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HATTIESBURG. MISSISSIPPI. MONDAY AFTERNOON, IUNE 22, 1908
'VOL. II. NO 30
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GEORGIA
FOR LEWIS
Chatham County Delegation Will
Launch Boom Before State
Convention.
LABOR LEADERS ARE
FOR JOHN MITCHELL
Said That the Great Labor Leader Has
Strong Support—Natne of Tom Wat
son May Be Presented to the Conven
tion by His Friends.
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Hearst News Service.
_ Atlanta, June 22.—The Democratic
state convention will meet here Tues
day and nominate Joseph M. Brown for
Governor and Stephen D. Clay - for
United States senator, carrying out
the will of the people as expressed in
the recent primary election.
It is announced that the delegation
from Chatham County will Btart a
boom for J. Hamilton Lewis, of Chi
cago, for vice president. Lewis is a
native Georgian and it is believed that
the state convention can be stampeded
tn his behalf.
Labor leaders In Fulton County-will
present the name of John Mitchell
and a great many party leaders are
said to be committed to his support.
StfU another faction favors the nom
ination of Thomas E. Watson for sec
ond place on the Democratic ticket,
but it is believed that Mr. Watson
will discourage any movement to that
end.
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Washington, June 22.—For Missis
gippl: ..Generally fair .tonight and'
Tuesday. ' /
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IN NEW YORK
Wisconsin Floods Drown Horses
Hitched in the Village Streets.
Property Damage.
New York, June 22.—Not less than
twelve men wefe drowned yesterday In
the waters of swollen streams in the
vicinity of New York. The rains were
unprecedented In many places.
HORSE8 DROWNED.
Prairie Du Chien, Wls„ June 22.— 1
Rain, wind and hail yesterday did dam
age estimated at not less than *200,000
.here and $300,000 at McGregor.' At the
\atter place several horses hitched in
thp streets were drowned.
LOEB MAY GET PLACE.
New York, June 22.—A conference
was held at Oyster Bay this after
noon to decide the chairmanship of the
Republican National Coihmitttee. Pres
ident Roosevelt is anxious that the
place be given to Secretary Loeh and it
is said that Loeh is willing to accept
the responsibility.
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CONGRESSMAN BOWERS
Gives Complete Inside History of the Con
gressional Appropriation For the
Gulfport Harbor .
Daily News Staff Special.
Gulfport, Miss., June 22—Hon. E. M.
Barber, candidate for congress, ad
dressed a large audience of Harrison
County voters at the court house in
this city at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Hon. E. J. Bowers, who was invited
to Join in the discussion, declined to
speak, but has announced to his
friends that he will deliver an address
tonight.
During the course of his remarks
this afternoon. Mr. Barber read the fol
lowing carefully prepared and signed
statement:
Biloxi, Miss., Jime 22, '08.
TO THE VOTERS OF TrfE SIXTH
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF MIS
SISSIPPI: As is well known through
out the District, I am a candidate for
Congress. There has been manifested
-in the campaign, so far considerable
Interest. My effort has been, and will
be during the entire campaign, to show
the influence of corporate interests
upon Hhe politics of the Sixth District
a? in contradistintion to the interest
of the general public. To this end, I
have addressed the greater part of my
remarks. »
I have taken as the basis of all cor
porate interests, the Gulf & Ship Is
land Railroad Company,' And to have
a complete and through understanding
of the workings of this Railroad Com
pany in the politics of Mississippi, t
will have to go back to its organization,
which was effected under the chartet
granted it by the Mississippi Legis
lature in 1882. Immediately after the
organization of the Company, 1884, the
Legislature of the State oi Mississippi
donated to the Gulf & Ship Island
Railroad, every alternate Section of
land from Guifport, Miss., to Jackson,
Miss., averaging six sections to the
mile. In ad Mtlon to this, the Legis
lature donated $10,000.$) to pay for
surveys, plats, and profiles of the route
of the road.
Harrison County voted to the Gulf
& Ship Island Railroad. Company,
$50,000.00 in bonds, to run twenty
years. The total amount paid by Har
rison County on these bonds is some
I thing like $100,000.00 to 0110,000.00.
Upon taking the' land donations as
above stated, the Gulf & Ship Island
Railroad Company issued first raort
bonds to,the amount of $4,200,000.00;
second mortage bopds, $280,000:00.
The Legislature thereafter passed a
law by wjiich the Gulf & Ship Island
Railroad Company contracted with the
State of Mississippi to work the State
convicts on the grading of the road.
It took the convicts and graded the*
road to something like eighteen or
twenty miles North of Hattiesburg,
and laid the track for about half of
•that distance. The cruel treatment in
flicted upon the convicts'aroused such
Indignation ip,the mind of the people
against the Railroad Company, that the
Legislature was forced to cancel the
contract and. take the convicts from
the Railload Company.
The Railroad was completed to Jack
son In the symmer of 1900. In 1894,
5, or 6, the Railroad Company was
placed In the hands of a receiver.
Judge H. C. Niles, the Republican
Fefieral Judge for Mississippi appoint
ed Hon. E. J. Bowery as attorney, for
the receiver. Upon the wlnding-up of
the receivership, and discharge of
the receiver, Mr. Bowers w r as employed
as General Counsel for the Gulf &
Ship Island Railroad Company.
Although Harrison County had do
nated something like $100,000.00 ,to the'
building of the Railroad, the Railroad
officers, with Mr. E. J. Bowers, as
general counsel, declined to pay Its
equal burden of taxation for Harrison
County, and George P. Hewes, Sheriff
of said County had to levy on some
property belonging to the Company to
force payment of Its taxes. Mr. Bow
ers, as Attorney for the Gulf & Ship
Island Railroad Company, obtained an
Injunction In the Chancery Court of
Harrison County, against Mr. Hewes.
T)>e motion was then made .by Hon.
W. C. Evans, Attorney for the County"
of Harrison, to dissolve this injunction
and the motion was sustained by Chan
cellor N. C. Hill. From that decree,
the Railroad, with Mr. Bowers as its
attorney, took an appeal to the Su
preme Court of the State. The su
preme Court of the State affirmed the
lower court. The Rsrflroad then ap
pealed to the Supreme Court of the
United States, and the Supreme Court
affirmed the Supreme Court of Missis
sippi. All of the courts thereby de
creeing that the Gulf & Ship Island
Railroad Company should bear its pro
rata of the burdens of taxation for the
County of Harrison, and the Slate of
Mississippi. Thereafterwards, the Rail
road Commission of Mississippi passed
an order directing the Gulf & Ship
Island .Railroad to reduce its freights
2 per cent, cm bricks, lumber, and
other building materials, and the Rail
road decrilned to do so. Mr. Bowers,
as its general counsel, evidently hav
ing come to the conclusion t£at the
courts of Mississippi could not be de
pended upon to uphold the Railroad
in its attempt to violate the laws of
Mississippi and evade taxation, ap
plied to Hon. H. C. Niles, the Repub
lican Federal Judge for Mississippi,
for an Injunction against the Railroad
Commission, restraining it from inter
fering In any way with the Gulf &
Ship Island Railroad Company, looking
to its general supervision in the inter
est of the people and the shippers
along- the said lino. This injunction
was, by the Federal Court, presided
over by a Republican Judge, made per
petual, thereby decreeing that the Rail
road commission of the State of Miss
issippi should desist from in any way
supervising said Railroad on its main
line, Mendenhall branch, Columbia and
Lumberton branch, or any other
branch that might thereafter be built.
The final decree in this behalf was
written by Mr. Bowers (I suppose it
was written by him, for he was then
general counsel for the Gulf & Ship
Island Railroad, and managed the case
for it.) after he was elected to Con
gress, and while he was representing
the 6th District at Washington.
I have given you this much of the
history of this Railroad in order that
the people might be arivised as to the
conditions prevailing. I now propose
to show Mr. Bowers' connection with
the said Railroad in his official ca
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SCENES IN THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, HENRY CABOT LODGE PRESIDING.
SAW MILL
Plant of Stevens & Company at
to the
Chattawa
Extent of $30,000.
Dally News Special.
Chattawa, Miss., June 22.—The saw
mill of the A. W. Stevens Company
was destroyed by fire here at 5 o'clock
yesterday morning. The planer, dry
houses and lumber yards were not
damaged, but the mill proper is a
complete loss. There is no way at this !
Instant to ascertain the exact amount j
of the loss. It Is, however, rumored
that the mill was valued at $39,000, i
with insurance on it of one-third this |
amount. It is said the company will
rebuild at once.
This is the second fire that occurred
here in the past week, the first being
one of the old land marks, the Conway
residence, owned until recently by A.
LeBianc and bought lately and was
owned at the time it wag burned by the
Stevens Lumber Company. This was
one of the few remaining beautiful
homes for which Chattawa was noted
before and directly after the civil
war. It was built fifty years ago by
General Smedes, and was owned for
many years by Captain J. J. Conway,
now a resident of New Orleans.
COTTON MARKET
OPENS STRONGER
Hearst News Service.
New York, June 22.—Cotton futures
opened as follows:
June, [email protected]; August, 10.47@
10.48c; September, [email protected]: Oc
tober, [email protected]; December, 9.27@
9.28c; January, [email protected]; February,
9.23c; March 9.23c bid; April, 9.25c of
fered; May [email protected].
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BOILER EXPLODES ON
FAST FREIGHT TRAIN
ENGINEER LOST LIFE
Imlay City, Mich., June 22.—The en
gine of a fast train on the Grand
Trunk line, was wrecked this morning
The boiler
just outside this city,
blew up while the (rain was running at
a speed of thirty miles an hour. En
gineer Thomas Gibbs was killed in
stantly and Fireman William Brown is
probably fatally injured.
The train was a fast freight carry
ing forty-nine cars. The accident oc
curred while the train was going down
a slight grade on a straight stretch of
track. The force of the explosion
wrecked the boiler and almost com
pletely demolished the cab and ten
der. These were piled up in a mass
of debris which immediately took fire.
Slack between the cars and the prompt
use of brakes saved the train and the
lives of the rest of the crew.
LOYD SAYS
WE'LL FIGHT
Washington , June 22.—Congress
man Lloyd, of Missouri, chairman of
the Democratic National Congressional
campaign committee says that the
Democrats are prepared to fight all
summer. The campaign book will be
issued about July 1. Then will begin
the effort to carry the next house for
the Democrats.
TAFT ELECTED
22.—Secretary
Taft today received letters from the
widows of Presidents Garfield and Har
rlson wishing him success. Taft will
condnct his campaign for the present
from Hot Springs, Va.
Washington, June
LEGISLATORS KILLED
. IN. LOUISANIA WRECK
Baton Rouge, La., June 22.—A rumor
reached the city this afternoon that a
Berious wreck occurred on the Cotton
Belt Railroad this morning and that
MITCHELL
Illinois Labor Party Wants Him
Named As the Running Mate
For Bryan.
REPUBLICAN PARTY
BITTERLY ASSAILED
Anti-Injunction Plank Is Not Satisfac
tory—Taft Is Criticised for Having
Sustained Injunction Against Organ
ized Labor.
Hearst News Service.
Springfield, III., June 22.—The first
political convention of the Labor party
in Illinois took place here today. Sev
eral hundred'delegates were in attend
ance and the meeting was epthusiastic
and Harmonious.
It was decided to place no presiden
tial ticket in the field, but to Urge the
Democratic national convention at
Denver to nominate John Mitchell for
vice president.
Strong resolutions Were adopted con
idemning the Republican convention for
its failure to insert the anti-injunction
plank Written by Samuel Gompers in
its platform and condemning Mr. Taft
for having sustained an injunction
against organized labor while on the
supreme bench.
The resolutions conclude by pledging
tlj^ labor vote of the country to the
Democratic ticket provided the Gom
pers anti-injunction plank is adopted
and John Mitchell named as the run
ning mate of Bryan.
Machinery Supply Man Says That
His Business Has Increased
Fifty Per Cent.
New Orleans, June 22.—J. G. Mc
Donough. of the McDonough Manufac
turing Company, of Eau Claire, Wis„
widely known in this section and t,o
the lumber industry generally, is in the
city in connection with the equipment
of the new plant of the Long-Bell Lum
ber Company at Longville, for which
his firm has the contract, as well as for
four smaller mills in Louisiana and
The new plant at Long
vilie will be completed in about six
months, and it will be the largest lum
ber manufacturing plant in the south,
with the exception of the Great South
ern mill, at Bogalusa.
"Our business is a sort of barome
ter of the lumber situation,'' said Mr.
McDonough yesterday at the Grune
wald Annex. "The prosperity of the
lumberman means prosperity for us,
and hard times for them means that
we wll get our full share, too. Ttut
in the last thirty days our business
has shown an Increase of 50 pen cent,
over that of the thirty days preceding.
This is a very hopeful outlook. It
Mississippi.
i shows that while the lumlternien may
not he doing much no» th y are
| fldent of the early re- "ation of a
brisk demand, and are *aktng advnn
I tage of the present lull to erect . w
mills and improve the old ones
Representative Jones and a number of
other members of the Louisiana legts
lature were killed. The rumors ha»
not been verified.
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