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HUERTA WILL FALL ?? WILSON THINKS FORCES NOW ACTING SUFFICIENT TO ! FORCE HIS RETIREMENT ? ? lilockade is Not Kxpected Although Admiral l'Totrlicr Will Do Whatovor is Necessary for tlio Protection Agreement With Constitutionalists, of All Aliens?Halo is After 110 The Washington government believes the power of the Huerta government is slowly "crumbling and disintegrating". No positive steps have been taken by tho administration at Washington within the last few days to compel a compliance with the demand for the elimination of Huerta. No preparations have been made for a blockade of Mexican posts such as have been variously reported. Foreign interests generally will be protected bv the 1'niimi <?f al Tuxpam, in particular, especial efforts will be made to protect British interests pending the arrival of the llritish cruisers. The sending of the English ships is in lino with previous notification to the 1'nitod States and is regarded as a normal move taken in emergencies such as exist at Tuxpain. It is intended to have a sobering effect on those Constitutionalist ollicers who, according to official reports, have announced their hostility to EnpBsli interests. The landing of marines has not been found necessary thus far, no instructions to that effect have been sent, nor has there heen any request lor such instructions. In the meantime Admiral Fletcher will be expected to take whatever steps lie deems necessary to protect all foreign interests. The parleys with the Constitutionalists have been carried on in no formal way, but merely for informative purposes. The administration, though not condoning tho inhumanity of the armed strife, generally is inclined to view with some complacency the reprisals by Constitutionalists and Federals on those officers or men who liavo .been deserting from side to side. Tho foregoing salient facts were obtained from those with whom President Wilson Thursday discussed tho Mexican situation. Tho impression that tho ITuorta government is fast losing its control over territory hitherto dominated by it, is based on the dispatches to the State department, which also show that diplomatic pressure from withI out is having much to do with weakening the resources of the provisional government. There was some emphasis in the denial emanating from the White House that any stops of a summary instructions to Charge O'.Qll O 11 crh ? nooir ' b ? 1 i. * v muuu^iiiicdo/ w iLillll 111U 1USL ICJW days. The president made it clear that beyond what already has been published tbero were no moves in the situation, as far as the United States was concerned, which were unknown to tho public. Tho president holds the view that as a result of all the influences now at work Huerta will slowly but inevitably be compelled to yield to the force of circumstances and retire. As , to tho future program of the United States, tho president believes that of necessity it must be kept within the sedret councils of tho administration and that premature publication Plight impair its efllcacy. As a consequence, there was no information obtainable as to tho plans or purposes of the Washington government in the event that Iluerta shold retire. Tt was made plain by the White House that in the parleys between Gen. Carranza, the Constitutionalist chief, and William Bayard Hale no effort was made to map out plans for the future. Mr. Halo's mls. sion was described as one merely det signed to learn what was in the minds of the Constitutionalist chiefs, what disposition they seemed to have toward the situation. Names or provisional successors to Huerta, or anything so specific that it might bo termed "negotiations", had not been carried on or authorized by the president, according to the White House explanation, nor was there any formal request for credentials from Mr. Hale. It was made plain that Mr. Hale had gotten the desired information, and White House officials stated emphatically that the parleys conducted by Mr. Hale did not affect the pending plans of the American government and that there had been no debate on any future program which the Constitutionalists might assist in. It also became known that the official investigation into the executions at Jaurez had not been completed. In this connection White House officials called attention to a consular report received from Torreon, showing that many of the alleged atrocities reported fn tho dispatches did not occur; that foreigners had been protected, but that tho execution of Federal prisoners had been Justified by tho Constitutionalists on the ground that theRO officers were traitors. It was apparent that President Wilson views the constant fluctuation of officers from one side to the other In the Mexican revolution pM natural If leading to executions DENIES COMBINATION RICHARDS IN RACE ON HIS OWN RESPONSIBILITY. ? Candidate for (Jovernor Declares He Is Neither Political Dictator Nor Meddler. Denial of a combination with the Please forces, or any other combinations, was made Thursday night by Chairman John CI. Richards Jr., of tho railroad commission, who is a candidate for governor. He says that ho feels that the candidates for the United States senate are amply able to take care of themselves without Interference on his part. "I am not presumptuous enough to attempt the role of a dictator, and I do not propose for others to place me in the attitude of a meddler," declared Mr. Richards. Major Richards says in his dictated statement: "I have seen the editorial in the Orangeburg Times and Democrat and I have also read several letters from <1 Mm in'i source, in which ino writer undertakes to give tlie political affiliations of certain candidates for governor. myself among them. The writer of these articles does not assume responsibility for his statements, nor does lie give tlie name of his informant. For these reasons T have not attached any importance to the statements and T am surprised that any one else should. It seems, however, that the editor of The Times and Democrat feels that they should not go unnoticed and calls upon me for a statement. "I desire to state that T have entered into no combinations with any man or set of men; that I am in the race for governor on my own responsibility, and that it is my purpose to make that race with my past life, both private and public, as one of the planks of my platform and without interference on my part with the candidacy of other people and for other positions. T am not presumptuous enough to attempt the role of a dictator, and T do not propose for others to place mo In the attitude of a meddler. "I feel that the candidates for the United States senate are amply able to look after their own interests without interference upon my part, and that the white people of South Carolina are eminently qualified to select their own officials, from United States senator to coronor, and I am in favor of allowing them tho untrammelled right to do so. I trust that this statement makes my position plain to every one." I ... ? When Wars Shall Cense. Prance is so heavily in debt because of militarism that she is compelled to Iloat a loan at a high interest. Germany, for the same reason, has done tho same with indifferent success. Other nations are staggering under the same heavy load of taxation for warlike purposes. This mad rivalry is crushing out tho lifo of European peoples, and it is all so unnecessary. If nations will but realize that wars and suspicion do not pay; that the true relation of nations to each other is not that of rivals, but that of partners in the world's trade and progress there would soon be an end of the present situation. Nations have got to learn that the Ten Commandments are as binding on them as they are on individuals. If it is wrong for an individual to kill and steal it is just as wrong for a nation. God grant that the day will soon come when war shall cease and when our international troubles will bo settled by arbitration. ? Styles Fifty Years Ago. The scantiness of woman's dress is no new thing, but was complained of over fifty years ago as an editorial from the Chattanooga Daily Rebel of June 21, ISO J, amply proves. This will seem singular to those who liavo been reading the criticisms of women's styles in American newspapers for the past few years. Most of us had been thinking that thin dresses were a product of late years, but we now find that wo aro mistaken, as the following from the Daily Rebel will show: "The Paris correspondent of The London Daily Telegraph complains of the increasing freedom in dress prevalent among the higher class of Paris females. Ho was at the Italian opera a few nights previous to writing, and was astonished at the magnificence and scantiness of the costumes, which rivaled in those respects the siyio oi tno i< irst JUmpIro, when, to use the expression of Talleyrand, the dresses 'commenced too lato and ended too soon'." Hut it is to be doubted whether the Paris correspondent of tho sixties had more to complain of then than ho would have if ho was living and was writing about tho Parisian fashions of to-day. Tho trend in recent years has been to reduce tho amount of raiment that adorns the fashionable woman. Wo can't say exactly with Talleyrand that tho dresses of tho ladles "commences too late and ends too soon", but wo must confess to our critical eyo that they aro too tight "round about" in many cases. when they fall Into the hands of those with whom they previously had been affiliated. whirled on ptllky. Chester Youth Loses Clothes hut Saves Ills Life. Ono of tlio most remarkable escapes from death that has recently been reported occurred at Wilksburg a town in the western part of Chester County on Tuesday when Lonnie Harris, a boy, who is employed at he gin of C. l'\ Wade, went down the main shaft of the gin in an endeavor to 11 x tho belt back on the pulley, which ran tho apparatus that conveyed the seed from the gin. The machinery was still running at a rapid clip. As lie tried to slip the belt back on his sleeve, hanging down, caught in a set screw in the pulley and in a moment he was being whirled around liko a looso windlass. It was at least five minutes before the machinery was stopped. All the time ho was going so fast that it was difficult to discern tho outlines of his body. After the machinery of the plant had been stopped everybody rushed to him, expected to find him a corpse; instead, upon being closely examined, it was found that he had sustained only a few bruises, but he was minus his clothes, which had consisted of two shirts, a pair of trousers, a brand new pair of overalls, socks and shoos. Everything was torn into threads and all had gone save a piece of sock and a shoe on one foot. As lie whirled round lie passed by a place in the wall that had two long nails projecting, and the, young man was whirled in between those long nails, and it was these that did the tearing. , FOLK A11K 1NJIKED. ? Passenger Trains on 11?o Southern Butt Together. Four persons wore injured and the two locomotives wore smashed when passenger trains 24 and 22, Southern railway, collided head-on about three oeloek Thursday morning at Barton a station about half-way between Columbia and Savannah. W. C. Hudson, superintendent, Columbia, division, was on board train 2 4, on route to Columbia from Jacksonville, and he took charge of the work of clearing the tracks and transferring the passengers. Tho Southern's Southeastern Limited passed the point without delay. Trains 2 2 and 24 had orders to pass at Barton. In somo way they collided just at tho station. That both trains were practically still when the accident occurred accounts for the slightness of tho damage. Investigation into the cause of tho accidon t iu lmln or moiln 41*^. O ~ ? a i. uv.iif-, uinviv uiu ouuiimni officials. Those injured were: L?. C. Fanning, Salley, ankle sprained; Mrs. M. F. Myers, Sandy Springs, bruised by being thrown against a seat; Davis Simmons, arm broken; T. A. Tdoyd, seriously injured. Simmons and Tiloyd aro said in the Southern's official report to have been riding between the engine and baggage care of the southbound train. ? Time to Call a Halt. We, as a general thing, look upon Italy as a somewhat lawless country, where life is very insecure, and where murders aro common and of frequent occurrence, but, as a matter of fact, for every murder committed in Italy one and a half is committed in this country. Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, in a report published recently in The Spectator, says that whereas the average homicide rate of Italy for the fivo years ended with 1010 was 3.9 per 100,000 of population, tho average rate of 5.9 prevailed in the registration area of the United States; that is, for every 100 homicides in this country there were only GG in Italy. The murder rate in Ttaly is higher than any other civilized country in the world except tho United States. This fact should mako every American hang his head in shame. If tho murder rate in New York City was as low as that in Copenhagen there would have heen but fifty-nine killings and murders instead of the nearly eight hundred which actually accurred in 1910. The deaths from like causes in New York City In 1912 leaped to over eight hundred. Such a record as that should make us stop and consider our ways and inaugurate a movement to improve them. It is simply awful to contemplate. According to Dr. Hoffman, "Philadelphia is still a city of brotherly love, it seems, for there the homicide rate was only 1.4 per 100,000, as compared with the rate of 013 in Memphis, Tenn. The Southern cities stand highest in this bad eminence, average 20.2 killings per 100,000 throughout their extent. The rate for the total population of the continental United States is G.G, as compared with 3.G in Paris and only 1.01 in London, and tho total during 1011 because of quarrels, drunkenness, jealousy, murderous assaults and so on, amounted to G,200, rising to above 0,000 in 1012." Theso are staggering figures, and show us in a bad light to the civilized world. Dr. I Toff man says doubtless racial differences in a country populated with immigrants from all foreign nations, and tho clashes between whites and blacks in tho South, liavo much to do with tho oxcessivo homicide rate in this country. Nevertheless, the grieving contempt for tho sanctity of human lifu la alarming. And HOLD TROOPS ON BORDER BRITISH CRUISERS ARE ORDERED TO VERA Cltt'Z. ? Senator Shejfyard and Representative Henry Requested War Department to Keep Strong Force on Border. Two events connected with the military and navy situation in regard to Mexico Wednesday gave a faint tinge of interest to a day otherwise unmarked by developments. Early in the day Gen. Hliss, commanding the American troops on the Mexican borders, was authorized by tho war department at Washington to detain indefinitely tho Second cavalry regiment, at Fort Hliss, and the Fifth at Fort Iluacliuca. They were to have come north as soon as they wero relieved, by the two regiments recently ordered to Texas for that purpose. Senator Sheppard and Representative Henry, of Texas, pointing to tlie danger to which their people at El Paso and other points wero exposed by tho reported approach of a largo force of Mexican federals intent on revenging themselves upon tho troops of Gen. Villa for the capture of Jaurez, had urged tlie war department to keep all four regiments on the border. News that three big British cruisers had been ordered to proceed from West Indian ports to Vera Cruz created somo comment in ofllcial oir cles, wliero it was recalled that recent Condon dispatches had indicated that the British government would entrust the interests of their subjects in Mexico to the United States. It. was pointed out, however, that the Washington government had welcomed the appearance of foreign warships in Mexican waters and that the gathering of British, German, Japanese and French vessels off the coast might indicate to Gen. Ilucrta a growing lack of confidence on the part of the powers in his ability longer to maintain himself and insure the safety of foreigners in Mexico. The announcement in Mexico that a British squadron is coming to Mexican waters created keen interest, but the effect upon the Mexican mind was reassuring rather than otherwise, explains a dispatch from Mexico City, because the Mexican people continue to look upon Great Britain as a friend. In official quarters the dispatch of the squadron was styled as an act of courtesy. Army reports greatly minimize the strength of the contending forces at Jaurez last week, indicating that Villa's rehel command did not exceed 1,500 while the federal garrison was only about GOO strong. The staff officers are inclined to believo that the apparently surprising apathy of the federal commanders can bo explained only upon the theory that they aro endeavoring to take the rnhoia surprise and will unexpectedly appear in great forco at some point where they expect to inflict a telling blow. * ? ? AY on't Waste Our Sons. One of Governor Blease's grievances against President Wilson is that ho refuses to send thousands of our young men down to Mexico to Mexican bullets in order that tho American trust doing business down die of malaria or be shot to death by there can continue to earn big dividends on their railroads, coal mines and other enterprises they own. As tho Governor has no son to go, he ought to let the President settlo the Mexican question in his own way, which ho will do satisfactorily without the loss of a single young man. Shots Fired at Mayor Boll. Miles Bell, mayor of Milledgeville, Ga., had a narrow escape from death when a would-be assassin fired three shots into his bedroom window. Tho mayor's activity against "blind tigers" is believed to have caused the attempt on his life. Youtlis in Duel at Station. Harry Wilson, a young man, was shot and probably fatally wounded by Grady Edmondson, aged 21, in a revolver duel that took place in the presence of scores of persons in the railroad station at Gainesville, Ga. we regret to say that tho South in general and South Carolina in particular, contributes a full share to the horrible state of affairs. While the murder record is bad, very bad, all over the country, wo regret to say that tho record of the South is just a little worse than any other section of the country. This ought not to be. This condition will never bo improved until our juries learn to convict men for their crimes, and wo have governors who will let tho law take its course, and not pardon criminals for political or pecuniary advantages to themselves or any one else. Then too, our judges are too lenient. They bail men charged with murder for a nominal sum, and thus say to the jury that tries tho case this man is not guilty. Every man who kills another should bo punished in somo way, and many who go freo should bo electrocuted. Wo have degenerated into a race of "pistol toters", which is the cause of ninety per cent, of tho murders that disgrace our civilization. Do away with the hip-pocket gun and murders will I nearly ceaea. I THE NAVAJO WAR. I ? Precautions Are Being Ma<l? Against Indian Attack. Four hundred renegade Navajo In- I dians encamped on Beautiful Mountain, thirty-five miles southwest of the Shlprock agency, sang war songs and danced around council fires all night Thursday, while sentries stood | watch at the many signal fires which J fringed tho northwestern side of the Mesa. At Shlprock extra precautions had heon taken against a surprise attack by followers of Chief Bo She She, who have been wrought almost to a state of frenzy by their medicine men. W. T. Shelton, Indian agent, and his Indian police, who are still faithful,, Thursday began preparations to renew overtures to the aborigines. Traders and settlers on tho reservation have become frightened and have appealed to Agent Shelton for protection. The other Indians of the reservation, more than 3,000, have given no intimation as to where their sympathies lie. It Is upon tho coming of troops that the agency officials and the settlers base their hopes that bloodshed may bo averted. There are ninny at tho settlement, however, who express anxiety over tho reception which tho Indians will give the troops. Some fear that the renegades may offer armed resistance to the troops. That tho Indians will use force on occasion was evidenced by their armed attack on the agency when they released eleven tribesmen who had been arrested on federal warrants, charging horse stealing, assault assault and battery, while more than 1 00 sympathizers stood on the hank of the Little San Juan river ready to o i/1 av I ? ? L ? 4 * ? l. ?1- i * J 1 dm mum in tuuir uiiueil 8UOU1Q T.I10 agency oflicials show any intention of offering forcible resistance to their fellows. 1) E AI) MAN ALIVE. ? As Ilody Lay in Collin Supposed Corpse Haps at Door. While relatives and friends surrounded a collin in which lay the 1 body of a young man identified as John Thompson, of Hamilton, Ont., a victim of tho recent storm on the Great Lakes, tho real John Thompson rapped at tho door and was admitted to the house. His mother collapsed and was made seriously ill. ' Young Thompson's father did not know on what boat his son was employed and when he read of the finding of the body of a John Thopipson, fireman on the lost steamer Carruthers, ho went to Kettle Point and identified it as that of his son. The body was shipped to the parents' homo and preparations were being made for the funeral when the young man suddenly returned very much alive. lie explained ho had been in Montreal during the great storm and had just heard of his reported death. Deforo going to his home, the son stopped at a hotel conducted by James Duffy. Duffy, who had been at the Thompson home and seen the body there, fell in a faint, thinking ho had seen a ghost. ? Meaning of the Monroe Doctrine. Those folks who are always urging the abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine are in the same class with those other folks who know nothing of its meaning and who are always subjecting it to misrepresentation and distortion. Tho suggestion that the Monroe Doctrine should be wiped out so as there could bo international action in Mexico is absurd and nonsensical. Tho Monroe Doctrine has no relation whatever to international action in Mexico, yet it is demanded by some people and newspapers favoring the idea of international action, that tho Monroe Doctrine bo wiped out so as it can bo brought about. As the New York World points out, its briefest terms tho Monroe. Don trino is a declaration against tho ex- * tension of monarchy on this hemisphere. For many years wo were content to let it go at that. Now, however, the Monroe Doctrine is any extreme view of overlordship which jingo or imperialist sees fit to take. Under the true Monroe Doctrine we stood ready to protect Latin America from the aggressions of Kings and Emperors bent upon conquest, not so much for the benefit of Latin America as for the safety of ourselves. Under the spurious Monroe Doctrine, as practiced by the Republicans, wo have more than once undertaken to schoolmaster weaker nations, to relieve them of their rightfill rnannn oi V\ll 111 A ? J A ? 1 11 iu> iua|/un?iuinuca illHl IU DUIiy friendly European powers wronged by revolutionists and dictators. Joint action in Mexico can have no bearing upon the truo Monroo Doctrine except to make it more binding. Joint action in Mexico would kill the false Monroo Doctrino in every turbulent Latin-American state and in this country also. ? Mad Dog Rites Roy. Cbamp Smith, a little white boy of the Brandon mill village, Greenville, was bitten several days ago by a stray dog, and a telegram from Columbia has stated that tho dog was j mad. lie was immediately taken to Atlanta for treatment, < ? 1 We all have much to be thankful i for evory year, but we hare much to ] be specially thankful lor this yeae. ' STAYS IN MEXICO O'SHAUGHNESSY INSTRUCTED TO REMAIN AT CAPITAL HUERTA READS MESSAGE Likens Himself to Napoleon and Calls Dissolution of Congress an Heroic Act?Asks New Congress for Clean Ilill of Health but Makes No Deference to His Foreign Delations. Speculations as to what President Wilson intends to do in tho face of the Mexican difficulty was increased Wednesday by tlie knowledge that the American charge d'affaires, Nelson O'Shauglinessy, had received new instructions from Washington to wait at iiis post for further instructions and that important matters were under consideration. Tho foreign colonies in tho Mexican capital are preparing to defend themselves in the event of disturbances in the city and particularly should the final settlement he left to tho Mexicans themselves, Both Sir Lionel Garden and Admiral Von llintze, tho British and German ministers, respectively, have suggested to their countrymen tho advisability of perfecting some sort of a defence organizat ion. No such advice has been given to tho Americans, but committees aro quietly working out a plan of defense and it is possiblo that there will bo formed a general organization, embracing tho American, British, German and Austrian res;dents. The American chargo Wednesday attended a reception given to tho diplomats by Gen. Iluerta at Chapultepe.3 castle. It was an elaborate affair and was held there because of the restricted facilities of tho president's town and suburban homes. In his messago to Congress Thursday afternoon President Iluerta quoted Napoleon In justification of his arbitray dissolution of tho old congress, and he serves notice that he will ask the new congress to grant him a political bill of health. Not even a reference to international relations is made in the message which Gen. Iluerta has prepared. Tho document was read and briefly discussed at a meeting of the cabinet Wednesday, the ministers agreeing with their chief that ho had done well in not attempting to cover too much ground. Tho president confines himself entirely to a review cf the incidents leading to the dissolution of tho old congress and justification for his act. What may be regarded as a hint of tho delicato situation which Mexico as a nation is occupying appears in the conclusion of tho message, when ho reminds tho congressmen that tho moment is a solemn one and possibly decisive for tho future of tho nation. In this connection tho president says that the eyes of all of tho people of Mexico as well as those of tho civilized world are upon them. Tho mossago closes with an expression of tho hope that soon nil Mexicans may be united and that all may join in the task of national reconstruction. Attention is called to the alleged lack of harmony existing between tho cxecutiTe and tho judiciary, oit the ono hand, and tho chamber of deputies on tho oth,er prior to tho dissolution, charging that tho chamber attempted to frustrate tho executive. Tho message also explains that tho executive did all in his power to prevent, a rupturo arrl to maintain good relations with congress, yielding in more than ono instance and attempting in many ways to bring about more cordial feelings of Co-operation. According to Gen. ITuerta's nies mige, -congress became, in fact, tho centre of revolutionary activity, a sort of open agency for Northern rebels engaged with arms in slaughter and pillage, and, what is still worse, in tho task of bleeding the fatherland, to expose it in its weakness and poverty to danger from abroad; took an attitude of opposition against government in tho work it was attempting and invaded aggressively not only the provice of the judicial power, hut also tho executive, in order to second in this manner tho nefarious activity of tho rebels." flen. TTuerta says that ho chose not to vacilato under these conditions and resorted at last to tho extreme measure of dissolving congress, us* - ? * * ing ino necessary rigor to face such a (lelicato situation, and called new elections. Defending his action, ITuerta says it always will be a noble act and argues that in any caso it is preferable to savo the nation, even at tho sacrifice of principles, than to preserve intact, at the expense of tho people, tho rigid, inert precept of justice, tho utility of which may bo open to controversy. In this connection ho quotes Napoleon, to tho effect that "tho law is not violated when you savo tho fatherland." ? 1 fobbed by llnndits. A. D. King, a Chicago mining man arrived in Douglas, Arizona, Monday from a mine near Temosachio, Stato af Chihuahua. Ho said that a band of twenty bandits shot his horso from under him and robbed him of $600. He walked the laet six days of hla four nay.