The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 14, 1912, Image 3
WON SENATE TOO
SENATOR HOKE SMITH SURE DEMOCRATS
HAS IT
HAVE A GOOD MAJORITY
He Tl^ipkfl the Reorganization 0f the
Senate by the Democrats on the
Fourth of March is Assured as a
Result of the Flection Held Last
Week.
"The reorganization of the Senate
by the Democrats on the Fourth of
March is assured," said Senator Hoke
6njith of (ieorgia Friday in summing
up the status of tho Senate as a result
of the election. Senator Smith
was among those of tho Democratic
senators to return to Washington
and he spoke with assurance due
largely to- his familiarity with the
situation, owing to his connection
with the senatorial branch of the
campaign work.
"We havo .30 Democrats who hold
over and five who already have been
-elected, making 35," said the senator.
"We have Democrats from Georgia,
Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Montana,
Oklahoma, North Carolina,
South Carolina and two from Colorado
who have been elected in the primaries.
The Democrats undoubtedly
have carried the legislatures of New
Jersey and Delaware, which insures
Democratic senators from each of
those States Advices from Nevada
and Oregon clearly indicate the election
of Democratic candidates for the
senate. This would give 4!) Democrats
or a positive majority of the
Senate.
Mr. Smith was inclined to make
additional claims to states which are
considered doubtful, lie said that according
to his advices that Democrats
will have a majority of the legislature
of Tennessee, which would insure
a Democrat senator from that
state.
Ho also counted on further Demo
crntic accessions from Illinois and
some of the other states, which still
are open to donbt.
"We can rely safely on f>0 Democrats
in tho next senate," ho declared.
Senator Smith's summary of Democratic
control in the Senate Is substantially
in accord with the general
view at the Senate wing of capital.
In other quarters an impartial survey
of the returns give totals up to the
recent time as follows: Democrats,
48; Republicans, 41: doubtful, 7;
total membership, 9G.
The doubtful seats still classed as
doubtful are two from UllnolR and
one each from Michigan, Oregon,
South Dakota, Tennessee and Wyoming./
.
Without any of these seven doubtful
scats the present assured Democratic
strength of 4.8 is half of tho
total and is sufllcient, with the vote
of Vice-President Marshall tied, to
control the Senate.
The test as to the political affiliation
of the Progressives in tho Senate
probably will come soon after
tho convening of Congress on the
first Monday in December.
"If I could have my way," said
Senator Oliver of Pennsylvania, one
of the foremost standpatters, "I
k would determine tho question at the
earliest moment. With the vice-president
no longer with n?, it will become
imperative to eloet a r?rr?ident
pro temporte of the Senate as soon
as we convene. As is generally
known, the Progressives refused to
Support Senator Oalllnger for president
prh tern of the last senate.
"I would call another caucus to
name a candidate for this office and
would make his support a tost of
party loyalty on thy part of senators
claiming to ho Republicans. '
If th<} course suggested by Mr. Oliver
should be pursued it might result
in the early recognition of a
third party in the Senate. It is said,
"however, by Senator Callinger's
friends that I he Progressive opposition
to him had largely fallen away
before the close of the session.
The Democratic senators are most,
anxious to obtain a majority of their
membership in the Senate so as entirely
to avoid the necessity of any
dependence upon Progressives after
(March 4. *
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8TTOOTING OVI3H IN RAKNWETJj.
? . .
In a Row There Men Are Shot And
One Has Since Died,
As the result of a shooting affair
at Kline. Parnwell county, Saturday
night Jesse Kinard ie dead, his brother,
Ad Kinard suffers a broken arm
from a wound and O. W. Stevenson
has been shot In the lung and may
dio. Tow Alredge, charged with
shooting the three men, has been arrested
and is now in the Harnwell
jail. Conflicting stories aro beard
regarding the affair. Alredge claim's
self-defense. Ho is a chalngang
guard who lives near Parnwell and
had gone to Parnwerl with bis wife
Saturday. The shooting occurred at
the hojfne of O. W. Stevenson, about
two iiir^s from Kline. *
Sale of Cider Forbidden*
As tlie last word In local option,
the town councils of Milford nrd
Georgetown, the dry villages In Delaware,
have pissed ordinances forbidding
the sale of sweet cider.
There have been so many "drunks"
from cider that the councils took
drastic action.
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Hunter Lost in Swamp.
Searching partied, numbering a
score of well oqui ped men, aro
pouring the swamps of Nlggur Tfoad
Island, about 30 miles above Mobile,
for W. \V. Strong, cashior of the Mobile
Electric Company, who Is lost
somewhere In the almost impenetrable
morass.
SOUTH IN THE SENATE
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BOMB OF THE SENATORS WILT.
BE VERY PROMINENT.
Senator Tillman Will Head Appropriation
Committee, Which la One
of the Most Prominent.
Democratic control of the Senate
presages a complete reorganization
of the committees and a loss of the
chairmanships held by the Republicans.
Southern senators will get the
most important chairmanships in all
probability.
Senator Bacon, on the score of
seniority, is entitled to head foreign
relations, and Senator Tillman to
head appropriations. Should Senator
Tillman decline it, Senator Culberson
of Texas, would bo entitled to the
place.
Senator Simmons of North Carolina,
who is ranking minority member
of the finance committee, will
head that committee and will have a
big influence on tariff legislation.
Senator Martin, of Virginia, is the
ranking minority member of the
District of Columbia committee, and
i.i entitled to that chairmanship. If
he takes some other post, then Senator
Joseph P. Johnston, of Alabama,
is next in line.
If the Democrats dispose of the
chairmanships by seniority in the
Senate, some of the important chairmanships
will go to the following:
Agriculture?Senator Bankhead of
Alabama.
Appropriations?Senator Tillman
of South Carolina or Senator Culberson.
Civil Service?Senator Clarke of
Arkansas.
Claims?Senator Martin of Virginia,
or Overman of North Carolina.
Commerce ? Senator Martin or
Senator Newlands of Nevada.
Education and Labor ? Senator
Itayner of Maryland.
Finance?Senator Simmons.
Immigration?Senator Jeff Davis
of Arkansas.
Interstate Commerce ? Senator
Newlands or Senator Clarke.
Inter-oceanic Canals ? Senator
Johnston or Senator Clinton of West
Virginia.
Judiciary ? Senator Culberson,
Senator Overman or Senator Itayner.
Military Affairs?Senator John
ston, Senator Clarke or Senatorl
Chamberlain of Oregon.
Naval Affairs?Senator Smith, of
Maryland or Senator Tillman.
Postoffices?Senator Bankhead or
Senator Smith of South Carolina.
Privileges and Elections?Senator
Johnston or Senator Fletcher of Florida.
Public Biuildlngs ? Swanson of
Virginia.
COTTON CROP FIGURES.
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Estimated to bo a Little Over Fourteen
Million Rales.
In a letter to The State Cooper
Griffin, of Greenville, says with a
view of getting the ideas of representative
cotton men throughout the '
belt, as to the size of the present cotton
crop, we recently selected the
names of about 150 responsible firms
and individuals, choosing same with
a view to covering all sections of the
belt, and asked that they give us
their ideas as to tjie growth in thew
respective States. We have summarized
their replies, by States, and find
tho averages are as follows:
North Carolina 81 2,999 1
South Carolina 1,156,000 (
Georgia 1,828,000 1
Florida 58,000 (
Alabama 1,262,000 (
Tennessee 26 8,000
Mississippi 1,083,000 j
Louisiana 435,000 J
Arkansas . . 951,000 ,
11 anr\r\(\
* f IV lilllWIIlit . . . , i \j w ,\r -/ \j
Texas 4,583,000
Missouri, etc 85,000
Total 13,782,000
Adding 4 25,000 bales to the above,
covering linters, repacks, etc., we get
as the commercial crop 14,207,000
bales. The figures given above are
predicated upon an average frost
date. We submit tho above, trusting
you may find it of some interest, although
tho figures are not supposed
to bo an "estimate" issued by this
firm.
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MADE AWFUL MISTAKE.
Shot and Killed His Brother With an
Unloaded Gun.
At Nashville, Tenn., on Friday, the
laugh and shout of a boyish game of
"burglar," at the home of J. B. John- i
son, an emnloyee of the Louisville *
and Nashville Railroal shops, was t
suddenly hushed when his son, Clif- I
ford, aged 14, killed his brother, Car- t
son, 12 years of age. In the gamo i
tho father's shotgun was appropriate '
ed, tho mako-belicvo burglar, Clif- i
fnrrl not knmvincr that it was loaded, i
The two boys were devoted to each i
other. The top of the younger boy's t
head was blown off by the charge, i
which tore a hole in tho screen of the t
parlor window before striking him. i
Clifford Johnson was carried to tho t
police station but later was turned f
over to his father. '*
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Killed for Ifer Money.
Tho romance of an elopement was ^
blighted by a brutal murder at Chi- '
on go Tuesday when Miss Sophia G.
Singer, a bountiful Baltimore girl, j
was found dead. Several hundred
dollars in money and jewelry brought
from her Maryland homo to grace
her wedding to William R. Worthen, ^
was missing. Robbery nas been accepted
as tho motive for the crime.'*
President Tnft Congratulates.
Tuesday night President Tuft sent ,
the following telegram to Governor r
Wilson: "I cordially congratulate fi
you on your cdectton ad extend to you c
tuy best wishos for a successful ad- (
ministration. William H. Taft." 1
TILLMAN'S WARNING
ABOUT OFFICE GRABBING ON PART
OF DEMOCRATS
WOULD RUIN THE PARTY
Bays It Now Becomes the Duty of
Ix>yal Democrats to Depress Selfishness
and (jreed and Establish a
Govern men t on Economical and
Just Policies, Without Any "Special
Privileges'*.
Senator 13. It. Tillman Friday night
issued the following signed statement
011 the national Democratic situation,
warning President-elect Wilson
against office-seekers:
"History has repeated itself. The
Democratic party was horn in 1803.
With r??ilv n fow liitorrnnHnnfl hv thA
Whig party, its grasp on power continued
firm until I860?fifty-seven
years. Then it divided and went
down in defeat, although polling an
overwhelming majority of the popular
vote. It had grown insolent and
intolerant, but was never charged
with corruption.
"The Republican party, born in
18G0, with only a slight interval, the
two terms of Mr. Cleveland, has been
in power fifty-two years. Its policies
were dominant even during
Cleveland's administration. Its record
has been very glorious and the
country has prospered marvelously,
in spite of its having been the party
of special privilege, without any regard
for the rights and interests of
the common people. It has been
very successful in persuading them
that it was their only friend. The
people have been bamboozled and debauched
and robbed mercilessly, all
the time believing that they were voting
for public righteousness and their
own interests.
"Its main idea has been to levy
high tariff duties in order to obtain a
gieat revenuo. Collecting much money?
far too much?its expenditures
have been extravagant and wasteful.
Now it, too, has gone down to defeat
because of division. The modern
battle of Armageddon has been
fought and the bodies of those who
claimed to "battle for the Lord"
strew the field. The dead carcasses
of the G. O. P. elephant and Bull
Moose are ready for the buzzards.
"The Democratic party, after having
been out of office half a century
or more, has been entrusted with
power again by the American people.
Will President Wilson have the
statesmanship and firmness to guide
and restrain the hungry horde of office-seekers
and steer the ship of
state safely through the breakers?
As long as the South was in the sad
die before the war, we had a frugal,
economical and wise administration
of public affairs. The battle cry of
Jefferson of "Equal rights to all, with
special privilego to none" was the
guiding principle of those presidents
chosen by the Democrats. Now tbat
a Southern man, for the first time in
more than sixty years, has been elected
president, I hope to see a return
to the older and better policies or ttie
republic; more sternness in dealing
with malefactors of all kinds (those
vftth great wealth as well as those
with moderate means). There wTTl
be a great clamor for placo, and the
cry is already rising, 'To the victors
belong tho spoils'. Will we Democrats
have virtue enough, patriotism
rnough and statesmanship enough to
hold our friends in check and abolish
all useless offices? Can we bring the
country back to 'Republican simplicity?'
I uso tho term Republican*
not in its political, but in its generic
sense.
"It will be very difficult?well nigh
impossible?to abolish offices wnen
men have so many friends and political
allies clamoring for place and
eager to suck the nubile, tent,
"President Wilson will have a glorious
opportunity, and 1 firmly beieve
he will measure up to both his
.pportunities and his responsibiliies.
Ilo has a fearful burden to
jcar, but I believe be is man enough
o bear it. We should compel the corporations
to disgorge, squeezo all the i
.vater possiblo out of the rotten and ;
corrupt stocks. There Is nothing '
nore certain, that unless this be <
ionc, the masses of the people will
>e enslaved to pay interest on stocks s
md bonds which have been issued 1
vitliout any foundation other than
he paper upon which they are writ- I
en Tf these watered properties, ]
vith fictitious values, are permitted ]
o compel the labor of the country to t
pear the burden to pay dividends, <
hen Debs and socialism will flourish t
ipaco and Roosevelt's pet phrase, <
economical justice', will become very 1
[popular Roosevelt has had right r
doas all along, but, alas, what a fall- <
ng off there has been when ho had 1
he opportunity to make those Ideas <
materialize. His dreams have been *
glorious, but selfish ambition and i
p.oral cowardice, as we'll as corrupion,
have kept him from being a <
jrent American. ?
i i r\ a. _l 1 .1 ...1
- r.very ieyai uemocrat biiouiu cm
ivnto self-denial, repress selfishness (
tn<i greed, and support President 1
,Vilson in the policy of restoring the ^
ounty to its old-time honesty and '
ilmplicity. Wo cannot hope as a pary,
to bo trusted by the people for ^
ong if, after all these years, they
lnd they liavo merely changed mas- '
era and their burdens are as great *
is ever. The laboring men must be
jrought to believe and know that
hey can straighten up their hacks
ind rest, ami that their opportuni- '
ies will he a great as ever, while !
heir burden* will bit reduced as '<
much a;* pos Iblo. If Wilson's ad- t
niniptratlon of the president's office ihall
prove this to the peoplo, while 1
i iearful howl will go up and subsi- j
Ih.ed newspapers will abuse him ro- <
entlessly, tho Democratic party will ,
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SUES FOR HIS GIRLS
B. It. TILLMAN .lit., WANTS lib*
LITTLE ONES WITH HIM.
Brings Action Aginst His Former
Wife In the Supreme ^ourt to Kecover
Them.
A dispatch from Edgefield nays Mr.
B. R. Tillman Jr., through hie attorneys,
Tillman & Mays, of Greenwood,
has instituted habeas corpus proceeding
to recover his children from Mrs.
B. R. Tillman Jr., who since she obtained
a divorce is known as Mrs.
Lucy Dugas. The order signed by
Chief Justice Gary is returnable before
the Supreme Court November
2G. C. A. Mays went to Greenwood
and had the order formally served 011
Mrs. Dugas. S. McGowan Simkins
will represent Mrs. Dugas.
(Mr. Tillman states that ho is a citizen
of that county and is engaged in
farming, having rented the Tillman
place at Trenton for next year.
Among other reasons set forth for
bringing this action it is alleged that
Mrs. Dugas contemplates making her
home in Ohio, which would not only
take the children fiom the jurisdiction
of the courts of this State, but
would mako ^t practically impossible
for Mr. Tillman to see them. It is
alleged that Mrs. Dugas alone is not
capable or competent to raise the
children.
Mr. Tillman alleges that the children
are now unlawfully restrained
from seeing their father, never being
allowed to visit him. He states that
lie has only seen them three or four
times since they were taken from him
and then under the most humiliating
circumstances. lie further states that
he has made several attempts to effect
a reconciliation, all of which
have been rejected. Reference is
made to the fact that Mrs. Tillman
obtained a divorce and of the possibility
of a second marriage, which
would subject the children to the
treatment of a Stepfather.
Senator Tillman has made an affidavit
that lie has not secoi the children
since lie surrendered them to
their mother three years ago, and
states furthermore that his son has
given up the drink habit and is leading
a sobe*- industrious life. About a
dozen representative citizens of Trenton
have made affidavits to ttie effect
that they have known II. R. Tillman
Jr. for the past three years and
tnat he has been entirely sober during
that time. *
SENATOR TILLMAN PLEASED.
Over the Outcome of the General National
Election.
Barring one or two local Democratic
celebrities, says an Auguscta, Ga.,
newspaper, Senator Tillman Is the
happiest Democrat in all these United
States. Arriving in Augusta Friday
to make some necessary purchases
for his farm and look over
the agricultural exhibit at the Fair,
he spent the greater part of the forenoon
"downtown".
Ho was hap?y and carefree and to
all appearances in the finest of
health and pinkest of political conditions.
His broad-brimmed, black,
campaign hat seemed a little broader
and more rakish than ever. He occupied
just a little more space in the
automobile than formerly and held
himself more erectly.
Few could have recognized in him
the man who not many months ago
was broken In health and whose spirits
were at ebb.
117 I Y% n (1 n oVi a# K a a! A fl r a in ViJol
>v mi a naou v/i mu uiu in c *n 1110
eyes he spoko most longingly of the
next meeting of the Senate?his
"come back''.
"It will be great," he said, "to
get back at them. When I get on the
floor again I'll shake my fist in their
faces and say, 'boys, we've got you
where we've wanted to get you for
eighteen years, and now we're going
to give you h
Other than this he would not be
interviewed 011 subjects political. *
FINALLY MAD1C KSOAPK.
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White Fad Says Yegro Man Carried
llim Far Away.
Lured from homo by a big negro
under promise of a ride in a wagon
and later deserted 2 0 miles from
Greenville is (ho experience of 12year-old
Hen Cunningham, son of .T.
r. Cunningham, a well-to-do citizen
3f Greenville.
Saturday nfternoon, while on Main
street, the little boy was asked by the
negro if he wanted to take a ride, to
which the boy replied in the allirnnitive.
The negro promised to take
him to the Cunningham home on
Uurdette street, as ho was going that
way. Reaching Rurdette street, however,
instead of allowing the youth
^o got out of tho wagon, tho boy dedares
the negro threatened to kill
him if ho made a move to leave or
nade any outcry. Thoroughly frightened.
tho lad lay low and after a
while fell asleep, awaking after several
hours to find that the negro was
dill guarding him and shutting off
ill chances of escape.
At a small town In the lower part
M, ^ Mw. In
?l L II 1.7 V/UU II I IITJ Ml/Jf rj UVW v ViV/Vi ill
jotting away from tho negro, who
ind relaxed his vigilance on account
>f being heightened, probably. Advertisements
were inserted in tho
oral papers concerning tho missing
ioy, and in this way lie was located.
Returning home Friday, he told a
1 arrowing talo of his experience.
A'hat the negro's motive might have
> >on in kidnapping tho lad is oome;king
of a mystry.
Recluse Dies in Misery.
With T 1 00.000 in banks and $3 00,"tOO
within reach of his hand Marina
Merlino, a hermit, 73 years old, died
u Philadelphia. Tie was too miserly
o snnd for a physhdan.
t)o restored to its old-tlmo v'por ai d
govern tho country for anothor half
:entury.
(Signed) "D. R. Tillman."
MAIL CAR BOBBED
BANDITS HELD UP TRAIN AND
RIFLED MAIL BAGS
LOOT SAID TO BE LARGE
Two Marked Robbers Surprise Two
Mail Clerks in the Cur and Cover
TIiciii With Pistols Near Kiruningham,
Ala., and Took Whut Valuables
Could be Found.
With nearly a score of detectives
and secret service men working on
thy case, no trace has yet been found
of i he two bandits \tho robbed a
Louisville and Nashville It. It. mail
car near liirniinghani early Friday
morning. A reward of $1,000 each
has Leen offered for their arrest aatt
r> r\ t? ? i d \
V*? II T *vi 1WII,
Mail Clerks Chamberlain and
Hoover, interviewed, thought the
amount secured was small, as the
robbers missed the Birmingham
pouch, on which the clerks fell when
they were ordered by the bandits to
lie f'ov/i.,
The bandits left the train at
Boyles, a suburb of Birmingham, ana
dogs wore unable to take the trail.
Two scraps of torn overalls, similar
to those which were worn by the
bandits, were found on a fence near
Boyles, which is so far the only clue
obtained. The men boarded the mail
car at Blount Springs.
According to Clerk Chamberlain,
who was in charge of the car, the
bandits were Inexperienced, as they
overlooked numerous small amounts
of loose money that were enclosed in
several registered envelopes, which
they opened and threw on the floor.
The men first made their presence
known just after the train pulld
out of Blount Springs, where it is
believed they entered the mail car
door opposite the station. They
suddenly sprang from behind a table
n d covered the two clerks with revolvers.
"We are not going to hurt you;
we want something to eat," said one
o' the bandits to Clerk Chamberlain,
who told him where he could find his
lunch basket. The other robber then
said: "No, we want money," and he
forced the clerks to lie down on the
floor, after which the faces of the
clerks were covered with empty mail
pouches.
The exact amount of money and
valuable packages taken by the bandits
is unknown at present. They
cut open one registered pouch and
opened one registered package jacket.
tearing tho ends of the envelopes
open in their search for money. Several
of the envelopes contained loose
bank notes, which were lying on the
floor, the men seeming to be excited
and in a big hurry. One package opened
contained several thousand dollars'
worth of railroad stock coupons,
which were scattered about the
floor.
After searching tho packages the
men were thoroughly disgusted, according
to Clerk Chamberlain, and
one of them took from Chamberlain
a a r r. i _ t- t i J i- i
[ HCOUt. ?o, wnicn no nau un him per*
I son. The bandit then asked for
Chamberlain's watch, hut finding it
a cheap one returned it to him.
The robber then searched Clerk
Hoover, securing a valuable gold
watch. Ho showed his generosity,
however, by returning the time piece
when Hoover pleaded that it was a
present which ho highly prized. The
bandits confined themselves exclusively
to the mail car. Authorities
both at Birmingham and Montgomery
have been notified.
While no official statement is made
as to the amount of booty secured by
the two masked men the reports are
to tho effect that something under
$4 0,0 00 was secured. Police officers,
detectives, deputy sheriffs and postoffice
inspectors are working on the
case, confident that the robbers are
in Birmingham. That they are acquainted
with conditions in and
around Birmingham as well as 011
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
appears to he appreciably patent. *
OONCJKATUJbATKS AVI LSON.
Telegram Sent 11i 111 by the Daughters
of This State.
Tho fl~st thing that was dono at
the opening session of the State Convention
of the D. A. It., at Clemson
Wednesday was the offering of a
joint resolution by Mrs. A. C. Ligon
of Orangeburg and Miss Marion Salley
of tho same place, authorizing ,
the sending of tho following congrat- *
nlntory telegram to Woodrow Wilson
:
"The 1 fith annual convention of
the South Carolina D. A. H., now in (
session, congratulate you. We ro- 1
joice in this victory, second only to 1
that of Yorktown. We rejoice that t
you aro to bo the standard bearer tor t
our country. Sincercst wishes for a ?
successful administration." (
The telegram was signed by Miss c
T.ouiso 0. Fleming of Greenwood, the f
corresponding secretary of tho con- i
ventlon. * *
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Killed a White Wild Goose. i
On last Saturday'Mr. S. B. Lnncas- t
ter killed a largo white wild goose in
tho mill pond of Mr. Frank \V.*Far- v
num near j&mison in tnis county, it
measured nearly seven feet front tip
of one wing to the tip of the other.
Wild geese visited this section in \
largo numbers years ago, but they |
are very rare in these days. This t
one must have strayed away from a \
dock passing over. r
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Miulo Successful lhico.
A street car conductor, wlto did
nil his campaigning from the rear
platform of his ear, is ono of the '
uuv^sfjl Hrooklyn candid.a tea for <
the State legislature. TTe is Jos. Mon- t
nlian, Democrat, elected from a hitn- 1
erto rock-ribbed Republican district.* I
REPORT ON COTTON
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SOUTH CAROLINA A GOOD DEAL
BEHIND LAST YEAR.
Report Shows Over Half Million
Bales Less Than Quantity Ginned
to 8aPeriod Last Year.
With Texas showing 3,699,124
bales, a greater quantity than ever
before ginned to November 1 in any
year, the census bureau's report, lsssued
Friday announced 8,849,898
bales had been ginned in the United
States prior to that date, Oklahoma's
giiinings, 593,366 bales, also exceeded
any previous year's report for that
date.
In the period from October 18 to
November 1 there was ginned 1.9 70,692
bales, compared with 2,635,052
bales last year, while the average per
working day was 1 6 1,824 bales,
compared with 1 84,3 67 bales last
j car.
Louisiana with 2 61,685 bales had
ginned a greater quantity than last
year, b\it in a'll States east of the
Mississippi the giiinings were below
last year's totals.
South Carolina, with 732,406 bales
ginned to November 1, was nearly
300,000 bales behind last year's figures
for the same period.
The report, compiled from reports
of cansus bureau's correspondents
and issued at 10 a. m. Friday, by
Director E. Dana Durand, showed
that, counting round as half bales:
To November 1 of last year 9,970,905
bales, or 64.1 per cent of the entire
crop, had been ginned; in 1908
to that date 8,1 91,557 bales, or 62.6
per cent, of tho crop had been ginned,
and in 1906 to that date 6,906,395
bales, or 53.2 per cent, of tho
crop had been ginned.
Included in the total glnnings
were 55,811 round bales, lompared
with 68,313 bales last year, 81,183
bales in 1910, 1 09,621 bales in 1909
n ,\ 11 1 I I) O I! 1 w. 1 .I llrt o
il II I 1 -I v , O VI u unit O 111 I V o ,
The number of sea island cotton
bales included was 28,655, compared
with 5 6,563 bales last year, 55,237
bales in 1901) and 45,479 bales in
1908.
Ginnings, prior to November 1, by
states, with comparisons for last
year and other big crop years, and tho
percentage of the entire crop ginned
prior that in those years, follow:
Alabama.
Yoar. G Innings. P.O.
191 2..,.. . . 809,731 .4
3 9 1 1 1,088,737 64.2
1 908 891,667 66.9
1906 676,747 54.5
Arkansas.
1 912 439,01 2
3 91 1 4 4 4,401 48.9
1908 536,785 53.9
1906 306,762 34.3
Florida.
191 2 34,852
191 1 56,070 59.4
1908 43,234 61.2
1906 34,707 56.5
Georgia.
1912 1,110,915
1911 1,908,764 68.3
1 908 1,387,641. 70.2
1906 1,003,718 61.5
Louisiana.
1912 261.GS5 ....
191 1 232,215 61.0
1908 287,885 61.7
19 06 4 41,757 46.2
Mississippi.
191 2. ... . . . 51 1,253 ....
191 1 584,199 50.0
1908 893,148 55.1
1906 591,254 39.9
North Carolina.
191 2 4 95,791 ....
191 1 597,940 53.1
1908 373,713 54.7
1906 3 1 1,448 51.0
Oklahoma.
1 91 2 593,3 66 ....
1 91 1 554,933 54.6
190 8 217,629 31.6
1906 34 1,803 39.2
South Carolina
191 2 7 3 2,406 ....
j 9 1 1 1,022,61 4 60.4
1 90 8 8 2 1.608 67.6
1906 549,857 60.3
Tennessee.
1912 1 1 8,489 ....
19 11 21 1,1 28 4 9.1
190 8 1 9 8.7 83 59.5
1906 92,916 31.7
Texas.
1 91 2 3,699,124
1911 3,2 1 l,i 52 78.2
] 9 0S 2,502,$62 60.0
1906 2,535,551 64.1
KILL1CD in a collision.
+.
Sine Met Death and Kirteen Were Injured
in Wreck.
Nino nion wore killed and fifteen
>thers injured in a head-on collision
H'tweon a Louisville and Nashville
Railway freight train and a work
rain at Emerson Ga., late Friday afernoon.
A. B. Baker, of Knowlton,
ind B. Blankenship, of Cass Station,
la., foreman and assistant foreman
>f the work crew, respectively, wero
imong the dead. Tho others wero
log roes.
Among tho injured were: Engineer
Edwards, Atlanta, of the freight
rain; Engineer Newman, Atlanta, of
he work train; James Jordan and
Ornest Head, flagman, all of whom
vere white.
Knocked Teddy Speechless.
Colonel Roosevelt motored to Now
rork from Oyster Bay Friday and vieted
his editorial odieos for the first
tmo since ho was shot, lie said that
10 had adopted tho policy if silenco
uul had no further comment to make
o the election.
Tlfghteen People Drowned
Kisthteen peoplo wore drowned
Wednesday by the sinking of tl o
Spanish steamer Aorana f-om Tunis
ifter a collision with the Norwegian
f-'va off the island of Aix, on the
'rench coast.