The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 09, 1908, Image 1

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- Ub. 8. C. Univ. STJMTsZR WATUUAaa, urn Consolidated Au*. 8.18? Cbt Watchman aab .$outbt cu. f^bllatted Every Wednesday, ?BY? BSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 8UMTKR. 8. a Tenne: ll.lt per annum?In advance. Advertisements: One Sqear* first Insertion.$1.00 ?secy subsequent insertion.10 Contracts for three months, or blur will bs mads at reduced rate?. All communications which sub? serve prtvsts interests will bs charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects gslOJfca^ohargod for. OF PROHIBITIONISTS. of Those Interested Bstd fee Columbia * esterday. "Ws are sndorstng no msn for any position at this time,'' said Rev. J. L* Hfcrfoy, of Spartanburg. superintend sat of the Anti-Saloon league, last night, "hut we are calling our forcer together for State-wide prohibition. Mr Harley was her? for the meeting ot prohibitionists called by himself several days ago. They held a very Important meeting behind closed doers yesterday In con? junction with members of ths Anti Saloon league. The prohibition forces It wise to meet in executlv in and formulate their plans for the fubirs. It was expected that then would !>s an open meeting held todav but the convention adjourned last eve? ning sine die. There are a number of prohibitionists In the city who were looking forward to the meeting todav thul they wtti be disappointed. The contention In executive session yes? terday felt that all the business neces? sary had been done snd that It wss net best to hold ths cpen session to day. When ths session was opened yes? terday these prsssnt expected to hear lex address from Dr. P. A. Baker, the national superintendent of the Antt Saloon league, but ths speaker was un? able to attsnd. Hs sent his regrsts fa the convention by wire In regard to ths sxeeutlvs meeting which was held by about II represen? tative prohibitionists. Rev. J. D. Har ??y gave out ths followlrig statemen' to Ths Stats. "The situation wss dlscusssd fultf.y and the prohlblttotdsts' plan In the fu tare wss outlined. The declalou was restohed that the time has corr.o fo? ' 8? eta-wide prohibition. To this end * otsomlttee consisting of M. L. Smith member of the house from Kershaw J 15. Otts, senstor from Cherokee; C A Smith, repressntatlve from Flor? en?*, and John O. Richards. Jr.. mem? ber of the house from Kershaw. was * jpotnted to draft a prohibition bill to he presented st the coming session of ?he legislature. The bill will be pre? sented In ths sensts snd In thi house. This bill Is not the bill of these men nam*d nor any one of them, but comes from ths prohibitionists of the State. After diocusalng the plans of the pro hlbttionlsts In executive session It was not deemed wise to hold sn opsn ses? sion Friday snd the convention ad? journed sine die. An organisation will , ho perfected In every county In the Stats to help carry out the plans Of the convention '? It was stated sevstal days before this masting wss cslled that Mr. M. L Smith would Introduce a prohibition bill In ths house snd Senator Otts would do ths same In ths senate. The fight promises to be an Interesting one In view of ths equsl division In the bouse snd sensts on prohibition and county d!si?enftartsa > OF OHIO* COUNTIES "DRY." KScrtrve Work of Stale Antt-Hahmii fjsagu?' I mlrr New County option leStf. Cleveland. Dee. I.?Fifty-five of Ohio's II counties are "dry." Seven ? re wet Tbl? I* the result of six month's work on the part of the Ohio Antl flaloon Van e tho Ross counts option lew went Into effect. Of the || roui it dr\ under an #j|d ktW.j As little pi k roadi under that law. It w.ia dlsplaet d b\ the new Isw. which hi ful Voting will be h< PI In most of the remaining 2* counties within the next few months. In point of population tin ite h nearly half dry now. and point of two-thirds. Most of the dry iti?fl d<> sol rssJ <'n Inrsji sHk i far about 1.730 saloons have been if, atxMit sne third of tb?- nunv tr IS the State before the county op \ ting begsn. Mooses Human, manager of the op? era house In leu r ens, has sold out to J. T. Wallace * Co. >-U-OI I 1850. 'Be Just sj 11. SUMTES THE Hm CANAL DEAL PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT MAKES WARM REPLY TO CHARGES. Regarding Alleged Syndicate of Anior kans Formeil to Sell Panama Prlv 11 Ige to Government?Declares Edi? tor of Indianapolis News Has Acted Scandalously In Circulating Chart's Concerning the Prcsldont's Brother tn-Lnw Hays Laffan of the New York Hun Practices "Every Form of Mtendaclty Kmnvn to Man," as n Business. Hot Springs, Va., Dec. 6.?Corres? pondence passing between President Roosevelt and William Dudley Foulke. made public by the latter, Is in part as follows: , "Hot 8prlngs. Va , Nov. 29, 1908. "The President. "Sir: The Indianapolis News, not only during the campaign, but even after Its close, has been repeatedly and continually making serious charges against your administration as well as against Mr. Taft, in connection with the fanama purchase, as, for, ex? ample,, the following: ? THE PANAMA MATTER. " The campaign Is over, and the peop'e will have to vote tomorrow without any official knowledge con cerrlng the Panama canal deal. It has been charged that the United States bought from American citizens for 140,000.ostQ property 'that coat those citizens only $12,000,000. Mr. Taft was secretary of war at the time the negotiation was closed. There is no doubt that the government paid $40.000.000 for the property. But who got the money? We are not to know. The administration and Mr. Taft do not think It right that the peo? ple should know. *>*The president's brother-in-law Is involved in the scan? dal, but he hss nothing to say. The candidate's brother has been charged with being a member of the syndicate. He has, it Is true, denied it. But he refuses to appeal to the evidence, all of which is In the possession of the administration and wholly Inaccessible to outsiders. For weeks the scandal has been before the people. The re? cords are In Washington and they are public records. But the people are not to see them?till after election, it then.' "E*Ven after the election this has been continued, it being said that Mr. Taft's 'weakness' in Indiana (where he ran ahead of any other Republican candidate) was due In great measure to this alleged 'scandal.' What are the facts In regard to It? Where are the 'inaccessible records?' When did they come into the possession of the government and what do they con? tain? If the statements of The News are true, our people ought to know It; If not true they ought to have some just means of estimating what credit should be given In other matters to a Journal which thus disseminates false? hoods. "Yours, "William Dudley Foulke." RooMevelt'H Reply. "White House, Washington, Dec. 1, 1908. My Dear Mr. Foulke: I have re? ceived your letter of the 29th ult., and have read It In connection with your previous letters Inclosing quotations from the Indianapolis News, a paper edited by Mr. Delavan Smith. "The News states In one of Its is? sues that probably some of the docu? ments dealing with the matter have been destroyed. This Is fulse. Not one has been destroyed. It states that the last documents were sent over In June of this year, the object of this particular falsehood being apparently, to connect the matter In some way sn 1th the nomination of Mr. Taft. As a matter of fact the last pipers that we have received of any kind were ?eat over to us In May of 1904, and they have b?-en accessible to every hu mitii i ? In: wh<? cared to look at them ever since, and sre accessible now. You quote The NeW| as stating that , concerning the Panama canal deal.1 the peon!* have no official knowledge The fact Is that the people have had the moot galante ofnelal knowledge ? that ? eery Important itep in the trans* nation and every Important document have been made public in communica? tion* to emigre^ and through the dally press and thi Whole matter has been threshed over in nil Ita detalli again and uKuin and again.... TO fact h h he< officially published again und again that the government paid ?40,.Off and that it paid this $40, .Irreci to in.. Fronen govern* gtenti netting the receipt of liquidator appointed by the French government Ig rccefOe the same. The United States government ha* not the slight? est knowledge as to the particular In | dividual* among whom the French id Fear not-^-Let all the ends Thou Ah L S. 0 . WEDNESDA government distributed the sum. Thl? I was the business of the French gov ! eminent. The mere supposition that any American received from the ? French governmsnt a 'rake off' Is too absurd to be discussed. It is an abom? inable falsehood and it is a slander, not against the American government, but against the French government.. The president's brother-in-law was in ; volved in no scandal. Mr. Delavao Smith and the other people who re? peated this falsehood lied about the president's brpther-ln-law, but why the fact that Mr. Smith lied should be held to Involve Mr. Robinson in a 'scandal' is difficult to understand. The scandal affects no one but Mr. Smith: and his conduct has been not merely scandalous, but Infamous. Mr. Robin? son had not the slightest connection of any kind, sort or description at any time or under any- circumstanced with the Panama matter. Nelthe** did Charles Taft.So far as [ know there was no 'syndicate,' there certain? ly was no syndicate In the Ulnted States that, to my knowledge, had any dealings with the government, direct? ly or indirectly; and inasmuch as there was no syndicate Mr. Taft nat? urally could not belong to it. Trie Nrws demands that Mr. Taft appeal to the evidence, by which it means what it calls 'the records.' .. ..All of these documents that possessed any Importance as Illustrating any feature of the transactions have already 'been made public. There remains a great mass of documents of little or no im? portance which the administration is entirely willing to have published, but which, because of their mass and pointlessness, nobody has ever cared to publish. Any reputable man can have full access to these documents... Mr. Delavan Smith is a conspicuous offender against the laws of honesty and truthfulness, but he does not stand alone. He occupies, for Instance, the same eminence with such men as Mr. Laffan of the New York Sun, edi? torials of whose paper you or others have from time to time called to my attention Just as you have called to my attention these editorials of the In? dianapolis News.Of the editorials thus sent me, there is hardly one which does not contain some wilful and deliberate perversion of * the truth." Mr. Roosevelt quotes for an exam? ple, his recent statement In reply to a New York Sun story, entitled "Roose? velt and Prairie Oil," and then con? tinues: "The fact is that these particular newspapers habitually and continual? ly and as a matter of business prac? tice every form of mendacity known to man, from the suppression of the truth and the suggestion of the false to the He direct. Those who write or procure others to write these articles are engaged In the practice of menda? city for hire and surely there can be no lower form of gaining a livelihood. Whether they are paid by outsiders to say what is false, or whether their profit comes from the circulation of the falsehoods Is a matter of small consequence. It Is utterly Impossible to attempt to answer their falsehoods. VVhen any given falsehood Is exposed they simply repeat It and circulate an? other. If they were mistaken in the facts, if they possessed in their make? up any shred of honesty, it would be worth while to set them .right. But there is no question at all as to any 'mistake' or 'misunderstanding' on their part. They say what they either know to be untrue or could by the slightest Inquiry find out to be un? true. "Ordinarily I do not and can not pay heed to these falsehoods. If I did I would not be able to do my work. My plat has been to go ahead and do the work, and let these people and those like them yell; and to trust with abiding confidence to the good sense of the American people, In the assured conviction that the yells will die out, the falsehoods be forgotten and the work iemaln. "There Is no higher und more hon? orable calling than that of the nun connected with an upright fearleea and truthful n< wspaper; no calling in u In b a man can render greater ser? vice to his fellow countryman, The I set and abb st editors and writers ill the dally press render ? service to the COmmunlt) which can hardly be par-' alb led by the best and ablest men in tile public life or ?f the men In busi? ness. But the oonverse of this propo? sition is also true. The RlOSt corrupt financiers, the corrupt politicians, are got greater menace to this country than the newspaper men of the type I have above dlaoueeed. Whether they belong to the yellow prom or to the purchased proasi w. latover may he the stimulating cause f their slanderous mendacity, ami w atever the cloak n may wear, matters but little. In any event they represent one of the potent mm ns't at be thy Country's, Thy God's ai Y. DECEMBER 9, It forces for evil in the community. "Yours very truly, "Theodore Roosevelt. "William Dudley Foulke, "Richmond, Ind." MR. LAFFAN REPLIES TO PRESI? DENT. Editor of The Sun Refuses to Enter Into Controversy With a Person of Mr. Roosevelt's "Complete Freedom From Any Sense of Personal Obliga? tion With Respect to the Truth." New York, Dec. 6.?Mr. Laffan re? plies to the president's letter as fol? lows: "The editor of The Sun presents his compliments to Mr. Roosevelt and ac knwledges his active sensibility in respect to the attention which Mr. Roosevelt has been good enough to pay him in his letter to the Hon. Wil? liam Dudley Foulke of Indiana. "Notwithstanding the directness of his challenge, the editor* of the Sun declines a controversy with Mr. Roose? velt. He is by no means indifferent to the implied compliment discernible in Mr. Roosevelt's tirade, but Mr. Roosevelt has shown in his frequent collisions with various persons of dis? tinction that he has an overwhelming advantage over any respectable antag? onist in his (Mr. Roosevelt's) com? plete freedom from any sense of per? sonal obligation In respect of the truth. The editor of The Sun is fully alive to the extremity of the incon? venience which attaches to a personal controversy with a man who has shown himself capable of suppression and perversion of individual corres? pondence, an act which in ordinary life would, in the cognizance of any club or association of self-respecting gentlemen, entail his prompt expul? sion. ^ "In saying these things we can not disguise our chagrin and humiliation that the person who is addressed is also the president of the United States. "It is curious that Mr. Foulke is a preferred repository of these confi? dences of the president. It was to him that Mr. Roosevelt wrote his memorable letter denying that he was using the federal patronage to aid Mr. Taft's candidacy, a letter which at once took its place among the most valued Incunabula of veracity." DELAY AX SMITH ALSO ANSWERS. Editor of Indianapolis News Disclaims Personal Motive for Making Charges and States That He Will Refer to President's Detter Editorially. Cleveland, O., Dec. 6.?Delavan Smith tonight made the following re? ply to President Roosevelt's letter: "The president's comments on the Panama editorial are based on state? ments made by a prominent New York paper, not the New York Sun, which the Indianapolis News printed at the same time with many other uapers, giving full credit to the source from which they obtained it. In mak? ing the editorial comment to which the president takes exception the edi? tor of The News credited its informa? tion to the New York paper making the charge and distinctly disclaimed any responsibility for its accuracy. This editorial was published in the or? dinary course of the daily routine of the editorial department at a time when I was absent from Indianapolis and therefore could not have been in? spired by any personal motive. Dur? ing the campaign information reached me that Mr. Foulke had in his pos? session a letter of the nature of the one now made public and I was furth? er informed that it was left by the president to Mr. Foulke's judgment whether the letter should be used in the campaign. When this informa? tion reached me I at once telephoned Mr. Foulke, extending to him the use of the columns of The News for this purpose, but Mr. Foulke did not see tit to avail himself of the opportunity during the campaiKn. So much for the personal criticisms of me by tne president "The News will deal editorially with the president's explanation in due time." QUITS $1.700 JOB TO MARRY. Postmistress at Cltornm Has Resigned the Office There. Washington, Dec. 8.?Miss M. L. Wells, postmistress at Cheraw has ten? dered her resignation, to take effeci on the appointment of her successor. Bhe Is s Presidential appointee ami Is paid Mi700 a year, "rhu reason for the resignation is the approaching marriage of Miss Wells. The Southeastern Lime and Cement Co.. of Charleston has sold 400,000 sacks of cement to the Southeastern Power Company. id Truth's." THE TR? K38. Sew Herl THE PROPOSED NEW ?OUNTY. GOT* Ansel Allows Amendment to the Petition for an Election to be In? serted. Messrs. J. H. Manning, T. A. Dillon, A. B. Jordan and Edw. Moore, favor? ing the establishment of a new county out of Marion, and Dr. J. C. Mace, who is opposed to the county, appear? ed before Gov. Ansel yesterday on the ma' er of a proposed r mendment to the petition for an election. The pro? posed amendment submitted suggested a change in the county line at one point, and after hearing the case the governor allowed the change. The promoters of the new county have not yet selected the name and before the election is ordered the com? mission appointed will make a report. It was once suggested that the terri? tory be called "Calhoun," but those in Orangeburg, Alken and Lexington who were also interested in a new county secured a vote first and established Calhoun county. It is proposed, however, te have Dil? lon for the county seat should the vote be favorable, and the Dillon peo? ple are confident.?The State. FINDS SERUMj FOR CANCER. Sicilian Professor Uses' the Antitoxin Method. Messina, Sicily, Dec. 3.?Francesco San Felice, a professor in the uni vecalty here, after long studies and experiments, believes he has found the solution of one of the great medical problems?the origin of cancer and its treatment. Professor San Felice declares that in his experiments, especially on dogs affected by cancer, he found that ma? lignant tumors are the result of the issue, tissue cells becoming infected by a specific germ, which he calls sac charomyces neoformans. Having es? tablished this, he labored to find an antidote which would neutralize the toxin which he considered responsible for the disease of the cells. He ac? complished this object by applying the methods employed for the production of well-known antitoxin serum. He Injectedycertain animals with the sec charomyces neoformans toxin duly modified and succeeded In obtaining from certain animals a serum having undoubted preventive and curative properties in the case of malignant tumors. Professor San Felice's experiments, which were made so successfully on the lower animals, are now being ex? tended to men similarly affected. CASTRO MUST APOLOGIZE BE? FORE ENTERING FRANCE. Venezuelan President Will he Forced To Give Satisfaction Before Land? ing at Bordeaux. Paris, Dec. 6.?If President Castro of Venezeula comes to Bordeaux, he will not be allowed to set foot on French soil until after h>i has offered a formal apology for tr.e fashion in which he has flaunted France. This decision was arrived at by the cabi? net at its meeting yesterday. Should he arrive at Bordeaux and his illness not be serious, the cabinet has determined that some signal re? dress must be exacted from Castro for his Ignominious expulsion of M. Taig ny. the French cradge d'affaires, from that country in January 1906. Permission to land, therefore, will be made conditional upon, first, the dispatch of an official telegram of apology to the French government, and after that the dispatch of tele? graphic instrutcions to Caracas for the immediate explanation of the arbitral award in the matter of the French claims, which France asserts Castro has Ignored. Dr. Domingo Castillo, the V m/ uh an consul general at Hamburg, and D. Eschalante, consul general at Liv? erpool, passed through Pai is on tin i: way to Bantander. Spain, pri sumably to meet President Castro. MARIANNA DEATH LIST 151. Reports From Scene <>i" Mine Disaster Bring Total Number of Victims to Thar Figure. Plttsburg, Pa., Dec. ti.?Reports to nighl from the Martanna mine of ths Pitsburg-Buffalo Coal company, where a terrific explosion happened Novem? ber 88, bring the death list up to 151. Four holies, according to ths report, were brought to the surface today, while seven others were found among the debris and will be brought out as soon as they can be extracted. Three of the bodies were recognised, .lames Roule, 18 years old, of Monogahels was one of them, the others being for? eigners. E SOUTHRON, Established June, 186? es?Vol. XXV11I. :ut K ' DAVENPORT CASE DROPPED. Prosecutkm Will Not Inskst?Singular Turn of Affairs?First Wife Living, Sceond Wife Had Marriage Certifi? cate, Too. The charges brought by Essie Mob* ley against Carl Davenport have been withdrawn. Papers were signed by her yesterday in which she agreed vol? untarily to drop the charges of big? amy, etc., against Davenport. This means that the prosecution will not insist upon the case being brought to trial. This Is the case In which Carl Dav? enport or Robert F. Willeford was charged with having married Miss or Mrs. Mobley last April. The story of Davenport's doings attracted consider? able attention throughout the State. The legal details of the matter have not been completed, but this will be done today. Davenport was released from the first proceedings under 1500 bond. This was under the charge of obtain? ing money under false pretences. He was rearrested within 24 hours and is out again on $2,000 bond. He at first denied that he had a wife in Sumter. Now he admits all thaL The second wife shewed her marriage certificate, dated Savannah, Ga., April 3. 1908. Therefore the settlement of the case is a little out of the ordinary. While the parties to the transaction may be pleased with the setlement, it may not remove it entirely without the range of the courts if there was ever any merit in the complaint in the out? set.?The State, Dec. 6. GARDEN OF GODS GIVEN TO CITY Children of C. E. Perkins Donate It To Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs, Col., Dec. 4.?The Garden of the Gods, one of the scenic wonders of the American Continent, is to become, by gift of the children of Charles E. Perkins, once president of the Cchlcago, Burlington and Qulncy railroad, the property of the city of Colorado Springe. Papers were filed with the County Clerk yesterday whereby the six child? ren and heirs deed to three trusteed the 430 acres comprising the garden, authorizing them to transfer the same, free of cost, to the city of Colorado Springs, before January I, 1911. The tract comprising the Garden of the Gods was purchased by Mr. Per? kins in 1879, and It has always 0? SI free to the public. It was his wUh that this scenic attraction should for? ever be open to the world. PORT AU PRINCE BECOMES QUIET. Simon Assumes Presidency?Declares Himself Chief Executive?Will Or? ganize Provisional Government.. Port an Prince, Dec. 6.?Quiet pre? vailed here today, although there were reports of threatening trouble in other towns in Haiti. Gen. Antien Simon, commander-ln-chief of the revolution? ists, who yesterday entered Port au Prince at the head of an army of about 8,000 men, today issued a pro? clamation to the people and the army I in which he assumed the title of chief executive, declaring that he would or? ganize a provisional government pend? ing the assembling of the parliament. This morning the Cuban steamer Oteri arrived from Kingston, having on board Gen. Fouehard and 30 other exiles. Gen. Simon permitted Gen. Fouehard to land but stated that the others must remain on the steamer until tomorrow. The two revoluntary leaders re? mained together for some time at Gen. Simons headquarters, and after what proved to be a very ainieabh? meeting. Gen. Simon proclaimed Qsa. Fouehard chief executive of flu army. Advices received here Indicate that ?lie situation at Qonalvea and St. Mere j is grave, the movement in favor of Gen. Firmin having been greatly strengthened at those places. Gen. Pirmin is now on his way to Kings? ton and will proceed from that port to Haiti. dsn. Etatneau. gov ?m*r of t'onai ves, Is hated, end ;?t m. Mare practical? ly all the authorities, military and civil, with the exception of Gov. Gamner, are adherents of Gen. Fir? min, who has declared himself a can? didate for the presidency. The grand jury of l>erklcy county complains that the otllcc of the pro? bate judge is being used uM a public restaurant. The Southern Power Company will build a dam across Broad river n<;a Hlacksburg that will be 1.100 long and 90 feet in depth It w 11 cost $1,000,000.