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V Hakes Hone Baking Easy g| ' ^ S q Absoluteiy P ure Tho only baking powder nuarffo from Royal Grapo Cream of Tartar KMTO.KI liME PHOSPHATE * THFY WFRP PAin ' V I ailU A I1 Ultii 1 111 mJ Sflra? of the Evidence Before the Legislature and the Courts -? . IN IKE I0RMF.R CASE + . Wo Publish IJclow Extracts of tho Testimony Itrou&ht Out in This Notorious Case So as Our Keadcis Can Judge for Themselves as to llie Facts. From January until the 26th of May, 1909, the Legislature of Illinois was engaged in fruitlessly balloting for a Senator to succeed Mr. Hopkins, who was then a member of the Senate. Mr. Hopkins had received a large vote by way of instruction in the primaries, and Mr. Stringer was the primary selection of the Democratic party, and the votes ran for many weeks, for months, with the greater part of the Republicans voting for Mr. Hopkins. On the 2 6th of 'May there was a 'sudden change, and the votes of a 1 .. ~ C * U DntuiMlnnnn Wiy inigt; ^ai i ui inu ivc[iuun?/ana and of the Democrats were turned to Mr. Lorimer, who up to that time had not been an avowed candidate, only an occasional scattering vote having been cast for him. On that day there were 202 members of the Legislature of Illinois present in the joint session of the two houses, making 102 votes necessary to an election. On the roll call of the Senate, there were ten votes for Mr. Lorimer, and on tho roll call of the IIouso there were 9 1 votes for Mr. Lorimer, making a total of 101 votes. Thereupon seven Republican Senators who had voted for Mr. 11 >pkins on the roll call changed their votes from Mr. Hopkins to Mr. Lorimer, making 108 votes for Mr. Loiinier, and he was declared to be elected. Those 108 votes were 58 of them cast, by Democrats and 55 by Republicans. Now there are certain undisputed facts which bear upon this inquiry as to those 53 Democratic votes. Thi? first, is that Mr. Lorimer was present at Springfield and in attendance at ^ the State Capitol at the time of this \ election, and ho had been there for several weeks. It appears that one of the Democrats who had been asked to vote for Mr. Lorimer raised some objection and was requested to po into the Speaker's room on the day of the election and see \lr. Lorimer. lie had asked for certain promises regarding patronage, regarding the appointment of Federal officers in his own town. lie was requested to go and ho did go into the Speaker's room, and there found Mr. Lorimer; 4 and he had with Mr. Lorimer a conversation relating to the appoint1 mont of Federal officers in his town, and it appeared to be p-^isfactory when he came out from the interview. The agent selected by Mr. Lorimer, the chief agent to secure Democratic votes for him, was Mr. Lee O'Neil Browne. Mr. Browne was the leader of one faction of the Democrats in the Assembly. There were two factions, each with a leader. Mr. b Browne had between thirty and forT v ty, and another, Mr. Tippet, had between twenty and thirty Democratic members of the Legislature, and Mr. Browne was Called into consultation, conference, co-operation with Mr. Lorimer and became plainly Mr. Lorimer's accredited and authorized * on/>i,,.ln(r vntfla from hn iiki-m in ngVillI 111^) ? v/i-V/m a i vti? vaav Democratic Aide of the Assembly. This rests upon the testimony of Mr. Browne himself, and is not subject to any dispute. Mr. Browne, tho leader of this crowd voted for Mr. Lorimer, and the er, 'Manny Abrahams. He procured them to vote as the agent of Larimer, secured by him to act for him, closeted with him by day and by night, reporting to him step by step, having the relation to him of a member of a campaign committee. On the floor of the Assembly, on the day of the election before the vote was cast, Mr. English, a member of the House, in effect charged corruption. Mr. Browne, for the apparent purpose of strengthening his followers, ? had made a speech in which he had undertaken to explain what was about to be done, and he had used the expression, "We cannot cash dreams," when that stout Democrat of the House retorted, "But you ca.i cash votes," and it was under the aspersion of that remark in the open House that the votes werd cast. Mr. Holtslaw, who was a Senator, testified that Senator Broderick, a Democratic Senator, as was Holtslaw, assured him that there was $2,5 00 in it for him if he voted for Lorimer, and he did. Holtslaw has also testified to the payment of the $2,500. Three other witnesses have testified not merely to approaches but to the actual payment of money?Mr. White who was the originator of the charges, 'Mr. Link, another DemoL/vm ^ f 4 A uooni hi v iVT r* 1:1(11.11', illULII UUl U1 luu iinDViiiuij) iwi , Beckemeyer, another, all members of the faithful thirty. It happens that there were two events?two meetings of followers of Browne?subsequent to the election of Lorimer In which the testimony fixes the payment of money under such circumstances that, if the testimony be believed, there was plain bribery. The first meeting was on the 2 1st of June following the election. Tlio seoond meeting was on the 15th of July. Both meetings were held in St. Louis. At the first the testimony of Beckemeyer and White jmd Link shows a distribution of $1,000 each to the followers of j Browne in Southern Illinois, and at the second meeting, the 15th of July, the testimony of the same men shows a distribution of $000 each to the followers of Browne in Southern I llinois. A year after the second meeUng was held, and when inquiry came to i>e mane reKiiruniH pujuieu!, >1 money to those members of the legislature at that meeting, a false ami fictitious and manufactured explanation of the purpose of the meeting was made up. Two of the men.hers who were there testified to Wilson, who went there as Browne's agent and, they say, distributed the money, sending them letters in 1910. on the eve of the inquiry, dated back prior to the 15th of July, 1909, and suggesting as a reason for the meeting a proposal to give a banquet to Mr. Browne. Unfortunately nearly all the witnesses to the meeting forgot that there was any proposal to give a banquet to Mr. Browne. All the members of the Browne following met at their customary meeting place in St. Louis, brought from their several homes in different and distant towns in the southern part of the State of Illinois, called t.heie by telegrams for some purpose or other, and there appears in tho testimony regarding that meeting no evi lence whatever as to any conclusion reached, any question raised or any action taken regarding the giving of a banquet to Mr. Browne. There is another fact whi*?b corroborates most powerfully the testimony showing that there was money mid, a fund distributed at the Juiy 15 meeting; and that is that two of the men who were there when called before the Grand Jury of Cook County in an inquiry as to legislative corruption testified under oath that they were not present al the meeting?perjured themselves to conceal the fact that they were there at all. They were indicted for that perjury. Why, if the meeting was an innocent one, if it was a meeting to talk about a banquet, if the testimony of these three men that there was a fund distributed there is faim, and it was an innocent meeting, why should men be willing to commit perjury in order to conceal the fact that they were there? The corruption in the Legislature of Illinois which brought on the distribution of July 15 was practically admitted upon this hearing. When the first testimony about that meeting was produced tiie counsel for Mr. Lorimer objected to it because, he stated, it was testimony about what they called the "jack-pot." The corruption in that Legislature had continued so long, men's minds had become so accustomed to believing in It, men had become so callous to the Iniquity of it, that they joked about it and nicknamed it as if it were a matter for jocular treatment. Several of the witnesses testified that they called it a "jack-pot." White and Lick and Beckemeyer all have sworn that on the 21st day of June Mr. Browne paid to them $1,0 0 0 each, and two of them testify to that payment being pursuant to nromises made by Browne to them before the election of Lorimer. Upon \vhnt ground are we to reject the testimony of these three witnesses and accept the testimony of Lee O'Neil Browne, which we already ltnow to be false, because he denies, denies under oath, as we know, falsely, the disposition of the jackpot? It appears that upon uncontradicted and indisputable testimony in this case, that the collector, the distributer, the leader in this corruption of the Legislature of Illinois was Lee O'Neil Browne. There is one other circumstance which is a little aside from the main current of this sewer which we have been considering, and that is the bribery of Holtslaw. Mr. Holtslaw was, prior to the meeting of the Assembly of Illinois of 1909, in which he was a Senator, a reputable man, DOING ITS SHARE TO HELP THE FARMERS TO NEW AND BETTER METHODS. Southern Railway to Run Special Trains in the Interest of Agricultural Education. During the week ending Monday, March 6, the Southern railway company, in line with its policy of doing everything possible for the betterment of agricultural conditions in the territory traversed by its lines, will run two special agricultural educational trains. One of these trains will be operated in co-operation with the Virginia department of agriculture and ' * Ml 1 It immigration ana win Hyena me entire week on the Richmond division, embracing the lines between Richmond and Danville and Richmond and West Point. Meetings have been arranged at twelve points. The other train will be run over the lines of the Southern railway and the Queen and Crescent route in Kentucky in co-operation with the department of agriculture and the college of agriculture of that state. Twenty-four stops will be made by this train. Each of these trains will be in charge of parties made up of men of scientific knowledge and practical -! ...1 ...111 1 . ? ,.bU * ~ rvJ ??A experience who win "t* rime tu ^ivc information of tlio greatest value. Subjects will be arranged lo meet the most pressing needs of the different sections visited. Had weather will not be allowed to interfere with the meetings as all will be held in passenger coaches. The Southern Railway in connection with other lines is furnishing absolutely free of charge a train with which the State College of Agriculture of Georgia is malting a fortyseven day tour of that state. South Carolina will be treated in the same way, if the authorities will show the need of the train. The great expense entailed by the running of these trains is borne by the Southern in the belief that its interests are identified with those of the farmers of the south and that it will eventually he repaid by the improvement in conditions that will result from an Increasing adoption of better methods of agriculture. HORRY COUNTY COURT. There was no Circuit Judge Available to Hold It. Governor Hiease is quoieu in ine daily papers as saying that he declined to commission C. P. Quattlebaum as special judge to hold court at Conway, as recommend by the Supreme Court, because Judges Copes and Memminger were disengaged. The Lancaster correspondent of The News and Courier says the Supreme Court knew that neither Judge Copes nor Judge 'Memminger could be assigned to hold the Conway Court; it knew that upon his qualification Judge Copes would preside at the Richland court, in Columbia, this week. It also knew that Judge Memminger was sick at his home in Charleston, the judge having informed the court, upon its inquiry, that in the opinion of his physicians he was not physically able to go to Conway. Died on a Train. Lovelace F. Price of Columbia died suddenly Wednesday afternoon while a nassenger 011 the "Carolina Spec ial" coming from Spartanburg to Columbia. Mr. Price's death resulted from an attack of heart failure. He had only recently boon suffering severely from this trouble and the attack was renewed Wednesday afternoon. of cood standing in the community in which he lived. He testifies that about the 1 fith of June, or just before the 16th of June, he was sent for by Mr. Broderick to come to his place of business in Chicago. He testifies that was either by letter or telegram, and that he went there; that Mr. Broderiok handed him $2,500 in a package and he took it and went away, Hroderick at the same time telling him there would he more for him later. He went away, and he went to the State Bank of Chicago and deposited this $2,5 00 in the name of his bank, the Holstlaw Bank, of Iuka. The cashier of the Stato Bank of Chicago was called, and he testified that Holstlaw did on that 16th dny of June deposit this $2,500 in hills to the credit of the Holstlaw B$nk, All of the above testimony was repeated by Senator Root on the floor of the Senate when he was making U speech against the seating of Lt>rimer, and not one fact in it was questioned by any other 6hnator. In concluding his epoecli Senator Root asked what is the effect of these facts plainly established, the fact that four of the votes cast were cast under the influence of money paid, and the fact that the money was paid by three others of those who cast the votes? Wo are not engaged In a technical procesding, sir. We are engaged in a proceeding where we are bound, if there is sufficient evidence, to proceed in accordance with what we really know to be the truth. EXTRA SESSION Probable Failure of Reciprocity Bill Means Extra Term. ALL DOUBT REMOVED It is Also Settled That Extra Period Will He Called to Begin Its Work Before April 4?Demoeruts Wanted a Month to Prepare, and at One Time President Seemed Willing. A Washington dispatch says the last vestige of doubt that there will oe nil exirHuniiii'i 17 st'OBiwn ui vvyugross called by President Taft to consider the Canadian reciprocity agree merit in the new practically certain event of the failure of that nieaeur0 in the present congress, disappeared Thursday when it became known that Republican leaders had been called to the white house for a consultation "The die is cast/' said one of the Republican senators after returning to the capital. "Mr. Taft has decided that there must be an extra session and that he will call it earlier than April 4." Democratic leaders wanted a month in which to get ready for a special session and President Taft was inclined to accede to their mti.lino It 'iQ/m >un 1; 'in ivn 'I'lilllNfl.) V V? ID11CO. 1 I M&villliv It 11V/ ?? 11 ? it .. ? K/V.%?v, , however, that the Republicans favored an earlier gathering if there was no way to avoid coming back. Mr. Taft would be guided, it was said, by the wishes of the Republicans. It was announced that a conference would be held on the subject probably on next Monday, to decide upon a date. 'March 2 0 was the date talked about Thursday at the capitol. Democratic leaders in the house differ in their views as to the length of an extraordinary session if tne President should call one, but all the estimates are that the session would continue until between July 1 and October 1. Speaker-elect Clark believes that four or five months would be ample and that adjournment might be reached during July. Chairman Underwsod of the ways and means committee of the house, feels that an extra session could wind up its business by Sept. 1. Representative Ilenry of Texas, who will be one of the leaders in the next house, thinks the session might run on until October 1. Ail these, are of course, guesses. The selection of committees, those on accounts, mileage and rules first of all?will be the first work attempted in the event congress meets in extra session. The choice rests with the ways and means committee, which is vested with the function or a committee on committees, but a Democratic caucus must formally pass upon the committee's action. Democratic leaders say that the reciprocity measure, if not passed by the senate at the regular session, will pass the house in extra session if the President should call one. Of the special sessions called in March during the past forty ye?rc, the shortest term was one and onehalf months and the longest almost nine months. The last extraordinary session was during the present congress, when the congress met on March 15 and remained in session until August 5, constructing tlie Payne-Aldric-h tariff law. WON'T STAY DONG. ? Prisoners Went to the Penitentiaiy in Pullman Cars. W. S. Harlan and four other wellknown Florida lumber dealers, all rich, all gentlemen, who came to At-1 lanta on their own recognizance last month to report at the Federal prison to serve sentences of 18 months each for peonage, have had their sentences t*n/l ii mil hv thi? nr^sldent. from 18 to six months, and will consequently go free about duly 1st. The coming of the prisoners was quite remarkable. They traveled in Pullman cars and spent their first night in Atlanta in an elegant suite of rooms at the Piedmont and drove out to the Federal prison in automobiles in the morning. ? PIjEAD FOR MERCY. ? . Sentenced to ?>e Whipped for Rrutally Ilea tins Wife. The spectacle was witnessed In the criminal court at Baltimore, >\Id., Wednesday, of a white man who had brutally beaten his wife, pleading for mercy with tears streaming down his fpce, when he heard the sentence of five lashes at the whipping post and imprison lnent in Jail. But mere was no mer cy because the testimony showed that Frank McCauley struck his wife seven or eight times, choked her and then took from her more than $20. It was the second sentence of a wife beater to the post by Judge Duffy within a month. Kills Father-in-ijaw. News was received of the fatal shooting of William B. Kimsey by his son-in-law, Major J. York, near Rabum Gap, Ga., Tuesday night. The killing took place at York's home, while Kimeey was visiting his daughter. CHANGE OF MIND ItLEASE SIGNS SOME BILES HE . D SAII) HE'D VETO. Six Specific Instances in as Many Weeks When the Governor Has Changed His Mind. The Columbia Record says Gov- | ernor Blease is beginning to make a record for changing his mind. Recently he has taken positive positions upon a number of things, only to recede from these shortly afterward; and now persons interested do not know what weight to attach to deliverances by the executive, in cases where the way is open to him ( to reverse himself. Tl?? i 1 - - i~ 4 i-1. .. ~ ? 4 ? rariicuiuriy IS LUIS inn t'l mull.) iuu In regard to legislative acts which as ' yet remain unsigned. An announce- ' ment by the governor that he will 1 veto a given act may or may not be ' final; in several instances he has reconsidered such decisions and signed the acts involved. Governor Blease sent to the legislature a message vetoing the Os- ' borne child labor act, but in a later message receded from this position, admitted he was in error and asked that reference to the matter be impunged from the record, which was done. Governor Blease said he would 1 veto the act incorporating the Piedmont Hnrl X'nrllioni railwav rmmmnv ? the Duke interurban project; but he changed his mind and signed the act?wit bout explanation. Governor Blease said he would veto the act authorizing the employment of rural police in Charleston county; hut next day he approved the act?without explanation. He said he would sign 110 rural police acts vesting the appointive power 111 any person other than himself; but he has since signed a number of such measures. Governor Blease vetoed the item in the appropriation bill authorizing the State treasurer to spend $60 0 for "extra clerical assistance"; but he has since authorized the treasurer to make this expenditure, though his veto was sustained by the senate. Governor Blease vetoed the item in the appropriation bill authorizing rne comptroller general 10 expenu $5,000 in examining county offices, but he has since told the comptrollei general to go ahead and spend this amount, if so much should be necessary. Comptroller General Jones has, however, declined emphatically to follow this course, since the legis- 1 lature sustained the governor's veto. 1 Governor Illease vetoed the item in 1 the appropriation bill providing sal- 1 aries and expenses for two factory Inspectors, saying the inspectors were useless, but he has since said 1 that this veto did not mean that the inspection act would go unenforced, for he would himself employ in- ' spectors, paying them out of his $5,000 law-enforcement fund. It AI LIt< >A I) AC CI DENT. Ono 'Switchman Killed and One Was Wounded. The Evening Post says Robert. Tanner, of No. 1 1 Rlake street, a switch men of the Charleston Termi|na! Company, was killed Wednesday mornin.g shortly before six o'clock, and CJus P. Zander, of No. 4 6 Drake street, another switchman, was injured, when a tender of engine No. R, on which they were riding, jumped the track. The engine was backing, and the switchmen were standing on the running hoard of the tender, when the jolt came, and they were thrown off, Tanner falling in front of the tender, and being run over, receiving injuries that caused his death later, while Zander was bruised and bones in a leg broken. ? + Fell From Train. Pitching headlong from the rear platform of the last car on the Pennsylvania easthound train, as it rushed past a suburban station, W. A. Hardman, aged 30, a flagman of Newark, N. J., was instantly killed. The accident was witnessed by a large number of persons waiting at the station for trains and caused great excitement. Engineer's Head Crushed. When a trestle gave away Thursday on the Shenandoah Iron & Coal ! company's narrow gauge railroad near "Liberty Furnace, Shenandoah county Va., Engineer James nines' skull was crushed. He died instantly. Fireman Thomas Fultz suffered a broken leg. His head was cut, but he probably will recover. ?? Found Dead in Field. Mr. Jesse A. Lott, a farmer living about two miles from Johnston, was found dead Sunday morning in the field near his home. Late Saturday afternoon Mr. Lott walked over to Mk mill and on his return home it is supposed be Mas seized with illness and died. Frozen to l>enth. A news dispatch from Odessa says a tragedy of the sea was revealed in the discovery in the Caspian sea a few miles off Astrakhan of a derelict vessel, the whole crew of which, numbering 30, had been frozen to death. The ship was a mass of ice. ? MET JUST FATE legro Who Killed Polictnan Gunnels Lynched by Georgia Mob. SHOT CONDUCTOR ALSO Ho Was u Mulatto, and His Body W as Found and Identified in an Atlanta Morgue, Where It Had Been Sold for Ten Dollars Big Howard llad Been Offered. A special dispatch from Atlanta :o the Greenville News says: Arthur ?\ /y 1 ?, t\ #?H <\/l iifS 4 1? o n a i K ne n /%rv r*/\ i uuu^t ijrin uuu w nil aiiuui',1 iii;fti v inurderer at Warrenton, Oa., last Friday afternoon, being taken from he jail by an infuriated mob, boardad a Georgia train at Camak last Wednesday and when questioned by Conductor W. W. Thompson and a railroad detective pulled his pistol from his pocket and fired, killing the conductor. The negro was himself wounded by passengers and captured. He has a long list of crimes in both States. lie was traced by Greenville authorities to Augusta, who just missed him before the lynching. His body was sold to the Atltnta Oullego of Physicians and Surgeons by the sheriff of Warrenton. lie was reeog nized from scars and wounds by Oillcor Uoctor, who will carry the hotly to Greenville for purposes of identification and reward. The nesro had many aliases and was known lo have been one of the most desperate characters. He probably feared arrest for the Greenville killing when ho shot Conductor Thompson, as no provocation was given. In commenting on the above dispatch the Greenville News says: "That the man who engaged in the desperate pistol due with Policeman B. V. Johnson, in the passenger station of the Columbia and Greenville division of the Southern Railway, between 2:30 and 3 o'clock on the morning of Friday, February I7lh, shooting two pistol balls into the tK>dy of Policeman Oliver S. Gunnels, wounds from which the ollicer died several hours later, and pierc ing the right leg of Ollicer Johnson with a third pistol ball, was a mulatto negro by the name of Arthur Young and that that negro was ono of the two negroes lynched by a mob of citizens of Warren county, Ga., after midnight of last Friday, is the verdict of a Pinkerton detecttvo and officers of the Greenville police department, who have been working on the mysterious murder case since the day the crime was committed.^ "The last link in a chain of evidence which has been winding about the murderer of the policeman was forged at midnight Friday night when Call Officer of the Greenville police department Hendrix Hector telephoned from Atlanta to Chief of Police It". II. Kennedy that he had found the body of the man upon whom the crime there had been fixed in tho possession of a medical college in. that city, the body having been brought to Atlanta from the scene of the lynching in Warren county and purchased for $10 by the medical school authorities. Officer Rector stated that he bad secured possession of the negro's body and would bring it to Greenville this afternoon on Southern train No. 38. Vpon tho orrivil rvf < lin nllinur witti tV>n corpse the Greenville police author!ties and the Pinkerton detective will take charge of the remains. The body will be preserved in a local morgue and witnesses will be called from several towns about Greenville to identify the body as that of Arthur Young.." : ? THAIX llOIUlEKY IX ST. LOUIS. - ?? Two Hand its Take Money from Express Safe and Escape. Two masked and heavily armed robbers held up an express car on an Iron Mountain train within tho city limits of St. Louis Tuesday night and seciyed several packages and the money which they removed from the day safe after binding and gagging tlie messenger. That the train robbers obtained a large amount of money is believed, through 110 approximation of the sum has been obtained. The bandits boarded tho train at Ivery Station, in the southern part of the city, and leaped off when the train slowed down at Tower Grove Station. All available patrolmen and detectives were hurried to Tower Grove, in hopes of capturing the robbers. Denmark Robber Captured. A /tb f Oaronnri h Pa.. VI I^}MIIA'!I I I VMIl klUTUIiiii?k>) v.-,. , says evidence has l>ecn produced which Is expected to fasten the crime of robbing the I farmers' Mercantile company at Denmark, S. C., ujx>n two white men who have been under arrest in that city several days. They are William Rankin and William Davis. Some of the goods stolen from the Denmark store has been found In Savannah. The men may be wanted by the postal authorities and in Florida, according to the local police. A third man is being sought. A note hook found shows the men visited Charleston and Columbia recently and have been as far south as Tampa.