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Til E WVAOE OPsF g iFS I N RICIESON PAYS !EATil PENALT FOR liCRUIEo LUYS DOMW iJaLiIFE The Confessed Poisoner of Miss Avis T.innell, an Innocent and Trusting Young Woman, Whom He Had Deeply Wronged Under a Sacred Promise, is Put to Death. Clarence Vrgil Thompson Riche son, native of Virginia, pastor of the Immanuel Baptist church at Cam bridge, was electrocuted at 12:10 o'cloch Tuesday morning in the death house of the State prison at Charlestown, Mass. The crime for which Richeson paid the penalty Tuesday morning was the murder of his sweetheart, 19-year-old Avis Lin nell. Richeson confes;ed to giving her poison, which caused her death Oc tober 14, 1911. The current was turned on at 2:10:02 and the pris oner was declared dead at 12:17, The former clergyman was out wardly calm when he entered the leath chamber and he maintainec his composure while the straps and electrades were being adjusted as he sat in the electric chair. When Richeson Monday afternoor relected that he probably had les than 12 hours to live he expressed c desire to see his brother, Douglac Richeson of Chicago, who was in the city. Douglas Richeson decided or Monday afternoon that he would noi go to see his brother. The condemned man slept soundi: four four hours Monday morn Ing, after being awake nearly al night He was calm and ever cheerful at times during the night occasionally singing a hymr-n or re peating his favorite scriptural pass ages. Richeson spent much of hi! time In prayer and In reading hi. Bible. The list of those appointed to at tend the execution of Richeson gi ven out by the warden included, be sides the three physicians who wer olcfiial witnesses, the Rev. Herber S. Johnson, the prisoner's spiritua adviser; Edmund C. Kelley, deput Sheriff of Suffold county, and on( representative for each of three pres, associations. The three medical witnesses were: Dr. George B. McGarth, Dr. Josep! I. McLaughlin, the prison physician and Dr. J. P. Butler, representin the surgeon general of the State Rev. Herbert W. Stephens, the pri son chaplin; the warden, Genera Bridges and Assistants made up th rest of those granted permission t enter the death chamber. Richeson had no supper, sayin that he desired nonie. After eatin a little fruit, he lighted a cigar an. he was sitting on the edge of his cot apparently enjoying hIs smoke, whet Deputy Warden Allen entered hi cell with the black suit of clothes te be worn during the execution. Riche son nodded calmly to the deputy, bu said nothing. Sunday and during the afternoo: Monday the prisoner lay on his co but Monday afternoon and night he sat up most of the time. Attorne: Morse, who visited Richeson durn; the afternoon, found his client cain and anxious to have the sentence o: the law carried out during the night Mr. Morse in an interview later said: "Richeson has made up hI mind to die and he does not wan .ny delay. This has been a ion story and the last chapter is bein, written today. "Richeson is going to die withou holding a grudge against any one He had scarcely uttered a harsh work and to me personally and to thos< who come in contact with him, h< has again and again expressed hi: gratitude." Dream of Death Came True. Mrs. R. L. Clay, of Atlanta, Ga. dreamed a week ago that her bus. band fired at her with a revolver after faIling to effect a reconcilatior with her. This week her drean came true. He shot her three times when he came to see their boy a1 her home. She died shortly after wards at the hospital. Wife Slayer Killed. When Policeman John C. Addison of Charleston, S. C., broke down th< cellar door of the home of Josep1 Addison, a negro he found him chop ping the head of his dead wife wit] an axe. The negro madman turne4 on him with the bloody weapon. The officer drew his revolver and kill ed him. "He 'Will Be Me." Roosevelt served notice he woulc resist any compromise at the Repuo lican inational convention. "Then, can be no compromise," he said. "Some of our opponents are saying neither Taft rnor I should be nomi nated. I'll name the compromise can didate. He will be me." Mayor Grace of Charleston must think that State Conventdons are rut like partizan ward clubs are run. it we are to, judge by his testimony and speech before the committee on cre dentis of the State Convention last Wednesday. If no other witness but Grace had been heard i'n the commit tee, it would have h:-d to seat the Barawell delegation as it did.Th decisio'n of the committee was a vic tory for law and order in the man agement of our political machiner:. "The city~ of rAtnta must have bo;:ged it all." is Wa4son's forceful way of epressi'g iE s view on the ef fort being ntmie tok'-ep him out of the State and N::ional De'mocratic Conventions by the LUnde-ood folk In Georgia. Watnson is i:Ig rmad, but he will have to take his medi cine all the sae By a vote of two and a half to one the State Convention indiorsed Woodrov: Wilson. That is Atst about the way Orangeburg County and the State stands in regard to his candi 1WL zREI PARTY PRESIDENT TAFT SAYS THAT IS WILIT TEDDY WILL DO. If the Republicans Do Not Give Him the Nomination For the Presiden cy. At Cincinnati in a most bitter and scathing denunciation of Col. Theo dore Roosevelt,, President Taft Sat urday night declared that the "cer tainty of his defeat for the Republi can noammation must be a source of profound congratulations to all pat riotic citizens;" declared that his pre decessor in the White House would wreck the Republican party if he is not chosen by the Republican nation al convention , and compared Mr. Roosevelt to Louis XIV, of France, who said "the State; I am It." The attack was in the form of a statement in which the President said In par:: "Mr. Roosevelt says that he is the Republican party and that If he Republican national committee, in passing on the credentials of delegat. es for the preliminary roll in the con vention, shall hold to be unfounded his many flimsy contests. he will de cline to abide the judgment of those having authority. "The inference from this is that he will bolt the convention because a duly constituted Republican national committee, in passing on the creden tials of delegates for the prellmary roll In the convention, shall hold tc be unfounded his many flimsy con tests, he will decline to abide the judgment of those having authority "The inference from this is that h( will bolt the convention because g duly constituted Republican nationa committee shall, after a judicIal in vestigation, refuse to seat his con testing delegates. If this edict is tc be heeded, then the holding of an3 convention at all is perfunctory anc superfluous. "The arrogance of this statement that he is the Republican party, finds no parallel in history, save in the fa. mous words of Louis XIV, 'The State I am it'. "With clearly traceable premedi tation, he projected contests with out the slightest reason therefor in many cases weeks after th regular conventions had been held merely to make a basis for a cam paign of bluff and buster. Nov he threatens that unless his campaigi thus carried on is to be recognized ,as successful, and unless honestly el, ected delegates shall be thrown ou: in suflicient numbers to give him i majority, he will break from the par ty and try to ruin that which he car not rule. "I appeal to all Republicans to sa whether a man who assumes this at - titude does not forfeit his claim t< any right to become a candid?.te in i Republican convention. It can no be that Republicans will countenanci such a breach of party fealty, suel treason to the party's properly con stituted government and such defi ance of the wIll of its majority. "Mr. Roosevelt has not seen fit t< answer the question whether, If hI s inominated and elected, he will dis Scontinue the Steel suit and the Har vester Trust suit, nor has he answer ed the question whether he will ac cept a fourth term." KITTS Hrte3ELF IN HOTEL. Sfani Supposed to be North Caroinia1 Ends Life. m; 'n fThe body of the man who register ed at the Broadway Central hote in New York as Hugo Neyes, o SCastle Payne, N. C., was found in hi: room Friday with a bullet wound i Sthe forehead, self-inflicted. Besidea between $1,100 and $1,200 in casi there were on the body several let ~ ers of introduction to promninen persons In this city. One of th< letters was signed Hugh McRae d SCo. of Willmington, N. C., and wa1 an introduction to Arthur Page, o Garden City, L. I. The letter spok< or Neyes as being a civil engineer ani landscape architect and artist. Settling Their Dispute. It is a cause for much gratificatioz that the threatened strike of engi neers on the fifty railroads east 0: LChicago has been averted. The re lief to the public mind Is twofold foi Inot only does It mean no stoppage 0: tratic but also that the dispute is tc be settled by arbitratIon. Ultim ately that is the way most dispute! are settled but usually not untIl af ter a strike or a lockout has caused great financial losses, much suffering and a good deal of bad blood. Fa! better in every case to do what the men and employes are doing in the present instance--prevent such ca lanmity and settle the question at is sue by arbitration at once. The more the principle of arbitration is invok. ed and fairly carried out the better will it be both for labor and capital. Locomotive engineers are a capable, intelligent and well led body whc Ifrom the days of Chief Arthur have been wisely counseled, and generally have given heed to the sensible ad vice of their leaders. Arbitration, if it succeeds in the present instance, as in all probability it will, will be more than ever regarded as a sane and effective way of settling those disputes which must necessarily arise at times between labor and capital. We clip this Queer paragraph trom the Greenville News: "The ad. v'cates of instruction for Wilson showe t heir good sense and patriot ism byv accepting their defeat quIetly and by remaining in the convention h'll rather than with-drawing and ttempting to hold another conven tir as has ben done in some states." In what Stiate Las the Democrats w-ithdrawn from the regular conven Ion and atter pted to hold another .2onvention? IAnne Warr'mn says "A good book. whether a novel or not, is one that leaves you farther on than when you took It up. If, when you drop !t. it drops down in the same old spot. with no finer outlook, no clearcer vis ion, no stimulated desires for that which is better snd higher, it is In no sense a good book." That is true. If r:oosmit is norninated the best intcrrs cot '.s country demands SIN FOUND M OUT 'TIE SAD ENDINfi OF A YOUNG MAN'S LIFE. ,A WARNINO TO OTHERS 1 0 The Career of the Rev. C. V. T. T Richeson and the Awful Crime for s( d Which He Was Tried, Convicted ti and Executed Under the Laws of d Massachuetts. ii d The crime for which Richeson, at ei the time of his arrest pastor of the c< Immanuel church of Cambridge, was U sentenced to die in the electric chair, was the confessed murder of his for- C mer sweetheart, 19-year-old Avis r Linnell, of Hyannis, a pupil in the s New England Conservatory of Music t in Boston. p The girl stood in the way of the ; minister's marriage to Miss Violet Edmands, a society girl and heiress tl of Brookline, both through an en gagement which still existed be tween the two and because of a con- t dition in which Miss Linnell found V herself The girl was deceived into taking a poison given her by Riche- g son, which she believed would rem edy that condition and died in her y rooms at the Young Woman's Chris tian Association on the evening of October 14, 1911. On that day in vitations had been issued for the wedding ceremony which was to unite Richeson and Miss Edmands. As pastor of a small church in the Cape Cod town of Hyannis two years C before, the handsome and eloquent r minister, then 33 years old, had been attracted to Avis Linnell, who was an .exceptionally pretty girl of 17 1 years. She lived with her parents, a her father, Edgar Linnell, being a contractor and builder. It was her N ambition to become a teacher and t she was attending the State normal school at Hyannis. Miss Linnell joined Richeson's church, was baptized by him and be- r came a member of the church choir. ( In a short time, early in 1909, Miss c Linnell was displaying a diamond i ring and confided in her girl friends I that she was to be married to the minister the following October.. Ab- - andoning her plan of becoming a f school teacher, Miss Linnell began r preparations for her wedding. Some c of her trousseau was completed and - the two paid a visit to Rev. Edward a S. Gotton of Brewster, who was ask- g ed to officiate at the ceremony. t Friction developed between Riche son and his deacons in June, 1910, r over the young minister's impetu- j ous manner and his violent lan- I guage. There was also a question I as to the loss of $50 in money whichI *had been left by a parishioner in thei pastor's study. The minister declar- 1 ed he had been robben of the money.1 Shortly afterward it was learned he had sent a similar sum by money or der from a nearby town to a woman in Salt Lake City, Utah. His re-. -signation followed and he accepted .a call to the Immanuel Baptist church of Cambridge. When Richeson went to Cam bridge Miss Linnell went to the Con servatory of Music in Boston. SThe successes which the young . preacher attained made a marked im pression upon him. -Surrounded by infiuntial friends and associates his ambitions widened. He began to pay court to 'Miss Violet Edmands of Brookline, the daughter of Moses Grant Edmands, a prominent Baptist layman and trustee of the Newton Theological seminary, from whicht Richeson had been graduated. Miss -1 Edmands was prominent socially and was wealthy in her own right, as well as entitled to share in the estate of some $880,000 left by her grandfather. En~trance to the ex clusive home of the Edmands had been easy to the minister as the pas tor of the church the family attend ed, and in a short time he was ac cepted a~s suitor for the daughter's hand. At the same time Richeson was meeting Miss Linnell as formerly The Invitations to the wedding of Richeson and Miss Edmands were sent out the afternoon of Saturady, October 14. That same afternoon 1Richeson dined with Avis Linnell ats a little restaurant In the Back Bay. WhIle there the girl appeared de-c pressed. At times tears rolled down her cheeks. When she returned to her lodging place, however, she , seemed cheerful, although quickly E excusing herself and hurrying away t to her room. Groans were heard coming from a bathroom of the association quarters shortly after 7 o'clock that evening. The door was broken in and Miss, Linnell was found partially uncons- a cious and apparently in great agony. r Half an hour later she died without t recovering consciousness. A belief that the girl committeda suicide was at first general, but her family were disposed to discredit the report, and a thorough Investi gation was made. As a result the police felt war ranted In takin action. The evening of October 19 Chiefa Inspector Dugan and members of his force went to the home of Mr. Ed mands an Devon street in Brookline,Je to arrest Richeson on the suspicion that he was guilty of murder. Ad mission to the house was denied al though the hour was early. The po T lice remained on guard through the c: night. The weary vigil was kept up until daylight when a vild who appeared in the kitchen was prevailed upon to notify Mr. Edmands that the offi-e cers were outside and would breaka in if the door was not opened at once At 7 o'clock the police were admit ~ted. Rlcheson was found in bed. HIe was ordered to dress and accom .3any the officers. Before leaving ' tehouse he took in his arms Miss ci IViolet Edmnands, who was weeping c~ jhyseririly.,"Do not worry," he Iaid: "everything 'will come out all rh."The minister came out of tC the house In the murkey dawn, pass- s ing between two rows of police. 0o newspsper men and curious neigh-'s bors and was taken to police head- TE quarters in Boston in a taxIcab to T h e arraigned. cc The case was set for October SI ca TAKES NORTH STATE OODROW WILSON RAN AHEAD AMONG TARIEELS. Is Friends Thinks that Early Show. ing Indicates He Will Get State's Entire Delegation. The Washington correspondent of he State says Gov. Woodrow Wil >n ran ahead of all other candi Ites in the primaries and conven ons that were held in 42 out of the 6 counties in North Carolina Satur iy. A telegram from Josephus Dan 1l, national committeeman, Mon ay states that th-3 New Jersey Gov nor was given instructions in nine )unties, while de divided with Mr. nderwood in three counties. Mr. Underwood also obtained in ructions in three counties. Speaker lark split even with Gov. Wilson in )are, the smallest county in the Late. Gov. Wilson won in many >wnships, where the counties failed ) express preference between the residential candidates. The large umber of counties took no action ne way or another, but among these iat expressed a preference Gov. Wil on is way in the lead. Many counties will hold conven Ions this week The friends of Gov. Vilson are confident that North Car lina will give him 24 votes of the tate In the Baltimore convention. Chlla he was carrying the day in ,orth Carolina, Gov. Woodrow Wil on triumphed over Speaker Clark In primary contest in the home coun y of William L. Wilson, who was ne of the greatest leaders that the )emocratic party has produced In ongress. The following telegram from Wm. ampell at Charleston, W. Va., also eceived today, tells of the result: "At today's primaries Woodrow Vilson swept Jefferson, the banner )emocratic county of West Virginia, ,nd the home of that great Demo ratic leader, William L. Wilson. Vest Virgina Democrats believe that he mantle of the great tariff refor aer has fallen on his namesake." Mercer, another large West Vir inia county in the heart of the coal aining regions, alsc instructed for ;ov. Wilson in Saturday's primary ontest. This county instructed In avor of the nomination of Lawrence ,erney, a strong Wilson man, for Lelegate at large. or a hearing and Richeson was com aitted to the Charles street Jail with ut ball. Within a few days the redding invitations of the minister .nd Miss Edmands, summoning the uests to the Edmands home on Oc ober 31, were recalled. Before the day of the hearing ar ved a special session of the prand ury was called an indictment charg ag murder in five counts was found. Zicheson was taken Into court to ilead to the charge of murder on the ay he was to have been married to tiss Edmands. The trial of the case ras set for January 15. At the same time the police began en Investigation Into the life of lcheson. Every important act of i life from the date of his birth at lose Hill, Va., 35 years ago, until tis advent In Cambridge was gone nto. Richeson's life had not been an indisturbed one, it was learned, and nany tales were related of his en anglements with young women, Richeson entered Newton The ilogical Seminary in the fall of .906 and graduated in 1909. Dur ng his course he earned money by 'orkng In restaurants and shoe tore. He was called to the Hyannis hurch In 1909 and remained there intll June, 1910, when he resigned o accept the pastorate of the Immnan iel Baptists church In Cambridge. Interest in the case was intensi led on December 20, when It became nown that Richeson had mutilated Lmself In his cell at the Charles treet fail. The public apparently ost all sympathy for the prisoner ollowing his strange act, which eras terpreted as a confession of guilt. Lt Hyannis, the home of Avis Linnel, he minister was hung in effigy, with placard on the dummy reading, Guilty. Read Luke 17:2." In Bos on a conference of the Baptist min sters was called and Richeson was ormally deprived of his title of rev rend. Richeson confessed his guilt in a tatement written by himself on Jan ary 3 and given out by his counsel n January 6. Richeson was taken into court on anuary 9, pleaded guilty to the mur r of Avis Linnell and was sentenc d to be electrocuted at the Charles own State prison in the week begin ing May 19. Killed Five Joy Riders. Five joy riders, three men and two comen, were drowned when their utomobile going 30 miles an hour lunged Into Calumet rIver, at Nine -second street bridge In Chicago. 'he bridge had been swung to allow ,boat to pass. The watchman's -arning was unheeded. Work is a moral and physical up fter; it is a panacea for sorrow; ileness brings moral decay and fur ishes an incentive to crime. The valanche of crime that Is sweeping ver our beautiful land is largely due the fact that too many would rath steal than work. The life of duty, ot the life of mere ease or mere leasure, is the kind of life which takes the great men and women. he first prize that life offers is the ance to work at work worth doing. In voting to put the eloction of nited States Senators under the sup -vision of United States marshals d soldiers, if need be, Mr. Under ood has given the South a slap In e face. Some of us remember how e plan voted for in the H-ouse by r. Underwood filled our jails with any of our best citizens in the re mstruction days, and we do not Lre to have any more of it. The Anderson Mail calls attention! the fact that just prior to the as .ssnation of President McKinley,! e of the Hearst writers had a sea tional article which has thought by any to have Incited the great crime. 2 cartoons and slanders on our urts in these papers nowadays are : icula to povnkeanarchy.I ATTEMPT AT ASSAULT FEMND MAL{ES DASTARDLY AT TACK ON WIHTE CTTAD. The Brute Was Brought From Bam berg to this City and Then Taken to Columbia. The Bamberg Herald says: "Tues day afternoon there was brought to B-amberg and lodged ' jail a negro boy named Lee Jones, it eighteen ye- a old, charged with the horrible crime of attempted assault upon a lit tle white girl, sixteen years old, the daughter of a prominent farmer who lives near town. The child is very small for her age, having been afflict ed all her life. "Sometime Tuesday the child start ed to go to a neighbor's house, and she had to pass through a small patch of woods on the way. While pass ing through the woods the negro at tacked her, but her screams and re sistance frightened him away and he did not succeed in accomplishing his foul purpose. The girl made a vig orous defense, and in the struggle she was not hurt but badly excited and her nerves upset. "As soon as the negro fled she re turned home and told her parents, she recognized the negro, and he was soon .arrested at his plow in the field, which he had left to attack the child. The negro worked on the plantation of this gentleman, and had been fed from his table. At first harsh meas ures were advocated, but the mother of the child pleaded that her husband not stain his hands with the blood of the brute, and finally the negro was brought to Bamberg by the father an' turned over to the authorities. "It Is said that he confessed the crime as soon as he was arrested, and he will no doubt meet the death pen alty for his crime. The negro was brought to town by the father of the child, which shows a respect for law and that he was willing to let the fiend be dealt with according to law." The negro was hurried to the State penitentiary at Columbia, J. Felder Hunter, deputy sheriff of Bamberg county, bringing his prisoner to Or angeburg through the country Wed nesday and taking an early evening train for Columbia. Considerable ex citement was caused In the commun ity by the news but the removal of the negro avoided trouble. .FLOYD ALLEN FOUND GUILTY. Will Go to the Electric Chair for Court Tragedy. Floyd Allen, first of the Hillsville mountaneeers tried for the Carrol county court house murders was ad judged guilty at Wytheville, Va., Friday and will pay the penalty of his crime in the electric chair at Richmond. The jury was out all: night and it was not until after 10 o'clock next morning that the twelve men had been brought into agree ment. Floyd Allen was charged specifically a this time with the mur der of .Commonwealth's attorney William M. Foster, prosecutor in the Carrol county court at H~illsville last March when the trial of Allen cul minated In the killing of five persons -Presiding Judge Thornton L. Mas sle; Prosecutor for Foster, Sherif. L. F. Webb, Miss Elizabeth Ayres and Juror Augustus Fowler. Co. Green's Soft Snap. For thirty-one days work of very little, if any, benefit to the people of the State, Col. Green, who used to earn fifteen or twenty dollars per week as a newspaper correspon dent about Columbia before Gov. Blease discovered him, was paid $360 of the hard earned taxes of the peo pie, and It is claimed that this is an economical administration. Colonel Green's services appear to have been more costly while investi gating a fire at Monck's Corner, the charge for five days being $100, or at the rate of $600 a month. The other charges were at the rate of ten dollars a day. Six days spent by this member of the Governor's stafl "investigating whiskey situation and law enforcement" in Dorchester costs only $60. The Governor fixed the amount Col. Green was to receive, as appears by the statement of Comptroller-Gen eral Jones. He says "As to whether on not the contracts on which such services were rendered were, or were not reasonable, Is a matter which the comptroller general can not review, as it Is left by the legislature to the discretion and sound judgment of the Governor or disbursing officer." When Comptroller-General Jones insisted that the law requiring all claims to be itemized be complied with by Green and Creighton, he sim ply did his duty. Whether the work done by these gentlemen is worth what they are paid for it must be Judged by the taxpayers, who foot the bill. Whether they get returns or not for their money they have a right to know where It goes. Nearly everybody in Washington, even Republicans, agreed with Judge Bartlett's declaration that the Dem ocratic house in passing the Bristow amendment has done for the South what no Republican house since 1892 had attempted to do. With the ex ception of Underwood and a few oth ers, all Southern Democrats in the House voted against It. It was pass ed by the Northern Democrats and the Republicans, assisted by a few Southerners. The Newberry Herald and News would like to have a "nreferential primary on the candido tes for the Democratic nomination for the pres dency, if for no other reason than to let those people of South Caroli na. who are claiming such an over whelmng sentiment -for Governor Wilson. know a few things." Of course the Herald and News knows all about it . The gain that Is made at the ex pense of reputation results in a dead loss to him who makes It, for mak ing it he forfeits the confidence of others. Teddy pushed his old friend Bill o the wall in Ohio. President Taft ade a poor showing In his own INDORSES TILLMAN SEVERAL OTHER RESOLUTIONS WERE ALSO PASSED. THEY ARE IMPORTANT Upon the Recommondation of the Committees on Constlution and Rules, the Following Resolutions Were Adopted by the State Con veuton Last Week. Upon the recommendation of the committee on constitution and rules, the followng resolutions were adopt ed by the convention: Challenged Votes. To amend rule five by adding at the end the following: "At any election when the right of a person to vote is challenged, the managers shall place the vote so challenged in an evelope and indorse thereon the name of the voter and that of the challengers, and the per son so chollenged shall be allowed to vote, and the challenged votes shall be kept separate and apart and not counted, but turned over to the county executive committee, who shall at is first meeting thereafter hear all objections to such votes, and where no person appears to sustain an objection made at the polls the ballot shall be removed from the en velop and mingled with the regular ballots and counted, but where the challengers appear, or produce wit nesses in support of the challenge, the committee shall proceed to hear nd determine the question, and in all instances the voter shall have the right of appealing to the State exe zutive committee. " A similar amendment to article 6 of the constitution to make it con form to rule five was passed. If a Candidate Die. The other resolution adopted which changes the constitution ani rules of the Democratic party pro vides for an amendment to rule 8 of article 6. It follows: "Provided, That after the time for filing such pledges, and before the close of the election, should any can didate die, it shall be the duty of the State or county executive com mittee (as the case may be) to afford opportunity for the entry of other candidates for the office involved, and should such death occur more than 20 days before the first primary then said committee shall make pro vision for other additional candidat es entering the race, but if said death occur after 20 days then the balloting for said office shall not be at the succeeding primary, but at such other times as may be fixed by said committee, and that they shall provide for the filing of pledg es." Indorse Tillman's Record. The report of the committee on resolutions and platform which wasI adopted by the convention, recom-| mended that the following resolu-| tions be passed: "Where as, Hon. B. R. Tillman has for 1S years served the State of South Carolina in the Unites States senate with fidelity and conspicuo-us ability, representing the true senti ment of our people on national Is sues., and having by diligence and long service won a position of com manding Influence in that body. "Be It resolved, That this conven tion heweby indorses his record as senator." Want Hunter's License "We advocate the conservation of the natural assets of the State which are still in the hands of the people as a whole, believing that the In sectiverous birds of the State are the only true check to insect pests, we advocate the inforcement of the laws protectnig them. Realizing fully the great value of the game birds and animals of the State, from a finan cial standpoint as well as from the standpoint of recreation, and as those whom the State permits to take these birds and animals com pensate the State in some measure for the use of thIs asset, we believe that a hunter's license Is the most effective and practical method of realizing something from this asset, as well as a method of raising mon ey for the purpose of not inly conser ving the fish and game of the State, but of enforcing the laws with re spect to insectiverous birds. "'We therefore call upon such De mocrats as are elected to the next legislature to pass a law providi ag for a hunter's license, the protection of insectiverous birds and the in forcement of the laws with respect. to fisn and game." Resolutions indorsing the State warehouse system and the Farmer's union, offered by 0. P. Goodwin of Laurens were passed by the conven tion. The resolution follo-ws: "Whereas, At the last sessIon the legislature enacted what is known as the State warehouse law, and "Whereas, This is the most Im portant step in constructive legisla tion that has been taken in many years, and "Whereas, This is a direct result of the State from the domination to improve market facilities; now, therefore, be it 'Resolved, First: That the State Democratic conven'tion hereby places on record its hearty approval of this measure, congratulates the Farmer's raion upon bringing it forward and securing Its enactment, and com mends the legislature for taking this advanced step toward emanci pating, the producers of the wealth of th eState from the dominaiton of predatory interests that fatten alike on producers and consumers. "Second: That we commend the Farmers' union for its activities in tryng to establish in our insti tutions of learning departments for the study of 'farm, fnance and mar kets' and for its efforts to improve the rural schools of the State. We would urge all farmers to join thIs, great organization and make of It at still more potent force in building up< of all the interests of our State. "Third: Representing as we dot the great Industries of the Sta~te, we I deem it not only appropriate but I of great !mportance that we recede for a few moments from the bus- 1 iness that has brought us togethert to gi've orpression to our hearty ap provl ofthee mesure, tat manj FIEND PUT TO DEATH 'IGHT HUNDRED TEXANS BURN NEGRO AT STAKE, k Mob Takes Young Girl's Assailant From Tyler Jail and Gives Him to Fiery Fate. At Tyler, Texas, Dan Davis, a ne ro, was burned to death at four )'clock Sunday morning on the pub Ic square, after .he had signed a vritten statement confessing that he iad criminally assaulted a 16-year )ld white girl. Eight hundred persons ;articipated -in the lynching. Before the match was touched to :he pile of wood on which the negro tad been placed by the mob, he was tb igain asked if he was guilty. "I am at ,uilty," he replied in a husky voice. V A moment later the flames were leap- cr ng high about his head. N Davis implicated another negro in F the crime, saying he is under arrest St in Waco. Davis was brought here early Sunday from Athens, Texas. c Wi'en memb-s of the sherifl'n f~rce v4 arrived at the iail with the aegro, ni they were con'r iit' i by several ht,- t< dred citizens who wai(od until the ne- al gro had written his confession and R then demanded that he be turne.1 ov- g, er to them. bi The officers and citizens inside the it jail protested, .but finally give the ne- A gro to the mob, whose numbers made f( protests useless, the officers say. From the jail -the man was led to the h public square, where several wagon r< loads of wood had been piled. H-e n was tied to a rail. As the flames p enveloped him the negro's voice was ic hoarse and he showed fear, but there m was no cry from him Runtil the flames f4 seared his flesh, when he moaned. y The crow dstood around the fire until o it died down and little was left but a charred bones and ashes. s The work of the lynchers was done E quickly and quietly. The determina tion of the men who had'the execu tion in charge appeared to have a C sobering effect upon them. In his P written statement Davis told how he c and another negro attacked the girl, 0 who is the daughter of a farmer, as 5 she was walking along a railroad track to Tyler, in mid-afternoon, c Monday, May 13. She was first I knocked down, he said. e I THOUGHT IT WAS HIS WIFE. t "Unwritten Law" Wins Acquittal for i Macon Manslayer. On his own statement made to the jury ,that when he saw a man em gra.-ing a woman in the dusk of the evening on his porch he thought it was Mrs. Tindall, and so fired on Charles H. Taylor, society blood, when he advanced on him, George F. Tindall, a laundry wagon driver, was acquitted of murder in the Superior Cu: t at Macon, Ga., Friday. Two months -ago Tindall shot and killed Taylor, a prominently connected young man, when he found him sit- ~ ting on the perch of the Tindall home ~ with his arm around 'Miss Lulu Car ter, a sister of Tindall's wife. The girl testified that at the time Taylor' was kIlled he had n his pocket a marriage license and that they were to have been married the next day. SITUATION IN CUBA SERIOUS. Negro Uprising More Dangerous Than First Believed.. c Passengers arriving at Key West,1 Fla,. Saturday from Cuba report that the uprising In the eastern provinces is more than at first believed and that the authorities are unable to cope with the situation. Business houses at Santiago have instructed their con nections in Havanna and elsewhere to cease shipping goods to them. It is stated there are 4,000 negroes in Santiago province alone who have joined the rebellion, and a general race war is feared. Negroes from Jamaica and San Domingo are report- C ed to have joined the rebellion In large numbers. Cuban Consul Car- ~ rasco of this city has called a meet- ~ ing of local Cubans for the purpose of raising volunteers for service in C MUST PAY FOR DEATH. C The Result of Suit in Columbia for t Death of Lineman. At Columbia, Mrs. Clara J. Eng- p lish was awarded $20,000 late Sat- e urday afternoon by a jury in the E Richand County Court, $14,000 t' against the Western Union Telegraph b Company and $6,000 against the Ce- b lumbia Railway, Gas and Electric ti Company. The suit was brought for $100,000 against .these two compan- d ies, on account of the death of Walter n L. English. a lineman, who was elec- f trocuted while at work fixing some a lines near the baseball grounds in S April, 1911. It is likely that an ap- p peal will be taken to the Supreme G Court. p THEATENED THE GOVERNOR. b Said He Would Shoot Him if He t Signed the Papers. n n A dispatch fronm Atlanta says that g, John William Powers is back in Geor- a: ia a handcuffed prisor~r, despite the tI fact that he told Governor O'Neal of w Alabama that he wvould shoot him y lead in his office at the capital if he j sad the temerity to issue requisi'tion o, papers. Governor O'Neal decided he fa aould take a chance and signed the papers right under Powers' nose. Powers is the picturesque outlaw who -eI ed to -the wilds of Alabama about g, t year ago and kept the people in the nountains around Vincent in a con inued state of terror. T. nore to the Industrial development ki f the State than even the most pr agunine imagination 4an picture." fth~ "Resolved that we do not approve >f the proposition whIch is now be- th ore the country to establish a con-l be ral bank or natfornal reserve asso- ly iation, commonly known as the Al- fa trich plan." w "Resolved that the delegates to-t he Democratic National conven- tw ion from this State be, and they, B] re hereby, instructed to vote asj sa ILSON 1$ TRONO NATOR GARDNER SAYS HE COULD CARRY MAN ]ULD CARRY COUNTRY ke Senator Thinm the New Jersey Governor the Strongest Candidate in the Race and Could Beat Teddy Roosevelt to a Frzle in Novem ber. That Theodore Roosevelt will be. e nominee of the Republican party Chicago next month and that oodrow Wilson is the one Demo at who can take his measure in Dvember was the opinion expressed riday in Washington by United ates Senator Gardner of Maine. "With Roosevelt as the Republi n candidate the 'Democratic con mtion at Baltimore will have to minate its strongest man in order win," remarked Senator Gardner the capitol. "While I know that oosevelt is insincere and a dema )gue, his ability to lead people to flieve that he is for them every day t the year and that he Is a second braham Lincoln make him a mo.st >rmidable candidate. "No ordinary Democrat can defeat im. Should the party at Baltimore cord and one who has not accom ominate a candidate with a weak lished something there will be no ontest. Roosevelt would have a alkover. A great opportunity is af rded the Democracy to win this ear. It has a candidate with a rec rd of magnificent accomplishments, man who In intellectual capacity is cond to none- and a man who can ieet Theodore Roosevelt on the tump or elsewhere. That man is 7oodrow Wilson, the great governor f New Jersey, whose pre-election romises have squared with his ac omplishments. Roosevelt would be n the defensive from the day of Wil =n's nomination. "In my opinion the fine vote ac orded Gov. Wilson in Gov. Har ion's home State more than ever mphasizes the fact that opportunity ; offered the Democracy to win this ear. The splendid race made by ov. Wilson in Ohio, despite the fact hat he did not make a speech there, s rcmarkable, to say the least. We ave got to nomnate a progressive at altimore, and Gov. Wilson is the rogressive candidate in this precon ention contest. "Personally speaking, I know that Foodrow Wilson can carry Maine. is high character, courageous hon sty and independence are admired y our people. His nomination would sure the party a 5,000 majority gainst Roosevelt In Maine. I would ot hazard such an opinion with any other Democrat running. It will be ucidal for the Democrats to ignore he opportunity presented to them In his presidential contest. We want to arry Maine this year and to do this re need the impetus of a winning ational campaign. Woodrow Wil on's fight will .be such a campaign. le is the only man in the country rho would have a fighting chance to arry the State against Roosevelt." Twelve -Are for Wilson. Stuart G. Gibbons, campaign man ger -tor Woodrow Wilson, issued a tatement Friday night in part as fol ows: "After a very careful canvass f the delegates elected by the Vir inia Convention at Baltimore, there no doubt that Woodrow Wilson has t least twelve votes out of the total f twenty-four to be cast by Virginia he temperament of the Virginia ~onventon and the great enthusiasm hwn for Woodrow Wilson there learly indicates that he Is the most opular in Virginia of any of those entioned for the Presidency." With twelve delegates in Virginia o. Wilson now has 285 votes in the ~altimore convention. The marvel us run made by Gov. Wilson in GoT. armon's home State was one of the Ig surprises of the preconvention ampaign. It now appears that the >hio Governor has obtained only 7, 00 majority over Gov. Wilson in the ntire State and thiat the New Jersef xecutive almost split even with him the election of delegates in the ongressional districts. A telegram from National Commit eeman Harvey Garther of Ohio td Vilson headqoarters states that the rimary was a victory for Democratic rogressives in the State, who select d one-half the delegation. Mayor aker wired his belief that any at mpt to adopt the unit rule would e defeated and ex-Gov. W. W. Dur in sent this message from Columbus >Wilson headquarters: "We have elected 20 out of the 42 istrict delegates -against Gov. Har ton. The unit rule will .be fiercely >ught in the State convention. Such rule can not apply to Ohio, and the tate can not instruct in view of our rimary law. Gov. Wilson carriedl ov. Harmon's home county on the referential vote, and loses the State ' about 7,000." While there were no instructions the Virginia State convention, Goy filson's friends are satisfied that ie delegates from the State of his .tivity will be behind him at Balti .ore. One halt of the delegation is r the New Jersey executive, and nong the number were R. E .Byrd, te manager in Virginia. Mr. Byrd ired to Wilson headquarters In ashington Friday that a good ma Irity of the delegates can be relied i to stand by Gov. Wilson and will .vor his nomination at Baltimore. BLEASE WILL BE BEATEN. tys a Man Who Has Travelled All Over the State. The Columbia correspondent to 1 News and Courier says a well town gentleman, who has travelled 'actically all over the State within e past few weeks, was n Columbia rday and in conversation expressed e belief that Judge Jones would at Governor Blease overwhelming at the primary this summer. In e, he stated that this sentiment s general wherever he went and at everywhere he found voters who o years ago supported Governor ease turning to Judge Jones and Id this matter had Impressed him ever place he visited.