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Cw^tiMated kmg. 1.188 tfc SRotrbman an* Sontbron ?BY? ?STUR PUBLI8HINQ COMPANY BUMT1R, 8. a Lie par annum?In advance. i Insertion.$1.09 eat insertion.19 Contracts tor three months, or will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub private Interests will be charged aa advertisements. Oattuartee led tri tu tee of respects for. ? HIU II ILLINOIS. A VIGOROUS ATTACK ON TAFT. Leaders of lla\ fcag Bsjgmysl Rank and File of Fasti Fbifs President. Chicasro. 111.. Oct. I.?Having tem? porarily bridged the political chasm which separated them and shaken f hands with his Republican opponent. William J. Bryan. Democratic candi? date for president, today again, sal? lied forth and reeumed his warfare. Not only Mr. Taft, but President Roosevelt came In far a severe verbal * castigatlon at his hands. This after V%oon he rode out to Bvanston, a dis? tance of II miles, in an automobile, and there addressed several thousand students of Northwestern university f and citIsens of the city, and tonight Journeyed to Chicago Heights, where sah* spoke to a gathering of laboring ?*bbs?. He will leave la the morning for a tour through Illinois and Mis aasjrt Mr. Bryan's principe I remarks to? day were made at Northwestern uni? versity. He first dwelt at some length ?a the deelrabllty of good cltJaenshlp. feddreeetng himself especially to stu? dents, be said he wished to get them ?Started right He referred to the fact that hie father did not leave him much saoney. "1 am rather glad that he did not." he seid, "for I think fo have spoiled more boys than f?ver have aided, and a fortune expectation has paralysed ambition than It ever has stimulated It." la referred to the advice his had given him that he could be In the minority, i but he afford to be In the wrong on Ion. j that If I were In the ml aad dicht." declured tho speak eome day be In the ma % 1 ws? In the majority 1 would some day be In Ig. Ho taught me to be f> la the WssMrit*. He tsught me to b<* -lleve the* Vlssory would rtnelly come to every ftghlssgs cause, and that feeling Is tha enty faith that can in? spire oae te %$R earnestly and con? tinuously for what be believes to be light LT Quoting from Reason. Mr. Bryan said there were feet two parties In ?very country sag that wherever speech was free these two parties would manifest thessaslvea. Jeff er eon. he said, described thoee parties as democratic and ?rleteeretic The W democratic party, he Aeetared. was ^ nearer the people and thai store It was only a question of time when the people'e party would be the triumph? ant one In the United Rtates. Mr. Bryan charged that the Repub? lican leaders were not going la the k direction that the Republican party wanted to go. In rejecting the pub? licity of campaign funds before elee* tion, be said, ths Republican leaders of tne convention had betrayed the rank and die of their own party and misrepresented the voters of the country. Mr. Talt he said, had re |t pudlated that action, but had gone only half way and favored publicity of campaign contributions after elec? tions. He attacked Mr. Taft s posi? tion on the tariff, trusts and labor questions. A Oaoe again he flayed President r Roosevelt for Interfering, as he said, r. the campaign. The vigorousness with which hs spoko aroused the crowd to cheers. The president, he charged, had violated both the spirit and the letter of every civil service tew by Intimidating the eeveral hun* a dred tousand officeholders. "I have * mo corporation behind me," he de? clared. "I have no rich relatives to furnish money for the campaign. 1 had but one thing to rely upon and that was my advocacy of things th it I believe and thst my party believes. I I have made my flght and I stsnd as ths representative of millions of peo? ple who believe as I do. and I say to the president that ha should stand m I do and let his man and me flght M oat before the American peopl' Continuing. Mr. Bryan said that hs felted April, ISM. ?Be Just ai 1. SUMTE believed the president's Interference "violates a sense of justice that can be found In every human heart, and 1 have a right to criticise this use rf the presidency." The Democratic candidate declared that long before his hearers ever heard his name he was endeavoring to get an amendment to the constitu? tion that would miike the president Ineligible for reelection. "I have said In three campaigns that If elected I would not be a can? didate for reelection. I believe that when a man occupies that office and holds in his hsnd the people's power he ought not to be tempted to use It for his own ambition. If I am elected I want to tear from my heart every selfish ambition and for four years give to my country whatever ability I have that I may work and make thin again a government in which the peo? ple rule and under which every c!t: sen shall draw from society a reward proportionate to the service he ren? ders his fellow man." FDGLFIFLI) MURDER. Richard IVnn Shot to Death by Tom Gray?Just Prior to Killing They Exchanged Friendly Greetings. Edgefield, Oct. 8.?Richard Penn, a prominent and somewhat educated ne? gro of the town was shot and almost instantly killed by Tom Gray, white, this afternoon. Gary used a pistol, -hooting five times, two balls taking effect, one In the right thigh, the other two Inches above the navel, the latter wound causing death. W. W. Sheppard and policeman Weir were the first to reach Penn af? ter he was shot and testified at the inquest that the deceased made the following dying declarations: "That he was coming towards town and met Gray and they spoke and de? ceased remarked that that was a fine price of corn. Grey replied: 'Yes; it Is not mine, but belongs to Mr. Sam? uels.' They then passed each other and when deceased had gone about 30 vyards. Gray called him back and commenced cursing him and drew hit pistol and fired." It is said that Mr. Wright Holson was an eye witness to the homicide, but he did not testify. Grey has, so far as Is publicly know, made no statement and his version of the affair Is not known. It Is rumored that Grey says that the deceased Insulted his mother. Orgy 's now in Jail and has employed counsel. LAHOR FIGHTING CANNON. Will send Speakers Into "Uncle JoeV District to Fight Ills Candidacy for Conv;rc*4. Chicago, Oct. 8.?Labor is prepar? ing a final and determined onslaught < n the candidacy of Jos. G. Cannon. The political action committee of \h? Chicago Federation of Labor yester iay made plans to send a number of labor leaders into "Uncle Joe's" dis? trict next week. During the last three weeks of the campaign there will be nearly 50 labor speakers In Danville, Kankakee and vicinity. Two organizers for tho American Federation of Labor are > the district now making speeches for the Democratic candidate for Speaker Cannon's seat in the house of repre? sentatives. Among those to be sent by the Chicago Federation of Labor wlli be Secretary E. C. Nockles and John C. Harding, secretary of the Ty? pographical union. MR. SMITH FOIl PROHIBITION. Rertltnw legislator States Ills Attl tude on the Liquor Question. t Columbia. Oct. 13.?Mr. Mendel L. smiths recently elected a member of th* hen?r from Kershaw, was in the c,tv yesterday for several hours on hi* way |o Rldgeway, where he con? ducted * nylnlan meeting. Mr. Smith recently announced that he would not be a candidate for speaker of the house, whirs he served two terms several years ago, although he had received letters rrom many friends urging him to run Mr. Smith said yesterday that he is satisfied that h? had made the right decision and would b? more useful on the floor of the house. Mr. Smith will mi Re a fight for ths passage of a pro hlbltlon bill. He does not believe tha there should be a compromise as sug gested last year, which would estab HgH prohibition and then allow coun M** to vote In county 'Hapsnsarles, thinks the State should be absolute^ dry. Since his election he has secure some interesting figures from the pro hlbltlon counties on the number o arrests made, the Increase .n bank de posits in these counties and facts which he will present when tlmt comas. id Fear not?Ix?t all the ends Thou Aln R. S. o . WEDNESDj WASHINGTON MEWS NOTES. TALK ABOUT THE POLITICAL SIT? UATION. Washington Ham the LangetA Negro I Population And in Consequence the Jail la Overcrowded With Negro Criminals. Washington. Oct. 10.?A political campaign is raging mildly through? out the country, but we hear only the echoes here In Washington. It Is said the campaign headquarters are real? ly In the White House. Surely the President Is there and has been for two weeks. It Is his campaign in a very special sense for he might have been the nominee if he had not turn? ed his back on the nomination and vaid "No!" "Nominate my represent? ative?the man who has helped me thapc and launch and direct the pol? icies with which I have been credited, but which are as much hi? as mine." Surely there has been an unprecedented popular approval of these policies? such approval as has not been known tefore In the political history of the country. The approval was popular, jure and simple, for prominent poli? ticians In and out of Congress have opposed the Rooseveltian policies in many instances to the ruin of their political prospects. But this is an old story. The election is now but three weeks off, when* Washington and the country will know who will occupy the White House until 1812. Jf It shall be Mr. Taft, the changes will not be great for it is understood a that some members of the" present cabinet will be Invited to remain and many chiefs of bureaus in the various governmental departments will doubt? less hold over. But If it shall be Mr. Bryan, the changes will be great and far reaching both In official and in social matters. The Roosevelt re? gime has been from a social stand? point splendid beyond precedent. The President, beyond almost all his pre? decessors, Is a man of education, trav? el and savolr falre. What other pres? ident could have talked to a German or Frenchman In his own language? Jefferson, I believe, understood French, but not German. Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan confine themselves strictly to English and for the best of reasons. I i i In the dearth of startling political or social doings, It may be interesting to know that a decision has just been rendered by the Commissioner of In? ternal Revenue that It Is expected will stop altogether the practice prevail? ing for years among certain liquor dealers of putting on the market th i same product under different names. This decision reverses the ruling of the former Commissioner, Yerkes, who held that rectifiers and whole? sale liquor merchants could place on the market the same product under a half dozen different names without being taxed specifically for each. Commissioner Capers, in an elabo? rate opinion, decides that any person, firm or corporation carrying on busi? ness as a wholesale liquor dealer at one place or time under different names, must pay a separate special tax for each name or style under which he transacts business. If the practice of carrying on business by the rectifiers or wholesale dealers is continued, it will doubtles> add large? ly to the public revenues, but Treas? ury officials believe that there will be a discontinuance of the practice. The question of names and styles, It Is understood, was brought to the attention of the Department by active prohibitionists who are sleepless In their contention against the liquor dealers. In many States careful watch Is kept of whiskey shipped, and the name of the brand or the wholesale dealer often leads to the prevention of further importations of the same kind. When such prevention becomes effective, the same liquor dealers will ship into the prohibition States an? other lot of whiskey, only changing the name. It wus the discovery of this practice of substituting names that brought the matter to the attention of the Internal Revenue Bureau and caused the decision, which will be ef? fective throughout the country, e e e The District jail In Washington Is full to overflowing and the inmates are mostly of the African race. It is now pretty generally known that Washington has the largest negro population of any city In the world. One hundred of V ^se prisoners are to be transferred to the United States prison at Fort Smith, Ark. Some such ' step was indispensable and should have been taken years ago pending the enlargement of the Washington Jail so that five persons need not be confined In single cells and ?64 prlaonere?the enrollment iiaaterday?need not he billeted In unu I mit' at be thy Country's, Thy Cod's an kY. OCTOBER 14, 19 cells large enough to accomodate only about half that number. The Na? tional Capital and the District in which It is rituated are but poorly furnished with penal instiutions. SOS There has been some talk about a treaty offensive and defensive be? tween the United States and China? a treaty similar to that which was signed after the Russo-Japanese war between England and Japan. Such a treaty between the United States and the Chinese Empire is, of course, im? possible, but meanwhile a treaty be? tween them has actually been signed by Secretary Root and Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister to this country. It is an arbitration treaty and its principal article as as follows: "Dif? ferences which may aris? of a legal nature or relating to th? interpreta-' tion of treaties existing between the two contracting parties, and which it may not have been possible to settle ff diplomacy, shall be referred to the permanent court of arbitration es? tablished in The Hague by the con? vention of July 29, 1899, provided, nevertheless, that they do not affect the vital interest, the independence, or the honor of the third parties." _ WEDDING AT OLANTA. Nuptials of Miss Ethel Thompson and Mr. Marion Mellctt Celebrated on Tuesday. Olanta, Oct. 7.?A wedding of much interest to the many friends of the contracting parties, and the prettiest at this place in many years, was that of Miss Ethel Thompson to Mr. Ma? rion M. Mellette, of Wedgefield, on Tuesday evening, Oct. 6th. The Pres? byterian church, where the ceremony waa performed, was beautifully and tastefully decorated for the occasion In greenwood, with ferns and potted plants for a background. Promptly at 5.30 o'clock, to the strains of Mendelssohns wedding march, beautifully rendered by Miss Pearl Dora Truluck, the bridal party entered the church. First came the ushers, Messrs. Tom J. Moore and David N. Parker, who took their places on either side of the altar and imemdiately in the rear of a beautifully decorated arch, from which was suspended a huge bell. Then the bride, leaning on the arm of her sister, Miss Addle Vir? ginia Thompson, the maid of honor, followed by the other bridesmaids, Misses Guelienne Mellette and Monde Chandler, of Wedgefield, came for? ward and was met under the bell, by the groom with his best man. Mr. Henry Mellette, and other attendants, Messrs. Billups and Harold Chandler, of Wedgefield. The pastor, Rev. Thos B. Trenholm, performed the impressive ceremony, while Miss Truluck rendered "Meditation." The party then left the church together to the strains of Lohengrin. The bride was daintily gowned in Point D'Spriet, over white silk, with lace and ribbon trimmings, the veil was caught with brides' roses, and she carried a shower bouquet of the same. She never looked prettier or daintier than on this occasion. The maid of honor wore a beautiful cos? tume of blue silk mulle with white satin girdle. The bridesmaids wore white silk and carried bouquets of pink roses. The bridal party took the north? bound train for Columbia, from which point they, will visit several seuthern points before .returning home. The bride Is the youngest daughter of Judge R. M. Thompson, Sr. She has won by her charms of person and ! manner many friends and admirers throughout the State. The groom is a young man of fine traits of charac? ter and is very popular with his as? sociates. The expensive and beauti? ful array of presents attest the es? teem in which this young couple arc held by their hosts of friends. The out of town guests were: Mrs. Leila Mellette, Miss Gueliem Mellette, of Wedgefield, Mrs. J. F. Montgomery and family, Mrs. Leonora Montgom? ery, Mr. S. B. Montgomery and Ma? rlon, of Greenville, Messrs. T. D. Bronahn, Jno. Dew, Walter Dew, H. D. Jordan and Harold Chandler, of Wedgefield, Miss Kilpatrlck, of Lynch burg, Mr. Charlie Hudson, of Green? ville. Kansas Mastodon Tusk Found. A large ivory tusk, seven inches in diameter, was found near Coneordla. Kan., In a bed of clay. The find was made by Frederick Dutton, who was canoeing In the river. The tusk crumpled Into small pieces when ta? ken out, but parts of it were carried to Concordia, and Mr. Dutton will make a further search for the skele? ton of the mastodon, which is believ? ed to be buried in the bed of silt and clay. Years ago the lower Jaw of a mastodon was found in this district. d Truth's.*' THE TRU 08_New Serl ?ITTEISM SCMESlflJ. ROOSEVELT, TAFT, SHERMAN AND CANNON HIS TARGETS. With Ids Inimitable Wealth of Die tion the Famous Kentucky Editor Makes a Vigorous Assault on Re? publican Ramparts Tn his First Campaign Speech in Sixteen Years. Louisville, Ky. October 8.?Henry Watterson was the principal speaker at a Democrtic rally in the Masonic Theatre tonight. As this was Mr. Wat terson's first political speech since 1892, and Will probably be his only platform utterance during the pres? ent campaign, much interest was manifested. He spoke in part as fol? lows: "I truly rejoice that I have lived to look upon a reunited Democracy. I was born in a Democratic camp dur? ing what proved to be a bad year for Democrats, and attained my majority just in time to see the party go over the precipice of sectionalism to what teemed its ruin. "The politicians tell us there are many issues, but I see only on^ If we cannot change our rulers at will, If an organized and defiant minority inside a fortress can withstand the siege of an undisciplined and HI equipped majority on the outside, how shall talk about trusts and tar? iffs, about rebate rates and bank de? posits, about money and morals and stocks and bonds profit us? "I behold now an almost reproduc? tion of the evil conditions of fifty years ago. The Republican party, grown corrupt and arrogant, is putting forth a tremendous effort to retain the power which it has so much abus? ed. If it succeeds it will never sur? render it short of some dire cata? clysm, making its exit the signal for, it may be, a civil war. To that all Its policies of militarism, favoritism and class distinction have long been tend? ing. I pray God that this may never come. The way to avert it is by oc? casional change of party, bringing home to our public men their subor? dination to the people. "If I were a Republican I would vote for Bryan. If I were a Republi? can I should let the chief with his 'big stick' go to hang. If I were a Re? publican I should turn my back on a candidate, no matter how personally acceptable, who represents the vicious methods of ring rule and the steam roller. , "Whatever usefulness the Republi? can party possessed it has for the time outlived. It stands today a men? ace to equal taxation and economic administration, if not to orderly gov? ernment and free institutions. Its leaders know this; and knowing it, they began early to prepare for th2 coming Presidential battle, to fortify a field which they thought to make impregnable by the outlay of vast re? sources and enduring skill. "Thev expected to draw us Into this bloody ambuscade and to slaughter us like sheep In the shambles. Disap? pointed in their plan, what do we see? We see all disguise of decency thrown aside; the black flag of trustism run up to the masthead; the decks crowd? ed with corporation counsel. The oc? cupant of the White House summons the unspeakable Hearst as his star witness. The honest rich are invoked to make common cause with the law? less rich. All the perspectives of truth and soberness and common sense are lost amid the roar of rant and cant of self-glorifying laudation and self-ac? cusing promises of reform, with AI? drlch and Cannon, with P?yne and Dalzell and Sunny Jim Sherman for their examples. "Having pitched the campaign on a fake note, starting out with a man r f straw on a platform of imposture, no argument is too absurd, no illus? tration is too rank for the men and the interests that do not mean to be dislodged if fraud and force can save them." Referring to a reported speech of Congressman Longworth at Rock Is? land, III., where it was alleged that Mr. Longworth spoke of President Roosevelt as a successor of Taft as President eight years hence, Mr. Wat? te rson said: "Nicholas Longworth, the Presi? dent's son-in-law. says ho did not say it. Hut five thousand listeners say he did. The notes of two stenograph.>rs ?ay he did. What boots it whether h-' did or did not. No one who knows what It going on In the National Capital and has been going on for a long time, needs to be told that they are undermining the popular foundations of our Democratic Government and converting it Into an Imperial repub? lic, with nothing wanting of monarch ism and titular nobility, except the nomenclature. "The White House Is already the palace of a King. The President la E SOUTHRON, Established June, 18? [es?Vol. XXVUI. >o\f ! M BEHIND THE BARS. NEGRO WHO CAUSED TROUBLE. AT SPAKTANBURG REMOVED. Agnen-, the Young Negro Train Wrecker, also T: km to Columbia. Troops Dispersed and Quiet is Re? stored. Spartanburg, October 12.?John Irby, the alleged would-be-rapistK who is charged with making a most brutal assult upon Miss Lillie Demp sey, bookkeeper in the cloth room of the Saxon Milh. last Saturday morn? ing while she was en route to her home from the mill and Clarence Ag new, who has confessed to wrecking a passenger train twe weeks ago, caus? ing the death of the engineer and two firemen, were spirited out of the county jail at noon today and taken to Columbia. The prisoners were ac? companied by Deputy Sheriff Beckneil and Capt. S. J. Nichols, of the Hamp? ton Guards. It was thought best to remove Irby and Agnew to Columbia so as to avoid further trouble with citizens who feel that they have been outraged. The authorities state that it would have been impossible for either Irby or Ag? new to have been taken from the jail, but rather than have military com? panies and special officers on duty about the jail indefinitely it was deemed best to take them ^Colum? bia for safekeeping. Next Saturday 1? circus day, and several thousand peo? ple will be in the city and it was fear? ed that the citizens of the mill villages might make another demonstration then. The situation was explained to Gov. Ansel and to avoid all further trouble it was decided to send the prisoners to the State Penitentiary. FLORENCE tilN HOUSE BURNED. M. S. Hayns worth Loses $5,200 Worth of Property by Fire. Florence, October 12.?The gin house of Mr. M. S. Haynsworth, locat? ed on his farm about three miles northwest of this city, together with the entire contents^ were destroyed by fire at 9 o'clock Saturday night. There was stored at the gin house, in addition to a large amount of farming tools and implemerts, forty-three bales of unginned cotton, and there was not a dollar in insurance on the ginnery or the contents. The value of the? gin plant was about twenty-five hun? dred dollars and the cotton about twenty-two hundred, making a loss of about forty-two hundred dollars. Mr. Haynsworth is satisfied that the fire was caused from matches and rats, and gave no thought of incen? diarism, either by enemies or night riders. The gin had not been in op? eration over a week, hence Mr. Hayns? worth could account in no other way, than the matches and rats theory- A ' 4 __?_____ ___ ______________ p COTTON GROWERS TO CONFER. Harvie Jordan Soon to Issne Call for Mammoth Meeting. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 12.?Harvie Jor? dan, president of the Southern Cott n Association, anounced today in re? sponse to requests from all part.* of the South that he would call a con? vention of the cotton growers and allied interests similar to that n?ld in New Orleans in 1905. Mr. Jordan stated today that he had decided to undertake an active and vigor jus. campaign for better prices, and would this week issue a general call for a mass meeting of the farmers, bankers, merchants and glnners to be held at some central point in ?he cot? ton belt, probably at Memphis. The Convention to be called, he said, will not be confined to any particular or? ganization. The First Baptist Church of Char? leston celebrated its 220th anniversary Sunday. already a sovereign In everything ex? cept the name. Why sheuld not a. member of the Court circle blurt it out that Taft is expected merely to hold down the job for Room vclt, since it was thought prematuie to run Roosevelt for the immediate succes? s-ion? "The campaign was. and it is, at family affair. If the machine which I ominated T.ift was so merciless to? ward the Republican allies who dared t ? resist it why should It be counted < n to share our free institutions after t Ight additional years of moneyed ac? cretion and augmented power. Only this can account for the personal in? terposition of the Presiden* who throw! duty and dignity to the winds and gets down like a matador Into the bull ring, mud-stained and pow? der smirched, swearing like a trooper at all who come within the sound of the voice and the reach of his in? flamed fancy."