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pr, .. IL v w!)' ivj' WATSON TO GO Runred That Gireraer Blease Will Giro His Place to A. D. Hudson. * * WATSON HAS HADE GOOD f * He Hm Made a Splendid Commission er of Agriculture, ami has mine Much Good Work for the Farmers of the State, But llo is Not a Bleasite. The State says for weeks thsre have been persistent rumors regarding changes contemplated in the Stats department of agriculture. These ref>orta have caused much comment throughout tho State because of the great interest the public takes in the work that has been accomplished by the department of agriculture under Commissioner Watson. One rumor is that E. J. Watson is to be displaced when his term expires in March. His place, offered to one or two others before, is now offered t? A. D. Hudson of Newberry. Of all the departments of the State government tbere is more patronage attached to the ofiice of the department of agriculture than any other. The State department of agriculture Is COHStltUtOa as IOIIOWS auu icuunoo tho following appropriations: Direct appropriation about $19,000. Abont $20,000 is received from the feed stuffs stamps. This work employs about ten men, including inspectors and chemists. The legislature appropriates $10,000 for the United States farm demonstration work and an additional appropriation of $25,000 is received from the national department of agriculture. The State aid is included in the direct appropriation. There are employed in this feature of the work a State agent, two district agents and more than 4 0 county agent3. Tho county agents come under the direct supervision of the State agent and also come in direct contact with more people in the State than any other class of representatives of the State department. There Is also an appropriation of $3,000 for corn breeding work, which is expended under the direct supervision of the commissioner of agriculture and two other members of a commission provided by the act. During the past several weeks Commissioner Watson has been very active in his work to help the farmers of the State and tho South to devise some plan or means whereby the situation with reference to low priced cotton might bo relieved. Early in fall 1 m affondArl ? mPAMner of tho cotton growers and business men in Montgomery, Ala., and was elected president of the Southern Cotton congress. The election to this position devolved upon him the leadership in the fight for a higher price for cotton. Liator acting as the agent for the farmers of the State and South, he attended a conference in Now York, when a loan of $60,000,000 was proffered on the cotton crop in tho South by a syndicate of New York bankers. The proposition met with some adverse criticism at the time and has never been worked out. Several weeks ago Commissioner Watson, as president of the Southern Cotton cnngress, and not as the commissioner of agriculture of South Carolina, issued a call for the presidents of the Farmers' Union and tho representatives of the governors, taking part in the New Orleans cotton conference, constituting the executive committee ,to moot in New Orleans on December 18 to discuss plans for a reduction of the cotton acreage. It was the intention of Commissioner Wajtson to attend the meeting of the connmitteo. Just before Commissioner Watson was to depart from tho State a letter, it is reported, was sent him by the governor informing him that the position of commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries would be declared vacant should he (Commissioner Watson) attend the conference. The governor further ntatnH In fho lnittop thnt Mr Wjitunn must ask permission to leave the State in the future or leave without his position. To get back to the tangle in connection with the farm demonstration work this much is certain: The next State farm demonstration agent must be acceptable to C. L, Blease, governor of South Carolina If the next farm demonstration agent is not acceptable to the governor ol South Carolina, then the governor will (use his veto power and cut ofl the State-aid appropriation of $10,000. Let it be remembered here that the national government gives $25,000 tc assist In the work. This means that the State farm demonstration agent who has charge of the expenditure ol $25,0*0, must be acceptable to the governor of South Carolina. Why the antagonism of the governor against Ira W. Williams? It Is a long story and started nearl] a year ago, just after the governor was inducted Into office. The ways and means committee ol the house, of which Lowndes J Browning Is chairman, finished con # Lrf w u ft HHRHHHHEHRMRIIKSRVII^S 4 IB Iff jwa -? m WHAT BLtAS? SAYS ? DKMEH OFFERING B. J. WAT ' SON'S JOB TO A. D. HUDSON. Nor is Ira W. Williams Transfer tc Georgia Due to Feeling Between Himself, the State's Executive. When asked while at Newberry on Thursday as to the report that Ira W. Williams, of the Government farm demonstration work, has been transferred from this State to Georgia, "supposedly because of opposition to the Governor," and that Commissioner Watson is to be displaced' when his term expires, and that Mr. Watson's place had been offered to A. D. Hudson, of Newberry, Governor lllease said: "I have seen the article in to-day Columbia State, to which I suppose you refer, I was informed some time since that Ira. W. Williams was to be transferred from this State. To what point I do not know. Mr. Williams supported mo In the eampaign of 1910, so I have been reliably informed, and he and I are the best of friends, and I ain sorry that he is going to leave this State. The statement that he and I are at enmity, or that he is leaving 011 account of any feeling between himself and myself, is absolutely and unqualifiedly false. I would be glad if Mr. Williams would stay in the State, and if he will stay I will ask the Legislature to keep up the appropriation for his department and do next year, as I have dono this year, all in my power to assist him in his demonstration work. "I have never offered Mr. Watson's position to anybody, but merely stated on one occasion to John Fichards that I was sorry he accepted the railroad commission position, because 1 expected to appoint him commissioner of agriculture, and the report that I have offered Mr. Watson's position to 0110 or two others is absolutely false. "As to Mr. Hudson, he told me emphatically 011 two occasions that he did not want Watson's position. I am informed, however, that lie would accept the position held by Williams. "As to the letter to Commissioner Watson, I wrote him that my understanding was that ho was appointed commissioner of agriculture for South Carolina, and not the United States, and that if he left the State again without my petmission I would declare his office vacant and put some one in it who would stay at home and attend to it. I meant that and shall carry it out to the letter. Copies of my letter and his reply are one file in my office, to which the newspapers are welcome, as there are no secrets in the Governor's office. Everything that is done there is open and above board, i3 placed on the public files, there are no secrets from the newspapers. "As to the next State farm demonstration agent being acceptable to the Governor, as I understand this, it is a matter in the hands of the United States department, with which I have nothing to do. I know nothing of Mr. Baker's candidacy for the position. I shall uphold the department o* agriculture and the farm demonstration work, and do everything within my power to make it a sue cesg. And if I had been consulted this year in regard to the departments, I think I could have given some very valuable suggestions, and possibly saved some people from putting themselves in very awkward positions. 'But as I have not been consulted in regard to any matter, I am in no manner, shape or form responsible for the turn affairs have taken. "When Mr. Watson's term expires, it will be time enough for mo to consider whether I shall reappoint him or give the position to someone else. I understand that the Constitution forbids life tenure of ofllce, and I do not presume there is any exception made in the case of the commissioner of agriculture." sideratlon of the appropriation bill in a remarkably short time. Included among the various items was the one giving $5,000 to the South Carolina Corn Breeders' association, for corn breeding work in this State and foi tho corn exposition. When the meas nre came before the committee foi ' final consideration, A. B. Hudson - with others asaoclated with the expo sition, was out of the State. Memberi of the ways and means committer i were averse in their opinions to th< appropriation, contending that n< . material result* nau Deen oniainea . Ira W. Williams, being an expert ag . rlculturlst, was called in by memberi : of the committee and as an official o P the federal department of agriculture ' was asked to give his opinion as t< P the results secured trom the corn ex - position and tho Corn Breeders' as sociation. He gave his opinion, th< > exact nature of which is not known > Following this conference tho com : mittee cut out the appropriation fo , corn breeding work. Just before th< P final adoption and when tho measur< > was before tho finance committee o tho senate, an appropriation of $3, 000 was inserted. During the lattor part of the las r session of the legislature it wa r rumored that Mr. Williams would b removed from South Carolina, and 1 t was reported that Dr. Knapp wa . about to take this action on represen - tations made by him by Gov. Blease I WHAT HUDSON SAYS - SAYS HE IS IN NO SENSE A OAND* II) ATE. > Newberry Man Denies That lie Has i Heen Offered Position of Commissioner of Agriculture. i A. D. Hudson of Newberry Thurs. day made the following statement to The State over the telephone from . his home: "My attention has been called to ' ? - a i ~ i ? mi. _ r?i _ x _ _ m xu i me urncie ux i no oiiiie 01 iuik morning. I have had only one conversation on the matter with Gov. Blease, and that was during the corn exposl1 tion. The only allusion he ma<^p to the department of agriculture was that the department was a farce as now operated, and lie inteneded vetoing the appropriation for 1912, unless ho had some assurance of its doing some good for the farmers. Nothing was said about offering me the position. I am in 110 sense a candidate for the place. "The suggestion that I was con, nected with Mr. Williams' removal is not true. When I found that Williams had gone before the ways and means committee (and, I was reliably informed, without invitation) and opposed the appropriation for the corn exposition, I took the matter up with Dr. Knapp and requested that Mr. Williams be required to attend to his own affairs. I was sure there was room for us all to work for the betterment of agriculture in this State, and I have neither the desire nor the inclination to bring about his removal. "The party that furnished you this story knew the facts but deliberately listorted them. This same party did seek to secure Williams' removal, but rumor had it that Williams had a great deal of influence with Gov. Blease. Then came his usual change of front and over after he has been an ardent supporter of Mr. Williams. It does not take a very brilliant mind to understand why. T r, ? !/-?f f n nnv cnnoo nr? nnnli JL til II III/ t 1 M.M. Wll J WV*' WV ? . cant for the position of commissioner of agriculture or for Mr. Williams' position. Alex D. Hudson. ? MORE PARDONS GRANTED. Governor Rlease Turns Toose Three More Convicts. , Governor Blease to-day paroled George Addison, convicted before Judge Watts, at Spartanburg, in July, 1911, of assault and battery with ini tent to kill, and sentenced to pay a fine of $500 or serve twelve months ? on the chain gang, during good behavior and on condition that he pay the clerk of Court of Spartanburg County the sum of $250. A parole was granted to Sam Henry, convicted before Judge Watts, at Spartanburg, in July, 1911, of assault 1 and battery with intent to kill, and sentenced to pay a fine of $500 or serve twelve months on the chain gang, during good behavior and on the condition that he pay the clerk of Court of Spartanburg County the sum of $250. The Governor bas granted a parole to C. L. Angel, who was convicted of murder with recommendation to mercy in the Oconee county court and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary last year on 11 ine cuiiuiiiiMi LiictL lit; ajjijciir ut-iuitthe clerk of court of that county and give bond for his appearance In a trial to be called by the solicitor The governor, it is said, refused to consent to the appropriation of $10,000 for the farm demonstration work unless this was done. Later, however, Mr. Blease withdrew his objection and consented to the retainment of Mr. Williams here. It is known that, meantime, Ira W. Williams, together with several friends, explained to the governor that he had not mixed in politics and that he had never waged a campaign against the governor. The appropriation of $10,1 000 for the demonstration work went > through and nothing more was heard i about the removal of Williams until i a few days ago. It is said that L. L. Baker of Bish opville, a district agent of the work, r is spoken of for the position of State , agent. The State agent is appointed by Dr. * Bradford Knapp on the decemmendas tion of the commissioner of agricul3 ture. The State agent has the ap3 pointment of 40 or 50 subordinate . workers throughout South Carolina. - That is an explanation of the interest b of the governor in an election year of f having the department operated to i, suit him. 3 ? ? "Christmas," wrote Dickons, "is - the only holiday of the year that o brings the whole human family Into . common communion." We are scat terod In many lands, yet the bond of r union that has long held us together e seems to strengthen with years. Many e Christmas anniversaries have come f and gone since we first assembled, - in spirit If not in presence, to hang the holly and pledge our faith and t friendship, and each recurring Chrlsts mas time has found us more closely 0 united. t w s The man who goes through life - with uncertain aim will never gain i. anything worth having. DEADLY COBRA Oa a Laag Vayage Kilts a Sailer ui lie Others Lira is Tmer THEY ALL WORK IN FEAR j Monster Escapes From Orate and on Fourth Day Out of Calcutta Stings a Man, Who Dies in Great Agony, and Men llefuse to Unload the Steam Ship at Boston. Iii the long voyage from Calcutta to 13081011 the crew of th? German steamship Estterturm lived in hourly terror of death from a big cobra, whoso sting is fatal. The deadly character of the reptile's bite was only too vividly proved on the fourth clay out of the voyage, when the men of the forecastle and the officers heard a sudden, sharp scream of agony. It came from a sailor who had been moving along the deck in the darkness. lie was bitten on the leg and a few hours later died in convulsions, suffering most poignant agony. The man had only the merest glimpse of the snake as it squirmed out of sight and into hiding. Sunday night the deadly cobra was still alive and aboard the ship. It is believed to be coiled and hiding somewhere among the jute bags in the steamship's hold, driven to shelter by the nipping cold that has probably reduced it to a state of lethargy. But not a member of the nerveracked crew can be secured to volunteer to seek out and kill the poisonous creature. They are held back by the horror of the remembrance of their comrade's cry the night he was bitten and the spectacle of his agonized death. In closely boarded crates the Estterturm took 124 snakes aboard at Calcutta on an assignment to a New York animal dealer. The cobra had a box to himself. The snakes were fed from time to time by dropping live rats into the crates, the rodents being caught by traps set in different sections of the ship. Such was the sinuous strength of the cobra that it was able to rip open the stout slat that caged it within the box. No discovery of its escape came until the night that the sailor was fatally bitten. Officers and men made two or three hunts for the deadly creature, but as there were hundreds of places aboard the ship where it could coil in hiding, the snake was not found. Every night became one of terror to the sailors, therefore. Some flatly refused to go out on deck at night, and those who did moved cautiously along, picking their way and flashing lantern lights ahead of them. Now and then a terrified sailor reported having seen the snake darting across the deck in the darkness. The lurking, deadly danger that was about them night and day brought some of the sailors into pert on the verge of nervous collapse. Once the killing of the snake was almost affected. Half a dozen sailors armed with long clubs searched and beat every cranny of the superstructure of the ship, and finally started the cobra from under a coil of rope. Once or twice, as one or two of the men aimed the clubs and were ready to strike, the cobra reared and darted its fangs back at its pursuers in rage and the men scattered, shouting in dread an fear. This time the snake disappeared down a ventilator and it is suposed f'rviin /I If a tiro w /I a nr n 1 r\ t A f 1W* nor fyn 1UU11U 1 10 m a J vivrrxA iiiiv tuv V/tti in the hold. Since tho steamship neared port and the weather grew decidedly cold the snake has lain dormant. Or, at least, it did not reappear on the deck. None of the other 123 snakes got out. But the lfstterturm faces a serious predicament, for when tho story that the terrorized sailors told when they got ashore cams to the ears of the stevedores, they went on strike, refusing to handle the cargo in the hold because Ojf the presence of the snake whose Bting is certain death. THEY SHOULD BE PENSIONED. Remarkable Anti-Knee Suicide Record of Oklahoma Couple. Complaining that the railway station waiting room at Boynton, Okla., was without fire on a bitterly cold day, J. L\f. Jackson filed a protest with the corporation commission and scrutiny of his allegations Saturday brought the discovery that the Jacksons are parents of thirteen children born in three years. Their eldest, a son is now fourteen years of age, making the personnel of their progency list fourteen in number. Five years ago in the increase in the Jackson family became marked. Twins aro now five years old. Triplets succeeded twins in twelve months, and in another year triplets, came five children on the same day. 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