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"TT"TJ n Vol. VIII. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY ; AUG-Uf 7, 1901. No. 8 McLaurin Makes a Blistering Reply to the Fellows Who (1 LUL Appeal to the Forum of the People TILLMAN NO DEMOCRAT - . . The Pitchfork Man Supported Telter for President m 1896 and Towne for Vice-Presi-! dent in 1900 McLaurin Reviews His Record in the Senate and Discusses "Live Political Issues. c oiimMa, s. t., August o. senator Me Lauriu this evening made public a er : the State Democratic. Execu- 2r e Committee, reviewing its action hi )k feuding his record. The letter Paris Mountain. S. C. August 5th, 1001. the Democratic Executive Commit- State of South Carolina, enilemen: The official notice of the ;rui of a majority of your committee Ju'.v, 25th was received 'by- me on To v Ane ust 1st five days after it had been mmifced in the newspapers. This Wished announcement was the first tii e l had that any action affecting I me was to be taken by your committee. I a m now officially informed that the o"itv of your committee condemns course in the senate, demands mv nation and undertakes to exnel me from the Democratic party. Twenty-1 ,ce men have attempted to usurp the. ers of the 90,000 Democratic voters South Carolina and as an incident 1 meeting called for another purpose e hastily endeavored to do what can 'lone only by solemn proceedings of ifadmient. expressly provided for in tiie constitution of th United feiates. Responsible Only to the Peopl I hfM my commission from the Dem- Krutic voters or &outn Carolina, i ree- ize no authority but theirs, take no ers from any source but them, and mil m mie course appeal to tnem ior jiidzment on my course as a senator and an cn.-iracter as a man ana a uemocrat. Pcrs.jiially I am indifferent to your scaon because nobody has made you my master or censor, and I regard what 3""'i hriv done as merely expressing the Ei '.li e and the fears of one individual. Smr .r II. II. Tillman. But for this always evil and indecent influence or dinary respect for the proprieties, would pribi ;Wy have prevented the four of you "lio nto my declared competitors for the :at I now have the honor to occupy, tam attempting to use the power en trusted to you by your party to remove a rival from your path. Action I nfalr, Absurd and l'ndmo crallc 'As n citizen and Democrat of South faroHna I am mortified by your action. Watise it has brought upon the State the condemnation and the ridicule of tii-? rn ss and the public throughout the ' :urv. Unhappily, those" who are not li tini s ely acquainted, with our condi tions accept- the action of your majority a representing the intelligence and lemocrney of our State and both are m.aip objects of derision. Against this. I -h to enter my solemn protest. I fhail demonstrate how unfair, absurd and undemocratic your action is; and I tfm!! trust to the Democrats of South Carolina to repudiate it when the oo portunity is given them. Yourpurpose k to deny that opportunity. star Chamber Proceeding It in strong contrast with the bla iiint boast of Senator Tillman at Gaff Sty to nnt tup on trial TiAforfi-the narty 5 the hustings with himself as prose- !'lto rv As you, know, I sought that test aerpntinp. n nmnosjfll of anneal to the ceop ip, but the governor saw fit to for- ir.-; Now Senator Tillman appears jiM-ecntor against me in my absence is ty proceedings like those of the. (hanibpr, which was the most !n .is tribunal of English history, and most abhorrent to Anglo-Saxon in r seeks to exclude me from the V and its deliates and public assem It is vour duty, as eustodians itar fain! rue fart f t lie party interests', '-to seek recruits tr strengthen the party. To save ''t'r Tillman from staking his record, 'i-th and fortunes against mine, you fire Uli-l eirake to exclude me and my friends n the partv. Whatever your indi- Vl,ilinl motives mav hare been, the pur- rt ff your action is to facilitate the "at or in dodjring me and to deny the pie she f.tmfirfnnitv of nassing on my ions and conduct. It seems to me I'etnocratic masses of South Ca'ro ie eonjnetent to siur at the noils I LI Read Him Out. whether or not I have been a faithful senator and a consistent Democrat". Why should you attempt to prevent them? 7 Political Aaaasina It is no cause for. wonder that Sena tor Tillman should . seek to make po litical assassins- of you to avoid onen and fair fight.- He has climbed to power by venomous abuse of many of the our est men in the-State who opposed him, for which he has - always carefull' shirked personal responsibility, and on the political lives and. fortunes of those who befriended him while he needed friends. Norris, Tindal and Donaldson, men representing earnest purpose and the interests of the farmers of the State and therefore strong, were used, by liim to promote his own interests and then thrust aside. Irby, Shell ami Farley died' disposing him because of his treach ery to them and to the people. I am no in his way and because he has: failed to strike me down he incites you to attempt to strangle me, and at the same time to destroy a white promarv, to his advocacy of which he owed much of the best of his early following. Parv principles are fixed and to the princi ples of the Democratic party I have been uniformly faithful. Party policies are determined from time to time bv party elections and conventions, and no man nor body of men has the power to say between those elections what poli cies shall be the tests of party loyalty. Senator Tillman is assuming the pre rogatives of supreme boss and dictator to say who shall or shall not be regard ed as a Democrat next year. I do not concede any such power to him nor to you. He, nor all of your committee Together, has not the power to exclude from candidacy nor the polls at the Democratic primary the humblest citi zen of South Carolina who declares him self to be a Democrat and pledges him self to support the party nominee. Sup pose in 1890 the executive committee of the' State had ruled out of the party all who engaged in the "Farmers Movement?" Suppose two years later it had excluded all who favored the Sub Treasury iaea? Such action would have been ' unjust, tyranical and insult ing to thousands of good citizens and Democrats, but not more so than this proceeding of yours. Where Old Tillman Get the Money ? In his double character as , prosecu ting witness and attorney against me, Senator Tillman is reported as saving before your committee that I have voted with the Republicans "in important mat ters" and that he has seen me confer ring with Republican senators As I will show by the records he himself fre quently voted with the Republicans "in i important matters," as all other Ittiv cratic- senators have done from time to time. It is frequently necessary proper and courteous to confer with members of the opposite party, as he knows and as every man of practical sense knows. These expressions of his are attempts to take advantage of cred ulity and ignorance. I do not think there is a man in South Carolina so ignorant as to be ready deceived by them. He can not put me under sus picion as he has put himself by his own acts. I have not in public office retro graded from a, perhaps, honorable bankruptcy to dishonorable and unex plained wealth. He, and I have drawn the same salaries but I have fpund it impossible to save a dollar from mine. I have never, however, truckled to cor porations with the fawcing of a tamed spaniel, made speeches against them, then Toted for them, and accepted favors as he has done. I have never been tha sole boss and buying agent of a newly created whiskey trust with its rebates of $00,000 to ?70,000 a year, none of which ever reached the State treasury. I have never had, the handling of a State bond refunding scheme with $2S. 000 of commissions never yet accounted for or explained. . . A year ago Senator Tillman went into North Dakota and made speeches ad vocating the re-election of a Republican Senator Mr. Pettigrew. Senator Till man and this senator were prominent in .preventing by filibustering ' tactics a vote on the subsidy bill. The newspa pers said that Mr, Hill, head of the Northern Pacific lobby against the sub sidy bill, gave Senator Tillman's friend nnrl associate a "tin" which paid him $450,000 in the stock market. Birds of a feather, gentlemen' of the committee, always flock together. Tillman not a Democrat Has Senator Tillman, prosecuting at torney against my democracy, ever failed to abuse lJemocrats ana Democracy uo vou know that in the last two Demo cratic national conventions he has sup ported the nomination of Republicans? In 1800 he favored Senator Teller for President, an old-line Republican and one of the bitterest foes of the South in reconstruction days. lie had himself appeared before the , convention as V a competitor of W. .T. Bryan, and been ignominiously snowed under. I-ri 1900 he was for Towne, also a Republican, for Vice-President. Is he the man to be supreme arbiter and judge of what is Democracy in South Carolina? GUetbe roonsMen a Chance Tn the Senate I have labored, as the records will show, to broaden the pros !S?ty of the i country, to promote the interests of my own people, to spread Hvilization, to enlarge and increase op- Emulate enterprise. His whole pohti caJ "oniie and mefVods have been to tear down, to abuse and oppose, to blight and restrain, to bite where he dared and to fawn where he feared or sought favor. I shall ask the people to contrast the records and shall claim my right as a freeman, a born and reared Democrat and a Senator from South Carolina, to do it regardless of the orders of twenty one members of the executive committee. I shall ask the people to decide be tween the man who has tried to help cottou factories, open highways of com merce and to so command the Demo cratic party as to command for it the confidence and respect of the business and laboring elements North and South; and that of the man whose conduct and record has been to sink the party to disrepute and impotence. I shall ask them to say whether they prefer the Senator who has tried to retain for South Carolina the honor and dignity won by a long line of illustrious sons and glo rious deeds, or the Senator who has postured as buffoon and bully and who proclaimed on the floor of the Senate that he represented a constituency of ballot-box s-tuffers and murderers who wanted their share of the stealage. He is now in a Northern State hold ing up our people as negro murderers and ballot-box thieves. TnrlfT Snbaldea and Expansion You have undertaken to condemn and expel and depose me, not only without a healing, but without evidence. Upon what ground are my good faith as a Senator and my fidelity as a Democrat assailed? Is it on the tariff? None of you of the committee can prove to the people that the Democratic party is a free trade party. It has opposed a tariff for protection- only, but ar, "early as 1797 we had a protective tariff and we have never in the one hundred and four years since known free trade. General Han cock, the party nominee for President in 1SS0, regarded the tariff as a local ques tion. Samuel J.- Randall, for years the party leader and speaker of the House, was a protectionist. In every Congress where the question has been presented numbers of Democrats have voted against and helped to kill free trade. I have contended that Southern products should be put on an equality with others, and in 1897 I fought to have rice, pine lum ber and cotton protected. The cry of "Republican" was raised against me then, but the people, before whom the issue was squarely put, endorsed me by an overwhelming vote. Are you now undertaking to reverse that verdict? I have favored ship subsidies. It is a great question, and one, I submit, on which the people of this State are competent to pass after hearing full argument. The subject has never been discussed before them, although it is of vast importance to the prosperity of this State. The purpose of the subsidy is to develop the building and operation of great fleets of American ships. It touches the interest of our seaports, of our lumber industries, of all our manu facturing enterprises and our great agri cultural products. It is a question on which some of the ablest Democrats of the House and Senate are divided. I most humbly submit that it is not in order for twenty-one members of your committee to rule that the Democratic masses of South Carolina shall not at their campaign meetings hear this matter of vital interest to them discussed; and that the people of the seacoast cities, who would- like to see new tides of com merce brought to their hArbors, and the lumber, 'men ami owners of forest lands who would be glad to sell material for more ships, are to be thrown neck-and-heels out of the party because they favor ship subsidies. Senators Carlisle, Pugh and. Morgan voted for a subsidy bill which' has been in force ten years and which has helped our Brazilian trade, in a measure at -least. Are they not Democrats, according to the decision of Senator Tillman and your committee? I believe that it is our duty to de velop the new territory which has-come into our possession along commercial and industrial lines, to civilize them and make them the equal of our own States in material prosperity. Senator Tillman would leave them, after we have de prived them of the protection of Spain, to a hopeless struggle as an independent nation without resources or self-protection. Fortunately for us, the records show that in building them up we are going to benefit our own country. I want to give that territory the best form of government in the world. He does not want to give it any form of govern ment at all. He says "Free silver or bust." I say the American people have settled that question at the ballot box. : I am for a sound currency, and con stant employment for ail who desire work at remunerative wages. This we cannot have without an outlet for our surplus products on equal terms with all of our competitors in the markets of the world. Do you think the energetic, live, pro gressive young business man of the South will long permit the cabals of a few scheming politicians to stand be tween him and the attainment of these glorious ends? If this is not Democ racy, then, gentlemen. I invite you to join hands with me in making it so. .. These are the leading questions .on which I understand my Democracy and loyalty have been assailed. The records give me little light as to what further grounds there may be for j-our action. Allow me to summarize them briefly. In the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress Senator Tillman and myself voted together in 118 of 150 yea and nay votes. I voted against him for protection to the farmers on an amendment to the tariff bill proposed by Senator Jones of Arkansas, present chairman of the Democratic executive committee. Pos sibly you may reconvene your committee and read him out of the party. I voted with ''Jones, Vest, Bacon, Bate, Berry, Daniel, Mills, Morgan and all the other Democrats except Senators Tillman and McEnery, who voted with the Republi cans. It was a straight party vote. Un another amendment to the same bill I voted with the Democrats. Senator Tillman was 'the one Democrat voting with the"' Republicans. SeeCongressional Record, Vol. .30, page 15 1 7. Tn tbo spcond session of the same Con gress Senator Tillman and myself voted together on S-i or u roii-caiis. cjne vote on which we differed was -on a motion to adjourn, intended to defeat a reso lution calling upon the President to intervene in Cuba. Senator Tillman voted with the Republicans to adjourn, and the motion prevailed by one vote. I voted with the Democrats. The other votes on which we differed were un important and. not party questions, the parties dividing on all. I favored the acceptance of the Hawaiian Islands along with such Democrats as Gorman, Kyle, Money, Morgan, Pettus and Sulli van, and he with the other Democrats (Continued on. Second Page.) Schley Court of Inquiry Now Complete HOWISON WILL SERVE Summoning of Witnesses Has Begun, Schley's Coun sel Under Espionage of Un derlings of Crowninshield Washington, August 6. The board of inquiry to investigate the conduct of Rear Admiral Schley in the war with Spain was completed today by the ap pointment of Rear Admiral Henry L,. Howison asvthe third member to suc ceed Rear Adimral Kirnberley, who was relived. Rear Admiral Howison's name was one of several submitted to the Navy Department by Captain Parker, associate counsel -for Rear Admiral Schley, as acceptable to Rear Admiral Schley. He is now at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and has notified the Navy Depart ment that he will be able to serve, and that he has not at- any time expresssd himself in regard to the contraversy. Rear Admiral Henry Lycurgus Howi son was born in Washington, D. C, and was appointed to the navy as acting midshipman from Indiana, September 20, 1S54. He was at the Naval Acad emy from 1854 to 1858 and was war ranted as midshipman June 11, 1858. was attached to the steam frigate Wa bash on the Mediterranean squadron for a year. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was on the Pocahontas with the gulf squadron. He was transferred to the Pawnee and promoted to passed mid shipman January 19, fSGl, and mas ter February 28, following. He . was present on the Pocahontas at the sur render of Fort Sumter by General An derson. He was subsequently employed in Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River convoying troops to Washington. He was promoted to lientenant April 29, 18G1, and sent on special duty to out side picket post . at Cloud's Mills, Va., with a howitzer and crew skirmishing with Stuart's cavalry, . ' In September, 1801, he was made executive officer of the Augusta of Admiral Dupont's squad ron. He took part in the capture of Port Royal, and landed in command of a company at-Tybee Island. He was en gaged with rams off Charleston in 1S62. He was later executive officer of th? Nantucket and was present at the en gagements of Forts Moultrie, Sumter and Wagner, in 1S03. In August, 1804. he was ordered to command the Bienville and participated in the battle of Mobile Bay. In 18(i4 and 18G5 he was with the blockading squadron off Galveston. lie was -made lieutenant commander March 3, 1565, and shortly afterward was ordered to ordnance duty at the Washington navy yard. '- He was retired October 10, 1S99, hav ing attained the age limit of G2 yeais. He has had 35 years and four months sea duty and 28 years and eight months shore duty. Tie was made a rear ad miral November 2S, 1S9S. Admiral Howison's home is at' Yon kers, N. Y.t but he is now snend'n? the summer at . Congress Hall, Sar toga. After being relieved at Mare Island Admira Howison was placed in com mand of the Boston navy yard, where he remained during the Spanish war. He afterwards took command of thj South Atlantic squadron and was re lieved by Admiral Schley. The Navy Department has already begun the summoning of witnesses to appear before the court. A list of per sons whom Rear Almiral Schley de sired examined was received from him several days ago. It contains the names of Commander Senton Schroedei-. now governor of Guam, and Ensign William P,, Wells, who is now in China. An order has already been prepared at the department, directing Commander Schroeder to return to the Unite 1 States to appear before the court. Tha order was cabled to Rear Admiral Rodgers. commanding the Asiatic squad ron, with instructions to forward it-at once to Guam by the Yorktown. It is very probable that Commander Schroeder will therefore take passage on the Yorktown to Yokohama, where he will take a commercial steamer to the United States. Lientenant Rodger Wells, who wa Admiral Schley's private secretary, will also be ordered to return from Europe where be 5s on leave. The department is preparing orders for other witnesses oii foreign stations, directing them to re turn without delay so as to be on hand September 12, when the court will be gin its work. Captain James Parker, assistant coun sel for Rear Admiral Schley, has re turned from New York, where he had a conference with his client, and was of. the Navy Deprtment again this morn ing examining ' the papers and records in the case in which he is interested. He is working today in the office of Secretary Long and .is held incommu nicado, no one being allowed to visit him whUe he is engaged in his seaach of the records. He is -still surrqunded bv the faih fnl force of watchers from Rear VI miral Crowninshield's office. Lieutenant Barnes, who is said to have been per sonally distasteful to Captain Parker, because he persisted in walking up and down in the room to the annoyance of the attorney, is however, not in com mand of the guards. Th. 3uy has been Ssigned to Lieutenant Vebster, of the Bureau of Navigation, who was an offi cer aboard Admiral Schley's flagship during the Santiago campaign. Captain Parker expects to be engaged with his work for several days yet. Hanna the Coming Man Washington, August 6. Senator Stew art of Nevada, who is in Washington on business, said today he believed from present indicationis that Senator Hanna would be the next Republican nominee for the presidency. On Malvar's Trail Manila, Aug. 6. General Chaffee has received word that General Sumners troops are in close pursuit of the insur gent leader, Malvar. They captured Malvar's camp while his breakfast was still hot. -e- Siipped From a Foot Log Charlotte, N. C, Avtsnst G. Special. Addie Dawson, a 12-year-old colored girl, slipped off a foot log over. Town creek in the suburbs today and was drowned. The body was not found for two hours. During part of the search the child's mother sat in unspeakable grief on the bank watching the rescuers. -s- Steel Strike in Politics Altoona, Pa., Aug. G. The Democrats of the county, at their convention, passed resolutions condemning the course of the steel trust and intimating that or ganization on the part of capital should be met by organization on the part of labor. As many of the mill workers be long to the Democratic party, it is thought these resolutions will assist the work of organizing -$- Taken with Grains of Salt Washington, Aug. G. Senor Herran, charge d'affaires of the Colombian lega tion, doubts the authenticity of the al leged reports given out in New York by Senor Guerra, the insurgent repre sentative there. He said this morning: "If the battles reported by Senor Guerra had really occurred I would undoubtedly have been advised by cablegram." w British Are Making the Boers Move On LOSSES IN DETAIL Kitchener Reports Boer Casu alties, but Fails to Make a Comparison with Losses Suffered by His Own Army London, August 6. The British troops are making progress against the Boers in South Africa, according to advices just received at the War Office from General Lord Kitchener. The British commander-in-chief reports that Vil joen has been driven across Olifants river, and that Kekowich and Allenby are moving against the Burghers in the Magliesbcrg. Heavy losses have been inflicted on the Boprs who are fighting under Lategan. Lategan has been oper ating in Cape Colony and had given the British a great deal ot trouble. General Kitchener also gives in de tail the captures from and the casualties suffered by the Boer troops since July 29, bat fails to niaue a comparison of the British losses, merely stating that they were all reported separately dur ing the week past. The dispatch from Kitchener follows: "Since July 29 the columns report 48 Boers killed, 19 wounded, 220 prisoners taken, and 57 Burghers Surrendered. One pompon, 141 rifles, S,G00 rounds of small arm ammunition, 182 wagons, and a large number of horses and stock were captured. The casualties on our side are included in all that were re ported separately during the past week. "Viljoen has been driven across Oli fant's river. Kekewich and Allenby are moving against the Boers in the Masal iesberg. The British under Scobell have inflicted heavy loss on the Boers under Dategan." Exit the Military Manila, Aug. G. The military govern ment of Manila will cease tomorrow and municipal affairs will be taken over by three commissioners similar to the government in the District of Columbia. The president is a Filipino Colonel Her-rc-ra; the others are Messrs. Baldwin and Tutherly. The chief of police is George Curry, a former officer of the Eleventh cavalry. Mr. Houserman is the city attorney. Six Hours up a Tree Charlotte, N. C, A"S"St 0. Special. Dr. H. C. Davis and his driver, of Paw Creek, this county, drove into a swollen creek last night returning home, Dr. Davis had to spend six hours an a tree in order to save himself from drowning. After entering the creek the buggy began to drift clown. First the driver and then Dr. Davis caught limbs of trees and climbed- out in the ponr inc ' rain and pitchy darkness. When daylight returned Dr. Davis climbed down and waded to shore. 1 1 to 8H 1018 1 1 The Order for a General Strike Sent Out to Steel Workers Last Night THE OTHER SIDEJMST ASK FOR PEACE No Further Overtures Will Be Made on the Part of the Union and No Offers of Mediation Will Be Accepted Shaffer Says the Association Is in the Fight to Win rittsbnrg, Augnst 0 President Shaf fer has issued his threatened strike no tice. It was sent out in the mail to night, directed to the vice-presidents of the Amalgamated Association and the picesident of the lodges, in each mill of the National and Federal Steel Company. Last ight Shaffer did not in ompany. Last night Shaffer did not in tend to issue a strike order for some days, but he was irritated by reports that he was afraid he could not secure general observance of such an order and that he was "sparring for time," and therefore he came to the sudden conclu sion to call, the strike.; All. the aferr noon Shaffer . denied any , intention of issuing his strike proclamation. . Even as late. as 4 o'clock, when asked if-the j report was true, he sent out a type written slip bearing the words: "I liave nothing to say." It was not until 6 p. m. that he emerged and announced that the order had been issued and handed out a copy of it. The strike order "issued tonight by Shaffer reads as follows: "Brethren: The officials of the Uni ted States Steel Corporation have re fused to recognize as union men those who are now striving for the right to organize. The executive board has au thorized me to issue" a -call . upon . all Amalgamated and other union ' men ki name and heart to join the movement to fight for laborers' rights: - " "We must fight or give up forever our personal liberties. You will be told that you have signed contracts, but you nev er agreed to surrender those -contracts to the United States Steel Corporation. Its officers think you were sold to them just as the mills were, contracts" and all. V" ': "Remember, before you agreed to any contract you took an obligation ; to the Amalgamated Association.- -It1 now calls on you to help in this . hoar of need.! , 'Unless the trouble Is "settled-onr be fore Saturday. August- -10,- 1901, the mills will close when the last turn' is made oh that day. " v ' "Brethren, this is the call to preserve our organization. We trust you and need you. Come, help us, and mar right come to a just aause. "Fraternally yours, "T. J. SHAFFER." DECLINE TO. TESTIFY 1 .i " : . No Law to CompePWitnesses in the Neely Case Indianapolis, Aug. 6. Arthur Jordan, president of the Keyless Lock Company, and Arthur It. Baxter, treasurer, sent a communication today to United states Commissioner Moore refusing to giye testimony against C. F. W. Neely, who is now in jail in Cuba, charged with em bezzlement. The Keyless Dock Company furnished mail boxes and other post for f!nhn thronzh Neely. and the government designated Mr. Moore as the person to take the testi d P.nxter regarding their transactions with Neely. The let ters refusing to testify are- the same incept the signatures, ana-say, in pari.. 'TVoVi-iin-ihiif niw intentional disrespect toward you personally, andnot intending to show any contempt tor yonr omcuai tr T ffl nevertheless, that it is my right to decline to testify as a wit ness in said alleged proceeding unaer the alleged authority held by you from said uuDan court, ior me reason ami said island of Cuba is foreign territory, and said cause is therefore pending ;n a foreign jurisdiction to which I owe no allegiance. I am advised that said court has not, by any law or tne unitea diction over citizens of the United States in such matters, ana mat no autuoray t n a in nnll con 11 -An OC hcon rnnferrfnl tinon you to require me to answer the inter rogatories accompanying yottr letter of I instructions. l or me to su omit to me (proposed examination would therefore ne 'to volunteer testimony in a case wherein having received notice of this intended proceeding, as I am informed, which is abhorrent to our ideas of judicial pro cedure." . . INDIANA'S MOST i POPULAR DIVERSION Two Men Taken by Whitecaps and Bruta ly .Whipped Indianapolis, August G. Two cases of brutal whitecapping occurred last night in this State and in counties remote from each other. In one case sjrteen masked men appeared at the home of uillard Gore, in Howard county, took him to the woods, tied him to a tree and whipped him till the blood ran.' The charse against Gore .was that he was! abusive to hi wife, who is n invalid, I 11 President Shaffer safd this !n expla nation of the call: ', "The call goes to the presidents of the districts where there arc mills owned and operated by the National Steel Company, the National Tube Com-' pany and the Federal Steel Corrrnany', as well as to the officiate of the" mill lodges. "No notice has been or is being sent to the: managers of the mills. We think . their notice has come from tihe outside and that they have had warning of this ever since the inauguration of tho strike. That ought to be sufficient." "The country is full of peacemakers," Shaffer said tonight, "they beseijre me in my office for hours at a time, wi th their cry 'peace, peace,' when there is no peace. I will have nothing more to do with peaca talk until it comes from the other side. Those who come to me with stories of .their influence in', certain quarters begging me to do this and that,. I refer to The trust officials. If any one can bring about peace, let . him or the trust mate a proposal. We are done wUh dickerings and , proposi tions unless they come fro mthe United States Steel Corporation. The steel people can have peace .whenever they ask for it. We will not ask for it, be- ' cause we did all we could to brins about a settlement. For this reason the ex ecutive board is disbanded in New York. It will not be called tosether again by me unless the steel people ask for another conference. You would be surprised if I should tell you of the number of .Pittsburg men, presumably who have influence with the United States -Steel Corporation, who hare come to me and off ered to " act as me 'diators. To all of them. I said: Go to the other side; -we are ready? for rpe?.ee5 when they are. ' Only today- & '' Pitta-' burg manufacturer who I know, who has 'influence with the ' steel " people,' came to my office and asked whether he could not be of some service in set tling 'the strike. I fold him the same thing. , 'Go to the other side. . Eeports are that the combine proposes to ex-! terminate the Amalgamated Association. The association is in -this fight to win." and to their four-year-old child. 'Aftet beating Gore till he was almost life less, the mob threatened him with death if he gave occasion for them to coma again. . Matthew McKenzie, of Monroe county, was the other victim. He too Av&s taken from bed at midnight by masked ; men and brutally whipped vita' switch-; es. He was then given Gro days in which to leave the county. Th charee; against him was that he is too lazx to, work and is likely to become a charso; upon the county he is getting old. it is said he refused to -work in tha In-, vest fields last week, saying be was not well. , FUNERAL ON THE ' INSTALLMENT PLAN Obsequies Will Last from. Thursday Until Tuesday Berlin, August G. The royal family will attend Thursday, the funeral ser-j vices conducted at Fredertchshof by th(' Bishop of Rlpon, wfao has been suini moned by Empress Frederick's tV?isb$ Tho family only will be present. Tn; body will be removed Saturday eveni;' to the Protestant church at Cronberg. escorted by a torch light procession." Tho family, will follow on foot. A serrica -will be held there Sunday. I tils ex pected that King Edward with his fam ily and friends an dservants will ga to Potsdam the same evening. ' Funeral services will be held in the. mausoleum Tuesday. In accordance with the Empress wish es there will be no grand state ceremo nies, only a simple service in tho church. It will not be attended as usual with imperial funerals by members of tins royal. families of all the German states.; Six Bodies Found - . Philadelphia, August 6. Firemen and laborers were digging today in the ruins of the five buildings in Locust street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets, which were destroyed by an - explosion late last night. Thus far six ; bodies have been taken out, and, as sixteen per sons are reported missing, they are supposed to be dead in the ruins. Four more victims now in the Pennsylvania Hospital are not likely to survive. Tho list of injured thns far shows that 107 pcrsonr boon treated at the h- pitaLs, - - ."VV L f 7