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WILL DO GOOD' C3pign Funds Must Be Publidied Be fore and After lections ONE OF BRYAN'S IDEAS Some Instances Given Below Where mense Campaign Contributions Were Made by the Trusts to Buy up the Elections So as They Could Rob the People. Among the beneficent acts of the Democratic House of Representa tives the passage of the Rucker bill, providing for publicity of campaign funds both before and after Federal elections is first in importance. It seeks to purify politics at the source. The revelations made before the com mittee 'have once more demonstrated how vital is the need of this legisla tion. It is necessary and it is inevi table. Young men in politics would find it 'hard to credit how shameless and sordid a quarter of a century ago was the open use of money in elec tions, or how corruption ws made a jest .by men who should have been leaders in public thought. In 1S83 Chester A. Arthur was President of the United States. In ISSO he was already elected Vice President when at a public banquet said: Indianna was really, I suppose, a Democratic State It had always been put down in the book as a State that might be carried by close and care ful and perfect organization and a great deal of-(Pause filled in by laughter and a cry of "Soap.") In 1888 Privilege with heightened audacity pushed the corruption of voters to a point never before paral leled. At any cost Democracy was to be dethroned. On IMay 25 Presi dent James J. Foster of the Republi can League sent out his letter say ing that man-ufacturers benefitted by protection were laggard in contrib uting. He added in a phrase that be came famous: "If I had my way I would put the manufacturers of Pennsylvania under the fire and fry all the fat out of them." Foster's let ter closed with the remark: "If you give us the means to -win the victory we will do it. Are you willing?" On Oct. 24 Col. W. W. Dudley, Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, showed how the "means" were to be applied. He sent out this advice as to the handling of purchas ed votes. Divide the voters into blocks of five and put a trusted man with nec essary funds in charge of these five men, and make him responsible that none get away, and that all vote our ticket. In 1892 when Cleveland was elect ed the serond time the interests rais ed a big corruption fund for his bene fit and he was elected. We -all know ~he favored Wall street -by his bond issues. In 1896 Mark Hanna raised an immense fund to defeat Bryan, which was repeated again in 1900. It is said no one knows how much money was raised to defeat Bryan in those two campaigns, ,but the amount was very large. The immense cor ruption and vote buying in the above campaigns caused Mr. Bryan to pro pose the letw which will soon be on the statute books, recquiring. pub lication of all campaign -fund con tributions. In 1904 a means of "frying the fat" which far out-Fos tered Foster's wildest dreams had in the mean time been provided in the Bureau of Corporations, whose re searches were to be conducted in se cret and whiose conclusions were to be disclosed only to the President. They 'have been refused to an inves tigating committee of the House of Representatives within the present Bession. When George 'B. Cortelyou, who as Secretary of Commerce and Labor had oversight of the Bureau of Cor porations and access to its business secrets was made chairman of the Re publican National committee charged with the re-election of Theodore Roosevelt, "financial leaders" knew what was expected of them. The en suing scandals were the greatest that ever in the history of American poli tics have gathered about the corrupt use of money at the pools. So gross were the abuses that on Oct. 29, 1904 Judge Parker said in a public speech: As I have said before, and I deem it my duty to say it again, the trusts are furnishing t-he money. with which they hope to control the election. I am sorry to be obliged to say it. If it were not true I would not say it to gain the Presidency or any earthly reward. Mr. Roosevelt's reply, issued six days later, within which period 'he had ample time to inform himself, consisted of a quibbling restatement of the charges and a sweeping denial: -Mr. Parker's charges are in effect that the President of the United States and Mr. Cortelyou, formerly Mr. Cleveland's executive clerk, then Mr. Mclinley's and *my secretary, then Secretary of Commerce and La bor, now chairman of 'the Republican National committee have been in a conspiracy in blackmail corporations. lMr. Cortelyou using 'his knowledge gained while he was secretary of Commerce and labor to extort money from the corporaitions, and I, the President, having appointed him for this especial purpose. But there is not one particle of truth in the state ment as regards anything that has gone on in the management of the Republican campaign. Mr. Parker's accusations against Mr. Cortelyou and me are monstrous. The state ments made by Mr. Parker are un qualifiedly and atrociously false. I Politically, Mr. Roosevelt's state ment was successful, but he was the man doing the lying about the cam paign funds and not Judge Parker. The Presidential prestige gave it weight. The lawful secrecy sur rounding the corruption funds aided the defense. Yet Judge Parker's statement was true in every word. A splendid victory was gained in principle when so radical a measure passed the Republican senate and the Democratic house. The cause is on the eve of triumph- The corrupt use of money at the polls has been declared outlaw by the American peo ple, and it must be stopped. The Governor has adopted quite -a unique and novel plan to prevent affidavits from being made against Mim. STARTS LONG FiGHT AVIATOR TO GO FROM ST LOUIS TO BOSTON MASS. After Going Ninety-Eight Miles Lands at Springfield, Ill., For Lunch and Rest. Amid the cheers of the huge crowd that had gathered on Art Hill in For est park at St. Louis to witness the events under a sky obscured by clouds Harry N. Atwood, of Boston, Tuesday morning, shortly after 8 o'clock, be gan his record-breaking flight of 1, 460 miles,across the continent from St. Louis to New York and Boston .by way of Chicago and other cities. Atwood, flying at a .heiyht of 800 feet was cheered by a great assem blage. He waved his hand in ac iowlegement of the cheering which was wafted to him. Atwood flew north over the Mississippi river for ten miles, and circled over ti.he down town district at 8:30 o'clock, follow ing his first appearance with a series of maneuvers which brought cheer upon cheer from the crowds. A dispatch from Alton, Ill, says Atwood passed over Alton at 9.07 o'clock flying high and in straight line north. :Business was suspended from the minute word was flashed from St. Louis that the aviator was on his way to Alton until the ma chine passed out of sight. The streets. tops of houses and the bluffs were dotted with spectators to bid him God-speed on his journey. A dispatch from Brighton, Ill., says Atwood winged over that place at 9.17 o'clock. He was flying low, at a height of probably not more than 300 feet, but travelling at a terrific speed. He is following the Chicago and Alton railroad to Springfield. Atwood by passing over Corlins ville Tuesday morning at 9.27 o'clock successfully covered sixty of the nin ety-eight miles to Springfield, the first leg of his flight to the Atlantic. He was flying high and at a rate of about a mile a minute. After circling Springfield, Ill., sev eral times, Atwood landed in Capitol park at 10:30 a. m. He was entertain ed by the Springfield Commercial As sociation at a reception and luncheon and will resume his flight toward Chicago at three o'clock. Atwood landed in Chicago at 6.39 p. m. His total time between St. Louis and Chicago, counting the de lays occasioned by the two stops, was ten hours -and 14 minutes, but his actual time in the air, computed by deducting the delays was five hours and 43 minutes. This, Atwood as serts, is three hours and 12 minutes less than the scheduled time for ex press trains for the same distance. TIDAL WAVTE AND TYPHOON Sweep Over Japan Killing Five Hun dred People. More than 500 lives were lost and great devastation ashore and afloat resulted from a typhoon and a tidal wave which spept over Japan July 26, according to advices 'brought by the steamer Empress of Japan. The fishing fleets from Shidzuoka suffer ed severely Several hundred fish ermen were drowned. At Tokyo a tidal wave swept away many houses, including a large tea house with 33 persons. The noted Sherwiga inlaid work factory collap sed and 15 employes were killed. A torpedo boat was swept In shore at Tokyo and several steamers founder ed, while ,big liners dragged anchors. Eight of 40 men on the Acamori Maru survived when she went down in the typhoon off -Kuno and 100 fish ermen were drowned off there. The apanese naval training squadron was crossing off Tosa and two seamen were killed on the Hashidate and seven injuared. Thousands of houses collapsed, the number in Tokyo and vicinity being over 12,000. according to official statistics. The ware house and factory districts of Tokyo suff ered severely, eight warehouses, con taining goods worth $16,000,000, be ing demolished. The loss there was over $4,000,000. THEY MUST WIND UP. Senate Sounds Death Knell of Mon etary Commission. The national monetary commiss ion, which is headed by former Sen ator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, once Republican leader of the Senate, must wind u-p 'his affairs by Jan'uary S next if the House takes favorable action on the measure passed by the Senate limiting the commission's life to that date. Tuesday's ac tion followed a ste-rm of criticism that ir:cently broke.' cut tai rue Senat-. over the commissio'n's delay in' mak ing a report and its alleged extrava gence. The Senate passe-d a suosti tute for the Cummins resolution, which would have terminated the commission's life December 5 SCARED AWAY BY SHOTS. St. George Merchant Finds Strange 3fani on Premises. When W G. Zeigler, a young mer chant of St. George, Wednesday re turned Wednesday night from Black ville he discovered an unidentified negro on his home premises. Becom irg suspicious, Mr. Zeigler shot five times at the intruder, but each shot evidently went wild, as the negro es caped A thorough search will be made,'however, in an effort to appre hend the darkey. It is not known whether or not the negro committed any offense other than that of tres passing on Mr. Zeigler's property. NO member of the family was at home at the time Cowhided by a omn Because, it is alleged, he circulat cd reports detrimental to the charac ter of Mrs. H. G. Sherrill, wife of a well known citizen of Spencer. N. C. George- L. Webb, a machinist in the Southern railway shops there. was cowhided by Mrs. Sherrill, who im rediately afterwards went to police headquarters and submitted to a charge of assault. * Woman Denied Bail. Mrs. R. L. Robbins, of Waycross, Ga., who shot and killed her neigh bor, Miss Belle Smith, in July, must remain in jail until her trial. Bail was denied her Tuesday by Judge BARELY ESCAPE lore Mishaps Mark the laternational Aeroplane Meet at Chicago. DID NOT WANT TO GO UP Stone Plunges into Lake and is Res- t cued. .Gill Mirac'ulously Escapes Uninjured Beachy and Ward Bat tle Bravely and Successfully and Land in Safety. Arthur Stone, a driver of a Queen i monoplane, was snatched back from t death at the international zviation I meet at Chicago Wednesday, after hopes for his life had been given up Howard Gill, in a baby Wright, came almost as close to his death, but escaped from the wreck of his machine, unhurt. Lincoln Beachey, after being driv en far to the South and figiting his way back to the field, glided 3,000 feet in safety to the earth, after his engine had stopped suddenly. James Ward had an equally hard I time to make his way back to the field from far cut over Lake Michi gan, but descended in safetv. Stone's machine fell into the lake just at dusk. He leaped from the falling plane and was rescued at the point of exhaustion by a motor boat after he had supported himself in the water more than a half an hour. His machine was not recover ed. That Stone was rescued was at tributed largely to the insistence of his wife that he guard himself with a life preserver. In spite of the order that all flyers should wear life pre servers, Stone, with others, started for their machines unguarded. Mrs. Stone ran from the hangar just be fore the flight and Insisted that he wait while she tied an inflated au tomobile tire about his shoulders. Unnerved by the deaths Tuesday of William R. Badger and St. Croix Johnstone, and deterrer by a high wind, many of the flyers protested against going -up. But the judges were insistent and finally half a dozen flyers rose for a cross water race around 'the crib, three and a half miles out. Thomas Sopwith had completed the second lap of the race and had been de clared winner, when a cry arose that Stone's machine had fallen into the water and that the aviator was drowned Reports that Stone had been drowned were quickly flashed to the han; gars. Almost the first to hear of disappearance was his wife, Mrs Irene Stone, who with her baby, awaited Stone's return frm the race far over the lake. As Mrs Stone darted out from a group of friends, who sought to have her return to the hotel, an automo bile came in from the lake front, and Mrs. Stone was assured that her hus band had been picked up, alive, and merely the victim of a ducking. "I'm mighty glad I made Artliur put on that life preserver," exclaimed Mrs. Stone, her tears drying up. I'm sure it saved his life. Howard Gill, of the Wright team, promised the first feature of a Ro man holiday when his machine sud denly checked as it skimmed over the ground after a perfect landing, top pled over with a terrific force. Gill was pinioned for an instant between tangled wires and the taut canvas of the baby Wright, but before the startled spectators reached him he dug himself from the ruins. Gill really had a narrow escape. He had made a perfect landing and was skimming over the turf .at a forty miles an hour speed The wheels of his machine struck a rut. The skid seupports snapped and' the machine toppled overhead foremost. 'Beachey swept down ,before the grand stand with a dead engine that had stopped with him at a height of i,000 feet. He had had a bard fight against the wind from the southwest and almost everyone o-f the specta tors was watchin-g him when the pro peller stopped. Instead of falling the airship 'began a long circular glide, so steep that one could see be tween the planes. The angle became sharper and sharper until the aero plane touched the earth, rolled a few feet and the aviator stepped down, scarcely jarred by the descent. The effect of Tuesday's tragedies was manifested plainly, both on avi ators and spectators. There was a noticeably smaller attendance. Even some of the free seats were unoccu pied. On the field and at the hang ers the flyers grouped together and presented objections to further fly Walter Brookins expressed the feeling of others. "No individual would dare refuse to fly," he said: "his personal reputation as an avia tor of daring and courage would be gone and he would be branded a cow ard. Every man here feels the loss of Badger and Johnstone, though, and none wants to go up." At the starting gun, at 3:30 o'clock1 when usually a dozen machines are in. the air, not one had started. Fin ally Beachey and Ward went up. Beachey went high up in the air and was blown far South. Ward a minute later, was blown at a lower level, ov er the lake, whence he returned with I difficulty. Parmelee rose 1 05 feet, went half around the field and descended. For C two hours no other aviator attempt ed to rise. Several events had .been1 called off, and despite the apparent I success of Ward and Beachey, the pi lots still expressed fear of air condi tions. Then Parmelee. another of the Wrights attempted to go up againr fitful gusts forced him to descend. t Fatal Thunder Bolt. A dispatch from Rogersville, Tenn., says Thomas Kyle and Miss Venable I were instantly killed and eight other I persons seriously injured during an I electrical storm in Hawkins county, I while attending a picnic of the :Iod- S rn Woodmen at Strahi, Tenn. The a pinickers took refuge in a church ' md the lightning struck this build ng. Bolt Kills Negro. f 'A negro man on Robert G. Wal-- T ace's plantation at Belfast, in New- i 2orry County was killed Monday by' ightning. He had gone under a tree 2 o escape a shower when lightning t ~truc the ree< ATTEMPTED ASSAULT 1 VHITE LADY ATTACKED IN HER HOME AT ST. GEORGE Nend Failed to Accomplish His Pur pose but Struck the Lady Blows in T the Mouth. St. George was in a fever of excite nent Tuesday night, following an at- D empt at criminal assault ,by a negro )n the person of - well known and ighly respected white woman. While the assailant failed to accomplish his -purpose, -he succeeded in inflict ing severe and painful injuries on his intended victim, having struck her in the mouth several times, caus ing the blood to flow. In endeavor- ti ing to escape she also stumbled over tE the furniture in the darkened room, p, from which she sustained painful li bruises. a: Clinton Glover, a negro suspected o: of the dastardly crime, was arrested and lodged in Jail. Glover is a negro , who had been in St. George but a tl short time. He was seen loafing t] about the premises of the lady Tues- i day by several people, and suspicion o naturally fell on him, and he was tak- r en in custody. He denies his guilt, si but he will be safely -held until he can 0 be thoroughly examined or the guil ty party is found beyond doubt. The dastardly crime was attempt- 2 ed about half past ten o'clock Tues day night, when the would-be fiend entered the 'bed room of his intend ed victim, who had retired and was t sound asleep. The lady says she was awakened by feeling some one clutching her throat, which was her first intimation of any one being 0 in the room besides herself. She screamed; and the fiend struck her several blows in the mouth, and then ran. The residence of the lady is locat ed in a principal part of the town, only a block from the business por tion of Main street, and her screams brought many people -to her rescue, but when they got there the fiend had made his escape. The room be ing in darkness, the lady could not tell anything about the fiend that had attacked her: Suspicion fell on Glover and it was thought advisable to arrest him and await further de velopments. The county bloodhounds which were eight miles from St. George were sent for, and -put on the trail of the fiend with the hope of run ning him down, and it is hoped that the brutal assailant has been caught. The husband of the victim is em ployed several miles from town and was not at home when the attack on his wife was made. It is thought that the party who committed the of fense was aware of the husband's absence. The lady upon whom the assault was attem'pted is tho mother 'of* six or seven children and is a -highly re- r spected citizen of the town. The dastarly outrage, has stirred up the people of the town and surrounding country, and should the fiend be I caught and unmistakably identified, it would be a hard matter to keep the infuriated citizens from visiting summary punishment on him. It was one of the aboldest crimes ever at- I tempted in this ection of the State. 4 CAUSED DEATH OF THREE. Four Men Engage in Pistol Duel Ab out Italian Girl. Love for a woman resulted in a free for all gunfight Tuesday In which 'three men were shot to death, another was mortally wounded and a woman severely wounded. The dead:1 Valdo Aronoco, 33 years old. 3 Antonio Lasarr,2 8 years old. 1 Pietro Mata11l,25 years old, i The wounded: Ben Petro-11o, 24 years old; shot through the breast near the heart; will die. Mari Bartino, 28 years old; shot .e In left leg; will recover. - 1 The following occurred at Whis key Ruin, a mining settlement near Saltsbury. Angelo Marceldo, accus-t in of Aronoco, spent last night at the1 latter's house. The two men and t three 'boarders were in love with Marie Bartino, Italian girl. Tues day evening the girl was particular-1 ly devoted to Marceldo. Upon the angry and .iealous muttering of the others, Aronoco challenged the en tire party, and soon the pistol battle was on near the home of the amora-. ta. Automatic revolvers were used and when the ammunition was ex hausted Petrello was the only one a live and there is no hope for his re covery, as he was shot through C breast near the -heart. While the s battle raged, Miss Bartino the inno-t cent cause, was attracted by the 1 shooting and hurring to the rear 1 door of her home, opened the door I only to ,be shot through the left leg by a stray bullet from the gun of one C of the combatants. COCAINE EVIL GROWS. t Twenty-five Convicted for Selling theo t Deadly Drug. Twenty-five men and women, near ly all negroes, were convicted in mu icipal court in Greensboro, N. C.C uring the month of July -etailing ocaine. This statement e .ves some idea of +he magnitude of the .business tat. going on in Greensboro and nn other towns of the South among the lower class of negroes. Here it ss found that users and sellers of co aine. are an absolutely worthless S las sniffers of the drug make up at F Least two thirds of the criminal dock- E t. The rapidity with which the c< umber of users is growing is also tc larmng and unless speedy and he- g ic efforts are brought to bear the hi irug will become a greater menace oo the negro race than whiskey has ver been. The effects of the drug re so much more permanent than at of whiskey. The center of trou- a e is the drug stores and they are he arder to reach. ' T1 They Are the Kickers. . . le The man who habitually sends his st noney to mail order houses for goods H rhiuh he could buy to better advan- th age to himself from home merchants s generally the first to growl about he deadness of 'his home town. Ap arently he forgets that he is a prime at arse of its deadness and that be is St he most fitting person to officiate at sh t funeral. Live men imbued with ui rue local pride and patriotism mean Cc live town every time, even as dead ed -n a adad town. th WILL STIDY THEM 'RYAN WILL LEARN ALL ABOUT PARTY CANDIDATES. ['he Great Commoner Says When I Nominnation Time Comes He Will Not Remain Silent. "I intend to devote all my time be ween now and the nomination to ind out things about the candidates or the Democratic nomination for >residient," %aid William Jennings 3ryan to a large audience at Colum us, Ohio. "I know all of the lead ng men of the -party, those who have indered and those who have helped t. When the time comes to name he man for the candidacy I will not >e silent." Mr. Bryan was the guest of the refferson club of Columbus at a big -ally and barbecue. Gov, Harmon 13d hoca invited to the rally but he sent word some days ago that he vould be at his summer home In Michigan on vacation. Mr. Bryan refrained from mention ng the governor in any of his inter 'iews or his speech. "I am going to give the Democratic arty all the information I possess .bout the prospective candidates to ead of the ticket," said MIr. Bryan. "I am not going to mention indi viduals now. The country has many available men. Recently I mentioed some of the men I believe to be toler able as presidential candidates and am as glad as I was then that the Democratic party is so fortunate as to have such men." Among the men who Mr. Bryan mentioned some time ago did not in elude Gov. Harmon. "I intend to devote myself to driv ing plutocracy from the throne and put the rights of man into the seat. ( shall find out everything I can of all the candidates between now and convention time and will tell all the people as I learn more and more a bout them. I have not a friend in the United States whom I would re gard at the expense of my party aL country." HOW THEY GOT EVEN. Writes Wife of Victim That He Want ed Her Killed. Joseph Vacek, aged 55, a wealthy carpenter contractor, in Chicago, Ill., was found murdered in rhis 'home in the southwest portion of the city. He had been sihot in the head, and near the body was a letter addressed to rs. Vacek, the *victim's wife, sign ed "B. H." and reading as follows: "Your husband is now where he wanted you to be. He told us if we killed you he would give us $500, and we failed. We asked Ihtim for the coin, anyway, and he did not give It to us so we got even. He deserved it and not you. I am a perfect gen teman and a friend of yours. Do not mourn for this guy, as he is a cow ard." The sheet on which tihis was writ ten was crudely decorated with cof fins, and daggers, drawn -in pencil. Mrs. Vacek is unable to throw any light on the mystery. GAVE HI A BLOW. i Preacher Knocks Out a Pickpocket in First Round. The Rev. H ..- G' Garland of Union Hill, N. 3., took a ride sup Avenue A Wednesday in New York on an open car. He thought he felt a hand in his hip pocket, where be keeps his pocketbook-. First making sure that the suspected hand was a masculine hand, he punched its own~ er's solar pleus half way through to his spine. 'When they brought the man around, 'he said he was Solo mon Smith, a paInter, 24 years old, of 308 East Ninth street. He was locked up charged with attempted grand larceny. He thought 'he was struck by lightning. MAKE REPORT SOON. Where Bad Meal Is Sold Pellagra is Found in Worst Form. "It is noteworthy that the worst goods are found being sold in locali ties in the state where the disease of pellagra is most prevalent and has proven more fatal than any where else " This statement was made by Commissioner Watson Wed nesday in announcing that a chemi cal examination of cornmeal drawn from the market in eleven cities -in the State had shown the meal in a majority of cases to ~be extremely dangerous to man and beast. The 3hemist will in a few days submit a report on meal seized at Glendale, [ Spartanburg county. COLORED CROP REPORTS. C~omissioner Hudson Thinks Condi tions Exaggerated Alleging that Southern crop condi :ions have been grossly exaggerated, P. '. Hudson, commissioner of agri nlre of Georgia, has written to- all ;imilar officials in all the Southern states, asking that they meet and ed rise plans for correcting t-hese wrong mnpressions of the outlook. He ask d that all farmers' organizations co ,perate with the State comissioners, t is declared that crops, especially otton will not have a-' large yield as, ave been reported, and that such al eged false reports will tend to hurt Will Be Sent Free. The State says the necessary equip nent for the distribution of the bac ein for inoculation against typhoidi ever has arrived at the laboratory f the state board of health, and ite an amount of the bacterin pre-i ared at the laboratory has1 en sent out over the State. There 1 as been quite a demand for It al eady, showing that physicians of outh Carolina are immediately dopting the new treatment and pre entive. Fighting in Mexico, With 6,000 troops engaged. a t erce battle is raging at Cuernavaca. 'e government forces are attempt 1g to crush the rebels under Zeopa-t . Casulties on both sides are heavy, eopata declares that if he is vic-t >rious he will march on the City ofa [riv D forty -mile away. z 'HEY HELP TAFT te Dmicrats Fail to Pass Bill Over the Presidents Veto. HEIR ALLIES DESERT efection of Insurgents Gave the 4 Administration a Victory Over the E Democrats, Who, Made a Gallant o But Unsuccessful Effort to Get c Some Relief for the People. t ti In a succession of dramatic events I ie Democratic House of Represen uives Friday met defeat in its su- f -eme effort to pass the wool and free i st bills over the President's vetoes, I rid virtually fixed upon adjournment d Congress early this week. e The Democratic House majority, d ith a great demonstration of en iusiasm, marshalled it s ranks for f ie great battle to override the Pres- r lent and went down with flying col- E rs. rhe party leaders failed to t Luster enoutgh insurgent Republican t ipport to pass the tariff legislation 4 ver the 'President's head. I On the motion to pass the meas re over the wool veto, there were C 27 affirmative votes, 32 of them In urgent Republicans and one inde- I endent Republican, while the ne- 1 ative votes were 129. The motion t override the veto on the free list Wiled of a two-thirds majority also, eing 226 to 127. - t During the three hours of debate < n the wool bill, the corridors of the c apitol reverberated time and again t ith shouts of approval and derision rom the floor. Spirited discussion 4 etween members was frequent. 1 Republican Leader Mann and Re- 1 resentative Clayton, of Alabama, ad a wordy encounter, which for a noment had a threatening aspect. 'he incident was precipitated when te minority leader objected to the labama member's request to have he newspaper editorial printed in he Congressional Record. That the Administrationi was keen ratching developments was evidenc *d in the presence on the f16or of tle louse of Messrs Wickersham, Hitch ock, Nagel and Stimson of the Presi ent's Cabinet. All of them kept a lose tally on the roll cal until it was .pparent that the Democrats could tot rally the necessary two-thirds aajority. Speaker Clark was given an ova ion from both sides of the House hen he left the chair and took the loor to the end the discussion. The max of his address was reached when he said: "The President has a right to ve o this bill, if l'e wants to. I am ot quarrelling with him. I am amenting his lack of wisdom as his ersonal friend. He has raised an ssue that will rage with unabated ury until the close of tihe polls In oovember 1912." This was the signal for such an tburst as seldom has been known n the halls of Congress. Again, as e proceeded, the Democrats applaud d, cheered and pounded desks un 11 Deoratic Leader Underwood, vhho occupied the chair for the first ine this session, almost despaired of naintainig order. Then the roll was called. The wenty-two insurgents .who stood on heir former record and voted the resident's head were: Anderson, Davis, Lynderberg, Mil er, Steenerson and Volstead, of dKinesot Hanna'anld Helgenson, of fortsh Dekota- Haugen, Hubhard and gooods, of Iowa; Kent, of California; forris, of Nebraska; Jacksonl, Mad son. Youn.g and Murdock of Kansas AaFollette and Warburton, of Wash nton; Lenroot, Morse and Nelson, of Wisconsin-22. Akin, of New York, Republican, .lso voted to pass the bill over the The eight insurgent Republicans whoo voted with their colleagues for he conference report last Monday, >ut who deserted them to support he veto of the President, were: 1'ye, of Minnesota; Esch, Kopp and )avidson, of Wisconsin; Rees, of Cansas; Stephens, of California; iloan and Kinkaid, of Nebraska--8. LEVER AT HIS POST. Mike Hand in Attempt to Over ride Taft's Veto. A dispatch from Lexington says onrresan A. F. Lever, although till weak from a recent Illness left his afternoon for Washington to1 ee the Democrats of the House ass he wool bill over the veto of re esident Taft. 1 It seems certain, In the opinion of1 o ngresman Lever, that such a veto rill :be made and the importance of< he action of tihe House too great for he future. He said that he feels it 1 it dty to be at his post, regardless f the risk of his health, which thei rip to Washington may Involve. t Mr Lever as not .been to Washing- 1 anniin several weeks, due to the -fact hat he underwent an operation in |olumbia soon after his marriage to [iss Lucile Scurry Butler, on JTuly 5. [r. Lever is gradually regaining his >st strenth and he hopes to soon A Romance' of the Sea-. Whenn-the schooner Redfield, for t eattle and Nome, arriv,:ed off Cape lattry, the captain found a sea sick ~ ir, 16 years old, 'on board. She t nfessed that she :had stowed away ~ bebenar her sweet heart, the en ner of the vessel. By virtue of s athority as commander, Capt a c~cennaapronounced the engineer ti Klled by Falling Pistol-. Whilee j. Henderson was taking coi foin frhis pocket in New York pulled his revolver out with it. he weapon was discharged as soon y it struck the sidewalk and the bul- e: t killed the woman at the news y and. In default of $2,300 bail, a enderson was kept in jail to await a ~e coroner's inquest. 1 n; Grl Dies of Wound. w Thhe little negro girl who was shot h: Keershaw two weeks ago by B. ~radford, a negrc man. who was ~ooting at another negro, died Sat daya..An inquest was held by t, ronerr King. Stradford was arrest- jw. NICE TO THE FARMER ARKETING COTTON SLOWLY MEANS WUCH TO THEM. he Pressure Downward in the Mar ket by the Buyers the Coming F Season Will be Desperate. Mr. C. J. Hadden, writing to the .tlanta Constitution from Liverpool, |ngland, says: If a campaign of agitation be vig rously pressed throughout the outh for demanding good prices for atton, it would be worth not less 3an fifty million dollars to the cot n growers during the season 1911 2. "The newspaper reports and the t eling here Indicate a large crop. It i a thing devoutly prayed for by the :uropean spinners. The pressure ownward in the market by the buy rs during the coming season will be c esperate. c "The English spinners have uni- f rmedly lost money for three or t iore years, excepting where, by rea on of peculiarly favorable condi- e ions, a manufacturer 'has been able o hold his .own. A sentiment flav red with British national patriotism j 2ay make the coming struggle a t Vaterloo. The manufacturers are a rganized. - "It is notoriously true that Liver- I ol (Liverpool in cotton means E ngland) lost Its dominant place in he control of cotton prices ten years .go. New Orleans is now the control ing factor. New York is little more han a gambling shop. The change 1 ame about when organizations of outhern farmers began to teach hem that cotton selling was a trans etion with two sides to it-that the eller might demand as well as the >uyer might offer. The growth of his knowledge has done more 'to -egulate .prices of the past decade an has the varying volumes of the rops. "If fifty per cent 'of the Southern otton producers would resolve as. olemnly as the "Three Swiss" that ;hey would not -part with their sta ile for less than 15 cents a pound and tick to it till the 1st of January, roiced by a hundred great mass eetings. I am confident cotton would o to seventeen cents. "This requires a wide-spread pa riotic thrill, such as swept over the outh, when in 1861 the old men ut their savings into confederate >onds and the young men took up the iardships of common soldiers. Such campaign would be worth more to is of the South than would have a lozen victories at Gettysburg. We i re people of sentiment and there as never been a time in our history rhen that fine quality of our coun ry could have been appealed to with greater certainty of results. "A leading British statistical paper. n a recent number reviewing the otton market, said: "At the present time the cotton :rade is passing through a period of :rai ail. It is experiencing almostI c the full the effects of shortness' in raw material." "In a conversation last week with yne of the foremost bankers of Lon on (the representative of the Asso iated European 'Bankers, who at one :inme insisted upon the insurance of otton bills of lading) 'he frankly ad nitted that the European bankers acked down from their demands for ;he avowed reason that a majority of 'hem feared such a step would lose American -business. "If thle cotton producers could tnow their strength-could see face :o face the vantage ground on which hey aras camped-a triumph is hbeirsa triumph which means mil ions now and eventually a power md prestige not hither enjoyed by my spot cotton." MARKET CROP SLOWLY. flhe Amount of Cotton Made This Year Overestimated. *Mr. W. J. Wingate, of Meigs, Ga., wvrites the Atlanta Constitution as ollows: "I don't see the warnings in the. iewspapers to the farmers to 'hold md market the crop slowly that I :ommonly see at this season of the r'ear. Even the Farmers' union peo >e are not hafing much to say onI his line. I would like very much to ee The Constitution and all other eading nerspapers that are friendly I oo the cotton producer, fire some iot shot in that direction; for no I iou~bt there is one of the greatest ef orts being made to get the present rop for almost nothing that has een made in a long time. 1'Ihe bear crowd will succeed If the iawspapers and farmers don't p-ut ip a long strong, hard fight for the ext sixty days, because, on accoun' f the early maturing variety'tHt,il ff the early dry spring, cotton matur d an early bottom crop. But the bot om crop is practically all that is nade, and this crop will only be a welve million bale crop in spite oft he government's fine condition re Rain 'has been plentiful since he latter part of June, and for the aast thirty days there has been toot riuch hrt sunshinie mied with the an. Today there are great fields ,f cotton in this section with not a :reen eaf on it. If it had only con inued dry through the growing sea-e eason there would have been a fif- i een million bale crop. This no doubt, will sound very aolish to people who don't know 1 tiat it takes a 'hard dry year to pro- 8 ue a theavy crop of cotton. Refel ack to the- year 1904. the dryest ear the cotton belt has ever known, ad you will see that we produced s le largest crop in our history. I p uust you will vigorously handle this a a tter." t t Shot Raiding Still. h Two doctors are in the Brushy ountains fighting to save thse life Robert Henry, deputy colleet'or, ho was shot Tuesday aft.rnoon f hen raiding a mountain plant, and 1: heavily armed posse'is scouring the a ountains for his assailant, a man I. ied Lane. The revenue ,.fficer f: as hit just above the left eye and p .s condition is considered critical. Burned by Forest Fires. Advices from Halifax, N. S.. say Il at millions of feet of fine timber si are destroyed by forest fire Thirty- st ree dwellings and two lumber mills el 'AFT IN A HOLE A s Administration Wil Have a ime to Clear Itself of Fraud. RAUDS ON ALL SIDES ate, Agricultural and the Postofee Departments Are in Order Now and the Surface of the Frauds and Rascalities in Them Have Only Been Hinted At. Mdr. P. H. McGowan, the Washing mn correspondent of The State says is .becoming more evident in Wash igton day by day that the Taft ad tinistration is going to have an, ex elingly difficult time proving . a lean bill of health when it goes be )re the people -for indorsement in le national election next year. Even lifelong Republicans-those rho have stood the G. 0. P. outfit 1 its good days and its bad ones, irough the exciting times of' the oosevelt administration , and the R.me ones that make every day alike t the White House now-are .begin Ing to see that "aside from talk, ope and expectation there are sev ral good reasons to believe that ext year will see the departure ag and baggage-from the White louse of the Republican party as ow organized and operated in the nited States No one blames William Howard "aft for the present condition of- af airs. He is a good man, thoroughly Lonest in all that -the word honesty mplies, but absolutely unable to see hat he is surrounded by much the ame surroundings that characteriz d the days when Capt. Kidd was pi tical lord and master of the high eas. Today President Taft is surrounded >y as shrewd a band of political amesters as ever cme down -the 'oad. And the funny part about. IC is het they are getting away with it, td Taft-with his strictly judicial emperament and. believing that ev rybody is honest, even the politic sns-does not see it, though every e else does. Mr Taft unfortunately was left.-. ith an overstock of the Roosevelt unk on hand In the way: of >fficial timber, and has been unable, o far to unload. And right here. nill be -his undoing when he tries to xplain to the people next year. -The worst blot on the Taft official -ecord is the case of that missing rouchers in the Hay portrait. case td the manner In which -the case vas hushed oup for -fear that more Lnd worse developments might come. t was bad enough, to be sure, as it. vas but no case is ever helped by overing up the truth, and it Is going o take a mighty-lot of clever work : make the people believe that any hing but crooked work bas been eing on in the department presided ver by Philander C. Knox. The missing voucher and -the man er of its being found must stand >u't as particularly objectionable to -he minds of honest people who -went m honest administration. The Wickersham administration in :.he department of justice has fared ittle better a-nd the great head of lie nation's law. department didhim elf no credit when he shifted the :alcium from himself to the depart nent of agriculture, where he s trying his level best to make 'Old Borax" Wiley go home. le may succeed. Wiley may ave to go, but thousands of eople who have followed Wiley's fforts to enforce the -pure -food laws vill say: "There goes an lionest nan" Then the scene will shift gan to the Wickersham stronghold Lnd what developments will follow mies they too, are chloroformed ith administration dope, will prob- - bly recall the days of Diogones and le honest man. But with Wickersham and -Knox in iad and poor old "Tame-" Jim Wil ;on, for thirteen years the adminis ration's official farmer, about all in >ecause he has acknowledged that lie loes not know what is going on in ts department and that the crop tatistics and like matters are ma iipulated to suit the wishes of his mderlings, the people may, indeed ook for something real, classy when -hey take hold of the great and only rank H. Hitchcock in earnest. So far the handling of this gentle nan by the congressional commit :ees has been merely perfunctory, ut some time at no distant day his -eal investigation is going to begin. hen take notice. That same Hitoh ock knows things, and many vol Lnes will be needed to make the -ecords when he comes down from he witness stand. There are just - few facts relating to the baiting of mall -postmasters all over the coun ry that the Democrats want light ipon, a few figures about campaign ,ssessments, and just a bit of infor nation regarding pledges to sup port William Howard Taft and his and of G. 0. P. braves But this is only part of the pro ramme which Ringmaster Taft will 'resent to the country's 90,000,000 ople next year in the hope off se ring another four years' tenure a the White House. Seriously, the dministration is In a bad hole, and is a question whether it is not too te for -political doctors to do any ood. The crisis is at hand. Sailors Executed. A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, ays the government affirms, in ex-" laing the summary court martial nd execution of 26 men of the bat eship Numancia, who mutined, that Le revolt was a republican plot. A undred sailors are implicated. Nears End of .Journey. William Brown, of St. John's, New >undand, arrived in Superior, Wis. tst week on the last leg of a tour round the world with a dog team. Le started Christmas day. 1906, with e dogs and a wolf and will com ete the journey is a short time. Auto Racer Killed. Wilson Richmond, of Champaign, 1., driving an automobile in a trial >n at the Leroy Ill , races was in antly killed. He ran off the track nbankment at a curve and crashed