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THAT ALEN DILL DIPLOMATIC STRUGGLE ABOUT TO COMMENCE MAY 5O TO THE COURTS Japanese Embassy Handed Copy of California's Alien Bill-Ambassa dor Will Prepare Formal Protest Other Alleged Violation of Trea ties Being Discussed. The Japanese embassy was sup plied by the State department Mon day with a copy of the alien land owning bill passed by the California Legislature and the ambassador will employet'' time between now and Secretary Bryan's return to Washing ton in preparing a formal protest against measure. Apparently the embassy has no hope that any word President Wilson may send after Sec retary Bryan returns will influence Governor Johnson to withhold his signature from the Act, so the only object of the protest will be to ac quaint the American people with the Japanese contention, and, if possible, to influence the executive branch of the Government to endeavor to nulli fy the action of the California Legis lature. The embassy will make known the ground of its protest in a diplomatic note to Secretary Bryan. It is well understood that to settle the question no matter what may be the point of objection, will require the action of the United States Courts and much consideration must be given to the procedure to be followed in arrang ing for a judicial test of the Cali fornia law. It will be for Secretary Bryan to determine whether the Uni ted States Government itself shall be come a party to a suit of this kind, in the capacity of an intervener. In ternational lawyers hint that the Ad ministration is in an exceedingly del icate position for the reason that, while apparently a champion of the Japanese through the Secretary of State before the California Legisla ture, probably from this point on it must defend the California law against Japan In the diplomatic struggle about to begin. If the department should adopt the California contention that the land lanw does not violate the existing treaty with Japan, then it might feel bound to refuse to submit the issue to arbitration by The Hague Tribu nal. Furthermore, it is contended that the United States Government probably would be unable to enforce the decree of the Tribunal In case it should be adverse to California, if the American Courts found that the State acted within its rights In enact ing the law. No case has yet been found where the Supreme Court has passed upon the relative force of a treaty which Invades the reserved constitutional powers of a sovereign State and of a conflicting law of such State. So the State department has nothing to guide it in that direction a'nd probably must establish a prece dent in disposing of this Issue. It developed IMonday that, as a re suit of the centering of attention up oni' the California situation, a number of the diplomatic representatives In Washington have been Informally discussing the conferring over alleg ed violations of treaties by many States of the Union. Violations are said to have occurred particularly in connection with cases involving the disposition of the property of aliens who have died intestate In this coun try and In which local State Courts have taken jurisdiction in defiance of treaties. Altogether there are indIcations of a feeling of unrest that may lead t demands upon the National Govern ment- which could not be complied with without a general rearrange ment of the functions of the State overnments, so far as they concern aliens. McMANIGAL TO ALTER FACE. Confessed Dynamiter Hopes to Avoid Recognition When Liberated. Ortie E. McManigal, confessed dy namiter. plans to have his appearance altered by surgery when he is set free. -It is reported his release from the county jail In Los Angel'es, Cal., * may- be granted at any time, and Mc Mtnigal hopes to so change himself that no one will know him as the * man whose testimony sent the McNa mara .brothers and more than a score of labor union officials to prison. De tectives say his release iiill be kept secret to aid him:* Ropemaker Slept 77 Days. Leon Jean, a ropemaker of Cher bourg, France woke up to find him self in a hospital Instead of at hi . home. He was further amazed when told he had slept continuously for 77 days. Jean could not be awaken ed on Feb. 6, and he was sent to a hospital by members of his family. His present health is good.* Blinded by Wood Alcohol. Thirteen persons in the State of New York were made blind for life and four others were killed during the past twelve months, either by drinking wood alcohol or inhaling its poisonous fumes, according to the fourth annual report of the New York committee on the prevention of blindness. Rev. J. L. Harley is reported to have said in a speech at Sumter Wed nesday night "that the 'whiskey trust' has secret agents in every dry county in the South. They pay poll tax to register negroes to enable the trust to purchase negro votes against prohibition. Also registering ignor ant foreigners for the same purpose." If there is such a man in Orangeburg County he should be jailed at once. In a speech at Sumter Wednesday night Rev. J. L. Harley said that the "'whiskey trust' has a paid attorney in every county seat in the Southern dry counties, getting $25 to $50 a day to draw up and have circulated .'petition~s for dispensary elections and look after whiskey ring interests." Who is the attorney here? SAYS WAR WILL COME. JAPAN WILL LAND TROOPS HERE IN SIX WEEKS. This is the View Taken by a Promi neat States Right Democratic Sen ator. "It would be not at all surprising if Japan landed troops in California inside of thirty days or si weeks," declared a prominent Democratic senator Monday .when he heard that the California senate had "railroad ed" a speedy passage the anti-alien land bill. The senator who gave voice to this alarming statement is in no sense pessimist, nor is he one of those who condemn the attitude of the Cal ifornians toward the Japanese. He is a strong states-righter and believes that California has the right to deal with the question as it sees fit. "Japan could easily land 250,000 soldiers in California within a few weeks," he continued. "The Mikado could take possession of the state and all its resources and industries and soon pay off the big war indebt edness which some persons believe is one of the things that will prevent the Japanese from fighting the Unit ed States at this time. "War between the United States and Japan is inevitable soonor or later. The Japanese must recognize this fact as we do in this country, and now is the most inopportune time for us and the most opportune time for Japan to strike. We could not repel an invading army at this time. It would require fully a year for us 'to develop our army, and it is out of the question to suppose that the national guard could beat them back. "It would require three years or more for us to drive the Japs from our soil if they land, but eventually we would conquer them and in time we could and should take Tokio." GRACE WILL MAKE FIGHT. Report Is He Will Oppose the Seat ing of Whaley. It was reported in Washington on Monday that Mayor John P. Grace of Charleston intends to oppose the seating of in the House of Congress man R. S. Whaley nominated in a primary and later elected as repre sentative from the First district in a special election ordered Yor the pur pose. Mr. Grace came to Washing ton Saturday with his law partner, W. Turner Logan, and from all that could be learned there has been en gaged in looking up precedents and securing data to be used when the South Carolina congressman-elect presents himself before the speaker's lesk in a few days and announces that he is ready to take-the oath of office and be sworn in. SAYS BRYA NWILL RUN. Senator Martine Thinks He Would be Surely Elected. William J. Bryan is a candidate for the prenidency in 1916 and noth ing can prevent his election, accord ing to Senator James F. Martine, of New Jersey, who was at St. Louis tc attend the dedication of the Jefferson mmorial. Mr. Martine said the one term plank in the Democratic plat form would prevent President Wil son's renomination. "Bryan will be the logical candidate," he said. "Peo ple have come to know and to under stand him better. People think that he has become more stable in his views, struck an equilibrium, as it were. The fact Is, that Mr. Bryan is just as radical to-day as he was twenty years ago, but the people have grown up to him." DUNCAN OBJECTS TO WOODS. Protest From Disbarred Lawyer May Delay Confirmation. A Washington dispatch says a pro test has been filed with the Senate judiciary committee by John T. Dun can, of Columbia, who is weli known in political circles in South Carolina, against the confirmation of Justice Charles A. Woods to succeed Sena tor Goff on the Federal bench in the Fourth judicial circuit. Duncan charges that, in the proceedings which resulted in his disbarment as a lawyer several years ago by the South Carolina Supreme Court, Jus tice Woods, as a member of that Court, was actuated by bias against him. It Is not thought that the pro test will have any effect. Children Are Betrothed. Clara Carter Mallett and Mallett Carter, born in the same flat at East St. Louis Thursday, are engaged to marry. The children are each five days old and the weading 1s scheduled to take place many years hence. It seemed so remarkable to the parents of the children that the stork should visit both homes with in four hours, that "they agreed to bring up the childern in the knowl: edge that they were betrothed. Jail Breakers Given Dose. Among the sinners who appeared before his Honor, Mayor Sain ,on L~onday morning, wore Josh Taylor and Robert Kearse, two of the three negroes who broke out of the guard house in this city, and who were ap prehended recently. They were con victed of jail breaking and sentenc ed to pay a fine of fifty dollars each or serve thirty days on the chain Thinks He's a Dog Once a Year. W. H. Hedgepeth, an Oklahoma armer, while mentally unbalanced, jumped from a moving car at Atchi on, Kan. He told officers that once a year, late in April, he became in sane and imagines he is a dog until :he spell has passed. He attributes he trouble to the fact that his moth r became terror-stricken when a .dog ttacked her.* "Pistol Toting" a Felony. "Pistol toting" was made a felony n Ohio Monday when Governor Cox pproved the Williams' bill.: Police fficers, employees of express com panies and others who guard large urn of mony na erempted. MAKE CLEAN SPEEP DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY PASSES TARIFF BILL INOME TAX Bill NEXT Payne's Amendment to Create Tariff Commission Precipitates Lively De bate Before it is Killed.-Hull Pre pares to Protect Income Tax Fea ture Against Amendment. The overwhelming Democratic ma jority in the House Tuesday swept through the free list, bowled over all opposition to free wool, free meats and other necessities and passed on to consideration of the hundred mil lion dollar income tax feature of the Underwood tariff bill. Not a cent made in the bill as approved by the ways and means committee majority. It was expected the measure would be passed unamended by the House by to-morrow. All day there was sparring across the aisle dividing the Democrats and the Republicans. LMany amendments were offered by Republicans in for lorn efifort to put many free listed articles back on the dutiable list, but all were voted down with a regulari ty that brought smiles from the min ority; finally when the last of these proposed changes had been rejected, Representative Payne precipitated a lively rules fight 'by offering a brand new amendment to create a tariff commission. Instantly all the parliamentary sharps on both sides were astir. Speaker Clark sat next to Democra tic Leader Underwood at the front of the speaker's rostrum where Mr. Underwood has been conducting con sideration of the bill. Representa tive Fitzgerald, of New York, rushed in from the appropriations committee armed with precedents and followed by Representatives Shirley, of Ken tucky, and Hardwick, of Georgia, who joined in the majority protest against admitting the amendment. On the Republican side, Leader Mann, Representative Gardner, of Massachusetts, Representative Payne of New York, and others conferred and addressed the House. It was all over quickly, Represen tative Garrett, of Tennessee, in the chair, sustaining a point of order made by Mr. Underwood'that the tar iff commission amendment was not germane to the 'bill. When Repre sentative Mann appealed from the decision the House sustained the chair, 164 to 87. Regresentative Hull, of Tennessee, chief draftsman of the income tax feature of the tariff bill, prepared to night to assist a campaign by the mi nority to amend the details of the proposed law. He expected a sharp fight on behalf of the mutual fire in surance companies, which would be taxed 1 per cent under the measure. Provisions affecting almost verQtatim from the corporation tax law already in effect, 'but to avoid any possible question, a committee amendment was prepared to eliminate even the slightest variation from the existing law. -AFTER THE BLID TIGERS. Sheriff of Calhoun County Keeps Them on the Move. A dispatch to The State from St. Matthews says Sheriff Hill Is far from beijig a blind tiger, but he is running them just the same. The way the sheriff runs them (they are plural in number), he keeps the tiger on the go and gives them a warm chase eith er until be captures the tiger or his precious liquor, or the tiger quits business. Early in the year Sheriff Hill serv ed notice upon evildoers in the liquor business that he was no friend to whiskey. Since then he has made a number of seizures and arrests. Ship ments began to come heavily under fictitious names. The sheriff told rail way and express agents that the de livery of such packages would .bring them trouble. Consequently a great deal of it has ,been returned for lack of proper identification. Wednesday word came that the de pot at Creston was being imposed up on by fictitious persons, Sheriff Hill went down, and after satisfying him self that no such persons as the ones addressed would be found he lay seige and captured 100 pints of va rious brands, kinds and colors, If no one establishes a proper ownership, "pour out day" will be observed in St. Matthews with all Its tempting and regretful ceremonies. Moved Where Jail Was Handy. A new reason for living in a big city was given by Violet Piotrowski, of Detroit, Mich., who appeared against her father, who was charged with drunkenness. Until recently the family lived in a small town in Ohio but moved to Detroit In order that her father might be jailed for his sprees, the police facilities of minor municipalities not 'being sufficient to accomplish his correction. The court issued a warrant for non-support. * Several Children Drown. When an overloaded rowboat sprang a leak in the Charles river and sank, six of its eight occupants. three girls and three boys, all of Cambridge, Mass., were drowned. The other .boys, the only ones in the party able to swim, were saved. The boys hired a 'boat made to hold only four or five, crowded into it and then started down the river. Mule Died With Rabies. A mule belonging to Mr. L. C. Tisdale, of the Brick Church section of Sumter county, below Mayesville, died of 'hydrophobia Monday. The animal .began to act queerly Sunday, biting a calf, and biting at everything near it. The calf has been shut up for observation. The Secretary of War has ordered all saloons in the Panama Canal zone closed. This is not a result of senti ment. It is good sense. Whiskey is an evil and only an evil. And the government has seen the evil effects f Its sale In the Canal Zone. The government Is to be commended for TWENTY BLUSHING BRIDES. Scottish and Irish Lassies Come Over to Get Married. At New York Monday twenty blushing brides ran down the gang plank of the steamship California into the arms of twenty eager bride grooms. Gladness reigned until the immigration authorities found that eight of the girls could not prove their identity and told them they could not remain unless they were married at Ellis Island, the immigra tion detention station. When the other t , heard this they said they Id 11 stand together and the ;e. " l :t for the island to find a ce L, The prospective brides came otland and Ireland and the imir .ration authorities said they were the prettiest as well as the largest company that ever came here to be married. Not Like the Old Way. Representative Underwood, in the eyes of Republican leaders of the House and Senate, can never be a fit person to be intrusted with the hand ling of a tariff bill. When it was thrown in his face that he was in terested in the pig-iron business in Alabama, he showed that in the Un derwood bill the duty on pig-iron had been cut 50 per cent. "The time has passed," he said, "when the laws of this country shall be written for spe cial interests, when men may come to this Congress and ask for legislation that shall convert the dollar from the pockets of the American people into their own pockets." Such talk as that proved conclusively to the Re publicans, who believes that certain interests have a perfect right to rob the masses, that Underwood would not do. That was not the way when the Payne Tariff bill was before Con gress; when Senator Warren of Wyoming. "the greatest shep herd since Abraham," for personal reasons fought to prevent any change in the forty-year-old duties on wool, or when Senator Scott of West Vir ginia exhibited glassware from his own factory in the Senate chamber and- demanded that high duties be re tained for his own special protection, >r when Senator Guggenheim of Col orado in the metals schedule voted for his own pocket all the time, or when Senator Lippitt of Rhode Is land, a cotton manufacturer, oppos ed reduction of cotton goods duties, or when Senator Penrose of Pennsyl vania indignantly denied any obliga tion upon any honorable Senator to sit there like "a Stoughton bottle" because his private interests were af fected by a tariff bill, says The New York World. The Republicans can't understand how Underwood can fav or a tariff that cuts down his own profits from iron. PLANS TO RETURN RIBLE. William Gaillard Dozier the Owner of the Book. The Washington correspondent of The State says Senator William Ald en Smith of Michigan has called upon Senator Smith of South Carolina to aid him in locating the relatives of Win. Gaillard Dozier, apparentiy - an officer in the Confederate States navy, in order that a Bible captured at Sailor's Creek on April 6, 1865, 'may be restored to his family. The Bible is now in the possession of Joseph Kinyon, who was a soldier in the War Between the Sections in Company I, Twenty-sixth Michigan infantry. Senator Smith of 'South Carolina has taken the matter up with A. S. Salley, secretary of South Carolina 'historical commission, in the hope of ascertaining the identity of the relatives of Mr. Gaillard. PARDONS THREE NEGROES. Governor Blease Turns Three More Convicts Loose. The Governor Monday paroled Sing Smith, colored, who was con victed of assault and .battery with in tent to kill at the February, 1913, term of Court for Abbeville County and sentenced to one year on the chain gang. The parole was recom mended by the party whom Smith shot and was signed by a number of citizens. The Governor issued a pa role to Henry Roberts, alias Henry Johnson, colored, who was convicted of manslaughter at Dillon in 1911 and sentenced to fifteen years' im prisonment. The commutation was recommended by Judge Copes and a number of officers and citizens of Dil on County. Died From His Wounds. Dr. S. C. NMoore, who was wounded by Richard Austin, the negro des perado, In a running fight in Hamp ton County last Wednesday aifter noon, died at a Columbia hospital early Sunday morning, making the third victim of the negro who is now being hunted. The others kill ed by the negro were J. Frank Bow ers ad Magistrate Edenfield. Girl Gets $15,000 for Toes. Wheeled into court in an arm chair, Miss Warina Starck, a school teacher of Hollywood, Cal., heard the verdict awarding her $15,000 in her suit against the Pacific Electric com pany for the loss of two toes. She was injured in a car crash a year ago. Witnesses testified her chances of marriage were lessened by the acci dent.. * Gopher Killed by Golfer. The Eastern golfer whose drive caught a bird iil the air and killed it has nothing on Willis R. Armstrong, a banker of Colorado Springs, Colo. A ball driven by Armstrong-struck a gopher squarely on the head, killing the little animal. The gopher had only his head out of the ground when Armstrong topped his drive. * It Couldn't be Done. Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But with a chuckle replied: That "maybe it couldn't", but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till 'he'd tried. So he buckled right in. with a trace of a grin On his face. If he worried. he hid Man' Can't Be Found. All McCormick is stirred over the disadearance of John L. Talbert, no of the leading business men of hat town, which took place about USED MEN AS SAND BAGS TO STOP T 'rcH OF WATER AND SAVE TilE LEVEE. Colored Men Risk Their Lives in Suc cessful Effort to Close Breach in the River Bank. Quick work by determined farm ers and a small .bunch of willing ne groes who were thrown into an in cipient crevasse in the absence of sand bags saved another disaster along the turbulent Mississippi river. The dozen negroes who lay in the gap of the Paydras levee, holding back the water until sand bags could be filled to take their places, risked their lives, but spved the day when It appeared hopeless to even try to hold the fast crumbling embank ment. The Poydras levee, which is only 13 miles south of New Orleans, be gan to cave rapidly shortly after five o'clock Saturday morning. When the caving was discovered the entire bat ture in front of the Poydras store, 100 feet wide and extending from the levee to the river bank 200 feet out, had caved and a small gap in the levee had gone. The alarm was giv en and within twenty minutes a score of negroes were brought up by a planter who lives a few hundred yards south of the scene. The levee was caving rapidly and when this small force arrived water about two Inches deep was pouring over the em bankment. It seemed too late to prevent the crash. A desperate chance was tak en when two. 12-inch boards were put along the top of the broken levee and a dozen negroes accepted the task of holding it in place. These human sand bags might be taken with the very next slice of the levee, but they held on until a row of bags filled with dirt were put in place behind the boards. Other (bags were hastily slipped into the gap and soon a hun dred more negroes and white men. were working like ants filling sacks and carrying the filled bags to the gap. Then, without warning, the stretch of the levee crown where the human sand bags lay a few moments before fell away to the depth of 28 feet. A second row of bags held the water back and within an hour 2,000 of the dirt-filled sacks were in place and the caving was temporarily checked and, for the time, the levee was saved. RURAL POLICEMAN KILLED. Sumter County Much Aroused Over the Fatal Shooting. A Sumter dispatch says the body of A. M. Bateman, who died at the Sumter Hospital Sunday as the result of wounds received at the hands of T. B. Oaughman Saturday, was taken to 'Horeb Baptist Church, near Dal zel, and buried IMonday afternoon. Mr. Bateman was about thirty years of age and leaves a wife and several small ohildren. The people of the Dalzel section are much aroused over the shooting. It Is said that Bate man was shot in the back. Bate man made a dying declaration as to the shooting, but this is being with held from the public. Caughman is still in jail. The dead man was a rural policeman and tried to arrest Caughman and was shot by him. WANTS BUREAU BACK. Lever Trying to Get Internal Reve nue Collector Here. Congressman Lever recently called upon the new commissioner of in ternal revenue, Col. W H1. Osborne, and had a very satisfactory discus sion with him, in which the prelim inary basis 'for further conferences with respect to the revenue bureau for South Carolina with headquar ters at Columbia, was laid. No defi nite agreement was reached by Mr. Lever and Col. Osborne, but it is known that a careful consideration is being given to the recent reorgan ization of the internal revenue dis tricts which eleminated four of them, consolidating the South Carolina work with the state of North Caro lina. BORDEN FINDS DAUGHTER. Missing Child of Millionaire Sought to Escape Discinpline. Miss Romana (Borden, daughter of Gall Borden, millionaire condensed milk dealer in New York city, was re stored to her father In Boston, Mass., by detectives this week. Her father now is planning to place her under medical care in some quiet retreat where she may recover from the phy sical and nervous strain she was un der during her flight. Miss Borden escaped from a sani tarium at Pompton Lakes, N. J., when she felt that the discipline to which she was being subjected was too irksome and a real punishment. She was sent to the school because she had run away to Washington~ a few weeks ago against her father's wishes. * Chick's Eyes Number Three. Henry Thompson. of Washington, Pa., is the'owner of what he believes to be the only three-eyed chick in ex istence. The fluffy little freak is live ly and bids fair the become a goodly specimen of the feathered tribe of bipeds. The extra optic is located, just above one of the ordinary eyes and is perfectly formed.* Baby Swallowed a Nail. Boyce Stewart, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Stewart, of near Gowensville, swallowed an eight-penny nail with which he was playing last Saturday. The baby has suffered no apparent inconvenience, but his parents have been greatly alarmed. Jumped to His Death. The anarchist assassin of King1 George jumped from a window in the police building Tuesday and was crushed to death on the pavement Dr. Wiley does not agree with Dr., Osler. He says the world's greatest benefactors are men -over sixty years (SSAIL THE TRUSTS MPUiNS JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER'S MOTIVES WAKES BITTER SPEECH says the Effort to Incorporate the Rockefeller Foundation is a Pro posal to Farm Out to Him and Associates the Right to Educate the People on Tainted Money. Efforts in congress to incorporate .he $100,000,000 Rockefeller Foun lation were scored Monday by Sena ,or Works who declared them a "pro >osal to 'farm out' to John D. Rocke eller and his associates the right Ld power to educates the people of he country with money accumulat d by criminal means." Senator Works' statement was made in con fection with a speech he delivered n the Senate Monday on trusts and :mbination, the existence of which ie blamed the high protective tariff >olicy. "The extent to which this may be tarried out is practically unlimited. rhe corporations and institutions of earning 'which may be established hroughout the country in the hands >f people who will be subservient to :o the interests and views of Mr. Rockefeller and his associates are without number of limitation," said :he senator. We do not want our children to be aught the ways nor the methods of ohn D. Rockefeller or his kind, nor ,o be generous with ill-gotten gains, old that should blister the fingers f the man who has accumulated it by extortion, oppression, and crime, md is now attempting to rid himself )f it by giving it away, nor to be 3ome the receivers of stolen goods in the name and lunder the guise of :harity." The continued existence of trusts and monopolies, the senator said, was due to the inadequacy of the Sherman anti-trust law which he de clared should be so amended that specific restraints of trade shall be unlawful with suitable punishment for those who violate the law. While he was not in favor of a high pro tective tariff which fostered capitalis tic combination, he said he would be in favor of an effort to protect the wage earner in his earnings and that he .believed it would be "an excellent thing to harmonize the tariff and wages". "The Interstate Commerce Com mission," continued the senator, "should be allowed to determine whether fair wages are being paid by any concern; and if not, to com pel the employer employing foreign laborers and paying European wages to pay the same tariff on its manu factured goods that are enforced against foreign Importations until its wages are Increased to a fair scale for American workmen. If a higher tariff did in fact protect the wage earner I would cheenfully stand for Its continuance, even at the expense of higher prices to the con sumer. The evident purpose of the so-called tariff experts is, so far as progress has been made, to deprive the farmers, who are themselves la boring men and wage earners in most cases, of all protection and preserve it to the trust and millionaire man ufacturers and business men can compete with the world and make profits. They can and do sell their goods cheaper than at home. With the farmer, In many cases, it Is dif ferent. "The wage earner must -be proteet ed in his earnings and reasonable hours of laibor, the consumer in rea sonable prices,, and the whole people must be protected in their Independ ence and liberty. Equality of all men must be made a reality and not a theory. If the T -nocratic party can and will accomplish these re suIts, demanded .by the people, it may ive and maintain Itself in power. If it does not, Its reign will be brief. If neither of .the old parties can or will restore the government to the people as our forefathers handed. it down, then a new party will be rais ed up that will do the people's will. it will be a party of the people's own making, founded on justice, fair dealing, and disinterested patriotism. I am ready to -give the Democratic party a fair trial. I am willing to wait and see and to lend my aid to that rarty or any other to bring about just and beneficient laws throsh and by which the whole peo ple may be brought into their own and their just .rights fostered and protected." I I Dostors Made Mistake. After being ill a year and a half. during which time doctors thought the child was suffering from tuber culosis four-year-old Johnny Cooper, of El Paso. Texas, was Tuesday dis covered to have a ten-penny nail in his throat. The discovery was made by means of an X-ray. The nail was removed easily. Death Rather Than Separation. Declaring that she preferred death to separation from her two children, Mrs. Martha E. Ettie, of York, Pa., committed to prison last Saturday on i charge of larceny, won release Mon lay by a "hunger strike". Mrs. Ettlie bad taken her children. agedl 0 and 10 to jail with her but they were re noved by a children's society. President Wilson has defeated President Taft's plan to keep Repub icans in fourth class post offices by etting aside the order putting them inder civil service rules. These of ices will be filled by competitive ex iminations an'1 then put under the :ivil service rules. This is the time of school closings. Ve wish all the young people a hap > vacation. The young man who gambles is urning his candle at both ends, and ill soon be in total darkness. A Washington dispatch says the ~grcultural department is alarmed t the thre-atened Invasion on these ores by the pink boll worm. The weather got decidedly cool .fter the rain Wednesday night. hat was about the last gasp of old IPowJ rELY PuIAs Powder made from .ream of Tartar home-baked foods aity at minimum home baking ad proftable ,DOES NOT FEAR BILL SENATOR TLIMAN FAVORS RE DUCING TARIFF. n Says the Democratic Party is Cote, E mitted to a Reduction of the Duties d . on Goods. t United States Senator B. R. Till man does not fear any disaster to the indutsrial conditions in the South as r the result of the new tariff measure, 3 but from a letter he wrote to T. M. .s Norris, a cotton manufacturer of t Cateechee, he is willing to make a e test for the show-down. The party s is committed to a reduction of the . tariff downward, says the Senator, 3' and there is little prospect of getting d the Senate to change the -bill. To e Mr. Norris Senator Tillman wrrote: e "My Dear Mr. Norris: I have yours t of April 30, and almost every cotton y mill man in the state has bombarded s me with telegrams yesterday and last e night. I presented them in the Sen 0 ate this morning as petitions, and n they were referred to the finance d committee which deals with the tar d iff schedules. "I am afraid there is little ~or no t prospect for help in the Senate to F change the tariff bill as it will come or from the House. But the Democratic >r party is committed to tariff revision downward, and if we are going to 1e have soup houses and a general shut it down the sooner the better. 1e "I am urging my colleagues to n pass the bill promptly and get it on is the statute books in order to let ,the LYJ medicine begin to work. I do not f believe that disastrous times as it you seem to anticipate will come. I 1e think you must be influenced by your is Northern correspondents who are in Ly the same business as you. A "Assuring you of my deep interest r- in the welfare of -the manufacturing d industry in South Carolina and my Ed 'willingness to <do anything in my tpower, I am very sincerely yourTs, Le "B. IL Tillman." JOGive the new tariff a trial before you knock It. e President Wilson i~s a good'hand at Le healing IncipIent breaches in the par re ty ranks. at The House passed the tariff with a re whoop on Thursday. Now let the it Senate do the same thing. ~Senator Tillman hits the nail .squarely on the head in the article rwe publish on the first page. itThe Atlanta Journal says that a 0woman will jump to a conclusion while a man is crawling to It. The Summerville Advertiser thinks - one of 'the Ironies of life is a bald 'IC headed barber trying to sell you a o hair tonic. ie Senator Tillman is right about the - electlon in the First District. Some It thing must .be done to make the pri - mary election fair and square. y Much to the disgust of some people d President Wilson refuses to Ignore > the recommendation of Senators and Congressmen of persons to oece. id We hope President Wilson's sug re gestion to take up the currency and 0 reform It will be adopted by Con a gress. It is one of the reforms that le is badly needed. Ey The referee plan of selecting of y ficials throughout the South was in >r augurated by the Republicans to t- keep their friends in office is wrong L because it is undemocratic. Le The Greensboro News claims that ;e Ananias had nothing on that New York .bigamist who tried to explain ts matters the other day by saying that ) he forgot that he had his first wife. te An exchange referred to May 2 as. Lt the hottest May 2 in history. "If the editor had been with this scribe -at Chancellorsville on the same date 'sin 1863 he would revise the record," t replies The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. Reports from Washington are to h the effect that Capt. W. .E. Gonzales, of The State, will be appointed min sister to Cuba. It would be a most e appropriate appointment, and no - doubt most acceptable to Capt. Gonl - ales. s5 We have heard it asserted that It - cbst Mr. Whaley and his friends e over forty thousand dollars to get him elected to Congress. If it Is true, that is a 'big price to pay for a d fifteen-thousand-dollar job. But, is t true? s Some few editors in the South i seem to be in favor of the referee ?plan of selecting public officials in e stead of having them selected by the Senators and Congressmen. These editors no doubt would expect to .be the referees. t It is an old and a favorite trick of I the protected industries to shut downi .plants and reduce wages when tariff revision is talked of or undertaken, ,but Secretary Redfleld has given n'o - tice that all such "shut downs" now will be investigated by his depart The only Baking Royal Grape 4 Makes delicious of maximum qv cost Makes pleasant a Kettle Calling Pot Black. If all the reports from Charlesto about the late congressional electio down there are true, the fight c Mayor Grace, who supported Hughes against Whaley is a clear case of kel tle calling pot black, and is not likel to have much weight with Congress The fight on Whaley is being made o the ground that he bought the elet Lion. His sworn statement shor that he spent less than five thousan dollars on both primaries. In di: -ussing the charges of Grace again, Whaley, The Greenville Piedmox says: "While we have nothing whatevE in the shape of proof of the charge it has been claimed that all hand spent money freely in the recei fight. The friends of Hughes ar said to have been just as free In i use as the friends of Whaley. . Mayor . Grace was one of Hughe most enthusiastic supporters, indee one of his leaders in the fight if w have been correctly informed, b must have been aware of the fay that during the campaign that mont was being spent freely for Hughes F well as for Whaley. So far as % have heard, Mayor Grace made n protest against money being spent I behalf of Hughes and if Hughes ha been elected, we suppose be woul have been satisfied. "But alas- Hughes was not elec ed. The voters of the district by se eral hundred majority declared ft Whaley. And now it Is said Wfay< Grace is planning to contest the ele tion and report has It that tl grounds of the contest will be the money was used too- freely in tI campaign. It ill' becomes the ma The use of money in any election wrong and is to be condemned. As movement looking to the abolition the practice is to be encouraged. B one should first be sure that tl movement is initiated by one that sincere. If Mayor Grace real wishes to stamp out the practice spending money on elections in Cha leston and the first district, he shoun head a popular movement to that er and he would without doubt have tU support of the better class of peop in his city and district. "If, however, he does not desir6 much to stamp' out the practice< spending money on elections so mu< as to unseat Whaley then his couri deserves the condemnation of tU public and will undo~buetdly recel It. The puiblic likes a good fight: but it does not like a fighter -the "squeals" when he loses. We ha' no idea that anything will come 01 of the protest of Mayor Grace insoft as the seating of Whaley Is concer ed. It may, however, lead to a figi whether Mayor Grace so desires it'< not, to stamp out the corrupt pra tices in Charleston elections. If so, will have <brought about a good r sut." Waking the Sleeping Dogs. By playing politics with the Jap nese question, says The New Yol World, the Californians appear have raised an issue that will1 more troublesome to them than tl ownership by aliens of a few tho sand acres of land. What will profit the Hiram Johnson dem gogues if in their blithe attempt put the Democrats into a hole th set in motion forces that may extei our Naturalization law to Mong lians The statute now covers "fr white persons, natives of Africa ax persons of African descent." We os this jumble to the Californians thex selves, who in 1870 defeated Charl Sumner's effort to strike out tl word "white". To gain their poi: in excluding Orientals and to grati his desire to admit negroes of eve: degree, they gave us a law which f< folly and incongruity is almost wi out precedent. The blacks of ti Dark Continent and all their descen' ants anywhere on earth may ,becon citizens, but Chinese and Japaned are barred. While some of the lower cour have sustained this interpretation< the law, the question has never y, been passed upon by the Supren Court. It is to this tribunal ths Japan itself now contemplates an a: peal. Probably it is to this procee ing that President Wilson refe: when he speaks of "bringing on wh; might 'be long and delicate litig. tion." X o matter -what the result of suc a suit might be , the controvern would hardly end with the court judgment. After that we should hal agitation and legislation and exceel ingly troublesome diplomacy. Il stead of a little Japanese question a should have a big one. The sleepini dogs of race prejudice which the den agogues would not let lie would I awake for a generation to come. Is it not surprising that the fioe of telegrams that have been sex into Washington pleading for pr< tection for cotton should all read x if written by the same pen thoug signed by many different names They all eminate from the sam source. Reckless Driver Killed. Blinded .by a dust storm Edwar Beilefeldts, who was making his fire trip in a new automobile. dashe headlong into a machine driven by F H. Wiisonl. 247 East Twenty-sevent: street. Chicago, near Chestertora id., Monday and was Instantly kill ed. Wilson escaped with minor in juries.