The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 24, 1914, Image 2
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."