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it IR X MF v v A NNIN--G., S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY7I92N.8 TURNS ON HARVEY HEAPS ABUSE UPON THE MAN RE; WAS DEFENDING. Says the Editor of Harper's Weekly Was Playing Do-'bie With Him and Governor Wilson. A dispatch from Columbia says olonel Henry Vatterson, who spoke here Wednesday rnght on O.e arbi :ration treaties, issued the followin tatenent on the nmess he has gotten aimself into by meddling with things hat did not concern him: "Touching the Harvey-Wilson let :ers, I have to say that, from tirst to .ast, I have been acting, not only ith Colonel Harvey's full knowledge nd approvel, but upon his insist mce: that, from the begi'ining, he vas most impatieat of dely,. send ng a personal representative to me tt Atlanta, the 24th of December. nd again the same representative to 1ichmond, the 31st of December, irging mie to take- the initiative hat he was unqualified in endorsin ay statement of the .ianhattan Club nedent, wiring forthwith to declare t 'perfect' and that he'vas with me .t the New Willard. in Washington. [p to last Sunday right, sharing ail did and hW donv. "The refusal of Governor Wilson D submit an issue of veracity raised; y himself to a tribunal having due egard for the rights of their parties, bhich I proposed, should, and I think ill, be regarded by fair minded peo le as confession that he dare not sce the facts. "As to those Democrats who have: iade a hero of Wilson because of his reak with Harvey, how shall they quare themselves with the eternal erities now that they learn that Wil on and Harvey are weeping upon ne another's bosom." reparations were made and plans j Ir evised to operate a racing track in. harleston. Nothing was said to lead the belief that there was any op osition to the plans outlined in the arter granted in 1907. The pro oters of that club went faithfullyl ad earnestly to work to get the race -ack, and now this bill seeks to undo hat was done in granting the caar r in 1907. Thvme men acted on ie good faith of t'is body and ex ended a quarter ')i a million dollars : looks to him like confiscating roperty. For years and years the races have one on here at the State Fair and o one has spoken of the people of !b 1e State being insulted and offend i. He said he never heard any pro tst arainst the racing here. at the, air. It is stated that the races have een run ou~t of other States. No ne says the same conditions exist in harleston as prevailed in thcse oth States. There is racing today in d entucky, and in Virginia this same roposition was killed almost unani- . ously. No one knows that the con itions that exist here ever existed in( e other States. Conditions differ* ad should be considered. He asked members if they realized\ iat the proposed bill denies the; ght of jury trial. He asked why de-1 y any man the tight of trial by velve of his peers. The time has not >me, he urged, to abandon the right trial by jury, as the bill proposes. he Democratic party is against go" rnment by injunction and for this e urged. There is no need for go" rnment by injunction and yet that* what Mr. Erchmann wamts. Thej ill also allowvs property to be at-. L.cked under the terms. Hie would. ways oppose such a lawv. He was nalterably opposed to denying any ne the right of trial by jury. lie -as unalterably opposed to the in nction process to enforce any law. Youman Opposes Gambling. Mr. Youma'i said he was no apol gist for gambling. He was utterly pposed to public indecency, Hie was era and reared in a home of Chris-. an and moral people. Comparing ae Jockey Club 'o what they nowv ave in Charleston was like compar ig the Madonna io' a street walker. shocked him. There was a day o 'nivalry in the olden days. In those ays there were nets for glo-:es and~ ouquea, and not "fithy luer'e." When this "gang" came to Coltu ia month ago, they came steal:l y. and came here with their wo :en. There was but little diecenc: mong that crowd. and men. he said ane here with their women fron se "dei-monde world." This crowd as kicked out ofl New Or:leans. Tmphis and other cities. and no e could want wider otpen Plaece. d yet they are to be foisted on ou. ie read a story in3 the news'tai'ers out a "masher" being arrestedi nd .ned in Charleston. and wht ha lant and how mucrh wcrs it woud :et it be. He stoodi for pub.:lde ncy and right, Ilie did not w'nt o see our women sitting beside thee ed women who follow' tie race rack Hie was ready to help kick uut this crowd, horse. foot and dra Other Members Speak. Mr. Hamiiton s:-id morality could tot be legislated into any peo'ple. 1e vas not afraid o any peo bo. Ito tad been in Saramge and no ene hu.'z li. Mr. Youmaa. hes- retN vaas suffering from "brain stormi."'" caanted the House to be conser.atire Lad let ttings alone. Let the ;peo is rae some recreation. The ;,laec' to each morals is in the homes antd no: n (tie statute books. Hie could see io reason why Charle'ston shonldiCb lenied its fun if it wanted it.-H va as opposed to gamiblingi twr ,os ssible to do so. Thev-yl if our people is to rebel ~aaint sucj Mr. Evans offered as an amn meent that the A\ct ?o ito el' : Nlarch 3. 1f'1- Mr Seeno -houghtt the amendm2t wro"m if :he law is being vionat.d it so - SOME 1101 TALK! The Huse Considers the Ali-damb ling Chirleston R ce Lack Bill A SPIRITED DISCUSSION Che Open. High Handed Gambling Now Being Done at the CharlestonI Race Track Laid in the Discussion of the Bill Introduced insthe Gen eral Assembly to Stop It. The House of Representatives spent all day WedneIay discussing the bill introduced by .a.r. Erckmann, of Charleston, to prohibit gambling at the race track recen Lly established in that city.: The bili was called up at noon. The chief speeches in favor of the passage of t:e bill was made by Messrs. Erckmann. Youmans and J. Belton Watson, while the opposi-I tion to the measure, thus far, has brought out two members of the, Charleston delegation, Messrs. Tobi-: as, Vander Horst and Hamilton. Mr. Erckmann, of Charleston, said this was purely a moral question,! and that it was largely a question of manhood against nrals. It was only from a very stern sense of duty that he advocated the anti-racing bill. The,' building of the race track in Char leston be held was an insult to this State. It is right that what has been run out of Jacksonville and: Memphis and other cities should be brought to this State? He knew he was touching the pocket nerve of many, but he could not help it. He said some folks were very particular in their little attentions to the Leg- V islators. and among other things they: had closed their s:xty-foot bar room at the track on the day the Legisla tors visited Charleston. His bill was not against contests of speed, nor was it opposed to races, but he was opposed to races with gambling, and with its horde of trav elling gamblers: this is not the South Carolina Jockey C.ub by a million miles. If money was spent in build ing blind tigers and openly violating the laws no one was to be blamed for such bad investments and no en couragement had c7er been made for. svch investments-the building of blind tigers and places for gambling were not lawful. What money was spent in Charleston on the track was spent with full knowledge of this fight. The Evening Pos: and The News t and Courier, he said. both warned the promoters that they were spend-, ing their money at their peril and F they simply took gambler's chance. b They openly ask for the right to gam- c: ble. Then they say they will not en courage gambling among clerks. C They send out fres passes to shop T girls and' they even have a special booth for the negroes. The negroes gamble and who pays the bills? he n asked. His bill will hurt no one e:-t cept a gambling institution. It was a pure and simple gambling plan, hea said.t As to the nuisance clause, he said. it was foolish to appeal for the poor gamblers. They come here to rob us of our manhood and bring tearse to our women: why not apply the law to the fullest extent? It may be un-! democratic, but the open violation o f the law is anarchy and he would C rather have the -1ulsance clause than anarchy. The injunction feature is only intended to reach lawbreakers. There was nothing in his bill t against breeding fine horses, races and many other things, but he only intended to prevent gambling. ,His bill is only an anti-gambling bill. It 0 was a State-wide bill. There are one thousand boys in Charleston at the four colleges. He had letters from the hands of the Citadel. Por ter Academy and the Medical Col- 0 lege, asking that his bill pass. He o read a strong letter from the head b of the Porter Academy, urging the importance of enacting the proposed t bill. It was a pure, moral issue. It is tine to give attention to breeding!] fine boys and not Tine horses. c They have sent tickets here broad- d east, and he said the promoters of b the races have sent misleading state ments to members. As a businessb proposition its record is bad. It was run out of New Toit, and New Or leans, and Memphis and Jacksonville. !a Why give it a chance with ite record e of brokers homes .iari ruination? WVh1 sell ourr raanhood for n'oucy? They: say it -s bringing~ great. crowds. He imagihed Reno was at- C trac:ing great cro'ed% but was t State r-ady to forget its moral obli- 1: gations to, make nieney?' The races noy attrac-t crowds and make mnoney a for a while, but in the end it Wil e a losing proposition. The record of racing is bad. It is accompanied: by a great, long train of crooks and gamblers. The whole atmosphere of Charleston has been changeel by this hore, and it has not been temiporari I changed for the better. It has been seriously saidI racing will help Charleston. This he de nied. and he said tru~e Christianity r meant helping the A esk. It is high tie to make it harder to do wrong 1 and easier to do T:ght. It is wrong to add needless burdens to the we-' men in the homes. The women ask the passage of this bill, he said.- r we going to let a crowd of strange 1 gambers threaten our homes? lHe t eterrd to the res~oluitionls of the: Methodist and Bap~ist conferences. It is small wonder that they are in arms aginst gamabling. If t-here is no ga.lin, then his bill wi'll hurt ro one introduced a Lill to chneter :h'o Soutn Carolna .To'ke-- Ciub. Thle till voo. Tha was ~ areears ago. Fol .oin ta nation oi the Legislature. CaX a Divorced Ma W h Ha1 e .0 -4 S Car.Lea M irry Agaii,? L IN E %-l, wUS RArU D 'rohate JIu(ge firamilett, of Green vilIe County Thur.(day Moring Re ftused to Issue a .!arriage License - to a White .lan \1ho Had Fleen Di vorced in North Carolina. The ;reenvllle Daily Piedmant saNs the refusal of Probate Judge Bram ett Th1ursday norning to issue a rrarriage license to a white man who as been divorced in North Carolina m-.I who a~iied at the Probaie' Judge's oiice here for a marriage li ense raises quite an ir~eresting uestion of h-: iich will b" of ind erest to all of ..he legal fraternity ad to the public l: general because: uestions involving marriage are of Umal interest. The ques:ion involved is: Does: outh Carulina which is the only iate in the Union where a divorce annot be secured recognize divorce ecrees of other staptes? In iefusing .o issue a marriage license to the an who applied for one Judge Bram ett held that this state does not rec gnize divorce decrees of other -tates nd consequently could not by law ssue the license. The refusal to issue the license rame about in this wise: A Mr. ood whose given name could not e ascertained Thursday morning ap lied at the Probate Judge's office for marriage license for his brother, Jr. J. -M. Wood. In asking for the icense he told Judge Bramlett that', is brother had beca previously mar led in North Carolina and had been: ivorced from his wife. The wife, so he said, subsequently arried. Mr. Wood then moved to reenville where ':e was switten b: ul)d's arrow. He then sent his arother to the city to secure the yarriage license. The request for Le license and Judge Brainlett's re sal to issue it have been referred abov e. After declining to issue the license udge Btramlett suggested that mir. ood bring action in the civil court require him (Juage 13raniett) to tor (ause why the license should., ot be granted he wili contend that rinas tu matter in before the high r court where It could be finally ecided. Judge Bramflett said that in an wvering the courtz order to show. a.use why the license should not be nted he will ctntend that South arolina does not recognize divorce ecrees of other states. Upon being refused the license for is brother 31r. Wagod left the Pro-. ate .Judge's oii-se saying he would -nsut attorneys relative to the 'x on the question. A well known attorney of the city -hen questioned Thursday morning omerung the matter disagreed with udge lDrnmlett. lHe took the view hat though South Carolina does not on, sow divorces it does recognize di rce dlecrees of other states and tat e man should have been granted t e marriage licease. If the mnatter Is brouzh-. before I e court it v iiil prove a interestinl 1 ne and will doubtkcss attract much I tten ton. Vatsoni opJposed the amendment oig to delay. Hie had heard no adl that thiere was gambing at he race i~n Charl-s:on. Tlhe charter' f 190 granted certain non in Char -on did ot contemp~llate open gamn ling. Our people do not want amin an ., .d it should be stop~ped o one. t was a plain catse of stop aif an 'ow is the opportune time show that South Carolina stands > that w.hich is tcst and right. 3r. ader liorst, of Civartesion, *~ he ws not surprisedl at the .oftedebate. In su:h issues e oas were feature-1 it wa u::: c-:t dow~n to facts. Hei 1 'o o"uesti-n ais to the sincerit ne~gion. Itmay be gat ere Iha ro:n 1.2e to 1.- 0 pod s i The bill wvs '.aken u.p Thurd.ay - 9 o 1 n: e-:ery roin j-a. The 2! woails the n a r~s ah:an on the s o easur saw :w n use T wl! alo pass the. 3 'es ree .r rce - r. in out C arolins S - ~ .in. Or--~"ndo. ia. sae Ir of aiuture. ter a "2 1a rni. PASSES iTS SECOND REAIJNG IN THE UPPER HOUSE. Will Conie Up Next Tuesday for Fiiml Action on the l'art of the Sen ate. The anti-betting race track bill, introduced in the senate by Senator Carlisic, went to third reading dur-1 ing the inattentian of thos.e ment bQrs of the senate cpposed to it in its pre:ent form. Mr. ApIpelt moved for a rconsi.ieration of the vote, upon which there was much discussion. Senator Clifton requestod that de bate be deferred until niiet as he had an anuendment to offer that he con sidered would be acceptable to Mr. Carlisle, who said that he anticipated the nature of the amuendmtent, and trould not agree to it. Mr. Carlisle aIso said that the tcaestion had been cnding for soine trime and that he Jesired the flght to ljegin at one. The mne~nment, he said, can us ogered: on third reading. Senator Ap;elt made a motion to" possi:one action on the bill. Upon ( (hihli Senator Carlisle noved that it c be tailed. A viva voce vote beingt iad. Senator Carlisle was sustained- i 2 for and 13 against-as follows: f Yeas--Ackerman, Bates, Black, r ,ariisle, Christensen, Earle. Epps, t Girn, Green Hall, Hardin, W. J. I Johnson, Alan Jonstone, Laney, Law on, Lide, Manning, Montgomery, a.insford, Sullivai., Summers, Waller i ind Wharto.-23. t Nays-Appelt, Clifton, Cresson, s Dennie, Hough, Mars, Mauldin, Mc- 1 own, Sinkler, Spivey, Stewart, 1 tuckey and Young.-I3. V Upon Senator Young's motion to t trike out the enacting words of the ill, which was killed, Senatof Clifton s equested that the bill be read. UpOca he bill being read, Senator Clifton 1: )bjected to it being a printed bill and n h"at there were some typographical v rrors in it, and he then asked the t: )resident of the s'tnate to have the ritten bill read, wnich was complied :1 ith. r Senator Appelt offered an amend ent, abrogating the injunction fea- u ure of the bill, which he discussed. le contended that the promotors of s he Charleston race track had so- L cited and accepted money from the t eople who are behind this enterprise a good faith, having been granted a harter by the legislature during its st ses.-ion. le did not thina it vas e uite fair to put these people out of d usiness beca,:se a sentiment had h :tely arisen against racing. The leg- C iature hid given the race track peo le an assurance .-,f safety when the c barter was grant-d to them;now it o ; endeavoring to take this assurance d om them, he said. cl After some other discussion, a com-: romise was agreed upon, anti the bill as passed to third reading with no ce of amendment by Senators Clif on and Appelt. It was agreed that' e debate on the bill will be con- y nued next Tusaday night, February NOT A St'NDAY SCilOOL BOY. I a m~ong Nearly Three Thousand Crim-1 inals He Hfad Tried. d In sentencing George H. Lott, nine een, to a ternm in Elmira for bur jry. County .h vge Fawcett of a ro&lyn sai! Thursday: "Of all the f ndelsirabie ptrofessions. that of burg ary is the worst. No nmatter how ood a burglar you may be, you wvill ec cauight aind sent to prison sooner rlater. I have seenl your friends rho wished to spea to me about you, d I flnd that all :'ttemtpts to have ' *ou go to Sunday school have failed. n the fi'.e years I have been sitting n this bench I hare had 2,700 boys eore rue for sentence and not one f them was an attendant of a Sunday clool. Haid vou ..one there I ami re vau would not be before me to lay."h BUiND TEFRiS'AT WiIITMIR.E. ine0, Tncluding One White Man, Con vieted in One Da~y. RPaorts received at Newberry are 'een .i hitmire on Tuesday, u-~d by w~holosaie trials andl con 'tons o' viointors of the disptensary w. Whitmire is a prosperous town h nrhrn edge of Newherry I en 'y. :it ha :e of the bhg Glenn- 1 .Awry Catnot' \l11. -nd on the main nco o1 iht Seboar ron Atlanta to amtlrt. MSinyor *"ims' was reachie erthe telepho'ne Friday morning. ad he staed~' ha hetad convicted neicudin one ,whit man. V S. ilbrt 'leox, bank director 'Id i. : rmer, pr ttlu mik of ui 0y on~ .is inr nar Milw.auikC". Wis. embr-s e gine $1ru worth of a thoug theuseof a phnO raph n hissia.'i. H n(iares assical music m'e the cows 'ess erves, h ' tey won't stand for .,iiled by ifis Father. The State says Flymuan McDonald. bo 15 yewars of age. was acciden ta: ki!!edI by his father D. M ''onald, a farmer living on * ond. Mandtty. The con ts e' one'v barrl of a shotguin en ere :h bo's i-dme. The boy p j-: re'trd from' a hunt and Rev. MaIon H. Fa('S. minc of the Iao n teiend mitnibes in a: :'nto td w - MANY A. SLAN FANATICAL SECf BLAED FOR THE AWFUl CRIMES. Louisiana Is Stirred by the Series of Murders in Whici Whole Families Have Been "Sacrificed." Stirred by a series of atrocious, crimes i nwhich 24 negroes have lost their lives, the entire population of southwest Louisiana is aroused to al wide movement for quick venge ance. The murders are all traced to a fanatical sect among the negroes known as the "Sacrifice Church" and it is believed !M-aders of weak inded members of the sect are com mitting the crimes. In every case who!e families have been wiped out an. their bodies hor-I ibly mutilated. The latest crime re sorted is at Lake Charles, where Fe ix Piroussard, his wife and three hildren were hacked to pieces, ringing the total of those slain to 4. The murders had been confined to' he towns of Crowley and LaFay tte, until this weea when the bodies )f Felix Broussard, his wife and bree children were found mutilated - their home in Lake Charles. The irst murder occurred ia Crowley early a year ago, waen a family of our were found chopped to pieces vith an ax. Then the Andrus family of five vas found chopped up in their home n Lafayette, and a few months later 1 he Randall family of six was found lain and mut'.lated in Lafayette. .ast week a fa-nily of four was found aurdered in Crowely. The victims ere in nearly every case slain in leir beds. The murder of a family ,r Bayne is also attributed to the ame man. The authorities at Lafayette are avestigating on die theory that the iurders are the % ork of a fanatic I Trought of frenzy by a strange doc riuc now being preached among the egroes. The Rev. King Harris, ader of a sect known as the "Sac- E ifice Church," is under arrest. On the door of the Broussard home 9 7as found the following text from b ie Bible: "When he maketh inqui- s ition for blood, N. forgetteth not Ir e cry of the tumble." Just beside! c is quotation appeared the words, c Human, five." ID Besides the preacher there are aree negroes in jail in Lafayette in ; innection with the Andrus and Ran- h all murders. The Randall murder e as been charged t. a young negress, I lementine Benrabet. Her father was s led for the Andrus murders and!$ tinvicted, but obtained a new triallo a the ground that he was drunk one ay during the trial and therefore )uld not comprehend what was ge- s ig on. His seoend trial has not tak- a a place. - e RIDDLED WITil BULLETS. orderer Shot to Death by His Vic tim's Fr'iends. At -Bessemer, Ala., John Chandler, negro. was riddled with bullets and tl illed and Detective C. Ross was shot I; ithe leg by a parry of enraged Ital ins in the principal street there Mon- I1 ay afternoon. Chandler had beenb rrested on the charge of killing Joe i agiano, an Italian, Friday night, nd was in charge of offcers waiting d 3r a street car to take him to jail si iPirminghamu, when Gagliano's fun- s ral procession passed. A score of t: e dead man's compatriots made a 1 ush for the negro and the shooting egan. The negro fell at the first tl olley. Ross was injured by a stray f ulet.c TWELVE DR~OWNE~D IN R1YER. C :owboat Caught in Ice Jam, Left No. f Trace of Victims. Twelve persons are reported to t ae been lost Monday when a row oat, in which they were crossing s i Mississippi Riser. from BirdsT oint, Mo., to Cairo, Ill., was caughtt ian ice jam. They were being fer- Id ied across to the Cotton Belt Rail- C -y station here. Searching parties, t hich were immnediately sent out d hen the news reached here, have en unable to find any trace of the 5 >st boat or its passengers. The pas- r eigers were part of one hundred and 1 irty-five who left a Cotton Belt T rain at Dirds Point, Mo., and were . ft without conve::ance across the iver. IKiiled. the Wrong Brother. James IHooper, aged 12, was ar ese-d at Picdmontr, ~Ala., on the! barge of killing Asa King, aged 30.i he '-iooper boy was a younger broth-I rit was stated, hunted King and tis brother all day for an alleged nsult to the Hloopers' sister. Young ( ooper, it is said. admits the killing, ut says he got the wrong brother. Left lieadl on the Field. In a series of fights between the e leral troops and the Zapatistas ieh have taken piace in the vicin y of Cuernavaca. Mexico, since last hursday, the federal troops have st 22 killed and fiye others miss ng, while the Zapatists have lost be een 200 and 250i men, some of I hom were left on the field. t Drove Wife in Fieldi. t Uenring of the divorce suit brought: 'e May E. Choat against Lafayette hot, who was sent to jail on a harge of felIonio;:s assault because - drove his wife about the fields Itched to a harrow. began in the rakon. couinty cou'rt at Independ The earthqu:ako which occurred n th lIdian islands distroyed sev .a vimlage and kmlled .S persors.9 R1W - W U Senator TIilman SaJs CdaDcl Waitersem Was the Oly Safferr, TEFPEST IN A TEAP0 That is What People Call the One Sided Row Brought About by the Kentucky Editor in Defending Col onel Harvey, Who Did Not Seem to Need Any Defenee. "I don't see wherein Governor Wil Bon has been injured at all by this controversy. The only man who has been injured is Col. Watterson him self." In this brief fashion Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman of South Carolina summed ui his impressions >f the apparent ending of the Wat Lerson-Wilson-Harvey controversy. Senator Tillman pointed out that :he affair now seemed to be over, and 2e did not care to go into A discus don of it for publication at any fur her length. The view impressed by enator Tillman was identical with he views expressel by various other iemocrats, especially those with pro Yilson leanings. Now that Col. Watterson has given ut what he declarcs to be his final tatement and has failed to furnish he "proofs" of which so much has >een heard, It is the general feeling >f the friends of Wilson that the overnor has come out of the wrangle vith flying colors. In democratic circles, whether in enate or house, there was little dis >osition to talk for rublication about he controversy, it was pointed out hat Col. Watterson had made an 'exit" from the controversy in a long repared statement in which he had I ealt out much vituperation, but had ot brought forth the proofs which e has repeatedly said he has in his! ossession. Under these circumstances It Is the eneral feeling that the controversy as closed, leaving Col. Watterson till on the defensive. Some jestful emarks were made among demo rats, because of the fact that the olonel is going on a mission for the romotion of arbitration. Not a few democrats declared they rere sorry for Col. Watterson, that e had got into a controversy, appar ntly, without considering where it rould lead him, and that, however incere he might bi about it. it had. nded by subjecting him to no end f sharp criticism. It is said in some quarters that Marse Henry" will find the admis ions he has mad3 as to his relations: -ith Thomas F. R3an will hurt his wn prestige and ciminish his influ nee in democratic councils. Many democrats express regret that hie controversy was ever aroused.1 hey say It cannot help democratic rospects in any way and is unfortu ate from every viewpoint. From Missouri comes the news that ie Wilson and Folk forces are work 1g hard on a program whereby they -ill combine against Champ Clark. a three weeks the Missou~ri Aght will e settled, and it is getting daily more* itense. Charging that Governor Wilson are not face the facts, Col. Watter m, in his statement, contents him lf with assertions, and the much lked of proofs are not forthcom ig. Apparently, they will not be. ~evertheless, Col. Watterson insists at If Governor Wilson did face the ets and submit the case to a "court f honor" It would be proven that he ed. He also asseverates that ho re eved an urgent appeal for money rom "a gentleman of distinction losely associated with, If not actu 1y directing, the Wilson organiza [on" Having fired his fourth b-oadside nce the controversy began, Col., 'atterson is leavmng Washington for be calm, peaceful retreats of Flori-' a, there to meditate on the question f what further rents he can tear in be boom of Wilson for the presi ency. The phase of the latest Watterson' tatements that Is deemed most sig iicant by the friends of Wilson Is hat Col. Watterson admits Governor: Wilson was right in not supporting ames Smith for tha senate, and that tilson did not accept contributions oro Thomas F. Ryan, because he hought it would do him harm. They Are A11 for Jones. A Blease organ says that Blease, ought alon~g side hra Jones, Eugene! ary, Tillman, Wilson. Evans and thers in the nineties and that JTones as now deserted that crowd. The reenville Piedmont says this seems little like a m-.s-statement, since: is known that Gary, Wilson, Ev s and practically all of the other ormer Tillman leaders are for Jones. Man Swept Overboard. The Clyde line steamer Mohawk. hich arrived at Charleston from New ork erly Monday morning, brought iews of the 10ss of E. J. Bangs. of sew York City, wh, vanished from he liner on Saturday night when the* irj was a little south of '~'ape Hat eras. Bangs is believed to have lipped on the snow-covered deck and 'allen overboard. Two Americans Were Shot. American residents and many Mex ans nled to the Amierican side from runrez, Mlexico. when the garrison -volted. Two Americans, Gus thunke and Fred L,. Leyva, em lyes in a gambling resort. were hot when the building was riddled vith bullets. Other gambling hocuses PRAISES WILSON !nRYAN POLNTS WTH PRIDE TO GOVERNOR'S CANDOR. Says Wilson's Action Since Te Wrote the Joplin Letter Proves His Gen uine Conversion. "In the Harvey-Watterson matter, so far, Mr. Wilson has been helped rather than hurt by the correspond ence. Mr. Wilson is right in believ ing that a man is some times hurt by the sort of men clamorous in his support." Wm. J. Bryan made this comment Tuesday night with regard to the controvers ybetween Governor Wood row Wilson, of New Jersey, and Col. Henry Watterson, o' Kentucky. Mr. Bryan was in ballas, Texas, for sev eral hours between trains en route to his farm at Mission, Texas, and discussed the political situation in general. "I am under no bond to keep the peace," declared 21r. Bryan in dis cussing the political situation in gen eral while waiting for his train- en route to his farm at Mission, Texas. "Harmony is not the most desirable thing in public life. The organiza tion proceeding upon that principle can progress only as fast as the slow est of its elements." The contest in Missouri between Speaker Champ Clark and former Governor Jos. W. Folk, he described as "distinctly unfortunate." "Whatever the result of the pri maries," Mr. Bryan said, "it is to be feared that either of the contestants will have weakened his cbances of carrying Missouri in the general elec tion. "It was a mistake that the Clark men would not accept the Stephens suggestion, a thing I heartily approv ed that the two divide the vo'.e of the State on the first ballot in the Na tional Convention and that the one of them who shall have received the larger support in the delegations from other States 'ake the full vote of the delegation afterward. "About the lettar Governor Wil son wrote to A. 11. Jopline several years ago?" 1Mr. B-yan was asked. "A shining illustration that Mr. Wilson is the best noodern example of Saul of Tarsusu." Mr Bryan exclaim ed. "He has been soundly converted. Anyone who talks with him or hears him will be convinced of that. Mr. Wilson's sort of progressiveness is best demonstrated in the Smith inci lent in New Jersey." At this time Mr. Bryan will not make any announcement as to his hoice-of candidate for the Deiocrat c Presidential nomination. "There will be a campaign in my State In about two months, Mr. Bry an continued. "I expect to be In that !ampa&ign, and beforo that time to de cide between the Democratic Presi dential candidates. We have a splen did opportunity to win and I I-ope for the selection of that man who can mite the Democratic elements." Mr. Bryan also expressed his ap proal of Presidential preference pri naries. "While primaries are still In the xperimental stage to a, large extent," e said, "I favor this method ~of se Lecting candidates. Ultimately I fav r the making of a majority vote the deciding method in primaries." COTTON MILL STRIKE. 'here Was Much Rioting at Law-I rence, Mass., on Monday. At Lawrence, Mass., the worst riot ing in the fortnight of the textile strike involving 20,000 persons oc ~urred Monday, when street cars wore Leld up and stoned by mobs, which refused to let operatives go Into the nills. One woman was killed by a stray bullet, a patrolman was stabbed in the back, but not seriously; a mi itia captain was badly cut by a brick Lnd several others were hurt by stones, as well as by the clubs of po ice and soldiers. Gov. Foss ordered Ionday night 12 additional compa sies of infantry and two calvary troops to proceed at once for Law rence te reinforce the nine companies lready there. All the troops arrived shortly after midnight. HORSES AND MULES BURNED. Other Property Destroyed in Fairfieldi County Fire. Twel-ve head of stock, ten mules and two horses, were burned to death Thursday morning in a fire which ompletely destroyed the barn and stables on the Cathcart farm, at Ad er's, three miles north of Winns boro. Mr. T. L. Carter, of Chester County, had been living onl the Cath cart place for about a year, and the cs, which included, In addition to the stock mentioned, two cribs of orn and several oi~her outbuildings, falls on him and Mr. Cathcart joint ly. The general feeling is that the fire was of incendiary origmn. Senator Tillman Praised. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says Senator Tilman is receiving letters In large numbers, not only from South Caro lina, but from all over the country, approving his attitude and utterances with regard to the Watterson-Har rey-Wilson affair. In some cases tbe writers say that they were not Wil son men before the publication of the Tillman-Wattersonl correspondence, but that they are Wilson men now. Man Falis Ten Stories. Max Seligman. fifty, a carperter, who lived on South First street, near Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, was in stantly killed Monday afternoon. He feil while woring cn the tenth floor f the twenty-two-story loft building of rwning, King & Co., at No. 145 et Thirty-sixth street. JUARIZ REVOLT I Dtken Malcontenis Suegger A19 Slree!s, but City Is rianqil SEVERAL ARE KIID Some Americans Are Among Those Held as Prisoners-Refugees Are Afraid to Go in Streets, Believing the Danger to Be Great-Race Track is Closed by Manager. A dispatch from El Paso, Texas, says dayliht found Juarez, Mexieo, dazed from the effects of a night of debauch following the revolt last night of 300 former followers of President Madero of Mexico. Desul tory firing practically had ceasr but intoxicated malcontents cc atinued to stagger about the streets looting sa loons, stores and private residences. Unconfirmed reporL placed the eas ualties among Americans at two dead and three wounded. Troops C and D, of the Fourth Uni ted States cavalry, under command of Col. E. Z. Steever, guarded the international bridge across the Rio Grande throughout the night, troop A and machine gun platoon having returned to Fort Biss shortly before midnight. Americans were prevent ed from crossing to Mexican soil and neutrality laws were ptrietly en forced. Capt. Salvador Corranza, who seemed to be in command of a part of the discontented garrison. when asked if his men had transferred their allegiance to Emiliano Zapata said he did not know. He added that he did not believe Gen. Pascual Oroz co would attempt to subdue them and declared they would defend the town, if attacked. "We want Orozco for Governor of Chihuahua," he said "We admire Abraham Gonzales, former Governor, and now In Senor Madero's cabinet, but we believe he will stay in Mexico City, and we want Orozco to succeed him." The revolutionists. continued, In possession of the custom house, but no attempt was made to carry out the threat made last night to dynamite the vault and secure the government funds. A fall report of the outbreak will be forwarded to the State Department at Washington by American Consul T. J. Edwards at Juarez. All tele graph wires were cut as soon as the rioting started last night, and efforL to confirm the report that 600 loyal aderists had left Chihuahua for Juarez to quell the rioting were un vailing. A report reached El Paso early to day that the insurrectos had broken Into the Banco Minero, but it was not believed the vault had been dyna ited as tareatened last night. Fifteen persons, including four Americans, three men and a woman, are imprisoned in the Casino saloon, uarez, and have been without food since yesterday afternoon, according o a telephone message from one of the Americans. The informant add d looting continues. The refugees are afraid to venture on the streets, but are not believed to be in great danger. An unconfirmed telephone report from the manager of the bull ring in Juarez, states that Gen. Orozco is in ommand of 600 soldiers en route from Chihuahua, and is expected to arrive in Juarez any minute. This information is said to have been re eved by the J'uarez police. Col. Edgar Z. Steever, with two troops of the Fourth cavalry, patroll ed the American side of the Rio Grande and declined to permit Amer Icans to cross to the Mexican banks. As all Americans are refused ad mittance to Juarez, Matt Winn, race track manager,, formally announced that the races would be postponed until tomorrow, the same set of en tries to hold for Friday's races. Eight persons were killed and nine wounded in Tuarez during the. night, a~ccording to careful count this morn i'g. One of the dead was Capriana lrres, in insurrecto. The others lave not l.(een identified. The mutineers buirned all the pa pers In the jail and the court adjoin i~g after freeing ::he prisoners. Col. Estrada, commandant of the troops .t the time of the mutiny, and CoL Gallo, chief of police, who were im prisoned last night, are now at lib Mariano0 Rcodiguez, assistant chief of police, is locked in the military barracks, charged w'ith having killed Torres. Among the prisoners lib erated when the jail was broken op was George Monroe. just extra clited from El Paso on the charge of haaving murdered Jess Burtchell at the Juarez race track a year ago. R~ewarded His 'Bravery. August Belmont. of New Tork has sent $500 to W. R. Bishop. of Ral eigh, N. C., engineer of the Seaboard Air Line train who was injured in a wreck recently at McIinney, Va. Mr. Belmont was on the train in his pri vate car and says Engineer Bishop's courage in sticking to his post pe vented great loss of life. Body Found in Trunk. At Seattle, Wash., the body of Seib Bing, bosai of the Chinese em ployed by the Southern Oregors Com pany at Empire City, Ore., was found i an unclaimed trunk in the Great Northern baggage room at the un ion station. The tc rso had been eut troah at the waist and the legs cut off. IKills Wife and Self. t Huntington. W. Va., Harry Kil patrick killed his wife for refusing o wihdraw a divorce suit.