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DEMOCRATS WIM 11 POLLS. TAMMANY AND BOSS RI LE OVER? WHELMED IN NEW VOKK. Voters Indorse Demo? rum Adminis? tration by Sup|K>rt <?f Its Candidates ? Mu^K-hu^tH Elects Walah by Large Majority ami New Jersey Re Klecta Felder?Ur Chosen In Maryland. New York, Nov. 4.?Election re? turns at a late hour tjnlght showed a complete triumph for the Democrats In Massachusetts, ethers a governor and State ticket were chosen in a four-cornered fight; the selection of a Democratic governor and State ticket In Virginia without contest; the ascendency of fualon over Tammany in New York city with indication of Republican victory for the New York assembly and Judicial ticket, and a close fight for the State ticket in New J.th.\, where President Wilson and admlnl-ttratten forces, apparently with success, fought to elect James J. Fielder to the governorship. In Mary land a Democratic senator wa* chosen. In Massachusetts David I. Walsh. Demcorat, present lieutenant govern? or, was elected by a plurality of about 10,000 o*'er Augustus P. Osrdner. Re? publican. Charles It Bird, Progressive, and Oov. Eugene Foes, Independent. Henry C. Stuart was chosen governor of Virginia, together with an entiro .State ticket, Republicans and Pro? gressives having declined to name candidates because of inability to agree on a united ticket. Late returns indicated that the vic? tory of the Democrats in Massachu? setts had been duplicated In New Jer? sey, where James F. Fielder has been elected for a full term. The Demo? cratic plurality was estimated at 20, 000. The complexion of the legisla? ture was for a long time in doubt, but Eaaex county returns Indicated that It would be Democratic by 20 to 12. Fielder, who succeeded President Wil? son as governor of New Jersey, had the support of the national adminis? tration, several of the cabinet taking the stump in bis behalf. President Wilson and his policies were made the dominant Issues. In New York city the triumph o/ the fusion ticket was assured, and late returns from the .state indicated a Re-j publican majority in the general as? sembly, and the selection of a Re? publican chief Judge of the court of appeals and nine supreme Justices. For United States senator, Maryland choee Blair Lee. Democrat Democracy triumphed also in tho Twentieth New York congressional district, where Jacob H. Cantor was elected; the Thirteenth New York, Oeorge W. Loft succeeding the late "Tim ' Sullivan, and the Third Mary? land. Charles P. Coady being the choice Returns from the Third Massachu setts have not been received at a late hour, hut Democratic leaders claimed a victory. IKK, ADOPTS THREE PIUS. fchepherd Mother Ponder of Lb em than of Her Own Puppte*. Paris. Mo., Dlnpatch to New York Hun. Three little pigs have been adopted by a mother dog here to ake the place of her lost puppies The mother cares for her foeter family as if they were her own. About three weeks ago Harry Wetr more, who lives near Paris, discovered that three pigs of different litters were about to starve to death. He took them home an.I placed them in an out? house, intending to raise them by hand. A shepherd dog raising a litter of five pupH. three of which had been given away, wum In the house. A day or s?> later he went to feed the little foundling pigs and found that the nhepherd mother had rein ./ ed them to her bed and VM nursing th< m with her litter of supples} He started t" take them away to feed them, tut th?* dog resented this an Vehemently he left them alone, sine? then they have bed the sshis faro as the puppies, and are in a thriven; condition The pigs are about three weeks old. ami the puppies about six week* The plus are very fond af their foster mother, who in turn M seemingly m??re fond of them than she in oi her puppten ?UMTUN COTTON MARKET. Corrected Dally Ity l.incMt Flein OsSjOSS] iluict. rtumter. N??v. 6. Oond Middling || |?|, Strict Middling 1 : 12. Middling II 1-1. Strict lw>w Middling 1.1 t-t. Uw Middling i 1*1 Stsple cotton 14 m to || i I New Yor* Cotton Merkel New Y. ik N-.v ?>l>en Cb>*e Jsn ... IMI 11*11 Mar.IMI lt.ll May.M.I i IMI July ? IMI letH N.?y.U. 17 I LSI Dec.1 i m i : ?? GREAT DEMOCRATIC VICTORY. RFTt r\s show Ml'ch GRF.ATF.h gains for democracy than was AT first thought. Walsh's Plurality the Blgg<*st Kver PUexl up by Democrats. Fielder Score? In Now Jersey. Tammany's Defeat Cungcd Into a Rout. The fid! extent of the Democratic victories of Tuesday was scarcely ap? preciated until yesterday's returns began to pad the pluralitlen of the victorious candidates. Everywhere, almost, the Democratic ticket seems to have swept its way to vlo tory. The only exceptions are the New York assembly, which appears to I hH Republican, and Philadelphia and j Cincinnati municipal governments. In 1 New York the vote seems to have been largely u question of Tammany or anti-Tammany and the candidates for ; the assembly have suffered for the sins of Murphy. In New Jersey, home of Woodrow , Wilson, where for a time the result ?looked a bit doubtful, James F. Fleld ? er, Democratic candidate succeeded in piling up a plurality of 33,000, and that despito obvious lack of support in Essex county, the chosen field of James Smith, Jr., ar.d Former StAte .'halrman Nugent, bitter opponent o? President Wilson. The New Jersey legislature, too, Is Democratic. The victory for David I. Walsh, 1 Democratic candidate for governor of 1 Massachusetts became only the mort sweeping as returns came in, his plu j rality finally attaining the tremendous [ figures of 53,691, the largest ever ac | corded a Democratic candidate for that office in the Bay State. Every other Democratic candidate on the State ticket, with the possible excep? tion of the candidate for attorney general, has been elected with Walsh. In Maryland, where a hot fight was waged, Blair Dee, Democratic candi? date for United States sentaor, hat won by a plurality of 42,000. Other Democrats see-.n to have won there too. In New York each successive rcca 7 pltulatlon affirmed the crushing defeat of the Tammany forces. The organization was not only en? gulfed In a plurality of over 110.00U votes by which the fuslonists elected John Purroy Mitchell mayor of New York city, but in many up-State dis? tricts a severe rebuke was adminls tered to the Tammany Democracy that has been in control of the' State since the days of (Jov. Hughes. William Sulzer, deposed from the governorship by Tammany's exposure, of his unlisted campaign contribu , tlons, was elected to public office, less than three weeks having intervened I since he was removed from the gov? ernor's chair. He will return to Al? bany in January as a member of the assembly. Many of the legislators who voted to Impeach Sulzer met defeat with the result that he will sit In an anti Tammany house. On the basis of in? complete returns it was estimated that the next assembly will be com? posed of 86 Republicans, 17 Progres slves and 48 Democrats. Many of the latter wer? said to bo men of Pro? gressive or Independent tendencies. With much reduced pluralities but by a safe margin the fuslonists elect? ed William A. Prondergaat comptrol? ler of the city and George McAneny president of the hoard of aldermen. They kept out of Tammany's hands the presidency of the three principal boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, and ihus increased the anti-Tammany majority an the board of estimate. The fusion vote on the board will be 14 to Tammany's two. This board controls the city's expenditures. A fusion majority on the board of alder? men was also elected. Two Dauiotirailii congressmen wer? elected In the city?from the Thir? teenth and Twentieth districts. From th?? former George. W. Loft was chosen to succeed the lute Timothy D. Sul? livan Jacob H. Cantor was elected Ml the Twentieth tO succeed Francis Burton Harrison. DIAZ TO LI VF. AT HI AM I. Kx-I'resident of Mexi?H?, to Spend Ilm Winter iu Florida. Miami. Fla., NoV, I.?Porflrio Diaz. former president ..f Mexico, will live in Miami the coming winter, accord*! in;j to Itafdei Ruega, Mexican counsel I here. Seuor lluega today said he ex peeled Ins ex-preeldent to arrive about Decipher i. His family will mnany him, Announcement ol Oen. Diaz's plans was made in a let* ? ??r in Onnssjl Ruega. Th? consul said hat Dlas. n<>w in Europe, deelras t?? reside In n warmer climate during the winter, but Ii averse to returning lo 4< ilco unless summoned on account oi political conditions. With l he nld of Benoi i'.ninefl. m member of the Mexican congress, Henor llueg is endeavoring to lease ? rottug* fur Clan. Diaz. The consul id toi i in i hm .i a inter home neei thai ol William Jennings Bryan would i-ililsibl) be ?? let led, PRESIDENT WILSON ELATED. _ FFl.LS MUCH ENCOURAGED BY TVRX OF ELECTIONS, Regards Results us un Indorsement of Administration Polleiew?Field? er's Victory Gives Most Joy. "Washington, Nov. 5.?President Wilson made no official comment to? day on the Democratic victories in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Mary? land, but told friends ho was much encouraged because In all three States the tariff and currency were issues and he felt that the administration's policies had been upheld. Secretary Tumulty was particular? ly happy that his home county, Hud? son, gave James F. Fielder, the Democratic nominee for governor, an overwhelming majority which helped materially in winning the State. Senators and congressmen general? ly telephoned their congratulations to the White House and Secretary Bry? an, who campaigned in Maryland and New Jersey, expressed his satisfac? tion at the result. The president already had sent a telegram to Mr. Fielder, the victor in New Jersey, and dispatched other messages today. To David I. Walsh, elected governor of Massachusetts, he said: "My heartiest congratula? tions. It was a splend.d victory finely won." To Blair Lee, Democrat, elected United States senator in Maryland, the president telegraphed: "I congratulate you and the party most warmly. The victory is com? plete." The preeldent took much interest in the municipal elections t.nd sent to his personal friend, Mayor Newton D. Baker, reelected in Clevelar d, the fol? lowing message: "Please accept my warmest congratulations. It did us all good to hear of your victory." Unofficial returns to t.he White House stating that Fielder had car? ried Essex county by 721 pleased the president very much. Secretary Tumulty declared that in Essex coun? ty the Smith-Nugent factions of the Democratic party had supported the itopubllcan ticket. Schedule K" In Th? New Tariff. The fame of Schedule K has been heralded so far and wide that there is barely a person who reads a d*> ily paper that is not familiar with it. Thoujrh declared "indefensible" b: President Taft, it emerged from the ordeal of revision in the Payne-Al drich tariff in practically the same shape in which it has remained for nearly half a century. The chief points of indictment against that schedule In the Tariff Board report weret (1) The specific duty of ^1 cents a pound on practically all clothing wools in their raw condition: this amounted to less than 25 per cent ad valorem on fine light wools used for expensive cloths and all the way from about 4 0 to 50C per cent on the coarse dirt and grease-laden wools used for the poor man's clothes. (2) Coupled with this discrimina? tion against the poor man was the discrimination against the woolen in? dustry in favor of the worsted, since the former uses the coarse cheaper wools. (3) The compound duties on cloths, consisting of a combination of specific and ad valorem rates allow? ed an v-xoeeeive "compensation" to the manufacturer of worsted goods in the shape of n duty of 14 cents per pound of cloth (in addition to u pro? tective duty of 50 to 55 per cent ad va. lorem) on the theory that it takes four pounds of wool to make one pound of cloth. (4 The compensatory duty of 4 1 cents a pound applied under the old law not only to all-wool clothe, but III the language of the tariff to all cloths "made wholly or in part of wool," even cloths made almost entirely of cotton with a modicum of wool or i shoddy thrown in, thus making the j compound duty amount to as much as 150 per cent and over. All of these evils, together with many others which sprang from them, have been swept off the statute-books l?y the new law. The straight ad va lorem rate of 15 per Cent in all clothing wools origitudly provided in the Underwood bill would have re? moved the discrimination against the woolen goods industry in favor of the worsted, Hut it la the far-sighted Wisdom and unswerving courage of President Wilson that the country Is Indebted to for the blessing of free wool, if the report of the Tariff Board on raw wool prepared directly by men Closely connected with the raw wool industry is any guide to the situation, the abolition of all dunes on iaw wool will nht only prove a boon to the manufacturing Industry, bui also should result in tin* adopt <>u of modern methods throughout the wool growing States, which will make thai Industry mm Independent ol turlffs as u h is been made in those parts of th'' country where these methods have been ndopted.? Amerienn Review *>' i;e\ lews* 10 GIVE CROP HEWS. TELEGRAPHIC CROP NEWS SER? VICE TO BE EXTENDED TO ALL STATES. Department of Agriculture, Through Co-operation Between Bureau of Statistic* anil the Weather Bureau Stations to Get Monthly Crop News Quickly to all Newspapers. Washington, Nov. 6.?As a result of requests from editors and editorial as? sociations in many State, the United States Department of Agriculture has announced that the November crop reports for each State will be sup? plied to the newspapers in all States through the Central Weather Station located in each of the States. This is an extension of the experi? ment of telegraphing the State crop returns to the Central Weather Sta? tions in each of nine States, and hav? ing these telegrams duplicated at once and mailed to the newspapers and agricultural publications. Under this plan newspapers in J9 additional States will now receive full details of the State crops far more quickly than would be possible if these Stute crop details were put in the mails in Wash? ington and had to travel by train long distances to the more remote States. Under this plan the general sum? mary cf the crops for the United states will, as heretofore, be issued in Washington for telegraphic distribu? tion. It has been found, however, that the conditions of crops within their particular States are of especial value to the farmers and producers, to whom the conditions in their own State are important in the marketing of their produce. Under this plan the Department sends one telegram to the Central Weather Bureau in each State, and within a few minutes after the crop figures for the State are completed in Washington the Weather Bureau is enabled to mall copies of the figures from a central point within the State to all papers In that Sttae. Under the code system used, the Department is under the necessity of telegraphing only a few figures, as the figures of previous crops for com? parison are supplied to each weather Bureau Station by mail. The cost of the telegram for each State does not exceed 75 cents. The crop data thus circulated by mail to the newspapers will give: (a) a full list of the crops; (b) the aver? age condition of each crop for ten j year periods in that paricular State; (c) the condition of the State crops for November 9th. In the adjoining column will be given the same data for the United States, so that the farmers who read these notices can compare the crops in their State as of November 9th with the ten-year av? erages of their own State, and in the same *ay with the average condition throughout the United States on No? vember 9th and for ten years. These State crop reports are not supplied to individuals, and are mail? ed only to editors of regular publica? tions. The November State crop re? ports for the 39 States n?wly added to the list will be sent only to the dally papers, the county scat papers, and agricultural publications. Mean? while, the Department is preparing lists of small town weeklies, and in December the crop reports will be sent also to the smaller papers. PRESBYTERIANS BURN MORT? GAGE. * Church and Manse Is Free From Debt?Will Hold Diamond Jubilee. Blshopvllle, Nov. 5.?Tho Presby? terians of this city are making prep? arations to celebrate two very im-| portant periods in their church. One! is the burning of a mortgage which! has been on the handsome new | church since it was built. This year! will see the church, with one of the handsomest houses of worship In east? ern Carolina and a commodious and handsome manse all free from debt, the two having been erected at a cost of about $30,000 by a congregation ?mall in number. In connection with the paying off and destroying Of the mortgage, the congregation will celebrate their dia? mond jubilee this month, the church having had a continuous existence for TT? years. In that time it has had but five pastors. The Rev, Hugh R, I Muri bison, now of Lancaster, is th? only former pastor now living, and he will bo invited to deliver a historical i address on this occasion, a number of other ministers and laymen prom I*j nent In the Presbyterian church will be asked to take part in the celebra tion. and It will be made a jubilee oc? casion for all. The church now has as its pastor! the Rev. L. L Legters, who has been with it .iust a little more than a year, and he and the members can take just pride In what has been accom? plished in paying debts and making Improvements to ihe church's physl? etil property and along nil llnep of Chri itian t mleni r?i HEISE ABUSES MANNING. INVESTIGATION OP ROTTEX PRI? MARY FRAUDS 8TILL RANKLES. The Would-be Political Boss of South Carolina Wants to Make Himself Senator and Dictate Who Shall be Governor?It is a Big Job for One Primary and He Will Need Stronger A nun unit* in Than He lias Yet Pro? duced to Win His Fight. Columbia, Nov. 5.?Oov. Blease late today gave out a statement reply? ing to an editorial in the Sumter Item with reference to the action of Rich? ard I. Manning in asking by resolu? tion for a probe of the primary last summer. Governor Blease's statement fol? lows: "I do not care to have anything further to say upon the political situ? ation j. st at present, except possibly to notice a little article from the Sum? ter Item in reference to Mr. Man? ning's resolution. "I presume there are a great many people in South Carolina who have not yet forgotten Mr. Manning's flop from conservatism and local option to be? come a here-worshipper of Lien Tillman and the leader of the State dispensary forces when he went down in defeat before Ansel In 1906. I am satisfied that they have not yet for? gotten Manning's little song when he saw the mansion pointed out to him by Tillman. Notwithstanding his bit? terness against Tillman and his fifjhl against the State dispensary at one time, he suddenly dropped .ipon his knees and exclaimed: " 'And now I consecrate my all to thee "Ben Tillman and the State dispou saree. "I do not blame him now for trying to get back with his old line-up, but i haven't much idea that they are *oing i to take him up, for his past record for inconsistencies will be as glaring as was another candidate's in a re? cent gubernatorial race. "As to his resolution before the ex ecutive committee it was made di? rectly, the very wording of it Bhows, at the entire white people of South Carolina, charging all of them with fraud, bribery and perjury, and I de not believe that the white people of South Carolina are going to elect any man governor who would make thii wholesale charge. And then he dodged behind his own resolution and refused no accept a place on the com? mittee to go forward with the investi? gation. After he started It he cer? tainly oi ght to have accepted a place on the committee and helped to car? ry it through. "The Surater Item has always been very bitter against me. Nothing it says will affect me, but articles of this kind will affect Mr. Manning very con? siderably, if he sticks his head up in the gubernatorial race. My friend* are watching." LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. Todd ami Clement Elected in Char? leston. Charleston, Nov. 4.?Albert W. Todd and Moultrie J. Clement were elected to tho legislature from Charleston county today, according to the re? turns. Vt'ith only eight boxes from the county missing the vote repartee: tonight Ifl as follows: A. W. Todd. 718; M. J. Clement, 593; J. M. Gra? ham, 313. It is not thought that th* remaining boxes will alter the rela tive strength of the candidates much Tho voting was very light today an? the polls quiet. Tho new legislators will fill tlie unexpired terms of R. S. Whaley, resigned, and J. C D Schroder, deceased. Pa to Defeats Rirven. I Darlingion, Nov. 4.?With return* at hand f -om all but one small out lying prec net the indications are thai Jerome Pnte has been elected to thv legislature to fill the unexpired term of W. B. James, deceased, over J. P. Kirven. Pate has a safe lead of 70 odd votes. The returns show that the vote was very light. MI CH AMMUNITION STOLEN. Ten Thousand Cartriilge* Smuggled Into Mexico. Douglas, Ariz., Nov. ?Ten thous? and cartridges, taken from arm) stores, hate been stolen and smug? gled across the Mexican border. They were abstracted from cases belonging to the 9th (negro) cavalry. Federal agents, who have been investigating jointly wltl army officers, today de? clared the partridges could not have been sent ( vor the International line without the connivance of soldiers on patrol dutj. Discovery of the loss was made sev? eral weeks uro when the Gth cavalry relieved the ^th at Naco. The spans formerlj oe? upled by th?? cartridges in ih< > ia< \\. > idled w sand. GIVEN RAW DEL CHAIRMAN RAILROAD COMMI8 SION IS DISAPPOINTED. hards Sots Mileage Decision Make* Enactment of Two Cent Rate Law Necessary. Columbia, Nov. 6.?'The interstate commerce commission, as I was afraid it would, has sustained the railroads in their discriminatory and unreason? able mileage book regulations and have perpetuated as far as possible a system that is nefarious and well nigh unbearable," said J. Q. Richards, Jr., chairman of the South Carolina railroad commission, last night. "We made the best fight for relief possible under the circumstances," said Mr. Richards, "but the ra lroads j have won and the people are made to suffer. "While this question was purely a local one, the interstate commerce commission of its own motion asso? ciated the entire territory east of the ; Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers in the fight," Mr. Rich? ards continued, "although throughout this territory there was practically no complaint on the part of the people and conditions were and are entirely dissimilar from those existing in South Carolina. Lawyers represent? ing the railroads from Washington to the Qulf of Mexico were thus permit? ted to appear and South Carolina was forced to make the uneven fight against tremendous odds. Gen. Lyon, who represented the State in this case during the latter part of his admlnis I tration, and Mr. DeBruh1., who repre? sented the State for the present at? torney general's office, discharged their duty with faithfulness and abil? ity and they deserved tc win. "The people of South Carolina have been given a raw deal. To say the least, we had every reason to expect that: the interstate commerce commis? sion would have ordered the railroads to honor their own mileage books over their own lines, whether the holder f the book was making an interior or intrastate journey, but they do not seem to have even considered that phase of the question. Mr. Marble is unfortunate in his quotations from the evidence of the witnesses for the State and seems to have selected ex? cerpts tiiat would create the impres? sion that the request for relief was based upon the selfish desire of a few men whose individual comfort had >een disturbed by the present mileage system. "This is an entirely erroneous im? pression. The fight has been pressed by the traveling men of this State and at great inconvenience and expense from patriotic motives, and for the purpose of getting relief from an out? rageously burdensome system?relief not only for themselves but for all classes of our citizens who use mile? age in travel, and the evidence shows that about 22 per cent of the travel in this State is by mileage. "While I do not hesitate to say that I am disappointed at the decision, it may turn out to be a blessing in dis? guise, for it brings us face to face with the question, Shall the people or the railroads rule? and once the peo? ple are aroused I have no fear as to the result. While I was a member of the legislature and since I have been a member of the South Carolina rail? road commission and on the stump and off it I have contended for a 2-cent flat rate and I shall continue Bo do so. I appeared before the commit? tee of the last legislature and urged the passage of such a law. "The people of the State are en? titled to a lower rate than they now have and from the financial statements made by the railroads and filed in the commission's office, they can stand ?he j reduction in their revenue anc still declare a handsome dividend. I hope that the effect of this decision will be io arouse the people and that the demand for a 2-cent flat rate will be? come so strong that it will soon be a law of this State. With a 2-cent rate the mileage book question will te come of little consequence." SIZE OF COTTON CROP, Greenville Firm Announces Result of Canvass of Holt. Greenville, Nov. 2.?The cotton firm of Cooper 6c Griffin lias completed si canvass among reliable cotton nrms and individuals, carefully selected with a >icw to covering the entire bell, for the purpose of getting their ideas as t<? the size of the commercial crop by Stales. The result is as follows: Alabama 1.605.000, Arkansas 876.000, Florida 32,000, Georgia, 2,509,000, Louisiana nso.oon, Mississippi 1.195.000. North Carolina 988,000, Oklahoma 780/' ><?. South Carolina !.550,000. Tennessee 400.000 Texas 1,130,006, various' 105,000. Total 14.290.000. In 1910 this firm s estimate, derived from the same source, wns 11,890,000. In ItU it \v?.s 14,000.000, and in 1918 it was 14.S07.0O0. All of these esti? mates were issued about November 1. It is accordingly only fair t?j be lleve that figures for the preeen* seu ion tpproxhnately correct,