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M'LAUBIN ANSWERS REPLIE TO SENATOR TILLMANS KECtNT OPEN LETTER \ ? DOES NOT TAKE ADVICE Marlboro 9eiator Givea Oat BUt?< usnt as io Hka lntcaded Action#? Sa/a lie Still Has Bom Affactiaa for lib former CoU?a<aa Nat Voa't Take Stamp Agaiast Biaaar la reply to the latter of Senator Tillman, giving the Senior Senator'# views on the outcome of the Blease conference and the subsequent withdrawal from politics of John L. McI.auriu, former United States Senator and now State Senator from Marlboro County, Mr. McLaurin has issued the following: Senator Tillman's letter is so "Tillmaueaque" that when I read It yesterday I hardly knew whether- to laugh or cry, cuss or pray. I expect a little of all is in order. Ha hits urease with a meat axe, pitchforks me, Ignores Smith and spits in Simms' fao*. I am not coins to let myself loose (If 1 can help it). The situation is too serious, for from the way I feel and ho feels, we'd be fighting in pair of minutes and let South Carolina go to the dOTll, as we did before. I will honestly acknowledge that I hare never been able to get entirely over an early affection for Senator Tillman. I have said hard things myself, but I don't like to hear other people say one word against him. If I had conquered and had him down, I would never have rubbed sand in his syes. His letter is distinctly offensive: "Johnny is smart, but he is a bad boy; he sasscd papa. Papa is isorry, but come here, Johnny; hand mo the brush; now get across my knee; papa is going to spank you, but if Johnny is good the balance of the week he can go to the 'movies' Saturday." I feel like saying "damn", but I'll say "Mess the Lord". That letter discloses why I couldn't get on with Tillman, why Latimer couldn't and why he and Smith can't agroe. An imperious will that brooks no opposition. I could get on with him now; I'd laugh at him. I used to take him and myself too seriously. I will say, however, that Cod never made a man big enough to talk down to me. My record in the Senate needs no defence. I have done the "penance" of the "very nearly great man", who was inn fur of hla tlnm T ?? fered the bitter fate that comes to all advanced thinkers. After "pitchforks" are forgotten and "dung heaps" ploughed under, the State warehouse idea, with agricultural products as a bankable asset, will give me a place in history, where foul landers and my own weaknesses are forgotten. God has been good. I do not need an ofllce for my name to live. When Cole L. Rlease stood up before eight thousand people and said he is a "good mam he would make a good governor, he has been badly treated by the scurrillous politicians of South Carolina," ho made a personal friend that will last him after the miserable bootlicks and sycophants have turned on him, like those who used to lick Tillman's hand and a.t his bidding drove the steel into my heart, and are now ready to drive It into Tillman's for the favor of another. Senator Tillman has served a great purpose. He does not need an ofllce to perpetuate his fame, but he is a man, poor, weak clay, same as I. In us both is that unperishable spark that, after death has washed the dross away, will shine clear and bright. Why should he still seek to dim the lustre of my star? I envy him not the faintest ray of his own. I rejoice in all true greatness, and sorrow in what is little, for are wo not all men? God must judge between us, and the balance Ho strikes shall be for all eternity. I long ago forgave him. His letter shows he has never been able to do that. God does not expect repentance except from the "near" great. Life is a pose to 99 per cent. The world is a stage. My sense of humor saves me. It made me laugh to see how utterly the public misconstrues the true character of both myself and Tillman. It is the Joke of the century. Tillman's pose from the beginning has been bluff, brutal honesty, "Pitchfork Pen." "Give 'em hell and rub it in." Ho overplayed his hand a little. Down underneath lives the m08t astute nlnvnr nf tho game that evor dealt a card. The only man without college training that I ever knew with a classical education. Under that roughness, exquisite literary tnntos, A giant mind that has road, digested and assimilated the wisdom of all the ages, and applied It to practical politics. Beneath bluster Is the subtle genius of a Tallyrand; he has made every man In South Carolina vote for him one time or another. I laughed with him when the Gonzales solemnly voted for him last summer. I am no politician; I haven't fooled anybody and Tillman has fooled ' i HUERTA WILL NOT YIELD I | DF.TK11M LN E I) TO REJECT ATX DEMANDS MADE TO MIM -? N? Formal Axswer Mas As Yet Deen Made But TboM Close to Mexican President Raj Ho Will Act Thus. The purpose* of General Huerta were voiced Thursday morning by a person who is close to the provisional President. The President, says this friend, is determined to reject I all the demands set forth in the latest United States communication and is resolved to seat the Congress just elected. If Congress, however, declares the recent presidential election null and makes arrangements for another election, Gen. Huerta would be disposed to abide by this decision and submit to the people's choice of a man who would occupy the Presidency until the autmumn of 1918. There was still no Indication at Mexico City Thursday whether Huer-' ta would make a formal reply to the communication to him by the United States. The nature of the memorandum is said to call for no other reply than compliance. How long Washington expects to wait for this compliance after failing to receive a verbal rejoinder is a question which is greatly interesting the few at Mexico City who are convinced of the passage of the communication from the United States government to the provisional President. Mexico City itself is still Ignorant of the nature of the new representations made by Washington to Gen. Huerta. The newspapers have pr nted only denials of tho reports from the United States until Thursday, when they partially confirmed them. The Herald, the only English daily newspaper, published & dispatch from TTa n _ A _ A I n - - . ... vcr* v/i uk siaung mar jonn Liind, the personal representative of President Wilson had confirmed the report! of "certain indication! being made by Washington to Mexico." Notwithstanding the necessary precaution! surrounding the transmission by Nelson O'Shaughnessy, United States charge d'affaires, of the Washington dispatch enough has leaned out to fill city of Mexico with rumors and endless speculation an to what Gen. Huerta's course of action will be. everybody except himself. I was the seeker for abstract truth, careless of personal fortunes. Tillman was the adroit political acrobat that could change from a radical to a conservative. I tried to reason it out and was crucified for the reasons, not the result. Woodrow Wilson and Underwood are Just where I stood fifteen year! ago. His letter is so full of Tillmanlsm, his arrogance and dominant power over men, that I almost love him for being just what he is. It brings back aentle, brave Hugh Farley, the polished Tindal, dear old "Wash Shell", and "Curly-headed Johnny," gathered around the fierce old "Lion", that uominaiea us an. I am not going to be swayed one way or the other by self. I am going to act for the best good of the State as I see It, not as directed by anybody. Before Tillman's letter came out or I saw Mease's statement, I sat down and wrote a paper to my friends In various sections of this State explaining my course and they are free to give It to the press. If it is necessary to fight for peace, then I am ready to fight. I will not bo a "dog in the manger" nor be a servile tool to gratify any man's spleen toward Governor Blease, or to In any manner curtail the rights gained by the people in 1890. Good citizenship Is not measured by loyality to a man, but to a principal. Tillmanism split on that rock. It is tearing ragged holes in the ship that carries the high hopes of the many good people who are Bleaseites. I will always defend Tillmanism as distinct from Tillman. I place both Tillmanism and Bleaseism as higher nnn greater tnan tno personality of nny man. I have regretted the evil dispensary graft, that prevented Tillman from leading the movement to its full fruition, and I "would like to see Bleaselsm accomplish that in which Tillmanism failed, and when it does the State will be saved. Our people must get together. I have canvassed this entire State, and they will get together. Self-seeking pretenders can not juggle Almighty Ood out of the progress he has decreed for the human race. "Tn flin flovo a 9 A ? ?-v-? ? ^ ^ -i .1 ... v.iv w...io ui /u Iiia^iuiuuil , In the last groat fight of all; May our houses stand together That tho pillars do not fall." John Lowndes McLaurln. Georgia Heroes Win Medals. Banker Burel, of Dacula, and Arthur Lockott, a negro of Gainesville,. Ga., were awarded Carnegie hero I medals. Bural saved Adolphusj Bowles from suffocation In a deep well. Lockett Is a railroad fireman and saved tho lifo of a child in Jefferson, Ga. j \ i Auto Accident Kills Two. David S. Williams, Jr., and A. P.I Smith, two of Ocola, Fla., most prominent young men, were killed in an automobile accident Saturday night. f CHANCES ARE MADE SENATE COMMITTEE MUTILATES CUKIENCT MEASUKE TO BOLD PARTY CAUCUS ? Scsutura Rood, Hitchcock and O'Gornuui Reinforce Itepublic?a Minority im the Committee and Together They Vote so Mxiy AnoadiuoaU That Kill is Hardly Recognizable. DemocrRtic leaders in the Senate lato Thursday decided that unless the Senate banking and currency committee promptly Toted back into the administration currency bill some of the fundamentals it had eliminated, a party conference or caucus would be called for the beginning of next week to consider the subject. Telegrams were sent to absent Democrats urging them to at once return to Washington. The Senate committee had continued to make changes in the House bill, which supporters of the administration took objection. A Democratic Senator at White House during the day told President Wilson that no progress would be made by permitting the House bill to be buffeted about in a committee wherein a coalition of Republicans and insurgent" Democrats would alter the entire theory of the measure. It is not known what position the President took. Newspaper men who asked the President whether a caucus would be called were told by him that it was a subject for the Senate to decide. Thursday night it became known that four staunch administration supporters on the committee?Senators Owen, IIollls, Poraerens and SlialTroth?had been quietly working on a report, which they probably will submit to their Democratic colleagues, Senators Reed, O'Gorman and Hitchcock. Should they decline to sign It, it is believed that the plan will be to submit the report to the Democratic caucus or conference. Senators who insist upon some kind of party action took the position that the Democratic party will be required to stand sponsor for whatever legislation is enacted; that efforts to get a non-partisan report would mean Interminable discussion, lots of wrangling on compromises that would seriously delay the hill and embarrass the party program In the regular session of Congress. Many Senators were in hopes that a change of sentiment would yet develoD In the commlttM nnrl n * ormn ment be reached before November 10, the date on which it had been expected that a bill would be reported to the Senate. President Wilson has not relaxed in his determination to have the currency bill passed during the present sessio'n, and many Democratic Senators have Indicated to him that they are restive under the delay and want to make the bill a party measure. Amendments termed by Chairman Owen as "altering the entire theory of the bill" were written into the administration currency measure by a coalition of Republican and Democratic members of the Senate banking committee. The administration supporters in the committee were decisively outvoted on all but one of the points settled, and later the talk of a caucus of Democrats to discipline the committee was revived. Notices were sent out summoning absent Democrats to the Senate chamber, but no definite call for a caucus was Issued. The committee voted into the bill the following affirmative provisions: That the regional banks to administer the new currency scheme bo capitalized by public subscription, the aiocK not takon by the public to bo takon up by tho member banks of the system. That each regional bank be controlled by nine directors, five to be named by tho government through the Federal reservo board and four to be chosen by tho member banks. That the new currency to be issued be treasury notes, obligations of the United States, lent to the banks, and not bank notes guaranteed by the government. This sustains tho administration bill as it passed the House. That then we notes be redeemable in "gold" by the regional bank and the treasury, and not in "gold and lawful money," as provided by tho administration. With the exception of the proposal to endorse tho administration provision concernine the curronrv rnvprn. ment notes, each amendment split the Democratic side of the committee. Senators Reed and Hitchcock voted with the five Republicans to make the regional banks publicly owned and government controlled. On the proposal to eliminate the words '"lawful money" from the redemption clause of the bill. Senator O'Oorman Joined Senators Reed and Hitchcock with the Republicans, leaving only Senators Owen, Hollis. Pomerene nnd Shaffroth behind the administration provision. All the Democrats nnd Senator Crawford, from the Republican side, voted to sustain the administration for treasury notes. Schools were never instituted to make parents shirk their responsibility for their children, but some parents mistakenly think they were. FAMILY OF DEGENERATES HISTORY OF* TUE FAIIOIB JVKES' CRIMINAL RECORD. More Than 1,2<>4) DeflceadiuiU of One linn Have lWa (liuifllflcd an Crltn* inuls, Regenerates and Dependant*. With the finding guilty of Mr*. IteBsie J. Wakefield of the murder of her husband near New Haven, Conn., another has been added to the long list of criminals and their victiruB in tho genealogical tree of the Jukes family, lira. Wakefield, the mother of three children, was convicted of murder in the first degree. Evidence showed that Bhe and her affinity, Juh. Plow, conspired to get rid of Wakefield. While the wife took the children for a walk, Plow drugged and shot Wakefield. It Is Plow who Is a member of the Jukes family, ami his crime 1h said to be typical of many of which his kinsmen have been found guilty. Of the Jukes family, sociologists have written that their crimes wore never i those which required brains or daring. Jukes is not a familiar name, but a name used to designate the descendants of a common ancestry whose history has been traced. Hack in 1 87 4 Richard S. Dugdale discovered a number of convicts in different pjrisons in New York and Connecticut who here related. He pursued a Btudy of this strain of degeneracy until he had traced 1,200 descendants of a man named "Max" who was born In 1 720, of Dutch stock. Of these descendants in five generations it was found that one in every four, or 3 10 of the 1,200, were professional paupers. Three hundred of the 1,200 died in infancy; 00 women lived lives of notorious debauchery; 400 men and women were physically wrecked by their own wicked- 1 ness; there were many imbeciles and insane; seven murtWers and CO habitual thieves. 1 In crime and pauperism. It was 1 found the five generations had cost > New York and Connecticut over $1,- ( 500,000, or more than $1,000 each, and the cost is still going on, as the Plow incident indicates. The entire < history of the family shows that they < woro characterized by idleness, vul- 1 garity, and frequent drops into crime. Of Max, the founder of the house, ' it is stated he took to the woods so as 1 not to bo compelled to attend church. Thero a number of congenial spirits gathered and the camp became the cradle of a degenerate family. , ?? w { CIIIIJ) HURNS TO DEATH. Mother Faints While Running to Rescue Her Son. Thomas Chapman, the 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Davis, , who live about three miles east of ( Clinton, was fatally burned Friday afternoon while playing about the home. Mrs. Davis had gone out in , the yard about 12:30 o'clock to attend to some domestic duties, and bad left the children in the back yard i playing. Soon afterward she heard ( screams and upon looking in the di- , rection of the house saw the child in the back porch enveloped in flames. She had a fenco to cross before she could go to the house, and in her ef- , forts to reach the child she was so overcome that she fainted. As soon as she recovered sufficiently she again ran in the direction of the house, but upon seeing the suffering child a second time sho again fainted. When the child was reached it was so badly burned that there was no hope for recovery. Girl Outrlsks Man. r. V. 1 < ? TA ? . I . ? ' j iv/iiiauii 111 L/t'lIUll, iYIlCll. IN O man was willing to risk tho job for S25. Miss Mollie McCafferty climbed an electric sign 50 feet high and placed 200 electric light bulbs, while crowds blocked the street in front of the FLEET IN MEDITERRANEAN Ruttleships Pass Olbralta and Are Greeted by Italian Squadron. Tho squadron of nine United States batleships which is on on Its way to visit Mediterranean porta passed tho Rock on Its eastward voyage early Thursday morning. Great regret was expressed in Gibralta that the vessels did not stop for a time. Tho squadron consist of the flagship Wyoming, the Utah, Florida, Arkansas, Delaware, Vermont, Connecticut, Kansas and Ohio, with the auxiliaries Celtic, Solace, Cyclops, Orion and Jason. It is to bo divided Into detach meats, tho Vermont and Ohio going to Marseilles, the Arkansas and Florida to Naples, tho Connecticut ana Kansas to Genoa and tho Utah' and Delawaro to Villefranche, while the Wyoming Is to make a trip In which she will call at Malta, Naples and Villefranche. Tho movements of the smaller accompanying vessels will bo under tho direction of tho commander of tho squadron. Merchants Fleeced. Some merchants of Spartanburg paid a professional rat exterminator ( about $200 for a preparation guaranteed to kill tho rodents. After the expert left it was found to be worthless. CALLS OUT TROOPS INDIANNA'S NATIONAL GUARD OUT TO PRESERVE ORDER MARTIAL LAW EXPECTED Governor llulston Kays He la In Sympathy With I nion Hen, Hut Tells W omen, \\ ho l'leud for Artitration That He in I'mler Oath to Mjiliilulii Law ami Order. Indiana's entire National Guard, coiiBisting of more than 2,000 soldiers, Thursday night 1h encamped in different parts of Indianapolis, ready for duty in connection with strike employees of tho Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company. Special trains brought the troops under hurried orders, and they were detrained in tho suburbs, virtually surrounding the town. Great secrecy was maintained as to tho movement and arrival of the militia and few citizens knew that tho troops had 1 been called out until they wore beginning to arrive. The trains bringing tho soldiers were stopped outside of Indianapolis by officers of the National Guard and given directions. All companies were 1 bold until thoy wero of such numbers that it was deemed safe to bring 1 them Into the city. This was done to I prevent any clash with tho strikers, who, after learning the troops had 1 been called out, wero on the down- ' town streets In largo numbers Whether the street cars are to be ! manned by soldiers, officers in charco i would not say. Martial law had not boon declared up to Thursday night. 1 hut such a proclamation is expected ' to he issued from the governor's of- 1 flea at any time. < Lata Thursday afternoon nearly i three hundred women, members of < the Garment Workers' Union, rushed 1 across the State House lawn into the i fapitol and into the governor's ofhee 1 where they demanded that Governor > Ralston force arbitration in the Rtreet ' car strike and call a special session < of the State legislature. Many of < the women were hysterical, and Mrs i Rdna Davis, president of the union t declared: "We aro willing to take 1 up arms to help win this strike." Oo\ernor Ralston, answering the women, assorted that he had no authority to force arbitration, hut as 1 povernor of Indiana ho had taken an oath to support tha Constitution and to enforce the law. He said he was in sympathy with the union men, but could not allow a condition of lawlessness to OTlst. and it was his sworn , duty to protect life and property. Rrig. Gen. William J. Mc.Kee, in com- ( mand of tho militia, is said to hare stated that he ofTielnlW Vnnw nnU,ln? ? * jr a 11 v> ?? tlVtlllUF, I of tho streetcar Rtrike, but had boon * < told there was rioting In Indianapolis and that ho had been ordered to end ' tho disorders. This ho said he ; would do. Governor Ralston announced that ho was withholding tho proclamation of martial law In tho hope that strikers and tho Street Railway Com- 1 pany would be able to come to terms. It was learned that two members of 1 the Indiana public utilities commission had asked Traction Company officials to submit the differences to 1 arbitration. Tho company agreed to receive a committee of Its own employees and try to come to an agreement with them providing tho charter of the local union from tho Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Railway Employees was cancelled and that the strike leaders and or- ' ganlzcrs leave the city. The company also agreed that in case it and tho employees' committee were unable to reach an agreement by November 3 0 to leave the settlement with the public utilities commission. None of the strike leaders would express an opinion as to what the strikers would do in regard to tho company's proposals. ? ? ? PROBABLY SOLVED. Dallas Murder Mystery of Long Standing Cleared lTn. In a statement given out Sunday, Meado Barr, who Saturday night appeared as a witness before the grand jury, is quoted as saying that the killing of Miss Florence Brown, to which Barr is alleged to havo confessed, was at the instigation of another person. Barr, it is understood, gavo tho name of the person to the grand Jury. In tho statement credit-' ed to Barr, which purported to, be in substance his testimony before theJ grand jury, ho is quoted as saying tliat ho "doped himself up" on tho ! morning of the killing; secreted himself in tho real estate ofllco, told in ' detail how ho attacked tho young stenographer and gavo as tho last! words of tho young woman: "Man,' havo mercy; T am so young and had so much trouble." Potato for Wilson. President Wilson Monday roceived by parcel post a seven and a half pound sweet potato from J. H. TtileyJ of Buffalo, S. C., with tho explanation that it was tho largest member of its family ever raised In the Palmetto State. CABINET HOLDS SESSION OOK8IDELR8 FltOIILKMH OF MEXICAN SITUATION. * WtuU Khali V. H. Do in Front Hit^a Refuses to Resign Furnishes Chlet Topic of Meeting. What shall the United States do in the event Provisional President Huerta refuses to resign? This question Friday was discussed at length in the Cabinet meeting, but no decision was announced. Formal reply to tho latest American representations had not been received and until a definite answer comes It Is not expected there will he a determination of the policy to he pursued. The discussion at the Cabinet meeting turned, however, to various alternatives. Nothing concrete developed, it was said, nor were there any angible conclusions, but members went away with fixed ideas of the determination of President Wilson that tho American government unwaveringly should insist upon the elimiuaMon of Hucrta from the situation as the first step toward peace In the Southern Republic. Lifting tho embargo on arms so that the Constitutionalists may obtain munitions of war was one of the principal subjects taken under consideration, hut as yet there is no change in the neutrality attitude of the Washington government. Press dispatches announcing Huerta's purpose of rejecting tho American demands made no Impression on government oflielaJs. They had received no olllcial communication to that effect and would not comment, they mid, until they had received official notice. A hopefulness that Tluerta would realize the certainty of future eompli ations and eliminate himself from I lie situation was expressed by some officials, but there was no information available to indicate upon what such iptomfsm might he based. Dispatches from Rerlin, stating that Germany would consider a movement to tiring the Powers into support of the American policy only If such a step was desired by the Washington government led to tho belief In many luarters that such a movement yet might ho developed In the situation :o convince Uuerta of the fore? of the American viewpoint. WAITING ON III KRTA. 4 Washington lias as Yet Received no Word From lliiti. Waiting for word trom Provisional President Uuerta?tills Wednesday was tho attitude of ofllcial Washington in the Mexican situation. Administration officials still refused to shod any light on tho last communication, which conveyed to Uuerta the uesiro or tno United States that he eliminate himself from the tangled situation. Their attitude was that public discussion of the delicate phases of the problem might defeat the ends sought. The feeling in the national capital is one of tense interest as to what course will be purchased if Gen. Huerta declines to abdicate. It was evident to those who talked with President Wilson about the situation that he was calmly awaiting developments. He has told his friends that he would continue to solve the situation by peaceful means and would not bo disturbed by predictions of armed intervention. The belief is general that the situation Is being worked out with extreme secrecy in diplomatic channels and that only when some tangible conclusion VlflH hnon rnnoho/t ...HI thero bo any official announcements. There was no collective opinion In official circles as to what Huerta's reply to the American representations might bo. No one ventured predictions, nnd so far as could bo learned no intimations had been received as to Huerta's future attitude. INVITES LEVER. Congressman Ilofuses Invitation U? Address. National Caugo. Congressman A. F. Eever, chairman of the House committee on agriculture, has been invited by Senator Henry F. Hollls, of New Hampshire, to deliver an address before the National r.rnno'O tuViO.Vi m ? ' 1 * ~ ? ,..UuDu, n uivu uiccio ai man* choster, N. H., on November 12. Tho National Grange is one of the oldest and most influential farmers' organization In tho United States, bearing tho samo relation to the North, West and East that tho Farmers' Union Kno ra a a C?/v.%*U %*?. * uu?ig iu mo ouuiii, ."vi r. i.evor nas wired his regrets at being unable to accept the Invitation, having already promised to speak at tho Chester County Fair on tho 15th and at Creenvillo before the Chamber of Commerce on the 19th, from which place he returns to Washington to resume his duties and to preparo for his work as chairman of tho committee on agriculture. Death Delusion Kills Insane Man. For sAven weeks T^ouls Ira Watson, aged 4 7 years, suffered from a mild form of insanity In which ho Imagined he was dead. A few days ago he died in reality at a hospital In Savannah, Ga., of paralysis of tho brain. j/jgJ