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y STATE CON v WILL BE A 1 SENTIMENT FAVORS * PRIMARY REFORMS Report** from Different County Conventions Show the Safe-guarding of } Primary to be Foremost in Minds of People?-Wilson Administration Kndorsed by Many Counties. Reports from all over the State in dicate that tlio Anti-Blease forces won a sweeping victory at the county conventions held Monday. An estimate based on those reports puts the number of Auti-JUoaao delegates In the State Convention at 291 and ** the Bloase delegates at 47. The reports form the different conventions show that the safeguarding oftho primary will undoubtedly bo a prime question at the State Convention, sixteen convetlons going on record as favoring more adequate safeguards angains fraud. 4 Senator Smith was elected a delegate to the State Convention from Ceo County. Newberry County ?.id not give either Governor Blease cr Fred H. Dominick a plaoe in ihe State Convention. In the Barnwell Convention Charles Carroll Simms was endorsed for d Governor because ho was a Barn ''ell man, but failed of election to he State Convention, vithdrawljg before a second ballot could bo taken. The Sumter Convention endor?8?d mo canaiuacy ror governor or 11. I. Manning and elected him otato executive committeeman and delegate to the Convention. The TTnion Convention endorsed 4he candidacy of Lcwndes J. Brownin for Governor and elected him a delegate to the State Convention. It also endorsed the candidacy for congress of T. C. Duncan. In the Kershaw convention M. L. 4^ Smith and J. G. Richards declined to stand for office in the Convention. MarLboro County did not give John Tj. McLaurin a place in its delegation to the Slate Convention. Senator Smith's candidacy was endorsed by the convention of Bamberg, Orangeburg, Barnwell and Kershaw. In Laurens County a resolution to endorse the administration of Governor Lleaso was defeated. R. A. Cooper, candidate for Goveronr heads the Laurens County delegation. The Oconee Convention went on record as being opposed to race track ^ gambling in this State. * The Clarendon Convention adopted resolutions praising the effort of Congressman Whaley to promote the drainage of the low country. W. F. Stevenson, candidate for Congress, was re-elected State executive committeeman fro Chesterfield. ^ The Florence County Convention endorsed Congressman Ragsdale. In Barnwell, the Convention endorsed unanimously the candidacy of Adjt. Gen. Moore. Resolutions endorsing the candidacy of Attorney General Peoples and of R. M. Mlxson for Congress were passed after a hot fight. JK Sentiment in favor of primary reform is strong. In the following counties the Conventions went on recoid as favoring some plan of safeguarding the primary from fraud: Horry, Green T^eed, Oconee, Greenville, Aiken, Fairtieid, Darlington, Williamsburg, Chester, - Beaufort, >ll Bamberg, Orangeburg, Calhoun, Florf* ence, Sumter, Richland. Varying methods of safeguarding the primary were proposed in these different conventions. The Richland Convention adopted the McMahan resolution instruction the delegates to the State Convention to work for the restriction of the primary to registered votj era. In the Spartanburg Convention a resolution instructing the delegates to oppose restriction of the primary was defeated, and in the Colleton Convention the same thing occurred. The Marlboro delegaton, it is understood, will work for primary reform. Resolutions opposing further re^ - strictlon of the primary were passed by the conventions of Lee, Jasper, Union and Laurens counties. The Bamberg, Calhoun, Laurens, Fairfield and Clarendon conventions opposed the abolition of the countyto-county campaign. The Wilson administration was given the endorsement of a large ^ number of the county conventions, the resolutions in many instances praising especially the President's Mexican policy and in several instances endorsing the president's stand in the matter of tolls exempy tion. L Probable Standing of Delegates. Counties? Blease. Anti-Bbase Abbeville 8 Aiken 8 Anderson 14 Bamberg 6 > Barnwell i 1 7 Beaufort t> * Berkeley . 1 5 Calhoun 4 VENTION NTI-BLEASE PICKED UP AT SEA TWENTY-SIX SAVED OFF BURNING STEAMER. ? Another Boat leaded With Seventeen Persons Still Missing.?Rescuers on the Lookout. Thirteen survivors of the British steamer Columbian, bound from Ant- < werp for New York, which caught | fire Sunday night, were picked up , Tuesday by the Cunarder Franconia, bound from Liverpool for Boston. 1 Another boat, containing the chief and second second officers and 17 1 men, was still adrift. The Franconia cruised in search of it. The survivors suffered terribly during their forty hours' exposure in an open boat. Their condition was so grave that it was impossible to get their story until several hours after they wore picked up. A wireless from Halifax Wednesday reported that the steamer Manhattan had rescued thirteen members of the crew of the British freighter which was burned at sea Sunday night. These are in addition to the thirteen saved by the Cunard liner Franconia, and this brings the total of those saved to twenty-six. Nineteen are reported still misBing. The Columbian caught Are Sunday when 300 miles south of Capo Race. Capt. McDonald ordered the wireless operator, James Drohan, to sent out calls for assistance, but a series of explosions put the wireless out of commission. It soon became evident t V) tl t flirt nrrwif nnt nnntml V. vw W IT VV/U1U II v/v V/Vlltl UI LUC fire and the order to abandon ship was given. The men left the Columbia in two boats. Chief Steward Matthews was in charge of the first boat. This boat put away from the steamer and lay to for a time, but in the dense smoke that surrounded the burning vessel the other boat was not visible, and the steward's boat finally drifted far from the scene. Of their sufferings and of the fate or; Chief Steward Matthews the men could say little. Food and sleep were matters of first consideration and although sympathetic passengers were ready with offers of assistance to the shipwrecked ones, Capt. Miller, of the Franconia saw to it that they were first given the required rest. Having learned that another boat with 19 men, probably including Capt. McDonald, still was missing, and supposedly adrift, Capt. Miller ordered the Franconia turned about on a searching cruize. No trace of . the second boat has been obtained. ? BLAMES MEDIATORS. Charges Them With Failure of the Rebels to Enter Mediation. General Carranza Tuesday at Chihuahua declared that the mediators f Viomooloa wawa ? ? -1 * 1 - wiivuioviuo ITOl D UH OU11JT lOHpUll HI U 1(3 for the failure of the rebels to enter into the mediation conference now going on at Washington. The Constitutionalist leader says they attempted to name the terms upon which the rebels could enter and as the Constitutionalists could not agree to an armistice with General Huerta the condition barred them from all entry. lie says he accepts the decision of the mediators as final and will not enter the conference at all. Colleton ?1 5 Charleston 8 10 Cherokee 6 Chester 6 Chesterfield 3 3 Clarendon 5 3 Darlington 8 Dillon 2 4 Dorchester 1 3 Edgefield . 8 Fairfield 6 Florence 8 Georgetown 3 3 Greenville 14 Greenwood 8 Hampton 1 3 Horry 6 Jasper 4 Kershaw 6 Lancaster 1 5 Laureno 2 6 Lee 1 5 Lexington 8 Marion 6 Marlboro 8 Newberry 8 Oconee 6 Orangeburg 12 Pickens 2 4 J ? lu Saluda 6 Spartanburg 16 , Sumter 8 Union S 3 Williamsburg 8 York 10 Totals . .47 291 - Frank Gets No New Trial. Judge Hill Wednesday afternoon at Atlanta overruled the motion made i by the attorneys for L?eo Frank that < he be granted a new trial. 1 HOW THEY BROKE VOTE WHICH CAUSED OARRANZA TO ABANDON MEDIATION. HUERTA FACES TWO FOES ' Mediators Are Hoping That Constitutionalist Loader Will See Fit to Ke-entcr Negotiations for the Pur pose of Establishing a Lasting and Permanent Peace. The text of tho mediators' note to Cararnza, which broke off relations between them, stated definitely that fill the differences which contributed toward the present situation in Mexico bear either directly or indirectly on the solution of tho ponding conflict between Mexico and the United States and that "all these differences should bo made the subject of consideration in tho negotiations". They also informed Carranza that they considered a suspension of hostilities as indispensable to his participation in the mediation. Tho text of the note the mediating envoys sent Monday to Gen. Carranza withdrawing tho invitation for a Constitutionalist representative to participate in the mediation was as follows: "We have received your telegram in which you are kind enough to tell us that you deem it inconvenient for tho Constitutionalist cause to suspend hostilities against Gen. Iluerta on the ground that such suspension would only accrue to the benefit of Iluerta and in w?\ich you declare that tho international conflict between Mexico and the United States ] for whoso solution you accepted our good offices is independent of the internal strife in that country. "Wo consider this unexpected statement as inconsistent with tho idea which caused us to offer our good offices. We think, indeed, that ^11 tUn A I 1 *1 -1.I.U t 1-1 an liio UUJ1V>U11K?? WHICH KilVU CUIJLributed toward the present situation in Mexico bear either directly or indirectly on the solution of the pending conflict between Mexico and the United States. Consequently we think that thece difficulties should be made the subject of consideration in the negotiations for whoso successful conduct we have deemed it indispensable to suspend hostilities. "Should you not deem it so, we would be compelled in that case to withdraw as inopportune our invitation for the appointment of representatives of Constitutionalists in such negotiations. We beg to assure you of our highest consideration." This note was sent in reply to one from Gen. Carranza outlining his refusal to enter into an agreement to suspend hostilities against Huerta. A. second message has been received by the mediators from Carranza in which he specifically asks them to make definite the terms and scope of the negotiations before he proceeds to appoint representatives. No reply was sent to this telegram, as the attitude of the mediators was embodied in the note above set forth. The mediators are proceeding with their general plans by which they hope to bring about a peaceful solution of the differences between Mexico and the United States. They consider it essential that hostile acts be avoided and so long as there is no resumption of hostilities they will continue to feel that their efforts are tending in the direction of a peaceful settlement. Outside of the mediators some foreign diplomats took the view that the elimination of Carranza and the limitation of negotiations to amends for indignities toward American soliders and marines at Tampico and Vera Cruz would bo a step in advance. They pointed out that President Wilson and Secretary Bryan had stated that troops were sent to Vera Cruz solely to redress these indignities. If, therefore, the mediators could furnish a formula for this redress, there was no reason, they declared, why the troops should not be withdrawn and the present crisis as between Huerta and the United States ended. Other diplomats familiar with European procedure, when foreign territory has been occupied, were doubtful whether the troops, once at Vera Cruz, would or could be withdrawn until a complete settlement had been effected. The military situation is affected by the diplomatic status. Carranza is active against Huerta, while Huerta has his hands full in watching the United States forces in Vera Cruz. The American forces will not advance while hostilities are suspended, unless attacked, but even with the truce; Huerta is hesitating to take his troops from Mexico City to mass thorn against Carranza. Strategically Huerta has the United States forces marking time in front of him and I the Carranaz fores in his rear. * ? ? Federals Are Reinforced. The Federals at Tampico were reinforced Tuesday by fifteen hundred well equipped soldiers. Admiral Badger wired the navy department that firing in the streets of the town continued. Federal troops have obtained some big guns. VETERANS MEET AGAIN CONFEDERATES GATHERED AT JACKSONVILLE, FLA. ? Many Special Trains Bring Largo i Crowds Into the City Where a Royal Reception Awaits Them. With thirty-odd special trains reaching Jacksonville, and with every regular train carrying from Ave to six special cars, Confederate veterans from all sections of the South aro swarming to their annual reunion. Every hotel is literally packed and jammed with people and all private residences where accommodations could bo secured aro filled to overflowing. Jacksonville is aflutter by day and aflame by night, thousands of flags floating to tho breeze from the lofty buildings, while strings of electric lights aro draped artistically across every street in the business district. Electrc signs and fountains, sending forth great volumes of water, on which is played different colored electric lights, tend to make tho display by night one of the most gorgeous ever witnessed in tho South. The Confederate Southern Memorial association met Tuesday afternoon, and Tuesday evening the Sons of Veterans ollicially opened the Reunion. Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at Camp Kirby-Smith the first meeting of tho Confederate veterans was opened. Wednesday afternoon the parade of sponsors and maids took place, hundreds of gaily decorated automobiles being in line. Tho second parade will bo on Thursday, when the Sons of Veterans will have their turn, then on Friday morning the veterans will march through the business streets of the city. Camp Kirby->Smith is situated in Springfield park, along the banks of Hogan's Creek, and is pronounced by veterans to bo ono of the most upto-date places they have yet seen. Rig brown army tents have been erected under the shado of weeping willows and giant oaks, and under the feet of the old war heroes is a carpet of nature's greenery which for years has been under the keeping of Jacksonville's park system. With over 2,500 registered automobiles the veterans will have no excuse for walking, for all have turned their machines over to the committee and all during the afternoon great lines of private cars were at the union station, whore veterans were taken aboard and distributed about the city, while many wore taken out for rides through the business districts and through the beautiful suburbs of Jacksonville. Memphis, Tenn., moved to Jacksonville. In other works, one of the biggest delegations to come, came from that progressive city, headed by a brass band, gaily uniformed, and with hundreds of loyal citizens carrying banners in a parade from the union station to the hotel headquarters, bearing the words: "Memphis in 1915." ? REBELS FORCE CONTRIBUTIONS. ? W'iin 1 i I. . * <i vfuuij 1M.X11UUUI nno lU'iiisf l<> Contribute wo Mistreated. Letters from Guadalajara say many of the better class residents of Durango have been subjected to brutal treatment by the revolutionists under Valizto Con Contreras and Domingo Arrietta. These leaders have been short of funds with which to pay their followers and have been making forced loans from wealthier people of the city. In case residents refuse to contribute to the support of the revolutionists, or through circumstances are unable to pay, they are immediately seized and placed in con finemen, refused food and drink until such time as their friends or relatives 1 produce the requested amount of money. Other victims are compelled to walk barefoot over the magay anad nopal covered hills. If this treatment fails to yield the desired contribution their families are forced from their homes and obliged to seek refuge in the neighboring mountains, while their houses are ransacked and everything of value confiscated. ^ HUBRTA CHEERED. Fear Is Felt For Americans and All Other Foreigners. A dispatch from Mexico City conveyed to this country through the medium of a code dispatch to London says that Iluerta was vociferously cheered by Mexicanss generally on Tuesday. Anti-American demonstrations are being renewed and although no actual violence has taken placo it is feared that Americans or other foreigners may be attacked. These demonstrations started Monday night and continuod Tuesday. ? Minister Commits Suicide. Because President Huerta refused to accept his resignation Querido Mohono, minister of Commerce and Industry is reported to have committed suicide in the Mexican capital Friday. The news was received by a Spanish newspaper at Vera Cruz, but has not yet been officially confirmed. t MEET IN CANADA \ j 1 MEDIATION CONFERENCE WILL MEET AT NIAGARA FALLS. WILL TRY TO SETTLE IT 1 Envoys Deride on Time and Place of Meeting?Envoys to Proceed With e a Chance of Inducing General Car- ? I ranza to Reconsider His Refusal 1 ? J and Enter Conference.. r t I Tilt 1. ^* i uv> IIIICD K3V?HIII AUHM ICilll HI1 VOJ8 | who have undertaken by diplomacy f to settlo Mexico's civil strife as well as her national difficulties announce 1 f Tuesday night that the tlrst formal j conference with the different parties j interested in Mexico would be held v at Niagara Falls, Out., Canada, on May 18. Secretary Brym made the ^ announcement for the three diplo- * mats in a brief statement which read as follows: "The mediators have notified the ( different parties that Ntavnru Falls. ( Canada, has been selected as the t place where the mediators will con- ( fer with .representatives of the dif- \ ferent parties interested in the med- j iatlon and that the 18th of May has t been fixed as the dato of the confer- ( enco to begin." i The language of tho declaration i attracted attention, for although tho envoys had in a noto earlier said tl ey < would withdraw their invitation for i a Carranza representative, unless an 1 armistice between tho constitutional- 1 ists and Iluerta forces were arrang- ' ed, no specific parties to tho negotiations were named in the state de- i p a rt m en t announcement. It later was learned authoritivelv : that tho reason for this was due to tho fact that a further effort was being made to induce Gon. Carranza to 1 send a representative without seeking to limit his agent to discuss of any particular subjects. The American government has not chosen its representatives. President Wil3on and Secretary Bryan and Lane discussed : many names Tuesday. Tliey aro seeking to get men of training in diplomatic affairs. 1 A a vnf Uinrn lino Vww-vw* n.? ? 1 <>u J VJ \j hUUl \> HUO UUCI1 II U 1W1 IllUl basis of negotiations, neither the United States nor<Huerta having set 1 forth their demands. It was learned from a high administration official that in all likelihood the United States would not confine itself now to a mere settlement of the incidents at Tampico, but would aim to bring about a solution of the whole Mexican problem. The disposition of Gen. Carranza to eliminate himself from the negotiations, if it should include a discussion of Mexico's internal problems, has not mot with the favor of administration officials but they do not think this decision is final. Niagara Falls, Ont., was finally selected as a place to hold the mediation conferences because it is neutral territory, yet in close proximity to the United States. T?ie fact that Niagara Falls is on the extreme border of Canada, and is known more as a scenic resort than as a political centre, will remove, in the opinion of many officials, any impression that the negotiations are to take placo on Canadian territory for diplomatic reason 8. At the war department it became clear that no advance at Vora Cruz was intended unless to repeal attack. hut it wna known fV?r?f o ,i,.n,,;?,. J ^ .. .. IT 11 kliUb li UCUlllkC courso of action had been outlined in the event of a resumption of bos- , tilities at Vera Cruz and tho extension of tho campaign towards Mexico City. In that event Maj. ( Gen. Leonard Wood will be in su- , preme command with Gen. Funston , directing tho advance beyond Vera Cruz, and Gen. Charles D. Bailey, of , the artillery, assuming command of , the base at Vera Cruz. This arrange- , ment, however, is wholly in the line , of prepardness and signifies no pros- j ent purpose of being put into opera- , tlon. Congress, after a period of silence again was the sceno of a discussion of Mexico. In tho Senate, Senator Lippitt of Rhode Island, introduced ' a resolution calling on President Wilson for information as to published reports that it was tho administration's purposo to aid Gen. Villa to < secure tho presidency. During a brief I but spirited discussion Senator Lodge i read from a London paper a scath- i ing denunciation of Villa. The res- < olutlon went over. i President Wilson and cabinet hold 1 the regular Tuesday meeting, but i it was announced afterwards that i only routine work had been consider- 1 ed. Secretary Bryan remained after < I the cabinet meeting:, however, and I it was understood he wont over with 1 the president tho entire status of the ' mediation negotiations and particu- < larly the names of American dele- i gates. The mediators discussed, 1 among other things, the throe Huerta delegates now named, the United States delegates and the cutting ott Of CaiTauuft. * I ? 1 O'Shaughnessy Arrives. j Nelson O'Shaughnessy, former U. t S. charge do affaires at Mexico City t arrived in New Orleans Tuesday. I rwo WHITE MEN KILLED l'ORK (OIXTY IS 8(^;NK OF I>RPLOKABLtE TRAGEDY. ? < [Vo Men Are Brained by Home Mftde Bat as They Approach AIIejceA Still. J. K. Wells, aged 22, and Pink ^over, aged 37. both white, were killd in a fight with J. Ed Turner and ds son, Thad E. Turner, at the borne ?f Jim Mack, colored n.hnnt nlles from King's Mountan battle ;round, in York county, Tuesday light at about 11:30 o'clock. Both ho dead men were brained with a lome made baseball bat about three eet long, made of cedar. They are aid to have been engaged in man tincturing and selling illicit whiskey, loth the Turners aro In jail, havng surrendered to the York county lierlff early Wednesday morning. None of the witnesses examined estitied as to actually having seen ho killing, and several who were jresent seemed to know little or lothing about, it. From such as ould be obtained it seems that the ieplorable affair was duo to the fact hat Wells and Dover were both more >r less under tho influence of whfstey. It is said they had previously isserted that they proposed to kill :he next officers of the law who unlertook to interfere with their business or arrested them, and that they mistook the Turners for officers. Tho Turners aro farmers and lfve i>n the public road about eight miles above Yorkville. After a heavy rain fall in that section on Tuesday they decided to go fishing, and drove to the home of Jim Mack, and left their buggy there and went to the creek near by to fish. They returned to the house a short time before the killing and found Dover and Wells, who mistook them for officers, and are said to have drawn pistols on Ed Turner and ordered him to hold up his hands. Mack testified that four shots were fired, and stated that Turner bred 1 o n/l 1* n t ^ ?? * ... .v v> nun uiai nit; uiuer parties lirt^ twice, but stated that he was mot near enough to see the movements nf [ill i in; I'iii nt/Oi /viiG the SaCCviSg was over it was discovered that both Welle and Dover had been brained mid were practically dead, and that Dover had been shot in the right leg below the knee I ? ? KlhlilNU IN <UtKBNWO??~ Young Men (Jet Into D*fllcalty and One hs Shot. Will Stanley, a young eetten uiW operative, was shot at Greenwood Sunday morning by W. Ca! Stroud, also a mill operative from WhKmioe. and died at 11 o'cloek. The bisHet entered the chin and trashed through the base of the brain. From the testimony adduced at the inquest, held by Coroner Dock Owen Sunday afternoon, it appears that L. P. Stroud and Will Loveless decided Saturday night to come over Greenwood from Whitmlre. On their way to the depot they met will Stanley and persuaded him to come with them. They arrived at Greenwood about 3 o'clock in the morning and were met by W. Cal Stroud, the wai? who did the killing. They all four went to the house of Mrs. Myrtle Drown, on Pelxel street. Mrs. Brown is a young widow, and had with her her sister, Miss Bessie Sexton, and Miss Daisy Dartin, all having a few weeks ago moved there from Whitmire. In the testimony it was stated that the young men had thrco pints ( whiskey and that young Stanley pick^ j ? 1 eu up a pisioi and shot twice through a window, and then all four young men went out and went to the store of W. II. Hughes. It was then about daylight. A quarrel, it is said, started over Stanley's having carried the pistol away from the house, one uf the women having asked him not do so. After a few words outside the store a scuffle started, and shortly afterwards, it is alleged, W. Cat Stroud shot Stanley, as above described. ? BEING ItEIN FORCED. ? .. ? Mexicans at Vera (Yin Are Gaining Strength Every Day. A dispatch from Vera Cruz Tuesday says that tlenoral Funston continued tho strengthening of his lines In order to bo prepared for any attack of tho Federals who aro increasing in strength before him. Sailors on board tho battleships aro being held ready for service if there ;iid is necessary to the army. It is reported that the Federals are being materially strengthened by the receipt of several pieces of heavy artillery which is being sent to them from the interior. Those are being iised by General Maas on his most idvanced positions. Several tbousind nioro troops have joined General Vfaas since Monday night. ? ? Toddy Heard iRVom. A dispatch from Para, Brazil, Thursday announced that Roosevelt von't run for president on the Republican ticket in 1916, but may on* he Progressive. He declares he will I ake an active part in the fall campaigns.