The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 21, 1912, Image 3
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IAS COME TB STAY
TBI! TAUU ANOT TIE ICCEKT
ELECTtlN.
BATTLE HAS JUST BEJUN
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fmuidtt of Dull Hoot) Orgwiirtloa
HaIaIjt Elated at Hhowlag MimKj,
Declaring It MlBp?r?Ueled la History
of Free Government". ??
Points to Utter Ilout of G. O. P.
Theodore Roosevelt made a formal
statement Monday night bearing upon
the election and the future of the
Progressive party. In line with previous
expressions of his own, and of
his colleagues, he reiterates that
"the Progressive party has come to
stay," and "so far from being over,
the battle has just begun."
He regards the party's showing in
polling more than four million votes
In the face of numerous obstacles
naturally in the path of a new movement,
as "literally unparalleled in
the history of free government".
The statement follows:
"i congratulate mo iTUKreugiTus
of the country?that is, I congratulate
those good men and women who,
with sincerity of purpose for the
common good, havo had the vision to
look into the coming years, and see
what the future demands from us.
"What the Progressive party has
done since the theft of the Republican
organization by the Republican
bosses at Chicago, last June, is literally
unparalleled in the history of
free government worked under representative
institutions.
"Three months have gone by since
the new Progressive party was founded.
Without much money, without
any organization, against the wealth
of the country, against the entire organized
political ability of the country,
against the bitter hostility of 99
per cent, of the press of the country,
against the furious opposition of every
upholder of special privileges,
whether in politics or In business,
and with the channels of information
to tlie public largely choked?the
Progressive party has polled between
four and four and one-half million
votes; has hopelessly beaten one of
the old parties, both in the Electoral
College and in the popular vote; has
taken second place in the nation and
either first or second place in some
thirty-seven of the forty-eight States.
"No task in any way approaching
f this has ever before been performed
by any party in our country. Such a
feat, performed by volunteers hastily
brought together, and without any
TirovimiR co-oneratlon with each oth
er, against the trained veterans of
the political arena?these trained
veterans including the entire mercenary
forces of politics?should be a
source of pride, not only to those who
performed the task, but to all believers
in good citizenship and in tho capacity
of Americans for self-government.
"During the campaign I said repeatedly
that this was in no shape
or way a one-man government, but a
movement for great principles?a
movement which has sprung, as all
healthy movements in our democracy,
must spring, from the heart and conscience
of tho people themselves.
This truth must be kept steadily before
the minds of all of us. The
Progreslve party has come to stay.
If either of the old parties will endeavor
to put into legislation anyone
of our planks, it can count upon
our hearty support in so doing; but
we will not rest contented until the
entire platform is enacted into law,
and becomes part or our political
system, national and State.
"I am proud, indeed, that the
great good fortune has been mine
to fight shoulder to shoulder with the
men and women who, in tho ranks,
and in various positions of leadership
have waged this great battle for
social and industrial justice. So far
from being over, the battle has just
begun.
"We will not rest content until every
feature of the Progressive programme
has been put into effect; and
when this has been done, unquestionably
there will have opened to us
new avenues along which it will be a
duty to work for the moral and economic
betterment of our people."
"(Signed) "Theodore Roosevelt."
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LEVER FAVORS EXTRA SESSION.
Congressman Wants Immediate Action
on Tariff Revision.
Congressman Asbury F. Lever, of
this district, is In favor or an extra
session of Congress, Immediately following
the inauguration of Governor
Wilson next March for the revision
of the tariff. Saturday Mr. Lever received
a telegram from the New York
World asking tho South Carolina
Congressman's views 011 the question.
Mr. Lever's reply was as follows: "1
am emphatically In favor of an extra
session of Congress, Immediately following
the inauguration of Governor
Wilson, for the purpose of revising
tho tarifT downward in the interest
of the consuming public?such revision
to bo gradual In order to Insure
the least disturnance or uusiness,
and the rates to be so adjusted as to
rest heaviest upon luxuries and lightest
upon the articles of general consumption."
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American Aeronauts Safe.
John Watts, pilot of the balloon
Dusseldorf, one of tne entrants in
the international balloon race which
started from Stuttgart, Germany, has
cabled th? president of the Kansas
City Aero club that he landed n?
PsKot, a short distance from St. Petersburg,
after crossing the Haltic sea,
and that he and his aide, Arthur T
Atherholt, of Philadelphia, were well.
They had been missing a week.
PLEDGES ARE SACRED
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OOVKMVO* WlLSOR INTffllMl TO
OAHHY TIKM OUT.
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M??l What N? UmUI la MIA Quapaifla
SperdiM About Sporlal Prlvll?fC?
aad Private Monopoly.
President-elect Wood row Wilton
announced at hit home in Prlncetown
Wednesday night, in apeaking of the
tariff and the monopoly quettlon that
he pnrpoted to carry out the pledget*
he made in hit campaign speeches, to
cut special privilege out of tariff
schedules, prevent unfair competition
in business, and to destroy private
monopoly.
The President-elect had been asked
whether the big correspondence be
received after his election contained
any inquiries as to his attitude on the
tariff or monopoly problems.
"Most of the letters," replied the
Governor, "were of a congratulatory
nature. There are some Cabinet suggestions,
but nobody seems to think it
necessary to ask questions about the
tariff or the monopolies. *
"Do you mean that the people take
it for granted that you will carry
out the pledges made in your campaign
speeches?." he was asked.
"Yes, they certainly will be carried
out so far as I am concerned."
In his campaign speeches, the Gov
ernor often reiterated that revision o!
the tariff should be undertaken im
nedialelv. It is believed that this
idea will find expression in a call foi
U r. ovtro uuoulnn t\f t f> ron
aider the tariff as well as other sub
jects which were issues in the campaign
juat closed.
Governor Wilson now has in hand n
fairly complete list of all
, who have expressed themselves publy
on the advisability of an extra session.
It is known that the Presidentelect
has made up his mind on the
subject and soon will make known
his attitude. He is of the idea that
the work of tariff revision can be undertaken
without a series of long investigation*.
"There have been investigations In
every Congress," remarked the Governor.
"I've studied the problem all
my life and I think there is a definite
idea of what ought to be done."
While the President-elect is reading
assldlously the opinions about an
I extra session, he is just as carefully
refraining from looking at the various
speculations which are being
printed as to the personnel of his
Cabinet. This was revealed in connection
with the visits of Judge William
R. King, Democratic national
committeeman from Oregon, and
TJeut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A.,
retired.
Governor Wilson said Gen. Miles
had called unexpectedly to pay his
respects. The correspondents Informed
him that the names of both
Gen. Miles and Judge King had been
mentioned In dispatches from Washington
concerning the make-up of his
Cabinet. The. Governor said he did
not know of this. "I'm fortunate,"
ho said, "in not reading the speculations,
bo I'm innocent of any embarassments."
Wilson a Man of Destiny.
The rapid rise of Woodrow Wilson
proclaims him a man of destiny. As
the Charleston Evening Post points
out "two years ago he was the head
of a great educational institution.
He had been a student and a teacher
all his life, a scholar and a writer,
but he had never made even ths
shortest excursion into practical politics.
He was nominated for Governor
of New Jersey and elected after a
brilliant campaign. Before his first
term as chief executive of the State
had come to an end he is elected
President of the United States. It is
an unparalleled record. Two years
ago Woodrow Wileon was not a figure
in the political world of the United
States; to-day he is the chief
personage in it. He is the first Southern
Democrat to be elected President
In sixty-five years. He has broken
forever the long supported tradition
that a Southern-born man could not
hope to be elevated to the head of the
government of the United States
within the lifetime ol men who participated
In the great war of the sections.
He has shown that "the scholar
in politics" is something more
than a lay figure. In Woodrow Wilson
limitable opportunities has presented
a new political wonder.'*
Bryan in the Cabinet.
The New York World says the premature
Cabinet-makers are likely to
give reactionary Democrats a chill by
* 1 Jl.il * 1 * MrtlllAm T r>
ineir preuicuuim iuai y> unam u. uijan
will bo President Wilson's secretary
of State. Tho World goes on to
say that our "Secretaries of State
have immediate charge of foreign affairs.
If there la an American of any
party who Is better equipped than
Mr. Bryan for such a position It
would be Interesting to know his
name. Propriety forbids the propos-j
al of any man for a Cabinet position,'
but If tho Stato Department should at |
any time be presided over by Mr.
Bryan there are a few things that
we may depend upon. There will be
an end of jingoism In our foreign affairs
and Dollar Diplomacy, now one
of the most highly capitalized of Wall
street, enterprises, will be heard of
no more."
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Mother Killed Baby.
Guilty of second degree manslaughter
after a trial on a charge of
neglecting her Infant until It died of
starvation, when a year old, was the
verdict brought against Henrietta
Yuon, age 21, by a Jury at Mineola.
N. Y., Tuesday night. The girl's
grandfather was the state's chief witness,
testifying that his granddaughter
neglected the cMtd to attend the
mowing picture shows.
A STORY JJF OtATH<
MC'MANIfiAL DESCRIBES MCNA* '
HARA'S CONFESSION.
DYNAMITERS INHUMAN
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A<<or<liDK to Testimony the (iwt Jet (
; Wm Broken in ?n Kffort to Kill )
<.<>ner?J (HIn and His Kutire k'orce, J
lleKurdlmtN of the Umn of Innocent <
I
lihes. 1
For the first time since the 21 per-;
eons were killed in the blowing op of ,
the Los Aiigeles Times building, Oc- ,
tober 1, 191 U, J. B. McNamara's detailed
conleBSion to having caused the 1
explosion, with his motives for doing '
it and his comments on the fact that '
eo many people were killed, was related
on the witness stand in the "dy- '
namite conspiracy" trial Thursday at 1
Indianapolis.
Ortu R. McManlaal testified, the 1
confsesion was given to him while he 1
was with McNamara iu the woods five
miles from Conover, Wis., both of ,
ihem having gone to the Wisconsin
woods on the pretext of being hunters.
Olof A. Tveitmoe and Eugene L.
Clancy, San Francisco labor leaders, j
McManlgal testified, were named by
McNamara as having made arrangements
for the Los Angeles explosion
and as having furnished the two men
?F. A. Schmltt and David Caplan?- 1
to assist in buying the high power
nitroglycerine, because Schmidt and 1
Capian had been regularly employed 1
on the coast by the building trades
ouncll of California. Tveitmoe and
Clancy are among the 65 defendants
now on trial. Caplan and Schmitt,
named by McManlgal, were indicted
in Los Angeles county with James M.
McNamara on charges of murder, but
fliey never have been captured.
Government agents have been Informed
that Caplan was killed.
When he asked McNamara why he
twisted off a gas jet In the basement
of The Times building before the explosion
McManlgal testified, McNamara
said:
"Because when the explosion occurred
I wanted the whole building
to go to hell."
"But I am sorry so many were
killed." McNamara added. "I hoped
to get Gen. Otis."
McManlgal said that November 5,
1910, he was at his home in Chicago
end expected to leave the next day for
ICenosha, Wis., whence he was to
start with a hunting party in charge
of Myron Sharp. That very day, he
said, John J. McNamara, brother of
the Los Angeles Times dynamiter,
asked him to take James B. on the
hunting trip.
lie went to Kenosha and James u.
Joined him there. They procured
hunting licenses and went with the
party to Conover and then to a camp
five miles in the country.
"On November 9,'' said McManlgal,
"I missed James B. and started out
aione to look for some deer. Standing
on a tree stump I suddenly heard
the crack of a pistol. Presently I saw
lames B. Suspicion flashed into my
mind. I accused him right out.
"I think you were taking a shot at
me," I said. "If you do you had better
be quick about it. This is a fine
place up here to get rid of a man?
jiist shoot him and the coyotes will
eat up his body.
"He replied he just did it to scare
The. Then we being alone for the first
time he sat down and told mo about
the Los Angeles job. He said when he
went to the coast in July ho got in
(ouch with Tveitmoe and Clancey,
according to instructions from his
brother, at the headquarters of the
iron workers in Indianapolis. Tveitmoe
and Clancy, he said, put Claplan
and Schmltt at his disposal. Schmitt i
was too much of a talker, ho said,
and when he blew up a job in Oakland
August 20, he made Schmitt stay
In San Francisco. ^
"Leading up to the Los Angeles ex- f
plosion J. B. said he found you could
get all the money vou wanted on the ,
coast. lie.Raid Tveitmoe was the big
paymaster and there' never was any- '
thing to fear, for Tveitmoo was a
friend of Mayor McCarthy, and, in '
fact, Tveitmoe was the mayor of San ,
Francisco. He said Schmitt had a
scheme to set off bombs by chemicals,
which he had learned from a friend '
of Tveitmoe's, but when ho (Mc- j
Namata 1 showed thorn the alarm
clock Bchemo they all decided it was 1
best. (
"I asked him why ho went after (
The Times. He answered Tveitmoo J
had put him on to It.
"Then he told me about how diffl- 1
cult It was out there to buy explo- "
sives; how they decided at last to get |
a launch and buy nitroglycerine of 8f? 1
per cent, strength from a powder 1
company, on the representation that *
It was to be used for blowing up '
stumps to arrange for buying tho ex- J
plosive.
"He said when his staff was readv '
to go to Los Angeles he had a talk
with Tveitmoe, telling him either he '
or Pchmftt would have to do the *ob 1
and not both of them, for Schmitt
was too much of a talker and had a f
woman friend in T.os Angeles, that he 1
(Mcivamara) uiu not want iu get mix- ?
cd up in the job. <
"Then he told how ho had sont the '
bomb in what is known as Ink al- '
loy in The Times plant, among some 5
Ink barrels and old papers, doing in. '
ho said, ho was stopped by the night '
watchman, who asked him what he
wanted in there. Ilo replied ho was J
going to the composing room. The ;
watchman let him pass. Ilo was again
stopped by a boy, but ho also told '
the boy ho was going to tne composting
room. The boy directed him to J
a door or a stairway, l think he said. (
He reached the basement and while 1
nassing through it tore off a gas jet.
I asked: 'Why did you break off the .
gas jet?'
"He renlfed: 'Because T wanted the <
whole building to go to hell/ I said t
\ WUliti Oih i Hi u,.0
kVIIAT A TKACHKIt MAN lu S.V >
.4KOI T OI K PI T! LK >INN.
thing* the Twicher Ias*true About
Ku>h iiud Tiiingh She Man to 1N?
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U 1U1 iut?l For Thetu.
The
loiluwing from Mitt* Linda
Piemeni, of Mocksvilie, N. C., In retneuce
to boys, good and bad, should
Jb read by every mothei and teacher
jf boys. Wo agree fully with diss
Element in all abe aays. There la no
Detter judge of human nature than
aoys and girla. Here is the article as
no find it in the Progressive Farmer:
1 have sometimes considered the
nan who prates of hla knowledge of
t>oy characteristics as he judges them
horn the individual standpoint aa a
prize Idiot. He has been a boy ana
Irawn on the memory of his past. 1
Am even more fortunate?1 havej
been a teacher and seven of the full
est years of my life 1 have spent studying
boys.
God made my sisters all brothers,
and as a child I never could understand
why 1 couldn't have been a
boy. As a woman, 1 realize that my
sympathetic understanding of the
"man of to-morrow", draws much of
Its strength from childhood associations?flhting,
fussing, being tormentsd
and when reconciliations and
play came, being reinstated to the
best place they had to ofTer.
As a teacher nothing has ever affected
me so seriously or made m<
realize more fully the responsibilit;
of my position than the tiny man and
his first day at school. I can always
seo a mother's tear-dimmed eyes as
she kisses him' good-bye and starts
him into his first little world alone
She realizes that the bumps an
knocks must adjust his nature to
those of other boys and she realizes
too, that hereafter teacher wields r
more potent influence over his lift
than she. For the teachers sees birr
and tests him under different conditions
from those of his sheltered
home life.
If teacher knows his family history,
fortunate for her; but if not.
with an intuition supernatural she
must discern innate weak places?everybody
has them?inherited, sometimes,
generations back and cropping
out In tho form of cheating, swearing,
taking advantage of others, unmeasurable
and uncontrollable tempers,
lying, etc. Not all these characteristics
to one boy but each possessing
his peculiar weakness.
Now how is teacher to cope with
all these and look to lessons too? It
has always seemed to mo that textbooks
and set tasks are secondary to
on/1 fhot (n Oral
tnai a^i^i "wuuuiii^^ ****** wi*v*v vi?v ?*? w?
essential for the teacher is to go
about winning the boy's love and
faith In her, in order that she may
more readily dicipline him.
Discipline is the most misunderstood
word in the teaching world.
In the only country school I ever
taught it meant a stick and "brute
force'*. And one was supposed to
use that stick on boys 21 years of
age. Imagine it?a frail woman caning
a six-foot man!
In the moat modern Interpretation,
discipline is a mechanical, clock-like
obedience positively devoid of any
feeling. To me the word Is farreaching
in Its significance. It is
something a pupil wants to do because
ho takes pride and interest in
it?something that he knows must bo
the right thing for him since teacher
thinks so?it is pride, faith, love, Joy,
ambition?all intermingled.
There is nothing stronger In the
small hoy than his sense of in'ustice.
Wound this once and whether mother,
teacher, or ono of any other lntimato
relation, you have shaken his
faith almost for a life time: and you
have sinned against yourself and him
Irretrievably. As a child, do you remember
a flogging you received at
home or school, when you knew that
tho administrator was merely giving
vent to his temper, or do you remember
a story some one you loved and
TM?t r?r? von ? We don't like to
speak ! these things in the *? ".
>uuis, but wt? do well to think of
them, at the same time maintaining
nnr col f-onnf rnl t>int u.?i> m?v nnt nf.
fend tho faith and confidence of any
:hild.
In building our material homes
wo do not use soft stones for our
foundations, since we realize the j
safety and steadfastness of our
structure depend on the baso we give
It. To me, it seems that there Is
nothing firmrf for the foundations of
character thaji the uncrumbllng stone
-)f truth. Show me a hoy who habitually
tells the truth and I will point
rou to a great man of to-morrow. Let
no tell you tho difference between
t was surprised he would do it knowing
there were so many people In the
brllding. He answered: 'What's the
inference?' T was to make a good
cleaning out and I did It.' Then he
thought for a while and added: 'But
I'm sorry there wore so many people.
[ wanted to get Gen. Otis.'
"Ho told me he put the Infernal
machines at the residences of Gen.
Harrison Gray Otis, proprietor of Tho
rimes, and of Felix J. Zecliandlar,
secretary of the Merchants' and Manufacturers'
association, all to go off
it 1 o'clock In the morning. He said
>n the way hack East he was fright
?ned by th?> people talking of the explosion.
At Salt T.ake City he said he
stepped off the train and pot In touch
ivith J. E. Munsey, who hid him In
lis home for two weeks."
Ho said after news of the Eos Anxoles
explosion J. J. McNamara sent
ilm to Worcester, Mass., to cause an
'echo" of the Pacific coast explosion
n tho East.
"T want an echo of that Eos Angeles
affair in the East so if thev
catch J. P. they will think they have
:ho wronp man."
McManipal said that was tho way
F. IE Instructed him.
McManipal said he went to Worcester
and caused two explosions
there October 9.
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Howld H?v?. iWr*u? it Kitt.tr
^m-t'Kicilan efciculatorH
?j (> ior Id
li.it Uovei nor \\ llson did not get a*
Kiny votes as Mr. Tit; and Mr.
Roosevelt together. plain facts have
little meaning. We baltev* Wlleon
would buvf beaten either Taft or
Roosevelt had only ono or the other
ran against him.
As for what Height have happened
if there had bee only one candidate
against Wilson. It Is far more probable
that Wilson would have had a
popular majority twice the size of his
actual plurality than th&t either of
the other candidates would have held
the strength of both combined.
Consider what did happen In California,
the strongest Roosevelt section
In the country, where the Taft
people were limited in their choice to
voting for Roosevelt or Wilson. Under
similar circumstunces, If the
Roosevelt following had been come
pelled to choose between Taft and
Wilson, would It have flocked to Taft?
The only question worth while Is
what might have been the final ef-i
feet if the Republican quarrel at Chicago
had been composed and an acceptable
compromise candidate nominated,
and that is pure conjecture.
But, as the New York World says, 11
is too lato to attempt to rewrite the
history of the last six months In the
hope of making a song of triumph of
a funeral dirge.
Must Decide Pretty Soon.
There Is much speculation as to
' a-. ? w ~ a
ine lULUiu ui ^uiuuci ivuuDvtt'H auu
hl? Progressive party. The New York
World says if the new party is to
live, it will have to decide pretty
soon whether it is going to be He-|
publican or anti-Republican. In some
States it is Republican by name. In
all States it is so in principle.
Circumstances made it compara
lively easy this year to have two
ably led and well-financed Republican
parties in the field, but the con-'
ditions of 1912 are not likely soon
to return. Two protective-tariff |
trust and monopoly parties are at
least one too many, and it will not
take the practical men who have
been made rich by protection and
privilege very long to discover the
fact.
Privilege is rich, but it will not
deliberately waste its money in politics.
With this fact in mind we need
not worry much over the intentions
of this or that Progressive chieftain.
Privilege will not remain divided, no
matter what overheated politicians
may do. Privilege will unite presently
in support of one wing or the
other of the Republican party and its
decree will be final as to the fate of
both.
TAKING FITNR9 FROM BANISH.
Af rnrolornprR nt. am the
Result of tho Election.
Because of unrest among the forIgners
of Utnica, N. Y., following the
election, a mass meeting was held
there Monday night and addressed by
Mayor Baker and Italian Consul Baccelli
of Albany. The Italians have
been withdrawing their funds from
local banks and the purchase of
tickets to the "old country" has increased
5 0 per cent. The rumor was
current among tho textile mills that
the result of the election would
mean the closing of the establishments
and tho foreign element gave
so much credence to these Rtories
that tho situation became serious.
Twenty-eight Hurt In Wreck.
Twenty-eight persons were injured,
one fatally, In a wreck on the 'Frisco
Railroad, near Slnton, Texas, Tuesday
when an engine, naggage car,
smoker and day coach Jumped the
track from some cauae as yet unknown.
All the injured are in the
Frisco hospital there.
truth and a lie. Truth Is a square
word?no round corners?no way of
getting around it but to walk squarely
and turn at the corners. A man
asks you a question, you answer him
fairly and squarely, looking him in
the eye "Yea, air" or "No, sir" whichever
your answer may truthfully be.
Lies aro circles?perfectly round
?so in tho vernacular of the small
boy you can take "roundanco" on
them?that 1b you can act thom out
<13 effectively as you can tell them.
A man asks you something you don't
care to toll?you won't Bay "yes" or
"no", but you try to fool him by
evasion, or "beating tho devil 'round
the stump" as some peoplo say. If
you havo deceived in any way you
have lied, and as In tho circle simile,
it will emu? back to you. So, we
always should Impress tho hoys of
the rotten etono of lies and tho ultimate
ruin of their structure if they
build thereon.
I have no patience with man or
woman who speaks of one class of
boys as "little devils". There are a
few characteristics mat most boys
havo in common. Pre-eminont
among these are teasing, tormenting,
fighting, manufacturing as much
noise as an Indian scalping and some
other forma of throwing off the stir
plus energy that is peculiar to their
nature.
A boy may have a clean principle,
at the Bamo time be the most fnischovloua,
tormenting piece In town.
He may fight, too?that's not going
to send him to perdition, as long a<
it's clean fighting?mat Is, a flsMcufT
with a boy his stzo over whom
ho has no physical advantage. We've
all fought as children, boys and girls
aliko and 09 out of every 100 of us
get over is as we grow older and develop
our self-control.
There Isn't a boy in this world
whom I consider a "little devil," no
and something lovable about htm |f
we take the pains to find It out. And
there Is a doplomattc way to go about
flnindg out and there are Jnst a fa*
don'ts that attach thetixselvee to any
such undertakings.
SHUT HtK MOTHER
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THOUGHT HER A HUBO
\rouh?d bjr Mother Roillllf ||
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Kfarnl for Kaftey of Vahteblee nd
I'ulled Revolver from Cider PlDerw
. I'irluK: K?t?l Shot.
Mrs. J. Kappe Meyers, wife 6t the
proprietor of the Rappe Hotel GreensOuig,
Fa., vsas shot by her daughter,
Gladys Elizabeth Meyers, In mistake
for a robber in a sleeping ear en a
Fennsylvania Railroad train bound
for New York about 6:39 Wednesday
morning. She died a short time
later in a Trenton, N. J., hospital. The
shooting occurred when the train was
passing Croyden, Pa., just this Aide
of Bristol, near Trenton.
Miss Meyers, and W. R. CethbOth
AO years old, of Lynchburg, Va.,
were detained Wednesday by the
Trenton police, bnt released that
night. It was thought at first that
Cuthbert was concerned in some way
with the shooting as he was found
with Miss Meyers at the side of the
wounded woman a few seconds after
the sound of the shot aroused the
other passengers of the car and
brought the porter and conductor.
Later he explained that he bad
been standing on the front platform
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ui v,u? vnr ut^ii 111 iuv ichi, uijiu ?i?n
run in when he heard the shot. Then
the police Informed him that they
would detain him merely ae a material
witness. The Trenton police
are convinced that the shooting was
an accident and that Mr. Outhbert
j went to the aid of a person whom he
had reason to believe was In die trees.
| Miss Meyers, who is about , 20
years of age, was on the way to New
York to purchase a trousseau for
her coming wedding to J. Blair trtllard,
of Salem, Va., a druggist. She
has a casket of jewels which ebe was
taking to New York to have repaired
and matched and when she heard far
mother entering their section, after
Mrs, Meyers had gone for a few minutes
to the dressing room she took
her revolver from under far pillow
and fired, thinking a burglar was after
the gems. She was half awake at
the time. Miss Meyers' brother and
her fiance are on the way from Salem.
Her father is also en route
from Oreensburg to meet his daughter.
He is acco
ney. Miss Meyers made the following
statement:
"My mother and I left our homo
in Oreensburg, Pa., to visit my fiance,
J. Blair Dillard, for a short time,, then
went to se?j my brother, J. Itappo
Meyers, Jr., at Salem, Va.f where he
in in the lumber business. Tuesday
night at 5:48 o'clock my mother and
i took a train from Salem, Va., en
gaging a lower berth.
"1 was awakened toy my mother
who informed me she was going to
the wash room and while she was
absent J do&ed off asleep, 1 was suddenly
awakened from my sleegr fcy
seeing th? curtains partod, and someone
crawling into the berth. 1 always
sleep with a revolver under iny* pillow
and knowing that the porter had
seen my Jewelry, 1 pulled the revolver
from under the pillow and fired,
and was horrifed to hear my mother
scream and see her stagger hi to tho
smokor, where I found her.
"Then I called for some onp to get
a doctor and some whiskey. A gentloman
came forward whom 1 alter
learned was William Cnthbert, of
Lynchburg. Va., and offered hte services.
"My mother and I wero atwoye an
good terms, and I considered her my
best friend. We wero on ovf way to
New York to do sotno shopping tn anticipation
of my brother's wedding on
Christmas eve and my own in Jube to
Mr. Dillard."
? -Will
Have What He Wants.
Extending to Governor Wilson Its
greetings, the New York 6?n offers
him aieo somo highly characteristic
advice. It says:
"The beet wish that The Sim ean
express for the President-elect,
comparatively untried man facing fui
unparalled opportunity, is that be
may seize upon the windpipe of 0ryauism
at tho very start, and with all
the strength that the slnewa of long,
lean lingers posses, throttle thai persistent
and fatal thing into eternal
silence."
Tho 8un is thc .ehief Wan Street
organ in New York, and daring the
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IAIU tuuiyuinn WIMJ an eamnffwisw
supporter of President Taft. H mi?od
no opportunity to mtsrepreeeut
and malign Gore? nor Wilson during
the campaign. Unaer these circumstances
it is perfectly natural for it to
hnto Aryan and all his works, but the
Sun need not worry itself about Aryan,
lie will get mo?i any place that
Wilson has at his disposal.
A Peculiar Accident.
A most peculiar accident oootirrod
near Mllltdgevllle, Oa., when 8hacK
Reeves, a negro, lost his life while
out opossum hunting. "When Reeves
failed to come homo, a party went
out. to search for him, and found htm
underneath a tree, dead. He had evidently
fallen from the tree, as ids
neck was found to bo broken. Tho
opossum was still In the tree, nailing
for his pursuer to leave.
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Music Caused Crime Confession.
Strains of saered musit unllug
from a church In Dallas, Tex., ? effected
O. H. Rose that he surrendered
at a local Jail, declaring he had hilled
W. If. Morris In Oovhiglon, K7.,
2e years ago. Rooo lad lied la Dallas
28 years.