University of South Carolina Libraries
WHAT WAS DONE Caayaip Pledpa Rcrfctacd ia Foil by lie Deaacratic Party. EXAMPLE TO THE PARTY Speaker Champ Clark, in Reviewing the Work Done Ry Congress, Says the Democrats in the House and in the Senate Have Set a Good Example to the Party at Ijarge. Champ Clark, speaker of the house 1 ~ * * u ^ of representatives, in a review ui me work done by the Sixty second congress, declared that the Democratic party set a good example for Democrats everywhere, and that the party had redeemed every promise it made in the campaign of 1910, when the Democrats wrested control of the house from the Republicans. "At this session, the Democrats have made a record which has surprised our friends and dumbfounded our enemies," said Speaker Clark. It has put heart and hope into Democrats everywhere. The ertra session was extraordinary, not only in the sense being a special session called by the president, but also in the amount and the quality of the work done in the house by the combined Democrats and insurgents amg " nnniMnoH Firminnrn t a and IteTillb Lilt? 1/UlliUiiivu , lican insurgents in the senate, and especially by the unanimity of action developed by the house Democrats. "It was predicted freely, vociferously, enthusiastically and confidently by the 'standpat' press and orators that we woud go to pieces. On that account and by reasons of that hope, they rejoiced that the extra session of Congress was called, so that we might go to pieces at the earliest possible date. But we have sorely disappointed all their expectations. They even set the date when we woud go to pieces, which was the day of the Democratic causcus on January 19, but unfortunately for them in that case, everything was done unanimously. They then said surely we would go to pieces as soon as we reached the tariff question, but again they were doomed to disappointment, and we did not go to pieces at all. We are more thoroughly united in the house at the end of the session, if possiDie, than at the beginning. "We have set a good example to Democrats evrywhere Sneered at for years as a party of negation and as being utterly lacking in ability for constructive statesmanship, we passed through the house more constructive legislation, and better, than has passed through any house in the same length of time in 20 years. We have have set the pace in that regard for future houses. "We redeemed every promise made in order to carry the elections In 1910. We have economized, we passed the reciprocity bill, the wool tariff bill, the free list bill, the cotton bill with the senate amendments, which included the iron and steel schedule and the chemical schedule; we submitted for ratification a constitutional amendment providing for popular election of United States senators; we passed a bill for the publication of campaign expenses before the election; we liberalized the rules, making the committees elective by the house, we passed a resoution to admit New Mexico and Arizoa, and we passed a large number of other bills of more or less importannce. It is a record of which we may well be proud and on which we will sweep the country in 1912. "To show how completely the stand-pat' Republicans are demoralized, it is only necessary to quote i- A \ i. iU the newspapers' statement uun mcu was great rejoicing and congratulation at the White House, because we failed by a scratch vote to get the two-thirds majority to override the president's vetoes although we have only 63 majority in the house. Te this completion has come at last that the president, who rode intc power by a huge majority is glad te escape the humiliation of having hii vetoes overridden in a house con taining a majority of only 63. Smal favors are thankfully received by tin administration. "Notwithstanding the fact tha four cabinet members were on th floor of the house lobbying in favo of the veto, all their power, allure ments and patronage of the adminis tration to help them influence votes 22 insurgent Republicans had th courage and manhood to override th president's vetoes. What's writ 1 writ, and whatever the future ma have in store, the honor of havin perfect unanimity among the Den ocrats and of achieving an extraord nary amount of constructive statei manship at this extraordinary eei sion can never be taken from us. Ei ery Democrat in the house and ever insurgnt Republican who stood u to the rack is entitled to bis fu share of credit. "We honestly and persistently ei deavored to relieve the people < some of their burden of taxation, bi the president would not have it. T use a sporting phrase 'he blocked th game/ On these issues, we appeal 1 the country* feeling absolutely ce tain that as we have stood manful] for the best Interests of the peopl PROUD OF DEMOCRATS SENATOR TILLMAN PRAISES THE WORK OF PARTY. They Have Not Made Mistakes and Have Fine Chance to Elect Next President. "I am proud of the way the Democrats conducted themselves," said Senator Den jam! n Ryan Tillman at Columbia Wednesday morning in speaking of the session of Congress just ended. Senator Tillman came to Columbia from Trenton, and immediately boarded another train for Liberty Hill in Kershaw county, where he goes to spend a few days with Railroad Commissioner John G. Richards. The Senator was accompanied by 'Mrs. Tillman. When asked about the the Democrats at this session, the Senator said that he was proud of his colleagues and the way in which they had conducted themselves, not having made any serious mistakes. The Senator had not been present at this session owing to tho condition of his health, 1 O r. I>nnn oHvtanrl t f? rn main at iiu uaviiib uwu uvi.iuv.. ww - home in Trenton on the farm. He was paired on all matters, and gave his colleagues notice that if he were needed at any time they should wire fo; him. Senator Tillman was asked If the situation as to the Democratic nominee possibility for President had clarified any, or if there were still that "o*)arasment dee riches," about which he spoke the last time he stopped over in Columbia. The Senator simply replied: "No, I cannot say that the situation is any clearer r.ow." The Senator says that the Democrats have such good material from which to select a Democratic nominee for the Presidency. The Senator has made known his belief that the Democrats have a fine chancd at the coming election. In view of the visit of the old Veterans to this city, Senator Tillman was asked whether he thought the South should accept at the hands of Congress a monument to the Confederate navy, a bill for which has been introduced into Congresss. There la in the Vicksburg National Park a I monument to the Federal navy. This monument will soon be dedicated. The dedication has been postponed owing to the introduction of the bill' as to a Confederate navy monument. Some of the Southern Senators and Representatives objected to the use of Federal funds for a Confederate monuwent. On this point Senator Tillman said, "Yes, I would favor the erection of such a monument. I cannot see why we should not take anything from the Congress that will show that the North is willing to do a little justice to the South. I cannot see why a monument should be be refused when we have accepted the gravestones. In the park where the monument would oe erected are "markers" on pvavps of Confederates showing the rank of the deceased soldiers. It was to these gravestones that Senator Tillman referred. Of State politics Senator Tillman did not talk, for there was little opportunity. He and Dr. Babcock spoke for a few moments of the work done by Commissioner Watson in his crusado against spoiled grain, especially corn meal, and the Senator appeared to be very much interested, i Dr. Babcock said that much of the meal was in very bad shape. This led to a brief discussion of pellagra ard of its relation to the spoiled grain. ? ? MILLS SHUT DOWN. Two in Anderson County Stopped Because Water Is I-ow. ? Two of the largest cotton mills in . unner Carolina, the Anderson and ; Orr plants of Anderson, were forced 5 to sihnt down Thursday afternoon be? cause of the very low stage of water ? in the river there. Reports from sev> eral parts of the Piedmont district ol , South Carolina indicate that the j drought and resulting fall off in the > water stage in several rivers ane 3 streams are forcing manufacturer! - to run on half time. Power plants 1 on tho Savannah and Tugaloo rivers e are now producing only 4,00 0 horse power?just half the normal, ane t unless conditions improve it Is sale e they may close altogether. r iCreeks and wells in the vicinit; of Anderson have failed so that tin i. authorities are now facing the prob 5) lem of keeping up tho drinking wat e or supply, e ? ? 8 Endorsed I>r. Wiley. y A resolution commending Dr. Wil 8 ey for his work in connection wit J" the pure food and drug laws wa adopted Thursday by the State Cor ' *?? ? "' *Orrlor Sou j veil i inn w i i lit- x nv> >v?tv v>v.. of America, in annual session. ITresolution was also passed favorin p a law to restrict immigration. 11 the people will stand by us." i- The four cabinet officers to whoi >f the Speaker referred as having bee it on the floor of the house when tli 'o tariff revision vetoes were pendin le in that body were Attorney Oeneri jo Wickerffham, Postmaster Generi r- Hitchcock, Secretary of War Stin ly son and Secretary of Commerce an e, Labor Nagel. | WANTS REFORM Cabai Petplc See Gavenweit Rn Entirely By Graft. ANOTHER INTERVENTION May Be Mad? Necessary by the United States If the Cuban Government Does Not Reform.?Cuba Knows That this Means Final Occupation of the Island. If TTnif pH Af ntPR IntprvpriPfl in Cuba again, it will be because of the continuance of the grafting practices of the Cuban ofiicials. A wave of political unrest is sweeping over Cuba. So great is the discontent throughout the island, that the people are loath to wait for political relief until the coming elections. Cuba is tired of graft. Instead of having $3 0,000,000 in the treasury, as it had at the beginning of the Gomez regime, the government now owes over $50,000,000, which is a considerable sum to be on the wrong side of* the balance sheet of a country so small as Cuba. The people, and they are expressing themselves more vehemently daily, put this great deficit down to political graft. The people, today, in speeches, in cafe talks, in communications to certain advanced papers, the editors of which are beitog hounded by the government, repeat that they cannot and will not stand much more of this wholesale graft, which is putting the country so far in debt it will take years of economy to pull it out of the hole. Grafting of a very coarse and unrefined character permeates all Cuban officialdom to such an ertent that In order to get a bill paid of $300 owed by the government for a small engineering job, the American contractor had to pay $66. When a Cuban speaks of graft, he never fails to mention President Gomez. He asks these questions: "How has President Gomez, on a small salary, put away in his own name several million dollars? How is President Gomez able to build a $500,000 home on the Prado? How is it that two cabinet officers have resigned after becoming Independently wealthy in a short time in office? How is it that all foreign business is more or less held up by the officials, who demand and receive graft therefrom?" Such questions as above are constantly on the tongues of the decent people of Cuba. So grave has the situation become, that, if decency in governmental circles does not soon assert itself, trouble will ensue. The right-thinking citizens of Cuba realize fully that, if the United States steps in to settle Cuban matters agaJn, the United States will stay on the island. The Cubans reason that the United States will not consent to spend 20 or 30 millions every few years to set Cuba about face. Realizing this, the people today are extremely anxious to oust the Gomez party and to get the republic on a sound basis, before intervention is necessary. The government has just voted $33,000,000 to improve Havana harbor and to build much needed docks, so that lighterage will be no longer necessary. The people of Cuba see ill this move a chance for millions of the Gomez type of graft and that, under the existing government, the Havana improvements will cost nearer $60,000,000 til an $33,000,000. Cuba is not a poor country. Its revenues are fairly large. The porl I of Havana produces daily about $65,000 in customs duties alone. Th< national lottery produces over $250,000 a month. The tonnage of th< [ port of Havana amounts to over ? 1 million dollars a year. These are just a few of the sources of income in Havana alone, anc . there are other smaller ports when I millions of dollars a year are takoi ? in customs and tonnage dues. Th< ? total income of the Cuban govern 1 ment last month was $3,67 7,4 89.3 2 3 the total expenses for the same montl 3 $3,685,94 6.63; making a deficit o 3 $8,457.31. The Cubans are asking where el 1 this money has gone to, and the onl 1 answer they receive is: "Into th pockets of'the Gomez party." The fl - ? j y naces or uie country tiro m duvu o wretched state (that the credit c - Cuba abroad Is practically wiped out and the merchants, who are accut tomed to receive poods on long cred' are being requested to send mone with further orders. The merchants blame the preser government for the existing state < h affairs, and are expecting within tli 8 next few months a radical expre sion of lack of confidence in tt 18 Gomez regime by way of a revon A tion. g ? ? Arrested After Nine Years. " After evading arrest since Octobi 22, 1902, on whldh date he Is allege m to have killed Charles Ellen, In Ha n nett County, North Carolina, Za< ie Marks was arrested Thursday In St g ta Rosa county, Florida, whe?e 1 al sened at one time as riej.uty sherl al later as postmaster at Gattls, a vi i* lage named from T. Z. Gattls, hie s id las. and where also he became successful naval stores operator. VISIT WOODROW WILSON IMPORTANT POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS WITH HIM. Upon the Adjournment of Congress Democratic Statesmen Are Journeying Toward Jersey Coast. Has another Woodrow Wilson boom for the presidential nomination started in earnest? With the ending of the extra session of congress there has been a long procession of Democratic statesmen headed northward from Washington in the direction of tho Jersey coast. Even the uninitiated have marked ! the flight and have wondered what it meant. Wondering, they have come to the conclusion that these migratory folk have gone up to the coast for the purpose of resting at the seashore and getting a whiff of the sea breezes, with now and then a swim in the old ocean. But this Is not the case. Democratic senators and members of the house like the Jersey coast Just as other folks do, but they are not headed there at this season of the year just for the sake of enjoying the delights of the seaside. Careful scouting will reveal that a lot of these Democratic congressional folk are headed for Spring Lake, N. J., which Is much Hav WnnMrnw Wilson. Gov. Wilson Is making a point of spending a good deal of time each week at the seashore, and he will meet the Democratic members of congress who are stopping along the Jersey coast to rest in the course of their homeward flight from Washington. It is hardly necessary to say that sonif large politics will be played In these meetings. It will, of course, be presidential politics. Senator Stone, of Missouri, is one of the big Democrats who is reported to be going home by way of the Jersey coast. But Senator Stone is not an avowed Wilson supporter. With Gov. Folk and Champ Clark in the the race he can not well be that. But Gov. Wilson knows that "Gumshoe Bill" is one of the ablest and most astute politicians in the Democratic party. It is significant of the strength of the Wilson presidential boom that the New Jersey Governor is luring to the Jersey coast some of the strongest and ablest politicians on the Democratic side of the house and Senate. Other Democratic politicians are finding their way there. It is well known there that the utmost effort is being put forward to lay the foundations of the Wilson boom in such a manner that it will be hard work to upset it when the storms of the coming national convention period begin to break. This A ? 11 is noi an. The third meeting of the house of governors, which will 'bring together governors from all over the country, will he held at 'Spring Lake September 16. Gov. Wilson will meet the Governors, put in much time with them and become better acquainted with them. Under cover of discussions of the "twilight zone" between federal and State power, there doubtless will be consideration of the 1912 , campaign. KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK. I Fatal Accident on the Atlantic Coast 1 Lumber Line. i As the result of a wreck on the At> , lantic Coast Lumber Company train . 101 at Coopers siding, five miles east of Kingstree, Monday morning, T j Blakely, white, of Trio, and Willie McCrea, a negro were killed out. right and four others were painfully > if not seriously injured. The train left . Andrews early Monday morning with ? the logging and track crew for camj t No. 2. As it reached Cooper's Siding, run3 ning about 20 to 25 miles an hoiu \ the engineer saw the open switch 3 ahead. He immediately reversed tin j engine and jumped. His fireman fol 3 lowed his example. The engine ane _ cars rushed ito the open Rwitch, ool I liding with a car of logs that hat 1 been placed there Saturday night, f Blakely, it is said, was riding oi the pilot of the engine and was com 1 pletely mangled in the colfision. Mc y Crea was sitting on one of the of 0 trucks and when the movement of th [. train was checked was thrown undo a the trucks and mashed to death. Th (f engine and cars did not leave th track. The injured are: J. H. White ,1 general woods foreman; John Smith It engineer; D. Long, fireman; and J y J. Bar wick, tie. ? ? it Cork Leg Nearly Drowns. >f William Green's cork leg cam ie very near being the death of him t * ? r Ti.Ao/lnir nlirht fJrPP S" Ijyilll, IVlilHS I licovic?j ?>ni>vi ie got beyond his depth while bathin J- and his artificial limb was so bouyar that his other leg flew into the a and his head was forced under wate Ho was saved by a college girl wh 9r was out boating with a youag mai h! r- Fractured Skull Fatal. ;h After living six days with his sku r.- fractured in two places and his nec :e broken, Henry Harrell, who fell fro ft, an engine at Sanford, Fla., last Wei il- nesday, died at Waycross, Pa., Tue il- day. In an effort to save his li a physicians put his head and shoul ers in a plaster cast. % BANK OE Conwa t Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK.. . , SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF PEPOSI1 DIRE( Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every aco will justify, and we i sobert b. scarborough, d President. We continue to pay 5 pel /first natic JE OONVVA ^ CAPITAL STOCK ? SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS fDIREC J. A. McDermott, John C AV B. G. Collins, H. L. F jlr M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui Successor to the Bank of & Horry County, and a pioneer ly allied with the recent dev I /ly Republic. Backed by tbe ? jX1 United States Bonds, we are p tomerg any reasonable a coo mi 1 H. A. SI'IVEY, f Cashier. ATWOOD CHECKED AVIATOR LOST HIS WAY AND WAS FORCED TO LAND. His Disappearance Caused Disappointment and Regret Among the Spectators Along His Route. Lost with his aeroplane In trying to fly from Lyons, N. Y., to Auburn 25 miles distant, Harry N. Atwood, the Boston aviator who is flying from St. Louis to New York, wandered about in the air for almost an hour late Monday afternoon, and finally was forced to land in an unexpected spot by the approach of - - * ** ?. t 1 ~ ~ + darkness, at a point nvtj mnt-a ?*coi of Syracuse. The delay had caused a serious sot hack in the attempt to break the aviator is making to break the world's record for cross-country flying. Atwood ascended at Lyons with the purpose of flying in an air line 98 miles to Utica before night. Just after he started he decided to detour from the course whch he has followed along the tracks of the New York Cenrtal railroad and cut across country to give the crowds at Auburn a chance to see him.. Rut later over the farms he lost his bearings and kept circling about, hoping to pick out Auburn. Meanwhile great uneasiness was felt as to his fate by thousands of peeple who waited in parks and on house tops to see him at Syracuse and Utica. It was 4:24 when Atwood left Lyons. At 5:20 he suddenly ap 1 peared over Auburn and landed. Atwood left Auburn at 6:45 p. m., uncertain as to his destination. Then ' began, another uncertain search for 1 him, extending all the way from Au1 burn to Utica. Ten thousand people at Utica awaiting his approach there until sundown. Syracuse was kept anxious until at 7:17 word came that he landed safely at Belle Island, five j miles west of Syracuse. At wood said that in Monday's wanI derings he had flown at least 7.r miles, but could claim for his record only the forty miles between Lyons and Bell Island. His total flyinj time was 1 hour and 28 minutes. T Atwood declared that Monday's ex perience was the most exciting tha he had ever had. Tuesday I will disregard al e scheduled landing places and will at / tempt to fly as far as Albany, 16,' j' miles by way of Syracuse and Uti j.' ca," said Atwood. ? ? PROF. J. AVERY FINGER. e Educator Succumbs .to Illness ci lt Short Duration. n g Prof. J. Avery Finger, who ha it been connected with the Charlesto lr schools for nearly thirty years die r. in that city Saturday night. He wa 10 recognized as one of the leading ir structors of that city, with his spher of iisefullness extending the school with which he was connected. H 11 did considerable private teaching an :k his death is a distinct loss to tb m cause of education and Is general) d- regretted Mr. Finger was a nati\ s- of Morganton, N. C., a graduate < fe Wofford and was fifty-six years < d- age. He is survived by a widow, daughter and three sons. ' HORRY, J y. S, C. 1 ny bank in Horry county. More t lus of all other banks in the county* .. ..960,000 VI . . 12,609 tJj [HOLDERS .. .. 60,000 M ORS ..112,600 jM :tors fa D. V. Richardson, 58w W. A. Johnson, Mjj Will A. Freeman. ommodation which their account* |J| solicit your business. 91 >. V. Richardson, will . freemaji Vice President. Cashiee r cent, on yearly deposits. v >3 f )NAL BANK! | & ? Y, S. O. f ..$26,000.00 X 2,600.00 Hy 126,000.00 A 1 TORS: it \ Spivey, D. T. McNeill, ^ luck, W. R. Lewie, D. Ok ^ ittlebaum, D. A. Spivey. ' Conway, tbe oldest Hank in in Eastern Carolina. Close- JIf elopment of the Independent jovemmeut and secured by irepared to extend to our cus- it nodations. B. G. COLLINS, A President. ^ * PROFESSION A L CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At Law. CONWAY, s. a > ] WL B. SCARBROUGH CONWAY, S. C. Attorney at Law. A H. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. C. B. WOFFORD WAIT. X Attorney at Lav/, Bank of Horry Building. ' ] CONWAY, 8. O. ME WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE * Ml . ttfOQ want either A VI hrn t! n g Hhn t tie, Rotagm Ntouttleor a Hlngle Thread [ChainiUUckk / Bowing Machine write to I 1 IVSfW HOME SIWIN8 MACHINE COMPASS Orange* Mass. 1 ftsayewtng machines arc made to tell rcKawMeasM' g?Mtyebut the New llomelsmade toweea ' Oar guaranty never rune ont. }> (M If Mthorlied dealers ta|Kr 1 - v so* sals as J j BURROUGHS & COLLINS CO., Conway, S. C. I Five Thousand Men Strike. Three Thousand workmen were called out on strike Monday at Chic^ ago by the Associated Building Trades. Two thousand building ^ trades workmen who have been employed at the Argo plant of the Corn ^ Products Refining company will not I return to work also, u * r r* Myrtle Reed Found Dead, d Mrs. Myrtle Reed McCullough, auto thor, was found dead at her home. |y Police reports Indicate that death re was caused by an over dose of sleep>f lng powders, taken with suicidal in>f tent. She was thirty-seven years a old. She left a note and check for one thousand dollars to her maid.