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MEXlGAlf DR FACTO GOVERN MENT MUST SALUTE FLAG HUERTA GETS LAST NOTE Admimistrstkm Outlines Studied In* dignlUea Heaped Upon FUg, and Announces tion to See Flag Saluted by Those Who Have Debased it. The ppattfon of the administration In rp(<rda to the demand made upon ico for a salute to the flag, as ex* plained by President Wilson Wednes day to members of the Senate and House committees on foreign affairs, and as It was subsequently reviewed in the notes sent to all foreign gov ernments, Is described In a statement which was prepared by high admin istration officials. The statement fol lows: "In discussions In official circles In Washington of the present Mexican situation the following points have been very much dwelt upon: "It has been pointed out that In considering the present somewhat delicate situation In Mexico, the un pleasant Incident at Tampico must not be thought of alone. For some time past the de facto government of Mexico has seemed to think mere alopogles sufficient when the rights of American citizens or the dignity of the government of the United States were Involved, and has apparently made no attempt at either reparation or the effective correction of the se rious derelictions of Its civil and mil itary officers. "Immediately after the Incident at Tampico an orderly from one of the ships of the United States In the har bor of Vera Crus, who had beep sent > ashore to the post office for the'ship’s mall and who was In uniform, and. who had the official mall bag on his back, was arrested and put Into jail by the local auth^ltles. He was sub sequently released and a nominal punishment inflicted upon the officer who had arrested him, but It was slg ■lllcant that an orderly from the feet of the United States was picked eut from the many persons constantly going ashore on the various errands from the various ships In the harbor representing several nations. "Most serious of all, the officials In charge of thq telegraph office at Mexico City presumed to withhold an official dispatch of the government of the United States to Its embassy at Mexico City until It should have been sent to the censor and his permission received to deliver It, and gave the dispatch Into the hands of the charge h d’affaires of the United States only upon his personal and emphatic de mand, he having. In the meantime, learned through other channels that a dispatch had been sent hkn which he had not received. "It can not but strike any one who hs# watched the course of events In Mexico as significant that untoward Incidents such as these have not oc curred In any case where representa tives of other governments were con cerned, bnt only with dealings with representatives of the United States, and that there has been no occasion for other governments to call atten tion to such matters or to ask for apologies. • "These repeated offlencea against the rights and dignity of the United States, offences not duplicated with regard to the representatives of other governments, have, necessarily, made the Impression that the government of the United States was singled out for manifestations of lll-wlll and con tempt "The. authorities of the Suite de partment feel confident that when the seriousness and the effects of these actions is made evident to the Mexican government, that they will see the propriety of giving evidences of its desire to correct these things. There can be no loss to the dignity of the de facto govehiment In Mexico In recognising la the claims of a ernment to Its MILITIA OF OKLAHOMA CAUSES RACES TO STOP SUDDENLY. Starter Beads Horses Off Bat Jockeys 8top^*r"VoIley Over Their H Disregarding a ^restraining ord^T issttedby Judge M.*A. Breckenbrldge, the Superior Court, Oklahoma state troops took possession of the Tulsa, Okla., fair grounds, proclaim ed under martial law by Gov. Lee Cruce, and when an attempt was made to run the races carded for Wednesday afternoon, a squad of militiamen fired a volley over the heads of the Jockeys. With this show of force and the declratlon of Adjt. Gen. Frank M Canton, who was In personal com mand of the troops, that If another race was started the militiamen Wbuld fire to kill the horses, officials of the Tulsa Jockey club ordered the spring race meeting, which began Monday, abandoned temporarily at least. Wednesday's action brought to cul mination a contest as to the right of "bookmakers” to operate at the track. Monday open betting was permitted and Monday night District Judge L. M. Poe issued an injunction prohibiting the placing of wagers. Tuesday report was made to the gov ernor that rotations of the State anti gambling laws continued, and Wed nesday night the proclamation de daring the track under marshal law was issued. The next move will be the hearing of habeas corpus proceedings, insti tuted in behalf of several men arrest ed by the State troops Wednesday Application for the writs was filed before the court of criminal appeals in Oklahoma City late Wednesday afternoon. No date has been set for the hearing. Two companies of mllltl|,were em ployed In stopping the races. First the stands were cleared of spectators and orders given formally for the dis continuance of the races. This order was disregarded and ten horses en tered In the first race were sent to the post. The starter lost no time In dropping the barrier, and as the horses entered the stretch the militia men fired over the heads of the jock eys. J. M. Stewart, a private detective, who had refused to leave the ground; a Atable boy, who attempted to lead a horse from the track, and a spectator, who tried to force his way through the guard lines, were arrested. RICHARDS TELLS VOT ERS WHAT HE WILL FAVOR - ■ ») RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR e fullest degree ,t sovereign gov- I TOOK HANDCUFFS TOO. SWEPT BY FLAMES. Fort Mill Prisoner Escapes and Car ries Off Bracelets. Knox Wlndle, magistrate’s consta ble at Fort Mill, had an unusual ex perience Monday night while making an arrest of Tom Glover for viola tion of contract and cruelty to ani- mala. The arrest having been made, Mr. Wlndle started for the lockup In a buggy with his prisoner handcuff ed. On hla way he left the buggy for a moment to summon *a witness at a house he was passing and the negro, taking advantage of hla ab sence, whipped up the horse with the lines and made his escape, taking with him the constable’s perfectly good pair of handcuffs. The negro left the buggy after going a mile or AP«nd has net yet been apprehended. New York Apartment House Fire Re sults in Eleven Deaths. Flame* that swept through a five- story apartment house at New York Friday claimed 11 victims and re sulted in the serious Injury of four others. Ten bodies were taken from the theatrical boarding house that occupied half of the building. Only four could be Identified, the others being charred- beyond recognition. The first started la a pile of waste in the basemen of a five and ten cent store which occipled the ground floor of the building, spread rapidly up the stairways, shutting off egress by them. There were no fire escapes in the front of the building and the large number of dead and Injured was due to the refusal of the panic stricken people to remain In the front windows where many were rescued by firemen. All of the dead and injured were taken from the rear rooms and halls where they were caught while attempting to reach the roof and fire escapes. One man was killed In trying to escape over roofs. In the hour the flames raged many thrilling rescues were made by firemen working frop ladders In front and from windows of a nearby tenement building. Captain Smith, who was suspended by his feet from a window, prevented Louis Royland from being dashed to death when a ladder broke on which he was crawling from the burning tenement Captain Smith seized Boyland and held bn to him until both could be dragged to safety. —.. MEET AND SHAKE HANDS. Underwood and Hobson Face Each Other on House Floor. Representatives Underwood and Hobson, senatorial candidates In one of the blttereet campaigns fought in Alabama, met and ebook hands in the House Tuesday. "How are you, Underwood?” said Mr. Hobson, and the majority leader returned his hand clasp with a "Fine, Capt Hobson.’ It was the first exchange between the two on the floor of the House for months'. Dropped Dead While Shooting. W. ’f. Childers of Greensboro, N. C., fired three shots at C. L. Rowe, fsflu're. Says He is Opposed to Compulsory Education' "Stands by Local Op tion, Favors Flat Two-Cent Rate and Good Roads—Makes Other Declarations of His Position. John G. Richards, railroad com missioner, who la running for gov ernor, recently gave out the follow Ing platform: To the Democracy of South Carolina: In becoming a candidate for gov ernor I do so with the full realtxatlon of the responsibility which I assume, and in submitting my platform for your consideration I also cheerfully offer my past record, both public and private; It Is Impossible, of course, at this stage, to give my platform In its en tlrety, but I desire to state In un equivocal terms who my position Is upon some of the more important questions that are of vital Interest to the people of the State My position, upon the educational question is known wherever I am known, and I shall continue to advo cate equitable support for our higher educational Institutions. Our public school system Is the vitalizing force that supplies our col leges and the main foundation of our republican institutions. I shall ad vocate the fullest and most unstinted support for our common school sys tem, with particular attention to .the development of our rural schools and education. We are now making great improvements along educational lines, but thta. anwitlw-4s of tran scendent importance and demands our very best effort. I am in favor of enlarging our free school system so that it will offer to every white child In South .Carolina a good com mon school education. I am In favor of erecting conven ient and comfortable school buildings and furnishing all necessary text books free of cost. I aqi. ip favor of paying our teach ers, both men and women,.. salaric|gt commensurate with the dignity and Importance of their positions. I have always opposed compulsory school attendance aud shall continue to do so. We should provide every necessary facility and enlarge upon our impelling system, rather than re sort to compulsion. Such legislation Is fundamentally wrong; besides it Is Inexpedient and nnnecessary and, therefore, unwise. The building of good and perma nent highways will add more to the value of our property and the wealth of our State than any other public utility. The effect of good roads through out the State would be felt in every walk of life, but such improvement would be an eapecthl blessing and a great economy to those of our people who live in the country districts. I shall stand-for the permanent Im provement of our highways, such Im provement being made under local self-government to the various coun ties. Farming Is the chief and greatest of all Industries; iu fact, It is the bed-rock foundation of our economic life. I shall stand for a legislative administrative policy that will t^ve vigorous support to all agencies which make for the full development of our agricultural Interests, and for a policy that shall foster all other business interest, and that shall tend to induce capital to come Into the State for the purpose of developing to the fullest extent our splendid nat ural resources. In the campalgn whlch I made iW governor in 1910 I advocated State wide prohibition. I am still a prohl bitionlst by practice and from princi ple. In my opening speech at Sum ter, and in many places throughout the State, while discussing the whis key question and submitting my opin ion as to Its solution, I used this lan guage: “This question is an Issue before our people; ther voices should be supreme. I believe In the role of the people, and when they have spoken upon a given question. It Is treachery^-not to heed their will, as expressed at the ballot box.” The people of South Carolina have expressed their will at the ballot box and have* declared for local option. I believe In trusting the people. Their will when expressed Is supreme. Therefore I shall not oppose local op tion, hut will favor the principle of allowing the various counties to de termine this question as seems prop er to them, with, of courge, a strict observance of constitutional limita tions. I am In favor of honest elections and a strict enforcement of our Iaws against violators of the same, bnt I shall oppose any legislation, either by sary, tat they are a positive injury to the bent interests of tbs State, there fore I stand for biennial sessions of our leflalstare. I am in favor of a two-cent flat rate for passenger travel over the three trunk line railroads of this State and (heir branches, and a two and one^half-cent rate fof the inde pendent short lines. A well organized, well disciplined State militia is essential for the pro tection of the State and the proper enforcement ot her laws; therefore, I favor a sufficient appropriation by the State for the proper maintenance of its citizen soldiery. I shall advocate, as I always have, liberal support for our ex-Confeder ate soldiers. I think the general principle of working convicts upon the highways of the county In which they are con victed is a wise one and therefore favor it, but I am unalterably oppos ed to working white and negrq con victs together or forcing terms of social equality in the camp of stock ade. I shall stand for strict enforce ment of the law with fairness to all our people and without partiality to any. i~ believe, however, thal justice should be tempered with mercy: I shall stand for an economical ad ministration of our State government, with, of courbe, a proper regard for the protection and development of the various ipterests of the State. A reckless expenditure of the pub lic funds is a crime, and I shall op pose all extravagant appropriations for whatever purpose they may be made. The people of this State are already too heavily burdened by taxa tion, and it shall be my purpose not only to prevent an Increase of that burden, but to reduce It. > I shall advocate a complete revi sion and readjustment of the tax laws of the State and the adoption of a system of assessment that will make No system of taxation can be just proportion of the burden of taxation. No system of taxation caln be just that does not bear upon every class of property equitably, I believe In keeping separate the three co-ordinate branches of the government; they are God-ordalned and constitution-made and I shall so regard them. If I am elected governor of the State I shall endeavor with all the- ability and strength at my command to keep in constant touch with the working force of all our public In stitutions and branches of the gov ernment, and shall endeavor to so In form myself In regard to our public kffhlfsts to intelligently recommend to the law-making power of the State those things that the public need and the needs of the hour demand. In making the race for governor it la my purpose to make ( the issues plain and to the point. I will go be fore the people upon a platform every plank of which shall stand for what I believe to be the people’s good and for the development an£ upbuilding of our State In all her Interests, will go before them with the firm de termination that if I am elected will be the governor of the whole people. Respectfully, John G. Richards Jr. SHOOTS RETREATING NEGRO. ELEVENTH HOUR HITCH Mexican General Wants Americans to Answer His Salute Gun by Gun;— President Wilson Will Refuse— Battleships Keep on Their Journey ' \ > •' ' t to Mexican Coast. Huerta Friday parleyed again. He demands that his salute to the United States flag shall be returned simul- taneffusly, gun'for gun. This Presi dent Wilson is practically certain not to accept. This latest hitch at the eleventh hour when officials at Wash ington expected the situation was as good as closed, was disclosed In dis patches from Chare O’Shaughnessy. President Wilson discussed It with the cabinet. Administration officials said United States Marines in Uniform of Their Country Were Arrested by Federal* at Tampico. The status of the arrest of the American marines and the subsequent demand .by Admiral Mayo, as sum moned, up by cabinet officers and oth er officials, was described as follows: ’Assistant Paymaster Charles C. Copy and a boatload of marines landed at Tampico last Thursday to obtain sup plies. They were arrested, but later discharged. In accordance with reg ulations in all navies of the world Rear Admiral Mayo, on considering that an unwarranted arrest had been made and that the uniform of th» American navy had been disregarded, demanded reparation in the form of a salute of twenty-one guns. The American flag, while not taken ashore, was flying at the stern of the whaleboat and all the marines- were in uniform. Rear Admiral Mayo privately that Huerta s counter prop- a iJ owe( j t^e Huerta commander until osition would not be accepted. The development confirmed fears of those officials who expected Huerta would equivocate again. Any Inten tion of recalling any ships of the fleet now bound to Tampico was abandon ed and those close to the administra tion expected to see President Wil son’s demand for an unqualified apol ogy backed up. The text of Charge O'Shaughnes- sy’s dispatched was not made public, but It became known that Huerta'S .latest proposal was that as the guns fired their salute to the Stars and Stripes as an apology for continued effronts to the United States, that the cannon of the American fleet should reply to the Mexican salute gun for gnn 6 o’clock that evening to,fire a salute, but later extended the time to af ford the commander an opportunity to communicate with his superior offi cers in Mexico fcity. A statement of apology was issued In Mexico City by Gen, Huerta, and the officer who ar rested the marines was ordered pun ished. This did not satisfy the United States government and the saluti wag insisted upon. Gen. Huerta hi self at ho time agreed to comply, bu n under secretary In the Mexican for elgn office did inquire of Charge- O'Shaughnessy if a salute fired to the- gunboat Dolphin and responded to by the American ship' would be accept able. This was emphatically rejected bv the Upjtftd fttatM fttwi .watdLwas QJflcialB^aLWashiagton- were eent that nothlng short of a public to acknowledge Huerta’s salute of guns after It had been finished, with a return salute such as is prescribed In naval custom and precedent. That would merely be acknowledging an amende honorable, they say. But to return Huerta’s salute gun for gun, they pointed out, would make the apology valueless. Officials described Huerta’s latest move as an act to preserve his own dignity before the Mexicans of that part of the country under his cqntrol. While President Wilson and the cabi net will decide what shall be done, the opinion is expressed freely in offi cial circles that nothing but a com plete apology and such a salute as the United Statee demands, would be ac cepted now. While Secretary Bryan, when he took the latest dispatches before the president, said the situation was “en- couraginr but not finished," White House officials said the details remaining In dispute did not affect the "heart of the matter”, It develop ed that Huerta’s counter proposition for a simultaneous salute was regard ed as another play for time, which probably wonld not he countenanced. TEN ARE DROWNED* Greenwood Negroes Have Dilficnlty Steamer From Over a Woman. Jacksonville Ashore Off New Jersey. George Lark, a negro of Green wood county, shot and killed Joe Mat thews near Greenwood Sunday. Lark shot Matthews In the back of the head while the latter was attemptln to get away. After killing Matthews instantly It is said that Lark fired at hla own son. This killing was the aftermath of a dance, which, accord ing to report, was one of many dances held in that section of the county every Saturday night by negroes. Only two negro women came to this one and Lark decided, it is charged, to make merry with a quart of whls key. After getting under the Influence of the liquor he is said to have ex claimed: "Who said I won’t shoot, and flourished a large pistol.- He re peated this statement several times, according to the evidence, and then Matthew* went forward and express ed doubt as to Lark’s intentions, whereupon Lark again whipped out his pistol and drew it on Matthews, Frightened at Lark’s threatening at titude Matthews ran away and Lark fired at him three times, hitting him twice In the arm and once in the head. Captain Hardy and his wife and eight members of the crew of the schooner Charles K. Buckley from Jacksonville for New York, perished gJ'WedneBday night when their life bof was wrecked after the Buckley had been hurled ashore by a northwest gale near Long Branch, N. J. The schooner became unmanage able early Wednesday night. She first struck the beach near Seabright, N. J., then the wind caught her and swept her down the coast where she appeared (o break in two. Her cargo of lumber kept her afloat, though a great mass of it was swept away. Life-savers rigged up searchlights on the beach and shot line after line toward the vessel. Because of the breakers it was impossible to launch a boat. A great crowd stood on the beach watching the spectacle. Sev eral lines fell athwart the schooner, but those on hoard were helpless or drowned and with the exception of the lone survivor made no attempt to seize them. salute to the American flag wonld be- satisfactory.” This was the situation laid beforw the cabinet Tuesday by the presidents Some administration oflkials were In clined to wait for more-facts and do nothing until an Investigation had been completed. Others suggested that Huerta would evade the issue- and that prompt and vigorous action was necessary. John Lind, It is un derstood, in his conference with the- president and Secretary Bryan had counselled a forceful'move. For two hours the cabinet dlscnse- ed the pros and cons and the possible- consequence of drastic action, and th» plan of sending the fleet as ITwarii- ing to Huerta of the lengths to which the Washington government was pre pared to go to enforce its policy was unanimously adopted. There was no "jl previous intimatioh that the naval ^demonstration would be ordered, bnt this, as well as other moves, had been discussed on many an occasion in tho past. Cabinet officers and others were In sistent that no change In the generak policy toward Mexico was imminent- and that so far as possible the fas- tions would he left to tight their bat tles unhampered by American inter ference. Officials declared with em- Oo«* phasis that no other phases of thw Mexican situation beyond the affront to the flag at Tampico were involved In the dispatch of the fleet, though officials admitted the strategic value- of having so big a fighting force In. proximity to a country In which emer-* gencies might arise at any time. "Action, not words,” was the war cabinet officers described the answer of the United States to Huerta’s un willingness to fire a salute when de manded by the American government- SUPS PASS CHARLESTON. Had No Easter Clothes. At Macon, Ga., Saturday, Walter Leslie, aged 10, fatally shot himself through the stomach with a pistol. He had been crying all morning be cause his parents could not buy him a new salt of clothes and a straw hat to wear to Easter services at Sunday school. Flag to be Returned. The battle flag of the 76th Ohio regiment, captured by Gen. William Hardee’s corps, will be returned to Ohio representatives at the Confed erate reunion in Jacksonville In May. Recently it was presented to the Sel ma, Aa., camp, Confederate veterans. Three Companies Fall Short. The war department has notified Governor Blease that the companies at Liberty Hill, Kershaw ponnty, and at Lancaster and Walterboro having Two Drown In River. Two men were drowned And five others narrowly, escaped the same fate when an automobile plunged through the gatee of the ferry steamer Rock- away Into the Elizabeth river near Norfolk, Va., Saturday. Turns Over Hot Water. • His Cousin. , a gun Tuesday Atkinson, aged fifteen, of killed Ellxah Rowe was slightly wounded In one hand. . ' Mad Dog Bites Thine. A mad deg at Latte Friday bit a little white boy and three negroes. _ failed to come up to the Inspection Mm? Ds^writo party hr thg tegi^ repaired -uer-hmg%r reemve lature, that will deprive the humblest erml white Democrat of his right to vote. During the twelve years that!was a member of our legislature I con tend and voted for biennial sessions, t held then# and hold now, that an nual sessions art not only snneoes- Francls Smith, five yean old, of Woodruff, Wednesday., dragged *- TjRT-l buchet of hot water from the stove on himself. He was badly burned— - Battleships on Way to Mexico Talk to- Charleston Navy Yard. The fleet of battleships steaming south aq a result of the crisis in the- Mexican situation were in communi cation by radio wth the Charleston Staton throughout practically all of Thursday afternoon, The fleet came- wlthln range of the radio station at the Charleston navy yard shortly he* fore noon and from then on the trans mission of messages from the vessels to the station was regular. The radio grams received were principally mes sages from officers and men on the- battleshlps to relatives and friends In the United States. Thei fleet did not give its position, so it was Impossible to tell Just where they were. Girl Seeks Assailants. A seventeen-year-old girl of East St. Louis, 111., was attacked Fridar by three negroes. Sunday she left the hospital to trail her attackers apd succeeded In locating two. Small Boy Killed. Billy McCord, thraa Tmrt old, of Tampa, FIs., wm crushed to death Tuesday when he fell under- the wheels of a heavily loaded wagqn. White Man Hugh Harrison of Aiken county eeriouilj negro Tuesday who he ed him with a knife. Negro, ithwood In wounded,* i‘Attack- Bursting Shell Wounds Workmen. 4 shell In the shrapnell depart ment of the United Stated arsenal at Philadelphia Tuesday caused th» death of one man, and the Injury ot. • J* blfieri r Am Killed; Thirty Injured. At Toronto, OnL, laborers killed and thirty Injured Saturda night by. the'tell of a sixty-foot Yall of a building previously destroyed *• < tern '■ : v ■ • Y-.