "wet I rse" for Mr. Hampton and paid his enses for running for railroad nmissioner out of Southern Rail y money furnished him, and with t chers. Mr. Hampton said he pre red to wait for Governor Please's wer to the Grace charges before king any further statement. 31r. mpton is a son of the late Gen. Lde Hampton. He was elected a mber of the railroad commission a years ago for a term of six years. THOGHT DEAD, TU'RNS UP. orgia Man Missing Ten Years Found in St. Louis. S C Clyde M. Sims, who disappeared vc m Charlotte, Ga., ten years ago, de whose wife sued in Louisville for c 000 insurance, unaer the Impres- cf n that he was dead, was found at w Louis Wednesday. He admitted j: identity, and said that he had a 1e under the name of C. E. Von G rmer. Sims declared he had left co home because of a family dis- t tce. Is wife was in a detective's sh .ce when Sims was brought in. w: y greeted each other cooly. Sims ed ressed the hope that his wife uld take him back. Bolt of Lightning Kill-.t En a sudden storm at Savanuah on a: day lightning killed instantly Thy- re Winters, aged thirty-five, a native A Nova Scotia, who was sitting with n< -eral men on the floor of a new 5< d burning chamber in a fertilizer I .nt. A man named Aderson was w erely burned and two others a cked. O: Chain Broke His Neck. A [n clearing up the wreck of several - - near Dillon Friday night an ). William Cooper, of Cados, was led. In hitching a chain of one of!R derricks to a ear he failed to fas-j w tt securely, and when the engine E htoned on it the chain fle back hi i broke his neck, at the same time I IJEN I ES 1-HE ClHlARd"El TOTHART SAYS HE WANTS FULL! INVESTIGATION, AND BLEASE WILL OIVE IT 'hief Constable Expresses Willing ness to Accept Proposal That, if Any Two Men Whom Rhett Will Believe Will Swear They Gave Him Graft, the Governor Dismiss Him. B. H. Stothart, chief constable at harleston, whom J. P. B. O'Neill, a quor dealer, swore he paid "protec on" money to by slipping under the cor, in a letter to Governor Blease 1at he is willing to accept the prop sition that if any two men can be -und who swear that they gave him raft, and Ex-Mayor Rhett states that e will believe them on oath, the overnor dismiss him from office. He says that he will not tender his signation, for that would be retir .g under fire; that he has done noth g dishonorable. "The cowardly ars, who have attempted to injure au over my shoulders, know it," tys Stothart in his letter to the Gov rnor. Replying, the Governor says that ? believes that Stothart has done his ty in an honorable way, but that the proper time he, the Governor, going to lay the whole matter be >re Solicitor Peurifoy, with instruc ons to make a rigid investigation, id when the solicitor makes his re >rt, "I shall take such action as is ?st for the best interest of the en rcement of the laws of the State," )ncludes the Governor's letter. Stothart's letter to the Governor lows: State Detective Office. Ien H. Stothart, Chief, 69 Society Street, Charleston, S. C., July 26, 1912. Hon. Cole L. Blease, Governor of )uth Carolina, Columbia, S. C. ear Sir: I notice that Judge Jones t his speeches, or what he calls >eeches, is continuously referring to e and saying that I should be re oved from office. I beg to say that I court from you any fair and just tribunal a full id free investigation of all my acts chief constable of the county of arleston. I have absolutely noth g to conceal from the public and ve not received one cent or one dol r or any other amount from any )urce or sources for illegitimate irposes. or to attempt to persuade e or to control me from doing my 11 duty. You know the reports that I have ven you any money are most ma tious and foul lies and no man can 11 me so to my face. I am proud of y reputation and I am glad that my Laracter is clean and I am jealous both, and for that reason at the -oper time I shail demand a hearing d a full investigation of the charges -eferred against me. I know and you know, and all the ople of South Carolina know, that ese charges are trumped up just at is time to endeavor to injure you I litically. I am more than willing accept your prop.osition that If any t ;o men be found who will swear at they gave me graft, who Ex-1 ayor Rhett will state tnat he be aves on their oaths, that you im ediately dismiss me from office. I shall not tender you my resigna n, because that would be consider retiring under fire. I have done >thing dishonorable and the cow dly liars, who bave attempted to ure you over my snoulder, know it. j Yours respectfully, . (Signed) Ben H. Stothart-. The Governor replied as follows:t July 30, 1912. Mr. B. H. Stothart, 69 Society St., 1arleston, S. C.--Dear Sir: Your tter of July 26 received. The same1 ould have been answered earlier, it, as you know, I have been out on .e campaign and have been very i isy. i I have never belies-ed you dishon , but, on the contrary, believe that a have always done your duty and an honorable way. I think the 'position is entirely fair. At the proper time I shall turn is entire matter over to Solicitor mrifoy and ask him to make a thor Igh Investigation thereof, with in ructons to prosecute any violations . the law, whether it be those whoc "e bribed or attempted to bribe 1 m,. or yoea if you have aceptedl ibes. After Solicitar l'eurifoy ! kes his report to me I shall take ich action as is best for the best in rest of the enforcement of the laws thIs State. Very respectfully, I (Signed) Cole L. Blease, Gov. W. F. Caldwell. . NOT GUILTY. SAYS JURY. rs. Grace is Acquitted of Shooting Her Hasband. At Atlanta on Friday twelve "good en and true" declared Daisy Opie ith not guilty of the charge of ooting her heusband, Eugene H. ace. with intent to murder. The rdict was reached after two hours' ~liberation, during which the accus woman underwent all the agonies ozg in her position. When she as supported into the court room st before the entrance of the jury', fire o'clock Friday afternoon, Mrs. race appeared to be bqrdering on 1apse. Trembling from head to ot she was assisted to the chair t e had occupied all during the trial, ' bich began last Monday, and await the verdict. I. I Warns Mexico Again. The United States has again pro sted to the Mexican government I id to General Orozco, leader of the t -volutionists. against attacks upon mrican citizens and property In; :rthern Mexico. Secr-etary Knox of-' :ialy renewed his notice of two onths ago, that the UnIted States il hold Mexico to strict account for i I damager,. and unofficially notified 1; :mo that be would be held per-Il nal:y responsible for damages to -ericans or their property.t Convict is Wonnded. After a day and a half's chase.! o Sullivan, the escaped convi'?. bo Monday succeeded in kIlling hisI ard at Chatham and making goodr s escape, was overtaken by the e" at Pillmans, Va., Tuesday, and 1VOUNB1EI IN SCUFFLE Alr SEXSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE GRACE TRIT Mrs. Grace Claims that Grace Was Choking Her and the Pistol Went Off During Row. The Grace trial in Atlanta has tak en a sensational turn. Eugene H. T Grace was shot in a scuffle with his wife in their room during a quarrel over a sale of Mrs. Grace's property, according to Attorney Branch, who outlined the defense's case in a state mueat to the jury. He said Grace tried to shoot his rife after choking her and during the scuffle which followed the weapon discharged and he was shot. He said B Grace made her leave home because s he did not think he was badly hurt cl knd feared he would be disgraced if it Of ot out that he had been shot in a d "nigger row" with his wire. At the opening or court, the de fense submitted a list of fourteen witnesses to be called. Mrs. Grace a! appeared pale and nervous. Grace had arrived in the court house, ready to be carried into the room the k minute the accused, his wife, was te :alled to the stand. Attorney Branch f :en addressed the jury, outlining the ca :efense's case. He said they expect- tC ed to show that. "every fine of the * State's case was rotten." "The State's theory that Grace was i shot during the night or early in the R norning is utterly untrue. We will , prove thit he was shot after eleven )'clock in the morning and that he el was not doped whsh shot. We will e prov.e that he got up that morning a ,nd wrote a check and that he talked 0 re >ver the phone as late as ten o'clock. re "It was rediculous to say that Mrs. t ,race married Grace and tried to get t id of him for his money. She had b 3iven him between $15,000 and $20,- t )00 in a year and he was going to t Philadelphia to sell her property to pr et money for himself when the hi ;hooting occurred. be "We are going to show the whole G iserable facts. The truth i& that Sa 3race wanted to get his wife out of th own first. Mrs. Grace suspected that ac e had an engagement with another to voman. She accused him of it and fo saia she was going to take the power th >f attorney she had given him to sell Va ter property from Grace, when he be- dc an to scuffle with her-to keep her th :rom taking the document. He began wearing and threatened to kill her, an rabing up his revolver. Mrs. Grace fie rabbed Grace's hand in an effort to ac rotect herself. In the scuffle the re- Ti olver was discharged and Grace was th bot. Grace did not think he was ar adly hurt and made his wife leave th he house without calling a physician. tei -le said he was afraid of the disgrace M hat would follow if it came out that dc ,e had been shot in a "nigger" row th 'ith his wife. So he made his wife >romise that she would say nothing da Lbout it." m Of FOUND BODY IN CREEK. ki no Chink She Was Murdered and Placed no ra Where Found. Af we The body of the woman round in th ubois creek near Catskill, N. Y., ed 'as identified Monday afternoon as hat of Miss Dorcas I. Snodgrass, a sa rse, who has been missing nrom the iome of her sister in Mr. Vernon di nce July 17. The identification was st nade by Frederick Scnmidt, the m oung woman's fiancee, an ezectricalB ontractor of Mr. Vernon, and Police te ~ieut. M. I. Silverton of the same hc >lace. The body was so badly decompos- Tc d that identification, except from the a ewelry and clothing was alfflcult. is ocal oficials are inclined to believe t hat the death of Miss Snodgrass was pa he result of foul play. fr' Sheriff Post of Green county ex- tr ressed the belief that the dead body a as brought up Dubois creek In a aunch or a boat and deposIted at or co :ear the place where it was found. 'I do not see how it would be possi- d >1e for a body to have been carried e y' the tide as far us the stream," hete aid. w |. p BLEASE ENDORSED JONES. iter He Voted Against the Separate mi Coach Law. Ri We eopy the following from the e ournal of the South Carolina House ' i Representatives of 1892. It will ~ e found on page 6: R "A quorum being present, the chair b inounced that the first business in n rder was the electjon of a speaker. gr td that nominations were in order. an 'Mr. John E. Breazea~le nominated on. Ira B. Jones. at "The nomination of Hon. Ira B.B rones was seconded by Mr. Cole L. ga slease, Mr. Von Kolinitz and others." bt This was in 1892--a year after cc 3ease says Jones voted against his la eparate coach bill. If Judge Jones h avored social equality because heh oted for this bill, Biease endorses ith y seconding the nomination of Jonesb or Speaker of the House of Repre- or entativ'es. DIED IN A MINE RIOT. w wI th: 3ody Brought to His IHome at Cross Be of Hill for Burial. Augustus Pinson, son of Mr. and g drs. E. B. Pinson of uross Hill, was O :illed July 2G while trying to quell l riot among miners near Muckler, V. Va. His remains were brought a Cross Hill Tuesday and interred e n Old Baptist cemetery, Rev. J. A. 0! .artin offciating. Little is known. ~Cross Hill of the details of the!m eplorable affair. Mr. Pinson was CC 9 years of age and was in the em-1 loy~ of the Baldwin Detective agencyn t .\uckler. Hie was well known lere and numbered his friends as nany. -ba Convict K~ills a Convict At Los Angeles. Cal., wh! work ng about a dining table in the counl y jail that. John Vaishik plunged a nife into H. Mlen~, killing hirn,. anu atally wounded Leads W. Noell and artifn. The ijlifng probably was he outcorne of a "jail feud". Ready for Peace. The Turkish go'ernlment is willing 0 enter into peace negotiations with taly if they are conducrted in a man- ne ~r coimpatible with Turkish honor Ied nd dignity, and her rights are ade- hf aely safeguarded. This was an- ig moc1 in the chamber of denuties.1 35I5i LUST NERVE [T lMED BY BECKER ILLED ROSENTHAL LATERU ALLED THEM UOVRBS vo Accomplices Claim That Ideut. Becker Instigated the Plotuto Mur der, Plans Being to ill Rosenthal Ten Days Before Fatal Deed Was Actually Committed. New York Police Lient. Charles 3ker, head of the "strong arm" uad of gambling talders, who -is arged with instigating the murder Herman Rosenthal, was Wednes Ly night further implicated in the ot to get rid of the gambler, when ad Jack" Rose ana "Bridge" Web r added another chapter to their ready amazing allegatIons. They told District Attorney Whit an that Rosenthal was to have been lied, at the instigation of Becker, n days before he actually met his te, and that the prot failed be use the underworld thugs selected do the murder lost their nerve at e last moment. The district attorney spent the -eater part of the afternoon with )se and Webber, in their cells at e West Side police station, and un r the promise of leniency which the csecutor has given them they talk freely. They gave little addition information regarding the $2,400, 0 fund which they alleged Illegal sorts paid for police protection in c city every year, but their story of e alleged anxiety of Lieut. Becker cause of Gambler Rosenthal's reatened exposure who amplied the district attorney, and in the osecutor's opinion strengthened s evidence against Becker. The "plot that falted" was to have en brcught to its climax at the rden restaurant on 51st street on turday night, July 6, when Rosen al and his wife were dining there, cording to the account told by Rose the district attorney as spokesman r the two gamblers. With Rosen al and his wife at the time was ck Sullivan, the newsboy, now un r arrest for alleged complicity in B murder. - Rose himself engineered the "Job" d brought to the restaurant "a et of thugs" who were to do the tual shooting, according to Rose, ro of the hired assassins were "Gyp a Blood" and "Lefty" Louis, who a wanted by the police as two of e men who actually snot Rosenthal i days later in front of the Hotel ?tropole. Becker at that time was wn-town, Rose said, waiting for e murder plot to be consummated. "Becker had talked with me every y," Rose said. "He IRept saying to ?, 'why don't you kill this fellow T?' Rosenthal would have been led off that night if the bunch had t lost their nerve. They got the tion after they reached the restau t that a detective was onto them. ter giving up the assassination we nt to 'Bridgie' Webber's place and re we met Becker. ~ He denounc us all up and down. "'You are a lot of cowards,' he Id. TIll have to do it myself."" Rosenthal, It was recalled by the srict attorney, when he heard the yy, had but a, few days before this de his first complaint against cker, charging that tne police lieu ant was partner In his gambling use. Although Becker, still In the mbs, has thus far refused to make y statement further' than that he Innocent and that his plight Is e result of a "frame up" on the rt of his enemies in the gambling ternity, Rose predicted to the dils t attorney that the police leuten t eventually would break down. The district attorney expressed afidence that if Becker would talk nkly his evidence would open the or to the larger phase of the Ros thal case; namely, the general ex it of the police graft system, in ich Rose has declared several high lice officials are involved. So far Mir. Whitman has obtained tle real evidence against the men mtioned by Rose as heads of the >ur graft bureaus", through which se alleged that about $600,000 ::h was collected as vice protection ney and distributed. The district orney is not relying solely upon se's story. He expects to call up fore the grand jury scores of wit sses who may have knowledge of aft relations between the gamble's, d the police. Bridgie Webber told the district ~orney that his own payment to cer for police protection of his mbling house was $200 a month, t that this a~ate was a small one mpared with'the sums levied upon 'ger establishments. E-Ie and Rose both said that in Man t. ..n alone there were probably a nctred gambling house paying tri te to the police and that the total $2.400.000 paid annually was a nservative figure. Webber inci tally said that Becker was present en the money was prdduced which t to thug:: hired to kill Rosen ii. Soon after the murder, he said, chr met Rose and Webber In fr' ut the Murray Hill baths and said: "Now, Bridgie, you will have to re them boys some money to get t of town. I'll fix It up with you Webber said that he then handed ,000 in large bilis to Rose, who lat transferred it to Sam Scheoups, and that afternoon Schepps gave It to ~yp, the Blood." and "Lefty" Louis front of the Murray Baths. In robrationl of this assertion of Web r's the district attorney has the mes of two witnesses, one a wo m,. who, h'e said, would testify that e saw Webber and Rose talking Becker in front of the Murray Hill :s shortly after the murder, Trestle? Was lDynamiited. A larce trestue ueronging to the se Ylines in Bath county, Ky., ere two hundred anners are on ke. was blown up. A railroad tie, rily charged with dynamite was coeredi ju~st in time to prevent a .in from being wre-cked. Six Persons Were Killed. With a crash that could be heard aly a mile. six persons were kill ,two fattally ingnred and another rt when a Lake Shore and Mich n train struck an automobile Mon S.aftenon at Alexis. Ohio.