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VOL. XXVIII BATTLES REPORTED IEREANS H T BELIANS A TW GIlUSIERS MEET IENSOISHIP IS STRICT Owing to Cutting of German Cable All War News Comes From ARies -Battle in Belgium Hailed as Vic tory and Sea Battle Has German Vzuimr on the Runi. News for the seat of war continues to be vague and of the most unsatis factory character. Practically, no news comes from'the nations of the Tiple Alliance, and the news from the other countries is so censored by war officials that what little reaches America is only permitted to do so when there is no chance of it assist ing the enemy. 'ews is sent out from Brussels through London that 10,000 Gere mans, comprisi~g cavalry, artillery and infantry engaged a force of 7, 900 Belgians in battle at Haelen. "It Is believed," says the dispatch, "that the obje--t of the Germans was to take a position north of the- St Trond road at Tirlemont, from whicli they could execute a turning move ment against the Belgian army. "Through efficient cavalry recon njisance the Belgian commander ob tained accurate information of the movement of the attacking forces. To reach Diest. the Germans had to -es the river at Haelen, and before this place the Belgians -took up their incipal position, erecting barri cades, building intrenchments - and placing guns where they could be ~most effectively employed. "The Germans came in sight about 11 o'clock in the morning and soon the artillery on both sides came into action. The .German are had little effect. The Belgian fire was deadly, even at a range of 2,000 metres, and played havoc with 'the German cav ary,' which, notwithstanding, con Unuea. to advance. The cavalry -charged, but owmg to jedg~e and hillocks could attack only-in smal groups. The Germans again and again hurled themselves the baicades, only to be shot down bTthel deadly Belgian .nre. "The attack -on the bridges span ~n he' river was equally fierce. E u~nofficers urged their men to e Attack -'to meet almost certain ai~ from th~e Belsian' guns. Men - f(31 like. fies until, when shattered, the order for re-, was givien at 6 o'clock in the ~TeGerman defeat was complete, loss amouniting to more than aend they -retired in the great-I 4lisorder. At nightfall they'were -r tei way hastiy towards #s.also comes of severe esbetween the outposts of the1 sand German armies near a the French frontier. This ito be a preliminary skir: saome great decisive battle 1soon, follow. According ches the French have won phe skirmishes, but no word e. from Berlin since the fall also, reported that eight for ps are now in the vicinity Francisco and a battle is im SNews comes of a battle be an English cruiser and a Ger ~ruiser in the Atlantic. Rear 1 Craddozk, of the Britis' Sreports the battle as follows: were steaming north Thurs morning last and the crew had ~f~~-rm the foremast. head came ~2t'all 'enemy on. the port bow'."~ : j&the flag captain of the SuffoII n official statement to-day. -.~The order 'clear ship for action' ~'i given. -c.-Off the port bow, 11 or 12 miiet away, we could see the Karlsruhe uaad the Kronprinz Wilhehn. The - Krlsruhe had her boats out, coaling ~from the North~ German Lloyd ship ad-~ as we hurried down toward her iwas in the hope she had run so short In her .bunkers that we could catch her. -"As soon as the Germans sighted us they took to their heels. The Karlsruthe did not even stop to pick up' her boats. Her men clambered aboard- as best they could and she ustled to the northward while the Kronprinz Wilhelm steered to the east "Nineteen thousand yards was the closest we got to our quarry. .The Bristol was north of us, and the Ber wick south. We called both by wire less and ordered them to aid in thc chase. The Berwick tried to cut ofV the Kronprinz Wilhelm, while thc Bristol took a position to intercep the Karlsruhe. All afternoon we rac-j ed after the fleeing German. By 5 o'clock her smoke had disappeared. "At 9 o'clock that night a wireless from the Bristol said, 'enemy in sght.' A few minutes later came the message, 'we're engaging the en'e my.' ""We had no fear of the result if the German stood up to the Bristol, for we were all sure that our fel lows could whip the Karlsruhe easily at close quarters, but we raced on or all we were worth." Slain in His Office. - E P. Emory of Chicago, a railway man, was found slain in his office Wednesday. Trhe general disorder prevalent pointed to a hard strug gle. Americans Reach Home. One thousand Americar;- arrived in New York Wednesday on board the liner Philadelphia, direct from Southampton. Three Persons Killed. Three pasengers were killed when a train plunged through a bridge nar Ottawa. Car.., MondaYt WATCHING FOOD PRICES WILSON INVESTIGATES RISE IN COST OF FOODSTUFFS. President Starts Department Officials' Inquiry Into Alleged Actificial In crease. President Wilson Thursday set in motion the machinery of the fed eral government to determine wheth er the cost of living is being increas ed "upon the pretext of the condi tions existing in Europe." He call ed upon Attorney General McRey nolds to report if criminal prosecu tions were warranted, and if any new laws were necessary. The presi dent may send a special message to congress in the latter event. Certain the country ought to be defended if possible, the presdent wrote to the attorney general, "against men who would take advan tage of such circumstances to in crease the price of food and the dif 'ficulties of living." Within a few hours from the time the president acted three of the executive depart ments of the government were mov ing to learn the cause of the soaring prices of food throughout the coun try. Attorney General McReynolds set at work the bureau of investigation of the department of justice with its hundreds of agents throughout the eoantry. Agents of the department of commerce also were started upon the inquiry, and Secretary Redfield conferred with Se, -G.ary Houston of the department of agriculture. Some officials who believe the greater porportion of price increases have no connection whatever with the European war but are the result of . manipulations, attemptjp at cor ners or individual efforts of dealers, contend that the "conspiracy" sec tion of -the Sherman law covers the situation. Attorney McReynolds, however, will give an opinion on that feature to the president later. Congressmen. who already have in troduced resolutions to investigate the rise in prices and others who are preparing similar measures viewed the action of the administration with satisfaction. They pointed out that, while .flour particularly had taken t great jump in price, wheat exports practically are paralyzed and mil lions of bushels are piled up in ele vators or in freight cars strung across the country.. Secretary Redfield wrote Chairman Adamson of the House commere committee suggesting an appropria ton df $10,000 for his part of the in estigation. "If the present temporary. .stopn page of trade with foreign countries. is made the basis for an attempt in the country to put up prices artifi ~ially," said the secretary, "It is un Datriotic, I may say even damnable " The food questiori was the first in '.o which President Wilson, plunged when he went back to his desk after his return from Rome, Ga., where he buried Mrs. Wilson. TELLS OF RICHARDS. Cansler Says He Told Different Story in 1912 Campaign. Cinsler of Tiirzah, candidate for alroad commissioner, has publishx ed the following card in The State: I saw in your valuable paper ->f even date, page sir, John G. Ricth ,rds in su2bstanlcP snys that any one saying in 1912 that he (Righards) old one party he wes a Blessite-a~nd :.arther he was a Jones m'an "wa~s a liar." I said so. I will not at tempt to refer to the number of times Richards did say'so. I thought so 'ttle of such a man then, and no r, but if he will deny this I shall cite him at least one case with proof. I am on a be'd of affliction, but I am rapidly improving. James Cansler, Of Tirzah. Columbia hospital, August 12. DOESN'T WANT IT 11endel Smith Would Avoid Support of Men Like Chicco. Speaking at Newberry Mr. M. L. Smith said that he had never voted or Blease in any of his races and .hat his anti-Bleaseism was well tnown. He said that he was not ileading for factionalism on one tump and for peace and harmony on mother. Mr. .Smith then went on to tpeak of the work of the State board >f health and favored its expansion. "I do not want the vote," said Mr. Smith, "and influence of such men as thicco of Charleston and would, un er no circumstances, encourage or ccept it. I have given mnen in Char 'eston written statemenus' to this ef fect and have urged upon my friends not in any way to solicit it but to void it." . DROWNED IN WATER PAIL. Child Was Playing in Kitchen and Fell Into Vessel. News has just reached Gaffney of the death by drowning of a little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Kel ler. The little girl was only about ten months old, and was playing around in the kitchen alone, and fell into a bucket filled with water and was drowned when Mrs. Kellar found it; sad to relate this couple had a child drowned in a tub of water about ten years ago. I .I Ratifies Eighteen Treaties. The Senate Thursday ratified trea ties submitted by the president. Ac tion of those for .Panama and the Dominican republic were postponed. Calls Ambassadors Home. The Italian ambassadors at Lon don. Paris. St. Petersburg and Ber lin have called to Rome to consult wjm th ministry abont the war. MAD HAE MET BEFORE ALLIANCE AND ENTENTE, OE HAVE THREATENED VAR PAST CLASHES FREQUENT Story of the Political Intrigue of En ropean Nations Which Has Finally Blotted the World With Devasta tion. How Austria Has Played Her Diplomatic Cards Poorly. For the third time in the last five years the two great groups of Euro peon powers, the Triple Aliance and the Triple Entente stand face to face with the obvious possibility that war may result from the clash of rival purposes. To-day Russia. France and Great Britain are in one camp, Ger many, Austria and Italy in the other, and between the two lies the old question of European balance of power. In 1909, when Austria annexed Bosnia, France, Great Britain and Russia protested. The annexation was In fact an express violation of the agreemnt made in the great con gress of Berlin after the Russo Turk ish War It not merely increased the territory of a member of the Triple Alliance, but it extinguished the hope of a little Slav state ro cially, politically, religiausly related to Russia. At the critical moment in 1909 Germany appeared "in shining arm or", declared for Austrian purposes and threw her sworn into the bal ance. Russia and her allies were un ready for war and were compelled to accept the crushing and humiliating defeat-but the consequences of the defeat were manifold. From that hour began Russian intriguing in the Balkans to promote that unity which was presently to destroy Turkey. In 1911, when Germany sent her warship to Agadir, the two groups came into collision again. In 1909 Germany had threatened Russia; in 1911 she menaced France, demand ing as the price of recognition of a French protectorate in Morocco huge territorial grants for herself. But this time the Triple Entente was less compliant British fleets assembled, Russian armies were mobilized, and nally Lloyd George made the mem orable speech which amounted to a warning to Germany that England stood with France. Then it 'was Germany's turn to yield, as it had been Russia's in 1909. Some territorial gain she did make in the swamps of the Ubanghi, but Morocco became French, German prestige was terribly shaken and the pasionate resentment of the Ger man people has found expression ever since in the .press and in the utterances of many of her public men. The defeat of the Triple Alliance in Morocco was quickly followed by disasters more serious. Italy went to Tripoli and in making war upon Turkey attacked a power regarded in Germany as an ally, whose army, German trained, was confidently ex pected to stand with the Triple Al liance on the great day of European conflict. Defeated by Italy, Turkey was next compelled to face the alliance of the Balkan states, whose union was the direct product of Russian diplomacy. With the victories of Lule Burgas. Kumanovo and Jenidje-Vardar. Turk sh power in Europe collapsed and the small Balkan states, increased by great territorial gain, stood on Austria's southern frontier barring her road to the Aegean, and in the case o: Servia threatening to play the role on the Danube that Sardina had played on the Po and unite the southern Slays as Sardinia united Italy. To prevent this Austria resorted to desperate tactics. Like Germany, she had expected Turkish victory. and the Osmanli ruin found her un prepared. Toward Servia she adopt ed bullying tactics. To break up the Balkan aliance, which was in -fact a Russian creation and an adjunct of the Triple Entente, she promoted the discussion among the Balkan allies which resulted in the second war. But again Austria backed the wrong horse. Notonly was Bulgaria defeated and Servia still further in creased in territory and prestige, but Austrian support for Bulgaria had alienated Roumania, hitherto the steadfast friend of the Triple Al liance, and precisely as the Servians began to dream of regaining Bosnia and Herzegorina Roumania cast en vious eyes on the millions of Rou manians in Hungary. Meantime, as the situation of Aus tria had been compromised abroad. it was weakened at home. Half the population of the Dual Monarchy is Slv; .but the ruling races are Ger man and Magyar. Austrian bullying of Servia provoked protest, riot, dis order at home. In Bohemia, Croa tia Gallicia, Slav populations pro tested in vain but found cause for hope and enthusiasm in the triumph of the Serb. Only one diplomatic triumph Aus tria brought home in her campaign. Servian aspirations for a "window on. the sea" were thwarted and the Al banian kingdom was created. But no sooner had it been created than the rival ambitions of Italy and Aus tria began to clash and European observers forecast a quarrel between Austria and Italy such as Schleswig Holstein provoked- between Italy and Austria. Thus, on the edge of the present crisis the Triple Alliance found itselfI in badly weakened condition. Aus-| tri on her e.nthern~ bound arv Wasi NING, S. C., WED. PLAN FOR RELIEF DELEGATES FROM COTTON BELT ARE NOW IN CONFERENCE. Bills Introduced to Provide for Chain of Licensed and Bonded Warehouse for Storing Cotton. Plans for relief of the South from embarrassment growing out of the closing of European markets during the war are assuming definite shape. The Southern Cotton con gress, composed of cotton men from every Southern State, has opened a special session caled to deal with the war situation, and Southern senators and representatives will co-operate with them in perfecting financial leg islation to enable growers to hold a part of a big crop over until the mar ket becomes more nearly normal. One plan for providing this relief, details of which have been worked but by Southern congressmen in con sultation with experts of the depart ment of agriculture, will be embod ied in a measure in the Senate by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia and in the House by Representative Lever of South Carolina The meas ure will propose establishment of a chain of liqensed and bonded ware houses, where cotton may be stored until conditions become normal and be made the collateral for issuance of emergency currency. The advisability of some such ac tion was urged before the House agricultural committee by commis sioners of agriculture of the cotton states. E. J. Watson, commissioner - of agriculture of South Carolina and president of the cotton.congress, out lined his view that cotton should be made a stable basis of credit and that 1 the federal reserve board should be a given power to make warehouse re ceipts the basis for currency Issued under the feredal reserve -act. His suggestions were seconded by E. R. Kone and R. C. Hollingsworth. "We don't want a system of valor ization," Mr. Watson told the com mittee. "We do not want the gov ernment to advance money to the holders of cotton. We want you to lend the mpqey to finance this crisis on proper security, and we want the money withdrawn just as'soon as the need for it has passed." t confronted withSerb and Roumanian I armies, whose fighting capacity was proved, whose national aspirations ~ would be promoted .by Austrian dis- ' ruption. Greece, too, excluded from North Epirus by Italy, had been driven to the Entente, and possessed t a fleet and an army to be reckoned I with. At home Austria faced growing ~ disorder. Her Slav populations, their ~ racial prde and confidence roused by Servian and Bulgarian victories, no longer endured with patience the per secutions of Germans,. and Hunga rians. Disloyalty was on the increase on all sides, and Austria seemed about to succeed Turkeyas "The Sick ~ In this situation German newspa pers and public men began to de mand that the clash between the Tri ple Alliance and the Triple Entente should be postponed longer. Time plainly was with the enemy. Aus tria was growing weaker, Austro Italian rivalry in Albanian as well as secular rivalry in Trieste and the Trentino plainly promised future t quarrels which might destroy the a fighting value of the Triple Alliance 'I and leave Germany alone between 3 France and Russia. 1 It is the German temper which 3 makes the present crisis serious. At the time of the Bosnian clash no na- S tion in Europe desired war, and only 3 Germany was ready. At the moment a of the Moroccan dispute Germany backed down because she found France, England and Russia ready and the possible gain incommensu rate with the possible loss a great war might bring. To-day a very considerable faction of German official life believes that only by war can Germany maintain her pre-dominance in Europe and that a few years more of peace will ' leave her far behind- Russia in strength, in resource and in allies. To-day she can count on Austria and probably Italy. To-morrow Austria I may have fallen apart, but Russia, England and France are not likely to grow weaker.1 The challenge Austria has issued to Russia, then, is Germany's chal lenge. It is also her own declara tion of a determination to fight for her existence. Russia has enlisted ~ Servia and Roumanio on her south- 1 ern boundary. Russia has promoted Slav aspirations and disloyalty in. Austria. Now Russia must leave ~ Servia to lier fate, abandon her schemes to destroy Austria within and without, she must publicly con fess she can not aid her weaker Slav allies, or she must fight. Austria1 prefers to be destroyed by war rath er than by the attrition of intrigue. If France -and Great Britain stand with Russia her decision can not be mistaken. If France and Russia are agreed to resist -the result will hardly be different. But British statesmen are unlikely to run the risk of a Ger man victory which will leave Ger many with her hands free to fight for naval supremacy. The worst phase of the present crisis is that neither Alliance nor En tente can iow escape war without tremendous loss of prestige. The challenge of Austria has been made in such fashion that it leaves Russia no visible choice between war and dishonor. German official utterance1 gives the thing the value of an issue between the Triple Aliance and the Triple Entente. It is the combination of all of1 these circumstances which makes the present crisis seem the most serious1 Europe has known since Bismarck edited the fateful Ems dispatch and NESDAYAUGUS] DROPPED BY BLEASITES RICHARDS REFUSED TO TELL HOW HE VOTED. Spartanburg Journal Prints Interest ing Article Concerning Change of Heart Among Bleasites. Since many of the Spartanburg county Blease people have turned against Richards because of his re fusal to state where he stood in the governor's election in 1912, it has been learned, says the Spartanburg Journal, that a greater part of this strength will go to W. C. Irby Jr., the Laurens county administration candidate. It would now appear that Irby will carry the Spartanburg coun ty Blease vote over the other Blease candidates. In an interview with Robert J. Gantt a reporter was advised that the Blease people are by no means olid in the support of any candidate for governor. "There has been no 'elimination' eicept where the in ividual voter is eliminating by :hoosing the .best man as he sees it," mid Mr. Gantt. "It is true that a number of voters eft Richards as the result of his re usal to state his position two years tgo, when questioned as to this Sat irday night. Mr. Richards was a :andidate for railroad commissioner >efore -the, people two years ago, and >oth sides claimed him." Continuing,t Mr. Gantt said: "The vesent campaign for governor is a ampaign of principles as well as nen, and unless a man stands guarely for the principles supported >y Gov Blease, the Bleasites are not isposed to support him. Richards swer last Saturday night' caused nany: to - question his loyalty to lease principles. There are men 'unning in this campaign, who open y take the position that they will tot answer as to whom they will upport. They are not running as Bleasites'. They are straddlers and Lre running as such, and will be oted for as such. "But no one hoping to succeed Iov. Blease as governor and leader of he Blease movement can be elected iy the Bleasites as such. A large .umber of the Bleasites will not vote er any man who does not stand quarely for Blease principles, and rhose loyalty to them they can not estion. We assume that a man rho has supported Gov. Blease in he past will continue his loyal sup ort. If he is a recent convert to leasism, and' aspires to lead the auae, we realize that he has the* ight' to change his views, we want o know this fact, and then we want o know, 'Why he has changed,' so at wemight not suspect that there s somae connection between the hange of political faith, and the ace for office. We want to know his so that we will not feel that the ame political .aspiration that irompted a change, will not prompt nother change. That our candidate rIl stay put. "Any candidate can say 'I will vote or Blease at the coming election,' iut the question is. will he be a lleasIte after the election. "I think Mr. Irby hit the nail on he head when he asked M-:. Rich rds If he was so anxious to let the eople know how he was, going to ote two weeks from now, why was e unwilling to tell how he voted two ears ago? "Mr Richards*1s not running as a tradder but as a Bleasite, and we rant to know If his record as such Is cund." WANTS STATE REPRESENTED. nmissioner Watson Urges Attend ance Upon Cotton Congress. In regard to the appointment of tate delegates to the Southern cot c congress, which meets in extra rdinary session his week at the na onal capital, the following telegram Las just been received In Columbia rom Commissioner E. 3. Watson, iresident of the Cotton congress, 'ho s now In Washington: "I have been kept so Incessantly >usy n Washington since Saturday hat I have been unable to make up list of delegates by the' commis loner of agriculture, and am there ore earnestly requesting just as any of our farmers, merchants, ankers and others as can possibly o so to come to the sessions of the outhern Cotton Congress in Wash ngton on August 13 and 14. feeling ssured that I will issue necessary redentials upon their arrival here. 'hings are shaping themselves nicely n official and congressional circles, ut we need as representative a lathering of men ag can be secured. 11 the states are sending strong del gatons and I want South Carolina ully represented." SHOOT 100 SPIES. russels, the Capital of Belgium, Ex terminates Secret Watchers. Brussels has been covered by a net work of German spies. Six hundretd lready have been arrested and 100 v'ere shot Monday. Some of the Germans captured yore uniforms of gendarmes and civ c guards. Many were armed with ombs and revolvers and rode in au omobiles bearing false numbers. rhey also had in their possession tel ,grams and letters with the counter eit signature of the Belgian minis er of war. Just before and after the fighting egan private signs were discovered >n bridges, military works and ac uedu~ts Indicating that they strtge res chonkl he blown up. 7 19; 1914 REULAR SPEECHES SENATORIAL CANDIDATES MAKE ORDINARY CHARGES EXPLAINS CURRENCY LAW Smith Goes to Work Showing Farm ers How New Bill Will Operate -Labor Leader Apologizes to Sen ator for Fighting Smith's Immi gfiration Position. Approximately 2,000 persons heard the senatorial candidates at Marion Thursday. There was no semblance of disorder, each of the four'speakers being accorded a re spectful and attentive hearing. L. D. Jennings was the first speak er. He launched immediately into an arraignment of the governor's rec ord, which was characterized as the "dirtiest ever made by a white man in any white country." Mr. Jennings said he had heard of but three men who would vote for the governor this year who didn't support the governor two years ago. These were an editor of a Hampton county paper, John P. Grace of Charleston and Jqhn G. Richards. This canidate dwelt much on that phase of the public record which tended to prove that the governor was always on the side of those who destroyed womanhood. In criticising the governor for pardoning Emerson Mr. Jennings said he would have signed the 'petition for Emerson, too, on the condition that he take the governor out of the State with him. In the discussion of the "mock trial" of D. Eleanora Saunders the chief executive was charged, with writing the resolution condemning this woman in advance of the trial. Mr. Pollock asked if the governor nor's refusal to appoint Democratic party nominees to office was strictly n accordance with his principles as evidenced in his denunciation of Has kellism. An auditor reminded Mr. Pollock that Judge Haskell had opposed Sen ttor Tillman. "Yes," the Cheraw candidate -re Lorted, "and B. R. Tillman hopes to od that we defeat Cole L. Blease, ad we're going to do it." It was pointed out also that one f the governor's colonels ran for he legislature from Marlboro coun y on the mixed Republican ticket in 880. On election day, the speaker paaded, the people should go to the pols and vote like men and not as ~attle with rings in their noses, pull d onby some political machine. Senator Smith got a rousing wel ~ome from the- Marion people as he ~rose. They cheered him to the echo vhen introduced and persistently in ~ited tbi~t he keelp 0 i pealinlg when i' -nre limiehad be' recheid. Far ners had chipped in an-i purchased a gold-headed cane for the senator. rhis was presented .by Col. John C. sellers, who said he had been com nissioned to say to the senator that hey were proud to have a farmer .n the United States Senate, and that :hey knew he had "kept the faith". By far the major portion of the adience was composed of farmers, 3enator Smith's explanation of the ew currency law, which provides hat cotton shall be accepted as col Lateral, has doubtless not fallen on nore willing ears. Senator Smith ~xplaned that he would probably go o Washington to assist in the fight or federal relief in the cotton sit tation. He wanted the money which would enable the farmers to hold their cot on placed in all the banks, both state and national, and the cotton to e stored at home. He did favor the plan of having it shipped away and laced in bonded warehouses. The aenator did not believe in the re atriction of immigration. He want d aliens shut out altogether. The speaker said that he had a Letter of apology from the leader of ne of the large labor organibatlons f the State, in which this officer ac enowledged that he had been misin Eormed when he urged that the la borers vote against Senator Smith because of his attitude on immigra The governor was the last speaker. Ie directed most of his remarks at Lhe anti-Bleasites, saying: "I've ,ome down here to rub it in." He nade his accustomed attack on Sen itor Smith's record and urged his ;upporters to be on the alert the day f the primary to prevent another 'steal". "What's Pollock and Jennings run zing for?" asked an auditor. The overnor replied, "Well, my friends, rou shouldn't mention those names In decent company: I never do, I've never heard either of them speak and never expect to. I've never been~ m the platform with them. When it omes to putting myselt in a place with blatherskites pouring our black ~uardism to get office I never notice Lhem." MUST DISSOLVE international Harvester Company De clared to be a Monopoly. The International Harvester Com pany Thursday was declared to be a monopoly in restraint of interstate nd foreign trade and was ordered. dissolved by a majority decision in the United States district court. Unless the $140,000,000 corpora-| tion submit a plan for the dissolution of the combination into a least three independent concerns within 30 days, or in case of appeal within 90 days of the issuance of an appeal man date from the United States supreme ourt, the decision announces that court will entertain an application for the appointment of a receiver for . l1 te nronerties of i'M rnrporation VOTE WILL BE LARGER ENROLLMENT SHOWS INCREASE OVER TWO YEARS AGO. Figures From Thirty-Four Counties Compared With Their Vote in Elec tion of 1912. The enrolment of voters upon the club lists of thirty-four counties of South Carolina indicate 'that the total enrollment for the State will be considerably greater then the total number of votes polled in the guber natorial race of 1912. The total of votes for the 1912 race, as given out by the State Democratic committee, was 140,757. of which 72,048 were polled for Gov. Blease, 66,548 for Judge Jones and 2,166 for John T. Duncan. This year's Demobratic enrolment for thirty-four counties is given be low, toegther with the county vote for governor in 1912. The table of county enrolments is derived from the county newspapers, and the list of gubernatorial returns Is made up by a News and Courier correspond ent from the total vote accorded Gov. Blease without accounting for the scattering vote of slightly more than two thousand in favor of John Dun can. Slight discrepancies. In the enrol ment of more than one county may be accounted for by relatively unim portant county annexations: Vote Enrollment .in 1.912. in 1914 Anderson ...... 7,93~4 8,800 Bamberg ...... 1,258 1,429 Barnwell .... 2,378 2,477. Beaufort ...... 681 703 Berkeley ...... 1,125 1,387 Calhoun . .9.... 888 1,019 Cherokee ...... 3,096 3,400 Chester ........ 2,296 2,350 Chesterfeld. 3,007 3,843 Clarendon ...... 2,026 2,172 Colleton . ... 2,566 2,755 Darlington ...... 3,073 3,502 Dorchester ...... 1,654 1,794 Dillon ... . 2,226 2,313 Edgefleld .. .. .. 1,944 2,033 Florence . . . . . . 3,936 4,367 Greenville . . . . . . 8,934 10,2y5 Hampton.. .... 1,574 1,816 orry ........ 3,682 4,036 Kershaw .. .. .. 2,513 2,777 Lancaster ... 2,808 3,056 aurens. .. .. ....3,976 4,250 ee... ... .. ..1,764 1,943 exington .. .. ....4,280 4,690 arlboro .. ......2,400 2,608 ewbe'-:j.. ......3,082 3,365 )rangeburg. .. ...4,315 4,676 ichland .. .. ....5,977.~ 6,886 (About) aluda .... .....2.105 2,500 partanburg. .. ...10,573 11,292 umter . ... .. 2,251 2,575 nion. .. .. .. ...3,022 3,300 ililamsburg ..-..2,008 2,431 ork. .. .. .. ..4,295 4.446 Totals.. ..... ..109,727 121,240 TENSE MOMENT. fanning Faces Mnlla11y Before New berry Crowd of Voters. Richard I. Manning Wednesday morning interrupted John B. Adger ulla1y in the midst of his denun iation of Mr. Manning with the tatement that everything Mr. Mul ly had said about him was mali iously false, while scores of the udience rose to their feet to watch he situation. Mr.-Manning, facing r Mullally on the stand, in front f the 1,500 people in the audience, aid to him in a clear voice: "I ave only been restrained from no icing you on account of a piece I aw in a New York paper about your ondition. I do not intend to notice ou further." By this time there was consider ble uproar, but Chairman Keitt got etween the two men and Sheriff annon G. Blease warned a specta or, who started from the rear of he stand, to get back. Mr. Manning ook his seat, while many cries of Hurrah for Manning:" mingled ith shouts from the followers of he governor. Mr. Mullaly had be un his denunciation of Mr. Man ing after scoring him for his flaying f Bleasism. The two factions in the audience applauded the respec ive hhampions. LOOKING FOR R*VENUJE icAdoo and Underwood Searching for Frauds to Replace War Loss How to raise something like $100, 00,000 to offset the loss to the Unit d States in import duties to result from the war in Europe is the sub ~ect now uppermost in the minds of ecretary McAdoo and Representa tive Underwood, chairman of the louse ways and means committee. Treasury experts have completed statement showing imports from the war zone. They did not hazard n estimate of probable loss in re enues, though informally it was ad itted that the total might be nearly 100,000,000 for the year. Figures also have been prepared to demons trate what might be raised by in reased taxes on liquors and tobacco, and by adding to the income tax. CLINKSCALES TO SPEAK. Will Make Khirlwind Campaign of Spartanbulrg County. It is announced that plans were nder way for Clinkscales to make a hirlwind campaign of Spartanburg ounty on Friday, Saturday and Mon day before the primary. Automo biles will be used and an effort will e made to have Clinkscales speak i every part of the county on those ays. Such a campaign will be the first of its character ever made in Spartanburg county. He will speak o travel 100 miles and speak 15 times each day if the schedule is e'ar ed cut. PLAN FOR REMEDY COTTON CONGRESS WANTS GWe ERNMENT WAREHOUSES LEVER HiAS LEADINi PART Congressman Acts With Other Legls lators From the South in Their Ef forts to Ameliorate Conditions for the Cotton Farmas--Bonded Warehouses Are Planned. The problem of saving the cotton crop of the South in the face 'of the closing of the European cotton mar kets ,by war was taken up Thursday by a Southern Cotton congress com mittee, which met at Washington in special session. Delegates represent ing the cotton states organized, ls tened to members of congress who outlined legislative plans for meet ing the cotton crisis, discussed the situation and named a committee to thrash out a plan for saving the i3, 500,000 bales of cotton which will soon be harvested in the cotton states. Representative Lever of South Carolina and Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, who have had chti-ge of the legislative end of the movement to provide federal aid to meet the sit uation, addressed the congress. They, with Senator Ransden of Louisiana, formulated the scheme which will probably be put through. It-con templates the Istablishment .'of standard cotton grades, government licensed cotton warehouses and the. issue of sufficient emergency curren cy, about $300,000,000 to be loaned on cotton, to enable the South to hold the surplus of the crop over until market enditions become more nearly normal A flood of suggestions and plans were proposed by delegates to the congress. They ranged from pro posals that the government valorize cotton or issue currency against it, to plans for the destruction 'of half - of the. crop, to maintain the price. All these plans were referred to com mittees elected by the various state delegations. The congress adopted a resolution indorsing the amendments to the emergency currency act, proposed by . Senator Ransdell, which would make emergency currency available on warehouse receipts for cotton as se curity. Senator Ransdell told the congress that although the treasury department 1had decided such receipts would be proper security under the present law, he was anxious to make sure of It. The resolutions committee plected was: R. G. Rhett of South Care lina; W. L Lewis, Tei.s; Hugh Mc Rae, North~ Carolina; L. Melton, Ala bama; E. E. Paten, Virginia; Frank Tomlinson, Arkansas; F. S. Ether Idge, Georgia, and 3. Frank Adams, Florida. The committee on legislation in luded: S. G. Mayfleld, South Care lina; E. R. Kone, Texas; A. 3. Mc Kinnon,. North Carolina; Ray Rus sell, Alabama; Chas. W. 'Perridy, Vir ginia; Ben B. WeHl, Arkansas; H. E Stockbridge, Georg'a, and J. D. Smith, Florida. The congress also named a com mittee of two members from each of the cotton states to confer with Sec retary McAdoo of the treasury as to the financial aspects of the situation. When Commissioner Watson of South Carolina, president of the Southern Cotton congress, called the congress into extraordinary session just before noon, he saw before him gathered in the spacious House cau cus room somewhere between 400 and 500 serious minded, determined looking merchants, bankers and cot ton men gathered from all over the cotton growing states bent on their mission of saving the cotton crop from going for a song because of the European war situation. It is prob able that never befcre has any set of men come to Washington ,more de termined to work out some plan that will save themselves and their neigh-. bors from financial loss and ruin. At the afternoon session Senator Ransdell of Louisiana addressed the congress. He urged that anything like a valorization scheme be put out of mind. He declared that legisla tion now pending would make It pos sib'e to obtain all the money neces sary thi'rough regular channels and would permit the holding of cotton - on farms or at least in the communi ty where it is raised. By making the Vreeland-Aldrich law apply to State banks, to new banks that have no surplus, and to small banks, Sena tor Ransdell told the congress, be felt certain the greatest obstacle in the present crisis had been met. As to warehouses, he said, these could be constructed by erecting a platform surrounded by a fence and tarpaulins could be used for covering the cotton. It developed that the cotton farmers are now nearer out of debt than at any time since the war and wuld probably have required less help from the banks this year than in any previous year had not the war come on. To Protect Trade Routes. The British adru?ralty has dis patched its fastest cruisers to run down the German ships which threat en the North Atlantic trade routes. Consider Cable Censorship. President Wilson is considering placing the same censorship on ca bles as was recently placed on wire less stations Germans Took Prisoners. According to a wireless the Ger mans captured 120 officers and 1,110 French soldiers at Muelhausen. Dutch Flood Large Areas. As a precautionary measure the Dutch have flooded large areas of lwa a the anpth of threa feet.