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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD OLUME XIII., No. 263. Roosevelt’s Reply To Bryan, Says Haskell, Puts President In Hole He Cant Move In OKI* II IN REPLItSJTRONELf SAYS ROOSEVELT HAS USED WARD POLITiCS TACTICS AND GOTTEN IN DEEP IMPUGNS HITCHCOCK ■When Roosevelt Attacks Haskell Thus He Is Hit ting At Former Sec retary of Interior GUTHRIE. Okla—"lf President Roosevelt's statements are correctly quoted, he has crawled into a hole, which is scarcely big enough for him to turn around in, and before he gets through with me, I will plug up the hole," said Governor Haskell, when he had read the substance of the pres ident's attacks on him. Roosevelt in his attempt to butt into 'practices used in ward politics has placed himself just where I want him and I will make him sorry for it," laughed the governor.’’ Taking up the Roosevelt arraign 'rnent In detail, the governor said it was ridiculous. “In condemning me for my attitude toward the Prairie Oil and Gas com pany, ’ said Governor Haskell, Roose velt is impugning the acts of his for mer secretary of the interior, Mr. Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock who granted the Prairie company its rights to build a pipe line in what is now Oklahoma and I have done nothing more than respect the vested rights that the Prairie company had when the state was admitted to the union. 1 could pursue no other legal course. 7 stopped the company from build ing a gas pipe line into this state because it had no right to build it, but Hitchcock gave the company the right, to build an oil pipe line. "As to vetoing me child labor bill, it had some provisions in it. that would work an absolute hardship upon working people as well as employers. A stenographer could not work in a lawyer’s office or any other place if she was under 18, and a minor could not even work after school, to support a widowed and sick mother, or to as sist in securing an education." Governor Haskell declared that, there was absolutely nothing to the charge of Creek land frauds as he had never dealt in Indian lands. “Owing to clouded titles, I have never considered investment in Creek farm lands a good business ment,” he said. “As to the charge of mixing politics with the state university, I am only one of seven members of the board of regents, and have neve attended but one meeting of the board. Mr. Cruce is chairman of the board and controls its actions.’’ The governor added that there waa nothing new in the statement of Mon nett that he secured his information as to Haskell's alleged connection with Standard Oil from 3quires of Cleveland. “He slated that, in his petition in the case," said the governor, "and has never claimed to have direct in formation on the subject. “If Roosevelt is looking for a fight he could not have come to a better place to get, it,’’ concluded the gov ernor. “Roosevelt's entire statement,’’ con tinued Haskell, “so far as now before me, is absurd and ridiculous. I will (give full reply when I have all his statement. Has he questioned the size of my family yet?" BRYAN WILL NOT MAKE _REPLY YET COLUMBUB, Ohio.—Feeling none worse from hi* trying ordeal of WeJ lesday-, W. J. Bryan, the democratic tgndidate for president, was an early riser Thursday. He at once devoted himself to the reading of a letter sf President Roosevelt responding to the teUrtsm in reference to the charge At Governor Haskell had been }{n)lfled in an improper way jf: h the Standard Oil company Inter est, but said he would not make any comment on the president's reply at the presto time. After breakfast Mr. Bryan paid a brief visit to the office of W, L. Fin ]»). the democratic state chairman l.e left at 10.25 o'clock for Cincln nati, and will make a number of speeches en route, the principal one* being at Springfield and Dayton. A stop of several hours will be made •l the latter place. THE CAMERAPHONE CANDIDATE y/fw R£AR 'V/£W. Roosevelt Tried To Get Another Man As Scapegoat WASHINGTON—After an eight hour conference with his leading ad visers here. President Roosevelt is sued his public response to the pub lic telegram sent by William J. Bry an asking the president for proof that Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, Is unfit to be treasurer of the demo cratic party The advisers called in by the presi dent were Postmaster General Mey er, Secretary Garfield, Wright and Straus. Secretary Loeb was directed to tend telegrams to men In several states for reports and Col. W. (’. Has kell, sealer of weights and measures, was called before the conference. When It was first shown by W. Jt. Hearst that Governor Haskell, Bry an's campaign treasurer, was sop iottsly involved with the Standard Oil company! and accused of having of fered a bribe to former Attorney General Mon nett, of- Ohio. Governor Haskell replied that, the Haskell i ROOSEVELT SAYS. ■ "I hold It entirely natural for 1 any great law defying corpora i tion to wish you placed in tho • presidency rather than Mr. Taft. > The measures you advocate ■ would not cure a single evil and ■ would throw the business of the ■ entire country Into confusion. 1 "I regard it as a scandal and ■ a disgrace that Governor Has -1 keil should he connected with ■ the management of any national > campaign. "Governor Haskell has not 1 even attempted anything which • can be called a defense. ■ “He Intended for some reasons ■ of his own to protect the Interest i of a great corporation ’against the ■ law." NAT GOODWIN’S SUIT CHARGES DESERTION Has No Intention To Drag Any Other Man’s Name Into the Suit. RENO, Nev.—Attorney for Nat Goodwin yesterday made public whai they declare constitutes the sob charges In Ooodwln's suit for di vorce against his wife, Marine K' ilott. Attorney Jarrott stated that in the papers the charge of desertion Is the only one mentioned, and be slates mat there has been at no time any Intention to drag the name of aoy other man Into the case. "Mrs. Goodwin has for some time refused to live wth her husband," Mrs. William Ellis Corey Takes a Fling At Society NEW YORK—Agreeing with William \*tor that society In New „ k ,?"<!. Nt *i! ort Is bv no means the greatest thing In the worid, Mrs, \Ai.llam HI is Corey who wai Mabel Gilman, a comic opera beauty also takes a fling at the fashions')le set "Society 111 New York and Newport does not Interest me In the least a« now constructed." said Mrs Corey, ror among th< srecalM email set there are scarcer any of lu members who l.avo any »,,p r ... elation and row. love tor art. Local Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity—Fair tonight and Friday. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 24, 1908. Republican Tariff Revision in a Nutshell meant might be Col. W. C. Haskell. The president asked Col. Haske'l bluntly: “Were you ever in any way directly' or indirectly connected in any affaii in which the Standard Oil comfMiny had any Interests?” "Never,” replied the colouel. . “Was there any other Haskell pro minent. in the state of Ohio at that time?" “Only C. N. Haskell, now governor of Oklahoma.” "Do you recall any other person of the name in Ohio?" “Only a minister who was certain ly not the man. There was soma Haskell in the western side of the state, but he never mixed in public affairs.” The president expressed himself as satisfied that Col Haskell had not had dealings with the Standard Oil company, and he was excused. The president then began dictating Ms reply to Mr. Bryan. It was sent by mail to the Nebraskan, and not by telegraph. HASKELL’S REPLY. "If Mr. Roosevelt's statements are correctly reported, he has ► crawled into a hole whlrh is scarcely big enough for him to turn around in, and before he gets through with me I will plug up the hole. “Roosevelt in his allempt to butt into practices used in ward politics has placed himself just where I want him, and I will make him sorry for It. “in condemning me for my at titude toward the Prairie Oil and Gas company, Roosevelt is im pugning the acts of hts former secretary of the interior, Mr. Hitchcock. "As to vetoing the child labor bill. It had some provisions in It that would work an absolute hardship upon working people as well as employers. "If Roosevelt Is looking for a fight he could not have come to a better place to get It. HARRISON STATUE READY. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind—The heroic statue of the late Benjamin Harrison has been completed and now stands in position In University park facing the new U. S. Federal building, ready for the unveiling ceremonies which take place October 27. Only minor details of the unveiling program re main to be decided upon. raid Jarrott, "but as far as we know she has not been unfaithful to him or in any other way given him cause for divorce ” MUCK DENIES EDIT HRSKELLRESIGNEI NEW YORK. —Chairman Nortnan E Mack, of the democratic national cwnrottrcu: wW'ffmTHst illgtft that the reports from Washington I hat the resignation of Charles N. Haskell as treasurer of the democratic national committee, was In the hands, asserted that this was not so, and that if Mr. Haskell had any Intention of resign* ing, ue knew nothing about it. NO SSI TO STITEIIENT, SKIS IE ALBANY, N. Y.- Ex-Hnlted States Senator David B. Hill Thursday said to the Associated Press that, there was no foundation whatever for the published statement that Chairman Conners of the democratic state com mittee and Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany leader, had ofTere<l him the chairmanship of the state advisory committee and that Mr. Bryan had urged him to accept. Mr. Hill said that while not In politics he was "heartily In favor of tlie election of the national and state democratic tickets." LA FOLLETTE NOT POLITICAL RULER MADISON, Wls.—Senator LaFol lette no more is a political ruler or Wisconsin. After a two days' ses sion the republican state convention on Wednesday elected E. A. Ed rounds, a weallhy paper manufacturer and the campaign manager of Sena tor Stephenson, as state chalrnrwo LaFollette was defeated by a vote of «8 fo* Edmunds to 4« for A C. Back us, of Milwaukee, as candidate. In the formulation of a platform LaFoilr tte was beaten in the coo. tnif.ee, then in the convention, his Chicago platform being given no place In the State creed, and only the briefest reference being made to the so-called Wisconsin Idea formulated by and credited to LnPoiletie The two planks on which the LaFollet.lc men made their (Inal stand were, "We demand for a tariff revision hy a commission appointed by the prodl dent, this being the plan offered in the republican national committee by the Wisconsin delegation “We demand legislation adding the second choice vote to the primary election." The tariff plank was defeated by a vote of 70 to 51, and the primary plank by a vote of 7# to 41! Gover nor Davidson appeared as defender of the Chicago tariff plank and this was placed in the state nlatform The platform made no reference to the use of money in the primary campaign, upon which th» democrat t "Ib/j to tnaku IhaJr ntimi.ulou TERRIFIC IFPROON IN PHILIPPINES COMMUNICATIONS CUT OFF AND DETAILS OF DAMAGES ARE VERY MEAGRE BUILDINGS RAZED Typhoon Caused Great Loss of Property and Lives Were Prob ably Lost. MANILA, P. I.—A typhoon of ter rifice velocity swept through the cen tral portion of the Philippine group sweeping a part of the Island of Sa mar. Northern Leyte. Southeastern Luzon, Northern Punay, Mashate, and part of Komblon. Ihe typhoon disappeared in the China sea, moving In a direction wesi by northwest. Wires are prostrated and available details of the damage done are mea gre. 11 is evident, however, that seri ous disaster followed in the wake of the sudden storm. A telegram from a town in Mas bate reports that every building In the place was razed with u single ex ception of the postal building. A despatch from Romblon snys the tyjthoon caused great loss of proper ty and that undoubtedly muuy per sons have been killed. THE INDIINA LOCAL OPTION RIFE PASSED INDIANAPOLIS, lad. The county local option hill was passed by Hie senate Wednesday. The vote was :i“ lo 17, three republicans voting with '1 democrats against the measure, and one being absent. The Mil was immediately taken over to the bouse and was read and referred lo a com mittee, which is expected lo make ,i favorable report on it tomorrow. Then temperance forces crowded the aisles and galleries of the senate chamber when the bill was called up and every sentiment expressed In fa vor of It was mildly cheered, while solemn silence followed every iitte.- i nee agaitiHl the Mil. “INITIATED” MAN FATALJTBORNEO Wan Washing; Paint Off Body With Gasoline anil it Caught Fire From a Torch. INDIANAPOLIS, ind. Fred Bartell, of Owosso, Mich., a member of (lie Third regiment, Michigan National I Guard, now encamped at Fort llenja min Harrison, lies today In the mill tary hospital, perhaps fatally burned |as the result of being "hazed”' or "Initiated" hy several of his fellow J guardsmen. Tlie prank known In camp as "ini Illation” Includes painting the buck land chest of the victims and Indu.g ing In a weird torchlight procession. I While Bartell, whose "Initiation" was one of several pull'd "IT last night, j whs attempting to wash off the paint |by means of gasoline, a number of guardsmen entered bis tent for the i purpose of completing the “initiation" when flames from the torches which they carried Accidentally Ignited Bar tells painted body and saturated | clothing. Bartell rushed from h s tent a mass of Haines amj was taken In an ambulance to the hospital where Cap tain Fe.ds. of the staff, gives little assurance of his recovery. Conflicting stories were told after the accident and Major Phillips, In apector on the stuff or Brigadier Gen eral Bates, Is making a thorough In j ve.V (gallon. TRAIN Sim killed™ MED CARTHAGE Mo The engineer sod fireman of the easlboond train on the Bt, Louis and flan Francisco railroad were killed as a result of the derail me,it of a train. The engine and baggage car went Into Hprlng river and all of the other cars left on the track turned over. Thirty-si* pas seogers were Injured, uu« of whom a •*» ...in si. DAILY AND SUNDAY $6.00 PER YEAIL SCHOOLS OPEN DGTOBEH . Finn Tho superintendent, of education, the president, of the hoard of educa tion, tho president of the board of health, and the principals of the pub lie schools held u conference Thurs day at U! o'clock, about tho school situation. It was decided that tho opening of the schools would bo post poned until October r>. The schools are in readiness and plenty of drinking water Is to lie hud. lus Superintendent Evans has barrels at every school for that purpose, but there is no Hushing water and thero j fore It will be Inadvisable to open the schools until the water supply is Oil. It was tho opinion of Dr. Mitrphey that the schools would lie unhealthy If the children wefo allowed lo go there when everything was not in a perfectly sanitary condition. The fob lowing order has been Issued: “Opening dale of schools postponed 'until Oct. 6. "In view of the lack of flushing water the public schools, of the city will postpone their opening until Oc tober 5. “Lawton B. Evans, Supt." RODE THROUGH FLAMES ON TIN EUREKA. Uni A great forest Hr* Ih raging near here, fanned by a nil mile gale, and already the plant of the Ki-lsiroiii Lumber company, v.il .'lied at $1.11,000, lias been destroyed. | The lire Is threatening vast Iranis of redwood timber lying between Kel Stroms and Trinidad, lo which Hi” latlcr place refugees are flocking from many camps. The in 111 lon del ■ lar plant of (he Redwood Lumber company Is directly In the course of the Mauled. A passenger train arrived ill Samoa last night carrying refugees from LiifTcnholz and Fehlbionk, Hie former town having been destroyed liy flames. Refugees were hemmed |n hy the Haines and a daring trip through lire on train was proposed. The dash was made with flames so close that paint on cars was lilts tered la heal. MR. JOHNSON PRESENT AT DEMURRAGE CASE Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce Will Pre*- ent, Cage To the Inter- State Commerce Commin •ion. Afier h conference yesterday after noon It was found Hint It would uol he necessary for ii full delegation lo go from Augiisia lo present tho local demurrage case lo the Interstate coin merre commission and consequently I'resident E. ('. Denton, of the Keiail Merchants' association, and Cap!. |> II Klee, chairman of the railroad committee of the Chamber or Ojn fnereo, and also of tho merchants or ganization did not go. Mr. K. H. Johnson, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, went iih the duly accredited delegate of the varl oils organizations Interested and car rlcd with hlln tellers slating explicit ly Just wlnit the situation la as n ex Islh In Augusta Wake Up, Man. TKLL 118, AltE YOU ADVERTISING IN THE .SAME OLD FOOLiPII V'AY 'I IIVI YOUR GRAND-DAD fill) HKFORF YOU AND PERSIST, "IT DOESN’T PAY?" ' 11 Jf'i., w,,ol ' K world knows your address ' At SH II IIAHN'T CHANGED l.\ YEARS''” WOULDN'T THE PATHOS Ok' SUCH |,OGIO DRIVE A HILLY-GOAT TO TEARS? "JUST A GAUD" IS ALL YOU CARE FOR HIDDEN, LONESOME AND UNREAD like the sign upon a to.mhsto ,k telling folkh that you ARE DEAD. WAKE IIP, MAN, AND TAKE A TONIC, "81/NCIf ni'IIH AND Make a drive, RUN A PAGE, AND CHANGE 'OUR COPY ADVERTISE AND KEEP ALIVE! If You Want Results From Your Advertising Use The Herald. PROCEEDINGS RE CONEEMPTDUE 10 POSITION OFJAFT PRESIDENT GOMPERS SAYS THAT REPUBLICAN CANDI DATE’S POSITION ON INJUNCTION CAUSED PROCEEDINGS MANY EXHIBITS Says That Taft Has the Support of the Manu facturers’ Asso ciation. VVASIIINTON—"II Is duo to See rotary Tuft's position on the Injlinc • lon that we are hern In thdHe con tempt. proceedings today.” This waa the most striking state nieiii made by President (tampers I’hursday al the contempt, proceed ings before Referee Harper, In Typo graphical Temple, It Is one of ninny Instances which would lend to ahoy that lO.tsuph puli- Heal capital ns pot'sllilo will bo mudo el' the hearing Jack ion H. Hu!ston, attorney for Mr. (tampers 111 cross examination of Mr. (lornitors Introduced a volitmlti our lot of exhibits, including copies of American Industries and circular loiters and pamphlets sent out by the maiiulecturers' association. Ho read nSoiy parngrapliß from tnese thru, ineiils, all tending lo show that Hip manufacturers’ association and other similar organization* have been iiiak- Ine, a vigorous light against organ ized labor. Reading from tile cover of Ameri can IndiiHirlea bu August I. inns Mr. Ralston quoted Hint portion of Secre tnrv Tall s Speech el neeeplanee per. j t ill ii 1 1 ik le injunctions. ’llils is Hie luisls of this suit; if •hose contempt proceedings, is R not?" asked Mr. Ralston. ' ll is,” replied Mr. Rompers. "Judge Gould,” continued Mr Ooiripein, “in issuing Hie InJifiictiou quoted from Jmlg • Taft’s decision In injunction cases." "Then you lake H Hint Secretary Tull h is lie- support of Hu* manufact urers' association, do you not?" In quired Mr Ralston. "I understand II ho," answered Mr. Gompnrs. Mr. (tempers 'estlfled further on cross examination hy Mr. Ralston Hint the American I'Viferatlon of La bor had been made tho object of u systematic-attack, by which such men iih I’rcsldt nl Van Hlcuvo of the man tifaefurers’ association, and shut ;;reu, i ii him of money has been expended lu lighting Ihe federation. Several elmilur* Introduced as ' vlde’neo by Mr.' K&lglnn were given In by I’reslileiit (loinper* who said lie had oliliinled them from a fair mind ed business mini by whom they hud been received and who 111 turn had forwarded them to him. STATE CIITIOR HERE "BOSS FREE" _ NIEW YORK Delegates from overv countln New York stale arrived hurt Thursday for the ludependencu - party's slate eonvolition which will he formally op <| In Ooopn Union Thursday night. The convention will he rnjirKed unit distinct from the con ventions held by the democratic and republican parties ns It will be ab solutely “boss free."