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BLEASE TO DECIDE WHETHER MILITIA WILL GET GOVERNMENT AID. DEPENDS ON HIS ACTION Secretary of War Harrison Says the Militia Must Comply With the Law and That the Hovernor Must Resume Proper Relations With His W..1X V * V/ VJIVI IliU illUt As chairman of the South Carolina delegation in Congress Senator Tillman made the following statement after he and his colleagues had discussed the militia situation with Secretary of War Garrison: "The South Carolina delegation in Congress went to the war department, and after explaining the purpose of our visit to Secretary Garrison and talking over the whole situation, he dictated the letter below. He was courteous and pleasant, as he always is, and seemed desirious, as we knew he would ,be, to do anything that is reasonable and lawful to accomplish the purpose we had in view. In every way he showed willingness to do whatever he could do to bring about the end we sought. Gen. Mills, who is in charge of the militia division of the war department, also seemed very anxious to facilitate the purpose for which he went. Gen. Wilie Jones and Col. Cogswell, of the South Carolina militia, who were present, expressed themselves as being highly pleased with what was said and done at the conference, and at the results obtained." Secretary Garrison's Ijotter. This is Secretary Garrison's letter: "War Department, Washington, D. C., June <10.?Hon. Henjamin It. 'Pillman, Hon. Ellison D. Smith, Senators from South Carolina; Hon. It. S. Wlialey, Hon. James F. Byrne, Hon. Wvnft Allran t T_l. _ < ^ ?I.V oinvu, nun, UUOl-.|Ml i . >11)1111son, Hon. David T. Finley, Hon. J. Willard Ragsdale, Hon. Anbury Francis Lover, Representatives from South Carolina.?Gentlemen: In pursuance of our conference of today, held in the presence of Gen. .Tones and Col. Cogswell, I am writing this letter to the South Carolina delegation. There was handed to me, as you know, at that interview, a communication from the Governor addressed to Gen. Jones and Col. Cogswell. A copy of this was left with me and I herewith attach a copy thereof. The only interest that the war department has in the matter is that the militia of South Carolina shoud do those things which the law requires in order to make it proper for me, under the law to extend the Federal aid. As you know, this department did not order the mustering out of any companies, and does not now so order. "As you know certain companies were found deficient in various particulars and the Adjutant General of the State suggested the mustering of them out as the only remedy. It is now proposed that these companies, after this warning, be given an opportunity to show that they have profited, and are now in such condition as would make it proper tot them to continue in the service and pass inspection. "I will do the following with respect to the South Carolina situation: "If the Governor of South Carolina will resume proper relations towards this department by a proper commu nication addressed to this department, the militia of South Carolina will have its transportation paid, to the extent that Federal aid is used for that purpose to the various encampments this summer. They will have subsistence while there paid under similar conditions. The companies which passed the last inspection will have their pay paid under similar conditions. The pay for the deficient companies will he retained. "Tho deficient companies will be given another opportunity to measure up to the test at an inspection to he held at least three months from this date. Tf a that time they pass inspection, they will then receive their retained pay, that is, the pay retained under the above proposition, if they fail at that time, they will not receive their pay, and they will no longer bo considered as a basis for any Federal aid whatever. T am entirely willing to have this test made in the way suggested, and If your Governor will write to me making this suggestion, I will instruct the proper officers to see that this is car- j ried into execution. "You, of course, realize that the Governor of the State is the Commander-in-chief of its military forces and that I can do nothing acrainst his will and desire, to extend aid in case he will not do those things which makes It proper for me to extend Federal aid. I can hardly believe, however, that he will take an attitude so unfortunate for the people of South Carolina. In view of the fact that I am informed that these encampments are to ho very shortly held, I would suggest -that if you gentlemen hope to carry out our suggestion, you have the communication from tho Governor to be made very promptly. "Very sincerely yours, ' Democracy and Currency. t For many years and up to the time that Wood row Wilson was elected President about a score of men in New York with J. Pierpont Morgan at their head had In their power to ] impound financial credit. Nobody could borrow money for important enterprise without tneir consent and if the proposed industry in any way competes with their enterprises no i banker dare finance the new concern. J 110 matter how good the security. The acquisition of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company by the street trust showed that certain men in New i otk couhi create a nnanciai panic whenever they think it to their interest to do so, and they can put an end to a panic whenever they have accomplished their ends. There was the panic of 1007; it was assuaged as soon as Theodore Roosevelt, then president of the Tinted States, granted indulgence to tlie 1 steel trust to violate the Sherman 1 anti-trust law and buy the Tennessee ( Coal and Iron company. You see 1 the Tennessee Coal and Iron con- 1 cern made a better steel rail than the steel trust could produce, liar rlman ordered 10,000 tons of rails from the Tennessee Coal and Iron 1 company. Whatever else he was, Ilarriman was the best railroad man in the United States in this he ! would have the very best equipment for his roads, regardless of cost. That purchase of rails made the panic 1 of 1007, for the mission of that panic was to enable the steel trust to get ' Tennessee Coal and Iron. As soon as it acquired that rival, in defiance of 1 law, and by permission of a Republican president of the United States, the panic was stopped. "Savoyard," a strong political writer, says had we been blessed with a 1 sound banking system that allowed 1 credit to be based on solvency there 1 would have been no panic of 1907. < The Tennessee Coal and Iron company, instead of being the property ! of the steel trust, would this moment be its rival. Moore & Schley found I themselves loaded (town with Ten- 1 nessee Coal and Iron, and they could get. no money from the banks to ' bridge them over the panic, though any number of capitalists would glad- I ly have come to their rescue had they not been afraid of Morgan and Morgan's associates. That sort of thing ' is what Wilson is resolved to put an ' end to. He is determined to fix it so that a few men can not make and un- 1 make panics?so that anybody with ? adequate security and ordinnrv honesty can borrow money for any legit- 1 imate enterprise. ? ; There Was No Recoil. This is the fiftieth anniversary of the day when Pickett's immortal divi- j sion ' ' 1 "Like a deep sea wave ' Where rise no rocks its pride to save" swept down the valley and up the slopes of Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg to encounter the terrific hurri- l cane of shot and shell that tore through the advancing ranks, but did not avail to stop them until the bleeding and shattered remnants planted their banner upon the crest, there to be beaten back by overwhelming < numbers. "The Gold Guard," wrote Archibald Forbes, the war correspondent of The London Times, who witnessed the charge of Pickett's men, < "recoiled before a less terrific fire at i Waterloo, but there was no recoil in these men of the South." t ? ? Vanghan Must I>ie. T. U. Vaughan, former superintendent of the Odd Fellows' orphanage at Greenville, who at his trial in Greenville confessed to having criminally mistreated young girls under his care, and who was condemned to die by electrocution on De miber 3 0, I but appealed his case to tli. supreme court in a decision announced Monj day afternoon hv the supreme court will have to pay the supreme penalty of the law. Suffragists Not Encouraged. A committee of suffragists called on Speaker Champ Clark, Majority Leader Underwood and Chairman Henry, of the House committee Wednesday to urge the creation of a standing committee on woman suffrage in the House. It is said they received little encouragement from the Democratic leaders. "(Signed) Lindley M. Garrison, "Secretary of War." Senator Tillman sent the following letter by messenger to Gen. Jones and Col. Cogswell, and it was received by them: "June 30,1913. "To Gen. Wilie Jones and Col. Julius E. Cogswell. The Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D. C. Gentlemen: I enclose herewith a letter just received from the Secretary of War following our conference with him. You will note the suggestion he makes for prompt action by the Governor. "I suggest that, you wire the Governor immediately the result of your visit. T understood you both to say that you were more than pleased with the results obtained. "It now depends on Governor Rlease whether the State militia will have an encampment or not and whether the militia gets ai.y fu.*ther appropriations from the National Government or not. The rte1orritir?r? has done all in its power. "Yours very respectfully. (Signed) "B. R. Tillman." [HE BLUE AND GRAY LOCK ARMS TOGETHER ON FIELDS GETTYSBURG FIFTY YEARS OF PEACE General Dennett 11. Young, Commander of Confederate Veterans, Makef ( rent Address on First Day of Celebration to Veterans Who Stand and Listen in Droiliug Sun, Despite the strenuous efforts of the regular army to do impossible things, thousands of veterans snent tho nicht ,>n ClettyiVurg Held with nothing between them and the starts but hoir lohes and their courage and nothing between them and the hard earth but ii little more of the same thing. They kept coming from that hour until long after daybreak and shortly after breakfast the rush began again Major Mormoyle declared that probably 55,000 veterans will be on the field by night, 5,000 more than ever have been looked for in the wildest lreams of the estimators. Although half that number would fill the oanii in comfortable fashion. Major Normoyle said he would see that every one was taken care of, that nobody went hungry and that blankets tc warm and tents to protect were found for all. Many of the men of '03 spent the night round the fires near the cook tents, talking and trying to forget that their bones were not so young is they used to be and that he ground was much harder lian it was fifty /ears ago. Although the railroads were not good to the veterans, nature was thoughtful and the usual cold breeze that springs up in the early morning liours did not visit the camp, there was only a slight fall of dew and practically no suffering. ( In the morning fifteen thousand blue and gray veterans of the war between the states sat. in a big hot tent an ho Gettysburg battlefield and joined in the opening ceremonies ol the first day of the semi-centennial celebration. General Bennett If. Young, commander-in-chief of the United Con federate Veterans, said no man whe loves his country "can fail to read in the circumstances surrounding thif celebration the stimulating and uplifting power of a people's govern ment." Ho declared the scenes at Get tysburg are tho completes*. evidence of tho perpetuity of the American re public. lie declared tlie men of both ar mies whose deeds of valor made this batlefield forever historic were true In truth as they saw it and that more than eight out every ton who particl pated in tha sruggle "have gone to be with the immortals." Referring to the tattcroel battle flags in evidence on every hand, Gen eral Young said they are no longei being waved to loael men into the Jaws of death, "but to declare ane proclaim a peace that in its monefl cent power and in its political liberty challenges not only the gaze but the admiration of the civilized world." He spoke feelingly of the. fact tha men who fought a half century age met as friends, with war's animosi ties forgotten. "There are things in the past tha are regrettable," he said. "Laws were enacted that challenged the equalit} of the men of the south, but, trieel ii he crucible of reason, liberty and pa triotism, they have all been repealed Every state has equal rights, ever; man has equ! privileges. The war ha left no badge of inferiority, and tie men who wore the blue and followei the flag of the Union ask for and ex ' nothing that is not right of th men who wore the gray and followe* the stars and bars. "~t may be that the suggestioi lately put into form to give Confed erate soldiers the same privileges ii national soldiers' homes as federa soldiers may lead to the establishinj of this right, or that peace, in Its de mand for the obliteration of all bit terness of the pant, may demand tha that the naion shll pension survivinj Confederes. "I do not even suggest, or in th name of my people, say that it wouh be accepted, but this republic is great destroyer of the cherishe* ideals of the past when they stand ii the way of eompletest. justice. For nearly fifty years the people o tho south, without complaint, liav contributed millions for the pension of federal soldiers. A nation's grati tude has been meted out througi enormous grants to provide for th federal soldiers, their wives and chil dren. "No murmur has ever come fron the men of the Confederacy at thi vast outlay, and there are some wh predict thct the hour may arrive ii national life when the few and in firm remaining men who fought un der the Confederate standards wit! admittedly unsurpassed courage should have in their evening time th comforts and conveniences that thel intrepidity deserve. "Th A mnn wh a f ah rr 1a 1a h a f < ?.v/ invii n in/ i u u^iu in mo rai est war of the ages, made fiercer b the fact that it was a civil war, not celebrte peace that bears no stain or bitterness from the sad and sav MUST PROTECT PRIMARY ? SOME REASONS WIIV WE NEED i > intelligent voters ? John J. McMahon Declares Kdurutional or Property Twl Works No I Hardship on New (feneration. To the Editor of The Times and ' Democrat: . It must be agreed that the priv liege of voting should bo grunted to the men who are both intelligent and honest-minded, and that It should 1 bo denied, if possible, to both the helplessly ignorant and the vicious. Hut what standard can be prescribed ? that will make this line of division? , Intelligence is usually tested by ability to read and write?the "lit eracy" standard or "illiteracy" bar. This is not altogether accurate and ; just. It is only a rough sort of way - of measuring a man's intelligence. It is the method resorted to for want of ' a better. Vet no single standard ' (outside of tho classification by race or foundation stock ) comes so near marking the line of cleavage between ' those who may be trusted with public affairs and those who may not. The man who can read has a tre1 mendous advantage over him to whom every book is closed. The reader has a chance to he better informed, to have a wider view of things, with less prejudice on narrow ' lines. Hence, notwithstanding the ' differences of individual natural talent, the reader is likely to be more ' intelligent; and with this better knowledge he should have better per ceptions of right and duty, and a : steadier ordering of his actions by ' worthy standards. The reader belongs to the modern world, and has the advantages of the modern improved machinery for ac> quiring information and obtaining a ' lamer and truer mitlnnlr nn llf? o?#l ? duty. The illiterate harks back to mediaeval days, and learns still only ' at lirst hand, through only his own eyes and his own ears. He is at as ' great a disadvantage in the world of knowledge as the traveler is in the physical world who would deny him self the use of the agencies of steam and electricity. The triumph of mod' em civilization in annihilating time and space and bringing all the world together under the reader's eye every morning before breakfast, or twice ' or once a week in the. paper delivered ' by the rural carrier at the most re1 mote log cabin in the woods, is baffled by the man that can not read and still lags on the stage of this new world. The invention of printing, making it possible that reading should become general, made a new beginning in the world's progress. The mar 4 that can not read now should be a " curious relic, like an animal that still ' survives from some former geologic ~ ago. Yet there are exceptions to all rules. Some men whom the world regards as educated are very narrow minded, very warped in tneir judgr ments, very near-sighted as to any 3 thing but their own business, very in * different to the duties of citizenship On the other hand some socalled ig ' norant men, handicapped by bein^ 3 shut out from the world's great thoroughfare of information and enlight { enment, the printed page, neverihe ) less have much worldly wisdom anc soundness of judgment as to men anc things. "Mother wit," natural apti 1 tude to learn from observation, unaccountable inheritances Prom far-bael j * ' ancestors produce marvelous results 1 Evidences of such natural ability stii us to grief that such nieu were dt * nied the advantages of s.i education ^ and thus forcibly held down to a nar s narrower plane of achievement anc p usefulness. "Their lot forbade * whether "harsh fate" was the help less poverty or the Ignorant folly o the parent to whom the destiny o the child was committed. There v enmof imna nn ^1 iffri v.no i Im.l n?a/,i 11 helplessness and Ignorance. Men of native worth illiterate be ^ cause so doome-l bv thou to vhon they are under subjection in infanev K usually turn lluur naturil ability i< such good use in labor and thrift ai to accumulate prope.iv. Hence sucl * a man will hardly fail to own tie ^ $3 00 worth of property which um;< our State constitution of 1SJ"? wi1 entitle him to vote, though, he is d<barred by the test of reading ant ;i, writing. [1 Similarly as to morals, character right motives, which no less than in f telligence should bo required of tin f. voter. Men cut off from reading ma; s sometimes nevertlieless shame tin reputedly learned in moral standart n and spiritual aspiration. They may b< 0 strong characters with public sprii and patriotic concern. We may here note that four year; of war in defence of great constitu s tlonal issues, the discipline and tin o a age desolation, losses and ruin of i - struggle that cost 7r>0,000 lives an< - such treasure as defies the power o h figures; a peace that like heaven' ct o n (I fnt* li rk nroanruo Inn ?i n /I /In okuim i wi mu J/I vo* i UUIWII on (i in; 0 fense of tho highest and nobles r Ideals of a republic. "Wo point with immeasurabh - pride to tho past; whether on om y side or the other It was a great past v a past that quickens the manlies 9 emotions of brave and chivalrou - men." INCREASE IN AREA ' GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWS BIO INCREASE IN C8TTON CROP CONDITION IS GOOD (jovernmeut I(<>|ior( KHtiniattMl on Juno 25 lndirati'8 IiiirKer Yield A Than That <?f 1012?South Carolina Average Same as hist Year and Present Condition 711. An increase of 856,000 acres in the area planted to cotton this year and an improvement of 2.7 per cent, in the condition of the crop over May 25 were tlie features of the department of agriculture's July cotton report issued Thursday which gave the first olllcial estimate of the acreage this year and the condition on June 25. With the increased acroago and a hotter condition by 1.4 per cent, over last year and 1.6 per cent, over the 10-ycar average on June 25, indications point to a larger crop than the big one produced in 1012. Texas reported tin increase of 34 2,000 acres in area planted and the condition of the plant there improved two points over May. (leorgla reported a slight decrease in acreage, hut the condition improved 5 per cent, front May to June. Increases in acreage also were reported from Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, TennosBse, Arkansas, Missouri Oklahoma and Virginia. A total area of 85,622,000 acres of cotton is in cultivation in the United States, according to the preliminary estimate of the bureau of statistics. This compared with 3 1,7 66,000 acres, the revised estimate of nr" in cultivation a year ago. 36.045.00'? | acres in 1011, 32,403,000 ac?s in | 1010, 30,03 8,000 acres in 100'J and 32,4 4 4,000 acres in 1008. The condition of the growing cotton crop on June 25 was 81.8 per cent, of a normal condition, as compared with 7 0.1 per cent, on May 2 5. 1913, 80.1 per cent, on June 25, 1912 and 80.2 per cent., the average condition on June 25 for the past 10 years. The area planted June 25 by , States, with comparisons, follows: States. 1913. 1912. . Virginia . . . 50,000 47,000 . N. C. . . . . . 1,500,000 1,5(50,000 I S. C 2,716,000 2,716,000 { Georgia . . . 5,336,000 5,390,000 Florida . . . 230,000 245,000 ; Alabama. . . 3,804,000 3,766,000 '. Mississippi . . 3,045,000 2,985,000 ; Louisiana . . 1,166,000 972,000 i Texas . . . .11,732,000 11,390,000 L Tennessee . . 823,000 7 9 9,000 I Arkansas. . . 2,117,000 2,055,000 . Oklahoma. . .2,916,000 2,725,000 California . . 14,000 9,000 [ Condition of the growing cotton . crop by States on June 25 and May - 25 this year, with comparisons for . June 25, 1912, and the 10-year avor. age on June 25, follows: 101913 1912. year June May June aver States. 2 5 25 25 age. Virginia ... .8 1 83 87 84 North Carolina. 7 6 7 6 83 8 1 ' South Carolina. 13 68 79 80 Georgia ... .74 69 72 8 1 Florida 85 83 76 85 | Alabama ... .79 75 76 79 Mississippi . . .82 81 7 4 7 8 1 Louisiana. . . .8 1 81 7 4 7 8 ' Texas 86 8 4 89 8 1 Arkansas . . .86 85 77 80 Tennessee.. . .87 87 76 82 ' Missouri ... .88 90 75 82 . Oklahoma ... 89 87 82 80 California . . .95 96 98 j. Inspiration of long service under the f. eyes and the command of the incomparable officers of the armies of Lee and Jack sin and Johnston and Beauregard?the spiritual uplift of witnessing and sharing heroic deeeds, J must have been an education in patriotism and character to every private j in the Confederate ranks, even B though to him every printed page be x sealed. No college course could equal such training to make a man?a man ' regardful of his country. 1 Likewise in the struggles of the _ white men of the South after the war 1 and until the redemption of their States?ours in 187 0?there was a call to high resolves and unselfish and unflinching exercise or public responsibility?an exaltation of couny, try, which not only entitled every It such man to vote thereafter as an j original charter member and voting (> stockholder in the government which ( he had helped to rescue and restore, but actually fitted him for intelligent ,A and faithful discharge of the voter's duty?unless he was peculiarly r> wrong-minded or suited only for times of violence. It is not for us who come after1 wards to disfranchise any man who 1 fought to snvft tho State and helped f redeem the State when all seemed H lost. Hence the constitution of 1805 - provided hy a special "understandt Ing" test during three years to register as life-long voters all such mon, e so that only the new generation c would be obliged to measure up to ' ? the- standard of ability to read and t write or else to the standard of owns ership of$300 worth of property in order to be entitled to register aa a ^1* FIVE MEN KILL WOMAN\^ IN LKF1 (X)INTY ANI) WHIP IIKR DAKillTKK. - . TIh? Men Are Now in J<Ut at IliMiop\lllo (!liurf{o<l With the hi tooting ot tin* Woman. Charged with ahooting op tho hoino of Wylle Grayney and killing Mattie Grayney and seriounly injuring her daughter, lAz/Ao Grayney, flvo young white men wore brought to Hinhopville Tueaday and lodged in jail. They are: Z. A. Grantham, Cloy Grantham. Nick Grantham, Grown Grantham, and Vance Grantham. sons of Zin Grantham, a readout of Darlington county. Mnttic Grayney, according to tho coroner'8 jury, came to her death at the handu of the live Grantham boys. The boyn, it ia charcroil flrot trnn ??%? 0^.., ... ?iv wim u" iu leave and when they refused proceeded to shoot up the houae occupied ty the Grayneys. The story of the tragedy which occurred In the Kelleytown section of that county, a remote and lawless district, seems to be interwoven-with alleged relations between Mat tie C.rayney and Zin Grantham. The live sons of '/An Grantham, it is alleged, took offense at the relations between their father and the Grayney woman. Taking advantage of the opportunity when Wylle Grayney went to llartsville, it is charged, the hoys went to the house of the Grayneys and demanded that the woman leave the section. I'pon her refusal to do so, according to the accounts available from men who have returned from the scene of the affray, the hoys shot up the house, tlie elder woman meeting her death in the fusillade. The younger woman was badly boa ten. As soon as news of the affair rrc'hed llishopvllle Sheriff Muldrow and other oflieers hurried to the 1 " no, Arriving there they found tho eider Grayney woman dead and her daughter in a precarious condition. Empaneling a jury of inquest, tho oflieers set to work to ascertain tho facts and clear up any mystery. Tho inqueRt was soon over. The coroner's jury without delay, returned a verdict holding the live Grantham boys for the murder of the elder woman. The sheriff at once arrested them nn?l made his way to nishopvllle, where inoy aro now In jail. w SWA IJiOWH COIN ANI) DIWH ? Young Lad IHe? After Tliw Day* of Intense Suffering. A nickel accidentally swallowed and stuck deep in hiH throat, baffling I tho efforts of three physicians to di?lodge it caused the death Tuesday in Florence, of Henry Nelli Hammond/ fourteon year old son of the Itev. H. C. Hammond. The child wan playing with the colra : at his home when he looked up at his mother and announced that he had swallowed a nickel. The little follow died after three days of intense suffering after he had been taken from his homo in St. Charles, S. O. to Sumter, for treatment and later to a hospital in Florence, where two specialists by uso of the X-ray, located the coin lodged deep in the thorax and endeavored to remove it. f * Five Are (turned to Death. Five persons were burned to death and twenty or more seriously injured in a fire which destroyed an immigrant hotel at 0 6 Greenwich street. New York, in the downtown section, late Monday night. They were all aliens who had been hookt d to sail from New York for their homes tn Europe. ? Dropped Dead While Plowing Alfred (runthrap, esbout 0 0 years of age, living in BJacksburgt dropped while in his field Thursday afternoon. Death was presumably duo <o heat prostration. Mr. (i-untharp was town constable at Hlucksburg and well known. (lave Patient Arid Hath. Mrs. Emma Darason, sixty years old, is dying at a sanitarium at Newark, O., as tho result of a ?arbolic acid bath given her in mistake by tho nurse in charge. Tho woman was burned from her neck to her feet. With no more ostentations than would mark the exit of the humblest summer flitter, President Wilson slipped out of Washington Monday for a three days' "rest cruise" on the yacht Mayflower. At Mr. Wilson's reiiuest no salute was fired, no whistles blown and tho formal welcome aboard by the officers was omitted. we are gi&(l that only a very few names of Democrats are on the lisl of names given by Mulhall as Senators or Congressmen who were subservient to the manufacturers lobby. Hut there are scores of Republicans on the list from President Taft down to chief of the pages in tho House. voter. Such a test is no hardship, and only a needed stimulus, to the norw generation, growing up in the midst I of universal free schools. John J. McNfahon. Columbia, June 29.