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ASfcaUeyJr IC State fioubt) PUBLISHED THREE TAKES THE OATH fiov. Ansel Is Inducted Into Of fice Once Again. MAKES NEW REPORT Mis Inaugural Speech Was Very Short and Contains Two Important Recommendations: That Drain age Commission be Created and Good Roads Problem be Tackled. In his second inaugural address delivered Wednesday afternoon, im mediately after the oath of office had been administered to him, Gov ernor Ansel said: Gentlemen of the General Assem bly and my fellow citizens: For the second time I am here to assume the duties and responsibilities of the highest State officer in the gift of the people. For a second time, by the votes, of the people, I am exalted to the position of governor .of this great commonwealth. I am truly grateful for this manifestation of | confidence and esteem and I am ful ly sensible of my inability to dis charge fully the duties incumbent upon me without your valuable and necessary assistance. I plead for a continuance of the sympathy and help that you have given me during the past two years. I have endeavored to discharge the duties of my office with fidelity and an eye single to the best inter ests of all the people. That I have made mistakes goes without saying, but they have been of the head and not of the heart. South Carolina has made much progress in moral, educational and material lines in the past few years and people are fully alive to the ? great possibilities of even greater progress in the years to come and we see the signs of prosperity on j every hand. We should be paying more attention, however, to the con servation of our many natural re sources?rour land, forests ana water courses. Much thought is now be ing given to this subject in all the States of the union, and we should not lag behind. There is now being utilized in this State one hundred and seventy five thousand horse-power of water power to generate electricity and for other purposes. There is still about one hundred and seventy-five thous and horse-power of water-power un developed. My belief is that before many years this power, now going to waste, will be harnessed and used to help supply trie needs of our grow ing industries. Our farmers are producing a rea sonable income and profit, and as the farmer is the only producer of those things which go to sustain life, every inducement should be given to the boy to "stay on the farm." In the manufacture of cotton, we are second, in number of spindles, to but one State in the union. Had I time, I could give the out-put of the mills, the value of the product and the number of employees. The educational institutions .of the State are sending out each year young men and women well equipp ed for the battle of life ana there is work for all of them to do. The country is calling for educated young men and women. I desire, at this time, to refer to two matters, which I regard as very important to the future progress of the State and which are not men tioned in my annual message: The time has come in my judg ment when we should give some at tention to the question of the drain age of our swamps and wet lands. There are in this State over three million acres of these lands that can be reclaimed at a reasonable cost. The question naturally arises, what can we do? I suggest that you ap point a drainage commission whose duties it shall be to get up all the data as to where these lands are located; the probable cost of reclaim ing and the best plan of paying for the drainage. Let this commission report to the general assembly and then intelligent action can be taken. Another important matter that should engage our attention is the one of "good roads." Every good citizen of the State is interested in this vital question. Conventions and conferences are being held in many of the States to discuss it. The governors of most of the States are calling the attention of their leg islatures to it. Some of the counties in this State have gone to work and are making good roads. That they are needed in all of the counties every one will admit. The work that is done should be of permanent nature, and it seems to me that, in order that the necessary information may be obtained as to the best meth od making good roads and the pos sible cost of such method, the de partment of agriculture should be charged with the duty of getting this data and reporting the same to you. In North Carolina, the duties of road commissioner are placed upon the State geologists, in other States, road commissioners are appointed for this work. I come to congratulate you. my fellow citizens, upon what has been done along all these lines, and to ask that each of you will do his full /duty in helping forward all that TIMES A WEEK. MILITARY INSPECTION ADJUTANT GENERAL BOYD IS SUES ORDERS TUESDAY. The United States War Department and State Itinerary Arranged for Various Companies. Adjutant General Boyd has issued his orders for the inspection of the militia of the State, including all headquarters, armories and the com panies. The inspections begin in March, Edgefield being the first place visited, and will end the latter part of April at Laurens. The inspections will be made for the war department by Lieut. Chas. H. Cabaniss, Jr., now stationed in Columbia, and for the State by Col. Wm. T. Brock, assistant adjutant general. The list of places with dates for inspections is given as follows: Edgefield, March, 8?Company F, Second infantry. Aiken, March 9?Unassigned com pany of infantry. Bamberg, March 10?Company I, Third infantry. Barnwell, March 11?Company E, Third infantry. Orangeburg, March 12?Company L, Third infantry. Elloree, March 15?Company G, Third infantry. Sumter, March 16?Company L, Second infantry. Timmonsville, March 17?Com pany I, Second infantry. Conway, March 18?Company H, Third infantry. Georgetown, March 19?Head quarters, Third infantry, Company F. Third infantry. Walterboro, March 22?Company K, Third infantry. Charleston, March 23, 24. 25, 26 ?Companies A, B, C, and D, Third infantry; Third detachment hospital corps. New Brookland, March 27?Com pany M, Second infantry. Columbia. March 29, 30, 31, Aprill?General headquarters; head quarters First brigade; headquarters Second infantry; Companies B, C, and D, Second infantry. Florence, April 2?Company H, Second infantry. Darlington, April 5?Company K, Second infantry. Hartsville, April 6?Company G, Second infantry. Bennettsville, April 7?Company E, Second infantry. Cheraw, April 8?Company F, First infantry. Camden, April 9?Company A, Second infantry; Second detachment hospital corps. Lancaster, April 12?Unassigned company of infantry. Liberty Hill, April 13?Company B, First infantry. Rock Hill, April 14?Company H, First infantry. Fort Mill, April 15?Company K, First infantry. Winnsboro, April 16?Company M, Third infantry. Cornwell, April 17?Company G, First infantry. Yorkville, April 19?Headquar ters First, infantry; Company L, First infantry. Spartanburg, April 20?Company I, First infantry, band, First infan try. Union, April 21?Company M, First infantry. Clifton, April 22?Company C, First infantry. Greenville. April 22?Company A, First inftanry. Anderson, April 26?Company E, First infantry. Laurens, April 27?Company D, First infantry. TILLMAN WON'T BE MUZZLED. Says Senate Can't Stop Him From Roasting Roosevelt. Washington, Jan. 20.?Prompted probably by the case with which Representative Willett, of New York, was suppressed in the house Monday in his denunciation of the president. Republican leaders friendly to Mr. Roosevelt have under consideration a move to muzzle Senator Tillman when he undertakes to make good his promise to attack the occupant of the white house. It is stated that they will try to invoke a rule that will put an en tire quietus on the "pitchfork sena tor," or compel him to stick strictly to parliamentary language in deal ing with the president. "They can't do it." was Senator Tillman's declaration when asked concerning the movement. "I am going to criticize Theodore Roose velt officially. I have no doubt that his friends in the senate would like to muzzle me, but the speech will be made. I am at work on it now, but i won't be ready to deliver it for two or three weeks. I am in no hur ry." makes for the bettermenc of our people. And now, as I take upon myself for a second time, the responsibili ties and duties of this office. I ask that you will uphold my hands in every good work, and, by your gen erous heip and 'co-operation, give me that encouragement I have a right 'o expect at your hands. By thus working together, we shall make South Carolina second to none in this union of indestructible *ttie ORANOEBUBG, 5 BRUTAL MURDER SO AS A YOUNG WIFE COULD BE STOLEN. One Italian Dead and Another Dying as a Result of ? Kidnap ping Scrape. Middletown, N. Y., Jan. 21.?A brutal murder, which had as its ob ject the kidnapping of the young bride of one of the victims, was com mitted just outside of this city two nights ago by. three. Italians. The victim was Finizio Gaetano, who was instantly killed, and Scan ion Carmino, his friend, who is dy ing in a local hospital from wounds inflicted by shots from a revolver. The bodies of both men were found stretched across the railroad tracks near the scene of the tragedy, where they had been placed with the evident 'ntent of hiding the crime. Mrs. Gaetano was found tonight by the authorities in an Italian shack on the outskirts of the city. She was in a serious condition, as a re sult of nervous shock, exposure and ill treatment, to which she had been subjected. She told the authorities she had been taken to the shack immediately after the shooting and held there, two of the men remaining until shortly before noon. Gaetano was recently married in Italy and reached New York with his young bride only last Monday. The couple came direct to Middle town and Tuesday night, in com pany with Carmino, a mutual friend, were walking along a road about two miles from this city. Suddenly they were set upon by three Italians armed with revolvers, and Gaetano and Carmino were shot down. CITIZEN JOSHUA ASHLEY Is Accused of Peonage by His Farm Hands. Columbia, Jan. 22.?The Federal grand jury here has indicted "Citizen Joshua" W. Ashley, a wealthy Anderson county farmer and member of the legislature now in session, of peonage in holding four negro farm hanc's in involuutary servitude on his farm in Anderson county. The indictment, carrying twenty counts, alleges various phases of peonage, charging that Ashley claimed he held the negroes to work out indebted ness due him and due John McGaha, deceased, and Louise McGaha, his kinsmen. The four negroes, claimed to be held as peons, are: Will Da vis. John Davis, George Johnson and Sam Poole. WIFE WAS TOO MEEK. Brutal Crime by Pennsylvania Farm er for Queer Cause. Scranton, Pa., Jan. 19.?Griffith VanEleet, a farmer with his wife, near Suquehana, shot and killed his wife for the simple reason that she was entirely too docile to live with. When he smote her on one cheek, she turned the other, and it anger ed him to such an extent that he chased her on the main road for al most half a mile and then put a bul let through her. Later, when the posse that was quickly organized, went after VanEleet, he faced the angry citizens and turned the gun I upon himself, putting a bullet! through his heart. I )? C SATURDAY. JAISTU REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS." GOVERNOR'S SALARY RAISED And the Salaries of Other State Officers Fixed. Columbia, Jan. 21.?The State Senate passed a bill today fixing the Governor's salary at $4,000 and the other State officers at $2,250, except Adjutant and Inspection General, who will get only $2,000. The bill also fixes the salary of the Superin tendent of the Penitentiary at $2, 250 per annum.' The vote on the bill was as follows: Yeas?Appelt, Bass, Bates, Car penter, Christensen, Clifton, Croft, Graydon, Hardin, Hough, Johnstone, Kelley, Lide, Mauldln, McKeithan, Montgomery, Otts, SinkMer, Smith, Spivey, Stewart, Sullivan, Summers, Walker, Waller, Weston, Williams. Total 27. Nays?Black, Carlisle, Crosson, Earle, Forrest, Griffin, Harvey, John son, Laney, Muckenfuss. Rainsford, Rogers, Wharton. Total 13. ARRANGES FOR HIS FUNERAL. Seeks Brother Masons and Kills Himself at Their Door. New York, Jan. 20.?After ar ranging with an undertaker to have his body cremated, paying for an urn in which to place his ashes, Thom as Hutchings, said to be a Harlen real estate dealer, walked into the West Twentieth street police station yesterday and asked to talk with some one who was a Mason, that he might tell him his troubles. He was referred to the stationhouse at Sixth avenue and West Twenty-third street, where he was told he would find a number of Masons. Hutchings started, but paused just outside the door, drew a revolver and shot himself through the head, dying instantly. Hutchings had been in a particularly jovial mood, while talk ing with the undertaker, and neither the latter nor the policemen at the Twentieth street station had any suspicion as to his sanity or inten tions. FELL AND BROKE HIS NECK. Dalington Negro Meets Death in I Peculiar Manner. Darlington, Jan. 20.?Coroner R. G. Parnell went to Lumber Tues day, and with a jury held an inquest over the remains of Coleman Tay lor, a negro about 21 yes.rs of age, who died a violent death by being accidentally struck on the head, just above the right eye, by a chip that was hurled through the air by a piece of machinery, knocking Taylor down, and in falling or as a result j of his fall his neck-was broken. The | accident occurred at the Williams & McKeithan Mills. Cn ef Justice Jones. Columbia, Jan. 21.?Associate Justice Ira P. Jones, of Lancaster, was today elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Car olina for the unexpired term of Justice Pope, whose resignation has been accepted. There were two nominations. Associate Justice Ira 15. Jones and Eugene B. Gary. There were lf?l votes cast, of which Mi. Jones received 9t> vo:es and Mr. Eugene B. Gary 65. Falls Dead in Court Room. Hamilton. Ohio. Jan. IS.?As j Judge Murphy today sentenced' "Buck" Cottongame. a Kentucky I feudist, to the penitentiary for life j for the murder of Parrish Arnet, I the father of Arnet fell dead in the j court room. ART 23, 1909. ?iViacauiey in New York Worlo. REPLIES TO -TAFT REPUBLICANS TRYING TO DE BAUCH THE SOUTH. He Shows Why He Is Opposed to Compulsory School Attendance in South Carolina. Washington, Jan. 20.?When Sen ator Tillman heard today that Pres ident-elect Taft had made a speech in Augusta, in which he referred to public men who were lacking in sympathy for the negroes in their efforts to secrue an education, he became thoroughly aroused, and did not hesitate to express his opinion, saying "This is directly traceable to the misstatements and malicious editorials emanating from the two leading newspapers in South Caroli na, ii? which my attitude was not correctly stated. "In the first place, I am nn* op posed to negro education at all, pro vided it la of the right kind, know ing that education increases the in telligence and usefulness of the cit izer. What I said and meant, and by which I stick, is this: That the Republican policy of the last forty years has been to compel the South to recognize the political equality of the negro. That In its essence would mean the domination of the negro in South Carolina and Missis sippi, and many parts of other South ern States. "We have disfranchised every ne gro we could under the fifteenth amendment and the only instru mentality available was to require an educational qualification. There is now an agitation in South Caroli na for compulsory education. That would mean a heavy burden to provide more schools, which the white taxpayers would have to bear, and there could be no discrimination against the negro on account of race or color. Hence we would pre sent the spectacle of educating the negro at a very heavy expense to hurry forward the contest for su premacy between the two races as soon as we should have given them the necessary qualifications to vote, and be undoing what we found ab solutely necessary to preserve our civilization. "We never intend to be governed by negroes, whether educated or un educated. The Republican party is now seeking to debauch the South through Mr. Taft, who offers us two offices in every thousand of our pop ulation, and a pretended advance ment of our material interests to join that party. If the Republicans will throw down and abandon once for all their efforts to compel the South to recognize the equality of the Caucasion and the African by repealing the fifteenth amendment, we can then have the control of our State affairs and can then train them to make better citizens and aid in thp 'uplift' which Mr. .Taft is so anxious to se brought about. But we never expect to 'lift' them high enough ourselves or allow anybody else to lift them high enough to put theirs heels on our necks, or govern us again, and the conflict of the races which seems to me inevitable, will only be hastened by such talk as Mr. Taft induge in." Shocks in Turkey. Smyrna. Turkey, Jan. If).?Sharp earthquake shocks were experienced here this morning. No local dam age was done. Reports received her.? from Phocaea, twenty-five miles to the northwest, say that a number of houses fell and that three persons were killed. Buildings were dam aged in other towns. TEDDY WAS RIGHT SENATOR FRAZIER DEFENDS ROOSEVELT'S CAUSE And Says the South Will Never Sub mit to Negro Domination or Al low the Social Bars Lowered. Washington, Jan. 20.?Senator Frazier, of Tennessee today spoke on the Brownsville affair, and oppos ed the passage of any one of the pending bills for the re-enlistment of the negro soldiers of the 25t? reg iment, who were discharged without honor by the President. "Whenever," declared Mr. Frazier, "any question arises affecting the negro there are certain people, in cluding the negro himself, who seem to think that he should be deait with in an exceptional and unusual way; that he is to be treated as the ward of the nation, and must be the constant object of Its care and so licitude. "If those people In every section of the country who are especially solicitous of the negro's welfare would, by act and word, teach the negro that he is to be shown no exceptional consideration, but must stand or fall on his conduct and merit alone, they would render him incalcuable benefit, and the country a lasting service." Analyzing the testomony taken in various Investigations, Mr. Frazier said there was no question as to the guilt of any soldiers of the 25th regiment. He justified the Presi dent in his discharge of the entire body of troops, because of the im possibility of fixing the guilt upon particular soldiers. Speaking of the treatment of the negro by the people of the South, Mr. Frazier said: "I would not be entirely frank if I did not say that upou certain phas es on the race question, I, in com mon with the rest of the South, have stood, and I believe will ever stand, firm and unalterably. First, never against will the negro race be allow ed to politically dominate and con trol a sovereign State of this Union. To do so would be to enthrone ig norance and give it dominion over intelligence, and to bring back the rapid and utter reckless debauchery of the Reconstruction era. Second, the social barrier, which separates the races will never be allowed to be lowered. To do so would destroy the purity and integrity of the white race and shock the sensibilities ahd outrage the moral sense of the Cau casion race the world over. "For forty years, in patience and kindness the people of the South have wrestled with this problem," he said in conclusion. "It Is still un solved. What the end will be, only God in His infinite wisdom can see. Shall it be that the black race will be deported? If feasible, it would remove the last remaining barrier to complete the unity of the Amer ican people. Shall it be a race war, bloody, fierce, exterminating?a war for the survival of the fittest?God forbid. Sha'' it be amalgamation, and the unspeakable horror of a cor rupted ana inferior race? To al low it would be to destroy that civ ilization which is at once our strength and pride. Shall it be that the two races will dwell together, and yet apart, in peace and harmo ny. To do so, without one race dominating and ruling the other would be to belie the universal ver dict of racial history. I do not know. But one thing I do know is that the solution of this problem rests primarily in the hands of the Southern white man and the South ern black men, and calls for the wisest counsel and broadest conser vatism of both. I know that it can never be solved by men far removed from its fatal touch, and whose minds are not filled with an appall ing sense of the deep racial dif ficulties with which it is hedged about." EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE Kills Four Men and Injures Some Ten Others. Newark, N*. J., Jan. 20. ? Four men were killed and ten others in jured, one fatally, when several tons of dynamite in one of the buildings of the Forcite power works, at Lake Hopatcong, blew up late today. The detonation of the huge mass of explosive shook the country for mileB around and blew the building containing it to atoms. Of the four teen men working in it, not one es The dead.nJinaro mfwypfwyp caped death or injury. BELIEVES IN MARRIAGE. Two People Over Seventy Years of of Age Murry. Valdosta, Ga.. Jan. 20.?Former Legislator John W. Hagan. present chairman of the county commission ers of Lowndes county, and Mrs. Thomas H. Hodges, a widow, were married today. Both are septuage narians, and the marriage is the bride's fourth venture, and the bride groom's third. Mr. Hagan was the Populist party leader a number of years ago here. Both husband and wife are wealthy, the wife owning property here valued at $75,000 0 CENTS PER COPY. FIFTY PERISH Powder Explsion Causes Disaster to Workmen Near Chicago IN A MARINE TUNNEL Half a Hundred Laborers a Mile and Half From Shore, in Lake Mich igan, Blown to Pieces, Brunei! to Death or Drowned, and a Large Number Are Injured. Chicago, 111., Jan. 20.?Blown to pieces by exploding powder, burned to death by the resultant fire or drowned in the icy waters of Lake Michigan was the fate today of fifty three workmen, who were working on a submarine tunnel at a wooden crib, a mile and a haif from shore. The crib was used in the construc tion of a tunnel connecting with the south side shore of the city at 73rd street. It is known that ninety-five workmen were employed in the crib and the connecting tunnel at the time of the explosion, which started the fire and blew or drove men into the water. The work of the destroying ele ments was begun so unexpectedly and reaped its harvest of dead and injured with such swiftness that the contracting firm of George W. Jack son and the rescuers have been un able to arrive at anything like aa accurate list of those who perished, or of others who escaped the fury of the flames or the icy waters of the lake. All south side hospitals are filled with injured men tonight. City fire boata and tugs of the construction company made frequent trips far into the night to the scene of the disaster through the heavy ice floes. The disaster apparently had its origin in a powder house of small dimensions, situated about 100 yards from the crib structure proper, but at the same time being a part of the general structure. The duil detonation, muffled as it was by the crunching of floating ice against the crib and the atmosphere laden with heavy fog, simply aroused the attention of the workmen, ac cording to servivors, and it was not until the heat of the flames and tha stifling smoak penetrated the so called "living room" of the crib and the tunnel beneath the waters of the lake that the full import of the dis aster dav.aed upon the workmen cut off from quick succor. One of the workmen with a cool er head than his fellows, made his way through the smoak to a little inclosure in which was a telephone and gave the hurried message to* the shore station: "The crib is on fire. For God'3 sake send help at once, or we will be buried alive. The tug?." At this point communication ceas ed and through the fog an occasional burst of flames, and an unmistakable odor of smoke made it known to the watchers on shore that the tel ephone message was in earnest. The tug T. T. Morford was the first to begin rescuing the frenzied workmen. After several hours of heroic work on the part of the rescuers thirty nine workmen were rescued. When the tug Conway and its crew had finally quenched the flames, fifty three bodies had been carried ta the shore and placed in morgues in, South Chicago, awaiting identifica tion. HAVE MET TAFT. Rockefeller, Ogden and Harrfmaa Are in North Augusta. Augusta, Jan. 19.?President-elect Taft's rest is being invaded by the representatives of "predatory wealth," and money is flying through the air. All rich arrivals are philan thropists of the moat pronounced type. In addition to John D. Rockefe'Ie:. who came several days ago and .lar announced that he will hand '.ver the trifling sum of $100,000 to a young women's college m this State, Robert C. Ogden, ttlve New York doer of good work, has arrived in Augusta. E. H. Harriman, whose philan thropy in taking railroads under his wing, is widely known, is expected here today. Both Harriman and Ogden will probably attend the ban quet, which will be tendered Mr. Taft by the Augustta chamber of commerce. A WOMAN ADVISES SUICIDE And Two of Her Hearers Took Her Seriously. Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 19.?"Com mit suicide if you are out of work." This was in effect the advice which Miss Laura Burke, suffragist, social ist and graduate of Notre Dame uni vrrsity, gave to 500 unemployed men in the Vine street Congression al church Sunday night. Yesterday two of them tried to take poision. B. J. McMaster swal lowed morphine and Frank Peters used carbolic acid, but they will re cover. Miss Burke said from the pulpit: "The only way to solve the present awful condition of the unemployed, is by taking a dose of chioroforme."