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TWO LAWYERS LYNCHED
Masked Men Drag Col. Taylor
and Capt. Rankin From Hotel.
SIO,BOB BEWAiffl OFFERED
By Govarnor of Tennessee—Regulation
!of Fishing Privileges in Reelfoot
Laki Was Cause of Trouble.
Union City, Tenn.—Judge R. Zaeh
Taylor, aged 60' years, and Captain
Quintin Rankin, of Trenton, Tenn.,
two of the most prominent attorneys
in the state, were called from their
hotel at Walnut Log, Tenn., by a
mob of eighty men, and later Captain
Rankin’s body, riddled with bullets,
was found hanging to a tree on the
edge of Reelfoot Lake.
Judge Taylor is believed to have
been drowned. Another theory is that
he is being held so that the Reelfoot
Lake Fishing Company will offer a
ransom for his return by agreeing to
allow free fishing on Reeltoot Lake.
Trouble has been brewing there
over fishing privileges.
Rankin and Taylor organized and
represented the Reelfoot Lake Fishing
Company, which leased the fishing
privileges from the West Tennessee
Land Company. From Circuit Judge
Harris they secured an injunction
against fishing on Reelfoot Lake with
out permission. Harris was twice shot
at and lives in fear of assassina
tion.
Governor Patterson has offered a
SIO,OOO reward for the assassins, and
has cancelled all his dates to speak in
the present political campaign. Two
companies of state troops have arriv
ed at Walnut Log and two more com
panies are under arms at Memphis,
awaiting orders from the governor.
Taylor and Rankin were accompa
nied by a surveyor, who is also miss
ing. The lynching is said to be the
work of night riders.
COMMISSIONERS Ur AFittICULTIiRE
Urge That Boys Be Educated to Farm,
Not Av/ay Frcm It.
Nashville, Tenn. —The annual ad
dress of President Hudson of the
Southern States Association of Com
missioners of Agriculture, delivered
•at the tenth annual convention of that
body, which is in session here; ad
vocated diversification and the inten
sive system as a method of growing
cotton as a surplus, and recommended
that agriculture be taught extensively
and steps be taken to acquaint the
farmers of the work of the associa
tion. “A mistake of the schools of
the age,” said he, “has been that they
have been too prone to educate the
boys not to the farm, but away from
it.”
He stated that if the cotton crop
could be grown as a surplus, and the
farmer enabled to hold it until his
own good time to sell, that much bet
ter prices could be secured, stating
that under the present method of
farming, the farmer must sell his crop
within a few weeks after it is gather
ed, in order to supply his family with
the necessities of life.
PHYSICIAN SAVE WOMAN
From Premature Burial Body Was
Ready for the Grave. *
Ellis, Kan. —The timely intervene
Lion of a physician, who was not sat
isfied with the appearance of the body
prevented the burial alive of Mrs.
Thomas Chapman, 60 years old, who
was supposed to have died suddenly
of heart disease. The body was pre
pared for burial, but was not .embalm
ed. A few minutes before the coffin
was sealed, a physician requested per
mission to see the body.
An examination confirmed his sus
picions that the woman's body was
made rigid by suspended animation.
The woman was removed from the
coffin, placed in bed and revived.
While her heart is weak, it is believ
ed that Mrs. Chapman will recover.
UALt WRECKS TRAIN.
Caboose Torn Lqcsc From Couplings
and Carried Over Fill.
Cheyenne, Wyo.—As the result of !
an unprecedented accident on the
Union Pacific at Lone Tree creek,
thirty miles west of Cheyenne, six
laborers are known to be dead and
several others probably met death,
while twenty-five or thirty others
were injured, many very seriously.
A terrific gale picked up the ca
boose of a work train, tore it away
from its couplings and carried it over
the edge of the fill. It dropped thirty
feet with its forty occupants, nearly
all of whom were section laborers,
and the men were piled among the
wreckage when it landed.
BRIDEGROOM AGED 80
Aced Captain Manton Thwarts Rela
tives and Steals Bride in Auto.
Providence, R. I. —Captain Benjamin
D. Manton of Colonia, Uruguay, hale
aud hearty at 80 years, and reputed
one of the wealthiest land owners in
that part of South America, thwarted
the opposition of his relatives here;
dashed away with his fiancee in an au
tomobile and in Fall River married
Miss Sara E. Hartman of Philadelphia,
a writer about half his own age.
The romance which thus culminated
in the captain’s fourth matrimonial
venture, had its inception in Uruguay
a year or more ago, when Miss Hart
man, in search of historical data, met
Captain Manton.
MAM FALLS TEN FLOORS.
Says ‘'Gracious! What a Fall;” Gets
Up and Resumes Work.
New York City.—After falling ten
floors through a shaft in a building
which is ’being erected John Stokes
scrambled to his feet, rubbed his
right shoulder, upon which he had
landed, and said:
“Gracious! What a fall.
He protested against being taken to
a hospital for fear of losing his job.
Beyond a possible dislocated shoulder,
he has escaped uninjured.
IATEJVIWSJNOTA
Gen iral.
I. H. Whale> ox Knoxville, Tenn.,
was struck and killed by J. W. Green,
a blacksmith. Green struck Whaley
under the jaw with his fist and Whal
ey’s head struck a railroad rail as he
fell. Whaley died an hour and a half
later.
The national convention of the
League of American Sportsmen, in
tenth annual meeting at Lawton,
Okla., was addressed by Geronimo,
the famous Apache chief, through an
interpeter. He deplored the slaugh
ter of American game by white men.
The jury in the trial of Uhland Cul
pepper at Opelika, Ala., charged with
the murder of Mary Elvin Haaen, who
w r as shot and killed near Phoenix
City, Ala., several weeks ago, by a
bullet believed to have been intended
for her father, returned a verdict of
guilty. Culpepper was sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Six buildings were totally destroy
ed and a number of others damaged
by a fire of incendiary origin at Olive
Hill, Carter county, Kentucky. The
loss is about SIO,OOO.
D. O. Seaman, a farmer, of Golds
berry, Mo., went to the district school
called out his two sons,, aged 10 and
12 years, respectively, shot one of
them dead, mortally wounded the oth
er and then shot and killed himself.
The cause of the tragedy is not
known.
George Harold, of the El Paso. Tex
as, city detective department, who
worked up the cases there and in Cni
huahua against the Mexican revolu
tionists, found a rudely constructed
bomb at the front door of his resi
dence with a charred fuse attached.
Harold has received several unsigned
notes informing him that he is mark
ed for death.
Several girls were slightly injured
and one hundred mere had a narrow
escape from death when the ferry
steamer Ariel, running between Walk
erville, Out., and Detroit, Mich., col
lided in a fog with the small freight
er Energy. There were about one
hundred girls, employes of local fac
tories aboard the ferry, and a panic
reigned among them for a few min
utes.
The store of the Merchants’ Gro
cery company at Mobile, Ala., was
gutted when fire broke out in the sec
ond story among paper bags. The
building was damaged about SIO,OOO,
covered by insurance, and the stock
is a total loss amply covered by in
surance. Two firemen were injured.
The Jenkins lumber mills plant at
Elaine, Wash., was almost complete
ly destroyed by fire. The loss is es
timated at $500,000.
A freight engine on the Southern
railway exploded at Mayo, Va., killing
the engineer and injuring the fireman
and several of the crew.
One-half of the business portion
cf Bonner Springs, Kans., a watering
resort, twenty miles west of Kansas
City, was destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of SIOO,OOO.
After sixteen years of divorced sep
aration. during which each had re
married and had each been bereft
through death, an aged German cou
ple in New York City, who were mar
ried in their fatherland forty years
ago, procured a marriage license in
order to at once re-enter for their de
clining years, the ties they had legal
ly set aside so long ago. Conrad
Knubert’s second wife died in New
fcork not long ago, and when he
heard that his former’s wife’s hus
band had also died in Germany, ho
wrote the partner of his young years,
asking her to come to New York and
marry him again. She cabled her re
ply—that she was coming, and on Ihe
next steamer, and when she reached
there the ceremony was performed at
once.
The women of Mexico have organiz
ed a mother’s congress, which will
hold its first meeting in December.
The president is Signora Luz Gonzal
ez Casio de Lopez ,and the object is
to aid all mothers who need protec
tion. advice or assistance.
Thirty-one counties with a popula
tion of more than a million peaple,
have voted to go dry in Ohio in the
first forty-one days of the operation
of the Rose county local option law
passed by the last legislature, and
within the next thirty days eight hun
dred and thirteen saloons and whole
sale liquor houses will have closed
las the result. There are now thirty
: five counties entirely dry in the state.
The battle of Guilford Court House
W as reproduced at Greensboro, N. C.,
bv United States cavalry, infantry,
state Tnalitia and a Gatling gun. The
result of the battle, like that fought
in 1781, was in doubt, both sides
claiming victory. Colonel S. W. Miner
commanded the British, while Colonel
J W Craig commanded the Ameri
can forces. About 25,000 people wit
nessed the battle.
Foster George was arrested in St.
Louis, Mo., on a charge of stealing
diamonds and watches worth $35,000
from S. F. Powell, a wholesale jewel
er at 170 Broadway, New York. Twen
ty-five thousand dollars’ worth of the
jewels were recovered from George.
The man was betrayed into the
hands of the police by Mabel McCoy,
a companion with whom he quarreled
after refusing some of her requests
for money. When the police raided
George’s room diamonds were found
in every possible hiding place. A ra
zor case was stuffed with gems worth
$3,000. In a valice were nearly one
thousand small diamonds; in George's
i shoes were dozens of gems, some of
them as large as two carats.
Captain Monroe and five of the
crew of the British schooner Sirocco,
who were supposed to have been lost
when their vessel was wrecked off the
Florida coast, on October 1, were land
ed at Boston, Mass., by the fruit
steamer Horatius. All of the mem
bers of the Sirocco’s crew have now
! been accounted for, two seamen hav
| il)g been landed at Newport News,
jye The Sirocco, which was bound
| f r qm Brunswick, Ga., to Abaca in the
1 Bahamas, was wrecked on Mantanilla
S ree f in a tropical hurricane.
TEACHERS POORLY PAID
Georgia Educator Tells of Con
ditions in the South.
DEPOPULATE RURAL SCHOOLS
Tendency is for Farmer to Send Fheir
Children to City Schools—Average
Salaryof Teachers $155 a Year.
New York City.—That the average
school teacher of the south was both
underpaid and insufficiently educated
for the position she held was the rea
son advanced by Jere M. Pound, su
perintendent of the Georgia state edu
cational board, addressing the shidents
of Teachers’ College, in explanation
of the slow progress made in the
southern states along .educational
lines.
“There are 736,000 school children
in Georgia between the ages of 6 and
18,” he said. “Now the state has ap
propriated $2,000,000 for their educa
tion, or, in other words, each child
in me state is educated at an annual
expense of $2,82^.
• This makes trie average salary of
the common school teacher aboiu
twenty-nine or thirty dollars a month,
or $155 a year since the school term
only lasts five months. The slate,
therefore, pays its teachers less money
man a drayman or a cook gets.
“The result, of course, is that from
40 to 90 per cent qf our common
school teachers have never had any
education other than that of the com
mon schools. Those who are really
well-trained deserve better pay, and
we cannot keep them. In other words
those in charge of the school children
are no better educated, on the aver
age, than the child of thirteen or four
teen years of age, with about four or
five years of actual preparation. It
is not strange, of course, that the av
erage teacher lasts about four years
and then leaves school to take up
some more profitable business.”
Mr. Pound concluded his remarks
by saying that the school systems in
the south were depopulating the coun
try districts, instead of building them
up.
“The tendency,” he said, “is for the
farmers to send their children to the
city schools, where all consideration
of their environment is neglected.
WORLD TRIP ENDED.
Big Battleships Anchor at Home After
Remarkable Voyage.
Portsmouth, N. H.—The battleship
Maine, completing a voyage around
the world, arrived at her dock here.
The battleship Maine on swinging
to anchor at the Portsmouth navy
yard ended, together with the battle
ship Alabama, which is docked at the
New York navy yard, the most spec
tacular round-the-world cruise ever
made by a first-class, modern warship.
During the voyage, which was start
ed from Hampton Roads and ‘which
consumed three hundred and eight
days, the two vessels covered about
thirty-five thousand miles. The Ala
bama and the Maine left Hampton
Hoads December 16, 1907, with the
Atlantic Battleship fleet on its cruise
through the straits of Magellan to the
Pacific, the former as flagship of Ad
miral Sperry, commanding the fourth
division, and the Maine attached to
the third division.
After the successful conclusion of
the fleet’s cruise to the Pacific it was
announced that the warships would
return to the Atlantic station by the
way of the Philippine Islands and the
Suez canal, and the Maine and Ala
bama were detached from the fleet,
upon the recommendation of Rear Ad
miral Evans, and organized into a
special squadron, under command of
Captain Giles B, Harbor, commanding
the Maine.
Their places in the fleet were sup
plied by the battleships Wisconsin and
Nebraska. The detachment of the
Alabama and Maine from the combin
ed fleet was due, in the case of the
Alabama, to her inferior engines, and
in the case of the Maine to her limit
ed steaming capacity. The steaming
radius of the Maine without recoaling
is limited to three thousand seven
hundred miles.
CHECKS MAILED DEPOSITORS.
Second Dividend Has Been Paid by the
Neal Bank of Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga. —Nine thousand checks
have been mailed out to the former
depositors of the defunct Neal Bank
of Atlanta by the Central Bank and
Trust Corporation, receivers for this
bank, aggregating $350,000, and rep
resenting the second dividend of 20
per cent on deposits paid these depos
itors this year.
The bank hopes to make a third
payment about the first of next year.
Rescued Just In Time.
Hull, England. —The German bal
loon piauen, which left Berlin Monday
in an endurance contest, was picked
up in the North sea by a trawler.
Clinging to the balloon were the two
aeronauts, Hackstetter and Schneider,
in an almost exhausted condition. The
rescue took place about 240 miles
from Spurnhead.
Typhoon Damaged Amoy.
Amoy. China.—A typhoon destroyed
nearly all the buildings erected for
the reception of the officers and men
of the American battleships except
the main reception hall. Many stores
in the town were badly damaged, and
the electric lighting plant is under
six feet of water.
Bull and Tiger Fight.
El Paso, Texas. —A fight between
a bull and a tiger in the Juarez bull
ring, opposite El Paso, took the spec
tators, most of them tourists, back to
memories of the dark days of Nero.
It was a furious fight between two
maddened beasts, locked in an iron
cage in the center of the Juarez bull
ring. The bull, although hampered
by lack of space, finally dispatched
the tiger, not, however, until he had
been wounded so seriously that he
will die. X
PERIL IN GREAT WASTE.
Lumber and Coal Supply of the Nation
is Rapidly Diminishing.
Chicago, 111. —Over fifteen million
people, or more than half the total
wage-earners in the United States,
are diiectly dependent for their live
lihood upon coal, iron, timber, the
soil and other natural resources
which are rapidly being exhausted, ac
cording to figures which have just
been compiled by the Conservation
league of America. According to
the league, the avoidable waste of the
nation’s wealth is reaching alarming
proportions, yet few people realize
the extent to which the country as
a whole will be affected by measures
designed to check this waste. It was
w ith the intention of clearing up this
point that the present investigation
was undertaken, and the results,
which are now made public, disclose
some interesting facts.
The first subject to receive atten
tion was lumber. According to the
last census report 962,876 persons in
the United States are engaged in the
lumber business, or as carpenters and
joiners, cabinet-makers and the like,
are dependent upon the lumber bus
iness for their livelihood. These have
already been affected by the exhaus
tion of timber in the east and middle
west and are vitally concerned in the
efforts of the government to conserve
as much of the remaining supply as
possible. According to the experts
of the forest service at Washington
our present rate of cutting is three
times that of growth, and at this rate
the remaining supply of timber will
hardly last thirty years.
The coal supply is also threatened
with exhaustion. Anthracite coal is
timed to last but fifty years. Bitumi
nous coal will not be exhausted un
til later, but unless a check is put
upon the present uneconomical meth
ods of mining, which have already
wasted as much coal as has been
mined, it will not outlast the next
century.
The total number of coal miners,
according to the figures now made
available, is 344,292. to which are to
be added over 200,000 coal and wood
dealers and stationary engineers and
firemen, making a total of 604,180 per
sons w r ho are directly dependent upon
coal for their w T ork, and who v T ould
have to change their occupation if
coal should give out.
In addition to the workers in these
iriiportant industries, the farmers are
beginning to take a keen interest in
conservation, in five or six different
ways. Soil exhaustion, erosion, irri
gation, drainage> w r aterwavs, and the
regulation of water supply by the for
: ests on the headwaters and source
streams of the larger rivers are all
matters that directly affect the farm
ers' pocketbook. For this reason fig
ure of the total number of persons
dependent for their livelihood upon
the soil or dealing in the products
of the soil is particularly interesting.
It. reaches the enormous total of dO,-
644,134 or over a third of the total
number of persons engaged in gainful
occupations in the United States.
Asa result of this investigation,
Uncle Sam will, for the first time,
know just the extent of his inheri
tance and whether he has been using
it wisely
A REMifSfeUiiSEOYERY.
After 1S Years Scatters
Typhoid Fever
Washington, D. C. —One of
remarkable discoveries in
tcry in connection with the source
the spread of typhoid fever has just
been brought to Ught as the result
of an investigation made by officers
of the public health and marine hos
pital service into a recent outbreak
of that disease in Georgetown, or West
Washington, District of Columbia. The
investigation discloses the fact that a
woman milker at a neighboring dairy,
who had typhoid fever over eighteen
years ago, still throws off virile ty
phoid fever bacilli, and was responsi
ble for the spreading of the disease.
With one exception, this is the first
considerable outbreak of typhoid fe
ver in the United States, traced
through milk to such a carrier. A
peculiar feature in connection with
the case is that the examination de
veloped large numbers of typhoid bac
illi in the deiecta of the woman, al
though she apparently was enjoying
good health. Surgeon General Wyman
says an important source of the dis
ease has been developed, which here
tofore has not been duly recognized.
The case just discovered is deemed
of special interest to health officers in
tracing obscure cases of typhoid fever
outbreaks. General Wyman states
ihat this case establishes the fact that
at least two percent of all recovered
cases of typhoid fever become bacilli
carriers for a longer or shorter pe
riod. even while otherwise enjoying
good health.
ADMIRAL EVANS’ SON GUILTY.
He Will Lose 150 Numbers and Be
Publicly Reprimanded.
Yokahama, Japan. Lieutenant
Frank T. Evans of the battleship Lou
isiana, who recently was court-mar
tialed on a charge of absenting him
self from his post while officer of the
deck, disrespect to his superior offi
cer and intoxication, has been found
guilty of the two former charges.
Rear Admiral Sperry received the pa
pers while the battleships were at
Manila and has just announced his
verdict. The sentence pronounced
provides that Lieutenant Evans shall
lose 150 numbers and shall be publicly
reprimanded.
800 BALES OF COTTON BURNED.
Big Cotton Warehouse at Rock Hill,
S. C., Was Destroyed.
Rock Hill, S. C. —Another destruc
tive cotton fire visited Rock Hill. The
warehouse of Edw r ard Fewell w T as
burned Nvith 700 or 800 bales of cot
ton, with a loss of about $25,000 on
the cotton, and $3,000 or $4,000 on
the building.
The cotton was insured upon the
basis of market value of course. On
the building Mr. Fewell had about
$3,000 insurance. \
WARSHIPBATYOKOHAMA
Noisy Welcome Given Amercan
Battleship Fleet by Japan.
STARS AND STIPES FLYiNS
Streets of City for Mile* Were Walled
With Entwined Americn and
Japanese Emblems.
Yokohama, Japan. —The American
battleship fleet dropped anchor in the
harbor at 9:30 o’clock Sunday morn
ing.
It w r as in the gray hours before
dawn when the leviathans of Amer
ica's great white battleship fleet were
dimly discerned maneuvering off the
entrance to Tokio bay, while sixteen
warships, the pride of Japan, in som
bre color, swung at their anchor buoys
outside of the breakwater.
From thousands of flag staffs and
buildings at every point in the city
floated the stars and stripes, and the
entire lengths of miles of streets' were
almost walled with intertwined Amer
ican and Japanese emblems.
The enthusiasm of the people was
evidently sincere, though mixed with
the natural curiosity to see the big
fighting ships from America, the long
and successful cruise of which has
marked anew epoch in naval history.
- Foreigners were in the minority in
the crowds, but wherever they ap
peared, they were treated with excep
tional courtesy because to the Jap
anese ail foreigners must be Ameri
cans ,many of the Japanese being un
able to discriminate between Ameri
cans and those from other lands.
When the fleet rounded Honmou
point and came into full view of the
city cf Yokohama, the sixteen assem
bled Japanese warships began firing
the salute to the rear admiral in com
mand of the American fleet. The
roar of the guns, the bursting fire
works, bombs, the shriek of the steam
sirens with the drone of the deep
whistles of the liners, filled the air
with overwhelming sounds. Ashore,
bedlam broke loose and words fail to
describe the enthusiasm of the assem
bled thousands.
When the American fleet finally
came to anchor, it presented an impos
ing spectacle. Thirty-two great war
ships occupied four long columns of
eight each. The Americans taking
the place of honor in the forefront,
the Japanese immediately behind
them.
As soon as the fleet came to anchor,
a reception committee and attaches of
the various foreign embassies and le
gations and the jnayor of Yokohama
put off from shore for the flagship
Connecticut.
Every vernacular newspaper in Yo
kohama and Tokio printed special il
lustrated editions containing enthusi
astic articles with reference to the
coming of the American fleet.
MARKED ACTIVITY SHOWN.
All Branches cf Industry Said To Be
Moving Satisfactorily.
New York City.—The National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers announced
that every branch of industry is show
ing marked increases of business and
that during the past three months
trade conditions have taken on new
activity. In an exhaustive canvass
among the three thousand members
of the association, the returns bear
out the prediction that practically
every manufacturing business will be
i von a normal basis of production dur
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1 CLT GOES TO ENGLAND.
Will Also *2' -7 p rance After His
Trip.
London, Times is
informed that Preafcit Roosevelt
will visit England aU'AJLhjs African
trip early in 1910. He \\T*jgg|Jiver the
Romanes lecture at Oxfon&iymd on
the occasion of the university*com
memoration will receive the horßVyw
degree of D. C. L., which Oxford nV\
already bestowed upon Emperor Wil
liam. According to The Times, Pres
ident Roosevelt also will visit Paris
and deliver an address at the Sor
bornne. Neither the dates nor the
subjects of the lecture axe_yet known.
FOR AN INLAND WATERWAY.
Steps to Open Channel New Orleans
to Brownsville, Texas.
New r Orleans, La.—Announcement
has been made that about one thous
and delegates from Texas and Louis
iana will meet here December 4 and
5, to make definite plans for an in
land waterway from Xew Orleans to
the Rio Grande river at Browmsville,
Texas.' The plans adopted at this
convention will be presented to the
rivers and harbors convention in
Washington, which meets December 9.
Though! Gun Unloaded.
Fernandina, Fla. —A terrible trag
edy w r as enacted here, when Christi
na Kelly, the eight-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly, w-as acci
dentally shot by Barnard Cone, a lad
of fourteen years, death resulting im
mediately.
Young Cone had just returned from
a hunting trip, and was in front of
his home with several children gath
ered around him. He playfully rais
ed his gun, which he thought to be
unloaded, when the trigger was acci
dentally pulled, emptying the entire
load of shot in the -body of the little
girl, who dropped dead without even
a moan..
Cotton Seed Oil Trade.
Washington. D. C. —Cotton seed oil
has become the second largest article
of export from the United States to
Turkey, reports Ambassador Leish
mann at Constantinople. He points
out the possibilities in the Turkish
market for this class of shipments,
and states that w-hen America real
izes the advantages of canvassing a
market hitherto neglected the sales
of cotton seed oil will be widely ex
tended in Turkey, v
THE WEEK IN POLITICS,
. Every national campaign inva
sion to men of original
vent some catchy device v-hlh i"'
cause of the interest engender'b 6-
the national fight, will behold t" by
thousand. One of the most- by ,h<!
things put on the market tliis't.? 10115
a small tablet, like a medicine^, 18
which, when dissolved i n -
bowl, resolves itself into a
Taft or Bryan, as the case t " \° f
Already thousands of these tin
have been sold to New York S 8
and restaurants.
Eugene V. Debs, in Phißrtainv
said ‘"Roosevelt has reduced th* ‘f’
fice of president to the level 0 f k
ward heeling politician. With the ?
publicans it is Wall street ar.d rl'
and with the democrats it L tO
many and graft.”
Mr. Bryan, in his speech before th*
University of Nebraska, called cl
ernor Hughes a ‘‘defender of trust
called attention to the contribution
of Morgan, Rockefeller and otherst!
his campaign fund and described him
as a doctor who laughed at the
scription given by another physician
though refusing to furnish a ires-"'
tion of his own.
Mr. Taft has finished his tour of
Ohio, making sixteen speeches He k
voted much time to the labor question
and defended his decisions when 'on
the bench in labor cases. li e
labor conditions had thrived under ih
law as he had laid it down. He repeat
ed his woman suffrage sentiment?
Mr. 'Sherman, speaking in New Jer
sey, said Bryan was “dangerous" be
cause he was sincere and would nor
be if he were a faker.
Governor Hughes in New York
spoke at Oswego, Waverlv and Elmira
to large audiences. He said the indi
cations for the election of “Taft and
Sherman, are very gratifying;” hat
he would sign no bills for popularity
and ‘‘my family is largely dependent
upon the insurance companies if any
thing happens to me.”
Ex-Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana
will stump for Bryan, whose election,
he says, would help and not hurt bus
iness interests.
Samuel Gompers issued an appeal
to laboring men to vote for Bryan.
He called Taft the “originator and
specific champion of discretionary
government” and said “despotic pow
er is as dangerous under ermine as
under the crown.”
The total registration in New York
is 681,602, which is 6.759 less than in
1904, the last presidential year, and
22.382 greater than in 1906.
Republican doctrine received unex
pected publicity through democratic
channels when two van loads of cam
paign literature were unloaded in he
mailing room of democratic national
headquarters in Chicago. The litera
ture intended for republican head
quarters, a block away, was written in
Bohemian, Lithuanian and Salvish
and before it was discovered that the
documents were appeals for the elec
tion of Mr. Taft, most of the literature
was mailed to the voters.
“If we had twenty-five speakers ar.d
SIO,OOO we could carry Georgia at this
election,” says Eugene V. Chafin, pro
hibition candidate for president in a
speech at Logansport, Ind. “The par
ty that is defeated will go to smash
and drop out of existence. The only
real issue in the campaign is prohi
bition. There is no power on earth
that can prevent the prohibition parry
from electing a president in 1912. ’
Treasurer Bidder's figures showed
that the democratic national commit
tee’s Campaign fund figures up to Oc
tober 9 was $248,567, of which all but
$22,654 had been expended. Chairman
Mack gave out a supplemental state
ment showing receipts of $12,556 from
seventy contributors between October
9 and 14.
Mr. Bryan concluded his tour of Ne
braska, speaking to large crowds, and
left for Denver. He called P/esident
Roosevelt an imitator, said every pre
datory corporation in the coutnry is
back of Speaker Cannon and that if
Cannon’s most intimate friend, Sher
man, was chosen to preside over the
senate the people w r ould be unable to
obtain any remedial legislation.
Mr. Taft received a w-arrn walcome
in Kentucky and made speeches :n
several cities. For the first time in
some time he discussed the question
of guaranteeing bank deposits. Un
fortunately a chair broke under him
and he fell to the floor. His careful
inspection of the next chair offered
caused laughter.
Ignoring the protestations and
screams of Mrs. William Randolph
Hearst, who was disrobing for tee
night, a deputy sheriff smashed in the
door of the editor’s compartment of
a Union Pacific train at Omaha. Neb.,
and served him with papers of the no
tification suit for $666,000 that nad
been brought against him for blan
der and libel by Governor Haskel; °
Oklahoma.
Mr. Sherman spoke on protection a
Jamestown, N. Y. He seemed to en
joy disobeying his physician’s dilu
tion to talk only in whispers and jo
remain indoors as much as possn a ,
by conversing with all who (, nnn
along and by taking an autonu e
ride.
All the forces that the
national committee can command * _
be brought into action within the nev
two w-eeks to make a successful -t a
for the democratic cause in ' n(ihJ
and Ohio. It is further planned .j
send speakers of national promn - -•
including several United States
tros, into the middle west to am
the fight for Mr. Bryan.
Thomas L. Hisgen is campaign l
in Washington state.
Labor is preparing a final onslaudut
on the candidacy of Speaker ,( ’
G. Cannon. The political action com
mittee of the Chicago Fedeiu>< < r
Labor has planned to send a i
- labor leaders into “Uncle . g
district soon. In the last thie ]y ,
of the campaign there wdl Kan .
fifty labor speakers in Danuii ,
kakee and the vicinity.
Mr. Sherman made a
campaigning tour in N e^ v several
in which his machine kihed
chickens, knocked down - "
burst a tire. He talked -