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TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1M7. THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH 5 SIX SENATORS IN RAGE FOR PRESIDENT OF SENATE BURTON SAYS ROOSEVELT INSPIRED PERSECUTION ATLANTA, Ga„ March 23.—Just two years ago the whole State was In the throes of one of the most intense and hard fought campaigns for the Senate presidency Georgia .has known In years. There had never been anything llko It In the history of Georgia poli ties. It will he readily recalled what bit- t' mens and at the same time wlde- .'.•rmd public interest, was Injected It t the campaign by the letters of "nillv* Osborne, of Savannah, for many years well known (itruri- In politics Of G-orgla. Mr. Osborne took up the cudgel hrst in behalf of Hon. W. S. West of Lowndes County, and as the < an ; sign progressed the candidate who was at that time considered Mr. * West's lending opponent, withdrew from the race. F< (lowing that Interesting event Mr. T Vos; and Mr. Osborne parted com pany and the latter's attacks upon the South Qf rgla candidate became quite a - aggressive ns they had been In o;/.er directions. Mr. Osborne then turned his support. In effect, to Mur phy Candler of the 84th. The outcome of that strugle, the election of Mr. West over Pena tors Candler. B. 3. Mil ler and A. O. Blalock. Is ancient history and is here re tilled only as apropos of the fact that there is now' on In Geor gia anr. h- ;• y cc for the office of Pres ident of tile 3 mi ate—a race that Is be- it g poshed with considerable vigor from many directions, yet quietly, for so far ns .xternal appearances arc concerned, there does not appear to be anything of a campaign In progress. But t .ere ir tine nevertheless and while it will hardly rival In exciting Interest that of two years ago. It Is a thing of the present and will soon begin to demand public .attention. Six in ths Race. There arc six Senators In the race for the seat In the hlg chair behind the secretary's desk, at least so current re port and the evidences of campaign effort, have it. There is even talk qf a seventh entry, though It is stated the prospective seventh candidate, S.-nator K. T Steed f th- .IT!'' fetn-r Representative from Carroll, will prob ably content himself with his campaign for the position of president pro tom. Mr. Steed for several years, occupied a seat in the house from Carroll, and his name Is connected with consider able Important legislation. But It Is generally known that there are now six candidates for the Sen ate Presidency—a remarkably differ ent state of affairs from that which exists on the other- side of the caril- t.>1 where the election of Hon. John M. Slaton, of Fulton, without opposition, as Speaker of the House, was conceded months ago. Here are the six entries: Senator J. D. Howard, of the 20th, Mllledgevllle. Sonntor T. S. Felder, of the 22nd, Ma con. Senator J. J. Flyn. of the 26th, Grif fin. Senator L. G. Hardman, of the 33rd, Commerce. Senator John W. Akin, of the 42nd, Cartersvllle. Senator W. C. Martin, of the 43d. Dalton. Tljls Is Ihe list from which, accord ing to all present Indications, the next I residing officer of the Senate and ex- efflelo Lieutenant Governor, will be chosen. With such an array a dark 1: ir e is hardly probably, though, of course, there Is no telling what un foreseen contingencies may arise. About the Candidates. Senator Howard of tile 20th Is one of Mllledgevllle'a well-known lawyers. He served several terms in the House from Baldwin County, In the last of ' which lie was speaker pro tern, and Is quite familiar with the routine of leg islation. He has led many a hard fight for appropriations for the State i- -dilutions in his home county, usually with success. Senator Felder has likewise had a long record In the House, and *could have gone there again had he not de termined to try the Senate this time. Jle was the author of a number of popular measures now on the statute books, among them the- present con- vlct law under which counties are sup plied with convicts where they desire them nnd the law providing for the State reformatory. He is a vigorous speaker nnd was frequently heard in dobnte on the floor. Senator Flynt has likewise simply nade a change from one side of the •apltol to (he other. He. served Spald ing faithfully and well for three terms in the House and has been rewarded. If It can be called a reward, by being transferred lo the Senate. Senator Flynt Is a successful lawyer, an earn est and energetic speaker and has always taken a prominent stand in matters legislative. Senator,- llkewl-o Dr. L. G. Hnrd- m.an. of the Thirty-third Is another of those to whom sim'Iar promotion whether forward or backward, ha; route. He Is a physician and one 01 the most prominent men in his sec tion of the State Dr. Hardman has always taken a deep Interest particu larly in elucatlonal matters, with re gard to wh'ch he has always occupied a progressive attitude and the imprint of hi« influence may be found on many of the Important laws on the statute hooks today. Senator Akin is the last of the five aspirants to the Senate pres'dency who have had interesting careers fn the House. With a heart which has lent its enduring warmth to many friend ships. with a disposition comparative <n mildness almost to that of the pro verbial lamb, he, nevertheless, when aroused in the interest of public ,1us* lire or public right displays a vigor end an energy and a determination which means that somebody had better g •: on the right sdde or look out. Sen ator Akin Is an able lawyer, and has a legislative record of which any Georgian might well be proud. Of all the candidates Senator Mar tin. of the Forty-third Is the only one who has not before seen public service in legislative balls. In fact it Is said of him that th's is his first entrance Into polir'os of .any sort, hut bis peo- pie were glad to see him take ihe i n j. rial step A leading North Georgia lawyer, he is also prominent in the business world, being president of the Flks Cotton AT ill and vice president of the First National Bank of Dalton. His boom for the presidency was launched immediate!*- following his elect'on. A Little Bit on the Ineide. At least three of the foregoing can didates are known lo have actively sup ported Governor-elect Hoke Smith in his eampa'gn of last year, nnd the ouestien naturally arises, where will Mr Smith's -influence go in this race’ Naturally upon this subject Mr. Smith' himself has been silent. Natu rally. also it is expected he will re main so. at least so far as any pub lic statement or attitude is concerned It has been stated on the one hand that Mr. Smith would take no part whatever In this race, not even giv ing any sign as to his preference. It would be out of the question, of course, for him to press his preference for more than one. and yet anyone of those three known active supporters would •fi'.ake a capable presiding officer over the upper house. The same, in fact might be said of any one of the six here named. On the qther hand it is current talk around the capitol and in pollt- will go to Senator Felder, of the Twen ty-second. Thl*. at least, seems to be the understanding or the belief of the other candidates, or some of them. ■ I im pretty well satisfied from what I hare heard," one of the candidate? static at the cap!"that Mr. Smith’s friends are supporting Tom Felder. While I have talked very little with the other candidates you can count upon It ^hat if this situation should develop there would be a combination of interests in another direction which it would be pretty hard to 'hake.” It a ill he noted that there is not a, single South Georgia candidate. Four f th'- candidates come from a narrow belt extending across the center of the State with Macon as its southeT- most oo'nt. Two others come from North Ge -rgia. and are separated by only a few miles. Three of them are from Ihe Sixth Congressional district two from the Seventh and one from the Ninth. Geographical conditions, there fore. may well be counted upon to have something to do with the result. The New Senate. With six candidates and only forty- four votes to be cast, it is naturally difficult to tell much about the result in advance. Much will depend on the South Georgia vote, which has no can didate -,f its own and will he free to go ns It wishes, for results which amount to little more than committee appointments. Here is a list of the new Senate, from which and by which "the president will have to be elected: First District—W. B. Stephens. Second—J. H. Hughes. Third—H. W. Whaley. Fourth—J. J. Mattox. Fifth—G. W. Dcen. Sixth—J. P. Knight. Seventh—J. H. Wilkes. Eighth—J. S. B’ush. Ninth—J. S. Cowart. Tenth—W. L. Sikes. Eleventh—A. Crittenden. Twelfth—J. R. Stapleton. Thirteenth—J. E. Hays. Fourteenth—Z. V. Peacock. Fifteenth—J. A.. J. Henderson. Sixteenth—C. W. Brantley. Seventeenth—E. K. Overstreet. Eighteenth—W. Walden. Nineteenth—M. L. Felts. Twentieth—J. D. Howard. Twenty-first—H. F. Griffin. Twenty-second—T. S. Felder. Twenty-third—A. J. Johnson. Twenty-fourth—F. M. Gordy. Twenty-fifth—C. I. Hudson. Twenty-sixth—J. J. Flynt. Twenty-seventh—C. H. Turner. Twenty-eighth—Q. TWilliford. Twenty-ninth—Ira E. Farmer. Thirtieth—P. M. Hawes. Thirty-first—B. F. Camp. Thirty-second—J. W. Boyd. Thirty-third—L. G. Hardman. Thirty-fourth—E. W. Born. Thirty-fifth—E. P. Dobbs. Thirty-sixth—Jnmes W. Taylor. Thirty-seventh—E. T. Steed. Thirty-eighth—W. F. Walker. Thirty-ninth—L. A. Henderson. Fortieth—A. E. Lashley. Forty-first—James L. Weaver. Forty-second—John W. Akin. Forty-third—W. C. Martin. Forty-fourth—J. R. Brock. Hon. Charles S. Northern secretary of the last Senate, will be elected to the same position with the new Senate. ABILENE Kan., March 24.—Jos. R. j offense ir. fact’’ I had misinterpreted Sugar lrusl ' had dor \ e for tbe _ _ , . • , . , . . ' , , u mi-inierpreiea Republican party, and did not care to Burton last night was welcomed home a statute;, that and nothing more. I oppose its wishes, and they also want- , from a five months' confinement in the ! construed presuming, as , e( j t0 stan( j j n W ith the President. intelligence of Republican Senators, or I Kendall, running out of Columbus on an indictment of their integrity, or | the Southern; and Ed. Warwick, not both. in the business. "When the caucus at which I made ! • • • this speech broke up. it was with the Of the Macon and Brunswick now- understanding that the fight was over , the Southern, conductors, oniv one is for the session. But smooth old Sen- known to be living. Richard A. Har- ators were only pretending. They knew ris. now in Atlanta. Thev were CLOSE RELATIONS OF 0. S. ID MEXICO ; Ironton, Mo.. Jail with an enthusiasm . that exceeded any welcome he receiv- ■ ed in his homo town while United i States Senator from Kansas. Burton was convicted of appearing for pay before a Government depart ment while Senator. The former Sen ator rode from the station to his home in an open carriage and his passage through the streets was in the na ture of a triumphal procession. The sidewalks were lined with people who lifted their hats as Burton passed. After an informal reception at their home, Mr. and Mrs. Burton were en tertalned at dinner by County Treas urer Schneider. Later they went to the theater where Burton deliveied ; speech on "Why I Wns Prosecuted." Ex-Senator 3urton began hi speech by referring to the three in dictments found against him, and the two convictions under them, saying that, while the case was pending, he tried to get the Senate to investigate the charges against him,-but it stead ily refused to do so, and it was about to expell him without and investiga tion. when he resigned to avoid expul sion. “A great wrong.” he said, “had been done not only to him. but to the peo pie of Kansas as well, and to the peo pie of the entire country. For tho greatest of all crimes against a people is where executioners ravish* the law In the temple of justice, as they did in my case. “That I was employed for a short time as the attorney of the Rialto Company was never concealed or de nied by me. Payments on my con tract were made in five installments of $300 each. The first four payments : were each made by check, which 1 deposited with the hank where I kept an account in Washington. The last payment was in case. There was nothing concealed, or unusual. In the payments, as there was nothing to conceal in the contract of emplyo- ment. “It was an unjust accusation against me that I had been employed as an attorney by a disreputable corpora tion, and that I knew it to he of suph character at the time of my employ-- ment. The Rialto Compay bore no resemblance whatever to a get-rich- quick concern. During the time I was one of its attorneys, and during all tho time that It was managed by its owner, Maj. Demis, the Rialto Com pany never swindled any person In the world out of a dollar. I offered to show this in the trial of my case, but the court refused to allow, the testimony. As to Fraud Order. “I did nothing to prevent a fraud order from issuing against the Rialto Company. Months after my connec tion with the company ceased, and when conditions changed for the worst by reason of the protracted ill ness and absence of Its owner, and when there was an investigation by the Postoffice Department, it was not I. but the two men who prosecuted I me who prevented a fraud order from issuing against the company. ' “It was untrue that I was indicted ! for bribery, though it was so given I out in th(* flaring headlines of news papers. The charge against me* throwing aside legal verbiage, *,vas that I had been hired in a law suit. I prohibited by the statute because I j was a Senator. It was not pretended in the Indictment that the Govern ment has one cent of property inter- ! est in the case, where I was' accused of acting as an attorney. There was the law does that I knew of its ex- . Hence, they were only too istence. as it ffiad always been con 1 - filing to give me and other Western Senators Richard A. Harris, Jas. A. Burke. An drew J. Collins. William F. Hurst. James E. Mell, Albert A. and Thorn ton S. Sharp. * • # On the Central strued by everyone until now. I had ® e ‘ w ? tothegamefarrnorecrejT than 1 Cent f a ‘ tp Sa ™ nt construed the statute as the Supreme, wlwereenmTed to in the k 1 lin^ of Macon a «d ^ estern to Court i" the States had invariably 1 T\,, 9 „ 'j t0 m e Kl ,= ° r . of those whose homes were l ..... . invariably th6 bin _ H ad the members of the , vm tvm w M.tf.v in™ Invariably construed similar statutes for a cen tury. I had construed the statute as similar statutes had been construed in Great Britain from the days of ‘Mag- nacarta.’ If guilty, my offense was that I did not know more law than all the Judges of all the courts of the English-speaking race for more than two hundred years. My offense was as clearly specifically defined, that I was no better lawyer than Chief Jus tice Fuller. Mr. Justice Brewer Mr. Justice White and Mr. Justice Peok- hani. and not as good a lawyer as Jus the bill. Had the members of | 'Political community of Interest' sin- I cerely been for the measure, it would i haVe been reported and passed. At I that time I had not that knowledge of ! the Machiavellian method that so uni versally obtains in Senatorial manage- sii u ment. I thought Senators meant what ohntioo 11 they said. I learned to my sorrow that -such was not always the case. That Senators who can best 'Lie like the truth.’ is the best equipped to play tho game, according to the modern way of doing things in Congress. Selfishness nnH fodr are* tVift nfintmlHno" Imnnlcpe avannah and Atlanta, in Macon. were Wm. H. McKay. John O. Davis. Robert W. Smith and Capt. Gruven- stein. Of these only Capt. W. H. McKay is living. There were Barney Cubbedge, somewhat gray now but still in the flesh and as handsome as ever; and others whose names escape me. Capt. Cubbedge is running his train as he always did. Capt. Reneau died only a few years ago. Among the conductors on tMC Ma- quired of a country' lawyer, when the Government accused me of offending against this statute. Convicted by Press. “I was convicted 'by the press of bribery and fraud. I was convicted by the courts with misconstruing a sta tute. I was guilty of nothing. Mv only offense was that I had offended the head of the ‘Political community of in terest'’—the President: and the most powerful member of the ‘Commercial community of interests’—the sugar trust These and these alone, are the offenses for which I have suffered. I violated no law. “I doubt if the country has ever fully realized why I was prosecuted in St. Louis. The President evaded the question. Attorney General, now Senator Knox, refused to answer it. My attorneys often asked the ques tion, and they could get no answer. No truthful answer could be given, that was not a confession that in pro ceeding against me in St. Louis the Government had violated the very spirit of the constitution. Four of the five payments were made to me in Washington. If I rendered any ser vices 'that were prohibited by the statute, I rendered them in Washing ton, and not in St. Louis. / “Why was I then taken a thousand miles away from the place where it was alleged I rendered the prohibited serivees;. where four of the five pay ments were made to me. where most of the witnesses resided, into a strange city where I had never seen or communicated with any ppstal of ficial? There was a wild crusade against accused officials in Missouri at that time, and the storm center was at St. Louis. There is an inheri ted prejudice in <hat city, against a Kansan, but that was very slight, as compared with the. far deeper preju dice then existing against any high official charged with crime. Gov. Folk, then circuit attorney, had insti tuted prosecution against public of ficials, and other persons, and the ex citement had grown so intense .as to produce, for a time, judicial anarchy in that place. Nearly all of the up per tendom of St. Louis had been guilty of violating the law, and those who had not were under suspicion. For some time, vicious attacks had been made throughout the country against the United States Senate. Therefore, the prosecution of a Uni ted States Senator in the city of St. Louis furnished a shining mark for all the hate that had been aroused against such officials, and left 'to a man IJien in my position in a strange city very little chance for a fair trial. I do not think t'hdt'Tt is generally never forgave me. , Disagree With President. , ° f ‘ he .f, n S ineer * of , tbat , tlme but •'There wars another Incident tliat *W ■» Th * following were aroused the wrath of the President n A wlif inu T against me. I could not agree with him 3 ' TT 11 ? about who was in cojnmand at the P 8 'J, 5- ™ 1 l am Evers. \\ iWarn Lwing, naval battle of Santiago, and I had the '■ " Flandrs, John > lowers. George temreity to voice my convictions, which ! £• T°~ Joe Harrison. John F. Kell, is unpardonable crime with Roosevelt, ' 52 aam o s B. Mathews, John unless what you say reflects his Eay. George Reddy. Wm. R. Rieh- wlshes.” I nr de, John Sheridan. John A. Urqua- Mr. Burton referred at some length ' bar3, *-■ ^ anValkenburg and E. W. to the Karlas delegation to the Re- ^'aterhouse. publican convention of 1904, saying ; these known to be living are that the movement supporting Hoke for Elll Ewing, Jim Flanders, Jourd Kent Governor was given a false coloring, ! an d Ed Waterhouse, and the President believed that it was J ♦ » * a fight, under cover, on him and that I On the Macon and Western were: Burton was working for Mark Hanna. B. Irwin. H. P. MsAIpin. Aleck This, he said, was untrue. Bright, John W. Buffington. Win. B. “This is why,” he said, “I was first I Fleck, Joe G. Freeny. Alfred Munson, struck down, why I was hounded for ] Robert Richards and John W. Wat- years for a crime I never committed: ■ son. why all the vast enginery of the Gov- Of those known to be living are: ernment was brought up Against me ; Brice Irwin, now in Augusta, and John to hunt me to death. j Watson. “But the door of hope cannot be • • * Closed against me. nor against any j On the Southwestern were: John R. man who will waste no time In ‘pro- ; Collins, Edward S. Graves, David H. yoking, nor brooding over injury',’ but j Husketh, Frank Hutchison. Howell has an abiding faith in the philosophy . McAfee. Dan R. Mathews, John R. ora i,ooo his SUFFER FROM FOISi LEAVENWORTH, Kan.. March 24- More than one thousand veterans at the National Soldiers' Home here are suffering from ptomaine poisoning, tho result of eating meat hash at break fast this morning. The first symptoms of trouble was manifested several hours after breakfast. Soon the home hos pital was crowded with sick veterans and the ambulances were rushing in from the barracks with loads of them. This afternon an officer in charge of the hospital at the soldiers' homo state that none of tho veterans were seriously ill: that most of them had been discharged after treatment, and that there wns no likelihood of any deaths occurring from tho ptomaine poisoning. Most of those afflicted, ho said, simply suffered a slight vomiting spell. Farm Houses Are Destroyed and Narrow Escapes of Occupants of good.” T dlegiraiipIlTifc! By BRIDGES SMITH. In delving deep into the golden past, that I may dig up and tell of men and events for the delectation of the present generation, it is not my' wish to add one flake of snow to the hair, or one wrinkle to the crow’s feet, of those men now living who played their Hudson “ Robert^Huas’ofi. Wm. R. part in the citizenry of thirty, forty or Jones, Jas . F . Mathews, Jas. H. Pair, Mathews, Warren W. Richards, Emanuel Schaefer, William H. Strey- et, John T. Wade. Thos. W. Water- house and Clarence A. Williams. Of these known to be living are: John Collins, now running to Eaton- ton; Howell McAfee, long since retir ed and living at Smithville. and Tom Waterhouse, running an engine the same as ever. * * * On the Macon and Brunwick, now the Southern, were: Peter J. Bracken, Thad Braswell, W. L. Freeny', Elam H. Gillon. S. K. Hill, James R. Hopper. Richard B. Henry O. Spier and Reuben J. Thorn ton. Of those known to be living is Peter Bracken. » • . * * On the Macon and Augusta were: James Farris, J. R. Lee, Jos. Smith and^L. Thomas. All dead. WASHINGTON. March 24.—“I pro pose a toast to the peace which Mex ico and tho United States are endeaV- has either been promoted Jn office or has received immunity from punish ment, by the President. But such is the case.. Nor did the President stop with his rewards in .bestowing gifts to the witnesses who testified against me. Every official who had anything to do with my case, with one excep- no charie against me like that made known that every witness who testi- against Ihe fate Senator Mitchell and *£ against^ me other defendants in the land fraud cases, no charge that I had defrauded the Government out of anything. The oring to establish In Central America , Government had no monitory inter- and to everlasting peace betewen Mex- : est whatever in the fase. Whether a lco and the United States.” fnrud order should or should not issue This isentiment spoken by Secretary 1 against my client, made not one dol- Root at a dinner given Saturday by i ja r 0 f difference to the Government. . _ _ the Mexican ambassador and Mrs. ; The Government would not make or t‘°n, has-been promoted by the Pres Creel in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Root i ] ose anything, which ever way the ' "” f set at rest all doubt as to the joint ] case should be decided by the Post movement for pacification which the ; m astp- General. two neighboring republics have initi- | "The statute had been passed in 1S64 ated and showed how closely the re- ] near the close of the war. to pre- latlons between Mexico and the United vent Congressmen from taking claims States have become. Mr. Root’s toast ngainst the Government for collection, followed toasts proposed by Mr. Creel claims against the Government had to the Presidents of the United Slates ; P ii ed mountain high at that time, as ident. Was it Coincident? “Were all these promotions, re wards, immunities accidentally coinci dent with my downfall? Did my’ case have nothing to do with bringing to these judges, prosecuting officers, wit nesses and criminals all their good upon piled mountain high at that time, as a j luck? Every man must nnd Mexico, and to the American Sec- roau ]t of Ihe war, and Senators and | this question for hilmself. But does retary of State. The sentiment sug- congressmen made a, specialty of seek- not the inquiry as to the price of my gested by the Secretary of State was lnt , these claims for collections. The received with great enthusiasm by the Mexican ambassador’s guests and the small dinner party became an affair of International significance. ASSURES HI HELP ■ very be't men in Congress advertisad in the Washington papers to collect these claims on contingent fees. As it required an appropriation to pay the claims, when allowed, it was thought that such action should be denounced as wrong and in conflict with the of ficial duties of Congressmen. This was the inspiration and purpose of the law. It meant as was then thought, that in all matters where the Government stood to win or lose something, or here money or property was involved, the Congressman was prohibited from apnearing for money or. property or blood obtrude itself when the facts are considered? "There are many other things that might be named which would go to show that my fall and conviction, in each case, was a judicial fartfe, a travesty on justice, a political perse cution. I hope and expect that both my past and future life wiir be set in contrast to the judgment of the court in branding me as a criminal..” Mr. Burton denied the charge that he had secured his seat in the United States Senate "by the corrupt use of money.” contributed by the railroads. even fifty years ago. Fate or for tune. just as you like, has dealt un kindly, perhaps unjustly, with some of them. Each did his part In mak ing ^Macon what it is / today, some do ling more than others, of course. There are men living, only a few it Es true, to whom the present generation owes much, and but for whose efforts, whoso enterprise, whose public spirit, and for whose foresight. Macon would now be . Old-timers will remember a num- a struggling village. i ber ° f ^Ineers a little later, say And my hat is off to these h)4m. I ‘WF-IIto/ yew*-ago. and.sotnelhir- They command my respect and esteem, i t >'- five or for *f Tle ' r Some of them are old because of the i ar e so familiar that I want to record in the family Bible, in spite of m f n ! ,on a f, ™ i .' n Y ff ' vl A c ?3P. e , J.° gray hairs. Knowing their love for ' '' \ ^l ltc l! e . ' Macon their qualities of good citizen- ; Tosh Hodges Tom Elfe, John McGol- ship their usefulness had I the power i r3ckt *_ r ank Mlcklejohn, VV’altei Scat- I would turn -backward the flight of tergood, Asa Clarae. F. B. Arden. Bill time and make them young men again. Barnes, Dad Morris, Oscar Lagerquist, * * » | Lige Pate. • Green Freeny, Ed Sco- Last Sunday I wrote of Col. \V. A. ! vllle, Henry Burton. Joe Hartman. Huff, who was Mayor of the city thirty j Wm. Friend, Joe Conley, Frank Gools- years ago, as being the only official | by. Bill Ryan, John and Charlie Horn, of the city government, excepting the i Encle Sandy Mathews, and his sons, alder-manic board, now living. Now. I ! Jim and Albert Dan M. Gugel, John am witness to the fact that having S. Schofield, Billie Sloan, E. D. Mil- known Col. Huff for—I’ll n*,t say how i Hams. Will Gugel, Frank Willis, many years, but he was a .young? man 1 Green Bright. Chalire Tolbert, Henry when I first knew him—he moves about > Lathrop, John and Alt Vlnlng, Russ the streets with almost the same quick ; Harris. Henry Fox, Luke Husketh, M. action as when he was Mayor thirty , H. Jones. Chas. Heldt, Will Wasner. years ago. But here is a note from Ben Jones. Nes Taylor, Bill Emerson him. and in it is a fact I should have i and Bob Sheridan. recorded: Of all these, so far as I can learn, *T see you will persist in advertis- j the only ones now living are: Henry ing me in the role of antiquity, there- j Lathrop, now in Atlanta: Green by making me appear among the list j Freeny, now running an engine: Russ of ancient and ‘oslerized’ citizens of ; Harris, now in the lumber business: this community. This is the very re- (.and E. D. "Williams, still on an engine, finement of cruelty, and If autunyi j * * * leaves did not in themselves carry the ] I wish I had space to tell something rich colors of ‘a golden hue,’ and if about these men. Many of them met ‘tHe sunset of life did not give me ; death on the rail, some of them were mystidal lore.’ I would bring a suit granted the privilege of dying peace- for damages against you for these I fully at home. I would like to tell of continuous attacks on me in .my iso- ; Uncle Ned Graves , with his old lated condition. You should remember ; Chickasaw; of how John M r ado went that while a man’s age is controlled down into the swollen Muckalce Creek bv his feelings, it requires the best of with his hand on the throttle, and of pliiLsophy to bear up under a great a -number of others who risked death weight ' of years, and that constant ‘ to save the lives of passengers. I public reference’ to a man’s increasing would like to tell of how the old loco- years will at last force him to be- motives, the old wood-burners, that lieve that he is not only very ancient. ■ bore names instead of numbers, like •but that he ’lags superfluous.’ How- the Emerson Foote. Cherokee. Asbury ever, it is not yet so with me. M'hen Hull. Chickasaw. Choctaw, John L. DANVILLE. Yn.. March *4—A tremendous forest fire Is sweeping the county of Patrick and heavy damage to property has already resulted and the lives of many are endangered. The fire started Friday night, It ap pears, near Stuart, the county seat of Patrick, and the terminus of the Dan ville and Western Railroad, and has been raging ever since. Latest reports are that the confla gration is under no control whatever, though a large number of citizens and fanners are engaged in an effort to cut down trees and confine the blaze to certain limits. From Stuart the fire has spread southeast in the direction of Danville. Tonight it had reached Critz, & dis tance of about fifteen or twenty miles from where it originated. The width of the conflagration is about six miles. HON. PETER PREER DIED SUDDENLY COLUMBUS, Ga„ March 24.—Hon. Peter Freer, representative-elect of Muscogee County, in the Legislature, nnd on of the most prominent of the younger members of the 'bar of Co lumbus. died last night rather sudden ly. after a short illness of a day. His death, which wa.s wholly unexpected, was a groat shock to his numerous friends throughout the city. Col. Preer ■fcas the lieutenant colonel of tho Fourth Georgia Regiment, and was among the most prominent military men in the Slate. MAJ. PENROSE ACQUITTED * CHARGE NEGLECJ_QF DUTY SAN ANTONIO. Tex., March 24 — Maj. C. W. Penrose of the Twenty- fifth Infantry was today acquitted of the charge of neglect of doty prefer red against him at the instance of President Roosevelt for alleged mis conduct in connection with the shoot ing up of Brownsville. -Tex., toy tha soldiers'of the Twenty-fifth Infantiy last August. PROCURATOR GENERAL OF HOLY SYNOD DEAD ST. PETERSBURG. March 23—M. Pob- edonostseff, former procurator general of tho holy synod, is dead from a compli cation of ailments and extreme old age. It is understood that he left voluminous memoirs' throwing light on the reigns of the last three Romanoffs. It le ex pected that these memoirs will lie pub lished. The newspapers are devoting their most important space to sketches of the career of M.‘ Pobedonostnett. They are unanimous in judgment tha* he em bodies an epoch. lie was one of the- biggest personalities in the history of the Orthordox Church, and in the death of M. PdbedonoStsefT, the autoertyry loses Its most consistent, zealous and able exponent. His influence will long sur vive him. STRANGE DEATH OF WOMAN WHO SAW NIECE'S GHOST. SPRINGFIELD. Ohio. March 23.— Mrs. Daniel Clauer. aged forty, was found dead at her home here today. She was apparently in good health yes terday. hut last night became fright ened and startled her relatives by de claring that she saw the ghost of her dead niece. Marie Orasla. who died a week ago. Mrs. Clauer's husband, who was an engineer at the State Odd Fel lows’ Home, died suddenly two weeks ago. Georgias the Leonlte has completed his 107 years and was asked why he liked No railway company, nor other corpo-' 30 3,0 s0 l° n S in life, he said: 'l have Prcsi- for a fee. It"was thought by • the frfle. I rat ion, no firm, nor person, ever paid ! n ° cause for blaming old age.’ The Mustian, \V. A. Black, J. J. McDon aid and others. But all these things would take columns. WASHINGTON, March dent Roosevelt has addressed a let- mers of the law to cover no other kind ter to H. M. Marvin, of Dover. Del., of cases. Such was the construction who asked tho President if Govern- placed by Senator 5 and ^Representa- ment aid could be extended toward tives. ca'binct ministers, bureau offi Ing child. The cers and. indeed, by everyone until the Supreme Court, by a decision of five to four gave it another and far different construction in my case. Aft er the enactment of the statute no Sen ator or Representative who knew of the law ever openly took a fee for appearing In a case before a depart ment where the money or property of the Government was involved. But they at once communicated <3l<3 appear as pa d attorneys all along in cases where the Government haa no property or money interest at stake. This was done by the very best men in Congress who helped to make the law, and others who must have known of the law and the purposes of Con- the recovery of his letter is as follows: My Dear Mr. Marvin: I am in re ceipt of your telegram of the 22nd inst. Anything that this Government can do to help you will of course be u me, for save only the crime of as sault upon women there is none so dreadful as that which has brought -osnoq ano.f oi aiojjos Sujoiuojqjjcan hold. I hav with the Postoffice Department f>-.k- ing that all aid we have in our power to give along the lines you mention or In any other that may prove practi cable, be given to you. Sincerely yours, , , .. .. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 1 Fress in enacting it In his telegram to the President, I Mr. Marvin said that many threaten- | ing letters are sent him every day saying his boy may be killed by a sup- : posed captor and suggested that they be looked into. He also said that he had sent out pictures and notices re garding his kidnaped boy and was told the postmasters were not allowed to display them in the public buildings. The father said he believed a word from the President to the Federal au- ; thoritles which he suggested might be ; the greatest aid of ell. one cent to elect him to office, he said, at his request or even to his knowl edge. Some of the men for whom ha had secured appointments, he said, had sent him money, but he had re turned it In every case. He called upon his appointees to bear him out In the assertion that they had never paid one cent for their office. “I won my election' in a fair and open fight, with the help of a band of I Leonite was sensible to the last. ” ‘Time was when reverend years ob- ; sorvance found And silver hairs with honor’s meed ! was crowned.* "But. if you are stubbornly bent on my complete destruction, just forge one more link to.the rusty chain that binds me to the past, and tell the publid through your reminiscent column that j of all the men who were engaged in i active service on the old Macon & I i M r estern Railroad, now the Central of i To the few of us who knew these men personally, knew their faults and virtues, knew them as man to man, and think of the &ood old times when the great majority of them, now dead, were In the flesh, we now realize what good men they were, and how good were those days. TILLMAN WOULDN’T RETRACT. HEADLESS BODY FOUND. INDICATING A MURDER. SUNBURY, Pa.. March 23.—Securely sewed in a linen sack, the headless body of a man was found today float ing in the Susquehanna river, about fifteen miles south of this city. There i are ten bullet and. five knife wounds on * | the corpse, and the head had been sev- * 1 ered close to tlie shoulders. There are no marks on the body to identify It. The authorities are positive it is a case of murder, but have no clue upon which they can work. friends as loyal and true as ever sup- Kfi/KXSSi: JAwSVE NSKSr *■ ***• -* **• — »*- KILLED COMPETITOR PI leal circles that Mr. Smith’s Influence fatal . SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. March 24 — Frar.klln E. Smith, a prominent real estate dealer, and Edward Beversdorf. his stenographer, are dead, and E. J. Wilson, another real estate man. is in jail charged with murder and assault as the result of a shooting affray here this afternoon. A business difficulty is assigned as the immediate cause of the shooting. Beversdorf was sitting at his desk next to mat or Smith, when Wilson fired. The stenographer was shot through the heart. Three other shots were fired, al! striking Smith, one passing through the throat proving No Violation Intended. They did not intend to violate the law. They construed the statute, in every instance, as similar statutes in the States had ever been construed. a 5 prohibiting appearance of the Con gressman as paid attorney only in a os«e where the Government stood to win or lose something or. in other words, eases aaginst the Government that might cost the Government sorae- ; thing. There had never been a prose- , cution under the statute when I was i indicted, and the law had been for gotten. I th'rk I am entirely within , the bounds of truth when I say not a • single Senator or Representative knew : of the existence of the statute at the time I was fndietd. I certainly did not But the actions of great lawyers like Cockling and others, had made the pre cedents when the statute was fresh in their minds, and these precedents whese followed with:ut question, up to the time the case was brought '■ against me. "When in jail at Ironton. a United States Senator on his way to his seat in the Senate, called upon me and acknowledged that he was guilty un der the unaccountable decision of th five justices of'the Sunreme Court That Senator occupying his seat in the Senate chamber with the Government in possession of all the facts, and my inc.arceration in Jail Is a fair mmnle of what this admirdstrathan means when it hypr-'criticallv shouts about the 'Square deal.' Case after case could h given showing that the very ablest an-’ hest lawyers in the country have un wittingly violated this law. “Then, If I was guilty what was my signed, they were untarnished still. I know full well that the latter part of that statement is denied by a judg ment of the highest court in the land. I realize, perhaps more than any one else can the deep' stain that is upon j my name, and the name of a proud ! State. But it is not an indellihie stain. .That decree records a lie. My past life contradicts it. I hope, if I live my future life will help me to wipe it away. Theodore Roosevelt Inspired It. "I have been frequently asked who it was that inspired this unjust and cruel persecution against me. I have not made any public answer to that question. I do it now. It was Theo dore Roosevelt. True, he had to oper ate through others. Some of them acted with malice of the kind that animated Roosevelt. Others were driven to help in the great wrong through fear. It was like him to deny having anything to do with institut ing proceedings against me until after I was convicted. Then he boasted, 'it was I who aimed ihe gun.’ The question naturally arises why he did it. “When the ‘Cuban reciprocity’ legis lation was pending in the Senate, I mafia a speech that made me tempo rarily notorious if not famous. I said. ing Peter Bracken and the under- ' signed. Fifty-four years have swept ! from the face of the earth every otlyar man then employed by the road be- •' tween Macon and Atlanta. And I doubt | if there Is another man now living who ! was then at work on any railroad in : the South.” • * • •Mention, of the fV Macon & West- i , . , . _ ern Railroad set me to thinking of the : M'hile waiting for a tran^to go to Co conductors and engineers of the lore Iumbus. O.. the Senator was enter- ago. But to go back more than thirty ! t aIned by , Mr A, E v mma ^ t i. 3 ” erS years would not, in my opinion be in- ; the Berkel>' Club, which is composed terest.'ng to the people of today for principally of Republican bu.-iness men the reason that there are so few of WINCHESTER, Va.. March 22— Ac cording to a story vouched for by sev eral prominent men of Winchester and Martinsburg, W. Va., a personal en counter .was Imminent early Sunday morning'in the Berkely Club, at Mar tinsburg between a number of it3 members and Senator B. R. Tillman, of South Carolina. After lecturing here on the race question Saturday Senator Tillman was taken to Martinsburg by Howard Emmart in an automobile. the direct descendants of the old-timers now here. Therefore I will go back to 1877. thirty years ago. and call the roll of the men who pulled the bell- cord or Jerked the throttle at that time. During a discussion of national affairs Senator Tillman Is said to have made a remark reflecting upon President Roosevelt, which many clubmen took as an insult, they being staunch ad mirers of the President. It is stated that men jumped to their feet and an grily demanded that the Senator’s re marks and har=h criticism of the Pres ident be withdrawn, but Mr. Tillman refused to take back a word of what he had said. The difficulty was finally smoothed over. BIG BLAZ-BURNS , PLANT IN PITTSBURG PITTSBURG; Pa., March 23.—An ex plosion late today fn ih" Plant Baird Machinery Company, located on the north side of Liberty avenue, between Twen ty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, set tire to the building, and within a short tiino the flames snread to the Simmonds Man ufacturing Company. Brown & Zortman Machinery Company and a number of small buildings, all of whleh w»r» burned* The loss will exceed $260,000. The cause of the explosion has noi been ascer tained. HOT WEATHER RECORDS IN WASHINGTON BROKEN WASHINGTON, March 23.—All pre vious records for hot weather in Wash ington for the month of March was broken today when, acording to offi cials of the weather bureau, the ther mometer at 3 o'clock this afternoon registered 93 degrees. William M. Wadley always selected ... substance, that I would not support { best men as their conductors, and the measure in its then form: that it I that the mere fact that these big rail- ■ vas plainly in the interest of the ! road men Passed judgment on a man ‘Sugar trust’: that it would be a gift was a certificate of good charcter. Here of many millions of dollars annually is a list of the conductors on the Soutjr- to that great corporation, and a crush- I western as far as memory and the help ing blow to the beet-sugar Industry: j others can bring to mind: that the whole measure was conceived j Thos. S. Jeter. George S. Dasher. • n hvpocrisv: that it violated the car- 1 James N. Bass, J. R. Camp, James E. dinai 'principles of the Republican par- i Dense. Felix A. Dougherty, Ed. G. The recent death of Capt Thomas S. Jeter brings to mind a number of conductors on the Southwestern Rail road. Capt. Jeter was the oldest of them all. and his death removed from earth the last of those who were young men with him. But of the fourteen l -nrearn im rpcji v APPARPl or fifteen who were In life thirty vears j DRESSED IN COSTLY APPAREL ago. only three are known to be living. | ri C T, Cleverer, more accommodating, better! CLE^ ELAND. O., March 3 Dress- men never ran a train. It was the j in * herself in her costliest apparel common saying that Virgil Powers and : Mar Y Pete rs on the tariff: that Cuba was pros eercus. and did not need it: that the Cubans would not get the benefit of the ■ duction of the tariff on sugar if —!c nml that to support a bill of this kind was either an insult to the Jeffers Charles A. Kendall. John B. Giles. E. A. Warwickfi. Thos. J. and W. S. Welch. Geo. J. Lunsford, Flem Geealin and Francis M. Long. Those living are Felix Dougherty, still pulling the bell cord; Charlie widow aged 45 years, plunged over a 75-foot bluff to death in the waters'of Lake Erie, near the Clifton Club boat house, today. Mrs. Peters had suffered from ill health for some time past and had been in dejected spirits. She lived with her mother at 7130 Brinsmade street, and the family Is well known on the west side. STRINKING MINERS TO RETURN TO WORK WTUKESBARRB. Pa... March 23.—The 3.000 striking miners of the Kingston Coal Comnanv today decided to go back to work Monday pending a settlement of th"ir grievances by the officials of the eompanjfl It is now thought that an amicable agreement will be reached. A. K. DETWEILER ON HIS WAY FROM EUROPE. TOLEDO Ohio. March 23.—Informa tion obtained from George A. Detweii- brother of A. K. Detweiler. who was today indicted for fraud at San Francisco says that A. K. Detweiler was in Europp. but returned to the United States and passed through this city on his way.to the West. PRESIDENT SIGNED BLACKBURN’S COMMISSION. WASHINGTON. March 23.—The President today signed the commis sion of former Senator J. C. S. Black burn, of Kentucky, to be a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Assistant Cashier in Jail. PITTSBURG, Pa.. March 23.—Ernest W. Bowman assistant cashier and e'erk in the Citizens National Bank of Tienesta, Pa., was committed to jail today charged with misapplication of funds and making certain false entries. According to United States District At torney John W. Dunkle. the apparent shortage will amount to about $30,000. Bowman denies the charges. Heinrich »Von Korn D*ad. BRESLAU, Prussia. March 23.— Heinrich Von Korn, proprietor of the Schleische Zeitung, is dead. He Avas years of ago and left a fortune of $20,000,000. The paper has been In the family for-175 years. Distinct print