Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.ELSER mSGUSSES SITUATION ?F.PI/ORFs TALK OF HARD MM AND Ml WHY. ??i? Tin* Tot?! Lo<s In State Cannot Exceed f.10.000.000 ami Tills Will imH Bring AIm tut llunkrupti'). The atate. Nov. 4. lt. ?. Heiser of Sumter. one of the most conservative members of the house of representatives, guve The State the following interview yester? day before he left Columbia: "There has b?en so much talk of the demoralisation of all ^business In the State and so many statements that th?? whole Hute was facing bankruptcy *.h*t X think It worth while to call the attention of the people of the State to a few facts that will show conclu? sively that no such conditions exist. "The annual production of wealth in South Carolina Is approximately 1300.000.000, distributed normally sbout as follows: Value of cotton and cotton seed. 98O.0Ou.00O to $90,000, 000; value of other farm products, in? cluding corn, small grain, hay, truck, tobacco and live stock, about $60,000, 000; cotton manufactures, about $85, 000.000 to $90.000.000; oil mill prod? ucts. $12,000,000 to $i:.000,000; ferti? liser and miscellaneous manufactures, $40.000.000 to $50.000.000. "Of this $ 100.000,000 of wealth an? nually produced in this State the cotton crop will possibly bring $25, 000.000 to $30,000,000 less than usual; the cotton mill products will hardly fall off In value exceeding $10,000,000 to $15.000,000. and. if present indi? cated deman 1 keeps up. the greater volume of products may be worth fully as much as In the past few years. Allowing $10.000.000 for the falling off In value of other manufactures, the total decrease of wealth produced in the State will hardly exceed $50, 000.000. "It can readily be seen, therefore, that with an annual production of $300.000.000 and an Indicated falling off In value for this year's production of not exceeding $50,000.000 In the total wealth produced in the Shite, there can be no good reason for the frequent statement that bankruptcy Is facing the whole State by reason of the low price of cotton. Furthermore, it must not be overlooked that we are this year producing 1,500,000 bales of cotton at practically the same expense as In the past two or three years we La\e n> iied from 1,250,000 to 1, ISi ". t u 1 that the value of the ad? dition.^ bales of coUon should be de ? d from the loss estimated "Now let us look at the situation from the viewpoint of the aggregate wealth of the State as a whole. The total property as assessed for taxation Is $300.000,000. whieh indicates not less than a billion dollars as the ac? tual value of the property (and prob? ably even more, as the average as? sessed value of the property of the State Is probably less than 30 per cent, of the real value.) Now if the State loses $50.000.000 for < i.e year, or even for two years, it would lack 4 great deal of bankrupting the State. The proportion would he the same if a man worth $10,000 should lose $500, or If tho same conditions should con? tinue for two years that he sTtouhl lone $1.000. Admittedly such a man woub l>e far from Insolvent. I* t us therefore stop this foolish talk ^bout the State facing bankruptcy and get down to work to meet and overcome the conditions as they exist. It Is going to be necessary to econ? omise und cut out all unnecessary luxury and expense. Hut every man who gets down to work is going to pull through safely and be ultimate-. ly benefited by the enforced restraint from the tendency to extravagance and gNMSffulness which was becoming all too general." Civic Is'Mgue l*rUes. The Civic league held its regular j monthly meeting on the afternoon of October 2?; it the Hampton school. Many of the mouther* were present on this occasion und a lively interest was taken in the various discussions. As It was the time set for the annual award? ing of prizes In the Children's Oar len Contest, the little gardeners were out In full fo ee to learn the names of toe successful contestants. A gener Oll* supply of well-selected bulbs was bestowed upon those ?Im had grown the host gardens In the hope that they would prove an Incentive t<? fur? ther efforts to bra itlfy the surround hsgi The priss wlaneri were: Ward one Kllz.ibeth MoKagon. Marlon I'h.dps. Maggie Muggins. Ward Two?Oladys Cuttlno. Matte l*v St'iekey. Ward Three (Jlady* It.rringer. Ines Carr. Vivii l?rwls < \ .? ?? tables). Smith Hagnall (vegetables), Ward Four Km ma and KsttMW Osteen, (summer garden), reltman James ( \ ??getaldes > Ifonorutde Mention- horls and Km nn? Mc? allum, Clinton McCnw, Joe Warn a. The sbb walk* on Washington street ure Mag P?d into good condition by the street department. coxVl.lli:xC!k taki:s QUICK ac? tion with ca It It a nz A. MMI Hoechlng First Chief's RefMM ul to Kctirc, Lemiers Propure for ?low. El Paso, Nov. 3.?Without answer? ing Carranzas refusal to relinquish the provisional presidency of Mexico the Aguascalientes conference has or? dered un extensive movement of Villa troops towards the south. Ten thou ind men of the commands of Qcn. Natera and den. Robltfl and 103 cannon, commanded hy Gen. An? geles, have arrived at the convention city and arc preparing to proceed south, according to olhciai advices received in Juarez. Fighting between Carranza and Villa forces already has begun south of the convention city, persons ar? riving here tonight from tie south re? ported. Qen. Carranza today declared he would not abido by the action of the Aguasealientes convention in naming a provisional president, according to a message received here. Carranza's statement as received by officials of the constitutionalist con? sul general's office here was tele? graphed from Pueblo. It said: "The convention having not com? plied with the conditions that I ilxed regarding my retirement from the duties I am performing as first chief. I have not taken into consideration the resolution of the said convention in regard to their appointment of a president who should take my place and therefore I still continue to be in charge of my office. "This resolution of mine has been supported by the governors of the States. Among the officials joining in this action are Gens. Coss, I*. Sanchez, A. Gonzales, Ernesto Sentos Coy, Pablo Gonzales and all leaders of the division of the northeast. ??I have no doubt that the balance of the leaders when they know of this resolution of mine will support nty attitude and will ignore the con-i vention. (Signed) "V. Carranza." j villa with convention'. Pledges IIb. Allegiance to Gutierrez as Provisional President. Washington. Nov. o.?Gen. Villa has pledged allegiance to Eulalio Gutier? rez, who was selected as provisional president of Mexico at the Aguasealien? tes convention, according to state de? partment repOftl today. The <N>nvention adjourned last night on receipt of a report from the spe? cial committee sent to the capital to inform Gen. Carranza of the action of the convention. Suggestions that it reassemble immediately in Mexico City were met with expressions of apprehension by many delegates, who feared arrest. If Carranza accepts the decision of the convention, however, the delegates plan to assemble In the capital and administer the oath of of-! lice to Gutierrez. coppf.k king dies. Succumbs After Brief Seizure, Brought on by Journey Home to Vote. Saratoga, N. Y., Nov. 4. ?Augustus Ileinze, owner of immense copper In* terests in the ' West, died suddenly here tonight. Mr. Ileinze. whoso legal residence was Saratoga, came here yesterday from New York to vote, lie became ill suddenly yesterday afternoon at th I home of his counsel. Judge Nash K ickwood. His condition Kiew stead? ily worse and he expired early this morning. Mr. ileinze. Who was H years old. had been ill since last June with i eirrhosis of the liver. He came here against the advice of his physician. opi:h\T1ons WITHOUT AX AR* Tmoncn. Wounded Soldiers So IT er Vniiuugin able Pain Without T.thcr. Washington. Nov. i.?Operation! are bei an performed without the use of anaesth?'ti<s on WOUnded soldiers in some parts ??f Kurope, according to a cablegram today t-? lied Cross headquarters, The message from i.ondmi son! by Thomai Whlttemore, u|" Uoaton, said: "Just returned from Prance for sup? plies, A' res of wounded. IJnimugln? aide suffering, operation! without ether." The lied I 'russ bulay cabled < 111,00? ti? American Minister Nan Pykc ul The Hague for Itclglun refugees in I Holland. Death. From The Dally item. Nov. ?'. Mrs. Laura Hcott, wife of .\'r. O, W Scott died at. I o'craeti Ihls morn Im aged about If years, The funern services will be held from her lab residence, Sil s. Wright street at i o'eloek, tum?.now. Friday, SOUTH LOSES 3 DEMOCRATS. r? \( i:s in LOWER iiorsi: PILL? ED BV OTHER P A U li i s. Progressive in Third Louisiana Dis? trict Klocted on Sugar Issue?North Carolina Loses one Scat to Repub? lican. Atlanta, Nov. I.?Twelve Southern States will send 10."> Democratic rep? resentatives to the next session of con? gress out Of a possible 112, according to eleetion returns tonight. This com? pilation shows a loss of three Demo? cratic memberships compared with the representation at the last session, t ?f the seven mombershi is which Will HOI be held by the Democrats six will PC held by Republican* and one by the Progressives, The opposition to the Democrats from the South will be distributed as follows: Tennessee?Samuel R. Sells, Repub? lican, First; Sharod Austin, Repub? lican, Second district. Oklahoma?Dick T. Morgan, He-j publican, Eighth district; Jos A. Glib Republican, First district. North Carolina?James J. Dritt, Republican, Tenth district. Virginia?C, tsascom siemp, Repub? lican, Ninth district. Louisiana?W, 11. Martin. Progres? sive, Third district. House membership! held by Demo? crats in the last congressional session but lost, according to late returns, are the Tenth North Cr roll na, the first Oklahoma and he Third Louis iana districts. Representative James M. Qudgsr was the Democratic candidate for re election in the Tenth North Carolina as was Representative Janu s M. Dav? enport in the First Oklahoma. Henry L. Qusydan was the Democratic can? didate in the Third Louisiana, United States senator-elect R. F. Hroussard has represented the Third Louisiana in the house. Seven Southern States will return solid Democratic delegations to the house as follows: Alabama 10, Arkansas 7, Florida 1, Georgia IS, Mississippi 8, South Caro? lina 7, Texas IS. The defeat of the Democratic nom? inee In the Third Louisiana district Is attributed to the removal of the tariff on sugar hy congress. The district is a sugar producing centre. Theodore Roosevelt made several speeches in behalf of the Progressive cause there. Voters in Texas defeated a proposed constitutional amendment for the es? tablishment of the initiative, referen? dum and recall. The Progressive vote' in the State was greatly reduced. Progressives in Georgia showed I greater strength than in 11? 12. ELEVEN PLEAD NOT QUILTV. Over Half Store of New Haven For? mer ami Present Directors in Court. New York, Nov. 4.?Eleven of the 20 New Haven directors' or former di? rectors, indicted Monday by the fed? eral grand jury, today entered pleas of not guilty in the United States dis? trict court. William skinner. Alex? ander Cochrane, James s Hemming way, Frederick R. Drowsier, A. Heaton Robertson, D. Newton Car? ney, Edward Miliigan. Francis T. Maxwell, Henry K. IfoHarg and Rob? ert W, Taft appeared personally. An attorney appeared for Theodore N. Vail, ill in Virginia. Bach of the de? fendants was released under n bond of $5,000 and given until Novem? ber 26 to make any other pleas they might deem necessary. Edward D. Bobbins, former New Haven counsel, who also was Indicted, reserved the right to enter at a lower date a "plea in bar" in which case he might claim immunity. WILSON ENDORSED BY RKSl'LTaS. Though Pidted Again, Republicans llaxe Failed to Storm Democratic Works. St. Louis, Nov. 4.?Senator Wil? liam J. stone of Missouri, chairman of the senate foreign affairs commit? tee, considers the result of the elec? tion an emphatic Indorsement of tin Wilson administration. He said to? day: "The Republicans have been saying that if they could become united they could lick us. They were united everywhere and the contesi generally was a denn cut fight be - I tween the Democrats standing b> Wil? son's administration ami the Itepub ; lieu11s opposing it. "Considering the fuel that this is an lift* your; that the Democrats have enacted n new tariff law and new cur? rency legislations that we have had l< meet the |);ild times CIV, Olid tlUlt ?? great war Is on which has absorbed public attention. | think the Domo erais have done remarkably well." The Court of Common I Metis con veins here on Monday for it lw? weeks' session. Jttdge Rice will l"? side. There an- i|iilte a number n eases in which large amounts an Involved and several Interesting case are expected h? Is tried. POT 11 GERMAN DREADN AK.Ills WITHIN TEN MILES UP NOUT1I EAST SHORE. Submarine i)-r> Reported to lie Sunk, While Cruiser Escapes Enemies? English Tlllllk Ships Merely Come to Plant M nes. London, Nov. I.?Thai four Ger? man dreadnaughts und four German cruisers ti ok part In yesterday's en? gagement off the* east coast of ISng land is confirmed by the crow of the ?team drifter Garrlglll. According to the skipper of the drifter the German ships appeared sixteen miles east northeast of Lowestoft at 7 o"cloek in the morning. The firing at the Drttish cruiser Halcyon lasted titeen min? utes. The ;,kipper also says that two llrit ish submarines, in addition to the D-5, which was sunk by striking a mine, pursued the Germans. Next to the Turkish situation the appearance of German warships ofl the English const is causing most ofl the discussion in this country today. There is a disposition among naval men to believe that no serious raid was intended, but that tin- Germans hoped to induce British warships t" follow them and, by laving mines as they retired, to catch some of the big? ger ships, as they did the submarine| D-5. The fact that the Germans did lay mines seems to indicate to the naval experts here that the ships engaged In this work were old ones. These experts argue that Germany won't' not take .such risks with new vessels. As if to prove their contention the ex? perts say that the firing :>t the Hrlt ish cruiser Halcyon, which resulted in slight damage to that vessel, showed that the Germans were not armed With modern guns. With the pressure on the Franco Belgian seacoast relieved, Interest In] London has again been directed from land operations t?? naval movements. The daring dash of a German squad? ron to within ten miles of the north? east coast of England Indicates that the prolonged Inactivity of the larger units of the German fleet has been broken l>y a raid on the coast of Eng? land, but much satisfaction is ex? pressed that the cruiser Halcyon, hj the cU ver seamanship of her com? mander, escaped from a tight corner practically uninjured. The retiring German squadron dropped floating mines In its track and this delayed pursuit. These tac? tics are exciting some criticism here, but experts realize that the mines probably were of a type recognised as legitimate by The Hague Convention. OKA WS MUCH COM l< HIT. Republican Official says Election Re? bukes Wilson. Chicago, Nov. 4.?"This election, like others held since 1912, demon? strates that the country is Uepublican and f.ivi rs a protective tariff," said John C, Eversman, secretary of the I Republican congressional committee in a statement here today. "It shows that the Wilson administration re? mains i minority and sectional one; that the Progressive party disappears as a potential factor in American poll tics; that the Republicans' gains In congress will put an end to the half baked and sectional legislation which has characterized the present Demo? cratic administration. "In the 'Solid South.' as usual. 12" Democratic congressmen were elected With hardly any opposition and little responsibility to their constituents, and were it not for this President Wil? son would face today ? more serious rebuke than the one the people ad? ministered on the Democratic part> in 1892 win a it attempted to foist free trade upon the country." PLEASED AT RES I LTS. I Socialist Party Satisfied With Elections - I Chicago, Nov. I.?"The Socialist party is well satisfied with the ^< n eral result in yesterday's election," sold \\'alte>- Laufersic< k, exeeutiv ? secretary and active head of the Na? tional Socialist party, today. "P.c siilcs the election of Meyer London to congress from the Twelfth New Vork district, we have done well elsewhere. Mj advices are that James Mauer, president of the Pennsylvania Federa? tion of l<abor and :i member id the executive committee of the National Socialist party, huh been reolected to the legislature; at Elizabeth, N. ???? Hairy Popp has Ihm u cUm to tin city council and another Socialist lost by a small margin: ;?t Haledon, N. .1 Mayor William I IriUM'kniann has Im ii reel vet etl and the Socialists elected one councilman and four marshal In Illinois we reolected two meinb r i of t he leglslal tire. Speaking of the falling off In tin Progressive vote. Mr. I ?aul'crsh el lUlKMANS SANK VKSSI-X. In battery. -? ", h( Kaiserin Elisabeth, according I Believed Austrian Boat \\.\- lb -troyotl to a previous Japanese report, has at Thing Tan. be< ti aiding the forts in relying to the ... . v. , ? 11 icks of Jaisinese and British j Irokio, Nov. 1. ?In a statt inent is ? . , ... , warsMps which arc gathered before sued hc?rc to'Viy the navy department 1 , , i- ....... , Tslr.g Tau. /ays it believes t hal the Germans at 'Ising Tau have sunk the Austria! . . ALL IVOltK STOPPED. cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth, which took refuge in that harbor sum. af , . . . . Operations ?-i Savunmih & IVcstcrn ter Japan? se declared war on Ger , ,?.. I. ? ? .j . Railway at Standstill. man;., it is also thought the Ger? mans have destroyed the lloatingj Orangebt . Kov. I.?Work <>n the docks. Savannah Western railway has The Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elisa- stopped. A I of hands had been bcth, reported sunk by the Germans at work for some time in and around In Tsing Tan harbor, < ridently for the llown >n in tl Is county and the people purpose of preventing her from falling of thai section ivere expecting s new into the hands of the Japanese and railroi d. All the v -i k has been stop British, who have been vigorously pod and nothing has been given out bombarding the forts there for some when work will be resumed. The new time, is a small boat of about 1,00? railroad was to run from Est ill to tons, she is rated as t 10-knot boat Manning, crossing a large portion of and has eight 5.9-lnch guns in h? ? Orangeburg county. ? J ? A Thousand And One X Ways to save, but no better way to preserve what you luve saved ? than by depositing in a good bank. X We pay 4 per cent on savings X from day of deposit. * The Peoples' Bank f ? ? ?5? I r\_ _ ?a . . ? i _ m KNSSM ir Lady Patrons * ssr Will rind that !:) the arrangement <>f cur SKV9 HOME we have made special 'provisions for their coir Tort. In addition to a coxy corner of the lobby, provided with writing tables und comfortable ?J ?cats, wo bare n special rest room for tito lames* and we cordially ^ Invite them to make use of U. I The First National Bank OF SUMTER ?a ~e and ? ? ?,>.'s effort are your tools for I/ j I p I fproves neither J ^\?,Sj < , ^ were wasted? 1; Why don't you learn the advantages of having a Bank account in a reliable Bank ? \\ To start is the thing?don't be backward because your beginning may be small, all big things had small beginnings and there is a pile of satisfaction and comfort In watching your account grow. We want to help you save and be somebody, if you will only f ive us the chance. Begin with $1.00. 4 Par Gent Interest Paid on Savings. THE BANK OF SUMTER ESTABLISHED 1880 HUUMMHU tfVtfVV ? ??> ' tut* - v ? . IWMWiHrf.lt) v w Cora a E have installed an electrically driven corn j mill of the iitosi improved pattern, and am * prepared to do ^i'inding for the public. I I his mill turns out meal and j?riis of the I best quality. * I XT ' f^'^ann Tf sroad srRLir, ?