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ATTACK ON WILSON \ BOOT GOVERNOK BLEASE W1TB TBE FARMERS FARMERS LIKE WILSON PELLAGRA IS SPREADING KKPOUT SHOWS liKi I NCR EASE OVER THE STATE. -flonsraor Y ' ' " • ' ‘ President and His Wliolesalo Par doning of White and Negro Con- Ticta Has Hurt His Chances in the Race for the Senate. The Columbia correspondent of Tie Augusta Chronicle says apropos to Gorernor Blease’s speech at Ander eon Saturday, in which he denounc ed President Wilson and vehemently asserted that he would defeat E. D. Smith for the United States senate next year, political observers of the conditions in the Piedmont do not by any means agree with the governor’s prophesy of success—in fact, they so far disagree with him that they are sanguine that he will lose the Pied mont by a large majority. And they bring forward certain conditions to bolster their arguments. It is said that Blease’s wholesale denunciation of the Wilson adminis tration has done much to injure him among his friends in the agricultural class; that he has lost votes he can never regain, regardless of what spec tacular political move he takes, or ‘he more sinuous course of his as- Ite lientenants. It is claimed that P.lease’s utter- •C* mnees have done much to injure the chances ( r election of his firs', polit ical captain in tie* Piedmont, Sam J Nichols, one of the “pardon lawyers" dictagraphed by Hums’ detectives in the employ of Thomas B. Felder, an attorney of Atlanta. Fa. Nichols is in the race against Joseph T John son, who renreponts the Fourth Con gressional Iiistriot The farmers who are shrewd vo- Statc Board of Health Issues Report by Counties Showing Number of Cases for the Last Two Years. Marked increase in the number of cases of. oeUagj:a .niJa„j£ar_la-.ab9.wn_ by a report Issued by counties by the state board of health. In Spartan burg county for instance the number increase from 165 in 1912 to 415 for tills year. The following table pre pared by the state board of health shows the number of cases in each county, as compared with last year: WILSON’S MESSAGE PRESIDENT READS HIS ADDRESS TO REGULAR SESSION GETS WARM RECEPTION County. 1912 1913 Abbeville .... 38 64 Aiken 20 27 Anderson .... 43 45 Bamberg . . . . & • • Barnwell .... 10 8 Beaufort /. . . 7 7 Berkeley . . . . 2 27 Calhoun 1 5 Charleston . . . 18 *5 Cheroke* .... 11 10 Chester 21 45 FINISH CURRENCY BILL ni.VC PVrs HAVE HILL READY ID!’. NE.V CON (.It ESS. WILL SURRINDER » SEVEN FEDERAL GENERALS ARE LEAVING MEXICO ttie coun• (ers u n 'he pr w; , rity try c >ncernod are puMing up this arguin'nt u hy B’ent-■ should ii"t be Bent to tbe simte in the place of Smith Wo'idruw W Fen. they say, has mad** a si:ce.-s<'.,i president, one who has demons!ra'eJ that he s the friend of the farmer of tbe South and v Chesterfield 7 Clarendon B Colleton 3 Darlington 8 Dillon 13 Dorchester 6 Edgefield 5 Fairfield 58 Florence 19 Coorgetown Ciroonville . . . . . . . . 41 Creenwood 40 Hampton 3 Horry ,T ’sp"r Kershaw 14 1 ancastor I .re. . Lexington 13 l.aurens Marion 6 Marlboro 13 \• w berry . . ( Vl . . 1 > r ui.gi burg I P eke ns . . Lie!.'and . . j iLi I uda . . I <■ art ai burg Sumter . . . : '' ir e n I \> West that tm is Hu inr the downward t a r i T. with i' s j the com of li\ ing. Ttl' V re-- to 11 real force catm- revisoip of t tl*‘ irobatde reduction in ’!! amsimrg oik 1 * ' fact that one of ' 1 * o ig'i tbe r* ' ••m- i Hie fin a n - 8 35 1.3 22 6 2 5 11 58 2 0 1 9 28 36 2 1 4 1 4 5 4 0 38 3 6 3 3 1 4 2 8 1 0 6 13 22 54 f, 8 1 3 13 38 < 21 3 6 ? ? 2 0 8 L. 1 SO V ‘ HV, 4 1 ‘ L* ] 1 8 4 * 8 2 4 5 0 9 ’ EnOiusTSstTc" Dcpionstration at Its Conclusion—Party Ix*aders Regard it as Utterance of a Statesman and Democrats Are Delighted With His Recommendations. For exactly twenty-eight minutes on Tuesday President Wilson stood before the assembled Senate and House, in the chamber of the latter, and read his first annual message. Applause punctuated Important ut terances, and when he had finished there was an enthusiastic demonstra tion, with handclaDDing and cheers. With close, almost eager attention, members of the two houses listened and time and again the legislators gave vent to their enthusiasm along with the crowded galleries. Repub licans and Democrats alike pronounc ed the message as the utterance of a statesman. “I like the idea of the President coming before Congress.’’ said Rep resentative Mann, Republican House leader, “and reading a short message pithy and to the point. In the main I liked the message today. I think everybody will recognize It as the ut terance of a statesman, regardless of whether he agrees with its demils.” Of pnrtb u'ar s'gn'i tco was one (i-iti'ur.t i* garde.1 in ij..* 1 r. : . mal Capitol the unmistakaHL* approval that greeted the president's remark “There can 1 e> no certain prospect of pence in America until Hon. Huerta has surreti len d 1 s usurped author- it v in Mexii tt ." -day's f unction as on ttie thren Wil li Si '■”.'* o f Tm much tt..- sunie o'!-- net n-'ens. w hen Presiden' n Iras ad tressed Congress gat- . ir< .sdi ! wlHi men and women piTfar.ee in public a".i.rs. r.'*m o' H.'- Cabinet, H 1 ■■ drpi 'inata : and the \v . it e House 'a ttl’ i \ e t! e -sa ce l s ot|. of t l.o a f tio\ oj (if A mer I a •) St a* e < \ PTl RES CONVICT. pa; • rs. b< it ir Ion-.' a mark- i ! 11 v " won a ’ . 11 If Disputed Points of Importance A i ise. They W ill be Considered and Deeide«l in Conference. I < termined to have the admlnis- tracion currency bill ready for con sideration by the Senate as a Demo cratic party measure when the new sestiin of congress met tlm Senate conference of Democrats worked far into the night Saturday night, set tling disputed details. As finally agreed upon the measure was hut lit tle different from the draft presented to the Senate by Chairman Owen and the five other administration Demo crats of the banking and currency committee. The conference decided, however, that if disputed points of importance became apparent in the course of de bate on the floor each difference among Democrats as it arose would be taken into the conference, the party disagreements straightened out and the majority united to act on the floor. The administration members of the hanking and currency committee reported to the conference Saturday night on practically all the djsputed propositions in the bill. The con- ferenro adopted the recommendations for a plan to guarantee deposits of banks which enter the new tystem. This would provide, that after the new regional banks have earned a per cent, dividend on their stock and established a 40 per cent, surplus the excess earnings shall be divided b ’’f and ba 1' O''*' piO O'aB h** de- vet"! to a guarant-e fund and Lie other shall be paid to the government as a “franchise tax'*T The conference also adopted the suggestion of the committee that the federal reserve board, which will con tent tbe new system, should consist of the secretary of the treasury and Lx mcnib rs to be appointed by the • re-ddent An attempt may be made to [lace tbe comptroller of tbe cur rency on tbe bnurd. The conference with the ' xcopMnn of writing In the j ■■o*. isbm for a guarantee of bank do pn-os has mad" pra. i.rally no ma'. r al chan re in the draft of the bill presented by Senator Dwen and the lopferenc.i measure it i- practically certain will be acceptable to Presi dent Wi'.-u n HEAVY BLOW TO HUERTA MARCHING ON CAFTTOL MEXICAN EEDERAIA4 GATfYKRINCI FOR ADVANCE MOVE. or < n\| I Ri \( I TO Rl IH\ IDED. ii\ ilh rial a ! \ a. n' : n i m - SherilT Breaks S|m*p<I l imit In .XrreM Negro. T '• •• T* n" 'I. tl out • ' ' 1 • '*• - : • * * ! :i r . . * ;•.!.! ! ! - r * a ’. 11 g all L n * o x. * t' • T' ... ,ic. k t 1 1 1 • • , •> u:al .0: it** ; WlLro v, s . h, . . . r ••!*- l! o .:, Loin at 1 • , r * \* >., •. ' • a 1\0. c'. r : r: i' l •> . tc) til** CT 1:' - -1* Hi- r:* \f r-* * 1 • •.H a la. : • i S * r i - i . ; ng. s km \v H a a:'co admin s ! a’ ■ s. \ • a" ! i it , t * at d. - of tbe er: *nvs the persona! ; r. sident. and. c n- ■eijipui11 v, ran be of much intluence in promoting the general welfare of th® state Firm the tenor of Please s caustic criticism of the Wilson administra tion at Anderson, tin* farmers know that. If elected, he will oppose Wil ton md will be a political nonentity 00 far ai exerting any influence in iljehalf of South Carolina la concern ed. Th« farmers, not only of the Pied- wont. but of the other sections of the State ar# using the foregoing conditions as arguments and are say ing: “Why should we rut our own throata by aending Covernor Please to the senate, where ho would try to nullify the acts of the president, our friend, and defeat Wilson's friend. Senator Smith, who can do much for South Carolina through his in fluence?’’ The farmers are using the same arguments against the candidacy of Sam J. Nichols In the Fourth Con gressional district, against Victor Cheshire, a colonel on the governor’s stoff, and Fred H. Dominick, assist ant attorney general and Blease’s campaign manager in the last cam paign, who are opposing Wyatt Aiken for congress in the Fifth Congres sional district. And political wiseacres, with pre mises of facts to substantiate their logic, prophesy that Please and his three lieutenants will be submerged in a tide, of ballots. Tt Is stated that the "blind tiger’’ element, which supported Please to a man for the ■ i 1! li** sp* i '1 laws d' m a dash in ti.- l !ii* (; n-' nun*-! Moiinvliun unit t.i-i itf I'.*, tor. ft lay n i. 1.1 ( apt up ■! (i i u 11 U '. W 11 n i Hint > < ha;n vii’ j "i '• .- y. ar. I \>nl g'lt "11 1 111* • K t:...n as it 1* : t i ir* • nv. Ii" ! :• -d .y nmht and was P-cogni/e 1 t.y i .wn i.n tor as Pt mg ttie < s. a[>« d . i.vii t Not le ing atile tc* delay li:s Tain in order to inform the sheriff i to* conductor wrot" a n.es-age on a p cf paper and tlirew it to a man stand.ng near tbe stop at Montague Slienff Rector was immediately no tified over the telephone of the con tents of the message, and without de lay started In his automobile In a race against time, having less than five minutes to roach the Monaghan crossing, which was the train's next stop. Arriving there just as the train was leaving, he arrested Pool before ho was able to attempt a flight. Bob Pool was serving a five-year sentence on the chain gang for shooting Jesse Pool several years ago. At the time of his escape last August he had served about three years of his allot ted time. r- T' W i"'!i-t> Hi: \\ HI Hu' <• I O" (ions in I hi- Mat**. Generals Send Commission to Gen eral Villa at the Same Time Tak ing a Flying Start for United States Boundary—Federal* Abandon the North. Seven generals of the Mexican reg ular army are ready to surrender, aays a dispatch received Tuesday night from Juarez, and the backbone of the Huerta dictatorship in tbe north has been broken. A peacu commission Tuesday night arrived in Juarez bearing term* of the surren der. The peace commission waa headed by Odilon Hernandez and came from Chihuahua bearing a proclamation signed by Gen. Salvador Mercado, Huerta's military governor and commander of the Federal forces in all the north. The proclamation stated that the Huerta government was bankrupt and was unable to pay its soldiers. The simultaneous exacuation of other Federal strongholds in the north is believed by the rebels to'be the result of a concerted decision to abandon the whole of Northern Mexico. The peace proposals were sent by Gen. Mercado to Gen. Francisco Vll la, rebel leader, through Federico Moye, civil governor of Chihuahua sta***. nppn'n’ed p.d in*erim. Alone Will* ii <anu: uu uppc.il signed by ai. the foreign consuls In Chihuahua, calling upon Villa to give police pro tection to the citizens of Chihuahua city. Gen. Mercado’s proclamation read; "I nder the circumstances which liave existed in Chihuahua It has been d> <*m> d necessary for the Federal oxnrute. I leave In charge F< !* rico Move, a person who Is not d' ntififl with politics and who la H:**r"f'>re. f[ i;ilifi< d to give full pro tection to foreigners. It Is impos sible to remain here longer, as there is no money with which to pay the troops " Tin* pen* rals who have aignlfled, tlirouch Gen Mercado, their willing ness to surrender, but who. neverthe less. are fleeing to the United States Lordt r, are Ren. Salvador Mercado R< n P iM in 1 Orozco. Gen. Jose Maxil la. Ren Bliiz Orpin il, Gen Lands T o p' i •• commi.-sion proposed to R* n Y.li.i that nil non combatants •n o: l. a R ho s*"u:!:t s.tf 'v by fleeing to the <"'I*t ’ ** p» riiut»*d to go without be ■ fri'l ir ' n, and all the Federal* General Villa Enter* City at Ilaafl off Yictorlona Army From Which Ho Fled Nineteen Years Ago. Fifty-five hundred Mexican rebels, forming the nucleus of the army which the rebel leader, Gen. Fransis- co Villa says he will lead to Mexiao City to overthrow the Huerta dicta torship, were ready to enter Cktkna- hua, the State capltol, Thursday night. It is in this town that YlEa, now in supreme command of the mil itary forces of the revolution, said ha would gather about him 10,BOB men to start south by way of Torreon and Zacatecas to Mexico City. The re port that Zacatecas, with M.BBB population, the capital of a rieh min ing district, already was betng at tacked, indicated that the rebels to the south were in great nnmbevs. Scattered bands of rebels, ranging each from a few hundred to several thousand, are to be impressed into the main army, according to Tflka’s plan to have at least SB.BIB men when he reaches the high plateau leading to the capital of the repablle. Already equipped with machine guns, artillery and millions of ronnde of ammunition, Villa aald he ae longer was hampered by Inability lo cot arms from foreign sources, baf could readily obtain them from the fodorals, who are reported In the few remaining northern strongholds to be ready to evacuate. The defeat ef the federals In their retreat flrem Juarez is known to have placed great ouantities of arms ia the hands ef tl.e re!'** 1 * The rebel advices were that Fred- erico Move, civil governor of Ohfena- hua, had made elaborate prepara tions for thfi reception of Villa, hav ing put In gala state the palate where Villa will now command, aad (hat Villa probably would octspy a heme vamted by one of the silinoaatre Terrazas family. It was from Rhihsanoa that Tilla, 19 y* nrs ago. adopted the eereer ef a bandit because he was ordered ar rested on a charge of having kNtod an army officer When he arrives there not only Villa himself, hut also the men who rallied around him, will occupy the quarters of federal #■- rials who sought him as an ostlaw. Before leaving Rhlhuahua the fed eral G«n. Mercado, at the request ef the Fnited State* ronsnl. Marion Letcher, and other consuls, left 160 soldiers for police duty, the promise b- lng that th** rebel* on entering the city would not molest the men. The fe<b r il police took fricht at the rehsl anpronch and fled. The consuls then prevailed upon citizens to do the policing. a t p»*i f ;i1.1 cmrio ■ t y b!* nt xv o* Pro-idont i- to 1 ■ " I bt* r> , ■■!v* d reception \x a XV Hie IT*'- Lie-.!ax tl.e •i warm, a! Didn’t Need His Pardon. A dispatch from Greenville says Vestor Bryant, turned loose by Gov ernor Blease along with ninety nine other convicted an a Thanksgiving gift, was at the time of his pardon a fugitive, having escaped from the Greenville gang some time In Sep tember. Bryant was convicted In Greenville at the September term of court, 1911, of manslaughter, and was sentenced to five years imprison ment. ^ Three Deed. Seven Hnrt. Wae ea*s ef a logging train near Ayeock. F.a.. broke from th* trala on an tnellnc and dashed down into a work trait killing three men and in- governorship will be lethargic, If not downright inimical to him in hi* race for the senate. When they supported him last year it was because of the supposition that they would have a “friend” in the governor’s chair, and Please will be of no use to them In the senate. Bleaso’s wholesale pardoning of every description of criminal is said, to be doing him irreparable injury all over the State, especially in the Piedmont. His pardon of Emerson and Ellison, of Anderson, caused a tide of indignation to sweep over that country which lost him fully 1,- 500 votes he can never hope to re gain. Politicians of that county say some of his former staunch friends hsve turned against him. The main element that.ejnters into the opposition to Blease because of his wholesale pardoning proclivity is the turning loose on the State of hun dreds of negro criminals. The mill man of South Carolina has a natu ral antipathy for the negro, and it Is said that they are dissatisfied with Flease’s action in turning tke black criminals out of the Stats peniten tiary to further prey on th* white people of th* Stat*. aid politician* who claim to guige correctly th* weather vane of event* »ay they will voice their dissatisfaction at th* poll* hv helping to pll* sp th* majority for Smith. m"-t uproarious, as !:«■ roiicludod 1.:- reading DomorratT lead* rs wore enthusias tic in their comments on the mos-age and its recommendation' They lik ed the emphasis placed by the Pres ident on the need for early action on the currency, for dealing with monop oly through anti-trust legislation, the Importance of rural credit legislation to benefit the farmers, the recommen dations for Government construction of rallorads in Alaska, the develop ment of tbe nation’s resources by a conservation policy alike acceptable to the State and the Federal authori ties, the enactment of employers’ lia bility legislation and the selection of Presidential candidates by the pri mary system. The suggestion of the President that party conventions as at present constituted be abolished won much applause. As Mr. Wilson declared that the party convention should be held only to ratify the verdict of preferen tial primaries, that the personnel of the conventions should be, for the most part, chosen from those mem bers of Congress and Congressional nominees upon whom would devolve the duty of carrying out platform pledges, there was a wave of hand clapping, in which Secretary Bryan and members of the Cabinet joined. i • a: u: to pup, ort ht ronton thm II" aru",.*-1 tb.it Hio work of Motti- 'L-"i may bo mor** g**n*rail> and -P* <■,th ally ;id\.in< **d if thm* are two united eonforences behind the work 'ban if there is a s.ngle conference, the two having far more influence than one Also, he said. It takes so much time to transact business where tbe body is so large and un wieldy. Then, too, the conference has grown to a point where compar atively few cities can entertain the members without straining a point. Dr. John O. Wilson opposed a di vision, thinking better work could be done by one large body. After con siderable discussion the vote was taken, being 123 for and 80 against division. Messrs H. N. Snvder, J. W. Daniel and W. M McLeod were appointed a committee to present to the general conference a memorial asking for a division of the State. In case of division, the institutions in the State will become the property of both conferences. KILLED OYER CIGARETTE. Makes Rig Yield of Potatoes, W. P. Harris, one of the largest and most progressive farmers of Lau rens County, reports the champion yield of Irish potatoes for that coun ty. On ten acres he produced 1,547 bushels, the crop having been gather ed last week. On one acre alone of the field 242 3-4 bushels were made. To Winter on Border. Owing to the unsettled condition of affairs on the Mexican border, nearly one-third of the Infantry forces of the United States army, comprlalng the second division under Major Gen. William H Carter, Is pre paring to winter in open fleld camp near Texa* City. Texaa Th* Democrat* should rs*h the rsrrwwcy bHl li much *o a* th* csss- try win fat do a a to h«ato«as Killed After Ar«istrasl. Imraediatelv after a jury had ae qalttod 8 C Curberth of Carsef'a Ca on a charge of rrlmtaaJ aaaault os Tuawday th* brother of th* ai tog <4 vied* shot aaff klltod him (linton Negroes Have Serious Diffi culty Over Triviality. Ed Williams of Clinton, colored, was killed Saturday night about 8:30 o'clock. He was cut to death with a knife. Watts Little, also colored, is accused of the oi-ime. They were in a restaurant on Main street in the bus iness section of Clinton. The negroes, with several others, were in the re* taurant when they got into a dispute over a cigarete. A policeman was called for and both negroes ran out of tbe house: Williams ran about one hundred yards when he fell down an embankment on the Seaboard track. His body was found there Sunday morning about 7 o'clock by a cook at the Clinton Hotel. Little was also severely cut and his condi tion Is critical. Much Cotto* Destroyed. A fir* which broke out at Woodruff Monday morning about one o’clock lestroyed 388 bales of cotton, entoil- mg an estimated loss of fSD.OOB. - fiaok to Robbed. According t© a dispatch, robbers blew the Baak of F11©obom. N C. at 1 • ctoek Batarday morning, m- rsrtag St.BBB naff Lie! : ir - • vUiers, left on pollc* .'x in H| 1 uy). a (By. he pardon**'! :H o :i-kc'l ( '••*"< ncy for Federal r > .tl* ton f in ft,ought the Federal • or L * \x : ! ‘-••.•k safety by crossing •* 1 orih-r into th.* United States **lhiy n**ar Ojinaz.v The p.ac** commission stated that h< fore having Chihuahua the Fed erals destroyed all the postage and government revenue stamps; that there existed practically no money in the city and that 2,000 citizens had left with the troops, most Of them being those who were rich and who feared harsh treatment by the rebels The commission started back im mediately after seeing Gen. Villa, for Chihuahua with his asiuraneea that people of all classes in the city and including the Federal police would he protected, and that he would dis patch troops to garrison the place as soon as possible. Notwithstanding the action of the Federals, Gen. Villa him«elf was preparing for departure southward. He said Chihuahua would be only a stopping place on his south ward march, as he was determined to continue on to Mexico city. ESCAPE FROM KILLING AT FIX)RKNCE. Following Quarrel Travelling Ralee- man Kills His Foreman. M. Cook, a foreman on the planta tion of T. Burch, near Florence, was shot and killed by his employer in front of a hotel there Saturday af ternoon. There are many conflicting stories in regard to the killing, but from what can be gathered Cook had been following Mr. Burch all day with some complaint and the contro versy became an altercation and later grew hotter. It is stated that Cook cursed and threatened Burch and the latter drew his pistol and shot him. He had previously led Cook into the vestibule of the hotel and the two were seated in chairs discussing the question on which they differed. The slayer made no attempt to escape. Through his attorney he made the statement that he does^not wish to discuss the shooting, saying it grew out of an altercation and cursing and threats Cook was about 3 5 years of age. He had been foreman for Burch for nearly a year. H* leaves a wife and two yonag children. Oew Are Raved. . Th* fodr-mastod *ehoon*r Monday wrecked near th* harbor oatran*# of Aberdan. Wash . Taooday was tdaotl Bed a* the Balboa, from Cblto. to Grays Harbor. Ia bailaot Tbo at a* Five laurens Prisoners Raw TWato Way Through Irom liars. Six negro prisoners at tbe Ijxsreas county jail cut their way to liberty some time Monday night after mid night, and made good their eoaapa- Tuesday night they are still at larg^ but efforts are being mad* to totot- turn them by the officers, and K hi probable that the entire bnack wlM soon be back behind the barn. Oao of the prisoners escaped to (torn Prlaa. convicted at a summer term ol eoart of mnrder, and given a life sent—qa> the jury having recommended maraj. The other five were la jail oa mhaar charges. They are Joha Framih, John Hill, John Jacks, I/eamaa Kitt son and Ben Wardlaw. Tbay affact- ed their escape by sawing oat a eaw- pie of bars in the steel cages la whtob they were confined. Tkey let them selves down to the ground from aa upper story window by the see af blankets. The exit throigh th* win dow was made by removing th* sash and prying apart the heavy ovtside iron bars. Evidently a hack saw waa used, in cutting out the bars ia th* steel cages, but it Is a mystery how they secured the saw or file. BI LL ATTACKS DOC1K*. Veterinarian Severely Hart by MM ,, Bovine at Clin tom. Dr. R. E. I^wis, veterialary smr- geon of Greenville, was severely hart at Clinton Wednesday aftaraoon, when a Jersey bull belonging to th* Thorn well Orphanage to examiaa some cattle, several of them haviag died recently. Dr. Lewis, with Dr. W. A. Shands, of Clinton, on* af thm trustees of the institution, was hs the lot, when, without any warslag, Mto bull advanced upon Dr. Lewia aad tossed him fully twelve feat lato torn air. H* was thrown in this m—dr three times. The bull thinking tttad he had killed Dr. Lewis, toft *f at tacking him. Dr. Shands. althaaMb but a few feet away, waa amahla to render any assistance. • Mommy for ftowth Th* •eeratary of th* his annual book of congress Monday hiclidaa th* lowing far rlvar and bar bar war South Carolina, this * Bag Bar •anal year aadhag Jam Improving Chartaaton tt*