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? 'M The Press and Banner J SEOO^TD. j A TRUST BOSS Collecting Funds For ttie Nattonal Republican Committee. SHELDON'S RECORD As a Trust Magnate, Assailed by Mack, the Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, Will Go AftAi* nmniirell and Other Active Republican Trust Magnates. Following an attack of National Chairman Mack Friday on the corporation affiliations of George R Sheldon, treasurer of the Republican national committee, It was learned Friday night that the Democratic national committee is preparing to assail the corporation connections of William Nelson Cromwell, member of the advisory committee of the Republican national committee. Other members of the Republican advisory committee, it is understood, are also to be Investigated and representatives of the Democratic committee are carefully inquiring lntj the financial records of the Repub?5 can committeemen. For several aaj s i the corporation records of Mr. Cromwell have been under quiet Investigation, but whether the representatives of the Democaticr commltteo have learned anything of Mr. Cromwell's financial operations other than tne companies with which he i^ Identified has not been made known Mr. Mack made the following statement: "'The trust and corporation affiliations of George R. Sheidon, treasurer of the Republican national committee ,for the past 10 years mak-? interesting reading in view of the recent developments in the campaign. "I wish to recall in this connection that, because of these very iscrkMations of his, Governor Odell in j 1902 refused to permit the party leaders to put Mr. Sheldon In nomination for lieutenant governor. Governor Odell at that time declare I that he could not accept the renomination for head of the State ticket if Sheridon were named aa his running mate. But while the Republican party has refused to put up Mr. Sheldon's iTame for a public office, it has for the identical reasons of this refusal selected him for its campaign fund collector. "This can not be denied. Most of the corporations with which Mr. Sheldon is identified are capitalized for millions. How much of their stock is of the liquid variety can be easily ascertained. Yet Mr. Rooeivelt has defended him, and his resignation was not demanded when - ... ..ton <-1 ntr,1 I Mr. DuPont was invueu LU Dkc^ uw .? ? . and oat. Mr. DuPont was only Identified with one trust, while Mr. Sheldon Is at the present time Intimately connected with no less than 17 prominent financial eoncerns. "Mr. Sheldon Is a director of that company. He is also treasurer and director of the North American company, capitalized for $30,000,000, a concern known as the 'mystery or Wall Street.' It is but a few years back since he was prominently identified with the 'whiskey trust.' A glance at his connection with various companies for the past 10 years will explain tersely the reason of his present position. No further comment of mine Is necessary." The following are the corporations that Sheldon are more closely connected with at this time: * ??- t nmmotive Company, Ameriwau director. The Bethlehem Steel Company, director. Cincinnati Northern Railway Company, director. Detroit Edison Company, director and treasurer. Electrical Security Company, director. LaClede Gas Light Company, director. Monte Car Works, director. Locomotive Security Company, director. Metropolitan Trust Company, director. Milwaukee Elcctric Railway and Light Company, director. Milwaukee Light, Heat and Traction Company, director. National Copper Bank, director. North American Company, treasurer and director. New Jersey Terminal Dock and Improvement Company, director. Republic Iron and Steel Company director. Rogers Locomotive Works, direc tor. St. Louis Transit Company, direo tor. FIFTY DRIVEN' FROM HOME. Sixteen Horses Are Burned Up in i Chicago Fire. At Chicago more than fifty pe<sons were driven from their home1many of them In scant attire, seve ?oh atlci jropert persons were valued at $7o.n00 was destroye early today, when a fire started i tha Columbia lumber livery stabl at 359 Rush street and destroye that building and spread to severe others in the vicinity. Sixteen hors* were burncci lodeath. GIRL WAS STOLEN AND HELD IX HEART OF NEW YORK. Most Remarkable Case of Kidnapping Brought to Light Last Thursday by Detective. Th? rrnwt r?mnrknble case ol kidnapping that has stirred Nev York for many years was brought to light early Thursday, when Lena Thorn, a pretty 16-year-old girl was rescued from a one-story house a? 475 Rock way avenue, East New lork She had been stolen when within 200 feet of her home six weeks ago, and has been a prisone erver since. After she was attacked in the woods near her home at Rockaway avenuo and Jamaica road, Jamaica, remaining in this house two days, she was taken to the Rockaway avenue hut. Her own clothing had been taken away from her and she was forced to wear clothes that her captor porvided. Women living in the neighborhood saw that she was always watched by a man, and noticing that her complexion was so different from his. they suspected something wrong and notified the police. The raid was made early Thursday and it was only after a terrific battle that Raphael Susso, 26 years old. who was found In the hut, was overpowered and taken prisoner. In his rage at discovery he tried to kill the girl, but was prevented. Captain Frank of the Brownsville station heard of the case Wednesday and at once put Detective Caulfleld and Burton on It. They watched and saw the man , go into the place and then, without knocking, burst open the flimsy door. Susso wa6 standing near the girl and when he saw the detectives he utter- , ed a curse, grasping her by th?throat, swinging her around and hit her a blow In the face. "I had been to school on the day that I was kidnapped," said the girl, "and got out before 4 o'clock In th t , afternoon. Some of the girls weve going to a wood near where we lived to get flowers and I went also to get some flowers to put on the dinner table. On my way back, when with- , in a few hundred feet of home, n , man sprang out of the woods, grab- , bed me by the tnroac, ana araggeu rue into the bushes. Then he ami another man carried me further bacK into the woods and stuffed my mouth with rags. "They kept me there until late at night and then one of them went after a wagon. I was tied in this and taken to East New York, into a tenement Two women In this house guarded me while the men were away. The women took my clothes from me and threatened me." Susso, after having his injuries attended to was locked up in tthe Brownsville station. The police arrested Annie Cairo, aged 30 years. She is said by the police to be one of the women who held the girl prisoner. Doth she and Susso were arraigned before Magistrate Vorhees in tho New Jersey avenue court. DRUG CLERK'S ERROR. Causes the Death of James Galvlu in New York. Private Detective James Galvin, of 386 Manhattan avenue, Is dead from what Is probably a drug clerk error. He bought a box of epson. salts at a well-known drug store t week ago, and early Tuesday too': some of It. In a few moments hi fell ia agony at his wife's feet, anil was dead before an ambulance arrived from the J. Hood Wright hospital. Dr. Hammond, in charge said the salts were really sulphat of zinc, and gave the box and its remaining contents over to the polico SMOKING OUT SHELDON Republican Treasurer Said to Dc ;t Trust Magnate. News comes from New York tho'. an investigation is being made by the Democratic national committor into the ~'rporation connections ot George R. Sheldon, treasurer of t.ht Republican national committee, and representatives Democratic national committee have been sent into the financial district to inquire into Sheldon's affiliations and hisearly financial career. It is said that he is connected officially with z . dozen or more trusts, and that i> why he was selected as treasure.. by the Republican committee. The - Democrats intend to smoke him out. HEARST'S MENAGERIE. Says It Will Perform in South Cni? olina, Too. Tbe State executive committee 01 Hearst's Independen Party met i; ' Greenville Wednesday and electo 1 ofiicers, with D. E. McCuen. "? Greenville, as chairman, and S. ? Price, of Columbia, as secretary. n full electoral ticket will be put i! c the field for the November election The executive committee has unde advisement the subject, of a Stat * tfeket with candidates for governo * and all State officers. BLISTERS TEDDY Halo of Integrity That Surrounded Roosevelt i "HAS FADED AWAY" ; Says HaskcU, Who Charges That p the President Granted Franchises 5 to OU Company and Got Large 0 li Campaign Contributions in Re- q .turn for the Grant. i| Gov, Charles N. Haskell, formerly s treasurer of the Democratic national committee, tonight gave out a long c letter to President Roosevelt repeat- C ing his published defence to the c charges made against him. The let- t< ter, in part, is as follows: n "The serious character of your d charge agaiust me should have sug- fi gested to you that you, as Chief Executive, should proceed with de- u liberation and certainty before mak- N ing such hearsay statements you:* b own declarations. f< "Your attacks on me finally resteJ J< on my couduct toward the Pralri\ t< Oil and Gas Company In this State tl I have said that you were respou- h slble for granting a franchise before w statehood, thereby creating vested It rights. You seek to evade the Issue u< and create strong Impressions. You w said -the interior department had ti no power, except where crossing an tt Indian reservation. You would havo your readers believe that the Indian ci Territory was then conducting its ni iwn government and that only parts tt of the same were Indian reservations pi "Mr. Roosevelt, you know it Is no; fi true; you know all the land was Ic Indian land without county, township hi or territorial government. What 3? halo of Integrity surrounded you las: te week, like the mist has faded awaj te and the interior department hoId3 the record which convicts you. R "You granted the franchise at the cc solicitation of Senator Depew, and :i few days thereafter received $260,- lei 000 in cash for your campaign fund, w "You charge me with having at- Ie tempted to bribe the Attorney Gen- 0 2ral of Ohio. That was presumably tu nine years ago. You have abandoned te that position. Charles P. Taft says fc through his paper that no evidence v< was ever produced that would con- pt vlct me of the charge d "In 'touching on the State Univer ki sity question, you pretended to quote from the Outlook magazine, but how \ dishonestly you enlarged on the magazine article. That article chargej tu me with substituting Democratic foi n< Republican professors for polltlca: purposes. I have shown that state- id ment to be false, but I charge you tl with trying to enlarge on that mag- hi azlne article and give the world the tc impresion that we were Improperly ri iuf'ng t'he money appropriated to p; conduct that institution. m "Your charge that I vetoed a child labor law, you have not apaloglzeri ti for, notwithstanding you ^know thai a 1 did it with the approval of union t! labor and that our State Constitu tl ion which you said was 'so bad you- tl opinion of it would not look well in $ iTT*int ' rnnta>ins more details and child labor legislation than all you 1< have recommended to the New York \ Legislature as Governor, or to th? t< Oongress of the United State as c President, and that I had approved r further Acts of our Legislature ii massed at the solicitation of union t 'abor. v "You said in your first statemeu. b 'hat I had suits brought against m:1 0 :o recover title to Creek Indian land, o I overwhelmed you on that statement. Adopting your usual polic;', t vou l'lee from that statement without t :ust apology and adopt the state- s nent now that it was Government t' own site lots that you charged me t vith being sued for. Yes, I believe < ( am a defendant as to certain Gov- c >rnment town site lots in one of \ nearly 11.000 suits that you have had brought against as many dif"erent honorabrle and highminded Mtizens of this State during this: j Presidential campaign year, and yon will not undertake to deny that politics for the puropse of Republicanizing about 20,000 Indian voters was vour sole motive for having those 1 suits brought, and I charge you with knowing that there has been no delay in these cases, except that oc- | rasioned by the Court's deliberations, taken by himself as time he deemed necessary to consider whether or not there is any merit in the petition filed by your attorney. "You say that on that land ques tion you will see that I pet a hearing in Court. Yea, sir. I will come to vour hearing. Call to your assistance all th?' power that your high -iflice commands, present cases in anv form you like. I am ready to meet it and before its conclusion the people of America will he disgusted that they ever elected you President of f the United States.' ' * i ,, 1 Waylaid and Shot. 1 A dispatch from E! Paso. Texas. says County Judge Brewster and Postmaster M. A. Ernst, of Bouquil1.i. 1 Texas, were waylaid and shot on Sunday while en route from the " Cable house at Ernst's mines to the s nostofflre. Ernst died on Tuesday. r His murderers have not been arrested. * . ... j THE SECRET OUT. WHY ROOSEVELT FIGHTS STANDARD OIL COMPANY. t Refused to Give Him as Mucli Money tM He Demanded for His Campaign Four Years Ago. The New York World of Fridav mbllshed the following: Early In the 1904 campaign the Itandard Oil Company, as well as ither trusts, railroads, banks and arge corporations, received a reuest to contribute to the Republican ampaign fund. This request was ?nored, Henry H. Rogers being reponsible for Its refusal. Later, when the second call for ampaign funds was made, Mr. lortelyou, chairman of the Republian national committee, sent word 3 Mr. Rogers asking for an appointlent at which the existing conitions could be explained and the nanclal support of Standard Oil ; ?cured. This appointment was lade by Mr. Rogers to be kept at ; o. 26 Broadway, the Standard Oil i uilding, and Mr. Corteiyou was in- i jrmed that both Mr. Rogers and | ohu D. Archbold would be pleased i ) see him. Mr. Corteiyou, finding | lat Mr. Rogers was not to meet i lm alone but that Mr. Archbold ( as alone to be present, concluded < would be safer and more discreet | ot to go himself. The appointmenc as kept by Cornelius N. Bliss, t easurer of the national commit- r s At this interview Mr. Rogers ac- z ised Mr. Roosevelt of ingratitude c 3d recalled many past favors from a le Standard Oil Company to Reublican candidates and campaign c mds. Mr. Bliss admitted that Pres- c lent Roosevelt might have acted \ arshly toward the Standard Oil, bur. j lid that while Mr. Roosevelt's first \ rm was "constructive" his second r rm would be "conservative." ( Replying on these assurances Mr. ogers and Mr. Archbold made a [ ntribution of $100,000. \ This contribution coming to the lowledge of President Roosevelt, he rote to Chairman Cortelyou a vio- a nt letter denouncing the Standard u Company and directing the reirn of the contribution. This letr Is on Mr. Cortelyou's file, and a opy of it is kept by President Roosejlt for the puropse of making U iblic if ever the facts of this Stanard Oil contribution became iown. The contribution was not returned, ot one cent was paid back. The ime was used, so far as Mr. Rogers id Mr. Archbold know, in like monir with other contributions. Later in the campaign, when Present Roosevelt bacame scared about result and about the time that a summoned Edward H. Harrlman \ * Washington and Induced Mr. Har- c man to raise $260,000 for the cam- , algn fund, a further request way tade of the Standard Oil people. , At the time of the $100,000 con- , ibution Mr. Bliss expressed his dis- \ itisfactlon with its size and said ( lat the amount should he several mes as great. At the time of the | lird request the definite sum of , 250,000 additional was asked for. In the meantime Mr. Rogers hail sarned of Mr. Roosevelt's letter to . Jr. Corteiyou and of the direction d return the first $100,000. He dijlined to give any more money and ecalled the fact that the President's istructions to return the first conribution had not been complied iith and that Mr. Roosevelt must ,ave known all along that tne $10000 which he repudiated had not mly been accepted but used. In view of this fact he declined o accede to the request for a fur ed by the roof of the house falling in arid made his escape, hut his coita in, who did not awake, was burner to a crisp. A BULLY KILLED. The Tragic and Expected ?nd of a Tempestuous Life. PRflPHFHY Fill FILLED ItWB IWW V ? W HI IVW W . The Anderson Daily Mail Hud Predicted Editorially About Three Weeks Ago That This Would be the End. He Had Killed Three or Four Men in His Time. The State says news was received in Columbia Monday to the effect that John McGaha had been killed near Belton, on the Greenville county side. McGaha has been tried for his life in three homicide cases and is said to have been suspected in another. The first report received by Th.State came from a passenger on the train from Anderson. He had heard the news in that city and had later heard It talked of at Belton anJ Greenwood and the story In circu iatiou there was to the effect that McGaha was on a spree and ha J listurbed a meeting at a negro :hurch and had been "shot to Dleces." "It is a sad thing," said this gen:leman, "but I never heard one expression of regret. Indeed, all per ATto caamn/l r\ Ko rnHavorl Tf i e tn awful thing when one's neighbors :an And pleasure in his passing iway." From Anderson came another ac :ount and from Abbeville by long listance 'phone it was stated that dcGaha and one of the Ashleys had jone to arrest two negroes who ha.1 >een working on McGaha's place and hat in a metee which followed Mciaha was killed. The following from the Anderson )aily Mail of a date some three ^eeks ago, indicates the esteem ir. hich the deceased was held: "Several months ago Jorn McGaha, t bully, well known in this part 01 V State, shot and killed Georg'j 'linkscaies, a negro, in Abbeville :ounty. Witnesses of the tragedy estified at the coroner's inquest he next day that the killing was inprovoked, that it was deliberate nurder. McGaha fled the State. "Negroes of the community told he white people, though not at the nquest, that Clikscales had told hem that he was in mortal fear ot rfcGaha because he had refused to estlfy as McGaha wauted him to n a certain lawsuit. "McGaha remained in hiding for a food long time, but was finally capured in Georgia, through the vigiance of the sheriff of Abbeville :ouuty, and brought back to Abbe ille and lodged in Jail. "And then powerful influence* vere set to work in his behalf. The witnesses who had testified at the nquest, before they had been 'seen' her $250,000, or for any further um, and denounced Mr. Roosevelt or seemingly trying on the one hand o secure contributions from the Standard Oil Company and on tho ither nand to maxe pomicai cnpuui >y denouncing the compuH.V. DRIVEN* TO SUICIDE. Republican Official Could Xot Tell His Record. After telling some of his friends that he would rather die than live to hear the reports which some of his political opponents were circulating about him, \V. Regan Rice, registrar of deeds of Madison county. N C., shot himself to death in a barn in the rear of his home near Marshall at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. * tu/x a . ueaifl Hits Jn?!>b<iiiittin:uu&. i IIC ur ceased was elected to office on the Republican ticket two years ago. He was 38 years old and leaves a wife and one child, a daughter. MEETS TKRRIHLK FATE. In the Fire That Rurncri Down His Residence. Will Mull was roasted to death In the flnmes that burned his residence Wednesday mornng, nea> Morganton. N. C. Ed Mull, a cousin who was with him at the time, narrowly escaped a like fate. The deceased and his counsin went int: !the house and after building a firs i vent to sleep. Ed Mull was awakem )r 'fixed,' now told a different story. They made affidavits that the shootng was accidental. There was submitted what purported to be eth dying statement of Clinkscales, in which he said the shooting was an accident, and that he did iy>t want his friend 'Johnule' punished . A United States senator was hired as McGaha's lawyer, a justice of thi? State supreme court granted him baii, md a member of the State legislature went on his bond. "The case came up for trial at Abbeville last week, and McGaha was acquitted. The jury is not to be ceusured. The jury had to go by the evidence, and although every member of the Jury may have been convinced in his heart?presuming, of course, that the jury was composed of intelligent men?that the evidence wan manufactured for the occasion, yet there was no evidence of deliberate murder* and the jury could do nothing but return a verdict of not guilty. Murder had not been proved in a manner that would warrant conviction. "The dead negro had no rich or influential friends or relatives tu work for the conviction of his slayer. There were no rich or in influential men or strong influence working for justice. That mythical figure is blind, and it often happens thai she has no friends or advocates ir our courts. "McGaha had killed at least tw< men before Iip killed George Clink scales. He is now a free man again free to go where he pleases, and t< quarrel with whom he pleases Judging his future by his past recon it is only a question of time unti he kills somebody else, or until some1 ijody is forced to' kill him. "So 1'ar as McGaha himself i concerned, it made little dlfferenc whether he was convicted or acqui' ted. He is as worthless to the Stat as a free man as he wonId be as convict. But it makes a great det of difference to the community i which McGaha lives, and to tli public at large. It will make great deal of difference in the fi ture nonduct of men of the M 1 Gaha class. Will they not feel, an with good reason, that they can ki with impunity .and that they cf > command influence to assure the their liberty, which with them meai IHcense? . "It doe? uot requite a seer or SAIL OUT OF PORT. UNUSUAL SIGHT IN THE HARBOR OF CHARLESTON. Fifteen Schooners Pass Out to Ocean With Favorable Breezes After Varying Stays in P*rt. The Charleston Post says a strikingly handsome sight was afforded Monday morning In the departuro of fifteen schooners out of the harbor after a detention by contrary winds to nearly a month. Since the last week in August, the wind has been holding to the east and northeast daily with the exception of September 1 and 6, when for a part of these days it veered to the south and southwest. Last night the wind the passing of the rainstorm of yesterday and the coming of the high pressure from the west, and bright and early this morning !the sails were raised and the long detained fleet raised anchors and started down the bay. It was a beautiful sight, rare'.v seen in Charleston or any South Atlantic harbor, for this number of vessels are not often cleared and made reaay 10 sail togemer. in some cases two or three abreast and at times strung out In single column, It seemed as if some armada of centuries ago, before steam displaced canvas to the methods of propulsion of ships of war, was proceeding to attack an enemy. Slowly at first, and then at a faster gait, the fleet moved down the ha> bor and the sight was viewed with much interest and pleasure. In some cases until the vessels became as so many little black specks against the horizon. The vessels which sailed were ail bound for New York with cargoes of lumber. Nine of the vessel* were'cleared with cargoes here anl the remaining six were from th" southward, having put into Charleston for a harbor, made necessary by the easterly winds. The Lottio Russells, one of the vessels which sailed, essayed the task the '.first part of the month and after having remained at sea off Charlestonthirteen days, unable to make any progress, and being as a painted ship upon a painted ocean, returned to port. She will have better luck this time. The anxiety of the fleet to get to sea was evidenced in the departure of so many vessels in the face 01 the knowledge of the existence of . > tropical storm off Cuba. The advices that the storm was curving and would probably not come in this direction was not received until the fleet had left port. The masters were taking no more chances on being shut up in port. The fleet which sailed today was made up of the following Schooners: Judge Pennewell, Edgar C. Ross, Massachusetts; Thomas Winsmore'. Harry Prescott, Victor C. Records. George May, Thomas F. Pollard. Warren Adams, John B. Manning. Joel Cook, Lottie Russell and Paul j H. Dudley. SMOTHERED IX FOLDING BEDS One Tragedy Occurs In Brooklyn ant! One In Chicago. Ignorant of the fact that her tw > month-old child, George, was asleei under the cover. Mrs. Mary Storti of Brooklyn, closed up a folding be( In a darkened room, and the Httl. one was smothered to death befoi' his mother realized what had hap pened. When she learned of her fatal error she became frantic and h now prostrated. At Thicago Edward Kozlowski was accidentally smothered to death in a foldiug bed. The child wo.' placed in the bed and covered wit': a blanket. A short time later tin mother entered the room and fount' that the bed had been closed. Shi opened it to find the child smotherec to death. STABBED BY UNKNOWN PERSOX Gr?cerj' Sulcsnmn Cllaed from House i iuid Fatally Wounded. John W. Mullin, a grocery sales , man, 56 years old, died Wednesday [ from the effect of knife wounds in , his throat and head, inflicted by unknown persons. Mullin was found j near his home, in Phoenix City, Ala , early Wednesday in an unconscious condition. After regaining con -?t??onocc hp stated that he had pUIUUCiivvw .. _ been called from his home and it .j tacked by two men, one of whom I held him while the other cut him. Tt is stated that Mullin received threatening letter several days ago. s prophet to predict that sooner 01 later John McGaha will kill some body else, or will force sonieboa 0 to kill him. And either occurrence 1 will be a calamity. It will be a ca ?l 1 amity for McGaha to kill a ma? ? whose life is worth something. an< e it will be a calamity for some goo. man to he forced to kill him. N'i 1- good citizen wants to stain his hand c- and his soul with human blooc 1 1 even in self-defense. " rthon .Tnhn McGaha gets int 1 1 I /\ 11 u nnv.. in his next trouble, and kills or I in/killed, those who have freed hli 33 from his latest encounter with th law will be more to blame than an; * body else. Bear that in mind." SEES NO HARM] To Use Trust Money to Furttw Political Ends Is SENATOR MCLAURIK'S Reply to the Hearst Exposure by the Publication of the Standard Oil Letters, Who Declare* That Sontl* Carolina's Natural Program is Throttled by an Oligarchy. Senator McLaurin gave out the following statement in reference to the letters that passed between him and J. D. Archbold, the Standard Oil magnate .while he was carrying oit his "Commercial Democracy" fight in this State some years ago: Mr. McLaurin, who haa Just returned to New York, gave out a signed statement as follows: "An effort has been made to ereate a political sensation by the publication of certain correspondence between Mr. John D. Archbold, vice president of the Standard Oil Comnonv onH mvcolf Fai? 'a/%*. FJ t ?"U U4/Hviii * vt buaw W4 " respondence I have no apologies tu make. At the time the letters were #?written I had the honor to enjoy, and f am proud still to possess the friendship of Mr. Archbold, for whom I have the highest regard. At. the time the letters were written I waa engaded in a bitter struggle, In which was involved not only my own political future, but the economic and political principles for which I stood and which, stated briefly, mfeant the emancipation of the South from the ignorant prejudices of Bourbonism and the 'bloody shirt' into the freedom of an enlightened selfinterest and the progress of &n intelligent industrialism. "In the support of these principles, " and the hope of this progress, I saw then no impropriety in enlisting, U practicable, the assistance of the most intelligently officered corporation that human intelligence has yet produced. Nor has the enormous ? body of statutory crime since creat' t'd or the hypocritical affection of morality assumed by some of oUi* Legislators and Congress in any wi? changed my point of view or quickened my conscience of expediency, as seems to have been the case with ~~ ^ some of my former colleagues and associates. "The constituencies that they represent do not hesitate to take Mr. Carnegie's trust-produced and tariffprotected money for their chutches and libraries, or accept Mr. Rockefeller's large sums for the education of the negro, whom they have disfranchised. "If political campaigns are to be " "" run without money and political progress Is to be achieved without financial expenditure It is high time that both parties should be apprised )f the arrival of that Utopiaa era, ')ut until that period has arrived t an see no reason whila I, In batling for what I conceived to be the -Ight, should refuse to seek^ or define to accept the support, whether Inancial or personal, of which I -tood in need. "Men may die, but right princil >les persist and in the end they will I "Humph. "I believe that the South, and [ -specially the State of South Carolina, is today throttled in its natural >rogress and its intelligent exerchm >f the right of self-government by in oligarchy of a past generation ? hrough the, perpetration of lgao-ance and the fertilization of cor uption, and I shall welcome the day when the educational propaganda, which can only be spread by the use of money, whether it be Stmdard Oil money" or railroad money, o .iny other money save that derived from the government sale of whiskey, will enable the people to see more closely their own best interests and cast out those leaders who3e hypocritical morality and 111 di(t?uised selfishness is responsible for he fact that in the South illiteracy :s greater and the increase of population and wealth slower than in any j other great section of the Union. "It is the fashion of present day J hypocrisy to decry the corporation, J to abhor the trust and to pretend !n ' public life to prescribe the influence of weath, but as in this country and In this age wealth is and must be, the reward of intelligence I am not willing to be considered amongst 11- ??Ai.orVi trt th? those cowaraiy cuuuau w influence which Intelligence has al1 ways exercised under every form of government thus far devised. Of a r government of Ignorance I have . had enough in my native State. I hope for, and shall continue to worK for, a government of intelligence. . "(Signed) John Lowndes McLaurln," I , Senator McLaurin leaves tomorrow J ] for South Carolina. . 1 n Convicts Display Bravery. .< A dispatch from Manilla says a 1. cloudburst struck the penal colony at Iwahig September 23 and eight o persons were drowned, including Is Harold Marknlght, superintendent - ? tvio nrJsrtnflrs behaved II ! or tne laruj. juv ? le I heroically, many plunged into the < y- water at personal risk to save comj radee. j Id