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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
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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-
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FIFTY driven FROM HOME.
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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?
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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.
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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. .
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