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VOL. LXVI. NO. 24. part ii?pages 9 to 12. UNION. S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1916 part ii?pages 9 to 12. 91.00 A YEAR
Progressives Na
Republicai
Parker to Run With Roosevelt
and Fairbanks With
Hughes?Roosevelt Declines
Conditionally and
Hughes Accepts.
Chicatro, June 10.?The Republican
national convention today nominated
Charles Evans Huphes, of New York,
and Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana,
as the candidates of their party
for president and vice president.
Almost at the same moment Theo
dore Roosevelt was nominated by the
Progressive convention and later in
the day John M. Parker, of Louisiana,
was named as his running mate.
The Republican nomination required
a ballot, the third of the convention,
while the Progressive nomination was
made by accalamation.
Mr. Roosevelt's provisional declination
to accept the Progressive nomination
is believed by the politically
wise to leave the door ajar, if not
wide open, for eventual withdrawal of
the third ticket, in the event Mr.
Hughes' position on what the Progressives
feel to be the vital issues
of the campaign meet their approval.
To this extent at least the leaders in
both parties feel that the efforts at
harmony, even if not directly fruitful
of result, may yet be realized.
Roosevelt's Answer.
Chicago. June 10.?Colonel Roose
I ven s answer 10 me rrogressive convention
follows:
"The Progressive ^Convention:
j "I am very grateful for the honor
' you confer upon me by nominating
i me as president. I cannot accept it
at this time. I do not know the atti f
tude of the candidate of the Republish',.
i can party toward the vital questions
1\ . the day. Therefore, you desire
'-r f ?" immediate decision, I must decline
^ jj ffp<hat'"my conditional refusnl
\ placed in the hands of the
; - fM^ressive national committee. If
? . ^?fr. Hughes' statements, when he
makes them, shall satisfy the committee
that it is for the interest of
the country that he be elected, they
can act accordingly and treat my reI
fusal as definitely accepted. If they
are not satisfied, they can so notify
the Progressive party and at the same
time they can confer with me and
then determine on whatever action we
may severally deem appropriate to
meet the needs of the country.
t \ i?TU 1 n li. ?
(oi|;iicu; i ncuume nooseveu.
Strenuous Day at Hughes' Home.
Washington. June 10.?Charles Evans
Hughes stepped down today from
the supreme bench, and accepted the
Republican nomination for president.
Tn a telegram denouncing the administration's
foreign policies and declaring
for a "dominant, thoroughgoing
Americanism," he gave his decision
to Chairman Harding, of the Republican
national convention, and broke
the long silence which had kept the
loaders of his party in the dark as
o his attitude on what they termed
the g~eat issues of the day.
"I have not desired the nomination,"
the telegram said: "I have
wished to remain on the hench. But
in this critical period of our national
history. I recognize that it is your
right to summon and that it is my
paramount duty to respond."
Within an hour after Chairman
Harding had notified him of his nomination.
Mr. Hughes had accepted the
call. His resignation, a scant twoline
letter without a superfluous
word, was on its way to the White
House from the Hughes' home before
the nominee had dispatched the message
of acceptance, and called the
waiting group of newspapermen into
b's study to tell them of his decision.
President Wilson accepted the resignation
in a reply almost as brief.
Resignation Accepted.
"I hereby resign the office of associate
justice of the supreme court of
the United States," Mr. Hughes wrote.
I To which the president replied, "I am
in receipt of your letter of reslgna??i
e?i ? i 1 *- - ?!-'J A.
nun, <tiiu ieei cunsi rauieu to yieiu to
your desires. I,*therefore, accept your
resignation as justice of the supreme
court of the United States to take effect
at once."
When copies of hoth the telegrams
to Chicago and the letter of resignation
had been made public, Mr.
Hughes left his home for his customary
afternoon walk. Soon after his
return Lawrence Green, his private
secretary, told him of Colonel Roosevelt's
conditional declination of the
Progressive nomination. Mr. Hughes
sent word to inquirers that he had
nothing to say concerning it. His
friends, however, were outspoken in
their satisfaction over Colonel Rooseii
volt's attitude.
Men Considered to Pilot Hughes.
Chicago, June 11.?Five names
k . _
me Teddy
is Name Hughes
were mentioned as possible candidates
for chairman of the Republican national
committee and manager of the
Hughes and Fairbanks campaign in
the political discussion of the subject
by Republican leaders here today
prior to their leaving for their homes.
The names mentioned were: Frank
H. Hitchcock of New York, Ralph E.
Williams of Oregon, Joseph Kealing
of Indiana, Fred C. Tanner of New
York and Charles B. Warren of
Michigan.
W. Murray Crane of Massachusetts,
chairman of the special committee
appointed by the Republican national
committee yesterday to confer with
Mr. Hughes in regard to the appointmen
of an executive committee
which is to select the chairman and
other officers of the national body of
the party, left for New York today.
He said that no date had been decided
upon for the conference with Mr.
11 Ti. 1 *? _ J it- - i n -
uugnes. it is unuerstoou mat trie
meeting with the Republican presidential
nominee will be held within
ten days.
Henry Allen of Kansas, one of the
leaders at the Progressive national
convention, today declared he would
support Hughes. He asserted Hughes
and Fairbanks would carry Kansas
and win in November. He had a conference
with Frank H. Hitchcock today.
A number of Roosevelt delegates
to the Republican national convention
also called on Mr. Hitchcock
to pledge their support.
There was an exodus of conventfoners
from the city last night and
today, all of the railroads running
their regular trains in sections to accommodate
the crowds. It is estimated
that the visitors to the Republican,
Progressive and Woman's
party national conventions expended
$1,365,000 in Chicago last week.
TO REGISTER TITLES.
Tnrrnna A ft ?
vi' *uly
The Torrens system of registration
of land titles will become effective in
South Carolina July 1. Under its provisions
the clerk of court is to appoint
by August 1 three or more attorneys,
who are to be examiners of
titles; the county commissioners must
provide a register of mesne conveyance
for the registration of titles. The
provisions of the act are assumed voluntarily.
The advantage of the Torrens system
is that after land is once registered
under this plan, there will be
no further question of the title and it
will not be necessary to have the title
examined for any subsequent transfers
of the land. The object of the
system is to give a clear title to land.
The Torrens act fixes the fees that
are to be allowed to the title examiners,
officers and surveyors. The examiner
is to receive a minimum fee of
$5 for examination of each title of
property assessed upon the tax books
at $1,000 or less, and for each additional
$1,000 of assessed value he is
to receive 50 cents. The survevor
employed under the provisions of the
act is to he allowed not more than 40
cents per hour for the time actually
employed.
In order to guarantee the title, and
at the same time to protect against
loss persons who by the system lose
an interest in land not through their
own negligence, the State provides an
assurance fund. This fund is formed
by a fee of one-tenth of one per cent,
of the assessed value of the registered
land This amount is turned over to
the State treasurer.
TROUBLES.
Oh, yes, I have my troubles.
My tale and grief and woe,
My conflicts and my struggles.
My ups and downs, you know!
But, somehow, when they're darkest,!
And when the clouds are gray,
I think of other people's,
And they seem to pass away!
Oh, yes, I have my sorrows.
My heartache and my care;
My dark and grave tomorrows,
My grief and my despair!
But, somehow, when they're saddest
The thought comes unto me,
How much worse things have hap
penetl,
And then my troubles flee!
Oh, yes, I'm sad and worried,
And grumped and grouchy, too;
And pestered out and flurried,
And grim and dark and blue.
But, somehow, when my troubles
Seem more than I can bear,
I think of other people's
And mine blow by in air.
?Benztonw Bard, in Baltimore Sun.
When a man of 80 marries a girl of
20 it proves he is old enough to know
better.
You never can tell. Many a true!
word is spoken in jest, and many a lie
is dead earnest.
REV. MR. LEITCH
DIES SUDDENLY
WAS EDITOR OF "THE WAY OF
FAITH."
Born an Englishman?Came to America
at Early Age?An Evangelist
of 30 Years' Experience.
(Monday's State).
The Rev. Thomas H. Leitch, formerly
superintendent of the Oliver
Gospel mission, died suddenly at a
Columbia hospital last night about
10:30 o'clock.
For 30 years Mr. Leitch has beert
an evangelist of the Methodist Epis-1
| copai church ahd In this capacity has
been throughout South Carolina and
in many sections of the United States
from New York to Denver and in the
South.
Mr. Leitch, who became editor of
The Way of Faith about a year ago,
succeeding the Rev. James M. Pike,
-as born in LoHdbth-England, in 1850.
He came to America* at the age of 3
years and up until three years ago
had spent a large part of his life in
Charleston. He there became a local
preacher in the Methodist church and
was not connected directly with the
conference.
Funeral arrangements have been
postponed until his sons reach Columbia.
Mr. Leitch is survived by his wife,
two daughters, Misses Jennie and
Maybelle Leitch, all of Columbia; a
son, T. J. Leitch in the United States
navy, and two sons in Charleston, W.
W. and B. M. Leitch.
Mr. Leitch and his family lived at
the Oliver Gospel mission, of which
he was the active superintendent on
coming to Charleston. He has continued
his connection with 4the mission
since assuming the duties of
editor of The Way of Faith, a weekly
religious paper published in Columbia
with an international circulation.
Active charge of the Oliver Gospel
mission was taken over only yesterday
by the Rev. R. L. Todd, who has had
wide experience in missionary work.
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Some newspaper man has scooped
all the papers by figuring on the cost
of June weddings. He said the average
wedding will cost $250, clothes
and all, while some particularly swell
weddings will cost from .$'1.0,000 to
$25,000, including finery and presents.
Cleveland ( Ohio, is taken as a June
wedding basis, and already 1,000 wedding
licenses have been issued there,
showing that the city will have $25,000
worth of June weddings during
this month. This does not include
the cost of bridal tours, but the cost
covers about what is necessary in the
way of preparedness for closing up a
matrimonial deal at the altar.
That is just for one city, so if there
are 10,000 weddings in a State, the
cost would be estimated at $2,500,000
and some statistician has made bold
to assert that June weddings in
America will cost not less than $100,000,000.
We can't see what he has to
do with it, if the cost were really a
billion. June brides are worth every
cent of it, so what is the use of standing
around and counting the cost of
the beginning happiness? Expenses
only commence at the beginning and
people would go crazy if they expect
ed to try to keep up with what it costs
Washington Star.
CAKE DOES SAVE LIFE.
Ify advertisement, by placards in
stations, by huge signs displayed at
crossings, the I.ong Island railroad
has besought motorists to use at
grade crossings ordinary care for
their own lives. Luck might change
any day, now that the "spring running"
is again in the drivers' blood,
but one year is secure. In 191.r> no
autoist was killed at a crossing.
The conditions against which ap.
peal was made to the power of publicity
had been intolerable; and no
fair man could wholly blame the railroad.
It had more than 1,200 crossings,
in a region mainly flat, where
traffic had averaged light. All these
crossings could not be abated at once,
when the sudden introduction of the
automobile made 50 miles an hour
possible to recklessness. It has, in
fact, taken ten years and cost $17,000,000
to put one-quarter of the
crossings above or below the tracks.
It costs $.100,000 a year?which indirectly
all the people pay?to guard
one-third of the remaining grade
crossings by flagmen.
The railroad was not to blame for
the speed maniac. It was not to
blame when, as often happened, autoists
purposely smashed through its
conspicuously painted safety-gates
when they were lowered for trains to
pass. It would be to blame i'f it
omitted any reasonable effort to stop
the slaughter by urging the people to
stop it themselves.
The success of the safety campaign
is one of the finest examples of the
magic of suggestion. The signs have
been cleverly devised to appeal to the
imagination. Few drivers wish to
commit suicide on a railroad track.
I
GERMAN LOSSES I
IN BIG FIGURES. |
Of Great Total Over Seven Hundred
Thousand Said to Have Been
Killed.
London, June 11.?Germany up to y
the end of May had lost 2,924 58(5
soldiers, of whom 734,412 were killed,
according to a British official tabula
tion cf the German casualty lists x
given out here today. The compilation
did not include German losses in
naval engagements or in the fighting
in the German colonies. w
The British official statement < <
quotes the German official casualty
lists for the month of May as placing C(
the total German losses in killed, nprisoners
and wounded at 102,507. tr
This, it is pointed out, brings the Ger- u
man total losses, exclusive of naval
and colonial casualties, to 2,924,586. ti
The German figures in'the May list ni
as enumerated in the British account tl
are as follows: fe
Dead, 22,471; wounded, 72,075; jr<
prisoners and missing, 7,961. Total h<
102.507.
The German official lists of casual- m
ties up to the end of May give these w
totals: s?
Dead, 7.14,412; wounded, 1,851,652; ()l
prisoners and missing, 338,522. To- pj
tal 2,924,586. CI
TERMS IX PRISON .
GIVEN TO TIGERS pl
Charleston, June 9.?The first
straight chaingang sentence ever imposed
in the court of general sessions
for Charleston county upon conviction
of" a defendant for violating the
liquor laws was passed today when,
after a jury had found him guilty.
Judge R. W. Memminger sentenced
Antonio Rosa to serve three months
at hard labor on the county chaingang
or a like period in the State
penitentiary, two months of the sentence
to be suspended upon good behavior
of the defendant and payment
to the clerk of court of $100 fine.
The trial of Rosa consumed practically
all day and the jury was out
about an hour, returning with a verdict
of guilty shortly after 2:30
q'clock^t^s^^ternwn. Mappus, in
of cases in which (Violation of the
liqilor law was charged, pleaded
Kuiity mis morning, solicitor w. n. R,
Grimball agreeing to discontinue all
other cases against him when he
pleaded guilty on the first indictment.
His sentence was eight months with
six months suspended upon condition
that he pay a fine of $500 or serve
two months in jail and refrain from
further violation in any manner whatever
of the liquor laws. S. P. Schiadaressi,
who pleaded guilty under the
same conditions and on the same
charge, this afternoon received the
same sentence, with the exception
that the fine in his case was $100.
The sentences were very similar in
form to those passed hy Judge Mendel
L. Smith, who was presiding when the 10
first convictions in liquor cases were
secured at the last term.
CORK IXTION VS. PIMSHMKNT. C
-r i_..:
c > Miiiiicim tut: >1111 i L iii leniency |
exhibited by Judge Mendel L. Smith. n<
We are informed that he has not been n<
harsh or severe in passing sentences, a
although he has been insistent upon th
juries bring in verdicts where the cc
evidence warrants. cr
But Judge Smith has shown the p<
propei- spirit in endeavor, to admin- w
ister the law as a corrective of evil S<
rather than as an inexorable punish- cl
mer.t for an individual. We learn al
that he told one negro, convicted of ly
selling liquor, that the defendant was w
evidently but a tool in the hands of a
others and that the punishment un- cr
dor sentence would be suspended al
during good behavior. ic
We think that he might be equally th
tolerant of hi'p?pocket blind tigers in
convicted under the new "I.yles law." P
None should wish to see a white man er
sent to the chaingang for peddling di
liquor if he v/ill promise to quit it. A
It is not the individual who should th
be humiliated and broken, but the m
practice should be run to ground. 4,
The malefactors who should be ti
made to suffer are those who conduct in
establishments for the impoverish- sh
ment of youth and the ruin of young th
men. But even they should have 4f
some consideration. Despite the ,st
: ili- i a?
warnings in mis new law wivn e\
teeth," the liquor sellers and gam- 1 i<
hlers of Columbia have so long had le
their own way that this new order of m
affairs under Governor Manning is cc
such a surprise that they have been th
unable to appreciate its significance, e?
We believe that convictions by ju- E
ries with suspended sentences during
good behavior would have the desired
effect.--Columbia Record.
Never hit a man when he has you t\
down. m
yy
One of the things we very seldom
see is an optimist with a boil on his
nec*- hi
The task was to convince them that w
care does save life. Constant remind- c<
ers seem to have taught the lesson, lo
?New York World. si
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Russian Offensii
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fINTHROP COLLEGE
SHORT COURSE JUNE 27TH.
Rock Hill, June 1, 1910.
o the Club Women of South Carolina:
At the request of Mrs. J. W. Allen,
[rs. Alexander Long, and other club
omen of South Carolina, Winthrqp
)llgg5 is offering a short course aringed
especially for them. This
jurse will be given during the sumler
session of this year. It will bein
Tuesday, June 27th, and end Satrday,
July 8th.
This course will present an oppormity
for as serious study as the wolen
desire or just for attendance on
le open lectures and the lighter oftringa.
In either case, a woman will
jt many suggestions which will
ilp her keep abreast of the times.
The summer faculty will present
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uvvi IUI JLI VIII IIIC OUIIIU|/Ullll' U1 l lll.:
oman in the home who wishes to
?rve home and community in adejate
fashion. The offerings will cornrise
the purely cultural, the practiil
and the spiritual.
The following are the offerings
anned:
The Home.
The Family Budget.
Home Nursing.
Health Essentials,
irvant.
House Planned to Eliminate the
irvant.
Care of Milk and Butter Making.
Bread Making.
Balanced Menus for the Family.
Fireless Cookery Demonstration.
Back Yard Poultry.
The All-Year-Hound Garden.
Kindergarten Methods in the Home.
Economy and Taste in Dress.
Kindergarten Methods in the Home.
Open Discussion.
Art.
Elementary Studies in Art.
Household Decoration and Furnishto
Judge" a Picture.
Literature.
What Books to Read and How to
ead Them.
ui/Wi y iciiiu^;.
Folk Lore.
The Bible as Literature.
Civics.
City Planning.
Parks and Playgrounds.
Town Libraries.
Organized Charities.
Curb Markets.
Tree Planting.
Beautifying Yards.
Recreation.
Use of Gymnasium.
Swimming Lessons.
Bach woman planning to come is
quested to notify
D. B. Johnson.
Pesident.
AN THE ARMY BE RECRUITED?
Whether the new army can or can
)t be recruited is a pressing question,
>w that the bill is about to become
law. The adjutant general lias said
lat 140,000 is the largest number he
uld successfully undertake to reuit:
17">,000 some officers believe
>ssible, in view of all the talk of
ar. Some observers believe that
jnator Chamberlain and others who
amored for an army of 2n0,000, and
so favor universal service, purposeaimed
at a higher figure than it
as possible to obtain in order to say
year hence that the failure to re uit
the necessary men left no other
ternative than to Prussianize Amera
by compulsory service. We know
lat the attempt to recruit 20,000 men
haste to reinforce Funston and
ershing has resulted only in a total
llistment of 8,141 in seventy-two
lys after the passage of the law.
s the wastage from deaths, deseron
and discharges is fully 2,000 a
onth, the net gain is therefore only
000, and this despite every exeron
and the possibility of trouble
i Mexico. As a matter of fact, the
lowing is probably worse, since in
le fiscal year 1914-'lf> there were
1,898 re-enlistments, with the total
.rength less than 105,000. Out of
fery two soldiers, one had to be en
sted or re-enlisted, and it took no
ss than 129 officers and 831 enlisted
en away from their regiments (ex;pt
37 retired officers) to accomplish
us. How many regiments of recruit's
will 200,000 call for??New York
vening Post.
SURE ENOUGH LOW DOWN.
The following conversation beveen
two of Beaufort's typical
lembers of the African persuasion
as overheard a few days ago by a
jporter of the Leader.
"Dat man am so low down dat
e'd haf to reach up to tech bottom."
"Now, nigger, you don't know
hat you talkirr' Tx>ut," said his
>mpanion. "Why dat man am so
iw down dat he'd hatter git a airlip
to go to hell."?Beaufort Leader.
ve
>lds Rich Return
Movement by Slavs in Volhynia
and Galicia Results
in Capture of Thirty-five
Thousand Soldiers and
Four Hundred Officers.
Petrograd, June 11 (via London).?
Continuing their offensive movement
in Yolhynia and Galicia, Russian
troops yesterday took prisoner -100
officers and 35,000 men, says the official
statement issued here today. The
Russians also captured 30 guns and
an enormous quantity of booty.
The army of Gen. Techitskyn alone,
operating in the direction of Czernowitz,
Bukowina, the statement adds,
overwhelmed the Austro-IIungarians
and took 18,000 prisoners.
Since the present offensive was
started a week ago today, the Russians
have taken about 108,000 prisoners.
The text of the statement follows:
"Our offensive in Volhynia, Galicia
and Bukowina obtained fresh successes
yesterday. The enemy armies
continued to suffer enormous losses
in prisoners alone.
"The first attacks of our troops
are throwing into our hands thousands
upon thousands of prisoners and booty
of all kinds, the exact estimation of
which is as yet impossible.
"For instance, in a single sector
on the enemy front we captured 21
searchlights, two convoys, 20 field
kitchens, 17 trains of machine guns,
12.000 poods of barbed wire (a poo.l
is equivalent to 3(5 pounds), 1,000 concrete
planks, 7,000,000 cubes of concrete,
10,000 poods of coal, enormous
depots of ammunition and quantities
of arms and other material.
"In another sector we captured 30,000
rifle cartridges, 300 boxes of machine
gun cartridges. 200 boxes of
tion of drinking water.
"The capture of such enormous war
materials prepared by the enemy for
various operations affords proof of
how opportune was our coup.
"During yesterday's fighting we
took as prisoners one general, 409 officers
and 35,100 soldiers. We also
captured thirty guns, 13 machine
guns and five bomb throwers. This
makes the total trophies in the recent
operations one general, 1,(549 officers
and more than 10(5,000 soldiers and
124 guns, 1880 machine guns and 58
bomb throwers."
A Plucky Struggle.
"Among the war features may be
noted the plucky struggle of our
young formation near Kojitche on the
Styr near I.utsk. Here the Hermans
attempted to render assistance to the
Austrians, but by our infantry attack,
delivered under cover of heavy artillery,
they were dislodged from the
town, losing more than 2.000 prisoners,
two guns and some machine guns.
jOur troops pursued the retreating
"Our forces operating in the region
of Rubno (one of the fortresses comprising1
the Volhynian triangle) captured
the town and fort and are on the
I enemy's heels. Some Russian detachments,
crossing the Ikwa river, have
developed their offensive. A part of
the Russians occupied the region of
the village of Damidovka, on the
Myinoff-Berestetchno road, forcing
the enemy at his myinoff point of support
to surrender. Resides dislodging
the enemy from his principal position
north of Routchatche, we took many
prisoners there, including the statf of
an Austrian battalion and ah"
tured a great quantity of arms.
"We overthrew the enemy on the
Stripa. Near Ossevitzie, north of
Routchatche, one of our regiments
captured a complete battery of four
10-centimeter mortars.
"Despite the enemy's desperate resistance,
his violent flank and curtain
fire, together with the explosion of
mines, Gen. Techitskyn's troops cap
tured an enemy position south of
Dobronovitze, 20 versts northeast of
Czernowitz (Bukowina). In this region
alone we took as prisoners one
general, 347 officers and 18,000 men
and captured 10 guns and at the time
this report is dispatched prisoners are
still coming in.
Retreat Made Riot.
"Southeast of Zale Szczyky by an
energetic coup we overthrew the
enemy, who retreated. The enemy
blew up the Yourkoutz railway station.
Turkoman cavalry charged the
retreating enemy and turned his rei
treat into a disorderly rout.
"In attempts to save the situation
the enemy at many places made fu;
rious counterattacks. Among others,
' at Eawn Saturday in the region of
' Semki, east of Kolki, numerically sui
perior enemy forces attacks our adi
vanced elements, and under cover of
. a concentration of their fire forced
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