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THR SUMTEK WATCEQfAX, Estab Consolidated Aug. 2,1 BIG QUESTION BEFORE PARTIES Will G. 0. P. Fight League of Nations; Will Wilson Run? QUESTIONS ARE QUITE CLOSELY RELATED Republican National Chairman Alarmed; Old Know-Nothing i ism Recalled, by Some - Washington. May 31.?As seen from "Washington, each of the two big political parties in the United States has one question to settle. The Republican party's all-import-; ant question is, Shall we make the j League of Nations a party issue ? The Democratic party's all-import- j ant question is, Will President Wil-j son be a candidate for a third term?j Between these two questions there j is the possibility of a decided connec- i ticn, which has been considerably dis- J cussed in political circles. Many prophets predict that if the j Republicans make the League of Na- j lions a party issue, which can be done j only by opposing the League, Presi- | dent Wilson will see in the situation j a call or a challenge for him to go j before the country as the champion j of the League in the campaign in ! 1920. On the other hand, if the Republi-1 . cans do not make the League a party j issue, by opposing it, they have it j in their power to diminish its pol it i- j cal e:Sfect as a Democratic achieve ment by nominating former President! Taft, who has been as conpicuous an j advocate of the League as President j "Wilson. There are not a few shrewd | political students who are of the ? opinion -that President Wilson would j not run against Mr. Taft if the latter were nominated by the Republican?. The trend of Republicanism co wards partisan opposition to the! T?eague' of Nations was discussed- by Se?iatbr Robinson of Arkansas a few days ago":in a powerful speech in* which. ^ie "dared" Senator Reed of Missouri to go before the people of that**Jtate on the issue while he {Rob inson) went before the people of Ar-j Jranss? -likewise, the Arkansas sena fbV to resign "unless hfs" people voted at lesst 2 to 1 in favor of the league. This 'dare" by the way, the Missouri senator, whose role is usually that of the challenging party, did not accept, j He preferred to admit that the people j of Arkansas would stand by Senator Robinson "even if he should agree j tomorrow to abolish the Constitution j of the United States in toto." But to return to the matter of the j dilemma which confronts the Repub- ; Heaps as to the League of Nations as! a party issue?Senator Robinson had j this to say on the subject: j "It is exceedingly regrettable that! there should have been, during the j course of this debate, a shameful dis play of partisanship. During the course of the debate in the senate last Friday it was pointed out that the leader of the majority and the whip of the majority. the senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Lodge) and 'the senator from Kansas (Mr. Curtis), had. prior to the reconvening of con gress in extraordinary session, sent to every member on the other sid<- of the chamber a telegram urging Re publican members of the senate tc remain silent on (he subject of thr revised draft of the League of Na tions treaty until a party conference could be held and the attitude of the party concerning the matter in so far as that could be ascertained, deter mined. "The senator from Massachusetts stated last Friday that was strictly a non-partisan telegram: that while i was sent only to Republican mem bers of the senate it was an impar tial and nen-partisan request. -Mr. president, the only way in which any measure has been or can be ma do a part?.* issue in the United States sen ate ;>s through the action of th?- con ference or caucus of the party desiring to make it a party measure: and I respectfully submit that the remarks of the senator from Massachusetts that this request to Republicans was a non-partisan act does not reflect credit upon his candor. "I do not want to see this subject made a partisan issue. The senato from Washington (Mr. Poihdexter) stated last Friday that it was his de sire that the issue shall be made par tisan. My reason for desiring thai it be considered in a nonpartisan spirit is not through fear that it will result in discrediting or defeating the political party with which I am allied. Out is due to the fact that if it be made a partisan issue it will result in defeating the treaty of peace, in postponing or defeating the League of Nations, in compelling th*- United States in all probability to part com pany with her allies With whom she has been so closely connected in the prosecution of the war. and to go her own way and make a separat^ peace with the imperial government. It is desirable to avoid that from every standpoint." Contemplation of these probable consequences of partisan Republican opposition to the League, to which opposition the Republican leaders in congress seem so generally inclined, is enough to 'alarm the astute Chair man of the Republican National Com* tfced April, 1850. "Be Just a 881. COURT UPHOLD RATE 1NCREA Supreme Court Files Decision Sustaining Action of Rail road Administration ORDER OF LAST JUNE IN ISSUE Public Will Have to Pay Higher Freight and Passenger Rates Now in Effect. Washington. June 2.?The railroad j freight and passenger rate increase! made by the railroad administration I last June was upheld by the Supreme Court in a decision handed down to- | day. Telegraphers Send Ultimatum Threaten Walk-Out Unless Cer tain Operators Are Rein stated Atlanta. Ga.. June 1.?Local mem- j bers of Commercial Telegraphers j Union of America, at a meeting here | tonight ratified an ultimatum to the Southern Bell Telephone and Tele graph Company threatening a nation wide-strike at 3 o'clock tomorow aft-' ernoon unless certain telephone op-1 erators are reinstated before that hour. The workers assert the employes j were discharged for joining the union, while the company reiterates that ; only six operators have been let out j in a month and all these for inef?- j ciency or infraction of rules. Post- j master General Burleson has ordered j an investigation but neither side here j had heard from him tonight. "The entire meeting was harmoni ous and there was no dissension in our ranks whatever." P. G. Fonville,; president of the telegraphers' local.? said after the meeting. "Unless Post master General Eurleson accedes to cur demands by 3.o'clock tomorrow (Central time), the strike will be en forced." Mr. Fonville said the local presi dent of the international Brother hood of Electrical Workers attend eel the meeting and said "his membership I would back us up solidly." The proposed strike has the "back- I ing of a'!l trades unions of this city j and of the American Federation of j Labor," President Fonville said. The situation followed the organiz- j ing hero this spring cf a number of telephone girls and other employes j of the telephone company, who be- ! came members of the telegraphers' union or of the electrical brotherhood.! Most cf them joined the telegraphers' I union, it was said. Several of these j employes told the meeting tonight they had been discharged for having1 joined the union. Union leaders said! tonight a check showed seven young! women and two men had been let out \ , by the telephone company for union | ! activities. Union leaders here said they ex pected all union operators of the tele- | : graph and. telephone companies in the; !United States to go out but that press! association operators and others net I ' connected with thc^e companies j !would not be affected. Paris, June 2.?Coblenz will be\the| capital of the new Rhine republic. was proclaimed yesterday in several \ Rhine cities. The new government J and national assembly will meet there , but the provisional government will set at Weisbaden. mittee. Will H. Hays, ffteports are to the effect that Mr. Hay's is doing everytking in his power to prevent the commission by his party of what he ??egards as an egregious blunder. There is apparently a large majority : of leadership in The Republican or ganization which is opposed tn the League of Nations either sincerely and earnestly, on principle or from parti san or provincial prejudice. The de-1 cided majority of leadership in the Democratic: party is out-and-out for the League on its merits, while there is an intermediate class of leaders who Lte for it with some misgiving-. Only a small minority of the Demo cratic leaders, so far as can be ascer tained from. Washington !>oint of ob servation, is positively against the League principle. Comparison is being made of the Republican trend against the League of Nations to the old Know Nothing movement in the middle of the la century. This movement commandedi a good deal of support and carried several important States; but it wn ? founded on provincialism and nar rowness, if nor absolute fanaticism, and coxild not hold its ground asrains: the superior iorc>> of enlightenment. It is easier :<:r Knownothingisra to conquer a party than or it to conquer a people. The narrower the field of contest, the better its chance of suc cess. To most Democrats it looks a ? if the Republican party is having a wrestle with a longrpickleci geni* which it let out of the bottle ;o em barrass the administration. Thf genie feels more at home in the Republican household and is endeavoring to take charge, . ,,i nd Fear not?Let all the ends Thon ?J SUMTER, S. C, WEDJS FUTURE STATUS OF AUSTRIA Hapsburg Empire Reduced tj> Small State of Six to Seven | Million MUST ACCEPT LEAGUE OF NATIONS Ausrtians Guilty of Frightful ness and Atrocities Will Be Tried by Allies. St. Germain, June 2.?Austria is left by the treaty a compact state with from six :to seven million peo ple inhabiting a territory of be tween five and six thousand square miles. She is required to recognize the in dependence of Hungary. Czecho-Slo vakia and the Serbian-Croatian-Slo vene state. Austria also agrees to accept the League of Nations covenant and the labor charter, to demobilize her whole naval and aerial forces, admits the right of trial by the allied and asso ciated powers of her nationals whro are guilty of violating the laws and customs of war. Advocates Livestock Loans Banks Only Can Meet Menace of Boll Weevil Columbia, June 2.?Dr. W. K. Lew is, director of the bureau of animal industry under the United States de partment of agriculture in Columoia, has just returned from a trip into a number of the coastal counties. Dr. Lewis is vitally interested in arousing the people of the State to the menace of the boll weevil, which is in vading the southwestern corner of the State. The invasion of this pest will compel the farmers to turn from the cultivation of cotton to livestock rais ing, as the presence of the weevil means that for many years, once the pest has arrived production of cotton will be practically impossible. Land values will commit- the Sftatej to two distinct efforts to meet uie emergency: Dr. Lewis says that in the! lower halt of the State the lands are I cheaper and the growing of livestock for beeves will be the natural se quence of conditions. In the upper half, where the prices of lands are much greater, the farms necessarily smaller and the area of waste lands much restricted, the people will resort to dairying. Inability to finance purchases of cat tle for fattening purposes is one of the greatest handicaps the farmers now face. Dr. Lewis says. To meet this condition, it will be necessary, he says, for a few banks at strategical points to appoint a livestock expert in their tanking organization, which will take care of loans for cattle. Banking houses in the West follow this plan, the cattle open at the bank visiting the farmer who is feeding the cattle purchased with the bank's funds, and seeing that all conditions as to feed ing and preparing for market are properly complied with. A few banks in the State committing themselves to such a practice would do much toward 'advancing the livestock cause. Dr. Lewis says. He thinks the boll weevil menace will eventually compel them to see the necessity of this, but the earlier action be taken, the better for the cause. In argument for the idea Dr. Lewis yesterday reminded that banks in coastal cities place large amounts in loans to truck growers, an employee of the bank, well versed in the culti vation of truck, visiting the trucking areas regularly and guiding the bank in the placing of loans. Tragic Death of Lad Carl Bouye Dragged By Mule; Flesh Torn from Body Lexington. May 31.?Carl Bouye. sixteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Pickens \V. Bouye, residing one and one-half miles west of Lexington, mel a horrible death at noon today when hp attempted to ride a young mule io th" house from th<- field, where he had been plowing. While no one wit nessed the accident, it is supposed that the mule threw the lad. The trace chains were loose and the un fortunate child was entangled and dragged for o quarter of a mile, while the frightened animal was run ning at a fa.-' gait. The mule did not s'cp until it reached a rye patch ne.ir the house. Costa Rica Revolution Three Governments Recognize Anti-Tinoco Party San Salvador. Juno 2.?Govern ments of G~rrt"rma!a. Honduras and ?;r.vTu'.. have recogh'zed the bel I gen ney r>' a :-T:noeo revolution^?? ? ?n Costn ?''o?"i. Recording to a <M< h *-. i-r> fror? Nicaragua. The revolutionists, advices to the State depadtment have received con siderable reinforcements. mat at be thy Country's. Tay ttod'i m fESDAY, JUNE 4, 1919. MUST SIGN OR REFUSE ! Pleas of Germans for Modifica ! j tion of Peace Terms Will Be Refused REPLY OF ALLIES READY FRIDAY fit Will Be Emphatic Refusal of j r Counter Proposals. June 25th Time Limit. Par.'s, June 2.?The reply of the al lied and associated governments to the Germaun counter proposals, The j Echo de Paris declares, will be hand ed to von Prockdorff-Rantzau Friday, It will constitute an emphatic refusal of the German proposal. The Ger mans, the newspaper adds, will l?c told that they must accept or refuse the allied conditions before June 25. A Saloonless World Bryan in Savannah, Expresses Regret Over Wilson Recom mendation Respecting Pro hibition Savannah, June 1.?In his address in Savannah today William Jennings Bryan declared he expected not only to see a saloonless nation, but a saloonless world. "I am sorry the president made the j recommendation to congress regard j ing the lifting of war time prohibi | tion," said Mr. Bryan. "I don't believe he would have made it had he been i'n this country. I don't want to be understood as criticising him for be ing in Paris. I don't think we would have had the league of nations had he ! not gone. Don't worry about his rec i ommendation. A Republican congress j won't follow him when he goes right, j ' much less when he goes wrong." The Luxury Tax House Pushing Repeal Bill and May Pass To-Day Washington. June 2.?Debate on the bill to repeal the wartime semi luxury taxes was continued in the house today, with probability that the measure will be passed and sent to the senate before night. Government Crop Report Agricultural Department Esti mates Condition as 75-6 Washington. June 2.?The condition of the cotton crop was 75.8 percent j of normal on May 25th, the depart ment of agriculture announced today1 in the first roper: of the season. No j estimate of the afrea planted is made, j This will be announced in July. The Jewish Relief Columbia, May 'JO.?Col. August: Kohn, State chairman of the cam i paign for Jewish relief, which raised j lover $100.000 in South Carolina m 'three days, gave out the following! ; statement: j I "When the campaign for the Jew-!' ! ish relief fund was undertaken there! were some misgivings as to the will- j ingness of South Carolina to contrib- j lute over ?100.000 for the re?ief of) sufferers in distant Poland, Galieia. 'and ether countries. The fact that 1. j las State chairman, have been able to] 'make the first payment on account of j the .-subscriptions in the asjrregato of : $105.000. more than the total amount! allotted to the State, is the very high- . est testimonial to the charity and gen- ; ! erosity of the good people of this i : State. To my mind the most gratify-, ing feature of the whole campaign j has been the utter willingness and hearty response of our Christian friends in South Carolina and the striking evidence that when real char ity is involved there is no denomina-, tional division. "The campaign has also shown that , wherever people were properly ap proached that they contributed will-:: ingly and generously, and the only ! " ! counties where the quotas were not i raised were those in whic": the cam- ; paign workers were not fully organ-' :zed and the people not. given the op portunity of contributing. "In addition to the $105.000 that I have already sent to headquarters in . X'-w Y<?rk for the purchase of grain 'rr the suffering people in Poland and Galieia. additional amounts have been subscribed and pledged and, of course, this money will !>?? paid in flue time, and 1 cannot too strongly urge The im- I portancc of the prompt payment of i these pledges because of the absolute I T?ec*ss:tv of the funds for the pur- i chase of additional grain and food- i ?.-tvfl'^ for the starving people of these 1 distant countries. Every dollar that is ( paid will be used to the best advan- '< tage." . 3 ?d Tretfe'l." TUE TRUE READ FINISHES OCEAN FLIGHT Seaplane NC-4 Arrived at Ply mouth England This After noon LAST LEG COVERED i IN SIX HOURS i American Flyers Were Receiv-j * ed with Cheers by Great j Crowds That Lined The Water Front. _ i Plymouth, May 31?American na val seaplane NC-4 completed the trans-Atlantic flight from Rockaway; Beach, Neu- York, which began May Sth. today, arriving from Ferrol, Spain, at 2.26 P. M. Keen interest brought out large crowds to greet the Americans and the craft alighted to the accompani ment of cheers and salvos from steam craft in the harbor, ending her me morable flight. The trip from Fer rol was made in six hours, fifty nine minutes, at the rate of 72 miles an hour. A formal reception was held by the mayor of Plymouth at 4 P. M. on the Mayflower pier. The Royal Air Force entertains the Americans tonight. London, May 31.?American navy seaplane NC-4 left Spain for Ply mouth, England at C.40 this morning. It passed the destroyer Barney, in the Bay of Biscay at 7.43, and the de stroyer Hazelwood. station four, at 9.03. A heavy rain was falling over the English channel and the upper Bay of Biscay on the route followed by the NC-4. At 10 o'clock the sea plane was fifty miles southwest of Brest. The skies suddenly cleared at Ply mouth, after the rain, the sun shone and the wind abated, making- flying conditions ideal. Rebuilding France Government Plans to Spend Bil lions of Francs at Once Paris. May 1 (Correspondence of The Associated -Pressi-?"France will spend about 4.000,000.000 francs on new public work, besides about 3, ?>ftft.000 francs for the rebuilding of railroads in the devastated re gions." The Associated Press was told today by M. Claveille, Minis;er of Public Works. "Our program", said the Minister, "calls for the electrification of 5,200 miles of railroad, the building of 3. 500 miles of local raiiroad lines and tramways, rebuilding of 6,000 miles of national roads and about 60,000 miles of other highways that were umed by the intensive army traf fic or destroyed by mines and shell fire. We have also" he added, "more than 2.00'J bridges to rebuld, 12 tun-i nels that must be practically rebored j -. r.r , great many culverts to be re-1 placed. I estimate the amount of material required for this work at , ten million tons." M. Ciaveill<- explained that, although 1 an army of roadworkers, reaching! 78,000 men in 1318, had constancy j been employed repairing roadways in \ the' army zone, they were worn a'- : most as fast as they were restored. A j "The Germans tore up or blew up I 2,000 miles of track on the Northern! railroad system and about 1.500 J miles of the lines of the Eastern Rail- j road, along with 2.000 miles of tele- ! graph and telephone wires." he said, j "These lines have already been re- i stored in part. ?'What remains to be done consti-: tutes a formidable task. Lack of la bor is all that is delaying work on j these enterprises. Much of the re- : quired material was assembled during the last eighteen months of the war.'' ! Support for Harding i Favored as Head of Cotton Cor poration New Orleans. May 30.?The execu tive committee of the proposed ?100. 000.000 cotton corporation adjourned here today to meet again in New Or leans June 7. No definite informa tion was given out except that the committee favored Gov. W. P. G. Harding of the federal reserve board is governor and that he was consult ed at Shreveport by members of th" committee who will make a repor^ it the next meeting. Italy Blocks Peace Claims on Adriatic Remain Un adjusted Paris, June 2.?The peace terms ! 5resented to the Austrians today were ! vithout the problem of Italy's Adriatic terms being solved. The council of ] .'our held a brief meeting before go- ' ng to St. Germain this morning. Or- 1 ando of Italy and House of the Unit- i vl States being present. The Adri- 1 itic question was discussed at this i ueeting. ] ; SO?TKKON, Ertabttshed <iu, Vol. XLVIII. No. 32. OB VIOLENCE NOT PERMITTED Gov. Bickett Prepares to Rush Troops to Charlotte to Maintain Order FORCE OF MILITIA HELD IN RESERVE North Carolina 'Jakes Firm Stand in Respect to Strike in Cotton Mill Center. Charlotte, N. C May 30.?Governor Bickett has ordered "certain com panies of the reserve militia to he ! ready to proceed to Charlotte to main ! tain order in connection with the cot I ton strike situation.*' This statement I is contained in a 700 word appeal to the people of Charlotte and Vicinity, . ! telegraphed late today to a local news- % paper by the governor at Raleigh.. Governor Bickett says more troops will be sent if the necessities of the situation demand it. -? "Without regard to the justice or ? wisdom of any action of the mill own-; ers or the mill operatives," says the statement, "I propose to enforce the . law. Neither side to the controversy will be permitted to assert its con tentions by a resort to violence." Governor Bickett's appeal followed a telephone conversation between the governor and Arthur J. Draper, presi dent of five local mills, which, like many others in this section have b-3en closed recently because of controver sies between the owners and opera tives which began several months ago when the Highland Park Mill of which C. W. Johnston is president, elimi nated war bonuses and made a ma- . terial reduction in wages at the same time. This action resulted immedi lately in a strike at this mill and was ! followed by strikes in other mills in I the section. Subsequently local unions were organized by the strikers and these affiliated with the general organization of textile workers. Gradually the wage issue was preced ed by the question of recognition of the union. President Draper, whosejmills have employed union labor, announced, to day that his company had decided^jef fective next Monday; to run on {he principle of the "open shop." The po sition of the union operatives as ex pra^ed--by<-their leaders is- that- non union workers shall not be peftrtitted to resume work. This situation and the picketing of the mills by union I men. attended by occasional minor ? (clashes, led to the governor's action, j 'When the mills reopen," says the I :rcvf mcr's statement, "any and every ! American citizen has a right to work j in the mills whether he belongs to a . labor union or not. No mill owner\ j has any right to say a man shall not ? work because he belongs to a labor j union. No labor union has a right to [ say that a man shall not work be ( cause he does not belong to a labor j union. That is a question for each i man to decide for himself and the j State of North Carolina will not tol erate any interference in either case. ' give solemn warning that the full power of the State will be exerted to protect any man who ? wants to work and any one who shall dare interfere with a willing worker will do so af his own peril." Charlotte. N. C May 30.?Marvin L. Rich, attorney for the striking Opera tives of several local mills, announced late tonight that "a complete set tlement'' with the Draper mills had been reached and that the workers would return Monday. He expressed the belief that the strike here is vir tually ended. The Atlanta Strike Postmaster Burleson Will Not Permit Dismissal of Union Operators Washing-tor.. June 2.?President Konenkamp of the commercial tele graphers union^ stated tdMay no date had been set for the nation-wide tele graphers' strike and that the threat ened walkout in Atlanta was purely a local matter. Almost simultaneously with Konenkamp's statement Post master Burleson announced if the telephone operators in Atlanta hjad been dismissed on account of union affiliation they would be reinstated immediately and steps would be tak en to discipline the responsible of ficials of the Southern Bell Telephone Company. Flyers in London English Turn Out and Give Americans Cordial Welcome ' . _ *n London. June 2.?With the NC-4 resting in a British harbor. London newspapers this morning give much Greater prominence than heretofore to America's conquest of the Atlantic, printing long accounts of the sea plane's arrival at Plymouth, the re ception of the crew in London as well as pictures of the machines and men who brought her across the At antic. While editorial comment was iot universal, what appears is entires ly appreciative. ?