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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.
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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.