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TEDDY'S DESIGN K Hopes to Become Ptnnanent President of the United States. HIS FIGHT IN NEW YORK The Final Step Towards the Kstab| llstur.ent of His New Nationalism, ^ But the Rising Tide of Democratic Pictrine, as Shown in the Maine Election, Will Defeat Him. Judge Alton B. Parker, Democratic candidate for President in 1904, took occasion Thursday to comment on the Democratic victory m .uuiuc on other matters that appear to him to loom large in the political field. "The dream of a permanent Presidency with Mr. Roosevelt in the chair," said Judge Parker, "has long haunted the pillows of his many followers as well as himself. They have seen as through a glass darkly, the workings of a new nationalism when the executive power shall become the steward of the public welfare and an independent judiciary, basing its judgment on principles instead oi men, shall be no more. "Then, too, shall the good trusts receive the Presidential blessing with assurance that there will be no hostile successor to transform it into a 4jurse. Many steps have been taken to that end by Garfield Pinchot and others under the leadership of their A1.. r\r\ from chief, but who recenuy iaun<? ..? . a triumphant tour in behalf of the | propogation of the new faith. There seemed to them to remain but one more 9tep to reach the goal?the capture of New York with Roosevelt for Governor; to smash the Republican machine and then ride over it to overwhelming victory; aye, that Indeed, captured the imagination? for then would all tue East surrender. "Mr. Hearst saw the picture, too, and for that reason was pieased with it. So, he tendered his support and all will agree that he made a tender of great value. But will >Mr. Roosevelt dare? Aye. that is the question Yesterday he would have dared, but oh? thaf is different. WUO/ "Maine has spoken and the voice that must be analyzed before risking this precious cargo with the voters of New York. "Will he dare? It is an old saying, 'Never prophesy until you know. "I do not know, but my guess is that he will not dare." The Roosevelt Danger. William IJarnes, Jr., Republican leader in Albany county, New York, has issued a statement in which he refers to a statement of Mr. Griscom that the action of the State committee "in selecting Mr. Sherman as temporary chairman will certainly be overturned by the convention and that Mr. Roosevelt will preside, which means that he will appoint the committee on resolutions. "If Mr. Roosevelt is temporary chairman and if the convention adopts the report of a radical committee on resolutions, New York will place herself alongside of Kansas and Iowa, and the conservative element of the Republican party which for years has been its backbone, will be invited to the rear and the newnationalism coupled with the Brvannronouncement against the decis ions of the Supreme Court will take its place." Mr. Barnes then says that if Mr. Sherman's name should be ratified by the convention and if the resolutions committee drafts a platform endorsing the Taft administration, declaring opposition to the political hysteria of the hour, "and firmly planting itself upon the sane Republicanism ot the past, then the party can ente' the campaign with respect lor itself which ou?ht to command the respect of the majority of the electorate as it has before." "Some of the men who are urging Mr. Roosevelt's candidacy for temporary chairman of the convention against Vice-President Sherman have little realization of the rising tid? nnniiiar disanDroval which Mr V*. JSVf ? ? r Roosevelt's speeches in the West have caused. His assumption o' power is looked uj>on with wonder ment. His ability to arouse the pas Bions of the mob is dreaded In ever\ quarter of the State and every da> the menace of his political ascendancy to business and to labor is more thoroughly appreciated. "I do not believe that bis nam' will ever be presented to the conven tion against the recommendation of the State committee of Mr. Sherman. If it is, it will certainly be voted I Hflwn in the cause of true Republi canism as that the convention will convene. Thoughtful men all over the State are aroused to the regreli table fact that Mr. Roosevelt today Is the most dangerous foe to the ! world of business and labor in the United States. They hope with earnest solicitude that the Republican party in this State will not in its | convention permit him to be the arbitrator of his policies and the mentor of its thoughts." Tried to Wreck Train. : Train No. 13. from Columbia to Asheville. came very near having a serious wreck just beyond Saluda, N. C. Two miscreants who were seen scrambling down an embankment and fleeing had placed a very large switch crosstie on the track. The engine struck it, but kept, tho track.*1 Made Water Haul. Robbers forced an entrance into the bank of Trenton, Ky., Thursday night and got away with $100, all In copper cents. The other funds in t-be w^e npt disturbed. * ZI BLEASE AT HOME HIG CROWD AND ItAND AT DHl'OT TO MEET HIM. Hut He Hushed All Noise, Out ol' Respect to Dead Child's Parents, Who Weir On the Train. A dispatch from Newberry says Hon. Cole L. Hi ease. Democratic governor of South Carolina, was accorded a most enthusiastic reception by the people of his home town Wednesday night upon his arrival from Columbia. A crowd of men, women and children variously estimated at from 2,000 to 3.O00 were at the union station awaiting the arrival oi the successful candidate, who was returning from Columbia, where he had gone to receive the returns ot the election. Gov.-elect Hlease had been apprised that the people of his home town were waiting to welcome him, hut knowing that the corpse of a little child was in the baggage car of the train in which he was traveling, and that the father and mother of the child were accompanying the re mains. .Mayor mease, ueaums iu spect the feelings of the afflicted parents, caused a message to be wired to his friends, who were waiting to receive him at the station. Requesting that they make no demonstration until the train had gone beyond the limits of the town of Newberry. When the train arrived Mr. Blease standing in the doorway of the baggage car, with bared head motioned with his head for silence from his friends. The effect of Mr. Blease's attitude upon the people was remarkable, for. though hundreds had been waiting for an hour to cheer the next Governor of South Carolina, not a voice was raised. As soon as the train pulled out the Newberry concert band began to play, and lusty cheers went up from the assembled multitude. Among those greeting Mr. Rlease were a number of relatives, including his aged stepmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Rlease. With his arms about the white haired lady he was led by his friends to a waiting carriage and in which he and his mother were placed, and 200 men with ropes attached to the carriage began the march up the niain street of the town. Reaching the stone steps ot" the historic old court house Mayor Rlease was called upon for a speech. His remarks were very short, asking his friends to excuse him from an extended sdeech as he was very much fatigued and needed rest. He snid that the victory he and his friends had won was the greatest known in the political history of the ;.he State, for almost every newspaper in South Carolina had aligned itV? AnnneitiAn hut t no l\it_ ter fight which had been made against him had only made him more grateful to the people who so loyally gave him their support with such little opportunity to defend himself from the violent attacks of his enemies; that the people of South Carolina had chosen him as heir governor for the next two years, and that the large majority which he had received in his home town and county, not ouly contributed to his election but gave absolute denial to the many accusations which had been made against him. He spoke feelinely of his love for Newberry and its people and his life in the town and county and said it would be his purpose to so discharge the duties of the office of governor of South Carolina that the people of Newberry should never have cause to ret|-et the confidence which they had >o often shown in him as a man and as an official. CANDIDATE ENDORSED. Republican Endorsed by the Democrats of Tennessee. The independent Democrats of Tennessee Wednesday endorsed the andidacy of Ben W. Hooper, Republican nominee for governor, and further cut loose from tne regular wing l?y referring the latter's harmony (. solution to the new independent State executive committee without ;iscusslon. Thus was formed a formidable ooking triumvirate to campaign for i Republican governor, the triumvirtte consisting of Republican*, indelendent Democrats and State-wide irohibitionists. Tbe independent >rohihiiionists are so closely allied is to largely overlap in their membership. The possible break of the solid 4outh outlined in the convention, exlends only to one office, the governorship. There is a "gentlemen's agreement" between the independents and Republicans that neither party will invade the other's safe legislative territory and this, the inlependents say, assures a Democratic legislature. The regulars organized to fight it out with the fusionists all along the line. l neir oiaie cummntee cancu a convention to meet in Nashville October 6 to name a gubernatorial candidate, adopt a platform, select a n;it:onal Democratic committeeman and elect a new State executive committee. Regular leaders said the call for a new platform is evidence of the sincerity of the Democratic organization to reunite the factions. The call it to all Democrats Irrespective of paBt party differences. Died of Pellagra. Sricken two weeks ago with a?iue rase of pellagra, John M. Julian, editor of the Salisbury, N*. C.f Evening Post for the past six years, and a leader In State politics, died at his home in thai city Friday. He was n member of the North Carolina Legislature. He was representative of Associated Press, _ * LEADERS PLEASED OVER THE GREAT DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IX MAINE. * Judge Parker and National Chairman .Mack Thinks It Means Well fur the Doinoerary. Judge Alton IJ. Parker, who ran against Roosevelt in 1904, when illformed at New York of the Maine results, said with a rising inflection. "Really?" There was no statement he caret! to make at the moment, he said. Judge Parker recently returned front Maine where he made three campaign speeches. Judge Parker later consented to supplement his first ejaculation. "The Democratic party in Maine, he said, "as to its State ticket, made Its contest on the ground that !' e Republican party has been wasrciul and extravagant in its conduct of the affairs of the State. "Its leaders and its press presented no new issues and made no de 1- ^ A magogic appeais, uui ijit?a.ueu simpij for the abolition of dictorial and corrupt bosses and for an honest, 'economical and juet administration of the affairs of the State. "The Democratic party, in other words, deserved to win and the country is to be congratulated that It has won." When the results from Maine were made known to Lloyd C, Grlscom, president of the New York Republican county committee, he issued this advice: "All the more important that New York should not go Democratic. The returns from .Maine are the best of evidence to show the people of this State that a change is necessary." Norman E. Mack of Buffalo, chairman of the Democratic national committee, when he heard the latest returns from the Maine elections, said: "All that I can say now is that the expressions of sentiment which have been coming into us from all over the country indicated the pos sibility of such a result. But, or course, It is almost too good to be true. "What does It Indicate? You know you don't need to ask me that ?it indicates a sweeping Democratic victory from coast to coast. "Chairman Griscom was taiking with me in Buffalo onyl last week after returning from the Pacific and he told me then the sentiment he found there was the same which victoriously manifested itself in Maine." IJLKASE A\l) MIS PROMISE. What He Said Kijulit After Finding Out He Had Won. Surrounded by a hillarious crowd of his supporters close on to the midnight hour, on the day of the primary election, Cole L. Hlease, after he was certain that he had been nominated for governor, speaking in front of a hotel in Columbia said: "This is not the time to make a speech. We canuot tell what will happen yet. Let us rest on what we have got. over the State of Washington Wednesday, the old guard of the Republican party lost everything. Miles Foindexter, of Spokane, insurgent leader in the ' -esent house, was nominated for United State Senator by 40,000 plurality, carrying <niry county in the Ststp. Georgia Mayor Killed. The Georgia and Florida passenger from Valdosta collided with t.hc automobile of T. S. Price, in Douglass.. Ga... Friday, killing Mayor F. L. Sweat, of Douglass, wounding Mr. Price and completely domolishIne; the automobile. The machine was caught on the cowcatcher and carried 100 yards. * HsanKnBRniHWH "I want to thnnk you all for what you have done for me. "I hope that when some people eat erow in the morning they will puke until they will have to be sent to Dr. Kendall's establishment." Amid wild cheering the next Governor was conducted back into the hotel. Such a scene as was witnessed in the lobby just prior to the speech has never been seen in Columbia in recent years. There were hundreds of men in the lobby and when the yell was set up to have Cole L. Hlease make a speech there were cheers upon cheers and Mr. Mease was almost lifted out to the sidewalk. Here amid another wild demonstration Mr. Blease spoke for just a few minutes as quo.ed above. Tuesday night Mr. Please was call ed up at nis noiei in wiumuw auu asked if he had any statement to make. Mr. Dlea.se replied as foliowe>: "I have nothing to say. except 'Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow. I thank my friends and 1 thank God for this victory. I expect to make South Carolina the best Governor she has ever Imd for ail her people." BLOWN* TO PIECKS . Another of Zeppelin's Airships Has Been Destroyed. The German dirigible balloon Zeppelin VI. while entering her shed at Baden Baden was blown up by an explosion of the motor in the rear gondola. Three of the airship's rrew were seriously injured. This is the fifth serious accident which ha-j befallen the Zeppelin dirigibles, the histories of which have been brilliant but brief, and usually ended in disaster. The dirigible was reconstructed to carry ten passengers and during the last few days had made trips to various interesting places. Many Americans were among the excursionisrs. Old Guard Beaton. In the insurgent storm that swept PAYS BOTH WAYS i The Consumer Swindled by the Republican Protective Tariff. AMERICAN CONSUMERS Has to Foot the Kill Going and Coin- . ing?Necessities of Life Exported ? f to Europe and Then Drought Hack. | Paying Duties to Manufacturer? j Iniquities of the Tariff. ' It will be recalled, says the Wash- s Ington correspondent of the State, t that in a recent Democratic nntionai 1 campaign it was shown that Amen- ' can made goods are shipped to Eu- g rope, and there, after the fremiti charges across the Atlantic oce.'in i have been paid, sold at little moie c Lban half what is demanded -A the consumer in the United States. The |: fact was used in the effort to per- r suade the American people that the f Republican tariff was robbing them, t They heeded not the argument but a again entered the revision of the tar- t UlifQ ii 1121 rfv. t* IU IU tuc iWV|/UIMlVUU )/?.. k But now there is evidence to prove that some of the necessities of life j are being Bhipped from this country i where they are produced, to Europ?, j freight paid across the ocean, then c purchased in Europe by American v buyers, frefght paid across the ocean c again, and the tariff paid In addition, t the goods being sent back to th:s j country. I In other words, the prices of some i of the necessities of life in this country are so high that it Is cheaper t to pay the tariff, plus the round trip ^ freight across the Atlantic, an-1 buy 7 the stuff in Europe, without and pro- 1 cess of refinement or anything else a entering into the matter. t The trusts are so thoroughly "pro- (j tected" that they make the American a buyer pay freight across the Atlantic <; twice, plus a high tariff, and then \ pay a profit to the trusts. i A Washington dealer in meats, in discussing the reasons for the high ^ and advancing prices of the -?oods j which he handles, says: t "It is not that there are no hogs, r There are thousands. Hut the sup- i ply is regulated so that the price will c ? .... 1 in fhis fitV whd v sua 1 . J rv li v/ " um..v.w ... . are now buying American made lard c in Europe, paying the duty, and ? bringing it here to use, for much r less than they can buy the sauie article in American markets at wu-.ilesale "Just enough pork Is allowed to | be sold in the United States to keep up the prices. The remainder is shipped abroad and sold at lowjr prices. The prions are regulated daily by the bosses of the situation, j and the American people pay what- ( ever is usxed.'" r Some time ago, when the "ten- dollar hog ' was common, bacon was j selling in Washington for l'f? cen's a pound. Now thp price of hogs on ( the hoof i? considerably lower than $10 per hundred pounds: but bacou is selling at 3 0 ceuts a pound. Washington dealers dec'a re >h;ir j tho beef tn>st simply control* ihe t situation. It forces down the price of hogs, because it has to buy tho.n from the farmers; and it forces im; the price of meats, because it has to j sell them. ^ Through the weapon of the Repuo- r lican protective tariff, the trusts sim- f ply nullify the natural economic lrtw ^ of supply and demand, and ::i i'p j stead recognize no law excent that of j. their own inordinate gre^d They force the farmer to take s whatever they offer him for his products. and they force the consume*' to pay whatever they demand for their products This is the view of the dea'er above quoted, and of others in thia city, and perhaps in every other city in the United States. Mr. Taft nas said that the Payne-Aldrich carlif law * is the best ever enacted; and so it 1 is for the trusts. 1 r ? > \ FATAL STRIKE FIGHT. t t 1 c Strike Among Cigar Makers Growing 1 Ileal Serious. ' I At Tampa, Fla., J. F. Easterling, i bookkeeper and office manager for t Bustillo Bros. and Diaz, was ehct and ; fatally wounded by a striker Wed- < nesday afternoo-. rs he stepped from < a street car in front of the factory in 1 West Tampa. The shot was fired hy < some member of a crowd of cigar j makers across the street. I Following the shooting of Easter- 1 iing and the demonstration ;it the ; evening trains, where strikers tried 1 to prevent cigar workers leaving the ; city for other towns, ^vhere hrun<h factories have been established. Mayor McKay issued a proclamation calling on all peace-loving union men . to assist in preserving order, and declaring he will call out the milieu if necessary to preserve order. | Charged With Arson. M. C. Rickard, a white man, and : Melvin Harris, a negro, are in Lex- < ington jail, charged with the crime | of arson. It is alleged that they set ] +V1/1 Korn onrl at'llll.iC nf TT rA- i Adams, a well-known farmer of the i Hollow Creek section of Lexington county, on the nifht of July 30, at i which fire several fine animals perished. ! His I ,ast Goodbye. A few seconds after affectionately bidding Irs aged parents good-bye at i Davev. W. Vs., Friday. J. H. Cook, a farmer, stepped from the moving car, fell under the wheels and was Kiound to death. His father ind mother, both 80 ve?:rs old. had jus', boarded the train t'> return to th*>ir home in Arizona, * GAINED A SENATOR \AIi KEACHIXt; EFFECT OF THE V1CTUHV IN MAINE. k'liiocruta Elect AH State Officers, Two Congressmen and a Majority of tlie Legislature. The Democratic victory in Maine s more sweeping in its effect than t was thought at first, and both democratic and Republican leaders in hat State are surprised at its completeness. In fact it came to the Republicans like a stroke of lightnu1,' out of a clear sky. Complete returns of the vote for enaiors and representatives gave he Democrats substantial majorities 11 both branches of the Maine legisaturo which at the beginning of the lew year will elect a United States enator to succeed Eugene Hale, a , ecretary of state, state treasurer, itio! ney general and commissioner >f agriculture. The new leg'slature progably will >e called upon to carry out the declaation of the Democratic party platorms of recent years and resubmit o the people the liquor prohibitory imendment to the constitution and o repeal the Sturgis liquor law enorcoment act. According to the unofficial com xieie returns iub mgiBuaiuio nm >ave a Democratic majority of 36 on oint ballot. The senate will consist if 21 Democrats and 10 Republicans, vhile the house will have 88 Demicrats and 63 Republican members, ['he last legislature consisted of 122 lepubllcans and 60 Democrats, the lepublicans having a majority of 15 n the senate and 47 in the house. The total vote of the leading paries in Monday's election was 138,;r>6. Four years ago It was 130,'90. Tiir votp this yenr was npnr y 8.UO0 more than it was four years igo. Of the vote in Monday's elecion, Plaisted, the Democratic candilate for Governor, received 73,644, ;nd Fernalds, the Republican candi!ate for Governor, received 64,912 'otes. This gives Plaisted a majorty of 8,732. The first congressional district ras carried by the Republicans by :00 majority. The second and third >y the Democrats by 2,000 and 3,000 espectively. The fourth districts s so close that it will take the offi ial count to determine whether it rent for the Democratic or Republian candidate. The Republicans re completely dumfounded by the tsult. THERE IS NO CHAXGK. lease Still Has a Good I*?ad on Featlierstoue. With less than three hundred voteb nissing, Cole L. Blease continues to ead C. C. Featherstone by about six housaud votes. The figures are, foi Uease 56,072, for .Mr. Featherstone iO.IOS. Only four boxes are unretorted. The relative standing of the ontestants in the race for Adjutant Jeneral and for Railroad Connnisioner has not been materially alterd. Col. W. \V. Moore for the former fllce, and Mr. George McDuffle lampton. ror me inner, uuvk uuu< ieen nominated, as already announcd. In the 2d Congressional district the esult of the contest between Messrs. Byrnes and Patterson will remain in loubt until the State executive comnlttee has rendered a decision. The igures give Mr. Byrnes a majority of 14 ovor his competitor for the seat n Congress now held by the latter, >ut Representative Patterson has fil>d protests in several counties and a ituubborn fight is in progress. WAYLAID AXI) MOBBKD. I Spartanburg Physician Drugged by Two White Men. Decoyed to a lonely spot near tlendale, 6 miles from Spartanburg. >y a call for his professional services, 3r. William G. Sexton, of that city, vas waylaid Wednesday morning by ,wo white men who overpowered jim, rendered him unconscious with iloroform and robbed him of $500. \ccordlng to his statement he had intended to give the money to a juilding contractor in payment for epairs to his house, which was almost destroyed by fire three months igo. Dr. Sexton had a narrow es:ape from losing his life on that occasion. He lay unconscious for nine lours. When he recovered consciousness he called to a passing ne ?rO lor assisiaiiue. ne "<io v-amcv* ;o Spartanburg and taken home. He was still dazed, but managed to tell i connected story and to give a fairly good description of one of his issailants. SKKIOl'S CHARGE. Accused of Robbing Banks as Well as Postofficrs. At Witchita, Kan.. X. S. Snaftzger, until a week ago president of the Fourth National bank, of the city; Frank S. Burt, an ex-chief of police 3f Witchita and John Callahan, alleged leaders of a gang of bank and postoffice robbers were indicted by a federal grand jury there on Wednesday on charges of conspiring against the government and receiving and disposing of $1,500 worth of stamps, which it is charged they knew were stolen from the government. Millions of Locusts. Locusts by the millions have descended upon the cultivated regions of Yucatan and have left, in their wake nothing but ruin and destruction among the principal crops. Vegetation eenerally hi6 suffered, the chief loss being in the corn crop, a large percentage of which was destroyed. . - # 0m. 3fc. -I4 ?t.> WANTS TO MAKE TERMS | TAPT HEARS THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE AND OREY3. With the Result of Recent Electiou Refore Him He Decides to Invite ] All to Pie Counters. President Taft has decided that hereafter he will recognize no dis tinction as between Republican senators and representatives, whether "progressives" or "regulars," in the matter of federal patronage. In other words, he will treat them all alikein this respect. The president's views in regard 'o , the matter were made known in a let- , ter made public Thursday by Charles D. Norton, his secretary, addressed lo a Republican leader in Iowa, whose namo ir nr>t rlisHnsffl "He," says Secretary Norton, referring to President Tart, "will now follow the usual rule in Republican congressional districts and States and follow the recommendations made by Republican congressmen and senators of whatever shade of political opinion, only requiring that the men recommended shall be good men, tl.iniOPt competent and the best fitter for the particular office." The letter in part follows: "While Republican legislation pending in congress was opposed by certian Republicans, the president felt it to be his duty to the party and to the country to withhold federal patronage from certain senators and congressmen who seemed to be in opposition to the administration's efforts to carry out the promises of the party platform. "That attitude, however, ended with the primary elections and nrm:naiing conventions which have been held, and in which the voters have had opportunity to declare themselves. The people have spoken as the party faces the fall elections; the question must be settled by Republicans of every shade of opinion, whether the differences of the last session shall be perpetuated or shall be forgotten. "The president feels that the value of federal patronage has been greatly exaggerated, and that the refusal to grant it has probably been more useful to the men affected than the ippointments would have been." After stating that "in the preliminary skirmishes in certain States liktIowa and elsewhere, he was willin?. in the interest of whdt the leaders believed would lead to party success to make certain discriminations.' Mr. Norton then makes known the president's decision, above quoted. PEAKY WAS P.EATEX. The Eskimos Say Cook Did Keach th? North Pole. A dispatch from Copenhagen, Denmark. says the Danish government steamer Hans Egede arrived there on Thursday with the news that John R Bradley, the financial backer of Dr Frederick A. Cook's North Polar ex pedition. was on his way to Etah i< secure the much talked of records and instruments which Cook has aaio that he left at that Esciuimo settle ment northeast of Greenland. Tfie captain of the steamer thinks thai Cook is with Bradley but gives no particular reason for this belief. The Hans Egede, which Is the vessel upon which the explorer traveled to civilization, fell in with a yacht at Godhaven, Greenland, and in the course of exchanges between the members learned that Bradley was aboard the other craft The Polar hunt promoter admitted his identity and explained that he was bound for Etah to recover whatever had been left there by Dr. Cook. He refused, however, to eithei tleny of confirm the report that he was accompanied by the explorer. The government vessel also bring.the information that two missionaries who are working among the Esquimos, who accompanied Cook on his expedition say that these Eskimos insist that the doctor reached the North Pole, as he claims, prior to its discovery by Commander Peary. TILLMAN OX B LEASE. Expects Hint to Disappoint His Enemies as Governor. Senator B. R. Tillman, at his home at Trenton Wednesday when asked about the result of the second primary, said: "It is a remarkable illustration of what little influence our newspapers have. They have been so unfair and unjust that they are utterly discredited by the people. 1 expect Gov. Blease to disappoint his enemies and to act with such prudence and wisdom that he will justify and make happy bis friends. He has a golden opportunity, and I believe he will make good. No onp can dispute that he has brains, and while he has faults, like the devil he is not not as black as he has been painted." WANTS GENERAL PRIMARY LAW. Proposes a Conference of Governors to Consider It. A congress of governors of the various States to outline a primary law for general use throughout the country was the plan outlined by John A. Dix. chairman of the New York Democratic State committee, at a conference Friday afternoon with 200 Demociatic leaders of Saratoga county. Mr. Dix also advocv.'n\ .1 State law tbat wiuld ;i'?v2nt the use of funds by corporations ia corrupting legislators. He told his hearers that the time has come to place citizenship above partisanship to accomplish r^'orme. * : . CADGHTAfLAST Detectives Arrest a Man for Stealing Atter Watching Bio FOR ABOUT FOUR YEARS Men Taken in Charge for Kobbing the United States Sub Treasury at Chicago Several Years Ago. After Iieing Shadowed by Detectives for Years. George VV. Fitzgerald, a former assorting teller in the Chicago subrreasury, was arrested at Chicago on Wednesday by Deputy United State marshall, charged with the mysterious theft of $173,000 from the treas ury on February 19,1907. Fitzgerald was arrested on a bench warrant based on an indictment returned secretly by a federal grand jury on February 17, 1910. Three days after the indictment was secretly returned and suppressed on February 20, it was announced that the statute of limitations had operated to stop possible criminal prosecution in the peculiar case. ^ Coincident with this ruse by the ftiithnrltipH secret service men were detailed to watch Fitzgerald constantly and make a most rigid investigation of the former teller's financial interests and affairs. Discoveries made by these secret service operatives resulted in the order for Fitzgerald's arrest. Marshal Eberstein, chief of special agents of the department of justice, and Deputy United States marshals Walter \V?.inwright nnd J. T. Huckner arrested Fitzgerald at his insurance brokerage offices just as the former sub-treaaury teller was leaving for his home. Fitzgerald was first taken to United States Marshal Hay's office in the federal building, where he was searched, handcuffed, and placed in a cell. After an hour's Imprisonment, Fitzgerald was taken before Judge Kennesaw M. Landis, ^ formally arraigned and his bail fixed ? * C A AAA T3 iinflVlfl oH <??X aw f UV/|UVU. UC1U5 viuairiv? wv ?? v bond in this sum, he was taken to the county jail. The Indictment against Fitzgerald read In court specifies four counts. Three charge embezzlement and the ourth charges larceny. Attaches of the district attorney's tfice declare that, since the disappearance of the $173,000 from the mb-treasury. Fitzgerald had done he following things: Organized the Illinois Car Manufacturing company with a $5n,000 llant at Hammond, Ind.; organized r.he Illinois Bolt, Nut'and Forgin ompany with a large plant in Chicago; dealt extensively in stocks and ?onds; moved from a modest flat to x $10,000 residence in Rodgers park, \ suburb of Chicago; paid for this new home and furnished it exte*?lvely: lived in expensive style and entertained friends lavishly. From the time of the returning >f the suppressed indictment on February 17, the greatest secrecy was jsed by government officials In hai?J'lng the investigation. The Indictment was locked in a vault in the offices of the United States district iourt clerk to await such time as the federal lawyers felt that they had sufficient evidence to warrant the trrest of Fitzgerald. All this time Fitzgerald was never out of sight of secret service men when awake, and while he slept operatives were on guard at his home or hotel. The former teller was followed to his offices doWn town and .vatched throughout the day. Meanwhile all of his financial transactions were checked up closely and certain investments traced to him. The sub-treasury robbery, which has baffled secret service officers for three years occurred Wednesday, February 20, 1907. The money was all in $1,000 and $10,000 bills.' Federal officers all over the country were brought into the hunt for the missing money. The $173,000 disappeared from Fitzgerald's cage In the sub-treasury, where he was employed as sorting teller. When questioned regarding the disappearance of the money Fitzgerald said he went out to lunch and when he returned the money was ?one. He was closely questioned at '.he time and was shadowed for several months. A year after the robbery Fitzgerald was arrested by a private detfctive agent acting for William Boldenwelr, the sub-treasurer. The charge was not pressed at that time, However, and Fitzgerald proceeded to institute damage suits against Boldenweir and the detective agency tor alleged false arrest. ENTIRELY TOO SENSITIVE. Killed Himself Because He Was Short Small Sum. At Flora, Indiana, when Mrs. Jno. E. I.odd, wife of the superintendent, and treasurer of the schools of the city, read to her husband from a news-paper Thursday night the report of the examiners of the State hoard of accounts that the funds in his care had been discovered to be short 820.. he made no comment. but Friday she found his dead body in bis bedroom and a bottle that had contained carbolic acid In his hand. The schools and most of the business houses were closed out of respect of him during the funeral. * Will Stretch Hemp. For the murder of Officer Waldrop at Piedmont about two months age. Buuk Sherard. a young negro, whh Friday sentenced at Greenville by Judge Gary to hang on the first Friday in October. *