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THE CLAYT6N TRIBUNE
THERE IS NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME PAPER TO HOME PEOPLE.
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VOLUME xvr.
CLAYTON, llABUN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1913.
NUMBER 44.
GIVEN
BY U. S,
GEORGE W. BUCKNER
DICTATOR IS TOLD HE CANNOT
REMAIN HEAD OF THE
MEXICAN REPUBLIC.
BLANQUET MUST NOT SERVE
It Informed by United States That He
Must at Once Eliminate Himself
at Factor in Mexico.
Mexico City.—President Huerta lias
been told he must resign the presi
dency of Mexico without loss of time,
and that he must not leave as his
successor Oen. Aureliano Blanquet, ills
minister of war, or any other mem
ber of his official family or of the
unofficial coterie whom he might be
expected to control.
This ultimatum from Washington
was conveyed to President Huerta
through his prlvato secretary, Senor
Rabago, by Nelson O’Shaughnessy.
the American charge d'affaires, acting
under instructions from the state de
partment.
Senor Rabago presented the memo
randum to his chief, but President
Huerta has returned no answer, and,
as far as could be learned, had guard
ed its contents from almost all of
his official and intimate counsellors.
Those who learned of the Washing
ton note regard General Huerta’s po
sition as ono in which he will be
forced to give ono Of two answers—
refusal point-blank to comply with
the demand, possibly going so far as
to hand the diplomatic representative
his passports, or the elimination of
himself officially.
Washlngton.-r-The dispatches from
Mexico City were read to Secretary
Bryan, who manifested much interest,
but said he would make no official
comment.
News of the ultimatum had been ex
pected in official circles, though un
usual efforts had been made to keep
secret the plans of the administra
tion.
WILSON ISSUES PARDONS
Thomas Was Convicted at Macon.
Had No “First Friend."
Washington.—President Wilson com
muted to expire at once the sentence
of life imprisonment for robbing the
mail and jeopardizing the life of a
mall carrier imposed in 1898 on Fay-
etter Salter of Mobile, Ala. Salter
was acquitted in a state court of the
murder of the mail carrier in 1896,
and two years later was tried and
convicted of the other charge in the
federal court at Mobile. The evi
dence against him was largely circum
stantial, the only witness being a man
■whose relative recently declared him
to be mentally unsound.
The president also granted a par
don to James A. Thomas, who pleaded
guilty and was sentenced in May, 1912,
in the United States district court
at Macon, Ga., to imprisonment for
three years for breaking into a post-
office. Thomas stole 20 cents. He
Was eligible for parole several
months ago, except that he had no
“flrsf friend” required by law.
George White, who pleaded guilty
and was sentenced March 12, 1912, in
the United States court at Birming
ham, Ala., to imprisonment for three
years, was also pardoned.
President Wilson pardoned Robert
F. Jordan, sentenced in June, 1913, to
serve six months in jail at Valdez,
Alaska, and pay a fine of $250 or
serve an additional 125 days for sim
ple assault.
Foreign Corporations Must Pay Tax.
Washington.—After years of vain
endeavor by state authorities to tax
foreign corporations doing business in
their borders Massachusetts has solv
ed the problem. The supreme court
sustained as constitutional the Mas
sachusetts foreign corporation tax
law of 1909, Chief Justice White and
Justices Vandevanter and Pitney dis
senting. The decision was regarded
■* by many who heard Justice Day de
liver it as marking an epoch in state
taxation, The Massachusetts law' pro
vides that every foreign corporation
shall pay annually an excise tax.
WOMEN PLAY PART
George W. Buckner, the new Ameri
can minister and consul general to
Liberia, Is the only negro now in the
diplomatic aervice holding the posi
tion of minister, the colored minister
to Haiti having bean succeeded by a
white man. Mr. Buckner is a physi
cian.
DECLINE IN COTTON CROP
DROP OF FIVE POINTS IN COTTON
CONDITION—KILLING FROST
THE CAUSE.
Georgia Crop Declined 4.3 Points.
Average Estimate of the Out
put 13,747,000 Bales.
New York.—According to 1,644 re
ports of the -pedal correspondents of
the Journal of Commerce bearing an
average date of October 23, cotton
shows a deterioration of 5 points in
condition was 67.1. Killing frosts and
excessive rain were the cjjief causes
of damage. A year ago at this time
condition lost 1.5 points,, in 1911 it
lost 1.5 points, in 1910 it lost nothing,
in 1909 it lost 3.9 points, and in 1908
It lost 3.6 points. Declines occurred
in all states except Tennessee and
Florida, which improved 2 points and
3 points, respectively. Important de
clines w'ere: Louisiana, 15 points:
Mississippi, 8.6 points; Texas, 6.3
points; North Carolina, 6.8 points;
Georgia 4.3 points, Arkansas 4.4
points, and South Carolina, 4 points.
Condition changes for the past four
years together with percentage con
dition last month, are given in the ac
companying table;
Condition Condition
States.
Oct. Nov. '12
’ll
N. Carolina. .
.7.43
5.8
.7
.5
S. Carolina .
.74.0
4.0
3.3
2.6
Georgia . . .
. .75.8
4.3
5.3
2.0
Florida. . , .
.77.9
3.0
8.4
3.0
Alabama . . .
.68.2
1.0
4.0
.6
Mississippi . ,
.68.0
8.6
2.0
3.4
Louisiua. . .
.62.4
15.0
1.5
6.0
Texas . .‘.
.64.6
6.3
.2
1.3
Arkansas . .
.67.0
4.4
.6
1.2
Tennessee . .
.68.0
2.0
1.8
4.2
Missouri . . .
.52.0
1.0
6.0
6.5
Oklahoma . . .
. .60.5
2.0
3.0
.2
Totals . . .
.67
5.00
1.6
1.5
From the above table it will be
seen that condition on October 23
was 61.1, against 68.8 a year ago, 69.3
in 1911.
The Journal of Commerce has no
opinion of its own to offer regarding
the yield of this season’s crop; but in
order to gather the concensus of
Southern opinion its correspondents
were specially requested to give their
individual estimates of the crop, with
these results. Thirty-two replies
ranged twelve million to thirteen mil
lion flvo hundred thousand; 97 replies
ranged thirteen million to thirteen mil
lion five hundred thousand; 226 replies
ranged thirteen million to fourteen mil
lion; 121 replies ranged fourteen mil
lion to fourteen million and five hun
dred; 71 replies ranged fifteen million
to sixteen million.
The average of all replies received
Is thirteen million seven hundred and
forty-seven thousand bales, which
closely approximates the estimates
made by several good authorities out
side of tlie growing districts.
Out of tlie 547 estimates received,
347 ranged between thirteen million
five hundred thousand aud fifteen mil
lion five hundred thousand bales.
MANY OF THEM ARE ACTING AS
FORAGERS FOR THEIR
MEN.
ACT AS SCOUTS FOR ARMY
Many of the Women of Mexico Joined
Ranks Rather Than Stay at
Home Alone.
Del Rio, Texas.—Women of Mexico
are playing a prominent part In the
warfare of the southern republic, eith
er as “soldaderas,” foraging success
fully for their men, cr occaslanally
as actual fighters.
This is true probably because the
present revolution lias touched indi
viduals and the homes more intimate
ly than any other conflict of recent
times. Nearly every woman In north
ern Mexico has seen warfare, shorn
of Its theatricality, because It entered
the home and left death and want.
Many of these women have left their
homes rather than to remain alone,
and a few of them have gone under
lire to get revenge.
In the siege In progress at Monte
rey, a valued member of Gen. Pablo
Gonzales’ Constitutional command is
Senorlta Maria Sanchez, said to be a
wealthy Castilian whose brother was
shot by Federal Irregulars, She gave
up the comforts of a luxurious home
and begged for permission to replace
her brother.
A few months ago -at Monclova a
son of Senora Plmental of that , city
had been sentenced to’be shot. The
mother got into the J^Jerat jail by
stealth and stabb ,t! twfHmf the guards
and rescue^, her son, escaping to the
Constitutionalist headquarters, then at
Hermanns, 20 miles away.
In the Federal ranks there is told
the story of the wife of an officer who
led the Constitutionalists into an am
buscade at Puerta Carmen, and,
though fired upon by the maddened
troops, galloped through the lines to
her husband's side.
When less than a month ago the
Federal army of General Maas occu
pied the Constitutionalists’ provisional
capital at Piedras Negras, on tire
American border across from Eagle
Pass, the "soldaderas" played an im
portant role in the bloodless capture.
A small group of them pitched their
tents on the overlooking hills two
days before their men arrived, acting
as lookouts. When the army arrived,
fully five hundred of these soldlpr
women accompanied it, most of them
guaiding the wagon trains, which their
skill as foragers had stuffed to burst
ing. A few hours after the city was
occupied the women spread supper
for the entire army in the open
plaza.
SENDS MESSAGE TO WILSON
General Carranza Tells President How
to Deal With Mexico.
Nogales, Sonora.—Through.Dr. II. A.
Tapper of the international peace fo
rum, General Venustiano Carranza,
head of the Constitutionalists of Mex
ico, transmitted to tiie United States
government an official statement that
suggests that Preside|
solve the Mexican prolf
according to the Const
right to import arms
United States.
The struggle in Mexi|
until one side or the (
into helplessness, the
serts. It further declar
Btitutionallats are coni;
out Huerta and his
short time It the em|
is lifted.
Carranza came here]
to, the rebel capital,
per, who had been wit|
several days.
General Carranza’s af
was submitted In a
Tuppor will be comm);
latter to Secretary Br‘
Tuppor telegraphed j
Bryan asking him if j
statement. The secrfl
the affirmative, adding
it wouJ4. receive oni|
tentlon. Topper’s
and impression* also
/ilson can
by merely
[;nallsts the
from the
&11 continue
is beaten
foment. as-
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fiptng
ills iu a
on arms
llermosii-
ctor Tup-
there for
it, which
letter to
>ded by the
Secretary
sired the
| replied in
ever, that
liclal at-
heudatious
requested.
SIR W. M. RAMSAY
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, Great
Britain's foremost authority on sa
cred hlatory, has bsen lecturing In
America.
FLETCHER ELECTED AGAIN
FLORIDA SENATOR RE-ELECTED
PRESIDENT AT MOBILE
CONVENTION.
Seventh Convention of Southern Com
mercial Congress Comes to a
Close at Mobile.
Mobile, Ala.—The seventh conven
tion of the Southern Commercial con
gress was brought to a close after a
directorate composed of many new
members was elected and resolutions
upon important subjects discussed had
been passed. Soon after the election
those directors present met and heard
arguments of representatives of Okla
ma City and Houston in favor of their
cities for the next convention, anil
elected officers. The directors will
seloct the next meeting place at some
future date. Only the two cites men
tioned put in a formal invitation for
the 1914 convention. These officers
were elected:
President, Senator Duncan U. Fletch
er; first vice president, T. S. South-
gate; second vice president, Albert
P. Bush; managing director, Dr. Clar
ence J. Owens; treasurer and resident
director, W. II. Sanders.
Chief among resolutions adopted
was one instructing the directors of
the congress to at once begin a sys
tematized propaganda aiming at di
verting trade made possible by open
ing the Panama canal to southern
ports. Officials of the congress are
ordered to do this as quickly as pos
sible. Another important resolution
urges upon the United States' 1 con
gress to put into effect as soon as
practicable a system of rural cred
its. This resolution was adopted unan-
mously after it had been pointed out
in several Speeches how the Southern
farmer is handicapped by lack of a
sound system of credit and bow much
is lost to the South each year because
of the absence of system in growing
and handling crops.
Tlie Federal government is called on
in another resolution furnished early
in each year the cotton spindle capac
ity of the country so that the pro
ducer may have an equal advantage
with the consumer in this respect. The
congress also urged that cotton be
graded at the gin under Federal su
pervision in order to save the great
total loss caused by taking samples
from bales and that bonded warehous
es receipts be given certifying the cor
rect weight and grade of product.
BUSCH LEAVES MILLIONS
Only $210,000 of the Brewer’s Es
tate for Charitable Purposes.
8t. Louis.—The will of Adolphus
Busch, filed for probate, makes char
itable bequests aggregating $170,000
to a cumber of St. Louis institutions,
and places the bulk of the estate in
trust. Mrs. Lillie Busch, Charges Na
gel and August A. Busch are named
trustees.
In addition to the charitable be
quests In the will, Mr. Busch left a
private memorandum requesting mem
bers of his family to make certain
other donations, most of which are pri
vate in their nature. The attorneys,
however, made public the names of
eight St. Louis institutions, which are
to receive, under the memorandum, a
total of $40,000, making the total be
quests for charitable purposes $21,000.
TAMMANY DEFEATED
CLEAN SWEEP IS MADE BY THE
FUSION FORCES IN NEW
YORK CITY.
WILLIAM £ ULZER ELECTED
Massachusetts, New Jersey and Mary
land Go Democratic by Good
Majorities.
New York.—Fusion carried New
York City, electing John Purroy
Mitchel mayor by aprpoximately 75,-
000 plurality and retaining control of
the important board of estimate by
a safe margin.
Tammany Hall saw its nominee for
the mayoralty, Edward E. McCall, go
down to defeat by one of the biggest
pluralities ever given against a can
didate of tlie organization, and it
looked as if Tammany might not even
save the New York county offices out
of tlie wreckage. The big vote for
Mitchel pulled through the Fusion can
didates for president of tho board of
aldermen and comptroller, George
McAneny and William A. Prendergast,
against whom Independence League
as well as Democratic organization
candidates were running.
The election of Mitchel was early
apparent, but not until nearly two-
thirds of the returns were in was tho
success of McAneny and Prendergast
assured.
Apparently, with the exception of
assemblymen in the districts which
usually go Democratic and minor of
ficers in some-of tlie boroughs the op
position to Fusion succeeded in elect
ing only one of its nominees—Maurice
E. Connolly, for borough president of
Queens. The Fusionists elected bor
ough presidents in Brooklyn, the
Bronx and Richmond, and apparently
have pulled through their candidates
for president of the borough of Man
hattan, Marcus M. Marks, by a small
plurality over Dr. Thomas Darling
ton, Tammany candidate. The result
thus indicated would leave Tammany
but one vote out of the sixteen In
the board of estimate, which controls
tlie city’s purse. A fusion majority in
the board of aldermen also seems
assured.
In the Sixth assembly district Wil
liam Sulzer, recently deposed as gov
ernor, was elected on tlie Progressive
ticket.
Boston, Mass.—David I. Walsh
(Dem.) was elected governor by a plu
rality estimated at 50,000. The re
mainder of the stale ticket was In
dodbt when three fourths of tlie elec
tion districts had reported. Tlie
Democratic leaders claimed a complete
victory for state offices, and tlie re
turns so far as tabulated support tills
claim.
In tlie Third congressional district,
Calvin D. Paige (Rep.) was ciiosen
to succeed the late William H. Wild
er (Rep.) in a close race. Witli one
town missing, Paige had a majority
of 600 over M. Fred O'Connell (Dem.).
Stephen M. Marshall (Prog.) was far
in the rear In the three-cornered light.
Mr. Walsh, who succeeds Governor
Fess, after one term as lieutenant gov
ernor, was elected to his present of
fice a year ago by nearly 200,000
votes, the greatest number ever re
ceived by a Democratic candidate for
that office.
Trenton, N. J.—Returns indicate
that James F. Fielder (Dem.) for gov
ernor, lias a plurality over Stokes
(Rep.) of 20,000, and it may go above
that figuie.
The Democrats have elected five of
the eight state senators, which will
make next winter’s state senate, with
the holdovers, stand 12 Democrats to
9 Republicans.
President Wilson sent this telegram
to James F. Fielder: "My earnest con
gratulations. You did not need to call
<^ut the reserves.”
Mr. Fleider’B opponents have been
quoted as saying that he was obliged
to. call upon the president for aid in
his fight for the New Jersey governor
ship.
" Baltimore.—Based on returns from
this city, but which are regarded as
a sure Indication of the final result,
State Senator Blair Lee (Dem.) has
been elected to the United States sen
ate to fill the unexpired term of the
late Isidor Rayner by an estimated
plurality of from 30,000 to 35,000 over
former Congressman Thomas Parran
(Rep.) and former United States Sen
ator George L. Wellington (Prog.).
