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A A TOS ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES LAST EDITION 4:00 P. M. Weather Forecast : RAIN OR SNOW. VOL. XVI. NO. 280. ASHEVILLE, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ' JANUARY 3, 1912. 3c PER COPY M f u jam r m TA7 AROUSED BY OOSEVELT : ... .,-... Realizing Gravity of Republi can Situation, Says Only Death Can Remove Him from Race. ADMINISTRATION MEN TO BEGIN CAMPAIGN The President la Urged Openly to Break With Roosevelt, But He Refuses to Do So. Washington, Jan. 8. "Nothing but death can keep me out of the fight now." President Taft, it Is reported, made this statement to White House callers today and added that he had no ob jection to the statement being made public. It undoubtedly was Intended to set at rest reports that Taft might withdraw from the race for the repub lican presidential nomination in favor of Roosevelt. " -President Taft, it is said, 1b thor oughly aroused to the gravity of the situation In the republican party and is determined to let his attitude be generally understood. He has de clared that under no circumstances will he withdraw his name for con sideration by the Chicago convention next June and has asserted that his -position respecting the nomination has not changed In any particular I since he entered the White House. Taft told friends and party leaders from the beginning that should he be called upon to stand for re-election he would be glad to do so; that he felt under obligations to his party for making him president and was willing to abide by its decision In convention. According to an announcement today, he will not quit the race' until the nominating ballots are cast at Chi cago, v The president was urged by many ot his cJcjseUrlends to make a. deft nite statement About hi position and agreed to do so m language quoted above. With this statement as their inspiration, it is said Taft supporters will begin an active campaign in his behalf Immediately. It is stated that some of Taf t's friends have gone so far as to advise him openly to break with Roosevelt and challenge the lat ter to make plain his Intentions. The president has declined to do this. The White House has been ilooded with callers lately bringing word to Taft that Roosevelt so far has de clined to say he would not accept the nomination if it were tendered him. It is reported to the White House that Roosevelt believes an organized ef fort is being made to "smoke him out" and he declines to be "smoked" by either Taft or LaFollette forces. The president listened to all these re ports with an indulgent smile but re fused to indicate whether he believed .them. It is vehemently denied at the White House that President Taft sent "messengers" to Roosevelt relative to any subject whatsoever. The presi dent has been urged for weeks to make a more progressive campaign In his own behalf. He has replied that he dfd. not think political activity comported with presidential dignity. He consents that his friends carry forward the tight as vigorously as they desire, and he will lend whatever as slstance he properly can. , REALIZE ROOSEVELT SEEKS NOMINATION Action of Ohio Progressives Removes Last Doubt That He Would Supplant Taft. Gazette-News Bureau, -Wyatt Building, , Washington, Jan., 3. Suspicions of long standing have crystallised to definite conviction among all fuctlons here that Theodore Roosevelt Is s candidate against Prow ident Taft for the republican presl- dontlul nomination. The conviction exists In Mr. Taft's immediate circle at the White House, but Taft answers that he will fight. "If death should lay its hands on , the president's shoulders," said one of itne presidents closest advisers, tnat Would settle It, but let no one enter tain for a moment that any other con tingency will remove him from the field." Many things have conspired to bring about the crystlllzatlon of opln Ion upon Roosevelt's attitude. These were created by the action of the re publican progressives at ColumbUi, O., who, with Gifford Plnchot and James R. Garfield present, adopted "gee whiz'' Insurgent antl-Taft plat form, but refused to endorse LaFollete for the presidency. They made It clear that they were not tor Tart, bat also while they acclaimed LaFollette great progressive leader, they were not for him. The personality of Roosevelt loomed - up in the - back ground of that convention as plainly as a thunder-cloud In an otherwise clear sky. It Is even ' rumored here In Taft circles that the Taft crowd have themselvei besought Roosevelt to re move all doubt. about his attitude and that he has refused. J. R. Coolie, chief clerk to the com mittee on claims, of which Reprnsen tutlvo Pou Is chairman, reached Wash ington yi'Hlcnliiy find wild Unit Mr. JNki'm liriilih Im iii mil imwiivi'd mill LETTERS TO s w TRUST'S EXISTENCE Armour Manager's Correspon dence Introduced at Pack ers' Case Hearing. Chicago, Jan. 3. Documentary evi dence that the price of meat was fixed and the) business apportioned on a non-competitive basis by the packers at their weekly meetings was Intro duced by the government yesterday"at the trial of the ten Chicago packers before United States District Judge Carpenter. ' Special Counsel Pierce Butler read sevural letters received by W. D. Mills, manager ' of the Armour Packing company, Kansas City, in June, 1897, In which the amounts! of beef to be shipped to certain eastern markets were given and the price to be charged based on a margin of 50 cents on the uniform test cost estimate used by the packers was named. The letters also flatly refuted the statements of Henry Veeder on the witness stand that no nicetings of the packers to fix prices ntid apportion business were held between April, 1897, and January, 1898, when a "sta tistical bureau" was maintained to compile records of meat shipped and prices obtained at different points. Mills, who severed his connection with the Armour interests in 1903, will, It Is said, be one of the star wit nesses for the government. One of the letters dated June 29, 1897, read In part: "Dear Sir: This afternoon it was agreed that each party will not ship during the current week in excess of shipments agreed upon for last week. 'Boston: At this point It was agreed that each party In Interest will not ship during the current week In excess of his proportion of a total shipment of 100 cars, basing such proportion on the average weekly- shipments to Boston for the eight weeks ending June iS, 1897. It was also agreed that parties In Interest would endeavor to obtain for the current -week margins of 50 cents. . Pittsburg: It was agreed that each party in interest would not ship In ex cess of 90 per cent or tne average weekly, shipment for the four weeks ending June 12. 1897. Witness Veeder said "the statistical bureau," remained In existence until January, 1898, when the packers went back to the old arrangement of hojd lng meetings every Tuesday to deter mine prices and apportion business on a percentage basis. In March, 1898, the witness said, Schwarasschlld and Sulzberger were taken Into the combination and sent a representative to the meetings. The aereement the witness said was for three years and expired In 1901 when a new agreement for three years was entered into. E. J. Martin, Armour & Co.'s repre sentatlve. died in 1899, the witness said, and after that Arthur Meeker at tended the packer's meetings In behalf of Armour & Co.- Continuing his recital, Veeder said was for three years and expired In 1998 the penalty charged for over- shipment was 75 cents per 100 pounds. He said comparative statements ol profit margins were furnished mem bers on application and added that he believed all the agreement of 18S and 1901 had been destroyed. "Some time between 1898 and 1902 the agreement in certain territory was applied to fresh mutton as well as beef and the penalty nxed tor over shipment was. $1 a 100 pounds, in 1902 the agreement was extended to include veal In certain territory," con tinued the witness. AFTER HOLIDAY HEGESS Washington, Jan. J. Both houses of congress reassembled at noon to day after the Christmas holidays re cess, which began December 21. Most manutnru nnil reDreseutatlves nad re turned but . practically no i important business was pending for the day. The first snow of - the winter in Washington brought with It. a bad cold for Speaker Clark. He had a touch of bronchitis when he reassem bled tho house after the holidays and his voice was husky. He remained at hla nnst acaJnst the advice of friepds. ,The house was in session 15 minutes. ". .-Knrenlntlve Smith of California who had been 111 since the beginning of the sixty-second congress, was tunrn In. Senator Brlstow Introduced bills for tho criwernment of the Panama canal ship line. Numerous petitions were presented for the ratification of the ireneral arbitration treaties. Senator Pnvhnr announced that he would make a minority report favoring the ratification of the arbitration treaties J J i . " ' 1 -A unumr iiimy.f i . . . , i, The senate was In session 30 min utes. Legislators Meet at Albany. Albany, 'jan. 2. -With the senate rlAmncrntln hv 7 vntea And the Rfwem bly republican by a majority of 4. thf lci;ll:itiii'i convened today. ftiiwin ' v ' '''' sl.if.t INQUISITORS illl Mil Banker Sailed for Egypt as House Committee Planned to Summon Him to Washington. SAY FINANCIER KNEW OF THEIR INTENTION Hope Yet to Hear His Story of Steel Corporation's Formation and T. C. ' & I. Deal. Washington, Jan. 3. If J. Pierpont Morgan had not left Saturday last for Egypt he would soon have been called as a witness before the Stanley Steel Investigating committee of the house. It is learned authoritatively that nt the time Mr. Morgan left the commit tee was seeking to learn whether ho would appear voluntarily. , It has been- the policy of the com mittee to arrange for the volunteer appearance ot witnesses where possi ble, and this has been generally suc cessful In obtaining their presence. Mr. Roosevelt came before the com mittee as a result of such an Informal arrangement and it Is understood that the committee desired to follow the same course In the case of Mr. Mor gan. Where the voluntary method falls subpoenaes will be Issued, but thus far the voluntary method has succeeded. The committee still hopes to have Mr. Morgan ns a witness. . If he re turns at any time before the investiga tion Is ended he will be called, ac cording to the present Intention of the committee." When he loft New York, Mr. Morgan said:. "I don't know when I will be back;" The Stanley committee may make a report before the winter is over. It Is by no moans certain,, however, that its final report will be made before the end of the seas' jn, which the leaders think will last until the 'Summer, or evon . before the end of the present congress on March 4, 1913. . That means there will be plenty of time to hear what Mr. Morgan has to' say about the organization of the steel combination after he returns from abroad. Want First Hand Story. After much discussion, Representa tive A. O. Stanley, the chairman of the committee, and the other demo cratic members came to the conclu sion that no Investigation of the Unit ed States steel corporation and allied Industries would be complete unless the man who organized the great trust was called to the witness stand. All of the witnesses who have appeared before the committee spoke of Mr. Morgan's part In the organization of the corporation. Again, It was Mr. Morgan who was the guiding genius In the transaction by which the steel cor. poratlon took over the Tennessee Coal and Iron company In the fall of 1907 Judge E. H. Gary, executive head of the steel corporation, who with Henry C. Frlck came directly from Mr. Mor gan's library In New York to the White House and obtained the approval of Mr. Roosevelt for the merger, spoke of Mr. Morgan's part in the transac tion at every turn when he was a wit ness before the Stanley committee. He paid a high .tribute tb the banker, declaring that had It not been for his activities In the flurry of 1907 the business world would have suffered a disaster from which It would not have recovered for many years. The committee feels that It has had enough of this second lutnd Informs Hon about Mr. Morgan, and the time has Come, to hear from the financier himself. The members are greatly disappointed that he should have gone away. They . believe he was aware of the plans to call him, but have not intimated that he arranged the trip to Egypt In order to avoid service of a subpoena. t Andrew Carnegie, before leaving for Europe last summer, told the commit tee tht he would willingly appear this winter and tell whaj he knows of the formation of the steel combination. He probably will be called soon after the holidays. BANK FAILS; FORGED KITES TOTAL S144.698 Washington; . Jan. J. Comptroller of "the Currency Murray announced today that the forged notes which caused the failure of the Albion Na tinnul bank of Albion, Mich., amount ed to (144,698. The notes the comptroller announced, were placed in the bank by the cashier. TO PROBE ACQUISITION OF THE CANAL ZONE Washington, Jim. 3. Chairman Sul zer of the house committee on foreign affairs announced today that his com mttteu soon would begin hearings on the Ralnej resolution authorizing an Investigation Into the Acquisition of the Panama canal sone by the United States. The resolution mentions the fact "that a former president of th United States has declared that he tool! I'nmiiiia from Columbia without " ' '""'"' "..", iM, mi . 11,1(11,1 . i . '.'-.. I must be candid, in my judg stronger as a voting party if all speech at Greensboro, July 10, 2 El Ths Political and Personal En emies of Kentuckian Sus pected of Crime. Tyrone, Ky Jan. 8. The home of Police Judge John Lancaster was blown up with dynamite here yester. day and practically wrecked. No one was Injured. It le believed that re venge .was- the .oauoa for -Allowing up the house.' An Investigation la being made. That Judge Lancaster has some po lltlcal and personal enemies who are suspected of knowing something about the cause for and the perpetrators of the explosion IS the belief of detec t!ves who arrived here to work - on the case late yesterday afternoon. The house was practically blown to pieces. Furniture was tossed Into the air and blown to small bits. No one was seen to run from the house at the time of the explosion and the detectives be lieve a bomb was operated by clock mechanism. Bloodhounds brought to the scene were unable to find a trail. FAVORS FEDERAL AGENCY TO GQNTB0LTHE TRUSTS Secretary Nagel Says Recent Decisions Show Other Measures Necessary. -Washington, Jan. 3. "The mere breaking up of large combinations into.jmumbcr of separate parts by no means meets the whole trust ques tion," says Secretary Nagel of the de partment of commerce and labor. In his annual report transmitted yester day to President Taft ' Secretary Nagel declares that the Sherman law has been proved to be an effective statute beyond all doubt and that a degree of combination of capital is quite necessary, but he adds that the' Supreme court decisions In the Standard OH -and tobacco cases have demonstrated that the next Btep In the control of great Industrial cor porations will be the creation of a permanent federal agency. How such control shall be exer cised, whether by commission, federal Incorporation or other means, which have been advocated recently by Judge Elbert H. Gary, George- W. Perkins and other financiers before the senate committee, which has been conducting hearings to determine what changes would be desirable in the antitrust laws, Secretary Nagel does not definitely say, TRAINS CRASH; 20 HURT Engineer Potter Killed ' and Many PssHengrrs Hurt In Hcad-in Collision on Chocktaw. EI Reno, Okla., Jan. 8. A head-on collision occurred on the Rock Island railroad near here today when the "Firefly," "Southbound, and passenger train No. 41 crashed together. James Potter engineer on the "Firefly" wan killed and. 2( passengers and members of this, train crew wer Injured. Cndcrwood, 111, Won't Attend Banquet. Washington, Jan- 3. Representa tive Underwood of Alabama will not participate In the Jackson Day ban quet here Monday night Underwood cancelled the engagement to speak by order of his physician hocrtuso of hlti r.MynMltt.,.,,ll.( .U.'M'it 4 XUU.NMUVY tllUUt 0,m' HWtvfjU U U MnNt, Int. Jt S CQRRAltP FOR USE: ' ' N 1912 WE.HAVE GOTtVA ML INSIDE" THE RESERVATION, BRANDEDAND THE! ment the republican party in North Carolina would be much the federal offices were filled b y 1906. . SOUGHT BY SWIFT Newly Elected Secretary to v Confer With Mill Men and Others. Gazette-News Bureau, Daily News Building, Greensboro, Jan. 3. W. H. Swift, who was elected field secretary by the North Carolina, child labor committee at a meeting held In Raleigh last Friday night, is losing no time in setting to work to secure a crystalization of sentiment In the state regarding child labor, and with the first day of 1912, he started a canvass for members for an organization of public spirited men in Guilford county which will be a nucleus to the state wide organization he hopes to accom plish in the ensuing year. Mr. Swift will visit counties of the state, and he is now engaged in formulating his plans. Mr. Swift said yesterday that his purpose Is to conduct a campaign of education throughout the state. "North Carolina," he said, "Is way be hind many of the states In giving pro tection to her children." He believes that the remedy of this is by the en. actment of a law, and that law is the only Way of bringing It about, and that the securing of a law is possibly by making the people of the state see the necessity of action. "If we Just show the people of the state," he continued, "what is neces sary, they would Immediately say for it to be done." The average man, says Mr. Swift, realizes the necessity of proper rest for children, and the harmfulness of overwork, and the main thing now is to crystal Ire public sentiment. Mr. Swift will first go to the mill men and hold conferences with them one by one and if possible have an agreement with them bo that they will be in favor of the plans which are desired to be put through. A negro giving his name as John Scott Is in jail here as a suspect. The negro was arrested yesterday after noon and is suspected of being one Henry Bushnell of Reldsville, who is wanted In Rockingham county, charg ed with a murderous assault. "Scott" (Continued on pae t) SAYS RETOLD! OF Indianapolis, Jan. 3. National labor officials affiliated with Samuel Gom pers and the American Federation of Labor were Informed two years ago bv Charles A. Bookwalter, who as mayor then conducted a secret lnves tigatlon, that John J. McNamara di rected a series of dynamite explo sions. ' Bookwalter declared this today when Informed that the government's investigation embraced an Inquiry Into the circumstances of four explo sions directed against Albert Von- shreckelsen, a contractor, because of labor troubles. Bookwalter . expects to be subpoenaed by the federal grand Jury. GHILQ LABOR 1 80 Girls and Women Disappeared During 191 1 . Kansas City, Jan., t. Ths desire for a rood time is ths cause of girls leav ing home more often than anything else,' states Chief of Police Griffin, whose annual report today shows 18 girls and, wmen roported missing II democrats. President Taft's FINDS HOOKWORM EN 95 COUNTIES OF TENNESSEE Nashville Specialist Investigat ing Conditions Learns Dis ease is Widely Prevalent. Nashville, Jan. 3. Ninety-five of the 96 counties in this state are in fected with 'the hookworm disease, ac cording to the annual report of Dr. Olin West, a specialist Dr. West has been investigating ' conditions for the board of health. Lewis county Is the only one In the state unaffected. ' LULU GLASER GIVEN DECREE OF DIVORCE Testifies Her Husband, Ralph C. Hen, Choaked Her, Calling Her Bar maid" and "Bowery Woman." Chicago, Dec. 3. A divorce decree has been ordered in the suit of Mrs. Ralph C. Herz, known on the stage as Lulu Glazer, against her husband. The plaintiff testified her husband choked her and called her "barmaid" and "bowery woman." Herz did not contest the suit. The couple were married In New York five years ago. TO STAY IN RACE Denial 1.4 Made That Wisconsin Man Intends to Withdraw from Pres idential Contest. Chicago, Jan. 3. Without referring to Governor Osborn's suggestion in his Lansing speech that LaFollette with draw from the presidential race, the LaFollette national headquarters to day Issued a statement denying that LaFollette intended withdrawing. MME. CURIE VER YILL Discoverer of Radium Suffers from an Acute Attack of Appendicitis Worry Aggravates Illness. Paris, Jan. 3. The condition of Mme. Curie, discoverer of radium, be cause of an acute attack of appendi citis, continues serious. Her illness, It is believed, was aggravated by worry, during the recent suit In which her name was connected with that of Prof. Langevln in divorce proceedings. FIRE LOSS $500,000 Smokehouse of-Swift & Co., at Chi cago Is Burned Three Fire men are Injured. Chicago, Jan. 3. Fire destroyed Swift & Co.'s smokehouse, a Ave story building today. The damage was $500,000. Three firemen were Injured Seaboard Flagman Injured. Gazette-News Bureau, The Hotel Raleigh, Raleigh, Jan. 7. Walker Elks, a white flagman em ployed by the Seaboard fell from the top of a car between two cars at Wake Forest today and probably sustained fatal Injuries. He Is In the college hospital. His home Is In Raleigh. during 1911 have not been accounted for. . "Fifteen seems' the most popular age for girls to run way," Griffin said "Four-fifths of those, who leave are between t'ie 8 gen r .M. end 19." WM mi PHOSPEGT Politically Speaking Survey of Entire Field From Local Viewpoint A Democrat ' . Gives Opinions. I ANY POSSIBILITIES V IN RACE FOR CONGRESS War of Proportions Likely to Break Over Various Local Questions The Contest For The Senate : With the opening of the new year there is increased discussion of poli tics In Buncombe county and affairs ' political In the state, leaders and those political In the state, by lenders aad those interested In party success. Hitherto- speculation and proph esy have been made at random by this one and that bdt, as the time approaches for the an nouncement of candidates and the , shaping of party politics, affairs are taking on concrete form and a more substantial analysis can be made. The contest in the general election in November next will be, perhaps, the hardest fought in the political annals of the state and particularly In west ern North Carolina. . This is a presidential year. The stronghold of republicanism Is in this section. Here is the battleground. Not a stone will be left unturned. Nothing will be left undone. It will ' . be a conflict to the death. -When the line-up comes we can expect to see, not only the old war horses again in the thick of the fight, but the demo- cratic ranks be recruited by business and professional men men of affairs who never before have been active politically. These recruits have always voted the best- part of the democratic ticket and have, in a way, affiliated ' with the party. But In this contest they will be found in- the " trenches,' " touching elbows In the ranks,- and run- . .. dering a service which conditions sug gest to every patriotic citizen. The New York Sun. In a recent edi torial, advocated the opinion that con ditions were not unlike those of 187i., when Samuel J. Tilden was elected president of the United States, and reflected the probability of such a superb organization now being formed. as was Inaugurated then. Organiza tion, it must be remembered. Is worth less unless there Is an Issue produced for consideration. The democrats have, of course, the live, all-infestious , issue the tariff. It was the sole iisue that elected Grover Cleveland presi dent, and the attitude of the national democracy on this Issue Is responsible, . in large measure, for the inroads made by the democrats in 1910-11 in New England and other rock-ribbed repub . lican strongholds. A democrat, a careful student of political affairs at home and abroad, gives the following appraisal of condi tions as to the congressional race: The state of North Carolina is safe ly democratic this year at least It will give its 12 electoral votes te de mocracy's choice. Ten congressional districts will in all probability return 10 democrats to Washington. But there Is to be a battle for at least two seata It will be a battle royal, espec- c Ially In this, the tenth district The democrats are determined to carry tho tenth this year. It has always been much more difficult In presidential years for democracy to prevail In the mountains than In the "off" years. - Grant was elected along with Taft Grant carried Buncombe; .Taft did also. Grant was elected to congress, Taft led Bryan fh the tenth. Will Grant be called again into harness? His friends are urging his cliims. Grant '.111 not return to Washington as representative; he may be nomlnat- , ed, but he will be defeated. The ped- ' pie have heard Grant. They listened ' to him In 1908. He won under pecul iar conditions. Democracy was, divid ed and Grant benefited. Democracy was responsible for state-wide prohi- . bltlon and the commercial liquor dem ocrats rebelled. This district Is nor mally close and only a hundred or two democrats could elect a republican. Other Republican Possibilities. "Grant had 'ploughed the bull and learned his lesson by the light of the tourch.' This appeal pleased and was ' effectual. He told this joke again two years later but the people would not ' laugh. There are many strong repub licans to chooso from this time. There Is that redoubtable warrior, Richmond Pearson. It Is true he Is out of har mony with the republican administra tion but republicans have a wonderful way of getting together. Mr. Pearson Is a trained diplomat. There are a great many things to explain from the republican standpoint and the former minister Is specious If he Is anything. Mr. Pearson was In congress for two terms from the old ninth district and the democrats, too, well remember his power as an organizer and debater. The late Judge Joseph 8. Adams and former Congressman Crawford went down before the "Duke of Richmond Hill." There Is also a popular and growing young republican to be reck- oned with should he aspire to con gress. Mark W. Brown would at once appeal to the rank and file of tho re publican party and would likely bo nominated. In this event Mr. Brown would not be objectionable to t J Whom tllO dollHH'MlH W'Olllil I'M M (Conliinh-l mi :
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