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AOL. XXVI:. MANNING, S. C9 WEDNESDAY., JLY 0 SKETCHI Of WILSON NOMINATED BY THE DEMOCRATS FOR PRESIDENT WAS BORN IN THE SOUTH He is a Man of Splendid Attainments, a High Toned Christian Gcntlian. Sprang from the Sturdlest St.;ck of the South, and Has Msde Geol in Politics. Wqodrow Wilson, Covernor of New Jersey, a man of Southern !rth and of unblemished reord. has 'er named by the Baltimore conren'ion to lead the Democratic par:y to Nic tory in November. lie is 3 man of scholarly attainment, of wide brea'ith of knowledge, of unimpeachable stock of the South; born In Virgi!nia, reared in South Carolina and' Gcor gia, where his forbears engaged ia ministorial and ed'ucational pursi.ts. He is a man of splendid ideals, un derstanding throroughly the scie-nce of government and the application of progressive ideas and methods. He was born at Staunton, Va.. De cember 28, 1S56. Married Miss Hel en Lou!se Axson of Savannali. Ga., on. June 24, 18S5, and they have three daughters. As Gvernor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson's ad-' ministration has been marked by the puriMcation of politics, the dethrone ment of bossism and the general bet terment of the State. In an article on "Woodrow Wilson: Policfieal Leader," in McClure's, Burton U. Hendricks, a noted writer on current matters, makes this statement: "When Woodrow Wilson was made the Democratic candidate for the governorship of New Jersey, in 1910, there were many citizens who did not cordially indorse the nomination. Outside of New Jersey itself, the fact that this distinguished educator had been persuaded to enter public life was generally acclaimed as the beginning of better things in a sadly corrupted commonwealth; within the State, however the pravaili.ng at mosphere was oze of distrust. "The unpleasant fact was that the men chiefly responsible for Mr. Wil son's nomination, were leaders of the Democratic machine in New Jersey. And it. was no secret that these poli ticians bad forced Mr. Wilson upon a convention that, left to itself, would probably have chosen some other man. With ex-Senator Smith Jr., of Newark, and "Bob" Davis, of Jersey Ci, valiantly fighting for the president of .Princeton University, the average citizen could hardly un derstand how Mr. Wilson's election 'necessarily implied the destruction of boss rule. "All this in view of the happenings of the last nine months, seems rath er grotesque, and, in fact, this atti tude was equally rediculous a year ago. For Woodrow Wilson's whole career furnished a sufficient rejoinder ito these suspicions. Probaibly no A'erican citizen ever went into pub lie life with a more intelligent com prehension of existing evils or higher ambitions to eradicate them. From his earliest days Mir. Wilson has been a Democrat, with both a large and a small 'd'; and a slight glimpse into his ancestry shows that he comes le gitmately by his millitant spirit. "On both his father's and h~moth er's side. Mr. Wilson is of Covenat ing blood. His father, the Rev. Jos eph R. Wilson, a Presbyterian cler gyman, was the son of Scotch parents, who came fo America from the North of Ireland; his mother, Jessie Wood row, was the daughter of an Inde pendent Scottish clergyman of Clail isle, England, and the descendant of a long Mine of scholars. Both Mr. Wilson's father and mother, In addi tion to making him virtually a pure blooded Scotsman, contributed cer tain definite traits to his character. His father was bold. aggressdve, fiey, a good hater, and a s'alwart upholder of the eause in whIch he belIeved. Though born in Steubenv'.lle, Ontc. he spent the greater part of his mature life in the Southern States and acquired great distinction dur-' ing the 'war, as an unbending a-1vo eate of the Southern cause. "He was fond of public Pity, was a pulpit orator- of distinguished4 elo Quence, and prominently led his church in the discussion of public af fairs. Mr. Wilson's mdther, ' ' the other hand, was quiet, gentl~e, rese:v ed, and scholarly, the constant cotr panion of her son, and esp'ecially made happy by his early manifested iondness for the thIngs of the mind. All his life Governor Wiisonl has felt these two tendencies pullins; him in, opposIte directionls. His amnbitions have constantly alternated be-ween a desire for active public life and a itking for the quiet consolations of scholarshtp. "In his earliest experience, evdet ly the paternal strain in his heredi ty got the u-pper hand, for, after ms four years at Princeton, from which Mr. ilison was graduated in 1879. he took a law course, went to Atlni ta, Ga., and opened an of!!ce, In those days the law, in the South, w: s the essential preimainlary to Pubfle lIfe; 'law and statesmunshp' were m dissolubly identt~ed. And this was its chief atttactionl then for Mr. W11 son. Two years' expertence, how ever. disillusioned him. The prar tice of law, he discovered. was in compatilble with that spirit of md? pendenc'e which he regarded as indis pensable to eglcient service. "Ins:ead of actively appeOaring In the cot roomt. Mr. Wilson spent the large~r prt of ;hese two years wteng the iirsr draft of his book on 'Congression al G overnment'. Soon he found himself, as a graduate student at John Hopikins- specializinlg in poli tis n e.:c.mmem: and. man art the iE[S HIM CREDIT SENATOR TILLMAN LATUDS BRY AN TO TH1E aGHEST. Says He is the Greatest Living Amer ican and Deserves Praise for th, Great Victory. Senator Tillman, of South Carolinz upn his return from Baltimore t( Washington gave the corresponden o? the Baltimore American an inter view characteristically epitomizint his views on The result at Baltimore In its relation to Bryan, Wilson and Clark. In all recent conventions Sen ator Tillman has been a prominetz fgure, but his health forbade his tak ig an active part at Baltimore. He was there only as a spectator. As he took up the cudgels for Governor Wil son against Henry Watterson when the Harvey Incident was uppermost, Senator Tillman was naturally over joyed at the result at Baltimore. "I think Mr. Bryan has been very much misunderstood and made men very augry because they did not com prehend his actions and tterances. I myself, have felt that he was unnec essarily bitter and unwilling to har monize the contending elements in the Convention. Even when the com bat was at the hottest and he had surprised me most by one of his un expected bombs, as soon aji I could analyze and unravel what he was do ng and realized the great stake for which he was playing, I became to fel more and more admiration for him. He certainly is a great leader and an unequalled fighter, and the promising condition in which the par ty now ffnds itself, after the second flercest battle in its history, must be attributed to his wisdom, foresight and magnificent courage. "He comes out of this battle the greatest American living and will go down In history as a .far greater man than if he had been elected Presi dent. He did things which must have been very painful to him, but4 con trolled alone for patriotism and love i prinoiple, he never faltered for an IrLstant. He sternly brushed aside both friend and foe In the pursuit of right and justice for the people. He deserves all the credit that any one man can get out of this great vic ory." "Governor Wilson has impressed me as the most intellectual of our ounger stateman and will undoubt edly make a great President. The ugean stable of public life In Wash ington and in the country generally will require a second Hercules to .leanse it. I have a strong belief, udging JW what he has done in New Jersey, that Wilson will do this to :he entire satisfaction of hte people f the United States, and knowing by hservation and experience the pow and influence which a president wields I have faith that he will exert :hat power and influence to a thor ugh regeneration of our politics and return to the old-time purity that nce characterized Democracy. "It is a pity that so good and true man as Champ Clark should have been betrayed and butchered by his so-called friends. His lieutenants nd managers have certainly bungled things very badly. They belittled a great national contest over great and dtal principles to the level of pea nut politics, and, whena Missourt's ote for the temporary chairmanship ent largely to Parkor, the conclu io was inevitable that Clark sanc oned it and the result is what might have been expected. "Aesop's fable of the dog caught in bad company illustrates the point. Speaker Clark may well pray in fu ture to be saved from such friends." next twenty years, he ascended in his academic career until, in 1902. he became the president of Princeton rnirsty. Here he displayed the same aggressive qualities that have marked his administration as Gov ernor; and the objects fougtit for in both cases were the same-the de moralization of life. "And so. se a result of the asser tion of real leadership by a governor of great intelligence axnd force, there must be recorded a real miracle in politics: Ne e Jersey is a 'progressive' State. Its leglslation Is as far 'ad vaced' as that of Oregon, California, and 6ther Western commonwealths. ~ut it is progressive not only in measures, but In methods. Governor Wilson's real service is that he ha! d~splayed a great Atnericanl govern mental superstition: the idea that po litIcal parties should work under a ivided leadership: that a governor, elected by public opinoton on certairi dfinite issues, should divorce himsel: E-om public opinion and those issues immediaey on assuming office. He has shown the necessity of unitIng nder centralized party control. botl he executive legislative tranches nd has proved that, once such a cen talzationl is established, the powe: ol the boss system disappears. Tha is Mr. WIlson's great contribution t< the solution of our political prob FSoldier Kills Rimself. While thae !fth company. C. A. C. was riding early Thursday mornin. at Fort Screven, Private Robert S OConnell. the company clerk, alon !n s offce, placed a St-ealibre Colt army revolver under his chin ar. pulled the trige. The bullet we ertirely through his head and lodI ed i the ciig .Tilted Boy Kills St1f. At New Orleafs, clasping a lov rote from his fourteen-.Year-Ci sweetheart. Law'rence Bianchar' Peteen. committed suicide b.y fi n a bullet~through t~he paper in: his heart when he learned that '9 1r had jilted him and marrie harle wAntoio his rival. l CLASH OF CLANS THE GOVERNOIR REf USES TO SPEAK AT MANNING JONES HAD A IIARII TIME Crowd Refuses to Allow Either Can didate for Governor to Spe.- I it Judge Jones Gamely Continues Governor Blease Makes Several At C tempts, then Leaves the Stand. ionors were even on the howling game at the State campaign meeting d at M anning Wednesday. Partisans r of Jones and partisans of Blease were e so vociferous and persistent in their attempts to cheer on their respective e favorites and to howl down the' cheers of the opposition that it was s impQssible for ether Judge Jones or S Gov. Blease to make himself heard f connectedly and Governor Blease ev idently deemed it preferable from g reasons of policy as well as of pru dence, not to attempt a speech. I Judge Jones, however did not - flinch from the ordeal presented. He p laid before the people all of his ar- G gument that the people would hear. F Neither candidate was able to control A his supporters in the crowd though y Gov. Blease implored his friends not L to give occasion for the accusation T which had been made against Blease A men elsewhere, of howling down his T opponent and Judge Jones, after com plimenting the citizens of Clarendon upon their love of free speech and C faIr play, said he would guarantee Gov. Blease a repsectful hearing. 2 The cheering and counter-cheering Ic did not cease with the meeting, but continued for some time afterward whrever small crowds gathered V about the street corners. Judge N Jones spoke vigorously In the S1 intervals when he could make him- G self understood, assailing the gover- F nor's claim to have made a record of A economy, reading the telegram re- y ceived at Georgetown Saturday from L Judge Memminger which contradicts T part of the governor's explanation A regarding the Horry Court, and T charging that Governor Blease had been long associated with railroad in- O terests. C There v'as a rough and tumble in direct interchange between Gov. Blease and Judge Jones over the be havior of their followers. Judge Jones was greeted with a demonstra tion which evoked a counter-demon stration from the Blease contingent and led to a pitched battle of cheer ing, each crowd doing its utmost to 1t howl the other down. While Judge sc Jones having appealed In vain to the p spirit of fair play in his audience, a stood quietly waiting until the tu- d. mult should subside. F Goy. Blease advanced to his side p and held up his hand for silence. "Fellow citizens," he said. "You h have seen Jones men drunk at meet i'gs and nothing was said about it, but when Blease men holler, the Jones men join i.a and then say there P was a howl down. I beg you, for s God's sake, for my sake, and for "' South Carolina's sake, to give him a fair hearing." But the shouting broke out afresh Judge Jones, when there was a lull S of a moment, remarked, "The differ eice is that you don't have to ask the Jones men to hear, governor." "I suppose," retorted Blease, "that's why the Jones men hiss me, they ar snakes." ar1L At another time Judge Jones said, 1 "Those who favor Jones believe in the right of free speech and a fair;e hearing," and again, "I know there is a crowd organized to howl me down' t< and it doesn't represtat one-third of this audience. You are doing your- tl selves and your county no good and y me no harm." c A group of young men to the right i o the stand, evidently college stu- Is dnts who were cheering in unison t: for Judge Jones, moved over into the I~ centre of the crowd, in rear of a comn ract body of Blease cheerers and h udge Jones evidently misunderstood t their purpose, for he remarked: a "Don't you see, gentlemen, this crowd of Blease hollerers right down h in front and the boys behind, who:0 ('ant even vote?" Judge Jones said p the Blease rooters reminded him of;i the old fox in the church yard, who t hearing the church bell, derisively d Iexclaimed: "Great big mouth and great big tongue, a hell of a noisevj and nothing done." The duel of cheers was practically f Icontnuous during the Judge Jones'E riod, the sound varying only in volume. W\hen .Con. Blease was in-;I troduced the rival groups of noise producers redoubled their efforts. E o. Blease, after asking the news paper men a~t work near him to take ote of the share which the knot of.t college men bore in the uproar, stood r leaning on the rail at the front of thei jstand for some minttes. said: "I just ' wanted to show Mr. Jones. Do you 1 see that crowd of college boys you 1er that's hollering me down? .I'" just say that I want every man i 'i crowd who is a Elease man to hold up his right hand." A majorty of the crowds held up 'ither hands. "Now ask the Jones~ - te 1 hold up their hands,." said de Jones. but the gov'ernor how 5 'rg1'sthnks. retuirued to his seat. Jde Jones. in the ensuiug hubbub, coled out. "Now th Jlones m. - an there was a considerable show * "' of hainds, though numbe'rs o pr"ons ro:'rainod from participain in te haind primary. Moat ofth ecrow ihen departed mn search of dn 1! ner a fewv remanng to hear thei:s ! peakr of the day. Jlohni T. Duncan. -- Lae Got. Dlc'ase returned. o rowd of about a people han e gathred about the stand in conse S quence of a rumor that he waso - a- mi rammned, however. that CROP NOT SO OOll I 3UREAU REPORT SHOWS A DE- P] CREASE IN ACREAGE. "ndition of Cotton Crop Is Not as M Good Now as it Was Last Year This Time. The department of agriculture's reliminary estimate of the acreage MI lanted to cotton in the United States a his year. which by act of congress ag ras deferred from June to this ps tonth and hereafter will be announc- ad a annually in July, was made pub- th, c at noon Wednesday and shows the wE rea planted to be 24,097,000 acres, no ompared with 36,681,000 acres in- ag icated by the bureau of statistics' avised estimate of last year's plant- a d area. I0c: The condition of the growing crop Co u June 25 was 80.4 per cent. of a thi ormal condition, as compared with pra 8.2 per cent. June 25 last year, and ini 0.7 per cent., the average condition an )r the past ten year on June 25. tic Details of the area planted, by tates, follows: no State 1911 1912 iss irinia. . 44,000 43,000 It C.. . . . . 1,657,000 1,558,000 ev C.. . . .. 2,800,000 2.604,000 fo orgia. . 5,579,000 5,021,000 wi lorida. . 318,000 283,000 labama. . 4,043,000 3,720,000 ten :ississippi . . 3,426,000 8,049,000 is >isiana. . . 1,118,000 1,062,000 ca exas. . . . .11,150,000 10,620,000 sel rkasas. 2,470,000 2,198,000 Co: annessee . . 850,000 799,000 dal issouri . .. . 132,000 110,000 sol klahoma . . 3,081,000 2,711,000 bol lifornia . . 13,000 12,000 Details of the ~ondition on June cai 3, by States, with c'omparison. fol- ,Th W- .act 10-year Ch: 1912 1411 Aver. pV1 'rginla. . . . . 87 98 84 the rth Carolina. . 83 89 82 nal th Carolina. . .. 79 84 81 eorgia. . . . . .. 72 94 88 ate lorida. . . . . .. . 76 93 87, pol abama. . . . . . 76 93 80 mil ississippi .. .. 74 87 80 Ro uisiana... . . 74 89 79 Br: exas . . ., .. . 89 85 80 of rkansas. . . . . . 77 89 81 fno nnesse. . . . .. 6 87 84 Ina issouri. . . . . . 75 90 84 the klahoma. .. . . 82 87 81 - lifornia. . . . . 98 100 75 bot mo )ESERTS TNDDY FOR WILSON. stri 'Ma nnesota Progressives Will Work for Mis Election. OVE fas The Minnesota Progressive Repub- 1 an league will back Woodrow Wil- car n, Democrat, in his coming cam- pu1 ign for the presidential election, gre cording to George S. Loftus, presi- 1 :nt of the league, in a statement gai riday. According to Mr. Loftus, Ci actically all of the members of the of :ecutve committe of the league . ve agreed to this plan. ''Woodrow 'ilson represents our idea of pro- arn essivesml.," satid Mr. Lof tus. "There Thb o reason for us to join the third .tr arty movement and neither can we the :pport President Taft. We will Re ork for Mr. Wilson i the State." cai NORTHWEST FOR WILSON' sin - eat nator LaFollette's Brother Says He-fo Will Carry It.su "The World is to be hIghly corn- dE ended for its winning fight for thi 'oodrow Wilson," said William T. bai aoliette, brother of Senator LaFol- wo tte and a leading Wilson supporter its SWisconsin. "There is no doubt smT iat the aggressive and intelligent ork of The World was a large fac- rig ,r in the termination of the contest an Sfavor of Wilson. 1 iirmly believe pa at the nomination of Wilson will '@ lease practically all of the Demo- be -ats in this part of the country and of lat lhe will carry Wisconsin, Minn'e- pl? >ta, the Dakotas and other States in ed ye Northwest and be elected." Ta -ed a would not accept the invitation of an is friends to aeddress them at that me, He said that Judge Jones' son I nd Earl Page of the State had. he 'as informed organized a crowd to owl him down. This with the sanc on of the mayor and the chie! of olice, and he, as chief executive of c State, would not, by attempting Sspeak, do anything to creat disor.. lel e'. The crowd then dispersdd. pa Mr. Page is traveling solicitor for e State. He said after the meeting co at he came to Manning shortly be- tg re noon to tall on patrons and bi ak collections, and had engaged in tr c olitical activity whatever He is is rgularly assigned to trave-1 this ter. . tr itory from his headouar'ters at Flor-1m ne. In reference to the scheme to yo owl down Governor Blease, The at :ews an' Courier representative in- p' rviewed Judge Jone.'s son this after- in OOn Hel declared that he knew vo goff the plan, and as, for working p2 th Mr. Page to organize the boys. c said he had never mot Mr. Page. tr From a remark made by Judge p ons on the stand it appeared thatj th ,e was not aware of any plan to howl] to own the governor. For, at one time! 01 the the disturbance was great, he m '1d " sen you Blease men here in ni rt and you school boys in the rear w: md yon do nIot represent the senti- mn enr of C'larendion County." The 1:ater as first suggested appeared to a Sa game of tit for tat and both IR K uo wo.Whether or not it was d. reiu[t of a deeplaid nlot is not in n~: nor are' the prirne movers jw. n~. It has been stated that the b -a:-e of the very best fami~es Five )KilledI in Collision w Fie persons were killed and r en- dv injured Thursday. in a H clion between a street car and a hi QUIT ROOSEVELT CAMP RAISES WILSON AND SAYS HE WILL SUPPORT HIM. S ichigan Executive, One of the "Se% - en Little Guovernors," Refuses to Bolt the Republican Party. A special dispatch from Lansing, ch., says Governor Chas. Osborn, in statement announces that he Is ainst a bolt from the Republican ,rty, praises Woodrow Wilson and vises Col. Roosevelt to abandon e third party move'ment. Osborn Ls one of the "Seven Lit.tle Cover rs" who urged Roosevelt to run ain for President. With this the Governor announces determination to oppose those who atrolled the Republican National nvention at Chicago and conveys B idea that he believes 111chigan ogressives should set about secur control of the party in this State d nominate a progressive State ket. The Governor says: "I am of the opinion that there Is necessity for a new party. The ue is clearly joined for the people. is Wall Street vs. Wilson. It is m more than that. All of the evil -ces of America will finally line up th Wall street and Mr. Taft. "Woodrow Wilson, In character, iperament, preparation and fitness, above -the high average of Ameri i Presidents. Ho Is aChristian, a olar and a fearless citizen. I hope i. Roosevelt will not be a candi e. Republicans can vote for Wil t without leaving their party or ting. 'The real Republican party has no idldate fofr President this year. ere has been no nomination. The ion of the political freebooters at icago is not -binding .upon the Re blican party, even if for a 2foment y are bearing aloft Its stolen me.. 'Col. Roosevelt cannot be elimin d as a great political force by tem -ary tricketry. Bryan was not eli ated by three honest defeats. osevelt is a stronger factor than ran. His candidacy and the work the progressive Republicans had re to do with compelling the nom tion of Wilson than any one thing Democrats did. 'Wall Street thought It owned h parties. Harvey thought for a ment that Belmont and Wall eet through bim, owned Wilson. olesome discoveries have been de. Wilson is not owned by any .y. He will lead the people against rlords in orderly but earnest ,hion. 'In .Michigan progressive Republi ts should organize. Michigan Re )lieans in great majority are pro-t ssves. The Democratic machine Michigan is for the Wall street ig, as proven by the Harmon amp .Clark vote. The final vote the Democratic delegates from higan for Wilson was compulsory. 'Michigan progressive Republicans in good form and position to win. ey should, in my opinion, have ong candidates for offie all along line from Governor down ort the publican ticket.' A drowning man ibe easily saved if he has only 1k once; he can be saved if he ks twice or ~thrice and he may be ed if he has been at the bottom several. 'The Republican party has only ik once and is worth saving. 'The peradoes at Chicago threw it ln'to pond of public approval with a g of stones tied to Its neck. It is rth while to drag it out, take off dead weight and punish the assas "Trust the people to trust in a ht cause and trust to their love for d loyalty to the sturdy Republican rty as long as there is a vestige of cent brep.th in its glorious old dy. Around is still shines a halo patriotIc service, showing most tinly the wounds of such repudiat learers as .Penrose, Crane and ft, which must be nursed and cur I am a progressive Riepublican d I expect to remain one." AWSON SUGGESTS A TTCKET. ants Teddy to Play Second Fiddle to Wilson. Thomas W. Lawson, in an open .te to Theodore Roosevelt, says in "~oth conventions prove that the untry is in the control of the sys n and its bruntal dragomans, the ; beast bosses, and that their con >1 is absolute unless their plotting uncovered and defeated by the ex ordinay and courageous efforts of n like yourself and Mr. Bryan. As u know, I have been with you heart d soul from the first day of your blic career. On may return with you your car I pledged you my pen, ice and pocketbook. for the new "For our great cause. for the coun Sand for humanity, seize the op tuity of doing untold good for e American people. Show yourself be the man we know you to be. -anize the new progressive party every State in the Union. Nomi te a straight progressive ticket h Wilson at the head and yourselfI second place. Give us 'Wilson and Roosevelt,' d we will pioll more votes than the spublican and Democratic candi ties combined and with that back g Wilson can and will do what you culd have done had we not been ackjacked at Chicago." Found Benn in APpendix. t ineland, N. J.. Tony Tasso. the vnyear-old son off a local farmer. as hurried to rho P'hysicians' Hlos tal i a serious condition. Dr. .T. S. asv immedilately operated upon m and found a good-sized bean in ic bow's apendix. WHAT BRYAN SAYS NOMINATION Of WILSON MEANS A GREAT VICTORY TALKS OF THE NOMINEE -4 Woodrow Wilson Fits Into All the Conditions, Declares the Great Commoner, Who Prophesies an Overwhelming Victory for the Democrats in November. William Jennings Bryan in a state ment said that the nomination of Woodrow Wilson on a progressive platform meant an overwhelming victory for the Democratic ticket next fall. Mr. Bryan said: "I feel that the action of the con rention thus far will appeal to the ccuntry. I had no choice among pro ressive candidates, but from the first included Governor Wilson in every list I had occasion to make. His ac Lion in coming out strongly against .r. Parker for temporary chairman was the -turning point in his cam paign. The country is progressive. N\Zearly all of the Democratic party and more than half of the Republi an party are progressives. "The paramount question before ,his convention was whether we ould take sides with the reaction ries and thus encourage the organi ation of a third party and giving to he third party the hope of defeating he reactionaries divided into two arties, this on one side and on the )ther the nomination of a ticket that 'ould so appeal to the progressive dment of the natiom as to make a :hird party improbable. "I am satisfied -that with Mr. Wil ;on running for president on the >latform which has been prepared here will be comparatively few pro ressive Republicans who will not 'eel Justified in supporting the Dem cratic ticket. If I were to make an estimate I would say that we ought :o have not less than two million naority vote and enough of the elec :oral vote to give us an overwhelm ng majority in the electoral con ,ress. "The action of the convention in .dopting the anti-Morgan-Ryan-Bel ont resolution has demonstrated hat the Democratic party is not only >rogressive, but hold enough to :hrow down the gauntlet to the pre iatory interests. It is fortunate that Jr. Wilson's nomination was made vithout the aid of Mr. Murphy. It is io reflection on the many good men n the New York delegation to say his. "From every standpoint, the out ook is hopeful. The only unpleas ut thing about a political fight is hat success to one aspirant brings isappointment to others. Those who al ought to find some consolation n the fact that failure Is not always Lreflection upon the individual, be ause circumstances exert a larger fluence than is sometimes choice. en are availaile only when they $t into conditions. I decided some wo years ago that I did not fit into .he conditions as we then saw them, nd I was not willing to assume the esponsibility of advocating any par :icular progressive party, because I referred to try the wisdom of the nultitude and partly be':ause I felt :hat a great deal weald depend upon :he action of the Regablican conven ion. "When the Republican convention djourned it was even more apparent :han ever that circumstances recquir ei some emphatic action on the part a our convention to insure a consol idation of the progressive vote under aur banner. "The incidents of the convention have in a strange way emprasized the progressiveness of our party far more than I had expected that pro ressiveness could be exercised, and the convention has decided with rare unamity that Governor Wilson fits into the conditions that the Republi can convention and our convention have joined in creatlag. "Knowing what the platform is, I feel that it will help him in his fight, and I have no doubt that our con vention will proceed to choose a vice presidential candidate who will strengthen the ticket. It is needless to say that I am gratified to see our party raising the banner of progres sive democracy aloft and calling to the progressive forces of the nation to forn in restoring the government t the hands of the people, that it may be in truth a. government of. by and for the people. "It has been a long convention, but the results are worth the time. The dawn is here, and progressive de mocracy will be the people's pillar of could by day." Frenchmen Protest. The French ambassador JTules Jus serand. Thursday presented to Secre tary Giac~eagh at Washington a pro. tst from~ the Limnoges chamber of commerce against the termination of the agreement between that body and the United States, which for manny years has regulated the appaisement of china and pot:ery importations from the Limooges district of France. The treasury department will decide within a few w'eks whether the aremenlt shanl ho abrogated on Sep tember 3, as had been planned. Savedi by Heroic Efforts. Onlyv by heroic effort was the life ~f Miss Minnie Surasky, daughter of i. urasky, an Aiken mer::hant. sav d after the y oung woma'1. mistaking it for something else tonk a big dose ;f carbellic acid. The error nas dis covered after a dose had almos'. 'e suled fatally. Physicians dor niate ly conteracted the effects -> the pois on. The young woman is niow ouit o! DlEMOCRATICI PLATFOIIM SUMMARY OF THE VERY STRONG DOCMDENT GIVEN. U Covers Every Subject of Impor tanc Whieh Has Been the Subj~:t of Party Discussion. Reaffirms party's devotion to the principles of Democratic government as formulated by Jefferson. Declares for a tariff for revenue only and denounces "the high Re public'an tariff as the principal cause o. the unequal distribution of wealth." Favors immediatu dowzward re vision of present duties, especially upon neoessaries of life. Favors gradual reduction, so as not to inter fere with or destroy legitimate in dustries. Denounces President Taft for vetoing tariff bills of last con gress. Condemns Republican Varty "for fallure to redeem its promises ot 1908 for downward revision". Takes issue with the Republican platform as to the high cost of liv ing contending it is largely due to high tariff laws. Favors vigorous enforcement of the anti-trust law. Demands such additional legislation as may be nec essary to crush private monopoly. Declares for presidential preference primaries. Direct national commit tec to provide for selection at pri maries of members of national com mittee. Pledges party to enactment of law by corporations and unreasonable campaign contributions by individ uals. Favors single presidential term ar'd :uaaking president Ineligible for re-election. Felicitates Democratic congress on its record, enumerating important achievement, and pledges an ade qUate navy. Denounces Republican administra tion on charge of extravagance and demands return to simplicity and ec onomy ,beatting a Democratic govern ment. Favors efficient supervision and rate regulation of railroads, express companies, telegraph and telephone lines, and a valuation of these com panies by the interstate commerce commission, and also legislation against over-issuance of stocks of corporations. In connection with a demand . for such revision of the banking laws as will give temporary relief in case of financial distress, there is a denunciatiou of the Aldrich b11 prepared by the monetary com mission. The present method of depositing government funds is condemned and the party is pledged to the enact- t ent of a. law for the deposit of s-ich funds by competitive bidding in state or national banks, without discrim ination as to locality. Recommends investigation of agri ultural credit societies in Europe to scertain whether a sytem of rural redits may be devised suitable to onditions in the United States. Pledges party to enactment of leg islation to prevent devastation ofI lower Mississippi Vaiiey by floods. and the control of the Mississippi is1 declared to be a national, rather than a state, problem. The maintenance1 of navigable channel is also recom mended. Bristling with Democratic progres skism the platform on which the Democratic party will stand during the approaching campaign was com pleted by the committee on resolu tions and awaits only the approval of tha presidential nominee to be pres ented to the convention. From first te last, the commit tee's deliberations were characterized by the utmost harmony. The unani mous demand was for the most pro nounced declarations in favor of pro gressive politics all along the line, and the only difference of opinion arse over the ,best method of ex pressing this tendency. The result is a~ pliatform of generally advanced views, although many of them are less radical than the~ party declara tions of other years. The document covers every subject of importance which has been the subject of party discussion. THEY WILL NOT BOLT. Senators Can't See Need for Any New Par'ty Now. Several progressive Republican Senators at Washington, conferring' over the situation growing out of the presidential nominations at Chic?.go and at Baltimore have voiced the opiion that a third party, In their Stats was unnecessary. Their severai opinions are that eecto rs in sympathy wit1 Forme IPresident Roosevelt will be on the regular Republican ticket in Califor r.;a and Washington. Kannis, Nebrbs ka Minnesota and the Dakotas among others. None of the progressive senators has announhed any intention of leav ing the regular Republicad party. Senators Works of California andI Bristow of Kansas have told their colleagues that the progressve ele ment was in control in their States and that there would be nothing to gain by joining in a third party :more ment. Senator Poindexter of Wasll ington said he believed that it wodli be unnecessary to organize athr party in his State. Three People Were JKilled L ife was crushed from the bodies of Mrs. W\illiam WXhite, Miss Gladys Riardson. and Langford Maddi ein e latter a chauffer. early Thrdyon a country pike near Du in,.. Nich.. when a touring car ii wh'ich the were riding skidded from te road. overturned, and pinned its ccupants beneath. IMANY LIVES LUST FORTY PASSENGERS ARE KILLED IN A RAILWAY WRECK MANY OTHERS INJURED The Signals Obscured by Fog, Cause Given by the Engineer of Erpress Train,. Locomotive of Which, Run. ning at Terrific Speed, Demolishes Il-Fated Train. Westbound Lackawanna passenger train, No. 9, from New York, due to arrive at Corning at 4.47 a. m., com posed of two engines, a baggage car, three Pullmans and two day coaches, in the order named, was demolished at Gibson, three miles east of Corn ing, at :25 ,o'clock Thursday morn ing by express train No. 11, due at Corning at 5:10 a. m. Forty-one per sons were killed and between fifty and sixty injured. Many of the victims were holiday excursioners bound to Niagra Falls.. who had boarded the train at points along the line. The wreck was the worst in the history of the road. Its cause, accord ing to Engineer Schroeder, of the eK press, was his fafllre to see Signals et against his train. The marning was foggy and he said he could not make them out. The wrecked train stood on the main track blocked by a crippled freight train. There was no flag Dt, according to 'Engineer Schroed r. The signals which Engineer schroeder declared It was too foggy ,o see were just around a curve. The Iing express plunged past them and rashed into the rear of No. 9, bring ng death to over two score of 5ts >assengers. Schroeder had taken No 11, at El lra, 15 minutes before. It was a ew minutes late. The stretch of rack from Elmira to Corning is fit :ed for fast running and he was send ptg his train along at 65 miles au lour. No. 9 was supposed to be half . hour ahead of him. He had no rarning until he made out the rear oach of No. 9 through the fog. Then e threw the reverse without cutting ff steam. The jerk threw the train off the rack and the locomotive plunged on :o splinter the two day coaches filled rith excursionists and tore through :e last of the Pullmans. Schroeder aid the impact threw him froin the -b and landed him on his shoulder n the roadbed practically unhurt. The 100-ton monster continued its )utinge through the middle of the rain, grinding everything in its path. ,'hen finally blocked by the debris, It emained on the roadbed in the midst ,f the desolation it had caused, while tundreds of persons rushed in every :Ind of vehicle to lift and pry the lead and injured from the tangled ass of wreckage. Taking advantage of th-e holiday ~xcursion rates to Buffalo and Nia ara Falls, many excursionists had ~oarded No. 9 at all points from Ho oken, including Scranton, Bing 7mnton, and Elmira. There were al o many passengers for the West. By .he time' Elmira was reached the rain carried so many passengers that 1second engine was attached, long tefore extra freight train No. 61, ,cund from Buffalo, had pulled out ,f Elmira. When the heavy grade at Gibson tvas reached, a drawhead was pulled ut and No. 61 was crippled. Signals which she put out stopped No. 9. The rst engine was uncoupled and sent t work to push the "dead" engine of he freight into a siding to allow No. 9. and No. 11, which was due in 25 r 30 minutes, to pass. The work was slow, and during the wait many passengers from the day coaches got Meanwhile the signals had been hrown against No. 11. These failed t. stop the express and the crash fol lowed. Rescuers were t. .ekly on the scene, in what seemied an Incredibly short time, hundreds of automobiles ha~d lined the highway which led to the wreck and the fork of getting the injured to the hospitals and the dead to the morgues was impeded by the blocking of the road. TWO VERY FOOLISH MEN. A Shooting Scrape Followed a Pol*ti cal Agumient. At Kingstree W. B. Stanton was shot Tuesday afteraoonl by .T. E. Pearce, the ball striking him in the eft side and ranging down into the hip joint. At this writing it is not to tell whether the wound will prove serious or not. The men are first oigsins and both are farmnesi of good reputaton In that county. It seems that both parties had been together a~nd that the shooting grew out of what at first was good natured jok n and guying each other, as to political views. The 3tate cam aign meeting was attended with en tiusiasmf and feelng waxsed warm. Both men have familieS and the af fair is much regretted. Pearce has een Iodged in jail. Senator Tillman to Gov. Wilson. Senator Tillman sent the following tlegraml to Woodrow Wilson: "I ave prayed to see a real Demnocrat President of the United States before I die. If I live till next March, my .rayr will be answered. I congrat ulate you and the country." Senator Tillman s Prayer. Senator Tillmian, of South Carolina telegraphed to Gover.nlor Wilson: "I have prayed to live to see a real Dem crat preident before I die. Next Darch. my prayer will be answered. Congratulations to you and to our cmintr."