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.i mm outtjron. TOM ?fJMTlfiH WATCHMAN, Established April, 18S0. "Be Just and Fear not?Let all the ends Thou Alms't at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Trotk'a," THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, lue*. Consolidated Aug. 3,1881. SUMTER, S. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1914. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 32. limn on m TOLLS. STATES Ills VI): WS tllWir?lf ISU REPEAL OF PLATEORM PLANK. Think* Action of State Contention Shows Him Ills Course, hut Con lUdeiN ll rnfortunutte That Matter Should Have Conic to Injure Flec? tion Chances of P*-t>?Tells of Porancr Action. Washington, June 10.?The senate today projected steadily forward to? ward final action on the Panma canal tolls exemption repeal bill, leaders tonight, however, wero unwilling to predict tho day when a vote can be taken Even with s night session tonight there was no certainty of a vote on the first proposition to bo disposed of, the aecalled Simmons-Norrls amend? ment qualifying terms of tho bill. Senator Borah, an anti-repeal lead? er, predicted that this amendment alone would he debated four or five hours. Action, however, within the next day or two Is expected. Senator Tlliinan of South Carolina today spoke, criticising tho president for bringing the tolls issue before the country at this time and endanger? ing the ?hanecs of the Democratic party In congressional elections next fall. He announced he would vote for repeal only because he felt his State party convention hud freed him from the tolls Jokor in tho Baltimore ph form. Senator Tlllman first briefly out? lined the history of tho cxomptlon and the repeal bill. He then went on to "It will be hard to make the aver? age voter understand tho contradic? tion and seeming betrayal of the peo? ple In not carrying out our pledges. Democratic candidates in the next election will bo kept busy explaining and apologising, which is very un? comfortable to have to do." He talked at some length about the policy of tolls exemption, pointing out that It waa Republican doctrine and * 'net Democratic in that It was pro? tection of the few at the expense of the many. He also urged that steps bo taken to repeal the law preventing foreign built ships from operating in the American coastwise trade. This provision, he said, made for an Iron? clad shipping trust. Tui tng to the question In hand, Senator Tlllman declared that ho had the highest opinion of tho president. "He will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents," the sena? tor said of tho president. "I have felt that as tho first Democrat in half a century?real Democrat I mean, for I never regarded Cleevlund as a Dem ocat?It Is the duty of every man who claims to be a Democrat to sup? port him In all his policies, wiso or unwise. If he makes blunders, let us all make blunder*, and stand shoulder to shoulder and fight It out on that line and go down together." - "It stagge? ? my common sense and I have been unable to understand Just why hs projected the tight on his party at this time," he said. "It Is of great Importance to the Democratic party to control the house at ths next election, and I believe ths president should havo kept quiet until that election was over." "Until tins issue whs pressed to the front the courso of Democracy had been onward and upward. "There aro so many things of more importance that tho Democrats ought to do, that I must say in my opinion It waa a great blunder on the part of tho president. The Democratic party. Instead of presenting u solid united front, is split Into contending factions." "While the Republicans, too, dis? agree on this Important subject, both wlnga of that party? I mean the Pro? gressives and 'Standpatters'?are smil? ing complacently at the division in the Democratic ranks. They had wellnigh given up all hopo as far as the next election goes. Now they arc pricking up their cars and scenting victory from afar. I have been gb?d to SSS that while Democrats are very ear? nest, there has been no anger or bad temper shown; and I feel safe in saying that, whate\er the result or this contest may be. after the vote is had a solid Denn? rat y will nVMfS for? ward behind the president and try to redeem all our party pledges. It would be altnosr n crime for the De? mocracy to hesitate now and not tin - tsh cleansing the 'Augean staidc.' We can not hope under the rules of the senate to pass \ery mu< h OOfMUrUCtlVS legislation during the short session. ]f we lose the next house all the re? forms so necessary would have to be done between December and March An extra session with one branch of congress controlled by tho Kcpubli j WOMEN DISCUSS SUFFB?BE. ?mm nQHi in federation of woman'S CLUIS. Biennal Convent Ion In Chicago Fou-j lured by l*romluuncv of Suffrage Issue?Delegates arc Vnlnstructedl on Question, Hut lenders Arc Di? vided and Sharp Helmte is Antici? pated. Chicago, June 10.?A bitter light will bo on today on the suffrage ques? tion when the Twelfth Biennial con? vention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs opens In the audi? torium. A shurpe debate is anticipat? ed. Most of the delegates came unin structcd. The president, Mrs. Percy Pennypucker, approves of woman suffrage, but Mrs. Fitzpatriek, presi? dent of the Georgia Federation gave out an interview this morning op? posing suffrage. I cans would only be able to pass the ! appropriation bills. The Democracy should make hay while the gun shines, land 1 am glad to seo the president pressing tho anti-trust legislation so vigorously. I am sorry that ho did I not include rural credits in the legis? lative programme. We will have to face much criticism on account of his afllure to redeem his promise made last winter just after the passage of the banking and currency law that th!-3 would bo done. The farmers arc a mighty power, who are just begin? ning to understand what their real in? terests are." The senatbr recalled that Theodore Hoosevelt, "the great advertiser," had come home "delighted." Then he de? voted his attention to Senator O'Gor man, anti-repeal leader, suggesting that in the next campaign the New York senator would have some diltl culty in explaining why two plunks so antagonistic as the tolls and ship subsidy planks were placed in the Baltimore platform. Senator Tillman said the tolls fight had made it very unh&Tfpy for him." He recalled that when the Spanish treaties were before the senate he charged his colleague, Senator Mc? Laurin, wdth selling out to the He publicans, and blows followed. Then, ho said, he had inserted in the South Carolina constitution, for McLaurin's sake, a provision that candidates should obey their party platforms. "I would fell very unhappy if Mc? Laurin could Justly charge me with proscribing physic for some which 1 myself am unwilling to take," added the senator. He explained, however, that the recent South Carolina State convention of his party hud adopted a resolution in fuvor of tho repeal bill. "Senators will remember that in 1902, while Hon. John L. McLaurin was a senator from South Carolina, he and I came to blows on the Moor of this chamber because 1 charged him with selling out to the Republi? cans on tho Spanish treaty, which charge he denied with bitterness ond called me a liar. This 1 immediately resented with a blow. Some of the older senators who witnessed the scene aro yet with us, but 1 do not propose to go into any further deails. I merely men*ion it in order to explain why it is embarrassing for me to Vote for this repeal. At the next State Democratic convention after the encounter between McLaurin and my? self, I urged and succeeded in having passed by the convention a provision (hanging the Constitution and rules of the party in South Carolina so as to require euch candidate for the senate and house to subscribe to the follow? ing pledge: " *i will support the political prln** clples and policies of the Democratic| Party during the term of Office for Which 1 may bo elected, and work inj accord with my Democratic associates In congress on all parly questions.' "This was made for McLaurin and every body understood why, While his betrayal Of l^is trust was very tla grant and fully warranted my char aeterlsatlon of it, it was no more clear and explicit than this question of tolls; for where will we look for 'Democratic policies and principles' if not In the party platform? Where win we get plainer language than the pledge at Baltimore on this aubpect? There has been no caucus of senators or Democrats te determine what is the party policy, The platform says one thing, and tbe president b:is in? dorsed and praised tbe platform and explained (bat very thing in u speech. No authoritative repeal or disavowal of tbe platform at Italtiin ?iu has been uttered by anyone] and Democrats everywhere arc very much muddled. The president alone urges the repeal because Jn his judgment it is neoee?, ROYAL FAMILY MILITANTS, PRINCE OF WALKS AM) OTHER] ROYALISTS CONTRIBUTE TO SUFFRAGETTE 1TX1). _ i Kurland Is Astounded by Facts Dis? closed by seizure of Books of Mill-' taut Suffragette Leader?Even Queen Mary U Recorded as Having OlTerctl Contribution. London, June 10.?An examination Of the books and documents seized yesterday in a raid on the suffragette secret headquarters disclose the as i founding fact that several members of the royal family are contributing to the militant fund. Among them are the Prince of ?Wales, the Duchess of Teck, Princess Arthur of Connaught, Princess Alex? andria and Princess Christian. Even I Queen Mary offered a contribution ; but the militants refused to accept Some of these contributions amount led practically to blackmail to escape attack, it is said, while others con? tributed through syinapthy for the ' cause. KFRMJT MARRIED. I Civil Ceremony Performed at Madrid Prefecture of Police. Madrid, June 10.?The civil ccre , inony uniting in marriage Belle Wyatt I Willard, daughter of the American I ambassador to Spain, and 'Kermit \ Roosevelt, was performed today at j the prefecture of police of the Beuna Vista district. The religious ceremony will be held tomorrow. The official witnesses of the marriage were the , Duke of Alba and Senor Osma Scull. sary to maintain our honor as a na? tion. "I would be very unhappy if 11c Laurin could justly charge me with prescribing physic for him which 1 , myself am unwilling to take. Should I fail to stand by the party plat? form and vote for the repeal, he could : justly say that I am inconsistent. "Tlic' predicament we are ho\s in has caused me more worry than any? thing that has happened in a long while. We have just had another State convention of the Democratic party of South Carolina; and that convention indorsed President Wil? son's administration in no uncertain tewns. Indeed it went further than good tasto or truth seemed to de? mand or allow. It said: M 'Recognizing in the president the greatest moral force that has been in the White House during the past century, we heartily commend his ef? forts to secure a repeal of the Pan? ama free tolls act, a. law enacted by a Republican congress and signed by a Republican president regardless of national honor; we condemn this law as undemocratic and against flic [economic policy of our parly and I country. Wo believe that this law ; would CreatS a shipping trust ami ! would repeat the outrageous scan? dals of the building of our transcon? tinental railways. We demand that our senators vote for the unqualified repeal of this act and thus support the president in upholding Demo? cratic principles and the honor of this nation.' "It seems to me that this is much I exaggerated ami a milder and more conservative utterance would have been in better taste. Woodrow Wil? son is recognized by all at a great statesman and a good man, but his best friends will not claim f?-.- him infallibility. Me has acknowledged to me that he had never studied that i plank in the platform, nor analyze d it, and was led to indorse it and praise it because the party at Baltimore had put it in our platform. He is a great exponent of Democratic principles, but even he when reading such reso? lutions as our State convention passed I must remember that there have been many great Democrats in the 'past century.' that Madison, Monroe and Jackson have been presidents during that time. Theref? re, 1 know be will agree with my criticism." Senator ulllc .lames of Kentucky, almost on the eve of a vote on the tolls exemption repeal bill, tonight drew aside the veil and exposed some <>f tbe strona feeling among Demo? cratic senators divided over tin- con? troversy, Senator James made ;i par? ticular attack on the position of Sen itor O'Oorman, lender of tbe nnti cpcal forces, declaring tbe \eu York senator bad been tbe valiant deft nder of tbe loiis plunk of the platform, but bad failed to be champion of another plank just ns Important when opportunity afforded. The senator :? poke at t be night session. Senator .Linns begun bis attack hj rendltiR a pinnIt in tin Baltimore plat? form declaring for publicity of rec HEAT KILLS MB. HOTTEST JUNE DAY IX FORTY-j TWO YEARS. Tcrriblo Heat Cauaca Intcnao Suffering in Cities of Middle West?Hospital* frilled With Victims?The Dig Au? tomobile Factories of Detroit IfttJ be 1'oreetl to Suspend? Chicago, June 10.?Fourteen have SUCCUmbed in the past four days to tho terrific heat which continues un? abated today. There have been seven deaths and more than a hundred prostrations during the last twenty lour hours. Yesterday was the hot? test June day in forty-two years. Temperatures of 90 to 100 today cover the entire country, with the central and western States tho keen? est .sufferers. Many are sleeping in parks and on the lake front benches. 105 in Detroit. Detroit, June 10.?Ten arc dead und a hundred in tho hospitals as the result of last three days torrid heat. The big automobile factories arc considering suspension on account j of the prostration of many of their j employees. The temperature yester I day reached 105. EASKBALL TODAY AND TOMOR? ROW. Columbia Athletics and Y. M. C. A. Teams to Mix for Two Good Games. j The Columbia Athletic baseball team arrived in the city this morning for a two day stay here and two games of ball, one this afternoon and I one tomorrow afternoon, with the I Sumter Y. M. C. A. baseball team. I Both games are expeced to be good j ones, as the Athletics arc a fast crowd and the Sumter boys are altogether in their class. Both teams will work hard for victory, the home boys hav | ing the advantage of knowing the diamond. The attendance should be good at both games. The boys need the linan cial and moral support of the home people to make their team a success? ful one. REACHES TAMPICO TODAY*. Antilla Witli Arms and Ammunition for Rebels Will be Unloaded Unless Opposition Develops, New York, June 10.?It was an? nounced at the Ward line otliccs to? day that the steamer Antilla with o million rounds of ammunition, ma? chine guns and aeroplanes for the Me:.nan rebels will reach Tampico late this afternoon and will be un? loaded, unless unexpected opposition develops. The United States govern? ment has not informed the company whether or not the cargo will be in? tercepted. VILLA STILL FIGHTING. Relni Army Now Hammering at the Gates of Zacatccas? Federals Lose One Hundred and Fifty. Torreon, June 10,?Constitutionalist dispatches today state that federal outposts at Zaeatccas have been driv? en back with great disorder, leaving a hundred and fifty dead and many wounded on the Held. Gen. Villa and staff arrived here last night Cotton Mill Burned. Dublin, Ga., June 10.?The Oconco River cotton mills were burned this morning, entailing a loss <>f $100, 000, partly covered by insurance. The cause of the lire has not been de? termined. ommendatlons for appointive federal otliccs, explaining that the plank was inserted with the particular object of having the recommendations for fed? eral judgeships made public. He then announced that Senator O'Gor man as a member of the judiciary committee twice hnd an opportunity to show bis advocacy of this plank and had not done so. Senator < ?'(Pinnau explained that on one occasion he bad not been pres? ent whew the question came up and thai when another bill was before the committee there was no discussion of the question. Senator James turn oil from Senator o'ciormun tn Sen? ator Vurdumun, who recently spoke of tbe Democratic parly following tbt leadership of "Bryan and Hoot" in t he tolls exempt Ion light. "Kvcrybods lakes n lick ;it Hryan these days," he suhl with n sniilc. "Hut with every blow he grows hi (ho love of tbe American people." Senator James snhl he favored Ihe repeal bill because In- Ihoughl it must he passed to save Ihe n; lion's honor and because it repealed a subsidy. IIUERTA INTRODUCES NEW DIF? FICULTY IN WAV OF MEDIA? TION. United States Will not Allow Slim to Name President to Sin cod Hinsel I as Buck Action Would Mean Kccog nition of llucrta?Point Bring? Conference to a Halt. Niagur falls, Ont., June I.?The United States is unwilling to extend recognition to a new provisional presi? dent |f named according to the moth I od prescribed i?y the Mexican dele? gates, which is that (Jen. llucrta would appoint 0S minister of forcing affairs the man who is agreed on here to head the new government. The Washington administration contends that if Huer'a is per? mitted to name the foreign min? ister, who by constitutional suc? cession would i?c elevated to the prea | Idency, even though the selection be made here, such an act would be construed as recognition of the ; Huerta government. On this issue, the mediating pleni? potentiaries came to a flat disagree? ment late today. For more than tw?j hours the mediators and Amcric delegates argued in vain and it w apparent when the conferences ended that what hitherto had been consid? ered a matter of detail might develop into an obstruction. The Mexican delegates had not dis? cussed the question at any length with the mediators when the latter j took it up with the Americans. Al? though the three South American dlp I lomats argued strongly from the Mex? ican viewpoint there was reason to j believe tonight that the Mexican del i egates would not insist on this ar? rangement if they found the United i States absolutely determined against it. One Mexican delegate insisted that the Mexicans regarded the form of : transition as a technicality which could be dispensed with if the Amor 1 loan government found it impossible j to agree to the method suggested. The mediators contended that the forms I of the Mexican constitution should be J preserved. The American delegates ! are understood to have pointed out that the constitutionalists would not agree to a plan of transition which I legalised Huerta's status. Also the American government. it was de? clared, could not extend what would j be tantamount to recognition ol H ucrta. I There is a possibility that a com? promise will be agreed on. Pedro ' Lascurain, minister of foreign affairs under President Madeo, could be rc ! appointed to the cabinet and succeed to the provisional presidency and then appoint as foreign minister the man agreed on by all partial for the new provisional executive. Lascurain is persona non grata .With the constitutionalists, but it is j not believed there would be objec I tion from them to the brief tenure of ollice In order that the transition might be effected constitutionally. Predictions that an agreement soon would be reached were practically abandoned today. The counter-pro? posals of the American government to the Mexicans have not yet been taken : up with the Mexican delegates, though they received them from the media? tors earlier in the day. The day's conferences were taken up with de? tails of the peace plan and for the moment the question of constitution? alist representation was forgotten. The answer from lion. Uarranza to the last communication r-f flic media? tors is not expected materially to al? ter the mediation situation, and it is authoritatively known that no armis? tice will be declared by the constitu? tionalists?a condition on which the mediators arc insistent, and without which tbe constitutionalists can not hope for admission. The mediators believe the claims of the constitutionalists for participation In the provisional government can be cared for In whatever final agree? ment is reached here, and that i^ matters little whether representatives of Carransu appear at the conference. The A met can delgates maintain that certain concessions should be made to allow Carranxu to have bis agents here. In today's discussion of tbe form of provisional government tbe American delegates are understood to base told tbe mediators that, inasmuch ;is Car rnnxn had been moving forward to? ward undoubted military conquest i I Mexico City, it seemed essential that the constitutionalists be given umph share In tbe neu government. Tin mediators arc nol averse to ihls but arc unwilling to transfer the Mexican government at one full swoop to the constitutionalist party. NEGRO SHOT TO DEATH. GEORGE STHAl MAN KILLED BY MOHO \\ GREEN TUESDAY NIGHT. I _ ? - Minuting BoCWVOi on Dingle Street About h?JO OVlcck ami Quarrel Secges u Have Boca Over Woman. George (rauman, a blacksmith, was shot a I i killed in a quarrel Tues? day night, Morgan Green, another colored man, being charged with do? ing the sh >oting. The killing is al? leged to hkve taken place in a quar? rel over a colored woman. From the testimony given at the in inqucst, which was held in Hurst's undertaking establishment at 11 O'clock Wednesday, it seems that Sarah Bryant and Morgan Green were going somewhere together, presum? ably to see a sick friend. Near the I corner of Dir x.and Sumter street George Sir? , came upon them and began ^ ng Green. He tried to get Sara' cN /o with him, which she Jtf refuse*' n) mo. Blows came between I the iien without serious injury to V *? one. They then stopped .arted to move off when one ?. .icm snatched a beard off the 4cc and the shooting started im? mediately, four or five shots being lired. Sarah Bryant ran into the yard of Prophet Green's house and Strauman followed her, falling in the yard be i fore he had gone far. Prophet Green started for the nearest place ! to telephone the police and Morgan ; Green made his escape. The Bryant woman also ran off, a crowd collect? ing a few seconds later, when the body was found in the yard. I The police appeared on the scene a few minu.es later and searched the ; body. No weapon was found on him. j Morgan Gl en, who Prophet Green said was \\C relation whatever to him, j had made"M s escape in the meantime and has not been apprehended. The , woman war arrested a short time af j ter the shotting, but so far no evi? dence has 'jeen secured against her, except that she was piesent and was ; the nearest witness to the shooting. Dr. Bppe testified that two bullets i had entered the breast of the dead man, either of which would have proved fatal. The verdict of the jury was in accordance with the Labove stated evidence. TENEMENT HOUSE EIRE. Seven Burned to Death and Many In? jured. New York. June 10.?Seven were burned to death, six fatally and nine seriously injured in i tire that swept a five story tenement at No. 00 Essex street early this morning. The lives of two hum. id others were saved by Miss Cecelia Shapiro who discovered the fire and i*n screaming the alarm through the rtallwaya. Most of those 'injured wen hurt by jumping. The dead and Injured are nearly all for? eigners. Fir chief Docanny was in? jured trying to rescue the victime. Colombia Ratifies Pact. I'.ogota. Colombia, June 9.?The Colombian cone' ess in special session today ratified <hc treaty with the United States by which Colombia is to receive |25,000,00f and certain concession in Hie settlement of tho ; long standing dispute between the two countries over Panama. Monument to Confederate Women. Haleigh, June 1".?A monument erected In honor of North Carolina women of the Confederacy was un? veiled today, thousands of veterans and visitors being present. They think that In the general elec? tions whic h would follow shortly af? ter the new provisional government was Installed the Carransa t act ion very likely would emerge triumphant. For the present, however, they think that Huerta should be allowed to re lire with dignity and not be compelled to turn over his power directly to the constitutionalists. it was announced by the mediating plenipotentiaries last nighi that they would make puh'i? today their corre? spondence with ihe constitutionalists, but word was received today through the American delegates that Gen. Car ran as answer to Iheir latest note al readv had been dispatched to Wash? ington and wo.ild be forwarded by IIa fa el Kuharnn. The dual communi? cation from the mediators In repl> to the note brought hero h\ .loan l\ I"r qitidl referred to a paragraph saying tieft the differences between the Culled states ad i Mexico "oughl not to he resolved \ hoill > onsl it ut ional ists heint represented." >