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WHAT IS TRUE? Miss Rsgers Gives Two Vrrs'cis (I tie Fan out Brfiop it. DEMIES INSULT STORY | dovernor Has Letter From Her In ^ Which She Says* He Was Not IMsrespcctful, and tlie Editor lias AIHdavit in Which She Says Governor Was Disrespectful. Statements made Friday by Gov. Blease, Mr. Archie Willis, editor of ^ The Iielton Times and Miss Mary J. Rogers, ticket seller at Belton, concerning the recent story published Belton and in practically all newspapers In the State, in which it was stated that the governor had been disrespecful to the young lady who sells tickets at the Southern railway depot in Belton, are conflicting and they give an interesting phase of the situation. ^ Governor Blease, in Greenville Friday presented a representative of The Daily Piedmont with copies of a signed letter, and showed the representative the original copy of the W letter, from Miss Mary J. Rogers, ticket seller at Belton, to Mr. H. A. Williams, superintendent of the Columbia division of the Southern, in which Miss Rogers is emplowed, in which she reported to the superintendent that the governor had not been disrespectful to her. The letter is as follows: Belton, S. C., Eept. 15, 1911. Mr. H. A. Williams, Superintendent, Columbia, S. C., Dear Sir: In connection with the newspaper accounts of the incident between Governor Blease and myself on or about July 29th 1911, in which it was stated that I had been insulted by the Governor, I wish to say that Governor's Mease's manner was not In the least insulting in my opinion i. rid I did not then, nor do I now feel 0 that I had been insulted by the con^ vernation between ourselves, and the wrong impression has been created concerning the incident which was a very ordinary occurrence of which I thought nothing at all and would have entirely passed from my mind 3n a few minutes but for the newspaper reports on it. I am anxious that this wrong impressing bo corrected and would * thank you to assist me in any inantlinf vnn mn trv thnf onrl Yours truly, (Signed) Mary J. Rogers, Ticket Seller. When the representative of The Daily Piedmont returned to the editorial oflico he found Editor Archie Willis there. He told Mr. Willis of v the letters in the governor's posses" eion. Mr. Willis, saying ho would see Miss Rogers, left immediately in an automobile for Helton. He said before leaving, and later repeated the statement over the telephone from Helton that he had an affidavit from Miss Rogers to the effect that the governor had been very disrespectful to her. He said that on the day the ^ occurrence took place that he had passed the young lady on a street of Helton and that she had stopped him and volunteered an account of the occurrence with the governor. Mr. Willi? said today that Miss Rogers at the time of the occurrence had said she "would like to< have the occurrence narrated in the Helton Times, and she .1 i _ tr ttriin- i. _ _ i J expressed 10 Mr, vvims ner reelings over the governor's words. She said to Mr. Willis that the chief executive had been very disrespectful to her. However, her letter to Superintendent Williams boars a different tale. The Daily Piedmont called Miss Rogers over the telephone and asked her if she had written the letter to Mr, Williams, in which she exoneratA ed the governor. She said that she had written the letter but that she did not care to make any further et,.lenient. Mr. Willis later in the day called up The Pally Piedmont and said that he wished to make it A known that he had gotten the facts of the conversation between the governor and Miss Rogers from Miss Rogers herself, and that this morning after vofnrnlnir frr?m nrnpnvilln lio hurl asked her about the occurrence and that she had told him that her original affidavit, to the effect that the governor had been disrespectful, was correct. She said to Mr. Willis that the railroad official in Columbia had asked her for a written statement as to the governor's actions and as to his treatment and that she had written him the letter above mentioned and quoted. Miss Rogers' letter to her superintendent and her affidavit to Mr. Willis are contradictory. Gov* ?rnor Blease also today furnished The Daily Piedmont with an affidavit from Mr. W. F. Harper, ticket agent at Helton, which is as follows: Personally appeared before me W. F. Parker, who, after being duly sworn says that he is agent of the Southern Railway Company, at Belton, S. C., and that he was in his office at Belton, S. C., on Saturday, ; July 29th, 1911 at the time Gofernor - * Blease called for a ticket from Belton, 6. C., to Columbia, S. C., that at the (time of the transaction he was setting HOOK WORM FIGHT OBJECTS TO THE METHODS OF THE BOAHD OF^ HEALTH. J)i*. Patterson of Barnwell Charges It is Unfair and Unprofessional to Local Physicians. To the Editor of The State: Allow me space In your paper to enter a protest against the method adopted by the State board of health In dispensing the Rockfeller fund donated to the State for the eradication of hook worm. Dr Wn-d was here on Monday and Tuesday. He delivered lectures at the graded school to the children and teachers and to the public in the opera house on sanitary su ejects, toucnmg upon tuberculosis, typhoid fever, malaria and hook worm. Dr. Ward stated In his lecture at the opera house that he was here to see the board of county commissioners in regard to appropriating a fund for the purchasing of the remedies used in treating hook worm. If the board appropriated the fund necessary to carry on the treatment he or the board of health would send a doctor here to take charge of the patients and treat them. This statement is misleading. It conveys the impression thnt the general practitioners are not comment to treat this class of cases, that it requires doctors who are trained specially for the work. As a fact the treatment is very simple and can be carried out by any physician. This is anything but complimentary to the general practitioner. I object to the State board sending a physician into my town to treat hook worm in a people whom I am practicing for daily. It is unprofessional, bcause it. is unbrotherly and unkind. As I understand, Mr. Rockfeller gave the money to eradicate hook worm by treating infected citizens. Now, the fund is being used to employ .1 i ? ~ uucuurs clI TUI J UUOIitl n .11 ill ID travel from place to place and dispense hook worm cure purchased bj the people. And in counties where county commissioners and the plillandthropic citizens decline to comply with tho request of Rockfeller's agents the hook worm subjects are deprived of any part of the Rockfeller fund. I suggest the agents of the Rockfeller's fund use the money in having lectures delivered to the public on the subject of hook worm, and in purchasing the medicine to be distributed to the doctors throughout the State that the ymght treat such cases as come under their observation or cure, just as antitoxine for diptheria and typhoid fever is sent out at request of physicians. As the matter now stand the funds will be absorbed by initerant doctors on large salaries and traveling expenses. A. I3ethune Patterson. * ten or twelve fee from the ticket window and heard no loud talking or anything unusual occurring at the ticket window and that the above is true. W. F. Parker. The governor also had with him affidavits from several persons in Pelton to the effect that they had been at the railway station at the ime of he occurrence bu had heard nohing from the chief executive of which any one could take offense. Governor Please, in talking of the affair, said that he was as sober on the morning in Bel-ton as he was today, and that he has not had a drink now for throe days. He denied having been disrespectful to the lady. lie said that the reason he had A J ^ A ~ m J. -1 At not iiiuue uiese ciinuciviia una uie statement from Miss Roger's public before is that he wanted to wait until he was in Pickens before making them public. Governor Please said that he was on his way home from Pickens when the 'Bel-ton affair took place and that he thought it fitting that he should first make public these statement on his first return trip to Pickens. In a speech at the Pickens fair the governor read these statements. Mr. Willis, over the telephone said that he would send to The Daily Piedmont, if so desired, the original affidavit of the lady ticket seller, Miss Rogers, and would also send an affidavit of his own asserting that he had received his information concerning the Please-Rogers controvsary from Miss Rogers herself and that lie had published an account of it partly at her request. * ?? ? Birthday of Sam Davis. The birthday aniversary of Sam Davis, the Confederate boy scout, hanged as a spy at Pulaski, lenn., in 18f>4, is being commemorated by various Tennessee chapters of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Th? main celebration was at Nashville, the exercises being hold at the magnificent statute of the young hero on thp State Capitol grounds. * ? * Spent Last Cent for Poison. After arranging the details of a funeral whch she said was to be for a "dear friend," Mrs. Mary Levi, 72 years old, of Los Angeles, Cal., killed herself Saturday night by drinking poison. Her capital nearly exhausted, she called on an undertaker two weeks ago and paid for a modest funeral. Her last few cents were spent for the poison. FLOODS SWEEP TOWN ' HOMES AND STOKES DESTROYED UY RIVER'S OVERFLOW. Although Warned Re forehand Inhabitants Delay Flight for Safety Until Peril Becomes Iniiniuent. The situation at Black River Falls, says a dispatch from LaCrosse, Wis., which was swept by a flood Friday afternoon when the waters of the Black River, swollen by recent rains, washed through the embankment of he LaCrosse Water Power Company's dams at Hatfield, is worse by far than was even feared when the flood swept the town. Half of the business section has been destroyed, together with a part of the residence district, and it is alleged by the townspeople, who have taken refuge on high lands, that the town will be wiped out. Whether or not lives have been lost is yet uncertain. The people have been scattered, and canvasses ere being made to determine how many, if any, are missing. Thus far two persons have not been accounted for. The town is in darkness, the electfic light plant being one of the first to be struck by the flood. At seven o'clock Friday night between twenty-five and thirty business houses, comprising all the stores on both sides of two streets, have been destroyed, together with an equal number of houses. At that hour the waters were still rising rapidly, and the destruction of the stores in the other business streets is looked for every minute. The buildings have not been merely flooded, but destroyed. The water, flowing in tremendous volume, undermined one big building after another, and as each collapsed, the debris was carried away. 'No means could be taken to stop the wrecking of the town. The people, although they knew of the overflowing of the dam, showed little fear of its effects uutil the waters burst upon them. * The disaster was caused by the sudden rise of the Black River, behind the dams of the LaCrosse Water Power Company, from rains which lasted almost a week. The dams withstood the pressure, but in each case the river washed around the sides, taking out a big section of the river bank and coming down upon the country below in almost as great a volume as though the dams had been swept away. Besides the damage at Black River Falls, a great tract of surroundind country was overrun. Effort was made to send warnings to farmers, but telephone wires soon went down and the fate of many settler* who knew nothing of the flood until it struck their immediate locality is the cause of some apprehension. Below Black River Falls are a number of villages and the high waters are due to strike them during the night and next day. Forces of men have been sent out to strengthen the bridges in the three counties along the river. * PLENTY BEER ANI> CIGARS. What It Costs to Be Elected Senator in Wisconsin. When United States Senator Isaac Stephenson found bis expenses for nomination at the primaries ir 1903 woK' nnmlnc rd hlirh thnf thn itom f->r beer ad cigars alone amounted to $30,000 and the aggregate was fast approaching the final of $107,793, he remonstra'ed and told his campaign managers "I wan', to win the nomination, but I don't want to buy it" This was part of the testimony given before the United States Senate committee, which is investigating charges that bribery and corruption contributed to Senator Stephenson's election in Winconsin. In reply to his complaint Senator Stephenson was told that the three other Republican candidates for the primary nomination?former Congressman Samuel A. Cook, who spent $42,203; former State Senator William H. Hatton, who spent $30,200, and Francis It. McGovern, now governor of Wisconsin, who spent $11,063?were making a hard fight, their expenses finally aggregating $83,26S. This, together with Senator Stephenson's expenses made a total for the Republican senatorial campaign of that, year of $191,0 61.* fjong Staple Cotton Sells Well. Henry Shell, a negro, operating Alex C. Welch's farm three miles north of Newberry, sold six hales of long staple cotton there Friday afternoon for 1 7 cents per pound. The nvofito f f R a oi v Ko 1 o nr ai*a I'l V / ii i o ui til v oiA udiv o ? i; i i: $139.87. He has 12 acres of long staple that he says will make ten large bales. lie says It yields fully as well as the short staple if not better. Farm Girls Han Off as Hoys. Jennie Smith, 14 years old, and Annie May, 13, both of Kingsflsher, Okla., were found dressed in boys' lothing at Chicasha, Okla., last week. They ran away from their homes and rode on freight trains and tramped country roads. They are daughters of wealthy farmers. GOV. BLEASE TALKS DISCUSSES SEVERAL SUBJECTS WHILE OX THE WING. Want#* His Friends on the Pardon Board Before He llefcrs Any Cases to It. The Spartanburg correspondent says Gov. Cole L. Blease arrived in that city Friday night from Greenville. He will speak at Greer, to a gathering of Red Men. The Govern or reiterated tne statement given out ii? Greenville in regard to the Helton incident, and displayed the letters. He stated that when the Legislature convened again he would urge the passage of the bills that failed to get through at the session on, notably, among them being the abolition of all free passes by the railroads and to force them to charge the same fares to all alike, rich and poor, white and black. lie stated that he would recommend to the Legislature to abolish the hosiery mill and will introduce export testimony to show that it is a nuisance and that it is determental to the health of those who are forced to work in it and that it should be abolished. Gov. Hlease spoke interestingly of the Democratic chance sfor the election of the next president and reiterated his choice of Governor Harmon, giving as his reasons that he thought that Harmon could carry New York and Ohio, and that this would win, together with the other sure Democratic iStates. He stated that he was in fnvor of winning and Harmon was the only man, in his opinion, who could defeat Taft. Personally, the Governo rsaid that he preferred either Champ Clark or Oscar Underwood, both being Southern men, but he feared they had no chance. He explained that Dr. Parker, of Charleston, employed attorneys and sought a pardon for the three negroes sent up for taking a joy ride in his auto and explained why such a pardon was granted. When asked why he did not submit any matters to the pardoning board, he said that it consisted of three of his enemies and that it would bo foolish to submit matters to them when they would oppose a pardon because, he, the Governor, favored it. "But," added Governor Please, "if they will resign I will appoint three of my friends and will agree to submit every case to such a board." * SLICK SAFETY IX FLIGHT. Cl aiilrn THmalr AtKJ DncVm/1 OflP il f# A?? o V J (I ll\v I'l VUIV\7I O A?uniiv\l imi ivi ft* Clash With Strikers. As a result of the attack by railroad strikers ad sympathizers on the old Peters School building in New Orleans, where one hundred and eighteen strike-breakers were quartered, the latter Friday afternoon were escorted to a train by armed guards and rushed out of the city. "If those 'scabs' are removed before half-past 3 o'clock, our men will let them depart in peace. 1 cannot be responsible after that hour for what happens of the strike-breakers are still here," Said W. E Brown, secretary of the Federated Trades and local strike leader, to Acting Mayor McCracken and Inspector of Police Reynolds. At 8.3 0 o'clock the strike-breakers were marcher under heavy police guard, to a special train and rushed out of the city for McComb City, Miss. CAUSE OF LOW PRICES. * (tinners' Report and Receipts Indicate Rumpcr Crop. A New York dispatch under date of October 6th says cotton prices declined owing to favorable crop weather and ginning reports, together \i? \ rvo ir nf o o u / I I n r<rr> 1 i mr it va v j i vv/i- i jjio (viiu i ai ftt* out u n^, Tlio South has been a persistent and liberal seller on hedges. This is explained by the dullness of the markets for actual cotton at the South. On the basis of the crop report of last Monday many estimate the crop at from 14,000,000 to 16,000,000 bales, though others put it under 14,000,000. There is a prevalent belief that the crop is the largest ever raised. It. is also considered one of the earliest in point of development. With the ginning up to September 25 reaching the unprecedented total of 3,063,000 bales, bears have been greatly encouraged. ? ? I bully Wanted in (lu'stor. Otto McConnell, wnite, is wanted in Chester on a charge of forgery, and a warrant for his arrest is now in the hands of the sheriff. It is alleged that McConne'I, while a guest at the Carolina Inn in Chester, secured money from the proprietor, II. C. Itohr, to the amount of $60 by pretending to be W. C. Gibbes, Jr. * Appoints a Special Judge. The governor has appointed J. E. Hreazeale as special judge to hold the regular term of common pleas and general sessions court for Anderson beginning on October 9th. He was appointed to take the place of Judge J. C. Klugh. WILSON IS STRONG NEW YORK NEWSPAPER MAN NOTES GROWTH OF SENTIMENT. J. Maxwell Gordon Relieves that Jersey Governor Will Re Democratic Nominee for the Presidency. That the sentiment among Democrats throughout the country for Governor Wood row Wilson, as nominee for the Presidency is rapidly growing, and even reaching the state of crystalization, was the opinion expressed by J. Maxwell Gordon, a special correspondent of a New York daily, who is in Charleston, interviewing representative people on the approcahing Presidential campaign, says The News and Courier. Mr <~2r?rrlr\r? ie r?n o tnnn itin I a VIVI \?VM V U U I V/ 14 & V/ * tift\y .'Southern States gathering material lor articles in Northern papers on the sentiment in this section. lie has already spent considerable time in the West. In a conversation with a representative of The News and Courier he said that there was no doubt that the far West, North and East of a stronger and vigorous Wilson sentiment. "Governor Wilson," he stated, "is being pressed into the campaign. Men of prominence as well as magazines and daily periodicals of power and wide circulation are each day being added to the list of Wilson's supporters, and there is no doubt, that he will be a candidate for the nomination. His remarkable success in overthowing the bosses of New Jersey, as well as his progressive administration of that State's Government, has demonstrated to the entire nation that he is not only a thinker, a trained student of politics, but an executive of rare ability. "A recent interview with Governor Wilson showed pretty clearly his grasp of the real difference in issues between the two great parties "The Republicans believe in permitting the minority, who hold the wealth of the nation, to run the Government," lie said in this interview. 'Their argument is, We have the r*ost at stake, so let us manage things and if we are prosperous you are bound to be benefited. What the Republicans really insist upon might be called a sort of trusteeship fo" all of no in h nrvooAoe looo won It li li n no u nu j/V/DOUOO i* oo u vai tu tuau luting of their party. They do not believe the little fellow who is fighting his way up the commercial ladder have a say about how the big problems are to be regulated. In other words, the Republican policy is a let us alone policy, and it always will be the same. They want to govern for tho people. My idea of a Democrat?at least the kind of a Democrat I am? just ithe opposite of what I had described tho Republican to be. " '1 believe not in government for the people, but in government by the people for the people. In my opinion, tho practical struggling financial or business nan is much better fitted than the magnate to dictate legislation that will react for the benefit of all classes alike, without preference to any. " 'The magnate whom we find as a tMlt leaning with the Republican par ty already has his missions, and is only interested in making more. The small fellows the Democrat?takes a broader view of affairs, which effect one end all alike. " 'Consequently, in my opinion, only a Democratic Administration of the Government will result in the financial and industrial reforms which must be directed by the Government in order to be effectual.' " Mr. Gordan finds a decided Wilson sentiment in Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama?States which he recently covered thoroughly. Prom Charleston Mr. Gordon goes to Jacksonville, then on to New Orleans. * ? ?, Wise Given Might Ypars, Lawrence Wise, who was convicted of manslaughter for the killing of John Duncan, at Granitevillo, was Kriday sentenced by Judge Shipp to serve a term of eight years on the Aiken County chain gang. It is re caneu mill w iso eiiiercu mo suo-siation on the Aiken-Augusta trolley line at Granitevillo while in an intoxicated condition, and after quarrelling with Duncan shot him, killing him instantly. Child Accidentally Poisoned. Mrs. A. N. Hilburn Friday afternoon at Albany, Ga., accidentally caused the death of her two-year-old son, Alton, when, after putting a tea-spoonsful of carbolic acid in a quart of water, she administered the mixture internally to the boy. The child lived two hours. The mother is prostrated by the accident. * Turks and Italians Fight. A score of Italians attacked Thoan Rengez and Alvi3 Demosten, Turks, in Chicago West side street, when the Turks, garbed in read blouses and purple sashes, attempted to parado through an Italian district. The Turks tied to a police station when they saw they wero outnumbered ny the Italians. ? Championship llalloon Races. All is in readiness at Kansas City for the start of the big International balloon race today. MEN AND MEANS Resources ft Ike Methodists ia the * Missiso fields of lie Woild THE WORLD FOR CHRIST Interesting Statistics I*resente(l at World-Wide Methodist Meeting by Delegate from England. ? Maryland Minister Pleads for Union of All Methodist Churches in America. Statistics relative to "resources in men and means in Methodist mission ilelds," as given Friday by the Rev. James JL Lewis, of Cambridge, England, proved interesting to the delegates of seventeen coikitries, who attended Friday's sessions of the Ecumenial Methodist Conference in Toronto, Canada. From the detailed reports presented, it appeared that during the last year there were 2,528 Methodist foreign missionaries. These included 1)18 ordained men and 120 physicians, 53 of the doctors being women. Native wokrers numbered 20,847 while the number of missionary stations and sub-stations was 6,7 02. These missionaries represent 708,105 baptized Chritians and 1,444,292 adherents, of whom 458,105 were Sunday School teachers and scholars. The ordained ministry at the beginning of 1910 was 52,978, of whom but 2,322, or 5 per cent., counting foreigners and natives were in the mission Held. "Of our total number of ministers throughout the world," said Mr. Lewis, "the average is one of every 14 Methodist church members. In heathen countries the ratio is one Meth enlist, minister to every 3 03 members. Our means, as expressed by the income of the missionary societies in 1910, totalled about $7,000,000, a sum which represents about 5 0 cents to each of the 8,751,4 34 .Methodists.'* Practically every phase of foreign misisonary work was discussed by delegates from various fields. An urgent pie awas made by the Rev. T. H. Lewis, of Westminster, Md., who is president of the General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, for a union of American Methodists into one body. This proposition, which had been discussed at the opening of the Conference, evidently is favored by a large majority of the United States delegates, Bishop E. E. Hoss, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was the only one to express dissent at Friday's meetings. "When you get too big a church, i it suffers from its own obesity." he said. Mr. Lewis stated his position in favor of such a union thus: "We are keeping ourselves back from the greatest opportunity ever offered us by the most, unnecessary and inexcusable hindrance over tolerated. If a consensus of opinion could be taken as to what one circumstance would do most to promote world-wide evangelism among Methodists themselves, enlist most missionaries, and start a missionary crusade 'that would set the world aflame with new zeal and hope. I believe an overwhelming majority of all our people would say "it is the union of American Methodists into one body.' We have seventeen different names for Methodists in America and consequently about as many different missionary campaigns. In the field we compete with each other, duplicate each other's efforts and confuse those trying to serve." Evangelism, Mr. Lewis said, is essentially the heart of Methodism. "But doctrine and policy are only the mechanical exponents of the real peculiarities of Methodism. Pierce a Methodist until he bleeds and you find, not a dogna nor a rubric, but a throbbing heart. For him regeneration is not a figure of speech nor a magic formula. Methodism is heart power rather than mind power, but it has both. Methodist claim to have received a new and peculiar power demonstrated to be of Clod?a peculiar power over sinners, entailing responsibility for world-wide evangelism." Among other speakers Friday were the Rev (1. W. Clinton, of Charlotte. N. (\, Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, who spoke on "The Mission of Methodism to tHe Backward Races:" the Rev. David Brock, of Southport, England, "The Mission of Methodism to the Xon-Chrlstlan Races'" Bishop E. E. I loss, of Nashville, Tenn, "Methodism in Korea." Have You Got Yours? Each citizen of the United States, under an equal division should have $34.35, the per capita circulation on October 2 according to the circulation statement of the Treasury Department. The total money in circulation amounted to $3,242, 182,715.* ^ Catches Bullet in His Teeth, J. P. Simpson, of Florion, La., caught a bullet fired at him ten feet away and spat it out. Two false teeth went with it, but Simpson was only slightly hurt; a dentist can fix him up. * , M M ..