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gP|jj|^ WW; ' <* ' CAN BLEASE WIN ' + .SOUTH CAROLINA POLITICS AS A * VISITOR SEES IT. WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT IT The Goccrnor's Quarrel With the ^ Different State Officers, His Prolonged Struggle With the State Legislature and His Chances of Reelection is Discussed by Visitor. A correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle, who signs himself "Visitor," gives his views of South Carolina politics. Having been in the pretty and hustling little city of Columbia, S. C., 1 have much interest in "affnlrs nolitical" in the l>almetto State i during the annual meet of the Legislature, says Visitor, who goes on to say: As is well known, one Coleman Livingston Hlease is governor of South Carolina. It is also a well known fact that the said C. L. 13. hasn't the love and respect of every South Carolinian. He is being "written up" in newspapers through the United States (and possibly else-J where) for his "doings." He was | elected governor in September, 1910 ?he had tried a number of times before?and immediately upon his inaugural in January, 1911, he started out on the war path. The chief light is now between the chief executive auu the Legislature. He has sent unto them numerous? yea almost numberless?special messages during the two sessions, 1911 and 1912. He has vetoed many acts which the lawmakers left their homes and came to the "square meal city" of South Carolina to enact. And they, with a few exceptions?which one could count on his lingers?ov. -erruled his objections. This presents a vital question. This is election year, and his excellency must go before the people seeking reelection during the summer 1912. The voters must also choose a new Legislature; 124 Representatives and 2 2 Senators (half of the Senators hold over). Will Mr. Cole L. Hlease hucceed himself or will ex-Chief Jus lice Ira II. .I ones bo governor beginning January, 1913? If the present governor is re-elected will he have a Legislature in accord with his views? We shall watch with interest. The general assembly, or Legislature, has had a remarkable session in 1 9 I 2 in several respects. In the first place it lias gone over the usual 4 0 days limit; something not done often, for they get only $2 00 and they generally adjourn as soon as possible. The "2 00 per" conies whether the solons work ten days or six months. Hut they make little or nothing, even if they stay only 4 0 days. Why this prolonged session? There are several reasons. But Governor Blease is the chief reason. In the first place Governor Blease vetoed ouite a number of acts passed by li e Legislature in 1911. Therefore, when the Legislature reconvened in 1912, it found several vetoed acts to act upon. This in addition to the regular heavy routine work. Then "they say" politics has obstructed Legislative work this year. "They say" that good measures have met death and bad* measures are allowed to live because of politics and "they say" a number of other things I'.hont politics. And, to a looker-on it did seem sometimes that politics were "muchly" in evidence, when important bills were being considered. For in.stance, hills have been passed or killed, then later reconsidered and met opposite fate. Yes, it is plain that the Legislature and "Coley" are at outs. Now! what will bo the consequence? Has South Carolina realized her mistake? For "she" certainly made a grave error when she elected this man as her chief executive. At least that is the opinion of it any in South Carolina and throughout the niltion. There will he a campaign in South Carolina during the coining summer, prior to the election. The legislators v ho seek re-election and the goveri or, must account for their respective acts and doings. J Is Cole L. Hlease losing ground in $ uth Carolina? This is not an easy ( < ucstion to answer. He has quar- j i led with practically every state of- , ficer. He began his reign with a ( "racket" with ex-Chief Justice Jones, ( row a candidate for governor. He , bus called Capt. It. II. Jennings, a f gallant Confederate soldier and one j whom the people of South Carolina j love honored by electing state treasurer for 14 years, a liar, etc. Tie has been called a liar by nearly |, every official that be has "dubbed" L that term upon. lie lias started quarrels and when answered he has., not. replied in rebuttal. It seems that j( he is in the wrong. What does it ? mean? Is he saving his rebuttal for tho "stump?" or has he a rebuttal? Surely a man, with the present rank and position of Cole 111 ease would not make statements and c charges which be could not substan- 1 tiate. Yet in nearly every caso ho \ has been replied to he has been ! \ ?bown to be in the wrong. Ho has (y FOUND HIM IN TAMPA I RICH FARMER LEFT HIS HOME WITH MUCH MONEY. 1 Tells of Being Held Captive in Ivansas City After 'Drawing Funds j From Ranks. His mind almost a total blank, } without money and scarcely a sufficient amount of clothing to cover him, J. R. Etchison, a well known St. Joseph, Mo., man, was located at Tampa, Fla., Sunday morning in a cheap rooming house. Search for him has been in progress several days on request of attorneys of Mrs. Etchison. Etchison's vague story of his ad A .linniy.n t L A f /\ V* O ? I f It f\? ' VUIUUi tJD J IJ II1 Ucl L" D LHUl 11*3 iiciD t lost or has been robbed of currency and bank certificates to the amount ' of nearly $1 00,000. To a friend of , the family at Tampa, he said he left St. Joseph early in February to go to Excelsior Springs to take mud baths. While getting on tho train he stumbled and fell, bruising an old wound on his head. Tho next he remembers he was in a room with barred windows, at Kansas City. There several strango men, he says, placed some papers before hiin and told him to sign them or he would bo killed. He said ho was so weak that he dropped tho pen and did not remember anything elso until he landed in Tampa with $250 in his pocket. Ho does not know whether he drew , all of his money out of tho banks or what became of it. Letters from attorneys say that he drew all he had deposited in three banks there. He has memorandums of deposit of over $00,000 in banks at Wichita, j Topeka and Kansas City, but says he thinks he drew this out. Ho charges in his disconnected story that while ho was seeking a hotel at Tampa he was set upon by several negroes and robbed of the money ho carried when he arrived. A brother of the unfortunate arrived at Tampa Monday to take charge of him. A dispatch from St. Joseph, Mo., says Etchison is a retired farmer. He drew $10,000 from each of two St. Joseph banks before leaving home. Members of his family think he was followed to Kansas City by persons wno Knew now mucn money ne na<i drawn from tho banks. They visited local banks and found that ho had drawn out all his money, and a friend was sent to Tampa. THE ROCK HILL PLAN. ? Seems to be Working Well All Over South Carolina. That 20,000 South Carolina farm- i ers will reduce their cotton acreage this year by 2 00,000 acres through < tho operation of the "Rock Hill Plan" is the belief of J. Q. Anderson, of Rock Hill, who originated tho plan and secured indorsement for it at the New Orleans conference late last , year. Reports from ten counties to Mr. Anderson, who is superintendent < of the plan in South Carolina, show , that some G,000 planters have signed and, in a dozen counties, from which | no reports have heen received, the . work has been going on for weeks. , 1 1 ' < asked for Investigation, etc., and ' when they come he opposes them for I what he calls, reasons. < Outside of South Carolina Blease ' is regarded as a joke. He is also re- t garded as such in South Carolina and yet it is surprising to find intelligent men, and men in rank in the Palmetto State, on Blease's side. I "Take it from me," Blease is not beaten yet. I am told that ho is ui mn oc ort/l f h n f R /% a / a a ^ riiuug uuii inni/ i/iiu jicupit: ^ ui buiiik of tlio people) aro resenting the 'taunts" at their chief executive and that they will re-elect him in August F 1912. J Can it he? South Carolina's sister 1 Q states do pray that the state of \ Hampton, of Butler, of Hey ward, of Ansel and of many renowned men will open her eyes. The press should he a teacher, as it were, to the people hut the people nre shown on tve press and it is said ^ that the press in opposing Blease in 1910 elected him. I could write much more hut I have already written enough. There are many things to turn up which will ho of nation-wide interest. One is that Colonel T. B. Fehler, who has * more charges, serious and grave, ^ rgainst Cole Blease, will he given a banco to prove them. The citizens >f South Carolina want the truth and j may the eminent lawyer from Geor?fa give it to them! Else may he be ^ branded with Colo L. Blease and may hey both be condemned! t ttouin Carolina is a grand old dale and her people are among the 'host of the best" and I would not ntenttonally offend thoso whose ?reat hospitality I have enjoyed but [ trust that they may open their ^yes and see their political affairs . is others see them. . ? ? ? Death of a Largo Woman. Miss Mamie A. Weaver died sudlonly in Reading, Pa., of heart trou- 11 )1o. She weighed 425 pounds. She c< vas ill three weeks. Miss Weaver t< vas active, despite her excessive n veight. i si jpg HIT WITH SAND BAG , ANOTHER WHITE WOMAN WAS ATTACKED AT AIKEN CREATED A SENSATION Second Case of the Kind in Aiken in Ten Days, and the Police Have a Negro In Jail Who Answers the Description Given by the Young Woman. Anotner wnito woman was ariackcd in Aiken on last Friday night, jnd tho affair has created a great sensation there. A dispatch from Aiken says the premises of C. Oliver Iselin, a winter resident whose home is situated on the Whiskey road, 011 Lhe southern outskirts of tho city, was Friday night the scene of considerable excitement, which resulted from a negro man's interference with a white woman who is in the employ of Mr. Iselin. About 9:45 the maid started to her quarters in the rear of the residence proper, gaining an entranoo to which necessitated passing along a public walk, which is without the yard and just east of the Whiskey road. Just before reaching her quarters, a negro stepped from the shadows of a high hedge and walked past her, speaking to her politely. For some reason, possibly fear or intuition, tho woman turned partially around and discovered that the negro had turned and was, to all appearances, following her and closely, being almost within arm's length of her. She turned her eyes away and felt a heavy blow upon tho chest, which she afterward described as a blow from "a bag filled with sand or gravel." She screamed immediately upon receiving the blow, and the negro turned and fled in the direction of Whis key road. The purpose of the negro's interference with the woman is a matter which is open to conjecture. A passerby observed the negro enter the Whiskey road, running across an open field in the direction of a pine forest just beyond the polo grounds. lie states that tlie negro wore a derby hat, black coat and light trousers, and that he was of very short stature, and weighed possibly 175 pounds. Police worked on the case with gratifying results. Rural Policeman Ilolley has confined to the county jail a negro who, in practically every detail, answers the description of the one wanted. Further than that, the tracks left in the soft earth of the field by the fugitive of last night bear distinguishing marks that are not of an ordinary nature, and when the hoes of the negro arrested were compared with the track, the two were found to coincide. It is believed that ihe police have the right negro. Following so closely upon the sensation of (Monday night week ago the affair of Friday night has created some excitement and discussion, and may produce an unhappy effect. Rloodhounds were sent from Columbia to Aiken but the suspect had been arrested before they arrived. It is low thought, that it was a negro who lttacked Mrs. Beach, who is still confl" n il f r\ Vi/ir ltrwl f thn frtllirli I 1 I 1 V> v & tv/ 11-V^Jl W\/U J I V/lil tl*w ? V Uf)ll ireatmcnt she received at the hands nf the fiend who attacked her. The \iken people aro determined that hese attacks on women must cease. TRAGEDY REVEALS ROMANCE. ?. 3ngraved Wedding Ring Pound on Rank Robber's Rody. The killing Saturday by a vigilance :ommittee, of a hank robber who was ihot to death during the pursuit of a rang which tried to loot a branch of he Hoyal Bank at 'Montreal, West, uided a romance which apparently vas to have culminated Tuesday. In he clothos of the dead bandit were ouiul tho picture of a girl pasted in he back of a pocket mirror and a i lew wedding ring engraved with the vords "Will to Kittie, March 5, 912." Tho ring with its engraving and , tattoo mark on the chest of the nan bearing the words "In Memory f Mother and Father" are the only lues on which the police hope to stablish tho identity of the robber, n their opinion the party of safe lowers came from tho United States. Four members of the gang escaped fter a running fight with tho vigance committee which attacked the obbers before they could obtain any ooty. The fugitives were supplied dt.h snow shoes, which enabled them n,.l.n?n il, ?!_ i wmi uii inwir pursuers. The wedding ring found in the ian'8 clothes, the police say, unoubtedly was intended for the girl hose picture he carried. The excuses of the marriage ceremony, set iv Tuesday, they believe wero to ave been paid for with the money 10 robber hoped to get. ? V CJave Nurse Good Start. Prof. Henry W. Haynes, of the niversity of Vermont., who died recently in Boston, remembered the Glider administrations of his nurse, fertio N. Kinney, by willing to her lock valued at $184,800. CHINESE ATTACK MISSIM WOMEN AND CHILDREN CLUBBEI BY OUTLAWS. ?. More Than Two Hundred Mission aries Arrived Blinking Shocking Details of Massaere. A dispatch from San Francisct says, "Bringing the first word of th< massacre of eight persons connected with Christian missions by fanatica Chinese outlaws, last October, 22^ mission workers arrived here Friday on the liner China from the province of Shensi. The victims of the slaughter wer< George Alstrand, 13 years old; Mrs Richard Beckman, 21; Ruth Bock man, 8; Iluldali Bergstrom, 13; Ceo Vat no, teacher at a mission school a Si an Fu. The story of the massacre was tol( by Rev. Philip Nelson, father ol' Hildi Nelson, of the Scandinavian alliance j mission at Pincliow, who with hi wife and live children were passen gers on the China. Mr. Nelson told of the remarkabh escape of Richard Heckman, who, af ter seeing his wife and daughte clubbed to death, waded into a lak< with his three daughters and hi wife, and in the darkness escaped. Details of Slaughter. "There were about 4 0 persona as sociated with the Scandinavian mis sion stationed at Ilin Chow at th time of the massacre," said Mr. Nel son. "We had heard nothing but vagu< rumors until October 21, when new of the revolution reached Sian Ft and the marauders responsible fo the massacre started on their ca reer of murder and pillage. "The mission was one of the firs in the outbuildings while Reckman places looted. The gates wcr stormed in the morning and the Chi nese surrounded the house before th< inmates had time to flee over a lad der at the rear wall. The house wa barricaded and the bandits went 01 their way after firing the outer wall "The women and children then lib with his little daughter, sought re fugo in the shrubbery. Two ma rauders returned, knocked in tli< door of the outbuilding and killed al those hidden there, clubbing them o beating them to death. Beckmai helped his daughters Zelma and Vat ne over the wall but they were sooi caught." From a conversation he overheard Heckham learned that he and hi baby daughter were the only ones ti live, and beaters began to work th' bushes in search of them. To escap* them he waded into a shallow pond lie heard the command given that th< pond be guarded at daylight, excep the north hank, which was too steei to bo climbed. Realizing that hi only boye lay in that direction, Beck man worked bis way there and man aged to place tbo baby on the toj of the bank. Before he could climl up beside her the little one began t< cry and lie had to take her down ti quiet her. Again lie placed her 01 the bank and again was frustrated b; the crumbling bank. The third Umbo Was successful in making his wa; to a mission in another part of tin city. The slaughtered children am teachers, horribly mutilated, la: where they had fallen for three days when they were hastily buried by i company of soldiers. Later they wen buried with full military honors. The missionaries were shut in Slat Fu for ??ix weeks before it was con sidered safi for them to travel. Tliej then made their way to the coast, giv ing a fuller repGrt, of the massacre tc the American consul at Hankow, vvhc lias taken up the matter with the authorities at Peking. Bockman and his baby daughter were left at Shanghai when tlie party sailed on the China. CHINESE SOLDI EES HHIlEh. ?. Tho Tioynl Troops Put Ton Looters to Death on Friday. Advices from Peking, China, say that the lootInp of stores and resiiences by revolting soldiers lias been going on in various parts of the city all day Friday. The majority of the mutineers had left the central districts before morning. Ton looters captured in the act of carrying off property wore executed on tlie spot by loyal soldiers, several regiments of whom are patrolling the streets. The Incendiary fires wore started ha\e been extinguished or have died out. The loss is estimated approximately at $15,000,000. The number of casualties that have occurred among tho civilians and others is not known, but it is believed that tho loss of life has been heavy. Tho outbreak was a complete surprise. ? Sleeping Hoy Is Injured. At Cheraw Thursday night Mr. TT. W. Ha rial 1 hoard a crash in his house, and upon investigation found that his sleeping son, Carter, had been completely buried upder the plaster that had fallen from the ceiling. Blood covered his head and face, and it was feared that, ho had sustained serious injuries. But beyond a few gashes in his scalp, he came off without dangerous hurt. i WILSON IS STRONd " NOWHERE MORE LIKED THAN IN THE CHILLY EAST : NEW ENGLAND EOR HIM ^ "K1 Put*ii 1 <icf 1 V1(?X vil\ V M"Jt V Ml 1 f JI?1CV t?v?v 3 1 Candidate for Governor in New 1 I Hampshire, Declares That KightyFive l'er Cent, of the Democrats 3 There Are in Favor of Wilson. % Tlio strength of Gov. Wilson in all . sections of the country is the strik. ing factor in tlio pre-couvention pret sidential campaign, but nowhere is he stronger than in New England. 1 1 'u. ing the past few days United 1 States Senator Gardner and Congresse man Gillicuddy of Maine have indis cated that the New Jersey executive ~ will carry that State if he is made the party nominee. 0 Now Comes Clarence B. Carr, who - was the Democratic candidate for r governor of New Hampshire at the 0 last State election, with the predica tion that Gov. Wilson will carry his State in the event that he is chosen by the Baltimore convention to lead - the party in the coming campaign. "Gov. Wilson lias the backing of e more than S5 per cent, of the Deino crats of New Hampshire," said Mr. Carra, who hails from Andover, and o who Is looked upon as the party s leader in his State. Mr. Carr is one li of the most enthusiastic Wilson supr porters who lias visited Washington in a long time. "The people of New Hampshire t have grown to admire Gov. Wilson," , continued Mr. Carr. "They regard e him as in every way equipped to nd minister the duties of chief executive e of this great nation. lie is construct ive, not obstructive, safe not insane, s lie is broad minded, fearless and a courageous. He has his opinions on I. public questions and concerning pub1 lie men, and their attitude on var icus propositions affecting the wel fare of the country, and he is not 0 afraid to express them. 1 "He is a scholar, a diplomat and a r statesman. 11 is record as governor ii of New Jersqv lias proved all these - things. The people of the country, ;i in my judgment, have grown tired of having a man at the head of the , government who can not look at s public questions" from every side, a The men, or a largo majority of o them, who have occupied the White e House, have been too imbued with . the idea of self-aggrandizement and o party gain to administer the duties t of the office to the best interests of [) all the people concerned, s "Gov. Wilson is not tills type of - man. He represents the highest - class of our citizenship to-day. He [) appeals to the deep thinker as well b as to the man who has not the time 0 nor inclination to give to the study r> of public questions. His whole life 1 Has been one of .Teffersonian siniplicV ity. He is bound by no ties and has e no political complications on his S' hands. 0 "Jle is one of the most, independent thinkers in public life tO-d&J' ' and when once ho has made up his f mind to pursue a certain course on any public matter nothing that can 1 bo said to him or no pressure that 3 /TO 11 1. , r?l, i ? I * nil UV UI UllHill l*.? Lltilll UJJUIl Ili'U can turn him away from what he i believes to he his path of duty. He - embolics every attribute necessary i7 to a successful carrying out of the - principles enunciated by the Domo) cratic platform ever since the party > came into existence. He has abso lately no entangling alliances to em1 barraes him. Everybody knows just where he stands on public questions. ! "I think I am voicing tho sentiment of three-fourths the Democrats in New Hampshire when I say that Gov. Wilson is the strongest man to-day the Democrats could possibly nominate. If he is selected as the 1 standard bearer of the party I believe ho will he elected, and I believe that ho will carry New Hampshire. The Democratic party In my State has been growing In strength and influence from year to year, and with a man on the ticket such as Gov. Wilson 1 have no hesitation in saying that wo would swoop New England, as well as every other section of tho country." t ? ?.? ? OATS Hi) WII.Fl !J DAMACiK ? ) Three Suffragette Women Hooked l'p ( in London. t A cablegram from London says i Mrs. Emeline Paukhurst, Mrs. Tukes 1 and Mrs. Marshall, leaders of Friday i night's window smashing campaign, by which tbo suffragettes terrorized I1 the tradesmen wore sentenced each n to two months imprisonment. These' were three of the one hundred an 1 J twenty-four women arrested during the demonstration arraigned in police court charged with causing wilful da in ago to stores in Itond street, Picadilly, Regent street, Oxford j street, ITa^/market and Strand, audi other busy shopping districts. The prosecution attorney announced in court that iho damage done by the. s iffragettes amounted to $25,000. i A MINISTER INDICTED VERY ACTIVE IN THE PROSECUTION OF BLIND TIGERS. His Cliurrh and Residence Have Both Been Set on Fire and Burned Down Recently. The Rer. J. Frank Norris, pastor nf ? ~ f? t ? t Dnnltnt ru, I. .1 W 1. *7i cnv 111 ai i>ai'upi vuuu;u a#t r ui I Worth, Texas, was Indicted by the grand jury Friday on the charge of perjury. The indictment is based on Mr. Norris' testimony before tho grand jury regarding anonymous letters received by him and a deacon of his church, threatening violence unless Mr. Norris left Fort Worth. These, the indictment alleges, were written by Norris himself. Within two months Rev. Mr. Norris has reported two attempts to assassinate him. The last, he said, occurred Tuesday night when he claims to have been attacked by a man with a pistol. On the night of January 14, tho First Raptist church was destroyed by fire. Although rewards aggregating $0,000 have been offered for the arrest of the incendiary, no arrests have been made. The home of the minister was practically destroyed by lire by unknown origin early Saturday morning. Tho family had a narrow escape. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Tho blaze was discovered by Mrs. Norris who alnrmed her husband and the children and all rushed to a second story porch from which they were rescued hv neighbors before the fire department arrived. Investigation by the fire chief and assistants Indicate that the blaze evidently originated from the inside of the house. The house Is completely wrecked. The minister has been active In his efforts to have the prohibition law enforced, and his friends claim that he is being peresecuted by tho blind tigers and their friends, who want to run him out of the city. After being arrested on the charge of perjury he was carried before a judge and bailed in the sum of one thousand dollars to answer at Court. Rev. Mr. Norris says he Is being persecuted by the liquor element, and the good people of the city agree with him. They have rallied to his support, and will see him through his (pnnl\1a VCff(M'ta o ro hofnt* m n il o tn IIWIII'II-* 1JI" VI ?o li * v v v. apprehend the person who set fire to the church and residence. ? Gl IM V 1?AIH ARRESTED, Married .Man and AVayward Girl Arrested at Newberry. Wayman Vincent, a farmer living near Del ton, came to Newberry looking for his young daughter, Fettle, who, he charges, ran away with George Marlow of the same neighbor-. I hood on Thursday, she leaving school to join him. Marlow is a, brother-)^ law of Vincent, having mar;',e(1 tho latter ^ sister, and ^nev have two children. Tho Vincent girl Is only 15 years of age last .Inly, but is largo for her age. The runaway couple spent Thursday night in a boarding bpus^ jn Newberry, passing as matt and wife. Those who saw them concluded thoy had been very recently married, as they appeared particularly fond of each other, even in the presence of strangers. Friday morning they went t<5 SI1V6V Street and spent the greater part of the day there. Saturday morning they were seen going toward Saluda on foot. Upon a telephone message from Constable Bloase Sunday Magistrate Able arrested George Marlow and tho Vincent girl in Saluda Sunday afternoon. Mr. Vincent and tho Anderson constable, who had a warrant from an Anderson county magistrate, leu rsewuerry at once ior ^aiuua to get fugitives and take them back to Bolton. Marlow, who is about 3 0 years old, lives on land that ho rents from his brother-in-law, Waymau Vincent. +. .? F1VK 1>1FI> I BOX <i\S. \ Man, His Wife and Three Children Found Dead. Accidentally suffocated by gas, John Barrett, a laborer, his wife and hree young children were found dead n their two-room basement apart-, nent at 12 West Fifty-fourth street, Sew York, Saturday night. Tenants n the house detecting an odor of es aping gas, notilied the police, who >roko into the apartment and found ho body of Mrs. Harnett sitting upight in bo I, one band clutched to it r b ens: and the o'her over her Mouth. The bodies of Helen, aged i and \\ infred, aged 2, were lying ivith their heads almost in her lap .\itli their hands raised to her. Tho iody of the four-months-old baby was lying on a pillow at her feet, both hands clasped o\er the mouth. Parrot t's body was lying with the head an the floor and the feet still in tho lie i. The family evidently had retired in the one bed and Harnett or !iis wife, before going to bod had turned tho gas down to a dim light, it tho same time accidentally turned the cock supplying a gas store which was unllghted.