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VOL. XxII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY1 TAKES THE OATH Gov. Ansel Is Inducted into Of fice Once Again. MAKES NEW REPORT Mis Inaugural Speech Was Very Short and Contains Two Important Recommendations: That Drain age Commission be Created and Good Roads Problem be Tackled. In his second inaugural address delivered Wednesday afternoon, im mediately after the oath of office had been administered to him, Gov ernor Ansel said: Gentlemen of the General Assem bly and my fellow citizens: For the second time I am here to assume the duties and responsibilities of the highest State officer in the gift of the -people. For a second time, by. the votes of the people, I am exalted - to the position of governor of this great commonwealth. I am truly grateful for this manifestation of confidence and esteem and I am ful ly sensible of my inability to dis charge fully the duties incumbent upon me without your valuable and necessary assistance. I plead for a oontinuance of the sympathy and help that you have given me during the past two years. I have endeavored to discharge the duties of my office with fidelity and an eye single to the best inter ests of all the people. That I.have made. mistakes goes 'without sa'ying, but- they have been of the head and not, of the heart. South Carolina has - made much progress in moral, educational and material lines in the past few years and people are fully alive to the great possibilities of even greater progress in the years to come and we see the signs of: prosperity on every hand. We should be paying more attention, however, to the con servation of - our many natural re sources-7our land, forests and water courses. Much thought is now be ing given to this subject in all the States of the union, and we should not lag behind. There is now -being utilized in' this State one hundred -and seventy five thousand horse-power.of water power to generate electricity and for othpr purposes._ There is still about one hundred and. seventy-five thous and horse-power of water-power un developed. My belief is that before many years this power, now going to waste, will be harnessed and used to help supply the needs of our grow ing industries. Our- farmers are producing a rea sonable Income and profit, and as the farmer is the only producer of those things which go to sustain life, .every inducement should be given to the boy to "stay on the farm." In the manufacture of cotton, we are second,. in -number of spindles. to but one Sta,te in the union. Had I time, I could give the out-put of. the mills, the value of the product and the number of employees.' The .educational institutions of the State are sending out 'each year young men and women. well. equipp ed for the battle of life ana there is work for all of . them to -do. The .country is calling for educated young men and women. I desire, at this time, to refer to two matters, which I regard as very important to the future progress of the State and awhich are not men tioned in my annual message: The time has come in my judg ment when we should give some at tention to the question of the drain age of our swamps- and wet lands There are in this State over three million acres of these lands that car be reclaimed at a reasonable cost. The question naturally arises, what can we do? I suggest that you ap point a drainage comniission whose duties it shall be to get up all the data as to where these lands are located; the probable cost of reclaim ing and the best plan of paying for the drainage. Let this commissior report to the general assembly an' then intelligent action can be taken Another important matter tha should engage our attention is th one of "good roads." Every goo' citizen of the State is interested i' this vital question. Conventions an' conferences are being held in man: of the States to discuss It. Th governors of most of the States err calling the attention of their leg islatures to it. Some-of the countie' in this State have gone to work an-' are making good roads. That they are needed in all of the countie! every one will admit. The work that is done should be of permanent nature, and it seems to me that, in order that the necessary informiatior may be obtained as to the best meth od making good roads and the pos-' sible cost of such method. the de partment of agriculture should be charged with the duty of getting this data and reporting the same tc In North Carolina, the duties of road commissioner are placed upon the State geologists, in other States. road commissioners are appomnted for this work. I come to congratulate you. my fellow citizens, upon what has been done along all these lines, and to ask that each of you will do his full duty in helping forward all that makes for the betterment of our people. And now, as I take upon myself for a second time, the responsibihi ties and duties of this office, I ask that you will uphold my hands in every good work, and, by your gen erous help and :co-operation, give me that encouragemenlt I have a .iah to eanet at your handa, By MILITARY INSPECTION ADJUTANT GENERAL BOYD IS SUES ORDERS TUESDAY. The United States War Department and State Itinerary Arranged for Various Companies. Adjutant General Boyd has issued his orders for the inspection of the militia of the State, including all headquarters, armories and the oom panies. The Inspections begin in March, Edgefield being the first place visited, and will end the latter part of April at Laurens. The Inspections will be made for the war department by Lieut., Chas. H. Cabaniss, Jr., now stationed in Columbia, and for the State by Col. Wm. T. Brock, assistant, adjutant general. The list of places with dates for inspections Is given as follows: Edgefield, March, 8-Company F, Second infantry. Aiken, March 9-Unassigned com pany of infantry. Bamberg, March 10-Company I, Third infantry. Barnwell, March 11-Company E, T'xird infantry. Orangeburg, March 12-Company L, 'Third infantry. Elloree, March 15-Company G, Third infantry. Sumter, March 16-Company L, Second infantry. Timmonsville, March 17-Com pany I, Second-infantry. Conway, March 18-Company H, Third infantry. Georgetown, March 19-Head quarters, Third infantry, Company F, Third infantry. Walterboro, March 22--Company K, Third infantry. Charleston, March 23, 24, 25, 26 -Companies A, B, C, and D, Third infantry; Third detachment hospital aorps. New Brookland, March 27-Com paiy M, Second infantry. Columbia, March 29, 30, 31, Aprill-General headquarters; head uarters First -brigade; headquarters econd Infantry; Companies B, C, ad D, Second infantry. Florence, April 2-Company H, econd infantry. Darlington, April 5-Company K, eond infantry. Hartsville, April 6-Company G, econd infantry. Bennettsville, April 7-Company , Second infantry. Cheraw, April 8-Compn Y F Irst infantry. Camden, April 9-Company A, ;econd infantry; Second detachment aspital corps. Lancaster, April 12-Unassigned >mpany of infantry. Liberty Hill, April 13-Company 3, First Infantry. Rock Hill, April 14-Company H, 'irst infantry. Fort Mill. April 15-Company K, 'irst Infantry. Wnnsboro, April 16-Company I, Third infantry. Cornwell, April 17-Company G, 'irst infantry. Yorkvilie, April 19--Headquar ers First infantry; Company L, 'irst Infantry. Spartanburg, April 20-Company First infantry, band, 'First infan UnIon. April 21-Company M, 'irst infantry. Clifton, April 22-Company C, 'irst Infantry. reenville,- April 22-Company A. 'irst inftanry. Anderson, April 26-Company E, ilst infantry. Lurens, April 27-Company D). Eirst infantry. rILLMAN WON'T BE MUZZLED. Says Senate Can't Stop Him From Roasting Roosevelt. Washington, Jan. .20.-Prompted probaby by the case with which Representative Willett, of New York, was suppressed in the house Monday in his denunciation of the president, Republican leaders friendly to Mr. Roosevelt have under consideration amove to muzzle Senator Tillman when he undertakes to make good ils promise to attack the. occupant ' the white house. It is stated that they will try to invoke a rule that will put an en tire quietus on the "pitchfork sena or," or compel him to stick strictly o parliamentary language in deal ing with the president. "They can't do it," was Senator Tilman's declaration w'hen asked :ncernilg the movement. "I am oing to criticize Theodore Roose velt officially. I have no dIoubt that his friends in the senate would like to muzzle me, but the'speech will be lade. I am at work on it now, but Iwon't be ready to deliver it for two or three weeks. I am in no hur BELIEVES IN MARRIAGE. Two People Over Seventy Years of of Age Marry. Valdosta, Ga.. Jan. 20.-Former Legislator John W. Hagan, present chairman of the county commission ers of Lowndes county, and Mrs. oias B. Hodges. a widow, were married today. Both are septuage narians. and the marriage is the bride's fourth venture, and the bride groom's third. Mr. Hagan was the Populist party leader a number of years ago here- Both husband and wife are wealthy, the wife ow'a?ng property here valued at $75,000 thus working together, we shall aake South Carolina second to none inm thsnin of idestructible BRUTAL MURDERI SO AS A YOUNG WIFE COULD B] STOLEN. One Italian Dead and Anothe: Dying as a Result of a Kidnap ping Scrape. Middletown, N. Y., Jan. 21.-J brutal murder, which had as its ob ject the kidnapping of the youni bride of one of the victims, was com mitted just outside of this city twc nights ago by three Italians. The victim was Finizio Gaetano, who was instantly killed, and Scan ion Carmino, his friend, who is dy ing in a local hospital from wounds inflicted by shots from a revolver. The bodies of both men were found stretched across the railroad tracks near the scene of the tragedy, where they had been placed with the evident intent of hiding the crime. Mrs. Gaetano was found tonight by the authorities in an Italian shack on the outskirts of the city. She was in a e- rious condition, as a re sult of nervous shock, exposure and ill treatment, to which she had been subjected. She told the authorities she had been taken tb the shack immediately after the shooting and held there, two of the men remaining until shortly before noon. Gaetano was recently married in Italy and reached New York. with his young bride only last Monday. The couple came direct to Middle toyn and Tuesday night, in com pany with Carmino, a mutual friend, were walking along a road about two miles from this city. Suddenly they were set upon by three Italians rmed with revolvers, and Gaetano nd .Carmino were shot down. GOVERNOR'S SALARY RAISED And the Salaries of Other State Officers Fixed. Columbia, Jan. 21.--The State senate passed a bill today fixing the lovernor's salary at $4,000 and the >ther State officers at $2,250, except tdjutant and Inspection General, who will get only $2,000. The bill so :xes the salary of the Superin :endent of the Penitentiary at ;2, .50 per annum. The vote on the )ill wages1folows: Yeas-Appelt, Bass, Bates, Car 3enter, Christensen, Clifton, Croft. Xraydon, Hardin, Hough, Johnstone, Kelley, Lide, Mauldin, McKeithan, ontgomery, Otts, Sinkler, Smith, ;pivey, Stewart, 'Sullivan, Summers, Walker, Waller, Weston, Williams. rotal 27. Nays-Black, Carlisle, Crosson. Carle, Forrest, Griffin, Harvey. John ;on, Laney, Muckenfuss, Rainsford, ogers, Wharton. Total 13. ARRNGES FOR HIS FUNERAL. seeks Brother Masons and Kills Himself at Their Door. New York. Jan. 20.-After ar ranging with an undertaker to have ss body cremated, paying for an urn n which to place his ashes, Thom s Hutchings, said to be a Harlen eal estate dealer, walked into the est Twentieth street police station esterday and asked to talk with ome one who was a Mason, that he nxight tell~ him his troubles. He was referred to the stationhouse at sixth avenue and West Twenty-thir" street, whore he was told he would find a number of Miasons. Hutchings started, but paused jus' outside the door, drew a revolver an' shot himnself through the head, dying instantly. Hutch ings had been in a particularly jovial mood; while talk ing with the undertaker, and neither the latter nor the policemen at the Iwentieth street station had any uspicion as to hais sanity or inten tions. -WIFE WAS TOO MEEK. Brutal Crime by Pennsylvania Farm er for Queer Cause. Scranton, Pa., Jan. 19.--Griffith VanEleet, a farmer with his wife. near Suquehana, shot and killed hii wife for the simple reason that she was entirely too docile to live with. When he smote her on one cheek. she turned the other, and it anger ed him to such an extent that he chased her on the main road for al most half a..mile and then put a bul let through her. Later, when the posse that was' quickly organized, went after Van Eleet, he faced the angry citizens and turned the gun upon himself, putting a bullet through his heart. Chief Jastice Jones. Columbia. Jan. 2 1.--Associate Justice Ira B. Jones, of Lancaster was today elected Chief Justice o1 the Supreme Court of South Car olina for the unexpired term o1 Justice Pope, whose resignation har been accepted. There were twc nominations. Associate Justice Ira B. Jones and Eugene B. Gary There were 161 votes cast, of whicl Mr. Jones received 96 votes and Mr .Eu"ene B. Gary 65. ,Shock; in Turkey. Smrna. Turkey, Jan. 1 9.--Shar) 1earthquake sho'cks were experiencet here this morning. No local dam age was done. Reports received her from Phocaea, twenty-five miles t the northwest, say that a number a houses fell and that three person were killed. Buildings were dam age in other towns. DEATH PENATLY Provided for Attempts at Crim nal Assault on women. A MUCH NEEDED LAW The Proposed Law Leaves to the Dis cretion of Trial Judge Commuta tion of Sentence to Life Imprison ment-The Bill Passes Senate by Good M1dajority After Discussion. Columbia, Jan. 22. - Senator Wharton's bill to prescrtibe the pun ishment for attempt to ravish was passed to third reading today, with amendments. As the bill now stands the provisions are: 1. Attempts to ravish are placed upon the same plane as actual com mission of the crime, in so far as the death penalty is provided. 2. It Is left to 'the discretion of the trial judge to commute sentence to life imprisonment. 3. Tha victim shall be allowed to testify before the court stehogra pher and attorneys, the same to be read to the jury in open court. Senato:r Kelley was opposed to the bill, because, as he-argued, the mere. mention of such a crime was ent ficient generally in the courts to con vict a negro. He thought the change to make the attempt a capital crime was too :radical. Senator Carlisle was of the opin ion that something ought to be done to do away with lynching law, and thought that the passage of this bill would to a large extent accomplish this result. Senator Graydon ~opposed the measure on the ground that it was a dangerous bill, in that if a mis take were made it was irretrievable. In some -mases, he said, there might be convictions upon testimony of women of no character, and that in this way very often men might be. sent to their death who were en tirely innocent. Senator Wharton, the author of the bill,- made an eloquent plea for ts passage. To protect the moth erhood of 'the State wasits first and main object, and also to reduce. the number'of lynchIngs in South Car olina. The jurors are intelligent and would'see to it that no injustfce is done under the provisions of the bill. . Col.Wharton argued that the mere fact that the brute does not accomplish his purpose when sur prised by someone is nothing to his credit, ard the law should not fav r him because of this circumstance. Senator Cirlisle stated the law would protect the Innocent persons. But he cited the case where a lady might, in order to be ri-d of the em arrassment of testifying before the whole court room, say that there was. nly an attempt. If the actual rime had been committed under the aw today, the man would be sen enced to death, -yet under the testi mony as offered he would get at the most thirty years in the penitentiary. "We'll never stop lynching until we have such a law as this," said Mr. Carlisle.* On the motion to strike out the nacting words, which motion was ffered by the Senator from Lee, Mr. KelJey, the vote resulted as follows: Yeas-Bass, Bates, Clifton, Earle, Graydon, Griffin, Kelley, Laney, tontgomery, Sinkler, Summers Total, 11. INays--Appelt, Carlisle, Carpenter, Christensen, Croft, Crosson, Hardin~, darvey, Hough, Johnson, Johnston, Lide, Mauldin, IMcKeithan, Mucken uss, Otts, Rainsford, Spivey, stewart, Sullivan, Walker, Wallace, Wason, Wharton-Total, 24. So the motion to strike out the enacting words of the bill failed to pass. Senator Appelt, in offering an amendment to leave it with the cir cull: judge as to the commuting of sentence to life imprisonment, er plained that circumstances some times causes the judge to be in doubt as to the guilt of the men on trial whom very probably the jury might have convicted without rec :mmendation to the mercy of the ourt. ~Senator Wharton's original bill provided that when the jury ecommnended the prisoner to the mercy of the court the term of serv ice might be ten years or more. Senator Appelt's amendment makes it in the power of the trial judge o commute the sentence to life imprisonment in case there should rise some doubt in his mind. Senator Weston thought that in such a case this provision of Mr. Appelt's would be necessary as the judges now have the power of set ting aside verdicts which they be ieve are inconsistent with the facts in a case. Senator Appelt explain ed that the jury might at times act upon feeling, but the judge in his calm deliberation might see some thing which the jurors have over looked, and that the provision is, therefore, a good one. Senator Mauldin agreed with Mr. Appelt and said that we owed it to civilization to protect the women, however there was a danger line, and the provision proposed would throw around the necessary safe gards. He lamented the fact that now the negroes are doing such crimes which before the war were not known. There was considerable discussion upon Senator Appelt's amendment, it being pointed out that Sthis would probably do away with ,new trials in such cases to a large fextent. The amendment was passed. sThe bill was passed to third read -ing with the amendraient as herein befe elained. AWFUL SCENES Described by Some Americans Who Were in the GREAT EARTHQUAKE That Destroyed Several Italian Cities and Killed Nearly Three Hundred Thousand People-They Say Naples Is a Veritable Hospital and Grave-A Graphic Picture. New York, Jan. 18--The first Americans to tell of having been in the Italian earthquake and wit nessed its scene of death and de struction, amid which they said they were practically imprisoned for two days, reached New York recently. They tell heartrending stories of the sick and dying refugees, who had been brought to Naples. "The entire city," one of them said, "was both a hospital and a grave.' "Persons in all walks of life," said*Dr. Marsh, "took part in relief work. The pushecarts of street ped dlers and the automobiles of the rich were alike used to transport the dead and wounded. When a relief ship from Messina whistled in the bay hundreds of people crowded down to the quays to help out. Mentally as well as physically the refugees showed the awful effect of the calamity. Many had gone in sane and had to be locked up. "We left Naples for Reggio,^op posite Messina, Sicily, on the evening of December 27,'. says Mr. Alvin Hurford. "There was no sleeper on the train, so Mr. Moeller and myself bunked- on the seats of our com partment. About 5:15 Mr. Moeller said -he heard a heavy detonation like that of nearby thunder. I must have been asleep at the time, for I do not remember hearing such a sound. "We had no idea that there had een an earthquake, and that we were .even then Invading the de vastated region until we began to see in the gray sunrise shattered buildings. Even then we were not sure what had happened. We were the only. English speaking passen gers on the train. I thought at first the ruined buildings were the rel ics of. the -former Calabrian earth "Meanihile, our fears were arous ed more and more by- the sight of soldiers,. who seemed to pour down upon us at every station until the train was jammed almost solid with them. At one station a large quan-, tity of provisions was loaded on the train. The rain then began to pelt down, a rain that seemed a veritable waterfall, the torrential kind that so ften follows an earthquake. "A little further on we were hor rified to see people crouching near rain, clad only In rags, and many f them bleeding, as if just extricat d from a railroad wreck. Some were amost naked. We guessed that here had been an .earthquake, but still we were not positive. When e tried to learn by means of ges ures what had happened, the in iabitants would flee in terror. At last I heard the English lan uge, and, though spoken broken y by an Italian Red Cross Officer, who had for a time lived in America and returned to his native land to serve in the army, so that he might ake his home in Italy in his old age without being arrested as a de serter, his words were like music. e told us what had happened, and saId 'that Palmi, just over the hill, was almost entirely destroyed. Be ond the tracks had been torn apart y the shock, so that it was Impos sible to proceed further. "Around us the scenes of suffer ing were inidescribable. ,We saw en and women with broken arms and ribs, moaning and groaning or writhing In silent agony up . and own the roadways. I saw several. ld women, naked to the waist, with a bunch of rags tied with strings that did not reach by six inches to their knee caps. Children from four to fifteepi, bleeding and hurt and crying, kept coming continually to ward us from over the hills. "eW walked over the hill and saw the ruins of Palmi below. Five hours before 14,000 people had peacefully slept where now was heaped one vast mausoleum in which the head were buried beneath heaps of broken rock, mortar, twisted iron columns, skeleton walls just ready to topple and a forest of splintered timbers. It made me think of Pliny's description of the destruction of Pompeii. "Now began the task of loading the wounded on ships. The dead were left in the ruins. "Those that died on the road were laid in trenches by the roadsie Many frightful scenes were being enacted on every side. On reaching Naples we found that Palermo was packed with refugees and that ships were bringing them in by the thous ands to'the hospitals at Naples. Most of them, as they were carried past us. moaned in agony. "Others died while being carried from the ship. Most of those who had died on 'the voyage were left on the ship. The scenes here in Naples were worse than in the earth quake-stricken district. The streets were constantly filled with wagons carrying the dead, dying and wound "All kinds of buildings had been turned into hospitals and in them all manner of heart-rending scenes were enacted--wives crying for their hus bands, children for their niothers and mothers for their babes. "Soldiers shot men down on the slightest suspicion. On one occa sio seventen lterm were killed TEDDY WAS RIGHT SENATOR FRAZIER DEFENDS ROOSEVELT'S CAUSE And Says the South Will Never Sub mit to Negro Domination or Al low the Social Bars Lowered. Washington, Jan. 20.-Senator Frazier, of Tennessee today spoke on the Brownsville affair, and oppos ed the passage of any one of the pending bills for the re-enlistment of the negro soldiers of the 25th reg iment, who were discharged without honor by the President. "Whenever," declared Mr. Frazier, "any question arises affecting the negro there are certain people, in cluding the negro himself, who seem to think that he. should be dealt with in an exceptional and unusual way; that he Is to be treated as the ward of the nation, and must be the constant object of Its care and so licitude. "If those people in every section of the country who are especially solicitous of the negro's welfare would, by act and word, teach the negro that he is to be shown n,. exceptional consideration, but must stand or fall on his conduct and merit alone, they would render him incalcuable benefit, and the country a lasting service." Analyzing the testomony taken in various investigations, Mr. Frazier said there was no question as to the guilt of any soldiers of the 25th regiment. He justified the Presi dent in his discharge of the entire body of troops, because of the im possibility of- fixing the guilt upon particular soldiers. Speaking of the treatment of the negro by the people >f the South, Mr. Frazier said: "I would not be entirely frank if [did not say that upon certain phas es on the .race question, I, in com mon with the rest of the South, have tood, and I believe will ever stand, arm and unalterably. First, never tgainst will the negro race be allow d to politically dominate and con .rol a sovereign Sfate of this Union. ro do so would be to enthrone ig orance and give it dominion ovei ntelligence, and to bring back the apid and utter r kless debauchery f the ReconlstrSi06- era. Second. :he social barrier, which- separates :he races will never be allowed to bc owered. To do so would destroy the aVrity and integrity of uhe.iiitc ace and shock the sensibilities and utrage the moral sense of the Cau :asion race the world over. "For forty years, in patience and rndness the people of the South tave w-estled with this problem,' 2e said in conclusion. "It is still un olved. What. the end. will be, only od in His infinite wisdom can see. hall it be that the black race -will e deported? If feasible, it woulc emove the last remaining barrier o0 complete the unity of the Amer can people. Shall it be a race war, loody, fierce, exterminating-a war ~or the survival of the fittest-God orbid. Shall it be amalgamation. ~nd the unspeakable horror of a cor upted and inferior race? To gl ow it would be to destroy that civ lization which is at once our trength and pride. Shall it be that he two races will dwell together. nd yet apart, in peace and harmo iy. To do so, without one rac. lominating and ruling the other would be to belie the universal ver lict . of racial history. I do noi now. But one thing I do know is hat the solution of' this problewr ests primarily In the hands of the southern white man and the South ~rn black men, and calls for th' isest counsel and broadest conser atism of both. I know that it cax ever be solved by men far reme - from its fatal touch, and 'as ninds are not filled with an .-al ng sense of the deep racial dif iculties with which it is hedged aout." CITIZEN JOSHUA ASHLEY s Accused of Peonage by Hi Farm Hands. Columbia, Jan. 22.--The Federa; grand jury here has indicted "Citizer Ioshua" W. Ashley, a wealth: Anderson county farmer and membe: f the legislature now in session, of peonage in holding, four negro farn hands in involuntary servitude ori his farm in Anderson county. Th'i Indictment, carrying twenty counts. alleges various phases of peonage. charging that Ashley claimed he held the negroes to work out indebted ness due him and due John McGaha. deceased, and Louise M-cGaha, his kinsmen. The four negroes, claimed to be held as peons, are: Will Da vis. John Davis, George Johnson an1 Sam Poole. EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE Kills Four Men and Injures Some Ten Others. Newark, N. J., Jan. 20.--Four men were killed and .ten others 'in jured, one fatally, when several tons of dynamite in one of the buildings of the Forcite power works, at Lake Hopatcong, blew up late today. The detonation of the huge mass of explosive shook the country for miles around and blew the building containing it to atoms. Of the four teen men working in it, not one es The dead . n..inaro mfwypfwyp caped death or injury. by the military while they were loading a ship. Aboard this vessel there were 721 refugees from Mes sina, of whom 183 died during the .;elve hours' passage to Naples." REPLIES TO TAFT REPUBLICANS TRYING TO DE BAUCH THE SOUTH. He Shows Why He Is Opposed te Compulsory School Attendance in South Carolina. Washington, Jan. 20.-When Sen ator Tillman heard today that Pres ident-elect Taft had made a speech in Augusta, in which he referred to public men who were la'%king in sympathy for the negroes in their efforts to secrue an educ.tion, he became thoroughly aroused, and did not hesitate to express his opinion, saying "This is directly traceable to the misstatements and malicious editorials emanating from the two leading newspapers in South. Caroli na, In which my attitude was not correctly stated. "In the first place, I am not op posed to negro education at all, pro vided it Is of the. right kind,.know ing that education increases the in telligence and usefulness of the cit izen. What I said and meant, and by which I stick, is this: That the Republican policy of the last forty years has been to compel the South to recognize the political equality of the negro. That in its essence would mean the domination of the negro in South Carolina and Missis sippi, and many parts of other South ern States. "We have disfranchised e%061V_ gro we could unde'r the^ fifteenth amendment and the only instru mentality available was- to require an educational qualification. 'There is now an agitation in South Caroli na for compulsory education. That would mean a' heavy burden to provide more schools, which the white taipners would have to bear, and there :ould be no discrimination against tlfe negro on account of race or color. Hence -we would pre sent the spectacle-of educating the aegro at a, very heavy expense to hurry forward the contest for su premacy between the two' races as soon as we should have given them the necessary qualifications 'co vote, and be undoing what we found ab solutely necessary to preserve our civilization. ' We never Intend to be -governed by negroes, whether educated or un adcated. TbRepublcan party i; a"% seeking t debauci the Souti through Mr' Taft, who offers us twc oflices in 'every tho.usand of our pop ltiene:and,--apretended-:sadvance nent of' our material Interests tc join that 'party. If- the RepublicanW will throw down and abandon once for all their efforts to' compel th? South to recognize the equality ol the - Caucasion and the African. b3 repealing the fiftienth amendment we can then have the control of ou State -affairs and can then train then: to make better citizens and aid ii he 'uplift' which Mr. Taft is sc axious to se brought about. But we never expect to 'lift' them higl mough ourselves or allow anybody else to lift them high enough to pu heirs heels on our necks, or' gover: s again, and the conflict of the races which seems to me inevitable will only be hastened by such tall s Mr. Taft induge in.'' ; ' KILLS HIMSELF LN CHURCH. Philadelphian Commits Suicide Jb St. Patrick's at Savannah. Savannah, Ga., Jan. 22.-In r posture of prayer in St. Patrick': hurch here, and with a bullet hol' through the temple, the dead bod: f Otto Schueitzer, of Philadelphia was found today, several hours af ter the fatal shot was fired. Two notes were found, one 1be queathing $1 for "St. Anthony'1 bread," and another expressing re gret vaguely that he "had permit ted himself to have any ill feeling.' Schueitzer had been here but a'day reaching the city aboard a steame-. from Philadelphia early this morn ing. The shot that killed him was no heard by any one, traffic in the street in front of the church drowninl the report. When found the pisto the man had used was lying beside his knees as he k'nelt in a pew. * FELL AND BROKE HIS NECK. Dalington Negro Meets Death Ii Peculiar Manner. Darlington, Jan. 20.-Coroner R G. Parnell went to Lumber Tues day, and with a jury 'held an inques over the ,remains of Coleman Tay lr, a negro about 21 years of age who died a violent death by beint accidentally struck on the head, just above the right eye, by a chip tha1 was hurled through the air by piece of machinery, knocking Taylo down, and in falling or as a result of his fall his necli was broken. The accident occurred at the Williams & McKeithan Mills. FROZEN TO DEATH. New York Covered by Snow, Sleet and Rain. New York, Jan. 18.-The storm of sleet, snow and rain, which apvered the city and country with ice, was the worst experienced here in years and caused great suffering amonl the. poor. Many persons were injur ed by falling on the slippery pave ments. Five thousand men are a work today clearing the streets. The one victim of the storm wat an unidentified woman, about 4~ years old, who was found badl: frozen in the cellar of a tenemen house at 493 Second avenue. Sh died at Bellevue hospital. A war] house tag in her pocket showed tha 'she had been discharged from tha FIFTY PERISH i Powder Expision Causes Disaster to Workmen Near Chicago IN A MARINE TUNNEL. Half a Hundred Laborers a Mile and Half From Shore, in Lake Mich igan, Blown to Pieces, Bruned to Death or Drowned, and a Large Number Are Injured. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 20.-Blown to pieces by exploding powder, burned to .death by the resultant fire or drowned in the icy waters of~ Lake Michigin was the fate today of fifty three workmen, who were working on a submarine tunnel at a wooden crib, a mile and a half from shore' The crib was -used in the construe tion of a tunnel connecting witiL- the south side shore of the city at- 73rd: street. It. is known-that ninety-five - workmen were employed in the crib and the connecting tunnel. at .he time, of the explosion, which started the fire and blew or drove men k6u; the water. The work of .the destroying ele - ments was begun so unexpectedly and reaped its harvest of dead and injured'with such swiftness that the contracting firm of George W. Jack son .and the rescuers. have been unin able to arrive at anything like an accurate list of those who. perished or of others who escaped the fur - of the flames or the icy. waters- of the lake. All south side hospitals are-iled with infared men tonight. City re boats and tugs -of 'theconstructiozL company made frequenit trips'far into the night to the scene of the disaster through the heavy' ice floes. The disaster apparently had its origin in a. powder liouse of -smanl dimensions, situated about 00.ards from the crib structure proper-but at the same time being apatf - the general structure.:-. .. The dull detonation, mufledasdt was by the crunching of floating ice igainst the crib andth'e atmosphse lAden with heavy fois implyarousedsi che attention of the wrkmeine.'.a :ording to servivors, and it was . o imtil, the heat. of the esn and-the ,stfing smoak penetrated. the caled "livin 'room" -of'the fi the tunnelibeneath theyaterso tet the:fulnpodtfftiS aster dawned upon the-wrke cu off from quick succor. One of the workmen with a 4col er head than his fellows, made hfs way through the smoak :to a little inclosure in which was a telephone and gave the hurried message to the shore station: "The crib is on fire.. For-God's sake send heLp at once, or we wfll be buried alive, The tug-." At this point communication ceas ed and through the fog an occasional iurst of flames, and an unmistakable >dor of -smoke made it knowna to he watchers on. shore that the tel aphone message was in earnest. The tug T. TI. Morford was the Irst to begin rescuing the frenzIesd. vorkmnen. After several houirs of heroic work >n the part of the rescuers thirty iine workmen were rescued.- When 'he- tug Conway. and its crew had 6.nally quenched the flames; fifty three bodies gad been carried to .he shore and placed in morgues in south Chicago, -- HAVE MET TAFT. Rockefeller, Ogden - and Harin Are -in North Augusta. Augusta, Jan. 19.-President'elect ['aft's rest is being Invaded by the -epresentatives of "predatory .vealth," and money is flying through :he air. All rich arrivals are philan :hropists of the most pronounced ;ype. In addition to John D. Rockefeller, ~vho came several days ago and has - innounced that he will hand over .he trifling sum of $100,00 to a 'onng wbmen's coilege in this State,. Robert C. Ogden,- the New York Loer of good work, has arrived in t.ugusta. E. H. Harriman,. whose philan hropy in taking railroads under his ving, is widely known, is expected here today. Both Harriman a-nd );den will probably attend the ban tuet, which will be tendered Mr. rfat by the Augusta chamber of :ommerce. A WOMAN ADVISES SUIICIDE mnd Two of Her Hearers Took Her Seriously. Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 19.-"Com nit suicide if you are out of work." flhis was in effect the advice which '.iss Laura Burke' suffragist, social st and graduate of Notre Dame uni '.ersity, gave to 500 unemployed :nen in the Vine street -Congression I1 church Sunday night. Yesterday two of them tried to 'ake poision. B. 3. McMaster swal lowed morphine and Frank Peters used carbolic acid, but they will re cover. - Miss Burke said from the pulpit: -"The only way to solve the present -awful condiiyon of the unemployed, is by taking a dose of chloroforme." -Falls Dead in Court Room. Hamilton. Ohio, Jan. 18.-As Judge Murphy today sentenced "Buck" Cottongame, a Kentucky feudist, to the penitentiary for life for the murder of Parrish Arnet, the father of Arnet fell dead in the