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AUSTIN, TEXAS, FRIDAY MORNING, MA Y3, 1912-TEN PAGES
TABLISHED 1671-VOL 43, NO. 92
SECOND OLDEST PAPER IN TEXAS
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MFLVILLE MI HMERGED.
CONNECTICUT FOR BALDWIN.
filed in the Federal District Court here
buried undenti-
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TEDDY TO MARYLAND.
RATON ROUGM FRIGHTENED:
ND $3
DEMOCRATIC STANDNG.
SENATOR SMITH’S REPORT.
skill
BURYING DEAD.
SITUATION IN CAIRO.
UNDERWOOD CARRIES FLORIDA.
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eluhtv burials'will
Mite
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uly 28
agemen
General Committee Refuses to Ac-
cept Suggestion of Subcommit-
tees—All-Day Conferences and
No Agreement Is in Sight.
Man Uses Two
Revolvers to
pie—Efforts to Save Break-
ing Levees Is Useless.
the way
the ma-
money,
ion and
hroughout
Here’s a Very .
Good Hail Tale
and Ice Cream
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ARRIES EIGHT
10 EAST TEXAS
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JACKSONVILI,R, n... May a—
turns from Tuesday’s Democratie Presi-
dent lai vrimary are etill Incomplete.
armon Again Upheld as
Only Democratic Candi-
date to Win.
eial af-
ailored,
ery de-
Muddy Torrents Threaten
Eight More Louisi-
ana Parishes.
oprletor
lan
COLQUITT ADDRESSES
SCURRY CO. VOTERS
Colonel H. H Green, son of the
wealthy Hetty Green, is Mid to have
received hundreds of proposais of mar-
riage since the leap year set in. hnt he
is still a contented bachelor.
Wage Dispute Is As Far
From Settlement
As Ever.
NEWMAN
D Bfda.
MINERS AND
OWNERS STILL
WRANGLING
FIRST DAMAGE SUIT IS
FILED RELATIVE TO THE
TITANIC CATASTROPHE
Gubernntorial Candidate Reeel ves Warm
Weleome— Addrene Like
oing at a speed of more than
nots tn hour when the col-
HK DECLARED UK WILL CONTINUE
TO FIGHT TO LAST.
I’LL NOT RESIGN SAYS
PRESIDENT MADERO
sent, first, the Titanie having peen
warned that she was tn th. vieinity
of ieebren and in •pile of the warn-
politics EVERYWHERE CENTER
AROUND PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE
Reports of Fatallties From Saturday's
Storms se Coming In--Detalis
• Not Accenalble.
gelo by a committee of prominept cii-
lens and the local band. *----- -
WRECKED TOWNS ARE JI NT NOW
CLEANING UP.
W2-BKi
e \ INMAY SAILS AWAY.
CYCLONES 11 OKLAHOMA
KILLED FOilY PERSONS
And Ineidentally Governor Speuks of
Thomas ( umpbell and “Animon-
Hy Shown» Him.
ATLANTA, &
(Ing was
| twenty
THEWS
Kress Ave.
.Office 3301.
AurON PARKER BUST.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. May 2.-qDele.
gats at large to the National Demo-
cratic convention were Instructed by
resolutions at the State convention here
today for Governor. Simon E. Baldwin
fdonnecticut for the nomination for
President. .
Bundy
AL DISEASES
Ave.
the .relatives.
Identified have
Hotel
and 8th Su
Girls, Here's a
Contented Man;
Ricfi, Unmarried
1 "—*—
enator Has More Thrusts for
Wilson’s "Isms and Fallacies."
Explains Why He Is Not
for Underwood.
J but encouraging Today
I there waa-R rise-o atenth of a foot
in the- Xfrbatalaya here. The water
in front of the town te within two feet
of many that hav been
ie graves for them here. •
“Tll\ Kill Bill Foster Before the
• Sun Sets,” Is the Statement That
Is Attributed to Floyd Allen
Wilson, which the crowd
rushed to
., May 1.—A deficit of
cllections with which
disinclination to
TO PACIFY GENERAL OROZCO Government Supplying Rations to
_ • , 90,000 Homeless Louisiana Peo-
A hard fight fe being waged to save
the levee which protects Front Street,
‘holesale houses are 1y-
mittee Indicated
Many Skirmishes Reported la South.
Two Dnye” Battle la
Puebla.
AUSTIN STATESMANS
The White Star Line has gathered
for record descriptions and photo-
• of the top levees Above here for many
Amiem. tt- te upmgeyet •he re ruing tw
oently put on the levees by St at- con-
victs. The gauge here tonight shows
416, the previously high record being
38.9 The Opelousas military company
is- sWM-on guard here. Much uneasi-
thracite coal fields was practically de-
cided upon by the committee of op-
erators, representatives and members
of the board of the three anthracite
districts affected, at a conference here
- tonight.
MELVILLE, La., May 1.—-Tons of
water continue to pour into into the
rich sugar country between the Mis-
issippi.andAtchafalaya Rivera from
IWd breaks, one which occurred sev- '
eral weeks ago on the Achafalaya,
eleven miles below Melville, and the
other on the Mississippt at Torres. -
The situation at Melville tonight is
on whih,the wholesale houseu are
rated, but hope of winning the fight
against the flood can not be main-
tained if the river cohtirrues to rise as
rapidly as it has risen In the past two
days and rain continues.
INHABITAN’TS OF LYNN COUNTY
ALSO HEAR HIM.
iision oecurred, second, that proper
precautions were not taken after the
lookout sighted the iceberg; third, the
) liner was being operated by a new and
untried crow; fourth, that there was
not a sufficient number off lifeboats,
and firth, that after the collision the
lifeboats were not properly manned.
admirallty, is
■itiatiom at NEw ORLEANS.
PARIS, Tx.; May E—Dave Dyor,
Mrs. Minnie Wilson and the latter’s
6-year-old daughter were drowned yes-
terday in Mountain Fork, near Idabel,
Okla. They attempted to ride across
the stream.
ness is felt here about the levee on
Rayou des Glafses. A large force of
men is at work on the. weak spots.
but enough are in to show that Un-
derwood carried almost every county
In the State except those containing
the three largest cities, Jacksonville,
Pensacola and Tampa.
Park Trammell leads 'tor Governor
with about 16,000 and Cromwell Gib-
bons is second with 9400. These re-
turns are incomplete.
Representative Frank Clark and am-
uel J. Hilburn will run over in the sec-
ond primary for Congress from the
First District. Stephen Sparkman la
renominated in {the second Claude
L’Engle has a big lead for Congressman
at large. /
WASHINGTON, May 8 — Alten B. Par-
ker, former presidential candidate, to-
day argued before the Supreme Court
qf the United States in favor of al-
lowing the negro order of Knights of
Pythias to become incorporated in the
State of Georgia.
OLARK
E^EAR. NOSB
BLDa.
meet again with the miners’ represent-
atives. The latter had endeavored to
secure ratification of the subcommit-
tee’s agreement.
BOSTON. Mass.. May 1—The follow-
ing is the standing of Demoeratie dis-
trict delegates to Baltimore, chosen
at Tuesday’s primaries:
First district, both pledged to Foss;
second, uncommitted; third, both un-
pledged; fourth, one will support Foss
and the other Is pledged to Foss;, fifth,
one pledged to Foss, one unpledged;
sixth, both unpledged; seventh, one
unpledged! one pledged to Foss; eighth,
both.unpledged; ninth, both pledged
to fobs; tenth, both unpledged;
eleventh. both unpledged: twelfth, both
unpledged: thirteenth, both unpledged
and fourteenth district, both unpledged.
ship at his feet. Speaking of his op-
ponent. “who claims to be the only about $,000 In
one able to secure judicial reform/1 he to meet the annual appropriation for .nwhin*
.thought every opinion which he had the year ending April 80 was an-4M2.u8
rendered as an Associate Justice of the nounced today at the headquarters of
Supreme Court had polltlcs sticking out the Southern Baptist Home Mission
all over it. Board in this city. The collections for I
The. Gvvyrn»r riM 4fa^usw^xlha ru, I the year- » la stated amounted f-
burne jurists' opinon-on social dubs. -$351,000, $3000 thanthoke-for tbe
and mentiones that while these clubs previous year, and of this amlnt $211,-
-------- . i 400 has been raised within the past
NEW YORK. May I.—“We ar now
ositive," said Senator Smith, “that a
wireless message was received by the
White Star Lne at 1:10 Monday morn-
ing. April 11 telling of the serious
character of the wreck and that Mice
President Franklin of the line cabled it
to Iverpool This message came by
way of the steamship Virginia. Capo
Race and Montreal to New York.”
A full report will be made to the
Senate Senator Smith said the report
would not attempt to single out for
prosecution any one responsible for the
Titanic disaster.
NEw YORK May L—Papers in the be made tomorrow. Not all of the cere*
nirst lull Tor-'damazes brought by . m.„iw win b. ?«r unknown d«d. f«r
I relatiye vthe Titanic victim were
w graphs o the bodies
HALIFAX, N S.. May 1.—The last
idea titled dead recovered from the lost
Titanic probably will be buried in
Halifax today and tomorrow after-
Boon Those bodies that remain will be
buried in three cemeteries here over-
looking the sea No further identlflca*
Hone wore made today.
BOSTON, Mass., May 8.—A petition
wan filed with the Boston Board of
Election Commissioners tonight by
Chairman Her mol of the Republican
State committee, asking for a recount
of the vote-cast at Tuesday’s primaries
for Republican delegates at largo In
every ward In Boston except the sev-
enth. Tomorrow similar petitions will
be filed asking for recounts for Re-
publican delegates at large throughout
the State. _
The Taft managers hope the recount
will show that the number of ballots
thrown out because crosses were
marked-for both ex-Senator Frank
Selberlich and the regular Taft ticket
beaded by Senator Crane-would .have
boon sufficient, if counted, to have
elected the Taft ticket for delegatee at
large. The voters were allowed to vote
for but eight names; but the proximity
off the name of Sefberlich, also lege
for Taft for the regular ticket, resulted,
ft 1* claimed. In many voters invali-
dating their ballots by marking all nine
names, . , .. .
Governor Foss today released the
Demderats elected on the Democratic
ballot from any obligations they might
feel to vote for him as a Presidential
nominee. - ——- +
cheered. Senator Bailey bare said that
when the fight had first opened he had
thought that Harmon was the only
man who (Jou Id be elected.
I But if Taft and Roosevelt keep up
their abuse of one another he thinks
that the Democrats may be able to
Elect any man who can read or write
lust so long as he has not been in-
Dieted for theft or perjury. But he
added that he thought the Demoerats
hould Indorse the man who it would
be easiest to elect. Harmon. He ex-
plained that he thought all the candi-
honest and patriotic. He had
ome to attack no man’s character. He
referred to the criticism which has
been made of him for coming to Texas
to take a hand in the fight. "If I have
hot the right to come and talk with
jeu, who have for twenty years hon-
Bred me with your confidence, who has?
Do you expect me no longer to feel
Bn Interest in yqu because I am no
longer aspiring to office? The man
■ho takes no interest in the affairs
■ his people after he leaves the office
Kght never to have been elected. They
-AN. auHomthe zo-
iem
points north and south of TorrAe steam-
ers and gasoline launches arrived this
morning before daylight and five spe.
clal trains came to take ’ aboard the
nomeless people and livestock.
Couriers on horseback rode all night
long through the low lands just south
of Forras, giving warning to the peo-
ple who are without telephone connec-
tion and during the morning hours no
word was received of the loss of a
•Ingle human being, although several
hundred head of cattle were drowned
right near this town.
< CAIRO, 111.. May V— The flood from
the Mlesissippi River again has sub-
merged the country around Birs a
Point. Mo. Just south of here. The dS
flood in the drainage district north' •
of Cairo is seven feet deep and the v
Miastastppi River here tonight stood
48 5 feet.
today. The suit, in
wa : ".5:
oroxpouring.crough the crevanse which
pk J she levees late yesterday a
the rate of twelve males un Nour
Sooawater nas covered the little towh”
of Lattimore. Ennis, Blenvie and smin!
Lonapeand.ps.rapidiy rioodimg '""J- .
andPAtchrxhyaetuven.me Mlasisalpii
While the water from the Torran
erevasss my wventuallylnunkteora
here* gzixor eight parishn st ot
n'rhl .A .t Federai engineers to-
Ur„ly "honrzhartodpmgescwoula
iabgu 40, w5h5
Ka’t say anything about my colleague. ♦
Enator Culberson. He sent you a T
liter* through the newspapers: I bring T
Ko message in my proper person. It J
fas easier to do like Senator Culber- J
Ln But it is bettor to do like Sen- ♦
or Bailey has done-come • and talk
o you in person to your faces. I -am
aired with a Republican You do
lot lore your vote. Those who criti
ilse me unconsciously pay me a high
3
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- BATON HOUGELa May • — The
seriousness, of the levee situation In
Baton Rouge add along the Miasissip-
pl River immediately north and south
of this place was Inerease by a rain
this morning Ar several points the
flood water is approximately two feet
higher than ever known bfore.
Ahea,mren
ated rooma
BALLlNURft.' Tex . May 1—A large
and enthusiastle crowd greeted Judge
Ramsey here this afternoon When the
Judge spoke two hours in the interest
of his candidacy for Governor He was
Another joint conference of the op-
erators will be sought by. the miners
in all probability, to see if further con-
cessions can be obtained, it was said
after tonight’s session. The miners'
committee adjourned until tohorrow,
when a decision will be reached It
was announced that no further confer-
ence with the operators shall be sought
or an immediate call be issued for a
miners’ convention.
This action followed rejection by the
miners' full committee today at the
Joint conference with the operators’
committee of ten. of the tentative
agreement for a settlement reached re-
cently betwenthe subcommittees of
the.two interests.
If a convention is called, as seemed
certain tonight. it will be held. Wil-
liam Green, who, represented President
White of the mine workers in today’s
conferences, sid, either in Scranton
or Wilkes-Barre and will be composed
of 400 delegates from the three dis-
tricts. Such a convention could be
convened within four days* notice. Mr.
Green expressed the opinion that if a
convention were held at once, before
another conference with the operators,
it would uphold the action of the
miners’ full committee.
In.their statement and in accompany-
ing memoranda, the operators’ com-
NEW YORK May 1—Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt left this elty over the
Pennsylvania Railroad at 9 o’clock to-
night for Salisbury. Md , where he will
open tomorrow morning his two days*
speech making campaign in that State.
The colonel’s other speeches tomorrow
will be made at Hasre de Grace and
Baltimore. He expects to return to
New York early Sunday.
HAMMON IN MARYLAND.
NEW YORK, Mag l—J. Bruce Ismay,
managing director of the International
Mercantile Marini, boarded the White
Star liner Adriatic today soon before
boon, preparatory to sailing for
Europe. Mr.-Ismay went-at once to his
room. The Adriatic was scheduled to
sail at it o’clock.
Before salling he said: “I have no 111
feeling against the Amerjman public
and think the Sentte investigation was
thorough. I am feeling very tired and
wish to retire.” • ‘
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. May 2.--
Information just reached here tonight
by way of Altus, Okla , that eighteen
people were killed by Ube tornado
which wiped out the little town of
Korn, Okla., last Saturday afternoon.
Korn ,is in Mashita County and is
about eighten miles away from a rail-
road. It la declared that nearly every
person in the town suffered more or
less injury.
Work of clearing away the debris in
the ruined t wns has been commenced,
property' losses are being adjusted by
the insurance companles and the work
of rebuilding will commence at once.
Thre are many dependent familles
who are being cared fou by the charita-
ble citzens of the nearby towns.
Accepting the report from Korn-sub
true, thus adding the eighteen addi-
tional deaths to the list heretofore re-
ported, the total number of fatalities in
Oklahoma was forty The disaster is as
follows:
Korn, IB; Butler. 6; Granite. 1; Hin-
ton, 1; Merritt, 1. Sentinel, 2; Hobart,
1; Lugert, 1; Rocky. 1. Calumet. 8; El-
dorado. 8. Seven deaths also occurred at
Kirkland. Texas, due probably to the
same tornado.
DALLAS, Tex., May 8.—Walking into
a South Dallas tailor shop today with
a pistol in each hand, Harry Habel
made for his wife, who was employed
in the shop. The woman ran scream-
ing from the place. Habel opened fire,
shooting five times, and killing her
almost instantly. Then he ran outside
the shop into the street, where he shot
himself dead in sight of a street oar
full of spectators. The troubles of
the couple have been before the Dal-
las courts several times, the last be-
ing a contest fof custody of their chil-
dren.
brought by Mrs. Louise Robins, widow
of Victor Robins. Colonel John J.
. Ast vr‘s vale), and is that in which the
testimony of J. Bruce Ismay and otf1-
cer of the sunken steamer is dealrod.
it charges negligence on the part of
the Oceanic Navigatton ANimpany and
arks for $50,000 damages and costa.
The complaint alleges that the
owners of the. steamship were negli-
development of this country and that
the needs of this section were more .
railroad* and Apital with which to zennana.the, losal.bana.. A nurhber of
develop th. aoll The Governor talked friendn lunshed with him. bqfore he
of the anlmo.it> of Tom campbel and ! w“, encorted to the speakine place
the opponition which he had brought MI nadrens was wame lines
out against the present admintstration. as that delivered at other Places
4"d the np|w»elrtnn to Mm_by Tom -__■__________
Campbell, he said, was due’ to the fact BAPTIST MISSLON BO ARD BEHIND.
that he would not bow down and wor-
waiting auto, and shortly after was
takea for a drive around the city ac-
com pan led by members of the recep-
tion committee.
Upon arrival at Tahoka, the county
seat of Lynn County, nearly everyone
in town waa awaiting him. The Gov-
eror waa Introduced by Hon H M
Larkin, chairman of the Lynn County ■
Democratic executive committee.
The Governor referred to the effort
of his opponent to belittle his slogan
of “political pece and legislative real."
who had mentioned it as “political hell
and legislative rust.’’ and he said that
he had been tod that there had been
but little attention paid to politics in
this section of the State within the laet
few years, and in hla opinion the only
political hell which had been raised
In Texas had been raised by Tom Camp-
bell and William F. Ramsey. And.
while being accused of raising polit-
ical hell, the Governor said that In
reality he stood for the progress and
nited States Senator* Joseph Weldon
alley carried into East exas today
e fight to have the Democratic party
reserve intact its fundamental prin-
pies and instruct against the in-
orsement of Woodrow Wilson and the
Asms and fallacies whdch his candi-
acy represents.” Again pitching his
Hack upon the New Jersey Governor
pon a high plane, he" found an audi-
nee of more than 1000 ready to ap-
laud his utterances and give him
telcome. People were not only from
orris, but from Titus, Camp and many
ther counties In this section.
Senator Bailey read from a note
anded him by a farmer the follow-
ng: "Why do you, being a Southern
aieed man, indorse Harmon, a North-
rn man, against Underwood, a South-
rn man. In this race?" The letter was
BALTIMOIE, Md., May 8—Judson
Harmon tonight addressed a mass
meeting at the Lyric Theater here In
the Interest of his candidacy for1 the
Presidential nominatlen. He referred
to President Taft’s failure to veto the
Aldrtch tariff biil ’ as An insult to the
American people a* well as a breach
of faith:” of his promise to bring about
a reduction in the tariff. He sald no
one thing since the Civil War had been
such an important factor among the
American people as the high tariff.'
"During the seven years that Roose-
velt waa President,” said Governor
NFW ORLEANS, La., May 2
an even twenty-one-folt , ,Wirh
s'r at x*. te
a hair foot above all rord
S weragusurai "onofianiLv
engakerfin "ahkorng
"5
trict. Seepage in plarea haa r".1.
serious proportion. .nd at zashe
potntrnabove ana below the “mru:
X" enrawvaah.nave done some dam:
P»u^ -a.pprtawetutpurremm
• hallow pool, to a aepth twKt.rom
eet, and sections of eqeht nfhar a.
ihesarg ikelyt 65 MvX
“er irom the Torraa oravaaaa.
inThe, h r* Goyernmene la Bupoly.
k * ratons to approximately so son
homeless Louialana peopm and 120,000
•Ur-Ilona to the rkect or •e orra.
crevasse are realaca thi. numberowi
weakmont doubred withm th. next ehr.
qonly three lives have been wrinr^
to the flood waters in this state E
thoroushly prpared -«r. the ^p"
u&r; inner Proteeea
I two
Senntor Penrone boa been leader of Republiean forces la Pennsylvania sinee
the death of Matthew Staniey Quny until Wednesday, when thin title was
wrested from him by former State Senator William Flynn.
Two of the Jurymen who then were
trying Allyn testified--one of them,
that Allen had fired in the direction
of where he laat saw Foster, the com-
monwealth attorney, who was killed.
Other witnesses told of conversations
with Allen In which he had three tened
Foster.-
Prosecutor Wyeor. opening th ease,
said he would show there was a con-
spiracy among the Allens to "shoet
up” ths court if Floyd Allen was con-
victed. Attorney Willis for the de-
fense retorted that reports of the
tragedy had been grossly exaggerated
and that he would introduce testimonx
to show that Beattie Aires was killed
by a bullet from Clerk Dexter Goad s
revolver and not by the Allens. The
efense would show, he aald. that
Floyd Alton had boon wounded before
he bad taken part in the shootine
ompliment, however, when they aeem
lo think that the American Congress
an not get along without me for the
next ten daye."
He continued that he was glad to
—-a
WYTHEVILLE, V»„ May 2—"rn kill
Bill Foster before the sun goes down
tomorrow night. if I’m convicted.”
Floyd Allen, the first of the Hills-
ville Courthouse assassins on trial here
for hl* life, was charged with mak-
ing this remark before the shooting
on March 14, according to testimony
today of I. B. Weddell of Montgomery,
‘one ot the first witnesses of the state.
On cross-examnation Wdell stuck to
his story, though he admitted no other
persons were present during the con-
versation with Allen.
Nix witnesses, three of them specta-
tors of the affrsy. testified. The first,
D W. Bolen, s lawyer who was de-
fending Allen In the court where the
killing occurred, testified he saw
Claude Allen fire the 'first shot and
that it struck Judge Massie Court
officials returned the fire, he said.
SNYDER, Tex., May 2.—Governor Col-
quitt reached her* shortly before 8
o'clock, and was received royally by
tbe citizens, concluding his fourth day
through this section of the State, which
ha* welcomed the executive in a royal
manner. .
When Governor Colquitt arrived here
there were hundreds gathered at the
station to meet him, and with the
Snyder Cowboy Band made the Gov-
ernor feel that he was a welcome
guest to Snyder and Scurry County.
After shaking hands with many of
those who sought to get close to him.
NEW YORK, May 1.—The full com-
mittee of anthracite operators and
miners tonight voted down the agree-
ment that was suvmitted to them by
the subcommittee of the operators and
miners to settle the controversy over
the question of increase in wages and
other questions in the anthracite re-
gion.
(’ailing of a miners’ convention- to
approve or disapprove of the subcom-
mittee's agreement for settlement of
the wage and other differences* be-
tween miners and operators in the an-
THE WEATHER. ( >
WASHINGTON, May —East . 1
Texaa: Local showers Friday: ♦
cooler in interior; Saturday gen- •
erally fair in west; showem and 4
in east. « »
West Texas: Showers Friday •
except fair in southwest; Satur- 4
day fair and cooler. « •
SAN ANTONIO, TeK, May 1.— 4
Forecast till 7 p. m. Fuday for
San Antonio and vlolnity. UN- ’ •
settled; showers and thunder • •
storms tonight or Friday; cooler < »
Friday. ’ •
SNYDER, Tex., May 2.—-W..A. Doak,
a farmer living southeast of Snyder,
claims that his children today made
ice cream with the aid of ice gath-
ered from a drift of hail that fell
there five.weeks ago.
JFL0OD WATERS CONTINUE TO
POUR THROUGH BIG CREVASSES.
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imself “an uneducated backwoods one-
orse farmer," add Senator Bailey re-
larked that herwrote very much like
man with the /»enw of a two-horse
emocrat who favored Oscar Under-
rood. • :
"That ia a pertinentguestion," he
aid "The Southern man who hasn’t
good answer ought to agree with the
entleman who is apparently for Un-
erwood. The only reason I am for
Jarmon against Underwood is that I
m afraid that Underwood could not
e elected. I am absolutely certain
hat Harmon can be elected. They are
oth Democrats. I would not take a
emocrat who could not win against
h Democrat who could win. But I
would take a Democrat who could not
■vln against a pop or rat who could win,”
he last statement evidently being a
MEXICO CITY, May 2.--Prestdent
Madero in an -interview today reiterated
the statement previously made that he
would never resign. Even if Mexico
City were to fall into the hands of
Orozco be would continue to fight.
"I will retire to the mountains in the
south, he said, “and so long 'an the
breath of life remains I will fight to
defend the flag which the people of
Mexico have placed in my hands.'
A committee of the Chamber of
Deputies was today appointed by the
speaker to work for the pacification
of the country. A subcommittee will
be chosen to go to the north and con-
fer with the rebels under Orosco.
A. Z. and Joseph Rattner, president
and manager, respectively, of the
Tampico News Company, were yester-
day expelled from the country for
illicit dealing in arms. Both are
Russian subjeeta-’They were arrested
yesterday afternoon shortly after 8
o'clock, sent to Vera Crus on the night
train under guard and embarked this
afternoon. The utmost secrecy was
used throughout by the police and the
news only leaked out when the men
were on the high sea.
For two days a pitched battle has
been raging at Chiautla, Puebla, be-
tween the Zapatista forces numbering
about 2500 and federals consisting of
little over 500 The fedevais are said
to have the advantage of position, but
‘the outcome of the engagement is still
in doubt. The two Zapata brothers as
well as the terrible “one-eyed" Morales
and other leaders are there, having met
for a council of war when they were
set upon by the federals.
Despite the official statement of con.
ditions near Cuernavaca, dispatches to
the Imparclal state that the city is
menaced by a large force of rebels
which has drawn in on the place since
the federal garrison was reduced to
proteet the railroad.
H. M H Melpomene arrived in Vera
Crux today and exchanged salutes with
the forts there. The city was thrown
Into a state of alarm, which was soon
laid at rest by -the British consul 11
Is believed that the captain of the
boat will pay a visit of courtesy to the
(oral authorities tomorrow as well as
to the commander of the forts.
Cuatro Cienegas, west of Monevio,
in Coahuila, fell into the hands, of the
rebels today, according to a dispatch
received by President Madero from
Saltillo. The evident division of the
rebel forces is looked upon as favoring
the federals In military circles here.
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