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f|t? AHOERSOf? IHTELLf GEKGEB : FOUNDED AUGUST 1. im. IM Went WaUaer Sinti. ; ANDERSON, 8. C ? If. W. 8MOAK, Editor Md Btu. MET E. ADAMS.Managing Editor. kV IL GLENN.City Editor PHELPS 8A8SEEN, Advertising Mgr T. B, GODFREY.Circulation Mgr. _ as second-class matter Ap 1 is, 1314. at the post office at An -? South Carolina, under the Act ob S. 187?. Member ot Associated Press sad Receiving Complete Dally T?l?graphie TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Office.121 .feb Printing .693-L *UES?B1PT10N KATES Semi-weekly Oas Tsar . .$l.6o tts Months.76 .any one Year .tr,.or 8tz Months .2.60 T^rte Months. 126 Th? Intelligencer is delivered by carri?re ia th? city, ir you tail to get your paper regularly please notify &Opposite your name on the I of your psper ls printed date to frfeteb our psper ls paid. Al' checks wai drafts should be drawn to Tht Anderson Intelligencer. THE WEATHER* Koa th Carolina t Fair Wednesday, ?.Mer la east portions; Thursday fair. ooooooooooooooooooo ? OUR BAILY POEM. o . o oooooooooooooooooou Hew Bid You Diet Did you tackle the trouble that came your way With a resolute heart and cheerful? Or hide youl face from the light away, WRb a craven soul and fearful? Oh, a trouble's a ton or a trouble's an ounce. Or a trouble is lust what you make it. lt Isn't the fact that you're hurt thai counts; But lt's only how did you take it? You are beaten to earth? Well, well, j what's that? Come Up with a smiling face, lt's nothing alf .Inst you to fall down flat, But io Ita there-that's the disgrace. I The harder you're thrown, why the | higher you bounce. $e proud of your blsckened eye! It -isn't the fact that you're licked that j counts; It's now did you fight-aud why? 'irv.';:' And .tho you be done to death, what | then? Ii you've done the best you could, If you've yiayed your part in thc j , world of men Why, the Great Critic will call it good. A&d deeth comos with a creep or | comes wit,* a pounce. Bat whether be's slow or spry, It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts; But bfw did you die-and why? -EDMUND VANCE COOKE. THE ANDERSON IDEA. , Wo desire to hold up to ?he people | of Anderson County the almost unan imous vote cast by the qualified elec ' tors yesterday for street paving in Anderson. Here ls a city with a tax levy already of 23 mills, which has the nervo to increase this to pay tor the Interest; and sinking fund on a bond ed dbbt of an additional $100,000 j whltib: IK all tho city can vote on lt 'Kflt/sSji.t reaches the maximum. In addition' to this the people of Ander ill vote almost solidly for the }fl$?sr it;ad proposition, which will also add to their taxes another three mills. What we cannot understand ls. abc' we are honest in saying that lt ts j the genuine pussle ot this county bond j proposition, why any citizen of s rural dist'let should be opposed to the bond j Issue for building good roads In An derson County. It honestly appears! to us to be a case of "I am resolved to die, you shall not feed me," and we cannot see the good reason for ft. In | addition to this the man living out side the city will have tho privilege] m using thc roads, and they wiii use ? ?liem to t much, larger extent than the people of the city, in other words they will i rofit much more than will the people of thc city. What The Intelligencer wishes to j seo is the people of the entire county enthused with the "Anderson Ides," end hide their fear of doing things. In other nords, have faith in their county ?nd confidence in the Integrity j of her ? Ubi ens. Lat ns build, hot for! th? present, but for the future. Let' ??.stand for those things which wUl go further towards making lids coun ty the banner county in the State, wr . v keeping lt the banner county. VSt?ift a bond issue of ?750,000 will ?bis county such a boost in the eyes c! tb? State and the nation, that will push ber up to the front line among the counties of any State In i progressiveness and In faith In the county. What citizen would not be proud tu belong lo HUCII a county! What have those who oppoHe the bond ?KHUC to offer tiiat will offset the !.. ? prestige that will Ix; oura if lt be her alded forth that thc people of An derson County had not the nerve to vote for good roads. "It must be a funny people" they ?ill ?av, and they will go on and say further: "It would httvc been better for the Anderson delegation to have done as did those of Oreenvilleand Richland.*' Surely the faltl? of our delegation in the progres siveness of our people was not mis placed. Cet the "Anderson Idea," and boost a bit. p Ht, Kil t ll, FOR AN11EKS0XJ --- Well, thc election Is over and the bonds have been voted for street pav ing In Anderson. !. wa? a landslide, and fully justified the faith The In telligencer had in the progressive cit izens of Anderson. Thus passes un olher epoch In the forward march of this city, which will, we trust, now become as well known as a city of good streets as it has been known as "The Electric City." The commissioners who have charge of thh* street building, are men who have the confidence of the com munity, as .was. .evidenced, hy the over whelming vote cast for the bond is sue. Had it not been thus, the bond issue would have been defeated by as large a majority as lt WUB carried by, and Anderson, would have had to wad dle arong fn the mud. The Intelligen cer saw this would be the result un less the commission were removed from any suspicion of politics, and hence our fight to have tho matter taken out of thc hands of the city council, and entrusted to a non-poli tical and iron-partisan commission. The , Intelligencer desires to con gratulate the city on its vote and the chance to secure paved streets. Let the work begin and proceed rapidly, so if possible, the winier rains will not be feared with the feeling of dread usual at the approach of the cold weather. Thc gentlemen who have this matter in charge will now liegin lo erect a monument which will en duro long after they are gone from the scene of their labors, and are walking on the golden streets of the New Jerusalem. May the memory of their work be that of applause for duty fearlessly and well dona, and may they bring to this task the same Cpoi.and d^Ubjarate-, business acumen -vlileh has characterized the business careers of- many of them. Our. hat* ?re off to you. gentlemen. We want payed streets. Wo have shown our faith in you. Now show us what you can do. and we shall over feel grateful. , CP TO THE COMMISSION. In this Jsmie-we haw au article ii-oin the pen -J? Leon L. Rice, Esq.. who advances an argument which seems plausible, and which will en able the street paving commissioners, if adopted by them, to .stretch tho pav ing over several other streets. His argument, In1 brief, is that the city and not the property owners along the streets in which the car lines run, benefit by the amount of paving to be done by the street car lines. It is provided that tho owners of the city railway system pave their tracks and a certain distance o? either side. Mr. Rice's contentton, is that this paving done by the railway system should go to thc city to be used for additional paving, and that the property holders along these streets, pay, as the law says they shall, fermait tho cost of the paving un their streets. On the fact of lt, this proposition seems Just and proper. Of course this matter will be up to the commission, and they will decide upon-a Just ami equitable manner of handling thia "proposition. Should the commission decide that the cost of the paving done by the street raliway be longs to the city, it will mean an ad ditional revenue of about $35,000, which osed as the r?U.^r- bond funds, will in paying for halt the cost of paving, amount to about 970.000 worth of additional paving, or about one third more. If the commiss'on de cides that the cost of this paving bo ronga to the elly to bo used as the other bond funds, it will not secure to ?he advantage of any resident of an other street, for auch resident will haye to pay one-third the cost ot pav ing the street adjoining his propcity, no matter what be done with the street railway paving fund. It will not, either, be a hardship to the res ident of the streets In which tho car line runs? for. lt will mean only that such property owner pay for two feet of paving additional. Thia, however, is one of tho interesting questions the 'commission will have to decide. The position will be taken by some Uxat had lt been known that tho fonds de rived from the street railway paving WOUld not accure to thf benefit of the property holder oa such streets, they would not have voted for the bond is sue. f But this wouid have been the case, as the sentiment was so strong for paving. oooooooooooooooooooo o o o PAY FOR CA it LIN V. PAVING, o c o OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Eilltor Tb? liitHllgenc.tr: I rejoice greatly In the success of the election on yesterday. It is u long step ferward und doe? honor to the elli.."ns ti Anderson. If I thought that the opinion I am about to express would in any way delay or hinder pav ing I would refrain expressing it. There will be many who will not ag.ee with me, and if in their dis agreement they will accord me the same respect for my view as I grant to them, then what I ahull huve to say will not cause any dissension In our ranks. I um zealous for more paving, and to make the bond issue go as far us possible towards cover ing the prlncipul streets of the city. If in my view I am right we will be able to pave a few more miles of streets than we would be able to pave under the present impression. The commissioners are all good men and I am sure will accept whatever view their consciences dictate, and if I am wrong, those who disagree with me will please be so charitable as to give me credit for trying by plain construction to stretch the paving ter ritory a few miles longer. I Te%*r to paving along the car line of the city, lt is a part of thc franchise t]iat the car company is to keep the streets along their right v>f way in as good con i it ion as the re mainder of the street, and this will necessitate paving along the right of way wherever the street ts paved. Now the question submitted to the people was this: Shall the city of Anderson issue bonds in the sum of not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), the proceeds there of to be used solely for the perma nent improvement of public streets, or parts of same, in said city, where one ha'f the cost of such improvements ls paid by abutting/ property owners? You will observe that one of the conditions of this permanent improve ment is that one half of the. cost of such improvements shall be paid by abutting property owners. A rea sonable construction of this would mean that those who own abutting property on the street slial pay one half of the total cost of the paving, and lt does not say who shall pay the other half. My construction In that where there ls a car line the car com pany shall help the city pay the other half. The franchise under which the car line is operated is a gift of the city at large. One of the conditions on which it is granted is that it shall help the city to keep tbe right of way in as good condition as the rest of the street, and if is no more the con sent of .the abutting property owners than *of any other tax payer or voter in thc city. But some argue that the car company does Us own paving. Carry lt to the logical conclusion and let each abutting property do his own paving of 1-4 and the result will be that the city paves the rest. So you have it aa follows: the car company paves Its right of woy. each abutting property owner paves 1-4 of a total of 1-2 to both abutting property own ers, and the city under its bond issue paves the rest. Take a street that, has no car line for an Illustration. In that case there is no question but that the abutting property owners pay one half the cost of any improvements and the city the -other half, and my argu ment is that lt the car line is deducted before the division ts made between the city and the abutting property owner, then the abutting property owner doe? not pay one half of the cost of such Improvement. Remember that one of the conditions of the bond isBuo was that the abutting property owner should pay one half. The result of this procedure would mean that the city hus in its control not only the $100,000 raised by the bond issue, but the total amount of th? cost of paving between car tracks, all of which they could use as their half of the cost of permanent improve ments. Can't you see that this will give us a few more miles of paving? Do wc need it? Is it a hardship on the property owners along a car line? We voted that they too should pay one half the coat of the improvement and if the car line is expected they won't do lt. The franchise belongs to the city and lt ls nothing more than right that the city should use it in paying for its one half, and that the abutting property owner should not have his one half of the cost ot the improve ment reduced by this amount. lt Comos down to this one point. Should the city have the right to add the benefits of the car line space to the bond issue so as to increase ita capital with which to' pave, or should lt al low ita franchise to inure to the bene-, flt only of abutting property owners. My answer Is that it should inure to the benefit ot the people who gave the franchise and that means the city at large. -Then all abutting property owners will, truly pay-one halt the cost of improvements, but not until then. . I have tried to condense thu* per haps at the expeuse of failing to make myseit clear. I do ? not want a con troversy and will not have. any. I have been approached by a few men who asked my opinion snd I gave il to them, as 1 give'it now. I would not PUt myself in the way bf peving. and do not Intend that this shall, be so construed. I atti perfectly willing to pay on? half the cost of permanent improvements where I nm so for tunate, as to have abutting p'roj-jrty, and shall be willing although the com mission decrees . that Ute car . line should be shared only by Ute.abutting property owners. In other words I am not a kicker and will not stand tn the way of paving. I Just want a little more paving end I see no in justice in this way of getting ll. On Ute contrary lt Seems to me that the only equitable disposition to make of the proceeds arising from thc provis ions of Ute public franchise, is to give its beneftts to the city at large. LEON l?. HICE. TiLLMAH R?G?TES HISTORY OF BILL NO "FAMILY AFFAIR" IN DISTRIBUTING JOBS PRAISE FOR BYRNES With Help of Congressman Sena tor Says He Was Able to Create Court To thc Editor or The State: I have Jim Been in The State of Sat urday Mr. McGowan's report of how Jobs caused by thc creation of the western district were portioned out as u sort of a "family affair." Mr. McGowan insinuates that 1 am the niOBt interested and that only those near lo me, "nerhaps a relative" of mine, will get the best plum-the clerkship. His statement is so full of errors and malice that I am constrained, against my will, to tell Just how the bili became law. It has the appear ance of bragging too much fbr me to enjoy it; but the credit, if there be credit, for this piece of legislation, is due almost entirely to Congressman Brynes. H? got it through the house -this, too, by my help-and perhaps I was the only man in Washington who could, have accomplished it. Wyatt Aiken introduced, the bill early last year, but it lay asleep in the judic.'nry committee of the house. I introduced Aiken's bill in the senate and tried to get it out of the Judiciary committee there, but failed because of an unfavorable report from the attor ney general and the objection of a Western senator whose State "needed a Judge much more than South Caro lina," he said. After the,primary election was over and all were safely reelected, the members of the South Carolina dele gation in the house got busy on the court biil. An agreement was reached among themselves ac to where the courts .should be held. This was the rock upon which the bill foundered Mice before. Finley and Latimer could trot agree as to where the' ; courts 4hould be held, and the bill died in conference, after having pas?ed both houses. When the court bill, as amended by Aiken, wdl called up In the house and unanimous consent asked) for its consideration, Mr. Mann objected, which put a quietus on it for the time being. Byrnes found out what Mann s grievance was and reported to me. Mann had selected as his candidate for judge Congressman Johnson, and-was unwilling to have the bill passed un less Johnson was to be made judge. Manu had to be.pacified or tho bill would never have become a law. I had introduced Aiken's bill in' the senate the day Ofter he Introduced it in the house. At. the opening of con gress I urged Johnson on the presi dent as a good.piece Bf judicial, tim ber, looking to his 'appointment "tb a judgeship In thc District of Columbia, or to a place on" the Interstate com merce commission." Therefore, I did not hesitate to set in motion''instru mentalities to find out what Mr. John son's chances were in case the court bill became a law. A cabinet officer, whose assistance I Invoked, after talking the matter over with President Wilson, informed me that the president liked Johnson and would be most likely to appoint him. Mr. Byrnes called thia cabinet officer over, the phone and got hlrr In com munlcaUon with Mr. Mann. Thus the way was paved for the bill to pass thc house. By hard work among my personal friends on the senate Judiciary com mittee I got the bill out of the com mittee on March 2 with a favorable report. I did not know whether to have it put on the calendar and walt for an opportunity to call it up, or to hold it back. 1 -.vas In this dilemma when told by Mr. ^Byrnes that the house bill had wapscfl/wtUr tty) Cullop amendment. Gader the advice of a Republican senator, afc..<a?%en,i ?r mine, I got lt A twt' calender With this favorable report about 7 p. m. March 2. The house bill was hur ried to the printer to be engrossed and signed by the speaker. It got back to the capitol between 8 and 9 o'clock and I held the messenger, who bore it over to the senate, sitting on a sofa in a corner of the chamber until 1 talked to three or tour JRepubllcanB und on? or two Democrats who were opposed to its passage. Nobody thought the bill could pasa ai all; I did not think BO. but bad determined to make an effort. When the senate was ?h'nned out to a bare 20, or such ? matter af supper, ? etc-I had the messenger from the house report Pae bill to the presiding officer. -Senator Borton ot Ohio wes In ?ne taVu? ?f. a cpeech when this was done. He suspended his talk long enongb to have the clerk of the house m*>rt it. and I hi%? the brass- although I bsd seen lt done be f?re-^fco ask Burton's permission for immediate consideration of the bill. He demurred a? first, but when I as sured him if It led to any debate I would not insist and the presiding of ficer told him that he would not loso thc door, he gave his consent for Its conslderaUon... The bill wa? read for tho Information of the senate, and the usual question aaked: "ls there objection to its immediate .consid?ra tion? The chair hears none." The house bill was road a third time and passed almost' before those who are reading this have beeb able to grasp IU meaning. The senate bill was of course indefinitely postponed. I was surprisedi everybody enjx'.wes surprised; but the moalie lighted abd surprised man vit the bunch was "Jimmi*-" Byrnes, who had been my principal Hemmant tn this neat piece of legislative legerdemain. 1 was worn out and tired and immediately went to my hotel to go to bed. To save ourselves from Importu nities for the three good placas, the South Carolina delegation, including Senator Smith, mei in my committee room and, after talking the matter over, decided the teat thing to do was to immediately telegraph the newspapers that night the names of the men the delegation had agreed on for the judge, district attorney and marshal. I was called over the tele phone and told what they wanted to do and heartily apptoved of it. Next morning I signed Ute indorsement of Mr. Johnson which was sent to tho president. . Since Senator Smith and I had the friendly fight over the marshal and district attorney two years ago in which he won out, it has been under stood by all well posted men in the State and out of it that if the western district was created I should have thc naming of the district attorney and Senator Smith the marshal, thus evening us up. Mr. Thurmond has told rac, since I reached home, that he has already selectcd'aa his first assistant Calhoun Mays, bis former law clerk at Edge field. Henry Tillman's only connec tion with this matter is that he and Calhoun Maye are law partners. I have not recommended my son to Mr. Thurmond and two years ago I ad vised him not to accept the assistant's place if it were offered him. I do not know whether J. Broudus Knight, my secretary and clerk to thc .senate committee on naval affairs, will get the district clerkship or not, but I hope he will. He was Mr. John* son's secretary for flvo years before be came to me and they have always been very warm friends. Mr. Knight is an exceptionally capable man and deserves that or any other good place that any one can give him. He has been with me nine years and I will hardly know how to get along without him, but his hold on his present office depends on my life, and as my health ls poor, I will not stand In the way of his getting this life job if it is of fered him. I have;joined with the balance of the delegation in indorsing C. J. Lyon of Abbeville for thc marshal's place. That is all there ls to this "cock and bull story" about it being a "family affair." Candor compels mc tb acknowledge this : That but for my impaired health and the esteem In which I am held by my fellow senators, I could not have done what I did ; and instead of South Carolinians caviling and carping, they ought to be glad that they have a man in Washington who can win the ] friendship and respect of his col leagues of both political parties and j wield an influence, notwithstanding his health is gone. Candor also compels me to ac knowledge that I do not believe there is any other man in the senate who ? could have done this thing under the circumstances ; and I am bold enough to eay I am proud of the job, tor it gives us a good Democratic judge in the western district who will hold for Mfe.- and it gives us the prospect ot three new public buildygs in this State-one at Greenwood, one at Rock Hill and one at Aiken. Byrnes is tickled to death every time he talks about it and wonders how the lynx-eyed Republicans in the house allowed it to go through in that shape. B. R. TILLMAN, Trenton. ITALY'S FUTURE COURSE BECOME SUBJECT OF INTEREST (CONTINUED FHOM PAGE ONS.) with the town of Riva and the .val leys ot the Chlese and Adlge rivers. Including the towns of Rover and Tlone. but excluding Trent and to the cast, the valley of ' Gie Isonso Uiver. Including Gradlsca, but. ex cluding G?ritz. It is understood also that tn return for such territory as she is willing to cede, Austria asks ?or a large sum of money and also the renunciation by Italy bf any claim to other ter ritory within tb? Auatro-Hungarlar empire which is inhabttated l>y I tal lia ns. In return for theso conces sions by Italy. Austria is willing to make certain local grants, including the establishment of an Italian uni versity at Trieste. > Adapts New Charter. 'ASHEVILLE.'N. C., March 16 Asheville's electorate today adopted a new charter providing for commission form of government, by a majority of 692 votes. Four years ago the com mission plan was defeated by a ma jority of 14. PAPE'S DIAPEPSIN FOR INDIGESTION OR BAD STOMACH -- Relieves Sourness? faa, Heart burn, Dypepsia in fir? minutes. t fi"-C* Sour. gas*yV'Ufe*et ?(omach, indiges tion, heartburn, dyspepsia; when the food you eat ferments tnto gases and stubborn lumps; your head sebes and you feel sick and miserable, that's when rou realise the magie in Pape s Dlapepain. It maka? all stomach mis ery vanish in five minut?e. If your Biomaoh; la* in a continuous revolt- if you can't get it regulated, please; for your sake, try Pipe's Dia pepsin It's so needless to have a bad stomach-make your next meal a fav orite food meal, then take a lillie Diapepsin, there will not be any dis tress-eat without fear, lt's because Pspe's Diapepsin "really does" regu late weak, out-of-order, stomachs that gives it its minions of sales an nually. Get a large fifty-cent case ot Pap s's Diapepsin from any drug atore, lt is tho quickest, surest stomach relief and cure known- It ada almost Hue magic -St is a scientific, harmless sad pleas ant stomach preparation which truly belongs Ila every home. Here's some new things f Special ne> young men $ Spring hats and our own to $5. Complete Spring, 1915 the #3.50 qu Lots of new in now. Lyon U. S. Marshal Of Western District Ipccial to Tb? Intriliff^nwr. WASHINGTON. March 16.-The appointment of Chas. J. Lyon of Ab beville, to be United States marshal >f Gi? new western district was nada by President Wilson today. The appointment of district attorney will be made hi a short time, but :he nomination of ?Gie judge will not. according to the bes toplnion. bc i ado unUl the next session of Gie senate _ ' Tender of Delaware Fjord Jb'pna. - GALVESTON, Tw.^&reh 1?.-The tender of tbe United *. ates batGeshlp Delaware was flrjB it jon by snipers st Yera Crae on mkit i 10, according to reports broughtAei i today by pas sengers on Gie N*w< (ian steamship City of Tampico. ?Tl a tender went Into the harbor fofte tain Rogers, of Gie Delaware, ana as fired upon while inbound an! a 'alu while re turning to the Wt&hi >? No one was injured. ?5 ' Charged Wita lo TOLEDO, O.. Strang, alias Fret old. and S. F. Kerr at Vanwert and bl charged with cot coins in the corni Vanwert Bulletin, a Taylor pleaded gull here. Kerr pleaded men went td jail to action. .forfeiting.. afch 1?.-Frnd ylor, 25 yeera . were arrestad uj?ht herc today eiUng *mal! room ci the ly newspaper, n federal court ?t guilty. . Both 'alt grand J&ry President Atteiil Funeral. WASHINGTON, dent Wilson today aral of Colonel W| President Lincoln's lied Saturday after years service as a ployep. White Hou< is pallbearers and penned at the exe ing the services, lington national cet 1*:--Preal ?d the fan H. Crook, guard who ore than 60 ito House ito {employ?s Acted work wag ius offlces dur was at Ar UoK'ig Taken NEW ORLEANS. United Hts tes, :ompanled the Bri tdsbrook from greso. Mexico, after talned by .M*xl itorie* brought IV; vfsbrook docked Hoir said that t (212.000. in Mexican ip and did not rei i BhJp. eb 16.--Th<r bad been de accord lug to tfday when Use ffepteia Sidney cans took f.'om his news of th$ or Spring. v suits ?br 15 and-jd 18. from Stetson i makers, $2 showing of >, oxfords of ality. things coming How's Xootti Fresh Chocolates tbars mighty ?ood for . .S.3c Toasted Marshrn eiiows > '?. Fresh from -the ?ven, cud as flue as you over atc, per ?b. -. ..15? 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