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HIM CORNEAS ROOSEVELT. PHKailDENT AND CABINET SPEND DAY IN HEPLY. IVr Dctiwutd of Proof of Charges Agahuu Haakell Has Thrown Re pwhlWan Administration Into Tur aaoil Roooovclt'e Rejoinder I? a Masse of Evaaftone. Washington. Sept. 21.?President Roosevelt tonight, following upon a prolonged conference with members of the cabinet at the White House, prepared and gave out his reply to William J. Fry an, the Democratic candidate, relative to W. R. Hearst's that Oov. Haakell, treasurer Democratic committee, had rep aaled Standard Oil Interests both Ohio and Oklahoma. Mr. Bryan I demanded proof of the charges, ?aaletng that la the event of their itletlon. Oov. Haskell would he ?ted from the campaign, ileeing the Ohio case, which In OA allegation of sttempted with the explanation that he made ao direct charge against Haakell ao regarde that partlcu lnstance, President Roosevelt too up the matter of the Prairie State OO and Oaa company and arguee that Haskell'e action In stopping legal idlnga begun by the attorney of Oklahoma demonstrates easacluelvely that he was controlled aw the great corporation to which the Oklahoma company was subsidiary. After contrasting Mr. Bryan's de of Oov. Haakell as against Taft's repudiation of Foraker connection with the Hearst charge last the Ohio aenator, the preei deat proceeds to declare that Oov. Baaken ? "utter unfltneea for associa? tion with a men anxious to appeal to American people on a moral la* baa been abundantly ahown by acta of his as governor of Okla tana. The president condemns Oov. tell s conduct* in connection with various mattere aa disgraceful an 1 eeaadaloue. and calls eepeclal atten tftoa to what he describee as "proetl fating to base purposes the State unl Ity " This fresh charge against governor rests on an article in Outlook, from which the preel quous, and which, he says, the conclusion that Oov. Has? te unworthy of any poellon In life. The later portion of Mr. Roosevelt's eleateerance la devoted to criticism of Mr, Bryan's plea for regulating the which he characterises as a ire that aounda more radical any advocated by the Republl but which In practice would not Concluding Mr. Roosevelt de that no law-defying corporation aaythlng to f>ur from Mr. Bryan rtmt It would suffer from the) general paralyela of business'* watch would reeult from Democratic The president spent almost the* en? tire day In getting the letter in shape. Aa hour waa given this morning to soaking a rough draft of It. which was aabenltted to Secretary Oarfleld and Poet master General Meyer, ?o'h < f erhom made suggestions as to portions of tks communication. About 3 o'clock turn afternoon all the members of the aaktnet now In the city, Secretaries WUaoe, Straus, Wright, Metcalf and Oarfleld and Postmaster Ouneral Meyer, met with the president In tho cabinet room at the executive offices for a conference on the subject, which until S o'clock. Two hours more required to make certain minor ehange? before Secretary Loeb gave if to the proas. Deeming the reply too long to b? sent by wire, the method of communication Mr. Bryan had em? ployed In his challenge to the presi? dent. It was forwarded by mall to the Democratic candidate at Lincoln, ffcfc * Fully Equal. Aunt M mi! ?? n < > l>l ??..|.m v \ w Mil? an who for years bus done washing several Bast Orange families. She had several matrimonial experl and when h?r !a<t husband died os?s of her customers attempted to condole with her. "I waa very sorry to h? ,tr >f your husband's death, Aunt Mandy," she "Ya'as, ma'am." said Aua? M indy. was a pow'ful good man." -What did rte die of?" MAh, really don't know, ma'am." "You ?Ion t kn ?w! OlMftOSJsl Couldn't th#? doctor tell you?" -Ah dMn't have no .|.?etah. nvi'am.' eald Aunt Mandy. "He Jes done died a natch'ral death." It wasn't long. rtow.yer. ??? t ? e Aunt M ?ndy had another husband. **I hear v?u are married again," re? marked her patron one day. "Ya'ae. ma'am." giggled Aunt Man? dy. "Ah was done married la*' Sun "And Is your new hushand equal to your last?" "Ya'ae. Indeedy, ma'am." sal 1 Au it Mandy. "He's Jes as equal If I t ?qualer."?New York Times. Cholera continues to spread In St. Petersburg, the provlncee of Russia, and In the Philippines. REPORT ON COTTON. Census Hun-tit Statistics on (X)iwuinp (Ion of Staple Show 445,635 Spin dies Idle Throughout the Year. Washington, Sept. 23.?The census bureau's report shows a total o* 4, 575.438 running bales consumed m the United States during the year ending August 31, last, compared with 4,934.936 for 1907. The total stocks on August 31. 1908, were 1.233.628. of which 696.432 bales represent manu? facturers' stocks and 637,196 In the handa of other holders. The total number of the spindles waa 27,845, 531, compared with 26.939,415 last year. There were 27,399,896 spindles In 1S9S which consumed some cotton and 445,635 v/ere Idle throughout the year. The toutl present spindles are classified as 22,914.561 ring and 4, 930.970 mule. Of the total there were 10,093,960 active aplndlss and 2,256,613 bales consumed In what are known as the cotton growing Statee, In which States there were 658,489 bales held on Au? gust 31, of which 118,188 were In manufacturer!' handa. The number of cotton consuming spindles waa 2.6,811,681 for 1906. The statistics of cotton taken, con? sumed and of stocks are for all es? tablishments using raw cotton, In? cluding cotton mills, woolen mills, hosiery and knit goods establishments, these engaged in the manufacture of mattress and the like; statistics of cotton consuming spindles In? clude those which consumed cotton only during the year and do not In? clude those which consumed cotton mixed with other fibres. The totals of the table Include 6,596 bales of foreign cotton In 1908, and 8,665 In 1907 consumed by manufacturers In the cotton growing States and 100, 866 bales In 1908 and 181,873 bales In 1907 consumed by manufacturers It. all other States. The statistics of both domestic and foreign cotton are In running bales, gross weight. The full report, distributed by States, detailed statistics and other data regarding the cotton Industry in this and other countries will be ready for distribution the latter part of Oc? tober. The etatlstlca In this report for 1908 are preliminary and sub? ject to slight corrections In th? final repTSrt <;OVLI> FAMILY TROUBLES AIRED Wife of Howard, Allowed $25,000 a Year, Wants $120,000. New York, 8ept. 23.?In the Su? preme Court today Judge Olegerlch, after hearing motions In the Howard Oould divorce case, adjourned the hearing for counsel fees and alimony for Mrs. Oould until October 1. It waa brought out during the argument between counsel that at present Mr. Oould Is paying his wife 825,000 a year, while she demands alimony of $130,000 a year and $16,000 counsel fees. \ Mr. Oould's counsel, In moving for a month's adjournment, argued that Mrs. Oould, who has no children, would undergo no hardship receiving $25,000 a year, which Is half as much again as a Justice of the Supreme Court receives. In reply, counsel for Mrs. Oould said the plaintiff has strug? gled along as well as she could and as long as she could, and now, after the lapse of all this time, It Is very neces? sary that she be provided for at once. "The defendant Is invt Ulgatlng suits brought against her by divers persons." said Mrs. Oould's attorney. I "She is being hounded by agents of the defendant and shadowed wherever she goes by his spies. Life is made miserable for her, and, as our papers will show, she has recently been made ! the victim of a rank conspiracy to ( blacken her character by the defend? ant. Perjured testimony has been given by witnesses. If $25,000 is once and half again as much as a Supreme Court Judge receives It is six times less than the defendant spends yearly on one of his yachts. Here is g man with an annual Income of $600,00??, who is giving his wife the petty sum, In comparison, of $25,000, and in the no-mtlme is stirring up trouble for I her all over town." Judge OleRerlch granted a delay until October 1. I Immediately following the tempo lary disposition of this action the case <>f Beton Kelly Gould ggalnst Frank I, Gould for absolute divorce was ailed before Justice Olegerlch In the >ame court room. The prooedlngl were briet the court merely fixing October 2 as the date for a hearing on the motion. The Greenville News says M ij. Barle pledged his word voluntarily before the recent primary election I that Should Can>ler. of Tlr/ah, PO elected railroad commissioner, he, Barlo, would resign, in the face of I I this threat Greenville, Boris's home county, gave t'ansler three thousand majority out of I vote of a little over mIx thousand. I William Howard Taft. William Ran? dolph Hearst and William Jennings Hryan are booked to take up a lot of the time of the people during October. ?New York Mall. HASKELL RAKES TEDDY. GOVEHNOH OF OKLAHOMA EX POSES PRESIDENTS 1IYPOC RIOY. DcnLs I acli ami Every Charge Made Against Ulm und I>ays Bare the Collusion Between Ibe Roosevelt Admlnlstration and Standard Oil Trust?Federal Officials Helped the Trust I M?nder Oklahoma. Guthrie, Okla., Sept. 23.?Gov. Chas. Haskell tonight issued a statement the Associated Press in reply to President Roosevelt's letter to Wm. J. Bryan, dealing with four specific charges against Mr. Haskell, namely: that he is subservient to Standard OH; that he vetoed a child labor bill; that he dealt extensively In Creek In? dian lands and that he had allowed politics to dominate in the removal of members of the faculty of State uni? versity and the appointment of others to succeed them. ov. Haskell took up the four charges as dwelt upon by President Roosevelt In turn, dealing with each n a characteristic manner. The Prairie OH and Gas company harges Gov. Haskell declared to be a Joke on Roosevelt's stupidity," as? serting that he had done nothing which would confer upon the Stand? ard Oil subsidiary company more au? thority than it already possessed un? der a franqhlse granted by Secretary Hitchcock. "I assert that U is fair to me to assume that If my case was to be dignified by an all-day cabinet meet? ing that beyond question Mr. Hearst nd his campaign associate, President Roosevelt, left no stone unturned 10 blacken my character. That being true, they certainly raked Ohio fore and afl concerning the Ohio Stand? ard OH cases of 1899 and finding ab? solutely nothing rellectlng on me, the president tried to waive his charge of last Monday aside by saying he will make no allusion to that. He drops this subject because his original state? ment was untruthful and he must know from what he knows and tried to find In Ohio that I spoke the truth when I said that I never in all my life had an interest in, connection with nor service for that company. "I say the president knows now that my statement Is true and I regret that be tries to brush It aside with? out doing me candid Justice. Were I to adopt the character of language so commonly used by the president I would spell it in fewer letters than ?falsehood.' ? "Air. Roosevelt, I hope to speak in Ohio 89on. May I hope to divide the time with some partlzan of yours or Prince William, who will defend your action In thlb Instance? "President Roosevelt comes to Ok? lahoma and finds a substitute for his Ohio failure, does ht, in the case oj the State against the Prairie Oil an 1 Gas .company, which he complains 1 compelkd to be dismissed! "YI did have it dismissed. We all know that the Prairie company Is a Standard Oil offspring, and don't forget the president claims to have known this also, and I svharge that the political allies, Hearst and Roosevelt, both know that I acted properly. "First, the Prairie Oil company got Its franchise in our State, not from me, but from Roosevelt's secretary of Interior, long before statehood began, and had its main line built and ope? rating, and congress in our statehood bill was careful to declare that our new State, when organized, must re? spect all such vested rights and ex? isting franchises. That was all I did and the federal courts stood ready to call me down If I violated the Roose? velt territorial franchises. "Now, Mr. President, why did your secretary of the interior grant what you knew to be a Standard Oil pipe line franchise in our then helpless ter? ritory and fasten it on our new State by a permanent statehood bill? Will Mr. Hearst or the president please answer? I will also remind the presi? dent that the company tried to enlarge Its rights so as to Include a gas Bi w<il as an oil privilege, This T de? feated, and even last ' > ' Mr Pres Idont, your socretar:.' > :teri< ? t.'icd to help the Standard O.l to privileges against my protest by ac? tually granting them B franchise to lay an interstate gas line also. 1 no? tified the secretary that nith state? hood your days of giving valuable franchises in our State had passed and i would resist laying the pipe only aft< r you yielded and cancelled your unlawful act. "I again assert that my act In thai case was not only reunited by wlu.t federal authority had bet n unable to do, but that the public Interests of our own people, based on conditions grow? ing out of your original special favor to the Standard Oil company In granting that franchise, required me to pursue that policy in the cast' you criticise. "The president comes to the local affaiis of our State and assails me for vetoing a child labor bill. "True, I did so, simply because the bill went too far and included things not desired by our people. Union labor representatives approved my veto. I hope the president will survive this veto of a local bill and permit us to run our local affairs. ' "The president complains that we removed certain professors from our State university, our three State nor? mal schools and preparatory school in violation of civil service rules. That is, the president, In his usual impetu? osity and reckless disregard of others, misstates the facts. Less than one ftfth of the faculties are changed. All changes were for good cause other than politics and done by boards of regents and not by the governor. The president complains that there are several suits pending against me to reclaim Creek Indian land. The pres? ident should have gone further and said that I was not a dealer in Indian land and only came in as a subsequent purchaser and was only incidentally a party without personal interest at all, and especially he should* have said that it is quite apparent that those who are being sued in those land cases appear to be, and apparently are, the victims of political chicanery, which the president can better explain than I. "In short, the president and Mr. Hearst picked the wrong man and are now driven into ward politics rather than surrender like men. "The president assumes that all Oklahoma are grafters Just be? cause his territorial associates Justi? fied that name; that all ex-railroad contractors are bad just because Paul Morton needed his protection; that we all In Oklahoma violate the civil service law just because Mr. Roosevelt removed the best United States mar? shal we ever had, the only reason be? ing he voted for a good Democrat in? stead of a bad Republican and then the president appointed his cousin to 911 the vacancy. "As to the reports of labor on a child labor bill, and my work in the interest of labor, Mr. President, please remember, with me it's doing things. With you it's talk only. You are the same president who threatened to turn down our constitution because It provides a jury trial in certain con? tempt cases. Don't forget, Mr. Pres? ident, I flatly dared you to make that objection. .But as the price of your approval you did compel us to cut out the prohibition of removal of per? sonal Injury cases agai'ist foreign cor? porations from State to federal courts and severr. 1 other good provisions that would benefit humanity and curb special interest. Not content with your own threats against our consti? tution, you sent Secretary Taft here to speak in our campaign a year ago to induce the people to vote to turn down the best constitution ever writ? ten. We remember that we preserved Mr. Taft's speech. It differs widely from his speeches of this year. "Knowing all these things, the president must pardon us for thus taking issue with the occupant of the high office we all respect. Let us hope that in the future he will appre? ciate and preserve its dignity and not try to reflect upon'the character of a humble citizen. We fail to concede his false position when he knows it is false. ^ "C. N. Haskell." Early Leap Year Story. a mlsmated family'! troubles were being aired in the supreme court, room 1, says the Indianapolis Jour? nal. Judge Me Master listened to the man's story?He was the plaintiff and had charged his wife with cruel and inhuman treatment. He was a small man, and his wife? welk there were at least apparent grounds for the charge. After the plaintiff had fin? ished his testimony Judge McMaster decided to ask a question. "Where. Mr. Trouble, did you meet your wife, who has treated you this way?" "Well, judge, (somewhat meekly,) you see it's this way; I never did meet her. She just kind 0* overtook me.' Stimtcr Drug Co., Sumter, S. C. ?For prompt relief in cases of weak back, backache. Inflammation of the bladder. urinary disorders, kidney troubles ami rheumatic pains, there ;s nothing as good as DeWitt's Kid? ney and bladder Pills. The effect of these pills is shown in a very little > while. 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The situation is one for serious consideration; but there should be very little difficulty in arriving at the correst answer, which is curtail? ment. And now is the time to curtail. In these columns we have already told our readers that we believed the ' stringency of the times was due large? ly to a fear on the part of the east? ern and European money centres that the bottom rail was about to get on top. Lest we be misunderstood, we will briefly explain again. The sudden and I unexpected rise in cotton a few years | back liftedx the Bouth out of debt and j put the farmers where they could make a profit. That If this condition i should continue the cotton raising sec? tion would soon become independ? ently rich, was too plain to warrant dispute. It was equally plain that if ! the South should become rich it would be at the expense of rev- | enues previously enjoyed by other sec? tions of this country or other parts; of the world. There was niching ! nute natural then, that there should 1 be a world-wide campaign lcok- i Inf to the restoration of former con? ditions. Witli the joining of the issue, th? people of the South began to fight, l I and with the progress of that fight, all concerned directly and indirectly are pretty familiar. As to who has i the best of it at this particular writ- ) :ng, it is- not altogether certain who ? has th? advantage. Th? figures quot- i ed alow indicate thai the advtntuge j is egair.si the cotton prnlu or; but, thai is not altogether certain. On I tbe contrary, vre believe the cotton j producer has made distinct gains, and if he will only continue in the pur luance of as wine ami conservative I policy as he has been pursuing he will , certainlly win. ! Curtailment is the thing. There hat been a restriction of con- I sumption. The restriction has been | largely ? legitimate, as the result of stringency brought about through a 1 combination of c< mpllcatlons. This re- \ ?trictlon has also kx en encouraged in various quarters. As the insult of re? stricted consumption of manufactured goo is, there has been restricted pro? duction. This restricted production has be n necessary, in the cast of hundreds of mill-: they had to either I restrict their production or go Intoj bankruptcy. There is absolutely no just rea? son to complain against our local mills, and it is doubtful as to whether | there is Just ground to complain | against the spimcr.- anywhere, it i> well not to forg< t that fact. it would have been silly for tho mills to spin when the public would not buy. Those mills that have been I piling up surplus stocks on borrowed mone) have only been adding to the weakness of the situation. Goods that are forced on the market are always cheaper and the forced goods fix the pn sent price of the goods that cannot be forced. Put after all there is a brighter side to the whole situation. It is easy enough to dam the creek for a time;, but the dam must eventually either overflow or break. In either case the current must resume Its normal vol? ume, and in the latter case the nor? mal volume is preceded by a flood. We have an idea that there is to be p lload in the present instance. The^j stringency that has been on for so" long, cannot last always. The wor-3 is compelled to have cotton. It can wear its old clothes for a time; but a hen it gets to putting on new clothes, there must necessarily be a lining up of the situation. The demand will be^ strong enough to make prices wlyfj they ought to be. There should not be too much banking on future higher prices, how? ever. Every farmer should begin to make his future plans to fit the pres? ent situation. It must not be a mat? ter of bluff; but of actual perform,-' ance. Now Is the time to put real g ?od land in oats, wheat and other crops that will reduce the cotton acre? age. 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