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SHOOTING AFFAIR CAUSES SENSATION GREAT TENSENESS IN SENATORIAL RINGS ON ACCOUNT OF THE 8H00TING. DOCTOR DENIES SIGNATURE Mcintosh Says it Was Clever Forgery. Governor Offers Reward?At Laurens, Lexington and Saluda. The overshadowing event in South Carolina politics during the past week has been the shooting of Dr. J. H. Mcintosh, a prominent physician of Columbia. This event created quite a sensation, as it came at a time when there was great tenseness in the atmosphere as regards the senatorial situation. The relationship came about by the divergence of statements of the governor and Dr. Mcintosh in regard to a certificate read by the governor last week in Abbeville in which Dr. Mcintosh is said to have ' advised the governor to pardon Richey, the Abbeville man who had been sent to the penitentiary for committing a heinous crime against his fourteen-year-old daughter. The governor stated that Dr. Mcintosh signed the statement, and Dr. Mcintosh denied the authenticity of his signature, in a statement given out to the press, and In which he stated that not only had V.- l.U I- ? Di.km. HO LUIU Iilt7 gUY^UUI lliai mvut; should not be released but that he was feigning paralysis. At the Greenrllle meeting, Mr. J. W. Norwood was dubbed a "coward" when he asked the governor In regard to the Mclntoeh statement, and the governor stated that he would ask the physician to be on the stand In Columbia at the meeting to be held there, when he would read the statement and ask Dr. Mcintosh If he did not sign It. This meeting was held Thursday, and early Thursday morning Dr. Mcintosh was waylajd on' his home from the ' KnowTton ho?pl?-? and gf*, the wound, however, proving -not to be serious, but sufficient to prevent his -* a*. as r\ appearne# n mm mcmiui vi. *mv Intoth gave out a statement Immediately after he was shot saying that the man who did the shooting said In escaping, "Now you wont bother CoHe tomorrow." The shooting proved a sec?tkm alh over the state, and J. W. Norwood, of Greenville, offered a reward of live thousand dollars for the apprehension wMh proof to convict of the man who Instigated the hooting. Governor Bleaae read the statemeat at the meeting la Colombia Thursday, expressing regrets that Dr. Mcintosh had be? shot and that he wee ? chle to ?pear; that were be present he would ask hkn If he signed the statement after Inspecting the slamtare.. He offered to give a hundred dollars to anyone who proved that the phyatdan did net sign tt. BteOemeet by Dr. MelaUeM. Dr. Melatoeh Saturday aft era o? pave out a ntetem?t In which he dated that he bed not signed the etaiemeod, that it was, a clever , forgery of hie signature, end that he had given uw forenwr bo iwvdnhi upan etationery of tho Know It on hasfrttal, tho statement as road by tho governor being upoa stationery ot tho hospital. Tho candidates have oaly two mootlags this week, one at Edgefield Wednesday and tho other at Alkea Thursday. At Laurens. At Laurens, where the first meatlag of the past week was hold tho friends at the governor were la tho majority. Ho wea carried on tho ehoulders of his friends end received an ovation. This was one of tho features of tho week, and the reception accorded the governor were marked by much enthusiasm at all of tho meetings. At Lexington he was placed In a wagon upon which sat six pretty girls leading a procession of several hundred people. The same reception was accorded him at the Saluda meeting Saturday, while at the Columbia meeting he received several tokens. Six lKtle girls presented him with boquets of flowers. Senator Smith's friends have likewise been active the past week In staging receptions for their candidate, and at all of the meetings he was placed upon a bale of cotton lead by a number of farmers on horseback. The attacks of W. P. Pollock upon the record of the governor has also been a feature of the week, the speaker receiving the attention of his hearers and much applause. L. D. Jennings. also made vitriolic speeches against the record of the governor, and at I>exlngton stated that he hoped his wife and children would leave him I if he ever grasped the hand of Blease, ( this being said in answer to the statementof the governor that he did not speak to him and Mr. Pollock on or ofT the stage. Meeting at Columbia. By far the most interesting meeting of the week was the one held at Columbia. People from all over the state had come to the capital city in the expectancy of seeing something "break" .is the governor had promised at the two meetings held last week to answer the statement of Dr. Mcintosh in regard to the Richey statement. There was a tenseness in the air all over the state and when the news was spread abroad that Mcintosh had been shot the night before many more people came to Columbia i to hear the candidates. Dr. Mcintosh ] had stated that he would certainly be on the stage at the proper time to prove that he did not sign the statement L. D. Jennings Speaks. The first speaker of the Columbia meeting wae L. D. Jennings, who had great difficulty in making his speech, there being a great amount of heckling by the friends of the governor when he denounced him. He told his ; auditors that he intended having his I speech regardless, and excoriated the chief executive mercilessly upon his record. When he referred to the reign of lawlessness and the shooting down in the dead of night of men ho was lustily cheered. He finished his speech under greet difficulties. Tho next speaker was Senator Smith, who launched into his record at Washington. He told of his labois in behalf of the working man, and while he received some heckling at the hands of the supporters of the governor he received marked attention from tho audience. When he at first arcie to speak he was accorded an o- ation lasting a full minute. He did no! refer to any of the other candidates running and when he sat down he was presented with a bench o* flowers. Blease Cheered and Hissed. The next sp?*aker was Governor Blease, who c^me forward amidst' cheers and hisses. A part of^ the making It difflc^t for him tc> make his speech, but he bitterly donounced them, and stated that It war a crowd of Metropolitan and Columbia Club members. The hissing kept up, and he ordered the jtate constables to go ! up to the Columbia Club and the Metropolitan Club and close theaa up until ho heard frotn him He said he was doing this in retaliation and asked his enemies to continue hissing as it was making rotes for htm all orer the state. He was presented with a large number ef flowers as he began te apeak, an umbrella and a loving cup. He launched into his so em 1st, paid hie reepeete te the newspapers, and said he had beat them all two yeare ago and predicted that he would beat the "bound" out of them an the -twenty-fifth Of August. He then hope upon t?e gels tosh statement, funding the Met of reooral he had read ' at the Abberttle meeting wberdbe exptalned his rsleOhe of Rickey. He then road the statement he say* was gtJVh. AM by one ef the moot prorninel fau) ? < the state es baring tan fllpsf hp Dr. Metntoeh, wherein .An MM MUd that Rlchey had "a neeseels simulating paralysis." Hs esM that if that signature to the statement wee net Dr. mcintoans mat ft had been forged, end that he would do ell be could to catch the men whe committed the forg err. He stated that he wea worry Dr. Mcintosh was not present end that he hed been ah at, serine that no BleeSette had ahet him, that Bleaeeftea do not aboot people down at midnight. He closed his speech br predicting that ha U V- ^ Iha d?t kallad WDUM1 M WVCMa \M wn uir wiiivt, Pollook Denewncee Blease. The speech of W. P. Pollock attracted a fraat deal of attention, and he answered his hecklers with bllst ertsf replies. He found difficulty la peaking on account of the friends of the governor, but met with more at tentlon than did L. D. Jennings. He denounced the record of the governor In scathing terms, and when asked about the record of the governor at the University he stated that that was a private matter and that he did not propose to talk about the private record of any man. He told of hla own record as a member of the state legislature and that tt was he who had introduced the Jim crow passenger coach law. He promised If elected to serve the Interests of all the people and said that the people of this state were more Interested in the enforcement of law and order. He told of the pardon record of the governor and held up the red republican ticket he has been exhibiting upon which Is the name of one of the governor's colonels and said that he had appointed upon his staff a dago from * Charleston who had not at the time i. of appointment citizenship papers. H? mentioned the asylum investigation ] and accused the governor at attempt-1 ing to ruin the name of a pure and . Innocent woman, referring to Dr. | Saunders. Lexington and Saluda. At the meeting in Lexington ther? ' were a large number of farmers and ' a good many visitors from Columbia an Newberry. The meeting was with- 1 out any particular feature, as was f also the case at the meeting the next < day at Saluda. At the Lexington j meeting the governor stated that he had a complete organization through- | out the state, and that he could tell I at the shortest notice the number of votes and the number of people en- 1 * -----J Pi.,, o C rowea. ne Biaieu Liiai oiaic oentuur Sharpe was the president of his organization and that his private secretary Jno. K. Aull, was the secretary. He referred in admiring words to Geo. Bell Timmerman, the county chairman, who he said was a strong Bleaseite. Dr. Mcintosh's Statement The following is the statement which has been issued by Dr. J. H. Mcintosh laat Saturday: 1 The Knowlton Hospital, Columbia. S. C., ' July 25, 1914. On Thursday, July 23, 1914, I was still r.o much under the influence of lbs anasethetic and of anodynes from Rja /operation of the night previous that I did not see the afternoon pa per and consequently did not know until Friday morning what had been said at the campaign meeting on Thursday. As soon as I saw on Friday morning the certificate set out in The State purporting to have been read from the platform by Governor Blease I imediately sent my father, Dr. James Mcintosh, and a friend to the governor's office to request that he send the certificate to the Knowlton Hospital by his private secretary Mr. Aull that I might have an oppor tunity of seeing and inspecting It. Mr. Aull told these bentlemen that the certificate was not in the office, but t)4?at Governor Blease had it in his pocket at the Lexington campaign meeting, but that he would obtain it and that It wourd be in the governor's office on Saturday morning. .On ..Saturday jpgiglim^ ocv aDPllca- l Won ar*t6e governor's office, Mr. Aull told my father, Dr. James Mcintosh, that Governor Blease had come to the city Friday night but had not com* to the capitol and consequently he had not secured the original certificate. The only certificate I signed in this ease bears date of January t, 1912. that being the date of our visit to the South Carolina penitentiary and of our examination of R. A. Riehey. It was prepared and signed in the office of the South Carolina penitentiary immediately after our examination. It is written with pen and ink and is on one of the letterheads of the South Carolina penitentiary. It is in my handwriting, and it contains no recommendation of pardon or parole. It was signed by both Dr. Knowlton and myself, and I understand that it was turned over by Dr. Knowlton to Mr. W. R. Riehey. When this true certificate is produced I will identify K and will stand by its statement And this Is the only certificate that I have ever signed in the Riehey ease. Unfortunately, there Is no copy of this certificate in existence to my knowledge?we made no copy of It that afternon, and I hare not aeaib the orlglnisl since. This certificate as written by us was not satisfactory to Mr. W. R. Richer, and on several days subsequent to our examination various typewritten modifications of our certificate were submitted to Dr. Knowlon and myself for our approval and signature. Bach of theee, after reading carefully, I returned unsigned, as In my opinion they did not cover the ease properly. The certificate published in the ? V?wln? Iwin read hv 1IT7W Governor Bleaae, purports to be written on the letter paper of the Knowl* ton Hospital and hears the date of January 19. 1912, whereas the only certificate I signed was written op letter paper of the penitentiary and hears date of January 9, 1912. The certificate set out In the newspaper Is not the true certificate; I did not sign It and any signature thereto purporting to he mine Is not genuine. (Slged) James H. Mcintosh. The governor, after this statement was issued, sent the original statement to the hospital for inspection by Dr. Mcintosh. The physician stated that he did not sign it, and said that It was a clever forgery. tfgned. Ten are almost ready tw signing. We are linked ky treaty compelling us to submit our dlftsa ences to Impartial tribunal without ( resort to force, wtth onshaW aC As population of the world." . 1 :aranza'S attitude may mar peace plans Reported Rebel Chief Is Sot DIsposed to Grant Formal Amnesty Washington, July 26.?Advices that Sen Carranza is not disposed to grant i formal amnesty in advance of his ictual assumption of power reached Washington to-day from Constitutionalist headquarters. This, if insist:d upon, may disrupt proposed peace sonfrences in Mexico at their beginning. 1 Provisional President Carbajal has Seen urged generally to obtain an amnesty, and numerous offers have been made to him for support in case he :annot obtain proper guarantees for the lives and property of Huerta supporters. Informal assurances came recently to the United States from Carranza that, excepting for those directly esponsible for the murder of Madero ind Suarez, he would not prosecute iupporters of Huerta, Within the last two day. however, John R. Silliman, personal representative of President Wilson with Carranza, has reported bis doubts on the subjects. Carranza has told Silllraan that amlesty was an act of generosity, not a condition of ; Surrender. He insists Lhat Carbajal's surrender be unconlitional. I YOUR j I > Rft I is best done o I gg&B I "Sii'coi 1 Its steady, eve 1 the rick, natui ill meat You < just the right! The New Pei to cook in fires to kindle soot Made in differen 3, 4 and 5. No. less cooking ovei all hardware and STANDARD * WuhlaghM,aC(New. Norfolk. Va. BALI UcfcmoBd. Vs. There still le hope that a middloground will be reached in the coming peace confrence, by which tthequestion will be adjusted peacefully ?through misgivings already are current as to Carranza's intentions. Regjinaldo Cepeda. advance peace delegate from the Carbajal Govern. ment, was due today) in Tampico, j where Caranza now is. Two other delegates, whose names have not yet been announced, will go soon to Saltillo. Where Carranza has suggested that the parleys take place. AGREE ON LEVER BILL. Washington, July 27.?The conference report on the Lever cotton futures bill was agreed to by the house today by a vote of 148 to 79. It goes to the senate tomorrow. The bill would put a prohibitive tax on all contracts for cotton not based? on goverment standards. I RUB-MY-TISIVI Will cure Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Burns, Old Sores, Tetter, Ring-Worm, Eczema, etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, i uspd internally or externally. 25c \v IT mm Air H wnuu I AST I1 n a I n heat preserves ral flavor of the :an always get j heat fection is ready . ..i. ' M. ! I IIIIIIUIC. l IV m t?no ashes, no ft it 81ZCS?NoS. 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