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ntt HI MTEIl WATCHMAN, EM*MI Con*?!idstett Aug. 2,188 Cbf iXdiaubnun and >outbron. PtibUalieil Every \\ cdnosdnj, ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTGK, s. C. Ipun 91.10 p> annum?In advance. AdveTtiaeeuenta: Square flret Insertion.$1.00 sub*equeni Insertion.(0 Contracts for three months, or a>n*-er will be made at reduced rates. All eommunlcationa which sub? set is nrlrate Interests will be charged for an advertisements. </??? Jariee and tributes of respects will hi charged for. Tiiff icmtoi ttmnELT. CHAMP CLARK THIN st 8 CON SU M aTR WILL NOT RE HELPED. 1 /hensin Revision as Pone Will he Under Use Direction of Uncle Joe. AAdrlcti and Daftarll, the Friends of I toot ton Mlaaomrlan Smys Blee Rennet In His State Is a Paaskr. Idngton. Nor. IS.?'Representa? tive Champ Clark, who will be elected minority leader of the house of repre? sentatives to succeed Representative Wllllan i. of hllsslselppl. arrived In Washington yesterday. It took the atlssouttan but a few minutes to make an- hie mind that the consumer can expect precious little In the way of tariff rvvl?lon from the present ways and mssn* committee. although the Democratic party was ball* defeated Mr. Clark derives some * Consolation from the s< veral success? ful state race*. The result in his own " state is the biggest surprise of all to aim, but he attributes It entirely to lo? cal is*u*-n end makes no doubt that aflnsourl will return again to the Dem? ocratic fold. As minority leader Mr. Clark will snake the best nght of which he Is] r easable to steer his party along a true Democratic course this winter. As the tariff will b* the question uppermost la the public mind he will seek to hare the two parties placed on record oa the Important schedules of the pro? posed bill. "Judging from the hearings so fat held and from the tone of the Repub? lican press." said Mr. Clark, "the promised revision of the tariff bids fair to amount to little with the chaieas for the rates being raised on aa many articles as they are lowered. The truth la that In the last campaign the Republican* played both end* against the middle on the tariff ques? tion, to use ? phrase often heard in sporting circles. When tariff revision downward was wanted by Republicans aa In Massachusetts. It was promised. When revision upward was wanted it was promised The standpatters head? ed by Unele Joe. construe the result as a vindication of themselves and their policy, while the progressives, headed by such men ss Oovernor Cummins, of Iowa, hope that Preei dent Taft will be able to dragoon Un? cle Jos snd his confreres Into a sub? stantial revision downward. Now my furs*, based on long obseivation at etoae range. ' said the neit Democrat? ic leader, "la that In the rnd the three men who will do most to shape, form, faehion snd mould the new tarl.T measure wllll be Uncle Jce, Senator Aldrieh and the Hon. John Dalsell. That will he a truly 'revision of the tariff by Its friends.' Chairman Here sh> Payne, of the ways und means committee, la slightly lnf<cted with the Idea of revision dowrward. not enough to hurt, of course, but just a little while Messrs Cannon, Aldrieh Dalsell are absolutely immune. ?Now." added Mr. Clark "the ?*> a Republican Idea of what the Re. publican tariff plank means was blunt? ly stated before the committee yester? day by former Congressman Rhode*, of any state, when. In arguing in fav or of ralalng the tariff from seventy Ave cents per ton to five or six dollars % toe on a certain sort of lion ore, he said that the Republlcsns carried Mis? souri for Tsft by promising to incresse raise, snd he therefore, demande 1 that It should be done. Many agree with him In fact, so fsr In the hear? ings the demand of those appearing hefors the committee Is generally for an Increase. When the maximum and minimum tariff Is mentioned It Is gen? erally with the Intimation that the Dtnglsy rates should be mil- the mln Imthr which, If carried out. would simply mean that the lest condition of the consumer Is to be made worse than the flret. ??Tbe Democrats are In favor I ' a maximum and minimum tariff as an aid to ree pmclty, but they are not enamored of the ides of making the Dinghy rstes the mlnlmu-n. That* jumping out of the frying psn into bhcd April, I860. 'Be Just ai 1. 8UMTER FARMERS' UNION APPEAL Mil OWN Fits I IK. II > TO HOLD I'll FIB COTTON. Joint Committee of Farmers' Union Ami Now Orleans Business Men l?rouietM Higher PrUn**. New Ol IHM. La.. Nov 13.?With a stirring appeal to every interest in the south?agricultural. financial and commercial?to cooperate In hohl in?; cotton for higher prices, the Joint con? ference committee of the National Farmers' Union and financial Interests of New Orlaens adjourned tonight. The appeal Is addresssed to the peo? ple of the cotton belt and is as fol? lows: "We, the Joint committee of the Na? tional Farmers' Union and of the fin? ancial and commercial Interests of New Orleanu, realising that confidence In cotton market conditions has been Im? paired and the apprehension thereby engend ?red has caused more rapid marketing of cotton than has ever geen known, and believing that the holding of cotton at the present time will permit the healthy assimilation of temporary superabundance and re? store normal conditions under which remunerative prices may be obtained, hereby earnestly appeal to every farm? er, merchant and banker and other holders and owners of cotton, to hold back, so far as they can. their present holdings and not sell unless absolutely compelled to do so until the price has reached a substantially Increased fig? ure. "We especially request all the mer? chants and bankers of the cotton bel\ to extend the obligations of the cotton grower, when called upon to do so. for a reasonable period, and to do all other things in their power to aid and encourage such growers and holders of cotton, believing, as we do, that all the business conditions of the world steadily point toward better prices than now obtain. We believe that such concerted and determined action will logically and in all probability Increase the present Inadequate price paid for cotton." Commlttoes were named to In? vestigate the public warehouse plan, which calls for a quasi-public commis? sion, appointed by the atate of Louisi? ana, to control the operation of a large warehouse to be built on the rivet front at New Orleans. The proposed warehouae Is designed to hold from 1.500.000 to 3.000.000 hales of cotton. Kevertlng to the election Mr. Clark concluded: "While on the whole we received a bad trouncing last week. Democrats as a rule seem cheerful and hopeful. The election of five Democratic governors In the north is a promise of future success. The re? sult In my own state Is the greatest pussle of all. It came about through an unusual concatenation of unfortu? nate clrci instances, which, on the doc? trine of proollitles. will not be du? plicated In forty years. Among other things. Just about seventy-live thou? sand Democrats stayed at home on election day." TNF. EPISCOPAL ORPHANAGE. Trustees) to Meet In Charleston Next Work to Select I ideation. Charleston. >fov. 18.?Bishop Ouerry announced yesterday that the trustees of the Episcopal Church Home and Orphanage will meet In Charleston, at St. Michael'? parish house, neit Friday. November 20, to select a place for the permanent loca? tion of the Institution. Various towns In the state will submit definite prop? ositions to the trustees, and It is hoped by Episcopalians In Charleston that tb.s city will also have Its propoHition In definite shape. The Impression pre? vails In some quarters here that the committee on location should have taken the initiativ? In approaching the cltlsens and churches of Charleston concerning the matter, but the com? mittee desires that it be known that in ee.cn case the committee on location has b*t?n spproached by the locality or city desiring the orphanage, and It has not been a part of the policy of th#? committee to take the initiative In ?eeklng for offers Charleston has not been discriminated against, hut has been trested sataU) In the same way that all other communities have been t Sate4, C|e?r-cut and absolutely de? finite propositions, both of land and money, will b?? placed before the com? mittee nest Frtday by Oreenvllle. Con? siderable Interest Is felt here as to what Charleston will do In the matter Mrs Mattle Jackson, of Duncan, went to Spartanburg last Thursday, and since then no trace of her can be found. nd Fear not-~Let id) the ends Thou Aln . 8. Q. WEDNESDAY LABOE WAREHOUSE PLANNED. New Orleans Convention Takes Deii nilo Steps Looking to Raising Price Of Cotton. New Orleans, La., Nov. 12.?Plans! for the large central warehouse, which the Farmers* Educational and Co-ope? rative Union purposes building here, took a more definite shape today. Af? ter an executive session of the Union covering the greater part of the night, the follolwing names were today an? nounced as composing the committee, which will take the matter In charge: T. J. Brooks, Tennessee; G. R. High tower, Mississippi; J. Z. Greene, North Curolina; J. W. Boyett, Jr., Louisiana; L. H. O'Martln. Georgia, and L. H. Morris, Alabama. The committee was given authority to confer with a simi? lar committee representing the business men of New Orleans. It was stipulat? ed that the committee representing the Farmers* Union should have at its disposal a million bales of cotton to sell whenever It deems the market capable of absorbing that much. The matter of securing warehouse certificate" for the cotton and making them negotiable at local banks was also placed in the committee's hands. The convention also adopted a reso? lution urging all the states to appoint agricultural commissions such as exist In Georgia. Governor Smith, of Georgia, who was not able to attend the meeting sent a letter in which he said that the cotton should be marketed no faster than the manufacturers need It. Gov? ernor aSnders, of Louisiana; T. L. Zel? ler and C. T. Latson, of Atlanta, were among the speakers at today's session. This afternoon the delegates made a sight-seeing tour of the city. HEAD OF BE RE A DISAPPOINTED. Discusses Supreme Court Decision ill Kentucky "Jim Crow" School Low Case. Philadelphia, Nov. 11.?.In an Inter? view regarding the decision of the Uni? ted State supreme court upholding the so-called "Jim Crow" law for private schools In Kentucky, President Frost, of Berea College. Kentucky, who wa* In the city today said: "A misapprehension exists as to our position and the effect of the decision on Berea College. We are surprised and disappointed, < clK?ving with Jus? tices Harlan and Day that the uphold? ing of the unnecessary law weakens the bulwarks of liberty for whites and blacks alike. It does not, however, greatly affect us at this time. The law In 1904 forced us to exclude colored students after we had received thein without collision or scandal for forty years. We then aided them to attend other schools and set apart $200,000 toward funding a colored school for Kentucky. This was a great hardship with all our urgent work for the mountaineers, but we already have pledges for a large portion of an ad? justment fund to reimburse Berea Col? lege and to make a total of $400,000 for the colored institution. The col? ored people of Kentucky are subscrib? ing very liberally, hoping to have a ?school of their own ut an early day." INJURIOUS TO SOUTH. Gov. Gleen Criticise* Roosevelt's Furui Commission. Raleigh. N. C. Nov. 12.?At at? tempt to injure North Carolina rather than to Improve the conditions In the State Is Gov. Glenn's characterisation of the talks mude by Dr. C. W. Stiles of the National public health and ma? rine hospital service, and the members of the Roosevelt country life commis? sion at Raleigh yestetday. The gov? ernor gave out tonight an interview criticising the work of the commission, and especially the statements made here by Dr. Stiles. Gov. Glenn said: "While I am al? ways glad to welcome any commission to the state that has for Its object the betterment of the health and the im? provement of our people, I do not be? lieve that the coming of such commis? sions tends to do any Rood when the statements made by them are in direct conflict with true conditions and are given out without any thorough in? vestigation by actual visitations among the people." SECRETARY OF NAVY RESIGNS. Withdraws From Cablnei on Account Of 111 Health. Washington, Nov. IS.?Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Metcalf today ten? dered the president bis resignation, to take effect December 1, on account of 111 health. Assistant Secretary Tru? man H. Newberry will be named as Mr. Metcalf's successor. i gjft at tie thy Country**, Thy (iod s ai f. NOVEMBER 18. i FUTURE OF ROOSEVELT. ROOSEVELT, ROOT AND BRYAN SENATORIAL TIMBER. Politicians in Washington Trying io Figure Out the Future of the Throe Most Prominent PobU ! Men In the United States. Washington, Nov. 13.?It is a mighty inviting picture Dame Rumor paints for us, that of Theodore Roose? velt, William J. Bryan and John W. Kern as members of the United States Senate, but it is not to be realized yet a while, at least. The Dame had it planned that Kern should succeed James A. Hemenway and Roosevelt Thomas C. Platt on March 4 next, and that two years later Bryan shou'd Join them as successor of Elmer J. Burkett. Kern may come from In? diana to the Senate, but Roosevelt is out of it, so far as succeeding Platt is concerned. It is learned from the "highest authority," and in the past that has frequently meant Secretary Loeb, that election as Plan's success? or does not fit in with Mr. Roosevelt's plans. Besides, President Roosevelt is com? mitted to Elihu Root, his chief of Cab? inet, as the next Senator from New York. Mr. Roosevelt frankly admits that the success of his administration has been due in a large measure to the help of two. men, William Howard Taft and Ellhu Root. Taft has his reward in election to the presidency, and Mr. Roosevelt feels that he i* l bound by. every obligation to further any ambition of Mr. Root's, and that ambition Just now leads to the sena torship. It will be remembered that Mr. Roosevelt's original plan of reward was to elect Root his successor in the White House and appoint Taft Chief Justice of the . Supreme Court. Fate and the American people stepped in and decreed otherwise. With that sagacity in politics that amounts al? most to second-sight, the President discerned that Root would not be strong as a presidential candidate, and though Root was ambitious for the nomination and Roosevelt was under heavy obligation to help him, he had the courage to throw the weight of his influence to Taft. This step was taken only after n.any long and earn? est conferences With the Secretary of State, and Root at last came to view the situation as the President saw it and to accept the verdict with good grace. Now Root wants to be Sen? ator and ull men must see how im? possible it Is for the President not to give him every assistance in his power, to s.\y nothing of the Impossi sibility of Mr. Roosevelt himself ac? cepting the office. ? ? ? But things may be different when it comes to the election of a successor to Chauncey M. Depew, whose sena? torial term expires March 3, 1911. That Depew will not be elected to suc? ceed himself goes without saying. New York decided quite a number of years ago that Platt and Depew were not the calibre of men who ought to rep? resent the Empire State in the Senate, and their retirement at the end of their present terms has been regarded as a matter of course. Platt has re? cognized the impossibility of retaining his seat and is not seeking reelection., There Is every reason to believe De? pew will see things in the same light. There is no reason known now why Roosevelt should not aspire to be Depew's successor. He then will have finished his African hunt and his programme of absenting himself from the country until the Taft administra trution was well under way will have been curried out^ It is impossible to see how his duties an associate editor of the Outlook would Interfere with his duties as a senator, and Mr. Roosevelt has made no secret of the fact that he regurds the United States Senate as a fitting field for the activi? ties of an ex-president. Politics would only be following a normal course, therefore, should Theodore Roosevelt take the oatb as a senator from New York on March 4. 1911. Mr. Bryan's chuuees of succeeding Senator Burkett would havs to de? pend in the first instance on the ability of Nebraska Democrats to elect a majority of the legislature two years hence. They did it this year, but the legislature elected this year will not elect a senator, so the question will have to be tegardod as an open one. Although not formally a can? didate, it was well understood tvlmn Burkett war elected to the Senate that the race was between him and Bryan, Nebraska on November 3 Indicated that Bryan has grown in the esteem of his own State, and the result might be different In another roee between him and Burkett. ? i i Should Bryan be elected to succeed id Truth's." TILE; TRU 908. Sew Seri< Burkett and Roosevelt to succeed De pew, they would take their oaths as Senators on the same day, and the event would be one of the most sig? nificant in the history of the Senate. That body has never acquired in its history two members who before be? coming senators had been of such commanding influence in the nation. Andrew Johnson went to the Senate after leaving the White House, it is true, but at no time had he ever had a tithe of the influence of a Roosevelt or Bryan, and his power was wholly shattered before he entered the Sen? ate. In that body he never was of even average consequence. Should Root succeed Platt and Roosevelt Depew, it probably would solve the now mooted question as to who shall take the places of the pres? ent veteran leaders on the Republican side. With the cooperation of Knox, already senator from Pennsylvania and on the closest possible terms with both Roosevelt and Root, there would be a triumvirate hard to down. Just what influence Mr. Bryan would have on the Democratic side of the chamber would depend no doubt on the future tendency of that party, but there is no manner of doubt that as a senator he would prove a mighty interesting figure to the public and that he would have an immense fol? lowing among the rank and file of nil party. see Roosevelt's election to the senate would be a striking demonstration of the fact that the senate is destined to change from a conservative or "re? actionary" body to a progressive one. The selection of Gov. Cummins of Iowa to succeed the late Senator Alli? son places a pronounced radical in the seat of a pronounced conservative, and the tendency of all the incoming sena? tors, so far as their identity is known. Is toward radicalism. Joseph L. Bris tow, who will be the new senator from Kansas, probably will be more radi? cal than any other man on the Repub? lican side except Senator LaFollete of Wisconsin. It may be pointed out that if Llihu Root is elected senator from New York It will not be a triumph for radi catism, but it will have to be admitted that Root, having been one of the mainstays of the Roosevelt adminis? tration, is more progressive than is "Tom" Platt, who has been openly and unblushlngly reactionary. It would be too much to expect that the Republicans of New York would at this time send a pronounced radical to the senate, but Root in the place of Platt certainly would be in the line of progressiveness; and If in two years Roosevelt should be elected New York would have gone as far toward radi? calism as any important state, and an far as even the most sanguine could reasonably expect her to go in view of the fact that revolutions of this character always are of slow growth. PORTUGAL ANGRY WITH CtUXA. Celestials Occupy Portuguese Terri? tory and Warship* are to be Dis? patched. Lisbon, Nov. 15.?Via Frontier.? Dispatches received here from Macao, China, state that the Chinese have occupied the colony, which is Por? tugese territory, and that the situa? tion is most serious. Chinese troops have seized the cus? toms. Fighting is momentarily ex? pected. The pretext advanced by China for her action in occupying this territory is that when the Japanese steamer Tatsu Maru was captured by the Chi? nese two miles off Macao, Portugal. In order to avoid the responsibility of Intervening, claimed that the seizure was in Chinese waters. This, accord? ing to the Chinese Government, amounted to a renunciation of Por? tugal's sovereignty to dispatch to the scene of the trouble the cruisers Rainha, Dora, Amelia, Adamastor and Patria. and the gunboat Riollma. WEIGHTH OF COTTON BAI*KS. Secretary Hester Issue* Stutetueui Stiowing Average Increase sf 9.4.% Pounds Over Last Year. New Orleaivs. Nov. 12. -Secreta;y Hester of the New Orleans cotton ex? change has Just issued a statement of weights of the 2,855.10f> bales of cot? ton handled ut out ports and aoross the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac riv? ers, overland to American manufact? urers outside of the cotton belt during the months of September to October, inclusive, showing an average per bale of 524.92 pounds against 515.47 for the same period last y?ar. These averages are based on official returns of the secretary's superintend? ents of the exchanges and experts at ports. E SOUTHRON, Established June, 186? " " ? .. , . ,i. ?aaaaiggsi M-Tel. XXVIII. N?H^\V mm wjgBjMBin COOPERS AND SHARPE INCLUD? ED IN DILL. All Arc Cliargcd With l!un)?r?The Three Are Jointly Accused of the Killing of Ex-Senator E. W. Cor niack. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 13.?At 2:IS o'clock this afternoon the grand jury of Davidson county returned a true bill in which Col. Duncan B. Cooper, his son Robin J. Cooper and ex-Sher? iff John D. Sharpe are Jointly charge 1 with the murder of ex-Senator E. W. Carmack and in which Sharpe is ah > indicted on the charge of being an ac? cessory before the fact. The names of six witnesses appear on the back of the indictment as follows: Mrs. Coby D. Carmack, Mrs. Charles Eastman, Carey Folk, Dr. James Wittenberg, Mrs. Martha Morgan and Miss Mary Skefflngton. The Mrs. Carmack in the list is thei widow of the former senator. Mrs. Eastman, it was to whom Mr. Car? mack had spoken just before th< shooting began. Carey Folk kj deputj i insurance commisioner and passed I along the street near the time of the I killing. Dr. Wittenberg runs an opti ! cal establishment in the west end of I the Arcade through which the Coop ' ers accompanied by Sharpe are alleged j to have passed shortly before the tragedy occurred. Mies Mary Skef i fington I9 State llberarian. There are two counts in the indict? ment, the first charging the three men Jointly with the murder and the second one charging John D. Sharpe with be? ing an anccessory before the fact. I The name of S. Carmack, a brother I of the sla'in man, appears on the in I dictment as prosecutor. Robin J. Cooper will in all proba I bility be able to be moved in several days to the county Jail. The Memphis conference of the Methodist church, South, in cession at Covington, Tenn., today adopted res? olutions declaring that Canmack died a martyr to his convictions ?f duty and to the cause of temperance and of righteousness. GERMAN MINE DISASTER. Thirty-Seven Dead Brought to the Surface?302 Men Given Up for Lost. Hamm, Westphalia, Germany, Nov. 12?The greatest mine, disaster In many years in Germany occurred this morning In the Radbod mine, about three miles from this place. There was a heavy expl nd< i in the mine about 4 o'clock this morning and al? most immediately the mine took tire. There were 380 miners workiag under the ground at the time and only six escaped without injury. Thirty-five were taken out slightly injured and 31 were dead when brought to the mouth of the pit. The remaining 302 have* been given up for lost. The explosion, which was unusually violent, destroyed one of the shafts, which had to be partly repaired be? fore the rescue work was begun. In addition, the flames and smoke, proved almost insurmountable obstacles in the early efforts of the rescuing parties. FINDS HUSBAND IN AsVtA M. Ex-Cldef of Weather Bureau. Wla> BisaplH ar< d Ten Years Ago. Dis? covered. New York. Nov. 13.?Prof. If ark W. Harrington, former chief of the United States weather bureau, who mysteri? ously dropped out of sight nearly ten years ago, has been found, a bepelese mental wreck, in the New Jersey Asy? lum for the Insane at Morris Plains. He has been an inmate of the asylum since more than a year ago when he was found wandering aimleSMy about the street* of Trenton. Such hi his con? dition that he has been unable to tell the asylum officials anything about himself, and it was not until yesterday that his identity was established. Then the wife of the former weather bureau chief visited the asylum and Identified the mas as her missing husband. Mrs. Harrington, who lives in this city, said today that although her husband ha* changed greatly in appearances since he left home ten years ago an?T. did not recognise her when she visited him at the asylum, she Is certain the man in the asylum I? Prof, llanrtngtcr. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Going to Mexico. S Lincoln, Neb.. Nov. 13.? -Mr. aud Mrs. Wm. .1. Bryan will leave Sunday for a trip to Mexico. They will seek rest and recreation. The Jntinerary of the trip has not been announced. Mr. Bryan will deliver a commence? ment address in Philadelphia Decem? ber 21.