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fcv's"- - - --t sgg ?.r-?sfpPPg?s? -i-JJ- jprt' V p-r '"'X., - ''rf.' ' - -f V t tCWs-,. ,t.r -&-&-- 1 THE ST. LOUI S REPUBLIC. m WOIRILiID S- 1Q04 FAIB NINETY-FIFTH YEAR. ST. LOUIS, MO... MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1903. In St. Lonla. One Cent. Outside St. Lonla. Tito Cents. On Trains. Three Cents. PRICE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DEFENDS HIS TO PREVENT VOTE ON CRUM'S NOMINATION RUDOLPH AND LEWIS, UNION BANK ROBBERS, TAKEN BY PINKERT0NS AT HARTFORD, CONN. SOUTHERN POLICY OVER HIS SIGNATURE. SEE WEBNBBATS MEPPB11C FOR 'lEAMHG IttCMANTS' M1WEEI BAICAMS. ' . " i i I t " ...- . - . ' ' B ? m. r I Pk. si SS.i Kvtract from xbs President's letter defining hl policy toward the South: -I mny ailtl that the proportion of colored men among these new appointees is only about one in n hundred. "In view of all these facts I have been surprised and somewhat pained at what seeing to mo the incompre hensible outcry in the South about my actions an outcry apparently started In New York for reasons wholly un connected with the question nominally at issue. I r.m concerned at the attitude thus taken by so many of the Srutlicru people; but I am not in the least anpry; and still less will this attitude have the effect of niaknj: me swerve one hair's breadth to one side or the other from the course I have marked out the 'course I have consist ently followed in the past, and shall consistently follow in the future. , "With resards and sincerely yours. THEODORE ROOSEVELT." FRANCIS CHANGES WILL VISIT Telegraphic A-dviecs From Franco Tliat President Loubet Would Re Glad to Receive Him Determines Trip on Continent Will Go to Madrid, and Expects to Meet the Kaiser March 9 May Sail for Home March 10. uivnincii ctvc cdcupu rhucdmucutuj cnnN MiKh A IV1MA U ntULJHId rnuiuu uuTi.mimi.ii i 1111-1- wwwn !.-... ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT LOUBEPS VISIT TO WORLD'S FAIR. o REPUBLIC SPECIAL. New "STork, March L In a Paris dispatch to the American to-day. Max O'Rell . says: V "There Is nothing In the French Constitution to prevent the President of the V'T Republlo from crossing the Beas If Parliament gives Its consent. "Rumors have been set afloat that at St. Louis. "What I know Is that no such programme has been determined upon, but what I also'kcow for certain is tha.t the French Government Is greatly Interested In the possible visit, and will noon make an announcement. rThls visit will be extremely popular so popular In the United States that never foreign State have proved such a success. "We French loe and admire America (one which nt each further visit became Americans love France and the French." London, Starch L President Francis of the St. Louis World's Fair changed his plans to-day, abandoned his Intention to return home and departed to-night for Paris, in conse quence of a telegram from M.-'La Grave, the French Commissioner to the Exposition, urging him to visit Paris and saying President Loubet would like to receive him at the Elysee. ..u. After seeing President Loubet, Mr. Francis Intends to proceed to Madrid and thence Mf to Berlin, where, if possible, he will have an audience with the German Emperor on March 9. He hopes to sail from Bremen March 10 on the Kronprlnz Welbelm for New Tork. The last day of President Francis In London was marked by an Interesting luncheon given 1n his honor by Chief Justice Lord Alverstone, who.wlU be a member of the British Royal Commission to the St Louli Fair. Prlor'to his leaving Mr. Francis said to tha Associated Fresy correspondent that he could not have asked for or expected more hospitality than. had been shown him during his flying visit to -England. "All classes,'; he remarked. T"have exhibited much interest In the St Louis Exposition, and have treated me In the kindest possible way; for which I am very grateful." Mr. Francis, when he arrives In Paris In the morning, will learn the time President Loubet has sot for receiving him. The St Louis Exposition appeals more strongly to the French nation than any other. The reception by the President of the Republic of Mr. Francis la evidence of that Interest After Mr. Francis finishes bis work In Parts, It Is now' planned that he will go 'to Madrid to further carry on the missionary work for the Exposition. It Is not altogether I V4 ' Improbable that he may be granted a royal audience In that capital. f The beginning of next week will find President Francis In Berlin. vbn is. nr Emperor, who has already given abundant evidence of his Interest In the Exposition, will receive htm in a private audience. To be granted private Interviews by the crowned heads of three great European na tions In two weeks" time wilt be a record set by Mr. Francis that will be hard to beat In speaking to Governor Francis before he left London, I asked him what was the tenor of reports from various Commissioners. He replied, without hesitation: "Extremely encouraging. Our men who hae been working In all parts of the world report that nil nations are preparing to make a grand showing at St Louis." POPE CONTINUES CELEBRATION DESPITE PHYSICIAN'S PROTEST. Rome, March 1. Doctor Lappor.I. the Pope's phvslclan. made this morning a Jast ef ' fort to Induce his Holiness to renounce his reception of the Cardinals. He remonstrated with him, saying: "Your Holiness, my duty Is to point out that your health would greatly benefit by your resting to-day." The Pope replied: "My dear doctor, before your valuable advice comes my duty, which I shall perform until the end." The audience wa held In the Pope's private library, and Leo XIII spoke continuously for half an hour with the forty-two Cardinals present. No address was delivered and the most Important words were when the Pontiff referred with emphasis to his advanced Kge and approaching end. WMHri.,e, SP"k here0t '" rcmlndInB the Cardinals that the room In which he MnJSSbS'irbJd same blch Pl1" IX heId hU last conslstory-he XII of Jom fnT ted.fhlS nteTence to the WW approach of death with a chorus ? exclamatloiu of "We have all come to wish you a long life " W this time the excitement of the reception had Improved Pope Leo's appearance. . .. entered the library his form was bowed and trembling, but he now seemed to have acquired strength and animation. . seemed t m !h0n.edthe CardlnaIs a magnificent antique clock which had Ju,t been presented sTfo iUnttiC&Serta- thC head f the Naple" branch 0 the Bourbon family? Beforo retirement he presented to each Cardinal a richly embellished Damnhlet re In rS? tt, f.hIef eVentS In h,s "". including a Latin poem of his own c"mMs tion and Ave of his most Important encvcllesls. Hi. nniin... .m. composition celwl " rder that the fCW CaralnaIs THREE MORE DAYS Tflrir'n rv wan w a r v Only two and a h"alf working days remain of the Fiftr-sevpnth n with much important work still to be accomplished lu-se"nth Congress. Final action remains to be taken on the naval, post office arlcUlir i dry civil, general deficiency and fortifications appropriates' bins T ,' "m deficiency bills are yet to be passed. P"a"ons bills. Two -urxent Aside from these the measure of most which hrs anv D0Miblp ,hnn,.. f .m' Aldrlch wurel InlH.1 rt 11 kI " ... ?.?? Bm on tne "" of the nothtnsSiVhe probable strul In t XgMST"" puDlIcbu"d'nB8' ? "-ai'-Hure calling for action, 1 SlSute.-.1--" Mir from, the Democrats of su gar-producing states u 0 year. Com ft i w ..u.v juwo lium Ul te?'.,Si0lli.?"a, or Cuban x Un, 9oit&. in aiHcv '... .: - ; : : . pre, 6th Liim -wrtte. BI ( 1 K?fefet HIS PLANS; PARIS AND BERLIN. . President Loubet -will vwt the Exposition In France, and I believe that It would be .before would the visit of the head of a and the Americans, and my Impression more and more a conviction) Is that the absent - llke Cardinal Gibbons, shall also r .,4 OF CONGRESS; - .a a m v OUTLOOK FOR LEGISLATION. vital concern ,' 1 -JL". :". "inese Interests to nf, " .' , .T"7 on M- f ZtZZS but which now bids fair to fall I. h. to have this caltJ'bu eunXBB. . . jMfe&ki3, hjjt v..gan". - ROOSEVELT'S VIGOROUS LETTER ON THE SOUTH. Atlanta, Ga . March L A letter from President Roosevelt .has been received by the editor of the Constitution In reply to a request for an expression concerning the re cent letter from Sir. -Harry Stlllwcll Ed wards of Macon. In which Mr. Edwards made a statement of the President's position In the matter of Federal appointments in the South, holding that the President had been misunderstood. PRESIDENT DKFI.NES SOUTHERN POLICY. President Roosevelt writes: "White House. Washington, Feb. 24, 1XM Honorable Clark Howell, Editor or the Con stitution, Atlanta: Dear Mr. Howell As to Federal appointments in the South, frankly, it seems to me that my appointments speak for themselves and that my policy Is self explanatory. . "So farfrom feeling that ther need the slightest apology or Justification, my posi tion Is that on the strength of what I have done I have the right to claim the support of all good citizens, who wish not only a high standard of Federal service, but fair and equitable dealing to the South, as well aa to the North, and a policy of consistent Justice and good will toward all men. CONSIDERED FEELING OF EACH LOCATION. "In making appointment I have sought to consider the feeling of the people of each locality so far as I could consistently do so without sacrificing principle. The prime tests I have applied have been those of character, fitness and ability, and when I have been dissatisfied with whet has. been offered' within my own party lines I have without hesitation gone to the opposite party, and you are of course aware Ihat I have repeatedly done this In your own State of Georgia." DEFINES ATTITIDE ON COLOR QUESTION'. "I certainly cannot treat mere co'or as a permanent bar to holding office, any- more than I could so treat creed or birthplace alwavs provided that In other respects the applicant or Incumbent is a worthy and well-behaved American citizen. Jint as .little will I treat It as conferring a right to hold office, and I have scant sympathy with a man of mere theory who refuses to face facts; but do you not think that In the long run It la safer for everybody If we act on the motto 'all men up,' rather than on that of 'some men down'? "I ask you to Judge not by what I Say, but what during the last seventeen months I have actually done. In your own State of Georgia jou ate competent to Judge from your own experience. "In the great bulk of the capes I have reappointed President McKinlev's ap pointees. The charges I have made were, as I think you will agree, changes for the better.and not for the worse. It happens I have appointed a white man to succeed a colored man as Postmaster at Athena and Surveyor at Atlanta. "It. South Carolina I have similarly ap pointed a white Postmaster to succeed a colored Postmaster. Again, in South Caro lina I have nominated a colored man to fill a vacancy In the position of Collector of the port of Charleston, Just as In Georgia I have reappointed the colored man who Is now serving as Collector of the port of Savannah. Both are fit men. INDIAKOLA INCIDENT ' SOCIAL EQUALITY. "Why the appointment of one should cause any more excitement than the ap pointment of the other, I am wholly at a loss to Imagine. "I need hardly say that to connect either of these appointments, or any, or all, of my other appointments or my actions in up holding the law at Indlanola with such questions a 'social equality" and 'negro domination' is as absurd as to connecthem with the nebular hypothesis or the theory of atoms, "I have consulted freely with your own Senators and Congressmen as to the char acter and capacity of any appointee In Geor gia concerning whom there was question. "My party advisers In the State have been Major Hanson of Macon. Mr. Walter John son of Atlanta both of them ex-Confeder ate soldiers and Ir. Harry Stillwell Ed wards, also of Macon. "I believe you will agree with me that In no State would It be poeslble to find gentle men abler and more upright or better qual ified to fill the positions they have filled with reference to me. "In every Instance where thtsse gentlemen have united In making a recommendation I have been able to follow their advice. WORTHINESS OF HIS APPOINTEES. "Am I not right In saying, that the Fed eral officeholders whom I hare appointed throughout- your State are, as a body, men and women of a high order of efficiency and Integrity? If you know of any Federal officeholder In Georgia of whom this is not true, pray let me know at esse, "I, wilt welcome testimony from you or from any other reputable citizen which will tend to show that a given public officer Is unworthy; and. most emphatically short will be the shrift of anyone whose lack of worth Is proven. "Incidentally, I may mention that a large percentage of the Incumbents of Federal office In Georgia, under me. are, aa I un derstand It, of your own political faith. But they are supported by me in every way as long as they continue to render good and faithful service to the public. lsvmkam&:sirM ,.i .-?. ..a apigrsgnMB i rir-w'w-t'--- r: Tillman and Clay Determined That Xegro Appointee Shall Not He Confirmed. RACE QUESTION UPPERMOST. Hundreds of Thousands of Copies of South Carolina' Senator's Speech to Be Used as Campaign Documents. REPUBLIC SPECIAL Washington, March 1. Senators Tillman and Clay, who have charge of the sena torial forces opposing the confirmation of Doctor W. D. Crum. the negro, to be Col lector of the Port of Charleston, have de cided to prevent a vote on the nomination. which means that the President will be called upon to make good his threat that he would reappoint Crum If the Senate failed to act upon the adverse report of the Commerce Committee. I Tha partisan lash has been applied io I vigorously on the Republican side of the chamber that a direct vote would probably result in the confirmation -of Crum. Many Republicans privately express their regret that the President has made the Crum case a party issue, but they cannot afford to antagonize the President In this matter, owing to the large negro vote in nearly all of the doubtful States. Senators Tillman and Clay have canvassed the situation very carefully and they hav? conciuaea teat, on a direct vote, but few Republicans can be found who are willing to Jump the party traces. The recent speech of Senator Tillman on tha race prob'em Is perhaps the most able and temperate deliverance ty has made since he became a member at the Senate. It made an Impression upon R5ubllcan Sen ator?, who were given a viewjof the South ern situation at closer range than ever be fore. Within the last few days Senator Till man's maM has contained over 2.009 letters, principally from Northern and Western correspondents, requesting a copy of hti speech In full. As soon as It Is reviel hundreds of thousands of coples.w-ill be cir culated all over the North and Wett as .t campaign document. Since the delivery' of the Tillman speech several Republican Senators have been ta the President and urged him r'J withdraw Crura's nomination ontha stijaigiljjjf an, adverse report by a majority of tite Com mittee -on Commerce. The President em phatically refused to'act upon the suirges tlon and Insists that, unless Senators go on record for or against the confirmation of Crura, he Will carry out his intention to reappoint the negro Immediately upon the adjournment of Congress. "This is true of your own State, and by applying to Mr. Thomas Nelson Page cf Virginia, to General Basil Duke of Ken tucky, to Mr. George Crawford of Tennes see, to Mr. John Mcllheny of Louisiana, to Jud;e Jones of Alabama and Mr. Edgar S. Wilton of Mississippi, all of them Demo crats and all of them men of hlgnest stand ing In the respective communities, vou will find that what I have done in Georgia stands not as the exception, but as the rule for what I have done throughout the South. "I have good reason to believe that my appointees in the different States mentioned, and as the sum of the parts Is the whole necessarily In the South at large, represent not merely an Improvement upon those whese places they took upon the whole a higher standard of Federal service than has hitherto been attained in the communities In question." DEATH CLAIMED PROMINENT ' ST. LOUIS BROKER. Mlrhacl narnett, In IlaatneM for Ciiartrrof Centnr, Died at the Aie of HH Years. Michael Barnett. for years a prominent loan broker of St. Louis, died yesterday aft ernoon at the home of his son. Benjamin Barnett, No. S9C0 McFherson avenue. He had been sick several months. Mr. Barnett was SS years of age. Until about three months ago he resided with his son. Max, at No. 3731 Olive street. In the summer months, for the last fifteen or twenty years, he spent the greater part of his time sitting on the front porch, smoking his pipe. So regularly was he on the porch that he was known to every motorman and con ductor, a well as the dally passengers on the Olive street line. Mr. Barnett was born In Germany. His parents died when he was 16 jears old. Several years later he came to America. While In New York he married Miss Caro line Meyer, who died ten years ago. Forty-eight years ago, he moved to St, Louis, and started In the loan business. lie retired twenty-five years ago. Since then he had not baen engaged In active business, being succeeded by his three sons, Ben, Max and Nelson, who are In the loan business. Besides the sons, a daughter, Mrs. E. S. Newman of Omaha. Neb., sur vives him. For many ears Mr. Barnett was a mem ber of the United Hebrew Congregation, of which Rabbi Messing is pastor. The fu neral will take place to-morrow afternoon from the Barnett home on McPherson ave nue, and the burial will be In Mount Olive Cemetery. BUTLER IS NOT DISHEARTENED. Says He Is Willing to Continue to Bun for Congress. REPUBLIC 8P3CIAL. Washington, March L Representative elect J. J. Butler and family left Washing ton this morning for their home In St Louis. Mr. Butler said to-day he would continue to run for Congress as long as his congres sional district saw fit. FIRE AT ORPHANS' HOME. Adjunct Building of German Insti tution Nearly Destroyed. Fire yesterday morning- almost destroyed an adjunct buliaing of the German Orphatfi Home at fiaston and Macklln avenues in flicting; a loss of about tKO. ' Firemen of Company No. 10, Noi Etas Ver non avenue, responded, although the home Jf-TJ6. Ctyiumta. The origin of the ?int? b-and n,'ned several water root w dlcovere aev the . sas!,. .-.s'sgr-rrtsw-.. f-'--"?.TTfn!i" ff t. , 4.1-i, -i r " 'ifS"r?mriinuF - Desperadoes, Who Killed Detective Schumacher When He Tried to Arrest Them, and Who Fled Across Half the State of Missouri, Pursued by a Dozen Posses. Are Taken by Surprise While En joying Their Stolen Wealth in an Eastern City Make Desperate Struggle to Escape, but Do Not Succeed in Drawing Their Weapons More Than f3,flft) Found on Their Persons and in Their Trunks Clew of Detective Charlee worth of St. Louis Leads v to Capture. OUTLAWS WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO MISSOURI UL'UKGK COLLINS. ALIAS FRED LEWIS, ALIAS "BLACK FRANK." WILLIAM RUDOLPH, ALIAS "THE MISSOURI KID." REPUBLIC SPECIAL. Hartford, Conn.. March 1. "Bill" Ru dolph, alias "The Missouri Kid." and George Collins, alias 'Tred Lewis," alias "Black Frank," known familiarly through out the Middle West as "The Union Bank Bobbers," were captured here to-day after a desperate struggle. When searched J3.6S5 was recovered. George S. Dougherty, assistant suprln tendent of the New York PInkerton ofSce, and Nick Butler and Garrett Farrell of the Hartford Police Department, made the ar rests. A scrap of paper found by George D. Charlesworth. assistant superintendent of the St. Louis PInkerton offices, which bore the words, ' George Collins, Hartford, Conn ," was the clew which led to the capture of the two desporadoea, who were chased across half the State of Missouri by posses eager to avenge the death of PInkerton Detective William Schumacher of St. Louis, killed by Rudolph and Lewis at Stanton, Mo., on January 24. when Schumacher attempted to arrest them for the robbery of the Bank of Union, Mo., on December 27, 1902. PATIEJtCE OF DETECTIVES AEV.VDAlvTLY REWARDED. When the PInkerton Agency began the search for Rudolph and Lewis, successfully terminated In this city to-day. Assistant Superintendent Dougherty of the New Tork offlca sent two clever detectives to Hart ford, where, with the assistance of local roundsmen, they learned that Collins (as Lewis wis known In the Kast) has two half-brothers, known as Theodore and Ed ward Laplant. These two men were seen on the streets of Hartford and shadowed. Within a few days, the vigilance of the detectives was re warded by a sight of Rudolph, accompanied by one of the Laplant brothers. Orders were received from headquarters to play a waiting game and to make no move until the two desperadoes could be captured together. The head of the PInker ton Agency had vowed that both Rudolph and Lewis should be captured, that the world was not big enough to hide them, and he was resolved that no hasty or precipi tate act should mar the complete success of the work. Patience was again rewarded, when, a few days later, Lewis, or Collins, was seen on the street. Btlll the Plnkertons held their hand. Not until to-day were the two outlaws. Rudolph and Lewis, seen together. Detectives James Gabey. who was de tailed to patrol a boarding-house section. SyggsevV". --vA- - fe-jggjife ii5fi QEZB iJ BasisisiaEFt ir: S"W whete the Laplant brothers were supposed . to live, saw the two men ncoompanied by J i both Rudolph and Lewis enter the tene ment house of Mrs. Mclntyre, at No. 22 Allyn street. Later, when the four men went cut. they were shadowed by the Plnkertons. RIDOLPH GAVE TWO OFFICERS DESPERATE STRUGGLE. They entered a bouse owred by Slay Howard. Superintendent Dougherty sta tioned his rr en with the Hartford officers. Detectives Farrell and Butler, and two plain-clothes men. In such positions that the four men could not possibly leave the hcuse undetected. After the officers had been waiting only a few minutes, Collins and the Laplant broth ers left the house and started to enter a hack standing on the curb. Detective But ler Immediately grabbed Collins and one of the Xaplant brothers. They tried hard to get away, but the plain-clothes men came to Butler's assistance and he held on to his men and securely handcuffed them. In the meantime Detectives Dougherty and Farrell had entered the Howard house. In mates tried to block their way and the land lady called out, "Here's two men looking for you." She looked toward a front room and the officers pushed their way into it. Dougherty raised his gun, and as he did so Bill Rudolph held up his overcoat in frcnt of him as if for protection. Dough erty and Farrell rushed in, clinching with Rudolph. A terrible struggle ensued; furni ture was broken and a stove overturned. Rudolph managed to pin Dougherty down and attempted to reach his gun, but Farrell pinioned the bandit's arms. Farrell had a death grip on his man when Rudolph yelled for help, declaring that he was being robbed. A man belonging to the hcuse came to his assistance and fought the officers until the landlady Interfered. He tben assisted the officers in binding and handcuffing the struggling bank robber. While the officers held him securely a negro woman searched him, but no other 'weapons were found. Rudolph continued to bite and kick, inflicting a bad wound on Dougherty's neck. DOUGHERTY IS SURE HE HAS RIGHT MM, At the statlom ssore than COW in bills was -v found on Rudolph's person. When "their room was searched a trunk containing about IM0O, of which COCO was In gold, val- uable burglar's tools, two skeleton keys, a variety bf clothing and a St. Louis news paper was found. A elippfaajr of a M-acr V ,. i iS4vrvVlA'ja -3-tWW .. ..-g. -: ... - ."C A.. . - ?lffj. - - FOR TRIAL WITHOUT DELAY. "8 si THE UNION BANK, farm advertisement was also found. Collins had 116. "There Is not any doubt that this man is William Rudolph, alias The Missouri Kid,' nor is there any doubt about the other man being George Collins, alias "Black Frank,' alias 'Fred Lewis.' " said Superintendent Dougherty. "Both men have operated in Texas, Wisconsin and the South." Detailing their story. Superintendent Dougherty to-night said: "Saturday, December 27, 1S02, Rudolph held at bay a crowd of citizens in the town of Union while Collins blew the safe and vault with nitroglycerin. Bonds, mostly school issues and hard to negotiate, and 315,000 in cash were taken. "Schumacher of St. Louis was put on the case, and his Investigations led him to a mining- camp where the family of William Rudolph lived. Entering as a hunter, he bought his dinner. " "If you stay here unload that gun," said the man we now have. The next day Schu macher went out with a Sheriff's posse and was killed. "From there we learned the two men went to Hot Springs. In getting away, they took two horses' from a fanner near Stan ton, Mo., at the point of a revolver, and rode awair. "From there all trace of them was lost until the Hartford clew was hit npoxt and the New York office was communicated with. TRAVELED OOHTCTJIDAU.Y TIM. THET ARRIVED AT HARTFORD. 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