The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 17, 1912, Image 8
TEDDY KEPT MONEY
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GIVEN BIN BY THE STANDARD
OIL COMPANT FOLK
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RECEIPT WAS BURNED
Standard Oil President Emphatic in
His Statement Before Senate
Probers and Admits the Authenticity
of letters to Senators and
. . Congressmen Published by Hearst.
Tho authenticity of the majority of
the letters recently made public by
William R. Hearst purporting to have
passed between John D. Archbold,
president of the Standard Oil Cornmembers
of the House and Senate,
pany, and members of the House and
Senate, was admitted by Mr. Archbold
before the Senate committee investigating
campaign activities and
expenditures.
Those letters, of which facsimile
photographs have been published,
were in almost every case identified
by Mr. Archbold, with the statement:
"I undoubtedly wrote that."
These included letters to and from
Senators Hanna, Foraker, Quay and
Penrose and former Representatives
Sibley of Pennsylvania, and Grosvenor
of Ohio.
Tho president of tho Standard Oil
Company, recalled by the committee
after making his showing in August
that he had given $100,000 to the
Republican campaign fund of 1904;
admitted Thursday that the receipt
given by Cornelius N. Bliss for the
sum had been destroyed by himself
and H. H. Rogers, now dead. He
said he had not been able to find
even a book entry of the amount, on
the books of the Standard Oil Company.
"I repeat that the money was
paid," he said, "and was not refused;
that it was paid by mo to Mr. Bliss.
I don't want any man to tell me it
was not."
Mr. Archbokl's Identification of
the various letters was followed by
little questioning from the committee.
He said the money referred to
in some of them as having been sent
to Senator Foraker, had .been for
legal services in the State of Ohio;
that he wrote to Senator M. A.
Hanna to watch legislative affairs
there, because Mr. Hanna had been
a life-long friend; and that a contribution
of $1,000 to Senator Quay
had been entirely a political contribution,
as had the $25,000 contribution
to Senator Penrose.
He did not know to whom <Mr.
Sibley had referred in the letter saying
that a certain Senator had requested
a loan of $1,000, and asking
if Mr. Archbold wanted "to make
the investment." He said lie did not
send the $1,000. had no talk with
Mr. Sibley about it and did not know
to whom the statement related.
Mr. Archbold presented four new
letters that he had found as the result
of a search of his files, the only
ones, he said, "that had escaped the
thieves." One was from President
Roosevelt.
"It is of little value, but I offer it
as showing the friendly attitude of
Mr. Roosevelt in 1 904, at a period
when he has indicated he considered
me under the ban," said Mr. Archbold.
The letter in full was as follows:
"White House, Aprri 26, 1 904.
"My Dear Mr. Archbold: I am in
receipt of your letter of -the 25th
and shall carefully take up the name
of your brother-in-law with the hope
that I can promote him. Sincerely
yours,
"Theodore Roosevelt."
The other letters and telegrams
related to one recently made public
by Mr. Hearst, in which Congressman
Sibley wrote Mr. Archbold that
President Roosevelt was anxious to
see him and advising him to come to
Washington and take luncheon with
the President. The letters addressed
to (Mr. Sibley expressed Mr. Arclibold's
regret that he could not come
nnH oYnrttQQoH ill A h nnA Hint V? n
might later visit the President. Mr.
Archbold told the committed that
he did not go to the White House at
that time, January, 1 904.
"Mr. Roosevelt, on the stand before
this committee, put me in the
peculiar attitude of having been
brought to luncheon with him in
1908 at Oyster Ray by Senator
Bourne," said Mr. Archbold.
He said that on a visit to the
White House, President Roosevelt
had spoken of the return of Mr.
Archbold's daughter and son-in-law
from Africa.
" 'I must have you bring them over,*
" the President said, according
to Mr. Archbold, and the latter added
that they went on the day appointed
to Oyster B<ay at the invitation
of Col. Roosevelt.
Mr. Archbold declared the letters
made public by Mr. Hearst had been
stolen from the files of his ofiice;
^ but he declined to name those whom
he suspected of the theft. He said
he believed the letters contained
"nothing that is subject to just criticism,"
and that they were "such
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mine would write to men in representative
positions."
"I never made a request of any
man that meant the infraction of an
existing law or the making of anv
new law, or the giving of any special
privilege," he said. "Of course,
conditions have changed. The campaign
publicity laws since made have
changed things, but the other matters
in the letters I would repeat today.
I have no apology to make."
He declared it was "amazing that
men in Mr. Roosevelt's position
would make the assertion that because
of this contribution of money
to Senator Penrose for campaign
purposes, Mr. Penrose should be exHHI
HELD UP TRAIN
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TRAIN MEN TURNED BACKS AM
1 BANDITS WORKED
Blow Open Two Safes of Express Car
on Kansas City Southern la Wild
Section of Oklahoma.
Three masked men who held up
and robbed a north-bound Kansas
City Southern passenger train near
Poteau, Okla., at 6.30 o'clock Saturday
evening appear to have gotten
safely away. Government secret
service men and local detectives have
been unable to get trace of them.
The bandits blew open two safes
in the express car with nitroglycerine
keeping the baggageman and express
messenger covered with, revolvers
while both .bandits and trainmen hid
behind trunks waiting for the two
safes to blow open. Part of the saf s
went through the roor of the car.
The robbers did not molest the
passengers or the rest of the train
crew. They boarded the train at
Frico railway crossing, a mile northeast
of Poteau. At this point Willie
West, a boy who lives near by, saw
the trio enter the express car. Willie
shouted to the passengers that
"there's robbers on the train," but
no one paid a.u-ntion to him.
At Tarby Prairie, two miles further
on, the train was brought to a
stop at the order of the bandits. J.
L Williams, baggageman, and I. H.
Kerr, an express messe iger, were
held up at the revolver muzzles of
two of the bandits, and the trainmen
^ere compelled to turn their backs.
While the two worked on the safes
the third waited outside the car.
After tearing open the envelopes
of the registered mail the robbers
rtunnof! a flour hac whlnh tlipv had
brought with them and dumped their
loot into it. Nothing was overlooked.
As they were leaving the train
one of the robbers forced the trainmen
to empty their pockets. Express
Messenger Kerr had $7.
"You wouldn't a laboring man.
would you" Kerr asked reproachfully.
The bandit looked at him hard
for a moment and then returned the
$7. While the bandits finished up
their work they ordered Kerr and
Williams to join the head brakeman,
who was being guarded by the third
bandit outside the express car. The
engineer and fireman took no chances
and remained docilely in the cab.
A rear-end collision with a freighttrain,
which was following the passenger,
was prevented by a brakeman,who
risked the bullets of the
bandits and ran down the track to
set out a lantern. The freight same
to a stop only a few hundred feet away
from the passenger train.
The robbers quickly disappeared
in the darkness up Kavanaugh Mpun
tain, firing three shots in the air as
they ran. The country is very wild
thus favoring their escape.
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Campaign Fund Scandal.
The revelations that have been
brought out about the scandal campaign
funds before the Senate committee
appointed to look into the
matter is simply amazing. It was
known that great sums had been rais
ec from time to time for the Republican
party, but very few suspected
that the corporations were such
liberal contributors as the evidence
taken by the committee shows them
to have been. The contributions to
Roosevelt's campaign in 1904 by the
corporations was very large.
"It was known of all men that Colonel
Roosevelt would easily win. ' In
the face of this, however, it now develops,
that Wall Street?including
Standard Oil, Mr. Harriman, and Mr.
Morgan, gave the National Republican
committee, at that time, $1,5 00,000.
That this immense gift was
made to insure the election of Colonel
Roosevelt is out of the question.
That they were made in the
hope of favors to come is the more
reasonable explanation," says the
Augusta Chronicle.
The Chronicle thinks that Senator
Dixon's statement before the
committee "that he had received dollars
by (the hundreds of thousands
for the pre-convention campaign of
Colonel Roosevelt and had spent
them as lie saw fit and best, keeping
no books and making no records of
receipts or expenditures," proves that
the exaction of publicity to campaign
contributions as now provided by
law, is little less than rediculous.
As the Chronicle says "so long as
there are political campaigns, just
so long will there be money expenditures.
To relate this expenditure
?to expose it ana its source to the
public gaze?will be a diflicult task.
The present publicity law is a start.
It may bo that the statute can be
perfected to accomplish the end desired.
At least Congress should
make efforts to so perfect it."
Bobbers Made Water Hauls.
Throe robbers early to-day blew
the safe in the State Hank, of Kremlin,
Okla., and wrecked the bank fixtures,
but were frightened away before
they obtained any loot. Two
hours later three men believed to bo
the .same men entered Douglas, blew
the safe in the State Hank, of Douglas,
and again escaped empty handed.
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Baptist State Don vent km.
The Haptist State Convention will
meet in Abbeville December 3 to 6, 1
inclusive, and the members of the ]
Baptist Church there are making ar- :
rangements for the entertainment of 1
the 400 ministers and laymen, who i
will be in attendance. 1
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pelled from the Senate." "It Is a 1
monstrous thing to say," 'Mr. Arch- <
bold said. I
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WHAT TEDDY SAID
A VOICE FIOH THE VHITENOSE
TALK TO SCOn
IT WANTED MODE MONEY
A Conversation Relating to Colonel
Roosevelt's Campaign Fund la Told
to the Senate Committee by KxSenator
Nathan B. Scott, Republican,
of West Virginia.
More testimony about the so-called
Harrlman fund of 1904 and the alleged
$100,000 Standard Oil contri-j
bulion was developed before the committee
the other day.
Former Senator Natha 1 13. Scott,
of West Virginia, testified thut the
istc. Cornelius N. Bliss iiad told him
of collecting $100,000 from the
Standard and that when he suggested
that Bliss ask the company for more,
Bliss told him President Roosevelt
had forbidden contributions from
that source. Scott related a conversation
he had on the te'ephono with
the "White House" about the Ww
Yonc campaign of 1904 in vhich
"the vcice at the White House" told
him "that Mr. Hnrriman was coming."
Judge Robert S. Lovett, chairman
ot the executive committee of the
Harriman railroads, testified that the
late iU. ii. iiarnmau nuu ium ui a, visit
to the White House and said that
President Roosevelt wanted him to
help the national committee raise
$200,000 for the New York state
committee. Former Senator Nathan
B. Scott, of West Virginia, was the
first witness Wednesday.
"When we got low in funds in October,
1904," he said, "I asked Mr.
BJiss if he could not go to 26 Broadway
and get some money. He said
'No,' that he had already secured a
contribution from those penopie. I
asked him how much they had given
and he said $100,000."
Mr. Scott said he was in Republica?i
national headquarters in New
York in October, 1904, when a telephone
call came "from the White
House" for Treasurer Bliss or Chairman
Cortelyou. Neither was present
so he talked on the wire.
Scott did not identify the speaker
at the White House end of the wive
but referred to him as "the voice
from the White House" and the "response
from the White House.''
" 'What is this trouble I hear about
Higgins?' " Scott said he heard over
the wire. "I hear he may be defeated.'
"
He told the "White House" that
Mr. Higgins was in danger.
" 'Can't the state committee supply
the necessary funds?" ' asked the
"White House."
Mr. Scott said he told of the difficulties
in getting money for the campaign
and the response from "the
White House" was:
" 'I would, rather lose the election
in the country than be defeated in
my own state.' "
"I replied: 'There is no danger of
your being defeated,' " said Mr
Scott.
He added that the voice at the
White House said: "Mr. Harriman is
coming to see me and I'll see if we
can arrange to raise the funds to help
Higgins."
Scott said the committee would
"have to judge" with whom he had
the conversation.
"Oh, I might as well answer your
question," he added, "I thought T
was talking with President Roosevelt."
When further questioned he said
he could not remember whether the
"party at the White House" had said
"Mr. Harriman is coming here," or
"1 will have Mr. Harriman come
here."
Scott said that when he suggested
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tnat muss go to zd nroaoway ior
more money, Rliss replied President
Roosevelt had notified him not to
accept Standard Oil contributions.
"When all the trouble broke out
about the life insurance companies
and campaign contributions," said
Scott, "I went to the White House
and suggested to President Roosevelt
when Mr. Perkins whs indicted, that
we who had benefitted by his contributions,
supply funds to replace those
he would have to return, and for the
use of which he was in trouble. I
said I was willing to return that
amount that had been sent into West
Virginia, but the president said no,
that if the money was to be returned
it should be returned by the party
as a whole."
Scott said he never had been informed
of a return of $100,000 to the
Standard Oil company or any director
of it.
Judge Robert S. Liovett, chairman
of the executive committee of the
ITarriman system testified:
"I knew of Mr. Harriman's visit to
Washington in October, 1004," he
unM "TTn tnlr! mo flip national cam
mittwas then in a hole and owed
the state committee $200,000. lie
said, "The president wants me to
help them out. and I've got to do it."
"Some days later he came to my
ofhee and gave me some checks and
cash. Mr. Bliss came and got them.
The sum was $250,0 00. The checks
were brokerage house checks and
were endorsed to Mr. Bliss. T told
him to sendt receints to the contributors
if he knew them."
Chums Had Quick Parting.
William Mitchell and Andrew Callery,
two members of an engine company
at Trenton, had been chums for
years. Mitchell's only regret was
that they could not have the same
meal hours. But Mitchell had his
(>ronkfast hour unexpectedly changed
1 few days ago and hastened home
:o tell his wife. There he found her
mtertaining his chum, and divorce
>roceedlngs are under way. ?i
WILL DO THE WORK
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THE COTTON PICKER HAS BERN
. MADB NEAR PERFECT.
It Will Now Bo MMofaetarotf Md
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I*nt on tho Markot for tbo Next
Year's Crop.
"Is the solution of the cotton-picking
problem near at hand?" asks the
Greenville Piedmont, which goes on
to say: "It seems almost too much
to even hope that such is the case
but there are indications that it is."
The solution comes in the form of a
machine, invented by Theodore H.
Price, well known the country over.
This machine was invented several
years ago but not until this year has
it reached a state bordering anything
like upon perfection. There are
many faults to be found with it yet
but according to those who have seen
It work, it is sure to be in general
use in a short time.
Mr. Price gave a demonstration
with the machine near Charlotte, N.
C., last fall. In the year, which has
intervened, he has made son-q more
improvements in it and this 3ek he
gave a demonstration at Laurlnburg,
N C. Editor Wade H. Harris of The
Charlotte Observer, saw the machine
at work near Charlotte last fall and
he saw it at work last week at Laurinburg.
The conclusions which he
reaches are most interesting.
Mr. Harris states that to all appearances
the machine is about the
same as it was when it was operated
in Charlotte and that on the first
picking it does about the same character
of work. On the second, however,
it leaves less than 3 per cent, of
cotton in the bolls or on the ground.
Mr. Harris says that the machinery
of the picker seems to have a
more rapid and more dependable
movement and that it does better
work is maifest. "However," he
continues," it is not ye?t perfected.
It is only improved in efficiency. Mr.
Price conceived the idea of performing
a second picking for the benefit
of the large number of farmers,
business men and capitalists who had
assembled to see what the machine
could do.
The result increased faith in the
utility of the machine. As in the
first going over by the picker, neither
the green leaves, nor the unophnlls
wptp ininrnrl hv thn nor
oncl picking, and the rows gone over
the second time were practically
clean of cotton. The percentage unpicked
would not bo over 3 per cent.
Possibly it would be less than that.
One hand employed to gather the
cotton unpicked or knocked out,
could easily accomplish the work.
"One notable improvement is that
the picking machinery has been lowered
so as to catch more of the bottom
bolls. As was the case last year,
the machine in passing over the
rows, would bend the stalks forward.
The stalks would sweep back
to an erect position as the machine
would pass, but it is this bending of
the stalks that leaves any cotton at
all unpicked. It is like drawing a
glove through the hand. The folding
limbs prevents the fingers of the
picker from getting ta all the c.u
This is a detail which will be yet
worked out. That done, the Price
cotton picking machine will be about
as near perfection in the cotton fi<eld,
as the Mergenthaler machine now is
in the printing office."
One interesting piece of information
given by lAlr. Harris is that Mr.
Price expects to have the machines
made in the South when he shall
have been enabled to assemble the
necessary skilled labor and machinery
for the purpose. He is prudently
slow in booking orde:f3. From this
uonsnn's trv-nnf hp pyiipoIh t/-> crji 5 n
valuable experience that will result
in progress in the improvements that
a.re bound to come so it will naturally
follow that the machine of 1913
will do better work than the machine
now on the market.
Mr. Harris concludes: "Those who
saw the operations of the machines
in the Laurinburg field appeared convinced
of two things. That the Price
machine will pick cotton and that a
successful machine picker, one adapted
to any cotton field in the south, is
at hand. It might be said that the
experimental stage has been passed,
the skeptics have grown fewer in
number and faith in Price and his
machine has risen to about par."
Gathering the cotton from the
fields has become one of the greatest
problems of the year with the southern
farmers. In the olden days cotton-pickers
were plentiful and their
hire cheap but now they are so scarce
that much cotton is per necessity al1
nwdH tr? fm tn wasto onrh vAfir Tn
Texas this year the situation is regarded
as critical. The planters are
unable to secure laborers for neither
"love nor money". Business men
are closing their stores and going
out in the fields to aid in the gathering
of the crop.
So that Mr. Price's machine comes
as a blessing if it is to be what those
who have seen it in operation say.
Mrs. John Epps was recently released
from an Indiana prison where
she had been for twewry-three years
for killing her husband. A few days
ago her husband's brother died and
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on nia ueaiuueu no oonitjaaou liuil no
had slain his brother and that the
wife was innocent. What a monster
that man must have to let an
innocent woman suffer for his crime.
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Killed in Signal Tower.
William Willcox, telegraph operator
in a signal tower at Saybrook,
Conn., on the New Haven railroad,
was crushed to death Wednesday
night when a freight train crashed
into the tower, burying him under
the wreckage.
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Negro Shoots Motorman.
An unknown negro shot the motorman
of a street car in (Mobile, and
made good his escape.
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SHOT IN HIS HOME
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NEWBERRY FARMER KILLED IN
PRESENCE OF FAMILY.
SHOT THROUGH WINDOW
The Victim Was Se;. ? i II In Home
When the Fatal Load W?" ^ired,
and He IOxpircd In...?ed??toly in
the Presence of His Wife and Little
Son.
A special dispatch to The News
and Courier says news was received
in Newberry early Tuesday morning
of the horrible assassination of
Spurgeon Johnson, a white man, in
the northwestern section of Newberry
County,, near the Laurens line,
at about 9 o'clock Monday night.
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I home, in company with his wife, Ins
little son and an aunt, Mr. Johnson
was shot on the left side of the
head, about the region of the ear,
with a shotgun, the load coming
through a window and killing him
instantly.
Mr. John'son homo is on the plantation
known as the old Jim llill
place. He was about 35 years of age.
The peace ollicers in Newberry received
telephone messages telling of
the tragedy at about 1 o'clock Tuesday
morning. Sheriff Buford, accompanied
by his two rural policemen,
left immediately for the scene
in an automobile driven by Mr. Forrest
Summer.
Constable and Sheriff-elect Cannon
G. Blease wainted in Newberry until
about 5 o'clock Tuesday morning for
bloodhounds, which had been requested
from Columbia, and driven
by Mr. Waldrop in an automobile, |
ht left with the bloodhounds imme-!
diately upon the arrival of the train.
A message from the section of the
killing Tuesday morning to newspaper
men there was to the effect that
Mr. Johnson had just come in the
house, after hauling some cotton, and
sat down near a window, when the
fatal shot was fired. It is said he had
had no trouble with any one recently,
and the perpetrator of the deed and
its motive are unknown.
The message stated that a negro,
Billy Thomas, had l>een arrested in
connection with the affair, but later i
was released after he had shown con- [
clusively that he was 'possum hunt-:
ing with white gentlemen Monday]
night.
T ??*n n n ^ n f /v /I 'Bn Att/1 n xr mAi*?inr* I
it v> an oiatcu i ucouaj inwi iuii?,
that the bloodhounds carried to the
scene had trailed from the house
where the killing occurred to the public
road, a distanco of some six hundred
yards, and had there lost the
trail. The scene of the killing is
about eight miles this side of Cross
Hill. .
Coroner John Henry Chappell held
An inquest Tuesday morning, the verdict
being that Spurgeon Johnson
came to his death at the hands of unknown
parties.
Early Tuesday morning, while in
search of a negro who was suspected
in connection with the killing, Magistrate
William Dorroh and a party
were attempting to enter a house
when they were fired upon by a negro
in the house.
The fire was returned and O. S.
Atkin and his son, both colored, were
wounded. Both were shot in the
fleshy parts of their legs, and neither
wound is serious. The party was being
conducted to the house by the
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This negro has not yet been located.
Sheriff Buford and Constable
Blease returned to the city Tuesday
afternoon. The rural policemen remained
on the scene to continue the
investigation into the affair. They
are assisted by a number of citizens.
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General Strike May lie Called.
There may be a general strike in
Augusta as the result of the action
of the merchants Friday in advising
the people to ride on the street cars.
The carpenters quit Saturday morning
as did the tinners. Between four
and five hundred men are out of
work.
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Leper's Wife Given Divorce.
At Tacoma, Wyo., Mrs. John R.
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John R. Early, the leper now at Diamond
Point Hospital. She was given
the custody of the three children and
$55 of Early's salary of $95 a month
for acting as keeper of another leper.
A Los Angeles scientist mjKcg the
prediction that in 500 years all mm
will be bald. We need not loso any
sleep over this prediction.
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The example of Montenegro In declaring
war on Turkey has been followed
by Servia and Bulgaria, J
Greece will do the same tiling as thewar,
which is bound to follow, open? w
up. The Balkan people are nearly
all fighters and Bulgaria and Servia
have armies that compare in effective
force with some of the most prominent
military powers. The Turk is- ^
universally admitted to be a firstclass
fighting man. He has been
said by competent authorities to bethe
best soldier in Europe.
But, as The Charleston Evening
Post predicts, they will doubtless, in
the end, get the worst of the contest,
so far as results are concerned?as
they deserve to. The misgovernment
of Macedonia, the atrocities in Armenia,
the constant trouble and disa'isfacMon
throughciP sil the Grecian
settlement, have tlieir foundation
in the incompetence aid oofiression
cf Turkish rule and 01 Moslem intolerance.
The Turk, in spite of his
many good characteristics, is aAnisfit
in Europe, and he will have to go#
The once great empire of the Turk
lias crumbled and his power for effective
rule is broken, and he remains
an anomaly and an aggravation. The
States which have wrested their freedom
by severe struggle and held it
ky ceaseless vigilance have never been
permitted really to enjoy and improve
tlieir lfberty, because of the selfishness
of their great neighbors who
have kept Turkey fixed in Europe
because each feared the others would
hare too generously of her fragments
should she be thrown from her seat.
? ? ? ?
Teddy ought to have money
enough left over from his last campaign
to amply finance his present
one.