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VOL. XXVIIIMANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 24, 114 NETATUORANhEDMUR mmT3RIL CANIDMTES SPEAK TIf ,ENTYHVOTERS ." STANIE OF REMARKS Governor Blease Denies Charging U. -. Marshal Sims With Editing No. gro Paper-A Complete Synopsis of Each Candidate's Address De Rvered Thursday. (By Special Correspondent.) The second stop of the candidates for the United States Senate in their trip around the State was made In '' this city Thursday and a crowd of approximately 1,200 people gathered on the Court House square to hear the claims for suffrage presented by those who desire to represent the State In the higher hall of legislation -in Washington. The crowd was or derly and there was no attempt to howl down any speaker. Several times the candidates were. interro gated while talking but there was no show of an inclination on the part of any one to cause trouble. A goodly number of ladies attended the meet :ing and paid close. attention to what the candidates had to say. ..Hon. Thomas M, Eaysor presided over the meeting in the absence of Col. A. H. Moss, county chairman. CoL Moss having been called away on an important business matter. Mr. -Raysor conducted the proceed ingean. an absolutely fair and impar Ul -manner; - Several times he ap pealed to the crowd to give the speak e a fair hearing. The meeting was opened with pray er by Rev. J. L McLees at 11 o'clock in-the Court House yard, facing Rus sell street, where seats had been erected and a platform had been plac - ed on which were the presiding offi eer-candidates, press reporters and othier candidates. Governor Blease rai the last speaker of the day. He iar not on the platform when the meeting was opened but came on whia Senator Smith, who preceded ~ln.was speaking. ,of the speakers received ap :: ae, Senator Smith and Gov. lease, however, -were the recipients -tthe majority of the manifestation [" The other three can wtee assailed the record of Sena *: and: claimed that he. had '^ auee--,atbin.Ssaor t seiset. er to the rdcords of the other iunidates but gave a review of his h eawd in the Senate and what he had lamaengs Spoke First. Mr Jennings was the first speaker, ths same order was used as in St. 'tthews Wednesday, excebt that- he s: alai::poke second thera spoke first eiJ*nIngs referred totefact ~KtCedat.or Smith has been called 'ttaSmith" and said he hoped Sinhow that Smith -had nothing to .-ththe price of cotton. "Smith ae&holding cotton to produce j-e'price" said Mr. Jennings. He to Smith's saying that he T~-(mt)said .that the consumers- and ~~ymand eil the people not pro '~4au of cotton .got scared when inIwas elected, and kept cotton ~ Senator Smith has done noth kg although he- claims to -have done ininimucL (There were several cheers fpir Siilth as this was said and cheers also for Gov. Blease.) "He claims dperdit for what he has not done." - have nothing against Smith." A svolce from the audience then cried A--eiOt. "But you want the job." This Sprovoked considerable laughter and 2snerreiment.. Mr. Jennings denied the- claim of Senator Smith that profit would ac Icrue to the cotton seller by the use -of the government grades of cotton as advocated by Smith. His advice -was to get all the appropriations -from the United States government -as possible as other sections are- get ting them. He next took up Smith's clause In the currency bill and said ,it did not mean to the farmer what the senator claimed It did. Favors Smith Over Blease. 2 If I and Pollock were not In this race," said Mr. Jennings, "I would -vote for Smith." "All should work together for the upbuilding of this -commontrealth and to make -South Caoln the equal of any State in the Union. People should pull to gether. Elect a man to represent all the people. I'm no politican and It would not worry me to go back home after August. I am not seeking this office for the salary, but for the good of the State." "Now lets get on the records of the rest of them." "In 1912 1 cast my ballot and used my Influence for Judge Jones, and my county, like Orangeburg, gave Jones a majority. There were claims of fraud on both sides in this election." He then re ferred to the former rules of the State Democratic party which, he claimed, were loose and were respon sible-for the cry of fraud. "When I was elected delegate to the State con vention in Columbia this year I had no idea of running for any office but only wanted to fix rules so every dis honest man In South Carolina could only cast 1 vote in 1 club." The speaker defended the entire action of the State convention and- said it worked for the good of the people. "When the revision of the rules was started there was 50 per -cent more white people on the rolls than there were voters in South Carolina. The new rules are all right and work a hardship on nobody. Any white man who han't enough Interest in the welfare of his State, County or town to sign the club rolls under the new rules, doesn't deserve to vote. It -and is disfrane it is his own fault. I have heard no complaint by farmers in my county about the new rules but have heard numbers of them say they like-them. I make no charges against anyone but under the old rules the names from tombstones and of men who had moved from the precinct and other unlawful names could be used on the club rolls." Attacks Blease's Pardons. Mr. Jennings opened up on the pardon record of Governor Blease and condemed this liberal pardoning policy of the governor. He said that Governor Blease was perhaps honest in the opinion that he was right in pardoning as he does. He said over 1,200 convicts, mostly negroes,. had been turned loose to roam around the State and in the rural districts where the white women and children were afforded little protection. He said he believes there are some who should have been turned out. This indiscriminate pardoning, he said. destroys the work.of many juries. As to petitions, he said, in refering to Blease's claim that he released convicts if. Retitions were sent him, "you could get a petition to hang the best man in South' Carolina if you took it around the streets. He asked the crowd to vote for him for the U. S. Senate but told them that if he was not elected he would still be friendly to all and would .have no enimies. Pollock Makes Address. Mr. Pollock, of Cheraw, was the next speaker and said he could truly address the assemblage as "fellow citizens" as he was on: -half Orange burg and "the best half". "Twelve years--ago-I-came here- and married one of Orangeburg's fairest daugh ters and I feel at home in Orange burg county so will call you brother and you call.me brother-in-law." "Up till several days ago," he said- "there were only \andidates announced'for the U. S. Denite Smith and Blease. Just before that time the Orangeburg county democratic convention endorsed Smith and if I had been-a member of that conven tion and only had Smith and Blease to choose from, I would have voted to'endorse Smith. I have never.vot ed for Blease and never expect to. I believe neither Smith nor Blease has beed the fil measure of man to take the place of John C. Calhoun or Mc Duffie. ."I was urged by men all ver the. State to .rn but (esitate&'as t was afraidUfif I entered ifinght keep some man out who wou)d e more acceptable. After some -time passed felt. that'SouthsCarolina needed the services of a son and -sol offered my srivices. I want you to vote for the man you think the best. I am a can idatefot no clique or caucus." -' t makes me tire&to hear Blease talk-of the "poor" niili man, and Smith of the "poor" farmer; they don'tneed thesympathy-of theeandl dates who are- trying to get their votes." His Legislative Record. :I'm not an untried man. I serv ed in the S. C. Legislature for eight years and fought for the people. I got the law through requiring fertill zer companies to make fertilizers ome-up. to analyses or pay a penal "Governor Blease said In St. Mat hews something about a Jim Crow ar law. I might have cast a vote against such a 'law, but' it'was when there was' no Issue about seperating the whites and negroes -'n trains and there were at the time first class ac commodations for white people and second -accommodation class for neg roes." "I am willing to be .iudged by my record in the S. C. Legisla tre." In refering to the National Senate and house .or representatives, Mr. Pollock said, ."few men lead in the U. S. Senate and House but the majiority follow the lead of the few. Smith is not registered as a leader In the Sen ate. - Smith has not measured up to heights to be returned and kept in there indefinitely. -His sei-vice there may have rendered him .better fit to serve the people but 'there are other men in South Carolina who would have done more than he". Smith Better Thfan Blease. Pollock said "Smith is a lot better than Blease. Blease -has the "nigger in the woodpile." He told a story of a man who said another man could ~o more than the Lord because he could make ice in the summertime, said this was like Smith raising the price of cotton. "Everything is high," he said; "cotton is high and mules are high and if Smith raised the price of cotton he- probably rair ed the price of mules also and should~ pay you the difference;" Mr. Pollock charged that to a; cer tain extent Blease and Smith have political machines at ther backs and mentioned as a great influence for Smith the power he has to appoint Federal offices and the power Blease had was the appointment of State officers. He sarcastically said that Blease even appoints the notary pub lis who he keeps "at the pleasure of -the Governor." "I won't purchase votes or office and no honest man would. Do your duty and vote for the best man. In the name of the women and children who can't vote, vote for the man who favors law grder and honor and not one who favors diaorder and dishon The speaker paid tribute to W. J. Bryan and Wilson and the ' nat ional Democratic administration and commended the tariff, anti-trust, and -banking and currency laws passed in Washington and the repeal of the panama canal tolls exemption clause. He closed by thanking his hearers for their-attention and told them that if they feel that he is proper, he woud consider it a great honor, but if not, he would be content to stay at home. Senator Smith Talks. Senator Smith was the next speak er and arose amid cheers. He re ferred to what the other candidate had been saying about cotton. He I sai he knew that they would soon jump on a bale of cotton. "Maybe," he said, "they want us to stay at home becuase Blease is Blease and because I'm a farmer." The Senator said that "we have heretofore been too timid" but said "we have been working in the Senate while I have been In the Senate." In reference to the raising of the price of cotton 'Mr. Smith said that he does not claim to have done the whole thing but does claim that he was a fighter in the crowd for the price of cotton. He gave relative figures of the price of cotton for the last 20 years in support of his con tention of the increase in price. He referred to the year when "Dan Sully put cotton up" and said that- the staple was sold to Europe and Amer icand the mills used it and it was found that everything was all right with cotton bringing a good price. In reference to the statement made by Mr. Pollock that Smith did not measure up to Calhoun and Mc Duffie, Mr. Smith said, " that may be so, but I certainly have worked for the farmers. "When I was working for cotton Senator Reed from Miss ouri asked me if all the legislation was to be for the farmer and I told him it was not so much that as it was to take some laws off the books which were 'agin'. the farmer." Smith quoted figures In reference to the rise in the prices of cotton which rise said that the other candidates claimed he had nothing to do with the increased price of cotton, "but," he said, "if this were a crime they were trying me for, they would use these figures and convict me. It is a strange coincidence that. the price of of cotton went up while I was in the Senate it I had nothing to do with it." He told the story of the two ne groes having joint ownership of a cow, one owning the front half and the other the back half. - The owner of the -front, when the other fellow told him he was not entitled to any milk as he had nohing to do with the back half, said, "us gwine turn that cow round right now." He said-"we have turned that cow around." Not Hoke Smith's Bill. Smith referred to cotton bill No. 110, which he introduced and which passed the Senate unanimously. He said t he wanted to keep the record straight and with emphasis said: "This was .E. D. Smith's and not Hoke Smith's billy Heke Smith has never introduced any cotton bill since vebeeff'in- tfe Senate." He told of the efforts the New York' cotton ex change made to have him cease his work in the interest of the cotton farmer. "It was charged here to-day that I claimed to be the one who put cotton up. I know that the people at Wash ington, knowing my knowledge of cotton, I wielded a great Influence. I talked and talked cotton and will continue to work for 'higher prices for cotton until it will be put where it is commensurate with the work necessary to produce it. I don't take the credit for the bill to standardize grades of cotton. This bill was pass ed before I got there but was lyiig dormant." He told of getting an appropria tiontion mentioned. As a quick illustration of what he has done Smith said: "If you were asleep and a man was taking money from -your pocket and I woke you, you should have manhood enough to make him stop, and I have done my duty." "A slurring remark was made of my amendment- to the bank ing and currency .bill; 90-day paper Is no good for the farmer. Under the new law, your paper, when ac epted as negotiable paper, becomes as United States bonds. Other bus inesses get returns right away but you have to wait six months to get a commercial asset." He compared the farmers to the coal and water necessary to run the engine that pulls the -pullman car. Fulfilled Every Promise. "Every promise made you on the platform has been filled. I have got ten bills through the Senate and many new laws have been added to the statute books." 'The senator here sang the praises of President Wil son and in an eloquent burst of ora tory told of what Wilson has done for the South. He said: "I've voted with and stuck to the administration all the way through." He gave some attention here to the immigration question and said that this country should not be the dump ing ground of the "riff-raff" and "bob-tails"-of the old world and said that if it were in his power, he would let no alien enter the United States during the next ten years for the purpose of becoming citizeas Smith told of his now being the ranking member of the committees on agriculture; on post offices and post roads and on the committee an interstate commerce and told of working against the "fertilizer" trust and the "bagging and tie" trust. "'Cotton Smith' is on the job," he said with much emphasis. Said he was not surprised that he1 was the target of the other candi dates, but that he had done his duty and been faithful to his trust. He referred to his majority of 30,000 when he was sent to the Senate. He said he was not a lawyer. "I know that up to 1904 the cotton farmers caught the devil but since then they have been having an easier time. "Mr. Smith paid his respects to his friends, Mr. Lee Parnell, who years ago suggested to him to do some thing for the farmers and to whom' he said, "by the help of God I will do it, and you send me back to the Senate and I will do more in spite of the flesh, lawyers and high water." Governor Blease Speaks Last. Gov. Blease was the last speaker of the day and was next presented toteadence. When he appeared thr eecheers for him and oth lers and he said: "I heard before I came here that I would be howled down. You can show yourselves not gentlemen if you want to but I am one.'' something about the majority Or angeburg gave against him in the election of 1912. "But," he pas sionately exclaimed, "where are the poll lists and club rolls from here?" "Robert Lide has never been accus ed of being a Bleaseite.' Rain commenced falling at this juncture and the meeting was called together inside the court house. The room was packed and some found it impossible to get in. Mr. Raysor called for order and quiet so the gov ernor could be heard, and Blease re sumed his speech. Denies Charge Against Sims. "Yesterday," Blease said, "at St. Matthews I read by entire speech. My purpose was to place myself in the position that the South Carolina newspapers could not misquote what I said then. I have no apology to make to any man or set of men for what I've done. I sent that paper to The State and The News and Cour ier and to the papers in the Piedmont section and The State came out this morning with a lie at its masthead. It said that I said that Jas. L. Sims edited a negro newspaper; I said nothing like that; I'll repeat what I said; I said that 'Sims, the United States marshal, has set type on a Republican paper at Kingstree,' and I have his word for it. (Some one in the audience said, "That's nothing against him. The governor replied, "There are lots who are not of your mind.") The governor brought out an 1884 edition of "Industries and Resources in the South," in which Blase said was a history of the life of Sims written 'by Mr. Sims himself. He then read the fololwing: "Mr. Sims, a native of Charleston, worked on the "Courier"; went to Spartanburg and worked on the "Herald" till '78, then went to Orangeburg to start The Times and Democrat." Blease read an -extract from, an article writ ten by Mr. Sims during the controv ersy which arose when he was men tioned for the U. S. marshalship. rhe extract reads: "When I was a ittle over 21 years of age I was em ployed 'on a Republican- paper at Kingstree." The governor continued, Saying that he had already said that "Smith had given appointments to men who were associated with Has kel Ior the Republican party in '7G He read a letter from Tillman to Sen tor Smith which bore on the ap pointment of Mr. Sims and said that Smith had agreed to the appointment >f Sims and this would cost Smith thousands of votes. He also referred to a communication from Tillman to hos. F. 'Brantley in connection with the appointment of Sims and Wes ton. He said that Smith was Instru mental in the appointment.of -United States marshal and district attorney; As to Some Pardons. Gov. Blease referred to the mat ter of pardons and showed a-petition or a pardon he had received with the remark, "there is not a friend of mine on it." Some one holored to the ,governor, "Who asked you to release Mack Stokes?" Blease re plied, "None of your business." He referred to the case -of the ne ro from Orangeburg, Holman, who as sent from the penitentiary to he chain gang, and spoke -of the rticle which appeared In The Times nd Democrat which said that Blease howed favor to Holman. ."If It was favor," said Blease, "It was on the etition of your representatives and o keep .him from raising cotton In ompetition to you." "Joe 'Bowman, a negro, plead uilty of assault with Intent to rav ish. A petition was presented for a ardon, signed by 'M. F. Inabinet, T. f. McMichiael, A. D. Fair, T. A. Sal y, R. H. Jennings, chief of .police f Orangeburg, G. L. Salley and A. . Balley. I1 have investigated and ound that the assault had .been com nitted on a white woman and I didn't pardon him.'N Gov. Blease told the audience That e had pardoned a man from Cal oun county the night before. "I will pardon more, "he said, "and ou and you can't help It". As to Smith's Labors. "Smith talked about immigrant" (cheers for Smith were heard amid heers and yells for .Blease). Blease said, "your Impoliteness here will :ake votes for me." He told of an immigrant who, he said, couldn't write and "who was tagged ad sent nto your State to work in opposition to your boys and girlskmith gets these immigrants in." Gov. Blease said that to others In the Senate, Smith's "Immigration bill" was-look d on as a joke and cited the Con ressional Record to prove it. - The speaker next took up the "cot ton" phase of Smith's claims and said "Hoke Smith and Lever are the Smith-Lever' bill," and continued to ridicule Senator Smith's 'raising the price of cotton'." "I was born on a farm and work ed in a livery stable and made myself with the help of God and He has been with me and I 'nave been elect d to the legislature, was elected governor two times and will be elect ed United States Senator. They can't beat me. He is on my side. In 1910 I fought the newspapers, cor porations, and the world, flesh and the devil and in 1912 I fought every thing." le referred to the candidates for State offices who spoke in Sumter Wednesday and said "they talked of Blease; they can't talk of anything else." "Senator Smith's banking and cur rency measure," he said. "is a hard ship and not 'a convenience. Smith is a clever fellow but- is the laugh ing stock of the U. S.. Senate." As to the New Rules. "There are three clubs in one ward in the city of Orangeburg and some men have to ride ten miles to come here to register. Put a club in each ward in the c*ty and a club in each country district." The governor told the voters to be sure and sign their ftll name on the club rolls. He con demned this provision in the rules and said that it was a "farce and ... t tal=0 the lnaring and poor TELLS OF WORK SENATOR SMITH PRESENTS HIS CLIll TO REELECTION fiAYE lELP TO FARMERS Junior Senator Gives His Approval of the Work He Has Wone in the Senate, Making .Strong Plea for the Farmers' Votes--Will Help Them in .Future. Senator Smith, in discussiig his work for the farming interest of the country ;both as a private citizen and as a representative of South Carolina in the fed'r al Senate, i- part, spoke as - follows,-giving a clear, compre hensive idea of the principles and policies for which he stands: "Another election year has come. Six years ago Istood for election to the United States Senate upon a plat form whose main plank was in the interest of the farmers of the State, particularly the cotton growers. They had not had, as every one knows, a square deal, and after years of work in faymers' organization, I believed that if the proper legislation could be ha: to supplement the or ganzatiors that relief could be given. Cotton Exchanges. "The cotton exchanges of -the coun try, under the doination and con trol of Europe,. were dictating to American producers what American cotton was worth. These exchanges made such contracts that they were at liberty to put the price up or down as they sa.w it. It made no dif ference whether the crop was large or whether it was- small; that is, practically no difference, because because these exchanges could manip ulate the market to suit themselves. Therefore, it is encumbent upon me to show what I have done in further ance of my promis3 made to the far mers of the State. "I am 'a farmer myself, pure and simple. It-is the only means I have of making a living, a nd cotton is the only crop out of which we can get ready cash. - Now, as I suggested, what have I done.?" "In the first place, during the Re publican administration I introduced a bill to regulate the cotton ex changes to force th,em to give a con tract which would be fair andiust to both the buyer and the sefler. It must be borne in mind that in the Senate then, as now, there were ab'ut 78 lawyers, 13. manufacturers. or other professional men, three far mers with other business and two far mers pure and simple, of which two, I 'am one. Therefore, it can readily be understood what an uphill busi nss it was to get this mass of pro fessional men to understand the real pndton that confronted the far. er. I recall one incident. After having labored with a number of Southern senators on my bill, and aving used the words 'middling', 'low middling,' 'strict low middling,' 'good ordinary,' 'strict good ordi nary,' 'strict middling' and ' good iddling' one of these, coming from ne of the cotton growing States, asked me 'o explain just what I eant by 'middling'. This serves to llustrate the difficulty in getting the proer legislation for the farmpes of this country. Only five so-called, out of the 96 senators, farmers, three of them having other business which seems to be more their rcal business than farming, and only two directly dependent upon farming. Measure for Farmers. - "After laboring for two or three years I finally passed in the Senate of the United States the first bill, so far as I have been able to ascertain, that was ever passed through that body to so regulate the cotton ex :hanges as to make them deal fairly with the cotton producers. I passed this bill. without a dissenting vote. The public can understand that In a body of lawyers, manufacturers and professional men, It would take time to demonstrate to. them, to educate them to understand, the injustice done those who were producing that upon which the whole world depend ed. This was the task before me. "As I said before, I passed this bill. Again, It seemed to me that If one rain on cotton, staining it, could change its grade and made it worth from $1.25 to $5 per bale less, then four or five rains would make It prac man's vote." He mentioned that it required residence in Charleston of one year to vote and "you have to be in the county two years." He drew the comparison that It would be easier for foreigners to vote in Charleston than for others to vote in other dis tricts. -He paid his "respects" to Mr. Barnwell and others of Charleston. Blease said he would .get more votes here this time than he did be fore, 'and that his crowd would watch the election. He closed his speech by saying: "When I am Senator, Sims and his Republican paper will go out and a Bleaseite will be appointed. Nobody will be given an office unless he voted for Blease. If you want ice cream and cake, get on the band wagon." Forty-five minutes were,. allotted each speaker and each took up the ent-e time apportioned to him. All the candidates were given an attentive hearing. During the speech of each candidate there would occa sionally 'be cheers for some other than the cndidate who was speaking, bdt courtesy was accorded each speaker. The bulk of the applause and dem onstration was accorded Senator SmIth and Gov. Blease, although Mr. ennings and Mr. Pollock also were applaunded. 'A. T. W. tically worthless. In other words, I did not believe that the ordinary methods of grading cotton were fair and just. In 1912 I introduced an amendment to the agricultural appro puriation bill, carrying some $12,000 to test the tensile strength of the yarns made from the different grades. In 1913 a manufacturer told me that the tensile strength of the different grades was about equal, but that you could not bleach the lower grades as well as you could the higher. So in 1913 I secured an appropriation suf ficient to enable the agricultural de partment to spin a certain number of bales of each grade, in order to de termine the strength of the yarn of each grade, whether or not it could be bleached, and what was the rela tive cost of bleaching each grade, and the amount of loss or waste in con verting a bale of each grade. This test was completed this year, and it is a startling revelation. I have sent an illustration of this work through out the State, which proves that the difference in prices between the va rious grades as heretofore fixed :by the trade is not gnly unwarranted but unreal. "After this wo:k was completed, I introduced an amendment to the present agricultural appropriation bill, carrying $100,000 to put a set of the standard samples and a sam ple of yarns, bleached and unbleach ed made from each grade, on every market in the South. This will en abte the farmers not only to get a square deal. from the exchanges, un der the law regulating the exchanges, but will give them the true informa tion as to the value of each grade of cotton as that value is determined by the department, and the samples be ing upon the platform, he will not be at the mercy of the grader who buys has cotton, but by comparing a sam ple of his own cotton with the sam ple standardized by the government, he can corrcctly grade his own cot ton. Six Months on Notes. "Realizing that in the banking and currency law the farmers had practi cally no showing I introduced an mendment to the new banking and urrency law giving the farmer six months time on his notes, drafts and bills. In other words,. he has six months paper upon which the federal reserve bank is authorized to issue a certtain percentage of the value of the paper in federal reserve notes. The ordinary 90 day commercial pa per would do the farmer no good, because it takes him six months from the time his crop comes up until it is time to gather it. Therefore, if he incurs a debt or borrows money for a less length of time than it takes him to produce a crop, he will have nothing with which to meet that pa per. I made this fight alone after the House had failed to incorporate It in the bill and secured its passage t the Senate,- which was then rati fied by the 'House, and is now law. The South Carolina * delegation in ongress made a heroic fight in the House to have this done, and when I ecred it in the Senate they stood nobly by when it went back to the House and contributed largely to its becoming law. "In 1910 when we made one of the mallest crops in the last ten or fif teen years, certain speculators on the market entered into an agreement that they would buy what the bears an New York were offering for sale and take up this cotton and sell it to the mills of the country. These bears were attempting in .spite of the short :rop to depress the price of cotton. [n other words, they were attempting to sell -cotton on the New York ex hange considerably cheaper than it ould be bought in the South and rery muuh cheaper than it was really worth. These bulls, Messrs. Hayne, cales, Patton and others, believed that f they bought this cotton and the mills would agree to take it at the price these bears were offering It, they could force the price much higher. Now, It must be understood that these bears did not own the cotton, they were simply trying, by weight of money, and organization and tissue paper contracts, to put the price to where they wanted It. The bulls bought it and the mills agreed to take it. When delivery day came1 and the bulls demanded this cotton and took it and sent It to the mills, these bears instead of standing by their contracts, rushed into court and ndicted these bulls for a conspiracy in restraint of trade. I immediately ntroduced a resolution in the Senate, calling i'pon the department of jus tice to isestigate and find out and report to the Senate who sold this cotton to these bulls; at what price It was sold, what was the price of spot cotton in the South on the same date, and how many bales were ac tually owned by the bears when they sold these enormous contracts to Messrs. Hayne, Scales, Patton, .et al. It being a Republican administration, and cotton being a Southern product, the attorney general did not press the matter as he should have done, but cotton went to 20 cents per pound, basis middling, in New York in 1910. Sully Copy. "Now, as every cotton grower in the South knows, in 1903-04 Gully onceived the idea that cotton was worth more than the trade was giv ing and that if he could get enough capital together he would demon strate just what it was worth. He got some capitalists associated with him and in the winter of 1903-04 he put the price of cotton up to 17.25 ents. This high price of cotton Inci dent to the Sully campaign, cover ing a period of three or four months, a combination of those opposed to the high prices was too great frvr Sully and they broke him. But thYy did not break him until he had demonstrated that the trade, the manufacturers, and the spinning world, would take otton at 17.25 cents per pound, and there was no record of any of them b~eaking. They took it at this price and converted it into cloth, six .eeks or two months after Sully fail ed, cotton was down to 6.85 cents in New York. This amount to $52 less per ba than the farmers had been getting for it during the high price and this price was less than the cost of production. "About that time a convention was called in Shreveport, La., to discuss means of checking the boll weevil. At my own expense, I went to Shreve port, and in conjunction with Harvey Jordan of Georgia, and Bob Poole, of Alabama, we succeeded in converting this boll weevil convention into a cotton price convention and called the first Cotton States' convention to consider the condition of the cotton growers, and this met in New Or leans in January of 1905. Harvey Jordan and .Bob Poole and myself be came sureties for the advertisement of this convention. At this conven-, tion in 1905, there was organized the Southern Cotton association. I was elected feld agent and general or ganizer and from then until January, 1908, I canvassed the countryr from the Rio Grande to the 'Atlantic, and from Florida to Tennessee. The Far mers' union was also working along the same lines, and what has been the result -of the work of these or ganizations? Average Price of Cotton. "According to figures of the agri cultural department, from 1894 to 1904 the average price of cotton was 8:25 cents per pound. From 1904 to 1914, it was 11.80 or $17.55 pei bale higher since our organization to the present time, covering a period of 10 years, than it was the ten years previous. That means that South Carolina, which has made an average in the last ten years of 1,100,000 bales annually, has gotten $19,000, 000 per year or $190,000,000 for the ten years, more than she had gotten for her cotton crop for the preceding ten years. This average price of ap proximately 12 cents per pound dur ing which time I have been in the Senate, and which comprises the ac tivity of the Farmers' union and the Southern Cotton association, is the more startling when it is taken into consideration that the production in the United States for this last 10 years has averaged three million bales more per year than the 10 year period just preceding. I took my seat in the Senate in 1909. The lowest point that cotton touched that year was 9.25 cents and the highest was 16.15. In 1910 the lowest point was 13.60 cents and the highest was 20 cents. In 1911, the year in which we made 1,625,000 bales the biggest crop ever made in the history of the cotton belt, the lowest point touched in New York was 8:20 and the high est was 16.15 cents. In 1912 the lowest point was 9.35 and the high est was 13.40. In 1913 the lowest point was 11.70 and the highest was 14.50. Compare .these. figures now with the ten-year period preceding: 1894 .. .. ..5 9-16 8 -3-16 1895 ..5 916 9 3-8 1896 .-. .. ..7 1-16 8 7- 8 1897 .. .. ..5 13-16 8 1- 4 1898 .. .. ..5 5-16 .6 7. 8 1899 .. .. ..6 1- 8 7 13-16 1900 .. .. ..7 1- 4 11 1901 .. .. ..7 12 1902 .. .. ..8 3-16 9 -7- 8 1903 .. .. ..8 8-10 14.00 Some Comparisons. "Now compare the number of bales ade each year from 1894 to 1904, ad the number of bales made from 904 to 1914.. "For South Carolina the two ten ear periods are as follows: Running bales 894........... ...-818,330 895...............764,700 896..............936,463. 897.. .............1,030,085 898.. ..............1,$35,414 899.. ............876,545 900.. .. ..........700,782 901.. .......-~'..--.732,719 902.................948,200 903.... .....--..--.814,351 904.. ...........1,192,925 1905............ .1,112,363 906.. ............912,602 907.. .............1,163,565 908.. .........--.1,215,848 909............. -1,137,382 910.. ........ ... 1,210,968 1911....... ...-.--.1,32,146 1912.. ...........1,224,245 "Therefore, my work in the Senate, in my unceasing fight for cotton, to gether with the work of the Farmers' union an the Southern cotton asso ciation has resulted in ten years $190,000,000 of ready cash. These are the figures of the department of agriculture which can be verified by any one sending for them. "In conjunction with the legisla tion I have passed a bill which is pending, introduced by me to have refunded to the cotton growing States the money for the cotton confiscated by the Union army during the war. "I have introduced a bill looking toward the segregation of the races in interstate travel and one looking to the repeal of that part of the 14th and 15th amendments which took away from the States the right to discriminate in suffrage on account of race, color and previous condition of servitude. "I have introduced, in conjunction with Chairman Burnett of the house committee on immigration, a bill reg ulating the influx of foreigners into this country. I -believe that every po~ssible restriction should be enact ed in order that the purity of the American life, and the opportunity of American citizens may be guaran teed. Labor's Friend. "I have stood for and championed the right of labor to organize and de mand its just proportion of the wealth it produces. I believe that the agriculturists of this country and the laborers of this country should be treated 'with the same considera tion under the law as any other pro fession, vocation or avocation, and my record in the United States Sen ate will attest this fact. My platform, therefore, now is the same that it always has been: that those who pro duce the actual wealth of the country are entitled to first consideration of the government that they feed, 41tmshoe and support." HAVE THREE ZONES " VILLA AND CAIRRANZA DIVIDE TIE REBEL TERRITORY --4 SETTLEMENT PASPONEB Rebel Chieftains Forget Present Dis agreements in Face of Service They Owe Their Native Land-All Ques tions Between Them to be Sette&. Later by Them. Gen. Cararnza Thursday night ad vised Lazara de la Garza, Villa's agent here, that the difficulty be tween himself and Villa had been ad justed by Carranza giving his per mission-for. Villa to proceed south to. the City of Mexico, regardless of the appointment of Gen. Natera as head of the new central zone. Carranza said that the forces of Gen. Obregon. in the west and Gen. Gonzales in the east would work independently of Gen. Villa's troops. The Constitutionalist commander concluded by saying that the misun derstanding between himself and Vil la and any future misunderstandings' between any of the leaders would be left for adjustment when the three armies meet before the national -cap ital. In the meantime.Gen. Villa will run his own military and civil officies in his territory. Villa will proceed with his army south toward the City of Mexico, dis regarding Gen. Natera, whose ap pointment by Carranza as head of the new central zone evidently caus ed the open breach between the north northern zone commander .and - the Constitutionalist commander-in chief. This made-clear for the first time the relations between Carranza and Villa. It was said officially that Villa's forced step in taking over the Carranza offices at Juarez.was but a step in the general plan to oust all Carranza elements in the territory Villa dominates. While not declaring that he Is -not under Carranza's orders, Villa is known to have told his chief that.he will take the central strip of country leading to the City of Mexico, while Carranza's other divisional command ers . can do likewise. down the east and west coasts. ,According to this arrangement there would be two distinct govern ments, both military and civil, in northern part of Mexico held by the Constitutionalists. Onse would be Villa's strip, where not only his mil itary leaders but his own appointed civil officials would hold office. The other would be that directed by Car ranza in his capacity as military 'nd political chief of the movement from his capital at Saltillo. It is not doubted that -Gen. Alvaro Obregon, commander of the western military zone, and Gen. Pablo Gon sales, in the east, will remain firm adherents of the Carranza party. Villa already is reported to have tak en over some of the petty leaders of the central zone territory -south of Torreon. The news that Glen. Natera, whose troops have been repulsed at Zacatecas, had come north to visit Villa wa,- taken as significant. Na tera, previous to his appointment as a zone commander, blocking Villa's . movement, had been a staunch Villa man. It also was learned that Gen. Chao, who some time ago .had been reported ousted by Villa as governor of Chihuahua, has joined Villa with a column of troops from Parral, al though having been ordered by Car ranza to proceed to Saltillo. The authoritative narrative of what oc curred between Carranza and Villa Is as follows: On Saturday Carranza ordered Vil la to send 5,000 men to the assist ance of Natera, under command of one of Villa's generals. Glen. Villa replied 'that he was going to Zacate cas himself with his'entire army. Carranza asked Villa to obey his or ders, which would have placed Villa's troops under command of Natera, In whdse zone Zacatecas is located. After this exchange of telegrams, Villa proffered his resignation. Car ranza asked that his successor be ap pointed immediately. Then followed a conference of fourteen generals un der Villa, who declined to accept a new leader. Villa then told Car ranza he was going to m'ove south as he had announced previously. The exchange ended. Villa took over the Carranza offices an'd put his own men in. Among the national officers arrested at Juarez was Scrapio Aguirra, Carranza's treasurer-general, who had been Is suing .a new series of Constitutional ist money. The money was confis cated by Villa's troops. It amounted to more than $1000,000. FARMER IS KILE. Lancaster Farmers Rave Fatal Shoot ing Scrape. News reached Lancaster Sunday 0. the killing of Will Stack, a farmer of the Tradesville section, by Tom Park er, another farmer of the same com munity. It Is said that Parker warn ed Stack to keep away from his home, otherwise he would kill him. Stack was tried for murder at Lancaster several years ago and acquitted. The killing occurred just over the line-In Chesterfield county. Both parties are white. It could not be learned whether Parker had been arrested. Mowing Machine Eills Child. The six-year-old son of Sam Odom of Darlington was struck down and fatally injured Wednesday 'by a mow ing machine. His leg was broken and he received other injuries about