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wJONES GOES AHEAD MS FRIENDS CLAIM THAT HE WON IN PRIMARY WILSON VERY POPULAR * Tho Defeat of Ilenibcrt, for Dcle};at? to tho Jlichlund County Convention, and Turning Down of ihc Coventor by One Newberry Club Boost Jones Stock, Tho Columbia correspondent of tho News and Courier under date of Sunday, April 28, says: "Bleasism" is tho issue in the coming campaign for Governor, and on that the political differences will be fought out this summer. Judge Ira B. Jones leading those opposed to "Bleaselsm," and Governor Blease representing the issue which was created on tho day that ho was elected Governor of South Carolina. And this fact is borne out by tho reports from tho Democratic Club meetings held all over the Stato yesterday afternoon and last night and the results of the meetings will have an Important bearing on tho coming campaign for Governor. On I ho surface, and from the necessarily incomplete reports received from the club meetings, Judge Jones' friends carried tho day and they are wearing a broad smile, saying: "Look, what tho sentiment is; Judge Jones will ride into oflice on a big popular wave and Governor Blease and 'Bleaseism' will go down to defeat under an avalanche of votes for Jones." This is the view as expressed by a prominent Anti-Bleaseite hero today, in commenting on the %v><:iilt? nf -Mm r?lnh lrmf night. The do feat of George R. Rembert a? a delegate to tlie Richland County Convention Is lookod on as a heavy blow to the Rlease cause. Mr. Rembert was the administration leader In the House last year and on several occasions expressed his friendship for the Governor and his determination to stand by him; this was one of the contributing causes, if not the ? real reason why Mr. Rembert was t i left out of the delegates to the Rich1 land County Convention by the voters of Ward 1 last night. Senator Weston, Representative You mans end'former Representative John .7. McMahan, all Anti-Rlcaseites, were i numbered on the delegation elected from Ward 1. The defeat of Governor Rlease In Ward 3, in Newberry, last night, as a candidate to the Newberry County < Convention, is pointed out by the Jones forces as another indication of the way the people are standing poJ lifically. Although the Governor was I subsequently elected a delegate from another ward, the Jonesites argue i that as it has been one of the boasts of the Governor that he could always I get what he wanted, politically, in Newberry, and that his homo county 1/ is behind him, the fact that ono club turned him down last night Is significant. It goes without saying that I this fact will bo stressed in the cam r palgn this summer. Unofficial reports from Anderson ig ivo tho majority of the delegates to the County Convention there to Jones .and a telegram received hero stated that Anderson was overwhelmingly against Blease as far as the res'ults of the club meetings wero concerned. Anderson was in the Blease column ^ two years ago, and both he and Judge 4 Jones have recently been making ' -speeches there. The endorsement of i Jones In Ceorgetown and the rout of J tho Blease forces in Aiken Is causing Jones stock to boom today. Tho next tost will como when the county conventions convene May G, / at noon, to select delegates to the S'nte Convention. The Antl-Bleasites are already claihilng a majority of th(? county conventions and as a result claim tho State Convention, ? which meets on May 15, and add I that (lovernor Blease will be defeat* cd as a delegate at largo. While It. Is too early to get an accurato idea on this lino, still this much Is certain, the Anti-Bloaselates are conllf dent of controlling tho State Conven tion by as large a majority as tliey controlled th0 last Legislature, and all recall bow overwhelming their i majority was In the General Asscm- j L my. | That there is a strong likelihood 1 If / that the South Carolina delegation 'o 1 Baltimore will be instructed for Gov- i I ernor Woodrow Wilson for President li Is apparent; in several ward and preI y cinct meetings last night his candiJf dacy was endorsed and delegates to (, the County Convention instructed for < 4 him. It remains for the results from 1 the County Convention to como in be- ! fore anything definite can bo risked as to instructions, but this Is safe: 1 South Carolina is for Woodrow WI1- < son for the Domocratic nomination t for President. 1 Governor Bloase will bo In tho ( State Convention as a delegate from jL Newberry and his friends are claim- < 1 lng that delegation as well as many i I others from other counties. They < I point out that, anyhow, only about 1 I one-fourth to one-third, and probably 1 I less, of the voters attend the club I H Wr MASSACRE HORRORS ? THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT .IS J1E1NG CRITICISED. For the Massacre in Fez When a Largo Number of French Citizens Wci'e Killed or Wounded. The massacre at Fez, in which a largo number of French officers, soldiers and citizens were killed and wounded, has given rise to considerable criticism of the government authorities at Paris for not foreseeing and preventing the occurrence. Premier Poincaire telegraphed Friday to Eugene Regnault, the French minister, to make a complete investigation. The special correspondents of the French newspapers at Fez indicate that the plot of the rebels Included the* massacre of the whole of the French mission headed by M. Itej#nault, which recently arrived at the capital to establish the protectorate. This plan failed owing to the Impatience of the Arabian women to begin the carnage. These women are described by the correspondents as creatures of terrifying appearance who rushed about the streets, torturing the wounded and sometimes aiding the Moorish rebels in the final 'mutilation and desecration of the victims. Scenes of horror occurred in the Jewish quarters of the city where the mob murdered, pillaged and burned ail the Jews they could find, throwing! their bodies from the roofs. Many young girls were carried off to suffer outrages. The Jewish quarter was set on fire and three-fourths of it entirely destroyed, rendering over a thousand persons homeless. The complete story of tho death of the French telegraphed is a narrative of coolness and bravery. Although they possessed only one revolver among them, they kept the mob at bay for a considerable time, killing sixteen of the fanatics. All (ho time one or another of thorn was sending off dispatches to headquarters at Tangier, telling cf the plight of the Europeans. Finally, however, th0 Arabs tore a hole in tho roof, Into which they sent a murderous hail of bullets and flaming torches, which set lire to tho telegraph room. Three of the telegraphers fell dead and the fourth turned his revolver on himself rather than fall living into the hands of the fanatics. The shot missed and lie was later able to escape from the burning building. Fears are expected in Paris that similar outbreaks may occur in other parts of Morrocco. HAI> VERY NARROW I&SCAl'E. ? Family Reft House Just Reforo Cyclone Struck It. A cyclone, fortunately, not very violent, blew in George's Creek township, Barnwell county, the early part of the week, demolishing tho frame dining room of John Tucker, unrooting his barn and wrecking a nearby unoccupied log cabin. Mr. Tucker, and his family had a very narrow escape from serious injury, as they were about to begin eating dinner when they became alarmed and ran out Into the yard just before the dining room was blown down. The cyclone made a path about 100 yards wide, and was less than half a mile from the track of tho tornado of April 23, 1 886, which did great damages, traces of which are yet to bo seen. meetings, and that even if the Jonesites are in control of the majority of the club meetings, it does not follow that he has tho majority of tho voters They have not yet conceded that the Stato Convention will bo AntiBlease, but they are confident that Governor Blcase will ho reelected and laugh at the claims of somo of the friends of Judge Jones that ho will have from 20,000 to 3 0,00 0 majority over Please for Governor. In fact, many of them place it the other way, that Blease will have a big majority over Jones for Governor. That no quarter is going to be asked or given is evident from tho re suits In several of tnc ward meetings last night. "Illeaselsm" is the issue, and tho fight was started from vhe ground, which were the club meetings. It will rago fiercer in tho nounty conventions, hotter still in tno Stato Convention and reach its climax in tho primary. W. F. Caldwell. ? ? Fired His House and Died. After driving his wife and ten children out of his house, eight miles from Claxton, (la., Thursday, Doc Shumnn locked himself up In tho building and set it afire, burning tiimself to death. The house was destroyed before neighbors could reach , tho place. ? ? ? Stole lloozc From Club, Tho Lexington Social club was entered by robbers some tlmo during Sunday night a week ago, and several rpiarts of whiskey and a lot of beer Is alleged to have been stolen. The burglars entered by breaking through two doors, supposedly with an axe. <4 .1 V. , I .v ] , -i i I SUICIDE OR MURDER MAN FOUND SLAIN IN COLUMBIA SANITARIUM. A FRIEND IS ARRESTED J. I). Stuckey Found Dead With Ills Throat Cut, and J. A. DuHoso, His Friend, Bolh From the Ilishopville Section, is Arrested Charged With the Awful Deed. The State says J. A. DuBose of Bishopville, a traveling salesman, was arrested Sunday night on rhe charge of having murdered his friend, J. D. Stuckey, of Bishopville, a wealthy planter, who was found lying 011 his bed with his throat cut in a Columbia sanitarium Sunday night about 8:15 o'clock. After an investigation by Sheriff Coleman and Coroner Walker, which lasted for over three hours, .Mr. DuBose was arrested. There was every Indication that Mr. Stuckey had committed suicide except that the knife with which he cut his throat could not be located anywhere in his room. The knife, a doublo-bladed bone-handle instrument, was found in a pocket of a coat belonging to Mr. DuBose in his room 011 Lady street. There were two small splotches of blood on tho blade. .After the knife was found Mr. DuBose said that ho lent it to Mr. Stuckey and picked it up when he found him dead in his room. A11 inquest over the remains of Mr. Stuckey, who was a prominent and widely connected citizen of Bishopville was held Monday. Before his arrest Mr. DuBose, who seemed deeply shocked, talked very freely about the affair. He said that a relative of his friend, Mr. Stuckey, told him at tho Jerome hotel Sunday afternoon that he was undergoing treatment at the sanitarium and would iiko to see mm. Mr. DuBose eamo to tho sanitarium about 7:3 0 o'clock Sunday night and talked to his friend in tho sitting room. Mr. Stuckey had been suffering with delirium tremens, according to Dr. M. M. Rice, and had jtold several peoplo at tho sanitarium that he was afraid of being arrested. Mrs. Stuckey, who had been at the sanitarium with her husband ever since ho came to Columbia a week ago, left for her home in Bishopville Sunday afternoon, after telling those in charge of the patients to keep a close watch over Mr. Stuckey, as she was afraid lie would do himself injury. Mr. DuBose said Sunday night that Mr. Stuckey, whom ho had known for years, told him about his hallucinations and ho advised him to think of something else. After they talked a while and made arrangements to spend the night together, 'Mr. DtiRoso says his friend asked him to lend him a pencil. "I told him I didn't have one and ho walked out of tho room," said Mr. DuBose. Ho was gone some time. I found tho negro porter back In the j nail and asked him to show mo Mr. Rtuckey's room, which he did. I opened tho door and saw him lying on tho bed with blood all over tho pillow. I walked over to the hed and put my hand on him to see if ho were alive." Mr. DuBose then informed Dr. O. E. Thomas, manager of tho sanitarium, that Mr. Stuckey's throat had been cut. Dr. Thomas telephoned for a physician first and then for Coroner Walker, who arrived about 8:30 o'clock. The coroner found Mr. Stuckey lying full length on one of the three beds in his room at the sanitarium. His left arm lay across his chest and bis right arm was straight down his side. There was a long, deep gash on the left side of his throat, but there was no knife in his hand, nor could! 0110 bo found 011 tho bed or in the room. A note, written in a scrawling hand with pencil on a scrap of pasteboard, was found lying on a table in the room. Tlio noto read: "I am innocent God knows it." Tho latter part of tho signature on tho noto was almost illegible, but tho first name, "Jim," could bo easily read. The last namo began with an S. Tho fact that Mr. Stuckey was subject to hallucinations duo to delirium tremens, the finding of the note, the position of tho body and tho distribution of the blood about tli0 bed ( all led to tho belief that he had committed suicido, but tho kuifo with which tho deed was done could not he found. Coroner Walker questioned Mr.' DuBose, the negro porter and others in tho sanitarium. Afterwards Mr. DuBose said that if ho wore not needed ho would go to his room on Lady street. He came bacic in a snort while. In tho meantime, after ho nail made a futllo search for tho knife, Coronor Walker notified SherlfT Coleman. An undertaker removed tho body of Mr. Stuckey to the morgue whero It was held until tho Inquest. Sheriff Coleman and Coroner Walker questioned 'Mr. DuBoso in & i __ \ L I THEY WILL BOTH LOSE BitYAN THINKS THIS WITjL BE RESULT OF FIGHT Between ltoosevelt and Tuft, niul He Quotes Their Reciprocated Attack * to Show Their Unfitness for Of/ice. Declaring that lie believed the result of the Roosevelt-Taft light would bo the nomination of another man by the Republicans, William J. Bryan in a speech at Tampa, Fla., Friday morning used the words of #each against the other as evidence of the unfitness of both. "Indeed," said Mr. Bryan, "I am daily apprehending the suggestion A. \ i. T I . 1 i. . .1 ? ixixic i ue iiomiiiaieu us a conipromlso Republican candidate on the declaration of Roosevelt that 1 am nioro progressive than Taft, and of Taft that I am less dangerous than Roosevelt." Mr. Bryan, in denouncing Underwood as the candidate of Wall street, explained that he was not necessarily against a Southern man, hut that if the nomination of a Southern man was desired, "why not a real Southern Democrat like lloko Smith. OUio James or Charles Culberson?" lie reiterates that hi hati i;o preference between, progressives hut that the Democratic party should not throw away this greatest of its opportunities by nominating a reactionary. "I am now paying off," he said, "some of the debts I owe to the good Democrats who have supported me and when I leave here 1 am going to Ohio to pay off about 20 debts of the same sort." He added that if a progressive is nominated at Baltimore, he would show the-country that he could light more effectively for another man than ho had fought for himself. A large crowd stood in the sun from eight to nine a. m. to hear the speaker, who loft Immediately after his address for other points on his Florida itinerary. } * * * WILL KKI'ir HANDS OFF. ?. 'I1 i 1 1 II I <> II 'I'lll.'KU 1 III I III i !1 1 I ll?? l^'l ?. M M a ??% ? * ?? ??^?7 >!'?? 1 *I?S Stand in State Fight. Senator Tillman has Issued the following card about the gubernatorial race in this State: "My attention lias been called to a statement by the newspapers and rumors in some parts of South Carolina, that I have said 1 would support (lov. Blease for re-election. There are also rumors and statements that I am giong to vote for Judge Jones. "I want to say once for all that I announced early last fall that I would ho 'hands off in the coming tight for governor, and I take this occasion to repeat that statement and to assure the people of South Carolina that if I should see any reason to change my attitude of impartiality between the two candidate, 1 will announce it over my own signature. "I beg them to give no heed to any statements, reports, rumors or assertions coming from any source con trary to tho above. It is none of my business. The people are perfectly competent to decide what man they want for governor, and I shall leave it to them." private room in the sanitarium. Exactly what ho told them is not known. They went down 011 tho second floor of tho building to search for the' knifo in tho bottom of tho light well. Then they held another conference with Mr. DuRose. They went with him to his room on Lady street, and the knife was produced from a pocket of a coat. Mr. DuRose told the oiTieers that he had lent Mr. Stuckey his knife, which he had asked for with the pencil. When he went in search of his friend and saw him lying on tho bed with blood all over the pillow, Mr. i DuRose told the ofllcers be took tho pocket knifo up and put it. in his pocket. Then ho notified Dr. Thomas of what had happened to Mr. Stuckey. night commented on the fact that, although parts of tho fingers and the back of Mr. Stuckey's right band were blood smeared, bis palm and tho lower joints of his fingers had no blood on them. This was taken as an Indication that he bold tho knife in his band and conforms to Mr. DuRose's final statement to Sheriff Coleman and Coroner Walker, made only after much questioning. ? Sparrow Causes Trouble. Two fighting English sparrows caused tho death of Jacob Doll, a! prosperous farmer living near Clarksburg, W. Va., this week. Ho was sleoning on his front porch when tlio birds swooped violently upon his neck. The beak or talon of ono caught In his flesh, tore a hole In tlio j jugular vein and caused him to bleed to death. . + ? + Kills His Wife nn<l Self. Judge E. A. Robertson, of Alpbaretta, Ga., ordinary of Milton county, who shot and killed his wife Wednesday, died in a hospital at Atlanta! Thursday morning from two bullet. | wounds ho Inflicted Immediately af-1 ter shooting Mrs. Robertson. Jealousy is said to have been tho cause j r/t tho tragedy. V I \'l TEDDY JKINS BILL : CHARGES "CROOKED DEAL" AND "HYPOCRISY" TO TAFT 'flays former friend Declares President, Through "Feebleness," Yielded to "flosses and Interests," is Guilty of "Deliberate Misrepresentation" and "Disloyal to 10very Canon of Ordinary Decency and Fair Dealing." In a speech at Worcester, Mass., Friday Roosevelt went for Taft with gloves off. lie said in part: "In this campaign I regard the issue at stake as altogether too important to permit it to be twisted Into one of personalities between President Taft and myself, lint Mr. Taft's speeches yesterday contained statements that I must answer. When lie said that I have endeavored to minimize the importance of my Columbus speech, lie says what he must knowis untrue. "Again, when Mr. Taft in any speech speaks of me directly or obliquely as a neurotic or a demagogue, or in similar terms, he had better preserve bis own self-respect by not protesting that it gives him pain to do so. 1 have never alluded to him in terms even remotely resembling these. 1 have never quoted his private letters or private communications. 1 have discussed exclusively his public utterances. Even where I was obliged to bo severe, ! 1 was always narliamentarv and ncv cr hypocritical. Nor do I Intend today to deviate from this standard, although tho President's speech makes it necessary for mo to speak more plainly on certain subjects than I have yet spoken." Tho bosses, Roosevelt declared, were on the President's side. "Mr. Taft said yesterday that ho never in thought or deed had been disloyal in his friendship for me. It is hard for me to answer such a statement, save by calling it tho grossest and most astounding hypocrisy. When Mr. Taft made that statement he had just sent to the United States Senate, on half an hour's notice, obviously in collusion with the Ix)rimer Democratic Senators who made tho request, papers which were intended to convey the impression that I had Improperly favored tho Harvester Trust by declining to prosecute it in 1 007. "When 'Mr. Taft takes the action ho did he has not. merely in thought, word and deed been disloyal to our past, friendship, but has been disloyal to every canon of ordinary decency and fair dealing such as should obtain even in dealing with a man's bitterest opponents. Such conduct represents tho very crookedest kind of crooked deal. "This is not an exceptional in stance of how ho behaved to inc. The same course was followed last summer in connection with the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. The assaults upon mo by Mr. Taft's campaign managers, made in Washington under Mr. Taft's very eyes, have been foul to tho vergo of indecency. Hut remember, I am not complaining of these things; I care nothing for Mr. Taft's personal attitude toward me; I allude to it only in passing and merely becauso Mr. Taft lays such emphasis on the matter. "Mr. Taft says that tho Influence of Federal ofllceholders in tho Chicago Convention this year will ho less effective for one candidate than ever before in tho history of tho party. This is not only an untrue, but It is an absurd untruth. Never in thirty years close observation have I seen such scandalous abuse of tho patronage as this year. "Some of tho abuse of patronage has been don? directly by Mr. Taft himself, as in tho case of tho various North Carolina nominations. Moreover, does Mr. Taft think that the people havo forgotten tho letter his secretary sent out as to restoring to tho Insurgent Senators tho patron igo of which he had deprived then? Having all those facts in view it is' simply astounding that Mr. Taft should venture the assertion that he has not used tho Federal patronage (o aefraud politics, "Mr. Taft states that 1 advised : him to havo a meeting with Mr. Cannon. I advised him to meet everyone, to consult with everyone, to try to get on with everyone. Hut no less 1 emphatically I advised him to follow my example, to consult freely with all tho politicians and to try to , I get on with them, but whore tho politicians split off from the pooplo then i to stand with tho pooplo and not with the politicians, and It is precisely this that he failed to do. j "Mr. Taft, without my pormis sion, no conunuca, nas quoieu entiro lottors from mo written in answer to letters of his, which were marked 'confidential.' I shall so far (avail myself of his example as to quoto four lines of a letter from him to me which was not marked 'confidential.' It was written shortly after ho became Prosldont. It runs: " 'I can nevor forget that the pow ..i.'. 1 ' fl DEATH DEALING STORM FOKTY-ONE LIVES LOST IN OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS. ? Moro T?m Ono Iluiidrcd Persons Hurt and a Number of Places Not Heard From. Approximately 4 1 lives were lost ? ? i. - -.4 -.1. ; _l. r< ? i i ? in uiu siuriu WHICH oaiuiuay anuirooa swept northward from Childress, Tex., into Oklahoma and over a portion of tho southwestern and central part of that Stato. There aro reports of other fatalities, but these ( cannot bo verified. Tho list of in- f jurcd totals more than 100. Fully l!0 towns were embraced in tho storm swept area. Up to an early hour Sunday night, no word had como from the towns of Ei Dorado, Warren, Martha, and Flair, all four of which Saturday reported to have suffered severely Tho heavy wind was accompanied by a terrific downpour of rain and in many instances hail. The fall of rain amounted to from one to five inches. As a result all of the smaller streams in western Oklahoma aro on a rampage. Tho Hock Island bridge over the Climarron river, 3 0 miles south of Enid, was washed out. All trains aro being detoured. Two branches of Elk creek west of Ilobart have joined and the stream is over a milo wide A farmer's family of four, living west of Ilobart, names unknown, are saitl to liavo been killed. High water prevents rescue parties from visiting that part of the country. All rural telephono lines are down. All of central Oklahoma seems demoralized and it will be several days before anything like an accurate estimate of tho property loss or list of the dead and injured can be secured. A call for aid was sent by town ollicials of Lugert who say there aro 30 destitute families tliero. Following is a summary of the damage to life and property in the storm swept territ nrv Foss, Okla., ton persons reported killed; 25 or 30 injured; town badly torn up. Butler, Okla., nine reported killed; many injured, several buildings blown down. Sentino, Okla., two persons reported killed; 50 houses blown down. Hinton, Okla., one person killed; many injured; score of buildings blown down. Ilobart, Okla., country west of this point visited by terrific winds; two known dead, four other reported [dead; several Injured; great damage to property. I/i'gert, Okla., two killed, fivo fatally injured, and score less seriously hurt; one storo building left standing. Kooky, Okla., ono killed; half town blown awy; upwards of dozen Injured. Calumet, Okla., three killed; six or eight injured; heavy property loss. El Dorado, Okla., no news since Saturday afternoon, when it was reported four killed and many Injured. Martha, Warren and Blair still cut off from communication and nothing heard from them since Saturday's re port. They wore blown away. Reports of numerous smaller cyclones were received from Minco, Yukon, Mulhall and points In Garfield county, south of Enid. Near Childress, Texas, seven dead and great damago to property. or I now oxoreiso was voluntarily transferred from you to me and that 1 am under obligations to you to see to it that your judgment in selecting me as your successor and bringing about the succession shall bo vindicated according to the standards which you and I, in conversation, havo always formulated.' It i sa bad trai: to bite the hand that feeds you. "No other man in this country was as much interested as I was in having Mr. Taft succeed. No other man with my principles and my convictions has supported him for so long a time and has so bitterly regretted being unab'e to support him for a longer time. I eagerly sought every opportunity to stand by him and long after I felt deep in my heart that ho was unfit to lead his people. 1 i of used to acknowledge the fact to nml ?t I'll pnnvlnon self that ho was fit and cluthched at every opportunity to back him up. "Until loss than a year ago I kept desperately hoping that either Mr, Taft himself would, at least, show himself reasonably fit for the task befor him or that if he failed some ono could turn. Reluctantly I made up my mind that Mr. Taft could not do tho task and I became convinced that tho people of tho great West felt that I would bo untrue to them if I refused to act as their standardbearer "I do not think that Mr, Taft means 111; I think he moans well. Rut ho means well feebly, and during lijls administration ho has been under tho Influence of men who are neither well meaning nor feeble. It Is this quality of feebleness In a normally amiable man which pro-em!n? cntly fits such a man for use In high ofllco by the powers of evil."