The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, November 25, 1904, Image 1

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mt/Ati -r -.,!, LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE .?Ulc SOULS AND MAKE O (JU UVES Iii THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOOS IN THY CAUSE." BENNETTS VILLE S. C., EIIID? :f, NOVEMBER 26,1904. NO. 48. BLOW AT THE SOUTH. Tho EepubUcans "Will Try to Cut Town Cur lif-prcsentation. CAMPAIGN MADE ON THIS LINS And Efforts to Coiwlnon Northern Voters tbnt the Basis ol'Repre sentatlon is Unfair, Says tho Washington Star. The Washington Star, which it Said to be the official oigan of the President, says it in well understood among a number of Republican lea ders in Congress that au offurt will be made at the nt xl. long session to re duce the representation of States in tho House of R .presentatlves in pro portion to the extent to which the suffrage 1B denied their cit z-.ns. Here is the tale told by the Star: Massa chusetts and Mississippi would receive relatively equal treatment in the re duction. If an extraordinary session of the Fifty-ninth Congress should be assembled, the subject would probably be taken up then. The conviction has been g;owing in recent years, stimulated by a number of close Congressional tights, prior to the landslide, that the situation is in tolerable, with respect to the over representation of the Southern States in the He-uso. The Northern R pub Heans have been demanding that one or two things snail be done-and they don't.very much care which is adopt ed-namely, that the negro vote in the bouth be counted or when exclud ed the representation in Congress shall conform to the actual vote cast. For the past four Congresses the su> jeot has been discussed in earnest. The leaven set to work by a little co terie of Republicans has been doing its woik, and in the last cession re sulted in a formal caucus of Republi -cansui tue House, it waa then do teimined'to be Inadvisable to take up the fight. Congress wanted to get away and go to woik rn the campaign, lu was recognized that a long and bitter fight would have to be made to get 'the desired legislation, and men in neither hedy were ready to undertake it, . Durir g the campaign there was a great deal of discussion on the sub ject among Republicans in their pri vates Councils. When the Congression al campaign committee started in to - %uie outl the prospect, the first thing they"ran up against was that wall ot i 120 Representatives In the House from the kolid South. Tb'-re was no .'. similar situation in the North. There they stood, a nucleus of 12t5, around which to gather a possible Demcorat ic Huu&e. Chairman Cowherd of the opposing committee knew lt, and lt . ^orpforted him exceedingly untP' he went to New York and tried to make tho Belmont-Sheehan McCarren outtit disgorge Borne campaign funds, and they reminded him that he had 120 ntembeis sure and ought tu be able to pick up the rest. The Republican national committee took cognizance of the evil ot over representation, and one of the few campaign documents Issued by the committee wi>s an exposition of the extent and scope of the deprivation of actual suffrage and the false represen tation in Congress. Many speedie nade in*the campaign took tbai Issue as iheir text. A great deal of the press matter furnished by the national and Con gre s: on al ce mmitttes bore upon thc subject. Speaker Cannon, In bis campaign in New England, paid much attention to it and addres . ed his remarks mainly to New Eng land Democrats, poiutiug out how they did themselves and the interests of their section an Injustice by help ing to swell tlie Democratic repre sentation in Congress that was based upon erroneous election statistics. In New England he showed thc voters how a single Congressional dis trict up Mi rth would cast a greatei ~ fete than**the vote of eight or nine representatives from a Southern State and how the industrial output of that district would exceed the output of a S ate in the South, the idea being to contrast the relative political power jf the sections and the relative impor tance of industries. In the Middle West the same leaven has been working, lt is all for the purpose of awakening the yoters to the evils that the leaders seo. lb was determined that education was neces sary. Some of the caucus leaders last se>siou pointid out that a big st.ii would be made in the Middle States and even in the East. They said the Aaerican people were a kindly ano generous folk, go id natured, and not inclined t> bear down upon their neighbors. A "force bill" as such a measure would instantly be dubbed by the Southerners, would si und harshly in the ears of people of thc central scellons. Hut these same leaders resolved that it was time to do something. They ptctund the South as sitting by Its p antat ion fireside, gazing Into the dy ing embers of the past while smoko g thc corn-cob pipe of retrospection, and woro determined that the march of progress of the E ist and North shou d not b i arrested by the Bourbon spirit. Every time an economic measure cime up in Congress there were those. 12<> inflated votes, solidly arraigned against the rest of the country, stub born, unsusceptible to reason, dead set lu their Bourbonlsm. They knew that down South the business Interests were stirring uneasily, hut the Bour bons controlled the ballot box. The agitation has been renewed since election day. The solid South has been compressed Into even narrow er space hy the pressure of progress on its Northern I orders. The Republican leaders arc asking themselves now, snail we permit this narrowed and re slrleted aroa to continuo to hold such a mighty balance of power in Con gres ? Suppose it ls asked, that the negro vote in the South could have been counted In this election; would nould not the Union, with tlie possible exception of Te xas haye voted thc Re publican ticket, with its principles o? progress and prosperity V The leaders realize that lt ls no easy task that is before them. They do not know whether it can be accomplished In the coming Congress or not. It ls yet to be determined whether the good-natured, easy-going people of the middle- section bave been sufficiently aroused to the situation to Indorse stringent measures. Bbc the effort will be ma V The men who have the ease in hand have been preparing for the iiurht, and whether it is won or not in the coming Congi ess, lt ls to be waged with ali ardor. _ Kided In a Collision. At Toronto, Ont, a street car with trailer attached got beyond control ol the motorman and crashed through tbe guard gates at the Queen street cross'og of the Grand Trunk railway tonight. A Montreal irieght train struck the forward car, grinding It to splinters. Every passenger on the street car was injured, two dying soon after being taken from the wrecks g* and two at the hospital. The dead are: James Armstrong, conductor, one . year old child of J. Robertson. The baby was thrown from its moth ..r's arms and both its legs were cul off. Mrs. Minnie Mahaffy, internally injured, died at hospital. Russel T, Stephens, Internally injured, died al nc spit al. The forward car was s lr ucl fairly in the centre aud Completel] demolished. The vestibule iron which the motorman, nad jumped wai carried up the track 100 yards. Tin trailer was overturned aud all thi windows were smashed, but t. ^ bod] of the car remained Intact. . A. Pconllar Accident. A special dispatch-from-Augusta Ga., to the Columbia Record say^ Mr H C. Hughes, an engineer on the Au gusta Southern railroad, met instan death at Peunillo one day last week The death was the result of a pure ac cident. It appears that Mr. Hughes who was in Peunviile on one of hi regular trips, was on thecDglne of th Augusta be und passenger train. IL was talking to Engineer Edmund B Thomas, who was in charge of the en glne. As t';e train moved, it 1 thought, a pistol fell from tho slgufc bwX of thc engine, struck the f ootboan and was discharged. Tho bali enterei the left side of Mr. Hughes' bod about midway passiug upwards, an either cutting important blood vessel or enterlug tbe heart. Mr. Hughe fell from the engine to the grounc and in falling hi:, left hand and ari were thrown benetth the wheels an were crashed. Death was practican instantaneous. The revolver was tb property of Engineer Thomas. A Negro Handed, Joseph Watson, the 18 year ol colored boy who murdered Henry O borne of Hartford, Honn., lait Ai gust, paid the penalty for his crin: Wednesday morning when he was pt to death by hanging on the gallows J the State prison. The drop w? sprung at 12.00 and at 12.15 Dr. Fo the prison physic wa, declared hi dead; Tho r?-fl?x muscular ao>h shown by Watson af?er the drop w sprung was remarkable. While su pended In the air and apparently afr ois neck had been broken he claspi his hands, then drew them apart at finally let them drop to his sid Shortly before midnight the sacr meut was administer- d to the co demoed boy and later he knelt, prayer with his spiritual advise: the Rev. A. A. Cr.ok bf Hartford. Kciii^rknble Untie. Tiie Columbia State says: "T newly-elected governor of Mionesot John A. Johnson, is another stat? man of the Dick Whittington soi Mis father died in the pojr house a his mother had to take in washing order to get fond for the future govt nor of the State of Minnesota. Tl latter dignitary left school when was 10 \ears of age to make his live hood. Oa November 8 lie was elect Democratic governor of the ov< whelmingly Republican State of M nesota. There aro as strange thin In human life as ever were written the story books." What Ii iHH Cup r* Suj-8. District Attorney John G. Cape the national R publican committ man for this slate, intimates tl there will be a few changes In I jobs in this state as a result of 1 recent election, lt ls understood t> those who have beru opp? .sing C er.s and his associates will lose o * This means that such men as Pt mister Richardson at G reen vi Postmaster Harris at Charleston ? those in charge of tho collector's tice at Columbia will be retain while the Tolbeit , Bob Smalls; others will b> dropped. lt Aili Live. The Philadelphia Record ls ri when it says temporary d.'feat not prtv nt Alt n B. Parker f holding the position to which he is j titled In the- c uncilsof the De moe i lc party. These t,e ?pie fondly err imagine that the gieat const! tu tit and historic party of thc couotr; dissolved hy the resu.tof the elect The pu ty has tc o long been nice such ex'remo popular manifest?t to doubt a return of the sober set thought of the pr opie." A Close Cull. The Clyde liner Algonquin arr at Jacksonville, Kia., Wednes morning slightly listed to st?rbe because of the shifting o^ her c during Sunday's storm and wii slight rip In tier side marie by now.'prit of an unknown sch H which she encountered. The sehe was without lights and hove u front of the Algonquin when storm was at its height. It wa .most Impossible to avoid a colllsl hoth vessels wore rolling on 1: seas. Fatal Acoitlmit. A dispatch from Piedmont te State says, O. B. Creame r, a fi of that place was run over by a S ern railway train near there Mt afternoon and received injuries which he died an hour after? Creamer was driving a wagon 1 with fertilizer drawn by two n The wagon was smashed to spl and one of the mules was killed L. McCall, who was on the w escaped uninjured. Tho. dead leaves a wife and pcveral eh I ld re Will Fight On. Tho Russian ambassador In ington says bis country does nol any interference or proposals fo 1 tration, but intends to ?ght th 1 out with the Japs to the bitter FERTILIZER CAMS Will Not bo Stayed by Clemson T jua teca as Asked. FAVOR MOKE MODERATE LAWS. But Cannot A ?reo to Throw Out the Oases VFhloh Have". Been Made'Aganlat . Oertain Parties. Tbe State says the board of trus tees of Clemson college held an im por tant meeting at Wrights' b?tet Tues day of last week and was la session moro than live hours. Last summer the board instructed Mr. II. II. 5taok UOIHP, clerk ot the fertilizer depart ment, to Institute legal proceedings against some of the fertilizer com panies doing business in South Caro lina, for violation of the statute law as to the guarantee of fertilizers. Many goods had been found d 3 noient under the terms of law. Several in dictments bad been entered against tome of the fertilizer companies and other indictments are to be-entered as fast as* practicable. Tho representatives of the several companies wbof& agents are under in dictments asked to be allowed to ap pear before thc bqard to explain and defend their good faith and dealings with the people. Requests were made that pending prosecutions be nol prossed. Bub the board, after care fully considering the fertilizer law. did not feel authorlz.d to do this, UT was lt willing to stop the issuing of the warrants against those interested who on the face of evidences, have been charged with selling deficient fertilizers. Af bar thoroughly canvassing thc en tire situation it was decided that the present fertilizer law offered loopholes or escape, or appears to do so, and in many instances the fraudulent intent UUt S llUt l*V |^V.UI , UUU t/UV UVU1U that it must press straight on in the course decided upon, and begin the prosecution of all del li quents. It was determined, however, that a committee should consider Hie ques tlon of submitting the matter of the fertilizer law to the general as?embly at Its next session for amemdment, and in tho meantime ibis the purpose of the board to continue thc prosecu tions rather than to press them until after the legislature meets and ad journs. The board will not change Its policy unies the legislature shall change the law, and it will press all of the indictments next spring and will hold the outitandlng indictments on the dockets and not Insist upon a trial pending the action of the general assembly In further construing the present statute. In conversation a member of the ?i?rd represented that ma'ay cf thu indictments were cases largely on technical grounds, but the board fears that if it failed to carry out the strict I letter of tho law it would rjouke itself ! liable to censure. It has been sug gested that the law will he amended by the legislature, so as to make the matter perfectly plain. Another important matter was the authorization of additional Inspectois to gather samples. Additional chem ists were also suggested to keep the analysis of the samples ot thc fertili zers up with the work of the Inspec tors, so that the farmers can get what they pay for. The board appreciates that In st me of the pending-cases, perbaps, there has been tachuical guilt without in tent; but in view of tho statute law the board feels that lb cannot consent to drop any of the prosecution-). It must follow the chart of the statute law whether that be reasonable or not in every detail. There were representatives of. niuo fertilizer manufacturers present who urged .'the propriety of dropping the suits and pressing such as involved bona tide infractior s of the law witt) fradulent Intent. Tue members of the board present were: R. W. Simpson of Pendleton, president; J. E. Wanna maker of St. Matthews; Josse H. Harding of Chester; J. E. Tindal of Summerton; W. L. Donaldson ol Greenvlll. ; J. E. Bradley of Abbeville; G. Duncan Belbngi r of Columbia; L A. Sease of Newberry; lt ll. howen of Pickens, and Augustine T. Smythe of Pendleton. Col. M. B, Barding 61 the chemistry department, Dr. P. ll. E. Sloan, secretary and treasurer of the college, and Mr II. M. Stack house, secretary of the fertlliz.'r board, were also present. Accidentally Killed. A sad and fatal aeddent occurred about ten miles cast of Swansea In Lexington C unty on Wednesday evening a:.ou '< o'clock. Vandy Say lor, white, and Welton Glover, color ed, were cut hunting and by some ac cldent young Saylor's gun was dis charged at shore range, thc entire load taking effect In Welton Glover's bick in the region of the r'j;ht kidney and Just to the right of the sp!* ai column. Tlie wound was two and a half or three Inches across. Welton d'ed In 18 hours after accldmt. In ante-mortem statement Glover said thut lt was an accident. I/Ofl fur l'arts Unknown. A Fondai from Athens, Ga., says: There is a shortage in thc ace iiuits of thc cishlcr and ticket seller at the depot of the Georgia railroad In this city and tho two yamg men who hold those offices, J. lian mond Childers and Joseph J. Hunter, have left for parts unknown. The amount of shortage has not yet been ascertained and will not be until tin: accounts have been audited thoroughly', lt is rumored that Childers, who was the cashier, is short any where from $1,ODO bo 8;{,U00, while Hunter's shortage li placed at 9100 or 8~>00._ Murderer Cnpi urcd| Sam Brown, the negro who mur dered young Allen Ueathlngton in Culleton county som-: weeks ago, and for whom a reward of ?500 was of fered, was captured in Hock Hill on Tuesday. Gov. M ey ward offered *20(J and tho family *:u)0 reward. Advlon Ul (?'armera. Harv! Jordan of Georgia, president of the Southern Cotton Growers as sedation, advises fanners to hold their colton for belter prlc-.o and commends them for holding so far, which he says kept the price from going to eight cents in Oclo?cr. A NOTES CONVERT From thc Kenia? Catholic Church to tho Protestant Church. Tho.Associated Press hns received the.iuliowirg. Beforegivlng It pobli cation, its authenticity has been tully verified by cable from Rome: - Rome, Oct. 30, 1904. .'Editor of the Associated Press: "You have my full permission ic print the enclosed, and give lt as wide a publication as poosslble. "Yours truly, (Signed) "Marquise Des Monstlers." "Dear E liter: lb may Interest some ot your readers to know that the Marquise Des Monstlers, MerlnviUe, formerly Miss M. G. Caldwell, who, ic will bo~ remembered, founded the Ro man Catholic university at Washing ton sam* years ago, has entirely re pudiated ?rrr former creed. In an In terview with rae the other day she said: 'Yes, it is true that I have left the Roman Catholic church Since I have been living in Europe my eyes have been opened to what that church realty 1B, and to its anything but sanctity. Rut the trouble goes much further back than this. Being naturally religious, my imagination was early caught by thc idea of doing something to lift the ohurch from the lowly position which lt occupied in America, so I thought ct a university or higher school where Its clergy could' bo educated, and, if passible, refined. Of course in this way I was greatly !h".ueec:d by Bishop Spalding of Peo ria, who represented ir. to roe asone or the greatest works of the day^ When I was 21,1 turned over to them one third of my fortune for that purpose. But for years I have beeu/trying to rid myself of the subtle 'yet over whelming influence of a Church, which pretends, not only to the privl-. lege of being, 'the only true church, ' but of being alone able to open the r>f h?awn? t.. n onrrn<?ft,l air./..) r-- "l -- - ? "" world. At last ray honest Protestant blood has asserted itself and I now forever repudiate and cast of! 'the yoke of lb mo.' So saying tho mar quise politely dismissed me. "lb will he remembered that the Marquise Des Monstlers Meiinvllle and her sister, the Baroness von Z?d wily., are the daughters of tho late Wm. S. Caldwell aud his wife, who was a Breckenridge of Kentucky. Shortly before bis death Mr. Caldwell became a convert to Roman Catholi cism, and left his children to the care of Irish Roman Catholics in New York, whom his wife had met in church circles. The younger sister married some 15 years ago a German nobleman, a.Lubheran, and has since then also left the Roman Catholic ommunion.^ Thc cider has been in very lad health for some years trop? | having *.o v-cupy a p -o.ttoii be?ure vb?, world as a prominent Roman Catholic which was not a real one, and into which lier extreme generosity led her. as a young ano- 'Inexperienced girl. Now at last lier own mind has assert Itself and she returns to the creed of her ancestor,-?." Mary Gwendolyn Caldwell la the: daughter of Wm. Shakespeare Calci- j weil, who after being a theatrical manager in England settled in Rich mond, and eventually made a largo fortune lu building gas houses in Chi cago, Sb. Louis, Mobile and other cities. He married Miss Breckenridge, a famous Kentucky beauty. Miss Caldwell and her sister, Lina, spent tlie mummers at Newport, where they had a magnificent house and usually passed part of the winter, when they were not abroad, in New York. On the death of her father, Miss Caldwell Inherited i>2 000,000 and October 19, 1890, s!ie was married to the Marquis Des Monstiers Merin vi ?le, a French nobieman, by bishop Spaleiitig of Peo ria, the guardian and administrator of the estate o: Miss Caldwell. At the time of her marriage Miss Caldwell wasa very handsome woman, abc ut .;") years old, and a devoted Ro mau Catholic. She had previously shown 1er devotion to the church by giving MOO,000 to found the divinity college ol the Kornau Catholic univer sity in Washington. Some seven years pr vi ons to her marriage Miss Cald well Jwas engaged to Prince Murat, grandson of the king of Naples. The engagement was broken because thc p: Ince Insisted that half nf Miss Cald well'!! fortune should be settled upon him. The divinity of the Roman Catholic university in Washington ls known as the Mary Gwendolyn Cald well Hall of Divinity. Too Much Whiskey.. At Pittsburg, Pa., a whiskey duel enuc lu tho death of George Platt, aged i?t>, Thursday morning. He and Andrew B JW man worked in a livery stable at (?20 Fifth avenue. They had quarrelled freinent ly, and Bowman told Platt that he could .drink him to el ath. Platt took up the challenge, l in y adjourned to a neighboring bar and begau drinking as fast as the classes could be lilied to tho brim. Platt di auk ten glasses when he com plained of feeling sick. His friends carried him to the stable and left him lying on a couch In the office. Thurs day morning he was found dead. Bowman drank considerable after Platt left tlie saloon. Ile had not be come, conscious ?atc Thursday. Phy sicians say ho is in a drunken stupor and will recover. A Trolley Accident. A dispatch to the Augusta Chroni ele says Wednesday morning W. G. Thoma-on, aged H'.l years, was run over and ki.l ui by an electric c ir on the corner of 15'cad and Thomas streets at Macon, Ga. He was nearly deaf and did not hear the ear as lb ap preached biro; ho stopped In the mid dle of the track, and be foi e the motor man cou d stop the car it was upon him. killing him instantly. Mr. Thornason was formerly of E.bert county- and was buried there Thurs day. Ht rout Car < ntllilc. At Ohattanoi ga, Tenn., a beadon 1 collision Thursday on t ho rapid tran sit electric cir Hue, due to a heavy Tog, resulted in ono death and the seri ous injury of several persons. J. Wood all a passenger, who was internally hurt, died later of lils injuries Motor ::;.;. BurUaer, both of whose legs wert cut ol?, and Motorman Harris, who re ceived internal Injuries, will probably die. SOME GOOD ADVICE. ? . ' -~ .. What tne Kew York American Thinks tho Democrats JBXf&X BO TO WIN NEXT TIMS. _ Io Or<lor to Wita tho Democratic Party Must bo Democratic . ?nd Ht trna Up For Tho Mn HS i H. Nd real Democrat is discouraged by Tuesday's tremendous Republican victory: The reasons for it. are thoroughly comprehended "by all men who ..nderstand the country's needs and tts deep political currents. Th se who cry, either ir. exultation or despair, that the Democratic party ls "tsjftashed," "destroyed," .'obliter ated,'?'.'do not know what Democracy means. Nothing can kill the Democratic party ?x?ept Itself, aud lt can commit suicide only by perslstcuce lu being undemocratic; The landslide for Roosevelt^ or away from: Parker-however you choose te put fr-was certainly of gigantic pro protlpos. .But look overthe|ground It trayotsid and you will see much that ul ve.; prof mind encouragement* to the true Democrat. \ Consider tho number of States which, though givi.ng majorities foi the Tijpublican . Presidential ticket, s?vey^a?esi elected Democratic Gov arnors. Roosevelt carried Massachusetts bi 66.279. Will.am Lr Douglas, Demo erat, is chosen Governor by 35 OOO. It l?sevelt carried Colorado by 10, 000. . Adams, Democrat, gets th? Governorship by 7,000. Roosevelt carried West Virginia bi 25,000; Cornwall, Democrat, for Gov ernor. by ?O.OO?. Roosevelt carried the hitherto rock ribbed Democratic state of Missouri but Folk wins the Governorship b] 25 000. Roosevelt carried Minnesota bj ICO.OGt. Johnson, Democrat, is elect ed Governor. Roosevelt carried Rhode Island bj 10,000, yet the Democratic candidati for Governor was beaten by the nar row nWgin of 69i. The Whole country knows why Foll could not be vanquished." He stoct so definitely, so. conspicuously, fo something that MIssDurl would hav been Shamed In the eyes of civillz < men li," his rejection. The somethini that liq stood for was common houes ty. ' A Democratic District-Attorney he ma le war upon Democratic bood lera n .ci tho orporato millionaire with ' 'om they "did business." .- ..v.ija ::i - I>o:;r-cv; .ih--MA??9 chuse-ts-usually as safely Republl cati u Texan is safely Democratic^ rises in its broad significancs abov all tho rest. IIls\Ropubllcan antagonist, Bate.' secured the Govcrnnrhhip a year ag by a plurality of 35,004. Dougln goes tn by a plurality of 35,TH This represents a shifting ot 72,00 votes..' How came this political mir acal t ho worked in Ma sachusetts? Organized labor did it. In all the mill towns Douglas wc by big majorities. A manufacturer and a large en ployer of labor, Mr. Douglas is also man, who believes in treating ti worker with Justice. And he oppbsi the shackling of trade with robbir tariff duties that helps the trusts ; the expense of legitimate bud ness i tcrests and the whole people. The labor vole elected Dougla What is the' Democratic party wit out the labor vote"? What reason h the Democratic party to exist if does not give cause to the meu wi toil to be with it? The Roisevelt avalanche docs n in tlie least alter the fact that t great, the overwhelming majority the American people aie Democrat -the fact that they believe in cqt rights and are against special pri lege. Give them the opportunity to vc for Democratic prlncip'es-make t Issue plain between favors for the f and fair play for the many-and tli will vote for the right and in th own Interest. And the people are quite able discriminate. Their adherence Democratic candidates In ma States who stood for something wli the Roosevelt tide was rushing, pro that clearly. These Democratic successes, lt m be kept in mind, wore achieved un the most anverso circumstances-tl could hardly have bern worse, resist a political tidal wave calls intelligence and steadfastness. Douglas, Folk and the other De ocratlc Governors have their unrt takablc lesson for the De mo.-rn party as to what tts national e tu must bc If it ls to escape the rec renee of such defeats as that wb overtook lt on the 8th. Tho party has only to be Democi lc to win. There ls needed s'mply a natli platform containing tlc fundamen of Democracy-Jeffersonian prii pies applied to the c moutons no a ter how clear they may be as hob' to any leader or clement. And this platform there should be. pla candidates who are known to be i resentative of the principles rJcclat The trusts are in the saddle. T are cotilldent that four years more government by predatory we ?lt h predatory wealth has been seen ?ind secured bv popular mandate, their judgment the people are ft easily managed fools. They are mistaken. The people were o' the opinion they hau not. been given an opp< nity to vote against trust rule, I robbery and corrupt interference politics by the trusts. That opinion accounts for Roosevelt landslide. This Republic ls in a state ot political health. The people know what they wa That ls demonstrated by tho tion of I) uglas, of Folk, and of other Democratic Governors we s thc track of Tuesday's R pub ! fiord. In order to win, thc D^moc party must be Democratic Yo'k American, . THE BOLL WEEVIL. Thc Wnr Against the Little Peat to be The Interest, In the "boll weevil con vention" at Shreveport Is growing. :The farmers of South Carolina do not want this pest to get into, the State. But one State cannot aot successfully without tho co-operation of the a 'Jdn tug and surrounding States. This con ventionof Shreveport willprepare the way'for the enactment of uniform leg islation when the general assemblies of" the several States meet.this winter. Gov. Hey ward Wednesday received the following very urgent letter from Guv. Newton C. Blanchard of Louis! ana, wbo says in extending tbla invi tation: "I have the honor to expend to you, lo behalf of the cotton .growing In terests of tbls State, an invitation tb attiend the National Cotton conven tion, to be held at Shreveport. La., Deo. 12 h-15tb, inclusive. Thia con vention ls au outgrowth of the delib erations or the delegates to the Loul . lana Boll Weevil convention, held at Shreveport, Nov. 3rd and 4th of this year. "The chief purpose of the promo tefs of t c national convention 1B to secure i ' ?'dgentco operation In the work o' hemming the ravages uf the Mexiciu boll weevil. This is an under :aklng of the very highest Importance, not only to Texas and Louisiana wbere the weevil bas actually begun his work of decimating tbe cotton fiilds, but to every cotton producing State In the South. "Experience lins taught us that In dividual of seperate State action can not encompass the destruction of the Mexican bull weevil. The problem Is one of national importance and must be met by factor aud grower in every part of the union. United action can alone prevent the zone of Infection Hom being extended to every part of the cotton area. It ls imposslbio tc ex aggerate tbe seriousness of the situa tion. "The executive committee charged with the dnty of arranging for the Shreveport convention feel that toe delegates will beneflt'materially trim your presence and counsel. T.) trils idea most heartily subscribe. I tr us? that your business affairs will be sus ccptiable of suoh arrangement as will enable you to attend the convention and take part in tho d?lib?rations of the delegates. "Doubtless you have received from tbecxecutlve committee a requestthat you appoint 100 delegates from South Carolina to the Shreveport convention. ? trust that you will comply with this request." . THE C?T/UOiy OHQW^RS, ; A Meeting Will bo Held in Columbio, on Deoomber IO. The Columbia Record says: It ls expected that the cotton gr?wer* of tbe state will meet here on Ducemher 10 in accordance with a call ls>ued hy a cpeclal committee some tim? ego. Tni0Us-b some mistake the c '^L^'S??i out fur a meeting to be held ou No vember 10, and a number of promi nent cotton growers through >ut tue state came bere'on that date t > attend the meeting. It was found, however, that the meeting was Intended for December 10, and accordingly thc farmers have been notiu.d to meet ou that date. The committee appointed to call the meeting is as follows: B. O. Harris, Anderson; H. A. Richard son, Barnwell; W. D. Evans, Ch tter tield; P L. Hanlin, Chester: R. A. Sub-, lett, Clarendon; W. C. Brand; Colle. ton; T. II. Ralnesford, Edge field; J. W. H. King, Florence; Jonn Canter, Kershaw; J. H. Wharton, Laurens; E. D Smith, L"e; J. W. Wile, Lan caster; H. R. Galloway, Marion; B. M. Pegues, Marlboro; B. P. Keller, Orangeburg; J. C. Stribllng, P.ekens; F. II. Weston, Richland; D.-W. Dabbs, Sumter; W. H. Stewart, York; J. M. Edwards, Spartaubug, and W. II. Irwin, Greenville. lt ls thought that there will be a large attendance at the meeting If the notice of the date can bo given wide publicity, and Ibis expected that business of censtderable Importance will be transacted. Since the meeting here during the fair a number of the counties of the state have organized county associations aud those that were not represented at the October meeting .will send delegates. It was stated in tbe call that the meeting was for business purposes only and that no secret society would be form ed, and that the meeting would be open to the public. It bas been found that a number object to tho orgmlza- | t u n, thinking that it would be a po litical body, but tho originators state that they will not allow politics to enter the discussion. ( '.ni- lil'- l all Out. A db patch from Lancaster to The Stite says Walter Hough of tho town of Keshaw and Will Suowell of Lan caster, county had a dltllculty ne*r the Southern depot at Lancaster Wed nesday, In which Hough was seriously shot with \ pistol by Sowell. Si.well was cut seriously with a knife by i Hough, lt was au unfortunate affair especially as tho young men were li rat cousins. Hough Is shot through both lungs and thc docto s think oe v. ill die. Started I'n A^aln. After being shut down for four months because of a strike over a 12 1-2 per cout rediKtion lu wages, the Fad 'tiver, Mass., cotton mills started their machinery again on Monday. Only ? few operatives reporto:! fur work-so tow that thc mills bau to stop again. OhftrRod With Murder. Mrs. Paton Noble of New York city ' ls under arrest on thc charge of mur dering ber husband, who was found on Monday morning in their home I with two bullet wounds in bis chest. S ie says lt was an accident while her ' husband was trying to take the re volver from her. Hanged tor Murder. j Nelli Sediere and Dave Brown, both i negroes, were hanged at E Izabcth i town, N. C., on Wednesday tor the murder of Mrs. George Packer, a II voui g white wi,moil, on September v 2nd. Tho crime was one ot tho moat j brutal in criminal annals. 8EES DANOER AHEAD. -= Donator Tillman Suya tho Whito Vii luwjr Must bo PrcBf rvcd. Senator Tillman has written a let; ter to the Greenville Mountaineer in regard to tho Walker election on an Independent ticket at the recent elec tion, as follows: I reached homo Monday from In diana, and I have been absent from home.nearly the entire month of. Oc tober and a part of September, there fore i have not kept posted on m\U: tera In the state* I*seo in your isfue ofJNovember Oih an editorial, "Till man's Interference," upon which 1 de sire co comment brit Hy. . The faot. that the elections over ard the result of the contest for super visor In Greenville is known, in no Wis? changes my attitude. My tele gram from Indiana to the gentlemen who asked my opinion and advice ctn hot be tortured into interference; last of. all Into dictation. The p opie of Greenville, of course, know their own minds and lb Is hone of my affair that they haye elected Mr. Walker Instead of the regularly deolared-nominee of thc Democratic party, bub. mark my worls, if the Democratic primary is nob 'lifted above tuspiclons," te quote my telegram, in Greenville and the other counties lb is only a question of time when the primary . system will fall into disuse and all political con tes's will be settled at the legal elec tion in Nbvembar. When that tims ar rives we will Inevitably have the ne groes come in as the balance of power hei wean contending white factious. I do not know either Mr. Speeg.eor Mr. Walker, and I have learned since I reached bo ne from letters that Mr. Walker's friends are my friends, or bave Inen In the past, bub that has not Influenced me lu bhe least. My at titude ls in nb sense a personal one. The regularly declared nominee of the Democratic p:trty has been ucicaLud, the drat and only time I can recall. The precedtut has been established. The point of the wedge has been driv Into the lo?. Tnat is the issue and that ls bhe only reason why X penunie if ib was persuraption to answer the tah gram Sent to me at Corydon, Ind., and to express an opinion on the sub Jct. Tho voters ot Greenville have ceusued their county executive com mittee- They, have at the same ??t??? broken the oath they took at the pri mary election. The clubs which have voted contrary to the oath taken should remove those committeemen who are responsible fer not having ordered another primary. Will they do lt? Will there be any Independents In Greenville at the.next election? These are - bhe points to bo codsldered, and to these aline readdressed myself. A The recent.overwhelming viotory in t-hu 1-7 ,^tkmgt?El-.?ctt?;u aolld,'! and with a president who ls In favor of social equality with negroes, should warn us of the dangers ahead. I am old enough to remember the recon struction era. The present editor of The Mountaineer knows nothing ab.mt lt. There-are few negrce-i in Green ville, relatively speaking. In two thirds of the counties, however, they outnumber the whites 2, 3 and 4 to 1, and every*du.?.j>.dria,?o.the number who can read and write andl?c-v., "..re vote. I close by saying again we mus', keep the primary above suspicion, and ve can nov. preserve Democratic soli dity by electing Independents. "It ls the tlrst step that counts," and the Urat step lu Greenville has been taken. God forbid that there, should bc any more such steps either there or else where, for it means untold trouble and misery for the people of this state.- Yours truly. B. It. Tillman. RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.., Tho Numbrr or l'rrsons Ktllt tl and Wounded in thlH Statu. The railroad commission has com pitted the tabulation of the employes and passengers killed by the raiiroads lo the State for the year ending June 30, 1904. The ligures are as follows: In Employes. Killed. Jured Atlantic Coast Line. 0 -iii Carolina and N. W. 0 7 0. & W. C.:. . . 0 40 Hampton & Branchville.. . 0 2 N. W. of S. C. 0 1 Seaboard. 0 50 Southern. 0 12 Southru, Carolina Div. 5 55 Passengers. . Atlantic Coast Line. 0 15 C. & N. W. 0 1 C. & W. C. 1 7 Hampton A; Branchville... 2 2 Seaboard. o l l Southern.,. 0 l l Southern, Carolina iii v.... 2 f>8 Total killed and injured, including trespassers and all others, as follows: In At'ant'c vJjast Line.18 22 C. Sc W. ?. 0 ll Conway it Seashore. 1 0 C., N. it L.:. 1 1 Georgetown it Western ... 0 1 Lancaster it Chestoi ll-dd .. 2 4 N. W. of S. C. 0 i Seaboard. 0 74 Southern.20 110 Southern, Carolina Div. ...29 1 hi The Item list erm m rated includes t.hf Fishing Creek disaster in August, 1003._. A Half Southornor. Col. John S. Mosby received a few months rgo, a letter from Judge ltoulhac of Birmingham, Ala., com menting on the attitude of the south ern people toward thc president per sonally. Col. Mosby sent the let'er to Oyster Biy as he thought the sen timents expressed in it by a Confeder ate veteran would bc gratifying to the president. He rccelvt d a reply which he did not pul bsh during tho campa'g iashe felt that the presi dent's motives in writing the lotter would be misconstrued. To? letter ls as follows: "Oyster Bay, ??. Y., Sept. 10, 1001. "My Dear Col. Mosby : "That la a fine loiter of It ul h ac's and i appreciate lt. 1 have always been saddened rather than angered by the attacks upon me In thc Sooth. I am half a .southerner myself; andi can say with all possible sincerity that the Interest:', of the south arc ex actly as dear to me ns the interests oi i the north. Sincerely yours, (Signed) Theodore Roosevelt," PECULIAR DEATH. Gas Plant Working Torce Foun? Dead in looter room. RBSCUBEB'S NARROW ESOAP? Oao of Victims Was Discovered Alivo but Could -Not Bo Saved. Force Numbered Four Mea. Four msn were asphyxiated by gas at Dover, N. J., Thursday at- tho plant o? tho Dover, Rockaway and Port Oram Gas company. They con stituted tho entire working loree ol tho place and were discovered by Geo. E. Bunnell, a former employe, who oo visiting tho. plant iou ad lt ap parently deserted with englno3 run ning under a full head of Bteam and soircely any water m ,the bollera. Atter stuoting down tho engines and attending the boilers. Bunnell went throug ) the works and tho four.men were h u id beneath an open trap door In the rh-iter room with the space un der the floor filled with gas from a broken valve in the drip pipe. The men were William Blumer, 17 years old, employed as a fireman; Elias S. Chamberlain, tho engineer; Otto Fidhoriuma, oainter, and a man known only as Gustave, also a painter. The men lay together in a heap and Bun nell noticing that the rn.an.on tcp waa alive, entered the trap to rssau him, 1 nut becam J BO weakened, by the g w j tbat he could not lift the body to t?e , floor, four feet above,, and was barely'' able to'get out himself. He'staggerc*! outside but was unable to attraoo aral ono's attention and it was some tfe' before he" recovered sufficientlyf*< telephone for assistance, . When help finally arrived and ?ras was turned off so the men cfi be' taken out, all four were dead.' From their positions It\j8* thought that Bulmer went tbrouijh the trap first to fix the broken valve and was overcome by the gas, and that, in an . effort at rescue^ Chamberlain, Eld schum and Gustave followed and lost their Uvea ' ?{<?:> ,*< A Olrl llobbor. At New York in the arrest of fif teen year old EiIz.to?th Jacobson the police believe they have unearthed'a systom of robbery which has cast de partment stores and private families in the upper ' West Side many thous ands of dollars during the past few months. The police claim that this yiri, with the assistance of a woman, several years her senior, has executed a long series of most cleverrobberies. L^r.more;*J?aj3L.R!iiPor?thsevery effort-.-; has been made to apprehend her, bub it was not until she answered a decoy advertisement Thurday aud was iden tified by a young woman employed in one of the stores which had been robbed tbat they were successful. The plan upon which the girl worked, ac cording to the police, was to obtain a position as messenger or cash girl in a store or as servant in a private f mil ly, and then awaiting a good oppor tunity, make off with as much valu-, able property as she could -lay 'uer baud;* CV-. Tho WaecB^orSin. Policemen in Wyandotte, 12 miles Idown the river from Detroit, Mich., early Friday morning d'scovered a horse and buggy standing at the cor ner of Fourth and Oak btreets with H. J. Hlllebrand and Mrs. W. J. Mil ler of Detroit, lying dead in the bug gy. Both were shot through the head and it is considered by the au thorities to be a clear case nf murder aud suicide. Whether' Hillebrand or tnei woman fired the shots ls unknown.* A letter found on Hlllebrand's p.-rson written him by the woman while he was in Chicago a short time ago told of au Intimacy between the two and warned Hlllebrand that iib must be I careful of her husband, who she said had threatened to shoot him if he re tuned here. ' Hlllebrand was a bank president. Mrs. Miller had been mar ried only a year and a half. Her hus band says be believes her refusal to elope with Hlllebrand caused him to shoot her and commit suicide. Miller I s iys his wife told him that Hlllebrand had threatened her life once before ; when she refused to accompany him tu Chicago. . . Old Conlon ill JLiUOk. I Commander John 0. Brain, of the I Confederate states navy, through a oidhg Atlanta attorney, has been put in cm ? un I cation with English s illcltors who represent Oi mminder Brain's ut c e, who ls said to have died and that he is tho sole heir to uis Immense fortune, va'ucd at over $4,O?o,OUO. Commander Brain is well known throughout the south and was recognized as one of the bravest offi cars of tho Confederate navy. He commanded an expedition in 1863 that went into New York where he cap tured the steamshipChesapeake while on a voyage from that point to Port land, Mo. In 18G4 he captured and burned the United States mail sbeam I ship Roanoke, valued at 81,000,000. I For a number of years he has been president of the Standard Fertilizer I company of Birmingham, Ala. Drowned at Hos. A special from Washington, North j Carolina, says: Captain Charles Williams and three others left there I Saturday on tho schooner Missouri foi their home In Hyde county. Storm bound at Indian Head they anchored olf the shore, but after dinner Sua day tie wind blew them from this auchorege and the boat was capsized and all on board drowned. The names of the crew cannot be obtained at this i time. None of the bodies have been ?recovered. Liawyor i'arker. Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker, late democratic candidate for president, has moved to tho city of New York and opened a law office there. He re s'gued at $14,500 office to become a candidate. ttulcl?od. Adam Weis?, of Chicago, a passen ger on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II., committed suicide when the stea mer was two hours out from New j York, on Wedncaruy.