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A N ELVPA t , NATIONAL PRH1SSVES .9; FRST CONEH!i7N ROSERVET Sl, ME Dictates Entire Actious of New Par. ty-Convention Machinery Work Smoothly--Be.veridge and Dixoi Are His Two Chief Lieutenants Views on Negro. The first session of the first Con vention of the now National Pro gressive party, of which Col. Theo Roosevelt is sponsor, took place it the Coliseum at Chicago on Monday and while the setting was attendee by all of the usual ceremonies anc -naraphernalia of a national politica: gathering, actual proceedings wpri suggestive of a love feast. Not a dissenting voice was raisec during the session. The question o: negro representation from the Sout! had caused friction earlier in th( day in the national committee, bui there was no echo of this fight it the Convention. The delegates wern at times explosive in their enthusi asm. -Many of the State delegate! came Into the hall singing and shout ing in their delight at the birth o the new party and three hours late: left the building in the same happ: frame of mind. Although green hands were sup posed to be at the helm, the machin ery of the Convention worke< smoothly and efficiently. There wa: no roll call of delegates, but the del egate section of the floor arrange< in the same manner as at the Repub lican Convention a few weeks agi and accomodating nearly 1.100 per sons, was filled. The alternate see tion had its full quota also. Ther was not the same crush of spectator as at the Republican gathering, bu when the proceedings began the gal leries had few empty seats. Conven vention leaders were enthusiastic o er the showing made in the Coliseur and made the cla.1m that no bette looking, more substantial set of del egates ever was seen on the floor o a national political convention. The work of the National Conven tion on contested delegates caused ; delay of nearly three-quarters of ai hour in the assembling of the Con vention. During the wait the dele gates amused themselves with song and yells composed for the occasion while a band up near the flag-drape, rafters and a Grand Army fife an drum corps on the stage vied wit! each other in playing patriotic airs There was a great cheer as Sena tor Dixon, national chairman of th party, rapped for order. This was re peated later, when the call for th Convention was read, and there wa even greater enthusiasm when form er Senator Beveridge was presente as the choice of the national commit tee for temporary chairman. Th formality of electing Senator Beve: dge was not necessary, and amid re tgewed acclaim he was escorted to place on the stage, decorated with gold badge and handed the Conver tion gavel. Senator Beveridge then delivere his keynote speech. He spoke La more than an hour and a half, e:S pressing some of the advanced idea of government adopted by the nel party and paving the way for the et en more progressive proposals to b made to the Convention by Col Roosevelt . The temporary chairma: was given the closest attention thro out. Once he mentioned Presiden - Ta't In connection with his approva of the Payne tariff law and instant1 there came a storm of jeers an groans from the crowd. Every fes minutes Senator Beveridge was in terrupted by applause. The former Senator from Indian meade a most courteous presiding ol flcer, and once when a premature mc tion to adjourn was made, he begge pardon of the delegate for not recog nizing him at the time, promising at tention later in the session. The second day's session of the Na tional Progressive Convention wa given almost entirely to Cal. Thec Roosevelt, who, in addition to deliv ering his long-awaited ''confession a faith", answered at some length arn with a great deal of earnestness question as to hIs attitude on the ne gro question. The delegates cheered Co!. Roose velt for more than an hour when hi appeared suddenly and rather dra matically upon the platform of the kliseum. While awaiting the Colon el's arrival most of the delegates ha< joined in an impromptu song tha they would follow him wherever hi should choose to lead. This was thi spirit of the reception accorded tb< former President when he reache< the Convention Hall, and it was th< spirit with which his advanced ideal of progressiveness were received a: fast as they were uttered. Col. Roosevelt said that the North ern negro delegates were sent to th< Convention "because they had woi the respect of theIr communities' He said that it was useless to try t force the Southern States to re-og nize the negro. "Let us take the same attitude to ward the negro in the South that we do In the North and then ultimatel: we will have the colored man recog nized in the South as he is in thN North. "We are standing against the plu tocracy of the Republicans-we art beginning where all charity must be. gin, at home. We are setting a stan dard far the Southern States to whbicl we can hope that our colored breth ren will themselves come up, a stan dard that exists to-day in West Vir ginia and Maryland, "The easy thing for me to hast done In this matter If I had oa~ly my own polItical profit in mind woule have been to repeat the blunders ol the Republican party. This migh: have helped me. But I would have been Insincere and I would have beer accepting the very thing that brou:ght disaster in the Republican party." Two Young Girls Missing. The disappearance of Miss Erer Fulton, 23 years old. and Miss Exra Cunningham, 24, both of Philadel phia, and the finding of some of their clothing and pesonal ef''ects in n public bath house at Atlantic City, N. J., has led to the belief that they have been drowned Neithe of the young women has been~ seen sinle they engaged bathina suit and start ed for the sur'. Rel*'ros went to that place from Pi:!' ~c*hia a are searching for th omn Cold Weather ComiY r 'Continued respite from unusua~' 'warm weather In any part of the country during the next week or tcro days was indicated in Sunday nlight's weather bureau bulletin issued at Washington. "The first part of the coming week." It says, "will give moderate temperatures in the eas tern and southern state~s, foilowed by a change to somewhat warmer weath emt, a tr -half of the week." 1ST IR i lO WILLIM REED OF ANDERSON CONTY EXECUTED. Put to Death for Attempted Criminal Assault.-Prisoner Had Confessed lus Guilt. The first execution in th3 electric chair was con ducted in the dexh house of t'he State eitetIary a C - iinbia Tuesday when WIam ..t CiLJ~ 900ollts o elec colored, receie .90 oio eIec tricity andwas pronoilnten dead. Te a. changing tnm mode of cxe eutionfrom angin toeitrctn -;Os Passed atelstesonof !.be LegisaPture and appropriation n'ade ,-r installing the chair, which is of ,he sam pattern as the one used in Virginia and in which Henry Clay Beattie Jr.. met his death. Reid was sentenced to death in An derson county for attempted criminal assault. A few days ago he confess ed the crime. Previously he had con tended that he had entered the wo man's rcom for purposes of burglary. IThe execution was witnessed by 24 witnesses, the number allowed by law. Richard Carrol acted as spirit al adviser to Reed and held a service in the death cell. Several other ne -Toes were present. Reed was brought to the penitentiary several weeks ago and placed in the old prison building. On Monday afternoon he was remov ed to the death house which has been erected near the main prison build ing; he occupied the frsLt cell in the building. A large number of spectators gath cred at the penitentiary. Only those having cards were admitted to the ex Secmion. Witnesses and spectators were seated about the room on benches. The electric chair is located vrv nearly in the center of the room, which is abo-ut 20 by 20 feet. While the chair was being adjusted by the expert electrician Re-ed was holding a service with his advisers. He be gan to sing. "We shall Gather at the River." A board containing a num her of electric bulbs was placed on the chair. The current was then turned on to test the strength. At 11:04 Capt. GriSTth announced that all was in readiness. The heavy iron doors connecting the electrocu tion rcom and the death cells were swung open and two guards entered with the negro. He seated himzsell quickly in the chair, and looked al the spectators. His arms and legs were str-apped in the chaiAr and hE placed his head in position to receive the metal cap. Straps were then plac :1ed across his face. A large metal -band was placed .around his right lec just below the knee. The ground wire was connected with this. ThE I live wire was then attached to the metal cap. After being strapped it the chair the negro never moved oi uttered a sound. At 11:04 1-2 the expert electriciar 2 announced that everything was it readiness. 'he guards stepped back, .Guard Robbins took his stand at the switchboard. Capt. Griffith said "Al: right". Guard Robbins turned the I lever controlling the board. Ther< was a low buzzing sound. The bod3 of the negro was contorted. Hi, hands clinched tight. The current-ol -.950 volts remained on for one m-in ute and 50 seconds. The lever wa! turned back to 200 volts. The full current was again applied for 40 sec ends. JtST SUPPOSING H Iow Disitnnt Mail-Order Houses May Abisorb a Small City. Now assume the same economic change might come to poss by which 'ti activities of the little town mighi be absorbed by a distant city, and i Ipl~an of merchandising by mail should Swipe out entirely the local stores. Suppose, too, that the farmer does actually save money on what he buys. IThe point is that the system would not merely tend to cheapen the quali tv and cost of the goods purchased. bu would tend to reduce the quanti ty by reducing his standard of living. The effect of this on the manufactur ing industries of the country would be qrcfound.A large portion of the population now erngaged in city pur suits would have to find thir way back to the farm in order to live, There would be more good people growing crops and fewer people to ecat them, and the result of the cycle woul'd be that the afrmer, as a resnlt I f bpying more cheaply end allowing his- standrrd of living, would be comn pelled to sell more cheaply also. 'The va-ue of the piece of machin ery does net lie in its economy of '0i' and power as the initial considera tion, but in the increase of the pro. r'ct -it turns out. The law of the human machine is no di~erent. In the most highly developed society the individual will secure alarger return of his work, and will live bet ter and more expensively because of that fact. In the world's progress the greatest heritage left from each generation to the next has not been in gold or other material wealth, but in knowledge and culture and ambi tion and good health. The ability to. earn a dollar Is an important es set; but still more important and rare is the ability to spend It most w'ell and w~sely; and while possibly there are some lessons of thrift that the American people might learn from other nations in the accumula tion of money, it is the ability and inclination of the average American citizen and his wife and family to ive well up toward the possibilities of the family income that has as much as any other one thing contri buted our national progress. To spend money foolishly for mere show is of course as much a bestruction of naional wealth as it would be light to light a cigar with a five-dollar bill: but to spend it for those things that add :o the ecomfort of the body or the culture of the mind, or for necessary Ind wholesome entertainment, is I Terely to transmnute it into a higher fro of value thereby attaining .m-:btof the higher and deeper ?"losophy of "uman life. Trr to Wrect Train. ccdin (1 o reots, an attempt wasmod tov~r--ka northbound pas -g r ra onth suth-ern rail wry t Ais, h.. senstation in me sohr end of Mrt: county Tueday A isC're with ene e * on th el n nother in the roid wans disereredc~ by the, en ;eer .iut in time. The fact that th -ranws moving slowly saved it f.-o metingwit an accident. The .Gerf s i vestig -atg. A w-e'e naval engagem"ent :n the; vicniy RckIsan.~ Vineyardj Darenand ointJudu opn~ed Mon-j ny s prtof sume dri ofth Atantc fet. S b ar e, e TILLMAN ON JONES SAS 91E IS EMINIENTLY QUALIFl ED FOR GOVERNOR WOULD MAKE A GOOD ONE fn Answer to a Letter Prom the Edi tor of The Times and Democrat Senator Tillinan Says no Sensible Man Believes That Justice JonesI Favors Social Equality. Some few days ago Mr. Jas. L. ims. Editor of the Orangeburg Times and Democrat, in writing to Senator B. R. Tillman on general matters and the political campaign now going on in our State, inclosed the letter pub lished below and requested the Sena tor to give his views on the question asked therein. In his answer Senator TIllman says "no sensible man in the State believes that Judge Jones is in favor of social equality," and that " he would make a good Governor, for he is eminently qualified." The enator says Governor Blease shrewd ly "muddied the water". He did this for the purpose of keeping the discus sion from going into the real issues of the campaign and the exposure of Cis own shortcomings as Governor of the State. Mr. Sims' Letter. Here is the letter Mr. Sims wrote Senator Tillman: Office of The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, S. C. Senator B. R. Tillman, Washing ton, D. C., My dear Senator:-Many of the Reformers who were with you in the nineties and who still believe :n2 you, and are doing all they can to have you returned to the Senate, are supporters of Judge Jones in his race for the Governorship and hope to see him elected. As you doubtless know Judge Jones has been charged with being in favor of Social Equality be cause he with many other good men, when in the Legislature, voted against a law prcsiding separate cars for the races when you were Govern or because of -the unconstitutionality of such a law under the Constitution of the State at that time. Other charges have been made against Judge Jones because of his acts as a legisla tor and Justice of the Supreme Court, which we need not mention as they re familiar to you. Judge Jones was speaker of the House of Representa tives when he voted against the bill providing separate cars for the races, having been elected to that position by the Reformers, who afterwards elected him Associate Justice. We feel that these charges against Judge Jones are a reflection on all reform ers, as they made him Associate Jus tice after he commiTted the act, for doing which he is charged with being in favor of social equality. The same may be said of the other charges against Judge Jones. As you were the head of the Reform movement and was Governor when Judge Jones vot ed against the separate car act, we would like for you to say whether you consider Judge Jones an advo cate of social equality because he voted against that law, and whether in your judgment he would make a good Governor of the state. With great respect, I am, Very truly yours, Jas. L. Sims. Senator Tillman's Letter. Here Is Senator Tillman's answer to Mr. Sims: United States Senate, Washington, D C., August 3rd, 1912. Hon. James L. Sims, Orangeburg, S. C., Dear Mir. Sims:-I have your letter of July 29th for which please accept my thanks. I have been sur prised that Judge Jones has allowed Governor Blease to put him on the defensive and made him explain scmething that needed no explana ton: for no sensible man in the State believes that Judge Jones is in favor of Social Equality, and Governor Elease has laughed In his sleeve to see how shrewdly he has muddled the water. In other words, he has play e6~ politics more adroitly than the Judge. In reply to your question: "As you were the head of the Reform move ment and was Governor when Judge Jones voted against the separate car act, we would like for you to say w hether you consider Judge Jones ani advocate of social equality because he voted agaInst that law, - and whether in your judgment he would make a good Governor of the State?" I answer: I do not consIder that Judge Jones was an advocate of Soc al Equality because he voted against that law, and I believe he would make a good Governor, for he is em inently qualified. I say this more willingly because It cannot be con strued as my taking sides as between the men. I announced last fall that I would not dso this, and thus far I have seen no reason why I should change my attitude. If the newspa pers keep on publishing such stuff as Grace's attack on the Governor and the dictagraph "slushl they will cer tainly make Blease Governor again. Very sIncerely yours. B3. R. Tillman. SAYS BE SHOT TO DEFEND HOM!E Colored Man Wanted for Aggravated Assan.it is Captured. At Lexinigton, S. C., Henry Lewis. te niegro who on Friday was charged i th having shot and perhaps. mor :lly wounded M3ike Hill, another ne go at Gaston, was lodged in jail Moday night by Sheriff Sim J. Mil ler. havin'g been captured at his home ner Gaston. Advices from the Tay lo-L?ane Hospital jn Columbia, where i' wa 'arried soon after he was hot. indicate that the wounded negro wll die The shooting occurred Fri day~ morning, and from what can be gahred was the result of Hill's pay in too much attention to the wife of Lewis. When seen at the jail Monday night Lewis said that he shot Hill In, defence of his home, and only after he had repented Hill to stay away from him and h-t his wife alone. Rat Catchers~ at Work. Three expert rat catchers from San Francisco. so Dr. John Hi. White' of the Marine hospital service annonc ed Monday night have been ordered there by Surgeon General Rupert Blue to aid the local forces in exter minating rats from the city. A large rrt of the more than 1,000 rats so far captr1red have been tested by the hacteriolozists, but only one captur-! (-d I 0 days ago has been found in fected. To Btring Manly Here. Detetive Pet ri novich left Charles tn for Paltimore to bring back E. Eugee .anly. the your'g white man who was arrested in the Marylandj city last Wednesday by the detectives of that city on su:spicion of beirtgim pl-ated in a robbery of diamondj rings in :his city. Since his arrestI PROFESSOR A IURELAR CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL TEACH- 'I ER LEADS DOUBLE LIFE. Liked Flash of Gems and Softness of 3 Fine Garments, but Had no Idea of Selling Plunder. "All my life I have taken things ' which I saw and wanted. Thefts seem to have been fostered by some f strange influence. As a youth, I took f articles in other people's homes that j I coveted, and from other places. s Something inside me seemed to make 1 me take them." C With these words Jacob Foy Gur- I tlrie, the Chicago high school pro- E fessor, forger and burglar. whose E loot in gems, works of art and oth- i er valuables has been estimated by i the police to be worth $250,000, be- I came talkative 'Monday after spend ing a sleepless night in his cell. He seemed to realize his plight for the first time. "I am not a criminal at heart." I Gurthrie continued. "I believe I en- < tered the richly furnished South Side ( residences more to explore their con tents and obtain possession of them I than for anything else. I had no ( hought of selling my plunder or real- i izing money on it. My greatest de light came through possession of 1 benautiful things. I liked the flash of beautiful gems and the softness of fine garments. I spent many hours fingering and playing with these 1 things. "Now I realize the plight I am in. I think the best thing for me to do is 1 to throw myself on the mercy of the police. I believe I can prove also that my mental condition is respon sible for my acts. I was treated for my mental condition when I was young; I never believed I was insane, hut realized at times my mental con dition was not as it should be." Guthrie declared tnat the careless ness of wealthy residents in Chicago in leaving their homes in the hands of negligents made his raids a sim ple matter. "Only twice did I encounter watch men on my expedition." he declared. "They go away for the summer and leave their fine homes in charge of a couple of servants and one what man. The latter are equally careless, when they have no one to watch them and leave the house to look after it self." "I would plan my expeditions atI night while in bed. Sometimes I would lie awake until 2 and 3 o'clock In the morning. planning my raids. "I learned the names of rich resi dents and the location of their homes from the Blue Book. Then I read the society columns of the newspapers and found when they were out of the city. Then I would plan my visits to their homes. I made preliminary excursions to the house and investi gated the exterior, the entrance and the surrounding grounds thoroughly. Then at home, in bed, i would plan my entrance to the house selected, and how to collect and pack the plun der. I also would evolve a number of elaborate plans of escape in case I should be discovered. "Never have I been stopped, by a policeman, while out on my trips. While my mother and sisters were asleep in our house I would steal out and go to the residence I had select ed to enter that night. Sometimes I would visit the same house for sev eral night in succession, when I felt sure that I ran no chance of being discoveredz.' NEEDS OF THE INDIVIDUAL. Things that Lead to the Making of a Good Community. A new community of homestead ers, living in rough shacks and strug gling to get their first foothold, rep resent a per capita expenditure year ly much smaller than that in the flourishing, well-established com munity. The needs of the individual are about the same, but his wants have multiplied greatly, together with the ability to satisfy them. Better houses, better clothes, more fashionable hats, a taste for good reading and music and literature and the drama; all these make the life of the cummunity better and higher, and make somewhere a demand for human labor which in turn consumes the products of the farm. The mission of the merchant is threfore not merely to supply exist ing demands but create new ones, so that the purchasing requirements of the community may rise in accord ance with its purchasing power. In many farming communities this idea needs further development. The farmer has good barns and machin and ample land, but his wife is carry ing the heavy burden of her work without adequate domestic equip ment and appliances. The desire for a better standard of lving is largely an imitative one, born of the laudable ambition not to be~ out-done in such things by one's neighbors. The farmer's boy, hitch ing up to his sidebar buggy in the evening to call upon some young wo man to whom perhaps the drug clerk from town is olso paying his devoirs, wants his own sartorial get-up to be upon an equal plane of cut and fable. The doctor's wife, the merchant's wife, don no new hat or dress that is not at once an object of close inspec tion by every feminine eye. ,TONES IN DILLON COUNTY. Eighty-Five Per Cent. of the People Said to be for Him. A meeting was held in the court house at Dillon Friday afternoon for the purpose of further organizing the county for a Jones victory at thel polls when election time comes. There were representatives from very nearly all the precincts and an or ganization was planned for all the precincts in the county. Speeches were made by a number of thosef present and the meeting was an in spiring one. It is expected that Dil on county will go S5 per cent. for Jones, but the Jones admirers prefer 2 tking no chances and are going to get to work. It is current ta~lk that several heretofore strong Blease nien. o:' prominence in Dillon have be ome bitterly opposed to him now. Polities is a much discussed subject i~ that section. Ellis Self Biefore Wife. After his wife had unloaded his re volve'r for fear he might kill himself Thomas J. Ward secured the weapon. ad, reloading it. fired a bullet into h~is brain at his home in New Orleans Tuesday. He died instandfy. E ard, who was 51 years old, had been out >f employment for several maorths. olowing the strike of a lr~bor organ zation to whIch he helomged. and of ate he had been in a despondent nood. The treatment King and Wa'son e cived at the hands of the Govern -r ha lst hi thousands of votes,. BOTH HAVE FAT JOBS Ej URNING ON THE LiGHT ABOUT VETERANS' HOME. Eajor Richardson and Dr. Butler Drawing Good Salaries From the Institution. 'o the Editor of The State: The 30-day suspension of the Con- Jn4 ederate veteran, Samuel F. Massey, rom the old soldiers' home on the th inst. by order of "H. W. Richard on. chairman and treasurer," seems o have grown out of the public I harge by Mr. Massey that Maj. Hal tichardson was using his onicial po ition to try to force votes at the in- , titution for Gov. Blease. But the ncident compels inquiry as to the ha] ajor's authority as "chairman" and by Lis office as "treasurer''. Upon in- fice estigation of the law and of the ex- me >enditures on the Home by -Maj. ichardson. I find a situation which res eerns to be a flagrant violation of of aw and misuse of public funds. It cil ertainly calls for publicity and for ers xplanation by the authorities. uol The act of 1908 establishing the r,. ,onfederate infirmary provides for a ley :ommission of five to establish and Ch nanage the institution, and further sec pecifically provides: "That the mem- frc >ers of said commission shall receive sor lo compensation for their services tra >ut shall be entitled to actual ex- vis >enses for attending the meetings, hereof." sel In the records of the office of the H. ecretary of state I find that two of th he five commissioners appointed by ca :ov. Blease are H. W. Richardson ret mnd Dr. F. W. P. Butler. In the loc ecords of the office of the comptrol- ma er general I find that the monthly ow penditures for maintenance of ,the ,onfederate infirmary have been of drawn upon a voucher or receipt an signed by "H. W. Richardson, chair- th nan and treasurer," with an attach- jj )d memorandum of items making up :be total, among the items being the str following: "Salaries-white help- sa Maj. Richa.rdson $100, Dr. Butler, jo k50." an "I have examined the vouchers for fri only the past three months-July, JTu June and May-and I find the same fin entries for each month. ly If this is not "compensation for th heir services" (forbidden by the i, let), what is it? The fact that they sa do not 'charge for their "actual ex- bu penses for attending the meetings" as! (if such is the case) can not be claim ed as a justification for their draw- Qu ing salaries as employees, or in the ca major's official language, "white elp." They are thus drawing about one-third of the total expenditures n for "help" and nearly one-half of the dt total expenditures for "white help", ml the totals for help being for July tr' $459 ($3S4 for white help). The commandant, J..P. Caldwell, is paid co only $60 a month. If 31aj. Richardson and Dr. Butler pr have resigned from the commission and have thus made themselves leg- j ally eligible for employment in the by institution at salaries, why does the de major still sign the vouchers as "chairman"? Any why have no tr successors been appointed as mem bers of the commission? Why did they not resign before they were em ployed? In the English-speaking ~ world it is violative of every prin- e ciple of government and of law and equity for anybody handling public d funds or trust funds to employ him- en self or fix his own compensation. dc If Maj. Richardson is still "chair man of the commission" and is also. by its appointment "treasurer" at a di salary, or if he would justify his sal- ed ary upon any ground whatever, asfi technically not "compensation for p services" (forbidden by the cat), bow does he get around the State consti- te tutional prohibition against holding o two omces? Article 2, section 8, con tains the prohibition: "But no person be shall hold two offices of honor or b profit at the same time.,," It is claimed that the office of be member of the commission is not ans offce of honor?s Let us have light. John J. Mic~ahan. Columbia, August 9.m $500,000 WASHED AND IRONED. th Uncle Sam's Money Laundry Proves a Big Success-.i Mfore than half a million dollars I? of old paper money, washed and iron- Tr ed to the crispness of new in the 'ederal Government's currency laun- U-' be dry, will be placed in circulation an soon. This lot will represent Uncle Sam's first job as a loundryman.h For weeks the Treasury Depart-h ment has been ileaning nirty old Re ntes with the washing maihine per- Rh ected in the Bureau of Engraving t nd Printing. Secretary 3MacVeagh o tamped the venture a success and. :he laundry will be run in full swing hi ~rom now on. Unclean bills which h: re not worn out will be washed, w~ roned and redistributed. The Treasury Department has or- 0 ered three more washing machines. tic X'ithin a few month it is expected f ~hat every Sub-Treasury will be di ~quipped with a laundry and the Gov- cl( ~rnment expects to save hundreds of M' housands of dollars annually. m.l Pin .Taps Die to Show Grief. th< Hundreds of old school Japanese re reported to be committing suicide de 'hich they regard as the highestlau orm of tribute to the memory of the m lead M~ikado. Government officialshi ave issued orders to the police of de he empire to prevent such attempts for nd to try to impress upon the people so hat hari-karl is entirely out of date. cept as a matter of self-destruction. Jag; Sparrow Fires Three Houses. res An English sparrow fired three !s ouses in Lawrenceburg, Ind., while Ca athering material for its nest. The thE ird picked up a long cord from a tio i of burning rubbish and landed the irst on the house of Mirs. Sophia res chafer. Then it flew to MIanuel he uest's residence and to the home se ?Otto MicCreight. The string set 01 re to the shingles on each house. Opposed Roosevelt and Died. thi Dr. J1. A. Hatch. a prominent citi en of Victoria. Tex., and former con- ca ressman of Ohio. dropped dead hule attending the Recpublican coun y convention. Dr. Hatch had just ocludied an address against a res uion indorsing Rloosevelt for pres Firemain Taken far Burglar. ~ Thomas Devlin, a member of the pro re decpartment in Springfield. UA.. ls oth ithe hospital with a bullet in hisof end.. fired by C. 1E. Watts. who mis- wam "ok Derlin for a robber. The fire- ennl en enterod the wrong house while but ming home early in the morning, ma! a I i and Pirate P'iv on Lake Ontario. fess A pirate craft is believed to be ply- tion the waters of Lake Ontario and thofl be' res.ponsibic for raids on scores wTat cottages on the Ne York lake side ore. Those who have seen th! aes -aft say it is a long, low drab Jon nch with a powerful gasoline en- i grat i. jcou AUAINST FARMERS OVERNOR BLEASE VOTED FOR TIE BUCKET SHOPS. his Is the Record He Made as a Senator From Newberry County Some Years Ago. Several years ago a bill was intro uced in the legislature by C. P. San ers, a member of the House from ounty, which would prohibit the op ration of bucket-ships in the State. n the Senate Senator H. B. -Carlisle hampioned the bill. Cole L. Blease vas its leading antagonist. This bill was of vital interest to he farmers of the State who raise otton. It puts an end to the specu ation through the bucket-shops and very farmer in the State was speci Llly anxious to have the measure )assed. Practically all planters in outh Carolina were in favor of the >11, except those who had dealings vith the bucket-shops. But Governor Blease opposed the >ll, championing the bucket-shops tnd their cause. The following rec >rd, taken from the Senate Journal, hows wherein Gov. Blease fought he measure, which was lost, but assed subsequently .when introduc d a second time by Senator Carlisle: Mr. Sanders' bill declared the keep ng of any room or place where con racts are made for the future deliv ry of any stock, bonds, cotton, grain, neals or any other animal, mineral ,r vegetable products of any kind without the seller being the owner of aid stock, bonds, cotton, grain or yther article contracted to be sold Lnd without any intention on the part f either the seller to deliver or the uyer to receive the same, a misde neanor. Snator Cole L. Blease of Newberry, when the bill reached the Senate, moved to strike out the enacting words of the bill. After debate by Wessrs. C. L. Blease, Carlisle, Blake, nd Brooks, the qucition was taken )n agreeing to the motion of the Sen tor from Newberry, on which the reas and nays were demanded and aken, resulting as follows: Yeas-Messrs. Bivens, Blaks, C. L. Blease, E. L. Blease~'Brown, Carpen ter, Davis, Hardin, Hay, W. J. John on. Marshall, Von Kolnitz, Walker, and Warren-14. Nays-Messrs. Bates, Black, Brice, Brooks, Butler, Carlisle, Dauglas, Earle, Hood, Holliday, Hough, Hud son, W. E. Johnson, Manning, Mc Gowan. dMcIver, McLeod, Raysor, Stackhouse, Talbert, Wells, and Wil iams--22. So the motion was lost and the Senat refused to strike out the en acting words of the bill. The next day the bill was killed by the vote of enator Cole L. Blease and other Sen ators. Later the bill was passed and is now a law. POLICE OFFICERS DISCHARGED. Spartanburg CounciI Takes Prompt Action Against Howlers. Upon refusing to resign, J. Ed ward Vernon, chief of police, and Lieuts. W. T. Cudd and F. H. John son, the latter a cousin of Mayor 0. L Johnson, were summarlly dis charged by the city council at a spe cial meeting held Monday night to investigate the conduct of the police Saturday night, when supporters of Gov. Blease howled down John P. Grace, Mayor of Charleston, and threw eggs at him without hindrance as he was making a speech in the theater in support of the candidacy of Judge Ira B. Jones, Blease's op ponent. The Aldermen were unani mus in their action. In view of the action taken by the council a mass meeting, which was to have been held Tuesday night to ex press the citizens' indignation at the failure of the police to protect Mayor Grace, has been called off. Citizens: express determination to protect Judge Jones Friday from the assaults of followers of Blease, who are said to have pledged themselves to throw: eggs at Jones and howl him down. BLEASE ENDORSED JONES. After He Votedl AmIrnst the Separate Coach Law. We copy the following from the Journal of the South Carolina House of Representatives of 1892. It will be found on page 6: "A quorum being present, the chair announced that the first business in order was the election of a speaker, and that nominations were in order. (Mr. John E. Breazeale nominated Hon. Ira B. Jones. "The nomination of Hon. Ira B. Jones was seconded by Mr. Cole L. Blease, Mr. Von Kelinitz and others." This was in 1892--a year after Blease says Jones voted against his separate coach bill. If Judge Jones favored social equality because he voted for this bill, Blease endorses it by seconding the nomination of Jones for Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives. CHANCE FR SOM1E ONE. ro let One Hundred Dollars in Hard Gold Money. Who wants one hundred dollars of udge Jones' money, payable in gold? 'he first person who get Senator Till man to state over his signature that either of Judge Jones' opponents for lovernor is "eminently qualified" for the office will become richer by the hove amount, under proposition made at Gaffney Thursday by the udge while discussing the letter vritten by the senior Senator to Edi :or James L. Simes of the Orange urg Times and Democrt-t, and pub ished in The News and Courier Wed esday. In that letter Senator Till an declared that Judge Jones is 'eminently qualified" for the office e seeks. The above is from the re ort of the campaign meeting at Gatf xey as published in The News and ~ourier. Ner Lawyer Becomes Jew. Rufus L. Perry, a negro lawyer of rooklyn, N. Y.. became a Jew, re 'ently and was renamed Raphael. It ms said that Perry is the first negro o have accepted this rite since the iblical Instance of Ham, son of Noah be supposed original progenitor of he African race. $1,100 Found in Cork Leg. Not placing much faith in banks, Samuel Ridenbaugh, a restaurant :eeper in Brunswick. Md., for years Leposited his savings in a hole in his ork leg, especially prepared for a anking receptacle. When he diedI i.00 was found in the artificial Fortune Awaits Missing Man. Application has been made by the elatives of William Freed, formerly f Philadelphia. to have him declar d legally dead. He disappeared in S6 and has not .been heard from nee. A fortune of several thousand llars, left by his father. awaits the .LIPAIOiN MEETIN5 1ASE SAYS AT CAMDEN THAT If BEATEN HE WILL MAKE EMIES SWEAT BLOOD !ge Jones Well Received at Lan- c aster, His Home County-Refuses o Defend Himself Where He is veil Known-Blease Followers Lso Strong for Him. C'wenty-five hundred people, per >s more than that, were addressed candidates for contested State of s Monday from a stand in Monu atal square at Camden. Life-long idents say that probably two-fifths the persons present came from .er counties. Several Blease lead from other sections were conspic isly present, among them George Rembert of Columbia, Frank Kel , of Bishopville and A. W. Todd of arleston. Automobiles by the re arrived during the forenoon m adjoining counties and from ne more distant, and morning ins brought in large numbers of itors. :ov. Blease read affidavits by him f and his former law partner, Fred Dominick, of Newberry, denying Lt contributions to the governor's npaign funds had been solicited or :eived from corporations and chal ged his opponent, Ira B. Jones, to .ke similar statement regarding his n campaign. Recognition of the fact that many Camden's most prominent citizens of Jewish blood was evident in . addresses of Gov. Blease and dge Jones. The chief executive repudiated In ong terms the statement which he d had been imputed to him that s were no better than negroes d declared that many of his best ends were of the Jewish race. dge Jones took occasion to dispose ally of an insinuation made recent by the governor from the stump t he. was in part a Jew. "If there a drop of Hebrew blood in me,' d Judge Jones, "I do not know it. t if it was all Jew I would not be amed of it." The speaker paid feeling and elo ent tribute to the Hebrew race, re ling its glorious traditions, and d: "The men who would say of other such a thing as he had said me, using it with intentto prefu e people against me in some com mnities, where Jews are few and ring to palliate where Jews are nu rous, is false to truth and honor, ald not be actuated by ought but tred of that race too often op essed. Excellent order was kept. Thos. Kirkland, county chairman, backed S. F. Brassington, mayor of Cam n, made it plain at the outset that howling-down or other unseemly atment of speakers would be al ved, and that the candidates also ld be made to observe the pro eties. There was only one arrest tde on the grounds. The man tak into custody was Intoxicated, and was removed without creating a turbance. Many women were pres t. No attempt was made to howl wn any speakers. B. B. Evans and J. R. Earle, can lates for attorney-general, criticis sharply the incumbent of that of e, J. Fraser Lyon. Mr. Lyon re .ed In unequivocal terms. The eting Tluesday was held at Lancas Gov. Blease punctuated one portion his address with this declaration: uppose they are lucky enough to at me. I will have all of Septem r, October, November and Decem r, part of January, and If you ever w men sweat, I'll make that gang 'eat blood before I get through th them." Gov. Blease's most enthusiastic ad rers left the grounds with him, but e Judge Jones a notably cordial :eption, an attentive and .sympa tic hearing and a romusing farewell ation. The Lancaster Meeting. Warm and deep doubtless was the ord glow of satisfaction felt by B. Jones over the testimonials of :eem and confidence given him esday, when he appeared on the tform as a candidate for governor fore the people of this comm11nity tong whom he has made his home thirty-seven years and to whom has done credit in official life as ~islator, speaker of the House of presentatives, Associate Justice of SSupreme Court and Chief Justice that tribunal. One evidence of his standing with ;home folk, which he expressed nself as appreciating particularly .s the presence in force of the wo n of Lancaster. Their attendance the meeting and their presenta n to him of floral tributes In pro ~ion pleased him especially as In ~ating their trust in his morals, anliness and integrity and in the rity and dignity of his ideals of 3. This demonstration of cordialI erests and sympathy from the peo of his county gave Judge Jones text for his opening remarks. Fe said he had not contemplated Tending if it required ddZense be ience against political attack: de upon him in this campaign for character would hardly be worth Tending if it required fense be e people among whom he had lived long. uch phases of the campaign inst him as he should here dis ss would be mentioned only In ponse to special requests. "Blease nothing, Jones is nothing. South olina is everything." This was keynote of an earnest presenta a of conditions and tendencies in public life of the State which he arded as unwholesome and which called on the citizens to consider iusly when they came to dispose their suffrage this month. y the way, the date of the pri ry election, August 27, is just ce weeks from Tuesday. It it not be understood from the foregoing t preference at the meeting Tues were for Judge Jones. There -e men of many and diverse views he ar~dience of 2.000 or more per-1 s and among them the governor, t L. lease, naturally had a large owing. which proclaImed its pres e heartily and often with hand voice as BPlease backers habit y do on such occasions. What portion of the crowd came from r counties and what proportion the visitors were for Blease and t for Jones are questions that, of re, are somewhat controversal, un mistakibly alien elements !e up a large section of the crowd, of these visitors a majority pro ed affilintion with the Blease fac .Judging, however, by all of ;eit was of ohservation legiti- r IY compromised in a proper con-. c raon of the matter, one nraight e rt with qualification that Ira B. f1 's is preferred for governor by a 8 ifying majority of Lancaster Id iOW VOTE STOOD URMARY Of THE PRIMARY VOTE Of TWO YEARS ANQ 16I INTERESTINO FIGRES "ounties Carried by Blease and Feat therstone.-Difference of Only 54v 600 Votes Between Featherstone and the Govcrnor.-Has Blease Gained or Lost? With the primary election less thai . month off and confIdent claims be ung made by the ardent supporters of 'he two leading candidates for gov rnor, it is of some interest to look back to the campaigr of 1910 and in be light of the election figures of two years ago form some idea of the chances this year. Judge Jones is a new factor personally in the primary, but the strength of Gov. Blease and of the opposition to him is pretty well known. Mr. Baease was elected in the sec ond primary of 1910 by a majority of 5,645. A change of less than 2,900 votes would have defeated him. In Charleston his majority was smaller than that, it was 2,745, and it was freely charged just after that elec tion that at least 1,500 fraudulent votes were cast In Charleston county. In Richland the majority for Gov. Blease was over 1,000, it was 1,026, and a substantial change in these two counties would ordinarily be suffic ient to bring about the defeat of the pi esent governor. In 1910 'Mr. Blease had in the second primary the sup port of practically all factions in Charleston as against a prohibitionist, whereas this year the Grace faction, triumphant at the recent municipal election, Is opposed to him, and the, anti-Grace faction Is at least not for him so far as any one knows. At any rate It Is certain he will net re ceive in Charleston the landslide vote he got two years ago. In the second primary of 1910 Gov. Blease received a majority of the votes in 24 of the 43 counties, as fol lows: Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Bamberg, Barnwell, Berkeley, Cal houn, Charleston, Clarendon, Colle ton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Hamp ton, Horry, Kershaw, Laurens; Lee, Lexington, Newberry Orangeburg, Pickens, Richland, Saluda and Union. Of these counties which gave Blease a majority those giving him the largest mapority were the follow ing: Aiken, 1,024; Charleston, 2, 745; Horry, 441; Lexington, 624; Newberry, 629; Richland, 1,026; Sa luda, 661; Union, 490. In the other counties which he carries his majori ties were small. Gov. Blease's opponent, Mr. Feath erstone, received a majority in the following counties: Beaufort, Cher ok'e, Chester, Chesterfield. Darling ton, Dillon, Edgefield, Fairfield, Flor ence, Greenville, Greenwood, Lancas ter, Marien, Marlboro, Oconee, Spar tanburg, Sumter, Williamsburg, and ,York. The Second Primary. The vote by counties in the second primary of 1910 was as follows: Feather stone. Blease Abbeville. .. .....1,081 1,108 Aiken. .. ........ 1,206 ,~2 230 Anderson. .. .....2,819 3,497 Bamberg. .. .. .. ...453 491 Barnwell. .. .. .. ...815 1,155 Beaufort.. ........308 361 Berkeley.. ........399 481 Calhoun.. .. ......339 375 Charleston .. ......829 3,565 Cherokee. .. ......941 844 Chesterfield.. ......1,239 900 Clarendon .. .. ....710 861 Colleton.. .. .....1,071 1,160 Darlington .. .....1,440 931 Dillon. ...........995 561 Dorchester.........486 829 Edgefleld. .. ......912 775 Fairfield... .. .. .. 670 634 Florence .. .. .. ..1,023 723 Georgetown.. .. ....442 942 Greenville.... .. .. 2,836 2,214 Greenwood ........1,288 1,042 Hampton. .. ......825 922 Harry. .... ... 1,050 1,497 Kershaw.. ........793 907 Lancaster. .. .....1,472 960 Laurens.. ........1592 1,872 '.ee.. .... ..... ~625 774 Lexington. .. .....1,301 1,925 Marion...........923 502 Marlboro. .........1,236 920' Newberry.........963 1,592 Oconee.. .. 1,554 1,044 Orangeburg.. ......1,578 1,589 Pickens... .. ......1.192 1,830 Richland. .. .......1,523 2,544 Saluda............648 1,319 Spartanburg. ......4,544 4,050 Sumter... ........846 707 Union. ........ .. 1,100 1,590 York.. .. .........1 748 1,670 Williamsburg ...1,273 977 Totals.... .....50,605' 56.250 In- the first primary the vote -for the leading three candidates was very close. Out of less than 100,000 votes ast, Blease, Featherstone and Mc Leod together received 77,292 votes, with six candidates In the race. The vote for these three was as follows: Bease, 18,1 64; Featherstone, 26,-. 142; McLeod, 22,164. Blease had a lead over Featherstone of only 2,844, and Featherstone had a lead over Mc Leod of only 3,978 votes. The Blease, McLeod, and Duncan vote was the ant-prohibitionists, whereas the sec ond primary when a much larger to tal vote was cast, Blease received 56. 250 votes to 50,605 for Featherstone. In the first primary of 1910, which was the real test of the personal strength of the candidates, Blease re ceived a majority in only three coun ties, Aiken, 12 votes; Newberry, 176 votes, and Saluda. 16 votes. McLeod received a majority In the six coun ties of Beaufort, Charleston, Flor ence, Georgetown, Lee, and Sumter. The Plurality. In the first primary Blease receiv ed a plurality In 16 counties and fail ed to receive a plurality in Aiken, Barwell, Calhoun, Cherokee, Colle ton, Dorchester. Fairfield, Harry, Laurens, Lexington. Newberry. Pick ens, Richland, Saluda, Union, and York. F: atherstone had a plurality in the cllowing 12 counties: Abbeville, An derson, Edgefield, Greenville, Green wood, Lancaster, Marion, Marlboro, Oconee, Orangeburg, Hampton, and Spartanburg. McLeod received a plurality In the followIng 14 caunties: Bamberg Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Ches ter, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darling ten, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Lee. Sumter, and Williamsburg. Maj. Richards received a plurality in his own county of Kershaw. Considering that the majority for Blease in the second primary was only 2,646, and that in the second primary he received 3,565 votes In Charleston alone, when in the first rimary Charleston had cast only 3, 124 for all six candidates, the prin ipal question to be answered In esti nating the result this year Is whether by. Blease has gained enough votes 9 maintain or to increase his slight naority of two years ago, or wheth rhe has lost enough to offset that zht majority of a little more than 000. Has Gav. Blease won or lost