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# ——- s VOL. XXXII BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 8. 1908 .‘NO. 6 A TRUST BOSS CoHicting Funds For the Nat ional Republican Committee. . SHELDON’S RECORD As ■ Trust Magnate, Assailed t>.V Mack, the Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, Will Go Aft^r Cromwell and Other Active Republican Trust Magnates. Following^ an attack of National Chairman Mack Friday on "the 'cor poration affiliations of George R Sheldon, treasurer of the Republican national committee, It was learned Friday night that the Democratic national committee is preparing to assail the corporation connections cf William Nelson Cromwell, member:from her and she was forced to of the advisory committee of the Re.- publican national committee. Other members of the Republican advisory committee. It is understood, are also to be investigated and rep resentatives of the Democratic com mittee are carefully inquiring intj the financial records of the Repub.!- can committeemen. For several da>s the corporation records of Mr. Crom well have been under quiet inves tigation. but wh»^M» the represen tatives of the Democatlcr committee have learned anything of Mr» Crom- weUis financial operations other than tne dbmpanleh with which he is identified has not been made known NCr. Maqk made tke Jollowinp statement: "The trust and cot poration • affilia tions of -George R Sheldon, treas urer of the Republican national com mittee .for the past 10 years make interesting reading in view of the recent developments in the campaign. "I wish. to recall in this connec tion that, because of these very as sociations of his.-povernor Odell in 1902 refused to permit the party leaders to put Mr. Sheldon in nom ination for lieutenant governor. Governor Odell at that time declare i that he could not accept, the r.*- nomination for head of the State ticket if Sheridon were named a; his running mate. Hut while th- Repuhii—n-pacty.has refused tu piiL GIRL WAS STOLEN AND HELD IX HEART OF NEW YORK. Most Remarkable Case of Kidnap ping Hrouglit to Light Last Tliurv- doy by Detective. The most remarkable rase of kidnapping that has stirred Ne\' York for many years was brought to light early Thursday, when Lena Thorn, a pretty 16-year-old girl was rescued from a one-story house a* 4 75 Rpckway avenue, East New lork She hJW. been stolen when within 200 ^|et"Onfef “Kome^six weeks ago. Shd fias been k prisone erver since. After she was attacked in the woods near her home at Rockaway avenuo ahd Jamaica road, Jamaica, remain ing in this house two days, she was taken to the Rockaway avenue hut. Her own clothing had been taken * up Mr. Sheldon s name for a public office. It has for the identical reasons of this refusal selected him for its campaign fund collector. "This can not be denied. Most of the corporations with which M-. Sheldon is identified are capitalised for millions. How much of their •took ia of the liquid variety ran be easily ascertained. Yet Mr. Roose velt has defended him. and--his resignation was not demanded when Mr. DuPont was lowed to step down and out. Mr. DuPont was only iden tified with one trust, while Mr. Shel don is at the present time intimate!' connected with no less than 17 prom inent financial concerns "Mr. Sheldon Is a d’ffeotor of that company. He is also treasurer and director of the North American com pany, capitalized for $.‘10,000,600, a concern known as the mystery o r New Jersey avenue court Wall Street.’ it is but .a-.few years hack since ho was prominently DRUG CLERK'S ERROR wear clothes that her captor por- vided. \ ^2 Women living in the neighborhoo-.r saw that she was always watched by a man. and noticing that her com plexion was so different from his, they sustteeted komethlng wrong and notified the police. The raid yas made early Thursday and It was only after a terrific battle that Raphael Susso.i 2 6 years old, who was found in the hut. was over powered and taken prisoner. In his rage at discovery he tried to kill the girl, but was prevented. Chaplain Frank of the Brownsville station heard of the rase Wednesday and at once put Detective Caulfield and Rurton on it. They watched and saw the man go Into the place and then, without knocking, burst open the flimsy door. Susso was standing near the girl and when he saw the detectives he utter ed a curse, grasping her by th< throat, swinging her around and hit her a blow in the face. "I had been to school on the day that I was kidnapped."-said the gin, o 'and got out before 4 o’clock in th"* afternoon. Some of the girls were going to a wood near where we lived to get flowers and I went also to get some flowers to put on the dinner talde. On my way bark, when with in a few hundred feet of home, n man sprang out of the woods, grate bed me by the throat, and dragged me into the bushes. Then he and another man-carried me further bars into the woods and stuffed my mouth with rags. "They kept jne there until late at night and then one of them" went af ter a wagon. ! was tied in this anl taken to East New York, into a twu'- Says Haskell, Who diai-ges That the President Granted Franchises to OH Company and Got T,arge Campaign Contributions in Re turn for the Grant. Gov, Charles N. HaskeTT. formerly treasurer of the Democratic national committee, tonight gave chit a long letter to President Roosevelt repeat ing his published defence to tli** charges made against him. The let ter, in part, is as follows: ^The serious character of your charge against me should have sug gested to you that you, as Chief xeoutive, should proceed with de liberation and certainty before mak ing such hearsay statements yon- own declarations. Your attacks on me finally restel on my conduct ‘toward the Prairir Oil and Gas Company In this State I have said that you were respon sible for granting a franchise before statehood, thereby creating vested rights. You seek to evade the issue and create strong impressions. Yon said -the interior department had no power, except where crossing an Indian reservation. You would have your readers believe that the Indian Territory was then conducting its own government and that only parts of the same were Indian reservations Mr. Roosevelt, you know it is not true; you know- all the land was Indian land without county, township or territorial --government. What halo of Integrity surrounded you las; week, like the mist has faded away and the interior department hold.i the record which convicts you. ".You granted the franchise at the solicitation of Senator Depew, and a few days thereafter received $260,- 000 in cash for your campaign fund "You charge me with having at tempted to bribe the Attorney Gen eral of Ohio That was presumably nine tears ago Yoti have abandoned that position—Charles P Taft ygyw ment Two women in this house guarded me while the men were away. The women took my clothes from me’and threatened me." Susso. after having his injuries at- tended* *o was locked up in \the Brownsville station. The police ar rested- Annio Cairo, aged ."0 years. She is said by the police to l»e one of the women who held the giri prisoner. Roth she and Susso were arraigned, before Magistrate Vorhees in t]i^ minently) 4jW , W- ley * rifled with the 'whisk glance at his connection with ,virions companies for the past 10 years w;!l explain tersely the reason of h;* present position. ? No further com nient of mine is necessary." The following are the corporations that Sheldon are more closely con nected with at this time: American Locomotive Company, director. The Bethlehem Steel Company, di rector. Cincinnati Northerrf Railway Com pany. director. —— - Detroit* Edison Company, director and treasuree: -— Electrical Security Company, di- * W ■ ■ <3 rector. -LaClede Gas Light Company?-, di rector. ; '* « Monte Car Works, director. locomotive SeciffTfy Company, di rector. - ' 'Metropolitan Trujgt Compay, dt- reetdr.' 4 '„ —. - j -.-.Milwaukee <*El**mc RaTTvft and Light Company, director. Milwaukee high tlon Company, 1 dlrectoir. National Copper Bank, director!-— North American Company, treas urer and director. New Jersey Terminal Dock and Improvement Company, director. Republic Iron and Steel Company, dlrecto.. Rogers locomotive Works, direc tor. St. Louis Transit Company tor. , direc- * FIFTY driven FROM HOME. # Sixteen Horses Are Burned l p — Oiicsgo Fire. > • ’ in a At Chicago more than fifty pc sons were driven from thelCAome-, many of them in scant a ire; seven, persons were rescued, at jropert yalued at $7^500 was destroyed early today, when a fire started in the Columbia lumber livery stable at 36V Rush street and destroyed that building and spread to several others In the ^dnlty. Sixteen horses were burned ^»death. Causes tbe Death of ,lamc* Galvin in Non York. Private Detective Janies Galvin, of* 286 Manhattan avenue, is dead from what Is probably a drug clerk error. H£ bought a box of epsont salts at a well-known drug store a week ago. and early Tuesday took some of it. In a few moments hi fell in agony at his wife's feet? and was dead before an ambulance ar rived from the J. Hood Wright hospital. Dr. Hammond, in charge said the salts were really sulphate ol zinc;- and gave the box arid its re maining contents over to the police SMPKIXG AUT SHELDON j Republican Treasurer Said tp Be a -'T-x . .9 -'"-'Trust Magnate. News cornes from New York that an investigation is being made by the Democratic national committee Tffftr tbo .-r rporat ion ..connectjLojik"“dT George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the Republican national committee, and r<v>resentatives of the Democratic national committee have been sent into the financial district to inquire Into Sheldon's affiliations and hit- early financial career. It is said that he is cortnected officially with dozen or more trusts, and. that i- why he was selected as treasure by the Republican committee. Th- Democrats Intend to smoke him out HEARHTS MENAGERIE. Says It Will Perform in South Car " d olinn, Too. The State executive committee of Heafst's Independen Party met in Greenville Wednesday and elected ofiicers. with D. E. McCuen, -of Greenville, as chairman, and S. S Price, of Columbia, as-secretary. A full electoral ticket wi}| be put In the field for the November election The executive committee has under advisement tbe subject of a State ticket with candidates for governor and all State officers. - « BUSTERS TEDDY Halo of Integrity That Surrounded Roosevelt “HAS FADED AWAY” WHY ROOSEVELT FIGHTS STAN DARD OIL COMPANY. THE SECRET OUT. A BULLY KI14.ED. SWt OUT OF PORT. SEES NO HARM J K as Much It Refused to Give Him Money as He Demanded for Hi? . * ' / Campnign Four Years Ago,— PROPHECY FULHLLEO The. New York World of Friday published the following: Early In the 1904 campaign th> Standard Oil Company, as well ns other trusts, railroads, bapks anl large corporations, received .a re quest to contribute to the Republican campaign fund. This request was •Tfenored, Henry H. Rogers being re sponsible for its refusal. Later, when the second call for campaign funds was made, Mr. Cortelyou, chairman of the RepubT^ can national committee, sent word to Mr. Rogers asking for an appoint ment at which the existing con ditions could be explained and the financial support of Standard Oil secured. This appointment was made bv Mr. Rogers to be kept at No, 26 Broadway, the Standard Oil building, and Mr. Corleiyou was in formed that both Mr. Rogers and John D. Archbold would be please 1 to see him. - Mr. Cortelyou, finding that Mr. Rogers was not to meet him alone but that Mr. Archbold was alone to be present, concluded it would be safer and' more discreet not to go himself. The appointpjen. was kept by Cornelius N. . Bliss, treasurer of life national commit tee. At this interview Mr. Rogers ac cused Mr. Roosevelt of ingratitude and recalled many past favors from the Standard OH Company to Re publican candidates and campaign funds. Mr. Bliss admitted that Pres ident Roosevelt might have ’acted harshly toward .the Standard Oil, but said that while Mr. Roosevelt's first term was "constructive” his second term would be "conservative." Replying on these assurances Mr. Rogers and Mr. Archbold made a contribution of $100,000. This contribution coming to tlv knowledge of President Roosevelt, h. wrote to Chairman Cortelyou a vio lent letter denouncing the Standard On Company and directing thq. re (urn of the contribution. This let ter is on Mr. Cortelyou's file, and a fcopy of 11 Ifc by Presided! Hoose- through his paper that no evidence was ever produced that would con vict me of the charge "In 'touching on the State I’uiver sity question, you pretended to quote from the Outlook magazine, but how dishonestly you enlarged on the mag azine article. That article chargei me with substitutilrg Democratic for. Republican professors for political purposes. I have shown that state ment to be false, but 1 charge you with trying to enlarge on that mag azine article and give the world the impresion that we were improperly tiding the money appropriated to conduct that institution. “Your charge that I vetoed a child labor law. you have not for, notwithstanding you know that I did It with the approval omrlor, labor and that our State Constltu tion which you said was 'so had you • oprniorf of it would not look well iu P«ii>t.' -contains more A* ails and child labor* legislation than all you have reconmu'n^ei^to the New York legislature as G<Wemor.'*»r to th > Oongress of- the l'nit**d State as President. ’ and that I had approved further Acts of our Legislature passed at the solicitation of union lal>or. "Yon said in your first statemen. that I had suits brought against me to recover title to Creek Indian land. I overwhelmed you on that state ment. Adopting your usual polic. vou flee from that statement withou: just apology and adopt the state ment now that it was Government town site lefts that you charged me with being sued for. Yes. I believe 1 am a defendant as to certain Gov ernment town’ site lots in one of nearly 11.000 suits that you have had brought against as many dif ferent honorabrle and highminded citizens of this State during this Presidential campaign year, ahd yzxu will not undertake to deny that p<v- itics for the puropse of Republican- iwtng about 20.000,In4ian-voters was your" sole motive for having those suits brought, and I charge you with knowing that there has been no de lay in these casOs, except that oc casioned by the Court's deliberations, taken by himself as time he deemed necessary to consider wheftlfr or not there is any merit in the petition filed by your attorney. "You say that on that land.qties tlon you will see that I get a hearing in Court. Yes. sir. 1 will come to vour hearing GaH-to-your assis tance afl the power that your high office commands, present cases in anv form you like. 1 am ready to meet it and before its conclusion the peo ple of America will be disgusted that they ever elected you President of the I'nlted States.’ ’ veil for the puropse of making it public if ever the facts of this Stan dard Oil contribution became known. The contribution was not returned. Not one rent was paid back. The same was used, so far as Mr. Rogers ami Mr; Arrhlxdd know, in like man ner with other contributions. ( Later in the campaign, when Pres ident Roosevelt hacame scared alarm the result and about the time tha> he summoned Edward H. Harriman to Washington and Induced Mr.' liar- riman to raise $260.0u0 for. the cam paign fund, a further request was made of the Standard Oil people. At the time of the fl 00.000 con tribution Mr. Bllsa expressed his dis satisfaction with *its size and said that.the amount should be several times as great. At the time of the third request the definite .sum “nT $2.10 ,000 additional was asked for. In the meantime Mr. Rogers had learned of Mr. Roosevelt's letter to Mr. Cflrtelyou and of the direction to return the first $100,000. He d- 1 - riffied to give any more money anr' recalled the fact that the President's instructions to return the first con tribution had not been compile with and that Mr. Roosevelt must have known all along that the $100- 000 which he repudiated had not only been accepted but used. In view of this fact he declined to accede to the request for a fur ther $210,000. or for any further sum, and denounced Mr. Roosevelt for seemingly trying on the one hand to seeure eontrihutlons from the Standard Oil Company and on llv other hand to make polltieat capital by denouncing the company. DRIVEN—TO JKK’IDE. Republican Official Could Not Tell His Record. After teHing some of htw friend- that he would rather die than in to hear the reports which some of hi, political- opponents were circulating about himT'lf. Regan Rice/'regfs- trar of deeds of Madison county. N C., shot himself to death in a barn it\ the rear of his home near Marshr at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning •Death was instantaneous. The d» ceased was elected to office on th Republican ticket two years ago. Ilj was 38 years old and leaves a wife and one child, a daughter. i i . ' ■ i ■■■■—. MEETS TERRIBLE FATE. Waylaid and Shot, -w” A dispatch fronl^fil Paso. Texas Isays County Judge Brewster and Postmaster M. A Ernst, of Bouqujil^ Texas, were waylaid and shot oa Sunday' while en route from th«9>yp nt to g^ep Ed Mull w r as awaken Cable house at Ernst's mines to the Vd ^y ^tjle roof of the house falling postoffice. Ernst died on Tuesday. j n an( j ma( je his escape, but his cous His murderers have not been nr- | n w ho did not awake, was burned rested. • * "* [ to a fcrisp. In the Fire That Burned Down HR Residence. Will Mull 8 was roasted to death in the flames that burned his res idenee Wednesday mornng, near Morganton, N.^C. Ed Mull, a.cousin who was with him at the time, nar rdwly "•estjapeit-e like fate. The de eegsed ind his eounsin went, int -five house'and after building a fire he Treglc and Expected End of a Tempastflous Lila. h«s Anderson Daily Mail Had Pit*, dieted Editorially AIkm^I Three Weeks Ago That This Would la 1 the End. He Had Killed Three or Four Men in His Time. The State says news was received Columbia Monday to the effect Hat Tobn MeGaha had been killed near^Tielton, on the Greenville conn ty side. MeGaha has been,tried for his life in three lyomicid* 1 cases and is said to have been suspected in nother. The «first report received by Th ' State came from a passenger on the train from Anderson. He^had hea'd the news in that city and had later heard It talked of al BeRon an 1 Greenwood and the story in clrcu- ation there was to the effect tba! MeGaha w as on a spree and ha I disturbed a meeting at a negro hurch and Tiad been "shot" to pieces.” "It is a sad tiling." said this gon- em^ii, "but I never Jreard one ex pression** of regret. .Indeed, all per ms seemed to bo "relieved. It i-; n awful thing when one's uelghhois can find pleasure in his passing way."' ^ From Anderson came, another ac count ami from Abbeville by long distance 'phone It was stgted that MeGaha and one of the Ashleys had gone to arrest two negroes who ha 1 been working on MeGaha's place and chat In a melee which followed Me aha was killed. The following from the Anderson >ally Mail of a date some % three rocks ago, indicates the esteem in which, the deceased w»* held: "Several months ago Jorn MeGaha. bully, well known in this part of 1)e State, shot and killed Georg*- iinkscales. a negro, in Alibevllb- ounty. Witnesses of the tragedy testified at the coroiier'a Inquest the next day that the killing was nprovoked. that it was dellliera' * murder. MeGaha fled the State "Negroes of the community told the white people, though tjoi at th*' nquest, that Cltkscales' had told them that he was in mortal fear of MeGaha liecanse he had refused to testify as MeGaha wanted him to a certain lawsuit. MeGaha remained iu hiding for a good long fime, but was finally cap- ured in Georgia, through the vigi lance of the ':eriff of Abbeville county, and brought back to Abbe- ille and lodged in jail. "And. then powerful Influence.- were set to work iir his twhalf. The witnesses who had testified at the inquekU before they had lifen 'seen or fixed.’ now told a different story They made affidavits that the shoot ing was accidental. There was sub- mlTted what purported to be cth dy ing statement of CNukscales. in which he said’The shooting was an accident,, and that he did not want his frietwFsUJohnnle' punished . A United States—eetiator was hired as MeGaha's lawyer,, a Just Tee of th- State supreme court granted him l»ali t and a member of the Stale leglsl.i- ture went on his bortd. "The ease came up for trial at Abbeville last week, and McGah.t was acquitted. The jnry is not to >e cepwired. The jury had to go by he evhjAmce, a’nd although every mem berpfotKo Jury may have been convinced in his heart—presumin'/, of course, that the Jury wgs compos ed of intelligent men—that the evi dence was mall it fact n red for the oc casion. yet there was no evidence >f deliberate murder, and the Jim ould do nothing but return a ver dict of not guilty. Murder had no' iteen proved in a manner that would warrant, conviction. The dead negro had no rich or in(luential friends pr relatives to work for the conviefion of his slay er. There were no rich or in influ- Btlst m-u or strong infliaepce work ing for justice. That mythical flgtrn is' blind, and it oTt»n~4iappens_that she h-as"'ho friends or adVOCaTes In our courts. ‘MeGaha had killed at least two men before he killed George-G+ink- scales. He is now a free man again, frqe-to go Where he pleases, and te quarrel with whom be pleases. tr e dst INF81AL NIGHT IN THE HAR- IWHPUDF t HARKESTON. Fifteen Schooners Pass Out to Ocean With FaVoruble > Rreezcs Aftej? Varying stays in Port. The Charleston Host says .a strik ingly handsome sight was affordei Monday morning in tire departure of fifteen schooners out of the harbor after a detention by contrary winds to nearly a month. Since the last week in August, the wind has been holding to the east and northeast daily with the exception of Sep tember 1 and ti, when for a'part’ of these days'it veered to the soutn and south west. Last night the wind the passing of the rainstorm of yes terday and the coming of the higlj pressure from the west, and bright and early this morning ‘the sails were raised and "the long detainer; fleet raised anchors and started down the hay. It was a beautiful sight, rare 1 .' seen in Charleston or any South At lantic harbor, for this numbet^of vessels are not often cleared and made ready to sail together. in some cases two or three abreast and at- times strung out in single column, It seemed as if some armada of centuries ago, before steam dis placed canvas to the methods of propulsion of ships of'war,—seas proceeding to attack an enemy. Slowly at firstr and then at a faster gait, the fleet moved down the ha - bor and the sight was viewed with much interest and pleasure. In some cases until the vessels became as so many little black specks against th- horizon. Tbe vessels which sailed were ail liotmd for New York with cargoes of lumber. Nine of the vessels were cleared wUh cargoes here an J the remaining six were Jfrom th** southward, having put into Charles- tOfr-GM, a harbor, made necessary by the easterly winds. The Lotti- Rusitells, one of the vessels which sailed, essayed the task th£ ‘ftrst part of the month and after having remained • at sea off Charleafon thirteen days, tillable to make.nin progress, and being as a painted ship upon a painted ocean, re-turned to-port. She will have better Itic-K tnm ttmn * ; The anxiety of the fleet to get to sea was evjelenced In the departure of so many vessels tu the face of the knowledge of the existence of n tropical storm off Cuba The act vices that the • storm was curving and would probably not come in this direction was not received until the fleet nhd left icort. The- masters were taking no more chances on be lug shut up iu -port. The fleet which sailed today wa- made up of Hie following Schooner*: Judge Peunewell, Edgar C. Rub-. Massac-husqtts; Thomas Whitmore. Harry Prescott. Victor C. Records. George May, Thelmas F. Pollard. Warren .Adams, John B. Manning. Joel Cook, Lottie Russell and Paul H. Dudley. SMOTHERED IN FOLDING REDS. One Tragedy Occurs in Brooklyn and One in Chicago. Judging his futiSre by his past record it is only a question of time until he kills somebody, .else, or until some body is forced to kill hint. ~ "So far as MeGaha himself is To Usa Trust Monay ta Furthar Pc#tfcalEiidsl« SENATOR MCLAURIN’S .Ignorant of. the fact that her tw >- month-old child. George, wts-gsleep under the cover, Mrs. Mary stortt. of Brooklyn, closed up a folding lied |rr1nniph In a darkened ruom. ^aud—the- UtlJ- one"was smothered to death befoi< his )nbtlier realized whal had hap pc-ned. When site- learned of her fa tal error she became frantic, and R now prostrated. At Chicago Edward Kozlowski was accidentally smothered to death ih a folding bed. ThV child wvx placed In the bed and covered with blanket. A short-time later tie mother entered the room and found that the lied had been closed. She Opened it to find the child ’smothered to death. ^teply to the llenrst Exposure by the Publication of the Standard Oil ,* tatters, Who Declares That South Carolina's Natural Progress ia v Throttled hy an Oligarchy. Senator McLaurin gave out the fol lowing statement in reference to the letters that passed between hltn and J. D. Archbold, the Standard OH magnate .while he was carrying on his "Commercial Democracy" fight in this State some years ago: Mr. McLaurin, who has just re turned to New York, gave out a signed statement as follows: "An effort has been made to cre ate a political sensation by the pub lication pf certain correspondence be tween Mr. John D. Archbold, vice president of the Standard Oil Com pany, and myself. For fliat cor- respondenee I have no apologies to make. At the time the letters were written I had the honor to enjoy, and am proud still to possess the frient)- ship of Mr. Archbold. for whom I h&ve 1 ( Vne "THgfiest regard. At the time the letters were written I waa engaded in a hitter struggle, iu which was involved not only my own political future, but the economic and political principles for which I stood and which, slated briefly, meant the tvmaneipation of the South frotu the ignorant prejudices of Bourbon- ism and the bloody ahirt’ Into the freedom of an enlightened •elf- " interest "and the progress of an In telligent industrialism. ^ "In the support o-‘f these principles, and the hope of this progress, I saw then no Impropriety in enlisting, If practicable, the assistance of th# most Intelligently officered corpora tion that human intelligence has vet produced. Nor has tne enormous, body of statutory crime since creat ed or the hypocritical affection of morality assumed fly some - ot unr- taglslator* and Congress in any wl-»4 changed my point of view or quick- ened my conscience of expediency; as seems to have been the case yith some of my former colleagues and associates,' — , "The constituencies that they rep resent Aa—OQJ^ hesitate to take Mr. Carnegie’s trust-produced and tariff- protected money for their churches and libraries, or accept Mr. Rocke feller's large sums for the education if the uegro, whom they have dis franchised. "If jMilUical campaigns are to b# run without money antL political progress is to lie achieved without financial expenditure it is high time that both parties should be apprised of the arrival of—th^t .Utopian era, biit'’until that period has arrived f can see no reason while l7~R*^4>au Ming for what I conceived to be the right, should refuse to seek or de line to accept the support, whether financial oi*- personal, of which I stood, in need. . . "Men may die. but right princi ples persist and in the end they will STABBED BY I'NKNOWN PERSON Gr'Nery Salesman (Hacd from lions* ami Fatally Wounded. m ^ Tbhn W MUttin,—a grocery" "SSTck hlSTl," 16- yours oUL-died Wednesda early Wednesday in an unconselon, condition. After regaining con- pciousness he stated that he hai been called from his home and at tacked hy two men, one of whan held him while the other rut him It is stated that Mullin received a threatening letter several days ago prophet to ♦'imsdict that ‘■sooner or concerned, it hiade little different’*'| a t f > r John MeGaha will kill soni''- whether he was convicted or arqul’ ted. He is as worthless to the Slat" as a free man as he would be as a convict. But R makes a great deal of difference • to the community iu which MeGaha lives, and to the public at large. it will make" a gVeat deal of difference in the fu ture conduct of mffl of''-the—Me Gaha class. Will they not feel, an l with good reason, that they can-kill with Impunity .and-that they can command influence to assure them their liberty, which with them meaqs license? ' . • ^ "U does pot require a seer Of a I tWicrrc TKat the Soifth. and •specially the State of South Caro lina. Is today throttled in Its natural progress and its intelligent exercise of the right of self-government by m oligarchy of a past generation through thh/ perpetration of igno rance and the fertilization of cor ruption, and I shall welcome the day when the educational propaganda, which can only be spread By (he use of money, whether, it be Standard oil money or railroad money, o r •my other money save that derived from the government sale of whis- kev, will enable the people to tee more closely their owm best Inter- and cast out those leaders whose hypocritical morality and ill dis guised selfishness is responsible for 'he fact that in the South Illiteracy ^ is greater and the Increase of popu- ■ tatirin aflirwcaith glower than, in >n t great section of the Union. "It is the fashion of present day hypocrisy to decry the corporation, to abhor the trust and to pretend tn from the effect of knife wounds in his throat and head, inflicted b’ linkTTrrwfljrerHons. Mullin was found ^ near his home, in Phoei*ix_aty, Ala^ VH)Uh ij c nfp to prescribe the Influence node else, or will force spmebmL to kill him. Atjd either oeefffrwne. will be a calamity.. It will be a. ca lamity for MeGaha to kill a ma- whose life fs worth. something, ami it will he a ca-lamity for some good man to be forced to kill him. No good citizen wants to stain his hand- and hit* soul with human blood, even in self-defense. "Aird when John MeGaha .gets into his next, trouble, and kills or is killed.'those who have freed him from his- latest encounter with the law will be more to blame than any body else. Bear that in mind." r>f weath, hut as in this country nnd • n this age wealth is and must be, -he reward of intelligence I am not willing to be considered amongst those cowardly enough to deny the influence which intelligence has a**., ways exercised under every form of government thus far devised. Of a government of ignofffm* «f-~.4***e had enough in my native State, i hope for. and shall continue to wor* for. a government of intelligence. ^ "(Signed) John Lowndes McLauria. Senator McLaurin leaves tomorrow for South Carolina. \ / ! *t iMMli C onvicts Display Bravery. A dispatch from Manilla says a cloudburst struck the penal coioay at Iwahjg September 23 and eight persons were drowned, including Harold Macknight. superintendent of the farm. The prisonera behaved heroically, many'plunged into tho water at personal risk to «•- rades. . ■ .- - V