Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THK srilTKK WATCHMAN, Kstatdishcd April, 1850. "Be Juxt and Fear not?Lot all the end! Thou Alnis't at 1)0 thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's." T11E TRUE SOUTHBOIf, Established June, 180?. Consolidated Aug. 3,1881. SUMTER. S. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1913. Vol. XXXVI. No. 37. FIREMEN'S TOURNAMENT ENDS si >l I I It KI LKI) OI'T IN LAST RMl . ? Darlington Won i um |? ||os4. \\hkoii Rai e and t olumhia \\ .. \ Irlor In Grab l(u , Abbeville, Jump 2?; Todays luces ended the ninth lircinen'm tournament. In the hum wagon races l>arlingtnn woo first and $iao. Chester was sec? ond and won $50, and Abbeville as third got $25. In the gVhb reel races Columbia wo first, and Newberry Mcond. Good crowds saw the races and the tournament has been a great auc frdni a financial standpoint, as well as a so. ml oM. Abbeville has boon glad to have the "fire laddies" h6re and to have been able to give them a good time. TtW contesting teams and the time made\ AbbeVille, hydrant 16, water St V-10;\ Marlon, ^5 4-5. water nozzle blew off; Chester, hV.drant 15 1-5, wa? ter 32 2-5;. l>arlington. hydrant 15. wat*r 2?; Hfshopvllle, hydrant 15 4-5, water 34 3-5; Greenwood, hydrant, 1ft 1-1, hose blew off; Georgetown, hydrant 15 2-5, man fell, no connec? tion made; Sumter, hydrant 15 1-5, ruled out because judges decided man making hydrant connection WM as? sisted by wrenchuian; Hennettsville, hydrant 15 4-5, nozzle blew oh*. Grab reel: Georgetown, nozzle blew off; Columbia, 1? 1-0; New? berry, 20. Fom race: Kluttz of Chester, first; Troutman of Newberry, second. The firemen and visitors are loaving on every train and all express them? selves as well pleased with their treatment here. lioilsi: is in a ovi KID. AnlMMll Stolen et Manning Has lleen Ke? hum. .1 MgoMng. June The horse Molen fron? K 1 > (Mark s lot Tuesday night, har been recovered. Ac cordiqg j? reports, a man who lives about three miles this side of Sum iir Wa> up about daybreak yesterday morning und noticed a strange negro riding by. He called him to stop, but Instead of stopping the negro whipped up and r.xle rapidly up the road a. short distance and there dis? mounted. Tin- horse wan left in the road while the rider disappeared. Ah s....n as convenient the authorities in Humtcr were notified of the occur? rence nnd they to..k charge of the horse. Mr. (Murk, who had been away on a huslnex-i trip to North Carolina, happened to come through Sumter >n his way home ami there barmd of the theft of his horse, recognized the unima) ami brought it on to Mawining this morning. From the meugre de acrlntion given of the negro seen rid? ing the horse the thief |g supposed to be a convict who recently tied ,lrom the Clarendon county chalngang, but his present whereabouts are not known here. *m TRY CALIFORNIA CASKS. TImm. j. i i.i Mien ami Matt I Su111 win < honett b) Administration. Washington. Jum* Thon.as J. Heyden and Matt I. Sullivan were chosen by the Administration late to? day to pro*.*. tn.> the Cominettl-I >iggs and WeHtern Fuel Company 99M9M hllH'i'k J Henry, whose name has i.e. ii nentkMed in this eonnecttott, Was ret ? I- ' te-l ;ix ,.ne of the prose tutors I N I?!?*. It RKVISKh CTSTOJMS PLAN. vilarles of Charleston Officials IH y changed?lb-aufort ilciluccd. WashliiKton. June If,?As a reaull of the . onferences held by i:< | i< .n tatlves Whah | mmi IP. rnes and Col? lector l'eters. ..f < Miarhston, with HeeretarV of tit.- Treasur\ M< Ad..... with reference to the reorganization of the < ust.mm service in South CAff Ina after July when Collector iVtera. of Charleston. botOMfli I he Collector of the St.ite, |l is baillcd that theie will he no < li.uii;? s In the Salaries of th" f.ace nt ChajBleOtON under the fntjft lor. httf at Keaufoit Secret.irv McAdo,, will amend the rulen ho hm to reduce tr.e salary of lh?* depuis eollectoff to I3M ami take the i ll-.iJ nt (he classified service. Mr. CoSeock, the present col Nl?fi Will he mole the deputv at Heat.fort umbr Mr IVtets Co| ? ... k*s present salary Is $&??, The significance of the change will t.e that J. I. WashliiKton. roluTeil, Who has Keen for I MUM be? m% fmmwu th depot*. . olle. t? ;if lie.in ot t vsill h | | the service. At Georgetown the prei.nt Pol|e< tor. J C. Contplnn, n ill he g>pO|nt< d HOI AFTER LOBBYISIS. < o.M.iti ssMAX PALMER TELL8 or MORI CiCooKl I) WORK. New York financiers Anfsrrgtrhcd by Men Who OMnNI to \lu\v Pull with Congressmen ? One Man Kop n'M hini Himself to Be Mr. Palmer. Washington. June 2d.?The story of an effort to sell a gold brick to Wall street and how it was foiled was told in purl the senute "lobby" in? vestigating committee tonight at one of the most sensation producing se sions it has held in its stormy career. It was a tale of how Influence was to be exerted in the seats of the mighty in Washington to prevent unfavora? ble Investigations into the doings Of the street, of how lawsuits that the financial interests in New York would not like were to be prevented, ami of how the gold brick seller was Anally to protect the interests of the client he sotight in the political game in the capital. representative A. Mitchell rainier of Pennsylvania, one of the prominent democrats in the house, once men? tioned for secretary of war. told the ?tOfy and Kdward Lauterbueh, a New York lawyer, and Ropl esentativo i>aniei j. Rloffdan ??f New York save the committee some light on its do* tails. According to Mr. Palmer, Lewis <'ass l^edyard, another New York lawyer, was the man who was largely instrumental in foiling tin plot. Tie name of the man who proposed to do all these things in Washington was not given to the eomtni; tee, although Mr. Palmer acknowledged that he had strong suspicions of bin identity. Mr. Palmer told the committee that the report of Influence had gone so far as to bring in the names of the speaker, of the majority lee der in the bouse and of at hast two other prom? inent members whose names be did not gi\e. He said that after Mr. I.ed >ard had engaged in many telephone conversations with the man who had all these goods for sale in Washington he had met Edward Lautsrbach, & ?New York attorney, under the suppo? sition that IdMtOffbaeh was represent? ing ?M user Of the telephone. I^auterbach was in the committee room and listened to all the testi? mony of Mr. paim? r who spent nearly two hours on the stand. Later he de? nied that he had tried to secure em? ployment with big interests in New York Oh the strength of supposed power In the capital. He swore that his only effort was to "restore the en? tente eordiale" he had previously en? joyed with Morgan & Co., and Which he thought had bOOn broken because of his friendly relations with David I .Mo.ic, whom he described as a "Wall street operator," who usually operated on the "bear side of the street." A3 a result of Mr. Lauterbach'fl testimony the Committee probably will < all Lamur, Ocorge F. Laker of the First National bank of New York, Paul i>. Cravath, Francis Lynde stet? son and Mr. l.edyard, all New York attorneys, and ('has. Steele of Mor? gan A < 'o. To several of these men, Lauterbach maintained, he had talked about his reinstatement in the good graces of the Imuse of Morgan. His only reference to anything In Wash? ington, he said, was as to the general situation here, the tendency to Investi? gate tlungs ami the apparent desire for suits against big c oncerns. The committee adjourned, subject to tic call <d the ohalrman, but it reserved the right to summons Latiterbach to the stand again after it had heard trom the other New Yorkers. Loth Mr. Lauterbach and Representative Daniel J. Rlordan <?f New York ap? peared before the committee to tell what they kmw aboul the chargei made by Judge itohert Rcotl Loveett of the Union Paclllc railroad thai an attempt had been made through th use of Rlordan's name to secure the employment of Leuterbaeh as coun? sel for the road in the Union PaciQo? Southern Pacific dissolution suit. Judge Lovetl told of telephone con? versations between himself, Maxwell Lvarts, counsel of the Southern I'.i ClAce, and a man purport ng to be Rlordan, about the employment of Latiterbach. Lotn the congressman ami the lawyer denied nny effort t i secure such employment and ecknowl edged only a slight ecquulntaii"e with ea< h ot her. Marriage License Record, a license to marry was Issued \* i lerdas afternoon lo Miss Annie John son. of ftuillter, and Mr A .A Wells, nl Mil ver Ks-Ihreaiden( Taft refers In the "r< ? all" as 'hair trigger governmeui h it gets I he wrong felloe out, what ma km the dlffereiic**? Wilmington tar I WILSON AND McREYNOLDS ARE HARSHLY CIUTICISK.D. House RepnbUcfiii Lender Declares Action Now Token by President und Attorney Qonerol in California fuse is Purely Hypoorlsy?Illinois Representntlve Hsndles Commis? sioner General Csmlnettl with Gloves Off. Washington, June 26.-in a vig? orous speech In the House today, Representative Mann, Of Illinois, the Republican leader, attacked Attor? ney General McReynold* for postpon? ing the white slave cases In San Fran? cisco; criticised Commissioner Gener? al Camlnettl, of the immigration bu? reau, father of one of the defendants, and declared that District Attorney McNab had "made the President and Attorney General nol only to beg the ?niestion but to eal their words." "Frightened rabbits," Mr. Mann said, "never goi away quicker than the President and the Attorney Gen? eral when this matter was brought up." Mr. Mann declared that the Presi? dent and the Attorney General "had permitted themselves to be used to prevent the enforcement of a grat moral refrom law" and Insisted that the Administration's excuse for the postponement, "offered to east ignom? iny upon one official in the depart? ment of justice who has bravery, courage and knowledge of how to do things," was worse than the "of? fence." "The younger Camlnettl is youthful hey of 27 years, wKh, I belie ve, several children," continued the speaker, "and it was desirable to have his father at the trial to pro? tect him in his guiltless Innocence, having only seven lawyers to do so. His father had been appointed com? missioner general of immigration, one of the duties of which office is to enforce both the Mann and Hennett white slave laws in reference to the deportation of aliens brought here for prostitution?-a lint- man to place vin that position whose principal object is to leave Iiis office in order to go t<> the side of his ^7-year-old son under trial for white sluve offence. "The action now taken is pure hy? pocrisy. Manliness, such as 1 would have expected from the Christian, moral gentleman occupying* the White House, would have required him to ask the district attorney to withdraw his resignation and try the case, he being most familiar with them. They have accepted the resignation of the district attorney and dismissed the of ?r who worked up these cases. "I suspect the eider Camlnettl, ami possibly the junior Camlnettl may be quite willing to have the case speedily tried, w hen the few men who were familiar with the case, and who have wan ked it up, are tired out of the service before any one else has time to learn all the circumstances of the case." Mr. Mann charged that the new cabinet officers seemd to base an ex? aggerated Importance in their own eyes and an exaggerated idea <?f the Influence of each. "A former member of this House, (Secretary Wilson,") he said, "tele? phones to the Attorney General's of? fice and the Attorney Generals says that 'without stopping to go through the hies ami so refresh my recollec? tion concerning any particular cir? cumstances of the case, 1 sent the fol? lowing to the district attorney, order in'.: him to postpone the case.' "What sort of a department bf justice is it ? What kind of an At - lorney General is it?" he asked. "No doubt the Attorney General is a great lawyer and a great man. Rut If the Democratic administration Intends to proceed Upon the theory that when a cabinet officer telephones the At? torney General, or when some Wealthy defendant. as happened in the Western Fuel case, walks Into the office of the Attorney llenerul and asks to have a case postponed, it l> done, iiu re will not he ninny Demo erotic administrations In the next hundred years." VOTI S roll WoMI N. (?oveitior of Illinois \tli\cs Signature to Ad as Moving Pictures arc Made. Rprtnglleld, III.. June 26. Oov Dunne today signed I lie woman suf? frage loll passed b\ the general iu seiuhlv. Moving pictures of Ihe sign? im: were taken. The hill pi o\ ides i h it Illinois wo m< a ot legal age ma\ \ ote fol all tat nl.a y offices. 11 do. n i sound exactly i Ight I. i a mo\ m:' pa t III V hott e to ,oi verllse as it feature Secretary Bryan in Iwo reels. LAWYERS WHO WORK IN CON? GRESS TO BE QUIZZED. Lobby Investigators Undertake New Line ol' Inquiry That Will Bring Them up Against the Flexible c ode off Ethics ot the Legal Fraternity. Washington, June 27.?Subpoenas will be issued at once by the senate lobby Investigating committee, for Lewis CaSfl Ledyard and Paul D. Cravath, New York attorneys and for David Lamar, a Wall street man, to appear next week In connection with Its Investigation of the charge that the names of congressmen are being used to .secure influence with tinan? la) men, Mr. Ledyard and Mr. Cravath are understod ?? have additional Infor? mation that they are wiling to give tiie committee. Doth were referred ito by Roberl S. Lovett, chairman of the board of the Union Pacific, as having been reclpb nts of mysterious telephone calls that purported t<* come from congressmen. The story told the lobby committee last night by Representative A. Mitch? ell Palmer of Pennslyvanla, has as? tonished congressional circle; and re? sulted in B demand from mat y quar? ters that tiie senate committee use every effort to find the men responsi? ble. Mr. Palmej testified that Lewis t'ass Ledyard had been called repeat? edly by a man who represented him? self as Mr. Palmer. The attorney took the precaution to learn that Mr. Pal? mer was not in New York, however, and then kept the congressman in? formed of developments until evi? dence had been secujred strongly in? dicating whom the calls came from. "We will go to the bottom of this thine;," said chairman Overman of the senate committee. "Mr. Ledyard, Mr. Cravath and Mr. Lamar will be first asked to appear and others may be called later." The committee will rsume^fls hear? ings next week, alter the senate Democratic caucus has finlsheed with th tariff bill, speaker Clark, Repre? sentative UAdsrwoOd Of Alabama, Representative Henry of Texas and others whose names were used by the persons In conversations with finan? cial men are urging the committee to push its inquiry. Representatives Palmer and Rlor dan are the only congressmen whose names thus far been given as having been impersonated over the telephone. BRADSTREET8 WILL SAY. Business Holds Up Well Notwithstand? ing Approach of Summer. New York, June 27.? Pradstrect's tomorrow will say: "Business holds up remarkably well notwithstanding that the midsummer season for Inventorlng is approaching. Crop returns as a whole are favorable especially as regards winter wheat, cotton and corn, consumption of mer? chandise is heavy, stocks are light, business on current account is larger than seasonably normal, and trade in pin iron has Improved, thanks to very low prices. "in the surplus grain producing sec I Hons the lllumnlutlng fact Is that merchants, undeterred by tariff mat? ters, are going ahead with their fall purchases, retail trade having been given a (lllup by seasonable weathei plus clearance sales, ami moreover it appears to he easier to gel money on commercial paper. "Thus, the week's dvelopments spell somewhat mote optimism, espe? cially as appertains to affairs in the northwest. Southwest and West, in which sections current trade is satis? factory of bettet, While there is n noteworthy disposition to cover fu? ture requirements. "Business failures for the week ending June 20 were 200 which com? pares With 239 III the like Week uf 1912. ? \\ h. at Including flour exports from the United states and Canada for the week ending June 20 aggregated 1,201,859 bushels it gains I ::. I s: i bushels this week last year." Is DROWNED l\ POND. ?lohn CJrler Lo-.cs Ills Life While Swimming in S|turinuhtirg. Spartunhurg, June 27. John Crier, iige 30 years, was drowned at about o.|(,ck tonight while swimming with several friends in a pond at Sax "ii mill lien i this town. G Her w as a native of Spnrtutthurg. count) and was agenl tor the \..rth ,<iUtte Life Insurance company. He wen! down in sighl of his friend: His hotly was qunkiy recovered und medical aid summoni i] 11, leaves a wife and im eral chlldrn. SENATOR LI AVIS COMPARES WIL? SON Wim BUCHANAN AND AND MONROE. A Public Servant wlk> Places Panne Good above Public Oilier and lie fuses to i.iw Over Offices as Com penaatlon lor Partisan Support. Brandon, Vt., June 27.?Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois de? livered the oration at the unveiling today of a statue of Stephen A. Doug? las, former senator from Illinois, who was born here. Senator Lewis re? ferred to President Wilson's relati ?? with the senate, comparing them with conditions when President Buchanan and Senator Douglas joined issues. IP said in part: "Senator Douglas signalled his en? trance to the United states senate by a break with the president of tin* United states, Janus Buchanan. "The reasons for this break were of a nature now paralleled by Ihe events encircling President Wllso 1 and his senate. Douglas demanded the distribution of public offices in support of his policies. President Buchanan differed from Douglas and permitted the patronage to be used, gainst Douglas. "President Wilson presents the op? posite attitude. He puts the public good above the public office and de? clines either to give out offices to sen? ators as compensation for their sup? port or to penalize those who oppose him by denying them public patron? age. Buchanan went to defeat in try? ing to retaliate upon senators Who opposed his policies and went to po? litical disgrace in trying to destroy senators because they would not sup? port his policies. President Wilson is attempting to inaugurate the system that James Monroe put into effect with success in the era of good feel? ing in ISli!'., and seeks to emulate the course of George Washington in rec? ognising n<? party organisation as having a right to urge its existence. ".lames Buchanan was on trial un? der the assaults <?f Douglas to test w let her the Uoctrine of relation upon senators could stand. It failed. "President Wilson declines to allow his personality to be put on trial, but under exactly similar conditions ns surrounded Buchanan on the slavery and admission of new States issues. President Wilson with his currency and tariff policies is putting the coun? try to test." STRANGE MAN KILLS POLICEMAN Officer Attempted t?> Arrest Suspicion Character ami is Shot to Death Albany, Ga., June 29.?Policeman E. P. Harris was shot and killed here tonight by a strange white man who arrived here on the Atlantic Coast Line train at 10.10 o'clock. Conductor Walter Moore thought the man acted suspiciously and be? lieved that he was one of the des? perate gang that has been robbing At? lantic Coast Line trains of late. Moore told Harris of the matter and the con? ductor ami policeman jumped into a hack and drove uptown. In front of a hotel they found the man. Harris arrested him and the stranger put up a fight, got possession ol tin* police? man's club and then whipped out a revolver and shot the policeman. The latter with a bullet through his body tired twice at the lleeing man. One bullet, it is believed, took effect. The city is greatly excited and sev? eral posses are hunting for the stranger. Violence is threatened. I N ION PACIFIC DISSOLUTION. Attorney General Still Hopeful of Agreement Willi Railroad. Washington, June 26 After a long conference today with Secretaries Garrison ami Lane, over the latest proposals for Hie dissolution of the Union Pacific merger, Attorney Gen? eral Ueynolds w.e- stdl hopeful of an agremenl between the Government und the railroad on a plan of dissolu? tion before July l. when tin time for submitting plnni lo the United states Court e xpires. lief ore any plan is finally sanction? ed bj tie Government it w ill be sub? mitted to President Wilson Details of the plan undei consideration have tea been made public, and the At torney General today indicated that thes might nol lie given oul until presented to tile eolllt. Suffers Stroke of Paralysis. The friends of Mr. Chas, Thames will regrel to learn that he suffered i stroke oi paralysis on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Thames condition. ItoWeVer, Is not at all serious, ami his friends are confident ol his rapid Im proveinent. what ( an UNITED states DO to settle Ml XI? an \\ ak< IIy? Semite Disrnssce Bltne Host ami Sev eml fif ntori Dived an Immediate Change in PoUcy?Foreign Rela? tions CommitK*" Will Take up Question. Washington, June 27.?a Change in tii?' attitude of the United States to? wards the warring factions in Mex? ico was urged in the senate today, with tiie result that the foreign rela? tions committee of that body is to take up the question immediately Senator Fall of New Mexico attacked the present policy and asked for the repeal of the SO called neutrality reso? lution of the last congress. Under this authority, h? 5d, arms were permit? ted to go s ,-s the border to the * S, / Huerta f; S a, but were prevented bv the id forces of the United States .. /going to the factions op? posed huerta. Sev f Fall praised the Wilson ad mi> ^ /tion for refusing to recognize u ^* /e termed the "assassins of the dent of Mexico" as the establish government in the republic, but he 6hired the practice of the adminis? tration in allowing arms to go to one faction and not to the other had re? sulted in retaliatory steps toward American citizens that no other na? tion on earth would permit. HIS speech brought a response /rom Senator Bacon, chairman of the for? eign relations committee, that was re? garded by some as voicing the atti? tude of the administration. Senator Paeon said the solution of the pres? ent difficulties in Mexico lay in the white men of the republic, constitu-^ ting the educated classes, taking dp arms to establish order. \ Enough white men resided in Mex* ico City alone, he said, to establish' order in the whole republic: He added that for the United States Jo^ attempt to protect her citizens by arms in Mexico means intervention^, and occupation probaoly for all time.^ Senatoi Smith of Arizen*, in ih?4 debate which followed, advocated th* United States taking possession 4^ Lower California in compensation for?( Americans killed and American prop* erty destroyed. Senator Willie aw joined In urging the repeal of the "neutrality" resolution. Senator Bacon assured the senate the committee would soon consider the question. FELDER AND LAN FORD INDICT? ED. Atlanta Attorney and Chief of Detec tlves arc Charged with C.-imlnal LlbeL Atlanta. Oa., June 27.?Thomas B. Felder, prominent Atlanta attorney, and Chief of detectives N. A. Lunford were indicted by the Fulton county grand jury late today on charges of criminal libel. Two bills were re? turned against Felder and one against Lanford. Mr. Felder appeared at the solici? tor general's office following notice of the indictments and furnished $f>af? bond. The action of the grand jury is based upon statements published re? cently In Atlanta newspapers by Fel? der and Lanford, In which accuse* tions of attempted bribery and graft wa re mad* in addition to other allega? tions considered as reflecting upon the personal character *?f the parties of t he controversy, Shortly after Mr. Felder was ad? mitted to bond Chief Lanford also gave bond in a like amount. BATTLE FLAGS IT GETTYSBURG. Heroes in <ire> will Bring the Tat tcred Ensigns of Dixie. Gettysburg, Pa., June 27. -That the Stars and Bars." as well as tin* "Stars ami Stripes," will appear at tli^ big camp of Veterans during the an nlversary celebration was indicated today by an announcement from the officers ot the anniversary commis? sion that "there is nothing to pre? vent the wearers ?*t the Grey from hi inging along their battle flags'" At the same time, however, it was said that the Rag of the Confederacy would not be used in any official dec? orations over which the commission has control. Residents of Gettysburg and Cnlon Veterans slresdy here are extending a royal welcome to all ar? riving * 'out*-derate Wterans. An organ recital will he given In ihe Presbyterian church next Friday evening and the public generally as well *as members ot the congrega iion are invited to hear the n?w pipe >i can. _ m . i ...... m\*Jm iii 1