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I ? TRY TO HURT HIM' * I SCHEME CONCOCTED TO OUST BRYAN FROM CABINET MONEY TRUST BACKS IT1 i ? ? Accusational* Made That Funds Arc j liaised by "Bin Business", That j Some Newspapers Are "Corrupted" < I ?nd the Public Mind "Poisoned" , by the Kneniies of Bryan. , A charge that the big "interests" I have combined to underwrite a large 1 fund to be used solely for the pur- 1 pose of eliminating William .1. Bryan ' from the councils of President Wil- 1 son is being made at Washington by < some of the most intimate and ardent ' friends of the Secretary of State. < It is said by these men that there is in existence positive proof of the I making up of a "war fund" for fin- 1 ancing a systematic and countrywide attack on Mr. Bryan as a member of i tho Wilson administration. While no names aro mentioned it is charged that most of the individuals, corporations and financial institutions usually regarded by Democrats ns being associated with tho money trust and big interests are lined up in support of the combination against Mr. Bryan. Tho object of the "conspiracy" in asserted to be tho discrediting of Mr. Bryan both in Washington and with the peoplo of the country, so as to make it impossible for him to retain liis place in tho Wilson cabinet. This movement ngainst Mr. Bryan was put on an organized basis, it is charged, at tho moment that he loomed up as a probable member of tho Wilson cabinet. Tho efforts of tho combination were then directed to keep him out of the president's council of ofllcial advisers. Every resource was drawn imnn If la plared, and nil kinds of pressuro used in the effort to mako impossible liis selection for a cabinet position by the president-elect. Having failed in accomplishing this purpose, so Mr. Bryan's friends eay, the money combination proceeded to take another tack. Since March 4 last, so it is charged, the object lias been to force him out of the administration. This they have sought to do, it is asserted, by agitating tlio possibilities of a break between the president and his Secretary of State. The statement is made that they have even gone as far as they dared in trying to bring on a rupture between the two men over administration policies. These friends of Mr. Bryan, some of whom hold positions close to him, insist that part of the public mind has been poisoned against the secretary of state through the secret machinations of the moneyed combination against him. The operations of the conspiracy, it is alleged, have been of an insidious nature, unseen and unsuspected by the general public, but none the less effective so far as the dissemination of their anti BTyan propaganda has been concerned. Newspapers have been reached in a corrupting manner by members of the combination, it is charged. In a thousand unseen ways, it is alleged, the seed of anti-Bryanism has been sown broadcast. The scheme has been so operated, it is declared, that its real perpetrator have not appeared, and the antiBryan influence lias been spread by men whom the public regards as wholly disinterested and unprejudiced, forming their judgments on the basis of the facts and without bias. Many who have been used in the insidious attacks on Mr. Bryan, it. is said, have been unaware of that fact. Through these rather vagely described means, Mr. Bryan's friends assert, an atmosphere unfriendly to him has been created. Thousands of persons, particularly in the east, who are now getting their first sight ol Mr. Bryan* in action at close range, have fallen victims to this atmosphere, it is asserted. The criticism of Mr. Bryan for bis numerous absences from Washington, for bis adherence to the demands of bis profitable, lecture business, the ridicule aimed at him in regard to the grape juice incidents and l\5?l nlloforl ^nnUnfinn of tlm ol'lnnc of tlio state department and diplomatic service, all tins criticism, it is Said, lias been in a very large part duo to the unseen activities of the moneyed combination secretly working to undermine bis position in the government and in the public mind. While admitting that many persons have been turned against Mr. Bryan by this "insidious conspiracy", lliesc friends of the secretary declare that the efforts of the combination have failed completely, insofar as they desired to ruin him with President Wilson. Mr. Bryan's influence with the president is increasing all the time, it is said, and has already been exercised to an extent not dreamed of,' even in official Washington. t The statement is likewise mado that Mr. Bryan's influence with the president is really serving to make less Revere the attitude of the president toward the same kind of interests as are said to bo fighting Mr. ** - ? n k ANSWERS CRY OF WOLF NDEinVOOl) RKPLIKS TO THOSK WIH^'HKDIUT KUIN. ^romiMVs the Country an Industrial Awakening That Will Put PanicPreacher* to Shame. An industrial awakening "that will nit the panic-preachers to shame", vas promised Tuesday by Democratic Leader Underwood after Republicans in the House had painted dark pictures of ruin and desolation as the 'osult of Democratic legislation. 'Tlio Democratic party," declared Mr. Underwood, "has achieved for lie American people more than has i)een accomplished heretofore in its history of our government. Wo have secured the results which the Republican party struggled for In the course of twenty years; tlio results which they gave their pledgees to sosure and which for term after term were undone. Wo look for unusual prosperity throughout the country in the next year." Tlio Democratic loader said the steel mills in his district were working double shifts despite the fact that practically all of their product was put on the free list in the Democratic tariff hill. Business in the Pittsburg steel district, ho said, also was improving. lie quoted John Wanamaker as saying that "the breeders of panic ought to bo deported." "What I have to say to the birds of ill omen who preach disaster, hoping to bring their party back into power," Mr. Underwood continued, Is tliia: "Tho industrial depression we J have been passing through has lasted for more than a year. It began beforo Woodrow Wilson was elected. Before tho coining elections next fall there will he an industrial awakening that will put to shame the panicpreaching brokers who cry disaster in order to bring about depression." When Representative Ilardwick, Democrat, said ho understood the United States Steel Corporation was about to re-employ 1 0,000 men at Pittsburg, Representative Barchfleld, Republican, declared tho steel plants thoro were working at HO per cent, capacity, would soon bo reduced to 4 0 per cent, and expected a 15 per cent, reduction of wages by February 1. Representative Reed of New Hampshire started the oratory with a speech describing business in his state as confident and prosperous. "Bankers, business men and manufacturers," he said, "expressed the utmost confidence in tho wisdom of the Democratic administration and declared they felt certain tho trust legislation would bo worked out in the same proper fashion that marked t O r I ff ft ?\ /I 1 ^ xl t?i in Hint tuucucy n;f;iHUiiiuil, PACKAGE HOST. ? Charleston Hotel Misses a Package Worth $1,100. Considerable excitement has been caused at the Charleston Hotel, of Charleston, S. C., by the disappearance Saturday of a valuable package said to contain $1,100, belonging to one of the guests. The package was taken out of one of the hotel's safety boxes. Publication of the news was held hack in order to facilitate the hotel authorities and police in their efforts to ascertain who took the package and how it all happened. Chief of Police Cantwell was called into consultation as soon as the disappearance of the package was discovered and in a short while had detectives searching. It developed that a former omployeo of the hotel had a key and that this key fell into the hands of a person said to bo known. The former omployeo was brought back to Charleston Tuesday from Jacksonville and held at the police sutiion. 11 is said tnat no assumed responsibility for tho affair and that ho mado a settlement of $1,475 at once. It is said that a brother of the prisoner also arrived for the purpose of making good tho balance of the $4,100. It is reported that the brothers are confident of being reimbursed when tho person who got the package opens it and discovers that ho has tho wrong package. Kills Bride ami Motlior. Angered by tho refusal of liis bride of two months to go on a trip with him, Will Simons Wednesday killed her, her mother and himself at the homo of Mrs. John Calvin Wiggins, his mother-inlaw, about four miles south of Hamlet, N. C. Bryan in the dark; that were it not for tho Bryan presence in his cabinet, as a sort of guarantee to Democrats that the administration is keeping tho faith, Mr. Wilson would go to the extremo in unfriendliness toward tho business and financial interests which have incurred popular disfavor. Whether Mr. Bryan is a believer in the existence of such a conspiracy, as is declared by many of his close friends to exist against him, is not known. These charges have been heard in Washington for some time, but it was not until they wero repeated by several members of the Bryan circle that they began to attract attention. PRIMARY SAFEGUARDS I ' NO DEMOCRAT TO HE UOIIBKI) OF HIS RIGHT TO VOTE. ^ Managers Must Not l>e Expected to Protect the Purity of the Ballot i Alone. For a short while we will publish a few articles under the above caption written by a member of the legislature. They are strictly non partisan and point out the necessar> changes in the system to eliminate fraud without taking away the ballot from any South Carolina Democrat. The articles are in no way inspired by any candidate for office and none know of their preparation. They are designed solely to assist the mass of Democratic primary voters to clean house. Dills to this end will be acted on in the next legislature and our readers are, of course, interested in the subject at this particular time. l)o Your Own Thinking. Few are found to oppose all primary reform. Those against change cloak their purpose. They do not defend present conditions?that is a hopeless task. They stand back and object to each change suggested, saying it will take the ballot away from the poor man or the man who can not write. Theso objectors give no reasons for their charges, nor do they offer other measures. Men are expected to follow them blindly. Every man should do his own thinking about these primary changes. The troubles aro beforo us. and known of all men who care to look. The remedies proposed are very easy to understand. The Remedies. Permit the voter to enroll on only one club list, and only in the precinct where he lives or works. Record tho poll lists at the court house before and after voting. Identify the voter at the ballot box. Where important requirements are violated hold another election. These safeguards are those advocated by experienced party workers from all sections of the State, they have been gathered from discussions on many occasions during many years. Leaders in tho legislature who oppose extreme measures came to a pretty general agreement at the last session to support .a hill embodying theso points. Let us examine them, taking the last one first. The Penality. Penalties aro seldom enforced. Why? Decauso they seek to punish, but not to remedy?not directly. Tho law says tho manager who does not carry out tho rules shall bo punished. Hut the defeated candidato doesn't care to prosecuto him, the public is not interested enough to. Neither are out for revenge, nor seeking the unpleasant task of preventing future fraud by present punishment. The candidates aro interested in the immediate outcome, though. They and their friends will go to a lot of trouble to locate fraud if it will do them any pood. Give them the right to a new election whenever the law is violated in the important particulars anr they will watch for irregularities like hawks. Then violations of rules will immediately defeat their purpose and become useless. Mind you, new elections would he held only when important specified infractions of the law could he shown, not for trivial irregularities. This would necessitate making each step in enrollment and voting piain, and open, and recorded where all men may examine what has been done. To-day everything is so obscure that even where much fraud is proved, and more believed, it is about impossible to upset an election. This power to upset an election would be a weapon more dreaded than any punishment now set down in the law books. Protecting the Tdsts. It is absolutely necessary at any kind of an election to have a correct list of those entitled to vote. The club rolls should be made up some weeks before tho election and sent to the county clerk of court. Shortly before the election the clerk should send a copy of each list to the election managers of each club. After the election the county executive committee should send the rolls back to the clerk. This system allows the lists to he examined by all interested parties, and opportunity to have names put on or taken off on proper showing, before tho election. After tho elec-1 Hon any one may compare the voting list used with the ropy kept. by the Clerk, and tlio failure to use the proper list becomes a matter of record. At present, even where the rules are carried out, and a poll Hat is used. It. is about Impossible, in the fvo days allowed now, to cheek it up. ITow can candidates in populous sections tell in five days before the election whether the names put on at the last minute are fraudulent or not? The candidate Is helpless. Identify the Voter at the llallot TIox. Managers in big voting precincts seldom know all tho voters In them. When a man presents himself to cast bis ballot and gives a name found on tho poll lists ho is allowed to vote unless the managers know he is not ~? - inn mwmV " _ ? HONOR THE WOMEN ? WHO WORKED AND SUFFERED FOR ' THE SUNNY SOUTH ? TELLS OP THEIR WORK, Kloquent Address Delivered by the 1 Hon. David G. Mcintosh at London I'ark Cemetery October 15, 1013, ^ Showing Their Devotion and Faith to the liost Cause. c k We have gathered this afternoon, my friends, to do honor to the memory of the brave Confederate women who suffered for the cause in 1 which their country was embarked, *' and to commemorate the noble and | 1 valuable services which they rendered f in its behalf. The pages of historywill never reveal more patient suffering, more steadfast courage, inoro ' undying loyalty, and more Christian * resignation, than was displayed by 1 them in the course of that long conflict. ] The contagion of their zeal and 5 enthusiasm was always an inspiration to the sterner sex; and their ' activities contributed largely to the ' comfort of their armies in the field. To the sick and wounded, they were 1 like guardian angels, and their sweet and pious ministrations softened the ' last moments of many a poor fellow, 1 who confided to thorn his last messages to the loved ones at home. This marble shaft is being dedicated in grateful memory of the loving services rendered by them in those days of deep distress. The occasion is honorable not only as a grateful memorial to these women, few of whom now survive, but also to those who liberally contributed to its erection. Whilo the monument is a modest 1 one, no inscription could have been devised more appropriate and more eloquent, than the one which has been selected. There are no words in our language, which to us mean so much, and come so close to the i Southern heart as the simple words, "Confederate Women.'* These two words tell the story of i a mighty struggle, in which the women of the South bore their part with no less heroism than did the i husbands and sons and lovers who carried their muskets in the field; i and they are equally entitled to share i in all the glory and honor which at- i taches to its record. j The maid who binds her warrior's sash, And smiling, all her pain dissembles? | The while, beneath her drooping lash, , One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles? Though Heaven alone records the ^ tear, And Fame shall never know her 1 ( story, Her heart has shed a drop as dear As ever bedewed the field of glory! The wife who girds her husband's * sword, 1 'Mid little ones who weep and won- 1 the person he represents himself to 1 be. The burden of the proof is on ' the manager. His task is doubly dif- 1 ficult because the rules allow a man ' to enroll his name up to five days ' before the primary, in a precinct ' where ho does not reside, and in as ' many as lie likes. He may move into 1 the town on the 2 4th, have his nan e ' put on the poll lists in Rock Hill by 1 a third party and vote in the latter ' town on the ??0th. The law should bo to enroll In person, in only one precinct, and that. tlio ono in which ho resides or works; and the voter should bo given a card by his club ofilcers, where ho enrolled to bo shown at the polls. This card to havo his full name and address, and a number all to correspond with the club list. Upon voting, a corner of the card, or a coupon attached to it, should he torn off so that it could not bo used twice. Provision would be made for issuing duplicates where a card is lost, and for transferring a voter from i one precinct to another when ho changes his residence. These cards would ho issued to every Democrat now entitled to vote who could show his residence 1 in the State and county and precinct the required length of time. In Conclusion, j Hero are outlined changes in our present system, not a new system. Only outlines are given. D'iscussions of details would take more space than theso articles can claim. Hut they nro designed to carry out these general ideas. No attempt is here made to tako the ballot from any class. Honesty is the aim of the changes?not disfranchisement. Whether wisely or foolishly, South Carolina has long sinco established the purest of Democracies. Such movements do not go backward. Universal white manhood suffrage onco secured will never be relinquished. Hut it may be thwarted and crippled, and cheated if it does not prevent itself from carelessness and corruption by strong and wollcon8ldered laws. Legislator. .... ?;; der; iiid bravely speaks the cheery word, Whet though her heart bo rent asunder? loomed nightly In h'er dreams to hear The bolts of war around hlra rattle, las shed as sacred blood as e'er Was poured upon the field .of battle! "he mother who conceals her grief, While to her heart her son she presses, "hen breathes a few brave words and brief, Kissing the patriot brow she blesses? rV 1th no one but her secret God To know the pain that weighs upon her, Sheds holy blood, as e'er the sod Received on Freedom's field of honor! At the outset of the struggle there vas high hope, implicit confidence, ibiding faith, and a noble enthusiasm .vhich knew no bounds. And this spirit never faltered, but there were 'our long years of bitter experience :o be endured, with only gleams of sunshine to console and comfort :hem. In these four years was concentrated a lifetime of existence. As time wore on, and the ghastliaess of war spread over the land, the spirit of these noble women took on fresh courage under the hardening conditions which surrounded them, and as their prayers constantly went up to Heaven, they sought relief in acts of mercy, and in finding something for their hands to do. Their ono thought was to relieve the necessities of the government, and to give comfort and support to the men in tho field. Relief societies were organized in every neignoornooa and wayside hospitals opened at every convenient point for the care of tho sick and the wounded. Many turned farmers and overseers and looked after the crops, while in every household Ingenuity was taxed to the utmost in devising what to eat and to wear. Tho old spinning wheels and looms and dyepots were brought forth from forgotteft places and wool of home production was converted into clothing. Every fragment of material went into some kind of garment. After tho blankets were given up, carpets wero utilized. Wool mattresses were ripped open, recarded, and woven anew. Even rabbits' fur was mixed with cotton or silk, and made into gloves. One letter of tho period speaks of a trim pair of ladles' boots from tho tanned skins of a half dozen squirrels, and wo have not forgotten that the girls of that day, in their siinplo calicoes and ginghams, or gusto of tho purest Moccha. Fruit cakes were made of dried apples, cherries, pears and plums, and without any spice. Salt was obtained by digging up the earthern floors of old 3moke-houses, dripping water through it, and boiling it down. Tho best light in rural sections were tallow candles, and wax tapers m.Kio by winding yards of wick dippod in melted wax around an old candlestick. Tho favorito use of those it night was to convert coaso paper into the familiar Confederate envelope; and it goes without saying that the industry of knitting socks for the boys in the army went on by night as well as by day. These occupations provided some mental relief like a safety valve, to the tense feeling which everywhere prevailed. Hut who can tell of the inward grief and gnawing anxiety which lay beneath? Who can con?eive of the agonized suspense enlured on the eve of some great impending battle; and tho unutterable cjrief which so often accompanied the Fatal news? One of the poems of the time describes. Heading the List. 'Is there any news of the war?" she said, "Only a list of the wounded and dead," Was the man's reply, Without lifting his eye To the face of tho woman standing by. " 'Tis the very thing I want," she said; "Read me a list of the wounded and dead." Ho read the list?'twas a sad array Of tho wounded and killed in the fatal fray; In tho very midst was a pause to tell, Of a gallant youth who fought so well, Ttuif Ilia nrvnii'<wl?? ? 1 ....... .,10 wiuKuies usKea, "Wlio is ho, pray?" "Tho only son of tho Widow Gray." was ino proud reply Of Ills captain nigh. What ails tho woman standing near? Her face has the ashen hue of fear! "Well, well, read on; is ho wounded? Quick; Oh, Cod! but my heart is sorrow sick!" "Is ho wounded?" '"No! ho fell, they say, Killed outright on that fatal day!" But see tho woman lias swooned away! Sadly sho opened hero eyes to tho light; Slowly recalled tho events of tho fight, Faintly sho murmured, "Killed outright! It has cost me tho life of my only son, But tho battle is fought and the vie v tory won; The will of tho Lord, let It bo doile!" It is not to be implied that this suffering was altogether peculiar to tho Southern women. The mortalities of battle and disease carried mourning and grief to many a Northern homo, and the women on that sido had their hearts wrung by the loss of their dear ones. Tho vacant chair, and tho gap in the family circle, was dreadfully in evidence on both side. But there was this difference: The one was generally surrounded by friends, and rarely if ever, left without any protection. She was far from the scene of conflict, and the horrors of war wore not brought to her doors. Sho had tho satisfaction of knowing that those of hor household who had gone to tho front, wore lavishly cared for* by a government, rich in all the resources which could contribute to their safety and comfort. She was never seriously oppressed by fears of an invading army. She had never to fly from a home laid in ashes beforo her eyes, at the hands of ruthless sodiers. She had never to learn what it meant to be a refugee. She was never harassed by the spectre of hunger and want for herself and her children, and she was never in her loneliness exposed to the dangers of a servilo race, whose loyalty was forever being assailed and undermined. With the Southern women it was far different. The war was all around her. Frequently aho was enveloped between contending lines, and the bloody conflict sometimes reached her very doorsteps, The noiso of contending strife was constantly in her ears, and at times the horrible missiles of the enemy j penetrated her homo and dwelling, making the cellar the only place of safety. Worst of all, woro the insults to which she was subjected, when drunken ruffians, throwing aside all pretense of discipline, gave themselves up to pillago and wanton destruction. In some localities the conduct of Northern iroops was marked by a commendalno respect for the gentler sex, and some regotd for tho rights of property. But the march of Sherman's army through Georgia and the Carolinas will ever remain a disgrace and blot upon our boasted civilization. Tho letters of many Southern The letters of many Southern women, some of them of tho highest standing, and whoso word can not for a moment be doubted, have left upon record their experiences of that trying time, and it is impossible to road them even now, without a feeling of the deepest indignation, and without a blush for the manhood of those concerned, oflicers as well as men. Biut it is well to try and fontet that such things ever took placo, and that this human nature of ours can he guilty of such unbridled excesses. War is often described as the greatt est scourge of mankind. While this may be true, in a sense, nevertheless, it sometimes exalts and purities a nation. Nothing brings out tho splendid courage of a whole people as a just occasion for war. Nothing so stimulates their patriotism, and nothing so teaches them tho hard lesson of suffering and privation as a call to arms in defence of principles believed to be right. The soul of the South in the "Sixties" was stirred hy a mighty impulse. It gave up its hest and its bravest for a causo it believed to he just. The exhibition of character which the war called forth, not only in its leaders, but in the men in the ranks, and in the women who toiled at home, has not been in vain. The outside world as it looked on, saw and felt tho exhibition, as a great moral lesson in which the best qualities of the race shown out in splendid colors, and its influence and its saving grace is not wholly lost on us, even in this commercial ago. The same thing may largely be said on tho other side. They had their heroes and their patriots. It is now conceded that both sides wore animated by their own convictions of right, and both fought with a courage which deserved success. The imnnrlnnoo r*e ? ,? w. mt) part which the women on both sides played in the great drama, is more recognized as time passes. An effort has recently been made in tbo Senate of tlie United States to add to a certain bill before tbat body a handsome appropriation to acquire a site and erect a memorial in tbo District of Columbia, to "commemorato the services .and the sacrifices of the women of the United States, North and South, dur in* ino sixties". Tho measure was supported by Senators North and South, but it unfortunately failed, wo hopo only for tho time being, because of a lack of a quorum. Our war fortunately was not a war of races nor of religions. While the Moslem and tho Christian have fought each other for centuries, and their hatred of each other Heems implacable, tho causes of our war havo disappeared from tho political hori17,011. Time, and tho recuperative energies of tho two sbctlons, havo under tho influence of a merciful Providence, removed tho sources of mutual bitterness, and both sides can now happily harmonize, and reunite, just occasion for war. Nothing so stimulates their patriotism, and nothunder tho influence of a merciful in tho bonds of a common country.? Darlington News and Pres?.