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DIRTY MEAN FIGHT IS MADE ON THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT EDITOR MANY LIES TOLD ON HIM V The Names of Mr. West oil oml Mr. Sims, Who llad Boon Selected for District Attorney and Marshal for South Carolina, Not Vet Sent in by the President. The Washington correspondent of Tho Spartanburg Herald says "while it has been stated on apparently good authority, that Francis H. Weston, of Columbia, and J. B. Sims, of Orangeburg, had been decided upon for tho positions of United Ctates attorney and United States marshal, respectively, for tho district of South Carolina, tho nominations wore not made Monday afternoon as was expected. "The senate was in session only a r t i ? " 1 m-\y mi in mcs xvioiHiay aitcrnoon when It adjourned until Thursday. Neither Senator Tillman nor Senator Smith, who are interested hackers of candidates for the two otTlces, has anything to say for publication. Thero are those familiar wifli the situation who state that tho matter is all fixed as announced by The Associated Press dispatches of Saturday night, Whilo others, apparently equally well Informed, declore that there aro surprises coming beforo the matter is disposed of." The Washington correspondent of The State says "with both President Wilson and ?Hocretary Tumulty away from Washington Tuesday, there was little for those interested in the district. attorneyship and marshalship fight In South Carolina to do but sit quietly by and await developments. While it is believed that Francis II. Weston will be nominated for the first, named place and James T,. Sims for the latter, na stated In press dispatches, there is a possibility that there may be no nominations Thursday and that a third man for tho district attorney's placo and some one oilier than Mr. Sims for that of marshal may bo submitted. "The reason for this assumption is that so many friends of the respective candidates have visited the White House that it may be possible that tho president will call for a new deal all around and ask that other names bo submitted. This was some of the talk that was heard Tuesday, although Senator Tillman would not discuss .pointed." I.otter from Mr. Sholton Smith." Tliero are a half dozen or more candidates in Washington besieging the President and Attorney General begging for tho marshalslilp. Mr. Sims is tho only candidate so far against whom a fight has developed. One W. J. Shelton gave The Stato's Washington correspondent tho following correspondence regarding his position in reference to charges against Mr. Sims for operating a no gro paper. Letter from Senator Tillman to Mr. Sliolton dated September 8 as follows: "I havo your letter of tlie 1st Instant. Senator Smith and 1 have agreed about the United States marshal and Mr. Sims will bo appointed." Letter from Mr. Shelton to Senator Smith under dato of September 12: "Inclosed you will find copy of letter from Senator Tillman stating h# and you had agreed on Sims for United States marshal for South Carolina and he would ho appointed. In talking with Hon. Pringlo Youmnns, he said he had letters from tho Stato senator and sheriff of Williamsburg county, stating that Sims had been employed by a negro Stato senator to operate a Republican paper in said county in the early seventies. Said letters are now on file in tho United States district attorney's ofllco in Washington, D. O., with the application of Pringlo Youmnns for the position of United States marshal." This is an absolute unmitigated lie and as Senator Tillman, Smith and Attorney-Oeneral McReynolds have been furnished with proof to that effect it will not have any effect on Mr. .Sims' chances to land tho marshalship. If ho loses out, it will ho for some other cause, and not because such a slanderous lie has been concocted against him. This is the way the matter stands at present. Tho President, may send in Mr. Sims' name today, if he does Mr. Sims feels sure that he will be confirmed. Mr. Sims has made a clean, open fight for the place. Tie has made charges against no one. i Lockjaw Kills Two. Raymond Olee, five years old, and Catherine Flynn, aged seven, pupils in the public school of Morrisvlllo, Pa., died of lockjaw Monday as the result of picking the wounds on their arms after having been vaccinated. The children woro compelled under a law to submit to vaccination at tho opening of school. ? Report on Kill. Favorable report of Representative layer's bill for additional aid from States government for ag"tfifision work in colleges Mmursday by the House ^committee. Secretary m endorsed the bill, the ? T SEIZE AMERICAN SCHOOL ? (,ki;i:ks t.vki: fossfssion of mission 1NSTITL'TIOX. Affair Is Fart of Greek Flan of Terrori/atlou to Force Albania to Accept Fcaco. The Greek authorities at Korltsa, In Albania, Monday seized the American mission school there, where instruction is given to nearly 100 Albonian girls. The information was received at Vienna, Austria, in a telegram from Avlona, the priucipal sea port of Albania on the Adriatic sea. The Greeks have also arrested and persecute*! a largo number of Albanians who recently returned to Korltsa from America and other foreign countries, releasing them from detention only when tho Albanians promised to Join in tho agitation for t ho incorporation of tIk? district in Greece, The British consul at Monastir has entered a vigorous protest with the Greek government oil behalf of tho Americans. The whole affair forms part of the Greek torrorization of tho Albanian population with tho object of compelling them to agreo to Inclusion of the whole of southern Albania In the kingdom of Greece. Bast week Greek ofllcials at Korltsa endeavored to take forcible possession of tho of the American mission school building but the housekeeper ill charge refused to hand over the kevs. The Greek soldiers bont bor mercilessly and then carried her off to prison. Tho mission is in charge of Phlneas B. Kennedy, a native of New .Jersey and a Princeton graduate. Mrs. Violet B, Kennedy conducts the ladies' literary society, whose object is to give tho elements of education to tho women of Albania. No official report of the seizure of the school has been received at Washington but tho state department is prepared to protest to tho (Jreek government vigorously for the protection of Americans and their property In Albania under tho now political order. It was pointed out In diplomatic quarters that tho great European powers will do whatever might bo necessary to guarantee American rights In tho Balkans as they have ever since tho first outbreak of hostilities a year ago. British consuls have been solicitous for the rights of Americans, especially In Asiatic Turkey and boforo tho arrival of tho American warships last winter both British and Russian men of war offered an asylum to any Americans who feared for their safety. , ? ? Will Soon Bass Away. Some folks take a most pessimistic view of tho future of politics in this State. They seem to lose sight of the told saying that the pendulum that swings forward sooner or later must swing back. So it has boon with politics. One reaction follows another. Governor Hleaso will soon run his course and bo retired. No candidate for Governor who tries to follow in the footsteps of IMease can bo elected at the next election. The people have got enough of that kind of a Governor and will not elect another who wants to continue the Hleaso way of doing things. i As the Lancaster News says, "it is the history of South Carolina that we have a political upheaval just about every twenty years. For a few years we are all torn up and divided. During this period we do not make much progress in any direction. Hut the spell soon passes, and all of us get calm and reconciled to each other, we forgive each other and settle all our differences and grievances, and then we go forward." We believe with The News that history is on the eve of repeating itself, and that all political bitterness will pass away. The News goes on to say that "tho present division of the people, we believe, can not last much longer, and we say this without reference to which side may liavo been in the right or in the wrong. The situation is simply not normal, and in the very nature of things it can not continue. One sido or the other may triumph next year, but it is more important for the people to becomo reunited and turn their thoughts to better things than factional politics than for any side or faction, or any candidate, to triumph." ? ? Fortune as Itcwar, A London workman Tuesday morn ing found on a sidewalk practically Hio entire pearl necklace valued at $050,000, which was stolen on July 1 6 while in transit by mail from Paris to L.ondon. The man was going to work when he noticed the pearls lying in a heap. On picking them up he found there wero 58. A reward of $50,000 which was offered for the return of the jewels will probably go entirely to the workman. The Columbia Record hits the nail on the head when it says "if Mayor Grace had desired to strengthen his petition against Mr. Whaley, at the expense of being entirely candid, ho might have added that he had "gained an Intimate knowledge" of the manner in which money was spent in the First district election by trying to outspend Mr. Whaley in his effort to elect Mr. Hughes." It is safe to say | Grace will not adopt the suggestion. 1IAVIC RACE RIOT. ' + Ronton, 111., Is S?mo of AmoricanPolish Disturbance. A raco riot between American and Polish miners was begun on the town Bquare at Ponton, 111., Monday night as a result of the double murder Sunday night of Ewell Hutchlns and Qulncy Drummonds, who were killed by a baud of drunken minors while returning from a Polish dance, where they had furnished the music. The disturbance soon assumed such proport ions that Mayor Espy swore in twenty-flvo extra policemen and pent for the sheriff of Franklin county. Tho mayor then mounted a box iu the i center of the square and sought to pacify tho Americans. In spite of his i address troublo started. Twenty-five foreigners who appeared on the square were severely beaten and pushed to their homes In the Polish colony. Every other foreigner who was found in the streets met similar treatment. Fifty Polish minors were arrested and aro being held * pending an investigation into the double murder. Throe other miners implicated by the testimony of the arrested men at the coroner's inquest are being sought by a posse of soventy-fivo men led by the sherifT. The story of the murder was brought to Ponton by Harmon Wyant, the third member of tho musicians who escaped with a bullet wound in the arm and an Injured head. Wyant and a party of Americans left the dance hall at eleven o'clock Sunday night. Shortly before midnight they were waylaid by a party of about ten miners and attacked with revolvers and clubs. Wyant said he did not know why they had been attacked. ? ? Senator Tillman's Position. Tho Pco Deo Daily, published at Bonuettsville, the home of Hr. Drake, a candidate for marshal, says: "It now appears that James L. Sims may lose the appointment as United States marshal for South Carolina iHTiium) no once, in ni? youth, set type for a Republican paper at Kingstree, Senator Tillman probably withdrew bin nomination for that reason." In stating that Senator Tillman withdrew his ofllcial endorsement of tlie editor of The Times and Democrat for marshal becauso of certain lying charges preferred against him by certain men, the editor of The Pee Doe Daily does Senator Tillman and the editor of Tho Times and Democrat a great injustice. Senator Tillman gavo as his reason for withdrawing his official endorsement from tho editor of Tho Times and Democrat that Senator Smith had accused him of trying to "hog" both tiio District Attorney and the marshal, and ho wanted to clarify tho matter. Tho above facts were published in Tho News and Courier: Resides, Senator Tillman wrote he editor of The Times and Democrat that ho knew that tho charges made against him was a lie as soon as he heard it. The Senator also wrote tho editor of Tho Times and Democrat that lie had withdrawn his ofllcial endorsement for the reasons given above, but that his feelings towards the editor of The Times and Democrat. had not changed, and that he would endorse no one else for marshal. These are tho simple facts in tho caso and wo publish them as a simple act of justice to Senator Tillman and the editor of Tho Times ond Democrat. Newspapers should bo certain of their facts before publishing such statements as that clipped above from The Pee Deo Daily. < ' College Professors in Polities. The Greenville Piedmont speaks as follows about the invasion of tho political arena by the college professor: "The college professor is having his inning in the political world. First and foremost is Prof. Woodrow Wilson as president of these United States; then we have Prof. Columbus Pen Martin, alderman-elect from ward six, city of Greenville, and now wo have Dr. Coleman P. Waller, professor of chemistry of Wofford college, commissioner-elect for the city of Spartanburg." Tho Spartanburg Herald odds to this list tho name Prof. J no. G. Cllnkscales, of Wofford college, who proposes to make tho raco for governor next year on a compulsory education platform, and who, in addition to being widely acquainted from the Piedmont to the seashore, is abundantly able to take care of himself in any sort of controversy or argument that is likely to arise. The entry of oollego professors into polities will have a good and wholesomo Influence on them. Robbed and JUhthmI Out. Desperately wounded, James Bennett, known as "The Hermit" was found in a clump of hushes near his burned homo near Waycross, Ca., Wednesday. Ho had lain there since Saturday night, when ho dragged himself from his burning home. Ofllcers aro searching for a negro, who Bennett says phot him, and then enraged because he did not And a largo sum of money the recluse was bolieved to have hidden in tho houso fired tho building. Policeman Kills Passerby. A bullet flrod by Policeman Wm. Allen of Chicago, at throe highwaymen early Wednesday stuck on an iron trolley polo, deflected and killed William Lorlmer, a tobacco agent. WHALEY IS ACCUSED : ? GRACE HAKE SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST UIU I PRESENTS A PETITION , Tho Charges Allege That Congressman Whaley Spent Over Sixty Thousand Dollars to Secure the Nomination and Flection ami Made Fulsc Returns About Money Used. Mayor John P. Grace, of Charloslon, Wednesday personally presentod 10 tho Speaker of tho House of Heprosentatlves a petition asking for an i Investigation of the right (V Congressman ltlchard S. Whaley to his seat, *nd making sweeping chargos against 11 r. Whaley in connection with his < nomination last spring and his ex- < pense statements to tho clerk of the House, says tho Washington correspondent of Tho News and Courlor. In his petition C.raco alleges that : on tho 4th of February, 1013, Rich- i rd Whaley announced his candidacy to fill tho vacancy created by tho death of Congressman Logaro and began u canvass for tho Democratic nomination, simultaneously circulating throughout the district that whoever entered tho race must ho pre pared to out-snond him In mnnnv In. telligence of which speedily resolved tlio cnmpaign into one of tlio unpre- ' cedcnted vote-selling. That at stated times before and i after any primary or election for Con- i gross, each candidate is requirod by Federal law to 11 lo certain sworn statements of expenses, etc., showing that tlio cost of such primary and \ election has not exceeded $5,000 In i the aggregate, In pursuance of which Mr. Whaley tiled four statements i now on the file In the oflico of the clerk of the House of Representatives, referenco to which is hereby i craved as often as may be necessary, and which are hereby made part of i this petition. That tlio First Congressional dis- i trict of South Carolina is composed of five counties, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton, Berkeley, and Dorchester, inhabited preponderantly by negroes; for the exclusion of whose participation in politics it is tlio custom by common consent for white men to i settle their differences in the Democratic primary; tlio nomination in ] which is equivalent to an election; i that there were in round numbers but twelve thousand votes cast, in the Democratic primary, in thoso conn ties, mi(1 in which Mr. Whaloy was nominatod, of which on tho faro of ! tho returns Mr. Whaloy obtained i 6,298 votos. i That thereupon Mr. Whaloy was declared tho nominee of the Demo- 1 cratlc party and In a special olection, < which was held on April 2 9, 1912, i Mr. Whaloy was elected without op- i position to fill tho unexpired term. That In order to obtain theso 0,298 i votes, as your petitioner is informed i and believes, Mr. Whaloy spent in the first and second primaries and the 1 campaigns Incident thereto not laei ! than sixty thousands dollars ($00,000), or an average of about ten dollars ($10) for each vote. That notwithstanding such excessive use of money, and because, as ( abovo set forth, ho was roqulred by Federal law, under oath, to filo statements showing that ho spent not , over five thousand dollars ($5,000), your petitioner alleges Mr. Whaley wilfully and knowingly filed false , sworn statements with tho cleric of tho House of Representatives, showing that ho spent altogether only tho sum of $4,5 2.2.10. That in filine such statements Mr. Whaley wilfully and knowingly made oath to the truth of something which ho know was absoluate>y false. That Mr. Whaley now sits in Congress, therefore, because ho openly bought his nomination and election by going out. upon tho highways and byways and debauching* tho electorate, and by using over twelvo times as much as tho maximum of money allowed by law, in avoidance of the consequences of which ho afterwards committed four felonious perjuries. "Wherefore, your petitioner prays that the matter of Mr. Whaley's right to his seat in Congress ho investigated, and that lie he expelled from that body if tho allegations contained in this petition he found to ho truo and for such and other further relief in tho premises as to your honorablo ?ody may seem J*?t. Waited Long Time. Tt. S. TTall, seventy years of ago, a retired farmer of Brockenbridge, Me., and Mrs. L#. II. Carr, sixty-four years old, of ITartsville. Ind.. who were en gaged to wed fifty yoars ago, obtained a marriago licenco at Kansas City Saturday. ? ? Students Fight Flames. Students routed from their beds formed into bucket brigades and drove flames from their own dormitories at the Puget Sound Unitorsity. ? ? ? Tho tariff and tho currency bills will soon be out of tho way, and Congress can then adjourn for a fow weeks. 11ECALI.S COXFKSSIOX. WolfsohLii Hayn II? Did Not Murder Anna Schumacher. Repudiating his statements made to tho Philadelphia polico Friday. Jacob Wolfsohn Monday denied that ho was guilty of the murder of Anna Catherine Schumacher in tho comotory at Rochester, N. Y., four years ugo. When closely questions by District Attorney Barrett, of Rochester, N. Y., Wolfsohn broke down and said he had confessed to tho murder because he wanted to dio and could not bring himself to commit suicide. "I want to take back my confession. It Is not true that I killed the girl and I cnu prove my innocence," ho exclaimed, hysterically. "You can cut my throat, hang iuo on do whatever you care, but I do not want to die with tho record of a murderer." "My life has been an unhappy one," continued Wolfsohn. "I can not return to Russia because I left there to escape military service. My w i fo divorced 1110 here. I hoped to end my troubleB by being electrocuted." District Attorney Barrott, boPore leaving for Rochester, said he would make further investigations before determining whether ho would ask for roqusition for Wolfsohn. He said: "It has been proved that the prisoner worked near the cemetery where the crime was committed, but liis description of the clothing worn by the girl does not correspond with the facts. I am not yet satisfied ho is the murderer." He Careful How You Criticize. All of us aro prone to criticise, says Plie Anderson Mail. We are disposed to criticise the other fellow, the things lie is doing, and his manner of doing them. Rut are we always fair in our criticisms? Do wo always know what we are talking about? We believe in the fullest latitude in criticism, and especially of public men, those in public service. Criticism is not only a privilege, but in very many cases it is a duty. 'But. ono of the crudest things in the world lu to be unjust in our critln { u r?> a 4 /* 4 4 il?/\ 1 .. ,1 ! 1 1..? 1 1 I iniun Uf lltitu tin; lUlllYIUUiil WIlOUl wo are criticising unfairly. Tlic.ro is nothing more heartbreaking, perhaps, than to he the subject of unjust criticism?to bo wrongfully nccused?to bo denied crodlt for what, wo have tried to do. And how many of us have been guilty of this? We see a man doing something the looks of which wo do not like. We think ho should not do it, or that ho should do it In a different way. Forthwith wo proceed to pull him down, to heap our condemnation upon him. Wo do this on first impression, without investigating the matter. Sometimes it is given us to find that wo have been In the wrong, that our criticism has been unjustified, and fortunate Indeed are we If It is not then too laic lo make amends, to repair the wrong that, unthinkingly, wo have done. IIow careful wo should lie, and yet how cnreless wo are. We get an incomplete statement of a case, we do not understand all the facts and circumstances, and then without fuller investigation wo proceed to render our judgments. If we could put ourselves in the other fellow's placo, if wo could get liis viewpoint, and know his motives, we would probably praise Instead of condemn. Wo complain about not getting Ihe best men for the public service. Perhaps on explanation may bo that many men do not want to bo subjected to wrongful and unjust criticism. If we could build up a sentiment that would insuro fairer campaign methods, that would give public servants ill St trnntmrmt urlmn r, ^ ~ _? , ?t iiv.u i v/uniu uciuru tho peoplo to eiplain their stewardship, wo might got hotter men to offor for the public Borvlce. The now ponco palace at Tho Hague has heen dedicated with imposing and appropriate ceremonies. It is ardently to ho hoped that the purpose of tho pnlaeo may speedily he realized. The way in which threat, llritain and this country have peacefully settled nil tho disputes that have arisen between them in the last hundred years is testimony enough that all disputes between nations may bo settled In like manner if the spirit of reasonableness is allowed to prevail. Somo of the questions settled by America and England were unusually Important, but a few men sitting in a room and discussing the matters at issue in a quiet and sensible way have settled nil of them without tho shedding of a single drop of blood, and without disturbing the harmonious relations between the two nations. Tho Lancaster News complains that a cotemporary reproduced on its editorial page three separate editorial paragraphs from its columns without giving credit therefor. The editorial paragraphs that appear in every issuo of tho News are so bright and to the point, that wo aro not surprised that some overworked brother grabbed a few of them and passed them off as his own. He ought not to have done it, hut the fair editor of tho News must remember that imitation is tho sincerest flattery. Tillman Invited. At a meeting of tho Chester County Fair association Wednesday morning it was unanimously docidod to invito Senator B. R. Tillman to bo tho orator of the Chester county fair. It is bolleved that he will accept the invitation. I INSURANCE HIS MOTIVE LATEST POLICE THEORY SC11M11)T-M I K ET CASE. Inspector Faurot Hears Evidence of + Doctor Said to Have Received 11. legal Oflfer of Deal. Evidence that Hans Schmidt, the confessed murderer of Anna Aumullor, and "Dr." Ernest Muret, his dentist friend, planned a campaign of I murder for tho purpose of collecting life insurance money reached tho New York police Monday. It tended to explain the blank death certificates found in Schmidt's room. Tho evidence came from a physician who told Insnector Faurot of tho detective hn reau that Schmidt and Murot, a short time ago, tried to arrange with him to issue (loath certificates in the event of the "sudden death" of persons just insured. "I can not divulge at tills time the identity of the physician," said the inspector. "If the story told us by him is true the fact stands out big and black that Father Schmidt and Dr. Murot had a plan whereby they would collect Insurance. I am happy to state that the physician flatly declined to listen to their proposal." Inspector Faurot has learned, ho said, that the dentist, at one time in his lifo figured as an insuranco broker. The inspector said that with the assistance of the Chicago police ho was trying to find if thero was tiny connection between Schmidt and Murot and Johana lloch, the "blueheard" of Chicago, who was executed in 1905 for murdering one wife and accused of killing "several others. Schmidt was in Chicago in 1905. "Although I may call it nothing hut a rumor, this coincidence," said Faurot, "I consider of sufllcient importance to warrant a thorough investigation." ? . Fine Detective Wosk. In tracing tho murder of Anna Aumuller to Hans Schmidt, tho Catholic priest, and bringing him to justice, tho New York detectivo force did a most excellent pfece of work. Tho solving of this most brutal and extraordinary murder mystery in a ^ very short period puts tho New York detectives in (lie front rank of their profession. They thrust aside several false clues, and finally hit the trail * that lead to tho brutal murderer and arrested him in his priestly garb. Given only the fragments of a hu- t man body found in tho North River on which to base the theory that a young and probably unmarried woman had been killed and dismembered to avert disgrace, and misled at tho start by mistaken identifications and faise clues, Inspector Faurot ajul his detectives were yet able by means of a piece of pillow-ticking not only to discover tho sceno of the crimo and arrest the murderer, but to reveal the details of his double life. As The New York World says "there can not bo praise enough" for detective skill of this quality, exhibited under conditions calling for promptness, intelligence and a decisiveness of action that did not stop at carrying proofs of guilt into a church rectory. What a contrast to the sordid revelations of police graft and police corruption is presented by this example of efficiency in the most important department of police work! It is a thing to hearten every citizen of New York by its manifestation of the character and capacity of tho force. Courtesy Among Senators. It is pleasing to read of tho courtesies exchanged in tho Senato between the leaders of the two parties - iuiur mo i naorwootl bill was passed. Tho attitude of both parties toward each other during the lengthy consideration of the bill, was Indeed commendable. it showed that it is possible to discuss, pot only without rancor, but with positive courtesy and good breeding, measures which may exist the most positive convictions. And why not. Why should differences of opinion as to a question cause participants in a debate to abuse each other like pickf>ockets, or lessen tho personal friendship that ono may entertain for another? Too often enmities have been aroused in debates and but littlo consideration has been shown the minority by tho majority, but to-day an improvement is seen and it is most welcome. J W 9 W Pics Roforo Reunion. On tho eve of reuniting his family from whom he had been separated for five years, Abraham llecker, forty-six years old, fell under a wagon Wednesday night and was killed. Two months ago "Rcckor sent to his wifo in Itusslo tho savings of yoars to bring hor and their four children to this country. They aro duo next Monday. ? Hurt in Initiation. T.oo Phares, a merchant of Valley Pond, 111., ia In a critical condition from an injury sustained during an initiation ceremony of a fraternal order. A "spanker", containing a dynamite cap, was used. Tho cap exploded, inflicting a serious wound. Phraso was hurried to a hospital. / > ? > Iiast spring's hat feels all right and is all right, but the hat makers have seen to it that doesn't look so.