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GREAT CLAIMS i Made In the Republican Platform Adopted at Chicago. " I HAS MANY PROMISES Idea of Protection i-> to be Kent in < Mind in Any Clianycs?Merchant ' Marine is favored?I*o|Uiblicnn Adtninistiation Necessary to 1 ioslierjty?Strikes at Democrats. 'i no Republican platform referring j io President Roosevelt, says: "In this greatest cm of American advancement the Republican party has reached lis highest service undoi the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. Ills administration is an epoch ill American history. Jn no other peri. d since national sovereignty has von under Washington or prepared r, ^-initl' r Lincoln iia-v> there brmi > :* -k mighty progrt ss In these ideals of government, which make for justice, equality and f: ir dealing among men The highest aspirations of American ( people have four. 1 voice. Their most ( exalted servant has come to rep re- , sent, not political sovereignty alone, but the best aims and worthiest purposes of all his countrymen." Referring to bis record* the platform recites: "These are achieve- J incuts that will make for Theodore Roosevelt his place in history. Hut, more than all else, the groat things he lias done will be inspirations to ( those who have yet greater things to do. We declare our unfaltering adherence to the polices thus inaugurated and pledge their continuance under the Republican ad mi nls- ( tration of the government." The platform declares that the na- , /ion has bbecomo tlie richest in the world under Republican guidance and declares for the principle that in the development and. enjoyment of wealth there shall be equal opportunities for all. it continues: "Only tke obstruc lion and filibustering of tho Democratic minority in the last House of Congress prevented tho enactment of a number of measures of great public benefit, the consideration of which can only be instructed to another Republican majority. But, many wholesome and progressive laws were enacted." Tariff revision at a special session of Congress immediately after the inauguration the true principle of protection is best maintained by the imposing of such duties as will equalize the difference between tho cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries; and tho benefits that will follow are best secured by the establishment of maximum and minimum rales to be administer ed by the President, under the limitation fixed in law, the maximum to he available to meet discriminations by foreign countries against American goods entering their markets, and the minimum to represent the normal measure of protection at ( homo; the aim and purpose of the Republican policy being not only to 1 preserve, without excessive duties that security against foreign competition U> which American manufacturers, farmers and producers are entitled, but also to maintain the high standard of the living of the , wage earners of this country, who j -are the most direct beneficiaries of the protective system." After saying that the present currency laws have justified their adoption and declaring in favor of postal ^ savings banks the platform says: "The Sherman anti-trust law has been a wholesome instrument for good in the hands of a wise and fear- ( less administration. The enactment ( of the railroad rate law is approved, f with the statement that the interstate j commerce law should be further ^ amended so as to give the railroads the right to make and publish traffic F ? agreements subject to approval of j the commission, but maintaining always the principle of competition." After reciting what laws of benefit to labor have been enacted the platform says there is further work ahead and pledges the party's devotion to every cause that makes for the betterment of the conditions of laborers, adding that the same nob will be pursued to lighten their burdens, increase their opportunities for happiness. It also speaks for the welfare of the farmers. Declaring the Republican party is , the friend of the American negro, the platform declares without reservation for the enforcement in spirit and letter of all those amendments to the constitution designed for the t protection and advancement of the t negro and condemns "all devices 1 like the so-called grandfather i clauses." 1 Preservation of the White moun- 1 tain and Appalachian forests is fav- < ored. l Legislation reviving the merchant t marine prestige is favored. t Has Passed the Limit. t The Canadian government has no- f titled the Government of Japan that N the limit of emigrants for one year has been reached and that no more Japanese laborers may be sent to Canada before Jan. 1, 1909. The f agreement specifies 400 as the limit. c The reeordi chows 608 until May 1. ... j Y -j -- MUST RE-REGISTER. IMPORTANT OPINION BY ATTOltNKY GENRItAL LYON. [ >1(1 Itegistct'iitloitf (Vrliflcnton Null mid Void?Hook* Kept Open Longer. Attorney General Lyon, at the reHK'Kt of Gov. Ansel, has rendered in important opinion on the requirements of iho net of I h0S on le-enrollnent and i"gi tration of voter*. Phis art was passed hy the general issembly, in accordance with the irovh ion of the constitution, requires new registration every ten years, -lid special appropriation.^ v, r made ?r the hoards of regi it rations in >rder that the hooks n ! ,iit bo kept pen a longer time than usual. \1 ,. 1 Iw.l -i.. ii... < J?i I . Ai.MMi nuiu> I 11*1 ; I'UC"II iliKI very voter who has h? rolotore registered must resistor and huvo liis name entered on tin1 1>< >l<s in the satne innniior as if it w re entirely new registeralion. There in a proviso that those registered before 1 SOS shall be entitled to another registration upon presentation of their sertificntos from the clerk of court jr secretary of at a to that 'lit ir names ippear upon the records prior to 1 S!)X. On the new hooks opened tnd kept open during the months of Inly and August should lu> entered ill the names. Those enrolled during the tirst. Monday in each month >f the year 190fc. The opinion is a strict construclion of the law, hut Mr. Lyon feels I hat the act of I !?0S should he carred out to the letter and the registration books be purged of thousands of names of those dead or removed from the State and that hereafter ho hoards of registration should be required to keep the books clean. I'his point was made in Barnwell county some month ago when an ffort. was made to get up a petition to vote out the dispensary. The names of hundreds of voters were counted in when they wore not entitled to registration. Since then Gov. Ansel has made it plain to all hoards that the law should bo strictly enforced. LYNCHING SPIRIT. Pennsylvanians Nearly Doing What They Condemn in Others. All that prevented a lynching in Pittston, Pa., last week, was the esescape of the murderer. The spirit is still In the atmosphere as th^ result of the savage murder of Parke Clellnnd and theseemingly fatal stabbing of Concllman William Vanderhurg, by aliens with revolvers and stilettos. Nineteen aliens have been arrested. The man who tired the shot that killed Clelland has escaped but the State constabulary is sure of his identity. At a recent mass meeting attended by more than 1,000 loading citizens the whole situation was dismissed and the wiser element prevailed. An appeal was made to allow the law to take Its course. Iiottem>ered men demand the driving away )f all foreigners. Hesolutons were lrafted to be submitted to the city council increasing the police force Hid giving officers the right to search my suspicious looking character for veapons. Many foreigners are caving the region in deadly fear est. they he killed for revenge. * l>IEI> WillSPEAKING. hivannah Veteran Expires in Middle of a Sentence. At Savannah Thursday, while siting on a bench in Laurel Grove Cemetery John Quincy Adams, Conederate Veteran, was stricken with leart trouble and fell dead to the pound. He was talking with a rlend and died in the middle of a entence. A pathetic incident is his ailuro to become a member of the /etorans* Association. He tiled his ipplication papers a month ago with dcLaws Camp in Savannah, hut hecause his comrades at arms who <new him In tlie civil war are ail dt her dead or scattered, no one could mi found to vouch for his record, io quickly after his application. He lied before he could he approved as \ member. * NEGHO DUOWNEI). Wliilo Taking a Swim Near Cordova V . r* i l ? on ijiimi nam if lay. On last Saturday between one and wo o'clock Andrew Williams, n ne?ro man about twenty-one years old, was drowned in Mr. Gibson's fish >ond near Cordova. He had been Ploughing during the morning. Durng the dinner hour, he and three >ther negroes went In swimming in he pond. They swam across and hen started back. When about hirty feet from the bank Williams vas taken with crarfips and before he others could help him he had Irowued. Later in the day the pond vas dredged and his body recovered. Constabulary Summond. As a result of the dynamite at the loyal mines, at Argentine, Pa. State onstabulary troops/ have been surationed. ] ?jki ... WHIRLWIND FORGER MAX HKLHAKKD FROM IOWA < / 1*111 SOX COT Ilo SwiMany Concerns Inline- < (llatcly After Hisllclcnsc, C?ot Mnr| lied anil Disappeared. j Insurance companies in Illinal# and Ohio, ami a grieving bride, won t I by rapid Are courtship, in Indiana, A j would gladly receive information that might lead to lit ^detection and ? arrest of Max Seligtnari. lowa is rid i of t lie clever forger. H cwas reloris d from Ft Madison, Iowa., two days . before Christmas in 1007, after sorv- j lug i'hc years In prison on charge of , ?l>taining money on false pretence. ( lie is an enigma to detectives and , has left more forged checks and pa >ors tlia 11 i!\cr b"*' >re as it is known . he litis operated in other stales and } urve ' several terns in penitent iari- i I i*m. Heligiran is nbiut 3"? years of "o. smooth fae.eil and with a go d front. Seligm in let no gross grow under , 'his feet when he v as releir-ed in J lowa. lie headed for Chicago at . jonce and before bis curves wore I j known he was doing business at ii , rapid rate for the National Life 111- L surane" company, lie forged nanu s I right and left and embezzled whore- f, ever lie got tlie chance. 11made ( a haslv getaway for Cincinnati, ()., in February and there began to ( work on his old plan, lie was first arrested for falling to imv ;? bnnr/t bill but a former employer came to s his aid and lie was released. Then | ho began to forge on a grand scale ? and to work everything and every- (j body in sight. In a reniarkabbly short time Uio slick penman had secured $.">0,000 , by forging the names of Dr. Stix and J M. 10. Moch, of the firm Moch, Iter- j man & Co. Before they knew him he was introduced to the Business j Men's club and given a carte blanc ( on ordering meals and drinks. lie used the privilege, much to the sor- j row of the management, of the club. { Then he became identified with the Cleveland Life Insurance company ( and forged signatures to the amount of $3 00,000 worth of business. 1 Then lie obtained $2,r>00 from Cin- ( cinnati brewers to whom he was in- j trod need by Senator Ward. Later ^ he was cut off Ward's list of . "friends." ? It appears that about this time Seligman became connected with the ( American Life Insurance company, j of St. Couis, Mo., roped them in, forged a telegram for $4 00 on the j American National bank of Cincin- . nati, and married Miss Isaacs, of . Madison, Ind. She was not in a liurc ry to marry the whirlwind insur- c ance man but he was making money "j and the rabbi advised the match. Here the tide turned. People began ' to get after Seligman. Banks refused lilni credit. In March the police began to keep watch after he had paid ui widow $1,000 insurance and ( then persuaded her to loan it to him on some worthless mining stock. Uin mnn r -1-' I it. IV lilt* mini V|IU]I|H U u 11 i VII nielli as suddenly as he had appeared and 5 it is only within a week that police t nave completed ma criminal record. | It s foil 11 d the man has a divorced '| wife and three children living in Dos Moines. The former Miss Isaacs is at home with her mother grieving s over the developments of her shoi\ j, season of wedded life. * WOMAN' SUNT TO CHAIIl. a " g Feminine Slayer of Another Woman ,, to bo Kleotrocutcd. 11 At Watertown, X. Y., on Friday ti guilty of murder in I he first do- ti gree was the verdict of the jury in si the case of Mrs. Mary Farmer, charged with the killing of Mrs. p Sarah Hrennan. The jury was out H three hours. The judge then sen- V tenced Mrs. Farmer to he electro- tj cuted at Auburn prison during the li week beginning August 2T?. si The crime for which Mrs. Farmer, S who is twenty-nine years old, was n convicted, was most fiendish. Her c< victim Mrs. Hrennan, who was fifty d five years old was her neighbor and intimate friend, and the motive was a to get possession of the Hrennan li deeds, which Mrs. Farmer had forg- li ed in October. The crime was com- li mitted April twenty-three. Mrs. t Brcnnan was hacked to pieces with e a hatchet and her body stuffed in a I trunk. , t, Mrs. Farmer's husband is also nr.- 1 der indictment on a charge of mur- s der in the first degree as accessory 1 to the crime. c - i Ilad Money Sobered Drunken Man. (1 "Sergeant counterfeiters are on e my trail." declared John Kevitt as he rushed into the police station in Trenton, N. J. lie said he had been in two saloons and in one he was given S a bad quarter and the other a bad p half dollar in change. ITe will never v again enter another saloon, so h b says. ? si h Rroko Leg Pulling Off His Root. h Carl rfandefur, a cowboy living at " McCurtain, Okla., broke his right leg above the knee while pulling off his boot. He says the boot became twisted and he took the too and he?l n? in his hand and gave a sudden jerk. e< The pop at the cracking of the hone d< could be heard 40 feet. *lkl Millfr f''r ^} COTTON AND CORN X>NMTIOX OF CHOI'S IN THIS STATU AS IlKPORTKO, 'otton Suffering in Some Section* With Lift*. More Com menial Feit ill7jcv I k( (I. The following paragraphs are akou from the crop report issued he office of Commissioner Watson. The cotton crop in many portions iff the state was considerably real-led in the early stages by cool v( ther, particularly cool nights, ind vain in certain localities, niakng the preparation of* the land later han usual. A numlx'i* of the Connies iwport ilie crop fro niton to tit'een days late. Rome lice and ot her ilatit ailments have appeared in Ihoated sections, but none of these ailiHiits seem to have done any serliiis damage. For the past few reek8 the weather lias been admir? .l>le for cotton growing and tin* ilant lias been making consdorable ieadwa>\ The condition of the cot011 crop invariably falls materially n the latter part of June and durng July, and until the August midea-on report is issued it. is difllcult o venture any predictions as to the ourse of i In* cot ton crop. However. egarding tno opinions expressed b\ lie various correspondents in the lifferent counties as to the prospects or a full crop this prospect is shown it this time to be 7S.8 per cent. Invariably the reports from the overal counties show that there litis >oen a material decrease in the utiization ol' commercial fertilizers tinier cotton. It is notworthy also in onnoction with the crop; tliat. one >f the best counties in the state ilarlboro?reports a perfeot condiion, and the largest cotton county >elow Columbia?Orangeburg -relorts very nenrly a per feet cond'tion. ti the Piedmont territory, with the ixception of York, Pickens, Abbeville ind Greenwood, the condition does lot seem to ;>o as good as it is a dher sections. In regard to tliecorn crop throughint the state there is reported a nost material Increase in acreage, oupled with the further statement hat the increased purchase of fertiizeis has been for utilization under lie 11)08 corn crop. The corn crop s reported from all parts of the itate to lie in n line and healthy conlition. It is worth noting also that he Williamson plan of cultivation ins been largely employed, and tliis lepartuicut lias distributed many undrcds ot mall pampblets dot tiling this method of plip'i.u; There s every indication of a splendid inireaso in the production of corn In south Carolina In 11)08, and this has >een soniewhut stimulated by the tevoral corn growing contests that ire being conducted this year. * WON It ACE AO A INST TIME. 'IliniCO \Vl?ll?!?ll llomxlu .. ?....? #w??a \?n oiv ailiur IUI Ihirope After Kxciting Experience. A dispatch from New York says: ilrs. Robert S. MeCormick, wife of lie former American ambassador to "Vance, was the victor by minutes 'hursdny In a one-thousand mile race gainst time. As a result she was nabled to keep an engagement and ail for Europe on the steamship Cniserine Augustc Victoria. Mrs. MeCorrtiick had engaged pasag(> on the big steamer some time go. but her departure from Chlcao was delayed until tho last moiciit, when it was found that there i'ould be a margin of only fifteen llnutes between the arrival of her rain at Jersey City and the deparnre of the steamer troni Hohoken, jine distance away. Under ordinary conditions It would ossible to make the distance hereon the place in a fast automobile, Irs. MeCormick did not wish to ike the chance of the train being a ttie late and wired ahead that the team or be held to wait her arrival, he was informed that this could ot be done, as the mail carrying ontraets made prompt sailing manatory. She was informed, however, that fast tug would be. in waiting for ier at Jersey City, and that she and icr baggage would be taken on ioard immediately upon arrival of he train and she would be transferd to the ship in the bay if possible, fortunately the train came in pronptly on time, and a few minutes ater Mrs. MeCormick was on the pecial tug hound up tho river for toboken. She arrived in time to limb aboard the Kaisorin Auguste /ictoria* just before the big ship Iropped out into the river and startd on her voyage. Negro Man Killed. A negro ma* by the name of lolomon James, who had been emJoyed on the Atlantic Coast Line fork train was killed Saturday night etween Stilton and Jamison, by omeone unknown. It seems that e was struck In the head and his ody placed on the track to cover p the deed. Farmer Kills Negro Desperado,.. Ren Nowlan, a fajrmor residing ear Macalester, Okla. shot and killi It. H. Johnson a negro despera>, who is known to have shot and tiled three white men. "N. WHO THEY ARE. NAMES OF THE CANDIDATES THE STATE OFFICERS. Seven for Senate, Two for Governor, Several for Congress ami Solicitor. Following is I ho list of State Senatorial, Congressional and solicitor candidate as it was finally closed Tuesday: Fnlted States Seuatc ?J. (J. Evans, of Spartanburg; It. CI. Hhett, of Charleston; George Johnstone, of No wherry; O. H. Martin, of Colunibia; 12. I). Smith of Hiahopvillc; J. P. Grace, of Charleston; W. \V. Lumpkin, of Columbia. Governor M. F. Ansel, of Greenville; Cole L. lilearo, of Newberry. T. G. McLood for I .iontenant Gov! ernor. It. G. McCown, for Secretary of i State. J. F. Lyon for Attorney Genera). Comptroller General A. W. Janest, i f Abbeville, is opposed by N. \V. i ! .cooker, of Columbia. Superintendaut of education: 12. C. 121 more of Sp; i tanburg; Stilus ft. Me.llle.hnmn ?>r Clvnno-r* * ? ' - I' ? " \/ i II "I I J^ I ?_#. l"j. Swoarlngcn, of Greenwood. Ailjt. Clou. .J. C. Boyd; r>f Greenl ville, is opposed by Col. Henry T. Thompson, of Columbia. Railroad Commissioner Tl. I,. Caughman. of Lexington, is opposed b\ James Cunssler, of Tirzah, F. C. Fishburne, of Charleston; J. A. Summerset. of Columbia; and H. W. I Richardson, of Columbia. For Congress: George S. Begare, in the First; Joseph T. Johnson, in the Fourth, and A. F. Lever, in the Seventh, each for re-election, are alone without opposition. W. S. Smith contests the re-election of J. O. Patterson in the Second; Julius 10. Hoggs contests that of VVyatt A. Aiken in the Third; W. P. Pollock and T. 11. Sutler will seek to unhorse O. 11. Flnley in the Fifth; in the Sixth William Murchison, P. A. Hodges, J. W. Coggeshall and J. W. Ragsdale are all after J. E. Ellerbe's Congressional honors and emoluments. For solicitor, P. T. Hildebrand, in the First ;> J. M. Speers, in the Fourth; J. K. Henry, in the Sixth; T. S. Seaso of the Seventh, and George Hell Timmorman, of the Eleventh; have no opposition to re-election. The candidates where the contests are will be: Second, J. E. Davis, J. F." Burnes, H. M. Graham; Third, J. B. McLaughlin. P. H. Stoll, A. B. Stuckey; Fifth, Christie Henet, W. 11. Cobb, G. R. Rcmbert, B. B. Clark; Eighth, R. A. Cooper, E. L. Richardson; Ninth, W. St. J. Jervey and John H. Peurlfoy; Tenth, J. J. McSwain, P. A. Lion ham, A. II. Dagnall, M. C. Long; Twelfth, W. II. Wells, P. B. Sellers, C. I*. Qnattlebaum, W. F. Clayton. SURGEON A SUICIDE. I>r. Small, of American Unci* St. Louis, Kills Himself. A dispatch from New York, says: Dr. Thomas Small, chief surgeon of the American Line steamer St. Louis, committed suicide in hi3 cabin on the steamer early Friday by shooting. No cause for the act is known. lie had been absent from the ship all night. When he returned that mornihg he appeared to be in a cheerful frame of mind, and after chatjing pleasantly for a time with one of the officers on duty retired to his state room. A moment later the report of a shot was heard, and when the door of the doctor's cabin was opened, he was found dying from a bullet wound in his temple. IIis right hand clutched the revolver from which the shot was fired. Dr. Small had been in the employ of the Amercan line nine years, and had extensive acquaintance among ocean travelers. * 1 37500 Square Feet * * ??. - Iioverefl With Pumps, Packii Belting, Pip s Valve . . . WRITE F' SOUTHERN STATES SUPI J GIBBES Gi I Includes Gasoline Stationary Boilen Southern States, ] | A postal card will GIBBES MACHI1 Box 80, COi MAY UK MK8, GINXU88, M?'*lnui (Joveinor Describes Mysterious Woniiin Traveler. i The governor of the state of Chipas, Mex., is keeping watch on a mysterious American woman, dressed in man's attire who is traveling alone in the wildest parts Of Mexico. The governor at first had suspicions that she might he Mrs. Be'ie GunnoBS, the notorious murderess of LaI'orte, ind. He hastily senc a telegram to Mexico city and asked for instructions. Mr. Thompson, American ambassador to Mexico, sent to the State department at Washngton, I). C., the following dispatch giving a detailed description of the woman and her adventures: ^ Pew day* ago Airerican woman, about ,r>0 years old, stout, aoout five feet seven iAches high, dark bluo eyes, light < hostnut hair, slightly gray, quick and nervous step, passed by Palemiuo. Was traveling alone and without baggags and has no letters of reborn mend at inn. Left Salto OoAquu wearing nir.sculine clothing of khaki. Made inquires as to communications with Usunvaoinra river and plunged into interior nlone, not heeding warnings as it; danger. An she might he. American assns in Gunuess, give you these details and await instructions. I Met Horrible Don'li. Hundreds of families !>mv\ n ' their death l>y being swalb weu i> iu a fissure which suddenly open- I in the side of the mountain Machuanshan, near Inkling. Whole villages were engulfed in the huge crack which has been caused, it is thought, bv an earthquake. As yet exploration parties have been unable to-get with tn near distance of the scene of tho disaster and details of the calamity are lacking. . * SO MANY Have availed themselves of our Liberal Offer viz. $15 discount ou$80uitd $()<> Organs, we have concluded to renew the offer for a short while so as to get these excellent organs introduced into every county and locality in S. C. Only $20 first payment, $20 Nov. 1st, lOOH, and balance Nov. 1st, 11H)0. These terms enable you to buy this First-class Sweet Toned Organ which I will prove a Lasting Treasure. Don't | Delay but write at once for catalog and price list to the old established MALONK'S MUSIC HudSK, Pianos and Organs. Columbia, S. C. LANDER COLLEGE (Formerly Willianiston Female College.) G KEEN WOOD, S. C. Ilev. John O. Willson, President Opens Sept. IS, 1908. 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