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VOTED FOR HUERTA! BE LED TICKET IN MEXICAN SPECIAL ELECTION WILL RENOUNCE VOTES ^ Constitution Forbids His Acceptance <? f the Flection?Said That llis Designation Will Cause Presidency to Devolve I'pon lllanquet?Americans Prepare for Flight. With the election of Gen. Victoriano Huerta and Gen. Aureliano Blanquet almost a foregone conclusion, according to olUcial returns up to Thursday, tho question as to what W ashington proposes to do is keeping the foreign residents and the majority of Mexicans in a state of nain ful suspence. On the surface at least the Administration is giving little consideration to the subject, seemingly taking the ground that the Mexican people have declared in favor of Hucrta's continuance in the Presidency. Although it openly is charged in many quarters that it was ofllcial pressure that resulted in the rolling up of the majorities for liuerta and ltlanquet, which are now being otllcially reported from all parts of the country where tho election forms were observed, the fact remains, and it is pointed out that there is no possibility of going back of the returns, that there is no thought that any nt lior nnndifliiln nr?11o?l nonrlv ntmiiurh votes (o place the Hucrta-Blanquet ticket in jeopardy. In view of Washington's previous representations on the subject the next move of the American Government Is awaited at Mexico city with no litGe misgivings. Many Americans already have packed their portable belongings preparatory to (light and are facing the necessity of leaving their household effects to fate. They express little hope of finding anything left upon their return. The Inadequate storage facilities are overtaxed and most of those who contemplate flight expect to leave their homes in charge of Mexican caretakers. What the new Mexican congress will do with reference to the elecions no one undertakes to predict, although the statement made recently by Senor Moheno, minister of foreign affairs, is regarded as reflecting the Executive's desire. Senor Moheno asserted that in the event of Congress finding that a majority of the votes worn cast for Huerta and Blanquet, the votes cast for Huerta would be declared void by reason of bis ineligibility under tbe constitution to succeed himself, and Blanquet would assume the Vice Presidency and the noting Presidency, pending the calling of new elections. Mexican attorneys take issue with the foreign minister on this point, declaring that if Gen. Blanquet is adjudged elected to the Presidency it will be for the unexpired six years, term which was begun by Porfirio Diaz, in December, 1010, and continued by Francisco do la Burro, Francisco Madero and Gen. Huerta, and not for a temporary period, since there would be no occasion for further elections until the regular Constitutional period of 1010. The flight of Gen. Felix Diaz, while never arousing groat interest in the Capital, practically has ceased to he a subject of comment. Tlis candidcay was regarded by many Mexicans as a mere incident in the campaign and never was bo taken seriously; his flight eliminates him from consideration. Frederico Gamboa, Manuel Calero and David do la Fuente appear to have conceded their defeat in the face of obstacles alleged to have been found in the way of their adheretns. MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT. ltirior Collides With Motor Truck and lioses Dog. r< a; t1, ^e ? ,1 i, i. v>. oniiiii, ui v^iicii icniun, iidu iik lrst; broken Wednesday when the motorcycle he was riding at Columbia collided with an auto truck and threw him to the ground. As he was beinc carried to the hospital he said thai his wife had warned him not to go tc Columbia and ride in tbe motorcycle races, fearing be would be injured Ho expressed regret that he woulc never walk again after his injury while being carried to the Infirmary Noah's Liniment is the best IPCyilHNmn [I remedy for kheumntism, UStfAUUUfiiiJ |{u9 Sciatica. Lame Hack, Stiff SB Joints and Muscles, Sore Jdj fhroat, Colds, Strains, ,4 Rra Sprains. Cuts, Bruise?, 1 in Colic. Cramps, Neuralgia, rinP*WVYI7iil '-n Toothache, and all Nerve, |t||fllN| |i| Bone and Muscle Aches |t|lfll|B| m and Pains. '1 he genuine 1 H has Noah's Ark on every |IM||TMfhd H package and looks like this UllllMllUlJ lilijfl cut, hut has R1,1) hand on "IT'..*'."X*H front of packnnc and fn* man ok nasi "Noah's Liniment" always m,T in KLIj ink. Beware of tjjji imitations. Sold by nil VJ] < dealers, 2.1c., 50o., and $1.00. 1 Guaranteed or money re- <m ??m ?Mr?* , jia funded by Noah komcdy .cjr.r;,[{*10 Co., Inc., Bjchmond, \t\. I2223BE20 lUt Sample free pR reque^. V TRACK MISHAP FATAL AUCIDKXT AT STATK FA IK HAS FATAL KKSULL. J ? While Speeding Around Track Young llcyuard of Hion, Meets \\ it It Fat t al Collision. . | " Benjamin linger Hey ward, Jr., of Hion, formerly an athletic star at the 1 University of South Carolina, died in a Columbia hospital ThtubUay night of surgical shock, from injuries comprising double compound trac-.ures of the right leg and left forearm, with contusions of the right knee, which he sustained in :? collision between his motorcycle anl a roadworking machine Wednesday afternoon at the State fair grounds track. Ilo was the promoter of the motorcycle races of the day and was "tuning up" his own mount preparatory to entering the competition. Mr. Heyward was a son of II. II. Hey ward, Sr., general manager of the Winnsboro Granite corporation at UTon, and was associated with his father in business. A brother, Dan Heyward, is a member of the football team of the University of South Carolina. Amputation was perforce resorted to after the accident, hut the injuries received were too extensive and death resulted from surgical shock at 11:110 o'clock Wednesday night, about nine hours after the collision between tho motorcycle and the road scraper. . \ His fatal mishap occurred at about i 2:40 o'clock. Glenn, riding an Ex- < oelsior, had circled the track several times, when Hey ward went out to ] "tune up" on the same Indian machine with which Glenn made the record time for the Columbia track last Fourth of July. Ileyward was al>out a quarter of a mile behind Glenn, when he started in to lap him. As the two riders turned into the hack stretch they were confronted by a road scraper. Glenn cleared it by inches, but Hey ward, who was just about to pass him, and therefore was higher up on the track, plougher into the heavy apparatus head-on and was thrown forward about twenty feet. Ho encountered the hub of a front wheel of the scraper. The hub was broken off and the iron spokes bent. The front forks of Heyward's motorcycle were sheared off, and magneto and the front cylinder were broken and the rear forks were out almost in two The injured rider was conveyed promptly to the hospital in a racing automobile. ? ? WOrXDRI) LIWP1NG A HOY. Preston Metts Shot at Dorange Sunday. Preston Metts, the young white man who was wounded during a tight with a negro near his home at Dorange Sunday night, told a reporter for The News and Courier Wednesday at the Roper Hospital, Charleston, the details of the shooting. Mr. Metts is in a serious condition, hut his recovery is expected, and when questioned he said he was confident he would he up and about soon. Ho was very weak, and it was only with great difficulty that he was able to speak. Sometimes he took as long as a minute to pick up the broken thread of the conversation, lie spoko slowly, and answered what questions he could by nodding his head. He seemed to be suffering a great deal. At his bedside was his father, Ransom I. Metts, who came down from Dorange when a brother who brought , the wounded man to Charleston returned Tuesday morning. Because of his condition he was . not pressed for facts regarding the . shooting, and henco told the tale as briefly as possible. "I had just gotten off (he train at Dorange Sunday night, some time after 7 o'clock," said the wounded man. "On the road near the station was a white boy I knew and a negro named Mosley was cursing him for everything. I spoke to the negro, and both the boy and myself started toward our home the negro going ahead. Further down the road tho negro kept cursing the boy, and when ho refused to stop a few words followed, and 1 struck him several times with my bare fist. "Tho negro didn't like it and we mixed it up. The boy helped me. It was dark. I heard a pistol shot fired, and I called to the boy if ho had a pistol, and he said no. Then I heard another shot, and in a few seconds I felt pains in my stomach. T hollered that I was shot and tho hov came to mo. The netrro ernt. awav through a cotton patch." 11 is father then told of his son being taken to Reevesville, and from there to Ch.irleston. According to the elder Mr. Metts, the negro was raised In that vicinity, hut only recently returned from Florida, and that he has not yet been arrested. Mr. Metts* wound is in the abdomen and his condition is not considered critical. The wound was caused by a 32-calibre pistol. Senator E. T). Smith attended the Stato Fair, and was greeted by a great many friends who seem to he santruine of the Senator's re-election. While waiting for the finance committee to report tho currency bill, the Senate has no work before it, and in this way the Senators can get away a few days to look after homo affairs. I Vt'LAURIN lilVtS UP1 ? JAYS HE IS DONE WITH POLITICS FUKtVtK I JUlTS lillVfHNUHS RACE ? ssiu's Statement as Result C"Itill> o Reception Acoer?lo?l ltis Views Giv- ^ en at lileuse Conference?Con- ( trusts lUeaseism of To-iiay With l Tillinanism of 1HJM). a John L. McLaurin withdrew, from 1: he race for governor Thursday morn- t ng, and announced that he was done vitli politics forever, as a result of ho chilly reception he met with at he Blease conference Wednesday tight. Mr. McLaurln was formerly nited States Senator and was a ironilnent lieutenant in the Tillman anks until they parted company, ^rom ten years of obscurity he nnerged to till out the unexpired erm in the State Senate from Marl>oro County and had been understood o be in the race for Governor to succeed Governor Blease. Senator McLaurin, in withdrawing Tom the race for Governor, issued a formal statement declaring that he believed factionalism had gone too far and that the people would not get together. lie said ho was oyt of harmony with the Bleasc conference as i expressed Wednesday night, and ' maintains that "Bleaseism is not I higher or nohlor than Tillmanism". i lie tells tlie people that unless the t factional tight Is halted, they "will r make a little Mexico out of South ( Carolina", and says of Bleaseism: t "This is a prostitution of that great 1 uprising of the people in 1890." His ; formal statement says: i "I will not he a candidate for C.ov- t ornor. There is no field for a man of really conservative views. I think : factionalism has gone too far, and 1 am thoroughly satisfied that the peo- ( pie are not going to he permitted to i get together by the leaders on either side. The views I expressed at the conference do not suit either extreme, and T long ago made up my mind never to advocate anything which my inner consciousness teaches me is wrong. T stand just where I stood in 1 890?for the people. "That movement gave the first real liberty that the masses in South Carolina ever enjoyed and I find myself entirely out of sympathy with the views ex prosed by the other speakers at the conference. I do not think that 'Bleaseism is higher and nobler than Tillmanism'. The spirit that animated Tillmanism in 1 890 was higher and liner than the sentiments I heard expressed Wednesday night. It is the irony of fate, that I, who suffered most injustice from Tillman personally should now ho the solo defender of Tillmanism. "While some of tho men who are inciting class hate and prejudice may get into olTice. T know that power gained by such methods is ephemeral and that the State will suffer. I went there like a man, said what I had to say. T don't suit them. They don't suit me, so T might just as well he a man. That is better than being Governor. "T am out. of politics once and forever, and feel like a load is lifted off of me. Instead of a conference of hitter partisans there should he a conference of men from both factions, who are not ofllce-seekers, and a light made to control the next State Convention. Then go on and elect a man Governor who will know 110 faction and neither friend nor foe in the administration of public affairs. If we do not call a halt we will make a little Mexico of South Carolina and what for? This is a prostitution of that great uprising of the people in 1 8b0 which, if I can no. prevent, I at least will refuse to assist." The withdrawol of Senator Mcl.aurin leaves Mr. Charles Carroll Simins, of Barnwell, as the only out-an-out I Blease man in the race for Governor. T1 icj 11 r\ n rnonrr lio Ulnnao mon following his speech at the Bloase conference Wednesday night, and with the definite withdrawal of McLaurin, who had been thought to he bidding for the Bleaso support, the tendency of the administration followers to rally around the Barnwell man became pronounced throughout the day. 1 ? Watson's Trial Quashed. The trial of Thomas E. Watson, ^ ,1 1 i ^ ~ -.At .1 I fl i 1. euuur, ttuiiiur hiki nominee or mo People's party for the presidency in 1014 was called In the United States District court at Augusta Monday, lie was tried on a charge of sending obsceno matter through the mall. The charges grew from the publication of two articles in his paper in which ho denounced the Catholic church. On Tuesday after hearing argument the presiding Judge quashed the indictment. ? ? flets flood Job. Wm. F. Young, formerly assistant postmaster at Spartanburg, has been appointed a post ofTice inspector, with the entire country as his territory, at a salary of $2,250 a year and allowances. lie will leave in a few days to inspect the St. Louis post ofTico, his first assignment. HOOK WORM STATISTICS VII Lli TOWNS AIIK NOT FOCI OK DISKASK. Vrceiitagc of 111 feetion is Highest on Farms, According to State Health Oflicer's Report. J. Lallruce Ward, M. IV, director d rural sanitation for the State, has ;lven out some interesting statistics the hookworm disease in South Carolina. He is assisted by four men ?Drs. L. A. Riser, F. M. Routh, J. T. loweli and F. 1). Kodgers?who travI throughout the State, examining II those who take the matter seriousy enough to submit to an examinaion. The hookworm disease is more irevalent in the rural districts than n the cities or mill towns, and it is o the people who live out in the ountry where there is no sanitation aw that these live men in particular re rendering an invaluable service, 'he more detailed figures of the cases reated show that the percentage of he hookworm disease is in proporion to the degree of sanitation, there >eing six classes of sanitation, arbirarily selected. Where the sanitaion is technically perfect, the presence of the hookworm is negligible, >ut the percentage increases until in ho places where there is no sanitaion in amounts to about 60 per cent. >f the children between the ages of 5 and 18, or the school age. In the quarter that ended Septem >or 3U there were 0,02r> cases tni roscopically examined by the four leld men and 2.9G0 cases examined n (he laboratory, and it was found liat about 27 per cent, were infected. Phese cases are treated with thymol ->r beta-naphtliol onco a week, and lie average treatment lasts for four Aei'ks. Other diseases caused by parisites were also discovered and a treatment was prescribed for each of these. Where there is heat, moisture and shade, the hookworm disease is usually found to be very prevalent, and jontrary to what is generally thought, the percentage is loss in a mill town than in the rural district whence the people came. A person, therefore, who looks palo is not necessarily infected nor is one with a ruddy complexion immune: for this reason all examinations are carried on under the microscope. Out of the 44 counties in the State, 29 of them have appropriated funds for the carrying on of this most important work. Though it was frowned upon at lirst as a medical caprice, it is now a matter thai 's .riven a great deal of sober n . earnest thought. KIM.Ml) ltV OFFICFUS. \egro Said to Have Confessed That Father Fired I tarn. As a sequel to the burning four wccua ugu in inn uurii oi IV1. I.J. INICCuen, a prominent citizen of Princeton, Sheriff John I). Owings and <lc*putios, in attempting to effect the arrest of Lace Glover, a negro at Laurens, and his two boys, on warrants charging them with the crime, was forced to kill the father, at half past f> o'clock Monday morning, at the cabin home of the negro in Dunklin Township, just across the line in Greenvillo County. On going to the house and surrounding it the sheriff approached and rapped on tho door. Glover responded and opened tho door after getting a light. When commanded by tho sheriff to surrender, the negro reached for his gun in a rack near the door, hut before he could uso it the sheriff and one of liis deputies, having tho drop on the negro, both fired, killing him on the spot. Eight shots were fired, six of which took effect in the negro's body. The other two found lodgment in the stock of Glover's gun, which he held in his hand. Dob and Wesley Glover and their niomier wore arrested hy tlie otlicers and brouslit to jail on the same warrant. Before leaving for jail Bob (llovcr is said to have confessed to the officers that ho went with his father the night the barn was burned and saw the old man apply the torch to the building. He further said, it is claimed, that his mother instigated the crime. The Cllovers lived on Mr McCuen's farm until a short time before the fire aind are said to have threatened revenge when forced to leave because of continual friction with their landlord. * 4 MAT WAY OfT. + Were Trapped t'nder (Collapsed Straw Shed. Charles Karglader, a farmer living near Orionville, Minn., reported the supposed theft of five large working horses from a pasture. Notices were published in the local papers of the towns rurrounding, but ho receiver no information as to their where abouts. Four days later Karglader notified the sheriff of the county to drop lib search, as he had discovered them a; they were coming out through ai opening of a straw shed, which hat collapsed after the animals sough shelter therein. They were eatinj their way out. A BLEASE BANQUET TWO HUNDRED OP HIS FRIENDS ENJUT THE FEAST WANT TO RULE PRIMARY Carrol ('. Simiiis Comes Out for (?ov(Timr on the 111 ease Platform ami is (iiven an Ovation, Hut Mcl;?urin's Speech Meets With a Cold Reception From the Crowd. Determination to light any effort to strengthen and make the primary absolutely fair by throwing around it needed safeguards and an equal determination to control the next Democratic State Convention and State committee, were prominent features of the conference of two hundred followers of CTovernor Colo D. Mease, who gathered Wednesday night in the Jefferson Hotel around the banquet board and listened to speeches from Coventor Mease and his prominent lieutenants. The banquet began at 7 o'clock and lasted until midnight. Speeches from loaders worked the gathering up at time to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. Coventor Mease was given an ovation, and the speakers vied with one another in paying tribute to their leader. The meeting brought forth the positive announcement from Mr. Charles Carroll Sitnnts of llarnwell, a close personal and political friend of the Coventor, that he would he in the race for governor next year. The governor himself emphatciallv stated that he would take no hand lit I tlio (lubernatorlal race in the first | primary, but intimated that lie would back the Mease man in the second race if that race he between a Mease man and an anti-Measite. As equally1 significant was the statement from (iovernor Mease that he would fight as long as he lived the man who in*troducod the resolution in the State committee last summer providing for an investigation into the charges of fraud in the primary. While ho called no names the reference was clearly understood to he Richard I. Manning of Spmter. It brought forth a storm of cheers. Senator McLaurin and Mr. C. CX Sinims were the only gubernatorial candidates present. Roth made speeches, but Mr. Simms appeared to be the favortte of the gathering, cries of "Our next (Iovernor" and cheers punctuating bis speech, which was largely a glowing tribute to (iovernor Mease and his followers. Senator Mc | Laurin was given respectful attention and drew applause, but apparently bis speech did not contain the material the crowd wanted. Assistant Attorney General Dominlck acted as toastmaster, and In his introductory remarks was given a rousing reception. The crowd clearly wanted him to run for Governor, and this was suggested by several speakers, but he positively declined, saying he was going to be elected to Congress from the 3rd district. Governor Blease urged his followers to attend club meetings and (Secure control of the convention, bitterly opposed any change of the primary announcing that lie would vpto any legislation along this line, urged every white man to register. Several of the small fry also made speeches. Mr. Charles Carrol Smms in saying that Bleasism meant something higher and nobler than Tillmanism started an ovation and warming up to his subject kept the crowd cheering all through his speech. That the illease conference felt that they were waging the people's fight was evident in the way the crowd cheered. They are enthusiastic over Governor Bloase and are confident they are going to send him to the Senate, but fool that thev ought, to have an out and out Please man to run for Governor. There is little doubt but that had Mr. 0. Tt. Humbert been present he would have carried the day, for when Governor Please referred to his illness and brought to the crowd Mr, Hembert's message to the effect that he expected to recover and make t.hf race and for his followers not tc leave his standard and when other speakers referred to him the gathering cheered Mr. T?ctp hurt's name tr the echo. With tho feeling that Mr Rembert's sickness eliminates birr there was a decided drift towards Mr Simms, as was evidenced at the ban quet. Two hundred Please followers were gathered from every county lr the State and comprised men fron every profession and walk of life. T was an cnthusiasitc gathering of th< leaders of the Pleaso forces. ? nATTiJisiiiPs to vrcuA muz + Fourth Division of Atlantic Flee Lcavo Flampton Roads. ) The fourth division of the Atlanti t fleet under Rear Admiral Rousch . sailed from Hampton Roads Wednes day for Vera Cruz to relieve the Am 1 eriean ships now stationed at tha ^ place. The squadron hound for Me* * lean waters is composed of the hat \ th?ships Rhode T;'a ul, Virginia, N"e\ 1 Jersey, and Nebraska. Upon the arri t val of the Rousch squadron at Vor Z Cruz the American ships now ther will proceed to their home stations. TOBACCO A GOOD CROP +, riJ IM'l Ki:i> HI PI'liV Allot T 215,000,000 POI NDS, Is Very Popular and Surpasses All Other Kind in General I'sc?So Say (io\eminent Experts. Tlio normal annual production of flue-cured tobacco 011 a farm-weight basis is estimated to bo about 2 15,000,000 pounds, according to experts in the department of agriculture. Tills type of tobacco is the only American grown variety that has shown a tendency to expand our exports. About 10 per cent., or around 00,000,000 pounds, is exported and the remainder is used in- domestic consumption. "Ail things considered, this flueeurod type of tobacco is unsurpassed in universal popularity," state tho experts, "and it is adapted to a variety of usos, including granulated and cut smoking tobacco, both paper and nil-tobacco cigarettes, and plug filler and wrapper; in fact,'it is adapted to all the. regular forms In which tobacco is used except standard cigars and snuff. in color and general appearance It is very attrao live, ? 11 I I V" I I n I VJ W II M (MIJll* I U I I L I 11 V. , tit i Id hobs, aromatic sweetness, fragranco and good keeping qualities render it very satisfying to the user." The use of flues in curing tobacco became popular after the close of the War Between the Sections and by the middle '80s the demand had increased so that about 20 counties in Virginia and North Carolina had been planted to this variety. There are a number of varieties of flue-cured tobacco, prominently among which are the W'arne, Yellow Oronoco, Whitestem Oronoco, Big Oronoco, Adeoek, Adkin, Willow-Tioaf, Clooch, TiUey and Hester. The Warno is the standard wrapper type and perhaps the most popular. Tho Adcock is a great favorite in the noted wrapper-producing section of (Iranvill ecounty, North Carolina, while the Adkin is popular as an early maturing variety. Apart from tho natural character of the soil itself, there is no more important matter for the tobacco grower to consider than the management of his fields. Indeed the charactor of tho tobacco produced will depend as much on how the fields have been handled in rotation between tho successive tobacco crops as upon tho fertilizer used or the cultivation given directly to the tobacco crop itself. Tobacco land should ho so handled as to he kept in good life. A liberal supply of vegetable matter in an advanced stago of decay is highly desirable, but it should be of the kind not excessively ricli in ammonia. It is well known that the organic matter of freshly cleared or broom* sedge flertls is of a kind well suited to tobacco. It consists principally of dead leaves, twigs, roots, pine tags, brooin-sedgo and roots. Such vegetable matter while poor in ammonia, by its ample volume makes the Hoil very mellow and friable and of good water-holding capacity. There is prol>ably no better humus crop for rotation than herd's grass or red top. Specking, or "diseasing", as It is generally called, Is the most common disease injury to which tobacco In the flue-cured district is subject. It is believed to bo a fungus disease, disseminated by spores. Tho only practical method of reducing the injury to the crop caused by the disease is by using potash moro liberally In the fertilizer, which seems to increase the resistance of the plant to tho disease. SF/T OF IMjATF l'ltlOSKXTET). ? Col. Ashury Coward's Old Student#* Honor Ilini at Haiiquet. Wednesday night in Columbia at tho Jefferson Hotel was held a rounion of the King's Mountain Military School, at which the venerable i founder and headmaster, Col. Asbury i Coward of Orangeburg, was the guest . ot honor. The banquet was hold in tho main dining room of the beautiful hotel, and thero were about fifty or . moro men in attendance, former stu, dents of the famous old Yorkville academy. During tho evening Col. Coward i ^,1 ...tit. _ I. ? ? ) w < i r? |M 1,-BfII It'll Willi cl IIUIKISOmO SCI of plato by bi? former students. It ! is of massive colonial pattern with (luted corners, and consists of cofTeo . pot, tea pot, sugar dish, cream pitcher 4 and wasto howl, placed upon a very ! large silver waiter, i Each of the pieces has on one side t this inscription: > "Presented to Col. Asbury Coward by tho Ex-Cadets of K. M. M. S. October 20, 1913." nnd on tho other an engraved medal* Hon, copying tho design of the military button worn on tho uniforms of the school?a quill and sword crossc ed beneath a globe in haut relief, i. with the name of the school enciroling it and "Yorkvillc, S. C., 1885" - on tho top. t How During Operation. The resignation of Drs. Reginald v Van Wert and Paul Fl< I from tho I- house staff of the St. Mary's hospital, a in Jamaica, T>. I., has been requested o as the result of a row in tho midst of an operation.