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- % A ' J;? . ^ * feBREACH WIDENS K iiMrgeat id RegeUr Repablicaas Gel* E; tiag Farther Apart t1 FEELING IS INTENSE r. ? f If the War doing on in the Republt. ? % v can Party Does Not Materialize I Now, It Will Come Into Evidence at Next Itepublican National Con" vention. # | The Washington correspondent of The Columbia State says an analysis of the row in the Senate over the election of a president pro tempore has given special emphasis to the growing division among the senate Republicans. One thing after another is widening the breach among them and there is no sign whatever that it will be closed. The old guard leaders on k the Republican side and the progressives are getting further and further apart. The feeling between the two factions moreover is getting intense. L Not a few political observers be lieve that in the split now on there is the forerunner of grave trouble in the Republican party in 1912. If ^ such trouble does materialize it will materialize at the Republican convention. Those who believe a third party is coming believe the beginning of it is now being fashioned in the |l senate in the struggles of the old guard and the progressives. ^ Senator Gallinger, nominated in a Republican caucus for president pro tempore, might, under the circumstances that used to obtain in the senate, he expected to get the Republican vote, but the progressive Republicans, with the exception of forr?Borah, Brown, Kenyon and Dixon?did not go into the caucus r ami did not therefore vote for Senator Gallinger. They consider themselves in no way bound to support Senator Clapp, one of their own mini ber. L The split comes after two years ? of constant factional fighting. Of course there were forerunners of trouble before the last special session on the tariff, but when that session was held the differences between the regulars and insurgents became acute. In the seven ballots icast In the senate on the question four insurgents voted steadily for Clapp. They were Bristow, LaFollctte, Gronna and Poindexter. Had they been present, Senators Cumin ings, Bourne, Crawford and Works would have voted for Clapp. 'enator Bacon, Democrat, got 3 5 votes as his highest number. The highest Senator Gallinger got was 32. Clapp got four vote& and the others were scattering. Senator Bacon narrowly escaped election but he did not quite get a majority of f those present and voting. A few changes, it is true, would throw the election to Gallinger, but it is a question whether any such changes will occur. In the first place Senator Gallinger is recognized as one of the leading conservatives of the senate old guard. The conservatives charge 4 him with being strongly reactionary. Th?v are fighting not Gallinger persoirtlly, but the things he Is standing for. They insist that a man of more liberal views ought to be in the chair - * - t 11 -/n D * or t ne presiding umcor ui ui? bcuuit:. SAYS PROHIBITION A FAltCK. Judge Points Out How Ridiculous Is the Restriction. discharging his petit jury, following five acquittals of saloonists charged with retailing liquor, Judge Henry C. Hammond, of the superior court, at Augusta, Ga., commenting from the bench, presented facts to show that despite the prohibition 4 law in Georgia, the people want the liquor, the state licenses the dealer, juries refuse to convict, and hence tho prohibition law of the state is a farce and a failure. The most drastic law ever passed for state-wide prohibition was enacted in Georgia, the experiment was tried, the state treasury felt the loss of revenue, a gentlo breeze opposed to prohibition sprang up, the state granted license to saloons to deal in any "beverage, drink or liquor in initation" of the former alcoholic drinks, summarizes the facts he offers. The judge then asks what scientist has ever discovered any drink in "imitation" of alcoholic beverages. Concluding, the court declared that he expressed no personal opinion; "such would bo out of place," but that he was merely presenting a few simple facts. * Striking Carmen. At Oklahoma City. Okla., one man was shot and four other were slightly injured Monday night during a fight between special police employed by the Oklahoma street railway company and sympathizers with striking employees. The company has refused to meet the demands of the carmen for increased wages. The weather is getting a little summertsh. which will bring out the young crops, if only good shower of rain would come. STONEWALl JACKSON ANNIVERSARY' OF THE HEATH OF THE GREAT SOLDIER. Had He Lived the South Would Have . .Won in the War Thinks a Northern Preacher. Forty-eight years ago May 10, 1863, the telegraph wires were bearing in all directions the omnlous message, "Stonewall Jackson Is dead." On that day the great battle winner died of wounds received I? * V ~ l,|n It UCIUIU 111 tilt? 111 AUDI VI 11 i 0 crowning victory at Chancellorsville. In speaking of the said event the Rev. T. B. Gregory in the New York Ajmerican says: That May day was, in the strictest sense of the word, a day of fate. It settled things. It was a day teeming with destiny. One of the dead general's old chaplains is said to have exclaimed, in the course of a sermon delivered soon after the war, "When it pleased God to decree that the cause of the Confederacy should lose, He called unto Himself His servant, Stonewall Jackson, in order that His will might be carried out." There are many people North and South who believe that it was that 10th of May, 186J, that settled 4 1* Innn A ^ 9 f h a rr?*AO n/\ti fllof \\ n _ lilt" msuo Ul L11U f^lVUI, 11 11 ILL uctweon the States. Gen. Lee repeatedly declared that had Jackson lived and been with him at Gettysburg he would have won that battle, and many of the survivors of that battle of the Union side are of Lee's opinion. In war, as the great Napoleon declared, "men are nothing; the man is everything." What Napoleon meant was this, that when it comes to winning battles the important thing is not the number of the rank and file, but the military genius of the men who commands the rank and file. Over and over again, from Alexander and Caesar down to Marlborough and Von Moltke, has this truth been proven?that it is the man and not the men who win battles and decide campaigns. While Jackson lived the North made no appreciable headway, notwithstanding its superior numbers in the field. When Jackson fell at Chancellorpville gold was at its highest premium; Europe was almost on the point of recognizing the Confederacy; the war spirit north of the Potomac was rapidly growing cold, and the South, full of the gaudium certamines, felt sure of winning its fight. Jackson fell in the Virginia wilderness, shot through mistake by his own men, lingered on for eight days, and died, and all was changed. The Confederacy never struck twelve again. There were no more Chancellorsville, no more first and second Bull Runs, 110 more Cedar Mountains and Fredericksburg. Lee's ?t ?> ?>> > > mno cvr**11\ Thn Oil O 11^111 cxiiii ? an ^unu. i m; ouj;i v/in\, genius who had stood by him to execute his orders with tlie speed of the lightning, was no more; and history, traced out in the shape of a diagram, shows that from the day of Jackson's death the line representing the Confederacy began to dip toward the nadir. A remarkable man was Stonewall Jackson?a fanatic and the coolest of reasoners; stern and yet a perfect gentleman; remorseless In battle as a juggernaut, yet brimful or tenderness and loye; one day an obscure professor in a "one horse" Virginia institute, the next immortal as Caesar, as .^Napoleon, to be known forever as one of the supreme military geniuses of the world. It is true that North and South are to-day both happy in the fact that they are together again in the old Union, and it is more than probable that their happiness is all owing to the fact that on May 10, 18G3, God "called unto Himself His servant, Stonewall Jackson." * ? ? SCHOONER WAS WRECKED. Her Crew of Five Men Were Lost With the Vessel. A Pensacola, Fla., dispatch says it was definitely established this morning that the vessel which was wrecked and washed ashore on St. Andrews beach in the gulf storm two weeks ago was the schooner Queen, of the Standard Oil company. Her crew of five men undoubtedly were drowned. The boat is a total loss. The identification was by men who reached the wreck in small boats. The Queen, loaded with oil in barrels, was bound from Tampa to Panama Citv. Fla. Several steamers have reported the wreck, but it was not until today that boats reached it ? ? Now Cotton I>estroying Hug. A new cotton destroying bug has been discovered near Claxton, Ga. They bore into the young. It is stated that these .bugs are of a variety never seen in the cotton belt before, and that no one has been able to identify them as belonging to any known species. In addition to this It is not known how they secured a foothold in Georgia. None of them has ever been in this section. * SINKS AT SEA T?? Steuaeri Collides ia Hid Octal aid Oac Gaea ta Battoa. ALL ABOARD WAS SAVED With Three Hundred and Nineteen Souls on Hoard, the Ward Liner Merida Is Struck During a Fog by the Fruit Steamer Admiral Farragut Off Cap? Charles. A near-tragedy of the sea, filled with many thrilling narratives of human rescue and escape, occurred off the Virginia coast early Friday morning, when the splendid Ward Line steamer Merida, bound from Havana, Cuba, for New York, with 319 souls on board, sank in thirty-five fathoms of water, fifty-five miles northeast of Cape Charles, after she had been rammed by the fruit steamer Admiral Farragut, bound from Philadelphia for Port Antonio. Every person aboard the Merida was rescued, and but one was injured, a woman who occupied a room immediately next to where the Farragut struck the Merida. The Merida was struck by the Farragut during a dense fog at 2:30 A. M., and in five hours was at the bottom of the ocean, but with her passengers and crew safely aboard the Admiral Farragut. Py wireless the Old Dominion Steamsnip company 8 steamer Hamilton, bound from New York to Norfolk, was summoned to the scene, and took aboard the rescued passengers and crew. They were landed in Norfolk at seven o'clock Friday night. The Admiral Farragut, which carried hut one passenger, proceeded for tho Deleware Breakwater, under convoy of the United States battleship Iowa, which answered the wireless appeals for assistance, and which was standing by the Farragut when the steamer Hamilton left with the rescued passengers for Norfolk. When rammed, the Merida staggered away, and It was feared for a while that the Farragut would also he lost. Wireless Operator Leach sent out his appeals for assistance. Meanwhile the passengers and crew were being transferred from the sinking Merida to the Admiral Farragut. One passenger, Perry T. Benton, proved himself one of the real heroes of the hour. Benton is an export engineer, and it was largely through his assistance and knowledge of machinery that the wireless apparatus on the Farragut had been broken by the shock of collision, and allowed the calls to be sent for help. This was heard by the Old Dominion liner Hamilton, who at once sent an encouraging reply. The Iowa and the Hamilton began racing to the scene. The Hamilton won. It was a few minutes after 8 o'clock when the Hamilton sighted the Farragut, and in half an hour was close enough to send out life boats. The 319 souls were transferred from the Farragut to the Hamilton in just two hours. The sea was calm and the work of rescue, except for the fog and darkness, was easy. The Merida was 417 feet long, 50 feet beam, 3 5 feetdeep, with a displacement of about 10,000 tons. The vessel was only about five years old. Its tonnage was 6,200. The passengers for the most part escaped only in the clothes they were able to get on their backs and some left but scantily clad. Frank G. Conling, an importer of New York, said he desired to enter a strong protest against the action of officers of the Merida. He asserted that they told the passengers to go back to their state rooms when the ship was in imminent danger of sinking, and all but the captain, quartermaster and first officer took to the life boats ahead of even women and children passengers. * KILLS HIS LITTLE CHILD. ? ... Clear Cose of Criminal Clarclessness on Father's Part. A case of the worse kind of criminal carelessness took place a few days ago in Lancaster county, when Kireod Knight, a farmer living at White Hluff, accidentally killed his 3-year-old child. Knight was repairing an automatic gun and after repairing it put a number of shells in the gun. The weapon not working satisfactorily, he removed the shells, as nc tnougnt, ana snapped me gun; Its was discharged, the result being that the top of the child's head was blown off, death being Instantaneous. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict of accidental killing. * Glanders Under Quarentlne, The health authorities of Washington, D. C., have in quarantine E. M. C. Combs, a farmer of Stafford Count, Virginia, who is not expected to survive an attack of glanders. The disease is highly contagious and almost invariably fatal. Combs contracted the disease two weeks ago when operating on a calf. The disease already has caused him to be totally blind and his death is expected at any time. WUX MEET SOON RURAL MAIL CARRIERS URGED TO GET TOGETHER. The Service Will be Improved by Cooperative (Methods on the Part of the Carriers. Thos, E. Wicker, president of the Rural Free Delivery Carriers' Association of South Carolina, has issued an address to the carriers of this State, urging increased interest in the organization. Mr. Wicker, in his address, says: "Brother Rural Carriers of South Carolina: Below you will find a list of rural carriers whom I have appointed special organizers for their respective counties. See if your name is on the list, and if it is, then go to work with a vim for your county association; of it is not, then write your county organizer at once and tell him your services are at his command. "In several counties I have made no appointments because I didn't konw who would be willing and interested enough to undertake the work. I should be glad to have the names of hustlers from those counties, so that the list of organizers could he made complete. The appointment of special organizers doesn't mean that State and county officers may become less active in their efforts to secure members. "The State convention at Newberry last July was the largest and best in the history of the association. The question now is: Will it be excelled by the convention at Florence next July? What does Burch say about it? What do we all say about it? Our presence in goodly numbers will mol/o If ti cncpoau' r?nr nhfipnw will make it a failure. "Now let us us all get busy in the interest of our county conventions on the 3 0th of May. Remember the national dues as fixed at Little Rock last year, are 75 cents, and State dues 2 5 cents. Your county dues, if any, are what you choose to make them. "Let us all join the association for the good of the service and for our own good. If by getting together in conventions and exchanging ideas, we are benefited, then, of course, the service will be benefitted to the same extent. The carrier who refuses or neglects to join the association, isolates himself and pockets his salary at the end of the month. This is the sum total of his interest in the rural mail service. The carrier who joins the association manifests by that very act, a desire to learn, through the association as a medium, the wishes of the department officials in the conduct of the service. He is wide-awake and more efficient than his isolated brother, because he is in touch with the department and in sympathy with those who are trying to improve tlie service. "There may be some among us who think that the recent salary increase was not as large as it should have been. From our viewpoint perhaps it was not; but from the viewpoint of the government it was solely a question of economy. We must not forget that our branch of the service is your.g, and, in some respects, imperfect, therefore, let us who are in the field co-operate with our superiors at headquarters, to the end that the imperfections in the service may be eliminated and that we may become more efficient and deserving. When these things have been accomplished there need be no doubt that our compensation will be as generous as we could wish. Uncle Sam is not stingy; but as every good business man should be, he is conservative. "In 'closing, let me again urge upon you the importance of your presence at Florence, July 3, 4 and 5?three days. Come, whether a member of the association or not. Fraternally yours, "Thomas E. Wicker, "State President." The special organizers are as follows: Abbeville?Milton F. Martin, Donolds. Aiken?George T. McCain, HawAnderson?J. J. Trussell, Honea Path, thone. Rarnwell?E. E. Fickling, Rlackvi lie. Chester?J. C. Moore, Chester. Chesterfield?D. M. 'McNair, Patrick. Clarendon?Silas R. Cobb, Pinewood. - - a rt-% \ T"\ r>iA n .. f uoueion?i nomas jr. diuck., nuifin. Darlington?J. M. Gray, Darlington. Florence?J. M. Gray,.?Darlington. Williamsburg?J. M. Gray, Darlington. Dorchester?J. A. Murray, Summerville. Edgefield?Sam D. Mayes, Edgefield. Fairfield?Clark Langford, Blythewood. Greenville?P. M. Huff, Piedmont. Greenwood?L. P. Anil, Dyson. Kershaw?J. E. Rosh, Camden. Lancaster?C. J. Sistare, Riverside. Laurens?A. C. Owings, Gray Court. Lee?J. E. Camden. Lexington?L. B. Addy, Lexington. Newberry?McD. Metts, Whitmire. Orangeburg?L. B. Lide, North. ONE BRAVE MAN 9 Saves the lasvred* Cane ia Menca by Puviag that It Reallv MEANT LAW ANO ORDER Bravely Meeting the Iswae Between ( Civil and Military Control of Mexi- \ can Provisional Government, Ma- 1 dero Quells Itevolt in Incipiency, j Becoming Complete Master of Sit- { nation. i f A dispatch from Juarez, Mexico, says the supreme test between mjli- ( tary and civil authorities was experi- i enced Saturday, and Francisco I. 1 Madero, Jr., is complete master of ' the situation. After a day of thrilling incidents, during which the lives t of Madero and his chiefs were in | danger, Gen. Orozco, in a moment of < passion, ordering the arrest of the little rebel leader, and demanding ] \the resignation of the provisional ; cabinet, the capital of the provisional , government is quiet. , Gen. Navarro, the defeated federal commander, whose life was threatened by members of the rebel army, was spirited away by Francisco 1. \f n flnrn T r* in iKirnnn ' " * A'Aiivivi v/f ?/ A t A AA | / I OV/ II | I u Lilt." American side of the Rio Grande, and is safe in the home of friends In El Paso. A plot, quiet, deeply laid, is suspected by the rebel leaders as the cause of the near-riot in front of Madero's headquarters. It was said to bo a scheme of Madero's enemies to take up the organization of the revolution in Mexico. Provisional President iMadero, in a statement issued Saturday, charges that Gen. Orozco's actions were incited "by persons interested in bringing about disunion among us." Early Saturday, Gen. Orozco called on Provisional President Madero, and the two talked alone for some time. Only their views were announced in part. A throng of soldiers had gathered outside the building and Senor Madero appealed to them. Six soldiers had been drawn and rifles were levelled, but Madero stood before the crowd and, slapping his breast, shouted: "Shoot me! Shoot me! if you dare!" Orozco was undecided. His men would not fire. Madero talked in his reassuring way, and the affection In which he is held came uppermost. It ended In a mighty shout of "Viva Madero." Many stories concerning the clash are being circulated. Col. Villa was said to have insisted on Gen. Navarro's life, while Gen. Orozco also was said to have been displeased with the naming of a civilian as minister of war. All is now harmony, Senor Madero having impressed upon Gen. Orozco that the choosing of a cabinet and the management of a government is quite outside the function of the military. Apprehension for the safety of Gen. Navarro stirred the sympathy of Gen. Madero after the incident, and he determined at the risk of his own life to save the brave federal commander. He was whisked away in o n n 11 i Yo t r\ \*7 ll nfo Hon Vnillirrn <411 a 11 tV/lll\JUll^ I.W TT 14L.4 V> VI VII* I^CIT III I V has been staying since he was captured and, after a brief explanation, conveyed Gen. Navarro to the river front, where the latter waded the river and was soon safe on the Amelcan side. The insurrectos were ignorant of this move. Navarro gave his word of honor that he would return to Mexican soil when required to do so by Madero. If the feeling against Navarro among the insurre-ctos is because of alleged acts of cruelty, his life will be continually in danger. Madero and his supporters have saved Navarro from Any harm. Sonor iMadero gave out this ex* planation of the trouble: "This trouble has been caused by persons who desire to see trouble among: us. "We have sufficient provisions* and want to lay the blame for this dissension where it belongs. We have more than enough troops and they are well provisioned. "I was told that Gen. Orozco did not like the officers whom I had named as cabinet officials, but I told him that I could show him where it was for the benefit of the country and tho general was satisfied. We hold a long conference, at which all things ended satisfactorily." ? Negroes Kill Each Other. William Jackson and Tom Woodward, two negroes, killed each other near the Keystone Lumber Company's plant, in the lower part of Marlboro county Wednesday. It seems that the two negroes were at a negro celebration or party and got into a dispute. Woodward used a pistol and Jackson a gun. 1 reckons?C. G. MavSter8, Central. Richland?John A. Jennings, Columbia. Saluda?James Herbert, Saluda. Spartanburg?B. Bryant, Spartanburg. Sumter?A. J. Ard, Sumter. Union?H. J. Thomas, Carlisle. York?W. T. Sims, Sharon. THEY SCOOPED MARY THE SUCKERS BIT GREEDILY Olf WIRELESS STOCK. How People Were Buncoed Out of Their Hard Earned Money by m Lot of Swindlers*. The New York World says farmers from Kansas, sheep raisers from Oregon, merchants from Texas and men in the employ of the Forestry !>cpartmnet testified Saturday ou behalf of the United State Government tgainst "Col." Christopher Coinmb i: Wilson and his associates in the management of the United Wireless relegraph Company Wilson and his friends are ".r.nrg3d with fraudulent use of the mails n selling wireless s?o'?k. So well lad their lurid circulars and "fallow jp" canvassers done their work, the ;he witnesses testified, that the deilinnrt f?n Wllenn a n rl li ic frlAn/l.i f'-? - v ? ? Mtftvt aito ?. A 1V/1UI O I \J K Jtock became so great that they had :o buy It in the open market io orier to satisfy clamorous customers. It was proved they bought wireless stock on the curb in Chicago at $1 a share and shipped it to farmers and sheep raisers at $3 5 a share, saying it was Treasury stock and binding the purchasers not to transfer it for at least two years, when all would be millionaires. Charles F. DeTarr of Anthony, Kan., the first witness, said he had received several "come-on" circulars from the United Wirelss people and had been visited later by a canvasser, who induced him to buy six shares at $35 a share. From that time he never had any peace . Agents for the Wireless called on him almost every week, and he bought more stock at the same price. lie was so easy that they wanted him to pay $10 a share. He split the difference by giving up $37.50 a share. All this stock the Government showed had been "Col." Wilson's personal property. John .T. Petli of Mount Vernon, Wash.; Perry Burch, of Ashland, Ore.; Charles W. Peck, of Salt Lake City; Henry S. M. Spielman, a farmer of Tekamah. Xob.: Oeorere H. Graham, of Oregon, and P. T. Shields of San Antonio, testified in a strain similiar to that of De Tarr. * BLEASE DEMANDS ACTION. Says Penitentiary Hosiery Mill Must Be Shut Down. Governor Please Friday called upon the board of directors of the State penitentiary to meet and declare null and void the hosiery mill contract. "If you do not give relief, I will," writes the governor in a communication directed Friday to the board and Col. D. J. Griffith, the superintendetn of the penitentiary. This letter follows the report of the state board of health, condemn1 ti rv 4 h a h noiorxr 111 1 11 n n /I nmn *1 Iiifs I iic uuoici j mill (iiui 1 vv\/uiiiivuu~ ing th hosiery mill and recommending that it he abolished, and the convicts employed therein given outdoor work. The tubercular conditions at the penitentiary are the basis for tho recommendation. "Not only are the inmates made to suffer," writes the governor, "but when one with this disease leaves there and goes out into the world he spreads the disease among our citizenship and thereby causes the innocent to suffer." * ? ? ? WHAT DOES IIAVNE MEAN. +. Offers Rig Price for Entire Stock of New Orleans Cotton. Frank D. Hayne, the well known cotton dealer, threw the New Orleans Cotton Exchange into a fever of excitement twenty minutes before the flnal gong Tuesday, when he offered to purchase tho entire stock of cotton in New Orleans at 15.48 cents. Mr. Hayne jumped in the rig, pushed aside his brokers and began crying his bids. f K Alioon/) Vt it A ^ 1 ft H r i > c iiiv/uoauu iuuj ui iU| up said. "Fifty thousand bales at 49." Pandemonium reigned for a few minutes, and the days Of the great Sully pool were recalled. Again and again the big bull leader bellowed forth his challenge to the bears. In the excitement, traders appeared dazed and those who a few minutes before were offering to sell May around 15.40 were slow to accept the increased price. Finally, Mr. Hayne yelled: "I will take the entire stock of cotton in New Orleans at 15.48." When the gong sounded it was estimated that he had bought perhaps 5,000 bales. llut his sudden and startling movement had the bears guessing and May became very ac tive. There are reports of a "corner" In New Orleans Tuesday night in May cotton, but it is believed to be untrue. Crazy Negro Kills Wife, Mose Williams, a young negro living in the lower Broad Uiver section of Newberry county, Thursday morning shot and killed his wife with a shotgun. He has been arrested. The opinion prevails that his mind was unbalanced.