| Show iw i W f V IN THE PUBLIC EYE MAY STIR UP CIVIL WAR augustus averett willson governor go vernoi of ken tucky will engender the elmit of thousands in his state he puts into execution his threat to veto the mcchord bill forbidding any trust to carry on operations within the state or to em ploy agents therein this bill becomes law the tobacco trust will be placed at the mercy of the tobacco growers tor it will have to buy Us to bacco through middlemen and its immense fac in kentucky will have to be closed down the governor Is said to have a feeling of thy for the trust whose legal representative he has been in the past he veto the bill it is declared that it will result in civil war the planters declaring that the first law of nature the law of self preservation Is to be obeyed rather than the man made law ot the land night riding will be resumed and the outrages in the past will pale into insignia cance beside those that are threatened in the future the difficulties encountered by the governor in his endeavor to stamp out lawlessness will be appreciated when it Is stated that a detective whom he sent to russellville Russell ville appeared before the grand jury with a list of persons guilty of night riding and discovered that four or five of those accused were on the jury the detective left the important part of his story untold and beaole he left town by the earliest train he made a speech to the farmers ad them in their own interest to stand by one another and fight the trust the sympathies of the great majority of the people are with the night riders and though hundreds of names have been obtained not a single one of them has been arrested yet there have been several killings several scores of floggings about 25 of property destro ed the tobacco beds of those outside the organization scraped and utterly destroyed for this year and the crop for three years locked up in the barns the tobacco trust has apparently very little hope of the governor killing the bill tor it has ma ie an offer to purchase 16 hogsheads of tobacco from the association at 12 cents a pound the very same tobacco which before the formation of the organization was selling for four cents the farmers refused the offer and stated their terms which were that the price should be 15 cents and that the buyers should take the crop of 1900 first then the crop of 1906 and then they would be allowed to buy the crop of 1907 the trust Is said to have refused this otter and there may be a recrudescence ot night riding any moment the militia Is la full sympathy with the farmers and will not interfere with them if it can be avoided or evaded meanwhile the governor s position Is a critical one CHIEF RETIRES after ten years of leadership of the united mine workers of america john mitchell has retired from he head of the great labor alon and has been succeeded by vice president thomas L lewis of ohio mr mitchell will devote his time to regaining his health which has given way under the strain of office he has been called to washington by president roosevelt who wants to send him to panama as an investigator of conditions but it Is understood that he does not favor accepting the position it Is said that in future be will devote his attention to a abor paper which he will establish in indianapolis the object of the paper will be the securing of industrial peace between the miners and ora of the country mr mitchell s work for the miners has been detailed at length many times when he became the head of the organization about ten years ago there were only 43 members in the 01 today to day there are wages have been advanced almost per cent living conditions in the mining camps have improved everal hundred per cent the company store has been driven out of tho mining settlements and men are now paid in money not brass checks redeemable only in trade at the pluck me store run by the employer children of tender age have been taken out of the mines and put into school and in most states in the organization Is now established boys under 14 or 16 years of age can not enter the mines the miners have received favorable standing before the people of the country because of their advocacy of peace in preference to strike and their adopted 0 keeping inviolable contracts when made with the operators SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR frank gary who has been elected united states senator from south carolina to fill an un expired term claims among his ancestors robert bruce king of scotland john knox founder of the presbyterian church john and other scotch worthies he is a nephew of the late gen mark gary a picturesque character of the secession and reconstruction periods who was a major general of cavalry in wade legion a brilliant soldier a reckless leader and a hard fighter he was famous for his profanity and his ungovernable temper there was no fiercer fire eater in all the south and be was mixed up in a dozen duels after the overthrow of the republican in south carolina and the establishment of what s known as the hampton oligarchy gen aary quarreled with his former commander because he did not receive the political recognition that he thought he was entitled to and although the family belonged to the old slave holding aristocracy gen gary and all his joined the tillman and the wool hats in the overthrow of under gen hampton s oligarchy none but the aristocracy of the state and those who had distinguished themselves in the confederate army were lecog nihed by appointments to office the ordinary farmers were ignored although they were in a very large majority tillman organized them through the farmers alliance he aroused them to a sense of their rights and he swept hampton butler and all the rest of the aristocrats out of power since then the gary family have enjoyed unusual political prosperity and it is declared that they have held more offices than any other family in the state frank gary has pledged himself not to be a candidate tor election next year but it Is expected that he will do what he can to secure the election of his cousin former gov john gary evans WILL WELCOME FLEET alfred deakin premier of the commonwealth of australia was probably quite sincere in hi when his invitation for the american fleet to visit australian ports was accepted tor mr deaun Is a warm admirer of the united states and its people he has been in america several times studying the irrigation question in the western states australia has a problem that Is exactly similar the interior of the con being absolutely waterless for the greater part of the year with a good system of tion deakin hopes to make the interior habit able as the seacoast sei coast premier deakin is a warm sympathizer with the tilted S ates and canada in their attitude towards the asiatic irom its geographical position off the coast of asia and its remoteness horn any people of cograve race the asiatic problem is a very serious one to australia the northern part of the island continent would be an ideal country for chinese ai d japanese but the australian government will not allow them to land preferring to retain the northern part of the island in a state ot nature rather than allow it to get into the 1 ands of any but a white race premier deakin is also an admire 0 the american system of govern ment and in the of australia he followed the american rather than the canadian Ci nadian ideal thus the colony Is a com rather than a dominion and is composed of states instead of provinces the powers of th central government are not nearly so wide as those of the canadian govern ment and resemble more those of the united states government this ss tern he urges for adoption in the of the british empire each colony to be represented in the council and to have a say with the mother country in questions of inter imperial or international nature it his plan Is adopted the british empire will become another united states |
