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A BATTLE LOST A War Just Begun, Says William Jennings Bryan, DEMOCRATIC LEADER l>etiores Tlutt tile l'arty Must Fight On or be Dissolved?The Principles and Policies of Democracy Are Not lleud?The People Will Yet Turn to It. IJncoln, Neb., Nov. 12.?"A batt. ,J?st?a war but becun." is th?> caption of the first page editorial in this week's issue of William J. Bryan's newspapc r. "The election of 1 908 is over and the returns disclose a signal victory for our opponents, hut the principles for which our party stands, the policies for which our party contends, these arc not dead. A good propo i lion is not made bad by rejection at t'he polls; a needed reform is not made unnecessary by an adverse Vote. jJThe legislation asked for by the "democratic party in its national platform was not of a temporary character; it was legislation which will be of permanent advantage when it is secured "Does any one believe that the American i>e pie will permanently permit secrecy as to campaign cj itribut ions? "Docs any one believe that the American people will permanently permit the will of the voters to be thwarted, as it is now hy the elec I...U ui si-iiiiiors mrougti Jegis] a tu ros ? "Does any one believe that t no trusts will be permitted perinaiKnt'.y to exploit the masses? "Does any one believe that the consumer will permanently permit the tariff to be written by the privileged of that tariff? "Does any one believe that the public will permanently tolerate estrangement between labor and capit aj? "Does any one believe that the fifteen milions of depositors will for ever permit th;ir savings to be jeopardized as at present? "Does any one believe that the extravagance of the government will go on forever unchecked? "Does any one believe that our republic will permanently consent *o a colonial policy with its humiliations and financial burdens? "There must he a party representing the people's protest against wrong politics and against the oppressing of politics and against the oppression of the struggling masses The Democratic party must continue its fight or dissolve. It could not exist as a plutocratic party. "During the twelve years the Democratic party has accomplished more out of power than the Republican party has accomplished in odice, and this is a suflicient reward for those who fight for a righteous cause. I; would haw been pleasant to have been able to reward worthy Dem crats with official positions; they art? looking for good government and they labor unselfishly for the promotion of Rood bovernment. The will neither be disco urn Red nor dismayed by defeat. They cannot cease to be interested for the government, for indifference would only! invite worse abuses than those from which we now suffer. The fight must be continued, because a goo 11 government is the richest legacy that a parent can leave to a child. / "As for myself, let no one worry about my future. The holding of office is a mere incident in the life of those who are devoted to reforms. The reform is the essential thing. If one can advance reforms by holding office, then the holding of office is justifiable. If one can best advance reforms as a private citizen, then the holding of office is undesirable The world owes me no.thing. I am abundantly compensated for what 1 have been able to do. My life will not be long enough to repay, tlie people for the confidence which they have expressed. My gratitude to those with whom I have labored surpasses language, and the days of the future to work in the interest of the people as I understand that interest ?n<l in nf I, .. r. e ?1 * * ...... ... ... .. ... xji. niuou H-IIII IMS wmcn seom to mo to lio the best. "I invito the co-operation of those who approve, and 1 shall not bo deterred by the criticism of those who disapprove. With an abiding faith in the triumph of the truth and an unfaltering confidence in the righteousness of our cause, I speak this word of encouragement to those who call themselves friends. T shall kr*"p step with them and march on. The measure of our work cannot be taken in a day. If we are right, as I believe wo are, it will vindicate us. !f " / " SUBSC THE TAFT VOTE IN GEORGIA WAS CAST BY NEGROES SAYS A Georgia Negro, Who Ilejoicee That Homo White Men Have Been Led to the Light by Negroow. Washington, Nov. 15.?Former ^ Register of the Treasury jiulson W. Lyons, colored, in a letter to a local paper Wednesday asserts that cred.t for the increased Republican vote iu Georgia on November 3 is due almost entirely to colored voters. He says: "A perusal of the vote cast last Tuesday, as published in the Atlanta Constitution of the 4th and 5th of this month, will convince any one that it is practically the same vote as was polled against disfranchisement on the 7th day of October la At in the State election, with a few exceptions in northeast Georgia, wherj few colored people live. "Taft and Sherman received 3 9. uiiu vdh's. i nuHKui i>y t'neir former political allies, they?the colore 1 men?succeeded 011 the 7th day of October in having recorded against disfranchisement, a measure thai struck at their very manhood, practically the same vote. "It was suggested to the 'campaign committee of live' that the best way to carry the State in November would be to arouse all Republican voters to active opposition to the disfranchising amendment in October, but for reasons best known to those gentlemen, they declined to take any op"n or public part in that matter, and the colored men were left to their fate. "It has been estimated that r Ojo or 0, <)<? of the votes cast against disfranchisement were by white men. I think I run no risk of successful contradiction when 1 say that the vote for Taft and Sherman hut Fuosday was jusi about the same, lu other words, that not ovpr 0,000 or 7,000 of the !R;,0GO v >test cast were bv white men "As far as this may have been recruits, all rejoice that at last the virtues < f the party for which they have persistently and consistent 1> fought almost alone for a generation are being recognized, and their oldtime foes, like Saul of Tarsus, have had the XfJllnt! of /I . In. I-' ? .<> >iiu iiucaa BinuiU'l! from I hoii* eyes, even though forty years were consumed in the evangelistic effort. "Why this famous 'campaign committee' should send forth from its headquarters in Macon to the world the negro did not vote,' 'it is a white man's victory,' is past mv understanding, unless by so doing they hope to hold on to official pabulum, which no one begrudges them, or to increase t he same." * ClI.AIUilOD WITH Ml'ltDKIl. The Two Coopers and Sharp Indicted in Carniack Case. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 13.?The grand jury ret u rived a true bill against. Col. I). 1\ Cooper and his son, K. J. Cooper, and He-Sheriff John 1). Sharp, who are charged jointly with the murder of Ex Senator E. W. Carniack, and Sharpe is also indicted on the charge of being tin accessory before* the fact. The men charged with the crime have been committed to jtiil without bail. The State will make out a strong case against them. Six witnesses wv re examined by the jury, till of them prominent people. There is a strong feeling among a large number of people that the trial will I develon a woli lata , ? .. >>*iu acy III assassinate Carmack, as was done. * KILLING IN BERKELEY. Colored Man Shoots at White Mail and Get* Shot. Moncks Corner, Nov. 1 2.?Another homicide occurred near Mt. Holly on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. Mr. H. E. Brown attempted to arrest a negro named Richard Drayton and the negro attempted to kill Brown. In fact, a bullet from Drayton's pistol passed through Brown's overcoat, whereupon Brown shot and killed Drayton. There were no witnesses to this tragedy, except the participants. Brown came un and surrendered to the shoriff. An order j for hail was granted by Judge Aldrich, and the l*>nd was promptly executed and Rrown was released. The killing occurred Monday. * wo contribute, as I believe we are contributing, to a cftuse that is founded in justice, our efforts will, weigh in the final victory." " RIBE NO1 A HEROIC GIRL Endured Great Suffering to Holp Her Younger Sister. SAVES CHILD'S FOOT My Consenting to lluvo One IIundred and Forty-four Inches of Skin llcinoved From ller ltody to 1h? Crafted 011 tin* Little One's Hotly After an Accident. Charleston, Nov. 14.?The Evening Post says Mamie Merger, fourteen years old, the daughter of Mr. Martin K. Merger, the well known cigar salesman, of 4 19 King street, has now about recovered from the operation which she underwent two weeks ago to give up 144 squar> inches of skin that was grafted upon the flesh of her little sister, Eleanor, the three-year-old child who lost her. right leg and a part of her left foot through being run over by a trolley car in King street on the awning of September 19. The victim of the trolley car accident i also improving and was on Sunday brought home from the Riverside | I n fi nnary. Knr fnplilii.ln . v.. .ui > l< IKK <11111 BU I I ?Sill II II OO , the act of little Miss Mamie Merger deserves a high place among the annals of heroism. About two weeks ago the family physician of Mr. Merger announced that while the wound on the right limb of little Eleanor was healing well the left, foot showed a startling condition, for the ilesli proved unable to grow its skin again. Therefore it would b" necessary to try to save the child from horrible suffering, and give her as good a foot as possible by attempting a very d illicit It surgical operation?grafting skin upon the stump Wthout hesitation the older sister, of the little girl, Mamie Herger, begged that she be allowed to provide the necessary skin. She is a healthy girl, w? ighing some 170 pounds, and she was glad to do anything possible to help her little sister. Accordingly, after consultation, the physician took the brave girl to the Riverside Infirmary two weeks ago today, and proceeds d to remove enough skin to furnish a covering for the foot and a portion of the left leg of Eleanor. Twelve strips of skin were removed from the thighs and upper limbs of Mamie linger. Each ?trip was six by two inches in dimensions. It took some two hours to perform the operation. As the skin was removed it was placed upon the flesh of the younger child, and bound into posit Ion. For a week after giving up the skin, Mamie Merger was unable to leave the infirmary. She suffered great pain, but was encouraged ny the thought that she had do no something for her younger sister, who was so horribly mutilated on the evening of September 1 !>. Today Mamie Merger was able to walk about a little more than for the past few days and will eventually, it is thought, have now skin in the place of that given up. The physcians report that the grafting operation promises to Ik* successful. Its outcome is being watched with keen interest by the physicians of the city. Every other day the It tie girl has to be given chloroform for this dressing of the grafted skin. She seems to have a chance now to recover from the shock of the injuries, although for some time after live accident it was not thought she could survive. Her right leg was amputated above the knee. The left foot was badly mashed. This afternoon in telling of the incident, Mamie Merger did not seem to realize that she had done anything heroic. Her whole thought was on the need of her little sister, and possible benefit to follow the operation. She said the cutting away of her skin did not hurt much. * EX-SHEIUFF IS A1UIESTED Charged With Aiding And Abetting \f iati'1'kM * .... Mm Minnacu. Nashville, Nov. 12.?John J. Sharpe, ex-sheriff of this county, wis arrested here today, charged with the murder and aiding and abetting in the murder of Senator Carmack. It has been understood hero for several days that warrants would he issued for the arrest of Ssharpe and his anvst today was no surprise. It is alleged that Sharpe was seen with Col. Cooper and Kobin Cooper, aid i -< ? n\ti v ouuriiy neioro tno killing and was also at tho pcene of the tragedy immediately after Carmaek fell to the ground. Sharp was a' once taken to jail. ^ (V TO # BAPTIST WOMEN TO 11AIHE OVEH THIRTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS, Which Amount in to be Expended ill the Foreign and Homo Mission Fields. Charleston, Nov. 12.?Not content with the large sum of $28,000 uppertioned yesterday for missionary work, the Woman's Baptist Missionary union tit its session today at the Citadel Square Baptist church adopted the recommendations of the executive committee, which provided for the raising of $32,830 during the coming year, to be apportioned as follows: $ 1,33 0 for foreign missions; $11,000 for home missions; $3,000 for State missions and tin' sum of $2,500, which will bo raised I by the Sunbeam bunds and Order ot I Royal Ambassadors for work in this endeavor of the missionary union. It was also decided to continue the contributions to the endowment fund of the Missionary training institute at Louisville, as will as the support to young women's clubs, bands and the Order of Royal Ambassadors The missionary union adopted the recommendations of the executive committee unanimously, being of the opinion that the union will able to undertake and carry on successfully till that has be ui planned along financial lines. (Beenwood was selected as th next place of meeting, the time for the convention to lie determined and announced later by the executive commit t ee. Among the reports which were submitted and read was that of the fWitntiiii ??x.t ... i f - ' c v>ii mini nun i UK (Ik-legate:; to the Woman's Missionary union auxiliary. Tho nominees were all doclarod elected as follows: At largo, Mrs. Sojourner, Mrs. Wingo and Mrs. Quat tlohaum; northern division, Mrs. .1. F. Vines, Mrs. 11. (1. Miller, Mrs. L. M. Ho]> r, Mrs. Cudd and Mrs. Candel; southern division, Mrs. .1. A. Fizer, Mrs. Howard Jones. Mrs. Eunice Williams; eastern division, Mrs. J. E. Mcbaurin, Mrs. I. L. Coker, Jr., and Mrs. Canielia Napier; western division, Mrs. C. E. Hurts, Mrs. \V. .1. Matcher, Mrs. ('. T. Jamison; central division, Mrs. (). 10. Searhorough, Mrs. II. J. Morton and Miss Lilly Mobloy. State missons were int? rostingly discussed hy Dr. Y. M. bailey and Mrs. II. II. Wright, the latter representing 11 missions in Mouth Carolian, with her headquarters at I singley. Telegrams of greeting and good will wene ordered to he sent to Mrs. C. E. Watson of the northern division; Mrs. Fannie E. S. Heck, president of the Southern Women's Missionary union; former president. Mrs. J. 1). Chaplin, and former members of the central committee, Mrs. John Stout and Mrs. M. L. Coker. After a prayer for State missions, ti collection was taken up for the work <it Rock Mill. Miss Lou Tindal presented an Interesting statement on the work ot tliio Margaret, home, and Miss Isla Me.Kenzio spoke on the training school. The report of the obiluarj committee was received and referred. The represents!ivos of church implications were then heard as follows: Dr. II. S. Thomas, of The Courier; Miss A. L. Smathers, of The W. M. IT.; Mrs. Fits Landford. of The Journal, and Miss Cleo Attaway, of The Home Field. An interesting communication was neceived from ltev. Dr. C. C. Drown of Sumter, regarding assistance for aged ministers. The missionary union decided to co-operate in the movement. | The afternoon session was opened with exercises hy Mrs. Eliza Hyde, and then came a mission study in which some interesting Chinese curious were exhibited among the collections of the Sunbeams. The most interesting business of the afternoon session was the election of officers as follows: President, Mrs. I. W. VVingo; vice presidents, northern division, Mrs. C. K. Waston; southern division, Mrs. William Haynesworth; eastern division, Mrs. J. P. Hauknight; western division, Mrs. M. 13. Clinkscales, and central division, Mrs. W. II. Mohloy. e.orropjnomlt n cr u ~ ? ?? , ...... o?i<iciui7i ivirs. A. li. Crutchfleld; recording secretary, Mrs. J. W. Quattlebaum, treasurer, Mrs. J. X. Cudd; band superintendent, Mrs. \V. If. Hatcher, superintendent of young people':* works, Miss Eliza Hyde; superintendent. young women's auxiliary, Mrs. A. 1Crutchfleld, and local cxecutivj committee, Mrs. W. If. Abbott, Mrs. Eliza Romar, Mrs. Hannah Montgomery, Mrs. lleverly Montgomery, Mrs. Ii. M. Roper, Mrs. I). A. Switzer land Mrs. W. M. Whiteside. I At the session tonight Rev. I)r. T. H. Ray of Richmond, secretary of foreign missions, delivered an address and the ederciaes were of genTHE HOI BLOODY BATTLE To Capture a Negro at Okmulgee, Oklahoma. EIGHT MEN KILLED lU>forr? the Outlaw, Who llurricudrs Himself hi Ills House, Is Killed, lie Is Shot to l>eath ami Cremated in Ills House, Whieh Is Kurned Down on 111 in. Okmulgee, Okln., Nov. 15.?Eight persons were killed and ten others were wounded today in a light between James Deekard, a negro desperado and olllcers. The dead: Edgar Robinson, shorifT of Okmulgee county. Henry Klaber. assistant chief of police of Okmulgee. Two negroes, named Chapman, brot hers. J. Deekard, negro. Throe unidentified negroes. The wounded: Steve draysou, shot through shoulder. Deputy sheriff, arm broken. Seven others, slightly wounded The disturbance began at the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad station, where 1?<./?!* ? .t 1 - ........... .-Ilfiilgl'll III ;i light with un Indian hoy, Stove Grayson, and beat him into insensibility with a rock. Friends of Grayson called the police. When I'oliccman Klabor went to the station, Deckard tied to his house nearby and barricaded himself. When Klabor approached the house, Deckard shot and instantly killed hint. Sheriff Robinson gathered deputies iu a few minutes and hurried to the scene. This party contained several negroes, whom the sheriff commissioned as deputies. As the attacking party approached t lie Deckard house, Deckard opened lire with a title, tiring as rapidly as lie could load his weapon. The sheriff foil first, instantly killed. Then five of the negro deputies were slain. Deekard's house was soon .surrounded by a frenzied mob of armed men. Fire was set to a ltott.se just north of Deekard's. Volleys of bullets were pourncd into Deekard's house and ho was shot down. lie was seen to roll over, strike a match and set fire to ltis own house, which was soon a roaring furnace, in which his body was baked. Deckard evidently had :t large uuantitv of am I munition stored in the house for many cartridges exploded. (Jovernor Haskell, at Guthrie, whs advised of the fight and of the ha 1 fooling between the whites and negroes that had grown out. of tz, threatening a race riot. The Governor at once ordered the mlliti.i company tit Muskogee to prepare tc go to Okmulgee, stud a special train was made ready to carry the troops The Governor remained at his office to keep in touch with the situation News of the preparation to sent: militia had a good effect on the disorderly element of both races, tint, tonight the crowd dispersed. Further trouble is not expected. When it became known that 110 other negr had assisted Deckard against tin 0 Ulcers the talk of reprisals sub sided. " HA1LKOAI) CASTA LTIFS Cor tin- Fiscal Year Fading tin Cast of June. Washington, Nov. 12.?Then were 3,704 persons killed and OX,989 injured in railroad casualties in the United States during the fiscal year ended June 30th, last, according to an announcement of the Inter State Comnwrco Commission today. This is a decrease of 1,23 6 In the number of killed and 3,279 injured, as compared with the previous year. In the fhree montbe ended June 30th there were 091 killed and 13,1 AOO i?i * I u;>o injured, a decrease of 1,752 I from the preceding quarter. The 13 passengers kilked In train accidents during the quarter is the smallest ever reported in the quarterly record. The dollissiorrs during the quarter numbered 320 and derailments 1,310 of which 130 collisions and 108 derailments affected passenger trains. * Disaster at Saw Mill. Roanoke, Va., Nov. 13.?A Times special tonight from Norfolk, Va., says that three men were killed outright, t\v"o fatal, y injured and two others were seriously hurt in an explosion yesterday at a saw mill plant in Wise county. * oral intorest. A number of the delgeates left here tonight for their homes, hut the bulk of the number will ieav) tomorrow after a very successful and pleasant session. * m HER V 1 MURDER MYSTERY HOLVKI> HY TI1K HTKANGK PHIiSKXTMKMT OF A SISTKK. Who C^rrli* Searchers to the Wherw Her Brother's Body in Buried on Neighbor's Farm. Chicago, Nov. J 5.?Out on a desolate little plot of ground two miles north of Marengo, a girl has uncovered a murder mystery, the details of which indicate so cold-blooded a crime that farmers living in the vicinity have been fascinated by the scene. The body of Oscar lloganson, a young fanner, who was living the lifle of v hermit on his own farm, lias been dug out of the soft earth I of a cnlckeu house on the farm of John N. Bedford. Just a few feet away a bloody hatchet was unearthed. Bedford, like lloganson, had been living on his farm, but disappeared after lloganson's death. Such .1 mass of circumstantial evidence was discovered which pointed to him, that when lie dually was found in Bllis, Neb., he was arrested and now is being brought back to Chicago. The man was taken while on his way to see his mot la r at Beatrie, Neb. A strange presentment of the dead man's sister, Arvilla lloganson, is credited with the discovery of 1110 body. The girl can not explain I lie feeling which caused her to visit the place and lead the searchers to dig in that particular spot. She was certain, however, that she had reached tin - grave of her murdered bromer. and the diggers soon verified her bol ief. The work of unravelling the mystery began more than a week ago, when Arvilla 1? gan to worry because her brother had failed to wrbo his weekly letter. The girl immediately declared that somA> awful thing had happened to him, although she had no information upon which to base such a belief. After two days it was decided to visit, the farm and learn Just what 'had happened to lloganson. So Arvilla, accompanied by her brother, James, visited the place early one morning about a week ago. Thto house was found in seemingly good order. The man's clothing and boI longings all appeared to be as ho | might, have left tlieni, with one exel ption?his throe horses were missing. Inquiry was made among tho neighbors and romehody remembered having seen lloganson walking toi wards the farm of Hodford, a dis1 tance of about a mile, on the morn ing of October 29. Other ncighhorH , it meinbored having seen a man whom they supposed was Bedford i at lloganson's place iu the evening, ? hitching up one of the missing horsi es. The othrr two horses, they declared, won? hitched to tlio rear of ; the rig. As the man drove away in the dusk they were unable to mak? 1 certain whether it actually was Bed ford. A few days after this Bedford 1 left the district. Miss Iloganson stood silent listeni or to the statement and theories of ) t lie farmers. "1 am satisfied that > the thing to do is to visit this man - Bedford s place," slue said. " 1 have 1 a feeling that we are going to settle this thing right there." So the slater and brother, together with a crowd of curious farmers, hurried to IU dford's place. The girl walked straight to the chicken house. Tho floor of tho bouse was paved smoothly with ' round cobble stones, and to a super* flclal observer meant nothing. But j tin:* girl called attention to tho fact I that several stones had been taken up and replaced. Men began working with picks and shovels and in a few moments unearthed the body of the missing man. He had been , killed by a blow over his right temple. * GOES IT KOll LIFE For Wrecking Train and Causing Death of Two Men. Spartanburg, Nov. 12.?Clarenci Aknew, the negro charged with murder and the wrecking of a passenger train nn thn ? " .... .Mini in-i ll uaiiway, near Duncan, S. C., which resulted in the killing of the engineer and fireman, was found guilty with recommendation to mercy here today. He was / sentenced to life imprisonment. H?* was one of the negroes whom the mob sought to lynch here four weeks ago. ' ' 1 1 " (loing to Mexico. Lincoln, Nel>., N'o\. 13.?Mr. and Mrs. Win. J. Bryan will leave Sunday for a trip to Mexico. They will seek rest and recreation. Tha itinerary of the trip lias not bee\ announced. Mr. Bryan will deliver a commencement address in Phlla1 dolphin Decern bo r 23. ALD