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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 120 Weekly, Established 1SC0; Dally, Jan. 13, 1914. ANDERSON, S. C., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS $5.00 PER ANNUM SENATOR TILI WARNS Tl AG? Says He io Not Worthy To Be Elected Sen ator FORCE WHITES INTO SCHOOL Believes Time Ripe For Compul sory Education by Local Op tion or General Law To my Constituents: , Fellow Citizens: I was sixty-seven years old the 11th day of August, and felt like sending all of you a greeting. I served you as governor four years, add have boen your senator In Wash ington 20 years. When my term ex pires March 4, 1919. if I live so long, j I shall have held tho highest office in your gift for twenty-eight years. An old man desires to thank you for your generous support all this long while. May he not, wihout boasting, but in sincerity and earnestness, say that he has dene.his very best for both South Carolina and the nation? Constituted as I am, I could not hove done other wise. One of the nm leesons my good and! was In Washington. Since August, 1886, when I made my first speech at Oennettsvlllc, I have w?rth doing at all it is worth doing noble mother taught me, ,'if a thing is well.," While I waa' governor, there fore, I. was governor, as everyone in South Carolina knows, not of tho Till man lies alone, but of all the people. And since I have been senator,.! tiuve' trtedttfrfct?**^ boon ono of tho moBt prominent fig ures, and since 1890, the most power ful political facto* in BCUth Carol ina. From the very first. I won th* ?love .?nd confidence-ot a very large majority, of my fellow citizens; and it was be cause of tho genuineness of my de mocracy that I WUB SO hated and. bit terly opposed. Many good men believ ed I was an office-seeking demagogue, and could find no language strong enough to express their hatred and contempt.' Two years ago when a teat of my patriotism caine, I demonstrated to tl? o se who had always opposed mo that 1 was not the selfish politician they had judged me to be. No om knew better than .I tho rink I rah in making the Ferguson letter lett?r public. I know i,t Jeopardized my re election, but I would rather nave beet beaten. ' than to j have remained sil ent. My frankness, straightforward op enness of speech and honesty or purpose-I despise hypocrisy above all other vices-have' thrown me Into many a briar patch which a more cau tious man would have avoided; but 11 never have lost sight of the Ideals ; which opened before me at Bennetts- i ville; and the -welfare and uplift of tho masses have always been tho' guiding star which led me on. Your faith, fellow citizens, sustained me, and I greet, rou in this farewell ad dress with affection and confidence. This ls my goodbye to public office. I shall not bo a candidate again. Two years ago when I asked you to re-elect me that I might "dio tn harness," I, fully expected to die very Boon; but' the good Lord has econ flt to prolong my life and by teaching me to live rat ionally has enabled me to regain some degree of health. Should I live to the end of my term,,I ahall be seventy-two years of age, and I now serve nottc upon Jd!I who .! are Interested that I shall nwt try to Bucceed myself. If I liva natl! March 4th, 1919. I shall die out of and not In. harness, aa I have always wanted to do.1 But I ahall not want, to worry. Death awaits us all and ls inevitable. I go the Way ofvalI my fathers, and ? try^to say In all humility and slncotftyV.'/'Lord, Thy wilt be dono." For four years at least many men In South Carolina have had their byes on the seat I hold. This is natural he cause ot my illness and the expecta tion of my early death. There has heeri some .discussion of it In tho ?ewapaperor^rn??n was to ho expect ed. How curious, fantastic, and cruel, ta human Belflahnesis I But withal how natural a thing it ts. It hi the only element of b?m?h naturo which, ls universal. 1 do hot complain, at, it. and I . earneBtly hope that the man who ut chosen will servo tho people 6? faithfully as I have. You may flpil a man with more ability than I posfeees; you canot find one who will Ar lng to his work greater carnestness&nd hon c?tnoa.s o? purpose. # .Under the peculiar clrcfimstauceB ,. which now ealit la Southjfjarollna, I ." (Continued,on PagoJSeven.), oooooooooooooo o CRISIS IS o o * AT HAND o 0 o oooooooooooooo London, Aug. 15.-A dispatch to the Reuter Telegraph Company from its Brussels correspondent, says: "Excitement prevailed here this (Friday) afternoon when it was reported that the Germans were about to advance in great forces .in Brussels and Antwerp. This report was immediately de 1 nied officially and assurance was ! given from military quarters that there was nothing in the dispo position of the. German's right wing to indicate that a march on Brussels was intended. "Nevertheless it is evident decisive events are imminent and it is doubtful whether the official publication in Brussels papers of a proclamation warning civilians to abstain from acts of hostility against the enemy as these may entail terrible reprisals on the in nocent population, and the decis-, ion of the government to cease the publication of official bulle tins on the situation arel likely to reassure the public. "The appeal to the patriotism of the press means that for some time the people will be entirely without news. The town is gi\_n ^ywHo^ramors. /-An issue; pf Le Soir, giving the n?ws of an alleged German advance was suppressed by.order of the authorities and the offending paragraph was then stricken out before- further sale pf the paper was allowed. . "It must be remembered on the other hand, that owing to the smallness of the country and the proximity of the great city to the actual battlefield, the general staff is obliged to exercise extreme caution to maintain the secrecy necessary to the success of its op erations." Flashes Three separate investigations to trace, and if popsicle, place the re sponsibility for the increased prices of foodstuffs has been launched in Greater NoW York. The* French Liner Rochambean will sall for Havre today with 1,450 pas sergers, most of whom are French reservists. lt.- J. Summers, of Richmond, Va., reported missing from the steamer Brandon on her arrival at Norfolk. Suicide suspected. . Fourth annual conference of the foreign mission conference of Pres byterian Church, South, ia in ses sion, at Montrent, N. C., with a record attendance. Venustlano Carranza has been named as provisional president of .Mexico!, . It ls reported that th? Turks are supplying the German' cruisers Goo ben and Breslau, wita coal and are furnishing reports of tho war to the commanders. London, Aug. 14.-6 p. m.-About 160 ot the passengers and. crews of the Austrian Lloyd steamer Baron Gau ts ch were killed or drowned when the vessel was blown bp today by a mino off the Island of Lussin, on tho Dalmatian coast, according to a Reu ter dispatch from Trieste. She car ried about 800 passengers and crew, ot Whom about 150-were rescued. ' __---; "' * .,; . LOOKS SUSPICIOUS Rome, Aug IL-Advices from Con stantinople are that the officer* and crew of the Genua cruisers Gooben and Breul eau dlHerabarked, apparent ly with the object et returning home ?at that La reality only the nncssea ttsl. men. were, replaced, by. the Turks. AU the skilled German officers and engineers, m?chenles and sallen?, lt Is said, remain aboard., the.. two cruisers to traJn .he Turks. Aeroplane Destroyers In Action ; a German Invention _?M?;\ military tuen ouve devised new ?uns adapted rar destroying _L_B? .oe'roplartos "nd dirigible bullpens. Their op?ration and effect ur* ygW";-H6wn.il? tbf> accompanying illustration. The b?ties In tho air -bim J-wjT already, ton-ran lo Kurupe,BOIIM, new page-In tttfWMaj&ry of fighting sfom& frtfttea. ThQ rmee^t it^ from tb?? to Ave miles. G?ugrnmgnt Insurance Against TAfar jRisks (By Associated Press.) Washington/-Aug. 14.-Government Insurance . agr.inst war risks of American regljter ships and her car goes was the solution offered today ' by 62 representative business men for the stoppage bf American over-sea commerce because ot the E uropean war.'. .. '''.;',. J The proporal was. made in, definite form after an all-day conference pre sided over by Secretary of the Treas-, ury McAdoO,,who called thc meeting.! Virtually all the largest banking and shipping interests .tn. the United States were represente-.-* . The conference appointed a com mittee or twelve headed by Seth Low. president of the National Civic Feder ation, to remain in Washington and! advise with the governmental depart ments and committees of congress during the framing of legislation ' be- ' lleved necessary to relieve conditions produced - by- the war abroad. V The* committee tonight, began draft ing a bill to be presented tb congress immediately and pressed for passage, with ? view to having a government. Insurance bureau in operation as soon I aa. possible after the pending^nessure j modifylng restrictions upon American registration ot foreign built ships goes into effect, - . ' lh addition to Secretary McAdoo, j officials who'participated in the con ference wore Secretaries Houston and1 Redfield, and: all the member P. I To. insure freedom of) discussion ' thr conference wsB held bohind closed doors,' but . resolutions adopted and some of th? proceedings were made public In a statement tonight by Sec-I rotary Mc Adoo. The statement de cl ar-' cd lt to havo been the concensus' of opinion that with "enlarged registry I of American ships and action by tho government supplementing that nri vato compvnlos might do iiry. conn ec-J tlon for insurance, the question of exports of grain and cotton and or, foreign exchange would, rapidly solve. themselves.? . \ J. P. M'orgau, .Tames J. Hill and other financiers declared no ships would pass under the American flag with the passage' of the proposed leglstry law unless their owners were assured pf insurance auder the Stars and Stripes. The result would be a foreign monopoly of sea transporta tion, they predicted and' the fixing abroad bf the price at-which Ameri can wheat ami.cotton wooli be sold. ,The conference resolution on this point; which 1* the pivot of ?hr relief plan offered, reads: "F.*3f0lved, That this ?on terence urge tub. ; Un Ked ' States jp ovet nment to aatabHkh a bureau of wi ir fiskin suwjfrce, to be* admin isterec. under dt , :;" " ' ;:? ' ? roctlon of a suitable government de partment, which shall assure thc risk of war on American vessels and American cargoes shipped or to be shipped there on whenever lt shall appear that American vers?is or ship pers on American vessels are unable to compete on- equal terms with ves sels or shippers- of other, nationali ties by reason of the protection < fored Buch other carriers or .shippers I by arrangements for war Indemnity] tb rough their governments." Early discussion showed opinion to be unanimous that problems to bu faced divided themselves naturally Into three heads*. "Restoration of a market for foreign | exchange bille; the immediato acquis!, tlon ot means of transportation fori American wheat and cotton to Euro-| pean markets, and the war riBk insur ance. A committee on war risk insurance appointed by -the conference began work tonight on the preparation of a measure, to present to .'congress. Dis cussion at the conference left no doubt that the measure- was to be purely an emergency* matter and that the government. was to receive pre miums on any insurance it might write. The conference In the afternoon when In a body went to the white house. President Wilson addressed them briefly. ., "If we got no other benefit ot of I the present trying circ-imetances In ! the world at large," said the presi dent,, "we shall at least get this ben efit; We shall enjoy only a period when we meet each other-hot as mern, hers, of different parties'but as Amer icans meeting tor a common object. "I believe, you will discover that j this government has m ea np for assist-1 lng the commercial and industrial op erations of tho country;, and that it is worth while to maintain 'the kind of connection which ls here momentarily established. We have been face to mee with very critical circumstances I feel that the period Ot apprehension has passed. I am sure all of ua here wish to put ourselves-at your dis posal, aa I am sure you would wish to put yourself at our''' disposal, to work out a common means for a com mon end. Such -a conference ns this] furnishes proof to the country that antagonism between government and business has disappeared. "This ls a public spirited operation,! A thing we chal? look back to wlth| p rid-i. We shall-remember that Amer ita, k-jiew how to handle herself in such o way as not only to help herself but also to serve the rest of the world." BLEASE GETS NO SUPPORT HORRY COUNTY VOTERS HAVE CHANGED THEIR ATTITUDE THE LIE IS PASSED Burning Retorts Between Gover nor and Partisans - One In vited to Fight It Out special to Tlie Intelligencer. Conway, S. C., Aug. 14.-It was re served for Ilorry county to provide tho most rtriklng and most surprising feature of the entire campaign when it today extended to the governor the coldest shoulder of the entire cam paign. Two years ago tho governor carried this county by a handsome majority of 662. Yoaterdav at Marion IIIB friends were by no means in the ascendency and In a moment of irri tation it was boasted that thc vote in Horry would blot out Marlon county. In the light of there facts lt is no wonder men were stricken dumb to day when the' antl-adminlstratlon sentiment displayed WSB the most positive yet encountered. When the governor wn Introduced, there was not the sllgntCBt effort made to ap plaud him, and a continuous ex change of burning retorts war kept up between the speaker and partisans of the factions, one of whom was called a liar and invited to come to town and fight it out after the meet ing. It was urged that the man should not stand back on the fact that the speaker waa governor. I Then his following wouldn't bo| rwung into ecstacy, nor swept to.-the wonted- bV-?h, of. .enthusiasm, lt. was hot until near the conclusion of hld speech,..after tackling every . political breeze, that the chief eractftfve'"gof his limited' following into a whooping mood. . W. P. Pollock was the first speaker. He reminded his audience that (lor ry's boast was that she WBB the "In dependent 'epubllc of South Caro lina." The burden of his piss, waa that she live true to this boasted free dom and to allow no political ma chine to lead her citizens to the polls and vote them with ringa in their noser. Senator Smith, who spoke next, appealed directly to the farmers vote by discussing the measures he has passed for the benennen of the cot ton market and exolained the neces sity of federal aid Just now, and how this might be securod. Governor Blease again today re ferred to the request, that be appear before the democratic executive com mittee in Newberry Saturday ?? show cause why his name should not be rt ricken off Ward Five roll. If this should be done the gov ernor explained, it would be "the dearest mark ever made by Joe Keitt." The governor began today by read ing the reasons why J. Alan Emerson waa pardoned, as set forth in the governor's pardon document. This was done, the governor explained, not In consequence of anything that had been raid on the stand hy his oppo nents, or in answer to anything writ ten. He did it, he'explained, at the re quest of friends. L. D. Jennings said - that the gov ernor might make his friends believe the pretext. He couldn't explain, and lt waa useless, the mayor of Sumter I urged. On August* 25 Mr. Jennings prophe cled, the governor would be buried so deep that even Judgment itself would not resurrect his action. No utterance of the campaign has BO seized the attention of the voters aa the bitte: arraignment each day of the chief executive "ns the pretended protector of women's virtue" and the consequent alignment of the governor alway*, on the side of those who de spoil women, and little girls as exem plified in the Richey and Emerson case. ? " UNDER FIRE Steamer Is Fired, at Three Times by Warship of Unknown Nationality Newport News, Aug. Ut-Captain Fetch of the Merchante and. Miners .steamar. Dorchester, which arrived in port today from Boston repotted to bia company's office' that on yesterday an. unidentified warship, thought to be a British cruiser, fired three. shots nt his vessel. Captain Hatch neglect ed to show his colors on leaving Bos ton. -An ensign was hastily displayed in response to the shots after which the warship turned about a half tulle off. Although the shots did not come dangerously elope, much excite ment waa caused among those on board to passengers who landed boro today. Captain Hatch said the War ship .waa too far away to distinguish her nationality but expresses the be lief that lt may have been the British cruiser/ Suffolk. GERMAN FOR( NEARING I FORMI oooooooooooooo' o . o o Conditions in o o City of Liege o o o oooooooooooooo London, Aug. 15.-The Dailv Telegraph's correspondent at Brussels says a refugee from Liege told the following story. "Thirty thousand inhabitants fled when the shells began to fall and the remaining inhabitants bu ried themselves in cellars. Havoc marks the city everywhere. Gaping bridges, demolished hous es, fallen roofs and smouldering ruins are seen on all sides. There is no street wherein the shells have not fallen. The asphalts is plowed up like a corn field. New ly made graves protrude in unex pected places. "During the day the Germans are everywhere in evidence and the inhabitants are cowed in dumb dismay. During the night the city assumes the aspect of a grave yard, the silence being broken on ly .by the distant thunder of the heavy guns or the tread of the German patrols. "All doors in the city must be kept wide open. The Germans compel the bakers to turn over entire product of the bakeries to the army every morning and the inhabitants go hungry while the spifjters cook meals In the strtets itt great cauldrons. All the prin cipal streets are barricaded and the German soldiers show reck lessness in scouting in the neigh borhood of forts." ooooooooooooonoooooo o SPECIAL BEPORT ON o Ki COTTON C0NGRF88 o o - o o Washington, Aug. 14.-Tho o o Cotton Congres? after tiro days o o of discussion and debate ad? o o iourned thia evening after ef. o o feeling' a permanent organiza- o o tfon wllh C. J. Watson aa pre?- o o Went a o The feature? of the day were o o the optimism caused through* o o out the conference after con? o o (.oltatlon of a committee with o o Secretary Mc A doo. .Hoke o o Smith made a stirring address o o appealing to the patriotism of o o the South. .It wax decided o O to urge farmers to Hell no cot- o o ton for lena than IS 1.2c for the o o present. .McLs.rin warehouse o o proposition was- Ignored. A o o committee was appointed to o o confer on a national ware- o o house plan. The congress ap- o o pointed a committee of fire to o o he on the watch In this cria, o o Is and to act at Meering com. o o mittee. a o William Banks, o oooooooooooooooooou GREAT ACTIVITY IN CANAL ZONE Preparations for Opening Com plete. First Ship Will Go Through Loaded (By Associated Press.) Panama, Aug. 14.-The canal was the scene of activity tonight In prepa ration for Its opening tomorrow. On board the steamship Anc?n of cers and men were busy setting ev erything ship-shape for her start early in the morning on the flirt voy age of a hip ocean going steamship through the new highway. The Ancon, ten thousand tons register, owned by the United Statca war department and leased to the Panama railroad for the New York-to-Colon trade, baa not dla. charged her cargo, as it is planned to have her make tho journey fully loaded. Flaga of all nations will be hoisted on the Ancon to mark the Interna tional aspect of the occasion. .Orders have been issued for the An c?n to leave her dock at ChriBtobal promptly at reven o'clock in order that she may arrive at the Gatun lock;, at about Y>. She was boarded to night by John Constantine, canal pi lot, who will have chargo of the ship during her passage tomorrow. He hopes to get her through to the Par elfie in ll hours, although' 12 hours ls the time set for the average trip. At An Unknown Point The Troops Are Now Entrenched GREAT BATTLE IS INEVITABLE By Force of Numbers Kaiser's Troops March Towards the Heart of Belgium Reports of the continued advance of Onnaus towards Brussels, thc mandi extending through tho heart of Belgium on p. linc oxtoudlng relative ly from Namur to Huelen and of con tinued lighting at the LI-??U fortresses were the chief items of nowa of the warfare in Europe that winnowed through the nieve of tho censor last night. Of tho movement of thu annies of the Germans and tho .allie? it was stated that lt had progressed to a point where it seemed apparent that the flriit. great hattie of the war cpuld not be long deferrer* - A dispatch from Brussels said tho concentration ol French:, troops in Belgium was complete and that nil the troopa that had been expected were in battle order. A German report from in front ot Liege said the fortress Pont lase had fallen into the. banda of the Germana. Belgians denied thia and declared the Germans had suffered heavy losses in tho attack. A special .dispatch, received in To kio aald the Japanese purposo to.carry I out their treaty'ohligau^^wftn' Ores* Britain and that tho Japanese Abet had put to sea to. co-operate with'tho Briish ships. Greece, it was s tat cd, probably would engage Turkey again should the re port that the Ottoman* government had purchased the German cruisers Goo ben and Breslau prove ,tf?6. The German cruiser Karlsruhe, af ter coaling at San Juan, P. I.; follow ing her fight with British cruisers, put into the Dutch. Island of Curacao last Wednesday. jv London, August 14.-Pushing for ward by mere weight of numbera , the German advance .across Belgium ls slowly but steadily proceeding. 'Soon lt must como in contact with the allied armies, which, according to an official communication from Brussels tonight, are in battle order at some point un named. . ' The Belgian- in the outpost skirm ishing are said to Have inflicted leyere checks on (tho German forces; .t??t on the whole the German trlqg baa kept on Its way and has reached a line from North of Namur to Haden, wh'ch suggests that the)first big hntUo will be fought somewhere between Lou vain and Dlest. where he' alllea prob ably will try to blook the rogda to Brussels and Antwerp and prevent the German attempt to render North Bel gian untenable. - Further aouth French troops have entered Belgium through Charleroi, poing to the relief ot their neighbors and to aid In any attack directed tor . ward Namur, while ip . the ' east the French are reported ' to haye taken, possession. of ridges lu thc Vosges mountains and tb hold the passes, of Le Bonhomie and Saint Marlo au Mines, through which important roads puss, and which lt' is declared gives them great strategical advantage. Thc Germans again ar? hammering away, at the Liege forte and according to their accounts one of the forts, PontlBBe, has fallen. This, la depled by the Belgians, who tell of another slaughter of the Invaders who, they say, attempted to rush the. fortress. . Military Bt-?-'.legists believe the Ger mans are meeting with delay which they did not expect and that over." day the Belgians keep them lighting means an increase Ot Russian forcea on their eastern frontier. They ex press the belief that unless Germany soon disposes of Belgium and France she will have to choose between with drawing part ot her army from thc west or leaving the road to Berlin open to the forces of tho. Emperor oC Russia. Sj . Already hordes of Russian* are re ported marching. t o wa rd Pr uss la o m the one side and to Austrian Galicia on the other. In the Ishtar country thoy^are said to be tn the vicinity of the Styx river, which is on the rout* to Lemberg. The official nows bureau of the army and admiralty baa issued e warning to the public ag* J nat placing (continued on Page 5.)