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VOLUME XXX. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19, 1914. NU CONGRESSIONAL TRIO SPOKE HERE MONDAY incumbent Clearly Favorite Of Attentive Audience JOHNSON'S RECORD RECEIVES ATTACK Several Hundred Persons Ilear Jos. Tr. Johnsoi Give Account of his Stew ardship -and Ills Opponents Atteak Ills Public Itecord. Several hundred persons,among thom a few ladies, gathered in the court house Monday morning to listen to the addresses or the three candi dates for congress from this district, T. C. Duncan, of Union, -Jos. T. John son, the incumbent, and Sam .1. Nich olls, of Spartanburg. lion 0. P. Good win acted as chairman. Mr. Nicholls was scheduled to speak first but did not' Teach the meeting place in time, so he spoke last. Mr. Johnson spoke first and Mr. Duncan next. Mr. John eon was .clearly the favorite of the meetng, being vociforously applaud ed at the beginning and close of his speech and at intervals while it was being delivered. Mr. Johnson. in opening his address, spoke of the pleasure it was to ap pear before the people of Laurens county to give an account of his stew arddhip. He told of his studies or governmental problems for twenty five years previous to his election and the Ove attempts le made to get to congress before being elected. When the finally got to congress, he said, he promised himself to be conscientious and industrious in his duties and that ie had carried out his promise. Throughout his five races, lie said, he did not promise any man an office or paid any man to help in his cam paign. In this connection, be said that at Laurens lie had carried out the policy of the national adtninistra tion In waiting until the expiration of the term of the Laurens postmaster before appointing a Democrat in his place.- If there is any blame to attach to avnyone for allowing a Republican to stay in office under the Democratic administration, the criticism must be made of the president and not him, as he was only carrying out the poli cy of the president. Mr. Johnson said that he has not promnised the ollice here to any man and has not determn ined himself to whom lie will give it. In reviewing his record, he said that ie had been faithful to all the people, rich and poor alike. "I have known no classes. I have known no factions." He here told of his ac tivities in having rural free delivery routes Installed in the district, say ing thatl he personally canvassed the district to persuade the people to ap ply for them. These routes had increased during his tenure of office, he said, from 3 to 129, largely as a result of his ef forts. Of the Confederate war claims, Mr. Johnson stated lie had collected for his dlistrict more money than all the rest of the South Carolina con gressmen put together, besides col lecting various claims for services rendered by Southrerners for the gov ernent before the war. In answer to the charge of his opipo nents that he wvas "too slow" for the job, Mr. Johnson recounted the appro priations which lie had secured for his distridt, fincluding the 'Pollalgra hospital in Spar-tanburg, of which there is only one of its kind .in the United States, federal buildings in each county-seat of the district and $500O.000 in crop moving funds in the fall of 1913 for Greenville and S'par tan-burg. Hie also told of lis appoint rmont on the powerful ap~propriation corn'mittee, lie being the only South Oarolinian ever enjoying this honor. To indlicate his prestige in the legis lative halls, Mr. Johnson road letters from prominent Democrats endorsing him as a valuable legislator, influien tial factor in the house aind pairty caucus and able committeeman. Let ters of this nature were read from Oscar W. Underwood, Secretary Mc Adoo, Clatrde Kitchen, David J. Lewis a-nd the president himself. "lHe ranks. amoeng the three or four ablest legis lators south of 'the Mason and Dixon line" said David J. Lewis father of the parcels post bill. "What you any goes here" was what Mr'. Johnson sai d ton Williams told him of appoint. inonts. Mr. Johnson claimed considerable lionor in connection with the passage )f the new currency bill and the tarifl laws, relating how the president gav< Lo the public a statement in which waz Incorporated one of his letters ex. I)ressing the need for immediate cur. rency legislation. "At this juncture wrhen a general European war is ir progress, the president should have ar experienced and competent body o .ongressmen to help in the solution af impending questions," he said. In reply to the charge of one of hi appoeiiits that he had- voted mone3 to wealthy tourists on which they might return from the EIuropean wa1 rone. Mr. 'Johnson said that all o these tourists were by no means rich that many of them Were working peo Mde such as teachers, etc., moreover that it was the policy of the govern ment to aid and protect stranded cit Izens when danger mipended. "Thi IS what the flag stands for,'" he sah lOvery cent of this money advanced kt tourists, lie said, will he returned t< he federal treasury wlen these peoph return home. In closing Mr. Johnson promised aontinuance of his faithful service. 'ol. T. C. Duncan. When Mr. Johnson closed his ad Iress a number of his auditors madc ', move to leave the court-room, but Col. ifuncan succeeded in holding the larger part of the crowd. This country is not at the botton af a financial or industrial hill, hi said, and the country's prosperity i: niot dependent upon the efforts of any lingle man in this district. le said that he knew when he en tered the race he would have .to con tend with the influence of patronag< in the way of beneficiaries of pensio: ind war claims. but he never dreame< lie would have to combat the Influenc af the national democratic administra tion, the district political managerE and the county oilcials of Spartan burg. le criticised the itinerary 0 the campaign, saying that one imeet zig in each county was not suflicien' ror candidates to get themselves he rore the people. "If I had been in congress thir teen years, I would be writing letter nyself," said Mr. Duncatn in referring to the letters read by Mr. Johnson Congressnan Ragsdale, lie said, al bhough lIe has been in congress onl3 two years, is also reading letters fron D. W. Underwood. If elected, Col Duncan said, if lie does not do bettei than Mr. Johnson lie would not asi for re-election. Outside of those pen sions and relief bills and those coi mnittee reports, Col. Duncan charged that Mir. Johnson had not accomplish 2d anyihing. Col. Duncan declared himself ii ravor of an Anierican merchant ma rine irrespective of how it was obtain ad. This country, he said, is paying $325,000,000 per year to other coun tries for carrying its produce. 'he cotton mill People of this coun try are being treated fairly, consider ing the cheap labor they are forced t< aOmpiiete with, but lhe would have in lust ries encou ragedi whose p roductU would not come in comp~hetlon witl the piroducts of this cheap habhor'. hi< said the laboring pleopile knowv howv h< stood, for lie had reduced the working aurs of the laborers under his direc tion in Union before a law was passet1 requiring the mill to (10 it. lie furth ar said that lie had refused to serv< an a lobby against child labor legis lat Ion. Col. D~iuican critIcized the met.hoi of distribution of the crop movlinj fund, saying that justice demiandlet that it should have been proportion ately divided among the large anm small banks. Col. D~uncan favors more pay fo rural mail carriers. Samuel J. Nicholls. femuel J1. Nichollis, be ig in trod uced criticized the itinerary providled fo the conigressional campaign party. 11 said lie hiad no criticism to make o Mr. Johnson. as they were iersona friends but his record was opeun V criticism. Mr. Nicholls here correctoc a state~nent attrIbuted to him in specech before. cotton mill opierative her'e, biut which hle dleniled mnkint The Advertiser did not carry an ac count of that meeting at all. Accord lng to Mr. Nicholls he told the ml operatives that if they had niade u their minds to send Colo L~. Ulease t the senate, they had botter Bend hhii to congress because he could got alon, (Conti'nued on Pagn Four.) JAPAN IS8[S ULTIM Another Turn Taken In Gre One Week In Whi Tokio, August 15.-JapanI sent an ul- ( timantus to Germainy Saturday night at 8 o'clock demanding the withdrawal a of German warships from the Orient tI and tile evacuation of Kian-Chau, and o giving Germany until Sunday, August t 23, to comply with the demand. Other- n wise the ultimatum states Japan will o take action. The general expectation here is that V the ultimatum will be followed by war. a Takaaki Kato, Japanese foreign iii- t ister, simultaneously with the dispatch of the ultimatum, conferred with a George W. Guthtie. American ambas- ii ador, and made to him a broad state- 0 ient, calculated to assure the United S tates that Anerican interesta in the ' far 10,ast would be safeguarded and tihe integrity Uf China upheld. a Owing to doubts whether communi cations with lerlin were ass.red .fa- a pail, to insure the arrival of the ulti- t< mat umn, forwarded it to lierlil by six a channels, including Washington, Lon- E don and Stockholm. The government a also notifted Count Von Rex, German I ambassador to -Japan, and likewise re- A tarded the time limit for a reply until fl August 23. Count OkuMia, the Japanese premier, P today invited the peers, newspaper n men and leading business men of To klo to come to his office at noon, at .4 a and 6 o'clock in the afternoon, l'espce- a tively, when he made known to them c the terms of the ultimatum and an- P nounced that he would give out the s negotiations in connection with the alliance. h1 The ultimatum follows: U "We consider it highly important p and necessary in the present situation i to take measures to remove the causes of all disturbances of the peace in the k far East and to safeguard t-he general d interests s contemplated by the agree- 1) ment of alliance between Japan an(d e Great Gritain. lc "In order to secure a firm and In- ti (luring peace in Eastern Asia, the es tablishiment of which Is tho aim of the b said agreement, the In 1teri.i Jaanese l Government sincerely believes it to be 1l its dity to give t.le advice to the lm- l Perial German Govern ment to carryt out tile following two propositions: I. "I. To withdraw Immediately froni I Japanese and Chinese waters German tl men-of-war and armed vessels of alli kinds and to disarm at once those which cannot be so withdrawn. t "2. To deliver oin a date not later A thllan September 1B to the Imperal Ja- e panese aithorities w-ithouit condition b or compensation the entire leased ter- nt ritory of Klaul-Chan withi a view to the a eventual restoration of tile siume to m [LECTION R[TURNS B Returns Will be Gotten Froi Bulletins From Di As in past yearn, Tlhe Advertiser ii wvill secure returns from all tile voting precincts of tile county and will have C a blletin service from Columnbia. 10 act information cannot yet be0 given c as to wvhero the bulletins will b~e post- t ed, but some 'arrangement will be f mladle so thlat tihe public wvill be keplt v COittECT~S FALSE JfMiLESiON. M 3r. WV. ('. lrby, Jr., Writes of Impres. sion~ Created at Onwpilgn MeI(eting Thuirsday. iMditor of 1,aurens Advertiser:I While at home11 Sundlay I was5 in formed that. some1 people are tryingi to create the Iipressjioni that I re fered to Mr. Gooper whe 111 said that some1 one0 from I .au ranu camle to Spar rtanhuirg and was t ryinlg to cast re fleet ions Oil mle whlen one of lruy friiends in Spaiirtan buirg stopped ihilm. I did nlot refer to NIr. Coope r as lie anid I are oodpersnalfriends. My frienid and I tiried to find thle party after the meeting in Spartanburig out coul d niot. FrPiom the description of the man, I think -I know who it was but (ldid not menltion his ne asu i was afraid I mightL be mistaken as there were sov oral Laaurens men at tile moet4ng and 1 did( not wish to injure anyone. I Sthought that I made It clear that I < had written w'hat I had to say about 1] at European War. Given ch To Answer hini1a. "'I'he Imperial Japenese Government nntounces at the same timo that in to event of it not receiving by noon it August 23, 1914, an answer from ie Imperial German Government sig ifying its unconditional acceptance r the above advice offered by the I m eilal Japanese Government, Japan 1il be compelled to take such action s ite may deem necessairy to meet to situation." Inspired utterances express regret t the Inability to maintain neutral y, but say that Great Britain, the ally r Japlan, is Compelled to defend her 'ir against the aggressions of Ger lany. M1Ioreover, it is pointed out that erimany is making preparations (lay n1 night at Mlau Chau, where it is loiing provisions, witle its warships re scouring the seas of Eastern Asia, ) the rgeat detimiient of coimmerce; nd that its converted cruisers are Azing Englishi merchant vessels. S'uch 3tions, it is urged, are directly calcu ited to disturb the peace of Eastern slia, and acoerdingly, after full and 'ank communication with Great lirit. in, Japan has found herself coin oiled to send an ultintatum to Gler tnny. Tfle Japanese war ollice summoned it newspaper men at 1 o'clock this rternoon in order that they might re tive instructions in regard to the Lblication of news in the event of a Ate of war cooming into force. The text of the Japanese ultimatum as created a profound Impression, al tough it had been predicted that Ja an was making ready to participate i the war. Count Okuma, the premier, and Ta. anki Kato, the foreign minister, ad ressed meetings of merchants, mom er of Parliament and others, and mitnselled a calm attitude. They de ared that Japan has no ambition for 'rritorial aggrandizement. In reply to a question propounded V a merchant. the foreigne miiister nequivocally deied reports that the nited States had interfered lit any ay in the situatiot, and, he added, le l'nited, States was not. likely to. ater he said the American Govern lent would be fully informed as to ie Japanese position. Grave Dei-elopments. Washington, August 18.-Japian's ul liatuim to Geriany was reeived by Itericant'oflicials as oite of the grav it developlmntitt s in the War situation, ringing for the first ti-me the great illitary power of the far East into range of conflict hIeretofore coifined ithin Europe. Y lil ADV[RTIS[R n All County Boxes and ferent Counties. touch w ih tihe returnPis. It is expected thtat thte rettus will nite very rapidly after thtey once be it, butt thIe first builletinti will he a ttle later thatn those of last year. hte itse there will be mtore candlidates; ini rio race and1( more votes to counit. As ist as theoy comte int, htoweveir, thtey till be ptosted. ntr beintg in thte race so that I (0ould Itt he misunderstood. When I have beent goinig to aauremt tiring thle caittpaignt, diIfferentt meit i0 ,aurens htave beetn congrantula ttng mit n thte way I have been1 showinug uli bte record of oite of mty oppon11entIs, Mir 1 iehards, aind I uniderst and t ha t the o re ntow golitg airounid withI thelr fae. S twisted lIIke thtey htave the co1ic ind comnp~litning because I remtind(1< he peoptle of Latirens county or thi atit that, nteairly all thle big financi atterests n li aur ients (outt iy were sup ortinug Mr. C'ooper. Whty Is It such a; vorthty in antothter. I trutst that tis is pllain entought foi ny onte thmat wants to uniderstaitd. William C. Irby, Jr. Youngs Schtool llouse, TPhore will be an ice cream sutppe vn Saturday night, August 22, 'thte pub IceI i 1nvited to come. CALL TO ORGANIZE ISSUED BY WATSON Urges State to Form Division Cotton Congress to Protect the Planter. Columbia, August 17.-As president of tile Southern Cotton Congress, Com missioner .-. J. Watson today issued the following call to the lieople of South Carolina: "To the people of South Carolina: At the recent session of the Southern Cotton Congress. held in Washington under the plan of permanent organiza tion of the congress adopted. it was provided that the presidellt of the con gress should iimedlately call popular meetings of fariners, merchanis, hank e's and other concerned in cott on iII each statf' for the purpose of forming a division of the Cotton Congress in each state. such State Congress hiavlig Its own president, who should 1h(e vice president of the National Congress for that. partiilar. state. "Aiong he resolutions adopted b)y lhe Southern Cotton Congress was tile following: "Ve recognize the iniportaice of providing warehousing facilities and I.eoi'iM mend that this subject be taken (are of as soon as expedient. "Just Lprior to the adjournmientl of the congress a further resolutIon was adopted providing for a general ware house commI-Ittee coinposed of one menber from each State to he ap pointed by the chairman to carefully take up the. warchouaing situatIon and work out as inearly a uniform system of handling the 191.1 crop as could be done. It was further resolved that at the stato meetings the qulestion of solving the immledlate needs in each state of warehouses should be taken up. carefully considered and acted up oil InI accor-htnce with the conditions prevailing it each state, and If nec ersary the State meeting should take up with their respective governnents the matter of invoking Igislative ac tion onl tle matter at the proper time. "It is extreimely important that coim 1i)cto infornation be obtained imimie diately as to tile warehousing space available in South Carolina for, the early miovenent and handliig of sueh portion of the crop as it is necessary to warehouse, and that the state or ganization lie perfected toward thisl end at. once. It is not unlikely that such a censis will 'reveal a suflicient warehouse floor space for immillediate purposes, and if this can be done prop er steps should be taken to bring such warehouses under suchl1 regulations as would lake their receipts Illeet the re (luirenents of proposed national legis lation. For tie above purpose as specifically set forth, and these pur poses alone. In this timle of war and turioil when patriotic co-operation mnd absolute unity are essential above all else, I have felt. it my duty to is sue this call for such a State illeeting as has beenl oltlined, to lie held in tihe city of Columlbia, at 11 A. M., Thursday, August 20, 191-1. It is de sired that farmers, mierchlants and( rell resentailves of the blankinlg, cot ton sieed and tex tile manuf lacturinug inidus tries attendi tis conferencee ando lablor in unity for tile purpose of averting the disaster that is threat en ing thle principal cro~p of' the state and tihe "Thie pla1ce of meetinhg will be dully annilounced( ill tile pressC. IExactly simIli har calls have beenI issued and for warded to Cachl state ini the Cotton lDelt all the way throulgh to Texas. Tihe Nat icnlal (Coverlinment hlas today pased the emiergency sh ippin~g bill,1 with a view to reopenintg tile hilgh seas to comilmerce under1C tile A mericn flaig, Pend 0on the waly to itlick passage ale t~he cottonl stanidarizaiition and1( na1 tional warehouse mea~fsuresC. ' To the sulccessfulI oplerationl of aull of the~se measurl les. withi a view to afC fording relief to cot ton, tihe pr'oper emnergencey wariehiousintg of eot tOll is -al:solutely essenltial, anld thlese ar' ranllgemenlts ('allnot bie delaiyedl. "'President."' Unrion Meiofinigs ('alled Oil. lIn view (of the fact, that manyll~ of (ur I lnChurlhes andi ilastor's, inc(1luiniig 'lhest.nut lIIidge where thle CUnloll meet ing was to hlave been held1. are n1 galged in a series of mieetinlgs durning th10 pr3eent mfonlth, theC5111 Uon meetinlg OF tile Second and F~ourthl Divisions of l4Llurens association are hereby called off. -1B. P. Mitcellh, 'For ommimte STATU CANDIDATES H[R LAST THRSDAY About Fifteen Hundred Il' Attendance HOME CANDIDATES GIVEN WELCOME. Very Orderly CrowdI Listened Atteou th(y to What the Office Claimants 11141 to say. Lit.tle Sh1on of IaUtion. alisIm at an1y Timline. The following account of tl cam1.4 paign lmeetinig in laurenls was w ritten' b)y W. F. Caldwel[ for the Ncw s and Courier: Tihe people of I ruins gave ti hl cal iidates . warn wllcome ntertailing thelm at private homei1s. 'Th Ih ospiLality, or1 lAturl-elns drew praise' 11om0 I 01.-4 tiro party. George A ltrowniig, acting coilntyj chairimtan, presided. The 1Rev. .1. It. Tq Major, pastor of tle Methodist c1u rcig oftered prayer. The calldi(dates for Comt roller, General came ilrst, James A. Suiimmer seLt leadiig off. Ile criticised his opn pontent and sai lie had been in oilied long enough. "If(*- is utterly ignor-4 ant, of tle tax problem," said A. W4 .lones, Conptroller leneral, or 1iI1 opponent, and lie criticIsed Mr. Sum-4 Illersett. \V. W. Moore, Adjutant Generaf read onddrsemnents for re-election' from several ofilcers of the National Guard. and said a majority of thei had endorsed limni for another term. Gen. Moore said the governor, who had withdrawn all authority f rom him over a year ago, and t.hose of1 vers who have fought and hampered his administration, were responsible for the present conditdon of the Na-i tional Guard. M. C. Willis, for .Adjutant Generaj, read an endorsemen-t. of his cantlidacyj friom the 1aurens military coipanyj and said lie had endorsements from 328 officers, enlisted men alld civilians reading one from Col. Cogswell, of the 3rd reglinent, andl(] said lie had on() from Col. Lewis, of .the 1st regiment. .1. If. Wharton. candidate for rail road comim issioner, Is a llantive of this 11ouinty. Ilen was given a rousing re reption, anid (id not m1ake a speech' but gave way to his opponents. Tho tiers for this offie, W. 1. Wither spoonl. Gevorge W. Pairvy, C. 1). Fort ni 111( lF. W. .Shealey, followed inl the order naiedI. Mr. Whlrtlon was pre sell1ted withIi towers. W. M. illamer poked filln at his o)po nets for l.ielteliant (Governor, and said Southli Carollina was going to get a man who would hold law abovo tle lilan. .1. A. lilter ,aid the newspapers were (doing a gooid work in informing' the people of mien and piTciiples, and ihlat the people were reading more uii(n miore and advocated 1law ;ild or (ier. Onte ,petator sitting oil the steps kept. trying to heckle l. Ilun ter alid Iinally tle police madc hiii get down and go back in jijo crowd, whieh action tihe audienec vigorous ly cheered. Mr. Kelley was abset when his. Iame110 was called. Andrew .1. Bethoa based his eiaini upon fitness for otiep and for clen politics and good goverlnenllt. 'ln. South Carolina. lie was (icered anid presenltedl wi-th flower-s. Attorney Gehneral Thlomlas !i. Pee-. iesI told of his rconiomical admI iis11 CratLion. defended~l his admliist ration and1( ra pied hIs oppo)l1nnt, gettIinlg ap A. (1. llrie, for Attorney G'eera1g .~ iahbed Ils opp)onenlt.'s (tlial record, and1( again1 t erm~edi him the "tool1 of the( Go;(vernorl," ge'ttinug hteer's, It. A. C'ooperi. the firist (andi1 dato torz Governlor, was given all OVatin by, hiis hiome peotple. lie sa Id briefly: "Mr'. (Chairmnn, 1Lad1ies alnd l' Illowi Citizens: It. Is a real pleasurc torI mo Oin tis IccaIsionl, to ex tend{ to thlo m1(lebes of thle St-alte caImplaignl p4arty, a1 genine1 we'(lcom to lmy home tl *1owni and~ tilt. grandl oldl coutiy of Lauren1 ~s. A counlty that has never taIled to do, her duty a1s she saw it. Yeo. are~ st and(1ing t.olhly onl histori( g:-ound, 0011se~cralted by li the emorly of her loes ini five wars. -and~ their dlescendanlts are' talnilg yml)t today wvoi thyi sonis of' wvorthy sirIes. IC gives n~e. I'l Ilcl iar, p'leiasu1re to 4>vtendl a l 1cordial, hieart.. felt gr'eetin to ml ( ~y 0 tompttitorCs in th I race( for (Governorol of the. proud old i-tate of South Car'olinia. "I1 shall nt discus5 h14 4 the1 11m portnt .isssuesi that alte I be:O'Q us, but: give myw Cium to our honioredl gules'ts, 1141 you will 1ardo me(1 11'II in llyin that; ini seeking this high otiie, I 1am1 actul-. 11.1ed bly my grleat l ove' for Ilihe Stato '('Od and1( lmy hiome until I shall sleep upon01 tile hIllside yonder. In lhe( lan-, gua ge of the 111imortal and1 chtssio VIrgil, 'As long as thei river' unwls on to thle sea; os lon~g a5 thle sha dows fall u1pon1 the1 monn-ltaill *ide;tas long as the lItenvens feed the stalrs," justU so long will the welfme anid honor off the 01(1 PalmeItto Sinte lbe my sa1credt ('ha1rge. whnther as bovernlor or na 1rvate c itien, -in thec humble walks , "AtginII getlemen I bid you we (Contiaued on Pag~e Eight.) .