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D1X WILL WIN The Outlook is Gloomy for the Republicans Ail Along the Liae. SOME ACTUAL RETURNS From thr l>jyilii({ liCtt^rs Srnt Out In Xrw V"rk by Ihc ttrpublirnn ^ litvp Thein IIm- ('old Shlv. .\rauuns morj ui ll llfpiliHlran Oingrevinmn and HLs Sfiowhrs TbJ Washington correspondent ot The Stale says Madame ltumorwbo in cousin 10 Dame Truth is circulating an interesting report concerning some ot the happenings around tho headquarters of the Republican congressional campaign committee in Washington. It is well known that the Democratic campaign text-book this year contains some able speeches made by Republican members of congress (luring the last session of congress and during the tariff extra session of last year. The committee having in charge the compilation of the book decideu that It would be good politics to condemn the Republican party out of its triembers'own mouths, and hence the Republican speeches In the Democratic book. These Republican speeches, by the way, are tiled with some good Democratic doctrine, which has taken possession of a wing of the Republicans because they recognize that the people were leaning toward the Democracy. J3ut the interesting retport that Madame Rumor Is circulating, making the. Democrats chuckle over it. is that certain Republican members ot congress, in their efforts to secure reelection, have sent out, in bulk, large numbers of their speeches to be distributed -among their constituJent? under their franks. "Later on, however, It was found that the coostitutents In some, cases v ere beginning to lean so strongly in the direction opposite that supported in the speeches that the members in question got busy and scut messages directing their clerK.s not lo send out the speeches, as they were likely to help the other fellow! Sa far there has been no definite confirmation of the rumors, as it would be disastrous to the Republicans if they were to let such a thing get out. and every effort is made ic prevent its confirmation. It is also positively stated that the rumor 's not true; but the Democratic chucki ling goes on; just the same. But some of the "returns." or replies sent l>y Republicans in New Vorh to the appeal of the campaign committee for funds have actually fallen in o the hands of the Democrats and been made public. Une 01 the speeches is that of Charles C. Cowan of New York. He wrote in" chairman of the Republican committee as follows: "Your appeal of the 12th inst. to my 'patriotism' has been, duly received and roud. If 'the Republican party of New York insists on the ab solute honesty of public officials, why does it permit itself to be boss ed by that self-convicted, all-rounu inker and hypocrite. Theodore Roosevelt? If Charles K. \furnh\ :?>!. Tarn-many Hall are 'enimiea of pood government' they have never shown themselves to be anarchists. "No. you can't count upon m.\ aid. The comparison which you draw between the results that would follow a democratic and a Republican house of representatives may be very sa'inly ing to your imagination, but rest assured that it will be Democratic and that 1>1\ will be the next governor of New York and a Denmer.ii the next President of the Uniiud States.'' Another Republican, in announcing that he is going to vote the Dein ocraic ticket this year for the iirst time in his life, made the following remark: "I have always been a Republican, but I want to make this point plain: If 'Mr. Charles P. Murphy is responsible for Mr. DLx as the Democratic candidate lor governor, I am one of those fair-minded Republicans h ?ving no selfish political interest ?o aerve who are willing to give Mr. .Murphy credit for exercising as good judgment In this instance as he did v hen he picked William J. Gu> 1101 as the mayorallty candidate tor >Jew York." There is talk now of the organization of "I>ix Republican clubs" In New York, and they will probably isorganized in some localities between dow and November 8. Found l?ead on Street. At Hoboken. N. J., a well dressed man registered at a hotel about I o'clock Wednesday morning as Mar tin Egger of Philadelphia. An hour later his corpse was found ou the sidewalk below bis room. tltolern In I/ondon. Asiatic cholera has reached London. A man died of the dread disease In the Royal Free hospital on Tueaday. This is the first case of cholera recorded in England in many years. RESCUE PRISONERS Till-: JA1I. IS STOt?IKl? AXD A MlKDKitKK IS KKIiKASKU. ^ The Mountaineer Friends of u Convicts Murderer Stormed the I*ri- j son and Set Him Free. Mountaineer, friends of John ^ Moore, under sentence to be electrocuted for the murder of Frank liowi descended upon the Nelson county jail at l.oviugston. Va.t at 1 o'clock r>aiuraay niornin, stormed the building and rescued the prisoner. It is supposed he will be taken to the mountains and liberated. While the people of the county were asleep a crowd of 7."> fully armed men from the mountain section where the crime was commi ted proceeded quietly to the county jail. Admission was pained to the buildnp and the puards awed into comparative non-resistance. . The cell where Moore was locked up soon was found and he was taken out. It is feared that bloodshed will r?sult from an> atempt of the authorities to recapture the murderer. Moore was condemned to pay the (death penalty by electrocution at Richmond an November 2f?. He h.?o been convicted of having murdered Frank Howl in Nelsou county last may. Many' of the mountaineer friends of the coudemued man believed him innocent. The only telephone wire leading into the section of the country where the crime was committed and where. Moore's friends live was cut before the rescue operations began. This leads to the belief that Moore uas been carried there to be liberated." SO.MK HOT TALK. A ('ocuell Uvofessor Culls Teddy an T multigated Liar. Twice in one speech at Itbicn. N. Y.. Frids) nlpht Prof. K. H. Woodruff. of Cornell University, called Theodore Roosevelt a liar, once an unmitigated liar. Ilia attack mad* I at a political rally over which ae i presided, threw the house into a up- i roar. There were cat calls. hisses, cheers, clapping with a stent-/ shout behind them all ot' "Parker, Park -r. I Parker." tor the next speaker, for- i mer Judge Alton 11. Parker. Judge Parker sprang to ai.-> f? -1 and t>egg?-d the audieuce to allow i Prof. Woodruff to lie heard,. The j noiisier part of the house compliea < ,.iid qui", was restored. Prof. Woodruff began by opening 1 up the lk'llamy ritorer episode, which ; Col. Roosevelt only recently declared 1 was ch s?*d. He charged that tne Colonel denied sending Rellain.\ Storer to the Vatican he was an "unmitigated liar." and there were i letters in his office, said the professor. to hear him out. The uproar over this attack had i barely subsided when the professor i took up his cudgels again. Roosevelt was twice a liar, he said, when ' ho denied that the late H. H. llatri- man had subacrlhed to a corruption fund to be used for Roosevelt's el< - , tion to the Presidency. * I.OST l\ Till-: STOHM. \\ reck* of \|l t'rvM-U Will Not l>e Known Soon. The total ship wrecks in the r. cent *lorm is not erpeeted to be complete tor u week, and in pa?t storms of this kind there have lie -n , instances where nearly two months elapsed i tore the last survivor, w no ( had bee npicked up at sea and carVied \ > Kurope by some passing < steamer. returned to give his .?? eount of oimrades drownded. Thirteen drownded in shipwreck' is the most authentic eount at hand;; Including those reported last nignt on botit roasts ot Florida, word came from rft. Augustine that three f dead had been t'ouud in the wreck' of an unknown four-mus'.ed sehoon- ! er near Ix lray. The missing total at least half a hundred, including the c.rew 01 nine of the Texas Oil Company's oarg?Dallas, wlioch broke adrift from hei | tow during u one huudred-iulle blow on Tuesday. * < ? i MANY MYKS AUK M?ST. l.lfi'lHiuls Itravfly Strive to Itescre j Mariners Who Arc lui(M'rillnt. At Loudon. Kng.. the Fngliau , coast is strewn with wreckage a* ? i result Oi the storm that has rout inn- ' ed lor two days. Tin* casuality list, alreudj reported is loan. Friday morning the bodies of five J -reamen from the coasting steamer Cranford were picked up oh' flai'tle-:' pool, it is believed the vessel, which ' 1 carried a crew of twenty, foundered and tha* the men were attempting to 1 reach shore in a small boat when ' they were lost. Some of the wre?.Kage coming a shore indicates tint .' a sailing ship met a like fate. Lifeboats fro n many points were out ait Thursday night, and in some instances affected rescues. in other ea;+es they were unable to reach J Is- I tressed crafts. REJECTJTEDDY lie Row in the Republican Party is Getting Warner and Warner. mm ROGUES FALL OUT ["he Western Insurgent Republicans Object to Roosevelt's (iiral Straddle. und iiid Hiin (iootl Bye, Alter Pointing Out Some of lli.s Double Face K (Torts West and Fast. The row in the Republican party [rows on apace to the great joy of .til vtao want to see a change in affairs, rho Des Moines News, one of the nost prominent Republican newspalers in Iowa bids Teddy goodbye In in editorial entitled "Goodbye. Coloicl." Here is what the News said: "It won't work. "The progressive sentiment that las stirred men or all parties in all nirts of the country can not be chaiu;d to any party chariot. Not by rheo'dore Roosevelt nor anybody dse. "Itoosevelt is not the prophet uoc he leader of progress. He has no uonopoly on it. "Roosevelt has had New York itate to put an O. K. on the tariff >111. "He has commended Tat't. the poltical assassin of Pinchot aud all hat IMnchoi stands for. "He indoles Toft's conduct in usng the patronage club against I.ab'ollette and Cummins and Poindex;er and Brls.ow and the other real insurgents. "He indorse^ the lawyer cubiuet. Bullingcr and all. "He tries to obscure all this treachery with glittering generalities vbout "graft hunting." but the people w ill feel safer in gr. ft hunting when lhey have fewer Lurtons 011 the supreme bench, and fewer Oscar Lnwlers in the department o'' justice. "Tuft. 100. just now, declared that lie Is for Insurgency -but Murray and Wickersham and Hitchcock sit it his taiiel. "Roosevelt selects us his permanent chairman Kllhu Root, who is the incarnation of the doctrine of dollars in poli.lcs. "Roosevelt, bringing Root. J. Morgan. Tawuey. Lurton. Hitchcock, mid all the motley crew of plutocrats mid Hessians of privilege, can not rnlist in the army of insurgency. "It would have been as sensible if .lames Buchanan with Jeff Duvis mid his outfit had tried to get into the councils of Abruhnm I.lncoln. "Insurgency got along pretty well while Roosevelt was in Africa. "He can not swallow up the insur ?i iuuYcuit-ui. ana insurgency will not swallow him with his Indorsement or the tariff bill, of the president. and with his Hoots and tirlscoms. "There can be no stop to InHiil'gt'h' ry in either the republican or democratic partiea, and no harm can com*' ro the movement unless undcsiraable and eleventh hour recruits are permitted to fog its councils and pervet is aims. "Tall Lsu't welcome as a recruit *nd Roosevelt's room is far preferable to his company. "Let's cut out the red lire and the leather lungs and ro back to the patient, dogged tighting of real insurgents. "Listen to that T. R.-built New Vork platform! It says: "We enthusiastically indorse 0 Taft.**' * I0a< h month since his inuaguia.ion has ion tinned the nation in its high *-.xLimnte of his greatness of character, b! t*. "Rol! It may have contirmcu Roosevelt's estimate of Tul't. but it hasn't continued the nation's. Luck | .t the record of tho?c eighteen months! "Taft ran a f . ke republican convention in Wisconsin to beat LaKoilette. "Taft tried the patronage club on Hrixtow. "Taft excommunicated f'ummin* "Tat'f tired IMuchot. "Tat't put I,urton on tin- supreme bench. "Tat'f stood for Morgan's Wish r?rihani railroad bill, and tried :o club Cummins into voting for it. "Taft fought I'oindoxter at honi* . "T.ift bargained with Cannon and Vldrich. helped their friends und hamstrung their foes, though the foes were good party men "If th.it record 'confirm**' any '? *>itnale' of Taft thai was held in I! 08 hen Roosevelt knew he gold-bricked the nation when he handed it the judicial temperament' package. "After that New York platform 'hero is no room in any group of par v for both f loose veil and LaKollelte >r Roosevelt and Cummins 01 Ifri.-tow or F'oindexter. 1 "And inxurgenrx can't K< t alonR j ivithout tin- I .a Pol let t< x, t'nniniinxes. Ilristows iind I'oindexters. "So ijoodby. colonel; fake keor o' rrmrself."' Will Itui l?l ll?e>|?ilM I. The Tennessee Conference of the Methodist Kplscopul Church. Soutn. has refuilred to build a Methodist ' hospital at Nashville. PRICE COTTON PICKER 1 - IS PWOXOI Xl'KI) A SICCKSS HY 1 T1IK DALLAS NKWS. It Says Humlmls Wltncssoil tin* Donv>u.st ration and llud Tlieir l>oul>t-< Dispelled. The Dallas. Texas. News says the Price-Campbell cotton picker, which was given a trial near that city a few days aj?o. was a complete sue cess. it will be remembered that this picker was demonstrated in Marlboro, on Senator John I- McLaurins farm laa. fall, and that ; Theodore Price and a number of his northern friends and associates were there to see the picker work. The News says the first practical demonstration of (the Price-C'amp- 1 bell cotton picker machine to he held In north Texas was given yesterday afternoon on the Caruth farm, normeast of Delias 011 the Sherman-Dallas interurban line, where a portion of W. C. Burden's crop was harvested by uieans of the mechanical pickt r The demonstration was witnessed by about GOO citizens ol Dallas and the Immediate vicinity. The opinion of those qualified to know was that the Price-Campbell picker is a great success and that one of the great labor problems that confronts the cotton growing belt to-day has been solved. Many of those who com posed the party went to the cotton tield in a mood most skeptical and expressions frequently heard indicated that the minds of most of the crowd was tilled with doubts us to the practicability of any mechanical contrivance to successfully supplant the negro ct ton picker. Knl husi nsiu. iuterest and belief 111 the invention begau 10 grow b\ leaps and bounds, however, w h? n the motors whirred and ih machine started down a cotton row. The cotton fibre, snatched from the stalks by a battery of rotating metal lingers, was carried upwani and deposited in sacks at the rear of the machine and as the waves of the fleecy white staple flowed into the retaining receptacles tho*c who watched We'.e changed from skeptics to admirers. Cotuplimculury remarks took the place of cri.it istus that had proceeded the exhibition. It was another illustration ol the old time and trite expression, "see lug is believing. ' Through the medium ot sight those present realized that a successful cotton picker was an actuality and not an unt i ol nvuruir. Those who witneused the demonsi ration went to the Caruth lariu .upon imitaton and as guests 01 Theodore H. Price, the heal of the Priee-Campb? 11 corporation. Four special ears were run over the Dallas-Sherman iulerurban line to a point nearest the cotton held. Most of the crowd wont on the railway. Others made the trip in automobiles. Many t'aruu rs from the section Arouud the parutli I" ana were ni. The p.rty w.is composed of both men ami women and wits personally directed by Mr. Price. To <lo*erlbe the cotton picker iu its niecltanic.il details would take au expert mechanician and such a d ? script!on would jrobably tneun li.i.e * xeept to one familial with mechiaery. The average observer sees a gu.-oiine motor machine of t? n or twelve feel in length. ll is <|.ii1.-?ed with nhcruiling row of interlocK>ng metal fingeri through ?. hi.li the cotton stalks pass. Th< libre is gn .1eiod into sioragn liags a.fuelled 10 the rear. The difer, or op. ra >r. occupies a sent over ;u<? tor nrd w iiee.ls and operates the inuct.ine uiueli after 'lie ni..um of driving u autoinoliile. hi action the cotton picker travels Wow n he row at the rale of bet?'i( n three and four miles an hour. In the deinoustration tin* .stalks ?cro plucked clean of cotton anil un examination after the machine had passed indicated that unopened bolls and the stalks were uninjured. The picked cotton after Lh ing removed foni tlie machine showed about as clean as when gathered in the ordinals manner by hand. A few leaves and slight traces of trash were to he seen, hut neither was in greater quunity than is ordinar.ly found. In tlie lit Id where the exhibition was given were shown two hales ol cotton, one ol which was harvested w i. h the cotton picker and tlie other gathered by hand, and it was notable that although tin* co tun came from the s me field the grade of the bale picked by machinery w .is I better. oi ? >?i u nifi m i iir u? ihts, l III- I'll. ** Campbell muchim- is 1101 alone a cOiton picker hut ran be converted to many uses on tin* farm. Special equipment makes it -either a plow, a disc harrow, a cotton chopper or a stall: cutter, to s.. y nothing of rne other uses to which jhe propelling power can tie applieil. Some of the! advantages claimed fo. the machine ( are: It will pick an acre an hour) and get alt the open cotton on It..* plant: it doi-s not injure the plant uor harm the unopened bolls or delicate blossoms; it is operated by one man Arrangements have be?-u m ule THE SNAKE GOD Which is Worshipped by a Fanatical Religious Sect in Haiti. CHILDREN SACRIFICED I'ho Ih'tail.H of h ( hn.stlj Atliuir That lilts Just Coinr to l.ight.?A Uar- 1 1 rel Containing i'ickrli-il liuutuii . Flesh Fouutl in the House. I Some people have a queer idea < about religion. The "Cologne CJa- ' /.etle" gives details ot a ghastly at- ' fair in Haiti, according to which a woman named Bsteis Liberia, aged 1 24; lias murdered and eaten live ' children. The woman in question is a member of the secret religious sect worshiping ("Voodoo")' the Snake- 1 God. and Inspector of Police !>e Cam- ' bronaT has submitted to the author- ' ilies a full report of his investiga- 1 lions into the matter, front which the "Gazette" quotes the. follow iug. In her house I found a barrel containing pickeled human flesh. the 1 remains of a child, aged about 12. It is unfortunately well known that 1 the Vaudoux faith has still many adherents. In name, these natives 1 are Christians: but in secret they remain devotees of their Snake-God. and hold private meetings*at which be is worshipped. The priests of the ult are all-powerful, aud the sacri- 1 iices are usually animals, but occasional)'. as in tbe present iustance. young children are immolated. The god himself takes the form ol a snake, and his mouth piece is a priest who is assisted by a priestess, Kstels l.lberis, the young woman concerned in the present affair, was at th" time High Priestess of the cult. At the great ceremony in honor of .he Snake-God. the High-Priest and Priestess sit on a double throne, the woman being clothed iu nothiug but a lorgeous girdle. Worshipers of both sexes attend with red cloths round their loins. On an altar stands a wooden box containing the snake .which is brought front its box and worshipped by ail ('icoriii, ^1110 uc4ii(; {itilCfU Oil IflP altar while the populace pray for the fulfillment of some great public desire. Then begins a wild dance, headed by the Chief Priestess, who discards her girdle as the dancing grows more furious and a halt is not called until the people begin to fall exhausted to the ground. If any misfortune has befallen the people a sacrifice is ottered to the god. rt was on one of these occasions that l'steis insisted on the .sacrifice of a human victim, and, in concert with a man named Con/.o Polio, decided to kidnap a girl, a niece of Comm. The child's mother was enticed away, and on her return was informed that the Chief Priestess had tailed for her daughter. The mother seemed greatly houored and a special ceremony was immediately arranged. 1 .\Vhcn all were assembled the girl was fetched froni iivr hiding place, laid in front of the altai*. strangled by her uncle. Her head was cut 1 ort'd all those present drank sOuie of the blood, which was collected in a howl. The tlesh was subsctiueui ly cooked at Conzo's house and. instead of being oalen. as had formerly been customary, was preserved. Two girls, who had overlooked the {cooking ot the tlesh. were declared to have offended the god. and these two were then similarly sacrificed, their" deaths being followed by two more a few days later. Moid! SCAlttUi tii%% iii ?>f I>i<l Vol W iiiii I( Kkhih She li.nl ' Itoo/e in Iter \ aline. The Augusta Chronicle says the greatest cr> of pain ami claim of injury after the collision ol the two trains near McC'orniiek mi last Senday evening was pin up b> a iichiu woman, Jenny I'ayne. of (livenwood. Slii- was supposed to lie liaillv in jured. and had a lar.'e grip. ol <vhleh she took too much ran* during the whole time. She was in the ear n?*Ki to the baggage car, and her rar was iiurt so little that less than $." repaired it. and was on another trip to Greenwood Monday uighi. When an ev initiation was made of i her. and her baggage to gain some : Ulenrillcation of Iter, the grip w v ! opened and found to lie lull of hottied liquor^. She was proven to be hurt about the least of all. and is thought to have been more seared j at haviu.? her liquor discovered than! 111 iinvlhine ?.lo.. to exhibit the citfliin picker :?1 I ?i?coming; Staff Fair, and a patch o! cotton has ueun planted in the race course in Held for this purpose. About two hours were sp'-nt in the cotton field and different tests a re , given the l'rire-Ca inphell picker, each being successful to a degree most satisfactory to borh tin- owners and the spectators. Many compliments m e re bestowed upon Mr. Price, and the inventor. Mr. Camp* bell. was forced to mount a cotton ,bale for an introduction to the crowd. lie was given an enthusiastic gree'ing. { - v vm*mm *. BLAMES OPERATOR WHO FAIIiKl) TO UKLIVKH OIU OK.ItS TO THK TRAIN. The Telegrapher Says He Pulled th? Semaphore and That it l-'aJhd to DLspliiy Signal of Danici'i. The blame tor the death of the rictims of the collision on the Charleston anil Western fjirnllnii way, which occurred near McCormicfc on last Sunday evening was placed on llrowder. the telegraph operator at that place by the coroner's jury which held an inquest at the scene ot' the collisskm. The tacts elided at the inquest thowed that till; train dispatcher had given orders tot the two trains Nos. L' and 8 to meet at McCortnick. llrowder failed to give orders to the conductor ot train No. 8. allowing the train to clear frctn the station before the arrival of No. ". the result being the head on . collision half way between McCormlck and 1'luiu ftrancli, the next station. llrowder states that he pulle.d the semaphore on tb-- receipt of order to hold train No. 8 at McCormlck and thinking the danger signal had worked, he proceeded with his other duties laying the train order on his desk. He says that the semaphore failed to work, leaving tram No. 8 a clear signal. He was busy with an unusual ru.->h of ticket sales and thinking the dauber signal was displayed did not hurry about giving the eonductor hia train order. As soon as he could he started to tind the conductor and was dismayed to tind that the train had pulled out of the station and that only Its tail lights were visible. In a few minutes the crush of the colliding trains was heard although distuut about two miles and a bail". SHN'ATF. IN UANCiFJC. Tteniocn^l". Stand <>ood <'Imnce to Control Thar Party. The complex polllicaJ battle of the day does uof end with the formidable attack of the Democrats upon the House ot Representatives The Cnited States Senate, for years Republican, is in danger of losing its old-time eontrol. The Republicans have now. nominally. 'J6 majori ty, that in :i majority ot 2G senators representing Republic in < oust ituencies. * IJowertT. umoiii; these L'G must be Included from seven to 12 * *?n surgent" senators. who frequently vote with the Democrats. There are ft I senators whose terms expires 'his year and whose seals must be tilled by the legislatures. Twenty-four of thesv ?re Republicans. Political c*l ports think It is possible that by the time the new Senate is ready for organization after March s next there tuay be enough new Democrat* and new "Insurgents" in otttee *o turn over completely the control of that body. ?? It is practically assured that a Democrat will succeed the conservative Senator Hale, of Maine. Then. ;qo, "insurgent." senator.-.; WR| puc-. coe<l Aneatof flinl. of C'jiS^'Ornia; Senator Rurrows. of .Michigan, and Senator IMles. of Washington. A* things are turning out in New York state, even Senator Drpew ma> trem* hie for his seat. ^ SCI KUKM llOltltllll.K DK.VTll. I.ittle 4iii-l Dies from Drinking Whiskey in I'luy. A dispatch to The News and Courier from Florence says one ot the saddest deaths that has ocurred in rt.'o ...... .... in .? iuhi; wnne was that of Martha, the bright and bcaiitilut littio si\-year-old daughter of Mr. a ad Mrs. I.. W. Mchrmore, who reside* In West i'ulinetto street. 11 is stated th.it Martha and two other little childicu were playing .11 the yard about the home ot her parents, and one ot theiu suggested that ih?-y play "doctor." The. suggest 'on was quickly taken up. and a oi.it.le ot medicine was sought for. The only thing found was a pint flash of whiskey, and this liquid was administered to the little girl. It was only a short time before the whiskey began to net in its dinnil effects and .Vluttha was soon thrown into convultions. \ neighbor, seeing the condition of the little girl, railed to her father, and he quickly * ran to her. and. picking her in his arms, curried her into the house, firs. MelxK'd, Smith and MoMaster wore hurriedly called, but it is stated that the child never regained ronsi'iousne.sR. death relieving her about fine o'clock Monday afternoon. liohlH'd ? SMKhmi. A lone bandit held up a saloon at Memphis. Tenn.. hacked out with $7">. then robbed a man with wlc.u collided and made his escape mi the space ol three niluutes early Wednesday. David It. Mill Dead. A dispatch from Albany, N. v., - cys David It. Hill, ejc-l'nked States senator and former governor of N- w York, died suddenly Thursday at Wo!forts Roost, his oountr} borne.