The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
SHOOTS HIS WIFE
 AND KILLS HIMSELF
WILLIAM E. NEAL OF LOUISVILLE WAS UNDER INDICTMENT FOR THE MURDER OF COURT OPEL clAL LAST WINTER.

West BroadWay, where Neal anu HIS Wlle had been living since Sunday as MT. and Mrs. Johnson. saying they came from Nashville. Mrs. J. c. Baird, the landlady said:
 "The couple came to my house Sunday and paid for two days board They acted in a peculiar manner.
 Mrs. Neal had been complaining of be- ing i'll. She came down today looking haggard and worn saying her husband was too i'll to come to the table. She wanted to take him a light lunch. My daughter was in the adjoining room when she heard them talking in whispers. A silence ensued. One shot rang out, and soon another. The interval was short''
 Mrs. Neal was Nellie Robinson, daugh- ter of Prof. William Robinson, of Hop kinsvllle, Ky. Judge J. T. O'NeaI of coun- sel for the defense in the Shrader case, said
 T will never have the opportunity of clearing Neal of the charge of wilfully murdering James Shrader. Only today I came in possession of facts which put an- other aspect on his case"
 learning or arts of Florence; the old, free system of Washington ana Franklin and Jefferson, a very syndicate of wealth and offleialsm; a republic only in name; a world power in fact, more imperial in Its aggressions and resplendancy than Rome itself.
 Destroy HealthfuI Opposition.
 I. Iet means elect Theodore Roosevelt. Let us destroy all healthful and responsible op- position. Let us construct an irresistible power at Washington. Let us relegate conservatism to the rear. Let us bring to the front only socialism to fight with absolutism battle which, no matter how 1t ends, is bound to be dangerous to the liberties of the people and the peace of the country. Already the republican press Is making a hero of Tom Watson, the coming Robespierre; harranguing the sec tions and preparing the way for another reign of terror, by and with the advice, consent and sustenance of the republican national committee.
 Behind Theodore Roosevelt stands a group of radical republican leaders ready to do hls bidding. If the predecessors of these radical leaders had been given their way after the war of sections, we should at this moment, have in the south an- other Ireland, a second Poland. Wher- ever they have had their way. from old Ben Wade to Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt. we have seen higher taxes, renewed sectional disturbance, total disregard of the unwritten law, and the constant menace of force. After forty three years of but twice broken domin- ion this party oligarchism is proceed ing with as high hand under Theodore Roosevelt, as, after but a little longer dominion, the democratic party proceed ed, under Pierce and Buchanan, and from the same cause; the belief that fl has the world in sling and may do as It pleases.
 Public opinion needs to rise upon It's hind legs and kick the stunfing out of 1t; at least to kick 1t Into a realizing sense that there Is something yet greater than money and partyism and patronage; that the machine is not inivincible: that there are yet people; that there is still a God
 No Danger in Change.
 Nor ever could change of parties be effected with so little danger to exist Ing conditions What risks do even hon est republicans take In setting Roosevelt and Fairbanks aside and in preferrine | hi h0A anu lJtNlS+ ne money or the country is safe beyond human agency to disturb it. The revenue laws are moi likely to be adjusted to suit me, and men like me. until the manufacturers come to see as they surely will, that the protective tariff Is a hindrance and moi a help to American industry. Where then Is the danger? My able, learned and in. genious friend, the recent secretary oi war, finds It in the age of our nominee for vice president. If MT. Parker is elected President, says MT. Root he may make MT. Hill secretary of state. Ther MT. Davis, the vice president, might die Then some Guiteau or Czolgoz might remove President Parker-and then, and then-why, then MT. Hill will be Presi- dent. That recalls the familiar story of the good wife who was found by her owing husband in the throes, of a great sorrow. Suppose she said between hei sobs, suppose our Mary Jane should grow lp and marry a man by the name oi Jones': and suppose they should have ! little baby named Sallie Ann; and sup. pose the baby should fall into well anc be drown-.-- ed! But even this luxury of grief has been denied MT. Root. fol MT. Hill says he won't be secretary oi the republicans but I never before con
 
 Government of the Constitution.
 For one, I believe in the democracy of the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States. believe in expansion, but in that expan- sion which carries with it the promises of the Declaration of Independence and the principles of the constitution of the United States. I believe in the flag, but afaaafh If nnIV and tfpffOrp1f x of laws; I believe in the tariff, but in a tariff levied solely for the support of the government economically administered believe in the public credit, supported by a sound, stable circulating medium ex- pressed in gold and silver and paper into coin on demand the sin gle standard of measurement permanent and absolute. I believe in the public order all parties, the labor unions and the la Dor employers to be made to obey the law, the government the master of both.
 Through my life I have fought to at tain these ends. Some of them have been Hence Is 1t, that I still believe in the people, and believing in the peo- pie, I am confident that they will take nc chance, either in the would -be-man on horseback or in new lease of power to a party already too firmly set in the saddle. but will come to the rescue of their threatened institutions whilst they may. They did this in 1876, and. though cheated out of the immediate fruit of their victory. they yet scotched corrup- tion and put a check upon arbitrary power.
 Another Tilden has arrived upon the scene, and. fittingly, here in the Empire state of New York; very tribune of the people. calm, resolute and qualified;