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FIGHT TO CONTINUE MEDIATORS LEARN CARRANZJ WILL NOT STOP WARFARE. REFUSED AN ARMISTICE ) Aetfon of Rebel Chieftain Will Har? No Effect on Continuation of Efforts of the Mediators?Delegates Hare Not Been Named Yet?Man; Names Suggested. The mediation plans of the South American envoys who are trying: to straighten out the troubled affairs of Mexico went steadily forward Sunday, and while there were no formal sessions the mediators conferred during the afternoon and evening on what had been done and the next step in their procedure. The United States, the Huerta government and Gen. Carranza are expected to name their delegates as requested by tlio mediators within the next day or two. The delegate for tho United States has not yet been selected but It became known Sunday that it would not bo one of the officials closely identified with the government. As the three Southern envoys are accredited to the United States this government does not wish to name a government ofllcial to deal with them but to have an outsider who would deal with them without reference to their relations to the United States. This has eliminated Robert Lansing, counselor of tho state department, and in general all other government officials. The names of John Bassett Moore, John Lind and Henry White, already mentioned, are now added to those of Richard Olney, former secretary of state; Dr. David Jayne Hill, former ambassador to Germany, and Hannis Taylor, former minister to Spain. The Huerta delegate Is expected to be Francisco de la Earra, now Mexicon minister at Paris, but nothing definite has been heard from Mexico City. Rafael Zubaran, personal representative of Gen.. Oarranza, is available as the Carranza delegate, although his particular mission in coming from Carranza is still to be announced and it is not yet definite that Carranza will go to the extent of naming a delegate to deal with the mediators. When the delegates of the three parties arrive it is expected the mediators will be ready to cake up the eruci&l issues between the United States and Huerta at least, and if possible between Huerta and Carranza. Whether a plan of adjustment can be worked out is still an open question, even in the minds of the mediators. They expect the delegates from the three parties to assist them to get together on some middle ground. The mediators will continue to be the main body formulating a plan of settlement, as the delegates from the three parties will have no plenipotentiary powers and wil lact merely as advisers. It became definitely established that (Jen. Cararnza would not agree to the request of the mediators that ha suspend military operations against Huerta pending the mediation proceedings, and the envoys have been advised of this decision. It has been apparent for several days that Carranza Intended to nush his drmt southward, but it was not until the laet 24 hours that this was communicated as finality. It is said this will have no effect on checking the general plans of mediation, which will go steadily forward. Close associates of Carranza who have now arrived, say that no mediation between them and Huerta is possible and that any move on the part of the three mediators to include in their program a scheme for the general adjustment of Mexican affairs will be regarded as being outside the scope of their labors. Meanwhile the campaign against the Huerta forces in the north is proseeding with full force, the mediation work not being considered by the Carranzalstas as having any bearing on the relations between Huerta and themselves. The march on Mexico City, according to those near Carranza, Is to ,be undertaken as soon as military operations in the north will permit. Carr&nza's refusal of an armistice between biin and Huerta is the first adverse reply the mediators have received. On the other hand, favorable comment is made in circles close to the envoys upon the amenability Huerta has shown. Aside from the personnel of the delegates from the parties to the controversy the mediators have given some information as to wliethor it may become desirable to go to some neutral point outside o? Washington A.? #A J * -- vu Man/ Auiwo.ru ineir negotiations with tho three parties concerned. The only purpose in this would bo to forestall the feeling on the part of any one that their sessions at the seat of the government might tend to a leaning toward tho viewpoint of the United States, the desire being to make their deliberation as detached and Independent as possible. This has led to Informal suggestions that Habana be selected as a place of I'S,; , WOULD HELP FARMERS CUNKSCALKS REPLIES TO SOME L QUESTIONS ASKED HIM. ? ? If Farmers AVant Warehouse They Should Have It?Thinks Landlord Should Have First Claim to Crops. The following communication ad5 dressed to The News and Courier . gives some light on the position of Hon. John G. Clnkscales, in his race 1 for governor: "Some people contend that there is no place in South Carolina politics for a scholar and a gentleman, and It is argued with some degree of plaus ibility that one who has followed the placid paths of literature for a number of years would be entirely ignorant with respect to the practical needs of a people who to a very largo extent follow the pursuit of agriculture. "With this in view, I recently directed a number of written inquiries to the Hon. John G. Clinkscales, who is a candidate for governor of our State, the substance of my inquiries being about as follows, to wit: "1. If elected governor, would your mind bo open to reason and legitimate argument, with respect to any proposed legislation which would affect favorably the agricultural interests of South Carolina? "2. If elected governor and it should appear that there is a general desire and demand among the farm- i ers of South Carolina for a State warehouse system for the purpose of storing cotton and other produce and controlling the price of same, would you favor such legislation? "3. If elected governor and in view of the recent acrobatic decision of our State supreme court in the matter of Nexsen vs. Ward, would you favor legislation giving a farmer a prior and preferred lien for advances made to a tenant, as against any and all subsequent creditors? "For the benefit of the voters of South Carolina, I beg to request that you publish the enclosed reply of the Hon. John G. Clinkscales to the above inquiries, along with this statement from myself. Yours truly, "J J. Cantey. a?rv n i ? ? ? - - - - oumiuwi uuu, O. \J.t April Zl. 1914. "Spartanburg, S. C., April 17, 1914. "Mr. J. J. Cantey, Summerton, S. C. "My Dear Mr. Cantey: I thank you for your letter of 15th. It gives me great pleasure to answer every question fully and I could wish that other friends would do just as you have done "1. Yes, my mind shall always be open to reason and I shall be always on the alert for any legislation that would promise help to our agricultural Interests. "2. Yes, assuredly, yes. If the farmers should desire a State warehouse system they should have it by all means. "3, I believe the landowner should ' have the first claim to crops, paper 1 or no paper. Of course, yes. I have < owned land know what it means "I am now studying our agricul- < tural weakness as well as our strong ' points, and shall favor any construe- < tive legislation. Again thanking you, 1 I am, Sincerely yours, 1 "J. O. Clinkscales." ? I CONSPIRES AGAINST DICTATOR. 1 ? ? Minister Die liquet Was Preparing to Seize Government. < A Dondon dispatch says that ( Gen. Huerta barely escaped a fate ( similar to that by which he over- j threw President Madero is the aston- ( ishing news received Friday in j an official dispatch from Mexico sent to the local diplomatic offices in tlio j secret code of the service The armv ? ? ' 1 it seems, under the io dership of f | Gen, Blanquet, had entered into a , conspiracy to overthrow and depose \ the general, but the conspiracy leak- , ed to the British minister, who warn- ( ed Huerta of his coming fate and the , defection of the war minister. 1 Huerta, upon hearing of the plot, < threatened to arrest Blanquet, the i war minister, who had been instrumental in planning for his downfall. , The latter, however, has pledgod his ^ loyal support in the future, and as yet has not been arrested. ] ? ? Garrison Issues Proclamation. , Secretary Garrison Saturday took ] a firm hold of the situation in the i mining districts of Colorado, where ' armed warfare has been going on for i some time betweon the striking miners and the owners of the mines. The war secretary issued a proclama- < tion calling upon all individuals, < firms, associations and corporations i within the lmits of the affected tor- j i ~ e n, "" - .im/ ui me mining district to give up their arms at once to the Federal i authorities. This proclamation is to 1 be posted throughout the strike zone. < ? ? . i Sreot. Fighting Continues. ' A dispatch from Tampico, Mexico^ ! reports that the federals have been 1 heavily reinforced Street lighting < in the city still continued. The Con- i stitutionali8ts are wthout any artillery and for ths reason ther troops I have been unable to make much of i an advance in the face of the spirit- 1 ed defense of the defenders of the 1 eapoil. i I SMITH IS STRONG ANTI-BLEASE FORCES CAPTURE MAJORITY OF CLUBS. BLEASE LOSES NEWBERRY ? Report ITns It That Senator Smith's Friends Will Have Easy Control ol Governor's Home County Convention.?Reports From All Over the State Favor Smith. Supporters of United States Senator E. D. Smith are pointing to the victory of the anti-Blease fdrcos in the Newberry County Democratic club meetings on Saturday afternoon and night as significant. For the first time since he lias been in office Governor Mease's followers wore beaten in the majority of the club meetings in the home county of the Governor on Saturday, according to reports from there. A communication from Newberry said that, with only a few clubs not heard from, and conceding all of them to the Bleaseites, the Smith, or Anti-Blease, forces would control the County Convention overwhelmingly. The report stated that in the five wards in Newberry city 35 AntiBlease and 13 Blease delegates were elected to the Convention, and in the county, with a few small clubs missing, 84 Anti-Blease delegates were chosen and 4 1 Blease delegates. This insures control of the County Convention to the Anti-Blease forces by a % to 1 vote, will give them dominance of the county executive committee and make certain a delegation of eight anti-Blease men to the State Convention. Governor Blease himself was elected a delegato to the Newberry Couna r-% - ? iy vvoiivenuon irom Ward 5. In that club meeting, with 4 8 present, the Governor is said to have received 2 8 votes, while one of his followers polled 36. The anti-Blease vote in that club was 20. In Ward 3 in Newberry the anti-Blease delegation was elected, polling 99 votes to the highest vote cast for a Blease candidate, that being 17, which went to Assistant Attorney General Fred H. Dominick. Neither Col. John K. Aull, private secretary to Governor Blease, or Col. E. H. Aull were elected delegates to the County Convention, it was stated in the communication. Reports from all parts of the State indicate that the great majority of the county conventions will be dominated by the anti-Bleasites, which insures control of the State Convention to the supporters of Governor Smith. If the indications are true, the State executive committee will be controlled by the Smith faction. While the lines were not drawn in many counties, wherever they were the Blease forces seem to have lost out in the majority of instances. In Richland county a close examination I of the delegates elected from the various clubs will indicate that the County Convention will be overwhelmingly dominated by the antiBlease forces. It is reported from Anderson that the Smith forces will likely control :hat Convention, as they will probably dominate the Greenville, Oconee, an a - - -- A ? l uiocunuuu anu umor county conventions in the up-country. Laurens County appears to be again in control of the Blease forces, but that county and Jasper seem to be the >nly out and out counties conceded :o the B.lease faction, as far as incomplete reports from club meetings lave been received. It is taken for a fact in Columbia that the State Convention will be n charge of the anti-Blease forces md attention is now turned to issues vhich will be presented to that body 'or settlement. Reform of the primary will be the one big matters for consideration. Several of the club meetings throughout the State have nstructed delegations In the various county conventions to introduce and work for reform of the primary. 4 Just what shape this will take Is lot now apparent, it will have to be | worked over after the county conventions are held on next Monday. However, it appears certain that some reform measure will have a good chance of getting through and will probably take the shape of allowing names on only one club roll and provide for the closing of the club lists some ten days or earlier before the first primary and the filing of such list with the clerk of Court or some othor officer. This list will be the official one to guide the managers of each precinct on the dav of the nri maries. Resolutions endorsing the National administration and the record of President Wilson, especially with refsrance to Mexico, were adopted in club meetings la various counties. The endorsement of United States Senator E. D. Smith by the James Is-! land Democratic clubs in Charleston County, gratified friends of the Senator. The resolution r.ad: "Resolved, The the Hon. E. D. 3mitli, United States Senator for South Carolina, has filed that position tor the last six years with dignity, 'earlessness, and efficiency, and being n touch with tho agricultural and HUKRTA LOSING GRIP. Political Prisoners at Vera Cruz Re leased by Americans. I Apparent reliable reports fron Mexico City received at Ven Cruz Friday seem to Indicate thai President Huerta Is rapidly los ing his former Iron control upon th< conditions of affairs at the captal According to the messages received Foreign Minister Rojas has beer , forced from the cabinet. There hai also been a break in the relations o 1 the general and his war minister Gen. Blanquet. These are taken as signs of the approaching end of the | Huerta regime. If the governmenl should fail it is a matter of specula tion whether the mobs of the citj could be restrained, and chaotic con ditions are expected in the capital Refugees arriving here assert thai well founded rumors in Mexico Citj have it that Gen. Huerta has arranged for his entire family to leave tlu city The general^ sentiment towards Americans has gradually been undergoing a change, and the Mexicans are i ~ ~ i - *? i'-- " * - ~ - iwuftuif; uiiuu mo united states as a friend instead of an invading enemy. At the San Juan Deulloa prison sixty prisoners, who had been confined for political crimes, have been released by order of the Americans in command. The condition of the health of these prisoners is terrific. Many of them are verging upon insanity, and it is doubtful if their lives would have continued much longer, but for the fortunate entry of the American troops. The Connecticut and superdreadnought New York will arrive in the harbor Monday. Rear Admiral Badger will then have the most powerful fleet .ever gathered together under one flag anywhere in the world at any one time. One well directed broadside from the big guns 011 board the men of war could level the city of Vera Cruz to sandy foundations. APPEARS FOR FRANK. ? Burns Denounces Attack Upon Him at Marietta. At Atlanta, Ga., Detective William J. Burns and Assistant Dan Lehon, Friday afternoon appeared in court and be examined by Solicitor General Dorsey in an investigation into their relations with the Frank case in the efforts of the defense to secure a new trial for the condemned man. The motion of the attorney for Frank, requesting an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States on constitutional grounds will be heard early next week. Detective Burns roundly denounced the attack made upon him Thurs day at Marietta, when a mob surrounded his hotel and forced him to leave town because of their threats, in an automobile. The people of Marietta were incensed that the detective should come to the home town of Mary Phagan in an effort to secure testimony damaging to her. Frank denounced the attack as an outrage upon him, and declared that he had done nothing to deserve such treatment. ?' Leave In a Hurry. Eighteen hours after being ordered to Mexico four regiments, 3,400 strong, sailed from Galveston, Texas, Friday, Twelve machine guns were carried along. / other interests of our State, and in perfect harmony with the present Administration, is thus enabled to render signal service to the State of South Carolina, be it Resolved, That the members of the James Island Democratic Club do hereby endorse his campaign for reelection, and fcommand him to the Democratic voters of the State." The situation in Charleston is of much interest to the rest of the State. Charleston has the largest delegation in the State Convention, being entitled to eighteen delegates, and naturally both factions are extremely anxious to control the County Convention. No mention of factional lines appears in the report of the Spartanburg County club meetings, but a [reading of the delegates to the Coun1 ty Convention, especially those chosen from the city wards, would indicate many strong Anti-Administration men in the list. This county has the second largest delegation in the State Convention, being entitled to 16. Many well known leaders in the State who have taken the prominent parts in the fight on Governor Cole L?. Tllease in the past will sit in their homo county conventions and help make up the tickets and many themselves be in the 336 delegates which will make up the State Convention when it assembles in the hell nf House of Representatives in Columbia on May 3 0 at noon. Judge Ira B. Jones, who unsuccessfully contested with Governor Blease in 1912, heads the delegation from his club to the Lancaster County Convention. United States Senator B. R. Tillman will sit in the Edgefield County Convention. Ex-Governor and State Chairman John Gary Evans, ExSolicltor J. C. Otts, former Representative H. K. Osborne, Representative J. W. Boyd are among several of the better-known Anti-^BJeaso men who | will be members of the Spartanburg County Convention. * # HAS MART :Al LAW * ? FliETOHER TO ItULdS VKIIA CRUZ | TO KEEP DOWN STRIFE. t ? ? * ' WILL PUNISH DISORDER ? 1 3 Admiral Says There Shall Be No f More Quibbling About Government * ??Order That All Arms be Given ) t lTp Results in Surrender of Stacks r of Rifles. Vera Cruz Sunday was under mar; tial law. Rear Admiral F. F. Fletcher, commanding the American naval forces on shore, Sunday issued a proclamation to this effect, and the last opportunity Mexicans had for handling their own affairs in Vera Cruz under their own laws disaps peared. Admiral Fletcher and his staff de, termined there should be no more quibbling with the Mexican officials regarding form of government and , until further notice residents of this . port will live and be judged by mili tary law. The word has gone forth that disorder and unruliness in any ; form shall receive swift and severe 1 punishment. This proclamation makes Rear Admiral Fletcher absolute ruli er ashore. It is believed martial law will open the way for more of the city and fedi eral employees to return and co-operate in restoring the local government functions. Mexicans point out that these men now will be in a position to explain to their friends and the existing government at the capital that under martial law, they felt 1 obliged to return to their work. An order that all arms be turned in by residents by noon brought to the headquarters of the provost marshal bushels of small arms and stacks of rifles. The city was quiet Saturday night, and if there was a sniper in action the fact was not reported to division headquarters. Many Mexican officials have reported their willingness to resume their duties of office under the supervision of the Americans. The efforts of Rear Admiral Fletcher, supplemented by those of the British commander, Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock, and the French and German consuls and private citizens, to bring about the departure from the interior of all foreigners who wish to leave, are being continued energetically, but the hope of getting out more than a small part r\t 1 -.#4- 1- -*? ui vuv/od imi 1a uimiiiianing nouriy. Federal Gen. Maas has established his headquarters at Soledad, 16 miles from Vera Cruz, and his men are tearing up the railroad tracks. The gap between Tejera, the water supply station, which is guarded by the Americans, and Soledad, has grown, and it is no simple task for refugees to get themselves and their belongings across the open space. Lieut. Frank J. Fletcher of the battleship Florida, is in charge of the train which is being run from Vera Cruz to the break in the road and on every outgoing trip the train carries a email detachment of armed men in addition to a machine gun. The train has been within sight, at various times, of outposts or scouting parties of Gen. Maas* forces, but so far there has been no hostile act. No initirnat.ion has been received that Huerta proposes to release the Americans, some of the women and children, held at Cordeba, Orizaba, Pachuca, Aguas Callentes and other places. Former railway men, Americans and a few Mexicans, including some of the officers of the National Railway system, who were discharged by Gen. Huerta, have offered their services to Rear Admiral Fletcher for any use he may see fit to make them. A communication has been sent to Gen. Maas, asking him to permit the operation of trains from the south 4-1 -*T- /I - - w?oi liio vera uruz ana lstnmlan road for a brief time, that Mexicans who desire to reach that part of the country shall have the opportunity to do so, and that Americans isolated in that district may be gotten out. The consulate is receiving upwards of one hundred telegrams a day asking for information of American residents. Consul Canada has created a special bureau to make such investigations and to answer telegrams. Both the navy and state departments are eager for official news and the fleet and the consular office have been bombarded with orders for minute details. This official information, added to the mass of private messages and the enormous volume more newspaper correspondents, has resulted in so clogging the throe cables to the outside world that its transmission, except with many I hours' delay, is very nearly imnns Bible. Twenty more corespondents are said to be on their way aboard the transports. The food supply problem must be relieved soon, and plans are making to open the Alvaredo railroad, a short line running south Into the garden and poultry district. ? ? Place Order for Horse*. Fort Reno, Okie., has received orders to deliver at once at Galveston twelve hundred cavalry horses* COTTON STATISTICS ONXiY TWO STATES SHOW A DWGREASE IN ACREAGE. 1 Planting This Year Is Later Than Usual on Account of Gold?More Fertilizer Used. Reports t othe Journal of Commerce of New York on cotton acreage ^ are incomplete, but partial returns indicate a slight increase. Cotton planting Is late and incomplete, and* it is yet impossible to forecast the final acreage. Returns thus far; avalable, however, indicate an increase of about 1.5 per cent., which is sure to be exceeded when final returns are obtained, a month hence. Nearly all states show fair in- A creases, except Oklahoma and North Carolina, where the acreage is, re- * spectively, 1.3 per cent, less and 0.1 per cent. less. In Oklahoma so little planting has been done that a large percentage of correspondents refrain from estimating, while In North Carolina planting is late and considerable cotton acreage is being put into- . tobacco * The estimates by states, as obtained from nearly 1,800 special correspondents of the Journal of Commerce, bearing an average date of April 2 4, are given herewith: Fer- DaysAcreage tilizers. lateNorth Carolina, 0.1 . . .plus 3 10 TUffi South Carolina, plus 1.7. .plus 5 7 Georgia, plus 1.5 plus 5 5 Florida, plus 5.3 plus 3 4 Alabama, 0.0 plus 3 4 Mississippi, plus 2.0 . . . plus 3 It Duosisiana, plus G.7 . . .plus 5 17 Arkansas, plus 3.G . . . .plus 8 8 Tennessee, 0.0 ...... . plus 7 6 k Missouri, plus 3.7 . . . .^Ius4 2 Oklahoma, plus 1.3 . . . plus G 7 Texas, plus 1.5 plus 5 17 General conditions have been favorable and the prospects for the cropare good. There is a good season in the ground, with plenty of moisture, and preparations for planting have been unusually satisfactory. The season varies from a week to two weeks late, owing chiefly to cold, wet weather. Where cotton was planted early, as a rule, good stands have been obtained and very little replanting has been necessary. There is snrtlP r>nmnloln? ? ^ VA 0V/liI City of seed and poor quality, but It is only Isolated. Only warm weather is apparently now needed to give thecrop a satisfactory start. As usual, some sections are planting morssmall grains at the expense of cotton, but its effect is insignificant. A i liberal use of fertilizers is ndlcated A 1 the year, the average increase for tha^ ^ belt being about 5 per cent. ? ? M. Ii. SMITH CON FIDEIMT. \ Speaker Says He 'Will be the Next Governor of the State* ^ Anybody who thinks that Mendel. L. Smith of Cam den, speaker of the House of Representatives, of the< South Carolina general assembly, Isnot going to continue in the race for governor, had better admit his mistake?for no other than Mendel !?. j Smith himself says that he will ton- * * tinue in the race. Not only this, but the honorable representative from Camden says he will romp In a win-, ner. Asked for a statement regarding his candidacy while in Columbia ro~ cently, he said: "I find there are many reports being circulated that will drop out of the race. I want toV say, however, that I am certainly in this race, I have made all arrangements to be a candidate and I expect to win." Speaker Smith also said he was besieged with letters from friends in all sections of the State, asking him > v to make addresses and that if he ac-^i cepiea tnem all he would not have %. \ moment's spare time between now and election day. His trip to Columbia, he said, was on private business. < ? ? HUERTA ACCEPTS ARMISTICE. ? A Rut Const tationalists Must Oeaat ' Fighting in North. A Mexico dispatch says acceptance by Gen. Huerta of the proposal of the three mediating nations now engaged in an attempt to settle the Mexican national and international-^ crisis that the armed forces of hie' government and those of the United States now in possession of Vera Cry* observe a truce while the efforts of the Latin-American delegates to effect a lasting peace contnue, was accepted it Is said Friday upon the condition that the Constitutionalist!!^ discontinue their attacks in the nortjfc and around Tampico. Somi-ofilclally, however, it was announced that the armistice had gone into effect and that the Mexican government had halted all movements of troops for the entire period, while the peace negotiations are being car?*?L tied on. ^ ? . ? ? Four Die in Wreck. Four men were kilted and six injured In a wreck at Vtnita, Okla , Saturday, when a freight plunged hito a creefc, ^ is