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RALEIGH, N. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1908.
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NOT
PARTISAN
SAYS GO 1PERS
Labor Neither Republican 'or
Democratic But Confronted
With Serious Issues
SCORES JUDGE TAFT
President Samuel Gompers Gets Into
the Wordy War of the Past Week
in a 8,000-Word Editorial in Bis
Paper Calls Upon Workers to
.' Stand by Their Friends and Op
pose Enemies Republican Party
and Candidate Endorse Injunction
. Abuse.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, Sept. ' 28 Declaring
that "labor is not partisan," that it
is neither republican nor democratic
and that the Issues of the political
campaign are more serious than hare
ever been presented, "not excepting
chattel slavery, Samuel Gompers, in
an editorial in the American Federa
tlonist, out today, calls upon "work
ers" to stand by their friends and op
pose enemies, whether they be candi
dates for president, congress or other
offices, executive, legislative, or ju
dicial. -.
Several thousand words in length,
the editorial appears to be Mr. Gomp
ers' contribution to the political
"statements" which have checkered
the political history of the past
week. ' ...
President Roosevelt is told that he
is mistaken when he .says that "no
responsible organization would hesi
tate to condemn the abuses against
which Judge Taft's Injunctions were
aimed" and informed that the con
trary is the fact.. ?
Mr. Taft Is attacked for his posi
tion as regards labor and the Van
Cleave-Btick's Stove 'and Range In
junction is termed as "invasion of
the rights of free speech," based
upon the precedents furnished : by
Judge Taft's Injunctions."
Mr. Gompers says:
"Mr, Taft has never done other
than uphold and defend injunction
abuses. He has never in any public
utterance intimated that he would
favor the enactment of labor meas
ures to limit and define the injunc
tion power. Until he does that it will
not be of much avail for President
Roosevelt to say pleasant things
about him to the wage-workers.
, "The republican party and Its can
didate for president indorse the abuse
of the injunction process and only
promise to put a few patches on the
method of administering the abuse.
"The thing to which we especially
call attention in this Foraker matter
Is that it is evidence to anybody pos
sessed of average dlsconcernment that
Mr. Foraker may not be the only sen
ator who accepts trust 'retainers.' If
he were it would hardly be possible
for him to 'deliver the goods' so suc
cessfully year, after year. It takes
quite a number of senators to defeat
the will of the people, yet'they have
generally done it successfully."
HAS FIVE WIVES.
On That Account Chinese Citizen is
Not Allowed to Land in America,
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
San Francisco, Sept. 28 Although
he has $3,000,000 and Is the largest
landed proprietor In Hong Kong,
Robert H. Bosnian who arrived on
the steamer Korea yesterday, was de
tained' on board the vessel and de
nied the right to land because he has
five wives. Two of them are with
him and three more are awaiting his
return home. '
; Bosman made no attempt to con
ceal the facts and admitted to the im
migration Inspectors that he is a
polygamlst. His case will be given
consideration by a special board.
. Bosman ras born In China, his
father being' a Briton . while hU
mother Is a Chinese. He says he will
bring pressure to bear on the gov
ernment to secure the right to land.
He has a score ot servants.
Tragedy In Camp.
Manila, Sept. 28 Lieutenant E. J.
Bloom of the fourth infantry, was
shot- and killed Saturday night , at
Camp Jeisman by Private Buttles,
Company K, of the same regiment.
Buttles than cut his own throat
Buttles died Immediately but Bloom
lingered until Sunday night. The
motive for the murder has sot been
learned. "'."t
DELEGATES ARE
GIVEN WELCOME
Cordial Expression of Welcome
Greet Delegates to Internat
ional Tuberculosis Con.
FOREIGNERS PRESENT
Commissioner McFarland Greeted the
Delegates oh Behalf of the People
of the District of Columbia,
Nearly Thirty Spokesmen, Repre
senting as Many Foreign Coun
tries, Participate In Simple, Bui
Unique Exercises at the Beginning
of the Congress Names of the
Several Speakers. -
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, Sept. 28 Greeted
with cordial expressions of welcome
by representatives of the federal and
district governments, the delegates
to the sixth session of the Interna
tional Congress oh tuberculosis garn
ered at 11 o'clock this morning m
the assembly hall of the New National
Museum building. Secretary of the
Treasury George B. Cortelyou, as the
personal representative of President
Roosevelt, delivered the principal ad
dress 6f welcome, and Commissioner
Henry B. F. MacFarland greeted the
delegates cordially on behalf o the
people of the District of Columbia.
Nearly 30 spokesmen, representing as
many foreign countries, participated
in the simple, but unique, exercises
connected with the beginning of the
congress.
In his address of welcome Secre
tary Cortelyou said, lnvpart: '
It Is -a great honor to be called on
to preside over : this distinguished
gathering, and particularly to do so
as the representative of the president
of the United States, whose welcome
and whose good wishes I am commis
sioned to convey to you this morning.
In the name of the American people,
for whom he speaks, he congratu
lates you upon what you have al
ready accomplished, and upon the
promise of much greater accomplish
ments in the bencflcient work in
which you are engaged.
Especially am I commissioned by
the president to assure the delegates
from foreign lands who have come
here to our American capital, many
of them from great distances, to con
fer with our delegates, that our peo
ple gratefully appreciate not only tne
interest, but the spirit of cordial
good will which their governments
have shown, and which their pres
ence here testifies.
We are living in a day of great
moral and material movements. It
is a time of uplift, of widening vis
ion, of deepening research, of broad
ening co-operation. The days when
the people of the state or a nation
sat Idly by and left to desultory in
vestigation the study of evils which
gravely menaced the welfare of large
numbers of people are passing away,
and in their place we find concerted
action, either under governmental In
spiration or with governmental en
couragement, which In many Instan
ces Is enlarged into such potent in
ternational organization as this cong
ress. ' ": ' - '
Worcester, Mass., Sept. 28 While
world-famed scientists are discussing
the. subject at the Washington cong
ress, Dr. Francis J. Brook, Just ar
rived in Massachusetts from Turkey,
announces that he has discovered a
positive cure for tuberculosis.
Dr. Brooks is a native of Denver
and a graduate of the London college
of surgery and medicine. He has
been practicing In Constantinople for
a number ot years and claims to have
Cured many cases of tuberculosis in
that city, ..-'
The new cure consists of nothing
more or less than confining the pa
tient to a room, the air of which has
been permeated with a vapor, the na
ture of which Brooks refuses to di
vulge. This vapor Is Invisible, and,
the doctor says, will kill the. baccllll
without Injury to the lungs of the
patient -
New Democratic Club,
Concord, N. C, 8ept Bryan
and Kitchln Club was formed in Con-
cord last Friday evening with J. D.'lal Hall before a large audience by
Lentz president and H. R. Deaton Dr. B.' M. Potest, of Furman Unlver
secretary. This club, If not the ban-' slty. . . ' , .
nor club of the state, win have a'
tendency to make older clabs set up
and take notice. ' The aim of the bar of the faculty of May lor Unlver
club wlirbe to Increase the dmo-, slty,-preached here yesterday morn
cratio majority fifty per cent
Will Take a Leading Part in The
Republican National Campaign
Senator Murry L. Crane, of Maws., who nt the request of Mr. Taft,
will now take a leading part in conducting tlje Republican campaign.
POLITICAL NEWS
President Roosevelt issued a;.f,000
word reply to Mr, Bryan and at the
white house it was described as
"Bryan's annihilation."
Mr. Taft refused to say whether
he approved of President Roosevelt's
participation In the campaign, or
whether If elected, he would pursue
a similar course four years hence.
It was reported that the leaders at
republican national headquarters may
ask President Roosevelt to be loss
active In the campaign,
Conflicting dinner engagements
prevented a meeting in Minneapolis
of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Taft. The nug
gcsUnon of a mectiug was made by
Mr. Bryan and was agreeable to Mr.
Taft, The republican candidate
made an address to the Young Men's
Christian Association.
Governor Haskell said:
"I'll have a new chapter of Theo
dore the First every day from now
until election day, showing him to be
the greatest crook that ever sat in
the presidential chair." He also
said he would sue W. R. Hearst and
various Oklahomans.
Mr. Hearst left for the middle west
with a bag full of Standard Oil let
ters..' The Times' Cleveland article was,
in effect, branded a fake by Mr,
Cleveland himself, who in an inter
view with a reporter on March 28,
said that he had not written a line
on politics in nine months and would
keep his hands off the approaching
campaign.
Taking Chairman Hitchcock's own
estimate of the expected falling off in
the republican vote in the far west as
a basis, calculations show that It
would, It general, make the election
close.
Senator Foraker said Mr. Tatft
"had better devote his entire atten
tion to Bryan."
DR. POTEAT LECTURES.
Delivered First ' of College Series.
Dr. Williams Preached Mr. New
land Tonight.
(Special to The Times.) '
Wake Forest, N. C, Sept 28 The
first of the regular series of college
lectures was delivered here Saturday
night at 730 in the Wlngate Memory-
Dr. C. B. Williams, an alumnus of
Waks Forest; class '91, now a 'tnem'
GHilNG DUEL
OVER A GIRL
( By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, Sept. 2 S -Following an
excited woman who had told him
that two men were about to fight a
duel because of rivalry for the lofe
of a girl, Policeman Otto Kahn,' of
the east 104th street station, early
today found the men at 110th street
and second avenue standing a few
yards apart with revolvers raised to
t hoot. The appearance of the police
men disconcerted thorn and In the In-
r.tant hesitation Kahn struck Benja
min Vltola, the older man, on the
wrist with his night stick, breaking
the wrist. The other duellist, Ca-
uiela Norton, started to run, but
Kahn caught him and took his re
volver awny. They refused to tell
the name of ithe girl for whom they
were willing to fight. The men were
locked up.
C0ALWAG0N1S
WRECKED BY CAR
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, Setp. 28 One man was
killed and four Injured when a Third
avenue trolley car In Bay Ridge
crashed into a coal wagon at Third
avenue and Gist street. All of the
victims were struck by a car, which
was going In an opposite direction at
the time of the collision.
The dead:
Charles Klnteny, hurled from coal
wagon, struck by one car and tossed
In front of the other, which ran over
him.
. The Injured:
Tulin Phillips; right arm
tured and cut about the head.
William Schllzt; Injured
nally.
James Conway; In jured
frac-
Inter-
inter-
nally. .
Undldentlfled man; passenger on
car; cut by flying glass; taken to a
near-by drug store.
Fully 60 passengers were on
board, all of them being persons on
their way to work. Many of them
were women.'
, Mrs. . P. D. Blackwood and daugh
ter,' Miss Mary, and Miss Laura Col
lins spent the day In FayettsvlUe
yesterday.'- ;.;.':.," Vv: ;
A CHAPTER EVERY DAY
Haskell Will Have Something
on President
Says Bxmsevelt Is the Greatest Crook
That Ever Sat in the Presidential
Chair and an Infamous Liar With
Not the Honor to Admit it.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Guthrie, Okla., Sept. 28 "I'll
have a new chapter every day on
Theodore the First, from now until
election day," said Governor Haskell
yesterday, '"showing him to be the
greatest crook that ever sat in the
presidential chair."
Governor Haskell has just return
ed from Chicago.
"My resignation was voluntary,"
he declared, "for I could not afford,
if Bryan is defeated, to have the de
mocracy say, 'If Haskell had got out
of the way, Bryan would have been
elected.' I am catching a fourth
ward politician In the presidential
chair and I wanted to look after his
case." . .
Haskell, in a speech delivered in
front of democratic headquarters
here following a pathetic meeting
ith his wife at the station, referred
to President Roosevelt as "an infa
mous liar with not the honor to ad
mit it." He denied that he had ever
taken office until pressed to do sa-and
then accept It only for the dignity it
would give Oklahoma and then
added:
"."I'll be in the present campaign to
the last minute."
Haskell said he would start- law
suits this week against various Ok
lahomans and declared he would sue
William Randolph Hearst, 'to make
him prove the charges he made
against me were not true,"
According to Haskell, too, an in
vestigation is being made to discover
all other persons who are jointly re-
Aponsibla. . with ...Hearst ; tor.,.., the
charges, in order to raaka them de
fendants also. He specified Dennis
T. Flynn, republican : nominee for
United States Senator in the present
campaign as responsible for the fight
made on him.
THE NEW CHAIRMAN.
Herman Bidder Appointed as Succes
sor to Mr. Haskell.
; (By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, Sept. 28 Herman Rid
der, editor of the Staats-Zeltung, and
vice-chairman of the publicity bureau
of the democratic national commit
tee was Saturday night appointed oy
National Chairman Mack as treasurer
of the national committee, to succeeed
Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma.
; The appointment of Mr. Ridder as
treasurer of the committee was made
a few minutes before Chairman
Mack's departure for the west. The
chairman called up Mr. Ridder on
the telephone and asked him If he
would accept the position, and Mr.
Ridder agreed to take . up the work
of securlag funds to conduct the dem
ocratic national campaign. Mr, Rid
der will spend much of his time In
Chicago, where the main headquar
ters of the committee are located.
The appointment of Mr. Ridder
came as a surprise to National Com
mitteemen, who had been given to
understand that a western man would
be appointed. Mr. Mack said:
"I am very much pleased that Mr.
Ridder has seen fit to accept the re
sponsibilities of the treasureshlp. He
Is a very high type of the American
business man, and one whose associa
tions and connections will not,bring
him under charge of suspicion ot hav
ing to do with those corporations to
which democracy Is opposed."
FAMOUS PORTRAIT
SOLD FOR A DEBT
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, Sept 28 There was
i placed on sale today in the rotunda
of the county court house the now
famous portrait of Evelyn Nesblt
Thaw, showing her In Blmple blouse
suit with the Inevitable turn-down
white collar, purporting to have been
painted by Harrington Mann, a prom
inent artist of Paris. The sale was
for the benefit ot Mme. Elsie Hart
wig, a fifth avenue milliner, who se
cured a judgment against Mrs. Thaw
for $285.
According to Mrs. Hartwlg, Mrs.
Thaw left the portrait with her as se
curity. The picture Is framed In brass and
Is II by 14 Inches. It U done in a
general tone scheme of burnt umber.
According to the story connected
with the picture it was done by Har
rington Mann upon' order of the late
Stanford White.
FIRE SITUATION
BEYOND CONTROL
Fires Still Spreading and Only
Hope of Relief is
a Big Rain
SITUATION IS AWFUL
Several Sniull Villages and Camps In
Adirondacks Been Wiped Out by
Fires and the Situation New Be
yond All Control Thirty-Six Days
Have Passed Without Rain and
Forests Burn Like Tinder Prob
ably Fifty Fires Now Burning.
Praying For Rain. :
(By Leased Wire to The Times) ;
Utica, N, .- Y., Sept. 28 Several
small villages and camps have been
wiped out by the Adirondacks fires
and the situation Is now beyond con
trol of hundreds of fighters. Fanned
by strong winds the fire regained Us
old headway and the best efforts on
the part of the forest wardens did noi
avail. Several villages are in peril.
Long Lake West, a. village of about
100 Inhabitants, was burned and the
damage resulting amounts to perhaps
$150,000. The village contained a
dozen buildings, a railroad station
and a large storehouse, which sup
plied the camps for miles around.
All were destroyed.
The preserve of Dr. Webb, at Ne
hassane, was threatened, and this
city was appealed to for assistance.
Fire Chief Sullivan and a force from
the Utica department are now at
Nehassane. Communication is en
tirely cut off and the last message re
ceived here was to the, effect that
several ramps and hamlets were seri
ously threatened and that the fires
were raging beyond all control.
A relief train was sent from here
with 100 men prepared to fight as
long as their services are required.
A relief train also left Herkimer, and
unless rain intervenes much more as
sistance will be necessary. Among
other losses is a $10,000 hardwood
lumber pile and hundreds of cattle
have been burned to death.
There is no telling how much havoc
the fire will cause, or when It will be
ultimately checked. Not only is
there no indication of rain, but a
wind has sprung up which is adding
fury to the conflagration.
Fifty Fires Burning.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Newman, N. Y., Sept. 28 Thirty
six days have now passed without
rain except for two sprinkling show
ers and the forests are like tinder,
catching fire from the smallest spark.
There are probably 50 fire now burn-:
ing.
Prayers for rain are being offered
in. all churches. The loss from the
fires has reached a large amount and
unless rain comes much more damage
will be done, A fire Is reported at
Saranac Lake. It is said a fire start
ed there in the middle of the village,
but was quickly got under control.
SUPERIOR COURT TERMS.
Begin in Nine Counties Today.
Superior court convened In nine
counties of the state today. Judge
Ward presides In Perquimans, first
district: Judge Lyon in New Han
over, fifth district; Judge Neal In
Wake, sixth district; Judge Biggs in
Brunswick, seventh district; Judge
Long in Richmond, eighth district;
Judge Council! in Stokes, eleventh
district; Judge Justice In Mecklen
burg, twelfth district; Judge Murphy
in Alexander, thirteenth district; and
Judge Peebles in Haywood, sixteenth
district.
One week terms will be held In
Perquimans, Mecklenburg and Bruns
wick. In Wake, Richmond. Stokes,
Alexander and Haywood, there will
be two weeks terms. New Hanover
has a three weeks term.
LIGHTING CIGARETTE
THE CAUSE OF DEATH.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Baltimore, Md., Sept. 28 Howard
T. Smith, aged 18, struck a match
to light a cigarette while in a launch
In Curtis Bal, setting fire to the
launch and losing his lite while try
ing to escape.
The lighted match set fire to the
fumes from the gasoline used In the
engine and young Smith leaped
overboard to escape the flames. He
was drowned before assistance could
reach him.
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