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BRYAN ALONE
IN THE ARENA
As Leader of the Democratic Party
Says Editor Watterson.
NO OTHER RECKONING
Kentucky Statesman, Just Arrived from
European Trip, Scans the Political
Horizon ana Expresses Views.
Coi. Henry Watterson, the editor,
and Mrs. Watterson, arrived at New
York Monday from Europe. An
other passenger was Frigate Captain
Sembiar Poschwitz, flag adjutant of
the German navy, who is going to the
Jamestown exposition.
Colonel Watterson said, in an in
terview, that William J. Bryan seem
ed to be the only man in the run
ning for the Democratic nomination
for the presidency.
‘‘Mr. Bryan is an individual man
with a certain following,” he said.
“He is not a law-givef, he may be a
law unto himself. It remains to be
seen if the fragments of the Demo
cratic party, lying around loose, can
be united on anew program. '
“I think that organized Democracy
at the present time can see no other
alternative except Bryan. Nobody is
being seriously considered running. I
sometimes doubt whether he himself
cares a fig for the presidency. For I
should think if he believed Demo
cracy had a reasonable chance of
carrying the country and that he
might be nominated he would be more
circumspect and would show a great
er sense of responsibility than ha
seems to be showing."
Asked what he considered the most
vital issue to be raised by the Demo
cratic party, Colonel Watterson said:
“The one thing to constitute a mil
itant Democracy is that we must
think together. So long as we don’t,
there is no use proposing any is
sue. The relations of franchise cor
porations to the public and of capital
and labor are the great economic
problems to be worked out in the
coming year. We are on the thresh
hold of their rapid development.
“I do not believe President Roose
velt wants a third term for himself.
I know he recently stated that if the
convention nomHiated him and ad
journed, it would have to reconvene
as he would never accept another
nomination. I am willing to take him
at his word.”
Colonel Watterson declared that
Governor Hughes was a force to be
reckoned with in Republican poli
tics.
“I predicted last June,” lie said,
“that Hughes would succeed Roose
velt in the white house.”
“BLACK HAND” GANG IN COURT.
Batch of Thirteen Murderous Foreigners
are Arraigned for Trial.
More than a score of foreigners
charged with being members of the
“Black Hand,” responsible for a large
number of crimes, were placed on
trial at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Monday.
Thirteen cases of shooting with at
tempt to kill, thirteen of conspiracy,
six of dynamiting and two of rob
bery by threats and menaces are
charged against the men, who are
alleged to be the leaders of the
“Black Hand.”
COLONEL -WAS MADE WRATKY
On Receipt of “Skidoo” Card and Appeals
to Postmaster General.
The “Slciddoo” postal cards, espe
cially those bearing the membership
formula of the “Down and Out Club,”
are in trouble with Uncle Sam’s mail
service. A southern colonel, now in
Washington, received one, and he Im
mediately sent it to Postmaster Gen
eral Meyer, with the request for an
opinion as to whether or not the card
was insulting, and if so, was it eligi
ble for passage through the mail. The
matter was taken under advisement
ROUTE OF SHERMAN MARCH
o
Will he Gone Over by Cadets of a Kansas
Military School.
Several instructors and members
of staff class at the military train
ing school in Fort Leavenworth,
Kans., will shortly begin a horseback
ride from. Chattanooga to Atlanta over
the route of General bherman.
Two years ago Rev. Sherman, a
son of General Sherman, started to
ride over the >y his fa
ther in his r sea ’
entire so*” ' otest ’ and
MRS. M’LEAN VICTOR.
Wins Out By Big Majority Over “Insur
gent” Candidate and is Still
Head of the D. A. R.
A Washington dispatch says: It
was officially announced when the con
tinental congress of the National So
ciety of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution met for Friday’s ses
sion that Mrs. Donald McLean of New
York had been re-elected president
general for the ensuing year. Mrs. Mc-
Lean received 511 and the opposition
candidate, Mrs. Eleanor Washington
Howard of Alexandria, Va., 152 votes.
The announcement of the result of
the election was received by the del
egates with great enthusiasm and Mrs.
McLean, after being presented with
a loving cup by the vice president
general, made a brief speech in which
she thanked the delegates heartily
for their support. Mrs. Charlott Em
erson Main of Washington, D. C., was
elected vice president general in
charge of the organization of chap
ters.
NINE ESCAPES ACCOUNTED FOR.
One Convict Killed and Two are Fatally
Wounded in Round-Up.
Four convicts who recently
escaped from the Durham coal mines,
at Pittsburg, Ga., entered the home
of J. E. Denson, in Chattooga county,
Thursday afternoon, securing clothing
and provisions and $5O in money. They
threw off their convict garb and put
on some of the stolen clothes. A posse
formed and chased them. '
They were overtaken in a patch of
woods, and the posse began firing
upon them. One convict was killed
and two others wounded, perhaps la
tally. The fourth convict escaped. The
sheriff of Chattooga county reached
the scene after the shooting.
This accounts for all of the nine
negroes who escaped from the Dur
ham mine. Five were captured near
the mines, and only one is still at
liberty. None of the three white es
capes has been heard of since the
twelve got away. The escape was ef
fected by one of the negroes, a preach
er named Sam Johnson, gaining pos
session cf a key that unlocked a gate
to an abandoned wing of the mines.
The convicts then found a weak place,
in the top of the shaft, through which
they dug in a short time.
STRIKERS LOSE THEIR FIGHT.
All Demands Refused and They Return to
Work as Non-Union Men.
The strike of tile employees of the
Montgomery, Ala., Traction company
was settled Thursday and the men
returned to work as non-union men
and at the same wages as they receiv
ed before the strike.
The strikers lost every point in
the argument. General Manager Rag
land of the company, having declared
that he would not treat with the
strikers except as individuals, a num
ber of the men visited his office and
appealed for work. He reiterated his
statement, but said the company would
give employment to all men who would
sign an affidavit that they were not
members of a union and that they
would work on the old scale of wages.
At the close of the day 61 strikers
had signed these affidavits. They will
be given employment as fast as room
can be made for them.
CITY OF ILOILO FLAME-SWEPT.
Philippine City Reported as Being Wholly
Destroyed by Fire.
The city of Iloilo, island of Panay,
was totally destroyed by fire Friday
with the resiflt that 20,000 persons are
homeless.
No estimate has yet been made of
the amount of damage done, and no
details of the fire are obtainable, ow
ing to communication with Iloilo be
ing seriously affected.
Iloilo is the capital of the island
of Paney, located on the east coast.
The port, which is second in import
ance to Manila, is the center of the
sugar import trade.
STOLEN SECURITIES LOCATED.
Treasurer Walker Disposed of Loot to Two
New York Banks.
York Banks.
Securities to the value of $300,000
viiich were stolen from the Savings
Bank of New Britain, Conn., by Wil
liam F. Walker, the absconding treas
urer of that institution, have been
traced to two New York banking
houses, according to a statement made
Friday by Detective Vallely of the
New York police department. He sad
the two banking houses stand in the
position of innocent purchasers.
FLEECY WHITE
COVERS WEST
Snow Falls to Depth of Six Inches
in Some Sections.
SEVEN STATES REPORT
Territory Visited Includes Nebraska, iowa,
Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, South
Dakota and Wyoming.
At Omaha, Neb., five inches of snow
fell during Wednesday night and con
tinued Thursday. The fall was gen
eral over eastern Nebraska, and is
the heaviest known in April lor many
years.
The snowfall extended over a wide
area, according to advices from
points in lowa, Kansas, Missouri aud
Colorado to the south, which report
a light snowfall, while northern Ne
braska, southern South Dakota, north
east Wyoming and Black Hills are
covered with a blanket of snow six
inches deep on the level, which is
still faling. At Northwestern railroad
headquarters in Omaha, it was said
that the storm is practically the same
over the entire system, west of the
Mississippi river.
Opinion as to the euect on fruit
In southern and central belts, cher
ries, peaches, plums and berries are
said by some to have been ruined
almost entirely, while other growers
and dealers report that fruit was not
far enough advanced to be seriously
endangered.
In grain circles, it is believed that
the snow will kill all the green bugs,
which have been ravishing the winter
wheat crop.
BIG HOLD-OUT FOR GRAFTERS.
Good Pickings in Contract for Pennsyl
vania New Capitol Building.
Astounding testimony was given by
Frank G. Harris, of Clearfield, slate
treasurer, before the capitol inves
tigating commission at Harrisburg,
Pa., Thursday. Harris was a mem
ber of the board of put: ; c grounds
and buildings, of which the governor
and auditor general were also mem
bers. During the time he was on the
board from May, 11102, to May, PJO4,
contracts for capitol furnishing
amounted to millions of dollars. At
torney Sorelotte brought out the fact
that the contracts for the metalic fur
niture were awarded three months
before the contract for construction
of the building was awarded.
During the examination of Harris it
developed that Architect Josepn M.
Huston collected 4 per cent commis
sion on $2,000,000 for designing the
building.
Harris admitted that the board
spent money blindly in furnishing
the capitol, and that when the con
tract for the metallic furniture was
made, there was no definite idea of
the cost. He thought it would cost
between $lOO,OOO and $200,000 and had
not the slightest idea that it would
amount to $2,000,000. Harris declared
it was the duty of Huston, who was
the architect, to keep watch .over
the contractors and see that, all con
tracts were faitl-.uily fulfilled.
“If the architect had been faithful
in his duty,” he went on, “and had
the contracts been lived up to, as
he could have forced them to, i be
lieve there would have been no trou
ble and that there would have oeen
no scandal.”
ROOSEVELT’S HEART IS TOUCHED
By Georgia’s Action in Reproducing the
Home of Hit* Grandfather.
Judge Land and Mr. Harris of Cor
dele, Ga., called at the white house
Thursday and were received by
President Roosevelt, who said:
“Nothing has ever touched me bo
deeply as the action of the people
of Georgia in erecting a fac simile
of my granfather s house as the Geor
gia building at the Jamestown expo
sition.”
CONSUMER IS ELIMINATED.
Coal Mines Not Allowed to Sell Product
Direct to People.
At the closing session in Atlanta of
the Retail Coal Dealers’ Convention,
the fact was developed that a mine
owner wiil be immediately boycotted
by the members of the Southeastern
.Retail Coal Dealers’ Association, if he
sells directly to consumers.
One of the chief objects and aims
of this association is to prevent con
sumers buying their coal direct from
the mine owner.
NEGROES GET MILLION
For Aid of Their Rudimentary Schools in
Southern States From Wealthy
Philadelphia Woman.
A gift of $1,000,000 for the establish
ment of a fund for rudimentary
schools for southern negroes was an
nounced at Philadelphia Tuesday
night.
The donor is Miss Anna T. Jeanes,
a Quakeress of r-hiiadelphia, Booker
T. Washington, head of Tuskegee In
stitute and Hollis Burke Frizzell,
president of the Hampton Normal and
industrial Institute, are named as
trustees of the fund, but neither of
the institutions they represent will
share in the gift.
The income of the million dollars
is to be used for the sole purpose of
assisting in the “southern United
States community, country and rural
schools for the great class of negroes
to whom the small rural and commu
nity schools are alone available.'’
Miss Jeanes, the donor, is about 80
years old, and comes from an old
and wealthy family. She has long
been interested in the welfare of tiie
negro, and has been a contributor to
institutions for their education. Site
has known Booker Washington for a
decade.
in transferring the million dollars
to the trustees, Miss Jeanes states
that, “trusting and believing in the
practical and far-reaching good that
may result from the moral and ele
vating iAfluence of rural schools for
negroes in the southern stupes, taught
by reputable teachers, I do hereby ap
point Booker T. Washington of Tus
kegee, Ala., and Hollis Burke Friz
zell of Hampton, Va., and their suc
cessors in the trust appointed and cre
ated as hereinafter directed, the trus
tees of an endowment fund in per
petuity of one million dollars, which
is hereby created, to be known as
‘the fund for rudimentary schools for
southern negroes,’ the income thereof
shall be devoted to the sole purpose
of assisting in the southern United
States, community, country and rural
schools for the great class of negroes
to whom the small rural and commu
nity schools are alone available.
“Should, the said Booker T. Wash
ington or the said llo.lis Burke Friz
zfc’U decline to serve before they shall
have tstablisned the board of trus
tees of said endowment fund, or if
lor any reason tlie same shali not be
constiuted by them within a period
of six months from this date, then 1
request and empower the trustees of
the Hampton Normal anil Agricultu
ral Institute and the trustees of the
Tuskegee industrial Institute to se
lect and create from members of their
ow'ii boards u special board of trus
tees to act as trustees of the said en
dowment fund in perpetuity hereby
created; and i direct that such board
apply the income upon the said fund
in like manner solely toward the
maintenance and assistance of the
rural, community and country schools
for the southern negroes, and to en
courage moral Influence and social re
finement which shall promote peace In
the land and good will among men.”
BARGE AND CREW MISSING.
Is Supposed to Be at Bottom of Lake Mich
igan With Fourteen Men.
The wooden lumber barge Arcadia,
which left Manistee, Mich., April 12,
for Two Rivers, with a cargo of hard
wood, has undoubtedly been Jest In
Lake Michigan with her captain and
owner, Harry May, and about thir
teen others. Marine men have given
her up as lost.
CRANKY-LOOKING COMBINATION.
Carnegie, Low, Butler, Et Al., Join Forces
With Old Lady Eddy.
With Mrs. Mary Laker G. Eddy as
its American iounder, and Andrew
Carnegie, Seth Low, Nicholas Mur
ray Butier mid other American publi
cists identified with the movement,
an American branch of the Associa
tion for International Conciliation,
was organized at New York Tuesday.
TO INVESTIGATE IMMIGRATION.
A Working Plan Adopted at Meeting of
Special Commission.
The immigration commission was in
session for three hours at Washing
ton Tuesday considering the details
of the proposed Investigation. It was
practically decided that all of the
nine members of the commission ex
cept Commissioner Gill and Professor
Jelks should proceed to Europe for
the purpose of prosecuting the inqui
ry there, and Messrs. Gill and Jenks
should carry on the work in this
country.
TEDDY WHACKS
LABOR UNIONS
With This Vigorous Swing of His
Mighty “Big Stick.”
UNDESIRABLE CITIZENS
Are Moyer and Haywood, Regardless of
Whether They are Guilty or Innocent
of Steunenborg’s Murder.
In a letter addressed to Honore
Jackson of Chicago, chairman of tho
Cook County Moyer-Haywood confer
ence, made public TTtesday President
Roosevelt replied to the criticism ot
his recent letter, in which he referred
to Moyer and Haywood, officials of
the Western Federation of Miners,
charged with implication in the mur
der of former Governor Bteuncnueig
ot Idaho as “undesirable citizens. '
The president says he regrets any
body pf men should so tar 'forget
their duty to their country as to, by
formation of societies and iu other
ways, endeavor to influence justice,
or coerce court or jury; that they,
not he, are trying to inflifence jus
tice and he condemns what he calls
their flagrant impropriety in the mat-*
ter.
He says that he indicated no opin
ion as to their guilt of the Steunen
berg murder, hut that it was a sim
ple absurdity to suppose that because
a man is on trial he is free from
criticism as to his manner of life.
He said he might as well be accused
of trying to innuence the suits against
Harriman, some of w hose friends had
also criticized him. He said that both
Moyer aud Haywood stand as repre
sentatives of those who habiluahy ap
pear as guilty of incitement to or
apology for bloodshed and violence.
He added that lie was profoundly in
different to tho condemnation of him
for liia criticisms of the undesirable
types of citizens, regardless of the
power of either labor or capital.
The letter in part is as follow's:
"April 22, 1907. —Dear Sir: I have
received your letter of the 19th hist.,
in which you enclose the draft of the
formal letter which Is to follow, i
have been notified that, several dele
gations bearing similar requests are
on the way hither. In.the letter you,
on behalf of the Cook County Moyer-
Haywood Conference, protest against
certain language 1 used in a recent
letter which you assert to be designed
to influence the course of justice iu
the case of the trial for murder of
Messrs. Moyer and Haywood. I en
tirely agree with you that it is im
proper to endeavor to Influence the
course of justice, whether by threats
or iu any similar manner. For this
reason J have regretted most deeply
the action of such organizations as
your own iu undertaking to accom
plish this very result in tile very case
of which you speak. For instance,
your letter is headed “Cook County
Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone Conference’
with the cannot, will
not and shali not claim our brothers.’
This shows that you ami your asso
ciates are not demanding a fair trial,
or working for u fair trial, but are
announcing iu advance that the ver
dict shall only be one way, and that
you will not tolerate any other ver
dict. Such action is flagrant iu its
impropriety, and 1 join hejfrtiiy iu
condemning it.
“But it is a simple absurdity to
suppose that because any man is
on trial for a given offense he is,
therefore, to be freed from ail criti
cisms upon his general conduct and
manner of life, in my letter, to wnich
you object, J referred to a ceriaiu
prominent financier, Harriman, on the
one hand, and to Messrs. Moyer, Hay
wood and Debs on the other, as being
equally undesirable citteena. it is as
foolish to assert that this was design
ed to influence the trial of Moyer
and Haywood as to assert that it was
designed to influence the suits that
have been brought against Harriman.
J neither expressed, nor indicated, any
opinion as to whether Messrs. Moyer
and Haywood were guil.y of the mur
der o( Governor Steunenberg. if they
are guiily, they ought to be punished.
If they are not guilty, they certainly
ought not be punished.”
Both Bristols Now Dry.
The local option election in the Vir
ginia portion of Bristol last Tuesday,
was hotly contested by the saloonists
and anti-saloonists, the largest vote
in the history of the town being cast,
file anti-saloonists won by a majority
of 201 out of a total vote of 871. The
Tennessee section of the city voted to
abolish saloons on the Bth of March.