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ATTACK ON WILSON HAS HURT GOVtRNOR BLEASE WITH THE FARMERS FARMERS LIKE WILSON ? Governor Illease's Mud Assault on the President and His Wholesale Pardoning of White and Negro Convicts Has Hurt His Chances in the ltace for the Senate. Tho Columbia correspondent of Tio Augusta Chronicle says apropos to Governor Ulease's speech at Anderson Saturday, in which ho denounced President Wilson and vehemently asserted that ho would defeat E. 1). Smith for the United States senate next year, political observers of tho conditions in the Piedmont do not by any means agree with tho governor's prophesy of success?In fact, they so far disagree with him that they are sanguine that lie will lose the Piedmont by a largo majority. And they bring forward certain conditions to bolster their arguments. It is said that Blouse's wholesale denunciation of the Wilson administration has done much to injure him among his friends in the agricultural class; that he has lost votes he can never regain, regardless of what spectacular political move ho takes, or the more sinuous course of his astuto lieutenants. It is claimed that Blouse's utterances have done much to injure the chances of election of his first political captain in the Piedmont, Sain J. Nichols, one of the "pardon lawyers" dictagraphed hy Burns' detectives in the employ of Thomas B. Folder, an attorney of Atlanta, Ga. Nichols is in the race against Joseph T. Johnson, who represents the Fourth Congressional District. The farmers?who nro shrewd voters when the prosperity of the country is concerned?are putting up this argument why B.lease should not he sent to the senate in the place of Smith: Woodrow Wilson, they say, has made a successful president, one who has demonstrated that he is the friend of the farmer of the South and West; that lie is the real force cans inu, mi? uiMvii wdi u revision oi llio tariff, with its probable reduction in tlnweost of living. They recite the fact that one of Wilson's cabinet, through the assent of the president, relieved the financial stringency by advancing money out of the treasury to harvest and move the crops. They think that Wilson has the agricultural interests at heart when he advocates rural credits as the next great administrative measure. The farmers know that E. D. Smith is a progressive and not a destructive Democrat; that he is aligned with the policies of the administration; that he enjoys the personal friendship of the president, and, consequently, can be of much influence in promoting the general welfare of tho state. From the tenor of Dleaso's caustic criticism of tho Wilson administration at Anderson, the farmers know that, if elected, he will oppose Wilson and will be a political nonentity ho far as exerting any influence in behalf of South Carolina is concerned. Tho farmers, not only of the Piedmont, but of tho other sections ol the State are using tho foregoin.u conditions as arguments and are saying; "Why should we cut our own throats by sending Governor Please to the senate, whore he would try tc nullify the acts of the president, our friend, and defeat Wilson's friend, Senator Smith, who can do much for South Carolina through his influence?" The farmers aro using the same arguments against the candidacy of Sam J. Nichols in the Fourth Congressional district, against Victor Cheshire, a colonel on the governor's stoff, and Fred IT. Dominick, assistant attorney general and Rlease's campaign manager in the last campaign. who are opposing Wyatt Aiken for congress in the Fifth Congressional district. And political wiseacres, with premises of facts to substantiate their logic, prophesy that Ttloase and his three lieutenants will he submerged in a tide of ballots. Tt is stated that the "blind tiger" element, which supported Illease to a man for the ? ? . Didn't Need His Pardon. A dispatch from Creenville says Vaster Hrvant, turned loose by Governor Tllease along with ninety-nine other convicted as .a Thanksgiving gift, was at the time of his pardon ft fugitive, having escaped from the Oreonville gang some time In September. Bryant was convicted In Oreonville at the September term of court 1011, of manslaughter, and v"? fontenced to five years imprisonment Three Dead, Seven Hurt. Nine ca-s of a logging train near Aycock. F .a., broke from the train on an Incline and dashed down Into a work trair.. killing three men and Injuring seven others on Tuesday. PELLAGRA IS SPREADING11 IlK POUT SHOWS BIG INCREASE OM-IH THE STATE. ] ?. State Hoard of Health Issues Report by Counties Showing Number of Cases for the Last Two Years. J Marked increase in the number of cases of pellagra this year Is shown by a report Issued by counties by the state board of health. In Spartanburg county for instance the number increase from 165 in 1912 to 115 for this year. The following table prepared by the state board of health shows tin* number of cases in each county, as compared with last year: County. 1912 1913 Abbeville 38 64 Aiken 20 2 7 Anderson 43 4 5 lkunberg 5 Ham well 10 8 Beaufort 7 7 Berkeley 2 27 Calhoun 1 f> Charleston 16 35 Cherokee 11 10 Chester 21 4 5 Chesterfield 7 6 Clarendon 5 2 Colleton 3 9 Darlington 8 35 i ii iion 13 2 2 Dorchester 0 2 Minefield 5 11 Fairfield 58 2 0 Florence 10 2 8 Georgetown 86 2 1 Greenville 4 L 4 5 Greenwood 4 0 3 8 Hampton 3 6 Horry 3 3 Jasper Kershaw 11 2 8 Lancaster 10 (J Lee Lexington 13 22 Laurens 54 Marion 6 8 Marlboro 13 13 Newberry 3 8 7 Oconee 21 3 6 Orangeburg 3 3 2 6 Pickens 8 3 1 Richland 86 85 Saluda 6 7 Spartanburg 105 4 15 Sumter 3 6 21 Union 18 4 8 Williamsburg 8 24 York 50 95 CAPTl'KKS CONY It'T. Greenville Sheriff Breaks Speed Limit to Arrest Negro. By breaking all the speed laws of the city and State in a dash in his automobile from tho Greenville county jail to the Monaghan mill railroad crossing, Sheriff Rector, of that place Tuesday night captured Rob Pool, a negro convict, who es caped from the county chain gang in August of this year. Pool got on the (J. K. train as it left Greenville Tuesday night and was recognized by the conductor as being the escaped i eonvict. Not being able to delay his ' train in order to inform the sheriff. the conductor wrote a message on a : slip of paper and threw it to a man standing near the stop at Montague. Sheriff Recto/ was immediately no tifiod over the telephone of *ho con' tents of tho message, and without dei lay started in his automobile in a race against time, having less than live minutes to reach the Monaghan crossing, which was the train's next ' stop. Arriving there just as the train ; was leaving, he arrested Pool before he was able to attempt a flight. Hob i Pool was serving a five-year sentence s on the chain gang for shooting Jesse i Pool several years ago. At the time of his escape last August he had , served about three years of his allot ted time. governorship will bo lethargic, if not 1 downright inimical to him in his race for the senate. When they supported him last year it was because of the supposition that they would have a 1 "friend" in the governor's chair, and ' Please will be of no use to them in 1 the senate. Please's wholesale pardoning of every description of criminal is said to do doing mm irreparable injury all over the State, especially In the Piedmont. Ills pardon of Emerson and Ellison, of Anderson, caused a 1 tide of Indignation to sweep over that country which lost him fully 1 ,HOrt votes he can never hope to regain. Politicians of that county say some of his former staunch friends have turned against him. Tho main element that enters Into the opposition to Please because of his wholesalo pardoning proclivity Is v,.w tuiuiug iuuto uii mtj oiiiiH or nundreds of negro criminals. Tho mill man of South Carolina has a natural antipathy for the negro, and it Is said that they are dissatisfied with Blease's action In turning the black criminals out of tho State penitentiary to further prey on the white people of the State, and politicians who claim to guage correctly the weather vane of events say they will voice their dissatisfaction at the polls by helping to pile up the majority for Smith. The Democrats should rush the currency bill through so as the country will get down to business. ?in WILSON'S MESSAGE PRESIDENT READS HIS ADDRESS TD REGULAR SESSION BETS WARM RECEPTION enthusiastic Demonstration at Its Conclusion?Party IiCaders Howard it as Utterance of a Statesman and Democrats Are Delighted With llis lteeommendations. For exactly twenty-eight minutes on Tuesday President Wilson stood before the assembled Senate and House, in the chamber of the latter, and read his first annual message. Applause punctuated Important utterances, and when ho had finished there was an enthusiastic demonstration, with handclanidng and cheers. With close, almost eager attention, members of the two houses listened and time and again tho legislators gave vent to their enthusiasm along with tho crowded galleries. Republicans and Democrats alike pronounced the message as the utterance of a statesman. "I like the idea of the President coming before Congress," said Representative Mann, Republican House leader, "and reading a short message pithy and to the point. In the main I liked the messaera fodnv r thlnl* everybody will recognize it. as the utterance of a statesman, regardless of whether he agrees with its deails." Of particular signficnnco was one outburst regarded in the National Capitol tho unmistakable approval that greeted the president's remark "There can be no certain prospect of peace in America until (Jen. Iluerta lias surrendered his usurped authority in Mexico." Tho scene of Tuesday's function was much the same as on the three previous occasions, when President Wilson lias addressed Congress galleries crowded with men and women of importance in public affairs, members of the Cabinet, the diplomatic corps and the White House family. The message was one of the briefest and most novel of American State papers, being less than 3,000 words long?a marked contrast, as presented by Its author, to the hitherto lengthy documents averaging 20,000 words or more, droned through a reading clerk to an inattentive Congress. There was another contrast conspicuously apparent, President. Wilson had read three message before on the tariff, the currency and Mexican affairs. The first, time he addressed a joint session in person, early in this term, there was an atmosphere of stiff formality, applause was liberoral but perfunctory, and there was an indefinite air of precedent being broken?or a century old custom being revived. Also there was an expectant curiosity as to how the President. would be received. Tuesday the president's reception was warm, almost uproarious, as lie concluded his reading. Democratic leaders were enthusiastic. in their comments on the message and its recommendations. They liked tho emphasis placed by the President on the need for early action on the currency, for dealing with monopoly through anti-trust legislation, the Importance of rural credit legislation to benefit the farmers, the recommendations for (Government construction of railorads in Alaska, the development of the nation's resources by a conservation policy aliko acceptable to the State and the Federal authorities, the enactment of employers' liability legislation and the selection of Presidential candidates by tho primary system. The suggestion of tho President that party conventions as at present constituted be abolished won much applause. As Mr. Wilson declared that the party convention should he held only to ratify the verdict of preferential primaries, that the personnel of the conventions should he, for the most part, chosen from those members of Congress and Congressional nominees upon whom would devolve the duty of carrying out platform pledges, there was a wave of handclapping, in which Secretary Prvan and members of the Cabinet joined. Makes Ttig Yield of Potatoes. W. P. Harris, one of the largest and most progressive farmers of Laurens County, reports the champion yield of Irish potatoes for that county. On ten acres he produced 1,54 7 bushels, the crop having been gathered last week. On one aero alone of tho field 24 2 2-4 bushels were made. To Winter on Border. Owing to the unsettled condition of affairs on the Mexican border, nearly one-third of the Infantry forces of the United States army, comprising the second division under Major Gen. William IT. Carter, is preparing to winter In open field camp near Texas City, Texas. Killed After Acquittal, Immediately after a Jury had acquitted S. C. Curberth, of Carnegia, C.a., on a charge of criminal assault, on Tuesday, the brother of the alleged victim shot and killed him. FINISH CURRENCY BILL DIvVCC;: YY* II.W ii liILL HKAIIV i-0:1 M:\\ +. I If l i-puted Points of Importance A?ise, Will ho Cimsiilorwl and l><eide?l in Con form ce. 1 h torminod to havo tho ndministration currency bill ready for con-, sidct ltion by the Senate as a Demo cratie party measure when the new session of congress met tho Senate conference of Democrats worked far into thi> night Saturday night, settling disputed details. As Finally agreed upon tho measure was but little different from the draft presented to the Senate by Chairman Owen and tho live other administration Democrats of tho banking and currency committee. The conference decided, however, that if disputed points of importance became apparent in the course of debate on the lloor each difference among Democrats as it arose would bo taken into tho conference, the party disagreements straightened out and tho majority united to act on the lloor. Tho administration members of the banking and currency committee reported to the conference Saturday night on practically all the disputed j?i wpursiiiuitH ill 111(3 1)111. 1 HO COIlforonco adopted tho recommendations for a plan to guarantee deposits of hanks which enter t he new system. This would provide that after the new regional hanks have earned a 0 per cent, dividend on their stock and established a 4 0 per cent, surplus, the. excess earnings shall he divided l^alf and half. One part shall ho dovoted to a guarantee fund and the other shall he paid to the government as a "franchise tax". Tho conference also adopted the suggestion of the committee that the federal reserve hoard, which will control tho new system, should consist of the secretary of tho treasury and six members to ho appointed by the president. An attempt may he made to place tho comptroller of the currency on tho hoard. Tho conference with tho exception of writing in the provision for a guarantee of bank deposits has made practically no material change in the draft of the bill presented by Senator Owen and the conference measure it is practically certain will he acceptable to President Wilson. com i: to mo i>ivipi:i>. Methodists Will lla\e Two Sections in This State. Monday morning's session of the Houm i'uroll 11 a Conference at. Rock Hill was occupied with tho consideration of the question of dividing South Carolina into two sections, with a northern and southern conference. Tho resolution was presented by the ltev. 1). M. McLeod, who made an able argument to support his contention. lie argued that the work of Methodism may bo more generally and specifically advanced if there are two united conferences behind tho work than if there is a single conference, the two having far more influence than one. Also, ho said, it takes so much timo to transact business where the body is so large and unwieldy. Then, too, the conference has grov/n to a point where comparatively few cities can entertain the members without straining a point. Dr. John O. Wilson opposed a division, thinking better work could be done by one large body. After considerable discussion tho vote was taken, being 123 for and 80 against division. Messrs. If. N. Snyder, J. W. Daniel and W. M McLeod were appointed a committee to present to tho general conference a memorial asking for a division ' the State. In caso of division, the institutions in the State will become the property of both conferences. ? KILLED OVER CIGARETTE. + Clinton Negroes Have Serious Difficulty Over Triviality. Ed Williams of Clinton, colored, was killed Saturday night about 8:30 o'clock. Ho was cut to death with a knife. Watts Little, also colored, is accused of the crime. They wore in a restaurant on Main street in the business section of Clinton. The negroes, with several others, were in the restaurant when they got into a dispute over a cigarete. A policeman was called for and both negroes ran out /x# t ui iut; nouso. Williams ran about one,hundred yards when ho fell down an embankment on the Seaboard track. Ills body was found thore Sunday morning about 7 o'clock by a cook at tho Clinton Hotel. Little was also severely cut and his condition is critical. Much Cotton Ilestroywl. A flro which broke out at Woodruff Monday morning about one o'clock destroyed 388 bales of cotton, entailing an estimated loss of $35,000. Rank Is Robbed. According to a dispatch, robbers blew the Rank of Ellenboro, C., at 1 o'clock Saturday morning, Recuring $2,900, and escaped. WILL 3UKKLNDER SEVEN FIDERAL GENERALS AKE LEAVING MEXICO . HEAVY ULUW TU HUERTA (icnrrals Send <'otnniission to <i??neral Villa at tin* Same Tim? Tak* inn a I'lying S(ar( for I lilted States Koundary?Ki'dci'iils Abandon tin* Nort h. Seven generals of the Mexican regular army are ready to surrender, says a dispatch received Tuesday night from Juarez, and tho backbone of the lluerta dictatorship in tne north has been broken. A peace commission Tuesday night arrived in Juarez bearing terms of the surron dor. The peace commission was headed by Odilon Hernandez and came from Chihuahua hearing a proclamation signed by Oen. Salvador Mercado, Huerta's military governor and commander of the Federal forces in all the north. The proclamation stated that the Huerta government was bankrupt and was unable to pay its soldiers. The simultaneous exaeuation of. other Federal strongholds In the north is believed by the rebels to bo the result of a concerted decision to abandon the whole of Northern Mexico. The peace proposals were sent by (ion. Mercado to (Jen. Francisco Villa, rebel leader, through Federlco Move, civil governor of Chihuahua state, appointed ad Interim. Alone with it came an appeal signed by all the foreign consuls in Chihuahua, calling upon Villa to give police protection to the citizens of Chihuahua city. Con. Mercado's proclamation read: "tinder the circumstances which have existed in Chihuahua it. has been deemed necessary for the Federal troops to evacute. 1 leave in charge Fedcrico Move, a person who is not identified with politics and who is, therefore, qualified to give full protection to foreigners. It. is impossible to remain here longer, as there Is no money with which to pay the troops." The generals who have signified, through (leu Mercado, their willingness to surrender, but who, nevertheless, aro fleeing to the United States border, are: Con. Salvador Mercado. Con. Pascual Orozco, Gen. Jose Mazll la, Con. 13 la/. Orplnal, Con. Landa. Tho peace commission proposed to Con. Villa that all non-combatants who sought safety by fleeing to the border be permltod to go without being fired upon, and all the Federals, including 200 soldiers, loft on police duty in Chihuahua city, be pardoned. It also asked clemency for Fedoral officials, but it is thought the Federal generals will seek safety by crossing the border into the United States, possibly near Ojinaga. The peace commission stated th'at before leaving Chihuahua the Federals destroyed all the postage and government revenuo stamps; that there existed practically no money in the city and that 2,000 citizens had left with the troops, most of them being those who were rich and who feared harsh treatment by the rebels. Tho commission started back immediately after seeing Oen. Villa, for Chihuahua with his assurances that people of all classes in the city and including tho Federal pollco would be protected, and that ho would dispatch troops to garrison tho place as soon as possible. Notwithstanding the action of the Federals, fJen. Villa himself was preparing for departure southward. IIo said Chihuahua would be only a stopping place on his southward march, as he was determined to continue on to Mexico city. KILLING AT FLOHFXCR. Following Quarrel Travelling Salesman Kills His Foreman. M. Cook, a foreman on the plantation of T. Burch, near Florence, was shot and killed by his employer In front of a hotel thcro Saturday afternoon. There are many conflicting stories in regard to the killing, but from what can bo gathered Cook had been following Mr. Burch all day with some complaint and the controversy became an altercation and later grew hotter. It is stated that Cook cursed and threatened Burch and the latter drew his pistol and shot him. He had previously led Cook into the vestibule of tbo hotel and the two were seated in chairs discussing the question on which they differed. The slayer made no attempt to escape. Through his attorney ho mado the statement that he does not wish to discuss the shooting, saying it grew out of an altercation and cursing and threats. Cook was about 35 years of age. Ho had been foreman for Burch for nearly a year. He leaves a wife and two young children. O?A C3 a wi*-v? nrr nnvni, The four-masted schooner Monday wrecked near the harbor entrance of Aberdan, Wash., Tuesday was Identified as the Nalboa, from Chile, to C.ravs Harbor, in ballast. The nine men of her crew were rescued by lifesavers. ???* MARCHING ON CAPITOL >!l \!< \\ FKDKItAIjS GATMFltlNU I OK ADVANCK MOVK. ? Goncral Villa Filters City at Head of Victorious Army From Which He |-'le<l Nineteen Years A^<>. Fifty-flv? hundred Mexican rebels, forming the nucleus of the army which the rebel leader, (leu. Francisco Villa says he will lead to Mexico city to overthrow the Huerta dictatorship. were ready to enter Chihuahua, the State capitol, Thursday night. It is in this town that Villa, now in supremo command of the mllit;\r> forces of the revolution, said ho would gather about him 10,000 men to start sontii by way of Torreon and Zacatoens to Mexico City. The report that Zacatocas, with 30,000 population, the capital of a rich mining district, already was being attncked, indicated that the rebels to he south wore In great, numbers. Scattered bands of rebels, ranging each from a few hundred to several thousand, are *o he impressed into the main army, according to Villa's < plan to liavo nt least 20,000 mon when ho reaches the high plateau loading to the capital of the republic. Already equipped with machine guns, artillery and millions of rounds of ammunition. Villa said he no longer was hampered by inability to cot arms from foreign sources, but could readily obtain them from the federals, who are reported in the few remaining northern strongholds to he ready to evacuate. The defeat of -? the federals in their retreat from Juarez is known to have placed great quantities of arms in the hands of the rebels. The rebel advices wero that Krederico Move, civil governor of Chihuahua, had made elaborate preparations for the reception of Villa, having put in gala state the palace where Villa will now command, and that Villa probably would occupy a home vacated by one of the millionaire Terra/as family. 4 it was from Chihuanua that Villa, 10 years ago, adopted tho career of a bandit, because lie was ordered arrested on a charge of having killed an army olllcer. When ho arrives there not only Villa himself, but also tlio men who rallied around him, will occupy the quarters of federal officials who Bought him as an outlaw. Before leaving Chihuahua tho federal den. Meroado, at tho request of he United States consul, Marlon Botcher, and other consuls, left 200 soldiers for police duty, the promise !? ing that the rebels on entering the city would not molest the men. The federal police took fright at the rebel approach and fled. The consuls then prevailed upon citizens to do the policing. ESCAPE FKOM JAIL. Five I,aureus Prisoners Saw Their Way Through Iron liars. Six negro prisoners at the Laurens county jail cut their way to liberty somo time Monday night after midnight, and made good their escape. Tuesday night they are still at largo, but efforts aro being made to recapturo them by the oflleers, and it is fl probable that tho entire bunch will I soon bo back behind the bars. Ono fl of the prisoners escaped is Sam Price, I coi vi ted at a summer term of court H of murder, and given a life sentence, I the jury having recommended mercy. H The Other five were in jail on minor H charges. They aro John French, H John Hill, John Jacks, Leumas Elli- H son and Ben Wardlaw. They effect-H ed their escape by sawing out a cou^ H pie of bars in the steel cages in which H they were confined. They let them- H solves down to tho ground from an H upper story window by the use of H blankets. The exit through the win-H (low was made by removing the sash H and prying apart the heavy outside H iron bars. Evidently a hack saw was H used in cutting out tho bars in the^| stool cages, but it is a mystery how^f they secured the saw or file. H * * 4 mJLli ATTACKS DOCTOR. I Veterinarian Severely Huri by Msul^l Bovine at Clinton. Dr. It. E. Lewis, votorlniary turl^ geon of Qreenville, was severely hurt^H at Clinton Wednesday afternoon.^? when a Jersey bull belonging to the^H Thornwell Orphanage to examine^H some cattle, several of them having^H died recently. Dr. Lewis, with l)r^H W. A. Shands, of Clinton, one of thc^H trustees of the institution, was in th^^J lot. when, without any warning, tlu^J i ;miii advanced upon Dr. Lewis antS tossed him fully twelve feet into th<^H air. H? was thrown in this manne^^^ three times. The bull thinking th&^^J he had killed Dr. Lewis, left off ut^^J tacking him. l>r Shands, alihou^l^^B hut a few feet away, was unable render any assistance. Money for South Carolina. The secretary of the treasury, his annual book of estimates sent congress Monday includes the fol^^f lowing for river and harbor work South Carolina, this being for fiscal year ending June 30, Improving Charleston harbor, 00 0; Great Pee Dee river. $10.000^^| ftantee, Wateree, Congaree, $S0t00^U