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POLITICS OPEN UP
IETHEA ENTERS RACE FOR
60VERN0R OF STATE
HER CANDIDATES DUSY
CAPELLE RESIGNS
Cooper, and Stuckey #Ha?e
Already Announced Their Inten
tion of Kunning, Says W. Z. Cor-
mack in The News and Courier—
Other Interesting Political Gossip.
“I am both & conscript and volun
teer in the race for governor in 1918,
and I expect to Wib',” is the emphatic
and striking way in which Andrew J.
Bethea, lieutenant-governor, an
nounced his intention to enter the
race for governor next year. Mr.
Bethea stated that his announce
ment is made at this time in re
sponse to insistent^-demands of
friends in all parts of the State, y
‘"There is ample- time,” he con
tinued, “in which to discuss issues
and publish platforms, and besides,
the people know my position on the
vital questions of the day. I have
never dodged an issue or shirked a
duty, i stand now; as htrsi
for a'clean, orderly, progressive gov
ernment within the State—a fair
and Just government to be adminis
tered for poor and rich 'alike. I
stand also, as I believe 99 per cent,
of the citlxen&hip of South Carolina
stands, for loyal and unquestioned
support of the president and the na
tional government In the present
crisis. -
*T crave the opportunltytoo^oi
*rvke tu my Mlo» man. to h«*lp
b Man on the farm, in the factory,
the bank, behind fh«* counter., In
school.room, at the desk, on the
ilruad. nt the shop and In the of-
and I believe that the rtcrum*
stances of my birth and tmining, the
twelve years* etpertenre I have bad
iiUMiPblM
have bad to ntndi and
dtnons as they at 1st la the oorld. to
day fit me for ebai I hope to do If
I am vfterted I shall strive to eoltsl
the co opr fallen nod
moo oomsn aod child in iootn
fnreltnn in an effort to mobe the
Mote better nod the people iMPfdM*
To my frteods I o t*n at this lime
amt? to refieot the oords of Woodrow
Wilsoo. "lot os nil spsob. net nod
nerve vopetOsr ‘ ^
tic Netbeo bos served foot year*
no pcfsai* aervetory to the povefoor.
9mm* >eom as evade cemm iseasoor nod
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oMb eppoattfeoo ever fecetvod to
Ooolb t‘a#eliaa aod |l A* soosoded
that be o.ll make a VorMidOblO COO
dldate
ftstbeo • aoooooesoneol la tbe
fsaattb mode bw peveeoor. oMb at
bwet aosober to coOAetnpInAlao Math*
lasorowo oanda
Attacks I’pon Minister of Marlae la
Helchstag l , V>rre Him Out.
Vice Admiral von Capelle, the
German minister df marine, has re
signed. He was one of the admin
istrative directors, in the minlatry of
marine before the war and had serv
ed as & captain at sea. ^ In March,
1916, he succeeded Admiral von Tir-
pitz as imperial minister of the navy.
Several times since then von Capelle
has appeared before the Reichstag
with optimistic statements regarding
the progress of the unrestricted sub-
roarine campaign, as late as August
^£^1917, defending the u-boat policy
of his predecessor and himself at a
meeting of the Reichstag main com
mitted.
Vice Admiral von Capelle an
nounced In the Reichstag last Wed
nesday that a plot had been discov
ered in the navy to paralyze the effi
ciency of the fleet and force the gov
ernment to make peace. He said that
the guilty parties had received their
just deserts, and attempted to link
Socialists with the plot. The im
perial German chancellor, Dr. Mich-
aelis, also spoke of the existence oi
a conspiracy in the navy and assert
ed that certain Deputies were in
volved in the revolt.
The Socialists and 'their news
papers have attacked both the chan
ccllor, and the vice admiral for theii
statements.
APPEALS TU PEOPLE
I •;
PRESIDENT URGES PURCHASE
OF NATION’S BONDS
SETS A “LIDERTYJAY”
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Chief Executive Wiffhee Answer to
He So Emphatic That Enemy
Countries Will Know What Amer
ica Intends to Do oh the Battle-
‘ •• * t .. \ * • • • , .
- fields of Europe—Everybody Must
* Buy a* Bond.
DISLOYAL PRESS VANISHING
Publications Being Discontinued at
Kate of Several a Week.
A Washington dispatch to The
New York 8un says: The public is
bearing of only a very small part of
tbe crusade against publications
whoso policies art considered dis
loyal. It was learned * that news
papers and small maga/loes quietly
have been censing publication at tbe
rate sometimes of two or three s day
as a result of tbe srtlvttles of the
post office deportmeet offi. tals
Hardly a day paaaos that two or
bre publishers, mostly of foreign
la
editorials or
the departsse
general •*. ■
•a articles Co which
President Wilson, in behalf of the
Liberty loan, Sunday night issued a
proclamation setting aside October
24 as “Liberty Day” and urging tbe
people of the nation to assemble on
that day in their respective com
munities and ”pledge to one another
and to the government that repre
sents them the fullest’measure of
financial support.”
Let the result be so impressive
and emphatic,” the president urges,
‘that it will echo throughout the
empire of our enemy as an index of
what America intends to do to bring
this war to a-victorious conclusion:”
The president’s proclamation fol
lows:
“By the President of tl^» I’nited
States of America -A Proclama
tion:
“The second Liberty loan gives
the people of the t'nited States an
other opportunity to lend their funds
to tfieir government to sustain their
country at war. The might of tbe
I nited States Is being mobilised am
organized to strike a mortal blow at
autocracy ‘In defense of outraged
American rights andwf the cause of
liberty. Billion# of dollars require*
to arm. feed and rlotbe the brave
men who are going fdrtb to fight our
rouuiry’a buttles and to assist tbe
nations with whom we are making
tw perform a service of
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT
Department of Agriculture
Yields of Various Staples.
A summary of the October crop
report for South Carolina and for
the United States, as compiled by the
iure&u of Crop Estimates, . and
transmitted through the weather bu
reau, U. S. Department of Agricul 1 -
ture, Is as follows:
South Carolina.
Corn—October 1 forecast, 45,300,-
i»00 bu.; production last year, De
cember estimate, 32,008,000 bu.
All Wheat—Preliminary estimate,
,869,000 bu.; production last year,
December estimate, 2,226,000 bu.
Oats—Preliminary estimate, 5,-
250,000 bu.; production last year,
December estimate, 9,000,000 bu.
Tobacco—October 1 forecast, 67,-
000,000 lb.; production last year, De
cember estimate, 20,280,000 lb.
Potatoes—October 1 forecast, 1,-
100,000: bu.; production last year,
December estimate, 7J>0,000 bu.
Sweet Potatoes—October 1 fore
cast, 7,300,000 bu.; production last
year, December estimate, 5,676,000
bu.
All Hay—Preliminary estimate,
292,000 tons; production last year,
December estimate, 340,000 tons.
Apples (Agricultural Crop)—Oc
tober 1 forecast, 276,000 barrels of
o bu.; production last year,-Decem
ber estimate, 196.000 barrels. -
Peaches — Estimated production
19-17,-*1.130,000 bu.; production'last
year. December ‘estimate, 545,000
bn.
Cotton—September 25 forecast.
1,350.000 bales; production last
year, census, 931,830 hales.
Prices - The first price given be
low is the average on October 1 this
year, and the second the average on
October I last year:
Wheat. 271 and 165 cents per bu.
Corn. 2of and I#5. Data. Ilk and
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MENACE PETROfiRAO, 5 "”*™™^
GERMANS LAND TROOPS ON American ItrprrwwitMlTe at WwlUcr.
. ISLANDS NEAR RIGA
NAVAL FIGHT FROBABLE
land Hays Backbone of German
llcwistaacr Has Been Broken
.After four years spent in the cen
ter of Europe's colossal struggle.
Pleasant A. Stovall declared on his
arrival In this country Friday thc.t
the economic situation in Germany Is
Attacking Ocwel Under Cover of 90 acute, and that he believed the back*
. ~ bone of German resistarce has been
War Vessels Teutons Poesees Big broken.
„ , i ^ . I Since the publication of President
Portion of. Island — Kerensky Wilson’s reply to Pope Benedict's
Warns Russian Navy That the 5 eace Proposals, wMch^he presl-
# . I dent stated that the United States is
♦‘Hour of Trial Has Arrived”— warring upon the German govem-
'' { ment, and not upon the German peo-
I^ite in Heaton for Land Opera- pie, the revulsion against the war,
Mr. Stovall said, has been spreading
rapidly through Germany.
“The effect of this statement was
tor a long time not noticeable,” he
lions. '
A situation latent with big possi
bilities hab developed on the Rus- . ^
sian front. The landing of German a88er ted, * but slowly and surely It is
troops on the islands of Oesel and deeper and deeper Into Ger-
Dago, at the mouth of the Gulf of man , hear ts. If left to themselves
Riga, Is reported Saturday from 1 ^ ,,>rInan people would mage
Petrograd. From* the shore’s, ends l >c?are to-morrow. As it Is, forces are
at Hapsel, opposite Dago Island, a a * " or l* in Germany which will even-
railroad line runs direct to Reval, l ua liy no nian can safely pre li»;t
the Russian naval base on the Gulf ^ow soon <?om)Fel the German gov-
of Finland and thence on to Petro- , * rn tnont to. make r peace with tbe
vruit * - world.
grad.
The Islands themselves have been
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vbalrMW of iW Itallraad (*oaimis
sion. as Its candidate for goverwor
Jlowever. Belt her Major Richards
llmr former Gov Bits as will verify
this rumor.
Tp tq the present time there have
I»<an only two candidates announced
for the l*nited States Senate—N. B.
Dial of LaurenH and W. Jaap Tal
bert, of McCormick county, the for
mer running as an Independent, but
Identified with the majority faction
of the State, and the former an ex
ponent of Blease principles. Mr. Tal
bert was chairman of the convention
which met in Columbia on the night
of October 24. 1916, and launched
the so-called “reform” party. . Sen
ator Tillman recently issued a state
ment in which he said that l?e would
enter the race for re-election if the
people of the St ate’ 1 'would ' “con
script” him. It is known that sev-
eval other senatorial aspirants. are
waiting Senator Tillman’s decision
before they decide whether they will
run, or not. ’ -
Ip to the present former Governor
Please 1ms not definitcly^rtinouncod
whether he will be hMTte race.-.The
geiuTalXstipposii^m^ based on his
various statepKJnts that he will
* serve in any capanty in wlych he is
placeddfy his faction; is that he will
n.^ike the race. He, however, has
^tfiade no direct statement to that ef
fect. ‘ \
. Congressman A. F. Lever, of the
Seventh Congressional district, has
been prominently talked of as a suc
cessor to Senator Tillman because
of his unswerving loyalty to the na
tional administration and bis patri
otic work for his country, but he
also has not announced 'his political
plans for the .future. It Hi not be
lieved. however, that .Congressman
I^ever will make the race If Senator
Tillman decides to run for re-elec
tion.
Others spoken of unofficially aa
possible candidates for the, United
States Senate are R Goodwyn Rhett
of Charleston. W. P. Pollock of Cher-
aw. and L.- D. Jennings of Bnmter
Korfe of thews men. bowqvwr. h*»
Mated pebUriy whether ih«y would
a. 1 • ^ .-s to ‘e pwt tav. !k«
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• ratty fired a flee tbe wwdeeaew craft
had failed tw noswer tsv ■•i at I hsw eig-
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ti.mister wf manwe npresstng tbe
deepest regret ever the nnf»rtnnale
orrarrenr* and tendering bts own
and the department • syntpnlby for
the loes of life.
ANOTHER PEACE OFFER
I Germany ami AniOria Agree to Make
l*n»po«al« to Entente.
Germany and Austria-Hungary
have agreed to make another peace
Offer to the Allies, the Deutsche
Tages Zeltung of Berlin says '.it
learns on good authority.
The offer will have as its basis no
territorial aggrandizement, the Mir~
render of Belgium and French tpr
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I Signed I “ Wood row Wilson
“By thn PrasUlent:
(SignedI “Robert Lansing.
“Secretary of Htata.**
An appeal to “tbe wage earners of
the United Slates” to invest in Abe
bonds w.is issued-fiunday night by
Secretary Wilson bf the department
of labor. He said: ^'
“The workers have more at stake
in this conflict than any others, be
cause it is only In a democracy (hat
the common .people can come into
their own. The great privilege is
not given to all of us to serve our
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bases of no little importance to tbe slrait in which Germany now
Russians, especially for airplane ac- nerswlf. The situation Is
tivilies. Their seizure would un-A mc, J ,e • . A m ~
dosbtedly hamper Russian naval .. i P* te GermMi, French and
scouting work, effectually close the **!,*?, i n ^ u# * nrea * Minister Stovall
Gulf of Riga to Russian use and ap- Ka ^' 8*1** neutrality has been pre-
parently offe ran excellent starting aod a force of 2o0,00# men
point for a long expedition for Petro- aratches the borders constantly to
grad. If one should be contemplated i J rpVP ?5 ******** contraband,
by the German command M * added that Hwltserland • •xerrlse
Heavy units of the main German ? f bro * 4 »r»Mtblee for tbe wonndvl
battle fleet were brousht up to aa- »■ fro « Uiree tromim waa a
al»t la this operatioa. some of the 5 oUb,f> rb *P t#f of htotory. In Swiss
dre^Jnaugbts appearing off tbe const ^WHala GbMW are. be anld. about
and rovenng the land wnh tbeir
auns. Silent .ng tbe Russian shore
baUt*f|e» The Rusaaln forte# bam*
p* red the pfutees in eferji Way po*«
•Ihie, hut < onsiderable numbers of
Ibr Germans appeer to have obtain
rd a luMting on the nofthyelegn
southern sbofes of Hugo I.Und On
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English and Germans aLo Tbe guias
people give entertain men ta rowels at
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SECOND DRAFT IN DECEMBER
fyumiB
oa tbe
S4>me dial
At laat
ritof>'. the renunciation of positive '! ° r * n '*1''
ten1torf«l acqulBlttonB f,.r payment* tTench - but ,h ‘ !re are other wa > 8 ln
in money, and no indemnity on eith
er eide.
IMPERSONATOR SENTENCED
Two Years for Young Man Imitating
Daniels* Son.
Joseph^ i-evy of Pittsburg, who
pleaded guilty , to impersonating a
son of Secretary Daniels, . was sen
tenced to two vears in the federal
penitentiary at Atlanta. Ga. Through \jght sent by 11 of the 12 represen
passiifg as young Daniels. Levy ob- tatlve banks, show bu
passiifg as young
tained loans and letters to promi
nent person^ and succeeded also, in
gaining admittance to the New York
navy yard.
Spartanburg, congressman from the
Fourth district,, are urging him to
tun for the Senate, hut It Is probable
that Mr. Nicholls will be in the race
for re-election to the office to which
he was elected by such a large ma
jority last year.
As Fair week In Columbia Is gen
erally the period when tb# politi
cians of tbw State foregather In large
aomher# It Is probable that tbe
fortnight beginning October 22 will
which we can serve and assTsVThose
who are privileged to carry our flag
on the battlefields of Europe. .
“The impulse of sacrifice lor the
common good is sending, the youth
of our country into the trenches in
defease of liberty, humanity and de
mocracy. To those of us who must,
of necessity remain at home to till
tbe soil, harvest the crops, man the
factories, mines and mills, the way Is
open for additional service. We, too,'
must make sacrifices.” *
Official reports of subscriptions
upf to the close of business Sunday
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ant sffort by tbw navy sag |. sa gwn-
rno dsmand tbpt tbw wnllwrw
makw ssrrifirsa.
. •. r that tbw fatbwr-
IMscussion of tbw advisability of
expediting tbw call for |bw second in
crement of tbw draft army now is In
progress at tbe war department and
it appear# likely that the date may
be fixed for some time In December
or Jainuary. Mobilization of the first
increment .of 687,000 men Is now far
enough advanced to show clearly
that there will be a big deficiency.
Operating to delay the calling out
of the second increment to make
good these shortages are several‘far
ters. “ Clothing and equipment are
coming forward only at a rate that
can meet the demands of the forces
already called and the railways for
the country*have been over burdened
with the job of moving the army
without hindering freight shipment#
vital to the Allies.
borsa of tbs Gulf of Riga,
lew to tbs southWrat
sccowats tbw GsrmaB*.
who Undsd uodsr tbw covwr of s
grrst array of naval craft, wwrw
•twadlly pressing barb tbw Rnswlnnw
towards tbw suuthsastsm part of'land will not forglvw criminal levity
that Island, and also putting aaborw 1 Lm tbw abomtnablw crimes of tbw
othwr forces with tbw bugs armada
guarding them against aaaault by
Runsian warships.
Tbw entire northern and eastern
sections of the Island were in Ger
man hands and the Invaders were
only a short distance from Arens-
burg, on the southern shore, which
was in flames. , *
(’ereI, which lies on the 8vorb
peninsula, the HouthernmoBt extrem
ity of the island, also was on fire.
Whether the conflagrations were
caused by me German gun# or
whether they were started by the
Russians is not known.
Although the German communica
tion says the Germans suffered no
losses during the landing on Oesel
battleship Petro pa viovsky
deemed. Let tbw fleet repulse tbw
enemy under command of its officers
whose patriotism Is well known to all
Russia."
As a result of a misunderstanding
on board the Russian battleship Pw-
tropavlovsky, growing out of the ac
tion of the general assembly of the
democratic bodies on calling upon
officers of the army and navy in Fin
land to sign a pledge of fidelity to
the Russian provisional government,
four officers who refused to sign the
pledge were shot at Helsingfros last
month by members of the crew.
Oesel and Dago Islands are at the
entrance to the Gulf of Riga and pro
vide easy 'access to the • mainland
ADMIRAL MAYO RETURNS
but little prog
ress, the total standing at $399,654,-
000, or Only about 8 per cent, of the
$5,000,000,000 hoped for. Follow’-
ing are the figures, as announced by
the treasury department (000 omit
ted):
Reported.
Boston *.......$ 50.100
cal
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New York .
Philadelphia
rb'veland ..
Richmond
Atlaato^^l
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City
W w s w a w
250.910
16.617
1.971
21.827
1,531
10.(01
$.700
t.osi
1.171
20.111
Allotted.
$
. 1.500
416.00#
600.000
200.000
•135.000
700.000
200.000
17S.§#0
200.0$#
126.$$$
Attended .Alin'd Naval Conference in
London.
Admiral * Mayo, cornmander-in-
(hief of the Atlantic fleet, and his
staff, have returned from England,
where they participated in a naval
conference with the Allies.
“Admiral Mayo vjsited the English
fleet and our own forces in British
and French water* in order that he
might familiarize himself with the
conditions under which the Allied
forces are operating, »
Inland, the Petrograd "war office says o>er small intermediate islands,
that in attempting to cover the land-< They are off the coast of the Rus-
ing dt the enemy on Dago Island, to ! s >an province of Esthonia. Dago
thjHhorth of Oesel, four German tor- island is about 200 miles from Po-
'TferiH boats are reported to have been "trograd. Its position derivep addl-
sunk and one cruiser run aground. I importance from the fact that
The small detaciunent which landed & almost at tne mouHi'bf the Gulf
on Dago Island was forced later by j°7. Finland, at the head of w'hich is
the Russians to return to the ships,! Kronstadt, which defends Petrograd.
while the Russian fleet, which at ' Oesel Island W nearly 100 miles
last accounts had suffered no ma-1 nortji of Rigaj, which the Germans
ferial damage, was hindering th? captured recently. The landing of
iw
German war craft in the waters be
tween Dago and Oesel Islands.
As yet nothing has come through
to show that the enemy has attempt
ed to attack the mainland of West
ern Essthonla, nor has there been
German troops in Esthonia w'ould
threaten the outflanking of the Rusr
sian line and probably compel a re
treat on a wide section of the front,
if indeed, it did not open the way to
Petrograd itself. A railway line fol-
mates from the Uhlcago, New York.
Cleveland and San Francisco dis
tricts alone add 918t.90$,00$. Tbe
total of tbw otbwr district* are
thought not to exceed •!$$.$$$.$$$.
“In otbwr word*, tbw In tost official
iw it
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any indication that the Russian front 1 lows the coast all the way from Hap-
in this regiom has been moved. sal. opposite Dago Island, to Petro-
Patrograd reports: The German grad.
forces which landed on Owsel Island 1
In the Gulf of Riga tinder the cover
of 90 -war vessela-Jiad occupied up to
|l$‘ $ > o>Mb lMM<$r M$nibM Ibo
Oesel Island, the larger of the two,
la forty-five miles long aad has aa
arwa of 1.01$ sqoare miles and 0
population of aboat ($.900. It boo n
whole northern and waatwnt part of difficult const lino ta Xh* form of
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rlthln 12 verst* precipitous
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