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TREATY DEFENDED SINCERE REiRET CLAUSE Opposition to Such an Expression De velops in Senate But State Depart ment Head Is Still Hopeful That it Vill Secure Favorable Report and be Passed Promptly. Criticism of the proposed treaty to settle the differences between the United States and Colombia over the separation of Panama brought a for mal statement Monday night from Secretary Bryan defending the clause expressing "sincere regret" on the part of the United States that any thing should have occurred to mar friendly relations between the two countries. The expression, "honest regret," Mr. Bryan said. was used in the memorandum, on which the pres ent negotiations as well as those which previously had failed were based. Despite opposition in the Senate, Mr. Bryan was hopeful that the trea ty would be favorably reported and ratified. Members of the foreign re lations committee expressed hope that correspondents in the archives of the State department bearing on the treaty would reach the commit tee Wednesday. It will be referred to a sub-committee and probably will be made public. It Is said this cor respondence will show that at one stage of the negotiations with Colom bia during the Taft administration the United States proposed to sub mit the dispute to arbitration with the knowledge that a verdict in favor of Colombia would mean a judgment for at least $40,000,000. Secretary Bryan's statement fol lows: "Article 1 of the treaty, now be fore the Senate, reads: 'The gov ernment of the United States of America, wishing to put at rest all controversigs and differences with the republic of Colombia arising out of the events from which the present situation on the Isthmus of Panama resulted, expresseg, in its own name and in the name of the people of the United States, sincere regret that anything should have occurred to in terrupt or to mar the relations of cordial friendship that have so long subsisted between the two nations. "'The governoment- of the repub lie of Colombia, in its own name, and in the name of the Colombian people, accepts this declaration in the full assurance that every obstacle -to the restoration of complete harmony be tween the two countries will thus dis sppear. "In what is known as the Dubois memorandum, made during the Taft administration, which presented the basis upon which he was authorized to negotiate a treaty, the following language is used: "'The government and the people of the United States honestly regret anything should have ever occurred *to mai-, in any way, the long and sincere friendship that existed for nearly a century .between Colombia and the United States, -and the latter country has for years earnestly de sired to remove the ill-feeling arous ed in~ Colombia by the separation of Panama.' "It will be seen from a comparison of the two paragraphs that they are identical in language. In the Dubois memorandum the United States 'hon estly regrets' and in the pending treaty 'the government of the United States of America- expressed in its own name, in the name of the pee ple of the United States 'sincere re gret'. The pending treaty uses the phrase, 'to interrupt or to mar'; the Dubois memorandum uses the words 'to mar'. The Dubois memorandum describes the friendship formerly ex istly as 'sincere', while the pending treaty describes it as 'cordial'. Both refer to the 'events of 1903'. The -Dubois memorandum speaks of 'the -ill-felling aroused in Colombia by the separation of Panama'; the pending treaty refers to 'the events from which the present situation on the Isthmus of Panama resulted.' "In the pending treaty the govern ment of Colombia accepts this decla ration in the full ~assurance that every obstacle to the restoration of the complete harmony between the two countries will thus disappear, while the Dubois memorandum de clares that the United States earnest ly desires to remove the ill-felling aroused in Colombia by the separa tion of Panama. The comparison is made to show that the two 'expres sions of regret' are in all es'sential particulars the same." NEED IS PERSSING. (Continued from page one.) year when very little work was be ing done on the farms. "I could cite hundreds and hun dreds of just such cases. Those I have mentioned all refer to rural schools; I have not touched on the condition of the towns and of the mills. My work is largely among the rural districts. In the mill villages we find the conditions just as bad or worse. Little boys from 6 to 12 years of age may be seen any day in the week smoking cigarettes, chew ing tobacco -and shooting craps, around the stations .and on the streets. It seems to be considered a matter of course and is taken as an every day event, which it is. "Compulsory education is not needed for the negro. I have cited examples to show you how determin ed they are to get an education and they are accomplishing this without our public school and complsory edu ration is needed for the children of the white man who is too sorry and indolent to send his children to school, but prefers to keep them at home in ignorance in order that they may make the living and allow him to sit around and do nothing. "Are we going to allow this thing to go on, or will we say, like Cain of old, 'Am I 'ny brother's keeper?'"' Railroadls Win Important Decision. A decision of the supreme court gives transcontinental railways title to $700,000,000 worth of California oil lands. Georgia Endorses Wilson. Georgia legislature passed a reso MINERS BATTLE AGAIN. SHERIFF OF BUTTE, MONTANA, CALLS FOR QUICK HELP. President of Miners' Federation Speak in Hall Until Bullets Start to Crash Into Walls. One man was killed and two oth ers wounded when deputy sheriffs Tuesday night fired into a crowd sur rourding Miners' hall, Butte, Mont.. where President C. H. Moye.- of the Western Federation of Miners was expected to speak. It has been an nouncd that he would outline a peace plan. Most of the shots were fired into the air by the deputies. The crowd quickly retreated, after the three men were shot, and a distance of two blocks from each side of the hall was cleared. A hundred deputies with sawed off shotguns are holding Miners' Union hall. Sheriff Driscoll shortly after firing began and after the crowd was forced down the street, appeared at the entrance of the hall and announc ed that he wanted 500 deputies. No response was made to the sheriff's appeal. A battle was in progress at Miners' Union hall late Tuesday night, insur gent miners firing from the tops of all nearby buildings into the hall. The deputies reserved tieir fire, but occasionally a deputy rushed to a window, fired and retreated to inner rooms. Miners ~rushed for their weapons and such arms as they could get. There was much shouting for dyna mite among the crowd. The depu ties, it is said, fear dynamite has been planted under the Miners' hall and will allow no one to approach within range of their guns. Ernest Noy, traveling inspector for the Montana demurrage bureau, was shot dead. He was a bystander. The bullet passed through his neck. J. H. Brune, aged 52, was shot through the head and can not live. Brune was proceeding upstairs to Miners' hall to attend- the meeting when a bullet struck him. At the first firing Moyer, Riley and all the other officials fled from the rear door of -Miners''hall and ac cording to an unconfirmed report have left the city. It is said an au tomobile was in readiness at the door, in which the officials were whisked away. President Moyer had asked Sheriff Driscoll for protection and had been assured by the sheriff that deputies would be on hand to prevent any at tempt to break up the meeting. Charles Kramer of Los Angeles, a spectator, also was wounded but not seriously. KNOWLEDGE IS SAFETY. Doctor Says Ignorance is the Great Cause of Disease. Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Baltimore, speaking before the sec tion of surgery of the American Med ical associtian in convention at At lantic City, N. J., Wednesday, declar ed the appalling mortality in cancer chiely is due to Ignorance and fear of operation. "There are 20,000,000 school chil dren In this couhtry and 1,000,00,0 of them have tuberculosis," was the statement of Dr. Mary Lanham of Highlands, N. C., in her plea for periodic examination of young stu dents, delivered before the section of preventive medicine and public health. Generally speaking every child in the United States by the time it reaches maturity is infected with tuberculosis. "The true pre vention of tuberculosis lies in finding out the danger in time to overcome it.". RAILROADS NOT LIAJILE. Free Passes With Stipulations Used at Passenger's Risk. Railroads are not liable for in jury to employees of interstate car riers, or members of their families, while riding on free passes, contain ing stipulations that the passenger assumes all risks while being so transported. The Supreme Court of the United States so held Tuesday in reversing a judgment procured by Lizzie Thompson, wife of a track hand at Augusta, Ga., for $1,300 for injuries sustained in a railroad col lision near McCormick, S. C., In 1910. The court held a pass is not to be re garded as part of the compensation for which the employee works, but is in reality "free" and subject to any conditions the railroad may Im pose. LAST WORD TO HAITL. European Powers Issue Ultimatum to Smaller Republic. News has reached Washington from unofficial sources that France and Germany have warned Haiti that her custom houses will be seized un less arrangements are made to meet the outstanding Haitien financial ob ligations. Secretary Bryan said no notice that such a step was contem plated had -'oriae to the United States from the huropean powers, but re ports of the serious situation in the island republic, torn within by revo lution and besieged by creditors from wkithout, were the subject of a long discussion at Tuesday's cabinet meet ing. What the attitude of the Unit ed States might be was not indicated. Won't Run for Governor. Solicitor Hugh Dorsey of Atlanta has refused to enter the race for gov ernor of Georgia on the strength of his prosecution of Frank, which he says was only his duty, no more than many other officials have done. Sinmns Leaves Campaign Party. Just as he arose to speak at Sum ter Charles Carroll Simms was hand ed a telegram announcing the death of his sister, and for that reason he is temporarily absent from the cam paign party. Model Man Dies at 82. W. R. Hindman of Sedalia, Mo., who never tasted liquor, cussed, smoked or chewed died Thursday after his first illness, of three days U. S. MAKES REPLY ANSWERS STATEMENT OF MEXI CAN REPRESENTATIVES. REBEL MUST BE CHOSEN This Government Will Insist That Constitutionalist be Made Provi sional President Because Their Party Has the Approval of a Ma jority of the Mexican People. The American delegates to the Mexican mediation conference Thurs day night made public a statement, issued with the consent of the Wash ington government, replying to the statement given out Wednesday night by the Mexican delegation, criticiz ing the American plan for the estab lishment of a provisional government in Mexico with a Constitutionalist at its head. Suggestions that President Wilson had any intent to destroy the electoral liberty of Mexico are "ut terly repudiated" by the American representatives. The statement cov ers the whole range of criticism by the Huerta delegates. It was inter preted as foreshadowing the unal terable position of the United States in future parleys. The statement, in substance, fol lows: "The American representa tives do not think it is conducive to the interests of mediation to publish durift its pendency the various plans or the contentions of the parties; but as the Mexican representatives have given out a formal statement of their objections to the appoint ment of a Constitutionalist as provi sional president, 'because, among other things, an election cbnducted by such a provisional government would not represent the will of the Mexican people, it has been neces sary to get a part of the answer to the letter written by Mr. Rabasa. "In that answer the American rep resentatives utterly repudiate any suggestions that the American presi dent has any intent of destroying the electoral liberty of Mexico and insist that the Mexican representatives en tirely understand the motives and objects of the president, who recog nizes the facts and sees in the past success of the Constittuionalist army indisputable evidence of the approval of the Mexican people. But he also sees that the full triumph of that army means an indefinite continu ance of war, with the suffering and bloodshed and death which every war involves. "These consequences the president seeks to prevent through mediation, but we greatly fear the language of the Mexican note implies that his ef forts may be thwarted because of unwillingness to have a Constitu tionalist as provisional president, even though that promises the only practical means by which the hor rors of war can be prevented. "Hope is expressed that the Mexi can representatives will not further oppose the only plan which promises peace, when its rejection means suf fering and death to so many. We are convinced that your objections to the plan itself and your fear of the ill-consequences that may follow its adoption are not well founded, and that in attacking the details you lose sight of the large and control ling motive which from the begin ning of this trouble has been in the mind of the president, and which has influenced the American representa tives In all that they have said or proposed to the mediators. "The American government seeks only to assist in securing the pacifi cation of Mexico. It has no special interest in the method or in the per son by which that great end is to be accomplished; and if pressed for any particular method, or for the selec tion of a particular type of man, it Is only because it believes them to be the only means to the desired end. "It would be easy at this confer ence to write an agreement which many would consider desirable, but unless the most excellent of plans and the most excellent of men are accepted by the Constittuionalists we only would have a paper plan, wholly Ineffective to secure peace in war torn Mexico. To bring that to a close, to restore peace and constitu tional government, is the aim of the president; and that end only can be attained by consulting the just wishes of the Constitutionalists, who are not in numerical majority, but are the dominant force in the coun "If those selected by the mediators to administer the provisional gov ernment have the confidence of the Constitutionalists a long- step will have been taken towards the pacifi cation of Mexico without furnishing any occasion for alar'm to those Mr. Rabasa represents, . . . for If the plan is accepted both by Gen. Huerta and Gen. Carranza the cessation of arms follows and a provisional gov ernment is established . . . to call an election at which every qualified voted may cast his ballot for the president of his choice, while if the plan indorsed by the Mexican repre sentatives should be adopted and a neutral should be chosen, we would have secured no practical results, but still be confronted with the insur mountable fact that the Constitu tionalists now almost completely triumphant, would reject the plan, repudiate the man and press forward with renewed zeal to the City of Mexico with all the loss of blood and life that may involve. "In reference to the suggestion that the provisional president should be a neutral it is said that 'it is mani fest that in such a contest as has been waged in Mexico for years, it is not only fair, but necessary to assume that every intelligent man of any prominence is at heart on one side or the other, and the country might well question the patriotism of any Mexican who has .been colorless in such a contest, and as th4 provisional president must be to some extent identified with one party or the other, it necessarily follows that to meet the requirements of the p-esent sit uation his sympathies, which really mark the man, must be with the dominant element. "'The effort, therefore, should be not to find a neutral, but one whose SAILOR IS SHANGHAIED SOANDINAVIAN IS PUT IN CHAINS AD SENT TO PRISON. trange Story Turns up in San Quen tin Prison-Man Sent up For An other. Shanghaied in Nagasaki, carried in irons across the Pacific on the United 3tates transport Sheridan and thust into San Quentin penitentiary to serve three years under a name he could not pronounce for a crime he aever had heard of, Albert Johansen, a Scandinavian sailor, was freed ruesday by the United States Dis trict Court of San Francisco. On June 27 he must appear again for the return of a writ of habeas orpus, application for which was fil ed in his behalf, but in the meantime he is free without bail. The pris oner claims he was drinking one night in a water front saloon at Nagasaki. Three strangers offered to stand him a treat. He accepted. The next morning he found him self at sea, a prisoner. He tried in ain to explain who he was, but was delivered at San Quentin as James Rogers, alias Peter Grimes, to serve three years fo ra sentence imposed by the Treaty court at Shanghai for forgery. His cell mate chanced to be a fellow countryman and through him he got a hearing. Johansen identified Rogers' por trait as "one of the men I drank with in Nagasaki." The real Rogers served a year in San Quentin for for gery. When released he won the interest of Capt. Robt. D9llar, a mer chant, of San Francisco, who sent him to China as a clerk. Soon Rog ers was posing as Col. Dollar's son. He began to pass bad checks, was caught and convicted and sentenced to three years in San Quentin. An officer of the court was to have taken him to Nagasaki, where he was to be placed on the Sheridan. At that point the facts end and theory begins. The belief of Federal officers is that Rogers got his guar dian drunk, poured a stupefying drug into Johansen's drink and per sonally delivered him late at night on board the Sheridan, turning over to a petty officer of the ship the pa pers he had stolen from the drun ken deputy and receiving in person the acknowledgement for his own delivery. NO LINES DRAWN. Candidate Receives Applause When He Sticks to Himself. That the people are going to de mand a discussion of issues and are tired of factionalism and strife is made evident from the way the at tempt to draw the lines was received by the Manning audience of 500 peo ple which heard the candidates for governor and other State offices Thursday. The incident came up when Mr. J. A. Hunter was asked the question by a man in the audi ence, "How do you stand, for Blease or Smith?" and when Mr. Hunter promptly replied, "I stand for 3. A. Hunter for lieutenant governor," the crowded Court House broke into ap plause and cheers. This was the first time any at tempt has been made by the people who make up the audiences to inject the Issue of Bleaseism In the State campaign, and the promptness with which it was frowned on by the over whelming majority of the Manning audience makes inevitable the con clusion that the people want the can didates for governor and other State offices to discuss issues and not men. The way every hit *at "coat tail swingers" Is cheered strengthens the belief that the people want a man to stand on his own merit and demand that the campaign be conducted on a high plane. GRANTS PAROLES. Governor Blease Turns Loose Two More Convicts. The governor has granted a parole to George Owens, who was convicted in Charleston county in June. 1912. of assault and battery with intent to kill and sentenced to three years.' A .parole has been granted to Jake Walker. who was convicted in Cal houn county of violating the dispen sary law in two cases in November of 1913 and sentenced to serve 12 months or to pay a fine of $200. Since assuming office the chief ex ecutive has extended clemency in 1, 247 cases. would make him acceptable to the Constitutionalists, while his charac ter, standing and conduct would make him acceptable to the other party. "'Such a man, and only such a man, can reasonably be expected to have the confidence and respect of the entire country.' "In answer to the contention that there could be no fair elections con ducted by a -provisional government of which a Constitutionalist was pro visional president, the answer of the Americans calls attention to the fact that in the past the elections in Mex ico have been under the supervision of a single cabinet minister repre senting the dominant party. By an alogy the next election should be su pervised by only one officer, repre senting the dominant Constitutional ist party. The American plan seeks to avoid the just criticism against that method and contemplates that this, the most important election in the history of Mexico, shall be su pervised by representatives of both parties. "'It Is wholly incorrect to assume that thus supervised it will be un fairly conducted and you may rest assured that all the influence the United States can legitimately use will -be exerted to secure an honest election.' "It is true that the American plan proposes that a majority of this board shall be Constitutionalists, but that is because they now represent the sentimnt of the sentiment of the majority of people of Mexico, and, on which we must insist, has been formulated solely with that end in view. Actuated by these motives we feel that we may appeal to you, and through you to the other Mexican representatives, to read again our TELLS Of RECORD JENNINGS AND POLLOCK ATTACK ACTS OF GOV. BLEASE. JOIN IN DENOUNCING IT Charleston Voters See Record of Gov ernor Blease Laid Bare by the Cool Calculating Analysis of the Late Entrants into the Senatorial Campaign. At the campaign meeting in Char leston Saturday Mayor L. D. Jen nings stated that he had no politi cal record, but was glad he didn't have one like the governor's. He declared the governor said he would work for Charleston, but he (Jen nings) would show that when the governor had the opportunity he did som-thing against "the Great City by 'the ", and "if he weL; back on you, :ow can you trust him by send ing him to the S.3nate?" the speaker asked, saying further, "personally Blease is a very clever fellow, but I have a right to talk about his rec ord; I am a citizen of South Caro lina and always will be." Mr. Jennings said he didn't know whether or not the people of Charles ton wanted the encampment, but he was going to tell them why they didn't get it. He then declared that the governor's hostile attitude to ward the national administration was the cause of Charleston losing the encampment; that the rule of the war department was to make ar rangements through adjutants gen eral of the various States, and that the Secretary of War wouldn't de viate from the established rules and take the matter up with Governor Blease, and that this offended the governor, "but Blease is different from every other governor in the United States," he declared. He read the governor's letter to Secretary Garrison, in which the gov ernor said he had been ignored and also refused to muster out certain companies of the State militia. "So friendly to the administration at Washington, when he wants to. be Senator,". said Mr. Jennings, who asked, "suppose you send the gov ernor to Washington, something comes up, he is not consulted, but Senator Tillman is asked first?" He read from a newspaper article quoting the governor as saying that only "gamblers, blind tigers and dive keepers" wanted the encampment at Charleston, then said he found among those working for the en campment prominent charleston cit izens. The governor, defending his par don course, had told the crowd many of them would go to church and ask God to pardon them, and expected Him to do it; that when petitions for pardons came to him it was his duty to listen to them. Replying, Mr. Jennings said the Lord knew be fore He forgave whether the sinner had repented "and the Lord doesn't want any votes.'' He referred to the pardon some time ago of a yeggman who escaped through the rear door of the governor's office while a dep uty United States marshal was wait ing in the ante-room to rearrest him. He wanted to know who sent in the petition for this pardon. He said If the governor is proud of his pardon record "he owes me a suit of clothes, for I'm going to tell It to the people of South Carolina." He said the book of the governor's rec ord is written and he's going to read it to the public. He said he thinks Smith should help him acquaint the people with Blease's record, but that so far Smith had said nothing. A man in Dorchester county was convincted of manslaughter about two o'clock, and by five a pardon was there for him, said Mr. JennIngs. "Will you send Blease to the Senate by his record as governor?'' asked Mr. Jennings. "No, can't afford it," came from some one in the audience. The speaker again declared he was not speaking personally; that per sonally the governor was very pleas ant. "Too pleasant," shouted a lis tener. Mayor Jennings declared that lawlessness in this State was at a greater height than it had ever been. He told of what he said was a con versation between two negroes, one of whom had .been indicted for some crime and wanted an early trial; be cause if he went there -before Gov. Blease got out he'd get out by em ploying a lawyer, a political hench man of the governor's. Mir. Jennings said he would not confine his remarks during the cam paign to the governor's pardon rec ord, but would take up other phases of the execu.tive's record. He told the crowd to vote as they pleased; that he had not asked and did not intend to ask for a single vote, but that he would have the consolation ~f knowing hat he went around the State and laid the governor's record before the -people. He said he be lieved the governor could get votes from "office appointees and lawyers he'd given pardons to." Mr. Jennings said lie was laying aside his personal affairs to serve the people of the State "at this critical juncture'." He closed with a glowing tribute to Woodrow Wilson and his work as governor of New Jersey and presi dent of the United States. Mr. WV. P. Pollock, the last speak er, said he had the misfortune to be in the South Carolina University the same time as Blease, the misfortune to be in the legislature eight years with him, and the further misfortune to have Blease as governor of his State four years. If voters must choose between Blease and Smith. he said. "go to the polls and for God's sake vote for Smith." He said Please stands on his record. "But, thank God. I have no such record," and further declared that Blease "has attempted to usurp office more than any other 'rovernor who has dis graced South Carolina." He com pares himself to the Great Governor of the Universe, said Mr. Pollock, "and may God have mercy on his soul." Mr. Pollock said Smith was a joke, and told stale jokes, "but he's better than Cole Blease, though." Referring to Gov. Blease's remarks about sheriffs and law enforcement Mr. Pollock read from the governor's Walterboro speech, "made to these countr people, where there are no HOKE GIVES ED CREDIT TELLS WHO INTRODUCED COT TON FUKVRE BILL. Georgia Senator Contradicts State ments of Governor Blease at St. Matthews and Orangeburg. The Greenville Piedmont publishes the following: Blease in his speech at St. Matth-ews said that Hoke Smith introduced a bill in congress that E. D. Smith is being given credit for. Roke Smith in a letter to the Pied nont says that E. D. Smith introduced the bill. Several days ago the Piedmont ontained an editorial calling atten tion to what is considered unwar ranted action by the publicity agent f Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, [n giving him practically all credit lor passage by the United States Sen te of a bill designed to curb the evil power of the New York Cotton Ex change, whose form of future con tracts operates against a higher level af prices for the South's great staple cottou. That editorial came In part to the attention of Senator Hoke Smith and he promptly disavowed any responsibility for the excessive credit given him and accords praise where praise is due. In a letter to the editor of The Piedmont he says: "My attention has been called to a portion of an editorial printed in your paper recently with reference to a bill which has passed the Sen te curbing the cotton exchanges. "I wish to say to you that I give the full credit to Senator E. D. Smith for his splendid work in behalf of this measure. The original bill was introduced by him. I had been study ing the question with a great deal of care, and I aided him in perfecting certain amendments to the bill, and I supported him on the floor of the Senate in the passage of the measure. "If any one has given me the li'on's share of the credit for the pas sage of this bill through the Senate, I regret it. Too much credit can not be given your own Senator for this work. If we can break up the gam bling on the New York cotton ex change and the use by that exchange of the system which has enabled them to bear the price of cotton, I believe it will be worth five dollars a bale to the cotton growers of the South in the sale of their spot cotton. "I have regarded it a great priv lege to help serve our people in so splendid a work, a work which to simply intended to break up the in famous system that has robbed them of part of the fruits of their labors, but I would regret that any friends of mine should detract from the credit in any way of Senator E. D. Smith, In this matter." That is the letter of a magnani mous man and-it is worth attention, for those who have given study to this question are satisfied that the methods of the New York Cotton Exchange db have an evil effect in depressing the price of cotton. Sena tor E. D. Smith has fought hard for the cottan farmers of the South and should be~given full credit for his work in their behalf. NIGHT OF TERROR. Burning Oil Tank Threatens People and Town. After a -night of terror the people of Meadowlands, a little mining town near Washington, Penn., Tuesday re turned to the home they had forsak en -Monday when it seemed the vil lage would be engulfed by a torrent of burning oil. Twenty-four families, rendered homeless by the fire or the dynamite used to check its progress were camped on the hills. The oil in the tank, struck by lightning Sun day night, had burned Itself out, al though great masses of black smoke still rolled up from the spot where it had stood. Tbe tank, containing 25,000 barrels, resisted all efforts of firemen Mionday and Monday night when an explosion scattered the oil other tanks in the vicinity were threatened. Scores of workmen di verted the flaming fluid in ditches and the town was saved. blind tigers," and asked, "Did he say let Charleston alone?" He read from the governor's "declaration of prin ciples," which, he declared, the gov ernor said should be the platform of all candidates this summer, one plank being impartial law enforce ment, Mr. Pollock charging that the governor when in Charleston told the people of that city that they should run their own affairs, but assumed the reverse attitude when talking in other parts of the State. He refer red to the dismissal by the governor of notaries public at McCleilanville, "at the pleasure of Cole L. Blease." "How long will the people of South Carolina stand for that kind of a tyranny in the governor's of fice?" asked Mr. Pollock, who declar ed that the governor's "declaration of principles" at Walterboro were contrary to his actions. "I ask you, is he enforcing the law?" asked Mr. Pollock. "No," came in chorus from the crowd. The most monumental jokA in the governor's whop platform is "Trial by jury for all persons accused of crime and enforcement of verdicts found by juries and judgments of courts," declared 3Mr. Pollock, who further stated that the governor had liberated more than 1,200 prisoners. thereby setting aside the verdicts of 14,000 jurors, "but he pardons and tells you, the sovereign people, you can't help yourself." He said no honest man should ob ject to honest elections in South Car oina. "but didn't he say that he wouldn't sign any bill changing the primary laws because it might be aimed at him, the Great Ego?" He criticised the governor for refusing to ap'oint officers selected by the Supreme Court, "although the law says the governot inust commission." Mr. Pollock declared himself in full sympathy with the national ad ministration and praised Wilson and Bryan as the best friends the people ever had. He promised, if elected. to be the Senator of every class, say ing all would be South Carolina's to him, all American citizens. Mail Carriers to Meet. The R.' F. D. Carriers of the State *C4D&ofuteI) SMakes Homebalij LIONS DEVOUR MAN ENTERED CAR IN WHICH WERE SIX KINGLY BEASTS. Five Leap at Him and Find Sixth on the Side of the Man-Defender Pushed Aside and Man Slain. Emerson D. Deitrich, manager of a theatrical production presenting a troupe of trained lions, was killed and partly devoured Sunday night at Chicago by six licns when he entered the car in which they were caged. While keepers were recovering Dei rich's body, a lion escaped from an adjoining cage and terrorized the res dents of the thickly populated quar ter in which the car stood. The escaped lion was finally driven back to its car, having harmed no ne. A pike pole from the fire de artment was used to withdraw Dei trich's body from the lions, after it ad been sprinkled with formalde yde to drive- the animals away. eaorge McChord, keeper of the lions, was unable to help Deitrich. "When he went into the den," Mc Chord said, "Teddy, the leader of the attack against Deitrich, began to play with him and he told the beast to get down. Four of the lions were facing him. Finally, Teddy slung around behind him and, in a minute, was on his back. Four others then leaped for him, and I think his neck was broken. Trilby, the oldest .of the lions, tried to save him, but the others pushed her away and she quit and watched them without joining in the attack." The lions were owned by Madame dgie Castillo, to whom Deitrich was engaged to be marriecL. farmerly had taken care of the ani mals herself and that they never be fore had given indications of being vicious. She attributed the attack to the fact that the *car was dark when Deitrich entered. Policemei armed with rifles guarded the car all night. The lions, while attacking Dei trich, kept up an incessant roaring which attracted a great crowd. The car in which they were kept was an rdinary box car, in the ends of Which steel cages had been .built, eaching within a few feet of the' top of the car, leaving a passageway bout two feet wide between them. n one cage were the six older lions, and in the other four younger ones. score of policemen and members f a .fire company were needed to withdraw Deltrich's body from the cage. After the disinfectant had been thrown in the den, the animals made repeated plunges at the bars just outside of which the rescuers were orking. With the aid of a pike pole, a rope was dropped around the body but 'the interference of the lions prevented the rescuers from lifting it over the bars. Finally the pike pole caught a belt worn by Deitrich and the body was recovered. The lions have been used 'in hundreds of performances. according to Madame Castillo, five or six of them being liberated on the stage together to perform under his direction. She always has controlled them with a whip. DAGO) ON STAFF. Pollock Refers to Governor's Ap pointment of "Blind Tiger Jim". W. P. Pollock of Cheraw, at the Walterboro meeting, tackled the gov ernor's pardoning record and "cough ed up" other points in the career of the chief executive. He said that the governor tells the people if they don't ike what he does, they can't help it; so if the governor does not like the new primary rules, said Mr. Pollock, he can't help it. The speaker said the governor had appointed on his staff an "Italian dago, blind-tiger Jim Sottile, who would stand bhy the governor's side when the Walterboro company pass ed in review. Mr. Pollock said he had nothing personal against Gov. 3lease but would hate to have his record. A YEGG'S ESCAPE. ollock Boldly Intimates How "Port land Ned" Escaped. The feature of the meeting at Beaufort Tuesday was Mr. Pollock's atttack on what he termed the chief xeeutive's encouragement of law lessness. This was characterized by the sharpest utterance of the cam paign so far, when he referred to Portland Ned". the yeggman, who disappeared from the governor's pri vate office while a United States mar shal was waiting outside with a war "Who knows," Mr. Pollock said, "but that this outlaw might have gone out in a suit of clothes similar to the governor's, with one of the famous slouch hats on his head and his face graced with a drooping moustache?" To Give Out c'orrespondence. Secretary Bryan has announced1 that the American-Japanese corre spondence on the California land. question will be published simultan eously in both countries Friday. Police Inspector Shot. When Police Inspector Norton of Bston attempted to arrest Lawrence Robinson on a clarge of murder Sat urday he wvas shot and desperately wounded.[ Goes to Relieve Men. The battleship Kansas sailed for * era Cruz Monday with 300 men who ,i re to relieve that number whose en-i istmnt ha rxpired. 1 'Sucenflaiduas . [AKE A NEW STEP 'ARRANZA REFUSES TO DISCUSS INTERNAL AFFAIRS. 1OPE THEY MAY AREE .nited States to Go as Far as Pos sible and Then Place Burden of Breaking Negotiations Directly Upon the Representatives of the Mexican Faction. Plans were completed Tuesday at Ciagara Falls by the South American nediators .for the signing within a ay or two of all protocols in the >eace plan which relate to interna onal differences between the United tates and Mexico, except the plank iving the composition and personnel >f the new provisional government. Phe mediators intend to have the en ire peace -plan ready so that at in ormal conferences the -Huerta and "onstitutional delegates may select t provisional president and cabinet fficers. Before these conferences. tre held the work of the mediators Lnd the American delegates virtually will be finished. Representatives of he two Mexican factions then will tssume the rsponsibility of making r breaking the peace program. - Reports from New Orleans quot ng Carranza's private secretary as ;aying the commission en route to. Washington would not participate In' nformal negotiations with the Huer :a delegates did not disturb the me liation colony. The expressions cred ted to men who recently left Gn. ,arranza's headquarters were con trued to be a part of the desire not o disclose the purposes of their mis ion prior to their arrival. Whether the delegates now com ng represent the personal Interests. >f Carranza' is not known, 'but the nediators have. good reason to -be *ieve Gen. Villa is in sympathy with ffbrts of the United States'to settlI. he Mexican embroglio through dip omatic channels and that the dele ates en route -will have Villa's ap :roval. The signing of protocals setting he international dispute on condi ion that a provisional government se established which the United tates can recognize is expected to serve as an incentive to the two Mex can factions to agree on personnel. These protocols will .be published,' perhaps, Thursday of this week. One will set forth that within a fixed eriod after the United States recog- - izes the new government, American ~orces shall be withdrawn from Vera ruz and hostilities shall be declared uspended between the Uni,ted States nd Mexico. Another will include a declaration y the United States that It desires hat no indemnity for expenditures esulting from the seisure of Vera ruz, but asks only. the establish ent of a provisional government :hat can guarantee international as well as national obligations. The South American envoys dis :nssed it briefly with the American lelegates and conferred with the Fuerta delegates, who were asked rormally if they would meet Consti :utionalist representatives. The Euerta delegates replied they were viling to enter any conference with :heir countrymen which had for Its >bject the prevention of bloodshed tnd the destruction -of property and sought 'to establish a national gov arnment on a firm basis. The plan the mediators have work ad out is to confine the formal me liation conferences -to a considera :ion of internationtl questions, treat ng with the Huerta and American lelegates on these points. On in ter al qiuestions the Huerta and Consti :utionalist delegates would be experct-j ad to confer alone. They would dis ~uss names for the provisional presi lency while the mediators and Amer can delegates would await the out ome of their efforts before signing .final protocol. It is virtually certain that no irmtistice would be declared. by the Constitutionalists until an agree neat of a definite character is reach d in the informal econferences as to he established of the provisional overnment. On arriving at such an nderstanding it would be expected hat a general suspension of hostill :ies would be proclaimed and the onstitutionalist delegates then iight be formally admitted to the ediation proceedings for the sign ng of the final protocol, recording :he solution of the differences be-. ween Mexico and the United States. BOYS LOSE LIVES. Iwo Youngsters Suffocate When Play Cave Falls in. While playing in a cave they had lug on the outskirts of Atlanta, Ga., enry Stedman, aged 13, and Paul ain, 11, were suffocated Tuesday hen the roof caved in, burying hem. A playmate was also caught y falling earth but managed to dig s way out unhurt. Impressed by the spectacle of con ets at work on the street nearby, he childreti essayed to play "escaped onvicts" in the excavation. The boys vho lost their lives were inside the 'ave while William Cole, who bare y escaped, was acting as guard im nediately inside the entrance. Family Fight Fatal. Wesley McCoy of Winston Salem, s. C., was shot Tuesday following a -ow with his wife. He had returned o his home, where they fought for he poseseion of a revolver..