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OPPOSE WILSON Big Bisiaess and the Trusts Using the Favorite Ssn Dodge in j ? THE SEVERAL STATES To Prevent the New Jersey Governor Wwr?H TCnouirli in (lie f 1'1/IJl V1VIW?5 ? ? Democratic Natioiiul Convention to Nominato Him, and Thus Force in Their Candidate. A Washington dispatch says favorite son candidates for the presidency are among the devices being used by Big Business and the Tariff Fed Trusts to obtain control of the Democratic National Convention. The situation is illustrated by the recent angry passago between Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri and ExGov. Joseph W. Folk of the same State, each of whom is playing for the vote of the Missouri delegation. A few days ago the Washington correspondent, of the Kansas City Star sent to his paper a story that Clark was being used as a stalking horse for a candidate who would be satisfactory to big business. This statement angered the speaker, lie wired the Kansas City paper that the as-1 sertion was untrue. The speaker's denial of the story led ex-Governorn Folk, who was in the East at the time, to send a telegram to the Kansas City paper in which ho said: "Replying to your telegram, I infer iMr. Clark denied that the Harmon forces in St. Louis are boosting him. That practically all of them are ',r,i',or a/-* nnrl flint mnnv of these so UU1U5 ovy lV?iV4 V??- V ? y called friends of Mr. Clark havo a first choice in Governor Harmon and are using the speaker's name as a means to a reactionary candidate cannot be truthfully denied. Mr. Clark, perhaps, should not be judged too harshly for his intemperate language. He may not know the truth." The Clark statement also drew out an expression from Lon Sanders, president of the Missouri Democratic league as follows: "Mr. Clark cannot shift attention from the truth by an intemperate denunciation of the Washington dispatch to the Kansas City Star. That the reactionary forces are boosting Clark against Folk no one familiar with the situation can doubt. The agents of special interests are all for Clark as against Folk in St. Louis. If by chance these men should control the delegation to the national convention it is fair to assume it would be voted for Harmon when Clark is out of the way. Mr. Clark denies that his friends have a second choice. He shows a remarkable insight into the intentions of his friends, especially in view of the fact that he denies all knowledge of headquarters being opened in St. Louis and claims to be ignorant of what his friends are doing." The talk among well-informed Democrats In Washington for some time has been that there is a well developed plan to prevent, if possible, the nomination of Woodrow WTilson "by bringing into the field numerous favorite son candidates, whoso supporters at the proper time will go to a candidate that will be satisfactory to the conservative wing of the party. Everybody realizes that as the situation presents itself today tho race is between Governor Ilarmon of Ohio and Governor Wilson of New Jersey. The favorite son candidates already in the field are Champ Clark and Joseph W .Folk of Missouri, Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana and Eugene N. Foss of Massachusetts. If the information that reaches here is trustworthy, other favorite son candidates are to be brought out within the next two months. Tammany Hall, which is still in control of the New York State organization, undoubtedly intends to hide its real purpose by standing by a "favorite son." Whether this "favorite son" shall bo Governor Dix or Mayor Gaynor has not yet been determined. Until recently tho prospect was that Governor Dix would be brought out as the New York candidate, but recent developments have pointed tc Mayor Gaynor as the man that is tc be used by Tammany. The forces that are at work to prevent the nomination of Wilson arc also looking for a favorite son candidate lrom Illinois. Tho statement was made here today by a prominent Illinois Democrat that the old Hop kins machine in that State is undei pledge to trot out a favorite son. No one asserts that these so-callec favorite son candidates are parties t< the scheme to prevent, if possible the nomination of Woodrow Wilson A Democrat who knows, or at leas thinks he knows what is going on said today that he is confident tha most of these favorite son candidate! are absolutely innocent so far as be ing mixed up in any intrigue is con cerned. "The fact is that most o them are in the hands of designing politicians," said this man. "They d< not realize that the men that are urg ing them on are planning to make u] delegations to the national conven tion that may be used to prevent th< nomination of Woodrow Wilson." The anti-Taft Republicans have al hit on the "favorite aon" scheme a LIVE IN MISERY DRIVEN" TO CONFESS HIS CRIME BY VISIONS OF VICTIM. News That Another Was Held For Crime Drove the Fugitive Murderer to the Confessional. Haunted by visions of his victim, John Henry Marty surrendered to the police at Baltimore Wednesday, declaring that ho was the murderer of William H. Mickle, an old storekeeper in 7th strdet, Washington, on XT l.._ 1 T Inaf [ iXOVtflllUUl xi laoi. Martin, who appears to bo a nervous wreck, said that he entered the store, struck the man over the head with a wrench, took the contents of the cash drawer and fled. He said that he went to West Virginia and did not know that the man ho assaulted was dead until he read it two weeks ago in a Washington paper. Ho saw also that someone else had been arrested for the crime. The memory of his deed and the thought that an innocent person j might suffer for it, drove him to a confessional where ho told bis story to tho priest. It was on the advice of the latter, Martin said, that he surrendered himself. Martin formerly lived at Cumberland, Md. He has been in Baltimore only a few days, he said. Martin told tho police that his first thought after reading of the arrest of another for the murder, was that he had had a lucky escape. "Then," lie said, "I began worrying. I could not rest; I could not sleep. I have been in misery. I j would rather be hung or have anything else done to me than to be tormented by my thoughts. The man I killed kept a cigar store 011 7th street, Washington. I went in thoro asked him for money. "He refused me and I struck him over the head with a monkey wrench. Tnen I ran away. I went to West Virginia and came here about three weeks ago from Berkley Springs. I am a baker by trade and am not married. "Ever since I read that I had kill"'1 mn-rt T a f r> 11 r> Ir T tlflUfl QnOTl faPPR CU IJLAU 1UU11 A ovt UVM A MMI v I at night when I was in bed. I can | see the picture of that cigar store." FELDEK TO TAKE THE STUMP. The Atlanta Eawyer to Make Speeches in Carolina. The Spartanburg Journal asks will Tom Felder tako the stump against ( Coleman Livingston Bleases in the latter's race for re-election next summer? That's an interesting question and it remains to be seen what will come of it. A gentleman who : has just returned from a western trip spent several days in Atlanta, Ga., and while there secured some interesting information on this, score. He was informed by the best i kind of authority that, in addition to the book Felder is writing on Blease, the Atlanta lawyer states that ho will make three or four speeches from the stump in South Carolina during the race for governor next summer. Felder is anxious to meet Blease face to face while making these speechos, is the trend of the news this Spartanburg man brings back with him. In speaking of the book Felder is compiling this gentleman said: "You can put it down for fair that Felder has 'got the goods.' His book will cause the governor to say, 'O, that mine enemy had not written a book.' " tlio most feasiblo one for use in attempting to build up opposition to the renomination of the president. For a while Senator Fa Follette of Wisconsin had the anti-Tuft field all to himself, but he was not making any progress, and so the whole scheme 01 opposition to the renomination of the president was recast. Fig business, which does not want either Taft or Wilson in the White House, agreed to support a Roosevelt movement. Then came a decision on the part of the anti-Taft Republicans to bring out some favorite son candidal %s. Senator Cummins of Iowa was urged to permit the use of his name in this connection, and the understanding now is that he will make a fight for an Iowa delegation pledged to support him. The real object is, of course, to prevent, if possible, the Iowa delegation being Instructed for Taft. A good deal of consideration was given to the situation in Indiana . by the antis. It was finally decided to use the three names, La Follette, r Ileveridge and Roosev? t, in an effort to prevent instructions in that j State for President Taft. ? ? ? Making Themselves Solid. The members of tho Charleston 1 A/\..a?nl.n1nrir nrnonnf Ofl ( (IlHfM'UHttry uuiioittuumij the Governor with a gold watch chain t as a token of their esteem. A gold3 headed cane from the members of the _ Columbia constabulary was their _ Christmas remembrance to the Govf ernor. 3 Ten Women Claim Him. Owen Callan, in jail in Bath, N. j Y., on charge of obtaining $5,000 - from Mrs. Aleda Jacobs, of Hornell, e N. Y., when ho promised to marry her, is said to have ten wives. All - are aiding the district attorney in b building up the case against him. HAPPY NEW YfcAK TO ALL TIIE READERS OP THE TIMES AN1> DEMOCRAT. Some Thoughts oil the Day Which They Are Requested to Read and Remember. 4 I --v f T.T aft ? nt? o i*a oyth In JIUW IIUIV lllt'O . JICUI TT V7 (Mt U^UIU with our cheery greeting! Happy New Year! ? What is your worst fault What i is mine? Are you going to reform With the New Year? To make your New Year a happy one be sure to make some one else have a happy New Year. * ? * Regret for the past will not strengthen the future. "Forgetting the past, press on," is the bettor way. ? Happy New Year! What a blessed phrase! Speak it from the heart, and then strive to make every one's New Year, a happy year and yours will bo happy, indeed. + * * Happy is the man who has nothing to swear off and therefore swears off nothing. He will not have to invent reasons for slashing his pledge a few days hence. t * * * Christmas, Ihe religious holiday of the whole world, has come and passed, the bells will soon ring in the new year 1012, and the holidays, with all their gaiety and gladness,? and gloom and loneliness and sadness as well?will be but a memory. * * + Wo can wish no better thing for all our readers than thai they begin the new year animated by a firm resolve to turn all its experience into profit for themselves, mentally, morally, socially and materially, and then to faithfully carry out tno resolution. * * * Get ready to start the new year with kindly feelings and more noble ambitions. Make the New Year of 1912 a day to which you can always look back with pleasure and gratitude. Peace, good will unto you, dear reader and a "Happy, Happy New Year to yo>u all." * * * Our resolutions for the new year should bo definite and specific. Do not say simply that you will be more liberal, but say just how liberal you will be, not say tha,t you will be more faithful, but say just what duties, neglected in the past, you will engage to perform in the future. * Mortals were tempted and tried, almost beyond endurance, and we spoko no word of encouragement or bympathy. The friendless and the poor and the sick and the solitary we have neglected and passed by. Oh!, how cold and selfish, and uncomfortable we, nearly all of ois, have been! And thus the New Year comes to us freighted with memories. * * As you turn the corner in to the new year, look back a minute over the road you have been traveling the past year. It seemed a long way when you started out, but it has been traversed at last. Havo you been true to yourself? If not, once more before you stop out into the pure New Year, renow your promises to your better natures. Don't stray, but linger near the pleasant outlooks, keep near the bits of high ground where you breathe purer air and can see off Heaven's high hills of blue, make the motive pure work for the object. * * Delight and pathos are inextricably l mingled with the thought of New | Year's day. It is only a conventional point of time; any other would do j as well. Every day closes an old! ? ?..?? o*wi hop-iiiH jt now one. but for I J W"V4 wv0??.K? ?. , | all that we cannot help feeling that J this day, which is agreed upon [throughout Christendom for the be! ginning of a new year, is somehow unique. The pathos comes from the review of tlie past, and from the sense that another notch has been cut for us on the stick of time. The delight arises from the anticipation of the new and better experiences of the year to come. * It is because nearly all of us live on hope, because we are mentally sustained by expectations, that New Year's is always welcome. It is the one day of the twelve-month?Christmas is chiefly for children?that appeals most to men and women. Much of its attractiveness depends, for tho multitude, on its nominal newness. We are all familiar and weary with tho old. Wo are ever sighing for tho new, which seems as if it would bring a change of mind and condition. New Year's is not a whit newer for its name, as every ono wiio thinks for a moment is aware but names are potent, moro potent often than things. * * * A good resolution for the hardworked housewife to mako for the New Year is that she will find timo each day for a nap, or a rest at least of fifteen minutes; that she will take every other evening at least for reading or playing games with her children, and at least one afternoon in the week for a social visit, a ride, a walk. These would not be impossible for the busiest woman, who will KILLED BY HUSBAND, r" llORIUHIiE CRIME COMMITTED NEAR GREEN VIBEE. | , | Victim Was Found in Bed With Head Bald Open by and Axe With Her Babe by Her Side. In ono of the mill villages of Greenville the coroner is holding an | inquest into the death of a woman ; >vho was found in her bed at daybreak Wednesday with her head split open , with an axe and her 2-year-old babe immersed in a pool of blood by her aide. The woman's husband is locked in a cell at the county jail, and finger nails bearing blood stains uncleaned by water used in erasing ot,her traces of the foul crime point at him as the guilty man. i At 6:30 o'clock Wednesday morning Sheriff Poole recoived a call from Ilrandon mill, and in responding discovered one of the most hideous j crimes that has stained the pages of Greenville's criminal history in some 1 years. In their three-room apart- < meat the sheriff discovered Mrs. Alice j Campbell, wifo of LaFayetto Campbell, grovelling in her bed in a pool of blood. ' ller head had been mutilated some I time during the night with some In- , etrumept, a huge gash laying open the skull over the temple. A horriblo 1 bruise on one clieeck and other I wounds about the face almost blotted j out her identity. The woman was not dead, and by her side lay her babe, unharmed. Physicians were 1 called to tend the woman but after i removing sections of her skull a major portion of brain, she died Wednesday afternoon shortly after 4 o'clock. Immediately the sheriff and his as- I sistants went to work to apprehend j the person guilty of the crime. Living in the house was another family, but none of them had heard any distrubanc? during the night. The husband nointed out the bed in which he said he had spent the night, but it was in another room from that in which his wife slept. < Going on into the kitchen the officers discovered an axe leaning against the wall and resting upon a cow chain which had been piled on , the floor. The chain itself was bloody, but the axe had been washed of all but a few stains of crimson. This led the officer to believe that immediately after the commission of the crime the bloody axe had been stood upon the chain; that later it was taken up and the blade of it ' cleansed, then stood once more upon i the chain. i The officers also found an old sack , in the kitchen, which, though freshly washed, showed traces of blood. In the stove they discovered scraps of burned rags bearing traces of blood, i Later in the day suspicion began to point to the woman's husband and ( traces of blood on his finger nails lad the sheriff to place him under arrest ' | and carry him to the county jail. The murdered woman herself has been in the courts of this county. Some years ago while defending her husband from an attack by her own brother she secured a revolver and fired four shots Into the latter's body. . For a long tmie it was thought the woman's brothers would die. The case dragged through the courts for some time and finally wore itself out without any one being convicted. YEGGMEX MAKE GOOD HAUL. ? Secure $10,000 in Stamps and Papers , in PostofTlco Robbery. At Hardin, Ky., a band of yeggmen got $G00 worth of stamps and $10,000 worth of notos and stocks, when tlioy blew the safe of the postoflice early Sunday. The explosion of the heavy charge of nitro-glycerlne, used in blasting open the safe, shook the entire town and caused a panic among the residents, many of whom rushed half-clad from their beds. Al- , though a posse was formed, no trace of tho robbers could be found, and bloodhounds will bo put on the trail as soon as possible. The paper taken by tho yegginen were the personal property of Postmaster Stark, and some of them are negotiable. look carefully Into lior methods and seo if there are not superfluities she can cut off, trimmed underclothing that can ho made plain, and thus save sewing and ironing; cakes and pies and preserves, for which plainer wholesomer food can be substituted. ? It Is pleasant In theso times to hear of occurrences that show the bettor sido of human nature. It is not worth while to hate any one. Life Is too short to cherish ill-will or hard thoughts. What if man has cheated you or that woman played you false, or some friend forsaken you? Let it all pass. What dilTerelce will It mako tc you in a few years, when you go henco to that undiscovered country, ah wno treat you wrong will be moro sorry for it. than you in your deepest griof. A few moro smiles, a few moro tears, somo pleasure, much pain, a little longer hurrying and worrying in the world, some hasty greetings and abrupt farewells and life will be over, and lnjurer and Injured will be laid away and forgotten. It is not worth while to hate eath other. u I ' ' . > BANK OF Conwa; Has largest capital and surplus of ai than the combined capital and surp! CAPITAL STOCK , . SURPLUS LIABILITIES OP STOCK SECURITY OP DEPOSIT! D1REC Robert B. Scarborough, 3. L. Buck, Jeorge J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc< will justify, and we j bahwdt v DoiDnnnnTinu I) ?V0J>U?A M9m UVAmwmvwm^ ? pRKfllDKNT. We continue to pay 5 pel f*FIRST NATK ^ OONWA 2? CAPITAL STOCK... TO SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS. 2? DIRECT] J. A. McDermott, John C tfk B. G. Collins, H. L. B jj: M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua Successor to the Bank of iaL Horry County, and a pioneer "P ly allied with tho recent (lev* ^ Republic. Backed by the t 4ft United States Bonds, we are p ^ torn?;* any reasonable accomn jL H. A. S^PIVEY, Cashier. KILLER SOON LYNCHED GEORGIA COMMUNITY SHOCKED BY DOUBLE TRAGEDY. ? Enraged at Slaying of Policeman, Mob Wreaks Vengeance, Pouring Bullets Into Victim's Body. C. A. Roberts, chief town marshal of Donaldsville, Ga., was killed by a half drunken negro there Saturday afternoon and tho latter was shot Lo death by a mob that sought re- f vengo immediately afterward. Tho trouble started in town at 4.15 o'clock. John D. Warren, the negro, came to town and after partaking of too much Christmas liquor, quarrelled with Gus Newberry and dually drew a revolver and threatened to kill Newberry. Tho negro was finally chased out of town by persons who had seen hin\ flourish a revolver. Marshal Roberts heard of the affair and he, with J. D. Mosely and J. \V. MoMullin, jumped into and automobile and started in pursuit. They overtook the negro on the outskirts of the town and the marshall ordered him to stop and climb out of the wagon. Tho negro turned In his seat and opened fire on his pursuers. Marshal Roberts returned the fire, both men being wounded. The marshal jumped from tho aotomobile and grasped the negro and dragged him from tho seat. Roberts fell dead from the wounds that he had sustained as tho negro dropped to the ground. The negro was taken in charge by Mosely aiul McMullin and they attempted to take him back to town. Hut the mob that had been closely following overtook the party and drove Mosely and McMullen away from the negro. Then the members of the crowd shot the negro full of bullets. lie was too weak, from wounds previously received in his duel with the marshal and too full of liquor to make any headway at getting away. The town was full of Christ shoppers. All business was paralyzed because of the lynching. .Marshal Roberts leaves a wife and family. The negro, Warren, had been In trouble once before, but his father is one of the best known and most prominent negroes in Southeast (leorgia. ? ? A COUNTRY OF SUICIDES. Over Fifteen Hundred Committced in finvnnv In Ono V<*nr. Tho kingdom of Saxony, which, for many years, has shown a disproportionate number of suicides over most other countries, comes again to the front of tho German states in the statistics of 1909, for which year the kingdom's year-book has just been issued. In that year thero were, in a population of about 4,500,000, 1,521 suicides reported, of which 358 were women. The cause giveu in 474 cases is despondency of "general weariness of life." Suffering from disease resulted in 262 suicides, while in "injured sense of honor" led 28 persons to make away with themselves. . ' , y HORRY, y. S, C. ny bank in Horry county. More ir lus of all other banks in the county* .. ..f SO,000 * HOLDERS 60,000 )KS .. . .112,600 ;tors D. V. Richardson, j W. A. Johnson, f Will A. Freeman. ^mmodation which their account* solicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a. fbeemaw VlOK pREtilDIfiNT. CaBHIIB * cent, on yearly deposits. )NAL BANK^\ V, s. c. Jfe . . .. . ., 525,000.00 jj? 2,500.00 W9 -tk . 125,000.00 ^ rORfl: A !. Splrey, d. t. McNeill, ? uck, W. R. Lewis, I). kAip ttlebaum, d. a. Spivey. vK Conway, the oldest Ilnnk In Mfr in Eaitern Carolina. CIobcalopmont of the Independent .. ?, iTfo toverii mcu u ?uu ncv,uiv.u repared to extend to our cu?iodatlon?. TJT B. G. COLLINS, Prwldnt. PB07BH810NAIi OAJRD8. H. H. WOODWARD ittoruf and Counoalor At Law* OONWAI, (I. o. y y JA B. SO A KB JIO U UM CONWAY, 8. C. > Alton*! at Law. "t / M. U. BURROUGHS > B'hysiclan anil Sargooa, OONWAY, 8. O. A WOFFOR!) WAIT. Attorney at Lav/, ^ Bank of Horry Building, I CXWWAY, 8. O. RENH HAVENEL Ijand Surveying ami ^ Drainage Spivey Building Conway, 8. O. ME WORLDS GREATEST SEVIflNG MACHINE 1 k.LIGHT RUNNING Ifyoa wnnt either a Vibrating Shuttle, Rota^l SbulUeor BHIngloThread [CAo<n?&tio*4 / Sewing Machine write to fl M BtW HOME 8EWINQ MACHINE COMPJUftj Oranget Mass* i tQMrsewfnr frt&cMnrs #re made to sell tesaedle*? fnlitr? but the New Home It made to tra* Our guaranty never runt ont. > ' (M ft# Authorised dealers M#|r j V MIAIJN -fj BURROUGHS & COLLINS CO., 4 Conway, 8. 0.. ^ Old Woman Dropped I)end. Much excitement was caused at Gaffney Saturday afternoon by tho death of a respectable old colored woman, named Prudie Wright, who dropped dead among a great crowd of Christmas shoppers about one o'clock In front of the National Bank of Gaffney. The cause of her death was acute indigestion.