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'•£v\ .ji** i dfewl ^TT"’ V: amM MK sna AT TIE VALUIU UETffli USUAL tag Um of BtaMW Factory Uspactor mmd Do- toctAva, Whoa* Report OO—bJ Boro don* From E. J. Watoon. to Lowndea J. Browning, candidate for governor, assailed Richard I. Banning in the meeting of candidates for State offices at Walhalla Tues day on his platforms for governor eight yean ago and this year and asked him to explain why he has Col. Leon M. Green eo constantly with him. He toM-ol Mr. Green as fac tory inspector on the staff of the governor, and questioned the sin cerity of Mr. Manning on law en forcement. He also took a fling at the press. Mendel L Smith, candidate for governor, spoke of his work in the legislature and as speaker of the House. The first topic he touched was the Aiken plan of elimination, which he bitterly denounced.' He asked that the voters cast their bal lots as "sovereign men". He said that he was in favor of a local option compulsory sducation law because It was Democratic and because school districts knsw best what they need ed. Lowndes J. Browning then pre sented a number of "pertinent ques tions” for Mr. Manning to answer and said that the voters of South Carolina are entitled to a frank and candid answer. “There is nothing I enjoy more,” said Mr. Browning, “than to puncture a gas bag or efe pose a hypocrite and I am going to do one or the other to-day. Boon you will hear at the other meet ings we have hoard, lawleesnos.: de- The csa’tdate rears up on the toes of hie hind legs and declares that no house burner, yegg man, safe cracker or rapist need apply to him for pardon. He does not say, how- evsr, that he will not, if governor, pardon a common thief. “Eight years ago when the State dispensary had become a stench In the nostrils of the people, when only such men as John G. Richards and Mendel L. Smith stUl stood for its corrupt and corrupting influences, Richard * Manning came forward to save it Many believed then and some believe yet that he attempted to bol ster Its waning fortunes for the sake it thd governorship. I did not then consider him so low as to sell him self for office.* 1 attributed it lo a never too strong mentality, but of course I may have been mistaken. At any rate, he was defeated that year for governor. “Now be ie a candidate again for the same high office and proclaim ing most loudly for the-enforcement of the law. Let us see, and to do so, we must go back a little. On page 214, Senate Journal of 1112, you will Qnd a message from Gov. Blease, transmitting to the general assembly the report of his special factory in spector, Col. Leon M. Green, of the governor's staff, and this report cov ers to pags 240 of said Journal. The governor congratulated himself that the year before he bad vetoed thg 4tem of $2,400 for two factory in spectors and had had this work done by Col. Leon M. Green at & cost of only $1,000. “Being a striking similarity be tween Col. Leon M. Green's report add the report of the commissioner of agriculture, commerce and Indus tries, E. J Watson, I compared the two and found them identical. I then sent J. Rutledge McGee to Mr. Watson’s office, demanding the corre spondence between Mr. Watson and Col. Leon M. Green on factory in spection. I got the originals of Col. ftLeon M. Green's letters and carbon copies of Mr. Watson’s replies, and reading these letters to the House I proved that all the work Col. Leon M. Green had done was to copy about 22 pages of Mr. Watson's report, for which the State of South Carolina paid $1,000. “Col. Leon M Green was then, and 1 think is how, a member of Gov. BAease's staff. This exposure , was in the papers on the front page in large headlines. Col. Leon M. Green was then dubbed 'Scissors.' Whether that non-de-plume stllf •ticks, I do not know. .“Mr. Manning must have*known all this. He knew the moral charac- . ter of this Col. Leon M. Green and yet, is he.not in Mr. Manning's em ploy now? Teeter day tasked the clerk at the hotel in Anderson If Mr. Manning was stopping there. He re plied*. ‘Tee, he is in No. 4 ’ I then aa£ed if Col Leon M. Green were there, and he replied: 'Tea, but not He' is with Mr. Manning Do you wish to see him?* If Mr. Manning why doto he mn i M.- Green so constantly He must know his char Col- Leon M. Green speeches? He his meu- sincere In his denunciation of law leesnese or is he only bidding for votes? Does not Mr. Manning's con naction with Col. (non.. M; Green leave the impreesio nthat be In swing tag to B lease's coat tall with dne hand and to the capitalists with the other? These are pertinent ques tions and the voters of South Caro lina are entitled to a frank and can did aaswer. “I am offering this to the press. Did it reflect on Lowndes J. Brown- John G. Cllnksdues, Charles A. or Mendel L. Smith, 1 feel sukf it would be published but as it refers to one of the press and cap! tallstic pets, we will see.'' John G. Clinkscales, applauded as he arose, launched Immediately into his plea for a State-wide compulsory education, paying a tribute to Prof. W. H. Hand and W. X. Ttate. He ridiculed those who said that the time was not ripe because of a lack of school facilities, maintaining that the children should be educated if there is nothing more than a brush idle for a shelter. He branded the phrase “they say”, as one of the best terms for a liar to use. Robert A. Cooper said that the chief magistrate of the State had no court from which the citlsen may appeal. He denied the inference that he was the candidate of any man or set of men and said that if elected no man could come to him and say that there is an obligation due. He then went into a discussion of law enforcement, which he thinks. Judg ing from conditions in Charleston and Columbia, is the supreme Issue before the people of the State. He said that a citlsen must be raised with a regard for law and order. John T. Duncan, after discussing the “system,” said: “We had laid John Richards to rest, after the death of Mendel L Smith but we dug up Richards, poured water in his face, pumped air into him. gave him smelling salt, but be looks like a dead man to me yet." W. C. Irby Jr. also took Mr. Rich ards to task for not disclosing his Itl2 vote, saying: “It if it nobody’s business where I have been why should any one know where I am go ing?" He went on to say in answer to challenge of Mr. Richards at An derson that his record had shown his friendship for the governor. “I am not in the race,” said Rich ard I. Manning, “to malign or tra duce any one, so I will not notice any of the numerous flings that have been made at me.” The speaker then discussed his life as a farmer and as president of a bank. Has it come to the condition,’’ he asked, “when a man who holds a position of trust is held as a dema- gokue?" He then repeated his stand on the enforcement of law and local option compulsory education. Mr. Manning excoriated the par don record of Gov. Biease after pre senting to the audience the issue of perpetuating tbs policies of the pres ent administration with its lawless ness. Ha was applauded. “I am being twitted with not throwing down my commission,'' said John G. Richards, "while there are four or five other candidates who also hold varloues positions of trust.’’ The speaker then told of his work in the educational field, having urged the passage of a bill that created free scholarships at Wlnthrop college He said that the State was not prepared tor compulsory education and stated that he was not in favor of giving a single additional dollar for the edu cation of the negro until the white children had been provided for. He maintained that a compulsory edu cation law would militate against the White children in favor of the negro children. I- ( «. i "Mr. Richards has been seeking majorities all of his life,’’ said Chas. Carroll Simms as he t<)ld of his op ponent’s previous attitudes- towards the liquor question, saying that Mr. Richards had been a dispensarylte and a prohibitionist and is now a local optionist. Mr. Simms further charged him with voting against the lien law. He called attention to the political friendships of his opponent, ridiculing the “recent conversion to Bleasisra.’’ „ , MAKES REPLY. I • ♦ —• I Leon Green Answers Browning’s Chargee Against Manning. L. M. Green, Columbia correspon dent of the Charlotte Observer, said after seeing Lowndes J. Browning’s statement at Greenville Wednesday night: Browning’s statement to-day at Walhalla is but a disgruntled attack upon Mr. Manning, the laadlbg gub ernatorial candidate, through a mis statement of facts With regard to me I emphatically deny insinua tions contaihtM therein. “With regard to the factory in spection referred to, the whole mat ter was threshed out in the general assembly at the time, my statement as to the true situation was publish ed generally in the press of the State and was accepted as an. ending to the proposition. The use of the al leged incident tor political effect by Browning at the time was halted. “As to the insinuation that I am a iMtiJbfliitriflrAUT -rtwr sat not a supporter of Gov. BJease for the United States Senate and this is generally and publicly known. "This eleventh hour attack on Mr. Manning will not hurt him with the people of Booth Carolina. I am sure. #' Mo. CALLS BLEASE DOWN CHARLESTON MAN DENY WHAT '‘ GOVERNOR SAJI* WAS SO. THE COTTON CONGRESS SENATBI SMITH SPEAK! Pollock aad Jeourings Are Unable to be Present at Meeting at Menck’s Corner—Small Crowd Heals Gov ernor aad Senator Pranent Their , Claims for Suffrage, r . BODY MET IN COLUMBIA THURS DAY TO PLAN ACTION. One of the smallest crowds that have attended the 42 meetings of the present campaign for the United States Senate heard two of the can didates, Senator E. D. Smith and Gov. Cole L. Blease, speak at Monck r Corner Tuesday. The audience num bered about 400. a decided majority of which was antl-Blease The gov ernor carried Berkeley county two years ago. W. P. ,'Pollock and L. D. Jennings were not present. The following telegram was read from Mr. Pol lock: “I regret exceedingly my in ability to be at Monck's Corner to day, especially in view of yesterday’s meeting. I will be at Manning to morrow. Please read this to the audience.’’ Senator Smith was tendered a dem onstration by many of his Berkeley county supporters. He rode to the meeting seated on a bale of cotton In a wagon drawn by four mules, while above the wagon floated a ban ner inacribed: “Ed Smith, the Peopla's Candi date for the Senate." The parade was led by Metz's band from Char leston, along string of buggies con taining farmers following. Gov. Blease declared that conser vative eatimates, based on reports from his leaders in every county, ■how that he will be nominated in the primary next Tuesday by not less than from six to seven thousand, per haps from fourteen to fifteen thou sand. • . Senator E. D. Smith was the first speaker He referred to existing conditions as the result of the Euro pean war and the effect on the farm ers of this country, declaring that when a commercial disaster comes the “man on the bottom" is always the first to suffer. The Senator then discussed the recent cotton confer ence in his office in Washington, when be outlined to treasury offi cials what was necessary In the way of government aid to prevent a heavy loss to the farmers as the result of the closing of the European cotton markets. t "You only did your duty,” said some one in the crowd. “Yea, and thank God, that's all I want to do,’’ replied the speaker to applause. The senator added that “the man who wants to help only himself is like a stagnant pool, which breeds snakes, mosquitoes, frogs and malaria, and isn’t worth a darn.’’ The senator then entered upon a discussion of the new banking and currency law, explaining the features originated by him and designed to benefit tbe farmers. He tben made his regular cotton speech, reviewing his work in and out of the Senate for the farmers, who, he said, sent him to Washington. " The senator closed by inviting a thorough inspection of his record, de claring that he had been faithful and expected to be re-elected. The sen ator was heartily applauded through out, and at the conclusion of his speech. Oov. Blease charged that Mr. B. F. McLeod of Charleston, a support er of Senator Spilth, had paid for the services of the band which appeared in the Smith parade. Mr. McLeod came up to the stand and told the governor that his statement was not true, whereupon he governor de manded to know if Mr. McLeod had not paid the band. By this time the governor’s friends near the stand (some of them from Charleston) were cheering loudly at what appear ed to be the discomfiture of Mr Mc Leod, who, despite the noise, man aged to make himself partially heard. He explained that the band had been secured with contributions by Berkeley county supporters of Sena tor Smith, and that he (McLeod) had merely acted as the agent of these gentlemen In engaging the musicians and seeing that they got to MSnck’s Corner. Frank Reid, a_ merchant, shouted frbm the crowd that he had seen Mr. McLeod buy. out •? two ten-dollar bills, tickets for members of the band from Charleston to Monck’s Corner. * One of the Char leston contingent, said to have been. Harry L. WUensky, insisted that the newspaper men print Reid's .state ment. ‘ The governor said he was satisfied that the Drake-Innese-Green Shoe company, of which Mr.-. Mcleod Is president, had paid for the services of the band. He also declared that a Advsed Farmers First to Hold TTieir Cotton for a While aad Second, Plant Less Cotton Next Year. A cotton congress was held in Co lumbia Thursday morning to which attended business men, farmers, bankers, and merchants from various parte of the State. They met to con sider the cotton situation and take what action they deemed Imperative. Among other things a Call was sent out to every one Interested In the State to form county organizations. A meeting will be held in Orange burg next Thursday to consider these steps. Full partiiulars will be an nounced next week. Mr. F. Mason Crum, .farm demon stration agent in Orangeburg county, attended the congress, and issued the following statement to the farmers of Orangeburg county: “The Cotton Congress ot South Carolina which convened in Columbia Thursday revealed some very definite things regarding the cotton question. First, that the producer of cotton will have to do his part if the crop is to be saved. “The various cotton states are holding meetings to devise plans for holding the surplus and to make it possible to finance the cotton after it is stored. These state resolutions will be passed on to the executive committee of the national Cotton Congress and from them a uniform platform, will be adopted to* which all the cotton states will conform. This Is absolutely necessary, and without It everything will be chaos. Then every county and township in the South will know what the other counties and townships are doing. The method will be the £ame, an( j cotton will be the finest collateral for credit in the country. But there is something for the farmer to do and he must do It right now. “First. Keep your cotton off the market for a while. Store it in your yard until proper warehouse facili ties are provided for. If you do not need money, keep It housed there, but do not sell it. If you have to have money, you can soon put it in a warehouse which the State recog nizes and which the government will approve, and then you will have a warehouse receipt which the banks will honor. It won’t be long before the banks will have emergency money issued by the government, and you can get H. Your cotton will In all probability be graded by a federal expert and this with the correct weight will be noted on your ware house receipt, and this receipt will be as good as money anywhere in the country. The bankers of New York will honor a certificate of such character, “Second. You will have to plant less cotton next year, or we will be confronted with a more serious prob lem next fall than we are now. With our surplus stored, and the 1915 crop combined, we will’have more cotton than the world can consume. Plant half your regular acreage and make up the deficit with grain, hay and live stock. There is money in these crops and we can make them profitably, and we can declare a divi dend more than once a year. This is the salvation of the Southern far mer, and the war is going to teach us a valuable lesson, even though it is at great expense. “Lastly, hold your nerve, and hold your cotton. The United States gov ernment stands ready to help us if we are willing to receive it. The probability is that if we fai’ it will be the farmers’ fault. The cotton states must move abreast at this crisis and if*they do, the crop will not be squandered." SEIliM IHE LITTLE TIIUILE TUMI UfiTAL Berkeley,county, do hereby certify that we paid the money for the pur pose of paying for services of band (Continued from page one.) on occasion of campaign meeting at Monck’s Corner. “C. W. Wiggins. * “J. R. Williams. “J. L Strohecker. “J. S. Tyler. “T. A. Altman. “B. M. Hudson. “F. E. Wyndham.” Mr. Ernest Metz, in talking, de clared the above sUtement to-ha true saying that Mr. McLeod waa merely the agent through whom ■the arrangements for the band’a appear ance at Monck’a Corner was made, and that before the terms were agreed upon Mr. McLeod had consulted the Berkeley gentlemen Another member of the band, who said he was the one to whom the governor attributed the statement “we are all working for you," denied that he told the governor or meant oi me oano. ne bukj uocmieu iuoi a the tmpreaston that "tire member of the band ha(T"Wif nmi mem be rB of the band were working tug for you,'’ and. said the governor, I don't blam* him, because he’s got Frank McLeod's money In his pock et,’’ adding thAt he knew nearly all ot the bandsmen would vote for him. When the governor concluded. Chairmen Rneeell feed to the crowd tbe following ta reference to the en- members unteered the InfonnatioiL said that, in talking to the governor about a pardon for a man ^connected with him by marriage, he told the gov ernor that his family was working for him (the governor). Roane Page Dies. Pope Pins X. heed of the Roman Catholic ehnrch, pawed away Wed- HI KNIT IF FIGHT — Information of Warfare ie Still De tached and Unreliable—Germans Are Overrunning Northern Part of Belgium Presumably Making for Port of Antwerp. The German cavalry on Thursday occupied Brussels. Strong columns are following up this movement. The Belgian army is retiring on Antwerp, without having been engaged by the Germans. , An entire change in the plan of campaign may be brought about by the finding of an opening to the north by the German armies in Bel gium. This was admitted in an offi cial communication from Brussels which said the Germans “bad gained ground on both flanks of the Meuse and are in contact with the allies.’’ It adds that the Belgians, having done all that could be expected by holding the invaders in check for 15 days, “their strategy will noif be merged into the general plan of the allied armies.’’ Antwerp apparently is the tem porary goal of the German troops ia Gelgium. They are reported moving slowly, but steadily in the direction o fthe great fortified port on tbe liver Scheldt. The German soldiers have occupied the town of Ttrlemont and their masses pushing in from the frontier are believed to have come Into contact with the allies’ front. Reports in Brussels asserted a bat tle had occurred near Charerol in which the Germans were supposed to have suffered a loss of 6,000 killed. This was not confirmed. Complete silence is maintained as to the fortune of war in the big fight understood to be in progress some where along a line extending through Belgium and Luxemburg. Dispatches give evidence of the presence of masses of German troops pushing their way to the front behind an im penetrable screen of cavalry, whose dashes in search of Information as to the whereabouts of the allied troops have resulted in sharp clashes and heavy casualties. The commanders of the allied forces of French, British and Bel gians will not permit anything abont their positions to become public and since tbe official note made known the presence of a large British expe ditionary force on the continent Its movements have been hidden from the outside world. In Alsace-Lorraine the French turning movement through southern Alsace appears from French reports to be progressing favorably for the French aud this seems to receive con firmation in a dispatch sent out by the Wolff bureau, the German news agency, saying two batteries of guns were taken by the French, who con tinued their march forward. On the Russo-German-Austrlan frontier fights of small Importance are recorded. German troops occu pied Mlawa, Russian Poland, close to the German frontier, and Russian reports relate a repulse with heavy casualties of Au strian troops who had attacked Vladimir in the prov ince of Volhynia. A strong force of German troops is said to have attacked Eydakuh- nen, a German town on the Russian frontier, which was occupied by the Russians soon after the outbreak of hostilities. A French official note, confirms re ports of a Servian victory at’Shabats over an Austrian force of 80,000 men. The Austrians are said to have lost 3,000 killed and 5,000 wounded. A Montenegrin army is reported within two hours’ march of the for tified Austrian seaport of Ragusa, in Dalmatia. The Montenegrins had already captured a number of towns in the vicinity. Adolphe Pegoud, a noted French aviator, has returned to Paris from the war zone to get a new aeroplane. According to a Paris dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company, the wings of Pegoud’s old machine were riddled by 97 bullets and two shells when with a military observer he made a flight of 186 miles Into Ger man territory. Pegoud could not say Just where he had been except that he recrossed the Rhine and with bombs blew up two Germany convoys. ♦ • • Ultimatum Delivered. Japan's ultimatum has been deliv ered In Berlin through the Copen hagen foreign oface. Japan has ask ed the United States to look after her Interest In case,of emergencies. —-— x 4fe Car Hits Aato. fn slfuttt 'a stalftffTuto Thursday and seriously Injured Mee- dames H. C. Randolph nd Paul Mat thews. WILSON HAS NOTHING TO ABOUT JAPAN'S DEMAND. — . ;i* Tbe United Stales Refuses to Anew Itself to be Drawn Into Far ffiaefc- ern Controversy. Japan’s sudden entry info the Eu ropean war situation gs a factor which might quickly increase the range of the great conflict to the far East commanded wide attention both among officials o{ fha Washington — governments and diplomats'general ly. The attitude of the United States, it became clear, would be one of non interference in the controversy be tween Japan and Germany. This was reflected somewhat In the studied reticence of both President Wilson and Secretary Bryan. The president has been asked whether Japan’s as surance that she eventually would re store Kiau Chau to China in case that territory wos obtained from Ger- ^ many was regarded |ls satisfactory at Washington. Mr. Wilson replied that he saw no reason to question Japan's good faith’' in that connection,-huf carefully re frained from expressing any opinion on the merits of the ultimatum or Japan's attitude. Published reports to the effect that the president had declared himself as satisfied with Japan’s course were promptly denied by Secretary Tumulty Tuesday night at the president's direction. “The president feels it incumb^nt^^ on himself," said Secretary Tumulty,^R ‘ as the head of a neutral nation, toV^s * express no opinion whatsoever on the attitude of Japan or any other coun try.” Diplomatic dispatches brought no further information as to yie future course of either Japan or Germany, but official Washington was diverted for the moment from the thought of hostilities to a hypothetical consid eration of how American possessions in the far East ultimately might be affected by the results of an exten sion of the war to the Orient. Army strategists discussed among themselves whether Japan might not also take the German possessions in the Samoan and Caroline islanls, which are on the American line of communication to the Phllllpines, and how that eventually might af fect the interests of the American government in the Pacific. It was pointed out in Japanese circles that the ultimatum to Ger many applies specifically to the Ger man occupation of territory on the Asiatic mainland, nothing being said about the German insular possessions in Australasia. However it was ex plained that in the event of Ger many's refusal to meet the Japanese demands and the Japanese success in war, the conditions Imposed upon Germany might be extended so as to include the ceding to Japan and to her ally. Great Britain, of all of these Island groups gathered in by Ger many during the last 25 years. Germany recently has tried to in dicate to the United States govern ment the community of interest^ that exists between the two in their Asiatic holdings. Last week this took the form of a suggestion that the Eastern waters and shores he neutralized by mutual consent. The Japanese belief is that the German government will, take full advantage of the week's time allow ed in the ultimatum 'for a reply This belief that this reply will be a firm and unequivocal refusal to ad mit the Japanese right to dictate to Germany her attitude in the far East. The Intervening time, ti is belibved, will be spent in hastening the de fenses of Ting-Tsu, the single Ger man naval station, in placing the Ger man fleet in secure position/ under the guns of the shore fortifications. 18 NOT NATURAL. ^ • i e * Reports Point to Inspireh Efforts to Boost Food Prices. Reports from officials and special agents investigating the rise in food prices since the European war began continue to s flood the department of ustice. A special agent in the Mid dle West telegraphed that he bad found evidence that sugar producers, and refiners had combined to raise prices. Another announced that a state association of flour producers was issuing price bulletins and that evi dence gathered showed the organiza tion prices are followed by Individual millers. A report from Kansas City said retail grocers there had formed an association to control prices.. A charge that a large combination of drug stores has raised prices 100 per cent, on various articles is being in vestigated-. - GOES TO SENATE. Hoke Smith Wias Rare. . Receiving 340 convention vote* to t* for his opponent, Joe Brown, Sen ator Hoke Smith of Georgia has be to tbe United States Sc Bryan Sends Nicncng»»n Treaty ■ Its Ratification. to the Senate the treaty under which Nicaragua, for $3,000,000 would cede to (he United States canal righta and Atlantic and Pacific coast naval coal station. Mr. Bryan has been assured of support for the treaty from a majority of the Senate foreign' relations tomUfttee, and experts it to be ratified promptly. The it, proposing n