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x ' $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 13,1920. Established in 1891 Wilson Tells F To Stc "'HONOR OP NATION" IN HANDS OF DEMOCRATS, HE WRITES. Must Measure Up To Opportunity. Violation of Promises Made to World to Attach Reservations Which Whittle it Down or Weaken Document Says President. / Washington, May 9.?Call to the Democratic party to go into the campaign standing foursquare in favor of f -f V. ~ frnitu r\ f V^-nea illoc iinrl t ii C L X t/Ci V J V/ JL * VI OUiXJkw MfU \A t-WQwo"?-?? the senate's reservations was issued tonight by President Wilson in a tele\ gram to Oregon Democratic leaders, s made public at the white house. Declaring that the party had "the honor of the nation" in its hands, the president said that the Lodge resolutions were "utterly inconsistent" with the role of world leadership whichj . the United States must assume. I! The only true Americanism, the!" president said, was "that which puts America at the front of free nations and redeems the great promises which we made to the world." It would be a 1 violation of such promises, he said, I( to attach reservations to the treaty j which "whittle it down or weaken it; 1 as the Republican leaders of the sen-j^ . ate have promised to do." !1 The telegram was in response to the I( following message from G. E. Ham-jJ aker, of Portland, Ore., chairman of;1 the Multonomah county Democratic j( central committee: I1 "Primary election May 21. Please | it lTVinrvr. i 1 Wire WUCIUC1 tuuoiu^l n, imjt/ui | tant to nominate candidates pledged!( to ratify Versailles treaty without 1 Lodge reservations." 1 Mr. Wilson's Reply. The reply of the president follows: "I think it imperative that the party should at once proclaim itself the uncompromising champion of the nation's honor and {he advocate of everything that the United States can . do in the service of humanity, that it ^ should therefore indorse and support the Versailles treaty and condemn ( the Lodge reservations as utterly in- . consistent with the nation's honor and destructive of the world, includ- ^ and destructive of the* world leader- ^ ship which it had established and which all the free people of the world, including the great powers them- ^ selves, had shown themselves ready to j ' welcome. , "It is time that the party should a proudly avow that it means to try, without flinching or turning at any ^ time away from the path for reasons! i r of expediency, to apply moral and j Christian principles to the problems i of the world. It is trying to accom- j plish social, political and internation- i * al reforms and is not daunted by any of the difficulties it has to contend p s with. Let us prove to our late associates in the war that at any rate the great majority party of the nation? the party which expresses the true hopes and purposes of the people of ^ the country?intends to keep faith with them in peace as well as in war. They gave their treasure, their best blood and ^ everytmng tnat tney vaiuea in order, not merely to beat Germany, , but to effect a settlement and bring about arrangements of a peace which j they have now tried to formulate in t the treaty of Versailles. They are g entitled to our support in this settle- \ ment and in the arrangements for c which they have striven. f Hope of World. t "The league of nations is the hope of the world. As a basis for the t armistice. I was authorized by all the t great- fighting nations to say to the a a i. ^ 11 *? rvVkl/NOr ? r?r A KiieiUV lUdt It Y\ as UUi UUJCVt, -111 piu- V posing peace to establish a general t association of nations under specific f covenants for the purpose of afford- t ing mutual guarantees of political in- s dependence and territorial integrity s to great and small states alike, and v 4 the covenant is ratified and acted s upon with vigor. We Jan not in honor 1< whittle it down or weaken it as the t Republican leaders of the senate have o proposed to do. If we are to exer- t cise the kind of leadership to which f the founders of the republic looked forward and which they depended g upon their ancestors to establish, we n must do this thing with courage and ii unalterable determination. They ex ''arty ind On Treaty ARTHUR DALEY GIVEN TERM. Slayer of Late Wiggins Convicted of Minor Charge of Assault. Orangeburg, May S.?Arthur Daley, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, plead guilty and was given two years by the court here yesterday. Daley admitted making an attack last month on N. L. Kittrell, a peace officer of Eutawville, S. C., when he had him in custody, he having been arrested under a charge of being - ?- *? j j *. u aruriK. ine oiow was ueuveieu wnu a scantling and Mr. Kittrell's collar bone was broken. Daley escaped and was later arrested in Pinopclis, Berkeley county. There is a charge of murder yet standing against this negro, he be- ( ing alleged to have killed Magistrate Jeff Wiggins at Elloree several weeks ago. Daley was at large when Magistrate Wiggins was killed, not having been arrested after his escape from Officer Kittrell, and during the , search of the county by the officers of the law for the slayer of Wiggins, Daley was found in Berkeley county. He was tried yesterday for the' af"N fair with Mr. Kittrell and the charge against him for the alleged killing of Magistrate Wiggins still stands. Several cases were heard in court ioy consent of both sides, after the jury venire had'been quashed, but ffie defense in the case of Daley charged with murder refused to con- . sent to a trial at this term, they laving that right since the quashing of the jury, and the case was con:inued. There have been many doubts expressed about Daley being the slayer . of Magistrate Wiggins and there- . oromises to be interesting develop- , nortfc when tVio r>ooa ic PolloH ?T XAV11 ti.1V V.UOV 1 KJ VUIIVUI t c HOLDS ALLIGATOR PARTY. Inimal Measuring More Than Seven 1 Feet Killed. St. Matthews, May 8.?Geo. W. \ fairey, member of the house of rep esentatives, and a leading member )f the Methodist church here, introiuced on last Friday an innovation 1 n the shape of sport. Mr. Fairey ?ave an alligator party and hajd as lis guests, his pastor, the Rev. J. T. 3eeler, and members of their respecive families. Mr. Fairey furnished t * he alligator and the rifle and each nember of the party in turn paid heir leaden respect to the animal, dr. Fairey discovered about a year igo that the g~tor had taken up his * ibode in his fish pond about four ' niles out of town. When they ar- 1 ived the top of his head was noticed * ibove the water. Mr. Fairey, who ised to shoot them when he was a outh at Branchville, killed the alligator. It measured se\en feet and ras a fine specimen. Mr. Hungert >eler took his hide as a trophy. Appearances Deceitful. "Appearances are deceitful," said Irs. Maloney solemnly. "They sure are," replied Mrs. Ca- ( ey. "When Oi se the old man sur- 1 Dunded by a squad of cops these days, 1 )i don't know whether he's got pinch- 1 id or is going to wurk in some non- ( mion plant." >ected the United States to be always t he leader in the defense of liberty^ ] md orederd peace throughout the 1 vorld, but w? are unworthy to call ? mrselves their successors unless we t ulfiill the great purpose tney enterained and proclaimed. 4,The true Americanism, the only rue Americanism, is that which puts America at the front of free nations nd redeems the great promises which re made the world when we entered he war which was fought, not only or the advantage of any single naion or group of nations, but for the alvation of all. It is in this way we hall redeem the sacred blood that ras shed and make America the force he should be in the counsels of man:ind. She can not afford to sink into he place that nations have usually ccupied and become merely one of hose who scramble and look about or selfish advantage. "The Democratic party now has a reat opportunity to which it must aeasure up. The honor of the nation 5 in its hands. ' "WOODROW WILSON." DEATHS FOLLOW MEXICAN MOVES BLOODLESS REVOLUTION NO LONGER QUIET. Reports of Slaying. Many Political Executions Said to Have Been Ordered When Government Falls. Washington May 10.?Mexico's latest revolution, after srettine: under way with a remarkable absence of fighting, apparently has not been without the usual tropical season of blood letting. From behind the veil which obscures the events of the last few days are beginning to trickle the stories of wholesale political executions, counter executions and other accompaniments which have so frequently marked struggles for supremacy in the Latin-American countries. Carranza, variously reported captured, in flight or in hiding; Candido Aguilar, his son-in-law, and minister of foregn affairs executed with Gen. Francisco Marguia, commander of the garrison in Mexico City, after a wholesale slaughter of political prisoners including 15 generals; forces of the revolution in control of the capital and most of the metropolitan cities of the country, while American warships and marines continue to move into strategic positions, were the foremost features of today's news. Communication Not Easy. ^Communication between the United States and the Mexican capital continued intermittently and uncertainly. Reports received here c^f the cutting of the telegraph lines which carry cable dispatches overland from Vera Cruz to Mexico City, are supported by border reports that the line of Car ranza's escape is held by the revolutionists. The telegraph lines which stretch down over the Texas border ind, reaching across the northern desert, ordinarily connect Washington with Mexico City, flicked off their last' dots and dashes yesterday afternoon and were occupied for a few minutes with a stack of dispatches which had been accumulating for days. What happened in Mexico City or somewhere along the line to interrupt them , is one of the mysteries of the revolution. From all reports, Tampico, Vera Cruz, Monterey, and Puebla, as well as Mexico City now are in the hands of the rebels. Search of the city of Vera Cruz has failed to find Carranza. Cne report had him under arrest in Esperranza. The last message received from the ( American embassy ir Mexico City said 3uiet prevailed on Saturday morning after the departure of Carranza with 10 "unusual disorders," according to he state department's announcement. "The only untoward incident reported," the statement continued, 'was the capture of one of President Carranza's trains on May 7, at Guada- < [oupe Hidalgo, about 275 miles north if Mexico City, an incident in which { ihere were several casualties." No mention of the fate of Carranza , vvas made by the embassy. ] Care for Americans. % General Obregon, Carranza's form- , 3r right hand military man and now . lis opponent, has ordered that the ( president, if captured, be treated ] vith consideration and taken to Mexi- . ?o City. Reports published in Mexico ( Uity newspapers and received here to- r lay flatly announced Carranza's cap- , ;ure together with Ambassador Bunilas, Carranza's representative in ^ ft'a'shington until a few weeks ago j md later one of the candidates for ;he presidency. ( Meanwhile the American govern- j nent while continuing a policy of ] vatchful waiting, took some measures ( o afford refuge to Americans. There ( ire estimated to be some 6.000 or j r.000 such in Mexico, some of them iraft dodders and radicals who fled >ver the borders to escape process of aw. For the most part, however, hat class probably is far in the in- ? erior, and the Americans who might i eadily avail themselves of aid are i jrincipally oil men and planters i liong the gulf coast. < For their assistance the navy de- s )artment has ordered the superdreadlaught Oklahoma from New York to 1 Cev West for possible duty in Mexi;an waters. She will take on a full I :ompany of marines before steaming ' ;outh. Meanwhile the naval trans- '< )ort Henderson will load 1,200 ma- i ines from the navy yard and pro- i ;eed to Key West to awail develop- < CARLOS CORBETT TO FACE TRIAL LATER DEFENSE COUNSEL Sl'CCEEIXS IN" POSTPONEMENT. Gap in Jury Selection. The Alleged Slayer of Three Men Will Hardly Stand Trial in Special Term. Orangeburg, May 8.?Following granting by the presiding judge of a motion by the defense to quash the entire venire cf petit jurors drawn to serve at this term of court, the case of Carlos Corbett, slayer of three men and the blindness of another near his home near Salley, S. C., on the night of March 27th, last, was brought to an abrupt close before it had gotten under way to any extent yesterday morning in the court. The defense charged that the lawwas not adhered to in the matter of postponing and advertising notices of the day and hour when the drawing of the names of jurors would take place, stating that according to the law 10 days must elapse between the time the notice is given and the time of drawing the names of the jurors. In this case, they charged, but six days notice had been given. The prosecution admitted the truth or tne cnarge out contended that it constituted merely an irregularity for the postponement of the case, all other requirements, they stated having been met.' After considerable argument by T. M. Raysor, for the prosecution, and W. C. Wolfe and Mendel L. Smith, for the defense, the motion was granted and the case was ended as far as this term of court is concerned. The court house was packed before the time set for the trial and perhaps 800 persons were in the room from all over this county and from other counties. The crowd was orderly and there was no semblance of disorder. Relatives of the defendant as well as those of the dead men, were in the court room. There have been reports that a special term of court will be called in the very near future in order to call to trial the case against prisoners now in the county jail. At such a term the trial of Corbett could be resumed but there has been no authorative statement to the effect that it would be taken up at a special term, should that term be called. There is every indication that a \. fight would be made by the defease for a continuance until the September term of court should the case be sailed at a special term.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. COTTO V SELLS HIGH. Forty-Four Bales Sold at Orangeburg for $20,280.88. The sale of forty-four bales of long staple cotton was made at Orangeburg on yesterday when Slater Bros., of this city, purchased the above cotton from Fred Way,* paying for it the sum of $20,280.88 says an Orangeburg dispatch. M. K. Jeffords, manager of the Orangeburg Marketing association, announces the sale of 683 bales of ootton by a prominent farmer living near Elloree yesterday, Mr. Jeffords making the sale to a local cotton buybt, the price being 40% cents basis niddling which is as good as any price paid for so large an amount of cotton in a long time in this section. The price paid was the very best considering the other markets in the state. "XT ? T Hi? J- "L ^ ^ ^4? 4.V?^ .' ir. jeiiurus, wiiu is iiicijucigei" ui tuc )rangeburg Marketing association has been quite successful of late in handling large amounts of cotton. The Drangeburg Marketing association is :loing a great work in Orangeburg for the farmers of the county. Cleveland has the first two women graduate safety supervisors in the United States. nents. American destroyers have arrived at Tampico joining the gunboat Sacramento, and the cruiser Dolphin ilso has reached that port. Other destroyers have reached Tuxpan and Vfora Cruz., and three more will go vith the Oklahoma. None of today's fragmentary dis)atches, coming from various sources, made any mention of armed resistince by the Carranza forces to the 'evolutionists but told an almost uniform story of federal garrisons going )ver without a struggle. Baltimore Edit The C Richard H. Edmonds, of Mai tion Must Look to South f Commends Work of Ame Columbia, May 6.?Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers Record and one of the best known economists in the South, yesterdaytelegraphed from Asheville a message to the South Carolina division of the American Cotton association, in which he heartily commends the work which the organization is doing. Mr. Edmonds had been invited to speak before the division but left Columbia before the meeting was held. His niessage follows: "The greatest business achievement for good of the first half of the 19th century was the development by the South of a cotton industry which represented more capital invested than that invested in the entire manufacturing industries of the United States during the same period and which largely shaped the politics and the finances of Europe and America. "The greatest business achieve ment for evil of the second half of that century was the complete domi'nation of the South's cotton producing interests by the cotton manufacturers and financial interests of Europe and New England to the 'degree that they enchained the cotton growers of the South in economic slavery and poverty to a greater degree of suffering than the slavery of the black man prior to I860. * "Every man who during the last 50 years has sought to beat down the price of cotton has to the extent of his ability been responsible for the appalling poverty of the cotton growers, white and black, for the illiteracy which has cursed the South, for j the bad roads and other ills fastened upon this section by the enslavement of the people who raised the bulk if the world's cotton. "The progress of civilization may be measured by the consumption of cotton goods and the advance of the world will be helped or hindered by the extent of the supply of cotton. For half a century the South has done the greatest business missionary work in human history; it has impoverished its soil, drained the vitality of its people and borne great poverty while it enriched the world with its cotton; it is safe to say that the South has thus made to the world's welfare a contribution of not less than $25,000,000,000 or say as much as the cost to the United States of the world war. Only through working women and children in the cotton fields and only through'continued desperate poverty to produce cotton to sell in competition with that raised in India where labor is paid about $10 a year, was it possible* for the South to keep on growing cotton. "No cotton crop in 5(/years prior to three years ago sold for one-half of its intrinsic value.- But so great was the power of the cotton interests of. Europe and for a long time of those in New England against a fair price for cotton that prices were kept below the cost of production and the soil and the cotton growers were steadily drained of vitality. Every i man engaged in fighting for a fair' price of cotton, and that price has notj yet been reached, may well feel that i he is doing a religious work which means more and better schools, more and better churches, more and better home comforts for millions and better roads and a general advance of the hiaterial and moral education and religious life of a section in which live one-third of the nation's population. "To lift from these people the pall of poverty, to quicken their lives in every sense is in itself a mighty missionary work for God and humanity. "I rejoice therefore in the splendid! work of the American Cotton association and in bidding Godspeed to those who are carrying on this great campaign I believe I am cooperating in a work which will reduce the cotton growers from poverty, which will stimulate the educational and religious activities and help to advance every good cause in the South and in doing so prove a great blessing to the whole nation, for the development of the South means the enrichment of the nation and the rounding out of a broader spirit of national life and of patriotism. The world is desperately or Dicusses otton Situation lufacturers Record, Says Naor Increased Food Supply, irican Cotton Association. short of foodstuffs; a food famine of such an extent as to make present prices of foodstuffs very low is im-pending. In such a food scarcity with. inevitably higher prices the germs of revolution are hatched. "The safety of our country and of civilization largely depends upon our utmost efforts to increase our food supply. The nation must look to the South for increased food supply. It can not depend upon other sections. It is therefore vital for Southern ?-f' farmers, regardless of the price of cotton, to raise all of their own grain and provisions and at the same time do as much as possible In helping to feed other sections. "To this task the American Cotton association may well address its most earnest efforts in order to secure an ample food production first, with cotton as a ^secondary or surplus crop. In this diversification of agriculture lies safety for the South and for the nation." BRING BOY TO PENITENTIARY. | Charged With Having Killed White Child. Columbia, May 6.?Sidney Riley;* a negro boy about 16 years old, who is alleged to >have inflicted mortal 'injuries upon Vanis vvarKmon, or ' Pineland, was brought to Columbia, yesterday by the sheriff of Jasper county and was placed in the state penitentiary. \ Searching parties have been looking for the negro for several days, ac! cording to advices from Ridgeland, I and it is said that he was captured about 20 miles from the place where the crime is alleged to have been committed. Accounts from Ridgeland are to the effect that Vanis Workman, the nine year old son and only child of Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Workman, of Pineland, went out in his father's field near his home, where some negroes were at work. The negro boy, Sidney Riley, is said to have resented some remark made by the white child and to have struck Vanis in the side. The boy fell to the ground and all the negroes in the field left at once and it was with the greatest, difficulty that Nkthe little boy got home to his mother, his father being absent at the time. A doctor was hastily summoned and it was quickly ascertained that the child was seriously injured. He was taken to a hospital in Savannah, where an operation was performed in an effort to save his life. The child died at the hospital May 3. BAPTISTS MAKE DONATIONS. Report Shows Contributions of $21, 250,000. Washington, May 16. ? During 1919, Southern Baptists, with 500 churches not reporting, contributed to all church purposes at home and abroad $21,250,000, according to the annual statistical report to the Southern Baptist convention, made by Dr., Hight C. Moore, of Nashville, Tenn., , one of the secretaries of fhe convention and acting statistician. The contribution to home causes reached $14,000,000 while those to budget benevolence were in excess of $5,000,000. During that year^there was a gain of 9,218 baptisms, while other advances for that period, the report sets forth, include a gain of 38 Sunday schools, 76,728 in Sunday school enrollment, $4,299,636 in the value of local church property, $1,055,356 in contributions to home purposes, $2,530,339 to budget benevolences ? f O ^7i 7 in a <rcrra(*at a OfiTltri CtiiU. ipo,"I I "I,VX I 1U "CO* butions to all purposes. t Reports for the year were received from 25,117 churches with a combined membership of 2,296,091. The value of the local church property of ? these congregations is in excess of $75,000,000 while the value of school property owned by Southern Baptists is $25,000,000. Miss Helen Taft, daughter of former President Taft, acting head of Bryn Mawr College, is the youngest College president in America.