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■» v’il ^ • ' _ &' ~$~ i ' r*- JSPWWrS!*'. «!K‘ . "5Sr~:.:~ Senator Tillman Demands in His Columbia SpecciL Him . BUME EED HOT TALK ttlag, Ibey began to backward. lOt Of WltDCMM do we The Secator'Speakt to Tkoasood* from Steps. Vast Crowds Hear Him Discass the Dlspea- aod State Politics. Skins Lyon Alive. Senator Tillman spoke at Columbia oo Monday night, and The State says nc was vary muob pleased at bis re* eeptlon. Tba ball ot the bouse of rep reaantatlvoa being inadequate to bold the crowd, the meeting waa adjourn ed to the portiou of tbe capltol. Ou tba landing mid»ay of tbe stairs, Sen ator Tillman took bis stand and for more than an hour and a Quarter be apoke of State politics, at the occlu sion aaylng that be would go to Wash lug ton and represent the, people as faithfully as he bad done for 12 yaara. When be had first walked In the daor of the ball some < f bln friends announced bis arrival with hand clap ping and this was taken up all over the ball. The gallarles were filled with ladiea. When be bad got room enough on the steps to speak a little Senator Tillman began to address tbe people by aaylng that bis first Inaugu ral address had been delivered from near this very spot, but tbe people of Columbia had not turned out to bear him then. Be had peter been a fav orlte in Columbia. They had been beaten and were angry and took no part in the Inauguration. Voice. It’s changed now. ” Tillman: "Well, It’s not because 1 have changed." And then he went on Into a state- man that he bad never cherished any 111 feeling toward tbe people of Oo lumbla. For four years be bad been govern or, ha continued, and tben for one term senator and ha bad been re-elect ed without opposition—except such as be had in this race.' (Laughter). Six yean ago hie opponent bad--made one apoarh and bad quit, in this cam paign he had not the pleasure of even meeting hla distinguished opponent, Ool. Lumpkin. Be believes that he will go back with the undivided vote of tba people. ▲t least, ha bo pas to do so. But be has mapped out a programme which calls for 20 spaeobss in tba next few weeks and If any feal aggrieved be cause be will exercise the right of a free oltlxen and discuss Isium, "they are at liberty to scratch my name off the ticket again as 18,000 of you did six years ago." "Some people say 1 am trying to ba your boas, t? Clouts to you," be con tinued, ‘ They know they are not tailing tbe truth. 1 have been your leader. I have had the courage to coma out on the line and lead the fighting whenever 1 saw my duty. Why should 1 surrender my rights as ajltlaab? Why abould 1 not give ex- passion to those views? ’ (Applause) They brought from Newberry. Threats ware made. Tba wltnaaMa left. Tba oommlttaa would not 1st them testify. Parker, of Qreenvllle, waa asked to tell some thing that ha didn’t know himself, but that a man In Baltimore had told him! Very naturally he refused. At the solicitation of tbe committee, tbe supreme court .made him talk. Ha told of bow ba had bean assured In Baltimore by Lanahan, that a high political cfflolal la Sooth Carolina had bean the agent of tbe Lanahans, tak ing their money for hla work. In con nection with whiskey orders. Than Mr. Parker balked again. He wouldn’t tell the cfflolal’a name. And this holy and righteous committee, that had not scrupled to make him start the relation of a private conversation be yond the State about a matter of which he personally knew nothing, Instantly voting not to make him tell who tbM man was. Why not? la there any falraeas or honasty of In- Mitigation there? Oh, this gnat graft killing 1 This humbug I "Wltnenea from Newberry told Mx next INSANE MAN KILLS WANTS EVIDENCE 1 Mmll toava you to settle tba ques tion. And aeltla It for yourselves I • "Weigh all thla hellabaloo about ’You can’t clean It, 1 and ‘It’a hops, laasly corrupt, ’ and vote. Yota for yourselves; but for God's xakt put these fence-straddlers out of builnese; kill these bowdedooing, baby-kissing, pulling politicians for all time! "I didn’t expect Ibis audience. I did not know that then wen aome emben still smouldering. I was not sun but that you would feal, aome of you, that It waa beneath you to come out to bear your senator, as you felt it beneath you to come to hear me when I waa your governor. But I meet heartily appnolate your presence to night When I go baok t< I shall try to serve you, as I have served you In the put eix yean; and 1 promise you that, whatever may come, you shall never have cause to HU WIFE AND CHILDREN WHILE THEY BLEEP. Informs Vis Neighbors of Via Mad Deed and Describes the Hor- l rible Murder. be ashamed of your aenator." LlON’d KETLY about beta full of money, and how the man who bad the money, and another man who wu Interested In or em ployed by, or who wu controlled by or who controlled, the Richland Dis tilling company, stood on a chair bnd puked over a transom to watch aome whiskey drummers give money to somebody else l r - • *. - “"All this trlvaland inoonwqmntlal talk! This hurrah about rottenness 1 And corruption! This marching un der banners blazoned, ’I am opposed to graft!’ Who la not opposed to TO THE DENVNCIATION OP SENA TOR B. R. TILLMAN. A dispatch from Walterboro to The Stats says Wednesday morning Jut before daybreak J. W. I meg an, a well-to-do farmer of Ruffins, Colleton county, took an axe and Blew hla wife and thru children, while they were aeleep The dead are Mrs. Olivia Imegan, to the senate age 34; hla children, Carrie, age 8; Thomas, age 4, and L ille May, age t toon u he had eleln hie family, Iraegin went to hla nearut neighbor, Mr. Isaac Salsbury, and reported it to nim. Mr. Salsbury and several of the neighbors took Imegan Into custody and carried him to Magistrate Ulmer, who unt him to Jail here. When sun by a representative of The State, said he had killed hla wife and chil dren, but did not know why he had IWSP > ON WHICH TO PROCHED AGAINST •Jmdffe Parker Sayi CERTAIN OFFICIALS. OeoelVe ttu Attorney .General Teamans lays That Lanahan Vu Denied Parkers ‘ Testimony. LeRoy T. Youmans, attorney Mr. Ha Admits that the Committee,?oand Nothing Against the Senator. general, wu instructed by Gov. Hey ward about a month ago to proceed with prosecutions against certain die pensary cfflilals. Mr. Youmans has been 111 since that time. Wednesday day he wrote to Gov. Heywary, In ef feet, that he oould not proceed on tbe tutlmony which the aupreme court ordered Mr. Parker to give before the luvutigatlng (onmittu. Following is the letter to Gov. Heyward: Dear Sir: It waa stated In the Co lumbia State of June 8 th that "tbe announcement wu made yesterday that Governor Heyward had notified tbe attorney general, Mr. LeRoy F Youmans, to prooeed with orimlna Former Judge All a statement given i Wednesday took la the uttterauoee of Taft in the apeeoh oeuverea sti Gtecnsboro, N. 0. by Mr. Taft last Monday. Judge Parker declares thai the secretary m hla apeeoh sought to | have Mm public draw the Inference tt at the reeent prosecutions of alleg ed illegal combinations are adue to new statutes. To tbls Judge Pjikei takes exception and to support hla | contention ho quotes from nls letter of aeoaptanoe and a apeeoh tubae- qoently delivered during the lut presidential campaign. In both the apeuh and the letter Judge Parker U Irwork) el bo other method to which they c*n relieve their ti*et’»»u Bering. ■ey without toeite- tion thst 4b yeobw- My BtB»4Wth» Of the done eo, that he loved them deatly P ro «« utlon ^against, dispensary offl and that they had always gotten along ct als, suspected of ml soon duct by rea- well together. He said he did not t ' e,llnQony ot k** 4 * ^ know when be killed them, but that r * rIer ' To the Editor of The State: Not having been present at the muting at the State house Monday night It wu Impossible for mg~to know just what remarks had been made by Senator Tillman in regard to graft? Soma of you might steal; but but assuming the reports In you wouldn’t vote to put in office a’ fc i. A mQrn | ni LAW. ¥ With these prefatory remarks, Senator Tillman dulared that In the counties which had voted out tbe dls pensary there are 66,000 Democratic voters. But the dispensary bad been tbled out in tb< grneral elections In whloh leu than 2u 000 voters parcel pated. A great many had bur, vole u they did you wouldn't vote to put man you thought would steal. 'Op, posed to graft!’ I tell you, this ’In vestigation’ is u big a humbug u wu aver put before a decent people. "You beard our noble old Roman, General Youmans, uy today why he bad not prosecuted these alleged graft era. Governor Heyward wrote an or der to the attorney general to begin prosecutions at once. General You mans ^old you why nobody bad bun arrested—because be had no sffllavlta on wbiok to begin prosecution. I tell you there la not the veriest tyro at any bar—there la no so 100I boy—who does not know tbat a prosecuting official must have, before he may begin to prosecute, an affidavit in whloh some body swears that the accused has broken a statute. "Tnen lut April, after I had writ: tan this address of warning. Lyon, in bis peaceful office In Abbeville, wrote to an wttorney whiskey dAlmahta, and who had bean after him uking 'Why don’t you pay our bill!?' and Explained that Tillman warier king to discredit the board but ue i ug.,1 to remember that he wu oimseir under investigation. He uld, too, that Tillman in hla testimony before the committee had claimed he paid Hubbell rebates furorediting the dispensary, and T went to Cincinnati to aoe if be bu told the truth and if Hulbell gjt the money. I have oeai d, too, that Tillman while gover nor received a piano u a gift from a whiskey bouse.' "Well, I have been charged often with stealing rebates. 1 wu charged with that before I left the governor'i mansion. But this piano bualneaa wu new to me. I don’t know who started It. When Lyon,4f he had been enough of a gentleman to have represented old Abbeville creditably,’ could euily have found out when, where, ‘how, and from whom I got that piano—and what I paid for It. He instead went about to show that your twice elected T governor—your benator, virtually thrlci elected, had sunk so low that—Oh, gentleman, know no word for it but a cues word ao strong 1 can’t uy it nera, and will have to stopl ' T had bought the piano when came here; two years before the dls the morning papers to be correct, wlUxay-that It is quite flattering to know tbat the senator hu approved of every position I as ode of the minor ity members of the committee have taken. I am glad to feel tbat al though denouncing me, Senator Till man practically approved of all my work and efforts on the Investigating committee—If not directly, then In directly. He wanted to know why we did not examine witnesses brought £ere from Newberry In February. The answer be should know. Had my vote been ■ufflilent, the committee would have insisted on the evidence from these witnesses being made a part of our re cords. He wanted to know why the com mittee did not ask Mr. L. W. Parker who Lanahan’s political agent lut year. Senator Tillman should have known by tbe published vote oi It wu almost daylight, when he had gotten through. He said he used an axe. , *■*' Imegan Is a well to-dp farmer, and lives about one mile from Ruffins. He . [is Industrious and hu a nice farm. He seems. to be a man of about 45 years age. He came to this country from Sweeden, and kept books for J. M. Dannelly, a great many years. He married Miss Olivia Andrews of Wil liams, thla county. There la no doubt about the man’s being Insane. He tried to take hla own life about two yean ago by cutting hla throat with a razor. The neighbors say he hu been acting strangely of late. He wu a juror at the sessions court held here lut week. Later—George Imegan, eldest son of J. W. Imegan, who wu thought to have bean slain by hla fairer, bu jnstbeen brought to Walterboro on 6ne train from R fflos. Hla head and fact are both crushed in but he Is htlll alive. He wu carried to the Infirm ary, where he is now being operated on by Drs. £*dorn and Ackerman, and hla condition is uld to be critical. KELIQluUd FANAIlO. Kills Her Brother In * Railroad Hta- denied the right to »«,«« —. T . „ not have their registration eertifi veojary wu even thought of. No, the Others had been too muob befuddied by the corruption and the talk of corruption. Then to the audience, u a Rich land audience, he said: "It you don’t want tbe dispensary, vote In the primary where all free l> mocrau can participate and send men to tbe legislature who will take It out." Volos: "Take It,• W.”” Tillman:. "J.f you don’t want it, vote it out. Tne real meaning of TiUmantaffi is to 1st one vote go tar u another." He then went on to uy that there la no need for factionalism. Aa an Instance he cited that "the once de spised Ban Tillman" oould apeak to ao large an audience u tbls In Columbia, thus proving that factionalism is m have not come here to ‘meddle’ m * the view of throwing my Influ ence In any man’s favor or against any man. Aa between most of tne oandi dads, I have no advice to offer In you choice. But 1 have a grievance manner personal. 1 have _ that must be said, and V thla U the only opportunity I shall hate of uylng it in the gentleman’a —1 mean the man’s—preaeqpe, for he goes with the campaigners, and 1 have no lntantloo of following tbat mena gerie on Its circus circuit. I have a little circuit of my own. "Last eprlngr-ta April it was—In punuaooe of what I thought my duty, I wrote an address to the people. It wu eent down here and printed In tbe papers. I couldn’t see why thla holv righteoas dispensary InveatigaMng committee coifldn’t get down to work What they were pleaud to style ’dluybtteo cesspool down on the Gongaree. ’ Among other things I took the liberty In that address to warn tbe committee about those •800,400 or more of debts for liquor which they had held up. "I oentended then, and contend now, that not one dollar's worth of all that liquor wu ever legally bought, beeapae tbs law requires competitive bidding, and I defy any citizen to allow ms any chance of competition the advsruumenta of hide. I. against hold- Mile, and getting into t liquor drummen and else the first thing would be scandal at- easy way to fino out about that piano wouldn’t suit the our dog propehil ties of tbat man who ao mUrepreseota Abbeville. MUrepreunte? Why do 1 uy U ? Because with pride and pleasure I can say that In the three heated campaigns beginning with 1800, Abbeville was the only county In whlQ i 1 win never treated with the slightest discourtesy. Always Id the others there were some dirty blackguards to burl Insults at me on the stand. I found only the courtesy of the old South Carolina In Abbeville And this man, coming from among such a people, voted for by them dares to tell ever his dirty signature, that Tillman took s measly piano from a liquor house 1 "i have waited patiently for the re port of tbat sub-committee, that was golrg to OlEolnoati to find out from Hubbell whether he got the rebates said I allowed him. I have read Lyon’s report- to the governor. In which he states what be tried to do and what he fatUd to accomplish, knew the young man had listened to hla coddling newspapers and bad got tbe swelled head. But I thought that when he came to himself—when he had had time to cool off and settle down, he would make aome amends But. no He made the matter as di rectly personal as he oobld. I had ex pected that after he had recovered somewhat he would have tbe decency and manliness to say in hla formal re port, 'There la nothing In it,' or to writs me a private letter aaylng he bad erred and was sorry. - "Did he do It? Nol He stood by it. And I hare deny it as a moat In famous lid I hope you understand ghat ao far ax tbe nos for attorney general la concerned, 1 would have been gUd to have kept my hands off; but I felt that my aslf-reapaet de manded, and that I owed it as a duty to you, to denounce him here as a slanderer. I have already oalled him a liar. "Phytical endurance hu a limit I am almost done. I have worked hard er In the leadership of thla railway rate bill during the past aealon than I ever dig In any six months of my Ufa. I came home on a Saturday and stay ed oue night Then an obligation 1 had made to apeak In Illinois called me away, nine hundred miles. Com ing back, I spoke at Sandy Springs, slble for thla failure. I did aak those questions. The majority of the com mittee voted that Mr. Parker should not answer. Senator Tillman sustains me in my position in those .contentions aa well aa In the matter of the suspended pay ment of the 1700,000 worth of claims He asked why was not the manager of tbe Rixhland distillery put on tbe stand to corroborate tbe avideoca of C. O. Davla that H. H. Evans had told of Wilson and himself dlmliiog on a table to watch through a tran som to see rebates paid to others The reason ie that Briggs Wilson, at that time manager ot the distillery has moved to Georgia and we have not boen able to get Information from him. That, Senator Tillman la one of the reasons why ha was never put on tne stand. About the piano incident. The committee employed a detective report on what he could find relative to all dispensary affaire. This detec Mvs formally and in writing reportec to the sub-committee that he had been told by Mr. Hayer, who waa at that time cmneetedtfflolally with the Mill Greek Distilling company had givsn to Gov. Tillman a piaoo. waa tba duty o( the committee, as •aw it, to Inquire into such a report Mr. Hayea waa seen and failed to ootilrm tba report submitted to the committee. After irqilry by the committee had failed to tsoure any creditable evidence, the piano Incident was dropped and forgotten, especially as Mr. M. A. Malone had previously fully explained the purchase of the piano in 1891. ~ It waa never- charged or stated by me that Got. Ttllm&n had received piano from a whiskey house, hut there wu a rumor to that cff.-ct, and tbat there was a rumor to that effect the official records of the subcommittee will show. That~wu all that was ever said about the plane. Even Senator Tillman Insisted upon full in vestlgation of bis every act connected with the dispensary and yet fall to •ee the harm ortbirtFfpiry, oui sen ator Tillman should rejoice at the ton at It At Seattle, Wash., George MKchell, a youth who recently shot and kilDd Frarz Edmund Greffieid, a ‘ Holy Roller" prophet, and wu acq lilted of the charge of murder on a plea of inunity, Taursday wu shot and killed by his sister, Esther. In the union station. Esther Mitchell joined the ‘‘Holy Rollers” sect at Uorvallls, O.egon, and wu one of tbe most ardent ot Gnfficejd’s followers. When her brother pursued the leader of the "Holy Rollers" to Seattle and shoA him In the street, he pleaded lei josti- fioatlen that Groffleld had deluded and wronged his sister. George Mitchell wu acquitted cf the charge of murder on Tuesday, a. d nearly all of tbe following day he spent In searching for E.tner in Se attle lodging houses. She refused to be comforted after the death of Gref- fijld. ‘ E ther Mitchell, when found, finally , agreed to see her three brotberreff to their home in Oregon. Tne Mltcoell brothers, George, Perry and Fred, were sitting with E ...her on a benob in the station waiting room talking, apparently on the best of terms. When the Oregon train wu announc ed George Mitchell rose and started for the door. Hla sister stepped to als side end pointing s revolver at his uaad fired a fatal shot before any one else In tbe room realized what wu happening. Mlu Mitchell wu arrested shortly after her brother fell dead .by her hands. She had refused until Wed nesday to have anything to do with her brother since he shot Grsffldld to avenge Greffieid's treatment of Mlu Mitchell. Wednesday night Charles MHohell, the father, aod his daughter Either reached a reconciliation, the girl for several days having refused to see even her father. After the shooting Perry and Fred Mitchell were arrested as witnesses. They were found to gether on a bench in tire station, sob- nlng on each other's.shoulders failure to find corroboration of the ru mor that a piano bad been sent him by tbe Mill Greek Hietllllng company It would be humiliating to me to know that at a public muting I had bun rightfully accused of stating falsehood; but knowing that I have always stated the truth and that Abe irate Senator cannot aubstantlate his charge In this reaped—be hot even at tempting to do so—the ahafi which he had Intended to be deadly to me will fall harmlessly at my side. I cannot believe that the justice- loving people of South Gate 11 na would aid Senator Tillman In the accomp lishment of hie purpose to defut me. To the people of South Carolina I will uy that It la my purpose to oontlnue in the coune I have heretofore pur sued and will not be moved by person al attacks, nor will I bandy abusive epithets with anyone. I regret that Senator Tillman feels personally eg grieved on account of hla being inves ligated but that has not been, an un common happening to ua in our work. However, Senator Tillman la tbe only one known to me leaking revenge on account of It. Senator Tillman might have In quired what the committee had found in tracking down thla one of many ru mors and I gladly would have told him the result of our inquiry. But he may have preferred to fondle the Im aginary grievance to have a hook on Murder and Kobberj. Bobbery wu the motive for the murder of Millie Ellison, who wu found dying amid the flsmu of blaz ing alcohol at the National hotel at Minneapolis, Minn., Wednesday, Mlu Ellison had lately sold out her mill aery busloeu at E Is worth, Wts., and bad gone to the Twin Olties with about 86 600. No such sum waa found in her room at the hotel. Investlga ticn at Ellsworth shows that Mia Ellison bad always borne a good repu tatton. Nathan Riggs wu arrest*d at Elroy, Wla. Riggs Is a conductor of the St. Paul and Omaha road. He is accused by Mlu Ellison’s family of killing her aod will be brought back to MlnneapeUs for examination. Riggs la said to have bean Mlu Ellison’s buiineu adviser and there la evidence tending to show that he accompanied her to the National Bank of Com merce, when she had a draft for 82,- 741 cashed. whloh to tong abuse instead of argu- hr la he i the work of that mank. Or la he really mad because it wu my dnty to present to tbe people of tbe State convincing evidence of the Inherent corruption of the dlspen- aary system which ba la working ao hard to uva. I wonder, had I agreed to whitewash th< a tin Given Damages. The Columbla Reoortf uya for In juriw caused by a pullley set screw, whloh caught in hla sleeve and caused the maiming of hla hand, Melvin Williams, colored, wu given In com moo pleu Wednesday a verdict against the Southern Cotton 0.1 company for damages In the sum of 8600. For a long while the Jury wu unable to agree, desiring to ba shown the Idea Meal pulley whloh wu alleged to have caused the damage. All the evidence bad closed and tbe arguments had been made, however, and It did not •pern eonalstent with usual practice ot exactly expedient to grant the wish of the Jary. They were sent back to their room sod kept there for several hours. They were* permitted to bring In a seeled verdict, which wu opened and read in court Wad- JKZzfzt-.* > Tae testimony of Mr. Lewis W Parker referred to is to be fonnd In the Issue of the State of June. 7th. On the receipt of >our letter, I had a conversation with you, in which stated my views In regard to thammi Important fundamental legal proposl tlon connected with the matter. As the announcement.™ferred to in the Isaue of The State of June 8 th bu been often Iterated and reiterated without any men tlon'of what tran spired in the conversation between us, I think It proper to state in writ Ing briefly tbe poeltion I tben took and to which I still adhere. It will be aeen by reference to the testimony of Mr. Lewie W. Parker alluded to, that it consists in the malt of portions of what wu uld to him In conversation by a Mr. Lznthan who is a citizin and resident, of Mary land, and whom our criminal couru have no power to compel to testify tbe matters whloh Mr. Parker sa>s Lanahan told him. So much ot the statement u relates to mieoonduot on the part of dispensary tffldals, eon slats solely of what Parker says Lana ban told him (Parker) as having beeq communicated to him (Lan&hai ■) by L. W. Byokin, a memuer ofjrthe dis pensary board.. i aid jiot theft, think, and. I Jo. not,, no w tnlnk that anv thi og revealed by the testimony of Mr. Parker affordeo tenable ground on whloh any proseeu tlon proper and necessary to vindicate the law oould be insyltuud against dispensary (fflclal. Parties charged with the commls lion of such offenses as are spoken of can legally be arrested only ou war rants Issued upon probable cause the RommlMiCh of those iffinses sup ported by oath or affirmation. (Cju sbitutlon, art, 1, sic 16 ) A warrant la a precept under hand and real a person authorised to tak? up any of fender to quotedtu Baying that the laws on the statute hook were entirely adequate If enforced. Judge Parker In hls statement says "The Inference tbat Secretary Taft would have tbe public draw from hls utterruoes Is that there things are due to new statutes; tbit the vindication whloh the law la now receiving Is due to congressional so tlon since 1904, But that la not so Not me of the sueocssful prosecutions for which the existing admlnlatra tlon is now entitled to credit Is bu edonany new statute. Every sin gle one of them down to thla date eats solely upon the law, as it stood in 1904, and It should not be lost dght of by a discriminating pubi c that the law could Have been enfor ced In 1904, and In 1903, and In 1902. just aa well aa today. Had It been the wrongs from which the people suffered would not have so multipli ed." , J. HWTOIIITIIV1T, I k IrtduU Hart mouth W. tS- Jig«U*l.li.Hw»>- M.Muty. Ix.lt tun It4.lt., g I with, tU, STS’rs.r; oould hare brea cured tod the prop er medical attintiaii been Mewed or available. We' ■pecialieta la- the treeimeat of theee and other chronic and private dtaeeeee of both men amt wet* Vi, have had over 30 yeare’ experience and haVe enred handrads of women who C advieed bo have an operation. The average doctor will do everything io hie power to cure without an opeir. tlon, but their methods of treatment mostly moult WILL sum If VK1D1D. Willing to Sacrifice Personal Peeling for Good ol Party, the vindication of Democratic ,ri £ urine, dixxleneas. bloating, eto.,. to be dealt with according due course of law; U properly lama i le now upon affidavit, which affidavit must accompany the warrant. A prosecution at this -stage of tbe ffdr, based on tbe testimony giver would, lnm> judgment, be premaiu^ ill-advised and unwarranted It wll be remembered, too, tbat in the very carefully, prepared resolution, by whloh the legislative committee was appointed to investigate the State dis pensary, the committee is to report it findings to tba generalaaaembly. Wbai further developments may be held be fore this committee I, of course, can not anticipate. I have so often seen tll-adv.aed and premature prosecution result in the miscarriage of lustloe that I have found It very unsafe depart from establish'd precedent! and well-established praotic a. Aa understand from your letter, tbe In veatlgatlng committee has mads no report to you of this matter, and what you'saw in tba public prints produced befora tbe investigating committee tbe result of a ruling of the aupreme tourt, la the nganner 1ft whloh the sub ject waa brought to your Attention. When tbe conduct of Black was re ported to you by the investigating committee, as there was no affldavl Former Belted States Senator James K Jon s, of Arkansas, former ly o islrman of the Nat o al Dumo- oratlo Committee when W. J BryaL nade the race for the Presidency II 1896 and 1900, received % letter from Bryan, In which the latter announce, that he will aooept the nomination for President lor a third time if ten dered to him. Tut letter. la dated Stockholm, June 18, and la as follows: "I hare been watching the politics, developments and noted with grattfi cation ' ✓tiueiptei. Hire aaotb- r nomination and do hot rant one unless conditions seem ti dsmand it. I may add lerj^y tba freedom of privite life, and feel I can 1o some good without holding any of-' lice. ’ There are, however, certain re- fortra whloh I wou d like very much to hi • aooooa pished and to assist In the ieoompllshment ot these reforms 1 am wlM. g to become the party’s oandi date again, If, when the time for the aonci istioa arrives and advocates of re'orm are in control of the party think my candidacy would give the best assurance of victory. If »omr ins else seems more available, I will be even better pleased. I need not sasur s rou that I am more Interested in m log oar principles triumphant than In tbe personnel of the ticket Tne country needs to have Jiff arsonist Democracy applied to every depart ment of government,estate and na tional, aod I am content to help makf .hla appropriation. Yours truly, ” W. J. Bkyan. Ki la Hts Nuighbar. A special from Rural Uy treat, Vi., says: "J. H. Smythe was fatally aoo^ and J. S Germany badly wounded at tbe result of an alieroation near there Thursday. Tnere baa been a grudg* between the meu for years. The im mediate provr cation of Taursday’« trouble was caused by Germany sett log his dogs on S my the’s hogs. Ini quanel Smythe shot Germany with a revolver. Germany’■ son, who waa a witness, want to hls home, procured a shotgun, returned to the soene ot the d ffluulty and emptied the entire load Into Smythe’a body. Smyths smytha and many ware neighbors and farmers. No arrests have been made.” or sworn statement, I advised you pot to take any stepi looking to bis moral as a memoar ot the board until Ahere had been at least an affidavit oi sworn statement oLwhefcoHaotion- able action It wu stated tbat Black bad been guilty. On being informed of tbls by you, the affidavit wu at once supplied. I sea no reason, If a prosecution Is to be Instituted in this case against a dispeoatry official, why it should be taken out of the domain of tbe general and well-established law. It la perhaps worthy of remark In this connection that the press which informed m of Parker’s test! mony, Informs us also tbat Lanahan does not agree to tbe version made before the Investigating committee. Very respectfully, La Roy F. Youmans, Attorney General. Seven Gtrle Drowned. At Oedar Rapids, Iowa, seven girls were drowned Thursday la Oadsr Rapids river, only three blocks from home, while wading. The smallest child slipped into a deep hole aod in trying to rescue her Six others were drowned. Ruth Kleraey wu the only one of the party to (.scape. The dead: Luoile. Hazel, Gladys and Josle Sweeting; Rutn and Cora Ooyle, and Clara Usher. The girls rargedjn age from 7 to 16 years The Sweeting children lived with the father near EilU park on the outskirts of Oedar Rapids. Glare Usher was tbe daugh ter of Sweeting*4 housekeeper and the Ooyle children were her niece’, who were bn a visit from Sioux; la , Four of the bodies were q ilckly re moved from the water, but ft wu too late to reenaoitate them. The other bodies were recovered later. Bhootinjt Affray. In a shooting affray following a party at which acme cf those prerer t bad been drinking 12 miles from Ma riana, Fla., W. N. Donaldson, a wall- known stock dealer from Tampa, shot Waiter Nloboida In the shoulder, hla •on, Bore NlWudda, in the leg and killed hiwaalf. It Is alleged that through jealousy. Mat* Killed. Tom Baxter, colored, wu killed by Southern freight train No, 71* tw* mi'e# from Newberry at 0 odook Wednesday afternoon. Baxter who wai deaf and dumb, wu walking In the middle of the track brella up when he wu killed. The r*?~h engineer, ak"blf train came around the curve down grade, blew tbe whis tle and rang the bell, but did not slacken speed, thinking yh* negro would*get off. Baxter had a big hole knocked in hla head and hla right leg cut off above the ankle. He died In 10 minutes after being struok. They Swans Him. A Swa’nsboro special to the Augus ta Chronicle uya: About 100 heavily armed men took El Pearson, a negro, mtlea from this place shortly after 2 o'clock Wednesday morning, carried aim to the Connaaeben swamp and lynched him. Tne night before Pearson i^u found by Mlares Hand and Ida Durdan, hiding under their bed. Scrums attracted their father, an aged man, who entered the room with a gun, bu} wu knocked senseless by the negro, who escaped. 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