The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914, September 29, 1908, Image 1

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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIII., No. 268. l&osevelt a Shameful Demagogue, Cries Chancellor James T{. Day Rockefeller's Champion Says Degeneracy is Made Contemptible By Revela tions of Glaring Incon sistency of Chief Booster SYRACUSE, N.Y.—That the Stand ard Oil company remains under tho venomous hatred of President Roose velt, for reasons best known on the inside, while the steel corporation, the greatest trust in America, re ceives his approbation and consent to increase its holdings, was the statement of Chancellor James Ros coe Day, of Syracuse University. The chancellor charges that not only did Roosevelt, when a candidate tor president four years ago, hobnob with trust magnates and urge them to secure money to elect him, but that after his election he appointed to a position in his cabinet a man who held at the time a retaining fee from a large corporator, that man being still a member of the cabinet. The interview follows: "The things that I predicted more than two years ago, and that are on record, have come true, and ether sequences art hurrying to their conclusion. "Never has this country known such a condition politically. Never has it seen its president descend to such a shameful degeneracy of de magogy. Most of its high moralities far above trusts, which it considers the sum of all villiany, are made con temptible by revelations of ‘.he glar ing inconsistency of the chief boos ter. WHEN PRESIDENT WAS PRACTICAL. "For Senator Foraker to procure a loan for political iriends who wish to purchase a paper for contesting the election shocks Mr. Roosevelt. But the president was very ‘practical’ when he wanted $260,000 to put it where it could do most good when his election was involved. What was such a great sum to be used for? “It is a sign of political corruption for Senator Foraker to have cor responded with an officer of the Standard Oil company, but only the direction and privilege of Mr. Roose velt to call to Washington a practi cal’ man, the head of the greatest railway corporation in the land, to confer with him before he announced his ‘policies’ to congress. The Standard Oil remains under Mr. Roosevelt’s venomous hatred for rei vgvis weli-known on the inside, but the greatest trtia* l —in Amerioa re ceives his approbation and consent to increase its holdings. "A representative of ‘predatory wealth' is intimate counsel and in co-operation with Mr. Hitchcock until discovery becomes inevitable. Then he is forced to resign, not because of the sin. but the sure discovery of it by political enemies. “The glass houses seem to be cracaing with ominous sound. The Foraker-Archbold incident is shock ing to hypocrites. But honest and thoughtful men who are not hiding facts to promote a cause, remember the conditions of brigandage in the legislature when every state ‘held un' industrial and transit corporations, and demand their money or their lives. FULMINATIONS NOT CONVINCING. “Fortunately the fulmination from the White house carry on conviction. So prejudiced, unfair and untrue are they. They are humiliating, not became they are from Mr. Roose velt, hut because they are from the president. The office is degraded. The people are covered with shame. 'The little postmasters are re moved for engaging in politics. The most of the business of the presiden tial office is devoted to a political campaign. Cabinets are called. In terviews are furnished, telephone and telegraph wires are kept hot, the clerical force is worked far into the night—if the newspaper special cor respondents are to be believed—and our square deal president is chafing at the bit to go on the platform. "I know that no corporation resist ed this mulcting more successfully tnan Standard Oil. "Charges against Mr. Foraker for pra-Hlcing a > an attorney when in of fice is absurd. The very salary paid a senator proves that the country ex pects him to employ his spare time in some legitimate business. “The eyes of the American people are opening wide. They are not all deceived. What they need i* to ex ercise themselves In the judicial tem perament. They are too ea -m stamp eded by the frenzy of the mad re former. "The American citizen cannot re turn too soon to Constitutional gov ernment and the re-enforrement of business with hla confidence." LITERARY SOCIETIES AT EMORY MET EMORY COLL.FOB, Oxford. Ga.— The Few and Phi Gamma literary so cletie* met in point session In Few hall Monday morning and elected J. M. Bryan. oA Wrightsville. Ga., as business manager of the Emory Phoe nix to succeed W. C. Cooper, of Nor wood. Ga., who tendered his resig nation because he will not be In col lege this year. Dr. W. F. Melton, professor of English here, was elect ed a member of the inter-collegiate debate committee to succeed Dr. tl. A. Wiae. who la teaching this year In Oklahoma. .a.ier the joint session the two so cieties met In their respective halls, where each organization Initiated a argv number of new studunta. TOW'S POLITICO IIEIIIS Slim Mr, Bryan in his speeches in South Dakota asked a lot of questions to be put to Mr. Taft, who will stump the state today. Ex-Senator Pettigrew told Mr. Bryan he had reason to believe that the republicans are financing Tom Watson's populist campaign. Mr. Watson telegraphed that if anyone ever offered Pettigrew SIO,OOO for ten speeches on any earthly subject, that person “was more liberally supplied with money than sense.” Mr. Taft was well received in Minnesota, speaking in good voice, with overcoat collar turned up because of snow. When an aged woman indorsed one of his statements he gallantly referred to her ns prob ably the head of a family of sturdy sons. Laughter convinced him that he had made a hit until he was told that the woman was unmarried. Herman Ridder, the new treasurer of the democratic national com mittee, said he hopes to find 500 democrats who will give SI,OOO each to the campaign fund. Law'yer Walker, who reported the relations of Charles N. Haskell in the Iver case to President Roosevelt, produced affidavits by Haskell flat ly contradicting each other. Chairman Hitchcock refused to discuss his figures on Taft plurali ties in Western states, but said they were very conservative. He de clared every eastern state would .go for Taft. CLERK’S ERROR CAUSED MAN’S DEATH NEW YORK.—Private Detective James Galvin, of 686 Manhattan ave nue, is dead from what is probahly a drug clerk’s error. He bought a box of epsom salts at a well-known drug store a week ago, and early Tuesday took some of it. In a f-w moments he fell in agony at I*s wife's feet, and was dead before au ambulance arrived from the J. Hood Wright hospital. Dr. Hammond, In charge, said the salts were really sul phate of zinc, and gave the box and its remaining contents over to tho police. ONE MAN KILLED ON RUNAWAY CAR WHEELING, W. Va—One person is dead, two are probahly fatally in jured, and several seriously hurt as the result of the inability of a motor man to control an electric car going down the steep grade from Mozart Park late Monday afternoon. The dead: ALBERT KRATZ, Bellair, died in hospital. The injured: Dorsey Noble, motor man, injured internally, will probably die; John Dare, spine injured, may die; Harry Hasenaur, conductor, leg fractured; Cecilia Farrell, heud injur ed; Vesta Eisen, school teacher, con tusions of head and body; Lillie But ler, bruised and cut. The park is on a hill-top. The rails were slippery from rain, and the sup ply of sand exhausted. When the car started down the grade the motor man locked the brake and reversed the power. The car was found In that condition, against a telegraph pole which stopped Its course and prevented it from going over a fifty foot embankment. Several passengers were injured in jumping. ONE OBJECTION OF MRS. LEMP’S HELD Judge Says That Mr. Lemp Does Not Have To Specify his Particular Objections ST. LOUIS. —Circuit Judge Kinsey has sustained only one of the six ob jectlons to allegations in the cross bill presented by Mrs. William J. Lemp, Jr., in her suit for divorce against the millionaire brewer. Among other things the court savs Mr, Ump does not need to spectfv his particular objections to the so called ‘‘Lavender Lady" mode of dress, the color of her stockings, hst, etc. The court also says Lemp need not make known the name of the man to whom he savs Mrs. Lemp wrote an endearing letter. The cour' sus tained Mrs. Ix-mp’s motion requiring Iyomp to disclose which of Mrs lamp’s three sisters he specifically objected to visiting his home. Judge Kinsey said he would set the trial for some time during the lat ter part of the year. STEVEeiSQN NOT A COPPERHEAD BLOOMINGTON, Ills Xdlal E. Stevenson, democratic candidate fo‘ governor today again denied he was a member of the Knights of the Golden Uircle during the Civil war He says he never heard of Jennie Starkln. whose affidavit accuse* him, of being a member of the oopperhesii league, or her uncle, arid never was at her lather's house. Forecast for Au&usta and Vicinity—Fair tonight; Wednesday fair and warmer. AUGUSTA, GEORGA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 29, 1908. MOB HUNTING MAN 10 ASSAULTED CIRE ZANESVILLE, O.—Two hundred infuriated miners and farmers are searching the country in the vioinity of New Straitsville, 30 miles south ot this city for Grant Nixon, negro bar her, who is charged with attacking Lulu Ramsey, a 17-year-old white girl. The crime is said to have been committed Sunday afternoon, when the gill went to the negro's shop to nave her hair brushed. She is said to have been threatened by the ne gro if she should tell any one. but she confessed to her mother Monday evening. It is expected the negro will be lynched If capture*. WHITE PLAGUE MILLIONS Aside From Health Aspect Tuberculosis Drains Country of Immense Sums Annually. WASHINGTON, D.C.—The notable gathering of scientists making up the intor-inational tuberculosis congress at its sixth triennial convention as sembled, continued today their war fare upon the modern scourge. Nu merous papers were read before the different sections of the assemblage, addresses were delivered and stub born questions of physiology unravl led. One of tho papers that made a de cided impression upon the hearers was that read by Dr. A. D. Melvin, chief of the bureau of animal indus try ol' the United States, entitled, “The Economic Importance of Ani mal Tuberculosis.” In part Or. Mel vin said: "Statistics of the United Stales meat inspection for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, covering 53,973,337 anlrnalH, or more than oni half of all those slaughtered for fooil in this country show the following percentages of tuberculosis: Adult cattle 0.961; calves, 0.026; hogs, 2. 049; sheep and goats, none The proportion of tuberculosis 1h prob ably higher in animals slaughtered without Inspection. "While (lie saving of human Ilf,- affords the highest motive for com batting tuberculosis, the prevention of financial loss Is alone a sufficient reason for undertaking the eradica tion of th> disease from farm ani mals. The financial loss on animals in which tuberculosis Is found in the federal meal Inspection is estimated at $2,382,423 annually and If the same conditions were applied to animals slaughtered without the federal ap proprUtion, the annual loss on all animals slaughtered for foo u m the l otted States would be increased to $4 104.433. Taking In account all the loss the annual figure would extend to at least $3,000,000. “The eradication of tuberculosis is largely a public health measure, and It Is only reasonable that tnos whose cattle are slaughtered should be paid an Indemnity.’ John A. Klngsborg, assistant seen*, lary of New York S'ate Charities, was a speaker before Section V., on the following topic: “Hygienic. Ho clal. Industrial and Economic Aspects of Tuberculosis.” Mr. Kingsburg stated that the sub jer» matter In his paper was ba*»d almost wholly upon facts which had corn* nnd<r his observation in bis work. HASKELL'S ASSIBTANT QUIT* GUTHRIE Okla—John li. Dooifn, appointed assistant to Oovi-rnot \ ila-ke l wh» n <he governor was made i treasurer of the d"moerai!e nations! cofflmlttie, will resign and return from ' nit ago to his hone at Alva Oklahoma. ‘J™-.. . Some Things Mr. Roosevelt Forgot Added In Postscript To Bryan WASHlNGTON.—Supplemental to his reply to William Jennings Bryan relative to the trust prosecutions dur ing his administration, the president today made public a letter from John 11. Marble, attorney for the Interstate commerce commission, in which that !official reminds the president, thorn are still other prosecutions which the president overlooked and which re dound to Ihe credit of the administra tion. The letter, which is Issued at tin White House ns rather an additional answer to Mr. Bryan, Is as follows: “The President: Referring to the letter addressed by you lo Mr Bryan, which appears In the papers this day: That portion of your letter dealing with prosecutions under the act to regulate commerce seems not to In ; elude the work done during the year 1908. The showing made by you Is. therefore, even less Impressive than present facts would warrant, "So far as reports received by the division of prosecutions of this com missions Indicate, indictments for | rebating have been found against -railroad companies during the pres ent year as follows: Soul hern Phcl ‘ fie company. Northern district of jCaiifornia; Southern Pacific, southern ,district of California, throe Indict ments; Chesapeake and Ohio railway, eastern district of Virginia, three In dlctments; Illinois Central railroad, northern district of flllnois; Chicago. Hock Island and Pacific railway, northern district of Illinois; St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railway, eastern district, of Arkansas; Missouri Pacific railway, eastern district, of Ar kansas; Illinois Terminal railroad. Southern district of Illinois; Missouri. Kansas and Texas railway, western district of Missouri; St. Ikmjlb and Han Francisco railroad, eastern dls trlet of Missouri. BASEBALL NEW YORK —Although New York arid Detroit, re spcctively, loaders in tin* National and Amcrisan League pennant races, increased their advantages slightly yesterday, there was no diminution today in interest over the close confess for supremacy. I n less weather conditions interfere, all teams in both leagues will be engaged today, Philadelphia and New York; St. Louis and Pittsburg; in the National and Washington and Detroit, and Philadelphia and Cleveland in the American League being scheduled for double headers. Morning Game A merican League. Score by innings: R. II E. Philadelphia 000 010 300 4 4 3 Cleveland 100 002 01J 5 10 3 Batteries: Flater and Egan; Berger and Bemis Umpires: Hurst and Evans. REPUBLICAN PROSPERITY. AGAINST SHIPPERS. "Indictments against, shippers re ceiving rebates have been returned ns follows: Illinois Glass company, south orn district of Illinois; California Pine Box aud I,umber company, northern district of California; T. H. Bunch, eastern district of Arkansas; W. it Johnston, eastern district of Virginia; Warner Moore company, eastern dls trlet of Virginia. “In addition to the above, a num ber of Indictments have linen return ed against various small shippers for mlS’billlng. “Indictments against (ruffle offlcl als have been returned as follows: W. C, Htlth, freight traffic manager Missouri Pacific railway, eastern dls trlet of Arkansas; A. P. Gilbert, as ststant general freight agent Chesa peake and Ohio railway, eastern dls trlet of Virginia "ill the western district of New York, during the present year, llie Mutual transit company, a lake boat line, whh convicted of giving rebates and a fine of $5,000 imposed. “in the northern district of Ohio the Toledo Ice and Coal company pleaded guilty to a charge of recelv ing rebates and paid a fine of $3,000 “In the western district of Mlclil gan the Stearns Hall ami Lumber company pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving rebates and paid a fine of $20,000. "In the southern district of New York the Central of Vermont rail read pleaded guilty to a charge of giving rebates and paid a fine of SI,OOO. PACKING HOUSE CASES DECIDED. “During the present year the pack Ing house eases referred to by you have been decided bv the supreme court, the conviction being sustained, DAILY AND SUNDAY $6.00 PER YEAR. FOURTH DEGREE in ituuiti SIN The Knights of Columbus for (he southeastern states will meet ill At- Ihiilii October tho 18th for the pur pose of conferring the fourth degree. Members of councils from the differ ent slates will be Initiated. The work will lie In charge of Master P. H. Rlre of the southeastern jurisdiction assembly, 'the Atlanta council Ih mak ing elaborate preparations for the en tertainment of Ihelr guests and ex pectations of a pleasant time are held by all who are going to attend the ceremonies. MRS. MELTON ENTERTAINED MEMBERS OF EMORY FACULTY EMORY COLLEGE. Oxford. Ga. Saturday evening Mih VV. F. Mel ton entertained the members of tho Emory faculty and their wives In honor of Dr Mellon, whoso nlrtluluy occurred on the 26th. the jurisdiction cliiiiho of the IClklns act being held coiiHtltullonal and tic law against rebates being otherwise materially strengthened. “All the courts decisions hut three rendered during the year have served to strengthen the art, ro fur as It prohibits rebating These decisions are tho decisions rendered by Judge Grossnip In tin- Standard Oil ease at Chleago, the derision rendered by Judge I)nHas In the Camden Iron works ease ai Philadelphia, and the decision rendered by Judge Gray In ihe commodities clause case at Phil adelphia "I urn taking the liberty of address Ing you with this Information because It seems to iiio to be of Importance that you should know all the work that Is licit l !' done lo make effective the prohibition of diacriniinnllon. Respectfully, John H. Marble, Attorney, interstate Commerce Corn mission Live To-Day’s Life Today. A failure is a man who has blundered, but it not able to cash In the experience. TREASURES. “Laid up treasures?" That ain’t my plan. Don’t bAlleve much In buyln’ a seat; Wur finny one hungry, dog or man, I gin *lm a bite o’ my slice to eat,. Golden street* don’t figure with me, Wlmmen with wings never fly this way, But I kin keep blzzy ez enny bee Glvln’ sumbody a lift each day. —All Baba. From the Philistine. lieTUlOfl GAVE AUTO 10 ACTRESS NEW YORK.—Charles E. Little field, receiver for the bankrupt, stock exchange firm of A. O. Brown & Co., it the examination of the members of the firm before Commissioner Alex ander Monday, continued his efforts to find out what became of a number of the vanishing nssets of tho firm. One of tho witnesses was Albert O. Brown, senior member of the firm. "What became of tho automohlln for which you say you paid $7,000?" asked Mr. Littlefield. “I gave it away last March." “To whom did you give it?” "To Miss Hopper.” Receiver Littlefield did not pursue the inquiry further, but It. wn« gen erally supposed In the court-room that Mr. Brown referred to Edna Wallace Hopper Miss Hopper is living at 28 West Thirty-third street. In response to an Inquiry over tho telephone a youug woman who said she was Miss Hopper said: "Why do you ask mo about it? Do you doubt Mr Brown’s word?” "No, but there may be another Miss Hopper.” "Oh, I seel” said til# actress. “Well, Mr. Ilrown did give me a mo tor car last March, but I didn’t see anything remarkable In a gentleman giving a lady a motor oar. I suppose If ho had given me anything else the papers would print a whole page about It. Wo have been friends for a long time, so it was perfectly natu ral for hint to give me the oar.” "Are you good friends st. 111?” ’’l hope so, said Miss Hopper, MIK FALLING ON FOREST FIS UTICA, N. Y.—Rains, which began falling In Uilh section of the state Monday, continued through a great er part of ths night and Tuesday It Is believed the forest fires which have been raging In the Adirondacks will soon bo under control. Vv’ord has Just been received hero from the upper lake that Mnlcolut Tweed, Ids wlfn and throe children who were living at the F. Haas camp on Little Wolf Pond, are missing, und, It Is feared, perished in tin fire that swept that Hoctlon Sunday night. METHODISTS WANT CANNONDEFEATED LOS ANGELES, Cal. —California Methodists lii conference here Mon day -it lacked Speaker Joseph U. Cannon, of the house of representa tives, calling on mem hers of that de nomination throughout the country t.o vote against representatives who would support Cannon for speaker. The resolution urges Methodists In Cannon’s dl..trlet to vote against and give him h "vacation of two years without pny," that lie may become amenable lo public opinion. Falling In defeating him for coo* gross, it is proposed that Methodists shall ask the Christian citizenship of tne United States, without regard to political affiliations, to bring ail pos sible moral Influence to bear on every coiigrcssniun-eloct to put a man in ihe speaker's chair “who will not arrogate to himself the functions of the supreme court, but instead, will grant to all the people and their law ful representatives In congress the lights granted to them by the Con stitution of the United States.