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answers statement op Mexi can representatives. X i'j- REBEL MUST BE CHBSEN .r Tills Government Will Insist That Constitutionalist be Made I*roVi- eional President Recause Their Party Has the Approval of a Ma jority of tlie Mexican People. \ The American delegates to the 1 Mexican mediation conference Thurs day night made public; a statement, issued with the consent of the Wash ington government, ‘replying to the statement given out Wednesday night by the Mexican delegation, criticiz ing the American plan Tor ttie estab lishment of a provisional government - in Mexico with a Constitutionalist at its head. Suggestions that President Wilsoh had any intent to destroy the ■electoral liberty of Mexico are “ut terly repudiated” by the American representatives. The statement cov ers the whole range of cHticism by the Huerta delegates. It was inter preted as foreshadowing the unal terable position of the United States in future parleys. The statement, in substance, fol lows: “The American representa tives do not think it is conducive to the interests of mediation to publish during its pendency the various plans or the contentions of the parties; but as the Mexican representatives mve. given out a formal statement ‘of their objections to the appoint- meiix of a Constitutionalist as provi- sionaf president, because, among other things, an election conducted by such a provisional government would not represent the will of the Mexican pebple, it has been neces sary to get a part of the answer to the letter written by Mr. Rab&sa. “In that answer the American rep resentatives utterly repudiate any suggestions that the American presi dent has any intent of destroying the electoral liberty of Mexico and tnsflt that the Mexican representatives en tirely understand the motives and objects of the president, who recog nizes the facts and sees in the past success of t^e Constittuionalist army Indisputable evidence of the approval of the Mexican people. But he also wgp that the full triumph of that army means an indefinite continu ance of war, with the suffering and bloodshed and death which every war Involves. “These consequences the president seeks to prevent through mediation, but we greatly fear the language of the Mexican note implies that his ef forts may be thwarted because of unwillingness to have a Constitu tionalist as provisional president, even though that promises the only practical means by which the hor rors of war can be prevented. “Hope is expressed that the Mexi can representatives will not further oppose the only plan which promises peace, when its rejection means suf fering and death to so many. We are convinced that your objections to the plan itself and your fear of the ill-consequences that may follow its adoption are not well founded, and that in attacking the details you lose sight of the large and control ling motive which from the begin- g of this trouble has been in the d of the president, and which has nfiuenced the American representa tives in all that they have said- or proposed to the mediators. “The American government seeks only to assist in securing the pacifi cation of Mexico. It has no special interest in the method or in the per son by which that great end is to be accomplished; and if pressed for any particular method, or for the selec tion of a particular type of man T it Is only because it believes'/them to be the only means to the desired end. “It would be easy at this confer ence to write tan agreement which many would consider desirable, but unless the most excellent of plans and the most excellent of men are accepted by the Constittuionallsts we only would have a paper plan, wholly ineffective to secure peace in war- torn Mexico. To bring that to a close, to restore peace and constitu tional government, is the aim of the president; and that end only can be attained by consulting the just wishes of the Constitutionalists, who are not in numerical majority, but are the dominant force in the coun try. - “If those selected by the mediators, “ttnidfntnistef the provisional gov ernment have the confidence of the Constitutionalists a long .step will have been taken towards the pacifi cation of Mexico without furnishing any occasion for alarm to those Mr. Rabasa represents, ... for If the plains accepted both by Gen. Huerta at^Kjjm. Carranza the cessation of ai^Bfollows and a provisional gov- ernfBAnt is established . . . to, call an election at which every Qualified licpr « < u voted may cast -hie ballot for the president of his choice, while 12 the plan Indorsed by the Mexican repre sentatives should be adopted and a neutral should be choeeo, we would have secured no practical results, but still be confronted with the insur mountable tact that the Constitu tionalists! now almost Completely triumphant, would reject the plan, repudiate the man and press forward with renewed zeal *to the City of Mexico with' all the loss of blood and life that may involve. “In reference to the 'suggestion that the provisional president should be a neutral it is said that ‘it Is mani fest that In such a contest as has been waged in Mexico for years, it is not only fair, but necessary to assume that every intelligent man of any prominence is at heart on one side or the other, and the country might well question the patriotism of any Mexican who has been colorless in such a contest, and as the provisional president must be to some extent identified with one party or the dther, it necessarily follows that to meet the requirements of the present sit uation hts sympathies, which really mark the man, must be 1 with the dominant element. “ ‘The effort, therefore, should be not to find a neutral, but one whose attitude on the controlling issues would make him acceptable to the Constitutionalists, while his charac ter, standing and conduct would make him acceptable to the other party. “ ‘Such & man, and only such a man, can reasonably be expected to have the confidence and respect of the entire country.’ "In answer to the contention that there could be no fair elections con ducted by a provisional government of which a Constitutionalist was pro visional president, the answer of the Americans calls attention to the fact that in the past the elections in Mex ico have been under the supervision of a single cabinet minister repre senting the dominant party. By an alogy the next election should be su pervised by only one officer, repre senting t]}e dominant Constitutional ist party. The American plan seeks to avoid the just criticism against that method and contemplates that this, the most important election in the history of Mexico, shall be su pervised by representatives of both parties. “ Tt is wholly incorrect to assume that thus supervised it will be un fairly conducted and you may rest assured that all the Influence the United States can legitimately use will be exerted to secure an honest election.* “It is true that the American plan proposes that a majority of this board shall be Constitutionalists, but that is because they now repreeeat the sentimnt of the sentiment of the majority of people of Mexiccwand, on which we must Insist, hafMwen formulated solely with that end In view. Actuated by these motives we feel that we may appeal to you, and through you to the other Mexican representatives, to read again our plan in the light of these words.' “ PLACES BLAME. Moore Says IUea.se Encroached Authority of Adjutant General. on In his speech at Kingstree Gen. Moore said that the action of the war department was due to the fact that the State militia had not given an ac counting of government property in its possession, something he had been working for, and because certain companies which failed to pass re cent inspections had not been muster ed out by the governor in accordance with the recommendation of the war department based upon the inspec tion report. Gen. Moore declared that the State militia would have no more recognition from the war de partment until the conditions it in- sisfed on were carried out. . . “It will take the South Carolina National Guard many years tp over come the disorganization brought about by the interference of the gov ernor with my office and his abroga tion of all authority to himself as commander-in-chief,” declared the speaker. -Gen. Moore predicted that the war department would withhold all funds and refuse requisitions foifc further supplies until the South Carolina troops accounted for $87,000 worth of government property, much of which was issued before he went into office. Gen. Moore told of his ef forts to have the demands of the war department carried out and blamed the governor for the present militia tangle; because he would not carry out the. recommendations of the ad jutant general. Fatal Subway Cave-in. Nearly a half block'of the new Brooklyn subway caved in Tuesday, carrying six workmen down with it. One was killed and six were seriously injured. Fifty Children Hurt. When a pavilion at an amusement park at Atlanta collapsed Tuesday two hundred children were hurled to the ground. Fifty were slightly in jured. Servia to Join Greece. •a. • Servia has warned Turkey that In case of war with Greece she can no Hall Carriers to Meet. The R. F. D. Carriers of the State will meet la Spartanburg July 1 3, and 4. SCANDINAVIAN IS TUT IN CHAINS AND SENT TO PRISON. Strange Story Turns up iu San Quen tin Prison—Man Sent up For An other. Shanghaied in Nagasaki, carried in irons across the Pacific on the United States transport Sheridan and thust into San Quentin penitentiary to serve three years under a name he could not pronounce for a crime he never had heard Of, Albert Johansen, a Scandinavian sailor, was freed Tuesday by the United States Dis trict Court of San Francisco. On June 27 he must appear again for the return of a writ of habeas corpus, application for which was Hi ed in his behalf, but in the meantime he is free without ball. The pris oner claims he was drinking one t night in a water front saloon af Nagasaki. Three strangers offered to stand him a treat. He accepted. The next~niorning he found him self at sea, a prisoner. He tried in vain to explain who he was, but was delivered at San Quentin as James Regers, alias Peter Griines, to serve three years fo ra sentence imposed' by the Treaty court at Shanghai foV forgery. His cell mate chanced to be a fellow countryman and through him he got a hearing. Johansen identified Rogers’ por trait as “one of the -men I drank with in Nagasaki.” The real Rogers served a year in San Quentin for for gery. When released be won the interest of Capt. Robt. Dollar, a mer chant, of San Francisco, who sent him to China as a clerk. Soon Rog ers was posing as Col. Dollar's son. He began to pass bad checks, was caught and convicted and sentenced to three years in San Quentin. An oifcer of the court was to have taken him to Nagasaki, where he was to be placed on the Sheridan. At that point the facta end and theory begins. The belief of Federal officers is that Rogers got his guar dian drunk, poured a stupefying drug into Johansen's drink and per sonally delivered him late at night on board the Sheridan, turning over to a petty officer of the ship the pa pers he had stolen from the drun ken deputy and receiving in person the acknowledgement for his own delivery. NEXT TO LARGEST CROP. Product of 1013 Most Valuable Cot ton Crop Even Produced. Final figures on the 1913 cotton crop, announced by the census bu reau, place it as the largest the Unit ed States had grown with the excep tion df that of 1911. At the same time the estimate of the total value of the crop shows It was the most val uable ever produced, It being worth $1.0*3,760,000. The quantity of cotton ginned from the 1913 crop, counting round as half bales and excluding linters, was 13,982,811 running bales, or 14,156,468 bales of 500 pounds gross weight. Cotton seed produced was 6,305,000 tons, of which 4,579,- 508 tons were Crushed. ‘ The value of the cotton is estimat ed at $887,160,000 and of the seed $156,600,000.- An Interesting feature of the lO'ia production was the crop of the Im perial valley in South Carolina, where 22,83 8 bales were grown. It has been repotted the acreage plant ed this year in the Imperial valley will show a large-increase while the production isrArariously estimated at from 50,000 to 100,000 bales. Last year’s production was more than double that of any previous year there, where commercial growing of cotton has been in progress only a few years. Another feature was the produc tion in Arizona, where 2,299 bales were ginned, the largest part of which .possessed the same character istics as that grown in Egypt. The 1914, area shows a large increase variously estimated at from 12,000,- 000 to 15,000,000 acres. GRANTS PAROLES. Governor Biease Turns Loose Two More Convicts. The governor has granted a parole to George Owens, who was convicted in Charleston county In . June, .1912, of assault and battery with Intent to kill and sentenced to three-years. A parole has been granted to Jake oun, county of violating the dispen sary law in two cases in November of 1913 and sentenced to .serve 12 months or to pay a fine of $200. Since assuming office the chief ex ecutive has extended clemency in 1,- 2 4T cases. When about six white men are sent to the pen for carrying pistols and allowed to serve time making, small longer maintain,.{gleeful relations rocks out of fefg"ones the habit will with the porta. be well alfh extinct In South Caro lina. Georgia Endorses Wilson. Georgia legislature passed a reso- Wtlson Thursday. lutloo TELLS OF JENNINGS AND POLLOCK ATTACK ACTS OF GOV. BLEASE. * »■ JBIN IN DENOUNCING IT - — r Charleston Voters See Record of Got- >/ •• ernor Mease Laid Bare by the ■ . u : ■ . •• '■ • Cool Calculating Analysis of the Late Entrants into the Senatorial Campaign. At the campaign meeting in Char leston Saturday Mayor L. D. Jen nings statdd that he had no politi cal record, but was glad he didn’t have one like the governor's. Re declared the governor said he would worl^ lor Charlestoh, b.ub he (Jen nings) would show that when the governor had the opportunity he-did something against “thq Great City by the Sea”, and "if he went back on you, how can you trust him by send ing him to the Senate?” the speaker asked, saying further, “personally Blease is a very clever fellow, but I have a right to talk about his rec ords T am a citizen of South Caro lina and always will he.” Mr. Jennings said he didn't know whether or not the people of Charles ton wanted the encampment, but he was going to tell them why they didn't get it. He then declared that the governor’s hostile attitude to ward the national administration was the cause of Cjiarleston losing the encampment; that the rule of the war department was to make ar rangements through adjutants gen eral of the various States, and that the Secretary of War wouldn’t de viate from the established rules and take the matter up with Governor Blease, and that this offended the governor, “but Blease is different from every other governor in the United States,” he declared. He read the governor’s letter to Secretary Garrison, in which the gov ernor said he had been ignored and also refused to muster out certain companies of the State militia. “So friendly to the administration at Washington, when he wants to be Senator,” said Mr. Jennings, who asked, “suppose you send the gov ernor to Washington, something comes up, he Is not consulted, but Senator Tillman ia asked first?” He read from a newspaper article quoting the governor as saying that only “gamblers, blind tigers and dive keepers” wanted the encampment at Charleston, then said he found among those working for the en campment prominent Charleston cit izens. The governor, defending his par don course, had told the crowd many of them would go to church and ask God to pardon them, and expected Him to do it; thpt when petitions for pardons came to him tt was his duty to listen to them. Replying, Mr. Jennings said the Lord knew be fore He forgave whether the sinner had repented “and the Lord doesn't want any votes.” He referred to the pardon some time ago of a yeggman who escaped through the rear door of the governor’s office while a dep uty United States marshal was wait ing in the ante-room to fearrest him. He wanted to know wflo sent in the petition for this pardon. He ^aid if the governor is proud of his pardon record "he owes me a suit of clothes, for I’m going to tell it to the people of South Carolina.” He said th’e opok of the governor’s rec ord is writtOp and he’s going to read it Ao the public^ He said he thinks Smith should helphim acquaint the people"‘With Bleaseesrecord, but that so far Smith had said^nothing. A man in Dorchester Ypunty was convineted of manslaughtH about two O'clock, and by five a ^pardon was there for him, said Mr. Jenmhgs. “Will you send Blease to the Senate by his record as governor?” asked Mr. Jennings. “No, can’t afford if,” came from some one in the audience. The speaker-again declared he was not speaking personally; that per sonally the governor was very pleas- aht. “Too pleasant,” shouted a lis tener. Mayor Jennings declared that lawlessness in this State was at a greater height than it had ever been. He told of what he said waft a-co-n- versation between two negroes,''one of whom had been indicted for some crime and wanted an early trial, be cause if he went there before Gov. Blease got out he’d get out by em ploying a lawyer, a political hench man of the governor’s. Child Killed by Auto. Ybnez Sanchez, four year old of «. paiuio UUB ueen granted lO JUKe ~ Tamnaa 1PU Walker, who was eonvictad Jn Cal- Jeantage said he wou!<r hof ^ b T. . Uto r^rTTlT:‘TT. .. when he attemped to cross the street m .iB—., 'j- conflne his.remarks during the cam paign to the governor’s pardon rec ord, but would take up other phases of the executive's record. He told the crowd to vote as they pleased; that he had not asked and did not intend to ask for a single vote, but that he would have the consolation of knowing that he went around the State and laid the governoV’s record before the people. He said he be lieved the goverwn^eeuM get "Votes from “office appointees and lawyer* he’d given pardon* to.” Mr. Jeoainga ■aid he was laying aside his personal affair* to serve the people ^of the State “at this critical Juncturj” He cloeed with a glowing tribute to Woo4row Wilson and hi* work a* governor of New Jersey and presi dent of the United State*. '' Mr. W. P. Pollock, the last speak er, said he had the misfortune to be In the South Carolina University the same time as Blease, the misfortune to be in the legislature eight years with him, and the further misfortune to have Blease as governor of his State four years. If voters must choose between Blease and Smith, he said, “go to the polls and for God’s sake vote for Smith.” He said Blease stands on his record. “But; thank God, I have no such record,” and further declared that Blease “has attempted to usurp office more than any other rrovernor who has dis graced South Carolina;:" He com pares himself to the Great Governor of the Universe, said Mr. Pollock, "and may God have mercy on his soul.” Mr. Pollock said Smith was a joke, and told stale Jokes, “but he’s better than Cole Blease, though.” Referring to Gov. Blease’s remarks about sheriffs and law enforcement Mr. Pollock read from the governor’s Walterboro speech, “made to these country people, where there are no blind tigers,” and asked, “Did he say let Charleston alone?” He read, from the governor's “declaration of prin ciples,” whiclv-be declared, the gov ernor said should be the platform' of all candidates this summer, one plank being impartial law enforce ment, Mr. Pollock charging that the governor when In Charleston told the people of that city that they should run their own affairs, but assumed the reverse attitude when talking in other parts of the State. He refer red to the dismissal by the governor of notaries public at McClellanvllle, "at the pleasure of Cole L. Blease.” “How long will the people of South Carolina stand for that kind of a tyranny in the governor’s of fice?” asked Mr. Pollock, who declar ed that the governor's "declaration of principles” at Walterboro were contrary to his actiona. - ’*1 ask you, is he enforcing the law?” asked Mr. Pollock. "No,” came in chorus from the crowd. The most monumental Joke-in the governor’s whole platform is ’Trial by jury for all persons accused of crime and enforcement of verdicts found by juries and jndgments of courts," declared Mjr. Pollock, who further stated that the governor had liberated more than 11200 prisoners, thereby setting aside the Verdicts of 14,000 jurors, "hut hs pardons and tells you, the sovereign people, you can’t help yourself." He said no honest man should ob ject to honest slsctions In South Car olina, “but didn't hs say that he wouldn’t sign any bill changing the primary laws because it might be aimed at him, the Great Ego?” He criticised the governor for refusing to appoint officers selected by the Supreme .Court, “although the law says the governor must commission.” Mr. Pollock declared himself In full sympathy with the national ad ministration and praised Wilson and Bryan as the best friends the people ever had. He promised, if elected, to be the Senator of every class, say ing all would be South Carolina’s to him, all American citizens. NO LINES DRAWN. Candidate Receives Applause When He Sticks to Himself. That the people are going to de mand a discussion of Issues and are tired of factionalism and strife is made evident from the way the at tempt to draw the lines was received by the Manning audience of 500 peo ple which heard the candidates for governor and other State Qffices Thursday. The incident came , up when Mr. J. A. Hunter was. asked the question By a man in fhe audi ence, “How do you stand, for Blease or Smith?” and when Mr. Hunter promptly replied, “I stand for J. A Hunter for lieutenant governor,” the crowded Court House broke into ap plause and cheers. This was the first-time any at tempt has been made by ’the people who make up the audiences'to inject 'tfie issue of Bleaseism in the State cam.mUgn, and thV promptness whfchxjt was frowned on by the^jver- whelmihg majority of the Manning audience makes inevitable the con clusion that the people want the can didates fol* governor and othef State offices to discuss issues and not men The way every hit at "coat tail swingers" is cheered strengthens the belief that the people want a man to stand on his own merit and demand that the_cainpaign be conducted on a high plane. in front of his father’s store. He died immediately. ' Columbia After University. Columbia is going to make an ef fort to secure the new unlverslty- which the ■ Methodist church is to build to replace Vanderbilt. Finds Fifty-Six Pearls. While eating oysters, Mrs. Harry Johnston of Dallas found fifty-six pearly, small in sise and value, but every one genuine.. \ \ Those who stek after self-pleasure are usually the moat unhappy of mor- S , MINERS RATTLE AGASI SHERIFF OF BUTTE, MONTANA, CALIX FOR QUICK HELP. President of Miners’ FederaH— Speak in Hall Uatil Ballets Start to Crash Into Walls. \ One man was killed and two oth ers wounded when deputy sheriffs Tuesday night fired into a crowd sur rounding Miners’ hall, Butte, Mont., where President C. H. Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners was ‘ expected to speak. It has been an- nouned that he would outline a peace plan. Most of the shots were fired $nto the air by the deputies. The crowd quickly retreated, after the three men were shot, and a distance of two blocks from each side of the hall was cleared. A hundred deputies with sawed off shotguns are holding Miners’ Union hall. Sheriff Driscoll shortly after firing began and after the crowd was forced down the street, appeared at the entrance of the hall and announc ed that he wanted 500 deputies. No response was made to the sheriff's appeal. x . A battle was in progress at Miners’ Union hall late Tuesday night, insur gent miners firing from the tops of all nearby buildings into the hall. The deputies reserved their fire, but occasionally a deputy rushed to a window, fired and retreated to inner rooms. Miners rushed for their weapons and such arms as they could get There was much shouting for dyna mite among the crowd. The depu ties, it is said, fear dynamite ha* been planted under the Miners’ hall and will allow no one to approach within range of their guna. Ernest Noy, traveling inspector for the Montana demurrage bureau, was shot dead. He was a bystander. The bullet pasaed through hla neck. J. H. Brune, aged 52, waa shot through the head and can not live, brune was proceeding upstairs to Miners* hall to attend the meeting when a bullet struck him. At the first firing Moyei 1 , Riley end all the other officials fled from tha rear door of Minera’ hall and ac cording to an unconfirmed report have left the city. It la said an au tomobile was in readiness at the door, in which the officials were whisked away. President Moyer had asked Sheriff Driscoll for protection and had been assured by the sheriff that deputies would he on hand to prevent any at tempt to break up the meeting. Charles Kramer of Loe Angeles, n spectator, also waa wounded bat not seriously. i >>' REBELS HALTED BY FIRE. Now Awaiting Arrival of Reinforce ments From Villa. Zacatecas Is making a desperate resistance to Gen. Natera and al though the Constitutionalists ' have captured Guadalupe, Mercedes and Grillo, suburbs of the town, they were repulsed twice with heavy loss at the fortified hill of La Buffs, which Is one of the strongest de fenses of the town. Gen. Natera re ported to Gen-. Carranza that hla charges at La Buffa were met with a withering artillery fire from the fed eral forces which he said were ex tremely strong but that his men were in fine condition and spirits and were not discouraged at the check given them by the federal strong hold. He reported that the casual ties on both s’icles were extremely heavy. Ho now is awaiting the ar rival of reinforcements sent' him; from Torreon, by Villa, which are being delayed by heavy rains and wastouts along the National railways. Gen. Gabriel Hernandez repeated Sunday, under date of June 12, that he had captured Xicotonalt, Huejut- la, Valles, Tamlahua, Amatlan and otherjpiaHer towns In Hidalgo, cap- g many arms and much ammu nition with two field pieces. Cuver- navaca was captured June 6 by Zap ata, according to a cable' received Sunday by Gen. Carranza. BOVS LOSE LIVES. Two Youngsters Suffocate When Play Cave Falls In. While playing in a cave^hey had dug on the ontskirts of Atlanta, Ga., Henry Stedman, aged 13, and Paul Cain, 11, were anffocated Tuesday when the roof caved In, burying them. A playmate waa also caught by falling earth but managed to dig his way out unhurt. Impressed by the spectacle of con victs at work on the street nearby, the children essayed to play "escaped convicts” in the excavation. The boys who' lost their lives were Inside the cave while William Cole, who bare ly escaped, was acting as guard im mediately inside the entrance. 900 Bnried in In an explosion which destroyed a coal min# at Lethbridge. Alberta, buried over two hundred whom no hope hi held.