The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 13, 1914, Image 1
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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." >