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'Be Just and fear not?Let all the ends Thou Aims't at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's."
THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 180?.
Consolidated Auk. 3,1881.
SUMTER, S. 0., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1914.
Vol. XXXVIII. No. 35.
BLEUE CHANGES TACTICS.
SMITH'S PltOMIT CALL 1M>WN AT
ST. M ATTH KWH KFFKCTIVK.
Governor Promises to Sing a Different
Tune rW tin- Hulam c of Campaign.
Will Make No < barges Against
Smith hut Will Try to Hold UN
trwu Faction In Line.
Ft. George. June 19.?Campaign
meetings In Orangcburg ami Dorches?
ter countlea stand out In bold and'
striking contrast. Yesterday In Or*
sngeburg. CO per cent, of all the
hustings thunder might have been
properly labeled anathema, billings-'
gste. Invective and crushing ridicule
and ubuse. Today there was an abrupt
chsnge in tactics. During the night ull
arms had been stacked and horns
drawn In.
In the future the governor, by his
own announcement, will only seek "to
bold the majority which he ulready
has." snd not attempt to decoy the
friends of the other candidates. In
explanation he said: "I mako no
charges, but if I were to prove con?
clusively the most disreputable thing
against Senator Smith, there are
some people In this audience who
would still vote for him. They are
prejudiced. They are not open to
reason. Therefore. I'll only seek to
hold the majority which I already
have." Newspaper reporters, too, are
not to be \ mined from platforms, in
the event they misquote him, but are
to be reminded In private, and asked
to correct the statements in the next
dispatches, be said.
The governor was not bitter today
in his attack on Senator Smith's rec?
ord. The worst the senator got was:
"I don't believe there's n single voter
In this audlenco with little enough
eense to believe that one man is re?
sponsible for the advance in tho price
of cotton. If I thought that by keep?
ing Senator Smith in Washington cot?
ton would go to 20 ents a pound,
^tfikaTT? withdraw from* th? face and
do all that I could to reelect him. If
Senator Smith so controls the market,
why back In 1911, did he advise you
to hold your cotton for 15 cents, when
you were getting 11 and 12 cents?
Some of you held, and took 8 cents
In conaequencc. What was he doing
then? If he's responsible for the
price of cotton, who's responsible for
the increasod cost of mules, of shoes
and < lot'dng snd other commodities?"
Mr. Pollock, too, refrained from
slashing the senator for what he had
done In Washington. This speaker
did lay some part of the high cost of
living at the Junior senator's door by
telling the voters of Dorchester, as
he did the Orangeburg people yes?
terday, that It had cost tho govern?
ment nearly $1,000 | pound to fatten
Senator Smith.
The burden of the Cheraw man'*
speech was: "You don't want an>
man elected to the Cnltcd States sen?
ate through the Instrumentality ol
federal uppolntments. Neither do you
want to elect a man through the in
atrumentallty of appointments made
In South Carolina, or through tin
potency of a political mat bine. You
don't want to select n man who If
'out of joint' with your national party.
You don't want to send there a man
who can't work In double harness.
Or* the other hand, you do nerd u
man who has tho sympathy and sup?
port of bis leader ami colleagues, if
h? Is to be of any direct hineilt to
the Htuts be represents."
fu. D. Jennings made tho only ag?
gressive speech of tin- day. h?.t there
was Utile of aaaotlc rlinony in lids.
The mayor of Sumter vigorously do
fended the new primary iPgSSaltuns
aa emtmdied in tho recently adopted
party rules, wbleh "1 helped to
frame And this was not done to
cheat the ,?<?..r man out of his v? lOJ
nor, as the governor assorts, is it 'a
pie- e of trickery to fool my friends '
You have to go to tho polls to vote,
then why si.I you objeet to spar?
ing tho tlmo It will take to register?
All you have to do is to go there and
resistor once, and you are qualified to
vote tho balance of your life. When
you're dead, you ought to stop. That's
Just why the rules wore passed. Mo
f??r the changes were made a dishon?
est man might go to the gravoard
and take the name of John Smith,
who was killed In tho battle or Ma
nassas, 1MB I, and vote some other
dishonest man under this name, ftl
law, mv undeceived friends, was not
to eheut the poor man out of his vote,
but to protect tho ballots of honest
voters when thry had been polled."
During tho last few minutes of his
speech Mr. Jerning-, assailed the gov?
ernor's pardon record and regretted
that he had so brief n tlmo to dis?
cuss that which it had taken the i;o\
ern??r four years to make "Don't bo
deceived b> petitions. Wbv at this
stage In South <'ur<dlna you could get
JENNINGS MAKES HIT.
JPMPs o\ RECORD OF RLEASE
?Sl'MTER MAYOR'S SPEECH
EE ATI'RE or ST. GEORGE
MEETING.
Says Mm h About Pardons and De?
fends Enrolment Rules and De?
nies "Trickery" Churgo.s Made by
Governor.
News and Courier.
St. George, June 19.?"Governor j
Please says he's running on his rec?
ord, therefore he should bo glad for
mo to give his record," said In IX
Jennings, mayor of Sumtcr, and can-^
dldate for the United States senate, to
about four hundred voters of Dor?
chester county at the campaign meet?
ing here t< day. He paid his respects
to both Oov. Bleaso and Senator
Smith, devoting mrst of his time to1
the former, whose record he vijg- '
orously attacked, und to whoso
charges of "trickery" on the part of
llie State Convention leaders, in re?
quiring personal enrolment and that
I
I eaeh would-be voter sign his name in
lull, ho made what appeared to be
an effectively reply.
Mr. Jenning's speech wan undoubt?
edly the feature of the meeting, and
was pronounecd by many who have
h^ard the candidates daily since the
I
campaign opened the strongest and
I straighlest talk of the contest so far.
THREE HUNDRED DEAD.
Houses Collapse In Cyclone and In?
habitants of East India Islands
Killed.
Patavia, Java. June 20.?Over three
hundred wore killed today when a
cyclone devastated an island north of
British Guinea. Hundreds of houses
collapsed.
MILITANTS RECOGNIZED.
Premier ^AwqmTh 'fatves Smpathetle
Hearing to Working: Women und
Promises to Consider Their Request
London, June 20.?Militant suf?
fragettes wore recognized officially by
the British government for the lirst
time today when a deputation of six
women were received in audience by
Premier Asquith. The premier showed
a sympathetic hearing towards the
delegates, all of whom were working
we men and promised to consider their
representations.
FEARFUL AERIAL DISASTER.
1 Aeroplane Crashes Into Gas Hag of
Hal loon-?Nine Dead.
II Vienna, June 20.?A military bal?
loon collided with an aeroplane and
' exploded six hundred feet in the air
' today, killing a lieutenant, a naval
? othcor. two soldiers and an engineer.
' and four others. '1 hmisamls of Spec
i tators witnessed the tragedy.
A powerful Par man biplane crash
I ed into the gas big of the dirigible.
I Parseval, which was followed by a
loud explosion and a burst of llame.
lll'NDREDS Hl'RIED IN MINE.
Portfolio Alive of MM in shurt When
Explosion Came.
Hlllcrest. Alberta. Juno 20.?Res?
cuers today are digging into a mass
of wreckage at mine No. 20. where a
hundred ami ninety-seven miners
were entombed yesteidny. Fire Is
still raging in the shaft. Out of two
hundred ond thirty-eight in the mine
only forty-Otic remain alive.
Superintendent Quiglcy today was
reported among the deed,
a pt tltlon to have the best man in
your town hanged any day," he said.
Senator Smith made his usual
speech in defense of his stewardship,
telling what an uphill climb it had
been la get cotton legislation through
the senate, when there were only live
farmers there and the two exclusive
farmers being from South Carolina.
lie presented facts and ligures as
proof conclusive and pledged to
continue his efforts in this direction
if returned*
This was the home of Senator
Smith's lirst wife ami he was con?
sequently no stranger lure. At the
conclusion of his speech two large
bunches of Rowan wa re presented to
him by admiring friends which were
the Aral bouquets "thrown" since the
campaign opened,
Not more than 100 persons attend?
ed ike meeting at s?. Qeorge today,
Rains have been general In this part
of the State and farmers are busy.
The party goes to Charleston tonight,
where the meeting Will be In Id in
German Artillery hall at I o'clocH to?
morrow afternoon,
THE AMERICAN POSITION.
PUBLIC STATEMENT IN REPLY
TO MEXICAN DELEGATES.
Americans' Reply to iiuortn Delegates
Explains That Neutral is ImiMJs
ilblo iiiul That Revolutionists Have
Root Right to Rnlo,
Niagara Falls, Juno IS.?The Am?r
ioan delegation to the Mexican me- j
dlatlon conference tonight made pub?
lic a statement, issued with the eon
sent of the Washington government,
replying to the statement given out
last night by tho Mexican delegation,
criticising the American plan for the
establishment of a provisional gov?
ernment In Mexico City With a consti?
tutionalist at its head, Suggestions,
that President Wilson had any Intent
to destroy the electoral liberty of
Mexico are "utterly repudiated" by
the American representative*. The
statement covers the whole range of
criticism by the Huorta delegates. It
was interpreted as foreshadowing the
unalterable position of the United
States in future parleys.
The statement in substance follows:
"Tho American representatives do
not think it is conducive to the inter
l
cats of mediation to publish during
its pendency the various plans or tho
contentions of the parties, but as the
Mexican representatives have given
out a formal statement of their ob?
jections to the appointment of a con?
stitutionalist as provisional president.
' because among other things an elec?
tion conducted by such a provisional
government would not represent the
will of the Mexican people. It has been
thought necessary to give out a part
of the answer to the letter written by
Mr. Kabasa.
"In that answer the American rep?
resentatives utterly repudiate any sug?
gestions that the American president
f has any intent of destroying the elec?
toral liberty of Mexico and insist: that
the Mexican rei resentatives entirely
1 misundeviwtnTTrr*rriW~ rVroth/os fffl?tT?H?*
jeets of the president, who recognizes
' the facts and sees in the past success
1 of the constitutionalist army indis?
putable evidence of the approval of
tho Mexican people. Hut he also sees
the full triumph of that army means
an indefinite continuance of war, with
the suffering and bloodshed and death
which every war involves.
"These consequences the presiderl
seeks to prevent through mediation,
but we greatly fear the language ot
the Mexican note implies that his ef?
forts may be thwarted because of un?
willingness to have a constitutional?
ist as provisional president, even
.though that promises the only prac?
tical means by which the horrors of
war can be prevented.
"Hops is expressed that the Mexi?
can representatives will not further
0 )pose the only plan Which promises
peace, when its rejection nines suf
ft ring anil death to so many. We
are convinced that your objections to
the plan Itself and your fear of the
11 consequences that may follow its
adoption are not well founded; and
tl at in attacking the details >'OU lose
sight of the large ami pontrolllng
motive which from the beginning of
this trouble has been in the mind
of the president ami which has in
Ut enced the American representatives
I
in all that they have said or proposed
to the mediators.
The American government seeks
only to assist in securing the pacifi?
cation of Mexico. It baa no special
Interest in the method or in the per?
son by which that great end is to
be accomplished; ami it it presses for
any particular method or tor the se?
lection of a particular type of man
it is only because it believes them to
be the only means to the desired
, em .
"it would be easy at this confer?
ence to write an agreement which
ma iy WOUld Consider desirable, but
j unless tlie most excellent of plans and
the most excellent men are ac
cep ed by the constitutionalists wo
onl\ would have a paper plan, wholly
Ineffective to secure peace in a war
Worn republic. To bring that war to
a close, to restore peace ami a con?
stitutional government Is the aim of
the president and that end only can
be attained by Consulting the just
wishes of the constitutionalists, who
are Ihe dominant force in the country.
"I those solectod by the mediators
to administer tin? provisional govern?
ment have the confidence of the con?
st i? Ul ion i lists a long step will have
been taken towards the paclllcation of
Mexico without furnishing un> occa?
sion for alarm to those Mr. Itubasti
represents, . . for ii the plan is ac?
cepted both by Hen. Hucrttt and lien.
Currsnsa the cessation or arms fol
lows ind a provisional government in
ostahlished hi call an election at
which every ipiallflcd voter mas east
his ballot for tho president ol his
STOR MAN HONORED, i
WILLIAM E. MIKELL MADE DEAN
OF UXIVER8ITY OF PENN?
SYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL.
Ho Succeeds W. D. Lewis Who Ho
I
signed to Accept Progressive Nomi?
nation for Governor of Pennsyl?
vania.
Philadelphia Jone 1!).?William!
Draper Lewis, Washington parly'
(Progressive) candidate for governor,
has resigned as dean of the Univer?
sity of Pennsylvania law school. Wil?
liam E. Mikoll, an Instructor and
professor Ih the institution, has been
elected dean for the ensuing year.
Dr. Lewis was granted a year's leave'
of absence when ho decided to enter
the gubernatorial contest but the
faet that he had resigned was made
public only tonight.
choice, while if the plan indorsed by
the Mexican representatives should be
adopted and a neutral should be
chosen, we would have secured no
practical results but still be confront?
ed with the Insurmountable fact that
the constitutionalists, now almost
completely triumphant, would reject
the plan, repudiate the man and press
forward with renewed seal to .Mexico
City with all the loss of blood and lift
that may evolve.
"In reference to the suggestion that
the provisional president should be a
neutral it is said that: 'it is man?
ifest that in such a contest as has
been waged in Mexico for years, it is
not only fair, but necessary, to as?
sume that every intelligent man of
any prominence Is at heart on one
side or the other and the country
, might well question the patriotism of
i any Mexican who has been colorless
in such a contest, anel as the provis?
ional president must be to some extent
I Identified with one party or the ?ither,
it necessarily follows that to meet the
I requirements of the* present situation
'his sympathies, Which really mark
the man, must bo with the dominant
clement.
"The effort, therefore, should be
not to lind a neutral, but one whose
attitude on the controlling Issues
would make him acceptable to the
' constitutionalists while his character,
standing and conduct would make
him acceptable to the other party.
" 'Such a man, and only such a
' man, can reasonably bo expected to
have the confidence and respect of the
entire country.'1
"In answer to the contention that
there could be no fair elections con
ducted by a provisional government
of which a constitutionalist was pro?
visional president, the answer of the
Americans calls attention to the fact
that in the past the elections in Mex?
ico 'have been under the supervision
of a Single cabinet minister repre?
senting the dominant party. By
analogy the next election should be
supervised by only one officers repre?
senting the dominant constitutionalist
party. The American plank seeks t<>
avoid the just criticism against that
method and contemplates that this,
the most important election in the
history of Mexico, shall be supervised
by representatives of both parties.
"'it is wholly Incorrect to assume
that thus supervised it will bo un?
fairly conducted and you may rest
assured that all the Influence Un?
dated states can legitimately use
will be exerted to secure an honest
election.'
I " 'It is true that the American plan
proposes that a majority of this board
shall be eonstltulonulists, but that is
because they now represent the senti?
ment ?if the majority of people of
Mexico and on which we must insist,
has been formulated solely with that
end In View. Actuated by these mo?
tives we feel that we may appeal lo
you, and through you to the other
Mexican representatives to read again
our plan In the light of these words."
In View of the Opposite views ex?
pressed by the American and Mexican
delegations in their public utterances,
the mxt conference, it was admitted,
would bring perhaps the most critical
and delicate moment of the mediation
proceedings. The mediators Intone! to
submit live or h!x names which the}
have selected out of a big list. Among
these may be found one who is suit
abb' but the atmosphere was so pes?
simistic tonight it would cause gen?
eral surprise If it occurred,
Teh break between Carransa and
Villa has given some observers the
feeling thai the American delegates
might, as heretofore, not insist on a
man high up in the constitutionalist
ranks, but would urge a man in sym?
pathy with the principles of tlie revo?
lution??u progressive as opposeel to ;?
r< ictionury. While the American del?
egates have not entirely lost hope ol
the possibility of a change In senti?
ment at tomorrow's meeting, the gen
DISSOLUTION Tills AFTERNOON
I M.FSs UNEXPECTED DE?
VELOPMENTS (K ( I H.
Final Conference with Mediator*
1 ?**!<! Tliis Afternoon?President
Wilson Refuses to Make any Com?
promise in His Demand for t on.
stitutional President.
Niagara Fulls, June 20.- Unices
unexpected developments cause o sud?
den Change, the Mexican mediation
conferences will terminate within
twelve hours. It is reported from
Washington that President > vilson
has rejected the idea of th ..th
American powers.
The mediation colony ? >" ea to?
il
day to pack tip and iBtLVJF .spatch
08 State that the An , govern?
ment refused to corsT any com
? jr
promise in Its den?** <>r a consti?
tutionalist OS prov w l president of
Mexico,
A dispatch *v Mexico City stat?
ed that the r i minister had de?
clared that nes ikttons would he re?
sumed Monday, hut JIuerta delegates
have showed no signs of making any
concessions.
A final conference of the mediators,
Americans and Mexicans, will he held
this afternoon at which it is expected
that a final dissolution will he voted.
Niagara Falls, June 20.?Hope for'
the successful conclusion of the me?
diation conference was revived this
afternoon. It seems that a chance for
a settlement is left through the dig?
nified surrender of the Iluerta dele?
gates. They said yesterday that they
rejected the American plan "without
I e ven consulting their government."
Now that they have consulted their
government, there is a possibility that
the Mexicans may change their
position. The American delegates
seem optimistic. The Mexican dele?
gation this afternoon received a dls
PQAc-U- stating that Villa had deposed
Carranxa and that he has proclaimed
Gen. Felipe Angeles president of
Mexico. The telegram says that
Carransa is preparing to fight.
STEAMER SINKS, CREW DROWN.
Pleasure Boat strikes Concrete Tank
and Goes Down in Few Minute's?
Three Men Lost.
St. Louis, June 20.?Three persons
arc known to be missing as a
result of the sinking of the excursion
steamer Majestic, a large pleasure
boat, on the Mississippi river a few
miles north of here.
Rolla Wlsherd, the boat's owner,
is among the missing, other missing
members of the crew were returning
to St. Louis from Alton, where a
thousand persons, including several
hundred telephone operators, had
been on an outing. The steamer col?
lided with a new concrete water
Works at the Intake tower and .sank
within i few minutes, it is believed
that all passengers are safe. Many
of I he crew were in their bunks.
lilt; BANK CLOSES.
Withdrawal of Deposits Causes Fail
Lttlc Itock, June 20.?The State
National Hank, one of the most im
portant and centrally located banks
In this city, failed to open this morn?
ing, following an all nicht session of
the board of directors. A notice
I pi sled on the doors stated that the
bank had closed on account of the
withdrawal of deposits. The officers
state that they expect to pay deposi?
tors In full. The last report showed
loans and discounts one million eight
i
hundred thousand; deposits one
million, seven hundred thousand dol?
lars; capital slock, half a million.
The clearing house states that othei
banks are unaffected by the closing.
Shiloh school has received $200
state nid from the state department
o| education.
oral feeling was that mediation could
not last much longer becaupo of the
irreconcilable position now taken by
the American and Iluerta delegates in
public statements.
Kmilo Itahasa, head of the Iluerta
delegation, read the American state?
ment and said he already was familiar
with its ((intents as it was a para?
phrase of the memorandum given
him b\ the American delegates. lie
added that he would not decide until
tomorrow whether <>r n . there would
ho a reply. Mr. llabash said he had
been Informed that as Minister Nuoli
of Argentina might not gel back from
Harvard until late tomorrow, the full
conference prohnhl) would not take
place until tomorrow nlghl or possi?
bly Saturday.
lire of In-titution.
ULTIMATUM 10 MEDIATORS.
VC) HOPE OF SiriTLI.MIAT KX
L'KtT o\ AMERICAS CON?
DITIONS.
l'nittd states Insists on Constitutional?
ist r?r President and 1'nlcss Mex
hnus Yield the Mediation Confer?
ence Will I nd in failinc.
Niagara Kalla, Juno 11?.?Justice
r?amar's memorandum to Rmilio Ra
i.asa, head oi the Mexican mediation
delegation, announcing that the
United Bttaes oust insist on the ac?
ceptance of its plan for the pacifica
ii< n of Mexico, is an ultimatum. Un?
less the linen a delegates yield media?
te n will end tomorrow OT Monday.
This is the firm determination of the
United states as conveyed to the
mediators today. Ambassador Da
Gama of Prar.il and Minister Suarez
Of Chile naked <ho American delegates
if their positi a had ( hanged in view
of the Carransi-Villa split and the
reply was that it had. not.
It was an informal talk, Out served
to advise tin mediators that the
published statements of the Ameri?
can and Huerta delegates, with oppo?
site views on the type of man to be
selected for provisional president, de
lined clearly the unalterable attitude
of the American government.
Just what would be the American
policy if mod: sion fails or what dis?
position it would make of the Amer?
ican troops at Vera Cruz is not known
even to the American delegates. The
Huerta commissioners say they do not
know what course of action Gen.
Huerta may pursue.
The mediators held no formal ses?
sion today because Minister Xaon of
Argentina stopped in Washington in?
stead of returning directly from uni?
versities where he has been receiving
honorary degrees. Minister Naon is
expected l ack early tomorrow and
will confer lirat with his colleagues,
who are anxiot s to know whether his
conferences % th officials of the
Washington gc eminent today devel-'
oped a new rc"d towards solution of
the problems t >nfrontinj? them.
If it has not the various plans will
be formally presented.
Itejection by the Americans of the
mediators' plan as well as that offer?
ed by the delegates will be recorded
as a matter of form, together with
disapproval by the Mexicans of the
American plan. Automatically that
would adjourn the conference, ac?
cording to the rules of procedure
adopted when they first convened.
The mediators, however, still have
some names to BUggCSt for provisional
president.
A report from Mexico City that
Gen. Huerta had decided to appoint
Pedro Lascurain as minster of for?
eign affairs may change the entire as?
pect of things if it develops that Mr.
Lascurain is to be made provisional
president, irrespective of the media?
tion proceedings. Mr. Rahaaa, head of
da Mexican delegation, said he
thought it wa.v improbable this would
i cewr.
Mr. Lascurain was minister of for?
eign a H airs under Madero and at his
overthrow became provisional presi?
dent, appointed Huerta to his cabinet
and then relinquished the presidency
to him. Many constitutionalists have
explained that they opposed the ele?
vation of Mr. Laacurain because of
bis unresisting subserviency to Huer
ta's assumption of otlice.
The American delegates hitherto
are understood to have objected to
Laacurain on the ground that his re?
sumption of the foreign ministry
would not mean a restoration j>f the
constitutional order, because be vol?
untarily had abandoned his right to
hold that office. Many here believe,
however, the American government
would accept' Lascurain pending an
election.
The following paragraph from the
memorandum of the American dele?
gates sums up the stand Justice La
mar and Frederick VY. Lehmann have
1 ecu Instructed 11? hold :
"The rutted States is a party to
the mediation in the hope that it
might lead \<> peace and that the
pi.ict? would lead to prosperity. The
plan the American representatives
1 repose and on which we must in?
sist will he formulated solely with
that end in view."
Another paragraph which is the
American government's practical re?
jection of the mediators' plan reads
"American obj ions to the phut
approved by the KMexican represen?
tatives have beens ased on the pro?
found conviction ")al the adoption
of the plan would tot stop the prog?
ress of the victorious army, nor
bring that spced\ peace which the
American government so sincerely
desire s."