The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 30, 1908, Image 6
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.'
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TUB OKWTAV? ?OMPANY. NCW TOUR CITT.
Time to Curtail.
With lard selling at 12 cents whole?
sale, ribs 11 3-4c, fat back at 10c,
and Hour at $5.40 a barrel, how the
cotton producer Is going to make both
ends meet with 9 cents cotton is a
puzzling proposition.
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.
We are not advising that this ae?
on be taken for the purpose of re
ucing the acreage to raise the price
of cotton. To make the plan re?lly ef?
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the determination of doing the best "he
can with all other crops, regardless of
the pr'.ce 0f cotton.
Now is the time to curtail.?York
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