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TILLMAN HITC BACK .SCOtES CURLY HEAD JOHNNY (LEASE AND TALBERT POTS IT OP TO PEOPLE Dmumuom McLaurin State Senator as Greatest Says Traitor la liquor Ring la Trying to Boy It self Into Power—Mauls Ooley and w.nH« Talbert a Knockout Reviewing the charge that “the liquor Interests were seeking to re enter the State by the election of Mease," United States Senator B. R. Tillman Saturday gave out from his home In Trenton a statement In which he couples the name of John McLaurin, former United States ami now State warehouse sioner, with that of Cole !>• Mease, candidate for governor, as enough to "make the people wary and suspicious.” Senator TOtmnn quotes one of the so-called “Arehbold letters" from Mr. MdsMirln to John I>. Archbold, representative of the Standard Oil company, In which the suggestion Is made that If "properly and generous ly supported," Mr. McLahrln could defeat Senator Tillman. The senator charges that the scheme now Is to elect Mr, governor now, Mr. Mclaurtn to Hcnate two years from now and Mr. Meaae later. He also cltea some of Mr. Mease's panlons. He concludes bjr paying a tribute to Gov. Man ning's work for the State warehouse system, and bidding the people "be ware and keep awake." The statement follows: "I. . —— 11 i*u ion. 7—-r. ■- To the People of South Carolina: I do not like to dignify John L. McLaurin by noticing anything he says, but I am unwilling to allow the slanderous assertions and false accu sations made In an Interview on the 8th In one of the Hlease papers In South Carolina to go unnoticed. Mc Laurin asserts that he is one of the two manager* of Hlease'* campaign Hlease being the other; and McLau rin’s connection with Hlease In Mt eo-celled fight for "decency and good government" should make the peo ple wary and suspicious. I ev pressed it as my opiaion that "the liquor were seeking to rr^eater the State by the election of Hkwee. ’ sad I da hesitate to reaffirm that Mcl<aarla kaows the power of In elections. He himself la the has appealed to it. The people may have forgotten, but neither John L. McLaurin nor myself have forgottea hie connection with the Standard OH company. John D. Archbold was the official repre sentative of thle company to lo-k after its political activities and M»- Laurin did not hesitate In 1 DOB to aak Archbold for money to buy thin State The evidence of thle la given In a letter taken from the Jennary (IBIS) number of Heerat’n tine, end I give the letter here. This magatlne gives a photographic copy of the letter and as I know his hand writing there can be no disputing a* to the authenticity of tho MtMfe Mo- Laurtn, in hts desire to report to hie "chief," made a mistake In the date of hla letter, as the date ahould be 1B01. "BennettavIHe. B C.* Map 1B02. "Dear Mr. Archbold: "I have pushed my fight so vig orously that they called on Till man. I met him at Gaffney and beat him at his own game. I called hla bluff and now the fight Is for two seats In the Senate In stead of one. I can beat TUlman If properly and generously sup ported. I enclose an account of both meetings for your informa tion. With kindest regards, I am, "Yours sincerely, (signed) "Jno. L. McLaurin." I call your particular attention to the words, "I can beat Tillman if properly and generously supported.” Could John D. Archbold "properly” and "generously" support John L. McLaurin without the aid of Stand ard Oil money? I want the peopia to answer this queetion. In the same magazine a complete exposure of McLaurin and his “re form" movements In the United States Senate Is given. And still this man has the nerve and effrontery to say that I have gone back on the people and that he Is still standing and fighting their battles. My God! And the pity of it Is that some good people believe It! It Is not a pleasure for me in my old age to reopen old sores or to In tentionally give hurt to any man. But I have been a servant of the peo-. pie for 26 years, and if I lose every friend that I have, I do not Intend to sit Idly by and not tell the people of conditions as I see them. And they can always have this consolation, that whoever Ben Tillman "consorts with" now, politically or otherwise, they know in their hearts that he has. never consorted with Archbold or the money b.vrons of Walt streeB In the past and that he Is not now leagued with Hotille, Famum and the liquor barons of Chasleston, 8. C„ and Cincinnati, Ohio. South Carolina wan sentatlves, It U her business. Hlease and McLaurin ane tied to- l # got her in their politics and I would not separate them' for the world, and If the people want them as leaders, 1 cannoe help It and all I can say is “God save the people." But before I see this come to pass I will at leaat be true to myself, and true to the State which haa so signally honored me, and war* the people as to what they arq doing. If the people of Abbeville coun ty want a governor who will par don a man like hichey, who waa convicted of rulnlrg his adopted daughter, while she waa under thie^ age of consent, that Is their busi ness. If the people of Union county want a governor who will pardon a man like Jonea who was con victed by a- Jury of his peers of wilfully murdering the wife he had sworn to protect—a pure good wo man—that is their business. If the people of Anderson coun ty want a governor who will par don a man like Emerson, who was convicted of killing an old man who was trying to protest the vir tue of his daughter, that is their business. If the people of the State want a governor who -In four years par doned 1,500 criininals—mankill- ers, rapists, thieves and others! who condoned his actions by the assertion that he was paroling them during good behavior and making good citizens of them and who because the people would not send him to the Senate turns around and pardons all of those whom he had paroled and sends them free to walk the earth, that is their business. II this chief foe to the corpora tions, as so many people believe him, this savior of the people’s ght, can fool the people with his pfktenses, while eating at the samX table with the head lawyer and chief lobbyist of the Southern rallroadxn this State. Ben Abney, the peopIA deserve the kind of governor thev will get. At the Hlease'meeting la Colum- CENSORSHIP FOR ALL NATIONAL PURPOSES Uoyd-George'a Admissions Previ ously Censored Brings New Information. Extension of the British mall cen sorship from Its original purpose of deatreylng all trade to or from Ger many to the field of providing data for Great Britain’s fight for commer cial supremacy la seen In WascMng- ton In admissions made by David Lloyd-George, the war secretary, be fore parliament. Just received In full In this country. Lloyd-George said: “It 1 sthe practice to communi cate to other departments concern ed any information oh matters of public interest which may be ob tained through the censorship for such use to be made of it as the particular department may consid er advisable. The government is perfectly within Its righto in using any information which mose to It in these conditions for any public and national purpose." This statement, made recently in response to questions by members of the House of Commons, created a stir there. It apparently had been censored out of cable dispatches to the United States. When asked about the matter Secretary Lansing said it had been called to the attention of the state department officially but he declined to make any comment at this time. It is understood, however, that the department will take a most serious view of Lloyd-Geoi ge’s interpreta tion of the British war office's power and will protest more vigorously than ever against Interference with neutral malls on the high seas. Al though the American government has contended strongly against the wholesale detentions and seizures of mall between neutral countries, as in violation of International law, so Ur them has FERTILIZER TRUST SEVEN COMPANIES CONTROL MORE THAN HALF Of OUTPUT REPflBT ON COMMISSION the and walked—James Talbert. He also claims to be a gnqt friend of the people. Betaj he wajito a return of rule" bo that be can repeat tike per- form bbt which la a well known that fa* McCormiCk county that beet waa paid (BOO by the promoters! of the aew county of McCormick to go to Cotumbtu while The only resemblance between the HI earn movement and the Reform movement la the presence of a few familiar face#—Bteaae, Talbert and Mcl-aurtn. There ace thousands of good people In South Carolina who hare been deluded Into following them, simply becnaae they thought it I wae the leader of the old move ment and these men who claimed to have "made me” what I am know that had It nob been for me and my un com prom I aing fight on wrongs os I aaw them, that the movement would have been doomed to failure. I am a reformer now. Just aa I waa In l(Mr Th*a movement did for the people than any- eiae In the history of the State and the only rebate I have about It are that surh men aa the three neaned are still seeking to > It tor political preferment. Just ‘ did hr th The warehouse system wae devis ed to meet ait economic need in South Carolina and can be made to be of great benefit to the State if self seeking and designing politicians of the McLaurin stripe are forbidden- by the strong mandate of the people ‘ to use it for purposes of promoting their own ambitions. Gov, Manning hae wisely and patriotically sought to keep the warehouse system out of politics. McLenrtn has persistently and with naive nnscrnpitlousnesa sought and is seeking to make It. serve hla personal and political ambitions. Just as he haa done with all positions of trust or honor which he haa held In the past at the handa of a credulous people. Let the people beware and keep awake. See to It that on next Tuesday every citizen who loves the good name of the State shall go to the polls and register hla protest against the return of Mease to the governor's chair, where he will seek to give yon again as your senator the boas traitor In Caro lina’s history—tile Benedict Ar nold from Marlboro. B. R. Tillman. BRrrtSR MAKE GAINS German Casualties are Very Heavy, Says British Report. . British troops have been engaged in the heaviest kind ot fighting along a three and one-half mile front on the Somme, extending from High Wood to Lease wood, and have cap tured Glnchy, which lies almost di rectly north of Combles, and all the ground between Glnchy and Leuze wood. On a front of more than a quarter Mrlemrls (Ud-not hesitate ta of a mile tha British gained three aak for money to buy South Caro lina In 1901, and to ask it front the arch trust of them all—the Standard OS. It ^ therefore not . fOI* tou _ eat South Curoilnlaas to believe that he would seek the‘eld of the Uquor Interests U buy the State In The whole seksme ; |e % Bleeee governor this tti Learie to the (easte two hundred yards east of High Wood and northeast 6t Poztoree and cap tured six hundred yards of German trenches. 19 these engagements the British official statement, were ex tremely heavy. Dm pen end Me- Lfeertoh Purls) itSal gto^goto gw tor the r William, according to Le s French newspaper at ’respondeat at the frost, la a ON IN SOMME OFFENSIVE WAR WILL -ex perts Hears That Greatest Victory Since Offensive Began Was Won. k* keen nn larnai. ahaw k that Improper Osh was being made of Information gleaned from opened neutral correspondence. a, formal Right Hundred Fertilizer Concerns Operate Twelve Hundred Plant*— Credit Conditions Bad—Seventy- one Names for Same Fertilizer Composition In Sooth Carolina. “Independent” firms in the fer tilizer industry, actually operated by larger concerns, or the so-called "Fertilizer trust,” will hereafter be fully identified "with* the parent in terests, according to a report made public Thursday In Washington by the federal trade commission, which has been investigating the fertilizer situation. The report says the com panies concerned have agreed to show their various relationships on their containers and letterheads. The commission’s investigation was made in compliance with a res olution introduced last year by Sen ator Simmons of North Carolina, do whom farmers had complained re garding the high price of fertilizer. 8150,000,000 worth of which was consumed by American farmers in 1814. In the letter of submittal to the Senate, accompanying the report, the commission asserts that there are In the United States 800 con cerns operating some 1,200 plants bat that seven of the large com panies. the largest being the Vir- ginia-Carollna Chemical company and the American Agricultural Chemical company, control 58 per cent, of the total- output. It Is a»- tatts MANNING WARNS VOTERS NOT TO VIOLATE LAW (,<>vrm<>r Telia What la Otmtnal In nod Wants Of- Prosecuted. the Oov. Manning haa given to prese the following statement: "To tbs Democrats xjf South Caro lina: "A free ballot and a fair count Is the foundation of our liberty. A tow corrupt votee should mat con trol the government. It la theSjuty of every honest citizen to fight for honest elections. "In South Carolina It la a crime and punishable by law “1. To bet on any election. “8. To vote more than once. "8. To bribe any voter with money or anything of value. ”4. To offer to bribe voters. ”S. To threaten, abuse or misuse any voter. ”6. To assault a voter on account of his political opinions or rlhto. “7. To swear falsely In order to vote. "8. To vote when not legally en titled to do so or to prevent in any manner those who are so entitled. ”9. To sell, barter, treat or give subsidiaries, away any liquor to any voter within one lie of any voting precinct. "It is the duty of all managers of elections to see that the laws are obeyed and to have those violating them arrested and prosecuted. Any citizen has the right to swear out a warrant before an? magistrate for the arrest of any person breaking the election laws. If the law is vio lated In your precinct or ward, swear out a warrant and prosecute the man who • would debouch the voters and corrupt the government. "Richard I. Manning. "Governor.” .nu&n era for mixed fertilizers have been high In comparison with the cash value of the constituent elements, party because of credit conditions and expensive distributing methods of the large companies. “Credit conditions affecting farm era," the letter contlnugk "are so burdensome that some g^ion. legls BRITISH SOLDIERS DO NOT FECI EARLY PEACE |(j| ADVANTAGEOVERGERMAN Allied Soldlefe Feel That the Uphill Work in Somme Offensive Ha* Been Accomplished—Roumanla’s Entry and the Somme Battle Make Them Confident. The British feel that their uphill work in this latest offensive layover, with the exception of the taking of London reports that the lines of the Entente allies are drawing more closely about Combes and toward! Peroone, and farther,and farther| their wedges are being driven into th* German lines north and south of the Rlvfcr Somme. On a front of about twenty-five miles the French and British troops, supported powerfully by their enor mous artillery arm, are steadily hammering the German positions and sustaining, unflinchingly,, heavy counter attacks. North of the Somme to the east and southeast of Forest, the French have driven forward their lines, cap- „„„ turlng the outskirts of the Anderlu Glnchy. For over two months now wood, hospital farm and the Rain- their fight has been one to gain high nette wood and. part of Marrleres ground over the broad commanding wood and a position on the road front. Guillemont places them in leading from Bouchavesnes to Clery. possession of the last of the old sec- Near Glnchy, to the north of ond line trenches and from the Guillemont, the British have made Somme to Thiepval the Germans now further progress, winning all the have been blasted out of their old territory between the Falfemont positions. farm and Leuse wood and between "This is not the only point In our that wood and the outskirts of the favor,” said a British staff officer, town of Glnchy, which they captured “The Germans chose their ground and have held since the fighting of when they built this line of fortiflea- Sunday. ^ t tlons which they considered by their South of the Somme the French own admission to be invulnerable, have taken the town of Chilly, situ- When the British first smashed ated one mile west tit the railroad through the GDsrmans said that we leading from Chaulnes to Roye, a were in a sack. So we were in one line of trenches east of Soyecourt sense. But we had to make an open- and numerous isolated positions be- ing in that solid line of defence as a tween Vermandovillers and Chilly, start in our plans. \Ve knew the Since Sunday the French alone have hardest work would come after the taken on the Somme front 6,550 great main attack and this is so far prisoners and thirty-six guns, accomplished that it is the Germans twenty-eight of them being of heavy now who are in a sack. calibre. Paris is also jubilant. "Not a success merely, but a victory—the greatest victory since the offen sive began" is the way a dispatch If we prefer to end the su offensive and wait for spring we shall have quadruple the ber of guns and so much ammunit that we shall have to keep up daily battle of guns on four times til* nt with all operations. this summer's offensive In order to „ consume the supply arriving dolly According to the Echo of Paris, ^cf*^ the channel. Why. our pres- the French have administered a ent position of‘artillery and Infantry smashing defeat to crack German w iv anc o.on the Somme front In aet- corps, under the eyes of Field Mar- t ied trench warTkre means simply shal von Hlndenburg himself, in a that we could kn i two Germans to regular pitched battle of five houra’ every h rlt0 n the German* kill. Tht* duration. 1 was the first atep. What the others lotto* or otherwise, ahould be token! The weather had greatly interfer-' ^ t 0 be. only "the commandera of to remedy them. Any action that od with Oen. Foch's plans Twice a the -m-d know" would reduce the high Interest rates am agricultural credits, particularly on short time loo**, would tend to red*re the farmers' prices, both on fertiliser materials and mixed tor- By the practice of concealing the tdeatlty of controlled companies, which the commission haa succeeded in having discontinued, the large cor porations are said In the report to have been enabled to get more deal- or* In a given locality, and thus in crease their sales to the detriment 1 of th* smaller competing concerns; In addition It has enabled them to benefit financially from business TURKS AID AUSTRIANS Help Tectonic Allies to 'Hold Front Near Hallcz. Carpathians, donia, with postponement was necessary, owing The Associated Press correspond- to n driving rain, which prevented en ( w |, 0 j, M m year with the aerial observation. Twice the artll- arm y meets many officers and soL- lery ceased fire from the sheer 1m- dters. One of the striking things to possibility of knowing whether Us him | fl how often some gain which objectives had been attained, only e | a tea (he army does not elate either to begin again a* aoon aa a gleam of the Brl tlah or the French public, sunshine pierced the low-lying Again, the public enthuses over some clouds. I event which the army opinion re It waa not until yeaterday that the gardB M incidental. French commander could be certain Th, British and French successe* that his preparation* were adequate t h,, week had an extraordinary ef- and gave the order for the attack, on both armies. The ability ot which, lacking that knowledge, he t he French to make a second drive would not risk. „ 1 over the broad front and the same The delay had given the Germans iec t 0 r as that of the big offensive of ^ .. . . . .. , a Ume 40 mass forces In the t h e first of July brought conviction which they could not get under their threatened area. From before Gullle- to t he professional skeptics. “Go own name*, to sell to farmers who! most to the Somme no less than two OTer and t h« French,’’ said the are dissatisfied with the same goods nrmy corps of the finest troops the nrttlsh officer "if you want to see under a different name, to manlpu-; German empire can boast were wait- ^ arm y with Its head In the air." late prices to the detriment ,of the tug to bar the advance of the Chas-| f* ot eTen t h e rainy weather can small competitors and to be respon- sours Alplns and regiments of Nor- darken the high spirits of botii slble. In part, for the "absurd multi-! mandy and Brittany and their allies armies. Men who came out of the pRimtion of brands.' * j The Kaiser s heroic Brandenburg- trenches plastered with chalky clay It le said in the letter that In one; era were not again to cross swords Guillemont Is taken and that state, out of 185 brands of fertilizer gwith the French regiments which for t h e | r hardships ^ ^ »v. . . had torn the Oouaumont crest from X he many new highways which their grasp one Saturday In Feb- th e British build, and the new rail- ruaxy. To the Brandenbur^ere fell waTS which are part of Sir Douglaa the task ,of holding Guillemont Haig's policy, have saved transport against the British,'and they failed, f rom being mired. Supplies hav* * ai,ed V v «rdun (gone up on schedule time. In the The net results were of the high- emp, the rear the soldiers mak* Importance. The hVeuch reach- themselves tittle tents with their ed the outskirts of Combles and ru bber blankets under which they were firmly established on the pla- cluster for shelter. They manage to teau overlooking the Bapaume-Pe- kw(p partly d ry. but those In the ronne State road. Further south flghting line expect to be saturated, they gained a footing on Hill St. Whether the private soldier in hla Quentin, dominating Peronne itself, shelter tent or general In his i The whole line north ofthe river has mobile. If you ask them'that been brought level to that at the question, "When do you think south, which no longer forms the war w jjj he- over?” you get no offtP salient. Most important of all 18 the j on 0 f an y pos8 j5i e conclusion short moral effect of the victory, which 0 j next summer. They all take shows that not even Germany s best mnny months of flghting to come no troops, in equal or superior num- j eg8 f or g ran ted than that Rouma- bers, fully expecting and prepared for an attack, can check the French offensive. For future progress noth- reglstered. the American Agricul tural Chemical company registered In Its own name and the name of 101 brands, the same formula subsequently being sold under numerous brand names. -bs SonUa Carolina, the Ylrglpla- CnvoMna Chemical company regis tered 71 brande of fertilizer, ail of which were substantially the same composition. The companies which engaged In these practices told the federal in vestigators they did so because of the additional business secured there by. The commission raises the ques tion in Us letter whether such prac tices constitute an unfair method of competition. In the sense of section ? of the federal trade commission act, It being detrimental to competitors n hm w who do not employ them. Two of the large companies are said to have ” Iien8 ‘ ¥,5 hil ' ™ refrained from the now corrected tn S cal1 be more significant, practices on the ground that it was •'objectionable." There has been no great change on any of the battle fronts of Europe, according to the latest communica tions from the capitals of the war-^ ring nations. The flghting continues^ on the Somme and in Galicia, the Dobrudja and Mace- apaprently no decided advantage for either the Entente Allies or the Central Powers. Russian troops fighting in the Car pathian heights In Bukowlna are pressing closer and closer to Hun gary. Berlin admits a retirement be- tirement before strong Russian at tacks northwest of Kapul, and this may mean that the Russians again have entered Hungary, as the fight ing there has been close to the Hun garian herder. Petrograd s&ys the Russians have stormed a series of heights south of Baranoff and have ,captured five hundred prisoners. 1 Turkish troops are aiding the Aus- tro-German forces of the Archduke Charles Francis around Hallcz and In the. Carpathians. Violent fighting still continue* between the Zlota Lip* and th* Dniester below Hallcz. Berlin records the driving out of Russian detachments that bad pene trated Geran trenches and the cap ture by the Turks erf one thousand Russian/ Petrograd says Austro- Oerman Attacks were repulsed- in this region end that stubborn flghting continues. m * Roestone and Bulgarians ace fight ing In Ro liman la. The Petrograd war office announced Tuesday that th* first clash between th* BuL- garians, who has* tovadsd eestera Russians who DR. STEEL DENIES REPORT WHY FALKENBAYN «UIT Advocated Retirement and Prepara tion for a Long War. “According to reports from Ger many received at Berne,” says a dis nia’s entry and the artillery results in the Somme battle mean that the Allies will dictate their terms of peace. ADVANCE IN R0UMANU » Germans and Bulgarians Capture Fortress of Sillstrla. Continuing their advance in west ern Dobrudja, the German and Bul- * r T®i? S u il r ® s S,’.,i™ e fiarlan forces have captured the old fortress of Sillstrla, which lies on Columbia Pastor Says He Voted for Gov. Manning. From S. A. Steel, pastor of the' (U 8 ! 11 * 888 ! of - Gen. Erich von Falken „ „„„ Washington Street Methodist church hayn, as chief of the German general t }, e ea8 t ern bank of the Danube In Columbia came a disclaimer of the 8 toff. was hu® to n* 8 suggestion of a a b 0 ut twenty-five miles northeast of charge that he had voted for Cole complete change in Germany s war Turtukai and sixty miles east of L. Biease for governor. The story plans which Emperor William ia- Bucharest, the capital of Roumania, which had been given rather wide . dignartjly rejected. | and about an equal distance south of circulation was fltot printed In the! ‘‘Pedictlng the complete downfall; Constanza-Bucharest Railway Yorkville Enquirer, which quoted , a 0 * Bulgaria as the result of converg-1 jj ne The capture of the fortress Is speech made by Mr. Blease In Co-1 atacks from the north and south, announced by the Berlin war office, lumbla last Tuesday. Hie forme*- and In the end a consequent inter- w blch adds that the Roumanians and governor was quoted as saing that ruptlon of communications with Tur- R U8S i a n 8 fighting In Dobrudja ap- since he hod lived next to Dr. Steel ke y> U® n - you Falkenhayn urged pare tiy have suffered very consider- tn Colombia, the minister had learn, that the whole Balkan campaign be ed to know his ways and had voted abandoned, that the eastern line be shortened and that the occupied ter ritory in France be evacuated. “The General expresed the opin ion that the transformation of Ger man strategy Into a purely defensive campaign on a shorter front would ^ ' paralyse the Entente allies and make RUSSIANS CAPTURE SOLDIERS, it impossible for them to crush Aus tor him In the first primary. Mr. Steel’s disclaimed In a telegram read simply, “I voted for Manning," sign-! ed 8. A. Steel. Dr. Steel is now in Morristown, Tenn: — able losses during the last few days. DEMOCRATIC TEMOOK Pence With Honor, Preparedness and Prosperity. % Claim -More Hum Five Thousand Recent Battles. The Democratic text book for the tro-German resistance unless they ^916 campaign, issued In New York fought with unlimited resources and .^7 the Democratic national and con- then for ten years. Persistence In gressional committee, contains 484 present plan of campaign, he . It* slogan is "Peace witk mid, would lead to disaster. j honor, preparedness, prosperity." "Field Marshal von Hlndenburg ^ picture of President Wilson [ denounced this advice as chlldlst, P®*™ °a th® front cover and or says Thursday: The Russians are bombarding the Gall- -- --- -- --- — if.—a.ii „„ dan town of Hallcz, about sixty cowardly and unworthy of the Ger- Vice President Marshall on the __ ' Z - ■■ I —sea* ^ -- jam mm r If firm then IKA a 11K i 4 a lag to the Rnotian official report.] The town to in flame*. The Russian statement ad da that Roast an troops hav* occuptod the line* between Halles and Wednlkl to the fighting to Barters OeHela Emperor William took .tom More than 850 aub Hlndenburg'* view and dismissed oflug fh® whoft of ISe Wilson von Falkenhayn; Greeks Invited to Leevei dispatch to tho Havas Agency ministration, are discussed from Aliens, dated Friday, eays tho which to tovadtog tovafi* The German end Bulgarian army idaat tho tho Greek aathorlUaa to qslt "Invited", has carried by advanced ! head of Tmtrshaa. the fortified