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Established 1860. .- - Incorporated 1888 I \T’Ari>r'n -t oon
J. H. ESTILL. President l • -'I rSKK 1 1 .S2O.
PARKER SPOKE TO
A GREAT AUDIENCE
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
FII.LED ASD MANY COULD NOT
EVEN GET NEAR IT.
Ttrmrndom Oration for the Demo
cratic Candidate for the Presiden
cy—There Were Cheers Whenever
Ills Name Was Mentioned—His
Speech Wa h Warmly Reeeived.
Ills First Appearance on the
••Stnmp.”
New York, Oct. 31.—Judge Parker
to-night, made his .first platform ap
pearance, away fiom his home at
Ksnpus, since his nomination as the
Democratic candidate for President.
He addressed a monster mass meeting
held in Madison Square Garden, where
his reception was attended by a dem
onstration seldom equalled, both in the
intensity and the duration of the en
thusiasm displayed. The nearest ap
pioach was that which followed the
nomination of Judge Parker at St.
Louis, and later the indorsement by
the same convention of the candidate's
now famous gold telegram.
Not only was the appearance of
Judge Parker cheered, but every men
• tion of his name by speakers who pre
ceded him provoked outbreaks of ap
plause. The tumult of unrestrained
enthusiasm which accompanied Judge
Parker’s entrance to the garden was
in contrast to the close attention given
him during his speech of not more
than half an hour. While his adddress
was punctuated by applause the
throng which filled the garden to its
capacity was markedly considerate in
its treatment of the candidate. He
had but to raise his hand to gain con
trol of his audience. Though his voice
was not strong it is said he could be
heard in every part of the building.
Two hours before Judge Parker was
scheduled to arrive at Madison Square
Harden it was evident there would not
be one seat vacant in the mammoth
structure. At 4:30 o’clock the line in
front of the Madison Square entrance
began to form.
The doors were not opened until 6
o'clock. Under control of 850 police
men. the crowd entered the building in
an orderly manner. In less than two
hours standing room was at a pre
mium and many were turned away
unable to get near the garden.
Straus Elicited Cheers.
The meeting was called to order ex
actly at 8 o'clock by J. Hampden
Robb, president of the Business Men's
Association, who in the briefest pos
sible- speech introduced Isidor Straus,
who presided. Mr. Straus spoke of the
meeting at Carnegie Hall, where he
said was introduced “the President
that was," and announced that at this
meeting would be introduced the
"President that will be.'*
it was several minutes before he
could proceed. The audience rose en
masse and waved flags and shouted it
self hoarse. He then took up the sub
ject of tariff reform, which alone, he
declared, to be sufficient to make the
great mass of thinking voters cast
their ballots for Parker. The demon
stration of the few moments before
was repeated and outdone. The throng
cheered for thirteen minutes, pausing
long enough only to gain breath for a
renewed outbreak.
Suiitli Caught the Crowd.
Hoke Smith of Georgia, former Sec
retary of the Interior, was then intro
duced. and he started his speech in a
happy vein, announcing that the can
didate would not arrive for more than
half an hour, and that so far as he was
-"merried he would prefer to hear
the audience cheer than to go on with
his speech. He suggested that he
would speak when they would let him
and stop when the people wanted to
chepr.
He congratulated New York Demo
crats for the part they played in na
tional campaigns, praising Mayor Mc-
Clelland and Judge Herrick. His ref
erences to New York caught the
crowd, and when' someone in a far
corner of the Garden returned the
'ompliment by loudly cheering for the
Mutiny South, .nearly every one in the
audience responded.
Mr. Smith had just begun a dis
cussion of President Roosevelt’s Pan
ama policy when at 9 o'clock Judge
Parker entered the building. He was
iu ioinpanied by a committee of fifty
Hcniocrats. conspicuous in state and
national campaigns, and the party had
1 • en given an ovation which was be
gun at the Hotel Seville, where the
candidate has headquarters, and con-
T 'nued uniil he reached the Garden.
He entered the building by the en
trance beneath the platform, but be
fore he came in view of the audience
the signal of his approach had been
Etven and the terrific cheering started.
Everybody in the building sprang to
his feet. The applause was one con
tinuous roar. As soon as the candi
date reached the platform, he took a
scat near the speaker's table.
Audience Marled Singing.
<'halrman Straus made no attempt to
Introduce him. It was impossible to
distinctly hear the bands half way
across the Garden, until the leader
caugnt the spirit of the occasion and
Played such selections as, “There’ll Be
a Hot Time,” “Way Down In My Heart
1 ve Got a Feeling For You.” and some
" f the patriotic selections as well. In
these the audience joined in song.
Aftar sixteen minutes came a mo-
Pient’s lull, and Chairman Straus tried
,r > quiet the demonstration, but failed
a ';di,the band played tauntingly, “I
'"as Only Teasing You." Another
tnlnute passed and Judge Parker step
ped to the fore, hut this tended only
®xclte the audience, which refused
to subside until twenty-four minutes
“f unbroken enthusiasm had passed.
Mr. Smith permitted his speech to
stand unfinished.
Judge Parker followed his manu
■r to t,le letter, hut delivered his
speech in a forceful manner, despite
fact that tt was read to his audl
•Pce. ]|ls speech follows:
t iintniuriii-n Grave.
, And more, as this Hanvaa* pro
lh, o a hd the unjust stewardship of
Publican party has made clear.
m i convinced that in this election
„„ ‘ r confronted with Issues which
he determined rightly if we are
Bra v consequence to our
- f J* The conviction has grown
t k. n * w ** I he days Itiv# gone by and
puhn •** ,n *ted the record of the Be
ll ,„r* n *nd even the defenses
•u'erpose* for its justlflref lon, that
yermit the conduct of tble party to
JSatamab JRfffmntj
go unrebuked is to invite the establish
mejn or new and dangerous principles
ana standards for our guidance as ‘a
people. Our return to old fashioned
ways cannot, in my opinion, be too
precipitate, unless we are prepared to
. n t .°V. r eyes to the consequences that
w Hi follow if we proceed further along
a. path that is full of danger to our
future. We need what patriotism, de
votion to principle and high moral
Ideals have until of late given us—a
government of law and constitutional
restraint and not of caprice or reckless
adventure.
In an earlier utterance I Wave refer
red in detail to what is notoriously
going on in the matter of the collec
tion of funds by the Republican party
tor the campaign. Now, I know, as
you know, that money is required in
order to defray the expenses of a cam
paign. Under right conditions Its col
lection and expenditure are equ’ally
legitimate. But the spectacle of de
manding campaign funds now present
ed to this country is, when rightly re
garded, of a character to shock the
moral sense.
We shall do well to pause for a mo
ment to ask whither we are drifting,
In our indifference to right standards
and to our old fashioned sense of pro
priety in such matters.
The Ue of Cortelyon.
Congress creates anew department
of commerce and labor. Of th’at de
partment the President of the United
States appoints a secretary. That sec
retary was his private secretary. With
in the department provision is made
for the collection from large corpora
tions, including the so-called trusts, of
information which, it is to be borne in
mind, is to be submitted to the Presi
dent for public or private use as he
may direct. By grace of the same ex
ecutive this secretary, through whose
department this information is collect
ed, becomes the chairman of the Na
tional Republican Committee. His
chief duty it has been and still is to
collect funds for the purpose of se
curing the election of the President.
And It is now notorious that there has
resulted from this organized impor
tunity—whatever may be the precise
w*ay in which it is made effective —an
overflowing treasury to the committee,
of which boast is openly and contin
ually made.
Although this may be satisfactory to
the conscience of Republican leaders,
it must, I firmly believe, be condemn
ed as nothing short of scandalous, not
alone by myself or the Democratic
party, but by the American people as
well.
It is by Mr. Hay that the
character of Mr. Lincoln furnishes the
standard for Mr. Roosevelt in his con
duct as President. I do not have to
pause to hear your thundering “No,”
when I ask would Lincoln have done
or permitted this to be done?
Shameless Exhibition.
The whale performance is a shame
less exhibition of a willingness to
make compromise with decency in or
der that sums of money may be gath
ered together sufficiently vast to justi
fy the insolent boasts even now that
there is no question as to the success
which by suoh a course the Republi
can managers so confidently predict.
The performance is entitled only to
the credit that It In no sense partakes
of hypocrisy. It is as bold as it Is
improper and indefensible.
It has been my fortune to take an
active part in three presidential cam
paigns. The first of these resulted in
the election in 1876 of Samuel J. Til
den. The younger generation, which
has come upon the scene since that
time, can scarcely understand the
forces which this great man had to
meet and combat. He, himself, felt
how unequal was the contest which he
waged. He knew that he was devoted
to the Interests of his countrymen
and that they sympathized with the
aims which he so well * represented,
but he was disposed to admit that
he always felt how strong the odds
were against him and how almost
hopeless it was for him to oombat the
combined forces of greed and official
power.
The 1880 campaign found the party
seriously handicapped because circum
stances compelled the putting aside of
the Issue of fraud, an issue that could
only be made effective in the support
of Tllden and Hendricks, who were
deprived of the office to which they
had bean elected in 1876. A gallant
struggle was made, however, by the
party in the face of claims most In
sistently made from every platform
throughout the country that the Dem
ocratic party could not be trusted.
Those foremost in the struggle fur
nishing the sinews for the political bat
tle against us were the men who were
enjoying special privileges.
When Clevclnnd Went In.
The other presidential campaign In
which I took an active part was that
which, in 1884. resulted in the nomi
rfatlon, the election and inauguration
of Grover Cleveland. As I look back
now upon this campaign. I recall that
Its one dominating feature was the cry
that the Democratic party could not
be trusted to deal with the business In
terests of the country. From every Re
publican newspaper In the land went
forth that foul stream of personal abuse
which made that canvass a disgrace to
the party that resorted to this meth
od.
The only excuse for these falsehoods
was the fear that the gains of greedy
monopolists would, in some way, be
Interfered with, and an ‘attempt was
made at every turn to represent to
the country that these represented Its
great business interests. In spite of
this Indecency and bitterness; In spite
of th* unlimited expenditure of money
In every quarter, the Democrats car
ried the election.
It would scarcely become me In
speaking before an audience of busi
ness men, more than to ask the ques
tion whether or not. in their own opin
ion, every legitimate business Interest
in the country was not promoted and
enlarged by the election and the sub
sequent administration of thia inan?
He enforced econmony, he settled great
disputed questions and he administer
ed the government with an honesty
and a courage than which nothing In
all our history could bo more positive
or distinctive.
Same Old Ctjr Again.
We now hear again the same old
parrot cry, that the business Interests
of the country cannot be entrusted to
the keeping of one-half of Its people
and that their chosen representative,
whoever he may be, is th* enemy of
thrift and Industry.
And that cry wells up from the
throats of those whose Interest It Is
to preserve untouched the statutes
which permit them to collect tribute
from the people, or who are Interested
in combinations organised to prevent
competition.
You. who as a business man, are
hete to-night and those whom you
represent, have not thus shown an in
terest In politics because there is
something In It for you, or because
you ere th* beneficiaries of favors
grsn'ed by law. or because you desire
legislation whlrh wIU lurn **e* from
the g'wmnruenl treasury, in which
Continued <hi Fifth Page.
JAPS SWARMED
AGAINST FORTS
HEAVY FORCES THROWN
UPON THE RUSSIANS DEFENDING
PORT ARTHUR.
Desperately Hie Japanese Assailed
Them, but Desperately the Rus
sians Defended Their Positions.
Some Were Carried, However, and
the Japanese Are So Mneh Nearer
Winning the Coveted Stronghold.
Story of the Assault.
WAR IN THE EAST.
According to Russian reports the
army of Field Marshal Oyama
confronting the Russian forces in
the vicinity of the Shakhe river
has been reinforced by from 40,000
to 60,000 men from Port Arthur and
JaDan.
Earlier reports have Indicated
that Gen. Kuropatkin has received
nearly equal accessions to his
forces, although yesterday's dis
patches from Mukden intimate the
contrary and convey the impres
sion that the present moment finds
the Russians not fully prepared to
meet a Japanese advance that may
begin at any hour.
A Russian advance seems to be
regarded as questionable, owing to
the fact that the period since the
close of the battle of Shakhe river
has been devoted by the Japanese
to a strenuous prosecution of the
work of entrenching.
The contending armies are with
in close touch, and any outpost
brush or reconnaissance may bring
on a general engagement.
There is much cannonading of
positions on both sides, Poutiloff
(Lone Tree) Hill being a marked
storm center.
Che Foo, Oct. 31, 2 p. m.—The gen
eral assault upon Port Arthur, which
began in a preliminary way on Oct.
24, developed into a fiercely raging
battle yesterday, when, according to
hitherto infallible authority, the Jap
anese flung heavy forces against the
fortress in their third attempt to se
cure a commanding position.
The result of yesterday's fighting Is
yet unknown. The Japanese have
been preparing for this assault for a
month. It is believed that the Jap
anese did not attempt to capture the
town on this occasion, but to accom
plish another important forward
step. This plan was adopted
following the first assault, when
thousands of fives were sacri
ficed in an attempt to swarm over the
fortifications by a mere force of num
bers, regardless of loss.
This assault, like the previous one,
was a climatic incident of weary
weeks of trench digging, gun mount
ing and small engagements.
Japanese AH Prepared.
On Oct. 24, having made every pos
sible preparation, the Japanese opened
fire with their artillery along the
whole line. incidentally continuing
their daily practico of dropping shells
into the harbor. The Russians replied,
the sounds as of distant thunder tell
ing the inhabitants of Port Dalny th:ii
the long expected assault on the fort
ress was imminent.
The bombardment continued furious
ly until the afternoon of Oct. 24, when
the Russian guns on Etse mountain,
Antse mountain and Rihlung mountain
became briefly silent.
At 4 o’clock that afternoon a regi
ment of Japanese swept out from be
hind a recently captured hill adjacent
to Rihlung mountain, and advanced on
the Russian trenches lying between
Rihlung mountain and the railroad, oc
cupying them after hours of fighting.
The Russians stuck to their posts till
the Japanese were within a few yards,
both sides hurling hand grenades at
each other. The Japanese infantry
are now using mechanical devices
which enable them to throw grenades
with great accuracy and rapidity.
* In the meanwhile, another body of
Japanese assaulted the trenches on the
slope of Rihlung mountain. The Jap
anese trenches extended to certain por
tions of the slope and stopped some
distance above the extreme Japanese
outpost, where the ascent of Rihlung
mountain, became almost perpendicu
lar. The Russian trenches seamed the
slope. To advance against them over
an unbroken slope, which was mined,
even without Russian resistance, would
have been a difficult task, but the
slope had been torn up, great holes
having been blown in it at various
places by the bombardment, and the
Japanese availed themselves of these
Indentation* which offered combined
foothold and protection against bul
lets. In the meanwhile, the fire of all
their available artillery was directed
against the Russian trenches, the Rus
sians eventually retiring, whereupon
the Japanese In thirty minutes con
structed trenches sufficient to shield
themselves. The Russians exploded
mines but, the Japanese claim, without
result. .
One Company's Good Work.
One company of Japanese engaged
in this fight aroused general compli
mentary comment for Its remarks he
coolness, executing the various man
euvers for the purpose of securing shel
ter with automatic exactness, as If on
purade.
Upon the retirement of their troops,
the Russians opened (ire from List!
mountain, and that night they made
a sortie. But the Japanese had In the
meanwhile brought up machine guns,
with which the sortie was repulsed.
Except for the knowledge that the
bombardment was continued, all Infor
mation covering the period between
Oct. 27 and Oct. 29 is lacking, but pre
sumably It Is much of the same charge,
ter as that Jutt described, the Japanese
njei'jtlon# gradually assuming the pro.
portions of the general attack of yes
tenia y.
The fighting It reported to have been
moat severe from Rihlung mountain
down along the whole east side of the
I town.
SAVANNAH. GA.. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1904.
STRONG REINFORCEMENTS
REACH THE JAPANESE.
This Additional Ferre Make* Hu>-
alana’ Com All the Worse.
Mukden, Oct. 31.—The Japanese army
is being rapidly reinforced, and It is
expected that the new troops will short
ly reach 40.000 to 60.000. This great
ly complicates the problem confront
ing the Russian commander. The whole
energies of the- Russians must be devot
ed to holding their position unless
(they can bring up large reinforce
ments speedily. Even in that case
the situation promises to become in
creasingly difficult.
The Japanese fortifications are far
too strong, supported as they are by
siege guns and i*apid fire pieces, to
be carried by a. frontal assault. Pos
sibly these fortifications might yield
to a turning movement which would
force the Japanese, but this would re
quire a great superiority in numbers,
for the Russians must hold their cen
ter with a force at least equal to
that of the JVipanese in order to pre
vent the latter from cutting through
and severing the communications of
the former.
Two battalions returning early on
the morning of Oct. 29, from the banks
of the Shakhe river, came under fire
from Japanese 12-inch guns. Several
shells falling in the Russian ranks did
considerable dam-age. One man was
rendered deaf and dumb, but otherwise
was uninjured, and another was thrown
into a ditch and burled alive. A num
ber were killed.
Simultaneously with the attack on
Slnchinpu on Oct. 30, the Japanese
assaulted the position held by the Mor
hsnsky Regiment close by, but were
repulsed.
Trrof a hm n ha against Poutiloff (Lone
i ree) nlll has been in procress since
the night of Oct. 30. Without effect
Sunday night, there was a rifle and
a f r ,'‘ ery fire I' nm the Japanese along
•i he Russian front. Russian
sharpshooters are Worrying the Jan
anese considerably at night. J P .
GEN. STOESSEL SENDS
THE CZAR ptSPATCHES.
Describes Operations of (lie Japa
nese About Port Arthur.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 31.—1n a tele
gram from Port Arthur, dated Oct. 14,
Gen. Stoessel says:
“The enemy, with 11-inch guns, keeps
up a severe fire, bombarding the forti
fications on the north and northeast
front, on the east of the railroad and
on the interior of the ..fortress simul
taneously. They are approaching our
forts by means of trenches, their fur
thest advance being in the vicinity of
a fort situated south of the village
of Utsiafau, necessitating the great
est caution by our gun and rifle fire
and gallant sorties by our sharpshoot
ers. Our troops, I am happy to re
port to your majesty, continue to fight
heroically, despite the fatigue and pri
vations. We ask for your blessing and
for that of the Empress.”
In a later telegram, dated Oct. 17,
Gen. Stoessel says:
“Yesterday at about 3 o’clock In the
afternoon the Japanese commenced
a furious bombardment of the forts
and fortifications. A particularly se
vere fire was directed against those
on the north front near the railroad,
the Japanese having advanced along
the railroad to the village of Pallt
chouan with field artillery. Our ar
tillery and sharpshooters repulsed the
attack. The fighting ended at 7 o'clock
at night, but the usual bombardment
continued all night long. The Japan
ese sustained considerable losses.”
RUSSIAN LEFT WITH
DETAILED REPORTS.
Vigo, Spain, Oct. 31.—Two Russian
officers left Vigo for Madrid to-day.
Presumably they are conveying de
tailed reports of the North sea inci
dent, and will confer with the Russian
ambassador to Spain.
Three Russian ofilcers have also gone
to Paris with official reports.
Admiral Rojestvensky Is busily en
gaged In getting up a digest of evi
dence in the North sea Incident. The
Russian officers here expect the squad
ron to remain at Vigo fifteen days.
The ships will keep up naval drills
making short trips along the coast
of Galicia, engaging in target firing
and practicing signalling by night.
JAPANESE ATTACK
REPULSED BY RUSSIANS.
St. Petersburg. Oct. 31.—Gen. Sak
haroff, in a dispatch to the general
staff, dated to-day, says:
“A Japanese attack on the Russian
entrenchments north of Slnchinpu
Oct. 30. was repulsed. The Japanese
artillery commenced the bombardment
of eight positions at about 10 o’clock
at night, and kept It up until 2 o'clock
this morning.
"A Japanese advance against the
Russians, near the village of Tungo
was discovered last night, and was
tnet by the Russian artillery. The
health of the troops Is good.”
MOVEMENT OF JAPS
TOWARD THE EAST.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 31.—A dispatch
from Oen. Kuropatkin dated Oct. 30
announces a significant movement of
Japanese from the west eastwards.
The Japanese are receiving reinforce
ments from the south and southeast,
and are evidently concentrating for
an offensive movement.
The weather Is fine, but Is cold dur
ing the nights.
HEAVY BOMBARDMENT
OF LONE TREE HILL.
Mukden, Oct. 31.—From an* early
hour this morning there ha* bean a
heavy bombardment of Poutiloff < Lon*
Tree) hill hy the Japanese lairge
masses nt Japsnsee were moving east
ward during Get. 2* and Oat. M.
AIRSHIP SAILED
WHERE HE LIKED
AT A HIGHT OF 2.000 FEET
IT CIRCLED ABOVF. THE GROUND*
OF THE WORLD’S FAIR.
Knnhenaliue Nndr tile Ascent in the
Arrow, the Airship of Thomas S.
Baldwin of California—His Flight
AVna in Every Way Successful.
Steered nia Crnft Against an
Elght-Mllc-un-Haur llrcetc—Spec
tators Applauded.
St. Louis. Oct. 31.—After circling in
every direction at a hight of 2,000 feet
above the Cascades, In sight of thou
sands of cheering, enthusiastic spec
tators on the World's Fair grounds, A.
Roy Knabenshue of Toledo, in com
mand of Thomas S. Baldwin's airship,
California Arrow, to-day returned to
the place from which he started, cov
ering three and a half miles, part of
the way against sen eight-mile wind.
Knabenshue started from the aero
nautic course at 3:37 o'clock and re
turned at 4:05. On the return trip the
airship sailed slowly over the exact
spot from which it had risen twenty
eight minutes previously and glided
about 100 feet further west, where it
settled gracefully to the ground.
Was a Great Demonstration.
The descent of the Arrow was the
signal for a great demonstration. Doz
ens of eager hands were upstretched to
"grasp the frame of the flying machine
which, with its navigator, was car
ried around the course on the shoulders
of shouting men.
The Arrow rose slowly and easily, Us
prow directed toward the west. When
at a hight of twenty-five feet Knaben
shue turned the rudder and the aerial
craft, answering to its helm, turned
south and continued Us flight without
interruption.
Knabenshue at this time was not
high enough to clear the aeronautic
fence, and as he rapidly approached it
the crowd held its breath, fearing that
the craft would be dashed against the
barricade and the aeronaut injured or
killed. But Knabenshue. waving his
cap to reassure those who were fol
lowing his every move, moved toward
the rear of the airship. The Arrow
pointed Us prow upward and, answer
!nr the pull of the propeller, soared
lightly over the fence and rapidly gain
ed an altitude of 1.000 feet.
Then Reach*.. 2,000 Feet.
After proceeding about half a mile
westward, Knabenshue turned the air
ship about and again passed over the
concourse, at the same time increasing
his altitude until he was 2,000 feet
above the earth. Knabenshue contin
ued In a generally eastern direction
until over the Cascades, the center of
the fair grounds, and about a mile and
a half in a direct line from the point
of starting.
At about that time a barely per
ceptible breeze tlfat had been blow
ing from the west. Increased to eight
miles an hour and Teered to the north.
To return to the starting point it was
necessary for Knabenshue to breast
this breeze. It seemed that his first
effort to turn the airship from a course
before the wind was unsuccessful, but
Knabenshue, after trying to turn to the
left, swung the rudder sharply in the
other direction and the Arrow came
into the wind, staggered a moment,
and then gaining power, came toward
the concourse at a speed that caused
the spectators to cheer and toss hats
In the air. The demonstration was ob
served by Knabenshue, who leaned far
out 'and waved an empty ballast bag
In reply.
Alnioxt Whence It Started.
When within a few hundred feet of
the concourse Knabenshue moved
forward In the car. the Arrow {Mint
ed downward and sailed towards the
ground without any slackening of
speed.
Knabenshue entered the concourse
from the east at a hight of 200 feet
and slowly the speed of the motor
directed the airship over the wooden
frame, that had supported the Arrow
before the flight. The momentum was
too great to admit of stopping exactly
in the place from which he had made
the ascent, but the airship settled to
the ground within 100 feet of the dock.
KILLED MAGISTRATE WHO
DECIDED AGAINST HIM.
Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 31.—F. M.
Buntln. a magistrate at Klk Mills, Car
ter county, Tennessee, was killed to
day by James Powell, aged 52, who
has since fled to the North Carolina
mountains and is in hiding.
Buntln had tried a case In which
Powell was Implicated -and the latter
did not like the decision. Buntln had
disputed Powell’s word, when the lat
ter ran upon him with a knife and cut
his throat from ear to ear. Buntln
died In g few minutes.
AGED WOMAN DIES.
limns.. Irk Negress Sail) to Have
Hera Oldest Woman In Georgia.
Brunswick. Os.. Oct. 31.—Elizabeth
Large, colored, said .to be the oldest
woman In the state, died to-day. While
It Is Impossible to tell hsr age exactly,
she was reported to be between 118
and 123 years old. Rhe has bene living
bars over 100 years.
Pool Ckumplanahlp.
It. Louis. Oct. 31.—J. R. Keogh of
Buffalo. N. Y.. to-night defeated
Thomas Huoston of It Louis, lit to
130 In the first game of the pley-off
of the three-eerwf ed tie for firet place
In the tonrnemeMt to deotde the pool
übauipienshlp of the world.
WATSON’S BOOST FOR
POPULISM IN BULLOCH.
Ills Speech at Statesboro a Tirade
Aantnet Porker anil Democracy.
Statesboro, Oct. 31.—Hon. Thomas
E. Watson spoke for two hours and a
half at the Court House this morning
to a large crowd. The audience, which
was almost wholly composed of an
cient Populists, cheered him to the
echo when he said anything particu
larly severe on the Democrats.
Mr. Watson said he had been criti
cised for saying so much about Par
kin' and so little against Roosevelt.
The reason for this, he said, was that
every one knew he had always op
posed everything that Roosevelt stood
for; that Roosevelt was a bold cham
pion of the principles which he repre
sented, and stood out in the open, and
anybody that could hit a barn could
hit him. On the other hand, no one
has ever heard Parker tell Just what
he stood for.
It cost the Republicans $10,000,009 to
defeat Bryan, said Watson, and It was
cheaper to buy the nomination of a
man who could not hurt them, so the
Standard Oil Company and Havemeyer
of the sugar trust bought Parker's
nomination.
The Democratic party is in no wise dif
ferent from the Republican, said Mr.
Watson, Georgia's senators condemned
Roosevelt for the Panama scandal, but
both voted for the treaty, he said.
Parker said the tariff should be revis
ed and so did Roosevelt. The govern
ment spent all of the money that It
could raise. How could any deficiency
in revenue be supplied since the demo
crats had abandoned the plank for an
Income tax. The Democrats are all down
on Roosevelt,said Mr. Watson,fordlning
with Booker Washington. Tho governor
of Virginia dined with a lot of Mas
sachusetts people one of whom
was a negro, and nothing was
said about it. President Mc-
Kinley and the governor of Alabama
at Tuskcgc lunched with Booker
Washington, and nothing was Bald
about that.
“The cry of fear of negro dominations
is humbug. Every state except Georgia
has practically dlsfranchtsced the negro.
Georgia refused to do It because the
Democrats need the negro to carry
their elections.”
Mr. Watson said he would carry the
vote of Georgia if the Democrats did
not use the negro in the election. In
every Southern state, he said, even
South Carolina, anil in some of the
Northern states, he had started the old
purty anew, never more to be swallow
ed up or merged with any party. The
newsminers, he said, are unstinted In
their praise of the books he had writ
ten, but when it come to politic no
abuse was sever enough. Yet, every
book he had written, he said, was writ
ten with a view to setting forth and Il
lustrating the principles for which he
Is fighting, and for which he had al
ways fought.
Mr. Watson said thag no Democrat
could tell what principles Parker stands
for. Every Populist can tell what he
(Wnteon) stands for. The whole ma
chinery of the Democratic party In
Georgia, he said, is controlled hy the
Southern Railway, through Hump Mc-
Whorter and other lobbyists.
Mr. Watson concluded by urging the
people to come out and vote for him.
No vote, he said, was ever lost which
was cast for the honest convictions of
the voter.
B U A PSE D.
One Man Was f'raslieil to Death In
Memphis Accident.
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 31.—With a
terrific ci'ash, the building occupied
by the Continental Havings Rank at
19 Madison street collapsed at 10 o'clock
this morning, burying a number of per
sons In the wreckage. So far as known,
only one person, a negro saloon por
ter, remained under the debris. The
other victims were quickly rescued by
the fire and police departments.
Joseph Fischer, a tailor, who bad a
shop in the building. Is the only per
son known to have sustained serious
Injuries. He was badly mashed about
the body, but will Recover.
That many people were not killed is
almost miraculous. The building,
which was recently detached from a
similar structure, whs a four-story of
fice building. Excavations had been
made at the corner adjoining, and fif
ty workmen who were employed there
to-day heard a peculiar cracking noise,
and it was seen that the bank building
was In danger of falling. The • labor
ers immediately sought safety and
reached the street Just In the nick of
time, as the building fell with a loud
report a moment later.
Those In the bank and offices also
heard the warning noise, and a large
number reached the street In safety
before the crash came.
The dead body of Winters Parker,
the colored porter, was taken from
the cellar of the wrecked building at
5 o'clock this afternoon. The negro’s
head had been badly crushed hy fall
ing brick. This Is the only fatality
reported, and at 6 o’clock the police an
nounced It as their belief that no
more bodies were In the ruins.
INTENDED >OTCOWT
IT STRUCK M’LERQY.
Accident In Rwamp Near Cnlumbne
Hu> Prove Fatal.
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 31.—A. McLe
roy, a butcher, aged 69 years, is lying
at his home in this city dangerously,
and. perhaps, fatally, wounded, the re
sult of a peculiar accident. Mr. Mc-
Leroy bought a number of cows in
the Knelling neighborhood In this
county, une of the cows strayed in
to a swamp and he asked Mr. Hnell-
Ing to go out with him and help kill
th* cow. Mr. Hnelltng carried a shot
gun loaded with buckshot. They
found the cow In s dense swamp.
The two men had separated. and
when Bnelllng fired, elx of the buck
shot (struck th* animal and one
glanced and etruck Mr. McLeroy In
the knee, shattering the bon*. At
tending surgeons think amputation Is
firobahly necessary, and It Is Aoubtful
f he can survive the operation.
C CENTS A COPY
DAILY. 18 A YEAR.
WEEKLY 2-TTMEB-A -WEEK II A YEAR
GRIFFIN AT LAST
HAS TURNED UP
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
EXPLAINED BY \ STORY OF MF.N
TAL DERANGEMENT.
Puluakl Clouse'* Missing Man Pnts In
His Appearance at Camilla—Could
Tell no Coherent Story, hot Says
He Has Been Wsmltrlng Over
Georgia Slaee He IWt Savannah.
His wife Has Been Wearing
Widow's Weeds,
Quitman, Ga.. Oct. 31.—News was
received here tills afternoon that E.
H. Griffin, who so mysteriously dis
appeared In Savannah some weeks ago.
Wad turned up in Camilla last night.
The news came In a letter to the
wife of Griffin, who Is visiting here, and
whs from her brother. The letter stat
ed that Griffin came into Camilla lost
night from Cordele. and that he was
in a demented state, not even knowing
his own name. He was taken rtire of
and given attention and later seemed
to be in a semi-sane state, and talk
ed of his troubles, though his story
w f as vague and disconnected.
The letter did not give all the places
that Griffin Was visited since his dis
appearance, but stated that he had
wandered all over Georgia since he had
disappeared. It Is recalled that one
K. H. Griffin registered'at a hotel In
I homasvllle, but disappeared from
there as mysteriously as he did from
Savannah. His wife learned of his
having registered there and made In
quiries, but no one seemed to know
anything about him.
The only thing that Griffin could tell
when he reached Camilla Was that hs
came from Cordele, and had walked
all of the way. Griffin sent a note to
his wife in the letter, stating that he
was in Camilla and ali right.
Mrs. Griffin has been In Quttirfan
about a week, and Is wearing deep
mourning for her husband, whom she
thought dead. She Is, of course, very
Jubilant over the news that he is alive
and wifi go to Camilla to-morrow. She
says that Griffin has not had his right
mind since being hurt by falling
through a bridge In Alabama some time
this summer. She says that she knew
that he was not well mentally when
he left Camilla for Quitman before go.
tng to Savannah, but thought that he
could take care of himself.
Mrs. Griffin has hopes that by prop
er care and treatment, Mr. drlffin can
be cured.
The disappearance of Mr. Griffin was*
the mystery of a week In Savannah,
and not even now has It been explain
ed how he completely destroyed every
trace of his movement* after 11 o’clock
on th* night of Sept. 25.
According to all evidence Mr. Grif
fin did not have a cent when he went
to his room at the Pulaski House on
that. Sunday night. He had 3328 on
deposit In the office of the hotel, but
did not ask for any of this. This
money Is now In the keeping of Judge
Henry McAlpin, of the Ordinary’s
Court.
Griffin's every movement was traced
during the week he spent In Savannah.
Nearly every dollar he spent was ac
counted for, and every cabman who
hauled him was Interviewed. There
was plenty of evidence up to the time
he left a friend at the Pulaski.
Mr. Griffin had been given up as
drowned, all evidence pointing to that
solution of his disappearance. The
announcement that he has turned up
In Camilla will boa surprlac to those
familiar with the case. The money
now on deposit with the Ordinary will
probably he turned over to him with
out litigation.
SOUTH GEORGiTFAIR
BEGINS TOrDAY.
Gov. Terrell Will Attend—Will De
liver nn Address This Afternoon.
Waycross, Ga., Oct. 31.—The fifth
annual South Georgia Fair will open
at 9 o’clock to-morrow morning and
will continue until Saturday night at
12 o’clock. There have been greater
difficulties in the way of the fair this
year than at any previous time, but
the united effort* of the officers and
directors of the Waycross Fair Asso
ciation have met with unusual and un
expected success. Every feature of the
fair will be better than ever before.
The gates might have been thrown
open this artemoon, anil visitors would
have found every department complete.
The main building Is filled with dis
plays of agriculture, horticulture, dairy,
apalry, fine arts, needle work, ctg.
The outside grounds are covered with
midway attractions, booths, etc., and
most of the stables are occupied by
race horses. Nearly every train since
Saturday night has brought In shows
and showmen from Columbia, 8. C-
Jacksonville, Macon, New Orleans and
Tampa, and three car loads of raoe
horses also arrived yesterday. The
number of midway attractions which
have secured sftoce Is estimated at not
leas than fifty.
Gov. Terrell will be entertained by
the officers of the fair association to
morrow afternoon. He will arrive In
Waycross at 12:20, and after lunch at
the Phoenix Hotel, wifi be escorted to
the fair grounds. At 2 o'clock he will
'deliver an t address from the grand
stand ‘and at 3 o'clock he wifi he ten
dered o reception In the main building,
after which he will be escorted over
the grounds. The public schools of the
city will attend the fair in the aft
ernoon In a body.
One feature of the fair, which will be
appreciated by the visitors, is the low
rate of transportation to and from the
grounds. The Mayor and Council liar*
passed a special ordinance regulating
the rata at 11 cents.
Qnarnntlne Will ('ease.
Laredo. Tex., Oct. 11. —Th- quaran
tine wbkdi toss ex’sted against Mex
ico tor many months will -- - n at tuid
nt|M to sight.