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-cs .i X .V'i ti J POPS IT TO HIM 4 ^ - a i ' , • POIJXXTK INJECTS NEW CHARGE AGAINST GOV. BLEASE. :H - ' ‘ — RDPUBUCAN ON STAFF (• Sit- ! | < Cbeatw Man Holds Vp Old Ticket of 1880 on Which He Reads Name of J. P. <;ibson, Who He Declares la Now One Of the Men«l>er8 of Gov. le Mease's Personal''Staff. At the seventeenth meeting of the senatorial campaign at Union Wed . nesday, W. P. Polloqk of Cheraw, a candidate, injected a new charge into the race when he held aloft for in- pectlon of the 1,000 voters assembled the Union Republican ticket of Marl boro county for 1880 and read there from the names of several negroes running for office and that of J. P Gibson, a candidate for the House of Representatives. Mr. Pollock declar ed that this J. P. Gibson is J. Pres ton Gibson of Bennettsville, who^lhe speaker said, Gov. Blease appointed as a member of his military staf^. There was a concerted effort ob the part of a group.of men in front of the $tand—supporters Of the gover nor—to heckle and hold Messrs. Jen nings, Pollock and Smith, but each of the speakers succeeded in making his speech regardless of interruption^ About fifty Bleasltes, wearing red badges, were massed directly in front of and close to the speakers' stand; and it was with considerable diffi culty that the speakers were heard. They persisted, however, and when his time was up had covered about the usual ground in criticism of the governor's official acts during the past three and a half years. After Senator Smith had gotten into the swing of his speech—al though enunciation was dufflcult on KILLED WIFE AND MOTHER AFTER DOUBLE TRAGEDY GEOR GIAN. SHOOTS HIMSELF. " icISlBlinjf TTie Fioarseness of hls ; vSlce —the heckling soon subsided and the speaker was given a respectful and attentive hearing. There were few interruptions of the speech of the Chief executive. Senator Smith wen outside of the regular routine of his speech to *p- f swer certain charges made by Gov^ Blease against the senator’s record. The speaker denied he was a member of the Haskell convention, explained the reason for his vote on the bill to pay to the family of a lynched man ft.000 and said that negroes retained government positions because they stood competitive examinations under the rules of the civil service. In speaking of the negro question, Sen ator Smith said: "The man who says that I advocate political or social rights for the ne gro tells a falsehood and he knows It.” - Judging from the amount of ap plause given the various speakers, Senator Smith was by far the favor ite. Mr. Pollock was the third speaker. He held up the pamphlet containing the Walterboro speech of the chief ex^ ecutive which Gov. Blease has distri buted over the State, a voice cried: “We don’t believe what we see in the newspapers.” "Pardner, if you had as much brains In your head as you have mouth, I would ask you to get up • here and make a speech,” was Mr. .w.- Pollock’s gentle rejoinder. * — -The speaker then commented -onf, Husband Kills Wife and Mother-In- I-aw on Different Days, Slaying Himself on Third Day. Th^ bodies of three victims of murder and suicide t^ere found in a wooded and unfrequented locality near Atlanta Friday. The dead were S. F. Bennett, a carpenter, about 30 years old, Mrs. Flossie Benq^tt, his 17-year-old wife, and Mrs. Mattie Tolbert, 49 years old, the dead man’s mother-in-law. Notes found in Bennett’s clothing, and investigation by the police and coroner, indicated that lie had forced his wife to drink poison and then strangled and clubbed her to death; that he then lured the dead girl’s mother to the scene and killed her with a shotgun, after showing her the body of hdr daughter, and that finally he shot and killed himself. One of Bennett's notes said his wife bad taken, poison, but the authorities do not credit it. The tragedy began Wednesday afternoon, when Bennett took a walk with his young wife to the wooded section where the bodies were found. He later returned home alone. Yes terday he induced his mother-in-law to accompany him to the localffy of the first killing, saying he wished her to identify some clothing which a^negco laundry woman had refused to return to his wife. His notes in dicated that after killing Mrs. Tol bert he spent Thursday night at the scene of death and then shot himself early Friday. A single-barrelled shot gun was found tied to^a stump near his body. ^ One of Bennett's notes, addressed to Samuel Tolbert, his brother-in- law. said the triple tragedy was the result of Interference In Bennett’s family life by bis mother-in-law and Qt&CM—-Xha-eaupla-had been sepu NO FOE OF TRADE ' WILSON SAYS IT IS UNFAIR TO CONSIDER DEMOCRACY FINDS HARD SAILING , • *. + COLUMBIA CROWDS GIVES RICH- j - r ■ ARDS POOR HEARING. THE ENEMY OF BUSINESS Chairman Has to Rap for Order When Speaker Declares He Will Vote for Blease. rated several times since their mar riage about a year ago. It was Ben- nettlA second marriage, his first wife haviffi? died. Rhoda Young, a negress, discover ed the body of the young wife while on her way to work early Friday. She fled and gave the alarm, a search revealing the two other bodies near by. The bodies of the two women were covered with brush. Says Character and Ability Should be Recognized .Wherever .Displayed and All Rusine»s Forces Should be Linked Together to Support .the Great Future Wlilcfi Is Before Us. Declaring it would be unfair to re gard the Democratic party as the enemy of big or little business, Presi dent Wilson Wednesday gave out a statement in support of Paul War burg of New York and Thomas D, Jones of Chicago, as nominee for the federal reserve board. Mr. Warburg the New York banker has reconsidered his request that President Wilson withdraw his nomi nation as a member of the federal re serve board, on the condition that he will not consent to appear before the senate banking committee to be cross- examined. The President gave out a state ment strongly defending Mr. War burg and Thomas D. Jones of Chicago against attacks, saying that men should not be regained with suspic ion merely because ttyey had been connected with big business. This statement, friends of the president said, was intended to serve the dou ble purpose of lettliy^ the senate know he would stand by^s nomina tions and of influencing Mr. .War burg to stay in the race. Soon after the president’s state ment was circulated in the senate, a statement was given out by Senator Hitch^pck, acting chair man of the banking and currency committee de fending the committee's action in Buiimionlng orrly two of~the nominees John ,G. Richards stormy reception by was -given the Rlchlar TOO MANY FAILURES. Some Justification for CllnkscalM' Position on Cotton Mills. the clause in the governor's Walter boro speech which stated that the decisions of the judges based on the verdicts of the juries should be up held, by saying that this was the "hugest joke” of the chief executive’s career. He then told of the pardon record, and said that more than 00 convicts granted executive clemency are negroes. The speaker then held up a worn ballot of the Union Republican party of Marfboro county for 1880 when James A. Garfield ran for governor and read the following names: “ W. A. Haynes, a negro, presiden tial elector from the First district; presidential elector from the Fourth district, Wilson Cooper, another; ne gro; for congress from the Seventh district, Samuel Lee, another negro; candidate In Marlboro county for the House of Representatives, J. P. Gib son.” “J. Preston Gibson, one of the names on the ticket, is the man whom Gov. BJease appointed on his staff— a man who ran on tfce Republican ticket In 1880 along with negroes,” »>ld Mr. Pollock. After saying that Gov. Blease has been the greatest “friend the negro buck has ever had,” because of the chief executive’s pardon record, Mr. Pollock stated: ■> "Cole Blease has had you people blindfolded for a long time, but thank God, the blinds are being shov ed aside and the' scales are falling from your eyes, and the people of South Carolina are coming into their own,” Cllnkscales' address at BishopvitTw dealing with certain phases of the cotton mill industry In South Caro lina caused Spartanburg to sit up and take notice, says a’ dispatch from that place. The situation he pointed out has been discussed from time to time in financial circles In the Pied mont but it has never before been dragged Into the open, so to speak, or made an issue in a State cam paign. W. S. Gleen, one of the leading stock and bond brokers in Spartan burg, said: ‘ "The cotton mill in dustry has been the most important factor in the upbuilding of this State and no thoughtful man wishes to say anything, even In an effort to correct evils, that will tend to retard the growth of any Industry. On the oth- many total failures and lack of re turns on meney Invested In many of the plants for this situation to pass unnoticed, and there Is, therefore, some Justification for Prof. Clink- scales’ position with regard to these corporations. Certainly, many of the mills are ably and fairly managed and the stockholders receive in an nual dividends a just share of the earnings, but in far too many in stances little regard seems to be paid the minority stockholders.” LOSE THEIR LIVES r Curfew Caller Boy is Hurt. While William A. Mosebrook, a •even-year-old boy of York, Pa., was dashing home after hearing the cur few whistle, he was knocked dewn Fugitives of the Law Slain, ly -prove faUl.I "Carl Hoke and hisTatber ofXaiwISr" j ♦ • burg, W. Va., were shot to death Mere natural .C-- enemies—dema- Monday In a battle with the sheriff gogues and compulsory education. and his det ut?< No News Can'be Received Concerning Eight Arctic Expiirers Eight members of the Stefansson Arctic expedition, who were believed to be on Wrangel island, off the coast of Alaska, with the rest of the Kar- luk party, which was reported safe more than a hion'th ago, are 1 now thought to be lost, according to a re port which the Canadian deputy min ister of marine received Wednesday from Capt. Bartlett In Nome. Bart lett commanded the Ka-rluk. for the reserve board to appear be be questioned on the ground that satis factory Information had been gained from the other men nominated as members of the board. A report that, Mr. Warburg had been invited to come to the White House before reaching a final decision was denied by officials who said the president and Mr. Warburg have been in closb touch with each other by means of the tel ephone, and that a personal call was unnecessary. The president's statement follows: “It would be particularly unfair to the Democratic party and to the sen ate Itself to regard it as the enemy of uslness, big or little. I am sure that ^dpes not regard a man as an ob ject of suspicion merely because he has been connected with great busi ness enterprise. It knows that the business of the ' country has been chiefly promoted In recent years by enterprises organized on a great scale and that the vast majority of the men connected with what we have come to call big business are honesty incorruptible and patriotic. The country may be certain that it is clear to members of the senate as it is clear to all thoughtful men that those who have tried to make big business what it ought,‘to be are the men to be encouraged and honored, whenever they respond without re serve to the call of public service. I predict with the greatest confl- WtwrJJejT ocratlc majority of the senate of the United States will be of a sort to throw suspicion upon such men. Mr. Jones and Mr. Warburg, in manifest ing willingness to make peraonalV?ac- rifies and put their great experience and ability at the service of the gov ernment. without thought of personal advantage, in the organization of a great reform which promises to be so serviceable to the nation, are Setting an example of patriotism and of pub lic spirit which the whole country ad mires. “It is the obviouS'businfess of state- manqhip at this turning point in our development' to recognize ability and character wherever it has been dis played and unite every force foe the upbuilding of legitimate business along the new lines which are now clearly indicated for the future." The previous report from which ft was infered that the whole party had reached Wrangel Island, neglected to mention two parties of four, which set out ten days after the Karluk sank—one for Herald island and the other for an unknown shore, dimly discernible through the Arctic njght Neither of these parties has been heard from. First Bale of 1914 Cotton. The first bale of cotton fot this season came from Lyford, Texas, and was sold on the Houston exchange for $500,’ or $1.27 a pound- It weighed 392 pounds. . HAD BLOODY FOURTH. Three Homicides Took Place in Barn well County. Saturday. Three homicides was the death rec- ord in Barnwell county for the Fburth 6f July, the parties being ne groes. At Barton, on the lower edge of the county, two negroes, whose names are not known, engaged In a pistol duel, both of them receiving death wounds. At Baldoc Jerry Prleater was shot and killed by Jim Mitchell, who was arrested and lodged In the county jail at Barnwell. The weapon used was a 32-calibre revolver, the buliet taking effect In Prlester’s back. Another negro, to whom it Is said the pistol belonged, was also arrested and carried to Barnwell on the charge of carrying -concealed weapons. v ' Infuriated Boll Kills Farmer. JralLnk tacked and killed George Wilson, a farmer living near Winfield. Kin. After Inflicting fatal .wounds, the bull tossed the body over affre-foot fence. county audience Saturday when he declared his Intention to vote for Gov. Blease for the United States Senate. His declaration brought forth hisses, cat-calls, whistling and some few cheers from the audience and the stamping of feet ind shouts of “coat tail swinger” resulted in such an uproar that Chairman Sloan had to appeal for order and Mr. Rich ards spoke undet difficulty. It was overwhelmingly an anti-Blease crowd made apparent by the heckling given Mr. Richards and some of. the.other administration candidates/ Mr. Manning paid his respects to indiscriminate use of the pardoning power. “From the office across the street pardons and paroles have been issuel to over 800 negroes and 300 whites,” he said.' Mr. Manning drew a mighty Cheer - when he said that after a fair trial, "harp-burners, pick pockets, rapists, murderers and oth ers need not apply to him for par dons.” » Attempts to heckle Mr. Richards, the next speaker, were largely unsuc cessful, but when he mentioned Mr. Clinkscales’ name a mighty cheer. Hurrah for Clinkscales!” went up and the chairman had to rap for or der. When Mr. Richards declared his intention to vote for Blease he raised an uproar. Hisses mingled with cheerr, cat calls and other evi dences of dir.approval greeted him and the chairman to ask for order. “Good night!’! shouted the crowd as Mr. Richards concluded. Mendel L. Smith was received with cheers. He spoke of the importance ot selecting a governor,-and waHi-tt was no time for demagogy, the wiles of the politician or the strife-stir rers, which drew cheers. Prolonged applause and cheers followed Speak er Smith’s declaration that he as governor would grant executive clem ency only to advance the ends of Jus tice. John G. CUnkacales was received with applause. Mr. Clinkscales stressed law and order, and the law lessness which called attention to the necessity for law and order. He said the State had built up an unenvisble reputation along this line. “I her. Hove the lawleS&nees Is due to abuse of the pardoning power,” he said, amid applause He promised to cur tail this power, putting stripes on blind tigers and send “pistol toters” to the rock pile. His promise to put stripes on “tigers In Columbia, Spar tanburg, Charleston and elsewhere” was cheered. He was cheered and applauded when he finished. W C. Irby and John G. Richards had been going all over the State telling what he would have done had been in the State convention, but “Richards jumped at the best excuse to avoftKgoing to the convention and did not lahd^ until he found where the people werCvZ/ he said. “I would not be such a political coward to dodge the convention - i»nd then go around the State whining about what they had done, as Richardses,” he said, telling of his own fight in the CQnxcahlon^gajhai.lh£-uc>y .rules, 'Mr. Trby ridiculed Richards for his talk about the “newspaper oligarchy” and showing now several papers were complimenting Richards, said, “Where, Oh! where is.any newspaper oligarchy?” "Mr/ Irby asked where Richards stood six years ago and his failure tp answer an auditor who asked him where he stood two years ago. "It Is easy to follow Blease, and try to ride *in office on his coat tail, but it’s hard to stand by when everybody was trying to crush him,” said Mr. Irby, referring to Richards as a “recent convert” to Bleasism. He was frequently cheered. • AEIIAID TO LISTEN spa! LET SMITH! MAKE SPEECH THE HOODLUMS HOWL and Element—Jennings Denounce Blease Fearlessly i Without Interruption- The spirit of disorder seemed have burst loose at the senatorial campaign meeting at Saturday, when Senator E. D. Smith was all but howled down by a tion of the crowd. No bad eggs hurled at the speaker, as was the case in one of the meetings years ag6, but Senator Smith badgered and harassed, twitted, scofled at and ridic he had to say was heard above the hubbub and confusion that continued until the 3f) minute plred. — „ Under normal circumstances it would have been difficult for the sen ator to have mad^ his volte carry to the limits of the opera house, where the meeting was held. In spite of the handicap of a bad throat, the speaker fought his assailants to the bitter end, occasionally spiking them with stinging rebukes, keenly relish ed by at least one-half of the audi ence that was intensely sympathetic. City officials were cognizant of the fact that disorder might be expected, as the entire clustf Piedmont had closed down. When the meeting began both Mayor Floyd and Police Chief Hill took seats , on tfre stage, and these and Dr. S. T. D Lancaster, county chairman, repeat edly threatened to have the disturb ers thrown out. The gpverltor, toe- asked that his friends give Senator Smith a hearing as respectful Smith men gave the governor. How ever, they were powerless to the spirit of disorder that had been unleashed. Senator E. D. Smith, the first can dldate introduced, had spoken onl] a few words when the storm broke When a semblance of quiet had been restored he said he wanted to ask "Spartanburg, the intellectual center of the State, If this was an exMWtfon of Proud South Carolina, of the spirit of South Carolina.’' “No, no. no.” came In chorus from th6 x crowd, except bent On howling down the speaker with such'x.cries as "Hurrah Coley!” "Hurrah for Blease!” “Give us Coley!” etc. v About the time thosenator started again somebody asked i^lWhat have you done lor the cotton mfll man? ”1 have shut out the foreigner/^ho is flooding this country to job, that’s what I’ve done,” retorted the senator, as quick as a flash. At this juncture the second at tempt to cry down the speaker was made, when Mayor <Floyd and Gov. Blease took a hand and restored a measure of quiet. When a third attempt was made to drown Senator Smith’s voice. Mayor Floyd again interrupted and, pointing at several of the ring-lead ers in the gallery, shouted, *Tm go- hig-to have order: you’ll he sorry for Your time will come.” pwd , quieted when Senator Smith cont'iqded and gave the gov ernor an attentive hearing.. As soon as he had flnishM. his speech tlje gpye^nor, as is his cbsTOm, left the building, and about one-fhu^th of the audience followed. Amqnh\tliese were those wl ' had ristled and/Trot ted wiiile Senator Smith was speak^ ing, and both Messrs. Jennings and Pollock were allowed to- denounce the governor’s record without mate rial interruption. \ LAUREATE AMONG SMOKERS. I German Business Man Keeps ■ Cigar .Over Two Hours. Tire latest and most novel world's record was achieved a few days ago In Berlin, Germany, where a congress of smokers offered a sliver eagle to the ^moker who took the longest time to turn a cigar Into ashes with out letting It go out a single time. Two hundred competitors entered. In one hour all but twenty had' laid their cigars to rest In the ash tray. The rivals dropped out rapidly. After two hours only one smoker mas left. Herr Henz, a Sachsenhausen business man, who actually puffed away in peace until he perforce had to throw his diminutive cigar stump aw^y two hours, 46 miniites and 17 seconds after he had s^t light to it. Herr Henz ►has therefore been pro claimed smoker lanreate. Mayor and Miner Fight. Eric Lantela, a Finnish miner, at tacked Louis P. Duncan, mayor of the mining town of Butte, Mont., Friday, stabbing him three times. The mayoi; drew his rrvphw snd- shot his assailant through the abdo men. ", ♦ ♦» « Sabscribe now. ^ mayej*, ’ The " .CAPTURE ENDS HUNT, Greenville Negro Charged With Mur der and Criminal Assault. A man hunt that began at Pickens Monday night came to an end neaf Frankville, N. C./* Thursday morning when Sheriff Roark of Pickens and the chief of police of the place cap tured the negro charged witfc the murder of James Hendrix, a white farmer of Pickens, and a criminal assault upon a white woman who lives in die same neighborhood. The negro was rushed to Columbia in order to avert a ! lynching, it hav ing been learned that people of Egg- ley and Pickens were highly excited. The ne^ro was chased over moun tains and through swamps and dur ing that time the posse only slept five hours and sfte three meals from the,time they left on Monday until Thursday night. Killed by Lightning. Worth Anderson, a Harvard stu dent, who has engaged In landscape gardening during his?-vacation, was struck by lightning and killed Mon day at Roaring Gap, N. C. War Vessel to Haiti. The armored cruiser Washington has been ordered to Port Au Prince, Haiti. \ • - CLASSIFIED COLUMN Bloodhound popples, English regis tered plire-bred. W. N. Cavin, Mt. Holly, N. C. For Sale—Velvet Beans, $2 bushel t. o. b. Alachua, Fla. Cash with or» der. Caswell A Grimes, Alachua, Fla. ' • Ran cocas strain S. C. White Leghorns —Hatching eggs, $8 per 100; $1.50 per settlLg. Red Briar Farm, Hen dersonville, 3. C. White Wyandotte*—Yearling stock for sale at sacrifice. Eggs fo/ hatch- lng : W. P. Causey, 1315 Dickens St., Columbia, S. C.. For Sale—One Flanders 20, two new liases, top, extra seat. Car In ex cellent condition. Price reasonable J. F. Burbenk, Union, S. C. Glenn SpringN, S. C., The Garner Houses—Nearest to Spring. Meet guests at Whitestone with automo bile. Write for information. Indian Runner Duck Eggs—Great layers, easily raised. $1 per 13. Express Or parcel post paid. Mrs. R. S. Kirk, Lancacster, S. C. R. 6,. A Wonder of the Age—Webb’s Wax- all, apply with rag. 75c quart deliv-/ ered. Will stain and wax floor one application. All colors. Webb’s Art Store, Columbia, S. C. For Sale—-Tompkln’s and Langford’s high class Single Comb Reds. Fine breed. Select matings. Eggs, $1.50 $2 and $3 per 15. Young chicks. Mrs. John Kerr, Dm ham, N. C. For Sale—Complete saw mill, 30 Jl p. holler and engine -on wheels; splendid condition at* law price; also ?5. foot motor boat. S. Hw Robertson, Sampson’s Wharf, Va. For Sale—Mountain Grown Lookout Mountain Irish Potatoes—Plant in July and raise fine crop. Price, $1.50 per bushel. Order now, from C. P. Sanders, Spartanburg, S. G. For Sale—Registered Hereford cat tle, best of all beef breeds for bar Southern conditions Eighty breed ing cows; young stuff for sale. Extra good breeding. Evans Lunsford, Ovtngton, Ga. For Sale—Entire stock of general merchandise valued at $1,500, mora or less. Will sell at reasonable fig ures. Stock in good condition. Also one desirable lot on Main street. Address A. Q. Rica, Fountain Inn, "Oakweed”—On car line. Beat mod erately priced summer home in Western North Carolina. $6 to $8 per week. Write for information. Mrs. W. A. Scott, 268 Chestnut St., Asheville, N. C. Boarding—Sunny Side, open from June 20 to September 1. Rates, ^$1.50 per day. Free motor service to Abe surf daily except Sundays; fishing boats furnished. Sea foods in abundance. Address Mrs. H. G. Smith, Murrells^ Inlet, S. C. : (0 H50 Acres Houston Foonty, Ga., Kint- Fanning &nd Peach Lan<W-Rallway way station on place. Don't .hesi tate on account of price, $10/000 fpr this whicht Is worth $30,000.\ Southern Insurance & Realty Co.. Life Building. Macon, Ga. BITTEN BY SNAKE. Lancaster Lady Suffers From Att;v by Copperhead. Sunday while picking beans in her gardep for dinner Mrs. J. T. Hance of the Antioch section of Lancaster county was’bitten on the thumb by a e copperhead snake. At Mrs. Hanbe/s cry for help her son respond ed and succeeded in killing the rep tile. AlmoStximmediately after the bite on the right thumb, her whole' hand and arm turned perfectly black from the infected pm&cm and have since swolen to twice thHr normal proportions. A physician caited by telephone, reached the sick wor in his automobile in an incredibly^ short time/sand found her, he says, writhing in pain and beside herself with fear. She is better and the doctor thinks she will recover. REPEALS BILL. House Wipes Off Measure Passed Against West Point Confederates. With an unusual demonstration the House unanimously passed a bill to repeal a section of the revised statutes which prohibits the payment of accounts, claims or other obliga tions against the United States In fay.or of any one who encouraged or sustained or in any way favored the "rebellion”. The measure opens np claims of various kinds aggregating about $lff5,000 from West Point graduates who were afterwards offi cers in the Confederacy. ■ • • • <—— Negro Stabbed to Robert Miller, a negro of 2?-” t0 flflDth i&itssde^ pT Afar Nottingham, 14-year-old white boy. The negro was in the act of hitting Jthe boy with a milk bottle w\en the boy stuck hit knife into his ha