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1 TBf SOLID
SOIITN BE SPLIT?
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMIT-
TEE BELIEVES THAT IT CAN
MAKE INROADS THERE.
THINKS TARIFF THE WEDGE
THE PEOPLE, BARNWELL, 8. C.
Vigit ana Petition of Southed Bu»i-
nees Men Who Seek Protection Con-
Biderod Indicative—Only an N ’Emer.
gency, Say Democratic Lcadera.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington.—Konu* tlnu* a^o the lie-
publican national committee appointed
a Huh-commlttee with Inst ructions to
Ko into the southern states, there to
study the situation and to formulate
a report on means to fix the repre-
sentution of the South in. futiire Re
publican conventions on a basis more
In keeping with the party's voting
strength in that section of the coun
try/**
The sub-committee is expected also
to make a thorough Inquiry Into po
litical conditions In the southern
states with a view to determining If
a considerable part of the Itemocrnts
dwelling therein cannot be expected
shortly to change their party affilia
tions.
Are the Republican party leaders In
Congress out dreaming dreams, or have
they some solid basts for their ap
parent belle/ that In the near years
of the future they are to make In
roads Into the voting strength of the
South?
Are the efforts of ^|he Republicans
to amount to anything? Democratic
Tenders In congress, true to their par
ty traditions and principles, say ‘‘no."
Republicans, however, seemingly have
been bolstered In their hopes by tariff
developments in the South, and also
by a recent manifestation of, high
tariff desires by a large delegation of
southern business men who have Just
visited the White House on a tariff
mission bent, and who also apiteared
before the house committee on ways
and means on the same errand.
Think Tariff Will Be the Wedge.
Some time this summer the Fordney-
Penrose tariff bill will he passed by
• Republican house and senate and
signed by a Republican President.
In former years when Republican
tariff bills were before congress for
consideration the Democrats of the
country. North and South, stood vir
tually In solid ranks for low rates,
and some of the Democrats, many
Southerners among them, vowed their
fidelity to the cause of free trade or
to n close approach to It.
It Is true that a few of the Demo
crats of the North and South yielded
their low tariff positions In favor of
protection Tor certain Industries In
which the home districts were Inter
ested, thereby bolstering Winfield
.Scott Hancock’s pronouncement when
he was the Democratic candidate for
the presidency: “The tariff Is a local
Issue."
It Is apparent today that the Re
publicans hope that the tariff Is to
he one of the wedges to break the
solid South.* The Democrats say this
la nonsense, and that even if some
of the Southern senators and repre
sentatives shall give way to high
tariff pressure In behalf of certain
southern Industries, they In the main
will stand stnnohly by the old tariff-
for-revenue-eniy cause, and will have
no fear In their hearts that any of
their constituents will leave the Dem
ocratic party to consort with the Re
publicans.
In some of the industrial districts
of the South. Republicanism, so say
members of the Republican national
committee. Is strongly’Intrenched, and
If Its Influence In these business cen
ters can find a means to extend itself
outside of Its present limits. Republi
canism. they say. will come into a re
spectable share of jhe voting fruits
of the southern states.
If It had been posMb/e to learn
definitely what are the istfltlcal feel
ings of the niembers of the Southern
Tariff association, who called on th>
President and the ways and means
committee, It would he possible to
determine with something like accur
acy whether or not there Is a basis
for the Republican hope that In the
near future the South Is to he split.
On political matters, however" the
southern visitors were as silent af
the pupils at Gallaudet college.
What the Southerners Asked.
Sixty southern business organiza
tions were represented in Washington
by the committee. The delegation was
led by John H. Kirby, of Houston.
Tex., president of the association.
There were strong words touching
the tariff In the memorandum which
the members presented. They asked
for a protective tariff <n almost ev
ery kind of enterprise In the South,
agricultural an'’ u.anufacturlng, dye
stuffs, gDTff. textiles, cotton, cotton
seed, .peanuts, sugar, tobacco, wool,
Ilv</ stock, cement, graphite, lumber,
End hundred* of other things.
The petition among other things
said: “We respectfully urge upon
you, therefore, that In this grieve
emergency, the customary process of
legislation be avoided, and /hat hy
Joint resolution, or otherwise, the con
gress make Immediately operative such
schedules as your committee
may recommend as desirable, subject
to modification, upward or downward,
as subsequent full Investigation may
•how to be wise. We urge that yoc
Mt first and Investigate afterwarda.**
POLITICAL PARTIES AND CANDI*
DATES IN GERMANY ARE 1
RESERVING DECISION.
ALLIES (S CAUSE
Believed That Social Democratic Party
Has Rejected an Invitation to
Join in a Coalition Ministry.
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■55% ’<»
HOTEt OR CAFE WAITER SAYS
IWANSON'S AUTO INJURED
HIM $10,000 WORTH.
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PROHIBITION AGENT RESIGNS
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M OFFICERS,
E CONTROL
GUARDS THROWN AROUND TOWN
OF KREUZBURG TO GUARD
AGAINST ATTACK. 1
Berlin.*—ProHpective candidates for
the new cabinet and the political par-
tiea are reserving decision t cbncern>
ing the parliamentary attitude with re
gard to the Allied ultimatum on finan
cial indemnities has been clarified.
Lenders of the majority socialist
party are stubbornly opposed to par-!
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Southern Department it Composed Of
Virginia, North and So. Carolina,
Tenneaaee and Kentucky.
LADY WERNHER.
noteworthy viaitor to America is
.ady Anastasia Wemher, bride of
HEN^Y REUTERDAHL.
Lieut. Com. Henry Qeuterdahl plac
ing the finishing touches on his panel,
was
Washington.—Suit for $10,000 dam-,,
Major Harold Wemher Inheritor ®fjjf® 8 was fl,ed in the District of Co- recently unveiled In the’Missouri state
the Kimberly diamond mines. She is umbia Supreme Court against Sena- c , ^ Jeffep80n C|t
the daughter of the former Grand ; tor Swanson of Virginia by Jack A. j
Duke Michael of Rudsla and a great-;Cavaleri, a waiter, who alleged he j'
grandaughter of Czar Nicholas I. | was struck a year ago by an auto- nmnirUHV IP »fMP flfin nfin
* mobile driven by Senator Swanson UlNUlNuI lb l^lb'UQU'OljO
stieipating in the/formation of • cabl ' n»ir mi i mil m mnau nrnnr Cavaleri claims he sustained perma-
net containing represenlatives of the (IMP R j NON N ASSAY OFFICE n ^ ur e8 ‘ , a -a n
German people’s party and it is be- 111 UITUJI.. The resignation of S. R. Brame. su-
lieved that the social democratic par- \ . “ | pervising federal prohibition agent of
,ty. h*,,ded Philip Scheldemmnn.! „ ^ : the .outhern department with head-
former chancellor, have definitely re- Fu "!' One-Third of th. Bulllon Now cinartera at Richmond, Vi., was an-
Jected an invitation to join in a coal
ition ministry.
President Ebert hae neld conferen
ces with Reichstag leaders belonging
to the present .coalition and the ma
jority socialist party but has not suc
ceeded in untangling the cabinet
in This Country Was Garnered 411
All Quarters of the Globe.
nounced by LCting Internal Revenue
Commissioner West.
The southern department includes
the states of Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Tennessee and Ken- i
“To Fix Ourselves Firmly on a Basis
of Economy Provision Made by
Congress Not to be Exceeded.”
New York.—A vertiable flood of tucky.
New York.—A veritable flood of
crisis percipitated by the sudden res- * 8 sweeping upon the shores
ignation of the Fehrenbach ministry. °f f^e United States. Already the
precious metal in this country has at-
Judge Rules Him innocent.
Montgomery, Ala.—Judge Henry D.
Clayton, of the middle Alabama dis
trict, United States court, declared Jn
Printers' Wages Reduced.
Chicago.—A wage redaction of. $4.35
Washingtottr President Harding
launched a drive against what he
termed the ‘‘dangerous tendency" of
government departments to live be-
s
yond the means provided for them by
congress and submit requests for de-
a week ter each of the^four major {^ c | enc ^ appropriations to cover de
tained the unprecedented amount of printing crafts of Chicago was an-^®^ 8- l dentica ] letters to cabinet
$3,001,487,915, and yet the tide is ris- nounced by an arbitration board.
In*
Financiers attribute this to the fact
that the United States is the world's
members, the President called ati
tion to the fact that calls for approxi
mately $216,000,000 In deficiency ap-
Many Bodies to be Undisturbed. propriations are non?- pending ‘‘and
the trial of a prohibition case, that he ; one “creditor nation” and for the Paris.—More than thirty thousand that the estima/ed deficiencies will
would be compelled ^to order a v er-1 e q Ua j ly important reaSoif that the I bodle8 American soldiers will He‘run very mpehbeyond that sum."
diet of Hot guilty m the case of a other nations of the world find It well- for ®' rer in French soli. Four bits of The President said he was very sure
French soil have been chosen as the th^V^we can never fix ourselves firm
ly on a basis of economy until the
departments are conducted within the
provisions made by congress. ! - —
maH brought before him for killing n jgh impossible to .transact business
an officer of the law who had entered w |th this country, by reason of their resting places for the bodies-
his office without a search warrant
to search for liquor,_ • _
Don’t Think Terms Fair.
Berlin. — Only a few of the Berlin
newspapers comment on the entente
own depreciated currency. 1 ^ our France that “will remain
The precious metal is-coming from ' forev ® r America.” Thor permanent
all quarters of the globe. ,
Sweden is sending gold received ^ eau * Flanders Field near Bony, and
from Germany for war supplies, also | ® ure8ne8, on tbe outskirts of .Paris,
bar gold or bullion, which many be-
Advice of Hughes to Germany.
Washington.—In urging Germany to
make at once "directly to the Allied
governments” adequate* proposals on
ultimatum which the nationalist , Heve to be of Russion origin. By way | Alcohol Seized.
press characterizes as unacceptable, of the Pacific have come occasional. Salem, Mass.—Four barrels of pure reparations, the American government
The majority socialist Vorwaerts shipments of gold from Siberia where alcohol were found hidden in a carload was believed by the allied diplomats
expresses belief that, once the Ruhr I they formed part of General Kol- of potatoes from Canada and consign-1 here to have definitely closed the rep-
nrea is occupied, the prospect of hav-, chak's Var chest. ; ©d to the "Quebec Products Company arations incident so far as the United
Ing it evacuated under more favor
able conditions would be slim.
Fire Salute to Napoleon. ' 0 f $1,000,000,000, fully one-third of
Paris. The guns of the lote es, jj a8 f rom foreign coun-
Invalkles thundered a salute to Na- tr j ea
poleon Bonaparte exactly to the min
ute that his death occurred at St.
Helana one hundred years ago. This
was the closing feature of two days
of ceremonies in honor of the “Little"'
Corporal."
The local assay office, ,a new struc- j of Salem,” which w as seized by United States was concerned
ture, w-hose modern equipment in-: states custom inspectors.
eludes huge vaults five floors below ^
the street level, now holds upward
Harding Accepts Invitation.
To Publish Slacker Li it.
Washington.—The war department
Germari Cabinet Hat Resigned. ‘
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PEOPLE EXCITED AND AN6RT
If German Police Hands of Poles
Are Shpt, Germany Will Retaliate
by Shooting Polish Prisoners.
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Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia.—German
reichswehr officers have assumed con
trol of the Kreuzburg district; 2,000
army rifles have been Issued and
guards thrown about the town to de
fend it against a threatened attack
by Poles who are camped in front of
Rosenberg. The Polish army is es
timated at 5,000 with several score of
machine guns. . /
The inter-allied officials are help
less, the French troops having been
Withdrawn two days „ago for service
at Rybnik. The entente’s representa
tives are seven French • civilians, a
British major and an Italian ‘civilian.
Their position is not a pleasant one;
the townspeople are highly excited
and are angry with the French for
having withdrawn their troops at a
critical time.
The Pojish attitude incensed the
Germ&n "leaders, who,, notified the
r-allied commission that the
Germans would hold no conversation^
with the rebels and would not agrei
to an exchange of prisoners, but
the Poles carried their threats tc
shoot German police the German*
would be forced to resprisals against ‘
Polish prisoners.
• Would Amend Emergency TsrjjfL
Washington—Further consideration
of- the emergency tariff -bWi- by- -the—• •
senate-was marked by -the introdue- —
tion of two additional amendments.
Senator Ashurst, democrat, Arizona,
proposed that the duty of seven cents
a pound,on long staple cotton be in
creased to 20 cents, while Senator
Jones, democrat. New Mexico, moved
for a tariff of 15 per cent ad valorem
on all imported hides.
Short Thousand Officers.
Washington.-s-Due to legislation by
Americans Are Released. * ^
Mexico City. - Martin andthe navy, by December 31.
Trejo. American citizens who were ar-
/ Lornlon-A telephone messase re. rMteJTn N undo ae eaent. ot
cetved (rom Parle s l,es a Berlin die- ,, rancl , c0 ^ rgula , bave been re-
pa ch earing that In elew ot the lea8ad „ „ said advlces the
nation tha aro.e In consequence of MeI|can war
the reply of Secretary of State Hughes
to Germany’s/counter-proposals On G|ime ^ Bjrd Sanctuliry .
slacker list, as issued from time to reparations, the German government Washington. The portions of Vir-
time, will be published in the Con* 1 unanimously decided to resign. g , nia Tpnne8see> Nort h Carolina,
grensional Record. Request for such | ; Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas with-
publication was made in the house Landis Has Not Resigned. (in the National Forest Reservation.
will' be short more than a thousand
officers, said Secretary Denby, who
mad5 this statement in connectiorl
with an announcement that he had
rescinded his order graduating the
1922 class at the Naval Academy in
advance. »
Washington. — President Harding Representative Johnson, republl-; Chicago. — Judge Kennesaw M. would also become a game and bird
ha* accepted the invitation of the al- can > South Dakota, a former service Landis, in a formal statement, de- sanctuary under a resolution by
lied supreme council that the United ! nied that he had resigned from the Senator Shields of Tennessee.
States be represented at the meeting
of that body as well as those of the
conference of ambassadors and th*
reparations commission.
federal bench to devote his time to
his poslilon as baseball commis-
Tranquil Mexican Holiday.
-Observance of
Unemployment Conditions.
Raleigh. N.-.C.—"The unemployment sooner.
condition in the state is far from - tc
satisfactory," declared Commissioner To Quash indictments,
iof Labor and Printing M> L. Shipman,j Grand R^ids. Mich.—Judge Cfar*
Mexico City.—Observance of \fexi-i a r®Po/t he made to the national ence W. Ses$jons, who presided in T” 1 * 8 co ^
(o’s national holiday passed off tran- convention of labor officials which Is , Federal court; here in the Nbwberry 8< ar ^ e
Dalton Jury Disagrees.
Chicago.—The Jury in the case of
William Dalton, 16-year-old' bank
clerk who stole $772,000 worth of
liberty bonds from the Northern"
Trust company, disagreed and was
Wasn’t Draft Dodger.
Washington. — Announcement was
made by the war department that th®
name of Stanley Hart-ijon French, of
Brooklyn, had been removed from the
draft dodger dist just issued for that-
district. French reached the rank of
lieutenant commander in the U. 9.
navy..
quilly, according to. report* received , meet * n F 1° New Orleans.
by the war office, and, fears aroused
hy rumors of revolutionary outbreaks Rediscount -Rates Relaxed,
proved to he without foundation. • j Washington. Action of the New
. ( York Federal Reserve Bank in reduc
ing its rediscount, rate from. 7 «b 6 1-2
Sweeping Wage Reductions.
Roanoke, Va. Sweeping reductions : P er cent reflects a tendency towards, Reports Without Foundation.
in wages for more than 25,000 Nor- relaxation in rediscount rates in other | London. -^4^ German official die-
folk & Western employes, including reserve districts, Secretary Mellon patch from Berlin says there is no
members of all railway organizations. 8a * d - (foundation for the report that Ger-
both skilled and unskilled labor, were — many made a new reparations offer
brought to light here. - - Atlanta Bank Readjusts Rates. to the Allies.
Nbwberry
trial, upon learning of the Supreme
court's decision, announced that ha! Stillman Resigns Presidency,
would at once issue an order dismiss- New York. James A. Stillman re-
Ing the second indictment against s te ned as president of the National
Senator Newberry and his associates. t'Jty bank.
, . , ..v _ 4 Charles E, Mitchell, president-of th*
High Cost of Transportation.
Washington. — The high icost of
transportation constitutes "the most
pressing question ,in the United
States at this moment and the great
est obstacle in the way of a return
to normal conditions and the restora
tion of business," Senator Capper, re-
plican, Kansas, declared.
Atlanta, Ga.— M. B. Wellborn, gor-
$5,000 Worth of Liquor Stolen. ernor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Armenian Food Supplies.
Louisvill'e, Ky.—One hundred -ases Bank, announced a readjustment of Constantinople.—Food supplies fpr —
of whiskey, valued at $5,000, were rediscount rates, putting all paper the people of Armenia left here on Blair Nomination Held Up.
stolen from the Dowling distillery at handled by that institution on a flat the steamer Georgia for Datum, with, Washington.—David H. Blair's nom-
Tyrone, Anderson county, according basis of 6 per cent. a cargo of 1,300 tons of food furnish- i na t| on for commissioner of internal
to reports received here. ^—*— — j ed by the Near East I^elief. revenue was referred back to the
(National City company, was elected
to succeed him.
Mexican Fatally Injured..
Naco, Ariz.—Pedro leoysa, a Mexi
can immigration officer, was probably
fatally injured in a clash between
Mexican and United States immigra
tion service line riders.
While the Cat’s Away.
New York.—There was a police
rade in New York. As the blue coatl^^
marched sturdily along, only a block
away thieves took a $7,000 auto truck
containing $33,000 worth of woolena
from the front of 404 Fourth avenue.
To Investigate Freight Rates.
Submarine Chasers Made Ready, j Savannah, Ga.—The Southern Traf- i Mere Man Barred Out.
Baltimore.—Three submarine ehas- fic League, in session here, adopted N®\v Orleans.—Only women —
ers atfitehed to the Naval Academy a report authorizing "a petition to the ellpible to attend the annual conven-
flnance committee forx“ittvestigatfbn.
Baptized at Age c of 101 Years.
London.—Mrs. Ann Sissons, 101, of
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, has Just
been baptized and confirmed by the
Bishop of Sheffield. Last summer
she made three airplane flights.
are
Memorial Day, May 30.
Washington.—The annual Memorial
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at Annapolis tire in readiness to sail Interstate Commerce Cc^nmission for tion here of the Association of Wo- Day proclamation setting aside May
for Baltimore to meet any eventuality an investigation of freight rates in mRn >n Industry. All the speakers 30 as a holiday was issued by PresK
that might arise from the mine work- the southeast,
ers’ strike at this port.
are women.
r dent Harding.
Mine Workers Wages Stand. ! Desire Participation of U. 8.
Indianapolis. Ind.-^Wages of organ-1 Ixmdon. — The Allied Suprerte
“Uncle Joe" Cannon CelebratetLx.
Washington.-—"itncle Joe" Cannon,
holder of the American record for ser
vice in congress, celebrated his 85th
^rthday by sticking by the job.
Nqgress Inherits $20,000,000.'"-
New Orleans.—Lillie Taylor, a ne-
U. S. Cannot Stand Aside. J
p ar ; a _ Belief that the Uniteil ized mine workers will not be reduced, Council decided to invite the United gro woman, was awarded Oil and min-
Rtates could not stand aside “from JoRikL- Lewis, president of the Unit- States to send a representative is a ^ral rights in Claiborne parish said
the work of world regeneration" if the ed MimhA^orkers of America, declared member of the supreme council and to amount to $20,000,000 in a decision
league of nations covenant was in a statem^nLrefuting reports of auch also to he repres<u.iJ on the repara- rendered by the state supreme court
drastically amended was expressed action.;;: / tions commission. recently,
by
Dr. Simon Baruch III.
New Yorfe>-Dr. Simon Baruch* 82,
father of Bernard M. Baruch, former
head of the War Industries board, was
critically ill at his home here. He
was strickeh a week ago with a se
vere heart attack. '
Rene Viviani.
Break In White Rivkr Levee.
Little Rock, 'Ark—Measures were
Talbot Takes Oath of Office. -
Dublin. —- Lord Edmund Bernard
Funeral Base Abandoned.
Cherbourg. France.—As a result of. being taken afford relief to resi- Talbot, who is now Viscount Fitzalan, i German jails who are of
German Voters in Jail.
Paris.—Five hundred persons from
Silesian
orders received from American mill- , dents of the Bayou creek region, was sworn in as Lord Lieutenant and birth were among the first to register
Railroads Are Making Upgrade.
Washington. —The railroads ar®
slowly making the upgrade/
Reports, which will be filed with the
orders received irom American 111111- denis 01 me rmjuu ticc*. ......... ... — ........ uinu weie auiung me m * ,
tary authorities at Antwerp, the Amer- northwest ot Helena, where a break Governor General of Ireland. The their votes in the plebiscite to decide Interstate Commerce commission next
lean funeral base here has been aban- in the White River levee resulted in ceremony, which took place in Dub- whether**Upper Silesia is to remain
doned The personnel has been or
dered to Belgium.
the flooding of more than 100,000’acres* lin Castle, followed precedent.
Case Ordered Reopened.
Washington —The- Interstate Com*-
Body of Drowned Woman Found.
New - York.—The body of—
German or become Polish.
week, will show an improvement In
the condition of the railroads.
Proposals Not Accaptable.
Ixmdon—Lord High Chancellor Bir
kenhead's daughter. Eleanor, Is said merce Commission ordered that the Ann
to be going into the movies to eke Texas state rate case must be rq- lwho disappeared here on Apjril 1, was! able as a basis for discusSkm Secre-
out the famiijMncome. like several opened for the purpose of consid-1 found floating in New York harbor,: tary Hughes informed Dr. Simons, the
Mayer May Form Cabinet
-Berlin.—President- Bhest, - the-- Vao-
proposair'STr dMecSflU msefce- Zeitrmg 'saywr"1uw“ stsk®d"f?r
other daughters of titled families.
8,000.000 Cases of Typus.
New York. — More than 8,000,000
oases of typhus have been reported
erink the propriety of th® rates on near the South Brooklyn shore a few German foreign minister
cotton linters in that state.
days ago.
To Check Hun Foreign Trade.
Washington. — Immediate congres
Baerlin Defeats Cutting.
London—E. ,T. Baerlin, the British
In Soviet Russia with a mortality asl courC tennis champion, successfully d®- ’sional action to check the inrogds of
high as 50,, per cent in some comihu-j fended his title aganst C. S. Cutting, j German foreign trade in the /United
the American challenger* at the I States was urged by Secretary Hoove*
Queens Club here, defeating Uniting | before the house ways and .nraap*
In three airtight seta. | committee. ' ' ~ "
Wilhelm Mayer, German ambassador
France, to form a new cabinet. t>r.
Mayer asked that he be given time
'to considers the offer.
nlties, said a report by Dr. Harry
Plotz of this city, head of a Jewish
medical unit.
Adopt Policy on Cotton.,
Washington.—Adoption of the poli
cy of making advances to American
exportera-of cotton or those financing
such exporters where the cotton is
lender contract few sale abroad, was
announced hy the war finance cop
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Deration.
Use Movies Instead of Book®.
'
New York.^Substitution of motl
pictures fob books in the nation’s ele
mentary schools would in twenty
years bring about an advancement of
ten centuries in civilization. Thecas
A. Edison said
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