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WILD MAN 1 FUND TIRILLING STORY Of 1S "GAP- t 9 TURE FOLLOWS W;AURHT IN THE JUNGLE t The Man, Who Looks Like a Beast, is Covered From Head -to Foot With Hair, Was Driven From the Swamp by the High Waters. of.the Santee River. - A thrilling story of the capture of t a typical wild man of the jungle, a T negro, covered from head to foot with black, bristling hair, as thick and long as that on some giant gorilla, on the edge of Santee Swamp, in South Carolina, near Lanes Junction, fifty miles north of Charleston, is told by W. S. Damon, conductor in charge of the Atlantic Coast Line pas senger train which arrived at 3:25 p. m. from Florence Sunday, says the Savannah Morning News of Monday. The wild man, Mr. Damon states, driven from Santee Swamp by a freshet in the Santee River, hid in a barn near the edge of the marsh land and, when discovered, fought fiend ishly until overpowered and cowed into su,bjection. The man is now chained and tied with ropes in the barn In which he was captured, the conductor says. Details of the capture of the man, Mr. Damon states, are unknown to him. Lanes Junction is a division point where transfers are made for Columbia, Georgetown and Savannah. -He said that when his train reached the junction Sunday morning at 11:10 o'clock the little town was in a stete of intense excitement over the capture of the man. The Savannah train did not stop at Lanes, however, for longer than five minutes and so Mr. Damon could get but meagre In formation of the affair. The ne groes of Lanes are panic-stricken, Mr. Damon says. What disposition will be made of the man Mr. Damon declares he does not know . . He says that it is his supposition, however, that the mat ter will be reported to the authori ties of the State Hospital for the In sane at Columbia and that the man will be sent there for confinement -and observation. The man is a bur ly negro and speaks some English, says the conductor. It is generally thought, the con duetor says, that the negro is either an escaped convict or a fugitive from Justice. He says it is the general -be lief at Lanes that the man went into Santee Swamp to hide from officers of the law and, frightened by the ldneliness of the place and the fear of capture, became insane. 'Another theory of how the man reached his present state of savag ery, Mr. Damon says, is that the ne gro, alieady man, wandered into the swamp and remained there. The ap pearance of the negro, it is stated, - would indicate that he had been liv ing in the swamp as a savage for probably many years. According to Mr. Damon, when members of a family of negroes re siding 'on a small farm on the edge of Santee Swamp went out to a ram shackled barn in the rear of their little cabin, about daybreak Sunday, they were frightened -by the terrible sight of a man, over six feet tall, Jbroad and muscular, with great *brawny arms and heavy shoulders, covered from head to foot with thick black hair and whose eyes gleamed like those of some wild animal, croudhed in one corner of the shack as though ready to spring upon the first living creature which molested him. The family of negroes, it is said, were thrown into a -panic and went. hurrying in all directions In search of aid. Residents of that neighborhood went in response to the frightened cries and pleas for help. A small mob, it is said, formed around the barn within half an hour and plans were hastily made for the capture of the man alive, if possible, and with as little injury to him as necessary.. The negro showed signs of fight and when the efL'ort to catch him con tinued, fought viciously. Finally, however, without any of the mob be ing hurt and without inflicting any injuries upon the man further than a few bruises of a minor nature, the burly stranger, more animal in ap pearance than human, was overpow ered and tied hand and foot. Quickly the news of the fight with and the capture of the man spread over the surrounding country and people from adjioining settlements and residing on small farms and along the railroads in all directions from Lanes Junction began to pour into that little town to view the strange species of human held in the barn of the negro family. Little groups andi circles of people, the -blacks and the whites to them selves, began to form all over the streets ~of Lanes Junction, with here and there a larger gathering of white men, with a few awe-stricken ne groes on the outskirts who would listen for a few moments to the trend of the discussion, and then go back to those of their own race to report. The negro, it is said, will not talk, glowering in a ferocious, sullen man ner at his questioners at times, and at others appearing wholly oblivious to the queries being propounded. When any one goes near the man he strains and tears at his tethers and makes a throaty, horrible sound more like the growl of some terrible, man-eating beast than of a human. Made a Large Haul. Burglars in New York made a big haul Sunday. Martin Simons & Sons, 1 pawn brokers In Hester street, were, the victims, and the property stolen includes $200,000 worth of ,jewelry, - diamonds and other precious stones, and $50,000 worth of negotiable se curities. Family Killed by Gas. A family of five persons was found dead from illuminating gas in a cot tage on North Lawndale avenue, Chi-| cago Thursday. Circumstances in-ie -dicated that an accident caused the 1 . ? e - eh itimis were Engbert WHAT TILLMAN SAID (Continued from page one.) ion because my health had begun to ive way and I was in Europe. But a my lectures, which carried me all ver the country and into every state, preached the true gosicl and had .s much to do with the success of ihat is now called "pr3gr-essiveness", bclieve, as Pryan nimself. That erm properly interpreted in its es ence is the Chicago platform and Lthing else. I do not mention this for the pur >ose of influencing your action, but ike an old soldier, I point to my ork and the wounds I received in attle and ask simply for justice. I to not ask pity or sympathy. I wont Lave them. Give me what I am en itled to and -nothing more. Had I Lot believed that President Wilson ranted me to accept the chairman hip of the committee on appropria ions I would not have asked for it, ut having received his letter in an ,wer to mine I felt it my duty to ask or the place in order that I' might ielp him, as he seemed to think I ould. Ta order that you may fully under tand everything connected with it.I vill read the letter I wrote him, and hen will read his reply: "January 21, 191'. "The Hon. Woodrow Wilson. Tren .on, N. J.-,My Dear Mr. Wilson: I lespise the words TPresident-elect' tnd yet I think of you so much as resident to be that I can not briLg yself to call you 'dear G. runor 1 ave been thinking abcut writing ro for some time. You wera kind mough last summer to thank n:e for :he letter I wrote giving you some ointers about the personne! of the ational Democratic committee. "This emboldens me to give you some inside information I have gain d in my eighteen years in the Sen tte, and incidentally to make some mggestions or comments on the fu :ure policy of the Democratic party. "I am proud of the speech you nade at Chicago. It rings true, every word of it, and some of the expres ions are very felicitous. In fact, my lear sir, without wishing to make ou vain I want to say in all serious ess that you have the happy knack )r gift of never opening your mouth [n public without saying something worth while. You differ from harles II, as photographed by the Earl of Rochester, in doing wise things as well as saying them. Of course, you recall the famous motto written on the door of Charles' bed chamber: 'Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies.on; He never says a foolish thing, Nor ever does a wise one.' President Taft has taken Charles' place. "Since I have been in,Washington I have seen the appropriation bills grow from a little over four hundred millions of dollars annually to over a thousand millions. You will recall the howl about the 'billion-dollar Congress'. We have witnessed the change to a two-billion-dollar Con gress without much comment. The newspapers 'seem to take it as a mat ter of course and are always harping on the growth of the country as a justification. This growth has been marvellous, but the expansion in population and wealth has not kept pace with the growth of the taxes or expenditures. I have heard Senator Aldrich, who surely was an expert on levying taxes for the purposes of protection, proclaim on the floor of the Senate his bellef that the Govern ment could be run for $200,000,000O less than is now being appropriatiat "Being on the committee on ap propriations in the Senate, I know just how the appropriation bills have grown so rapidly. It is largely due to personal influence and importuni ty. Some clerk or officer under the Government wants an Increase in his salary, and his Senator or Congress man goes to some one on the com mittee on appropriations, very often to the chairman, and asks for the item to go in. I have often done it myself to oblige a friend. An in crease in the salary of one man pro duces a desire or demand to increase othes, and the result is that the fig ures are moved up all along the line. This happens in one bureau and im mediately other bureaus begin to clamor for increases, and so it goes. "Then men have haunted the Con gress, since I have been here, with schemes for new .bureaus. I have seen these created, many of them necessary and useful, but some of them worthless and mere vehicles to spend money and create places for friends. "Then commission after commis sion has been appointed for any and every conceivable purpose to make fat places for friends, very often 'lame ducks' who have been repud ited by -their constituents. I have seen Republican Presidents who have been glad to take care of Democratic 'lame ducks'. In Cleveland's time I saw Democrats who had been repud iated by their home people on ac count of free silver rewarded with Judgeships and appointments on com missions. "I do not want to tire you, so I will stop this enumeration until I can have the pleasure of talking with you in person. This I do know, Mr. Pres ident, that if the Democrats are in earnest about reducing expenditures, it is an easy matter to do it, and that, too, without crippling the Govern ment. It will mean the selection of Cabinet officers who will not be at all complaisant, but intent only on hav ing the Government machine work smoothly, accurately and effectively for the benefit of the office holders. 1he estimates are all made up by abinet officers, and appropriations .re always based on estimates, or mpposed to be, unless they come as ndependent propositions from the lor of the Senate Chamber itself. know you understand the impor :ance of a loyal Cabinet in sympathy ith this idea of economy. What we ieed in the United States is more at ention to the needs and protection f the taxpayers than to the wishes tnd desires of the tax eaters. "There are any number of build ngs in Washington rented at high >rices from local real estate agents or Government use. Some of these re necessary, no doubt: but many of hem are not necessary at all. This 'ity is a veritable Augean stable and he 'daughters of the horseleech' are broad and always crying, 'give, mve'. much cramped for lack of room. These are clamorous for new build ings. Government buildings have been erected for one purpose, and al most before they are completed the demand grew up for that use to be discontinued and the buildings ap propriated for some other use, or rather new one. "When I first came here the mem bers of the House had no place to re ceive their visitors or constituents, while the Senators had the 'marble room' and overflow Senators who had no committee rooms were quar tered in the Maltby. The House con ceived the idea of building a palace for the use of its members; the Sen ate immediately demanded and en forced that demand to build one for their own use. The marble palaces we now have are the result. Un doubtedly they supply a want, but not a necessity, except on the part of the House. Recently the House has demanded that the Senate turn the Maltby building over to it, and I un derstand this will be done when the new Congress meets in March. There is much lost space in the Senate of fice building which could well be utilized to good advantage for other purposes if the Senate would agree. "But why go into all of these de tails? You will find it all out when you come to Washington. Speaking with a very intelligent clerk not long ago he made this significant state ment: 'Senator, the only way to re duce expenses is to have Senators and Congressmen who will rise in their places and inquire to know why ce: tain items are in the appropriation oills when they are not needed, and say so, and thus call the attention of the country to them.' I know this to be true. But the rule is rather to increase than to reduce. "My long service here and the cus tom which has obtained almost from the beginning of the Government en titles me to select from among the committees of which I am a meeber a chairmanship. I am senior Demo crat on three important comminttees and can select the chairmanship o1 either one of them: Appropriations, interstate commerce and naval af fairs. "I want you to tell me frankly om which one of these committees yot think I can best serve your adminis tration and the country, for I wil] serve the country best by serving Wilson's administration best. "The committee on appropriations as you know, applies the money, o1 designates how it shall be spent 'or many appropriation bills. The com mittee on Indian affairs, the com mittee on naval affairs, the commit tee on military affairs, the committe4 on rivers and harbors and the com mittee on pensions make up theil own appropriation bills. Thus ther is no co-ordination and general un derstanding by one committee and it head as to the scope and amount o: all the appropriations. This was th( way it was done when I first cami to Congress. I remember what a bit ter fight the change from this systen to the general distribution.of the ap propriation - bills brought about There was 'too much work for an: one committee to do, and it gave on many too much power. The chang was salutary In that respect, but I has largely been responsIble for th< increased expenses, taken as a whole "The committee on finance In th< Senate ought to be divided as It is it the House, one .part of it to deal wit) the tariff and the taxes to raise mon ey, while the other deals with bank ing and currency and the mone: problem. "The committee on interstate comn merce, while of minor importance a first, has come to be one of the mos important in Congress. It deals wit: the problem of transportation in al of its ramifications. This problen has co-me to be one of the greatest o the age. The gamblers ln'New York Boston and Chicago who manipulate the stocks and bonds of the bank: and railroad securities, have amassei great fortunes based on water alone Multi-millionaires have multiplies with great rapidity, and the masse: of the people are expected to sustait these fortunes ,by paying dividend: on stocks and bonds which never hai any honest o'r real foundation. Pier pont Morgan and men of that typt have been the sprime movers an< leaders in amassing wealth of this kind. Having 'scrambled the eggs they boldly stand and ask the comn mittees of Congress what they ar' going to do about it. Rockefeller who has amassed millions by mono polies which could have been pre vented by an honest enforcement o: the Sherman law, rolls in wealth ans snaps his fingers at the House. corn mittee. Carnegie, whose hundredi of millions have been stolen from th< people through Roosevelt's conniv ance at his organization of the Stee Trust and the absorption of the Ten nessee Coal and Iron Company, tries to buy immortality by giving badl to the people a modicum of mone: in the shape of libraries, etc. "If you and I were to go into restaurant and there see the cooli mixing rotten eggs to scramble foi us would we eat the dish when th4 waiter brought it to us or would wt throw it out of the window? Thi temper of the American people is tc throw the eggs out of the window Your greater problem will .be how tc "unscramble eggs" and -bring badl the railroads of the country to ax honest basis. This will involve valuation of the railroad propertiet to find out their actual value, not cost, of the railroads. The commit tee on interstate commerce will havi to do this work, if it be done, andI am therefore incline to take that bur den upon my shoulders, if you so ad vise, and select that chairmanship. "The committee on naval affairs has to deal with the question of an 'adequate navy'. This Is the happy phrase of the Democratic platform adopted at Baltimore. Just what is an 'adequate and well-proportioned navy must be determined. Whether it shall be Hobsonized to make a market for structural steel and ar mor plate manufacturers, or give us such a fleet as will be sufficient for the needs ot the country, is a ques tion to be s'ettled. "My health has been too poor for me to keep abreast of things as I used to do. (But I have tried to keep in touch enough and have kept in touch enough to believe that we have a good enough navy now, and only need to maintain it at its pres ent degree of efficiency. The fifteen or twenty millions or dollars requir ed to build a first-class ,battleship of the best type can do so many more things for the people, and 'better things, that I do not feel willing to see the money sunk that way, espec . when the lifae nt suc a san1in only about twenty years. Already the Oregon made famous in the Spanish American war, is obsolete and ready for the junk pile. ."If I take the committee on ap propriations, I can help reduce ex penses; if I take the committee on interstate commerce, I can assist in 'unscrambling the eggs'; if I take the committee on naval affairs, I can resist as best I may may tke clamor which has been nursed by the money of the steel manufacturers and ar mor-plate people for an ever-increas ing navy. My strength is limited as you know; my will is equal to any task. I realize every day more and more that for the purposes of this world a live jackass is better than a dead Senator. "Please think this over and give me your advice in the same spirit I have written you. "Very sincerely, yours, "B. R. Tillman." "State of New Jersey, Executive .De partment, "Jan 30, 1913. "Brief absence from my office and constant absorption with the busi ness connected with the opening of our legislative session here have pre vented my replying sooner to your most interesting and important let ter of the 21st. I want you to know with what deep and genuine appre ciation I have read it. I thank you for it very warmly, indeed. "Confidentially, the appropriations commit-tee is the committee on which you would have the hardest work, but your letter convinced me that it is also the committee in which your interest chiefly lies and where you can certainly be of the greatest and most constant service. "Ever since I was a youngster I have been deeply interested in our methods of financial legislation. Ev er since then I have insisted upon the absolute necessity of a carefully considered and wisely planned bud get, and one of the objects I shall have most in mind when I get to Washington will be conferences with my legislative colleagues there with a view to bringing some budget sys tem into existence. This business of ~building up the expenses-of the na tion, piece by piece, will certainly lead up to error and perhaps embar rassment. "I was very much pleased by your re-election and shall look forward with the greatest interest to being associated with you in council. "Again thanking you for your splendid letter. "Cordially yours." "Woodrow Wilson. "The Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman, Washington, D. C." Contrast my services and work for - the party with Senator Martin's. Last summer at Baltimore I led the South Carolina delegation. South Caro lina's IS votes were cast first, last and all the time for Woodrow Wil son, while Virginia, led by Martin, never did give Wilson any votes un Stil he no longer needed them. In June, while the Conventiorn was still balloting and the question as to who would receive the nomination hung in the balance, Mr. Martin gave out an interview and here is what he had to say- about the political sit uation, and his feelings and his ad. vice to the Virginians as to what ca1didate they ought to support. It speaks for itself, too, and I have no comments to make: "Virginians support Oscar W. Under Swood-They will vote for him as long as he has chance for nomina tion--Martin is strong for him SMen from Old Dominion will be Sclassed among the Conservatives. i"The great majority of the Vir ginia delegation," said Senator Thos. S. Martin this afternoon, "will, I am sure, vote for Underwood. I believe that after the first .ballot the unit rule will be voted by the necessary two-thirds majority. It ought to be. There is every reason why Under wood should -be the nominee; none why he should not be. He !a a man of pronounced ability, of clean life, of unblemished record. He has been highly successful as the 'party leader in the House. Doubt as to his avail ability because he is a Southern man is heard only from our own people. I have yet to hear of such objection from the North. "I hope all the Virginia delegates will vote for Judge Parker for tem porary chairman. He has been al ways a loyal party worker, and it would be an outrage to defeat him merely on the Ipse dixit of Mr. Bryan, who chooses to call him a reaction ary. "Of course, I do not mean that Virginia should keep on voting for Underwood if it turns out there is no chance for him. She would then go Ito some one else, perhaps Clark, per haps Harmon-to any one rather than to Woodrow Wilson, who has done nothing to deserve party honors unless to help wreck- It in lisa own State." Is there any progressiveness about this? "Another phase of this subject and I am through. I have been on the rack, as it were, ever since the cau cus met on Monday, last, and have persistently refused to consider get -ting off the committee on appropria ptions or of giving up its chairman ship. It seemed that this demand was so insistent that suspicions came into my mind, and in analyzing the situation I grew very angry. I de clared to the gentlemen of the com mittee who came to see me about it that if I were turned down in caucus I would carry the fight into the Sen ate itself. Yesterday morning, when there had been no conclusion of the case, I went to the capitol and began writing a speech to be delivered in caucus and was engaged on it nearly all day. It was not enough, I assure you, so hot that it almost burned the paper it was written on, for I was angry from the ground up and my indignation was such that I pulled the bridle cff and gave free rein to my vitrolic tongue. Some of you who have heard me in days past know that there are few men who can surpass me in saying biting and vindictive things I was in this frame of mind last night, but, as is often the case with men of my temperant, I spent only two or .three hours and then waked up and began to think. All public men know that some of their best thoughts and speeches have come to them in this way. I myself know that if I could have recollected them next day I have made better speeches in bed than I have ever made on the plat form or rostrum. When I analyzed the situation and the cornditions here my aner vanished. I thought how pitiful and contemptible In compari son was my fight for my rights and the rights of my State as compared with the great battle to be fought and now being fought by Democracy for the rights of the people. I had thought and wri-ten bitter things but my passion was st:lled and entirely disappeared when I remembered President Wilson's clarion in the last paragraph of his inaugural address: " 'I sumr;on all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men, to my side. God helping me, I will not fail them, if they will but coun sel and sustain me.' " "I decided to write another speech this morning and tell my brother Democrats just how I feel, and then leave it all to them. I still feel a great injustice has been done me in this report, I also feel that Senator Martin has not acted the noble part I expected of him as a Virginian, for not once but twice and even three times since I came to Washington in January he has told me he wanted me to have on the committees what ever place I was entitled to and de sired; and be has never notified me that he had changed his feelings or purpose. Senator Martin, after mak ing these, voluntary statements and pledges to me, became a member of the steering committee which has given him my chairmanship. Fair ness and decency, it seems to me, required him to notify me of his change of mind and attitude towards me. He never at any time expressed any uneasiness about my health to me. Had he uone so, his conduct would not seem so despicable. When I talked with him about his own race for the chairmanship of the caucus and mentioned to him that I wanted the committee on appropriations he advised me to say nothing about it and keep others guessing, which I did. It is this phase of the subject which I do not understand. I would hate to believe there has been any understanding or any promises or pledges made. As I have no proof I must perforce leave my accusations unsaid. But I can not help the sus picion that there must have been a deal of some kind or Senator Martin would not have retired without a show down. While I am no longer able to battle on the floor of the Senate and deliv er phillippics as I one did I am still able to give counsel and advice. I am still able to say "NO", and spell it with capitals, too, and that is what is needed on the committee on appro priations. I outlined in my letter to President Wilson my ideas as to why the appropriations have grown so rapidly and why so much money is being squandered needlessly. My am bition is as chairman of ihe commit tee on appropriations to bring into the Senate bills which have passed ,,ae House without increasing the amounts at all, and, if possible, tc bring in the bills reducing them as they passed the House. I believe ii is possible to do this. In fact, I know it, and if I am given help or the committee of young and willing men, earnestly striving for the same cbject, I will do it. Then, Senators, contrast the way the Republicans treat their old mer and the way ours are being treated Senator Allison was kept chairmax of the committee on appropriations as long as he was in the Senate, al though in his last years he was ver: feeble. Senator Perkins, althougl far more feeble than I am, is stil] chairman of the committee on naval affairs. Senator Cullom, when he retired from the Senate on the fourtl of March, was 'still chairman of the committee on foreign relations. They do not demote andl discredit their old leaders because of age. I have said more than once, and tc more people than one, that If the wrong was not righted in the caucus I would carry it to the Senate itself, which, under Rule 24, must elect its committees. My idea in going to the Senate was to get into the Record, for preservation for the future his torlan, my vindication and defence as It were. But when I considered the spectacle which I w uld preseni to the country by allowing my griev ances against the party, however jus tified, to militate against that unity and harmony which ought to pre vail among us, I decided that it was a selfish -motive and I bade the devi] get -behind me. Democratic harmony and concert of action are more necessary at thi! time than anything I know of. Dem ocratic discipline is also needed very, very much, for as compared with the Republicans we are an untrained mob with little knowledge of par liamentary law and very little effec tive knowledge of the rules of the Senate. Yesterday one of the newspaper boys told me he had seen the two Georgia Senators in amicable confer ence in the restaurant. Immediately the thought flashed on my mind, if Bacon and Hoke Smith are friendly after what has happened why should Hoke Smith and Tillman fall outabout It. I have already, in the caucus, told Hoke Smith how I felt about Bacon's not getting the place of Pres ident pro tempore, and it was thai indignation which prompted the in terview with the correspondent of The Atlanta Constitution. I used the word "Progressives" in that interview. The reporter chang ed it to "conspirators", and when I hastily revised the interview,- I did not note the change in the language. I do not feel thrat those Senators who brought about Bacon's defeat wore conspirators at all. They merely ex* pressed their preference as betwE n the two men as they had a right :o do. I know if they saw this inter view they must have become angry, because it was unjust. I recognize that now, and desire to apologize to them for using the word in the inter view. I also desire to apologize to Senator Hoke Smith for the way I have treated him. 'My regret is more keen because I have since learned-only last night -that he was my friend on the steer ing committee and battled manfully to keep the rest from demoting me or giving Mr. Martin the chairman ship of appropriations. Yesterday, when I was so hot, a reporter for a Georgia paper came into my room and said something about I8acon and Hoke Smith talking about Georgia patronage and express ed surprise that they should be speaking to each other. I told him I hoped Hoke Smith would never speak to me again; but I do not feel that way now. I am always ready and willing-nay- anxious-to make the amends honorable when. I am in error, and that is my reason for speaking as I do. The other ay T said I loved the SAYS THERE IS GRAFT COL. DICKERT RESIGNS AS MEM BER OF BOARD. Will Keep (n "Fighting Until This Thing of Grafting at the Confed erate Home is Stopped". "I resigned this afternoon and the governor refused to accept my resig nation. I intend to keep on fighting until this thing of grafting at the Confederate home is stopped," says Col. D. A. Dickert of Newberry, mem ber of the commission charged with the administration of the affairs of the home, Tuesday, following what is reported to have been a stormy ses sion of the board. The members of the commission are D. A. Dickert. Newberry; J. T. Crews, Laurens; J. G. Long, Sr., Un ion; A. T. Todd, Charleston, and M. C. Welch of Columbia, an inmate of the home. Col. Dickert told the story of the meeting Tuesday afternoon. He said that the board decided to continue H. W. Richardson as superintendent and Dr. F. W. P. Butler as physician, at least unlil the April meeting. "We met out at the Confederate home in executive session for the purpose of reorganizing. I nominat ed J. G. Long Sr., as chairman and J. T. Crews as secretary of the board. They were elected. It was then that A. W. Todd tcok the floor and in a smooth voice began to nominate H. W. Richaran and Dr. F. W. P. Butler. Mr. Todd wanted to retain all of the present officers. Todd said something in reply .to one of my ques tions. I protested against the action of Todd. He invited me out of the room. I told him that it was not ne cessary to leave .the room, that we would settle the entire matter then and there. When I entered that room I knew that Richardson and Butler had things fixed up sa as to be re-elected. I kicked on their plan." 'Col. Dickert said that following the executive meeting he returned to the room to find Mrs. Mixson saying some very hard things about him. "I asked her who made the statement that I had tried to reflect on her man agement. She told me that it was Richardson," continued Col. Dickert. "About this time," he continued, "Richardson stepped in between and said that he had made the state ments." Here Col. Dickert quoted language denouncing Maj. Richard son in se 7ere .terms. "Following the meeting I went to see the governor. He told me that he did not intend to stand for the same proceedings at the home. He said that he would call them all up and stop the abusses of the rules," continued Col. Dickert. "I told Richardson and Butler that if they did not resign that I would and that I did not intend to stand by and see the grafting go on. I intend to expose the whole d-n thing. "In the first place Richardson and Butler were elected to their present places without my knowledge. I was not at the meeting when they claim to have been elected," said Col. Dickert. It was stated Tuesday by Col. Dickert that the next meeting of the commission will be held in April and that a'mnajority of the members de cided to retain all of the present em ployees of the home until that date. two Georgia Senators. I did not tell the exact truth. I do love senator Bacon, and was beginning to like Hoke Smith very much. I hope I shall continue to like him, and will unless he gives me just reason not to. We have need in the Senate of brains, for we presented a sorry spectacle yesterday for lack of con sultation among the leaders and con cert of action. The party is so new in its role of conducting affairs that the people must make allowances. The new men are nearly all awkward and green, and unless they acquaint themselves thoroughly with the rules and precedents, they will be subject ed to very many mortifications, and the party itself will become a laugh ing stock. The Biblical quotation I used a few days will become historical. The "wild asses of the desert, athirst and hungry, have broken into the green corn". That applies all along the line from the top to the .bottom. The Senators themselves are green and the Democrats of the country have been "out in the cold" so long and have had so little hope or opportuni ty to get patronage or any of the af fices that they are simply wild. Pres ident Wilson will, I hope and believe, as soon as he becomes familiar with the usages and customs of the other Presidents in dealing with Congress, became a good herdsman. He is go ing slow, I am glad to say, about making appointments; has adopted David Crockett's motto: "Be sure you are right and then go ahead." Indeed, I have no reason to believe otherwise than that the militant De mocracy, after its long exile, will as sist and aid the President to carry out his program and make his glo rious vision as portrayed in his in augural address a reality. I shall, what little time I have left in this world, watch with deep in terest and concern his success or fail ure. I am sure, if he does fail, it will be due to the Congress and not to him. I appeal to all Democrats to throw aside selfish 'ambitions and im pulses and let us all unite and work for the good of this great Republic. It is a significant fact the country's business awvaits the Democratic tariff revision with thorough confidence and composure. As The Atlanta Journal says there is a nation-wide conviction that the wrongs of the tariff must be righted in order that we may have true prosperity: and a1 nation-wide assurance that the ad minitration's steps toward this end will be well and wisely considered. The Bamberg Herald says "Editor< J. L. Sims. of The Orangeburg Times1 and Democrat, has our hearty con-( gratulations which we feel are not I premature. *Both of the Senators from South Carolina have united on him for the position of United States t marshal and he will no doubt be ap pointed. He richly deserves the place, and will make a most excellent e:ffic ial." The management of the Confeder ate Home should be put in the handsj of old veterans. Then maybe Itc would be a real home for needy vet-c BAKING F Absolute The only Bakng ftam Royal Graped NO ALUM, NO 1IlM NOMAN WAS STOLEN EAUTIfUL WIFE OF A YOUN MAN KIONAPPED 3 TAKEN FROM A TRAIN -4 'he Details of the Abduction is Re- t vealed by Mrs. J.- L. Laidlaw, a Prominent Suffrage Leader and the Wife of a Wealthy New York i -Banker. Mrs. James Lees Laria-.s, promi- I nent suffrage leader and wife cf the wealthy, New York banker, recently made public the fact that the young and beautiful wife of a prosperous ew York business man, living in ew Jersey, had been stolen from a train on which she was commuting and carried into white slavery by her captors. Mrs. Laidlaw declared that this is merely one instance out of 1,600 or 1,700 cases where girls and young women of good families were stolen last year from trains between New York and Chicago by traders in vhite slaves, and that in all, upward of 60,000 American women are kid napped this way every year. in her home Mrs. Laidlaw told the details of the young wife's abduction to a reporter. She said: "About eight months ago this young woman, both a wife and a mother, was kid napped by white slavers. But, be cause of the husband's foolish and false conception of the disgrace at tached to the affair, he has always refused to appeal either to newspa pers or police for help in finding her. "Ashamed of the publicity that would follow such an appeal, the hus band has made his friends who know the details of the case promise never to reveal his name or residence. He feels now that he would rather die without knowing the horrible details of his wife's life in the hands of her captors than be apprised of them now. "In addition, for the sake of his hild, he wants no word printed of the affair that would enable .his hild's relatives or instructors or friends in later life to tell anything bout the way the mother was stolen nd sold into a life of terrible in amy." Mrs. Laidlaw went on to tell ow the abduction was managed: The husband had asked his wife to eet him in the city one evening to o to the theatre. She was not at the railway terminal when he arrived here, but he learned from the con uctor that she had been aboard the egular train and that two men of foreign appearance had boarded the train at the same station. These men had seated themselves immediately ehind her. They had insisted on aying her fare despite her protests, assuring the conductor the woman was n'ot rational and was in .their custody. When the train reached the ter minal, where the husband should have been had he not been delayed, the conductor saw the two men hur ying the woman away, and that was the last seen of her. 7Jhether she was too frightened to make an out cry or had been beguiled into tern porary acquiescence by a clever story, neitner the conductor nor the hus band knows. "Not long ago a woman was stolen fromi a ferry boat between New York and New Jersey in much the same anner as this young New Jersey wife," said Mirs. Laidlaw. "And only because she was able to escape after four weeks of degradation have her friends ever learned what became of "\i Rochester girl, who was kid napped between her home and Muf falo, fell into the hands of the pro bation society there one day, after she had been arrested, and after her ealth had been restored, she was restored to the home she had never expected to see again, and which had never received one word as to the cause of her disappearance. "And now to right these condi tions, what? Not the minimum wage scale, not economic adjustment of that sort. Because most of these women have been stolen from their homes and forced to live in such1 places until their senses are so dull ed that they have lost all sense of: where tliey came from or where they would again be received. "Precocity in young girls does notI account for one-thousandth the num ber of women who go wrong; the or finary commonly accepted causes for ayoung girl's misstep and subse luent life are far from the truth. "Before these terrible evils can be t remedied the city's civic corruption ! nust be remedied. There can be not tfety for women in New York unless I :here is a decent city government. Vhat progress can be made against hite slavers, with their agents ev- a ~rywhere in every walk of life and '] ~tation of life, as long as prominent I )fficeholdrs, politicians. judges. ( nagistrates, and the police not only x ountenace, but actually make mon- 3 y out of the traffic in women." p Associate Justice C. A. Woods. of f he State Supreme Court, stands a cod chance of being appointed a 7nited States JTudge. He would make t in able one, and we hope he will be t 1ppoite, c Tariff revision will be the only sub- a ect considered at the extra session of y ongress. This shows that the Dem- f cratic party proposes to live up to c AL OWDER Pwar m ream of Tartar E PIHSPHATE 3EMAND DRESS REFORM AW PROPOSED TO REGULATE FEMATE APPAREL. L Freak Bill Introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives to Fix Styles of Dress. Declaring that the immodesty of he attire worn by women on the treets and in public places is the ause of "a great wave of Immoral ty now sweeping over the country", tepresentative Chapelle, of Cincin Lati, Monday evening Introduced a 411 in the lower House of the Ohio gislature providing for the ap iointment by the governor of a com-. aission to "prescribe the fashions to >e worn by women in the State of )hio". Introduction of the measure re lted from a charge filed with Gov rnor Cox by a woman who did not ign her name, that "immorality is >racticed by married men in the of Ices of the State House and else where in the state of Ohio". Under the provisions of the bill the >roposed commiesion would be com pelled to fix limits on decollette Iresses so that "not more than two nches of the neck below the chin hall be uncovered." Another clause >f the measure provides 'that tmus arent stockings shall not be.display d or worn In public places". Another provision of the bill states hat "it shall be unlawful to display >r wear any outer garment trimmed >r combined with lace, Insertion or my kind of embroidery mesh or net . :hrough which the color or texture >f the skin may be. distinguished without having the lace or other ransparent material backed with >paque material". Members of the proposed commis dion, according -to the bill, woulu iave to be -between 30 and 50 years )ld. Two of them would havelto be narried men and of good moral char tter. One would be a minister, one L parent of not less than three chil Iren, and the third a social settle nent worker. The commission would .be author zed to "prescribe the rules and rega ations for the designing and manu ~acture of women's clothing and to rohibit such styles and patterns of ~arments as the commission 'after earing shall deem to..be detrimental o virtue and chastity". The bill goes so far as to prohibit le~partmet stores from displaying un liaped artificial figures. The bill nakes a violation of the Act punish ble by a fine of not less than $25. YOUTH TREED BY LION.. oth His Feet Were Frozen by a Blizzad. Treed by a vicious mountain lion uring a blinding Montana blizmard, Francis Enstrom escaped with his ife after an all-night vigil, but was o badly frozen than. both of hIs feet aad to be amputated. Aside from .he loss of his feet Enstrom, who is L years of age, appears none the worse for his harrowing experience. On January 4 Enstrom and his rather left their ranch at Littie. ieadows for a ride to Georgetown, a nining cam-p two miles distant. That ight the father left for home, but he boy remained with relatives and ntended to walk home next day. Not afraid of the dark, having no rear of wild animals and knowing the -oad Enstrom trudged through the snow until he was overtaken by a linding blizzard. He groped his way >ravely against the storm, and, being :lad for cold weather, suffered no ill effects from the cold. About half a mile from the camp ;he angry cry of a mountain lion eached his ears. The boy ran for ;he nearest tree and climbed it six ;een feet or more and straddled a imb just as he saw the lion below. During the night wolves and coy >tes howled about the tree, but none >f them ventured near. The lion - id the fort while the .boy shivered . tnd the storm roared. Hours went n, yet there was no way out. Occa ;ionally the lion jumped against the ree and tried to reach his prey. The old become intense, but each time ~nstrom tried to move from his posi ion he would be warned by the hiss f the ferocious beast that he was till on guard. Fearing he would freeze, Enstron' >eat his hands against the tree and ticked his feet. Finally the fer. t eemed to grow warm and the lad elt relieved. When morning dawn d the lion disappeared. Enstrom limbed down the tree but found his eet had frezen and he was compelled o crawl nearly s. mile through the now to his home. He was hurried, o the hospital at -once and the frozen aembers were amputated. The IBnmberg Times says: "It is: enerally undestood that Senators 'illman and Smith favor the appoint 1ent of J. L. Sims, editor of The/ irangeburg Times and Democrat for nited States marshal. President Vilson will make no mistake in ap-/ ointing Mr. Sims as ho is a good. ian and is in every way capable of ling this position." So fruitful has been the work of ie Boy's Corn clubs in the South at the Federal Department of Agri-/ lture now plans to make this move ient nation-wide. The Atlanta Jouri al says what the organization o. outhful farmers has accomplished r- grain culture In this section, it is accomplish for her rural inter its throughout the country.