Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'Hmm.mrn. SUAVE THEM DOWN A I » SOUTHERN STATES LOSE POWER WITH REPUBLICANS EXTENDS FARMERS’ TIME DELEGATES CUT DOWN national Committee of ike Republi cans Resolves to Reduce South's Representation In the Connells of the Party—G. O. P. ITReorganlied en a Compromise Ilasis. The Republican National commit tee, In meeting assembled at Wash ington Wednesday night eoncluded its Inker ef reform In party procedure and launeked Its campaign for a re union ef warring elements by adopt ing a reeelutien providing fer n radi cal change In the basis of representa tion In national nominating conven tions, which would reduce the quota ef Southern States from 22 to It per seat of the Convention’s total. The action of the committee, made ananlmout before adjournment, must be endorsed by States entitled to cast a majority of votes In the Electoral College before It becomes party law. In order that such action shall be taken as promptly as possible the committee appointed a sub-committee of three, consisting of Charles B. Warren, of Michigan; Senator Borah, of Idaho, and Governor Hatfield, of West Virginia, to prepare an address to the States urging their Immediate ratification of the proposal. Approval by the States will insure a call from^the-national committee for the National convention of 1916 along the lines laid down at the meet ing Wednesday. The re-organization plan adopted came a compromise, which reflected the views of many committeemen that Southern repre sentation should be reduced, but not brought to the vanishing point. The resolution provided: “That this committee shall Issue a call for the National Convention to be held In 1916 to nominate candi date for President and Vice-President In accordance with the following bas is of representation: “Each state shall be entitled to four delegates at large; one delegate at large for each Representative in Congress at large from any State; one delegate from each Congressional dis trict: an additional delegate from ea^h '-ongresslonal district In which the vote either for Republican Presi dential electors or for the Republi can candidate for Congress In 1914, shall have been not less than 7,500 and that for each delegate chosen an alternate delegate shall be chosen In the same manner and at the same time to act In the absence of the dele gate. “Provided, however, that the above shall not be made the basis of the call for the National convention to be held In the year 1916, unless prior to January 1. 1915, Republican State Con\entlons held under the laws of the States, or called bv tbe Republi can State committees of the States in such number of States as are entitled to cast a malorPy of tbe votes In the present Flectoral College, shall ratify the action of tills committee In re spect to determining this basis of representation.’’ Aecordlng to figures submitted by tbe sub-committee the new plan would reduce the total number of delegates from 1,078 to 998. Tbe Dis trict of Columbia and Alaska were provided with two delegates each by separate action, and the Philliplno Islands, Porto Rico and Hawaii also were given two each without the right to vote. The Southern States would have 164 delegates 1n all. R P Howell, of Nebraska, led the fight against the resolution. He said Republican voters would no' be sat isfied with a reduction of the sort proposed and pointed out the com parative strength of the delegations from several northern and Southern stales under It. giving also the per centage of votes cast in these States to show the Republican weakness be low Mason and Dixon's lihe.-and the strength above it. Mr. HoWPtt was op posed by Senator Borah, former Gov ernor Hadley, holding the Louisiana proxy: Committeemen Remmel, of Arkansas, and McGregor of Texas, and H. L. Johnson, a District of Co- lunmbla negro, who held a proxy from Georgia. * SMITH GETS AMENDMENT TO CURRENCY BILL. Caneus Approve* South Carolinian's. Provision to Meet Planters’ Need for Long Time Loans. Following th* lln* of thought de veloped In his recent speech upon the floor of the Senate on the pending currency bill, Senator Smith of South Carolina Wednesday night In the Democratic caucus Insisted that the farmers should have a six months’ not* upon which federal reserve notes might b* Issued. He continued th* fght Thursday, and succeeded in securing a majority of th* Demo- cratlo Masters to baek him up In his Ight la hahalf of aa amendment to th* enrreaey hill whieh he haa pre pared and which la as follows:/ “Prevlded, That note*, drafts and bills draw* or Issued fog agrlculteral purposes having a matnrity not *x- ceedlag six months may be discount ed In an amount to be limited to a percentage of the capital of the fed eral reeerve bank to be ascertained and fxed by the federal reserve board.” This amendment, which was adopt ed by the caucus Thursday ulght, will be offered upon the floor of the Sen ate and will be Incorporated In the new banking law. Senator Smith, of course, Is very much gratified at the outcome of his labors. Thursday night he said: “This amendment puts the farm ers where thier business Is recogniz ed as of equal importance In the financial system of the country with the prime commercial papers of other business, such as the notes, drafts and bills of merchants, miners and those of the so-called business world Under the terms of this provision, farmers’ notes, bills and drafts, Is sued for agricultural purposes, are available at the reserve, bank for a note Issue on the same footing as pro vided for a 90-day paper. “In other words, in a case of money stringency or panic threaten ed, this paper can be used for deposit with the regional bank and upon It federal reserve notes may be issued for the purpose of meeting the emer gency. Thus you will see, It puts the farmers’ notes, bills and drafts upon exactly the same footing, as an asset upon which capital may be realized by the farmers, as the prime commer cial paper of the other branches of business In the financial world, and for a period of six months.” After the caucus adjourned, Sen ator Owen, In charge of the bill, said that In accordance with the resolu tion submitted by Senator Smith and his plea for It In the caucus that the committee has now reconsidered sec- ment quoted above. COTTON SEED STATISTICS. Figures Given Out by Census Bureau for This Season. Statistics of the cotton seed pro ducts Industry for the present cotton season, announced by the census bu reau Thursday, show L’89,118 running bales of linters bad been obtained and 2, 20 1,276 tons of cotton seed had been crushed from the crop of 1913 prior to December 1. The num ber of cotton seed oil mills and other delinting establishments active dur ing the period prior to December was 850. The number o? active establish ments, tons of cotton seed crushed and running bales of linters obtained l prior to December 1, by states, fol- Ernred Mob Violence. Posses Monday night searched the surrounding country about Ststoville, Ga., In the hope of finding the negro who attacked a w.hlte woman in her home. When found she had been ^.choked into Insensibility. Violence was expected If the criminal was ap prehended Told Them to .Move Out. Fifteen feudal enemies of-the Col lins family of Old Horton, Mo., rode Into tbe village Sunday and burned four bouses, severely beating the In mates. . The Collins were warned to toeve on pain of death low: Establish- States ments Seed Linters Alabama . . . 81 1 92.4 99 23,663 Arkansas . . . 43 117,932 15,299 Florida . . . . 4 1 3.806 1,397 Georgia . . . .152 375,88 1 46,890 Louisiana . . . 32 74,581 9,348 Mississippi. . . 69 1 95,700 23.070 Missouri . . . 4 13,749 1,649 N. C. . . . . . 62 1 09,862 11,702 Oklahoma . . . 58 1 36,649 20,900 172,865 19,108 Tennessee . . . 23 99.21 8 12,513 Texas . . . . 220 677,593 101,430 All other states 5 20,94 1 2,005 KILLING ON BEECH ISLAND. MIMl Pi AIN I ALU —* __ A EIQUUK MIN WAKMD OF THEIR CilMiMi lOliH MUST MENU IHtift UU Says They I)elll>erately Aid ttie Most Corrupt Political Powers and Backs With Ail Their Resources the Most Unworthy Men, the Most Corrupt aad Recreant Official*. The liquor men see the handwrit ing on the wall. The following con fession, remarkable for its frankness, is from the oSeiai Joaraal ef the whiskey dealers: “A trutkful statement of how mat ters staad publicly on th* great liquor queetlon—e leok at things as they are: “It Is always best for normal peo ple to look at things as they are. Reality may be obscured to the sick or feeble-minded in certain circum stance*, but deception is a poor evi dence of friendship. Partisanship with blinded eye only leads the way to ruin, and self-deception Is the worst of all. "Let us look at things as they are, and In the face of the enemy dare to consider and concede their strength. Knowing his play of battle, we can better arrange our force* for his de feat, rightly estimating his strength we can better provide to meet it. “The prohibition fight henceforth will be nation-wide, and contemplates writing into the national constitution a prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. To ac complish this result will require the ratification of thirty-six out of the forty-eight states in the union. “Of these nine are already In line through state prohibition—Maine, Kansas, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia. The last five have been added within a period of six years. "In addition to these there are eighteen states in which a major part of the people live in territory made dry by local option In which we may be assured prohibition sentiment pre dominates. "If the people In these states who are opposed to the liquor traffic de mand it, their legislature -.will un doubtedly ratify a national amend ment. “The most Influential argument against prohibition is that it Is not effective; that ‘prohibition don’t pro hibit’. “This is not basic or moral; the fact of failure to enforce is no argu- tion 13 and will accept the amende, ment against the expediency, much . —«»*!«*,** “ The Begnteh colony In El Peeo, aormenteri by the .120 Refugee* ex- pelleri from Chfhoahn*. now agrre- gatee more than 1 400, and many more agtmrtod from remote ruche* Negro Kills White Man by Crushing p in His Skull. Early Sunday morning Rural Po liceman Holley brought to Aiken Daniel Berry, colored, charged w'tli the killing of a white man by the name of Minus McElmurray. The killing occurred on Beech Island Sat urday night. It seems that a wagon load of people were returning from Augusta, all said to be In a drunken condition. McElmurrnywas along, and got Into a fuss with Berry. The negro struck the white man over the head | twice with an iron pipe, crushing his ! skull. McElmurray lay down In thei t h n r the rn-rh is heine told ibmit the wagon then and was put out at Dob-1 ^)~ohoiip trade the rion*■ v va 1 tie will son s store inhere h^isoon died. j ppf count, for the . onschmcM a’ottso.t * • * j ''o'* "'e value of man above other Hurt In Runaway. i tb<nr* James Caughman. former commts j " r> ’-ona-e rh*- dofenre 'Hoods p vonr ri.p fn-Aju for the court ,'■> n no* h.. Or,*-nnp ' less against the moral Issue involved. “Ultimately all questions must be settled by moral standards; only in this way can mankind be saved from self-effacement. The liquor traffic can not save itself by declaring that government is incapable of coping with the problem It presents; when the people decide It must go it will he banished. “We are not discussing the benefit or justice of prohibition, but Its pos sibility and probability in present cir cumstances. “To us there Is ‘the handwriting on the wav’, and its Interpretation means doom. “For this the liquor business is to blame; It seems Incapable of learning any lesson of advancement or any motive but profit. “To perpetuate Itself it has form ed alliance with the slums that re pel all conscientious and patriotic cit izens. “It deliberately aids the most cor rupt political powers, and backs with all Its resources the most unworthy men, the most corrupt and recreat officials. It does not aid the purifica tion of municipal, state or national administration. "Why? Because It has to ask im munity for Its own lawlessness. “That this condition is inherently and inevitably necessary we do not believe, hut It has come to be a fact, and the public, which is to pass on the matter in Its final analysis, be lieves anything had that anybody can tell it of the liquor business. “Why? Let all the leaders of the trad** answer. “Other lines of business may be as had or even ( worse, but it Is not so plainly in evidence. “The case pf the liquor traffic Is called for adjudication bysthe Ameri can people, and must be ready for trial. “Other cases mav be called later, hut the one before the court now can not be postponed But, as in the oast, the men mo«t concerned are playing for pos'oonement, not for ac- oulttal. Is it hecarse they wear the weakness of their defence that thev fear to go to trial ’ “There are billions of pronertv in volved, hut when the people decide HAD NO STATE LICENSE WEALTHY HUNTERS SPORT IN GEORGETOWN COUNTRY. .'state Game Warden Cots in Refund Them, but They Take Special Train Out of the State. Isaac E. Emerson, the “Bromo Seltzer King”, who owns a hunting preserve in Georgetown county, took his party of wealthy northerners out of the State on a special train Sun- dap afternoon when Chief Gam* War den A. A. Richardson got in behind them for hunting without licensee, according to information given oat Tuesday by Mr. Richardson, who had Juet returned to Columbia from Georgetown, where be said on* of the party, Georg* W. Ewing, of Balti more, Md., was dismissed on a tech nicality at a hearing before a magis trate for hunting in th* State with out a liceas*. Aceordiag to a statement from Chief Gan* Warden Richardson, he sent his assistant, Mr. Funderburk, to Georgetown coenty to look over the situation when he felt that there were not as many non-resident hunt ing licenses being reported from that county as he was certain there should be. Deputy Funderburk reached Georgetown on Thursday and found he state*, that Millionaire Emerson was entertaining a party of wealthy tourists, none of whom had licenses as far as he could ascertain. Deputy Funderburk went out to "Arcadia”, the magnificent country estate of Millionaire Emerson, which is located on Waccamaw Neck five miles from Georgetown. When he reached there he found Mr. Emerson and his guests just returning from a hunt ami he ascertained that the fol lowing made up the party: George W. Ewing, M. Henry, Mrs. -Bettie W. Ewing, Mrs. Annie Emer son and Mrs. Margaret Vanderbilt, all of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. Ethel McCormick, of New York, all wealthy and well known tourists, and Isaac E. Emerson, the owner of the place. Deputy Funderburk says he ascer tained from the clerk of the court that only Mr. Emerson had a license when he demanded to see their li censes. He then telephoned Chief Game Warden A. A. Richardson, at Columbia, who instructed him to take out warrants for the men in the party and to tell the ladies the law required them to have licenses. Deputy ^ Funderburk had talked with Mr. George W, Ewing when he met the party at "Arcadia”, as they were returning from the hunt and be ing certain only of his name, swore out a warrant charging him with hunting without a license in South Carolina. In company with the sher iff of Georgetown they went to the country estate of Mr. Emerson on Saturday and arrested Mr. Ewing on Saturday morning. Mr. Emerson ac companying them back to George town. The sheriff and Deputy Funder burk had made the trip to the coun try estate of Mr. Emerson in the fish commissioner’s boat, the “Nancy", and when they were starting back Mr. Emerson asked how fast the “Nancy” could travel On being told ten miles per hour, he ordered his men to bring out his racing boat, the "ArcHdia”, capable of running nine teen miles an hour, and the party were soon in Georgetown, where Mr. Ewing was put under sufficient bond to await the arrival of Chief Game Warden Richardson. Owing to the train schedules, Mr. Richardson did not reach Georgetown until Monday morning and when he arrived he found only Mr. George W.* Ewing, and said that he discovered that Mr. Emerson had ordered a spe cial train on Sunday evening and had returned north with his other guests that night. LEAVES IT TO U. S. run m* f ^ | sloner of Lexington countv over by a heavy n*r>-li<>r»e «uk<>> loaded with com on hi* plantation •boot five mile# north of Lexington v oi •« Tuesday end dsngerou*’« "‘ur^d of*** ’v* jo; * is *rd« * on piQ Spain Entrusts Care of Its Mexican C itizens to This Country. Senor Don Juan Rian^f* Spanish ambassador at Washington, Tuesday advised Secretary Bryan of Spain’s heartfelt thanks for the attitude of the United States towards Spanish refugees from Chihuahuk. Me^jco. Similar action was taken by the Span ish minister to Mexico, who request ed that Charge O’Shaughnessy con vey to the various authorities in El Paso, Texas, thanks on his behalf for their kindness ttffhe rjBfugees. The announcement fro-m-the Span ish premier that the Madrid govern ment had decided to leave the safe guarding of her interests In Mexico to the United States Tuesday was spoken of by Secretary Bryan as in line with the action of Great Britain, France, Japan ami other nations, which did not happen to have consu lar officers at places where their sub jects we;e in difficulty. The Spanish const.1 at Chihuahua said that he had received a cablegram from the minister of foreign affairs at Madrid, which said the Washing ton government had promised It would exact from a!! factions in Mex ico the *ame resneef for Spaniard* as was demanded for Americans. ■ Th#* Montvomery AdvertlseF"’s*ys *h*t w * * h f»>e narrow tklrts circum- •C*- h nr *''eir artlvitiee the ladle* of 'o-«'a' can’* step on anv:h'ng higher HANDS IT TO TIM DENOUNCES ELIHU ROOT * CARTER GLASS CRITICISES OANItlS POURS HOT SHOT INTO YORK REPUBLICAN THE REACTIONARIES THEY FIGHT REFORM In Address Before New York Tar Heel Dinner Navy Chief Hammers Standpatter* With the Very Word* Being Ueed to ,Discount th* Pre- greeelve Movement. Re&ctloaarlee who think to weaken the advocacy of progressive measure* by declaring that they are tke pro- deets ef "hyateiia” were roundly de- aoaaeed at New York Wednesday night by Secretary Daniel* of th* aavy, In an address at th* dinner of th* Nerth Carolina Society ef New Yerk. “A few days age,” Mr Daniels said, “a dlstlngulsked educator from a Southern state In a speech in New York declared that such new and progressive measures as th* Initia tive and referendum were ‘revolu tionary’. Another dUtlnguished au thority, a statesman and educatoi*, re ferred to certain modern A merlcan political doctrines as ‘wild theories’ which common sense and wise expe rience demand be rejected sa th* re sult of hysteria. “The real truth is that this so- called ‘hysteria’ hurts. It keeps party pledges, it does not take from labor th* bread It earns, it makes protection-built wealth pay income tax. It electa senators direct from the people. They call it hysteria be cause it means we can have no more senators from the New York Central Railroad; no more senators from the Southern Express Company; no more senators from the New York, New Haven A Hartford Railroad; no more senators from the Standard Oil Trust. “They call it hysteria because it prevents the classes from exploiting th* masses, and brings the govern ment back to the people. After all, th* real hysterleals are not the people who stand upon the housetops and cry for reform, but th* people who are guarding special privileges snd are seeing the castles built by privi lege tumble down about their heads. “No, gentlemen,” continued the secretary, “th* victims of hysteria are not the forward looking, promise keeping reformers, who quietly con vince the people that this new way, this gospel of progressive statesman ship, is best for the country, but your hysterical man Is that incarnate ex patriotism who madly waves the stars and stripes with one hand and grips his rebate-provided, protection-fos tered wealth with the other, and be wails an alleged tendency to put a period to class legislation, who wildly proclaims that we are turning away from those fundamental principles through whicli we have come to our present high state. “Legislators In the recent past have been the favorites of great cor porations. They have felt a com pelling power from ’higher up’. The impersonal element in the situation made it hard to cure, but at last the ax has been laid at the root ef the tree, and the people have demanded that all this must he changed How? By legalized primaries, even for pres ident, by pure food laws, by an in come tax, by a lower tariff, hy laws to protect seamen, by regulation of the trusts, by the abolition of inter locking directorates and rebates, etc. “Take th« tariff. The men who re vised It were not hysterical. They used figures and facts. They wert? painstaking and scientific, and what was the answer? The beneficiaries of protection, the infant industries, gray and hoary with age, and obese from their long pull at the pap-bot tles, cried out: ‘You are go'ns to impoverish our country.’ Four months under the new tariff have passed and the report of Secretary of Commerce Redfield declares that ‘the Hooding of our markets ^-Ith the cheap wares of Europe has not hap pened,’ as predicted, and America's trade is evidencing a healthy growth. “The latest exhibition of hysteria Is the effort to prevent passage of the currency bill. It is well known hy everybody that this bill is certain co become a law substantially ae now- framed and the .principal features of it are as good as, upon the statute books and those who would destrov confidence In the American govern:, ment and Its ability to control its finances, dub as hysteria the effort to pass a long-needed currency re form. “Take conservation' The waste of our resources has been so wanton as to rob unborn generations. Men have risen up and declared it must stop. Those who wished to take all the coal for this generation and permit a few concerns to grab ,ip all the mines and minerals declared that the con servationists were crazy By this craft they had their wealth "Those who wished to Impose Im perialism upon our country, forget- fng that government by consent of the governed Is the basis of our lib erty those who wished to annex lands across the seas and change our gorernment to one-half free and half colonial were as logically certain to t># reversed as those who held oat for • livery to the fsce of Lincoln • Replies to Chargee, DcelarlB* Currency Bill Now In Congree* fas Far From Hodgepodge of Error*. Representative Carter Glaea, chair man of the house committee on bank ing and currency in an address deliv ered.at Richmond, Va., Tuesday night warmly defended the administration currency bill against the “greenback- ism” and “fiat money” charge launch ed by Senator Roof in the senate on Saturday and retaliated with a sharp attack on Senator Root. “On the floor of the United State* senate last Saturday," said *Mr. Glass, ‘Senator Root of New York charac terized the measure as “greenhackism run mad,” and unacquainted with th* subject which he nndertook te dl*- cuss, he described it as proposing * return to the reserve issues of 1891. "I take It that the duty of a sen ator to preserve the public from na tional harm is more than overbalanc ed by his moral obligation never to sound a false alarm and never to permit himself to be deflected from the path of strict truth to gain a point of vantage. And. yet he did sound a false alarm and sounded It upon information which he himself admits he secured second hand from another senator. “When to one's reputation is add ed his renown as a great lawyer and his fame as an International states man, and the subject involved relate to the tender fabric of national crel it, when such a man trifles with subject of this moment he is guilty not only of grave indiscretion, but of downright treason to his country.” ‘All that I have said of Frank A. Vanderlip,” said Mr. Gliss, summing up a sharp reply to the statements made by the New York banker, "may be accentuated and applied to Mr. Root. God alone kno" s how men who understand the currency bill so little as to charge it with greenback- ism have ever gained cnn'rol of banks with a capital of $25,0Ao t 000 or have ever attained to a ser.t in the United States senate.” When Christmas Time Comes. When Christmas time comes round It seems As though the long, long years Roil bac k and take away our cares And dry up all our tears; I don't know why it is. but when i The great day comes along I get to feelin' young again, And kind of turn to song. And whistle and go on just like A boy would. I'll be bound. The old worM seems to brigh’en up When Chris'!mas time comes round. I I’m tickled at the Jumpin' lack And all them kind of thimrs: I like to watch the toys that play By windin’ up the springs. And somehow don't knew a 11y it is. ^ Love seems to fill the air, And I forget I've enemies Or troubles anywhere: And every little while I sort i Of listen for the sound Of voices that have long been s'ill, When Christmas time comes round I wish that I was Santa Claus And had a magic sleigh. To visit all the children who j Look forward to the day The orphans and the crmples and The poor folks everywhere? All children that are good and kind And don't forget their pravers. 1 I'll bet vou that they'd all be glad * When they got up and fou’-d Their stockin'? fairly bustin' out. When Christmas time comes round. Oh. happy time of jinglin' hells ! And hills all white with snow . ; Oh, ioyful day that takes us back | To care-free long ago I wonder If up there above Where happy angels roam They do not get to thinkin' of I The happy times at home. ; And turn, in fancy, hack once more j To listen to the sound Of voices that have long been still, When Christmas time comes round’ To Signal Years End. The naval obsfrvatory has arrang ed to send broadcast from its Arling ton radio statlon-a New Year’s greet ing' which will be spread broadcast over the continent and the Atlantic. ... Three Die in Flames. A mother and her two smaH child- *« ren were burned to death and three other persons slightly Injured in a fire which swept through an East yew York tenement house Wednesday prophecy that this country could not exist half free and half slave They are the hysterics They have gone around as though booted and spurred to ride other men, and some of them have applauded at public dinners the song, "Damn. Damn, Damn, the Fil ipinos.’ "This so-called hysteria denounced hr standpatters snd reactionaries i* democracy, the rule of th? people. In every generation the standpatter* have sought to have forward-looking men declared fanatics snd lunatica. Pr’ght and Cobden were the destroy ers of English liberty Jeffersen wa* s '•ve'e- end a demagogue They were *1] ky*t*r1«* ”