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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-08-30
The LEGISLATURE
IS STILL IN DOUBT
Thursday Morning Returns
Not Complete.
MANY WILL HAVE TO RUN OVER
Elects Solid BleaSe
DeIegatiOn-Rembert Elect
ed in RichIand.

The News and Courier of Thursday
summarizes the legislative situation as
follows:
Additional and more complete returns
from races in practically all of the coun-
ties OF the State are presented by The
News and Courier this morning. A second
primary will be necessary in SO many
counties for members OF the House Of
Representatives that 1t is impossible at
this time to forecast with and degree Of
accuracy the complexion of the next Leg
iSlaturc
In Orangeburg, for instance only one
Representative, Il Jones supporter, was
nominated on the first ballot, while the
second race will be made by candidates,
all of whom declared on the stump for the
former Chief Justice.
In Anderson, full Blcase delegation,
including Josh" Ashley, was chosen and
only two candidates on the Blcase ticket,
for other Anderson County Offices. failed
of election.
DR.. OIin Sawyer, Il prominent supporter
of the Governor, was defeated for re-elec-
ton in Georgetown, and in Horny, the
Blcase candidate for the Senate, Repre-
sentative l.. B. Singleton, appears to have
been beaten by Hal L. Buck
Thomas F. Mellow, anti-Blcase, has been
elected to the Senate from York, and SEN
ators Robert Ldc, of Orangeburg, and
Howard B. Carlisle, of Spartanburg, both
also anti-Blcase, were reelected.
Hub" Evans, who formerly served in
the House from Ncwberry, is in 1t second
race with Representative Wyche.
George Il. Rembert, Governor Blease's
leader in the House, and Alva NJ. Lump
kin, opposed to the Governor, are elected
in Richland. The remaining places will
be filled by Il second primary. Former
Speaker Mendel l.. Smith has been re-
turned to the House from Kershaw, and
Senator Christensen, of Beaufort, retains
his seat, having defeated his opponent,
Thomas Talbrd, Blease man.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-08-30
Legislature.

In the race for the Legislature
two supporters of Governor Blease
have been elected, Messrs. Moore
and Ashley, while the third place
will be decided in the second pri-
mary between Messrs. Graydon
and Robinson, both supporters of
Judge Jones.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-08-30
IN GREENWOOD.

The following is the result in Green
wood county with one box missing:
Mcmillan elected sheriff.
For State Senate, Johnson, Blease
man, elected over Waller, a Jones
man.
cor the House of Representatives,
the full Jones ticket is elected, as fol-
lows: DR.. w. T. Jones, J. H. Bowers
and w. J. Nicholson.
w. J. Moore is reelected master
over J. w. Spence.
"Uncle Dock" Owens is elected
coroner over W. S. Shadrach.
The following will have to make d
second race for the offices named:
Joseph Lake and ]. w. Garfield for
auditor.
Russell and Yeldell for clerk of
court.
Arnold and Wideman for superin-
tendent of education.
McCombs and Elkins for supervisor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-08-30
TIED IN CHESTER

In Chester county Jones and Blease eac
received 1,147 votes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-08-30
yet to complete.
Protest Filed.

ably take the committee some hours
yet to complete.
Protest Filed.
A protest was filed with General NJ.
l.. Bonham, chairman of the county
executive committee, giving six rea-
sons why the election should be de-
cided null and void and another cleo
ton ordered. This protest was filed
by 80 or more citizens OF the county.
The allegations stated in the pro-
test were six, to wit: minors had
been permitted to cast their ballots;
certain persons had voted more than
the legal single time by enrolling at
two or more voting precincts; persons
had voted who had not been residents
OF the State and county the required
length of time; ballots had been
counted by managers which had been
placed in the wrong box; greater
number OF ballots had been cast than
there were names on the club rolls of
the precincts and lastly non-residents
had been permitted to vote.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-08-30
Formal Protest Has
Been Filed and An
=. a.. .. lnvesgation May Result
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Columbia, Aug. QUALIFICATIONS that ballots
cast in Tuesdays primary when Governor Bease was
mated than of voting age the state have been
made to Chairman John Gary Evans of the state executive
committee and investigation and recount may result 1t
estimated that cast for guherna
tcria candidates than for other house officers The
vote exceeds the record by 1000.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-08-30
ANDERSON COUNTY CITIZENS
FILE FORMAL PROTEST.
Til. Daily Mail.

ne ldIls MuIl.
The county executive committee met
at the Anderson court house Thursday
at noon and after spending some time
in considering when was the proper
time to consider protests and contests,
EUt down to the business OF the meet
ing.
1t was decided that the time for
hearing protests would be ut Il future
meeting Of the committee, which date
would be decided after the tabulation
of the statements Of the results OF the
boxes had been tabulated according to
the managers reports. After this
point had been settled, the boxes
were brought in and the work Of tab
ulatng the vote commenced. This
work was still in progress as we go
to press and will probably take the
committee some hours yet to complete.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-08-30

were made both by Senator Warren and
Representative Cannon. Senator Warren
said President Taft and his cabinet had
carefully reduced estimates to the lowest
figures. The appropriations actually
made are over S21, 100000 less than the es-
Inmates, and Republican leaders declare it
will be impossible for the existing gov
ernment agencies to keep within them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-08-30
JONES COUNTIES.

Judge Jones led Governor Blease in the
following counties
Bamberg, Beaufort, Calhoun, Charles
ton, Darlington, Dorchester, Edgetield,
Fairfield, Georgetown, Greenville, Green
wood, Hampton, Lancaster, Marion, Marl-
boro, Orangeburg, Sumter, Williamsburg.
BLEASE COUNTIES.
Governor Blease led Judge Jones in fol-
lowing counties
Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Barnwell,
Berkeley, Cherokee, Chesterfield, Claren-
don, Colcton, Dillon, Florence, Horny,
Jasper, Kershaw, Laurens, Lee, Lexing-
ton, Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Richand,
SaIuda, Spartanburg, Union, York.
TIED IN CHESTER.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-08-30
Total vote for Senator
Difference

1t is rumorcd in Columbia this morning that at the
meeting of the State Executive Committee Today there is
probability of fight being made to void the election and
call for another primary. In such look for
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-24

it has provided for the future offer
material for very serious consldera-
ton"
Ben Lindsey In 1t.
Here Mr.. Roosevelt reviewed the
work of the national committee in pre-
pairing d temporary roll call which in
Guided 80 fraudulent votes and there
by controlled the convention"
Representatives of % states com
posed the notification committee which
informed Col. Roosevelt of his nomt-
nation, and in sense stood as spon-
sors for the movement With others
on the committee was judge Ben B
Lindsey, of Denver.
Just before governor Johnson called
the meeting to order the crowd sang
patriotic songs, and initiated steam
roller. When news of the nomination
of president Taft reached the hall, all
the Roosevelt leaders seemed pleased.
The information that vice president
Sherman had been renOminated ap-
peared to add to their delight.
The delegates from the Coliseum
convention arrived in a body and
marched into the hail. headed by sena-
tor Clapp, of Minnesota, and the Mime
sofa delegation.
The New Jersey delegation was
headed by former governor Fort.
Cecil Lyon With Boilers.
Here vomes Texts" shouted someone
as Cecil Lyon, defeated Texas leader in
the Republican convention, made his
way down the aisle.
Mrs Roosevelt, Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, Miss Ethel, Kermit and Archie
Roosevelt arrived early and occupied a
box near the stage.
Mississippi Roosevelt delegates en-
tered and announced the election of S
D. Rednon. of Jackson, as the first
national committeeman of the new
party Massachusetts delegates with
their cry, Massachusetts,, Roosevelt,
IS" arrived next.
Police Stays Perkins.
When George w. Perkins started to
mount the "companiOnway" to the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-24
ROOSEVELT IS NOMINATED TO
LEAD A NEW THIRD PARTY

publican and Democrat alike, in the
name of our common American citizen
ship.
willing to Lead the Fight.
eff YOU wish me to make the fight L
will make it even if only one state
should support me. The only condition
impose is that you shall be entirely
free when you come together to sub
stitute any other man in my place IL
YOU deem-it better for the movement
and in such case I will give him my
heartiest support
Mr. Roosevelt denounced "the boss
es," declaring that they do not repre-
sent the masses of the publican
party and have no kin with its found
ers. He charged them with stealing
enough votes to dominate the conVen-
ton and continued:
A Fight of Principles
81 am in this fight for certain prin-
ciples and the first and most import
ant of these goes back to Sinai, and Is
embodied in the commandment, aInou
Shalt Not Steal a Nomination, Ihou
Shalt Neither Steal in Politics Nor IN
Business.
ssThe convention which today closes
its discreditable career here in Chicago
represents a negligible minimum OF
the rank and file of the Republican
party. But what it has done and what
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-24

stage, a policeman stopped him and he
had some difficulty in explaining his
right to a stage seat.
When the hall had been packed the
entire audience arose and Joined in
singing America" after which the
Roosevelt delegates greeted governor
Johnson as he opened the formal part
of the meeting
The governor was preparing to speak
when the Oklahoma delegation arrived
ITO any man with red blood in his
veins" said governor Johnson, 1T IS
always a pleasure to fight fraud, and
especially to fight a fraudulent con-
vention.
SsMajOrity of Legal Delegates"
''The delegates present represent a
majority of the Legally eIeGted uele e
gates to the national Republican con-
Vention. They propose to do right here
and now Just what they were elected
to do. nominate Theodore Roosevelt
The governors speech was inter-
rupted with a wild burst OF cheeILhS-
by fraud he has been robbed OF that
which was his. We, the delegates, 1ree
and untrammeled, have come here 10
nominate him tonight
These words brought the great au-
dience to its feet with a shout ana TOT
some time there was an Uproar OF ap-
plause.
The Nomination.
Governor Johnson described the cam
paign of Col Roosevelt against the
bosses and said that the delegates
assembled proposed to see that Mr.
Roosevelt gets his reward"
He then introduced Senator Clapp-
Senator Clapp. of Minnesota. read the
resolution nominating Col Roosevelt
It was adopted with a cheer.
Mr.. Prendergast then made the nOfni-
mating speech.
During his address the Pennsylvania
delegates arrived and were loudly
cheered-
Mr.. Prendergast advanced the ten
ICoatinued on Page Thirteen).
The Parker post., 1912-04-20
26-MILE LEVEE TO BE BUILT.

Four members of the surveying
crew which has been making a sur
vey of the Indian lands below Parker
preparatory to putting in the laterals,
went to Needles Friday to cooperate
with the Santa Fe engineers in the
construction of levees that are to be
built at that place
A levee 26 miles long is to be
thrown UP along the Colorado river
at Needles to protect the smelter, the
railroad and several hundred acres of
government land. The Santa Fe took
the matter up with the department
of the interior and secured the SER
wees of the government surveyors to
help them put through the work.
The party is in charge of C. A.
Engle Other members of the crew
are j. w. Douglas V. A. Baker and
Clarence Wilson. Sup't. R. H. Tuttlc
of the Santa Fe is to have supervis-
ion of the work
The Parker post., 1912-04-20
IN PRAISE OF PUMPKIN PIE
Editor of Tonkers Statesman Pays
Deserving Tribute to Great Amer
lean Institution.

There is another Richmond in the
pie field and the pie editor of the Ohio
State Journal would do we'll to look
to his hauberk and his laurels. The
new knight is Edwin A. Oliver, editor
of the Yonkers Statesman, father of
the photographic joke, and he prances
into the arena armed cap-a-pie, as it
were, and with his pie knife couchant.
Listen to his praise of the fiaky
crust with the pumpkin filler:
when one takes a huge bit of it
in his mouth and his happy thoughts
unfold into a dream and he hears afar
the breaking waves dash high and a
stern and rockbound coast, and the
woods against a stormy sky their
giant branches tossed one feels how
happily related to brave historic
event is the modest pumpkin pie. 1t
came when the conquerors came, and
they shook the depths of the desert
gloom with their hymns Of lofty
cheer This is cheer-the sunbeams
imbued in pumpkin pie"
Mother cutting, please.-Cleveland
Leader.
The Parker post., 1912-04-20
STRAINED RELATIONS.

The State Departm ent's forceful
note to the contending factions in
Mexico, warming them against mis-
treatment of Americans, lis believed
to have brought relations between
the United States and Mexico to
critical point. This lis a fair deduc-
tion from past experience and trad
tions In the State Department., not,
ably and recently i'm the case of Cuba
1t lis recalled that such a warming
preceded the Spanish7Americam wa
eliminating in the famous MESA
of Mckinley which referred to ''the
intolerable conditions existing at ou
doorway" 1t is still hoped by t
administration that the Saturday nc
will have a sobering effect, and
will not be necessary to consider dra
tic steps regarding Mexico r.
hope led to renewed assurances from
official quarters that there will be no
intervention
The Parker post., 1912-04-20
Early Antitrust Law.

An old statute has been unearthed
by the Cincinnati Enquirer and ap-
piled to present conditions. If the law
today were what it used to be in the
early days Of Kentucky and were car
ried out We might see Wall street
dotted with men who had lost their
ears for conspiring to restrain trade
A statute of some 1863 years ago,
which was intended to put a stop to
the meat trust, the brewers trust, the
bread trust and the fruit trust of
those days, makes the Sherman act
look gentle. This statute became law
in Virginia and therefore in Kentucky
when Kentucky was formed out of Vir-
glnia. 1t Is fair to point out that the
statute of Edward VI also went after
any laborerS who got together to keep
up wages or limit the hours Of work,
SO that it was markedly in opposition
to the beliefs of our own day More
over, We violate no confidence in say
ing that it was enforced more violent
ly against the laborers than against
the dealers who kept up prices. Ken
lucky, it may be well to add, has
since repealed the act.-Collier's.
The Parker post., 1912-04-20
A GREAT GOLD MINE.

Further additions may be made
soon to the Tom Reed mill This
mine, Arizona's greatest gold produc-
or. is capable Of producing far more
ore than the present plant can handle.
Next month the annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Tom Reed
Geld Mines company will be held at
Kingman and it is believed that at
that time it will be decided to oper-
ate The property on larger scale
THIS will necessitate the installation
of much larger milling plant IL
the Tom Reed are many thousands
of tons Of ore averaging higher than
SIC IN gold that have never been
touched So far only high grade ore
has been handled The lower grad .
rock is left to be broken down when
more economic milling facilities have
been installed.
The Parker post., 1912-04-20
Device of Brandy SmuqgIer.

To conceal dutiabIe goods among
free goods, in any importation, is the
prime offense against the customs
laws; yet the high rates OF duty on
some articles, such as tobacco and
spirits, offer great temptation to illicit
traders, who employ all sorts OF ar
tifices to smuggIe-or evade the no.
tice OF the customs officers
When silk was dutiable women were
the chief offenders, and as they some
times wound the contraband article
around their persons, under their or
binary clothes, it was found neces-
sary to employ female searchers, now
no longer brought into requisition
One OF the latter, on one occasion,
made curious discovery.
A female smuggIer had had con-
structed-but not for running silk con-
traband-an india rubber dress for
wearing under her ordinary clothes
She appeared, when this contrivance
was in operation, to be very fat
woman; in reality, she was abnormal
ly thin. But the India rubber under
wear was double and hollow, and the
space between the skins, so to speak,
was filled with brandy!
The Parker post., 1912-04-20
LOCAL LODGE OF
LITERARY LYRISTS
Author of Touching Poem on Duck
let's, Calves and Swine Wins First
Prize in Contest of Loquacious Linn
ericks.
ericks.

NEIGHBOURS, Cal, April H.
The members of the mine l."
lodge, which, by the way, signifies
Ladies' Local Lodge of Literary Lyr-
lists and Locutionists of Loquacious
Limericks held their weekly meeting
at the home of the president Satur
day evening The Limericks which
recently appeared i'm the columns of
the Herald were discussed and plans
were devised to separate few orig
inal and rhythmical ones from the
rodent-infested belfries of those poet
ical prodigies of the lodge from whose
efflorescent drab tissue jingling SON
nets gush forth with the spontaneity
of a highIball chaser from a seltzer
bottle To impell the girls to make
an effort, the fruits of which would
cause the authors of the Blythe jing-
lets to look like a bunch of Long
Beach bathers on Peary itinerary,
the president offered a prize consist
ing of a union suit of pink cottoneen
with Lavender ribbon insertion for
the Limerick displaying the greatest
Literary excellence The following
ones are copied from the originals to-
gether with the presidents criticisms
There was a young Swede at
Blythe
Who boasted a celibate lyfe;
He went to the coast,
Forgot his rash boast,
And returned with a dear littla
wyfe. Blanche
"Idiotic, puerile, ungrammatical.
Celibate is a noun and can't be used
TO modify life"
Let your dust-dimmed optics rest
ON this one:
"In Blythe's great municipality
Is lawyer of rare originality;
. He cares not a fudge
For jury or judge,
AS he springs a raw technicaity
-Freeda.
"Your versification is good and
your metre excellent, dear Freeda,
but please note that your verse is
not founded on fact. Blythe lis not a
municipality. You have probably
been misled by reading some of the
The Parker post., 1912-04-20

bombastic advertisements that are
supposed to radiate from Blythe's i'm
aginary board of trade, all of which
Is pipe dream which will only last
while the dope holds out
Hold your breath while this one
filters through your roller+top cere-
belllm:
In the Winning of Barbara Worth
One character fills me with milrth
Not cause he has money,
Nor cause he is funny,
But simply because-Oh Slush,"
Pauline
''Slush not only does not rhyme
with mirth but is a slangy colloquial-
ism and should not, my dear Pauline,
be used by a lady blessed with the
culture that you possess.
Let this one gently collide with
your frontal lobe and note if the ja"
is perceptible
"Oh! Blythe dis a city of Kline,
Of ducklets, calves and swine;
But the buckets can't swim,
The calves are quite thin,
And the pigs are really all blind"
''An idyl, a beautiful pastoral; rich
in sentiment, euphonious i'm rhyme,
affluent i'm suggestion, and. like the
production of all great poets, it re-
quires deep meditation for the mind
to grasp, i'm it's entirety, it's figura-
tive meaning. l am not sure that
have extracted all the meat from the
The Parker post., 1912-04-20
Is LIKE LITTLE KINGDOM
Family Life Is Wholesome Because 1t
Has Bracing Qualities of
Commonwealth.

The modern writer's who have sug-
ner, that the family is bad institu-
ton, have generally confined them
selves to suggesting, with much sharp
ness, bitterness, or pathos, that per-
haps the family is a good institution
because it is uncongenial It is whole
some precisely because it contains so
many divergencies and varieties. 1t
is, as the sentimentalists say, like a
little kingdom, and, like most other
little kingdoms, it is generally in a
state of something resembling an
archy. 1t is exactly because our
brother George is not interested in our
religious difficulties, but is interested
in the TrOcadero restaurant, that the
family has some of the bracing quail
ties of the commonwealth. 1t is pre-
cisely because our uncle Henry does
not approve Of the theatrical ambi-
tiOns of our sister Sarah that the fam
lily is like humanity The men and
women who, for good reasons and bad,
revolt against the family, are, for good
reasons and bad, simply revolving
against mankind. Aunt Elizabeth is
unreasonable, like mankind. Papa is
is excitable like mankind. Our young
er brother is mischievous, like man
kind. Grandpa is stupid, like the
world; he is old, like the world.-Gil-
bert Chesterton
The Parker post., 1912-04-20
DISTRICT COURT OPENS.

PHOENIX, April 17.-Phoenix i@
on the edge of the liveliest spring
season in her history. In addition to
the legislature and the many people
from all sections of the state attract
ed by the law-making throes of that
body the cool weather is keeping hun
dreds of tourists in the city longe-
than is usually the case, and the rail
roads report that the spring exodus,
which is usually in full swing att this
time, has not yet started.
An important term of the United
States district court opened at the
court house today. bringing many
federal officers here; hundreds of
witnesses and many jurymen Last
night the lobbies of the hotels re-
sembled fair week, and the hostelriesl
are sure to be crowded for the next
few weeks
The Parker post., 1912-04-20

kernel of its deep significance. Why
can't the Blythe ducklets swim, my
dear, when ours are always in the
swim? And why are their calves so
thin? The poor blind pigs: How sad!
How touching! l take pleasure i'm
presenting you with the first prize
knee-length union suit By remov-
ing the pink ribbons that girdle the
femaris tendons and inserting rub
Der band, you will not have to wear
hobble skirts during the mosquito
season" Z"
A Narrow Escape.
Our friend, the ex-exemplary, ex-
mayor of Rannells reports that while
standing in the office of the Hollen-
beck Hotel few days ago, he was
nearly prostrated from (this is Dr.
Scrogg's diagnosis) ''spiritus fern
entum en- Quantum sufficit." He add
ed that when a man in a detected
condition becomes thus afflicted he
often becomes a menace TO society
at large; but that again, he might
be seriously affected while elated owe
some stroke of good fortune, and
would suffer in no way from the at
tack.
Fortunately the mayor was sur
rounded by his friends and all were
highly elated over conditions i'm the
valley, consequently he felt nothing
more than a keen mental exhilaration
and an uncomfortable desire to bab-
BILE like child with a new toy.