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HIS RESIGNATION IS ACCEPTED BY MEXICAN SENATE. CARBAJAL TAKES OFFICE SECRETARY OF STATE WOULD GIVE WOMEN VOTE. Retired Dictator ia Expected to Leave ( His Native Land and Sail (or Europe—Mexican Congress Cheers President as They Acept His Res ignation. Gen. Victorians Huerta resigned from the provisional presidency qL the Mexican republic Wednesday night and his resignation was ac cepted by the Senate and Chamber o( Deputies by a vote of 121 to 17 Francisco Carbajal then was appoint ed President and took the oath of of fice att he joint session of the Depu ties and Senators. Huerta’s resignation was submit ted through the department of for eign relations. It was read in the House and was greeted with cries of “Viva Huerta ” It then was referred to the joint commltttes of Goberna cion. After brief consideration the committees reported accepting the resignation in the following tertnsr “Article I. We accept the resigna tion presented by Gen. Victoriana Huerta'ks President of the Mexican United States. "Article 2. We call Licentiate Francisco Carbajal, minister of for eign relations, to assume the presi dency.” A ballot was taken and the joint session approved the report. Presi dent Carbajal proceeded to the na tional palace under an escort of pres idential guards, and all along the way was greeted with tumultuous cheering. The text of Gen. Huerta’s resigna tion follows: “Deputies and Sena tors: Public necessity, admitted by the Chamber of Deputies, by the Senate- and by the Supreme Court called me to the supreme ministry of the republic. Later when in this same hall I had the honor of ad dressing you in compliance with ttie constitutional precept I promised at all costs to bring about peace. “Seventeen months have passed and in that brief period of time have formed an army with which to carry out that<«olemn promise. You all know the immense difficulties which my government has encounter ed owing to a scarcity of funds as well as to the manifest and decided protection which a great power of this continent i'tas afforded the rebels —so much so that when the revolu tion had been broken up, seeing that its chief leaders were, and continued to be divided, the power in question sought a pretext to intervene directly in the .conflict, and the result of this was an outrage committed at Vera Cruz by the American fleet. "Success was had, as you know, in adjusting honorably, through our delegates at Niagara Falls, the petty Tampico Incident, but the revolution continued with the support of whom we all know, “Yet aftei the highly patriotic work achieved by our delegates at Niagara Falls there still are some who say I, come what may, seek my personal interest and not that of the republic. And as I need to rebut this allegation with facts I tender my formal resignation of the presidency of the republic. “The national Congress must vote that the republic, through its govern ment, has labored in entire good faith and with the fullest energy, having succeeded in doing away with the party which in the united States calls itself Democratic, and having shown how the right should be de fended. “To be more explicit, I will say that the action of the governirient of the republic during its short life has dealt death blows to an unjust power. Later on, stronger workers will come, using Implements that undoubtedly will end that poWer which has done so much harm and committed too many outrages on this continent. “In conclusion, I will say that I abandon the presidency of the re-, public, carrying with me the highest sum of human we<h, for I declare that I have arraigned at the bar of universal conscience the honor of a Puritan, whom I, as a gentleman, challenge to wrest from me that pos session. “May God bless you and me.” The galleries of the chamber were packed before the beginning of the session. Intense excitement ’ charac terized the gathering and at the clo^ of the reading of .Huerta’s resigna tion the Deputies and spectators broke into loud and continued ap plause. # After the acceptance of Huerta’s Comes Oat 1 Unequivocally for Gltfing Franchise to Those Who protect Their Children- , 11 . fi '> ’ Secretary Bryan in a formal state ment Thursday came out for woman suffrage. He declared he would ask no pollticarrtght tor himself he was not willing to grant his wife, aqd announced he would support the pro posed State constitutional amendment extending the franchise to women to be voted on in Nebraska next Novem ber. Woman, Mr. Bryan said, had prov ed herself equal to every responsi bility imposed on her, and would not fail society in this emergency. Above all other engagements for giving her the ballot he placed "the right of the mother to a voice in the molding of the environment of her children”. “The mother,” the secretary said, “can justly claim the right to employ every effective weapon for the pro tection of those whose interests she guards, but the ballot will put within her reach all the instrumentalities of government, including the police power." “As man and woman are cotenants of the earth," the statement says “and must work out their destiny to gether, the presumption is on the side of equality* for treatment in all that pertains to their Joint life and its opportunities. The burden of proof is on those who claim tor one an advantage over the other in deter mining conditions under which both shall live. Objections raised to wo man suffrage appear to me to be in valid, while the arguments advanced in support of the proposition in my judgment are convincing. “The first objection I remember to have heard was that as woman can not bear a r ms she should not have a voice in deciding questions that might lead to war or in enactment of laws that might require an army officer to enforce. This argument is seldom offered now, for as civilization ad vances laws are obeyed because they are an expression of public opinion As -we look back over the past, we may well wonder whether the peace movement would not have grown more rapidly had women been con sulted before hostilities began. “Second, some urge that woman's life already is full of care and that the addition of suffrage rather would overburden her or turn her attention away from home duties. The answer made is that the exercise of the fran chise might result in a change of thought and occupation that would relieve the monotony of woman's work. Surely the home will not suf fer if the mother, the child's first teacher, is able to Intelligently dls cuss with her family the science of government and the art of success fully administering it. “Third, many well meaning men and women affirm that suffrage would work a harm to woman by les soning the respect in which she Is held. This argument would have more weight had it not been employ- e dagalnst every proposition advanc ed in favor of the enlargement of woman’s sphere. This objection once was raised to the higher education of woman, 1 but It no longer is heard. “These objections, however honest ly advanced, have proven impotent to retard woman’s progress." PELLAGRA SURVEY. Board of Health to Look Over South Carolina Sltutation. In view of the alarming increaseMn pellagra in the last year In South Carolina, the state board of health is planning a complete survey of the state, to take place in the first part of August. Dr. James A. Hayne, state health officer, is in receipt dally of letters from all parts of the state describing outbreaks of the disease in new towns and communities, "where it was hitherto unknown. There are in South Carolina at the present time 3,000 cases of pellagra. Of these, almost 600 are in the coun ty of Spartanburg. The death rate from pellagra is unusually high, eight dying out of every 100 attacked, as compared with a death rate of six out of every 100 of typhoid fever. Dr. Hayne was notified Tuesday morning of a family pf six in Chester field, all of whom had pellagra. A fact that has become more apparent recently in respect to the disease is that where one in a family has it the rest of the family sooner or later get It POLLOCK SAYS GOVERNOR PLAYS TURKEY AT MEETINGS. ROUGES HIS OWN RECORD Shot by Negro. C. P. Carroll, car inspector of Jack sonville, was shot by a negro Mon day night and died in a hospital. Carroll’s assailant escaped. The rail- resignation a ^ommissiqo sM.jufc, pointed by tie president of the cgam- to nr ®. °* * thnv v., Wn er to escort Senor Carjabal to the floor of the House. Senor Carbajal soon appeared in -front of the cham ber, passing through files of soldiers. He entered, and as he walked to. the platform the Deputies stood. Speaker Manuel Mercado then administered whom the negro had threatened. Hags Chauffeur, Ante Wrecks. Because Bessie Holmes embraced and kissed J. J. Taylor of Seattle, Wash., while be was driving a motor car, the machine swerved Into the ditfh, crushing Miss Holmes to death.' Cheraw Man Says Blease Won't Stay on SUnd and Hear What Others Have to Say—Says His Conscience Pricks Him for Hitting a Dead Corpse so Hard. The first half of the senatorial campaign concluded Thursday with tbe Walhalla meeting, Oconee being the twenty-second county visited. Tue meeting was marked by tbe charge by W. P. Pollock that Gov. Bleaae bad feathera on his legs. This speak er said that he knew all along that the chief executive's record was bad, but that he did not know until the campaign bad opened that the gov ernor’s lower limbs were trimmed vith feathers. This, he said, in expla nation of the governor’s failure to stay on the stand while the other candidates are speaking. Mr. Pollock further explained that he didn’t attack any man behind his back. He added, however, that though the governor “played turkey” and ran away, such action would not deter him from holding up the gov ernor’s record in all its nakedness. Senator Smith added a feature when he read an affidavit from C. P. Moorer of Dorchester county, saying that Senator Smith was in St. George the night the Haskell convention was held. Mr. Moorer also made oath that he reminded Senator Smith the next morning'that the newspaper re ports were that the senator was delegate to the convention and that he then asked horn he could be in two places at the same time Gov. Blease declared that he would not be a candidate for tbe United States Senate in the general election if he is defeated in the primary. He stated that he had already pledged himself to abide tbe result of the primary. L. D. Jennings, the first speaker, explained the new primary rules, say ing he had not heard them denounc ed by anybody but certain candidates. He asked why had the anti-Blease people changed the rules if, as charg ed, they benefited by the alleged frauds committed in 1912? He said that then both aides cried fraud; that the anti-Blease crowd changed tbe rules, and now the governor and his friend* were denouncing them. Tbe speaker sorely regretted that there were two factions in the State, he said. On one aide the race track gamblers and blind tigers were try- ng to line up with them enough good people that the government might be so conducted as to insure to these lawbreakers’ benefit. He did not be lieve that there were more tban 35,- 000 of these blind tiger»rgamblers and all other classes who hold the law in utter disregard in the State. It was his purpose in this campaign, he explained, to open the eyes of the other 35,000 who had been hood winked into believing that this ele ment represented the cause of the people. He said he was satisfied that if Gov Blease went to the Senate about the first thing he would do would be to introduce a bill to turn all “buck nig gers” out of the federal penitentiary. He predicted that the governor will be beaten so badly on August 25 that “he’ll wake up in China or some oth er uncivilized country, where he ought to be." Mr. Pollock began bjf saying that he was completely exhausted by cam paigning in Anderson Wednesday, where he played the “salamander” in digging a hole in the sand, putting “Cole” Into It, and thffn packing the sand in on the governor. He said that his conscience was beginning to prick him, as he was now kicking a corpse. Mr. pollock said he was^ sorry the governor^ould not sit in the stand and hear his record discussed; that not until the campaign opened did he know the governor'was “feather leg ged”, and that the governor knew his record was so bad that he couldn’t hear it liid keep his face, but “turns turkey and runs away The speaker excoriated the gover nor’s pardon record, not numbering the pardoned convicts, but measuring them by the carload, of-which there were 12 or 15, he said. He answer ed the governor’s .charges of negro Republicanism by pointing out that there are two Republican tainted members on the governor’s staff, and one “Dago”, who he had understood had only recently made application for naturalization papers. Senator Smith said ..that when he attempted to organize the farmers In 1904 he was told that It couldn’t be. done; that he couldn’t get them’ to gether; that he couldn’t make them see. His efforts had been so success- Dr. James H. McIntosh Soya Neither Dr. Knowlton or Himself Recom mended the Release of Richey. Dr. James H. McIntosh, e well known physician of Columbia Thurs day morning issued an emphatic de nial of the statement made by Gov. Cole L? Blease on Tuesday at Abbe ville that he had made a report on the condition of K. A. Richey, a con vict In the penitentiary from Abbe ville county, convicted of raping his adopted daughter, to the effect that Richey was a paralytic and that his condition would improve if released from confinement, which report the governor used as the justification for later pardoning Richey. Dr. McIn tosh said that, on the ^Shtrary, he, with the late Dr.. A. B. Knowlton, of Columbia, had examined Richey and had found that he was “feigning” paralysis and had so informed the governor. Dr. McIntosh said that he, together with Dr. Knowlton, had been notified by the governor that they had been appointed a committee of two to in vestigate the condition of R. A. Richey of Abbeville, then at the State penitentiary. This he and Dr. Knowl-’ ton had done and bad found, after a thorough examination of Richey, that he was feigning paralysis and had so informed the governor in a written statement signed both by himself and Dr. Knowlton. Dr. Knowlton, a prominent physi cian of the city and of the State, died on last Sunday in Columbia after a prolonged illness, three days before the statement made in Abbeville by Gov. BJease. The following is a re print of tbe report of the section of Gov. Blease’s speech made at Abbe ville, in which he made reference to the Richey rase, as it appeared in The Columbia Record; “The chief executive, saying that a number of lies had been circulated about the R. A. Richey case, stated that he was not explaining or apolo gizing for his record, but he desired to 'show up’ the lies. “The governor read a number of reports from reputable physicians, among whom are Dr. James McIn tosh and others, that Richey is a par alytic and his condition would im prove if released from confinement.” The following is the written state ment of Dr. McIntosh, furnished s re porter for The Record; - % “It Is true that I was appointed on a committee by the governor to ex amine R. A. Richey. It is also true that with the late Dr. A. B. Knowl- ->*> I did go to the penitentiary and make such an examination. But it is not true that the report of the said committee signed by Dr. Knowlton apd myself in any way recommended a pardon or parole of the said R. A. Richey. The fact being that both Drs. Knowlton and I fully agreed that his paralysis was feigned.” WILSON FULLS BIN DOWN Refusal of Americsp President to Coontenaece the Dictator's As* Vsei •d Thursday by Gen. rsnsa, first chief of the . sumption ot the Murdered Madero't amy, go lnto effset bajal for Huerta a Away Demand for Fighting and hi and in Mexico, If ths day by G WILL SEPERATE FIGURES they had been organized, they were so coming Into their own that now they couldn’t be stopped. He illus trated by telling the Joke of the back* woodsman who didn't believe that there was such a thing as a "self- movto'* engine. However, whan'the old man saw the trala Long Staple to Have It's Own Govern ment Cotton Report. Chairman Lever of the house com mittee on agriculture Tuesday held a conference witji Secretary Houston and Mr. Estabrook, chief of the bu reau of statistics for that department as a result of which the bureau of statistics hereafter will In Its average gnd condition reports and its estimate of the final yield of cotton show the acre age, condition and final yield of upland long staple and ordinary cot ton seperately. The census bureau is already re porting seperately oh upland long staple cotton and has been doing so for several years at the request* ef Representative Lever. It Is thought that the department of agriculture likewise report seperately, and it has been agreed that this shall be done. At the conclusion of his speech, Senator Smith was presented with a miniature bale of cotton, which he said was the emblem of the South’s prosperity, and that it would become his campaign emblem. It was said that the little bale had been in “storage” 15 years. —.......— ; The governor was the last speaker. He charged that two newspaper men, under the pretext of soliciting sub scriptions, were following the cam paign party from county to county. Those he designated as “campfol- lowers”. one of «rhom he denounced as cowardly liar, for saying that after the governor’s defeat in the primary, he v^puld go into the general election. This, the governor said, was a lie, as he had pledged to abide by the re-, suit of the Democratic primary. _ _ i Gov. Blegfee made his characteristic plea for xaltal prejudices and put on exhibit again the catalogue o£J3ene; diet college, In. which Is a picture of the faetulty with white ■ members. Newspapers too came In tor some lUW, -iffdTJfiffni ac cused of betnf one of tbe HO' dele- gates to the Haskell convention. | • . L W. W. minaat part la the labor trouble* ia Massachuetta last year had arrived In Greenville Power Causes tbe Downfall of Huerta After Loup Delay. . Victoriano Huerta took oath as provisional president of Mexico Feb ruary 19, 1913, the day after Fran cisco I. Madero had been arrested M the national palace. Three days later Madero and Jose Marla Pino Saurez, vice-president, brere shot to death on a midnight ride under guard from the palace to the penitentiary. Ths manner of their death never has been satisfactorily explained. One of Huerta’s first acta as pro visional president was to telegraph William H. Taft, then president of the United States, the following mes sage: “I have the honor to Inform you that I have overthrown this gov ernment. The forces are with me and from now on peace and prosperity will’reign.” * The republic immediately was plunged into civil war again notwith standing Huerta’s Issuance of a proc lamation of general amnesty. The Sonora State congress officially repu diated the provisional government be fore Huerta had settled himself com fortably in the presidential chair. Zapata,, revolutionary leader to the south of the capital, after negotiating a few days with the now regime, went back to his guerilla campaign. Salazar, one of the highest gen erals in the army, denounced Huerta. CnrrnrTa, *Ccnct?*^t!cnsU:t leader In Chihuahua, assailed him in a bitter oatement made public at San An tonio. Francisco Villa announce! himself an adherent of Madero and Joined the ranks of the Northern army. Of the clan ofnorthem revo lutionaries Pascual Orozco was the tone notable figure among the disaf fected who declared for the new gov ernment. President Taft, nearing the end of his term, left to his successor the ‘Mem of adjusting diplomatic rela tions with Mexico. To Woodrow Wil son, Huerta sent felicitations on the day ot tbe American president’s inau guration. Hampered at the outset of his ad ministration by the refusal of the United States to recognize him, Huerta soon faced growing difficulties in raising funds to run his govern ment. His uneasy hold upon affairs was weakened by minor Constitu tionalist victories in the north and by recurring rumors of a break with Felix Dias, nephew of Porflrio Diaz and Huerta’s ally In the overthrow of Madero. On May 1 Huerta announced he would urge congress to call elections in October to choose his successor. The congress selected October 2C as the date of ths election and a decree to that effect was Issued by Huerta on June 3. Felix Diaz, who had an nounced himself as a candidate tor the presidency, was sent to Japan on July 17. Henry Lane Wilson, the American ambassador, was recalled to Wash ington and Nelson O’Shaughnesay, charge d’affaires, was left In charge of American interests In Mexico. Early in August it became known that President Wilson intended to send John Lind, former governor of Minnesota, to Mexico as his personal representative in an endeavor to ar range a basis for the republic’s peace. Nevertheless Mr. Lind delivered his note from President Wilson. Huerta refused all proposals made by the American, chief of which were the suggestions that he resign and that he not me a candidate on elec tion day. Relations between Mexico and the United States became acute. President Wilson proclaimed his pol icy in an address before congress. Huerta was attacked In the Mexi can Senate on October 5 by Senator Dominguez who spoke what was in the minds of himself and some of his colleagues. Dominguez disappeared. To this Huerta’s reply was dramatic and swift. He marched a column of troops to the chamber and threw 110 deputies into prison. Next he dis solved congress and took unto him self the legislative authority, calling for an election of new members on October 5. Through Mr. O’Shaugh- nessy, the United States made repre sentations against violence to the im prisoned deputies. When it became certain the elec-, lions had resulted la mo constitu tional choice because of the failure of voters to go to the polls, the Ameri can government peremptorily called on Huerta to resign. In a statement her 9 he announced thathe^vould de clare the result of the election null and order another election. On November 13 Huerta refused to ac cede to the American demand fer Ms resignation and John Und left Maxi- City fer Vera Cru. rMaa declared his main would be to conduct the Geestltutlonalists to City and establish their wlhout further diaord blood or damage to prop How these negotiations I arranged Carranza declar not yet determined. He to say at this time’ whs would be conducted throu^hl lators or direct with the Unconditional surrender, will be the only condition the negotiations will be s« Carranza declared that the forms for which the Consttt lets fought must be obtained i ever cost". “Tbe reslgnat Huerta and the subeUtutlon bajal In Itself will not cause stitutionallsts to cornffromii single point, the prinetpl which the movement was foiuO said Gen. Carranza. “If the government maek which through those end*-, obtained Is not surrendered tartly by the party of Huerta, will be obtained by force.’* Because of the effort to make Installation of tbe Conatltuti a aeaceful one, Gen. Caransa would probably be a month entered Mexico City. He he did not believe that Carbajal strong enough- to handle tbe reins of power pasted over by Huerta. Gen. Carranta reiterated* that tbe Constitutionalist* would 3 espt nothing'Short of comptot* render. In a statement the first i declared: Undoubtedly the first mov* ef 1 successor of the usurper H« be to open negotiations with tl stitutionallsts for a complete der.' This is the logical deductloe the action be will tak*. Nothing : than a complete surrender will Isfy tbe Constitutionalists. He if Carbajal falls to take this to bring about peace ia Max too, shall con tin us to fight our way victory, which already la assured, are fighting for justice for the can people and are certain oar < will be crowned with quick victory by tbe advance of troops Is a certainty If It doea come through unconditional s« der." ATTRAOnVKNEM .PAYS. By Co-operation be Obtained la Any Town. < If a single merchant la thin were to adopt the permanent of making bis store attractive hi possible ways he undoubtedly holer the beet trade of bis tews the face of competition of every < kind. t . What is true of the Indlvldi merchants Is true of the entire lage. All it needs to hold Its and Its population Is to be att Attractiveness is of many and Is composed of many el Good roads, clean streets, low _ and high quality will attract to generally hold trade for n village. But shaded streets well sprtpk’ed, green lawns closely cropped, Lie Gy, painted and well-kept *' out-bulldinga reflect a proaperity that are alx suaalve as some of, the hie and material appeals quality. One may Imagine, for what a transformation could fected in this, town If evenr on its business streets were by a flower box filled with flowering plants. Yet the need not remain wholly it tor at a comparatively each individual merchant transformation could be Many of the largest stores and hotels of the great dttes have decorated their windows In this way. An example thus set by the mer chants doubtless would be followed by many citizena in the decorating of their residences, and in a few yean our village wonld become known far and wide for the beauty of Its homes and places of hnslnrus. Campaign Opens. The opening gnns In the Fifth dis trict congressional race were fired at Chesterfield Tuesday when D. E..FIn- ley, the Incumbent, and his opponent,- W. F. Stevenson, spoke to a small but Interested audience. Although sorely man A. L. Powell ot day shot and killed negro, who attacked