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1 v - i DRAWS BLOOD < - ? Henry Wdutmon Admits Suggesting ^ Tkat Jtyan Aid Wtfsw in LETTER TO B. R. TILLMAN Disclosures Drought Forth by Senator 11. 11. Tillman's Criticism of T Matter sous thirst mawim-nt iw> t ? gardlng Now Famous Meeting Between Wilson ami Harvey. Interest in the controversy between Woodrow Wilson and Col. Harvey and Col. Henry Watterson, over Mr. ^ Wilson's aspirations for the Democratic Presidential nomination, was revived Friday night, when Col. Watterson gave out correspondence that had passed between himself and Senator 13. It. Tillman, of South Carolina, Thursday and Friday. The correspondence, in which the name of Thomas F. Ryan figures, is as follows: "Washington, D. C., Jan. 25, 1912. "My Dear Sir: Referring to the cocalled 'Harvey-Watterson incident,' I find you quoted by the newspapers of this morning to the following effect: 'I had given Henry Watterson credit for more sense than to try to * foist off a story liko this with the material facts concealed.' The man who makes a public statement 'with the material facts concealed' is little other than a scoundrel. I have the right, therefore, to demand of you upon what warrant of authority you make this serious accusation against me, and to ask a reply through my friend, the Hon. Swager Sherley, of Kentucky. "With great respect, "Homy Watlerson. "To tho Hon. B. 11. Tillman." Tillman's Kcply. "United States Senate. "Washington, D. C., Jan. 2G, 1912. "My Dear Sir: 4 In your note of .January 25, handed mo by the lion, f-lwager Shcrley, you call my uttention to an Interview which I had given y out In reference to the Harvey-Wati terson-Wilson incident, In which I I say, 'I had given Henry Watterson credit for more sense than to try to foist off a story like this with tho material facts concealed.' "You demand to know, 'upon what warrant of authority you make this eerious accusation against me.' "In your statement to the press, you described in detail the rupture 4 between Governor Wilson and Col. Harvey, but said nothing as to what caused it. All leading papers of the country seem to know why Governor Wilson severed relations with Col. Harvey, and you, as a leading newspaper man and aolf-confessed expert ^roomer of Presidential candidates, must have known it at the time your statement was published. I very * properly concluded that you knew the reasons for the rupture, and when you made public the manner in which t occurred, without giving tho causes, you were unquestionably concealing rhr> material facts "Very respectfully yours, "B. R. Tillman. "To Col. Henry Watterson, Wash^ ington, D. C." "Watterson'H lie,joinder. "Washington, D. C.. Jan. 2G, 1912.' "My Dear Sir: I have never pretfonrled to ho a groomer of Presidential candidates, expert or othervise, but I desire your good opinion, iind wrote with that, as well as the truth of this matter, in mind. "I am with you, Senator, in wishing a Democrat, and not a pseudoRepublican, for our Presidential nominee. It was no less from a sense of party duty than o" Justice, as between man and man, that I made the statement to which?upon a total misapprehension of the facts?you take exception. "I have been aware for nearly a ^ week that recognized spokesmen for ' Governor Wilson were industriously circulating the story that the real reason why Governor Wilson broke with Col. Harvey was that Col. Harvey had tried to bring Mr. Thos. F. Ryan into the Governor's campaign. But until you gave credence to the story, it could not be invested with any responsible authority. Its origin was mysterious, Its circulation surreptitious. Consequently, there has 'been, up to this time, nothing either to deny or recognize. "Now, Senator, I know, of my own knowledge, that that story is a lie out of whole cloth. If any person ventures to question this assertion, I have in my possession prouf conclusive, which I hold myself, ready to place before your honest and truthseeking mind. "I do not accusG Governor Wilson Avlrvlnol Int* n f Mvaii 1 a tin tV?ia in V L l/l ilf5 V4 v*? VUtMVAMQ V??IW A u vention, manufactured to make a hero of him at th* expense of the friend who has most effectually w ' served him. I do not assume that ho 5s aware of the dastardly work being ^ done by his alleged agents, but the fact remains that Governor Wilson 'knows as well as I do that the story ii false. He may or may not feel that ho owes any obligation to Col. Harvey.' That Is a matter of which "he must be the Judge, to repudiate that story and to disavow those who are striving to inject the calumny t SLAY FORHLR HlRO IDOL OF ALL ECUADOR" SHOT, BEHEADED, BURNED. No Indignity Wan Too Groat to Be Wreaked by Populace on Man Who Wm Bat Lately Their Ideal. General Pedro Eontero, who recently was the popular hero of Guayaquil, Ecuador, was Friday shot by 'the angry populace, dragged into the streets, beheaded and burned. General Montero in November last was proclaimed president by troops lu Guayaquil but handed over the leadership in the provisional government to Gen. Flavio Alfaro. A revolutionary army went from Guayaquil , in meet me Kovwrnrneut troups iruiu Quito, who under command of Gen. 1 Leonidas Plaza, defeated them and eventually forced Guayaquil to capitulate. j General Montero, with other leaders, was captured on Junuary 22 and , Thursday evening General Montero was brought before a court martial and sentenced to sixteen years imprisonment in a penitentiary. I When General Plaza, who presided I over the courtmartial, announced the sentence, crowds of angry people 1 who had surrounded the government palace awaiting the result, shouted violent protests. I The .excitement increased rapidly and some of them rushed into the court room, riddled General Montero i with bullets, seized his body and dragged it into the open air. j There they hacked tho head off jthe shoulders, gathered fuel with which they started a fire and then (cast head and trunk into tho flames. I The excitement lasted throughout the night and revolver shooting occurred in many parts of the city. Generals Eloy .Aifaro- and Paez, who were captured at the same time as General 'Montero, were, it was re/>#1 n f i p /h i i \ 4 r\ o f rv-% i n i rrh f jjui it'U, nun u iu v^imu at uuuiu^ii t. They will be tried by courtmartial in the capital. DEATHS FROM PELLAGRA. i 0 Seventeen Occurred Last Year in the City of Charleston. Pellagra caused 2G8 deaths In the census bureau's death registration area during 1910, of which 263 of the victims or 71.5 per cent, were females. Of all the deaths from this cause returned for the registration area of the United States for 1910, threetenths occurred in North Carolina municipalities of 1,000 population. The largest number of deaths registered were in Raleigh, 23; Durham, 17; Charlotte, 16, and Wilmington, 8. The city with the highest mortality from this cause within the registration area was Atlanta, Ga., with 6 9 deatiis reported. For each registration State in 1910 the number was: California, 3; District of Columbia, 1; Maryland, 8; Massachusetts, 1; Michigan, 2; Minnesota, 2; New York, 4; North Carolina municipalities, 111; Ohio, 1; Pennsylvania, 3; Rhode Island, 3; Vermont, 2, and Washington, 2. For certain cities in non-registration States in 1910 the number was: Birmingham, 17; Mobile, 13; Montgomery, 14; Jacksonville, 4; Atlanta, 69; Savannah, 13; Charleston, 17; Knoxville, 3; Memphis, 6; Nashville, 9; Danville, 8; Lynchburg, 5; Norfolk, 3; Petersburg, 2, and Richnn/1 \T c* 7 II I VS II VI, 1 I Two or three doal.hs from the disease occurred in Orangeburg during the past year among colored people. Besides, several in different parts of the county outside of the city of Orangeburg, but just how many we have no way of ascertaining. The disease does not sosm to be making much headway. into the public mind "At Governor Wilson's instance, I had undertaken to assist his accredited managers in raising tho considerable sums of money needful to the prosecution of his campaign, and in this my efforts were not wholly untiuthful. As tho business proceeded the name of Thomas F. Ryan not unnaturally came into my mind. He is a Democrat. He is a Virginian. He is my friend. Knowing him to be a disinterested man, having no axe to grind. I hoped that I might induce him to help out what I believed was a good cause. Governor Wilson's managers wore delighted with the suggestion. Col. Harvey had nothing whatever to do with it, and, as far as I am aware, knew nothing whatever about it. "Throughout this unhappy affair I have been an unwilling witness? in Its consequences, somewhat of an Innocent bystander?having been up to tho hour of tho Karvey incident a sincere believer in Governor Wilson. lie is a man of ability. In some ways he might prove a candidate of availability, but I fear that if ho became our President we might discover all oo late that ho possesses personal peculiarities which would prove disastrous. We want in the White House a man of broad mind, as well a/ polished intellect, of heart grateful and kind, no lo*s than daring. "I remain, with g-eat respect, your obedient servant, "Heary Wetterson. To tho Hon. B. R. Tillman/' <\ <? RYAN'S MONEY Declined by Vilsdi aid His Naiafer Wbfo (Wired by Wattersiii. GIVES TEE REASON WHY / ? Wilson's Campaign Manager Declares That He Twice Informed the Kentucky Editor That None of Kyan's Cash Was Wauled in Woodrow Wilson's Campaign. A dispatch from New Tork nays suggestions by Col. Henry Watterson that he solicit contributions to the Woodrow Wilson campaign fund from Thomas P. Ryan were met with declarations ,by William F. iMcCombs, Governor Wilson's campaign manager, that Mr. Ryan's money could not be accepted, as "such contributions were not within the spirit of the Woodrow Wilson campaign." Mr. McCombs made a btat.enient as follows: "I have read the correspondence interchanged between Col. Watterson and Senator Tillman, which appeared in this morning's papers. I had thought that Col. Watterson s statement of several dags ago, itself, entirely disposed of the alleged incident. I so stated in an interview a day or so afterwards. I have made no statement with reference to it since that time. From the beginning of the campaign for Governor Wilson, which I have managed, I have received all cf the contributions made to it. I assume responsibility for them and I know of the contributions made to it. I assume responsibility for them and I know al! their sources. They have uniformly been made by people who had no interest except the consummation of the idea which he represents. Not one of them expects any other return. "Any communication which has been had between myself and Col. Watterson regarding campaign funds has taken place in personal interviews between him and myselt. There have been two ir.rerviews only. I intensely dislike to make a public statement of a private conversation and regret very much that Col. Watterson has forced me to do so. In October of last year I had a general conversation on Presidential politics with Col. \\ atterson at the Waldorf, where he was stopping. I visited him at his suggestion. In the course of that conversation he gave it as his opinion that a large amount of money v.ill be needed and volunteered the suggestion that he would go and see hb friend, Thomas F. Ryan, and that ho was sure he could induce him to make a very large contribution t the campaign. "I said to him that we could not take Mr. Ryan's money and that su(ch ccntributions were not within the spirit of the Woodrow Wilson campaign. Ilis reply was: " 'I have been i.i politics fifty years and I know that money and not patriotism counts in a Presidential campaign.' "I repeated to Col Watterson that we could not take the money. Early in December 1 met him agai 1 and he renewed the discussion of a Ryan contribution. I mode the same answer to him that i had made before. "I heard nothing further from Col. Watterson on the subject and thought no more of the conversations! I have not seen him since that time. "If I mistake not, there is an implication, perhaps, in Col. Watterson's letter to Senator Tillman? probably not Intended to the effect that ho secured funds for this campaign from Mr. Ryan. No such contribution lias been made, and this, of course, Col. Wattorson well knows. "The well-timed assaults upon Governor Wilson are rendering a real service. I will specify in one respect. Since the beginning of these attacks I have received in my mail many small contributions from all over the country, from people who have not been asked to contribute and whom neither I nor Governor Wilson know. Their letters all convey expressions of resentment at the unfair kikI concerted attacks that are being made upon him." SKA'S TOLL OP LIFH. Number of Vessels Lost and Number of Bailors Drowned. The sea claimed the lives of 190 persons with 3 25 American vessels during the fiscal year of 1911, according to a summary of losses published In the list of merchant vossels of tho United States just issued by Commissioner Chamberlain of the bureau of navigation, department of commerce and labor. The loss of sailing vessels, prlncl pally by foundering, resulted in the death of 107 persons; with steam vessels 87 lives were lost. The principal disaster of the year was the foundering of tho steamer /rkadia, | which sailed from New Orleans for Porto Rico with thirty-seven persons ! in hoard and never was heard from. 1 In the foundering of the Pore Marquette ferry No. 13 on I^ake Michigan twenty-seven persons were lost. I In all 159 steam vessels were lost CePiKS A TKAirOK ? BAYS THE BLACK ,tVING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. ^ lily Wliltes Allege That They an<l Not Adanis-Co^hran-Harris Wing j|| Will Be Recognized at Chicago. The socalled "regular" Republican state committee met recently in Columbia and adopted resolutions endorsing the administration of President Taft and denouncing John G. Capers, National committeeman, who is the leader of the "Lily White" republican movement in South Car ollna. The committee issued a call for the meeting of the state convention in Columbia February 2 9. dc The committee especially com- bi mended Mr. Taft's stand on arbitra- gJ tion, the tariff board and the Slierman law, and urged his reelection. Capers was denounced as a traitor to M the party who had been seeking to 'M undermine the regular Republican or- ju ganization. Following this meeting, which was held several days ago, and was engineered by the Adams-Cochran-Harlis wing of the party, L. W. C. Bla- ('( lock, chairman of the "lily white" 0> wing in South Carolina, has issued 1:1 a letter to the Republicans of the State, in which he says that he is G the chairman recognized by the Republican national committe and 'l' that only delegates elected by the ti convention over which ho presides d? will be recognized at Chicago next D June. E The letter Issued by Blalock was sent to several hundred Republicans tn of South Carolina. The letter states In that this wing of the party is the T regular party in South Carolina and d: will be seated in Chicago next June. P The letter follows in full: d< "Goldville, January 25, J 91 2. h< "My Dear Sir: Please take no hi steps toward organization in your tc county or district under the 'call' tl for a convention, county, district or C State, issued by what claims to be tc the executive committee, uf which n< Joe Tolbert says he Is chairman. Del- e^ egates elected under such a 'call' si will not be seated at Chicago next ir June, as tho Republican national d committee lias recognized mo as di chairman and Mr. Wallace as secre- d tary. Mr. Heyward of Chicago, the tl national secretary, sent us the 'of- tl ficial call' through our national com- p< mitteeman, as required by tho present law, as you will see from the m attached extract from the 'call.' We w are recognized as regular and ready l for action. We w?.nt you, the man w to whom this letter is plainly and y individually addressed, to mark time <p and Ignore the Tolbert 'call.' j. "Our plans for the counties and tl districts will be isbued within the q next 30 days. ei "As far as the colored man in our q party hero in the State is concerned, q we believe it is 'our kind of white V( alks, the trustworthy, high-class o) colored man respects and trusts. We J>( do not fool him ai.d degrade him. jc We will insure him just and fair V( treatment. r( "Capt. Capers, the South Carolina p member of the Republican national committee, after visiting me here ,t and others in the Si ate, has returned t ohis Washington ofllce, where he ? guides and advises us from headquarters. Under his leadership we have never failed to seat our dole- ^ gates in the national conventions, ^ and he will meet and match all opposition by standing by us. He is * with us to tho finish. "The national committee says we [are 'regular.' We will prove that we I are nlso right! "Let mo and Capt. Capers hear from you; be patient, trust us and I we will bo safely seated at Chicago's | j great convention next June. "Faithfully, "L. W. C. nialock, D 1 J "Chairman." cr I ? PRIOLEAU STILL CONTESTING. w til c 81 Would-bo Congressman Again Socks r{ Expense .Money. For the fifth successive session, la Aaron P. Prloloau is contesting for the Congressional representation of ai the 1st South Carolina district. His ai contest for the seat of Representative *>3 Legare will come up before elections di committee No. 2 of the House of Rep- Li resentatives February 1, next. In P( Prioleau's four prexioue contests he has received $2,000 each time for expenses, but it is doubtful if he will get the allowance this time. The fu Democrats should refuse to let this negro further bleed the public treasury. ? ? NEVER ASKED WATTEItSON\S AID 111 la ci Wilson Denies Editor Was Asked to ja -- . _ _ T\ lielp Kaiso Funds. th Governor Woodrow Wilson, on his w departure for IlostD.i on the midnight lu express Friday night, made the fol- br lowing statement in reference to the or Watterson-Tillman correspondence, tli given out in Washington: "In so far A as I am concerned, the statement that ar Col. Wattorson was requested to as- w slat in raising mousy in my behalf is tc absolutely without foundation. Neith- m er I nor any one authorized to ropre- th sent me ever made any such request w of him,". i h i , n< < . .. 41 U. I rf '.v RULE OR RUIN M>b io Ecnadtr Pot It Death Five Re?els?i#oaiy Generals /ILL BE END OF REVOLT Former President and Other Leading Lights of That Hot Tempered Country*s Latest Devolution, Taken From Prison by a Mob in Quito and Shot to Death. A dispatch from Guayaquil. Ecua>r, says an infuriated mob Sunday oke into the Quito penitentiary, in lite of a double guard, and lynched ens. Elroy Albaro, Flavio Alfaro, edardo Alfaro, Ulpiano Paez and anuel Serrano, all prominent revotioniste. With the putting to death of Gen. lroy Albaro, Ex-President of Ecua3i"; his brother, Gen. Flavio Alfaro, '.-minister of war; Gen. Medardo Airo, who is believed to have been a -other of the two other Alfaros, and ens. Paez and Manuel Serrano, the adlng lights in Ecuador's last revoition, although it had been a leng me browing, begau in reality a few xys following the sudden death, on ecember 22 last, of President Emilo strada. The first of the drastic measures i.ken by those who opposed the revoition was carried into effect last hursday, at Guyaquil, when Gen. Per? Montero, who was proclaimed resident by tho troops, after the eath of Estrada, v as shot and beeaded by a mob, which later burned is body. The sheeting of Montero >ok place in tho Court room, where le general had just been tried by ourt-martial and sentenced to six>en years' imprisonment for his collection with the revolt. The people, irldently angered at what they condered a too light sentence, rushed tto the Court room, and, after ridling Monero's body with bullets, ragged it into the open. Then they ecapitated it, built a bonfire and irew into the flamqs the torso and le head of the man who once was a apular hero in Ecuador. Elroy Alfaro and Gens Paez and [ontero were captured January 22, hen Government troops under Gen. eonidas forced the revolutionists, ho held Guayaquil, to capitulate, lroy Alfaro was proclaimed Presient on Ecuador by the populace in inuary, 190G, after he had defeated le Government troops at Quito. In ctober of tlio same year ho was lected President by the National onvention and hold the ofllco of hief Executive until 1911. In that 3ar Gen. Emilio Estrada ran for the lice, with Flavio Alfaro as an oponent, and was elected by a inanity of over one hundred thousand 3tes. Flavio Alfaro then started a jvolt. and in it lie was aided by resident Alfaro. The charge was ade that Elroy was trying to set up dictatorship in Ecuador and from ic first the efforts to take away the residency from Estrada met with ?verses. The Alfaros and their followers ad not been idle during Estrada's nure of office and there frequently lino reports of their intention to art a revolution in Ecuador. When strada died, Gen. Montero, a trust1 lieutenant of the Alfaros, had imself proclaimed President by the adicals and the troops in Guayau 11. Montero at the time was comlander-in-chief of the military in the uayaqnil district. Severe fighting followed the outreak of the new revolt and the nited States Government sent the unboat York I own to Ecuadorian at.ors to protect American interests. 10 fighting continued with varying lccesses until January 19, when the ^bels suffered a had defeat at aguayche, northeast of Guayaquil, our days later Guayaquil capitated to Gen. Paeza. Elroy Alfaro and Gen. Montero id Gen. Peaz were found in hiding id were then only saved from death ? the intervention of Gen. Julio Anreade, of the Government forces, liter they were taken to the Quito mitentiary. PILOT DROPPED DEAD. i Consequence liflrgo Liner Rammed Cruiser Colorado In a collision Thursday between e Hamburg-American linor Clevend and the United States armored miser Colorado, at Honolulu the iter suffered considerable damage. lie collision was duo to the fact at the pilot., Milton P. Sanders, ho was in charge of the Cleveland, id dropped dead on the liner's idgo. The steamer struck the Colado astern, Jamming a gun near e cabin occupied by Capt. Wlldam Gill The turret was wrenched id the resetting of tho gun probably ill bo necessary. Although the exnt of the damage could not be Imediately determined, it is bolieved le propellor of the Colorado also as damaged. The Cleveland was >? damaged. KELPS HIS POISE SENATOR TILLMAN TELLS WAT* TERSON TO PUBLISH. 0 I The Controversy Ha? Helped Woodrow Wilson Instead of Hurting Him as Enemies Hoped. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says there Is, cf course, a great deal of discussion in political circles there of the Till? ...nn U'? 11 -1 I1? aiicieuu uui rfopuaueuce, wnn regard to the brea.'c between Governor Wilson and Col Harvey ard Editor Watterson. The subject overshadows Congressional matters in the public mind for the time being. In all his conversation with Democrats at Washington on the affair, The News and Cour'er correspondent has not found a single man who had previously pronouueed in lavor of Wilson, or who had admitted an inclination towards Wilson, who will say that he is lesa inclined towards the Jersey Governor on account of the incident In its present status; on the contrary, there are numbers of Wilson men who declare that they are more enthusiastic than ever before in behalf of Governor Wilson, and who express the opinion that the statements thus lar made by Col. i Watterson rebound in the aggregate I very much to the advantage of tho Wilson boom. In a jocular spiri* Representative David E. Finley, ot tho 5tn South Carolina district Saturday morning informed Senator Tillman that he (Mr. Finley) would b^ glad to brush lip on "the code" and put himself at the Senator's disposal as 3econd in any affair of honor that might be impending. There was no indication of excitement in t.ie Senator's oilice, and the Senator h'mself seemed to be in a thoroughly good humor. An additional statement made Saturday by Col. Watterson, in refer enco to the controversy, is as follows: "In my letter to Senator Tillman I promised proof of any statement made by me that might be disputed. Governor Wilson denies that I had any authorization from him or any agent of his to raise money for his campaign. I have the proof that I not only have authorization, but that )I actually raised a considerable sum. I hold myself ready to furnish this proof to Senator Tillman at once If he will do me the honor personally to call upon me, as I am confined to my hotel and cannot call upon him. "If Senator TMlman f single averment after inspecting this proof be either equivocal or insufficient, I pro| p?se that Governor Wilson name two 'confidential frieinl3, I naming two, the four to name a fifth, and this i Court of gentlemen established to determine the issue between us. "I must insist that this be done without delay, as 1 shall have to leave Washington next Tuesday night to fill important engagements elsewhere." Senator Tillman declined to reply to Col. Watterson's "challenge" of Friday night in connection with the controversy. "If Col. Watterson has any proofs of what he says, he ought to publish them. 1 have nothing more to say." This was Senator Tillman's only comment. Jt had been reported earlier in the day that he would make e dotailod reply. ? -? iiiitu IIIM/I; i i<j/iutirjU iviiihbiii. Shot by Husband of Woman She Accused of Slander. 'Miss Eva Chambers, a young school teacher, was shot ano kiled near her school, at Lockett's store, in Roanoke county, Va., Wednesday by Joshua Raines. Later ho shot and wounded Charles Day, one of his neighbors. Raines then surrendered himself to the police authorities there. The killing is said to nave been the result of a suit for siander against Mrs. Raines, tiled several days ago by Miss Chambers. The contention is substantiated by a statement reported to have been made Wednesday night by Raines, to the effect that he went to see Miss Chambers, walked about a hundred yards with her and tried to get her to dismiss the suit, and when she refused he shot her. The slander suit was instituted after Mrs. Haines had attempted to oust Miss Chambors as teacher. It was then that Mrs. Raines is alleged to have circulated reports reflecting on Miss Chambers* eharactor. Raines was taken to Pulaski Wednesday night and lodged in jail there. This was a precautionary measure, (ho Judge fearing a lynching. Raines* only motive for attempting to kill Chas. Day was because of the interest that Day had taken in Miss Chambers. The grudge that Raines held against the young woman began when she left his home as a boarder and took up her residence with Day and his wife. ? Negro Convicted of Murder. At New York, Joseph Roberts, a negro, was convicted of murder in the first degree Friday afternoon for the killing of Isaac Vogel, & Jewelry salesman, on December 6. The prisoner hoard tho verdict with a omiio,