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n 7.7 V7 rj in i - V . : i :Tl: Section . One PAGES i -8 ' :1M CYT" Section ' One PAGES 18 ... "t ; v VOLUME IiXXXV NO. 80 RALEIGH, X. C, SUXDAY MOftSIXG, FEBRUARY 23, 1907 MUCE 5 CENTS . v , ... f! .. 4, ... Leads all bll . HOfiilE GIVES ; iRathcr Dicapprovc of s i Public Discussion s FAvons f.i.itmoji Uiim) Permitting JtoUroads to Earn I Dhidcnds on '.Vatercd Stock, ,1 ;- .r .vv-T- ' ' i 1 Strongfor Agricultural and In- J --'I --i '"-V ' - ' ' i ; dustrial Devcloproent and " 4 ' , Ediicatlon-Truj9ti Arb Tl- f ' ! t rates of CJommerce. U '.- V -'vr:.i'V , , i . By EDWARD Lu CONN. , I ' Wadesboro, N. C, (Feb. 22. H m; Ashley Horne, of Johnston, also stronsr", candidate for Governor, yas unable to be present at today' meet ing a had been hoped. i . i He pent, however, an addreea to the people, VnJch. wa; read in his behalf and . niade a most ; favorable impres sion. . The letter of Mr. Horne wis as . follows: ' ';. , ! .' ' .'. 3Ir. Ilorne's Letter.;; ; Mr: James A. Liockhart, Chairman.- .; , Wadesbord, N. C.r ! r v. : February 21, 10. ' lly Dear Sir: I ish to express my ippreciatlon of the Invitation you so kindly extended jne to ; be' prestnt at joor celebration on the ;22nd of Feb ruary. I wish that my- engagements would permit me the pleasure of mix ing with -your people, and shaking hands with -them, even if I.. did not make a speech on the occasion! Speak ing is not my specialty; I only claim ' to be a business man. Remembering, , however, some of the experiences of orr party in the past when1 ourDem ttratfc candidates have JcinJ " In public discussions, and loving the wel- tare of my paty above all other con siderations. I am loath, to participate In a discussion that might tend to 0 rray. wme Democrats agtinst - other Democrats. "" Of course if I am nomi nated. 1 shall take the stump against the nominee of the other party. . 1 We are all pretty close together in our policies. . To be sure, our creed is Democracy, as it is declared in our : platfonhs, beth State, and : Na tional; to all of which ; I am loyal in every particular. I realize, however, that the people of my party at whose hands I am' asking the nomination for governor are entitled, to know my po jFitloh upon any and. every issue that " may confront us: and for that rea- wn, I .. take pleasure in stating . my views' lii respect to certain matters of iiterest .in this Ftate. ; , I shall not re r to National issues, because with tnose! sthe candidates for the' office of governor are not primarily' concerned: ;f; - ; v ' - Farmer". ", I My first desire, if elected, will be to lo all that is in my power to promote the welfare ; of the farmers of this State. I have no hesitancy In '- de- rlarln g this in the very beginning of what I have to say.- I am a farmer, myself, and have been all of my life. T! ; have ever "been - interested in ail that; makes for the good of the agri cultural interests of this whole State: It was ray pleasure to have a hand in the establishment of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of JCorth Car olina, and I rejoice in the work that It. has been doing for the betterment yt farming conditions, i For a short time I have .been a member of the boaM directing the ; Department of Agriculture of the State, and it is my earnest desire to make not only this department, but every department of tne iaie government, more fruitful ;f Icood to that class of melt who rpake up so large a percentage of our population. Heretofore this depart ment has been burdened with the ex penses of undertakings 1 not pertain ing entirely to agriculture, and its ef ficiency thereby In a measure crip pled; but with this impediment re moved. I hope to see it make itself rot ronly benAflcial, but even Indis penstble to our . farmers. It should w made a department strictly by and Tor the farmers. . f , V; -.Industrial Development. NH I Since the settlement of the race question eight year ago, the mate of North Carolina has made wonderful progress along the lines of education fchd temperance. JVhile keeping stead ier in view these great, purposes, I believe the time Is now J ripe for a rvard movement in pur business and industrial development. , Realizing that j I am not a ; politician, nor an Tor, and that my shortcomings in i t ? ; pects might be a disappoint t K i some of our citizens, I should, - ed to the office of governor, S v y best energies as a business j k L - promote the welfare of . the - ! ! yv upbuilding her industries, her laboring men, and .devel her wonderful resources. . t y to make up, my deficiencies eaker by earnest work. I Kducatlon. . lust take no backward sten in f itter of education, but must f -n, and as far as possible ad- our. achievements in this di- Inhibition. II vote for prohibition in v.v nV l did In 1881. If the peoule ratlfv j . prohlibtion, and l am elected. I shall io my best to enforce the law. : k V I rejoice that the railroad litigation U about settlscV any: that "the SLatfi- North Care I may avoid the expense! and vexatio whleh the further progress of vthat litigation might enUIL jThe- newlrat should be given a fair triaL; If It proves sufficiently remunerative t enable the railroads to give good serf vlce pay living wages, and ja fair return on the true v money, value: of the property (but nothing upon '. any watered stock), A wee may, regard; the matter as settled for some years t4 come. I am sure that jthe people of thiaJState do not want rates so j unt piroflU y . as , lo forces railroad? iA cheapen service, reduce! wages, "dis charge employees, ; or stop Improve- men?--:. - :r"."' ; j .; 1" In making rates, three factors .pi; -be considered: V the wages padj;.,: S -t ployees, the service due the public and the profit due the owners, Of theses the first is vital. The work of the railroad employee 1 arduous kndj dangerous. ,-HV must goj regjardleas of timel . -.jojreather. Every hour he i in tdpardy. ; No thoughtful man will cTen that he la entitled to a fair living w;fe 5 commensurate with hia labor an.i t-'i c; hazard of his I emplo: .TnenU The ) public ought not jto dem a.n4 : al rate so lf. v, that the workman must suffer an V tockholder should ei pect a , d-den1 until after the em ployees are paid fair wages. Thp pub-' Ucfchould be given good service and granted every protection within the; power of. the . railroadsi which will In crease jtheir comfort and) prevent their injury, such as the establishment and enforcement of the block systefti and douye-tracking as ' early as wj siness demands it '.'---l' - Wv.: - t -.i Te rjailroads, after, paying their employees good wages, and after pay ing the cost of maintaining And com pleting their extensive Improvements, are justly entitled to a good profit on the real value of the property. I am opposed to' any dividends on watered stock, and am In favor of the .enact ment of laws preventing the taxation of the people for the wrongful pur pose of payingtSlvldends on j such stocjb-v" I believe In the j rigid control of railroads, and when so controlled,, In treating them fairly.- I have 'never owned railroad bonds or stock, (ex cept -two shares In the Atlantic and North , Carolina Railroad Company, which I took for a debt from another merchant), and I have never ridden on a pass. ' . j-;,'-;'' .'; 'r-f.'A j-; f Freight Discrimination.! V The flagrant discrimination against North . Carolina, towns , In the matter of freight rates must cease.. However much-we have, suffered from high rates',' business has been injured , ten fold more by unequal ' rates , and dls cxUnlnatlon "against u$ in : f avdr, -t Virginia cities. ,We demand equality with - our 'sister States,' and, to ' obtain that equality .and f jnstlce r the who! e legal power, of the State must, if nec eary,.be put in motionj : . . . !. Corporations; ' . . .' Corporations, are, necessities 1 for modern business. They are powerful agencies for good when controlled by and. kept within '. the law. They are engines of iniquity when they defy the regulation. So controlled!, they should itc.uiku tan ij u jubiij, me itaiiiv as an Individual. I favor a law making political contributions by corporations Illegal. , They "should avoid the I very appearance oievu. :- r'":c ::? - TTnsts. ' The suppression of competition isra crime;; The man or cor o rat Ion that suppresses ; competition ? and estab lishes' a monopoly is a Criminal,!' ai?d should be treated as such.' The Pro tective Tariff Is - the prolific mother of trusts; and State regulation cannot reach her. But State le jislatlonj can to some : extent reach he r progeny,4 these pirates of commerce; and every attempt to restrict competition in buy ing and selling should be made crirai nal.;:: i ;;;.:; Ijegal Proceedings. , Legal proceedings should be made npre expeditions and less expensive. When': a docket . Is full Of Important matters, it seems a waste; of time for tude of cases which could be more ap- proprlately, disposed of court f . Pardons. In a police v Pardons should be granted when ever, the Innocence or the defendant is established after . coniction; j arid upon failure of health, and' for nth.r I cogent reasons they can be properly granted. But ordinarily a court and jyry, with. the defendant present arid represented by counsel, and with the witnesses on both side present fur nish the best tribunal for the trial arid punishment . of . crime. Usually their decisions had best not be disturbed by the executive. rraadulent State DondM. . If elected, governor I shall with all the legal power of the State resist any attempt to collect the fraudulent Spe cial tax bonds issued by the Legisla ture of 1868. - -.; " y, V,-h j . s The Penitentlarr. ' i The penitentiary should be kept self -sustaining., : The present policy of making it contribute to the support Of the State government is a wise one. Crime' Is expensive, and it Is nothing but right that criminals should! be made to contribute towards defraying the expenses they make necessary, i r , , Public Cliaritieti. ; Our unfortunates Insane, deaf, blind must be treated liberally. If times become hard, and our resources lessened. economieH and deprivations must fall, upon,' those of. us who (are well and , able to take care of our selves.. The "unfortunate arid defense less must not; be forgotten!, j Confederate Soldier. j f Oflr. State must do all possible for the comfort and cheer of those brave men; who dared all perils for the. wel fare of- this State from .1861 to,18S5. I shall be glad to have an opportunity to do all that a governor .may to brighten the last, years Of jmy.surviv ing comrades of those memorable days of hardship and . privation. As in crease of age augments their - needs, i 'jCoaiuitwd ..pa , Vx ficven-i r a. ft BY iv.H. PENDER Story of "Ir r7i;jGrime of Sjostedt wuat Others DctailK of ' the 1ioki 0ia4'C5L Answering of the AdterUsems I tlie Adventure, Ktc. -Cojpy ot Policeinan Ilarvey ! i .. --p'. '"".hv ' "..-; - Statement. I - ' Special o News an5 Observer.) Weldon, N. C, FebJ 22. Below ib a full statement by Mi. T. E. Pender, the Halifax farmer who some time ago received . so ' much . notoriety throughout the entire county .on ac count of charges ; ma de against ' him by Miss gjostedt of Asbury Park, N. J who accused him. of almost '-brutal treatment of her, alleging that be in duced her to come to his 'bin" to keep house for him, by misrepresent tat Ions, and after she had arrived and had been disappointed at ; the situa tion, he held her as a prisoner in his lonesome little country place. , . The statement and evidence of . wit nesses was taken by Senator W. B, Daniel; and as 'so much has bn said about the "matter, "this document wlvich " has never . been ; published,' will be read ; with ; interest The state ment follows; I'i'f, , ;, -Columbia State - x- ' Statement of T. K. Pender. i I am 88 years of age, and have liv ed in Halifax county forty years. I live 12 miles from Weldon, eight miles from Halifax.' I own about one thousand acres , of land. I live alone and am unmarried. I live In a frame house with two rooms and a kitchen nearby. Four White and two colored families live on my lands. Mrs. Legrand" Harper - lives within 300 yards, the family of the late M. f Dickens lives within about 400 yards; T. H. ' Dickens lives in about one mile; K. C; Dickens lives within three quarters of a mile; John J.-Burt lives in about one mile; Jacob Dickens lives in about one and a half miles; the rural mall carrier, B. W. Jennings, passes my house daily except Sundays.--, ;, t J saw the advertisement of Miss Stoitedt In the New York American, desiring a position a Housekeeper, desiring to spend the winter South, describing herself ., as a middle aged Swedish lady. I answered the adver tisement, telling hr thai I wan an old' bachelor, living' alone in my farm' house with two .rooms, kitchen near by, that It was rough, and I thought she would be lonesome, -i " j I did not write, the letter which appeared in the New York papers. We agredupon a bargain and I was to pay her at the rate of 85 per month and her; board, she. was to cook for herself and me and to clean up the two rooms. I sent her a tick et to "Weldon, from New York to Wel don, costing $10.05, and she came to Weldon, where I xnet-lier ou Wedacs- nil i pt ME T I ULL u - K tj -i 1 " 'rrt'-: --1 )M i7f v.'..::iHr ' If'; V-M$ Uf: - -pm ail w MMrss, ' KESPONSIVE. H. i i A O Tpy O Tl O ina Daalie day. November 27 th, the; day before Thanksgiving.! I carried her and her baggage from i Weldon in la two-horse wagon. j ' ji On Thanksgiving night fche'gave me ten dollars - to; keep for her. She re mained at my home until Monday, De cemxer the 9th, when she; left In com pany with Mr. J. H. Harvey, Deputy Sheriff R. H.1 DanieJ and .BrotUHck, the Asbury P I iflrt lea- j 7th t.jat it - ,t of2Vi J ' -Cfir '-irLSiVng the itt Vay house,! I rJ&'S V"1 tK entire sn rer 3r!rHLrt of th time Id lea vv frequently from hon.i'the entire., ' and sthis woman cO yhave gone j.t any! neighbor's hove if she had sodeBirpd , j The rural - mail box waf within 23 yards of my door, unlocked, and at no time did I refuse to deliver any 'of her letters to her. and she jalways toots cr.t of the box both her aikd my mali. Mr. J. II. Harvey,"- a policeman of Hsiiifi'.x, came to my. hojuse Sunday and had a conversation with ehr. ;' I append herewith his ; statement: f Copy of J. II.: Harvey's Statement. t fOn Sunday. 1 December the 8th; Ij went to T. E. penaer s place m conse quence of a letter- I i received from W. H. Smith, chief of police of Asbury- Park. N. J., stating that Mirs Olga Sjostedt was - 'jeing Held against her will at Pender's On arrivalthere; I found the I woman goiu from the i; u:e the kitchen and gjlnc wherej soever she. desired. ; ; I wnt : in the house and he came In in la few min utes. ' Pender was out towards His lot I state5 o her-that I had tome tof see her, having received a' letter 'from her city from the above ' named party.) I told her that from the letter she must be in trouble and I had come to take her back to town and to assist her )ti any wuy that she needed! assistance, and also jto 'let her haveS; moneys $4 go back home if she wanted "to. Shi said; she did not walnt to go ack now; 1 asked her why she did pot want to go back, and she said that she and Mr. Pender had had a llttlie trouble but It was all over, that kinder made up. .1 asked they had her what kind of trouble. She said about her work, that she did not know much! about cooking, or milking. I asked if that was all she ' had had trouble asked if language! about. She replied ,yes. ' I Pender had used any vulgar to her and she said no. I asked, her w.hy.she did not" want to go back, she; said she was waiting to get some mon ey from out there. I told her I would let her; have the money, j She said she did. not want to go back now. I told her that M r. Wmlth expected ; mc to wire him all about herj troubles and what must I wire: She siys.-'Wire him I am all O. K..; and wlUl be home Wednesday or Thurwlay. I asked Tier if Pender had her money. She said no, she said she gave Pen dei- ten dol lars when nhe first got there; for safe keeping but he had given it back to her. I then left. r i- , j. . . . j ; i "Hroderlck came ' to Halifax Mon day morning, and I drove out to' Pen der's with him and It. H. Daniel, a deputy Bheriff. ; When we drove ; up she was going from the. kitchen to the house. ' I .went to the house, called Pender. . She came , to . the floor and I asked for Pender, She said he was not there- I then introduced her to Broderick, who told her that he had come for her. She replied J that; she could not go. He replied that he had s t i ;;! i ( Continued ton , Page Seven 't'-: -fi;'-:.:-y.::':.'; s In News and Circii l-V'.; - - ,V. V : t:"'1 "-:.? ,: :-Y Z : Z' - -3- -. TELL THE TRUTH; SHAWIF THE DEVIL ' " " s .7-.!., , ' .7 In Waalilngfon's Birthday AOi f- H Tnii'v Prominent Charlotte Law vyer fV Deep Digs Ini Dis- - hone&t Attlttidei Towar-' i.fe, , ; lilch is Corrupting ' " : -; x 1 1-" 'society.? ' ';' : V f : - - .(Special to News and Observer.) . Durham, t Ni . C, Feb, 22. Hon. ' C. W. Tillett,? J of r Charlotte, was the speaker at j the, celebration . of Wash ington's birthday at Trinity College, delivering' an S address to the "90 18! Society. . i ; . ; Mr. TJllett' speech dealt but light ly with Washington; touching only In passing upon 'the hatchet r Incident to clear; the: way 'i tor the real subject matter of hia ; address, which was an earnest appeal for a higher standard of honesty and truthfulness in public and private life. n . I ..'fWhat Is the matter" with the coun try?" he stated . would . be variously answered from many sources. The pulpit would say, in one case, "whis key"; In another it would say "world ly amusements, . card playing, danc ing and theatre-going. J b As to whiskey, said. Mr. Tillett, he was : one f of ilthe original prohibition ists and the terinperanee ware was now sleeping over the country. As to worldfj amUseri'ents, - he did not Jus tify himself in going to the .theatre and never had cards in his house, but he declared' 'tliat these matters were the least of the evils afflicting-'society. In effect the force of the pulpit was largely , wasted, -in Inveighing against them, i when there 1 were so many, ojher- graver and more -Insidious: vices to jattack- ' ' Speaking of jthe.-.church '.. work, .Mr. Tillett made a hit when he declared: . t f A Nut for. tlo.D. Ds.;. fLet. us do away with shams in inatters' pertaining to our-.church, for all forms of shams are reflections up on the truth. I could speak of many, but I will only j refer now to this doc tor of divinity share. Away' with it It Is the biggest religious humbug of thel age. -1 would to Oodi that this great; institution' of . learning ;. could seel their; way t clear to cut out . the DJ D. manufactory- ' It "produces heart burnings andi Jealousies, false . pride and arrogance in the ministry.' And as I see It, it isldlrectly in contraven tion of the teachings of the humble Nazarene, who said, 'Be not ye called llabbl.'" ' i ; ' - : . ' ; Lying tity f National Vice, Coming to the real message of his spaech. Mr. Tillett said In parp, " ' "What is. the matter with the riioral conditions of :the country ? ; I give this "answer. Lying, including all forms of deception . inj domestic andi social life and all forms of cheating and defrauding; in : business life. This is the one over-shadowing ; crying evil of T e day..., :.;.i; ..Vi,- ' "How does It" come about T "We begin by " tf aching ' our children ,to; be liars My nurse tells my' little four-year-old girl a lie in' order to get her to go to bed at night; and it doea not take her long to find -out that It is a He. "We sneer at little. George Wash- ' j ingtonand.,the -Tatcht Episode," and ' -i A -rZ a iSa-dS&xly at mhe lltle V,- '? ' V J tc. fig I ; .00 nan whe-say he (yithcr a bltaded it snivelling hypo -trite .u..J t. ! he h talVa ih,l wn The preachers . ; .-Sunday morning unit uciuio, Uj .ii m me iews a church full -of it rs. but the .trouble is that some of our preachers do- not i see things as business men see them. No one questions their piety andT sin cerity. Oh, no, Saint. Simeon Stylites lived for years upon a. pillar 60 cubits high, but from that eleva tion above his fellow. men -he -could noti see ! what was i going on ' under cover. I saw . last summer in the Vatican Art Gallery Raphael's world famed "picture The Transfiguration.' I had the : hardihood - to say that I thought' the perspective was bad. . A connoisseur of art ; standing by me told me ;. that the great painter had painted the picture to be ' hung In a different position from that which "it occupied, and If It were to Vbe- hung as ne intended it , the r perspective ,' . would; be alright. So I say. to my ' T preacher, friends, standing up In the' -pulpit looking ; at ; the world and a 5 -J -its sins, that when theatre going, an, T card playing and dancing appear 3 theni to be the chief s!ns of the a'.' their perspective is bad. I thin ' " am down where ; I can 4 see thing- '- - they are. u I. called 'a machirilst ?v 4 witness once. HeL;waa needed mediately In' the court house. 'S 1 wanted to stop arid wash the ; -s off his face and put on hJa coaC t I .aid;.3f..th" Is not-riceesary. -I-jury '.will .belies you .more re, standing' there in"., your shirt jslef and. .covered .with, the. grease 4 .. -grime of the machine about which j -are called to te8tlfy.;V I come td$ ' tonight .'with my work-a-dayclc - -on, fresh .from toll at the mac t -, K and l think I know what .Is " matter with the machine. V 5 S 1 "Or to borrow a figure of spj .; & ' -frota the doctor, lwlli gtve a. ' . At.. J . . . . . . " .oooy ponuc ana - enow you thatV uie canse of this disease Is a cancer ous sore -lying. . 1 Atmospliere of Deception T- "Our children, grow, up in an atmo- spnere of decepUon. Most ot us as parents are careful enough about our general principles of honesty and in tegritj'.V but our .actions belle our teaching . We : forget Aesdp's Fable of the Crab, 'Mother, i will walk straight when you show me how. "I heard a prominent business man say - some time ago,. It i is ' hard to be honest When . I . looked surprised, he replied, 'Ob, I don't mean, sorter hon est, ;I mean really honest! ; He was everlastingly right 'Honesty is the best policy,' and most 'of us-are non. est enough when we" are In the lime-5 light but I am talking? tonight about being,-honest -in. the inmost recess es of the. soul, where no. ; eyes but God's ' can" penetrate, .and . of - being honest in social and .business trana actlons when there is : no danger of the exposure of a dishonest act. ' fI knew an official member- of the church who failed in. business; and made an assignment.: and paid his creditors twenty; cents on the dollar. Afterwards; he triade money, i? ' but spent it on himself and family, never thinking of paying his creditors, a dol lar.? It never affected 'hia church standing . in. the slightest - particular. He was made superintendent, of tho Sunday School and he kept on grow ing In piety until after, awhile iue .be came so pious'?- tbat. . the.,', ordinary preachera were not good enough for him; and - he went to- preaching ' him self' although he continued in busi ness. " One ; cannot help from feeling , that If this , man could be -- sincere. then,- religion is a sham. v I ' read- Once of the great mathemetician, Professor-Sylvester, that he got. up su' high in ' mathematics that he forgot the multiplication table and' had to have a - secretary to do ' his multiplying for him."- So it seems, now-a-days that we have some' men who. get up; so' high in the scale of piety" - they I forget the common rudiments of truth tell ing and debt paying. There Is. a class of men who seem to "think that reli gion is a kind of chemical compound substance which is useful to preserve one's . health and body 'after 'death, but which need not have any effect upon the constitution . in; this world. Do you recall the stcry of Ananias and Sapphlra? The., preachers may laugh at my trying to expound Scrip ture, , but as I read that awful trage- dy I find that God struck this man J and his wife dead because as church members they were lying about a bus-v lnes transaction. 1 The penalty seem ed out of all proportion to , the of fense, -but as. I see.lt God was trying to ' teach the; Christian church in its very inciplency , that the most heinous offense a : ehurch member can com mit is lying about a bus! ness matter. Out in Texas in the early days they J:!ung a man - for ahorse . stealing,; be cause af horse was a- part of the very necessaries of life, and these hardy pioneers sought by this severe penalty to teach the lesson of property rights in horses. ; So did God : teach , the les son of ehurch - merivbers ;: honesty. In business transactions by striking Ana nias and Sapphira" dead. V, -. - V - "I v i llypocrlticral,- citnrrli .Menibcrti.. .' 1 "But how Is it '.now-a-days ? Most all of our; churches have men. sitting up In the amen-corners .whose - busi ness y llres are filled with deception and lying, and -yet there ; they sit, with -solemn; faces, . wearing; black IConMlrted on Page ISleveri.) atloti l.'HV DOUGLAS LOST EDITORSHIP :ftfAdams Kicltcd IHn Out ucpIIoFavourcJTaft ; radicals i - ncv;i::s Butlcr Contend' Tl if the Conduct o. Atlams fs a Co ix, Tliat He Was la s C01 ' feat rt V.T'toriSc-'. I . & dHLi ' f v ( . How, politic and cons and" . -r-;-: CiV . .. . . . tiroati. .r Is - a tEateri V vrhp i'th -t par' " '' . - Cauea Jl. J the trend thlr" -' ' ' Adams SmokctlM - . - -: . . Uon Coricsnrv ' "The Washlr.ston corrponu. ' . The News and Clscncr, in comment upon Judge Adams . bfl- ted declara tion. for Judge -Taft and ' discmsing . who was the original luft man in North Carolina, says: - - . ." The " distinction '' belopga to ex- ' ., Senator- Marion Uutler.t Will W - recalled '.-that" the, r former ropu,- ... list leader gave out an 'Interview . r some twelve montha ago, in which y " he charged that Adams was In-a" CfnsTImrv- tn Aottrnt tha -wr5" ; nation of 'Mr R'oOsey-oTt or .-the"-' "candidates" who'atood for hli pol-, Iclejs, 'At that time vEutierV gave public announcement' of his ; -support to the Secretary.' of War1 t ;.'The" correspondent of that paper ''"Is not accurate when he says that Sena- V tor Butler vmade -charces iri; that in tervlew 5 against'.' 'Judge.' "fairs ' by natoel iWhat he diday wast that there i-were evidences Vt!;j2 : ' i '-'number of prominent Republican 'leaders in the South," including Norlh Carolina, ' were in a conspiracy to defeat the re- nomination of , the President or, the ; nomination .-of, a man ; in whom , the " President had confidence to carry out his policies. That this prediction 'was correct. has- been amply, proven by sub sequent events. y It was rihe discovery caused the President tof maker twi re-- . win aiinuuuceraenis iirsi, - me - one declaring against Federal ofce-hold,-ers going as delegates to' tSe national convention, and- the -second.- po?lti-e1y declaring that-he would nbt again b ka candidate "himself. ; . ; "It Is true, - however, '4hat;:Ju"dge Adams; when that JnterviSw-'was pub lished, got excited and ccne-out In an interview protesting and denying the charge.' and thereby adtaiting that the charge was directed al him: In deed, his conduct" was a virtual; ."ad mission of .the ' truth chard ajairist him. Why "Judge Adams should have thought' that the general slaiement contained in Senator Butler'c interview was directed to him any mors: than other r promlnont Republican . - . take it to .themselves 'caucrecT' ;siDeat surprise at the.tlme but probcbly no one In the State vh: - has ' v-aicCied Judge Adams . conduct . clncs new - doubta that' his actioji at ,thr? was a confession of guft jv ""Ilia every reovsmentfe : j .cf months or, a year I-'es fxicvv- ;;-.r . O was not true to : the Rdmi.tl.'Lr.-. Cor.. The men who ov. o. their P'V -S .'c. . -.. 0s him have been known tc bo Judge Taft Mr. Douglus v. ;.r., C2 moved as editor cf the -Dal.-r.-. r AitJo trial . News, primarily, bocais3 a. Taft man.. ' ' j :: ' -.After..'th'e;. 'Pre? f en v,s; -.'Ic-ai' x an nouncement did -the ptpe';' -tiVSD Judga Taft? No. Bui. Ixi r.n Jl'ric! inspired tjjr- Judge "AGaric; o jvf i ?rr-t endorsed' by. him,", the .pan-; doc'. U!J that "now ; was the; tkn3 Tov, roaMSi ; Republicans not to ccrarr.U ihowvlvj for any candidate for Pre. let w., 'bu3 to stand off -until th o;- ms C A j j-nt trade for all.' It has only b?j.; vi hiu the last few days . tha 1 1 th Judge Adams -have been?;" take a. position -for' Juu. "Senator Butler in Adams attack' on ; ' (Continued on . rtKe 15-. p..-. v'nC' -1,
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Feb. 23, 1908, edition 1
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