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VOL. XXXII BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1. 1905 NO. 5 mis HIM DOWN 4^ BryM Demands Proof of tho Chargos Against Hasfcoll BV BEMOnt.^TIU (YOOUTTEi: MADE BY ROOSEVELT. HEARST LIE NAILED .:n CHAIRMAN MACK. "ho H»y* He Never Received On' 1 Cent From the Former CtMirainn Nor the Standard Oil. Challenge* the IVesIdent to Produce Evidence Upon Which He Ha**-* His Endorsement of the Associa tion That the Governor Had Au.v Connection With Standard Oil. The most sensational development In the present campaign was the sending Tuesday from Detroit by William J. Bryan, Democratic candi date for president, of a telegram to President Roosevelt, demanding that he produce proof that Gov. Charles N. Haskell of Oklahoma, treasurer of the Democratic national committee, ever was connected with the Standard Oil Company. The telegram was sent in answer to the statement of President Roose velt, published Tuesday morning, in which the President endorsed the. charges made against Gov. Haskell, hy William R. Ilearst, that* Gov. Haskell had been connected with the Standard Oil Company and had attempted to bribe AttornevGeneral Frank Monnett of Ohio. The tele- gram i* as follows: ‘ Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President j rations; and, further it ♦was an- of the United States. (nounced at the time of the election "Dear Sir: In a statement given {that the treasury wjs empty. The President said he thought it looked Queer that such a large sum of mon key should turn up after Haskell wa- appointed treasurer of the Demo cratic national committee.' “If you are nnot*^%eorreetly no doubt you have in mind the publica tion in The New Yolk American -re cently that I. as chairman of the Democratic national committee, re- Oil Company. In endorsing this reived ISOO.OOO from former Chalr- j^harge you attack -the .Democratic man Taggart, which was said to he party Ihd ITS fin 1 1 that ' Vf* the 190a campaign While in New York City Tuesday Mr. Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic national co^nniittoe. contradicted another of the numer ous lies that Hearst has been putttnj in circulation altout the Democratic campaign. Mr. Mack addressed a telegram to President Roosevelt In which he denied flatly the statements contained in the reported interview between Timothy L. Woodruff, chair man of the Republican State com mittee and President Roosevelt, which were printed in local papers Tuesday morning. - Chairman Mack's telegram to the President follows: “I notice In Th>v New York Tribune this morning yo"ir are quoted by Thomas L. Woodruff, chairman of the Republican Staf. committee, in the following interview which .Woodruff gave out from Oys ter Bay: ‘Incidentally, the President re marked that he considered it slgniii cant that $300,000 had been found in the treasury of "the Democratic party after Judge Parker had do dared throughout the last national campaign that the party's treasury was receiving nothing from oorpo- HDDY IN A HOLE "The president come to tne local affairs of our State and assails me for vetoing a child labor bill. gov. e. N Hafirruts Ttair-! “T-e«H»T I did SO simulv liecanscjjho vftftfft AfHHtiasCtuc. SOME CENTER SHOTS Says Prairie OIL, Company "a* Forced on Oklahoma When a Ter ritory hy Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior and He HadTcTUBey the Law. Thursday night at Guthrie, Gov ernor Chas. N. Haskell Issued a Statement to the Associated Press in reply to President Roosevelt's let ter in reply to W. J. Bryan, dealing In the case you criticise. Child Ubor Hill. WAS IN THE RING bllLjcent too far and included things not ^lesired by obr people. I'nlon la- bor represcnrsTteR approved my I hope the president will survive this veto oT~a local bill and permit us lo run our local affairs. The College Professors. “The president complains that w*> ^-[removed certain professors “from our State university, our three StaTc normal , schools and preparatory school, in violation’of civil service SBflitor McLaurin on 6ood Tormi With Standard Oil COULD BEAT TILLMAN "The president complains that i )ar A- v * n, ° a tumult' tonight by un- there are several suits pending jacking a few more interesting let- with four specific charges agalnsH “gainst me to. reclaim Creek Indian; ,. rs having to do with United States Mr. Haskell, namely, that heM-* The president should have ^ 4 V gone further and sAid that I was enat ° rs and hta " rtar <l <> »• A tor- no I a dealer in Indian land and onl> i nrr rn,, cd States senator was came in as a subsequent 7>urchaser named in the letter which Mr. out by you yesterday and published Id this morning's papers yqu endorse a charge made against Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma to the effect that he was once In the employ of the Stan dard Oil Company and as- such em- ployae was. connected with an at tempt to bribe qy InflueoW'Attorney Ganeral Monnett of Ohio dismiss suits pending against the StandaM ‘Gov. Haskell stands high in the councils of Mr. Bryan and is the treasurer of his national Campaign committee,’ and you add that ‘th ■ publication of tt$ s» oo’rresgondeae • not merely Justifies in striking fash This, at that time, w~as~em"ph.ilkallv- denied when brought to my atten tion. - I de-ire to say to Voit now, hat there is not a word of truto in this statement. I have not re ceived one cent from Chairman Tag- ion the action of the adminlstra- gnrt or any one else connected tion, but also casts a curious side light on the attacks made upon the administration both In the Denver convention, which nominated Mt Bryan, and Jn the. course of Mr. Bryan's campaign.' "Your charge is so serious that I can noL allow It to go unnoticed flov. Haskell has denied that he wa*- ever emplo>ed by the Standard Oh Company In capacity or was ever connected In any way whatsoever with It or with the transaction upon which your charge Is based. "Gov. Haskell demanded an In vestigation at the time of the rharg.' was first made, offering to appear and testify, and he demands an in vestigation now. 1 agree with yon the last campaign; neither lias any one connected with the Democratic national c mmittee. I am wiring von this direct as I desire to correct what seems to lie an erroneous im pression in your mind. SHERIFF KILLS NEGRO. GrorgiA Officer Shot Five But Get* Ills Man. TlniV*. Sheriff W. \\\ Beard, of Clay county, Ga., was shot five times here Monday mqrning by George Thomas, ihe negro alleged to have murdered the Blue boys about ten days ago. vnd Thomas in ttjrn was, shot and instantly killed by the sheriff. Sher- that if Gov. Haskell Is guilty as, , . charged he Is unfit to be onneoten '** Beard met Thomas on the strjte^ with the DemocvgUc.. national conn | 1,1,1 ordered him to halt Thomas -Vipejud fire and wounded Beard fiv times before he could draw his mittce and I affv sure you will agre. #ttlr me that If he is Innocent. h» . . deserves to be exonerated from nT ■•‘fol. pistol damaging an 8ccusatloit^A&_ th- ^ ,,n,1 ^ ot Thomas dt-ad. Sheriff selection man ... — „.. .. . . , , j -ie—Culeman, Alma Johnson and Sa- | vannah Woods, the wonian whose [house is near the scene of the ion of Gov, Haskell as chat.-! !U,nrd ' ,< ‘ !nrtl " on is ^ or,, d to ' K ' of committee cn resolutions a* crlUcal. Th otln r negroes, E.,- Ilenver anti also aa treasurer of the Democratic committee had my ap proval and endorsement. 1 feel It my duty to demand an immedl it.- Investigation of the charge against him endorsed b$’ the president e' the United States. Your high , po sition as well as your sense of ju- tice. fihouhT~pre\etrt your giving sanction and circulation to such ; fcSarge without proof and I respee- ' fully request, therefore, that yo-’ furnish any proof which yon have in your possesclon, or if you have n proof. I request that you indicate ; method by which the truth may -b»* ascertained. Without consulting Mi. tragedy, are confiend in the county jail as acvessoi ies. ACCIDENT ON FRENCH CRITHER. ami Killed Rille Gun Evplmles Ci-evv of Thirteen. At Toulon. France, during a gun drill Tuesday one of the big tur ret guns on the French armored cruiser LaTouche Treville exploded with terrific violence, completed- wrecking the after tufret and kill- subservient to the Standard Oil: tha* he vetoed a child labor hi!!; that Jie dealt extensively in C’eek Indian lands and that he allow-ed politic# to dominate him In the removal of members of the faculty of the State unverslty and the appointment of others to succeed (hem. Governor Haskeil took jup the foui charges as dwelt upon by President Roosevelt In turn, dealing with each In a characteristic manner. Th- Prairie Oil and Gas Company charge* Governor Haskell declared to he t “joke on Roosevelt's stupidity," as serting thkf he had done nothing which would confer on the Standard Oil suhsidary company more author ity than it already possessed undei a franchise granted by Secretary Hirrhcock. An Untruth; Waived it Aside. "I assert that It is fair for nje td assume, if my c->se was tn^be digni fied by an all-day cabinet meeting tjiat beyond question mV Hearst and hitr campaign associate. Presides Roosevelt, left no stone unturned to blacken my character. "That being true, they certainly raked Ohio fore and aft toncerning the Ohio Standard Oil case of 189'' and. finding absolut'/ nothing re fleeting oh ire.—the prertdent—tried rules. That is, the president, in hi* usual Impetuosity and—reckiesa dls- regartl of others, misstate the facts. Less than on^-fifth of the facultie- are changed. All^changes were fori good causes other than politics and ! done hy boards o^ regent and not by j the governor. The Creek Indians. "If Properly and Generuusly Snp- .1 • ' . eTT portetl, **■ Wrote Hr to John Arch- hold. One of the Great Moguls of «- the Standard Oil Company, But He Failed to Do It. A special dispatch from New York o TJie State says Hearst set the •tate convention of his Independence Haskell, f-wUl agree that he will up j 0 , ltrtgl , t thP ( . n tire gun crev; pear for inv^ftigation before and tri i-> * ^ number of men were s*s- unal. publtg^oj private w:hich you rna,. ‘ j n ji irC( j > gome of them proh- ably fatally. The accident pas aim- Indicated and, A will further agre.- Ahtt his connection with the nation-1 rommittee and this campaign shall cease In the event that the decision of such tribunal conm'cta him It' any way with this chrage. or In case you. after an Investigation of th- faets, say that you believe hirp guilty of the cbaTRns made. •• "Aa-the candidate of the Demo cratic party T fb*U not permit any responsible member of the RepubB- can organisation to misrepresent the acts of the Democratic party in th- present campaign. 1 have assisted^ yon tothe extent of my ahllliy Bt" remedial measures which 1 deemed for the public good which you have undertaken; l have 11, '8‘ >d Demo crats to support soch measures and I have advocated more radical meas- ures a gain #t private monopolies th'tt either you or your party associate* have been willing to undertake. The platform of the Democra*!'' party is clear and specific on thi- subject, as on other subjects.^whtl* the. pUtform oflhe Republican party is uncertain and evasive. ^ The Democratic candidate for vice president, Mr. Kern, Joined- with m Rff to.that abiyrarthe tuiinery d' Hyeres Augusl 12. last, when, by the btirstlng of the breech of th«' gun six mc^i ’were killed and IS injured to wave his charge of last Monda- aside by saying he will make no al lusion to that.’ “He drops this subject because his ..original statement was untruth ful and he must know from wha ! he knows and tried to find in Ohio that I spoke the truth when I said that 1 never in all my life had am Interest in connection with, no* service for, that company. Gould Spell It With Throe letter*. "I say the president knows no* that my statement is true and I re gret that he 'tries to brush it aside without doing me candid justice Were L to adopt the character of language so^commonly used by the president I would spell It in fewer letters tha'n ‘falsehood.’ “Mr. Roosevelt. I hope to speat In Ohio soon May I? I- hone to divide the time with s nmc nai" isat of yours, or Crown Prince William, who will defend your action in this instance. ~ " "President Roosevelt 'Tomes* '?' Oklahoma and finds a substitute foi his Ohio failure,-does he, in thee?*- of the Rtate^against the Prairie Oil and Gas^Company, which he eom- pisins i compelled to be dismissed'.' Knows He Acted IVoperly. "YetCr;* t 'did h:ive it dismissed We all know that the Prairie Com pany is a Standard Oil offspring, and don’t forget the president claim to have known this also, and 1 charge that his political allies, Hearst and Roosevelt, both know that I act ed properly. First, the Prairie On Companj g t Its franchise In our State, no: fiom me, but from Roosevelt's sec retary of the interior, long befor- statehood began and had its^ main line built and operating. , and i congress in our statehp d bill wa, careful to declare that our new State, when organized, /must respect all such vested-sights and existing franchises. That 'was all I did; and the federal courts stand ready to ctM me down if 1 violated the Roosevelt territorial franchise. (Questions to Roosevelt. “Now. Mr_ President, why did your seceretary of the Interior grant what you knew to be a Standard Oil pipe line a franchire In our then helpless territory and fasten It ih our new State’by a permanent state hood bill? Will Mr. Hearst or thCv president please answer. "I will also 1 remind the president that the company tried to enlarge its right so as to incltlde a gas as well as oil privilege. This I de feated, and even last April. Mr. President, your secretary of the in terior tried to help the Standard Oil g-Atrprivileges agilnat my protest lv actually grantlng^them a franchise to lav an interstate gis line also. I nottflod the secretary-J.that with tnd only incidenally a party without uersonal Interest at all, and espec ially he should have said that It i.- tuPe apparent that those who arc | being used In those land eases ap pear to be. and apparently are. the victims of |>oltical chicanery which the president can better explain than I. In short, the president and ^*r. Hearst picked the wrong man and tre now driven Into ward politics rather than surrendej? Hke men. " hat President Think*. “The presided! assumes that at) Oklahomans are grafters just be 'ause his territorial associates justi- tined that name; that all the railroad •ontractors are bad. Just hecaus* Patti Morton needed his protecting trm; that we alt in Oklahoma violate 'he civil service law, just because Mr. Ro | veil removed the b? ,< -' United State marshal we ever had. he only reason being that he vote,I for a good Democrat i ft stead-of a bid Republican, and then the president tppolnted his cousin to fill the vu 'ancy. “As to the rights, of labor in e. ’hlld labor bill and my work in th« Interest of la lor. Mr. President dea.se remember, Tiiiti mi it's d i things. With you it's talk only You are the same president whr threatened to turn down our const! •utlon because it provided a jury •rial in certain contempt case- Don't forget, Mr. President. I flatly larej you to make tnat objection. He Know* His Position I* False. "But as, the price of your ap- oroval you did compel us to cut out he prohibition of removal o personal injury cases against foreign corporations from State to federal •ourts, and several other good pro visions that would benefit humanity tnd curb special interests. “Not content with your own 'hreats against our constitution, you -ent Secretary Taft here to speak In our campaign a year ago to in IncCtbe.people to vote to turn down ‘he best eonsfUattciLjever written. We remember that we"preserved Mr Taft's speech. It differs widely from tis speeches of this year. “Knowing all tnrse things, the. president mual 'itardon ns for thus ‘aking jjijsue with the ocrtjpaiif of he high office w* all respect l,et us hope Jhat in tlte fttHrrt r "he will tppreelate and preserve its dignity »nd not try to reflect upon the char- icter of a humble citizen. We f ^^nam county, 'o concede his false position, w hen he knows it is false. ."C N. HASKELL." FATAL RESULT OF PRANK. Hearst pulled out from his grip to night; ex-Scnator 4. L. McLaurin, of South Carolina. *a Democrat. Mr. Hearst read letters from Senator McLaurin to John D. ArThbold and :'rom The latter to Senator Me- l^turin. while the crowd of delegates Mid spectators hooted and yelled and ^creamed. "Go for them, Bill." in one of the letters Senator Me lAnrln wrote, to Mr. Archbold b<v spoke oJ being able to beat Senator Tillman, bis colleague, "If properly and generously supported." „ In the same collection was a let- er of k later date froirt Mr Archbotrl introducing the same senator to Frederick L. Eidridge. vice president if the Knickerbocker Trust Com pany, "to discuss question of mutual interest." Ex-Repres-m'ative Jos. C. Sibley, of nennsylvania, bdbbed up igaln In tonight's sheaf with several interesting letters. In one he told Mr. Archbold of a "Ren." senate- who wanted a loan of $1,000 and •tsked Mr. Archbold. "Do you wanr -o make the investment?" Prior to the 1901 campaign Mr. ttitey—wrote Mr. ArchiKild anothc HASKELL RESIGNS DEMOCRATIC-TREASURER GIVES ' UP Ills OFFICE. jT m-.- i that—llearat ami Roosevi-h Charge* are Rr*|s>n*n»|e, btil Not That They Are True nteresting letter in which he ^aTT in Will* Die From Burn Received Gamp lla/iug. Fred Bertell, of* Owosso. Mich.. member of the- -TlilnJ .rs*l> 1 ! en Michigan National Guard, jpow eh the committee acted favorably upon the request. The Republican can didate antk the Republican national committee proposed, not publication before the election, inrt publication after the election. I su'omit that our committee has given the better evidence of Its freedom from con nection or obligation to the preda tory Interests. Our committee has not knowingly received a dollar from an official of any corporation known as a trust, and it ^rill. not receive any money from such, if any money is contributed by such persons with out the knowhMlgc of the committee „ , ^ it will be‘returned a s soon as the ' statehood .your days of gi\tngcVfclUr. fact is discovered. (able franchises in our State has ‘The Deoiocratie party is making pr=sed and I would resist laylpR the an honest and honorable fight in defense of the princtples^and poli cies enunciated in the platform an 1 it, expects and wiirdemand fair and pipe line only after you yielded and cancelled your unlawful act. "I again assert that my act in that case was not only requifed hy In roqueoting the Democratic nat- palgn. tonal commUtee to fli a maximum of 919,900 for IndiTldual contribu tion* and to nuhllsh before the elec tion ail coatrlbutioUB above $100 and honorable treatment from those who)authority had be*n nn- ire in charge of the Republican cam- able to do. W that the public inter- est of your own people, based on con- ditions growing out of your original ‘With great respect, etc.. “Very truly yours. amped at Fort Benjamin Harrison lies In tho military hospital, per haps fatally burned as the result of being “hazed." or “Initiated bv evcral of his fellow guardsmen. The prank known In camps a' Tnitlati- | ’ includes painting th- back and chest of the victims and Indulging in a weird torch light pro cession. While Bartell. whose “ln;- tiatioh" was one of .several pulled off last night, was attempting to wash the paint by means of gaso- Mne, a number of guardsmen entered bis quarters, for the puropse of com pleting “the initiation," when flames- from the torches which were carried accidentally Ignited Barteli s painted body and saturated clothing. ‘ Bartell rushed from his it wasn't at all sure who the Kepub- Icins were going to nominate: that 'he situation was a very lote-esjlng >nc and that lie wss on the li.sld® and that he thought he really l*et- •er come on to New Yotk an»i talk •t over. A letter from Mr. Arehbotd_tp N. FrUlarke of IMttsburg. undft- date of^ Nov. 30. 1 998. showed that Mr. Arch- bold was extremely anxious of hav iug a-friend named as Democratic senator if a Democrat had a chance ♦ o succeed Senator Faulkner. John P. Elkins, a lawyer of Lan -aster. Pa., seems to hate written Mr. Archbold to help his /riends 'n the regular Republican organization of that district In the fight with aft independent organization, addnlg *hat the regulars were Mr. Arch- bold's friends. Before reading the e letter M. HParst got after Governor- Haskell again, while the audience roared 1 - approval and set the air ringing wl'h 'owhelh* ajuJ all sorts of slonts. Mr ItearsT's contrlhntloti to th • Haskell literature was aa affldavi* in a suit brought by one John P Ohio, igalnst the Illinois Steel ComP“ n •'or $o0.000, that being th# amount -f the fee Haskell should have re-' solved, it was alleged, for acting a* • ttorney for the steel company in be formation of the Federal Mool Company. Hi¥kel»-i having assigned the claim to Bailey. Tbi* was the beginning of the t’nited States Steel corporation. Mr. Hearst therefore added to the Has kell charges that of lieing an organ iser of thc..,K»eel trust, and then •Ook a--parting shot at Haskell by reading a speeffh of his at a dinner at Tulsa, Okla.. la^t February, In which he spoke up for* the Standard OF 'Company and said sime nice things «bout I*. As an example of methods ‘that were never dreamed of a few ears ago." said Hearst. I am going o read you the following letter. "26 Broadway, /-New York. Dec. 1 2. 1908. “Mv Dftar Senator: I have your kind favor of yesterday. NYe have of course, noted yotir recent disagree able experience with T. with the ut- mosLInterest. Think yotr.have done iustlright in not being guided by him into doing a foolish thing. "I am greatly interested in the suggestion of the law practice and will see to It that it Is kept In mind Governor Haskell resigned Frida.' night as treasurer of the Democrat- ic National Committee His resigna tion was announced by himself thn . hours after his arrival in Chicago from Guthrie, and after he had con ferrrd with officers of the Democrat/ national headquarters. In giving on 1 his decision Governor Haskell, in re spouse to a question, declared b. desired not to be responsible for an> embarrassment which might result to the Democratic party by retaining the office of treasurer. That his relgnatfon Is the diio.t result of the charges made again#! him by NVm. R. Hearst and Presi dent Roosevelt Mr, Haskell also ad 'bitted. At the same nine* he did not by his resignation Intend i , idmlt that any of the charges were ' rite. When Mr. Haske|| arrived in Chicago at 9 o'colck last night he leclared that he bad not then re signed and that Mr. Bryan hid no> asked him to resfgn. speaking 'j reporters he si-Jd: “If you have any qto-sfl m. to asg put-them on paper." he said. 11** then went from the station to Dem ocratic headquarters at The Audi torium Annex. - * When a list of questions was handed him Tie retired to his room, saying he wodhi give out answer, later. » * _ He was eloaetad for a long time with NstnnarConimltteeman Martin L NVade, of Iowa, and Josephus Daniels, chairman of the Democratic press- committee. It was midnight when Mr. Haskell reappeared from the room. He had In his hands a written resignation addressed to National Chairman Norman K. Mack,,and the answer to the questions which had been ;iVen him. v"l have my answers." h«- said. 'They will explain themselves." After giving an affirmative reply *» th* question wbettuyr he had re ‘igned,' but denying that Mr. BryanT had asked for the resignation, the question and answers read as fol lows: 'Do you know whether Mr. Bryan knew of the charges made against von by Mr. Hearst, la-fore you were appointed treasurer?" "I do not see how he could have.'' "Do you think your further con nection with the campaign, regard- ess of the truth or fa.site of the eharges. would tend to embarrass Mr. Bryan or injure his chances?'' “It might. At any rate. I would not Ire a good citizen if I risked my embarrassment In the fight of •he honest people against the special interests." "Do you intend to reply to Presi dent Roosevelt?" v “I have not done so yet." "Do you Intend to renew your demand for an investigation of the charges?" ^ "How csjn I Roosevelt admits h» did not tell the truth " In answer to a series of questions Ns to his relation to the Citizens Mlianre. said to have been organized .at M'uskogee, Okla., to fight the local labor union. Mr. Haskell denied that ’he Alliance was ever organized -In reply to questions'concerning th Standard Oil Company lie repeated his former denials of ever having had anything to do with the company. ,ent ' 1 1 with the hope that something may mass of flames and was taken in at. : develop | n which I eanjre of service ambulance to the hospt.Gfl. w,ier ' | to you in connectibirT^errtVUh-JA'Ith Captain Folds, of the staff. K"* 1 '| kindest regards little assurance of his recovery- C >n- ..j am verv ln ,|y yours, flirting stories were told after th- "John D. Atchbold accident and Major Phillips, inspec- i ^ John L. McLaurin, Senate tor on the staff of Brigadier General ; chamher Washington. D. C Bates, Is making a thorough invest!- [ gation. T - 'United State Senate, Bennettsville. S. C.. M»V Fire Persons Killed. - ne!ir Mr. , Archbold: I have A dispatch from Lisbon. Portugal. pus hed my fights vigorously that says twenty-two hulls escaped from j they have called on Tillman. 1 ♦ be arena at Moiat today and ra-i met Won at Gaffney and beat him "a’ imuck through a crowd that wa- his own game. I called his bluff assembled to witness a bull fight., md now the fight is for two seats COTTON MILLS IDLE. Owe Hundred and Forty TIumimiii 1 Hand* t^ult VYork. - •' * ',-j*. More than 400 cotton_jn!i1?rt Lancashire. England, ate idle Toda as a result of the dispute ov* wages between operatives and em ploycrs. This means that 40.000, 000 spindles are wholly or partially stopped, that more than $250,000 - 800 of capital is not bringing in any -eturns and that IT0,000 operative: ire without work and losing some hing over $700,900 in wages -t week, in view of the present glut ed condition of the market it i not believed that this cessation o:' work will entail heavy damages to • he employers. It is not felt he-c that the- strike will last long, for the card room workers are expected soon to take a second ballot and agree to the 5 per cent reduction in ( wages* which already has been ac cepted by the spinners. - MORE RASCALS Many Raptolic*! laadtri Now $uppofttng Tift in Samr BOAT Will FORAKER Ami the Kvpuhliean Candidate for President "III lie lonely If H* F.liiuinates All " ho Have Dees or ~x ... —- An- Now 'A III ant'd With Htandaed , Oil uitd fVfher "riists. At Toledo. Ohio, on Tuexdaf, former RepaUlcan Attorney General .Monett, of Ohio, was asked. "What do you think the «• fleet of Taft eliminating forakar will have on tha Republican party in Ohio this fall?" Here is Mr. MoncCt's answer: "Tills is t-xtrente!y amusing n light of the Xtomlneea on the Uepnts- lican ticket ^mt there by Taft, Cot, Brown and ‘Guilbert. If Taft com mences the eliminating business bo will h.%ve to resign from the ticket or get new bed fellows. He cun ningly accepted the nomlnatlonfrotu the gang, tike Standard Oil lobby, being the sMm- crowed he at oaco denounced as unworthy of the sup port of the decent citizens. If he rises to tlie high moral plane of elim inating Foraker. lit* will surely have to eliminate. Judge A. Shauck from the supreme bench, who#e record in the Stauffkird Oil contempt pro ceedings Is more vulnerable than* • anything Foftiker has done. "Shauck voted to acquit the Standard <>4! agents against tha combined viftv-s of Judge Thaddetis J. B. * Brndbtiry, Minxhall, and Mitchell and Williams: He voted to acquit Virgil Kline, for the Stand ard Oil Company, who openly defied the court when ordered to product Uje bo/tks the company. They charged the attorney with contempt of Uoiirt and throwing away of th* lM>oks during the very time the court ordered them produced. » "They buttled twenty-eight boxes of day hooks and ledgers In the furnaces of the Standard OH re- fliierlos before it was found they had notified the eonrt tbey had no stieh iHKtks and whi-n this Infamous treaL - ^ ment was laid bare to the court aad testimony and depaidtlons furnished by laborers that burned the books, this same Judge Shauck. now ran- uing a third term on the supreme court bench, voted to clear the crooks by dissolving proceedings against them on a motion of John M. Sheets, my successor as attorney general.’* "Was Foraker a friend of Ilurkett, the judge whom Arch bold asked him to support?" Was then asked. "Yes. Foraker was of the sama Itolitical fat-thin as Judge Bnrkett, He was also the political friend of .1 tiTTlfes Williams, Bradbury and Min- shall All of these last three named Judges voted the Standard OH goJKv nf contempt. Ind every one of them was beaten Phr renomination over whelmingly. They were not trap-* ported by Foraker. hie friends, or the Standard Oil clique, hut that Minshall on the day he voted th* Standard OH guilty, while Shauck voted iTTenKlnBocenr. was approached on High strhet. Columbus, and warned publimlly that it would be his death knell. The Ohio RepubH*. ran Itonses kept their word and every judge that voted against him and myself were all slaughtered wblla Judged Shauck. Speak and Burkett, who voted for them were supported by the Standard OH lobbylsta and Foraker and other Republicans and yet Taft doesn't propose to elimi nate them." NIGHT RIDKltM IN' GREENVILLE K. C. WHIiiiom Warned N'ot to <fln Any More Cut tow • V meetings for your information. •'With kindest regards, "I am yours vincerely. "John J .McLaurin. "26 Broadway. April 21, 1903. Mr. Frederick b. Etheridge. First Vice President Knickerbocker Trut-t Company, tP> - Broadway, - •^Pear.-ilt:..JBldrtdger;. -It *»ves me Senator J, L. McLaurin of South Car- A dispatch from Greenville to The State says w^yrd reached that city Tuesday of the portion of * threatening notice hy supposed High; riders on'the gin of R. ,C. "Tllroon. eight mites from Greenville. The notice reads: “Take warning and do not gin nay more cotton. If you do, you will suffer the consequences. (Signed) ~ “Night Rldera." It isx.al.so_ repoeled several other gins w-ere poafed last night, though no damage is re|iorted. Wljlmon's gin is a new plant and started up Tuesday morning, desplto the threat. — CULMINATION OF .ROMANOS. Mis* l/ouise Davis OuWly Wevla H. A. Stoke* at t'olombU. A little romance wis e/cted vt Columlda Wednesday when Mlvs ixtuise Davis became Mrs. H. A. Stokes. Misa Davis came her# attend college, but a note left h; the hotel tells briefly the story of pleasure to introduce to you hereby*-#nrptise. — Mr.—Stokes le a na tive of Forsythe. Ga.. but Is non^ta ollna. who -de lfes to di#cuss With j the civil service at Atlanta. He W«V ou some business * queetlon of mu- Miss Davis h^re and the two pro» tual interest. I can not speak in too^ ce? ded to the, Mitbollst parsou- bigh terms of Senator McLaurin. fo- ag e, where they became man Flv« killH. »nd boov' instead we. I can beat Tilltnau w ^ on] j bespeak your most^kindl.' wife. Mr. iod Mrs. special factor to the Standard Oil twenty were injured. Troops wer- if properly and generously support' considerations. * There is no time to lose, now-, - var-i William J. Bryan. - Company In granting that franchise, summoned and shot the animals to ed^ art ' account 0 f both Detroit, Mlch.,*#»ff|.. -raqulted them to punxee that pdliey ddalh.^| "Terr, truly yours. “John J. Archbold.’ in Atlanta tdfUy. Mr*. Stoke* daughter of Mr. T. E. DnTt*. » Inent banker in SlahopvillA. *w • '-W4*** u * **+** .t+lt . im