The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 09, 1913, Image 5
HARMONY AT FINISH
SENATE DEMOCRATS AGREE ON
TARIFF BILL
CUTTUN TAX BBOPPED
Cniious of Vpper Diuich Votes for '
|l< l?y hi Cotton Futures 8chomo
an<l the House is Expected to Fail 1
Into I.iitt- Koine Sharp Differences (
Smoothed Out.
Disaffection atnont Democratic i
senators which Wednesday prevented <
final action on the tariff Dill was dis- <
eiputed under the Iniluence of a heat- .
od caucus discussion and Wednesday '
eveninr; 5 lie caucus approved the bill ]
nst reported by the conference committee
t t the House and Senate. Hut
six Democrats voted against approving
tl:> report. The caucus decided 1
to abandon its position on the propo- <
sition in the bill to tax dealings in
cotton futures and leave the entire
subject tor later legislative action, i
Hoth the amendment of Senator i
Clarke of Arkansas, written into tho
liill in the Senate, and the less drastic
administration substitute presented'
by Mr. Underwood, House
leader, and reported by the House,
will be thrown out bv the Semite
Denflnc ats.
After tlio caucus Senator Simmons
fin id ' was confident that the Senate
w >uld complete its consideration 1
of it'r tariff bill Thursday. He said
a motion would bo made first to agree
to the conference report and that
t lien he would move to disagree to the
t'nderwood cotton tax amendment
and 1 !no to recede from the Senate 1
amendment. |
With the bill thus disposed of by
the Senate the House probably would
agree to drop the cotton futures tax
provision for the present and send
the tariff bill to the president. Senator
Simmons expressed confidence
that there would be 110 desertions 1
from tlio Democrats who voted for
the bill 011 its original passage in the ;
Senate when the measure appears. <
A resolution proposing to bind the
1 ) Innin/H"! I c I n ( li? #-i? n r.
i/v nu;v i *hd \j tn\5 ui^ut o * am un v\cir?
offered by Senator Lewis of Illinois, :
but was withdrawn with the under- !
standing that the binding feature of
former tariff concusses applied to the
.entire consideration of the tariff bill, i
Kl w bile Senator Simmons expects ton
finish the bill immediately the desire i
of Republicans and Democrats to discuss
the provisions of the conference '
report may delay final action. s
Wednesday's caucus, which extended
into the Evening, battled loud and
long over various provisions in the
bill arranged by the conference com- i
init.tee. Chief among these was the
tax of $1.10 a gallon on grape
brandy, used to forlfy sweet wines,
against which Senator Pomerene of
Ohio voiced strenuous protest; the i
differential between wire rope and
wire incompleted cables, which as
fixed by the conference aroused the
opposition of Senators Reed of Missouri
and TTughes of \>w Jersey, and (
the arrangement of the paragraph including
cast iron pipe.
Senators Reed and Pomerene
framed a resolution directing that
the conference report he sent hack to '
the conference committee with in- '
?druot'ons to alter these provisions. '
Rut Senator Simmons, in charge of '
tho hill, moved as a substitute that (
the conference report he accepted.
11 is motion was carried by a vote of 1
hJ to C?. Senators Reed, Pomerene, '
Vardaman, Tlollis, O'Oorman and
Hughes voted against tho motion.
Senators who supported the Clarke 1
amendment, taxing cotton futures ex- 1
Pressed stronnr nnnnaltinn tr? t Iia nrl- !
ministration substitute and declared
they would prefer to allow tho entire '
matter to go over for special legislation
rather than accept the Tinder- 5
wood substitute. This plan was finally
adopted without a vote. *
WANTS It \(T,S SKPAItATFJ).
Baltimore County Asks Legislature j
to Pass Law. i
1
In accordance with a resolution |
adopted at a mass meeting of resi- (
dents of Baltimore county to protest ,
against the location in the suburb of ,
Mount Washington, of Morgan Col- (
lege, a negro institution, tho next ,
* session of the Maryland legislature ,
will bo asked to pass a race segre- the
county is to bo divided into plats
of Baltimore county, identical in
principal with tho segregation ordinance
of Baltimore city.
According to the nlsn rkridod r?n
tho county is to be divided into plats, '
corresponding to city blocks for seg- ^
rogation purposes and tho samo rules
of occupancy applied to them as are '
now applied to city blocks, thus an 1
entire plat will bo occupied by mem- 1
hers of only ono raco.
Makes Counterfeit Cash.
Prison officials, after an investiga- j
tlbn, found remains of plaster of '
paris molds for small coins in tho <
cell of Sam Howorton, serving a sen- 1
.fence for "murder, at Nashville, Tenn. l
Tlowerton, it is said, melted tho metn/ <
by means of a wiro attached to th ) \
electric light in his cell. ]
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FOR A SECOND DISIRICI
I'KKKIDKNT INDORSES PI .AN FOU
SOUTH CAHOIJNA.
IKmm Not Wish Vuduo Haste, Rut
Thinks l>u plica tiou of Officers
Should Co mo iu Regular Course.
It became known at Washington
Thursday that President Wilson is
unite anxious to have the bill introduced
bv Representative Aiken u few
lay8 ago providing for the creation
uf another judicial district in South
Carolina, with additional court ollicials,
or one similar to it, passed at
an early date. The matter has gone
bo far that Representative Clayton,
chairman of the House judiciary
committee, passed the matter over to
Attorney tleneral ' Mclteynolds and
the latter has given his thorough approval
to the plan. Mr. Mclteynolds
went deeply into all the bills that
have been offered on this subject, digested
them carefully, and ascertained
from members of congress and
ithers who are in a position to know
what the reasons were for the failure
of these hills to pass in years
gone by. That having been done, |
according to what was learned at
Washington Thursday, the situation
was presented to the president and
lie thinks that it might be well to
have the new district authorized, but
be, it is said, is opposed to providing
for such authorization in one of
the emergency bills, as is often done.
The suggestion was made that the
matter be cared for in one of the
emergency bills, or as is known at
Washington, one of the "deficiency"
bills, but this plan did not meet with
the president's approval, lie thinks
that the measure should take its
regular course when the next session
of congress begins in December, and
this is what will likely be done.
The three members of the House
who are most directly interested in
the result of the proposed action are
Representatives Aiken, Johnson and
Byrnes. Representatives Aiken and
Byrnes are most enthusiastic concerning
the bill. A part of Mr.
Byrnes' district, all Mr. Johnson's
and all Mr. Aiken's would be included
in the new western district and it
is said that they are receiving many
l~? 1 4-1 * *
it-m-m <11111 it'ii'^ranm iroiu lawyers
e\iu1 oilier Interested parties in upper
South Carolina, encouraging their efforts.
The appointment of an additional
district attorney and marshal with
other court officials and the holding
of courts in several of the largest
(owns which would he included in
the new western district would add a
stimulus to federal matters in that
part of the State and besides creating
these new offices the plan would
mean that the holding of these additional
courts would naturally cause
much money to he spent, one way and
another in those towns. For nil of
those reasons upcountry people are
helping along and the prospects are
good for the passage of the bill at
the next session.
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ATTACKED TRAIN CHEW.
Oflicor l ace l'ight When They Hefuses
to Carry Dogs.
Angered because of refusal of the
conductor to allow dogs to be carried
an the train some parties at Parr
Shoals, twenty-three miles from Columbia,
Wednesday afternoon knockdown
Conductor T. W. True and his
porter and slightly injured Engineer
Orr, either by a stray bullet or bullet
:>f lumber, as Train No. 14, of the
Southern Railway, pulled out of Parr
Shoals for Colunibai. The conductor
is said to have been hit across
the head with a niece of wood and is
painfully bruised. It is thought that
Engineer Orr was hit by a bullet fir3d
by some members of the crowd,
ftut this is uncertain. lie was only
slightly wounded. The negro porter
was knocked down and bruised.
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Needed No Treatment..
When the ambulance arrived at a
Washington hospital Wednesday it
turned out that' Willie W. Mlckle, of
CJaniden, S. C., was not as much in
need of first aid as the nolioenian who
had called for it thought. Mikle threw
both the young Interne and the driver
5lit of the ambulance, and when he
was finally subdued with the assistance
of part of the crowd which
gathered about, ho was in no more
need of the hospital treatment than
were those who had come for the
'patient." *
Fatal Fall From Horse.
Mrs. Georgo Getty, wife of a
wealthy stock farmer of Silver
Spring, Md., and one of tho hest
known women n tho Unted Slates,
was killed Monday in front of her
bonne when sho was thrown from a
oad wagon while breaking a saddle
noise to harness.
Steamer Burns at Sea.
Fifty four shipwrecked persons
from the British freight steamer
remplemore, which was burned at
lea eight hundred miles east of the
Virginia capes, Thursday night were
brought into Baltimore by the stcamjr
Arcadia. No lives were lost. The
bulk of tho burned vessel now is belioved
to havo sunk.
ACTION POSTPONED
BY BOUSE ELECTIONS COMMITTEE
WHICH UEABS
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TESTIMONY OF G8ACE
Charleston Mayor Hot urns to Washing
Willi Friends, Several of Whom
Take the Stand Against Congressman
Whaley, and Tell of Money Alleged
to Have Heen Spent.
The house committee on elections
resumed its inquiry at Washington
Wednesday to determine whether
there shall he a regular investigation
of the charges tiled last week by Mayor
John P. Grace of Charleston,
against Representative Richard S.
Whaley, in which the latter was
charged with having used something
like $00,000 to secure his scat in
congress and with having made a
number of false affidavits in connection
with such expenditures.
When Mr. Grace reached Washington
he had with him Frank llogan,
William Wingato, Scully Sullivan,
Mike Barry, Steve Sergeant and hcon
II. Larrissoy, by whom he expects to
prove his case against Mr. Whaley.
Those who testified at Wednesday's
SPRRlnn wni'n' l-T nirn n II n ?
.. . . v/ . \ 11 > 1 >U I I v , Ol'lgeant
and Larissey.
Hogan, a policeman, designated by
Mr. Whaley as a political follower of
the mayor, told the house committee
that Whaley had said: "1 am going
to congress or I am going broke."
According to llogan, whose dialect
made him a picturesquo witness, he
was working for E. W. Hughes, opposing
Whaley, and hoiulled a campaign
fund of about $1,200 in the
first primary and about $1,000 in the
second. Mr. Whaley, llogan said,
tried to get him to switch his sunport.
"lie asked mo to handle some
money for him," testified llogan. "I
told Whaley that I was a Hughes
tnan straight out. Whaley suggested
that I take $r>0 then, but 1 didn't.
Harry Friend told me he got $2 00 to
use for Whaley in Ward 9, and I saw
the money."
Members of the committee asked if
Friend was the sort of a man to be
carrying around $2 00 of his own
money, llogan thought not, saying
he believed Friend was out of a job
at the time. The witness also said
he had heard that Hob Wickett got
$200 from Whaley and that Louie
Marilla and Harney Carey got about
$2,000. Testifying that money
seemed to-be plentiful ?n the primary
campaign, llogan said the night before
the election men were going
about Charleston streets saying:
"There was lots of money down at
Whaley headquarters," and asking
one another if they "got any".
Mike Harry testified that J. J.
O'Sliannessy had "a 1)ig pile of Whaley
money" in the second primary,
and that it was well known that It
was Whaley money. He quoted
O'Shannessy as saying that "ho had
the mamma to carry the day," mamu/.a
meaning money. Harry also
testified that John Cameron had
handed out Whaley money.
Sergeant, who said ho was an employee
of the Coast Line railroad,
told the committee that J. M. Reeves
was paid for his vote, and that the
Whaley people spent money freely,
buying whole families. Ho said the
head of one family got $50 for his
vote. The witness said ho believed
WhaTey spent $8,000 in the second
primary in the ninth ward, and that
tho Hughes workers spent between
$1,000 and $5,000.
Harry testified that at one time he.
ran a blind tiger and the city of
Charleston fined him every throe
months. The efforts of tho committee
were directed towards an investigation
of tho character of the witnesses
produced as well as to what
they knew direct concerning the buying
of votes in the First district. A
great deal was told, but much of it
was hearsay, and this made little if
any impression upon the members of
tho committee. While at intervals
something was said which would indicate
that Mr. Whaley's friends had
spent large amounts of money for
him, summing it all up, there was almost
as much testimony against the
Hughes supporters as there was
against those of Mr. Whaley.
While the witnesses testified to certain
money having been passed about
v.o,i un^niA.t * ? ? t* ?-.?
? III* II I 111 VI V. 11*3 >Y IlCVIVJjr VIII II, <111 I I
whilo much was said about Whaley's
tremendous "swag" and how It might
1)0 gotten, testimony was of an indirect
kind and few instances of direct
vote buying were brought out which
seemed to impress the committee.
Summing the whole day's proceedings
up, It is narrowed 'down to the
fact that $13,000 is the amount said
to have been expended in the ninth
Charleston city ward for Whaley and
Ifughes?about $8,000 by Whaley
and the remainder hv Hughes.
Mr. Whaley was a guest of Cpoaker
Clark at an elegant luncheon served
in the capitol. *
Auto Victim Dies.
Tl. J. Wilson, a stock broker, died
Thursday at Hinghamton, N. Y., from
a broken spine, tho result of an automobllo
accident Sunday night. With
two companions Wilson drove his car
TWO DOCTORS POISONED
ArcmKNTAL KM IK WOlNDSt
MAY CAUSE DEATH.
lu Performing Operation* For Otl?< rs
Health They Deceive Poisonous
(Tits.
Two New York surgeons were at
the point of death Wednesday night'
from blood poisoning as u result of
infection incurred in the performing
of operations. One was Dr. Robert
Morrison, of No. 3 54 Tompkins avenue,
Brooklyn, head of the faculty of
Williamsburg Hospital, the other, Dr.
Eiuil ltoehm head of the second surgical
division at Bellcvue. Dr. ltoehm
is twenty-seven years old and a graduate
of last year from John Hopkins
University.
Last Tuesday Dr. ltoehm operated
on a patient ajt ltellevue for the removal
of a carbuncle. In the course
of his work he laid his knife aside.
A piece of gauze chanced to cover
it, and when Dr. ltoehm had occasion
to reach for another instrument
the infected point of the knife pricked
the ball of his left thumb, he being
left-handed.
Despite the pain Dr. ltoehm finished
his operation. In his room lu;
took what seemed sufficient, antiseptic
measure but the tiny wound did
not heal. By Friday his entire hand
had swollen, and he called in Dr.
Benjamin J. Lee, visiting surgeon,
who performed an operation. The
swelling stopped at the wrist, but
by that night there were evidences
that the poison had spread throughout
the young man's system.
Telegrams were sent Saturday to
Dr. Boehm's father and brother, who
are physicians in St. Louis, and a
sister arrived from that city. WcdtlOQfln
V nili 111 lit* llnnli I?'n 4^...,..
.? x ?% j 11 ii t J M . 1 ?w * 11 i 11 r> iriu |HI (ituro
had arisen to 10r? degrees, and
it was feared thsit ho would not recover.
Ho lias been in his present
position only since .Inly 1.
Dr. Morrison performed an operalion
Saturday afternoon on two-yearold
Edward Montane of No. 7 2 Grand
street who was suffering from a rupture
of the appendix. When sewing
up the incision Dr. Morrison
pricked his finger with the needle.
Soon after he reached his summer
home in Hay Shore the wound began
to bother him and in spite of ttie precautions
he took, swelling set in violently.
Sunday Dr. Morrison came in to
the hospital and took counsel with
his colleagues. Dr. William (J. Dippoid
performed an operation which
revealed a dry infection from which
no pus could he removed by any
opening. The swelling continued until
his entire arm had been affected.
Hv Sunday night Dr. Morrison's
fever had risen until he passed into
delirium. Monday brought him no
relief, and Tuesday it was believed
he was dying. The hoy on whom he
performed the operation died within
a short time thereafter.
Dr. Morrison has been connected
with Williamsburg Hospital for several
years, and has been active in all
its atrairs. At his Tompkins avenue
lionie lives his son Russell, who is
also a physician.
CRITIC AD SITUATION.
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Chicago Sees 700 Tons of Garbage
Accumulate Daily.
Mayor Harrison early Wednesday
morning called a special meeting of
the council to determine some method
of disposing of the city garbage.
At midnight the plant of the Chicago
Reduction Co., which has taken care
of the refuse, was closed, following
the ignoring of the company's ultimatum,
served Tuesday upon city officials,
that unless it was paid $4 i?2,ooo
in cash by 12 o'clock, "we will
let. tho garbage rot in Chicago's alleys".
Aroused by tho menace of 700 tons
of garbage accumulating daily in
Chicago, many aldermen asserted
"Wednesday that the city would bo
iustified in exercising its polico power
and seize tho plant. A settlement
with tho company could be mado later
they said. As alternates the ctiy
can dump the gorbago in clay holes,
considered a health menacing pro-1
cess or deodorizing tho refuse zy
sprinkling it with some solution.
Ratal Ivvplosion.
An explosion and fire in a naint
room on board tho now Argentine
battleship Iiivadavio, while at Qulncy,
Mass., Tuesday, resulted in tho
death of James S. Laidlaw, a
draughtsman. The battleship was
not damaged. Tt Is believed tbat
T.aidlew lighted a cigar and accidentally
ignited a quantity of gas.
Fish Causes Death.
Herman Berlin, a Milwaukee merchant
and banker, was drowned
Wednesday in an effort to land a
largo fish. While tugging( with the
fish, Berlin stood erect in tho boat,
which was overturned.
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Policeman Hurdles Bullet.
Call Officer bum Wood, of Columbus,
C,a., owes his llfo to bis ability
as a hurdler. As he entered the yard
at tho home of Frank Andrews to
mako an arrest, Andrews fired. Wood
jumped into tho air, tho ball passing
between his legs. Wood escaped
without Injury and arrested his man.
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A PLEP AT 1916
POLITICAL OUTLOOK AS IT APPEARS
TO SAVOYARD
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SAYS (i. 0. P. IS BEAU
Veteran Political Writor Tells of 1U*- '
piililican Rejoicings Over Recent (
Maine Klcction and Then I'rocwds
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to Show That the Party is Dead? ]
A L'ew Words on Toddy.
By a reduced majority tlio Iiepub- '
licans carried the old James (!. Blaine '
district in Maine the other day, and
the Democratic candidate at this byelection
polled within about 100 of 1
the number of votes Woodrow Wilson
got in that district at tho regular
presidential election of 1012. Hut
all tho standpatters in this town, in '
congress and out of congress, are in
an ectasy and assert that the campaign
of 1D1G is already decided in
their favor by tho "verdict" from
Maine, where a Republican was clios- !
en to succeed a Republican in the '
Sixty-third congress by a plurality
200 less than that cast for tho Republican
candidate- last November. '
Nobody begrudges the CI. O. 1'. this
little dab of consolation. It is so
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long since they have had anything to
rejoice over that we are glad they 1
have emerged without annihilation
from a conflict which all must agreo '
was a drawn battle.
If tho Republicans had chosen the :
ground for this little tryout, they
would have selected tho Third Maine :
district. For many years Jatnes CI.
niaino was its reprcsentativo. It has 1
long boon as intonsoly Republican a 1
community as Ijftiicaster county, '
Pennsylvania, or the Western Heserve
of Ohio. Nor is that all?the !
new tariff puts on the free list three '
great products of Maine; viz; lum- 1
her, potatoes, fish. And yet they 1
carried the Third Maine district hy
a beggarly r>00 plurality when they
had 7 00 plurality the year before.
Any man who lias been about this
capitol for a third of a century as I
have will he slow to charge Dr. Warren
with unwarranted license of romance
when ho created the character '
of Tittlebat Titmouse in "Ton Thou- '
sand a Year". Hero are grave solons '
who not only profess to believe, but '
actually do believe, that in a judgment
pronounced against the Demo- '
eratic tariff hy a single Republican
constituency in Maine more than a
fortnight before it was possible for
that measure to become the law of
the land is binding on the entire '
American electorate the autumn of '
1014 after the new tariff shall have
been in forco moro tlvan a twelvemonth
?
Somo of 'em have come up to mo
with smiles nearly as broad as that
Ollio James wears when he hears of ]
a Democratic victory, hut not quite,
and said: "It's all over, old man, the
nAimU.. 1,A? ? -A! 1 J 1- -
iwiiuiiv nan ? I-IKIUMI urn IJemOCrailC
administration and found it want- 1
lag."
Bosh! Tho day after this by-election
in Malno tlio United States Sen- '
ate passed tlie Democratic tariff by
more than the Democratic majority
in that body and it was a material
reduction in the rates of tho Underwood
hill. The very next day business
gave opinion of that result by
advancing the prices of nil the legiti- '
mate securities of our vast corporate
enterprises. Mark you, tho standpatters
in congress had predicted
"woe to business". Tho following
Saturday the great eoncorns of Dun
and Dradstreet camo out with roseate
pictures of the situation. The bill is
not yet a law, but doubtless it will
he ere this stuff is printed.
Then there will come out of bonded
warehouses some $150,000,000 worth
of merchandise, mostly raw materials,
which will go into our shops
n?>,1 ml11<i ~ ~ < ? I > "
iuim jiiiiio iw UU I HMII lOIU'll 1II l.O 1111- | _
ished product. That will rIvo employment
to labor, and before the
present administration expires by
lapse of time, March 4, 1017, T confidently
predict that tho American
manufacturer will be as much of a
free trader as is the British manufacturer.
Mr. Redfleld, secretary of
commerce in Wilson's cabinet, is one
of the most successful manufacturers
in the country, and he is as nearly a
free trader as any man in public life.
A VPHI' Prr?m nnur 1,1a ...111 V. ~
*1 Wilt uvy it II IO II I IM3 Will IJU
legion In New England, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Tn 1011 when Oscar Underwood and
Champ Clark were "projcckln' " with
those "pop-gun" tariff hills of the
Sixty-second congress a manufacturer
was hero from Illinois and he mado
declaration that if they would Rive
him free wool he cared not a rap If
they put his woolens on the free list
also.
So It just amounts to this?if the
country is prosperous the fall of 1911
the Sixty-fourth congress will be overwhelmingly
Democratic and the
Wilson administration universally
popular. On tho contrary, If industry
languishes tho Republicans, or
Pull Moosers, or whatever name they
take, will come in; hut even if they
do, they will not dare rehabilitate
that shameless robbery, that arrant
knavery, "protection," which is as
dead as African slavery, its twin
relic. u
OCTOBER COTTON RErv.
l/OWKST (JOVKKNMKNT FICI ItKS
IN' TKX VKAIW.
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Condition of (Yop in Houtli Carolina
71 IVr tent.?California Hanks
J'iist Willi KM) Per Cent.
The condition of the cotton crop
Df the I'nitcd States on Thursday,
September 25, was 04.1 per cent, of
n normal, compared with 08.2 per
cent, on August 25, 19 13; 0 9.2 per
cent, on September 25, 1912, 71.1
per cent, on September 25, 1 91 1, 05.9
per cent, on September 25, 1910, and
08.0 per cent., tho average of the
past ten years on September 25. This
announcement was made at noon
Thursday by tho crop reporting
board, bureau of statistics, United
States department of agriculture, in
Its llnal condition report of tho season,
tho condtion being estimated
from reports of its correspondents
and agents throughout tho cotton
belt.
During the early part of the growing
season this year conditions were
favorable in tho Western cotton
states end unfavorable in tho Eastern
cotton states; as tho season advanced,
however, prospects declined
In tho West and improved somewhat
In tho East.
Until tho latter part of the month,
which Thursday's report covered,
there was severe drought in Texas,
Oklahoma and Southern Missouri,
but tliis was broken very generally
hiring tho third week of tho period,
the lieovy rains at points in those
states as well as in portions of Arkansas
were thought to havn cn.nan<i
3onio damage to tho open cotton.
I Hiring tho second week of tho period
liigh winds and heavy rains woro
Lliougiit to have caused some damage
in Eastern Nortli Carolina. In that
week the drought was reported as
severe over much of Tennessee and
portions of South Carolina, while tho
ilrought in Arkansas was considerably
relieved.
Comparisons of conditions by
states follow:
? Sept. 2 5?
Sept. 25, Aug.25, Ten-vr.
10 12. 1012. 1012. Av.
Virginia . . 75 SO 7 0 7 0
\\ Carolina 70 75 7 0 72
3. Carolina 7 1 7 7 OS 7 2
Ceorgia . . 72 7 0 0 5 7 2
Florida . . 7S SI 0 5 7 1
Alabama. . 07 72 OS 00
Mississippi. 02 00 02 07
Louisiana . 00 07 00 02
Texas . . ..02 01 75 00
Arkansas . 02 72 OS . 00
Tennessee .OS SO OS 7 1
Missouri . .04 7 2 7 2 7 0
Oklahoma. .42 15 00 00
California .1 00 00 70
IT. S 08.2 00.0 08.0
PLAX A CONFIODEKAOY.
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Five Mexican States Propose to S?t
I*'* P????.?l?11?
v i ?/ui um
At a conference hold at TTermolillo,
five Northern States of Mexico
decdled to secede from tlio federal
government to form the Confederate
States of Mexico, according to Americans
arriving at El Paso, Texas, Wednesday,
from Hermosillo.
The states whoso representatives
agreed to tho secession plan are:
Bonora, Purongo, Coahulla, Sinalao,
and Chihuahua. Only the rebel government
in Chihuahua joined in tho
movement. Venustlano Carranza Is
to be president of the new confederacy,
the Americans say, and In his
cabinet will be Gen. Angeles, a former
federal commander, as minister
of war; Augustin Labansat, minister
of haciendas, and Juan Sanchez Azzocana,
minister of foreign relations.
Eduardo Hay, it is said, also will bo
given a cabinet place. Lower California
is not included in the new government,
as its promoters say tho
revolution has not succeeded there.
The day after tho election In Malno
thoro was printed a manifesto from
Col. Roosevelt, in which ho served
notico on tho G. O. P. that It had to
surrender to him at discretion, that
it must abandon even the nemn
publican" and accept what ho calls
hia principles. If tho standpatters
agreo to this, ho will accept them,
condone their wickedness and load
them in a chargo next time.
And Teddy?he's a politicion, and
don't you forget it. TTe knows,that
tho O. O. P. can never be anything
other than what It always was, a sectional
party. Tie knows that tho
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owuiu it?nK ago rorgavo Appomattox,
tho march through Georgia, tho vandalism
at Columbia, but ho also
knows that tho South will never forgive
tho humiliation of reconstruction
when tho proudest raco in tho
world was made politically subject to
the most-abject raco in the world.
TTence, if under tho name Republican
that party honestly proposed universal
beneficence and tho Democratic
party promised universal malevolence,
tho cotton South would go Democratic
"hell-bent" as Maine went in
184 0.
Teddy knows that, and unless
Woodrow Wilson bo his master in tho
art, Teddy is tho best politician in tho
land, and ho has tho ken to see that
under tho namo "Republican" that
party has secured its last victory,
ploaso goodness.