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Jekyll-Hyde Life of Schrank, Roosevelt’s Assassin, Revealed--Student of Herr Johann Most, Anarchist
ONCE THREATENED THE JUDGE WHO HAD RULED AGAINST HIM IN SUIT
Would-Be Slayer a Peaceful Property Owner at
Times and a Violent Maniac at Others.
FEW YORK, Oct. It.—John Schrank,
trl’O tried to assassinate ex-President
r?. >evelt in Milwaukee Monday even
ing was in his early days in this coun
an ardent admirer of Herr Most, the
Anarchistic Socialist. When Most was
a .iTSted and sent to Blackwell’s Island
a years ago. Schrank became his
npet and ardent disciple, preaching in
St Marks place on "The Rights of the
Downtrodden.” When Most died
Schrank tried to start a fund for a
monument to the anarchist.
In the lunch room at the White House
note! at No. 156 Canal street, where
Schrank lived for a time, were found
photographs of Presidents Lincoln,
Garfield. McKinley and Roosevelt.
V "The Homestead,” No. 148 Cooper
street. Brooklyn, where Schrank lived
for several years, he never ceased to
talk about President McKinley and his
sseassination. It was the one subject
which always opened Schrank’s gloom
uttering mouth.
Until last January Schrank seemed to
hare plenty of money, having Inherited
the entire estate of his uncle. Dominick
Flammang. But last February he went
to work as lunchman and porter in a
Brooklyn saloon for $9 a week. After
foor weeks' work he quit and then sued
the saloon keepers for Sil. When Judge
Strahl decided the case against him
Schrank wrote him a threatening let
te - in which he told Judge Strahl that
he was "the oppressor of the poor peo
ple and a rich man's judge.” and that
he (Schrank) had been “appointed” to
even the poor people’s score against
Judge Strahl.
In Schrank’s quarters were a number
of cartoons from various anarchistic
and Socialistic organs tending to show
that ‘‘this is a rich man’s country,” “A
poor man can not get justice here,”
"Down 'ith the rich,” and many others
us that nature on which Schrank fed
his eyes daily.
Sole Heir of Aunt.
Schrank was the nephew of Mrs.
Dominick Flammang. The Flammangs
executed a joint will on February 28,
1906, which not only made Schrank the
executor of their estate, but also their
sole heir. This will was admitted to
probate by Surrogate Cohalan on March
17. ;911, Dominick Flammang having
died on February 5 1911, two years
after his wife’s demise.
Part of the property conveyed to
Schrank upon the death of Dominick
Flamming, who was better known un
der the Americanized spelling of Flem
ing, was the five-story tenement house
at No. 433 East Eighty-first street.
Schrank stated in Milwaukee that in a
valiee left at a Charleston, S. C.» hotel
could be found the deed to this house,
and that ii was valued at $26.00.
A search of the records in the tax
department has showed that the prop
erty is still listed under the name of
Dominick Flammang. The property is
sppraised at $19,000 and carries a mort
gage of $13,000, taken out on December
19. 1908. with the Title Guarantee and
Trust Company.
It has been learned that the interest
payments on this mortgage had always
been made promptly by a John Flam
mang, who gave his address as No. 148
Cooper street Brooklyn. Neither the
lax office nor the Title Guarantee and
Trust Company has ever had any deal
ings with John Schrank under that
name, although the Eighty-first street
premises became his property upon the
probating of Dominick Flammang’s will
Schrank Is “John Flammang.”
A visit by a reporter to the Cooper
street address of "John Flammang” dis
closed the fact that he and John
Schrank were the same person. There
is a three-story hotel there, known as
'The Homestead,” and its proprietors
are two brothers, Herman and John
Lanlnger. Herman Lanlnger said he
knew Schrank well. He outlined some
interesting details of the life in Brook
lyn of Colonel Roosevelt’s assailant.
"Schrank was always a fine fellow
around here.” said Herman Laninger.
He spent much time in what wo call
the public room, a part of the barroom.
He never drank to excess and always
’’oetned tractable and friendly enough
"ith those that frequented the room. He
lied with us for two or three years up
’o last January, and always paid his
rent promptly.
When Schrank left here last Janu
ho left a valise in which were sev
“ral papers. Later on he returned here
it was In February, I think—and left
K'ine more papers. These papers have
wn taken to police headquarters in
Brooklyn.
Some of these papers that I know
ft ere deeds to various pieces of prop
probably some of the property he
■rherited from his uncle. Dominick
■itnmang; others related to certain
mortgages on these properties; still
Chets were letters, some in German and
’ome in English.
He Talked of McKinley.”
Although Schrank was a very quiet
“un in his demeanor, he always talked
’ JO'eat deal of President McKinley. He
»'‘emed to regret that President Me
inley had been assassinated as some,
‘•trig that he himself could have obvi
p,i He was an ardent admirer of
A' Kinley. He would talk about him
’ !en no other subject of eonvertiation
could start him going.
I.a.st February he came to me and
1 ‘i rne he was in financial straits, that
business affairs had gone very bad
-4,0 he said he would have to go to
lk at whatever offered itself. He
wered a newspaper advertisement
a saloon lunch man. The saloon
“ at No. 246 Flushing avenue, in the
' lamsburg section of Brooklyn. It
‘■•'lit by Edward Havestroh and The-
' Thurmann.
1 llp last time 1 saw him was in
' member, a little over a month ago.
' r * he had just borrowed $350
■ 1 triend, but he did not tell me
L. i,fi "as going to do. except that
had to go away. He told me he had
been working as a translator on a i
German newspaper, and was living at
No. 156 Canal street.
At that time he appointed me his I
rent collector for the tenement house at
No. 433 East Eighty-first street, which i
he said his uncle had left him. The
rents from that house amount to $l4B a
month.
Not Known as a Voter.
"Schrank never seemed to me to be
a man who would harm anybody. All
of his friends here were very much
startled to think that he had shot Colo,
nel Roosevelt. Why, it was utterly un
like anything we had ever dreamed of
him. He was never an ardent admirer
of any particular candidate, and, so
far as I know, he never registered or
voted. He did not talk Socialism over
here at all.”
A visit to the Flushing avenue saloon
of Havestroh & Thurmann brought out
a number of the peculiarities of
Schrank and his inability to stand
any kind of discipline. Thurmann told
a reporter his personal experiences '
with Schrank.
“We got this man Schrank through ;
an advertisement. He started as lunch- I
man at $9 a week, worked a week at i
that, then we made him a waiter, and ■
then, because he was too stupid or j
clumsy to be a waiter, we made him i
luneliman again. He worked for us un
til about March 1.
"On March 1 he came to me ami said j
he wanted his money and would quit |
the job. as he was disgusted with it. i
He said we were knuckling him down, !
and a poor man did not have even a I
fair chance to earn a living.
"When he came to our place he was I
apparently down and out. In fact, he !
said he was all in, that he didn't have !
a penny, and simply had to go to work I
at anything he could get, although he !
was used to mental effort rather than I
physical. He tried to make us under
stand that he was a person in re
duced circumstances wno deserved a
great deal more from this world than
he had got.
Thought Him a Weakling.
"1 always thought Schrank was a
weakling. Os course, I did not look ■
Into his antecedents. You don't have
to do that for a lunchman or waiter. |
But T figured it out that there must be :
a crazy streak in his family some- !
where. We took pity on him when he
fell down on his job here and let him
stay’ and fed him for a couple of days
beyond his time to quit.
"But it got so that we just had to
turn him out. He was very abusive
finally; he said we were grinding the
lives out of our employees, and that
kind of stuff. I wanted to lilt him, but
he was such a weakling I did not have
the heart to do it.
"After he had left us maybe two or
I three days he came around one morn
ling and said to me: I want that sll
I you owe me.’ I did not know what he
•was talking about. I said; We don’t
! owe you any' sll or any other money.
I Get out of here.'
| ” 'Oh, yes, you do.' he said, you hired
■me for $9 a week and owe me $2 more
for allowances, and I want that extra
i week's wages and the $2 more.' ’Get
lout of here, and get out while the going
iis good,’ I told him. He lefi. muttering,
Lind saying he was going to sue us.
Judge Threw Out Case.
"Sure enough, he went on March 4 to
I the municipal court on Gates avenue
jand by swearing be was not worth more
than SIOO lie got a 'free summons’ for
Havestroh and me. He. sued us for the
sll he had demanded from me. He got
I two summonses, and he set ved one of
i them on, me, but he never served Have
| stroh.”
The unserved summons for Have- |
I stroh was found yesterday by the po- j
’ lice in the pocket of an old suit of 1
| Schrank’s clothes in his former quar
ters at No. 156 Canal street. It helped I
I Inspector Faurot’s men to trail I
! Schrank’s movements in part, whit c
I they did in answer to a request of that
; nature from Chief of Police Thompson,
j of Milwaukee.
I ‘The case was set down by Judge
■Jacob F. Strahl for March 28." Thur-
I matin said, “and after trial. .In which
Schrank's conduct showed he was
either a crazy man or well on his way
to being' one. Judge Strahl threw the
case out of court, deciding it in our
favor.”
Thurmann referred the reporter to
Harold A. Seaton, an attorney at No.
373 Fulton street. Brooklyn, in whose
charge the saloon keeper's case had
been. Mr. Seaton told of Schrank's
frequent visits to his office in an at
tempt io force a settlement of his suit.
“Schrank is certainly crazy.” Mr.
Seaton said. "He got his summons re
turnable on March 14 and then the trial
was set for March 28. Well, in those
two weeks he almost pestered me and
my employees to death. He also fright
ened my stenographer so badly I could
hardly keep her in the office for fear
that Schrank w ould do her bodily harm.
I "He would come around, sometimes as
many as three times a day. and y II at
me, ’I want this case settled. 1 want
my money. I'll get that sll or you'll bo
the worse for it' He seemed fearful ;.t
that time that the case would be de
cided against him.
“Well. 1 finally got pi "tty tired of
having him come in that way and caus
ing such turmoil. So I mid him one
dav that if I ever saw him around the
place again I would not only kick him
out. but would have him arrested and
see to it that he got a nice long sen
tence to a place where lie could triakc
threatsand speeches to his heart's eon-
I tent. Hr never camo into iny office
again.”
A visit to Judge Strahi’s home was
productive of evidence that Schrank
was not seized with his first impulse to
do barm when lie .assailed Colonel
Roosevelt in Milwaukee Monday nigh'.
Three days after Judge Stiahl had de
cided his case against him Schrank
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wrote the judge a threatening letter.
“I remember this man Schrank very
well," said Judge Strahl. “Not only
because of the wildness of his state
ments in the court room last March,
but because of the threatening letter he
wrote me, dated March 31. He sent it
to my house here, at No. 807 Putnam
avenue. That fact showed me that he
was really a potential 'bad man,' be
cause he had gone to the troublo of
looking up my private address rather
than sending me the letter to the court
house address he already knew .
"This letter was not signed by
Schrank, but I knew it was from him
because of the handwriting and be
cause he ‘mentioned certain facts that
had occurred in the court room when I
heal'd his case. They were facts pecu
liar to his case, because in no other case
had I had so much trouble to keep a
complaining witness tied down to the
material facts.
■ M iseducated," Says Judge.
"1 was not very much impressed by
Schrank in the court room Ho seemed
to me al times to be very weak and at
others to be extremely arrogant. If I
may coin the word, he appealed to me
to be iniseduvated,' to be a man who
bad misapplied all he had learned from
his books He was undoubtedly of a
studious turn of mind
I destroyed the letter, because I
did not fear any serious consequences
from Schrank’s threats But I can re
call its contents now almost as clearly
as if the letter were before me. It
ran about as follows:
' Judge: You have branded me as a
man who lies. By not believing yne un-
“My idea was that
I should be killed
after I had killed
him. I had no
thought that I could
escape the misguid
ed mob that always
shouts on the wrong
side.” —Front state
men t by John
Schrank in cell at
Milwaukee as this
pohtograph was be
ing taken.
der oath, I think you have done me a
great, a monstrous, an incorrectihle In
justice. I mean to avenge this. You
are a judge As a judge you ought to
right the wrongs of the poor. You have
decided in favor of the rich people
against the poor man.
“ ‘You have decided to be the pluto
crats’ friend instead of that of the peo
ple who do the world’s work You are
rtot fitted to be a judge, and I have been
appointed to see to it that you do not
judge other < tikes. BEWARE.
"‘AN AVENGER.’”
Judge Strahl said the letter was post
marked New York. The handwriting
was peculiar, and Schrank’s signature
to tlie complaint and his requests for
summonses had previous attracted
Judge Strahl’s attention.
“When 1 read the lettei I laughed and
dismissed the matter Item my mind,”
said Judge Strahl. "until I read that it
was the same man who bad tried to
murder former President Roosevelt.”
Became Most’s Disciple.
John Schrank’s life, dating back to
1898. whim he arrived in tins country
practically penniless, and liis friend
ship with Johann Most, the anarchist,
has just become known. In the latter
liart ot 1898 Schrank visited the tene
ment at No. 370 East Tenth street,
where his uncle. Dominick Flammang.
a wealthy saloonkeeper anti speculator
tn real estate and mortgages, lived.
l-lammang years ago was a factor in
the old Tenth Assembly district and
lived w ith his wife and children on one
of tlie tippet floors of the Tenth street
tenement. Schrank, whose first occu
pation was that of a waiter in tlie old
“Few Men of Such
Caliber in Any Land’
LONDON. Oct. 17.—" The Heroic
meld" is the title under which The
Pal! Mall Gazette voices its com
ment upon the attempted assassination
of Theodore Roosevelt and high tribute
was paid to the wounded American, it
said-
"Not only the American people, but
the civilized world will rejoice at the
escape of Colonel Roosevelt from the
maniacal attack which has befallen
him. The amazing and-eharacteristic
coolness with which the ex-president
bote the assault and its consequences
must touch every instinct which re
sponds to chivalry and self-control.
"The picture of a statesman insisting
on proceeding with his address, with
a bullet freshly imbedded in his breast,
is almost too staggeringly dramatic for
our British ideas to comprehend. We
have not the atmosphere of new. hetreo
genous. uncouth democracy which
would create such an inspiration.
"But Colonel Roosevelt knows his
people, and he believes he is fighting a
battle of character against corruption
and his instinct told him that the
chance had come to give the w'orld as
surance of a man. and Roosevelt is a
man. let us take what views we may
of his methods, tils temperament or of
his opinions. The movement of which
he lias become the head represents the
craving of the American people for
honesty, courage and decisive govern
ment in their affairs. They need a
Hercules to clea.n the Augean stables
Atlantic garden on the Bowe.y,- first
met Most and his followers one even
ing in that resort. After Most had been
arrested charged with inciting riot and
sent to Blackwell’s Island. Schrank be
came one of his staunch supporters and
often made Socialist addresses in Tom
kins Situate park.
Giving in East Tenth street, between
Avenues <’ and B. there are still a few
people who remember Schrank and his
strange ways. When he arrived in
East Tenth street he was without funds.
Schrank went to live with his uncle.
He made such a good impression that
he was given a job collecting rents
from property situated in the Dry Dock
section.
After Flammang’s children grew up
and went into business for themselves.
Schrank practically took charge of his
uncle’s financial affairs. At that time
there was a saloon underneath the ten.
ement kept by Frederick Durwanger.
The saloon was patronized mostly by a
foreign element. Schrank saw the op
portunity to make money out of the
saloon and he urged his uncle to buy
the place.
Schrank Get* the Saloon.
Flammang refused. After arguing with
his uncle for two years, Schrank won him
over, and the saloon was bought in the
early part of 1900. Schrank went to work
in the place as bartender, and later be
came the manager. The excise records
giving the names of the owners of the
saloons in the f’nion Market police pre
cinct show that the license for the saloon
was changed from the name of Flammang
to that of John Schrank on April 29.
1905. The number of the certificate was
4656.
One report had It yesterday that
Schrank was a follower of Emfta Gold
man. It was also reported that he had
often visited the home of Emma Goldman,
which is at 210 East Thirteenth street,
less than ten minutes' walk from the
Tenth street house.
When a reporter asked Miss Goldman
whether she knew Schrank, she replied:
"I never heard of Schrank until his
name was mentioned In the newspapers.
I never saw the man. and to say that
lie was a friend of mine would not be
fair."
Along Avenue B and around St. Marks
place, it is said that Schrank often re
quested residents of that neighborhood to
accompany him to meetings at which
Miss Goldman spoke.
Tried to Erect Most Monument.
There Is a story afloat to the effect
that not so very long ago Schrank sought
to raise some funds with which to build
a monument to Johann Most.*
About eight years ago Schrank’s name
appeared in the papers here in connection
with the General Slocum disaster. At the
headquarters of the Slocum Survivors as
sociation he was recalled as the man who.
on June 16, 1904. Identified the body of
his sweetheart, who was one of the thou
sand or more who died when the excur
sion steamer burned in the East river.
Schrank's sweetheart was Miss Elsie
Ziegler, a ninerteen-year-old German girl,
who lived in the tenement house in East
Tenth street where Schrank had lodgings.
When her own brother failed to identify
the body, Schrank was able to do so.
He was completely unnerved after this
experience.
Efforts to find out something of Schrank
from survivors of the Slocum disaster
proved fruitless. But it was said that
many a man had lost his mind when
he faced the bodies of his loved ones in
the morgue, and that possibly the shock
to Schrank, when he saw h's sweetheart
among the dead, unbalanced him.
When Schrank was questioned in Mil
waukee about Miss Zeigler, he said:
"She went down on the General Slocum,
and 1 have never felt right since. Her
mother, her sister-in-law and her niece
all died with her. and I have never felt
right since that shock."
"Have you ever had another sweet
heart?" he was asked.
“No, that would not be right to Elsie."
Schrank replied. \ "When she died, I
thought of suicide, and did not know how
1 could live without her I never had
another .sweetheart. ’’
Arrested a* Peddler.
According to Patrolman Michael Shay,
attached to the I nion Market police sta
tion. Schrank was arrested in January of
this year for peddling from a pushcart
without a license. Shay said he had
served a summons on. Schrank.
Schrank grew very excited. Shay said,
and told the policeman that he would not
obey the summons. Shay said Schrank
failed to appeal the next day, when his
case was called in the Essex Market
court, and the case was dropped.
Mis. Margaret Dasekind. of 276 East
Tenth street, said that she had known
Schrank well. Mrs Dasekind conducts
an undertaking establishment left her by
her husband. According io her. Schrank
was brought here from Germany by his
uncle, Dominick Flammang
"When 1 first got to know Schrank,
Schrank Left Loaded
Grip in Charleston
CHARLESTON. S. C„ Oct. 17.—The
suit case left here by John Schrank.
Colonel Roosevelt's assailant, has
been opened by the chief of police. It
contained a small bottle of liquid, sup
posed to be nitroglycerin, a box of 38
Colts pistol cartridges, considerable lit
erature of a political nature, a note
book with quotations from leading au
thors. and several letters addressed to
John Schrank, New York, one of the
addresses being 148 Cooper street. The
trend of the literature indicates fa
naticism.
Schrank came here September 23,
spending tw o days at the Mosely House,
He left his suitcase here. He said he
was going to Columbia and was com
ing back, amj then would go to New
Orleans. He said nothing about Roose
velt. Ho paid a week's board in ad
vance Schrank registered from New'
York.
of their politics and to cut the bonds
which strangle both government and
justice.
“The scene which shows Colonel
Roosevelt first protecting his would-be
slayer and then proceeding with his
unstaunehed wound to deliver his ad
dress will be stamped deeply upon the
retina of his countrymen. There are
few men in any land of such caliber,
and we may be sure that many thou
sands who had intended bestowing their
suffrages elsewhere will now' ask them
selves if it is well to pass him by.”
said Mrs. Dasekind, "I lived with my hus
bany at 368 East Tenth street. That was
next door to where SChrank lived with his
uncle, who ran a saloon there. They
called Schrank 'Hans,' and when Mrs.
Flammang died they were both grief
stricken."
"I still have the ashes of Schrank’s
uncle hi an urn here at nix undertaking
place. After the body was cremated. I
took charge of the ashes, but Schrank
has never asked for them Schrank was
of a nervous disposition and always grew
excited al little things He seemed that
way when lie paid me for the funeral
of his uncle. I believe that he really be
gan to lose his mipd when his uncle died.
They w ere of good stock.”
Known on the Bowery.
Habitues of the Bowery recalled
Schrank as an apparently harmless, in
offensive crank He w»s described as a
German with a somewhat noticeable ac
cent, yellow hair and a reddish brown
beard. Only one man penetrated the air
of exclusiveness with which he surround
ed himself. That was Jack Walker, a
bartender, who said he and Schrank often
discussed general affairs over a glass of
beer.
According to Walker. Schrank appar
ently had few friends and absolutely no
Intimates. He was always quiet in man
ner. and in his conversation never dis
cussed himself. While he had been heard
to say that he considered Roosevelt a
menace to the country, there was never
anything in his conversation'-that led
those in contact with him to believe that
he held animosity toward the Progressive
presidential candidate.
T. R.’s Message
To the People •
LOUISVILLE. KY„ Oct. 17.—Albert
J. Beveridge, former senator from In
diana. delivered here last night Colo
nel Roosevelt's message to the nation,
dictated from the colonel’s sick bed in
Mercy hospital, tn Chicago.
"It matters little about me,” Colonel
Roosevelt told Mr. Beveridge, “but it
matters all about the cause we fight
for. If one soldier who happens to
carry the flag is stricken, another will
take it from his hands and carry it on.
“You know that personally I did not
want ever to be a candidate for office
again,” the message continues, “and
you know that only the call that came
to the men of the sixties made me an
swer it in our day as they did more
nobly in their day."
Colonel Roosevelt was scheduled to
speak in Louisville last night. Senator
Beveridge was sent in his stead.
"And now as then it is not impor
tant whether one leader Ilves or dies,"
continues the message "It is important
only' that the cause shall live and win.
Tell the people not to worry about me,
for If I go down another will take my
place. For always the army is there;
always the cause is there, and it is the
cause for which the people care It Is
the people’s cause."
Senator Beveridge said:
"This is his message to all his coun
trymen. He gave it clearly and calmly;
not recklessly nor with fever; not in
the heat of battle; not in bitterness,
nor yet in self-pride, but with cool
mind and kindly heart.
"He bade me put it thus to the peo
ple.” continued Mr Beveridge. "We
stand between two mighty greeds—-the
greed of those who have and the greed
of those who have not. We found the
party to which all just men and women,
rich and poor, who want only justice,
can belong.”
COLUMBUS BAPTISTS TO MEET.
,I'IILI’JJBI’S. GA., Oet. 17.—The Co
lumbus Baptist association will meet at
Shiloh church, in Meriwether county,
October 23-25, with Moderator B. W
Bussey presiding. Rev. R. C. Gran
berry will preach the doctrinal ser
mon. while Kev. ,1. C. Wilkinson will
preach tlie mission sermon. Roth are
Columbus pastors.
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CUMMINS PEOPLE
ffl AID TO END
CRIME WAVE
Whites Appeal for State and
Federal Assistance to Sup
press Lawlessness.
CUMMING, GA., Oet. 17.—Both Fed
eral and state aid is asked by the law
abiding white citizens of Cumming and
Forsyth county in the suppression of
the reign of lawlessness that has in
termittently prevailed In this county
for more than a month, following as
saults on white women by negroes.
At a largely’ attended mass meeting
held at the court house last night, res
olutions were adopted calling on Judge
William T. Newman, of the United
States distrlot court, and Governor Jo
seph M. Brown to adopt vigorous meas
ures to suppress violence and restore
order In the county. Copies of these
resolutions were mailed today to Judge
Newman and Governor Brown and will
be received by them tomorrow morn
ing.
Judge Newman is asked to send Fed
eral officers into this county to inves
tigate the sending through the mails of
threatening notices to both whites and
negroes, warning them to leave the
county or suffer the consequences.
Ask Guard For Hanging,
Governor Brown’s attention Is caWd
to the fact that two hangings are to
take place here next week. He is a&ked
to send a military guard to prevent vio
lence at that time. His attention Is
also called to the fact that five negro
churches have been burned and that
numerous houses, some occupied by
whites and others negroes, have
been fired into by unknown parties
under cover of darkness. He is asked
to have state officers—the military il
necessary—investigate these depreda
tions and bring the guilty parties t«
justice.
The threatening notices, burrring oi
churches and shooting into houses have
caused a general exodus of negroes
from Forsyth county. Those wffio own
property are selling It and moving
away, while negro tenants have fled by
the score. The farmers of the county
are practically without negro labor. The
few negroes remaining In the county
are almost as a whole In the town oi
Cumming and they are leaving daily.
Last night’s mass meting was pre
sided over by Mayor C. L. Harris. J. F
Echols was secretary. The bewt citi
zens of the town and county attended.
SUFFRAGETTES AGREE
TOWEAR OLD GOWNS;
GIVE FUNDS TO CAUSE
NEW YORK. Oct. 17. Suffragists in
large numbers have vowed not to buy a
single new dress or new hat until the
suffrage amendment has been safely
turned over by the legislature to tlie
voters of New' York state In 1915.
“I suppose some of us will look pretty
dowdy before November, 1915,” said
Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, the orig
inator of the plan, “but w'henever any
one makes any lerfiark about our ap
pearance we can explain that our hus
bands aren’t stingy or anything of that
sort. We are merely wearing our ref
erendum clothes. All the money that
would otherwise have gone to the dec
orating of our persons we will turn
over to the treasurer of the Women’s
Political union, and we hope by this
means to raise an immense fund for our
campaign.
“We are having some purple, white
and green pledge cards printed which
we will send to all our members and to
other suffragists as well. Those who
sign them will have to forego not only
frocks and millinery, but also the pleas
ure of buying Christmas gifts, wedding
gifts and birthday gifts for thoir friends.
The pledge isn’t an easy one to keep
but no victory worth having is won
without sacrifice."
THE DAY’S WORK
Does it sometimes seem that
you simply could not get your
work done? Do you constantly
feel like sitting down? Per
haps you yawn continually.
Then you need
Tutt’s Pills
Because your liver is sluggish
and should be stirred to ac
tivity at your druggist's,
sugar coated or plain.
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