The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 13, 1913, Image 3
M'LAUBIN ANSWERS
REPLIE TO SENATOR TILLMANS
KECtNT OPEN LETTER
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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
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HUERTA WILL NOT YIELD
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MADE TO MIM
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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
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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.
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CHANCES ARE MADE
SENATE COMMITTEE MUTILATES
CUKIENCT MEASUKE
TO BOLD PARTY CAUCUS
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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. ,
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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.
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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?
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of tho streetcar Rtrike, but had boon
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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