The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 10, 1902, Image 7
JOHNSTON A PBES?
BEHTIAL POSSIBILITY.
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Mayor of Cleveland Has Captured
the Ohio Democratic Con
vention.
There Was Some Attempt to Fight His
Platform, But This Was
Soon Squelched.
Sandusky, O., Sept. 2.?Mayor Tom
L. Johnson of Cleveland won a decis
ive victory today in the preliminary
meetings of the Democratic State con
vention which meets here tomorrow.
Ever since he was selectee as chairman
of the convention by she State central
committee it has been the general
opinion that this occasion would be
made the initial public opening of his
candidacy for the next Democratic
nomination for the presidency. In
that respect his success has been phe
nomenaL No Ohio candidate for the
presidency ever had a more unanimity
of sentiment in his favor among the
delegates at a State convention than
was shown at the meetings tonight by
-congressional districts for the selec
tion of officers and members of the va
rions committees.
Committees of the convention, the
committee on credentials, permanent
organization and rules and order of
business are almost unanimously with
him for everything he wants. One of
them gave him the double honor at
once of agreeing on a report to make
permanent the temporary organization
of the convention.
The Johnson men were opposed only
in the selection of the committee on
resolutions and the members of the
committee on resolutions and new
State central committee and in some
districts these contests were closer and
more bitter than expected. The John
son men secured l? of the 21 State
commi tteemen with three contested
opponents pending and a greater pro
portion of those on the committee on
resolutions.
The Johnson men during the day
made no concessions and in some cases
"gave no quarter"' to their opponents.
This caused the minorities on the two
committee named at first to fight, but
the fighting was soon over, when the j
roll of the committee on resolution
was called the members from the first,
third and eleventh districts opposed
the endorsement of Bryan and the
Kansas City platform and other John
eon planks, but the Johnson platform
finally carried without changes anc.
will be so reported to the convention to
morrow and adopted without any
minority report or other obstruction
as had been threatened earlier in the
evening. It has been customary always
first to appoint - a sub-committee of
: three or five to draft a platform and
report the same to the full committee,
but that was found not necessary to
night, as Mayor Johnson handed the
full committee the "draft'' and the
, full commi tee soon completed its work.
The tactics of the Johnson men in
giving no quarter was shown most)
clearly in the organization tonight of
the new State central committees.
Contests were made on three members
as follows: By Prescott Smith on
Lewis G. Bernard in the first; by J.
JL McClung on Capt M. H?tt in the
tenth, and by C. C. Philbrick on F.
J, Heer in the twelfth district. It
was urged on the Johnson men that
Bernard, H?tt and Beer had the cre
dentials duly signed by the chairmen
and secretaries of their respective dis
tricts and that such contests for com
mittee membership were almost with
out precedent, but all appeals for con
ciliation in the interest of harmony
failed and the new committee spent the
night in hearing these contests, both
sides fighting with unusual persistence
and bitterness.
Meantime the ovations at Johnson's
headquarters continued. The dele
gates called in greater numbers than
ever after the results of the evening
meetings became known. Johnson re
idly refused to respond to se re
l?s, saying that he wanted to save
his voice for the convention.
In the some hotel were J. L. Zim
merman of Springfield, Chas, W.
Baker of Cincinnati, Chas. W. Has
kell of Ottawa, Gen. A. Sanders Piatt
and other candidates for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor next
year, but none of them had large
crowds about their quarters and none
of them were called out for speeches.
The call for everything was in John
son.
The platform as it came from Mayor
Johnson was agreed to tonight by a
vote of 16 to 5 of the committee on
resolutions, but it will not be given
out for publication until it is aodpted
by the conveniton.
The resolution are fully in accord
with the views of Mayor Johnson on
both national and State issues. They
favor a new municipal code for Ohio
cities with home rule as the cardinal
principal and the federal plan as sec
ondary and denounce what is called
"municipal government by boards."
They also denounce the proposition of
perpetual franchisee and favor such
charters subject to popular vote.
in national affairs the last national
platform and standard bearer are
strongly endorsed and what is consid
ered a special thrust at John B.
McLean is incorporated in a resolution
for the election of United States sena
tors by direct vote of the people; and
until a constitutional amendment for
the election of senators can be secured
m it shall be the policy of the Demo
cratic party in Ohio to endorse at
State conventions the party to be voted
for at the next legislative election of a
senator.
Deca tur, 111., Sept. 4.?Action has
been taken by the Decatur and Lin
coln presbyteries of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church which is expect
ed to result in the reunion of the
Cumberland Presbyterian and the
Presbyterian Church, which separated
in 1810. The Decaiur and Lincoln
presbyteries both adopted resolutions
declaring that the creed of the Presby
' terian Church, as revised, removed all
doctrinal differences over which the
churches split and there was no reason
why they should not reunite.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 4.?The
paving concerns of the south have en
"tered into a consolidation and Chatta
nooga will be the headquarters of the
corporation. The main officers will
be located in thi3 city.
PRESIDENT NARROW
ESCAPES DEATH.
His Carriage Torn to Pieces by a
Trolley Car. One Secret
Service Man Killed.
Pittsfield, Mass., Sept. 3.?The drag
containing President Roosevelt and
his party on the way from Pittsfield to
Lenox was struck by an electric car
today and the president was slightly
cut and bruised. Secret Service Agent
Craig was killed. Secretary Cortelyou
"was slightly injured. The driver of
the coach was seriously hurt.
The motorman and conductor of the
car were placed under arrest.
The president was able to resume his
journey to Lenox but sent word ahead
that there should be no cheering.
HOW IT OCCURRED.
The president of the United States
escaped a tragic death by only a few
feet in a collision between his carriage
and an electric car in this city today,
while one of bis most trusted guards,
Secret Service Agent Wm. Craig, was
instantly killed, and David J. Pratt of
Dalton, who was guiding the horses
attached to the vehicle, was seriously
injured. President Roosevelt himself
was badly shaken up but received only
a slight facial bruise.
Secretary Cortelyou, who occupied a
seat opposite the chief executive in the
landeau, ssutained a minor wound in
the back of the head and Gov. Crane,
who sat beside the president, extri
cated himself from the wreck practi
cally without a scratch. The carriage
was., demolished by the pact of the
rapidly moving car, and the wheel
horse on the side nearest the car was
killed outright, the crew and passen
gers of the car escaping injury.
The president and party were driv
ing from this city to Lennox through
South street, one of the principal
thoroughfares of Pittsfield, which was
lined with cheering pepole and the
catastrophe occurred in plain "view of
hundreds, whose happiness at the ad
vent of the nation's chief was sudden
ly turned to' grief.
Thousands had poured into the city
in the early morning from the nearby
country to see and hear the president
and his address at the city park had
been loudly cheered. At the conclu
sion of the exercises he wished to make
a brief call on Henry L. Dawes,
formerly United States senator, whose
house in Elm street is but a short dis
tance from the park. The president's
carriage, in which he had ridden in
from Gov. Crane's home at Dalton,
was accordingly driven to the ?Dawes
residence and carriages containing a
number of other gentlemen in the
party followed. President Roosevelt's
call *was a short one and then the car
riages returned to the city square.
After a few moments delay the jour
ney toward Lennox was begun. Mean
while the mounted escort of police offi
cers and the carriages containing the
newspaper correspondents who have ac
companied the president on his tour
had started off ahead ?n the road to
Lennox and were some distance in ad
vance ? of the president's equipage.
Three or four other open carriages fell
in line immediately behind the landau
in which the president rode with Sec
retary Cortelyou and Gov. Crane.
Secret Service Agent Craig, who
throughout the New England tour has
been almost constantly at the presi
dent's elbow, was on the driver's box
beside Coachman Pratt.
IN A BROAD HIGHWAY.
Out through South street is a broad,
smooth highway. The tracks of the
Pittsfield Electric street railway are
laid in the centre of ? the road with
ample room for teams on each side, and
scores of vehicles of every description
followed along this road behind the
president's party.
Shortly after he left the park an
electric car which had been filled with
passengers at that point, started
toward Lennox well behind the proces
sion. It passed all of the teams and
was about a mile and a half out from
the city at the beginning of Howard
hill and was nearly up to the presi
dent's carriage, which was traveling
on the west side of the highway.
Just at the foot of Howard hill the
road bends a little and teams are com
pelled to cross the street railway tracks
to the east side. The railroad then
continues at one side of the street
instead of in the centre. Just at this
point the up-grade of the hill begins
and but a short distance beyond the
crossing there is a narrow bridge,
spanning a small brook.
The trolley car approached the road,
crossing under a good head of speed
with gong clanging just as the driver
of the president's carriage turned his
leaders to cross the tracks. On each
side of the executive's carriage rode
two mounted troopers of the local cav
alry company and the horsemen on the
left of the landau had turned on the
track with the trolley car immediately
behind them, though some yards
distant.
Alarmed by the clanging gong, they
both turned in their saddles and waved
vigorously to the motorman to stop his
car. Almost at the same instant Gov.
Crane, who quickly perceived the
danger, rose to hie feet and likewise
motioned to the motorman. The lat
ter in great excitement desperately
tried to stop his car but it was too
late. It crashed into the carriage just
as a loud moan went up from the fren
zied onlookers who thronged the road
side and who but a moment before
were cheering the president
The horsemen managed to get the
frightened animals out of the way just
in time and the car struck the rear
wheel of the carriage on the left side
and ploughed through to the front
wheel of the vehicle which received the
full force of the blow. The carriage
was upset in the twinkling of an eye
and one horse fell dead on the tracks.
The other three powerful grays attach
ed to the vehicle started to run and
dragged by them and pushed by the
force of the car the wrecl* d carriage
was moved 30 or 40 feet.
PASSED OVER HIS BODY.
Mr. Craig fell from is seat imme
diately in front of the car and it pass
ed completely over his body. Driver
Prati; in lulling struck the dead horse
immediately in front of him and roll
ed off clear of the car, thus escaping a
similar fate. President.Roosevlt, Gov.
Crane and Secretary Cortelyou were
thrown together in the bottom of the
carriage.
Almost immediately a score of men
jumped to the heads of the frightened
borse* and stopped their further i
progress. Gov. Crane was i;he first to
get to his feet, escaping entirely un
hnrt. He turned immediately to the
president, helped the latter to arise
and together they assisted Secretary
Cortelyou.
A POLITICAL SENSATION.
New York Republican Convention
to Oppose Roosevelt.
Washington, September 3.?Senator
Tom Platt's emphatic declaration
that the New York Republican Con
vention will not endorse President
Roosevelt for renomination is causing
a great deal of comment here. It has
carried joy into the camp of the Demo
cratic Congressional campaign com
mittee, for it is equivalent to a decla
ration that the leaders of the Republi
can party are not with President
Roosevelt on the trust question and
that they are ready to throw him over
board rather than allow any harm to
come to the trusts. It gives an
other proof of the contention of
the Democratic leaders that the Re
publican party, as a whole, is in
league with the trusts and that its
policies are dictated and its leaders
chosen by Wall street.
Senator Platt's declaration, when it
is followed up and made good by the
convention, which he will rule with a
rod of iron, will go far toward still
more clearly marking the line between
the Roosevelt Republicans and the
Anti-Roosevelt Republicans The
fight over Cuban reciprocity brought
about the first clear division in the
party on these lines and now the trust
issue bids fair to widen $he breech
past all possibility of healing.
There is no doubt that the P resident
has the great mass of his parl y with
him He has them with him on the
Cuban question and on the trust
question, but he is widely separated
from many of the leaders on both
questions. '.The men who control com
mittees and organize campaigns, the
men who collect campaign funds and
realize the importance of not offending
the great moneyed interests of the
country, are all dismayed at his plain
talk about trusts. It is these msn who
are represented by Senator Platt, and
whose will the New York Republican
Convention will execute when it re
fuses to endorse the Republican Presi
dents
In this connection an \ interesting
story has reached Washington through
the channel of a Washington financial
house with Wall street connecti?ns.
It is to the effect that the big: men
of theatreet want to see the Republi
cans defeated this fall and a Demo
cratic House of Representatives elect
ed.
The argument which the trust mag
nates are-using is that it will be com
paratively easy to prevent any anti
trust legislation during the short ses
sion of Congress next winter and that
if the present Congress shonld be fol
lowed by one in which the Senate is
controlled by the Republicans ami the
House of Representatives by the Dem
ocrats they will be absolutely sife from
molestation. They figure that the Re
publican Senate would insist that the
only way to reach the trusts is by
means of a constitutional amendment,
and that the Democratic House of
Representatives, controlled by Siates
rights theories, would never corsent
to the adoption of this method, and
thus they would go free and escape
any adverse legislation whatever.?
News and Courier.
They Will Be Prosecuted.
The first actual step towards" bring
ing to justice the men who were guilty
of the frauds committed in the recent
primary was taken yesterday. Chair
man J. H. Thayer, in the proper exer
cise of the authority vested in him as
the chairman of the county Demo
cratic executive committee, requested
Solicitor Hildebrand to come to
Charleston to begin an investigation.
Solicitor Hildebrand will arrive in the
city to-morrow, and Chairman Thayer
will at once place in his hands all the
affidavits and other damning evidences
of wrong-doing which are in the pos
session of his committee. It is believ
ed that the proofs that fraud was com
mitted are amply sufficient to warrant
the swearing out of warrants. The
solicitor will be the judge of that.
The duty of vindicating the good name
of the people of the city will rest upon
him, and he can accomplish the task
in but one way?a vigorous prosecu
tion of all of those whose guilt can be
established. In this work he will be
backed up by a public sentiment which
is overwhelming. Prompt and vigor
ous action is what is wanted, and it is
believed that Solicitor Hildebrand will
measure up fully to the requirements
of the duties of his office and to the high
the expectations of the public confi
dence that has been reposed in him.?
News and Courier.
Navigating the Santee.
The Columbia and Georgetown Navi
gation Company is inafinancialjcondi
tion now to build the boats ana ope
rate them on the river. It is the pres
ent purpose to build two boats and
preliminary steps have been taken to
do so, though no contract has been
awarded. A Government boat will pre
viously sound the river and by the
time the boats are ready all the shoals
and snags that may be in the river
will be located. It is expected that
the two boats will be running this
fall.
Maj. Thos. Woodward Dead.
Winnsboro, Sept. 4.?This afternoon
at 6.45 Maj. Thos. W. Woodward died
at his'home at Rockton after a pain
ful illness of several months. He was
one of Fairfield's most prominent citi
zens.
Spartanburg, Sept. 4.? A party of
northern capitalists have been investi
gating the feasibility of a trolley line
from Spartanburg to Greenville. To
day it was learned that the project was
favorably considered and by the end of
the week a charter for the proposed
comppany will be applied for. It is
proposed to build the line by Arcadia
mills, four miles from this city, then
to Fair Forest, Wellford, Pelham and
several mills in Green vi lib county.
The line will pass several fine water
powers on the Tiger and it is proposed
to develop these and operate the road
by water newer. m
HESTER'S ANNUAL REPORT.
His Figures of the Cotton Crop of
the Year Just Ended.
New Orleans, Sept. 4.? Secretary
Hester's annnal report was issued in
full today. He puts the cotton crop of
1901-02 at 10,680,680 bales, an increase
of 297,258 over that of 1900-01, 594,160
under that of 1898-99. Compared with
last year in round figures the group of
Atlantic States, Alabama, Georgia,
Florida, North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Kenucky and Virginia has in
creased 461,000.
The report on the cotton crop of the
States follows in thousands of bales :
Alabama 1,200 against 1,000 last
year ; Arkansas 820 against 762 ; Flor
ida 54 against 45: Georgia 1,525
against 1,295; Louisiana 880 against
719; Mississippi 1,375 against 950;
North Carolina 550 against 542 ; South
Carolina 925 against 911; Tennessee,
etc. 359 against 350; Texas and Indian
Territory 2,993 against 3,809.
The average commercial value of
this year's crop at $41.01 against $47.63
last year and the total value of the
crop at $438,104,687 against $494,567,
549 last year. This Mr. Hester says
shows that while the crop was in
excess of last year by 297,258 bales the
money value thereof was $552,862 less.
The total spindles in the' south ? are
estimated at 7,512,982, an increase
over last year of 981,08S. These in
clude 996,853 in new mills not yet
completed.
The consumption has been divided
as follows:
Alabama, 198,011 bales, an increase
of 33,654; Arkanss 2,463, an increase
of 734; Georgia 402,879, an increase
of 48,380; Kentucky 25,706, an increase
of 1,721; Louisiana 18,017, an increase
of 1,490 ; Mississippi 33,774, an increase
of 9,471; Missouri 4,329, a decrease
of 602; North Carolina 528,488 bales,
an increase of 93,510; South
Carolina 614,065, an increase
of 13,516; Texas 17,333, an in
crease of 4,348; Virginia 43,983, an
increase of 7,239. Total consumption
of the south 1,937,971 bales, an in
crease over last year of 317,040.
Mr. Hester puts the consumption of
American cotton by northern mills
this year at 2,050,000 bales, which to
gether with the 1,937,971 consumed in
the south makes a total for the United
States of 3,987,911.
The reciepts of new cotton of the
crop of 1902-03 at delivery ports as es
timated are 96,531 against 52,742 last
year and 22,620 the year before.
THE GORAN MARKET.
The Island Offers A Big Field for
American Products.
Washington, September 4.?Ameri
can manufacturers are considering
certain indispensable requirements for
the capture and retention of the cotton
goods trade in Cuba, according to a
report from Minister Squiers, at Ha
vana, dated August 12, which was
made public at the State department
today. The minister declares that the
American houses should send Spanish
speaking representatives to Cuba to
work up their trade, instead of rely
ing on the export commission houses in
New York to engage business for them
there. He also points out a number
of details in the packing and invoicing
of goods destined for Cuba, which are
not taken into account in the United
States. The British, says the minis
ter, already have the larger part of
the Cuban cotton goods trade, with the
United States and Spain as a close
rival for the second place.
HIGH PRICES FOR TOBACCO.
What Tobacco Farmers Are Re
ceiving for Their Crops.
Every day is a good day for tobacco
now, the weed is just rolling in from
every side and day and night the
heavy wagons may be heard rumbling
up the driveways.
The floors were well filled today with
very good tobacco, nothing extra, but
what was there sold for fine prices
considering its quality. The highest
average was made by R. H. Green, of
Pudding Swamp, who got 46 cents all
around.
W. A. Myers, of Willow Creek, sold
805 pounds, all grades for an average
of 21 cents clear of all charge. He got
a net check for $168.55.
E. Hutchinson, of Lucile^ sold a lot
for an average of 40 cents.* He also
sold again today 486 pounds at an aver
age of 18 cents.
J. A. Ward sold 462 pounds at an
average of 14 cents.
These are only a few of the good
sales made that there have been re
ported to the Times. Some of this
tobacco sold as high as 50 cents, while
some was cheaper. This is by no
means the highest prices reached this
season, the longest pole knocking
down a check at 87 cents per hundred.
A. T. Clark, of Black Swamp, wa3
very much delighted with some fine
prices that he got yesterday, and he
had some very beautiful tobacco.
Farmers everywhere seem to be satis
fied and they seem now to be looking
a little doubtful about the prices for
the lower grades holding up, so those
grades are being rushed to market
while the returns are still good.
One day last week one of the banks
in town paid out over $17,000 on ware
house checks while the other paid out
over $10,000 for the same trade. This
does not include the checks for that
day which were traded at the stores
and not turned in or those that were
taken Jhome for the neighbors to
look at.?Florence Advocate.
Cincinnati, Ohio, September 4.?
The historic Music Hall was damaged
by fire, which broke out at 5 o'clock
this morning, and the Odeon, a struc
ture adjoining the Music Hall, was
completely destroyed. The loss will
reach $110,000 full insured.
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