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Consolidated Auk. 3,1881. SUMTER, S. c, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1914. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 35. BIEISE CHANGES TACTICS. SMITH'S PHOMIT ( ALL DOWN AT KT. MATTIIKWS nVMTIVft Governor Promise's to SPig a Different Tune ?\tr tin- llalaiicc of < ampalgn. Will Make No Charges Against SoUth hut Will Try to Hold Ills < m it ??'notion In LI nr. Ft. Oeorge, June 19.?Campaign meeting* In Orangeburg ami Dorches? ter counties stand out in bold nml striking contrast. Yescerday in Of sngeburg. CO per cent, of all the hustings thunder might have been properly labeled anathema, billings? gate Invective and crushing ridicule and ubuse. Today there was an abrupt change in tactics. During the night all arms had been stacked and horns drawn in. In the future the governor, by his own announcement, will only seek "to bold the majority wb,ch ho already has." and not attempt to decoy the friends of the other candidatos. In explanation he said: "I make 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 Vrejudlced. 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 bo vlllllled from platforms, In the event they misquote him, but are to be reminded In private, and asked to correct the statements In the next dUpatches, he 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 behove there's a single voter In this audlenco with little enough sense to believe that one man Is re? sponsible for the advance in tho price I of ertton. It I thought that by keep is* Senator Smith in Washington cot? ton would go to 20 ents a pound, ?*^tttnr Ttt withdraw fronf the race a.id 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 cento? Some of you held, and took 8 cents In consequence. What was he doing then? If he's responsible for the price of cotton, who's responsible for the increased cost of mules, of shoes and clothing and 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 Hvlng 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 a pound to fatter Senator Smith. The burden of tho C'heraw man .* speech was: "You don't want an> man elected to the ITnltcd States sen? ate through the instrumentality Oi federal appointments. Neither do you want to elect a man through the in * strumentallty of appointments m.idc In South Carolina, or through the potency of a polltie-nl machine. You don't want to select a man who is 'out of >oint* with your national party. You don't want to send there a man who can't work In double harness. On the other hand, you do Mod a man who has the sympathy and sup? port of bis leader ami colleagues, if he Is to be e>f any direct benetlt to the State he represents." L. D. Jennings made the only ag? gressiv e Nprerh ?>t the day, bit there was little of caustic acrimony In this Th* mayor of Sumter vigorously de fended the new primary reflations aa embodied |n the recently adopted party rules. which 1 i helped to frume. And this was not done to cheat the ,.r man out of his VOtOJ nor, as tho governor asserts, is it 'a I. of trickery to foot my friends." You have to go to the polls to vote, then why should you object to spar? ing the time ?t will take to r.-ubtei ' All von have to do is to go there and register SgMO< and | on are qualified to Vote the BOjtaaOC of your life. When you're dead, von ought to stop, That'' Just why tho rules were passed. he fore the rhanges were made a dishon? est man might go to the graves ard and take the name of John Smith, who was killed In the battle of Mn nassas. lM?il. and vote Home other dishonest man under this name. The law, mv undeceived friends, was not to cheat the poor mon out ? f his vote, but to protect the ballots of honest voters when they had hjon polled." During the last few minutes of his speech Mr. Jennings assailed the got - rrnor's pardon record and reun ited that be had mo brief a time to dis? cuss that which it had taken the gov? ernor four years to make. "Don't be deceived hv petitions. Why at this stage In South t'arolina you could get JENNINGS MAKES HIT. Jl MPs o\ RECORD or BLRA8E ?DillEll mayor's SPEECH PEATVRE or st. GEORGE MEETING. ?iff Much About Pardons ami De? fends enrolment Hilles ami Ho? llies "Trickery" Charges Made by (Governor. \'? Wl and Courier. St. George. June 19.?"Governor Please says he's running on his rec? ord, therefore he should be glad lor mo to give his record," said I* 1). Jennings, mayor of Sumtcr, and can? didate for the Untied States senate, to ahout four hundred voters of Dor? chester county at the campaign me t ing here today. He paid his respects to both Gov. Bleasc and Senator Smith, devoting mrst of his timo to the former, whose record he vig? orously attacked, and to win-so charges of "triekery" on the part of the State Convent ion leaders, in re? quiring personal enrolment and that each would-be voter sign his name in full, he made what appeared to be an effectively reply. Mr. Jenning's speech was undoubt? edly the feature of the meeting, and was pronounced by many whe> have h'^ard the candidates daily since the Campaign opened the strongest and ' straightest talk of the contest so far. Tiim.i: HUNDRED DEAD, Houses Collapse In Cyclone and In? habitant* of Fast India Islands Killed. Patavia. Java, June 20.?Over three hundred wore killed today when a eyclone devastated an island north of Dritlsh Guinea. Hundreds of houses collapsed. MI LIT A N TS It BCOG Bf USED. Premier iAsqnttlt Gtvos Smpothcilc Hearing to Working Women ami Promises to Consider Their Request London, June 20.?Militant suf? fragettes were recognized officially by the Uritish government for the tirst timo 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 wnom were working wemen and promised to consider their representations. FFARFl'L AERIAL DISASTER. Aeroplane Crashes into Gaa Hag of lUillocn? Nine Dead. i Vienna, June 20.?A military bal? loon collided with an aeroplane and i, exploded six hundred feet in the air today, k?ling a lieutenant, a naval oMlecr, two soldiers and an engineer, and four others. 'I aousands of spec i tators witnessed the tragedy. A powerful Carman biplane crash? ed into the gas bag of the dirigible, Parseval. which was followed by a haul explosion and a ourst of Maine. HFNDHFDS lit It I CD IX MINE, Forty-one Alive of SM In Shaft When Explosion Came. Hlllcrest, Alberta. Juno 20.?Res? cuers today are digging into a mass of wreckage at mine No. 20, wher ? a hundred ami ninety-seven miners were entombed yesterday. Kile is still raging in the shaft. Out of two hundred ond thirtv-oight in the mine only forty-one re nein alive. Superintendent Qulgley today was fi i orted among the dead, a Petition to have the best man in your town hanged any day," he said. Senator Smith made his usual speech in defeiMM Of his stewardship, teiimg what an uphill climb it bad ? et n to ??( eotton legislation through the senate, wln n there were only live far men there and the two exclusive farmers being from south Carolina. Me presented facts and figures as proof conclusive iiu.i pledged to continue his efforts .n this direction if returned. This was the home of Senator Smiths bist wife and h? was con? sequently no strainer lure. At the conclusion of his speech tw., large bunches of Sowers were presented tu him by admiring friends which were the lirst bouquets "thrown" since the campaign opened. Not more I hue i?><> persons attend? ed the meeting at st. George tt day. Rains have been general in this part Of the State and farmers are busy. The party goes to Charleston tonight where the meeting will !?? held In Oer man Artillery hall at i o'clock to? morrow afternoon. THE AMERICAN POSITION. PUBLIC STATEMENT IN REPLY TO MEXICAN DELEGATES. Americans' Reply to Huerta Delegate* Explains That Neutral is Impos? sible and That Revolutionists Have Rest Right to Rule. j Niagara Falls, June IS.?The Amer? ican delegation to the Mexican me? diation conference tonight made pub? lic a statement, issued with the con? sent of the Washington government. replying to the statement given out last night by the 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 inten? to destroy the electoral liberty Of ' Mexico are "utterly repudiated" by the American representatives. The statement covers the whole range of criticism by the Huerta delegates, it was Interpreted as foreshadowing the Unalterable position of the United States in future parleys. The statement in substance follows: "The American representatives do not think it is conducive to the inter? ests of mediation to publish during its pendeney the various plans or the 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 has any intent of destroying the elec? toral liberty of Mexico and insist' that the Mexican representatives entirely miaun?lerstaTrav*rtre farrtrvew M&eoH jects of the president, who recognizes the facts and sees in the past sticcess of the constitutionalist army indis? putable evidence of the approval of the 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 president seeks to prevent through mediation, hut we greatly fear the language of 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. "Hope Is expressed that the Mexi? can representatives will not further .oppose the only plan which promises peace, when Its rejection no ans suf? fering and death to so many. We are convinced that your objections to the plan Itself and your fear of the ill consequences that may follow its adoption are not well founded; and that in attacking the details you lose sight of the large and controlling motive which from the beginning of this trouble has been in the mind of the presideni and which has In uuonced the American representatives In all that they have said or proposed to the mediators, "The American government seeks only to assist in securing the paclfl I cation of Mexico, It has no special interest in the method or In the per? son by which that gnat end is to be accomplished; and If it presses for any particular method or for the se? lection of a particular type of man it is only because it believes them to , be the only means to the desired ( end. "It would be easy at this confer? ence to write an agreement which many would consider desirable, but J unless the most excellent uf plans and the most excellent nun are ac? cepted by the constitutionalists WO only would have n paper plan, wholly Ineffective to secure peace In a war worn republic, To bring that war to a close, t<> restore peace and a con? stitutional government Is the aim of the presideni and that end only can be attained by ci HHUlling the just wishes of the constitutionalists, who are the dominant force in ihe country. ' ll tllo.se selected by the mediators to administer the provisional govern? ment haVC the confidence of the coll st Hut ion i lists a long step will have been lakei towards the pacilication of Mexico without furnishing un> occa? sion for alarm lo those Mr. Ilabasa It presents. . for it the plan is ac? cepted both by Lien. Huerta ami Hen. t'urranxa Ihe cessation of arms fol |< ws und ii provisional government Is established tu vn\\ an elect ion at which every i|tiallfled voter may cast, his ballot for the president of his' SUMTER Ml HONORED. WILLIAM E, MIKELL MADE DEAN OF UNIVERSITY OF PENN? SYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL. He Succeeds W. D. Lewis WllO Re? signed to Accept Progressiv.?' Nonil nation for Governor of Pennsyl? vania, Philadelphia June 1!>.?William Draper Lewis, Washington party (Progressive) candidate for governor, has resigned as denn ,,f the Univer? sity of Pennsylvania Inw school. Wil? liam E. Mikcll, an Instructor and professor In the institution, has been elected dean for the ensuing year. Dr. Lewi:? was granted a year's leave of absence when he decided to enter the gubernatorial contest but the fact 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 < hosen, WO Would have .sei tired no prac tical results but still lie 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 ami life that may evolve. "In referen? o 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 n Ight weil question the patriotism of any Mexican who has been colorless in such a contest, and as the provis? ional president must be to some extent identified with one party or the other, it necessarily follows that to meet the rtniul rem cuts of the* present situation 'His sympathies, which really mark the man, must be with the dominant clement. "The effort, therefore, should be not to lind a neutral, but (me 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 be expected to have the confidence ami respect of the entire country." "In answer to the contention that there could be no fair elections con ducted by a provisional government e>f 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 tin; dominant party. By analogy the next election should be supervised by only one officers repre? senting the dominant constitutional!**! parly. The American plank seeks to avoid the just criticism against that method and contemplates Lhat this, the most important election in the history of Mexico, .shall be supervised iby representatives of both parties. ? "'it is wholly incorrect to assume that thus supervised it will be un? fairly conducted and you may rest assured that all the Influence the United states can legitimately use will bo exerted to secure an honest elect ion.' j "'it Is true that the American plan proposes that a majority of this board shall he const it uionulists, but that 1? because they now leprcsent tho senti? ment of 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 WO feel that WO may appeal to you, and through you to the other Mexican representatives to read again our plan in the li^ht of these words." in view of the opposite views ox pressed by the American rind Mexican delegations in their public utterances, the next conference, it was admitted, would brine, perhaps the most critical und delicate moment of the mediation proceedings. The mediators intend to submit live or six names which the) have selected out of a big list. Among these may bo found one who is suit? able but the atmosphere was so pes? simists tonight it would cause gen? eral surprise if it occurred. Teh break between Carranzn and Villa has glVCIt some observers the feeling thai tho American delegates might, us heretofore, not insist on n man high up In the constitutionalist ranks, bul would urge a man in sym? pathy with the principle's of the revo? lution?a progressive as opposed to ti reactionary. While the American del? egates have m?t entirely lost hope ol the possibility of a change in senti? ment at tomorrow's meeting, the gen DISSOLUTION Tills AFTERNOON UNLESS UNEXPECTED DE? VELOPMENTS OCCUR. Final Conference with Mediators Held This Afternoon?President Wilson liefURes to Make any Com? promise in His Demand for Con? stitutional President. Niagara Falls, June 20.? Unless unexpected developments ? aus?' a sud? den Change, the Mexican mediation conferences will terminate within twelve hours. It is reported from I Washington that President ? ''ilson has rejected the plea of th Jth American powers. Tho mediation colony i > td. to? il day to pack up and leaver .spateh es state 111? 11 the An *' , govern? ment refused to corj? any com promise in Its dem4* or a consti? tutionalist as pro\ w ! president of o Mexico. ?a? A dispatch V .dexico City stat? ed that the r i minister had de? clared that n< s idtlons wouIj be re? sumed Monday, but Iluerta delegates have showed no signs of making any concessions'. A final conference of the mediators. Americans and Mexicans, will lie held this afternoon at which it is expected that a final dissolution will be 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 even 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 p^SSeV slating that Villa had deposed Carranza and that he has proclaimed Gen. Felipe Angeles president of Mexico. The telegram says that Carranzo Is preparing to tight. STEAMER SINKS, CREW DKOWN. Pleasure Boat Strikes Concrete Tank and Goes Down in Few Minute Throe Men Lost. St. Louis, June 20.?Three persons arc known to be missing as a result of the sinking of the excursion steamer Majestic, :l large pleasure boat, on the Mississippi river a few miles north of here. Holla Wlsherd, the boat's owner, is among the missing. (Uber missing members of the crew ware 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 a few minutes. It is believed that all passengers are sale. Many of the crew were in their bunks. HKi RAN k CLOSES. Withdrawal of Deposits Causes Fail? ure of Institution. 1.1 tie Hock, June L'O.?The State National Lank, one of the most Ittl I portunt and centrally located banks in this city, failed to open this morn? ing, following an all night session of the board of directors. A notice p< sled on the doors slated that the bank had closed on account of the withdrawal of deposits. The officers slate that they expect to pay deposi? tors in full. The last report showed loans and discounts one million eight hundred thousand; deposits one million, seven hundred thousand dol? lars; capital stock, half a million. The (baring house states that othei banks arc unaffcctcil by tho ( losing. Shtloh school bus received state aid from the state department o| education. oral feeling was that mediation could not last much longer because of the irreconcilable position now taken by the American and Iluerta delegate's in public statements. Km Ho Ituhasa, head of the Huertu ?'(?legation, read the American state? ment und Bald he alreaetj was familiar with its contents as it was a para? phrase of the memorandum given him bj the American delegates. He added that he would m?t decide until tomorrow whether or not tin re would bo a reply. Mr. IIa bash said he bad been informell that Ministci Xaou of Argentina might not ge'l back from Harvard until late tomorrow, the full conference probably would not take place until tomorrow night or possi? bly Saturday. ?LilM?fP 10 MEDIATORS. XO HOFF OF SETTLEMENT FX ( FI T <>\ IMEIMCAS COX brrtoxs. l'nii? (I Stales Insists on FnnnHtWtloiMll ist for IVrsi.lent and Unless Mex Irans Vlctd the Mediation Coaler cure Will laid in Failure. Niagara Falls, Juno 10.?Justice Lamar's memorandum to IImilio Ka l>asa, head of the Mexican mediation delegation, announcing that the United Sttacs must insist on the ac? ceptance of it.- plan for the pacilica ti< n of Mexico, is an ultimatum. Un? less the Huerta delogates yield media la n will end tomorrow or Monday. This is the firm determination of tue United states as conveyed to the mediators today. Ambassador Da 'lama <?f Frazil and Minister Suarez of chile asked the American delegates if their position had changed in view of the Uarran/.i-Villa split and the reply was that 1 had not. It was an informal talk, but served to advise the mediators that the published state; tents of the Ameri? can and Hu *ta 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 mediation 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 retui ning directly from uni? versities where he has been receiving honorary degrees. Minister Xaon is expected back early tomorrow and will confer firs* with his colleagues, w ho are anxious to know whether his conferences With officials of the Washington gov? rnment today devel oped a new road towards solution of the problems confronting them. If it has not the various plans will be formally presented. Rejection by the Americans of the mci " Ltors' 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 th? conference, ac? cording to the tules of procedure adopted when they first convened. The mediators, however, still have some names to suggest for provisional president. A report fron Mexico City that Gen. Huerta hau decHed to appolat Pedro Lascurain SS minster of for? eign affairs may i hange 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. Rahasa, head of the Mexican delegation, said he thought it was improbable this would occur. Mr. Lascurain was minister of for? eign a hairs under Madero and at his overthrow becam1 provisional presi? dent, appointed Huerta to his cabinet and then relinquished the presidency to him. Many constitutionalists have explained that th< >. opposed the ele? vation of Mr. Lutacurain because of Iiis unresisting subserviency to Huer? ta's assumption of dfiee. The American delegates hitherto are understood to have objected to Lascurain on the ground that his re? sumption of the foreign ministry would n<U mean a restoration *>f the constitutional order, because he vol? untarily had abandoned his right to hold that nfltce. Many here believe, however, the American government would accept La ? airain la nding an election. The following paragraph from the memorandum of the American dele? gates sums up the -tand Justice l*a mar and Frederick IV Lehmann have l ecu Inslrueicd to h? Id: " The United States is a party to the mediation In the hope that it might bad to peace and that the place would bad to prosperity. The plan the American representatives I im pose and on which we must in? sist will he formulated solely with ih.it < ml in view." Another paragraph which is the American government's practical re? jection of the mediators' plan reads: "American objections to the plan approved b> the Mexican represen? tatives have been ha?cd on the pro? found conviction th. the adoption nf the plan would I I stop the prog? ress of the vlctori us army, nor la im; lhat speed) peace which the American governnn nl so sincerely ill-sir* s."