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THEY WERE HUNG Twt White Mea Lyached at Tampa, Fb., Far Shooting a White Has. PROMINENT ITALIANS W?re the Victims of the Lawless Mob.?They Had Boon Arretted ?nd Were Being Carried to Barracks When Small Mob Halted the Conveyance and Procured Them. While being transported to the county jail Tuesday night about nine o'clock at Tatnpa, Fla., Castenge Fiecarotta and Angelo Albano, two prominent Italians, who have made themselves conspicuous in the cigar atrllr. dnn.. * O \.i i n v u*ri c, w ci v lancii n w 111 ucj'u i j sh.-riffs at Howard and Grand Central avenue?, hurried to a heavily wooded tract nearby and banged ?o the same limb. Both men were arrested about aix o'clock in the afternoon by a deputy sheriff charged with being accessories to tbe shooting of J. D. Knsteiling, the bookkeeper of Bustillo Brothers and Diaz several days ago. They were locked up in the west Tarapa barracks for a short time and after nine o'eloek were taken out, placed in a hack and Btarted towards the county jail in Tampa. They were accompanied by Deputy Sheriffs Evans and Bryan. When the hack in which the four men were riding reached Howard and Grand Central avenues a squad of armed men, estimated in numbers from 50 to 75 halted the party. The officers were told to get out, and the driver ordered to turn around. The pris oners, handcuffed to each other, j were then ordered to alight. As the two prisoners were marched off the two officers hurried to the nearest telepbono and sent a message to police headquarters. When Police Chief Woodward nrived at the scene no one was in sight. He was greeted with the gruesome sight of the dangling bodies in the moonlight. A hasty examination was made but there was no clue upon which the officers could proceed. The two deputy sherics, when questioned stated that they believed the lynching party wati composed of Italians and Cubans. and -would be able to identify some of them if they could be brought face to face with them. When the bodies were cut down at 11 o'clcok it was found that the necessity for hanging both to the same limb arose when the mob failed in an efTort to sever the chain connecting the handcuffs. Ficearotto had hir pipe gripped firmly in his teeth and wore his hat. Following the discovery of the bodice wild excitement reigned. At midnight a crowd estimated at 2,000 persons had gathered ami the real tensity of feeling, resultant from the strike now on in Tampa was evidenced. Ficarrotta and Albano, it ia charged. havo made themselves conspicuous recently in the labor troubles between the manufacturers and clgaT makers. 'Marshal I.ogan, of the West Tampa force, stated that he has an eye witness who will testify that Albano was the man who fired the shot which seriously wounded J. I). Fosterling, and that Ficarrotta was a conspicuous member of the crowd gathered in front of the Ilustillo brothers factory at the time of the assault. Fight months ago Ficarrotta was tried on a charge of murdering his uncle, O. Ficarrotta, a prominent wholesale dealer of West Tampa. He was acquitted for lack of suilicient evidence, and as he was being carried j to Jail Tuesday night he made the re- | mark that he had escaped hanging j on a chargo of murder, and that he supposed he would escape on this minor charge. The police do not believe that the execution of these two Italians has any bearing on the local strike situation, alleging that it is rather the roault of recent feuds between certain elements of the local Italian colony. Deputy Sheriff Keaggln, however, who arrested the two men earlier In tho evening, Rtated that he was approached by a number of people who asked at what time the two men would be sent to the county Jail. chaiu;ici> to opkrator. Foot Killed and Two Injured in a i Freight Collision. Four men were killed and two in- ' Jured In a head-on collision between 1 a Mobile and Ohio and Iron Mountain freight train, Sunday near Beech Ridge, 111., The dead: Claud Rollins, engineer; 1 M and O.; A. S. llosaner, fireman, M. and O.; W. K. Stevenson, brake- ( man, (M. and O.,, all of Jackson. Tenn.; unidentified negro. Witnesses testified before the coroner's Jury Sunday afternoon that ' Operator Charles Clark, who wns on l duty at Beech Ridge, had l>een drink- i Ing and failed to transmit train or- i dera. Clark was arrested, charged I -with responsibility for the wreck. < THE WAGES OF SIN A MAN SHOOTS WOMAN FIUF.NI> ] AND HANGS HIMSF.LF. MffttrriooN Double Trajcedy In En- 1 acted in Cleveland, Oliio, Hotel on Thursday. Ab the end of a close acquaintanceship of unknown duration. It. Vat- ' cb. a wealthy Detroit business man Thursday shot and seriously wound- , od Mrs. Fred Sinner In a Rocky River wine room and two hours later handed hiniBolf in the county jail at Cleveland, Ohio. Thursday ninht the woman's attorney, Frank ltillman. was closeted with Yates' two sons for several hours. The result of tho interview was not given out. and the three re- < fused to discuss the shooting or its cause. The young men. A. W. and H. F. Yates, hurried to Cleveland from Detroit as soon as the news of the shooting reached them, and < the "body of their father was shortly s afterwards identified as it lay in 1 a private morgue. I Yates was 4 8 years of age and I married. Ho was chairman of the board of directors of the Business < Men's Publishing Company, of I)e- < triot, was owner and manager of a > hotel and possessed extensive lumber 1 holdings near Bradford. Out. It is I to to this latter place that his body will bo removed by special permit of 1 the coroner's jury. 1 Mrs. Singer, formerly a resident of I Detroit, but lately residing in a ' Cleveland hotel, is the wife of a traveling salesman, and is related by J marriage to men prominent in Cleve- ! land nffairs. I The couple spent Wednesday afternoon and evening in an automo- < Idle. At midnight Thursday night < they went to a road house at Rocky River, a western suburb of the city, four hours later a quarrel occurred in a grill room across the street from '< the place first visited. Mrs. Singer, according to the barkeeper on duty, ordered a taxicab by telephone against Yates' protest, and ten mln- I utes later the shooting occurred. Mrs. Singer was shot through the back and through both legs. A policeman and the barkeeper disarmed the man. "I fired two of the five shots at myself, but missed." Yates told Marshal Hoy IMartin, according I to that officer. While the woman was borne to a Cleveland jail, and there he hanged Cleveland nail, and there he h:mf?e.t himself to a low Iron rod in the wash room, using his handkerchief as a noose. Considerable mystery surrounds the relations of the man and woman, who have been acquainted, it is ad- i mitted, for some time. She has been estranged from her husband for months. Her condition is reported < at the hospital as serious, but it is 1 added that she will recover. She 1 was unable to make a statement, it was announced. i l'OLlTHWIj KKFliKCTIONS. I Traveling Men Say Democrats Will Sweep the Country. ' t In his letter to The State front the West Zach McChee says Illinois did nothing surprising, Houtell, one c of the most scholarly men In the 1 house, and one of the most subser- 1 vient adorers of Cannon, was defeat- c ed for the nomination in the Renub Ian pi iiimrj. ne says lie will run ^ as an independent candidate. That c means the strong probability of a t Democrat in his place. It is a curious thing that these Republicans, s heretofore so shrewd al>out such f matters, should in their quarrels J forget that there is a Democratic | party. t James R. Manning, another Can- f non lieutenant, was renominated, i beating two opponents at a clip, but c that only makes his seat doubtful t for Mann happens to hold a .'eat r which represents a district much in- r clined to insurgency. He will, however. in all likelihood, be reelected. Money will talk. Everybody is talking of the some- / what astounding result in Maine, although traveling men say it is not astounding to them. They say the Democrats are going to sweep the country like a tornado in November, { iind that this Maino business is hut a i circumstance. The Republican insurgent leaders . at Colorado Springs heard of the j flection in Maine after the meeting y I ho r?< Koe t ? 1*- ' ~ .M? viuci 1 WHH WIllKlIlg IO t the hotel with somo of them. '"It ( vindicates the insurgents' position," they agreed. "The only salvation for j the Republican party is in the Pro- ( gressive movement." g * * * s (tantt (*o?y) Free. n Claude C. Gantt, of Swansea, was j acquitted by a jury at Islington ou h Thursday for the murder of Fred F 0 Caufthmnn on the streets of Swansea v on January 29, last. The Jury re- ^ mained out one hour. Later Gantt was convicted on the charge of carrying concealed weapons and was sentenced to pay a fine of 1100 or c servo 30 day In the county Ja?l. The t line was paid and Gantt was lmmo- n Lately released. h SIGN OF THE TIMES ItKPl'BLIOAN PARTY TOO fcONU IN POWKR. OcmocretA Practically Certain Now to Control the House and a Faint Hope of Senate. It beRins to look aa if the people have made up their minds to have an accounting at the hands of the Republican party, which has been in power entirely too long for the country's good. In fact, it has been in power much longer than any party should be allowed to remain in power, if we want a clean, honest ad- j ministration of affairs. Here is a I Humming up of the political events [>f the year: C. C. Atkinson. Democrat, was elected to Congress from Missouri on February 1, 1 <* 10. by a plurality of S.117. the Democratic plurality in 1908 being only 1,995. uugene N. Foss, Democrat, was i sleeted to congress from 'Massachusetts on March II!2. 1910, by a plurality of ft.6 4 0. in a district that had gone Republican two years before by over 10,000 majority. James S. Havens, Democrat, was sleeted to congress from New York aver Hons Aldrich in April, 1910, by a plurality of 5,831, in a district (hat gave a large Republican vote in the election of 1908. lu the recent election in Maine lhat State went Democratic for the llrst time in over fifty years, electing the governor, two congressmen and the legislature, which will elect a Democratic I'nited States Senator iii<1 Democratic State officers. Heodes two mem hers of the State Supremo Court will be appointed by the Democratic Governor. The Democrats carried about four-fifths of the counties in the State. I'nited States Senator Julius C. Burrows, "stand-pat" Republican, was defeated in the Michigan primaries by Representative Charles K. Townsend, progressive Republican. "Stand-pat" Republican senators who have announced their retirement are: Eugene Hale, of Maine. .Nelson \V. Aldrich, of Rhode Island. Frank Flint, of California. Samuel M. Piles, of Washington. Regular machine Republican representatives in congress who have been defeated for reuomination are: Duncan McKlnley, James McLaohlin, of California. John A. T. Hull, of Iowa . ...tnc.1 o. ocuUi jainrB .M. Miller, William A. Calderhead and William A. Reeder, of Kansas. Ralph I). Cole, of Ohio. William H. StafTord, of Wisconsin. Jas. A. Tawney, of Minnesota. Joseph Sibley, machine Republican, forced to retire from ticket in Pennsylvania after buying his nomination for Congress. Cannon Democrats defeated for renomination are: Leon id as Livingston, William M. Howard, of Georgia. The Republicans carried Vermont >y the smallest majority since IST'J. La Follette, progressive, was re nominated for Senator from Wiseontin l>y a majority of 40,000 over h;s 'stand-pat" opponent. ltass, progressive Republican canlidate for governor carried the New lani|>shire primaries by a vote near y double that of the regular machine -andidate. Thomas Leary was elected to the >ci mum legislature, the first Demorat from Crittenden county in fiftvwo years. In the wake of such significant igns as the above we are looking or a regular Democratic deluge in , November. The people do not pro?osc to be plundered any longer and ] hey are looking to the Democrats , or relief. If the party can regulate ts members who voted for any part , ir parcel of the Republican protec- j ive tariff, and give the people the elief they need, it has a chance of ] etnaining in power for many years. , TIIKY WANT IT BACK. i I Movement in Darlington to Vote I on the Dispensary. A special dispatch to The News ' ind Courier says petitions addressed 1 o the county supervisor, praying for ( in election on the question of dis- 1 lensary or no dispensary, are be- 1 ng circulated and freely signed in ( tarlington county. Thero arc thn?n I vho profess to see In the recent elec- ' Ion returns in that county a will- 1 ngness. on the part of the people to ( ibandon what they term the "howl- 1 ng fareo" of prohibition, and return ' o some saner way of regulating the ale of alchollc drinks. Some of the trongegt anti-dispensary men of forner days are interesting themselves i n behalf of the present effort to ( lave a vote and, it Is said, that the t etltlons are being more readily sign- > d a this time, than when an effort 1 vaa made about two years ago, to ? tave an election on the question. Four Men Drown In Wreck. Four men were drowned and two 1 ithera barely escaped death when S he power boat Comfort was disabled 1 nd foundered off Plum Inland, near f .'ewburyport, Mass., Saturday. f WRITES OF THE SHOOTING MAYOR GAYNOR KKKVTKS HIS IMPKKSSION OF IT. After IIoIiik Shot Was Consrioms of Terrible Metallic Roar Which Filled Head Almost to liursti.ig* Mayor William J. Gay nor, of New York, in a letter to his sister. Miss Mary E. Gavnor, of I'tica. New York, which is printed in the Evening Post, tells in an interesting manner of his impression at the time he was sho' on (hi' nifihln U' o Iom? w*; 1 Iter Grosse. The mayor says that he has not read a line of what has | been published of the shooting, nor does he remember the name of the man who shot him. Going over the incident of the shooting. Mayor GayI nor, after stating that Robert Adamson. his secretary, pointed out that | the ship was dressed with flags for him, said: | "My next consciousness was of a terrible metallic roar in my head. It tilled my head, which seemed as though it would burst open. It swelled to the highest pitch and then fell, and then rose again, and so alternated until it subsided into a continuous buzz. It was sickening, but my stomach did not give way. 1 was meanwhile entirely sightless. "I do not think 1 fell, .for when I became conscious I was on my feet. i.M.v sight gradually returned. 1 became conscious that I was choking. Itlood was coming into my mouth and I tried to swallow it so as those around me would not see it. ltut I found I could not swallow and then knew my throat was hurt. It seemed as though it were dislocated. I struggled to breathe through my mouth, but could not, and thought i was dying of strangulation. I kept thinking all the time the best thing to do. "1 was not a bit afraid to die. if that was (toil's will to inc. 1 said to myself, just as well now as a few years front now. "In some way 1 happened to close my mouth tight and found I breathed perfectly through my nose. I then believed I could keen from smothering. but I kept choking, and my mouth kept opening to east out the blood. Though the thing had not entered my head that moniiir; I wan not surprised when I renli/.ed 1 was shot. I had had a feeling for some weeks that I might he assaulted on account of the annoymous threats I was netting by mail." .Mavor (Jaynor, in the letter, scored certain newspapers for the manner in which they had criticised him. saying that "the time Is at hand when these journalistic scoundrels have got to stop or get out, and 1 am ready now to do my share to that end." Robert Adam son, the mayor's secretary, said to-night that the mayor's condition continues to improve and that he plans to return to his desk at City Hall on October 3. (JKOltfJIA.NS IN I ATM, III KL I tu I let s of l-Iaeli 1-Iiid Lives of Itolli. Wives Witnesses. Stopping their buggies when they met each other in the public r u d near I'elham. (Ja., Wednesday, Charles Tate and John Marehant. both prominent men of this county, fought a duel with pistols, both dropp'ng to the ground dead after half do/.ei shots had been fired. The wi\t4 of the men sat in the buggies wuil? the fight was in progress and saw theii husbands kill each other. Tate was a bridegroom of two months and his bride was i .te wi *?.w of Frank .Marchant, a brother of the man whom he killed-and who killed him. The fight grew out of an old grudge, which at first was l?-?ween Mrs. Tate's first husband aa-l h r <econ<l husband, later, it is said, being intensified between Tate and Jno. Marchant, who opposed his sister-inlaw's marriage with Tate, and took up the old quarrel. When they met Wednesday Ma'*hant called Tate to his buggy. The men exchanged hardly a word when the shooting began. Tate tired throe times, every bullet finding its ni irk. While the bullets were lifting into lis body, Marehant fired twieo. one bullet striking Tate's hand and the , ^ther passing through his heart. The Kidowo railed aid and tho bodies ivere removed. It was said that Mar hant lived a few minutes after he 'ell to the ground. Itesides his wife io leaves two small children. The l nen lived four miles from Pelham, l >wned pood farms, were of promi- 1 lent families and well respected in < hat section. i w i Rhots from Ambush. 1 Ed Sherrod and J. K. Hewitt were ihot to death from ambush, at Cooks 1 Uamp, twenty miles north of Hunts- 1 Mile, Tenn., Sunday. Pending in- ' 'estimation. John Bunch and son, Joe 1 [?w. Nelson Low, Jack Low and lack Bradley are in jail. Fatal Family Food. 1 As a result of a family feud, Isaac Pass shot and killed his brother, ' >amuel Pass, near Cardiff, Tenn., on ' Saturday afternoon. The slayer 1 led. Both men were married with < amilioe. 1 i SHOWS UP TEDDY AN I8SVK OF VERACITY RAISED BY MRS. B. 8TORKR. ' She Challenges lloowevelt's Truthfulness in the Archbishop Ireland Controversy. The resignation of Bellamy Storer. as ambassador to Austria-Hungary was transmitted to Washington on March 7, 1906, and was accepted. His resignation was requested by the State Department, and it later developed that serums difficulty had arisen between President Roosevelt and the ambassador, primarily be- ; cause the latter had failed to answer * a communication from the President. 1 The communication enclosed a let- J ter to Mrs. Storer, calling upon her . to give a written promise not to in- t terfere tn Vatican politics. ( The point at issue was that Mrs. ( Store*- had used the oflloial position t of her husband to forward the ap- ( pointtnent of Archbishop Ireland to ( the cardinalate. The Storers respond- g ed to the action of the State Depart- y ment by giving out for publication j letters from Col. Roosevelt when he ? was Governor of New York, in which f | he expressed high appreciation of t Archbishop Ireland. Mrs. Storer in y explaining this letter said it had been written to her so she might show it y to the Pai?al secretary in order to , convince the Vatican of the friendly tj feelings of Americans toward Arch- y bishop Ireland's policy. I Following the sending of a letter ] by Mr. Storer to President Roosevelt, members of the cabinet and of me i->enaie committor on foreign re- j, lntions. the President crave out the eorrespondent between hini and Am- |, bassudor and Mrs. Storer in which a lie said that Mr. Storer's refusal to r answer his letters and the puhlica- | tion of various private letters justified that ambassador's removal, and p that he (the President), had stated j, with absolute clearness his position. R and the reason It was out of the ( question for him, as President, to try to pet any archbishop made a c cardinal. p Now, after four years of silence, c Mrs. Ilellany Storer conies back nt ,, Roosevelt, by writing a letter which p was published Thursday in the a Springfield Republican. This letter n was written from France on Septem- p her 6. and In it Mrs Storer reviews e the controversy of her husband and a herself with Roosevelt, concerning n the former President's alleged au- g thorization of the former ambnssa- a dor to Austria-Hungary to visit Pope j, Pius X. and ask him as a personal favor to the President of the Pnted f States to make Archbishop Ireland of r St. Paul, a cardinal, c "Letters written by the archbish- p! op in 190S and 1904 hitherto unpublished are quoted by Mrs. Storer ;t to show that at repeated interviews in the White House between the R archbishop and the President Col. 0 Roosevelt acknowledged that he had ommanded Mr. Storer to act as his s personal envoy at the Vitican in be- t, half of the archbishop. Col. Roose- ,, velt has hitherto publicly denied that Mr. Storer was ever authorized to j. represent him In this manner, and (; the ireland letters n >w nnbi?<H?a w? - 111 Mrs. Storer have the *ff??ct of making rj much sharper the issue of veracity between the Storers and the ex-Pres- f, ident. je .Mrs. Storer's letters to The Republican also seeks to prove on the R( testimony of Archbishop Ireland that r] President Roosevelt promised to make Mr. Storer United States am- f bassador. either at Paris or London, w and there is included still another g( letter alleged to have been written K1 bv Col. Roosevelt to Mr. Storer Just af after the Presidential election In p, IK96. in which Mr. Roosevelt ,.r asked Mr Storer to seeesttnfe.t pj asked Ambassador Storer, to see President-elect McKinley and urge a, him to api>oint Col. Roosevelt as ,\ Secretary of the Navy. This last jj, letter seems to refute a recent as- ar sertion that Col. Roosevelt never th sought a public office except when aj, he sought a Presdential nomination (j) in 1904. in oc SKK\ Kit Til KM liltillT. in Tun \Vhit<" Fiends (iris Five Years oa Kacli in IVn. to w ] At Anderson on Wednesday Char_ m lie and Hen McElreath, both white, twenty and thirty years old reaper- fc tively, were sentenced to five years ,.e In the penitentary, being convicted ,)t, of assault and battery of a high and ^ aggravated nature. These two men r, attempted to blow up with dynamite en the residence of It. M. Webb, near th Williamston. A dog caught the dynamJte stick and was blown to pieces. The house and occupants were thue saved, although the house was greatly shaken. fri nc Child Found. ja Dorothy Harrow, 13 yenrs old, be missing from her home in Houston, wi Texas, for over a year, has been found, poorly clothed and penniless In a hotel in Vincennes, Ind., and tr; was rostored Thursday to her moth- th sr, Mrs. Kloise Harrow, who claims du ho girl was abducted. fir SURE TO WIN 1 jttle Doubt of Governor Sb a froth Soc- I ceeding Himself ii P SPITE OF THE TRUSTS t - HI Vo Need of Insurgency In Col"riuU, ^ as the Stai? is Safely l>?niorratic? and Will (Iran np the K .. aIh, V Including Duggenheim, As Soon a? H They (irl a (lianre. Just after crossing tho Roclty* I (fountains Znch McGhee writes the- 9 State an interesting letter on Color* 9 td<> politics. He says 1 pick up the 9 tapers this morning at a little mounafter traveling a!'. night tiid most of yesterday, and see thatto^K&jli ho Democratic convention in Oolornla nominated John F. Shafroth for lovernor. This niranB that Colorslo will again go Democratic. The ;orporate interests I told about the Hi9 >thor day did their beat to defeat 5hafroth in the convention. They 1 mew he had made himself a great j tero in the minds of th? voters of I he State and they therefore turned I heir attention to buying up delegaIons in the convention so as to elim- \ nate him. They could get up nothing against lim, but that Colorado crowd have lever been accustomed to having to lo anything like that. When a man s objectionable to them, they have >een accustomed to say to their hireings to nominate bo medio dy else, ind that was sufficient. Hut tunes. ,re changing in Colorado. The Kemblican candidate will be an object if interest to these corporation fel* i ows iow. hut they need not bother 1 bout that, if any signs in Colorado 1 i an he believed. Shafroth will carry he State by a big majority. The only unfortunate thing about, t is .hat the legislature which will e elected will not be able to elect a. eiiator in Ill?CO nf lh? iintnoal/aCU luggenheim. Tuesday night. the last I spent In Colorado, except on the train, I went o a Republican insurgent rally The hief speaker was none other than i?y old friend Senator Bristow of Kansas. He and Merle 1). Vincent,. Coloradan who wants to go goveror, preached to these people about he first insurgent gospel they had ver heard in their lives. And Sentor Bristow poured hot shot and pelted lead into the pores of Oug~ enheim, too. right here in what upposed to be Guggenheim's home- *" Dcality. But I was gratified to see that luggenheim was more of a thing of" ontempt right in that selfsame loality where nominally he halls from han almost anywhere else Senator iristow told his hearers that if they re to be loyal to the present *eadrs of the Republican party, they hould be consistent, and alongside f the pictures of Lincoln, Sumner, nd a few other great statesmen, they hould hang on their wall the picures of Nelson \V. Aldrich and Siton Guggenheim. The crowd broke out in a biK nigh. Tlie fact of the matter la uggenheim does not live in Colordo and never has, and has no more ight to lie senator from that State tan Henry M. Flagler to be senator J om Florida, or John O. Rockefelir to be senator from Texas. But there are hardly any "lnsur nl" I- " > 1 - *A v iv< |>iiuiiiuii? in v.i'iuiauu, E/vn my friend Senator JiriBtow, I nr does n< t stop to consider why. ho State is Democratic, having: ith the exception of Guggenheim a did Democratic delegation in con"obb. It is of no use to lnsurgo tainst Guggenheim, for he can not elected again anyway, and he nevwas expected to represent the peoe of Colorado in the Senate. Tho people of Colorado never had ivthing to do with electing him. nd when the people do take a hand, at is, when they "insurge." they e going to put Democrats into all e offices. What they have hoen up lainst is to oust the domination of e greedy and corrupting "business tereats" of the State from the I)emratic party. They have come to realize that it well-nigh impossible to purify tho ^publican party, for the Republln principles themselves have <**en give special privileges to those ho "need"theHi, as they say when aking a tariff However, it is a commendable efrt on the part of Merle D. Vlnnt to lay the matter before tho ople of his party. It will help to ifeat the Ouggenhelms and other 1 i/uumnii itraurra, or ramor, agitfl, but the ones which will take eir places will not be insurgent publican; they will be Democrats. Wreck in Antipodes. The Rrltleh ship Carnavaraa Hay, orn Liverpool, June 20,, for dydy, has been wrecked on King Isnd. The captain and 20 men have IT en picked up, but a second boat f th 15 men aboard la missing. The Republican newspapers aro King to convince themselves that e loss of Maine to their party waa io mainly to local iasuee, but thoy ul it a hard job.