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THE CONGRESSIONAL OUTLOOI John Sharp Williams Will Romaii Minority Loader?Practically all Opposition to Him Has Beon Dissipated. Nows and Courier. Washington, November 28.? Coining events?political and otherwisecast their shadows before them, ani as the day for the sixtieth Congress to open approaches a fairly accural vision may be had of what is likelj to take place among our nationa law-makers during the next six 01 seven months. As stated in a dispatch to the News and Courier the ball will start tc rolling Saturday afternoon when the Democrats of the liou.se will caucu.to select a successor to ReprosenlaJive John Sharp Williams, who lias been minority leader Cor about sixteen years. When Senator Bailey, tlion a representative from the State of Texas, gave up the minority leadership he was succeeded by Representative Richardson, of Tennessee. After he had held the place for a short lime he gave place to Mr. Williams, the present incumbent. A week ago it looked as if the friends ol Representative DeArmand, of Missouri, would mass their forces to oust. Mr. Williams when the caucus meets, but Mr. Williams has been gaining strength so rapidly sinco his defeat of Coventor Vardaman for tlvo senate that there is now littlo roasorn to believo that the Williams opponents will make more than a demonstration of opposition. On the streets today and in political circles? wherever Democrats are gathered?it is the belief that. .Judge DeArmand will run even though ho should receive only the voles of those Democrats dissatisfied with Mr. Williams and his administration for personal reasons. It is practically certain at the same time thai for the sake of party harmony no -oilier Democrat will allow his name to go before the caucus. In thai event Mr. William's re-election will be certain. II is not al all cerlain llial "ITnelo ?Ioe'' Cannon will be re-elected Speaker of (lie House, although there were in the last house 240 Republicans as against LKi Democrats, and the proportion will not be greath different during the next, congress and thai number, ordinarily, would be enough to -elect him without the least trou'ble. II must, be understood however, thai of I he 21!) Republican members all are not Cannon men and should another strong Republican?of the stamp of Tawney, 01 Payne, or Dal/ell come oul for the speakership I lie Republican element ol the house would not show a solid front for ('annou by any means. There are a number, of leading Republicans in 1 he house as well as Democrats who do :iol countenance Mr. Cannon's methods ai all limes, and the statement has frequently been made by some of tliein thai they might as well be at home as for the results ; Iccompii.->:ied hv them under the Cannon regime. The real fight on Mr. Cannon is coming, if the present plans of President Compels, of the American Federation of Labor, ami his co-workers are carried out. because they say I hoy cannot, under M r. Cannon's dictatorship and rulings as well as his bossisiii ol commit lees, secure proper legislation In protect (lie labor people of the I niled Stales. Ilis shortcomings during the three congresses he has served as speaker are. set out at length in the circular letters going over the I'uited Stales in the effort to defeat him for re-election to that place. In these circulars each instance whereby his rulings were against the interests of organized labor have received special attention. Chief of these is cited his action in regard to the labor amendments to the Sherman anti-trust law, the employers' liability bill, the project of ereatin a depart me.ll of labor with a secretary in I he president's cabinet, the eight-hour labor bill, (he abuse of the injunction measures and the bill relating to alien labor on the Panama Canal. Mr. Cannon i*. charged with having ruled against the interests of organized labor in each of these instances. These are some of 1he greivances Mr. Coinpers and his associates in the Federal ion of Ijiltor have chalked up against Mr. Cannon. It remains, therefore, to see which is the strongest?the Federation of Labor backed by three million members or Joseph C. Cannon, speake? of the house of representatives and leader of the 250 Republican members. P. TL McO. 4 A woman's idea of economy is to buy a f>-cent loaf of bread instead of a dollar sack of flour. v. .. v.-/-. ?MM? ' ? j THE LA.ST DUEL i In South Cai'olina Was Fought More Than Twcuty-thrco Yoars Ago. I J. JI. Godfrey in Daily Mail. The last duel fought in South Car olina, according lo the regular duel- I code, was iought albout 23 yoars 1 jvgo when Col. JO. li. Cash shot and > killed Col. Shannon. 3 This duel occurred at Dubose's !>iidge, then in J)arlington county, ' but now in I^eo. The people of tho lower part of lnis stale have I his incident fresh in ' their memories, hut the majority of ' tho up-eoiintry people have forgot-j '1 '' A( the time, it caused a great | 'ideal ??|* laik :i 11 over the state, hut a! -ieater pari of this talk subsided 1 J when ( ol. ( ash was acquitted bv a Darlington jury. I ' "''I be recalled that Col. Cash1 was one ol (hi* most prominent oil- ' i/.ens of his community, lie owned j considerable land and was a prosper-] j ous planter. 11 is wile was a Miss I j Kllerbe ol one ol the best families in | | lower South Carolina. | When I lie war bet ween tho states broke out. Col. Cash was one of the lirsi lo go to the front. lie was elected colonel of a regiment, which i position he held until his term, to which he had been elecl'od, expired. When tho second election of officers of the regiment was held, Col. Cash's name was dropped out. It is said that on this account, he put some otic in the ranks in his place, and then relumed lo his South Carolina home, saving V! i a I men were needed on tlu: I arms to raise provisions for t he mon in (lie army. 11 seems that. Col. Cash's wealth really belonged lo his wife and when j I hey separated, she placed her estate [ | in the. bands !' Sh>nnon & Depass,' | prominent attorneys in (nitnden. Mrs. ( ash had a brother named j I'ob hllei'he. and it is frequentIv?? said that lie caused the difIerenccs to exist between Col. ('ash and Col. Shannon, which resulted i:i the duel. Others say thai Col. Cash, in need of > money, looked fo ('ol. Shannon lo [ j supply his need, which Col. Shannon * 'j ret used to do. II is a matter of his j lory, however, that Col. Cash a:rd his I young son, Klleiibe liogan Cash, dr.. who had only recently graduated as , i captain at the Virginia, Military inI si it n(c, became enraged with Col. Shannon and that both of litem starl, ed by private conveyance from their i eouutrv home at Cash's station to , Camden to challenge 'Col. Shannon. It is further said thai the father did not know that the son was oil the ' same mission, nor did the son know j I ha I (lie father was on his way to , issue a challenge. . They made their I trip separately, and when young ('ash j I arrived at ( amdcit. lie found that his | . lather had been there before him and ' j had already accorded Col. Slianun.i a, , elialleiige, which was promptlv ac- ! {copied. Young Cash, although dis-I j appointed, (hen challenged Col. Shan-I [lion's law partner. Mr. Depass. ami! I likewise this elmIleiige was accepted. I ll was arranged thai Shannon and I I'lie elder <('ash should nice! at Duj bose s bridge on a certain morning at j | sunrise. Col. Cash was an excellent jsnol. Mis reputation was known fa? j j and wide. line lo their honor. Shannon audi j Cash appeared al the dueling place 'at t lie appointed hour. It is said thai Col. ('ash wanted'to les| his pistol j before the duel and |i|ial he did lire one snot through a board in a fence | ami that he afterwards emptied tho j remaining shots in the chamber | t>lirough I he same hole. I lie decision as lo who should have j lirst shot was duly arranged accordI ing lo the dueling code and it fell lo J Col. Shannon's luck that be won. Col. I Shannon, who either was very much : excited or because he was a poor {shot, lircd wide of his mark. It is j --aid that his bullet hit in the mud j directly in lYonl of Col. Cash and jthat it spattered mini on Col. Cash's clothes. This did not unnerve the | stead\ colonel, lor he placed himself j in position ami lircd and Shannon dropped dead. j I' has bee i said that Col. Cash I U"IV :l breast plate at the lime of j | the duel, but Ibis rumor has been do-I | uied by bis I rieuds and associates.' ( ol. Cash was arrested and his trial j followed, which resulted in a verdict | of not guilty.' If is said that he had a Irieivd in the jury room who | had agreed with him to display by a signal with his hand how the jury! stood after retiring with (he case and! thai vtfler being out some time, Col.l Cash learned from his friend thai several were for acquittal and the others for eonvictiion. TTe then retired !o get a full night's sleep witlij out waiting to learn of the verdict, j lb" duel between young Cash and Mr. Dopiuss novor materialized. It > i 9 .. 7 ?7 \..v- ii.-riv,. ;im| that ^liis duel^liould I take place in An.so a county, N. C. I As Mr. He puss' road to., the dueling placo It'll liini through Chcslerllehl court house, lie was arrested there and put under a peace bond. Some people havo intimated that he allowed the news to go out to tho court house he Tore he arrived there that ii<* expected to pass through on his way to tho duel. This may bo doing him an injustice, but yet it is claimed by Cash's friends. Col. Cash died at a ripe old age. IT is son had quite a different ending, lie was shot down and killed by a posse, who had been ordered by the governor to kill him at sight. Ho had killed several people and ho had been declared an outlaw. ' It will be recalled Hint he and his bosom friend. Sam Lee, were round in i( a IiiiI in a u? i (' .rest on the Pec | Deo river and that the posse sur- I rounded tin? house at daybreak one morning and began firing I it rough the wcnthcphonrding. Lee was the lirst inmate l>> leave the house, lie jumped out of the door and was recognized by some of the members of the posse, lint the men in the posse on the other side of the 'house could see nothing of him but his legs and lircd mi him. The result is that Lee is limping around near the Cash plantation even to this day. Young' Bogan Cash was finally forced to leave his refuge, which proved to be not much of one. and a<s he stepped I out of the door, ho was riddled with bullets. It. is said that bo lired several shots at the posse after lie had ] fallen to the ground. Itogan Cash was a good man when j bo left the Virginia Military insti- ] lute. It is said that he made the best , captain that that instituition ever . had. Hut. his associations, after his return to his home, were too much , for 11iin and lie soon went from good , '? bad and from bad to wor>c. lie ' was buried ill the family burial { ground near the front slops of the ' ('ash mansion. And on hi< tomb- ; stone bis aged father had lliis inseription cut. "Kllorbe liogan Cash, born ?? and murdered ." And, in Latin on the lower part of the ' slab is a verse which asks the question. who shall alone for thi> foul deed and states that his best friends 1 deserted him and shot him d"\vu. It. is a matter of history that his classmate, also a captain of the Virginia Miliary institute, was captain'1 of the Cheraw guards during the oe- , eurrences related above and that this' friend was ordered b\ i In* governor to capture Cash dead or alive. I?ut the last duel in this state was between Col. Cash and (' >1. Shannon, ! for the South Carolina general as-I seni'blv soon after the duel, enacted | an anti-dueling law. whi< i is yet on : t lie statute books of ihi 'ate. A w <man can bra-.v :11 somebody in the family being an invalid, i fJcaawftTv 4\ <%nw\Xi?Fis. : : %v r,.;v\ : r-j q?a ||| fnvot/vwl ( CjOPYRICHY HPfc.BYTMC BOSTER OaoWN Co. CHIC/ WHY DoE/5 THE FRUIT APPLET AT THE ToP OF T THE APPLET AT THE ToP people .see. appear.ANC ance help.5 the fruit appearance help you? appearance and with men',5 all wool .5uit.s men'.s rain coat.s fron Boys' rain coat.s from respect! cor. m the up-to-1 ,v. .x.,. .. .. y FOR THANKSGIVING Celery. 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