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VOL. XVI. A HUGLE CALL I To The Democracy of the Country to Get Together AND SAVE THE NATION FROM Ileitis Moxicanizod l>y the Mnn On Horseback initio White House ami (lie Dollar Worshipping Republicans. There was a notable gathering of Democrats in Washington last week. They were there at the biennial banquet of the Virginia Democratic association held in the banquet room of the Metropolitan hotel. They included Democrats of national prominence. Tboso who spoke included the following: T. W. Mullock, second vice president of the association: Col. Henry Wattcrson, of Kentucky; Senator Carmack, of Tennessee; Hon. Lewis Nixon, the leader of Tammany llall: Representative NV. W. Kitchen, of North Carolina: Representative DeArmond, of Missouri and members of congress from Virginia. Col. Wal icrson spowe as follow: "There Is no drop of blood in my veins which is not Virginia blood. Although for purposes of my own. having a deep design beneath them, 1 choose this capital of I lie nation for my birthplace, my earliest vision of paradise?the very dawn of all my conceptions of honor and duty and glory?nestled among yonder hills, across the Potomac; and, when I go hence, my ashes shall repose upon the bosom of Kentucky Virginia's first born and fairest daughter. There seems, therefore, some Illness in my sitt ing among you. "Anyhow, being a Kcntuokien and a Democrat , I am glad to be here and you will not, 1 hope, think me assuming any consequential airs and graces, if 1 add that 1 feel very much at home. "we auk dkmocahts." "We are Democrats. We love our country. Our hearts beat true to its institutions. We would rescue the government from the hands of those who are converting it into a government of t he t rusts, for the trusts and by the trusts, and restore it to the hands of those who will have some regard for the rights of the people. "The Republican party Is a syndicated party. Arbitrary power is its motor, the almighty dollar its trade mark. If it be not chocked in the gait it is going, it will in the end surely Mexieanizc the republic. THE MAN ON llOHSKIlAck. "Once again in t he white house we have the man on horseback. AiTcctitig the simplicity of the cowboy, he conceal beneath the self-conlidencc and f queer manners of t he broncho buster, the sentiments and ambit ions, if not t he talents, of a Piaz. To liim, a little tiling like treating an admiral of the navy, wearing the laurel leaves of imperishable renown, as if he were a baby in arms, now to be dawdled and now to be spanked, is merely an undress alfair begun and ended during olT-momcnts between breakfast and luncheon. To him the reprimanding of the lieutenant-general of the array, grown gray in the lighting of the battles of his country, becomes an amusing horse play, meant to relax his muscles and 11 lust rate his high-mightiness, whilst warning lesser ofllcers of the army to obey orders and say nothing. A MILITARY DICTATOR. "As these things go forward, partaking somewhat of the character of feats to divert and blinds to hoodwink public opinion, a bill of army reorganization is prepared and urged upon congress, which, if it becomes a law, win make the power of the president, absolute, and which it is not too much to say ought to be entitled 'An act to make the president of t he I 'tilted States a military dictator.' liecause the reprimanded lieutenantgeneral, answering the summons of a committee of congress- as was bis duty?expresses an opinion adverse to this bill, It is proposed to retire him from the service. Taken in connection with some other matters of more or less sinister suggestion, these arc menaces of mast ominous Import. WHITE IIOUHK TO THE CAI'ITOb. "Hut, turn from the white house to the capitol, and look at the Republicans in congress. The trail of the trade mark is over them all. Old high tariff dances the cancan in the house, whilst old ship subsidy does the regulation cake walk in the senate. Everything for the syndicates. Nothing for the people. And, not content with their arbitrary power in the white house and their mercenary power in congress, the leaders of this party of federalism and false pretension would rip open Pandora's box to filch thence t he black, piratical flag of negro domination -the equally disreputable and bloody shirt of sectional agitation and, in order to make sure of the next house they are proposing to tiring forward another force bill to smite the south, to blight the north, and to convert a land teeming with love and peace into a land reeking with hate and strife. Such is the banquet to which the exit of McKinley, the statesman, and the advent of Roosevelt, the Rough Ridor, has invited us. A SI.AI' KOU FUNSTON. "lam something of a Jingo myself 1 believe in the expanding greatness and glory of my country. I never see the llag floating above the domo on yonder capitol that my heart does not throb with tlie proud, glad thought that my eyes do not till with liappy exultant tears?that I, too, am an American citizen. "God bless the lla^, and God bless the ix>ys that fight beneatli It. 1 would carry it inviolate, 1 would keep them spotless. And with this in view, 1 want to know what is going nn away outyounder across the multitudinous, the mysterious waves of the Pacific sea. 1 want other witnesses than self-scccing politicians and selfexploiting soldiers to come here and tell me. 1 refuse to hold my tongue, i refuse to rest content. And, if 1 am told by a whippcrsnapper in shoulder straps that, unless 1 do, 1 am a traitor to my country, my reply to him shall be a slap in the face. TitK TIUMl'KT ( A 1.1.. ''Friends, brothers, Democrats, let us have done with dissension. Let us turn our hacks on the past, our eyes to the future, calling against these i tilings is my comrade, no matter what in- iiniiks or ever thought about silver j I or gold. lie who would deny meal place hy his side to light them, must : i>e either very perverse or very hlind. j Let us cross no bridges till we come J to them. Itutalready we can sec far enough ahead to take our reckoning. "TOK T1IE I.IN'K." "There will be but one test of a Democrat in 1004 toe the line toe the line, saving to arbitrary power and absolutism, thou shalt go no further: we, too, are in the expansion business; hut our expansion Is for the religion of the constitution no less than for the religion of Christ and I 111 in crucified; our expansion means peace, not war; the honor, not the degradation of the Hag; and Just as surely as .JetTerson wrote the Declaration of Independence and Jackson fought the battle of New Orleans?to resist despotism?shall we make a new Court,h of July and celebrate another eighth of January, in resisting this unrighteous scheme to abolish the constitution and Mexieanizc the government ." Heller IiAle Th:tii Never. Tin* Columbia State says Henry Watterson is always racy, always incisive, and he made gaod use of his (renins for phrase-making in the speech he delivered in Washington on Monday. We hope it will have its effect upon those present or former Democrats who need a political chart, lint Mr. Watterson in urging the Democracy to unite on a platform of opposition to imperialism and absolutism does not bla/.e out a new path for t he party. The nat ional Democrat le convention in 11)00 (list inct ly declared that opposition to the administration's policy of Imperalistn was "the paramount issue" of the campaign and long before t hat action was ollleially taken by the party a large? majority of the Democratic papers had committed themselves to tin? same proposition. The trouble with Watterson is that lie has not always been sound on the isssue himself. Now that his views arc amended and Improved we are glad: but we protest that our newest recruit if somewhat audacious in signalizing his coining into camp by reading a general order fixing the plan of battle. A Democrat Unseated. The Republicans in the House last Wednesday unseated Mr. Ithea of Kentucky, a Democrat, and seated in i. i.. ?i ? ins pi ace .>ir. .1. Mackenzie Moss, who was formerly a Democrat but who, according to his brief, is in accord with Republicans on the dominant issues. The Republican majority in the house is 43.?While only two Republicans, Ilanbury and Vrceland of New York, voted with the Democrats, enough Republicans remained away or declined to vote to reduce the minorito lo. The conclusion of the debate upon the case was rather spirited, Mr. Rhea making an eloquent defense of his right to the seat. Mr. Rhea made a severe arraignment of Mr. Moss, the contestant, charging that although lie now called himself a Republican that two weeks before the election he had registered as a Democrat and had pledged himself if elected to go into the Democratic caucus. With impassioned words lie challenged the contestant or his friends to deny this statement. "If it isdenlcd," said he, "I willprove him to be the poor, miserable creature 1 know him to be." Jlimped From a Train. The 1 thick villi* correspondent of The State says the passengers on the early morning train from Augusta to Charleston witnessed a surprising incident just be fore the train reached I tlackville Thursday morning. A young lady, Miss May Folk, who lives near Williston, hoarded the train at- that station en route to Columbia. Upon nearing the place t he porter as usual called, "lllaokvllle." Miss Polk immediately rose from her seat, hastily ran to the door and leaped from the train which was then running at some 30 or 40 miles an hour. When the train stopped it returned and found the young lady unconscious. She was brought to the hotel and found to he severiy Injured, suflerlng from concussion of the brain, shoulder dislocated and badly bruised. She is now In a very critical condit ion. -JflHttOO At IjJISt Neely, liathbone and ltecves, the American carpetbag officials who looted the Cuban post-office department, have received tardy Justice in sentences of ten years' imprisonment accompanied by tines ranging from $35,000 to $50,000. The cases agains them were begun two years ago, and the slowness of the American administration in Cuba in pressing the prosecutions has been scandalous. If ?pf CONWAY, S. I THE RACE PROBLEM I In The South as Seen by a Now i England Republican. ENFRANCHISING THE NEGRO. Whh n FitiidutiMMitiil Mistake, Says Ulr. I<lttlotlcl<l, a ('(hiki'cnsman from the Slate of Maine* The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says Charleston will hear with Interest of a speech made In Washington Wednesday night by Represent at ive Llttletield. of Maine, upon t he "Race Problem of the South." Mr. Littletleld was a member of the Congressional party that visited the Charleston exposition week before last. He returned to Washington Sunday week and has been generous in his good words about "The ivory City" I and "The Old City by the Sea." 11 i s | speech at the annual meeting of the Washington Congregational Club last night is but. in line with a number of ' other views held by tlie distinguished gentlemen from Maine, whom Demo-: erats and Republicans recognize as one of the broadest-minded men in Con- i gross to-day. Mr. Llttletield gained considerable [ prominence several years ago by a speech he made in defence of Mrigham II. Roberts, the Mormon member from t'tab, whom the Republicans refused to seat because of 11is religion. Mr. Littletleld ranged himself with the Democrats on that question, claiming that there was no legal reason why Roberts was not entitled to a seat in the House. In the debittc upon the Porto Rican tarill bill Mr. Llttletield again showed himself broad enough to i cut away from party fetters and op- I pose thai measure. His latest utter- I ancc on the nc^ro problem is iti strik- | injj contrast to the (Tuinpackcr resolution which tin clement In the Republican party is endeavoring to ^et into t tie Ilouse, with a view to cutting down the Smith's representation on account of educational and qualitlcat ion sutTra^e laws here. The speech also grains in significance, delivered, as it was, immediately after Mr. LittlcMeld's visit to the most Southern city in the South. It was the tirst trip of the "Man from Maine'' to that section of the South and, while dosirousof seeing the Exposition, It is understood that the main object of his trlpwvas to see for himself the exact conditions in the South. Mr. Littlcficld, in taking up thenevrro problem, said that the black slaves was a vital factor in the development of the country when cotton became the staple production of the South. At the close of the war the t'nited States was left with four millions of blacks on Its hands. This was the most serious problem left by the war. These negroes had been freed from slavery and were occupying a position of peril to the Government. The civilization of the white people, said Mr. Littlcticld, had been accomplished after years of struggle and association with the greatest races of mankind. The negro had been brought direct from his home in Africa and no elTorts had been made toward his education or civil!/.at ion. "By what right," asked the man from Maine, the man from Blaine's own State, "does an Act of Congress seek to place an inferior race on an equal footing with men who have lived through two thousand years of Christianity? The nation sought to create in the negro race the ability not only to govern themselves, but to assist in the government of others. What was the result? This race was in the midst of a people developed In the highest state of civilization known to man. A people who have been overwhelmed by one of their own kind and whose wounds, physical and moral, were smarting under the blow of defeat, "The Kuklux Klan was the outconn;, with its civilization behind it, trying to suppress the newly-created citizens. i nen came tne "granorather clause which virtually disfranchises every negro in the Sout h where it Is in existence, if t,lie elective franchise had been given only to those who had the intelligence to use it the tendency in the South would have l?cen to increase its representation by legitimate means. To-day the tendency is to keep Southern men in igno- i ranee and to keep the negro out of control. To increase the representation properly under such conditions requires the utmost intelligence. "Few men to-day know what is to be done. The negro is with us. lie has the right of citizenship and we cannot adopt the measure so often suggested to deport him. There Is no authority under which we can deport a citizen from the I'nited States. That namesake of the Father of his Country, who is working down in Alabama, is doing the most practical work. We must look to the practical education of the negro as the only solution of the problem. Fundamental mistako was in enfranchising the race, placing in the hands of those people powers they were unqualified to exercise, giving them power over a civilized race overpowered by war. It takes more than a generation or two, or three, even, to oivilizoany people. Fortunate will be the generation that will see a true solution of tills problem." Inclosing Mr. Llttlcfleld touched upon the Philippine probleiti as another one which tiie country was called upontosolve. "It is not possible," ho said, "by any legislative act or.by IXKU I J., THURSDAY, AI education to ereato in any race the power of self-government. Il may lie latent power In some races that only need the touch of the higher civilized bodies of men to develop- I am prepared to say It Is not in the power of the negro to govern himself, as some 1 people have said. What we know of | the Kili it! no what Gen. < !h:?tFiw? ?.-i v < I In liis report is that Hiis race excels in duplicity, treachery and the arts of savagery the American Indian. There are ten millions of people dependent upon us. Only a few of them can read and write. 1 do not know what will he accomplished. I do not think it Is giving away a State secret to say that there is not a man in the House of Uepresentat Ives on either side who, sees the proper solution of this proh-' loin ahead. I Indieve that the American people now face a serious situation: , that it will require all the shrewdness I and Christianity of our people to solve this most, dltlleult question. Itut I have fait h in the future of the Hepuhllo, despite that international \oriniform appendix known as t lie Philippine Archipelago" Mr. Littlelield's speech lias heen hailed with delight hy the I>emocrnts I especially, and should the Crumpaeker resolut ion ever reach the House from committee it is thought not unlikely that t he man from Maine may take t lie lloor in opposition to the measure. Certain it is that Mr. Hit tlelield has shown that he is not afraid to say what he believes, bo it ltepublioan in sentiment or not. Aii lldltor'H laiinciti. The Knoxville Sentinel says It is astonishing how the public looks up"n the newspaper as a free horse to he ridden to death. People will pay ) money for a hand, for lighbs, Janitor, to go to a job prinking otllee and buy thousands of dodgers, pay boys to deliver them, pay performers in the entertainment., if they are professionals, or pay some manager to get up t he affair and give him a large percentage J of the receipts, pay all their bill in fact, pay for everything except that which is most valuable to them to wit, "newspaper advertising. And if, the newspaper is unwilling to devote < more notice, to such entertainment than liberal news notices it comes in for much abuse. And yet why should not the newspaper charge! for its advertising space just as the; owner of the hall charges for its rent, the billboard man charges for the use, of his billboards, the. lithographers; rhiirtrn for fiirnlohln.Tr i\/ud A?.I a w 4 i Ul |IVMtT'l .*>, LI II" j Job printing otlloe charges for the dodders, and the outside parties charge ! for t heir services? The newspaper has , only two sources of revenue. One Is subscription, the other advertising. The subscriptions to newspapers are so cheap that they little more than pay the cost of the white paper. A Horrible I'Me. As a result of an accident at the Orr Mill at Anderson one day last week Hugh II. Scott, a machincst and engineer, 1<?st, his life. Scott was sent, there several weeks ago by the Westinghouse-Chureh-Kerr company to superintend the erection of the new l.ooo horse power engine. Steam was turned on the engine for the lirst time and Scot t was standing by watching Its movements. lie stepped upon the base to oil a hearing when his foot slipped and he fell into the rapidly moving tly-whecl. lie was whirled around and hurled to the opposite side of the engine. lie was horribly crushed and mangled, both legs heing broken and the lower part of his body was ciusucu. rsoiwniisi.anriin^C the injuries lie was conscious when assistance reached liiin and wrote the name of a relative in Michigan to whom he wished a telegram sent. <'Oi*|>8<; 11 <' I< 1 lor Hoard. A funny ease is reported from St. Louis. Until a few minutes before the hour set for the funeral of Mrs. Carrie Schloslnger, Friday afternoon, there was doubt as to whether the services would take place; the body being held for a hoard hill alleged to he due Levi Silverman and wife of 281(1 olive street, where Mrs. Schlesinger died. Henry Schlesinger, the woman's j son. who is a traveling salesman, was i notified by wire of his mother's death, and came to St . Louis to arrange for the funeral. The Silver mans presented to him a hill of $8() for his mother's board and their care for her. Schlesinger declined to pay and was told that t he body would bo held. Schlesinger employed Attorney Howard Sidener and was about to enter suit in replevin when the matter was compromised. _________________ iliiN Thirteen WivcH. Christian C. Nelson, railroad contractor and horseman, alleged to have 13 wives Is In jail at St. Joseph, Mo., on the charge of bigamy, having just been brought in from San Antonio, Tex., where he was arrested a few days ago. Nelson will be tried in St. Joseph because one of the women most active in his prosecution was married to him In that city last September. This bride was Mrs. Mary A. Parker of Plattsburg, Mo. Nelson admits having three wives, but says the other 10 arc myths. lie Is said to l>e wanted for bigamy In Chicago, San Francisco, l)cs Moines, New York, St. Paul, Sumter, S. 0., and Conway, Ark. His preliminary trial will l?e held before the same justice of the peace who solemnized bis marriage with Mrs. Parker In September. After >1 n11y Year*. Laborers engaged in digging away a hill at Old Hrunswlck, near Wilmington, N. C., uncovered a skeleton which is believed to be that of a Ilritish soldier killed during or before the revolutionary war. In the white sand about the skeleton were found a number of brass mlltury buttonsof English manufacture during the seventeenth century. 'HI I, a, 1902. NTOHY OK A TICKKT. Or How Some Republicans Were Made to vote for GEN. HAMPTON IN SEVENTY-SIX. I low l>. S. 11 i'ihIoi'hoii I'uitl Sovcnlyllvt* l>ollllt*M I'll!' (>?? Itllil. icnl Ticket, mid What Wum Ihtno Willi It. The writer hopes ami expects to make good this year a voluntary promise of hitnseir to himself, that has not | hoen forgotten since it was made in the Kail of Ix71>. No previous opportunity to keep it lias heeii presented, i Near the elose of that now historic compaign hotween the republicans tin- i der the direction ot Chamberlain and the Democrats under I lie leadership of Hampton the writer was requested b\ Daniel S. Henderson Ksq., then a young attorney of the sister town of Aiken, to come to his home and he i one of it conference with a few others who were taking an active part in that contest. (>n the appointed night tipoil arrival at the quarters of Mr. Henderson he was found in lied. sutTcring from injuries received while riding I with other hrave young spirits to quell the riotous proceedings precip- ! ilated in the Southern part of Aiken County by the republican managers to secure the presence of the ('lilted States so', tiers at the polls. Ills phy- . si.-ian had forbidden the admission of visitors into his room, but disregarding I hat advice Mr. I lenderson dismissed his attendant nurse and called his < friends around his bedside. Kroin a sale place of concealment he drew a hit <>f paper that many leading Democrats had sought in vain to obtain one of the republican tickets to be voted at the election on the following Tuesday. It was surmounted by an eagle, printed with red ink, and had j i,,, c.,a.,i....^i a..,i / > . f\ * i. n? *iui\'iir?i J ^ l|?il lilt I I M Mil I M* IIIO- I crat ic knowledge l>v the most faithful of the republican precinct leaders., lb' gave no intimation of how It. had j been procured. A eomndtt.ee, the writer heingone of its number, in pur- 1 sua nee of his suggestion, went to An- ( gusta on t he next morning train for j the purpose of having Democratic tickets printed in the same style, with i ink of the same color. No such eagle could tie found in the Democratic printing olllces, but an artist was discovered who made a wood cut and the press of tlie Constitutionalist was kept busy in printing hi red ink and under the eagle the names of the Democratic candidates in the Western and Southern Counties of the State. Defore t he elect ion t hey were spread from the hills to the sea and many an unsuspecting republican voted for Hampton and home rule and by his ballot helped to end the carnival of the scalawags and carpet bagger. And there and then the writer promised himself if ever opportunity presented to cast his vote for Daniel S. Henderson for any ollloe for which he might in the future l>e a candidate. Years after it was incidentally learned that Mr. Henderson had paid sev enty-llvc dollars for the one ticket (t I ki\iro rlnuo?* 11 \/?/l ??rwl ?*./dvl..i? ?un/u/ \u;ov i iia;U| iumi iiw iiimhii n mitribulion was ever made to t he State than this gift from the first,earnings of a young lawyer with his way to make in the world. And all the life of the now favorite and the foremost son of Aiken has been in keeping with that act which is remembered as well as If It had occurred only yesterday. Just thirty years ago he chose Aiken as his life home and entered upon the practice of his profession In copartnership with the late YV. I'eronnoau Finley ICsq. Of singularly handsome person, winning in manner, irreprochablc in personal and professional life, gifted with talent of the highest order, thoroughly trained as an intellectual athlete In the best schools of books and men and high endeavor he found a favor in the eyes of the people that has grown with the passage of the years until he has heroine the uncrowned leader of thought and action in the county of his adoption. A safe adviser, an incorruptible advocate, a steadfast friend, a superb man of affairs, in the sunlight of the hills where he make his home, every bloom of promise has ripened into perfect fruitage, and from the brawling, tawny Savannah to the limpid, softllowlng Kdisto his name is an honored household word, the synonym of manly worth and virtue, in every home, bo It the costly pile of t he multi-millionaire or the cabin of t he humble toiler whose daily labor is coined into bread for the wlfe and little ones. "Some men are lx?rn great, others achieve greatness." Senator Henderson, born a gentleman, has lived a life sr) white and clean and full of inspiration to all who have come within touch /,f Ito ( rur Inlll ?A??OA V-?I? nAr*,\ \7i i la? ? iiiinn,in.r- uiai iiwui: i .ill say of him that any talent has ever been burled, nor has his light been hidden from the public, sight. lie has achieved a greatness and a goodness that give undoubted assurance of an exalted future. To those that have watched with faithful eyes his past career It has seemed that in the ways of Providence men are built to meet the needs of the times in which they live. Having measured up to every duty and every responsibility his friends) call him to make the race for the United States Senate, believing, know- j in#, that In the high noon of his manhood, of perfect physical vigor, of the ripe Intellectual culture, of ready and resourceful equipment, an orator with all the force of logic, and the power of i words, a thinker who reasons from foundation principles, a student who has enriched the treasure house of Ids In.tin with the best. thoughts and knowledge of all the avjes. lie is first anions t he sons ready to serve t he St ate In her highest chamber. And he, loyal son of a State so rich in her children, answers Present to the summons as he has answered to every call she has Klven him, and is ready at her bidding to tfo to those heights where urnw the bravest laurels that men may ?at her, and pluck! ?.# t I*.**.* I* l ? I -- t - ? ? I ? I s I I M l I I till ? II I II' H'M (III' I UIIM (1 I I1IMI \ ( ) lay at the feel of I he mother Stale with all the love and adoration that tflo\vs In l he heart of the little maiden as she pins to her mother's Utsoin spring's lirst violets for the guerdon of a kiss from the lips that have stint; sweet songs and taught pure lessons to the innocent one lisping at tier knee. And with such a champion In her cause South Carolina may look with contident hope for the coming hack of the golden age when in all that goes to make true greatness she was lirst in all the sisterhood of Stales. P.pitok Tiik Uaknw ici.i. I'koi'j.k. TILLMANS CHARGES. Senator Motniii'lii'h I-TIcimIh ln?.Uis on an I uvcHt igiit Ion. Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina, is making an etfort at the meet- j lug of the committee on privileges, and eleetlotis to secure action on tin; resolution he introduced some time ago calling for an investigation of the charges made by Senator Tillman against John L. McLaitrin, that the latter was Influenced by promises of control of federal patronage In cast Ing his vote for the ratification of the Paris peace t realy. There Is a feeling among certain Hcpuhllcans In the senate that thlsl subject should he allowed to drop, hut Senator Mef,aurln\s friends Insist that the investigation he made, audi Mr. Pritchard, who Is a memtrcr of t he committee before which t he resolution is pending, will urge that a favorable report i>c adopted. Sentiment in the senate seems to favor the adoption of this resolution. Mr. Tillman's friends say he can prove the charges lie has made, while Mr. McLaurin's friends Insist that lie cannot. Itoth sides, therefore, are ready to support the proposition for an Investigation. It Is said that Senator J. (J. Ihirrows, of Michigan, chairman of the committee, does not favor the Prltchard resolution, and will strive to have It suppressed. Among the warmest advocates of the resolution Is Senator M. A. Manna, who says he believes the Tillman charge reflect on the late President McKlnloy, and he will lend Ids efforts to a favorable report upon the ground that the memory of the assassinated President should he purged of all aspersions. (/IIIIHCH lilg; I'rofCHt. A dispatch from Washington to the Atlanta Journal says "business Interest, of the north have been aroused by the Criiiupacker resolution to investigate southern election laws. Since the publication of the fact, that the Republican niemliers of t he house committee on rules had voted to report the Crumpacker resolution, the Republican leaders have been fairly overwhelmed with letters from the business men of the north, protesting against what they term an attempt to revive the "bloody shirf'and"Force hill" Issue. The letters have been so numerous and vigorous as to have had an appreciable effect on certain Republican members. 11 was stated that the committee on rules will take its own time In reporting the Crumpacker resolution to the house, notwit hstanding that the rnsi torit.v of tli-it tee -Speaker Henderson, Rcprcscntative Dal/ell and Orosvenor a week a#o last, Saturday voted to report the resolution. llepuhliCAim In n Hole. Speaking of the C rum packer resolution, Representative 1). Linn Hooch, of Kentucky, who Is one of the most conservative men in the house, said last week that "for once the Republicans have placed themselves In a hole." He said further: "We remember what followed the force bill legislation of the fifty-lirst congress?the election of a Democratic house and two years later the election of Mr. Cleveland. I do not hesitate to say that in my humble opinion we will elect a I lemocratlc house this fall and thus pave the way to carry the presidential election in 15104, and the Crumpacker resolution will prove to l>e worth thousands of votes to us next November." Oavc II in HI fo for < >l horn. To the Editor of The State: S^>r>(>l.r or, Innnl... I - i 'vv/iii^ evil 111111111 y in jruui M to the whorcaboutsof I>r. .1. W. l'owcll, 8iirgcon in tho Confederate States l army. I will say Dr. l'owell went to Mississippi during the yellow fever epidemic several years ago and died of the fever. Me went theje to help the fever sufferers and lost ids life. I)r. l'owell was a native of Fairfield county and has quite a number of relatives In that county now. J. S. Gunnbll. New Brook land, March 20. A Dangeronft Tool. The best of bank safes are no longer burglar proof for Julius E. Haschko, a | Chicago electrician, who has bought an Invention which will enable the man applying it to cut through the hardest steel plate as a boy with a I knife would cut St. Lawrence county cheese. Armor plate such as is used on the United States battleships, can l>e perforated as an auger would bite its way tnrougha plank of Northern pine. . I i I? ' <.V J r'? *j / no. 30. 80me plain talk From General Miles on the Proposed Army Bill. IT MEANS rENTRATI7Arinv "Throwing t fns Door Wbte <>|h>ii for a Fuliii'O Autocrnt Or u Military llenpot," Says tlio (ii'iicrnl. Tin- statcmcntnf (Jen. Miles before the senate committee an Military affairs as it will appear in the oHIeial 1 records, has been made public. The i features which caused something of a 'sensation when published the dav the j statement was made do not appear ! and t lie following colloquy at the close of the hearing explains it: Mr. IVttus Mr. Chairman, 1 think there ought to tie some mode of having these notes revised. | The ('hairman That will is; done. Mr. IVttus The report of the proceedings should be submitted to (Jen. Miles, with permission to strike out I such portions as ought not to tie published. Mr. Proctor That is It. (Jen. Miles I do not know that there Is anything to lie stricken out. The Chairman NVe have iicen in the habit of submitting to the witness lie fore, the committee, whoever lie was, the stenographer's report of his remarks for correction, of course. Mr. IVttus I wanted to go further than that. Tho stenographer lias no doubt taken down correct ly what the general has said, hut there are some things t hat lie said which lie may desire to st rike out. and 1 think lie should lie allowed that privilege. The Chairman lie must lie the judge of t hat. Mr. IVttus lie should lie allowed the liberty of striking out anything which ought not to he published, even If It, Is stated correctly in the report. The stenographer's report was submit ted to (?en. Miles and thcothelal report Indicates that lie followed closely the written statement lie had i prepared and read to the committee. I The main faetsof the general's opposlI tlon to the war department staif bill I mjc ki>f11 .it uic nine, home or tin* features of the statement, however, not reported at the time are of Interest. (Jon. Miles said of the hill: "It Is centralization of the most pronounced type, augments tin- power of the stair and in elTect removes it further from touch with the lighting force of the army. The scheme Is revolutionary, casts to the winds the lessons of experience, and abandons methods which successfully carried us through the nnxst memorable war epochs of our history. * * * The proposed plan is hut an etTort to adopt and foster, In a republican form of government such as ours, a system peculiarly, adopted to monarchies having Immense standing armies. It would seem to Germanize and Russianize the small army of t he United States." In addition to that portion of the statements heretofore published showing how the president could by promotions make a captain chief of stalf with the grade of lieutenant general, Gen. Miles said: "It seems to me you are throwing the door wideopen for a future autocrat or a military despot. It is not, In my judgment, in accordance with the principle and theory of democratic government and for the l>est Interests of the army, which has existed more than a hundred years and fultilled all your requlrmcnts, to adopt such a scheme." In commenting on the above The State says this Is strong language, certainly, and quite enough to make It plain why President llossevelt on hearing of It was seized by and almost Irresistible desire to retire Gen. Miles from his position at the head of the arrav?a method of restoring harmony ill the military establishment which he was only kept from adopting bv the urgentnrivlPA nie the senate. This indictment of the measure by Oen. Miles corresponds with that pro Seated several days ago by tills newspaper on the strength of Secretary Root's admission that the purpose of the army bill was to let the ranking otliccr of the army "come in with the president and go out with president." Wo observe that Henry Watterson took the same view in his speech on Monday night, when he declared that this army recorgnlzation bill, If it shall become a law, "will make the power of the president absolute" and that It ought to be entitled "an act to make the president of the United States a military dictator." A Cruel l(u*l>ttn<l. J. H. Post, a farmer 36 years old, I living on the Worth road, four miles south of Tanawanda, N. Y., bound his I wife Amftnfla tn n ut'ii/n v...11 ? v\' i? >n*t i\v< ill tllU 'Mil I pen of his stable Thursday morning. She wore a red calico apron, which aroused a confined hull to frenzy and in its rage the animal attacked the, woman and gored her to death. It Is said that Post's act was caused by Jealousy of Hiram Coates, a Free Methodist preacher who lives at Ken- ? more, half a mile south of the Post farm. Coates has l>ecn a frequent caller at the Post farm and had often gone out driving with Mrs. Post. Thursday night he met Mrs. Post at a prayer meeting at Kenmore, and as the pair were attentive to each other Post quarreled with Ids wife on returning home.