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SHOWS UP TEDDY Bryan Willirg to Leave the issue to the People. QUOTES THE RECORD Tuflncnrc of Trusts and Other Managed Interests Not a Personal Question?Ills lCnforeement of the IiMtv Would Not lie Spasmodic and I incriminatory. Replying to President Roosevelt*? most recent statement, W. J. Hrya i. in a let tor addressed to t lie President, which was given out last nig''*, at Rock Island, 111., points to ills record and declares that it Is sufficient answer to the insinuations of 1 U.x /"?*. me v/iuiM I'ixocutivo that ho Is In connection with or controlled by the trusts. Koverting to the charges ngnlnr.t (Jovernor Mask ell, Mr. Hryan say. that the President. in response his request, did not begin to sugges' % tribunal which could determine those cliargos, but Instead proceeded to pass judgment upon him an 1 informs the President that the occupant of that high ofilee can not deny to the humblest citizen the right to protect his reputation and vindicate his name In the courts. "1 am willing," says Mr. Hryan. "that all your charges against ine shall be submitted to the voters of the county and with your charges I submit denial of any knowledge o: information that could, in the remotest way, connect mo with any trust, monopoly or law-breaking cotporntlon. My record is suinctont answer to your insinuation. I have lived in vain, if your accusations have lost me a single friend. 1 challenged you to name a trust official who Is supporting mo, and after searching the country, you produce ??? iii*mo ui ouo man, not a trust. Without inquiring whether ho votos for mo because of his foar of businofis adversity under Mr. Taff, you accept his statement that ho will vote for mo as conclusive proof that I am in league with the trusts, although you admit that trust officials aro supporting the Republican ticket. Vou compliment mo when you measure me by higher standards than you do your political associates, for' you insist that Mr. Rockefeller's contribution to Governor Hughes' campaign fund was no reflection upon hint and I take it for granted that you do not criticise Judge Tuft's recommendation of a Standard O'l .attorney to tho Federal bench, a place where the Judge might have to pass u |K>n the charges against tho very trust for which he had boon an attorney. While the trust attorney to whom you refer is not ni official of a trust, 1 will warn him and through him his clients that if 1 am elected I will not only vigorously enforce againHt all offenders tho laws which wo hope to have enacted in compliance with the Democratic platform, but that I will also vigorously enforce existing laws against any and all who violate them, and that 1 will enforce them, uoi ?p?Hinoii ii/.hi ly uiiti i u ieriu h.umii i> , but persistently and consistently: they will not ho suspended oven for the protection of cabinet officers. "You say' the attitude of many men of large financial interests' warrants you 'in expressing the belief that thoso trust magnates whose fear of being prosecuted under the law by Mr. Taft is greater than their fear of general business adversity' under mo will support mo ratlior than Mr. Taft. Yon have attom ood to word that statement In such a way as to claim the support of all the trust magnates, and yet put it. en 'ho ground 'nat they are supporting your party for patriotic reason* rather than for the pomotion of a self fish Interest. That is ingenious, but it is not sound. Tho trust magnate are supporting the Republican party and the Bible offers an explanation, 'the ox knoweth his owner and tho ass his master's crib .' Yoi admit that you gave permission tf tho Steel Trust to ab&orb a riva and thus increase its control of th? output of steel and Iron products T will leave the American people t pass judgment upon that act am pnmnnrn vnnr nimitldii nil tho trilM question with mino. "But your letter it^Benis a tie fence of your party's position and ai accusation against the oters whic! emphasizes an Ishuo already prom iriout . You are the first conspic noun nDCiniior of your party to at tempt an explanation of Hie party' opposition to publicity, before tli ejection, and the admission whicl you make will embarrass your part associates. Your position is tha -the publication before election o the contributions made to your cam palgn fund would furnish your polk teal opponents an opportunity 't< gi ve a false* impression' as to tlv fitness of the candidates. You elf as illustrations the contribution made to Governor Hughes' campalgi fund, the contribution collected b Mr. Harrlman and the contribution which are now being collected fo Mr. Taft's campaign fund. Yoi .,charge In effect that the people ar so lacking In confidence that the; might condemn as Improper contri buttons which you declare to 1m proper. If the voters differ from you on this question, are they necessarily Ignorant and wrong? Must the members of the party organization act as self-appointed guardian of the people and conceal from the mwhat is going on lest tne people lie misled as to puropse and effect of large contributions? Is this your explanation of the action of the .republican leaders In the national convention in voting down a publicity plank? If you will pardon the suggestion I believe that a better explanation can be found in Holy Writ, for do we not road of men loving darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil? "I do not mean to say that Mr. Hughes was influenced by the contributions made to him by the trust magnates whose names were given in the after-election report. I do not mean to say that you wore influenced by the contributions collected by Mr. Harriman, neither do 1 mean to say that Mr. Taft will be influenced by the contributions that are being made to his fund by the trust magnates; but I do mean to say that the American people hnv * a right to know what contributions are being made; that they may Judg" for themselves the motive of the givers and the obligation impose i upon those who receive. The reflection upon the people Involved in your charge that they would misuse the knowledge which publicity would give is unworthy of one who has been elevated to so high an office by the votes of the people, and I venture the assertion that you can not procure from Taft an endorsement of your defence. He Is now before lho people; he Is offering himself us a candidate for the Presidency; he dare not tell the people to whom ' e appeals that they have not sense enough to form a just and correct opinion as to the purpose which loads i>artlos interested in special legislation to make big contributions. You fear that wo would misrepresent the motives of those who are contributing to the Republican campaign fund, and cast an unjust suspicions upon Republican candidates if the names and amounts were known Ik; fore the election. Your argument, if sound, would prevent puhllcaition after tlio election, for why should an unjust suspicion be cast upon officials after the election any more titan before? Does not the secrecy before the election increase tills suspicion? We are going to give you an opportunity to mis-] represent the motives of those wli-il give to our campaign fund, and to arouse all the suspicion you can; wi are going to prove to the people that we are making a fight for the whole people and not for those who have been enjoying privileges and favors at the hands of the government, and we expect that the honest sentiment of the country will rebuke the party whose convention refused to endorse any kind of publicity and whose candidates are not willing that the pimple should know until after the polls are closed what predatory interests have been active in support of tho Republican party. With grout respect, etc., yours truly MAKKIFS FATIIK1PS OHAUFFIOR. Rich Atlanta <?lr! FIojhvs Willi Poor Man. Miss Silver Speer, known as Atlanta's richest heiress, left that city Tuesday noon, for New York, via uk? bouuicrn tcauway, accompanied by her father's chauffeur, Russell Thomas Miss Speer is ai>out 18^ years old and is remarkably pretty. Her grand-father, John Slivey, is said to have left her a fortuno of more than a half million dollars. Her father, W. A. Speer .has been prominent in State politics for many years. Thomas, the chauffeur, came to Atlanta from Cuba several months ago. lie worked for a salary of f 7 r? a month. Miss Spoor ami Mr. Thomas sv cured a license and wore married by Rev. Henry Atkinson, of Central Congregational church, in his study. They left Atlanta in an automobile and caught the train at Norcross for Washington. The mother of the bride hurried after the couple on the next train. Mr. Thomas is a graduate of tin llniversltv of Ceoruia. Ili*., tathoi ! ly it in declared lost his mono) ! financing a South Georgia n.*l . road Ho Is nhout twenty-two year: > old. I t A Dissatisfied SuhHcrll?er. "I hereby offer my reatgnashun a a subscriber to youre papier. It ho ing a pamphlet of such small konsc i quence as to heetlt my family b; - table' It. What you need 1 n your* - shoto is brains and some one to rus - fol up news and t ito editorials 01 s livo topics. No menshu l has booi r' made In yours shet.e of my butcherln h a polen china pig welghin' .1t> v pounds or the gapes in the chicken t round here, you ignore that I bough I* i> t. n ' n/kttf lv/v t\ c* 1 r% rl n n #1 un ir n / ?t It 1 n 1 a in/in nun m/i/ men, nun m\j uwiiu n - about it. Hi Simkin's Jeisey ca! - broke bis two front, legs failin' 1) [> a well, two important chlvorees havi L been utterly ignored by yours shot* 0 and a :i column obitchnary not is ri 3 by me on the death of grandpa Hen 1 ry, was left out of your shete t< t say nothln* of the nlfobetlcal poen 3 beginning "A is for And and also fo r Ark," rlt by me darter. This is th< 11 reason yours papier is so unpopula '* .In town. If you kant rite eddyto y i rials and ain't goln' to put no newi "jin yours shete wo don't want sad? 5 shote. ' BUND STAGGERS I AGAIN MAKES ITS APPEARANCE IN THIS STATE. i Dr. Powers, State Veterinarian, Gives ? Some Advice as to Curing Animals Affected With the Disease. The fatal disease of horses commonly called "staggers" has agnic made it appearance in this State, cases being reported in Harnwell and Hampton counties. No cases have been reported in Greenville county This disease has appeared sporadically in South Carolina for many years, but no serious outbreak occurred until the epidemic of 190 1 and 1902. During the fall of 1901 a few cases were reported in Lancaster county, and In January 1 902, it again broke out in Orangeburg county. During the following six months lostea wore reported in Anderson, Pickens, Oconee, Spartanburg, Che okee, Greenwood, Orangeburg, Darnwell and Darkeley counties. At that tlmo was estimated that the losses during tills short period greatly exceeded $10,000. After tliis severe outbreak, no cases were reported until 190C, when the disease was again reported in Hampton, Marion, York, Pickens and Oconee counties. Outbreaks of the disease were also reported in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Georgia, Louisiana and Kansas during the an me seasons. Leuco Encephalitis is the proper name for this disease, although it is also called Cebro Spinal Meningitis In many localities. The exact cause Is as yet unknown, despite the investigations of many prominent scientists. it has been attributed to microorganisms, poisonous plants, impure water, mouldy feed, etc. One investigator lias produced these symptoms by feeding damaged grain containing a fungus, the spores of which enter the circulation and set up inflammation and often abacuses of the brain. State Veterinarian Powers of Clemsou, in talking of the disease, said: "Mules are seldom attacked; in fact, 1 have never seen one so affected'. although some cases have been reported. In all cases Investigated by me, I have found lesions of the brain. In many Instances there has been softening and degeneration of large areas of the bra.n ti8811GB, while in others there has been severe congestion of the blood vessels and meninges of the brain. "The symptoms are similar ?o those observed in nearly till other forms of so-called staggers, viz: dullness. delirium, in-co-ordination, etc. Death usually occurs within one or two days, and the few animals that recover are of little value, owing to the changes In the nervous system "lOvery effort should be made to check the spread of the disease. Upon its appearance, all other horses should bo removed from the stable, and the entire stable should be thoroughly cleaned, disinfected ar.d abandoned for two or three month?. Complete change of water and feed is of the utmost importance, since many authorities believe that diseased hay or grain or Impure water Is the cause of tnis disease. In past outbreaks we have notice.. k.?at no new cases developed after these procautions were observed. "Medical treatment is most un-1 satisfactory, as animals die so suddenly after the symptoms develop Upon appearance of the first symptoms, severe purgatives should >e immediately given, 1 oz. of Aloes with 2 drams Kxt. of ltelladonna being very satisfactory for this put pose. The administration of drugs is often Impossible, owing to the delirum of the horse, but purgativ .t can bo given hypodermically. Whenover a competent Veterinarian can. bo procured, he should he called im mediately, as treatment is very un satisfactory and practically useless after the symptoms are well developed. "If the animal can be handled, the following drench may prove of some value: Fowler's Pol. Arsenic. Phenacotln, 2 drams. ? Strychnin Soluh, 1-2 grain. Aquae, 4 o7. Slg: Give this drench three times ? daily. The bodies of all affected animals . should be opened and the organs, y. especially the brain, carefully exp amlned The appearance of this dls. ease, together with report of the , post mortem examination, should he j forwarded to this ofllce. All pos sible advice and assistance will be rj furnished to assist in control of this outbreak. * t i>it Sundays Tills Year, f There wll Ibe fifty-three Sundays t In this year, an occurence thai ;? will not happen again for one hun* li dred and ten years. This extra i Sunday can be utilized In attending - church, calling on your beat girl, i reading the Scripture, playing with i the children, breaking In a twor year old colt or some other way. * Ono hundred and ten years from r this date you will probably be pay lug the penalty or enjoying the j pleasures of the method in which i you choose to Bpend this extra Sun* day.?Johnstown News-Monitor. A MAN KILLED. Ms Companion Injured by a Reckless Automobile Driver. I Struck and hurled against the wall of the Bijou theatre in Livingston street, Brooklyn, James Edward Ryan, forty-two years old, of 4 3 Se cond street, Brooklyn, was instantlv killed by an automobile occupied by four women and three mon Saturday morning. His companion, Miss Josephine Wanner, with whom ho was crossing the street arm and arm, was ho terribly hurt that she Is dying in the Brooklyn hospital. The automobile, a bin white touring car, lost a big brass lamp, as it struck the couple, but it halted only a few s econds before speeding away. Four arrests wero made later, but the police wore reticent about charging them with responsibility. Efforts were made by three bystanders to hail them, but the occupants fought them off. Women in the car laughed as the car struck Ryan and his companion and one seated in the tonneau was thrown into hysterics. She shrieked and shouted, and it was declared by bystanders that, they either were drunk or wildly excited. "They art; both dead, drive on, drive on!" Ryan, who was a printer, had been to the threatre with a young woman, and was escorting her homo. They came to the edge of the curt) in front of the theatre and stepped into the street just as the big white touring car shot across tin* street from Smith street, from behind the trolley car. The automobile was going at a wild speed, swinging in at express train velocity toward the curl). Ryan and Miss Wagner wero struck before they had time to jump back and theirbod ies, hurled high in the air, struck the walls of the theatre. * CI KF OF LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA. Discovery by a New York Physician Creates Furore. I)r. LeGrand N. Denslow has created a furor among medical men by an MVF.i.ivi..h tw CI I \7|n c..m7in.ac i?i: u\/uj ui physicians at tho Now York Academy of Medicine that he had discovered an absolute cure for locomotor ataxia. Dr. Denslow read a paper describing the results of his ton-year study of the disease and cited thirty cases in all of which a successful cure had been affected. Dr. I tension 's claims were indorsed by Dr. John A. Wyeth and other prominent physicians. Dr. It. II. Cunningham, chief of clinic on nervous diseases at the School of Physicians and Surgeons in Columbia University, discussed Dr. Denslow's paper and said that, his success in the new treatment of tho disease was real and would probably revolutionize the I present method of treatment. A FATAL FN; n r. Precipitated lty a Dispute Over Five Ilusliels of Potatoes. A dispute over fivo bushels of potatoes which wus really a fresh outhurst of ail old feud In Harts Creek, Lincoln county, W. Va., resulted in fatal Injuries to three persons and several more were seriously hurt. The Harts Creek country was recently made famous by the conspiracy cases resulting in eleven men going to the state prison. The battle occurred In front of a store. Hendricks Blumfield accuse 1 Jake Powers of stealing potatoes he had brought to the store for sale. They engaged In a fistio encounter and then pulled knives. Two brothers of Powers and George Ward took sides ancl a bloody battle with knives and pistols followed. Blumfield had his throat cut from ear to ear. Will Powers was fatally shot and Ward was almost brained. The father of the Powers boys was Injured so badly that he may not recover. * SAYS BUY AN WILL WIN. Senator Gore Says Bryan Wave Is Sweeping Country. "I believe that Bryan and Kern will bo elected. There Is a Bryan wavo sweeping over the country frovi one end to the other, and 1 do not believe It can be stopped. The above remarks were delivered by Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, who spoko at Ogden, Utah, Thursday night. When asked his views regarding the charges brought against Governor Haskell, former treasurer of the Democratic national committee, the Senator said: "That is a subject of which I am not informer', except from newspaper reports, which have been read to mo. Governor Haskell is a popular man in our State, and I have no doubt but he will be able to clear himself of any charges reflecting on his character that may havo been brought against ' him." * HASKELL TO SUB IIKAKST. i Governor of Oklahoma Says II? Will Tiring Action. A special to Tho Kansas Times from Guthrie, Okla., says: Governor HaskeLl announced on ' his arrival here last night from Chicago that he would bring suit against William Randolph Hoarst on Wednesday . THE COTTON CROP. IN SOUTH CAROLINA UNDER TEN YEAR AVERAGE. The Number of Itulco Ginned Up to This Time Greater Thun for Many Years Past. The cotton crop report issued Friday by the Department of Agriculture, shows that the average condition of the cotton crop on September 25 was 09.7 per cent of the normal, against 70.1 on August 25 last: 07.7 on Sptember 25, 1907; 71.0 on September 25, 1906, and 67.6 the .average of the piist ten years on September 25. The condition and ten-year average on September 2 5 respectively by States follow: Average 1*0r cent. Per cent. Virginia 78 07.6 North Carolina 69 7 1 South Carolina OS 70 Georgia 71 71 Florida 72 7 0 Alabama 7 0 OS Mississippi 71 OS Louisiana 55 08 Texas 71 03 Arkansas 7 0 OS Tennessee 7S 74 Missouri 7 0 7 0 Oklahoma 70 7 0 NunilM'r of Rales Ginned. The census bureau report on cotton ginning Issued Friday shows 2,582,0SS hales, counting round as half bales ginned from the growth of 1908 to sept. 2 8, compared witn j,n,rj662 for 1907; 2,. 07,283 for 19oS, and 2,366,716 for 1906. The number of active ginneries this year is 23660 compared with 18,12 1 for 1907; 20,416 for 1906, an i 621,3 89 for 1906. Itouud bales, including this year, are 66,018, compared with 43,3*9 for 1907; 66,602 for 1906, and 74,816 for 1906. Sea island: 11,217 for 1908; 4,269 for 1907; 2,689 for 1906, and 11,936 for 1906. By States the number of ha! *fi (counting round bales as half bales) and active ginneries respectively for 1908 follows: Bales. Ginneries Alabama 307,ov/8 2,911 Arkansas 86,827 1,149 Florida 1 6,666 1 86 Georgia 610,290 3,876 Kentucky 117 1 Louisiana 81,207 1,262 Mississippi 1 98,433 2,63?> Missouri 4.1 a 1 4 7 North Carolina .. 89,198 1,812 Oklahoma iu,ni nzj South Carolina ..288,927 4,69'J Tp n nessee 2 8,1 28 3,76-1 Texas 961,835 3,761 Virginia 379 3? The distribution of sea island col ton for 1908 by States is: Florida 5,092 Georgia f>,813 South Carolina 370 ' FIFTY lXIUVKN FROM HOME. Sixteen Horses Are I turned I'p in i (liio?Ko Fire. At Chicago more than fifty per sons were driven from their homes many of them in scant attire, eeve* persons were rescued, and jroperl valued at $75,000 was destroye; early today, when a fire started ir the Columbia lumber livery stabh at 3 59 Rush street and destroys, that building and spread to severa others in the vicinity. Sixteen horse; were burned todeath. Many a man who thought he wa wise at 2 0 owns up to being a foo at 40. WHOLES Plumbing Si IVIechlnery S: Southern States COLU M SEND US YOU Gibbes "Pc U1BBES Ky A money-maker lntlr S aelf. Write. / \ Gibber Good! ^ Bos la The American All-Wrought TIia Split Rtoel Pulleys. * 1?V STANDAltP DESIGN * FATIIKit KILLED IIKK FIANOK. Convicted of MonslattKhter and Heat lTp for Two Yearn. At Laurens in an effort to s her father on trial for the tnurdor of her sweetheart, Miss Mary C5a.rlson while on the witness stand Thursday, tore up a lettor of sympathy she is alleged to have wrlttoa the victim's mother, and offered iu evidence by the prosecution. J. llenri Garrison killed J. IjOwis Williamson last July and the former's defense is the "unwritten law." Miss Garrison, who was the only wl?ness, testified that on the night of the tragedy she and Williamson, t.? whom she was engaged, was in ti\^ parlor of her home when her father appeared at the window and shot her fiance. Williamson died three I hours later. J The prosecuting attorney asked Miss Garrison to identify a letter she 1 is said to have writteu after ta.? shooting, and she promptly toro It I into bits. Ow ing to her state of hysteria, she was not rebuked by the court. The trial was not concluded. I The jury found the defeudan: I guilty of manslaughter and he was sentenced to two years In the peni1 tentiary. The main defence of Garrison was that Williamson, who was' intoxicated, was at the time of the \ killing caught in the act of taking ? ! undue liberties with Garrison's auugnter, miss jnury uarrison. i*urrison 1b n prosperous farmer. H KA HST'S MKNAGEKIH. Says It Will Perform In South Car~ olinu, T?k?. The State executive committor of Hearst's Independen Party mot !? Greenville Wednesday and elected officers, with D. E. McCuen. nf Greenville, as chairman, and S. S. Price, of Columbia, a? secretary. A full electoral ticket will be put In the field for the November election. The executive committee has under advisement the Hubject of a State ticket with candidates for governor and all State officers CLASSIFIED COLUMN ^WA^PnoiL WANTED ? SECOND-HAND HAGS AND BURLAP; any kind, any quantity, anywhere. Wo pu^ freight. Richmond ling Company, Richmond, Va. SCHOOL TRUSTEES?Wishing competent teachers, should write to I Sheridan's Teachers' Agency, ? Greenwood, S. C. 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