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REVIEWS CAMPAIGN - * FACTIONS NOT AS DISTINCT AS IN LAST KLECTION. E SENATORIAL RACE •Senator Smith and Governor Blewae Both Expect to m in on First Pri- mary—Polh)ck and Jennings Are Making Man} Friends and Attacks on Blea.se Gain Them Votes. The sixteenth meeting of the sena torial candidates was held in Spartan burg jSatufday. The coast section of the State has been covered, and a portion of the Piedmont has been vis ited. The most marked development in the campaign so far, says Wm. J. McComack, special correspondent of The Columbia Record, is the strength gained by the two post candidates— L. D. Jennings of Sumter and W. P. Pollock of Cheraw—who have been , devoting the major portion of their speeches to an attack on the political records of E. D. Smith of Lynchburg, candidate for re-election, and on Cole L. Blea&e, governor. Their militant, attitude and the strenuosity of their attacks are winning favor from the voter. The friends of Senator Smith say that he will carry the solid far mer vote, while the ballots of the tex tile workers are conceded to the gov ernor, yet the claim is made that He is losing strength among the mill men for granting executive clemency to a large number of negro convicts. ie'proponents of Gov. BJease, on the Ser hand, are claiming that he will J nominated by a majority of from to 20,000 votes in the first 'primary; that he has retained his vote of 7$,000 of two years ago, and is gaining additional strength. Factional lines do not seem to be so sharply drawn, nor is partisanship so-rampant as two years ago. When he was making the race for the gov ernorship against Judge Ira B. Jones, of l*nc&8ter. Gov. Blease was greet ed by his cheering followers when ever his train reached a by-path or town along the route.. At his destina tions frequently he was lifted on the shoulders of his admirers and rode to carriage or automobile awaiting him. -v^How different this jrear! The chief executive attracts very little atten tion, except among his leaders at the various county seats. In fact* none of the candidates are creating a sensation. In various parts of the State so far traveled, however, farmers come quietly Into the trains along the route and tell the junior senator that they "are with him" and will send him back to the senate. Gov. Blease’s reception was warmer when he got into the .Piedmont. Messrs. Jennings and Pollock are making many friends. The speeches of the governor are taken up with an attack on the rec ord of Senator Smith, particularly that part in which the junior senator is alleged to have taken in the “Has- Kell” convention. The main theme of the governor is his continual con tention that [Senator Smith has fav ored the negro throughout his politi cal career.—^— L. D. Jennjings and W. P. Pollock ■devote the i^ajor portion of their time to a severe criticism of the rec- ord of Gov. Blease and they pay their r?spects to the record made by Sen ator gmith during the five and one- llAlf years he has remained in the Senate. Both speakers injected a new ^Ae into the campaign at the Winns- xiWo. meeting last Tuesday. , They attacked the "star chamber" trial of Eleanora B. Saunders, M. D., a former assistant physician at the asylum, which was.held by the board of regents of the S^ate Hospital 'for the Insane on December"12/’" They have asked the governor on. every stump since to explain his connection with the trial, but he has remained silent, only indirectly referring to it by asserting that he “will neither ex plain nor apologize for any act or word” of his since he has been gov ernor of the State. “My friends don’t want me to apologize and my enemies ' can’t make me,’’ he always exclaims His failure to explain the Saunders matter, it is said, has done much to hurt his throughout the State. Senator Smith’s speeches have beer devoted to a discussion of his flgnt for cotton and an explanation of his record in the United States Senate. — SHOOTS WOMAN AND SELF. Two Deaths May Result From Affray tin Birmingham. Mrs. Lydia Anderson, said to be from Attalla, Ala., has two bullets in her lung and-Will Latham, a news dealer, has one near his heart as the result of a shooting affair at Birmlng- haom, Ala., Monday. All the shots were fired by Latham, who pursued the woman down the street, shooting at her seven times as she boarded an electric car and ran out by the front * rtiA, He shot himself just as an was about to arrest him. Both a critical condition. f _ » • —— Catot. F. JL. Denna, retired, was al most tpstantly Jellied when he fell over the balustrade at hla Washing ton home. PRESS GANG MEETS PENCIL PUSHERS GATHER AT CHICK SPRINGS RESORT. Address by Fairfax Harrison, Presi dent of Southern Railway is Fea- tore of Meeting. Marked by the warm hearted re ception arranged by J. Thos. Arnold, the South Carolina State Press asso ciation met Monday night in its for tieth session in the new hotel just completed at Chick Springs. A large number pf newspaper wykers were in attendance at the initial meeting. Mayor John B. Marshall of Green ville delivered the address~ of wel come to the press members. The speaker took a rap at present condi tions in South Carolina, when he said that apparently “ all a cheap little thirty-cent politician had to do was to say he was against the news papers to be elected to office.” He called on the newspapers to do thejr jart in lifting South Carolina out of this (Teplorable state into a higher region, where demagogues do not flourish. j The initial meeting took place at 9 o'clock in the handsome ball room of the hotel. President Ed DeCamp, of the Gaffney Ledgqr, presided in his usual gracious manner. The Rev. E. Cody of the Baptist Courier made the invocation. Mrs. J. M. Lundsden, the vocal soloist, favored the association with several beautiful selections, be ing applauded time and again for her charming singing. The committee on program consists of J. D. Evans of the Florence Times, A. K. Lorenz of the Aiken Journal and Review, and McDavid Horton of the Columbia State. Joe Sparks was named by Mr. DeCamp as sergeant-at- arms and “chief gun man”, with “Billie” Banks as “assistant”. In his address to the editors Tues day night Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern railway, told the members of the South' Carolina Press association that the newspapers and railways of the South must work in co-operation for the upbuilding of the South. He-promised the co-operation of his railway system and told of the work that is being done for the bet terment of this section. The members of the press aassocia- tion Tuesday mixed pleasure with work. During the morning there were several busy hours when a num her of addresses were heard on the newspaper business. All the papers were freely discussed by the members In the afternoon the members of the association were the guests of the city of Greenville. Two cars were provid ed for the trip to Greenville. An hu^omobile ride followed to the Coun try club .where refreshments were served. At the morning session papers were read by C. T. Martin of the Easley Progress on “Country Journalism’’; from J. D. Evans of the^FIorence Times on "Evolution From Black- stone to Gutenburgism". and from James H. Moore of the Columbia Rec ord on “Editorial Page". The ses sion was featured by a general dis cussion on the press and present po litlcal conditions, several taking part Committees were appointed as fol lows: To meet Fairfax Harrison. An gust Kohn. W. W. Ball, G. W. Brun son; to meet the Rev. and Mrs. Plato Durham. H. C. Booker. G. R. Koes- ter, J. H. Hoore; on obituary, M. C. Brunson. G.^P. Brown. W. H. Wal lace; on resolutions. H. L. Watson, S. S. Rittenberg, R. E. Gonzales. At the afternooi^ session W. Wal ton O’Hara, representative of the jPanama-Pacific exposition, made an address and the association indorsed the movement for South Carolina to have an exhibit at San Francisco next year, Papers were read by Miss Juanita Wylie of the Lancaster Xews on “The Faithful’Press"; by William Banks of the Anderson Intelligencer on “How tp Start a Daily”; by R. E. Gonzales of The State and H. C. Booker of the Greenville Piedmont on ‘‘The Paragraph's’ Union." - A discussion of the need for an equitable libel law engaged the atten flon of the members and after some discussion a motion by August Kohn that the association elect a general counsel was adopted. F. Barron Grier of Greenwood was elected by acclamation as general counsel for the South Carolina Press association. The-idea for the general counsel to appear as the representative of the Association In any libel suit in which a general matter affecting the whole association on the matter of libel is concerned. ' ' j The matters of when the general counsel is to appear is left to the judgment of the executive committee whn in its Judgment any point iof possible libel in which the association would be interested is involved. - Tlie limitation of the times when the gen eral counsel is to be used is contained in the following resolution, which was offered by Mr. Kohn and adopt ed: “The general counsel of this as sociation is only to be requested to appear in behalf of the South Caro lina Press association in such cases as. In the opinion of the executive copimittee Involves general, principles of law.” A"" cablegram from Capt. W. E. Gonzales, minister tq Cuba, received and read before the association fol lows: “Greetings, brethren. Best wiihor * J- WANTS . .. _ „ Psf PRESIDENT OF SOUTHERN RAIL WAY WHITES TO HIS MEN. PUBLIC MUST BE SERVEB DEVELOPMENTS HALTED MEXICAN SITUATION SEEMS Ti) BE AT STANDSTILL. Peace Conference Awaits Result of Villa and Negotiations Carranza. Between ■i- Fair fax Harrison Makes Effort to Im- \ , ' , press Upon All Employees the Im portance of Politeness and Cour tesy in Dealing With Persons Hav ing Business Relations With Road. In an effort to impress upon every individual connected-with the South ern Railway company the importance of politeness and courtesy in dealing with the public President Fairfax Harrison of the Southern railway has caused to be sent to every officer and employee of the great system a cir cular letter stating that this is a pri mary rule of the management and requesting its careful observance. Mr. Harrison calls attention to the fact that a railroad is first of all a public servant and that the success of a railroad as a business enterprise depends in very large-measure, upon the personal treatment which Jhose doing business with the railroad re ceive at the hands of its officers and employees. He says, however, that “I am proud to believe that the gen eral average of courtesy and polite ness in the Southern railway organi zation will compare most favorably with that of any railroad in the Unit ed States. The letter follows: “To all officers and employees of Southern railway company: A rail road is first of ail a public servant It follows that the success of a raN- road as a business enterprise depends in very large measure, not only upon the efficiency of the transportation it affords, but upon the personal treat ment which those doing business with the railroad receive at the hands of its officers and employees. Therefore, in addition to doing everything in his power to promote the physical ef ficiency of our service, each officer and employee, whatever may be his rank or duty, must at all times con sider the moral efficiency, and this means first of all that he should treat all patrons of the company and others with whom he may come into contact with politeness and courtesy. This is a primary rule of management of Southern railway company, but it Is no more than each officer or employee himself expects of every one from whom he buys. This rule should be observed regardless of the amount of business that the Individual may give to the company, not only because that is the part of a gentleman, hut from self-interest, for the occasional trav eler or the small shipper of to-day may be the constant traveler or the large shipper of to-morrow. A nurs ed grudge growing out of a surly answer has been responsible for many 'oUthe troubles of the railroads. Let us thep all try to please the public. “The station agent should remem ber that at tvia station he is the Southern Railwaycopipany and that public opinion regarding^ the com pany in his community is very large his responsibility. In addition ^ maintaining the highest efficiency at his station, he should see to it that he and his subordinates maintain pleasant. and agreeable manners in meeting the public and that all ques tions, even unreasonable questions, are answered with politeness and courtesy. “It is equally important that train men shall observe the rule of cour tesy and politeness, giving full, re sponsive and intelligent information to those pasengers who solicit it about anything that may happen‘oh (he road. The operation of a' railroad is interesting to every intelligent man and the more information such a man has about actual conditions the more he will understand the difficul ties encountered in operation and sO" contribute to sound public opinion. “T am proud to believe that the general ivehige- of courtesy and politeness in the.Southern railway or ganization will compare most favor ably with that of any railroad in the United States. Good manners are traditional in the south and our men are southern men. This is attested 1 by many letters which are received by the management commending in- vidual employes for conspicuous acts of courtesy and painstaking efforts to serve our patrons. “Occasionally, however, letters are received complaining of instances of discourtesy. These may be entirely eliminated if each officer and em ploye will adopt as his rule of conduct the declaration by the late President Finley that ’He serves the railroad best who serves the public best.’ / PICKS BIG FOUR . -i' • : ’ i CHOICE OF GOVERNOR SEEMS TO BE BETWEEN QUARTETTE. RACE IS ONE THIRB OVEI 'V The Mexican situation Monday night appeared to be at a standstill. It was generally believed at Wash ington that no arrangements for a meeting to settle Mexico’s Internal troubles could be made until the con ference at Torfeon between Villa and CAffanza’s generals conclude ah ad justment of differences between-'the Constitutionalist leaders. This prob ably will consume several more days. Dr. Romulo S. Naon, Argentine minister, one of the South American mediators, discussed mediation at length with Secretary Bryan. After the conference Mr. N'aon reiterated bis expression of hope that Carranza and Villa soon would adjust their troubles and that Carranza would be authorized by the leaders of the rev olution to send delegates to confer with Huerta’s representatives. Should the joint conference between HUer- tistas and Carranzistas eventually be arranged, It is believed it will be held in New York. "" “ Meagre reports of Sunday’s elec tion in that part of Mexico fontrolled by Huerta, in which Gen. Huerta is said to have been re-elected, though by such a scant vote that the elec tion piay be declared void, caused no excitement in official circles. Presi dent Wilson . smilingly declined to comment upon it. There was an un dercurrent report, however, that the ejection was designed to pave the way for some stratagem by Huerta. The rumor still persisted tha| he contemplated turning the office over to Pedro Lascurain and leaving the country. Unofficial reports were cir culated that a^special train bearing members of Gen. Huerta’s family and families of some of his generals, had left Mexico City during the day for Puerto Mexico. An echo of trouble arising over the printing and misdirection of 30,000,- 000 pesos of Constitutionalist money in Washington came Monday when a warrant was issued and forwarded to El Paso for the arrest of Santiago V. Winfield, an agent of the Consti tutionalist treasury department, charging him with embezzlement. When President Wilson Was asked to comment on Sunday's election in Mexico he laughed and said: “I hardly think any comment from me is necessary.” When asked if he knew anything of Gen. Huerta's plans for leaving Mexico, he smiled again and said: “I am afraid I am not in his confi dence.” The president refused to discuss mediation, saying the media tors were in recess at present in the hope that the warring factions will get together. STORM HITS UP-COUfflKY HAIL CAUSES GREAT DAMAGE TO CROPS AND STOCK, Af Applause Indicates That Cl ink scales • -9 . - t . • . \ • i iv. - Is Strongest Candidate In Bunch- Other Strong Men .Are Richards, Manning and Mendel Smith— Points in Organization of Thfese Men. READY TO HELP. McAdoo Asks Banks Whether They Want HAp for Crop Funds. Secretary McAdoo mailed a letter Monday to each of the national banks -im the United States asking whether they-Jjelieve it will be advisable for the treasury department to lend a hand again this year in the move ment of crops by distributing addi tional government deposits. The secretary asked for^a^pinion as to what cities in each State"«i_ay be used to the best advantage as cen ters from which the national banks may place the money among their country correspondents and as to the sort of collateral the bankers regard as best for the security of govern ment funds. “While it is expected that the fed eral reserve banks will begin busi ness in time to assjst in moving the crops this fall,” the letter concluded, ■ “-th«•-1reasu ry 'tfepkrtmen t will never theless be disposed to help business to the full extent of its powers through the proper use of govern ment funds, if it becomes apparent that'such help is needeef in any sec tion of the country.” Last year Secretary McAdoo de posited more than |31,000,000 with national banks for crop • movements and every cent of the money was paid back _/ith Interest before April of this year. Two Burned.to Death. Mrs. Hannah Nicolll and her daughter. Sarah, of New York, were burned to death Friday night in a fire which destroyqjTtheir home. > Uses Pistol Promiscuously. A negro on a train near Kingstree Friday shot two negro passengers In tha foot, neither of them being a rtously wounded. KILLED IN CARD GAME. Spartanburg County Man Surrenders After Doing Shooting. A quarrel ovejv a card game on the farm of A. B. Groce of Gowansville, Saturday resulted in the death of James Sanders, a farmer,, of the Gow ansville section of Spartanburg county, who was shot by a pistol In the hands of George Campbell, a young white man from New Prospect. Immediately after the shooting Camp bell, accompanied by friends, went to Campobello and surrendered himself and was later placed in the county Jail. I With one-third of the campaign itinerary for candidates for State of fices completed, each of the eleven candidates for governor and the 15 candidates for minor offices tell of “much encouragement’’ they have re ceived. Applause has been given the candidates for gubernatorial honors without marked partiality, even the admittedly politically weak aspirants for Gov. Bilease’s office receiving lib eral cheers. The even manner in which the voters proclaim their agreement with the statements of the candidates has presented great difficulty in the way o( forming an opinion as to the rela tive strength of the various office seekers. Basing his opinion on th« receptions given by the audience, J. A. Daly, of The Columbia Record, says the candidates for governor have been divided into two sections, with the so-called “big four” apparently leading in the fight for popular favor. This quartette is composed of John G. Clinkscales of Spartanburg, who is making the campaign on a State wide compulsory education platform; John G. Richards of Kershaw, an ad mitted Blease supporter and an op ponent of compulsory education and severe critic of the recent mvMSirof the primary rules;. Richard I. Man nlng of Sumter, who is advocating rigid law enforcement, educational advancement and development of demonstration farmp for the scien tific, agricultural education of the farmer and Mendel L. Smith of Cam den, Kershaw county, former speaker of the House of Representatives, whose platform is advocating con structive, conservative operations of the State government, law enforce ment and educational advancement With the first third of -the cam paign itinerary carrying the candi dates through the southeastern part of the State, in which section are the homes of Manning, Richards and Mendel L. Smith, the ovations given Clinkscales at practically every meet ing are considered somewhat remark able. His statements on the stump pointing out the unsatisfactory school attendance of those several counties, while advocating compulsory educa tion, have been received with enthu siasm. The other three members of the "big four”, Richards, Manning and Mendel L. Smith, are strong politl cally in this section, through the lo cation of their homes and native counties. Richards has expressed the belief that he will poll as many votes in the territory now covered by the party as any opponent, thereby giv ing him an "even break” with his be lieved particularly great strength in the Piedmont section sufficient to send him into the second race.’ He states that his attitude toward com pulsory education will strengthen him in the Piedmont in proportion as he lieves Clinkscales’ attitude on this question will weaken him there Richards' frankly ‘states that the re sults of balTrttting in the Piedmont section will determine the races. Clinkscales’ stretigthliKihe sectlov where the* candidates have spelcen is indicated hy the applause alone tmh^ possibly greater than either of his opopnents. Combining this apparent strength with his admitted strength in that section around Greenville, Spartanburg. Pickens and Union counties, where the voting is heavy, the conclusion may be drawn that he will at least be an -important factor in the guebmatoriai fight. Affiliation, and association of Men del L. Smith, as speaker of the-House of Representatives, with' members of that body from all sections of the State, he claims, will greatly increase his political strength - generally throughout the State over the popu lar favor previ&usty expressed for him for other political reasons. He de scribes his platform as conservative and constructive, and its planks pos sibly make it a pleasing medium be tween the admittedly factional plat forms of some\ppponents. Richard I. Manning’s record ip the general assembly, whea -h^-my* strong political friendships with men from every section of the State were formed and has resulted In building up for him a strong State-wide organ ization, and his association with bus iness men and educators of the State in his capacity as trustee of Clemson college ire pointed out by him as his chief reasons tor believing In a suc cessful outcome of his race. Man* king’s platform- describes his plans for the progress and proaaacUt-aX-tha Reports From Rock HID Tell of Me* ▼ere Rain to Oops by Immense Quantity of Hall. A terrific hall storm, in places with the addition of high winds and de structive lightning, swept the north western tier of South Carolina coun ties Monday night- Heavy damage by the hail was reported from Ander son, Laurens. Cherokee and York counties. In several Instances, high winds added to the damage caused by the hail. Lightning also caused loss in several places. The feature of the storm, however, was the hail, which swept the crops to the ground and beat up the growing plants. ' RocH Hill reports that the hall wrought devastation in a section of country probably five or six miles wide and 20 to 25 miles long. At some places trees were ifprooted, cot ton and corn considerably damaged, many window panes being broken. Throughout the section where the hail fell the crops are practically de stroyed and it is unquestionable if on the majority of the farms the cot ton crop wlH ever amount to one- tenth of an average crop. The wind and torrential rain accompanying the hall also wrought terrible havoc. The land in the storm stricken section was damaged by washing to th^ amount of thousands of dollars. At this timeNt Is impossible to estimate the losses. Another considerable loss was sus tained Jay W. E. Whltesell. a farmer living three miles south of Rock Hill. The fall of hail at his place was very light, but the wind was terrific and his barn was blown down, killing two mules and three cows and injuring a mule and a cow. Jehu Rodder, one of the, lead Ing citizens of Rock Hill, was a heavy loser by the storm. He lost many acres of cotton and 18 fine Red Polled cows are missing. Seven of these were found in one place in the pas ture, three miles west of the city, where they had either been killed by the hall or drowned. It it believed that the others missing were washed away by the creek running through the pasture. In the same paetnre R. ’ 8. Fewell had ten fine cows and eight of these have not been found. The crops of scores of farmers were wiped out by the hail and It will re quire several days to estimate the lose in this particular. Burton Masaey. whose farm lies Just south of the city, states that 250 acres of cotton on his place will be a total loss. Similar stories are coming from every section of the district in which the hailstorm was heavy. Crops of both corn and cotton will be practically a total loss. Nothing comparable to the fall of hall Monday night was ever seen in this county before. The hall was prob ably ten feet deep where it drifted la a gully, west of the city. In low land where the water washed the hail stones in and piled them up, there was a quarter of an acre 6t land covered with lee Tuesday morn ing and by actual measurement the hail stones were 44 inches deep at one point and they were from two to four feet deep over the entire quarter of an acre of land. After the storm in Ebenezer it was found that the' ground nverywtwre w’ka covered at least three Inches deep with hall stones. Some of the hail stones were of large size hut most of them were about the size of various kinds of marbles so that the damage wrought was not by the Immense size of the hail stone but by the great quantity of ice which fell. — ^ SHOOTS A WOMAN (Signed) "Gonzales." The members applauded the an- n ounce men t of Qm message. Two trainmen werfe killed gild mer through the establishment of many negroes hurt when a negro ex-. Demonstration farms. In every county enraion train was wrecked hy spread ing rails three miles from Trenton, Ky., Sunday. ns branches of where scientific taught. Darlington Man Wounds Wife of a Neighboring-Farmer. At an early.-hour Thursday morn ing the wife«of Bagon Knotts, a white farmer on a planta tion of L. M. Law- son; near Darlington, was shot and seriously wounded by Will Blackman, another white man. The cause of the shootirfg is unknown. A few days ago Bagon Knotts took a warrant out charging Will Blackman with assualt and battery with Intent to kill on the person of his wife. Wednesday evening Will Blackman Is said to have gone to the house of a relative and asked to borrow a shotgun, stating that he wished to go squirrel hunting. Wednesday night he paid visits to the houses of other people in the vicinity of the shooting. It seems that he was up most of the night and'took up hiding near the re sidence of the Knotts before day. As Mrs. Knotts left her house Thursday morning in search for something for breakfast, Blackman is said to have made his appearance in the corn and fired upon her. He has not been captured. The condi tion of the woman is thought to be critical. * t s « Homicide in Sumter. '. Considerable excitement waa creat ed in Sumter Friday when Charley Wella, a white man, shot and killed maingthr far- Ch*my R&mbert, a negro dHrefTWlBr requested Wells to move his horse from the drinking fountain no aa others could eeeure water. There seems to have been no tie use for the Clemson college, methods will bo l