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SATURDAY June 4. 1898.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.
for JUDGES SUPERIOR COURT.
First District— George H. Brown, Jr.,
of Beaufort.
Third District—Henry R. Bryan, of
Craven.
Fifth District—Thomas J. Shaw, oi'
Guilford.
Sixth District—Oliver H. Allen, of
Lenoir.
Seventh District—Thomas A. McNeill,
of Robeson.
Eleventh District—W. A. Hoke, el
Lincoln.
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CONVENTION DATES.
Sixth District, Congressional, Wil
mington, July 6th.
Third Congressional district, Clinton
June 30
WHAT FAVORITISM MEANS.
The chief delay in prosecuting the war
has been due to a failure to have the
necessary supplies and equipment ready.
In some instances soldiers have had to
sleep on the ground without blankets,
forced to go for days without shoes, de
nied a change of clothing for weeks, and
denied wholesome food in sufficient
quantities. We hear, whenever there is
a demand to invade Cuba, that it must
l»e delayed because the equipment is not
at hand.
Why this incompetence? Everybody
knows that the Government can get, and
in a week’s time, all the clothing, food
and munitions of war it needs. The peo
ple are finding out that the fault lies in
the appointment of the sons and depend
ents of men with a pull to important po
sitions over the heads of soldiers of abil
ity and experience. Young men cannot
be taken out of ball rooms and clubs who
understand how to equip, feed, and
clothe regiments of men.
If these young chaps, the sons of their
daddies, want to go to war, they ought
to be required to begin at the bottom,
and to rise on their merits if they have
any.
Favoritism has cost much discomfort.
If every father’s son appointed because
of his father’s pull could be put down
into the ranks tomorrow, and competent
and experienced men be put on horse
back and in important positions, it
might not end the war this month, but
it would put a speedy end to the discom
forts and lack of necessaries to which
their inconipeteucy and red-tape meth
ods have subjected many brave and pa
triotic soldiers.
Senator Teller and Senator Butler are
right when they say that no party ever
employed methods in a campaign so cor
rupt as were the methods of the Re
publican party in the campaign of 189(1.
They may not be able to show it, for the
Haunacrats are shrewd enough to cover
their tracks, but the people know it, just
as well as if they had seen the money
passed over the counter. It was used in
North Carolina to elect a Senator, as
well as elsewhere, and it will he plenti
fully in evidence this year. Let Teller,
Butler and the rest keep up their fight
against the corrupters of our politics.
If General Miles would leave his bath
tub and photographer behind, this war
might close soon. A man who thinks
more about a hath and taking pictures
than submerging Cubans and taking Ha
vana. is not the man to look to for a vig
orous prosecution of the war.
Winston also owns its water works,
says the Journal. Every town and city
in North Carolina ought to own its water
and lighting system. The experience of
Wilsoti proves that it pays, and pays
handsomely.
The Blue Ridge Rifles have endorsed
Colonel V. S. Lusk for colonel of the
Third regiment. Senator Pritchard is
said not to believe he is too old to stop
Spanish bullets.
Now while the Spanish fleet is bottled
lip at Santiago, why not land 40,000
men in Cuba and bottle up the wlioie
island?
IT IS A WAR FOR BONDS.
The Senate yesterday voted a hig issue
of bonds —$300,000,000 —and threw a
sop to Wolcott, Pritchard and a few
other Republicans who are posing as free
silver men by incorporating a provision
to coin $4,000,000 of silver bullion per
month. It also declares that this action
does not commit the country to the gold
standard. It will be observed that there
is no provision to issue the bonds
when needed; They are to be sold at
once, but the silver money is to be issued,
in small quantities each month until the
bond syndicate is ready to call a halt.
There is no certainty that this coinage
will last three months. The only cer
tain thing is that the bond syndicate
which 1 anight the elections is to be re
imbursed in the shape of an immense
issue of nou-taxable bonds, and by the
same takers the national banking system
is to he perpetuated.
Last week, when a proposition was
pending to impose a small tax on
novations to meet the burdens of war,
Washington was crowded with lobbyists
to prevent its passage. They succeeded
in securing its defeat. I
This week again the representatives of
the same interests have been in Wash
ington seeking to secure a big bond is
sue. They have succeeded.
Two weeks ago this paper, seeing the
“shilly-shallying” methods of conducting
the war. said:
“The Spanish war will not end
until the bond syndicate secures a
big issue of bonds*”
The action of the Senate yesterday,
shows that this editorial paragraph was
in the nature of a prophecy.
The bond sharks having now secured a
big bond issue, why not let the army t
and navy forces end the war without
further delay?
NOT FOR FUN OR TO SUMMER IN FLORIDA
“General Lee is not in this tiling for
fun, or to spend the summer in Florida,” j
writes our war correspondent, Mr. Mer
ritt, from Jacksonville.
General Lee seems to think that when
we declared war in order to stop the
starvation and barbarity practiced in
Cuba, we were in earnest. He secs'
that, instead of stopping war, our plan of
warfare has increased it ten-fold. Be- J
fore the war food could be carried to
Cuba, and though the reconeentrados
were not permitted to have it, there was
no suffering among the masses not con
lined as were the reconeentrados. Our
blockade has stopped the importation of
food, and the sufferings qf all classes,
except the officers, have been multiplied.
We have destroyed the Spanish fleet
at Manila, and made it therefore easier
to take Cuba. We have stormed Porto
Rico and made it impossible for the
soldiers there to render help in Cuba.
We have at last discovered that some of
the Spanish warships are bottled up at
Santiago de Cuba, and hurled a few
shells to tear down the fortifications. All
these things are good and give cause
for gratification, but the object for which
war was declared seems to have been
made secondary, and the Cuban invasion
has been postponed, and postponed until
the rainy season is upon us, whereas it
could have been taken in twenty days
with fifty thousand men when war was
declared. Time has been given to
strengthen old and put up new fortifica
tions. and make the invasion when
undertaken cost more dearly in the lives
of brave men. j
Every week we have heard that the
plans were ready for an immediate in
vasion, and yet postponement for one
cause or another has been made until (
it looks as if it was not the policy of,
those directing the war to permit it to he
short, sharp and decisive, but to drag its j
weary length along so as to lie still wag
ing when the November elections occur.;
If General Lee’s position is correctly
stated, it is a thousand pities he was not
permitted to take troops to Cuba the day.
after war was declared. The men who
want to spend the summer in Florida j
ought to bear in mind that in most wars
disease kills more men than bullets, and
that humanity has all along cried out to
make tin’s war determined and short.
On to Cuba!
The Railway Age estimates that the
const iaction of railroads in the United
States during 1898 will exceed that of
1897 by a thousand miles. The amount
spent in construction this year, it says,
will not he less than fifty million dol
lars, and it may reach sixty million. At
the present time work is in progress on
about ninety roads, aggregating 2.725
miles.
A northern exchange says that Com
modore Schley’s name is pronounced
"slay.” Let us hope so.
Aetna I show it goJ*
third further than any other bread.
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THE .NEW'S AND OBSERVE#* JUNE 4, 1898.
J A Washington special says that the
j friends of ex-Congressman Settle are
urging the Fresident to make him «
brigadier general in the army. That
, would be one way of escaping Kitchen’s
deadly fusilnde.
The Chicago TimesTlernld says that
any man is an immune, who lias read
three copies of the Chicago Tribune, If
this is true, the government should work
to increase the Tribune’s circulation in
order to fill up the immune regiments.
I Raleigh was glad to have the privi
lege of hearing Hon. James H. South
gate in his address before the Morson
school yesterday. It fully sustained his
reputation for eloquence and ability.
The Washington Post says that the
war is to be prosecuted vigorously. Per
haps so —after the bond syndicate has
all the bonds it wants.
1 WHAT OTHERS SAY.
1 COL. WILLIAM J. BRYAN.
Washington Post.
I It appears that Mr. Bryan may get his
regiment after all. We hope he will. He
has come forward at his country’s call,
anxious to serve it in any useful way,
and has devoted himself to the creation
and - organization of a Nebraska regiment.
I He has not vaunted himself, lie has dis
! played no spirit of vanity or ostentation.
While hordes of popinjays—favorite sons,
proteges of great men, curled darlings of
society—clamored for staff positions or
big commands, William J. Bryan, with
more ability than any hundred of them
put together, lias gone to work modestly
and without self-seeking. He recruited a
force and it was taken from him. lie
persisted and got another force. The
newspapers have made fun of him, his
i enemies ha.ve sought to cover him with
ridicule and derision. He has taken no
notice and has pursued his purpose. Now
there is another Nebraska regiment, and
both the soldiers and the Governor want
Bryan to command it. We trust it may
be so. Mr. Bryan is young, he is patrio
tic, lie has courage, nerve, brains, initia
tive. equilibrium. There is nothing dis
creditable in his ambition to lead a regi
ment, of his fellow-citizens in this emer
gency. We do not know where Botirke
Coekran, Billy Bynum, and the rest of
the spluttering heroes who deserted the
Democratic party two years ago, are at
present exhibiting their prowess. We do
know, however, that Mr. Bryan is try
ing to do his part, and we believe that
he is worth more to the country and de
serves more at its hands than any of
them.
DEALING IN FUTURES.
New York World.
Again we have new outgivings from
Washington as to When Spain is to get
the “solar plexus”—the smashing of Ha
vana.
When Mr. McKinley and lawyer Long,
in charge of the navy, and lumber-dealer
Alger, in charge of the army, discovered
that Blanco could live longer without
food than the Cubans, they said that
they would invade Cuba “very soon."
Then they gave out that the invasion
would be put off until “next week or the
week after.” Next tlie waiting people
learned that “twenty days more at the
least would be necessary for prepara
tions.” Then they learned that Mr. Mc-
Kinley and his advisers in their wisdom
“thought that next fall would be about
the earliest advisable time.”
And now it is “definitely decided, af
ter carefully considering all the condi
tions and cliffieultios,” that Havana can
not be attacked “until an army of 100.-
000 men is thoroughly organized, drilled
and equipped.”
With Sons of Sombodies doing the or
ganizing, drilling and equipping, with
contractors filling orders at their leisure,
with the Spanish mamma making slug
gish ta<* blood of all our officialdom, this
time seems so remote that the enlisting
of troops for so short a period as two
years becomes an act of short-sighted
ness.
And all this time Havana and her for
tifications lie invitingly open to the sure,
swift, economical “solar plexus” from
the great guns of our impatient navy!
A GOOD WAR MEASURE.
Virginian and Pilot.
| Senator Daniel’s speech in favor of the
I war tax on corporations was iinanswei\>-
i blc in law and logic, hut the corporaliorfs
answered it very summarily, despite law
and logic, by having the tax voted out
of the bill. It would be a good war moa
. sure to employ as much of the array as
I necessary to exclude lobbyists from the
capitol and its approaches.
THREE MINUTE CONVENTION.
Marsh Mott Renominated for Solicitor
By Acclamation.
Elkin. N. C., June 3. —(Special.)—The
Republican convention for the Ninth Ju
dicial convention, was held here yester
day. I.)r. M. D. Kimbro, of Davie coun
ty, was chairman and J. W. McN fill, of
Wilkesboro (Mott’s law partner) secre
tary. Every county in the district was
represented. Some of the delegates
coming up on the noon (rain, wished to
go on to Wilkesboro, so the conductor
was told to hold the train while the
convention was held in one of the wait
ing rooms at the depot. Just three
minutes from tin* time the convention
assembled, Mott was nominated by ac
clamation. It is the shortest convention
on record. Thus the lion and lamb lit*
down together. A few weeks back
Clarence Call, sheriff of Wilkes county,
was going about saying that Mott should
not, be nominated if he could prevent it,
Mini only last week the Forsyth Republi
can convention refused to endorse him.
But Mott seems to have carried the day.
and run over them rough shod. But will
he he elected? That’s (In* question.
THE RIGHT KIND TO RUN.
(Oxford Public Ledger.)
No doubt ex-.Tmlge Graham believes
in the free coinage of copper now as well
as silver, as he is deeply interested in
the magnificent copper mines in North
Granville. We want the people to take
enough interest in him to nominate him
fur Senator from this district. He is
made of just the kind of stuff that we
will need in the next legislature.
The fellows who are short on May
wheat, will soon be looking for revenge—
because revenge is wheat.
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