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J SHAVE THEM DOWN ? SOUTHERN STATES LOSE POWER WITH RLPUHLICANS ? ? DELEGATES CUT DOWN ?-? National Committee of the KopublicaiiN Resolves to Reduce South's Representation in the Councils of the Party?< !. (>. 1'. Is Reorganized on a Compromise llasis. The Republican National committoo, in meeting assembled at Washington Wednesday night concluded Its labor of reform In party proceduro and launched its campaign for a re union or warring elements hy adopting a resolution providing for a radical change in tlio basis of representation in national nominating conventions, which would reduce the quota of Southern States from 33 to 10 per cent of the Convention's total. The action of the committee, made unanimous before adjournment, must he endorsed by States entitled to cast a majority of votes in the Electoral College before it becomes party law. In order that such action shall be taken as promptly as possible the committee appointed a sub-committee of three, consisting of Charles B. Warren, of Michigan; Senator Borah, of Idaho, and Governor Hatfield, of West Virginia, to prepare an address to the States urging their immediate ratification of the proposal. Approval by tho States will insure a call from tho national committee for the National convention of 1916 along the lines laid down at the meeting Wednesday. Tho re-organization plan adopted came a compromise, which reflected the views of many committeemen that Southern representation should bo reduced, but not brought to the vanishing point. The resolution provided*. "That this committee shall issue a call for the National Convention to ho held in 19 16 to nominate candidate for President and Vice-President In accordance with the following basis of representation; "Each state shall ho entitled to i. .I ^i <>' '"?* ' ? ? ?- ? * * umi ucicgiiiue iii lcirgu; ono delegate at large for each Representative in Congress at large from any State; one delegate from each Congressional district; an additional delegate from each congressional district in which tho vote either for Republican Presidential electors or for tho Republican candidate for Congress in 1014, shall have been not less than 7,500 and that for each delegate chosen an alternate delegate shall bo chosen in tho same manner and at the same time to act in tho absence of the delegate. "Provided, however, that the above shall not be made tho basis of the call for the National convention to be held in the year 1010, unless prior to January 1, 1015, Republican State Conventions held under the laws of the States, or called by the Republican State committees of the States in such number of States as are entitled to cast a majority of the votes in the present Electoral College, shall ratify the action of this committee in respect to determining this basis of representation." According to figures submitted by the sub-committee t lie new plan would reduce the total number of delegates from 1,078 to 998. The District of Columbia and Alaska were provided with two delegates each by separate action, and the Phillipine Islands, Porto Kico and Hawaii also were given two each without the right to vote. The Southern States would have 164 delegates in all. R. H. Howell, of Nebraska, led the fight against the resolution. He said Republican voters would not bo satisfied with a reduction of the sort proposed and pointed out the comparative strength of the delegations from several northern and Southern states under it, giving also the percentage of votes cast in these States to show the Republican weakness be low Mason mul Dixon's lino, and tho strength above it. Mr. IIowoll was opposed by Senator Borah, former Governor Iladley, holding the Louisiana proxy; Committeemen Remmel, of Arkansas, and McGregor of Texas, and IT. L. Johnson, a District of Colunmbia negro, who held a proxy from Georgia. . * ? ? Feared Mob Violence, Posses Monday night searched tho surrounding country about Stanville, Ga.. in the hope of finding the negro who attacked a white woman in her home. When found she had been choked into insensibility. Violenco was expected if the criminal was apprehended. , j Told Them to Move Out. Fifteen feudal enemies of the Collins family of Old Morton, Mo., rode into the village Sunday and burned four houses, severely beating the inmates The CollinR wero warned to leave on pain of death Spaniards at El Paso. The Rnanlsh colony 'n El Paso, augmented by the 320 refugees expelled from Chihuahua, now aggre- , gates more than 400. and many more j are exneeted from remote ranches and mines. EXTENDS FARMERS' TIME SMITH UK TS AMKNDMKNT TO d'HUEXOY KILL. % Caucus Approves South Carolinian's Provision to Meet Planters* Nec<l for I*ong Time Loans. Following the lino of thought developed in his recent speech upon tho tloor of the Senate on the pending currency bill, Senator Smith of South Carolina Wednesday night in the Democratic caucus insisted that the farmers should have a six months' noto upon which federal reserve notes might he issued. He continued tho fight Thursday, and succeeded in securing a majority of tho Democratic senators to back him up in his fight in behalf of an amendment to ?,? 1.111 1- - ? viivj vuhoiiuj uin which no una proyared and which la aa foliowa: "Provided, That notoa, drafts and billa drawn or issued for agricultural purposes having a maturity not exceeding six months may ho discounted in an amount to bo limited to a percentage of tho capital of tlio federal reserve bank to ho ascertained and fixed by tho federal reserve board." This amendment, which was adopted by tho caucus Thursday night, will be offered upon tho floor of tho Senate and will ho incorporated in tho new banking law. Senator Smith, of course, is very much gratified at the outcomo of his labors. -Thursday night he said: "This amendment puts tho farmers where thier business is recognized as of equal Importance in the financial system of the country with the prime commercial papers of other business, such as tho notes, drafts and bills of merchants, miners and those of the so-called business world. Under tho terms of this provision, farmers' notes, hills and drafts, Issued for agricultural purposes, are available at tho reserve, bank for a note issue on the same footing as provided for a 00-day paper. "In other words, in a ease of money stringency or panic threatened, this paper can he used for deposit with tho regional bank and upon it ivuvi ui iooci yo iiwh;o may UW IWHllt'U for tlio purpose of meeting the emergency. Thus you will see, it puts the farmers' notes, hills and drafts upon exactly the same footing, as an asset upon which capital may be realized by the farmers, as the prime commercial paper of tho other branches of business in tho financial world, and for a period of six months." After the caucus adjourned, Senator Owen, in charge of the bill, said that in accordance with the resolution submitted by Senator Smith and his plea for it in the caucus that the committee has now reconsidered section 13 and will accept the amendment quoted above. COTTO.V SFKI) STATISTICS. ? Figures Oiveii Out by Census Korean for This Season. Statistics of tho cotton seed products industry for tlie present cotton season, announced by tho census bureau Thursday, show 280,1 IS running hales of linters had been obtained and 2, 201,276 tons of -cotton seed had been crushed from the crop of 1013 prior to December 1. The number of cotton seed oil mills and other (lelilrt inir AHtr?nH?nr?-?r>nta n/iUYfn ,1,... v--.0 WMVMMIiMIIIMVIIVkl UV.U I U Villiing the period prior to December was 850. The number of active establishments, tons of cotton seed crushed and running bales of linters obtained prior to December 1, by states, follow: EstablisliStates ments Seed Linters Alabama ... 81 1 02,100 21,661 Arkansas ... 4.1 117,022 15,200 Florida .... 4 1.1,806 1,107 Georgia . . . ? 152 375,881 4G.80G Louisiana ... 12 74,581 0,148 Mississippi. . . 60 1 05,700 2.1,07G Missouri ... 4 1 1,740 1,640 N. C G2 1 00,862 1 1,762 Oklahoma. . . 58 1 16,640 20,066 S. C 08 172,865 10,1 08 Tennessee . . . 2.1 00,218 12,511 Texas . . . .220 677,503 101,416 All other states 5 20,0 11 2,005 KILLING ON RKKCH ISLAND. + Negro Kills "White Man l?y Crushing in llis Skull. Early Sunday morning Rural Policeman Ilolley brought to Aiken Daniel Merry, colored, charged with the killing of a white man by the name of Minus McElmurray. The killing occurred on Beech Island Saturday night. It seems that a wagon load of people were returning from Augusta, all said to bo in a drunken condition. McElmurraywas along, and got into a fuss with Berry. The negro struck the white man over the head twice with an iron pipe, crushing his skull. McElmurray lay down in the wagon then and was put out at Dobson's store where he soon died. Hurt In Runaway. James Caughman, former comrnis sioner of Lexington county, was run I over by a heavy two-horse wagon I loaded with corn on his plantation about five miles north of Lexington. Tuesday and dangerously injured. j SGML PLAIN I ALU LIQUOR MLN WAKNtD OF THFIH CllMlMi LOOM MUST mm I lit IK VAKS Says They Deliberately Aid the Most Corrupt Political Powers and Hacks With All Their Kcsources the Most I'nworthy Men, the Most Corrupt an<l Hoc remit Ollicials. The liquor men see the handwriting on the wall. The following confession, remarkablo for its frankness, is from the ofllcial Journal of the whiskey dealers: "A truthful statement of how matters stand publicly on the great liquor question?a look at things as they are: "It is always best for normal people to look at things as they are. Reality may be obscured to tlie sick or feeble-minded in certain circumstances, but deception is a poor evidence of friendship. Partisanship with blinded eye only leads the way to ruin, and self-deception is the worst of all. "Let us look at things as they are. and in the face of the enemy dare to consider and concede their strength Knowing his play of battle, we can better arrange our forces for his defeat, rightly estimating his strength we can better provide to meet it. "The prohibition fight henceforth will be nation-wide, and contemplates writing into the national constitution a prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. To accomplish this result will require the ratification of thirty-six out of the forty-eight states in tlie union. "Of those nine are already in line through state prohibition?Maine, Kansas, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia. The last five have been added within a period of six years. "In addition to these there are eighteen states in whicli n nnW of the people live in territory made dry by local option in which we may be assured prohibition sentiment predominates. "If the people in these states who are opposed to the liquor trafllc demand it, their legislature will undoubtedly ratify a national amendment. "The most influential argument against prohibition is that it is not effective; that 'prohibition don't prohibit'. "This is not basic or moral; the fact of failure to enforce is no argument against the expediency, much less against the moral issue involved. "Ultimately all questions must be settled by moral standards; only in this way can mankind be saved from self-effacement. The liquor trafllc can not save itself by declaring that government is incapable of coping with the problem it presents; when the people decide it must go it will be banished. "We are not discussing the benefit or justice of prohibition, but its possibility and probability in present circumstances. "To us there is 'the handwriting on tho way', and its interpretation means doom. "For this tho liquor business is to blame; it seems incapable of learning any lesson of advancement or nny motive but profit. "To perpetuate itself it has formed alliance with tho slums that repel all conscientious and patriotic citizens. "It deliberately aids tho most corrupt political powers, and backs with all its resources the most unworthy men, the most corrupt and recreat officials. It does not aid the purification of municipal, state or national ad ministration. "Why? Because it has to ask immunity for its own lawlessness. "That this condition is inherently and inevitably necessary wo do not believe, but it has come to be a fact, and the public, which is to pass on the matter in its final analysis, believes anything had that anybody can tell it of the liquor business. "Why? T.et all tho leaders of tho trade answer. "Other lines of business may bo as had or even worse, but it is not so plainly in evidence. "The case of tho liquor traffic is celled for adlndlcnttnn hv ?iio can people, and must bo ready for trial. "Other cases may bo called later, but the one before tbe court now can not be postponed. Rut, as In the post, the men most concerned are playing for postponement, not for acquittal. Is it because they wear the weakness of their defence that they fear to go to trial? "There are billions of property involved, but when the people decide that tbe truth is being told about the alcoholic trade the money value will net count, for the conscience aroused puts the value of man above all other things. "Prepare the defence, friends; make your case to-day for the court; the trial can not be postponed." Old newspapers for sale at the ITer?ld office. j HAD NO STATE LICENSE WEALTHV HINTERS SHORT IN GEORGETOWN COt'NTRY. State Game Warden Gets in ftcluml Them, but Tlioj Take Special Train Out of the State. Isaac E. Emerson, tho "Bromo Solt/.< r King", who owns a hunting preserve in Georgetown county, took his party of wealthy northerners out of the State on a special train Sundap afternoon when Chief Game Warden A. A. Richardson got in behind them for hunting without licenses, according to information given out Tuesday by Mr. Richardson, who had just returned to Columbia from Georgetow-n, where he said 0110 of tho party, Georgo W. Ewing, of Baltimore, Md., was dismissed on a technicality at a hearing before a magistrate for hunting in tho State without a license. According to a statement from Chief Game Warden Richardson, he sent his assistant, Mr. Kunderburk, to Georgetown county to look over the situation when ho felt that there WITH nnt n? T? n n v nr\n_i>nol.lAr>f 1.....* .. w. w .. v, V ?.?*?? *a j UVII-1 V/O IUCIH H 11 11 t" Ing licenses being reported from that county as he was certain there should be. Deputy Funderburk reached Georgetown on Thursday and found lie states, that Millionaire Emerson was entertaining a party of wealthy tourists, none of whom had licenses as far as he could ascertain. Deputy Funderburk went out to "Arcadia", the magnificent country estate of Millionaire Emerson, which is located on Waccamaw Neck five miles from Georgetown. When he reached there he found Mr. Emerson and his guests just returning from a hunt and ho ascertained that the following made up the party: George W. Ewing, M. Henry, Mrs. Bottie W. Ewing, Mrs. Annie Emerson and Mrs. Margaret Vandorbilt, all of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. Ethel McCormick, of New York, all wealthy and well known tourists, and Isaac E. Emerson, the owner of the place. Deputy Funderburk says ho ascertained from the clerk of the court that only Mr. Emerson had a license when he demanded to see their licenses. He then telephoned Chief Game Warden A. A. Richardson, at Columbia, who Instructed him to take out warrants for the men in the party and to tell the ladies the law required them to have licenses. Deputy Funderburk had talked with Mr. George W. Ewing when Ik4 met the party at "Arcadia", as they were returning from the hunt and being certain only of his name, swore out a warrant charging him with nunung witnout a license in South Carolina. Tn company with tho sheriff of Georgetown they went to tho country estate of Mr. Emerson on Saturday and arrested Mr. Ewing on Saturday morning. Mr. Emerson accompanying them back to Georgetown. The sheriff and Deputy Funderburk had made the trip to the country estate of Mr. Emerson in the fish commissioner's boat, the "Nancy", and when they wero starting back Mr. Emerson asked how fast tho "Nancy" could travel On being told ten miles per hour, he ordered his men to bring out his racing boat, tho "Arcadia", capable of running nineteen miles an hour, and the party were soon in Georgetown, where Mr. Ewing was put under sufficient bond to await the arrival of Chief Game Warden Richardson. Owing to the train schedules, Mr. Richardson did not reach Georgetown until Morday morning and when he arrived he found only Mr. Georgo W. Ewing, and said that ho discovered that Mr. Emerson had ordered a *p?cia? train on Sunday evening and had returned north with his other guests that night. ? LEAVES IT TO U. S. Spain Entrusts Caro of Its Mexican Citizens to This Country. Senor Don Juan Riano, Spanish ambassador at Washington, Tuesday ' advised Secretary Bryan of Spain's heartfelt thanks for the attitude of tho United States towards Spanish refugees from Chihuahua, Mexico. ! Similar action was taken by the Spanish minister to Mexico, who requested that Charge O'Shaughnessy convey to the various authorities in El Paso, Texas, thanks on his behalf for their kindness to the refugees. The announcement from the Span- < ish premier that the Madrid govern niciiL una ueciaeu to leave the safeguarding of her interests in Mexico to tlie United States Tuesday was spoken of by Secretary Bryan as in line with the action of Croat Britain, < Prance, Japan and other nations, t which did not happen to have consular officers at places where their sub- 1 jects were in difficulty. < The Spanish consul at Chihuahua I said that he had received a cablegram i from the minister of foreign affairs i at Madrid, which said tho Washing- i ton government had promised it would exact from all factions in Mex- | ico the same respect for Spaniards as I was demanded for Americans. I The Montgomery Advertiser says; 1 that with the narrow skirts clrctun- i i scribing their activities, the ladies of j < to-day can't step on anything higher j I than an ant. t HANOS IT TO THtM D.ANItLS POURS HOT SHOT INTO THE REACTIONARIES THEY FIGHT REFORM hi Address Before Now York Tar Ifcel Dinner Navy Chief Hammers Standpatters With the Very Wortls lleing L'setl to Discount the Progressive Movement. Reactionaries who think to weaken the advocacy of progressive measures by declaring that they are the products of "hysteria" were roundly denounced at New York Wednesday night by Secretary Daniels of the navy, in an address at tho dinner of the North Carolina Society of New York. "A few days ago," Mr. Daniels said, "a distinguished educator from a Southern state in a speech in New York declared that such new and progressive measures as the initiative snd referendum were 'revolutionary'. Another distinguished authority, a statesman and educator, referred to certain modern American political doctrines as 'wild theories' which common sense and wise experience demand be rejected as the result of hysteria. "The real truth is that, this socalled 'hysteria* hurts. It. keeps party pledges, it does not take from labor tho bread it earns, it makes protection-built wealth pay income tax. It elects senators direct from the people. They call it. hysteria liecause it means we can have no more senators from the New York Central . * lutinuctu, iiu more senators rrom tne Southern Express Company; no moro senators from the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad; no more senators from the Standard Oil Trust. "They call it hysteria because it prevents the classes from exploiting the masses, and brings the government back to the people. After all, the real hystericals are not the people who stand upon the housetops and cry for reform, but the people who nro guarding special privileges and are seeing the castles built by privilege tumble down about their heads. "No, gentlemen," continued the secretary, "the victims of hysteria are not the forward looking, promisekeeping reformers, who quietly convince the people that this new way, this gospel of progressive statesmanship. is best for the country, but your hysterical man is that incarnate expatriotism who madly waves the stars and stripes with one hand and grips his rebate-provided, protection-fostered wealth with the other, and be wails an alleged tendency to put a period to class legislation, who wildly proclaims that we are turning away from tlioso fundamental principles through which we have como to our present high state. "Legislators in the * recent past have been the favorites of great corporations. They have felt a compelling power from 'higher up*. The Impersonal element in the situation made it hard to cure, but at last the ax has been laid at the root of the tree, and the people have demanded that all this must be changed. How? By legalized primaries, even for president, by pure food laws, by an income tax, by a lower tariff, by laws to protect seamen, by regulation of the trusts, by the abolition of interlocking directorates and rebates, etc. "Take (he tariff. The men who revised it were not hysterical. They used figures and facts. They were painstaking and scientific, and what was the answer? The benofieinrins of protection, tho infant industries, gray and hoary with age, and obese from their long pull at tho pap-bottles, cried out: 'You are go*ng to impoverish our country,' Four months under the new tariff have passed and the report of Secretary of Commerce Itedfield declares that 'the flooding of our markets with the cheap wares of Europe has not happened,' as predicted, and America's trade is evidencing a healthy growth. "The latest exhibition of hysteria Is tho effort to prevent passage of the currency bill. It is well known ' by everybody that this bill is certain t n hof>nnin q lo?' ? vx/ wx/vv/111 \j r* i<i >y o u un tail tlUl iy els now 1 framed and the principal features of it aro as good as upon the statute books and those who would destroy confidence in the American government and its ability to control its finances, dub as hysteria the effort < to pass a long-needed currency re- 1 form. i "Take conservation. The waste of < our resources has been so wanton as :o rob unborn generations. Men have | risen up and declared it must stop, i Thoso who wished to take all the i coal for this generation and permit a f few concerns to grab up all the mines 1 *nd minerals declared that the con- 1 scrvationists were crazy. By this 5 craft they had their wealth. j i "Thoso who wished to impose im-i perialism upon our country, forget- 1 ting that government by consent of < the governed is the basis of our lib- 1 crty; those who wished to annex 1 lands ncross the seas and change our i government to one-half free and half 1 colonial, were as logically certain to < :>e reversed as those who held out for t jlavery In the face of Lincoln's t THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY. S. C ' Published Kvery Thursday. Till R8DAY, DECEMHEK 23, 1013. PHOEESSIONAL C AH 1 >S. 11. 11. WOOD W AUL>, Attorney and Counsellor at lam. COAttAl, a. C. 11. U. SCAKUUKOLCIL Attorney at l^aw. CONWAY, 8. C. H. H. BlllHOl'OHS, Physician and Mnrgtm. CONWAY, 8. C. W. E. McCORD, Dental Surgeon CONWAY, S. C. HENE HAVENBL l>nnd Surv eying and Drainage Spleey Building (V>nway, d. O. When Christmas Time Comes. When Christmas time comes round it seems As though the long, long years Roll hack and take away our cares And dry up all our tears; I don't know why It is, but when The great day comes along I pet to feelin' young again, And kind of turn to song, And whistle and po on just like A hoy would. I'll he bound. The old world seems to brighten up When Christmas time comes round. I'm tickled at the Jumpin' Jack And all them kind of things; I like to watch the toys that play Tly windin' up the springs, And somehow?don't know why it isr Love seems to fill the air, And I forget I've enemies Or troubles anywhere; And every little while I sort Of listen for the sound Of voices that have long been still, When Christmas time comes rounds I wish that I was Santa Clans And had a magic sleigh, To visit all the children who Look forward to the day? The orphans and the cripples and The poor folks everywheres ? All children that are good and kind And don't forget their prayers; I'll bet you that they'd all be glad vvnen they pot up and found Their stockin'a fairly bustin' out. When Christmas time comes round. Oh, happy time of jinglin' hells And hills all white with snow; Oh, Joyful day that takes us back To care-free long ago I wonder if up there above Where happy anpels roam They do not pet to thinkin' of The happy times at home, And turn, in fancy, back once more To listen to the sound Of voices that have lonp been still. When Christmas time comes round ? MUltDEKKR I/VXCIIHD. Maddened Mob I'ulls OIY Stunt ii? North Dakota. Cleve Culbertson. recently convicted of murdering three members of the Dillon family at Ray, N. 1)., was taken from the Williams county jail bv a mob Thlirsdnu on/1 e - IU1II IKIll^CU IIUIII ;i bridge near there. The lynching took place shortly before daylight. The party, which consisted of a largo number of masked men, battered down the doors of tho jail with a heavy iron pipe. Despite tho warnings of Sheriff Erickson, the men opened the door to the cell occupied by the prisoner and dragged him out. Tie was taken to tlie middle of the Muddy river, a ruilo and a half from town, and hanged front a wagon bridge. Tho body was. then riddled with bullets. To Signal Years End. The naval observatory has arranged to send broadcast from its Arlington radio station a New Year's greeting which will be spread broadcast river the continent and the Atlantic. prophecy that tills country could not exist half free and half slave. They afe tho hysterics. They have gone around as though booted and spurred to ride other men, and some of them have applauded at public dinners tho mng, "Damn, Damn, Damn, the Filipinos.' "This so-called hysteria denounced tiv standpatters and reactionaries is lemocracy, the rule of tho people. In every generation the standpatters lave sought to have forward-looking rien declared fnnatics and lunatics, bright and Cobden were the destroyers of English liberty. Jefferson was i leveler and a demagogue. They vere all hysterics." , a; J i ? . i *