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THE HATTIESBURG NEWS [ EVERY INCH A NEWSPAPER You Know It is True If the News Says So VOL. II. NO. 107 HATTIESBURG. MISSISSIPPI. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 23. 1908 PRICE FIVE CENTS Bryan Demands Proof of R oosev elt's Charges v * r Says That Haskell Will Be Kicked * Out if the Accusations Are Sustained. COMMITTEES WILL ASK FOR POSITIVE PROOF Oklahoma Man is Now Enroute to Guthrie to Secure the Evidence to Vindicate Him Before the American People—Roosevelt Spoke Too Soon. <• •> <• •> ❖ ❖ •> •> ❖ ❖ ❖ •> •> •> <■ ❖ ♦ ❖ COMMITTEE SAYS HASKELL MUST ACT. ❖ ❖ 6 Hearst News Service. Chicago, September 23.—De- ♦> <• spite the Bryan letter to Roose- ♦> ❖ velt and the positive statement •> of Governor Haskell that he will ❖ ❖ not resign as treasurer of the Na- •> •> tional Democratic Campaign Com- ❖ ❖ mittee, it may be said authorita- ❖ ❖ tively that the Oklahoma man •> ❖ must either step down and out, ❖ ❖ else he must furnish better proof ❖ ❖ of his innocence of the Hearst •> <• charges than mere denials. It is ❖ ❖ stated that he has been given ❖ ❖ three days in which to do this, •> ❖ and that he is How en route to ❖ ❖ Guthrie to secure the evidence. •> > .> «> A Detroit, September 23.—William J. Bryan has addressed the following tel to President Roosevelt iu reply statement issued egram to the president's Monday: "Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, "President of the United States. "Dear Sir—In a statement given out by you yesterday, and published in this morning's papers you indorse a charge against Gov. Haskell, of Okla homa, to the effect that he was once in the employ of the Standard Oil Com pany, and as such employe was con nected with an attempt to bribe or In fluence Attdrney General Monett, of Ohio, to dismiss suits pending against \ *>. J§ % ■: 5 m the Standard Oil Company. In indors ing this charge you attack the Dem ocratic party and its candidate, saying that Gov. Haskell stands high in the councils of Mr. Bryan and is the treasurer of his national campaign committee.' And you add that 'the publication of this correspondence not merely justifies in striking fashion the action of the administration, but also casts a curious sidelight on the at tacks made on the administration, both in the Denver convention, which nominated Mr. Bryan, and in the course of Mr. Bryan's campaign.' Charge Is Serious. "Your charge is so serious that i; cannot allow it to go unnoticed. Gov. Haskell has denied he was ever em ployed by the Standard Oil Company in any capacity or was ever connected ./in any way with it, or with the trans action on which your charge is based. "Gov. Haskell demanded an investi gation at the time the charge was first made, offering to appear and testify, and he demands an investigation now. T agree with you that if Gov. Haskell is guilty as charged he is unfit to be connected with the Democratic nation al committee, and I am sure you will agree with me that if he is innocent he democratic J^ational Committee HEADQUARTERS AUDITORIUM ANNEX CHICAGO, ILL. September 21, 1908. Mr. E. G. Harris, Editor News, Hattiesburg, Miss. My Dear Sir—We have just received the latest issue of the News, and note with much pleasure that your popular subscription list to the Democratic National Campaign Fund is steadily growing larger. We take this occasion to congratulate you on the results; and also to say to your readers, through ysu, that the Democracy of the nation is grateful to them for the patriotic response to the appeal for funds. Nearly all of the information received here is most encouraging for Democratic victory in November. Keep up the good work. Very truly yours, M. C. WETMORE, Chairman Finance Committee. deserves to he exonerated from so damning an accusation. Demands Proof. "As the selection of Gov. Haskell as chairman of the committee on resolu tions at Denver and also as treasurer of the Democratic committee had my approval and indorsement, I feel it my duty to demand an immediate in vestigation of a charge against him endorsed by the president of the United States. Your high position as well as your sense of justice, would prevent your giving sanction and cir culation to such a charge without proof and I respectfully request there fore that you furnish any proof which you have in your possession, or if you have no proof, I request that you indi cate a method by which the truth may be ascertained. Without consult ing Mr. Haskell, I will agree that he will appear for investigation before any tribunal, public or private, which you may indicate, and I will further agree that his connection with nation al committee and with this campaign j shall cease in the event that the deci-jof sion of such a tribunal connects him in any way with this charge; or in after an investigation of case you, the facts, say that you believe him guilty of the charges made. Defends Democratic Party. "As the candidate of the Democratic party, I shall not permit any responsi ble member of the Republican organiz ation to misrepresent the attitude of the Democratic party in the present campaign. I have assisted you to the extent of my ability in remedial rem edies which I deemed for the public good which you have undertaken; I have urged Democrats to support such measures against private monopolies than either you or your party asso ciates have been willing to undertake. The platform of the Democratic party is clear and specific on this subject, as on other subjects, while the platform of the Republican party is uncertain and evasive. "The Democratic candidate for vice president, Mr. Kern, joins with me in requesting the Democratic national committee to fix a maximum of $10,000 for individual contributions and to publish before the election all contri butions above $100, and the commit tee acted favorably on this request. Thp Republican candidate and the Re publican national committee proposed, not publication before the election, but publication after the election. Democrats Hands Clean. "I submit that our committee has given the better evidence of its free dom from "connection with or obliga tion to the predatory opponents. Our committee has not knowingly receivfed i dollar from an official of any cor poration known as a trust and it will not receive any money from such. "If any money Is contributed by such without the knowledge of the a persons committee, It will he returned as soon as the fact is discovered. "The Democratic party is making an honest and an honorable fight in de fense of the principles and policies . , .. i; enunciated In its platform and it ex pects and will demand fair and hon orable treatment from those who are in charge of the Republican campaign. "With great respect, etc., I am truly your, (Signed) "WM. J. BRYAN. "Detroit, Sept. 22, 1908." The Cotton Market. New Orleans, 11 a. m.—October 8.81, December, 8.77c. Liverpool—September-October, 4^. November-December, 4.76d. || I ^ ft) P ft f"| LI IL V L A VII ftl _11 U 11| 11 fi U Lt 1 B M U I —_ I j '< Traffic Was Suspended in New I York Harbor For Several Hours This Morning. j Reports from all along the coast tell similar conditions, but none of the ! Hearst News Service. New York, September 23.—The 1 worst fog of the season prevailed here this morning, effectually tleing up all traffic in the river and harbor. | j - big liners are due to arrive today. £ & V/j ¥ m i .0 P : A ) '.i' ■ ■A „• > y W w, . w ■rS - f m i / j 1 < r A I /V F-VV . UN; ii : *; j &e v i r«». < < m i ■ ■}.* MEW' - - r—■ ' • :> ■ 0 : & T* 0 New portrait.of Mrs. William S. G. Williams, the Baltimore society woman involved in the mysterious Atlan Ic City shooting. ROOSEVELT WORRIED Has No Evidence On Which Base a Reply to Bryan's Recent Telegram. to HASKELL SUMMONED TO THE WHITE HOUSE Not the Man From Oklahoma, But Resident of Washington, From Whom Very Little Can Be Learned. Big Force of Clerks Busy. Hearst News Service. Washington, September 23.—2:301 I>- m.—W. C. Haskell, inspector of j wei Sbts and measures for the District I of Columbia and former United Stales | I marshall in Ohio, was summoned to ! j the White House today by President I Roosevelt in an effort to find out who jthe Haskells of the country are and to ascertain if Governor C N Haskell i 'of Oklahoma, is really the man whornl it is alleged tried to bribe Attorney iGenoral Monnett, of Ohio, in the inter-! ! jest of the Standard Oil Company. ! W. C. Haskell was unable to throw 1 ve ]t much light on the subject and Rooso vas keenly disappointed. A large force of clerks are busy to day in the White House and in the | de P®rtment of justice looking up -court records and compiling data for [the president. j It is believed that Roosevelt is pre paring a sharp and pointed answer to - EXCITED CROWD ON STREETS TALKED LYNCHING LAST NIGHT Bryan's telegram and that it will be[|| £3,* the pre88 thls afternoon Republican leaders say that Bryan's telegram has seriously injured Taft's chances unless Mr. Roosevelt can sub stantiate the charge which he makes against Haskell. GETS THIRYT YEARS FOR KILLING WOMAN Hackensack, N. J., September 23 — August Eberhard, who has been on trial here for the murder of his aunt, was today found guilty and sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary. j I | ! 4 i Hear*l News Service. 0k,ahoma Cily . September 23,-It was reported here at midnight that the entlre ctty of Ki 'igftsher, containing .more than 3,000 population had been wiped out of existence by a tornado, ! All the wires are down and it has _ H ! Seattle, Wash., September 23.—A | cable dispatch to the army signal; i corps received here this morning re -1 Hearst News Service. BRIDGE COLLAPSED; TRAIN FELL 100 FEET Hearst News Service. Wilmington, Dela., September 23.— The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge across the Susquehanna River at Fort Deposit collapsed this morning as a freight train was passing over it, and the engine, tender and eleven box cars were precipitated into the water — FRENCH GOVERNMENT INVESTIGA TES ACCIDENT of , 12 „ Ilea; st News Service. Toulon, France, September 23.—The government today ordered a rigid in vestigation into the causes of the acci dent yesterday on the armored cruiser La Touche Treville, when a seven-inch turret gun exploded and thirteen men were killed, after the turret was com ❖ V - $ ****•:: ■ f m 1 I -te -< > V ^ ' m - be[|| innir TLI 1111)0 HAImi 1 HAW o | lll/VPI) |P OP I n All 1111 IA Mr /| 11 lillltlljll IU ULflU Hearst News Service. Babylon, L. I., September 23.—A. Russell Peabody, counsel of record for Harry K. Thaw in his two trials for the murder of Stanford White died of pneumonia at his summer home here this me r ning. THAW IS GRIEVED. White Plains, N. Y., September 23.— Harry K. Thaw, when told of the death of his lawyer, A. Russell Pea body, paid him high tribute. [been impossible up to the noon hour to get further information. Railroad I trains starting in that direction have! j been compelled to return on account of wreckage strewn across their tracks | lit is feared that many people have I been killed. I j j i ports the total loss of the barque Star ; of Bengal on Coronation Island. Eleven persons, including nine whites, I were drowned. _ 100 feet below. Several members of the crew were fatally Injured. Others jumped in the water as the bridge col lapsed and swam to the shore without serious injury. A passenger train carrying more than 1,000 excursionists passed over the bridge an hour before the collapse. pletely wrecked and portions of the! bodies of the dead and dying scattered over the deck ! ! The accident was so similar to that ... . . , . _ , . , of the school ship Courenne on August , „ . , , ' 12 as to be almost identical. Drill; , „ . . . practice and firing were being prac -1 . , , . ticed yesterday when the accident „ , , took place. I | — ❖ •> <• •> •> •> ❖ ❖ ❖ <• •> ❖ THE DAILY NEWS PROGNOSTICATOR. ♦» ' x i »;• AV ;'y: iX o Mi % o Washington, Septemb Mississippi: Showers Thursday. • Only the Prompt Action of Sheriff and His Deputies Averted Threatened Violence. NEGRO CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTING ASSAULT i Acted in Threatening and Insulting Manner at Home of Mrs. Beard, Near the City—Was Captured After Short Chase—Carried to Ellisville. For a while last night there was much excitement on the streets in the business section and but for the prompt and timely action of the sher iff and his deputies, there would in all probability have been an attempt at lynching. and just across the line in Lamar I Count} . charged wlth Jngultl a ' f ' g t of | e negro, w ho ga\e his name atf Al I bei ' Tt - , °, hl ' s ' on > but who is also known ,jas Will Williams, had been hanging Beard a | couple of days. Yesterday Ills actions [became threatening and unbearable, [and Mrs. Beard called in Will Hatton | and Tom Belew, \ j some wood nearby, j proached, the negro took to his heels, j but was caught later by Mr. Theodore Smith, who brought him to the city. The negro was at once taken in charge by Deputy Sheriff Rawls, who took him to Petal, where Sheriff Ma gruder took charge of him and ried him to Ellisville, where he was lodged in jail. News of the crime and the capture j spread rapidly and an angry crowd j gathered shortly after 7 o'clock on i Main street. The temper of the The trouble began brewing shortly after dark, when it became known that a negro had been brought to the city from the Beard place, four miles out Mrs. around the home of Mrs. ho were cutting When they ap car ; I crowd was not to he mistaken, and it | was not until after they had been as i surod by Deputy Sheriff McGilvray [ that the negro had been taken out of [the city, that the threatening aspect ! was relieved. I It is said the negro went several times to the home of Mrs. Beard and asked for a drink of water, which was given him each time. Finally doubtlessly noticing that the ladies of the house were alone, he made threat ening movements and became so ob noxious that Mrs. Beard and her daughter became frightened and Mrs. i j Beard went after assistance. The fact | that the negro took to his heels as • soon as he saw Messrs. Hatton and (Belew coming. Is taken to prove that intentions were to attack the wo men. and his speedy capture leaves no question of his identity. The crowd on the corner of Main i hIa , _ , .... ! ana Front streets for a while last ! night was so large that the sidewalks , , , were crowded and people coming and , ,, . ' going to the electric theaters found , ... .. . difficulty in getting through. There -1 ..... iwas no actual move made toward tak . ... ing the negro, but there was a dlspo ... . ...... ... |sition to move in that direction, until it became known that the prisoner had | been carried away from the city. FREIGHT RATE i CASE BEING HEARD Hears! News Service. Atlanta, Ga., September 23.—H. L. Dunning and V. H. Greigshaber, prom inent Atlanta business men, were be fore the interstate commerce commis sion today for the purpose of giving comparisons between the old freight rates and the tariffs proposed by the railroads in their recent order for an advance. Heber Thomas, Glvan Gilliam and Dan Wagoner will leave Monday for Atlanta, where they will enter college.