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IP FAVORS! CLARK k fmwiiiii Fialtj Bdims Ik Sfuk? Oar StrwfNt Mm. ? THINKS HE WD1 WIN ? 's^ Pmw His Opinion on the Great Pop* ulartty of Clark Amosg House Associates and Remarkable Ability He Has Displayed, Considered In I Connection With Present Status. In an Interview with the Washingpi^ ton correspondent ot The News and Courier Representative D. B. Finley, of the Fifth South Carolina District declares that in congressional circles the. belief is growing that of the men thus far mentioned Speaker Clark would be the strongest candidate the Democrats could name. Mr. Finley atated that the party had in the past won its victories on the tariff question. He is also strongly of the Opinion that Speaker Clark is the strongest available candidate, and J* should be nominated. "The Democratic party is in better shape to-day than it has been at any time within the last eighteen years/' * said Mr. Finley. "In 1892 the party was united on.the tariff question and swept the country, gaining for the first time since the clvdl war the Presidency and both houses of Con-1 gress. In 1894 the unfortunate division within the party on the money i question cost us the control of Congress. Happily the money question 1s now out of the way and the tariff is / again a live issue. For*l? years the Republican party H fias perpetuated itself in lwer as S a result of Democratic divisions on questions other than the tariff. Now !| * the Republicans are divided on the tariff to (as great extent as the Democrats were during Cleveland's second administration. The old line Re! publicanb, the party of Cannon, Payne and Dalzell, stand for a protective I ^ tariff. The so-called insurgent ReI I publicans, who hail from the agrii| 1 cultural States of the West, proclaim their opposition to a protective tariff -unless It is on some product of their Immediate section. But generally their attitude on the tariff is well Illustrated in the vote in the House of Representatives on the passage of the farmers' free list bill and the bill reducing the tariff on wool, when I' ^ practically all of them voted with the Democrats. Today there are no division in our party on any subject. Next year we shall enter the national campaign with a record of achievement in tariff reform, and lessening the high cost of living, which we expect to carry us to victory. "Much is being said in the public prints and by individuals in every } walk of life as to who will be the Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1912. Fortunately for the country, the Democracy Is In a most favorable condition today. This condition Is creditable entirely to the splendid record of the party In the ~ ^ .1*4m 4Via loot IIlouse OI KepreBeuiauvoD m mv .?ov Congress. We were a minority party 'i' w 1n that Congress, of course, but, thanks to the wise, able and patriotic leadership of Champ Clark, our party T-as able to make such favorable showing of its purposes in the way of correcting abuses and bringing about a reduction of the oppressive taxation 1 and discountenaclng the wasteful expenditures of the public money by the Republican party that the people In Congressional elections last fall gave the Democrats an overwrelming victory, changing a Republican majority of forty-flve in the 61st Con\ gress to a Democratic majority of sixty-five in the 62nd Congress. | "The Democrats In the House were 2 9 rot 8low to recognize the potential leadership of Mr. Clark, and when . Congress met on the 4th of last April \ be was unanimously nominated by the Democrats and elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. The t Speakership Is a great office?unquestionably the second greatest office in ; the country. Speaker Clark has more I -4 than fulfilled the expectations of his friends. I. "Whatever hope the Democracy has for 1912 Is necessarily based on 1 the welldoing of its Represents tivei In the House in the last Congress end what they have done and will do in I the present Congress. Under the leadI n ship of Mr. Clark the Democrats have put through the Canadian re oiproclty bill, which will enlarge the markets of Canada to American products. We have also put through the I House the farmers' free list bill, placHf; 1ng thereon something like one hun dred article*, used almost entirely bj farmers. Following this the Hous< bill will reduce the oppressive wool len schedule of the Payne-Aldrlci ' tariff law more than 60 per cent * meaning an annual saving also o || millions of dollars to the Amcrlcai people. The Democratic programme Includes a general revision of th< I tariff. "No man In Congress or In Amer tea is able to compete with Mr. Clarl In the matter of carrying out th< Democratic programme. The country realises this and there li a very larg< H and growing sentiment that he of al the Democrats is best qualified tolea< M the party In 1911. There are othe great Democrats in the ?op n try; li HOLD THflU DOWN ? POLICEMAN LIABLE FOR SHOOTING OF BYSTANDER. Supreme Court So Roles im the Cose of * Policeman Who in Making mi Arrest, ?boc m nam. A policeman, firing at a man he it trying to arrest, the ball striking a bystander, subject* the policeman to the law, according to a decision handed down by the Supreme Court Tuesday. In the case of the State against Kobert M. Bar wick, writes Chief Justice Ira B. Jones: "The defendant in October, 1908, was policeman for the town of Pine? wood, in Clarendon County, and on arrival of the Saturday night train from Sumter, was opening a way through the crowd for me lady passengers when Thos. Singleton, according to the defendant's version, declared he would stand back for no damn man, whereupon defendant seized Singleton to arrest him for cursing and refusing to open the way. Singleton broke loose and ran and the defendant pursued, firing his pistol towards him several times. "The deceased, Sam Bracy, was standing in line of the firing and struck by the bullet, which gave him a mortal wound, of which he died some days later in a hospital in Sumter, S. C. The defendant was indicted for the murder of Bracy and was convicted of manslaughter with recomendation of mercy. "The testimony of the State was to the effect that the deceased was hit by a bullet from the pistol of the defendant, but the defendant testified to the effect that Singleton, while running away, or someone In the dlka woo TMinnfnir ahnt ftt the A CV/lil/il iiv nun oy defendant; that defendant did not shoot until after this firing, and the suggestion was that deceased may have been shot by Singleton Barwick was questioned at his trial about statements under oath before the Mayor's Court. 'A statement that Barwick made there would have had the effect o? showing that if Singleton shot in a certain situation he could not have hit the deceased. The appeal to the Supreme Court was upon the question of defendant giving testimony against him in vio* latlon of the Constiution. Going into the law on this point of giving evidence tending to incriminate himself, the Supreme Court's decision points out that when a defendant voluntarily goes on the stand he assumes the position of any other witness. There were other exceptions as to witnesses, "One of the witnesses for the defence," writes the Chief Justice, "admitted that he may have said In a joking way without meaning it that the country was going to ihe devil if they would convict a white man for killing a negro" "The Court charged the Jury: "The law in annlirable the same to every man. The law knows no pets, the law knows no difference between an Indian, Japanese;, a cltize^i of this State, an African or a Caucasion I would not charge you different law according to the parties interested, much less could you try the facts differently, the parties being of a different race, either Japanese, Chinese, African or Caucasion. There is no color line in the law, and there shall be none under your oath in the jury box." The Supreme Court says that this charge was sound and proper in the circumstances and could not possible have prejudiced any ^ight of the defendant. The judgment of the Cireuit Court wias affirmed in this hase.* ! fact the party is well off in this respect, but objection is made to praci tically every one of them. The only objection that has been urged to the nomination of Speaker Clark . for President is that at some time dur' ing the last few years a Democratic ' State Convention in Missouri gave out i ah Intimation that it was at that time > for the nomination of Ex-Governor i Polk, of Missouri, for President next ? year. At the time he was given thie i more or less useless and valueless endorsement Ex-Governor Folk was a ' supposed or avowed candidate for the i Uivited States Senate from Missouri , There were politicians who eliminat I ed him from the race by making a "*~,,A <*r\A <n<Toff<r?lta riromtse thai I .??guo auu I im - . they would some day support him foi i President. The public is of the opin. ion that if any politician in Missou> ri profited by the agreement witli . Folk he is so much ahead of the gam* > but the country as a whole is noi . found by any such political achem . ing. Certainly Mr. Clark was not f > candidate for Senator and did noi ) profit by any agreement between th< . Democratic candidates for Senator ii r Missouri two years ago. , "The Impression Is growing among f public men that the country Is turn i ing to Speaker Clark as the mos 5 available Democrat to nominate foi ? the Presidency in 1912. His frlendi are becoming active in bis support . If he is the nominee his election wil c follow. K. F. M. i ? ? j Four Drown In Pond. a Four waitresses at a hotel in Moun 1 Pocono, Pa., were drowned lu a porn 1 near the hotel one day last week r Two others were rescued in an un i conscious condition. 1 TOOK LONG TRIP f? m. i.?.1 Airship b; km?A CREATES A SENSATION1 Atwood, on Boston to WMhinftoa b Aerial Journey, Creates Excitement 8 Among Throng of Holiday Visitors ^ h by Alighting Near Famous Board* c walk at Atlantic City. 1 0 Thousands of visitors at Atlantic c City Tuesday saw Henry N. Atwood, after fighting heavy winds through* 1 1 out his flight from New York, and r the third leg of his proposed journey \ from Boston to Washington, by land- ? lng in his biplane on the beach front. * During his flight Atwood made three r landings for srasoline. Atwood said I that, judging from the amount of gasoline he had used, he must have travelled at least 250 miles. He was In the air more than five hours. The distance along the coast Is about 115 miles. "I hope to start for Washington before ten o'clock in the morning," he said. "The only trouble I had was with my gasoline supply. After I left Governor's Island I headed along the coast. A warning whirl of protest from my engine as I neared Asbury Park told me the gasoline was low. 1 landed and took on five gallons. "When I rose the wind was strong. So I took a travelling altitude of about 1,500. When I neared Tucker my tank became dry again. I borrowed five gallons from the owner of an automobile and made a good getaway. "The wind took me a hard chase. It had .been steadily rising. I encountered bums and air bodies that made the going difficult. To make matters worse, my gasoline ran out again. I came down, narrowly missed disaster when a puff of wind caught the plane about a hundred feet from the ground. I was almost thrown from my side, as the wind got j under the wings again. When I struck the ground, I felt the shock, but found my machine undamaged | and continued, after taking more gasoline, and made <a successful landing here." Atwood left Governor's Island, in New York Bay, at 8:49 A. iM., and ' landed at Par Place, Atlantic City, at 2:30 p. m. Atwood's appearance created a sensation, as it was not generally be- 1 lieved that he would attempt his i flight to the National Capital or that 1 Atlantic City would be on his route. The Boardwalk was crowded with a holiday crowd when he hove In sight and when he alighted he was cheered by thousands of people. His landing place was close to the Boardwalk. His machine was in fine condition when he finished the flight. He left Atlantic City for Washington early Wednesday morning, where he was received with enthusiasm. He alighted in the ground immediately behind the White House. Atwood used the Washinggton Monument as a guiding mark, and several dozen square feet of dazzling white canvas was placed on the lawn to mark the landing place. The Comos Club and other scientific clubs and societies acted as hosts. ? ? ? CAPTAIN PUT OUT OP CAMP. i 1 Officer Curses Governor and Staff and ? Publicly Ejected. George H. Todd of Montgomery# Ala., captain tof Battery B, Second regiment, Alabama National Guard, was ejected from the camp at Picketts Springs Thursday night by Col. Bricken and a company of infantry for cursing the governor, the adjutant general and his fellow officers. A court-martial will be ordered In his case. Todd wtas thrown from his horse Thursday afternoon when a salute was being fired in honor of the visit , of Gov. O'Neal to the camp. It Vila ono-pir on/1 hAnaiitiA the men 11IUIIV UIO UHQI J W*a\? wvvtmmwv ... ... k at the gun laughed at him he swore they should not complete the firing nor should they lower the flag. Capt. Lewis of the Tuskegee company, offih cer of the day, ordered the salute to , go on and when Todd attempted to interfere, placed him under iarrest. At a consultation held later Adjt. , Gen. -Scully told Col. Rricken to do j what he thought best and a guard I was ordered to escort Todd to the . outskirts of the camp. The incident t created a great sensation at the camp, I which was crowded with visitors. * 5 * * i Heat Causes Explosion. Intense heat, it is believed, caus5 ed an explosion at the Standard Pow der Works, at Horrell Station, Pa., | t Wednesday, resulting In the death r of four employees and the destrucb tion of the works. The storage ;. rooms were destroyed. 1 ass Weevil Has Arrived. What has been Identified by parties in that city as being a bona fide t boll weevil, was sent In to GreenA ville the other afternoon by Mr. W. :. F. Smtih, of Mauldtn, Greenville i- county, who captured the Insect near * I his cotton field. VERY STRANGE CASE EVER RESTORES MIND OF A MAN AFTER YEARS. ? i Delirium He Utters Disjointed Sentences Which Gere Doctors Their Only Clue. ".The case ot Benjamin Leeds" may ecome famous among psychologists, ays a dispatch from Atlantic City. It would seem that of a sudden .eeds' brains, apparently normal neame a blank. He forgot his iden ity, he forgot his wife and children, >f whom he had always taken tender are; he forgot the past. Then, after six years, Leeds fell 11 and the fever stimulated his dornant mind. In his delirium he renembered dimly and he muttered vords that gave to the acute sur;eons who listened to the clue that vill restore him to his family and nay bring him back to himself. In response to a telegram from hese surgeons Mrs. Leeds went to Cleveland, Ohio. She said happily (he will nurse her husband back to nental and physical health, then >ring him home. Leeds, once a well known citizen lere, retired from business and went o live at Ocean City about seven rears ago. One day in the summer >f 1905 he left home to deposit mon*y in a banh near there. He did not eturn. Wide, but vain search was nade for him. His wife, giving h1m lp for lost, became a trained nurse :o support herself and their two chilIren. Not a word came from him or ol iim until the message arrived callng his wife to a hospital in Cleveand. Her husband had been raker here ill and with a very high temperiture. Tossing on his fevered cot he light of yesterday's sun, which jeemed to have set, dawned on his nind again. He uttered disjointed jentences: "(My wife, Lydia,?" "Atlantic City?" "So long since I have seen them?* "What have I, Ben Leeds, done?' "Disgraceful, disgraceful to neglect." "How they must have suffered." The surgeons articulated the sen bences and sent for Mrs. Leeds. * SORT OF FREE LOVE CULT. Leader of It Being Tried in Chicagc for Immorality. Mrs. Lucile Bridges frequently kissed Evelyn Arthur See, founder o: the "Absolute Life" cult, called bin "dear" and wrote letters to him whil< he was in jail, telling of her love foi him, according to her testimony giv en at the trial of the cult leader a Chicago on rFiday. "The many kisses I exchanged witl Mr. See were holy and sinless saluta tions," Mrs. Bridges testified. "The; had none of the meaning of the kisi the world outside of Absolute Lif< knows. Mr. See is a pure and chast man. It was not sinful for us t< kiss. We had the true light. Wi wore above sin sand safe from temp tation. Nothing we could do woub bo wrong." "I saw a new light and a feelini wu In me as though there wer some! lung for m?. to do to better my self and better the world at large It was a feeling which was like wjalk ing on a cloud. That feeling wa 'absolute life,' " said the witness. Mrs. Bridges admitted also tha she frequently visited the "temple or "ADsoiute L.tie, ' wnere oee iimu his home, on nights while her hus band was away from Chicago. Sh said also that she had made cor tri,butions o<t $1,000 and $500, rc spectively, to See in the cause c "Absolute Life." TWO KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Rockingham County, VaM Swept b Violent Electrical Storm. Two men were killed, others wer shocked and burned and it is estimiat ed that thousands of dollars' wort of damage wae done to property an live stock Friday when an electrics storm of great violence swept Roc* ingham county, Va. John Crider an Jacob Wilkins were struck by lighi ning while riding for shelter, an they and their horses were instantl killed. A bolt broke up a funeri profession in East Rockingham, stur ning the undertaker and his assist ant, who were riding on the hear< land throwing the mourners into panic. More than a score of cattl and horses were killed in the fields. Ijever Undergoes Operation. Congressman Lever underwent minor operation Friday at the Colun bia hospital. The operation was pe formed by Dr. LeGrand Ouerry. is not considered a serious operatloi and he is resting well, and Is expectc to leave the hospital in about t* weeks. ? a ? Three Rescuers Drowned. The wireless operator at Surf, Ca received a message at 10.15 p. x Friday night from the Centralla sa ing that the second mate and tv seamen of the Helen P. Drew we drowned while attempting to take life line to the Santa Rosa. VERY RARE CASE i Sea af a Rich Beaker Pram la be a hrgkr a City af New Yark. HE FOOLED THE POLICE Stole Because Small Salary Didn't Al* < low Him to Entertain Women lav* i ishly.?Loving Cap He Took From Peabodjr Home Deads to Arrest. . Tells How Easy it is to Rob. The New York World says Karl Von Metz Meyer, a lieutenant in the ' Norwegian army, who came to this corntry on a three-years furlough to study banking, was arrested in his home, No. 185 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn Friday night on a charge of burglary. His father is a wealthy banker at Christlansand, Norway, with a branch in Munich. "I am a burglar," cried Meyer, *a handsome, soldierly looking man of twenty-four, when arrested. "I am a .burglar and a conscience stricken r burglar. I have recently committed eighteen robberies on Columbia Heights alone. "Come with me," continued Meyer, ' "I'll show you where many of the 1 pawn tickets are." He led the detectives into a room that adjoined 1 his own and turned up the carpet in a corner. There were twenty-one tickets, representing jewielry and silverware valued at $5,000. "Why did I turn burglar?" Meyer ' went on. "Well I turned burglar 1 when I began to live beyond my means. I needed money and I got it : by breaking Into homes. It is an easy 1 thing to break into a Brooklyn home. 1 I never carried a jimmy or a revol^ vflp T HIHn'f tr? ho oniupht with either in case of arrest. I went to the rear of houses by climbing over fences. For two months ten detectives from Brooklyn headquarters have .been looking for Meyer. In their night vigils they became wefl a<y qualnted with the handsomely dress jed young man who lived at No. 185 1 Columbia Heights and they felt sorry for him when he told them that he was unable to go to sleep. To the detectives the man was known as j "Lieutenant" having informed them who he was and what he was doing in this country. The man was seen almost nightly r on the streets by the detectives and ' policemen. He could always tell 1 them that a man was better dead 1 3 than a sufferer from insomnia. He p would enter his own home and next ~ morning a new robbery would be reported. x Untill the burglary of the house of Charles S. Pea body, No. 128 Willow P st., June 19th, there was never so B much as a suspicion against the Nor0 wegian lieutenant and banking clerk. 0 The Peabody burglary took place in 0 the early morning. iMeyer had galne ed entrance at the rear, and when all was quiet he stole out of the front j. rinnr. One of the things he took was n a large silver loving cup which beg longed to Dudley Peabody, son of e Charles S. Haif a block down the street Meyer , caught sight of a detective in the _ shadow of a house. While passing a 9 vacant lot he dropped the l-oving cup over the fence. There it was found t an hour later by a milkman and re?? turned to the Peabody home. e "Couldn't sleep again," spoke up j. Meyer as he addressed the policeman; e then he passed on. When the loving [m cup incident was told the policeman on post recalled having spoken to Meyer, who walked past the spot * where the cup was found. Detectives?lieutenants Tenney and Ward was assigned to keep a watch on Meyer. The Norwegian seemed to know he wae under suspicion. He y continued his nightly walks but the robberies ceased. Not one bit of evidence could the detectives get against e him and they feared to arrest the t- man because of his position, h ' Friday night, however, the two d men from headquarters went to Meyil er's room and .burst in upon him, [- telling him he was under arrest; that o he was the burglar for whom the pot lice had been looking for many d months. After Meyer had completed * - - - 1 1UA y his confession ana snown wnere uio il pawn tickets were hidden, he said: l- "I came to this country two years t- ago. I attribute my downfall to wos, men. It was all my own fault; they a fascinate me. I got a place in the le foreign department of the Adams Ex press Company and made good from the first day. Then I lost my health but this break-down was not due to a dissipation of the usual sort, but 1. to my fondness for staying up late r. and talking to some pretty woman.0 It ? ? i n> Will Pay Indemnity. )(* The pose office Department has 1sr? sued an order, giving notice that an * indemnity not exceeding $25 will be paid to the owners or senders of the third and fourth class domestic reg1.1 istered matter, lost in the mall, bo n. ginning on July 1. The payment oi y- an indemnity for the loss of mail li 70 an extension of the service, whict re will popularize the mail since tt ina damnifies the owners and senders ol 0 packages from loss. wwm Sj GAVE AID TO GANG SENSATIONAL STORY DAMAGING TO TAFT TOLD. Alleges Secret Order of the Presides* About Cost Land Helped the Goal IB A m. riu?H Friday afternoon's Washington Times publishes a circumstantial story very damaging to the administration, telling how the Guggenhelms were allowed by a secret order the President, withdrawing the territory form a forest reservation file claims to the land around Controller Bay, Alaska, bottling up the coal fields so that the syndicate will bo able to dominate them. The story, which is said to be made up from the records of the Interior department, ds that Last summer a Guggenheim, agent named Richard Ryan, came to Washington to induce the President to open the Controller Bay land for entry. Ballinger was then Secretary of the Interior, and from the files the following note, alleged to be from Ryan to Ballinger, is produce#: "Dear Dick: I went to see the President the other day about this Controller Bay affair. The President asked me whom I represented, I told him, according to our agreement, that I represented myself, but that didn't seem to satisfy him; so I sent for Charlie Taft and asked him to tell his brother who I really represented. The President made no fur^ ther objections to my claim. Yours. "Dick." As the Controller Bay claim has not yet been finally confirmed, this sensational publication may prevent Its being patented. A congressional Inquiry is expected. ? HANGED FOR BRUTALi MURDER. Negro Meets Death on Scaffold for Killing a Tailor. Darnel Duncan, a negro, was hanged in Charleston Friday for the murder on June 21, 1910, of Max Lubelsky, a Jewish merchant, the crime, being amon^ the most atrocious in the annals of this State. Unltl the liast moment Duncan showed great nerve but as the black cap was being adjusted he fainted, f ??o rv KaI n rr onmincr urh lla ho wfid lilt? 1*1 (I L/CUlf, CF|/i U TV M?iv iiV TT MV In this condition. To the last the negro stoutly maintained his innocence of all knowledge of the crime leaving a statement for the newspapers. The murder of Eubelsky, a King street tailor, occurred on June 21 of ! last year. He was found in his shop senseless and lying in a pool of blood. The only clue left by the murderer, whose motive was robbery, was a bloody stick with which the crime had been committed. A few weeks later the widow of the murdered mjan was attacked in her husband's place of business in a manner similar to that which resulted in the death of Lubelsky. Duncan was sezlcd outside the store and recognized by a neighbor as the man In whose hands he hiad seen the stick with which the tailor had been killed shortly before the murder took place. The negro was tried and convicted of the crime. His case was carried to the State supreme court, which tribunal declined to interfere with the verdict. Gov. Blease also declined to interfere. GOES FOR FATHER'S BODY. Waited Forty-one Years to Recover it From Glacier. Miss Edith Randall, daughter of John C. Randall, a banker of Quindy, Mass., who lost his life in the Alps n?#rlv fr?rfv-one years aco. is DOW on her way to Chommonix, where she hopes to recover her father's body when the Glacier des Bessons gives up (he bodies of those who were frozen at the top September 6th, 1870. On arriving at the little village the foot of the Alps, where the glacier gives up its dead. Miss Randall will stay at the same hotel where her father lodged and will met the children of the guides who also lost their lives on that occasion. Randall ascended the Alps with two ether tourists and nine guides. The party was caught in the snow storm and all died. Recent discoveries indicate the bodies will be recovered within a few weeks. It takes forty years for the glacoer to travel from the place where the men perished to the little village at the bottom. ? Tieft All to Himself. A spectacle which has not been seen for years, if ever, was exhibited in the Senate, says a Washington dispatch, on the reciprocity "debate" Friday, when for nearlf ten minutes Senator Gronna, of North Dakota, . who was concluding his speech begun t Thursday in opposition to the pact, > was the only senator on the floor. , ? Policeman Dies of Wounds. Patrolman E. C. McOonnell, of I Asheville, N. C., who was shot by i the negro deajperado, John Huff, last i Monday, while the latter was under - arrest for eattle stealing, died on Frtf day afternoon. Pneumonia developed >; In both lungs. *