The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 23, 1914, Image 5
WILSON DEFENDED I
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BRYAN REVIEWS DISCUSSION OF
^ REPEAL OF FREE TOLLS.
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TWO PLANKS CONFLICT
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lu Vigorous Utterance Secretary Aril,
gues That the Little Free Tolls
Plank Should Not Dominate the 1
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larger Anti-Subsidy Declaration ;
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and the Party History.
r Secretary Bryan In a statement
> made public Sunday lengthily re- '
views the Panama tolls question, and 1
I in the course of the statement do- (
\j* clares that the repeal of the tolls ex- 1
w emption in the Panama canal act 1
"can not be construed to be a construction
of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty," but is "simply a refusal on
the part of the United States to raise 1
that question in that way." 1
Mr. Bryan dlscussos various feaf
tures of the subject?the limiting of
debate in the House of Representatives,
the Baltimore platform and the 1
effect of repeal on the treaty. Claiming
that the opponents of the repeal
had seized upon the charge that the
president was "surrendering to England",
Mr. Bryan declared that the 1
opposition to the repeal had attempt*
ed to appeal "to prejudice rather than
reason". 1
"What has Great Britain done," he
asked, "to justify the accusation that 1
she is trying to dictate to this country?
She has simply called attention
to tho terms of tho treaty, and ask- 1
ed for arbitration of the question of
1 construction, in case this government
differs from the British government 1
in the construction to be placed unon
the language. The very men who are 1
so Insistent upon construing the
treaty to permit free tolls delayed
for months the ratification of the
treaty with Great Britain because of
? their opposition to any abitration of 1
the subject? In other words, they
construed the treaty to permit discrimination,
and then objected to allowing
any international court to ex- 1
press an opinion on the subject.
"If, afl a matter of fact, the treaty 1
grants the rights which Great Britain 1
a claims, is it a 'surrender to Great
Britain' for our nation to repeal a
law that raised that question? The
repeal of the law can not bo con- '
strued to be a construction of the
treaty. It is simply a refusal on the
\ part of the United States to raise that
question in that way. In the con|
troverey over the Welland canal, CanI
|| ada withdrew a discrimination which
she had made in favor of Canadian
ship.*, 'in order that no cause for friction
with the United States authorities
in regard to the matter should
exist.'
"Why can not the United States
withdraw a discrimination for the
a same reason? When the treaty in\
* volved was before the Senate for rat
iflc&tion an attempt was made to so
amend it as to permit a discrimination
In favor of coastwise vessels, but
it vae voted down by a decided majority.
With this record to support
them, is it strange that foreign na^
tions question our right to make an
exception in favor of American vessels?"
Discussing the president's right to
expect the support of congress when
he deals with international questions,
Secretary Bryan adds: "The chief
executive speaks for the nation in international
affairs, and it is only fair
? to assume that he speafs advisedly
when he declares that intercourse
with other nations is seriously embarrassed
by the free tolls low which
he seeks to repeal.
"Wo occupy to-day a proud position
among the nations; we are the
foremost advocate of peace and arbi^
tration; we are becoming more and
jT more a moral factor throughout the
world. Con we afford to surrender
this position? Can we afford to belittle
the great enterprise which has
reached its consummation at the isthmus?
If our nation desires to bo
measured by intellectual and ethical
standards, hew unworthy to brag of
our strength and to threaten to use
that strength. 'Wo are ready to light'
does not arouse the enthusiasm now
that it did a few centuries ago. Brute
force is not the level upon which this
nation settles its controversies today.
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"The question Is not what we can
do but what we ought to do. The
path of history Is strewn with the
wreck of nations that boasted that
they were all powerful. This question
must bo decided on moral principles
and not by the counting of our
regiments and battleships. What
shall it profit a nation if it conquers
the whole world and loses its faith in
a the doctrine that righteousness cxalt&
nth a nation?"
i Mr. Bryan was a member of the
resolutions committee of the Baltimoe
convention and his observations
on the platform constitute his first
utterance on the subject. Mr. Bryan
g argues that there are two planks in
4 the Baltimore platform, pertient to
the discussion, one which declares i
the belief of the Democratic party in
the encouragement of the merchant
marine but states that it should be
I developed "without imposing addi- i
- tional burdens upon the people and
without bounty or subsidies from the 1
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public treasuries", and a second
plank declaring In favor of the exemption
from tolls of American coastwise
ships. Mr. Bryan declares that
the opposition to bounties is a doctrine
"for which the Democratic
party has stood from time Immemorial".
He refers to the exemption
plank as a "little plank" and to the
pronouncement on bounties and subsidies
as the "larger plank" and says:
"What opiate does the little plank
contain that it can make those who
accept it oblivious of the larger
plank? By what rule of construction
can the small plank be made binding
and the large one ignored? The secret
of the strange power exerted by
the little plank is to be found in the
fact that it carefully conceals the
meanB by which it is to be carried
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dui, nuu inw wuru suusiay" or
bounty' been insertod In this plank,
[t could not have secured the Indorsement
of the convention because the
contradiction between this plank and
the larger plank wbuld have been
Immediately apparent.
"If the same care had been used
In the drawing of this plank that
was used in the uf&wlug of the plank
du the merchant marine, the tolls exemption
plank would have read as
follows: 'We favor the exemption
from toll of American ships engaged
In coastwise trade passing through
the canal but without imposing additional
burdens upon the people and
without bounties or subsidies from
the public treasury.'
"But even if the platform had not
contained without itself a complete
refutation of the position taken by
the advocates of free tolls, the president
would have been justified in the
position that he took by the changed
conditions which confronted him. A
platform is a pledge and is as ibind
Ing upon an official as tlie command
of a military officer is upon a subordinate?tho
statement can not be
made stronger. But the subordinate
officer is sometimes compelled to act
upon his judgment where a change
of which the commanding officer is
not aware has taken place in conditions.
It is not tho right of the subordinate
to judge the situation for
himself where conditions have changed
since the order was given, but it is
his duty to do so.
"In the case under consideration
tho president takes responsibility for
an official act which he regards as
necessary for his country's welfare
and the people must decide whether
or not he is justified; and those who
refuse to act with him also assume
responsibility and they, too, must
abide the judgment of the public.
Such a change has taken place since
the Baltimore platform was adopted.
Had the Democrats in convention assembled
been confronted by the condition
which now exists and had they
known what those now know who
voted for repeal, no such plank would
ever have been placed in the platform.
The convention's attention
was not even brought to the fact that
a majority of tho Democrats in the
House had voted against the free tolls
measure and that it had, in fact, been
passed by a combination of a minority
of tho Democrats and a majority
of the Republicans."
Mr. Rryan says that platform
planks dealing with international
questions must be accepted with the
understanding "that we act jointly
with other nations in international
affair^," that even if the plank had
not been contradicted by another
plank in the platform and even if it
"had not concealed a subsidy policy
repugnant to Democratic principle
and history," that even if conditions
had not changed, a platform plank
should be taken on international
questions "as the expression of a wish
rather than as the expression of a determination,
for no nation can afford
to purchase a small advantage in the
face of a universal protest."
"If a nation," continued the secretary,
"desire to array itself against
the world, it should he sure that the
thing which it is to gain is worth
what it costs. The president, knowing
that every commercial nation except
our own construes the treaty as
a pledge of equal treatment, would
have been recreant to his trust had
he failed to point out to the American
people that our diplomatic relations
would be seriously disturbed by the
carrying out of the free tolls policy."
Considering the repeal measure
upon its merits, Mr. Bryan said there
were just two questions to he decided:
"First, it is desirable for the
Democratic party to abandon its historic
position and become the advocate
of subsidies and bounties? And,
second, if it is desirable, what is the
Democratic party willing to sacrifice
in international prestige and world
influence in order to secure the advantage
which the^e subsidies promise
to a few people."
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Rail Passed Through Body.
The entire length of a 90-foot steel
rail, red hot, passed through the body
of Charles Miller of Braddock, Pa.,
as he worked at a finishing mill in the
Edgar Thomson Steel Works Fridav.
Miller lived half an hour.
Killed by Twenty-fourth Operation.
Mra. Mary Wilson of New York
died Tuesday as the result of the
twenty-fourth operation in the last
Bix years. She was thirty years old.
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Collision Kills Eight.
Four men were killed and two hurt
at Georgetown, Texas, Thursday,
when a passenger train crashed into
their automobile.
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FOUR GUNMEN DIE;
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NEW .YORK .MURDERERS .PAY
PENAL.TY FOR CRIME.
m. TELLS OF SLAYING
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After Another the Convicted New
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York Cangsters Are Put in the 1
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Electric Chair and Sent to Their
Doom?Warden Relates Confession !
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Made Before Him. i
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The four gunmen convicted of the
murder of Herman Rosenthal died in (
the electric chair at Sing Sing prison,
near Ossining, N. Y., at the break of
dawn this Easter Monday morning. 1
In the death chair none confessed ,
his guilt and none mentioned the (
name of Charles Becker, the former (
police ieuieimiit found guilty of instigating
the murder but saved by
the court of appeals' reversal. Of the
four Frank Seldenshner ("Whitey
Lewis") made the only statement.
Even he did not flatly assert his inno- ,
cence.
"Gentlemen," he mumbled, as they
strapped him in the chair, "I did not
shoot at Rosenthal. Them who said
I did was perjurers. For the sake of
justice, gentlemen, I say I did not.
The witness Stannish " "Whitey"
did not flnsh the sentence. The
strange harness had been adjusted
and the current threw his body forward
in the chair. lie had meant to
say that Stannish, a waiter and a
witness at the murder trial, had lied;
but death intervened.
Seldenshner was the second man to
die. "Dago Frank" (Frank Ciroflci)
came first. "Gyp the Blood" (Harry
Horowitz) was tlio third and "Lefty
Louie) "Louis Rosenberg) last. In
4 0 minutes all four were dispatched.
This would have been shortened had
nr?f lmori t ? ? e
lv uw? uuvm iui in* uvuiuiutvuiag Ol
newspaper reporters. Their numbers
necessitated a shifting of witnesses
for each execution. All four men
walked quietly to the chair and only
their quaking knees and the sickly
green pallor of their faces attested
that the realization of death was upon
them.
Shortly before "Dago Frank" Ciroflci
went to the death chair he told
^Warden Clancey that "Gyp the Blood"
Horowitz, "Lefty Louie" Rosenberg
and Harry Vallon, an informer, fired
the shots which killed Herman Rosenthal,
for which crime the four gunmen
paid with their lives. "So far
as I know Becker had nothing to do
with the case," the gunman also declared.
"It was a gamblers' fight."
Cirofici averred he was five miles
away at the time the crime was committed
and that "Whitey" Lewis Seidenshner,
although present at tlio
scene of the shooting, did not fire any
of the shots. Cirofici made no attempt,
however, to deny that he was
included in the original plot to slay
Rosenthal, even admitting that two
nights before the gambler was slain
he went with other gangsters to look
for their intended victim.
They were frightened away from
Rosenthal on that occasion. The condemned
man also admitted that early
on the night of the actual killing he
was in the gray "murder car" with
the gunmen, but he insisted that he
left tliem hefnre tbov *?
_w.v. v UIIUU lllO fjlllll"
bier. He did not explain precisely
why he left the other gunmen Just
prior to the shooting, but two reasons
are advanced. One is that he
became frightened and the other that
he deserted in order to bail out his
sweetheart, Jean Gordon, who had
been arrested.
The statement which was made
orally in the principal keeper's ofilce
was the result of the insistent plea
on the part of Coriflci's mother and
his sister for the truth. They had
been here and made an unsuccessful
appeal to the governor to save the
prisoner's life. Returning to the
prison near dawn they were met by
the warden and taken to the ofilce
where they met Cirofici.
Mr. Clancey told his story to Superintendent
John R. Riley of the State
prison department and Gov. Glynn.
The warden first issued a formal
statement rehearsing a part of what
Cirofici told him and later added details
which included Ciroflci's admission
that ho and the other gangsters
had sought Rosenthal nights before
the slaying. The formal statement
of the warden follows:
"About 8 o'clock Sunday night
Rosenberg asked me to save Frank,
saying ho had nothing to do with the
shooting; he was not there. I went
over and asked Frank why he did not
toll the truth. He replied that ho
knew what was going on, but was
not there when thfl ?v?nrkH r> rsf\)r I
I place. T advised him to tell the whole
story. He said if ho did they would
kill his brother. I asked whom he
meant by 'they'. Ho replied that
there were ISO men In New York he
could name. He sa^d: 'I don't care
about myself, it's my family I care
for.*
"I caused Frank Ciroflci's to be
brought from the condemned cell
house to the principal keeper's office
about 4 o'clock Monday morning. He
made the following, among other
I statements, in the presence of myself,
Mclnery, principal keeper, the chaplain,
his mother and his sister. They
THE STING OF LAZINESS
MOSQl'ITOES SPREAD MALARIA
AND CHECK CROP WORK.
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United States Experts Find That
Malarial Pests Are Causing Tremendous
Ijoss to South Eaeli Year.
Malarial mosquitoes are the v/orst
pest in the South to-day, a<. wording
to statements issued by specialists
sf the Bureau of Entomology of the
Department of Agriculture. These
statements follow a study of niosquito-infected
plantations in Ixjuisiana
made during the last cotton and
corn season as a preliminary to a
moro extended investigation of the
effects of malaria on farm production
and profits.
According to data in the hands of
the investigators, more than 650,000
persons in the United States suiter
each year from malaria. They are
compelled to be absent from work an
average of eight weeks during the
businest seasons of the year, causing
an annual loss of nearly $100,000,000.
The Agricultural department is
now planning the eradication of the
malarial mosquitoes. At present
drainage and the use of oil on stagnant
pools are believed to bo the
most effective means of attack, as the
negroes of the South refuse to stay
within screened houses or to submit
to careful medical attention as soon
as they become ill.
On the Louisiana farm selected for
the preliminary study, there were
3,5 4 0 acres, of which 1,8 0 0 were under
cultivation and 1,740 acres were
in swamp land timber. The farm is
typical of an area of 200,000 square
miles of Louisiana land. Sixty-four
families were employed either as laborers
or tenants. The investigation
revealed that of tho 64 families 4 6
suffered from malaria just at the
time when crops were to be planted
and cultivated.
Federal experts declare that the
only solution to the malaria problem
in the South lies in the drainage of I
swamp lands. Tt was found on the
Louisiana plantation that negroes
wiii congregate out of doors regardless
of malaria mosquitoes, and that
even when their houses are screened
they will not keep doors closed. For
this reason experts see no hope in the |
suggestion that every precaution be I
taken against the pests. !
N EG I tO SHOT TO I>EATH.
Tragedy Occurs at Hot Supper Over
in Lexington County.
Ernest Robertson, a negro, was
shot and instantly killed by Arthur
Mayer, another negro, at a negro hot
supper at New Hope church, about
fifteen miles from Lexington, in the
Dutch Form section of that county,
about 12 o'clock Saturday night. According
to evidence adduced at the
hearing, Robertson was raising a
"rough house" in general. It was
alleged that he had attempted an assault
upon a negro woman previous
to his having been killed. The woman
struck Robertson in the head
with a rock, causing an ugly wound.
Robertson then followed the woman
Into the church and there proceeded
to continue his rowdyism, it is claimed.
An effort was made to eject him,
according to witnesses, without avail,
Arthur Mayer rushed in, and, it is
said, drew his pistol and fired three
shots, two of which took effect in the
body. So closo was the ran en nt
which the shots were fired that the
clothes of the dead man were set on
fire and had to be put out by those
who came to him after he had fallen.
urged him to tell the whole truth,
lie hesitated and said:
" 'I don't want to make any statement
for the public. I do not fear
for myself, but I do fear for you.'
"His sister replied: 'Don't have
any fear for us; wo will take care of
ourselves; God will protect us.'
"His mother and sister continued
to urge him to tell the truth.
"Ho said: 'I did not do the shooting.
The men who fired the shots
were Gyp, Louie and Vallon.'
"He said: 'I was five miles away
at the tini8. So far as I know Becker
bad nothing to do with this case. It
was a gamblers' fight.'
"Ho mentioned several raids on
gambling houses and said that the
story Shapiro told to Commissioner
Dougherty was true. Ho said: 'I told
somo lies on the stand to prove an
alibi for tho rest of the boys. The
testimony about the conversation
with Rose in tho car on the way down
was not true. I was in Bridgie
Weber's when the arrangements were
made. I did not know just what the
arrangements were. I knew something
was coming off. I did not soo
Louie pack the trunk, as I testified
on tho stand. There were guns thore
but. not the ones they uaod.' When
asked how lie pained this information
he said: 'I heard the boys talking
about it sinco I was here.' "
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Cousins Arc Killed.
Mrs. Frank D'Angels of Somerset,
Pn., was wounded Saturday when ho
went in the rear of her home to investigate
sounds of firearms. She
stumbled over the dead bodies of her
two sons, who had just been killed.
U1VES HIS VIEWS
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CHAS. A. SMITH TEL?L? PEOPL.I
OF THINGS HE SUPPORTS.
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MAKES UP HIS PLATFORM
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Lieutenant Governor for Four Year;
Now Seeks Elevation?Points t<
Ills Service in the Past and Out
lines Position on Questions of Im
portance?Asks for SufTrnge.
Lieut. Gov. Charles A. Smith has
made the following statement rela
tive to his candidacy for governor:
To the People of South Carolina:
Four years ago and again twc
years ago you elected mo lieutenan
governor of our State. My promise
was to maintain the high standards
of my predecessors in oflice, and Ir
no word or deed bring discredit t<
those who chose me. Has this prom
ise been kept?
I am now a candidate for governo
and ask a continuance of your conli
dence and suffrages. Am T worthy o
promotion? Will the interests of th?
people be safe in my hands? I pre
sent herewith, in brief, my platform
After all, a man's life and characte
best indicate bis platform. Believini
in true Democracy, when the peopl
have spoken on a public question
good citizens sink their individua
preferences until another free expres
sion is offered them. I believe I ar
the logical candidate and entitled t
your consideration. 1 promise, i
elected, careful attention to you
wishes and faithful service to th
State.
I stand for economy in government
No extravagance. No waste of th
peoplo's money. No appropriation
beyond the State's income. No in
creased taxation, except as towns
townships or counties vote specie
levies for schools or local necessities
A business system that will insur
economical expenditure of approprie
tions.
I favor a flat 2-eent passenger far
on our railroad systems and n
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nt-igiiL uiscriimnauon against Sout
Carolina points as compared with at
joining States. The railroads hav
had a largo share in the prosperit
that has come to the State, and d
not, as public service corporation,
show proper appreciation of obligi
tion to the source of their income.
I favor the submission by the lei
islature to the voters of the State t
the question of outlawing) the sale c
intoxicants within its borders;
measure which would insure the bei
efits of the Webb law, uplift publ
morals and promote temporal pre
perity.
I favor legislation that there ma
be no discrimination against the poc
man for violation of the criminal lav
For the same offense one man pays
fine within his means ans goes free
another because of inability to pa
goes to the chaingang or pen'tentiar;
I favor proper legislation to secur
honesty and freedom in elections; bi
am opposed to any qualification thf
will deprive an honest white citize
of the right of ballot.
I believe implicity in an educate
citizenship and in placing adequat
ffl pi H f ina ~ * ? ?1 -
,.v...?vs nivuiu ill*" I DIIUU t)l U ril
ing generation; believe that the con
pulsion o? love and pride and publi
opinion will as readily banish illitei
acy as mandatory legislation, and ai
for compulsorv education only shoul
the people so declare after the sul
mission of the question to their sul
frages.
I believe as a matter of econom
and public interest in a restriction c
local and special legislation by th
general assembly, that more time ma
bo devoted to matters of State-wid
importance.
I believe earnest consideratio
should be given tho demands of th
farmers of the State for rural credit
and for agricultural industrial educa
tion in our public schools.
I stand loyal to Democracy, whic
means government by all the people
for the best interests of all the people
and not government of the many by
proferred class.
I Charles A. Smith.
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SEIZE MAN'S HOME.
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United States Oulcials Take Unusua
Action.
Followiner tho flnHInc nf on hum
t, .... X/l Mil lllltl
distillery on the farm of James Pat
ten in Oconee somo time ago, govern
ment olTlcials have now seized Pat
ten's home, barn and othor outbuild
ings. This action is considered b
local revenue men as a very unusua
occurrence and only happens whei
the illicit plant is found in close prox
imity to tho restdenco in which th
alleged operator resides.
In this case the accused man stil
lives in his home but does so undo
a heavy bond. When tho officers raid
ed Patten's placo they destroyed i
distillery which was in full operatloi
in the collar of a newly constructe<
barn, the entrance to the place beta,
gained by a trap door in tho loft o
tho barn.
Don't have the gall to blame you
laziness on the weather.
INTEREST IN MEETINGS
IjIXI) TO SEE WIIaSON AND niXA
TO MEET CARRANZA.
Washington is Expecting Definite Ke>
| suits in Conferences Between leading
Men on Roth Sides.
^ Washington officials and diplomats
were speculating Sunday night
> outcome of two conferences to be nek!
thia week, one in that city between
" President Wilson and his personal
representative in Mexico, John Idnd,
and the other at Torreon, between
Gen. Venustiano Carranza, first chief
of the Constitutionalists, and Gen.
3 Villa, the victorious rebel army leader.
President Wilson returned to tho
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VMA inuiiuaj 11 win lli?
* trip to Wast Virginia. Mr. Rind Is
^ coming up the coast from Vera Crux
aboard the yacht Mayflower, ana
? though 110 word lias been received
* from the yacht since she left M?xi1
can waters, she is expected to arrive
Tuesday. About the time Mr. Lind
making his report to the president
1 the Mexican rebel leaders will be1
meeting for the first time since the
I days of the Madero revolution, and
p on this conference much is believed
to depend. Oflicials think that n.
face-to-face talk between Carranr'.
r and Villa will result in a clearer un^
derstanding concerning the rights of
? foreigners in Mexico, and espociaRr
' their privilege of pressing clalmasi
* through American consular ofllcerfSu
No news from the scene of iratr
n came to either the war or nary cfe?
partment. The navy department ateo
^ without a final report from Rear Arir
mlrnl Mayo on the outcome of his
0 m?nd that the Mexican Federal commander
at Tampico salute the Stars
^ and Stripes as a part of Iif? apology
? for the affront to America in the ars
rest of United States marines. OfRl"
cials declared, however, that no anxicty
was felt over this matter as asII
suranees had been given that proper
3- reparation would ho made.
e It was reported that important dfsl~
patches had come to the state department
from the City of Mexico. Seee
rotary Bryan said, however, that hr
? had nothing whatever to gtve out.
The secretary commented on the ab~
sence of press reports from the MeocS?
can capital, and remarked that appar?
y ently a rigid censorship was being ex?
ercised. lie had nothing to sar*
s? about the possible cause of this.
One of the results of the Torreon
meeting is expected to be a reply to ?
the state department's latest reprcv
^ sentation, especially in the case of
Spaniards exiled from Torreon. Ala
though Carranza has told the dep&rtr
l~ ment that ho is not disposed to
lc terfere with Villa's course toward*
s" the Spaniards there is a frankly expressed
expectation that this stand
iy may be modified.
>r Should the two rebel leadens dev'
clde to pay no heed to Secretary
a Bryan's demand that the cases of alt
5? Spaniards be settled on their Individy
ual merits the United States will
V' confronted with a problem of the?
e greatest gravity, since Spain has plaeed
the safety of her subjects in AivierL*
ican hands in representations mado
n by the Spanish foreign office, both
through Ambassador "Riano at Wasbington,
and Ambassador Willard, im
0 Madrid.
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TO WIPE OUT MAIiARIA.
c #
r" Public Health Service Report Says*
n
(1 Disease is Preventable.
1 There was only one case of mala
i rial fever in tho South during 19t3
to three during the preceding year,
^ according to the public health report
The states included in the canvass
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were Alabama, Arkansas, MississlfvJ
pi, Georgia, South Carolina, Nortfu
8 Carolina and Florida. Statistics were
obtained by the service through post
11 cards sent out to physicians in thesv?
0 states.
Totals for various states follow:
l~ Alabama, May to November, 12,000
cases; Arkansas, August to Novem1
ber, $ 1 8,f?00; South Carolina, August,
to November, 12,000; Florida, same*
' period, 9,000; Georgia, Augusta to
a October, 9,99 0; Mississippi, full year.
02,000. The report shows that out
of 91,000 cases, 27,000 occurred in
children under fifteen. The disease
is preventable, and can bo controller i
if not eliminated, health service re?-,
port declares.
11
BODY FOUND IN FTFJiE*.
* Inquest Fails to Solve Death Msyterjr
Near Brunson.
Tlx? (lead body of a young man was.
y discovered in a field near the lino >?
'j the Charleston and Western Carolina
' railway, about one mile from Brim
son, Saturday afternoon. The pere
son discovering the corpse reportod it
to the sheriff of the county, who, unable
to readily xeach the coroner, informed
the local magistrate, and nr
r inquest was held and a verdict rendered
that "the deceased came to Hfc"
a death from a blow on the body fey at
a blunt instrument delivered by a party
or parties unknown to the Jury". In*
vestigation showed that tho negro
was from Barnwell County, near Allendale,
and was known by the name*?
of Fim Hughes,
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