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I2E fMN FACIT *UIAT THERE WERE :'m I ' VOTERS U D Y 411 uESAYSPRIMARY To gave Gotten the Vote That Was Caimed to Have Been Cast Every White Maa -Who Lives in South - Cak~na1tust wave Voted Besides 1t-is'hard to say where the X42,000 temn~M voted in the primary election an'rsday came from. Ac cording to the census of 1890 the white populOtion of South Carolina was 452,008. Est-mating one white - doter for five persons, the usual rate, - the :white voting population in 1890 should have been 92,401. Estimat 'ag that the rate of increase was 2.2 pe cent. a year, pprozimately the a fft; gain between 1900 and 1910, hewhite voting population in 1892, dthe yaraqt the contest between Til - 'man and -Sheppard, was 96,266. The number oft'etes cast was 87,500. Probably, says the Columbia State, in nother contest ever held In South = :Carolina were lines between factions sharply drawn- and interest so ntense, yet the total vote was about 9.700 under the number of white men of voting age in the State. Be ; sides, 1892 was only 16 years after -1876 and a considerable number of negroes voted in that primary. By .the census of 1900 the white population of the State was 557,807 ant the white voting population on tbIaasba of one In five was 111,561. - ddIng'4,912 for the two years in . s eIthe voting population in 1902, ear of the election of Heyward Governor, Talbert and various being candidates, and six can .::edate5ncluding-EVans,. and the late mer being in the field for r+- MadStates senator, the voting n, that year - was 116,473. "4- -T e -number of votes cast in the first was 95,367 or 21,106 short ofth white voting -poulation. In1S10;the white population was 679162 and using the same basis of in ftve the voting population was The number of votes cast ' the larger of the two primaries of 1.10 ,was 107,231; or 26,601 less than the voting population. - Zlwng2.2 increase fot the last ers the voting population is -i@ 141.809. Estimating 34 scat t" iga boes .not reported, the total vet.- a~eged to have- been cast last Tuesday was 142,104. In other words the State i~ supposed to have polled 296 more -ballots than there are pre sumed to 'be white men of voting age 3a- the State. Thb increase in the voto in two ears.mst be set down as ,4,873 as Ysown on the face of the returns. teIn 910'was, meantime, the that up to that tie had ever ask in a South Carolina'prim r&1O g again 2.2 per cent. an .ineresso the vote. to have been Ss' eted -this year was 11,919. !! tra.zd r interest might possibly ,.areccumtd -- for. a vote between ' that-dgare. and 120,000. n~ ng ~uState primary does every -naruqua1Hled cast his ballot. In 3892 -"'lien .Tmlman and Sheppard were ~.candidates, when'the'proportion was .Mghierthan- In any other year until ' thea psesent, about eleven or twelve Scent. of the-white Democrats did S2t ote. Ten per cent, not voting s-- qo&reduce'the vote of 1912 to ~j~C~1SAa)0nd usually those not voting hare been -far more than- ten per ~-'-cent of the voting population. ~ in a primary do not vote? S" physifau1: said that one-half of *eeier cent are usually' sitk in bed -or halie bereiavements in their f am >~lan any day in the year. So 700 ?oadbe absent from the polls. K--''epolls t are. open eight hours. ~2'~$groa4trafns operate'for practical ~-y2hours in the day and the num k~afondutors, engineers, -firemen, s~faimei and- other traveling rail rad-men must-be'1,500 or 2,000 to Stheeeast. 'At least one-half of 1he -do' not vote.~ Therb are at t 1, 000 unnaturallzed foreigners "~ht~ State. da W 4 not know the number of Repubeansand Socialists In - at but 3,000 would not be ~ exravaant- estimate. .~hawhite insane males and Imbe e eanumber several hundred. - There are some hundred white a-convicts There are another hun -dredeor'morelmen in thejails and -'station houses on election day. - Granting that the number of the1 - ndigferent in. the State and absen tees dfrom t'- State was less than usual this year,: their numbers al ways agres f ome thousands. Any -an:.who will thnk a moment can -bring sto mind .friends' or acquaint ances who were in New York, North -.Carolina or elsewheret on election 'There are always a number of men whoosebusns engagements are too pressing-to allow them to vote. There a'-re others who-live in places 'remote frome the pols and there are -aged mim and cripples- who can not con eniantly reach the polling places. Perhaps two thousand 'have chang >Aedtheir residences' Immediately be oethe primary or have not lived iinthe-State a year. - - 2~.stVLlargerdcass'who do not vote -~'~aes those who ~neglect or through ~mstake fanl -to have their names en rolled- five days before the primary. Whoilies-not remember an acquaint ance- who failed to bhe enrolled? Sometimes, thrspgh mistake or the losa of books a club may have its en - rolmeant reatly reduced. As a-general proposition It may be said that the polling of 80 per cent. of the possible ballots would be call ed a heavy vote. When 85 per cent. e cast, It Is an extraordinary vote an d. the history of the primary In South Carolina 'will bear out the -statement. Fifteen pCr cent, of the' white male voters In South Carolina -is about 21,300. Eighty-five per cent. of the white male population of ,voting age in South Carolina Is 19, '700. A vote of that size would have shown a remarkable Interest through out the' State In last Tuesday's elec tion. - Daughter Sends Sad Plea. P 'leese write to me ,--hat has be -'COngM:i m: father, G. ''. l:os3. T have written two letters and -have got no -answer. So please write me at once." This was note was received Thursday by the Davidson county jailer from Mrs. Lizzie Nelson, of Tellico Plains, Tenn. The subjectl of the Inquiry was hanged at the pen it~ntiary at that place Monday at daybreak, but the news had not reached the daughter. - Death to Americans. Americans will be killed by rebels -after September 15, Is the declara-e tion from Colonel Emilo P. Campa, at leader of Orozco's rebel army, who: -with 800 men, is operating along the ! -Southen Paniflo of Mae below Nig NO SUNDAY MAlL NEW POSTAL LAW ORDERS OF. FICE CLOSED SUNDAYS. If This Law Affects Orangeburg There Will Be No Sunday Delivery Hereafter. The following letter has been sent out to all first and second-class post offices: Washington, Aug. 24, 1912. Postmaster. Sir:-The postoffice appropriation act for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1913, provides: "That hereafter postoffices of the first and second classes shall not be open on Sundays for the purpose of deiivering mail to the general public. but this provision shall no' revent the prompt delivery mail." . Under this law, you will cose the general delivery carriers' windows and lock boxes and discontinue all deliveries by carriers on Sunday. You will note, however, that special de livery mail is expected and you will therefore arrange. to have on duty a sufficient force to handle this mail matter promptly. The department desires to reduce Sunday work to the minimum so that as many of the employees as possible may enjoy a complete day of rest on Sunday. You should, therefore, re quire only a sufficient number of clerks to report for duty on that day in order that tansmit mail and the mail collected for dispatch may be handled without delay. If no mail is dispatched on Sunday a very early collection should be made on Monday morning and the mail for local deliv ery distributed before the carriers leave for their first trip, Respectfully, C. P. Grandfield, First Assistant Postmaster General. The new law was passed by con gress and signed by the president be fore any intimation was heralded of Its creation. It was probably work ed upon the quiet to keep down the howl that would have been raised, es pecially by the larger cities. Aside from being a blow to the masses who like to read and answer their letters on Sunday, the greatest sufferers will be those who are accustomed to read the mammoth editions of the Sunday papers. It will be a blow to the pub lishers who derive much business from the Sunday editions. In every other first and second class postoffice city in the United States, might as well be a sarcophagus on Sunday hereafter, unless the mail you are expecting happens to bear a 10 cent special delivery stamp. And if you received a single article yesterday, letter, newspaper, or mer chandise that did not bear that stamp it was only because the local author ities had not received notification of a law passed by Congress Saturday night-a law which is probably the most drastic and stringent Sunday enactment that ever received the sig nature of the president of the United States. It provides that from midnight of Saturday until midnight of Sunday no article of mail received at a first or second class postoffice sh dl be "work ed" even to the extent of placing it in a box, except It be of the special delivery variety. In that case it will be delivered as usual. The law is ef fective at onc.e The new -statute does not effect the dispatching of letters posted, which will be sent on the varions trainls as usual. Some curiosity was expressed here as to how such a law could have passed through both Houses of Con gress and been signed by the presi dent without publicity attaching to the procedure. It was regarded as hardly conceivable that this could have been accomplished without a gre'at .protest, especially from the large cities, if the Intention had been known.' There are business men in this city who have never dreamed-of letting a Sunday pass without procuring, open ing and answering their mail. The task-of readjustment -will .be for these an extremely .difflcult one. Most inconvenience to the public at large will result in connection with the distribution of Sunsay newspa pers from out-of-town points. Lo cal newspapers are delivered by car rier, but in the towns which do not have Sunday newspapers one of the leading events of a day is the arrival of the big town daily. The situation now created Is one that will doubt less receive different solutions. In not many cases will the people fore go the pleasure -of enlivening their only day off if there is any possible means by which the paper can be se cured. Inconvenience will also be caused those connected with the publication of Monday morning papers since newsletters arriving on Sunday will be non-delivery unless bearing spe cial delivery stamps. About a year ago an agitation was launched in some quarters for a par tial Sunday closing, and this went into effect here. The scope of this was the siolition of delivery at car riers' windows and the restriction of the general delivery window to 30 minutes' time. The only object that will be sub served by the new law, so far as is apprehended, is a modest saving to the public treasury. 'i'he statute pro vides that where an employee is re quired to work on Sunday he must be given a holiday at some other time of the week within six days. An em ployee cannot be worked over eight hours a day and all this period must be included within 10 hours. SHOOTS HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW. John McCrary Seriously wounds His Brother-In-Law With Shotgun. John McCrary, about eight o'clock Wednesday at Columbgs, Ga., shot and seriously, if not fatally, wound ed his brother-ln-law, Will Howard, using a double-barreled shotgun. 'McCrary Is said to have been drinking. As he walked along the street by Howard's home, he saw the latter sitting on his front porch be side his wife, and holding his baby boy in his lap. Without a word. Mc Crary raised the gun and fired. How ard's left hand was practically torn off, and his body badly shot. Mc Crar-y wont on, and a few minutes later fired his gun at two women. He was so close to one of them the pow der burned her hair, but otherwise she was unharmed. Seriff Beard wegt to~ the scene Im-' mediately, and, although he searched the entire neighborhood, no clue as to McCrary's whereabouts could be learned. Giggling Girls Arrested. Because they giggled and talked too loud, the Rev. Mr. Curtis, pastor of the Baptist church in the North arolna district, got indignant and ad two young women, daughters of U. J. Walters, lodged in jail on a :harge of distrubing public worship. rhe preacher claims the alleged con Itt of the young women was very noing. Justice of Peace Anderson hought otherwise and discharged the LEVER'S BILL PASS AeRICULTURAL EXTENSION MEASURE IS NOW LAW. Result of Several Years' Study and Work on Part of Author, Who is Pleased at Outcome. The House has at last passed the Lever agricultural extension bill, providing for the establishment of agricultural extension departments in connection with the agricultural colleges and experiment stations in the several states. This measure, to which Mr. Lever has devoted several years of study and preparatioh. com pletes an agricultural educational system which had its beginning with the passageof the first Morrill Act in 1892, augmented by the Hatch Act twenty-five years later. Under these enactments stores of agricultural information and facts have been accumulated, but the one defect in the national system, until the Lever bill, has been the fact that its practical and local application has not reached the actual farmer. These scientific agricultural facts, gathered by the experiment stations and dis seminated by the agricultural col leges, have reached only limited numbers in proportion to the total rural population; and the passage of the Lever bill, having as its main purpose the direct dissemmination among agriculturalists of this accum nated knowledge appertaining to ag riculture and home economies, through such agencies -as field in struction, demonstrations, publica tions and the like, will forge the last link of the chain in a complete sys tem of national agricultural educa tion. Under the appropriation section of the Lever bill it is provided that an Initiai sum of $10,000 per year shall go to each state unconditionally; an additional appropriation of $300,000 is appropriated for the first fiscal year and an annual increase of this appropriation of $300,000 a year, ov er the preceding year, for a period of nine years is provided until the total amount of additional appropriations will be $3,000,000 annually; but that no state shall be entitled. to any part of these additional sums until its leg islature shall have appropriated a similar amount for extension work. As a matter of local interest, the State of South Carolina, under the proportion its rural population bears to the rural population of the coun try, would be entitled to receive an nually the sum of 78,600 from the Federal Government; conditioned, of course, upon the appropriation of a like sum by its State Legislature for agricultural extension work. Any lesser amount the legislature might see fit to apply to extension work would be duplicated from the funds of the national treasury. The bill places the disbursement of these funds and the control of the work to be conducted under its pro visions, under the direction of state rather than Federal authorities, .be cause it was believed that each state had its own individual agolcultural problems which could best be work ed out under local environment. The system as it will work out seeks to do in a larger measure what is now being accomplished in sections through the farmers' co-operative demonstration work. Possibly no measure this session, certainly none of an economic na ture, has become more generally dis dussed or more widely advertised than the Lever extension bill. It has been enthusiastically supported by leading agricultural thinkers in ev ery section of the United States, the rural press, business organizations, agricultural associations, agricultur al college presidents and experiment station directors. President Taft in his address at the Kansas City Con servation Congress strongly support ed the idea, and Governor Wilson in his speech of acceptance of the nom ination for the Presidency, said: "There is another duty which the Democratic party has shown itself great enough and close enough to the people to perceive, the duty of the Government to share in promoting agricultural, industriaL vocational education in every way possible with in its institutional powers." The Democratic platform at Baltimore urges Federal appropriations "for such training and extension tea~ching in agriculture in co-operation with the several states". .Mr. Lever, of course, is enthusiastic over the out come of his long and continued ef forts in perfecting and working for the masses of this measure. When seen Thursday afternoon, he said: "I regard the passage of this bill in the House as the most significant and pregnant event of my Congres sional career. My first conception of this bill arose some years ago when I first discovered the fact that great as were the efforts of the na tional Government in behalf of agri culture they were not as far-reaching as they ought to be into the actual needs of the rural population. Hence, as I have so often said, the purpose of this bill is to reach the farmer on his farm with,. known agricultural truths, but showing him their pecul iar application to his Individual and particular needs. The agricultural colleges and experiment stations have been and are now doing an ef ficient work in the accumulation of this agricultural knowledge, but true progress among our rural classes will follow the wisest educa tion, and that teaching is wisest which,),eing efficient, is most gener al This end is the aim of this bill, and I regard its passage in the House as my most signal effort in behalf of the vocation from which I have come and for the betterment of whose con ditions it has been my privilege hum bly to labor." -SEVERAL HID) IN COFFINS. Thereby Each One Saved Ten Cents Bridge Tolls. Four men who drove to Madison, Ill., In a wagcn used two coffins which they brought back to save bridge tolls. Two of the men got in the coffins at Venice, Ill., and got out again on the St. Louis side. They saved ten cents. There were tour coffins In the wagon when It drove up- to J. 3. Lahey's undertaking es tablishment in Madison. Two were refused and the men were instructed to take them back to the makers. A saloon at Venice offered such at tractions to the four men they for got they had to pay bridge tolls un til coins in their pockets were so scarce they would not jingle. It was then two of the men got into the coffins. Lightning Deals Death. Violent lightning, which centered about Mercer University at Tattuali Scuare Sunday afternoon at Macon, Ga.. caused the death of two per sons, Injury of two others; damage to many buildings and wound up In the inshionable Vineville District by causing a panie in a Presbyterian Church. directly across the street from where a bolt had tmrn a corner from a residence and qet. tro to thel bilding, BABY FALLS TWENTY FEW'. Falls From Second Story Veranda and Was Only Bruised. B. H. Bates Jr., the one-year-old son of B. H. Bates of Trifton, Ga., fell a distance of about twenty feet from the second story veranda of their residence on Loce avenue Wed nesday morning without receiving any injury. The baby was picked up instantly by its mother, who expected to find it dead. A physician was summon ed and examined the baby thorough ly, but failed to find any broken limbs or any injury 'except a small scratch on the side of his head, where he is supposed he hit. It is a miracle that the child was not In stantly killed. Passing of a World Leader. American life is rich and various It takes a big event across the wate] to get headlines in our newspapers The fall of a king may be dismissed in a paragraph. But there are com paratively few living Americans whose death would get as much news paper space as was given the story of Gen. William Booth, founder of the Salvation army, wao passed awa3 Tuesday night. The Salvation army would be call ed by some a body of imitation sol diers, with women in grotesque poke bonnets who go about the streets making noises and scaring horses with their brans bands. The writes was once invited by a young news paper man In a large city to go witl him on an evening assignment t< cover a Salvation army gathering. Looking for "color" the reporter scanned the crowd, which container every grade of rag clad misery. 1 was such a dull grey level of despail that it did not strike him as havin elements of a picturesque story. Hi got away quickly and dismissed i all with the remark "the very cinders and ashes of humanity". So it strikes man. But in thi United States last year 350,000 poo: people were given Christmas dinners and 200,000 got still more substan tial aid from the Army. Gen. Boot] is said to have reclaimed 50,001 "white slaves". The cinders from the hot furnace of defeat and despat may yet contain much live humai fire. The work Gen. Booth started I: a shaft of sunlight amid the darkness and defeat of slum life; Gen. Booth quit a comfortabl< work as an evangelist to make hi home in that nearest approach ti hell, the East Side of London. It I incongruous to hear "Praise Go< from whom all blessings flow" suns to the tune of "Sally in our alley' Stately chorals and dim religiou at all Is to be achieved. If no compromise is agreed to, I one element of the party in its Impa tience (an impatience that is some times not reasonable) refuses an longer to work with the other mor moderate and not less sincere ele ment, a cleavage results and th cause of reform is retarded. Not onl that but there is also the more vita danger of factions taking the plac of party and when that ensues ther results a lasting uncertainty and fre lights appeal to persons of cultur4 They are all gibberish to tramps an outcasts. The Salvation army speak a language that the underworld ca; grasp, and others do not have to lii ten is they prefer not. HERE IS THE TOTAL VOTE. The Governor Polls the Biggest Vot of All Candidates. With all votes in South Carolin counted, except five boxes, which ar still missing at midnight Thursda night, the tabulation is as follows: Blease.. .. ..... .....71,525 Jones .. .... .... . .-66,466 Duncan .. ........ 2,385 Total.. .. .... .....140,375 Blease's majority . . . . 2,674 For U. S. Senate. Tillman .. ...... ...72,035 Talbert.. ...... ...36,533 Dial .... ...... ...27,879 Total .. ... .. .......136,447 Tillman's majority. . . . 7,263 For Attorney-General. Lyon.. .. .. .......60,749 Peeples.. ... .... ...44,866 Earle.. .. .... .....15,02.2 Evans.. .... .......12,585 Total.. .. ... ...133,222 The South Carolina Democratil Committee probably will be called upon to pass on the legality of the ballots cast for governor In the D)em ocratic primary of Tuesday. Govern or Blease, who is seeking re-election on the face of the returns, has woi the nomination. The heavy vote for governor hai called forth much comment, anc there have been frequent charges o irreg 'larities. So far three countiel have recounted the ballots and 1i three more recounts are now going on. In other the Irregularities, of minor nature, were allowed to pass On the face of the returns, Bleast has a majority of 2,674 over his tw< competitors and insures his electior on the first ballot unless some of the vote In thrown out. Senator B. R. Tillman has been re nominated for his fourth term, hav lug received 72,035 votes to 36,531 for W. J. Talbert and 27,879 for N B. Dial. WIL LA.Y COF.NERSTONE. Bishop rilgo Will Be in the City ox September 4. The corner stone of the new Meth odist Sunday school building, which is now being erected next to the St. Paul's Methodist Church, will be laid Wednesday afternoon, September 4. The program for the event has not been announced publicly so far, but it is known that Bishop J. C. Kilgo, of North Carolina, will make the ad dress of the occasion. The program will be announced within the next few days. This new Sunday school building is being erected to take the place of the old building formerly used by the Sunday School. For a long 'time the members of St. Paul's Sunday School felt the necessity of a more Imposing and commodious building, but not until recently did the actual work upon the building start. The new Sunday School room will be a good one, with plenty of room, and will mean g great deal. United States Sends Marines. Undeterred by talk in the Senate ot projected resolutions regarding the constitutionality of the landing of American sailors and marines in Nicaragua, the navy department at the request of the state department Wednesday dispatched peremptory orders to nar yards on two sides of :he continent to rush reinforcements 'the naval forces now located far an the interior of the $nsurrect~f TILlMAN TO BLEAES SENATOR CALLS ON THE GOVER' NOR TO ACT THE MAN 1IVES HIM 0OOD ADVICE Draws Contrast Between Tllmaunim and Bleaseism, and Shows the Dif ference Between the Two-Thanks Old Enemies Without Whose Aid He Would Have Been Defeated. The following letter speaks for it self: Hon. Cole L. Elease, Columbia, S. C My dear Sir: While the returns from the pri mary election are .iot complete I enough is known to make it certain that you and I are re-elected to the high offices we now hold. In every way possible yo -uhave tried to make my old friends among the people believe that you are the representative of Tillmanism, and therefore entitled to be my political heir. Permit me to explain briefly the 3 difference between Tillmanism ani Bleaseism as I understand them Tillmanism means genuine democra cy, the rule of the people-of all the white people, rich and poor alike with special privilege and favors t< none, with equality of opportunit3 and equality of burden to all. It war so understood by the Tillmanites Ix I 1890, and 1892 and it is so under t stood by them still. Bleaseism on the contrary mead1 personal ambition and greed for of fice-the office to be used not for the welfare of all the people and thi State, but office for "Blease and hi, friends. None other need apply." While Tillman as governor did no 3 hesitate to pardon a constable b: telegraph who had been unrighteous ly punished by the liquor element i Charleston for raiding Chicco'; house, Tillman always tried and di4 administer the law equally aid justl: as he understood it. He had no fa vorites and tried to obey the will o the majority of the people even ii t those coynties which had votes against him. He refused appoint ments as trial justice to some of hi bitter political opponents, but the; had not been elected at a primary but were nominated by nis politica enemies in the legislature. Tillman in Washington has neve B asked whether a man from Sout1 I Carolina who has applied to him fo 3 a favor, for promotion or for protec . tion was a Tillmanite or an "anti' S his only purpose being to try to dig cover whether. the man was trust worthy, b,onorable and clean any _ would make good if he got Tillman indorsement. . Sticks in Right Way. I believe in sticking to my friend: governor, but I want to stick b: them in the right way and not in th wrong way as you have e'one. Agai: 7 Tillman said many harsh and bitte I things on the stump because he wa e tantalized and howled at worse tha: e you have ever been, but he alway . tried to. tell the truth, and never uz der the greatest provocation did h threaten to make anybody "swea blood'' or indulge in indecent speech Sblackguardism or vulgarity on th Sstimp. It is not the business of: Sgovernor nor ought it to be permitted to him to threaten his constituent: The law is for he protection of e' ery man and not for a governor friends only. The one thing which gave Tlllmal ethe most concern was dealing wit: petitions for pardon-the life, deatl and liberty of the poor whetches fc a whom the petitions were fied. Bleas e is charged with selling pardon y through his lawyer friends and shar lng the money. Governor, you kno' whether there is any shadow of rea son or foundation for this. I do noi but for your own fame and gooi name as well as for the good nam, of the State you ought to clear thi charge up. You can not afford t' treat It with silent contempt, for will not down that way. Tlllman wa ,iccused of grafting in the dispersary but no proofs were ever adduced o could have ever been produced. HI most effective defense was that thos who charges him with stealing woul have stolen if they had had the sam opportunities as he had. Blease is charged with having vol ed In the legislature as a lawyer for fee rather than as the legislative rep resentative of the peoplc. I have no examined the records and cannot sa: 3whether or not this is true. Other: I can determine for themuselves an< Sconvict or acquit you according t< - the evidence. When the questio: - was asked by the infuriated Tillman. ,ites who felt that they had been be itrayed by their old leader, "What in duced him to do this?" some of then 5 in their rage shouted "he has bee: I bought". Who in South Carolin. iknows what the price of a Tillmar 3 is? In Washington where he ha: Sworked for the last eighteen year: Sfor the State and nation he had op tportunitties almost innumerable t< -get money for official action. Wher She was in charge of the railroad raft Sbill, where there were hundreds oj tmillions and even billions of dollars Sworth of property involved and slight change in the law, which Till -man could have aided to obtain meant untold money for the railroad interests, no one ever hinted nor did anyone ever believe he was approach able as a bribe-taker. It has remain ed for some crazy South Carolinian, drunk with Bleaseism, to hurl thi: suspicion at an old man hovering os the brink f the grave, a man whose purity in private life and whose pur ity as a servant of the people ha: made him above suspicion. Had a Dream. On the night of the election I ha.d a dream, in which something told me "Blease is elected". Becoming fully awake I thought over all the conse quences as the people dreaded them and considered what was~ vest to be done in the event the dream should prove true. I thought of your threat to make the people "swveat blood' and of what it really meant or could possibly mean. The only interpreta tion that occurred to me was that the governor would make a general jail delivery by emptying the penitentiary and turnIng the convicts loose upon society. You have that power, sir. It was given you for purposes 01 mercy and not for the punishment of your fellow citizens. The governor takes an oath to see that the "laws nre eexeuted in mercy". There is in the constitution nothing which per. mits him to trample the law under foot on the pretense os. mercy, and nothing but venality and greed of money can make him place the par doning power in the hands of a law. y :er who charges big fees to obtain pardons. As for pardoning the crim inals by wholesale nobody but a lun atic would do such a thing and no Ibbdyv but a lunatic would threaten It. ILet me beg you to beware what you do and say hereafter. Put a bridle Ion that unlicensed tongue of yours. t o yonaiseTff and-o. owe it to the ! I sive been .trted by the people as well as -you. They have - shown their love and confidence in no uncer tain way 'and I therefore -claim the right to warn and to.o fer to help you in all matters'of pardonasif you will deign to ask :my advice. Nobody in South Carolina will doubt the Justice. of any pardon I recommend. Ti?o is a thankless burden I am willing tc assume foi thepublic welfare, and I do not expect to do.ahir of, the drudg ery of it, but I. know. men'I ban trust whose. honor .an&:.patriotisneire not only alovesuspician, but jho have the r 'e dnd confidence! of their fellow' ha:' I will enlist]t'ae help, if I ca; 10 thess'to examine the peti tions lr oder'tohelp you, but you shall not; s I-.can, prevent it, carry out your to make the people of South "sweat bflood". be cause so of-themhave not been "bambooz ed and debauched" ,by your demagogic appeals. Considde, - governor, what it means to turn loose criminals, murderers and out-throats, and then consider the infamy of bold ly and openly offering to pardon any man who would kill certain people. Don't you see to what criminal folly you have been led to give people the right to think that you will pardon men who assassinate your enemies? Such an infamous idea never entered t any but a 'razy man's brain. I In your desperation attempting to reply to ny indictment of you in the Ferguson letter you were unscrivu i lous enough to say: 'I fear no evil from Senator Till man's letter, except that possibly his mind has become more diseased of late than it was when I had my last talk with his confidential physician." r Everyone knows that you alluded 3 to Dr. Babcock. And a more knight 1 ly gentleman or a more loyal friend - to me never breathed, and I know you had no authority for it. He is 3 not the type of doctor who discusses - his patients and their ailments with & Tom, Dick and Harry. Mind is Stronger. I want to say to you that I know t since my last stroke of paralysis in February, 1910, my memory has been - very much imparied, but the other 1 parts of my brain have gradually and very perceptibly increased in effi i ciency and vigor and I am now fully capable of doing as much work as I - ever did. The only reason why I have felt unwilling to make speeches in the Senate and on the hustings this summer is because I know I can not speak with any force of vigor without turning on the full voltage of the dynamo. Under excitement the blood rushes to the brain for that is the way the mind works. Dr. -Bab cock had warned me that to attempt to make a speech would mean grave danger and the probable bursting of r a blood vessel followed by paralysis or death. Therefore I have refrained and restrained myself, though at times the temptation has been very, very great. But, governor, while my memory is poor the moral fibre in me is as sound as it ever was, and my a patriotism burns with an even bright er flame than wher wy health was vigorous. And my conscience is in !, fine working order, too, I can assure y you. e When I told my wife that I Intend a ed to write an open letter to you and r outlined some of the things I intend s ed to say, she pleaded with me thus: a "Blease is not a wholly bad man. He s is passionate and has been tantalized, abused and misrepresented until he e has lost all sense of responsibility .t and self-control." Recollect, govern , or, this same noble woman has been e rour advocate with me -until your re a cent statement came out about what d occurred last spring in Washington. s. The knows : -u told an untruth and -has never forgiven you. It is in this s spirit I now speak. You have been lied on, slandered and abused almost ci beyond endurance, 'but so was I. I h had courage and self-ontrol enough St.Q rise above it. You have been weak r cnough to surrender to the limpulse e to strike back and to strike below the a belt. .I want those who consider Please vIsm as Tillmanism to take this con trast in consideration when they make up their final judgment. Till Smanism as Tillman preaches it and e has always preached it is noble, high sand elevating. Bleaseism is selfish, a low, dirty and revengeful. t I have bee nvery greatly blessed in s my life and every day I return thanks to the Creator for his many blessings. *The greatest among these has been a s good woman whom God gave me in her youth and purity forty-five years Sago., I have had one grief and that was the knowledge that so many good men in South Carolina seemed implacable and Irreconcilable in their -hatred of me. These men truly and Shonestly hated me as badly as many SSouth Carolinians hate you now, but tthere are more of them In your case Vthan there ever were in mine, thank s God. Honesty compels me to say that you deserve the hate and dis trust in which they hold you. I nev 1er did. You had an opportunity when you went into the governor's -office such as comes to few men in this life. Your inaugural was a great 1disappointment to your rflendadns disappointment to your friends and Lprovoked your enemies to renewed 1 d relentless activity. You had Sshcwn yourself too little and narrow to be gove: nor of any Ste for, may -dear sir,. the governorship is a very high honor Indeed, ,. t it also carries the very heaviest responsibilities. you will recall, when you were elect ed two years ago I wired you congrat ulations and added, "let the heathen Lrage". The heathen have raged, but the righteous have also moaned and their cries are now rising to heaven in accusation of you. One Satisfaction. |Returning to the blessing which have been showered upon me. I have |before I die the satisfaction of know ing, as I now do know, that I have I won the admiration, love and confi dence of the anti-Tillmianies of old, and of the Haskellites even. I owe my re-election to the Senate to these men that came to me when some of my old friends. the "wool-hat one gallus boys" and my fellow citizens Iwho work in the cotton mills were shouting, "crucify him!" "retire him trust him!" etc. My re-election to the Senate is assured and I shall die i'n harness "when the Lord's time comes for me ti go. conscious that all of the good people of the State now appreciate me and realize at last It is a sweet thought to feel that many of the Hlaskellites voted for me, and right here I want to say that "H~askellites"~ ought not to be an epi thet of opprobrium in South Carolina any longer. Judge Haskell and I made friends before he died and I al ways felt that he was a blind fanatic who had been led off into the frenzy of independentism by the same enmo Itions which your election has pro duced. -lHe was a. knightly gentle-| nian and a brave soldier. Peace to I his ashes. Hlask-ellism and Blease ism ought to be burled in the same grave and the world hcir no more of 'either. It is time for South Carolinians to cuit we'mding each otther's feelings, and fighting like cats and dogs. No good can come of It and much harm: has olready comec of it. and more will: follow if we do not realize that a' "ouse divided against itself can not Blease as voted for .ones. They felt It to be their tight as citizens, and many of - them religiously believed that their liberties were in danger, for you, governor, are reportedaa saying that if Jones was elected they would never vote again. Jefferson said once that as between government without newspapers and newspapers without government he would take-the latter for the newspa pers would keep the people informed and they would have intelligence enough to give themselves god gov ernment in some way. Optfnewspa pers in South Carolina havelost sight of the necessity for fair and square dealt with their readers, so much so th they have not the inluence with people that they ought tc have. There is room -for a great many reforms in this particular and I sincerely hope that the editors of the South Carolina"paners': 4i s riously consider how they cangsgaii the confidence- of the people again. So great has been the distrust caused by the dishonesty and partisanshil that hundreds, nay thousands of n friends could not be made to believe that I had written the letter to Fer guson or given out the sta,.me.. t ac companying 'it. I received many many telegrams and letters asking whether it was authetic. This con dition of the public mind has beet brought about by seeing that thi newspapers in their headlines and ii the ,body of the articles themselve distort and color unrighteously th facts. When the people are taugh they can always be trusted, but whet the people distrust the newspaper and believe .them corrupt and dis honest and given to all manner o lying they lose that respect for then that is necessary to preserve fre government. Would Talk to Friends. If I ever get able to speak again : want to go to three counties in Souti arolina and talk to my old friend face to face, Anderson, Laurens an York. You have stolen the love ant confidence of those people-I did no lose it; you stole it. Who woul ever have, believed it possible tha the men who twenty-two years age were so frenzied in their Tillmanisn and worship of Tillman as to un hitch the horses from his carriage and hitch themselves In to drag hin in triumph through the street woul come to distrust, hate and abuse his without cause. -Madame Roland before she wa guillotined exclaimed: "O liberty what crimes are committed in th: name!" Noting the progress whic] has been made toward the demorali zation among the Democrats in Sout] Carolina one can shout, "Oh Democ racy, will the people never learn t know their true friends from the! false leaders, never to distinguish be tween a statesman and a demagogue always listening to flattery and swee words without looking below the sur face and the true inwardness o things and men." To think that th very men for whom I have do) most, the poor farmers andfactor people, should turn and ren dme thi way! I gave them Clemson colleg nd Winthrop. At least I had mor to do with it than ant other one mat I gave them the primary, for I wrot the Democratic State constitujtio: with my own hand in conjunctio: with my brother, G. W. Tillman, an made the rules governing the pri nary and safeguarded in every pot sible way their rights, so that no1 every citizen has a voice In the goi ernment and can protect - himself i he has sense enough. All pleasure and satisfaction in m: re-election to the Senate Is gone ,be cause f the desertion of these oli friends and followers .of mine. 3 makes me doubt seriously whether have not erred greviously in givin; the power ,of self-government t these people and teaching them thei rights. They show such a woeful lac of gratitude. I feel that when I at dead and in the grave that they wil realize and understand the crimina folly of their action and the enormit: of the betrayal of their best friend I know if I could have spoken t them this summer this tragedy coul not have occurred. When these 01 friends have had time to cool off an think it all over they will curse them selves for such base ingratitude, an for their Idiocy In being misled by demagogue. To think that thiey ha been such fools as not to understan and grant the old man's last plea t "die In harness" serving them an servjing the State and nation. Oh, I is pitiful! The W@ject of every true patric should be to pour oil upon the- tron bled waters and bring a return c harmony and go~od will among ou people. "Let us have peace." Ani if that cannot be given us, let us se what a return to decency and sanit; will accomplish. If you clear yourself of the foul ac cusations made against you In tha governor's office and will -pursue: wholly different policy hereafter there is some future for you in the State yet. If you do not, your nami will go down in history as the ver: worst native South Carolinian wha was ever governor. Moses not ex cepted. I repeat you are "emninentl: qualified to be governor as far a brains go,'' and if you reform ani make good In the two years you hay yet to serve in that office the peopl may forgive you. But you must b governor of the whole people and no of your friends alone and they wil take care of your future destiny, al ways supposing that you, clear your sel of the infamous charges that hayi been brought against you. For un less you do, that you can never hop< to aspire to higher promotion, for the people of South Carolina will nevel send to Washington a man-not abov4 suspicion. Your destiny Is largely II your hands, governor. For the hon. or of the State I hope you can ani will clear yourself. May God forgivi you for the sins you have commnittec against yourself and the people o: this State. Goy. DBase, you are given anothel opportunity. Will you make use oj It and show that you are a man and not a demon! Put the devil behinc you an dbe the governor of all the people instead of your friends alone; conques yourself and instead of beini the governor of 72.000 become thE governor of the 140.000 men in Soutl Carolina! If you do this, thie "heath en will quit raging'', while the right eous will rejoice. You have the brains. Make use of them instead 0: giving way to your evil passions. ] do assure you that you will die happier man if you will follow thi! advice. Conquer your enmies by kindness and justice. You can noi conquer them in any other way. B. R. Tillman. Trenton. August 3J0. Volcanoes Run Whales. Ala skan volcanic disturbances are held indirectly responsible for the shortage of whales on the North Pa effic coast by the captains of whaling vessels. They say that the disturb ances have made changes In ocean r'urrents which for a time may have diverted the smna'l fishfrom the food supply of the whale. Turks Kill More Christians. More massacres of Christians by Turkish treops on the Albanian frontier continue to be reported, but th'e MontenegrIn government is ~training its utmost to give effect :o the peaceful councils of the rep tepsentatives here of the European Power!. IN ANDERSON AND OTHER COUN TIES'AVE BEEN MADE FUTESTES ARE FILED Many Irregularities Alleged in Con nection With Anderson Vote. Recounts In Newberry, Aiken, Une. ion and Dorchester also Asked, jr. -26Naties Being Charged in Al. -The unusually heavy vote for Gov ernor has caused a great deal of com ment and many charges of irregulari ties have been made. In Anderson County a formal protest has been fIi ed, on behalf of Judge Ira. B. .Jones, with the County Executive -Commit tee. Similar action has been taken in Union. Charges of irregularities have also been made in Aiken, Newberry-and Dorchester counties, although no for-. mal protests have yet been filed. The State Executive Committee Fri day. and adjourned until next. week so as the recounts and other preliminaries are arranged in several counties for a contest - Protest Filed In And A dispatch from Anderson a J. M. Sullivan, manager of Jones hex ..,. quarters in Anderson County, Thurs day filed notice of cotests with the county executive committee. The protest was filed in the name of Ira B. Jones and among other things L says: "That your petitioner respectfully I protests the result of the election I held in the county of Anderson and t contests every election box in- said i county, and respectfully begs your t committee to revise the results or declare the same void on. account -of I many irregularities and for fraud, as - follows: "1. That many persons were allow 1 ed to vote In said election who were I not of lawful age. 1 "2. That many ballots were voted for State officers that were deposited B in the boxes provided for county om V "3. That many persons voted at 1 more than one precinct in said ceun 1 ^4. That many persons were al - lowed to vote and did vote whose ) names were not on the club rolls oo r cording to the rules and regulations - of the Democratic party. - "5. That many persons were al t lowed to vote who 'were non real - dents of this State and had n'ot been f residents of this State the required B time. .--"T. That-"many persoin were al V lowed to vote who were non-resdeiata B of the county and many who had not e resided in the county the time re e quired. by the laws of the party. - "7. That many persons were al. e lowed to vote who are unnaturalized I and not citizens of the State- and 1 country, contrary to the laws og the 1 State of South Carolina." Protests from Citizens. A notice of contest, signed by SS citizens of -Anderson County, ,of all f State and county boxes-of Anderson. was filed with the executive commit tee, the following grounds being named: "1. A greater number of ballots in t the boxes than appeared on the poll-. I ing lists. "2. The voting of non-residents. "3. The voting of -those who have r not Iived in the county and State the Slength of time required by the party Sconstitution. 1 "4. The voting of minors. 1"5. Voting more than one timt by Senrolling'in two or more clubs. "6. The counting of ballots plac ed in the wrong boxes." Governor Blease was represented before the executive committee by SAttorneys Zurtz P. Smith and A. H. -Dagnall. It .Is 'understood that SJudge Jones will be represented by several attorneys at the meeting of the committee Saturday. The execu tive committee set ten o'clock Satur day morning as the time to hear the 'contests for State and county boxes. t Ehe contest for each box wili be heard separately, and 'each box will be act. t ed on separately. - ASLEEP ON TBACKES. i Two negroes Meet Horrible Death in - - Georgia. . Engineer Lack, ,who was driving the Georgia Southern and Florida - train which ran over and killed two negroes near Fargo Monday morn- - ing, mistook the bodies of the men on the track for buzzards which ap peared to be in the act of rising on their wings. . The accident occurred on a curve and at a point where tall weeds on each sIde of the road obstructed a clear view. The men were lying flat on their backs with their knees stick ing up above the weeks looking like buzzards poised for flight. The en-. gineer asked his fireman what Vpe objects were and the fireman thought -they were birds. In a fraction of a minute the train- had sped on Its way and over the bodies of the men before the engineer realized what they were. Three negroes were sleeping on the track, but on of them awoke and rolled from the track an instant~ be fore the train reached the point. A second awoke and made an effort to - get away, but was caugnt and both his legs cut off. The third man prob ably never knew what hit him. NEW USE FOR EGGS. A Girl Gets Two Proposals Through Their Use. A girl on a farm neat Topeka, Kan., whence eggs are shipped as far east as Hackensack, N. J., ha.s a fondness for the romance of eggshell acquaintance. Her name and address on two eggs fell into the hands of Theodore SI dare and George Zile, warm friehds, who room and board together. Neith er of the young men told the other of the discovery but started a cor respondence which resulted In each receiving the girl's photograph and many letters. Finally two proposals were sent westward and each brought a letter of acceptance. One evening recently eoch of the men accused the other of being love sick, whereupon the confessions were forthcoming that each was the vic tim at the same eggshell romance. Neither conceding that the other had really won the girl's heart, both are . making preparations to go west and let her decide which it will be. Th* laser is to be the best man. 1. - To Create New American Cardinal. The pope is about to create a new American cardinal, who is to reside in Rome, according to a special dis patched received at Paris, France Wednesday. The 'American cardinal will occupy a position similar to that of the prelates representing France and Spain In Rcm\ It Ig stated the pope will later creato a eardinal la