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1 OUTLOOK BRIGH1 For Domocrata Success in the i\ Election Next Tuesday , SAYS WM. J. BRYAN j Ho Telia Interviewer That Home Flection Forecast* In t^, Papers l>ld Not Agree With Ileports Keceivetl t>y Film. After a week of hard campaig .i??; Wm .T It rvnn i- ?- ' ?? ?? iuui.1 iii iu canaiualo for President, rested Sunday In New 'York. He wild that some of the fore<\a?ts ho had seen In the morniug papers did not agree with the reports that he had been receiving. * How do things look, Mr. Bryan?" "Very encouraging," was the reply. "What do you think of Indiana?" Fie was asked. "We had very enthusiastic meetings there and also in Ohio. The prospects in botA States are very bright," was the itnswer. Mr. Bryan said that all the straw ballots that had boon taken In the eonntry showed Democratic gains, "hut," he continued, "of course the accuracy of the straw ballot depends upon the way it is taken and the wav the names nro selected. You select a list of names to send postal cards to, you receive n* fay ansWers, but you have no way of finding nut hov the men who did not answer are going to vote. The trouble comes when you try to average the votes of the ones who have not responded with the votes of those who have responded." "Where hove the Democratic gal 118 been this year In comparison with other years?" the candidate was asked. "This year the Democrats have gained In every State. Heretofore we have made gains in some States and have lost In other States. T1 is year there are gains throughout the whole country and gains In every occupation. There are gains among the farmers; these gains are very marked. There are gains among business men; professional men, and especially among college men. That is the interesting point In this campaign as compared with the other campaigns that 1 have had anything tp do wtth." "What is the reason for thLs gain?" "Only ono." reuliua, Mr. Ilrvu.u ~T think that it is that the HopubJtcan party, in power for twelye years, has failed to meet the responsibility." Mr. Bryan said that the poll in .New York city, the largest city in the country, and tho poll in Iowa, probably the largest agricultural State, showed that the Democratic gains were substantially the same. In New York State and city tho reports show 50 per cent gains, and tn Iowa about the same. Mr. Bryan today received the fol lowing cablegram from Oxford Col lege, England: "William J. Bryan, Democratic Headquarters, Now York: American Kbodes scholars, after debate, emphatically support you for President and wish you success. <Signed) "American Club." CMFFNKY KLKOTKICIAN KILLED. Young Man From Michigan Touchw Live Terminal and> Dies. A young electrician named N\ K. Ktreter, while painting a switchboard In the engine room of the Gaffuey Manufacturing Company Tuoaduy morning, touched a live terminal with his brush, with tho result that 2,300 volts of electricity were sent coursing through his system. He only lived about five minutes after the accident. The physicans say hat he probably had a weak heart. The young: man has only been In Gaffney al>out two months and came here from Michigan, ?He has rcdaj tires In Ashvllle and the remains f were turned over to Shuford & Lamaster, undertakers, awaiting Instructions from his people as to their dispordtion. The young man made inane friends In Gaffney and his denth was a shock to all who knew him. Dies in Circus. Waddy Bramlett, a rur.tl carrier on one pf the U F. D. routes out of GreenVllle, dropped lead in the ten; of Ilingland Brothers circus Tuesdav He was entering the tent to witness the performance, and It is supposd that he became overheated whilo waiting for the gates to open. lie fell Just as he entered the tent and died before medical aid ?cold reach him. SUB! ( i \ t BRYAN AND TAFF I WILL TO I'll XKW YORK THIS WEKK. Indiana, Ohio and Other States Will lie Stumped ThLs Week by I loth Forties. New York State will be the etorui- , ceuter of the cloning week of the political campaign. Both the Hepublican and Democrutia presidential nomineeH will tour tho State and Home of the ablest speakers at the command of the National Committees have been assigned to participate in the battle for votes. I | With the exception of a brief ( speech in New Haven, Conn., Mr , Taft, the Republican candidate for president, will spend the entire week within the Km pi re State. Mr. Ilrvan will devote four days to New York and on Friday will en-1 , tor Ohio, which, like New York, has | a place in the doubtful column j , Indiana, another uncertainty, will bo . toured by Mr. Bryan on Saturday ( the Democratic candidate closing the' I week's campaign with u night speech in Chicago. I James 8. Sherman haH a week's ( I r>u rimulom 1 ? > ...?/<?irsii uiuiiuvu in i>t>w 1 OTK State, while the plana of John W. Kern, who had expected to dovoM the week to speech making in Indiana, depend on the condition of his , son. whose illness compelled Mr. Kern to abandon his tour at Syra- . cuae last woek. Members of President Roosevelt's cabinet will tnke an active part in the weofc'n campaign. Secretary of State Hoot will speak in Ohio and , New York; Postmaster General Moyor in Ohio, Maryland and New Jer- ' Key; Secretary of War Wright in , Virginia; Secretary of the Navy Metcalf in West Virginia; Attorney General Bonaparte in New York; Secretary of Treasury Cortelyou in I New York, and Secretary of the InI terior Garfloid in Ohio. | While New York will bo the center c of political activity, Ohio ami Indiana will be Ht limped by both parties ! The Democrats will send two special traina bearing prominent speakers through each State and the Kepubllcans are planning many meetings. | Throughout the country the week ( I will be one of red lire and speech- c making. ???????? v ^OMPKHH NOT AFTKK OFFICK. J a He Tells Bryan He Would Not Ac- i, cept (Vlbinct Position. | National Chairman Mack made public the following telegram from 1 i, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of l.aibor, anu ?; received by Mr. Ilryan upon hlH ur- r rival in Jersey City Friday: J "Washington, D. C., Oct. 1*3. 190S. T ?Hon. W. J. Bryan, Jersey City, N J.: Just ?aw President Roosevelt's attack. I deem it my duty to ad viae you- that I am preparing an anawe". Home newspapers are trylug to em- * i>arraa you b<3 declaring that you wii) ^ appoint me a member of your Cabinet, if you are elected President. You may nay that I have publicly. * emphatically and frequently declared " that, under no circumstances, would I accept any public office, either elective or appointive, and thlw declaration ia irrevocable. The contest of labor ia for jut-tlce and not tor of ? H flee. (Signed) "SAMURL OOMPKU8." 1 c TUAGKDY IN MISSISSIPPI. J; " r Cowboy und Policeman Hlioot Fjicu ^ Other to Death. r v A specia 1 from New Orleans nay a ? newH was received there Monday of t a double tragedy 8unday bight at Gulfport, Miss., in which a cowboy ^ belonging to a Wild Went Show and (j a Gulfport policeman lost their IIVOB. While the ahow waa packing un preparing to leave for New Orleans, Lon Seoly, the cowboy, in alleged to have ridden into it crowd of n?>groea, beating thorn over the hnada with the butt of his revolver. Policeman Leo Varnadoo started in pursuit ^ of Seoly and the two men were lost e to view In a cloud of dust. Later their bodies were found near the t railroad, each body bearing a single ^ bullet wound and each man's re voiver containing one* empty shell. Seedy was the son of a ranch owner f living near 101 Paso, Texas. * . r They Must Work. At Oduinbin as a result of a war -j on vagrancy and idle negroes the police department Tuesday arrested iifty negroeH. Another raid will h'* made Wednesday and it has been an- f nounced that every one, white 01 t black, must work, show cause or i work for the city. ?\ SCRIbE Nl \ BRYAN A WINNtR National Chairman Mack Predicts a Democratic Landslide. HE CLAIMS AT LEAST Throo Hundred and One Klcctoral Votes, Which Is Fifty-Nine More Than Fnough to Fleet the I>emocratic Ticket, and Names the States the Democrats Will Carry. In b statement issued Saturday from New York, Chairman. Mack sluims that Dryun will be elected by a landslide. Chairman Mack says: "The rumbling and thunder of the Bryan landslide in the West are iilrcady heard iu the Faster Stat?, xnd today I can confidentially predict tho election of Mr. Bryan. That landslide in the West will extend to ho shores of the Atlantic. It moan a he Democratic nath/'al ticket will :urry every doubtful State in this lection, and in roek-ribed Repubh'an ctitrtri<*t? the majorities of that Kirty in recent years will be reduced o a minimum. Rasing my forecast >11 the most conservative lines, in :iew of the optimistic reports I have received from all sections of the country. 1 figure that Mr. Bryan will have at least 301 electoral rotes, or 59 more than necessary or a choice. This comfortable majority will be increased rather thaa lecreased when the vote Is counted. "In addition to the 1 votes of he solid South?I nm confident that dr. Rryan will carry New York, New lersey, Connecticut, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, Indian i, j )hio, Delaware, Kansas and South )akotn ?a total of 301 votes. All >ver the country there is a change >f 2T? to 50 per cent from the Rooserelt vote of 1R04 to Mr. Rryan. "The result Ih no longer in doubt n New York. The 3 9 votes of the Hate are assured for Mr. Rryan lo will win by a substantial plural-j ty. The Empire State can no longer! >e included In that territory called in* enemy's country. 1 speak from nformation gained from a thorougn anvass and reporta from every ounty in the State. "From Connecticut I have received ery encouraging reports. Judge, tobcrtaon, the Democratic candiuate I or governor, will carry the State by J ,bout 20.000 plurality, and the nat-1 i?ual ticket, hacked hy a united arty, has the best chance In years or winning the seven electoral votes "N-ow Jersey sounds an optimistic tote and there is. every reason to ?olleve that that State will he in ho Democratic column. Few if any tute in the Union have a better or pore effective organization that Now ersey. "Mr. Bryan's tour of the State < n "rii'.ay last and the ovation he reeived spelled victory to my mini, rhe internal ditsension in the KepuV ican party in West Virginia and the wing of the labor vote in that State o Mr. Bryan are powerful factors or his success. "Delaware we expect to win. The >oople are hot with resentment gainst a purty branded with Du'ontisth. T .ousands of Republicans here will either vote for Bryan or lot vote at all. "In Ohio and Indiana every nlenent is working for our suet ess. nd despite the great Republican naJoritioM of previous years, I am onfldent that both States will be in he Democratic column. Thoy are or Bryan today, and there is no eftson for believing that the next voek will witness a change of sent! nont. Eighty per cent of the labor oto in Ivoth States and fully qh large percentage of the German populuion are for Bryan. "Illinois is doubtful, with the huncea In favor of Mr. Taft, but U te wlna It will bo by a greatly roluced plurality. "The Pacific coast Btatea all rhow , trend toward Bryan and a dls;u?t of the extravagant, destructive loliclea of Mr. Roosevelt. In each, articularly in Oregon, State issues re an important factor. "The Mountain Statea, from lnfornation I have received within IS lours, will, I am confident, be countd in the Democratic column. "In fine, I figure at the present ime Mr. Bryan will have at Icuhi 00 electoral votes. I include In my atimate the following States: "Solid South, I 66; Idaho, 3; MonnttA O. . ?, f . Xf-l.-- -1- ? O - O, l-IIIUIttUU, U, ill 1)1 <1M K H . f> , fevailn, 3; Indiana, 15; Ohio, 23; j )elawaro, 3; Kansas, 10; New York. 59; Now Jersey, 12; Connecticut, South Dakota, 4. Total, 301. * (V)tton Mills ItoNiune Operations. A dispatch from Eatonton. Oa.. uiya that the Floyd Cotton Mills of hat place resumed operation this week, after being clotted about five BAAtbt. t * ? 9W TO 40 9 DARING ESCAPE SAW MGIIT KIDKItS KILL HIS PltlKNIL Judfto Taylor llrokc Auay and Kan Into tho Woods, SulfiTiiiK Great HearahliM. Judge Taylor, who was supposed to have beeu killed by fishermen night riders with Qucntin Rank in, turned up near Tlptonville, Tenn.. 30 miles from the scene of where he was abducted, at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning. Judge Taylo~, telling his story of the affairs, says. "Tho night riders forced In our door at the hotel and at tho point of revolvers, compelled us to dress. They then took ub on horseback to the edge of Keelfoot Lake. Hero 1 watched them hung poor Captain Itaukin and the fire into his body. After they were satisfied that he wus dead, they discussed my fate .and 1 j had to stand by while they debated , whether to nang mo or keep me captive, hoping to force the Ktwlfool fishing company stockholders to concede free fishing on the lake. Hut those who favored hanging seemed to be winning tho day when they pointed out that they could not keep me prisoner without my knowing my prison, and that this would ( lead to their being taken captive when I was freed. When I saw the day was going against me, I deteri mined to try for libertv I ?.r/,b.. j t'rom the two men who were holding n)ft and ran. They followed slowly i for they thought they could easily , catch me. it was growing daylight and I knew that I made a fair y i good target. So I surprised them by plunging into the bayou that runs , , from the lake. I "1 used to he a good swimmer and i I stayed under water as long as i | ! could. When I came up they shot ] at me. I could not stay in the wa- j ter longer, and Jumped on the bank. < l here came a volley of shots, (red i was with me, and 1 was not hit, but ( I straightened, threw up both dauds. i reeled and fell face-downward. I i thought my ruse had failed when ' they fired at my prostrate body, but they missed me. Thinking they had j killed me, they departed without , crossing the bayou. h "After an hour I cautiously moved i and then got up and walked through } the forest. *i uesday night In the , woods and Wednesday morning ' i ventured on a public road. I was i afraid to go Into a farm house, for i fear of meeting enemies, but 1 had not eaten since Monday night, an 1 , the ravages of hunger became too j strong, and I went Into n farm house , at H o'clock Wednesday morning and i was fed. The occupants telephoned | to Tiptonville that 1 was safe. Then v I was driven here und hero 1 am." , Cfovornor Patterson has orders 1 , soldiers to the neighborhood where , the outrage took place, and the re- t wnrd for the guilty one has been Increased from $10,000 to $12,| 000. ' * HKAK8TH UK NAIIJKIK ~ 1 Bryan Always a Friend of the lather* Ing iuun. f t "I protest against there being j placed before the country uh beggars. f They do not ask for pity; they do ( not aak for charity; they Himply de- > mand justice." { This quotation wan olhcinlly pro- i mulgated by John B. Lamb, in f charge of l>enK>cratlc headquarters, f at Chicago Friday, au being what Mr. Hryan actunuy said upon the oc- > caaion M'heu he is ulleged to hnve rc v ferred to laboring men as "public j beggars." r "While the charge came only from x W. 11. Hearst. Mr. Hrvan refnwe/t tn . take notice of It," said Mr. Umli, j "but now that Secretary Straus hue t. used tho term in a newspaper inter- j view, it is time we gave out the co?rect version." \ Mr. Lamb said the quotation was n \ matter of record at Washington. * t * '1 PREFERRED DEATH TO TRIAL. t New York l>octor Accused of < "rim- ^ r inal lYttctico Suicide*. \ Rather than face trial for manslaughter, growing out of a case of u.ioged criminal practice. I)r. Irvinir . J. Cook, a young doctor of Now York, drank a dose of a powerful poison and shot, himself at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Friday. His body was found by hotel attendants. The man r left a sealed letter addressed to hi* < wife, hut accompanying it was a terso 1 note in which he usked her "not i to take this affair hard." Dr. Cook ) was arrested last Tuesday night and the following day he was released I in $10,000 bail. lie was to have i been prosecuted for the death of a 1 young woman at Summit, N. lart 1 summer. * i THE H( J / A GROOM SLAIN By former Suitor for the Bride's Hand On a Train TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. I After Killing Her Husband, the Cowardly Assassin Turned the Woap* on ttie llrioo and Would Have Killed Her Hud Not Her Uncle Caught tlvo Pistol. A dlHpatch from New Orloaus says on her bridal tour, which hud begun scarcely an hour before, and seated in a railroad coach almost between her huKband and a former sulior for her hand, Mrs. Kitni Van Ingen Thursday night saw the flash of the suitor's revolver, felt the sudden grip of her husband's hand as the bullet killed him, and thon turned and fought for hef life. When the girl appeared about t ? become the victim of the second bullet from the revolver her uncle, a man with umv ixii- ?* ? - ?- - ?* 0....> i/ui niiuii^ Jlll'l cool under tho excitement, rushol anil thrunt his thumb beneath the hummer of tho revolver, Jamming the mechanism ami rendering the weapon hnrnilcss. Thin was the Ktory which the other passengers oil the Texan and Pacific ' cannon ball" told when they reached New Or lean h Friday, but the principal uctorB in the tragedy, most of whom are connected with Loulsiana'a leading families, have ?o far refuaed to discuHB the matter. The former Kiiitor Is F. S. lleauve. of i'laqucinine, La., at which pla:o lie waa taken from the train and placed under arrest. The unfortunate husband was Prof. Fred Van Ingen, a prominent teacher, of Ale.vtndria. La., and a relative of former rrovernor Hlanchard. The bride it die daughter of James M. Rhorer, me of the leading ofllclals of Iberville Parish, residing at Baton Rouge, lieauvo Is 1M years old and 1/un Ingen was 2'i. Tho wedding took place at Alexindria. Ileauve was lti town, having irrlved there, it Is reported. on the tame day as Miss Rhoror. When tho iridal couple left for New Orleans 10 boarded the train also, and after i time sat in a pent where he was 'aclng Mr. and Mrs. Van Ingen, vith the bride between him and her lusband. Other passengers sny Benuvo talkid with the bridal couple just before he shooting and that his manner ippeared cordial. It was at first r> lorteil that he congratulated thorn, >ut this was later denied. The young woman's hand was In her husband's when Beauve suddenly drew his revolver and fired. After being dlsirmod the young tnau quietly subliitted to arrest. DON'T WANT BUY AN. tall way Maputo Will I>o All They Can to Ileut Him. Alarmed by the growing sentiment imong railroad employee for liryan, he managers of the Htg Four dlviaon of the New York Central railroad ire wending a H|>eclul train across }hio with General Manager Van tVinkle and other otllcialw on board, irglng the men to vote for Taft The llrwt wtop waa made at Springlold, that being headquarters for our divisions of the road. "We have heard, men," said air. /ariWinkle, "that you think that we vant you to vote for Ilryan. That ? a mistake. 'Wo1 hope-as many as sensible will vote for Mr. Taft, for vo are convinced that Bryan's eleclon would mean four years of tie* jreaalon. On tho other hand, wo hink Tuft's election will mean pros erlty. Don't think anybody is going to >e discharged if he votea for Bryan Ve simply want to Impress upon yon hat work will be more plentiful if I'aft ia elected." Men holding executive positions on ho road are bsiug asked to talk raft to the men under them. I.\ nany instances the action of the of-( loial waa resented. NKOItO IMNGKII. *ay? Penalty for Murder of a Negro CJIrl. Stark MeanR, colored, was hanged it Winnaboro Friday for the murder j( Annie Hell HussoU, a girl o? lis own race. Means shot the gii! 11 March, 1 907, and also seriously. mounded two negro hoys, who were accompanying her home at night from a choir practice held in a house n the eastern part of the town, layup in wait for them. He ran away but waa brought back, tried and co?? irtated. * )RRY HI WANT HIM TKItU NKGKO LBTTKK CAItltlttlt AT HI'AKTANIIL'HG OFFICK Likely to (iuuHo Trouble l alm lie U Removed, llecause He Wrote Inciter to White Ijuljr, A special dispatch from Hpertanburg to the Columbia Rocord nays there 1b likely to lx> a pretty post office iih'kh there uulosa J. A. Aodcrnon, colored, who was recently ajrpoitnod substitute letter carrier is the city, ix removed. Hhortly after Ander?on wan appointed by PoatmuHter Pointer the Hpartanburg Journal published an article to t)i3 effect that Anderson wna formerly in the postal railway service and ho1 been removed on the charge of writing an improper letter to a white woman. The officials In charge of the postofflce Wi*rn lnfApm<v?l ~r ? - " ?- ? (il VUTT charge agaiunt Anderson, but ik? steps wore taken ho far uh la knowa to find out If the charge wa? true. Last Friday night week a colored sporting tiouHe wun raided and forteen coloreu gamblers wore arrested, and urnoiK those taken '.a by the police were a colored minister and J. A. Anderson. The latter begging the police not to give out hla name to the reporters, saying that If hla came wuh publiHhed in the pupjrs it would hurt him, us he wuh in the postofflce service. Anderson wuh to take out hiH route and he hustled and got some one to put up ball for hint, so that he might secure his release und deliver IiIb mail on time; I. ut, it is said, he failed to secure bail la time and many people receive! late mall. Many patrons on Anderson's 'oute are said to have made the remark that they did not intend to allow him to come to their door, believing mm to tie the man who was fired from the postal service for writing an Improper letter to a white woman. Unless Anderson Is removed, und a white man appointed, there is likely to be trouble for it is said that the clerks in the postofTlce ende?#vored to keep Anderson from being appointed, Informing I'ostinsHter Poioier of the charges against Anderson.* FIVK NKUHOKH IIUNO For Taking the Lives of Hevcn Other People. A dispatch from New Orleans says Friday was known us "hangman's day" in Ixjuieiana, owln? to the hahglng of Ave n???roeh for m'unieif.' i ho taking of seven lives constituted the Hum total of crimen for which thla quintette paid tho death penalty. Robert Hall, hanged In Plaquemlne pariHh, killed two members of hiu own race; Kmost Montgomery, banged in Vermillion parish, killed three negroes, and Kdward Ayle*, hanged in iluptdoH pariah, tnurderol one, his wife. The remaining two negroes killed a white man, Policeman Robert CarnbluH, in New Orleans, where they were hanged. These negroes. Kdward Home and Jacques Pierro. l?elonged to the selfstyled "Couneti of Ood,, sect of negro fanatics of New Orleans, and they attached Policeman Cnmblfts for attempting to quell a disturbance at one of the meetings of the sect. * BRAVK HCHOOL TKACHKR. Saved the Idves of the Children hi Her Cluirge. A dispatch from Alpena, Mich-. ua tru om/vni? ? ? ? k -M 11 ? ? ? ui*7 o Miuwufs nit; mum luriililiK BApiV rloncoa of the survivors of the Preequo Isle county forest tires was thai of Miss Grace Harber, achool teache/. 19 years old, whose school was In session whon tho flames swept dowo upon iho school house. Hhe took all of tho school children to a plowed field nearby whore tbey were kept crowded close together, each burning ember being extinguished as It fell upon their clothing. Boon animals began to api>ear on the edge of the field, and during the night two bears made their appearance. Among other animals appearing was a fox and a wild cat, but non ?. including the bears mn/1? imu v,^.? tile demonstration. Miss Barber kept her charges In the field until morning. when they were sent to their homes. Four Were Killed. Four were killed near Clayton, N. M., ns the result of a tornado and cloudburst. Twenty persona were Injured, three of whom may die. The TTnlon county court house which cost $10,000. was wrecked, and a scoro of houses were demolished or torn from their foundations. 3RALD