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/' BE ANTI-BLEASE NOTE wmcff. CAUSED CARRANZA to ABANDON MEDIATION. SENTIMENT FAVORS PICKED UP AT SEA HUERTA FACES TWO FOES VETERANS MEET AGAIN CONFEDERATES dATHERED AT JACKSONVILLE, FLA PRIMARY REFORMS TWENTY-SIX SAVED OPE BURN ING STEAMER. Report* from Different County Con- \ ventions Show the Safe-guarding of Primary to be Foremost in Minds of People—Wilson Administration Endorsed by Many Counties. Another Boat Loaded With Seventeen Persons Still Missing.—Rescuers on the Lookout. Reports from all over the State In dicate that the Anti-Blease forces won a sweeping victory at the county conventions held Monday. An es timate based on these reports puts the number of Anti-Blease delegates in the State Convention at 291 and the Blease delegates at 47. Thd reports form the dlfferent-coi*- ▼entions show that the safeguarding ofthe primary will undoubtoJly be a prime question at the State Conven tion, sixteen convetlons going on re cord as favoring more adeqjaie safe guards angalns fraud. Senator Smith was elected a dele gate to the State Convention from Lee County. Newberry County i.id not give either Governor Blease or Fred H. Dominick a place In the State Convention. In the Barnwell Convention Char- Carroll Simms was endorsed for ^Hovernor because he was a Barn ,; en uaAn, but failed of election to he State Convention, vithdrawlig be fore a second ballot could be taken. The Sumter Convention endor^sid the candidacy for governor of R. I. Manning and electni him State ex ecutive committeeman and delegate to the Convention. «—*- The Union Convention endorsed ‘he candidacy of Lcwndee 3. Brown- in for Governor and elected him a delegate to the State Convention. It also endorsed the candidacy for con gress of T. C. Duncan. In the Kershaw convention M. L. Smith and J. G. Richards declined to etand for office In the Convention, Marlboro County did not give John L. McLaurln a place in Its delegation to the State Convention. Senator Smithy candidacy was en dorsed by the convention of Bam berg. Orangeburg, Barnwell and Ker shaw. In Laurens County a resolu tion to endorse the administration of Governor Blease was defeated. R. A. Cooper, candidate for Gov- eronr heads the Laurens County del- egatlou. The Oconee Convention went on record as being opposed to race track gambling In this State. The Clarendon Convention adopted resolutions praising the effort of Congressman Whaley to promote the drainage of the low country. W. F. Stevenson, candidate for Congress, was re-elected State execu tive eommitteeman fro Chesterfield. The Florence County Convention endorsed Congressman Ragsdale. - In Barnwell, the Convention en dorsed unanimously the candidacy of Adjt. Gen. Moore. Reeolutlons en dorsing the candidacy of Attorney General Peoples and of R. M. Mlxson Congress were passed after a hot i * ulment In favor of primary re ts strong. In the following counties the Conventions went on re- coid as favoring some plan of safe guarding the primary from fraud: Horry, Greenweed, Oconee, Green ville, Aiken, Falrlteid, Darlington, Williamsburg, Chester. - Beaufort, Bamberg, Orangeburg, Calhoun, Flor ence, Sumter, Richland. Varying methods of safeguarding the primary were proposed in these different con ventions. The Richland Convention adopted the McMahan resolution in struction the delegatee to the State Convention to work for the restric tion of the primary to registered vot ers. In the Spartanburg Convention a resolution instrnctlong the delegat es to oppose restriction of the pri mary vras defeated, and in the Colle ton Convention the sapie' - thing oc curred. The Marlboro delegaton. It Is understood, will work for primary reform. Resolutions opposing further re striction of the primary were passed by the conventions of Lee, Jasper, Union and Laurens counties. The Bamberg, Calhoun, Laurens, Fairfield and Clarendon conventions opposed the abolition of the county- to-county campaign. The Wilson administration was given the endorsement of a large number of the county conventions, the resolutions In many Instances praising especially the President’s Mexican policy and In several in stances endorsing the president’s /ftand In the matter of tolls exemp- Thlrteen survivors of- the British steamer Columbian, bound from Ant werp for New York, which caught fire Sunday night, were picked up Tuesday by the Cunarder Franconia, bound from Liverpool for Boston. Another boat, containing the chief- and second second officers and 17 men, was still adrift. The Francon la cruised In search of it. —The survivors - ru ffer ed-terrlblydur^ Ing their forty hours’ exposure In an open boat. Their condition was so grave that It was Impossible to get their story until several hours after they .were picked up. A wireless from Halifax Wednes day reported that the steamer Man hattan had rescued thirteen members of-the crew of the British freighter, which was burned at sea Sunday night. These are in addition to the thirteen saved by the Cunard liner Franconia, and this brings the total of those saved to twenty-six. Nine teen are reported still missing. ,The Columbian caught fire Sunday when 300 miles south of Cape Race. <*iapt. McDonald ordered the wireless operator, James Drohan, to sent out calls for assistance, but a series of explosions put the wireless out of commission. It soon became evident *— that the- orew -<jQuhb««t control-'the fire and the order to abandon ship waa given. The men left the Colum bia in two bqatk,. Chief Steward Matthews was In charge of tte first boat. This boat put away from the steamer and lay to for a time, but in the dense smoke that surrounded tjie burning veesel the other boat was not visible, and the steward’s boat finally drifted far from the scene. Of their sufferings and of the fate orf Chief Stewar<PMat- thews the men could say little.' Food and sleep were matters of first consideration and although sym pathetic passengers were ready with offers of assistance to the shipwreck ed ones, Capt. Miller, of the Fran conia saw to It that they were first given the required rest Having learned that another boat with 19 men, probably Including Capt. McDonald, still was missing, and supposedly adrift, Capt. Miller ordered the Franconia turned about on a searching cruise. No trace of the second boat has been obtained. v^R*robable Standing of Delegates. Counties— Blease. Antf-Bl )&ae Yo\ Abbeville • • •. ^ ^ - 8 ■ - Aiken - -v— 1 Barnwell .. I". 1 1 Beaufort .. 6 at Atlanta) Bericelpy .. .... 1 8 Mediators Are Hoping That Constitu tionalist Leader Will See Fit to Re-enter Negotiations for the Pur pose of Establishing a Lasting and Permanent Peace. The text of the mediators’ note to Cararnza, which broke off relations between them, stated definitely that all the differences which contributed toward the present situation In Mex ico bear either directly or indirectly on the solution of the pending con flict between Mexico and the United States and that “all these differences should be made the subject.of consid eration in tlie negotiations”. They also’ Informed Carranza that they considered a suspension of hostilities as indispensable to his participation in the mediation. The text of the note the mediating envoys sent Monday to Gen. Carran za withdrawing the invitation for a Constitutionalist representative to participate In the mediation was as follows: “We have received your telegram in which you are kind enough to tell us that you deem it in convenient for the Constitutionalist cause to suspend hostilities against Gen. Huerta on the ground that such suspension would only accrue to the benefit of Huerta and In which you declare that the international conflict between Mexico and the United States for whose solution you accepted our good offices is independent of the in ternal strife In that country. ‘We consider this unexpected statement as inconsistent with the idea which caused us to offer our good offices. We think, Indeed, that all the difficulties which have contrl buted toward the present situation tn Mexico bear either directly or indi rectly on the solution of the pending conflict between Mexico and the United States. Consequently we think that thece difficulties should be made the subject of consideration In the negotiations for whose successful conduct we have deemed it Indlspen sable to suspend hostilltiee. , ‘Should you not deem It so, we would be compelled in that case to withdraw as Inopportune ou^-lnvita- tlon for the appointment of repre sentatives of Constitutionalists in Bach negotiations. We beg to assure you of our highesUconslderation. This note was s£nt In reply to one from Gen. Carranza outlining his re fusal to enter Into an agreement to suspend hostilities against Huerta. BLAMES MEDIATORS. Chargee Them With Failure of the A * * Rebels to Enter Mediation. General Carranza Tuesday at Chi hudhua declared that the mediators themseles were directly responsible for the failure of the rebels to enter Into the mediation conference now going on at Washington. The Con stitutionalist leader says they at tempted to name the terms upon which the rebels could enter and as the Constitutionalists could not agree to an armistice with General Huerta the condition barred them from all entry. . He says he accepts the decis ion of the mediators as final and will not enter the conference at all. Colleton .. ‘ . ....... .1 Charleston v 8 Cherokee ....... .. .... Chester ., . . , Chesterfield 3 Clarendon ........ B Darlington - .. . . Dillon . . ..' 2, Dorchester 1 Edgefield Fairfield .. Florence Georgetown 3 Greenville Greenwood .. . . .. Hampton .. .... . . 1 Horry Jasper ........... 4 Kershaw Lancaster ........ 1. Laurens .. .. v, .. 2 T^ee 1 Lexington 8 Marion .. .. .. , Marlboro . . 7" Newberry .. . OconeO . . T Orangeburg .. . . .. .. Pickens .. .-."7 . v. 2 Richland . „ .; ...... .7 Saluda .... Spartanburg. .. Sumter .. .. nlon .. • 3 lllamsbarg ^... ... .. MEDIATION CONFERENCE WILL MEET AT NIAGARA FALLS. 1*1 second message has been received by the mediators from Carranza In which he specifically asks them to make definite the terms and scope of the negotiations before he proceeds to appoint representatives. No reply was sent to this telegram, as the atti tude of the mediators was embodied in the note above set forth. The mediators are proceeding with their general plans by which they hope to bring about a peaceful solu tlon of the differences between Mex ico and the United States. They con sider It essential that hostile acts be avoided and so long as there is no re sumption of hostilities they will con tinue to feel that their efforts are tending In the direction of a peace ful settlement. Outside of the mediators some for eign diplomats took the View that the elimination of Carranza and th,e Um Ration of negotiations to amends for indignities toward American soliders and marines at Tampico and Vera Cruz would be a step in advance. They pointed out that President Wil son and Secretary Bryan had stated that troops were sent to Vera Cruz solely to redress these indignities. If, therefore, the mediators could fur nish a formula for this redress, there was no reason,- they declared, why the troops should not be withdrawn and the present crisis as between Huerta and the United States ended. Other diplomats familiar with Eu ropean procedure, when foreign ter ritory has been occupied, were doubt ful whether-the troops, once at Vera Cruz, would or could be withdrawn until a complete settlement had been effected. The military situation is affected by the diplomatic status. Carranza Is active against Huerta, while Huer ta has his hands full in watching the United States forces In Vera Cruz. The American forces will not advance while hostilities are suspended, un less attacked, but even with the truce; Huerta Is hesitating to take his troops from Mexico City to mass them against Carranza. Strategically Huerta has the United States forces marking time In front of him and the Carranas fores In his rear. Many Special Trains, Bring l argo _... e - i Crowds Into the City Where n Royal Reception Awaits Them. With thirty-odft special trains reaching Jacksonville, and with every regular train carrying from five to six spfedal cars, Confederate-veterans from all sections of the South are swarming tb their annual reunion. Every hotel is literally packed and ammed with people and all private residences where accommodations could be secured are filled to over flowing. Jacksonville Is aflutter by day and aflame by night, thousands of flags floating to the breeze from the lofty buildings, while strings of electric lights are draped artistically across every street in the business district. Electrc signs and fountains, sending forth great volumes of water, on which is played different colored elec tric lights, tend to make the display by night one of the most gorgeous ever witnessed In the South. The Confederate Southern Memo rial association met Tuesday after noon, and Tuesday evening the Sons of Veterans officially opened the Re union. Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at Camp Klrby-Smlth the first meeting of the Confederate veterans was opened. Wednesday afternoon the parade of sponsors and maids took place, hundreds of gaily decorated auto mobiles being In line. The second parade will be on Thursday, when the Sons of Veterans will have their turn, then on Friday morning the veterans will march through the busi ness streets of the city. Camp Klrby-Smlth is situat«d -in Springfield park, along the banks of H«gHn'‘«Oreek,antHrprohouneed'1)y veterans to be one of the most up- to-date places they have yet seen Big brown army tents have been erected under the shade of weeping willows and giant oaks, and under the feet of the .old war heroes Is carpet of nature’s greenery which for years has been under the keeping of Jacksonville's park system. With over 2,500 registered auto mobiles the veterans will have no excuse for walking, for all have turn ed their machines over to the com mittee and all during the afternoon great lines of private cars were at the union station, where veterans were taken aboard and distributed about the city, while many were taken out for rides through the business dis tricts and through the beautiful sub urbs of Jacksonville. Memphis, Tenn., moved to Jack sonville. In other works, one of the biggest delegations to come, came from that progressive city, beaded by a brass band, gaily uniformed, and with hundreds of loyal citizens carry ing banners in a parade from the union station to the hotel headquar ters, bearing the words: “Memphis In 1916." WILL TRY TO SETTLE IT Envoys Decide on Time and Place of Meeting—Envoys to Proceed With a Chance of Inducing General Car. ranza to Reconsider Uls Refusal and Enter Conference. var/v — nams TWO YORK COUNTY iov PLORABLB TRAGEDY. REBELS FORCE CONTRIBUTIONS. Wealthy Resident Who Refuse Contribute are Mistreated. Letters from Guadalajara say many oj the better class residents of Du rango have been subjected to brutal treatment by the revolutionists under V&lizto Con Contreras and Domingo Arrietta. These leaders have been short of funds with which to pay their followers and have been making forced loans from wealthier people of the city. In case residents refuse to contribute to the support of the revo lutionists, or through circumstances are unable to pay, they are Imme diately seized and placed In confine- men, refused food and drink until such time as their friends or relatives produce the requested amount of money. Other victims are compelled to walk barefoot over the magay an&d nopal covered hills. If this treatment fails to yield the desired contribution their families are forced from their homes and obliged to seek refuge in the neighboring mountains, while their houses are ransacked and every thing of value confiscated. HUERTA CHEERED. Federate Are Reinforced. TTfe FederaliTaf ’famplccT were“re-l Moheno, Fear Is Felt For Americans and'All « Other Foreigners. A dispatch from Mexico City con veyed to this country through the medium of a code dispatch to London aays that Huerta was vociferously cheered by Mexlcanss generally on Tuesday. Anti-American demonstra tions are being renewed and although no actual .violence- has taken place it is feared that Americans or other foreigners may be attacked. These demonstrations started Monday night; and continued Tuesday. + Minister Commits Suicide. Because President Huerta refused tg.„*<SgBl-hlA—iMlgnatloffii: Quartan The three South American envoys who have undertaken by diplomacy to settle Mexico’s civil strife as- well as her national difficulties announce! Tuesday night that the first fomal conference with the different parties Interested In Mexico would be held at Niagara Falls, Ont., Canada, on May 18. Secretary Bryn made the announcement for the three diplo mats In & brTdf.ilitemenC whlcS read as follows: “The mediators have notified the different parties that Nlavara Falls. Canada, has been selected ns the place where the mediators will con fer with representatives of the dif ferent parties Interested in the med iation and that the 18th of May has been fixed as the date of the confer ence to begin.’’ The language of the declaration attracted, attention, for although the envoys had Ih a note earlier said ttey would withdraw their invitation for Carranza representative, unlens an armistice between the constitutional ists and Huerta forces were arrang ed, no specific parties to the nego tiations were named in the state'Ue- partment announcement. It later was learned authoritivelv that the rC&soji -for this was due to the fact that a further effort was be ing made to Induce Gen. Carranza to send a representative without seeking to limit his agent to discuss of any particular subjects. The American government has not chosen its rep resentatives. President Wilson and Secretary Bryan and Lane discussed many names Tuesday. They are seeking to get men of training In diplomatic affairs. As yet there has been no formal basis of negotiations, neither the United States nor Huerta having set forth their demands. It was learned from a high administration official that In. all likelihood the United States would not confine Itself now to n mere settlement of the Incidents at Tampico, but would aim to bring about a solution of the whole Mexl can problem. ‘ The disposition of Gen. Carranza to eliminate hlmeelf from the nego tiations, if It should include a dis cussion of Mexico’s Internal problems, has not met with the favor of admin istration officiate bat they de not think this decision Is Inal. Niagara Falla, Ont, was finally se lected aa a place to hold the media tion conferences because It Is neutral territory, yet In close proximity to the United States. The fact that Niagara Falls is on the extreme bor der of Canada, and la known more aa a scenic resort than as a political centre, will remove, in the opinion of many officials, any Impression that the negotiations are to take place on Canadian territory for diplomatic reasons. AA the war department it became clear that no advance at Vera Crus was Intended unless to repeal at tack, but it was known that a definite course of action had been outlined In the event of a resumption of hos tilities at Vera Cruz and the ex tension of the campaign towards Mexico City. In that event Maj Gen. Leonard Wood will be In su preme command with Gen. -Funston directing the advance beyond Vera Cruz, and Gen. Charles B. Bailey, of the artillery, assuming command of the base at Vera Cruz. This arrange ment. however, is wholly In the line of prepardness and signifies no pres ent purpose of being put Into opera tion. Congress, after a period of sllenoe again was the scene of n discussion of Mexico! In the Senate, Senator Llppitt of Rhode Island, introduced a resolution calling on President Wll son for information as to published reports that it was the administra tion’s purpose to aid Gen. Villa to secure the presidency. During a brief but spirited discussion Senator Lodge read from a London paper a scath ing denunciation of Villa. The res olution went over. President Wilson and cabinet held the regular Tuesday meeting, but It was announced afterwards that only routine, work had been consider ed. Secretary Bryan remained after the cabinet meeting, however, and It was understood he went over with the president the entire status of the mediation negotiations and p&rtieu larly the names of American dele gates. The mediators discussed among other things, ths three ftuer- Two Men Are Brained by Hei Bet. as They Approach Still. J, K. Wells, aged 22, and Pink Dover, aged 37. both white, were kill ed in a fight with J. Ed Turner add his son, Thad E. Turner, at the hoaao of Jim Mack, colored, shout throe miles from King’s Moon tan battle ground, In York county, Tuesday night at about 11:30 o’clock. Beth the dead men were brained with a home made baseball bat about throe feet long, made of cedar. They are said, to have been engaged tn naann- facturing and selling illicit whiskey. ' Both the Turners are la Jail, hav ing surrendered to the York sonaty sheriff early Wed:.3sday morning. None of the witnesses examnssd testified as to actually having seen the killing, end several who wars present sefeffied to know little er nothing about K. From snsb as could be obtained it seems that the deplorable affalr xrfts dne to tho tost that Wells and Dover were both mare or less under the influense of whis key. It Is said they had previeasly asserted that they proposed to kill the next officers of the law who un dertook to Interfere with their busi ness or arrested them, and that they mistook the Turaers for offloora.' The Turners are farmers sad Mve on the public road about sight miles above Yorkville. After a heavy sain fall in that section on Tuesday they-1 decided to go fishing, and drove to the home of Jim Mask, and left their buggy there and went to the ereek near by to flab. They retained to the house a short time before the kitting and found Dover sad Wails, who mis took Jhem for plfioeiu, and nre enAf to have drawn pistols on ttd Toner ahd ordered him to hold up bin hondn. Mack testified that fear shots won fired, and stated that Tuvaet And twice and that the other pnrlfiaa fire* twite. Vat stated that he woe net soar enough fie see the move men Is ef an ths parties. After the ■ ever tt wn Wens and Dover had on* men pmtkaally Asad, and fl Dover bed been shot la ths right below tho lofifo KILUKG n mag Mon Got Into BMkaKy •no Is Shot. WU1 Stanley, n yogag settee operative, was shot at Sunday fiiornlng by W. also a min operative fvei aad died at 11 e’etoeh. TV entered the chin and smahed the terns ef the bxate. From the testimony id da and at thm Inqnest, hold by Osrnnsr Desk •warn Sanday afternoon, tt appeals thad L* P. Btread aad W1H Leuateas AosMM Saturday night ts satin ever te Greenweed from Whitmire. On their way ts the depot they met will GUn- ley aad persuaded him to earns wtth them. They arrived at Greenwood sheet 8 o’clock in the morning ami wore mot by W. Col Btread, the man who did tho killing. They al (bar went to tho bone of Mss. Myrtte Brown, on Peteel street. Mrs. Brown is a young widow, and had wtth her her sister, Mias Bessie Sexton, aad Miss' Daisy Dartin, aU having a tew weeks ago moved them from Whit mire. In the testimony tt was stated that the young men had three plate of whiskey and that young Stanley stak ed up a pistol and shot twice throvmh a window, aad then all four pensg men went out aad went to ths ston of W. H. Hughes. It was then abent daylight A quarrel, u is said* start ed over Stanley's having earrted tho pistol away from the bamse, one of the women having naked him not to do so. After a tew words ostelde tho store a scuffle started, and shortly afterwards, tt is alleged, W. CM Strond shot Stanley, as abeve de scribed. BEING REINFORCED. Mexicans at Vera OraS Are Strength Every Day. A dispatch from Vera Crus Tues day says that General Funston ooa- tinned the strengthening of his Mnen In order to.be prepared ter any at tack of the Federate who are In creasing In strength before him. Sailors on hoard the battleships are being held ready for service If there aid Is necessary to the army. , It In reported that the Federate are being materially strengthened by the re ceipt of several pieces of heavy ar tillery which te being sent to them from the Interior. These are being used by General Maas on hte moot advanced positions. Several thous and more troops have joined Genera* Maas since Monday night mi Gfilhotn 4 be be Wednesday afternoon the motion made ter Leo Frank that ssw trial. welfeqi Badger talned i soldier*. Admiral the navy department in the streets of the town Federal troops bars ob- i big guns. troops hav mltted suicide lb the Mexican capi- tal Friday, The hews was received by a Spanish newspaper at Vera Crus, but has not yst been officially firmed. Nelson O’Shanghaeasy, former U. S. charge da affalraa at Msitea Qlty arrived in Nm won't ran for prcafdnte on thn publican ticket In Itll, bnt; the Progressive. » part te