The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 24, 1918, Image 4
S OPPONENT HAS
EN OUT.
NOT SPOK
flares His Position on War and
Blease Known to All, Including
Lieut. Governor.
aafer- ? : i
St. George, Aug. 20.?Lieut. Gov. j
Andrew J. Bethea, candidate for gov- I
r ernor, before an audience of about i
200 Dorchester county voters here
today in the court house, directed hb
guns against the position of Robert A.
Cooper, one of his opponents, on the
war, saying that Mr. Cooper had not
spoken specifically and clearly and
emphatically on the utterances oi
Cole L. Blease at Pomaria and Filbert.
Mr. Cooper, in replying, said that Mr.
Bethea was probably the only man in
South Carolina who did not know
how he stood on the Blease issue;
that twice the test had been made
and he had stood those tests; that he
had stated from many "stumps" o.
the State that, had he been in con
gress he would have voted foi
the war resolution, and if no one elsi
had introduced such a resolution he
would have done so himself. Mr.
Cooper said that, holding the senti
ments that he did, no one, including
Mr. Bethea, believes that he could in
dorse or palliate the utterances enun
ciated by Blease in his Pomaria and
Filbert speches. The audience to
day was enthusiastic and was impar
tial in the distribution of its applause.
John Madison DesChamps, the first
gubernatorial speaker, said that the
Democrats of Kentucky and Iowa,
following a tour of speech making,
wanted him to establish his residence
in those States and promised to elect
him governor. He told them, how
ever, that he would remain a citizen
of South Carolina and the people
wopld select him as their chief exe
cutive. This they will do this year,
he declared. He took his usual po
sition on high taxes, promising a sub
stantial increase, if elected.
John T. Duncan, the second speak
er, said that he has been -assured by
high authorities in Washington that
an investigation, based on his Flor
ence affidavit, would be conducted at
Camp Jackson. He attacked the
"system" and his opponents.
John G. Richards, the "Reform"
candidate, was the third speaker. **3
have tried all my life," said Mr. Rich
ards, **to establish a reputation foi
manhood, not for politics. He de
clared that the war is no issue, for
never before in the history of the
world has such an unanimity of sen
timent behind the government as the
people of South Carolina are show
ing, men, women and children. Mr.
Richards made his usual speech on
taxation, and free scholarship. He re
iterated his charges of "extravagance"
against the Manning administration,
claiming that too many useless offices
had been established, and promisee
the abolition of the State Board oi
^Charities and Corrections and the
state tax commission, if it is in his
power. In discussing / scholarship
question, Mr. Richards; said that it
there had been a mistake in appro
priations, too much money has been
appropriated lor higher education in
this State, at the expense of the com
mon schools.
Mr. Bethea, the fourth speaker,
opened his speech by saying tha'
Blease had made the war an issue bj
his Pomaria and Filbert speeche>
and Richards has issued the chal
lenge from every "stump" in tht
State that the war is not an issue.
He has snatched up the "gauntlet"
and intends to discuss the matter un
til the finish of the campaign. He
cautioned the people to vote for loy
al men only, and made his usual at
tack on Richards.
Mr. Bethea read the following pre
pared statement:
"That Mr. Richards has completely
dodged the paramount and only real
issue of the campaign there is no
longer room for doubt. He has sought
security in a hiding place from which
there is no escape. His one time
friends have tried in vain to extricate
hi.ai but_h? will not heed their call.
Having consigned him with Blease
10 oblivion they* now turn away in de
spair and disgust. Peace to his po
litical ashes!
\ "That Mr. Cooper has failed to dis
cover the issue, has shied away from
it or has approached it a-tip-toe, in
fear and trembling, is likewise true.
For what is the issue? With Richards
it is anything but the war. With
Cooper it is the war and its relatior
to high taxes, a burdensome govern
meat, etc. But what is the issue*, j
The real, paramount, overshadowing
issue in South Carolina this year is
the war and the attitude of Cole L.
Blease toward it, as judged by his
utterances at Pomaria, Filbert and
elsewhere three and a half months
after the entry of the United States
into war with Germany. This is the
issue; and Blease's attitude toward
the war is of paramount importance
at this time because of his former po
litical influence and power. Let u.
not dodge it. Let us face it like men
of grit and steel. Let us meet it
squarely and courageously as I haw
met it from stump to stump in South
Carolina?
"On one of the matters of supreme
concern just now Mr. Cooper has not
spoken at all. Here and there he ha>
raised his voice feebly and faintly. He
has referred to the question of loyalty
in general terms. He has not been
specific, definite and positive in his
declarations against disloyalty. In all
the 41 counties in which we have beer,
he has never raised his voice in de
nunciation and repudiation of the dis
loyal utterances at Pomaria and Fil
bert of Cob- L. Blease. Why all this
reticence? Why all this silence in
these crucial times?
"He tells you that any man max
know his position if he will inquire
about it. My reply is. that this is the
time of all times when one should no<
hesitate to tak<> a stand and decian
his position. This is the time of ali
times when a man seking offic<
should volunteer to speak boldly an<
strongly, speak directly and defiantly
against disloyalty whenever he find
it.
"Put he says he dees not approve o
a factional fight. I reply by asking
who started the fight? Was not the
first gun in the political campaign of
i31S fired at Pomaria July 27, 11)17".
Did rot Blease and his organ so de
clare .,.? Is not the honor of our gal
lant boys at stake? Have not Blease
and Richards repeatedly raised the
issue and waged a fight? Shalt we
lie supinely on our backs while the
snemy binds us hand and foot? Sure
ly Cooper does not seek the reward of
victory while others battle for right.
"The time has come, therefore,
when Cooper must speak out. His
voice must ring with unmistakable
meaning. It must thunder from the
mountains to the sea. He must speak
loud and clear and strong against the
disloyal uterances of Blease at Fil
bert and Pomaria. For 41 days I have
listened in vain to hear his voice. The
time is brief. But three more days
j are left. He must now speak or for- i
ever herafter hold his peace."
Mr. Cooper, the last gubernatorial
I speaker, said, in reply to Mr. Bethea
I that, this was the first time m South
I Carolina that his position on Blease
' ism had been brought into question.
On two occasions he had been put
to the test, and had not hesisttaed
to show his opposition to ex-Governor
Jlease, and Mr. Bethea knew it. "I'll
I tell you what's the matter," he stated:
''Mr. Bethea is trying to push me
off the platform and attempting to
make me swallow his dose." Mr.
Copoer said that, never in his life, had
he tried to gain votes by stirring up
che factional issue and to gain office
by vilifying his opponents or any
other man, and he would not start
now, even for the governor's office
The Baurens candidate said that he
had repeatedly stated from many
'stumps" of the State that, if he had
been in congress, he would have voted
or the war resolution, and should no
me else have introduced it he would
tave done so himself. He asked the
people if they thought, holding the
sentiments that he did, could he in
dorse the assertion that the blood ol
:-*oung American manhood, shed in
.his war, could be on the hands oi
?resident Wilson and the members of
congress in favor of the waiv
Mr. Cooper made his usual speech
)n taxation, education and his loan
system for State colleges and conclud
ed by urging the people to vote foi
their country and not their friend.
tnd to give political preferment only
o those whose election will not throw
suspicion on South Carolina's parti
cipation in the war and its adherence
:o President Wilson.
T. J. McLouchlin. candidate for
ailroad commissioner, said that one
Df his opponents, D. L. Smith, could
not now be considered in the race.
He alleged that Mr. Smith had stated
hat, if McLauchlin could get the in
dorsement of 25 reputable citizens o;
St. Matthews, McLauchlin's home
town, Smith would withdraw from
the race. He showt 1 t paper Which
he said contained the written en
lorsement of nearly all the citizens of
St. Matthews, "more than 25 by a
great deal." "So, if you stick tc
your word," he continued, "your res
ignation is already in and I will pay
no more attention to you." Mr. Smith
in his reply said that he made the
statement in confidence to a party of
gentlemen, and he was surprised
that it had been repeated. \ He said
he would have more to say on the
natter latter.
'EPARATE BOXES FOIl SEX ATE.
Two Vacancies Necessitate Such
z Plan.
Columbia, Aug. 21.?Ballots for the
long term senatorial race and bal
lots for the short term senatorial race
will be deposited in separate boxes at
he primary next Tuesday.
A meeting of the State Democratic
executive committee was held yester
day, when such provision was made.
It was further ordered that in thr
jvent of a second primary for the
short term candidates, the names of
the candidates in this race should go
on the regular State ticket and the
single ticket be deposited in one box.
The two box arrangement was ne
cessitated by having the names of the
nort term candidates printed on a
separate ticket, and without a sec
ond box. each vot*?r would have had
to deposit two tickets in the same box.
John Gary Evans, State chairman,
[ was absent yesterday. In that the
' rules of the party did not provide for
j a vice chairman, the rules were so
j modified as to create this office, and
General Wilie Jones was elected
unanimously to this place. The com
mittee was in session but a few min
utes.
THE PRICE OF COTTON.
A Wall Street Opinion as to What
Mills Should Pay.
Charles C. Cowan said: "Normally
a profit of $25 a bale is considered ?
handsome one. Allowing lor an av
erage profit of $50 per bale, the mills
?ould have paid an average 40c pei
pound for their ? cotton during the
past two years. The South has sold
the past two crops ?!)0 per bale un
der that average. These 25,000,000
bales, $90 per bale equals about two
and a-quarter billions of dollars that
the South should have had more
?.nan it received. The prices now fix
ed by the government on goods al
lows a spinner to pay 4 2c for cotton
tnd make $5""> per bale. This being
true, anything done now that would
compel the South to sell the present
/ery short crop below its value would
work an untold hardship on the
.south. Price fixing would undoubted
ly have that baneful effect. Every
threat of it has demoralized the cot
ton trade, and the administration and
the congressmen from the South have
kept hands off through it all."?New
York Journal of Commerce, Aug. 21.
U-BOAT DESTROYS FISHERMEN.
Playing Havoc With Heel on Grand
Banks?Big Trawler Seized?
Atlantic Port Aug 21.?German
submarine late yesterday seized the
big fishing trawler Triumph. Th'j
crew, who reached the shore safely,
said they believed I he Germans in
tended to use the trawler as a raid
er. It is reported thai a submarine
is playing havoc wit. the fleet of fish
ing vssels on the grand banks.
MEETING AT 'BAKER SCHOOL.
Public Health Campaign Successful
ly Inaugurated in That Neighbor
hood.
The citizens of Baker school dis,
trict held a splendid community arid
public health meeting Wednesday
and organized a permanent rural
health association for that district,
and, at the same time, the ladies or
ganized a home demonstration club.
The ladies of the community served
one of the most delicious olden-time
picnic dinners ever cooked, which
was very much enjoyed indeed. The
meeting was well attended, and much
interest was manifested in the pub
:ic health conditions of that se'.'tipn.
The following officers of the Baker
?School Public Health Association
.vere elected for one year:
President, Mr. Oscar Evans.
Vice President, Mrs. H. W. Beall.
Secretary, Mr. J. W. Odom.
It was decided to hold monthly
meetings of the association for dis
cussion of not only public health
matters but also to meet with the
home demonstration club, both so
cieties to met the second Friday in
^ach month.
Miss Alice Martin, the assistant
home demonstration agent, lectured
on home economics and explained the
objects of a home demonstration club
in a very interesting manner. Rev.
R. S. Truesdale covered the subject
of the public health and pointed outj
eloquently and convincingly the duty
the community owes itself and the
nation in safeguarding the public
health. He accentuated the moral
phases of the subject.
Mr. E. I. Reardon handled the ques
tion of rural community organization
and directed the organization of the
rural health association.
Mr. H. W. Beall, presided and back:
ed Up the speakers in a very j itriot
ic speech for community organiza
cion. It was decided to appoint
comittee of ten men to make a san
itary survey of the entire school dis
trict to try to have every home, white
xnd colored to install modern fly prooi
sanitary closets, to decrease the
breeding of flies and mosquitoes, and
to otherwise do whatever is necessary
to place that district in a proper san
itary condition.
M:*s. H. W. Beall interestingly dis
cussed the \alue of community or
ganization, and described the social,
moral, and physical advantages oi.j
such systematic community . endeav
or.
Secretary Reardon was requested'
to ask the State Board of Health tc
arrange for a big illustrated public
health lecture and meeting at Baker
school as soon as the fall term of thv
-.choDl opens.
The following officers of the home
demonstration club were elected:
President, Mrs. Jesse McLeod; Sec
retary, Miss Florence Evans.
The following charter members of.
the home demonstration club prom$
ised to canvass the district to en:
targe the membership and to increase
the interest in the home demonstra
:ion and domestic science features ol
? he club: Mrs. W. M. Brown, Mrs
John McLeod, Mrs. Sam Hudson, Mrs.
Henry Hudson, Mrs. Jessie McLeod.
Mrs. W. N. McLeod, Mrs. J. W.
Odom, Mrs. H. W. Beall, Misses East
?r Evans, Florence Evans, ? Mar.v
Evans, Nannie Evans, Leah Evans.
The meeting at Oswego School last
Thursday was not largely attended
mt ~he few ladies present enjoyed the
demonstration in canning and cook
ing by Misses Keels and Martin, and
these ladies promised to arrange foi
a big public health meeting later.
However the social features of the
meeting were excedingly pleasant
md a delightful lunch was served
Misses Keels and Martin, and Rev. J
W. Elkins and Secretary E. L Rear
don, the two latter being public
health campaign speakers who did
not speak at this meeting owing t<
the small number present from the
?ommunity, but who will address the
health meeting to be held later.
A misunderstanding as to the hour
of the meeting caused the small at
tendance, and Oswego section is not
, disinterested in the public health
campaign, but will do good work
along this line as requested by the
State Council of Defense.
MISSION FROM URUGUAY.
Foreign Minister Bium and Distin
guished Party Arrived Tuesday.
' Key West, Aug. 21.?Dr. Baltaslar
Brum, minister for foreign affairs ol
Uruguay, with a party of distinguish
ed officials of that country arrived
here late yesterday aboard the Urugu
i ayn cruiser Montevideo. The part)
was met here by Jordan H. Stablsr.
representative of Secretary of State
Lansing and representatives of the
army and navy. The party will leave
today for Washington.
SUMTER COTTON MAKEBI,
Corrected daby At 12 o'clock Noon.
P. G. BOWMAN. Cotton Buyer.
Good Middling 30 3-4.
Strict Middling 30 1-2.
Middling 30
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
Open High Low Close Close
Yee'dyi
Oct. . .31.75 32,40 31.70 32.00 31.79
Dec . . 31.07 31.75 31.07 31.47 31.26
Jan . . 31.00 31.60 31.00 31.32 31.15
Registration Notice.
The County Board of Registration
will be in their office at the Court
House, continuously from July 1st to
August 31st, excepting July 4th, fot
:he purpose of registering all qualified
voters of the county of Sumter, as the
law requires.
T. D. DUBOSB,
J. M. N. WILDER,
J. A. R E AM KS,
Supervisors of Registration.
REVENUE BILL UNFINISHED.
Work of Committee Remains Incom
plcte. x \
j Washington, Aug. 20.?The hous.
ways and means committee after an
all day discussion of administrative
provisions and other details of the
$8,000,000,000 revenue bill was un
able to reach a final agreement on
4he Retails of the income and excess
profits tax schedules. Chairman Kitch
in conceded that it was doubtful if the
bill could be reported to the house
by the committee by next Monday. He
announced, however, there is no Ques
tion whatever of the bill raising the
total $8,000,000,000 sought.
Mr. Kitchin announced that Secre
tary McAdoo agreed to the plan of
dividing business into groups for the
purpose of deduction of prewar earn
ings, but that a maximum 12 per
:ent. deduction which the commit
.ee had proposed to give to mining
and kindred hazardous enterprises
was too great and that 10 per cent,
.?as more equitable. The commit
ee in all probability will write into
the bill a division of corporations and
tfher business enterprises into two
jrouri for deduction purposes in the
war profits tax on the basis of pre
war earnings. The groups probably
will be financial and transportation
concerns including all public utilities,
S per cent, deduction and manufac
turing, mining, gas and oil wells and
ither miscellaneous business 10 per
cent deduction.
Chairman Kitchin made this state
ment:
"The committee had been discussing
administrative regulations in the bill
10t affecting the rates at all. We
idopted a provision for a board
which will draft legislative matters,
-.he board to be composed of two
members, one to be appointed by the
peaker of the house and the other by
he vice president, as the presiding
lead of the senate. We have taken
io further action as to earned and
rhearned incomes, but have asked the
treasury department to work out a
dan for administering this differen
ial of 3 per cent, against unearned
ncomes, on which the committee
eached a tentative agreement the
:ther day.
We want the treasury to work out
i plan for allocation and for deduc
ior. of credits and other technical de
ails of an unearned income differen
tial plan. It will be a 3 per cent, dif
ferential, but whether it will be, as a
esult a normal income tax of 12 and
5 per cent, the former for earned
rd the latter for unearned, or 10 and
v3?^ef cent, to preserve the 10 per
cent normal, the committee hercto
ore has agreed on, I can not say.
"The only main problem left is
hat of excess profits and we will try
o agree on that tomorrow. We may
nally pass on the bill Friday, but it
?5 not at all certain."
Replying to questions Mr. Kitchin
aid tiat relief of the individual from
?'.he excess profits tax was decided
' ?pon by the committee long ago and
vas in the original draft of the bill.
Th "legislative drafting board" as
gret jl upon today is to have a per
manent body of experts to draw bills
?nd other legislative documents. Each
>f the two members will reecive $6,
>00 a year.
WATER POWER DEVELOPMENT.
Debate Begins on Administration Bill
Washington, Aug. 20.?Debate be
San in the house today on the ad
ministration water power bill, pro
viding a leasing system for develop
nent of power projects on navigable
treams. Representative Ferris of
Oklahoma, chairman of the public
ands committee and a member of tlK
I oint committe on water power, led
a fight for modification of the so-call
?d "recapture clause" so as to give
he federal government or any mu
nicipality the right to take over
-dants at the expiration of license pe
riods by paying the actual cost of th
levelopment. Mr. Ferris filed r mi
nority report contending the provis
ion now in the bill requiring pay
-nent of the amount of the "net^in
.-estment" by the government or a
municipality would be tantamount t
i grant in perpetuity to private in
terests.
Representativ Sinnott of Oregon, in
a long spech urging the necessity for
opening the way for water power de
velopment, contended the net invest
ment provision was fair. He declar
ed 600,000,000 tons of coal could be
saved annually by full development
}f the nation's water power resources.
Reprcsenttaive Sinnott said if the
^erris proposal were adopted it would
be difficult to induce priv"** capita"
to invest in power project: " 'se a
return on the investment would not
be sufficiently attractive.
Endorsed by Neighbors.
To The Daily Item:
The many friends, all over Sumter
?ounty. of Mr. J. L. Gillis. are pleas
ed to sec that he has met their re
quest to offer for the House of Rep
resentatives. Mr. Gillis is not a new
nan in public life. Though very
young when he was first elected
magistrate, he held this office for
years and years, giving complete sat
isfaction to all. In fact his conduct
of the office was on such a high
? plane that there was much regret in
this section when he voluntarily re
tired. Mr. Gillis is an industrious,
high-toned young man of marked
ability, and his friends think that he
will make a most useful member of
the House of Representatives, and
will be of considerable service, and an
honor to Sumter county. He is the
architect of his own fortune: starting
with nothing, by hard work and close
economy he now conducts one of the
largest mercantile and farming bus
inesses in Sumter county
In addition to the true worth of Mr.
Gillis. it has been many years sine
this section of Sumter county has been
represented in the legislature and we
feel confident that when this is called
I to the attention of the voters of Sum
Iter county that they will see the jus
1 lice of our request for a representa
tive, and give our worthy candidate.
Mr. J. L. Gillis. a solid vote.
VOTER.
Remhert Aug. 20.
I HOME FOR FEEBLE-MINDED.
State Lands Found to Be Unsuitable
so Board Acquires (?20 Acres at
Clinton.
Columbia, Aug. 21.?The Home for
the Feebleminded will be built at j
Clinton. This was decided yesterday,
when a c ommittee from the board of j
regents of State Hospital and of thej
State Board of Charities and Correc- J
tions met at Clinton and passed upon ':
a proposition which had- been made!
by the citizens of Clinton. It had]
been decided previously that State!
lands were not suitable to the pur
pose, and a site near Clinton was ex-!
amined with the result that it was j
accepted, and soon as possible build-j
ing will be commenced. I
The site seiected is at Dover, two j
miles east of Clinton, where the S. j
A. L. and C X. and L. railway tracks |
cross. There are 620 acres in the;
tract a .uired by the board, and op
tions have been secured on 570 acres
more, which will probably be bought,
thus putting at the disposition of the
board about 1,200 acres.
The 620 acres were purchased al
most entir Iy through contributions
made by the citizens of Clinton who
had raised $18,000 for this purpose,
the tract of land costing slightly
more than this. The additional 570
acres on which options are held may
be purchased at between $7,000 and
m
I $8,000. -The lands purchased lie on
the north side of the railroad.
Those present at th? conference
were Dr. F. H. McLeod, representing
the board of regents, and Dr. Geo. B.
Cromer, Dr. Z. T. Cody. Dr. D. D.
Wallace and L. E. Carrigan repre
senting the State Board of Charities
and Corrections.
GERMANS MAN TRAWLER.
Armed Fishing; Boat Running Amuck
on Fishiug Grounds.
Canada Atlantic Port, Aug. 21.?
The steam trawler Triumph, fitted
with two guns, wireless, manned by
sixteen of the crew from the German
submarine which captured it near
j here yesterday, is raiding the fishing
I banks off the Nova Scptkin coast,
j Three vessels are known to have been
sunk. The crews have arrived here.
HUNTING THE RAIDER.
_
j Naval Patrol Boats in Pursuit of Ger
man Raider.
Washington, Aug. 21.?Strong
I forces df swift 'naval patrol boats
I and destroyers are speeding today to
i the North Atlantic fishing banks
: where a German raider is reported to
j be operating. The capture or the en
i forced destruction of the raider by
j its German crew is believed to be cer
i tain.
New Residents of
SUMTER
The population of our city is constantly being
added to by new people moving here, attracted by
our excellent railway facilities, attractive homes, well
paved streets and the general air of hospitality ex
tended to strangers by the citizens of the town.
To these new-comers we extend a most cordial
invitation to become one ?of our depositors. Our
bank is one of the largest and strongest in this section
of the State, having resources of nearly fourteen hun
dred thousand dollars and our con slant desire is to
show each customer every possible courtesy and
accommodation.
The National Bank of
Sumter,
The "01a reliable" Since 1889
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President
W. J. CROWSON, Jr.,
Cashier
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