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i ' 4 1 f t r --r;i i'rv r n A : -J . 4:C3 P. II. Weather Forecast: 6HOWERS; WARMER. izz: i V ASHEVILLE, N C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1912. 3c PER COPY SAYS THE llilT And no Mention Was Made, of Woodrow Wilson TOUilliiG Oil is rccooEi . ; Bum's it Encourage! by .Yesterday's Results, President Again Attacks CoL Roosevelt ' : . in Many Towns, i DELEGATES CHOSEN ' IN 4 STATES TODAY California Women Expressing , Presidential Choice for - the First Time Taft Claims Tennessee. Ex-Inspector Attacks Agricul tural Department Bureau in Testimony Before . House Committee. , UNINSPECTED .MEAT ' SHIPPED, HE ASSERTS Burroughs Renews His Allega tions of Unwholesome Con-' ditions in Philadelphia Packing Houses. Bellalre, C, May 14. Colonel Roos evelt opened his Ohio campaign today rpenklng here this morning. He will remain In the state until the primaries next Tuesday., In a speech In the pub lic square Roosevelt made practically the same pica for support ho has pre sented elsewhere, saying that the present flstht was "ft straight line-up." Between the plain. . people - and tho "bosses.".- " "'t-v-v -. h Steubehville, O.,' May 14. Several speak here today. "Our, opponents contend against the bread-Ond-butter brigade," said the colonel, "We have to contend against the big bosses and special interests. I see that yesterday Taft alluded to mo as a demagogue and egotist. I want to point out that I our years ago l aii naa noi uiscovereu these things about me. I stand now where I did .then." . ' .- . Roosevelt .'makes sixty speeches In Ohio and will travel nearly 2000 miles. East Liverpool, O., May 14.--En-eouraged by his reception along his eastern border line yesterday, Presi dent Taft started with vigor the sec ond day of his campaign tour of the state. Taft spent: the night la his : private car at Steubenville ' but left there early -this morning to the ac companiment of "steamboat and fac tory wnisiies. ne nays program in cluded a sweep over the northern and ' weste.fR part of .the--state.-Including 'slops at Alliance;' Canton, Massillon. Akron, Kent, Ravenna, Warren, Niles and Voungstown. ... : Cambridge. O.,' Mny 14. In one of the most bitter speeches he has made since he began his active campaign for renomlnation, President Taft here yes. terday held Roosevelt up to ridicule, called him an Intense and dangerous egotist, a flatterer and demagogue and suggested that thero would be "but little hope for the future of this na ' tlon If Mr. Roosevelt were wafted to the fettles In a chariot like .the prophet of old and there was vo one left to do' the job Mr, Roosevelt said the country needs him to do." The nresidents and eh boiled over with attacks and crlt-rtims of Colonel . Roosevelt. ; - ' '. "You'd suppose thot was not any body In the country to do this job that Mr. Roosevelt talks about but tilmself,'' said the v'esldent at one point "It's I, X.I, rll the time with Vm. "- "Suppose you feed that egotism and vanity and put. him Ir office with a . sense of power and c'.'rregard of con stitutional restriction: it would re 1 dangerous for this corr.try. ' "I hold that that mi.n Is a dema Kogue anu a nuner? wnu vumcp and tells the people they know It all I hate a flatterer. I like a man to tell the truth straight, out and I hate to see a man try to honey-fugle the people ly telling them something he don t believe. "Do you think," he nld, "that Abra ham Lincoln to whom Roosevelt so often refers and to whrm he Ukies to comnare himself and to whom he bears lens resemblance than any one I , know of In the history, of this country would have acted as ho has ana ml reureBented me as ho has? , "Mr. Roosevelt pren'tee the mlllan- lum. free from bosses. Well, then, why wasn't there a .jnll Vnlum during the seven years he whs In the white house T 'One Indictment," he said, "is the' chnnu-twr of the campaign Mr. Roose velt In carrying on, and personally I feel that .more deeply than any other because 1 thing1 he is to be Indicted ' for muklng the kind of accusatory and libellous campaign which required me, the president of the United States, In order save the cause I represent, to come out on the platform and go about making political speeches In my hehuir and doing something a modest ' itiHn dislikes." Nashville,. May 14. The Taft fac tion l Tennessee republicans claimed control of the state contention which assembled at noon today. The selec tion uf four delegate from the state- at-htrti will complete the delegation of 24 to the ChiiiiKO convention. Kan Kranel'ii, May 14. 4'ajlfornlo women today had their llr,.t oppor ttinllv to express their choice for the presidential nomination. The pri mary vote will probably be the heavl-i-Bt In the state's history. Among the di moerats the content lien prlnelpal lv between Clark nnil Wlixnu. The repnbllcMtiH made a bitter lh:ht, Concord. N. II., May 14. The state ricmocr.itie convention met todny to i hootie lelcnte to the national con vention. "1 i Washington, May 14. -Telling of unwholesome conditions in the meat packing establishments where he was Stationed, J. W. Burroughs, former federal meat Inspector, - today con tinued his" testimony before the agri culture expenditures committee.- Bur roughs said the Inspectors were con fused by frequent changes In regula tions by' the bureau of animal Indus try.. Burroughs ' charged thnt the Roesch" company in Philadelphia and Pfeunds In a'ermitptown were grant ed government Inspection in 'violation of regulations before their : plants were put In" sanitary condition.- The witness alleged that under the regu lations, butchers wero able to ship uninspected meat In Interstate traffic. n I. rji. 4 i I ...... 4 K D. H. Webb Swears Negro Who Killed McConnell Had Scars That Negro on Trial . .Has Not. ksssai Ltf-r to tasHT. veanssoR. william LilBBE-V,P.5C.MAXi"Cr..RH(aMABC. PRE5IDEMT TAFT. JOHN 6L EB HIBBtN JMIII . JPRtSIOENT OF PRINCETON UNNERSlTV. JOHN AIRMAN oTtWAK.T . - V . CHIEF JUSTkCe .E D. WHITE. .AND " .JUSTICE MAHLONf- PlTNtY, hir And passenger . gOVEBHQB HftRIVlON - ftnfc RiLLLU In A HLL TUBUS Oil BRYAN V, " . v ' -if ..f 'J ' CHAIN OF EVIDENCE PRESENTED BY STATE Positive Identification of Brew er as Huff Is Made by a Number of Witnesses for State. Victor L. Mason, Prominent V Mining' Man, Meets : , Death in" London. ' . London, May 14. Victor Louis' Ma son, the American id t.tlfled with ex tensive mining interests and at one time private secretary the American secretary of war, R. A. Alger, and to his successors Elihu Root, was killed yesterday ' while makii a flight at Brooklands with the English aviator, E. Fisher. . Fisher n Iso was killed by being pitched out o! the machine when at a height of about 150 feet. Fisher was about to give an exhl- Impugns Motives of Nebraskan ; in Attacking' Him in ' ''.J-iHom State,-. , - 4- t :- : ' ' ' v ! - .. .. .1..- -.' ' ''.' ' Revolt against radicalism both in politics and education marked .the Inauguration of John Grier Hloben, who took' the oath of office as head of Princeton University in the presence of the president of the Uniteo t n-irtiii..M rrf- iUa nnltrftv nnnforro , tho Hom-oA nf T.T T. eivllUE am Oil IT Otner reaui for this action th.tt he had maintained "the Independence of the judiciary,", and to Chief Justice Edward Uouguu. wu n.r.,A .omo v.nnr.r Roth h ohief Tf.veentlve nnd the distinguished lurlst In accepting spoke emphatically on; (ha nded of preserving, the ideals of popular government und,er the constuutlonai guaranie i markB aft yight theelt ad seven 'The state having rested, the de fense began the Introduction of evi dence this morning In the case of ' M'es. Brewer, alias John Huff, who Is charged with the murder of Patrol man E. C. McConnell, and some of the defense's most material witnesses were called to the Btand. A large number , of witnesses were sworn. Probably the most valuable testimony was given by D. H., Webb, . who con ducts the store -where the negro was arrested and where he tried ' to sell the cows, for the larceny of which he was arrested. Mr, Webb was kept on the stand ' about two' hours and was subpected to a vigorous cross- examination by the prosecution, but It failed to shake him in the main points of his testimony, which was to the effect that the prisoner la not the man 'that the officer arrested. He swore to the best of -his knowledge Brewer is not the -man he saw then. Mr. Webb told how the negro had come to his store and proposed to sell the cows, how he suspected that he might Have stolen the cows and that he might be called upon to Identify the negro;, that later he had received a telephone message that some cows had been stolen and . went out again to examlno-the negro more closely. - He swore that the negro had a scar over ihls right ear, had five pock the left; was of reddish "yellow In the exercises'no mention whatever was made of the absent Woodrow Wilson, formerly P106"101 color, all of which does not fit tbo Princeton and now governor of New Jersey and presidential possibility. Wnosto'r, O., . May 14. Governor Judsc.n Harmon of Ohio last night be gan hhf campaign' In Ohio' for the presl Icntlal nomination - with a reply i t thc attacks made on him by W. 3. Bryan,..-who-, recently made a tour oi tte "state, -. Mr. Harmon? aeciarea inai he had been unanimously selectea, ry the last state convention as . um candidate'' for president and that It self-seeking -which had put bition and picked Mr Mason as a pas- h)m efoTe the country and subjected senger from among' tha spectators. j,Jm to . "the falsification and abuse They circled the track once, when, wnich -are-disgracing American poll- eye-Wltnesses say, in macnine, wnicn j t,cj, tntg year." " was a monoplane, man" an aurupii now my opponents have Drougni turn. It wavered a J:iotnent and then I ,t jrvan and carried him around fell straight to earth. The sudden I the fidte," continued. Mr. Harmon, stoppage in the air thrw Fisher head-1 ..j.jb wag ' renably Informed of , the long from his seat wtion was pmnea ..,.-P.i. nd motives of the moving beneath the wreckage, which caught I B1)r(. in the rule or ruin movement, tire, aad he was badly burned before h . ,ipma not to care.-- . elng extricated. Pry -clans say both I ..mow aa to Mr. Bryan. What has men died almost immediately. - l,aHP(i the change In his attitude to- It was surmised that some fault fie-I , A what have I done which veloped In the engine of the aeroplane j eg(j, him now to say 1 am not lit which caused the accident, as weather 1 1 he-even a justice of the peace? BQOSEVELT FORGES TO TAKOflNTROL Both Duncan and Morehea'd May Go at Tomorrow's ' Convention. conditions were perfect .The bodies were romoved to a mortuary to await an Inquest which probably will be held Wednesday. ' Fisher was regarded as a daring av iator. Victor Louis Masor leslded In Pas saic. N. J.' He was bom In Washing ton In 1870. His wUe was Miss Daisy Comstock Blmons, of Washington. He was assistant secretary of the repub lic has not stated a Binsle fact from my- official ' record or eHewhere to justify his conduct, except that I re pudiated the platform on xne initia tive rnd referendum. This is not true. r ortvnrnterl before the Joint caucuses ind signed when passed the bill au thorising resort to municipal issues. hich was all our comunuiion wumu narmlt. - t- - ' . "He says 1 am not -pronrensive uuv rectlonry. This Is merely caning the eastern division campaign of 1908, A widow and three children survive him. DIXON CONFIDENT Declares the Result In Wyoming Means Roosevelt Will Get the Republican Nomination. -, llean national commi.tee In charge ofl.,, .. ,he iat resort in a poor case. If 'progresslveness' (means sincere anu leep'sfut efforts to secure practical reforms In government, instead oi mere talk, where has so much been ceomDllshed as In Ohio during my .rtmlnlstratlon?" After mentioning many retorm ibwb rierl during his administration Mr. Hiirmnn eontinuea: If Mr. Bryan knows of tne many leforms -accomplished In. Ohio he is prosi'ly unfair to me and my com rHM In the administration. If he int know of them, then It Is heer wantonness for him to come into ihe state of my Mrtn and home Wyoming md t'V t discredit' me with the peo JeleKtttlon lle wlihout specification or, proof, al though even an accused criminal, in -,ntlti(d to both.- He would have the people Deiteve .hat I would .serve special inieresis in'teta or Tne puouu n vice r.. ed prtsl(lent. If he really thinks so hlnifcelf he ought to hnve cut my ac quaintance long ago, as I would sure ly do with anybody i tnntigm cnpauic betrayal oi a Gazette-News Bureau, The Hotel Raleigh,' Raleigh, May 14. John JI.. Morohead, , chairman . of the republican state executive com mittee, and Gilliam Grissom, Secre tary," were among the first to arrive here for the state republican conven 'tlon tomorrow. Roosevelt buttons are much in evidence and It Is said lh Roosevelt crowd not only will capture - the four dolegates-at-large but will likely change the plan of or ganization and put In control a com plete set of Roosevelt men. It will not be surprising to see Morchead and Duncan . both go. Both Richmond Pearson and Marion Butler want to he national committeemen and Zeb Vance Walser has an eye . on chairmanship. " 1 ' Will Klwt Roosevelt DelCKOtes. ', The fourth district congressional convention, In session this afternoon, will elect two Roosevelt delegates. A lively fight Is expected between the Duncan and Morehead factions.- the BIER D j COURT SGAilDA President of the Reading to Testify as to Arch bald's Conduct. Washington, May 14. The bouse Judiciary committee Invest Igsitlng harges against Judge Robert w. Archbald of the commerce court to day subpoenaed George F. Kaer, pres ident of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, Bner will testify about the sale of certain culm dump property. The committee recessed today be cause of house consideration of tho anti-Junction bill. prisoner; that he wrote his name on a piece of paper, giving it as Charlie Hill, and the address as Mills River, R. F. D. No. 3, box 44. He also sent his son and clerk, Alexander Lyda, out to look at the man, telling .them that they might be called upon to ap pear against him. He heard the ne- ero tell Officer McConnell that his name was Brewer. It was Drougni out that at the preliminary heftring Mr. Webb testified that the negro had said that his name was Wea. Brewer. He admitted that he had talked about the case with one of the venire men yesterday, but said that he did not know the man was on the venire. Mayor Rankin, Dr. C. W. Byrd ana Mnrrii. F.rwln were then called as character witnesses and all testmea that Mr. Webb has a good character. Alo-rnnrter T.vda testified tO abOMt Juarez, Mexico, May 14. Rebel offl-tn me efrect tnat Mr. Webb did, ii.T tier wnrn informed today of the and said that the prisoner does not ... i...,.w,in, iin.iinnir like tne man wim wnum capture u, mop..... ". ,.... .k.. wi h. nw. , , enn(trmaflnn flf I wiReu "" er L-oioi.ei v v. . Th other witnesses were exam this report would Indicate tnat ur"inpd before court took recess at noon. . i . ....... . ..... t. i. oxi.-o s success was accompnsneu iu..j . but their testimony we not nucu In OROZCQ ATTEMPTS FirailEHtllT Rebel Officials Claim Success for Effort to Check the Federal Advance. THE FATE OF State Executive Counsel Then May Pass on Petition for Commutation. . Gaette-News Bureau, Wyatt Building, Washington, May 14 Senator Dixon, campaign manager for Colonel Roosevelt, today said: It looks like a continual penorm- unra from this time on. eieoted an unlnstructed delegation yesterday. That means Kooseven i Chicago." . - ' . SNOW IN COLORADO Ten-IiM-h Fall at . Denver umo pruhciiHlon Is Folt I)r tne Vrwx unmwi. . of such an. lnmmous t-, ntn 11 Thr kfls heen a I nuhtle trust. ten inch snowfall and It Is still snow- "uut I served for years as a Judge . ...... tr tho Httite Kiuav. i .,r 1 ..itn na niiornev ccnvrui. nair- mi, ... - r - ; I ' - ' . t n Little apprehenplon is relt Dy ine iruu 1 1 een lor many years hm-...Ui. ... t . I m . . .1...WA hi.v. I .Aim mu.Ara . v I or Irene i ntaiin'rin uicir ....... ample rioruiniues m iuvu. -i- Interests or shirk my duty. If Mr. Ilrynn will point nut a single Instance whero I ever did either I will net out rf the way of his desires, what ever they are." ' , . . SEEATE TO DISPOSE OF TipMES So Declares Senator Simmons, Who is in Charge of the Pencting Legislation. f.v ...n flnrk . re Is a warm ennti-it he. nrl Wllnon O'lherent.-. , MhV 14. Kpi-iiker I'lntk l.r I Wll. -n )ire Ml-' Hie (hi. thr."I. ilert to in SAWED OFF LII.13 ON - WniCII HE SAT; DIED Rlehmond Va.. May 14, Augustus Davis, a negro, Mgod US, sawed from a tree the limb he was sitting on yester- Anlliraille Men Meet.- day. Ho died today. Cyclonic- Storm Kills Many. 1 1. Manv. village , re d. M' roved. iHifi v,.,. I. HI.-, I l.y I ,,. . , I--,. irl. Wllkefharre, I'a., May t4. The ennvenlhin of iinthrnclto miners to cnnHlner proposed new wnite arrange nients held a brief sesHlon this morn lii'. ..,1 t The opt-nltti inii.tion Wiis mill ilev.lt- I'r. Mi ,pi ..I Washington, May 14 All tariff bills that passed the house will be disposed of by the senate before tho end of this seKnlon and possibly without Interfer ing with plans for an early adjourn ment. This Was announced today by Senator Simmons of North Carolina, In charge of these measures In the penatc. i - Awaiting Senate's Action. Washington, May 14. "We must have something mors from the Senate than talk before w 'Intrndttrs more tnrllT bills." said Democratic LeHder Vnderwood at the conclusion of a meeting of the democratic members of tlie wavs ami mean committee to- Boston", May 14 The executive council, which has the power to save durance V. T. RIcheson from paying the extreme penalty for. murdering Avis Llnnell. meets at noon tomorrow. If the governor Is satisfied from the allanists' reports of reasonable doubt regarding Rlcheson's mortal rusponsl blllty, he has the power, to refer the petition for commutation of sentence lo the council with or without sugges tions. The governor has no. power to order a stay, reprieve or commutation without the consent of a majority of (he council. If the petition Is referred to the council, the matter first will be considered by the pardon committee of the council which may hear testl mony and consider whwt evidence the governor has to submit, after which a report will be made to the council. Dr. I V. Rrtggs, report Is the only one on file with the governor. Its na lure Is secret. Other alienists Drs. Stedman. Tuttlo and Frost will submit their reports to tho governor before the council meets tomorrow. - JOY RIDE FATAL One! Woman Is Killed anil live Otli en Are Injured In Collision hlB flank movement to the south west of Conejos Sunday to check the federal advance. El Paso, Tex., May 14 General Hnerta. commanding the reaerai troops, with headquarters at Conejos, recently abandoned by the rebels,, to- dav ordered In advance on tne main body of Oroico's army at Escalon and Rallane. Colonel , Caneles, commanding the rebels at Des Cubrldora, ' Durango, to have much influence on tne re sults of the case. These were J. W.' Rrnwn. J. W. Coxe.- and a v young colored woman from Henderson coun ty, who had seen the man wno stayed with the Coleman negroes. On of the witnesses thought that the pris oner might resemble Huff a ltttUt. -, The Introduction of evidence in tne case was begun yesterday afternoon, immediately after court had assem bled from noon recess, and some dos- reDein ai i' en 0f the state's witnesses were ex- Mexico, telegraphed that- the ebeto ,vt,aditiouslv. : Of these four or five were positive that the defend ant is the man that Patrolman Mc Connell arrested at Webb's store on South Main street about 19 o'clock of the morning of July 5, Ull; others swore that he Is the man to the best of their knowledge and others thought he looks like the man. Some of the witnesses suffered rather severe cross- examinations but tholr testimony did not suffer materially. Some very In teresting testimony was given by Mrs". M. A. Lannlng who was at wenos store before and aftor the shooting. u who "viewed the. man ' several times" for some reaso'i she could hot tell, and felt It her duty to swear posi tively that he Is the man. although she had tried hard not to think so. But the roost sensational evidence was given oy Arcnie rempieiuu, n South Carolina negro, who swore that Hrewer told him he had killed an Asheville policeman. Dr. J. T. Sevier was the first witness to be examined, and he told ot treat ing the wounded oftl" and the mor tality of the wound. Chief Lyeriy oC the police department went on the stand and told of having dispatched the patrolman to Rlltmore to arrest a negro who had stolen seme cows, hav ing received the Information over the tnlunhfinA. John Bradley gave Some Interesttnrt testimony. He was coming from Tint edo with two steers t- sell In Ashe ville, when he was overtaken by a ne- uro driving two cows, Ji.it this side of Fletcher, snd walked with him about three miles to Ardon, here Hu.iM. v took the train lo AHhoville, leaving an- In capturing Maplml, Durango, Bun day, made prisoner of Raol Madero, brother of the president and, com mander of rurales. . v. . SUGAR TfiUST HEARING BEGUBjajlEW YORK Government Taking Testimony in Effort to Dissolve , . Corporation. , , New York. May 14. The taking of testimony In the federal action to dis solve' the American Sugar Refining company, began before Hpeclal Exnm lner Brlce here today. There will be reproduced much evidence developed at the recent trial of the sugar trust otflclals under Indictments for re straining Interstate trade. Gen. 4. W. Duncan Demi. . San Antonio, May 14. Brigadier General Joseph W. Duncan, com mander of the dfcinirtment of Texas, died suddenly today. ;The body will be buried In Arlingtun cemetery. Captain Thomas Duncan, a son, Is stationed at Fortress Monroe. 1 ililiTWOOll COTll . . ..it in hill In oi. Clr. h II' H I . .- I . "We will cIm r.vi'U Ksnnas City, May It. A Joy ride brought death to one woman snil M il'H.M Intury to five ol hers of the I iv. The iiiiliiiiiul.il" tan on ,1 embankment. . 1 brH Hi' in l i- .", v, n ki'.!l. Cotton Cnrgo Damaged by Fire. New York, May ib. .lit S ,11. una iam: Mill bub of c.ll.ir M,,i of Ihe .Mali. . t - b i . r j, , r t., 14 -Fire cfiuet a a cairn ol the bi bi.-r 1 ..I : ' other man to drive his steers. He the neuro, too, alt. placed nnib-r a rret, itlvelv thai the -i tlllll t1 ' eer HI 1 ( ; e , '. 1.1 bail b. I
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