[ C&ofcs&g -By Republi can Coininittee CARRIED OUT m Resolution "Endors S^bii?otf aad Volstead m jago, Jnne ^5.r-Tbe following letter to the. Resolutions. Com of ? the recent Republican ^b'ak :beea given to the VergieG: Jffihshaw. chair ot t*re, P^ohi^tioa ? National ttriittee; H-i accuses the committee ifcie dealing and deception in to the Prohibition issue. ien: i : wil2 recall that organizations before- your Commit tee repre- j J between 25 and 30 millions of ican citiaens arging the adoption ?pl?ab endorsing the Eighteenth sdmeiit as interpreted by tha.; Act or some measure equally *ve. t?n inet and considered the mat according to the testimony of U. ttor Reed Smoct and William White, and according to both ^Smoot and >tr. White, you in as a part of the platform a" of the Volstead Act as an evement of she Republican^ Congress, which amounted td ?samel;as an endorsement of said :>rdin~ to Mr. Smoot ]you . another resolution - 'strength your stand with reference to thteesfth ? Amendment These is were not transmitted to 1 Convention M the Colis thex^y^ereynot read before said srentionv - Mr. Watson; will % as chairman of the Res Committee, please explain; the same were < lost in trans and what is the effect of the :? Certain Republican 'over the country admit the as. above stated but are endeavor ; to make it appear before the ;?0^try. that said . Resolutions are pertheless a part of the Republican - form. Will you> please state &r or not the}*.are and also!| it the exact wording for publi ;^V*e have piled upon our desk reso of local organizations from all of -the-' United States including ?#emen's cl ubs, granges,- lodges, com i^^rcial c ubs, labor unions,. etc.? ^-1Pej?esenting hundreds of thousands ^p^people, a copy of which have been ^l(|a? to U. S. Senator Sheppard for Democratic Party and U. S. Sena B?&*r^ Capper for the Republican 'VParty. These resolutions.which have ^.-fe*^. ;'passed in the past three weeks >::-^j?!esejit the cream of our land and ?^re^'-a?;follow5: ' ^^Kp& It resolved that we hei-eby Wtetitiorize our names to be used at f?|each. and ev#ry political; convention *.o be hekf in 1920 notifying the lead ^ ^erslcf all parties that we will support ,is?ch parties as specifically endorse fey platform declaration the 18th X-^aendment as interpreted by the Vol Act or some measure equally ;|^e^ive and nominate candidates ';3ffia^uivocably committed to its en forcement" [ can we say to these peo Can we tell " them that Republican Party will stand the Volstead Act or some measure ^MEualry effective? Can we- tell them ^hat it will turn a deaf ear to the pleadings of beer and wine men who ?ai% asking for the passage of laws with more liberal interpretation? The regular quadrennial Convention of the Prohibition Party meets July ?21st Lincoln, Nebraska. We want! i?know in advance what is the atti tude of the Republican Party. There are hundreds of thousands outside of the Proinbition Party ranks as eviden- } ;?ed by resolutions already passed' who will not support any party this Vyear that is not committed to the en . forcement and maintnance of the law as it now stands upon the Federal Statute Books. Please understand the 'maintenance" as Well as "en :ement". It is not enough to en force at this time. The Volstead Act or some measure equally effective must be maintained. The Republican Party^ must speak upon the subjeC of law with no uncertain voice. Awaiting answer, we are Yours sincerely, "* Prohibition National Committee By Virgil G. Hinshaw, Chairman Tennessee Considers y Suffrage Meets in August to Vote on Rat ification of Woman Suffrage Amendment Nashville, June 28.-VTbe Tennes see legislature will be called to con vene in a special session^, on August 9th tor a consideration of the ratifica tion of the federal suffrage amend ment, announced Go v. Robert's office today. Quiet Restored inAnconaj Anarchists Cause Riots and} Many Are Killed Rome* June 28.?Quiet has been restored by troops in Ancona. The r'fot was caused by anarchists, who have been causing distrabances in the suburbs. One hundred arrests have been made and three anarchists have [ been killed. I Missouri, Georgia and Oregon [' Contests Excite Interest PROSIBITION MAY BE IGNORED ? Rumored That McAdoo Will Not Be Nominated Until I Deadlock Appears Certain. San Francisco, June 25.'?The Na tional Committee meets today to draw up the temporary* roll of the dele gates for. the convention. Three con tests are expected but that involving the efforts to give Senator Reed, of Missouri a ?eat -with, th-e delegation from that State promised to excite more than routine interest. Only one contest and that from Georgia has been officially filed with the commit tee. The Georgia contest is expect-' -ed by the leader*?o be settled in fav or of the delegates friendly to the Palmer nomination, .such a decision: carrying ,with it the confirmation of j Clark Hoivell as national committee ?man from Georgia. The contest from Oregon is not regarded as serious and. might not materialize at all. * The mysterious boom for the nomination of McAdoo arid the conflict over the prohibition enforcement plank is ap proaching more definite shape. Mc Adoo adherents are said today to be. shaping their plans to withhold his name from the halloting throughout the early stages and wait until" the ex pected Deadlock between Palmer and ?:Cox develops. On the prohibition en forcement question there has devel oped a sudden movement to ignore it entirely in the platform. Labor Officials in j Chicago Will Confer As To Steps Neces sary to Halt Unauthorized Strikes ? Chicago, June 25-?Officials of rec ognized Tailroad unions met here to day in an effort to keep their mfen in line and to put a halt to the unauth- j orized strikes which have been pre-j valent lately. Newberry Case To Supreme Courtj j^iH of Exceptions Approved byj Federal Judge and Case Goes Up j Grand Rapids, June 25?The bill of] exceptions and assignment of error j filed for Senator Newberry and sixteen others convicted of corruption in the recent Senatorial election was today approved by the Federal Judge o? Sessions and the case will go to the United States Supreme Court soon as the printing of the bill is completed. Turks Refuse to Sign Treaty Must Have Reservations on Ter ritory Before They Will Accept Peace Constantinople; June 25.?The Tur kish peace delegation has been in structed to refuse to sign any peace treaty which, deprives Turkey of the Smyrna districts, ?drianople or East ern Thrace, according to an announce ment made here today. London, June 25?Snipers were busy in Londonderry during the night, according to a. central' news dispatch. Government troops fired on the riot ers several times and also dispersed looters. Sumter Defeats TurbcvjUe. In a very poor game of ball, Sum ter defeated Turbeville Friday at the Fair grounds, the final scoz-e being 16 to 1. The local team got strted in the first inning, rapping on Coker for many hits and running in 6. scores. The next two innings were of the same Order and some were thinking of sendinf down town for an adding machine, but Turbeville finally tight ened up and kept the event in the classification of a ball game, not a track meet/ - . ;. . Williams; a new man from Manning who pitched for Sumter, did well in the box, making the Turbevilleites* swing like ?- rusty gate at his offer ings. Williams has control, speed and curves, ami he hits too, and if he goes as well as he did Friday Sumter will have a good man to depend on. Hardeman, the little short stop who played his first game, for Sumter, got off with a rush, and the fans seem to like his style of playing. The local team has been greatly strengthened by the addition of Hew itt, also, and their is every indica tion that the score of the game with Darlington next week will be a little different from the first one. Rocking Chair For Prisoner Guards Donate Money to Make Woman Prisoner Comfortable Cjssining, June 26.?A rocking chair mad* its appearance in Singling pris on fojr the first time in the memory of taewdesi guard. Guards contribu ted theichair to Hattic Dixon, the only woman Theld for execution in many years whan it was learned she was unable to \&t on a prison stool. Permanent Home of 5 The Hague Selected as Place of the Tribtinal by Special Commission ? , The Hague?Assd. June 25.?A Commission of Jurists in session here for the formation of a permanent Court of International Justice as provi ded for by the League of Nation's covenant has decided that the court snould be located at the Hague. Hitchcock Doesn't Want Vice-Presidency Telegraphs Committemen at San Francisco That His Name e Must Not Be Mentioned Washington, June. 25.?Benedict Crowell, assistant secretary of War, has resigned from his office, the res ignation to be effective July first. His resignation has been accepted and [President Wilson is expected to ap point his successor soon. Crowell will j enter private busine?^. Crowell Resigns As Secretary President Accepts Resignation, Will Enter Private Business Washington, June 25.?Senator Hitchcock announced today that he would not accept the democratic vice presidential nomination. The an nouncement was made in a teiegram to the Nebraska National committee man answering a letter in which it was said that Hitchcock was being promientiy mentioned for the vice presidency. SOFTER APPOINTMENTS. ft j Conuuis?ner of Elections and Super visors of Registratiou Columbia, June 25.?-Governor Cooper today announced the appoint ment of John .B. Duffie, ov Sumter. as commissioner . of state and county elections, to suceed A. S. Harby, who recently resigned. As supervisor of registration for Sumter county the governor named T. DXDuBose, Sr., J. M. N. Wilder and James. M. Reames. LETTOR FROM MR. DABBS . ' Tryon,' N. C, June 25.?Last week I went, down to Sumter. For several days we had been complaining of the heat but we did not know what hot ?weather was until we reached Spartan burg. Drove to Spartanburg, 30 miles, in about 1 1-2 hours. I doubt if it took 'much more gas than the 12 miles from Sumter to my son's home and I know it was more tiresome on the 12 miles than the 30 in the morn ing. But the heat! It was worse on each stop all the way to Columbia and each station- seemed to be- in ? a hollow where the atmosphere was like an oven? Crowded? Well it seemed that everybody, his aunts, cousins, brothers-in-law grand-parents and grand-children had started some where that hot Tuesday morning. I thought we would melt in the train be fore leaving Columbia. About Cane Savannah it began to rain a fine' rain about Green Swamp, so that Sumter was the coolest place from the mount ains down. The road meeting was what Mr. Davis Moise called it, "Fine." It is ai good sign when 200 citizens and tax payers meet to discuss the issues of the day. The Chamber of Commerce deserves the support of more of our people for the good work it is doing toward the bringing about a better understanding among the people and of public questions. Everything that the conservative element of the meeting asked for was done, no more money on the Bridge project except what is raised by private subscription and the build ing forthwith of the Turbeville and Bethel short-cuts, the resolutions off ered by me and ammended by Judge Purdy were more liberal than the Jennings resolutions but the other side could not see.it that way and our side has no kick coming if the County Board will carry out the Jennings re solution. A letter from the Clerk of the Board indicates that the Turbeville road will be built * right' after the Turbeville picnic on July 7th. I presume that the Bethel road will be ?built right away. If there should be any unnecessary delay in the building of these two roads, from what T could learn, the fight will have just begun. But after the thorough discussion of the matter on the evening of July 8th and the almost unanimous concurrence in the Jennings Resolution. I have no fear Of the results. Those roads will be built and the county system of roads will be perfected before any more county' money is put in the Wateree swamp. And finally it wilt be a State and National bridge and causeway, as it should be. Compared with the crops up here xvhere the cotton is just chopped out,! Sumter and Richland crops look fine, but are the smallest I can recall in i many years. "< Coming back Saturday we ran into a bi^ rain at Eastover. About Alston it turned so cool f could not sit by the open window. When I got to Tryon I found a fire confortable. We had 4S hours with the temperature below 60." AH day rain Sunday and threatening rain today. Still very cooj. E. W DABBS. Londonderry, June 25.?The City is today approaching normal conditions. Many business houses a're open and the people are venturing into the streets. The food supply is short and the town is without gas. The fighting since midnight has been confined to sniping. / ').?????:.y~:. . . : ' ? * - t Population of Amer^ Continental United States Esti mated to Have One Hundred and Five Million Washington, June 25.?The popula tion of Continental United States is estimated at 105,000,000 by Chief Statistican Hill of the Census Bureau, basing his calculation on the combined population of 1400 Cities and towns. It is announced that the increase over 1910 is placed at about 13,000,000 showing that the growth of the coun try has not kept pace with previous decade. Greeks Advance Northward Are Marching Against Turkish Force in Asia Minor Smyrna. June 25.?Creeks who be gan an offensive Monday against the Turkish .Nationalist force are continu ing to advance Northward in Asia Minor the Greek Army headquarters j announced today. _ j German Cabinet Completed New Ministers To Take Office at Once Berlin, June 25.-^-The German I Chancellor, Constantine Feherenbach, j has completed the formation of the j new cabinet, to succeed the one dis solved last week. Demand a Square Deal Commercial Bodies Protest Against Railroad Discrimina tion Against Southwest Columbia, S. C. June 24.?-Steps were taken at a meeting of representa tives of Chambers of Commerce in the towns of the central part of the State, in conference in Columbia Wednesday aftera x>n, looking to the waging of a strenuous fight against railroad freight rate discrimination against the Southeast. Twenty-nine "towns were represented h< the meeting here to da: , and a committee was appointed to meet with a general committee, representing all sections of the State, for the purpose'of outling a permanent organization of South' Carolina Traffic association. This organization will fight for maintenance of. the present low export rates through South Atlan tic ports: will work for better rates on imports through the Southeast and will' strive to eliminate the present discrimination against the Southeast in the matter of re.:es to and from the middle-west. Matthew Hale, chairman of the South Atlantic State Association, at tended the meeting. B. R. Cooner, of Columbia, is chairman of the temporary' committee. Mr. Hale at tended a similar conference of re presentatives of 25 Piedmont cities and towns Tuesday, and a commit tee for that section is headed, by D. C. Durham, of Greenville. At an early date a similar conference will be held at Charleston and a similar commit tee, named for the coastal^ section. I These three committees will meet together tu perfect the organization of the traffic association for the State. . The State traffic association will elect a committee of five to serve on the traffic committee of the South Atlantic States Association. Florida, as well as North Carolina, South Caro lina and Georgia, will take similar action. The meeting Wednesday was held at the Columbia Chamber of Commerce rooms. Onions Drug On Market Potatoes Are Scarce and Selling High Washington i June 26.?Onions have become a drug on the market for the first time in many years, the department of agriculture announced today. Potatoes however, are two and three times as high as they were a year ago and are compartively scarce.; ^?! Silage Wires Ncrth 'Carolina 1^ Jfceminding Them of the Im portance of Amendment Washington, June 25.?President Wilson has sent a message to Governor Bickett and Senators Simmons1 and Overman of North Carolina, suggesting that he need not point out to them the critical importance of the action of the North Carolina Legislature on the Federal Suffrage amendment when the Assembly meets at a special session next month. Socialists Go To Mexico Establish Branch to Circulate Propaganda in the Two Americas Washington, June 25.?The estab lishment Of a Latin American Branch, of the third International SociaJjSt party of Moscow at Mexico City to, spread Bolshevik propaganda in; North and South America is reported ! by the newspaper Excelsior of Mexi [co City. Copies of this paper have j been received by State Department, i j Knights of Columbus Have No Claim -: ! Say That They Will Not Ask For Compensation for Occupation in Germany ???? j New York, June 26.?The Knights 1 Iof Columbus have announced that it i will enter no claims against Germany for expenses while with the American army ol occupation as the money was supplied by American, public and it would "3e impossible to adjust the claim. ^ ? ^ Strike in Maryland - j Embargo is Placed on Southern Shipments Baltimore, June 26.?The Western Maryland railroad has placed an em Jbargo on freight owing to the strike j of switchmen at Hagerstown and i Baltimore. This embargo affects i Southern shipments very greatly. / j Bryan Hits Prof iteers i Proposes Plank at Convention Calling for State Commissions San Francisco, June 28.?State commissions similar to the federal trade commission to prevent all prof iteering was the feature of a plank on * profiteering proposed today by Bryan. ! JURY LIST. j | _ The Court of General Sessions will (convene Monday, July 12. The fol j lowing is the list of jurors drawn for ithe first week: j C. A. McGrath, Sumter. / R. H. Witherspoon, Sumter. Sam Newman, Sumter, R. I. j E. H. Moses, Sumter. R. H. Ramsey, Wedgefild. H. J. Lawrence, Sumter. H. Bethea Hodge, Tindal. H. W. Sholar, Sumter. J. E. Geddings, Tindal. - S. J. L?ngster, Jr., Sumter, R. 4. G. W. Costin, Sumter. J. C. Rogers, Sumter, R. 2. J. J. Thompson, Sumter, R F. D, J. M. Oxendine: Dalzell, R. .1. HyA. Raffield, Sumter, R. 1. A. C. Kolb, Sumter, R. 2. A. H. Sanders, Hagood C. L. Stubbs, Sumter. M. E. Capell, Sumter, R. 5. W. F. Baker, Sumter, R. 3. V. M. Ramsey, Sumter. A T. Pringle, Mayesvil e, Route 1. W. J Lawrence, Jr., Su-nter, R. 1. J. K. McLeod, Rembert.. A va Stuckey, DaVzell, R. 1. . A. C. Moore, .Oswego. C. E. Owens. Sumter. T. S. Weldon, Dalzell, R 2. G. W. Dixton, Sumter. ^ L R. Jennings, Sumter. \ C. A. Murphy. Sumter. V H. D. Rembert, Oswego, R. 1. !: H. W. Cuttino, Sumter. Ernest Benenhaley, Sumter. S A. Turner, Sumter, R. 2. * P. J. Gallagher, Sumter. Candidates For Stale May Abandon State Wide Speaking Tour f Columbia, June 25.?The Statev.1^ political campaign, of candidates for state offices, will likely be abandoned after this week. One of the promin ent candidates stated at Lexington; Wednesday, where,, the. aspirants for office adressed a gathering of voters; that when the campaign party reaches Edgefield a meeting is to be heldfor - the purpose of discussing the propo- \ sal to abandon the campaign. The party is in. Edgefield Friday; and there is strong probability that the? itinerary will be forsaken. . h The reason is that there is practi cally no interest in the campaign. The first meeting was held in Columbia and seventy-five men heard the candi- ; dates speak, of which number a large/ :' part was of state officials ahd at taches of State offices." TJie - second meeting ' was at' Lexington Wednesday and there was - a mere handful of voters out to hear, the speakers. The party- is at Saluda Thursday, and early advices ..from; Saluda state that only a small audt ence was gathered to hear the candi dates The candidate, a member of the* * party, who stated that the campaign would probably be abandoned stated Ithat many of the candidates were- of the opinion that it was useless for' them to spend hundreds of dollar^ trotting over the state to speak to a handful of voters in each; county, . when as much could be accomplished in less expensive ways. It is under stood in Columbia that , many of the candidates in the party are in favor of discontinuing the jaunt. There are only three offices for which there is any contest, and there is little interest in these. These are Lieutenant Governor,. Adjutant Gener al, and Railroad Commissioner. Octa vus Cohen, Wilson G. Harvey, of Charleston, and O. K. Mauldln, of Greenville, are seeking the office' of lieutenant governor; A. H. Marchant, of Orangeburg, and W. W. Moore, of Columbia, are candidates' for adju tant general, and Frank Shealy, Lexington. R. L. Moss, Colunibia D. W. McCaskill, Camden, and D; L. Smith, Columbia, are seeking '.the position oh the railroad commistsion. Adjutant General Moore is chair man of the campaign" party n.hd ? h. Marchant, his opponent, is vice chairman and secretarry. , COTTON LETTER -:? . >' ' (John F. Clark & Co.} j New York, June 28.?The only fea ture in cotton today was the strength in July which gained 40 points on October. This was due to shorts cov ering because of a story^ going - the ' rounds that some Carolina, people , were long 25,p00 or more bales and:^ would demand} the cotton. Dec. . .31.96 32.37 3K79 32.37 Jan. . .31.30. 31.75 31.15 31.73 31.25 Mch. . .30.85 31.20 30.65 31.2* ?0.80 NEW ORLEANS COTTON T/stTdy's Month Open High Low Close ?lbse July . .36.22 37.05 36.22 37.05^?$? Oct. ." .32.8S 33.31 32.75 33.29 35.71 Dec. . .31.70 32.18 31.75 32.18, f&fc Jan. . .31.22 31.07.30.57 31.05 3>.50 Mch. . .30.70 31.07 30.38'3L(f? |^i?;V * - LIVERPOOL COTTON. Close: Jan. 21.00, Mch. 20.78, Julys; 23.97, Aug. 23.57, Sejt, 22.98, Oct. 22.56, Nov. 21.94, Dec 21.36. Philadelphia, Penn., June 2?.? There was a general improvement to day in the trainmen's strike situation, according to a Pennsylvania railroad * LUMBER 1 _1 Brick, m9 Locks, v. Lumber^, BulMingSV Hardware Flooring, J f Brick, -j-^ ., v# Locks, Ceiling, Siding, Casing, Plaster, w Grates, Mouldings, Fire Brick, RAT m ? lSaws, ? . ' W?l' Framing Lumber, Fire Clay, | VI Pi if^l^l ft I Hatchets, f^HTlrc I llrC Red Cedar Shingles, ? , ,? Sewer Pipe, *<*I *