The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 23, 1913, Image 1
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THK siMii ii WATCHMAN. Hstabllalicd April, 1850.
"Be Just and Fcur nub?Lot all the ends Thou Alms't at bo thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth r."
TIIE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, IMS.
Consolidated Aug. 3,1881.
SUMTER, S. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1913.
Vol. XXXVI. No. 62.
PROHIBITION WINS
BY TWELVE VOTES
Unofficial Returns Show Vote to Be 473
to 485 Against the Establishment |
of the Dispensary.
Electron Results in Doubt Until the Returns Had Been Re?
ceived From the Last Precinct?Majority in City Forty
one Against Dispensary?Unlikely That Official Count
Will Materially Change Vote or That Any Protest Will
Be Made.
Sumter county will have prohibition
for the next four years, if the official
count does not change the reHult
froan the unofficial count us raantvad
by the Item Tuesifhy evening. Th*
total vote east was f&S, n majority of
twelve being for prohibition.
The vote wan 473 for and 181
against the dispensary un<I wan a con?
siderable surprise to the prohibition
forces, who had expected a mm h
greater majority. There were a
great many other Jolta in the election
for both aides, the results from a
numt>er of preelnets being deeidedly
different from what they were four
yearn ego and what they were expect?
ed to be in the election.
The result of the election was in
doubt until the Una! returns were re?
ceived from Shiloh and CoMOPd,
both of which went strong for the
dispensary, although they did not east
as many votes us was expected and
the m.i Writs for the dispensary was
not sufficient to overcome the ma?
jority which hud been received in
otluT precincts in favor of prohil>ltion.
The cfowd gathered on the street
and although It was very orderly and
Millet, it < ould he seen that everybody
In it was Intensely Interested in the
raault. There were no demonstra?
tions when the final pn ? 'nets were
heard from, but the atohibltlonlst*
wtre. then willing to go home satis?
fied, while the dispensary advocates,
retrained on the ntt ?cts talking of a
possible change of the results by the
official count of the vote.
rp to the time that Shib.h and
Concord were heard from there was
a majority of fifty one for prohibition,
and as PSpOftfl coming from those
places we: ? that they were going
heavily f. r the <lt^p.-unary, it looked
aatremeh cluluoi . to the prohibition
Isis and the dispensary advocates
claimed the election. The results
from Shiloh were received nt?t and
brought the prohibition mujorlty down
to thirty-two. s'.dl leaving the result
of the election ?n doubt, us the Con?
cord vom was stll' uuc ertain. All this
While ||M <k-wd waited and discussed
the election pro and on. Flnully the
result from Concord was rece ived and
the unofficial returns showed the ma?
jority of twelve against the dispen
ssry. i mm
There was some talk of u protest
On the Mtret* feala. hut there seems
to he little to this. There Is ulso talk
of ihere hsflajg ?? I hange in the r. suits,
when ibe official count Is made- next
Tuesday. There are ul?out tw?-nt\
challenged votes in luwn, Which an
supposed to )?c divided about ecpial
|y between the i v\ o sides, while the
nomher fr?>m the ecamty Is un?
known, it is also rumored
that a ni.mtter of votes were
murked ?.v the s?.t.rs ii11? I Ihess will
be thrown out in the oth? ill ? ount, M
they are ro.f legal, and th re may ?>c
NUfliciont of thc-KO to rhu ig? tlie re?
sults of t he election.
However it ?s. t he Isadora on
neither side feel uhsolntely secure un?
til the official count is made. |||C i<
suit at present being decidedly too
?rinse to h* comfortable or dec Islve.
Comparison of dispensary and pn?
hlhitlon vote in |>08 and 1814:
1 dispensary Prohibition
l'j't'j mil ii?o?j ii?i::
Ward 1.2u 81 W
Ward 1!.|| !.h 1 l?u |38
And ;i.;,7 i; \ ?;?
V, ard 4.'.??? la ::?? :'.h
Hhiloh.18 |8 81 81
Mayeaville 1 I || ; ||
Itafttng Creek. H || || 11
Statehurg . . K || IS I
Wedgefh Id ... 7 || ||
Trovid- le e . . . I }t, :; i
Con c.rd.II II I;, ||
Prlvi teer ... ,81 Tu ||
t ?SWego.2 2 11 I j
HI.M? 8 I 7
Total... . . IIH*? 4 7 5 r.77 4\:.
Thlif sh ews u > tin for the dispen
sarv In I vcrv pre<in<t tiasnl Shiloh.
Providence, i?h' ??? .. md I'.l.oin HIP
while it also shows a gum for prohl ,
hit ion in Wards 1 and 2. In every
precinct the gain in proportion to
votes t ?st was for the disponsury.
it wil. also he noted, that in 1913,
958 votes were cast, while in 1909
the Note was lf|, or live more votes
than in Tuesday's * lection. The gain
in the city vote in Tuesday's election
was 43 votes, which was more than
overcome by the heaviest vote in the
country precincts four yean ago, the
\ote then being IS more than mi
Tuesday.
ELECTION RESULTS IX DOUBT.
Humored that Marked Ballots Were
I'mnI at C oncord and Challenged
Votes Counted in Ward 3.
The restdt of the dispensary elec?
tion of Tuesday is still in doubt,
which will not be removed until the
commissioners meet on next Tuesday
and count over the ballots, announc?
ing the official result in favor of one
side or the other.
There are rumors on the streets
that the dispensary is really ahead, as
ten votes in Ward 3 were counted,
when those votes had been challeng?
ed und placed In sealed envelopes.
There is also a rumor that in Con?
cord a number of votes which had
been ?eratrhed on before they were
voted were counted by the managers.
At the present time neither side is
Willing to concede the victory to the
other side, nor is either side posl
lively certain of having won, so many
rumors are there one way and anoth
er. The only actual (hange in votes
made Wednesday was from the re?
turns from Bloom Hill, where the
\ote was said to be eleven tor the
di.-nemary and three against it, thus
lessening the prohibition majority to
ten \ot.r
In regard to the counting of the
contested votes at Ward 3, it Is stat?
ed that twelve envelope! Were opened
and the votes counted, all of them be*
lag agalnat the dispensary, this chang
ing the vote at that precinct from a
majority of one for the dispensary to
a majority of thirteen agalnat the dis?
pensary. It is said that these envel?
ope! were Opened and ?? Minted by tin1
managers upon the a* vice of .some of
the spectators, and were replaced in
the envelopes and put in the box at
the close of the count, it is contend
ed by the dispensary partisans that
these votes will have to thrown oul
in the official count.
Am to the counting of marketi bal?
lots at Concord, it is stated thai some
of the managere or other persons
around the polls merely scratched on
the ballots, not for any intent of pre?
venting the votes Horn being counted.
but simply by chance, it is contended
by the dispensary adVOCOtOI that these
\otes are llegal and -will have to ho
thrown out at the official count Tues?
day. They further claim that the ma?
jority of these marked votes art'
agalnat tin- dispensary thus Increas?
ing the majority lor that institution.
\t Ward I there are said to lie twelve
challenged votes, which are said to
be ten to two for the dispensary) while
in Ward l there are six chal?
lenged Votes. WhlCh gO five to one
tor prohibition, in Ward i there is
one i hallenged vote and it is not
known Which side this sole is tor.
In talking to a reporter for the
item tins morning, Mr. II. V, Cutllno,
one of the leaders in the dispensary
fight, stated thai he could not see
any hope for the rcestahllshmenl of
the dispensary unless the twelve chal
J. nged votes in Ward ;:, which had
been counted were thrown out. He
I ould ?i?'t state now, as he had not
consulted a lawyer on the subject,
whether or nol these votes would he
.anted or thrown out. Mr. II
Clifton, win. prepared the dispensary
petition* ii in I bad them circulated,
stated I ha I he could nol see the ????
ult, but it certainly loked like the
d lope near) advocate! would win nut
as ib- marked be ?Iota at Concord am
the i halfc i r>d ballots in Wurd I
which hud been counted, would huv
DISPENSARY ELECTION RESULTS
IX ELEVEN COUNTIES
WHICH VOTED.
Orangeburg, Barn weil, Florence, Dor*
cheater, Callioun, Bamberg, J?per
Wet?Abbeville, Lexington, Wife
Itamaburg, Btimter Dry,
IColumbia State.
of 11 south Carolina counties which
yesterday held election! to determine
whether liquor should he legally sold
within their borders, seven voted for
the county dispensary system and
four elected to remain "dry." In two
instances the vote was so close that
the official tabulation will be neces?
sary certainly to establish the result.
In nearly all the others the margin
of victory was very small. On the
face of the returns Florence and Jas?
per have retained the dispensary sys?
tem, while Bamberg, BarriweU, Dor?
chester, Calhoun and Orangeburg
have voted to return to the sale of
lbjuor by the county. Abbeville, Lex?
ington, Williamsburg and Btimter
voted to remain in the dry ranks.
Of the counties which went dry Ab?
beville was the only one giving a de?
cided majority, the anti-dispensary
forces in that county piling up a ma?
jority of r>r?s agalnat the sale of liquor.
In the other counties which went dry
the vote was very close, Lexington
j leading in this respect with a major?
ity of four against the sale of liquor.
Wlliamsburg with 14 and Sumter with
12 also teemed almost evenly divided.
Of the wet counties Barnwell, with
604 majority, and Dorchester with
:'.::7, were the most decided, and Or
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angehurg with a majority of three for
the dispensary was the most evenly
divided. The majorities for the dis?
pensary in other counties were: Ham
berg ISO, Calhoun S2, Florence 61
and Jaspt r 38.
If Official returns bear out the un?
official figures, South Carolina will
have 11 dispensary counties, as fol?
lows: Charleston, Knhland, Florence,
Georgetown, Beaufort, Aiken, Dor?
chester, Calhoun, Jasper, Hartitfitli
and < ?rangeburg.
The vote:
For. Against.
Abbeville. 400 998
Barnwell. mil 29V
Florehce. 673 612
Don bester. 661 324
Lexington. 939 94:'.
Calhoun. 363 281
Orangeburg.l.i&o 1.14 7
Williamsburg .. .. 19 J 206
Jasper. 8 7 4 9
Sumter. 4 73 4 sr.
Bamberg. 400 220
RE8IONS PEN Dl NO lX.ll'IHY.
Llaetenant Who Wounded Members
of Spartauhurg Moh Gives up His
Place,
Spartanburg, Aug. 20.?As an after?
math of the attempted lynching here
Monday night Jack Alverson, second
lieutenant of the local police force,
who fired the shots that wounded
Frank Hpperly and James Owonsby,
has resigned. Alv ersi in si tys he has
resigned pending an investigation of
his conduct by the city council. His
action is on his own initiative, he
says.
" There has been no intimation that
the council would make an Investiga?
tion," said the officer, "but in justice
to myself and to appease the feelings
that have developed against me, l
thought it best to retire from service
until the Investigation is made."
It is known that many of those
sympathizing with the action of the
would-be lynchers base been demand?
ing Alverson's removal fro mthe po?
lice force. Alverson claims be was
on duty at the jail yard gate and that
he was being pulled away from the
gate by members of the moh when he
fired. lie says he has no apologies
to make for his conduct. He has
been a police officer in Rpurtunburg
for ten years.
to be thrown out by the requirement!
of the law. Mr. K. ?>. Purdy, who is
at tin- bead of the anti-dispensary
forces, stand that the returns an -
nounced by the managers uf election
kuvc a majority to the antl-dispen
snryltes and they would abide by this
result Me could not say anything
further on the matter just yet others
of the anti-dispensary camp luted
thai they were Hutislled with Ihe re?
sult, ami Ihe) would insist on their
tights if there \\;is any attempt to
make any changes from the results
as declared by the manager!.
< >n neither side would the leaders
make .my announcements us tu the
prohahillt y nf u i ontei I l low< < i r, it
i understood Ihn! both sides are col?
lecting data Which Ihe) Will use after
next T lesday, when the otlleial count
will be made, it tin y base need of it. j
ALL AMENDMENTS TO SUGAR
1HLL DEFEATED.
Majority Mustors Enough Votes to
Push it Through?DuU'h Standard
Amendment Adopted? Loaders Ex?
pect to Lose No Strength,
Washington, Aug. 19.?President
Wilson's programme for tree sugar
In 1916 carried the day in the senate
today, when Democrats rallied to the
support of the tariff bill and defeated
all amendments to the sugar schedule.
With all hut Senators Kansdell and
Thornton of Louisiana standing firm?
ly lor the administration measure, the
I democrats defeated the Bristow
amendment tor a compromise duty,
the Norris amendment against free j
sugar and the Qallingher amendment
against free maple sugar.
1 An amendment to abolish immedi?
ately the Injtch standard test for
sugar was adopted during the tight.
It was proposed by Senator Bristow
(Republican) and accepted by Sena?
tors Simmons and Williams, Demo?
cratic managers of the hill. Under its
provisions the Dutch standard is
dropped as soon as the tariff hill he
comes law instead of next March as
the measure otherwise would have
provided.
The decision on the sugar sc hedule
cama, at the end of a debate devoid
of much of the bitterness that had
been expected in connec tion with this
light. The two Louisiana senators
had made clear early in the- consid?
eration Of the bill that they would
Vote with the Republicans in favor
of a duty on sugar, but there were no
Other waverings in the ranks of the
Democrats.
Se nator Bristow's amendment would
have established a gradual tariff of
$1.90 per hundred pounds until in six
years the tariff would have been
1.27 1-2. Under the Cuban treaty
this would have established a 97-cent
tariff on Cuban sugar, which consti?
tutes the bulk of the imports inte? the
United States.
^ A hard light was mael.e for the Rris
tow amendment, but when finally
forced to a vote it was defeated, 30
to 34. Hut for the absence of Sen?
ators Works, Sterling and Lippitt
(Republicans) and Senator Poindex
ter (Progressives), the vote probably
Would have* been '-'>^ to 38.
A motion by Senator Callinger to
strike- out the provision to make maple
sugar and glucose free of duty in 1916
was beaten, .'5 7 to 35.
The proposal te. put all. cane and
raw sugar oh the free list in 1910,
behind which President Wilson had
mustered the Democratic- majority af?
ter a long and persistent effort, came
squarely before the senate on a mo?
tion by Senator Norris (Republican)
to strike out that feature cd" the bill.
This was defeated by a viva voce vote.
Se nator Norris not demanding a roll
call.
This proposal will come Up again
when the hill has passe-el its present
stage of consideration ' in committee
of tin* whole" and advances to the
next reading in the senate. Senator
Kansdell of Louisiana, who gave no?
tice e arlier in the day that he would
make a similar motion, urged Senator
Norris to wait When made again
? he motion undoubtedly will call for
a record vote, but Democratic leaders
tonight express confidence that they
would still have a clear majority of
at least one vote.
? Senator Works is in California and
is not paired with any Democratic
senator. Nine Democrats were paired
with nine Republicans in this vote.
Without a further break in tin- Dem?
ocratic ranks the vote still would be
48 t?? 47, should all pairs be broken
and all senators return. Should the
Democrats insist upon withdrawing
existing pairs, the advantage would be
largely in their favor, as Senators Du
pont and Koot (Republicans) arc in
Kurope; Senator llurleigh is ill, and
Senator Works has indicated he does
I not expect to return to Washington
for the tariff session.
The acceptance of Senator Rrts
tow's Dutch standard amendment and
its immediate adoption was greeted
with applause on the ilepubllcun side.
Senator Williams, Democrat, said he
had expecte d to make a similar sug
gestion so that abolition "t the Dutch
standard, which Is he ld to be a
strong discrimination in the I it leres!
of sugar refiners, would not be' de -
lay cd until March, dm I, win n the r??si
ul the sugar turifl becomes effcctlv??.
Senator Simmons gave notice that
in- would offer further amendments
to the sugar schedule before tin- ".'ill
was upproved, t<? make- it char thai
the existing sugar duty *? i' $1.90 per
hundred Is to continue m force until
tie- ta w tale- of $1 pet bundled In?
comes effective next March. Senaten
Cummins suld he believed unless luch
HUMAN ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE
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IX SENATE SPEECH, EIE CHAR?
ACTERIZES EXTENSION OF
FRANCHISE As DREAM.
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Fears for the Future?South Carolina
Senator Says Woman will Get into
Polities and Will be Destroyed.
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Washington, Aug. IS.?Senator Til
man, showing some of the former
vigor that won for him the sobriquet
Of "Pitchfork Ben," attacked woman
suffrage In a senate speech today.
"It is a beautiful dream," said he,
"that female suffrage will purify
politics. The vital and important
thing for us to consider is the ef?
fect on women themselves. We had
better endure the evils of COITUptiC
in politics and debauchery in ?
government rather than bring a* o
a condition which will mar the b ?<*
and dim the lustre of the gloricJy o
w
manhood to which we have 1 .. ac?
customed all our lives. ^
"Wo can better afford U- 6 do
C
graded ami corrupt polity tan de?
graded and bad Wom# To have
both in ever increasing ^ ee, as was
the case in Rome, ' * make the
world so unspeakably i. rible as well
as corrupt, that good men .and wo?
men both would disappear from the
face of earth and civlliastion would
be blotted out like it was in the dark
ages after the fall of Rome.
"I am so thoroughly a convert to
the belief that you can not touch pitch
Without being defiled, that I shudder
to think of the consequences to the
womanhood of America should suf?
frage become universal, taking in both
sexes and all race.;. Yet the experi?
ment is going to be tried I fear."
Senator Tillman Bald the demand
of women for suffrage was growing
too fast to be stopped by "old fogies"
like himself and that it was apparent
the men of the country would give
them what they demanded "even
though it be to their ultimate in?
jury."
"I believe women will improve
politics," said he, "but ultimately
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politics will destroy her as we know
her and love her; and when our
good women are no longer to be found
and we have lost the breed, the doom
of the republic is near."
Senator Tillman Included in his
speech a vigorous attack upon the
divorce evil and referred to the DiggS
Caminettl white slave cases in Cali?
fornia
"We have bad women in South
Carolina and throughout the South."
he said, "but the habits of our people
and their customs, inherited from our
forefathers, make it dangerous to
"monkey with men's womenkind.'
Some Northern people call us bar?
barians. If the California men had
our customs Diggs and Caminettl
would not be alive now, because h< v
would have been shot like dogs, ind
the fathers of the girls they hi VC
ruined would be acquitted almost
without the jury leaving the box.
"The unwritten law is the best law
to protect women's virtue that I know
of. The more I think about the
1 >igv,s-Caminetti case the more out?
raged I nmw at the state of morals
ami society which not only permits
such crimes, but encourages them."
ANOTHER VICTIM DIES.
Negro Boy Succumbs to Mad Dog's
Bite.
Anderson, Aua. 19.?Calvin Black
well, a negro, aged 7, died today af?
ter having suffered since last. Friday
from hydrophobia. He was bitten by
a mad dog four weeks ago Monda)
along witli several other children and
Is the second to succumb to the dis?
ease, the first death being that of
Dora Co? braue, a negro child l years
old, which occurred on Thursday of
last Week.
amendments were made sugar would
come in free of duty from the time tie*
ta w tariff becomes law until the pro?
posed duties lake effect next year.
Action on the sugar schedule today
was followed by a speeding up of the
legislative machinery on remaining
,#:*ctions. Democratic leaders express?
ed confidence tonlghl that tariff re?
vision would be greatly hastened
within the next week. The Hubt over
free wool Is -aid to occur; but the
debute on tin sugar schedule was
accepted as an indication of what will
happen when wool is reached.
before adjournment tonight the
senate had disposed of the schedule
dev oted to rales on spir its and liquor <
with the exception of that provision
relating to the mx on fortified wines,
ami the cotton schedule was taken up
und brieih debated, Senator l.lppitt
attacking the proposed Itxtng of nd
valorem duties on thread ami yarn
based on tin trade number <t ihe
pi oduct.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS
CLAIMS ARE NOT MKT.
Comptroller General Informing
Credlton there is no MoMej \\all
ablt.?otlicials Will Have to Go
Lacking in Salaries I mil Taxos
Come in, Unless stat?' Roriums
Money ? Palmetto hank Camels
Offer < I Loan BeoaaaC State Would
not Take $300,000 in Lump Sum.
Columbia, Aug. 18.?The State
treasury is depleted. There is no
money t ? pay the running expenses
Of the government Claims against
the State, amounting to several thous?
and dollars, have been held up be
use of lack of funds. The Palmetto
/tank declared today that they had
? ailed off the offer to loan the State
of South Carolina $300,000 at 5 per
eent, because they could not lend it
In installments of $r>0,000 eaeh as the
State needed the money. Meanwhile
Comptroller General Jones is Inform?
ing persons bedding warrants against
the State of South Carolina that there
Is no money in the treasury and every?
thing Is being held up. For the lirst
time in years South Carolina is not
meeting her claims. Salaries of all
State officials, and county officials
re tting their money from the State,
( will have to go wanting until taxes
coma in unless arrangements are
made for borrowing some money im?
mediately.
Because the income of the State
from year to year will not pay the
expenses it is necessary to borrow
some money eaeh year during Lhe
summer months to meet the expenses
until the tax money comes in during
the fall. In accordance with this
custom, the legislature authorized the
governor, the Comptroller General
ami the State Treasurer to have
charge ?f borrowing whatever money
was necessary. Treasurer Carter esti?
mated that it would take from $260,
000 to 55300,000 to meet the ordinary
expenses until tax money came in.
The governor made arrar.gT-ti.ent-?
with the Palmetto National Hank, sf
this city, for a loan of $300,000 to the
State at 6 per cent interest, and six
notes of $50,000 each were signed by
Governor Bleaae and turned over to
the State Treasurer through the sink?
ing fund commission. Treasurer Car?
ter and Comptroller General Jone*
signed one note for $50,ooo and sent
it to the bank, which refused to ad?
vance tho money in installments,
Claiming their offer had been for the
entire loan cd" $300,OOO at one time-,
and stated that unless all six notes
were at the hank by noon today ne?
gotiations would he off and their of?
fer withdrawn.
The matter of the need for this
money was nought up before tho
sinking fund commission last week,
and on motion it was left with the
Governor, Comptroller General and
State Treasurer to make the loan, tho
resoluti >n c alling for money to ?>o
borrowed in installments. The bank
refused to lend In installments and
c alled off the otter of the loan.
Unless other arrangements for get?
ting me ney are made there will he no
mone y to pay any claims against the
State until taxes are- collected this fall.
No salaries to State* otlicials and no
claims of any kind against the State?
will be paid unless some money is
borrowed.
CLAYTON CASE COMES UP.
Supporters of o*Neals* Appointee Call
for Conference on Legality of tio\
crnor's Conner
Washington. Aug. 1!*. ? Democratic
members of the senate will cencus
probably tomorrow night to discuss
the situation which has arise-n through
the appointment of Henry D. Clay?
ton i<> succeed tlu> late Senator John?
ston of Alabama. Friends of Mr.
Clayton, who upheld the right of
Gov. O'Neal te? appoint Senator John
stem's successor without authority
from the legislature, have asked le?r
a party conference In which "tee talk
things over." Arrangements had
l" e n made fe?r a caucus tonight, but
late- today th;>s?? Interested asked that
it be deferred until tomorrow night.
It was believed today that Mr.
Clayton's credentials would not ha
presented t?? the- senate until :?11?t
the proposed cau? us Many Demo?
crats stdl arc outspetke n in their opin?
ion that the- appointment ol Gov.
C'Neal was not legal, oWlttg te? the
language ed the- new amendments to
tin- constitution.
The conference, it is said, will not
hinel the' I >? nio. rat ie members to any
t iiim e ed ae t |on.
Miss Nanej I'eewcn is paying an >>x
Iended visit to her Cousin, Miss Le
Hew of Raleigh, N. C.