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VERY FEWARE LEFT
fEX-GONFEDERATES NOW IN THE
SENATE AND HOUSE
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ONLY TWELVE ALL TOLO
Story (Jiving Beprescntative Lamb,
of Virginia, Credit for Being Only
Confederate Veteran in House
Proves Krroncous, as There Are
Several in the lfouse and Five in
Senate.
Several days ago the following
press dispatch was sent out of Washington
with reference to the proceedings
of the House on the previous
day:
"An appropriation of $50,000 to
enable the Federal Government t
participate in the celebration of tho
fifteenth anniversary of the battle
of Gettysburg passed the House amid
cheers, which followed a spirited appeal
by Representative Lamb, of Virginia,
a Democrat, and the only Confederate
Veteran in the House. He
spoke in favor of the appropriation."
The fact that an experienced observer
at Washington thinks that
Capt. Lamb is the only Confederate
Veteran left in the House of Representatives
is an indication of the effect
of the passing years upon a classof
public men whom- the South has
delighted to honor. They are nearly
all in the other world or too old and
feeble to stand the duties of public
office. But it is incorrect to say that
Capt. Lamb is the only Confederate
Veteran in the House.
Picking up the last issue of the
Congressional Directory, the very
first name that metts our gaze in
the list of biographies of the Representatives
now serving is that of a
Confederate Veteran?George W.
Taylor, of the 1st Alabama district.
Congressman Taylor entered the Confederate
army at the age of fifteen
years, when he was a student at an
academy at Columbia, S. C., and
?- served until the end of the war as a
private and later as a courier In the
1st South Carolina cavalry. On the
next page is the name of Representative
William Richardson, of the 8th
Alabama district, who was severely
wounded whilo serving in the Confederate
army at the battle of Chickamatfga.
Judge Atterson W. Rucker, member
for the 1st Colorado district,
was for four years in the Confederate
army, entering it from his native
(State of Kentucky, where he was
born in 184 7. Another Confederate
Veteran who saw strenuous service
is the Hon. Albert Estopinal, of the
1st district of Louisiana, and Representatives
J. F. C. Talbott, of Maryland,
was in the Southern army during
the war's last two years.
Major Charles M. Stedman, of
Greensboro, N. C., who represents
the 5th district of that State, has the
distinguished Confederate record of
having served throughout the war,
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DGginII 111K ilL XJCLiiCl UUU cuuiufc at
Appomattox.
Though a little over seventy-one
years of age, Major Stedman looks
to be only a little over sixty. lie has
an erect form and a strikingly handsome
face, with snow-white hair, and
b a short beard of the same color. Several
times during the pension debate
visitors in the House galleries have
f guessed that ho was Gen. Sherwood,
^ of Ohio, patron of the celebrated service
pension bill for Union veterans,
who is also a Democrat. Major Stedman
looks exactly the part of a veteran
soldier who has held and deserved
high command.
Though Capt. Lamb, Virginia's
Confederate Veteran member, is onl>
six months older than Major StedIman,
the Virginian is much less robust
In physique and shows much
more plainly the impress of his threescore
and eleven years. Capt. Lamb
was also thrice wounded.
Confederate Veterans are not so
few in proportion to the Senate's
membership, which is of a higher
average as to age. It has been said
that the surest way to make a man
live forever, is to elect nun to tnat
h distinguished body, where the lion.
[ Henry Gassaway Davis, West Virginia
ia's ninety-year-old wonder, is often
tar-' eeen chatting merrily with former
H colleagues, some of whom look older
H than he does, though they are really
I from ten to twenty years younger.
Both of Alabama's Senators are
Confederate Veterans, Senator Bankhead
having been wounded three
^B times in tho war and Senator John^B
ston four times; Senator Bacon, of
Georgio, entered tho Southern army
B at the beginning of hostilities; Sen
ator Thornton, of TiOuisiana, volun
leered in 18(13, when he was sevenB
teen, and Senator Mar,in, of YirB
ginia, v/ho was a cadet at the VirB
ginia Military InRtit.tto in the las'
B year of the war, served with the luH
atltute batallion during the most of
tn tho Confederate arn.y
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participating In the engagement at
Newmarket, whero (ho cadets rt'd
H such noteworthy work.
Thus there are now re\en ConfedI
erate Veterans In the House of Re.;B
reaon tat Ives and five In the Senate ?
H only ft dozen In the whole Congress.
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SHE WON BULL RUN
A WASHINGTON SOCIETY WOMAN
ACTEI> AS A SPY.
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Mrs. Greenhow Kept Generals Johnston
anil Beauregard Posted as to
Federal Troops.
In Harper's, for March, William
Gilmore Beymer tells the true story
of Mrs. Greenhow, a Washington woman
of gentle birth who acted as a
spy for the Confederacy and gave the
information which resulted in the
Confederate victory at Bull Run.
"Washington lay ringed about
with camps of new-formed regiments,
drilling feverishly. Already the
press and public had raised tlio cry,
On to Richmond.' When would they
start? Where would they lirst
strike? It was on those two points
that the Confederate plan of campaign
hinged. It was Mrs. Greenhow
who gave tho information. To
Gen. Beauregp.rd at Manassas, where
he anxiously awaited tidings of the
Federal advance, there came about
the 10th of July the first message
from Mrs. Greenhow. Tho message
told of the intended advance of tho
enemy across the Potomac and 011
to Manassas via Fairfax Court House
and Centreville. It was brought
into the Confederate lines by a young
lady of Washington. Miss Duval,
who, disguised as a market girl, carried
the message to a house near
Fairfax Court House, occupied by the
wife and daughters (Southern) of an
officer in the Federal army. Gen.
Beauregard at once commenced his
preparations for receiving the attack,
and sent ono of his aides to President
Davis to communicate the information
and to urge the immediate
concentration of the scattered Con
federate forces.
"But still the Federal start was
delayed, and the precise date was as
indefinite as ever. It was during
this period of uncertainty that G.
Donellan, who, before joining the
Confederates, had been a clerk in the
department of the interior, volunteered
to return to Washington for information.
He was armed with the two
words 'Trust Bearer' in Col Jordan's
cipher, and was sent across the Potomac
with instructions to report to
Mrs. Greenhow. He arrived at the
very moment that she most needed a
messenger. Hastily writing in cipher
her all-important dispatch, 'Order issued
for McDowell to move on Manassas
to-night,' she gave it to Donellan,
who was taken by her agents
in a buggy", with relays of horses,
down the eastern shore of the Potomac
to a ferry near Dumfries, where he
was ferried across. Cavalry couriers
delivered the dispatch into Gen. Beauregard's
hands that night, July 16.
"And the source of Mrs. Grenhow's
information? She has made
the statement that she 'received a
copy of the order to McDowell.' Allan
Pinkerton was not wrong when
he said that she 'had not used her
powers in vain among the officers of
the army.'
"At midday of the 17tli there came
Col. Jordan's reply:
" 'Yours was received at S o'clock
at night. Let them come; we are
ready for them. We rely upon you
for precise information and destination
of forces, quantity of artillery,
etc.'
"She was ready with fresh information,
and the messenger was sent
back with the news that the Federals
intended to cut the Manassas Clap
Railroad to prevent Johnson, at Winchester,
from reinforcing Beauregard.
After that there was nothing to he
done but await the result of the inevitable
battle. She had done her best..
What that best was worth she learned
when she received from Col. Jordan
the treasured message:
" 'Our President and our general
direct me to thank you. We rely
upon you for further information.
The Confederacy owes you a debt.'
"When the details of the battle became
known, and she learned how
the last of Johnson's 8,5 00 men
(marched to Gen. Beauregard's aid
because of her dispatches) had arrived
at three o'clock on the day of
the battle and had turned the wavering
Federal army into a mob of panic-stricken
fugitives, she felt that the
'Confederacy owed her a debt,' indeed."
He is a real man who possesses
fine feelings and graces, for he is
ever considerate of the feelings and
well being of others.
Whips Cow in Hot Battle.
Knocked down by an infuriated
cow, Mrs. R. S. Stewart, of Dixie,
da., seized it by the bonis wnon 11
attempted to gore her while she lay
prostrate on her back, and with several
well directed kicks upon its
stomach, drove it away until sho had
time to regain her feet and escape.
Tried to Loot the Ihink.
night charges of nitro-glycerine
were used in an unsuccessful attempt
:o loot a safe In the Bank of Ited
' 'ork ten miles south of Tulsa, Okla.
The outer vault door was blown out
but the safe Itself withstood the robbers
attack. The robbers escaped.
Nothing more solemnly attests the
work of f ather Time and his relent
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HE GIVES HIS VIEWS
BLEASE IS NOT OPPOSING "THE
CAMPAIGN CIRCUS."
STILL FOR liOV. HARMON
The Governor Says the County to
County Canvass About Only Way
for Him to Get His Speeches Hefore
the People and Discusses Some
Other Matters.
Governor Please gave out an interview
to The News and Courier correspondent
in Columbia on Monday
niglit in which he emphatically declared
in favor of the county-tocounty
tour for State candidates for
Governor and every other oilice; vigorously
declared in favor of an unrestricted
primary and advocated
sending an uninstructed delegation
ic the Democratic National Convention
in Baltimore.
In tlie interview he also announced
that his friends were going to present
his name to the Convention as
one of the delegates at large, and
endorsed Gen. Wilio Jones and advocated
reelecting him State chairman.
The interview of the Governor follows:
"I have noticed the editorial in
The News and Courier this morning
headed 'The Campaign Circus,' and,
as usual, the editor of The News and
Courier and myself do not concur In
our political views; for I am most
assuredly, as I have always been, in
favor of county-to-county canvass,
and of the election of all officers,
from coroner up, including the President
of the United States, by a direct
vote of the people.
"I am in favor of unrestricted primaries?that
is, of allowing every
white man in the State of South Carolina
the privilege of voting at the
primary, and when a majority
speaks, that the minority fall into
line and present a solid front against
all comers.
"I would be very foolish to oppose
a county-to-county canvass, for it is
well known that all of the daily newspapers
are opposed to me, and nearly
all of the county papers, and they
will not publish my speeches or give
my reasons for any actions of mine
as Governor, with the exception of
The News and Courier, which has,
cn some occasions, given my reasons
for pardons; therefore, I would have
absolutely no opportunity to get my
views before the people, or to defend
my administration if it were not
for the county-to-county canvass. I
am in favor of the rules and the constitution
remaining just as they are
and requiring every candidate for
State offices to go to each county seat
and delivering his speech, and if any
attempt is made in the coming ConirnnHnri
tr? rr??trir>f tho nrimarv. or to
do away with the county-to-county
canvass, my friends and myself will
be found in the forefront fighting for
the present system.
"So far as the delegates to the National
Convention are concerned, I
have noticed it stated in some of the
papers that I was in favor of sending
an instructed delegation for Harmon.
Twice in my life I have been
offered the position as delegate to the
National Convention from the third
Congressional district, and each timo
I declined to accept it, because I am
absolutely and unqualifiedly opposed
to sending an instructed delegation
anywhere. If we are going to send
men to Baltimore and instruct them
to vote for any particular candidate,
wo might as well save the expense
and just write out our votes and mail
them to the chairman of the Convention
and tell him, when South
Carolina is called, to open the envelope
and announce our vote. I
am in favor of sending a delegation
of good, strong, sober, representative
men and let them, when they get to
Baltimore, look over the entire situation
from every viewpoint and exercise
their own judgment in voting
for that man for the nominee of the
Democratic party who is best equipped
and most acceptable to the Democrats
of the entire country, in order
that we may all solidify, have no dissension
and no splits and win a Democratic
victory.
"Personally, T am for Harmon, because
I believe that Mr. Taft will be
nominated and i nciieve inai iiarmun
(lie only Democrat that can carry
Xcw York and Ohio against Taft, and
without these two States, the Democrats
cannot win. [f I believed that
.1 Southern man could win, of course,
I would be for a Southerner, (Irst,
last and all the time; and, when the
delegation reaches the Convention,
and look over the situation, and after
consultation with Democrats from all
over the country, it is believed that
a Southern man can win, thou I
would vote for a Southerner. My
present ticket would be, Harmon and
Foss.
"It has been tho custom to send as
delegates at large from this State,
tho two Senators; tho Governor, and
tho State chairman. I do not know
what tho policy of tho Convention
will bo this time. My name will bo
presented for one of tho positions.
Of course, it is left to tho dologatos
to say whether or not I will be eloctcd.
I take it for granted that Sen
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TEDDY AND CHAMP WIN
DEFEAT TAFT AND WILSON IN
ILLINOIS PRIMARY*
Former President and House Speaker
Beat Their Opponents by Two
to One in Preferential Votes.
Winners in the Illinois preferenA
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elections Tuesday, as indicated by
sufficient returns to warrant a prediction,
are as follows:
For President, Champ Clark, Democrat;
Theodore Roosevelt, Republican.
For United States Senator, L .Y.
Sherman, Republican; J. II. Lewis,
Democrat.
For Governor, Charles S. Deneen,
Republican; Edward F. Dunne, Democrat.
Col. Roosevelt's State managers
claimed his majority over President
Taft as from 100,000 to 150,000. Returns
indicate his vote was nearly
Jive to two for that for Taft. Presidential
delegates were not named
on tho ballots and will be elected
by Congressional districts and at
large, the effect of today's vote being
only to serve as a guide to party
officials, as indicating party feeling.
Roosevelt carried the home ward
of Congressman William B. McKinley,
Taft's campaign manager, in
Champaign; he was successful in the
17th Congressional district, where
Col. Frank E. Smith, the Taft State
manager, lives, and in former Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon's home, the city
of Danville, Roosevelt polled 1,844
to Taft's 1,2 27.
Senator LaFollette polled a small
vote. In Cook County, where It appeared
heaviest, the Wisconsin Senator
had an apparent vote of 14,440,
where Roosevelt's apparent vote was
8G.144 and that of Taft 52,064.
While Col. Roosevelt's lead in Cook
County was on a basis or approximately
of 8 to 5 over Taft, returns
?Vio Stato tnrHr?nt? hn ran
1 1 W 111 UUl 1U UIV. Miwtv ?u%?.vv%vw ..W .
stronger there, in places as high as 5
to 1, bringing the estimated average
to 5 to 2.
Champ Clark candidacy met just
the opposite results, in Chicago his
apparent majority, based on more
than three-fourth of the total number
of precincts, was above 90,000
or on a proportion of about 4 to 1
ever Wilson. In the State precincts
his lead was in a proportion of about
8 to 5, making the general proportion
as indicated in returns at midnight
about two to one.
PECULIAR AUTO ACCIDENT.
Lexington Woman Struck by Drivcrless
Car.
! The Lexington correspondent of
The State says 'Miss Lula Taylor,
aged about twenty, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jerod Taylor, suffered severe
injuries late Monday afternoon
in a peculiar automobile accident.
The young woman was out driving ,
with E. Sloan Crout and his brother
when the party met some friends in a '
buggy. Sloan Crout, the owner of '
the car, stopped the machine, forget- ;
tintr to nut it out of low gear, and ,
went to the buggy to talk with his
friends.
ilis brother and the young woman,
neither of whom were familiar with
tbe working of the machine, jokingly |
said that they were going to crank .
up the car, and both got out, standing
in front of the machine. The j
young man turned the crank, and in
an instant the machine started hurl- ^
ing him to the ground. The machine
passed over the girl's body and dashed
along down the road alone, finally
turning across the woods and crashing
into a large tree. Here it stopped.
Some parts being smashed.
The young man escaped with only
slight injury, but the young woman
suffered a severe shock, a broken
collar bono, several bruises about the
body, and possibly internal injuries.
She was carried to her home in a
buggy, and the family physician, Dr.
I?\ P. Derrick of Lexington, was cummoned.
Dr. Derrick stated Tuesday
that while she was suffering intense
pain ho hopes she would soon recover.
f1 1
ator Tillman will be elected without
opposition and that he will also be
re-elected a member of the Democratic
national executive committee
without opposition.
"As to the State chairman, Gen.
Jones has been a faithful officer and
has served for many years, without
reward or without the hope of re
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Will U, el ii V( i luiiiu ?.v> ?
a serious mistake to withdraw when
:i democratic victory seems to ho in
sight; for, if the Democrats should
win, the State chairman would naturally
he in a position to bo of much
service to his friends in dispensing of
patronage in tho State, and I really
think that tho General, having
served so long under a Republican
regime, that it is but duo him that
he should bo kept in tho posltioh
whether ho wants it or not, in order
that he may receive some benefit if
we should win a national victory. Of
course, I understand, somo peoplo are
opposed to hlirf, but I think that
even they will have to admit that he
has been perfectly fair and impartial
in tho discharge of his duties as State
chairman, and that he should be reelected."
W. F. Cladwell.
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CAUSES KEEN REGRET
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Member of the Freshman Class at the
Military Academy Struck by Bullet
While Occupying Pit Beneath Target
With Otlicers and Squad of His
Conu'ades.
The News and Courier says Cadet
Louis Geddings Dotterer, a member
of the freshman class at the Citadel
and the eldest son of Dr. Louis P.
Dotterer, of Charleston, was shot in
the head at 3:25 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon while at target practice
on the Rifle Range, where the Citadel
corps is now encamped, and died
a few minutes afterwards as a result
of his wound.
Cadet Dotterer with a squad of
officers and cadets was in the pit just
beneath the target when he met his
death. The bullet that brought his
life to an end came from one of the
rifles discharged in a volley by the
firing squad, which was shooting at
the target. The bullet struck the unfortunate
young man in tho back
of the head, after being deflected
down and after passing clear through ,
one of the boards of the shed which
covers the pit.
The accident appears to have been
as extraordinary as it was deplorable.
Cadet Dotterer, with a squad
of fifteen other cadets, Col. O. J.
Bond, superintendent of the Citadel,
and Lieut. Jervey, commandant of
tho corps, was in the pit just below
the target. On the firing line about
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tvv yarns away siuuu mo in nig
squad aiming at the target. The |
pit, which is about 6 feet deep, is1 |
almost directly beneath the target; I
and just in front of the pit is an I
embankment of earth about 10 feet
in height and 15 feet in width with
a heavy board backing. Extending 1
over the pit is a board shed to keep
off rain.
The targets are operated from the
t>it, from which they are raised and
into which they are lowered by
means of a lever operated by the
pit squad, which occupies the pit,
while target practice is going on, and j ?
registers the number of hits made |
by the firing squads. According to J
officers of the Citadel and militiamen !
who have practiced on the Range, ^
the high embankment in front, together
with the depth of the pit have ^
always in the past afforded perfect
protection to the men occupying it,
and the fact that the Ride Range
has been used for something like five
years without a single casualty g
of the sort would indicate that only %
by an extraordinary combination of )(
circumstances could any one in the (j
pit be injured by a bullet fired at (
the target.
Cadet Dotterer was standing near ,
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i. oi. nonu wnen a voney was urea ^
and the young man reeled and fell (
with a bullet wound in the back of (
his head. The ball had struck the ^
woodwork connected with the target,
had in some manner been deflected j,
downward and had passed through v
the shed above the pit. It was seen ^
at once that the young man was bad- n
ly wounded and Dr. It. S. Cat heart, '
the Citadel physician, was immedi- c
ately sent for and arrived soon afterwards.
Tn the meantime a messenger was
sent to summon any physician who
could be reached. Dr. Lane Mullally I
responded to the call for aid; but ?
before ho or Dr. Cathcart reached the i
s.-ene Mr. Dotterer was dead, the end I
coming only a few minutes after the 1
wound had been received. Deputy 1
Coroner John P. DeVeaux was sum- c
moned and viewed the remains, after r
which the body was removed to the
.T. M. Connelley undertaking estab
lishment.
News of tho fatal accident reached f
the city quickly and caused the keen- v
est sorrow to tho friends of tho I
young man and of his family. J^ouis t
Dotterer was a young man of ex- n
ceptlonal promise, and ho was loved (
and admired by all who knew him. t
Young as ho was?he was only In his II
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evunieenia year?no was a linu
peclmen of physical manhood. Ills
dss will bo deeply deplored by hunreds
of people here, whoso sympahy
goes out to his stricken family.
As a result of the accident, which
as cast gloom over the entire corps,
ho encampment of the cadets at
lamp Thomas, on the National'
?uard Rifle Range came to an end
Yednesday instead of on Saturday,
s was the original plan. Inspection
i.v the United States army officers
vill take place today, after which
he tents will be struck. The fiags
it Camp Thomas and at the Citadel
vill bo flown at half-mast as a mark
if respect for Cadet Dotterer.
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"Woman Killed by Auto.
At New York the almost lifeless
>ody of a frail little woman crushed
md bruised was found just before
nidnight Wednesday night prop- I
ted against a building on Upper j
liirhth avenue, where tho police he- I
leve somo heartless automobile
ihaueffour had placed it after runling
ovor the woman.
41 Witch" I toils Children,
Two children abducted by Enrilueta
Marti, of Barcelona, Spain,
vho intended to boil them Into lovo
)hilter8, havo been recovered. Tho ,
voman is held by tho police, because
i sackful of infants' hones has been
liscovered in her dwelling. At least
hree other children wore murdered
>y her, at is alleged.
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