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HOW HE WON. W. L. Douglas, Democratic Governor 2lect of Massachusetts. TELLS WHY HE WAS ELECTED. le Says the Nation Could Have BeenI Won by the Democrats on the Issues that Elected Him Governor. "I did what I set out to do. 1 made Massachusetts a doubtful State. Can I keep it so? For that we must wait and see. I belie e we will. The same issue pressed in every other State In the union, with sincerity, would have been just as as effective as it was in Massachusetts." William L. Douglas, the most talked-about Democrat in the country today, thus' sums up his victory. From a plain business man, devotinng all his time to his shoe businEss, and taking little or no part in publ c aft fairs, he has become the idol of Mas sachusetts, and Democratic leaders throughout the nation are turning questioning and speculative eyes upon him. Forty thousand persors j :ined in a great celebration of his victory at his home town of Brockton, Wed nesday night, and the man who has never had a strike and who once be longed to a Union himself, was cheer ed from one end of the town to the other. t William L. Do.iglas, the next gov ernor of Massachusetts, and who was elected by the biggest vote ever given a Democrat in the State, is 59 years old. He is a medium framed man, neither large nor small, who dresses plainly, without the slightest attempt at show. He wears usually a sack coat of blue material. more servicea ble than showy, a derby hat, a turn down collar and plain black tie. Woodcuts of Mr. Douglas, printed for years in newspapers all over the United States, have made his featurEs as familiar as those of any man in the country. He is a few years older than those pictures would indicate. He .-s very bald, with a head that rises high in the crown and which is fringed about the temples and at the back by close-cropped -iron gray hair. His moustache is iron gray and orl partially hides very full firm lips. His eyes are a modest gray. but when he is aroused they flash earnestness. A GREAT POLITICIAN. Those who have watched Mr. Doug las in his recent campaign say he is a' great politician. A World reporter who observed him at his headquarters last Wednesday was struck with the easy way in which this plain man of business adapted himself to polties. Almost every two minutessome of biz workers, wearing the very evident stamp of the politician, came in to congratulate him. Instantly the gov ernor-elect was up to meet them with a hearty handshake and "Why, h-e 1 1-o, Jim! Well, it was all right. wasn't it? You did fise. You boys weregreat. I am awfully glad to se -- N~o, you are to be congratulated yourself." All day Wednesday the political workersfilled his improvised campaign headquarters in the Old South build ing on Washington street, anid Mr. Douglas, who has devoted -all his life to the shoe business, mingled with~ them his hearty laugh and with as -great freedom as though politics had been his calling all his life. Dawn in Brockton, 19 miles from Boston, where the Douglas shoe fac tories are, Mr. Douglas is unquestion ably the idol of the people. He has a great army of emphi yes In his severali lactories there.\ Be is known from one end of the State to the other as the Ideal emp'oyer. What the people cf the town like about him is that he Is a -plain, sincere, unostentatious man who goes about the streets ming ling with the people, without ever giving In his manner the slightest suggestion of the great success he has. won. The newsboys and bootblacks all know him. The conductors on the accommodation trains that run from Boston to Brockton all know him, and he alwals gives them a hearty handshake. All the cabmen and truck drivers are his personal friends, and though Brockton is a Bepublican town far and away, he carried it Tuesday by a g'od vote. There is no question that Mr. Douglas' election is the most remark able thing that ever happened in Mas sachusetts politics. Many explana tions are offered for it. Probably the most popular explanation Is that the labor vote did it. Though this expla nation covers a great part of the phe nomenon it does not explain it all. Throughout the State the labor ua Ions were pretty generally united In favor of Mr. Douglas. They liked him, and they did not like Gov Bates, whom they blamed for vetoing an eight-hour law and an over-time bill The labor unions in many cases came out openly and indorsed Mr. Douglas. .The socialist vote also 'went for him. NOT THE LABOR VOTE ALONE. Mr.. Douglas does not agree that the labor vote is wholly responsible for his election, and he points out that while his vote in the textile cities, such as Fall River, was very large, it was equally large in the farming districts in purely residential sections, and throughout Boston, which he carried by 20,000. "Ift was a general vote that elected me," said he, "the vote of the work ing men, farmers, businesss men, law yers and all classes. It was due to the fact that I stood for a genuine Issue. "I conducted a campaign that was free from fault finding. I believe that in our national campaign it would have been much better if we had not found so much fault. In my speeches I never once mentioned the name of -~Gov. Bates or President Roosevelt. I did not mention a dead issue. I stood out upon the affirmative proposition of a demand for reciprocity and the removal of protection from trusts, and without attacking the other side con tinually pointed tothisissue assomettl lng that 1 stood for. It was the insu nearest the popular heart-whether the people are to continue paying mil lions to the trusts. "The situation which brought suchi a surprising response in Massachusetts was not local to Massachusetts. The Issue was just as good in Connecticut, just as good in New Jersey. It -was just as good in a farming as in aj manufacturing State. It was an issue upon which I believe the American~ people are better prepared today than In any previous campaign to respond to. The demonstrationi of popular sentiment here has been such that the Republicanl party has begun to see that it cannot ignore it. Its leaders here, some of them, are beginning to admit that 'stand pat' will not ali sysl 4o as a policy. Some ot them have )dmitted that the tariff must be re vised. "All that was needed was a man In the nation to present the Issue to the American people sincerly, earnestly, vigor'udiy, in a way that would ap peal to their heart and conscience. We should have made the campaign aggressively upon that issue apolo gizing fur nothing, fearing nothing, krowing that we were right and dar ing to stand for the right." FOUNDED DESK FOR EMPHASIS Mr Dougzas. who alway speaks for publication with the business man's reluctance, bad began to talk half :;esitatiogly, Lut he warmed up as he went on. until he began to pound his dAeSk for emphasis, and no one who stw him could have doubted the thorough earnestness and sincerity of the man. As he talked it was plain that he regarded this issue upon which he had made his fight as the one which comprised all the other is sues-the great trust issue, and the question of corpfrations taking taxes from all classes by taking the necessi ties of life. "The people in Massachusetts are educated on the tariff, and they are not to be fooled," said he. "They see 'or themselves the practical workings of this tariff which is so highly laud ed as the frieud of the workingman, and they know that even if wages have advan-ed, the cest of living has advanced three tim-s as much, and in .13e end the workingman is worse off in the picket. In a word, wages have increased 11 and a fraction per cent., and the cost of living has increaSEd 36 and a fraction." Mr. Douglas has a magnificent home on south Elm street, in Brock ton, and his wife learned with a sigh that ste must give up this home and go to live in Boston when he takes up the reins of g vernment on Jan. 8. "I was satisfied with my husband as he was," she said. "Of course I am proud that the people have called him, and I iknow he will do himself eriedit, but I know we will not .e able to see as much of him here at home as we have dune." Mr. Douglas is a great home man, and he spends all his spare time there. The day after he was elected, when he came to Boston, be slipped away from his cek bratir g friends to buy a present fur his little grandson, who was celebrating his tirst birthday. SENT TO THE POOEHCUIE. Such is -h" .ad Fate of a One Time Millionaire. "Ah, you don't know me, Magis trate Cornell. Yu're li-e the r -qt of the fine fellows who were my friends in the old palmy days. You can't see in the nameless street ped'iler that you call a beggar Sebyler Van Ness, of the old Dutch stock, tOe Union, G-zion League and' University club nan, who lost $8,000,000 in that hell hole of a Wall street twelve years ago. bat's right. Send me to Black well's. "You were my fellow member in the University Club years ago, but you've forgotten me. We used to joke about it in our set in the old days, but it's solemn earnest to me now. Ge ahead. Hit a fellow when he's down. it's the way of the world." But Magistrate Cornell did know him. As soon as the man bef ire him spse he recognized in the shabby, trembling, shambling, prisoner, a vestige of the dashing Schuyler Van Ness of other days. Van Ness had some little scented beans from the Philippines, which he said he was selling, but Detectives Mdusick and Forbes, of the beggar squad, said they had seen him solicit money from a number of persons at a number of places along Vesey steet. He said be lived in a lodging house at No.-51 Bwery. Magistrate Cornell asked Van Ness kindly what he would do if liberated. He said he would go to Florida and spend the Winter there, selling bric a-brac and other articles. Magistrate Cornell considered his weak and en feebled condition, and said he thought that it would be an actual kindness to send him to Blackwell's for the winter instead, and so the last of the Van Ness family went to the almshouse without a protest, sent by one of the Old friends of his better days.--New York American. Picked Up at Sea. After 18 hours in an open boat six men of the Philadelphia schooner Emily H. Naylor were rescued by the steamer Grenada which arrived at New York Friday. The Naylor was abandoned about 300 miles from Ber muda after a hopeless struggle with the hurricane which passed up the coast. Her sails had been ripped away by the wind, her foreboom oroken and water was pouring into her hold in a flood through the centre board bcx when the crew got away in the life boat leaving all their personal effects behind. Tney had been drift ing about for 18 h..urs when sighted by the Grenada. Their hurried de parture left no time to provision the lifeboat and the men were in desper ate straits when the Grenada came to their assistance. The Naylor was under command of Capt. John F. Wilson and left New York in ballast, Nov. 4, for a Virginia port. The schooner was off Hog island, Va., when the storm struck her. The S--causit Vote. The socialist vote Is growing rapidly. The committee claims that the returns show an Increase of be tween 500 and 600 p-er cent, since Debs was a candidate for president in 1900. The total vote then was 97, 730 tbroughout the country, and this year they say it Is between 500,000 and 600,000. The principal gain was in Ilflinois, where four years ago the state gave 9.687 votes, and this year about 75,000, of which 42,000 votes came fro-n Chicago. New York state holds the second place with from 40, 000 to 50.000 for Debs, comparing with 12,869 in 1900. In Greater New York Debs got 23,616 votes, against 9,277 in 1900. The vote fell off badly in Massachusetts. The CarD. War is now being waged in western rivers against the Ge:man carp, intro duced Into this country a couple bf de ades ago as the life saver of the pop uace. The carp fails to tickle the american palate, but it consumes the aggs of game fish with an insatiable ippetite. Under the supervision of the is warden of Illinois, the Fox river .'was rccently seined for two days and 0 tons of carp removed. Twelve Negro~es Dead. A special from Decatur, Ala., says hat 12 negroes are dead at Cedar ake, a negro settlement In the su ubs of Decatur, from the effects of ojisoned ice cream which they ate, itf s esid, at a chnur-h rally. FOUR MEN KILLED And Several Fatally Injured by an 'x plosion of Gas. NINE TXEPIC DETONATIONS. TheDead Buried Under Tons orBurn ing Timbers and Hot Bricks and Iron Make Their Removal Difficult. At Chicago four persons were killed and a score of others were injured by a series of Gas explosions that com pletely destroyed the plant of the Pyle Electric Headlight company in South Chicago Friday. The sbocks of the explosion were so severe that all the buildings near the demolished plant were badly damaged, windows were shattered for blocks and persons walking in the streets were thrown from their feet. Over pressure on tanks containing gas is believed to have caused the acident. The dead are: Ralph Wells, superintendent for the Pyle Eiectric Headlight company. Amos Watkins, assistant superin tendent for same c3mpany. Gcorge Muehl, draftsman, employed by the People's Gas Light company. Thomas Jennings, employed by the Pyle Electric Headlight company. The fatally injured: W. M. Ma loney, blown from third floor of build ing; body crushed. Alfred Cox, inter nally injured. Many persons who were walking in the street near the plant were hurt by fi ing pieces of debris and were taken to their homes in carriages be fore their names could be learned. All of the dead were buried under tons of burning timbers and hot bricks and iron, making it impossible to remove their bodies for hours after the accident occurred. Firemen poured water on the portion of the build:ng in which the dead were tho)ught to be buried. The flimes were subdued sufficiently to permit of the four dead bodies being removed from the debris. The scene of the explosion Is the old Hyde Park gas plant, which passed into the hands of the People's Gas and Light company several years ago, with the consolida ion of the gas in terests in Chicago. Through lease the big plant is occupied partly by the Pyle National Electric Headlight company, which is largely engaged in supplying illumination for railroad coaches. This idluminant is forced into small retorts .wbici when at, tached under the door of a car, will supply it with light for months. In order t) make this rossible the re torts are subjected to an extremely high pressure. I was such a tank that caused the first explosion. With out wirniog of any kind It burst. Amid the debr's workmen were blown out of the structure far into the street about the building. Before anyone realized what bad hap pened retort after retort exploded in such rapid succession that it was al most impossible to distinguish the detonations. Thiere were nine such explosions in all, which left the plant in flames. Hard fighting on the part of fully a hundred firemen finally sub dued the flanes. The total loss caused by the accident is estimated at $75,000. * ABSAD CASE. Three Little South Carolina Girla Who Knew Nothing of God. Three South Carolina waifs, Hattie, Irene and Anna Benton, who have been ciared for in St. Joseph's hospital for the last seven weeks, will be sent to Charleston to be placed in an or phan home, Mayor Myers having pro vided tickets for the children's trans portation, says. the Savannah News When the three little girls were brought to Savannah less than two months ago, they had never heard of God, Christmas, Thanksgiving Day, or any of the things that are usually im pressed on the minds of little ones. They had never heard the words, and had no idea what was meant. Mrs. Alice G. Thomas, who took charge of the children .at first, says she never saw such wild little creatures in her life. GBEAT IMPROVEMENT NOTED. Thocgh still shy in the presence of strangers and very easily frightened, the three little girls have shown great improvement during their stay in Sa vannah. Kind words and patient work have worked wonders, though there is still plenty of room for im provement. The children were brought to Savannah by an aged man, who gave his name as William Ben ton. He arrived in the city on Sun day morning, September 25th. He was very ill at thes time and lay on the floor of the union station all day Sunday, an object of pity. The three little girls grouped about him in a frightened sort of fashion and at tempted to avoid all strangers who approached. The sympathy of parties visiting the union station was aroused and Dr. J. G. Keller gave a certincate to send the old man to the hospital, while the ~three little girls were carried to po lice headquarters for a time. There Mrs. Thomas took them In charge and later turned them over to St. Joseph's. The old man was unable to stand alone and seemed to be suffering from partial paralysis. He said he was a Confederate veteran and lived at Wal terboro, S. C. He claimed the chil dren as his own daughters, though It is more likely they are his grandchil dren. He said their mother was dead. Tnough it is not customary to receive patients from out of the city at the hositalS free of cost, Benton exoited a great deal of sympathy and he was taken in at the Savannah hospital. FATHER RAN AWAY. After he had been In the hospital for a short time, it was appearent his mind was weak. About three weeks ago he left the hospital without the knowledge of any of the nurses or at tendants. He is supposed to have wandered away durir g a spell of men tal aberration. No trace of him has ben found sinco. The little girls wre kep.t at St. Joseph's and cared for there. A hospital, however, is not a place to raise children, and it was decided to try and get them into an orphan home. The authorities of one of the homes In Charleston agreed to take them after It was learned they came from South Carolina. Tbe children will be placed on the train Thursday and their tickets tunte'd over to the conductor. One of the offcals of the orphan home will meet the train In Charleston, and the waifs wil be cared for until they are large CHOKED HIMSELF TO DEATH. The Remarkable Suicide of a Colum bia Barber and Florist. Philip Maultry, a German barber and florist, formerly of Spartanburg and afterwards of Atlanta, but for the past four years proprietor of the Wrights Hotel barber shop and pool room in Columbia, committed suicide Tunssay night in peculiar circum stances. His body was found early Wednes day mornirg by his family lyirg stiff on his left side in bed with a quarter inch cord twisted about his neck by means of a six-inch stick, the end of which was stuck under his undershirt down his back in such a way as to strangle him. His head was in his hand between his knees. His face was purple, and though his body was partially stiff it was still a bit warm. He was fifty-five years old and a man of family. but occupied a sperate room from his wife on account of suf fering from asthma. His wife last saw him Tuesday night at 10 o'clock when he asked to be left to himself earlier than usual. The blanket was tucked in over his shoulders and there was no evidence of violence nor yet of a struggle. The family gave out that death re sulted from natural causes, and the physicians signed a certificate to the efect that death resulted from asphx lation, but he told the coroner that it was a clear case of suicIde. The cor oner said he would hold no inquest. Maultry had been more despondent than usual recently on account of his asthma, and the fact that writer's cramp with which he had been suffer !ng for some time was growing worse. Several of his barbers left him re cently. Yet so far as can be discov ered he had never threatened to take his own life, and though he had lost much money in his florist business his finances, his brother-in-law, who runs his pool room, said this morning, were in particularly good shape now. JAP DESTROYER SUNK. Daring Russian Stole Upon Japanese Ship Under Cover of Night. The Port Arthur newspaper, Novi krai, of November 11, copies of which brought to Chefoo Friday morning by the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Rostoropny, prints briefs details of .a daring exploit which resulted in the sinking of -, four-funnelled Japanese torpedo boat destroyer. Japanese torpedo boats and one de stroyer were engaged in removing mines, mostly their own, from Tache mines, mostly their own, from Tache Bay, on Nivember 3. Midshipnan Dimitrieff conceived the idea that he oculd torpedo the Japanese boats under cover of darkness as the latter were very busy and enjoying a fancied se curity. It was the very audacity of the plan, the Novikrai says, that made it successful. Securing a steam launch from the battleship Retvizan, one carrying a torpedo tube and acc: mpanied by half a dozen silent volunteers, Midshipman Dimitrieff, in the dense darkness slip ped out of the harbor and succeeded In evading the Japanese searchlights Clircling around the Japanese boats with the launch moving at top speed, the midshipman came within striking distance from the seaward side and launched,- his projectile. It sped through the water to the destroyer. There was a sudden explosion and the destroyer sank immediately. The launch then sped towards the harbor, but was not pursued, the Jap anese evidently not having observed the launch and thinking that the de stroyer had struck one of their own mines. Midshipman Dimitrieff is the hero of the day at Port Arthur, according to the paper. Called aim Down. Miguel Nicdao, a young Filipino student, who is being educated at the State Normal university at Normal 111., by the government, has been rep rimanded by W. A. Southerland of the war department for attacking the fairs and the methods of the Catholic church in the Philippines. Nicado's articles first appeared in The Vidette, a student publication at the university and were then widely copied by the press of central llinois. Rev. J. J. Burke of St. Pattrick's church of that city took the matter up with the war department and'lcmmediately received a letter in which it was stated that the utterances of the Filipino were not -.approved and that he would be vigdrously censured. Mr. Sutherland stated that the Filipino should have devoted himself ,to a discussion of other matters of wide in' erest con cerning his country instead of attack ing the church. Life Station Washed Away. Advices from the Carolina coast say that the New Inlet Life Saving sta tion was destroyed by Sunday's hurri cane and that several of the crew sta tioned there were lost, It Is said a tidal wave washed the strip of land separating the ocean from the sound and carried the station building away. The news was brought to Elizabeth City N. C., Wednesday by seamen. Four of the schoner Myra W. Spears crew reached there Wednesday night frc-m Chicamicomico, N. C., where the vessel grounded last week. They say the vessel went to pieces during the gale. The men report the storm washed the sea entirely over the land separating the ocean from the sound and say several houses were carried away. Steamer Burned. Twenty-one persons were rescued from the big freight steamer Mohawk of the Central Vermont railroad's feet which burned to the water's edge off Horton's Point, In Long Island sound, early Friday. The watchman, a Swede named Larsen, is believed to have been burned to death. All on board, including two women, were taken off the burning vessel by the freight boat Boston of the Fall River line shortly after 1 o'clock Friday morning and almost immediately afterwards there was a heavy explosion on the abandoned, freighter, which apparently completed The charrcd hail of the Mohawk now lies on the Inletbar west of Peconic, and the vessel and cargo are a total loss. Seven ,Killed. Business issusoended In BloDe Jant rio in consequence of the rioting: Monday as a result of the oppositioni to the compulsory vaccination law. Military and naval detachments have been called upon to restore order. Ihus far seven persons have been kill d and thirty others have been wounded. It is believed the opposi tion to vaccinatibn is only a pretext for disorder and that the disturbances are really instigated by discontented poitiins. 'f the garrison stationed at Anderson n 1865. Their names and rank were s follows: Mason Brown, private Co. L, died Oct. 8. 1865; Wm. H. Chase, >rivate Co. A, died Nov. 12, 1865; W. Corbett, corporal Co. A, died Ot. 51865; Byron Huswey, private Co. B. lied Sept. 24 1865; Wm. L. Reynolds, rivate Co. A. died Oct. 8, 1865. SHEEP RAISIRG. Efforts Being Made to Revive this Neglected Industry. The Columbia State says At the ap proaching session of the general as iembly reports may be made in re gard to the effect of the new law placing a capitation tax on dogs. The law was passed in the hope that i - would give protection to those who want to raise sheep. The payment cl the capitation tax will be made just as in the case with other property tax, and as the fi cal year has not closed, it cinnot be said whether the law has been suocessful or not. The law provides: "Ti4at there shall be imposed and assessed on all dogs in this State a capitation tax of 50 cents anually on each dog, the proceeds of which shall be expended for school purposes in the several coun ties in which it is collected. "Sec. 2. That dcgs shall bereturned in the s. me manner and at the same time that other property Is returned fcr taxaton. "Sec. 3. That the capitation tax on dogs provided f -r in this act shall be cellected at the same. time and in the same manner that other taxes are now collected. "Sec. 4. That the capitation tax provided for in this act shall be, and constitute, a first lien in favor of the State of South Carolina on all proper ty owned by any person who owes any such capitation tar. "Sec 5. That the collecticn of the capitation tax proviled for in this act may be enforced againqt any property owned by the debtor of such tax in the same way and manner as if it were a tax asscssed on that specific piece of property. "Sec. 6. That no dog which is not returned for taxation as reqnired in this act, shall be h;li to be property in any of the courts of this State. "Sec. '7. That it shall be the duty of the county editor and township as sessors to enforce the provisions of this act, so far as it relates to listing for taxation." The books of the comptroller gener al in 1903 showed the following re markable state of affairs in the State: Number. Value. Dogs.........69,316 847,366 Sheep and goats...46,132 49,432 Tnese figures may not be reliable in any degree as it is probi.ble that the returns were not made with care in the several cuatles. But accurate or inaccurate, the statement shows a sad lack of interest in sheep raising. Mr. E. J. Watscn, commissi ner )f agriculture and immigration, has re ceived letters asking for information as to the raising of sheep In this State. Thurslay he wrote the following in answer to a correspondent: "Your let ter of November 1st, requesting our best estimate of the actual figures cf the number of sheep on hand at the spring shearing, the wekht per fi -ec, and the ar:. ount of the el p in pounds in this State, has been received. "It is ex remely dif~eult to cven gilve you an estimate inasmuch as the sheep growing In this Stat e has up to he present season been pr:2.c-ically undeveloped, and but few stati.tks have been kept. When this depart ment was established last January, I undertook to push the sheep growing :ndustry to the fulest extent. Up to the present we have not made as much beadway as I woud like, although at present there is considerable increase in t! e number of sher p being raised in the State. "In thes returns to the comptroller general for taxation far the c-urrent year sheep and goats are numbered r. gether and the total number is set '4 wn as only 46 132 This figure. however, I consid r w ;rthk ss, be cause so many ow ners of animals fal to make returns of such property. In 1860 there were in the State 2h4, 000 sheep. "Tne decrease in the number has hb-en s'eadiy down to the census of 1900, when we find the total number of sheep in South Carolina placed at 52.000. This di crease has been In a large measure due t >the ravages of rogs, the nun b r of nhic-h, notwith staading the e ffort-s of hundreds of owners to avoid taxation, was report ed on January 1st last to te 69,316. You will noteby the census report of 1930 that the number of fleeces shorn in this State in the fall of 1899 and the sprirg of 1900 is given at 55,233 a-id the weight 1'75, 290 pounds, the r .lue at $31,537. "I would not venture any estimate such as Is reques'.ed by you, and :ould only say that I have given you Ghe only available figures. I would epest, howeverk that the principal dvance made by this State In sheep growing in the last 20 years has been within the last year and a half, and shis increase has been a very material mne. I know of two large places that 2ave within the last six months been :-horoughly st' ckedl with fine sheep >rought from other Scates. '1I trust that next year we will be ble to g ive you complete and accurate tatistics con this lIke." Two Killed at Dillon. Calvin McNeill and Neil Barnes, ~olored workmen engaged in feedir g bhe big cotton press at the oil mil ~innery, at Dilion were instantly tilled Friday afternoon by the explo ion of a stieam cylinder. The negro perating the lever to open the valve hrew it wide and the rush of steam >urst the cylider. THrE appeal of Thornwell Orphange or help to rebuild the dinirng hals hich was destroyed by fire Friday ight should meet with an immred ste and libaral response. There is rno nstitution that does mote good. at is conducted on broader or more beral lines than Tnornwell O~ph age and to call for assistance should ppeal to the charitably ir~clined with eculiar force. WILLIAM Jennirgs Bryan is today he most coramanding figure in the )eme..cratic party. Hlis was the trongest and most popular persomnality 2 toe campaign which has just losed, just as he was the central and vorite figure at the St. Louis con ention. His splend~d services in the1 te campaign increased the admira tion of his frienads for him, and won be respect and applause of his former remies within his won party.1 Got Two Oatlaws. One outlaw Is dead and another Is i jail mortally wound, as the result fa desperate battle between cattlei eives and offcers of the law near I Peth, Weada, on Mnay. STORM SWEPT SEVENTEIN INCHES OF SNOW. Northern Ciies Almost Isolated by Enow and W nd S orm. Cold Wave With Light Flurries of Snow Extended to Several Points in Georg'a and Carolina. Sunday's storm, whic'i svept over the country inflited the most serious damages' for many years to the tele graph wires stretching over the cout try. Washirgton was isolated alnost, and the only communication that could be bad with the national capi tal was through the West, the wires being up from Chicago to that city.. From New York communication with th. West was re-established by the Associhted Press at 3 o'clck Mon. day morning. This was accomplished by the long distance telephone'be twebn Baltimore and Chicago, and a restricted service was begun. It developed that Washington was in comunication with the West, and news from New York to Washington was secured by a very circuitous route. From New York the wire fwas used to Portland, Maine, and the Canadian Pacific Telegraph lines to the WEst, and from Cnicago the service was re layed back to Washingon. Private wires of almost eviry stock exchange commission house was out of business Monday. One prominent firm had communication over the Detroit wires only to Pailadelpia, and another had Boston, with diffi culty. On the cotton exchange the busiress was virtually at a standstill. All telegraphic commu:icatiOn to New 0 leans was cut off and- acros the quotation board of the trading ficor was written, "No wires." In the first half hour of the cotton market- there was less, than a hall dz2n transactious made. At the pro duce exchange similar conditions were eported and the business there was stagnant. One packing house reported indirect communication with Pitts burg and Chicago, but all other finan cial wires were out of commi-sion. The wire service between New York and Washington was still cut at 5 o'clock Monday morning. The pole and wires were down, having faller. before the heavy gale. No wires left Baltimore for the south, ror were there any wo.king between B.&Itimore, Palladelphia and Har isburg. Much d mage exists in Washington, whert sveral inches of snow fell. The storm began at 11 o'clock with a drizzling rain which soon turned into a wet heavy snow. Snow fell in the upper part of South Carolina and in Georgzia. Fami:y Trouble In alacon. A dispatch from Macon says Fred Tharpe, a contrator, is dead, and Frank Christian, contractor and painter, is dying in a hospital as the result of a fierce fight with knives Sat urday afternoon in a Mulberry street saloon. Thtarpe's daughter married Rate Pluc~k tt, who was a stepion < Chris-ian, and also his partner Ir business. Some. tim isgo Rafe P- unkett accidentally shot, a'nd kilh d him'self. Since his death there has b. en som discussion b..tween Tharpe and Chris~ tian as to the manner in w wc e he was shot and also on account of som' troubles. The dispute Saturday afier no n was beciuse of these mitters Tharpe drew a knife and cat Christian across the stomach, where.pon the lat er hr .ught his own knife into play caught h-s assailant by the hair ano cut his throat. Tharpe died aim st in stantly and Christian can'nt live. Fourteen atiners Kiid. A Fernie, B. C., dispaten to The Pionee Press says 14 miners were killed at the Carbonado mines near Morrissey Friday afternoon as a resul: of a terrific explosion of coal gas. The disaster occur e i in No. 1 mine, ten miles west of Fernie. The work of rescuw was kept u.2 all afternoon and all the bodies have been ree.nvered. ALL this talk about a new party is nonesense. The Democratic party it here to stay and win great victories in tbe future. THE Saddesr. fe sture of the Missouri ei ction is the defeat of Senator Cock rell for the United States senate. He is a landmark In that body and not the State only but the Democratic paty will miss his wise, conservative counsel. CianN Cowherd, the man selectcd by the Democrats to conduct the conigressionial campaign, was de ested in Mlisouri. Chairman Bab ccck, of the Republican committee. narrowly escaped the same fate in Wisconsin. IF the Southern peo'ple wont t/ commit political suicide they should follow the advice of Mr. S. H. McGee, of Greenwood, who wants the South to cut loose from the North and form a white man's party, based on the doctrine of Grover Cleveland. THE Spartanburg Herald e 'ys that one day recently Lester Smith, the 17-year-old son of John M. Smith, near Cowpens, picked 602 pounds of cotton between sunrise and sunset. The Newberry Observer says The Herald is entitled to the kettle. JUDGE Parker Is entitled to the gratitude of every true Democrat in te country. He made a clean, vigor. ous campaign, and it was no fault of his that the party did not win its ight. We hope that he will soon have as lucrative a job as he gave up to serve his party. BEFORE the election the Charlotte Observer predicted that Donglass had as much showing to carry Massachu setts as the Republhcans had to crrry South Carolina. The -Observer did ot know that Douglass wvas makin~g his ight on pretty much the same ines that Bryan advoc ites for the aton. OUR advice to Southern Democrats s to stand to their guns. We have shousands of friends at the North. md no one but a coward wants to de ert them. There is much for the Democratic party to do in this ccun ry yet. A'l we have to do is to be ,rue to our convictions and victory vill come. THE great defeat which has come o the Demccratic party has not dis auraged us. It Is not the first de- I est that the party has met with, nor it likely to be the last. We are at tronger Democr Lt r ow than ever be- 1 ore, ready to follow cur next leader;t o victory or defeat. There is no nurnrir-r in us. CARED FOR ENEMIES. a An Anderson lady Who Marked j Graves of Union 'oldiers. LOOKED AFIER THEM FOR YEARS The Bodie8 are Now Taken Up And Laid Among Comrade in a National Cemetery at Marietta, Ga. One day last week the bodies of six Federal soldiers were taken up at An derson, S. C., and sent to the national cemetery at Marietta, Ua. All of these years that the graves of the soldiers have been in Anderson they have been cared for by an Anderson lidy and school childre2. The story of their removal in the Anderson Mail is as follows: Today the remains of six Federal soldiers who died in Anderson in 1865 will be removed from the graveyard of the First Presbyterian church and transported to Marietta for interment in the National :emetery there. Mr. M. H. Garli- j. of the quartermas ter departme -, United States army, is in Anderson for the purpose of su perintending the removal of the bodies. Mr. Garlington came to Anderson on orders transmitted to him through the headquarters of the department of the Gulf in Atlanta, by Maj. J. B. Bellirger, of the war department, in Washington. In order to remove a body it Is necessary under the city ordinances to secure permission from the city board of health. At a called meeting of the board yesterday after noon the ordsr was gladly gran:ed. Mr. Garlington is receiving the heart iest cc-operation in his work. He is a native of Newberry and a very pleas ant gentleman. He will have the bod ies exhumed today, placed in airtight boxes and shipped to Marietta. The cost of the removal will be paid out of the appropriation for army transpor tation. It is probable that oily a few bones and possibly a bit of blue cloth and a few buttcns will be found in each grave. The most recent Is thirty. nine years old. - Three of the dead soldiers were killed while guarding cotton at Brown's ferry on the Savannah river. They were takt n to a little island in the river and shot to death. They were mere boys, 17, 18 and 20 years of age, respectively, and had never been in battle. One of the others was mur dered by one of his comrades at the Patrick military institute building, which was the headquarters, and his b dy was thrown into a well on the premises. Two others died in the military hospital here. There was formerly still another, but his body was r; m)ved soon after the war b) relatives. Mis3 Lenora ~C. Hubbard, of this city, has always beeninterested in the graves of these Northern soldiers. For twenty years she and her pupils have cared for the six graves, and every year on Decoration day they have been neatly cleaned off and dec orat ed. A f w years ago a notice in regard to this custom was seen in the Anderson Intellig-:ncer by Maj. A. Q Hill, of Calais, Me., and he wrote to Miss Hubbard thankirg her for her! care of the graves of his crmrades Maj. Hill was an Crifie r of the Union garrison at Anderson and has been a sub~scriber to Tae Intelilgencer almost continually since the war. Mr. J. A. Brook, of this city, later sent to Maj. Johnson, of Lawrence, Mass., a co'py of The Daily Mail containing another reference to the graves. Maj. Johnson was adjutant of the Anderson war garrison, and has~ krpt up his friend ship made during his residence in this city. Miss Hubbard has received let ters of gratitude and praise from many prominent Northern. veterans, among them the governor of Maine, who also sent her a package of fi gs to be used in decorating the graves, and the bishop of Pennsylvania. Through these men the matter was bogtto the attention of the Grand Army of the Republic, and at its meeting in B -ston last Sept -mber th:e ultimate dispeal of the bodies of the Federal soldiers at An-derson has thoroughly discussed. Capt. Topklns. a brother-In-law of one of the dead soldiers, Col C. S. Brown, formerly in command of the Anderson garrison,. and Adjutant Jehnso, were In favor of allowing the bodies to remain at Anderson, and of making an approrri a-ion for properly mar..ing and enc'o 4 ing the g:aves. Finally, however, it was decided that the bodies should rest in a national cemetery. The matter was bought to tt-e at tention of the war dtpartment, and in accordance to its custom the order* was at once Issued upon which Mr Garlington is now removing the bod ies. They will be interred in one of the most beautiful of the -nation's "bivotiacs of the dead," and properly marked. For twenty years Miss Hubbard has personally cared for the graves of these late foemen. and her thoughtful. ness and generosity have been com mented on in the most graceful andi courteous letters fro n doz:ns of North ern veterans. Invariably they have referred to her action as significant of the healing of the scars of war and the reunion of the country. Many of the officers who were members of the garrison which occupied the city dur ing its two years of military rule made lifelong friends among their defeated foemen, and the six graves in the Presbyterian chnrchyard have been< the means of forming yet other de- 1 lightful friendshic.. Miss Hubbard h id completed am- I rangemeots to remove the bo-lies of the Fed..rals to Silver Brook cemetery,C and the city council had at her request 1 donated a beautiful plot for the pur-t pose, but she learned of the govern ment's custom of r muovinir the bodies of Union soldiers to notional ceme teries and thougbt it best to await the action of the dead men's comrades. The bodies would loog ago have been placed in Silver B ook cemetery bad not the attention of Miss Hubbard and of the ladios whou were interested with her been taken up withl the building of the Confederate monument on the plaza. They felt that their first work was due the fathers and brothers who wore the gray. t In speaking of thae matter yesterday 1 Miss Hubbard said that the removal g would mean a personal loss to her. i After caring for their graves for so C many years the dead soldiers seemed f lmost her own dead, and she would v give them up with a feeling akin to 1: parting from dear friends. She said, a owever, that she was glad that they t) were to find a resting place along with e: :heir comrades where proper care of sheir graves wculd be assured for all ime, and where the could always be ocated if relatives should seek them. ih The dead soldiers were members of o: ~he Frst battalion of Maine Volun- tl -era regaciment wrhicsh foredarlot TI A CIRCUS O !BD. Forepaugh & Sells' Brotherb Sustain a Loss of Thousands. While enroute On a fuit car tetween Green' 1l;e and Tarboro, N. C., early Sa i-r a- morraig the ticket wagon of the Forepaugh and Sills Brothers ch cus was entered and robbediuf $30, 000. The entrance to the wagon was ef fected by the use of the regular keys, which had be en stolen from the treas urer uf the circas. The robbery was not discovered until after the entire circus, which was traveling in three sections over the Atlantic Coast Lne, had reached Tarboro. Tne ticket w g>n was on th sccond section and. arrived at Tarboro at 1 o'clTock Satur day morning. The first section reached there a halt hour earlier the third al three o'clock in the morn ing. It was 5 O'ck ek before the robber had been discovered, and from thatk time until late Saturd.y, whenthela report was received n Norfolk by telepboae, a continuous search of thie effects of people connected with t circus has been in progress. The 9o lice are holding a man and womai both performers, on suspicion of ha* ing committed the robberk. It. ha been impossible so far to secure the names of these two people. Several theories are Lelq by the pc lice and circus p .ople. One of these is that the roobery was cimmitted, while the tr %in wis in motien aznd that the money was. tbrown -off -te, train. Searc'iing parties are at work>M along the line b tw en Tarboro-and Greenville in an effrt to find an trace of the money or of any person: who might have le; t the tra-n withfitk. Up to tb s time no one has ben, mis - ed from the circus cro d. Another theory is that the cash'is been nidden in Ta b~ro by the ro b rs, and Inunmerable search.wa rants have b;:en sworn out. Am a with these, the r gular police"aM special detect*v, s are searching -0 place in Tarboro thought likey---o-. conceal the money. There were score of arrests made during the among the cr. ui people. Allp hended were taken into custody suspicion, and while in the town up their belongirfg were seare'ied . the show grounds. Absolutely -no trace of the money has been found. Stay at :[omes bid It. As the returns of the late election cme It it becomes evident that R rul'can candidate was due' no mu.:h to an in-reasing confide tLe republ e .n position as t) dissatis 'action among dem: crats with position t iken by the democraticpa' ty. While ia some cases ~t'ls a isfaction led democrats to vote the republican t cket, yet in more.ases lei them to stay at h .me.or toa t vote on he natioral ticket. :Y' instance, in lilin -is Mr. E meyiU vote is oily about 33,000 in exc7otn.N Mr. McKinley's vote far y while Judge Parker's vote Isb 170,000 less than the demt c in 1900. Thirty-three thousand ocratic votes cast for Mr. 1ao0v67 would a aonnt for the republicaain crease, if it is no% ,accnunted for'b he natural increase in poputn,' weite if that Lumber of demcratsi~ .:ctualiy vote for Bot sevelt it would~ ,zill Je.ve more than 140,000voe unaceounted for. - The socialist vote"-~ :Lnd the p opulist vote are not yet oh. Laim~ble, but it is evident tnatin Illi1 nol.s tne d:m .cratic party is -mnd at onge r than sue returns would indi - cate, and is only requires a straight. t r Arard, honest fight. for reform to bring ou i that vote and1 pit the part in figns-ng condition agina In thes atte In the state of Indiina eightyg swo out of ninety-two ounties gave Rosevelt zsom-' eleveni thousand votesM iess than M. Kieley had fcur years ugo, while ILe sime counties- give. Par k rsome :5 000 less votes sna% su.e democratki c indinate had in 1900? aere again t is evideit- tbat-te repubLan strength has not been lar gely intressed out that the demo. c asic v..te did not came out.-I Iowa thett al vote thisyearis notaj jarge as it was four ye'rs ago.Te) r-publicans have gained about 220O-< a d the demccrats hrve I Stabu 40,000. If the entire republicanhr' ar se was made up from democraticM' v.tes, it would stillklave about 20,000 votes unaccounted for. Died of Hydroph: bs. A dispatih from Batesurg-to--The . 4tve tells of thie sad death of Carel Rook, a brig it lad or eleven years ofM age. "Carr.l was bitten about two months ago by what was supposed -to& be a mad dog. <Every attention was given him by the local physicians andM he was crrried to a madstbre and2 treated f'or some time, and he hadd seemingly recovered from the effcts of the b te. For the last three weeks he had been in school performing hi wou i.l duties these. A bout four days before his death he began to show symptoms of fever and complain of: a pain In his arm. Drs. E K. Hardin and W. B. Timzmezman were fait'aful n their treatment of the ca e, but a I to no avail. It is the opinioa of those who saw the little sufferer, and of the physicians also, that his death result 81 from the bite received on the 21st of September. Carroll was a bright, energetic boy and the only child of his parents. His case has been one of in terest and 8. mpthy to everyone and his death came as a shock to all of his frien:js, who had hoped that he was permanently cured of his trcuble. Mr and Mirs Hot k have the sympathy of a host of friends in tbis -:ommunity in their sad bereavement."' This littleboy was bit'en by a goAd for nothing ctr dog, and yet tuere are people wbo thidk that suc'h dogs should not be taxed. _________ THEa Durham Sun says: "We would like to meet that man W. L. Douglas. Any man who can be elected Demo 3raitic governor In Massachusetts when Teddy carries the State by 70, 000 majority must be a daisy." No, be ain't ro daisy. He is simply a Democrat with honest convictions, and that Is why he won. IN 1872 the Democrat c party went lown in overwhelming defeat with Rorace Greeley, only gett;ng eighty slecstral votes, yet four years later she Democracy triumphed, electing 3aml. J. Tilden, who was cheate d out )f his offlee. Why can's history re >eat ltal~f, and the Democracy win igloricus victory in 190b? Killed Hitmself. At Olar, Sam Trotti, a negro about 0) years old, committed suicide by bootir g himself in the stomach withi shotgun. The cause seems to have een t-:mporary aberration of the aind. -________ THE A dan C,:nstutionl declare9 h D'emocratde party in future mu t ake care of Itself and not trust the nugwumps of the east, as It calls the een w to namlnated Parker. Hotw