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LL ORGANIZED FORCES SEEN TO HAVE STRONi ORGANIZTION A IN EVERY COUNTY 'Spporters of Governor Are Aigned tn a. Compact Line of Committees and Are Doing All They Can to Eect Governor and Those Whom He Intends to Support. That State Senator W. H. Sharpe f Lexington County is the State chaiman of the Blease organization, n- John' . Aull, private secretary the Governor, the secretary of the "Ifg-nzation, is the information fur Ited the Pee Dee Daily of Bennett* e'by Col. J. P. Gibson of Ben ettallle, la -member of the staff of p.oBlease. and secretary of the se organization in Marlboro ty. Mr. Gibson gives the Blease com en in the townships of Marl county, and it is said that a .organization has been per of the Blease forces in every Inthe State. If this is true, . lease has an organization ex to each school district im one iof the forty-four counties, able, as be has frequently touch any locality at a a e i~ardof Col. J. Preston Gibsoi Pee Dee Daily says in part: Freeman: In your yesterday'i a) Daily you editorially offer .16w a, reward of five dollars tc for the names of the' Stat( ~miicommittee and the names o1 Tdri aad secretary in Marlbort athad the names of the town ennmmttees in this county. Wi taid or ashamed for name. bished, .for we feel that w4 litgood as any people who wal We'are Democrats and a4 as anybody. The following desired: 4chairman, W. H . Sharpe nOr from Lexington county; - )cretary, J. K. Aull, the gov w ptvate secretary." ~vwng the members of thi - ease ~organization, - Mr ses his nmmunication al ' :=3aneditorial-in his paper o: LR. L. Freeman says nDailhas accomplished ar feat, and scooped the paper State In securing a lis -and committees of th4 _.organlzation. When th4 -cnferences were held in Co veral weeks ago, the news ieporters in Columbik coul ecare any informaton as t done. Those who attendet ba oysters when asket tenewspaper men. Eno transpires that officer: ~ b~e iselected for the State or -and county chairmen ant - appointed. But it has re * 1rthe Daily -to unearth thi: ertrfor th-Diy- n VoLGibson would no doub lvnus this Information Ioni -h it not been thie purpose te - te information from the pres ~p~~.But oug discovery an: - of .Mr. Aull's letter. to - .wth ur gentle goarding and ofthe $5, has had the desir ~t has gievn us ascoop fo: ~~any live newspaper would havy - iiid?$5. We would be glas 2aee~ti newspapers in other cosn a dreY.'and publish the officer immttees of the Blease organi In their respective counties. n helthe Blease conference too In Columbia on the eve of th< of the campaign it was held ~the Supreme Court room frorx the newspaper men were bar it was known at the time tha - n- Sharpe presided over the Sbut the only informatio1 .aealabewas just what could be pick 'ei up ere and there and put togeth ior no statement was given out t< ~-the press. In fact, at no time was -itlere ever any offcial knowledge tha 5ckconferences were being held. -' t has aready been printed that al rgn zan of the Blease forces hat ee ormed in every county with ~cnrlor State organization in Co ~li~;that such and such men were *2hte eorganization and that a count: chimnIn each county had beei 'nmdand-meetings of the adminis t ation- followers organized in every <conaty, but remained to absolutel: confirra the names of the Bleas State chairman and secretary. There is no douit that the Statt - dministration has organized or at 'tmtdto organize in each co~unty - ~was known that in Georgetowr Scopaty a caucus of the Blease forces ~-,as held following the speakIng of ~,~e candidates for State offces there a'gd it was openly reported that the caucus had agreed to support Johi G. Richards for governor and the -'-Bleiase ticket right down the line. d'his 'was said to have been the same -method followed In Williamsburi 'county, where, however, the Blease forces are in a hopeless minority. 'Georgetown is going to be close, for the Bleasites are well organized there and have control of the county execu tive committee. It Is also interesting to recall in this connection that W. C. Irby Jr., In his speech following the LexIng ton meeting, I believe it was at Sa luda, attacked Mr. W. H. Sharpe, the Lexington Senator'who Is the State chairman of the Blease forces, for helping to hold up the two-cent rate in the last general assembly, and~ stated that Mr. Sharpe is supporting Mr. Richards for governor. Mr. Irby had made plain his inten tion -of not being left "out in thie cold", and he as well as Mr. C. C. Simms and Mr. J. B. A. Mullally are friends of Gor. Blease, just as Mr. John G. Richards. It is going to be a pretty fight to see which lands the support of the Blease organization, for while the governor has declared he will not take a hand In the first race .it is obviously impossible for him to keep his followers from cen tering on one man if they so desire. It was reliably reported that t'he Blesse men in Georgetown and Wil ,iamsburg agreed on Mr. Richards for governor and that other counties IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM STATE BOARD OF HEALTH IS TO 3LAE WAR ON PELLAGRA. State Health Officer Hayne Says Dis ease is Most Serious Menace to Good Health. At the recent quarterly meeting of the State board of health, the pella gra situation was declared to be the most serious health problem of South Carolina. It was determined by the assembled doctors to make a practical survey of pellagra conditions in the State with the intention of suppress ing and eradicating the insidious dis ease. Dr. A. J. Hayne, State health offi cer, had the following to say as to the pellagra situation: "Pellagra is at present the disease that is giving the State board of health more trou ble than any other health condition in the State. From the following it may be seen that a pellagra survey of the State is very necessary. "For the month of June 87 cases have been reported to the board from 23 counties out of the 48. In the re maining counties the disease is prac tically as prevalent as within the re ported districts. The counties report ing pellagra are Abbeville, Anderson, Barnwell, Beaufort, Calhoun, Char leston, Cherokee, Chester, Chester field, Darlington, Dorchester, Fair field, Florence, Greenville, Green wood, Horry, Kershaw, Laurens, Lex ington, Newberry, Marlboro. Orange burf, Richland, Spartanburg, Union and York. "What percentage of pellagrins re siding within these counties has been reported? The case of Laurens coun ty may furnish some idea. From the entire county two cases were report ed tothe State board of health. In the town of Clinton, with a popula tion of about 4,000 souls, an inten sive pellagra survey, conducted by Dr. Jos. F. Siler, of the Thompson McFadden pellagra commission, now working in Spartanburg county; Dr. A. E. Vipond of Montreal, Canada, and Dr. T. L. W. Bailey, local board of ,health secretary for Clinton, re vealed 98 cases of pellagra, wet and dry varieties. "In the past three months ten deaths have occurred in Clinton as the result of pellagra, nine of the fatalities being the. case of married women, their ages varying from 21 to 58 years, and the duration of the dis ease from three months to four years. The pellagra situation in Clinton is not exceptional in South Carolina.' It is merely cited, because the field has been thoroughly surveyed by able men. During his three years of work In Spartanburg county Dr. Siler has reported 800 cases of pellagra in that district" Dr. Hayne said that the people ad vise with their candidates for the . State assembly and prevail upon them to appropriate funds for a proper state survey for pellagra; that cases may be found; that their severity may be reported on; that the prob -ability of its spread may .be dealt , with, etc. :"Lest the b~ublic become too alarm Sed," said Dr. Hayne, "I am glad to state that the death resulting from , pellaga Is exaggerated frequently. It tis probably not more than 5 per cent. SAside from the mortality viewpoint Swe are facing a far worse situation Bin actual pellagra conditions than in ithe possible appearance of the bu - bonic plague." GOOD IsOADS PLANS. Re1port on Measure for Great Im. B provement of Highways. -A favorable report on Senator Bryan's good roads .bill, a substitute Sfor the Shackleford bill already pass Sed by the House, was completed Mon jday by the Senate committee on post Soffices and post roads. Under the Bryaat bill the Federal tgovernment would issue fifty-year Sthree per cent. bonds to the amount 1of $500,000,000 in lots of $100,000, -000 each for five years. Before -states could participate in the funds Sthey would be required to issue an Bequal amount of four per cent. bonds Swhich, when deposited in the treas ury department, would be exchanged for cash. The one per cen' dfference would make up a sinking fund to aid the states in retiring the bonds Creation of a federal highway'com mission to supervise the expenditure rof highway funds is a feature of the bill. The commission would be coin posed of'the chairman and members of the Senate and House committees on roads, the director of the office of public roads, and a United States army officer. CHTT-DRE. IN MILLS. State Factory Inspectors Give Statis tics on Cotton Mill Help. A glance at the report of the in spectors sent out by the State depart ment of agriculture to inspect the cot ton mills shows a decrease of 872 white males, while there has been an increase of 23 white females, 376 negro males and 46 negro females. Though there has been an Increase of 163,108 spindles and 1.830 looms it is noted that there has been a de crease in the total number of opera tives of 427. These figures would in dicate that the mills are installing modern labor-saving machinery, and that there is a further tendency to change from coarse to fine goods. With this increase in spindles there has been a gradual increase in chil dren between the ages of 14 and 16 years. an increase of 51 white boys and 104 white girls, and an increase of 17 negro boys and 10 negro girls. Between the ages of 12 and 14 years we find an increase of 126 white boys and 56 white girls, with an increase of 6 negro boys and 6 negro girls. Dealt With as Criminals. A telegram received at Los Ange les purporting to be official message from Carranza says all who took an active part in the assassination of Madero will be dealt with as crimi nals. Air Reservoir Explodes. The air reservoir of a Gaffney manufacturing plant exploded Tues day with a loud report, and blew up part of two floors, but no .livies weret POINTS OUT HANGER VOTE AUINST AD INISTRATION IS BADLY SPLIT ILEASITES TO LINE liP --4 Anti-Blease Candidates Are so Num erous That Minority of Votes May Place Two Supporters of Governor in Second Primary-Votes Badly Split Up. That centralization of the anti-ad ministration forces on some one anti Blease candidate for governor has be come imperative in order to assure the ultimate election of an anti Blease governor, is the opinion of J. A. Daly, who says a devolpment of last week in the campaign for State offices was contained in statements of several anti-administration candi dates regarded as leaders of that fac tion. With~ut reserve It was admit ted by one candidate of this faction that such a condition is necessary to prevent two Blease candidates for governor entering the second pri mary. The claim that he is the logical candidate around whom the combined forces opposing the administration should gather has been individually advanced by several candidates for governor. Considerable doubt is, however, expressed that such an agreement can be perfected. Blease support candidates for governor con tinue to assert that two of them will make the second race unless the anti administration forces combine and center their strength on one candi date. In discussing the' probability of such a coaliting, anti-administration candidates pointed out that thoughts of the formation of such a combina tion can not be taken as an admis sion of particular strength of the ad ministration forces. They admit the Blease faction has a strong minority, which, It is believed, will be princi pally divided between John G. Rich ards of Kershaw, now regarded as possibly the leading Blease supporter in the race for governor, and Willam C. Irby Jr., of Lourens and Charles Carroll Simms of Barnwell. While this unknown vote of the admittedly solid Blease faction will be divided between these three Blease candidates, the anti-administration supporters In the rac e for governor admit that their faction's vote will be divided between at least seven candidates. Arguing in this man ner, they declare that coalition of the strength of the several anti-adminis tration candidates is necessary to in sure success for their faction. Developments of the past several weeks in the State campaign have in dicated that John G. Clinkscales of Spartanburg, candidate for governor, whose strength lies principally in his stand for State-wide compulsory edu cation, has been placed in a "faction' by himself. The more or less mild attacks directed at Clinkscales by both anti-administration and admin istration candidates for governor are generally taken as indicating an in crease in strength. These attaeks on Clinkscales fron his several opponents would possibly indicate that he has, in a way, beer "outlawed" from the strict inti-ada ministration faction on account of his comparatvely radical view he holds on the compulsory education question. This Issue, it Is felt by some of the anti-administration sup porters, would make Clinkscalesa weak candidate should he enter the second primary. In opposition to this tendency .0: the Ciinkscales advocacy of the State wide compulsory education iissue, there i.s known to be developing among some of the anti-administra tion supporters a movement seeking to center on Richard I. Manning of Sumter, the support of the* anti-ad ministration men, whom, they argue, would be a strong candidate in the second primary because of his advo cacy of local optional compulsory ed ucation, which, they say, would make Manning a desirable candidate ir counties where compulsory educatior is strongly supported and unobjec tionable in counties where cormpul sory education Is disapprov'ed. While no candidate expressing his views regarding this now indefinite proposal has declared opposition to such a movement, still the claim of each that he is the logical man for selection as the center of the comnbi nation foretells a great difficulty to be overcome before an intro-factional agreement can be reached by the anti Blease candidates and their support ers. Facing a possible similar intra-fac tional agreement between the three leading Blease candidates for gover nor, some anti-administration candi dates hint at the probable failure of any combination, though they do not make that definite assertion. Throughout the entire party there is yet held a noticable desire on the part of each candidate to fight his own battles and abide by the result of the balloting in the first primary, despite recent political developments. The three Blease candidates in the race for governor each claim he will be in the second primary with another of the Blease candidates, and they de clare the election of an administra tion supporter as governor in as nearly assured as Is possible In a campaign so split as the present cam paign. With three more meetings In the coastal plain between the campaign ers are the coming fights in the Pied mont region, where they say lies the balance of political power, the candi dates for State offices are now specu lating as to the results there of the political developments of the last eighteen months. Through the first five weeks of the State campaign, a general desire to erase factional lines and bring about n clear-cut discussion of the issues has been repeatedly expressed by an-* i-administration candidates for gov ernor. It is generally thought that this concerted action has a veiled purpose. A;'-ninist'ation candidates '!aim that eliminat-n of factional smn would result in greater benefit for he anti-administration forces, offer ng their exulanation of this effort. rhe administrtion candidates de lare they desire the erasure of frjc onal lines only because thiey believeq FLAY HIM AGAIN (Continued from first page.) f Bleaseism would be impossible," said the speaker, and a bunch of about fifty wearers of the red badges stand ing on the right of the stand again began their howling tactics and Sher 1ff Owings said to them, "You keep quiet over ther. We have our own people to do our hollering." Mr. Pollock roused the ire of the Blease men by telling them that when Gov Blease served in the general assembly he never introduced any "Jim Crow" car bill while he, Pol lock, had one enacted into law. He again referred to the governor serv ing as a trustee of the negro State college, and asked why he hired a negro, Harrison Neely, for his chauf feur when a white boy wanted the place? When Mr. Pollock said Gov. Blease would be defeated and began reading his parody on "Old King Cole" the 'Blease men broke into jeers, and so great was the noise that he could scarcely be heard. He said he was not in the race to help either Smith or Blease. "Go ing to help him," shouted a red-badg ed man in the crowd. "If so, you'd hear what I had to say, but you won't listen because you know it's blister ing him and you," replied Mr. Pol lock, while the crcw,'d again jeered. He attacked the governor for leaving the stand as soon as he finished speaking and said, "His record is so bad he can't stand it." His last shot at the yelling crowd was: "God Almighty hates a quitter and brave men are generally willing to stand up and take their medicine." Cheers from a large part of the crowd greeted Mr. Pollock when he quit, while the Blease followers made their disapproval known by jeering and shouting for their champion. United States Senator E. D. Smith was received with applause and said he had no apologies for working for the farmer for the last five and one half years. "That's the man Blease has got to beat," shouted one from the side of the hill "Man he'd like to :beat, but by gun can't do it," promptly replied the senator, while his friends ap plauded. A bunch of men wearing red badges, standing on the right side of the stand, and said to have been made up of people from Anderson, Greenville and Greenwood, kept up such a din that Senator Smith said it was unfair for a handful to keep the crowd from hearing him, and Chair man Browning and the sheriff suc ceeded in quieting the disturbers. "I propose to stay up law, order and decency," said the senator, stat ing that he had not come up by pull ing down others. "I have fought for the rights of those who produce the wealth of the world," he exclaimed. He told of his work which got the government to experiment with cotton grades, and of a bill pending providing for the establishment of the government standardized grades of cotton and for a license for all buyers and exporters of cotton which would insure the use of. these grades and save the farmers lots of money on their cotton. "Go on," yelled the crowd when the chairman notified Senator Smith that his time was about up. He said he never ran over time. The senator told of his work for the farmers and his efforts to get them their rights and to protect- them from gamblers in Wall street. He denounced as in famous a report that he was not keep ing faith on the immigration bill and saying he believed in "America for the Americans", and would work with all his might for the passage of the immigration bill. "In spite of the world, the flesh and the devil I am going back to the Senate," he exclaimed, closing amid many cheers. WED'S FIAN'CE'S EIVAL. Georgia Girl Runs Off From Man She Was to Marry. The romance of Florence Martha Pickard, daughter of the Rev. Dr. W. L. Pickard, the new President of Mercer University, who eloped from Savannah, Ga., last Friday 'with her old sweetheart, Everett Harrison, of Halifox, N. S., while her announced fance, Karl Gustav Karsten, was on his way from London to wed- her, ended sadly in New York after a honeymoon of four days. The mother of the girl has received a l.etter saying she wants to come home. The information was hardly sufficient to determine whether she had hgep abandoned by her husband or whether she has merely grown dis satisfied with her choice. Announce ment of the engagement of Miss Pickard to Mr. Karsten was made July 12. The marriage was to have taken place July 28, at the First Bap tist church of Savannah. On the day the engagement was announced Harrison arrived in Sav annah and visited Miss Pickard. Ife was said to have been engaged to her once. Within five days Miss Pickard eloped with him. Karsten reached Ameries on the same day. STARVED WIFE. Wet Vi-ginia Farmer Said to Have Dug Grave Before Death. Samuel Cuuningham, a farmer. re poted to be wealthy, is in the county jail at Parkersburg, W. Va., Tuesday awaiting a hearing on charges made by J. E. Mayhew, State humane agent, charging first degree murder. May hew charges that Cunningham starv ed his wife, Anne Cunningham, to death. It is alleged in the warrant that Cunningham not only failed to provide his wife with food for twelve days prior to her death, last Friday, but that he purchased a coffin three weeks ago and began digging a grave , week ago. elopment and advancement of the State Despite these pleas, a partisan ten sity is noticable at every meeting, though the lines are apparently far less closely drawn than in 1912. hether or not this continued plead ing for elimination of factionalism is responsible for the marked quietude at the campaign meetings is a mat ter of personal opinion and of con-I lderable doubt. Killed by Pitched Ball. J. T. West, aged 21, of Richmond, Va., was killed Tuesday by .being struck by a pitched ball in a base- r ll game.. COAL RATES FIXED OUTHERN POL ' ARE BOTTLED UP, SAYS DULANEY. tccording to West Virginia Operator Pennsylvania Powers Try to Push Traffic Away From Charleston. In his testimony at Washington donday before the Senate naval af fairs committee B. L. Dulaney, one >f the best known coal operators in outhwest Virginia, told the commit tee considering the Tillman resolu tion regarding shipments of coal to South Atlantic cities that the South ern railroad had so manipulated things that it is now impossible for that section to ship coal with a profit to Atlantic cities. This fixing of high rates, Dulaney said, was due to the control of the Southern by directors who had com paratively little financial interest in it. Their great interests were in the coal trusts of Pennsylvania and they were also in the Northern railroads and set the rate from their mines to the seaboard in the North so high that it was cheaper to ship coal from Pennsylvania mines to Philadelphia and then by sea to Charleston than to ship direct to Charleston from the Southern mines. Those responsible for this condi tion, according to Dulaney, are Geo. F. Baker, Geo. F. Baker Jr., Elbert H. Gary, Adrian Iselin, Adrian Ise lin Jr., Charles Steele of J. P. Mor gan & Co., E. J. Berwind, president of the Berwind-White Coal company, Henry K. McHarg and Grant C. Schley. Were the rates on coal from the Southern fields to Southern poits fix ed on anything like the basis on which the rates from the Pennsyl vania fields to Northern ports, or from the Pocahontas fields to Norfolk and Newport News, Dulaney said, abot 1,000,000 tons a year would be moved by the Southern railway and other lines in that section. Putting it in another way, Dulaney said, $2, 500,000 was taken from the Southern seiboard to pay for coal brought over Northern railways and then by barges or boats which ought to come direct by rail from the Southern mines. Dulaney declared that Pennsylva nia railroad companies entirely domi nated the rates on coal to the sea board. He cited reports of the inter state commerce commission, showing the control by the Pennsylvania and the New York Central of the Balti more & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western and other North ern carriers. . He then declared that the directors of the coal trust, through their control of the Southern and other carriers in that section, were able to stifle competition from independent coal miners in the South. As an instance of discrimination against coal produced by indepen dents and against the Southern rail way as a handler of coal, Dulaney said that on eacb ton of coal hauled from Alexandria to- Washington over the bridge -by the Pennsylvania, that railroad made a charge of 67 cents, if the coal had been hauled to Alex andria -by the Southern; .but only 20' cents if the coal had been hauled to Alexandria via the Norfolk & West ern. NAMES ON ENGINES., Southern Bailway to Encourage Pride Among Its Drivers. The Southern railway has recently adopted a novel plan in order to stim ulate the interest and pride of engi neers in their engines. It has been decided to assign each engineer to an engine and if the locomotive has been kept in good condition after a certain number of miles have been covered, the engineer's name will be printed on the side of the cob. It is a well known fact among rail road men that many engineers take a personal interest in the upkeep o1 their engines and pride themselves on the cleanliness and smooth running order of its varlous parts. Pet names have often been applied to locomo tives and it is to reward these men and to serve as an incentive to others that the plan of placing their names on the out~sde of the cabs was ad vanced by the officials of the road. President Fairfax Harrison of the Southern has recently installed a number of improvements on the road for the benefit of the employees and this will likely prove to be one of the most popular as well as beneficial in stimulating the interest of the engi neers in their work. CANAL RULES Ships Must Observe Them in Passing Through Panama. Rules and regulations for opera tion and navigation of the Panama :anal are provided for in an executive order .iust issued. Generally these are framed upon the regulations in force in the Suez canal and the Soo, though there are new features made necessary by peculiar local conditions. One is the limitation of six knots per hour imposed upon the speed of vessels in the Culebra cut, and it is even required that in approaching turns vessels shall maintain the slow est speed that will keep their head vay. In Gatun lake, however, in the thousand-foot channels, the speed may be as high as fifteen knots; in the SO0-foot channels twelve knots, and in the 500-foot channels ten knots. Everywhere else in the waterway. n Mirafiores lake and locks and in he entrances to the ports, the six knot rate prevails. Greatest precau ions are to be adopted in the pas sage of vessels containing quantities f high explosives or inflammable ~argoes to _guard against in jury to :anal locks or other vessels. Italian Miner Killed. After an Italian miner had been tiled at Meadow Lands. Pa., in a ifht with constables there was dan-1 ter of an international conflict Tues- 1 lay until the arrival of the sheriff 1 Lnd 30 deputies.1 Resigns Under Fire. Representative McDermott of Illi ois, who has been under fire as a 'esult of the Mulhall charges, resign d his seat Monday. Marine Dies at Vera Cruz. ( John McDermott, an American ma- F me at Vera Cruz, was drowned Tues- I IRIED TO HIT HIM iREENVILLE B&NKER RESENS WORDS Of GOV. BLEASE GREATES TENSE FEELINi F. W. Norwood, Wealthiest Banker of His County, Goes for Blease, But Officers Seize Him While He Struggles to Reach Blease-Asked Governor About McIntosh Matter. While three thousand persons watched with still breath, expecting to witness a fisticuff, perhaps the shedding of blood, one of the leading bankers of South Carolina, J. Wil kins Norwood, of Greenville, strug gled frantically to break away from a number of men holding him and personally resent what he considered an insult offered him by the Gov ernor of the State. Cole L. Blease, during the senatorial campaign meet ing Saturday. This furnished the only real sen sation of the campaign so far, and for a while it seemed impossible to avert serious trouble. Several offi cers were seen to reach for their pistols, but so far as could .be ob served in the pandemonium that reigned for several minutes no wea pon was drawn. Mr. Norwood was finally overpowered and taken from the speakers' stand. The situation was extremely tense, the excitement and high feeling spreading to the big crowd around the stand, but for tunately the incident passed without any real damage being done. The trouble started wh'le the gov ernor was speaking, when Mr. Nor wood, who was on the stand at the rear, asked, "How about Dr. McIn tosh?" The governor replied: "When I get to Columbia I will'ask Dr. McIntosh on the stand and then answer the question, not behind his back, like a coward like you." Mr. Norwood then made an effort to get to Gov. Blease, hurling an epithet at the executive while ,en deavoring to break from the half dozen or more men who seized him. Sheriff Rector and Mayor Marshall were also on the stand and appeared to be using their best efforts to avert a clash, and perhaps a tragedy. Sev eral men were heard to make threats of shooting. The governor remain ed where he had been speaking, and by his side were State Detective E. F. Hammond and several others who, it was said, were also officers. Mr. Norwood's question, "How about Dr. McIntosh?" was prompted by a statement issued by Dr. J. H. McIntosh of Columbia, denying that he had recommended a pardon or parole for R. A. Richey of Abbeville, which matter Gov. Blease exhaustive ly review at the meeting in Ahbe ville, when he read a statement from Dr. McIntosh, who had examined Richey while in the Penitentiary. In his last statement Dr. McIntosh declared he not only did not recom mend the pardon of Richey, but that he had stated in his first certificate that he believed Richey was feigning. After the candidates had spoken there were many calls for Mr. Nor wood, who came to the front of the stand and in simple manner related his version of the affair, saying that "If what Dr. McIntosh says is true, Bease is what we all know him to be-a dirty, infamous liar." He then bitterly arraigned the governor, saying Newberry is the home of the Gov. Blease and~ Dr. McIntosh, that "Blease can't go Into the home of Dr. McIntosh" and the latter "would not enter the home of Blease". He said that any educated man who was supporting Blease was a, "dirty skunk". He made further re marks bitterly denouncing the gov ernor and his followers, saying: "This fellow Richards running for governor is a prince of hypocrites." "I happen to know that." He de clared every man Greenville in terested in selling blind tiger liquor was "tearing his shirt for Blease and Rector''. Mr. Norwood is presinent of the Norwood National Bank of Green ville and is interested in banks in other places. He is said to be the second largest representrative of banking interests in South Carolina and is a brother of Joseph J. Nor wood. the well known banker of Co lumbia. Greenville has no citizen more prominent than J. Wilkins Nor wood and many expressions of re sentment were heard from Greenville people that Gov. Blease's reply to Mr. Norwood was insulting and un called for. The crowd was anti-Blease by three to one, according to County Chairman M. Mills Mooney, who pre sided, and of whom the governor spoke In high praise during his speech. The meeting began at 1 o'clock. all the twelve cotton mills around Greenville having closed at noo, so as many operatives as desir ed could hear the candidates. Sev eral hundred of them marched to the park, where the meeting was held, .behind the Blease banner, and when the governor, who spoke sec Ed. concluded, most of the march ers left the grounds with him. The line-up apepared to be the same as in other cotton mill towns, the farm ers for Smith, the mill men for Blease, and there were hundreds of Earmers present. Messrs. Jenpings and ?>,llock evi :lently had many friends in the au ience. Their speeches were splon didly received and they were fre uently applauded. Senator Smith ;poke first. He repeated some of his otton speech and directed some re narks on immigration to the mill orkers. declaring that lie opnio ed etting down the bars to the riff-: aff >f Europe to compete with Amerie'n ahor. He said: "You cotton mill >oys don't know Ed Smith intimate y, but by the eternal gods you can't eep him from working for you if 'ou are of pure American blood." Dynamite Kills Gang Foreman. 1 While using dynamite at Straw-ji 'erry, preparing for the subsequent 1 uildng of a roadbed for the Caro-li in.. Atlantic and Western to enter harleston upon, Gang Foreman 'i 'Tank Rose was killed Friday by the I remature explosion e'f dynamite us- t STRIKERS ROUT GUARDS LFTER ALL-DAY BATTLE RIOT. ERS FIRE ARKANSAS MINES. trikers Wreck Plant With Dyna mite and Apply the Torch-Loss $200,000. After a pitched battle between sev ,ral hundred coal miners and their ympathizers and one hundred guards it the Prairie Creek mines of he kiammoth Vein Coal company, near Fort Smith, Ark., Friday. which end d in the rout of the ggards. tipples )f three mines were destroyed by fire and dynamited. The property dam age is estimated at $200,000. So far as can be ascertained no one was killed or seriously wounded in the fighting, which began shortly after daybreak and continued until late in the day, when the mine guards retreated after their ammuni tion was exhausted. Rioters held possession of the mines for several hours, wrecking the plants with torch and explosives. All Friday night the properties are deserted. Preparation are being made to send additional armed men to. resume occupation of the mines. County officials went to the scene, but before they arrived the attacking party had disappeared. Friday's rioting was a culmination of a series of minor disturbances which have occurred at intervals since the contract with the United Mine Workers was abrogated - last March, and announcement made that the properties owned by the Bache Denman Coal company, but under lease to the Mammoth Vein com pany, would be operated on an. "open shop" basis. In one attack several employees of the company were badly beaten after they had been forced, by a mob estimated to have numbered more than a thousand men, to withdraw the fires from the boilers. Last Sun day night Frogtown, a union min ing camp a mile distant from Prairie Creek, was "shot up' and the disor der was repeated Wednesday night. Each faction of workmen charged the other with the responsibility of the shooting. No one was injured. At the time of the first outbreak an Injunction, was secured in the United States District Court to re strain the strikers from interference with the operation of the mines, and a force of fifty men, under the direc tion of the United States marshal, placed on guard. This force was re called under instructions of Attor ney General McReynolds, who held that it was the duty of the State and county officials to protect the mine properties. Last Friday officials of the com pany applied to United States Dis trict Attorney Bourlaind to be per mitted to recruit a co-npany of mn to be commissioned by the United States marshal, but under instruc tions from Washington the company was not organized, the attorney gen eral holding to his previous ruling that the situation should be taken care of by local authorities. Gov. Geo. W. Haynes stated that no re quest had been made to him for State troops. WAS INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT, . P. Gibson Tells of ils Candidacy in 1880. From a long statement, containing much Irrelevant matter, we publish the following essential statements, made by J. P. Gibson, in reply to the display of Mr. Pollock of a ticket bearing his trame and two negroes as candidates In 1880. Mr. Gibson states: That in 1876 and in 1878 he was a "red shirt" rider for Hampton, voted for Hampton and did arduous and dangerous work to bring about the Democratic triumph. That Ii. 1880 he was a candidate on a white Independent Democratic ticket for the legislature, along withm a number of prominent white men, for various county offices. That he did not know that his name was placed on a ticket with Republicans and negroes until the day of the election and that It was without his consent. That in any address signed by him self and others on hi. ticket, pub lished during the campaign, which he has preserved, It was declared that they were opposed to the restoration of radical rule in the State or the county. That he can prove that in a speech -the campaign of 1880 he said that he was not a Republican leader and that he would withdraw and help to elect the nominees of the Demo cratic convention If the Republicans put out a county ticket. That the ticket exhibited by Mr. Pollock was not the white independ ent ticket on which he was a candi date, but the Republican ticket on which his name was placed without his knowledge or consent. ATTACK3 WHITE MAN. Gaffney Negro is Shot to Death by Man He Slashed. While dozens of hurrying pedes trians, composing the usual Saturday evening crowd, looked on. Harold parks, a well known young white man of Cherokee county. shot and in stantly killed a negro named Hose Ioorheal, alias Mose Petty, on one >f Gaffney's principal thoroughfares. 'he shooting took place about 8 'clock and no shots were fired until fter the negro had already cut the white man across the left shoulder. nflicting a number of painful rounds. It is said that the dispute arose wer the fact that the negro would iot drive his wagon out of the way o let the wnite man pass, and when he two met later in the evening the rgument. was .renewed. . Heated ords were heard and then the negro said to hae seized Mir. Sparks and ragged him from the door of a store. ficting the cuts with a large knife. arks then opened fire with his pis 1 and three bullets took effect in WILL iO TO COURTS EFFORTS TO SETTLE NW AVEN WITHOUT SUIT FILS WILSON WANTS AION President Directs Attorney General McReynolds to Bring Civil Suit for Dissolution and Lay Facts Before Grand Jury for Investigation of "Criminal Aspects". The long continued effort to un tangle the New Haven railroad with out litigation came to-an end Tues day night, when President Wilson in a letter to Attorney General McRey nolds directed the institution of a Sherman law suit to dissolve the sys tem and ordered that the "criminal aspects of the case" be laid -before a federal grand'lury. The president's approval of the course mapped out by the department of- justice means that the civil suit will be filed against the New Haven in the United States court at New York at once. The attorney general also immediately will direct United States District Attorney Marshall at New York to summon a grand jury, and the task of laying evidence* be fore that body on which to ask for criminal indictments against officers and directors of the New Haven un der the Mellen management will be begun as soon as possible. How many indictments will be sought was not divulged but it was plainly indicated in correspondence made public that the attorney general expects to ask for a bill against Chas. S. Mellen, former president of the New Haven. The most significant fact, in connection with the prodeed ings was said to be a statement which Mr. McReynolds gave out several months ago when the interstate com merce commission -began its New Haven inquiry. In the statement the attorney gen eral. warned the commission that im munity might be given certain men if made to testify as to their actions as directors of the road. The names he mentioned were: Charles 8. Mellen, William Rockefeller, George McCul lough Miller, Charles F. Brooker, Ed win Milner, Lewis Cass Ledyard, Goo. F. Baker and Edward -R. Robins. In addition to directing a suit, the president in his letter to Mr.McRey nolds declared that the decision of the New Haven directors not to keep their agreement to dissolve peaceful ly had caused him "the deepest sur prise and regret", and that their fail ure "upon so slight a pretext" was "inexplicable . and entirely without "justification". The department's course, he said, was just, reasonable and efficient, and should have resulted in avoiding a suit. Accompanying- the president's letter, the department made public correspondence between the attorney general and the president 'and the at torney general and President Hustis of the New Haven. One of the most interesting phases, of the correspondence was contained in the attorney general's letter to President Wilson, in which there is a idecided rebuke for the interstate com merce commission for its action in subpoenaing Mellen "and perhaps others of the greatly culpable" with the possibility of embarrassing the department by a claim of immunity in return for their testimony. In this connection the -attorney general makes the statement that criminal prosecutions have b een always in mind and that there has never been "the slightest hope that parties guilty' of criminal violations of the law would escape." The letter from the attorney gen eral to President Hustis made it clear that the department takes the posi tion that the New Haven directors did not live up to their agreement of last March for a peaceful dissolution in their refusal to sell' their Boston & Maine stock, under conditions Im posed by Massachusetts, and put the blame for what may follow on the heads of these directors. . AIK EN KITLLING Lee Yann Charged With the Death of Willie Brown. The place of Mr. Albert Yaun, in the Shaw's 1' erk section of Aiken county, was the scene of a killing on Saturday night, when Lee Yaun, son of the former, shot and killed Willie Brown, a farm hand. There were only two eye-witnesses to the occur rence and the testimony of each was in contrast at the inquest, which was held by Coroner Spradley Sunday morning. One. Mr. E. *C. Moseley, testified that the shooting was justi fiable homicide and the other claimed that it was without provocation. The dead man and Samp Hightow er, it seems, had been to a frolic in that neighborhood on Saturday night and when returning went to the well at Mr. Yaun's place to get water. While there they cut a watermelon. Some claim that Mr. Lee Yaun came out and asked them where they got the melon and that the fuss started over that, and the shooting was in self-defence. Others claim that Mr. Yaun stated that he would settle with Brown and began firing. READS PARODY. Pollock Amuses Crow at Pickens at Governor's Expense At Pickens Mr. Pollock Friday re viewed Goy. Blease's record, saying it contained so many things the gov ernor could not explain that he (Blease) would not attempt to do ro. In connection with the governor's pardon record the speaker referred to the pardon of "Portland Ned", and read a parody on "Old King Cole", which amused the crowd. He referred to the appointment on the governor's staff of J. Preston Gib son, James Sottile and Edwin Hirsch, alling them "a sweet bunch" to be saluted when the governor, "with his topknot waving," reviews the State militia. Mr. Pollock read the "Char eton list", asking the Bleasites pres ent how they liked being "lined up