Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, September 15, 1910, Image 2
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SOOTH'S COTTON'
1
Sold L>st Season tor Ninety-Fire Million
Dollars More Than
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THE PREVIOUS YEAR
Although the South Produces Over
Three Million Hales Ix?ss During
Season Just Closed, Money Value
Far Surpassed that of Any Other
Ywir in History of Country.
That the value of cotton, which
the South marketed in the commercial
season recently closed, far surpassed
that of any previous year In
the history of the country, In spite
of a short crop, was the principal
feature of the annual report put out
Tuesday by Col. Henry G. Hester,
for many years secretary and statistician
of the New Orleans Exchange.
The modey value of the commercial
crop In the season 1909-10 is
placed at $778,894,000. showing that
while the quantity of cotton marketed
was 3,216,000 bales less than the
previous season, it brought $86,100,000
more. This does not include the
value of cotton reed, which, if added.
would show the actual wealthproducing
capacity of the Southern ,
cotton lands for the commercial year
closed to have been $902,894,000, a
gain over 1908-9 of $1 27,100,000.
According to complete reports
from both Northern and Southern
milling centres tho South for the
third aonsecutlve season manufactured
more cotton than the North, ,
and Increased the lead which it held (
last season.
Hester's report forms a detailed (
report on the crop which was put out |
at the close of business August 31.
That report placed the crop for 1909- j
10 at 10,609,668 bales, a decrease
under that of 1908-8 of 3.216,789,
and under that of 1907-8 of 962,298. ,
These. Col. Hester says, constitute
the face of the figures, but considering
the falling off in weight, which ,
averaged 6 63-100 pounds per bale,
there is the equivalent of 138,000
bales, or a crop equal to 10,472,000
bales of last year's weight.
According to the report, the grcde
was good, averaging practically
"Birici middling," a bare chade under
last year. The average price of
middling cotton for the year is placed
at 14.37 cents per pound, and the
commercial value of the bales at
73.41, against 4 9.46 last year, and 1
68.10 the year before.
The report places the actual 1
growth at 10,389.000 bales, and says
that as *he result of the high prices
the interior has practically been
swept clean, farmers having little or
no old eotton left over and Southern
mill stocks having been materially
decreased.
The report on the crop in the principal
States is given as follows in 1
thousands o' hales. The tills year s
figures are compared to those of last
year as follows:
Alabama, 1,07 8 vs. 1,4 28.
Arkansas, 718 vs. 1,052.
Florida, 66 vs. 751. '
Oeorgla, 1,972 vs. 2,118.
Louisiana, 282 vs. 485.
Oklahoma, 566 vs. 704.
IMlesls8lppi, 1,121 vs. 1,673.
North Carolina, etc., 67 6 vs." 7 4 7. '
South Carolina, 1,184 vs. 1,298.
Tennessee, etc., 316 vs. 4 2 6.
Texas. 2,676 vs. 3,189.
m Total,crop, 10,610 vs. 13,825. 1
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.>vhi>iunih ui? cunon consnmp- i
tlon by Southern mills the report i
says: <
"The spindles in the South num- '
her 11,583.359, including old, Idle 1
and not complete. Three yenrs ago consumption
in the cotton StateB was 1
ahead of the rest of the United 1
States 220,000 bales; last year the i
excess was narrowed to 60,000 and 1
this year it has again increas-M to <
170,000. This refers to American t
cotton. The North used of foreign c
cotton this year the equivalent in
this year's American weights of 135,- 1
000 bales, while the South u*ed the <
equivalent of 15,000 but even wUh i
these added the South is al'.eao in '
both American cotton and for- <
elgn cotton to ' the ex'ent of
60,000 bales. In the South manv i
mills were experimenting for the iirst
time with small amounts of East in
dia cotton and, while the aggregate :
was not large, all of 7 4 institutions
used various .ebcrlptioni of fo.cign
against only 1/ last year."
iiiu conjumpi'on or A merlon cot- 1
ton by Northern mills. Col, heste"
put8 at 2,174 bales, agains. 2,5'V>,000
last yoar. Ke says the a2ere- '
gate consumption. North an'' South,
was 4,515,000 i a;es, while ?h\.* used 5
150,000 bales of foreign cotton, making
a total consumption of all kinds
4,665,000 bales, against 5,21?,000
last year.
He puts the world's con3'ifuptlon
of American cotton at ll.i/topo 2
bales, a decrease under last year of
1,383,000 and under the year befor*' c
of 338,000. 0
In the South Col. Hener makes t
the consumption 218,570 under last e
year, and 1 i 8,0 2 5 over the year be- d
fore last. Twenty-she new m lis are y
now building In the Southern States, v
with a total of 360,382 spinriiei ant tl
the spindles in the active mills have d
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MONEY LACKING j
VO FUNDS TO ERECT THE PUBLIC
BUILDINGS VOTED.
^njfress Made No Appropriation
and No New Postofflces May Be J
Built in This State.
The Washington correspondent of ^
The News and Courier says because
of an irftjuiry made a day or two
ago by Postmaster Spence, of Charlotte.
N. C.. of Supervising Architect
Taylor, of the treasury, as to
why there was no money forth com
ing at the present time for the enlargement
of the present postofllce
building at that place, it has been
found that although Congress, on
June 18 last, voted to pass a public ?
building bill, carrying what was sup- C
posed to be a gen*ral appropriation t
of something like $-2,000,000. there
is not a dollar now available for the
construction of new buildings front a
such Act.
Ordinai-lly Bitch actual approprta- c
tions would be made under the "sun- 1
dry civil" bill at the openina session 0
of Congress and the purpose of the ?
law carried out. but as a matter of s
fact, however, nothing lias been done '
except a favorable consideration of ^
"authorization." so far as actual
money is concerned, with ttye excep- ^
tion of the purchase of sites.
All the towns in North and South a
Carolina. Georgia, Tennessee. Virgin- 1'
ia and Florida, and, in fact, else- ^
where in the United States, which
are waiting for work to begin, are ?
without money at this time, and 1'
may in certain ontingencies be left w
high and dry.
Should a panic hit the country this ?
fall, it is probably that not a dollar v
of these authorizations would ever c
be seen. It is also quite probable
that if the House goes Democratic, n
the Republicans may decide to curtail
expenses and proceed no further
with public buildings until after the r
next Presidential election. 'I
If everything goes along quietly t(
the actual money for new buildings n
will probably be voted this winter.
but as yet, there is not a cent nvailable
for any new buildings for which 11
authorizations were granted at the
last session, peculiar as the situation ?
may seem. tl
ti
ARE GETTING RESULTS. '>
, P
Over Seven Hundred l>og.s Tatea Up y
n
in Charleston. v
a
It was reported at the Chailcston t
dog pound Th irvday thai k total of n
700 dogs had been captured on the ?
streets the past year, and of this e
nunvber 616 had been klliod. Seventy-three
dogs have been redeemed K
by owners, and there ar? now on j,
hand at th pound eleven can'nes e
awaiting their fate, ekh ? that of n
death or going forth licensed v
This is a very good record t nc- w
that has not been equaled since the a
dog cacther was Instituted in Char- 8
lesion. The wagon started out on a
its rounds on April 18, and has been
steadily at work since that dat- ^
Nearly 2,000 dog licenses have been n
sold by the city treus irer, since the n
active campaign the stray 0
dog was taken up, and it is owing a
to the good work of rhe police, the jj
hqalth inspectors and of th-} doe p
catcher tliat the results obtain?d 0
have followed.
t<
Schooners Wrecked. C]
Rigolets, La., on the gulf of Mex- h
lco, reports that the tramp schooners
Pare well and Henry M. were wreck- ii
in a severe storm of about an hour'# luration
there Friday afternoon.
The crews were rescued by a fishing ti
vessel. g
ft
t>een increased by 4 54,568. This, tl
tie says, is not to the phenoa*'<nr?i A
ihowing recorded year by year bo'ore
the panic, but is still an indi- A
:ation of progress by the South Ji> P
he direction of manufacturing her o
>wn cotton. t A
Of the total cf 8.18 mills. 77"> have
>een in operation, including out- ex- d
ilur.ively on forign cotton, 37 were
die and 2 6 in course of construction.
The season's consumption was divid- ?
>d as follows: a
Alabama, 240.3 09; decrease 11- A
162. b
Arkansas 58 3 9, decrease 199,- o
(Jeorgia 507,827; decrease 45,-, tl
182.
Kentucky 22.4 86, decrease 3,804. ti
Louisiana 10.966; decrease 6.248. if
Mississippi 29,241; decrease 9,- tl
150. c<
\f ? 1 O AAO. ? ?
uimwiui u.oda, decrease 2,158. w
North Carolina 682,348; decrease u
r 6. ? 4 7. CI
South Carolina 650,250; decrease ic
0,102. T
JIYnneasee 70,176; Increase 965. Ri
Texas 33.752; decrease 8,704. st
Oklahoma 2,287; decrease 281. ni
Virginia 73,1 24; decrease 4,788. w
Total, 2,341,303; net decrease ni
118.570. ti
In conclusion Col. Hester points tl
?ut that the past season has been tc
nly the fourth time in 21 years that
he annual returns of cotton consum- F
d by Southern mills aggregated a in
ecrease. Otherwise, he says, yetjr by is
ear, there has been a marked ad it
ance and for no year have the addi- in
Ions been so great in those imme- ht
lately succeeding a decrease. si)
ARMERS' UNION'
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leet in National Convention at Charlotte
on Last Tuesday.
JEW LIFE AND NEW HOPE
ays President llnrrett in H.J - % !
dross Huk Come to the Farmers
of this Country, Who Are No Longer
Deceived by the Wily Politicians
Hunting Ottice.
The convention of the Farmers'
educational and Cooperative Union
f America opened in Charlotte, N.
on Tuesday morning, with a
housand delegates, representing alnost
every State in the Union, in
ttendance.
President C. S. Barrett called the
onvention to order and Mr. E. It.
reeton made the address of welome,
which was followed by the adress
of welcome on behalf of the
tate Farmers' union by Dr. J. M.
'empleton of Cary, N. C. Mr. B. F.
lontgomery of Colorado responded
o the welcoming addresses on bealf
of the visiting farmers.
Following these talks there were
ddresses by different members of
tie union on subjects interesting the
tatesmen of agriculture.
The morning's meeting was the
nly one that was not executive as
he rest of the three days' meeting
rill be behind closed doors.
There have been arranged numerus
entertainments for the visitors
rhile in the city and these will bo
arried out in the leisure hours.
President Barrett delivered his anual
address today. He said:
Brethren of the Farmers' Union:
"It is my privilege to greet and
ongratulate you at the threshold of
he greatest business era in the hisory
of the organized American farter.
"It has been an aphorism in Anier:a
that the farmer was not a busies8
man. I am here to tell you, and
a tell the nation, that that indictlent
no longer holds true. Here and
here the individual farmer has much
o learn concerning business and
usiness usages, but the important
oint is that the leaven is at work.
our shackles are unloosed, past igorance
is vanishing and the man
,ho tills the soil in this country is
hsorhing with miraeuluous rapidiy
the lesson that business principles
lust be foremost In the managelent
of his affairs. This change is
poehial in a revolutionary sense.
"The nature of my position has
iven me singularly good opportunties
for study and observation in
very State in the Union. And I now
take this statement without reseration.
That in each commonwealth
rhere the farmers are organized,
nd In others where organization is
immerlng, there is a new life and
freshly kindled hope.
"In every State I have invaded,
he farmer debates today, not so
luch the everlasting round of poliIcs,
or the cruelly selfish ambitions
f politicians, but how to make his
cres return the maximum of dol- 1
irs; how to make best his own oportunities;
how to furnish the best
pportunities to his sons and daughers;
how best to lighten his wife's
ill; how best to make attractive, 1
lean, healthful and permanent the
ome that shall shelter them all.
"We have organized State unions
1 three States during the past year 1
-California, Indiana and Virginia. 1
"Catch the significance of the na- I
onal scope shown by these three oranizations.
One rests on the Pact- 1
c. tne other is midway of the con- 1
nent, and the other rests on the 1
tlantic.
"The year Just closed has seen 1
xed a principle of tremendo i > i:n- '
oitance to the American fanner, <
rganized or unorganized, to the 1
merican publi, in general.
"This change was unquestionaMx I
emonstratv, .r cer experien-* dur- '
vg the latest sessions of congress. 1
or the first time ?r the history of
n American farmers' organization (
nd I think, for the first time in
merican politics, the lawmaking <
ody of our country was waited up- '
n by hona-fide representatives of (
te producers of America. I
"As an evidence of the deterni'r.a- '
on of the organized farmer to pint- 1
ih indifferent servants and reward (
lose who have shown their true (
alors and abided by them, it is <\ 1
ell known fact that the Farmers
nion defeated several congressional
indidates and a few senators in v?ir- >
-un wuiui'rn ana western States. 1
hat is, moreover, merely the be- (
inning of the organization's fight to nnire
attention to its demands from t
ien in public life. In every instance s
here defeat was measured out the r
en voted against had ample oppor- t
init.v to square themselves with
teir former constitutents, but failed r
i take advantage of it. i
"in a number of States where the t
armers' Union has made Itself plain e
asking proper legislation from leglatures.
It has gotten practically all s
demanded. In other States, tor s
stance, Arkansas and Alabama, it fl
is never been turned down on a t
ogle one of its requests. I cite this p
HAD IT EASY
CAPTAIN ENTERTAINED BY OFFICERS
AT WASHINGTON.
Nothing Was Too Good Until It Was
Discovered He Was Only an Insane
Private.
An army of restaurant and hotel
proprietors in Washington, I). C..
and an equal number of army odicers
stationed at various posts in the
vicinity of the national capitol are
still puzzling over the way they
were so easily duped by "Capt." Edward
Frank, a private soldier, who
escaped from the Government hospital
for the insane one day last week,
married a pretty girl and lived for
more than 2 4 hours as a "little brother
of the rich." The restaurant
and hotelkeepers are out considerable
money for cashing bogus
ckecks, while the army officers are
also shy some cash, and in addition
their vanity has been considerably
wounded.
Miss Virginia Strouse. of Philadelphia,
who was in Washington visiting
her brother, and whom Frank
took early Wednesday morning as
his wife at Rockville. Md., is heartbroken
over her experience and is
determined ito have the marriage
annulled on the grounds that Frank
was not capable of entering into the
matrimonial contract.
It now appears that the paroled
inmate of St. Elizabeth's Insane asylum
was lavishly entertained as a
"brother officer" by several officers
at Fort Myer and also at Washington
barracks. Nothing was too good
for either him or his bride of a few
hours, and Capt. Frank, of the Se\enth
United States Infantry, was introduced
into the best army society
of Washington, according to devices
received by the police.
To the army men"Capt." Frank
talked continuously of his days, at
West Point and of his service in
the Philipines and Cuba during the
Sfpanish-American war. He spoke
of his brother officers at Fort
MePherson addressing them by their
first names. Soaring in aeroplanes,
conducting experiments for the War
department, seemed to be the chief
occupation of "Capt." Frank according
to the stories he told the officers.
All> FOR ORPHANS.
Appeal to People for Contributions
on September 1!4.
The four orphan institutions in
South Carolina supported by religious
denominations are asking their
friends for a combined effort on
their behalf Saturday, September
24, next. Request is made that ail
friends of these institutions shall devote
the proceeds of wages, salary
or special earnings that day to the
work of supporting the orphan children
of our State. There are about
1,000 orphans now being cared for
by these institutions, and it is undeistood,
of course, that no money
whatever comes to them from taxation.
They are supported absolutely
tind entirely by the free gifts of
the people, and there is a very little?
endownment possessed by either
of them. Indeed some have no endownment
at all.
If there is a cause that shouul
touch the hearts of the people it is
that which relates to the care of
destitute orphans. Surely there will
be many thousands of people willing
and ready to join in promoting the
plan adopted by the executive heads
of Thornwell Orphanage. Epworth
firnVi ti r, a o?a tho f'li n e/.K ..
?' }r.>Uil|?^vl me v>? ui tu i i inuu Wi "
plumage and Connie Maxwell Orpbanage.
There will be no joint
rollections, nor will funds be united
In any way. Each person may make
a contribution to the institution of
his own choice and may send the
money direct or through his church
or Sunday school. The superintendents
of all the Sunday schools in
the state have been requested to
bring the matter to the attention of
their teachers and pupils, with a reluest
that they be enlisted in the
work.
One institution in the state of
rJeorgin last year came into about
(14.000 as the result of systematic
jfTort by its constituency on this day.
It was more than half of the income
>f the institution for the entire year.
It is hoped that something generous
md worthy may be done this year
by South Carolina people for their
lenominational orphanages. Such a
nuse should speak for Itself and
teed no professional advocate.
IjaPollctte Reelected.
United States Senator Robert T.aFollette
has swept the State of Wisconsin
in the primary election
o you as an indication of what
strong organization asserting its
ights will accomplish, and as a help
o your future guidance.
"Today the farmer is alive to his
ights and needs. Handed together
n a phalanx that resists the assaults
>f l?ttle and of great foes, he will
mforce the one and fulfill the other. <
"All these years God Almighty,
ingle-handed, has been helping the i
on of the soil. Now the farmer, ful- i
llling the Scriptures, is proceeding I
o help himself. With God as his
artner he is Invincible." i
. V \ 8
SINS OF TEDDY
Overlooked by the Great Mass of the
People of this Couotry.
USES BRYAN'S IDEAS
People of the West Seem to Ignore
Roosevelt I'sing tli?* Platform of
tlie (ireiit Commoner.?Truth is
Mighty, but the Public is Very
1lliii<l to it.
"They say. the philosophers do.
that for all things great and sniaP
in this world there is just to>::pei?sation.
They have told us that truth
is mighty and will prevail, that truth
crushed to eartli will rise again, thrt
as delicately and as accurately 1)' Ianced
as old mother earth is on its
axis, and as accurate, is there a like
balance in all human affairs. 1 really
wonder if it is so." Thus soloquizes
Gach McGhee in a letter to the
State after hearing Roosevelt speak
at Kansas City, Mo., to thousands
of people.
After mentioning the great ovations
to Roosevelt wherever he
went in the West, and for particularly
at Kansas City, where he hear.l
him speak. McGhee says that great
ovation to Roosevelt I witnessed was
last night. Early this morning I
went down to the union station !n
Kansas City to take the train 1 am
on. On the way down 1 read the
paper describing the throne of people
who last night followed him to
the station, and I recalled the
crowds of enthusiastic people I had
watched lining the streets yesterday
as he passed along. Edging my waythrough
the seething, jamming, elbowing,
almost suffocating time of
the day or the night at this throng
one always encounters at nny Kansas
City station, I came to a place
a little less crowded than elsewhere
and there in a corner .alone and tinnoticed
by any one of the vatt crowd
save one young man. I came sudden.lv
tllton William Jt>nnim?K Urvun
He had lectured somewhat in Missourri
last night and was going to
lecture in another town near Kansas
City tomorrow. I watched his grip
for him while he went into a telephone
booth. Then he shook hands,
remarked that he was interested in
watching the way the Republican
conventions were adopting the Democratic
doctrines, smiled pleasantly,
picked up his grip and edged his
way through the throng to catch his
train.
And he left me with some mighty
thoughts surging through my brain,
which my typewriter is wholly unequal
to, so they will not be inscribed.
Not all of them will; but, do
you know that I have been sitting
all this day looking out of the car
window and wondering if it is real->
ly true that Truth is mighty and
will prevail, at least wondering if it
will during our generation. Here 1
saw the man who would have been
president of the United States instead
of Roosevelt if it had not been
for wholesale and criminal corruption
of the electorate in 1896, the
man who llrst gave national voice
to the great policies which Roosevelt
took up after his election had twice
been bought for him, the man whose
championship for such measures as
the initiative and referendum, railroad
regulation and others since
come to be almost universally recognized
as inevitable as well as right
was taken as an excuse for denunci
auon by tlie very men who bought
the presidency for Roosevelt?here
was this man in one of the great
cities of the country alone and unnoticed.
while the one who had profited
by the corruption, himself
caught in one of the most scandalous
political intrigues in the history
of our country, and who now has taken
up the Bryan policies because
he sees them inevitable, is hailed as
almost a god.
Had the great nionied interest of
the country not put up their many
millions into the hands of Mark
Manna to purchase votes, directly
and indirectly, in ISOfi, which money
was used to corrupt the electorate
in Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, in several
far Western States. MeKInley would
not have been elected and Roosevelt
would ne\er have been president
The iireat impetus of his pieturesqtie
and vigorous personality, the dissatisfaction
of the people, especially of
the Middle West, with the methods
employed In the nomination of Judge
Parker, and the sentiment about the
assassination of McKinley which
Kept men in itie Keputdican party
might have elected Roosevelt in 1900
anyway. Hut to make his election
sure he called upon Harriutan, the
railroad king, to help him to ra'se
a corruption fund, and he entered
into a scandalous bargain with the
Moitmon church, which agreed to
turn over to him the electoral votes
of several States in return for his
guarantee that Reed Smoot would
hold his seat in the United S'.atefc
cenate.
When I see the continued adula- 1
lion of Roosevelt printed in the i
newspapers throughout the country, 1
in many of whose oflices I know the
editors and reporters to know the i
many such facts as I have named '
r
1
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
WESTERN EXPERT LIKENS IT TO
YELLOW FEVER.
It Is Contagious, Dangerous, Har-I
to Cure and Ought to be Reported
as Soon us Found.
Infantile paralysis Is contagious
dangerous, hard to cure, and ought
to be reported as soon as found and JkI
isolated as soon as reported.
This is the opinion of Dr. Lucian
Mark, OI X\euraSKa, appointed by
Cov. Shallenberger to investigate
this disease in the Eastern cities and SB
reputed to he one of the best-known
authorities on infantile paralysis *n
the United Stales. Dr. Stark went H
to Washington on a visit after attending
a conference of the Naw
York Medical society, where he read
a paper.
"Don't take any chances with acute
anterior plicmyelitis. 1 live 'n. '
Aurora, Neb., and two physicians
were fined recently for their failure ' ^ _
to report. There Is a law against I
carelessness in regard to this very w
everywhere, I am told there is no I
complaint, and there ought to be one e
such law iu the District of Columbia.
There Is where somebody is making
a mistake. The disease had taken
hold here, and it will bo beyond controlled
unless every force possible
is nsed to stamp it out while it is
embroyonic.
"A great many physicians cjuiise "**
this infant disease with spinal meningitis
in their diagonsis. It is even
worse than meningitis. It is worse
than smallpox. It is more contagious
than any other plague on the
face of tlie earth except, perhaps,
cholera, yellow fever, or the babonic
plague, lis symptoms are somewhatlike
ptomaiuo poisoning.
"It seizes the patients with a suddenness
thd is einiost harrowing,
and they are paralyzed bef( ~e it
has actually been discovered as infantile
paralysis.
"One of the most certain proofs
of the fact that infantile paralysis
is contagious is that it follows a railroad
f:oin town to town in my State,
and '.eaves its deadly imprint wiier- 1
ever it spreads, unless checked by
iunlntlnn A * ?
.WW niusuiutc ij U(U ti II' i III" 5
the only method of handling the dis- i
ease.
"The physician in charge of a caso
o" infantile paralysi" punctures ih?
spinal cord at the base and withdraws
22 minims of the fluid. Salt
solution tn the amount of 11 minims
is Injected, and the rest of the treatment
consists almost entirely of massage.
It is successfully treated by
any good doctor where discovered in
time; but otherwise it is almost ex- ^
ceptlonally lott; hence the ne> d f">r ^
prompt action.
"I have had 7 00 cases; 7 per cenr.
of deaths and 3 5 per cent, of complete
recoveries. I dare say there Is
no better record in the United States
on this particular disease than mine.
Doctors in the Bast don't think we
Western doctors know anything
about this disease, but I think we
know a little more than they know I
in the Bast.
"A spray of gvcothmoline two or
three times a day and complete isolation
of the children is the best
preventitive of the disease. It is
contracted through the nose and
throat."
Dr. Stark's father was a Ueproscn
tative from Nebraska some years
ago, and was an opponent of the governor
who appointed Dr. Stark to
investigate infant's diseases.
Showed Fight HclurM.
At Chicago Edward Hurke, manager
of the Congress Hotel company,
was arrested Tuesday for allowing
an exhibition of the Johnson-JetTrieft
fl?ht pictures in the hotel on the
night of August 26th, during tho
course of a banquet.
above concerning Mr. Roosevelt, do
you wonder that I sit down and
look out of the car window and ponder,
asking myself over and over if
the time will ever come when tho
American people will open their
eyes to the truth, whether the newspapers
of the country will ever get
the consent of their owners to print
the truth about this man, and then
again asking myself whether alter
all old Itanium wasn't right ab?ul
the American people, that thev sunt
to be humbugged and are willing
to pay for it?
suppose the--' had been a fair
election in 18f?C, or suppose two
years ago the voters of Ohio, Indiana,
New York and some other
States had not been roereed, as f
have recently found out for certiin
that they were roereed by the threat
of losing their jobs should Bryan
he elected, would such a score at
I winessed last night and this morning
have been possible?
Mr. Bryan was not humiliated,
mind you. So far ns I know it never
occurred to him that he w.u? in
any way nelgected. Roosevelt ha ! ^
Indorsed the Kansas platform, wh'ichi
had In it so many of the Bryan po'?'cies.
He was Interested. Mr. Bryan
said he was. In noting how Republican
conventions had been adopting
Democratic measures. But, he
agreed, they still stand for the prelection
tariff graft.