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P1lQPt\ CHARLES W. BIRCHMORE, PROP. "THE HAND OF THE DLLUQENT TRRAI8 $1.50 IX ADVANCE l'EK ANNUM. VOIi. SO CAMDEN. KERSHAW COUNTY. Si C. TUESDAY. JULY 28 1914. NO. 38 SHOT DOWN IN DARK i - ? ? ? UNKNOWN IAN TRIES TO JUT Dl. 'JAMES M'INTOSH "mi BOTHER COLIE" i ? ? ? ? Am Ptfyaician is Returning From Hos pital Would-be Assassin Steps From Shadow of Tree, Throws Pis tol at Him and In Struggle WIrich Follows, Fires Shot. ( Dr. J limes H. Mcintosh. well ItnoWp Columbia physician, was shot and painfully wounded by an unknown man, who attacked him shortly be fore 2 o'clock Thursday morning as the physician was returning to his home in Columbia along Marlon street after a visit to the Knowlton hospital. According to statements by Dr. Mcintosh the assi llarit, after a ?truggle, fled over the wall of the Presbyterian ch^rc^*~yard, Bhouting as he scaled th? wall: "Now, you won't bother Colie to-morrow," or "Now, Colie won't bo bothered by you to-morrow " " The shooting is bellevod to be b result of the issuance by Dr; Mcin tosh last Thursday, July 16, of a statement telling that R. A. Richey, an Abbovllle county man convicted of a grave crime and pardonod by Gov. Blease, was feigning paralysio, and . denying certain statement of Gov. Blease. This signed ctatomcnt was ? issued after Gov. lilcase, during his speech - at Abbeville at the senatorial campaign meeting had stated in sub stance that reports of a commission of physicians, of which Dr. Mcintosh was a member, set forth that "Richey Is a paralytic and his condition would improve if released from confine ment." . With the generally believed inten tion of'contrad^cting these statements of Gov. Blease. Dr. Mcintosh stated that "it is not true that tho report of said committeo signed Dr. Knowl , ton and myself in any way recom - , inendod a pardon or parole for the s ssid R .A. Richey, the fact being that both Drf Knowlton and I fully agreed that paralysis was feigned." Bloodhounds, Bummpned from the penitentiary, arrived some time after > .the shooting. B>etanders had been kept away from the -part of the wall which the assailant had scaled in his trail through the graveyard to Bull street and thence down that street tb the corner of null and Pendleton afreets. There the rail was lost, ftboyt half way across Pendleton atreet. Mrs C. Y. Reamor, whose home is just two doors fromthe. corner of Bull and Pehdjeton street', *ald that she . -happened to be awake at the tlms of the shooting. A few minutes before skei heard, the first shot, Mrs. Reamer said a- m Aohi ? o drew up at the corner. The engine continued to ran,' she said, 'making .Considerable noise as if in bad condition. A man laughed. This was the only voice She' heard, she said. Then she 'heard the shot A few more minutes pass ed; and the mtvphlne left the corner ? Just before the city hall clock struck 2 o'clook. Dr. Mcintosh was roturning to his home from Knowlton Hospital about 2 o'clock in the morning when the unknown gunman stepped fioni be hind a lacge tree as the physician ap proached and demanded that he hold up his hands, at tho samo time hold ing a revolver within a few Inches of the dootor's abdomen. Instead of raising his hands, Dr. MclntoBh has tily clutched the revolvor and forced the barrel at an angle across his ab domen as the Bhot w s fired. The bullet entered about the center of tho abdominal surface and ranged across to the left side, cutting through the flesh about five inches. .. As the wounded man fell upon the ;; pavement, the assailant soalod tho wall of the First Presbyterian church, ? before which the shooting ocourred, and fled toward the southern part of the eity. As the man was clamber ing over the fence, Dr. Mcintosh pro duoed his own revolver and fired twice at the fugitive without known effeot. As the unknown assailant disappeared over the church yard wall, he cried out, with an oath, "Now, you won't bother Cello to-mor TOW." Dr. Robert A. Lancaster and J. R. Ihepherd, with B. F Auman, were the first to reach Dr. 'Mcintosh after the shooting. The three men were awakened by the first shot fired. They Waited' and in a few moments four or five shots were fired in rapid sucoesslon. They could see the flashes in the dark. Then came the cry for help. Up to this time the three men had hesitated. When the ery came tvr hety, however, Dr. Lan easter said that he could wait no lon ger and the three men, with trous ers slipped on oVer nlghtclothes and in bedroom slippers, started In the 4ir*etion the cry, Whloh seemed to trow weaker. Wheh the three men reached their front porch the last ?hot was gred. /. Running aeross the ttreet Dr. Lan Taster called out: "V " > ".What is itr who are yoat" "Dr. Mcintosh," cams the reply. ?'No, Or. Lancaster," said ?r Lan .. easter, who for the moment thought h#> ?>?en mistaken for Dr. Mcintosh. Pr, Mcintosh, 'V earns from the wounded man, who was lying on the ground. "Why, doctor! What does this ****** To Dr. Lancaster Dr. Mctntoih said that he thought he had been followed or shadowed recently and since he had been impressed with this coavic mnm had been aocustomsd to carry a 3a . f finasfin \ fSAftk wt \ :>V/- ' ' > : ? f 'j v> y I WITHDRAWS NOMINATION WILttON WILJj NOT PUSH JONKS NOMINATION LONGER. Longest Fight of Administration Eml# ?. When Chief Executive Calls Back Name of Chicago Man. President Wilson late Thursday ended the bitterest fight of his ad ministration by withdrawing the nom ination of Thomas D. Jones of Chi cago. to be a member of the federal reserve board. Mr. Jones had writ ten urging this action The message of withdrawal reach ed the Senate Just as Senator Reed I of Missouri, one of the Democrats op posing confirmation of the appoint ment, was concluding a vigorous de nunciation of the International Har vester company, of which Mr. Jones is director, and those responsible for its existence and operations. It cre ated a mild sensation and cut short a debate that promised to run in definitely. With the brief message the presi dent sent copies of Mr. Jones' letter and his reply. Opposition to the nominee had been based on hie con nection with the Harvester company, which is under indictment as a trust. The Senate banking committee had submitted a majority report adverse to confirmation, signed by all the Re publican and two Democratic mem bers. Mr. \lone?? wrote that this re port was based on "a distortion of facts and perversion of the truth". At tjie WhUe House it was said Jie president's action did not Indi cate that there had been change In his determination to Insist upon the confirmation of Paul M. Warburg, whoso nomination to the reserve board board also 1b being opposed. Nothing has been heard from Mr. Warburg In regard to his appearance before the banking committee and Senator O'Gorman. who is under stood to have been endeavoring to persuade Mr. Warburg to change his mind and accept the committee's In vitation, is not expected to return to Washington until Friday. While Senator Reed was speaking, Secretary Tumulty held a conference with Senators Ilollls and Pomerene, who with Senators Lee of Maryland and Shafroth have been moot active in .urging the confirmation of Mr Jones. The president's secretary had not long been in conference with the seators from Ohio and New Hamp shire before the purpose of hi? mis lobby. In executive se&foh'-A'^fSw minutes later the formal announce ment of the withdrawal was received without comment. When the Senate adjourned, how ever, there was a Democratic love feast in the cloak room. Senalor Hitchcock, in speaking of the effect of the message, said: "The message certainly lifted a load from a great many Democrats. It was a groat re lief to some who already know who were still uncertain. I am sure It Is a good thing for the Democracy." President Wilson Is Bald to have been determined to press Mr. Jones' nomination' until Thursday when he concluded that the antl-truBt pro gram might be endangered If the fight in the Senate was continued. FATA Ij CIIAHH. Sunday School Picnicker* Hurt When Freight Hit# Trolley Two hundred and seventy-nine children, their mothers and Sunday school teachers, loft Bridgeport, Conn., Wednesday to go by trolley to the Sunday school picnic at Norwalk, given by the Point Union Mission of Bridgeport. While they were return ing a loaded freight trolley car of the Connecticut company, which belongs to the New Haven railroad system, crashed head on Into two of the cars loaded with women and children. Three persons were killed Instantly, another died In Bridgeport Hospital and it was said, In both the Bridge port and Norwalk hospitals, that other deaths would result. revolver when away from his home after nightfall. Dr. James Mcintosh, father of Dr. James H. Mcintosh, made the follow ing statement, an repeated by his son when he reached Knowlton's hospi tal after being shot: "Dr. Mcintosh left Knowlton's hos pital about 15 minutes to 2 o'clock this morning. As he wan panning along Marlon streot by the first Pron byterion church a man stepped out from behind a large tree and called, 'Hands up,' presenting a pistol an he did no Dr. Molntonh grabbed the pistol and grappled with the man. In the scuffle the pistol wan placed against Dr. Mcintosh's stomach and fired one time. Dr. Molntonh ntag gerod and fell to the ground. Im mediately the assailant left, crossed the sidewalk and Jumped the fence, saying, 'jdolte won|t be bothered with you to-morrow.' Dr. Molntosh got his own pistol out and fired twice as his assailant got Over the fence. An Instant later he flred the retraining three chambers to attract attention, The attacking party disappeared through the Presbyterlaft grate yard. " nr. Molntosh has never been in the habit of carrying a pistol, but be ing suspicious for the last three nights that he was shadowed he had taken bis pistol along with him," tt was announced at the hospital later the wound was desorlbed as very superficial. The dootors condition Wit pronounced "Splendid". John K. Auii, private Secretary of Got Dlease, issued this statement: "Oov. B lease regrets .the occurrence very <nueh, as I do. I have a very high personal regard for tor. M6Jntosh and know that the governor has also. The governor's ofiloe will lend all possible aid (or the apprehension of the party lor parties guilty of the assault." MEET III COLUMBIA BLEASE SATS NO FRIEND OF OIS ' SHOT DR. I'lRTOSH MAKES FOOLISH THREAT Tolls Audience "If Anybody Starts Something Lots of You Will be Carried Out, For We Are Here Pre pared" ? Pollock and Jennings Ad vertise the Record of Got. Blease. "We would report that we find Mr. Rlcbey suffering from a marked neu rosis, that the same closely simulates a true paralysis," is what Gov. Cole L. Blease Thursday read at Columbia from what he said was the original certificate handed him by Mr. W. R. Richey signed by Drs. James H Mcin tosh and A. B. Knowlton on their ex amination of R. A. Richey, the Abbe ville man, while he was in the peni tentiary and prior to his being par oled. The governor read the whole cer tificate while the 3,000 people who packed and Jammed the Columbia theatre listened closely during the tense moment. This was In answer to the published statement from Dr. Mc intosh that he and Dr. Knowlton had agreed that Rlchey's paralysis was feigned. Dr. Mcintosh was not on the stage, but wr.s lying in Knowlton's Infirm ary, where he was taken for treat ment early Thursday morning after having been shot by a man who held him up on Marlon street and who (led over tho Presbyterian church yard wall after he had assailed him. Tho governor said ho was sorry that Dr. Mcintosh was not on the stand and went on to say that "no Blease man did the deod". Referring to tho shooting, "Blease has got no friends who hold men up," ho said Stirred by tho attempted assassina tion of Dr. Mcintosh the audience gathered for the senatorial meeting under a high tension. Long before the hour for tho speaking to begin tho theatre was filled with partisans of all the candidates, and by 1 1 o'clock every seat was taken and every avail able inch of standing room utilized and many wore unable to get in. United States Senator E. D. Smith was given an ovation which lasted several minutes and received good eps+oh. ? Gov, Bleano was luHtlly cheered by hun dreds of his followers in the theatre, but was hissed and howled at by his opponents, there bolng long intervals at times before he could proceed with out interruption. T,. D. Jennings and \V. P. Pollock arralfciied the pardoning record of the governor in bitter terms and ex coriated those responsible for the "trial" ot Dr. Bleanora B. SaunderB before the asylum regents last De comber All through their speeches they had to contend with the jeering crleB of disapproval and the hockllng of the BJease fallowors, but they "went after" Gov.. Blease with gloves off and received warm applause and cheers from his opponents. Gov. Blease was not on the plat form whon I,. D. JenningB of Sumter was introduced. Mr. Jennings took up the record of Gov. Blease. The yolllng of the crowd momentarily drowned the speaker, "I'll not be stopped by anything that you do," stated the candidate. "I'm going to toll you about the record of which the governor says he's proud of which you Bleasltes should be proud." The speaker turned to a discussion of the governor's pardon record. "I don't know what the governor calls a prop erly Blgned petition; he says that he'll grant pardon upon tho presentation of a properly slgnod potltlon." Mr Jennings cited specific, cases. Tie could make himself heard with dilfi culty because of interruptions from the crowd. Mr. Jennings then started addi-l tional cries by saying that the heck- 1 lers can howl now for they won't have I a chance after August 25; as Blease will be defeated. ^lr. Jennings, applying tho epithets "sap heads" to the hecklers, said he knew them; that they had been fol lowing the campaign and making the disturbances. In spoaklng of Blease's claim that the governor would turn out tho ne gro mall carriers If he gets to Wash ington ? "which he won't do" ? Mr. Jennings said. the governor could not do It. The speaker claimed that Jen nings, If elected, would try to have the fourteenth and fifteenth amend ments repealed, not "tie the negro at the end of the hemp rope", llko Gov. Bleane. "He will try and turn all the pris oners out of the fedoral prisons," claimed Mr. Jennings. "I wonder If any of the crowd hol lering has a wife, a daughter and a mother," said Mr. Jennings "I have," erled a voice. "Then how would you like to have those two letters written about them," exclaimed tho speaker, refer* ring to the "trial" of Dr. Mleanora Ik Saunders. Mr. Jennings claimed that the two letters were written to make places for the political henchmen of the gov* ernor. W. P. Pollock of Oheraw, the sec ond speaker, prefaced his speech with the foltowlng tribute to the press; "I wonder If any man In the au dience knows that the liberties for which our forefathers fought for ono hundred tnd thirty-eight years ago to fet from under the British yoke were the freedom of the American press and freedom of speech." "I hare no patience with the dema gogue, who abuses the newnpapers and newspaper reporters, for they are as good as any other people/' said Mr. Pollock, amid cheers. "If yon rend nor* and howl lees you would i-'i.-V:/ . " - . -"v - ' " be b?tU? citizens," he told the jeer* log Dlease men. He said ^hogfr^fho didn't read were generally the ones who didn't want the truth told them. "How about Blease being expelled from tho South Carolina college?", asked a voice "That Is personal, and I do not In tend to be personal with any one, and I will not allow any man to be per soat with me," exclaimed Mr. PoV* lock. In another shot at the Blease meri the speaker said: Red badges ataxia for Socialism, Nihilism and anarchy. You poor South Carolinians who wear, those red badges are deluded and en* slaved. In the last few days Ej,00 | wearers of these red badges of SoolaR Ism have torn them off and trampled them underfoot after they heard the record of Cole Blease." > ( "If I end this campaign with the consciousness that I have aided my State I'll feel amply repaid," he stat ed, saying "Smith's record wbb too weal' to stand upon and Blease's too bad to run on, but for God's sake If you have to vote for one, vote for Smith and reject Cole Blease." He then detailed, amid the howls of the hecklors, how the governor had shown throughout tho State the pic ture of negro children and a white teacher in a Benedict college cata logue. "Why did the governor not tell you that he was a trustee of a negro col lege at Orangeburg?" asked the speaker. Mr. Pollock told of the governor's claim at Laurens that some one was trying to assassinate the chief execu tives. The speaker then Bald that "after an attempt was made to assas sinate a good woman's character at tho State Hospital for the Insano, a midnight assassin tried to get rid of Dr Mcintosh." Air. Pollock said that one of the gunmen, a "Lefty Louis," a "Dago Frank," "Gyp the IWood" or "Whltey Lewis," may slip up behind a candi date and shoot him In the back, but th?re would be other good citizens to step In and take his place, so that "the liberties of the people will not ho destroyed by the bullet of the mid night assassin." Senator Smith was received with great applause For some minutes ho stood surveying the vaBt audience and started out by saying that he was not making a special plea to any clauses, but ho had no apologies to make for what he had said and tried to do, for "the man on whose Btiould ers rested the burden of civilization". Then followed a technical and Il luminating sketch of the money situa tion, bond issues, gold and silver and hov and why. In his opinion, -.the ' South was In the financial palm of "a few financial pirates of the East". Following financial history down to 1907 he held' that panic was due largoly to the deslrb of a few to con trol Tennessee coal and iron. The "damnable artificial laws" that made this panic possible were punched good and hard and led on down to present day Isbuob. While explaining the money issue aB would Bryan or some other expert, the thousands sat quiet and waiting for a catch phrase at which to whoop or sneer. The first break In the utter harmony between speaker and audi ence came when he spoke of the great work of Woodrow Wilson In working to secure the passage of the reserve banking law. He goUa laugh when ho spoke of the fifty-odd lawyers in tho Senate trying tw run things and tho few farmers letting the lawyers think they wore the whole thing. Then he told how he discovered In the new banking law that too little time was allowed on farm and saw mill paper. He made the point, fought it out and won his fight for more time for farmers' paper. He spoke of his interview wl^t~- President Wilson along thlB line and of his insistence In the Democratic caucus for six months' time for the farmers' paper. He wrote with his own hand Section 13 of the now currency law, which given the farmer six months' time on his notes. Gov. Blouse, the next speaker, made several Bide remarks to some who in terrupted him. To one of them the governor said, "If anybody Btarts something lots of you will be carried out, for we are here prepared." To thoRo who were hissing the governor paid his respects. "I'll make you so sick you'll have to hunt Dr Mcin tosh," he called to another. In taking up tho Illchoy caso Gov. Blease read a portion of his typewrit ten copy of hiB spesch at Abbeville. This Is what he said: "I will not read you a certificate. One of tho gontlemen who signed It has Just passod to the great beyond. A man who haB done more perhaps for the afleVlatlon of human suffer ing than any man of his age that has ever lived in South Carolina; a man who stood, as a surgeon and physi cian, the equal of any, and a man of the highest moral character Ho Is dead and can not speak for himself, hut here Is what he said: "The other signer, Dr. James II. Mcintosh, may not be known to you, but ho is known to your physicians; ask them who he Is. As a physician and as a man he stands high in his State, and no man would say that Dr. Mcintosh would lie. "Now if men of tho character of these who signed those various certi ficates In their professional life can be bought to sign false statements, God save their profession in our State. I do not believe it and no man can mako me believe it." He then read the following state ment: "The Knowlton Hospital, '.'No 15 IB Marlon Street, "Columbia, January 19, 1912. "His TCxeelleney, Governor Cole L. Blease, Columbia, 8 C.,? 4Blr: At the request of Mr. W. R. Itlohey, Of Laurens, 8. C., and with the permis sion of Capt. T). 3, Griffith, superin tendent of the State penitentiary, and of Dr. R. t. Jennings, surgean of th? same, we nave this day vlrtUd and examined Mr. H. A. Rtohey now eon -?r; ? *- 4 ? ?< ' 'u' 1 v ; .V fined ]in the hospital of the peniten tiary^ We would report that we find Mr $icliey suffering from a marked oeur^ds, that the same closely sim ulates a true paralysis. We are in formed that Mr. Rlchey has had' some suck ^rouble for the past ten years or mor*| and close confinement is ren dertMf it moro marked. We do not belNnpa his condition will be Improved $a long as Mr. Rlchey remains a prls onerifn the penitentiary. We do be lieve that freedom, outdoor exercise, <ete.*j Arould restore him to as good a 8tate*/>f health as he has enjoyed for the past ten years. '?Respectfully submitted, (Signed) i "A- B- Knowlton, M. D. ^ "James H. Mcintosh, M. D." ThB following Is the statement of wffies H Mcintosh appearing In the Record of July 16: "Tfi-is true that 1 was appointed on * committee by the governor to ex amiqjfc R. A. Rlchey. It is a!?o true that Vlth the late Dr. A. B. Knowlton, I dld]go to the penitentiary and make such'an examination. But it is not true that his report of the said com mitted signed by Dr. Knowlton and myself in any way recommended a pardpu or parole of the said R. A. R$chey, the fact being that both Dr. Kpovrlton and I fully agreed that his paralysis was feigned." The governor offered a reward of $10 to any man to prove that the sig nature on the certificates was not that of Dr, Mcintosh and Dr. Knowlton, saying: "Unfortunately Dr Mcin tosh is not here. The man that shot him lest night is not a friend of Iileasi," he Btated, referring to the at omptld assassination of Dr. Mcintosh as he- was returning home early this morning. Dr. Mcintosh is lying i wounded at Knowlton's Infirmary. Continuing, the governor said: "No Blease man ever did a trick like that." Of Dr. Mcintosh the governor said:>; "I will not abuse him. He Is a good man. I am sorry he is not here so 1 could show him this certifi cate face to face and ask him if he signed It. If he said yes I would then ask him to explain his denial. If he sald'he did not sign It I would ask klmjto co-operate with me in running dowp the forger and putting him in the penitentiary." ANTARCTIC TRIP. Slwckleton, Britisher, Well Stacked for Long Journey. A dispatch from London sayB Sir Ernest Shackleton's plans for the Antartic exploration dash are now firacjttCftUy complete,. If all goes well h&wwrtltlon will leave that country two <Jirthre? weeks henoe, ttla ship Is called .the "Endurance." Although small compared with the other Polar i vessels, she is splendidly built, able to steam ten knots, and Is the .fastest ] craft which has been employed in tlilB class of work. She will carry oil fuel as well as coal briquettes, and Shackleton has decided that the water tanks should be utilized for the oil. For the water supply two l,000?gallon tanks are to be installed on the deck, and one of these will, be equipped with steam, so that in the Polar region Ice can be melted. It Is the hope of Shaok leton that the party may bring home in one of these tanks some lire speci mens of animal life in the Antarttc. About 100 dogs are expected from Canada In a day or two and one lot of about 20 Is to be trans-shipped to Australia to Join the Aurora ? Shack leton's second vessel, and the Rosa Sea party. The other lot ? about 80 ? will be sent on to Buenos Ayrea to await the arrival of the Endurance. The aerial propelled auto sledges pur chased in Norway were a great suc cess in their trials, and Captain Orde Dees, who Is in charge of the motorB, has gone to Switzerland to teat them. j' FATAL SHOOTING SCRAPE Joe Woods of Hampton Is Killed by J. W. Owens. G. W. Owens, generally known as "Butch" OwenB, shot and almost in stantly killed Joe Woods not far from. Cumminga, In Hampton county, Mon day afternoon. They were riding to gether with others on their way from Sand Hill church where they had at tended a "big meeting". It seams that Joe Woods was doing the driving and that he whipped up the mules, which caused them to run too olose to a buggy going along in front, in which Owens* wife wbb riding. This caused Owens to remonatrate with Woods, and Lee Woods and Joe Woods took offense at what Owena Hald. Owens and the two Wooda brothers got out of the wagon, It la aaid( and the Woodses approached Owon, wh o retreated, warning the brothers not to come to him, until a wire fenoe interfered. When OwenE could retreat no further, It la anld, he drew a revolver and shot .Toe Wooda dead, the bullet taking effect In the mouth. KILIiKO 1IY MIHTAKR. Policeman T*km for Hurglitr In Shot ' to Hla I)?Uii v * Policeman Thomaa . ROgan died Wednesday of ? sunsh6t%0und In flicted by Winflel<? TempUtop, a re spected young clttfen of Burlington, n. j. ? / Rarly Wednesday Templeton and hln wife were arbused by the noise of two*?n4n entering ft narrow alleyway noxt to a neighboring grocery. Mm. TempMton attempted to slip out the house to warn the neighbor* and car ried In her bifid an unloaded re volver. Her huirband stood watoh In the doorway with a loaded shotgun. Mrs. Templeton became frightened when she Haw a man crouching on the ground, and ran, and the man, who wae Policeman Rogan, seeing * revolver In hor hand, flailed to her to stop and started toward her. Wham he did to, Templeton, bettering * night marauder was pursuing fcts Wife, shot Rogan down* - 7 ? ??k*- - FLAY HIM AGAIN BLEASE CROWD BEARS HIM LAM BASTED AT LAURENS NO LOVE FOR A QUOTE* Pollock Hays Hrnve Men Are General ly Willing to Stand Up Rn<l Take Their Medicine ? Jennings Aids in Terrific Arraignment of the Nine Hundred Negro Pardons. At Laurens Wednesday Gov. Bleaso received a warm welcome. The wear ers of the red badges were more num erous than those who wore the cotton blossom emblem adopted by the fol lowers of United States Senator E. D. Smith, but both of these carried oft much applause. L. D. Jennings was given a good re ception. but W. W. Pollock hnd to fight his way In the face of a hostile crowd of the governor's followers, who, seemingly, were not wanting to hear the Cheraw man. Ho, however, held his own and mercilessly Hayed Gov. Illease, raking especially his pardon record. "There ain't a white man In Lau rens county fool enough to believe Ed Smith can raise the price of cotton," stated the governor, making fun of the senator's work along this lino He again attacked the appointment of District Attorney Weston and Marshal Sims, calling, the former a Haekellite "just like Smith", and the latter he attacked for working on a negro Republican paper in Recon struction days. The governor claim ed credit for borrowing the $3 .">11,00 o for the State at 3 1-2 per cent, in terest and cited this as proof of the ! statement that South Carolina had ? prospered under his administration, j L. 1). Jennings was received with | cheers and at once launched into an | argument of the comparison of trial | by Jury with the pardon record of the j governor, getting good attention by his appeal to the reason of his. hear ers. He told of the case with which it was possible to get up a petition for pardon, but asked if it was "rea sonable" that 1,200 men could have been locked up in tho penitentiary who *>ught not to have been there. He said that If the next governor was life Gov. Jlleaso "South Carolina would be in a worse fix than Mexico". The speaker anld that ho did not fcellere In the ''9hot s?m method"_jof getting rid of the negroes now In the employ of the government, but advo-. cated the repeal by congross of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. He Impressed upon, his hearers the necessity of elocting a senator who Would be in harmony with the presi dent, and could get through the re peal of the amendments by concilia tory methods. He Bald the governor In his denunciation of the negroes did not tell about his "turning out 900", and in reply to a question from the crowd aBked If thoBe turned out had "done anything since". Mr. Jen nings related wliero a paroled convict from Charleston had been sent back for thirty years for crime, and charg ed that a safe-cracker who was parol ed, had been Bent back from Spartan burg for robbing a safe. He gakl 1,000 people had signed a petition for the pardon of Adam Emerson and 4,000 signed a petition not to par don him, and yet he was let out. , "Tell 'em about it," advised one In the audience "Don't you reckon tho first thing that Illease would do if he got to tho Senate would be to try to get ,a reso luion through congress asking the president to turn all of the negroes in the federal prisons out?" asked Mr. Jennings, amid laughtor and cheers. W. iP. Pollock had to contend with a large part of the IMease followers all through IiIh speech and frequently the chairman had to aBk them to maintain order. Ho mercilessly flay ed Oov. Dlease In his pardoning rec ord. Ho chose the cotton blossom an the emblem of law and order and In reply to a sally from a Hloase man replied: "It's better than being tag ged with a red badge like you to keop from being lost," tolling the crowd that "red badges can not Intimidate white South Carolinians, " the Mease men jeering him. 1 When one auditor told him "Ool ey'a going," Mr. Pollock shot back: "Yes, Coley's going back to Newberry to work in that livery stable." To another's question, "Whero aro you going?" he answorod: "doing over flouth Carolina to open tho eyes of such as you.' Mr. Pollock defended the appointment of Weston and Slme and said that Oov. Bloase had namod the son of tho odltor negro Republi can paper at Kingstroo on his staff and appointed Col. J. P Olbson, an other member, and th,t Col. Oibeon ran on tho Knpubllcai 'yc'low" tick et In 1880. "It's ft lie," camo from ft Htrong lunged member of tho audience on tho right, while those around the stand roared nnd the chairman and Sheriff twinge appealed for ordor. "It'll a coward who stands back and tnaults a gentleman on the stand," said Mr. Pollock, while to those who Wore howling he said: "I know It buraii and blisters, hut I propone to continue applying It until It cures." To other hecklers he said: "If you boy* had an much bratnM in your heads an you have mouths you would amount to something." He read the eelehrated lint of "furrlners" In Char leston, which convulsed the audience. Mr. Pollock wan frequently Inter rupted with orles of "Time up", while he wan scoring the governor, and after reading the Hat of "furrnlers" one auditor said: "All good people," to which Mr. Pollock Instantly re plied, "If you care to be lined up with that crowd It's your funeral." "If all the people were educated (Continued on last page.) + WORKING FOR HARMONY i INCUS 8AM THY IN (J TO VNITK MEXICAN FACTIONS. if ? - ^ w ? Forei'- .. i'rcpare to Present ?*A - Claims ? ^ ilia Holds Himself Awny From Carranza. Peace in Mexico, it seems, Is far from assured and complications, both Internal and international, are rapid ly entangling the situation, according to administration officials, diplomats and Mexicans of both factions who are in touch with all phases of the problem. The United States government Is exerting every diplomatic influence toward harmonizing dlscorcfant ele ments, but certain aspects are admit tedly grave. Official reports revoal that the most threatening factor is the nioofness of Gen. Villa from the authority of Gen. Carranza. Another vexing point is that Gen. Carranza. according to his agents here, is dis inclined to grant an amnesty to pollt j leal offenders and will Insist on an unconditional surrender by the Car bajal government. Unless Carranza la-wllllng to give assurances that there will bo no wholesale arrests, executions and con fiscation of property when the Con- 1 stitntionalists enter Mexico City Pro visional President Carbajal will rally all the military elements at his dis posal and resist to the end the Con stitutionalist advance. The diplomatic representatives of Argentine, Prazll and Chile, who me diated In the International dispute be [twoin the United States and Mexico, i have indicated through Secretary ' Hryan their belief that a peaceful J transfer of authority could be achiev ed with little difficulty if any amnesty j was granted and proper guarantees | given. I Foreign complications are looming up between Mexico and England, | France and Spain, and European j creditors generally who had financial i relations with the Huerta govern ! ment England is preparing to ask for satisfaction for the killing of W. S. Benton, and Franco is making vig orous protest over the killing If two Frenchmen at Zacatecas. The Span I ish government is anxious that the Spaniards driven from Torreon and other points bo reimbursed for their losses. The grievance of these coun tries aVe lodged against Gen. Villa particularly, and Gen. Carranza, and the estrangement with Villa has made it difficult for the first chief to settle them satisfactorily. ' No Indication o? Villa's attitude has come, but reliable advlceB to the Washington government are to the effect that Villa has been concentrat ing his troops preparatory to making vigorous demands upon Carranza. The Washington admin'stratlon will insist that an amnesty be granted as the most logical step toward peace. Recognition will be withheld until a peaceful transfer of authority la ar ranged between the Constitutionalists and the Carbajal government. FIGHT AT KIDGKLAXD. Candidates Witness Rattle Iletween O fllcer and Bystander Two damaged heads and three ar rests were the results of a difficulty that furnished the only real excite ment at the campaign meeting at Rldgeland Wednesday, when the carf^ dldates for State officers snnjto _to a crowd of not more thaW-^1()0, one third of whom were ladles and chil dren. None of the candidates, how evor, was Involved In the trouble. The fight took placo In front of the speakers' stand while Attorney Gen eral Thomas H. Peoples was speak ing, and started, according to eye witnesses, when Policeman Dennett arrested young Ernest Cooler for al leged disorderly conduct, the latter's father, It was said, undertaking to Interfere In behalf of his son. Ben nett, it was further Btatod, then struck the older Cooler with his club. Charles Cooler, It seems, took a hand I about this tlmo. and In the mlx-up Ernest Cooler secured tho officer's club and planted a blow on the lat ter's head. AUHKK TO III ItRY. Henate Democrat* to Hnnton . idjourn niPnt. of C(ni(?rw?, Renato Dnmorrntn In caucus Wml nosday night agreed upon a definite legislative program under which thoy export to i>u t through tho antl-truflt program and appropriation bills and bring about adjournment of congress at tho earliest possible momnnt. Nearly every majority senator now In Wanhlngton attended nnd "hurry" was tho keynote of tho meeting. It was decided that tho pending In terstate trade commission 1 1 nhould be continued as the unfinished busi ness and kept constantly before tho Renate until disponed of, except when It bocomes noceflsary to sidetrack It temporarily to make way for confer ence reports or appropriation bills OFPRK8 ItTCWARD. ? ? ?. (liHMtnvlllo Hanker Would Olvc $fl,(K)0 to Mdnlodh'n AnAnllnnt. .T. W. Norwood, pronldont. of the Norwood Nntlonal bank of Orecnvlllo Thuraday announced that ho would Klvo a roward of $5,000 for tho ar reat and conviction of the party or partlon who aftflailnd Dr. J 11. Moln tOBh In Columbia early Thnrnday morning;. Mr. Norwood In making this an nouncement atatea that hlfl reward In In addition to any which have or may be offered. It waa Mr. Norwood who had the altercation with the governor at the campaign meeting at Green ville Saturday. WAS IMPOSED UPON DULANEY SAYS SOUTBERNIPAID TOO MUGH3FOR ROADS SHORT LINES BOUGHT Senate Sub-Committee Continues In vestigation Into Alleged Disci-liui nation Against Southern Ports In the Matter of Hauling Coal ? Offer ed to liuild Coal Pier at Charleston. Charges that the Southern Railway has been imposed upon much as the New Haven is said to have beon through the unloading upon it of branches of littlo worth at fabulous prices, added an unexpected feature Wednesday to the investigation which a Senate sub-committeo is mak ing of alleged discriminations against Southern ports in coal rates. IV L. Dulaney of Bristol, Tenn , made the charges in connection with an explanation of why he believed the Morgan interests dominated the Southern and directed tho action of Its ofllcials. "Coal operators are robbed of their right to do a normal business." lie said. "Unless some relief bo grnnted it will bo necessary for Independent operators to give up their efforts. They can not meet such unfavorable conditions." Ho testified he sold the Black Mountain Ilailwav. a short lino tap ping the Black Mountain coal field, to the Virginia and Southwestern Railway, under a contract with the president of the latter line, TT. K. McHarg. providing that the Louis ville and Nashvlllo railroad should have the use of the line. This was done, the witness said, to preserve two outlets to the south for his coal. Mr. McHarg failed to advise the Louisville and Nashville of this agroement, ho added, and was very angry when Mr. Dulaney gave the information. Rales have not beon arranged,, Mr Dulaney declared, bo the L.ouisvllle and Nashville can not move coal from the Black Mountain field south of east from Mlddlosboro, a condition barring Black Mountain coal from the Southern lleld by way of the Louisville and Nashvlllo, A number of similar statements were Introduced by- Mr. Dulaney tn support of his contention that inter locking directorates In New York dic tate rates/ Proposols for an adequate coal pter at Charleston, S. C., to provide In dependent mines In Virginia a tide water outlet have been blocked re peatedly by the Southern Railway, according to B. L. Dulaney of Bris tol, Tenn., who continued his testi mony in the Senate Investigation of eastern coal rates. Dulaney chr^ged that the Southern's attltudo was da* to "Coal TruBt" influence. Mr. Dulaney, who owns minln". property In the Black Mountain fields of Virginia, said, although coal rates to Charleston wore not prohibitive, there were no facilities for hauling it. He testified that lie repeatedly offer ed to raise $500,000 for a coal pier for the Southern Railway. President W W. Kinley seemed friendly to the pier proposition, lie continued, but after Mr. Flnley's death officials of 4he Southern seemed unfriendly to a Charleston outlet. In response to questions Mr. Dulaney said lie made the offer to construct a pier In good faith and still Is prepared to carry It. out. Further discussing Southern Rail way affairs Mr. Dulaney declared some nf the road's methods of ac quiring branch lines were comparable to transactions with the now famous transactions of tho New Haven. "Tho deals show how millionaires aro mado," sulci tho witness. This declaration drew a volley of questions from members of tho com mittee. and in reply Mr. Dulanoy cited the sale of the Virginia and Southwestern Railway to tho South ern by If. (J. McSarg at an alleged profit of $1,000,000. Tho line orig inally was owned, tho wit nosa' salrl, by a company with which ho was con nected. Ho offered a majority of the stock against bonds amounting to $1,000,000 wero outstanding to tho Southern for $500, OoO. Hater tho Southern bought it of Mcllarg, Du lanoy said, for approximately $G,r>00, 000 lCdwIn J. llerwlnd's alleged activi ties In stifling the Black Mountain mines were further discussed. Mines controlled by the Berwlnd company are located/'ln tho Pennsylvania, Chesapeake and Ohio and Norfolk and Western railways, with all of which, tho witness said, Mr. Ilerwlnd has great Influence through financial con nect Ions. In support of his charge that tho Hlack Mountain suffers from discrimi nation In coal rates Mr. Dulanoy pre sented rate schedules showing tho charge from Ohio River points to New Orleans to be $1.2.r> per ton, while that from the Appalachian mines in Virginia to tidewater, a much ahortor haul, la $1.40 por ton. Ho aald tho original tidewater rate In the In f tor cnao wan about $1 a ton, but gradually had boon Inr.roan od. The Norfolk and Wontorn owna oxtonalvo tracta of coal land, Mr. T)n lanoy Raid, and In directly Intedonted In nhuttlng tlio roal from Independ ent proportion out of Oharlonton and othor Southern porta. Mfinrlturlati Corn Hold t'p. Moro than 1,000 ton* rtf Manc.hu* rlan corri, ono of the flrat ahlpmentn to arrlvo In tho United fltaton since tho tariff wan rmnovnd, In hold up on the Seattle, Waah., wbarve* until It can be determined whother tho woevll with whloh It la Infested In dentruc tlve. The corn wan Intended to be u>ed for stock feed.