Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PUBLISHED THREE TO) Jr.. ' i'~ ? ?*? ? '?' )':? < ?- \ . . .- . . -?? ? he Row in fee Republican Party is Get fog Warner and Warmer. WHEN ROGUES FALL OUT The Western Insurgent Republicans | Object, to Roosevelt's Great Strad. <dk?, and Rid Him Good Bye, After Pointing; Out Some of His Double j yato KSorts West and East. ?'-The/rott In the Republican party) grows-on apace to the great joy of all ?^h?.'want -to.see a' change, in affairs: "The Des Molnes News, one of the ?snost?.prominent Republican newspa-j jwrs- hi Iowa-- bids'-Teddy.' goodby.e in ?n editorial entitled "GoodbyerColo-j ~?el.** Here is What the News said: j ""It ; won't - work. ./.:'??? "The. progressive ?entiment that ? hits stirred men of all partieB In all parts- of tne'country can not be cham ped: to anyV party ? chariot. Not -by Theodore Roosevelt nor anybody 'else/'; "?*' ? ' . ? \ < ^'BooseveU is not the prophet nor ^he ^der-of ? progress. He has no monopoly on It ?:; :?*B??seV(Bit: *has bad New York state to put an O. K. on the tariff mvj ? ? ? ? 1 i : ? ?"Ho has.commended Taft, the pol ^Sc^^'?e?ss^i'xti'??PlncnotI and air th^t.Pinchc^ ?jtands for. r*vS?t 'tadoresi..f?tt,?. conduct in.; us ing ;the palrbrfa'ge club against La Follette and Cummins and Polndex-j ter :aaftd;. Bristol and the oiher rear insurgents. * ; "He indorses the lawyer cabinet, Ball Inger and all. "He tries, to obscure all this treachery with glittering generalise* about 'graft hunting,' but the peo-; j>Ve will feel safer in graft hunting when'they have fewer Lurt'ons on the supreme bench, and fewer Oscar jLawlers in the department of justice., "Taft, too, just now, declared that Dae" Js for insurgency?but. Murray ?sind Wickershain and Hitchcock sit iat his tabel. '?''?Roosevelt selects as his perma-. 'neat chairman; Elihu Root, who iBjj rihe incarnation of the doctrine of 'dollars in politics." r'^?o?seveU^brihging ? Root. J. P. Mo^?n; Tawney, Lurton, Hitchcock,; ""r^i&dT in; the ;motley crew of plutocrats j' :and Hessians of privilege, can not "enlist m the army of insurgency "It would have been as sensible if James Buchanan with Jeff" Davis and his outfit had. tried to get into the,'councils-of Abraham Lincoln. '''InsuVgehcy; got -along-pretty' well while Roosevelt was In Africa. "He can not swallow up the insur gent movement, and insurgency will aot swallow hint with his indorse ment ?f the tariff bill, of the presi dent, and with his Roots and Gr is corns. ".There can be no stop to &aufgau cy In ..either the republican or demo cratic: parties, and hb harm can come to the movement-unless undesiruable and' eleventh hour recruits are per mitted to fog its" councils and per vet is aims. - "Taft isn't welcome'as a recruit and Roosevelt's roo'm is far prefera ble to. his-company. "Let's cut out the red fire and the leather lungs and go back to the patient, dogged lighting of real in surgents. ..."Listen to that T. R.-built New Sbrfc platform! It says: 'We enthu siastically Indorse ***Taft.ie?' Each month since his 'inauguration has confirmed the nation in its high es timate of his greatness of character.' ? qIq_ ' -. .* ?;.- .; i* 'f; "Rot! ' It 'may' have confirmed Bbosevelf's estimate' of Taft, but it lhasn't confirmed the nation's. Liok at the record, of those ?ightoen months! "Taft ran' a fake republican con vention in Wisconsin to beat LaFoi Jette. "Taft tried the patronage club on 'Bristow. "Taft excommunicated Cummins. "Taft fired Pinchot. "Taft put Lurton on rhe supreme bench. "Taft stood for Morgan s Wisker sham railroad bill, and tried to club; Cummins into voting for it. "Taft fought Poindexter at homy. "Taft bargained with Cannon and AJdrich: helped their friends aud hamstrung their foes, though the j foes were good party nieti "If that record 'confirms' any "es timate' of Taft that was held in 1908 then Roosevelt knew he gold-bricked the nation when he handed it the * judicial temperament' package. "After that New York platform there is no room in any group of par yy for both Roosevelt and LaPolIette or Roosevelt aud Cummins or Brit to w or Poiude.vter. "And insurgency can't gut along without the LaFollettes. Cumminses, Bristows and Poindo.vters. "So goodby, colonel; rake keer o' yourself." s: 'i Brought High Price. Mr. George Rembert. of Columbia, Sias purchased what is known as th-* "Old Agricultural Hall" property in that city. The purchr.se price was $62,500. The place was bought from the McCreery Land and Investment Company. The frontage is 50 feet of Main street. The price per foot was more than. $1.000. The deal was closod Monday. [ES A WEEK. ffRESCBE PRISONERS THE JAIL fa STORMED AND A MURDERER IS RELEASED. The Mountaineer Friends of a Con victed' Murderer Stormed the Pri son and Set Him Free. . 'Mountaineer, friends of John Moore,, under sentence to be electro cuted for the murder of Frank Howl descended upoa the Nelso;> county jail at Lovingston, Va.t atl o'clock Saturday mori?n; stormed the build ing and rescued the prisoner. It js supposed' ho' will be taken to the mountains and liberated.( .While tne people .of the county were asleep a crowd of 75 fully arm ed men from the mountain section where the crime was committed pro tegttpd. q,uietly to the county jail. Admission was gained to the build ing and the .guards, a.wed into com parative nOnrrestetence..'. The cell where Moo^e was locked up soon was found ?^d''ne;.-was^ken; 6ut;r It is 'feaned^'at'^l^'snied- will re-, suit from ?nyvatenipt'rbf the authori ties ' to .'rw?pttfre -j'the ,. murderer.; Moore ;Was ? condemned to pay the jdeath penalty by eleatrocurion at Richmond'an November 25. 'He had been" convicted of having murdered Frank Howl in Nelson county last may. 'Many of the mountaineer friends of .the condemned man believ ed, .him. iinoce.nt. ,., . .. .;>-. ??T?e only^elephohe wire ~ leading' into .the .section of the country where the crime was committed and where Moore's friends live was cut before the rescue operations began. Thisj leads to the belief that Moore aas been carried there to be liberated.1* SOME HOT TALK. 1 [ A Cornell Professor Calls Teddy an - Unmitigated Liar. Twice in one speech at Ithica, N. Y? Friday night Prof.. E. H. Wood ruff, . of Cornell University, -called Theodore Roosevelt a liar, once an unmitigated liar. His attack mad? at a political rally over which ae presided, threw the house Into a up roar. , There were cnt calls, hisses, cheers, cinppinc with a steed/ shout behind them ail of "Parker, Parker, barker,"'.tor she next" speaker, for mer Judge All:on B.wParke.r. Judge Parker sprang to", hi* ;t't-ct and begged the 'audience'' to a! low Prof. Woodruff to be heard,. The noisier part of the house compliea and q.uiet was restored. Prof. Woodruff began by operiin; up the Bellamy-Storer episode, .whiieh. Col! Roosevelt only'recently declared was closed. He charged that the Colonel denied sending Bellamy Storer to the Vatican he was an "unmitigated liar." and there were letters in his office, said the profes sor, to bear him out. The uproar over this attack had barely subsided when the professor took up his cudgels again. Roo.se celt was twice a liar, he said, when he denied that the late E. H. Harri man had subscribed to a corruption fiind to be usod for Roosevelt's elec tion to the Presidency. ? LOST IX THE STORM. Wiecks or All Vessels . Will Not be K.ioun Soon. The total ship wrecks in the ro-. cent storm i:; not erpected to be complete for a week, and in paar storms of thle kind there have ben Instances where nearly two months elapsed before the last survivor,.wno had bee'npicKed up At-sea and'-ear thed Europe, by some passing ?stea.mer. returned to give bis ac count of clmrades drownded. Thirteen drownded in shipwreck is the most authentic count at hand Including those reported last nignt on both coasts of Florida, word came from St. Augustine that three dead had been found in the wreck of an unknown four-masted schoon er near Delray. The missin? total at least half a hundred, including the crew of ninej of the Texas. Oil Company's barg*] Dallas, whoch broke adrift from.heij tow during a one hundred-mile blow i on Tuesday. * j WAS A RIG POOL. (*kttiied Trousers With Gasoline and Struck a .Hutch. Edward Thomas, an employe of ij Mobile. Ala., garage, met with a most peculiar accident Saturday morning. Thomas cleaned his khaki trousers j with gasoline while wearing them and a few minutes afterward? struck! a match on the seat to light a cig-1 arette. In a moment the mon was a living blaze, but *f.s rescued by com-1 panions who disrobed him and he es caped with only minor burns on tut hands and legs. Met Death in Storm. In a delayed telegram Friday, due to the recent storm in the far South, j Mr. W. L. Brown, of Greenville, was informed that his son, Mr. Zeno Brown, was killed in Mulberry, Fla., on the afternoon of the ISth. while making electrical connections during the storm. Young Rrown was ac electrician and was employed by a large phosphate company in Mulber ry. He was 22 years of age. OBANGEBUBG, HITS TEDDY HARD FORAKER S(JORES NEW NATION ALISM AS TREASON Says It Means Impcrielism, Pure and Simple, and Dangerous to the Liberties of the People. At Marysville, 0., on Saturday for ?mer Senator Jos. B. Foraker signaliz ed his return into active politics by going after Col. Roosevelt and his new nationalism, rough shod. For aker "stood pat" on the tariff, de plored the activities of the insur gents urged senator Dick's reelec tion and indorsed Warren 0. Hard ing for governor and the entire Re publican State ticket. He apoke of president Taft's administration and said ? Republican victory m Ohio means a great deal to the president.* Referring to Col. Rossevelt's new nationalism, former Senator Foraker said: "We have lately had a new de claration ' ?f political principles. They are politically- baptized as the doctrine of: a new nationalism. They r>re,set forth in. the nature of a plat form tor a new party. Possibly they are intended for that use only in the event thai the distinguished author he not' nominated for the piesidency by either of the old parties. '?r".VHbweVer'tnat^iriay^bfe, it is well to note- that they: violate our dual f'orm of government by arrogating, to^ f.he national government the control of matters so purely local that they clearly belong to the jurisdiction of the States. "Aside from all other objections, shis new doctrine Ts as certainly de structive of our institutions as any invoked In the name of the Southern Confederacy. "Such a preachment is not nation' alism. neither new or old, but im perialism, pure and simple. It is ,a spirit, at least as treasonable as se cession itself. "The power it would give to the president of the United States would :oe far more autocratic arid danger ous to the liberties of this people I ihan are those of any monarchy in '2urope. ' The program has orte saving feu Cure, however. There is about it ail such a- preposterous absurdity and ' :jich an "insufferable egotism as''to excite not only condemnation but ridicule. It is another, case of vault ing ambition overleaping itself," GETS BIG DAMAGES. iBngiueer Who Was in Wreck'Award ed $18,000 Verdict. L. A. Mills, engineer on train No. 39. running between Charleston and Savannah, when that train, on the night of August- lt. 190G. crashed in to a freight train on the Atlantic Coast.Line at Hardeville, just across the river from Savannah, will get: $18.000 from the Atlantic Coast Line according to decisions handed down Monday by the State supreme court. Mills was running on the Southern Railway and he brought his action on the general charge that the rivai railroad hod negligently and care lessly left a freight train , standing on the main line at the juiicrional point of the two roads. The decis ions handed down in the supreme court refuse the. petition for a rehear ing and dismiss the appeal from the motion refusing a new trial on al leged after-discovered evidence. FINDS VERDICT. Survivor of Suicide Pack iN'cUrcd a Murderer. ?One of most unique dam.i?c suit* ever tried in this state was de'det. in the city court at Gadsden, Ala., .Monday, when Mrs. Lela Ashley was awarded a verdict of $5,000 against 'TC. K. McMahan. who Is now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary for the murder of Mrs. Ashley's hus I band. Sam Askley. The crime was committed the night of January 23, ; 1909. McMahan testified that the ?two had entered into a suicide com hpact and that Ashley accidentally I shot himself while handing a pistol ! to 'McMahan. The court charged that : the survivor in a suicide compact, I when one party already had com [mi-tted the act, was guilty of mur I der. Fatal Auto Accident. Two persons were instantly killed and three others injured near Glen Isle, Pa., when an automobile be came disabled by the bursting of ., tire, turned turtle und rolled down a twenty foot embankment. The dean are Mrs. .T. K. Jackson and her ftve year-old son. of St. Mary's. Fmiiiil lh-:ul on SfrtM-i. Ar Ho;'Oken, N. .1., :i w.-l) dressed man registered .v a hotel about i o'clock Wednesday morning as Afar tin fCgger of Philadelphia. An lioui lati-r his corpse jv:i?? found <'m the Ride wn 11? below- his room OioU-ra in I .-ourIon. AsiaTi<- cholera has reached Lon don. A man di'.-d of the dread dis eri.-?- in tile Royal, Free hospital on Tuesday. This is the firs; case of cholera recorded iu Englaud iti many years. S. .Cm TUESDAY, OCTO SURE TO WIN RooseTeit and His Mao Friday Will Be Badly Beaten in New York. HOUSE STILL IN DOUBT Ohio, Indiana and. Connecticut Looks j. Safe for the Democrat* at This Time. The Democrat* and. Insur gents Will Control the Next Sen. ate. Trend Steadily Democratic. The New ;York Herald's 3rd con gressional forecast, which is publish ed by it every Sunday, shows a grad ual but steady siffening of. Demo cratic cause. The apportionment of the,, doubtful districts, between the two parties continues. In the first forecast there were 118 of such dis tricts, In the second ?0 and now SL. With each division -the Democratic lead over the' Republicans has in creased. The significance appears unmistakable, . . ' Close attention this week is paid to the so-called issue of 'Cannon-; Ism." It extends."'in spots all over, the United States, is not strong enough to prevent Mr. Cannon carry ing the Republican caucus, but there are probably enough pledged against him ;who would, remain , out of can.-, cus ^jo> prevent. * his ? '.rerelcction * as . Speaker " of? the House in the Sixty second Congress; Should the Republi cans have a majority in it. (The tendency toward the election of legislators which will choose. UnlN ed States Senators .of the insurgent or., progressive type is. so strong that the Herald at' th'\s early day forecasts a Senate after 'March 1, 1911, .which will be controlled on all important issues by the insurgents and the Democrats. Here are the figures of the third forecast in cold type.' Of the districts sure or strongly favoring one party or the other, 179 are credited to the Democrats and 151. to the Republi cans. Both have increased their strength since a week ago?the Dem ocrats eighteen and the Republicans eleven. . . \ . . To obtain a bare majority of the House bf Representatives the Demo crats have seventeen to go, the Re publicans have .forty-five to go. There are now apparently sixty-ode doubtful districts. In making; com parisons it should be borne in mind: that the Republicans now hold 217' seats in the House and the Demo crats 174. Say Div Will Win. . The. .Herald says, that Democratic, leaders, with faces agloam. declare that nothing but a miracle can pre vent the placing of the Empire State safely In the Democratic column. Re publicans, with a show of optimism, assert that "conditions are improv ing." Democratic headquarters buzz with activity. Republican quarters lack the spirit and enthusiasm of other years. The Democrats have an abundance of funds. Hitherto they have had in the up-Stale counties only the rusted ruins of an organiza tion and a purse so thin as to be al most invisible. The Republicans are sore'and surly'in sections where the Old Guard holds sway. In other sec lions they are gloomy. From unbiased observers come the predictions that if the election were held now there would be no doubt of the election of Mr. Dix and .the prop able election of the entire Democrat ic ticket. This reeling is shared by many Republicans. Some Democrats assers there is a landslide com ing. They assert that the Foiger year is to have u re-enactment.. Sumo, of the men who have proved good pro phets in the pasf declare that they do not look for a landslide, but ex pect certain victory at least lor tne head of the ticket. Ohio Seems Sale. The Herald's correspondent at Co lumbus. Ohio, says Judge Hnrman is as sure of re-election as Governor of Ohio tonight as any mortal can be sure of anyrhing except the prover bial death and taxes. The Republi can campaign managers insist they are going to put Warren G. Harding in the Exrreiuive's chair, but they will not hazard an estimate ot cue plurality, and their boast is based on hope, not facts. The Democrats will make asina in Congressmen as well as members of tile Legislature, but whether they will elect euough to control the legis lature is in doubt. If the Demo crats win the legislature. Uiey will send a Democrat to Washington as Senator in place of Senator Uicfc. !(?? pu,blican. Connecticuit and Massachusetts. In the !nner Republican councils of Connectieuli there is panic. The Re publican protest afainst Mr. Lilley two years ago cost twenty thousand votes, hut it was a 'Shay's rebellion compnred with the civil war to the present disaffection. Repr?sentativ? Emil IjOOH. the German Republi can leader of New Haven. s?y?? that he will role against. Mr. Goodwin as a protest against fraudulent political methods, lint, as Michael Kenealy, chairman of the State Republican Central Committee, warn'-d the. Re publican office holders the other day. the ot>en Republican revolt im plies a discontent which in great part will not reveal itself except at j the polls. Present Indications in Massachu setts are that the Republican ticket BEB 25, 1910. ECHOES OF TBE STORM MANY LIVES WERE LOST AT SEA j DURING ITS PERIOD. i Two Steam Ships and Sixty-Four Men Were Drowned and Many Fishermen Were Lost. That two steamers plying between New Orleans and Central and South American ports sank probably in tbe Yucatan Channel during the recent severe storm, with a total loss of 64 j lives, is the beief in shipping circles. These vessels are the British steamer Crown Prince, Capt. Kirk wood, with a crew of 35, and the iBluafields, of Norwegian register, Capt. C. M. Lange, with twenty nine s??ls aboard, including Capt. Lunges Wife. ?;? ' "The '" Crown' Prince,, which 'sailed from Santos, due at New Orleans tan days ago. with a cargo of 75,000i bags of coffee,, was. last reported 'on' October 7 th at Barbados. She is; owned by the Prince .Line, .Limited," ?Newcastle. The Blue?elds sailed from Ce.'ba, Spanish Honduras, on Friday, of week before last with, a cargo of bananas, valued of $14,000. She was chartered by Vaccaro Brothers, of New Orleans. . The steamer Crib, which was four hours ahead of the Bluefields when t.he?.Jb.eight\o? the storm struck- her, was .'blown '..three "hundred -miles but of her . course.. j :^..Advices from Tampa, Fla., say more than a score of. small fishing vessels were sunk in Tuesday's hur ricane", according to advices brought from.Boca Grande, Southern Florida, by. a sailing vessel. Fishing camps on the exposed kej-s were also washed away, in some in stances leaving no clue to the fate of 'their occupants. The loss of life will not be known for days. The British steamer Celtic Prin cess. Capt. Williams, five days over due from New Orleans, arrived at Norfolk on Saturday with only seven tons of coal in her bunkers, after a', severe experience in the recent storm, off the coast of Florida. The steamer, heavily laden with phosphate rock, was awash a part of ten days, and came in with a portion of her rail and superstructure.badly damaged'. Chief Engineer Dryden and Seaman Dablstrom were Injured,, the' former narrowly escaping being washed overboard. ATTEMPTED ESCAPE. Prisoner SteaLs Auto and Make* a Dashing Flight. ? -George Smithers. aged 10, a con vict on the Coffee county, Ga.. chain gang, made a desperate, but futile attempt to regain his freedom Satur day on one of. the automobiles en gaged in the round-the-State tour. One of the tourists, thinking he had ?ost his way, left his car and walked back some distance to converse with one of the guards. Young Smithers, seeing his chance, quit shoveling dirt, hopped info the vacated auto mobile and sped away. The machine came to grief in a ditch shortly after- 1 wards, however, and ? Smithers . was aurled headlong into the branches of j a tree where he wns recaptured. The automobile was extricated and pro ceeded. SPECIAL. TERM ASKED. Speedy Trial Will Probably be Given Negro Fiend. . Solicitor Cobb has requested Gpy. Ansel to order a special term of court for the trial of Ed. Byrd, alias Min us HIghwjiter, alias (Moss Hightop, who Is now under arrest for criminal assault on a woman in the north western section of Columbi?. Solicitor Cobb asks that the date for th<\ trial be fixed for November 21st. His reasons for this are that there will be term of court in Ker shaw until that date and th.u under the law a certain length of time should be allowed the defendant. Gov. Ansel has not yet acted on the petition. Died from Whipping. Henry Bennett, formerly a pros perous iarmer of Dykosburg, Ky., died at Metropolis. Ills., from com plication.-, believed to have resulted from a whipping administered to him by night rirler.-: in February. 190S. At that time Dennett entered suit for $50,000 in the federal court against the alleged nightriders, which hs.i not ye? been decided. Kell from Third Story. At Atlanta, Ga., Willie Tifcon. aged 11, fell backwards out of the thud story window of his home there Fri day and [he only injury he sustained was a fractured arm. Thinking window was down, young I'itfon at tempted to iean against the sash. will win at the Stau- elections in November. It also is believed that most of the Republican Representa tives who are running for re-cleciion will be sent back to Congress. Dem ocratic chances of succoss all over the State were excellent before the recent Convention, which ended ::i a riot, and the quarrels amou: the leaders, which finally resulted in the selection of Mr. Eugene N. Foes, uf! Boston, as Gubernatorial nominee. ' V',;' ? 1 PRICE COTTON PICKER IS PRONOUNCED A SUCCESS BV THE DALLAS NEWS. It Says Hundreds Witnessed tiie De monstration and 'Had Their Doubts Dispelled. The Dallas, Texas, News says the Price-Campbell cotton picker, which whs given a trial hear that city a few days ago, was a complete suc cess. It will be remembered that this picker was demonstrated in Marlboro, on Senator Johi\ L. Mc Laurin's farm las>: fall, and .that Theodore Price and .a number of bis northern friends ani[i associates were there to see the picker work. The. News says the first practical demonstration of the Prioe-Camp . bell cotton picker machine to be held in north Texas was given yesterday afternoon on the Caputh farm, north east of Dallas on the Sherman-Dall as -interurban line, where a portion of :W. C. Burden's crop was har vested by means of the mechanical ?picker The demonstration was witnessed by about 500 citizens of Dallas and the immediate vicinity. The opinion of those qualified to know was that the Price-Campbell picker is a gr6at success and that one of the great labor problems that confronts the' cotton growing belt to-day has been solved. ?; :"Manykof those who composed the party, went to the cotton field in a. mood most skeptical and. expressions frequently, heard indicated that the .minds of most of the crowd was filK ed with doubts as. to the practicabili ty of any mechanical contrivance to successfully supplant the negrp cot ton picker. Enthusiasm, interest and belief in the invention begau to grow by leaps and bounds, however, when the motors whirred and ih: machine started down a cotton row. The cotton fibre, snatched from the stalks by a battery of rotating metal fingers, was carried upward and deposited in sacks at . the rear of the machine and as the waves of the fleecy white staple flowed into the retaining receptacles those who watched were changed from skeptics to, admirers. Complimentary; re marks took the place of criticisms that had proceeded the exhibition. It was. another illustration of the old time and trite expression, ."see ihg is, beKevIng/'^v Throtigh the med-' jum of sight those present realized that a successful cotton picker was an. actuality and not an untried scheme. .Those who witnessed the demon stration, went to the Caruth farm .upon invitat.on and as guests of Theodore .H.. Price, the head of the Price-Campbell corporation. Four special cars were run over the Dall as-Sherman interurban line to a point nearest the cotton field. Moat of the crowd went on the railway. Others made the trip In automobiles. Many farmers from the section around the Caruth farm were pres ent. The party was composed of both men and women and was per sonally directed by Mr, Price. To describe the. cotton picker in its mechanical details would take an expert mechanician and. such a des scription would jrobably mean little except to one familiar with mechin ery. . t .The average observer sees, a gas oline motor machine of ten or twelve feet in length. ? It is equipped with alternating row of ..interlock ing metal fingers through which the cotton .stalks pass. The fibre is gath ered into storage bags attached to the. rear. The difer, or operator, occupies...a seat over the forward wheels and operates the machine much after the manner of driving an automobile. In action the cotton picker travels down the row at the rate of be tween three and four miles an hour. In the demonstration the stalks were plucked clean of cotton and an ex amination after the machine had passed indicated that unopened bolls and the stalks were uninjured. The picked cotton after being re moved torn the machine allowed about as clean as when gathered in the ordinary manner by hand. A few leaves and slight traces of trash were to be seen, but neither was in greater quaility than is ordinari ly found. In the tield wln-re the exhibition was given were shown two bales ut coUon. one of which was harvested with the cotton picker and the oth er gathered by hand, and it was notable that although the ooiton came from the same Held the grade 'of the bale picked by machinery was better. According to the owners, the Price Campbell machine is not alone a coc tori picker but can be converted to many uses on the farm. Special equipment makes it either a. plow, a disc harrow, a cotton chopper or a stalk cutter, to scy nothing of tne other uses to which the propelling power can be applied. Some of the advantages claimed for the machine are: It will pick an acre an hour and get all the open cotton on the plant: it does not Injure the plant nor harm the unopened bolls or del icate blossoms: it is operated by one man. Arrangements have been made to exhibit the cotton picker at the coming State Fair, and a patch of cotton has been planted in the race j course infield for this purpose. ' About two hours were spent in the TWp CENTS PEB COPY DIX WILL WIN The Outlook is Gloomy for tie RepsiS-* cans All Along die Use. SOME ACTUAL RETURNS Prom the Begging Letters Sent Oat In New York by the Republican Leaders Give Them the Cold Shiv ers?Amusing Story of a Republi can Congressman and His Speeches .The Washington correspondent ot The State says Madame Rumor?? who is cousin to Dame Truth is cir culating an interesting report con cerning some of the happenings around the headquarters of the Re publican congressional campaign committee In Washington. ' It is well known that the Demo cratic campaign textibook this year contains some able speeches made by [ Republican members of congress du | ring the last session of congress and during the tariff extra session of Hast ,year. . The committee having in charge. 1 the compilation of the book decided that it would be good politics' to condemn the Republican party out ?of its; members'own mouths, .and hence the . Republican speeches in th? 'Democratic' book. < 'These Republican speeches, .by the f way,, are filed with some good Demo cratic doctrine, which has taken pos session of a wing of the Republicans because they recognize that the peo ple were, leaning toward the Democ racy. *f But the interesting report that Madame Rumor is circulating, mak ing the Democrats chuckle over it, is that certain Republican, members of congress, in their efforts to. secure reelection, have sent out, in bulk, large numbers of their speeches to be distributed among their const.itu tents under their franks. Later on, however, it was found that the constituents in some cases were beginning to lean so stroiigry in the direction .opposite that sup ported in the speeches'that the mem bers in question got busy and sent messages directing their clerks not to send out the speeches, as 'Ibey were likely to help the other, feir low! ?'.??* Sa far there has Been! ho; definite confirmation of the rumors,\.as. it would be disastrous to the Republi cans If they were to let such a thing get out. and every effort is made to prevent its confirmation, it is also positively stated that the rumor *a not true; but the Democratic chuck ling goes on; just the same. But some of the "returns." or re plies sent by Republicans in New York to the appeal of the campaign committee for funds have actually fallen into the hands of the Demo crats and been made public. One ot the speeches is that of Charles ?. Cowan of New York. He wrote the chairman of the Republican commit tee as follows: "Your appeal of the 12th inst. to my 'patriotism' has been duly re ceived and read. If 'the Republican party of New York insiists on the ab solute honesty of public officials, why does it permit itself to be'boss ed by that self-convicted, all-round faker and hypocrite, Theodore Roose-i velt? If Charles- F. Murphy and Tammany Hall are 'enimies of good government' they have never shown themselves to be anarchists. "No, you can't count upon my aid. The comparison which yeu draw be tween the results that would follow a Democratic and a Repoblican house of representatives may be very satisr fylng to your imagination, but rest assured that it will be Democrat ic and that Dix will be the next gov ernor of New York and a Democrat the next President of the United States." Another Republican, in announc ing that he is going to vote the Dem. ocraic ticket this year for the first time in his life', made the following remark: "I have always been a Republican, but I want to make this point plain: If Mr. Charles F. Murphy is respon sible for Mr. Dix as the Democratic candidate for governor. I am one of those fair-minded Republicans hav ing no selfish political Interest te serve who are willing to give Mr. I Murphy credit for exercising as good I judgment in this Instance as he did when he picked William J. Gaynor as the mayorality candidate for New York." There Is talk now of the organiza tion of "Dix Republican clubs" in . New York, and they will probably be organized in some localities between ) now and November S. ? Safe at Tybo?\ The Texas Oil company's barge j Dallas with Its crew of nine men is j safe at Tybee island. The barge ! broke away fron? its tow during a j 100-mlle-an-hour blow off Jackson ville last Tuesday. cotton field and different tests were {given the Price-Campbell picker, each being'successful to a degree I most satisfactory to both the owu jers and the spectators. Many com pliments were bestowed upon Mr. Price, and the inventor. Mr. Camp bell, was forced to mount a cotton bale for an introduction to the crowd. He was giv*n an enthusias tic greeting.