The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, June 10, 1911, Image 1
PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKL^
^PE HOT TALK
Gaveraor Blease sod Col. Hob Evaos
Scares (he Felder Letter
SAYS ITS A PACK OF LIES
The Governor Neither Admits Nor
Denies the Letters With His
Name to Them Published by Feld
er, Who, Evans Says, Is a Grafter
and a Scoundrel.
Governor Blease has neither de
nied or admitted that he wrote the
letters published by T. B. Felder
over the Governor's signature. Thib
has caused some comment, but the
friends of Governor Blease say the
matter will all be cleared up as
soon a? Felder is hauled up, which
he hopss will be soon.
Col. H. H. Evans was asked while
what have you to say about it. He
In ColimbLa. if he had seen Felder's
article about Governor Blease and
wheat have you to say about it. He
made the following statement in
writing to the Greenville News for
respondent:
"Yes, I read Felder's article in the
Atlanta Constitution. I do not know
who the alleged letter was written to
by BIer.se as the addressee's name
i* not given by Felder. As far as the
"Hub" is concerned In the said let
ter I presume that it applies to Hub
H. Evans, as was the only man of
the name of Hub that was ever on
the beard of directors. Felder and
the addressee are both infamous liars
as I hiive never turned over to Cole.
L. Blease $500 or any other moneys.
And there is not a man living in the
world that knows better than Tom
Felder that I did not do it. If I
had done so every man who knows
Blease knows he would have too
much sense to have acknowledged It
in writing; for whatever else may
have been or may be said of him, not
even his bitterest political enemies
have accused him of being a fool.
Not only that, what inducement
could have possibly been bought
upon me to deliver over to Cole L.
Blease $500 or any other moneys?
All of my friends and enemies know
that Hub Evans did not give Cole
L. Blease or any# other man $500
and another thing 1 know that the
language publ'shed in the 'et'e:3 as
to my not bein^r reliable in more*
matters was not used ,by Bleisc for
he knows that I am reliable in all
of my financial dealings.
"Felder is known far and wide as
a grafter and a scoundrel and un
worthy of belief and 1 do not care to
take further notice of his filth, but
am ready and prepared to meet him
and his associates on any charge
that he may make, as I have been
endeavoring to do by clamoring for
a hearing before the windlng-up
commission an demand a trial in
the courts, both of which have been
denied me notwithstanding the fact
that th'e constitution of ? both the
United States and my state guaran
tees me the right tc a fair, public
and speedy trial. All of this has been
repeatedly refused me by the com
mission and by the circuit judges
who have held the courts in the
eighth circuit.
"I have been lied upon, insulted
by insinuations and lying charges by
Felder and his crowd of liars and
thieves and I now call a show down.
The iimit is reached. If Felder or
the addressee of said alleged letters
published in the Atlanta Constitu
tion feels aggrieved at my language
' nm ready to give them personal
sctisf action at any t'.vne and place
they or either of thorn msj desire."
PRORA RIA* DIED FROM FRIGHT
Wife of Florence Postoffice Clerk
Found Dead.
Mrs. Rosa McWhirter, wife of Jas.
McWhirter, a clerk in the money or
der department at the Florence post
office, was found dead in her home
on Gilliard street, .Monday afternoon
shortly after the thunder storm, and
it was first thought that she had been
killed by lightning;, but the coroner
and physicians investigated her death
and it was determined that she died
from fright, coupled with some little
heart affection. The woman and her
two little babies were the only per
sons ir. the house at the time the
thunder storm reached Florence. She
was found dead by neighbors, who
heard the scream of the two little
children after the storm.
Will Begin at Once.
By a unanimous vote the senate
Wednesday approved the action of
the committee on privileges and elec
tions in naming a sub-committee of
eight to conduct the new Lorimer
investigation. The sub-committee
which under the resolution adopted,
really becomes a separate committee,
is clothed with wide authority, and
will begin its work immediately.
Accidentally Electrocuted.
At West Point. Ga., while at work
painting in the Manett Cotton Mills
Tuer-day afternoon. John Thomas, a
negro, came ir contact with an elec
tric wire. Eleven thousand volts
passed through his body, killing him
immediately.
THE COTTON PICKER
WILL. IT BE A BENEFIT TO THE
COTTON GROWERS.
Mr. Lewis W. Parker Tiliinks it Will
j Put Many of Them Out of the
j Business.
! Wednesday, in his address before
the graduating class of the South
Carolina University, Mr. Lewis W.
Parker summed up dn masterful
manner the industrial situation of
today in the South in general and
South' Carolina in particular, looking
conditions squarely in the face and
recognizing opportunities of the fu
ture. Speaking of .the cotton picker
he said:
"There has recently been perfect
ed another agricultural implement
which bids fair to havt upon the In
dustrial history of the South an ef
fect equally as great as that of the
cotton gin, with this difference: The
cotton ifln facilitated the production
of cotton growing states, whereas
there is good reason to believe that
the other invention that of the cotton
picker, may so accelerate the pro
duction of cotton in communities in
which the picker can be used to the
greatest advantage as to make much
less profitable, and pcssibly later to
prohibit altogether, the production of
cotton in those communities and un
der those condition's in which the
picker'-caja not be used to igireater ad
vantage. -It is a correct statement
of fact to say that the acreage in
cotton and the growth thereof has
been limited heretofore by the pick
ing capacity of the Snuth generally,
for the limit of what the individual
planter can cultivate is that which
he can pick; no man can safely plant
more than he can pick; but if pro
vision be made by which the picking
is tremendously acceilerated, then
there can be correspondingly an in
crease in acreage if that be neces
sary?or certainly such increase In
improved methods of culture through
the use of machinery as to cause a
great increase in the r,umber of bales
grown.
Heretofore, there has been little
Inducement to use the uiost improved
methods of culture and agri
cultural Implements for the rea
son that this decreased during the
period of culture the amount of la
bor required and left the planter
without necessary labor to pick, upon
the maturity of the crop. If, however,
relief- is j^jven through the cotton
picker towards the reaping cf the
harvest, there will certainly be ap
plied those agricultural implements
that will decrease the -amount of la
bor in the growth oi the crop.
These agricultural Implements, an
also the picker itself, can unques
tionably be used to much greater ad
vantage in the bottoms of the Mis
sissippi and other rivers, and upon
the plains of Texas, Oklahoma and
Arkansas, in the fertile fields of the
Pee Dee and Savannah", than they
03n be in the hilly section of the Car
alinas and Georgia and Alabama. It
is not an unnatural expectation that,
with the development of the cotton
picker and its successful use, cot
ton cultuire will be gradually re
stricted to those communities where
the picker, the steam, plow and sim
ilar implements can be used most
advantageously.
This is not necessarily to be re-i
garded as an unmixed evil, in our
state, for e^en In an agricultural
view it may become ia blessing as
tending to force upon our people a
diversification of crops, which has
not heretofore existed. But as the
effect of this action will be to les
sen the number required upon the
farm, and, correspondingly, to ln
cresae the movement to the towns,
it is well to consider what is to be
come of this urbir: population and
how it is to he employed.'
KILLED TWO PEOPLE.
Sent to the Penitentiary for Life for
Double '"rime.
"Guilty with recommendation to
! mercy." This was the verdict reach
ed by the twelve men selected to
i decide the fate of Ernest E. Grims
ley, who shot and killed Mrs. Rosa
Bessinger and her nephew, "Walter
Sandifer, one month and one day ago
on last Wednesday. The tragedy
occurred in the Acme lunch room on
Taylor street, Columbia.
Grimsley was tried on the
specific charge of murdering Mrs.
Bessinger. It wili he remembered
that the double murder was the re
sult of some words about a roll,
which Grimsley contended he was en
titled to with a bowl of soup.
Teddy Denies Report.
I A dispatch from Springfield, Mass.,
; there on WednesdaySHRDHRDRLD
I says Ex-President Roosevelt said
I here on Wednesday with reference
j to a published story that he would
j support Taft in the next presidential
(campaign: "The 3 is no truth in
the report that i have agreed to
j support any man for president in
1912. I have not made any such
statement nor even discussed the
matter. The story is made out of
whole cloth."
Shot Over Crap Game.
At. Florence Doody Jordan, a negro
is under arrest for the shooting, of
Frank Crawford, also colored. The
trouble arose Sunday over a crap
game. Crawford's wounds are not
ne' essarily fatal. ,
ORANGEBt
DEBATE WAS BITTER
TRUSTS ASSAILED IN SPEECHES
ON THE WOOL TAX.
Underwood, Democratic Leader,
Charges American Woolen Com
pany with Forcing Adoption of
Schedule K.
Bitterness of political debate such
as has not characterized any of the
opening tariff skirmishes of the
present session of congress, cropped
out in the beginning of the wool
tariff discussion In the house Wed
nesday.
O. W. Underwood, chairman of the
ways and means committee, devoted
the afternoon to an explanation of
l the proposed revision of the wool
tariff and to an attack upon the
Payne tariff law and the Republi
can party.
? He was met at almost every stage
of his argument by replies from
Senator Payne* ranking Republican
member on the ways and means
committee, and by other Republicans
who questioned his statements and
his arguments.
i Mr. Payne denied vigorously the
! Democratic charge that the Payne
j law had not fulfilled Republican
promises of tariff revision; and he
criticised in detail Mr. Underwood's
statements that the country's reve
nue was declinin/3 and the treasury
approaching a deficit.
Mr. Payne will lead the opposition
of the DemocObtic bill and probably
will make the opening speech. No
limit has been set to the debate, and
while it is Mr. Underwood's hope
that it will be concluded with in
week, it is expected to last Veil into
the second week.
Mr. Underwood declared that the
American Woolen company had dic
tated to the Republican congress on
the wool tariff.
"'There is nobody in this country
who does not know that the Ameri
can Woolen company fixes the price,"
said Mr. Underwood; "that it is a
monopoly, that it is a trust, and that
that industry and that company dic
tated to a Republican house, when
they prohibited you from reducing
the exorbitant rates under schedule
K in the last congress."
Criticising the present tariff board,
Mr. Underwood said that. if that
body "went on for 10 years as it is
|?oing at present, vre would not get.
enough information on the wool
schedule to write a tariff bill."
While not questioning "the sincer
ity of honesty of purpose of Presi
dent Taft," Mr. Underwood said he
was convinced that "either the board
was convinced hat "either the board
refused to give up facts we called
for, even with the president's sanc
tion, or else the board has wauted a
quarter of a million dollars in its
work."
MONKEYS TO PICK COTTON.
Trial Was Suggested by Antics of
Pet Chimpanzee.
An attempt is to be made,in Ful
ton County, Ca., by French cotton
experts to teach monkeys to pick
cotton. If the experiment succeeds
a colony of monkeys will be imported
and put to work.
The idea waB suggested by the an
tics of a pet chimpanzee carried by
a farmer boy into the fields. The
little animal, after frisking around
for a time and watching the negroes
at work, began of its own accord to
pick the cotton with almost incredi
ble rapidity.
Animal trainers find it very easy
to teach monkeys to perform any
manual trick or labor. By utilizing
monkey labor the cost of harvesting
cotton would be infinitely less than
with human labor
Return State's Records.
An Albany, N. Y., dispatch says
Gov. Dix has signed the bill requir
ing the state board of regents to de
liver to the state of South Carolina
the records of the commissioners of
the navy board of that state and cer
tain other records now in possession
of the New York authorities. Some
of the records which South Carolina
desired returned were destroyed in
the capitol fire.
After Seven Weeks^SIeep.
After seven weeks slumber from
which physicians have been unable
to arouse her, Miss Hazel Schmidt,
of Vandalia, 111., awakened twice
Wednesday, each time for about an
hour, asked for something to eat and
j then against dropped off into sleep.
I Her case has puzzled scientists who
j have written local physicians asking
! about her condition.
Speech Pleases Sims.
; Representative Sims, of Tennes
i see. a Democrat, was so pleased
I with President: Tai't's reciprocity
I speech a Chicago that he announced
at the White House Tuesday his in
Itention to ask Congress to make it
j a public document. Mr. Sims daid
I he preferred that a republican offer
j the resolution but if none rose to the
I occasion he would.
Aged Beaneater Weds.
At Muldrow, Okla., A. D. Dutton,
92 years old. who attributes his long
ivity to his habit of eating beans, was
married to Miss Rebecoa Jane Gallo
j way, 24 years old, Wednesday.
i
TRG, S. C, SATURDAY, JUNI
SHOCK KILLS
Many Killed and Injured by Severe
Earthquake in M?xico City.
TWELVE WOMEN KILLED
Many 'of the Dead Were Soldiers
Who Were Crushed While
Asleep in Their Barracks, Which
Were Demolished bj Shocks Be
fore they Could Make Their Es
cape.
Sixty-three killed and seventy
five wounded and fifty thousand dol
lars worth of property destroyed is
the net result of an earthquake,
which visited Mexico City, the capi-j
tal of Mexico, Wednesday morning,
and jected a not of tragedy into
what was expected to be a day of
pure rejoicing.
When the work of searching the
ruins is completed It is possible that
the list of the dead will be somewhat
higher and there are doubtless many
wounded, who, with traditional fear
of the authorities and government
hospitals are anxious to evade dis
covery. The property loss is but an
estimate and is .based upon estimates
made by owners and contractors.
Little of tho loss is covered by in
surance.
It was 6:23 o'clock when the first
shock wa8 felt. According to the
meteorological observatory the great
est Intensity was reached at the end
of the minute, but the instruments
continued to record the shocks for
fourteen minutes more. It was of a
vacillatory, twisting character, but
almost free from trepldatory motion.
More than half of the dead ac
counted for were soldiers. They
were caught beneath the falling
tfalls of the artillery barracks in
San Cosme, a locality near the Mex
ican Central station. Another plane
where the earthquake took its toll
of death in considerable numbers
was at the city power plant of the
street car company. Here six were
killed and six wounded. Two others
were found in the debris consisting
partly of steel rails, which had been
stacked In the iron and wood de
partments and which collapsed. The
vlcti^i? were inhabitants of little
shacks built along the side of the
structure.
With these two exceptions thi?
death list was made up of single
oases or in some instances of two or
three caught, beneath a fall in!?- wall
In the poorer buildings of the district
mo^t seirously affected. Although
the shock was plainly felt in all parts
of the city few realized the magni
tude of the oastrophe until late in
the forenoon, due to the fact that
the casualties were confined to a
compartively small area.
No personal property of Americans
was damaged and with the exception
of one Chinaman, no foreigner was
killed. In the barracks where the
soldiers were killed, 12 women lost
their lives. They were the wives of
the artillermen. The women have
the privilege of spending the night
within the walls of the barracks. The
barracks was an old structure built
a generation ago. Seventy-two sol
diers were sleeping in the hous*c.
Approximately half were quarter
ed on the first floor, the remainder
on the second. The outer wall fell
away and then the roof crashed down
on the sleeping men and hurled them
down through the floor onto their
comuadjes below. The bodies ofj
thirty soldiers have been recovered.
Three are missing and sixteen are
wounded, a few dangerously. Tn-'
stantly those who escaped began the
work of rescue.
Three blocks from the barracks
the wards of the Mexican Central,
where Madero had been scheduled to
enter, presented another spectacle
of the shock. A long wall separated
these yards from those of the Mex
ican railway was thrown down. A
Mexican locomotive engineer who
was lying by its side was crushed to
death. A warehouse of the Mexican
Central Is almost a wreck, one wall
and a portion of the building having
collapsed. About one-third of the
round house was torn down. No
c?sualities were reported here.
In none of the advices received
I at police headquarters is there men
tion of the death of any person of
prom-inence. The fury of the shock
was shown in th^ northwestern and
western part of the city. The most
damage done was in that quarter of
the city known as the Santa 'Maria,
although cracks in the pavement and
walls toppled over servo to mark its
cousre as far to thesouth as Co
I Ionia RoRma, a distacneffl 1T1 ffl
Ionia Roma, a district inhabited
largely by Americans. In this district
however, little real damage was done
I and no deaths have been reported.
Cracks show here and there in the
I pavement throughout the district af
| ferted. Walls, made usually of a
I soft stone or even of adobe bricks,
I have'fallen in scores of places, giving
I to some localities a greatly damaged
aspect. The water mains of the city
were practically uninjured and the
light and power company suffered
little inconvenience in operations.
Some slight damage was done to
the street car track but not enough
to interfere with traffic.
Two of the capital's old churches
and the national palace are buildings
10, 1911.
CANT BE FOUND
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN
CAUGHT AND LYNCHED.
Slayer of J. P. Bouknight, Who Es
caped in Night Clothes, Hns Not
Been Seen Since.
The body of J. Pink Bouknight,
the farmer of the Shady Grove sec
tion of the Dutch Fork of Lexing
ton county, who was shot and killed
at an early hour Wednesday morning
while heading a posse of "white
caps," by Will Collins, a negro, was
laid to rest at Shady Grove church
Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, in
the presence of a large congregation
of friends and relatives. Will Col
Ijlns, who did the} shooting, has
either ;been killed and his body
thrown in the river, or he has suc
ceeded in making good his escape, ac
cording to the most reliable infor
mation obtainable from that section.
The first; news of the death of Mr.
Bouknight reached Lexington Wed
nesday . lorning, when Coroner
Clark received a telephone message
stating, in effect that J. P. Bouk
night was dead and requesting the
officer to come over and hold an in
quest. No particulars were given,
and, attaching but little importance
to the message on account of its
meagreness, the coroner instructed
Magistrate L?rick of Irmo, who lives
not far from the scene, to hold the
inquest.
Nothing of the real seriousness of
the situation was learned until
the return of Deputy Sheriff Miller,
who was early on the grounds
Wednesday. After making an in
vestigation, Mr. Miller was not able
to give any of the particulars of the
tragedy, further than that Bouk
night had been shot in the stomach
with a shotgun while making an ef
fort to enter the'home of Will Col
lins through a window.
Opinion is divided as to the
whereabouts of the negro who es
caped after shooting Mr. Bouknight,
but the majority believe that'he was
killed and hia body thrown Into the
river. Others declare that the groans
of the dying man so frustrated the
party that their attention was di
verted from the negro and that he
made his escane. One of Collins'
children was shot in the back, it is
said. Collins' wife it is said, makes
the statement that she told him to
shoot, believinsr that she) together
with her two children, would all be
killed. She gathered her children
in her arms and managed to make'
her escape in the darkness.
The verdict of the jury of Inquest I
was in effect, that the deceased came
to his death by a gunshot wound In
the hands of parties unknown to the
jury. The wounded man was car
ried to the home of hi3 brother-in
law, Mr. Fulmer. where a convey
ance was secured to carry him home,
but he died on the way. The de
ceased was a brother-in-law to Joe.
Fslmer, whose barn was burned a
few weeks ago, the burning of which
was laid to the negro.
The killing occurred on the plan
tation of Rhett Younginer, for whom
Collins worked. The tragedy has
cast a gloom over the entire section.
.7. P. Bouknight was 52 years of age
and leaves a wife and several chil
dren. He was prominent in the
community and numbered his friends
by the score. Deputy Sheriff Miller
returned to the scene to make furth
er investigation, but no trace of the
negro could be found.
FATAL EARTHQUAKE
Earthquake at Mexico City Kills at!
Least 150 Persons.
Rolling from coast to coast
through Mexico Wednesday's earth
quake brought death to at least 150
persons, according to latest accounts;
received at Mexico City * Thursday j
night. The area of the quake was
rectangular in form, the lower parti
being along the state of Guerrea. i
The death toll grows as belated re
ports come in. Fifty-nine corpses
have been taken from the ruins in
Ocelan, Jalisco. It will never be
known how many perished in villages
in remote patrs of the quake zone.
It is estimated, however that at
least 150 persons have met death,
but the deaths cannot be accurately |
numbered. Not many persons were!
killed in the city of Colima, but a
considerable amount of damage was
done.
Boilermakers on Strike.
Between a thousand and twelve1
hundred boiler makers in the Bald-1
win Locomotive works at. Philadel-i
phia. went on a strike Thursday1
without the sanction, it is said of the!
national officers of the Boiler Makers |
T'nion. No wage question was in
volved. The trouble is due to tho'
laying off of twelve hundred men re
cently. The union men assert that
the men were forced out because
they joined Tabor organizations.
which show the effect of the shocks.
Long cracks appeared in all of them
and in the pr.lace a keystone in one
of fljte arches was loosened and
thrown entirely out of its place. The
two churches are Santa Dominco and
La Profesa. The latter church has
shown cracks of a serious character
as a result of other erthquakes and
this morning they were of such a ser
ious kind that the building was or
dered closed.
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LAND SELLS HIGH
WONDERFUL INCREASE IN VAL
UE OP GEORGIA DIRT.
Little Over Three Hundred Acres In
creased Over Two Hundred Thous
and Dollars in Forty Years.
The Atlanta Constitution says the
Bale of the almshouse property by the
county last Saturday brings up a
very interesting bit of history which
Bhows tbe wonderful increase of real
estate values near Atlanta
Fulton county bought the property
in three different lots and at three
different times.
In 18Gl) the county bought from
the ..Mechanics Building and Loan
Company two hundred and two and
a half acres for $1,000.
In 1877, the county needing more
land for an alms farm, bought forty
three acres from J. L. Mathewson
for $705.
More land being needed the county
bought, in 1881, seventy-seven acres
from Henry Irby for $770.
This made a total of three hundred
and twenty-two and a half acres, and
the total amount paid by the county
for the entire tract of land was only
$2,475.
It will be seen that the first pur
chase was made forty-two years ago,
the second purchase thirty-four years
ago, and the third and last purchase
thirty years ago.
Now, after a lapse of forty-two,
thirty-four and thirty years, the
same tract of land that cost only $2,
475. has been sold for $209,232.53.
These figures show that the land
was bought for about $7.50 an acre,
and sold for about $6500 an acre.
There were two sales of the prop
erty. On June 2,6, 1909, more than
one-third of the land, including the
valuable Peachtree road frontage,
was sold at auction, and from the
sale was realized $69,690.76.
Last week the remainder or nearly
two-thirds of the property, was sold
at auction for $130,541.77. It was
thought two years ago that the prop
erty brought an exceedingly high
price, and yet that price was small
as compared with the sales made
last week.
MURDERED BY BURGLARS.
A Lady Suffocated in Her Room With
Her Stocking.
With a stocking tied closely about
her neck, another crammed into' her
throat and her hands tied behind
her, Mrs. Ida Hill was found dead
at the home of her mother, "Mrs. J. H.
Ragsdale, at Jamestown ,N. C, early
Thursday morning. The deed is sup
posed to be the work of burglars who
entered the house between midnight
and day. Indications of burglary led
to the theory. Mrs. Hill is the wid
ow of the late Dr. Joel Hill, who was
a prominent physician of Lexington,
N. C. Dr. Hill died about four
months ago. Mrs. Hill was returning
from Philadelphia, where she was
treated In a sanitarium following
nervous lireakdown after her hus
band's death.
She was accompanied from Phil
adelphia by her sister, Miss Jennie
Ragsdale, who is a member of the
faculty of Bryn Mawr college. Miss
Ragsdale was in the house when the
murder was committed. No clue has
been found as yet to the perpetrators
of the deed.
HIDDEN GOLD FOUND.
Estimated to be Between Fifteen to
Sixty-live Million.
A message received at San Diego, j
Cal.. from treasure seekers aboard |
the steamer Eureka says their expe-j
dltion* to recover an immense cache
of gold hidden by the crew of a Chil
ean cruiser off the Honduran coast
more than 20 years ago. has been
successful. The treasure has been
variously estimated at from $15.000,
000 to $65,000,000, according to
reports. The expedition was financed
.by aHrry Kreiling, a well known
clubman, of San Francisco. The map
showing the location of the buried
treasure was in possession of a for
mer resident of Honduras, who suc
ceeded in interesting Kreiling in his
story of the buried gold.
MAKES TERRIFIC SITED.
Attains Velocity of One Hundred and
Fifty-five Miles.
The "L'Auto'' estimates that Ve
drine, the winner of theP aris-to
Madrid race, whose proper name is
Jules Vedrines. attained the prodi
gious speed of 1."." miles an hour on
Tuesday, covering the 77 5-10 miles
separating Dijon and St. Lauront
Les-Macon in :!0 minutes. The paper
quotes the aviator as saying that ho
was pushed by a wind so violent that
at times he flow with the tail of his
machine perpendicular. He also en
countered wind pockets that caused
his monoplane to make frightful
drop?, sometimes descending 800
feet in a few seconds. Vedrines suf
fered only through the strain on his
eyes.
Died From a Fall.
At Iron Rock, Ga., Ben Adnew,
the fifteen year old son of G. M. Ad
new, was killed by falling off a load
of wheat as he drove in the barn
yard Tuesday night. He was jam
med between the wagon and a. gate
post. He lived about twelve hours.
TWO CENTS PER COPY.
NEVER BETTER
fbat Is What Governor Wilson Says of
(be Denncratic Prospers
?
PEOPLE WANT CHANGE
Delighted With Tour Through the
Par West and Indorses Progressive
Tendency?vS*ops in Washington
and Commends House Caucus for
Refusing to Put Wool on Free List
On his way home from Columbia
Gov. Wilson stopped off at Washing
ton on his way home from a tour of
the far Western States, and all
through the day his suite in tho WII1
ard wag crowded with senators and
representatives who discussed with
him the political outlook. He de
clared Democratic prospects were
never brighter.
Gov. Wilson congratulated the
members of congress on the work
done my the Democratic minority
thus far during the extra session,
and heartily indorsed the action of
the house in reducing the wool
schedule 50 per cent, instead of put
ting wool on the free list at this
time, as urged by Bryan.
The New Jersey Governor was
delighted with his trip through the
West. It was the first time he had
crossed the Rocky mountains, and
his traveling companions said they
were greatly surprised at the warmth
of the receptions he received. The
statements made that Mr. Wilson
was unknown in the West were prov
ed false they ,said. i
"I was delighted with the recep
tion I received in the West. Party
lines have been demolished oompit.
ly in the West as far as the desires
of the progressive people are con
cerned. I found that there was
virtually no difference between a
Democrat and a progressive Republi
can except on the tariff question."
Asked if he included in this class
the insurgent senators whe have
been fighting reciprocity with Canada
Gov. Wilson, smiled and said,,
"They are not exactly the class
qf progressives to whom I referred.
I am heartily in favor of reciprocity,
and I think most real progressives
are likewise.
"I was not able to find any dif
ference between the progress for
which the people of the West are
fighting and the progress for which
we are fighting in the Esst. The
people of some of the Western states
have actually put the progressive
measures on the statute books. While
we in the East have not had as much
success we are fighting for virtually
the same things. ,
"There is little difference in what
the Eastern American wants and
what the Western man has gotten.
They have got their desires a little
faster than we have, and they have
used means which we may i*ot use
in the East. There is no doubt in
my mind that we will continue fight
ing in the East until we get virtually
all they have uccomplished in the
West.
"The initiative and referendum
they have gotten in the West Is the
same that we want in'the East and
the same that we wili eventually get.
I am and always have been in favor
of the initiative, referendum and re
call?except in the cases of judges?
simply as a safeguard, to he used
only when it is necessary for the
purpose of putting the will of tho
people above the. will of the men
who happen to be in office.
"I do not. think the Western peo
ple expect to use any of these safe
guards often. They merely want them
to protect themselves when they
feel that their desires are being trod
den under foot. I believe that, they
will work the greatest benefits when
appliefi, but 1 do not think they need
in any way overturn the electorate
except in segregated instances. Ore
gon used them often when they were
first put into effect, but only to stand
ardize their, form of government.
"My trip through the West has
convinced me that the prospects of
the Democratic party for success
were never brighter. The* present
house has redeemed its promises, and
the people of the West realize it.
They feel that they are not being
hoodwinked, but that 'they are being
given the legislation that they ex
pect I'd.
"The party is stronger than it
was last November when It carried
the election. It is advancing by
leaps and bounds. The growth of
Democratic sentiment is more than
normal; it seems to be at high tide.
No man can tell what the next year
will briar, but I believe that a con
tinuance of the present policing of
the party will mean success in
1912."
Refused to Grant Pardon.
A mother's pitiful plea was turned
down by Governor Blease Thursday
when he refused to pardon G. V.
Bingham, the young Georgetown doc
tor, who, with W. B. Avant, his
close friend, was convicted at the fall
term of court in 1909 of the killing
of young Mrs. Bingham, and each
sentenced to a term of three years
and a half in the state penitentiary.
Both Bingham and Avant escaped
from the officers of the law and are
still at large. ? ~' <, i^jj