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ESTABLISHED EN" 18 BRYAN THE MAN. No Doubt as to the Outcome at the Denver Convention. A UNITED DEMOCRACY Republican Defection Assures the Triumph of the Nebraskan at the Polls. Fight for Congress to Be Vigorously Waged, With the Odds in Favor of the Democracy. By WILLIS J. ABBOT. The heavy hand of the administra tion was Ia'd upon the Republican na tional committee in order to force It to do the Roosevelt will In determining contests for delegates to Chicago. Really it was a little "raw." as the po litical phrase goes, for Mr. Hitchcock, who . managed the Taft campaign, to appear in the' committee with a proxy for himself and with proxies for two salaried Taft employees. The situ ation was somewhat reminiscent of a convention of Jilr. Hearst's Independ ence league in which all the Independ ent statesmen present were on the pay roll of the Hearst newspapers.' After the Convention, What? Of course the first trick In the na tional political game is to get nomi nated, but Secretary Taft Is likely to find oot that the first trick Is not the .whole game. The heavy hand with which his nomination has been prac tically forced has left its black and bine spots on the body of the Re publican parry, and the sufferers are . not likely soon to forget them. When the earnest advocates of such lifelong Republicans as Speaker Cannon, Sena tor Knox. Senator La Follette and Vice .President Fairbanks withdraw'from a meeting of the Republican national committee with the statement that the committee was packed and was not gathered to do justice to all factions, but merely to force one candidate upon the party, it portends evil and disaster for that candidate. That was the out come of the first two sessions of the Republican national committee. Given a fight within the organization of his own party, with the bitter hos tility of organized labor, which has exceeded in extent anything which t wo months ago any one confd have sus pected: with the negro vote, which In the tier of states north of the Ohio river almost holds the balance of pow er, and with the revolt of the old soldier element due to bis almost in credible folly In attacking General <Jrant in an oration delivered at Grant's tomb and In the presence of Grant's son. Secretary Taft will face some political troubles after the con vention which he and Roosevelt con trol shall have nominated him. The Democratic Outjook. So far as the Denver convention Is concerned, its outcome has ceased to be in any doubt whatsoever. Mr. Bryan will be nominated on the first ballot, will dominate the convention and therefore will be able to avert the time honored practice of those who ?desire to commit treachery of writing a platform upon which the candidate cannot stand. The most bitter news paper opponent of Mr. Bryan concedes to him enough votes to bring him with in seventy-two necessary to nomina tion up to June 7. I am quoting from the New York World. But the World puts Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Connecticut in the uninstructed and the hostile column. Out of those states, no one of which adopted the unit rule, Mr. Bryan will not get less than sixty votes. It describes the six votes of the District of Columbia as contested. The contest is the veriest farce, and In all probability the contesting delegation will never go to Denver. Two Possible Vice Presidents. ' The talk of the nomination of \Iohn Mitchell for vice president does not down. If he were really seeking it or if friends were seeking it for him with any sort of concerted effort he would, in my judgment, be nominated. But there Is a concerted effort In Illi nois to secure his nomination for gov ernor of that Btate. The argument Is made that with Mitchell for governor In the state In which he was brought up and in which the coal miners are only less numerous than they are in Pennsylvania the state , would be swung as readily as If he were on the national ticket. If that course should be adopted It would be possible "to get the Mitchell strength In one state ana put a candidate on the national ticket who might swing another state. The work that b? being done for Rep resentative Francis Burton Harrison Is 'being conducted something along this line. Mr. Harrison-Is able and de servedly popular. His family is one of the best known hi the south, his father having been secretary to Jeffer ?on Davis and having been arrested Hvhen the deposed president of the 'lost cause" was captured. Mr. Harri son is well known on. the Pacific coast. ! The Fight For Congress. Chairman Lloyd of the national Dem ocratic congressional committee has opened headquarters in the Union Trust company building in Waahlng jtou and is prepared to send out docu ments to all Democrats or others de siring information on the issues of the coming congressional campaign. Mr. |LIoyd has begun his work with a vigor 'that argues well for Its outcome. In deed, the situation politically is such ,as to encourage a sturdy Democrat to fight for the next house. There are (almost forty congressional districts in teach one of which a change of a very pfew hundred votes would substitute a [Democrat for the sitting Republican, jand Lloyd proposes to make that1 change. The chairman is a stanch j 69. friend of Mr. Bryan and was elected to bis present position by tbe united vote of the uiUitant Bryan men in the house of representatives. With the chances for a Democratic president so good as they are now every effort should be made to keep in congress men who are known to be in accord with the principles of the probable Democratic presidential uomlnee. For example, there is Henry T. Rainey in the Twentieth district of Illinois. At one time he was the only Democratic member in congress from that state He has fought well and ably for tariff revision against' the wood pulp and print paper tariff and for free raw ma terial to be used In ahipbr.L'dlng. I select the case of Mr. Rainey as an Illustration simply because 1 have some reason to believe that the pro tected Industries, and some of tbe un-Democratic Democrats within the party are UkeJy to make a fight upon him. There are doubtless other in stances of the same sort. It behooves Democrats who hope for a Democratic administration, backed by a Democrat ic congress, to fight for the return to the house and to the senate of the men who In the days of adversity, which, we believe, are now passing have stood for the party and for the cause. Bryan and Ryan. The malignant effort of a New York paper to make it appear that in 1904 Mr. Bryan received $20,000 from Thomas F. Ryan as the price of his support for Judge Parker has fallen exceedingly flat The charge was ex plicit at the outset, and the assertion was made that tbe money was banded to Mr. Bryan's brother-in-law J?y W. F. Sheehan, chairman of the executive committee of the Democratic national committee. Now, Mr. Sheehan Is not and never has been a political friend of Mr. Bryan, yet he met this situa tion as any man of honor' and self re spect would. He wrote to Mr. Bryan a letter, which he gave to the press, stating that tbe $15,000 sent to the state committee of Nebraska for use In that state was taken from the gen eral fund of the Democratic national committee, to which there were many contributors. He did not say whether Mr. Pulitzer was a contributor, but Mr. Pulitzer's contributions to Demo cratic politics have been chlefjr con fined to attacking Demccratio^andl dates. There was no more reason to believe, according to Mr. Sheehan. that this was $15.000 from Thomas F. Ryan than that It was $15,000 from thirty to forty different contributors, and finally the chairman of the executive commit tee concluded his letter by declaring that he knew well that. Mr. Ryan had no knowledge of tbe contribution)Jor to the purposes to which* It had been put As for the story that the money was paid as the price of Bryan's support of Parker I can speak with some personal knowledge. Before he left St Louis after that most disastrous and not wholly creditable convention he per sonally told me that he would go Into the campaign for Parker notwithstand ing his opposition to the New York man's nomination. The money* re ferred to was not sent to Nebraska for many weeks after that conversation. I might note In passing also that Mr. Bryan volunteered to speak in New York state for Judge Parker, but the sapient managers of that gentleman's campaign asked the Nebraskan not to come. The state was lost by the big gest hostile majority ever given in ai presidential campaign. Chandler or New Hampshire. Former Senator Chandler?Bill Chan dler, as he is better known?Is in' grave danger of becoming a Demo crat, and a radical Democrat at that In a speech before a negro audience In Washington the other night he urged his audience to impress upon their fellow men of color the necessity of voting the Democratic ticket in the event that Mr. Taft should be nomlnu ed. But he went further than this. He insisted that the present situation of the negro In the south was due to the fact that the men of that race had always voted the Republican ticket, would always be expected to vote it and that for that reason they might not expect any favors from the party to which they were shackled by wrist and ankle. Senator Chandler wound up by urging the voters of the colored race to break away from the Repub lican party and by ascertain manifes tation of Independence wring either from that party or from the Democrat ic party, to which he urged their vote sho?ld be given, political concessions for themselves. Nobody has ever accused Chandler of being other than a machine Repub lican. ' He was one of the great factors in the Louisiana returning board which finally and fraudulently seated Ruth erford B. Hayes In the White House. True, it may be said that he Is out of office and expressing the vlndlctive ness of a man who has lost, first, the place of a United States senator and, second, a high place under the appoint ment of the president of the Uurted States. But a railroad beat him for .United States senator because he was too frank"and outspoken. The presi dent dropped him from his executive position for precisely the same reason. In these days of equal autocracy In the White House and In railroad office* tl*j man who thinks for himself and who speaks according to bis thought is exceedingly liable to suffer. That has beer, the case with B1U Chandler. And that now from his statiou us a mere private citizen, but with his ex tended acquaintance and his brilliant intellect, he contluues to keep UDthte fight shows surely that he has in him the stuff that heroes are made of. The negro vote to which he appeals holds the balance of power in the states whk'h border the northern sWe of the Ohio river. The fight which be has begun may be of vital importance in the pending presidential campaign. Washington, D. C. Constabulary Summond. As a result of the dynamite at the Royal mines, at Argentine, Pa. State constabulary troops have been sum moned. - . .*aJs - <? ?-fi-5u*.-. WHO THEY ARE. NAMES OF THE CANDIDATES THE STATE OFFICERS. Seven for Senate, Two for Governor, Several for Congress and Solici tor. Following is the list of Stated Senatorial, Congressional and solici tor candidates as it was finally clos ed Tuesday: United States Senate?J. G. Evans, of Spartanburg; R. G. Rhett, of Charleston; George Johnstone, of Newberry; O. B. Martin, of Colum bia; E. D. Smith of Bishopville; J. P. Grace, of Charleston; W. W.I Lumpkin, of Columbia. I Governor?M. F. Ansel, of Green ville; Cole L. Blease, of Newberry. T. G. McLeoa for Lieutenant Gov ernor. [ R. G. McCown, for Secretary of State. J. F. Lyon for Attorney General. Comptroller General A. W. Jones, of Abbeville, is opposed by N. W. Brooker, of Columbia. Superintendant of education: E. C. Elmore of Spartanburg; Stiles R. Mellichamp, of Orangeburg; J. E. Swearingen, of Greenwood. Adjt. Gen. J. C. Boyd, of Green ville, is' opposed by Col. Henry T. Thompson, of Columbia. Railroad Commissioner B. L. Caughmau, of Lexington, is opposed by James Canzler, of Tirzah, F. C. Fishburne, of Charleston; J. A. Summerset, of Columbia; and H. W. Richardson, of Columbia. For Congress: George S. Legare, in the First; Joseph T. Johnson, in the Fourth, and A. F. Lever, in the Seventh, each for re-election, are alone without opposition. W. S. Smith contests the re-election of .1. 0. Patterson in the Second; Julius E. Boggs contests that of Wyatt A. Aiken in the Third; W. P. Pollock and T. B. Butler will seek to un horse D. B. Finley in the Fifth; in the Sixth William Murchison. P. A. Hodges, J. W. Coggeshall and J. W. Ragsdale are all after J. E. Ellerbe's Congressional honors and emolu ments. For solicitor. P. T. Hildebrand, in the First; J. M. Speers, in the Fourth; .1. K. Henry, in the Sixth; T. S. Sease of the Seventh, and Geor ge Bell Timmel man, of the Eleventh; have no opposition to re-election. The candidates where the contests are will be: Second. J. E. Davis. .1. F. Burnes. H. M. Graham: Third. I.T. B. McLaughlin. P. H. Stoll. A. B. Stuckey; Fifth, Christie Beuet. W. H. Cob'b. G. R. Rembert, B. B. Clark: Eighth. R. A. Cooper. E. L. Richard son: Ninth. W. St. .1. Jervey and John H. Peurifoy; Tenth, J. J. Mc Swain, P. A. Lionham, A. H. Dagnall. M.'C. Long; Twelfth, W. H. Wells, P. B. Sellers, C. P. Quattlebaum, W. F. Clayton. BANDITS ATTACK PACK TRAIN Four Guards Were Killed and Four Thosands Dollars Taken. A dispatch from Mexico City says word came Wednesday night that bandits attacked a pack train on the way to Les Grandes mines, near Balsa, in the State of Guerrero. Of the escort of four men three were killed and one wounded. Four thous and dollars were captured. Rursles are in pursuit of the highwaymen. DBG, S. C FUIDAY, JU OLD MOTHER HUBBARD. ^ TOUR BEGUN. CALHOUN COUNTY VOTERS HEAR ISSUES DISCUSSED. St. Matthews Alive . With .Victors. Business Houses Closed for the Occasion. A special dispatch to The News and Courier from St. Matthews says: Calhoun County received Its baptism of Stnte politics Wednesday in the grovo tl ai surrounds the scnool house there, when the first gun in the State campaign was fired by the [candidates for State offices. Every thing that could contribute to the comfort and pleasure of the guests of the "Baby" county had been ar ranged by a special committee and pot a hitch occurred In the program. The day was warm and bright, the recently organized Calhoun Band was on hand discoursing sweet mu sic, a splendid dinner was in course of preparation in the school house, and as a result a crowd numbering about three hundred persons was present. Most of the business were closed for the occasion, which was every way a most auspicious one. Those present were Governor An sel, Senator Cole L. Blease, candi date for Governor: Lieutenant Gov ernor T. G. McLeod, Secretary of State R. M. McCown, State Treasur er Jennings, Attorney General Lyon, Comptroller General Jones, E. C. Elmore, S. R. Mellichamp and J. E. Swearingen, all candidates for the office of Superintendent of Educa tion. Railroad Commissioner Caugh man and Messrs. James Cansler, F. C. Fishburne, J. A. Summersett and H. W. Richardson, all candidates for the position now held by Mr. Caugh man. County Chairman Dreher was at the helm and kept the meeting mov ing from first to last In a manner that won for him many congratula tions by the speakers themselves. The speeches were of a dignified or der, and the meeting was pitched on a plane that could not fail to pro voke favorable comment. There was an entire absence of villification or anything bordering on persomil abuse, and it was generally remark ed that the occasion was a success to the last detail. LOCKED IN CAR SEVEN DAYS. Machinest Hns a Terrible Experience in Potato Car. At New York, crazed from want of food and water. Chester A. O'Connell, a machinest of Hath Beach, was re scued from a freight car in the Frlarlam yard's and taken to Lincoln Hospital, where it was said that he might die. O'Connell was working in Jacksonville, Fla. and losing his job, crawled in a freight car laden with potatoes to make his way back to New York. While he was asleep in the car the door was locked and the car started northward. For sev en days and nights he was locked in the car, and the heat was intense. To appease his hunger he ate some of the raw potatoes, but. they made him deathly ill, and some time in the fifth day he lost consciousness. Finally after a journey of 1,200 miles the train reached New York, where the car was opened. O'Con nell was found unconscious and taken to the hospital where typhoid fever developed. v_. . -.*?4X&' " *_ NE ih* 1908. __J Kessler in St. Louis Republic FOUR KILLED EN A FATAL ACTO ACCIDENT IN NEW YORK. Ran the Machine Over the Pier Head Into East River Drowning the Oc cupants. Locked up in New York-without bail, on Tuesday, John Bauer, a chauffeur, who took out his employ er's touring car without permission for a wild night ride, faces a charge of homicide and four persons are dead as the result of his exploit. On the public pier at the 'foot of West Fifty-sixth street and the North river is the damaged high power French motoring car which Bauer, driving like the wind over slippery streets and in the face of a cutting rain, sent over the piers brink and into the river with its six occupants. The dead: Colman, John, 25 years old, of No. 531 West Fifty-first street. Coleman, Rosie, 23, his wife, same address. Knight, Virginia, 9. Mrs. Cole man's sister. Berdon, Adeline, 19, of No. 533 West Fifty-first street. Bauer took his employer home af ter a ride with her finance, Bedell H. Lamed, who is Frank J. Gould's secretary. He was directed to take the car back to. the garage which is the same place where thte Gould au tomobile are cared for. He met his friend John Noland, at Fifty-fourth street and Tenth avenue, and pro posed a ride. They called for the Colemans and as there was still room in the ton neau, they took little Virgiui Knight and Adeline Berdon, who lived next door. The car was sent north to Fifty sixth street, where they met Mary Knight, an older sister of Vlrgini, and stopping, Mrs. Coleman asked her to go along with them. She thought the car was sufficiently well filled and declined to crowd Mie pleasure seekers. Her courtesy sav ing her life. Dauer let. the car out to a racing gait. The street were running with water and the heavy machine slid from side to side as the velocity in creased. At twelfth avenue they were going like mad and heading straight for the pier, half a block away. Like a Vanderbilt contestant Hear ing the finish line, the heavy Ren ault was sent straight to the end of the pier, where it struck a string piece snapped it like a match ?tick, and then, overturning, went crashing into the dark waters of the North Tiver. Bauer was catapulated 20 feet ahead of t?e car and Nolan leaped as the car struck. Hauer made a statement to the po lice in which he said he had ap plied the brakes when the machine was half way down the pier, and that the machine had skidded. In the mud on the pier the wheels of the machine made a straight, track from one end to the other. Virginia Has Graft. Workmen employed on the Virginia state capitol building, at Richmond, are making some startling discover ies. The building was completed two year# ago hnd is already in bail condition, owing to poor workmanship and graft, ^y^^l^^;* ? A GOOD START. MADE BY THE A?D?BON SOCIETY IN ORANGEBURG. Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr., State Secretary, Holds Two Enthusias tic Meetings on Wednesday. The Audubon Society, of South Carolina, has begun work in Orange burg in earnest. Two enthusiastic meetings were held on Wednesday by Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr.. State secretary. The first was at the old school building where the summer normal school is being held by Prof. Thackston, at whose invitation Mr. Rice appeared before the teachers of Orangeburg county. He was heard with attention and the teachers were deeply interested in the wonders of the bird kingdom. It is an interest ing story that the Audubon people have to tell of the fight to save the birds from destruction and of the great work done by the birds in mak ing human life possible. The teachers promised their hear ty co-operation in spreading bird gospel among the youth of the State. Mr. Rice was heard with profound attention throughout and warmly thanked at the end of his talk. At the Court House. At eleven o'clock by appointment there was held a, mass meeting of citizens to hear the account of what the Audubon society has been doing to save the birds, game and fish of South Carolina and also to learn how the Audubon work is being carried on. Some thirty-five or forty repre sentative citizens gathered to hear Mr. Rice who unfolded the plans of the society. Senator Thomas M. Raysor presi ded over the meeting and introduc ed Mr. Rice to the audience. At this meeting attention was called to the secretary to the work done by the National Audubon society through out America and Canada, and how it has been spreading from state to state until now it covers the Union. He said that tb,e Audubon society of South QaroUna, along ,with other state societies was chartered by the legislature. Under that charter the society began, work after1 organiz ing and the first work was done in Orangeburg iu April last, year, al though little was accomplished then." The society was embarrassed by the panic that held up all operations and It labored all the time under, the difficulty of lack of funds. But work had gone on and results were seen all over the State. "We do not un dertake to say that there has been anywhere anything like a perfect en forcement of the laws," said Mr. Rice, "but we have secured numer ous convictions in different quarters 6f the State and thousands of people have been made to respect the law. Any community that has given the work a fair trial has been satis fied with what it has received." The society does its work through wardens appointed by the governor on the society's recommendation. These wardens are paid by the so ciety and their business is to see that the laws are obeyed. To which end they bring cases against viola tors of the law and disseminate in formation in regard to the law and further informations of birds and habits, showing what birds do for the world. Mr. Rice gave many in teresting eramples of what birds do, dwelling especially on the work of the South Carolina partridge, he showed what enormous numbers of billbugs are killed by partridges and he also showed how great was the destruction to crops when the partri dge is killed out. The Audubon so ciety s not opposed to sport, when sport is had within reasonable limits, but it is opposed to slaughter, and Mr. Rice added a number of examples to show how much slaughter had gone on in South Carolina. He took up the case of fish trap ping in Edisto river and pointed out that parties who had traps in the river after sun down Thursday ran a fair chance of going on the chain gang. 'Dynamiting was also pun ishable by six month in the peniten tiary. He then pointed out how the so ciety began and its mode of work. Regular members paid Six Dollars for their tickets and this included one full years dues. Contributing members paid a dollar annually. He showed that Orangeburg could main tain a branch organization on secur ing fifty regular members, electing their own officers and having power to direct thew own affairs, having always the asistance of the State organization when it was needed. He was heard with earnest atten tion throughout and many of those present enrolled themselves at once as members of the society, many others followed suit after the meet ing. Prominent gentlemen present say that. Orangeburg will have no difficulty in securing its quota for a bra :h of the Audubon society. Mr. Rice was unexpectedly called to Blackvtlle to look after some par ties who had made threats against the life of a warden. He is coming back tc Urangeburg at once to take up vigorously the work of organiza tion, for it was clearly shown at the meeting the proper procedure is first to organize the citizens and then follow this with the active work of the warden, who is in this way as sured of moral support from the membership. A splendid start has been made and the opportunity has been fairly 81.50 PEE ?2fTNVM. GREAT CLAIMS Made in the Republican Platform Adopted at Chicago. HAS MANY PROMISES Idea of Protection is to be Kept in Mind in Any Changes?Merchant Marine is Favored?Republican Administration Necessary to Pros. pcrity?Strikes at Democrats. The Republican platform referring to President Roosevelt, says: "In this greatest era of Americaa advancement the Republican party has reached its highest service under the leadership of Theodore Roose velt. His administration is an epoch in American history. In no other period since national rovereignty has won under Washington or prepared under Lincoln has there been such, mighty progress in these ideals of? government, which make for justice? equality and fair dealing among men. The highest aspirations of American [People have found voice. Their most exalted servant has come to repre sent, not political sovereignty alone, but the best aims and worthiest pur poses of all his countrymen." Referring to bis record the plat form recites: "These are achieve ments that will make for Theodore Roosevelt his place in history. But, more than all else, the great things he has dqne will be inspirations to those who have yet greater things to do. We declare our unfaltering adherence to the polices thus in augurated and pledge their continu ance under the Republican adminis tration of the government." The platform declares that .the na tion has bbecome the richest in the world under Republican guidance and declares for the principle that in the* development and enjoyment of wealth there shall be equal oppor tunities for all. , It continues: "Only the obstruc tion and filibustering of the Demo cratic minority in the last House of. Congress prevented the enactment of a number of measures of great public benefit, \>e consideration of which *can only be Sstrootcd to anoth er Republican majv'sity. But, many wholesome aud piSgressive laws were enacted." Tariff revision at a special session of . Congress immediately after the inauguration the true principle of protection is best maintained by the imposing of such duties as will equal ize the difference between the cost of production at home-snd abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries; and the bene fits that will follow are beet secured by the establishment of maximum and minimum rates to be administer ed by the President, under the limi tation fixed in law, the maximum to> be available to meet discriminations by foreign countries against Ameri can goods entering their markets, and the minimum to represent the? normal measure of protection at honSe; the aim and purpose of the Republican policy being not only to preserve, without excessive duties^ that security against foreign com petition to which American manu facturers, farmers and producers are entitled, but also to maintain the high standard of the living of the wage earners of this country, who are the most direct beneficiaries of the protective system." After saying that the present cur rency laws have justified their adop tion and declaring in favor of postal savings banks the platform says: "The Sherman anti-trust law has been a wholesome instrument for good in the hands of a wise and fear less admin'stration. The enactment of the railroad rate law is approved, with the statement that the interstate commerce law should be further amended so as to give the railroads the right to make and publish traffic agreements subject to approval of the commission, but maintaining al ways the principle of competition." After reciting what laws of benefit to labor have been enacted the plat form says there is further work ahead and pledges the party's devo tion to every cause that makes for the betterment of the conditions of laborers, adding that the same npP will be pursued to lighten their bur dens, increase their opportunities for happiness. It also speaks for the welfare of the farmers. Declaring the Republican party is. the friend of the American negro, the platform declares without reser vation for the enforcement In spirit and letter of all those amendments to the constitution designed for the protection and advancement of the negro and condemns "all devices like the so-called grandfather clauses." Preservation of the White moun tain and Appalachian forests is fav ored. i Legislation reviving the merchant marine prestige is favored. offered to see that the laws of the State with reference to fish and game shall be enforced. Mr. Rice said that he had been much encouraged by the interest and enthusiasm manifested and felt sure that everything would now work well. All citizens who have the good f?f this great cause at heart shouh cn - roll themselves at once as member of the Audubon organization. ^