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GOES FOR TAFTl Caaiifi, a Praircwive Seular, Oppased ta Hit Rcaaaiuriaa. HE GIVES HIS REASONS For Opposing the President, Who, He Says Is Not in Sinypathy With the Progressive Element of the Republican Party, Rut Is a Supporter of the Standpatters. Senator A. B. Cummins in a signed statement given out at Chicago on Wednesday declares his opposition to the nomination of President Taft. Af ter a discussion of tne main issues in the Taft administration, which are presented chronologically, the Iowa senator summarizes his opposition in these terms: "My general conclusion is, therefore, that in every struggle which has taken place since Mr. Taft became president upon vital things his allies and supporters have been the senators and members of the house who are known from one border of the country to the other as reactionaries, or stand-patters, and not progressives. "If the voters of the Republican party believe that the old leadership should be perpetuated they can find no better nominee than Mr. Taft. I don't believe it ought to be continued, and therefore, without any personal disparagement of the president, I am hoping that a progressive Republican will be nominated and elected next year." " - ' ? ' ' - * AJ t? Jf'irst in me Din ul yaruuuiaiB ib the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, and of which Mr. Cummings says: "Mr. Taft's associates in the making of this tariff law, which he declared to be the best ever passed, were (Mr. Aldrich and his followers in the senate; Mr. Payne, Mr. Dalzell, Mr. Cannon and their followers in the house. It seems to me I am justified in the conclusion that he did not take 'the progressive view' with respect to this measure. "It's hard for me to think of the Canadian bill as progressive, believing as I do that its passage was the result of an understanding between the president and the eminent reactionaries?Penrose of Pennsylvania, and Lodge of Massachusetts?that they would see it through the senate if all other tariff bills reducting duties should be vetoed." After damning the peace treaties with faint praise, Senator Cummins takes up the woolen and the free list bills, of which he says: "I haven't heard of any progressive rejoicing over the vetoes which killed them. They were both prepared with the greatest care and in the full light of advanced information, and both amply justified by the standard of protection. "I predict that these bills gave the president the only chance he will have to sign acts of congress reducing the iniquitious duties of the Payne-Aldrich law, but preserving the system of protection. In waiting for his tariff report he lost an op portunity which Democrats will not give him again." Passing to a consideration of the interstate commerce law, the Iowan declares that if the bill had passed as insisted upon by the president "the work of nearly a quarter of a century would (have been swept away and we would have taken a step backward in the regulation of our railways. Many parts of the committee bill were so bad that, they found no detenders and such efforts as were made to defend the administration bill were led by Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Elkins." I Mr. Cummins further avers that President Taft is 'out of harmony with those who were recognized before his advent into office as the best exponents of the conservation policy." And taking up the Canadian reciprocity bill he says: "It is a false pretense from beginning to end," and 4 will not reduce tJhe cost of living or enlarge our markets for manufactures in Canada." Eighty-One 1 >ro\vnc<l. A dispatch from Lima, Peru, says, the Chilean steamer, Tucapel, has been wrecked and is a total loss. Eighty-one persons were drowned. The steamer Tucapel was engaged in trading on the west coast of South Amercia. She was 1912 tons, and was commanded by Captain Marrow. ? Posc<l as Being White. C. M. Love, a negro who had been passing-off as a white man and boarding In the home of well known people at Spartanburg, was fined $100 or 30 days in the mayor's court Monday morning. 'Mayor Lee ruling that it was disorderly conduct for the negro to sit at the table with white people. Found in a Shark. A silk parasol recovered from the stomach of a huge shark caught at Lewes, Del., by the crew of a lightship has been claimed by (Miss Laura Dorsey. She dropped it overboard from a Long Island sound steamer #arly in the summer. jam _ g| WAS PAID TOO MUCH COMMISSION WILL GIVE rUBLIO NEWS VERY SOON. That Will Be of Possible Interest to Mr. T. B. Felder, So Declares Mr. Dominick. "At tho novt mAAtlne: of the coin mission there will probably be something to give out of particular interest to Mr. Thos. B. Felder," said Mr. Fred H. Dominick, following a meeting of the dispensary winding-up commission, held in Columbia Tuesday at about noon. Only three members of the commission were present, Messrs. J. V. Wallace, chairman; Fred H. Dominick and E. M. Thompson. The commission held another session Tuesday night and then adjourned until the next meeting, which it is stated will probably be in the next two or three weeks. When interviewed regarding the work of the commission the three members were in ?Mr. Dominick's room at the Columbia Hotel. "We are still at work on the voucher matter," said Mr. Wallace. "There is very little to give out at present. We have been delayed by the sick ness of our accountant or we would have been further advanced in our work than wo are. "However, there will probably be something of interest to the public to give out at our next meeting in a few weeks from now?something of particular interest to Mr. Thomas 13. Folder," said Mr. Dominick. Some interesting figures as to money gotten by him, particularly some that was overpaid, a portion of which he now has on hand and which runs into a good many thousand dollars. After a pause Mr. Dominick added: "According to the partial reports of our acountant the amounts paid for attorneys' fees by the former dispensary commission exceeds the amount collected from the graft account by about $15,000 in round numbers. There will be something doing at our next meeting," he concluded after a few seconds. DANCED SEVEN HOURS. Man and Girl Friend Test Their Endurance on Floor. At St. Paul, Minn., after dancing for seven hours, A. F. Scott, a barber, took his lady partner to a refreshment stand at Dreamland, in that city, Tuesday night and toppled over dead as he was about to drink a glass of soda water. Miss Mamie Webb, Scott's partner, stood by his side as he toppled to the floor. It was in the spirit of fun that they had nrnmtaed to trv out each other's en durance. They started to dancing as soon as the pavilion opened at six o'clock and kept at it constnatly save for the 3 0 seconds' wait of the orchestra until one o'clock, a. m.t when Scott exhausted, decided to give up the struggle. The pair walked over to the refreshment stand, ordered soda, and as Scott was about to raise the glass to his lips he fell in a swoon. He was dead when bystanders started to assist him to his feet. FAMINE HORROR IN CHINA. ? Red Cross Aid for Flood Sufferers Will Be Asked. The enormity and horror of the famine situation confronting China, caused by the Tang-Tse Kiang Rh^r flood, was officially reported to the State department at Washington by American Consul General Wilder, at Shanghai, and the question of tendering Red Cross aid is under consideration. The entire territory between Hankow and Shanghai, a distance of about six hundred miles, has been overflowed. Cities and towns are under water, many dwellings being entirely submerged. Conditions among the people are distressing, and a famine threatens them. Unless the tide of the Yang-Tse soon subsides it is believed that conditions will become far worse. ? KILLED FROM AMBUSH. ... Two Victims of a Fued in Santa Rosa A.. v (Miiuty, r nt. As a sequel to a long-standing feud, a? a result of which Daniel Cooley, a prominent naval stores operator of Santa Rosa county, Fla., was shot and killed last Sunday, Alf and Arch Cooley, brother and cousin, respectively, of the dead man, were shot and killed from ambush Sunday night near Milton. The bodies of the two men were found lying In the road at daybreak Monday morning amlle apart having fallen out of the buggy In which they were riding. Feeling is said to be intense In Santa Rosa county over the tragedies and more trouble is feared. ? Killed by Lightning. Near Plaquemine, La., Handall M. Robertson, aged 37, a prominent sugar planter was instantly killed and I W. Wdlliams was knocked sense-! less by lightning, while riding horseback Saturday Afternoon. Both horses were killed. t FIVE MEET INSTANT DEATH. Sixth Dies Later From Injuries in Mine Accident. Caught In a vortex of a whirling steel drill in a mine cage, five miners met instant death in the shai\ of the Black Rock Mine, of the Butte Superior company, near Butte, Mon., at 3 o'clock Monday morning, while a sixth, James Lee, died a few hours later in the hospital from his injuries. in their anxiety to reach the surface, the men jumped on the cage upon which a dull steel was being taken to the surface. It is presumed that in their crowding they dislodged the steel shafts from the box and the wall plates fell among the men on the cage clearing the deck of miners, fairly mincing their bodies as the steel bounded back and forth, sweeping them into a dump 1,400 feet be low. Charles Gaston, station tender, finally was hurled from the upper deck of the cage to the lower level by the impact when the brakes were applied and was decapitated as were all the other miners with the exception of Lee, whose head was crushed. OFFICE A PERSONAL ASSET. ? Notaries Public Must be Friends of the Governor. Governor Blease seems to regard public office as a personal asset. He recently wrote the following letter to Hon. G. W1. Sullivan, Senator from Anderson county: State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber, Columbia, Sept. 2. 1911. Hon G. W. Sullivan, Williamston, S. C. Dear sir: I have received an application from James Walter Kelly of Pelzer, S. C., requesting that I appoint him a Notary Public. I notice that you signed the same. I have just had to revoke the commissions of two men at Pelzer, and unless you can personally certify that Mr. Kelly is a friend of mine I can not and will not commission him; and in this, I wish you would make a thorough examination, so as to make no mistake when you give your certificate. Very respectfully, Cole L. Blease, Governor. PLUMMER ASHLEY CONVICTED. Three Abbeville Men Found Guilty ? of Manslaughter. The Court of General Sesions, for Abbeville county, which convened on Monday morning adjourned Friday. Three young white men of the county were tried for murder; each of them was found guilty of manslaughter as follows: C. N. Pearman, sentenced for killing his cousin, Campbell Nance, on October 30, 1910, was recommended morrv nnrl spntfinced to three years on the chain gang; J. P. Ferguson killed his father in the fall of last year; he received a sentence of five years; Plumer Ashley, nephew of the Hon. J. \V. Ashley, was put on trial for killing of Uncle Ira Stone; the case was given to the jury at 1 o'clock Friday and at 5 a verdict was rendered as stated. He received a sentence of seven years. Pearraan and Ferguson will commence serving their respective terms at once but Ashley gave notice of appeal and was released on $5,000 bond. A remarkable fact about the court is that every white man tried was convicted and every negr,o acquitted. GOOD ROADS TRAIN. Comenced Work {in This State On Last Monday. The good roads train operated by the Southern railway with the co-operation of the United States Government entered South Carolina Monday and reached Gaffney at 2 o'clock. The train is as complete as it could possibly be, and much was accomplished. The crowd was large. E. I). Maker of the American Highway Improving association stfited that ho audit nee at Gaffney was larger and more enthusiastic than any he had seen since ho joined the train. The Cherokee County Road Improvement association was organized by Mr. Maker, and officers were elected. The train was met by M. W. Twitchell, State entomologist. Waters Robbing the Graves. Only meagre news of the floods have reached Peking. Travellers arriving by steamboat at Hankow from the upper reaches of the river, report many coffins of a huge Chinese type were encountered floating the Yang-. T8g Kiang,.showing that waters were robbing the graves along the river. From Huana comes word that the receding waters are being followed by pestilence and that many arc dying. Two Killed in Auto. T aoIU Honln /\f UaWlancl Ma enn liVOUV WU T AAA 17 L iUUItlU'llU) V/ 9 WVII of D. A. Galvin, a banker, was instantly killed and Harry J. Crider, former postmaster at Maitland, was probably fatally injured when an automobile turned turtle near, Maryville, iMo., Thursday. Benj. Edwards and Charles B. Callison, also of Maitland, were less seriously injuied. 1 * THE CROP MUST PAY CHEAP COTTON IS DISASTROUS TO THE COUNTRY. High Prices Essential to the Growing of the Staple as Other Crops Are Just As Profitable. In an interview on the cotton situation, Richard H. Edmunds, Editor of the Manufacturer j Record, is quoted by the Boston Transcript as saying that "a permanently high price for cotton is esentially to the best interests if ndl to the very life of the cotton manufacturers who are andious to see lower prices by reason of the probability of a larger crop this year 1 J I WO 11J U UltJVHUUljr uuvo uunuu ftiuners to other pursuits, and the Smaller yield next year, with consequent abnormal high prices, would bring back all the evils from which the industry has suffered during the last few years in which it has had to contend with the high cost of raw material and low price of finished goods. "The world must adjust itself to paying a higher prfcce for cotton goods. The sooner it is done the better it will be for all interests and especially for the manufacturers. The time has passed when Southern farmers were compelled to raise cotton. In former years they were forced by necessity to raise cotton, and cotton alone. Conditions have changed. Unless prices be high, that is, high as compared with former years, they can make more money doing other things. There is no moral obligation to the world to compel them to raise cotton, though many people seem to think so. If New England could turn its cotton mills into shoe factories and double the profits on the investment, and pay better wages to the laborers, nobody would say that New England must continue to make cotton goods because the world needs cotton goods. Now the Southern farmer can do a dozen things more profitably than to raise and sell cotton at a low price, and even 10 and 11 cents a pound may now be counted as a low price. He can do things that he could not have done a few years ago. Industrial development is affording employment for thousands who raise cotton. Urban growth Is drawing tens of thousands from the country into city activities. City growth and industrial development combined are making it possible for thousands to engage in diversified farming and truck growing to supply the home needs. "In the last ten years industrial development in the South increased largely over one hundred per cent, while its population increased only about sixteen per cent. Thus, industrial activity gained six or seven times as rapidly as population. The extension of railroad facilities to all parts of the South, and the ever increasing demand in the North and West for early fruits and vegetables make it possible for a very large num ber of Southern farmers to make money in meeting these requirements than in raising cotton, even at fourteen or fifteen cents a pound. The South is now annually shipping to the North and West of fruits and vegetables over $100,000,000 worth. "The development of transportation facilities throughout the South is making the extension of this industry possible in sections which were formerly compelled to raise cotton. Under such conditions, the world might as well face the situation frankly and fully and understand its meaning. It is much safer for manufactures to squarely face this condition than to blindly imagine that we can again go back to low priced cotton over a long term of years. Last year the South's cotton crop, the seed included, was worth $363,000,000. If the South, by raising a small crop can sell it for such a figure, it is certainly not going to raise two or three billion bales more and sell it at two or three hundred million dollars less. I "Nearly three quarters of a century ago a report made to the British Parliament advised the spinners of England to do all in their power to keep cotton at a low price, because, said this report, the farmers of Amer ca would undertake to so increase their production when prices were low as to get as much money in the aggregate as when prices were high. The English spinners have always gono on the principle that by forcing the prices down they would increase the supply. Three-quarters a century past and even up to a few years ago that was the case. It is not so any longer. Conditioms have absolutely changed. Economic development has made it posible for the South to turn its attention to'other crops and to other activities which ' yield a far larger profit than cotton, unless cotton commands what manufacturers regard as a high price. "If during the last few years the cotton manufacturers of this country had given more attention to educating the public to paying a higher price for cotton goods, instead of spending their time, aa they have done, in seeking to put down the price of the raw material, the situation would have been far more favorable to them. Persistently claiming as most of them do, that prices of the raw material were too high, they convinced the buyers that cotton goods ought to decline in price, and therefore the price of the fin > no AD IMPROVEMENT TRAIN. t? Southern Railway Helping Good Roads Movement. The special "Road Improvement Train" being operated by the Southern Railway, the Augusta Southern Railroad and affiliated lines in cooperation with the United States office of public roads, will commence its tour of South Carolina and Georgia September 4. It will spend practically a month in South Carolina making exhibitions at points along the Southern Railway, and on Sep temper zytn win ?nier ueorgia 10 visit points along the Augusta Southern Railroad. The "Road Improvement Train" is being sent out by the Southern Railway to further the movement for better wagon roads throughout the South and at the same time to give practical information to farmers and road officials as to building of roads and their repair. The schedule for the South Carolina and Georgia points bo far as arranged is as follows: Sept. 4, Monday?Blacksburg, 10 a. m.; Gaffney, 2 p. m. Sept. 5, Tuesday?Spartanburg, 10 a. m. Sept. 6, Wednesday?Greenville, 9:3 0 a. m.; Basley, 2 p. m. Sept. 7, Thursday?Calhoun, 10 a. m., Walhalla, 2:30 p. m. Sept. 8, Friday?Seneca, 9:30 a. m.; Pendleton, 2 p. m. Sept. 9, Saturday?Anderson, 10 a. m.; Helton, 3 p. m. Sept. 11, Monday?Abbeville, 10 a. m.; Greenwood 2 p. m. Sept. 12, Tuesday??sTewberry, 10 a. m.; Prosperity, 2 p. m. Sept. 13, Wednesday?Union, 10 a. in.; Columbia, 3:30 p. m. Sept. 14, Thursday?Winnsboro, 10 a. in. Sept. 15, Friday?Chester, 10 a. m. Sept. 16, Saturday?Rock Hill, 10 a. m.; Yorkville, 2 p. m. Sept. 1 8, ^Monday?Lancaster 10 a. m.; Camden, 3 p. m. Sept. 19, Tuesday?Sumter, 1:30 p m. Sept. 20, Wednesday?Orangeburg 9:30 a. in.; St. Matthews, 2 p. m. Sept 21, Thursday?Bamberg, 9:30 a. m.; Denmark, 2 p. m. Sept. 22, Friday?Barnwell, 10 a. m.; Allendale, 2 p. m. Sept. 23, Saturday?St. George, 9:30 a. m.; Summerville, 2 p. m. Sept. 25, Monday?Charleston, 10 a m. Sept. 2 6, Aiken, 10 a. m.; Edgefield, 2:30 p. m. Sept. 27, Wednesday?Biatesburg, 10:30 a. m. Sept. 2 8, Thursday?Lexington, 10 a. m. Sept. 29, Friday?Hephzibah, Ga., 9:30 a. m.; Wrens, 1 p. m.; Gibson, 4 p. m. Sept. 3 0, Saturday?Sandersville, Ga., 9:30 a. m.; Warthen, I p. m.; Mitchell, 4 p. m. Free lectures and demonstrations showing the importance of good roads and how to build them and keep them in repair at the smallest necessary cost will be conducted at each by two road building experts of the United States department of agriculture, Messrs L. C. Roykin and H. S. Fairbanks, assisted by a representative of the land and industrial department of the Southern Railway. Two coaches of the train are filled with exhibits, pictures and working models, and the lectures are illustrated with stereoptican views. At great expense the Southern Railway and affiliated lines are handling this train without cost to the government in order that the people along its lines may have the opportunity to receive the valuable Information as to road building which it affords. FIFTY KILLED IN FIGHT. Some More Fighting Going on Over Among the Mexicans. A battle is reported to have occurred between federal troops under General Morales and a force commanded by General Zapata, near Chinamoca, Marales, in Mexico. News reached the department of the interior that fifty Zapatists were killed. Zapata is said to have been seen to fall from his horse. Gen. L. Zapata, who was formerly an adherent of Francisco I. Madero, is reported to have gathered several hundred men at Chinamocia in viofation of an agreement with iMadero to disband his men. Took Fatal Drop. His parachute failing to work at the proper moment, H. C.. Drown, a ballonist, of Saginaw, Mich, abandoned the usual method of decent Saturday night and dropped from his balloon several hundred foet into the shallow pond at Lakewood Park, at /^(t? XT nrh ai*a h a #1 a/I LHiti iui u;, . V/., w nci u no m un ncu before help could reach him. ? ? Killed by Automobile. Running at a high speed In an auto, which struck a telephone pole, Glenn Elkln was killed and three other members of the party were seriously Injured at Lexington, Ky. lshed article continued low, while economic conditions forced an advance in the price of raw material. The speculators who were credited with being responsible for these higher prices did not create these conditions. They only took advantage of the situation." BEAT ANY CROP La it Year's CeUea Bresght flare fluey Thai That ef Aay Yitr. i GREAT COTTON VALUES Secretary Hester Shows Splendid Money Value of 1010 Crop Over 1008-00 Crop, Although the Latter was 1,700,000 llalcs Greater.?estimates for this Year's Crop. "No American cotton crop ever grown has sold for as much as the one just marketed, the total value. Including the seed, having been $1,03 0,000,000." The remarkable statement is contained in the detailed statistics of last season's cotton crop issued recently by Col. Henry G. Hester, secretary of the iNew Orleans Cotton Exchange. Withi 1,700,000 bales less than contained in the bumper crop of 1908-09, the crop just marketed netted the South $254,000,000 more. The 13,511,000 bale crop of 1900-07 brought $222,000,000 less than the past season's crop. As a whole, the crop averaged within a shade of strict middling, and the farmer was paid an average of 16.04 cents per pound or $76.60 per bale. [Regarding: the consumption of cotton and the mill situation generally in this country, the report says: << t it.. T i n i .. i A. i iiiM in me unueu oiaies, ine mum XortJh/ and South have consumed nearly as much as last year, In addition to which they have Imported the greatest quantity of foreign cotton ever brought to this country in any one season. Thus far the use of foireign oo>t|ton in thlis ctoufntry ia small compared with the totals consumption, but its increase is significant. A continued interesting feature is the widening of difference between quantity of American cotton consumed North and South; the expen* ses of the latter have increased to 103,000 bales. Concerning the 1 North, a heavy curtailment of production was quite good during the latter moments of the season. "The complaint has been that when cotton strengthened, good did not agree. "The situation recently has improved, and there is an underlying, impression that matters will readjust themselves on a more satisfactory basis in the near future." , Secretary Hester puts the 1910-11 crop at 12,120,095 bales, an increase over that of 1909-1 0 of 1,510,427, and a decrease under tJhat of 1908-01> of 1,705,362. The increase in Texas over last year was in round numbers, 582,000 bales; in the group of "other Gulf States," embracing Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mis- ' souri, Oklahoma, Utah, Kansas, Arizona, California and New Mexico, it was 704,000, and in the group of Atlantic States, including North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Alabama and Virginia, 224,000. (Mr. Hester's report is given as follows in thousands of bales: "% Alabama, 1209, against 1,078 last year. Arkansas, 846, against 718 last year. I Florida, 68, against 66 last year. ueorgia, i,st>3, against i,?z/ lasi year. Louisiana, 273,? against 282 last year. Mississippi, 1,239, against 1,121 last year. Oklahoma, 724, against 566 last year. North Carolina, 7 94, against 67 6 last year. South Carolina, 1,231, against 1,? 184 last year. Tennessee, 4 2 4, against 316 last year. . Texas, 3,259, against 2,676 last r year. Total crop hales, 12,210, against 10,610 last year. The consumption of American cotton of all kinds he puts at 4,678,000 hales, against 4,665,000 last year. He puts the world's consumption Amorfmn rnttnn nt 1 2 034 000 hnlna an increase over last year of 260,000 and a decrease the year before of 1,1 23,000 bales. In the South Mr. Hester makes the consumption 22,313 bales over last year and 196,257 under tlhe year before last. ? llitten by Mad Dog. A yellow cur, supposed to be rabid, created a sensation in two of the mill village about Greenville Thursday, morning by attacking and biting four little children and two dogs. The dog was surrounded by a crowd of men and boys and stoned to death, after it was decapitated and its head was sent to Columbia for examination. Another Aviator Killed. A French aviator, M. Mc Foreetier, while flying at Huelva, in Spain Monday, fell from a height of 250 feet and was killed. The motor exploded, setting fire to the aeroplanes and the aviator was incinerated.