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m . W SOME HOT STUFF Teddy Brands Two Promlnet EdItos as Mendacious Liars. PANAMA CANAL DEAL llakoe Roosevelt Very Mad, and llo Hands Around the Iiie Right and Lett Hut lie Does Nut Throw Any Iiight on the Matter Under Discussion. White House, Washington, Dec. 1, 1 008. My Dear Mr. Foulke: 1 have received your letter of the 20th ultini > and have read it in connection with your previous letters enclosing ( .. ... ? I. ^ !..,? .1 > n .v/x 1 i ? i IJ IIUl <11 IIM1H 1IUI11 HIV JllUll*llil|IUIIO Newn, a paper edited by Mr. Delavan Smith. The News states in one of its issues that probably some of tin documents dealing with the matter have been destroyed. This is false. Not. one has been destroyed. !t states that the last documents weio sent over in June of this year, the object of this particular falsehood being, apparently, to connect the matter in some way with the nomination of Mr. Taft. As a matter of fact, the last papers that we have received of any kind were sent over to us in May of 1904, and they have been accessible to every human being who cared to look at them evuv since, and ace accessib e now. * * You quote the News as stating that "the people have no oilicial knowledge concerning the Panama Canal deal." The fact is that the people have lnul the most minute official knowledge; that every important step in the transaction and every important document have been made public in communications to ^fin ur/?L.vi ii fwl f h inn o It ( ho iliilv press, niid the whole matter has been threshcMl over in all i4s details again and again and again. * * * The fact has been officially published again and agaiu tiiat the Government paid $ 10,000,000,000, and that it paid this $40,000,000 direct to the French Government, getting the receipts of the liquidator appointed by the French Government to receive the same. The Unite 1 States Government has not the slightest knowledge as to tlie particular individuals among whom tho French Government distributed the sum. This was the business of the French Government. The mere sunposition that any American received from tl*1 French Government a "rake off" is too absurd to be discussed. It is an abominable falsehood, and it is a slander, not against the American Government, but against the French Government. * * * * The President's brother-in-law was Involved in no scandal, mr, Delavan Smith and the oilier people who repeated this falsehood lied 'about the President's brother-in-law; lint why the fact that Mr. Smith lied should he held to involve Mr. Robinson in a "scandal" is difficult to understand. The scandal a ITeels no one but Mr. Smith; and his conduct has been not merely scandalous, but infamous. Mr. ltoblnson had not the slightest connection of any kind, sort or description at any time or under any circumstances with the Panama matter. N other did C ha ides Taft. * * So far as I know there was no syndicate; there certainly was no syndicate in the United States that to my knowledge had any dealings with the Government direct y or indirectly; and, inasmuch as there was no syndicate, Mr. Taft natural!" could not bolang to it. The News demands that Mr. Taft 'appeal to the evidence bv which it means what it calls '"the records." * * * All of these documents that possessed any importance as illustrating any feat ir e of the transaction* have already boon made public There remains a great mass of docu nisntw of lit*!o or no importance which the Administration is entirely willing to have published, hut which because of their mass and pointb'ssness. nobody has ovnr care.) to publish. Any reputable man can have full access to these documents. * Mr. Dolavan Smith is a conspicu ous offender against the laws ol honesty and trut ifuln"?s, b-it In does not stand alone Tie occupies iur uiMiiiM'.c, ; no Hiriie evil eminence with such men aa Mr. Laffan, of th< New Vork Sun, editmiaM of whose paper you or others have from time to time called to my attention, jusl as you have called to my attention these editorials of the Indianapolis News. Of the editorials thus sent me there is hardly one which does not contain some wilful perversion of the truth. (Mr. Roosevelt quotes for an example his re-ent statement in reply to a New York Sun storv, entitled "Roosevelt and Prarie Oil," and t.ion continue?:) - The feet is that these particular newspapers habltua'ly and continually and as a matter of business pra/ctlce every form of mendacity known to man from the suppression of the truth and the suggestion of the false to tho lie direct. Tho^e who write or procure others to wruo \ th.'s* articles n~e ngaged In th practice of mendacity for hire, and surely tbere can be no lower form of gaining a livelihood. Whether tho/ are paid by outsiders to say what la false, or whether profit comes from the circulation of the falsehoods, i a matter of small consequence. It is utterly impossible to attempt to answer all of their falsehoods. When any given falsehood is exposed they simply repeat it and circulate [another. If they were mistaken in the facts, if they possessed in their make-up any shred of honesty, it 'would be worth wnilo to set thent right. But there is no question at all as to any "mistake" or "misunderstanding" on their part. They state what they either know to o untrue or could by the slightest inquiry find out to be untrue. * * # Ordinarily I do not and cannot pay heed to those falsehoods. If 1 did I would not lie able to do my work. My plan has boon to go ahead and do the work and to let these people and those like them yell; and then to trust with abaiding confidence to the good scute of the American people in the assured conviction that the veils will die out. the falsehoods h? forgotten and the work remain. * * * There is no higher and more honorable calling than that of the men connected with an upright, fearless and truthful newspaper, no calling in which a man can render greater service to his folio countryman, i'h" host and ablest editors and writers in the daily press render a service to the community which can hardly be paralleled by the service rep.'orori by the best and ablest of the men in th-> public life or of this proposition is also true. The most corrupt financiers, the most corrupt politicians, are no greater menace to this country than the newspaper men of the type I have above discussed. Win titer they belong to the yellow press c to the purchased press, whatever may he the stimulating cause of their slanderous mendacity, and whatever the cloak It may wear, matters hut little. In any event they represent one of the potent forces for evil in the community. Yours verv truly, Theodore Roosevelt. Wni. Dudley Foulke, Richmond, Ind RISTll.LKRY CAPTUHK1) On This Side South Kdisto River Near Wagoner. A dispatch from Aiken to t lie Augusta Chronicle says Constable Musco Samuels returned to that citv on Friday afternoon from the Wagoner section carrying with him a sixty-gallon metal liquor still, which u>e eapiureu on Wednesday, six miles from Wagoner, on the other side of the Edisto. The still, together with two barrel* of mash, was found in the yard of Allan Jones, a white man. The still was covered up with sacks. A search of the house revealed a gallon of tussac liquor, a worm and cap for the still. No one was at home when the raid was made. Tim still was a small one, about fifteen gallons, and the indications are that u was used on the fireplace. This makes about the sixth or seventh still captured by Mr. Samuels in that vicinity recently. lb! is one of the most vigilant officers in t ho State, and he is being warmly congratulated by the people of the county for bis good work. He wis assisted in this capture bv Mr. J Ray Gantt, the dispenser at Wagoner. IMEHCKD I11S DRAIN. Voting Lad Meets With a Very 1V> euliar Death. Mobile, Ala., Dec. 10.?Clarence ' M. Benson, aged 13, son of Robori Benson, an electrical engineer. wm> ' killed here today in a peculiar manner while playing with a number oi companions in the Barton academj yard. Several of the boys were throwing a stick in the air. that had a shari a paper file stuck in the end, ant in some manner the point struct young Benson on the head, and pen etrated his brain, causing death. ' The school authorities are unabl' ' to locate the hoy who threw the sti :! 1 into the air. " BALKEl) AT OBDEAL. f Captain Minus Hefiiseil to Tnlr? #i.. Test Hide. ? Washington, Doc. 10.?Orders a * the war department direct that mor J officers shall appear before retirlnj t boards, because of their failure t.< i take the prescribed horsemanshli ) test while on their examination fo L promotion. These are officers belov ; the grade of major who, by the or i der issued last May, are required t? take the horsemanship test, as a par of their examination for promotion - To take lip the cases of three o! four such officers, a new retiremen l board has been appointed. The firs case to como before the board wll be that of Capt. J. C. Minus, Six teenth Infantry, military instructoi at the Clemson agricultural college Clemson, S. C. * No matter how innocent a girl is she can get to be more so by becoming married and then a widow, m GRAND LODGE CLOSE TIIN MASONS ELECT OFFH'KltS AND ADJOUHN, After h Very rieamuit ?iul Hurmonioiis ScsHion of Several l>nys in CliarleNton. Tho Grand Lodge of MnsoiiH of South Carolina, which met in Charleston on Tuesday, closed its one hundred and thirty-second annual communication at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon, after a very harmonious session in which much Important routine business was transude 1 and some very Interesting points of concern to the craft discussed. At noon Thursday the annual election of officers was held, the following being chosen, practically no chang s being made from the roster of last year. Grand Master, J. L. Mlchie, Dar lington. Deputy Grand Master, James It. Johnson, Charleston. Senior Grand Warden, George S. Mower, Newberry. | I r-* ? iiiiiwi vii iiii'i >\ (init'iu ut'orgc l Rryant, Greenvilli*. Grand Treasurer, Zimmerman Davis, Charleston. Grand Secretary, .J. T. Harron. Columbia. Grand Chaplain, W. P. Smith, Spartanburg. Senior Grand Deacons, .1. P. Duckett, Anderson, and .J. F. Kinney, Hen nettsvllle. Junior Grand Deacons, W. J. Rogers, Darlington, and J. W. Roberta, Greenville. Grand Steward, A. I,. Harton. Charleston, and O. F. Hart, Columbia. Grand Marshall, John Kennerlu Cokesbury. Grand Pursuivant, Van Smith, Newberry. Grand Tyler, W. A. Winkler, Charleston. The Grand Master appointed the following district deputy grand masters: William G, Mazyck, Charleston, First District. S. 11. Rogers, Beaufort, Second District. Ryan A. Gyles, Rlaekville, Third District. Wm. A. Giles, Granittvllle, Fourth District. H. E. Nicholson, Edgefield, Fifth District. R. A. Cooper, Laurens, Sixth District. J. C. Watkins, Anderson Seventh ' District. O. It. Doyle, Eighth District. A. S. Rowel 1, Piedmont, Ninth District. R. R. Bishop, Inman, Tenth District. George Y. Hunter, Prosperity. Eleventh District. E. C. Secrest, Lancaster, Twelfth District. Joseph Lnndsay, Chester, Thi't.eenth District. G. L. Bicker, Sumter, Fourteenth District. It. K. Wallace, Kingstree, Fif' teenth District. ! W. E. Jones, Darlington, Sixteent < ' District. John C. Sellers*, Sellers, Soven > teenth District. William L. Glaze, Orangeburg, Eighteenth District. The Grand Lodge being called from the third to the first degree, the newly elected and appointed officers were Installed in full and ancient form and received the prescribed salutes of their brethren, after which the Grand Lodge returned to thr> tllir/1 flno'r.in ? W V..V vttt > \ A 1U1 1111(11 5 work of the session, t At the session Wednesday night J a beautiful memorial tribute to the late Past Grand Master, John K. f Bellinger, whose death had occurred r since the meeting of the Grand Lodge last year, was read by Past Grand ; Master .R. F. Divver, from the coni nlittee appointed by the Grand I Master to prepare an address. : The report on the Masonic Or phan Home fund was made by Deputy Grand Master James R. Johnson. showing an addition of nearly eleven ; thousand dollars to the fund dur lng tke past year. The total now in hand for the establishment of fUirt 1- ? A ^ ~ - I iuin iiinuimum is nearly $Z4,Ut)o I which has been colloctod within the past three years. No recommendation was made as to the beginning! of the home, but it is generally understood that nothing will be done - until the fund has grown to $50,3 000, which, at its present rate of ? progress should be in the next 3 two years. 0 At the Thursday morning session r reports of committees were submit" ted and disposed of. Some uniis ually Interesting and Illuminating 3 discussions of Masonic jurisprudence t were made, and some points of in terest to the craft in the work of r the lodge were determined. t Tt was decided to impose a penalty 1 of 10 per cent on all subordinate lodges that hereafter fail to make - returns and remittances to the Grand r Secretary by November 15. It was resolved to hold the next meeting of the Grand Lodgo in Charleston on the second Tuesday \? . Decembor, 1909. The Grand Lodge was then closed in ample form jn . tho third degree in Masonry. A FATAL FIGHT Religious Fanatics Precipitate a Row in Kansas City. I ONE HUNOREO SHOTS Fired in IUot lu Which Party of Fanatics, Ix?t by "Adam God," and Several Policemen Kugngc, suiting; in Thrco I>eat)is and Probably Four Fatal Injuries Kansas City, Mo., Doc. 8.?In the shadow of the City Hull a riot in which religious fanatics and policemen were participants, and during which a hundred shots were fired this afternoon resulted in the dea'h of Policeman A. (). Dalbow, probable fatal injuries to four and slight injuries to two other persons. Those probably fatally injured are John Sharp, known as "Adam God," !1S I } I <' liri'.iptlnr MI/.Kn..l ??..ii vo ix.1 i unsnarl i>l lllliilll', a patrolman; Lola Pratt, 13 years old, and Patrick Clark, a police serg ant. Marry 10. Stege, a policeman, and George M. Holt, a probation officer, were also hurt. The trouble occurred while the streets were crowded. While the light was in progress the participants traversed an entire block. Probation Otflcer Holt, of the Juvenile Court, today went to Fifth and Main streets, to Investigate a case of alleged abduction. Near that corner In; met John Sharp, known as "Adam Cod." who was exhorting a crowd. With Sharp were A. J. St lzer, and a woman and five children, ranging in age from 3 to 14 years. Holt did not like the manner in which the woman attempted to get money contributions from the crowd, and he decided that she and her male companions were not proper persons to have custody of young children. The woman announced that she and "Adam God" would conduct services at Poor Man's Mission tonight, whereupon sho and her companions started toward the mission. Ofllcer Holt then inquired as to the identity of the chAdren. The woman immediately assumed an attitude of resentment and replied that the officer "had beter attend to his own business." "Adam God," who wears a long, white beard and hair, threatened the ofllcer. Officer Holt was not armed, but stood his ground until "Adam Cod" struck him a heavv blow i?> hind the car with a pistol, making an ugly wound. Holt then started for the police station for assistance. As Holt moved away the preacher tried to shoot him, but the cartridges failed to explode. Officer Holt rushed into the police station and announced that a band of religious fanatics, armed to the teeth, were at the threshold of the station, and he . warned the officers to prepare for trouble. The sergenn? in charge ordered Patrolmen Charles Dal how and Harry E. Stege to arrest Sharp and his followers. Sharp and his companions were within fifty vards of the police station when the officers stepped into the street The Sharpites gave evidence of fren zy and, with profane abuse. they served notice on all that they would preach right "under the eaves of the police station and the police cannot prevent us." The ofllcers did not, however, expect serious trouble and were not prepared for the volley of bullets which met them after they appeared on the scene. Dalbow was killed instantly and a bullet passe-! through Stege's arm. Other officers hearing the firing, rushed into the street and a general fight, ensued The officers refrained from shooting, for fear of endangering the lives of innocent people. Lieutenant Clark, who had com > into the street unarmed, was shoe in tho eye, and Patrolman Mullane was shot in the hack as he hurried into the police station for reinforcements. In the meantime a riot call brought policemen from all directions. Thoroughly aroused, the officers closed in on Sharp and his followers, firing as they went. When the firing ceased "Adam God" lay fatally shot through tho head and body. It was later learned that Sharp'-* male companions was Louis Pratt, father of the five children. Pratt was arrested uninjured. The woman and the children fled to a houseboat, In which they lived on tho Missouri river. Fifty policemen followed them, and found the woman had barricaded herself in the houseboat. Standing on the boat with a shotgun, she shouted to the officers: "Come on, you fiends." The boat was only a few feot from the bant of the river and several officers dashed toward It. The woman dropped her weapon, and seizing two or tho children sprang into a boat and began to row into the middle of tho river. Tho officers called to her to stop, but she only plied tho oars more vigorously. The policemen fired a volley at the boat. One shot struck Lola Pratt, tearing away the greator part of the child's faoe. Sho diod later. The woman then surrendered At the police station bIio said that she was Mrs. Pratt, wife of the companion of "Adam God," aud mother of tho wounded child. A FATAL PLUNC1K. Firenuui Who Fell From Window Di?*s From Injury. Macon, Ga., Dec. 10.?Thomas Fulford, the 21-year-old Central of Georgia flremau, who fell from the second story of hlB boarding house on Third street yesterday ufternoou, died at the city hospital today. Fulford came In from his run feeling badly, wont at once to l*"s room, feeling feverish. lie went to open hlH window and fainted while In tho act. While In this condition be fell forward to the ground 3 6 feet below. His Bkull wsh fractured. Ho was unmarried. His home was In A in eric, us. * I't'LLKD FKOM IH.KMNG HOl'SK. Mother I'iiskcs Children Through Window to Safety. Now York, Doc. 10.?Ten persons were dragged to safety from a burning tenement in Williamsburg lust niirht yfI'u ir iin..i.... U. mui 1 I-VIHV/I1H-, Ul IUI being awakened, called for help and when two policemen responde ', handed her two small children through a window to safety. Herman Zeigler and hia father, ngod 85, and the old man's wife, aged 80, were overcome by smoke, but were rescued, as were the fatnll" of Mltchel McDermott, who were carried to safety after having been found unconscious. CJKTS THIRTY YEARS. A Prominent Man Must Pny Penalty for Crime. Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 10.?According to a ruling just made by the supreme court finding no error iu the trial below, Rute Hanner, former member of the State legislature, postmaster of his town, international revenue ofllcer of Wantauga counTv must servo a sentence of thirty years in the penitentiary for the murder of Ambrose Cline. A plea of insanity was set tip, but the supreme court declares there was no evidence of insanity produced, and Hanner was lucky in escaping the gallows. DROWNED IN POTOMAC. Young Men Cio to Ikuith In Trying to Shoot the Rapids. Washington Hnn " T * nwu, WVJX,. u. JUHVpn H. I Panter, aged 30, a boaanist In the I National museum, and his compan I ion, Robert Wallace, aged 1 f?, were I drowned today while trying to shoot I the rapids at Stubblefteld falls, in I the Potomac river, about 10 miles I north of the city. The bodies have I not been recovered. The young men were on a fishing I trip in a small canoe, which overI turned in midstream with them, due I to striking a rock. Both were resiI dents of this city. | She Knows llow. St. Louis, Pec. 11.?James Sharp, I the leader of the onslought against I the police has not yet been capturI ed. Mrs. Pratt who, with her four I children, is being held at police headI quarters, now states she know* I Sharp was a false prophet and wishes I she had remained in "the good old I Baptist church." Mrs. Pratt's husI band was killed in the row. Southern States CVf IVIachln^r^ | ?Vf ? -t yv- ^y|L ^ P^IurTTt>t nQ pun "IX/J OOl_U M { If Gibbes "Poi GIBBES 40^ Tli A money-maker Indeed It S *lf- Wrlte~ .. /fiv filbbes! Good! I? " "" sks Box 1390, IF IT'S GIBBE The American All-Wrought Tltp Hplit Steel Pulleys. * IlW STANDARD DESIGN ^ PRAISES THE SOUTH distinguished englishman a Sl'EAKS OF THIS SECTION. * Says South Hum Made Groat Advancement uud lliw a Glorious Future. Washington, Doc. 8.?Expressing the conviction that a groat future Is about to dawn upou tho South, J as. Bryce, tho British ambassador, toduy received a notable reception from tho delegates in attendance upon the Southern Commercial Con- A green, following a speech lu which he declared he is a well-wisher of the South. Tho ambassador was tho centre o4 attraction, although his visit was ii ii hy nt?rt fwl VT r tlrvm? nunio 1 n t <1 ? - - ' ? ~ """ tho hall h1 in pi y as k spectator, but th<? audience noon noted his presence, and Immediately shouts of "speech | speech," tilled tho air. und he wa> compelled to yield to the desire o' the Congress. "Since I came here elghtce I months ago." said Mr. Bryce, "I hav twice visited the South. 1 can harp, ly express to you the contrast twom what 1 personally wituosse^^^' 27 years ago and tho present conditions. Wherever I have been tn the South 1 have been struck by ! si mis of activity, progress and development.. I see the land being brought more and more into culti' ration; more and more hoing done | for the agricultural methods. I saw | the resources of your soil, of coal and Iron, being brought to light and 1 saw a new Hpirit In the South which desires to make educational progress commensurate with material development." The ambassador pointed out the enormous difficulties with which the South has h adto contend sIhco the civil war. "Now. however," ho continued, "there is a gread door open before you, and as one of the wellwishers of the South, who believes I In its greatness as a flourishing and Important part of the country, venture to congratulate you on what 1* ! being done and to say that still greater prospects are beforo you." Took Porter at His Word. Baton Rouge, La., Dec. 12.? ' Four men from the country who had never before ridden on a train, leaped from a train traveling thirty miles an hour near hero today. Askec. J. why they jumped, they said because the porter called out "All off for Baton Rouge." They were not seriously Injured. * C LASSIFIED COLUMN Wanted to ltuy?Five hundred to one thousand bushels mixed el a" peas; must bo free from Whlpl>oorwi!ls and speckled peas; will sit?i iukiu'hi market prion. I. M. Poarlstine & Sons, 201-203 East Hay street, Charleston, S. C. Wanted?Men and women who earn less than $25 per week to become chiropodists; easy, profitable work. Booklet free. Rochester School of Chiropody, Rochester, N. Y. Vegetable Plants?Cabbage, Lettuce, Bermuda Onion, Tomato, Peppe" Egg Plant and Sweet Potato; the finest, in the South. Catalogue free. T. K. Godbey, Waldo, Fli. Farms For Sale?Largo list of farms for sale In different sections of ' the country; also owner's i.'^sae. Free for the asking. T. M. 1 Lock Box 82, Calhoun, Ga. * Supply Covi'xny {Supplies suonhow eaeafw?k * . 3 I A. B C. tahlp" Shlna'? T 7^ ta?ie ??,. Next tLateet Model. A ' TRlUMPH"eom- ttt 1 a pared with old \A/?}?*|/"1 onu. Herd Weod V Y CCiV Carriage. Solid Steel Track. Smootheflt Action. jtt i 1 Accurate Hawing. \/\/ Q T" O rt ? * * ' arncob equip- ' ' ^ VVV^Al ment. L Quickly pays for II- TlllS Machinery Co., 1 lbbes Guaranteed Ma- vnO /1A ry,M?all kinds OpClvt ? COLUMBIA, 8. 0. I'lT'SGOOD! Pulley That All Wltit. /E CARRY A LARGE STOCK. *ry a large stoek of Wood Pulleys. Hangers, Belting and anything else jht wish in this line. When you are mrket, write us 1LUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY. Columbia, S. C. A