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LAID DOWN IN CODE PENALTY AS TO BRIBERY FIXED ) BE STATUTE. THE LAW ON ELECTIONS f Sections of the Klection Ii?ws Inferred to by Senator Tillman in / J? ? ii? ?? * * <? - - v winiiiviiiiii^ uu iiiv iwvi'in rwiiition in tti? First District is Quoted iu Full Ilelow. There was much comment on the statement given out by Senator Tillman in Washington and us published Saturday, in which political conditions in South Carolina were reviewed. In this statement Senator Tillman referred to the situation in the First congressional district, as he saw it, and said that "the penal code, sections 3 60, 361, 3 63, 3 63, and 3 65, have all been violated by more than are aware of it." The sections referred to by Senator Tillman are given below: lliibory at Flections. "Sec. 3 60 ?If at any election hereafter hold within this State, whether general, special or primary, for members of the congress of the United States, members of the legislature of this State, sheriff, clerk, judgo of pro-, bate, or other county officer, mayor and aldermen of any city, inteiulant and wardens of any incorporated town, officers of the militia or volunteer organizations of the State, or at any other election hold within this State, any person shall, bv the nav ment, delivery, or promise of money, or other article of value, procure another to vote for or against any particular candidate or measure, the person so promising and the person so voting, shall each be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall for the first offence, be fined in any sum not less than $100 nor more than $500, and imprisonment for any period of time not less than one month nor more than ^ six months; and, for the second offence, shall ,bo fined in any sum not less than $500, nor more than $5,000, and imprisoned for any period of - time not less than three months nor more than 12 months. ,r- Offering to Procure Votes by Bribery, "Sec. 2 0 1?If at any election, as in section 2 00 of this chapter, any person shall offer or propose to procuro another, by the payment, delivery or promise of money, or other article of value, to vote for or against any particular candidate or measure, or shall offer or propose, for the consideration of money or otht: article of value paid, deliveiort or promised, to vote for or against any particular candidate or measure, such person so offering to procure or vote shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall bo fined and imprisoned, at the discretion of the court. M Isdemeaiior to Obtain Votes by I5rll>e or Throat, "Sec. 362?At or before every political primary election held by any political party, organization or association, for the purpose of choosing candidates for ofilce, or the election of delegates to conventions, In this State, any person who shall, by threats of any other form of intimidation, or by the payment, dollvery, or promise of monoy, or other article of value, procure or offer, promise or endeavor to procure, another to vote for or against any particular candidate in such election or who shall, for such consideration, offer to so vote shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Candidates to Make I'lerig*. "Sec. 3 63.?TCvery candidate offering for election, under the provision? of section 362, shall make the following pledge and file the sojne with the clerk of court of common ple4ts for the county in which he is a candidate, unless he should be a candidate in more than one county, in which case he shall file same with the secretary of state, before ho shall enter upon his campaign, to-wlt: I, the undersigned of the county of and State of South Carolina, candidate ror the otlice of . hereby pledge that I will not give or spend money, or use intoxicating liquors for tho purpose of obtaining or influencing votes, and that I shall, at tho conclusion of the campaign and before the primary election render to tho clerk of court (or secretary of state as hereinbefore prov'ded), under oath, an itemized statement of all 1 , moneys spent or provided by me during the campaign for campaign purposes up to that time, and I further pledge that I will immediately after the primary election or elections, that I am a candidate in, render an itemized statement, under oath, showing all further moneys spent or provided by me in said election: Provided,That T a failure to comply with this provision shall render such election null and void, insofar as tho candidate who fails to file the statement herein reouired. but flhpll nnt AW a , ^? mwv vfcAwv i?u vnuu* op ity of the electiqn of any candidate complying wth thle section. And, provided, further, That such itemized statement and pledge ehall he open taction 362 or 363shall be a misdei . LABOR FIGURES GIVEN , i COMMISSION Kit WATSON ISSl'KS STATISTICS. The Textile Concerns IK) Not Kinploy am Many Children Now rm They Formerly !>id. A report on the child labor situation in South Carolina was issued Thursday by the State department of agriculture. The statistics were compiled from reports by inspectors and show the number of employees in mills at time of inspections. All slants In thn Stato xiHfVi tSft of 4 6 have "been inspected and the total figures are given with the statistics for last year on these 4 6 mills. The total number of employees is shown to be 4 6,881 or an increase of 147. There was a decrease of 896 in the number of white males between the ages of 14 and 16 years employed in the mills. There was a decrease of 102 white females between the ages of 14 and 16 years. The following summary of tho child labor situation was made by the department: "If one will study the statistics, gathered by the State factory inspectors, of the labor in the textilo plants of the State, ho will observe that more labor and less children are being employed from year to year. Although many of the mills are constantly increasing their plant, tho change from Coarse to fine goods calls for less help, but more experi- ' enced people, consequently the actual demand for child labor is on the decrease. "On comparing statistics for the years 1912 and 1913, it has been " found that the mills employed this year 308 grown males and 748 grown females more than last year. At the same time we find a decrease of 933 negro males. These negroes were mostly employed during 1912 on new mills and additions and general improvements. An increase of 2 4 negro females shows that the mills are paying more attention to tho sanitary arrangements. 1 "Tho year 1913 shows a decrease nf Ran ninloo oml 1 o ? ? .? >?> i.) louuaica UQtWWU , the ages of 14 to 16 years employed , In tho hii 11 h, and in checking tho children between 12 and 14 years of age we find a decrease of 102 males with a small increase of 35 females. "The report on a whole Is very , gratifying to those of us who have an j interest in tho labor conditions of the State." i ( any violation of the provisions of , section 3 0 2 or 3 63 shall bo a misde- , moanor and any person, upon conviction thereof, shall ho fined not less | than $100 nor more than $600, or bo , imprisoned at hard labor for not lose { than one month nor more than six , moniths, or both fine and imprisonn- t ment in the discretion of the court. ^ Penalty for Serving Candidate. < "Sec. 3 65. Any persons who ahall 1 perforin, or agree to perform any ser- i vice in the interest of any candidate 1 for any office provided for in section 1 8, chapter 4 9, of tho civil code, volume 1, of the code of laws (whether i in connection with the primary elec- < tion nomination, or in connection ? with the municipal election, or in co- i nection with the obtaining and filing 1 of tho petition required herein in i consideration of any money or other 1 valuable thing or of futuro support 1 in obtaining oflice, shall be punished 1 by a fine not oxceding $500 or im- * prisonment not exceeding ono year, < and any candidate, or other person, 1 who shall solicit or contract for, or f otherwise seek or obtain, such ser- 1 vices in the Interest of or against the t candidacy for mayor or councilman, or for or against any question that t may bo submitted to an election, or t shall pay any money for said services l or promise any valuable thing for ] such services to influence any elec- t tlon in his acts ska 11 be punished in g the same manner, and any person c making faloe answers to any of the \ provisions of article 8, chapter 4 9, of t the civil code, volume 1, of the code of laws, relative to his qualifications t to vote at any election herein pro- y vlded or any person wilfully voting ^ or offering to vote at such election g when not qualified as herein provid- g ed, aiding or abetting any violation t of the provisions herein, shall be \ guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon l conviction, shall be fined not exceed- t ing $500, or imprisoned not exceed- f ing ono year, and all the other provisions of law now applying to bri- t bery or corruption or other improper s practice in connection with elections \ shall otherwise apply to tho elections ( herein referred to." Can Hardly Hlame Her. \ Charging that her husband follow- f ed her to a hall and rushing In amid t the dancers threw soot all over her c silk gown and white gloves and satin | suppers, pretty '.virs. Helen Krass has f filed suit for total divorco in the (] superior court at Atlanta against r Isaac Krass. I ? t In a speech at Sumter Wednesday e night Rev. J. L. Harley said that the r " 'whiskey trust' has a paid attorney r In every county seat in the Southern c dry counties, getting $25 to $50 a 1 day to draw up and have circulated a petitions for dispensary elections and li look after whiskey ring interests." Who is the attorney here? c P' vA' i* > . ''.- .- ^/-' - _/ t.: c/v f -|^*^8MH^88^HS98&fiSH^^l^S'-. >Q^^HkSBQHk^4^ -*y. UKPHKSKXTATIVfc Of South Carolina. Vico-chaii WILL DO MUCH GOOD r<) TKHT THE TKNSILK STUKNCrTII OF (H)TTON. Will (?ive the Producer the Requisite Knowledge of tlio Hen] Value of Rvery Grade. Of more than passing interest to the farmera of South Carolina, and I particularly the cotton growers, is tlio measure introduced and passed through tho ofTorta of Senator B. 1). Smith, requiring the Department of Kgriculture to teat thetenaile strength that ia, the yarn-marking quality of pach and every grade of cotton; to bleach every grade whether in tho form of yarn or cloth, in order to determine tho coat and tho result of the bleaching; to estimate carefully tho fimount of waste in each grade incident to converting it into yarn and sloth; to estimate carefully the value 3f this waste. From tliis it will readily bo aeon that tho result of those experiments will bo of incalculable benefit to tho grower, This measure -became a law it the last aeasion of Co gnsseadnret it the last session of Congress and k ll A Ilorvn ?? ^ ^ ^ A ? ? * " ' 4 *? ? ~ .no i/pyai uurui Ul A|^I ICUllUrS IB IlOW 3ngagod in the work of investigation. It will give the porducer the roquiste knowledge from an impartial official aource of tho real commercial ralue of every grade of cotton. Aa is well known, both the export md domestic buyers make a differ- 1 ?nce between middling and the lower grades of anywhere from $1.25 to 115 per bale. The producer had no tvny of knowing whether thia was 1 ight, Just or not. He had to take j .he word of the trade. By virtue oft his law, he will be furnished a bul-(' etin giving him full knowledgo of ill these facts. So that when lie lomes to market he will be thorough- } y informed as to the value of every ;rado in reference to its manufactur-1 ng value, and will not have to take he word of an interested party. In conjunction with the above iaw, ? ho grades have been standardized by he government. Senator Smith has >egun a campaif* to have every ship- 1 ping point In the cotton-growing 1 dates furnished with a set of theee ' itandardized eamples, that is, every ihipping point where there is a eworn veigher or other competent official to ak? charge of them. It can readily be seen that, with he knowledge furnished by the pro- 1 rision which is already law, as to the rnlue of each grade, that If each 1 ihipping point is furnished with a let of samples, the farmer who comes o market to sell is thoroughly equip- 1 >ed to protect himself against being mncoed or deceived as to what grado lie cotton is and the value of that grade. * To illustrate, when a farmer comes 5 o market whero there is a set of j' itandard samples, ho can determine j ' limself what his grado Is and not bo 1 lependent upon the buyer to say vhat the grado is. When the grado las been determined by comparison vith the government standard, the armer can determine the value of ( hat grade by reference to the govirnment tests furnished him. For instance, suppose the buyer of- f era the producer a half cent or threo ( inarters of a cent less for his low niddling than for middling. Sup- f ioso the farmer by reference to his j uilletln, finds that, according to govrnment testa, low middling for manifacturlng purposes Is as valuable as. niddling. With this knowledge, he) an demand the same price for his | i ow middling as he does for middling 1 .nd It would be up to him whether 1 le takes lees or demands the same, t In a word, be will be In possession 1 >f all the knowledge availablo in 1 W> :. < .' PSTTmJW MXtKin IU,??I? * IWH? PfflMti 2 DAVID K. KIN DKY. rman Joint Postal Committeo. reforenco to the value and the grade of his cotton that the mill man and buyer has, and can govern himself accordingly. In Senator Smith's opinion, this is the moat important legislation ever enacted in behalf of the cotton grower. Senator Smith has reintroduced and is publishing his bill looking to the regulation of cotton exchanges, This is the same measure that came near passing at tho last session of Congress. Briefly stated, this bill provides that in each and every contract for thefut ure delivery of cotton the grade or grades contracted for shall bo specifically named in the contract, and such grade or grades as are named shall be according to government standardization. This will legalize the standardized grades i?i interstate commerce nr?u ? -< sanction of law to tho use of the standard grades In every State. In commenting upon Senator Smith's measure for providing for cotton tests, I)r. N. A. Cobb, chief technologist of the Department of Agriculture, says: "Preliminary negotiations have been practic:ally completed with one of the best equipped textile schools and aslo one of the leading cotton mills of the South for making the waste tensile strength and bleaching tests of the tifforont grades of cotton us standardized b7 tho government. "About ten bales of each of the full grades will be used from one inch upland and one-inch gulf cotton respectively, an aggregate of about 100 bales (or as much as the present appropriation will provide). A portion Ofeachb ale is to be sent to the texlle school and the remainder to the mill, thus giving identical cotton for the two runs. The same speeds, organization and conditions will he utilized in the two runs as far as possible. Part of the raw stock from each grade mixing will he blenched, and yarn made from each inivture, to ascertain if there is any difference In the cost of bleaching or in tho way the resultant atook behaves in the manufacturing processes. These bleaching tests will also he made in the laboratory on the finished yarns. "Inadd ition to tho various number of yams ordinarily made by tho trade from tho respective grades, the name number of yarn >vi 11 be made in a eariety of waye, and )>y a variety of agenclee. "Samples of the yarn and other products manufactured will be submitted to commission merchants, buyers and sellers of yarn to ascertain the true commercial value of all samples. Quotations will also be obtained from waste dealers and mills that manufacture waste to determine the relative commercial vane of the various types of waote made from tho respective grades. "The relative cost of manufacture will be taken carefully ?nto consideration. Data secured in this way diould aid in determining the infringe value of the various official grades >f cotton and should assist In adjustng the premiums and penalties on ind off the basis grade, middling." ? Monkeyed With Gasoline. When he tried to boil a bucket of sasolino Suinner Ilailey, a negro man of Atlanta, started skyward, but -ame back to earth still alive, though joriously injured. He was accompanied on tho trip by Gra^e Wallace, he cook, whoso burns will also pro>bibly prove fatal. The terrific explodon smashed tho stove Into bits, and practically demolished the kitrhen The Deadly Korowene Oil. At Niles, Ohio, Mrs. John Fleming, iged 5 2 years, was burned to death SVednesday, wherj she attempted to ight a qnick fire with coal oil. Her iged mother, Mrs. Shira, attacked by leart disease, died a few minutes ator. BRYAN MAKES SPEECH Q CLAP THAT COUNTRY HAS RK1U KKI) INTKRK8TS. \T Makes the Principal Address at a Pinner Given !>y (iiusty of the Hal- qi timore Hun. A Baltimore dispatch says considerable interest attached to a dinner lop given hero Friday night iu honor of Secretary Bryan by Charles H. Grasty, editor of tho Baltimore Sun, at which A. Mitchell Palmer, tho Wilson leader in the House, was a guest. Among tho 100 or more other guests wore: United States Senator Sauisbury of Delaware, Becrotary J. P. Humulty, Richard Evelyn 'Byrd, HU speaker of tho Virginia houso of del- an ogates; Pleasant A. Stovall of the 0f Savannah Press and C. S. Jackson of rn< the Portland (Ore.) Journal. rf,j Tho secretary of state did not al- th ludo to his Western trip. He spoke qu of the hopes and aims of the admin- op istration and his speech throughout nf I breathed a spirit of loyalty to the by president. Speaking of his own de- c? feats he said he cherished no enini- II; ties or regrets. A? "There is no load that will break a man so qwickly and so surely as a ni load of revenge," he said. "The man cp who tries to get even with others has i,. few opportunities of gratifying his hatred, but he is all tho time corrod- m ing himself." w] Mr. Bryan rejoiced that ho had liv- ca ed to see a chango tako place. "No in 1 one man," ho said, "no few men, C< could claim credit for what has been done. No one man, no group of men a* 1 could stir a nation as this nation has \ boon stirred. This is no local move- w ttwin* ? * ? u.-wv, it m 11 vj i oiuiiu Kpnngiug up 111 ti| the Woflt; it is not even an American of L reform.: It is a world-wide move- c< 1 ment, and wo aro but part of it. I m owe my office to the generosity of tho n< 1 president of the United States. He ai led us in our laBt fight and if any ono a* thinks I watt disappointed becauso tho si leadership fell to another let him dls- in abuse his mind of that thought. I re- w joiced that there was one who could in 1 win where % lost.. And 1 was ho much si 1 more interested in tho cause than in ai 1 any title that could come with it that el 1 1 am Hiiro that the president himself n< 1 was not happier than 1 was. I think e> 1 he may he able to do things that I pi 1 could not have done, and 1 know I tli can help him as much as ho could in ever help me." o\ Mr. Hryan spoke of the long fight b< for the constitutional amendment hi providing for direct election of Uni- ?r ted Stated senators. Ho was wait- fo ing, he said, for just ono more State wr to send its notice to Washington when W he would "proudly attach his signa- ah turo to a statement that announces f? that tho epoch-making reform has arrived." fr "We will find," he said, "that in- od stead of having the senate filled up he with representatives of predatory pr wealth who use their power to op- fo pose the things that the people lovo, th we will find tho honor of a position eh in that body will ho resorved as a people's prize with which to reward kr those who have proved themselves he capable of the discharge of public kr duties and men to'be trusted with the th people's interest. re "To-day predatory wealth stands Hti confessing before the bar of public justice that it has disgraced the name of business and what President Wil- lu son is trying to do is to separate hon- th est business from dishomwt business eh ho that the country will not. bear the th odium of dishonest business. If Pros- by l^nnl -1 wui, Yvnnuii ? uiwuon moans any- fn thing it means that tho government Sc is to be administered by tho people's St representative for the benefit of all w] the people and that privilege will not P. have tho advantage it has had In the ed past, but that 'equal rights to all and special privileges to none* will be em- Al bodied In every department of this government." ^ WAH KIIjIJKI) IN QlTKKIl WAY. A Seneca Man is Shot to Death When te T\ Coat Falls Off. ^ Augustus C. Tribblo, of Seneca, ^ died Saturday at the Greenville city 1 hospital from bullot wounds received ? In a most unusual manner, lie was driving a party of four men from Seneca to Wesminster when some- ? ' thing went wrong with his car. Ho got out of the ear to make an examl- ( nation, throwing his coat on the door of the tonneau. In the pocket of his m coat was a .32 calibre revolver. Af- ' ' ter making repairs to his inechine nr Mr. Tribble caught hold of tho door of tho car, and In doing so threw his ^ coat to the running board, with the )(> result mat the pistol In his pocket was discharged, sending a bullet an through his windpipe, coursing upward In his neck. The injured man su was hurried to Greenville for medical attention, but he only lived about six llil hours. Puts Up I><\Mp<?rato Fight. At Savannah, Or., Henry Johnson, Ki a negro, suspected of killing two ne- ed groee and one white man in South er Carolina in December, and who ran of amuck on the LouiBvtlle road, nar- ra rowly missing killing several more, is Tr now safely in custody, following a R< desperate fight between the black r< and the Chatham County police. Be " . '"P9| 1SISAR B. B. EVANS TRIBUTES DOWNFALL TO USE OF WHISKEY ? EFER TO FINE FAMILY inion of tho Court Wan Written by AMln.. ff.Uf I..I 117 ?- * .>< < >)<, ? nivi IF unvnu *r mnio, ciato Justices Hyilrick, Wntts and Fraser and Special Associate Justice Nichols Concurring. Barnard B. Evans in indefinitely Hpended from the practice of law (1 deprived of the righto and duties an attorney with the privilege of 3vlng at the eud of two years for Instatement upon satisfactory proof at he has not used intoxicating 11ors for two years, in a unanimous inlon of the Supreme Court Friday ternoon. The opinion was written Acting Chief Justice Woods, and ncurred in by Associate Justices ydrick, Watts, Fraser and Special woclato Justico S. J. Nichols. That B. B. Evans endorsed and Isappropriatod to his own use a ock for $198.90 belonging to Goo. Salter, which he had secured for liter as his attorney and that ho (supplied to his own use money hich he had collected for the Mury Drug Company from J. E. Dowlg were conclusions reached by the )U ft. The charges which Evans made gainst B. W. Crouch and E. W. t)le, attorneys of Salsda, that they ero "thieves, incendiaries and blind i;ers," and against Sheriff Sample, 1 Saluda, that he was a "thief", the nirt held were false and recklessly ado. Says the Court in this con jcuon: " it is not for thin Court to limnd vert upon tho prevalent extgeration and excess In public ?eoch ho discreditable and mialeadg. Allowance muHt be made for oak men who drift with a current to untrue statements, and who asnue one character In prlvato life id another in public speech. A. large of falsehood against, an at tor?y ho weak na to meet expletive with :ceas in the heat of political cainilgn would rarely be considered by ie Courts in disbarment proceedga. Hut untrue asservations withit probable cause made by a inem?r of tho Bar that certain citizens ivo stolen or burned opociflc propty Ih a serious offence, going to th? undation of character, and must be eigihed by the Courts, especially hen coupled with o^her ofTencos lowing a reckless disregard of proaaional duty." Tho Court apoaka of the fine family oni which the respondent descendI, tho aplendid influences in which i was reared nnd accounts for his eabnt "low estate", by "the reason r hia fall may bo found mainly in e fact that tho respondent is an lniriate." Tho opinion continues: "All men low that the persistent use of alco>1 has made liars of the truthful, lavea of the honwit nnrl MVV?f v* (%i tw i n yj i 0 faithful. Under its influence the spondent has in mind and morale riggered along the devious path that ids to the abyss." 11. (D. Evans is a resident of Combia ad has been practicing law ere for tho past few yearn. The argos against him were brought to e attention of the Supreme Court r J. Frasor I.yon before be retired nm the office of Attorney General, dicitor W. H. Cobb represented the ate in the disbarment proceedings, tiilo C. P. Sims, of Spartanburg, and II. Nelson, of Columbia, reprenentr1 the respondent. i'HTIN IN BUACK CHKBK BWAJCP fgro I>ct?i>crado Watched kj (Jkatluun (V)UBty PonM. A dispatch from Savanna* says a lephone message received tie re jeeday nigtit from Black Creak vamp, twelve miles from Savannah, ates that Henry Austin, the 8outh irollna negro desperado, ban been cated in the swamp. Bloodhound# em Columbia, S. C., will reach thn ( amp Wednesday morning at five clock. Tuesday night the swam# is being watched by a Chatham >unty posse. A dispatch from Barnwell says a essago from Clyo, Ga., to Sheriff orris, received late Tuesday afterton, stated that Richard Henry Ausi, the Hampton County fugitive, to has been hunted by posses numring hundreds since last Wodnes y, wnen no Killed two wlilto men (1 mortally wounded a third, who ,s since died, has been located and rrounded In the swamps near Clyo, lore he has added another victim to b death list. e ? They Fought to the Oswald Treleway is dead and Fred t>mpher is probably fatally wound, while Mr. and 'Mrs. John L. Robts are seriously hurt aB the result a fight with butcher knives at a nch near Alma, Col., Wednesday, eleway and Kempher, employees of >berts, fought and Mr. and Mrs. aborts were injured in trying to parate them.