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GRACE DECLARED
MAYOR NOMINEE
SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS AFTER
: LONG SESSION".
Statement by Hyde
Grace Makes Speech After Decision
is Announced by Committee,
Parade Follows.
Charleston,
Aug. 23.?It was not
4 until after 5 o'clock this morning that
the committee on canvass of the city
Democratic executive committee, after
working all night counting challenged
votes, hearing the evidence of many
challengers and challenged, returned
its report to the main committee, and
the report was adopted by a vote of
13 to 12, and John P. Grace declared
mayoralty nominee with a majority of
14 votes over Tristram T. Hyde,
whose lead of one, unofficially announced
Tuesday night, was wiped
out by the findings of the committee.
The other nominees, including 18
Grace aldermen, were unaffected by
the counting of the challenged votes.
Hyde Makes Statement.
Mr. Hyde in a brief statement this
afternoon characterized the action of
the committee "as high handed, arbitrary
and illegal" and said he would
exhaust every means to have justice
done, as he held his majority was
clear and distinct, and he was confident
of the outcome. After the official
tabulation was nnnrmnrpri this mnrn
ig, Mr. Grace addressed a throng of
Ids cheering admr ts in front of the
- Hibernian Hall, where the committee
meeting was held, declaring a victory
of the people had been won, that he
would keep his campaign promises
and redeem Charleston. He would forgive,
he said, but not forget, and declared:
"We shall remember our
/ friends and never forgive our enemies,
politically speaking. But from
th? civic standpoint, in the upbuilding
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of this city, I will know neither
friend nor foe. Only in the distribution
of what legitimately belongs to
"V politics will I know my friends. After
that all men shall be equal before the
law, in Charleston, at least/' He
urged his followers to celebrate, but
commit no acts of vandalism or mal_
ice. He said the people had
vindicated his patriotism, and
he thanked them. After ithe
. ^ - address of Mr. Grace a jubi^
lation parade was held, which was an
' orderly but enthusiastic demonstration.
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On every motion before the execu%
tive committee advanced by the Grace
^ faction, a counter motion was put by
the Hjde faction or opposition registered,
and the vote stood 13 to 12.
The Hyde faction tried to have the
consideration of challenged votes held
before the whole committee, but the
subcommittee on canvass did the
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counting in executive s_^.oion and
completed the tabulation. The Hyde
faction tried to get a recount and was
voted down, also to have a stenographer
take notes in the hearings of
challenges. A motion by the Hyde,
faction to have the count of Tuesday
stand was voted down. The eommitc^^tee,
by a vote of 13 to 12, dismissed
the petition of nine Hyde aldermanic
candidates for a recount and deferred
action on the peitions for a recount
* presented by Mr. Hyde and Mr. Grace.
Good Order Prevailed.
Excellent order prevailed all
through the night, and careful precautions
effectively forestalled any
danger of outbreaks. The crowd in
front of the Hibernian Hall was noisy
but good natured.
It is considered assured that the
Hyde faction will endeavor to take
the election findings into court. It
is believed that a formal announcement
to this effect will be made in a
day or two, especially in view of Mr.
Hyde's statement this afternoon. Mr.
Hyde's petition for a recount has not
. been refused by the committee, disposition
of it being deferred by ac.
tion of the committee last night as
& <was done with Mr. Grace's petition.
The ballot boxes remained locked and
in a sealed room at the Hibernian
Hall in official custody. Meanwhile
officially, the city Democratic executive
committee has rendered its decision,
and Mr. Grace is the declared
mayorality nominee of the party, defeating
Mr. Hyde by a remarkably
close vote, after one of the bitterest
municipal campaigns this city has
ever had.
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things?it can make one either a suc^
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SO WE LL-WIL LI S WE DDI XG.
Mr. L. M. Willis, of Denmark, Married
in Lancaster Aug. 14.
Lancaster. Aug. 16.?A wedding of
much interest was .that of Miss Juat
nita Sowell, daughter of Mr. an?
Mrs. Joseph Walter Knight, of Lancaster.
to Mr. Luscius Matthews Will's,
of Denmark, which was solemnized
Thursday afternoon at 5.30
o'clock at the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church, the Rev. W. S.
Patterson officiating.
The church was beautifully decorated
in smilax and ferns and masses
of golden glow. "I Love You Truly,"
and ''Because" were sung by Miss
Lilly McManus, accompanied on the
piano by Miss Ruth McDow. At the
sound of the wedding march from
Lotyengrin the pages, Charles Neely
Robinson and Martin Cunningham,
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! Lord Fauntleroy suits, opened the
! gates for the bridal party. Next
; came the ushers, Joe Coulbornb and
I Chauncev Gregory, of Lancaster.
Following these entered the bridesmaids
and groomsmen in the following
order: Miss Lucile' Turner, of
Gaffney, and Mr. John B. White, of
Greenwood, nephew of the bridegroom;
Miss Flossie Williams, of Easlev,
and Mr. G. H. Kennedy, of Williston;
Miss Obera Walker, of Easley,
and Mr. Winchester Smith, of Williston;
Miss Mary Lindsev, of Lancaster,
and Mr. Hammond Crum, of Denmark.
The bridesmaids wore becoming
dresses of yellow and white
organdie with hats to match and carried
bride roses. Preceding the bride
came the dainty little ring bearer,
Martha Willis, niece of the bridegroom,
carrying the ring in the heart
of a rose. Then came the bride, lovely
in her traveling suit of blue tricotine
embroidered in gold and silver,
with accessories to match, on the arm
of her sister, Miss Eliabeth Sowell,
wearing a tourquoise blue georgette
dress and carrying pink roses. They
were met at the altar by the bridegroom,
attended by his best man, Dr.
KODeri wniis, or iieuumrK.
Immediately after the ceremony
the couple left in their car for the
mountains of North Carolina*
Mrs. Willis is a graduate of Winthrop
College and taught the past
year at Denmark. She will be greatly
missed by a host of friends in her
home town with whom she was very
popular. Mr. Willis is a prominent
business man of Denmark.
The out of town guests were: Mr.
M. G. Willis, father of the bridegroom,
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Willis,
Miss Wroton, of Denmark, Mrs. John
G. White, of Greenwood, Miss Addie
Cardarelli, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lynn,
of Columbia, Miss Katherine Klein, of
Bamberg.
An elegant supper was served the
bridal party and out of town guests
at the home of the bride's parents.
Quite a number of handsome and
costly presents were displayed, showing
the esteem in which the couple
were held.
Quarantine on Hulls.
Clemson College, Aug. 15.?The
quarantine on cotton seed hulls from
the boll weevil territory, the safety
zone and the quarantine zone, becomes
effective on Aug. 15 under the
ruling of the State crop pest commission.
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The regulation of the commission,
says Prof. A. F. Carroll, secretary of
the commission, provide for the prohibition
of cottonseed hulls from restricted
territory from August 1 to
December 31, but owing to the unusual
conditions existing in the weevil
belt it was found entirely safe to
allow shipments under permit up to
August 15. At this time, however,
the weevil situation does not warrant
the commission to extend the date,
as there is a considerable element of
risk in doing so.
Many Indians in Army.
A total of about 5,000 Indians en
listed to ngnt against Germany m
the war, according to information
given out by the office of the commissioner
of Indian affairs at Washington,
several hundred of them being
in the navy. The Indians were
not segregated and there were no
army units made up exclusively of
Indians. They served in the ranks
and fought beside the other soldiers
without regard to the fact that they
were Indians. Official reports of Indian
superintendents showed that on
June 20, 1917, the total number of
Indians in the United States was
33o,998.
Broadway is ten thousand times
longer than its wide, but few actors
get across.'
COLSTON NEWS ITEMS.
Social and Personal Xews of XeighlH>ring;
Coinniunity.
Colston, August 2.".?Messrs. B.
W. and Wilson Beard visited Washington,
Baltimore and other points
last week.
Miss Mary Clayton is the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Clayton in Walterboro.
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Mrs. Annie Beard and sons. Harold
and Joseph. Jr., spent Monday
with Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Zeigler at
Ehrhardt.
Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Clayton and
children dined with Mr. and Mrs. J.
P Clavtnn Snndav
MANY CONJECTURES
ON WILSON'S PLANS;
FIGHT FOR UNQUALIFIED SEXATE
ACCEPTANCE OF PACT.
Many Unique Angles
May Reassemble Peace Conference,!
May Pocket Treaty or Refuse to
Go on Until Senate Recedes.
Washington. Aug. 24.?How far
President Wilson may go in his fi^ht
for unqualified senate acceptance of
the peace treaty is a subject of increasing
speculation hi official and
diplomatic circles.
With the group of reservation republicans
apparently determined to
write their qualifications of the league
of nations covenant into the ratification
itself, and with republican leaders
predicting that the senate will
amend outright the Shainung provision
and perhaps other sections of the
treaty, an interesting ser of possibilities
present themselves.
There has been no authorative expression
of the president's probable
course should the trearv be returned
to him with textual amendments or
reservations written into the ratilicacatidn.
He told the foreign re!arions
committee Tuesday, however, that he
would consider either method of
qualification as tantamount to reopening
the negotiations with Ger
many.
Should such amendments or reservations
be inserted, therefore?an
eventuality which democratic senate
leaders deny is likely but wh'ch the
republicans say is certain?the next
move would be up It the president. ^
TV hat he would do is a question 011
which those who have talked with
him disagree; but a discussion of
what he would be authorized to do
under the law and precedents reveals
a ^general agreement that several
courses would be open.
"May Return to Paris.
Summed up, these discussions contemplate
that he might take up the
question of changes in the treaty of
diplomatic correspondence; return to
Paris and ask that the peace conference
be reassembled for negotiation
of a new treaty; send a new
delegation to reopen negotiations or
pocket the treaty and refuse to proceed
further unless the senate recedes
from its position.
It is known that the alternative of
an exchange of diplomatic notes with
the principal powers has been suggested
to the president as the most
feasible by republican senators who
have told him that the treaty never
could be ratified as it stands. The
assent of the smaller nations, these
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senators asserted wuum uc uuiumvu
easily once the other members of the
five principal powers have acquiesced.
It is pointed out that the question of
a reservation to the Colombian treaty
now is under negotiation by that
method.
The possibility of Mr. Wilson's return
to Paris to straighten out the
points raised by any senate qualifications
is one which some senators say
would be entirely in line with his
course thus far in the peace settlement.
To send an entirely new set of
peace delegates also would be admittedly
within the president's power,
and in that connection republican
senators frequently have mentioned
Seator Hitchcock's statement that the
president laughingly suggested Senators
Lodge and Knox as possible selections
to negotiate a new treaty .
should the present one be amended.
May Be Deadlock.
That the president might permit
the negotiations to stand in a deadlock
by declining to take up with
other governments any changes suggested
by the senate, involves perhaps
the most interesting possibilities
of all.
Administration leaders repeatedly
have declared that the president alone
was charged with the negotiation of
treaties and that the whole history
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halt any such negotiation at any step
he desired prior to the exchange of
ratifications. The senate, these leaders
have asserted, would he absolutely
powerless to interfere, its authority
under the constitution being limited
to giving advice and consent to the
acts of the executive.
In that connection many precedents
have been cited, including one as
late as President Taft's administration
when Mr. Taft, dissatisfied with
th-e senate's amendment of a treaty
he had presented for ratification,
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Miss Evie Kirkland and Mr. Johnnie
Kirkland dined with Mr. and
Mrs. A. L. McMillan Sunday.
Misses Mamie McMillan and Natalie
Kearse spent last week and this
week in Bamberg with friends.
Messrs. Joe Beard and B. D. Bishop
spent Saturday in Columbia.
Messrs. Hallie Hutto and Leighton
Kinard, of Bamberg, spent Saturday
night and Sunday at Mr.
Isham Goodwin's.
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Williams, of
Norway, spent a few days last week
with Mrs. B. W. Beard and Mrs. Ann
Chisolm.
-.Mr. Jones McMillan dined with Mr.
Claude Kirkland Sunday.
Miss Helen Price, of Bamberg, is
the guest of Miss Octavie McMillan.
Rev. and Mrs. Walter Black spent
Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs.
S. W. Clayton, and Sunday with Mrs.
F. W. McMillan.
Mr. Jim Smoak and Mrs. Connor
Smoak and children are the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Clayton.
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SHERWOOD AXD TDIMERMAX.
Lead in Congressional Primaries With
Another Election Xecessary.
Second primaries will be necessary
to choose successors to J. W. Ragsdale
and 'A. F. Lever in congress. In
the sixth district returns, incomplete,
indicate that E. J. Sherwood is in the
lead, and that P. H. Stoll will likely
run over with him. In the seventh
district, George Bell Timmerman is
in the lead, with E. C. Mann next, and
these two will likely run over.
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Call Again.
A good old friend of ours groped
his way into the office yesterday,
planked himself down in our best
chair, stared fixedly and mournfully
into space for half an hour, then
shoved his fist into his pocket, drew
out a shining silver dollar, reverently
kissed it, handed it to us with
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arci icu cj'CB, uasiicu ana; iut o
and staggered blindly from the shop.
Now he only owes us for two years.?
Woodbury Reporter.
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The court of general sessions will
convene in Bamberg next Monday,
September 1. The court will last one
week only, and only criminal cases
will be tried. The docket is heavy,
this being the first term of criminal
court since last September, and it is
not very likely that all of the business
of the court can be completed
in one week, and that many cases
will have to be continued.
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The Walterboro Press and Standard
was printed last week on the
press of The Herald. The Walterboro
paper is moving the present
printing office to another lot, and it
was found necessary to take down
the newspaper press before moving
the building, and this necessitated
bringing the forms of the Press and
Standard to Bamberg.
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and let the treaty die.
Should President Wilson adopt
that course and then appeal to the
country, republican senators say the
senate would adopt a resolution declaring
the war at an end and proceed
to enact such legislation as seemed
necessary to restore a complete peace
basis. Whether such a resolution
would require the president's signature
is a disputed question, however,
and Mr. Wilson is known to object
strongly to any such a method of
ending the war.
Tin* nrnKiom nf thA nresident's
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course also involves a question of
how* great an influence he will exercise
while the treaty still is before
the senate to prevent reservations I
from being incorporated in the ratification.
Although the republican resservationists
say they have assurances
that their programme will be acceptable
to most of the senate democrats,
there has been no evidence that
Mr. Wilson has given his assent to
any such a compromise.
SHILLADY DRIVEN
OUT OF TEXAS
CHARGED WITH INCITING NEGROES
AGAINST WHITES.
Given Severe Beating
Secretary of National Association for
Advancement of Colored People
Leaves Austin.
Austin, Texas. Aug. 22,?J. R. Shillady,
a white man, secretary of the
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, who was severely
beaten and placed on board an
outbound train for St. Louis today,
had been "inciting negroes Sgainst
the whites," and had previously been
warned to leave Austin, according to
County Judge Dave J. Pickle, of Travis
county, tonight.
The attack on Shillady, Judge
ficKie saia, was made ov nimseir,
Constable Charles Hamby and Ben.
Pierce, none of whom he declared,
would shirk responsibility in the matter.
Judge Pickle emphasized, however,
that he and his companions
were acting unofficially.
Up to a late hour tonight no
charges had been preferred against
any of the Shillady assailants.
Shillady was returning from a
meeting with negroes, Judge Pickle
declared, in describing the attack. "I
told him," (Shillady) the judge s*id
later, "that his actions were inciting
the negroes against the whites and
would cause trouble and warned him
to leave town. I told him our negroes
would cause no trouble if left alone.
I whipped him and ordered him to
leave because I thought it was for the
best interest of Austin and the State."
Shillady came to Austin yesterday
and visiting the attorney general's department,
it was learned today, made
in quiry concerning the operation of
"foreign corporations" in Texas and
asked why a local branch of the Naf
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iiiriiari noouv-iatiuii IUI tn^ nuvautc*
ment of Colored People had been disbanded
here two weeks ago. He was
told the association had no permit to
do business in Texas and that the disbanding
of the branch was entirely
in the hands of the local authorities.
Shillady then went to the adjutant
general's department, it is said, and
asked why the Texas rangers were
interfering with his association.
W. D. Cope, assistant adjutant general,
is said to have replied that the
rangers had been investigating organizations
among negroes since the
race riots at Longview about a
month ago, and had found that the
teaching of the advancement association
"which advocates racial equality"
was creating trouble between the
races.
Late yesterday Shillady was hailed
before a "court of inquiry," the proceedings
of which have not been disclosed.
Judge Pickle says at this time
he warned Shillady to leave Austin
because he was creating trouble.
Shortly before noon today Shillady
held a conference with negroes and
while returning to his hotel was accosted
by Judge'Pickle, Hambv and
Pierce. Constable Hanby, according
to the county judge, asked Shillady
why he was holding meetings
and "stirring up more trouble than
Anefiri />Ui7onc pan crat rid rvf in ten
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years."
"You don't see my point of view,"
answered Shillady, according to
Pickle.
"I'll fix you so you can't see," replied
Hamby as he struck Shillady in
the eye with his fist.
Judge Pickle says he and Pierce
joined in the fray and Shillady was
beaten until his face bled freely and
he "asked for mercy."
Shillady was then escorted to the
station where he purchased a ticket
for St. Louis, and left Austin with a
final warning by Constable Hamby
not to stop in the limits of "^xas.
There was no indication that local
negroes resented the affair.
Austin Whipping Closed Incident.
Austin, Texas, Aug. 22.?Governor
W. P. Hobby, in a telegram today to
officials of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People,
said John R. Shilladv, the organization
secretary, who was beaten and
and ordered out of Austin yesterday,
was the "only offender in connection
with the matter."
The telegram, sent by the governor,
was in reply to an inquiry from the
chairman of the organization, asking
what efforts were being made to pun
TOO MUCH PAREGORIC.
(). M. Sanders Unconscious at Spartanburg
Hospital.
Spartanburg, Aug. 20.?0. M. Sanders,
believed to be from Union, is
lying in an unconscious condition at a
local hospital as a result of taking
an overdose of paregoric Monday afternoon.
The man fell in a stupor in
a store here and after attempts were
made to give him relief was rushed
to the hospital, where eight ounces, it
is said, of paregoric were removed
from his stomach by physicians using
stomach pumps. Efforts have been
made by officers to find out something
about Sanders, who was well dressed
and is a man of powerful build, but
as yet nothing definite has been ascertained.
It has not been stated
whether he will recover, but hope has
not been abandoned.
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Orangeburg to Vote on Bond Issne
for Improvements.
Orangeburg, Aug. 22.?The petition
for ordering an election for
Orangeburg to decide whether $750,000
in bonds will be issued, has been
sufficiently signed by property owners
and is now in* the hands of the
city authorities for checking with the
tax books. The present majority
council was elected upon the straight
out issue of permanent improvements.
There is little doubt here but that
the bond issue will pass. The money
will be used for paved streets, sidewalk,
curbing and extension of water
and light plant.
Hog in Cold Storage 25 Years.
Detroit, Aug. 16.?Agents of the
investigation branch here of the department
of justice said that in one
cold storage plant visited today a
frozen hog had been found which
they were told had been in storage
for 25 years.
The officials declared that while
they believed that if the hog really
had been held for that length of time
it was through an oversight. They
intend to investigate further next
week.
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In His Own Camouflage.
A negro doughboy was clad in
white pajamas one night, when the
camp was surprised by German bombers.
Everybody headed for his own
dugout and Sam had some distance to
travel.
"What did you do?" he was asked
the next morning.
"Oh, dat was easy," he replied.
"De good Lawd has gimme de /bes*
cammyflage in de world. I dropped
dem pvjamies right whar I stood an*
made de res' o' de trip in my birfday
clo'es."
A Town of 6,000 Unnamed.
Of the many freak results of the oil
industry none perhaps is more remarkable
than that about three miles
northwest .^)f Burkbu'rnett, Texas,
where a town of six thousand popuf
lation has sprung up, yet unnamed,
although it already has two banks, a
hotel, stores, numerous restaurants
and various other enterprises that go
to make up a thriving community.
The inhabitants say they are too
busy to name it.?Toronto Globe.
ish those who attacked Shillady. The
governor's reply was:
"Shillady was the only offender in
connection with the matter referred
to in your telegram and he was pun
ighed before your inquiry came.
"Your organization can contribute
more to the advancement of both
races by keeping your representatives
and their propaganda out of this State
than in any other way."
The telegram to the governor,
which was signed by Mary White
Ovington, said, "Mr. Shillady is a
man of great importance in New
York," listed a number of organizatiops
in which he had served as secretary,
and concluded:
"He was in Texas on the rightful
I errand of meeting members of the
Austin branch of this organization.
We are asking what efforts are being
made at once to punish the offenders."
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1 liCI C was 11 yj \j 1I1V.1U1 ?-? ?
obtainable today as to what transpired
while Shillady was before the
Court of Inquiry yesterday, as the
court is the same as a grand jury under
Texas laws. It was said unofficially.
however, that Shillady had
been questioned regarding his attitude
and that of his association toward
social equality.
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