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PUBLISHED THREE TE FIEND BFSOffiP,. -^?-JftateHoj^ Shcr?T Hid His Negro Prisoner High Up la the Moaotaios. HORRIBLE CRIME The Prisoner Is Accused of Killing a Railroad Man and Mistreating ;and Murdering His Bride.?Sheriff Lands Prisoner Safely in Jail 25 Miles From Scene. ?A dispatch from Hinton, W. Va., says somewhere in the mountains be tween Hinton and Fayetteville, Sher iff Wiseman and a force-.of deputies are moving with Thomas Raymon, a negro, who the officers believe on Sunday night attacked and robbed John Aliss, a brakeman, then as saulted and murdered his bride of three-weeks. A later dispatch from Raymond, 25 miles distant says Sheriff Wise man .had safely landed Raymond iu the Mercer county jail at Princs town. Through Aliss, who is near death in a local hospital, did not positively identify the negro as his assailant, the sheriff has little doubt of Ray mond's guilt. The arrival of Capt. Samuel L. Walker with 15 militiamen just after dark made it possible to save Ray-| nlond's life. For five hours the sher-1 ilf with 30 deputies held the negro on a special train which a mob of j 1,000 men refused to let move. Up on the arrival of the first detatch- j ment of militia the sheriff escaped to the mountains with his prisoner, while the mob leaders were held at the point of bayonets. ?Three companies of militia arriv ed early Tuesday from Charleston, but upon receipt of news that the prisoner had been landed in jail, or ders were issued for their immediate return to their homes. MAN OUTFLIES BUtDS. Ihey Start Same Time as Aeroplane But Are Beaten. The first aerial race between the >irds of nature and man's production took place in the course of the great i aerial cross-country competition ov or in France and was easily won by man! A flock of forty-seven ear lier pigeons was released at Douai Tuesday at the same instant that LeBlanc in his Farman bi-plane started from the mark on his fifty Piile fight to Amiens. Rushing through the calm air, the bi-plane soon out-distanced the birds, and when LeBlanc reached Amiens the flock was not yet in sight, the first pigeon arriving six minutes and twenty seconds after LeBlanc. Before the last of the flock had come in. LaGagneux, who had started at I the same time as LeBlanc, but con sumed nine minutes more on the trip, arrived, beating the last pigeon .by twelve minutes. Hubert Latham flew from Issy les-Molineaux in the suburbs of Par is, to Amiens, stopping en route to take lunch with friends at Bretfeul. He thereby accomplished practical-' iy the last lap in the cross country race, a distance of about sixty-eight miles, but iu the reverse, direction. AUTOIST KILLS CHILI). Heartless Conduct of Driver Who Ran Down Little Boy. The police of Mattewan, N. Y., are Jooking for some clue to the iden tity of an automobilist whom they charge with killing the 3-year-old son og George Verdi, a well-to-do farm er. The child was playing by the road side when the automobile whizzed by. A protecting bold caugbt his clothes and he was dragged beneath the wheels, which passed over his body, killing him instantly. According to the police, the driv er stopped his car, picked up the .baby's body aud threw it over a low fence into a lawn beside the road. Persons iu a cross street, too far away to identify the automobilist, saw him stop his machine, pick some thing from the road and toss it asid?:. They thought it was a trifling ob struction of some kind and paid no particular attention. A few moments later the baby's body was found on the lawn. Quit the Race. Rev. Coke D. Mann, who was run ning against' D. Wyatt Aikeu for Congress in the sixth congressional district, has withdrawn from the race. This leaves the field to Aiken, who is one of the two South Caro lina Congressmen quoted in the Dem ocratic Campaign Book. Laborers Lose LtYfc' Several Italian laborers were kill ed and a large number injures! by the collapse Tuesday of a portion of a iiam of T. A. Gillespie Companv, a1 Massena, N. Y? on the big power ca nal. The injured were taken to a .licspital at Cornwall, Oniar o. Jump the Track. One man was killed and thirty, four persons were injured when the tender of Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 209 jumped the track 11 miles north of Nevada, Mo., Monday. ?? A WEEK. CAUSES ADVANCE DRAUGHT REPORTS BOAST THE COTTON MARKET. l!?.v Spell iu Texas and Consequent Deterioration of Cotton Raises Price on New Crop. Texas and its dranght has been the chief topic in the cotton trade this week. No' rain worth j mentioning hhs fallen in the sections where it is needed most, i. e., in the central ?inj southern districts, and there is a general belief that further deteri oration in the crop has taken place ss temperature have been reported daily at many stations of from 100 to 107 degrees, The effect of these conditions has been to .cause active buying and a further ^rise in the price of the new crop months. August has moved up j in comparison with .the new crop, I but interest in that m^nth has been small. j Unfavorable reports are still be ing received from some of the Eas ?ern beit despite the prevalence most of the time for e fortnight pf favor able weather conditions. The crop in some sections is still said to be smal and late. Reports of spot con ditions of the fields are numerous. Some take the ground that over three-quarters of Texas there has been considerable decline in the con dition of the crop since the date for the last Goverment reports were fathered. The belief still exists among many that the total yeild is certain to fall 'below twelve million tales, unless exceptionally favorable weather conditions prevail in the re mainder of the growing and the ricking season. The reports of precipitation caus ed active selling for both sides of the account. It is a nervous weather market. Over the region east of the Mississippi, the weather in the week has heen favorable and reports con tinue to b^ received form mot a few of marked improvtfents in thu crop outlook. , . The spot markets, the. South hc.ve been quiet, Liverpool spot tran sactions on most days -have been small and trade news of.late rather less firm. At times the market has acted in a o.ver-bought manner. The speculation' is mainly professional. 7he outside public give ? wide berth owingi to the prices. The new crop movement is in creasing, but spinners, foreign and domestic have bought freely in the week. Houses with southwestern connec tions have made purchases and there has been active covering of shorts. Today's market was irregular, de clining at one time on cables and liquidation, but rallying later on hot dry weather in Texas and covering r-t shorts. COURT-MARTIAL ORDERED. Sergt. Patterson, of Barmvcll Com pany, to be Tried. > The Charleston Evening Post says critters -have been issued appointing Major R. Boyd Cole summary court to try Sergt. Patterson, son of Con gressman Patterson 4 of the Second Congressional district, on the charge of drunkenness, disorderly conduct :*d threatening an officer. The trou ble occurred, it is said, on the train coming back from the encampment of the Third regiment at Chicamau ^a. Young Patterson is a non-com missioned officer of the Barnwell company; The misconduct of the young man is seid to have taken place when he was under the influ ence of liquor, but still the offence is a serious one, whatever mitigating circumstances ma,y exist. Under the rules of the service, the offence is punishable with a fine of $100, or thirty days in jail or both,1 at the oiscretion of the court. CAN HOLD OUR OWN. Hawaii Cannot Approach the South in Cotton. The cotton in Hiwaii can never rival that of the South, according to Dr. E. V. Wilcox, director of the government Honolulu experiment station who is in Atlanta on a trip of study of Southern cotton culture. He says that although the islauds produce a fine grade of sea island co. tou, bringing from 30 to 35 cents per pound, there are only 20,0 00 acres suitable for cotton culture. But 1, 000 acres are now under cultivation. Dr. Wilcox brought with him some seed of Cara Vonica cotton to see whether it can be grown in this soil, lie says this cotton is pereuiel, beat ing each year from the same stalk, and requiring only one planting. In Hawaii, he stated, these cotton plants arc pruned to prevent them from attaining a height of 10 to 12 leet. Killed by Auto. Captain George 1-1. Breymann, of Toledo, Ohio, a marine contractor, ?ftas killed and his wife, sister, Mrs. Texler, of Detroit, and -Mrs. Hailing, ot Toleda, were seriously injured in a collision of automobiles Monday right. Breymann had stopped his machine to repair a tire when one ol two automobiles, said to be racing, crashed into his machine at full speed. ORANGEBU ROBBING THE INDIANS SENATOR GORE'S CHARGES TURN ON THE LIGHT. Many Land Robbers Waxing Rich on Nation's Wards Who Have Great Bodies of Lund. Every inch of land owned by In dians is 'noked upon as the legiti mate prey of the land grabbers." This statement was made Mon ray at Sulphur, Okl., by a member cf the committee appointed by the House of Representatives to investi gate Indian land contracts. Besides the charges of Senator ~;:re that he was offered $50,000 bribe to "boost ' the McMnrray con tracts in Congress, the committee is inquiring unto Indian land condi tions. "Some of (the land-grabbers' ac'h ernes certaiEly should be called to the attention of Congress," said a coramitteeman. "One man, we have learned, has become rich. He kept a list of Indians who owned allott ed lands. Whenever an Iddian died he rushed into court, had a guardian appointed with the conni vance of the guardian, demanded that the land be sold under a ridi co.luously low valuation, for a few ?inndred dollars. He has bought whole sections of land. This man, who is only one of many, started with no capital, now owus 10,000 acies, for which he paid the Indians an adequate compensation. As there arc in Oklahoma something like 20, ?.?00,000 acres oflndian 1 ands, is teems absolutely imperative that Congress take prompt steps to pre vent land-grabbing." land-grabbing." More details of J. F. McMur ray's alleged activity at Washington to promote his 10 per cent attorney tees contracts in the sale of $30,000, 000 worth of Indian Lands, were re lated before the Congressional in vestigating committee to-day. W. B. Johnson, former United States at torney, testified that an indictment against McMurray and others in 1?05, charging "padding" of a $300, CC0 expense account, which iMcMur tay's firm had filed against the In dians in prosecuting citizenship fxses, had been dismissed by the At torney Genera'. At the time the indictments were .'icing investigated, Cecil A. Lyon, nttionel Republican committeeman for Texas, was in Washington. Mr. I:on previously had testified he had uiged the Attorney General to in vestigate the indictments, but he de claies he never asked that they be dismissed. The indictments later were ordered dismissed. Mr. Lyon then became interested with McMur ray in what are known as the old tribal contracts, and talked with President Rooseve.lt>imregard to them Mr. Johnson testified- that of 5.0U0 indictments returned during his term of office, only one?that r.gsinst McMurray, was dismissed. "After the McMurray indictments wore returned I was called to Wash ington. I took all the papers there After nine days, Assistant Attorney General Russell told me the indict ments were to be investigated. 1 al ???o met Mr. Lyon. He said he had been summoned to Washington by telegraph. When I got back home 1 was told that the indictment against McMurary had been dismiss ed." PARTY CAMPAIGN BOOK. Two South Cu'*oIina Congressmen Are Quoted In It. The Congressional campaign book of the Democrats for the present year made its appearance from the headquarters of the committee in Washington Tuesday. Incorporated in the complication are speeches made in the House by the following Southern members: Aiken and Fin ley, of South Carolina; Kitchen, Small and Sen. Simmons, of North Carolina; Adamson, Hardwick and Senator Bacon, of Georgia. Most of the speeches are against the tariff rnd "Cannonism." No Congress man's speech who was not straight on these two subjects could find a place in this book. The book is is-, sued for the benefit of Democratic campaign speakers. PLAYING WITH SNAKE. Baby Saved from Bite of Rattler by It* Mother. When Mrs. Jas. Oxalli, of Blue lent, Cal., went into her back yard to look for her baby she found the infant playing with a rattle snake, which was coiled up and hissing and rattling. Each time the child stoop ed over to pick up the reptile it would stick out its tongue and rattle. ~1I of which served merely to delight ?he,baby. The mother drew the child sway, later dispatching the snake \vtli a club. It measured three feet .Mid .had four rattles and a button. Killed Herself. At Atlanta, Ga.. Miss Emma Lee Campbell, aged '25, of Edgemont, N. C. who was a student at a business college, die?i Monday at a hospital .'?s a result of poison taken with sui cidal intent. She explained to her landlady, shortly after she had taken the poison, the reason for her act was that she had a quarrel with one cf her teachers. RGr, S. C, THURSDAY, ? BLAMES TARIFF And the Trnst for the High Cost qg Liv ing and other Evils DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE ''he Report of the Minority Member of the Senate Committee Con demns the Tariff, Trust, Combines Monopolies as Oppressing the Masses for the Benefit of the Few. The tariffs, trusts', combines and monopolies and an increased money supply are the three substantial causes for the advance in prices in the United States, according to Sen ators Johnston of Alabama, Clarke of Arkansas and Smith of South Car olina, minority members of the select senate committee, appointed during rhe last session of congress to inves tigate and make a report on wages and the prices of commodities. ' We are without sufficient data," say the minority members in their report just' completed, "to apportion the degree of responsibility between these three causes, but that the two fiist are the chief malefactors we have no doubt; and they are of our own creation or permission." After attacking, one at a time, the 15 principal causes contribut ing, according to the minority report to t.he hjgh cost of living, the-'* minor ity members take up the tariff, de claring that when the Payne-Aldrich bill W3^5 framed "champayne was nut on the schedules, from 54 to GG per 'cent., whilst wearing apparel was taxed 80 to 92 per cent.?drink ing champagne was to be encourag ed and wearing woolen clothes dis couraged. So with hats," they add, ' those bringing not over $4.50 per dozen were taxecf 77 per cent and those valued-at more than $18 per dozen 17 per cent." The result of protection, they de c'are, is great fortunes for the few and great suffering for the many. We believe," they say, "that the amount of tee tariff is added to the pi ice and taxed to the consumer; that but for the tariff the commodi ties we buy upon which that tax is laid would be cheaper, approximate ly to the extent of the tariff; and that when we do not buy the import od article the protected manufactur er puts approximately the amount of it on the goods produced by him." "It is difficult to understand how any one can favor high rates of du ty if he does not hor.estly believe that it will increase the prices to be realized by the manufacturers pro ducing the article affected, by dimin ishing or destroying competition, md thus necessarily increasing the cost to the consumer. Then we were many times mournfully warned-that shy reduction in rates would flood o'.-T country with low-priced Ger man products, and that the smoke of American manufacturers would disappear from the .heavens. Xcw we are in formed that the tariff has net increased the cost of these arti cles entering into every household t.i.tl administering to the health and comfort of every family." Showing the effect of the tariff on prices, they instance sugar, on which the Xew York consumer, they say. pays more than the London consum er by the difference between the su gir tariffs in the two countries, plus !7 cents per 3 00 pounds. "It is scarcely necessary," they idu. "to mention the iniquitous wool en schedule?where tariff rates are so high on these necessities of our perple as to practically preclude any i'oreign competition with the Ameri can manufacturer, except on high priced goods purchased by the wealthier consumer who can, to some txient, disregard price." 'Taking up the subject of trusts, combinations and monopolies, they declare that "there are few trusts t'.iat could survive a revenue tariff. They flourish only under the shadow of high protective walls. Standing behind those walls that shut off for eign competition and destroying do mestic competition by consolidaitons and absorptions, t.hey are limited on ly to selling at a fraction less than the foreign price plus the protective duty. That they reduce cost of pro duction seems certain, but it is in rare cases that the public of the la borers employed by them participate in the enlarged profits. So enormous have been their pro fits that we find organizations, si'iingins? up oil over the country, ike the Blgln board of trade, .ne wholesale grovers, lumber deal er??associations that have contrib uted largely to the advance in pices and the frauds perpetrated by manufacturers of certain goods le in ducing the weight of contents of packages from 2ti per cent and main i lining the same price. "The methods of Uie meat trust," i.ley declare, "seem to be admirably adapted to taking from the consumer ?aid the producer the largest amount that the tariff will bear. Their de struction of local competition can not he improved upon." As what tiicy call * "sample of the working of our combines," they say that "while everywhere else in the world he price of harvesting machinery has been appreciably reduced since 11)00, in the United States it has been materially increased. The in crease," they add, "started nearly -?i?fr LUG?bT 18. 1910. I MANY WERE LOST A SPANISH STEAMSHIP GOES TO BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN. Thilry Nine People Lose Their Lives i as the Result of ? Collision in the Mediterranean. The Spanish steamer Marios foun dered Tuesday morning off Tariff, ?iler a collision with the German sicamer Elsa. Thirty-nine were drowned, of whom 32 were passengers. The sur vivors were landed. A dense fog prevailed at the time cf the collision. Nine of rJhe victims upon the Mar ios were first cabin passengers. The other 23 passengers who perished were in the sterage. The bow of the Elsa was stove 'n bv the collision and her forepeak filled quickly with water. The steam er, however, managed to keep afloat. The Martos was a small steamer ot 1,046 tons net, engaged in the cosst traffic. She was built at Dun dee, Scotland, in 1883. The Elsa, a German tramp steam er., is even smaller, registering only 496 tons. She sailed from Abo, on Lbe Niger, in Africa, on July 20, for Valencia. COTTON CHOP BETTER. W ith LntM Trasf the Production Will Be Fairly Good. The Memphis Commercial Appeal publishes the following cotton crop summary on Monday: "For three successive weeks opt ion has improved in the States east of the Mississippi and its promise is now fair to good. The crop is late and would be seriously damaged by in early frost while later than us ual is needed to allow the fullest promise to be fatured. The plant v/tthin the past two weeks has grown very rapidly and is attaining lair size. It is setting boils quite satisfactorily and the firm tone is decidedly more optimistic. "Such rains as fell in the past week were beneficial. They were local in many sections, however, and the Carolinas and parts of Georgia would be benefited by general pre cipitation. "Even in the earliest sections of this Eastern belt there is very little cotton that is ready to open and the t.ovement to market will be delay ed well into September unless a drought later on, should force pre mature openings. "Boll weevils are active in Louis iana and Mississippi and are doing some more harm than was earlier anticipated. "In Texas no rain fell except in some of the Red River counties and the crop lost ground steadily. "Cotton is opening very rapidly in southern and southwestern coun '.ies and is being rushed to market as fast as possible by the farmers. Held ( p Train. Two men boarded a Sante Fe passenger train at the Russell Fork uridge, near Bucklin, .Mo., Monday night; held up ar.d robbed two of She passengers and escaped Into the woods. Oscar Kirby of Bucklin lost bis watch and money. Luther Ryles. a merchant of Ethel, Mo., resisted the robbers and was beaten and shot :a the left side. contemporaneously with the Ding le} tariff," As to wages, they say that "the fear that wages would fall if the tar ill' were removed, and the fall in p:ices would not be a clear gain to the consumer, is not warranted by the (experience of Great Britain, ijieat Britain is a free trade nation tin J it is the most prosperous nation in the worid except our own. Shoals cf emigrants from thee tariff-ridden nations of France, German;-, Italy and Russia go to England to work. But Englishmen do not emigrate to t.hrse countries because the standard of living is lower. The general tes U mony that the rate of wages for all mechanical trades is substantial ly higher in Great Britain than in those protectionist countries, while the prices of neceessities are lower, leaving the Englishman a wider mar gin to live upon. "It is about 60 years since Great Britain adopted free trade, and dur ing that time, according to a table published in Whitaker's Alamanas, wages have increased SI.7 per cent und prices only 3 per cent. It is, llurefore, well seen that the aboli tion of the tariff in England did not bring down the rate ol* wages. Nei ther would it in this country. If ve remove the obstruction allowing pr'ees to sink to their natural level, the question of wages may be trust ed to take care of itself." Replying to the majority's staie l.irnt. in Its report, that an "increas e.l demand for farm products" is a ran sc of advancing prices, the minor ity cite the wheat crop as having in i i'ensed from less than seven bu shels per capita in 1!)U0 to more than o:ghr in 1909;' corn from -7 to 00 bushels per capita, and potatoes from almost three to more than ?our bushels. Notwithstanding the increase in the price of farm pro ducts, the farmer, they say "has re alized a small net return on his la It l and investment by reason ol the increased cost of the articles ne cessary for him to purchase to carry on his business. Wtrt CRUELLY TREATED POLITICAL OFFENDERS L\ HON DURAS PUT INTO Wretched Prisons, Which Prisoners Seldom Leave Alive.?No One Is Respected by the Tyrants. Advices from Celba, Honduras, state: ?Several prisoners were brought in rere from Armenia, a point thirty miles west of this place, where a large number of Bonilla supporters gathered last week to await General Christmas. One of them brought in was Adofc Meralda, a lawyer of considerable prominence, who was once judge at Truxillo, but whose sympathies with the Bonilla movement were vevy strong. <He was made to walk the entire distance of thirty miles with his arms tied behind his back, fording rivers, climbing steep inclines, going through places where a man with both arms free sometimes .has diffi culty in passing. Another prisoner, an old man, was marched through the streets of Cel ba with his thumbs tied behind Iiis back and it is said he was also brought in this condition from a great distance. His offence was to state his views in favor of Bonilla too ardently wit;h .11 the hearing of an official of the government. Fifty or more political prisoners in the cuartel were taken to Omoma where there is a prison that survives from the days of Spanish domina tion. It is a great brick and stone build ing built more than 200 years ago and the beds in the dungeons are of stdne, while the cells are all heav ily barred and most of them are be yond the range of sunlight. The prisoners immured there seldom leave it alive. BRILLIANT COMET DISCOVERED. Astronomers Thinks It Will Be Fine Very Soon. The Washington Times says if the comet discovered last Wednesday morning by the Rev. Joel H. Metcalf, of Tauntan, Mass., and named .for h:m "Metcalf's Comet," fulfills the promises that it has given, the wor'r! will be treated in the next two '.lonths to a more spectacular sight than that attendant upon the visit .if Halley's comet. Since the latest celestial wanderer has been officially observed but twice, iince by its discovered and again by Pi of. Asaph Hall and two assistants nt t.he Naval observatory, it is im possible to say exactly when it will jome near enough to the earth to bp distinguished with the naked eye. Bui, from present indications, when It does come near, it will present an appearance second to none of the ?omets seen within the last century. Even ar the great distance ;it uhich it Is at present, the appear ance of the coiiiet is brilliant and surpasses in grandeur t.he spectacle of Halley's comet seen at the same .1 ?stance. Sailing majestically through st/ace it is easily distinguishable with a telescope from its smaller and less l-'ight neighbors. Particularly nu tieca.ble is the effect presented by tilt nucleus, which is intensely bright and exceptionally clear. CHARGED WITH CRUELTIES. Boat Crew Held for Beating and Ma rooning a Boy. The United States marshal at Mo tile, Ala., was authorized Tuesday to arrest Capt. Henry Steves, of the fishing smack, Albarella, sailing out cf that port in the fishing trade, and the entire crew. T.he master of the vessel will be charged with inflicting corporal punishment, under section ?ICH, and inflicting cruel and unus ual punishment, under sectio 291 of criminal code. John Roguls, a 15 year-old boy, alleges that the master &u crew marooned him on an uuir hn,bited island in the Gulf of Mexico, after beating him and dragging In (he sea behind the stern of the ves sel, tied iu a canvass. Roguls is de tained at t.he county jail as a gov ernment witness. Girl Strangles Dog. With her bare hands Miss Maude Bar hour, a young woman of Wash ington, D. C, Tuesday strangled a large dog. apparently mad, which at tacked her; The animal's body was taken to the bureau of animal in dustry to be examined for rahbies. Miss Harbour received a slight scratch on the arm. Sail Death of Girt. Frightened into spasms early Fri day morning by an encounter with a couple black racer snakes, Miss Ma le! Brewington, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Harper Brewington, a prominent farmer near Bivalve, Del., died in agony early Monday morn ing. A White Fiend. Slum Turner, of Horry County, has .been lodged in jail on the very grave charge of seriously whipping and criminally assaulting a little 14-year old white girl. It is understood that the warrant was sworn out by the mother of the girl. 0 FWO CESTS PEB COPY TEDDY SNUBBED New York Republican Commilte Rejected Him as Chairman i * SHERMAN WAS ELECTED The Honor Was Sought by Teddy and His Rejection by the Comittco Docs Not Set Well on'Him.?He Issues an Address Defining His Position. Theo. Roosevelt matched strength with the old guard" of the Repuo iiuan party in New York State Tues day and met decisive defeat. * The Republican State committee, hi session by a vote of 20 to In i'fused to recommend him for tem porary chairman of the State conven tion which meets at Saratoga Sep tember 27. Instead Vice President Sherman was selected. This is Col. Roosevelt's'second de leat at the hands of the "old guard,' Up first having been the legislatures "efusal to pass the Cobb direct pri mary bill, although Mr. Roosevelt es pecially endorsed it. With his defeat plans for .harmony within the party in the State received a severe ee' 1 ack. As soon as Col. Roosevelt heard the news he issued a statement in which he enrolled himseif a pro gressive so far as the New York Slate situation gel s. It was his most pointed political olatement since his return and those i\ho saw him were convinced he had determined to bring on open fignt 0. 1 the "ov" -bcrd." The stat-mert' follows: "To the various persons who ask ?\i me whether I would accept the position of temporary chairman o? .he State convention I said I would do so only if they were sure, after 1 nowing all my attitude, that thev de sired mo, because my speech would be of such a character that it mlgnt help if the convention nominated the right kind of a man oh a clean cut progressive platform; but thai it would hurt if either the rignt kind of a man were nominate'! I nor the right kind of a platform ::aopted." Lloyd C. Griscem, chairman of the New York Republican county jommittee, who presented the col onel's name, said: "I do not. know whether today's iction by the committee will have :i'iy effect on Mr. Roosevelt's atti .ude in the State campaign. Mr. Roosevelt is to be a delegate to the State convention. It seems to me thai as the only living ex-presidert of the United States the party in his Slate owes him at least the tempor ary chairmanship. "Mr. Taft so far as I know, did lot anticipate that Col. Roosevelt's name would be presented to t.he com mittee. If he had known ho would have prevented the action that' was taken. The selection of Vice-Presi dent Sherman can not be construed as an idorsemet of the Taft admin istration which needed nc s ;ch in dorsement.' ? " . Col. Roosevelt took luncheon'with Mr. Ward after the meeting. ? The only t.hing that is know as to what !.e said to the national committee rLan is that he laugh ted and told him he understood new why 'Mr. Wsrd and other members of the State committee were not anxious to meet him until after Tuesday's nieet :n.?,. William Barnes, Jr.. of Albany, was to have gone to see Col. Roose velt directly after his return from 1. broad, but, although the colonel ??ame back two months ago, Harnes ?has not been near the former pres ident until Tuesday, when he dropp ed in at the hotel, where Col. Roose velt and Mr. Ward were at luncheon. M". Barnes said that on the question of direct nomiation alone he would oppose Cot. Roosevelt for the tem porary chair maship. Representative Joe W. Dwight, Republican whip of the house, also saw Col. Roosevelt. He did not care t? discuss their conversation. Col. Roosevelt .had planned to keep !n the .background as much as posst i ie in the coming campaign. It ???as only when he perceived the turn -;hich political affairs were taking li.at he consented to the use of his r.;ime in connection with the tem porary chairmanship. Both he and timothy L. Woodruff, State chair man, repressed their hope for a har r.ionious settlement of the- differen ireJs between the progressives and the "old guard," but there was no har mcny talk among politicians Tuesday tight. KILLED IX CRAP GRAME. [tioorty Tragedy in Kentucky Caused Fron; Sunday Gambling. Charles dear was shut to death; Jusepb Thomas was fatally wounded, .urn Preston Gear crawled into t.io woods presumably dying from a gun shot wound, during a fight over n crap gnmc at Big Springs, Ky., Mon day. Each of the three men was shot in the abdomen, and JuleB Tace .v d Joseph Ammon, charged witn the crime are being pursued by a uieriff's posse. The three victims a e sons of -well-to-do farmers. Pres en Gear has not been found, al tnough a trail of blood left by him ?vas followed for some distance.