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V . C V v "V i / • « JAN. 29,1913. Stops BacKache Sloan's Liniment b a splendid remedy (or backache, stiff joints, rheumatism, neuralgia and sciatica. You don't need to rub it in—just laid on lightly it gives comfort and ease at once. Mb. Gsa Buchanan, of Welch, Qkla., writ«s>—»«I have used yowLm. t for the past tea years for paiaia back and ttiffaeae and find it the beet I ever tried. 1 recommend it to anyone lot pains of any kind.** THE PRESS AND STANDARD, WALTERBORO, S. C. l-fv \/ UKIMENT b good for sprains, strains, bruises, cramp or soreness of the muscles, and all affections of the throat and chest. Cot Entire Relief R. D. El-rgoyme, of Maysville. Kr., RR. I. F x 5, writes: — **I had revere pains 1-etweenmyrhcu!- den; I got a bottle of your Liniment and had entire relief at the fifth application.” Relieved Severe Pain in Shoulders Mr. J. UNDFRWoob, of scco Warren Are.. 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In Europe there are 1,000 men to 1,045 women; in America 1,000 men to 964 women; in Asia. 1,000 men to 961 women; in Australia. 1,000 men to 937 women. I Cured of Liver Complaint. ‘T was suffering with liver com plaint,” says I\a Smith of Point Hlank, Texas, ”and decided to try a 25c box of Chamberlain's Tablets, and am happy to say That I am com pletely cured and can recommend them to every one.” For sale by all dealers. What a great improvement would be made in the condition of horses and other animals if juft the proper remedy were used when they became iH or injured. If your horse could talk he would ask you not to use any cxteamal remedy containing alcohol because k ftings and tortures hb flesh terribly. Some liniments have alcohol and other flery ingredients which only inflame the skin and tissue without ftriking down to where the pain lies. Beware of such liniments. The great humane, qufck-aftion remedy is MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT. Made of oils, without a drop of alcohol or other torturing element, it •oaks straight to the bone and muscle. It soothes the wounded parts and b comforting while the healing work is progressing. Mexican Mustang Liniment b what you want because it Makes. your work lighter, saves your liveftock from suffering and keeps them in good trim for work. For all forms of Lameness, Strains, Bruises. Cuts, Bums, Galls and Harness Seres in animals, it is safe and prompt and does not premise what it cannot perform. Muftang Liniment has been doing its wonderful healing work for 65 years. The amount of money it has saved livestock owners is incalculable. One man writes that he was about to kill his valuable horse because badly injured but Mustang Liniment made him well again. A Vet erinary tells us he has used Muftang Liniment fifteen years • and found it beft liniment for cuts, strains, etc. And many others are enthusiastic friends of this tried and true remedy. Now you know juft what makes Horses so Happy. XE X il., L-i Sadi, Doors, Blinds, Roofing, Brick. 9 And all Builders Material Carried in Stock in all Merchantable Sizes. Orders promptly filled. Let us figure with you. We are sure our prices will save you money on your needs. aiMVAffi. Iianfactarer of Roagh aid Pressed baker. Walterboro, : : : : : S. C. penter. of Anderson. South, Carelina. filing bow the Fsrgnsoa letter cane to be given out and how the state ment which accompanied it was made op for the press: About « o'clock la the afternoon of Angnpt 23. 1912. 1 met Senator and Mrs. Tillman at the north entrance to the Capitol building. They Rad started for home, and had stopped and were talking to Mr. J. M. Baker, one of the officers of me Senate. Sen ator Tillman stopped me and said •j wanted to ask my advice. He stated that at the beginning of the Gubernatorial campaign in South Carolina he had declared he would take no part in if end had tried to follow that course, but mat during the two or three weeks juat previous he had received a number of letiera iron people in the State wuoui h3 thought to be his frienos, asking his opinion of Jones and Dlvnse, and that he had replied u mere letter. * 1 frankly, that in each e.ibo ne had ryide^ it plant to hte ••o.T» iaoMdent that he \w-.s writing n ecu9 lonco but le* had found that in some faces his tondd^nce had been d‘*s- *:o>ed. that iho letters were beitii: tnisreprc:- itt d. and that he had been placed in the position of doing se- uetiy tilings h<* was afraid to do op enly. He said he had been placed in a false position before his friends and his enemies, and that he felt that he ought to give out u newspa per statement explaining his position fully. Mrs. Tillman said she did not want him to give ou; the state ment and he said he would not do anything against her wishes, but he felt very strongly that he should make a public statennni in justice to hirtself &nd tj his friends in” the state. We discussed the matter for some little time, and Senator Till- j»an finally said ho would decide at he moment what he would do, In® nvited Mr. Haker rayseif to come to his r< onis at the Dewey Hotel that night when he would have bis mind fully made up , , Th«»*e Present. I v ent to the Dewey Hotel about 8 o’clork that night and found in Sen ator Tillman’s room sir. Daker, Mr T. H. Daniel, of the Sp^.ranburg Her ald. and Mr. Wyehe. Senator Till man's stenographer. Mr. Murry, of The News and Courier, came in a little while later. After a few min utes of general conversation Senator Tillman told us he bad decided to give out a statement, and begun dic tating it to his stenographer. The dic tation occupied perhaps fifteen or twenty minut£*. During the time of it Senator Tillman stopped once or twice to weigh a sentence, hut he finished it without interruption and without suggestion from anyone pres ent. After taking the statement in shorthand, Mr Wyehe wrote it out on a typewriter and gave it to Sena tor Tillman, who read it aloud to us He made, as I remember, but one change in the draft, and that was a minor one. in tlie phrasing of a sen tence. He then told his stenogra pher to give copies of it to the differ ent newspaper men. ”1 am Off the Fence.” After getting through with this Senator Tillman drew a_Jong breath and then laughed. “I feel that I have simply discharged a duty.” he said, “and now I feel better. 1 am off the fence.” I walked from the Dewey Hotel to F. street in company with Mr Daniel and Mr. Murray. * They had been impressed, as I bad been, with Sen ator Tillman’s force In dictating the statement. One of us remarked that while Senator Tillman had had a severe illness it had not impaired the vigor of his intellect, and this was heartily agreed to by the others. Sen ator Tillman's statement was filed in the telegraph office on F stree t for transmirsion to the South Carolina papers that night. I know that Senator Tillman gave out the state ment against the advice of Mrs. Till man and some of his closest friends, anl certainly it was dictated v.h-n obody was present except those men- loned above, and without suggestions of any kind from anv of them. (Signed! , A. M. Carpenter. Washington. P. C., Jan. 17. 191.:, The South Carol..ia newspapers had hounded Governor Blease so continuously during the campaign, had been so unfair in their opposi tion that the people or the State had lost absolutely all faith in their lt< 11- esty. or trutbfulneHs. When th*» statem- nt appeared in *',0 newspap ers Saturday morning, I received a number of telegrams asking if it was authentic. Many of my friends lud bee t misled by Gove, nor Blease to that point where they doubted not only the newspapers, but also doubt ‘d me. * , > Tillman Jeaku* of Cole Hleu-e! The fourth charge of jealousy is > ridiculous that I cannot bring my self to consider it seriously. Ben Till man jealous of Cole Blease! It is unthinkable, and. were I to answer t seriously, D would be convicted in he minds of all sensible people in South Carolina of tL- next charge; 5. Feebleness of mind. Whether my mind is feeble or not tbe people :, 1 judge for themselves. 1 am willing to leave It to any jury in South Carolina. Bleltselies or others whether Ben Tillman is Techie-mind ed or Cole mease is,crazy. , The Blease circular. Issued 0:1 Au gust 25, which he republishes in the message, says—and he print* it in capitals: ”1 hsve never seen the Fer- uson letter, and did not know what was in it until I saw ft in the hews- FARMER'S WIFE ALMOSTAWRECK Restored*to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound—Her Own Story. Westwood, McL-y*I am a fanner’s wife and do most of my own work when 1 am able. I had nervous spells, fe male weakness and terrible bearing down pains every month. I also suf- IHI fered much with my right fide. The pain mi started in my back an 1 extended around my right side, und the doctor told me it vvr.s organic inflam mation. I was sick every three weeks c:.d Lad to stay in bed from two to four clays. "It i* with great pleasure I tell you v.!iat Lydia E. I’inkliam's Vegetable Compound has do,;i Tor me. I have fol- ] .ve-l yor.i’ direction.; nr near c? pota-i- 11*. and feel much better than 1 have f it i t years. Wh n I wrote you be fore 1 was almost a wreck. You cun rtl'hh this letter if y. u like. It may h. ';> to strengthen the faith of some poor ufTi ring woman.’’—Mrs. John F. Klt-UAP.DS, Westwood, Maryland. Women who sutler from those dis- trv. .-ing ills peculiar to their sex. should rot doubt the ability of Lydia E. Fink- ham’s Vegetable Compound to restore their healun If you have the slightest doubt (hat Lydia IL Pinkhuni's Vegeta* hlr Compound will help you, write to Lydia K.PinkhauiMedicincCo. {■'onfidcntial) Lynn, MaMs„ for ad* \ ice. Your letter will Ik* opened, read and answered by a woman, ami held in strict confidence. and he dictated the letter to Harri son Ferguson, of Spartanburg, 8. C. to me. No one waa in tbe office ex cept Senator Tillman and myaelf;vaa well aa 1 remember, and 1 know that no one else had anything 00 do with it* dictation to me. (Signed| C. G. W** aft Scorn to ai., subscribed Indore me, this 17th day of January, A. D. 1913. K. B. Nixon, Notary Public. Governor Blease’a charge that I allowed some one, "this aatute Big Ex.” to dictate to me make* me wil ling to ask him if Col. Abney assisted him in writing the message. Something Abc:ut Honesty His anxiety about honeaty if pa thetic and reminds me of liudlbras’a couplet: "No thief ever felt the halter draw With good opinion of tbe law.” Being a low type of man himself, e does not realixe and cannot con ceive how any one else can be hon orable. clean and above board. 1 will say in concluaion that I have cad the bill introduced by Mr. Rem- »ert and heartily approve of it. 1 ope it will become a law, for it la nothing more than just that a news paper should give a citizen who is attacked in its columns the oppor tunity to reply through the same channel. (Signed) B. H. Tillman. 101 papers, and when GonzuHs bays I did and that ’Blease wili hgnV Tillman’ he wiryd what was wilfully Yntriie.’f What The ladrer Cost! Notwithstanding Governor Blease’s denial I know that he did fight me in more counties than one and that his trusted lieutenants were very active In jnarshaling bis followers, many of rnem once my best friends, to vote against me on tbe day of tbe primary. News to this effect camo to me from all over the State, and the \ote shows it. I have no doubt whatever that the Ferguson letter caused me to lose 35,000 votes, w hile it gained me about 10,o(i0. This was what I expected when I gave it out, hgt I could not remain quiet alter my confidence had been betray ed. The ''midnight stab” of which he complains—meaning the lateness in the campaign when the '.etler was given out—was altribu to my w ife's influence. SIk* tv«&'.d me to stand by my oft-repcatcl promise to remain uands off. Says He Is Better than Ukase. I was elected in spite of him, and be waa elected In spite of me. I got more votes than he did and feel that T affi a better representative of the Elate than he w’ill ever be; waa a better Governor than be has made; and have made a better Senator than he can possibly make. While what he says about tbe May Convention and the Southern Rail way lawyers may be irue, be could not wriggle away from tbe fact that Ben Abney lives in the Executive Mansion, although it in the people’s home and not a hotel. 1 am in formed that his salary is greater than all other Southern Hallway lawyers n the State. He is the real octopus which strangles the legislature and ersuades it to do his bidding, and baa conferences with Blease when ever he sees flt^,., «> Busine** of I’urdon Mongers. Governor Blease asks me speclfl- '’ally to say why I "dragged in the James of Col. Abney and the Hon. Sam J Nichols, and if 1 did so volun tarily,” etc. I certainly did, and I isk h.m again to explain why no one n South Carolina can get a pardon unless he applies to some of Ulease’s lawyer friends. I'nless information obtainable by me is false, no man in South Carolina need present an ap plication for pardon, iMiless one of his pardon mongers lias received a fee for it. Mease and Railroads. While 1 am discussing railroad lawyers and their influence on the outh Carolina General Assembly, it is juid as well that i should make S iiblic all that I said on the subject. overnor Blease has quoted only a part of it. In a letier 1 wrote to P. B. Bailey, at Ulaney, South Carolina, August 16. replying to a resolution adopted by the Blease Club at that place relative to my letter to Mr. Sims. I said: That the railroads are getting a nold in our State again I know. The .isiature ought to compel the rail- oads to give us the rivlit. on any •stem or roads anywhere in the State, to carrv us many people as we r t to on the same mileage as is done in the North. But Ben Abney d the railroad attorneys in the Legislature have been too venal and .'orrupt to protect the people against the railroads, and as i have already pointed out, Blease is in closer touch ;h them than Jones, and Blea.se is on record as saying the Southern Railway will have.a friend in me if elected.” I think it well that the people of the State and the General Assembly should know what I think about tbe influence the railroads have exerted in the Legislature. Evans Not la It. The sixth charge of having lent myself to signing my name to an ar ticle prepared by some one else, whom he designates as a "statesman without a job” and this "astute big Ex.” ipeaning Ex-Govt-rnor John Ga ry Evans, is shown to be false by the following affidavit from C. C. Wyehe one of my secretaries, a son of the Hon. C. T. Wyehe and v a brother of the Hon. C. C. Wyehe, of Spartan burg: Washington City, District of-Columbia. Personally appeared before me C. L Wyehe, who on oath, makes the following statement: 1 am a ste nographer in Senator Tillman’s office Tlie "\eWK|u»|»er" Mosagc. The message in question “transmit ting certain facts in rc conduct of newspapers, Senator D. R. Tillman and \V\ C. Gonzales, and urging re strictions upon newspapers,” is in part, as follows: "In my annual message, submitted to your bodies 0:1 January 14,. I call 'd your attention to the urgent need of tome restrictions upon the news papers and newspaper editors and re porters in South Carolina, in order it personal reputations, and eve*., the good name of South Carolina may be properly safeguarded from unwarranted villifleation. and in or- r to avert the danger of newspaper domination of our politics and poli cies in the future—a domination which, after having continued for several years, was only thrown off recently. 1 desire, in this connection following the line taken in the pre vious message, to which I have call ed your attention, to present ror your earnest consideration some facta which have come utuier my personal knowledge and observation during the recent State campaign. These facts are not given to you because they were connected with a campaign in which 1 was interested, but be cause they mirror clearly a canker- pus spot in our body politic for which only you have and can apply the rem edy. It will be necessary, In order that the true situation and true con ditions may be brought to light, that the conduct of no less a personage than senior Senator from South Car olina be reviewed, to some extent. If that conduct be what hla friends and supporters would never have sus pected or expected of him, I shall Regret that it has been necessary to shatter an idol. But what I shall say of him shall be only incidental to the main subject, which 1 want to impress, and the history or his con duct, as it shall b« necessary to givs it to you for this purpose, has been recorded in letters and telegrams signed by himself, which are now in my possession. "In order that the matter may be more clearly understood, I shall take up the events in somewhat chronol- ogieal order. In so doing, it may be that the main points may follow some not so important, but I feel tbat you will thus be. put more clearly in pos session of the entire situation. Hesitecting Tillman's Knpport. "On October 14, 1811, during my Irst year as Governor, but even then while 1 was the centre of a severe political viturperation and abuse such is lew men have ever had to with- ilancl. or could have withstood, and ihortly after Kx-Chiei Justice Ira B. tones annoLimed his candidacy for Governor against me. 1 addressed a letter to Seliator B. R. Tillman, at Trenton, in which 1 (old him that he was so used to being lied ou by ° newspapers,’ and flad 'seen so much of it on me, that 1 feel that it is absolutely useless for me to ^write you in regard to the many malicious lies that had been circulated.' 1 did. however, go on ;o call his atten tion to some misstatements which had appeared in the public prints n regard to him and myself, in (on- nection with each other, and went on to «ay: " 'Of course, I would be glad to have your vote and influence in my race for Governor: but, to be frank. I do not believe that it is absolutely necessary to my success, because I have not yet reached the point wharc I believe that any one man can dic tate to the people of South Carolina as to who they should or should noi have In office, and I have too high an opinion of you to believe that you would attempt to do so; and. from information received from all part* of the State, I am satisfied that I will be re-elected, regardless of who may oppose me.’ "In reply to that letter I received a letter from Senator Tillman, under date of October 16, 1911—the very next day after my letter was written. This letter I have on file in my office and the whole of it may be read by any one of you who may be go much interested. 1 desire for present pur poses to quote a few sentences. Sena tor Tillman said: Tillman'M Promise. " ’And further, I do not know who lersuadcd Jones to enter the race, ind have not seen him at all thir summer. One thing you may rely upon: If I decide to r,ave anything o do with the Governor’s race, you will be the first man I will tell. • • • I agree with you that the people of thla State would resent, as they have always done, any appearance of die tation from any man. "The fltate campaign came ou. Charges flew thick and fast. Tillman wrote what came to be known as the Sims letter, and It was published, with glaring headlines—headlines sc distorted that even Tillman could not stand them. Even Tillman hiegan PAGE SEVEN" to protest. Id • letter under Ante ot August 12, 1912, eren Tillman said: ” *1 am alck and disgusted at the unfairness and dishonesiljr| |mpecila!« ly in’ their headlines—with which certain newspapers have used my letter to Mr. 81ms and tried to give it a construction it Goes 'hot bear and which was never Intended.” Secret I setters. “It waa atioat this time, however. In face of former statements would be ‘hands off* and. In"< dicton of later atatemente by wii me, tbat Tillman began to write secret letters throughout South Car- jlina stabbing me in the back, tin* der date of August It. 1912, he wrote one of his supporters at New berry, attacking me, saying: 'I do not want you to publish this letter, but you can read it to any discreet friend that you can trust I warn ou. now, that If the people of 3oh a Carolina re-elect Blease Governor, they will rue it an long aa they live, m August 17 he wrote a letter to. Inoree—a letter of the same gener al tenor—closing by saying: 'This letter is not for publication, but for your own use and sue b of your friends as you choose to show it. or press on all who read it, or hear you read it. that it is not to be made public.’ He was still saying however, that he was hands off. as witness a letter of the day before, dated August 16. 19»2. wriir*-i ia a gentleman at Townville; ‘1 nave done moy best to remain 'hiMtda off,’ as between the best f.o can didates for Governor, and v iall ion- ilaue to do so. 1 «<.; n<*t respon sible because the news i pers a:’« lecciving the people 1*. pucitig Les n the headliner:’ "In the saiho letter Yill-nvi reiterated his view that he li l not consider the Governdy's race any affair of his, in the following words: ‘I am trying the best i can to be neutral between the men. 1 have been tempted several times, in fact, have been importuned by some of the best friends 1 have got to come out openly and boldly for Jones and give my reasons; but 1 have re frained from doling so simply be cause 1 do not think it is any affair of mine and I sincerely believe that the people of the State of South Carolina take care of them selves— as they have alwayk done— without being dictated to by any one/ Thinks Tillman Stabbed Him. “All thla time, however, he was ■tabbing me every uay, in secret totters—as witness one of August 16,MSI2, marked ‘Personal*, in which he attacked my candidacy, and closed in a postscript: *1 write this for your eyes alone/ All tbe time writing secret letters ‘for the eyes alone’ of bia correspondents— but all the time proclaiming his ‘neutrality’, and all Uie time writ ing these secret letters all over the State. On August 14, in a letter to x gentleman at Bateaburg, he gave, frpm hearsay, a charge that the Southern Railway ‘has been hanling Blcaae’s friends to the va rious counties/ Of course, he said that he did not know whether this was true or not—but he waa sowing the seeds of unfounded chargee which, as he surely Ought to know, and as the people of South Carolina ought well to know by this time, will multiply | millionfold in an infinitesimal period of time. This letter, of course, was written privately/ ‘and of course,* said the Hon. Senator Tillman, -you will not use It in the newspapers or otner- .wise.’ And when he was banding forth this charge from Waslougioti into South’ Carolina, he know that In the May convention twry South ern Railroad attorney who wan a member of it waa a billet rpp.riAnt ot mine, aa I directed to in my opening spee« n at Sumler, and all the Southern I tail road at torneys throughout tire Slit". v.*ih the exception of three or four, fought me in my e-unire'X 1, as the records will clearly show—anl I have been informed that al) the ti'»n er officials were against me. and I have alito been infoimed that offi cials of said railroad contributed money to be used in (he tampaigu against me. This I do not «hargc, but I stated from (he stump that ,1 had been so informed, and it has never been denied. i.nd Tillman knew it. As to wnoso friends it was hauling, possibly you will later bo asked to investigate. - Telegram nf.August 21. V.J "On the day of the State cam paign meeting in Ureenviile, August 22. 1912, notwithstanding Senator Tillman had written the secret let ters froiwnvhirh 1 have quoted above and many others, to parties in dif ferent parts of the State, I received a telegram from him under date of August 21. saying: ‘About leyer to Sullivan. Wrote letter something like >ou sent, but without seeing signature cannot identify it. His letter to me was threatening, hence my lar; answer. Have written.no letters e«cret!»y. H&ve written many personal and confidential.’ And another telegram tinder date of Ahgus: 22: Have written lettera only in reply to your friends/ Did he regard Sims, for instance, as my friend?’ "Beweei* the time of the letters from which I have quoted and the tlegrams quoted above. Senator Till man had given out in Washington Xu interview to the Washington cor respondent of the Columbia State, publiahed in the t'olumbia State of „ August 20, announctng that he waa ‘hands off.’ That interview appeared under the name, of P. H. McGowan, and under date of .rugust 19,.and it stated, among other things: ’Sen? ator B. R. Tillman announced to day that he was ‘hands off' in the South Carolina Gubernatorial (dec- ~ tion.. , He further announcecf~t)iat the statement he gave to the press which waa printed last week, would be his last utterance on this subject. • • • He is still receiving lettera. he said, begging him to come out for Blease and some asking his sup port for Jones, hut he declares that >e has had his last say on the sub ject and that he is now "hands off.” n L-* I I Continued on Page Eight. > / A