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I ;,>; HE WILL ENTER RACEl * t . ? . CAPERS SAYS HE Will RUN FOR CONGRESS IN THE , COTTON MILL DISTRICT ? Says There Are Twelve Thousand Voters Working in the Mills Who Are Republicans and Who Will Vote for a Republican to Represent Thein in Congress. mu ^ n ^ t. J i ii? opanuuuurg iiurmu John G. Capers, of Greenville, South Carolina member of the Republican National Committee, announced Wednesday that he would be a candidate for Congress against Joseph T. Johnson, the present representative. In an interview at the Gresham hotel, where he was conferring wl.n Republicans from several counties of the Piedmont, Captain Capers declared that he would give Mr. Johnson a hot race. "There are 12,000 voters In the Fourth congressional district," said Captain Capers, "who have come here from North Carolina and Tennessee and are working in the mills. These men will \ote for a Republican candidate if he is a clean, decent white man. There has been no opportunity here to vote for a Republican of good lepute for sixteen years. Th-jM men are naturally Republicans and vould vote the Republican ticket if there were a RepublDa.i organization and Republican candidate of which they were not ashamed. As tnere has been no respectaoli Republican party, they have had to turn to the Democratic primary. "Furthermore, the mill presidents will remove their estoppel If the Republican party will put forward reA n *% J ( /) (G A fl II A fr?T ^ It i V ajjui;i<i uiu uanuiuaico, m;> tiuiui o ? ut; have discouraged in an elective waj any movement on the part of their employees to support the Republican party, but that was because the party was controlled by negroes and such men as Joe Tolbert. The mill presidents like Lewis W. Parker, of Greenville, are friendly to me and would have no objection to their employes voting for me." Captain Capers said that he esteemed Congressman Johnson, but that the latter was not in a position to do much for the district. "If the voters of this congressional district will send me to congress," said Captain Capers, "I will be of great value to them. I will secure public buildings, for one thing." The Republican nomination is made by convention and not by the Democratic method of a primary. There is no doubt, however, of Captain Capers' ability to secure the nomination. However, the "black and tan" Republicans may also put out a candidate. They nominated Tom Ilrlar, a Greenville negro, for congress two years ago. Captain Capers said he was more interested in the establishment of a clean, respectable Republican party in South Carolina than in the ques- i tion of whether Taft or Roosevelt would be nominated. "I will frankly admit," said he, "that the party in South Carolina aB up to this time constituted, has been a disreputable organization. I have been in disgrace with my family and intimate friends for being a Republican. And as the principles for which the Republican party standrs are dear to mo as my personal integrity, it is necessary for me to remove the stigma which attaches to the name of Republican in South Carolina by establishing a respectable party." Capt. Capers said that the title "lily whites" was a misnomer, as negroes would not he entirely excluded from the Capers-IUalock party. In some of the coast counties there are no white Republicans at all, ro said, and it would bo ncessary to have a few negro delegates, but colored men of unquestioned respectability would be chosen. He said that probably six of the "lily white" delegates to the Republican National Convention would be negroes. < ? TI1J3 DISASTER IX FIGURES. Condensed Statement of Number ijost O; on the Titanic. The following is a condensed approximate statement of those lost L and saved in the Titanic disaster: I First cabin passengers 3 25 ' Second cabin passengers. . . 285 Third cabin passengers. . . . 710 Total number of passengers. .1,320 Members of the crew 800 Total passengers and crew. .2,180 Number who probably perished 1,312 j Total number of know survivors 808 Approximately 20 life boats, manned by seven members of ,the crew, each 140 Estimated saved steerage passengers 4 00 J The names of 210 first cabin pas-j sengers and 118 second cabin pas-: sengers who have been saved have i been sent in by wireless. Those who have been saved will reach Now York this evening. I THEY WERE HEROES # i MEN GAVE UP IJFK TO SAVK WOMEN AND CHILDREN. ? The Latest Wireless Reports Con firm the News of the Worst Marine Tragedy of History. The appalling magnitude of the wreck of the giant liner Titanic has , been but little mitigated by the fragmentary information which has filtered into the Associated Press from the ocean highways Tuesday. 'P U tmnnniiwr of AO tnnl* Pomoihio \\ ) U A LIU ICOV/Ulllg owauici VU> uuu 868 survivors on board, according to tho news at noon. This increases the list of saved by about 200 from the number first reported. But except for this, the favorable details are insignificant, compared with tho tremendous reckon-1 ing that the Titanic is at the bottom of tho Atlantic, and that the wreck of the world's greatest steamer took with her about 1,350 victims to their death. Hope clung desperately Tuesday morning to the belief that the steamers Virginian and Parisian, of the Allan line, may have picked up survivors in addition to those on board tho Carpathia, but this was practically dispelled at 11 o'clock when the Sable Island wireless station reported that these ships had arrived at the sceno of the disaster too late to be of any service in saving life. Both tho Virginian and tho Parisian appear to hold out no hope of further reducing the extent of the calamity. The Virginian has proceeded on her way to Europe. The Carpathia, having on board the only survivors accounted for, is coining in slowly to New York. All hope for details of the tragedy and Its effects are centered on tins ship. She will be in wireless communication with Sable Island tonight, with Nantucket on Thursday and she will reach New York some time on Thursday night. London, Paris and New York are grief-stricken and overwhelmed by the news of the disaster. Tearful crowds of relatives and friends of passengers on board the Titanic thronged the ship oilices in all three cities, waiting hour after hour for news that more often than not when It does come means bereavement and sorrow. Of the survivors on board the Carpathia by far the larger number are women and children. Many men of great prominence on two continents are among the missing. The men on the Titanic must have acted with great gallantry, which is shown by the saving of so many women and the drowning of so many men. PECULIAR AUTO ACCIDENT. Lexington Woman Struck by Driverless Car. The Lexington correspondent of The State says 'Miss Lula Taylor, oco.l al>nnf twrwitv rla 11 trh tf?r of Mr. and Mrs. Jerod Taylor, suffered severe injuries late Monday afternoon in a peculiar automobile accident. The young woman was out driving with E. Sloan Crout and his brother when the party met some friends in a buggy. Sloan Crout, the owner of [the car, stopped tho machine, forgetting to put it out of low gear, and went to the buggy to talk with his friends. His brother and tho young woman, neither of whom were familiar with the working of the machine, jokingly said that they were going to crank up the car, and both got out, standing in front of the machine. The young man turned tho crank, and in an instant tho machine started hurling him to the ground. The machine passed over the girl's body and dashed along down tho road alone, finally jturning across tho woods and crashing into a large tree. Here it stopped. Some parts being smashed. The young man escaped with only slight injury, but the young woman suffered a severe shock, a broken coliar bone, several bruises about the body, and possibly internal injuries. She was carried to her homo in a buggy, and tho family physician, Dr. 1"'. P. Derrick of Lexington, was cummoned. Dr. Derrick stated Tuesday that while she was suffering intense pain ho hopes Bhe would soon recover. ? ' Concrete Homes for CJary. One hundred concrete houses, the kind Edison wishes to have for workmen, will bo built at Gary, Ind., this spring. They will cost $.'150,000 and will not be used by ordinary workmen. Tliov will he occunled instead by officials and high salaried rollers of the tin plate mills. ? ? Killed and Hurt in Wreck. One man was killed and almost a score of passengers injured late Tuesday when interurban cars on the Detroit United Kail way met in headon collision about two miles east of 1 Lima, Mich. The dead man was Kdward Dunsmore of Maple City, Mich. ? ? + The Greenville Piedmont says 1 "what a good time we Democrats < could he having watching the He- I publicans scrap if we were not hav- 1 ing such a nasty little tussle in our 1 ranks." That is true, and it is a < pity it Is true. 's ( PLAY HIS OLD CAME HEARST TRIES HIS OLD TRICK 01 RULE AS RUIN ON DEMOCRATS IN CHIGAGI Hearst and Ills Crowd Wanted a He publican Commissioner to Organ izo the Cook County Democratic Convention and Turn It Over t< Them, the Other Side Objected. The Hearst-IIarriinan faction o the Democratic party in Illinois which recently carried that btate foi Clark, and the Sullivan wing of th( party, which supported Wilson, recently had a regular monkey and parrot time in the Cook County Democratic Convention, which includes tho city of Chicago. The result was a split and two sets of delegates being elected to the State Convention, which meets in Peoria on Friday. Hearst and Harriman, fearing they could not organize the convention because of the opposition of the Sullivan faction, got an order from County Judge Owens appointing a Republican election commissioner temporary chairman of the convention to organize it. The Sullivan faction got Judge McKinley, of the superior court, to issue an order restraining the carrying out of the order issued by County Judge Owens and which placed a Republican in the position of temporary chairman of a Democratic convention. Armed men were facing each other as the hour for the opening of the convention drew near. In the armory of the Seventh regiment, I: N. G., where tho convention was to be held, 120 guardsmen had slept tho night before. Outside was a cordon of city police to bo reinforced later by hundreds of other nolice and as many more special deputy sheriffs. Chief of Police McWeeny and Sheriff Michael Zimmer commanded the sheriffs and police in person. Never in the history of the Democratic party in Chicago had a situation of such gravity developed. For more than three hours 2 5 militiamen, unarmed and under the command of a captain of the Seventh regiment, Illinois National Guard, had possession of the Seventh regiment armory while two rival forces, the Ilearst-IIarrison faction and the followers of Roger Sullivan, national Democratic committeeman, disputed the right of each other to enter the armory. The Sullivan forces insisting that the county judge had no right to order an election commissioner to open the convention The Ilearst-IIarrison men declared that his order alone would insure fairness. A battalion of soldiers, reinforced by more than a hundred deputy sheriffs acting under tho orders of County Judge Owens, controlled tho crowd outside the armory. Coroner Hoffman, with 25 deputies, was busy through the morning serving police officials with an injunction issued in tho county superior court restraining them from interfering. The injunction was waived aside and the coroner himself was sum moned boforo County Judge Owena to answer to a charge of contempt of court for Interfering with the orders of Judge Owena. The sheriff and police election commiasioner, Czarnecki, also aro under contempt charges. Repeated demands were made by Election Commissioner Czarnecki, Republican, delegated by Judge Owens to open the convention, that the door bo unbarred. The militia defiantly refused and Judge Owens in person went to the armory and demanded admittance. lie was refused. Then the police were ordered by Judge Owen to break in the doors. No shots came from the guardsmen. Tho outer door fell and then an inner door barricaded with trunks and furniture gave way. County Judge Owens and Commissioner Czarnecki entered. Capt. Ottogan, who commanded the guards, was arrested but was released on habeas corpus proceedings. Tho HearstHarrison precinct committeemen, who had been standing in line wearing badges inscribed "Harmony," entered tho building. Commissioner Czarnecki called the roll and tho machinery of the contention was turned over to tne delegates. Not a man of the Sullivan forces was present. Instead they and those known as Dunne men, remained outside and after a long delay left tho vicinity of the armory and held a convention at another hall. As a result the State convention wi'l be called on to decide between the two sets of delegates. Three People Die in I'lre. Mrs. Amanda Dunn, aged flfty-flve, Cleveland Dunn, Wr son, aged twenty-three, and .Mildred Dunn, aged two, daughter of Cleveland Dunn, lost their lives shortly after midnight Thursday night in a lire which destroyed the homo of Milton M. Dunn, treasurer of Deo County, a ew miles south of Opellka. Clovoand Dunn lost h.ls own life and that )f his baby In an heroic effort, to iave bis mother. ( THEY NEED SOME HELP A ? AX APPEAL IS MADE FOE THE F 1 FLOOD SUFFERERS. President Tnft Calls for Aid From | South Carolina for the Mississippi River Victims. President Taft, as head of the American Red Cross, has issued an . appeal for the sufferers in the Mississippi flood district, and in a telec gram to Governor Bleaso Wednesday > afternoon asked the Governor to lay the appeal before the people of this &tate. The Governor immediately replied by telegraph, stating that he ' would issue a proclamation for con? tributions for the flood sufferers and r? /iffori it cr in l\n nf nn v nuclei onen h /t i VII V? ill{) tv u Vy VI IV II ^ WQOIOLUliUU 11 V , could. Tho telegram of President . Taft follows: I "Washington, D. C., April 17, 1912. "Governor Cole L. Dlease, Colum, bia, S. C.: Conditions of distress , resulting from the flood in the lower . Mississippi Valley have assumed such intensity and magnitude that It has become my duty, as prosident of the American Red Cross, to make known . the fact as given to the press today, , in order that the people of the United States may express their sympathy in substantial form. Fully 25,000 persons are now homeless and dependent on the generosity of the country for food and shelter and the number is steadily increasing. "The army is doing everything possible to provide food and shelter to meet the Immediate emergency, but the equally important task of conducting relief camps, maintaining health and restoring the flood refu- ! gees to their homes on conditions which will enable them to return to normal conditions of life, rest upon the local authorities and tho Red Cross. Many thousands of people will return to their homes to find their houses and furniture and farm equipment and food supplies for themselves and their farm animals ' almost or wholly destroyed. Questions of health, which inevitably arise from the gathering of great ' numbers into camps, are already be- 1 coming acute and to these will be added others, even more serious ' when the waters subside. Typhoid, dysentary, smallpox, malaria and other diseases threaten and must, if possible, be prevented by prompt and vigorous measures. For this task resources far in excess of those now at command will be essential. If you, as president of your State Red Cross board, see fit to supplement this publication by proclamation to i the people of your State, the force s of tho appeal will be greatly strength- ( ened. Contributions received by 1 members of your State board should : be duly credited by your board treas- { urer and transmitted to tho national | treasurer in Washington. William . H. Taft, President of the American j Red Cross." r Governor Please sent the following ( reply: "Tho Hon. William H. Taft, c President American Red Cross, ? Washington, D. C.?Your wire. Pro- a clamation will be issued at once and f I will be glad to render every assist- j> ance at my command. c "Cole L. Please, Governor." ( CAPTAIN REFUSED RESCUE. Seaman Tells of the Titanic Com- t v mander's Heroism. P At the American Seaman's Friend Society Institute, in New York, where ISO members of the rescued "" crew of tho Titanic are being fed, 1 clothed and housed. A. G. Hogg, a seaman, told of the fate of Capt. Smith. Hogg says that as the Titanic sank a big wave washed him over the side and he landed on a raft carrying 35 persons. I "Tho next moment I saw Capt. r Smith in tho water alongside the raft. 'There's the skipper,' I yelled, 'givo him a hand,' and they did. * Put ho shook himself free and shouted to us, 'Good-bye, boys, I'm going to follow tlio ship;' that was the last wo saw of our skipper." Hogg said that later they were transferred to a lifeboat, In which there was a woman stark naked. Sho was numb with the cold and some of the men took off their [ clothes and wrapped her up in them, 1 but she died soon afterward. s Sidna Humphrey, the quartermas- 8 tor, said ho dragged two women out f of the water, one of them a raving ^ maniac, who died before the Car- ^ pathla picked up tlio lifeboats. ? D1HS DEFIANT IN CHAIK. +. .. ? Goes to Death With Sharp Words for Sobbing Father. "I reckon this jar will shalo out my false teeth," said William Richardson, twenty-nine years old, as he un? linim* sfr.Mnnpfl in t tin pleetHr. I '? chair at the penitentiary at Eddy- s \ille, Ky., Friday preparatory to forfeiting his life for the murder of John Violet, a Carlisle county farm- _ er, two months ago. q "Cut out all of that confounded bohooing," ho said to his grayhaired father, as the latter sobbed his fare- f' well. "What's it to you,' anyway?" Richardson was dead after the . f) first shock. III ) T uppv 1 u BANK Of Conwa Hat largest capital and surplus of i than the combined capital and suip CAPITAL 0TOGK. , SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOOH SECURITY OF MPOSIT DIREC jbert B. Scarborough, . L Buck. leorg? J. Holiday, We offer our customers every ace will justify, and we i robert b. scarborough, D President. We continue to pay 5 pei FOUGHT BATTLE WITH POLICE. Bold Bandits Cause Big Panic in the Heart of Paris. A gang of desperadoes attacked a messenger of the Bank of France In a crowded street in the heart of Paris Tuesday and tried to rob him of a package containing $200,000, But they were thwarted by the police, who witnessed the attack and immediately seized the robbers. The thieves opened fire on the oiilcers with revolvers and made a determined attempt to escape. The police used their pistols also, rushed the crooks into a corner and Anally overpowered them. There was a panic in the street, and many people thronging it narrowly escaped being hit by the wildly flying bullets. Not only are the bandits in prison, but not a franc of money the banks messenger carried was lost. Evidently Captain Scott of the British Antartic expedition is making no dash for the south polo. The dispatches recently received from him indicate that the conquest of the pole Is to be by slow approaches iiul that considerable time will be J spent in securing all possible Information as to climate, topography and 3ther matters. All hope that ho may tie successful and that he may make valuable contributions to science. YOUNG THAM1' IS KILLED. Was Making Tour of tlio World in Side Door Pullman. A special to the Savannah Press from Millen says Iteckley Price, aged seventeen, who has been traveling aver the United States with Howard </endevoner, another boy about his ipe, was killed by a train there last light. The dead boy lived at 113 Eighteenth street, Buffalo, N. Y. He md his companion had been "hobong" for the fun of it. They have -ecently visted several Southern titles and have been as far west as 5an Francisco. Price called himself 'Buffalo Bill" and intended writing i book on his adventures. A book illed with notes on his travels was cund in his pocket. His body was :ut half in two by the wheels of a Central railway train. Thousands of Negroes Rescued. A dispatch from Tallulah, La., says wo thousand negro flood sufferers vero rescued in boats from perilous >osition on levees, tho result of the -lississippi river's invasion of that | erritory. >hip Your Eggs, Poultry, Butter, ett ' to 1 Market Produce Co.. CHARLESTON, 8. C. We guarantee you top market >rices. Handle any quantity you are to ship and mail you cheek sain# lay goods are received. Make a start by marking your lext shipment Market Produce Co. '"or 25c wo will mail you this lady eg knife. 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WILL A- FA SB MAS VlOE PKESIDENT. . CASHIIE r cent, on yearly deposits. PKOFUSBICNAJj CAKD8. H. H. WOODWAJKD Attorney and Councilor At L?V. CONWAY, 8. C. M, B. SCAlUlltOL'UU CONWAY, 8. C. Attorney at Uw. ft*. II. UUIUIOCOIH Physician and Sur^eoR. i CONWAY, H. V. fiS. WOFFOKU VVAll. Aitomejr ?t Lav/, Bank of Horrj Building. CONWAY. S. C. BENE KAY'ENKIi Land Surveying and Drainage Spivey Building Comvay, S. O. 4 1 ME WORLDS GREATEST SEWING IMCBIIS NSfflj] \i^j ^jftBLJLm^*JK JUttf* BflUil want et ther a Vibrating HhatUejIVrtMB1 fclaattto or a Hingis Thread [ChainBtUck{ A Bowing Machine write to '? Ml!*HOME SEWINI MACHINE CQMHW, Orange* Mass. HMwaewfo* machines are made to KtlrefoHkew fnikytbut the Mew Home la made to weaa Oar guaranty never runt oat. 1 tlM If Mtborlaed dealen m|P^ I v Poa sals MT J ' > <uunoi(;ii^ in collinh oo.. Conway, 8. C. MEET IN CHARLESTON NEXT. *ol. E. J. Watson Elected a Vlcorresldent of Hotly. Resolutions urging the appropria:ion by congress of $10,000 annually until the completion of the Pana na canal and $5,000,000 annually hereafter for land reclamation and Dther purposes, and calling for an immediate conference in Washing;on of the executive committee and )flicers of the National Drainage' congress, were unanimously adopted at New Orleans Friday night by he delegates of the thirty-three States and four foreign countries at- , ending the National Drainage con- * Tress, which adjourned Friday nightI'ho congress elected Former Gov. David R. Francis of Missouri as prosdent; Edmund T. Perkins, Illinois, Irst vice -president; E. .1. Watson of South Surolina, Col. W. C. Gorgas, T. S. A., Bernard Raker, Maryland, md Edward Wisner of Rnutstana, dee presidents. Charleston was seeded as the place of the next moeing, January, 1913. ? ? Forty Persons Drowned. .A boat into which the passengers )f the British steamer Soang Chun Aero disembarking, capsized Tueslay and <10 noi-Snil? miv:lh' \\tr\rt\e\r\ -- , , ..WIIIVMI vero drowned. Tho Sonn? Chung tad just arrived at Anioy from Singipore.