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The bee., 1902-11-27
LABOR UNIONS VERSUS
THE NATIONAL GUARD.
New Haven Chaplain Speaks Plainly Of
Their Defiance OF Law.
THREE CASES IN POINT QUOTED.

AT New Haven, Conn.,, the
Rev. Watson L. Phillips, pastor
of the Church Of the Redeemer,
and chaplain Of the Second Co.. &,
Governors Footguard, preached
on "The Supreme Altruism. "
He said in part:
"We are all prepared, l sup
pose, to concede the rights of
labor to organize for its own pro-
lection and the advancement of
of It's legitimate interests, but
we are not prepared to concede
to labor the right to interfere
with the rights of employees, nor
the right of one set OF working
men to dictate to another set the
terms on which they may obtain
employment, to resort to the
boycott and to violence or to
strike at the law and order of
society.
SIN defiance of this great in
disputable and fundamental doc
trine, at least three labor organiy
cations have pronounced against
membership in the National
Guard; the International Asso-
citation of Metal Mechanics, in
seeking to compel its members
to choose between itself and the
guards; the Illinois State Fedora
tion of Labor, in passing a reso-
luton declaring membership in
military organizations a violation
of labor union obligations, and a
local union, in Schenectady, N.
Y, by voting that guardsmen in
the organization should be ex-
PEELED if they did not leave the
service.
"Thcse acts are nothing less
than a declaration of war upon
law and order, to maintain which
is the sole duty of a guardsman.
They are also a declaration that,
in time of need, the members of
these organizations are not ready
to take up arms in defense of the
country. Duty Of the union
must be held supreme above
duty to the good order of the
community
The bee., 1902-11-27
PRIMARY ORDERED.
Big Fight On in Democratic Ranks
Over Race for State Officers.
INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS
AGAINST THE COMMITTEE.
Conspiracy to Deiraud Charged Against
Chairman Young and Others.

Frankfort, KY, Nov. 25.-The
Democratic Executive Commit
tee met here today and ordered
primary election for the nomi-
nation of all State candidates.
The primary is called for May 8
next.
The calling of a primary is an
innovation with the party in this
State, conventions having always
been held heretofore, and the
opponents of it asserted that a
majority of the candidates and
prospective candidates for State
offices opposed holding a pri-
mary, but none of them went be-
fore the committee to make a
protest.
Tonight Committeeman Chas.
W. Meacham, who dissented
from the committees action field
a suit to enjoin the committee
from holding the primary and
sets up the claim that the call is
illegal and void and a usurpation
of power that the committee does
not possess under the party law.
1t also asserts that Chairman
Young and a majority of the
committee have combined and
conspired with certain candidates
for state offices to hold the al
legged illegal primary and to by
fraud and other means prevent a
fair expression of the voters.
Chairman Young and other men,
bers of the committee were
served with notices of the in
junction before they left the city
tonight. A temporary restrain
ing order was granted and the
case will be tried before Judge
Cantrill later.
The bee., 1902-11-27
OIL WELL, SHOT.
Hopkins County People Still Hoping fol
Paying Quantities.
SAND LICK DEVELOPMENT
IN NORTH CHRISTIAN.

The Sand Lick Development
Company, which has bored sew
eral oil we'll holes in North Chris
tan county, shot Well No. 1 with
nitroglycerine Saturday morning,
using about $50 quarts of the ex-
plosive. Oil and gas were thrown
high in the air, but the oil is not
found in paying quantity. Many
Darlington and Madisonville peo-
pie are interested in the outcome
of the Development Company's
operators, being stockholders
in the original companies con-
trolling the land leases under
which the present company is
operating. Hopes are not high,
but they are still entertained.
The nitroglycerine was transport
ed by the Ohio river in a skiff
from Marietta, o., and from the
river across country in wagons.
1t cannot be shipped by rail.
The bee., 1902-11-27
Family Reunion.

$ Mr.. Polk Merrell, of near town,
had a family reunion at his house
Nov. 10. There were 81 guests in all,
% of them being grandchildren.
Among the guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. Tom Stone, Bill Clark and
wife, Miss Fannie Clark and Miss
Ada Walker of Darlington, Burt
Ashmore of st. Charles, DIR. Lamb
and wife of Madisonville, and Chap
Merrell and wife of Mortons Gap. A
fine dinner was hugely enjoyed by
all present and after dinner the
guests arranged themselves in a
group and had their pictures taken.
The bee., 1902-11-27
A Correction.

The last issue of THE BEE con-
tanned an article from Clarksville
stating that Miss Essie Cansler had
eloped to that city to be married
Miss Cansler informs us such was
not the case. 1t was Miss Fortner
who was married and she only ac-
companied them.
The bee., 1902-11-27
HAPPENINGS IN KENTUCKY.

The negro arrested at Russell
vile a few days since, and who
was thought to be Henry Ed
nunds, wanted at Madisonville
for numbering his wife on April
II, 1896, was not Edmunds.
The tobacco warehouse people
of the state are wanting special
session of the Legislature to reg
ulate their business in Louisville.
The Times Washington cor
respondent says that Gen. Dan
Collier will be appointed Pension
Agent to succeed Leslie M.
Combes, who goes to Guatemala
as successor to DIR. Hunter, the
present minister to that country.
The Acme Mills Co., of Hop
kinsyille, has increased its CAPT.
tai stock from 100000 to $780,
900.
Rev. James w. McGarvey,
President of Bible College of
Kentucky University at Lexing-
ton, has formally withdrawn
from the Broadway Christian
church, which congregation he
organized 30 years ago, because
the congregation voted in favor
of having an organ. A number
of the congregation goes with
him to another church without
an organ.
DIR. Alonzo Clark, of Dixon,
has filed suit for $4,000 damages
against j. r. Sowders, hotel
man of Dixon, for alienation of
a wife's affections. DIR. Clark
has also filed suit for divorce from
his wife, Mrs. Ethel Clark.
Circuit court convenes at Dix
on next Monday. At this ses-
sion the trials of j. d. Wood,
Kit BarnabY, Sam Chappell, Of
ficials of the United Mine Work
ers, are set for trial on charge of
completely in the Providence
mine murder cases.
Leading tobacco dealers of
Henderson who have recently re-
turned from Europe say that the
tobacco situation is very much
involved and they are still at
sea. Only few loads of tobac-
CO have been bought in the Hen
derson market. The first load
sold for So, $3.50 and 81.
j. Alves Dixon, a Henderson
newspaper man, was attacked by
an unknown negro Saturday
night, while on his way home.
The assailant struck Dixon over
the heart with a knife, but the
point was turned by notebook
and letters in Dixon's pocket,
and he was only stunned. 1t is
thought the attack was the re-
suit of a newspaper article bear
ing on local negroes,
James Ray, a young attorney
of Paducah, has been appointed
as private secretary to Judge I.
j. Num-, recently elected to the
Court of Appeals.
The bee., 1902-11-27

Scientists have often told us that
the human stomach will eventually
shrivel until it will hold less than
half as much as it does now. We
should thank the beef trust for its
efforts in behalf of science.
The bee., 1902-11-27

Gen. Booth has acquired $4,000
acres of land in West Australia,
where he will plant large Saliva
ton army colony recruited from the
slums of London.
The bee., 1902-11-27
INDIVIDUAL OPERATORS
STAND PAT FOR PRINCIPLE.
Believe Compromise With Mitchell Would For
ever Perpetuate Injustice.

NPOh ohi" w ANi PAoN0ASSo, OPPAOc'
sions of non-union men, unjusti.
fable demands and other griev-
ances that we have been suffer.
ing under since 1900, when the
union first took possession of our
property. If, on the other hand,
this settlement be made when
not a single witness has been
called on our part or on our be-
half, it will be an absolute and
distinct surrender to the Miners
Union and the troubles above re-
ferred to will not only be contin-
ued, but so magnified as to be
absolutely unbearable.
To Inform the Public.
''The hearings before the an
thracite coal strike commission
present the first opportunity that
the coal operators ever have had
of presenting their case before
the general public, who are re-
ally an important third party,
since abstracts at least of these
proceedings are published all
over the United States, and it is
a duty we owe to ourselves as
we'll as to them to prove that the
continued and repeated charges
of injustice, barbarity and extor-
tion are absolutely unfounded,
all of which the individual oper-
ators at least propose to do. The
case as presented already shows
such weakness that we believe
they were almost disheartened
when these suggestions for a
compromise were made. We be-
lieve that any surrender on our
part, which would be practically
what this compromise would
amount to, would be by far the
most serious mistake ever made
in the anthracite coal business.
This statement was signed by
% Independent operators.
Emphasizing this statement
Mr.. Simpson said, among other
things:
''As to miners it can be shown
that their annual earnings are
more than the amount called
fair wages, which was specified
by two witnesses called for the
plaintiff. Their wages per hour
are greater than those of skilled
working and living in
the same regions and they work
less hours per day through choice
and consequently through the
same choice less days per year,
since the operators must employ
a large humber of men in order
to secure the output which might
be produced by a fraction of that
number.
"Again, comparing a miner
with a mechanic, the latter must
start as an apprentice, receiving
possibly go cents a day during
the first year.
SIN the second year he may
earn a little more, still more dur
ing the third and during the
fourth about $1.25 day. After
that his wages is from $3.50 to SO
a day, according to his skill and
good fortune in securing a desir-
able position.
san immigrant just landed on
American soil speaking one or
two words of English, utterly
ignorant, is eligible as a miners
laborer to a position which gives
him the opportunity to learn and
to acquire his miners certificate
while earning between SO and
50. 40 per day.
"Let the commission bring out
these matters. This testimony
can easily be secured. 1t will
clear the atmosphere Of much of
the maudlin sentiment which is
apparent"
The bee., 1902-11-27
SETTLEMENT WOULD Be
A CONFESSION OF GUILT.
Have a Perfect and Complete De.
Tense Against the Allegations
Made Before Commission.
WANT THE PUBLIC TO Be INFORMED,
Demand Opportunity to Refute Charges
Of Extortlon Repeatedly Made
Against Operators.

New York, Nov. 25.-A serious
hitch occurred today in the plans
for the settlement in conference
of differences between the coal
operators and the miners union
and it Is now certain that the
final adjustment of the points at
issue will be referred again to
the Gray commission. AT a
meeting between the presidents
of the coal roads and a large
number of independent operators
a strong protest was entered by
the latter against treating direct
ly with the miners.
An invitation to meet Mr..
Mitchell at Washington on Fri
day was declined peremptorily
and it was agreed unanimously
that in the judgment of the
operators it was best, for the
present, to go ON with the hear
ing before the commission.
The following statement was
given out this afternoon by @.
d. Simpson, representing the
independent operators:
Scranton, Pa, Nov. %, 1902.
TO Messrs. Baer, Thomas,
Truesdale, Olyphant, Fowler
and Walter, Presidents: Gen
tlemen-The undersigned indi-
vidual coal operators, whose
product is carried over one or
the other of your respective rail-
roads, having learned that efforts
are being made to effect a settle
ment of the questions now before
the Anthracite Coal Strike Com
mission, of which the individual
coal operators have been made
a party at the request of the
commission and a number of
other corporations, beg leave
respectfully to enter their vigor-
GUS protest against any settle
ment to be made at this time
and set forth this among many
reasons:
Psrpetuate Injustice.
81. We believe that such a
a settlement at this time and up
on the basis suggested would for
ever establish the power and
perpetuate the injustice perpe-
trated by the United Mine
Workers.
so. That such a settlement
would be, in the eyes of the pub
lie, a confession that we have
heretofore been guilty of all the
offenses charged against us by
the said mine workers.
$50. That we have, and be-
lieve that you have, such per-
feet and complete defense to the
allegations made by the COM
plainants before the commission
that any money award the COM
mission would render would be
far less than the amount we un-
derstood that it is proposed to
concede, especially to miners
and their laborers.
"a. That aside from any mon
ey considerations this commits
sion, composed, as we believe, of
men that are absolutely fair, un-
biased and of unusual experience
and good judgment in their find
ings, will make such declaration
as will for many years put ban
The bee., 1902-11-27
WILLIAM PoTTER's EXPULSION.
The Manifesto OF Local Union No. 62
Concerning His Case.

From the Schenectady Gazette OF
Nov. 10.
The following communication
was handed to the editor of the
Gazette last night:
Editor Schenectady Gaze tie =
Will you kindly Allow Loca'
Union No. so Space in your Val
liable Paper and Oblige the Off
GERS and Members the following
is taken from the Constitution
as Adopted at the General Con-
vention Held in Detroit Michi-
gan December I'd to 10th 1901.
Article 2 Objects
the Objects of Our Brother
hood are namely to Rescue Our
trades from the low level to
wich they have fallen and by
Mutual Effort to Place Our
selves on Foundation Sufficient
ly Strong to Resist Further En-
croachments to Encourage a
Higher Standard of Skill to cul-
tivate feelings of friendship
among the Men of the Craft to
Assist Each Other to secure En-
ployment to Reduce the Hours
of Daily Labor to be unuttera-
bly, Opposed to graded Scale of
Wages and demand a Minium
Wage Rate on all Occasions to
Secure Adequate Pay for Our
Work to Furnish Aid in case of
Death or Permanent Disability
on by Legal and Proper Means
to Elevate the Moral Intellectual
and social Conditions of All of
Our Members
Article 8
Qualifications of Members
Laws to govern the Same Sec
One Any Person to be Admitted
to full Beneficial Membership in
in this Brotherhood Must be
Painter Decorator or Paper
Hanger Engaged at the trade
and competent to command
Wages Agreed on by the Local
Union or District Council in the
District where he Applies for
Membership not more than so
years of Age except as hereinaf-
ter Provided and of good Moral
Character and of Sound Health
and not afflicted with any Dis
ease or Subject to any complaint
likely to Endanger Life Provided
however He is not a Militiaman
Special Police Officer or Deputy
Marshal in the Employ of Cor
porations or individuals during
Strikes lockouts or Other Labor
Difficulties and any Member Oc-
cupying any of the above Posi-
tions shall be Debard from Mem
bership.
At Special Meeting held last
Evening by Local Union No 81 l
was Directed to have the above
Published President Jackson of
the trades Assembly struck the
Key Note when He said Mr..
Potter had no Right to claim he
was beelng deprived from max
ing an Honest living when He
was doing all that laid in His
Power to Prevent Other good
and Honest men from gaming a
living Mr.. Potter Has been Re-
peatedly warned to lave the
Militia He defed the Officers
and Members to Expell Him we
Received a Communication from
the Executive Board of our
Brotherhood to give Him His
choice Either to lave the Militia
on by Our Laws to Expell Him
we as Members could not do
anything different after Receiv-
ing Orders from Our National
Officers and the trades Assembly
FRANK @ SHEFFER
President
DOUGLAS Fl PRATT
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-08-28
GENERAL NEWS.

The gold and silver production of the
nitet states in 1901 was less than in
the preceding year.
President Roosevelt. in q speech nj
Boston again advocated new legislation
against the trusts.
High play l. the rule at Saratoga. and
IL l. estimated thar Sl5. 600 600 Inns
been wagerci in various ways there this
season.
Thomas Jones. q negro who assault
'ei Mrs William Smith. was lynch,d at
S,Nen Springs. y. e.. 10y 10 meu DISCUS
ed as blacks
4 census bulletin shows thattheevtons
%. i.hteracy in this country il IS per D.. nj
Oh the Population OF cities and III percent
in rural districts
Ien Miles viii sail for the Philippines
sept. 10Th 90 inspect tines army conditions
there. hegrantiug oipermiS-iou I'd t;.n
Miles to visit the Philippines is taken hv
some 70 mean reconciiitatiou with IA.
irCsi lent
senator llama says. ] hayeevhauStel
M Efforts TO end the coal strike. Will
make no further attempt. for ir would
Dc useless. have done all in nay power
auS can do no more The min-r, are will
ng T. arbitrate. bat the operators arr
not. I he strike will go ON.
President Roosevelt Tuesday passed
through three states delivered eight
speeches. and received the plaudits II a
quarter oil million people The greet
ing which has marked his prorress
through New England has been natterins-
Ia the extreme. and Tuesday sexperience
demonstrated his popularity perhaps
more than ever before. The President j.
now in Maine.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-08-28
WORDS OLE WISDOM

In a recent address, delivered in
Boston, Massachusetts, President
Roosevelt, uttered these words while
speaking about the Trusts:
'Of course, it is n mere truism that the
corporation is the creature of the State.
that the State is sovereign. Now want
10 make IA real and not a nominal sover.
elgni 10 have some one sovereign 10
Mh,ch the corporation shall be really
aud not nominally responsible.
At present ii we pass laws nobodv
can tell whether they will amount r.
anything. Now that has two bad effects
In the first place, the corporation he.
comes indifferent to the lawmatino
Douy, and IN the next place. gentlemen
the iawmaking body gets into that most
pernicious custom OF passing a law NOT
with reference to what will be done nm
der it, but with reference to its effects On
the opinions of the voters.
That is bad thing. When any body
oil lawmakers passes law not SOLELY
with reference as to whether that law
will do good OF i'll, but with the knowI
edge that not much will come of it. and
yet that perhaps the people, as a whole.
wiii likely think it was good, does not
speak well Tor the lawmakers and it does
not speak very well for the people either.
What hope to see is power given TO the
National Legislature which shall make
the control real"
These are words OF wisdom and as
true as gospel. The people OF this
country are to be congratulated on
having President who is brave
enough to speak the truth about
these vultures who are laying up mil
lions at the expense of the poor work
ing man.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-08-28
SPECIALS.

Boys Nadras Shirts. fast wash colnr>
80 coats. were 81 cents.
Boys RouSe Jackets. with saior ,.nl.
iar. ~ cents, were - cents
Nhite l. h. Skirts. with houncc and
insertion 81 were so
Navy and Black Polka Dot Duck skirts.
with iouncc and braid. 1.lc. wen, geo.
Good Wash bingham I ader-lirt~. neat
stripes. 40 cents. were 80.
Heavy Galatea Cloth n3erSkirts i'm
stripes aud dots at 30 ceut-
ENtra heavy fine Feath,r Ties war.
ranted. at i-s cents a. yard
1919 Size Bleach She Is. hemmel at 5O
cents each
Extra Heavy Large Size White spreads
NJ 9~ CeutS
Heavy Single Bed Spreads. not often 10
bo had at a. cents
old Reliable Hard Twist Shruuk storm
serge warranted at ~ cents.
90 inrh Wide Blue GRAY. Al Wool Dress
fiannel. alc. was 80 cents
Good school Umbrellas. pew goods.
just opened at 30 cents
Elegant Big Towels full Bleach hurk
with ned border M 10 cents.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-08-28

Mr. r.. A. Cauthorn, merchant Of Balti-
more, died at Tappahannock sunday
night after a lingering illness. aged 81
Besides large and Influential family
connection Mr.. Cauthorn j. survived by
has wife OF the second marriage. Mrs. II
I. Phillips Of Iappahannock. is his
daughter. Mr.. Cauthorn was mem
Ger 81 the Ninth Virginia Cavalry +. lie
served through the entire war after
W hich he organized a large and Success
iui mercantile business at Tappahan
mock, aad from there removed to Balti-
more where he successfully engaged in
business
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-08-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.


A Horse show and Race Meet and
Tournament. Viii be held at Fairfax 4
u. sept. Z and 18th.
\ moft,@Se Hcense was Issued in kalti-
Jcrlan both Of MiddlescN county.
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hii sc lew. the r ntrd home at Geu.
-"uS. '.fe. IN NtnfmarN county, has
zen N''N =" "a wealthy ihiiedelphA min
IL = sa" th"t "cn. lee whi move
20 Abingdon.
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Freseati. the handsome pln..e chat f,r.
merlv belonged 70 the late Julos pb1in
Barbour. of Orar.-, ~i.,en snl3 IA NJ
l.. r. Warren. Of Richmond nv Sao 0oo
The sale includes the Who'll, est1+e a-t
acres
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-08-28
Wilcox Appeal Heard

The Wilcox case. in which a new trial
Is asked for Jim Wilcox. sentenced To he
hanged Tor the murder 81 Nellie Cropsey
az Elizabeth City. was heard by the Su-
preme Count at Raleigh. Nc Appellants
IN ieavored 10 have courtconsideraf
Il made by Wilcox father that his son di5
not have fair trial. aud thar the ring.
inS OF the bells and demonstrations in
court influenced the jury. Thi- vas r.
fused.
The grounds OF appeal are that the
evidence wac not sufficient 70 warrant a
conviction; that testimony was not in
proper shape and that there were errors
10 the judge charge
The state pleads A. facts TO show thar
a crime had been committed. the oppor-
tunity. time. place. twenty minutes I'M
accounted Tor and his Indifference about
the matter.
The court heard the appeal and will
deliberate uponit. 1t will be several weeks
before the decision will be handed down
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-08-28
LOCAL MARKETS

Corrected by Simon Hirsh 4 Bro.)
Wheat, Il TO 10; corn, 81 to
50; meal, $140 to S1.45 per 100
pounds; oats, 40 to 45; fowls Qive). s
TO 8; turkeys Qive), S to 10 ;
ducks Qive), 3 to 8; Spring chickens.
10 to 10Y pound; lard, 10 to II; eggs
l6 to ICY; butter, - to 20; hams. ii
to is; Irish potatoes, 10 TO so. beef 4 to
,; veal TO 6; pork 81 TO 7; hides (green)
TO g; hides dry, 8 to 10; baled hay.
SIP to SIG per ton.
Wool-Unwashed. 10 to 20; washed.
"a &C %.
Leaf sumac-50 to 80 cents per hun.
dred pounds.
THE GRAIN MARKETS.
The grain markets closed yesterday a.
follows:
Chicago-Wheat, Aug. 71k: Sept. Tx.
Dec. 61l; corn, Aug. 5Sh; Sept, 5Sk; Dec
43; oats. Aug. 33.
New York-Southern wheat. - to 76:
corn, O. to 90.
Baltimore--Scuthern wheat. - tori:
Southern corn, 81 to Go
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. II to -: corn GS
To 20; oats, AZ to A.
Observation-Disclosures. 90 to 40; corn 50