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LAID DOWN IN CODE * PENALTY AS TO BRIBERY MED BY STATUTE. THE LAW ON ELECTIONS f. !.- . if,* ' \ 1*11.1'l » ;ui ; .nii.f' • .1 U ’ l: u. n • 11 ' it it** th in * >fT**rlnit i* 1 ’ S * M'>n Sections of the Election Laws Re ferred to by Senator Tillman in Commenting on the Recent Elec tion In the First District is Quoted in Full Below. There was much comment on the statement given out by Senator Till man in Washington and as published Saturday, in which political condi tions in South Carolina were review ed. In this statement Senator Till man referred to the situation in the First congressional district, as he saw it, and said that “the penal code, sec tions 3 60, 361, 362, 363, and 365, have all been violated by more than are aware of it." The sections refer red to by Senator Tillman are given below: Hribety at Elections. “Sec. 360 -If at any election here after hel l uiihin this State, whether general, sfeci il or primary, for mem bers of the congress of the L’nited States, members of the legislature of t'l’s S’a; e, sheriff, clerk, judge of pro bate, or other county officer, mayor and aldermen of any city, intendant and wardens of any incorporated town, off cert of the militia or volun teer organizations of the Stat*. or at any other election held within this State, any person shall, by the pay ment, d*‘hvery, or promise of money, or other article of value, procure an other to vote for or against any par ticular oandidHte or measure, the per son e<> promising and the person so vo’ing. shall each be guilty of a mis demeanor. and, u;x)n conviction thereof, shall for the first offence, he fined in my sum not leas than $ i'"I nor more than ir.no. and Im prisonment 'or any period of time not bis than . n«* month nor more than and for 'tie second of- be flne-t In any sum not 1 nor more than ) '..Onn, "tied for any period of *< than three months nor ! months Tr* ■ uro \ otea by Itrtbory If at any elect Ion. as In 1 of ttiis chapter, any per *"n shall offer or propona to procure another by the pa>ment. delivery or promise of money, or other article of value, to vote for or against any par ticular candidate or measure, or shall offer or propose, for the mn-ddera tl<>n of money or ot.*u artUle of value paid de' v<i 1 or promised, t) vote for or again*: any ; uMirular candidate or measure, such person so offering to procure or vo*e shall be deemed gulltv of a misdemeanor and. upon conviction thereof, shall be fined and Imprisoned, at the discre tion of the court Misdemeanor to Obtain Vote* by bribe or Threat. Ser 3 6.’ \t or before every po litical pr'-nary election held by any polbical partv. organization or asso ciation. for the purpose of choosing candufntes for office, or the election of delegatee to conventions, in this State, any person who shall, by threats of any other form of intimi dation, or by the payment, delivery, or promise of money, or other arti cle of value, procure or offer, promise or endeavor to procure, another to vote for or against any particular candidate in such election or who shall, for such consideration, offer to so vote Khali be guilty of a misde meanor. Candidate* to Make Fledge. “Sec. 3 63 - -Every candidate offer ing for election, under the provisions of section 362, shall make the fol lowing pledge and file the same with the clerk of court of common pleas for the county in which he Is a candi date, unless he should be a candidate In more than one county, in whtch case he shall file same with the sec retary of state, before he shall enter upon his campaign, to-wit: I, the undersigned of the county of and State of South Carolina, candidate for the office of hereby pledge that I will not give or spend money, or use Intoxicating liquors for the purpose of obtaining or influenc ing votes, and that I shall, at the con clusion of the campaign and before the primary election render to the clerk of court (or secretary of state as hereinbefore provided), under oath, an itemized statement of all moneys spent or provided by me dur ing the campaign for campaign pur poses up to that time, and I further pledge that I will immediately after the primary election or elections, that I am a candidate In, render an Item ized statement, under oath, showing aLT further money® spent or provided by me in said election: Provided,That a failure to comply with this provision shall render such election null and void, insofar aa the candidate who falls to file the statement herein re quired, but aball not effect the valid ity of the election of any candidate complying wth this section. And, provided, further, That such Itemised statement and pledge shall be open section SIS or SlSehall bo a LABOR FIGURES GIVEN COMMISSIONER WATSON ISSUES STATISTICS. 1 The Textile Concerns Do Not Em ploy as Many Children Now aa They Formerly Did. A report on the child labor situa tion in South Carolina was issued Thursday by the State department of agriculture. The statistics were com piled from#report8 ,by inspectors and show the number of employees in mills at time of inspections. All plants in the State with the exception of 46 have been inspected and the total figures are given with the sta tlstics for last year on these 46 mills. The total number of employees is shown to be 46,881 or an increase of 14 7. There was a decrease of 896 in the number of white males between the ages of 14 and 16 years employ ed in the mills.. There was a de crease of 102 white females between the ages of 14 and 16 years. The following summary of the child labor situation was made by the department: “If one will study the statistics, gathered by the State factory inspec tors, of the labor in the textile plants of the State, he will observe that more labor and less children are be ing employed from year to year. Al though many of the mills are con stantly increasing their plant, the change from coarse to fine goods calls for less help, but more experi enced people, consequently the actual demand for child labor is on the de crease. “On comparing statistics for the rears 1912 and 1913, it has been found that the mills employed this year 308 grown males and 748 grown females more than last year. At the same time we find a decrease of 933 negro males These nerroes were mostly emploved during 1912 on new mills and additions and general 1m- provernents \n Increase of 24 ne ?ro females show* that the mills are paving more atten’lon to the sanitary arrinverrenfs “The roar 1613 shows a decrease of ^**6 rrtrt'e* and 12 females between the ngo<« of 14 *o 16 year** emploved In t*i*■ mills and In c’>*-cVlng the rhll '■■«!, !••'». * n 1 3 and 14 veirs of av« •• ff*’d a de rm**' of ’n? males wl’h a rmall Increase of r , females "The rotor’ on a who’** Is re-y grn' ‘fvlng to ’hose of us who have an !r• •T'"«t In the labor con iltlons of ’he S’ at e ’ tuiv violation of the provisions of section 3 62 or 363 shall be a misde meanor and any person, upon con viction *hersof. shall be fined not 1**« than f I on nor more than |f.00. or be 'mprlsoned at hard labor for not leas than one month nor more than six moniths or both fine and Imprlaonn- ment In the dlacretlon of the court IVnaJty for Serving Candidate. Sec 365 Any persons who aball perform, or agree to perform any ser vice In the Interest of any candidate for any office provided for In section 6. chapter 49. of the cIV! code, vol ume 1, of tiie code of Isas (whether in connection with the primary elec tion nomination, or In connection with the municipal election, or In co nation with the obtaining and filing of the petition required herein in consideration of any money or other valuable thing or of future support In obtaining office, shall be punished by a fine not exredlng $500 or im prisonment not exceeding one year, and any candidate, or other person, who shall solicit or contract for, or otherwise seek or obtain, such ser- vlcee In the interest of or against the candidacy for mayor or councilman, or for or against any question that may be submitted to an election, or shall pay any money for said services or promise any valuable thing for such services to influence any elec tion in his acts shall be punished in the same manner, and any person making false answers to any of the provisions of article 8. chapter 49, of the civil code, volume 1, of the code of laws, relative to his qualifications to vote at any election herein pro vided or any person wilfully voting or offering to vote at such election wjhen not qualified as herein provid ed, aiding or abetting any violation of the provisions herein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and. upon conviction, shall be fined not exceed ing $500, or Imprisoned not exceed ing one year, and all the other pro visions of law now applying to bri- BRYAN MAKES SPEECH CJLAD THAT COUNTRY HAS RE BUKED INTERESTS. DISBAR B. B. EVANS ITTRIMYES DOVNFAU T| USE Of VIISIEY REPRESENTATIVE DAVID E. FIN LEV. Of South Carolina. Vice-chairman joint Postal Committee. WILL DO MUCH GOOD TO TEST THE TENSILE STRENGTH OF (X>TTON. ♦ Will Give the Producer the Requisite Knowledge of the Heal Value of Every (irade. th** farmers of South Carolina, and particularly the cotton growers, is the ; as are named shall be according to 4 government standardization Thia will legalize the standardized grade* n lutet state commerce and give the aanrtIon of law to the use of the j standard grades In every State. In commenting upon Senator Smith s measure for providing for c reference to the value and the grade of his cotton that the mill man and buyer has. and can govern himself accordingly. In Senator Smith’s opinion, this is the most Important legislation ever enacted in behalf of the cotton grow*er Senator Smith has reintroduced and is publishing his bill looking to the regulation of ootton exchangee. This is the same measure that came n**ar paseing at the last soeelon of Congress Briefly stated, this bill provides that in each and every con- Of more than passing interest to ttrart for thp futur „ (1Hlvery of rot _ ton the grade or grade* contracted growers, .s for shall be specifically named In the measure introduced and passed ronTrart an(1 BU , h or through the efforts of Senator K I) Smith, requiring the hej-artment of Agriculture to test • he tens) !<• st rengt h that Is, the yarn-marking quality of each and every grade of cwtton to blench every grad** whether In the form of yarn or cloth In ordef to de 'ermine the cost and the result of the 1 bleach'ng to estimate carefullr the ,, . . , , , , . . . ‘cotton tests, l>r. N A Cobb, chief amount of waste In each grade incl- , # .l. , , ,, , „ ,, . (technologist of the Department of ent to concerting It Into yarn and .... . . , ,, .1 . , . . Agriculture, savs Preliminary ne- cloth. to estimate carefully the value » . of this ware j gotlations have been practic ally completed with one of the best squip- F rom this it will readily be seen 1 pod textile schools and aslo one of that the result of the*, experiments the leading cotton mill* of the South will be of Incalculable benefit to the for making the waste ten.Jle atrength grower Thl. measure became a law and bleaching te*ls of the different at the laat seadon of t ongreas and grades of cotton aa standardized bz the Department of Agriculture la now t h * government. engaged In the work of Investigation I ...... . . . . t . , About ten bales of ench of the It will give the producer the reciula-, •. . ... . , . * . full grade# will be uaed from one nch Ite knowledge from an Impartla of- „ . . , w . - , . ... , . upland and one-lach gu f cotton re- Actal source of the rea com mere a „, , " ‘ , , . . , ap^C.vely. an aggregate of about 100 value of every grade of cotton ... , ' . * I bales lor aa much as the present ap- As is well known, both the export propriatlon will provide). A portion and domestic buyer, make a differ- of each bale is to be sent to the tex eme between middling an 1 The lower tile m-h(X)l and the remainder to the grades of anywhere from $125 to mill, thus giving Identical ooDon fer $15 per hale The producer had no the two runs. The same jr.eed.v o- way of knowing whether this was ganiiatlon and conditions will be util- right. Just or not. He had to take Ded in the two run. aa far as pos'd- the word of the trade Hy virtue of ble. Part of the raw stock from this law, he will be furnished a bul- sack grade mixing will be blescaed, lettn giving him fun knowledge of and yarn made from each mixture, all these facts So that when he to ascertain if there is any dlffeience comes to market he will be thorough- in the cost of bleaching or in the ly informed as to the value of every way the reeultant stock behaves in grade in reference to its manufactur- the mantfarturlng processes. These Ing value, and will not have to take bleaching te*ts will also b« made In the word of an Interested party. the laboratory on the finished yarns. In conjunction with the above law,' “in addition to the va-lous num- the grades have been standardized by ber of yarns ordinarily ma le by the the government. Senator Smith has trade from the respective grade#, the begun a campaign to have every ship- same number of yarn 'vil! be made In ping point in the cotton-growing a variety of ways, and hy a variety of states furnished with a set of theee agencies e, " y o' ">« 7.rn and other IJl.h° f re . «‘Ar 1 f-odueta maaufaetared will he aub- •-h eh.rLoAh' 0 " 15 ,0 oomniisslon tnereh.a,.. -V, charge of them. buyer, and seller, of yarn to aacer- It can readily be seen that, with tain the true commercial value of all the knowledge furnished by the pro- samples. Quotations will also be ob- vision which is already law, as to the tained from waste dealers and mills value of each grade, that if each that manufacture waste to determine shipping point la furnished with a the relative commercial vaue of the set of samples, the farmer who comes various types of waute made from to market to sell is thoroughly equip- the respective grades, ped to protect himself against being “The relative cost of manufacture buncoed or deceived as to what grade will be taken carefully .nto coneidt r- his cotton is and the value of that ation. Data secured in this way Bra( * e ‘ .should aid in determining The intiin- To illustrate, w*hen a farmer comes ' sic value of the various official grades Make* the Principal Address at a Dinner Given by Grasty of the Bal timore Son. ' A Baltimore dispatch says consid erable Interest attached to a dinner given here Friday night in honor of Secretary Bryan by Charles H. Qraa- ty, editor of the Baltimore Sun, at which A. Mitchell Palmer, the Wil son leader In the House, was a guest Among the 100 or more other guests were: United States Senator Saulsbury of Delaware, Secretary J. P. Humulty, Richard Evelyn Byrd, speaker of the Virginia house of del egates; Pleasant A. Stovall of the Savannah Press and C. 8. Jackson of the Portland (Ore.) Journal. The secretary of state did not al lude to his Western trip. He spoke of the hopes and aims of the admin istration and his speech throughout breathed a spirit of loyalty to the president. Speaking of his own de feats he said he cherished no enmi ties or regrets. “There is no load that will break a man so quickly and so surely as a load of revenge,” he said. "The man who tries to get even with others has few opportunities of gratifying his hatred, but he la all the time corrod ing himself.” Mr. Bryan rejoiced that he had liv ed to see a change take place. "No one man,” he said, “no few men, could claim credit for what has been done. No one man, no group of men could stir a nation as this nation has been stirred. This Is no local move ment; It Is no reform springing up In the West; It is not even an American reform.: It Is a world-wide move ment, and we are but part of it. I owe my office to the generosity of the president of tbs United States. He led us In our last fight and if any one thinks I was disappointed because the leadership fell to another let him dis abuse his mind of that thought. I re joiced that there was one who could win where $ lost. And I was so much more Interested In the cause than in any title that could come whh It that I am sure that the president himself was not happier than I was I think he may be able to do things that I could not have done, and I know I can help him as much aa he could ever help me." Mr Hryan spoke of the long fight for the constitutional amendment providing for direct election of Uni ted Stated senators. He was wait ing. he said, for Just one more State to send Its notice to Washington when he would “proudly attach his signa ture to a statement that annenn that the epoch-making reform haa arrived." “We will find.” he said, "that In stead of having the senate filled np with representatives of predatory wealth who use their power to op pose the things that the people love, we will find the honor of a position in thst body will be reserved as a people’s prize with which to reward thoee who have proved themaelves capable of the discharge of public duties and men to be trusted with the people’s Interest. "To-day predatory wealth standi confessing before the bar of pubhc Justice that it haa disgraced the name of business and what President Wil son is trying to do is to separate hon est business from dishonest business so that the country will not bear the odium of dishonest business. If Pres ident Wilson’s election means any thing It means that the government Is to be administered by the people’s representative for the benefit of all the people and that privilege will not have the advantage It has had In the past, hut that 'equal rights to all and special privileges to none’ will be em bodied In every department of this government.” REFER TO FINE FAMILY Opinion of the Coart Was Written by Acting Chief Justice Woods, elate Justices Hydride, Watte and Fraser and Special Associate Jus tice Nichols Concurring. Barnard B. Evans is indefinitely suspended from the practice of law and deprived of the rights and dntiea of an attorney with the privilege of moving at the end of two yearn tor reinstatement upon satisfactory proof that he haa not used intoxicating li- ' uors for two years, In a unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court Friday afternoon. The opinion was written by Acting Chief Justice Woods, and concurred in by Associate Justices Hydrick, Watte, Fraser and Special Associate Justice 8. J. Nichols. That B. Q. Evans endorsed and misappropriated to his own use a check for $198.90 belonging to Qeo. L. Salter, which he bad secured for SaHer as his attorney and that ha misapplied to his own use money which he had collected for the Mur ray Drug Cempany from J. E. Dowl ing were conclusions reached hy the Court. The charges which Evans «*n4o against B. W. Crouch and E. W. Able, attorneys of Salads, that they were "thieves, incendiaries and blind tigers," and against Sheriff Sample, of Saluda, that he was a "thief”, the Court held were false and raeklaarty mads. Says the Coart In this eon- nection: "It Is not for this Ooart te and mad vert upon the prevalent ex aggeration and excess in pabUe speech so discreditable and — l - 1 —^ Ing. Allowance must be mad# for weak men who drift with a sweat into untrue statements, and who an- sums one character in private Ufa and another in public speech. A charge of falsehood against aa attor ney so weak aa to meet expletive with excess In the heat of political cam paign would rarely be conriderefi hy the Courts In disbarment pi Ings. But untrue ssear4sHone out probable cause made hy a her of the Bar that certain ell have stolen or burned erty is a serious offence, going to th foundation of character, and weighed by the Courts, when coupled with showing a reckless disregard of faaslonal duty.” The Court speaks of tha Ana from which the respondent demand ed. the splendid Influences in whW he was reared and aooounU tor hi present "low estato". hy "tha ream for hie fall may ha found mainly t the fact that tha respondent Is aa In ebriata.” The opinion continues: "All mn know that the persistent urn ef ales hoi hue made Hare of the truthful knaves of the honest, and traitors e the faithful. Under Ha inflnenee th respondent has In mind and mnnl staggered along the deviotm path tha leads to the abyss." B. B. Evans is a resident ef Os lumbia ad haa been practising Ini there for the past few yearn. Th charges against him were brought t the attention of the Supreme Oauv by J. Fraser Lyon before he retire from the office of Attorney Genera] Solicitor W. H. Cobb represented th State In the disbarment prooeedlnp while C. P. Sims, of Spartanburg, am P. H. Nelson, of Columbia, represent ed the respondent. WAS KILLED IN QUEER WAY. . to market where there is a set of of cotton and should assist in adjust- ery or corriiption or other improper | standard samples, he can determine in? the premiums and penalties on au!!n !!!. n . W !L h e !!^!! 0 ! 18 I blm8e,f what his grade is and not be and off the basis grade, middling.” dependent upon the buyer to say j + + * what the grade Is. When the grade has been determined by comparison with the government standard, the farmer can determine the value of that grade by reference to the gov ernment tests furnished him. Per instance, suppose the buyer of fers the producer a half cent or three nuarters of a cent less for his low middling than for middling. . Sup- poee the farmer by reference to his bulletin, finds that, according to gov- erhment tests, low middling for man- shall otherwise apply to the elections ! herein referred to.” Can Hardly Blame Her. Charging that her husband follow ed her to a ball and rushing In amid the dancers threw soot all over her silk gown and white gloves and satin slippers, pretty Mrs. Helen Krass has filed suit for total divorce in the superior court at Atlanta against Isaac Krass. In a speech at Sumter Wednesday night Rev. J. L. Harley eald that the! ufacturlng purposes Is as valuable as “ 'whiskey trust* has a paid attorney middling. With this knowledge, he Monkeyed With Gasoline. When he tried to boll a bucket of gasoline Sumner Bailey, a negro man of Atlanta/ started skyward, but came backAo earth still alive, though seriously Injured. He wae accom panied oh the trip by Grace Wallace, the cooky whose burns will also prob ably prove fatal. The terrific explo sion smashed the stove Into bitsAand practically demolished ths kitchen. In every county seat la the-Southern dry counties, getting $26 to $50 a can' demand the same price for hla low middling aa he does for middling day to draw np and have circulated and it would be np to Mm whether petitions for dispensary elections and look after whtakey ring Intereets. Who in the attorney here? he takee lees or demands the same. In a word, he will be In poeeeeeion of all the knowledge available la The Deadly Kerosene Oil. At Niles, Ohio, Mrs. John Fleming, aged 52 years, wae burned to death Wednesday, when ahe attempted to Ught a quick fire with coal oU. Her aged mother. M«s- Shira. attacked by heart disease, died a tew miaatee A Seneca Man is Shot to Death When Coat Falls Off. “Augustus C. Tribble, of Seneca, died Saturday at the Greenville city hospital from bullet wounde received in a most unusual manner. He was driving a party of four men from Seneca to Wesminster when some thing went wrong with his car. He got out of the car to make an exami nation, throwing his coat on the door of the tonneau. In the pocket of his coat was a .32 calibre revolyer. Af ter making repairs to his mechlne Mr. Tribble caught hold of the door of the car, and in doing so threw his coat to the running board, with the result that the pistol in his pocket was discharged, sending a bullet through his windpipe, coursing up ward in his jieck. The Injured man was'hurried to Greenville for medical attention, but he only lived about six hours. AUSTIN IN BLACK CREEK SW, Negro Desperado Watched hy Chat ham County Pease. A dispatch from Savannah says a telephone message received Tuesday night from Black Sarvaz Up Desperate Fight. At SafVannah, Ga., Henry Johnson, a negro, suspected of killing two ne groes and one white man In Sonth Carolina in December, and who ran amuck on the Louisville road, nar rowly missing kiUlng several mate, la ■pow safely la custody, following u desperate fight between the and the Chatham County totter Swamp, twelve miles from Savanna! states that Henry Anstin, the Soul Carolina negro desperado, has boa located in the swamp. Bloodhound from Columbia, 8. C., will reach tl swamp Wednesday morning at fli o’clock. Tuesday night the swam was being watched by a Chaihai County posse. A dispatch from Barnwell sayu message from Clyo, Ga., to Sheri Morris, received late Tuesday aftei noon, stated that Richard Henry Am tin, the Hampton County fngltivi who has been hunted by posses nun bering hundreds since last Wednei ’ay, when he killed two white me and mortally wounded a third, wh has since died, has been located aa surreunded In the swamps near Clyt where he has addled another victim t his death list. They Fought to the Death. Oswald Treleway la dead and Fi Kempher la probably fatally ed, while Mr. and flfra. John arts are seriously hart aa of a fight Kith butcher OM*