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ge Bellefonte, Pa., July 13, 1906.
Opens Congressional Campaign With
Speech at Greensboro, N. G
GIVES ADVICE TO THE SOUTH
Greensboro, N. C., July 10.—Secre-
tary of War Taft, before a meeting of
North Carolinans on the eve of their
convention, delivered a speech that
was generally anticipated as the open-
Ing gun of the congressional campaign
of 1906. The speech dealt with cor-
rupt political questions and opening
with advice to the rank and file of the
party in North Carolina and the south
particularly referred to the achieve
ments of the party in the session of
congress just closed. Mr. Taft said
in part:
In opening he said that when he was
invited to address this meeting the
committee advised him “that the po-
litical situation was such that if a
proper effort was made at the coming
election it would be possible to carry
the state for the Republican party.”
The secretary added:
“I believe that nothing that could
happen in the politics of this country
would work greater advantage to the
eountry at large, and to the south in
particular, than the breaking up of
what has been properly known as the
“golid south.” I say this in no partisan
spirit, for I am not one of those who
think that this result would neces-
sarily increase the probability of tae
continuance in power of the Republi
ean party.
“The solidity of the south has, in a
measure, furnished its own antidote
in restraining many voters in the
morth, who might have left the Re-
publican party but for what they re-
gard as the injustice and danger of
southern political conditions.
“The south has been kept solid by
the spectre of negro domination and
by stirring up racial prejudices and
arousing unfounded alarm over an im-
possible return of reconstruction
days,” said the secretary. “After a
long struggle of the negro's vote was
made to count for nothing and then
the political leaders of the dominant
party came to realize that dreadful
demoralization of all society that fol
lowed in a government if law was
flouted and fraud was to constitute its
They cast about to make the
w square with existing conditions
dy property and educational qualifica-
tions which should exclude the negro.
They adopted amendments to the
state constitution, with the so-called
‘grandfather's clauses,’ intended to ap-
ply the new qualifications to the ne-
gro and not to apply them to the
whites.”
“The secretary said it is impossible
to frame a law establishing an educa-
tional qualification for suffrage
which will stand the test of the 15th
amendment, and which will not oper:
ste ultimately to exclude impartially
the negroes and whites from the bal
lot who lack educational acquirement,
A policy in the south, he said, which
excludes from the ballot impartially
black and white, when ignorant and
frresponsible, cannot be criticised.
During the past decade, Mr. Taft
pointed out, a period of unprecedented
prosperity has come for the fair south.
ern states. “Under the circumstances,”
he said, “it is not to be expected that
the sensible, clear-headed business
men of the south do not perceive the
tremendous disadvantage under which
the southern states labor in having
enly one party with any voice in their
state governments, and in being herd-
ed together always as the hide-bound
support of the Democratic party of
the country, no matter what wild fal-
Jacies it may adopt in its platform
mor what candidate it may put before
the country.
“The effect of the change of indus-
trial conditions in eliminating the cry
of negro domination from the politics
ef thy former slave owning states has
manitested itself first in the border
states. West Virginia has become per-
manently Republican, and Maryland
and Missouri put themselves in the
Republican column in the last presi-
dential election, while Kentucky
mearly brought forth works meet for
repentance in the first McKinley cam-
paign.”
Mr. Talt contended that if the
southern people “had kept up with the
times; had they at the ballot box ex-
pressed their sentiments on the living
issues of the day, instead of allowing
themselves to be frightened by a spec:
tre and a shadow of the past, their
political importance as communities
and the significance of their views
wpon measures and men would have
been vastly enhanced.”
“The Republican party and Theo
dore Roovsevelt,” he declared, “are in
favor of the just and equal operation
of the law, whether it be by civil suit,
by the process of injunction in equity
or by indictment at the bar of the
eriminal ccurt against the man who
violates the law and another's right,
whether he be rich or poor, a corpora-
tion president or a wage earner, They
are against immunity from prosecy
tion for vislation of law either on the
ground that a man has money or in-
dustrial or politfeal power, or on the
ground that he has not either.”
SAYS BRYAN'S A WINNER
Senator Stone Bets Three to Twe
Against Roosevelt.
St. Louis, Mo., July 10.—Three to
two on Bryan against Roosevelt; even
money Bryan against Taft. This is
e way that United States Senator
mon Gobbau and her
were burned to death in a fire that re-
stroved their home here. Solomon
Gobbaue, the husband and father, was
badly burned, but will recover.
entire family was asleep when the fire
started.
Senator Stone has arrived in St. Louis
fresh from Washington and New York
and in full possession of the latest de-
— |velopments in the field of presidential
possibilities,
Bryan's letter from abroad to United
States Senator Jones, saying tt he
would accept the Democratic n ina-
tion for the presidency if it wus the
wish of the reforming element i1 the
party.
including William J.
“There is no question in the world
that Bryan will be the Demeoccratic
nominee by unanimous vote of the
next national convention,” said Sena-
tor
friends of Mr. Bryan all over the coun-
try, | should be overjoyed to see
Roosevelt renominated by the Repub-
licans. Three to two conservatively
figures the Bryan
President Roosevelt in the election.
Stone. “In common with the
chances against
“If Taft should happen to be nomi-
nated by the Republicans the race
might be somewhat closer.
would be nearer |
Bryan would have a shade the better
chance.”
The odds
even, but at that |
Senator Stone asserted that Bryan's
chances to be the next president of
the United States were better than
those of any other American states-
man.
FIVE STAGE COACHES HELD UP
Highwayman Secured Much
Booty By Nervy Deed.
Wawona, Cal, July 9.—Five Yosem-
ite Valley stage coaches were held up
near the entrance to the National Park
by a lone highwayman, who obtained
a considerable amount of money and
jewelry. The stages were halted in
rapid succession at the identical spot
where a bandit a year ago robbed sev-
eral wealthy tourists of their valua-
bles.
The stages were traveling sufficiently
far apart to avoid each other's dust,
and when the first vehicle reached the
turn in the road the highwayman,
whose features were hidden by a duster
thrown over his head, stepped out,
pointed a gun at the driver and com-
manded him to halt. Some of the
women passengers screamed, while oth-
ers began wildly to secrete their val-
uables.
The highwayman directed all passen-
gers to throw out their money and
jewelry, and when the order met with
compliance he directed the driver to
move on. The second stage arrived
within a few minutes after the first,
Lone
and the driver gpd ngers § fered
a similar rience. e pre was
repeated until all five coaches had been
halted and robbed. Then the bandit
disappeared in the brush.
PANIC ON VOUNG'S PIER
Moving Picture Machine Takes Fire
In Atlantic City Resort.
Atlantic City, N. J., July 9.—A slight
fire in a moving picture machine, in
operation in the theatre on Young's
plere here started a panic among the
several hundred persons who were in
the auditorium, and a number of per-
sons were injured in the rush for the
exits. Those who were injured disap-
peared in the crowd on the boardwalk,
and their names could not be learned.
Assistant Stage Manager Freund, of
the pier theatre, was slightly hurt.
When the moving picture machine
took fire there was a puff of smoke and
then darkness. Some one cried “fire,”
and then a rush was made for the
doors. Women were knocked down
and children were separated from their
parents, but all escaped from the build-
ing without serious injury, so far as
known. The fire was out in an in-
stant, but some one turned in an alarm
and the entire Atlantic City fire de-
partment answered the call, causing
additional excitement on the pier.
DAVENPORT FOUND GUILTY
Attempted to Murder His Child With
Box of Poisoned Candy.
Trenton, N. J., July 7.—Charles T.
Davenport was found guilty in the
Mercer county court cn the charge of
attempting to poison his 12-year-old
daughter Josephine about two months
ago. The jury arrived at the verdict
after deliberating an hour. Daven-
port was charged with sending the
girl a box of candy for the purpose of
killing her, thereby securing a small
amount of life insurance.
Held Baby as Shield From Bullets.
Beattyville, Ky., July 10.—Attorney
B. R. Jouett made the opening state-
ment for the commonwealth in the
case against Hargis and Callahan,who
are charged with the assassination of
J. B. Marcum. Jouett implicated in
the conspiracy James Hargis, Ed. Cal-
lahan, B. ¥. French, Joseph Smith,
John Abner and Tom White. One in-
cident which the attorney promised to
prove wes a plot for Tom White to
shoot Marcum with a shot gun as
Marcum passed Hargis’ store. Mar-
cum passed by holding his baby in
his arms. White, Jouett, said, was up-
braided for not shooting and replied
that he did not want to kill the baby.
Hargis is quoted as saying:
ought to send the brat to —-- with
its daddy.”
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Seven Burned to Death.
Lafayette, Ind., July 7.—Mrs. Solo-
six children
The
Awful Death From Dog's Bite
Louisville, Ky., July 9.—~Lynch Hen-
son, a moulder, died of hydrophobia
after frightful suffering. Henson was
bitten two weeks ago. He had 200
convulsions, and during his last hours
his agonies were such that it required
liam J. Stone figures the chances
on the 1908 presidential campaign.
the cXorts of three men to hold him ig
POLICYHOLDERS ORGANIZE
| To Overthrow the Management of Two
Life Insurance Companies.
New York, July 10.—The interna-
tional policyholders committee, organ-
ized to overthrow the present manage-
ment of the New York Life Insur-
ance company and the Mutus! Life
Insurance company of New Yoik, ef-
fected a permanent organization at a
meeting here by the election of the
following officers:
Chairman, Richard Olney, of Mas-
sachusetts; vice chairman, Governor
J. Frank Hanly, of Indiana; executive
eommittee, Alton B. Parker, of New
York; Governor J. D. Johnson, of Min-
pesota; Charles Emory Smith, of
Pennsylvania; Harlow N. Higgin-
botham, of Illinois; A. M. Shook, of
Tennessee; Governor Henry Roberts,
“of Connecticut; Governor Samuel
W. Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania;
PePnnypacker, of Pennsylvania;
finance committee, Thomas B. Wana-
maker, of Pennsylvania; F. G. Neid-
ringhaus, of Missouri; Samuel New-
house, of Utah; Samuel Untermyer,
of New York (of counsel); Seymour
Eaton (secretary), G. B. Scrugham
(organizer).
After the meeting the committee
issued an address to the policyholders
explaining the inception of the com-
mittee and outlining its plan of action.
Reciting that the voting power has
gradually been transferred from the
policyholders to a few of the executive
officers centered in New York, the ad-
dress says that it is necessary for the
1,200,000 policyholders to organize
without delay, as this year under the
law recently enacted affords the pol
feyholders their only opportunity to
obtain complete control in one elec-
tion, while hereafter only half the di-
rectors can be chosen in any one elec-
tion.
ASKS IF THEY'LL HANG HER
Girl Who Says She Killed Her Lover
Grows Anxious.
Pottsville, Pa., July 9.—While her
story is not yet authenticated, the po-
lice now place more credence in the
confession of Emma Stephany that she
killed her lover, James Frizzel, whose
body was found lying on a street here
on the morning of the Fourth of July.
It has been ascertained that Frizzel
had a revolver, just as the girl says he
had, and she repeated her story to War-
den Mulholland that she shot Frizzel
with his own WeapoR, . a=! és.
“Do you think they will hang me?"
she asked.
Chief of Police Davies is one of those
who do not believe the girl's story. He
still thinks that she sprung her con-
fession merely to puzzle the police, and
that the real murderer is going as fast
as possible across the state border to
some remote locality, where conceal-
ment is possible. When his escape is
assured, the chief thinks, the girl will
make a clean breast of the whole case.
This man, in the opinion of the chief,
was also a lover of the girl, and shot
Frizzel out of jealousy. Chief Davies
thinks that the course of the bullet
shows conclusively that Frizzel was
shot from ambush.
TRIED TO CREMATE EIGHT ALIVE
Diabolical Avenger at Reading Oils
and Fires Their Home.
Reading, Pa., July 9.—~The police
were informed of a dastardly attempt
to take the lives of six adults and two
children when a person, whom the po-
lice hope to take into custody, coal-
oiled and fired the house of Peter Katz-
enmeyer,
The family who narrowly escaped
cremation consists of the following:
Mr. and Mrs, Katzenmeyer, aged 60 and
656 years, respectively; Mrs. Caroline
Fritz, their daughter; Samuel and Pe-
ter K. Katzenmeyer, their sons; Fred-
erick Smith and children, Eva, aged 10,
and Leon, aged 2 years.
The fire department saved the house
and inmates after hard work. The po-
lice believe the crime was executed by
one bent on wreaking vengeance upon
Mrs. Fritz for some fancied grievance.
Panic Followed Collision.
New York, July 9.—Fire following
a collision in Coney Island between the
elevated railroad express train and a
local trolley car caused a panic in
which six persons were injured by be-
ing trampled upon. Bound for Coney
Island and going at high speed, the
express had just turned the curve in
the road near the Sea Beach Palace,
when just ahead the montorman saw
the local car stationary and passengers
alighting from it. He tried to stop his
train, but it crashed into the local. By
the force of the impact a fuse of the
local was blown out and flames threat-
ened the car. The passengers fought
fiercely with each other to escape.
Child Burned to Death.
Lynchburg, Va., July 10.—The home
of Fitzhugh Moore, 25 miles from here,
was burned, and the 8-year-old daugh-
ter was burned to death and two other
daughters injured. The family was
aroused by the flames, and the father
did not discover that the daughter
had not gotten out until it was too
late to rescue her. It was only by the
most desperate efforts that he was
kept from rushing into the tottering
building as he heard the cries of the
child for help.
Wife Murderer Electrocuted.
Boston, July 9.—John Schidlofski,
Lithuanian, was electrocuted at the
state prison at Charlestown for the
gh of kis wife at Belmont, July
12, 1905.
The Dewey Near Destination.
Manila, July 10.—The dry dock
Dewey has arrived at Olongapo. The
trip from Singapore was uneventful.
Disraell’s Retirement.
In 1876 Mr. Disraeli was raised by
the queen to the peerage under the
itle of Lord Beaconsfigl and he left
e us of {Siaimons Le ore the news
of hig elevation to the house of lords
had ha publle, His withdraw-
al from the stage where hé had played
so long the leading part in a manher
obviously devised to avoid any sort of
ovation was in accordance with the
dignity which characterized the re-
maining years of his life after the de-
feat of the Conservatives, when the
general election of 1880, in consequence
of the Midlothian campaign, had ter-
minated his public career. No appll-
cant for his opinions on any pt
ever received a postal card from Tord
Beaconsfield. No speech was ever
made by him at railway stations. He
died in 1881 as he had lived—alone, a
stranger amid a strange people. After
his death his memory became to Eng-
lish Conservatives an object of almost
sentimental affection; to English Radi-
cals it remained an object of never
failing animosity. But to Englishmen
of all politics, to Conservatives and
Liberals alike, his life continues to be
a constant puzzle, an unsolved enigma.
—London Standard.
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