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1 ucsuaj ) ? TAFT MAY INTERVENE IN TROUBLED MEXICO ? Conditions Such That President's x Friends Say Crisis is Nearer Than J * ? ai Any umer nuit% " j Beverly, Mass., Sept. 7.?Although ' President Taft will not intervene in j Mexico without the fullest deliberation upon a step that would mean war, his friends declared tonight that inter- 1 ?vention is nearer than it has been ! since the first American troops were j rushed to the borde*\ 18 months ago. j It can be stated on the highest au- j ? . ! that on la the president de-: VUVA * _ cide that intervention is the only course open to him, he will call con-; gress in September session and de-: mand of it the authority to send the American army across the border.! Under no circumstances, he has told I his friends, would he do any unfriend- j ly act against Mexico without consulting congress. Friends of the president realize that he would give the order to invade Mexico only with the greatest reluc<* tance. ^ Seeks >"o War Honors. They are aware that it already has! been charged by senators that the j president might send the army across the line, make himself a "war president," and rely upon that to bring) victory to himself and the Republican party in November. Mr. Taft has said that such a statement is utterly with* out foundation and declared to his advisers that it would be hard to con? ceive of a president who would use t his office to throw his country into a war which experts have predicted could end in not less than two years; that would cost millions, that would mean the sacrifice of thousands of lives and ruin for years to come the j basis of this nation's friendship with j the central and South American republics. ' , Move Troops to Border. The president today authorized Gen. Wood, chief of staff, U. S. A., to dispatch two more regiments of cavalry to the Texas border. The regiment I will be sent from Fort Riley, Kan., j - - - " ? - . i and Fort D. A. Kussen, wyo. so iarj / v as the president was informed there j will be no immediate need for more' troops in Texas but conditions along: that border have grown worse in the j last few weeks. J It is in the southern part of Mex/ l ico, however, that the president has j learned of intolerable conditions af-j fecting Americans. There the Madero ! \ government, according to the Wash- > ington information, is utterly unable I to cone with the revolutionists and ' f there seem to be little prospect that I the situation will improve. President; Taft within the last few days has com- j municated a demand that Preside' : Madero be more active in the protection of Americans. He is hopeful th i this reminder, meant for the ears of j the Mexican president and for the I Mexican foreigu office as well, will be > fruitful of results in both southern and northern Mexico. The situation south of the Mexican I capital is regarded as particularly se-! HH rious to Americans because#the revo-i lutionists there apparently have- much I less fear of an American invasion than I I i their brothers on the northern. The V only favorable plan for protection of the Americans in the south, Mr. Taft' has been told, would be to send troops \ L to some gulf port of Mexico. The trouble is in the interior and L the landing of troops in a Mexican i port would mean intervention and1 ^ vrstt. There is no such opportunity in j the, south of Mexico to display troops | in force and thereby instill respect j | for the United States as there has I been along the Texas frontier. Only! k one solution of the problem has been \ put forward and that- is intervention.' B Mr. Taft is still hopeful, however, H that President Madero will immediateM lr improve conditions so that such H s^ep will not need to be taken. r STRAUS WAS SELECTED BY THE PROGRESSIVES Taft'S Former* Cabinet Officer Heads Xew York Ticket?Stampede at the Finish. y Syracuse, X. Y., Sept. 6.?Oscar S.! Straus, former secretary of commerce' and labor in the cabinet of President j ITaft, was unanimously acclaimed the j nominee for governor by the Progres-1 sive party in a stampeded convention j 1*- this afternoon under the circum - stances not only unexpected, but dramatic. The former cabinet member, acting as the convention's permanent chair- j man, was about to entertain a motion! R from Former Lieut. Gov. Timothy L. Kfc Woodruff to expedite to roll call on the names of State Chairman William ^Hotchkiss and Comptroller William ^ren.-lfrgast, of New York, when ^eate from Xew York county leap....chair and demanded to be heard. "It's 'Suspender Jack' McGee," cried a voice from the gallery. Chairman Straus looked puzzled. McGee, who got his name in the Indian country by riding a broncho into camp with suspenders used as reins, moved resolutely toward the platform. Is >'ot Crazy. I "They say I'm crazy, but I know what I am doing," he cried as he swung up the platform steps. McGee, a flaming bandanna around his neck and his coat blazing with badges, tossed his Rough Rider hat | on the floor and demanded the right to make a nomination. "Whom, do you wish to nominate?" asked Chairman Straus, but McGee j gave only a meaningless shake of his i head. Delegates cried, "Put him out." But McGee stuck to his purpose. r>elf?arates and spectators booed and jeered as be began to speak. There was a general laugh when he cried: "I'll name a man the mention of whose name will bring tears of sympathy to the eyes of almost every man and whom in the civilized land." Suspender Jack only waved his arm in, defiance of the jeers. He paused a moment and then cried: "I nominate the illustrious and honorable Oscar S. Straus." I Stunned the Delegaies. 1 The delegates seemed stunned. Then a 1 a few of tnem cn^eru. .uuuee itepi on with his speech and the first few cheers at first from a half dozen delegates gradually grew into a pandemonium that swept the convention hall. Standards were wrenched from their supports, and delegates, yelling and cheering for Chairman Straus, paraded the aisles, turning the convention into a bedlam. Mr. Straus at first shook his head deprecatingly. He turned to friends arid remarked: "This must not be. I can not accept." Mr.^Hotchkiss rushed to the platform. Placing his hands on Mr. Straus' shoulders, he said: "You must accept; you must accept; ** T J nl/v/vn^An VAll '' eui uic ueiegaics <xi c iui juu. Scores of delegates pressed forward to urge Mr. Straus to make the decision. Then .Mr. Hotchkiss burst from the group that surrounded Mr. Straus and held up before the crush of excited delegates a sheet of yellow paper on which was written: "He accepts." Another Demonstration. Quiotlv thp wrvrri massed hank through the hall and another demonstration followed. The nomination of Mr. Hotchkiss for governor was withdrawn by John A. Kingsbury and Timothy Woodruff withdrew the name of Mr. Prendergast/ Then came a flood of speeches seconding the nomination of the former minister to Turkey. "Suspender Jack" McGee was not lost sight of. Delegates pressed about him rind nmrlnimPrl him "thp> man r>f the hour." Later the convention passed a vote of thanks to Delegate McGee of t?e loth assembly district for nominating Mr. Straus. When the convention had recovered and Mr. Straus had been chosen he was called on for a speech and tendered an ovation as he formally accepted the nomination. "The cause we are in is a cause of inspiration," he said, in his speech. "I must accept.", TTi-in i crh t faw tocfc- r! ovol nnoH anrl J. VUJ J-sil t IV ?? VVAiWO uvt V1V^/V.U UilU the ticket as finally selected was. Governor, Oscar S. Straus, New York; lieutenant governor, Former State Senator Frederick M. Davenport, Oneida; associate judges of court of appeals, Charles C. Alden, Buffalo, and Geo. W. Kirchway, Columbia university; secretary of state, Homer S. Call, Syracuse; State comptroller, Horatio C. King, Brooklyn; attorney general, John Palmieri, Brooklyn; State treasurer, Ernest Cawcroft, Jamestown. *Why Have Poll Lists J" Columbia State. Here is a paragraph from a newspaper, the Newberry Herald and News, ^oicOF ilillfl A* I STANDS 'THE1 Recommended for medicinal and fan Remit Postal or Express Money Orde Guaranteed to please or money returne I ORDER TO-I 3 H. CLARKE & SONS 9 The South'a Greatest Mail Order 'I iniWWIWM I II ! ! 11 ttrvrw 1 that supports the present governor, land it merits consideration: "In Newberry county, for instance, two of the polling precincts failed, or neglected, to send in the poll lists with their returns. This, as we understand it, is a technical violation of the rules governing uie primai-jr, though there was no suspicion of fraud at either one of these precincts. However, if the county executive com-j mittee had adhered strictly to a technical observance of the rules, and had refused to count the votes of these two i precincts, it would have changed the I result in one of the most important of the .county offices, and elected a man who is defeated. We never have believed that it was the intention of the primary system to adhere absolutely ,to all of the technical' requirements of the rules or of the constitution, the purpose being to get an honest expression of the white Democrats in South Carolina, as to their choice of the men who aspired to the different positions. , So the question arises, why should /the rules require that there be poll lists in primary elections? Are not the "technical requirements of the rules or of the constitution" a i nuisance anyway? Would it not nave Deen a great uwi better had the poll lists at the 1,200 precincts been burned or thrown away?whereby the contempt of the people for base and perplexing "technicalities" would have been fully signified? In that case, nobody would have known or could have known, who participated in the recent pri mary anywhere in the State. All possibility of proving frauds or Irregularities would have been de-. stroyed, obliterated, wiped out. Everybody could have taken for granted that neither minors, Republicans, Socialists, foreigners, embeciJes nor convicted felons appeared and voted and the world would have known absolutely that "the purpose to get an honest expression of the white Democrats, as to their choice of the me/v who aspired to the different positions" had been strictly, accurately and truly carried out When another State convention meets, the proper course obviously will be to repeal the miserable "techj nicality" that a list of the persons ! voting in primaries be kept, so that the neoDle will not be hampered by. ; vexing details and a free and righteous choice will be insured. Perhaps | it would be better to "go the whole ! hog" and abolish the party constituj tion and all the rules. What are the : "constitution" and "rules" between I frienls? ! I STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, * | COUNTY OF NEWBERRY, j By Frank M. Schumpert, Esquire, Pro| bate Judge. WHEREAS, Maggie L. 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