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*v \ % I MULHALL'S STORY I SENATE COMMIPTE HEARS TALE OF HIS ACTIVITIES I WORKtl) IN ELECTIONS Ijever's Name on a Memorandum of * Congressmen WI?i<-l? lie Was Trying to Have Knocked Out, llecause They Worked Against Interest of Mamifacturers' Associut ion. Martin M. Mulhall, professed Held agent, strike-breaker, lobbyist and political worker for the National Association of Manufacturers, Monday and Tuesday continued his remarkable story before the Senate lobby investigation committee. 111 the two days he identified more than 1,000 letters, telegrams and scraps of memoranda, with hardly more than a 'glance, lie remembered apparently the first names of congressmen, of lesser politicians, of labor leaders and underlings, of secretaries to congressmen of all the men he had worked with through a year of most active campaigning in many parts of the country. His performance seemed so remarkable to lawyers present that they sat intently watching the witness and listening closely to the tales and every word that the witness uttered in the brief cross-examination that accompanied some of them. Mulhall's correspondence told of the efforts to re-elect Former Congressman Kittletield of Maine and defeat the present representative from that district, Daniel .1. McfSillicuddy. Kittlefteld was to la1 supported by the National Association of Manufacturers because of bis stand against iiinui iiiiiuiiM. .Muinaii snid on cross examination that ho had boon told that $00,000 was spent in that campaign. Some of the letters read earlier in the day showed that Mulhall had been known to the late Vice-President James S. Sherman, who in 1 907 was chairman of the national Republican congressional committee. In a letter he wrote on July 11, 1 907, to Mr. Sherman, Mulhall said he was going West and would call , upon James S. Watson of Indiana, and that he intended to look up members of the organization in that dis1 trict and get them to do some ac1 tive work for Watson. "1 will pledge von before starting there," the letter said, "that we will * he able to land Mr. Watson again in ' the next House." ** On July 2, Mr. Sherman, on paper ? of the Republican committee, wrote E Mulhall as follows: c "My Dear Colonel: 1 am glad that you are still interested in political as 5* well as economical work, and 1 am glad to bespeak for you to our friends ^ a cordial reception. ^ "While you are not employed by M the Republican congressional com7* mittee, nor were you employed dur** ing the last campaign, you did render us very material assistance, and 1 found you at all times reliable, trust ^V worthy and effective." Tn a subsequent letter Mulhall er wrote to Shermtn: "I have just reno turned from the West and I feel that I have put the ball a-rolling in In*** diana so that it will help Mr. Watsor to renomination." lie told Mr. Slier man also of a "report of the commit *n tee on tariff and reciprocity." ^ The witness thought about $22,0ftC ' had been raised in Indiana for the a' Watson campaign and a letter reac ,,?OT just before adjournment Mondaj vtia 11ight told of "three millionaires" ii the State, one of whom was willing to spend $100,000 to defeat Watson 30^ Tho letter did not identify the mil lionaires and the committee did no 'J1** ask who they were. *or A feature of Tuesday's hearing and Avas tjie presentation of a memoran *?dg- duni which purported to he a list o ^,,n congressmen whom former Congress 'A'r man James Watson of Indiana pur W01 posed to "knock out". Among tin ^re< names on the list was that of T,eve *?m of South Carolina. "ea<i Senator Reed introduced the mem orandum which, Mulhnll said, was i nan "black list" of congressmen which nat< Mulliall thought, had been preparei eas by Congressman Watson. The memorandum ran: "Watson 8 h jiere's a list for you to knock out.' It included among others Messrs DI)e Candler, Mississippi; Rever, Soutl 'pot Carolina: Beall, Texas; Stephens iqu Texas; Humphreys, Mississippi; Car Bgh Oklahoma; Hull, Tennessee urP> Burgess, Texas; Henry, Texas, hen "i ain under the impression th aH : list was made by Watson," said Mul T > hall. "I am not sure; I would no >lar want to swear to it. an "Two names on the list, Clark o iouI Missouri Speaker Clark and Card a vol rinr r>f Maaanplnianlto mol/o mn rne it was a HhI by Watson. I know the j were on the blacklist." Fred C. Schmedtman, secretary t Id, ; President Van Cleave, of the N'atior ise. a] Association of Manufacturers wrote to Mulhall on September r "T? 1907, bringing in the name of Mi Taft, then secretary of war. "If we co'ild only afford to have worker like you in every State 1 would be up to us to name the nex president. Since all the efforts mad are only In the Hne of fairness, pr trlotlsm and good Americanism, w | SOUTH USES OVER HALF I ? COTTON STATICS COX SI MIC MOKIC HALICS THAN NOllTH. ^ Report of Census Hurcuu for Month of June Shows What Sections Use J Most Cotton. ^ Cotton consumed in the United States during June amounted to 466,- < 1)14 running bales, compared with 510,416 bales in May and 5015,607 bales in April, the census bureau announced Monday in its monthly report. Cotton on hand Juno 150 was: In manufacturing establishments 1,296,65 7 bales, and in independent warehouses 611,511) bales, compared with n 1,505,257 bales in manufacturing es- c tablishments on May 3 1 and 1,746,- s 61 l bales on April 938,809 bales 1 in independent warehouses on May < 31 and 1,355,785 hales on April 30. v Imports were 8,02:5 bales, compar- s ed with 13,820 bales in May and 20,- i 7:52 in April. lCxports were 223,921 a bales, compared with 4 68,921) bales during May and 53 1,581 bales during 1 April. j Statistics for cotton growing t States shows: s Cotton consumed during June, ^ 243, 263 bales; cotton on hand June 1 30, in manufacturing establishments, i 502,367 bales, in independent ware- i houses 4 91,250 bales. Active spin- r dies 1 1,982,685. i Statistics for all other States c show: I Cotton consumed during June 1 223,661 bales; cotton on hand June 3 0, in manufacturing establishments \ 794,290 hales, and in independent t warehouses, 120,269 bales; active c spindles 1 8,069,64 5. t Consumption during the month included 1 5,843 bales of foreign cotton a and 25,396 hales of linters. Of the coiioii iiitii(i .miiii' .hi, Micro wore :?u,- t r. 12 2 bales of foreign cotton and 81,- f 2 !">2 bales of lintors in manufactuding 1 establishments and 2,120 bales of ,i foreign cotton and -10,877 bales of ! linters in independent warehouses. Active spindles in the United States \ during June numbered 20,057,910 c compared with 20,559,9-12 operated j during May. 1 Of the imports those from Egypt \ were 0,622 bales; Peru 572 bales; ( China 617 bales, and from all other ? countries 216 bales. ( Cotton exported to the United f Kingdom during June was 88,906 i bales; to Germany 60,80-1 bales; to < France 7,925 bales; to Paly 27,077 \ bales and to all other countries 29,- \ 199 bales. 1 BRYAN SHOULD QUIT. 1 ? Tillman Thinks lie Should Leave the Lecture Platform. ( A special to the New York Ilerald i says: "Senator Tillman, who con- ] fesses that at one time he made $25,- ( 000 a year on the lecture platform { during vacations of Congress, said he f never had neglected his oflleial duties { . to fill lecture engagements. lie regretted Mr. llryan's devotion to the platform. ( "It is a perfectly legitimate way j I to make money," he said, "but I re- i gret to hear of Mr. Bryan doing it. i Just at this time, when there is so j much important work before his de- 1 ( partment, I would prefer to have him . stay in Washington. Ho could better afford to impoverish himself than to appear to neglect his official duties. ) "The impression prevails?though doil't know linw woll f n 11 n rinil If In I ?that Mr. Bryan has made a great , deal of money since 1S9G. He has 1 published two or three books. The r Commoner, which has a wide circula- , tion, and has lectured extensively. I love the man so much I hate to see t him do anything that will belittle him in the eyes of the people as this cerr tainly will do. While his speakintr tours will serve a good purpose in f that he always preaches true democ. racy, and patriotism and Christian _ living, he can never again appear as c a knight-errant of democracy." r lias Too Many Wives. That in this day and time a man a can not properly care for the needs of , three wives at once is asserted by [1 Mrs. I. L. Davis, formerly Miss Grace Bradshaw, of Atlanta, who is suing : I. D. Davis for divorce, on the ground " that he has two other wives in addii. tion to herself. Ii i, are sure to succeed and we are sure - to be quite a power in good man's ; politics. "You saw, of course, where Sece retary Taft referred to the National I- Association of Manufacturers at >t great length in his Columbus address. If we now succeed in getting the f council plans thoroughly established I- (and this we will no doubt do at the k next meeting on September 23) then v our power ior good win grow rignt along until next year during the proso idential campaign we will be a factor i- of national importance that can not he overlooked." ?. Senator Reed wanted to know r. more about the National Association of Manufacturers tariff and reciproca ity activities. Mulhall said the letIt tors would show better than he could t tell what it had done In these mate ters o? legislation. He added: "The l- National Association of Manufacture era created the tariff commission." Hi"'*??' AILD RIDE UN AIR' iVIATOR CARRIED OUT TO SEA BY A RUNAWAY BALLOON I Tim I! I I air' nirurr I IMtlLLlNU tAftlfltlNLt a us) or Wind Tears Rudderless Dirigilde rnmi Hands of Men Holding It, and Youth lias Narrow Escape ?Rescued, Nearly Exhausted, Alter Jumping Into Sea. After a hair-raising Might in a runiway dirigible balloon over a section >f New York city and Long Island lound, Frank M. (lay, an aviator who ins just turned his majority, was res? ued from the waters of the sound by i motorboat just as he was about to link, exhausted by nls iwenty-flveninute struggle to keep himself illoat. Tho dirigible in which Gay made lis adventurous trip was a new one, md the youthful liver was making experiments with it on the New .leriey side of the Hudson when a strong ntst of wind blew tho fopes from the lands of the five men who were lioldng it. Released, the balloon shot ipward and drifted toward the ocean, 10 one paying any attention to it 1 iitil Gay succeeded In bringing his raft down near the ground while lassing over the golf links on the | id warn iiouui estate Several of the employees of the >laee were on the golf links at the line, and their interest in the strange raft was doubled when they heard lie man on the framework shout: "Come on out to sea and get me in i boat." The men in the party jumped into wo motorboats and gave chase to the leeing air craft. They succeeded in ocating (lay and rescuing him just is he was about to succumb to exinust ion. The dirigible consisted of a gas ?ag sixty feet long, containing 7,000 ubic feet of gas, to which was susicnded by cords a light framework of lamboo, fifteen feet long. It was vithout engine, rudder or propeller, lay had planned to use the cigarhaped dirigible in exhibition races. ~)n the afternoon of his unexpected light he had gone over the cliffs to nake some tests to see what amount if ballast was needed to equal the veight of a motor. The big gas hag vas caught in a sudden gust of wind, inrling to the ground the men who vere holding it with ropes, and the lalloon shot over the bluffs. At first the suction of the air drew ho balloon down to the tree tops and he roofs of houses. Cay, desirous if saving the balloon, threw out some lallast. Then the craft began to rise ike a shot and to make a beoline for Long Island sound. As he passed iver New York city the heated air | mused rise still further until, lie asserts, he must have reached a height if 10,000 feet. Then the balloon began to settle \nd fiay had to let out gas. With the ;raft going at a rate of about forty miles an hour and the framework tilting and spinning, Clay declares he had his hands full and failed to realize his predicament until he neared the Gould estate on Sands Point. There he called for help. The balloon soon dropped after passing the golf links and shot into the water with a splash. Then it arose to a height of fifty feet and dropped again with great speed. After this happened fifteen times or more, Gay declares, he made up his mind it was a case of being drowned nr letting the balloon go. and he cut loose, dropping into the sea. TTe swam for twenty-five minutes with the bamboo frame before rescuers arrived. Gay is twenty-one years of age, a native of Newark. O., and has been in the flying business five years. ? ? Kiulorse Smith's Plan. After conferences between Senator Smith, of South Carolina, and officials of the departments of justice, agriculture and labor, in regard to Senator Smith's proposal to stop the growing of cotton in a belt through Alabama, as boll weevil harrier, the govern ment endorsed the plan. The justice department will study tlie methods by which government can co-operate to the state to eliminate the pest. Wreck Injures Many. Eleven are known dead, and it is feared many of the two hundred who were injured will die, following the wreck of two three-car trains returning from Venice and Ocean Park loaded with pleasure seekers Monday night. Four cars were telescoped and the rear train running forty miles an hour crashed into the rear coach of the first train. ? Children See Double Tragedy. While his two small children stood by and watched, Pen Strong, a farmer, of Moridianville, Ala., shot his wife twice in the breast, then tnrnoH the gun on himself, and blew off the top of his head, lie is said to have been Insane. ? Answering a command to hold up his hands Arthur Hodgins, of Amity, Ark., shot Constable Morgan Garnei twice through the body. ' 1 11,1 . . I. n??mmmmmrn WILL GRACE AID BLEASE'! j I +. SPKCIAL TO ATLANTA I'APKH S.WS THAT IIK WILL. + Charleston Mayor to llury the Hatchet and Aid His Supposed Lneniy in 1'iy.ht on Smith. A ! ~ 1 .11 . > * - jv r>jj? i iui uispaicn io me Atlanta I Journal from Ilendersonville says there is a possibility that Mayor John I'. (Irace of Charleston, and Governor Cole L. Hlease, of South Carolina, will bury the hatchet, and of the Charleston executive throwing the weight of his political influence to the governor in his race for the United States senate in 1914 against Senator 10. 1). Smith was the significant opinion advanced by a prominent Hlcsae lieutenant who is spending his vacation in the mauntains. i This opinion, if true and backed up by any foundation, will change the outlook for the next senatorial fight in the Palmetto state and make more i uncertain what every one now con- i cedes to be a race the outcome of which no one can forecast with any degree of accuracy. i Mayor ('.race was largely responsible for the election of (lovernor i Hlease in 1910, when Charleston's majority gave him the governorship i over Mr. Keatherstone. The gover- i nor appointed Mr. Grace a member of his staff. Directly after his first inauguaration. however, a breach be- < tween Governor Hlease and Mayor < Grace developed over the appointment of dispensary constables in 1 Charleston, and this breach finally brought about an open break. In the campaign of 1912 Mayor (~i race was a militant slinnnrlnr ,*r 1 i, .I rr Ira P. Jones, who unsuccessfully con- i tested for Governor Please's seat. The enmity became bitter, and the i governor, in several stump speeches, excoriated the Charleston mayor. i There has been gossip in the Pal- : motto state of a posibility of Mayor Grace entering the senatorial campaign next summer with Governor Pelase and Senator Smith, hut thesuggestion advanced by the Please < lieutenant here today puts an entirely \ new complication in the matter. This leader did not venture the suggestion of active support for Governor Please I by Mayor Grace, but rather a passive i assistance and all the personal influence of the Charleston executive. The enmity between the governor and the mayor of South Carolina's metrolopis is well know, and the sug- i gestion of a possibility of the burying of the hatchet will come with surprise. ^ ^ + IIAGGING ANI) TIE I'llOHE. Smith ITgcs Inquiry to Learn Cause of Price liaise. Senator E. D. Smith Tuesday introduced a resolution directing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate the recent advance of the price of bagging used in baling cotton, as well as the advance in the price of ties used to band or hale cotton, and to report to the Senate at the earliest possible time the cause of such advances. Because of the urgency of the matter, Senator Smith asked immediate consideration of his resolution. Senator Williams, of Mississippi, objected on tho ground that cotton bagging is put on the free list in the pending tariff hill. To this the South Carolinian rejoined that if the government waited for the tariff hill to pass its benefits would come too late to apply to the present cotton season, whereas an immediate investigation might bring results in time to help in the marketing of the present crop and save the farmers of South Carolina $if?o,ooo or $170,000 and those of C corgi a $300,000. 1)F.I.llir.ltATM KILLING. Savannah Man Slays Hoarder Suspected of Intimacy With Wife. J. L. George entered the room of Henry J. McClellan, a hoarder at his wife's home in Savannah Tuesday afternoon about.three o'clock, and with the words, "Get down on your knees and pray to your God, for I'm going to kill you right now," shot and mortally wounded McClellan, who died in less than an hour afterward. Ho was shot in the body, the bullet passing close to his heart. Afted shooting McClellan, George umi in? nous? .ami surrendered to a policeman. He accuses McClellan of undue intimacy with his wife, from whom he had been separated several weeks. He talked freely about the shooting after being locked up and expressed regret for his act. "Hut it just had to he," he said. Tmughed at Warning, Killed. Warned by his mother that he would he killed that day, Eugene Osburne, a railroad man of Oklahoma City, Okla., laughed at her fears and went to work. Two hours later he was struck by a passenger train and , instantly killed. I Against Veto Power. A proposition to give North Caroi Una's governor the veto power was lost Thursday night when the con stitutlonal committee defeated the measure. FAMILY IS DRUiiliLDI ? ? WYSTf RIOUS AND FIENDISH VISIT MADE TO ATLANTA HOME YOUNG WOMAN BRAINED \wakening, One of 111<* Family Smells < 'hloroforin, and Invest igatcs, Finding (lie l'hi tire ilouse Full ?>i' Danserous Fumes, F niter Which They Were .Ml I ucoiiscious. Five members of the family of Mrs. A. I). Duncan, of Atlanta, were chloroformed as they slept, and a sixth, a young woman, was knocked unconscious by a blow from a blunt instrument, some time after midnight Wednesday morning. Tracks were found about the residence, and the police, who were called there before six o'clock in the morning, can find no motive for what they believe was a visit to the residence by an unknown man or men. Mrs. Duncan, however, is confident the visitors came to the house. Miss Ililderbrand was the first of the family to awake, and her first conscious thought, according to reports, were that her hair was matted with blood and that blood was caked on her face. Then ulm iinii?n<i .IV" IV v U 1III I odor of chloroform in llio room, and | with some diHiculty aroused her sis- | tor. Going through the liouse the two I young women found the odor of chloroform in every room, and the oecu- ! pants when aroused with diHiculty, seemed in a stupor. Besides Mrs. Duncan and her two daughters, the other victims of the chloroform fiend were Karl Hilderbrand, aged nineteen years, and Krnest Hilderbrand, ager eighteen years. The two young men were aroused with more diHiculty than were the ladies and it is believed that an unusual amount of the drug was held over their faces as they were sleeping. While Miss Pearl Hilderbrand had been struck two severe blows over the head with a blunt instrument, her Injuries are not serious, and Mrs. Duncan supposes her daughter stirred as the chloroform was being administered and that the marauder, fearing discovery, knocked her unconscious. Although she stiffe:red from an in- j tense headache, when she was awak-. ened, Mrs. Deal declares that she ^ does not remember any unusual occurrence during the evening, the pre- j sumption being that she was the Hrst to he chloroformed. While Mrs. Duncan asserts that she is confident that the chloroform- . ers were bent on robbery, an investigation developed that nothing in the house has been disturbed and nothing is missing. Evidently the chloroform fiends entered the house by a window of the room occupied by Miss Hilderbrand and Mrs. Deal. The tracks led all of the way around the house and to the window, which the young ladies Mad loft open. It was the only win- : dow open on the ground floor, and there was no evidence of any attempt to break into a window or a door. FRENCH WANT All). Ask U. S. to Assist in Developing Their Smokeless Powder. War department officials have been placed in an embarrassing position by a request from agents of the French government for assistance of the department's ordnance bureau in perfecting the smokeless powder now used by the French army and navy. A series of unexpected disastrous explosions in the French magazines aboard ship and ashore is said to have led to this request, which is quite unusual in view of the consistent efforts made by most nations to protect the secret of their powder preparations. ? Pellagra Station Established. Word was received Wednesday that the United States public health and marine hospital service will establish a receiving station in Spartanburg for pellagra patients. The announcement is made in a letter from Surgeon General Rupert Blue, to Senator B. R. Tillman. HANK O fT M JLX i rn AConwa m HAS LARGEST CAPITAL AND SURI COUNTY. MORE THAN TIIE COMB I ALL OTHER RANKS IN THE COU: CAPITATi STOCK.. .. SURPLUS. LIABILITIES OP KTOOl SECURITY O F DPPOSI DIREC ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH. M. L. ZUCK, GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS ACC COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND WE Robert 1L Scarborough, I). President. ***%?" 1 ' i , ? 11 ? T?? . . W: HI . . : . . THE HORRY HEIIALD CONWAY. S. C. I Till ltSI>AY. .iriiV 17. 10 i >. 'HOPKRHIONAJj ('ARP* H. H. WOODIV/kill' Mid Oounc?lo> * * * CONWAV, 8. i ?. H. SCAJtJiltOL'O* OUiN V* A , a. itu>rue> ict i-i. ?. tt. m uil% - uy?i?Uu and fturg?x>. COiNWAK, 8. C IV. b. Mcl ui\u, Dental Surgeon CONWAY, S. t. ItHMO HAVKSBI Land Surveying and Drainage Spivey Building Conway, H. i Ml WUHLUS GRtflllbl St WING MACHIIM k jLIGPIT RUNNING ^ Cnroa want cithern Vibrating Shuttle, ttotaa^ Bbuttle or a Single Thread [ChainaLUch^ Sewing Machine write to M KW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE CQMP/U* Orange* Mass. Matty Bewtnr machines are marie to Brit rernnflnsflt' tnality, but tiie Ae w Home is marie to ??m 1 Our guaranty never rtins o?it. <?> fltoM Itf authorized dealers V SUB SALS m } ULKASE AM) McIjAUKIN. Meet in Hcntlei'sonville With TwoFriendly Editors. A dispatch from Hendersonville says Governor Cole L. Blease, of South Carolina came into Hendersonville on Sunday afternoon and was moi at tne train by State Senator McLaurin accompanied by Editor W. I). Grist, of the Yorkvillle Enquirer and taken to the Wheeler Hotel, where the party registered. There they were joined by Editor L. M. Green of the Anderson Intelligencer. Before supper the party was taken for an automobile ride around the city by Senator McLaurin. The rneeing of the Palmetto State Governor with Senator McLaurin and two principal newspaper men of South Carolina whose papers arefriendly toward the administration immediately started a report around the city that an important conferenceon South Carolina politics was taking place, but when asked about the matter Governor Please said that he just ran up to Hendersonville to spend Sunday night and enjoy thecool climate. ? ? 4 Americans Leave Mexico, Destitute Americans are arriving in the United States on every boat from Mexican ports. Many of them face financial ruin in consequence of the series of revolutions which has paralyzed commercial and industrial enterprises and they are leaving the Southern republic with reluctance. HORRY, ? ? y ? KJ) Vy* Mil'S OP ANY BANK TN HORRY [NED CAPITAL ANI) SURPLUS OP S'TY. $50,000 12,500 KHOLDERS. . .. 50,000 TORS 112,500 ;tors W. A. JOHNSON, WILL A. FREEMAN, D. V. RICHARDSON. OAT MOD ATT ON WHICH THEIR ACSOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. V. Richardson, Will A. Freeman, Vice-ProBidont Cashier.