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he i fur HI MTF.ll WATCHMAN. fltctjtnati and ?Be Jost and Fear do*?Let b? tbe ende Thon Almert at be thy Country'*, Thy God's and TraOVs.' rtm. THE TRUE 60UTHRON, Established /am?, iMt Consolidated Au*. 3,1881. SUMTER, S. 0., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1911. Vol. XXXIII. No. 16. 001 ION PliTFIRM COMMON. ONLY REMEDY AT PRESENT IS TO KEEP COTTON OFF THE MARKET. What Sotnr of Thorn* Who arc In tereatoxl in Uir Matter Have to Say ?I"npreoeo>n ted Receipt? of Cot? ton. Insufficient platform space, an un pn?cedented amount of cotton being unloaded on the market at one time and scarcity of labor are the proba? ble causes of the contested condi? tions at the cotton platform and the welcher?' stand. Probably the last ( two are the real causes of conditions as they are at the platform. The cotton platform Mid compress' when It was first established was re-1 quired by law to furnleh space for k 3,000 hale* of cotton to be placed on ' and. This law was fully compiled with and. moreover, space on the platform between this original plat* 1 for ,n and the railroad track was I built sufficient to hold approximately | t.100 more bales of cotton. Both of i these platforms are now crowd Ml , with cotton, probably more than >,-| MO bales of cotton being on them at the present time, and possibly a*a mach as S.000 bales. Resides this space on the cotton platform, the platform of the Southern Railway company Is almost entirely covered r with cotton, and there sre nearly % thousand bales lying on the Atlantic Coast Line platform. In all. it Is probable that at the present time there are somewhere In the neighborhood of f.QOO bales of cot? ton on the various platforms used far cotton, the majority of which cot? ton was sold In this city. Every platform is blocked so that It Is hard to get arou nd on It and at the same time more cotton is coming In all of the time to keep the platforms fg full as they now are. While some ^Cotton is going out. about the same amount is coming In. All of the side k trsck space Is lined with cars of K esstoa snipped Into 8urxder to he sohl snd weighed here or to be stored in the warehouse. Some of the cars are being unloaded and the cotton weigh red. while at the same time these cars are being loaded with other cotton to be shipped to export buyers. What Is responsible for there be lng no space for cotton on the platform and why it is that cars of cotton have to stand on the side-track se\eral I days, or even weeks, before the cot? ton can b? unloaded and weighed was a question that the reporter for the Item asked and which was an ?wered In various ways by those par? ties through whose hands the cotton had to pass. Y The farmers stated that the trouble 5 Is a lack of weighers. They complain bitterly of having to wait so long In line before their cotton can be weigh? ed. Some of them stated that they had to remsin In town several days before they get their cotton unload? ed from the cars In which they had ?hipped It from nearby points One farmer stated that he had even gono so far as to get two white boys to help nlm and he had himself trucked his cotton so that It could be hand led promptly.. On* of the weigher* nald that there were two things that cuused the con? gestion. The weighers could not get sufficient truckers and the railroads do not move the cotton promptly. Hs said that It was probable that they could get men to work for them, but a competent trucker was a hard thing to get, and at present the weighers could weigh twice as much cotton each day If they had the need? ed number of truckers. But here Is whut the railroads say to thl*. They say they get the cotton off as fast as it is turned over to them, but that It generally takes the big buyers several days to get their cotton In line, and marked and grad .??! before It nm b.? turm-d over to the railroad* for shipment, and. 1st the meantime, the platform space i* crowded. It was also stated that they have sufficient labor to handle all of the cotton as It Is shipped In or turn ed over to them to he shipped out. The only trouble thit they have had was cotton being mixed when It w/i aent In here from nearby points and the railroads hid t> straighten out the tangles Hut the ? tf .ii hovers do not ex? actly agree with what the railroads have I? h i\ * ?ro. ,.f the h>< ,<l buy? ers stated that all of the trouble hud been canned by lac k of a sufllei Sgl number of weighers, and the f i< t that the railroads have not handled the rottor. promptly if the sidings, ,,r efter It reached th The ri roads need o or.- ;? |M ,,, <|. r t.. handle the n.iion promptly and the county needs more w Mghers so that i 1 LAFOLLETTE THE CHOICE. PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS IN? DORSE HIM FOR PRESI? DENCY. Two Hundred Members of Partj Gathered in Chicago Outline Plans for Campaign. Chicago, Oct. 16.?Two w dred progressive Republicans In their rlrst national conference today In? dorsed Senator Robert M. LaFollette ? of Wisconsin tor president and de? clared In favor of a direct primary as a meana for the expression of a pres ' (dental choice. The indorsement i came in the shape of resolutions i framed In part by James R. Qarfleld, I former secretary of the Interior, who, It was held by the delegates appeared as expressing the views of Theodore Roosevelt and who it was feared would oppoee a declaration in favor of any individual. Mr. La Follette's Indorsement went through Without a hitch, however. The resolution followed a day of LaFollette enthusiasm In which his name was cheered repeatedly when It was mentioned by a dozen apeakers. Contrary to expectation, the confer? ence was concluded In one day, most of ti; ? delegates left the city, and the progressive programme outlined for tomorrow will be devoted to support .of Str. :e and local candidates and 'conditions. ? I The resolutions were frsmed by a subcommittee of five and were re* j vised by Mr. Qarfleld and Congress? man Irwine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin, John E. Little of North Carolina Was a member of the subcommittee. the cars shipped in here could be unloaded And weighed and the cotton coming In on wagona weighed at the same time. He said that there has been a shortage of cars which caus? ed a delay in shipment. A local representative of a buyer stated that the trouble Is simply that there was. ?o* . au?tlaftA labor to handle all of the cotton which Is coming in. He said that there was so much cotton on the platform that the lots got mixed and that It requir? ed time for the representatives of the big buyers to get their cotton to? gether and marked, as it has to be, before It can be shipped. This delays shipment and helps on towards con? gestion. After hearing what each of thetie par? ties had to say, it will be of Interest to know what the manager cf the cotton warehouse platform ascribes as the cause of the congestion, and It Is probable that he should know more about the true cause of the trouble than anyone else, as he has to deal with each of the other par? ties. The managor of the platform stated, upon being asked the cause of the congestion, that It Is an un? precedented cotton year. Whereas the farmers all over the county had been telling cf a half crop of cotton, It has turned out now that there was more cotton raised In this county this year than ever before. Instead of be? ing half a crop the crop was more than a full crop. The only remedy that he could see Is for las farmers to hold back their cotton and put it on the market gradually. He said that It was not the fault of the weighers, for If there were more weighers, Ihero was no place for them to weigh cotton. The man? agement of the platform had secured tin- us,- of the A. C. L. and Southern railroad plaforms for storing cotton, (?ut still there was a lack of room. It \su>. not the fault of the railroads, for the) had the ears there and could not get them unloaded. He knew of more I has ? thousand bales of cotton then in cara on the siding waiting to be unloaded hefore they could be weigh? ed and sohl or stored away In the wai ehouae, It is simply l congestion caused by the unforeseen sad unprecedented amount of cotton being unloaded up "ii the market at one time. Mvery aiding In the county was lined with ! cars of cotton waiting to be carried op t.. otle-r i>? ? itlrm. Kvery on. of the platforms at these country stations was in tin* sagas condition as the platform In this < It v. blocked with Cotton No SSM had dreamed that anything like this amount of cotton whs to he gathered, and from all ie |.orts th.te was s'lll a great deal more < otton eoinlng. How could any? one. When SJUCh a condition was not SUSpeCted, be prepared for It? More platform space was needed, labor was i? md high, and sufficient to han? dle ih< eotton could hoi he procur? ed. The only resaedy was for the farmers lo hold ofT their cotton for awhile inii then dispose of It gi "i j Ually, not rush II all on the market THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP. THIRD SAt'KKR'S HOMER WINS tX)R ATHHLETics, 3 TO I, - i Plank and Marquard Opposed on Slab, Both Doing Remarkable Work, Few Remarkable Play*. j Philadelphia, Oct. 16.?When; Franklin Baker, third baseman, pol-! ed a home run over the right field wall of Shibe park, scoring Eddie Collins ahead of him today, he put the Philadelphia Athletics on an even footing with the New York Giants and the two teams will now go to New York for the third game ' tomorrow in the series for the world's championship baseball hon- 1 ors. ?core: Philadephia S, New York 1. The total attendance was 26,280. The total cash was $42,962.50, dl-, vlded as follows: Players' share,' $23,199.75; each club $7,733.25; na- j tional commission $4,296.25. The at? tendance was distributed as follows: j 17,299 at $1; 1,490 at $1.50; 1,074 at $2: 7.764 at $3. ( The big hit came in the sixth in? ning with two out and when the fighting Athletics had touched up ! Pitcher Marquard of the National 'champions for only three hits. Ba I ker's smash was the last in the game [for the American leaguers, but it J^was enough. And Just as important j as Baker was on the offensive was "Eddie" Plank, the star left hander jof the House of Mack, on the defen? sive. The veteran southpaw never pitched a better game in his long career. I Only one of the Giants reached! second base and that was Herzog, who made that bag on a long hit to centerfield, which Olderlng either misjudged or lost in the sun. Plank was never in trouble and in the last six innings New York went off in order. Marquard, on whom Manager Mc Graw had pinned his faith to make ? it two straight victories for New York, pitched a game that was al? most the equal of Plank's. He al? lowed the heavy hitting Philadelphia team but four hits, two in the first inning, in which the Quakers got their first run, with the help of a wild pitch, and two in the sixth, Col- , 11ns' double and Baker's hit out of the grounds. In the eighth inning Manager Mc Graw changed pitchers, sending in Crandall, a right hander. NONSUIT IN TOLLMAN CASE. Action of Mrs. Lucy Dugas Tillmnn 1 to Recover $11,000 From Husband I is Thrown Out. j Edgefleld. Oct. 17.?Judge Mem Inger granted a nonsuit this after? noon in the case brought by Mrs. L'icy Dugas Tillman against her husband. B. H. Tillman, Jr., to re? cover $14.000. Mrs. Tillman alleged in her com? plaint that moneys approximating j this sum had been paid her hsuband i and that he did not properly account j for them to her. The nonsuit was | ordered on the ground that the proof was at variance with the al? legations of the complaint. No fratid was alleged in the complaint. Owing to the prominence of the plaintiff and defendant, the case has attracted considerable attention. Mrs. Tillman was represented by De Pass gj DePass and S. McO. Simp klns and the defendant by Grler & Park and H. C. Tillman. Court of common pleas convened yesterday and will continue in ses? sion practically all of the- week. Sev? eral minor cases were disposed of yesterday. Lexington, Ky.. Oct 8,?This city was the Mecca today of Condeferate I Veterans, their sons and daughters, from all over the West and South. The occasion for the gathering was Jthe unveiling of an !8*foot bronse I equestrian monument to Gen. John II. Morgan, the Confederate leader, Governor Wilson mads the sddress of welcome to visiting Veterans. Dr, Guy Carleton Lee, of Baltimore, made the Unveiling addivss. at ons time as they were now do? ing. These ars ths conditions, and this is ths way the matter is regarded by the ratio us parties to whom the fault of the congestion could be sscrlbedi Perhaps, each of tlu? parties is In some small way to blame, bul pro I hably the whole amount of ti>< I trouble is that ho much cotton ? coming In that a full force of hand cannot be secured to dr pose of it fast as the farmers send M lnt< 'own. BRIDE OF ONLY TWO WEEKS AC? CIDENTALLY KILLED. Mrs. Henry B. Richardson Meets Death from Accidental Discharge Of Rifle Which Her Husband Was Loading. Summerton. Oct. 19.?Mrs. Ellen Deas Richardson, wife of Mr. Henry B. Richardson, was instantly killed today by the accidental discharge of a rifle. Mr. Richardson got his rifle to shoot a chicken for dinner and after loading it snapped the barrel shut. As he did so the rifle was dis? charged, the ball striking Mrs. Rich? ardson, who was in the same room and in range of the rifle. Death was practically instantaneous. The sad accident was a shock to the commu? nity and Mr. Richardson has the deepest sympathy of his many friends. Mrs. Richardson was a bride of only two weeks, which renders the sad and tragic ending of her young life all the sadder. Local Warehouses Can Save Farmers. To the Editor of The State. Your editorial on the subject of warehouses, several big warehouses or many small warehouses, has bean carefully read. Your reasoning as to cost per bale being less in the larger than In many smaller warehouses is probably true. But you have not tak? en into consideration some of the things we have to meet. Human na? ture Is probably just as it always was. We have to deal with men as we find them. The older cotton growers of Sruth Carolina have not forgottu?l the fortunes built up at the ports by controlling the cotton crop. The es? tablishment of interior banks and in? terior cotton markets emancipated the cotton growers from the thrall dom of the cotton factor. You could scarcely hope to see us invest in big warehouses which might lead to the old order. Small banks have, almost without excesrtHm. .hgeja eminently successful. And the city banker who would today sneer at the crossroads bank would show his unfltness for his office. You have consistently urged the building of warehouses. All your good work along this line will be nullified if you now undertake to say that a half dozen railroad centres of the State are the only places where warehouses should be located. Just as the local banks have drawn the money out of the stockings and wallets of the plain people, just so will local warehouses cause the farmers to hold cotton. You need not worry about the attitude of the money brokers toward local ware? house cotton receipts, no more than you worry about the credit of these small banks. The local banks can and will take care of all the cotton their customers -u.rc in the ware? houses their customers build at their very doors. It will be many years before you can educate the farmers up to the point of subscribing their money to? ward building big warehouses that some of the subscribers may never sec, nrd If moneyed men build the warehouses you suggest many a bale of cotton will never find them. I am not arguing the point, I am simply stating a fact. I do not suppose for a moment that you are conscious of it nor that your Informant is conscious of its effects, i but It looks to me as though the re? sult of the plan would he to throw cold water on the efforts of the Farm? ers' Union to establish a chain of warehouses throughout the State. This matter was called to my atten? tion before your editorial appeared, and T discussed it with a gentleman, who ought to be well informed, and your editorial Is simply a restatement of bis vlewa 1 have also discussed it with some of the liest informed members of the Farmers' Union, and we are agreed that if We want ware? houses at all. our plans of local ware? houses under local management, but (linked together by a common purpose with our own Sellins agency, are the ?. 111 >? ?neS that will appeal to our peo? ple, the only kind they Will build and I patronise and patronage is more -s [sentlal than location or size. I think. Mr Editor, when you give due consideration to the facts as i'r ?m w hich local banks and local markets emancipated us the suc? cess of local banks you will see that local warehouses will abundant t |v m? e| the sit n it ion. President st.it.- Farmers' Union. M i \ . s\ tile. S < ' \t The St h\\ ai l / Store Tomorrow 26 do/en extra long cor nets, ?II shies, t.. be sold '? r0 cents, conditions E. \V. DA BBS, BAKER'S BATTING AND COOMBS' TTRX SCALE. Third Saoker Hit* Homer and Ties [ Up Game in Ninth and Helps Win j It in Tenth?Giants Fight Hard. New York, Oct. 17.?By the score of 3 to 2 in 11 innings of baseball as sensational as a world's series has ever furnished the Philadelphia Ath? letics defeated the New York Giants here today and jumped into a lead of two games to one in the series for the world's championship. The White Elephants achieved this feat on their rival's own grounds, fac ing the great Mathewson, who had puzzled them into the loss of one world's series, and who had started bravely in an attempt to make hi? tory repeat itself. Three times in 1905 and once this year the Athletics had fallen victims to Mathewson's wiz? ardry. Today they finally broke through his guard and fell upon him so hevaily in the latter part of the tense struggle that the great boxman and his mates were swept off their feet. Backed up by the splendid work of Jack Coombs, the "iron man," who pitched one of the greatest games of his career and held New York run less from the third inning almost to the game's very end, the American leagues pounded their way to vic? tory. They tied the score when Baker, their brilliant third baseman, who won yesterday's game with a home run, picked out one of Mathew. eon's benders and drovo it into the far reaches of the right field stand for a home run in the ninth. They won out in the 11th on three safe hits, helped out by two Giant errors. The Giants did not give up without a struggle, and a hard one. A double followed by an error, gave them a run in the last half of the 11th, but there were two out and it was the Athletic's game when a moment later the only occupant of the bases was out in an attempt to steal second. The National commission announc? ed the following figures: Total at tendance. 37,216. Total receipts, $75, 598. National commission's share, $7,559.30. Players' share, $40,820.22. Each club's share, $13,606.74. "MVCH COTTON BEING STORED. Warehouse Being Rapidly Filled to Its Capacity. The farmers have at last begun or. on a larger scale than heretofore, to store their cotton in the warehouse to be in.Id for higher prices. Whether this sudden spurt for storing cotton is the result of eight cent cotton or be? cause the farmers have at last b^gun to realise that they can get better prices for their cotton by holding it, is hard to say, but probably the lat? ter reason has the most to do with the fact that at present much cotton is being stored in the warehouses. During the month of September less than 800 bales of cotton were placed in the warehouse, but since the first of October enough cotton has been stored away to make the amount new in the warehouse something over 3.000 bales and there are ap? proximately a thousand bales in ears now placed on the side-tracks in the city ehipped in from nearby points mill to be unloaded and placed in the warehouss. As the very largest amount of cot? ton which can be placed in the ware? house Is slightly over 5.000 bales, it will readily be seen that there is now much room left and that it will not be long before the warehouse is filled to its utmost capacity. Besides the amount of cotton which is being ship p? d in to be stored away iti the ware? house, farm >n from surrounding farms are bringing In cotton on their wagons every day and placing it in the warehouse. A meat many of the farmers who need to do bo are borrowing monsy on the cotton which they have placed In the warehouse and it is probable that they will hobt it until they can gel a better price or are obliged to sell. SEABOARD SURVEYORS HERE The Seaboard Air Line surveyors arrived in the city Tuesday, i oming in along Mabnolta street. This is the second preliminary I survey which has been run Into the city from that part of town. the other <oming a few hundred foot further east on Green street. Which of these surveys will be accepted as the final route of the road bed. or whether or not either will be, will have to he decided some tune in the future. it Is probable. however, thai more surveys \v>" be made be fore the Rnnl route is determine*: upon THE CHINESE WAR. THE CHINESE FItiHT FIERCELY IN TRENCHES AT HANKOW. Hundreds Killed or Hurt?Fighting La*ts All l>uy and Insurgents Fi? nally Fall Rack to Wu Cluing. Hankow, Oct. 19.?The imperial Chinese troops and the revolution? ists have come to grips at Hankow. The battle as yet is indecisive. The government at Pek claims a great victory and thf .timent troops hold the trenc" Hankow as well as the stati .-re reinforcements are hour' ing. The r ^ 4ave fallen back on Wu Chan v. _h it is said they have sur * , in strongly fortifying in the \^ *> days. The casualties on sides in the engagement are re . ted to be large, for the fighting was heavy. During the battle between the land forces, the Chinese warships shelled the rebels' position but dispatches from Hankow indicate that the re? turn fire from the forts was much more effective and that at least two of the imperial gunboats were badly damaged. American warships have been or? dered to Nanking, Shanghai and Tien Tsln. The Abarenda, which Is pro? ceeding to Tien Tsin, Is carrying a detachment to reinforce the American legation at Peking. The capital is strongly guarded and there seems to be little danger of disorders there. During the fighting the 3 foreign vessels in the river landed a joint force under command of Vice Ad? miral Sir Alfred L. Winsloe, com? mander of the British Eastern fleet, who, because of his seniority, has been given the direction of the men engaged In the protection of the for? cing concessions. The Red Cross neutral camp in charge of Dr. MacWillle of the Amer? ican mission, received and cared for the rebel wounded. About 2,000 revolutionists were pitted against an equal number of loyal soldiers and it was a fair fight. Early reports that the rebels outnum? bered the enemy five to one were in? correct. Only a part of the revolu? tionary army participated, and they were claiming tonight that they would have routed completely the soldiers from the north if their am? munition had held out. MR. W. B. WILSON HURT. Meets with Accident a* He Is Return? ing from Summcrton. Wednesday evening just after dark Mr. W. B. Wilson had his leg broken just above the ankle when he jumped from the motor truck on which he was riding in order to escape a collision with a train of box cars which he thought were being backed upon him. The accident occurred as Mr. Wil? son and Mr. T. E. White were re? turning from Summerton and just after they entere' .he city limits. It was after dark when those on the truck saw some box cars on the track a few feet ahead of them. They did not have time to stop and reverse the engine to their truck, si shut off the engine and jumped. Mr. WUson*fl leg caught between the crossttea on Some obstacle and his leg was brok on. He was carried to the Bumter Hospital where he was given surgical attention. Thursday he was re? ported to be resting easier, after ?pending a very restless night. It seems that at the time that Mr. Wilson anil Mr. White jumped from the motor truck they supposed that the cars, which should not have been on the track Where they were, were backing on them and they did not have time to gef out of the way by reversing. Neither Mr. White or the negro on the car were hurt by jumping. REPORT MASSACRE PLANNED. ' Rome, vis Frontier, Oct. is.?A massacre of all Europeans is planned by the radical element among the Turkish residents of Salonika. Eu? ropean Turkey, according to refugees from that place. All the cistern ships of the Italian navy have bean ordered made ready for the transportation Of drinking water to points along the Tripoli tan coast occupied hf Italians, if sin h a course proves necessary as ? result of the appearance of cholera among the sohllers. A message from Tripoli today sa\s the arrival of Turkish deserters at Tripoli continues, These men say that thej abandoned their army he* < ause they had been worn out with constant marches nnd a lack of food.