Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ESTABLISHED IN IS CAUGHMAN AHEAD. HAS A LEAD OF 797 VOTES OVER CANSLER. Smith Leads Evans by Altont 30,000 Votes and Swearingen Leads Melli champ by About 13,000 Votes. The following is the result of the Second primary all over the State ac cording to a phone message received from The State at one o'clock last night: United States Senator. E. D. Smith.09,21$ John Gary Evans . . . .39.659 j State Supt. of Education. Stiles R. Mellichamp. . .48.291 J. E. Swea'ringer.61.2S8 Rail Road Commissioner. Jas. Cansler. . . . .54,612 Ranks L. Caughman ; . .55,409 NEGROES FOR RRVA\. Silent Rebuke Will Be Administered to Roosevelt Administration. Declaring that eight hundred thousand or nine hund -d thousand negro voters of the country wiIf cast their ballots next November' for Hry an, as a rebuke to the Roosevelt ad ministration for its treachery fh dealing with the negro soldiers, and Lily White propaganda of the South, which means the political death of j the American negro, the Rev. Syl- j vester L. Corrothcrs spoke at a meet ing of colored voters at Galbraith Methodist church at Washington. D. | C. Dr. Corrothers. who is president of the "National Independent Civil j and Political league of American iNe- j groes, spoke in reply to negro lead ers, who are urging the cause of Taft. He said In part: "The fact that in every town in the union negroes are divided on the question of politics, is the moat en-1 couraging sign. No man can now I tell' to what political party the negso j belongs by the color of his face. In future the negro purposes to vote for men and not measures, and not tfJr a party. "If 1,000,000 negroes will vote for Bryan In November, the negroes of this country will receive more re spect in the next four years than they have received..In tae last forty. Independence and industry, self-re spect demand that the negro, like all other American citizens, use his ballot to secure his rights and allow no man to buy or sell him." PANIC NARROWLY AVERTED. Audience of Lyric Theatre Saved From Danger by One Man. A dispatch from New York, says an audience of a Labor day theater, the majority of whom were women, trembled on the verge of a panic at the Lyric Theater Wednesday when steam, used as a stage effect, pour ed across the rootlights. giving every one an impression that fire had started behind the scenes'. The audlnce in the densly packed balcony leaped to their feet, sud a row women in the front rows start ed for the doors, frightening the j people fir the orchestra. The house : was dark, and some of tne more j timed women in the orchestsa rush ed for the aisles. A man with good sense, however, shouted from the back row that the supposed smoke was only steam and sternly com manded the women to be seated. A few made their way out of the the ater, but after that the audience set tled down and the play proceeded without further scares. .' DOG ASSISTANT TO THIEF. j ?:? Takes Lady's Purse and Runs Away. HLs Owner Followlug. A dispatch from Paris, says If j thieves exercised theis ingenuity in ; legitimate pursuits they might ac complish wonders. Who would dream of bringing up a faithful dog In ways of dishonesty? But a dishon est master has done it only too well. An elderly lady who had lost her i four-footed pel quite recently, was. quietly walking home from church when she met a young fellow In the) street who had a small dog for sale, and who was making him go through J any number of tricks. The lady j wished to buy him, when the owner continued declaiming about the ani mal's tal'mt. and to prove her how intelligeni he was asked the j lady to offer him her bag. which I hung from a chain, to carry. The do'4 dutifully took it in his ? mouth, and at a signal from his own er darted away up the avenue. In a few seconds he was out of sight and the thief was following him as fast as he could, pretending that he ;was trying to stop the animal. In vain the lady screamed that the bag contained her purse and over 5150 in cash. She has not seen her bag or the dog since, though the young man has been caught and taken to prison. Postman's Mistake IahI to Wedding. The delivery of a photograph of Keruor H. Petre, of Connetton. Ind., to Miss Anni Mae Petrie. of Fairview. Ky.. a year ago led to a wedding last ?week. The photograph was intended for the young man's sister. Miss "Saidee Petse. but she got a sister-in Uw instead. SEVERAL MINNESOTA TOWNS ARE IN GREAT DANGER. Nibbing, a Town of fwelvo Thous and People, Threatened With Im mediate Destruction. A dispatch from Duiuth. Minn, says forest fires which have beeu raging for several days threaten Hibbing, the largest and most pros persons towns on the Mesba Range. It has between 10.000 and 1*'000 people. The flames have been" get ting closer constantly. Every place of business is closed and the men are all out fighting the flames. A telegram from Hibbing says: "The fire is very near the Great Northern spur on this side of Brook lyn, a subusb of Hibbing, and the wind is blowing in our direction. The city has all available hose out and every man we can find is fight ing the fire. They have established a pipe line and installed two pumps. The sky is clearing of smoke some what now, but we are threatened on the north." In response to an appeal the Duiuth fire department has gone to the scene, while the Mesaba Rail road has trains in readiness at Hibbing to take the people away. Smoke from the forest fires which surround the town makes Hibbing so dark that the electric lights have been turned on there during the day. The smoke is stifling and the heat very oppressive. Unless the wind changes Coleraine and Bovey .will be safe. According to late advices from these towns the situation look ed very serious, but the wind is now blowing the fire in an opposite direc tion. The schools and business hous es" are closed and everyone is pre pared to flee. Gsand Marais, Min. a village of about 6(10 inhabitants, on the North Shore, is on the verge of the fire. The women are sweeping with fright and there is now no avenue "of escape open. Many settlers may. be forced to take refuge in the waters of Lake Superior. A frantic appeal for help was sent to Duiuth by the steamer America, which brought down many of the settlers. The United States steamship Gp pher. with two companies of navy -reserves, left for the North: Shore with provisions, and will pick up all settlers found along the shore of the lake. AI J. Smith, county at torney of Hennepin County, who has been campaing beyond Grand Marais j was burned out at his camp, and with his party escaped to Grand Marais in a launch. Settless are walking into Grand Marais, smoke begrimed, burned and exhausted, with packs of their be longings and their families. When Mr. Smith left the fate of the Grand Marais was in doubt. The citizens were loath to leave their homes with out making a fight for them, so many of them remained behind. Mr. Smith says that an east wind would bring on the destruction of Grand Marais in an hour and no power can save the town. If a fire come before a boat gets there the fate of the popu lation will be in doubt. There has been no rain in part of the fire stricken country -for .fourteen weeks. MOON A MYTH. _ Man Says Moon is Picture Cast on Solr Ring. "Am asking for an appropriation to build a railroad through the south polar regions," writes a man in Stockton, CaU in a letter just re ceived by Commissioner Bennett', of General Land Office at Washington. The letter, which has been filed away in the government archives in the same manner as any official doc ument, has been supplemented by humorous endorsements by" some thej officials through whose divisions the letter in the regulas department rou tine had to pass. The letter advanc es same peculiar solar theories de claring that from the higa speed the sun travels it creates electric, light on a large "scale, and adds 1'iat it is; twenty times further round the earth j south than west. This is the peculiar declaration of the author or the let ter. ?"The moon is a myth. It is a pic ture of a portion of the solar ring reflected against space by the sun. Mars etc.. are moons reflected against space by suns that travel ground and through this solar ring which we are living on. I concluded that 'the land office is the proper place to present Ulis problem." The writer also submits a diagram il lustrative of his views oh the shape of the earth. Ill-owns to Escape Disease. Dreading life imperiled by the ravages of disease more than the hor ror of a violent death. Charles A. j Lawson. confidential secretary to G. T. Harahan, president of the Illinois! Central Railroad company, at Chicago j jumped from the steamer City of Benton Harbor, with body weighted,! on Saturday, and was drowned. Several lH>gs Poisoned. Several dogs were poisoned iu \ different parts of the city on Wed-! nesday night. Just how they got thej poison is not known, but several dogs[ were killed by it. If you value youri dog you had better keep him from j prowling about at night. OKANGEBURG, Issue Is Sweeping Agricultural States of the West. KANSAS REPUBLICANS ACT. State Convention Puts Proposition In . its Platform?A Setback For Mr. Taft?Frying tho Fat From Corpora tions?An Example of G. O. P. Ef frontery?The Organized Labor Vote. By WILLIS J. ABBOT. The real political sensation of the I week In Democratic circles has been the wholly unexpected growth,of the j demand for the guaranty of bank de posits as provided in the Democratic platform. I think but few public men aside from Mr. Bryan himself had any conception, of the wildfire way in which this issue would sweep the agri cultural states of the middle west. A pfomiueut Washington official, a Re publican, who was in my office the ?ther day saKl that he had been travel j Ing through Kansas and Nebraska and I found the people, including the bank I'ersi earnest In their demand 'for the j adoption of Ibis plan. In Kansas the ftSepublicau sinte convention has put the proposition I? Its platform.'thereby1 presenting the phenomenal spectacle of the party In the state taking sharp Issue with the position of the party In the nation. Secretary Taft, who cer tainly seems to have the courage of his convictions, bitterly denounced the project in a speech which by a curious coincidence was delivered on the same day that the Republican convention lu Kansas met and adopted It. The fact of the mailer Is that the operation of (he law in Oklahoma has been so exceedingly successful that the Kansas banks are beginning to feel the drain. Their depositors are with drawing money from banks which of fer no security for It and .sending it to those in the neighboring slale which afford u security prescribed by law. If Kansas adopts the system, as It doubt less will when Its next legislature meets, Nebraska will follow stub The plan will proceed from slate lo state tinttl the whole tier of agricultural states bordering the Mississippi and Missouri rivers have adopted It. This Is not mere idle speculation, but it Is the well founded opinion of travelers aud correspondents who hare visited (hose slates since the. Denver conven tion. The Republican papers in the larger cities and hi the east recognize the danger of this issue and are con centrating their fire upon It. The Dem ocrats welcome these attacks and re joav !':?; the utterances of Imth See- j retury Taft ami President Roosevelt | have mailt* I lie Ixstie square';,- on this point. One Attack Confuted. Recently through some political agency most of the big city dailies printed an article to the effect that the system of bank deposits had been tried in New York stale ami failed. The authority cited was a certain his tory of the American banking system which contained the statement that in lS'Jt> the banks of New York establish ed a guaranty fund which resulted in overspcculntlon and in ultimate disas ter. Comparatively few people will think Uiat the experience of eighty years ago, before the banking system had been at all perfected, should be applied to conditions existing today. Rut, even if it were, investigation shows that the cases are not parallel. It was not the creation of a fund to be held by the government as custo dian, a fund raised by a tax upon the deposits upon the banks, hot was rather a system of mutual nuderwrlt S. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEM BLUFFING. \ -De 2 -."2-1-. ing of hoTiS Issued by Che banks, a. j method which naturally would lead to ? overissue and overspeculation. Yet | even as it was it worked successfully j for a ni:mber of years. And even in the I panic of l&TT uone of the banks in this | combination went down. Aliout 1S-I0. however, some of them failed, and the Itiw was amended so tlint the aecumn ialed fund could be used for the pay ment of other creditors than the hold ers of notes. The fuud proved insuf ficient for this purpose, ami the:'whole plau was abandoned. The New York Commercial, the dally exponent of Wall street views. Is curiously enough the one paper there defending the bank deposit plau. It was the agency through which this particular canard was explained away. ? Frying tho Fat. A recent occurrence in the western headquarters of the Republican nation al headquarters gives an illustration for (he-ucO of complete publicity. The assistant treasurer of the commitlee. stationed at Chicago, sent out a letter addressed to corporations all through Illinois and adjacent states soliciting contributions. With calm effroalery and amazing frankness lie informed the corporations tbat a law on the statute books enacted by the Republic an parly prohibited the solicitation of funds from corporations, but that Indi viduals connected with the corpora tions could contribute as they saw fit. But these letters were not addressed to Indivjduajs, nQtevento the responsible. p'PesTtteiffs of tne corporations. They were sent addressed to the corporation Itself by name and constituted a de scription of the way in which (he law might be violated. Rut. more than this, (his collector of campaign fuuds. this frier of fat out of the corporations of Chicago audi vicinity, happens to be president of j the board of review of Cook county. What that means is that an ludlvidnal or a corporation that feels the assess ment too high has lo appear before this hoard of reviewHO seek its reduc tion. Could there be a more scan dalous situation than that the man who holds in his hand power to rulse >r lower assessments should be collect lug a campaign fund for Ilia Republic in party? Ths Music of the Campaign. Campaign .songsters are common enough, but it Isn't ofleu that we have i successful politician and n governor j( a slate who writes his own songs for campaign purposes. Governor Roh Taylor of Tennessee, now Culled I Stales senator, has long diverted his lud fences by playing the fiddle he Iweeu speeches. Bui Governor Has kell of Oklahoma seems to have rath H eclipsed him by writing his own songs and drilling the glee clubs (hat sing (hem al political meetings. Here is his hist, which, as If Is sung to (he well known musk* of ihe ".Star Span gled Hnuner." may prove useful at oih ?r meet bigs than I hose in Oklahoma: PROI'LK VVM.I. PAY TlfWR OWN BfLLH N<? MONEY VVANTKtl FROM WAM. STRKI5T. Beware of i\if trusts that our burdens would hear! Are Ihey generous anil true? Can their motives be fair? We have known liiem for years, grown hoary wllh lime, Corrupting nur servants, regardless of crime. CHORUS. Ob, l"t Sheldon come forth with "Wail str-eL support. Hut, honest men. all l>e deaf to his court! YY'tien the millions of Wall street will honor his draft, Thr-re is no use denying, they've u prom ise liura Taft. With Miss. Cortelyoti and George Per fch.s. too. Frying fat from 11)6 leeclies. who stole It from you; With millions corrupt wrought our Bry an's defeat Watch them close now, 1 say. They will irv in repeal. Labor In Politics. A thoroughly well Informed labor BER 3 1. 190S.: ayas in New York Evening World. editor o'f IuTh 'vily'vs?nmtis'i?Ttiiy'Thnt. S."? per emit of the organized labor vote of the United States is for the Demo cratic ticket, but lie also ,hazards the prophecy that by'the inpfhods of pur chase and of coercion the Uepublicau party may materially reduce this per centage lief ore the day of election. Yet it 1? a fact that never before In the history of the Democratic party has there been apparent so widespread a determination on the part of vrork lagmcn to vote that parly's ^ ticket. And the student of political affairs who wonders how the election may come out must not Ignore the enor mous influence exerted by the Amer ican Federation of Labor, led by Sam uel Gomper*. In the last number of tiie Federation ist. the organ of that labor organization, I find this as tho text recommended for the political guidance of all member.5) of the federa tion: "We now call upou the workers of our common country to stand faith fully by our friends, oppose and defeat our enemies, whether they be candi dates for president, for congress or other olficcs, whether executive, legis lative or Judicial." Only in Mr. Goiopers' editorial are specific names used. Rut no one who wishes to understand tho divergent at titude of the two parties toward the rights of labor should fall to get the Amerieau Fedora tionlat for September | and read it with care. Such an ex pression as this, coming from the bead of an organization numbering -l.OOO.DOtrJ workinguion. 1? of vital importance: "The Republican party and its can didate for the presidency. Mr. Taft, have spoken. Where labor is not ig nored it Is either insulted or the aim Is evident to rivet the chains of in justice still more firmly upon the masses of the toilers. "The Democratic party and its can didate for the presidency, Mr. Bryau, have also spoken. The latter give ab solute assurance in their declarations i of all that labor asks. The working j people and lheir friends and the pub lic spirited public can elect the candi date of the party which has made la- | bor's contentions for Justice Its own. Beat independence in this campaign consists in the workers voting for thl? candidute." If Mr. Gompcrs' position may seem extreme, it Is illuminating to give the list of labor leaders who In the samei number of the Federation Ist expressed approval of it and announced their purpose to support the Democratic ticket: John Milche!!, second vice president A. !?*. of I,.: James Duncan, lirst vice president A. F. of L.; L. It, Thomas, secretary of Metal Trades association; I". .1. McArdle, president of Amalga mated Iron. Steel and Tin Workers; Daniel .1. Kecfe. sixth rice president of A. l \ of 1..; Thomas F. Tracy, chair man of legislative committee; Jerc 1< Sullivan, secretary-treasurer of Hotel ? !?<! liest a lira nl Kinployees: ?'? C Skemp, secretary-treasurer of Broth-1 erbend I'ainlers. Decorators ami Paper hangers; Waller McArlhur, editor of Coast Sea men's Journal; Owen Miller, secretary of American Federation of Musicians; Ca I Wyalt. general organiz er of A. F. of I,.; .lohn Golden, presi dent of United Textile Workers of America. This is but a selection from the list of names of those who wrote to die American Federatloulst approving Mr. Gompcrs' programme. It is a repre sentative selection, but there are many ethers of quite as high standing. When the leaders of organised labor come In this fashion into I he open io| press a political programme and to support the candidates of one party there is reason for that party to count with confidence Upon tile organized la bor vote. Aged Veteran Commits Suicide. At Birmingham yesterday Robert Wiltse, an old veteran, shot himself. BRYAN FACETIOUS POINTBII CRITICISM OF TAFT AND ROOSEVELT. Many Things.With Regard to Which Republicans Have Come to His Way of Thiuking. William J. Bryan loft Lincoln. Neb.. Tuesday for Chicago and thus began a three weeks' campaign tour, which will carry him into the middle West, the eastern states and hack through the West into South Dakota before returning home. Perhaps no recent news afforded the Democratic candidate for presi dent so much interest as the an nouncement that Mr. Taft proposed i making a campaign tour. Mr. P.ry an regarded his opponent's decision a distinct vindication ol his course in the present, as well as his two previous campaigns, when he trelied over the country and delivered sixty speeches. When asked if ho had any com ment to make on the subject, Air, i Bryan said: j ?Well. I am getting a great deal , of consolation out of the way the president and Mr. Taft have been doing. 1 used to he caTTed hard names because I advocated an income tax and now the income tax has been endorsed by the president and Mr. Taft. 1 used to be bitterly denounc ed because I favored railroad regula- j tion. Now the president and Mr. Taft have brought that reform into 1 popularity and I am no longer con sidered dangerous. I used to get a good deal of criticism because 1 fav ored tariff reform, but now tariff reform has become so irpent that Mr. Taft is willing-to have a special session called immediately after In aus'ivation to act on the subject. It used'to be that when I talked ajiout independence for the Filipinos f was told the American flag never tame down when it once went up. Now we have a Republican candidate for the presidency who believes the Fili pinos must ultimately have indepen dence. "Put I have reason to rejoice over the tact thatsome of the things I have doue are now viewed in a more favorable light. When I made some phonograph records in order that I might discuss political ' Questions be fore more people, the Republican pa pers ridiculed me and called it un dignified, but Mr. Taft has lifted the phonograph to eminence by talking into it himself. "And now my greatest sin is to be a virtue by imitation. Surely im itation is the siucerest form of flat tery.' When 1 went out campaigning in 1S96 and 1900 they said it was demagogic to run around over the country hunting for votes. Now it is eminently proper since Ms. Taft is going to do it, and I hope the Re publican papers will make due apolo gies. "They said in 1896 and 1900 that I was scared when I made speeches from the rear end of a train, and I was and the result showed that I had reasons to be. I have been wonder ing whether this explanation would be given when Mr._taft starts out. and whether the result will be the same with him that it was with me., . ... , , , .. , "It is hard for ulf to keep our pat ents from being infringed on this year. I am afraid they will try to raise a campaign fund by popular contributions next." GOMPERS GOES FOR CANNON. Says He is the Worst Enemy of Eco nomic Reform. President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, at tacked the record of Speaker Cannon In the hitter's own home, town of Danville; Illinois. Refore an enthus iastic audience of 2,000 labor men in Lincoln park, Mr. Gompers said some might uncomplimentary things about the speaker. He came to Danville for the purpose of making a spech to the laboring men of the place, hoping in this way to defeat Uncle Joe for congress in November. Among other things he said: "Uncle Joe Cannon stands in this country as the worst enemy of econo mic and social and political reform that the people have." .Ms. Gompers read and indorsed an editorial which appeared in the cur rent issue of a weekly magazine, which declared that of the two men acini; evils to this country?Rocke feller and Cannon? the speaker is the greater evil." The speaker was pictured by Gom pers as an obstructionist of the deep est, most corporation-bound type. Mr. Cannon was a hitle-hound-uar row, old politician who sees no good in any reform, according to the labor leader, who berated the people for going sheep like" to the polls every election and sending this man to congress. Heavy Weight Sheriff. Anderson County has nominated a man for Sheriff, who weighs 42." pounds. He is said to be the heaviest man in the South. The Anderson people had better be on their good behavior. Farmer?? I'nion .Meeting, There will be a meeting of the Orangeburg County Farmers Union on next Tuesday. Sept. 15. at 11 o'clock. All members in good stand ing are cordially invited to attend. ?1.50 PEK AMTUM. AND ITS SPREAD IX DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. I Paper Prepared by Assistant Surgeon General T. M. EOgct Thereon Is sued in Pamphlet Form. Surgeon General Wymann, of the public health and marine hospital ?service, has issued in pamphlet form a paper prepared by Assistant Sur geon J. M. Bagej giving a history of the spread of bubonic plague during the last 14 years. No study presents, more important and difficult sanitary problems, Dr. Enget says, than the lines of march taken by bubonic plague during the period mentioned in its advance from the remote endem ic focus of the dis ease in the province of Yunnan, China, to the numerous countries in all quarters of the globe wherein many instances it. has established it self in defiance of the most carefully planned preventive measures. The revival of the plague. Dr Ea get says, dates from 1894, when es caping from the western Chinese pro vince of Yunnan, it reached Canton. Between March and August, 1894, the number of deaths from plague in Canton is estimated at 120.000. All classes among the population suffer ed and rats were found to be affect ed, but in the foreign quarter of Canton, with a population of- about :!00, not a single case occurred. During the next year cases of plague were reported In Hong Kong, Amoy. Macao and Foochow, and in 1896 sanitary attention throughout the world was forced on the threat ening epidemic by its appearance in Bombay! Starting in August the dis ease spread throughout the whole vast territory of the Bombay presi dency and before the end of the year showed a total of 12,980 cases and 2.288 deaths. During that year plague reappeared in Hong Kong where it has been epidemic over since. In China there were epidemics at Amoy and Swatow with many deaths in other sections of the empire and in the following year there were over 150,000 cases in India with a mortal ity of 117.000. in 1 900 plague was present in every quarter of the world. The Philippine island were included In the march of the disease. ISO deaths occurring in Manila. The most notable fact in the his tory of the' plague in the western world was the app- -e of 22 fatal cases in San Francisco. In 1901 in India a great augumentation took place, until in 1904, the plague caus ed the death of over 1,000.000 per sons in India alone and epidemics prevailed to a greater or less degree in nearly all parts of the world. India, the great center, suffered terribly in the year 1900 but In the year 1906 there was a great decrease, the number of deaths being about :io2,000. but again in 19K)7 there was a great increase, the deaths number ing 1.200.000. For nine years, Dr. Eaget says, Hawaii in 1907 had not been free from plague, but the Phil ippine Island now seem to be clear of the disease. During' the year 1-907, 156 cases oi plague with 76 deaths occurred In Can Francisco. There were a'Jso a few cases at Oakland and other cities neighbors of San Francisco. At Seattle, Wash., three fatal leases occurred last October. TEN TIMES NEAR DEATH. Lidrana Man Shows More Vitality Tbau the "Nine-Lived" Cat. Having passed the danger point in his latest nearly fatal venture, jjohn M. McMahon, of Crawfordsvllle Ind.. holds the record for nearly fatal accidets. About a month ago he fell into a vat of boiling water. His skin peeled off but grafting sav ed bis life. McMahon Is 35 years or !age. His left eye is gone, his left ear. right foot and a little finger are the only evidences of his narrow es | capes. The career of accidents to a man i who has more lives than any cat Iran boast began when he was only seven years of age. He came near I being drowned while swimming. At ten he tried to hop a train and lost his right foot. He came near bleed ing to death. While still on crutch es while watching the construction of a stone building the clamps on a lifter slipped and his shoulder bone was splintered by the falling rock. At H he fell from the top of a tree and fractured his skull. At 18 he lost his eye and part of his ear through a shooting accident. He tried football ES years later and was Injured in a train wreck. An acci dent in a foundry and the explosion of the powder mill at Fontanet, Ind.. this spring, brought the number of lives to nine and three weeks ago came the tenth. McMahon declares life is worth Jiving whatever the cost. . Boy Murders Woman. Mayme Elroad. a white woman about forty years old. was shot and killed by Calhoun Donald, a youth or eighteen years. The shooting oc curred near Townville in Oconee County while the woman was in the field picking cotton. The tragedy was brought about by the criminal intimacy of the woman and the boy's father.