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VL NING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 1912 - OL. XXu P PLUNDERS THAT IS WHAT THEE SAYS WILSON. FARMERS ARE ROBBED i-4 Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic Presidential Candidate, Speaks in Pennsylvania on the Relation of Parmer to Tariff.-Time for Farm er to Be Considered in Tariff-Mak tag. - Colonel Roosevelt's analogy that benefits of the protective tariff sys tem constituted "prize money" of which too much was kept by the of Acere and too little distributed to the crew wis criticised by Governor Wil son .in a speech at Williams Grove, Ga., Friday. He wanted to know in his speech before the State Grangers' picnic just .where the .'prize money" came from. He said the "plunder" came from the farmer, who was taxed too highly by the tariff on agricultural Implements. The governor confined himself to the tariff and how It affected the farmer and . drew attention to President Taft's veto of the farmers' free list bill. "I dare say he was right from his -point of view," said Governor Wil son, of President.Taft, "for he repre sented the trustees and not the peo ple." The governor argued that the government had been in control of "self constituted trustees" in the Re publican party and that it was time for the people to obtain control. Governor Wilson said "It is strange that we 'should have put off so long looking Into our government to see whether it is in fact run according to the rules we originally laid down for It, but it is certain that we are now looking Into it very -sharply indeed and without the least danger that we shall be deceived again as to its char acter. Our idea of it has .been from the first that it was a genuine part nership. and that all were upon one tooting and were to share-alike. "But a. very interesting thing has come to light. That is not in fact the way the. government has been ad ministered in our time. It has been In the hands of ,self-constituted trus tees and the "partners have, seldom been allowed a; real governing voice in its administration. "We had supposed that 'we were conducting . the 'national . business along the lines laid down by Jeffer son, but we have been conducting it along the lines laid down by Hamil ton.. Hamilton. believed that the common run of men had little quali fication for. such business, that it could be really comprehended and wisely directed' only' by those who led in.commercial and industrial en terprises and owned the chief bodies of property ,in the country. And in our .time the leaders of the Republi can party have' consciously or uncon sciously adopted his notion. "Those. men financed party cam "aigns and: were always on the inside Sben party policy was to be deter mnined., ' Tarift schedules, the foreign policy of the country, 'the chief ex -' .penditures 'of the government-er er "i.tent as they suggested, -whiletherink and file of us fared as we might and were happy If we had any small share in the prosperity which they organized for themselves. They were the trustees, we .were their wards and took part in the common life as. they -planned and directed. What-went on in the trustee meetings. we were very seldom allowed to learn learned indeed only by Impertinent inquiry, only by~congressional. inves tigatlons or trials In court which the trustees complained sadly Interfered with the regular -course of business. "Mr. Roosevelt has proclaimed himself a convert to the protective 'olicy--I say a convert because he at one -time very frankly avdwed a dif ferent opinion-and has said' that while he admitted that, nio doubt, some duties were too high and ought to be lowered, on the whole, the pol Icy, pursued by Republican adminis trations had been the right one; and he thought the 'prize money' which had been received' under' that system by the manufacturers of thie country * was legitimate booty. 4The analogy Is a very interesting one. Prize money Is generally ac quired by capture and not by any process .of earnings, but Mr. Roose velt Is always franks and says that his only objection, to the system' is -too much of the prize money remains in the hands of the officers and too little of It Is distributed to the crew. -His own object he avows to be to see to it that' more of the prize money gets into the pay envelopes of those whom the free-booters employ. .The interesting point I wish to raise now is, who supplied the plunder, from whom Is the prize money taken? "The present Democratic Congress had the old-fashiened idea of govern snent. They supposed that its bone -fits and :protections were to be ais tributed and equally .shared. It in troduced and passed a bill which be came known as the farmers' free list bill. 'That bill put many indispensa 'ble- things -on the free list. Most prominent among them were agricul tural implements, because the Amer ican farmer pays more for his agri cultural imrplements than any other farmer in the world. The American manufacturers who maime agricultur al implements sell them much cheap er on the other side of the water. ~It: -was a very natural act on the part of the Demoirratic Congress, therefore, to put.agricultural implements on the free list, to put fence wire also on the free list, and the bagging 'and ties 'which the farker needs and uses for his cotton. It added lumber and laths and shingles and leather and shoes, and salt and meats, thinking not of the farmer alone, but of all of us who are struggling to live and pay our bills. But such changes did not comport with the ideas and plans of the trustees, and the president ve toed the free list. I dare say he was right from his point of view, for he represented the trustees and not the .peonle. "The trustees represent all the big bankers In whose hands our banking system lies to be maniipulated, and no Republican administration, no Re publican Congress, has attempted to be served in the matter of credits. It Is practically Impossible for the farmer to borrow money on the kind of security ordinarily demanded a: th bas It does not semy m pur' ALLMD N AI N. Cherokee, . Hampton, Spartanburg, York, Union, and Other Counties Being Investigated. When the Democratic Executive Committee for Aiken county was call ed to order In the court house at noon Thursday by County Chairman B. H. Wise to tabulate officially the votes cast at the various boxes in that county and to declare the re sults, H. M. Cassels of Ellenton ap peared to protest the election in that county and demanded a complete re count. He based his protest upon what he termed indisputable and cer tain evidence of numerous irregulari ties at the various boxes over the county and professes to be able to prove eventually all his claims: Mr. Cassels had this to say in part: "Regardless of the fact that our State has just been advertised as raving gone through one of the most ridiculous and irregular elections since the days o radicalism, I can by living witnesses and substantial evidence show why Aiken county should have - a recount of the votes cast last Tuesday. I demand this re count, and if you refuse it. I shall ap/eal to the State Executive Com mittee. I am not now charging ac tual fraud, but numerous irregulari ties. An investigation may reveal fraud, though." Mr. Cassels did not then have his evidence with him, nor did he prefer any specific charge against any par ticular box, so Solicitor Robert L. Gunter, declaring that he appeared as the attorney of Gov. Cole L. Blease In this protest, demanded that -the committee proceed to the business of of the day and that no general pro test be considered In the manner Mr. Cassels desired, but that the protests be made 'on individual boxes, as they were encountered, and the protest or protests then considered. The committee decided to do this. In the course of the tabulation Mr. Cassels succeeded in having individ ual votes - thrown out on technical grounds of illegality and inelligibil ty. However, the committee stop ped his prime motive and he gave notice of an appeal to the State Com mittee, before which body he will ap pear in Columbia. Mr. Cassels gath ered together his evidence of irregu larity and has added to these by oth er parties positive evidences of actual fraud in several instances. It *is known positively and beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt that he has good evidence to the effect in some Instances minors were allow ed to vote at the Langley box, that individuals were allowed to vote more than once at this box, and that in at least two instances individuals voted in Langley and then came on to Warrenville and voted. The affi davits in this last mentioned case were seen by this writer and bear the names of honest, honorable, re ;ponsible citizens of Horse Creek Creek Valley, one of them a minister :f the gospel. The Cherokee' Democratic Execu tive Committee met in the court house Thursday morning and made he official examinatonh or the vote. t had been expected that a ~recount ould be demanded and It had been ~'eported that an Investigation would e demanded, owing to the fact that everal complaints had been heard of nen from other counties voting there ad numerous irregularities occur ring. All boxes and votes are being eld by the county committee, pur uant to orders received Thursday afternoon, from John Gary. Evans, State chairman. The following dispatch was sent o Hampton, Charleston and several ther counties on Thursday: 'Pre serve all ballotts, tally sheets, poll ists; club rolls, manageres reports ad all records until further notice rom the State Executive Committee. "(Signed) John Gary Evans, "Chairman." In York county there was a protest f the vote, and the executive comn nittee undertook to count it again. [he count did not begin until late in he day and was not completed at ightfall. In' Union the committee did like ise, and It also found that the job was a lengthy one, which was not finished late Thursday night. The sults of the recount in these two ounties Is not known. In Spartanburg county the com nittee held two sessions in a vain ef fort to canvass the returns. Howev er, neither meeting was prioductive, s in both cases a quorum was lack ing. Several boxes also were still issing, and nothing 'could be done. Another session was called. In the meantime, according to dis atches, reports of irregular voting ontinue to pour into Spartanburg. In Dorchester and in Lancaster minor irregularities were reported, but there was no protest' o- the vote. A retabulation was made 'n Lancas ter, with the results remaining sub stantially the same. pose to borrow it for vue short per iods insisted upon .by most bank ers. He needs rather, long credits a~nd he needs them on his own kind of security. "He can't be mortgaging his farm every time he needs a little money. Other counthies have discovered how to assist him. An admirable system of agricultural societies has been de veloped In Ireland, and an excellent one in Germany, and the present Democratic Congress has done noth i~g better than to provide for a care ful Investigation of this subject with a view to early action, so that the law may be fitted to the creation of these new instruments of business which the farmer so much needs and ought to have." Wolves Beseige Agent. 1 The arrival of a freight train at Prospect, Ala., early Friday morning saved the Northern Alabama railroad station agent there from a horrible death by a pack of wolves. T'j e wolves surrounded the little depot early in the night and drove the agent inside, where he barricaded all doors. He shot two of the wolves when~ they tried to jump through the window. Killed by His Own Explosive News reached New York Friday of the death in Italy of Roberta Imper lall, inventor of an explosive called merialite. He was blown to pieces whIle experimenting et his factory naar Braci. TEP -1LY INVESTIGATED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE At First Session State Democratic Ex ecutive Committee Lays Founda tion for an Investigation.-Plans to Safeguard the Primary, and Wont Declare Result Till Facts Are Known. Charges of illegal voting in the Scuth Carolina primary last Tuesday will be rigidly probed by the execu tive committee of the Democratic party. The committee, after two ses sions Friday, adjourned -until next Wednesday at noon, when the inves tigation will begin. Several specific charges have been filed with John Gary Evans, State chairman. The following resolution by W. F. Steven son of Cheraw was adopted by the committee Friday: "Whereas, an unprecedented vote is reported and widespread charges of fraud and-irregularities have been .brought as to the election on the State ticket, and it is the- duty of this committee to see that whatever nominations have been made have been honestly made, and if the charge is true it shall be corrected, and if not true it shall be refuted and the primary election system vindicated and preserved; "Resolved, That the' chairman shall call on each county chairman, where fraud or irregularities are charged, to take charge of the club rolls and compare them with the poll lists and compare the poll lists with each other, and take such evidence as shall be available and pertinent and send -up club rolls' and poll lists or certified copies of the same to this committee and report all irregulari ties; "Resolved, further, That the chair man of this committee do furnish such assistance to the respective county chairmen as may be neces sary to facilitate the -completion of this work and that the candidates for governor be each allowed a repre sentative at such hearing if desired. "Resolved further, That this com mittee hereby declare it to be its pur pose to see that the primary be hon estly conducted and detectandpunish frauds committed, vindicate the pri mary system and rid it of all imputa tions of crookedness and to call on all citizens to co-operate with this committee in such work and save the primary system from destruction. "This committee calls on citizens, and especially all. members of the i executive committee and all club offi cers, to swear .eut warrants for per sons violating the primary laws in connection with the said election and 1 have the offenders bound over to court." The Only Work. The resolution, which was general-| ly discussed by the members, is the -um and substance of the work ac complished at the meeting of the exe-l cutive committee Friday. Several members objected to the introduction| of the resolution on the-grounds that| there was no fraud reported in their| counties. The resolution was ably de fended by 'Mr. Stevenson. The posi-| tion of Goy. Blease was f-ully explain-( ed to the committee by E. S. Blease, brother of the governor, and his sub-I stitute on the committee from New berry county. State Chairman John Gary Evans Friday night sent the following tele-| gram to -county chairmen in accord ance with the resolution adopted by the executive committee: "If any| fraud or Irregularities are charged .in your county as to .any part of the State ticket, investigate same thor oughly. Take charge of club rolls, compare them with poll lists, poll lists with each other, taking such- ev idence as is available and pertinent. Then forward all records bearing on matter, including those above named with evidence to Christie Benet, sec retary. Columbia. If you need assis tance call on me. Act promptly. State committee has adjourned until Wednesday next. Have reports here as soon as possible. Letter confirm ing above instructions follow. "John Gary Evans, "State- chairman." 1 Members of the executive commit tee Aade it very plain that the nomn ination for governor and other Stam' offices would not be declared until1 the committee, after a thorough in vestigation, was able to write the words "clean and -fair" across that nomination. Mr. Stevenson made it clear that it was not the intention of the Jones members on the commit tee to show favoritism but if illegal votes were found for Jones they would be thrown out. The members of the committee expressed them selves as being in favor of investigat ing the situation to save the South Carolina primary law from destruc tion. Every charge or intiit.:'ion of fraud in the State will be caref-ully inrestigated. Harry D. Calhoun, candidate for congress In the Second district, Fri day night wired Chairman Evans call ing his attention to "use of whiskey and illegal voting," in that district and asked that a thorough investiga tion be -made. To Report on Ticket. At the meeting Friday Christie Blenet, secretary of the committee, said that the governor of the State had criticised him and that he desir ed in a public speech that he had not pointed to investigate the charges. He said that the governor had charg ed i na public speech that he had not sent a sufficient number of tickets to Pickens and Lee counties. Mr. Benet showed that he had sent out 522,000 tickets to the various counties. After some discussion W. T. Crews of Lau rens. R. I. Manning of Sumter, and J. A. Willis of Barnwell were appointed as members of a committee to inves tigate the charges by the governor. The committee will make report at the next meeting of the committee on Wednesday. At the afternoon session of the committee B. R. Caldwell of Chester renorted that the special committe. named during the morning to assist in canvassing the returns was not ready to report as all of the counties had not made reports. Chairian lEvans read several tele grams intimating fraud in connection with the election in several counties. Twn of the tolerama~ chaned fraud VOTED TWIO TICKETS Le SOME BLEASE VOTERS. DID THI d IN SPARTANBUG, - y There Seems to Bare Been Great b 1 regularities at Several Bozes I - I That County. n| e ' The County of Spartanburg seem e to have ,been honey-combed wit di fraud on the day of the primary. i e dispatch from that city says report r of fraudulent voting are pouring I] from all sides and in a number o cases are supported by. afidavits e There 'is little doubt that hundred e of illegal ballots were cast all ove e the county. Men were allowed t e, vote whose names did not appear oi e the club rolls, and their names were I added afterwards; minors were al - lowed to vote, some men voting at i -number of precincts, and others slip ped more ballots into the boxes thai - they were entitled to, it is alleged. s There was a disposition Thursday on the part of the executive commit 3I tee to recount every ballot in the t county and to compare the total, o: 3 each candidate with the result as giv i en on the returns of the precinc1 managers. The managers will also s be requested to deliver to the execu tive committee the club rolls, in or der that the number of votes cas1 may be compared with the number enrolled. The committee is deter mined to have fair and truthful re turns, regardless of who Is benefitet or hurt by a recount. :Mr. Archer stated that the com. mittee would have to. pass on pro tests from Cherokee, Arkwright, -Trough, and Inman. These protests lave been formally laid before the committee. At Walnut Grove, it is ieported, several minors voted. Ir Ward 4 in that city several cases iwere discovered when a voter had folded two -ballots together and. casi them into the box. These votes, which were for Blease, were thrown I out. It is considered, however, that in other boxes such repeaters were successful In having their votes - counted. The executive committee - met in the co-urt house at noon Friday with E. L. Archer presiding as chairman and S. T. Lanham at his post as sec retary. The roll call showed only twenty-five members present, less than a mapority. The point of no - quorum was raised and sustained by the chairman and upon motion the committee receeded from business until three o'clock in the afternoon. When the committee met a second time there was only 20 members present. Adjournment was taken -un UI noon Friday. Determined to proceed regularly regardless of delay, a number- of the members of the committee will not permit the important business before the committee to be attended to until there is a majority of the committee present as required by parliamentary practice. Even if there had been a quorum present Friday, however, the committee could not have reported on the vote as the boxes of four pre cincts are still -missing. There being no quorum of the 'committee on Friday, the committee met again at noon Monday. Mr. Archer said he would insist on a quorum .being present. If there should be further delay, he added, the consequences might be serious. The tabulation of the vote and the deviding of contests will not be at tended to unless a majority of the members-of committee are on hand. I: takes forty-four members to make a quorum. At no time Thursday were there more than forty members present. Mr. Archer repeated his order that the managers of alltthe boxes br~ig their club rolls to the executive com mittee, in order that the number of votes esant may be compared with the number of- voters on the rolls. He said that if the managers failed to appreciate the importance of send ing in the rolls the presidents of the clubs should attend to it and send in the rolls to the-.executive committee. COME TO TRAGIC DEATH. The Body of Solomon Luna Found in Vat of Sheep Dip. Solomon Luna, fifty-four years old, millionaire banker and sheep grower, for sixteen years, Republican nation al committeeman from New Mexico, and who refused to accept election to the United States Senate at the hands of the first State Legislature, met a tragic death at Horse Springs, So corro County, seventy-eight miles from Magdalena, at an early ho-ur Friday. He fell into a vat containing thousands of. gallons of sheep dip af ter being attacked with lieart fail ure. Becoming ill during the night, it was supposed 'Mr. Luna went from his room to the dipping vat a few yards from the ranch house to get water and was stricken with sudden heart failure, falling into the mixture of lime, sulphur, tobacco and water. Camp employees found the body floating in the vat early Friday. Mr. Luna was the wealthiest man -in New Mexica. He is survived by a wife. The body will be brought to Albuquerque on a special train Sat urday. nomination was clean before the re suit was declared. He said the coun ty executive committees should be required to lay all inatters before the committee. Every club list and poll jing list where there is any doubt 1should be thoroughly investigated, he said. The countyv executive commit tees should be given the proper in structions as to what is to be seni up for the consideration of the State yI executive committee, he thought. .The ofmical returns have not beet -received from the following counties: -Aiken. Anderson, Beaufort, Charles. ~ten, Georgetown, Dillon. Horry, Ker sh aaw. Lee, Oconee. Spartanburg. ~Sumter and Union. The returns will .be turned over to the .members of t the special committee, and a report Swill .be made next Tuesday. -] Some Men Voted Ts~vrce. ST. J. Kirkland, chairman of th - Kershaw county committee, stated Friday that several irreguisrities it AI the, recent primary had ba~n reAOrt -ed to him. He has not Tooked !nto al iite case's thoroughly but will do so SIn one instance in which he investi a;rrt--d a -Blear~ sunortr had his t oon the Pine Creek and West vle club rolls and rot-d at earl a that this manl would lIg~Iy M laakt ajed fornour in Anderson and Aiken counties. T] official protest for Anderson coun was lodged with the committee. Among the telegrams read was oz from Senator Tillman in which 1 asked the committe to be very su: before acting but if there was frat to investigate it and save the primar law from destruction. Several members of the committi objected to the resolution as first 13 tr6duced by Mr. Stevenson on th ground that fraud bad not bee charted in all of the counties. J. . Park of Greenwood took the positic that it was the duty of the committe to canvass all the returns. H thought that the committee shoul be in a position to say whether th election was clean or unclean, fair c unfair. Must Be Clean. "We must be able to say to th world," said Mr. Park, " we has held a clean and fair election or w have held an unfair electon. If th election has been fair we must b able to repudiate the charges. think that the resolution should ap ply to every county. We must invet tigate." The resolution was finally amend ed so as to apply only to countie where fraud has been alleged. J. '.& Greer of Union said that he was - Blease supporter but he wanted square deal for both candidates. H was satisfied there was no fraud- 1. Union county. In reply Mr. Stevenson stated hi position clearly. Mr. Stevenson sal that It was the duty of the commit tee to throw out all illegal votes, n matter who they were in favor of He said that the primary must b saved and cleansed at any cost. E. S. Blease of Newberry took the floor before the committee and out lined the position of the governo with reference to the investigation He said that his brother, the govern or, was a member of the committe from Newberry but did not think i proper to appear in person. He sail that he had come as representing hi brother and that he desired to make several statements. He outlined hi. position as a Democrat and said al that "Cole L. Blease wanted was : fair and honest count". He declared that if his brother had not been fair ly elected he did not want the office "I have never heard wr an execu tive committee attempting to dc something on base rumors or re ports," said Mr. Blease. Later it was called to the atten tion of Mr. Blease that officral pro. tests had already been filed with the :ommittee. Mr. Blease, in the course of his speech, charged that the ap parent majority of his brother wa: hurting some people. He discussed the situation in Newberry and said that he had tried to be fair to the candidacy of Judge Jones. He re [erred to a minor contest in tha1 ^ounty. Mr. Blease expressed faitl in the members of the executive coni nittee and said that he thought his brother would receive a square dea In the investigation even though a najority were opposed to him polit cally. "All that we want is a fair, honesi ount," be said. Mr. Blease voted for the resolu :ion finally passed. Will be Fair. In reply to 'fr. Blease Mr. Steven son said that it was the purpose to rive both candidates a- fair and hon st deal and that nothing of a par isan nature would enter Into the de Liberation. "It is the duty of the committee tc write the word clean across the nom nation for governor and we do noi propose to do .otherwise," said Mr. stevenson. Mr. Stevenson said thai :he situation sho-uld be given public. [ty so that the people of the State night know what was done and thai falr play was given every candidate The following resolution whic!: was brought before the committee was referred back to the Richland :ounty executive committee for ac tion: "Whereas the club lists of cert~a1t roting precincts in Richland counts are so filled with names as to make it practically impossible for three managers to conduct an election and allow all voters an equal chance tc ballot. "Be it revolved, That in each case where such cange is deemed advs able by the chairman and executive committeemen of such clubs, addc tional boxes shall be provided an-~ three additional managers shall ha rppointed for said precinct, and the ylub rolls thereof shall be diveded Erom A to M, and from M to Z, lic :bat all voters failing in the first di rision shall vote at the boxes man iged by one set of managers, and :hose in the second division at the boxes managed by the others. The committee met Friday at noon *n the library at the State House for :he purpose of declaring the results af the primary election last Tuesday Several members were not present and it was found that the official re turns had been received from only thirty-two counties out of forty-four. Upon adoption of a resolution, John Gary Evans, the chairman, aopoint ed a committee to assist Christie Benet, the secretary, in tabulating the vote for the various offlees. The members of the committe eappoint eci were R. B. Caldwell, Chester; W F. Stevenson, Cheraw; James B Park, Greenwood; W. B. Wilson Jr., York. The following resolution by Dr. T Hl. Dreher of St. Matthews was adopt ed -by the committee: To Safec-nard Primary. "Resolved, That a committee o: five, together with the chairman a ex officio member, be appointed bI the chairman to revise and reconcil the constitution of the Democrati party and to devise some means o safeg-uarding the primary election and report same to a meeting of th4 State executive committo prior t Jadiary 1, 1914." In introducing the resolutIon Dr Dreher said that unless there wa some restriction, it was only a ques tion of time before the priiary sys temn would be abolished. He de clared that the politicians of th state had been afraid to tackle th question and that it was time for th executive committee or some othe body to take action. He though that the system had been abused i1 many instances. Dr. Dreher aske, for expressions on the question be fore it was put to a vote. The corn mittee will be named later by Chnaix man Evans. Discussing the question. Mr. Stes ense.n said that he favored the resc lution. He declared he wss s'itifl th'at the result In Chesterfield count was practically enr'ct. bnt so'a ouestions as to I!1egal voting: h a heen rained in varIous sections of th State. He thought It was the duty c the .anecutva .cmmcttee to a!it th LAIIFD By ftiLJIM THE HOUSE BEMOClA TS DID TREAT TIMS SAYS THE a'SPEAKER OF THE BSIIY' s . gays the Work of the Democrats In, s the House of Representatives Will Give the Party the House, the Sena f ate and the President In the Next1 r Election. Speaker Champ Clark Saturday,, , delivering the valedictory of the - Democratic House of the sixty-second L congress, asserted that historians would declare with absolute truth that the 'House Democrats of the six ty-first and sixty-second congresses "did great things" and "have made a sweeping Democratic victory approxi mately certain, a victory that will give us the House, the Senate and the president." Dramatically addressing his col- t leagues while the clock across the House chamber was slowly moving toward the final adjournment time, the speaker, in a tribute to leaders of both parties, declared that no major Ity was ever more successfully led - than by Representative Underwood, r nor any minority ever led more ably t than by Representative Mann. b "Leader Mann," said he, "has con- r tested with Leader Underwood every a step of the long and wearisome road e we have traveled with the stubborn courage of ;the English squares at t Waterloo. I have not always agreed n with Brother Mann-God forbid.- e but he lives up fully to his name. a He is in very truth a man. Were it t not for him I would feel decidedly ; lonesome in the speakers chair." v As speaker-as "dean of the fac- v ulty, so to speak"-Mr. Clark said f he felt very proud of the membership ' of the House, and he declared his be- i lief that Democrats should sit in the seats of the mighty, hold every coigne of vantage and every place of power. p Speaker Clark said that'for years the Democrats had been sneered at "as a party of negation, green hands in formulating and conducting pub lic business, ridiculed as a mob, a o rabble, without coherence or discip line as militia fighting regulars, and even exact date on which we would dissolve into waring factions and go , to pieces was set down in tpye". "But," he added, "the Democrats t have fought and won like veterans and constitute thoroughly a discip lined force as ever appeared In the n House or any other parliamentary C body since parliamentary bodies were instituted among men, mustered our full strength on every mportant prop- ' osition and passed two great, tariff1 bills over the president's veto, the l first instance of the kind in the his tory of the republic." They had fought a good fight and kept the faith, he said. 'ir. Clark said that "so long as a the earth spins upon Its axis or slides down the ecliptic," public men who a would escape'r the people's wrath T would take to heart the simple- and ' instructive story of the astounding I change In the political situation, t: "since that melancholy day in Nov- E ember, 1908, when wo were so com pletely flattened out." "The lesson, e in brief, he said, was that the Repub- a Ilcans. In order to get in, promised to e revise the tariff down, but, being In, they proceeded to zavise It up. The speaker expressed thanks and the gratitude of the country- to "the 9 brave, wise and patriotic Republi cans who co-operated with us In pass ing good bills. The secret of our marvelous success," he saId, "Is sim- I ple-unity of thought, purpose and e action, freequent counsel together, a spirit of mutual conciliation, strict d adherence to principle, with tmost a latitude In non-essential, subordina- I tion of Individual desire to the gen- a eral party good. sacrifice of personal ambitions in the earnest, honeot, pa- b trotic endeavor to ser've the whole b people with whatever of capacity~Goda has blessed us. s "We have won many victories," he i said, "but what is better, we have 3 formed the habit of victory." He sug- 6 gested that Roscoe Conkling's decla- e ration that General Grant's fame was earned not alone by things written, but by the arduous greatness of.t things done,' "fits our case like a a glove".. "What the Democratic House ac complished, so far as it could fnr the amelioration of conditions." said he, "thwarted, as it has been, by a Re- 1 pblican president, is only an earnest of what we will do when we come In to full possession of the three I branches of government. President Taft vetoed most of our bills of a remedical character, a prerogative unwisely exercised. He made his re cord; we made ours. On these rec ords we appeal to the country with absolute confidence that when thet nols close In November We will have elected a Democratie House and Sen ate. Governor Woodrow Wilson to the presidency and 'Govcrnor Mar shall to the vice-presidency--con-. summations devoutly to be wished, which we believe and hope will prove of inestimable and enduring benefit to the entire American people, of whatever persuasion, religious or po litical." Saves Her Life and Weds. His heroic rescue of a young wo man who was abouit to drown in theC Seine river in France two years ago ' became known to his friends at San Francisco Thursday for the first time when Samuel 3. Hume. dramatic stu- 1 dent, and, graduate of the University of California, left for Boston, to mar ry the girl in the case. Miss Maud t Crawford Dickc of Edinburgh, Scot- 1 land. Miss Dick is now en routel fromt Liverpool to .Boston to meet' Hume. IHer-it' Lme' Was Enduring. CAdoirh ITurenhauser, a bachelor hermit of Haimmond, Ind,. found nearly dead from starvation, had just written this note: "Strife and worry mny fade the bloom of youth, but, love's first dream remains forever In lthe heart." Hufenhauser came from - rmany more thun fifty ye.a argo. Sboght a sm::,l farm, cleared it a~n2 H then wroto for his sv~eeth.srt to come. Later hg rceilved word thatj h an ~~ '''' TLI W1hil I'M 1UL1 SEVERAL RAILROAD MENCHARG ED WITH FRAUD. & Big Bound-Up of Aleged Swind lers by the Southern Railway Com pany at Mobile. Completing -a- trip through fon: states in a round-up of indjcted for ner employees of the Southern rail way, Detective Edward McQueen 0: the Railway Secret service, reacher 'obile Friday. The search, whici 3 for the time being ended, -begat August 6 and was for the purpose 01 erresting eleven ticket sellers ant :icket takers of the Southern, who, t is alleged in the indictments, swin led the company out of more than X25,000. Of the eleven Indicted employees, line have been landed behind prison )ars. One has pleaded guilty.and si >thers have confessed. Two are at berty, but their arrest is but a mat er of time. All of the alleged depre lations were committed on the Mo ile-Selma branch of the Southern allway. The operations extended >ack for ten years, but the indict ents allege only those acts perpe rated within the period of three 'ears. All of those indicted had been n the employ of the company for many years. The scheme or conspiracy was corked by the ticket seller selling he passenger a &cket which he rould not stamp as required by the alroad. Boarding the train the ickets taken from these passengers y the ticket collector would not be eturned to the collector in accord .nce with regulation, but to the tick t seller In on the deal. He In turn rould put the ticket back in the rack o be sold over again, splitting the coney with the ticket taker. When ver the auditor put in an appear ,uce to check up the ticket seller, he tickets would balance with the revious statement when compared rith the finances on hand. In this ray the scheme worked in'teiruptedly or a number of years and then there ras a careless slip in the plot and the ldictments followed. COUNTED THeM ANYWAY. rotests in Doichester County Were OverrulesI. When the Dorchester County Ex utive Committee met at St.. George a Thursday to tabulate -the votes ast in the late primary,, the Dor. ester precinct at Sum'merville Wa-s aund to be badly mixed Tuesday by maon of 125-votes being put in the ronrg box. The votes for the coun r offices were 'put in the Scate -ox ad vice versa. The managers. did o; count these votes Tuesday but refully put them togetner and Fri ay the county executive committee ecided to count them. St.. Clair Euckenfuss appeared as attorney for ra B. Jones and filed a protest gainst 'the counting of tne votes at .e Dorchester poll at Sunmmerville. S. Utsey appeared as attorney for B. Dukes and filed a urotest for im against the counting of the votes t the same poll, and R. Lon Weeks led a verbal protest for himself gast the counting of the same tes. There was mucn interest man ested as to what shonid be done 'ith tht-se votes, but the majority ~ought .they should be counted and >they were. The tangled votes tal cd w~th the vcting list and at sev. : ciher polls in the county where few votes were tangled they were aunted. EATEN BY A SHARK. his s Supposed to be the Sad Fate of a Boy. While swimming at Tybee Island 'riday, Edward Coffee, twelve-year Id son of Edward J. -Coffee, an ex avannah patrolman, mysteriously isa-ppea.red and up to Ftiday after oon his body had not been found. :is eared he was captured by a dark. Young Coffee and several other oys, about thirty in number, have en camping at Tybee. Coffee was n excellent swimmer. While in wmming he proposes that the en .re party go out into deeper water. hile leading the way he suddenly isappeared ,beneath the water. The ther lads became frightened and urried ashore. This is the fourth death at Tybes is season. The affair recalls the dis ppearance of a lad three years ago eai the spot where Coffee went own. Later his dismembered body 'a~s found on the beach: GRAPES ~CHOKE BABY GIRD. ittle Sister's Effort. Only Hastens Tragedy. Death in distressing form came riday night to the sik;-mnfths-old aughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward IC old, at their home near Barring n, Camden county. The little one -as with her three-year-Oid sister, :rma in the garden. Erma picked ame grapes and gave the baby one. stuck in her throat and she began gasp. Erma thought to help her wallow the grape by thrusting her ny finger down the .baby's throat, ut the effort was futile. Alarmed the children's cries, Mrs. Dold ran ut and found the baby choking and neoscious. In frantic haste a phy cian was called, but before - he eached the home the little one was Negroes Burned to Death. A Spa~rtanburg dispatch says the ome of Henry Payton, a negro was urned down Th-ursday night and his Linety-year-old father, Albert Pay~ on, and his three-year-old son were urned to death. His little daughter scaped by jumping out of a second ory window. She was not hurt. Lbert and the two grandchildren rere left at home while itenry and i wire attended church. . * Fraud Charged in Union. The Union County Democratic Bx 'cutive Committee met Thursday to abulate the election returns and de. :are the electionl. L. G. Southard >f Jonesville filed notice of a contest n the '.ote for gover nor. He con 'tl spciacall1y the Ydies polled it in fe:lov~ing baxes! ~Ward 4, Buf .i~b, alonrut, tocklar, K elon mnd DEAES T E RA RUT BR 'SENATOR WRS EVANS Chairman Evans Sa sif PrmawjH s Been Frauduen t'it Will be tie as I -.Senator mman' red Mx Evans "We Mst SaVe thePniary Sat Al Cost." - Senator Tillman has directed the attention of State - Chairman 'ohn Gary Evans to the reports th at 2_ p proximately 20,000 too a roteB. were polled i nthe Demcrat r3t mary election in . South Tuesday. In a conversation over the Jie phone The Chronicle-;._ morning at 1:.0.State CROh lm E ans said the committee- woufd.etes into an- Investigation of the reporta his attention should ?be oiially call ed to the matter. \Senator Tmlmian was asked over the telephone by The AugustaChron ile Thursday night if he ,wuldmakte any comment on the report ;hat 2O,, 000 too many votes iad been plled in Tuesday's primary in South - lina. He replied: "I'll inst repeat to you a- telegram I have sent:to State Chairman John Gary Evans," an hd dictated -over the phone t&e folow' ing: 'Hon. John Gary EvansS a burg, S. C., The Chronicle repetsp 20,000 more votes than durpopIa tion entitles us to. This:is a seriontg accusation. Our- State: committee owes it to the people-to sIft thiaiis ter. If there is fraud it must be tected and punished, but weizut be very sure taere'.is fraud before taking any steps: WbTmu stsaved he primary at any cost, as fraud= ;x;B , destroy it. B. R., Tillman." "That," said Senator Tfllani covers all.Y Caro to say on the aub ,eet at this time." I State Chairman John Gary EvansM arrived - in Columbia at midnight Thursday night and being asked:fo a-statement regarding the telegram Senator, Tillman sent him, dictate the following:. "The primary -election 'In Sont Carolina, while limited to- the: nom= nation of candidates of the Democra ic party, yet* the person receiving such nomination is practicaly elect ed, there being but one party in the_ State. "We have thrown every safeguard around our general election Ia No-.M vember. The primary election -haa been left practically open. toevery white man in the State who will16b5: a Democratic club, and-swear -to su port the nominees and: polic'y.of the party. "It is left almost entirely-to -the honor of our citizens, and, heretofore.=. these elections have beendfairlytand honestly -conducted: If there ?aa been, fraud in this election, 1t~4h&e duty of the executive committee of - the party to see to It thftta thp& oughly purged,. otherwise it'will' be the last, as South Carolinians. never have and never will sublmit to fraudd ulent nominees. 'No honest csndidate wold desire, or accept a nominatic tainted In the slightest degree wnth "For the honor of the State and. the preservation of our free and sac red Institutions,!I feel satisfied that the committee will do Its duty." DFMAND A-IREOT - Too Many Votes Claimed to be Polld in Newberry. When the Democatic Executive Committee of Newberry County inet to canvass the vote of that county ong Thursday, a :petition was presented asking, for a recount of the'ytO-OM the county, but withont a dissentingR vote the petition was laid on theota ble- The recount was asked'becaused of the large increase in the .Tote tis2 year over that of two years ago. The/ petitioners then gave notice that theyd would appeal the case to the'-State Democratic Executive Committee...'A dispatch from Newberry saysithe in crease of 'the vote .In. that county o er. .two .years ago convinces many that a large number 'of fraudulent votes 'were .cast. The vote for gov ernor there inl the fii-st primary of 1910 was 2,482 ahzd In the second --nrimary 2,555. This year the -vote s 3,028. There is no doubt in the minds of thinking,'persons that ti vote for govermor in the State Is .at least 20,000 more than It ought to be. and they are asiting 'what 'the State executive committee is going to -do about it. Three MXen Were EiIled. 'rhree men were klled, one fatally inured and a .number slightly hu-te when the Pennsylvania railfbad'traIn which left Pittsburg Friday.morningt for Cleve1~nd over the Cleveland-and2 Pitsburg divisicn ran into -a wreck --'. train aiding in clearing up a freight wreck that had occurred a short time~ Ibefore near Conway. Perish in the Flames. At Rutherford, N. J., Mvrs. Emilio Debar- and six of her seven children, ranging in age from fit'e months -to twelve years, perished early Fdfday. n a fire which destroyed tneir home. The husband and father and a son of seventeen escaped by- jumping from a second story window. Woman Dies from Shock.--'' At Elmira. N. T., Mrs. Anna Palm e-, of Oswego, died Friday from -thle shock of an artillery salute for -Gov ernor Dir at the dedication of a mon unent erected in memory of General. Sullivan, her grlandfather. When 'the cannon was fired she fainted, and waTs seized with an appoplectic fit. - He is Some Eater. A New Yorik man Is proud of the fact that he consumer nine and a halt pounds of steak, nineteen rolls and elev'n cups of .coffee at a .breakfast eating contest. Such a fellow as that' tis a serious factor In the high cost Q"a licing situation. Rescued, lBrowned Later. cued from drowning Friday, Edward A. Striley, aged eighteen, went' out on 'the river' in a canot upset and-as Wd*maA hafQrbLhaincald rachhe