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BECKER SENTENCED TO DIE
AT SING SING IN DECEMBER
ENEMY OF DR. HATFIELD
|< Shown by Ex-Governo'r,
Dawson to Have Been
Back of Resolutions.
STATEMENT ISSUED
After Investigation and Pro
gressive Leader Says There
Will Be Fair Treatment.
(IIARLBSTOX, Oct. 30?Ex-Got-1
mior Dawson issued the following!
' foment today:
\ statemtnt by the Progressive
l?rty headquarter*. Charleston, W.
Vj , October 30, id 1.2.
In supplements for" Democratic
?"'rs Printed at the-neraocrat-1
Headquarters and intended t0 be'
? irrulaed this, the last, week before*
? >?? election there appears certain1
r< dutions purporting t0 have been1
lopted by a meeting of the mem-1
I"! of the Progressive state com
mittee 0f the p|fth congressional
?I'strlct. 11 is said that the meeting
iv.ii! held October 10.
Whether such meeting was held
i 'io not know, i had no notice;
mlever of such a meeting and
le.irned nothing 0f it until 10 o'clock
" 'he night of the 20th. Of the
finht men reported to have been
i'-ejpnt. three of them voluntarily
nie up on the 'phone and re
pudiated any connection with it. r
?ni reliably informed that throe 0r
others were not present at all.
M these headquarters we have kept
thing steadily In view, the get
' !?; of voles for Roosevelt. We have
allowed no persona! bitterness or
mosity to divert us from this par-j
?imount oliject; secondly, we have'
? for the election of an anti-j
t..i rbun Watson legislature -land,
thirdly ror the success of tlio ticket!
nominated In the .Tune state-wide1
primary.
These purported resolutions!
I'! "il only In the Watson Demo
'i i' newspapers say (Tint Roose
will not have n square deal in
cn and McDowell counties ari^T
"V li'.v all this up against Dr. Hat-;
our ttominee for governor. It
evident that the object and pur-'
I1" <? !s to defeat Dr. Hatfield and
(fluently t0 elect his Democratic'
opponent.
The fact is that the author of
resolutions is a personal enemy
l>r. llattleUI and he and one or two
other gentlemen seem, I am sorry to
ay. more intent on getting even with
doctor than in serving lite Pro
ve cause. So far as I can pre
v'?' It .the Progressive party shall
t tie used' foT personal purposes.
to the situation in Mingo coun
I beg to say that I have personally
-.-ItI'd -it. and nm perfectly well
lied that the Progressive party
' ."tid Its candidates will get a
^iiurc deal in that county.
VK respects McDowell county at
:: -mice. Governor Glasscock, a
blican, who Is supporting Col
Roofevelt. (and now speaking
the stump under the auspices of
-'ate committee) and Senator
?' I!. Smith, a "full-fledged Pro
tve. visited McDowell county on
-'?'th. They reported to me that
oudltlons were perfectly satis
'' ry. 1 am well satisfied with the
r:s in McDowell county, not
bora use of the report made to
1 Coventor Glasscock but ai3o
other good reasons.
? limit to all Progressives that
? '.in rely on the honesty and
of Clovernor Glasscock and
David n Smith, who for years
?-tood up figbting in the leglaln
or the rights of the people and
I' v. leaving myself entirely out
'1'icstioti. arc to bo, trusted
' than- publications in Dcmocra
"ewspapera.
"Very respectfully,
w M (). DAWSON, chairman
''roRresslve party state executive
*' injnittee.'*
tVAl! DOGS GO.
IfllXGTON, Oct. sn.?Increas
d irder in San l^nin^a and des
t .treet fighting in Puerto Plata.
"<d zing American lives and
rnuscd the navy depart
to order today the immediate
'eh of the TSnltimorc and yank
o lioniiiiican waters.
1 BUSINESS SENSE VERSOS SENTIMENT |
Congressman John W. Davis is making an appeal to
the voters of Harrison county to support him on the pure
ly sentimental grounds of local pride.
Mr. Davis has a perfect right to make that appeal,
and those to whom it is made have a perfect right to act on
it as they deem best.
Mr. Davis yesterday told friends that unless his home
people stood by him he was a beaten man.
Two years apo, this same appeal was very effectively
made. It was an "off" year, and many people made the
mistake?which they now plainly see was a mistake?of
voting for Mr. Davis and entrusting the business and in
dustrial interests' of the First District to a man whom
they believed would protect them.
Then Mr. Davis was a "new" man, and untried. His
speeches in that campaign - were so broad-gauged, so
charming cf promise, and so non-partisan, that a great
many people honestly and really believed that Mr. Davis
was as much of a Republican as he was a Democrat, as
much of a protectionist as he was a "revenue only" tariff
man, as much of one thing as he was another.
Surely, such a mild-mannered, liberal-minded, suave,
diplomatic and ingratiating gentleman could do no wrong.
Surely no one believed for a minute that he woiRd, under
the circumstances, vote counter to the business interests
of his own people. - v
Yet, we all know that the many people who believed
these things were victims of their own deceptions.
Not only once, but many times', Congressman Davis
voted directly against the welfare of his own constituents.
Fortunately for them, there was a President at the other
end of the avenue who rendered his destructive vote null
and void.
One excuse offered to the visiting committees of man
ufacturers and workingmen that want to Washington to
intercede with our Congressman was that he was bound
up by a party caucus to vote against the protective fea
ture in every tariff schedule proposed to be changed.
That vias true?although NO excuse for a man sup
posed to be representing the PARTICULAR interests of
a PARTICULAR constituency.
Mr. Davis was bound up by his party's caucus. Not
only BOUND, but Bucked and Gagged.
" And this was done to him BEFORE any tariff bill
had been presented, and before one had even been pre
pared. ?
This was done to him by a caucus that was dominat
ed by Free Trade congressmen from the Solid South, who
were log-rolling for THEIR own districts, and didn't care
what happened to the district that Mr. Davis represented.
And Mr. Davis allowed this to be done to him without
a kick or a protest.
He cast votes, which had they not been vetoed, would
have closed the largest industry in this city; would have
closed many others; brought about "half-time" and re
duced wages in still many others.
These are not theories but FACTS.
Under these circumstances, does it not seem presump
| tuous for Mr. Davis to again appeal to the "home people"
to support him?
Why should they?
HE HAS NOT SUPPORTED THEM. ON THE
CONTRARY HE HAS VOTED DIRECTLY AGAINST
THEIR WELFARE, INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLEC
TIVELY.
They listened favorably to this plea from him two
years ago. They gave him his chance.
They never expected, when they did so, that he would
make a record so opposed to their common prosperity,
i Yet, that is exactly what he did.
Mr. Davis is now answering to these people for the
I consequences of his acts of opposition to their interest.
The "home people" will stick to the man who sticks
by them?evervtime.
But when he fails them, the "home people" will fail
him.
BESIDES, THIS IS NOT A YEAR FOR SENTI
MENT AND SYMPATHY. IT IS A YEAR FOR IN
TELLIGENT, BUSINESS JUDGMENT ON THE PART
OF THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE AND UNMAKE CON
GBESSMEN.
CLARKSBURG'S AMBITION IS TO BECOME A
GREAT MANUFACTURING CENTER. IT IS A SIZE
ABLE AND IMPORTANT MILL TOWN NOW. BUT
JT WAS NOT MADE SO BY "A TARIFF FOR REVE
NUE ONLY."
THE POLICY OF PROTECTION TO ITS LABOR
TNG MEN AND ITS MANUFACTURERS IS WHAT
MADE THE FIRST DISTRICT AN INDUSTRIAL EM
PIPE AND CLARKSBURG THE SECOND MOST IM
PORTANT CENTER IN IT
MP. DAVIS CALLS PROTECTION "THE ROB
BER TARIFF." IT HASN'T ROBBED ANYBODY IN
CLARKSBURG OR THE FIRST DISTRICT.
IT HAS KEPT OUR MILLS OPEN AND OUR
, WORKINGMEN EMPLOYED AT GOOD WAGES.
V
j In the Electric Chair for the
Murder of Gambler Her
man Rosenthal.
NOTICE OF AN APPEAL
Will Be Filed Soon and the
Execution Will Then
Be Stayed.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.?Former Po
lice Uieui"a.mt Bccker, who was con
victed of being responsible for th?
murder of Gambler Herman Rosen
thal, was sentenced by Justice CioSf
today to die In the electric chair at
the Sing Sing penitentiary during the
week beginning December 9.
Execution will be stayed by notice
of appeal soon to he filed by hi: coun
sel which may take a year to deter
mine.
Decker was at once delivered over
lo Sheriff Hamburger who took him
to Sing Sing, attor refusing an ap
peal of his wife to allow Becker to
remain in New York a few days.
lleclter made no show of emotion.
And White Address a Large
Crowd of Voters Down
at Lumberport.
Senator Howard Sutherland, ol
Elkins, Republican and Progressive
nominee for congressman-ai-large,
and Geoigo E. White, candidate for
state senator, addressed, a large
crowd of onthusiastice voters in the
opera house nt Lumberport Tuesday
night.
Senator Sutherland discussed na
tional issues ably and Mr. White
talked state issues. Their speeches
wore listened to with close attcfifR>ri
and caused enthusiastic demonstra
tions.
County candidates present wer?
Jolin M. Knox for sheriff, Will E.
Morris for judge of the criminal
court and Roy Parrish and Charles
A. Sutton for the legislature. They
were extended teh glad hand and
were extended the glad hand and
day.
Marcus 1,. Ulblctt presided and
the l umberport band furnished mu
sic.
ml
Is Found of Man and Woman
Wanted in Connection
With Girl's Murder.
CHICAGO. 111.. Oct. .-iO?Although
the police In all parts of the city
have Kept u sharp lookout for,
Charles D. Conway and wire, wanted,
in connection with the murder of j
Sophia Singer, of Baltimore, here1
yesterday, no trace, has been found
of them. Worthen, her fiance, was
finestioned further by the police to
day.
SEA FIGHTER
Is Launched in the Presence
of Mr. Taft and 40,000
Other Persons.
NEW' YORK, Oct. 30.?The super
dreadnaught. Xew York, the world's
greatest sea fighter, was launched to
day at the Brooklyn navy yard In the
presence of President Taft and 40,000
others. Miss Eliiabctli Caldcr, daugh
ter of Representative Caldcr, of
Brooklyn, chrlstcned the ship.
1)1!. 08DEN LKCTl llKS.
Ilr. C. R. Ogden. of this city, lec
tured last evening in tho Baptist
church at Bridgeport to men and
! oys on the subject. "A Well Ordered
Life." The church was Oiled and the
address was one of the best ever
t,iven before the men of Bridgeport.
TVKKN I'OK HEARING.
Milton Ross, of West Union, was
i taken by E. I) lltipp. deputy lo the
federal marshal in this district, to
Fairmont Wednesday to be given a
i hearing before John W. Mason. Jr..
United Slntes court commissioner, on
n charge of selling liquor without
having the federal stamp required.
FIVE NUNS PERISH
IN HOSPITAL FIRE
nsssj?-o oj? c&ctti>c<auij>3&?3?{a&or.-&ffa?o&a^
1 CONVICT THEMSELVES
Brought to the bar of the court to answer to his libel
ous assaults upon the high personal character of Dr. H. D.
Hatfield, S. W. Walker, Democratic chairman of the cor
rupt Watson, Chilton and MacCorkle Combine, is now
trying to worm out of the trap in which he has been
caught.
From New York, where he is, comes this telegram to
the Wheeling Register:
"Col. Walker also declared-that the alleged interview
in the Cincinnati Enquirer, which purported to have been
givan by the state chairman to a reporter for that paper,
was never given by him nor authorized by any other au
thority at state headquarters, and that the interview was
a fabrication."
The truth is that these same charges are contained in
an article signed by G. W. Summers, press agent at Dem
ocrtaic state headquarters, appearing in a supplement is
sued to, and distributed by, a number of Democratic news
papers.
Therefore, in his vary statement of denial, in an ef
fort to evade responsibility for his slanders and under
hand methods of campaigning, Walker is telling an UN
TRUTH.
Summers is a party to the suit for slander instituted
against Walker.
They are the chief character-assassins in the employ
of Watson, Chilton and MacCorkle.
They stand convicted of the charge by their own
mouthings, written and orPi1.
Summers's name appears to some of his libelous ut
terances. The anonymous circulars containing these
falsehoods ware ordered printed and were paid for and
sent out by direction of the slander factory maintained at
Parkersburg by the Bosses, and which, is in charge of
Walker and Summers,
THESE TWO MEN CANNOT EVADE RESPON
SIBILITY FOR THEIR COWARDLY WORK NOW
THAT THEY SEE THAT THEIR INTENDED VIC
TIM, DR. HATFIELD, WILL NOT STAND FOR IT
AND IS SEEKING REDRESS AND VINDICATION
BY THE ONLY METHOD THAT IS OPEN TO HIM?
THE COURTS.
THEY WOULD LIKE TO GET OUT OF THIS UN
ENVIABLE POSITION IN WHICH THEY FIND
THEMSELVES, BUT THEY CAN'T.
THE FAIR MINDED, INTELLIGENT AND DE
CENT PEOPLE OF THE STATE ARE A UNIT IN
CONDEMNING THEM.
THEIR CAMPAIGN OF FALSEHOOD AND
SLANDER HAS PROVED A BOOMERANG. A
STRONG REACTION AGAINST THESE MUDSLING
ERS AND THEIP, METHODS HAS SET IN, IN
EVERY SECTION OF WEST VIRGINIA.
PEACE NOW ReTgNS
IN STRIKE DISTRICT
Nearly All the Soldiers Are
Absent Now from the
Trouble Zone.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 30 ? The
sight of khaki uniforms :n the coal
strlko district of Kanawha, Fayette, j
Raleigh and noone counties, where
the presence of the militia was nec
essary for the last several months
to preserve peace, la now practically!
a thing of the past. As rapidly as|
the one company and the few Bmall
squads still there can .move the
equipment from the district to th?'
headquarters at Charleston. It Is be-!
in? d?ne. Several carloads were
brought in yesterday, and three more
came in today. This cleans up prac
tically all militia equipment on the
various creeks, leaving but little
along the Kanawha river. This may
come out Thursday unless it is de
cided to leave a small detachment of
soldiers either at Paint or Cabin
Creek Junction in case of emergency,
nnd there Is some such probability.
The withdrawal of the troopB
leaves tli? mining camps in a healthy
looking condition, quite a contrast
to the condition* found when the
militia went up the creeks and were
compelled to use picks ami shovels
nnd lime befcre they cnuld pitch
their first tent.
Despite the peacf prevailing in
the district at this time,' It Is a com
mon thins tn see a number of
miners leaving Charleston cvpfy
morning and evening carrying rifles.
The property confiscated has not
been returned.
MAItltlAGK LICENSES.
Marrlase licenses have been Issued
to fleorge Cox and Nannie Cralgg anil
C. Dennis Klrkpalrick anil Ethel V.
Mulleulx.
SPECIAL
Term of the County Court
Will Be Held in the City
Friday.
A special term of the county court
will bo hold Friday.
Certificates will be issued to those
desiring to obtain notary public
commissions.
I Law certificates will be issued.
I Orders will be entered In connec
tion with the resignation of W. B.
; Itobbins as administrator of Kitty
liRobbins and guardian of Blanch
Itobbins.
I The court will pass on the peti
tion of the Philadelphia Company of
West Virginia for permission to
place telephone poles along a public
highway near Shlnnston.
I Orders will be entered in connec
tion with a controversy over the
Mills road noar Mt. Clare.
Notaries public will be qualified.
Ills
Will All Be Open in the Sher
iff's Office Beginning
Friday Morning.
Sheriff Percy Byrd announces that
the tax books for Coal and Clark dis
tricts will he opend Friday morning
for payment of taxes under the dis
count law. All other tax books <?f the
county will also be in the sheriff's
office that morning and taxes will be
discounted to the end of November
;3rt. Those availing themselves of the
discount opportunity will save money.
t
In Attempting to Save Lives
of Eighty-Seven Chil
dren in Orphanage.
DIE REiAL HEROINES
Mother Mary Goes Back af
ter Child Left and Falls
Back into Flames.
- N
SAX AXTOXIO. Tex.. Oct 30 ?
Five sisters or charity loat their Urea
and one died later in, the day attempt
ing to save the lives of eighty-seven
children at St. John's orphanage her*
today.
All but two of the children were
raved.
Among the dead Is Mother Mary or
the croas who was Mary Rosiltor.
One child had been overlooked la
the excitement and Mother Mary re
entered the building to And It. She
appeared at the window on the rront
with the babe in her arms apd Fire
Chief \V right fcade an attempt to
rescue her but before the ladder could
reach her she fell back In the ftames.
Sister Monica. Montea was killed
when she jumped.
Mother Pasteur and Sisters stevia
and Xolan were trapped by flames
NI6HI
Trains between This City and
Pittsburg Are Being
Asked for Now.
Strenuous efforts will be made to
hnive night trains between Clarks
burg and Pittsburg beginning with
the earliest date possible. Boards of
Trade at Clarksburg. Fairmont and
Morgantown, with H. V. D. King, sec
retary of the local board at the bead
j or the movement ,are urgently pre
I sentlng the matter before Baltimore
i and. Ohio officials and they hope to
BUCCOCd.
A delegation will leave for Balti
more Friday night to meet 0. P. Mc
carty, passenger traffic manager of
rai,rnai1 company Saturday, a con
ference having been arranged by
Secretary King. Included in the del
egation headed by Secretary King
will bo several representatives from
the Clarksburg. Fairmont and Mor
gantown boards trade, besides a
number of other business Sffen.
The Object (8 t0 have night trains,
one leaving here about 10 o'clock and
the other leaving Pittsburg about mid
night or after the theaters close.
PROGRESSIVE 'I
Party is to Hold a Big Rally
Here and the Governor
Will Address It. r
There in to bo a big Progressive
party rally in tho court house here
Friday night at 8 o'clock. A big pa
rade is announced for T o'clock pre
ceding the meeting. Women and
children arc Invited1 to participate in
the parade, which is to have banners
and flags together with a band. Tha
members of the Progressive club re
cently organised will also be in the
parade and other Bull Meeoo as welt.
The speaker# arc to be William H.
Glasscock, governor of the state, and
Attorney Frank Moats, of Parkers
: burg.
Mns. bartltctt ?kad. r
Mrs. Henry Clay Bartlett died at
1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at her
I home at Stealey llolghts after an Ill
ness of several months caused by a
cancer. She was 42 years of ag4
The husband and four daugbtera
survivo.
1
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PROBST RE-ELECTED. ?>
i ?
GRAFTON', Oct. 2D.?The Rev. L. K. '
Probst, pastor of the Graco Lutheran
i church at Fairmont, has been re
elected president of the Evangelical
I.uthernn Synod of West Virginia, a
, mcetlng of which has just been held
.here. The Rev. \y. s Dysinger. ot
wheeling, was chosen delegate to rep* ,
i resent the synod at the general synod
i nPxt May at Atchison, Kan.
CIIICAfiO C.RATX MARKET.
j CHICAGO, Oct. 30?December
| wheat closed 9t. i-S. corn 55 7-8.
loata 22 l-S. '
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