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GOES FOR TAFT - - Kf; ' The Presides! is Skews Up ii His Trse Csltrs By Gsrerser Hirmos. f * ; WHO FLAYED HIM ALIVE Before a Gathering of the Democratic I Clubs in Boston the Chief Executives Attitude Towards the Tariff Was Attacked by the Chief Executive of Ohio. 1 r> ci,iont Taft's attitude toward tariff reform was attacked by Governor Harmon of Ohio in a speech before the gathering of Democratic clubs. Governor Harmon said that the president's course in vetoing tariff bills passed by the special session of congress indicated that he had been reached by "wrong advisers." Speaking of the president's objections to these bills he said: "These and other marks of paternity suggest the question whether the vetoes may not have been adopted offspring, like the defense of Ballinger." "Ho needed no commissioner," said the speaker, "when he promised a general reduction before his election, nor when he called the special cession to keep the promise, nor when he signed the bill that broke the promise, nor when he confessed that the woolen and cotton goods duties were too high, nor when he made the agreement with Canada. His position is simply that those who by " * s " ? " 1 r : 1 1 n-cs } , r, vo ItriCKery 01 iumu muniug nmo secured a license to impose exorbitant prices on the Amercian people shall go on doing it, in spite of the action of both houses of congress, until five men who are not responsible to the people, nor even experts, shall advise him how much these favor taxes ought to be reduced and how to do it scientifically. He then admits they are too high on these absolute and universal necessities of life, but he fears these bills may have cut them too much. All the men, women and children in the land must continue to suffer for an admitted wrong which affects health and comfort rather than run any risk of causing too much shrinkage in profits made excessive by law. The people must not even have the benefit of the doubt. "If the present tariff charges had . knowledge and skill it could well be said that an 'unscientific' remedy is good enouig'h for an unscientific wrong, especially when those who apply the remedy have the advantage of dealing with actual results while those who did the wrong acted only on conjecture. But the Payne-Aldricli-Smoot law had a far worse sire than ignorance. And it is a reflection on our plan of government to say that the flagrant iniquities of that law Khali eo on defying good sense, I common knowledge and honest purI pose until a commission without legal I responsibility or authority shall decide how the duly chosen law making body may deal with them. "I believe in the veto power. But it is to be employed only on the clean and positive conviction of the executive that the public interest so requires. He is allowed ten days to consider and decide. If he remains in doubt at the end of that time action of his part is dispensed with and the judgment of the legislative body become effective without it. For the president to defeat the action of congress, especially when it follows the plain mandate of the country merely because he is not certain about it himself and wants to wait for somebody else to advise him, is a new and perilous departure from the wise design of the eonsitution. "We have had tariff commission before but none of them ever accomplished anything but delay. And if ever time is money it certainly is to be beneficiaries of a favor tariff. The consumers of the country were | entitled to at least partial immediateI relief. This congress gave and the president took away. His tenderness was all for the few who proiit by the it.. 1 present excessive ruies. n? n<uwv?ed liis heart to the multitude who are compelled to pay the exorbitant prices which include them." "Not content with calling the majority in congress unscientific, incompetent and ignorant," continued Gov. Harmon, "though in his vetoes lie did so in parliamentary phase, the president now, in public speeches, charges them with insincerity, employing the ruder language of the stump. He says they were 'playing politics.' This gives a fellow feeling for Messrs. Clark and Underwood and their association. For when I set about the reforms in Ohio which I was elected to secure I found myself confronted by a general assembly Republican in both brandies, which undertook to discredit my administration in every way it could. It smothered or defeated measures proposed to prevent further grafting with the treasury funds, to limit taxation and distribute it fairly, to reduce expenses and secure effective conduct of the public business. When I persisted in urging measures for these and ether worthy objects, though T knew the fixed purpose to make my efforts fruitless, I , too, ADMITS HIS CRIME CONFESSES HE ABDUCTED AND MUIiDEHED CHILD. TIio Fiend Was Immediately Sentenced to Life Imprisonment in the State Prison. John, otherwise known as "Dogskin" Johnson, Wednesday night confessed to the abduction and murder of little Annie Lemberger, the seven-year-old child, whose body was found in Lake Monono last Saturday, near Madison, Wis. He was immediately sentenced by Judge Anthony Donovan to life imprisonment. A few minutes afterwards Johnson was taken in an automobile by Sheriff Andrew Brown to the State prison at Waupun. It had been feared that Johnson might be lynched. He was arrested Saturday on suspicion, but after being questioned he was released. The officers had him under suspicion all day and in the evening once more placed him unarrest. Although the police strongly suspected Johnson of knowing something about the crime they could not fasten guilt upon him absolutely. On the strength of their suspicion, however, he was taken into Court Tuesday, pleaded not guilty and was placed under a $1 0,000 bond, the preliminary examination being set for September 2 5. The prisoner was then taken back to his cell. He was plainly frightened. Toward evening Turnkey John Foye was called by Johnson and told he wished to make a confession. Chief of Police Shaughnessy was informed and sent for District Attorney R. N. Nelson, the county prosecutor, Cheif of police and other officials soon gathered about the Court House, where the prisoner, before Donovan, confessed to the crime. Johnson said the deed was the result of a sudden impulse. He had watched through the window tbe little girl and her sister undress at bed time on numerous occasions and on the fateful night, shortly after the children had fallen asleep he raised the sash and snatched little Annie from the bed, dragged her through the window and struck her uncons cious so there would be no outcry. He then took her to the railroad bridge and after beating her until life was extinct threw the body into Lake Monona. was charged with playing politics wh' li means pursuing a curse from some unworthy motive, and ary motive except to promote the general welfare is unworthy in a public officer. "Rut at the first opportunity the voters of the state most emphatically declared that they 'play polities' who thwart efforts for reforms and not they who make such efforts, however, hopeless of imediate success. "And talk of 'playing politics!.' The members of the obstructive Hepublican legislature were, according to press reports, in constant touch with the national administration during both sessions. The speaker and leaders frequently went to Washington and conferred with the president. Half the cabinet were sent to take part in the campaign last fall where the direct issue was who had been 'playing polities' and who trying to serve the public interetss. Pet in dispatches inspired in Washington the claim is now set up that this great record of accomplishment by a Democratic administration is due to those who had to be twice defeated at the polls to secure it. *E\en from Washington/ says one of these, after reciting with praise what has been done, 'where it was ltai'ccd by the Republican chieftain that the Democrats would claim most of the credit * or the patfago of such legislation. Republica n in the logslttnre were urvrd :\vd advised tc sr-.pport proposed laws which in lh? tr oj oration would prove to be a benefit to the great masses of the people.' This chieftain must have little influence with his followers In Ohio, because with now and then an honorable exception in either house, they continued to oppose a solid front against the entire program of reforms for which the Democratic administration was contending with its slender majorities in senate and house. Surely trying to take credit from those who have earned it is the worse form of 'playing politics. ' "Let our friends in congress take > rnr> if what thov have done is IIVC4! V, I Wi ie .. ? 'playing politics,' <he people will cry i 'Go on with the game.' "Take the tariff out of politics says some. The president missed the ' best opportunity there ever was to do this by signing bills to reform the tariff which were passed by a Democratic house and a Republican senate ' obeying the command of enormous l>opular majorities to which men of both parties contributed. But the tariff will never be taken out of politics so long as it is to be i prostituted for private gMn and those who get or wish to get the gain can control the organization of one of the igreat parties. For the voters will always use the other party for their defense and the conflict will go on until it is settled whether privileged classes or the people shall rule, for those rule a country in whose behalf the taxing power is employed/' PRICE IS FIXED Cen?eatiaa tf farmers Declare Wh.it CottM is Werth T? Thim. NAMES FIFTEEN CENTS As the Minimum Price at Which the Staple Should be Sold.?Advises Holding Cotton Until That Price is Paid for it?Fanners Have the Whip in Their Hand. At Montgomery, Ala., on Wednesday, five hundred farmers and as many bankers, congressmen, United States senators and business men, representing every cotton growing State in America, declared in conven* tion that the farmers' cotton is worth 15 cents a pound and resolved that the farmer should hold his cotton for that price. The resolution followed a committee report that the crop in America would not exceed 12,500,000 bales. For financing the crop of this year, a resolution was adopted to the effect that the farmer should deposit bis cotton in a warehouse and use his receipts as collateral until he could sell his cotton at not less than 15 cents. There was also a resolution urging that the several State legislatures should provide for a system of bonded warehouses. Declaring that organization among the farmers and cooperation among them with the bankers and financiers was the solution of the problem, the convention resolved itself into a permanent organization to be known as the Southern Cotton congress ana adjourned to meet in Atlanta at the call of the president, E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture of South Carolina. The meeting in Montgomery is to be followed by a similar convention in every Southern State, to be called by the commissioner of agriculture of each State. By these conventions the action of the congress is to be ratified and reinforced by further steps toward securing a better price for cotton. Among the speakers at the convention were Senator E. D. Smith, of South Carolina, who received the thanks of the congress for his attitude in congress toward the government cotton report; Congressman J. Thomas Heflin, of Alabama; Congressman Henry D. Clayton, of Alabama, and Dudley M. Hughes, congressman from the Third district of Georgia; Oscar W. Underwood, majority leader of the house of Representatives, chairman of the ways and means committee, sat in the audience. It was Senator Smith who perhaps made the speech which decided the congress in its naming the price of cotton at 15 cents, for Congressman Heflin wanted to make the price 15 or 14 cents, with 14 cents as the minimum Congressman Clayton, in his speech, declared his belief that in ten years' time, the world would be using 25,000,000 or 30,000,000 hales of American cotton. A resolution reported to the convention from the committee on legislation aroused prolonged discussion j and heated debate. This resolution provided for the establishment of State bonded warehouses where cotton could be stored and held and receipts issued which would be honored the same as currency, not only in this country, but abroad. It was a good resolution, all admitted, but the majority thought that such a resolution should have received more consideration. Congressman Henry B. Clayton, of the Third Alabama district, sta'ed that the resolution was too big a thing to settle right away and asked that it be laid aside temporarily. On a vote of the convention it was laid aside. It was the consensus of opin ion of the convention that only mailers relating to the present crop and aiding the farmers at this special time should be taken up. Among the most important matters taken np by the convention v.*as the report of the committee on legislation. This committee recommended that a department of statistics be established in each State under direction of the agricultural department and that each agricultural commissioner of each Southern State take up with his respective legislature the question of such department. At certain periods of each year, the figures are to bo compiled by each State, and then strike an average of crop conditions, estimates, etc., of all tho States together and publish them the same as does the government each year. The government was severely criticised at the committee session for alleged inaccuracy in crop estimate and ginning reports. It was tne opinion of the committee that the South no longer should depend on the government for the crop reports, but make them out at home, i Coanmlssioner Watson of [South Carolina and President Pabbs of the i South Carolina Farmers union, were severe In their arraignment of the United States department of agriculture in gathering cotton statistics. Commissioner Watson stated that the government has had a statician in ! the State for the past ten years, gathering data for the government's THEY HAD ROUGH IIMti FOUR YOUNG PEOPLE! WKKE MA ItOONEI> ALL NIGHT. ? Quartet of rhiladelphians l'ass Hours of Terror While Relatives Search Vainly for Them. Marooned all night and until noon Monday upon a small island in Middle Hiver, half-way between Ocean City, N. J., and Tuckahoe, two young men and two young women, members of well-known Philadelphia families, were rescued half-famished and numbed with the cold. The quartet was composed of Bay* nard Kendrick, son of John It. Kendrick, president of the Trades Publishing Company; Maurice Mulhern, ? c - null., fl./. m?naknll< hUU U1 it riuittucipiua nic uiaiounii, Miss Eleanore Morse, daughter of Harrison E. Morse, and 'Miss Louise Green, daughter of Robert M. Green. They were rescued by Commodore C. Howard Schermerhorn, former sheriff, George Barrett, of Camden, and George Jeffries, Commodore Schermerhorn's helper, and brought back to Ocean City. The exhausted girls were put to bed and are recovering from their terrible experience. The young people started Sunday on a trip to Tuckahoe river in Kendrick's motorboat, Floret. By mistake they went up Middle river, the two having one mouth in Great Egg Harbor Bay. They had not gone far when a cable afoul of tho propeller displaced a union and water began pouring Into the boat. The boys pumped the water out as fast as possible in order to reach help at the river's mouth, while the girls bravely helped to bail tho sinking craft. Just as they reached Swan pond race and as the boat was about to collapse, tney sprang waisx ueep into the water and upon the meadows, taking with them two camp stooN and a light lunch. They were all thinly clad and throughout the night suffered from the cold, fog and mosquitoes. They had nothing to drink from noon yesterday until the rescuers reached them with stimulants and food. The young people had lost their reckoning of time and as the sun beat down on them mercilessly on the dreary meadows this morning they almost igave themselves up for lost. To add to the terror of the girls a monster hawk kept whirling near the party. The hawk had to be fought with oars to keep him off. a a nru 4^ f m/\/1 Qohormor. I L 91gut U L V/Ulli liivuvt v hJ\yuvt IUV1 born and Sheriff Barrett the quartet gave a cheer. They were first discovered by the white dresses of the girls. Search boats sent out by John R. Kendrick and Mr. Morse sounded the v.aters of Great Egg harbor bay all through the night. POOR FOOLISH GIRL. Fooled and Deserted by a Slick Tongtied Scoundrel. The Greenville Daily Piedmont says one of the most pathetic cases that the police of that city have had to deal with in some time was that of the arrest of a beautiful young lady of Prosperity, who is said to have been a graduate of the G. F. C., and who left her home in Prosperity several days ago. Here is the sad story as told by the Piedmont: "It is said she had gone to a number of cities in this section with a traveling man, who had persuaded the pretty young girl to leave home, promising to marry tier. Alter 101lowing the travelling man for several days and lie failing to marry her, the young girl came to Greenville. While there the police received the information to arrest the young girl and hold her until the arrival of her parentstl "The officers found the girl and notified her parents of her arrest. They came to Greenville and carried her hack to Prosperity. The young lady is a handsome girl, with very attractive manners end weil-educated. The parents of the young girl are heart-broken over the sad ccurrenco and were surprised t. her leaving home." crop reports and during his administration he had never met the man or seen him at the State capitol nor had any of his 65 agents in the State seen him. "The whole thing is a farce," he declared with much indignation, "and we should no longer rely on the gov, eminent for a correct report." Congressman Henry I). Clayton ot i Alabama stated that the government i did a whole lot of things of value which the State could not do, bu1 that he, too, believed the cotton and crop rejiorts were inaccurate. He stated that he knew it to bo a fact , that men employed in Washington , figured on the cotton and ginning re ports who had never been in a field of cotton or who had never seen s boll of cotton in their lives. "Wo must go hack to home government," shouted Mr. Clayton, "and get up our own information." , Ilccr Laid Him Out. i Morris Katz, aged thirty-two years of Baltimore, Md., undertook to drink one hundred glasses of beer, but aftei ; drinking thirty-five glasses, a coroi ner's Jury was called in who gave ii , as their legal opinion that Katz over i estimated him capacity for beer. ~ BANK Of Conwa * Has largest capital and surplus of s than the combined capital and surf CAPITAL, STOCK. . .. , SURPLUS LIABILITIES OP STOC* SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIRE( Robert B. Scarborough, EL L. Buck, Gteorge J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc will justify, and we tobbrt b. scarborough, E President. We continue to pay 5 pe 9 99 9 99 9 99 fFIRST NATI( ewe? Mk OONWA w?? ? CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS fDIREC J. A. McDermott, John C ?B. G. Co-Bins, H. L. F M. Burroughs, G. P. Qiu Successor to the Bank of Horry County, and a pioneer ly allied with the recent dev ^ Republic. Backed by the ( & United States Bonds, we are p tomerg any reasonable accomi H. A. SPIVEY, Cashier. SHOT HIM TWICE ? . Rissian Premier Stolypio Fafallj Wooeded by An Assassin. ? WHILE AT THE THEATRE The Emperor Nicholas Was Present at the Opera When the Shots Were Fired?Not the First Attempt on Life of Stolypin?Has Never Heen Popular. At Kiev, Russia, Premier P. A. Stolypin, was attacked while attending a gala performance at the opera Thursday night. lie was wounded twice by his assailant. One bullet entered his hand while the other penetrated the body, grazing the liver and lodging in the spine. It is reported that the premier's wounds are mortal. Emperor Nicholas was present in the theatre at the time. The premier's assailant was arrested. This is not the first attempt made against the life of Premier Stolypin. When Governor of Saratov, in 1905, three shots were fired at him, but without effect, on August 25, 1906, a bomb was thrown while Stolypin, then premier, was holing a public reception at his country house on Aptekarsky Island. The premier was then slightly wounded. Thirty-two perenna u-orn l/illo/1 mul n aHll Inrcor ovy UO 11 vt V I* t 1 ( V\4 ?*** v* *. V MV? m Mta n v/* number wounded, including the premier's 1 5-year-old daughter and his 3-year-old son. At that time there was a reign of terrorism in many parts of Russia. When Stolypin accepted the premiership in July, iOOG, ho was perfectly conscious of his danger. He remarked at the time: "I have no doubt that attempts will be made upon my life, but I hope that order will be restored and stability established in Russia before they are successful." As Stolypin outlined the policy of the government, it was to be one of "stronghanded reform." He promptly isued circulars to the provisional authorities, directing them to spare no effort to prevent disturbances. As minister of the in terior prior to taking over the premiership, he was assailed in the dutna in making his first speech with cries of "murderer" and "assassin," when lie defended the alleged illegal acts of the police oflicials and provincial governors in the suppression of disorders. The retaliatory steps which he * took against the Terrorists and Lib1 erals alike won the detestation of the 5 advanced parties and the support of : the Administration. "Stolypin's neck1 tie" became the synonym for the ' hangman's noose throughout Russia, I He quarrelled frequently with the 1 Duma, and was victorious in his dispute with that body owing to the con fldonce which the Emperor reposed ir I him. The two bullets were fired from behind by a lawyer named Ilogrof The audience tried to lynch the as, sassin. Some reports have it that 8 i musician also was wounded. The * minister of finance, M. Kokovsoff - was sitting beside the Premier at th< t time of the attack. According to dispatches to th< newspapers at St. Petersburg the ltv 1 HORRY, I y. S, C. I iny bank in Horry county. More H Jus of all other banks in the county* y I |60,000 12,600 n ^holders .. .. 60,000 'ors 112,600 ;iors I D. V. Richardson* v W. A. Johnson, fl Will A. Freeman. V I ommodation which their account* I solicit your business. I K V. Richardson, will a. freemab i Vice President. Cashibb m r cent, on yearly deposits. / JM )NAL BANK | ly, s. o. x ink $26,000.00 3C 2,600.00 126,000.00 v TORS: T 3. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, A hick, W. R. Lewis, D. Ml \ ittiebaum, D. A. Spivey. ar ' Conway, the oldest Hank in ^ in Eastern Carolina. Close- JjT elopment of the Independent (p jovernment and secured by irepared to extend to our cui- jLi \ nodations. W B. G. COLLINS, Ji President. 9 ~ -? PROFESSIONAL CARDS. EL H. WOODWARD attorney and Councilor At LftV? CONWAY, S. C. T B. B. SCARBROUGH CONWAY, 8. C. Attorney at Law. > H. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. C. B. WOFFOliD WAIT. , Attorney at L*v/, Bank of Horry Building. ' ] CONWAY, 8. O. ME WORLDS GREATEST SEWIN6 MACtHHEj JktWHOMf0 fffuu want cl ther a Vibrating Shuttle. Tlotadf uhuttleor aHlngleThread [ChainStitch^ / Sewing Machine write to <1 9ff MEW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE COMPASt Oranget Mass, NSnraewtny machines are made to sell reranfteaetl' Osality. but the New Home it made to weaa Oar guaranty never nine out. irti If Authorised dealers m|K1 j V ORSALSUr V J BURROUGHS ft COLLINS OO^ Conway, S. O. ~ 4 W a 111.. /\..? 1 I ?>^ i lium ii in it liiiv. While attempting to save the life > of his sister Ethel, ased 16, William Lee, aged 12, was drowned In the > Isle of Hope river near Savannah. The struggle of her children was wit nessed by the mother, whose screams f 1 brought assistance. The girl was finally rescued by J. O. Hardee, but 1 as she was taken ashore the boy went down for the last time. j er was perforated and the wound Is , mortal. According to the same dlsj patch after the wounded premier was removed from the house, the audi> ence Insisted upon singing the nation al anthem.