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CANT SAVE HIM President Taft Sinks Deeper and Deepe in the Ballinger Mire. REPUBLICANS AGHAST They Fear Revelations That Have ome Out In the Case Will lluin Not Only the Taft Administration, Rut the Whole Republican Party Along With It. Th Washington correspondent of Grit thinks that if the Ballinger rumpus, the bane of the present Administration, is not placed in the discard soon, it is going to wreck the entire Republican party. This Is practically the concensus of opinion of the foremost Republicans in the National capitol, a conviction reached after what has been probably the worBt week the Taft administration has experienced in the government of the nation. The attempt of the President and his advisors and counselors to clear up the waters muddled by the sensational Kerbv statement last Saturday week has been pitiful. Instead of clearing it up. the explanations and statements have stirred up the whole unsavory mess even more, and the blacker the affair jrows, the greater the blot on the Administration is going to be. Some one has err-ni somewhere in the past. This much is admitted. Hut some one is erring ever greater now in the course that is being pursued. No names are mentioned by the disgusted Republicans, for it is not proper to openly criticise one very high in the party ranks. Secretary of the Interior Richard A. Rallinger stands discredited before the entire country. No amount of "investigation" or Government ...111 yv..U.lrv nun*, waau ni Liiaiifec im* \jjjiiiiwii of the people as to Ballinger's guilt. His actions 6ince Plnchot flrBt attacked his policies, and the things irought out against him at the Congressional investigation, still in progress, brands the cabinet officer as a man who is looking after the interests of "the Interests" first, and then scraping up the crums for the people. And yet President Taft persists in his efforts to whitewash this member of his official family. The wise ones see that the Chief Executive by his actions is not only leading his own administration to certain destruction, but he is seriously threatening the very life of the party that gave to him the highest office in the land. Still he persists, in the name of departmental discipline. In bolstering up the cause of ilallingerlsm. iWhen Frederick M. Kerby, the young stenographer working in the Department of the Interior, made public his sensational story of how Lawler, and not Pr?sident Taft, wrote the Ilallinger whitewash letter which the President gave to the country, it placed the Chief Execu tlve in a very bad light. Since that time the President explanations and actions have been even worse. With Taft's consent, Ralllnger immediately dismissed Kerby from the service. And the secretary of the Interior discharged young Kerby, with a stigning reprimand, because he revealed the manner in which Ralllnger obtained his exoneration from the President, and the deception practiced upon the public in that exoneration. According to Kerby's statement, Secretary Ballinger grossly deceived the country, and President Taft was a party to that deception. And he was not an inuojiai party, either. Kerby undoubtedly expected ne dismissed. A man of Rallinger's type would necessarily regard the affront to himself as far outweighing the service Kerby had render-'d iuu puunc. 1 ue senerai ueuei is. however, that Rnllinger and the V ministration will suffer more than Kerby. Kerby merely goes to join t ingrowing list of remarkable men who have proved themselves courageous enough to protest against wrong and place the public interests above their own. The list now includes Glavis, Pinchot and Price and Shaw, the former assistants of Pinchot, Hoyt, former assistant general of Porto Rico, and Kerby. They have all been driven out *of the public service, and are classed ts traitors by the Administration, but the only offense committed by a^y one of them was that of telling tha truth, and of striving to prevent what they believed to be the perpetration of a great wrong. Others are to be added to the list, unless all signs fail. They will be H. Tiller Jones, the special agent of the Land office, who joined with Glavis, in the fight to save the Alaska coal lands, Director Newell, of the Reclamation service, and Chief Engineer Davis, of the same service. Many Republicans in Congress in private discussion of the latest phase of the Balllnger case not only coincide with the dismissed Bteno rpj h. er in his estimate of the Secretary pt the Interior, but extend t.he judgment to the President himself. They are dumfounded, dkjusted end dishearted at the manner in whtcn Taft has driven his administration deeper and deeper into the mire, with each move he has made in Bellinger's behalf. They admit that never before in our history, with the possible exception of Andrew Johnson, has any President brought such discredit on himself and his adminis irauon as iuu nas uune in cms nailinger affair. The Republicans realize that the effect of the revelations of the last few days regarding the President's set determination to whitewash Ballinger, even at the expense of his own honor and conscience, must prove disastrous to the party in this fall's elections. It is known that the President has not be n animated in his course by personal regard for his Secretary of the Interior with whom his acquaintance before Rallinger entered the cabinet was slight. The country is therefore bound to seek elsewhere than in personal considerations the secret of Ballinger's hold on the Chief Executive. The question will inevitable be asked how it came that Rallinger was made Secretary of the Interior, and how is it that Taft goes even to the length of misrepresentation, to put is mildly, to save Ballinger from the consequences.of his queer maneuvering in relation to the Cunningham claims. The answer to those questions will be found by persons not entirely blinded by partisanship and the glamor of high oliice, in the testimony ot Glavis, before the investigating committee. In that testimony Glavis told how the lobbyist and promoter, Alexander Mackenzie, warned the land agent that he was pursuing a dangerous course in persisting in his attack of the Cunningham claimants Tli -scs claimants, Mackenzie declare . according to Glavis, had been strji: , inough to prevent the nappoir.;...cut of James It. Garfield as Ber : try of tne Interior, although Roosevelt had requested his retention. And if they were powerful enough to prevent the reappointment of Garfield, they might naturally be expected to develop sullicient influence to secure the appointment of a man of their own choice as Garfield's successor. Behind the Cunningham claimants, the investigation has clearly shown, were, the great Guggenheim and .Morgan interests, wnicn are seeking to get a strangle hold on the vast wealth of the territory of Alaska. The control of the Interior department is essential to the success of this great conspiracy and suspicious people will not be slow to reach the conclusion that the appointment of Ballinger aB Secretary of the Interior was not. unconnected with the plot. Had the President kept his own skirts clean, and held the balance even between Ballinger and his enemies, he would have escaped suspicion. But in many ways it is indicated that he .has been working hand in glove with Ballinger and his friends to bring about the vindication of the Secretary of the Interior, almost regardless of the character of the means employed, and he t. nnot complain if the disinterested public maintains an attitude of suspicion. The one encouraging factor in tne situation is the apparent certainty the attempts to save Balling r wlM have exactly the opposite eit-c to that intended. It is the belief in Washing* n thv the revelations of the past few da)*, taken in connection wl*h the -uinitiative effect of the testimony duced to Ballinger*1} dure'it hotjro the Investigating committee, wi'.l make it impossible for that body tj bring in a r port while-washin? th. Secretary of the Interior. * TAKES AN EXTHEME VIEW. Dr. K. C. Dnrgnn Hays the Baptist Are Only Ones Eight. In presenting the report of the committee on work in Cuba and Panama to the Southern Baptist Convention Dr. E. C. Dargan, of Macon, Ga., said he was as much a believer in unify and fraternity as any man, but he did not believe there was any church on earth as good as a Baptist church. He had an idea Unit a Baptist church, which had in front of it the first letter with which Bible was spelled was the b< st institution on earth and it was the only one that was right. If that was narrow, he had been living a narrow life for a long time among a lot of narrow men and he exepeted to die a narrow death, to be placed In a narrow coflin to sleep iu a narrow grave and to wake tp a narrow soul on the morning of the resurrection to spend a narrow eternity with God to whose teaching he had tried to he true. Two Are Killed. As a result of a boiler explosion at the saw mill of J. It. Brown, in Jones County. Ga.. Thursday afternoon, L. J. A. Brown, a prominent planter, and son of the owner of the mill, and William ttutchlns, a negro, is dead, and the mill is wrecked. Brown was killed outright and the negro died in a few minutes. SEVEN NEW BISHOPS ELECTED BY THK METHODIST CENTRAL OONFTUENCE. Two of the Seven Are Natives of Soutii Carolina ami Graduates of Wofford College. The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, elected on Monday and Tuesday seven new Bishops. On .Monday the balloting commenced. On the fir-u ballot Rev. Collins Denny and Rev John C. Kilgo were elected. Out of 303 votes 1> nny received 229 and Kilgo 178. The former received 7 1 votes more than necessary to elect, while the latter received 26 voles more than necessary to elect. On the second ballot Rev. \V. B. Murrah was elected by a vote of IC5, or 14 more votes than necessity t> elect. Then followed on Tuesday ot.her ballots, during which W. R. Lambuth, E. D. Mouzon, R. G. Waterhouse and J. H. McCoy were elected. This completed the election of the seven Bishops ns provide" foi by resolution of the conference. The following is the order in which tiio Bishops were elected. Collins Denny, Maryland. John C. Kilgo. South Carolina. W. 11. Murrah, 'Mississippi. \V. It. Lambuth, Tennessee. E. D. Mouzon. South Carolina. R. G. Waterhouse, Virginia. J. II. McCoy. Alabama. Both Revs. J(vhn C. Kilgo and E. D. Mouzon are natives of South Carolina and graduates of NVofTord College. When elected Kilgo was a member of the North Carolina Conference and Mouzon was a member of the Texas Conference. He was born in Spartanburg, where his father. a most excellent man, carried on the business of a photographer, lie is said to be a very able man, and well equipped for the high position to which he has been called. He is 45 yea i s of age. Of the seven Bishops elected all are in the prime of life, and the delegates are congratulating themselves that the majority of the Bishops chosen are still young men, who give promise of long userullness to tho Church. Of the four Bishops elected Monduy three were engaged in school work, the fourth, Dr. W. R. Lambouth, being the only one not so t>Ilir:iB'0(! It i u u illn, n1oi- ,l ' -o--o~ -v " OII1-.UIUI iav.1 luai none of the Bishops elected were eng ged in the regular work of the pastorate. South Carolina and Wofford College are well represented among the new Bishops, which shows that the old State and t he old college are a great farce in Methodism. In the last ten years three South Carolinians have been elected Bishops by the General Conference, but in every instance they were members of some other conferences when elected. Why is it that so many of South Carolina's strong men leave their own State and go to others? Why don't they remain members of the South Carolina Conference instead of joining others? STOIjK BIG St'M OF MOXEY,. Took Kxpress Knvelope Containing Over $:*0,000. Three packages of money containing $32,024.24 were stolen from the Pennsylvania depot at Oil City, Pa., at. 3.30 o'clock Thursday morning. I while John J. Truby, the station agent, was loading baggage on to a Buffalo-liound train. The money was being shipped by the Adams Express company to Philadelphia. The railroad detectives investigating the robbery are or the opinion that the theft was the work of one man. T.he packages were too bulky for storage in the small station sale and Night Agent Truby placed the money under a sack behind the ticket counter, covering them carefully. At 3.;t0 o'clock a train pulled into the station and Truby stepped out on the platform, closing the office door behind him. The door is self-locking. While about U00 feet from the station ofllee. Truby saw by the light on the station platform that the office door was unclosed. Hurrying back he discovered that the three pacaages of money were missing. MKT A WIT I > DEATH. Enveloped in Gasoline Flumes Child Fatally Burned. At Tampa, Fla., Manuel Haekney, a five year old boy, met a horrible death Thursday while playing In his father's yard. A tank on a gasoline stove exploded and while it was still burning was thrown into t.he yard by a fireman, who happened to be passing the house nt the time. The burning tank struck the child, the gusoline spreading over him, burning .him so badly that he died two hours later. Two houses burned as a result of the explosion. Shot Ilis Brother. Dr. H. Burton Stevenson, a physician of Sherwood, Baltimore County, Md., was shot ' i.tce Tuesday by h's brother, ' evcnson, who is said to be 1 .t'ly deranged. The wound is not believed to be serious. < SOUNDSSLOGAN j Champ Clark Raises Tariff Rallying Cry For Democrats. THE MINORITY LEADER Challenges the 1'resilient to Direct Test on Customs Duties ami Promises Support lor Reduction. Taft Is Criticised tor Loading liis Sup|n rt and Charged With Making Contradictory Statements. Denouncing the Paviv -Aldrich tarifT law as a "transparent humbug." attacking the tariff views of its author, Representative Soreno Payne, (Republican) of New York, and vig orously assailing President Taft for his support of that law. Representative Champ Clark, of Missouri, leader of the Democratic minority, Saturday delivered in the house what is regarded as the Democratic keynote speech of the coming congressional campaign. Mr. Clark had prepared his address with great care and spoke at length, giving facts anu figures in support of his contention that the tariff had not been honestly revised and that the Republican majority in congress had endeavored to trick the people. Mr. Clark also paid his respects incidentally to the $250,000 item in the sundry civii appropriation bill for the creation of a tariff board. Mr. Clark told, in bitingly humorous style, of the tariff tilts in which Mr. Payne attacked Senator Dolliver and .Mr. Fordney, of Michigan, "a Republican of high degree," attacked Senator Beveridge, "tlr Republican boss of Illinois." Mr. Clark continued: "In making a speech in defense of his tariff bill Chairman Payne appeared to be performing a disagreeable stunt. . . . j"Mr. Chairman Payne was evidently in a very fretful state. He also seems to be atllicted with a new disease, 'intermittent forgetfuln' ss.' He remembered with great vividness the soup houses of 1893 and 1894, but when it came to the soup hous s of 1907, a very recent occurrence 1 and the soup houses of 1873, his memory failed him utterly. It does not need a pBchologist or phrenologist to account for this state of mind on his part, the reason being that the soup houses of 1873 and 1907 were under Republican administration and under tariff laws passed by the Republican party, while the Boup hous e of 1893, through the outgrowth of a panic caused by a Republican tariff bill, sprang up when a Democratic president was in office." The minority leader then ridiculed certain of Mr. Payne's arguments, declaring that the Republican leader was "playing both ends against the middle." Mr. Clark then attacked the sugar schedules of the Paync-Aldrich tariff law and ridiculed Republican claims of benefiting the people by low ring the tariff on refined sugar. The reduction, he said, was so small, "that every man with common sense knows that the consumer will never be benefited by it in any way whatsoever." "In one breath the gentleman from New York glorifies -his bill because it shuts out importations. In the next he glorifies it because it has increased importations. The gentleman from New York must take one horn or the other." The speaker declared that while American citizens would prefer to use Am rican-made goods and articles rather than foreign productions, they were unwilling to pay exorbitant prices to American manufacturers. Taking up the woolen schedule of the tariff law, Mr. Clark ridiculed th>.i idea that the present tariff law was responsible for the increased importations as wool, in that, .he said, t.he tariff on No. 1 and No. 2 wool was the same In the Payne law as 111 the Dingley law. Mr. Clark next took the matter of tho tariff on stockings and said that the raise In tariff rates on that article was not for the purpose of aiding unemployed women, as Mr. Payne had put it, but for the purpose of giving t.he American manufacturer a monopoly on the stocking trade. Mr. Clark then quoted figure tending to show that the Payne-Aldrick duty on stockings of the cheaper grade amounted to 83.75 per cent, ad vaKoren. Mr. Clark declared that the Pavn fill 1 tori in 5i ehnfliUor flooa cvf * /*/- ! o clothing, but had Increased it and resulted In a shoddier class of goods. The speaker then turned his attention to President Taft. "I will now drop the gentleman from New York," exclaimed Mr. Clark, "and get after bigger game, to wit, the President of the United Stat s. lie is not only the chief traveler, but is the chief spokesman of his party. He deserves to be treated with candor and respect, ber 1 have a perfect right to disciiss h.s utterances as I would tho.>e of any other public man. I wish call attention to all concerned to the 1 fact that the president said on th> 5th of August, 1909, that "the bill Is not a perfect bill or a complete compliance with the promises made strictly interpreted.' I submit that that declaration of the president is a flat contradiction of the assertion of the gentleman from New YorK that his bill is a perfect compliance with the promises made prior to Mi- elec tion of 1908. In September, 1909. the president went on an extensive speech-making tour, beginning with a speech in Hoston, in which he eulogised Senator Aldrlch to the skies. That was the first serious wound which the president inflicted upon his own popularity, for right or wrong, and 1 think right, tlie An* *r *uu iivu^iu uuiu o uaiui :\iunni largely responsible for the enormi v of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. On the 17th of September. 1909. the president said in Winona, Minn.: On the whole, however, 1 am bound to say that I think the Payne tariff bill is t.he best tariff bill that the Republican party ever passed.' "When t.he American people read that declaration the next m irning and remembered the utterance which I have quoted from the prea'dent's statement of August 5. they wondered what e.hangfi had come over the spirit of his dream. They could not reconcile the two statement. They knew that the tariff bill had not changed since \ugust 5th, 1909, and they marveled as to how a bill, which the president declared on that day to be neither a perfect bill not a complete compliance with the promises made, could on the 17th day of September be the best tariff bill that the Republican party ever passed. All t.he perfumes of 'Araby the IJlest' can not sweeten the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill to please the dainty , nostrils of the people. They believe | it to lie the worst tariff bill t ver passed by the American congress. That speech was the serious wound. No. 2. whic.h the president indicted on his own popularity." Mr. Clark then devoted himself to the steel schedule of the tariff law and President Taft's indorsement of it. He declared that what the people wanted in a revision of the tariff was a reduction of prices to a just basis, w.hich is "precisely what they did not get." Turning to the woolen schedule, which he said the president admitted wa.s too high, and facing the Republican side of the house, Mr. Clark exclaimed: "I have a fair proposition to make to the President and to my Republican friends which will promote harmony and which, will bring untold blessings to the consumers in the land. Let the president send a message to congress, short and vigorous, wnicn snows tnai ne means business. proposing substantial reductions in the woolen goods schedule; let Mr. Chairman Payne report that bill frcm his committee and put it on its passage, and without having consulted a single Democrat in the house, I will give bond for the proposition that every Democrat will line up and vote for it. If he would recommend it, it will go through the house and senate with a whoop and the people would rise up and call him blessed. It is contended that the reasons that no change in the tariff in any manner whatever, however meritorious, can be offered is til" fear that, if the tariff question be opened up at all. we wicked Democrats will let slip the dogs of war and open up the whole tariff question to the a i s<ii ran gem at of all business iu the land. "1 am so much interested in seeing the American people have eh aper woolen clothes that without having consulted a single Democrat, I am certain that every one of them agr es that, if the president will send in a message recommending the billl which I have indicated and Mr. Chairman Payne will report it and put it on its passage, we will not offer an amendment of any sort to it. The whol-e transaction could he consummated in less than a week ana a snout or rejoicing would as- j rend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the CIreat Lakes to the so thins: waters of the sunlit Gulf. It matters not that the president would receive the lion's p-hare of the glory." In closing, Mr. Clark commented upon Democratic unity and Republican discord, and prophesied a victory for his party in November. He said that he never looked forward to any day with such Joy ns he did "to the first Tuesday after t.he first Monday of November, except to my wedding day and the days on which my children were l>orn." Mr. Clark inveighed against executive intereference in 1* gislation. In discussing the wood pulp and print paper investigation last year, in which Mr. Mann (111.), one of the speaker's chief lieutenants, dissent* d from the conference report, Mr. Clark declared he had often wondered why, while the Republicans were reading insurgents out of the party, they had not taken a w.hack at M r. M a 11 n. "You say you would go far to hear a Republican debate between Senator Dolliv- r and Representative Payne," said Mr. Scott, of Kansas. "How far would you go to hear a Democratic debate between Senator Bailey and Wil'iam J. Bryan?" "I would not travel ten steps," answered Mr. Clark. "1 know as much about the tariff as both of these i statesmen put together." GOES FOR LIFE Hyde is Found Guilty of Murder in the First Degree But Only GETS A LIFE SENTENCE Sensational Murder Trial in Kansas City Knds With the Conviction of Dr. Hyde, Whose Neck is Saved by the Jury Fixing His I'unishnuMit at hife Imprisonment. At Kansas City, Mo., 011 Monday Dr. It. Clarke Hyde, was convicted and sectenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Thomas II. Swoop. a millionaire uncle of .his wife, who had given her uearly two hundred thousand dollars in his will. Col. Swope died October 30 last. His death certificate gave apoplexy as the cause of death. I)r. llyde was in attendance. The State avers he poisoned the millionaire by a Itninistering strychnine to him in capsule form. The motive for the alleged crime, says the State, was to obtain wealth. By the terms of Col. Swope s will, Mrs. Hyde was to receive a share of her uncle's property and some money. Desiring to hast' 11 the settlement of the estate and also to prevent ceitain changes, which the colonel had planned, from being made in the will. Dr. Hyde, killed ill aged capitalist. Wnen indicted for the murder of Col. Swope, ten other indictments were returned against Dr. Hyde. In them he was charged with the murder of Chrisman Swope. a nephew of Col. Swope, by administering poison to him, negligently killing dames Moss Hunton. a consia of Col. Swope, by bleeding .him, and of attempting to poison Misses Lucy Swope, Mildred Fox, Sarah Swope, George Comton. Nora Bell Dickson, Stella Swope, Margaret Swope and Leonora Copbridge. All of these people were attacked by typhoid fever, prevalent in the Swope home, and it is averred Hyde caused their ilLss. No indictment but that one relating to the death of Col. Swope entered the case which ended Monday, however. He was a millionaire real estate and mine owner, who gave Swope park to Kansas City, and who died suddenly on October 3, 1909, shortly after having taken a capsule at the direction of Dr. Hyde. Drs. H< ktoen and llaynes, of Chic- ^ ago, two eminent experts, who made an analysis of the viscera of Col. Swope, found strychnine in his stomach and liver. Dr. Bennett Clarke Hyde, the doff ndant, is the son of a Baptist minister, now retired, at Lexington, Mo. He was graduated from the Wentworth Military academy at Lexington, and went to Kansas City in the early 90's and studied medicine. A short time after he had been licensed to practice I r. Hyde was ap Din iiv mayor Webgter Davis. before .he had served a year he was removed for unprofessional conduct. When in October, 1898, several unusually bold grave robberies were committed, I)r. Hyde's name b eanie connected with the matter, but no sufficient proofs were found against him. It was three or four years later that the announcement was made of Dr. Ilvdes engagement to .Miss Frances Swope, daughter of Mrs. Margaret Swope, of Indepenence, and t.ho niece of the late Col. Thomas H. Swope. The engagement wa strongly opposed bv Mrs. Margaret Swope, but Miss Frances was determined to marry Hyde and even the fact that several breach of promise suits w ro filed against him, which did not reflect credit upon his cJharacter, did not change her determiniation. She became the wife of Dr. Hyde, ind, aft r a while, truce was declared and a fairly cordial entente established between the Swope family and Dr. Hyde. The door of t.he Swope home was opened to the young doctor last summer and soon thereafter began a chain of events which tsu u uie aeatn 01 tnreo persons and came near wiping out the entire Swopo family. AVAXT ilAS SKIITKI) TOO. Neither lie Nor llinghnin Can Bo Found by Officers. \V. TV Avant left his home at Harper's Saturday, just before the arrival of the deputy sheriff, stating that he expected to take the train for Columbia and surrender himself to t.ho Penitentiary authorities. Not having reported at the prison , it would -e'-m thiit he has taken tho a cue from his friend and accomplice " in crime. Dr. liingham, and fled. Both men are now fnriiiv a tmm justice, their whereabouts being absolutely unknown to the oflicerB of the law. Mr. Clark spoko for two hours. His remarks were full of inures of speech and anecdotes and were frequently applauded.