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TALKS TO PEOPLI VSENATOR TILLMAN WARNS TllFW AGAINST ILLEGAL VOTING * TELLS OF HIS LECTURES lias Refused Oilers to Speak When ever Senate Was in Session?Advices Supervisors of Registration to Obey the Strict Letter of the Law ami Register Only Those (^ualitied. Referring to affairs in South Carolina, Senator Tillman said Wednesday: "1 notice that Governor Hlease has broken loose again, lie makes a misstatement, to speak mildly, and 1 feel compelled to correct him. lie went to Ilcndersonville the other day and in a telegram to The Columbia Record he is made, to say: " 'Senator Tillman ruined himself with the people of South Carolina in just the same manner when he went about lecturing instead of remaining in Washington and attending to the business in the Senate.' "I have lectured very extensively throughout the country, hut 1 never neglected any Senatorial work to do it, as The Record will show. I do not recall ever having left Washington while the Senate was in session exceeding half a dozen times to deliver lectures. Then I went to nearby points which I could reach after the Senate adjourned for the day, deliver the lecture that night and return to Washington the next morning. I have received offers time and again to lecture while Congress was in session. Hut 1 always declined. 1 could have made- tens of thousands of dollars had 1 believed it right to do so. "Governor Hlease has recently done two things about which 1 want to say something. 1 have heen amused at the subtleness and cunning he has shown in getting out of the militia muddle, lie double-somersaulted instantly, and was so anxious to comply with the requirements of the war department that he telegraphed his acquiescence to the Secretary's demands. The mail was too slow for h i m. "Another thing the Governor has done recently is the. letter he wrote to the supervisors of registration ordering them peremptorily to register all white men. His exact words are: 'Let no white man be refused.' "I have examined the law carefully to see just how far the supervisors ought to go. and I take the liberty of advising them to obey the law, the strict letter of the law, and register only men qualified under the law who will take the oath required. That oath is as follows: "'I do solemnly swear for affirm that I am a male citizen of this State and of the United States; that I am tweny years of age or more, that I have resided in this State for two years, and in the polling precinct in which I apply to be registered and in which I will offer to vote if registered for four months, and that I have not been convicted of burglary, arson, obtaining goods or money under false pretences, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery, adultery, bigamy, wife-beating, house-breaking, receiving stolen goods, breach of trust with fraudulent intent, forniflcation, sodomy, incest, assault with intent to ravish, miscegenation, larceny or crimes against the election laws.' "I am very anxious to have all white men who can take the above oath register, and thus lie able to fulfill their duties as citizens. Hut it will Ik; a fearful blunder and crime for anybody in South Carolina to lay the foundation or give excuse for the House of Representatives or the Senate of the United States to throw out a Senator or Congressman elected from South Carolina because of illegal registration. The Republicans are not now in power, and the danger is not as great as it once was. Hut even a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House can not afford to tolerate anything smacking of illegality or fraud. "The law as it stands now requires the people to elect Senators by direct vote, and I do not want to see South Carolina jerked up for illegal voting, Until we get our primary law amended by the Legislature so as to remove all possibility of of the charges of fraud and bribery in the primary, we cannot afford to take any changes. "If Governor Hlease will exert him"self to see that the Legislature at its next session passes a reasonable and Just law to insure honesty and fair nes in our primary, all will be well I want to emphasize this, and I say it with all due solemnity. "If money buys the next Senator ship in South Caroling, as it may do and as it is charged it has done in the recent Congressional race in the First district, T will feel compelled to object to the seating of any man sent here with a fainted title. "T Inln nr I tli Cnirornrvr T!1nnar\ i 11 urging our people to register. While it. may he'straining a construction ol k the law in any other than a genera election year for supervisors to go tc places away from the Court House ir each county, I can see no harm Ir that. They are permitted and can gc to any place they see fit for the meagre salaries they receive. Bui ATTENTION TO MEXICO 'TAT 10 PFIWUTMliNT TO WKKill SITrATI(>.\ m:iom: ACTINCJ. Having lloon Appealed to by a Foreign .Nation, President Wilson Culls Ambassador Fi'oin Mexico. Just which foreign power had inquired for a definition of this government's attitude in the present Mexican situation was still unknown officially Thursday, though reports in official circles mentioned Great Britain and France. The denial from Merlin that Germany had made representations was generally accepted as removing that country from the iist. The report that the situation had been discussed by representatives of the powers in Paris Wednesday seemed to strengthen the belief that France was interested. It was pointed out that the French have heavy interests in Mexico. French interests are said to control the Mexican National Hank, the Banco Central, another large financial institution, and French investors are said to have heavy holdings of Mexican railroad securities. Great Britain's interests are said to be principally in the national railways and in mining. Germany's Interests are said to lie largely in agriculture and a nation wide hardware business. While American losses are believed to have been greatest in the revolution English losses also have been heavy through destruction of railroad property. French losses, it is said, have been largely so-called speculative losses, that is, lossse of what would have ben profits had not a series of revolutions depresed buiness. No answer will be made, however. to the note of one of the European powers until after President Wilson and Secretary Bryan have had an opportunity to confer with Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, now en route to Washington, from Mexico City. Upon the advice and report of conditions which Ambassador Wilson himself presents will depend whether he will return to the Mexican Capitol. Administration officials, in stating the facts, confessed their embarrassment and defy in obtaining trustworthy information at long range about Mexican politics and its ephemeral changes. The same officials let it be known incidentally that they believed the demonstrations in Mexico City recently against Americans were fomented and executed by a small group of Mexicans who were trying to force the United States to recognize "the Huerta government. The President has made it clear to thoso ^vho have discussed it with him that his mind is open on the proper time for recognizing the de facto government in Mexico, and there is no definite determination to extend recognition after October elections. It is altogether possible that the United States may await a return to stable conditions, inasmuch as the Carranza rebellion, according to State department. reports, is growing rapidly and the Constitutionalists admittedly control a largo portion of the Mexican republic. ? TO PREVENT STRIKES Congress Rushes Rill Through and President Signs It. New federal machinery for the adjustment of the railroad wage disputes was authorized Tuesday, when the house and senate passed and the president signed the Nowlands-Clayton bill just as it was agreed upon at tlio White House Monday at a conference between President Wilson, congressional leaders and representatives of the big eastern railways and their employes. This law creates the board of mediation and conciliation, headed by a commissioner, to which the Eastern ' railways and employee' brotherhood have declared their willingness to submit the wage dispute, on account of which 80,000 conductors and trainmen have voted to strike. The union officers have agreed to an armistrice pending action by congress, and officials expect them to make ready to lay their case before the federal mediators as soon as President Wilson makes the appointments. Young Man Found Dead. A Tallahassee special says the body of a young white man believed to be that of H. E. Clary, agent for a New York publishing house, was found on the outskirts of the city. The man had been shot in the head. The decomposed condition of the 1 body showed it had been lying exposed for sevoral days. If the body is that of Clary ho has " boon missing some five days. Clary is a son of a sheriff in Georgia. The 1 dead man wore a hat purchased in 5 Bainbridge, Ga. Robbery was appar' ently the motive for the crime. every good citizen ought to see to it 1 that no illegal registration is permit* ted, because as things are now in r South Carolina, illegality, dishonesty, ' or fraud, either in the primary or in y the general election, will prove very 1 dangerous. Every fairminded mar 1 wants honesty and# fair play, and ) every patriot will abide the result oi 5 an election so conducted whether hU t side loses or wins." ANSWERS TILLMAN BLEASE REPLIES TO STATEMENT OF SENIOR SENATOR TALKS AGAINST BRYAN (governor Says llis llcndersonvillo Statement Was Misquoted ? Said Nothing About Bryan Drawing Two Salaries?Does Not Kefer to .Militia and Itegistration Criticism. Govertior Blease declared it as his opinion that Senator Tillman broke down his health by his lecturing tours and "ruined his usefulness to the people of South Carolina by running round over the country delivering lectures and overworking himself", in a statement Thursday, replying to Senator Tillman's interview in the morning papers. He repeated his criticism of Secretary of State Bryan for lecturing while holding his present oflice. Says the (Jovernor's dictated statement: "Yes, 1 have noticed Senator Tillman's interview. "The first part of it is brought about by a statement published in the newspapers which is absolutely untrue, and if the Senator had read The News and Courier. Mr. Caldwell's report, he would have seen the differ ence. I did not slate, as quoted by Senator Tillman, and as published in The Columbia Record: 'Senator Tillman ruined himself with the. people of South Carolina in just the same manner, when ho went about lecturing instead of remaining in Washington and attending to the business in the Senate.' What 1 said, and now repeat, was that Senator Tillman broke his health down and ruined his usefulness to the people of South Carolina by running around over the country delivering lectures and overworking himself. 1 repeat that now. "I was also misquoted in the paper as to what I said about Secretary of State Bryan. I said nothing about him drawing two salaries, because anybody with good sense knows that a matter of holding a public otliee and appearing on the platform are not in conflict with each other, so far as the salary is concerned; but what 1 said was that 1 did not think that the Secretary of State of this great nation should he going around a Chautauqua circuit under the management of some little fellow like a circus rider, under a ring-master, and I still think that it is beneath the dignity of Mie position which Mr. Bryan holds for him to so act. So far as money is concerned, that, in my opinion, is not to be taken into consideration in the o Hor n t oil T to n n n/\ot ' '* Il.'ll' ?H 111. It to II M llt-OV. lull III IllH nity on his part. "As for tho remaining part of Senator Tillman's interview, I care to have nothing to say. CHARLESTON ROY A HERO. + James Leary Risks Rife in Attempt to Saco Fellow Seaman. First Class Electrician James Leary, of Charleston, S. C., on the battleship Nebraska, at present at the Charlestown, Mass., navy yard, was frightfully burned Wednesday while attempting to save the life of Seaman Henry Azena, of the same ship. Azena was scalded to death. A valve flew out in the dynamo room enveloping Azena in steam. Leary rushed to his aid and pulled him out into the open, but before he had done so was terribly scalded himself. The accident was caused hy excessive pressure In t he pipes, and a court of the ship's officers will sit to probe the matter and find out who is to blame for the mishap. Leary is the hero of the battleship, where he lies in the hospital room swathed in bandages and under the care of ship surgeons. He will recover. TO HELP JACK TARS. Daniels Working to (Jive Them Vocational Education. Details of a plan for the vocational education of enlisted men in the navy were announced by Secretary of the Navy Daniels, who stopped at Chica go on ins way to the racific Coast, where he will inspect naval stations and fortifications. "It is planned to give enlisted men in to navy the benefit of their hours a regular day schooling in a course that is along the lines or the curriculum of the naval academy at Ani napolis," he said. "The curriculum will he modified and abbreviated i from the studies pursued at the academy, but it is the purpose so to train . the men as to fit them for responsibh positions in civil life when their en . listment expires." ? ? Corn Grain Kills llaby. i The fourteon-months-old son o! . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Harrington i of T,udowici, Ga., strangled to deatl r at Savannah Thursday as the resul i of a grain of corn which it swallowec I Wednesday at play. The kernel lodg ' ed in the child's windpipe and i \ steadily grew worse until the em came. SHOULD STUDY MEASURE IWHMKIIS OF ST XTI'I onillT TO nist rss clakki: hill. I Prosidciit 10., W. Dabbs Asks Thai Well-Informed Farmers Write ScnI ators and Itcpresentatives About it. 10, \V. Dabbs, of Mayesville, president of the State Fanners' union, lias given to the press for publication cer-1 tain letters pertaining to the Clarke hill for taxing cotton contracts or "futures". The paper follows: "To the Press of the State: "There is no better way to learn the wishes of the farmers of the State upon a matter affecting their interests than discussion in the papers. Therefore 1 am sending to the press a copy of a letter to Senator 10. 1). Smith, and would ask you to publish same, and would ask for such farmers as are informed on the subject to publish their opinions. Especially do 1 ask the delegates and visitors to the State meeting of the Farmers' union next week to study this question of taxing future contracts with a view to giving our senators and representatives light upon the subject. My letter follows:^ " Wlayesville, July 15, 10 13. " 'Dear Senator Smith: Your favor with Senator Clarke's bill for taccing cotton contracts received. 1 have not been able to discuss this matter with the farmers of the State, hut will lay it before the State Farmers' union next, week tit Charleston. Mr. McFlderry of Talladega, Ala., writes me , and incloses a copy of a letter exchange strongly indorsing the measure. " 'Without having hoard the arguments for the hill I must ask, Why single out cotton? Why not grain, coffee, cotton oil, steel rails, etc., etc., ad libitum? Stocks, bonds, etc., in fact everything traded in any vol 111 iiiu cwcnanges oi T no couiit ry ? 'I think you best stick close to your bill to require the prude to he named in the contract, according to standard grades, and let the government establish the standard of grades, .lust as it does the fineness of gold and silver and weights and measures. Then not allow anything to he tendered but the grade concentracted for or one better at the difference in price. " 'I think Senator Clarke in his zeal to make the cotton exchanges behave an they should will do harm. With fair rules 1 can not see anything wrong in sales for future delivery, hut when things are juggled as we think they are it is a most iniquitous business. The question is how to regulate it in the interest of legitimate trading. I ought to be allowed as free right to trade in the products of my labor as in my labor itself, and no one would attempt to prevent me from contracting to labor for another at a stipulated wage for a stipulated time?except to prevent abuses and the oppression of the ignorant. I think labor contracts are limited to one year, or the calendar year. We see another exception in labor unions and their employers fixing a labor scale for a term of years. " 'If the exchanges are so bad that they should be abolished, do so by direct act under the general welfare , clause of the constitution. For the above reasons, I can not, without more light, approve the measure. 1 am giving out this letter that the people of the State may discuss the subject. Yours truly, " 'F. W. Dabbs. " 'President South Carolina State Farmers' Union. i "Mr. McElderry, who was appointed by the National Farmers' union conference in Columbia in January to secure the enactment of legislation ! that will make effective the standardi i/.atlon of cotton grades, writes a ( strong letter in favor of the Smith ; bill, senate No. l l <>, 'To regulate trading in cotton futures and provide for the standardization of "upland" and "gulf" cotton separately.' In his letter to the New Orleans cotton exchange referred to above, he said, 'If you would do as much to correct abuses as you do to prevent logisla tion, we would not need to legislate,' and he indorses the Clarke bill as I understand it only as a last resort. 'I wish space would permit the publication of both bills and the correspondence I have on them. At the . State union meeting the entire matter will be discussed. I "E. W. Dabbs, "President South Carolina State Farmers' Union. , "Mayesville, July 17." . North Dakota Enacts Marriage Daw. North Dakota has just passed the i most progressive marriage law that 1 has yet been enacted. Under this law, - the marriage of diseased persons is i prohibited. Each person seeking to k i . A n ????! a/1 n> ii nf H 1 a ii t t I i t 1 i 1 I A/vrv I ' \ / 111(11 I M ' I 111 lirtl mm; > > I I I 1 lilt; I I ? v. M rV clerk a certificate of good health. Another certificate must ho filed to show (hat the persons are not related hy hlood. Habitual drunkards are f prohibited from marrying. ? +. 1 One Day of Married Life Knough. I Twenty-four hours was the extent 1 of Daniel -Sopor's married life, his - wife leaving him the day after the t wedding, March HI, 1011, at Los 1 Angelcfi, Cal. A few days ago he was granted a divorce. BRYAN'S LEClURESl' * V HAS TO SPEAK BECAUSE SALARY IS LESS THAN IXPLNSES ?*? i" REPUBLICANS EXPLODE Senator Ilristow Introduces Krsolu- ^ t( tion to Determine I'roper lteinune- ti iii ion in pitM'reiury or state? j Hryan lleplies to Criticism, Which ai lie Says Ho Welcomes. William Jennings Hryan, Secretary of State, declared at 1 lendersonvllle Saturday tHat his salary as a member b of President Wilson's Cabinet was not n sufticient to meet his expenses. lie 8? gave this as an explanation of why he 0 ( xpected to continue his work as a I> lecturer. a "As this is my first Chautauqua tl lecture since becoming a member of s1 the Cabinet," said Secretary Hryan, n "It may not be out of place to say f< that I find it necessary to lecture in o order to supplement the salary which n I receive from the Government. As I o have lectured for eighteen years, this c method of adding to my income is the a most natural one to which to turn and a 1 regard it as extremely legitimate. h "I did not think it improper to go from the Chautauqua platform into a e Presidential race, and if I had been t elected 1 would have thought it no $ stepping down to return to the lecture n platform. These meetings enable me y to keep in touch with the people." v Washington Tuesday was interest- p ed chiefly in developments following o Secretary Hryan's statement that he c had to spend his vac*'ion on the lee- n turo platform, because ho could not $ live on the secretary of state's salary of $12,000 a year. The lobby hives- n tigation, the tariff and the Mexican c situation were forgotten temporarily, e at least, while everybody talked a about the resolution introduced by c Senator Hristow calling on the presi- c dent to "advise the Senate what c would be a proper salary to enable ( the present secretary of state to live < with comfort and enable him to give n his time to the discharge of his nnh lie duties." t When the Lristow resolution was e read amid Itepubliean laughter, Dem- d ocratie Leader l\ern and other sena- l tors immediately objected to its con- t sideration and after a few brief ex- \ changes it went over. It was fully c discussed, however, in the lobbies and cloak rooms at both ends of the eapitol. Later Secretary Iiryan issued this statement: "1 am glad to have the criticism * brought to my attention. I believe in criticism of public ollic.ials. Criticism is helpful. If a man makes a mistake, criticism enables him to correct. it: if he is unjustly criticised the . criticism helps him. I have had my share of criticism since 1 have been in public life, but it has not prevented my doing what I thought proper to do. "In devoting a part of my vacation to lecturing I am doing what I believe to be proper and I have no fear whatever that any unbiased person will criticise me when he knows the facts. "For seventeen years the sources of my income have been writing and lecturing, but each year I have made more public speeches, without compensation and where 1 have paid my own traveling expenses, than I have where compensation was received. My earning capacity has been large \ and I have made not only an income i 'sufficient for my immediate needs, t hut have saved, on an average, some- 1 thing more than $lo,000 a year. 1 "in accepting the office which 1 j now hold, I gave up tin; opportunity t to add to my accumulations, for I do not expect to increase, during my f term, the amount I have laid aside ? > that is, f am willing to forego what t advantage I might, derive from the ] acquiring of $4 0,000 more for the i privilege of serving the country in ^ this office during the coming four < years. I will do moro if necessary, j but r do not believe that fair minded } people will ask it of me. ( "Therefore, until I see some reason for changing my purpose, I expect to lecture enough to bring my income up to my expenses, these lectures to ho delivered during the time t that other ofllcials give to their vacations. In addition to supplementing my salary, I hope that my lectures do good?people who attend thorn \ would not do so if they did not think ( they received their money's worth, j Vkllf T lin frlnil tn unnn /I n>v no_ * wwuaw ill j ? (i- | cations resting instead of lecturing if . ? f could do so without eating up the amount T have laid away as a protec- i tion against old age." First Itale at New York. j The first hale of cotton of the 1013 \ crop was sold at auction on tho New j York cotton exchange today for 20 , cents a pound. The money goes to > charity. The bale, weighing 505 lbs., , was raised at T.-y ford, Cameron county, Texas. ? <? ? Cracksmen Make Rich Haul. i Cracksmen secured jewelry valued at between $20,000 and $30,000 early Thursday by blowing a safe in the es* tabllshment of Rosenberg & Daniel, a jewelry supply house, of New York. ' 1 ORESTS ARZ VAZJ BLE k <)|{!<!> I5VVS lil Mlltl ) \. .MOM PKOM i s vi:A!ir.v. utiu'iiHo Value of Our Foreign IriMle 111 i ire I'loducl* stiown t?y ]>einaiKl for I'inc am! Oak Woods. More than $100,000,000 w >rth of le products of the forests of the Unlm1 States was sent out of tl: county in the fiscal year just ended, gainst loss than half that sum lti 903, a decade ago, according to oteial figures of the bureau of foreign ud domestic (oinnierc.e. The total value of wood and manfaetures thereof exported during ie fiscal >ear 1913 amounted to aproximately $ 120,000,' 00 and the ulk of this was in a crudo or seinllanufactured condition. Hesvn ;.nd lwed timber approximated $M,0(0,00 for the year; hoards, deals and tanks, over $60,000,00 and vhoakn nd staves over $12,000,000; while ie higher grades of manufa tu oh, itch as doors, sash, Minds, t :niltigs, woodenware and fU' ' re irmcd little more than "0 * cent, f the total exports of xvc?d end lr.nui'acturcs thereof. 'I: <j r>ute? f forest products exported do not iulude "naval stores (tar, turpentine nd rosin)", of which the exports mount to over $25,000,000 annual/. Pino and oak are the principal lasses of timber being sent out of he country. Of the approximately 12(1,01)0,(100 worth of wool ami innufaotiiroH thereof, exported lu tho enr just ended, $37,000,000 wortU as pi no timber and lumbar, and aproximately $10,000,000 worth of nk. Of that going out In the como omplotoly manufact urod form, furit uro amounted to approximately 7,000,000. The whole world seems to he dolanding the products of the Amortan forests. The oak lumber exportd in 1912, for which full details aro vailahle, was distributed to a dozen ountries in Europe; about twenty ountries In North and South Amerla, and in smaller quantities to Asia, )ceania and Afrie.a. Tiio other lasses of lumber exported went to lore than seventy-five countries and olonies, including a score of counries in North America, practically very country in South America; a lozen countries in Asia; a dozen isnnds in Oceania, and various counries and colonies on the eastern, vestern and northern coasts of Afrla. ? CltlKH " It I IjIj MM QUICK". iarrott Piiyi I teat It I'onulty f<?r Foul Deed. For the murder on May 18 of Varon Campbell, his son-in-law, and f. II. Campbell, the fatiier of Aaron, n Cee county, M. L. (Jarrctt, who lad served terms on the chain gang n iiis county and in the State penlontiary, was electrocuted at the State prison in the presence of some hirty-five witnesses. In tho crow,d vere several citizens of tho neighborlood where tho crimes were comrntted. A brother of Aaron Campfcurf 1 ivas present to witness tho logar? itonement for tiio deed promoted bv ioalouB rage which resulted in death ,o his brother and father. (iarrett, who, during the period of lis confinement at the penitentiary, ins apparently faced death with tho greatest fear Monday morning walkid Into the death chamber and sat in he chair with splendid composure, hough it was evident in tho low ones that he used that he felt deepy tho awful seriousness of the rnonent. His last request was: "Kill no quick and don't hurt me any more han you can hetp." Clarrett's deed was promoted by a lerco jealousy. Hatred for the man ,vlio married his daughter caused him o go to her home and the double tilling resulted. (Varrett then forced lis daughter to the woods nearby, ivhero he stayed In hiding for several days. Bloodhounds from the penitentiary trailed the man and fin illy led to his place of capture without bloodshed. ? ? COl'ltTNOlTK TO KACII OTIIF.K L'nited States and Japan Appear Kindly Disposed. During the past few days the Unfed States has officialy welcomed ft lozen or more eminent Japanese visiors, sorno of whom, even hem o sound public opinion as to the a at*ilicn legislation which caused tho dir.. Now the Japanese government las presented tho United States eruisr Charleston with a silver loving cup*. In August, 1910, there was a flood in Tokio and the ofiicers and men the Charleston and the cruisers Saratoga and (New OWeans, which were near the stricken city, raised a fund which was sent ashore for tho relief of the sufferers. The incident was forgotten until Ambassador Chinda sent the cup to tho State Department with a request that it be forwarded to tho Charleston. ? ? ? Russian IViwant Perish in Fire. Tn the fire which destroyed the* Russian village of Astradamovkao., 154 peasant lost their lives.