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GRACE CHARGES THROWN OUT UOIHH. ACTIN? ON REPORT OF MAJORITY OF I OMMITTKE* ENDS? WIIAI.FY IX gFlRY. Denunciation of UnKv by Majori t> and Its Supporters Equaled by As ?a alt on General Condition* in First District by Tbo*e Who Fall for In? vestigation. Washington, .!an. 27.?The muca discussed Orac ? V/haley caae caroej tu an end lute this afternoon, whe t the house, ran nu alt day aeaalon by a vote of J-7 to 98. decided to Up? hold the p-port of the committee on elect ona. which bad already decided that the charges tiled by Mayor John P. Grace of Charleston against Rep? resentative Richard S Whaley. In which It wnji alleged that the latter spent $5v,0oo. hud bought vote* and had falsified his sworn statements in regartl thereto, be dismissed. Thej vote came Just before the hour for adjourning for the day, and not until after there had been oratorical flre vtorks. whieh at times seemed all but ready to set the big capltol building abl?se. Sectionalism wus rampant and many times during the withering fire that Representative Frear of Wiscon? sin poured Into the voters of the First South Carolina district it wus with the utmost difficulty thut Southern members were able to restrain them? selves* The day s proceedings began with a speech by Representative Borchers j of Illinois, and he made a speech of -round Charleston and calling a spade a spads whenever in his opin? ion he believed the situation de? manded it. Mr Borchers spent most of the hour alloted htm In reviewing the re ?ort of the committee and declared that there had been no thorough in? vestigation of this matter and that before the thltig was done with one should be had. For Tobacco Cloth Fertilizers Seed Irish Potatoes and everything in gen? eral merchandise. We can save U money. ?n hour, exco atlng conditions in and DUCKER&BULTMAN I Representative Freur of Wisconsin! followed Mr. Horchers und proved the. sensation of the day. He devoted most ol his time to a vigorous attack on Mr. Whaley. Representative French of Idaho made a clear and clean cut argument in support of seating Mr. Whaley and declared that while he stood always for clean men in the house he could see no reason for mo? lesting Mr. Whaley on the strength of the Grace charges. When the Democrats took hold of the spenking, they fairly roasted Mayor Grace on the political griddle. Ward??if every one of them in an up-to-date dictionary were brought into play?would fail properly to record what Representatives Howard of Georgia, Elder of Louisiana and Stephens of Mississippi and Finley of South Carolina really did say. "Dirty little ward heeler' 'and other such terms were hurled at the imagi? nary Grace by Mr. Howard, Just as though he had been seated in the I chamber of the house, and had the Charleston mayor heard what was t said of him. of hie political career and of bis manipulation of the blind tiger situation in Charleston he would doubtless have left in disgust. Those members of the house re? viewed with tasty trimming Grace's control of political machinery In Charleston, the character of witnesses I he '.rought to Washington, the kind I of affidavits he submitted, and most especially the fact that practically j every man who has had anything to j do with this case from a draco stand? point haa been either a blind tiger I keeper, a Grace supporter, a man on the payroll of the city of Charleston or a general- all-round tough and bully. The real point in today's develop? ments so far as it concerns future political conditions in South Carolina la laid down in some parts of the speech of Mr. Frear. While it has been conceded all along that the house would sustain the report of the committee and not reopen the case, l Mr. FTear made some observations I well worth remembering and taking 1 to heart by those who are really in j earnest about reforming the primary in South Carolina. He said: "It is acknowledged that 65 per ? cent of the vote" of South Carolina is disfranchised. No negrc votes in that district, according to the testi? mony. No negro votes in the State, according to the testimony. And yet Grace swears that the negroes of South Carolina could not have been i corrupted any worse than the whites were '?orrupted at that primary; and he knows and he swears that Whaley knows. That is undisputed in the record. "Mr. Hughes spent $4 4.500 toward 'that corruption. That is admitted The testimony in regard to Mr. $100,000 waa expended by him." Whaley's interest was that over Mr. Tost: ?"Will the gentleman yield? ' Mr. FTeor: "Just for a question." Mr. Post: "In that connection I want to ask the gontleman if the question was not put to Mr. Grace if Mr. Hughes had been elected, aasa^saaaMasaaa^sssasaaMasaMasBsasasjssss* Made Right hn > fjcfj i ii.it tliMl wan It of : (mm take* while it need* ?tloan ins and ii.iiti-.ti:?;1. means a .shortening of its lifo. .V lean aatrh is ju-?t about frlrttonlos?. A dirt) ttMtrlt Is u watch that I* ticking its way to des,1 art ion. %Km M?nt >ou to know that our repair department e.-vlsts for the Purina* <?r putting wrung watcho* and clock* right. S\v n..v have a lir*t elans workman in charge of our repair de? partment and run turn out any kind of repairing promptly?let um ?liow you PMSgg reaMuiahic m>d all work guaranteed. W. A. THOMPSON, JEWELER AND OPTICIAN PHONE 333 6 S MAIN 8TREET ^?^?'^'?'^???????????????????^ ??^?^ ??????? We Almost Doubled Our Savings Club this Yeur; which shows how well the "Saving Idea" is "taking" with Sumter people. We always nay In? terest on Savings from day of deposit. May we have you for a depositor? The Peoples* Bank would he have brought the Charge? against Mr Hughes?*' Mr. Frear: "Yes, and he stated that he would not. I agree with the gen? tleman on that; but I think these churges ought to be investigated." Mr. I*os1: "I want to ask another question." Mr. Freor: "I can not yield. When I get through 1 will be glad to an? swer them all; but you disarrange the thought that ^ I have here, and 1 would like to carry it through. As a matter of courtesy you were not in? terrupted yesterday. I was very care- J ful to refuse to take your time, and I \ know you appreciate the situation." I Mr. Post: "I yielded to all the ques? tions that were asked." Mr. Frear: "I know ,but I did not interrupt you at the time. Now, the testimony is that over $100,000 was npent by Mr. Whaley and that was spent to buy votes, and not the votes of negroes, but of whites, because the whites wero the only people who had, any votes to sell at that time. Over? whelming evidence of this vote buying is presented by seven witnesses, as I havo stated. They were residents down there in that district, and they I came up and offered their testimony ! with seeming fairness and frankness, and these witnesses testified to facts. Their testimony was not hearsay tes? timony. "It has been shown here as one fact that Mr. Frank Simmons received $1,900 in Mr. Whalcy'a private office on the night before the primary. He received It from Mr. R. C. Richard? son, who was treasurer for Mr. Whaley. Mr. Dan Bean was also there, and he received $100. That testimony is undisputed except by one Individual, in a very flimsy affidavit Hied by Mr. Simmons himself; but the other friends of Mr. Whaley, who were there, do not deny it. And on the following day In a little room that wan there Mr. Grace came upon Mr. Simmons with $2,000, or there? abouts upon & table before him ,buy I Ing votes for Whaley, buying voters I like cattle, and when Grace came to him and upbraided him for it his an , swer was 'It is none of your affair, i because this is between Whaley and : Hughes.' That Is the testimony. I "Have you got to say: 'Did he pay jthe money to John Jones ' No; Rlch ] ardaon was the man who was paying J the money. "There were the lot of evasive afn ' davits that were filed. "The police court record of half a dozen of Whaley's witnesses was filed, although that is not stated to you by the committee. That record shows what their record was. 1 want you to leave all of this evidence out of your minds for moment. What do you think of a member of this house, charged with bribery, charged with corruption, charged with perjury, hera for weeks, while the hearings j were going on over in that office j building, who was notified cf those I hearings, as he was, because) I saw ! to that, for I asked the chairman to I notify him, who never once appeared ut a hearing to meet his accusers face to faec? "The quistion has come: Why don't you prosecute? How can we, with' clean hands, point the finger r.f scorn to South Carolina and ask them down there why they do not prosecute, when we have full knowledge of all these same facts? It was said here last night that Mr. Grace admitted that he could not prosecute successfully down there, that an Indictment cf one< would be to Indict the whole com-1 munity, and that doubtless lH the ef? fect. Wo havo startling evidence of that fact when 985 convicts have been pardoned down there, un evidence of [the contempt for law and order, a ' contempt for courts of Justice, and may we not well believe that the peo? ple down there in South Carolins, the good people?and there aro thousands of them there?the law abiding and God fearing people would welcome an investigation that pointed the way to better political conditions, to better public welfare "One hundred yenr? ago to the day there sat in this body the greatest: statesman that South Carolina evei produced, second to none In his day' and second to none in ours. With1 marvelous foresight that profound student of governmental problems saw the dangers that were confronting,'| ?hl? young republic of our'a In thai years to come, nnd he made use of a prophecy, a warning Whloh comes to us today with deep significance when he said, 'When il shall oonte to l>* un- j derstood that polities is a name, that] those who engage In it but play a [ part, that they assume this or that | position, not from honest conviction, but from u desir? to delude the people, then that peopia will lose nil oonfl dsnve; that l nay deem mere Jugglers! the honest and patriotic as well as the cunning und the corrupt. The mu? tability of human affairs is perfectly Illustrated today when we behold the unparalleled record of the executive] jail breaking OGCUrHng in the home] Stats of the uncorruptible and the] might) Calhoun, and If he could look*] flown here loclnj upon im, upon ihe-i bod) that once he so signally hon j oi* .i. Ui> would see knocking at out j d.M.i Hi.- . in.-i tfgectMiVe of hi- h.??n*^ State, of his home city, and ask us to help purge that State from the traf? ficking in votes and other forms ol po? litical vice. If he could apeak with} Calhoun's voice?that once made the nation tremble?he would disown this effort to cover up corruption and ho would demand in thunderous tones; for the fair name of his party, for the fair name of the house, for the honor of his State and country, that the truth be known. "We are asked to probe the charges of corruption that are here. We are not asked at this time to determine the truth of these charges. Twenty four of Mr. Whaley's own affidavits admit the use of money, including those men mentioned by the gentle-1 'men from Idaho (Mr. French). The; 24 affidavits simply corroborate, butj they do not give the amounts of money. "Wo are asked to investigate those charges. We can not dismiss them when there are over four score of wit? nesses. You can not wipe it out by evasion. You/can not wipe it out in any such fashion as that. "Now, if we ignore these charges, if we vote to nullfy this law, we simply say to the country that a law passed by congress for its own course, to con? trol its own members, for clean and honest elections is a farce and a null? ity?a law which It is admitted is a weak law, hut which, if enforced, will I help to minimize the shameful con? ditions wheh exist down there, and a law which does say to the people that while congress legislates for others. It will not ignore the plain demands of truth and of Justice, and of moral re? sponsibility, when the integrity of its own membership Is challenged." While all the members of the house from South Carolina, with the ex? ception of Mr. Ilagsdale, were on hand and voted to sustain the major? ity report, none made speeches ex? cept Mr. Flnley. He made a brief talk saying that he believed there could be no reason why the report of the majority should not be adopted as Mr. Whaley had been honestly elected. Mr. Ragsdale is not in Washington. HOG BREEDING. Southern Boys Taught How to Breed Good Hogs. Washington, D. C, Jen. 27.?The Department of Agriculturo is endeav? oring to interest the younger genera? tion on Southern farms in the breed? ing of good hogs. It is the object of the department to encourage the young men to raise at least enough ' pork for home consumption, and if i possible, a surplus for the market. Pork can be marketed in many , forms?fresh pork, hams, bacon and sausage?and can be produced so as to sell much cheaper than beef. A shortage of beef means an increased demand for pork, and it seems reas? onable that there should be a ready demand for all the available supply. This means money in the pocket of the hog raiser. Seme of the points which the de? partment advises the youthful hog grower to bear in mind are the fol? lowing: 1. The feeding and care are as important as the breeding In pro? ducing a good hog. Plenty of feed and good care may make a good hog out of a runt, but lack of It will al? ways make a runt out of a good pig. 2. To make pork cheaply a per? manent pasture and forage crops must be used. 3. Young pigs must have a dry bed and plenty of sunshir.e. 4. Begin feeding nne pig as soon as he will eat, and keep him grow? ing until he is mature. 5. Always keep plenty of clean, fresh water where the hogs may drink at any tmie. 6. Quarantine all newly purchased animals for three weeks. 7. Never keep a female for a brood sow, no matter how well bred she j may be, if she will not produce more than four strong pigs at a litter. b. The more milk a sow will give the faster her pigs will grow. | 9. Lice prevent a hog from doing [well. | 10. Always keep a mixture of char? coal, wood ashes, lime, sulphur, salt, ,and copperas before the hogs. I These points are emphasized in a bulletin just issued by the Bureau of Animal Industry, entitled "Hoys' Pig Clubs, with special reference to their organization In the South." It can bo had free by the young farmer by ap? plication to the department. It eon* tain* a number of illustrations, a de slfin of a portable hog house, which can be bunt easily and cheaply, and a design of feeing pen for small pigs. In the pamphlet ars some very im? portant 'don'ts' Which should aid the young farmer in preventing the dan-] gerouii disease of hog cholera. Herel I are the suggestions: Do not have hog lots next i<? high-] Ways, railroads, or streams. If VOUr neighbor's hogs have cholera do noti i allow anyone from his farm to visit your farm, and especial f your h<>;; i<>t ? ?I pen and keep nw ?y from your neighbor's Hog lot, whether his bogs have cholera or uot, fiof keep pigeons' ?>? allow Ihcm 11 WILL l?KE OVER G. * V. C. STEP PAVES WAY FOR DEVELOP KENT OF TERRITORY. B.v Teams of CarLslo Bill A. C. Ii. Will Acquire C'larleston and Wes? ten i Carolina Line as Part of Coast Line System. Columbia, Jan. 28.?There will be introduced into th<? senate this even-1 ing by Senator Carlisle ond probab? ly other senators, through whose coun :ies the Charleston and Western Carolina railroad row run.* a bill giv? ing the A. C. L. tlie right to acquire the property of the Charleston and Western Carolina railroad and to op? erate it aa a part of the Coast Line1 system. This would pave the way for the consummation of ane of the most' important railway deals in South Carolina in recent years. Tho Charleston and Western C aro? lina runs through many of the largest and richest counties in the State, through a territorj' capable of im? portant development, and the pro? posed taking over of the line by the j Coast. Line is expected lo bring a great increase in the facilities of the Charleston and Western Carolina and add tc the Coast Line's territory in this State. INSTRUCTOR FOR ?IILITIA. Washington, Jan. 27.?The follow? ing order has been issued by the war department: "Under the previsions of gereral orders. No. 74, war department, 1913, Sergeant Henry Thompson, Company I, Sixteenth Infant-y, presidio of San Francisco, Cal., is detailed for duty in connection with the organised militia of the State of South Carolina and will he sent to Columbia, S. C, with or? ders to report to the adjutant of the State for duty. By order of the sec? retary of war, Leonard Wood, major general, chief of staff." Chicago, Jan. 27.?The government suit to dissolve the United States Steel Corporation was begun here to? day before Special Examiner Brown. Witnesses today testified regarding the acquisition of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. to alight on your premises. Keep away crowji and buzzards. Quarantine all new hogs brought to your place until you are sure they are free of disease. Do not allow a patent-medicine man on your place, for you do not know how recently he lias visited a nick herd. Disinfect your wfagon and your own shoes and clothes after hauling hogs to stock yards or railroad lead? ing pens. Avoid even' possible way of carry? ing infection to your hogs. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is an old saying, but In this case it is everything. The object of the pig clubs Is to show the boys how Detter and cheap? er hogs may be produced by the use I of improved blood and the growing of forage crops. It also aims to en? courage the homecuring of meats, and the growing of foraga crops while dis? couraging the use of high-priced feeds. The work of the bjys' pig clubs is planned to complement the work of the boys' com clubs by showing the toys how they can profitably sell their corn through hogs. The boys in these clubs learn how t:> judge hogs and to select them for breeding or market purposes. They also learn practical ways in the man? agement, feeding, sari tat ion, and pre? vention of diseases of swine, all of which .nformation proves valuable with respect to other forms of live? stock work. A hot unimportant detail of the work to the boys themselves Is the money which they are enabled to earn by marketing their product. They also come to realize sooner or later that farm life has its interesting side, and that success in the farming business is well worth while. Any boy between the ages of ten ' and eighteen may beoome a member i of a pig club. Each boy must se i cure at least one pig If he becomes a member. Each member must care for his stock in person and keep a record of his pig for at least tour months in order to compete tor a prize. The members of the ahth must agree to study the irstructions which the department sends out for the benefit of tho hog rais?rs|. The new bulletin outlines a plan of or? ganization for the boys' pig club, giv? ing a sample constitution and by-laws. The work Is conducted by the de? partment in cooperation with the va? rious State colleges. Wherever possible :he Bureau of Animal Industry places a State agent in every Southern state desiring t<< carry on tins work Those State agents assist In organlaing th?? pi? clubs, a id full instructions advice to any youthful pig growers who apply li?r it. The egents can of ten help a boy In purchasing pure br d pif at u modern to pi lee, RULER RONS FROM REBELS. PRESIDENT OF HAYT1 LEAVES HIS CAPITAL TO APPROACH* ING HEBELS. SmtJi Carolina Ordered to Port An ITinoo under Pull S|>ced and Sail? ors Already Landed from Montana. Washington, Jan. 27.?Wireless news that President Oreste of Haiti had fled from his revolutionary capi? tal, leaving no government," caused Rear Admiral Badger at Guantanamo. Cuba, today to start the battleship South Carolina on a SOO-mile forced draft run for Port av Prince. Capt. Koben L. Russell, command ing the South Carolina, has orders to join the armored c/ulser Montana which already has landed bluejackets at the Haltlen capital, and to take such steps as may be necessary to I guard the lives and property of Amer? icans and other foreigners. The bat? tleship should reach the scene late tomorrow. The first official news of today's de? velopments at Port au Prince came to Washington tonight In a report from Admiral Badger commanding the At j lantic fleet at Guantanamo, who has ! been In communication with the jcruiser Montana. The dispatch said: i "The president of Haiti has abdicated, I leaving no government. The Mon i tana has landed 150 men, her deck I force, in order to safeguard the lives j and property of Americans and other foreigners." A German cruiser at Port au Prince, also was landing a force at the same time. The South Carolina Is leaving for Port au Prince. Capt. Russell will act in his discretioon for the pro? tection of lives and property, assist? ing the force already landed if it be i comes necessary. As senior naval officer on the scene, j Capt. Russell will direct the opera? tions of the international force. I No specific instructions will be sent I to him from Washington. The cap i tain was judge advocate of the navy ' until he recently was detailed for aea duty. Warning from American Minister Smith of the purpose of President ;j Oresto to abandon his office had in ja measure prepared the United States ; government for the flight of the Hai i tien executive, thought it had not been determined just what should ba done when the event actually occur? red. It is understood the commander of the Montana acted under the gen? eral principles of 'nternational law in landing bluejackets at Port au Prince and otherwise acting for the protection of foreign life and proper? ty. It is also assumed here that hs ' will prevent fighting within the 11m t its of the city if necessary to prevent ' the destruction of the town and the killing of noncombatants. MEN Cured Forever i By a true spe? cialist who possesses the experience of years. The right kind of i experience ? I doing the ; same thing ' the rlgtit way l hundreds and perhaps thou satidsof time*. J with unfailing permanent re j hulls. Don't you think it timo to pet i the r1g ht f treatment? 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