The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-06
Republicans Will Recognize Ne
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POWERFUL IN MANY STATES
In Twenty-nine Districts In varl .GS States the Negro Holds the B7 So'l
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| Washington, May 5.-Prompt answer was received by former Senator William 1 D. Chandler of New Hampshire today to the letters he sent to the national com miteeman from this district inquiring as to his views as to the eligibility of dele l gates elected to the national convention in cases where negroes was excluded from participation. The committeeman Robert Reyburn, writes:
 T shall be unalterably opposed to the seating of any republican delegates to the convention from convention which denied membership and representation to | the colored republicans.p
 In connection with the uneasiness mani Tested in republican quarters over the influence of the negro vote in the com I. Ing congressional elections, a table has been prepared here showing the congress slonal districts where the negro vote ex- ceeds the republican plurality indicated by the last congressional election. There are 29 such districts as follows: Dele ware, ]; Illinois, 2; Indiana, 4; Iowa. i; Kansas, 2; Kentucky, 8; Maryland, B. mississippi, 3; New Jersey, 1; New York; l, ono, 5; Oklahoma, 1; Pennsylvania 2; West Virvinia, 1; New Mexico, l. Col. William Youngblood of Alabama former auditor for the war department, returned to Washington this morning from his home in that state. How the Alabama 1 delegates will vote in the republican na- tlonai convention, Colonel Youngbood states, rests with the decision to be reached by the national committed The anti-Taft delegate, he says, have a strong case and he looks to see them seated In Colonel Youngblood's opinion Senator Foraker of Ohio is the only republican candidate before the people who can be elected next November. He also be- lieves that the Ohio senator is the only man who can defeat Taft for the nomi- i nation and if the latter is nominated he will be defeated by Bryan.
 Representative Hale of Tennessee is encouraged to believe that either J. A. Fowler or Asbury Wright will be named for the federal judgeship of the Eastern Tennessee district MT. Hale has in dorsed the former and in case the Pres fdent does not care to appoint him he Is willing that the place will be given to his district and Wright will land the plum. MT. Hale has had several con- ferences with the President recently upon the matter. An appointment may not be forthcoming until after adjournment. The President is having so much bad luck with his appointments owing to the indisposition of the Senate to pass upon the cases that it is expected a large num-
 
 as Congress adjourns A score of i'm portant nominations are being held up in committee, in many cases only trival charges having been preferred.
 
 Inquiries are being received from cit izens of the districts in Louisiana Mis- sissippi, Alabama and Tennessee as to the distribution of the $250,000 fund for the relief of the sufferers of the recent cyclones. The money is to be expended at the discretion of the secretary of war through army officers stationed in those sections. General Potts at Atlanta. Ga, is the proper officer to whom applica- tion for relief should be made.
 Commissioner of Agriculture Wilkinson is here to appear before the agricultural committee and make an argument for the Davis bill appropriating money for state agricultural colleges. w. s. had killed him. Although her story was questioned, the investigation never was carried any further, and her story was given sufficient credence by the authori- ties to drop the case.
 Mysterious Death.
 Andrew Helgelein came to La Porte January 10, having left his home in Aber- deen, s. D., on January ? as the result of a courtship by mail. Mrs. Guinness had advertised for a husband Her sec ond husband, who met death in a mys- terous form, had been buried several years, and she had worn widows weeds up to this time. Mrs. Guinness and MT. Hel- gelen had exchanged a number of let ters. When Helgelein arrived here he be- came a guest at the Guinness home. Mrs Guinness confided to him her need of sl5o0. Helgelein expressed his willingness to loan tho in vi of fa tlot she was to become his wife. He obtained 5000 from Aberdeen. giving Mrs. Guinness $500 and retained the other s1500 He re- mained according to the best advices at the Guinness home until February l. when according to statements made by Ray Lamphere. he left the city on an early morning Lake Shore train for Chicago No marriage ceremony was solemnized. Mrs. Guinness had been made the re- cipent of $500, his loan to her.
 Mrs Guinness evidently played a deep game in the working out of the plot which made Helgelein her victim. She endeav- ored through the medium of the other brother, John Helgelein, to prevail upon the man who was killed to deed to her all his property, she declaring that she could invest it to financial advantage.
 She even attempted, it Is alleged, to en- trap John Helgelein in the new conspiracy which she was executing for the possess sion of the money.
 Ray Lamphere who occupies a cell in the county jail. is yet in ignorance of the finding of the five bodies on the Guin- ness premises
 That Mrs. Bella Guinness was responsi- ble for at least five deaths before she and her three children were incinerated in the fire which destroyed her home one week ago today is the theory now held by the local authorities who are attempt Ir,rr fn cn1 IA Q nf 1,rar ror1 burying ground found on her pretty farm one mile north of this city today. Their first impression to this effect was strengthened when Ray Lamphere was told this evening of the days gruesome discovery.
 .'My God! Five bodies! what wouldn't that woman do? exclaimed Lamphere.