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DEMOCRATS REGISTER. I An Urgent Appeal From State Chairman Wllie Jones. Danger In Neglcet. Gen. Wilie Jones, Democraitc State Chairman, -Wednesday issued ithe following address: To the Democratic Voters of South - Carolina: Fellow Democrats: In view of the groat indifference which seems to exist among the Democrats of this st...e as to registring under the new law requiring all voters to register this year, I feel it to be my duty as your chairman to address you in this public manner, and urge you to go to your county seatB at once and reg'..ler. There is no doubt about the fret that the negroes are registering In great numbers in some counties and if the Democrats do not register they cannot vote In the general election in November next, and some of our congressmen may be defeated. The electoral ticket of this state may also be endangered by the failure of me Democrats to register. The time expires September 1st, 1908, and after that it will be impossible to be registered. We have heard of late various threats that our representation In congress would be reduced by a Republican congress on account electoral ticket and also for our con-1 election. All indications now are th.?t the next house of representatives will be very close, and the past history of the Republican party proves that that party will stop at nothing to count in a working majority. Now, fellow Democrats, do not allow this serious charge to be made against you, but go immediately and register, and be prepared to roll up a big majority for the Democratic electoral ticket and als ofor our congrecslonal nominees. The Democratic county chairman throughout the state are urged to enrnestly request the Democrats In their respective counties to attend to this important matter at once and to use their best efforts to get them out Immediately, a.? the time expires for registration September 1, 1908. Very respectfully. Wille Jones, Chairman. * STRIKE OF COAL MINERS. Wednesday the Most Tuhulent Thus Far In Birmingham District. A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., says Wednesday has been by far the most turbulent of the coal miners' strike. The lynching of the negro Will Mlllans, a union miner, charged with dynamiting at Brighton, early Wednesday morning, was followed that night by the arrest of two deputy sheriffs, Lon Tyler and Bruce Tvler r-V, n ...LI. 1.111 ^ , ^..u.hi;u wiui nuiilg inc negro. Strong feeling over the strike followed by a quarrel, led to the killing of Albert Fletcher, a negro at New Castle, by Constable Will Ellaril Two deputy sheriffs were kidnapped by strikers at Jett Mines and tied to a tree. Another house was dynamited at Wylam, the shock being so severe as to throw the inmates out of bed. Sheriff Higdon, after a conference with Governor Comer, Issued orders that no assemblies ol men are to be allowed near the mines; that marching groups are not allowed to go along the highways from mine to mine; that all meetings will be attended by deputies and incendiary speakers will be arrested and that discharging of firearms will not be permitted. Governor Comet will place the entire lBt Alabama regment in the district before the end of the week. W. R. Falrley, leader of the miners, issued a statement Wednsday, in wnich he arraigns the Governor, charging him with being in with the mine owners and doing all in his power to injure the miners. 18 SLAIN BY YAQL.kiS. Massacre of Three Families in Mexico Reported. That Yaquai Indians on July 24 killed thirteen persons, members 01 three families, near Lampazas Mine, was the news received Thursday by W. M. Giiiette, of San Carlos, Indian reservation, Arizona, in a letter written to him at El Paso, Texas by A. D. McPhee, superintendent of IKo T>- . ..? ? * luuiuinunu mine, twenty miles from Montezuma, Sonora. The letter says ranches of the surrounding country have congregated at the Promontorlo Mine, prepared to resist the Indians. * Victim for the Callows. At Cullman, Ala., John Holland was Thursday found guilty of the murder of H. D. Putnam at Hancevflle, Ala., on July 2, and was sentenced to be hanged September 18. Holland was town marshal forllanrevllle, and after telling friends that he was going to Putnam's house to arrest him shot him, death being almost Instantaneous. BURNED TO DEATH. Tonng Lady of Chester Comity Meets With Horrible Death. A dispatch from Choster, says Miss Etta Melton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Melton, Sr., of the Louisville neighborhood was burned to death last Siturday at noon w-hile preparing the family dinner. In handling a kerosene oil can for kindling the Are the bfaze reached the can of oil, causing explosion and quickly enveloping the unfortunate yonng lady, and her tragic death medical treatment was secured, but the fierce flame Completed Its fatal work In fonr hours. Miss Melton was 16 years old. a most estimable young layd, and her tragic death canses much sorrow In her home ooxamunlty. CIGARETTE CAUSED KILLING. When Youth Approached Father < Smoking Quarrel Followed. The killing of James A Riddle by his son, Thos. Riddle, which occurred Sunday at Cotton, a cotton mill town seven miles south of Fayetteville, hT C., is said to have been the result of a quarrel which the boy had with hid father about smoking a cigarette. Young Riddle approached his father, in the presence of others, smoking a cigarette, when the elder remonstrated with him, bringing on a quarrel. The father attempted to strike him with a board, when the young man drew a revolver and fired four shots into his father's body, the first causing instant death. Thomas Riddle immediately surrendered to the police. Coroner J. Vance McGougan ordered the murderer held without bail. He was taken to Fayetteville late Sunday nleht and ulaced in lull. He made a statement for publication in which he claims that his father was under the influence of an intoxicant Sunday afternoon, and that, according to a statement made to the prisoner by his mother, a short while before the tragedy, James A. Riddle had left the home to secure a pistol with the threat that he would kill the family upon his return. The young man came in contact with his father before the latter's return. The prisoner also says his father had him hemmed in a jam and was about to slay him with a board. MILLION DOLLAR FIRE. So Hot That the Firemen Had to Fight Flames a ltlock Away. At Chicago Monday afternoon Are which was so hot that the firemen could not get nearer than a block of it, and which made it neccesary to play streams of water on buildings three and four squares away, destroyed the Rurlington elevators "E" and "F," the dock transfer warehouse of that road and either burned or rendered useless 100 box cars. The loss on the grain in the two elevators is placed by Armour & Co., who owned it, at $700,000. The total loss is placed at $1,000,000. The Are started at 1 p. m., in Burlington warehouse, supposedly from a cigarettes dropped near several barrels containing chemicals. At the first explosion the 250 men employed in the warehouse and elovo fnru oiul 11 i c? Koltorn/1 oil ob. eaped. Eighty fire engine companies and three fire tugs had all they could do to confine the conflagration to its original limits. At 3 o'clock. Fire Marshall Horan declared that furthi er spread of the flames was not to 1 be feared. However, several engines are pouring their streams into the glowing wreckage. BABY BOY A HEllO. Saves His Companion From Deatli | I'nder Auto. ' At Spartanburg a littlo child is the . hero in an automobile story, which has Just become known at that place. Two little boys of about three years of age. Gilliam Harris, son of , John Harris, and Glenn, the son of Mrs. J. E. Evlns, were playing 011 . the edge of the sidewm* on South , Church street with their nurses. Suddenly a large touring car came down the street at a great speed and j little Glllinm Harris ran out in front . of it. Several ladies were sitting on t the verandas and, seeing the child, , ran out, as the nurses had not seen tTie children. Of course they could ' not reach him in time. But just as . the car was almost on the little fel! low, Glenn ran out and catching him 1 around the neck fairly dragged him , away. It was wonderful and the little fellow was the object of much praise from the ladies. There is a funny side to everything. After the danger was over Glenn still kept his hold 011 Gilliam's neck until he was fairly gasping for brenth. There they stood. Glenn, with a tight hold around Gilliam's neck, and the latter with his dear little mouth hanging wide open. KHOOflNO ON STREET CAB Negro Passenger Refuses to Pay Fare and Row Results. 1 At Pensacola, Fla. Wednesday one man fatally wounded and anothor ; painfully injured, is the result of a fight between negroes and street railway employees on a Hay Shore car. Wm. Johnson, colored, was shot in the mouth and abdomen, while Chief Inspector McClung. of the street railway, suffered a painful wound in the hand. The negroes had had a picnic at Palmetto Peach, which lasted far into the night. A special car. with half a dozen trailers were bringing them hack when one negro refused to pay his fare. A general fight followed between the eight or ten conductors and some of the negroes. HA HI) Rl'PK AWAKENING. Young Man's Nap in Railroad Yard Results in Loss of Arm. pewltt Clement, a yoting man of Ashevill, was Injured by an engine in the Southern Railway yards at Spartanburg Tuesday night, and his left arm had to be amputated. Clement and a friend were asleep on a hnad car in the railroad yards. A passing engine woke Clement tip. and he Jumped up suddenly about halp asleep and got in the way of the engine. His left arm was badly crushed and the member was apmaputated. He also sustained 6calp | wounds. I , It's astonishing how quickly possession will decrease the value of most things. ELOPES WITH HEIRESS. 'linfTeur And Heiress Elope in Borrowed Auto. A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., lays Daniel Slattery, a young chauf'eur of the East End district, who ias been motoring for many rich 'amilles, on Monday eloped with Vllss Madeline Zeigler, only daughter >f Mrs. Murgaret Zeigler, one of the rich East End society women, for whom Slattery had often driven an automobile. Slattery and Miss Madeline w*ent In a hurry on finding that Mrs. Zeigler had employed detectives to look up his record. Mrs. Zeigler had two warrants Issued for the chauffeur's arrest on cnarges which she assorts were trumped up, and when he met Miss Madeline in the afternoon, he told her of his troubles and suggested that they go immediately. He pushed Miss Zeigler Into the first automobile he suw standing In tin* street and fled to West Virginia. where they were married. They returned the next j day. Eddie Ball, the bicycle rider, whose machine it was they had brorowed" In the meantime, had a warrant Issued, not knowing it was Slattery, who is his friend. On learning that it was an clopnient of his friend, Ball had the warrant cancelled. * MAD CAPTAIN A SUICIDE. Schooner Beaches Savannah With Tale of Tragedy. With the steward in charge and the crew of four men aboard the Schooner Frank A. Williams was towed into Savannah Wednesday bringing the story of the suicide at sea, and in a raging storm, of the vessel's mad captain, A. M. Guthrie. The steward, Bonis Inphen. told the story. He said that Capt. Guthrie wus on the deck when the schooner was off Cape Lookout. He saw the captain walk calmly to the rail, stand 011 it and dive overboard. Thqugh efforts at rescue seemed foolish the steward threw a rope, clenched his lists and held his head The man in the water saw it, but under water in an effort to drown himself. The rope was thrown to him twice, hut he refused it. and a big wave soon swept ami from sight. The story Is unusual and adds another to the long list of tragedies off Cape Lookout. "He was insane," declared the steward. His eyes told it. We all knew it, and we persuaded him to give me charge of the vessel. We did not want to sail seas unknown to us in the care of a crazy man. I saw he was crazy as we left New York, but we came on and he seemed to go all wrong when the storm got so bad off Lookout light ship. ' We could not stop the captain when he suddenly decided to leave the ship. We were helpless without him, as none of us knew the waterf we were in." The steamer City of Augusta, from nutsum lur ouvuunuii, iuuuu nit schooner off the light ship and towed her to Savannah. The crew ol the schooner watched the rescue ol the crew of the schooner Schull, which was abandoned off Cape Lookout. * 11ROKK HIS SON'S HACK. Report RenclioH Lake City of a Tragedy in Florence County. News reached Lake City Thursday afternoon of a most, deplorable tragedy, which occurred in the Hyman section of Florence Co*int> Wednesday afternoon late. Details are meagre, but it seems that Thomas Summerford, a white man. living just a few miles from Hyman. attended the campaign meeting at Hyman on Tuesday, and in the afternoon loaded up on booze and went home and promptly raised a row in his family. In the excitement he picked up one of his little boys and thrust him against the banister with such force that it broke the child's back, from which injury lie died in a very few minutes. It seems from all reports that Summerford is a very quiet and peaceable man when not under the influence of whiskey, which makes the case all the more sad. * NEW YORK FOR RRYAX. Chairman Connors Says State Will la- Democratic l?y 73,000. A dispate .from lbiffalo, N. Y., savs Win. .1 Cnnnnra phali-mo.. ho Democratic State committee, announced Tuesday tnat on next Saturday he would issue the call for a meetng of the State committee in New York city to name the time and place for the State Convention. Mr. Connors said that the Convention would likely he held either the wook of September 13th or the 20th, and that Rochester was likely to secure the Convention. Declaring that New York State would he surety Democratic in the coming election Mr. Connors made the following statement. "There is no question about NewYork State, which will give pluralities of anywhere from 75,000 (to 100?000 to Bryan. More than that. Erie County will go Democratic hv a large plurality, which will be the first time that cbunty ha? gone Democratic In a Presidential election since 1892, when Cleveinad carried it by a plurality of ninety. Bryan Is gaining strength dally." Many a rich man has barely missed landing in jail. | THE MALDEN'8 OAT. Meowing of the Feline Sated Cap. tain, Wife and Crew. "There's*one thing In which cats and rats agree," said Captain Charles W. Bates, of the Boston Bchoouer Maiden, as he wandered across the I floor of the Maritime Exchange, "and ; that is, that they both will leave a ( sinking ship. So It wasn't so much of a surprise to me when the crew 1 of the Maiden grew a bit superstitious when our tabby leaped over : the rail with a piteous wall and sank ' In about forty fathoms off the the I coast of Georgia. ; "We'd been fifteen days out from ( San Juan, bound for a Florida port, but a gale drove us several hundred miles further north than we had Intended going, and when the Mai- ' den's pussy leaped to her death we all had been guessslng for fortyeight hours what would happen to our vessel. "Lylg on her starboard beam one moment and on her port the next, with seas washing over us so that we couldn't move across the deck, the Maiden was acting crazy enough for any shipload of deep sea mariners. The night before the cat went free of the Bchooner's rail It had a dream, to which my wife and 1 can testify, for we were awakened by the ghastly meowing of the re JUMPED OVERVHE RAID, line as she stood, with back up and hair on end, at the foot end of our bunk. "What wan still more strange, both ray wife and I had been dreaming of a shipwreck when the cat awakened us, and the ill omen was so apparent that I told Mrs. Bates to dress and I dressed myself. On the watch 1 found Simpklns, the mate, and five members of the crew, all working desperately to save the Maiden which was wallowing in a sea such as I had never seen before. "Matters kept growing worse avery minute from the time I got on deck, and it was shortly before dawn that the cat went over the side. That settled the crew and the men who had been working at the pumps, with the water gaining on us every minute, decided that 1 should order the boat lowered and cut away from the Maiden. The schooner was leaking like a sieve, and one might as well have tried to pump the Atlantic dry as to pump the Maiden free of the briny. "Well, what happened to the scho >ner need not take long to tell. She went down like a lump of lead and wo had barely time to get the boat away before the topmasts d'sappeared under the water. My wife i and 1 and the crew of six drifted for a dozen hours before a Far East , tramp bound for Savannah showed her lights and stopped for us. We were taken to Savannah where we received every hospitality that could be extended to as dreay a lot of eight shipwrecked mariners, Including one woman, as ever drifted around the coast. "Will my wife go to sea again? Well, 1 reckon yes. Tho next time I get a ship you'll see her shipmates with me, and she has told me that we won't go to sea without a cat either, for the meowing of the Ma'den's tabby undoubtedly saved our lives." Turks Objected to Horse's Names. The horses belonging to the late British Ambassador at Constantinople, Sir Nicholas O'Connor, have been sold by auction. The usual notice i was put in the local press, but the censor took exception as there were i horses In the list with the names Pasha. Sellm and Haroun. which he considered was offensive to Turks, and the list had tb appen without the names.?London Telegraph. Memorial of Adam. ' April 1 was marked on old calen> dars as the "Memorial of Adam. ' . The orientals relate that Adam when dying, chrrged hia children to bury hl3 body, embalmed with myrrh, incense and cassia. In the cave of AlKanuz near Paradise. When they quitted the place they were to convey his body to the center of the earth, whence would come solvation to his posterity. This is said tc have been done by Noah and MelchlZodek, who reburled him on tho sacred hill of Ct.lvary. I/cad Wool. Hitherto It has been customary to make the joints for gas and water pipes by first introducing strands of hemp yarn Into the socket, then filling the space left wKh molten lead and afterwards caulking the latter. A more modern way Is now provided by means of what Is known as "lead wool." The lead wool consists of the threads of virgin lead, cut by special machinery In such a manner tnat It will weld together wheo caulked. Next to the attar of roses the most valuable perfume la the oil of Jasmine, which la quoted at $5 80 a pound. BANK AT UNION CLOSES. Depositors Are Said to Be Fully Protected. The People's Bank of Union closed its doors Tuesday pending voluntary liquidation. In a statement issued by the president, the general j depression Is the reason assigned for the action. It Is said that d??- 1 posltors are fully protected. It's always safe to ask a girl for a kiss after you haVe taken it. 1 ? PHIZES FOR SCHOOLS. Inuouncenient of Importance by Im- L provemcnt Association. The South Carolina School Imjrovement association has offered 15 prizes to the schools of the state 'or the most decided material im- 0 irovement made during a given a ength of time. Five of the prizes w ire to be $100 each, and 30 are to v ue $50 each. Rgulations concern- v Ing the 35 prizes that are to be p awarded by this association are as ^ rollows: Improvements must be made between November 1, 1907, and December 10, 1908. ^ Prizes will lie awarded to schools where the most decided material im- v provements havo been made during c time mentioned. s Under material Improvements are included local taxation. consolidation, new buildings, repairing and painting old ones, libraries, readlnp ( rooms or tnhlos Inlprlfir (toMrntlnno I 1 beautifying yards and better general equipment. ' No school can complete for any ' of these prizes unless it is a rural ' school. No town with more than ( :?00 population shall he eligible to ' the contest. All who wish to enter this contest must send names and descriptions ' of schools before improvements arc made to the president prior to Octo- 1 her I. All descriptions, photographs and other evidences showing improvements must he sent to the president, before Decern or 15, 1908. Tin chairman of the hoard of trustees of any school that is competing for a prize must approve all descriptions before and after improvements are made. Prizes will he awarded in checks at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Improvment association. December 31. 19t>8. The prizes are to he used for further improvements In the schools receiving them. Address all communications to Miss Mary T. Nance, Columbia. S. C. Kvery Democrat Should Help. The ''American" workmgman has had his eyes opened. He now sees that protectionism and other Republican policies are not panic proof. He is still suffering from the high prices of all he buys that his lords and masters the Trusts and Corporation can extort by virtue of the monopoly the tariff policy of the Republican party gives them. He dreads the certain reduction of wages "after election," if the Trusts and Corporations achieve another lease of power through Republican success. The greatest fear of the American workingman is that if the Republicans are successful he can no longer appeal to force of arms?the strike, the boycott?and without these he is helpless to protect himself and therefore the modification the right of a Court of Equity to issue injunctions is the paramount issue of the campaign. How can the "American" workingman, therefore resist the opportunity to defeat his enemies and restore his lost opportunities? From present appearances at least twothirds of organized Labor will vote the Democratic ticket. The great problem of the Democrrtic leaders will be to prevent the coertion of the workingmen who are not "Americans," yet who are such a large percentage of the voters in every doubtful State. That requires a compact organization and campaign funds to make such possible. Mr, Brysn has appealed to every Democratic newspapers to open a subscription list for campaign funds and if, the editors will lay before their readert the necessity of giving what they can afford there it no doubt tht?t all legitimate expenses will be met. The legitimate expenses of a presidential campaign are enormous?the Republican managers estimate it at $3,000,000 but they are naturally extravagant. If half that sum is donated by Dem; ...:h * ut'iativ; (miiiuirt mc mauc will nut be in doubt from lack of campaign funds. How much will Mr. Rockefeller give to the Republican Campaign fund now he has no fine to pay? Under the Republican system of trust busting it seems probable the Standard Oil Trust will escape en tirely. Mr. John Claflin president of the H. B. Clafiin Dry Goods Company, favors higher railroad rates, but then John does not pay the freight. If Mr. Taft is elected President we must all pray he will live long and prosper for it makes patriots shiver to think of Jim Sherman being president. President Roosevelt does not appear to uphold the decision of the Circuit Court in the Standard Oil case, but regards it as a miscarriage of justice. But then he is only bluffing. The trusts understand him. All the leading Republican offi clals are away from Washington attending to politics or taking long holidays. Only Secretary of War i Wright terrains to nf r?rt thr 'id und | he is a Democrat, who has accepted a Republican retainer, and willi horefore, bear watching. BABY'S NECK BROKEN, ittlo Cliild in Laurens County Kill?s by Fall From Doorway. News has been received that a lit le child of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith rho llvo several miles out fron Iray Court, in Laurens County, fel ut of a door Saturday afternooi nd broke Its neck. It seems fron hat can bo learned that the chil< ras standing In the doorway, whirl fas only two or three feet from tin round, when It lost its balance am ell to the ground, breaking Its neck Perish in Snow Storm. According to a telegram receivei roni Copenhagen, says Mylius Erl hsen, the Danish explorer, and tw nembers of the party that saile vith him to the unexplored region >f Greenland, have perished in now storm. PIANO AXI> OIUaAN ECONOMY. If you are Interested in the pui hase of a PIANO or nu OlUiAX, w vant to sell you one. Don't think you must go to soni "nail order nouse to buy a low pri? ?d piano or organ: nor outside r South Carolina to get the best plan ir organ. We have a great variet >f grades, and all styles, at price which cannot fail to interest yoi We are manufacturers factory v< presentatives for several of tl largest and most famous makers < pianos and organs. We take old instruments in e change and make most liberal tern of payment to those who wish i buy on time. No house?quality < pianos and organs considered?os; undersell us. Twenty-four years < fair dealingin Columbiaand throne i>ut South Carolina is our rcfereiv and guarantee. Write us at once for catalog pri and terms. Muione'.s Music House, Columbia, S. Pianos and Organs. CLASSIFIED COLUMN WAVTKIK WANTED?Agents for Diozo D infecting Cabinets. Kill gorn flies, mosquitoes, moths and at in the home. Costs two cents month. Sell on sight. $10 dai easily earned. E. C. Ilaileng< 1lO X. Church street Spurtaiihui S. C. WANTED?Pine logs bought f cash. For particulars addrt Sumter Dumber Co., Sumter, S. WANTED?Clerks, cotton buye farmers, warehousemen and ol ers to learn grading and class! ing cotton in our sample roon or through correspondence cour Thirty day scholarship complei you. American Cotton Coliej Miiledgeville, (hi. Ft )lt SALE?MI St *K 1. LA N L< > 1 S noil >.\iiK?cotton sPed lnills. order to make room for now stn we will sell cheap our stock loose and haled hails now on ha Write for prices. South Carol! Cotton oil Co., Columbia, s. C. FOR SALE?Six to eight hundr thousand pine shingles f. o. b. c: James' Crossing or delivered Columbia. S. C. Write for pric A. II. Campbell, Fastover, S. C. * CIGAR SALESMAN WANTED, * ?Experience unnecessary. $100 * per month and expenses. Peer * less Cigar Co., Toledo, Ohio. * KGG.H FOR FALL CHICKS.? * S. C. Brown Leghorn and Bar* red Plymouth Hock $1.00 per * setting of ir>. Fine range, pure * stock, healthy birds. * Hlythcwood Poultry Yards, * S. II. Melliclmmp, Mgr. * Hlythcwood, S. C, ^WANTED The hardest cases of .Morphi Opium and Liquor addictions to ci in ten days by our new painless me od. No extreme nervousness, achl limbs, diarrhoea or loss of sleep. Oi sanitarium in the world giving unci ditionai guarantee. Money can placed in bank and payment made ter a cure is realized. Patients w cannot visit Sanitarium can be cm privately at bono* References: A Banker, Minister, City Official Citizen of Lebanon. Write today I large free booklet of particulars. dress: CEDARCROFT SANITARII Dept. 7. Lebanon, Trim. 37500 Square Feet Fl Pumps, Packing, Pi Pipe, Fillings, . . . WRITE FOR Southern State com iv NEXT WEE! WATCH THIS S: !? - ' IPkyiR'yrMiN$ m~j S\ (ryS pi* ^^vJ|i& ltrpi'Mican Extravagance. The I ited States Treasury is 1 paying: ? u nearly one million a day ; more tha-: it is receiving, that is the deficit f<" the first 17 days of July was $16 i."7.618. The last session of j Congres > ppropriated the enor1 mous sum of $1,008,397,543.56 for i the fiscti1 year beginning July 1, 1 1908, an?. he sesssion of Congress | beginnii g next December may be e expected t?? appropriate as much for 1 the fiscH year beginning July 1. 1909. Trial would give our present j Republi* an Congress the unique record of :>cing a two billion dollar J1 CongreM. Every dollar the govern? ment ex,. : ds is paid in some way (1 by the p >. le. and voters should res member uidtthis year they will pay a $12 in i: x s for each member of their fam. les? a total tax of about $60 for eh h average family of five - persons. e During he last four years of Republicn ? x ravagance there has been ? appropriated $3,428,000,000 or $33,>f 000,000 n.ore than the vast expending tures during four years of civil war, y so that during that period each head >s of a family has paid in national ll^ taxes over $200 and what has he got for it? )f Under Republican policies the tax paid bv tne poor man is as great *" as the lax paid by the rich ^ man. In tact, in some cases the tax 9f oaid bv t ne poor man is greater, in For instance, when Mr. Rockefeller or any oilier rich man buys fiannel h* for underwear valued above 70 CO cents pi t pound, he pays a tariff ce tax of S6.39 per cent, but when a poor mi., buys a cheaper grade of flannel lor his underwear, vBlued at m ? not more than 40 cents per pound, I he pa> o tariff tax of 143.67 per cent. These llgnres are the actual 3- duties p o.l on "flannel for under^ wear" a officially reported by the ls" Goveri in nt for the year 1907. As ls the prcn nt Congress refused to conits sider am revision of this unequal ilv tax, or the many other like cases r, which th present tariff law imposes the high rate of tariff taxes on flan nels ano everything else that is in or eluded in the tariff law still continc!ues ?1 Yet ni.my bnsiness men. farmers, and those who have to rely upon f wages s ill vote the Republican na ticket, umch is virtually to endorse se. the Republican policy of taxing tcs those wi h small incomes more than th >e with large incomes. M Surelj it is time for Retrenchment or reform, and experience ^ shows that neither can be expected ok from Republican politicions. ?J Only a Fake. nil That < minent wall Street banker, Mr. Shi 1.1-n, who by the grace of ~ candidal.* haft was made treasurer irs of the R publican National Commitut tec it is h.ud to be having great suct!S cess in raising campaign boodle. It is under.- ood that Mr. Sheldon does ? not stir 1! om his office at No. 2 Wall * Street, bu just sends word to the Trust and Corp .ration managers ? that the> are expected to call or * send thi ir check for a "reasonable ? amount," These contributions are * for what Mr. Sheldon calls the "le. * gitimate e tnpaign fund of $3,000. * 000." Wo (her Mr. llarriman is to 1 * undertake the collection of the ? "boodle fund" as he did in 1904, at * the request of President Roosevelt, , is yet unc. rtain, hut probably some* one residing outside of the State of New York will be selected to collect this extra campaign fund, so that the publicity law of that State will Hi- not apply. Since candidate Taft "n has been driven to the necessity of llv declaring 'hat no contributions from Trusts wil: be accepted, there is a af. great desire to know whether Mr. ho Sheldon will return those contribu0(1 tions from the Trusts he has already n> received. There is an evident feel01* |OI ing abroad that all this fuss about Ld- Publicity after election and the reM, fusal of T> ust contributions is a Republican fake. loor Space Covered With alleys, Belting, s Supply Company 1 B I A, S C. pace, GIBBES ,,v1. _ PNEUMATIC I A I If F/% r-iu Mtur' --'n vc system /%\ !< !< with dmiMn boi. strum Cylinder Preen, A/AW" A Ion .1 Tr .Mii r. Imrr... | < nrunic E<rd<- ?. ?T'r?"5r ilo Uoll < ..nil nr. t. Mutt. I I. lit Klin r M A X1MI M i I rpi r *\ ITII MiNIMCM POWER. RAVE* BKI.T* AM' IWKK8 I "OL BKAKINOR N'? ll'l.l KS <>R Cot \ T EKMf AFT8 KEQIIRKI). *\ rif - fur T> ?i imnh' ' Pr i T' rim Etc oinm s magi w. :tv ( o> p?\y, LUU) or "ClBRK* or I . n .V II . Kr.IiH, BOX U>*, i oLL Mill.. ES? n 'S GOU^j r hu'll op * T'Mallon for n3sJr!?p proffiC*sh)|V' ** i*e pj ' r'O'.'d of We ere located nenr til jrpo?s and r " get goodj in st the latest moment up over long distance phone, telegraph or write us. Lxprtss shipments are given specis! ettentioo by us. 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