The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 08, 1902, Image 8
BISS S. COLEB FOR BOYE
New York Democrats Nominate
a Full Ticket and Adopt
Platform.
"Saratoga, N. Oct. L-A con?
vention so strenuous in its final hours
as to bring almost personal conflict,
and yet terminating in such perfect
harmony as to allow the completion of
the State tickst with less than a hun?
dred delegates out of * four hundred
and fifty in the hall, was the result of
today's closing of the Democratic
State convention. It began in the
early morning with a prepared slate of
candidates. The slate was not broken
in any particular, but the right of
objection to it was given to- all dele?
gates except when, in the case of one
New York delegate, it was believed
to be an inf ringement of the rules un?
der which the convention was acting.
The ticket nominated follows:
For governor, Bird S. Coler, of
Brooklyn.
For lieutenant governor., Chas. N.
Bulgee of Oswego.
For secretary of state, Frank Mott,
of Chautauqua.
For comptroller, Chas M. Preston,
of Ulster.
For attorney general, iJohn Cunneen,
of Erie.
For State engineer and surveyor
Richard W. Sherman, of Oneida.
For State treasurer, Geo. C. Finch,
of Warren.
For associate judge of the court of
appears, John C. Gray, of New York,
y Naturally a great deal of the inter?
est in the convention centered in the
attitude it would take toward the
seating of Wm. S. Devery,'former head
/ of the police department of New
York, who held a regular certificate of
election from the Nintih New York. It
was* not an unexpected - event that the
-convention decided to unseat him ; and
it was not also unexpected that he and
his followers were vociferous in their
objections.
So thoroughly had Mr. Devrey made
up his mind, that the convention
would h?ve none of him that he did
not attend the meeting of the commit?
tee on credentials, but spent the earli
- er hours of the morning in the rear of
the convention hall discussing his at?
titude.
When the convention decided to adopt
the report of the committee by the
vote of 422 to 21, then Mr. Devery
walked out of the convention after be?
ing allowed to declare himself a good
Democrat, and proceeded to hold a
mass meeting on the steps of the Unit?
ed States hotel.
Mr. Devery started for home and
predicted all kinds of disasters for the
ticket, but halted long enough in his
denunciation of the leaders to assert
that he was a good Democrat.
- Perhaps the most dramatic situation
during the long hours of the conven?
tion was the refusal to hear the opposi?
tion that developed to Mr. Coler from
-the Third district of Kir?gs%and from
\New York city. Joseph Waser of
Kings and one o'sher delegate attempt?
ed to ,-make speeches in opposition,
but the objection of various delegates
d tne/attitude of the chair in ruling
em out of order at that time forbade
them continuing. 'But when Mr.
Color's name had been placed in nom
jRination and the nominations closed,
Nathan Straus of New York arose and
offered objections to Mr. Coler. He
was allowed to go to the platform to pre?
sent them and he requested in an
eminently fair manner, the privilege
of talking. He had hardly begun,
however, to state his objections when
he was roundly hissed and finally, up?
on motion of Delegate Mine? was ruled
out of order. ,
He started to leave the platform,
putting the notes from which he was
reading in his pocket, and when he
had reached the steps leading to the
auditorium he was surrounded by
a number of newspaper men who de?
sired copies of his remarks. He was
.attempting to determine who to give
them to, when a number of Tammany
delegates surrounded him and pressing
him against the wall took the note!
from him and tore them up. Luckily
he had preserved a paper in his pock?
et and this copy he managed* finally,
after recovering his hat and glasses,
to hand to the newspaper men. The
Straus incident ended objections to the
ticket, and the rest of it was nomi?
nated without any question or objection
whatever. Mr. Coler was nominated
by a vote of 444 to 3. The rest of the
ticket was nominated by acclamation.
The platform tonight is looked upon by
. the delegates present as perhaps very
verbose, but as a whole, one of the
best documents of its kind tUat has
" been formulated in years.
Railroads Defy Law.
Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 29.
Twenty-four railway companies, de?
fendants in an action recently brought
by the interstate -commerce commis?
sion to enforce its order requiring the
companies to provide more equitable
freight rates to Wilmington from the
west ia competition with Norfolk,
Sichmond and other Virginia points,
today filed answer in the United States
district court here to the bill of com?
plaint, which charges the railroad
companies with utter disregard of the
commission's order.
The respondents, deny that the order
now remiains in full force and effect,
because, they assert, that it is illegal
and void. They pray to be dismissed.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Company, one of the defendants, set
forth in a demurrer among other things
that the bill of complaint is not suffi?
cient in law and that the rates of the']
Chesapeake and Ohio are reasonable in
the premises.
The Wo/st form.
Multitudes are singing the praises of
Kodol, the new discovery which is making
so many sick people weli and weak people
strong by digesting what they eat, by
cleansing and sweetening the stomach and
by transforming their food into the kind
of pure, rich, red blood that makes you feel
good all over. Mrs. Cranfill, of Troy, I.
Tv writes : For a number of years 1 was
troubled with indigestion and dyspepsia
which grew into the worst form. Finally
I was indaced to use Kodol and after using
foor bottles I am entirely cured. I hearti?
ly recommend Kodol to all sufferers from
indigestion and dyspepsia, rake a dose
after meals. It digests what you eat. J.
S. Hughson & Co.
Detective stories of all kinds at H.
G. Osteen & Co's book store.
ni?C?N HADES ON TRUSTS
Senator Colliver Speaks in Chi?
cago With Trusts and Tariff
as His Text.
Chicago, Oct. 2.-The "Iowa idea"
came to the surface tonight at a mass
meeting under the auspices of the Na?
tional League of Republican clubs
which met in annual convention here
today. United States Senator J. P.
Dolli ver of Iowa was responsible. In?
terest became intense when it was
realized by the delegates to the conven?
tion and spectators that they were be?
ing treated to the first public speech
on the subject by a national leader of
the party since the Iowa Kepublican
State con vention. Mr. Dolli ver said
in part :
" Let us look at the Iowa idea for a
minute, and I select that only because
I am familiar with it and because
circumstances have arisen to give it a
universal advertisement. It has been
presented to the country as the sudden
impulse of dissatisfied mischief makers
within the Republican party. On the
other hand, it is the mature judgment
of a man whose wisdom has never fail?
ed the Republican party in the 40
years of his uninterrupted public ser?
vice.
'/It is evident that even if it were
desirable to kill the t'.usts, it could
not be done by merely remitting the
duties which their foreign competitors
pay at our custom houses. Even Mr.
Bryan, who talks of putting the cap?
tains of industry into a chaingang and
sending J. Pierpont Morgan first to
the poor-house and then to the peni?
tentiary, admits publicly that the free
trade remedy falls very far short of the
object he has in view. Nearly every
sober student of the \ subject admits
that it was the pressure of competition
which has drawn some of our industries
first into groups and then into gigantic
combinations, under a single corporate
management. A successful attempt to
repeal the law of competition in the
American market place would be
speedily fatal to the protective tariff
system, because the whole design cf
that system rests ..upon the unimpaired
vitality of that law.
"Before anybody makes up his mind
that the so-called American trust is
a permanent institution, let him con?
sider the long list of ambitious com?
binations which have already had their
affairs wound up by the courts of
justice. The alcohol, the linseed oil
trust, the alkali trust, the' asphalt
trust, the bicycle trust and scores, of
others whose very names are now even
forgotten. What was the matter with
these astonishing creations of the
promoters art. Nine out of ten of
them were bogus and, without stretch?
ing the law vary much, could \ have
been denied the use of the mails on
an ordinary fraud order. Only yester?
day one of the mammoth establish?
ments, the National Salt company, had
a little business before a court of
equity in New Jersey. The organiza?
tion of that trust in 1889 wasj looked
upon everywhere as a step in the di?
rection in monopolizing the necessa?
ries of life.
"The more I examine the old law of
competition, the better it looks to me.
If the duty of settlement has already
come to so many of these once formid?
able institutions how has it fared with
those which have so far survived the
test? Already the evidence is accumu?
lating from which the doom of the
trusts can be foretold, even the most
solvent and best managed of them all.
The figures of the census show that
neither in the mercantile nor the man?
ufacturing world has the small dealer
who owns his business and gives it his
personal attention, anything to fear in
competition with the overgrowth and
top-heavy investments of capital that
surround him.
?J "Thero is no room in this discussion
for vain exclamations of alarm and de?
spair Up to this time the tariff policy
to which we owe the prosperous condi?
tions which now surround us, has been
the ally of independent capital, in its
grapple with the modern trust system ;
but-if the day should ever come when
the productive energies of the Ameri?
can people are important in the pres?
ence of monopoly, the protection which
for more than a generation our laws
have given to all our industries alike,
is not likely to remain to enrich such
a conspiracy of avarice and greed. "
H0LD-UPVAS"A H0AX\
New York, Oct. 1.-According to a
Times dispatch from Goshen, N. Y.,
the hold-up of the coach "Pioneer"
between Goshen and Warwick by three
masked men and heavily armed men
was a hoax, perpetrated by young
society men from Warwick. The pas?
sengers were in entire ignorance of the
affair, however. *
The joke was arranged, the dispatch
declares, as a fitting climax of the
coaching season. The "Pioneer" was
on its last trip.
Boston, Oct 2.-Congressman Samuel
P. McCall was renominated in the
Eighth district Republican convention
at Somerville today. In his speech of
acceptance Mr. McCall said: "I be?
lieve a special session of congress
should be called to make a law allow?
ing coal to come into* this country free
of duty from any place. It is just as
! sensible to tax a shipload of food as to
tax coal at the present time. I do
not believe it would realjy interfere
with protection to remove the duty
from coal."
Camden, N. J., Oct. 2.-The city
reservoir near the Deleware river broke
this morning and about eight million
gallons of water escaped and flowed
down Twenty-seventh street, flooding
; the cellers of many houses and doing
; other damage. The reservoir is 344
feet long by 180 feet wide and is 21
feet deep. A watchman whose duty ic
is to open a valve when the water
reaches a certain height neglected to
do so and the embankment, washing
away the earth to such an extent that
the break followed. It will cost the
city $25,000 to repair the damage.
Puppy Lost-Reward.
On September 15th a Bull Terrier
Puppy (male-j strayed or was stoien
from my premises. The puppy was
about five months old, bob tail : dark
brindle in color all over, except white
I mark under throat and on chest and
white toes. A liberal reward will be
paid for return of puppy or informa?
tion that leads to his recovery.
Notifv H. G. Osteen,
Oct. 1-tf. Sumter, S. C. ?
THE BRE?T T?BAOCQ T3DST.
Details of Way the British and
American Companies Have
Consolidated With the
Duke at the Head.
New York, Oct. 2.-An authorized
statement regarding the agreement be?
tween the American and British com?
panies was made today by Thoms? F.
Ryan, who returned on Tuesday from
London. Mr. Ryan said that the state?
ments made in several papers on the
morning after his arrival, purporting
to quote his interpretation of the agree?
ment in London, were inaccurate and
in some instances misleading. As to
the conditions under which the new
agreement was formed he said today :
"The agreement made between the
representatives of the Imperial Tobacco
company of England on the one hand
and the Consolidated Tobacco company
on the other was mutual in its char?
acter and entirely satisfactory to both
sides. It was accomplished by friend?
ly conference after full consideration
of the interests of all parties affected.
The agreement has an international
character which has not belonged, I
think, to any previous trade arrange?
ment. It means the reunion of the
repr?sentai ves of an ' i^ipo* tant busi?
ness in Great Britain and America for
the purpose of seeking trade hand in
hand throughout the world.
"My visit to London grew out of an
invitation extended to me in July last
by the directors of the Britsh company
after several of the directors had visit?
ed the United States and while there
had conferred with Mr. Duke, president
(of the Consolidated Tobacco company
land myself respecting the respective
interests of the companies we repre?
sented. The agreement made to trans?
fer to the Imperial Tobacco/ company
the business of the Consolidated To?
bacco company in England was "made
for full and satisfactory consideration.
The American company becomes a
.larg? shareholder in the English com?
pany, with three representatives on
its board of directors, one of whom is
Mr. Duke.
"The Consolidated Tobacco company
will pursue its business in the Ameri?
can ?eld, including not only the Unit?
ed States, but Cubas Puerto Rico, the
Hawaiian islands and the Philippines
without competition from the English
company. The Imperial company will
not encounter the competition of the
American company in the business of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Irleand, including Scotland and Wales.
In the new Bri tish-American company,
the British company has one-third
of the stock and the American com?
pany" has two-thirds. The board of
directors consists of six representatives
of the British company and 12 of the
American, with Mr. Duke as its pres?
ident, who remains abroad to perfect
the organization. This British-Ameri?
can company will take over the en?
tire business of the Imperial company
tof the Consolidated company in all
foreign countries and in the colonies
of Great Britain, including India,
Canada and Great Britain. The agree?
ment made is satisfactory to both sides
and equitable to all interests represent?
ed."
Atlanta, Ga., Octebf 1.-After one
of the most bitterly contested cam?
paigns in this city's history Evan P.
Howell today received the nominating
vote for mayor in the city primary.
Mr. Howell was one of the founders of
"the Atlanta Constitution. His oppo?
nents were Ex-Mayor Jas. G. Wood?
ward and Alderman Harvey Johnson.
Washington, Oct. 1.-Bids for the
construction of the battleship Louisi?
ana were opened at ' the navy depart?
ment today. A number of representa,
tives of the great ship building firms
of the country were present. The low?
est bid was that of the Newport News
Ship, Building and Dry Dock com?
pany of Newport News, Va., which
offered to build the battleship within
41 months from date of contract for
$3,9901,000. \
Atlanta, Ga., October 1.-X charter
was granted by the Secretary of State
today to the Tennessee, Georgia and
South Carolina Railroad Company, to
build and operate a line from Blue
Ridge, Ga., to Charleston, Tennessee,
a distance of 200 miles. The road will
connect with .the Atlanta, Knoxville
and Northern, a branch of the Louisville
and Nashville, and the Atlantic Coast
Line at Blue Ridge, and with the
Southern Railway Company at Char?
leston, Tenn. The road is capitalized
a $3,000,000 and the right is reserved
in the charter to extend the capital to
$5,000,000._
Parkersburg, W. Va., Oct. 2.-Five
persons were killed and three injured
in a head-on collision between two
freight trains in a tunnel near Corn?
wallis, on the B. ' & O. railroad to?
day. Fred. Pierce, engineer of one
train, Wm. .Miller, a brakeman and a
tramp were killed. It is thought
several others are in the tunnel, and
two bodies can be seen, but are be?
yond reach at the present time.
Albany, N. Y., Oct. 2.-Attorney
General Davies announces today that
he has granted the application of the
New York American and Journal that
the coal operators be summoned to ap?
pear before him and show cause why
proceedings should not be instituted
against them under the Donnelly anti?
trust law. A hearing will be given in
this city, Oct. 8.
Mr. Fitz McKay, of Columbia, has
brought suit against the Seaboard
Air Line, the amount of damages
claimed being $30,000. Hon. Hoke
Smith of Atlanta is leading counsel
and-CoL P. H. Nelson of Columbia
his associate in the case. Mr. McKay
is the son of Mr. Douglass McKay, a
well known grocer, and was employed
in the train service of the Seaboard
and lost a leg by being run over in the
Seaboard's yards in Savannah. His
leg was amputated close to the body.
BULLETIN.
Hook Bags.
I'ook Straps.
Pencil Boxes.
Pencil Sharpeners.
Killers.
Erasers.
Krer.ographers Note Books.
Stenographer's Pencils.
Gold Pape*r.
Silver Paper.
Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pens.
H. G. O STEEN & Co.
ID W. Liberty Street.
Oct. 2-3t.
! D?KE DOES NOT MEET
?MERIGAN DUCHESS.
Neither Husband Nor Servant
Welcome the Lady Home.
A London cable to the World says:
Circumstances which attended the
homecoming of Consuelo, Duchess of
Marlborough, have given rise to a re?
newal of comment on the relations to
be observed this season between the
Duke of Marlborough and his Ameri?
can wife.
Un welcomed was the return of the
Duchess yesterday. The Duke did not
meet her at Euston Station. No carri?
age was in waiting, nor was there a
servant to do her bidding. Her isola?
tion from anything that could suggest
family ties could not have been more
complete. One less brave than the
lonely little traveler might not have
regarded the situation with the same
apparent equanimity.
The Duke did not see her off when
she'sailed for America. So her depar?
ture was as unmarked by his presence
as was her return, after nearly two
months' absence. Yet Blenheim is
within ninety minutes' run of London.
In the absence cf Duke, carriage or
servant, the Duchess made her way in?
to a lonely compartment of the train
for Woodstock. When she arrived
tjiere the failure of the Duke to appear
continued to be the most conspicuous
circumstance of her homecoming.
Leaving England ungreeted and re?
turning unwelcomed may have been an
unfortunate coincidence, but people
will draw their own conclusions from
such apparent coolness.
A report is current tonight that the
Duke was in London Thursday and
proposed meeting the Duchess, but
the train on which she arrived was
earlier than he had expected. He re?
mained in London. The Duchess en?
tered Blenheim unaccompanied by him
The Duke and the Duchess have sel
doin appeared together this season ex?
cepting on public occasions, and this
fact has occasioned considerable
notice.
The Duke had erected in the gardens
at Blenheim a commodious tent, and
spent much of his time there. The
Duchess lived, as usual, in the palace.
The Duke slept every night in his tent,
and it was said that he had experienced
so much benefit from livng under can?
vas during his few months' campaign
in South Africa that he had adopted
the same manner of living at Blenheim^
It will be only a short time now be
fore the Duke will start on his tour
of India. The Duchess does not ac?
company him.
The Duke will attend, next March,
the great Durban as a guest of Vice?
roy Curzon. Whiie the Duke is away
the Duchess proposes to organize a
hunt during the winter, and her guests
will be entertained at Melton and
Blenheim.
ONE BABY TOO MUCH, r
An Infant Left On Clarendon
Farmer's Doorstep.
Mr. J. N. Riggs came to town early
Tuesday morning and reported a cir?
cumstance of great interest. The facts
of that portion which can\be given to
the public at this time are as follows :
About two o'clock Tuesday night they
were awakened by a muffled cry of
something on his front piazza. At first
they thought it was that of some pet
kittens. An investigation proved'it to
be a new born infant wrapped up
securely in a basket and along with it
$5.*25. Mrs. Eiggs busied herself in
caring for it pending a decision as to
what to do with it. He went to his
neighbor, Mr. J. C. Barrett and they
started out at three o'clock to see if
they could trace the source. It had
rained a hard shower during the early
part of the night and they bad no diffi?
culty in tracing the buggy, which was
drawn by a mule. The parties had
stopped the buggy a few hundred
yards down the road towards Manning
as shown by the trackg where they
turned the buggy in the road, and had
carried the basket on foot to the house.
The buggy had come down the Raccon
road to where it intersected with the
Manning road, but on its return, it
came to Manning, thence through the
portion known as "Weinberg town,
thence by Mr. Lloyds, and out into the
road near Mrs. Creecy's, thence on up
said road. Tho buggy was tracked to
a certain house in the direction of
Sumter county, and there a buggy and
mule were found. Mr. Riggs is trying
to see what can be done from a legal
standpoint to fix the responsibility
upon the proper parties, and force
them to take in charge the infant
which they have so cruelly endeavored
to thrust upon the charity of others.
Manning Farmer.
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 30.-This
city faces the distressing fact that to?
morrow the supply of natural gas for
fuel and heating purposes will be en?
tirely cut off. For weeks past, or ever
since the announcement came that the
gas would be shut off, thousands of
workmen have been engaged in re?
modeling houses and constructing new
chimneys designed for coal or wood
fires. Despite the unusual activity,
however, it has been found impossible
to build more than a third of the
chimneys necessary, so that hundreds
of property holders are figuring on
withstanding the rigors of winter as
best they can. It is estimated that
not less" than 20,(XX) fireplaces have
been baiit or will be built before winter
sets in.
Manila, Oct. 2.-Gen. Chaffee and
Vice Gov. Wright sailed for [San
Francisca today on the transport Sum?
ner. They were accorded a general and
popular farewell demonstration.
Natural Anxiety.
Motiiers regard approachi::-,' winier with
uneasiness, children take cold so easily.
No disease costs more little Lives than
c:-')ui>. Its attack is so sudden that the
-r.flVrer is often beyond human aid before
the doctor arrives. Snch cases yield readi?
ly to One Minute Collah Cure. Liquifies
the mucus, allays inflammation, removes
danger. Absolutely safe. Acts immediate?
ly. Cures coughs, cold?, grip, bronchitis,
all throat and Jun^ trouble. F. ?S. McMahon,
Hampton, Ga.: "A bad cold rendered me
voiceless just before an oratorical contest.
1 intenJed to withdraw but took One
Minute Cough Cure It restored my voice
?ri time to win the medal.'* J. S. Hughson
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All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment?
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Meal. Carolina M. P.
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Also full line of standard grade Wag?
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We also have on hand a full line of building
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HORSES T MOLES:
Fresh Carload just arrived, and from
now on I will keep them constantly on
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please you.
ANSLEY D. UAMBY.
Sept 17 ?
MACON] GA, SUMTER, S. C. ROCKY MOUNT, N. 6.
Artope & Whitt Co.,
G-. E.] RICHARDSON, - - Manager.
Marble and Granite Monuments, Head?
stones and iron Fencing.
Large Stock Finished Work on Yard.
You will find our prices much lower than you
have heen paying. Investigate, call or write
for designs and prices.
Special discount for the next thirty days.
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ter, S. C. Aug ll