The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 07, 1908, Image 9
LETTER TO PHFRIDEXT
HEITKRATISO m%9 STATE?
MENTS
That Roosevelt Hm Adopted
nssUiwcs* >li thods In HI- Attacks?
Vigor,*** language.
Outhrle, Okie . Sept. 10.?Oov.
Chae N Hahkell. formerly treasuror
of the Democratic national commit?
tees tonight gave out a long letter to
President Roosevelt, repeating his
published dsfense to the charges made
against him. The letter In part Is as
follows:
"The serious character of your
charg?? against me should have sug?
gested to you tliat you. as chief ex?
ecutive, should proceed with delibera?
tion and certainty before making
such hearsay statement your own dec?
larations.
? Your attack upon me finally rested
on my conduct toward the Prairie OH
and Oas company of this State. 1
have said that you were reeponslbls
for granting a franchise before state?
hood, thereby creating veeted rights.
You seek to evade the issue and
create wrong Impression*. Y?>u said
the Interior department had no power,
ex sept where crossing the Indian res?
ervation. Ton would have your read
em believe that Indian Territory was
then conducting Us own government
and that only parts of the same were
Indian reservations.
"Mr Roosevelt, you know It Is not
true; you know all the land was In?
dian land without county, township
or territorial government. What halo
of Integrity surrounded you last weak,
like the mint, has faded away and the
Interior department holds the record
which convicts you.
*'You granted the franchise at the
solicitation of Senator Depew and n
few days thersaftsr received $2(0,?
?ft In cash for your campaign fund.
"You chsrged me with having at?
tempted to bribe th? attorney general
of Ohio. That was presumably nine
years ago. You have abandoned that
position Charles P. Taft sey>
through his paper that no evidence
was ever produced that would con?
vict use of the charge.
"In touching on the State university
question, you pretended to quote from
the Outlook magrsaine. but how dir
* honestly you enlargsd on ths mags
atns article! That article charged me
with substituting Democratic for Re?
publics n professors for political pur
1 have shown that statement
he false, hat I charge you with try
to enlargs on that magaalne ar
:le and give the world ths impree
tnat we were Improperly using
appropriated to conduct
Institution,
ir charge that I vetoed a child
have not apologised for.
Tading you know that I did
the approval of union labor
oar State constitution which
was 'so bad your opinion
Id not look well In print'
re detailed child labor leg
ell you have recom
?U New York legislature
to the congress of the
???'es president and that 1
had ?PPatiH ^ ftcU of our Wglnlfk.
ture (M^lflfn solicitation of union
tabor.
"You *aidf| four rtrBt Btat?mont
that ? had .uHT||lt?ht m,
to recover title * ^ ln^n Und
I overwhelmed Hik^Ht BUteme?t.
Adopting your umm$ mycy you flrr
from that states^ wUhout Ju?
id,.I?gy and adopt *se^ment now
.hat It was governmental 8Ue lot.
.hat you charged me ^ Wlng BU,d
or. Yee, I believe I a* t gofendlllU
s to certain ?overnmgs^^,, glu.
ts th.it
high
Sut
>ts In one of nearly 11.01
"u have had brought
?any different honorable
ilnded cttlsen?, of this Htute *aTlnk
i lie campaign year, end you <
ndertake to deny that petty
>r the purpose of Republicsnksng
bout tO.oao Idlan voters was y^r
? ?le motive for having those aufcj
ought; and I charge you with know,
gt h ?t there has been no delay h
" ess cases, escept that occasioned b
' t coart's deliberations, taken b
meelf. as time he decmd necessar:
consider whether or not there I
y merit In the petition filed by you
?jrney.
?You say th it on that land qu?s>
? n yos will see that I get a heartni
- court. Yes. sir, I will come to youi
?ring; call to your assistance al
? power that your high office com
n Is, pr??sen in ?my forn
i like. I am ready to meet It ann
ore Its conclusion the people ol
lerlca will be disgusted that the>
r elected you presi lent of the iTnl
States."
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??ne who suffers from chronic 0Oe>
' ?atlosj I? In danger of many s?riou<
n.-ntst Foley's Ort no Lanftthri
es chronic constipation as It aid*
estlon and stimulates the liver and
eels, restoring the natural action
these organs. Commence taking It
ay end you will feel better at once,
i ey'e Orlno Laxative does not nau
fs f>r rrtr" I fid '* very piri-?"?f
ft ll'-ftl i? llbSlilU?mh -|h< l';.
ig tor*
FIRST STEEL BALLOON HOUSE.
Government Erects Immense Skele?
ton of Steel at Fort Omaha.
From the Omaha World-Herald.
Omaha has the first steel balloon
house ever erected. It Is being built
by the United States Government In
ordsr that balloon experiments may
be carried on extensively at Fort
Omaha, which is strictly a signal sta?
tion.
This monster building is going to
cost the Government $50,000. It Is
erected by a Minneapolis company,
and aa It Is the first steel bajloon
house ever built Is something in the
the nature of an experiment, there be?
ing absolutely no predecent to follow.
It is entirely of steel. Not an atom
of wood Is in the building. Even the
window casings are of steel. Ther
are nearly 860 tons of steel In the
monster balloon house, which Is 200
feet long. 90 feet wide and 75 feet
high. Being altogether a new style v%
architecture and the first of the kind
ever erected It Is something of a
sponslblllty.
It is what Is known as the "Church
truss" building, having an angular top,
erlth a circular lower cord. From the
spring line of the lower cord to tho
ridge of the truss is 27 feet. One of
the special features of the balloon
house Is the sise of the doors. There
Is but one entrance, facing the north.
The doors to the entrance are mam?
moth affairs, being 75 feet high and
weighing 14 tons. Yet so delicately
balanced are they that one man can
move them. They are to be opened
and shut by means of a lever, which
can he operated by one hand. These
doors follow the trusts slides In
?nape.
The at el was brought to the fort In
sections, held together by 14,000 steel
rivets. The skeleton of the building
Is to be covered with sheets of cor?
rugated Iron, which have a new mode
of fastening. The usual method Is
that of purlin nails; but the Omahn
building Is put together by means of
120,000 Norway Iren rivets.
The men who ca:ch the rivets have
a hasardous Job. Far aloft one of the
workmen heata these rivets to a white
heat in a forge on a platform. When
it ia heated he shouts to the riveting
crew and seising the hot rivet In a
pair of tonga, aendi It hurtling through
the air all the way from 10 to 40 feet.
One of the riveting* crew catches It In
a bucket. To catch a white-hot rivet
is not exactly like catching a baseball.
If the catcher misses it means a se?
vere burn for soineone.
The method of construction makes
It practically Impossible for the
building to be torn looae. Even the
window caaea are to be of ateel and
the satire affair la fire-proof. There
la a continuous anchorage from the
concrete piers, which go 7 feet below
trade, to the spring line of the lower
cord of roof trusses. The anchorages
are 14 fest apart on alther side of the
building. The rear of the building is
anchored similarly.
On either side of the front Is a high
tower, which carries the doors. Theae
towers are tl feet high. The total
weight of the building Is 825 tons.
Thsre are three parts of the building
?the central part, which is to hold
big balloons, which have already ar?
rived at the fort, and a shed on each
side for storage purposes.
The hydrotjen gas house la at the
tight of the balloon house and will not
be ready for work until September,
when the experiments with the bal?
loon will really begin. There will be
at least two ballons. The Government
Intends to spend any amount of mon?
ey on these experiments, this being the
first stael balloon house owned by the
Government.
A Jeweler's Experience.
C. R. Kluger, The Jeweler. 1060.
?C. R. Kluger. The Jeweler, 1060.
writes: "I was mo weak from kidney
trouble that I could hardly walk a
hundred feet. Four bottles of Foley's
Kidney Remedy cleared my complex
Ion, cured my backache and the Irreg
ularltlea disappeared, and I can now
attend to my business every day. and
irecommend Foley's Kidney Remedy to
,1 ex 11 sufferers, ss It cured me after the
.\soctors and other remedies had failed.
I. W. Sibert.
Jshn Merritt, a young white man.
In Charleston as the result of
,nto?U* sustained by falling off I
tr*Ut et Hranchvllle.
*A ??1??. gnoa for anything where a
*a,ve ??* be used?that's DsWItt'f
Carbons* W|t(,h Hatel 8alv0. It
cleanser thoroughly, keeps the pores
tpSfi and k.Mm quiekjy, It Is good for
anything wn%re a ga,ve ,? needed. It
coo's and soothea and la especially
good for piles, We 8cU and recom
mend it. Sold by m\\ druggists.
?May*! Hon. v snd T;ir ettr#fl soughs
.|iilckly. strengthens Ul,. lunm? an,, w.
ft si colds. Get tho genuine |? a yel?
low package. W. \y sib. rt.
sit who never wntu, \nI1I never
cross the sea.
?Do not forget that DaWltfl Lit?
tle Karly Hlsfrs are the b? ?t p||||
made. They are pleasant little pills
that are easy to take and are natfrnpt
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DANIELS ASKS QUESTIONS.
Democratic Press Agent Writes a Let?
ter to Bonaparte.
Chicago, ill., Sept. 30.?Josephus
Daniels, chairman of the Democratic
press committee, today made public
a letter written to Attorney General
Bonaparte at the Instance of, the Dem?
ocratic national committee, asking the
Attorney General how many of the
287 so-called trusts of the country
have been proceeded against 'in the
Courts by the Federal Government,
and how many more cases he expects
to file.
Mr. Danlels's letter takes only one
hundred words, but appended to It Is
a list of 287 alleged trusts taken, he
says, from a list In "Moody's Manual
of Corporation Securities." He also
asks for the amount of fines collected
from defendant "trusts" and the
amount of fines standing against
them, but not collected.
In connection with this letter Mr.
Daniels, made the following state
ment: f,
'It is generally known that under
Republican administrations the Oil
Trust had a monopoly of the old oil
fields and that under the Roosevelt
administration it has been able to
dictate the production of oil in new
territory Is a matter of 'common no?
toriety.'
"The Standard Oil Trust has not
been put out of business nor reduced
the price of Its product. Of the 287
trusts in the United States there have
not been prosecutions of but few, and
the aggregate fines collected will not
exceed $150.000. The fines in effect
In trust cases may be said virtually to
be a license paid to continue the vio?
lation of the law. The public has
paid the fines against the Meat Trust
ten thousand times over. If 287 trusts
?an go on contrary to law and only
be fined it may be asked of Mr. Roose?
velt: 'Would not deeds speak louder
than words?' The Democratic com?
mittee today will send a letter to At?
torney General Bonaparte with a list
of 287 trusts and ask him to mark
those prosecuted and also ask him
why he did not take up the Steel
Trust, which receives more benefits
than any other from this Government
and contributed the most to the Re?
publican campaign fund."
Exi>ectc<l Some Cussing.
A West Philadelphia husband had
Juf*t comfortably seated himself for
his after-dinner cigar the other even?
ing when his good wife arose and took
the parrot from the room. This done,
she picked up a couple of envelopes
and approached the old man, all of
which occasioned that great surprise.
'?Mary," said he, "what in the world
did pou take that parrot out of tho
room for?"
"I was afraid that you might set
him a bad example," answered wifey.
"What do you mean?" demanded
the wondering husband.
"i mean," answered wlfey, handing
father the envelopes, "that i have
Just received my dressmaking am'
millinery bills."?Phlladlphla Tele?
graph.
"Now than 1 recall the fact," he
observed with a cunning smile, "my
third gn at aunt on my mother's side
had a stepfather who caught the grip
while shingling a house on the out?
skirts of the battle of Gettysburg."
"We thought as much," exelalnied
the crowd trlumpathantly, hurrying
him on to Washington. - Smart Set.
J. T. Martin, aroused at Orange
burg of attempting to use the malls
for the purpose of practicing fraud,
|h?a been released on bend In th?a
SENATOR FORMER'S DEFENSE.
WOULD CLEAR HIS CHARACTER
IX OPEX COURT.
Asserts That There Was No Harm In
His Accepting Employment From
Standard OH Company.
Cincinnati, Oct. 1.?That the law
should be invoked against him if ha
has done any wrong is the conclusion
of a statement given out by United
States Senator Poraker today. Be?
fore making this suggestion hj sums
up the various charges that have been
made and discusses briefly the legal
ethics as to service for various clients.
The statement in part follows:
"The questions In this whole matter
In which the public is concerned are:
"Whether I was emplo>ed, which
was never concealed or denied; and
"The character of that employment,
whether it had any relation to my
duties as senator or influenced me In
any manner In regard thereto.
"On all these points I have answer?
ed fully In my former published state?
ment
"I have not until now spoken of the
compensation I received, because if
the employment was improper it
would be no defense to show that It
was a small sum, but if, on the other
hand, the employment was proper,
the compensation concerned only the
company and myself, nobody else. If
my former statements are true, as I
know them to be, the employment
was entirely proper and legitimate,
and therefore the question of com?
pensation is one I do not feel called
upon to discuss with Mr. Hearst.
"In view, however, of the import?
ant character of the services rendered,
the ability of the company to pay,
and if it may be considered, although
unforeseen, the disagreeable experi?
ence to which I am subjected, I think
it would be difficult for Mr. Hearst to
show that I was overpaid, but if he
should, that would be a matter for
the company to complain about and
not Mr. Hearst.
"My employment was confined to
the affairs of the company in Ohio,
including Its organization ?fter the
decision of our supreme court dis?
solving the trust, and It was ended
long before the company had become
in any way the object of legislation
by congress or the subject of attacks
of any kind In the courts or other?
wise by the United States government
and such employment has never
been renewed, although, as'heretofore
shown, again tendered and declined
in 1906.
"If I did not have a right to accept
that employment, I should probably
be criticised for having been for years
employed by the Ohio Traction com?
pany; or perhaps I shoulI be con?
demned for oncv. representing the
eQntral Electric company, al?
though that was before I was elected
to the senate, or to the Cinc innati Tel?
ephone company, by which I was em?
ployed for many years before and for
some time after I was elected to the
senate, because it is a branch of the
Bell telephone company, and these
companies?the General Electric and
ihe Bell Telephone?have now beta
charged, according to newspapers,
with a violation of the anti-trust laws,
anil arc to be oiviiiv and criminally
proceeded against by the attorney gen?
eral of the United States.
"When 1 was employed by the
Standard OH company there was no
more knowledge or probability of thai
company's being legislated about by
COQgreal or proceeded against in the
federal courts, so far as anybody was
then aware, than there wa* and has
been as to other companies named at
? *if\ 4tr>lP" When T respectively r?yTn
ted th#tn<
"Lawyers, at least, fully understand
that when a professional service has
been rendered and has been paid for
all obligation ceases on both sides
and that no lawyer is bound by rea?
son of a previous employment to show
any favor at any subsequent time as
attorney, as public official or other?
wise to any one who may have been
his client.
"Finally, if I committed any offense
against the law, let somebody speci?
fically point It out and proceed
against me. The courts are open and
although they have been severely crit?
icised, yet the people have confidence
in them and will accept and be satis
fled with their judgment. If there be
any just basis for this reckless, whole?
sale defamation and attempted assas?
sination of character let It take some
tangible, open and fair form of pro?
cedure, where all interested can ap?
pear and be fully heard."
PROHIBITION FIGHT BREWING?
Legislator M. L. Smith Busy Gather?
ing Police Statistics.
j Spartanburg, Sept. 30.?At the re?
quest of M. L. Smith, member of the
House of Representatives from Ker
shaw, Chief of Police Hall has fur?
nished figures as to the number of ar?
rests made in this city for the two
( years prior to the closing of the dis?
pensaries and for the two years since
the dispensaries were closed.
I From January 1, 1904, to January
' 1, 1906, there were 4,215 arrests, &>
I 666 being for drunkenness. From
January 1, 1906, to January 1, 1908,
I there were 4,002 arrests, 785 being for
! drunkenness.
Mr. Smith is securing comparative
statistics in all the cities or coun?
ties that have voted out the dispen?
sary.
ANDERSON GINNER WARNED.
Notice Signed "Night Rider" Found
on Callioun Prultt's Gin.
Anderson, Sept. 29.?The gin of Mr.
Calhoun Prultt, a prosperous farmer
of Varennesr Township, eight miles I
south of Anderson, was posted last
night by supposed night riders. The
notice warned him to close down the i
gin and threatened that the night rid- |
ers would burn it if the command was
not obeyed.
Mr. Prultt came to this city this af?
ternoon and brought the notice with
him. It waf written on part of a polit?
ical circular, with an indelible pencil,
and the writing Is without doubt the
work of some very ignorant person.
The Incident created some excite?
ment at the scene, but the gin was not
closed down. People in the city do
not know what to think of It. The
notice reads as follows:
"Notice.?Mr. Calhoun Prultt. If
you gin any more cotton you will be
burnt out. We mean business. From
advance Night Rider."
Would Mortgage the Farm.
?A farmer on Rural Route 2, Em?
pire. Ga.. W. A. Floyd by name, says:
"Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured the
two worst sores 1 ever saw: one on
my hau l and one ~>n my leg. It Is
worth more than Ita weight in gold.
I would not be without it if i had to
mortgage the farm to get it." only
25c. at Blbert'a Drug Store.
Three members <>f the Rtchland
Volunteers were convicted of violating
military rules, and were given the
option of paying a fine or serving a
Jail sentence.
Fifty Tears a Blaekamlth,
?Samuel R. Worley, of Hlxburg, Va..
has been shoeing h oses for more than
60 years. He says: 'Vhamborlain's
Pain Halm has given me great relief
from lame hack snd rheumerlem Tt
?s the be l Iti ?> ? i > ? \- r used.'* For
TEDDY HAS ENOUGH.
WILL XOT ANSWER NEBRAS
KAN'S LATEST COMMUNICA?
TION.
Says Bryan's Letter is Personal At?
tack?That He Sees No Reason for
Rejoinder?Has Not Determined to
Take the Stump.
Washington, Sept. 30.?President
Roosevelt will not reply to the latest
letter of W. J. Bryan -given out by
him last night at Rock Island, IU.
Secretary Loeb stated today that the>
president felt that inasmuch as Mr..
Bryan's letter was simply an attack,
upon him personally there was no
reason why he should answer It.
Secretary Loeb today also made
the statement that President Roose?
velt hod no intention at present of
making a speaking tour in behalf of ,
the Republican candiadte for presi?
dent. Many invitations had been re?
ceived by the president, Mr. Loeb said*
but Mr. Roosevelt has never stated
that he would take the stump. When
asked whether, if the situation took
such a turn that the president might
consider that making a speaking tour
would materially aid the Republican
cause, the president in that event
would take the stump, Mr. Loeb re?
plied that he might or might not do
so, and added that no one could tell
what the future would bring forth.
AWFUL FLOOD IN INTHA.
Hyderabad Overwhelmed and Thou*
sands Are Left Dead. e.
Hyderabad, India, Sept. 30.?The
catastrophe that overwhelmed Hy?
derabad, the capital of the Xazama
Dominions, and left in its trail thou?
sands of dead, was one of the most
sudden and most appalling of many
visitations on India. In the Xizama
Dominions are many tanks or lakes,
the largest of which communicate*
with the River Munsi. Tremendous**1
rains caused the lake to overflow into
the river, which in turn burst ita
banks. A flood of water sixty feet
high swept down upon the city, car?
rying everything before it, and com?
pletely devastating several quarters of
the city. Thousands of tons of water
crashed in a dense mass against the
houses, burying under the ruins the
natives of a number that cannot bo>
estimated. /
When the flood subsided a vast
quagmire of black mud, out of which
arises a poisonous stench, marked the*
spot where thousands of people lived.
Bands of natives are now searching;
this rool for the bodies of their rela?
tives, and the scene is sickening.
Many of the bodies have been re?
covered and all of them are badly
mangled. Many are burled In the
debris of masonry and twisted irons.
The flood actually wiped out a district
a mile long and half a mile wide.
Awful.
Mary, aged live, and Stella, erao was
about the tame age, were talking
about their future dreams.
"When I grow up." sai l Mary, "I'm.
going to be a schon1, teacher."
"Well. I'm going to be amother with
Tour children," said Stella.
"Well. when they come t > my
school I'm going to whip them, whip
them, whip them!"
"You mean thing!" sail Stella, as
the tears same into her eyes "What
have my poor ehildn n ever done to
rou ?"
Mrs. John Sawyer, while at work
?n by a rattl <ste?v#