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UNIOUN V4!~t-:f SCHEMES FOR ANS Vi" 0. "ir rPr1T r BY Th! Resolution Asks That me Fanrme Act Individually Until the War house System is Enacted into L -The Pest Doing Considerai Damage to Farmers. The committee on marketi- aT banking of the South Carolina Farmers' union has made report which it is recommended that t State union at this time "co not gi' its endorsement of tho propost scheme of co-operation for marnet and financing the c-ton crcp. th; have been peresented, leaving ean individual to act for himself u-1- t plan for the State warehouse Esste is completed and enactea .7!o law The committee also rocomnmenr that each county follow tce exanmn of the Sumter coumy urion of a ranging with the local banss at on to furnish a sumicient capital at low rate of interest ss can ne olta! ed and finance thcr cotlon until SU< minimum price as shall be recor mended by the national convention obtained. "We believe such cordial relatim between the grower and the ban should be cultivated in every com as It will greatly aid the scion this prob!em whatever fina! pla. adopted," says the rort of te Co mittee. The committee was npper ed at the annual-meoting of the Sta union held there severat n3a Robert W. Cooper is the chairrn the committee. At the annual mectinz.of thea Sta Farmers' union h-ld at Columrla se eral days ago E. W. Dabbz5 cr Su,.t and president of the union. deivrn his annual address. in which 12e ni: ed out the progress mnadeo dur-' year. The address of President Dab is as follows: "It Is the custom. and a good or that at each annual meeting yo president shall in a more or :ess fc mal manner give you a rezume of t year's activities. "When I assumed the resoonsil: duties of this honorable position which you called me by your vot( it was with serious doubts or my al ity to maintain the 'nigh standard eiciency set by my distingu1ihed pi deessors. That I have fa'le In ser measure there can b- no questic for In spite of every e.Tort that I ha made, the fact remains that I ha been unable to leave your treasury as good condition as I found It. Tr you will see when the report of t executive committee is read. "There are two reasons for th One is that, though we have crzan ed more new locals, we have railed hold as large paid up membersh The other is that by reason cf t conditions that developed in the c tcn market, it became necessary wage a very strenuous and exnens campaign to reossure our nonrle a to try to prevent them from s-sr' ing their cotton. It was a conditi! and not a theory that confronted Something had to be done. "I am proud of the record t Farmers' union made in the cott camnaign, a movement wnlen had humble beginning in the SumI county union, when it met with t Wisacky local of Lee county on .A gust 4, 1911. It originated in the termination of a few men to leave stone unturned in their e'torts to he themselves, and to secure the co-c eration of every businetss interest their county to conserve the weal of that county, as represented in t value of our cotton. They bad: expectation that it wouMd spread I yond the confines of the two adjiace counties of Lee and Claren don:tb once begun It could not have be stopped, even though such had be our desire. All the rest has be growth and development, recent h tory which all can see: the Montgo: ery convention; the cotton Consr in Columbia; the Clinkscales' ni~: and others too numerous to mentio the $50.000,000 so-called loan of C Thompson's; the governor's conf ence in New Orleans: the *oeTh H~ plan.; and the call of June 10. your State president to the cot unions throughout the cotton belt slign the growers, the merchants a the bankers in one solid phalanx order to secure for our section o share of the cotton annually puis to the channels of American trar thereby materially benefiting eve occupation an d profes.I "is this an end worth working r Can any other organization be as ective as the Farmers' union to bri about such results? Is this not practical plan? The answer can nothing but yes, yes. yes "Then in the name of conmm sense, why should any one Egbt t Farmers' union, as I am told it fought in some sections? An~d w should not every farmer worth t name of 'farmer' be enrolled umd our bannets? Echo answeors, 'Wh: "This campaign has been so< pensive, and such hard *work, tT culd we hnve foreseen !t; mag tude, and the hours and dlays a weeks and months of nhysical a mental toil, we would never 3: mustered courage to begin. Puit wi the progress and the results aco plished thus far, why such aw does not appeal to our p0eo1l. I c only understand on the idea tht to have no conception of whmat it means. If ther did. instead ofrh ing to practice the otrictest eco my, we would hays thmisands cf d Jars to enable our e-'cers to keep touch with the world-s trnle. andi keep lecturers in the ield t i: people accurate informzttica f true conditions. Right here it is proper tnat I press my thanks to the press c: t State for the generous space th: have given to our cause in th~e ma articles they have publsh-ea, and many irnstances for editorial cormmt dation. "I have tried by pen and voice. season and out of season. to reach independent farmers an te ief nters. I have tried to sho' th"em t the union is not m'erely for t- p man, out that t o".ers them th'e o' avenue th-rugh which they can tect theselv es. that 's by tak-* Thisisrnot a~ matro . aiyet that of servien ' to our low me the true wo~r p o or God, but the plain business 'rpo!' of s pro'-ident and -len'-' dar" ar-' s the South absoimey- ":e pric cu" prodlucts and Chrbyte perity of our s' ion. "Therefore ha-' cr o unior.s. the char' esofcm and the barks r"'o e -e , agents of tht ceiebsn o munity. to co-th> o 0r ro"ere our brains for :1he co-r-'a de, our call of Jute '0. and I 'rust -' meet~ng will at least- give aSa wide significance toi. i! oth plans il .omh- be suessfni insof EU.HT A MILL OFItATITE S.YS ADOUT AFiD'.)IT. Read by Coverinor Elease Charging Parker With Coercing ':ietr Labor in Totng. way of -n awer to the Rawl zat the ::o in :etn sls ' aat~at fonL. L. Cllrsupe - tna-t o theBeved tn il of : ied, along with tfro~n an opera.ive em : thaa-t l, M. C. Jackson. e Go'vrnr claims that the RawI pro':es bis assertion that op e s pyed in the several fac- t roed by the Hampton h - Mis Company, otherwise ako as the "P3arker -.in Merger," d -tre being subjected to Intimidation rm voting for him. The Fawl afil it :a,. i as read by Governor Blease, ih 0 11. foles: "South Carolin:--Lexington county: Id :: 'Persor~al1y came W. Frank wvA " bng duly sworn, says: That [ Nne ws employed at the Edgefield turing Company Mill, better n-,:.on as Beaverdam, as overseer oi a Sthe weave room, and that tne super-"i . intrndent. L. L. Clifford, c-me to him nd said that 'We must beat Cole L. h 1-case for governor this year,' and - sai*d statement was, as deponentj : is understaod. nade* to him to let hin no that if he held his job he must n -oppze Cole L. Lease. ;eponent d archer says that thbis =m is in the1 Par.er =-erger.e W. Frank Rawl." 0 Mri. i'ord's Dcnial. - "r C 7 s submitte, a writ I "-Oten e.: o-,-er his s'gnature. on etin'. eereald of the Hampton Cot D-:e zMll Co-mpany (Beaverdamn C',nt , which Cz st )+en is as follows: 2. s to the aillav1 niade by W. F. Rn-i. -u refercn" to my approaching I .n r.cgard to ' -ace for govcrn ab Co-:er r Bicase at Lox Tuesday: Rawws in my o:;!y a short time, but . heard: hic sy several rilces he was a Jones a man.He n pproac"'ed me un this sub- I himsclf, and asked me what I C-hor.ght of th race for governor. taid 'him that I was with hin and Shat I thought it was tlimne all men e were, who be!ieved in good govern ment, law and order. I furtaher state . hat I have never taought or said V o a ti to anyone imy nloy to l*ad thni to believe other than t',hat I woul trcat ttem just as wel If h0 y vot ed for Dease, as I would if ~ I.0 voted for Jones: and any state e mnt to the contrary is without a sh- dow of truth. "L. L. Clifford. "rnendent Beaverdam Mill." An Ope-rative's Amtlavlt. Accompanying Mr. Clifford's state ment ;s in a., davit. as follows: "Pe rsoralty comes before me M. C. Jackson, who, being duty sworn, s szys: That V. F. Rawl, who was ov erseer of wearing here for a short 4. ti, Ame to me voluntarnly, an' aid t-t 1he was a strong supporter eof Jones and was surprised at me for t po tg B-lease, and said that I o sould -not do it. I advised hi-n he was a ! ine about something he did: not kno,'. because I ha C n-ever said who I was supporting: but he claim ed to be very much in favor of the~ c'io of Judge Jones for goverrror. ITe also said: 'Propose to help thel man who is carrying the heavy endI othlo.and I will sea ou somne Jones bookns to Edgefield.' This he did, 'nd I now have them in my pos-' sesson. This was three weeks after he1 had left the employment of then Sworn to berore me this 2i~th day of July, 1912. "S. H. Folk., ~ "Notary Public S. C." as-" they emphasize the fundamental - principle. "From a study of these probl.ems for many years, I am convinced that it is ignorance of the principles of commerce that keeps us Trom suc 'cessful organization. For this reaaon eI have taken up the matter of study ing 'arm Finance and Marneting' in sthe colleges. It is a great pleasure to report to you that at every institu ss tion where I have been able to pre-' sent the need of this department. I 1hav~;e assurancees that something will b e done. It seems to me to be the' restest awakening of the day. AnI edcitoril in a great daIly newspaper cmended the late State convention 1 or aig in its politierat work to com'nend this new departure in ed ucation. In the pressure of other mtters, it overlooked the fact that it 1vrs the in!!ucnce of the Farmners' un on htcaused this action by the State convention. You should know 3i t'a h resomtions adopted by the3 Stato Denmocratic convention were: wr'ntten by your State president and 1i -:roduced in the conveanon by a( t ormer State president or the Farm "Wha-tever influence I may have in ths 'a''f airs is due to mry olicial po sition as your presid!ert. I nave al ' et to the front the idea that t ntthe ratan, but the president I a gr'eat organization of patriots u;;ests these improt'emelnts. 1 "Thre are ctheCr 'matters that t'he e art of tae various committees will 1 tochuon, and it vwoula ne out or i pil'? for ore to anticipate them. The'~ time is-s, and, I trust, is p:'st forever, wh'en men can only be or :.ni-e by a'fpeais to prejudice to -:s dstincto-s o- to promises m n nibetoprform. We 'ust show them~ tha we are- organized for thej -:t cenurv th conservation not alone of the naturl resources of for -t nd 1cid ar.'i mine, hut for the1 c onsorvation of human industry, es recilly in agriculture, the oldest as -ell as the greatest industry on earth. cIthrough which and by which all n t ens oc the world are blessed. 'To the discouraged members of, 'e u'ion, let me commiem1 whatl ovhsaid to Elijah wno bad fied m, the wicked Queen Jezebel and d rer'uested for himsetr that he difor he thou gnt that he s left to serve the true God. "d the Lord said: 'Yet I have left H "''0 in Israel, all the knees - 'in hve not bowed unto Baal, ann * o. ath which hath not kissed S " o would I say to this d istin-I t d and representatives assembiy er-i: 'There are yet many a of your constituents whol to the-. orin cile of the Far s un"n who hav e not. nor evej b-nd thle perrenant hinges of - n that thrift may rollo" F oreign Navnl !Un'e !tarrewL. '.. The -he -')o"r-e d~otriae e~nres~~'\v - rbids nyfreg na'u rin nego:n ". ' ericn contient is :ldrerstood t be the substance of a repart to be m vnde hv senator Lodge to the Senate s ' chairm'an of the sub ace' to which the Magdalena a reere last Ap! -ion was disclosed - a aTJrpanese fishing car-j n, 0 oited for 4.000O.000 y e- 's of i of th-i Roiuthern Califor-' "r pe-'issia a':ioinin~g Magdalena !J vU Lf UITY L ST Y LI CWHTY ently Two and a 1alf Mlon Col lected by High Officials of Nev York Police Department Last Year Declares Man 'Who Admits Gather ing the Graft Funds. Sworn statements, tending to shov at the annual graft collectpd b: igh police oficials in New York cit: cm gambling houses and other 11 gal resorts has amounted within th iSt year to $2,400,000 are in th ands of District Attorney Whittman The statements were made to th :strict attorney by "Bald Jack" Ros .if-accused graft-collector for Polic .ieut. Charles Becker, head of th trorz arm squad," who began hi :^ond day in the Tombs prson as ai lieged instigator of the murder o ierman Rosenthal, the gambler. This brought a yield of $2.400,00 roccZion money, which was equall; ivided. accor'ding to the story toli y Rose. among four high ouicials o 'ie polic& department, one of ther r cBcker; and from other ev] 'enee the district attorney has coi :cted he has reason to suspect tha d.ch $0,000 was further distribut d. In other words, there were fou eparate systems of bureaus of pc ce graft, each headed by a high of cial. Mr. Whittman, It was learned, ha be names of the other police offic ils whom Rose has named, and hi rther efforts in this now most ser ational "police exposure" that Nei ork has ever seen will be directe oward strengthening the evidenc hich points against them. One o he o!iciais nuamed. it was learnet clds a nosition at headquarters an in a strict eerse a civil employee. The name of the former city oficiz as bcen brought to the attention c be district attorney as having Dee losely connected with the "graft sy em". but it was learned thnt the ev ence thus far obtained against hit s not of a tangible nature. The ev euce, however, is being 'lony f uwed by the detectives in the iopio f the district attorney. It also became known that if Lieu ecker will tell all he knows, not on! n respect to his own alleged compii ty in the murder, but will unfel'; th aner workings of the graft systen nsofar as it may involve the "-rre igher up", no effort will be mad o enforce the extreme penalty ;c he crime for which he now stand .ccused-the murder of Rosenthal ut he will be granted leniency o hat condition only. The alleged fact of the $2.411,00 raft fund was told to him by Beel r, Rose said in a sworn statemen Beckler. he said, told him that b -andled $C00,000 a year and thz !uai amounts were handled by thre her oflcials. This, he said, came i ellections from gambling house ~ool rooms, houses of ill repute an be like. Rose said he had collected gaml ng graft for Becker for months. an e promised the district attorney tht ~e would obtain for him the rat4 aid by gambling houses, make a tal lation of what these receip1 tmounted to monthly and yearly, at ow the money was handlea. Thn here were other collectors besic tse, is the assumption or the di: riet attorney, who hopes to identi: hem. "Becker told me that he was th >rince of the police department, lose said. "ie paid me liberally or >f my collections, but I never wt tie to keep what I got. I was a fo< ambler and gambled it all away.' Part of the business between th amiblers and the police, the distric ttorney was told, was boldly dor rough checks, although his effor1 o secure evidence in this form has troved fruitless. "Brnidgnie" Webber, the gamblin louse keeper, who has also confes! -and whose story largely resulte -a the arrest of Decker, promised M Thittman, it was learned, to corrol ;rate Rose's statement in regardt hte coll ection s. Incidentally. Wel Jer admitted to the district attorne hat $2,000 was the sum which h eceived to pay the men who actuali ired the slot which killed Rosenitha In regard to the murder itsel toe stated to Mr. Whittmnan that th -eason why it was done so open1 rd that no effort was made to cove he number of the big gray murd4 ar as it drove up to the Hotel Me epole "to get" Rosentha!, was thn leker was "relied upon for protet on" Despite the furor causea by tne p< ice snandlal, Mayor Gaynor voice is compl1ete confidence in Commi !oner Waldo, head of the depar ent. Askted to comm'~ent on the si intion, the mayor said: "I can only repeat, as heretofor hat I hope ceverything will procee a order and that all or those concert t in the murder will be convicted. The details of how Rosenthal wt hot down were related oilally it he first time by two of his compar onsl, who were eye-witnesses of tI urder, in the trial of Patroima 'illiam J. File, before Deptcy Con aisioner Dillon. The partolman he een under suspension since tl hooting charged with failure " ke prompt and efficient measures <eet the arrest" of the murderer; eii, who was of duty, was in th otel Metropole at the time of th hootin'g and led in the pursuit of th ry automooile in which the slaye: etreated. JUDJGE D)ROPPED DEAD. udge Stricken With Appoplexy Fo lowing Se'nsations in Court. Follov-ing a tempestuous sessionC is court room durin:g the hearingc n election frau.l case brought b ocialists. fisticurs bein?g engagedi nd wveaponas drawn. ,Judge Thoma ames of Tamnpa. Fla., dropped dea rom appopiexy at six o'clock Monda~ fternoon. Judtte Jiames collapse miediately frollowin.g a personal er mnflr bjetween Da'n Robinson. di cated Socialist candidate for mayo: nd Mitchell Mc~ay, a brother .ayor D. E. McKay. who was to "'onenft of Robinson. The trial had been one of sens: ons whi'ch drew a crowd which flu d iecourt room to suffocation an periowed into the-street. The figl ftee Robinfson and .3cKay follov S: mstaken by the court inr odiatel a fer W. J. Staftord, onec he ease ec-eion inaspectors, al onwed to aifit S. Camparetti, n--s fr- the prosecution, whl mi"rett was testifyin. Immerdiately on readliournme11 eusel for the d'fense commence rgri-r a r'otion to dismiss the d4 enants when .Tudre .Tamnes collapt i. Hie was hurried to his homne nea EN SLUM'S D0WNFAL A LESSON TO MAIL OPJ)ER PUr CHASERS. Suit of Clothes Lost Him His Bes Girl, His Temper, and His Stand ing in the Community. William Timothy Bradley, leadin grocer of the town, for the time bein at least, -:-as at peaceb with all th world. The cause of his complacenc was well-enjoyed (dinner in Mi Bradley's town is ready about noon at the expense of a drummer wh< chair a-it, sat beside him on th hotel verander. The drummer als looked and no doubt was cheerfu for that day he had sold his dinne ' guest a substantial bill. - It was shortly after 1 p. m. and a few belated toilers strode by on thei e return to work. A man in workin garb, of a figure somewhat ben a emerged apprently from nowhere e wherever that is-and liesurely, a e most wearily, began to rake the d( e bris from the gutter on the far sid of the street. "That's Hen Slocum," said M Bradley, emphatically, pointing wiL D a pudgy finger in the direction of tb F man with the rake. "Want to know," utteredthedrun i mer, trying not to show his indisfe: 3 ence. "Yes, that Hen Slocum. He use to be one of our leading citizens." t Well, I -um!" ejaculated ti traveling man, dropping Into the (1< cal) vernacular. "What was th cause? Drink?" "No; not exactly; boose was one s the result, but it wa'n't the cause not by gol-durned sight. Hen Sli s cum blame his downfall to a su I and the clothes got his goat, yo might say." "But I didn't see-" The drummi hesitated, looked at William Timotl Bradley doubtful and: "I don't s( d " he repeated. Hen was enticed to buy th suit I'm telling you abol ftrough an advertisement th; appared in the town weekly; . least It was a weekly then, and If H( hadn't bought that suit-I dunno" but it would be a weekly yet. It I- a daily now, of course. - But I'm ge . 'ng a litle ahead of my story. TI :*(.'1-t:isnn: said that whomsoevi I as the Bible says, could get ,moz.-n:ade suit modeled from !ast just imported from London-c t e . t is'' "Youa must be thinking of -shoes interjected the drumer. e "MelYbe so; m-ebbe so."--Mo )usiness of wagging the head-"He s -:vas in the shoe business at that tir ifd a mighty smart store, tco. No if he hadn't bought that suit" "ight here and a deep, upward (n :.turally) look in the empyrean-"If I t. hadn't-hura"-business of cleari -e throat: "the advertisement sa t it was the equal of $40 suit in to" e nd all fou had to do was to pick o n the kind of cloth from the sampl d they would send you and remit dShears, Sawbuck & Co., of Chicag )together with your measuremeni plus nine-sixty-five in coin of tl realm and they would give you a pe s fect fit. The nearest Hen got, to >- fit was in front of the drug sto: 5s I'll come to that in due course of pr d cedure, as they say in law liter it ture, I forgot which. Le "Hlen always a forgetful cuss a: never could remember how much measured around the waist or tl e length if his pants on the inside sea2 "So in his dilemma-whetever tb it means-he went to his tailor. Usi t to trade with Cook in them day >Those days, I should have sai Cock had just got in his spring goo e and took half an hour snowing the :t to Hen, expecting of course, to mal ea sale. . "'I didn't come In to buy a st just now,' said Hen, fmnally, feeli: gmighty uncomfortable you can be .. 'I just dropped in to see if you wou d measure me. I got a young nephe rdownstate that I have promised hi - all my old clothes. He has grown: o fat that I don't thins they'll fit h: - 'any more, I just want to compare 1 y measurements with mine. Of cour e I ainat going to prepay and pac y ages to him If the clothes won't: 1. him. "Hen got his measurement e right- not for his newpher but fi r the mail order house. As he w; r leaving , Cook heaped a few hot coa t- on Hen's head by telling him that h t wife would be down the very ne day to buy a pair of shoes.Hen w; so might uncomfortable by this tir ~that he almost changed his mind bout odering the mail order suit. ~"Cook, the tailor, first took noti t- of Hen's brand-new suIt in what us to be~ Dawson's drug store. If H a, hadn't gone and bought that suit Il d ,more'n likely Dawson would be ru 1- ning that drug store yet. You see but there I go again, getting aher s of my story. ""Cook was coming In and Hen w; e going out. n "Ah ha!' says Cook, 'I see y< 1- have a new suit, Mr Slocum.' s"'Yes; I bought It at a bargain tl e last time I was in the city,' says He trying to brush past. s. "But Cook was blocking the wa e inteutionaly or not, I don't kno e Seeing that he had stoped anywa e Hen started to explain. 's " 'It was such a snap, Mr Cool says he, very deferential-like, 'that just couldn't pass it up.' "Cook snorted. 'How much d you pay for It?' asks he. - " 'Twenty-five dollars,' says H< without batting an eyelid. 'You se M1r Cook, it was a misfit and for th; reason I got it cheap.' ~ Cook laughed right in Hen's fac y Hien wanted to know what he wi :haw-hawing about. s"Hlaw-haw,' hawed Cook agaIn. Smisnit! I should say It was a misf! d Tly the way them pants hang's hai - o tell whether you are coming< going. Haw-haw' and then son more haws. He started to feel of tI goods. e " 'if you ever get thaf suit w< _i'lshrink so fast you'il choke1 -death!2' he yells. And it did get wi d too, and was a sorry day for He: t jas you shall see. 'Stop pinching me' cries Hi pushing Cook away. - 'hat do you mean by pushli a '-e?' says Cook, and pusned baci e They kept pushing back and fourt and finally landing on the sidewall t E this time they were at it hot ai d hnavy. A crowd began to colie finally old Bill Sullivan, the day coi r stabl, happened along and had the iERA TALKS AAIN (Continued from first page.) til it..afterwards came out in its reg ular course. Eyes and Ears. t "He says the reason why he never trusted me was because my eyes were set too close together. Of course, I cannot pass -judgment on my own countenance and- what it imports, nor I prefer to take 'Burn's judgment, however, to know that he is and that he approves of the science and of this e method of judgment. It adds great Y confirmation to the theory of Detec tive Burns, who, in like manner, de ) clared that as soon as he saw a pho )ograph of Blease, he knew" he was e a crook because his ears were lower 0 than his eyes. I prefer to take Burns' judgment, however, in these matters, ' for the reason that whereas Bu'rns is an expert in dealing with and observ a ing crooks Governor Blease is only adistinguished for being a crook him r self. g "It gives me great consolation, t, however, to know that. if Blease nev - er trusted me, that thousands of oth ers have. I recollect distinctly going to Washington to hear Senator Till .e man's defence of himself when Roosevelt brought out the Oregon land fraud charges. Before the Sen ator spoke I went up into the Senate h library and, through some friends .e there, got in very close touch with onditions behind the scenes. AWash i- ington newspaper correspondent now dead, told me that Senator Tillman was exceedingly distressed, as papers d had been stolen from his desk by which he could have exonerated him .e self, and he was otherwise in what he termed a 'disingenious position.' He knew that he was innocent and yet e he lacked the proof and he was frank enough in his reply to the Senate to say so. But there was one thing that he -did say, in effect, that the - accusation maliciously brought for It ward by Roosevelt against him, he ,u had what was better than all things else to offer. and honest name; that r certainly a lifetime of reputation for y honesty would have to be counted in ,e the scale. Whom Will People Believe? is "I thought it was a splendid- way of It putting it and this is what I have to it say in answer to Blease. -Go wherev er you may, inquire of whomsoever you will, and especially of those who n have fought me the hardest and bit - terest in the community where I was ' s raised and where I have handled im t- mense interests, not n1y' once but Le h1lndreds of times, and where I could Ir lave sold out people and causes and a they will all tell you the same story, a. that however much we hate him, as fearfully as we fight him, we have got to acknowledge he is an honest ,-man. And as against this go wherev er you will, ask whomsoever you may, and particularly not those who hate re and fight him, but those who profess t. t admire him and who certainly do e fiht for him, and with one ac.cord withey will say that we know that -a e-se is an unmitigated liar and that 11is honesty and his integrity have been challenged and suspected at ev ie ery cross-road in South Carolina. -So it comes down after all to a question id - -f whom Vil the people df South-.Car n olina believe, Blease or Grace." es mutual assualt and battery. to "Judge Brown who lea court at 0, Jonesville, just across the river, :s didn't have, much use for - Boomville 1e iof any of its citizens. He fined Cook r- and Hen the limit and said that the a oillccr who hai -arrested. them evi *e- dently didn't know his duty or the 0' charge against them would have been a- 'drunk and disorderly.' Heb even went so far as--to estimate that neither of ithem had enough sand to qualify as a ae first-class defendant in an assualt and 2ebattery case. at "The case created a big hullabaloo ed Ihere in town and our paper played it '.~ up to a fare-you-well,. as my youngest d. boy would say .Jed Simpkins, the ed ds itor, accused Dawson, the druggist, m who wan't an advertiser, of running a te liquor saloon without a license and got the ladies of tile W. C. T. U. inter Lit ested, who made it pretty hot for ig D-twson, and after he was fined a it. couple of times for violating the local Id option law he up and sold out. Now w 'we've got one of the finest drug stores m in this part of the State. -If Hen Slo scum hadn't bought that suit we m wouldnot have a drug store that Is is1 one of thes show places of the town. kNo, sir. fit "Poor Hen Slocum. Things went pretty hard with him from then on, aL especially after It leaked out that he or had been buying clothes from a Chi as cago mail order house. This here is Cook has lots of relatives in town .is in. fact, he's a distant relation or my :t wife-and he managed to spoil a as aod part of Hen's shoe trade through ythem. Cooks oldest son belonged to a- Ithe Young Men's Improvement Club & Debating Society and through him ae Cock got up a public debate on: Re ~d solved, That the Mail Order House is mn Menace to the Growth and Prosperity s' of Boomville. The debat'e took n- Iplace in the town hail and after It ..I was over steps 'were immediately id taken to organize the Boonmville Busi ness Men's Association. "You haven't been here," address in;; the drummer direct, "since the association moved into its new rooms. >u This evening I want to take,. you through them and mabbe we'll play a 1efe hands of whist." n, Resuming his narrative, Grocer Pradly said: "We found out at that y, meeting that Henry Slocum wa'n't K-. the only man who was sending busi y, ness out of the town. It was what the Methiodists would call a grand. Otestimonial meeting W e decided I right then and there that as merch ants we would haag trfether and be id on the square with each other; that we would do all we could to prevent mthe mail order house from taking the esap out of Boomtville's prosperity. at "And what has been the -result? P~homville by husbanding its resources e. began to e-ow: from a town became is an incorporated city; the district court was movedl here from -across A~ the r~ver and Judge Brown, gosh -t doing him! lost his .iob. This hotel -d -on o'if the finest in any city of its 7sze in the country-was built: the &eveel 1paper wa made into a thriv lei d i1y;. a shoe factory and a wool enmill locatedl here, and Cook. th"e et talor now has one of the highest 0 prce cutters in the business." tWilli~am Timothy Eradle, Boom vil"e's leadi:'v grocer, paused to light a cigar. After a few puffs he resum n ed: "I sometimes think that Hen Sio cu wou.ld have weathered through -'ft er aill If he hadn't taken to drink: h but then, I don't think he would have takeni to drink If his girl hadn't gone d 'ac on him, Hen, you see, was a-i .t old bach and somehow it seems the - 1on~er a follow keeps from fallingn ,a love the sicker he IS when he really a gets the dese. t wasn so with THn. WHIAT BLEASE' SAID fTTITUDE Of GOVERNOR TOWARD ORGANIZED LABOR VETO OF FACTORY BILL Remarks Made by Governor Blease to the Representative of the City Federation of Traders of Columbia in February of, Last Year About Certain Labor Bills. "Whereas the governor of this State has by the exercise of his veto power vetoed the approar.riation for Lhe purpose of employing factory in spectors thereby. practically nullify ing the law and depriving the work ars of the protection previously aXf forded them. "Therefore, Be it resolved that this body put itself on record as be ing opposed to this policy of the gov ernor and condemning any actior tending to deprive the workers ol their rights and the protection of just and 'necessary laws." This resolution condemning the action of Gov. Blease In vetoing thE appropriation for the factory. inspec tors was a.dopted by the City Federa tion of Trades, of Columbia the first of last year, and was sent to Gov. Blease. The following reference tc the matter was published in the daily newspapers at the time: H. J. Brady, secretary of the City Federation of Trades, went to seE Gov. Blease concerning the factor3 inspection law. Gov. Blease, accord ing to Mr. Hardy and Senator Wes, ton got mad and slapped organized labor in the face. That is the sta.te ment made. Gov. Blease said that he knev, more about the condition of the fac tory people and their needs than an3 representative of a iabor organiza tion. Mr. Hardy said that Gov DBlease "got hot under the collar". F. H. Weston, senator from Rich land county, accompanied Mr. Hard: on his visit to Gov. Blease for th purpose.of introducing him, Senato Weston desired to confer with Gov Blease to see if some provision coul not be made for the enforcement o: the factory inspection law. Senator Weston said fMr. Hard: said that Gov. Blease stated that h< would veto any measure tending t< regulate the hours of the laborini man. When Gov. Blease was asket as to the law regulating the hours o women In stores he is reported t( have stated to Senator Weston an( Mr. Hardy that the women migh get out and hunt other employment H. J. Hardy, secretary of the Cit: Federation of Trades made the fol lowing statement in which he severe ly attacks Gov. Blease: "On Monday I, in company wit] Senator Weston, visited the governo t2 ascertain his reasons for the wip ing out of the factory inspection fea ture of the law. The governor statei that'his reason for so doing was tha he considered the factory inspector absolutely worthless and a waste o the State's money. He further add ed that he would attend to that tea ture himself and in his own way. H furtlter stated that he would veto an; and all labor legislation that migh come before him where such legisla tion sought to improve or alleviat the conditions of any man or woma: over the age of 21 years. "He said that every man and wc man who had attained the age of 2 was a free moral agent and coul lok out for him or herself. An man or woman who was not satisfie with their condition or the safe guards placed around their employ ment or their hours of labor coull ruit their position but they need nc look to the law to help them as lon; os he was in the governor's chair. "Asked as to how this might wor! when applied to the working wome: and girls who mIght be subjected t hardships which they might be pow erless to avoid the governor state that they did not have to work un dier those conditions as there wa plenty of other work they could g to though when pressed for th course of this work, he did not an swer. He further gave me to under stand that neither I or any other out s!der need come to him with any coml plaint: that the man or womnes affect ed! must come to him personally o no action would be taken. "This matter was referred to th feredation on Wednesday night an, the resolution was passed and ordet ed sent to the governor. To my min the action of the chief executive i assuming the duties of others wher the law does not provide for such as snmntion is merely in keeping wit: his announced policy of interpretin; the statutes to his own liking regard less of law or justice. "This action of the governor's wil be bitterly contested by organized la bor and will only serve to bind u closer together in our next .electio: and the next man will have to prov he is with the workers in more tha: name. I- I STRONG FOR THlE JUDGE. Abbeville Will Give Jones a Yer Large Mnjority. Messrs. J. Y. i'ouche, Y. 3. PrincE Pr'-son Finlay, T. JT. Britt, and Di N. W.. Chw'eam. all well known citi zens of McCormick. Abbeville coun ty. were in Greenville Friday morn in'i on route to their homes fror Glenn Springs where they had beel sending a fe days. These gen t~amen brought the news that Judg Jones was gon to carry Abbevil emmnty hv a large majority this time They dee~aredi that many who had a.c ir'ely sunported Governor Blease i: that county two years ago. hadl de srtedl him this time and were stron; for Judge Tones. The rMcCormic1 box polls two hundred votes, the: s'id. and each and every one exnress ed c'onfidence that Governor Pleas< '.onid not get over thi rty-five there "if that nmany", as Mr. Finlay ex pressed it. "And yet if he hadn't bought tha suit his girl wouldn't have gone bac oa him. Hen wore that mall orde suit-In strict deTance to the wishe of the-cr-body politic. you m!gh say-to a ball game one day, and I rained. Blefore he could get unde: cover the suit was soggy. It wa only a shower, however, and after I was over the came was continred IVon and his gtirl stayed to the finist ad by that time Hen's suit was dry My! how it shrink! Hen was sght to behold and the laughing stok~ of a crowd of men, boy.s, womer and children who crowded as if hs was a freak at a sideshow. Hien's girl's brother rescued her ffrom the mob ad she was so mortified that never after would she even so much as look Hen's way, much less speak tc him. It was then that Han began drinking hard and went from bad to PRICES TO BE HIlR COTTON WILL BRING FIFTED CENTS AND OVER. 0 A Small Crop as Compared Witi Last Year Will be the Result o: This Fall. From the present prospects an< outlook, according to several cottoi n'erchans in Charlotte, says the Ob server, King Cotton will regain hi: throne this fall. The strongest per ior in the reign of the monarch o the south was in the years of 100. when his smock went to 16.65 an the year of 1910 when his grin wa the firmest the world has ever known or rather the la.ter day cotton world The price of cotton that year reach ed the high water mark of 1M.75 an< stayed for sonie time. After the phenomenal jump in th price of the 1910 staple, the farmer of the south went cotton-mad, wit the result that nearly every pla.ute had his entire acreage in cotton. Th result was almost a disaster to th farmers last year when the bottor dropped out of the market and th price went to rock-bottom levels. When the warehouses of the sout were filled with the left-over cotto of the large yield, and all of th markets were flooded with the sta ple, the men of the cotton belt b< gan to devise means to keep the fai niers repeating the folly of last yea: Mr. John G. Anderson of Rock Hi thought out the idea of formin what later became known as th "Rock Hill plan". The idea was fc every farmer who haa been in th habit of raising any cotton to mak a reduction of twenty per cent. of h entire acreage of the staple. Th plan was taken up by a number c states aid the idea was carried ot by thousands of farmers throughoi the cotton region. Mr. Anderson impressed upon ti minds of the people the fact that ti south was a land that could raih anything that any other pirt of tl United States could produce, an that if the farmers planted their e3 tire acreage in cotton, they w6ul have to buy all of their food stut and provisions from western dealer The idea was to take tne 20 per cen of land not to be cultivated in co ton and raise grains and produc This plan was to have the effect < not only causing a general reductic of cotton planted throughout tl southern states, but it would get ti farmers into the habit of raisir numbers of things that they hal heretofore bought from the Northez and western markets. Last year was a good one for t! production of cotton, and all of ti markets were flooded and the pri< was forced downward constantly 1 the ever increasing number of bali put on the market. The number bales ginned were somewhere ne 16,200,000. This was by far t) largest crop ever put on record. TI r flooded condition of the marke sunk the price down to the rock bc tom of 8 3-4 cents per pound. price that is prohibitive to the fart ers raising cotton for the markets not far from the one reached durin f the year of 1911. The prospects for a small crop th year are very good. A number ICh anlotte cotton merchants were as Sed to make some forecast for tl year's crop and price. Without -exception the .buyers and sellers pr Sdicted a crop of from 12,000,000 14,000,000 bales to be ginned th year in the cotton belt. Wh-en ask to give sime definite answer as Swhy they figured the crop to be much smaller than the one last yea they gave various reasons. jjOne man stated that the cr< -would not reach 12.000.000 bale and that a crop of that sifie mea that the price would join the upwa: tmovement-and go to 15 cents or c Ser. IHe stated that he had been st dying tue conditions of the cott< Sbelt and found them very unfava able to the raising of a bumper cri this year. He gave as his reaso: that the eastern part of the cott< Sbelt had suffered heavily from ti rains of the season past and that tl stalks were sappy and runt-ed. The crop of cotton is later than should be and that he Is of the o inion that an early frost may cate the crop. In the western section the belt, he said there had been iscarcity of rain and that the cra -was suffering from that reason. I expressed a firm belief that the pri would reach 153 cents a pound f spots in the fall, and that if the co Sditions got any worse, the price mi reach that of 1904 when it went 116.65. Another cotton merchant gave; his estimate of the season's crop be something like 14.000.000 hal at the present outlook, but that tl crop may be considerably less the that. Another reason he express< for the thought of the 14,000.0' 1yield was that the people had plar ed a good deal of cotton over tl Sproposed reduction amount. The fa that the army worm is avancing jthis section of the country is a fa Sthat will help to break down tl amount in a large quantity. Last year, he states, the wor came in the cotton belt, hut not b fcre the boll had formed on the cc ten and therefore not as much dai age was done as he expects toI done this year. when the worm a neared before the bolls have formne When the worm attacks the boll 1the cotton. it dies a great amount -drnae.e but not as much as is dol when the worms appear before tl boll has formed. When a stalk of cotton is attack< by1 the worm before the formation Ithe boll. that stalk does not do am a ood to the farmer, as the cotton killed by the worm. This merchai 1was figuring the amount of the yie -under ordinary circumstances ai Ihad figured that a crop of that si: -would bring a price of about 12 cen tor a little over. cWithin thle last fnw days the cc ton nurket in New- York has gone -anti thle spot cotton is now bringir 1." 1-4 cents for the ordinary cotti ,,and the best grades of the stan -were binin over that in son cases. The market Is enaer at ti present and the entton is being sna pod un at these fleures which are tl highest paid this year. P:i'mers L~oeking Ahead. The Ficnenar Daily Times say. "Yiun v'y cuss andI conse tourne p s nov:. it has been done befor but thereo is goinr to be a time whe you w"i thank- CGod that you did has 1 press in So'th Carolina that wr not afadt stand between the pe< ni ad the danrers that threatene 'h.-m N~ nors-aper lives for th day that is p-issing. if' it is worthy any flomet all I11 I s looking ahea "n dlooking for you who abue it."~ White SMan to Hang. At Mntgoe-7.Ala.. less the tw ousfter the jury took th case of Walter Tones, charged wit ~the mrrder of Sloan Rowan, a verdih of cuilty was returned sending hi to the .gallows. He is the secon htemn sentenced to hangi BLEASE 13 WORRIED SAYS HE FEARS EFFORTS WIL BE MADE TO KEEP HIS FRIENDS FROM VOTINi Governor Tells State Chairman 5 Evans That if Latter Does Not t Grant Request, He, Blease, Will B ie Forced to Believe Iteports of latended Trickery at Polls. - Claiming that he believed that an - eflort would be made to count him 1 cut if he couldn't be beaten other wise, Governor Bdease Friday ad a dressed a letter to State Chairman s John Gary Evans, requesting that he a be allowed 25 000 extra ballots for r himself, for which he offers to pay the printing cost. e T he Governor in his letter says: ai "If you decline this request I shall be e Aorced to believe the reports that there will be an effort made to keep h - my friends from having a sufficient n 1;unber of tickets with which to cast e iheir ballots." The Governor also professes to see that managers of election are his enemies and "requests" the respec r. t7 county chairmen to allow my ii fiend.s representation on the boards g ^f managers." el The Governor's letter follows: r "August 2, 1912. e "John Gary Evans, Esq., Chair e man, State Democratic Executive is Committee, Spartanburg, S. C. .e Dear Sir: It is common rumor, if -;thich has been told to me and writ it ten to me, trom different parts of the it State, that there is going to be a -arcity of State tickets, caused by e my enemies at the cotton mill pre e cincts, at the country boxes and at e such places as they find that I am e particularly strong-the purpose be d ing to -keep the Blease men from i- casting their ballots. d "It order to meet any such emer s genry, Mr. Dominick addressed a let s. ter to Secretary Benet, which reads t. as follows: t- " 'July 25, 1912. e. "'Christie Benet, Esq., Secretary, f State Executive Committee Colum n bia, S. C.-Dear Sir: As you per e haps recall, from the public prints, e two years ago there was a scarcity of Ig Etate t:ctets at serve-al of the boxes e ia the State in the filrst primary elec n tion, which forced me to order an ad ditional quantity from Gen. Jones e for the use of myself in "overnor Le Blease's campaign. e '''in order to provide against any y such contin'gency this time I will be s glad if you will furnish me 25,000 f tickets. together with bill for same. Lr 'Please let me know if same wll le be furnished and when I may expect ie them. Yours very truly, ts (Signed) Fred H. Dominick.' t- And has this day received the fol A lcwing reply: a- "'August 1, 1912. is 'Fred H. Dominick, Esq., Care Ig Covernor's Office; State House, Co lumt.bia, S. C.-Dear Sir: In regard is to your request for tickets for Gov If ernor Blease's use in the First 'Pri k- mary, I beg to say that I am in e rtructed by the Chairman of the n Democratic Executive Committee to e- state that the Committee is only-au to thorized to furnish tickets to the is County Chairman, and, therefore, ~d cinnot furnish any candidate with to any number of tickets. You, of o course, know that no tickets can be r used or counted exctept those that 'are issued by the Democratic Execu ptive Committee. s" 'Regretting that I cannot comply Swith your request, I am d'Yours very truly, (Signed) Christie Benet. uSecretary State Democratic Execu m tive Committee.' r- "Gen. Jones, when State Chair pman, has heretofore allowed us tick 1s ets as requested and I now person n ally request that you furnish me etwenty-five (25,000) thousand extra ie tickets, which I will pay for out of my individual pocket. it "If you decline this request, I shall ibe forced to believe the reports that Sthere will be an effort made to keep amy friends from having a sufficient Ofnumber of tickets with which to cast atheir ballots. 'P "This letter and your reply will be e printed in the public press In order ce that the people may see how far and Show low and contemptible certain ~methods are being carried, in order to deprive the people of the right to to vote and deprive me of the ballots which they wish to cast for me, and ato put my friends on notice so that to if it is attempted to deprive them of as the right to participate in the pri ie mary, they will know by whom It is ' tnl done. d"It is also being publicly talked 1that if I cannot be beaten, I will be .counted out, and I have seen no de ie nial from you or no statement ask eing that the County Chairman, most of whom are under your control and et my political enemies, give me repre ie sentation on each board of manag ers, which they will have the power m to appoint throughout the State. e- This is a courtesy which the Repub t- lican and Democratic parties, in close a- States, grant to each other, and sure e 1v in a Democratic primary In. South 9- Carolina it should be granted to me. d. "I know of your bitterness towards ofme and I do not make this request of oyou individually, but as State Chair ie man. ie "Please give me an Immediate re ply as to whether you will furnish idme the extra tickets and request the 3f respective County Chairmen to allow ly my friends representation on the is boards of managers. It"Very respectfully, !"(Signed) Cole L. Blease." ae JONES IN DILLON COUNTY. tEighty-Five Per Cent. of the People Said to be for Him. n A meeting was held in the court e house at Dillon Friday afternoon for ethe purpose of further organizing the ecounty for a Jones victory at the ~nolls when election time comes. te 'There were representatives from very ne'arly all the precincts and an or panization was planned for all the precincts In the county. Speeches were made by a number of those present and the meeting was an in s- siring one. It is expected that Dil lon county will go 85 pe'r cent. for ~ ones. buit the Jones admirers prefer e king no chances and are going to s5 rot to work. It is current talk that several heretofore strong Blease men dof prominence in Dillon have be e .^,Ame bitterly opposed to him now. P ~oltics is a much discussed subject d in that section. sending Mfoney to Wilson. Approximately $120,000 ,itwas an n nouneed Saturday. has been received e by Rovernor Wilson in campaign contributions. The largest single t contribution announced so far was ath'a~t of W. J. Bryan, who sent $1, (' 0. The smallest came from an a Omaha man, whg sent thirty-three