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head Faction Uneasy, FecJ
ing Duncan Has Started '
Something.
TAFT MEN INSPIRING
ATTACKS ON ROOSEVELT
Breach Between Present and
Former Executive Widens
No Break Yet With
Hitchcock.
: Gazette-News Bureau,
- : Wyatt Building.
Washington, Jan. 19.
Former Congressman Grant Is here
and It Is understood that he, together
with Thomas Settle, was Intending
to go to the White House this after
noon. . ;They- learned that President
Taft was not In the city and were
forced to '" defer . their visit.
Leaders i of the Butler - More
tcted about something. Settle has
ueen 10 me w nue noun several limes
lately and apparently does not like
the present posture of affairs. Na
tional Committeeman Duncan has
talked with the president twice with
in the past week and his opponents
have been seized with a feeling of
fear they cannot shake off that he has
started something. Grant Insists that
he is not seeking a position In con
nection with the exposition at San
Francisco.
Taft-Roowvelt Relations Strained.
It may be said that the relations
between President Taft and former
President Roosevelt are now under
going a severe strain. Their views are
been- permanently shattered. Mr.
Roosevelt would be very much pleas
ed should the Chicago convention de
cline to renominate Mr. Taft. First,
the supporters of the presidbnt under
compel him to move Into the open
again, .with a declaration of whether
he would-ett-he nomination in
the event it should be tendered to
him. Falling In this, administration
supporter have opened Are upon the
mighty lion hunter. '... .
These things are said with dogmatic
certainty, because they are no longer
doubted by men who have been in
position recently to observe develop
ments. Intelligently. Certain news
papers are now telling how Gary and
Perkins of the steel trust are financ
ing and otherwise encouraging a pro
Roosevelt boom, especially in the
nouth. and ulterior motives are be
ing ascribed to all those who are ac
tive and prominent In the opposition
to the renomlnatlon of Mr. Taft. This
Is being dono by administration pa
pers, wllh a wealth of detail which
leaves 111 tin doubt that these attacks
upon the colonel ere of White House
inspiration. These reports, designed
to discredit the opposition to the pres
ident, have it that Cecil Lyons of
Texas is backing Mr. Roosevelt be
cause Mr. Taft did not honor his en
dorsement of certain federal judges,
the president, in one instance, ap
pointing c Texas democrat over a re-
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jlna. This is set down as the griev
ance of Texas republicans.
Illti'licot'k and Tart. .
The report is blng widely heralded
that Postmaster Oeneral Hitchcock
will resign from the Taft cabinet be
fore the Chicago 'convention and that
he will soon be found among tho ac
tive supporters of Colonel Roosevelt.
There 19 good reason to doubt the ac
curacy of these reports. When the
trouble arose over the act .of Mr.
Hitchcock In advocating the govern
ment ownership of telegraph lines,
the enemies of Mr. Hitchcock in White
House circles, like Hllles and Crane,
probably conceived the Idea that now
was the time to promote a fatal wid
ening of the breach between the pres
ident and Hitchcock; but at the pres
ent writing the situation is not nearly
so serious as that. It is undoubtedly
true that Mr. Taft has felt some anx
iety over the probable course of Mr.
Hitchcock, who has at least observed
the growth of the Roosevelt move
ment with equanimity, and that he
has talked those things over with all
the members of his official family,
Including the postmaster general him
self. A positive break In their rela
tions, however, has thus far been
avoided.
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Durban) Power War Sccma Likely.
Snecial to The Gazette-News,
Durham, Jan. 1. Underground
rumblings of a light and power battle
royal between the Durham Traction
eomnanv and the Southern Power
company came to tho surface yester
day whon It became known that
George L. Lyon was to manage a
cpniiudirn to be conducted by the
Southern Power company for light
and power tractions In Durham
The Southern Power company
now supplying .power to tho larger
manufacturing enterprises of Durham,
t'to lines having been completed sev
eral months ago. It is said that the
r'mthern Power company Intended
' entering the rr tall light and power
field and securing contracts In com
VetlNoii with the Durham Traction
company. It Is presumed that a local
r.i.,j,Rny v. til be organized to dintrlb
t'to th- Smifhern rower company's
!'' f ii'i'l i' it It tie mnn:ii;ed
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To Abide by Action of Coming
Missouri Democratic
Convention.
Washington, Jan. 19. Spenkor
Champ Clark today conlirmed reports
that he and Joseph M. Folk had
agreed to stake their respective candi
dacies for the democratic presidential
nomination on the outcome of the ap
proaching Missouri democratic con
vention. Jf the convention endorses
Folk, Clark said he. would borbid fur
ther use of his name.
The iChirk-Folk agreement excited
the greatest political interest here to
day. BY EXPLOSION IN STOVE
Used Kerosene Oil in Effort to
Start Blazs Thaggard
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Special to The Gazette-News.
Fayetteviller Jan. 19.--As a result of
pouring kerosene oil into a stove to
kindle a fire, Mrs. Peter Ferrall. of
this city, was painfully and perhaps
fatally burned by the ensuing explo
sion at her home on Montlcello
Heights yesterday. Mrs.- Ferrall was
alone in the house at the time of the
accident and rushed on to the piazza,
from whence she fell to the ground,
the clothing being almost entirely
burned from her body before a pass
ing negro Woman came to her rescue
and extinguished the., flames. ..The
force of - the 'explosion was so' great
that fragments of the stove were
blown to the top of house, tearing . a
hole through the ceiling.
Stephen Thaggard, on trial for his
lite in the Superior court here, was
acquitted of the murder of "Bud"
Cashwell after a hard battle. Oush
well was killed near Hope Mills three
years ago in a drunken brawl with
Thaggard and a third companion who
lied before the arrcBt and hasn't been
apprehended.
CHARGE BUTTER TRUST
lroceeliiiB' Ar llcgun to Prevent
Chicago Uounl from Fixing 1'ricc
at Meetings. ,
Chicago, J.an. 19. The present high
price of butter lent additional Inter
est to the proceedings against the Chi
cago Butter and Kgg board, resumed
before Master In Chancery Morrison
this morning. L. D. Judson, former
secretary of the Elgin Butter board.
and his successor, Colvln W. Brown,
were called as witnesses by the prose
cution to show that the Elgin Hiid
Chicago boards unite to fix prices pf
butter.
The proceedings were brought to
enjoin the board's quotation commit
tee from fixing the butter and egg
prices at their regular sessions In al
leged detlance of tho Sherman law.
TWO KILLED IN WRECK
Tlireo Others Are Injured When Frisco
Freight Train Collide at Wit
ten burg, Mo. .
Wlttenburg. Mo., Jun. 19. En
gineer Charles Board and Fireman
Clark were killed and three other
railroad men were Injured in a colli
sion of Frisco freight trains here to
day. .
UPHOLDS M'FARLAND
Wife of Accused Minister Will Go to
Pittsburgh, Whither He Is
" Doing Taken.
Greensville, Tenn., Jan. 19 Rev. W,
D.- McFarland, accused of responsi
bility for the death of his former
secretary, Elsie Dodds Coe, is on his
wav to Pittsburgh, under arrest He
left this morninf going to Knoxvllle,
where he was transferred to another
train.
Mrs. McFarland, who goes to Pitts
burgh later, asserts she does not be
lieve the anti-mortem statement at
tributed to Miss Coe, in which the
latter la alleged to have said she sub
mitted to an Illegal operation direct
ed by McFarland.
WilhOll llcfllHeS Statement.
Ann Arbor, Mich., Jun. 19. Gover
nor Woodrow Wilson toduy delivered
a speech here. He refused to com-
lament on the Col Harvey Incident . .r
to discuss Col. Watterson'a statement
He Intimated he probably mlghfc not
Issue, a tttt1cinn(t, during his prctmnt
Enelltdi IndUHtrial War Ends.
Manchester, England, Jan. 1. The
cotton trade dlupute, culminating in
lockout affecting' 300.000,' December
27, has been settled. The question at
Ikhiio was tbo employment of non
union bibur. All the mills re-open
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For the first time in many years
New York society Is soon to have the
opportunity to extend its best hospital
ity to royalty. The Duke of uonnaugm
the governor general of Canada and
brother of the late King Edward, ac
companied by the ducess and their
daughter, Princess Patricia, will visit
the metropolis as guests of Whltelaw
Rcld, ambassador to the court of St
James, and Mrs. Reid.
1,1 AFFECTED
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Delegates of British Federa
tion Give Notice of Stop
page of Work.
Birmingham, EiiKlund, Jun. 19. A
conference of delegates of the Miners'
Federation today decided to give no
tice forthwith of a national stoppage
of work In Great Britain's coal mines.
Tho notices may become effective by
the end of February. Nine hundred
thousand then are affected.
MEHACEGOV. FD5S
Police Guard Him Closely Af
ter Rumors of Attempt
on His Life.
Boston, Jan. 19. When Governor
Foss lamo to the state house yester
day from hia home In Jamaica Plains
he was guurded by detectives and
plain clothes men watched the cor
ridors during the day for the pos
sible appearance of Mack hand agents
said to have designs on the governor's
life. ii. .
Dudley M. Holman, the governors
secretary, said:
'We received Information from
sources which wo consiaerca trust
worthy, and from six widely different
points, that at a secret meeting held
at night certain interests had sent to
New York to have two black hand
bomb throwers come over here to at
tack Governor Foss and ' other offi
cials and give attention to their resi
dences. ' . 1
"The sources of Information were
considered Important enough to war
rant sending notice to the state po
lice and asking Police Commissioner
O'Meara to guard the governor's
house. One confirmatory report came
from Lawrence. , .
"It was our Information that the
feeling against the governor was due
to his action in sending the militia to
Lawrence as well as because he had
signed the 04 hour bill, which 1b an
Issue In the strike. '
"The steps were merely precaution
ary and we believe that nothing will
happen.
Before Governor Foss left the state
house, where he remained until well
into the evening, 't was stated that
he would be escorted to his home by
oollce officers and that a guard of
city police would maintain a watch
about his residence.
ASKS RECOGNITION
Chinese. Republican Government
Sends Out Cln ulur to the Cap
,. Hals of tho Powers.
Nanking, China. Jan. 19. The re
publican government today sent out
an appeal to the powers for recogni
tlon. This took tho form ot a circular
sent to Washington. Toklo, London,
Paris, Berlin and St. Petersburg, sign
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ed by Wans Chung-Wei, foreign mln:
'. trr ol Uii' republican cabinet i
BYIHSI
John Sharpe Williams, Senator
Gore and Clauds Kitchin
Deprecate Watterson
, Attack's Effect.
ANTAGONISTS ANIMUS
INTENSIFIED BY ACT
Opponents Who Were Overaw
ed by the Jackson Day De
, monstration Breathe
More Freely.
, GazettcNews Bureau, '
Wyatt Building,
. Washington, Jan. 19.
The Wifson-Watterson-Harvey Im
brogllo Is provoking no end of dis
cussion among democratic statesmen
Antagonists . of the Jersey executive
are certain that the lament of Colonel
Watterson that the democracy has not
yet discovered; a Tllden, marks the
beginning of the nd of the Wilson
boom. These gentlemen expect - the
process of disintegration to set in at
once. The Wilson enterprise, they
aver, will now take Its place in polit
ical annals of the race merely as a
moet disagreeable episode which one!
had as well forget. It is certain that
the opposition of practical, or profes
sional politicians has been intensified
and men who were awed by the Wil
son demonstration during the meeting
of the national committee a few days
since, hazard the assertion that Wil
son will no longer lead In the race.
Wilson Men Concede Nothing.
Pro-Wilson people, however, will
concede nothing, John Sharp Wil
liams said he. was a Wilson man yes
terday, and is one today; that people
have, been drawn to that gentleman
because he stands for certain progres
sive principles which they approve,
and that the rank and tile will be Arm
In their allegiance. - '
Senator Gore said the Harvey Hnci
dht shruiiyvna'de' U clear that Wall
street could not foreclose on Wilson,
either before or after election. Others
assert that the attack on Wilson was
a frame-up and that various Inter
views, published were "planted." .
One Tar Heel, becoming facetious,
remarked that Colonel Harvey, when
asked to discontinue his activity In
behalf of Governor Wilson, must have
experienced a sensation similar to that
felt by the . Rev. Jlabb on a certain
occasion. Rev. Babb, who held the
position of chaplain under the Rus
sell administration, had drawn a gall
ing lire from the democratic press,
whereupon Governor Russell tele
graphed him to tills general effect:
Would suggest that you cut out
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ANliley Home Incident Recalled.
Another North Carolinian, who is
inclined to doubt the wisdom of nom
inating Wilson, recalled that Ashley
Home, during his gubernatorial race,
suggested to a certain gentleman with
corporation connections, that his sup
port might militate against Mr. Home,
and that the result was not happy.
It was also roniarked that Governor
Kitchin, who Is hero, got more votes
In the state than did Mr. Bryan, and
Governor Harmun woultf make a bet
ter showing In the state than a can
didate of the Bryan-Wilson school
Representative Claude Kitchin does
not think, however, that tho Wilson
boom has received even a slight punc
turo.
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FREES INNOCENT MAN
" SERVING SENTENCE
Expert Handwriting Testimony Blam
ed for Mlwarrlago of Justice lu
Federal Court
Washington, Jan. 19. A miscar
riage of Juctlce caused the president
today to grant an unconditional
pardon to Oscar Krueger of New
York, who has served nearly one year
of an 18 months sentence In the At
lanta penitentiary for a crime he did
not commit
Expert handwriting testimony, it
was said, was responsible for his con
viction on the charge of mailing an
obscene letter. Investigation by the
department of Justice established
Krueger'a complete Innocence.
1000 - SLAIN IN BATTLE
NEAR GUAYAQUIL
Guayaquil, Jan. 19. It Is reported
that over 1000 men were killed and
wounded In battle yesterday at Ya
guaehe, northeast of this city. The
army supporting tha Quito govern
ment under command of General
Andrade, attacked and defeated the
army of Guayaquil troops supporting
the provisional government proclaim
cd .by General Montere, under com
mund of General Flavlo Alfuro. The
lighting was very severe. It is said
Eloy Alfaro haa been appointed com
mander-ln-chief of ' the Guayaquil
army. . '
rhjdk-ian on Stand In Bancroft Trial.
Wilmington, Del., Jan. 19. Dr.
Barton D. Hirst, medical expert oc
cupied the stand during most of the
morning session at the trial of the
divorce suit by John Bancroft, Jr.,
against his wife Madeline Dupont
Bancroft.
Fan
Hirst
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In honor of John Cardinal Farley,
by the Pope at Rome, St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York was one mass
of lights, outside and in, when the prelate returned, from abroad. For days
steeplejacks, encased in ' electrically lieated Jackets, had swung ..about the
tall twin spires In the wintry blasts fixing the thousands of electric lamps
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Explosion of
WrecksPuebloBuildings
Pueblo, Colo., Jan. 19. A terrific
dynamite explosion partly wrecked the
Colorado laundry, In tlm business dis
trict and damaged the globe express
EXCAVATION FOR (ML
FOUR-FIMPLETED
Concrete Construction in Pan
ama Also Is Progressing
Rapidly.
Washington, Jan. 19. New '.year's
day marked the completion of four
llfths of the excavation for the Pan
ama canal. Since the begjnning of
tho work In May 1904. there have been
taken 108,010.963 cubic yards of dirt
and stone from tho canal bed. Nearly
thirty million yards of excavation by
the French engineers was utilized In
re-routing the canal. Concrete con
struction also Is going on rapidly, 75
per cent of tho concrete locks being
in place on January 1.
UNITED STATES HOPS
ARE LANDED IN CHINA
Fifteenth Infantry to Guard
Section of Peking-to-Coast
Railway.
Peking, Jan. 19. The fifteenth reg
iment. United States Infantry, which
will guard a section of the railroad
from Peking to the coast arrived at
Chln-Wang-Tao today, aboard tho
transport Logan.
4 DIE IN EXPLOSION
OF STEAMER'S BOILER
Captain, Mate and Two Othera Vic
tliiw of DlsaHter on Washington
River Boat.
Portland, Ore., Jan. 19. The boiler
of the river steamer Surah Dixon blew
up at Kalamu, Wash., today.. The
captain, mate and two other men were
killed. ' . - i-
To Resume Fighting In China.
Nanking, Jan. 19. It now appears
absolutely certain that fighting be
tween the revolutionists and Imper
ialists will be resumed January 28,
unless Premier Yuan Shl-Kal con
cedes the republican government's
recently raised from an archbishop
Dynamite
office toduy. Detectives investigating
the occurrence found a dynamite fuse
in an alley outside of the express
office.
SCHOONER IN DISTRESS
OFF CAPE
Life Savers Hasten to Aid Im
periled Crew Cutter'
Stands By.
Norfolk. Jan. 19. An unknown
three-masted schooner was discovered
nsliore two and ono-half miles off
Cape Hattt..--s this morning. The ves
sel appeared In a serious position and
life-savers from nearby stations hur
ried to the rescue. Wireless calls
were sent out from Diamond shoals
for assistance from the revenue ser
vice. "The revenue cutter Itasca, off
the North Carolina coast, recelvd in
structions from Washington to go to
tho schooner's aid.
PERSIA IS ATTEMPTING
TO DUST AMERICANS
Government, However, Denies
Threat to Punish Cus
toms Officials.
Teheran, Jan. 19. A statement glv
en out today' by' the Persian govern
mcnt denies that it has threatened to
punish American customs officials.
Is generally believed here that the
government is trying to induce the
Americans to leave the country.
CRAFT IN COLLISION
Serious Ln of Life Narrowly Avert
edTug Striken Ferry-Uoat In
East River.
Now York, Jan. 19. Serious loos of
life vbji averted In a collision betweon
a terry-boat and a tug In East river
late last night by the bow of the
tug being kept firmly embedded In th
ferryboat's side, plugging a five foot
hole torn in the larger boat's hull.
The vessels were towed to a ferry sll
on Manhattan, where tbs p?nlc-strl
He Ignores the Watterson-
Harvey Incident and Dis
cusses Public Issues
at Detroit.
CONTROL OF POLITICS
BY BUSINESS FLAYED
Blames Tariff for Control of
Party Machinery by Private
Interests Progressives '
Doctrine.
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 19 The only
occurrence here yesterday during the
visit of Woodrow Wilson of New Jer- '
sey, candidate for the democratic nom
ination for president which could be
taken to refer to the Wllson-Watter-
son incident, was a portion of an ad
dress made at a political mass meet
ing last night by Dudley Field Ma
lone, who is Governor Wilson's travel
ing companion and who addressed the
meeting before Governor Wilson ar
rived from the Wayne Gardens, where
he spoke to the Michigan Press asso
ciation.
Mr. Malone said: "The newspapers
of the last few weeks show whom the
enemies of the people consider dan
gerous. They do not bother to show
it unless they see It Is worth while.
And any man who dares to attempt
to personally attack and besmirch a
character so far above question as that'
of Governor Wilson will be replied to
with the .contempt pf silence which
such an attack deserves."
Governor Wilson's Address.
Governor Wilson in his address at
the mass meeting criticised the repub
lican party on the ground that It was
too closely allied with "the Inter
ests."
"The great and progressive senti
ment which now ' more and more
dominates the country, . and only
awaitA Its opportunity tp determine
the -policies of the-' government; I
not accidental, Is not merely a pass
ing pnase expressive oi me tempera
ment of an eager people. It Is a thing
that has arisen steadily by natural and
nevitable force, like the tides of the
ocean," he said.
Party Lines Strengthened.
"A few years ago, a few months ago.
It was a matter of common remark
that the field of our politics was sin
gularly confused and disordered;
party lines .everywhere broken, or
breaking; party labels losing their sig
nificance; party combinations threat
ening to break and re-form them
selves. But in recent months tho
scene has become more ordered and
definite. Every cscful observer can
now perceive that certain great, defi
nite, calculable forces are at work, the
character of which Is being more and
more plainly disclosed, their'' move
ment and direction more and .more
clearly defined.
"To many this changing scene has
seemed ominous. They have feared
that the foundations of our politics
were being threatened with disturb
ance. They have thought that they
saw I u what was happening about
them a peril to business and to all
the fixed conditions of our life. Some
had even fancied that these conditions
had been discovered in them the art
ful work of demagogues and disturb
ers of the public peace; of men wno
wished to produce unsettled Condi
tions and set the various elements of
society at loggerheads with one an
other. They have thought that Irre
sponsible agitators were producing
these conditions in order to accom
plish their own reckless purposes. But
no one who views the scene calmly
and In' the large; no one who sees It
steadily and sees it whole, can really
believe that these great, almost uni
versal movements of 'opinion, have
been produced in any such fashion. I
do not see how anybody who has re
ally studied and comprehended the
situation of the country and the actual
conditions of politics, can look for
ward to the outcome with anything
but hope and satisfaction-
Tho most profitable thing that we
can do, in order to reassure ourselves,
Is to ask why this great body of pro
gressive opinion has grown so strong;
why It has spreud to almost every port
of the country. The facts are unmis
takable enough. Tho history of the
present administration has illustrated
them at every turn. We have seen an
honest and patriotic man In the presi
dential chair struggling with the ris
ing power. Involved In greater and
greator difficulties, because he did not
understand that power, or compre
hend the great purposes that lay be
hind It and yet unable to curb It and
seeming, In spite of himself, to In
crease Its volume by the very attacks
attempted to check It Wha4 has hap
pened? What Is It that the eland-put
ranks of the republican party vaguely
battle with? Why Is the country at
tempting to break away from old
party formulas, and blaze a new path
for Itself In politics under a changed
leadership, and by new ; measures of
reform? ' i
UuHinCMg Advanced, IVIIUcs Stood Still
"Because within less than a genera
tion all the economic renditions of llf
and business In this country have
changed almost be.jond recognition,
while our politics have all but sinu-l
still. Thsre has been much n ntm
versy. There has hf-ert 1i'h1 it".t'. :
as If upon a P-ld of Im' - t
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