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, i pleads for mm ? IN THE PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN THIS STATE . + LETTER FROM TILLMAN j The Senator Shows the Importanre of l'rotot'tlnn ami Safo-diiirttlinK I the White Primary <<? Save IIm Stale From lleing ('ontrolled hj Had White Men and Negroes. Tlie following open letter from .^nii *i ( /\?? TMl nt n? ? .t ( l.? -.1 : * ' * > ^UUIXUI & lllllldll Ul MM' I'llllUI 1)1 III)' Walterboro Press and Standard will be read with interest by all Carolinians who love their State: Washington, July 3 1, 1013. Mr. It. M. Jeffries, Editor Press and Standard, Walterboro, S. C. Mr. Dear Sir:?1 have just received your valued favor of July 30 and have read it with great care. After citing my recent interview about the purity of elections in our State and defending and safe-guarding the primary, you say: "We take the liberty of asking you for a statement eont corning the recent election in the First Congressional District to name a successor to the late Hon. George S. Legare." You go on to say, "There has been much said concerning the use of money in the First District, and we are writing this to ask whether this matter has been presented to you." Furthr, you ask whether this matther has been officially brought to my attention, and whether I am in position and intend to do anything in the premises. In other words, it seems that you desire me to discuss the conditions in the First Congressional District brought about during the recent primary. You close by saying, "We are convinced that the last election in this District was a disgrace to our election system," etc. Briefly 1 can not go into details or cover all the points your letter would suggest, but 1 have this to say: Not being a member of the House of Representatives 1 can not with any show of reason be expected to actively enter into the matter in that body. 1 would regret exceedingly if any of the members from South Carolina thould feel called upon to press for fin investigation of the conditions and charges of bribery which obtained in A he recent primary. There are better ways to safe-guard our primary than to ventilate that election hero. 'No one knows better than I do that junless we do purify it and make its iverdict more tustworthy and reliable, jibe people will have nothing to do with it. It will be destroyed as it fBhould be, and those- who want high Kdlioe in South Carolina will he left to flight it out at the polls when the tlegal election comes off in November. i This wound inevitably result in bringing the negroes back into our politics. All of them that could register would be registered and carried j>to the polls, led by white men and (protected by white men. Unless we reform the entire system of criminal "procedure so as to guarantee convice'lion and punishment for violations of ylaw, as well as guarantee freedom iifroni promiscuous pardoning of crimtlinals, the State would soon grow so nqcorrupt and debased and its politics af>o debauched that there would he no h living in it. Whatever else happens Bilet us see to it that the white people sccontinue as they now do to he the Tonly arbiters in our politics. We car wnot afford?it would be a crime if w< ceBhould do it?to have the negroes w mobilized and become the controlling oil actor in our elections, wven ir w< thare not able to stamp out the use o thm oney altogether?which we wil wiiiever he able to do if the negroes ge oncontrol of our State governmen amagain?we can purify our election and safe-guard them, if the Legisla eature of South Carolina will only d suits duty when it meets again in Jar uary. Men are at work now, as culiappen to know, preparing a hi tli"which will do tills according to tli rolaw and Constitution. This bill wi Gesafe-guard the ballot of every whit yoman entitled to vote. 'No good cit ye 11 wants to disfranchise any whit ediuan; at the same time no good cit mcfcen wants white men not entitled t Vote to have anything to do with oi Elections. I am enlisted in this fight for tl balance of my life, and will do all possibly can to bring about such Nolaw and the creation of a public sent Moment behind it that will compel i grionforcement. Ion This generation of younger Sout antCarolinians knows nothing about tl the^orrors of negro domination and n gro political activity. I passed a evitlirough it from 1863, the first ye: terin which they voted, to 1 870, tl up year in which we overthrew the ca we pet bag government. If the Legislature will do its du "Siwe will never have any more troub prein our primaries such as we had la whfeummer. If it does not do its dut 'then all good Democrats must see he It that a convention of the Democra whlc party shall be called early no wasyear to make such changes in tl witConstitution of the party as will saf gard and purify the primary. You say, "We do not propose to 1 >ut few editorials printed immediat I ^ HOT WEATHER FATAL i ? i:\Yii.i; (X)l NTKY SWIOLTKItS INI >1011 II10AT WW 10 Deaths Reported Number Nearly Forty, While Frost rat ions Kearli Half 11 it im I red. Midsummer heat, bringing to many cities temperatures as high as 10G and making the 100 degree mark common over wide areas, extended throughout the Central States Wednesday. (Jenernlly described tlie heat wave extended from the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic coast, but the maximum temoeratures were retiort od from points between Kansas and Ohio. The weather bureau temperatures, usually several degrees lower than the street level temperatures, from Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Davenport, Iowa, were 102. Louisville registered 101 2-10 degrees. * * * Southern Illinois got the full blast of the heat. At Galesburg it was 100 and at Peoria 104. Hurllugton. Iowa, also reported a temperature of 100. Local showers relieved the beat in some places, while at Galesburg, 111.,.no rain has fallen since July 9. Cairo, 111., Wednesday enjoyed 2 1-2 inches of rain. * * # Over Missouri, Illinois, eastern iowa and Southwestern States generally the heat was about the 100 mark. ? The heat wave from the Middle West struck New York with full force. Four deaths and about a dozen prostrations in tho metropolis district were attributed to the heat. * ? 4> Ten more deaths were reported as being due to the heat at Philadelphia. + * * Two adults and ten babies died at Cleveland as tho result of excessive heat. Twenty or more prostrations are reported. Three deaths of young children and four prostrations resulted from heat at Detroit. The maximum temperature at the street level was 98 degrees. + ? All heat records for this year wore shattered at Cincinnati, when the mercury reached 101 1--2 degrees at II p. m. There were no deaths, but twenty prostrations were reported at the hospitals. ? * At Zanesville, Ohio, two died as a result of the heat. + * One death and two prostrations were attributed to the heat at Columbus, Ohio. The maximum temperature was 9 7 degrees. Temperature and humidity combined make the day most oppressive. THREATEN POTATO (TOP. Federal Exports Vrge Growers to Fight Tul>er Moths. Warning against a post that threatens every dinner table in the land was Issued Monday by the department of agriculture against the potato tuber moth which is working havoc with the potato crop in num, erous parts of the country and whose . ravages threaten to prevent the , planting of the vegetables in many . places for the winter supply. ; The pest is especially prevalent in ? California and Texas, the department ? reports, and through shipments of i early potatoes it is being introduced 3 broadcast throughout the United r States. 3 Experts of the bureau of entomol f ogy urge potato growers they dig 1 and destroy every potato and vim t that shows the slightest signs of tin L s l- WILL WORK FOR LIVE STOCK. o II. II. Hmvl Coming (<> South Caro 11 lina Soon. U B. H. Rowl, chief of the dairy divi sion of the department of agriculture ._ left Washington Weonesday after o noon to take up with Col. J. A. Bank and others interested at St. Matthew on Thursday the matter of the orgar ization of a co-operative associatio for live stock raising in South Care lina. This will be the first attemf j of the department of agriculture t encourage, in a substantial way, th j live stock industry of the State. ts ly after the election he all we have t h say concerning the matter." I be le tnai yo\i do not let tnat be all yo e- have to Bay, but continue to agitat 11 the matter and educate the people u ir to their duties. i? I have heard so much that saddei r- od me and caused me to blush wit shame about the corruption and bril ty ery in the last Congressional race i le your district that I have been force st to concludle that there must hav y, been fearful demoralization. If ther to had heen a contest for Mr. Whaley it- seat by one, the facts would all hav xt been brought out under oath. As no is, nothing was done or can bo don ?- that I know of, at least not by me. Very sincerely yours, ?t B. R. Tillman, ?- 1 , ' U. S. S. * SPEAKS FOR SOUTH ? SENATORS FROM THIS STATE WORKINC FOR FARMERS LANDS GOOD FUR LOANS Tillman Issues Statement Declaring That Southern Farmers Will Ix>se $100,000,000 if Congress Does Not Help Them?Smith Favors llenry's Currency Plan. Senator Tillman said Thursday evening that he sincerely hoped that the hanking and currency committee of the House of Representatives can work out some practicable scheme that will inspire the confidence of the business people of the country for lending money to banks at 3 per cent, on satisfactory collateral. "Mr. McAdoo, said Senator Tillman, "is well informed as to the business,conditions in the United States, and I am willing to leave it to his good judgment as to what collateral shall be required. Right now there is a?i emergency and, unless Congress acts promptly within the next sixty days the Southern cotton planters will he robbed of a hundred million dollars or more by the fall In price of their principal crop due to the inability on the part of the Southern hanks to get money from New York at any prico or on any collateral. The New Yorkers have our people by the throat as they have had them all these years since the war, and only Congress can give relief. "The Aldrlch-Vreeland Act, which authorized the printing of the five hundred million dollars now lying In the treasury grants no relief at all to our people, because of the. conditions imposed. The rate of interest begins at 5 per cent, and increases very rapidly each month. The relief can be extended only through associations of hanks into regional groups. The security asked is of such a character that few, if any of our banks in the South can furnish it, and it only applies to national banks?not State hanks at all. A joint resolution could ho rushed through both Houses of Congress, if the Houses are willing to give the country relief. This resolution would he only intended to give temporary relief until the committee on hanking and currency gets thru squabbling, if it. can ever get thru, and Congress gives us a permanent system. "If something is not done, I see 110 way of saving the people of the South from great loss, unless the banks take the law into their own hands, as they did in 1 007, and form clearing house associations and issue certifl cates as they had to do then. I foi one am tired of seeing our people held up and robbed by the New Yort pirates." "I heartily favor Congressmai Uagsdale's idea about trying to ge into the proposed currency bill ai amendment to have the Governmen lend money direct to the farmers, o to the banks with which they deal or warehouse certificates on corn wheat and cotton stored in ware houses and fully insured, the hank to deposit their own notes along witl these certificates as collateral. "I can see how a perfectly feasabl scheme to protect the Governmen from loss and obtain money for th farmers to move their crops can b worked out. It would save the Sout untold loss by emancipating it froi i slavery to New York financiers. I feel certain, too, that if the idea cor tained in the law which passed tli - South Carolina Legislature two yeai ; ago providing for warehouses to stoi > cotton In, but which was declared ui 3 constitutional by the State Supreir Court, were enacted into law, would, under a rational and sa management, ,be of untold benefit the people of South Carolina. I hoi sincerely that the plan will not 1 given up entirely and that a 1) properly safeguarded will be prepa ed and enacted into law at the ve next session of tho Legislature." '' Senator E. D. Smith said: "< course, I am in favor of tho curren plan now being advocated by M s Henry, of Texas, or something like This is no new thing. The farme II have been advocating it for years. ( made speeches along this line hefo I came to the Senate. There is reason why a safe and practical plan can not be worked out. The ! sets of the farmers should be as go "" for banking purposes as any merer o tile paper in use to-day. I will ne> g be satisfied until the farmers get tl u and I rejoice that the way seems e be opening for them to get it." P These utterances were made pub before Secretary McAdoo's plan l- lending $r.0,000,000 became kno\ h Tt is still important, however, tl ?- rniierofis take care of the farmers. n though the action taken by the tre (1 ury department will help them n o terially. e 's Takes Fall Easily. ? After falling one hundred f It from his balloon through i ? branches of a pine three at the TJ verslty of Florida grounds at Gain ville, Thursday afternoon, Fred Owens arose calmly, lit a cigare and declared that the was not hurt CLASSIFIED COLUMN AND < FARMERS EXCHANGE I PLANTH. Swwt Potato Plants?Early Tri uiiipliH, Nancy Hall, Porto Rico, Nor ton, and Providence, $1.75 per 1 ,000. H. H. Thomas, Earleton, Fla Sweet Potato Plants, express prepaid I to South Carolina, 1,000 to 3,000 f at $1.75 per 1,000, 4,000 to 10,000. I $1.65; Nancy Hall, Triumphs, Porte L Rico yams. C. P. Whiteomb, Uma- ? tllla, Fla. ? For Sal??Nancy Hall and Dooly r Yam Sweet Potato Slips. $1.50 per thousand. Missionary and Kcelsior Strawberry Plants $2 per thousand. Write or wire. Southern Plant I Company., VV. J. Hawkins, Mgr., I Plant City, Fla. Sweet Potato Plants, Nancy Hall and I Triumph, $1.75 per 1,000. I can I till your orders in any quanity Civo mo your orders for prompt delivery and choice plants grown un dor irrigation. G. D. ifbore, Haw thorn. Fla. POULTRY A\l) KGCS. For Sale?Poland China pigs of fine breeding. Write for prices. S. J Summers, Cameron, S. C. White Leghorns, Hurt Orpingtons If White Plymouth Hocks. Vigorous, hardy stock. Hggs for hatching and I baby chicks. Mating List Free This ad will not appear again. S Paeon & Haywood, 205 Springfield Ave., Guy ton, Ga. I will teach you bookkeeping and the collection business. Appoint you my special representative in your own town. In your spare time. And help to make you prosperous Write to-day for this offer. Brown's Correspondence School, Wilcoxon Building, Freeport, Illinois. Prize Winning White Indian Runner duck eggs, 11 for $2; 2 2 for >5. Bronze turkey eggs, 11 for $2; 22 tor $5. 5 Toulouse goose eggs, $2.50. White Orpington eggs, 1.50 for 15 and up. Fawn and White Indian Runner duck eggs, $1.50. M B. Grant, Darlington, S. C. MISCELLANEOUS. Hartford's Kotipe Cure-?Guaranteed 50c delivered. Poultry Remedy Co., Kneads, Fla. For Sale?Six litters lighting b\ill terrier pups. $5 to $15 ca;i. Waller Yockey, ('lay Center, Kas. I buy all kinds of ojnpty barrels and 1 bags. Try me. Walter A. Moore, 8 George St., Charleston, S. C. 5 Wanted?Lady agents to sell sanitary toilet specialties, samples free. Address P. O. Box 10 1, Danville, Va. Wanted to Buy?Fancy comb honey. Write mo what you have, naming your best price. J. T. Hire, Greens| boro, N. C. | Agents?Send no money. Just say send me particulars of your big ( 1 agents' offer. Trent Specialty Co., ' Pollocksvllle, X. C. 9 Pointers, setters, bounds, collies and < s I bnll terriers?Trained and untrained. State wants. Canine Farm, 1005 Union St., Greensboro, N. C. 0 . ( Personal?Ladies, when delayed or e irregular use Triumph Pills; ale ways dependable. "Relief" and h particulars free. Write National n Medical Institute, Dept. 5., Milwau* 1 kee, Wis. l 10 Granudnto of Wintbrop, with one year's experience, desires grade .e work; best of references; moderate 1. salary^ Wlnthrop graduate, Box lo 307, Greenwood, S. C. it fe Piles can bo relieved at once?Send t() 15c for liberal sample, ?'Lino Pile Remedy," and bo convinced. Large e size, 50c, 6 for $2.50. H. M. Knight >0 and Co., Manufacturing Pharma111 cists, Lancaster, Penn. r- ____________________________________ 1* \f V( n I 9 tr /\ %% rt /v 1 /\ w /\t *? 1* ?1 L? Vv 1 j itiiu j ii j vj u aic lunci/. i. n? aciiiiuie Confidential Successful Club has largo number of woalthy eligible members, both sexes wishing early ( marriage. Descriptions free. Mrs. Wrubel, Box 2 6, Oakland, Cal. !ra Kino Parnworth Poland China Duroc 1 grade pigs. Two to five months. ,r0 $1 to $8. Special prices on large n0 orders. Satisfaction guaranteed. Bennette P. Moore, Raeford, N. C. *s- ____________________________ ?Poplar logs, 12 in. and up, not over 10 per cent, under 14 in. ^er 1^ in diameter, standard lengths. May to be white or hickory poplar. State how many cars can furnish, how quick and lowest cash price f.o.b. cars your shipping point. Address ^01 Blue Ridge Lumbor Co., Lynchburg, vn; Va. i nl al- ?==^=^===^============^== as- Cut His Own Throat. aa- Dr. John McPherson, one of the wealthiest and most prominent physicians in Alamance County, North Carolina, committed suicide early eet Monday morning by slashing his the throat with a razor. He was forty ni- years old. es- ? ? D. Wilson is not apt to go back to tte Mexico as the representative of the United States. ^ WOFFORD COLLEGE SP HENRY X. SNYDK A RBAL COLLEGE WITH II I CI H SHIP AND CHARACTER. LOCAr SECTION OF UPPER SOUTH CAI SOUTH OF ASHEVILLE, THIRTY THE HLL'E RIDGE, HEALTH C FULL COURSES, AMPLE FACIEI' HALL, GYMNASIUM, ATHLETIC RIBS. EXPENSES MODERATE. TEMPER 17. WRITE FOR C ATA WOFFORD FITTING SCHO< SITUATED ON WOFFORD CO LLE EQUIPMENT. TWO MODERN ROOM HUILDIfNO. FIVE TEACH TH7 DORMITORIES, INSURING AND HEARTY CO-OPERAT! ON A SCHOOL WITH HIGH STA NI>A MOSPHBRE. TWO HUNDRED S' PENSES FOR THE YEAR, $182. A. W. HORTOX, SPARTANU What A Stu THE REST SCHOOL ARYANT AGE Orangebur g ORANGEHl RG COLLEGE HAS ( OF NEARLY TWENTY EXPERT COURSES IN BUSINESS, LIT ERA BRANCHES. EXPENSES LOWE1 OF ITS CLASS IN THE STATE. W. W. RIV Orangebu ! 3 as since 1894 given "Thorough Inei Influences at the lowest possible cc RESULT: It la to-day with Its facu its student body of 413,' and Its plant \ THE LEADING TRAINING SCH $150 pays all charges for the year, in* heat, laundry, medical attention, phys except music and elocution. For cat REV.? TIIOS. ROSSER R BLACKST MK10TS FIKItY DFATH. Nasoli no Tank of Motorcycle Breaks Sea ttci'ing Flaming Fluid. Two are dead, six will die, according to attending physicians, one other is probably fatally burned and eleven others are seriously injured as the result of a motorcycle accident at' the Lagoon motordrome, across the river from Cincinnati, Wednesday. Orin Johnson of Salt Lake City, captain of the Cincinnati team, which was contesting at the motordrome, for some reason that will probably remain unknown, drove his cycle to the extreme top of the circular track, crashed into an electric light pole, .broke it ofr and the contact of the live wire with his machine exploded the gasoline tank, throwing the burning fluid over a score of 1 t* lu i D, Johnson paid the penalty with his | life, while William Davis, aged five years, is likewise dead, as the result of the accident. Two women and four men, so physicians declare, can not live, while others are at the Kentucky hospital in a serious condition. That many more spectators were burned is almost a certainty, as several drug stores in the vicinity of the place were kept busy for an hour after the accident dressing tho burns of persons who escaped without serious injury. Tho race was tho last one of the program for the night and Johnson, who had won both previous contests, was leading. Tn coming in front ol the grandstand, he was seen suddenl> to steer his wheel toward the top and before he could right it again he hat struck the pole. A moment later r ! streak of flamo shot out over th< audience. Persons with their cloth Ing in flames ran here and there am it was with difficulty that the flame were extinguished in time the pre vent the grandstand from catchini fire. Johnson was conscious when pick ed up, but died on the way to th hospital, as did the-Davis boy. ? ? ? * Secretary of the Treasury McAdo > does not propose to let Wall Stree monkey with the government's credit ARTANBUR^r"^"^ It, President. ^ STANDARDS OF SCHOLAR- ^ rKD IN TIIE HIGH PIEDMONT p: tOLIXA. SIXTY-NINE MILES ? f MILES FROM TIIE CREST OF O N DITI ON S UNSURPASSED. TIES, LIBRARY, SCIENCE GROUNDS, NEW DORMITO- | NEXT SESSION OPENS SEP- S LOGUE. 3L SPARTANBURG S. C GE CAMPUS. S P L E N D I D DORMITORIES AND CLASS . T Ttrrrt i\T L'JllO AINU MA i UU!N iji V l'i lii A HOME-LIKE INFLUENCE OF STUDIES AND FACULTY. ; HDS AND CLEAN MORAL AT- j IT!DENTS LAST YEAR. EX- | j FO RCATALOGUE ADDRESS , ITea<1 Master. mil ii in. iii i ? dent Wants 1 S FOlt THE LEAST MONEY. College Has :;OOD EQUIPMENT, FACULTY S. HEALTHFUL LOCATION, UY. Ml'SIO AND NORMAL I THAN ANY OTIIEU SCHOOL SEND FOR CATALOGUE. ERS, Pres., | irg, S. C. J ImmwI traction under poeltively Christian et." Jty of 33. a boarding patronage of 363, rorth $L&),(X)0 OOL FOR GIRLS IN VIRGINIA pluding tabic board, room; lights, steam ical culture, and tuition in all subjects aloguc and application blank address, EEVES, B. A., Principal. ONE. VA. SINS LEADS TO DEATH. Woman Takes Poison Hut Man Leaves Hotel. A suicide pact is believed to have led to tho death of Itoss Fivanson, aged twenty, of Hartford, Conn., who was found in a hotel room at lloston, Sunday, a victim of poisoning. The police are looking- for a man who registered with the girl at the hotel. Sunday morning the man, who seemed ill, went to tlie hotel ofllce and inquired the address of a doctor. Half an hour later groans were heard from the room, and the girl was found near death. A fragment of paper clutched in her hand bore the name "G. W. Man, Shelbyville, Ind.," and asked tho police not to blamo "Hilly". "I am tired of the life T am leading and am doing this with a clear mind," the note said. The girl was taken to the city hospital, where she died. The police think the pair intended to die together, but that the man after his first sip of the poison I changer his mind. ? AEROPLANE WRECKS ROAT. ? I Tampico Said to Have Reon I>cstroyed by Rel>el Aviator. The Mexican federal gunhoat Tam, pico was destroyed Monday by a bomb dropped from an aeroplane over Guaymas harbor, declares an of Ificial insurgent message. It was said r j that Aviator Bidier Masson made Ijthree flights over the harbor before j he succeeded in hitting the boat, i While it was reported during the 51 Italian-Turkish war that a war ves [set was sunk by a bomb dropped from I an aeroplane, the report was never si confirmed. There is said to be no - other report of a similar feat on rec; ord, although many bombs have been dropped in military camps during the - I Balkan war. Masson has made varielous attempts to damage the forts and J ships of the Mexican army and navy at Guaymas, but has met with indifo ferent success, it L. I Push your homo town!